Chapter Summaries

Yichu told Chu Mo about the Falling Star City mission in the Cloud-Robed Cosmos, while Xuanming arranged a plot to draw Youxuan out of the sect. As Chu Mo cultivated in the Dreamscape, Yichu arrived with news that the dragonkind had launched a major invasion of the Eastern Sea.

• Yichu explained that Falling Star City was an ancient True Realm ruin in the Cloud-Robed Realm and said Chu Mo could earn several thousand to over ten thousand spirit matter by exploring it.
• Chu Mo asked Chang Le to continue their work after Yichu left, while the Enforcement Hall investigated Huaqing's death and considered possible suspects.
• Xuanming urged Jing Yuan to find Huaqing's killer, then told a conspirator that Huaqing's death did not matter and that he still intended to lure Youxuan out.
• Xuanming arranged for the dragonkind to stir up trouble in the Eastern Sea so the sect would have to send Youxuan to intervene, while an accomplice prepared to act in the Cloud-Robed Cosmos.
• After years of Dreamscape cultivation deepened Chu Mo's mastery of [Death], Yichu told him that dozens of Spirit Transformation True Dragons had invaded the Eastern Sea and nearly killed Dao Lord Zhi Yun.

Chu Mo traveled to the Cloud-Robed Cosmos to investigate the Eastern Sea crisis and met Yingnian, who presented herself as Dao Lord Wanyun. He followed her to Falling Star City, where he discovered a dungeon prompt above the ruins.

• Yichu told Chu Mo that the Eastern Sea was in chaos and that the Life-Ending Society had conscripted cultivators from several lineages.
• Chu Mo received a communication Command Token from Yichu and used a Jade Talisman to enter the sealed Cloud-Robed Cosmos.
• Yingnian greeted Chu Mo as Wanyun of the Painting Dao, and Chu Mo suspected she might be an agent or a threat connected to Xuanming.
• Yingnian warned Chu Mo that the Cloud-Robed Cosmos remained dangerous and escorted him toward Falling Star City.
• At Falling Star City, Chu Mo saw a dungeon prompt identifying the ruins as a True Realm with a recommended challenge level of 68.

Chu Mo entered the composite true realm with Yingnian, searched thought spirits for ancient techniques, and agreed to help her open a sealed door in Falling Star City. After sensing the door’s intertwined mystiques, he began trying to break the seal, while his All Beings Aspect quietly bound Yingnian to a favor.

• Yingnian opened the association’s entrance seal, and Chu Mo entered the ancient true realm with her.
• A thought spirit attacked Chu Mo, but Yingnian trapped it in a painting and explained how to search the spirits for memories.
• Chu Mo searched Yingnian’s stored thought spirits, finding a Golden Core divine ability, a Spirit Transformation cultivation method, and a Spirit Transformation divine ability.
• Yingnian persuaded Chu Mo to investigate a powerful restrictive seal in Falling Star City, claiming his death origin might let him break it.
• Chu Mo sensed the seal’s tangled mystiques, secured Yingnian’s promise of a favor, and placed his hand against the door.

Chu Mo and Yingnian entered the sealed palace and defeated a Spirit Transformation Remnant, but its death caused dozens of thought spirits to merge into a Level 70 boss. Chu Mo escaped while Yingnian was left to face its attack, then refused her suggestion to bring his True Body into the world as he examined the loot.

• Chu Mo used Mystique to break the Restrictive Seals, and he saw Yingnian's bewitching true face with the All Beings Aspect.
• Chu Mo and Yingnian entered a jade palace and fought a Spirit Transformation Remnant that attacked with Water Element Mystique.
• Yingnian trapped the remnant's rivers in her painting, and Chu Mo destroyed it with the Two Forms Sword, obtaining several items.
• Dozens of core thought spirits appeared and merged into a Level 70 boss, so Chu Mo retreated while Yingnian was caught by its attack.
• Outside the palace, Chu Mo dismissed Yingnian's proposal to bring his True Body into the world and began examining the loot.

