Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo defeated Xuan Cheng and repeatedly crushed Chang Le’s clay incarnation, then captured both of them. Chang Le dispersed her emotions and turned herself into a clay figurine, leaving Chu Mo to claim victory.

• Chu Mo’s Dharma Form smashed Xuan Cheng’s dream-butterfly body and captured him, while Chang Le’s clay vessel was flattened into mud.
• Chu Mo took Xuan Cheng’s Flower Basket and watched Chang Le reform her clay body.
• Chang Le accused Chu Mo of trying to kill her and Xuan Cheng, but Chu Mo attacked her with Great Black Heaven.
• Chu Mo repeatedly flattened Chang Le whenever she reshaped herself, even as she tried to stir joy in his heart with Constant Joy Heart.
• Chang Le voluntarily dispersed her emotions and became a three-inch clay figurine, which Chu Mo collected beside the Flower Basket.

Chu Mo took the Profound Separation Mother Qi from the mine, causing the mineral vein to collapse and draw cultivators to the site. After Chu Mo escaped, news of the disaster reached True Lord Xuan Cheng, leaving him facing an urgent warning.

• Chu Mo restored the mine tunnel after the battle, and Yuan An bowed to him and promised he had seen nothing.
• Chu Mo collected the Profound Separation Mother Qi in the Flower Basket, causing the mineral vein to collapse.
• Chu Mo transported Youzhen and Yuan An out of the mine as a pillar of five-colored light erupted from the Profound-Calming Mountains.
• Chu Mo and the two Golden Core cultivators vanished before the arriving cultivators could question them, while a Jade Water Pavilion Elder found a strange wisp of mist in the ruins.
• True Lord Xuan Cheng sensed an ominous disturbance, and a newcomer rushed into his hall shouting that disaster had struck.

Xuan Cheng learned that Guan Xu had died, the Profound Separation Mother Qi had been stolen, and the sect’s disciples suspected him of destroying a mineral vein. Meanwhile, Chu Mo used the Profound Li Mother Crystal to awaken the Ink Seal’s spirit, accelerating its fusion with fortune.

• Zhou Huan reported Guan Xu’s death and the loss of Xuan Cheng’s five percent of the Dharmic Treasure’s source essence.
• Zhou Huan told Xuan Cheng that the Profound Separation Mother Qi had been taken and that a strange trace had led disciples to suspect Xuan Cheng of destroying the mineral vein.
• Xuan Cheng realized the incidents made him look guilty and grew concerned that the sect would believe the accusations.
• Chu Mo examined the Profound Separation Mother and Profound Li Mother Crystal, deciding the crystal could help awaken the Ink Seal’s spirit.
• Chu Mo infused the Ink Seal with the Profound Li Mother Crystal, then poured in his fortune to speed their fusion.

After Chu Mo’s treasures awakened and strengthened his Dharma Form, he visited Xuan Cheng and pressed him about his Dream Dao. Xuan Cheng responded by expanding his Dream Realm as Chu Mo tested a new lifespan-cutting ability, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xuan Cheng was penalized ten thousand strands of fortune while the association investigated the disturbance in the Profound Separation Realm.
• Six months later, Chu Mo arrived at Clearlight Peak with both Life-bound Magical Treasures awakened and his Dharma Form greatly strengthened.
• Chu Mo asked why Xuan Cheng had chosen to cultivate dreams through Falsehood and pressed him about the secrets behind Dream Dao.
• Xuan Cheng spread a dreamlike haze through the hall, and Chu Mo summoned his black dharmic seal to demonstrate its new mystery.
• Chu Mo invoked a divine ability that could cut human lifespans, prompting Xuan Cheng to transform into a vast Dream Realm that absorbed the seal’s mystery.

Chu Mo confronted Xuan Cheng, whose Dream Realm drained the cultivators’ lifespans to shield him from punishment. Their battle began with Chu Mo discovering that Xuan Cheng’s enormous dharma form had little authority behind its size, and the chapter ended as he launched his strongest techniques.

