Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo overpowered Qin Moyin with the Sun Bracelet’s help, escaped with Xuan Cheng, and left Cen Lingyi and Qin Moyin to find Old Devil Huayin’s world within a world empty. On an unnamed island, Xuan Cheng returned the Dream-Body Treasure Talisman to Chu Mo and invited him back to the sect.

• Chu Mo attacked Qin Moyin with his dharma form and the Ink Seal, while Cen Lingyi used the Sun Bracelet to cut Qin Moyin off from heaven and earth.
• Chu Mo struck Qin Moyin with Mount Tai, shattered Radiant Heaven and the Azure Hidden Grotto-Heaven, then escaped with Xuan Cheng.
• Cen Lingyi told Qin Moyin the destined affinity was settled and pointed her toward Old Devil Huayin’s ruins, but Qin Moyin found the world within a world completely empty.
• Chu Mo appeared with Xuan Cheng on an unnamed Eastern Sea island and joked that they were as close as family, while Xuan Cheng privately doubted his motives.
• Xuan Cheng gave Chu Mo the Jade Box containing the Dream-Body Treasure Talisman and invited him to return to the sect.

Chu Mo questioned Huayin about his death and learned that Xuanming had killed him over the [Ghost] root origin, possibly to control who could pursue dao integration. After taking Huayin’s cultivation records, Chu Mo hinted that he might help the remnant soul regain its strength.

• Chu Mo entered a sealed pocket realm and summoned Huayin’s Remnant Soul from a Soul Orb.
• Huayin identified True Lord Xuanming, now the Tribulation Deliverance Sect Master, as the one who had killed him for the [Ghost] root origin.
• Huayin explained that claiming a root origin required deeds that suited its preferences, such as nurturing new kinds of ferocious ghosts for [Ghost].
• Huayin admitted that he could no longer anchor the Heavenly Register Realm, so Chu Mo made him record his cultivation methods, divine abilities, and secret arts on Jade Slips.
• Chu Mo considered Huayin’s remnant soul and the inner landscape core in Huayin Palace his greatest gains, then asked whether Huayin wanted to regain his strength.

Chu Mo began refining Huayin into a heaven-law ghost while studying the legacy Huayin had given him. He then started cultivating the Life-and-Death Two-Polarity Life-Nurturing Sword, leaving its newly formed sword qi to be nurtured in his golden vault.

• Huayin pleaded to keep his mind, and Chu Mo offered to refine him into a ferocious ghost and invest him as a yin spirit so he could retain his cultivation and awareness.
• Chu Mo chose the heaven-law ghost method and engulfed Huayin in black mist to begin the painful refinement.
• While Huayin was being refined, Chu Mo praised his detailed secret record and studied Huayin's Netherworld cultivation scripture.
• Chu Mo read about the Life-and-Death Two-Polarity Life-Nurturing Sword and decided to learn the divine ability.
• Chu Mo combined qi of life from his body with qi of death from the Profound Banner, formed a three-inch sword, and sent it into his golden vault to nurture it.

Chu Mo forged a black-and-white divine sword, transformed Huayin into a conscious Yin Spirit, and traveled to the Eternal Night Sea to test Bitter End. He appeared among the taboos at the Bitter End Daoist Grounds as they struggled to activate a Command Token.

• Chu Mo completed the Twofold Life-Nourishing Sword and watched Huayin emerge as a powerful, mindless Heaven-Law Ghost.
• Chu Mo used the Profound Banner to restore Huayin's consciousness and made him a Yin Spirit in his service.
• Chu Mo checked in with Di Yang at the Hall of Yama, learned the taboos had disappeared, and left to handle them himself.
• At the Bitter End Daoist Grounds, the taboos failed to activate the Command Token for Chen Xuan.
• A black-robed Chu Mo appeared beside the taboos and asked to examine the token.

Chu Mo confronted Bitter End in the Daoist Grounds and used Great Black Heaven and the One-Dream Body Treasure Talisman to increase his power. The chapter left Bitter End facing Chu Mo’s enormous palm strike with his Eight Sufferings Saber.

• Chu Mo appeared in the Daoist Grounds, taunted Bitter End and the other Taboos, and dismissed their inability to activate the Command Token.
• Bitter End unleashed his aura and destroyed the Daoist Grounds, then ordered the Taboos to surround Chu Mo.
• Chu Mo cast Great Black Heaven, cutting off the Taboos’ senses and separating them in darkness.
• Bitter End used the Eight Sufferings Saber to tear open the darkness, prompting Chu Mo to use the One-Dream Body Treasure Talisman.
• Chu Mo’s Dharma Form grew to nearly a million zhang, and he struck at Bitter End with a colossal palm as Bitter End raised his saber to meet it.