Chu Mo negotiated with Yingnian to split the reward for defeating the Thought Spirit, then brought his Dharma body into the Cloud-Robed Cosmos and joined her assault on it. Their battle weakened and trapped the Thought Spirit, leaving its defeat imminent.

• Chu Mo examined the Heart of Rivers and Marshes and the Spirit River Nourishes Water True Scripture, then wondered whether ancient Spirit Transformation cultivators had followed the Qi-Collecting Foundation Establishment path.
• Yingnian persuaded Chu Mo to help defeat the Thought Spirit, and they agreed to divide the spirit matter forty-sixty, with Chu Mo taking sixty percent.
• Chu Mo entered the Cloud-Robed Cosmos with his Dharma body, whose arrival caused strange deaths and sudden inspiration among the natives.
• Chu Mo and Yingnian attacked the Thought Spirit with the Two Forms Sword, the Profound Banner, and Yingnian's Painted Shadows.
• Chu Mo strengthened the Great Black Heaven until the Thought Spirit slowed, then Yingnian's Painted Shadows trapped it as it tried to flee.

Chu Mo used a dreamscape to test whether he could steal fate, trapping Yingnian in a dream where she tried to take the [Dream] origin. After Yingnian vanished into fate, Wanyun woke in Chu Mo’s palace and learned that he had saved her.

• Yingnian captured the Thought Spirit with her painting scroll, and Chu Mo used the Ink Seal to suppress its consciousness.
• Yingnian split the association’s ten-thousand-unit reward with Chu Mo, giving him six thousand units.
• Over several years, Yingnian used Chu Mo’s desires to draw him close, then tried to seize the [Dream] origin from him.
• Chu Mo revealed that Yingnian’s experience had been a dreamscape designed to test whether he could steal fate, and Yingnian vanished into a wisp of fate.
• Wanyun woke in Chu Mo’s palace, confirmed she was still a woman, and asked whether he was Youxuan, the person Yichu had asked her to look after.

After saving Wanyun, Chu Mo took her valuables as his reward and examined Yingnian’s memories, discovering the final version of the True Realm Forging Method. He reported dozens of recovered techniques to the True Harmony Association and awaited their offer of spirit matter.

• Chu Mo took Wanyun’s painting, grotto-heaven Dharmic Treasure, and savings, while Wanyun thanked him and asked about Yingnian.
• Chu Mo revealed that Yingnian had become an [Other-Self Aspect] and considered using her to spy on Xuanming, while Wanyun remained bound by a karmic debt.
• Chu Mo extracted the thought spirit from the painting and sorted through its memories, collecting divine abilities and finding the final version of the True Realm Forging Method.
• Chu Mo read that the method had been created to establish a True Realm and change the Dao Path, then wondered whether someone had weakened [Qi-Collecting Foundation Establishment].
• Chu Mo contacted the True Harmony Association and listed dozens of techniques for trade, and the mission coordinator expressed surprise before calculating their value.

Chu Mo exchanged the Heart of Rivers and Marshes for spirit matter and used twenty thousand beads to raise his cultivation from level 58 to level 60. Meanwhile, Xuanming and Yingnian continued watching him and planned to wait until he entered the Cloud-Robed Cosmos, while the Dragonkind’s unrest remained unexplained.

• A True Harmony Association contact explained that qi-collection methods could forge a True Realm but could not lead their cultivators to the Great Dao, then offered Chu Mo three thousand spirit matter for the Heart of Rivers and Marshes.
• A Spirit Transformation cultivator delivered seventeen thousand spirit matter to Chu Mo, who combined it with three thousand beads Wanyun had given him.
• Chu Mo absorbed all twenty thousand beads, raising his cultivation from level 58 to level 60 and further improving his control over the Root Origin.
• Xuanming contacted Yingnian and learned that Youxuan’s True Body refused to enter the Cloud-Robed Cosmos, despite Yingnian’s attempts to lure him in.
• Yingnian proposed ambushing Youxuan, but Xuanming said the Life-Ending Society had run into trouble because Ji Heng had sided with Youxuan, and ordered her to keep watching.
• Xuanming decided to wait for Youxuan to enter the Cloud-Robed Cosmos, predicting that the Dragonkind would keep making trouble, and Yingnian asked what he had done to provoke them.