• The Dream Realm’s cultivators rapidly aged as their lifespans were drained, and Xuan Cheng appeared to explain that they had been disturbed from their dreams.
• Chu Mo and Xuan Cheng argued over Xuan Cheng’s past deception, and Chu Mo challenged him to fight.
• Xuan Cheng manifested a 330,000-zhang dharma form, while Chu Mo summoned his 60,000-zhang form to meet its attack.
• Chu Mo realized Xuan Cheng’s massive dharma form was insubstantial and lacked corresponding authority.
• Chu Mo unleashed Great Black Heaven and Cutting Human Lifespans against Xuan Cheng and challenged him to continue fighting.

Chu Mo and Xuan Cheng halted their battle and discussed Spirit Transformation, Sources, and Xuan Cheng’s bid to inherit the Dream Dao. Chu Mo resumed threatening to fight until Xuan Cheng revealed that wielding a Source could offer a chance at Dao Integration.

• After neither could defeat the other, Xuan Cheng stopped fighting and offered to explain the Dream Dao.
• Xuan Cheng described Sources as divine authorities and admitted he intended to inherit the Dream Source and become lord of the Dream Dao.
• Xuan Cheng claimed that powerful beings would prevent anyone but Chang Le from killing him, while Chu Mo insisted he wanted to cooperate.
• When Chu Mo prepared to resume their fight, Xuan Cheng said he sought the Dream Source because wielding a Source offered a chance to attain Dao Integration.
• Chu Mo put away his attack, sat down, and urged Xuan Cheng to explain Dao Integration.

Xuan Cheng explained to Chu Mo how Dao Lords use Sources and invited him to join forces against Senior Sister Chang Le. True Lord Ming Su then announced that the association would subjugate the Profound Separation Realm and asked Xuan Cheng to oversee a continent, prompting Xuan Cheng to invite Chu Mo along.

• Xuan Cheng told Chu Mo that Sources contained Otherworld Root Origins and explained how a Dao Lord could use their Authority to give birth to a Great Dao.
• Xuan Cheng urged Chu Mo to join forces against Senior Sister Chang Le, promising to reward him if he took command of a Source and ascended to Heaven.
• True Lord Ming Su arrived at Clearlight Peak and said the association had concluded that the Profound Separation Realm had no living Spirit Transformation expert.
• Ming Su announced that the association would subjugate the Profound Separation Realm and assigned Xuan Cheng to oversee one continent with support from other True Lords.
• Xuan Cheng accepted the assignment and asked Chu Mo to join him.

Chu Mo agreed to help Xuan Cheng conquer the Southern Li Continent in exchange for a larger share of the spoils, while planning to rely on his All Beings Aspect to avoid danger. The expedition arrived in the Profound Separation Realm, where Xuan Cheng trapped its defenders in a dream and Chu Mo drained their lifespans.

• Chu Mo negotiated an extra ten percent of Xuan Cheng's gains in return for helping complete the assignment.
• Back at Youxuan Peak, Chu Mo decided to use his All Beings Aspect and Mystic Womb Incarnation to confront the realm's hidden danger without risking himself.
• Three days later, Xuan Cheng gathered the disciples at Harmony Truth Peak and led the expedition into the Profound Separation Realm's Southern Li Continent.
• Xuan Cheng's Immortal Vessel emerged from a golden vortex and deployed countless small boats, provoking a Jade Water Pavilion Elder and other cultivators to attack.
• Xuan Cheng trapped the realm's cultivators in a dreamscape, while Chu Mo used his Cutting Human Lifespans technique to rapidly age them.

Xuan Cheng and Chu Mo’s forces conquered most of the Southern Li Continent, while the remaining defenders hoped for reinforcements. As the Shuoyin Great Wall fell, Su Xiuer escaped through her master’s sacrifice and found herself in darkness with an unknown voice addressing her.