Chu Mo battled Bitter End until Declining Fate’s betrayal helped bring Bitter End down, but Bitter End unleashed the Death Origin and killed Chu Mo’s body. As the Taboos celebrated Bitter End’s victory, a familiar ink-robed Taboo stabbed him with a sword that converted his vitality into deathly qi.

• Chu Mo overwhelmed Bitter End in battle, while Declining Fate appeared to help and redirected his filthlight toward Bitter End.
• Bitter End tried to evade the attack, but a disturbance sent him into the filthlight, and Chu Mo crushed him beneath Mount Tai.
• Bitter End activated his forbidden Death Origin, which caused Chu Mo’s body and soul to die.
• The Taboos celebrated Bitter End’s apparent victory as darkness receded and Chu Mo’s corpse lay nearby.
• An ink-robed Taboo stabbed Bitter End from behind with a black-and-white sword that drained his vitality and left him unable to move.

Chu Mo defeated Bitter End by using an other-self aspect, captured him, and returned to the Hall of Yama to tell Di Yang that the Taboos no longer threatened Eternal Night. He planned to expand the Underworld and pondered how Law related to the Root Origin.

• Chu Mo revealed himself as Youxuan after killing Youxuan’s apparent corpse, then explained that Bitter End’s attack had nearly reached his true self.
• Chu Mo took Bitter End’s golden Command Token, captured him in the Profound Banner, and watched the remaining Taboos flee.
• Chu Mo returned to the Hall of Yama and told Di Yang that the chief culprit among the Taboos was defeated and the Underworld could expand beyond North Gui.
• Chu Mo ordered Di Yang to prepare for the Underworld’s expansion, then considered assimilating Bitter End to better understand [Death].
• Chu Mo wondered whether Law gave rise to the Root Origin, the Root Origin evolved into Law, or the two brought each other into being.

Chu Mo discovered that the Mystic Court's Official Writ was still transmitting coordinates, so he decided to leave it in Fuli while tightening his control over Eternal Night. He captured several Taboos and placed them under the Underworld, ordering Di Yang to bring all of Eternal Night under its jurisdiction.

• Chu Mo examined the activated Official Writ and concluded that the Mystic Court might pose a danger if it responded to the signal, so he stored the token and planned to leave it in Fuli.
• Chu Mo decided to speed up his assimilation of Eternal Night's Taboos to eliminate uncertainties.
• Several Taboos gathered in a hidden Grotto-Heaven, fearing Youxuan, until Chu Mo revealed himself and trapped them in darkness.
• Chu Mo brought the captured Taboos to the Hall of Yama, where Di Yang recognized Feng Yang and Netherflame among them.
• Chu Mo told Di Yang that the Taboos belonged to the Underworld and ordered him to bring all of Eternal Night under its jurisdiction.

Chu Mo explained to Di Yang why he kept the captured Taboos and warned him that others remained hidden. He then used the All Beings Aspect to make the badly wounded Bitter End his other self, intending to use his body to glimpse the Root Origin.

• Di Yang questioned whether the Taboos could be trusted, and Chu Mo said their hostility was natural but their restrictive seals kept them useful.
• Chu Mo warned Di Yang that some Taboos remained hidden, then dismissed him from the hall.
• Chu Mo admitted he had deliberately left the remaining Taboos alone because their threat could drive people to cultivate the Yang-to-Yin Infant-Birth Great Method.
• Chu Mo entered the Profound Banner and used the All Beings Aspect to make Bitter End his other self, despite Bitter End having no choice in the matter.
• Chu Mo withdrew the Two Forms Sword and restored Bitter End with pure yin qi, then prepared to use his body to see the Root Origin.

Chu Mo followed Bitter End’s connection to the root origin of Eternal Night, gained two cultivation levels, and felt the Eternal Night Heavenly Dao inspect him. After returning to Fuli Heaven, he discovered that his Mystic Court Official Writ was receiving increasingly urgent contact attempts.

• Chu Mo used Bitter End’s connection to enter the spirit realm and saw Eternal Night’s death root origin.
• The root origin triggered Chu Mo’s cultivation, raising him from level 46 to level 48, before the Eternal Night Heavenly Dao awoke and inspected Bitter End.
• Chu Mo learned through Bitter End’s view that the Eternal Night Heavenly Dao was at 57% HP, then severed his connection to the root origin.
• Chu Mo returned to Fuli Heaven and saw that his Mystic Court Official Writ was flashing and responding to a powerful resonance.
• Chu Mo read the writ’s description and suspected that Fuli was urgently trying to contact him.

Chu Mo contacted a voice from the Mystic Court through the Command Token and pretended to be an ignorant, weak cultivator while learning about its Rituals and Outer Dao Official Status. The voice offered him a way to establish a Ritual in exchange for mapping the Secret Realm, then sent a beam of golden light into his brow as proof.