Chu Mo refined a powerful thought spirit and discovered that the Origin Race’s fortune was draining into the void, possibly toward the Mountain of Origin. When Ming He returned to the Lesser Origin Realm to harvest Origin Race bodies, the realm turned upside down and revealed the outline of a mysterious mountain.

• Chu Mo finished refining the thought spirit into an armored sword-wielding helper with peak Spirit Transformation strength.
• Chu Mo sensed the Origin Race’s fortune flowing into the void and suspected the Mountain of Origin had exposed itself.
• Ming He persuaded Ninth Senior Brother to let him return to the Lesser Origin Realm for more Origin Race bodies.
• Ming He slaughtered members of the Origin Race and collected their qi in a small cauldron, accelerating the drain of their fortune.
• Heaven and earth inverted around Ming He and the Origin Race, revealing a vast mountain marked with an unknown map and recommended entry level.

Chu Mo entered the Mountain of Origin, where a giant fish swallowed his other-self aspect before two Feathered Race divine envoys arrived and mistakenly concluded it had been digested. The fish retained Chu Mo, who learned that one of the envoys was Yun Heng of the Venerated God Church.

• Chu Mo recognized the Mountain of Origin's level and let his other-self aspects fall toward it.
• Xuanming ended his dispute with Chen Feng to suppress a disturbance in the Mountain of Origin, then took Ming He away.
• Chu Mo arrived at a vast lake and was swallowed by a level 45 big fish.
• Yun Heng and his companion found the big fish, checked its belly, and released it after deciding Chu Mo had been digested.
• The big fish secretly retained Chu Mo, who identified Yun Heng as a silver-robed member of the Venerated God Church and a divine envoy of the Feathered Race.

Chu Mo used a great fish to spread his influence throughout a world ruled by the Venerated God Church, whose god was named Taiming, and discovered a strange register in Fuli Heaven. In the Cloud-Robed Cosmos, he resolved to seek the root origin of life and brushed off Wanyun’s warning to leave, instead demanding more spirit matter.

• Chu Mo explored the great fish’s memories and learned about the nine-tiered mountain world, its many races, and the Venerated God Church’s worship of Taiming, whom he recognized as Xuanming.
• Chu Mo sent the existence called “multitude” spreading from lakes through rivers and into the oceans, while a strange register appeared in Fuli Heaven.
• Chu Mo considered using his mastery of death to forcibly pluck out the root origin of life in the Cloud-Robed Cosmos.
• Wanyun urged Chu Mo to leave because Yingnian’s infiltration had exposed a breach in the blockade, but Chu Mo insisted the cosmos was safe and asked her for more spirit matter.
• Wanyun explained that she had already spent her savings and mission rewards on Chu Mo, then left after he refused to go.

Chu Mo experimented with his [Death] authority in the dream realm and developed a technique that could temporarily delay a fatal outcome. He returned to the Present World after Wanyun reported that an almost identical Thought Spirit had appeared behind the restrictive seal in Falling Star City.

• Chu Mo summoned his fifth-tier Yin Spirit Tianchen into the Profound Banner and entered the Luo Feng True Realm to study [Death].
• Chu Mo repeatedly tested whether he could remove death from a dream tiger, discovering that death could not be erased but could be temporarily delayed.
• Chu Mo kept the decapitated tiger alive for about a day and named the technique [Death-Evasion and Life-Prolonging].
• Wanyun told Chu Mo that a new spirit-transformation-level Thought Spirit had appeared behind the restrictive seal in Falling Star City with an aura almost identical to the previous one.
• Chu Mo agreed to go with Wanyun to investigate the new Thought Spirit.