• Xuan Cheng decided to keep the captured Profound Li cultivators trapped in his dream until the realm was pacified, then set out with Chu Mo to continue the conquest.
• Over the next year, the invaders destroyed or subdued most of Southern Li’s powers, and the Jade Water Pavilion Master urged the remaining defenders to hold out for reinforcements.
• Chu Mo sensed that the Shuoyin Great Wall had become a difficult target, while Xuan Cheng hinted that Southern Li would soon belong to them.
• True Lord Yun Qing used a Painting Dao divine ability to drain the Shuoyin Great Wall of color, and Su Xiuer escaped through a secret art as her master sacrificed himself.
• Su Xiuer landed in darkness, wept for her master, and heard an eerie voice ask what she was crying about.

A mysterious voice gave Su Xiuer a way to seek help from the righteous powers beyond Profound Li, while Chu Mo and Xuan Cheng captured the Southern Li resistance and wondered about the realm’s titles. The chapter ended as Su Xiuer arrived with a new title: [Heaven's Chosen].

• A mysterious voice told Su Xiuer that the invaders came from a greater realm and urged her to seek its righteous path for help against them.
• The voice sent golden light into Su Xiuer, changing the title above her head.
• Chu Mo appeared in Southern Garrison City, where the Jade Water Pavilion master and the remaining resistance tried to trap him in the [Red Dragon Locks Heaven] Grand Array.
• Xuan Cheng revealed that he had taken control of the array and trapped the gathered cultivators, then asked Chu Mo about the titles above people’s heads.
• Chu Mo spotted Su Xiuer approaching beneath auspicious clouds, with her player panel showing [Level 53 · Su Xiuer] and the Profound Li Treasure Realm displaying [Heaven's Chosen].

Su Xiuer arrived in Southern Garrison City with astonishing power and shattered the array trapping its cultivators, while Chu Mo and Xuan Cheng pretended to oppose her as she escaped. They discovered that similar [Heaven's Chosen] had appeared elsewhere in the Profound Separation Realm, suggesting a hidden spirit transformation cultivator was involved.

• Su Xiuer arrived above Southern Garrison City and used Purple-Gold Radiance to break through the Red Dragon Locks Heaven Grand Array.
• Chu Mo attacked Su Xiuer but was sent crashing into a crater, where he exchanged a knowing glance with Xuan Cheng, who had also pretended to be defeated.
• Su Xiuer shattered the array, gathered the city’s cultivators, and escaped as True Lord Yun Qing and others arrived.
• Chu Mo and Xuan Cheng concluded that Su Xiuer’s rapid rise could not be explained by the dormant Heavenly Dao and suspected a spirit transformation cultivator.
• Xuan Cheng contacted Ming Su, who revealed that at least three similar [Heaven's Chosen] had appeared across the Profound Separation Realm at nearly the same time.

Chu Mo completed the conquest of the Southern Li Continent while an uncanny figure possessing Su Xiuer’s appearance urged him to spread the Way of the Netherworld across the Profound Li Treasure Realm. He learned that the Heaven’s Chosen had formed an alliance on the Central Continent and weighed the growing threat.

• Ming Su instructed Chu Mo to take control of the Southern Li Continent and leave the Heaven’s Chosen alone for the time being.
• Chu Mo examined a banner containing a million true spirits when Su Xiuer appeared inside his sealed palace without triggering its defenses.
• Su Xiuer questioned Chu Mo about the Netherworld path and Dao Lord Darkworld, then asked him to spread the Way of the Netherworld across the Central Continent.
• Su Xiuer vanished after their conversation, leaving Chu Mo wondering who she was and whether her request served her true purpose.
• Three days later, Chu Mo learned that the Southern Li Continent had been pacified and that the Heaven’s Chosen had formed an alliance on the Central Continent with more than fifty fourth-tier experts and over a dozen Heaven’s Chosen.

Chu Mo joined Harmony Truth’s assault on the Central Continent and grew suspicious of Xuan Cheng’s confidence as the fleet shattered the continent’s layered barriers. In Heavenly Pillar City, Su Xiuer and the [Heaven's Chosen] faced the approaching invaders and questioned whether her Guidance Grand Array would work.

