Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo fought Jiang Yan and four Great Evolution cultivators who sought to take back the River and Rain Sources. After escaping their five-element attacks, Chu Mo unleashed the Netherworld Prison, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Jiang Yan confronted Chu Mo and demanded that he return the River and Rain Sources, then joined four companions to attack him with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Zhi Su persuaded Dao Venerable Tai Xuan to hold back and let Chu Mo fight Jiang Yan.
• Chu Mo used the Profound Banner and its endless Yin Spirits to break the Five-Colored Divine Light, but Jiang Yan restored it with unceasing mystique.
• Chu Mo evaded Jiang Yan’s Heavenly Net by moving between life and death through Netherworld, frustrating Jiang Yan’s attempts to capture him.
• Chu Mo drew a black-and-white sword and spread the Netherworld Prison across the battlefield, startling Baoyun.

Chu Mo trapped Jiang Yan and the Five Elements Dao Lords in the Netherworld Prison, where he erased one lord’s memories and turned others into Underworld officials. As Jiang Yan faced defeat, Lingtu Yuming shattered the prison, but Baoyun appeared to defend Chu Mo from the Dao Venerable’s attack.

• Chu Mo unleashed the Netherworld Prison, killing the Water Element Dao Lord and erasing Dao Lord Luo’s memories through lesser reincarnation.
• Chu Mo destroyed Jiang Yan’s Heavenly Net, and the Nether Lord’s officials captured the Metal Element Dao Lord, who reappeared as an Underworld manifestation and attacked Jiang Yan.
• The Wood Element Dao Lord was dragged into a nether hall, leaving Jiang Yan wounded and overwhelmed by Chu Mo’s Yin Spirits and ghost officials.
• Lingtu Yuming’s immense hand broke the Netherworld Prison and reached for Chu Mo, but a golden copper coin redirected the attack onto a distant Outer Dao cultivator.
• Baoyun appeared in the Great Void and condemned Lingtu Yuming for attacking Tribulation Deliverance’s Sect Master Candidate.

After Chu Mo defeated Jiang Yan, the Dao Venerables ended the confrontation, and Zhi Su explained why the other Four Lineages would not interfere. Baoyun promised to support Chu Mo’s candidacy for Tribulation Deliverance Sect Master, leaving Chu Mo to consider the burdens of Upper Mound and his next step.

• Baoyun confronted Lingtu for bullying Chu Mo, and Lingtu withdrew the Earth Virtue Lineage from the dispute over the River and Rain Sources.
• Taiyuan warned Chu Mo that his conflict with the lineage remained unsettled, then left with Luo Yao while Zhi Su praised Chu Mo’s fight against Jiang Yan.
• Zhi Su explained that Great Evolution would not risk provoking both Tribulation Deliverance and Heaven’s Will, though the Water Element Lineage could still cause trouble.
• Baoyun offered to protect Chu Mo and promised to arrange for him to take the Tribulation Deliverance Sect Master’s seat in exchange for consideration when Chu Mo established the Dao of Reincarnation.
• Zhi Su advised Chu Mo not to incur debts or accept karma from Upper Mound, and Chu Mo checked his panel, which showed Level 69.

Chu Mo became the Sect Master of the Tribulation Deliverance Sect and received the sect’s mysterious blessing, which raised his cultivation. He announced that his Dark Banner would replace the missing Disciple Registry and protect the sect’s disciples.

• Jin Jue offered Chu Mo a Heaven and Earth Bag filled with Spirit Matter as a congratulatory gift, but Chu Mo refused it because he distrusted Upper Mound.
• Chu Mo donned a True-Form Treasure robe and walked the golden road to the succession ceremony, where he bowed before the four patriarch statues.
• The Ritual Disciple proclaimed Chu Mo the new Tribulation Deliverance Sect Master, and four streams of radiance entered him, raising his cultivation from level 69 to 70.
• Chu Mo addressed the assembled cultivators and announced that his Dark Banner would replace the missing Disciple Registry and safeguard the disciples.