Chu Mo and Wanyun discovered that identical Thought Spirits were reappearing in the palace and uncovered a River Spirit Cauldron bearing traces of the River Origin. Chu Mo claimed the cauldron as repayment for saving Wanyun and left with it, while she reluctantly agreed not to report it.

• Chu Mo subdued a three-headed Thought Spirit, then found its aura and memory fragments identical to those of the previous one.
• Months later, Chu Mo captured another, weaker Thought Spirit and confirmed that it was identical, prompting him and Wanyun to investigate the palace.
• Chu Mo uncovered a hidden River Spirit Cauldron that could continuously produce water spirit matter and whose aura resembled the River Origin.
• Wanyun explained that the ancient Dao Lords may have used the cauldron's power as an anchor for their true realms.
• Chu Mo took the cauldron as repayment for saving Wanyun and told her to keep it secret, and she ultimately did not report it to the association.

Chu Mo prepared to use the Merfolk’s Tidal Festival to draw the races of the Mountain of Origin into his reach, while a Demonkin faction plotted to attack the gathering. The chapter ended with a woman stepping through a Golden Vortex into the realm after [Heavenly Register: Creation].

• Chu Mo studied the spirit matter bead from the Three-Legged Cauldron, then continued cultivating and secretly nibbling away at Fate in Xuanming's back garden for more than a decade.
• Chu Mo, disguised as the Merfolk chief, arranged a Tidal Festival to gather envoys from the Mountain of Origin’s races, intending to devour them and spread the All Beings Aspect.
• Delegations arrived for the festival as Demonkin gathered in a trench and prepared to attack the Merfolk with a Silent Spirit-Seizing Grand Array.
• A woman emerged from a Golden Vortex near the shore and marveled at the abundant spiritual Qi in the realm after [Heavenly Register: Creation].

Su Yingxue entered the Mountain of Origin, defeated a Blue-Scaled Race patrol, and disguised herself to investigate the Tidal Festival for traces of [Law]. At the festival, Chu Mo learned that a Feathered Race elder was preparing to ascend to the Divine Realm, then saw a blood-colored pillar erupt over the celebration.

• Su Yingxue crossed into the Mountain of Origin and found its spiritual Qi exceptionally rich.
• A Blue-Scaled Race leader mistook Su Yingxue for a Demonkin spy and attacked her, but she defeated his group and questioned him about the local races and factions.
• Su Yingxue killed the captive leader, reshaped her appearance with a blue-green scale, and planned to observe the Tidal Festival for traces of [Law].
• At the celebration in the Water-Repelling Palace, Chu Mo welcomed the gathered envoys and noted Yun Feng of the Feathered Race among them.
• Yun Feng announced that Elder Yun Yue was confident of ascending to the Divine Realm, and Chu Mo resolved to eat a fifth-tier Winged Person and visit it.
• A blood-colored pillar of light burst above the celebration and spread bloody mist across the heavens and earth.

At the Tidal Festival, Lin Li and the Demonkin attacked the gathered races, but the Merfolk destroyed the Grand Array and the survivors fled. Su Yingxue captured a badly wounded Demonkin to help her grandfather, only to discover that he had escaped his restraints and called himself the Youxuan Dao Lord.

• Lin Li surrounded the festival guests with Demonkin and activated the blood mist and dark light of the Silent Grand Array, while Chu Mo led the guests into battle.
• The Merfolk vanished from the hall and sacrificed themselves to defile the array, causing an explosion that shattered the blood mist and forced the surviving Demonkin to flee.
• Su Yingxue tracked a wounded Demonkin to the mountains, then brought her uncles to capture him with a Spirit-Sealing Soul-Binding Talisman.
• Su Yingxue brought the imprisoned Demonkin to Su Manor, hoping her grandfather Su Zhengtian could use him to resist the Nine Truths Gate's next conscription.
• The Demonkin appeared free in Su Zhengtian's courtyard, revealed himself as the Youxuan Dao Lord, and rendered Su Zhengtian's relocation talisman useless.