• Chu Mo received Ming Su’s order to gather at the Central Continent and discussed the assault with Xuan Cheng, Yun Qing, and the others.
• Three days later, Chu Mo’s fleet met Ming Su at the Central Continent, where Ming Su assured him the association had made thorough preparations.
• Xuan Cheng used the World-Breaking Profound Light to break through the first barrier, revealing many more layers around the continent.
• Xuan Cheng struck the barriers again as Chu Mo’s suspicions about him deepened.
• Su Xiuer met with the [Heaven's Chosen] and an [Elder of the Sect of Adversity], who asked whether her Guidance Grand Array could stop the invaders.

As the Tribulation Deliverance army reached Heavenly Pillar City, Su Xiuer prepared its defenders to hold out and awakened the Stone Pagoda, which summoned a powerful figure. Chu Mo recognized the figure’s strange, flickering title as a Heavenly Dao Projection.

• Su Xiuer told the city’s cultivators that the Remnant Husk of the Primordial Supreme Venerable lay beneath Heavenly Pillar City and that she could awaken it.
• Chu Mo discussed his concerns about the Profound Li Treasure Realm with Ming Su as the Tribulation Deliverance army advanced toward the city.
• Su Xiuer ordered the defenders to activate the city’s defensive Grand Array when the Immortal Vessels arrived.
• Xuan Cheng’s repeated attacks shattered the Grand Array, but the Stone Pagoda then erupted with colored light and a vast pillar of purple qi.
• A majestic figure rose from the Stone Pagoda, and Chu Mo saw its title flicker between level 55 and 56 as a Heavenly Dao Projection.

The Heavenly Dao Projection manifested as the Primordial Supreme Venerable, crushed the Immortal Vessels, and separated the True Lords into individual minor realms. As Chu Mo and the others struggled against it, Su Xiuer activated the Guidance Grand Array, but no one arrived from the other realm.

• The Primordial Supreme Venerable appeared above Heavenly Pillar City, and the cultivators knelt to welcome him.
• The Heavenly Dao Projection overwhelmed Xuan Cheng and the other True Lords, forced their Immortal Vessels to crash, and divided them into minor realms.
• The Projection tried to steal Chu Mo’s names and titles, but Chu Mo escaped its beckoning by entering the Netherworld with [Realm Yin-Yang].
• Xuan Cheng and Yun Qing fought together, and Xuan Cheng used his One-Dream Body while Yun Qing guarded him.
• Su Xiuer led the Heaven’s Chosen to the Stone Pagoda and activated the Guidance Grand Array to summon the Righteous Path of the Other Realm.
• The array sent a pillar of light skyward, but no one crossed over, leaving Su Xiuer uneasy.

A strange pillar of light made the Primordial Remains vanish, leaving Chu Mo alone while Xuan Cheng confronted Yun Qing’s attempted betrayal and put her to sleep. Beyond description, Primordial Beginning faced the Heavenly Dao and demanded the return of his Remnant Husk.

• A pillar of light struck the Remnant Husk, causing its titles to flicker before the Primordial Remains vanished and left Chu Mo alone.
• Yun Qing trapped Xuan Cheng inside the Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Painting and turned him into a Light-and-Color Desire Stele.
• Xuan Cheng revealed that he had transformed Yun Qing’s attack into a dream, then lulled her into a deep sleep.
• Xuan Cheng suspected the Immortal Garden had altered Yun Qing’s thoughts and wondered why he had been sent into the realm.
• Primordial Beginning confronted the Heavenly Dao and demanded the return of the Remnant Husk it had hidden for thirty thousand years.

Primordial Beginning battled the Profound Li Heavenly Dao for control of [Name] while preparing to ascend as the Source-Wielding Dao Lord. Chu Mo used Great Black Heaven to sever the Central Continent’s name-based laws and was pulled into a higher dimension, where he saw the combat status of Primordial Beginning and the Heavenly Dao.