Chu Mo hosted guests after becoming Tribulation Deliverance's Sect Master and learned that dragonkind might oppose his attempt to establish a new Dao. Meanwhile, the Enforcement Hall's members feared retaliation for having recently investigated him.

• Chu Mo dismissed the crowd's unease about his Myriad Souls Banner and invited the elders and envoys into the main hall.
• Dao Lord Zhi Yun apologized to Chu Mo for his past role in the Outer Sea affair, then warned that dragonkind might threaten him because of his new Dao.
• Chu Mo wondered whether dragonkind was concealing a secret, while Zhi Yun hoped his accession and possible Dao Integration would help the Azure Depths School's predicament.
• Enforcement Hall members worried that Chu Mo would punish them for having gathered evidence against him, and they asked Zhao Qing whether valuable treasures could appease him.

After the banquet, Chu Mo explored the fortune linked to his position as Sect Master and studied the Tribulation Deliverance Sect’s inherited cultivation records. When Li Yuangong and the Enforcement Elders came to beg forgiveness, Chu Mo accepted their gifts but ordered them to monitor Dragonkind and Great Evolution, leaving them alarmed by the dangerous task.

• Chu Mo and Zhi Yun parted with an understanding that they might cooperate, while Yichu warned Chu Mo not to underestimate Dragonkind.
• Chu Mo discovered he could draw on the sect’s fortune for protection and cultivation, but he could only experience it passively.
• Chu Mo read the Jade Slip containing cultivation insights passed down by the Tribulation Deliverance Sect’s former Sect Masters.
• Li Yuangong and the Enforcement Elders presented gifts and apologized for their past offenses, and Chu Mo accepted the gifts and cleared their grievances.
• Chu Mo ordered the Enforcement Hall to watch Dragonkind and Great Evolution, and Li Yuangong protested that his people lacked the strength and protection for the assignment.

Chu Mo ordered the Enforcement Hall to scout for Dragonkind while he cultivated the Three Sources in Chang Le’s accelerated dream realm. Meanwhile, Taiyuan Xuanshui conspired with a Dragon King to stop Chu Mo’s Dao Integration, though he suspected Dragonkind would not use its Dao Fruit yet.

• Chu Mo ordered Li Yuangong and the Enforcement Hall to watch the Eastern Sea and Western Territory for Dragonkind, warning that their True Spirits would fall into his hands if they died.
• Chu Mo secluded himself to cultivate for Dao Integration while Chang Le accelerated time in the Luo Feng True Realm, and he deepened his control over the Three Sources.
• Taiyuan Xuanshui negotiated with a Dragon King to raise floods and kill Youxuan in exchange for the River and Rain Sources.
• Taiyuan and the woman beside him dismissed Dragonkind as beasts and discussed whether Youxuan would succeed, concluding that Dragonkind was unlikely to use its Dao Fruit before [Azure Depths Si Xuan] completed the True Self Dao.

Dragonkind killed Li Yuangong and the Enforcement Hall disciples, then sent a vast host inland along a newly formed river to flood the Eastern Continent. Chu Mo learned of the attack and summoned the Four Lineages, while three Dragon Kings watched the invasion and hoped to expand the Outer Sea.

• Li Yuangong sensed something was wrong in the Outer Sea before a Dao Integration Dragon King killed him and the Enforcement Hall disciples.
• The Dragon King ordered Dragonkind to return the Eastern Continent beneath the Desolate Sea before the Tribulation Deliverance Sect's new Sect Master could react.
• Dragonkind followed a river linking the sea abyss to the continent, flooding cities and fields as the Outer Sea's Dao spread inland.
• Chu Mo saw the deaths of his Other-Self Aspects, recognized the invasion, and sent messages through the Four Lineages' Command Tokens.
• Three Dao Integration Dragon Kings watched the flooding, and Wanlan hoped Dragonkind could reclaim the Eastern Sea and erode the continent with the Outer Sea's Dao.