• Chu Mo prepared an Other-Self Aspect in case connecting the Command Token caused danger.
• A voice from the Mystic Court questioned Chu Mo about the Official Writ, and he pretended to be a frightened Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Heaven's Will Sect.
• The voice explained that Rituals let cultivators borrow the Divine Court's power and offered Chu Mo Outer Dao Official Status.
• The voice asked Chu Mo to map the Secret Realm where he had found the Official Writ in exchange for teaching him to establish a Ritual.
• Chu Mo asked for proof of the voice's claims, and it sent golden light from the Command Token into his brow.

Chu Mo received the Mystic Court Visualization Method and discovered that it drained human aura, while Li Yunxiao planned to exploit his ritual to claim merit. Heaven's Will urged Chu Mo to trick Li Yunxiao into revealing the full ritual and to involve a Dao Venerable, leaving Chu Mo wary but considering its instructions.

• Chu Mo accepted the Mystic Court Visualization Method through the Official Writ and promised to draw a map for Li Yunxiao.
• Li Yunxiao learned that the Official Writ belonged to Chen Xuan, a Border Defense Envoy who had vanished ten thousand years earlier, and concealed his discovery from the Heavenly Emperor.
• Li Yunxiao resolved to use Chu Mo's ritual to open a passage and earn a promotion to Divine Lord before reporting the new world.
• Chu Mo recognized that the Mystic Court method consumed human aura and weakened the people it drew from, then assessed the Mystic Court as a dangerous power.
• Heaven's Will urged Chu Mo to deceive Li Yunxiao into giving him the complete ritual method and suggested involving a Dao Venerable to connect the worlds.

Chu Mo showed the Mystic Court's Command Token to Harmony Truth, and Dao Lords Yi Chu and Primordial Beginning determined that the Mystic Court might be a Dao world. A Dao Venerable ordered them to create a new world as bait, and Chu Mo was chosen to enter it and contact the Mystic Court.

• Chu Mo told Ming Su about the Command Token, prompting Ming Su to summon Primordial Beginning and Yi Chu.
• Yi Chu and Primordial Beginning examined the token and concluded that the Mystic Court might be a Dao world, but they could not locate it or open a passage to it.
• Pure Keeper, Mystic Respondent sent a Silk Edict ordering them to use the token to open a new world and draw people from the Mystic Court across.
• Yi Chu explained that the new world would serve as bait, then assigned Chu Mo to enter it and make contact with the Mystic Court because its people already knew him.

Chu Mo entered the world created by the Pure Keeper, Mystic Respondent, and discovered that it contained a vast, seemingly real sect and its own inhabitants. After mapping a secret realm, he gave the map to the voice in the golden Command Token and received the promised ritual method.

• Yichu sent Chu Mo into the newly created world while Primordial Beginning questioned whether Yichu would support him as a Harmony Truth Disciple and candidate for a new Dao.
• Chu Mo arrived in a vast world where the Dao Venerable had given him the identity of a Heaven's Will Disciple in the False Heaven's Will Sect.
• Chu Mo met sect disciples who recognized him, then visited the Sect Master's Hall and saw that the world contained powerful cultivators.
• Chu Mo mapped a secret realm on a Jade Slip and waited several days before contacting the voice in the golden Command Token.
• Chu Mo showed the map to the voice, which praised him and transmitted the promised ritual method into his sea of consciousness.

Chu Mo used the Mystic Court ritual to attract Li Yunxiao and his divine guards into his world, where they underestimated him and began preparing to seize the realm. After Li Yunxiao descended, Chu Mo revealed his true strength and trapped the passage as more than a dozen figures surrounded the divine official.

• Chu Mo established a ritual altar near a large city, drawing its human aura into a pillar that let Li Yunxiao locate the world.
• Li Yunxiao sent nine divine guards to investigate, and they followed Chu Mo to the Heaven's Will Sect, killing its sect master and dismissing the realm's strength.
• The guards established a descent formation, and Li Yunxiao arrived, promising Chu Mo a place in the Mystic Court for offering up the world.
• Chu Mo revealed an overwhelming aura that pinned the divine guards down and exposed his fourth-tier strength.
• Li Yunxiao tried to close the descent passage, but a mysterious force fixed it in place as more than a dozen figures appeared and surrounded him.

Dao Lord Yi Chu captured Li Yunxiao, learned about the Mystic Court, and sent Chu Mo to infiltrate it using a transformed corpse as a decoy. Chu Mo entered the Dipper Department and used his power to make the divine guards identify as Youxuan.