• Primordial Beginning taunted the Profound Li Heavenly Dao, which feared being drawn toward the Fuli Heavenly Dao and destroyed.
• A pillar of light from Heavenly Pillar City severed the Heavenly Dao’s connection to heaven and earth as Primordial Beginning prepared to claim the title of Source-Wielding Dao Lord.
• Primordial Beginning contacted Chu Mo and urged him to use the Way of the Netherworld to shroud the Central Continent.
• Chu Mo recognized that Su Xiuer was Primordial Beginning, decided to help, and unleashed Great Black Heaven across the Central Continent.
• Great Black Heaven erased the realm’s name-based laws, causing the Minor Realms to collapse as Chu Mo was drawn into a higher dimension.
• Chu Mo saw status bars showing Primordial Beginning at 53% health and the Profound Li Heavenly Dao at 31%.

Chu Mo was expelled from the spirit realm after witnessing the Primordial Beginning Dao Lord seize the Profound Li Heavenly Dao’s authority and send the Profound Li Treasure Realm toward Fuli Heaven. Months later, the realm’s unification brought a surge of spiritual energy and auspicious fortune to Youxuan Peak, where Chu Mo noticed even more fortune gathering for him.

• Chu Mo’s other-self was nearly destroyed by the Profound Li Heavenly Dao, but the Primordial Beginning Dao Lord intervened and sent him back to his true body.
• Cultivators trapped in Great Black Heaven emerged into a collapsing realm, and Su Xiuer and the others wept without knowing why.
• The Primordial Beginning Dao Lord claimed the title-governing mote of light, revealed that he had been stuck halfway through Spirit Transformation, and said the Profound Li Treasure Realm would be used for unification.
• Several months later, Chu Mo sensed a vast surge of spiritual energy and realized the Profound Li Treasure Realm had been incorporated into Fuli Heaven.
• A great auspicious cloud arrived above Youxuan Peak, and Chu Mo saw portions of the clouds meant for Golden Core disciples fly toward him as well.

After receiving fortune from the assault on Profound Li, Chu Mo stabilized his cultivation and pieced together the hidden schemes involving Xuan Cheng. True Lord Changle then warned him that the True Harmony Association would not consider him one of its own, leaving him to question where he stood.

• Chu Mo absorbed the fortune earned by the disciples, raising his level from 43 to 45 and growing his Dharma Form to over ninety thousand zhang.
• Chu Mo spent more than a month stabilizing his cultivation while his other-self aspect handled affairs at the True Harmony Association.
• Chu Mo uncovered that the Primordial Beginning Dao Lord, the Profound Li Heavenly Dao, the True Harmony Association, and the Blissful Immortal Garden had all schemed over the root origin and Xuan Cheng.
• True Lord Changle visited Youxuan Peak and asked Chu Mo about his relationship with Xuan Cheng, while he denied any connection and praised his bond with her.
• Chang Le warned Chu Mo that he had not come from the Dao-Inheriting Register and that the True Harmony Association would not treat him as one of its own.

Chu Mo met Primordial Beginning Dao Lord, who visited to thank him for his role in the Profound Li Treasure Realm and hinted that the karma between them would be difficult to repay. Primordial Beginning left Chu Mo wondering what trouble he had come to discuss.

• Chang Le invited Chu Mo to join the Immortal Garden, but Chu Mo refused to betray the True Harmony Association.
• The Tribulation Deliverance Sect’s Identity Tokens announced that Primordial Beginning Dao Lord had joined as an inner sect elder.
• Primordial Beginning arrived at Youxuan Peak and addressed Chu Mo as an old acquaintance, prompting Chang Le to wonder about their connection.
• Primordial Beginning sent Chang Le outside the hall and thanked Chu Mo for lending his divine ability to shield the Central Continent.
• Primordial Beginning said Chu Mo’s karma was troublesome to repay, then mocked Tribulation Deliverance disciples as black-hearted and impatient when Chu Mo asked what trouble he meant.