Dragon King Wanlan attacked Chu Mo’s Remnant Husk, but Tai Xuan, Yan Huan He Ji, and other Tribulation Deliverance experts ambushed him. After Tribulation Deliverance protected Chu Mo, Zhi Su gave him a replica of Wanlan’s spirit treasure spear, leaving the Dragon Kings facing the assembled Dao Integration experts.

• Dragon King Wanlan ignored Dragon King Yuanting’s warnings and attacked Chu Mo’s Remnant Husk in the Present World.
• Tai Xuan wounded Wanlan with a strike that combined the Curse Dao and Slaughter Dao, while Yan Huan He Ji appeared to reveal the ambush.
• Wanlan saw Pure Keeper, Mystic Respondent, and Baoyun of Clear Radiance Peak assembled with Tai Xuan to protect Chu Mo.
• Chu Mo asked Zhi Su and the other martial uncles to deal with the Dragonkind that had ravaged Tribulation Deliverance’s territory.
• Zhi Su showed Wanlan a powerful replica of his silver spear and gave it to Chu Mo as a protective treasure.

Chu Mo watched as the Immortal Garden and Dragonkind fought fiercely in the Great Void and the Present World, while Dao Venerables clashed with the Dragon Kings. He refused to join the battle, arguing that being Sect Master should spare him from fighting personally.

• Zhi Su revealed that his replica of Wan Lan’s spirit treasure had stolen half of the original’s reality, enraging Wan Lan.
• Yuan Ting attacked Tai Xuan with dark lightning, but Tai Xuan’s torrent of weapons drove it back.
• Yan Huan confronted the Dragon King in purple-and-gold chain mail, who summoned Hung Abyss, while she vanished into the Dao of joy and delight.
• Immortal Garden disciples attacked the Dragonkind; Yan Huan’s and Xi Shang’s mystiques disrupted the dragons, allowing the disciples to kill many of them.
• Mo Yan tossed Xi Shang into the river, where her grief mystique made the dragons protect her as she attacked them.
• Chu Mo watched the battle from a distance and told Yichu that a Sect Master should not have to fight personally.

As the Outer Sea’s invasion sharpened Chu Mo’s understanding of the Great Daos, he began integrating with the Dao of the Netherworld. Wanlan recognized the danger and charged into the cold mist to stop him, despite his injuries and Dao Venerable Yanzhen’s interference.

• Chu Mo sensed the Outer Sea’s vastness clarifying the Heavenly Dao and helping him find his place among the Great Daos.
• Chu Mo watched the Dragonkind’s invasion continue and said that the fighting was still not enough.
• Months passed as Xi Shang and the Tribulation Deliverance Disciples fought the Dragonkind across the Eastern Sea.
• Cold mist and ghostly Netherworld figures spread across Fuli, prompting powerful beings to turn their attention toward Cloudsea Hanging Mountain.
• Wanlan abandoned his battle with Zhi Su and tried to strike at the nascent Netherworld Great Dao, but Shangyan Yanzhen aggravated his wounds and blocked him.
• Wanlan raised the Hung Abyss and charged into the cold mist, declaring that he would kill Shangyan Yanzhen and stop anyone who interfered.

Chu Mo began integrating the Netherworld Great Dao, but discovered he needed a real Netherworld Court to anchor it. He used his Profound Banner and Ink Seal to form the court and begin reincarnation, while Yanzhen and Baoyun kept Wanlan from attacking.

• Yanzhen invoked Wanlan’s supposed karmic debt to Baoyun, forcing Wanlan to stop and settle it before he could reach Chu Mo.
• Yanzhen assured Chu Mo that the Dao Venerables would hold off the Dragon Kings, and Chu Mo focused on integrating the Netherworld Great Dao.
• Chu Mo sensed that he needed a real Netherworld Court to establish his place in heaven and earth, but decided not to use his remnant husk.
• Chu Mo sent the Profound Banner into the depths of the earth to spread netherworld soil and form the Netherworld Court.
• Chu Mo’s Ink Seal transformed into a wheel within the forming court, beginning to establish reincarnation.