• Li Yunxiao discovered that Tribulation Deliverance and Fuli had many Fourth Tier cultivators bearing Dao traces, but Yi Chu sealed his cultivation and searched his memories.
• Yi Chu learned that the Mystic Court was governed by the Heavenly Emperor and Divine Lords, who rarely appeared and communicated through the Heavenly Emperor Palace.
• Yi Chu transformed the Heaven's Will Sect master's corpse into a perfect copy of Li Yunxiao, replicated the divine guards' ritual imprints, and ordered Chu Mo to investigate the Mystic Court.
• Chu Mo accepted a Change Coin and entered the Mystic Court's Dipper Department with the false Li Yunxiao and copied guards.
• Chu Mo stopped the false Li Yunxiao from speaking and used his power on the guards, who began identifying themselves as Youxuan.

Chu Mo took control of the Dipper Department’s lower-ranking officials and planned to erase its records of Eternal Night, but Deputy Head Yue Zhen’s suspicions led Chu Mo to target him as well. Yue Zhen emerged from his office as another of Chu Mo’s Other-Self Aspects.

• Chu Mo ordered Wang Hu to gather the Dipper Department’s officials at the third tier and below, then used his All Beings Aspect to turn them into his Other-Selves.
• Yue Zhen interrupted the gathering, challenged the false Li Yunxiao, and left after noticing Chu Mo and the officials’ strange behavior.
• Yue Zhen suspected Chu Mo had discovered an Otherworld and questioned his trusted aide Zhou Ji about the gathering.
• Zhou Ji and Yue Zhen’s other subordinates revealed they were Chu Mo’s Other-Selves and invited Yue Zhen to join them.
• Yue Zhen tried to escape as Chu Mo appeared in his office, but he later walked out transformed into another Other-Self.

Chu Mo seized control of the Rites Department’s chief, Fu Zhou, and searched its secret archive for answers about the Divine Lords and the Heavenly Emperor. The records revealed that the Heavenly Emperor’s disappearance began after he created the Emperor Realm and took the Divine Lords to the Spirit Realm, leaving Chu Mo with a growing suspicion about the Mystic Court’s history.

• Chu Mo learned that Divine Lord lineages stopped hearing from their ancestors after ascension, and decided to investigate the Rites Department’s records.
• Yue Zhen lured Fu Zhou to the Yue residence, where Chu Mo trapped and transformed him into an Other-Self Aspect.
• Chu Mo considered the strain of manifesting powerful fourth-tier Aspects and entered the Rites Department’s restricted archive.
• The archive’s records showed the Heavenly Emperor had once ruled actively, established the Human Dao, and campaigned across the World Sea.
• Chu Mo read that the Heavenly Emperor created the Emperor Realm, took the Divine Lords to the Heaven of Soaring Firmament, and thereafter issued decrees only through the Heavenly Emperor Palace.

Chu Mo brought records and a Divine Lord cultivation method from the Mystic Court to Yichu and Primordial Beginning, revealing that the method gathered human momentum to nourish the Heavenly Emperor. Pure Keeper Dao Venerable explained that the Heavenly Emperor had used the Human Dao to devour the Heavenly Dao, which had revived within him, and ordered Chu Mo to proceed with a plan to destabilize the Mystic Court.

• Chu Mo copied the Heavenly Emperor's Daily Records, retrieved the Divine Lord method from the Rites Department's restricted vault, and returned to the False Heaven's Will Sect.
• Chu Mo showed the records and method to Yichu and Primordial Beginning, who recognized the method as nourishment for the Heavenly Emperor and discussed how human momentum formed the Human Dao.
• Yichu sought guidance from Pure Keeper Dao Venerable, who said the Heavenly Emperor had used the Human Dao to devour the Heavenly Dao and establish his own Dao.
• Pure Keeper Dao Venerable explained that Heaven's Will could not be usurped and that the Heavenly Dao had revived within the Heavenly Emperor.
• Pure Keeper Dao Venerable ordered Yichu to tell Chu Mo to lure Mystic Court Divine Officials into the New World and replace them with false bodies, promising to act when the plan affected the Heavenly Emperor.

Chu Mo secretly assimilated the Mystic Court’s eight departments and seized control of the Heavenly Emperor Palace’s guards, preparing to draw the Mystic Court into the New World. The chapter ended with Shen Qingxi reading Chu Mo’s proposal to commit the Mystic Court’s full strength to conquering it.

• Yichu ordered Chu Mo to lure cultivators below the Spirit Realm into the New World to weaken the Mystic Court.
• Chu Mo methodically assimilated officials across the Mystic Court, eventually taking control of all eight departments outside the three halls.
• With Heaven’s Will’s help, Chu Mo eased the strain of controlling his many other-self aspects and planned to capture the Heavenly Emperor Palace.
• During a guard rotation, Chu Mo’s other-self aspects replaced the remaining palace guards, putting the link to the Heaven of Soaring Firmament under his control.
• Chu Mo sent a report recommending that the Mystic Court commit its full strength to conquering the New World, and Shen Qingxi read it with surprise.