Chu Mo confronted Su Zhengtian and Su Yingxue over her Heavenly Register, then negotiated with Heaven’s Will to take responsibility for helping her obtain the Authority of [Life]. He left Su Yingxue set to join the Nine Truths Gate, while she remained unaware that Chu Mo had altered her grandfather’s intentions.

• Su Zhengtian recognized Chu Mo as Dao Lord Youxuan and begged him to spare Su Yingxue, who explained she had found the Heavenly Register sixteen years earlier.
• Chu Mo insisted Su Yingxue continue visiting the Heavenly Register Realm and join the Nine Truths Gate.
• Heaven’s Will froze everyone but Chu Mo, and he argued that he could help Su Yingxue obtain the Authority of [Life] sooner than Xuanming could.
• Heaven’s Will dissipated without answering, and Chu Mo used his Divine Ability on Su Zhengtian and Su Yingxue.
• Su Zhengtian decided Su Yingxue should join the Nine Truths Gate, and she accepted his reasoning without understanding why his mind had changed.

Chu Mo used Lin Li and Yun Feng to spread reports of an Otherworldly Demon through the Mountain Realm, while Xuanming learned that the Heavenly Register had appeared. Xuanming resolved to find the Second Tier woman before Youxuan did and sent his intentions to Taiming.

• Chu Mo reflected on Xuanming’s concealment of the Mountain of Origin and used his Other-Self Aspect in Lin Li to investigate the Demonkin.
• Lin Li returned to the God-Worshipping Church’s Ninth-Layer Branch and reported seeing the prophesied Holy Son or Holy Maiden after the Merfolk befouled the Silent Grand Array.
• Chu Mo examined Lin Li’s blood-based cultivation and suspected that the God-Worshipping Church’s High God might belong to the Life-Ending Society.
• Yun Feng told Yun Yue that a Second Tier woman who could traverse the void matched the church’s description of a Demon from Beyond the Heavens.
• Xuanming learned that the Heavenly Register had appeared, judged the woman’s slow cultivation a hopeful sign, and resolved to find her before Youxuan.

Yun Yue received a Guidance Seal and tried to rally the Feathered Race, only to discover that Chu Mo had infiltrated its members and was preparing to assimilate them. Meanwhile, Yichu recognized the River Spirit Cauldron’s origin, leaving Chu Mo stunned by how he knew.

• Yun Yue received a Guidance Seal from her god and summoned the Feathered Race elders to announce a hunt for the Otherworldly Demons.
• Yun Yue noticed an uncanny change in the people around her, then found the elders and Yun Ling'er urging her to become one of them as the hall doors shut.
• Chu Mo revealed that his people had infiltrated all hundred races on the Mountain of Origin and planned to assimilate them before using Yun Yue to reach the Divine Realm.
• Yichu told Chu Mo that Xuanming had repeatedly sent him to face attacking Dragon Lords first.
• Chu Mo showed Yichu the River Spirit Cauldron, and Yichu identified its defective unceasing mystique and said it had originally been forged from Root Origin.
• Chu Mo wondered how Yichu had discerned the cauldron's origin when even Wanyun had not.

Chu Mo arranged with Yichu and Su Kong to counterfeit the River Spirit Cauldron and sell the replicas through Upper Mound for Spirit Matter. He then entered the Great Void as Yun Yue and was led to meet Dao Lord Darkworld.

• Chu Mo gave Yichu the River Spirit Cauldron, and Yichu introduced him to Su Kong, who could replicate it using his command of the Root Origins of [False] and [True].
• Su Kong proposed selling the replicas through Upper Mound, and he and Yichu agreed to use the scheme to earn Spirit Matter and potentially set Upper Mound against Great Evolution; Chu Mo accepted a forty-percent share.
• Chu Mo left Immortal Rosy Cloud Peak pleased with the deal and turned his attention to Yun Yue's climb up the Heavenly Stairway toward the Mountain of Origin.
• Yun Yue reached the Great Void, entered the fifth tier, and was escorted by Divine Attendants Yun Zhao and Yun Miao toward a divine temple.
• Yun Yue entered the temple and saw Dao Lord Darkworld.