Chu Mo endured Dragon King Yuanting’s attack and continued establishing the Netherworld Court while the surrounding factions fought to stop or protect him. He united the life, death, and netherworld sources, became a Venerable, and declared his title to be Ferrying Souls and Wielding the Netherworld.

• Taiyuan widened the great river to bring six Dao Integration Dragon Kings onto the continent, but six Talisman-Wielding cultivators blocked their advance.
• Lingtu Yuming attempted to use Alter Earth and Change the Path, but a thunderstorm deterred him, and Yuanting was suddenly sent into the yin mist where Chu Mo was.
• Yuanting struck Chu Mo and nearly destroyed his Dharma Body, but Baoyun arrived and used copper coins to keep Yuanting from attacking again.
• Chu Mo completed the Netherworld Court’s preparations and began uniting the life, death, and netherworld sources to establish his venerable seat.
• The Netherworld’s power manifested across heaven and earth as Chu Mo announced the order of the Netherworld and became the Venerable titled Ferrying Souls and Wielding the Netherworld.

Chu Mo completed his Dao Integration and severed the Dragon Kings’ connection to the Outer Sea, leaving them weakened. He crushed Yuanting with the Netherworld Great Dao and pinned him beneath reincarnation, then turned his attention toward a distant Dao Venerable.

• The factions witnessed Chu Mo’s successful Dao Integration, while Yuanting and Wanlan recognized that he had become a true Dao Venerable.
• Taiyuan cut off the Dragon Kings’ connection to the Outer Sea, causing their cultivation to rapidly decline and refusing Yuanting’s demand to honor their agreement.
• Chu Mo emerged and trapped Yuanting in the transformed Netherworld Prison, where Yuanting’s lightning attack failed to break free.
• Chu Mo struck Yuanting with the Two Forms Sword, pinned his million-li dragon body beneath reincarnation, and suppressed him in the Netherworld Court.
• Chu Mo wondered whether the Dragon Kings’ Dao had been their own, resolved to ask Zhi Su, and met the gaze of a distant figure whose eyes shimmered with water resonance.

After Chu Mo’s breakthrough, the Netherworld Court’s allies left him to examine his transformed All Beings Aspect and the mysteries of the Yin-Yang Jade. He learned that advancing through Dao Integration required him to master the Heaven and Earth Dao, All Beings Dao, and True Self Dao before pursuing Mahayana fruition.

• Taiyuan Xuanshui and Lingtu Yuming discussed postponing their effort to reclaim the River and Rain Sources and left the battlefield.
• After Taiyuan severed the great river, the Dragon Kings lost their advantage; all but four died, and the Dao Venerables congratulated Chu Mo on attaining Dao Integration.
• Chu Mo examined his status and discovered that All Beings Aspect could assimilate others without a karmic connection and let him return as long as one other-self survived.
• Chu Mo sensed that the Yin-Yang Jade was tied to the deeper principle of existence, though he could not yet uncover its mysteries.
• Chu Mo learned that completing Dao Integration required claiming the Fortune of the remaining powers, spreading Dao Registers and Root Origins, and cultivating his True Self before nurturing a Dao Fruit.

Chu Mo planned to complete the Netherworld by creating a passage for departed souls, while Zhi Su explained how the River Origin could help and warned him about Dragonkind's strength. The chapter ended with Zhi Su revealing that Dragonkind's Ancestral Dragon had been a Heavenly Venerable slain by Heaven's Will Sect's founding patriarch.

• Chu Mo realized the Netherworld needed a passage between the Yang World and Underworld to carry departed souls.
• Zhi Su told Chu Mo that the River Origin could connect the realms and transport souls, and warned him to preserve the Root Origins for negotiations with Great Evolution.
• Chu Mo declined Zhi Su's offer to help develop the Underworld Bureaucracy, fearing he would create a counterfeit version.
• Chu Mo said he planned to begin extending the Heaven and Earth Dao in the Outer Sea while Dragonkind was weakened.
• Zhi Su explained that the Hung Abyss Vast Dao Fruit could sustain dozens of Dragon Kings and revealed that Dragonkind's Ancestral Dragon had been a Heavenly Venerable.
• Zhi Su said Heaven's Will Sect's founding patriarch had struck the Ancestral Dragon down from the Heavenly Venerable realm and killed him in the Outer Sea.

Zhi Su explained why Heaven’s Will Sect would oppose Chu Mo and advised him to stabilize the Netherworld before debating the Dao with the three parties. Chu Mo began creating the Yellow Springs by molding Luo Chuan, unexpectedly bringing back Luo Chuan’s True Spirit from Reincarnation.

• Zhi Su told Chu Mo that Tribulation Deliverance’s Unification destroyed Otherworlds and kept their benefits for itself, earning the resentment of other sects.
• Zhi Su advised Chu Mo to create the river connecting Yin and Yang and stabilize the Netherworld Great Dao before debating the Dao.
• Chu Mo asked Zhi Su about the relationship between Heaven’s Will Sect and Heaven’s Will, but Zhi Su said he did not know and vanished.
• Chu Mo decided to use the River Origin to create the Yellow Springs and molded Luo Chuan to help control it.
• Luo Chuan reappeared in the True Realm, and Chu Mo realized he had also summoned Luo Chuan’s True Spirit back from Reincarnation.

Chu Mo revived Luo Chuan and gave him the river and rain origins to develop the Yellow Springs for the underworld bureaucracy. As Luo Chuan began his work, Baoyun visited Chu Mo and raised the matter of a reincarnation debt.

• Chu Mo brought Luo Chuan back from reincarnation as his other-self aspect and gave him the river and rain origins to open the Yellow Springs.
• Luo Chuan entered the Netherworld Court, insulted True Lord Huayin for being a rogue cultivator, and began combining the origins with Netherworld Energy.
• Luo Chuan's first attempt to create the Yellow Springs collapsed, so he tried again.
• Baoyun visited Chu Mo on Youxuan Peak and began discussing a reincarnation debt.

Chu Mo refused Baoyun’s request to support Upper Mound’s reincarnation debts, while Luo Chuan completed the Yellow Springs and advanced the Netherworld Dao. As Chu Mo turned his attention to the Heaven and Earth Dao, Heavenly Pivot Clear Edge appeared from the Heaven’s Will Sect and met his gaze.

• Chu Mo told Baoyun he would neither support nor obstruct Upper Mound’s efforts to establish reincarnation debts, and Baoyun accepted the agreement before leaving.
• Baoyun concluded that Upper Mound could still pursue reincarnation debts, though it could not make the Interest-Bearing Loan compound through reincarnation.
• After several years of work, Luo Chuan integrated the meaning of crossing into the River and Rain Sources and created the Yellow Springs, which drew wandering souls into the Netherworld.
• Chu Mo received a level increase and took the transformed Root Origins into his possession.
• Heavenly Pivot Clear Edge emerged from Extreme Palace Heaven, and his confrontation with Chu Mo caused Sword Dao and Netherworld cultivators to glimpse the Great Dao.

Heavenly Pivot Chengfeng prepared to challenge Chu Mo when he came to the Heaven's Will Sect, while Chu Mo focused on developing a Netherworld cultivation method and gathering followers for the All Beings Dao. Yichu asked Chu Mo to let him reincarnate and cultivate anew as a future bearer of the Netherworld Dao.

• Heavenly Pivot Chengfeng told Cinnabar Scenery that Chu Mo was an extraordinary Dao Integration cultivator and vowed to await him at the Heaven's Will Sect rather than let him pass easily.
• Chu Mo reviewed the Profound Nether Spirit Refining, Origin-Opening True Method, which granted Netherworld cultivation but bound practitioners to the Netherworld even after death.
• Chu Mo instructed Yichu to make the method freely available in the Scripture Repository and to assign him as many mortals under Tribulation Deliverance's rule as possible.
• Yichu asked to enter Reincarnation, cultivate anew, and eventually take charge of the Netherworld Dao's Root Origin as a bearer of Chu Mo's All Beings Dao.