Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo granted Yichu permission to reincarnate with his memories intact and distributed the Mysterious Nether True Art to Tribulation Deliverance Sect disciples. He then arrived at Heaven's Will Sect with Zhi Su and Yan Huan, where Yan Huan's past conflict with its Sect Master immediately surfaced.

• Chu Mo agreed to let Yichu reincarnate without clouding his true spirit so he could retain his memories.
• A deacon disciple gave new Tribulation Deliverance Sect disciples free access to the Mysterious Nether True Art, and veteran disciples who switched arts formed powerful dark true qi.
• Chu Mo went to Extreme Palace Heaven with Zhi Su and Yan Huan, who stayed outside because each had a history of offending Heaven's Will Sect.
• Zhi Su admitted he had sold treasures to Heaven's Will Sect members and copied a Dao Venerable's dharmic treasure, while Yan Huan said she had borrowed and never returned treasures from its current Sect Master.
• Heavenly Pivot Clear Edge emerged and attacked Yan Huan, who used the Purple Rosy Glow Longsword to dispel his sword rainbow.

Chu Mo visited the Heaven's Will Sect with Yan Huan and Zhi Su, where Yan Huan's history with Heavenly Pivot Chengfeng nearly sparked a fight. After entering the sect's Extreme Palace Heaven, Chu Mo asked its leaders to allow the Netherworld to extend throughout the realms of Heaven's Will.

• Zhi Su explained that Yan Huan had befriended Lu Cheng while concealing her Golden Core cultivation, then tricked him into giving her his father's Heavenly Horizon Sword and later flaunted it before him.
• Heavenly Pivot accused Chu Mo of bringing Yan Huan to provoke him and threatened to cut them both down, while Yan Huan accepted his challenge.
• Cinnabar Scenery intervened, welcomed Chu Mo, and asked Yan Huan and Zhi Su to wait outside because of tensions between their sects.
• Heavenly Pivot led Chu Mo into Extreme Palace Heaven, where he and Cinnabar Scenery joined Chu Mo in the great hall.
• Heavenly Pivot insulted Chu Mo and the Tribulation Deliverance lineage, and Cinnabar Scenery rebuked him before Chu Mo stated that he wanted permission for the Netherworld to extend throughout the realms of Heaven's Will.

Chu Mo refused the Heaven's Will Sect's demand to station its practitioners in the Netherworld Court, so Heavenly Pivot challenged him for control of the Netherworld Great Dao. Their battle began in Extreme Palace Heaven, where Chu Mo stopped Heavenly Pivot's deadly sword strike with Netherworld Reincarnation.

• Dan Jing offered to recognize the Netherworld Great Dao if Heaven's Will Sect could station [Talisman-Wielding] practitioners in the Netherworld Court and promised help securing the fortune of the Outer Sea and Great Evolution.
• Chu Mo refused the condition, and Heavenly Pivot challenged him, wagering the Netherworld Great Dao and Heaven's Will Sect's fortune on their fight.
• Chu Mo accepted, and Heavenly Pivot summoned him to fight before the Heaven's Will Sect as observers including Zhi Su and Yan Huan watched.
• Heavenly Pivot attacked with a storm of sword-stars, which Chu Mo contained inside the Netherworld Prison.
• Heavenly Pivot combined the remaining sword-stars into a sword that tore through Chu Mo's domain, but Chu Mo halted its strike with a disc of Netherworld Reincarnation, drawing Heavenly Pivot's furious accusation.

Chu Mo used the Reincarnation Disc to make Heavenly Pivot hesitate, but Heavenly Pivot found a sword technique that bypassed it and wounded Chu Mo. Chu Mo then summoned the Netherworld Court into the Great Void and empowered himself for their next clash.

• Chu Mo protected himself with the Reincarnation Disc, forcing Heavenly Pivot to hold back his attacks to avoid damaging reincarnation.
• Heavenly Pivot stopped relying on Heaven's Heart's guidance and resolved to follow his own Sword Dao.
• Heavenly Pivot's intent-made sword radiance passed through the Reincarnation Disc and pierced Chu Mo's Dharma Body.
• Chu Mo summoned the Netherworld Court into the Great Void and invoked its authority to strengthen himself.
• Chu Mo and Heavenly Pivot clashed again as chaotic winds swept across the transformed battlefield.

Chu Mo outmaneuvered Heavenly Pivot by disguising himself as Dan Jing and trapping him inside the Reincarnation Disc. With Heavenly Pivot defeated, Chu Mo asked what heaven’s will was, and Heavenly Pivot responded with a question about Tribulation Deliverance Patriarch’s Dao.

• Zhi Su judged that Chu Mo would struggle against Heavenly Pivot, and he and Yan Huan prepared to intervene if necessary.
• Chu Mo and Heavenly Pivot fought for several days across the Netherworld Court, with Chu Mo gradually pushed onto the defensive.
• Dan Jing appeared to stop the battle, then trapped Heavenly Pivot in the Reincarnation Disc while posing as Chu Mo.
• Chu Mo revealed that he had switched places with his other self during the fight and had used All Beings Aspect to deceive Heavenly Pivot.
• Inside the Reincarnation Disc, Heavenly Pivot acknowledged his defeat and recognized Chu Mo’s exceptional origins and methods.
• Chu Mo asked what heaven’s will was, and Heavenly Pivot replied by asking what Dao the Tribulation Deliverance Patriarch had cultivated.

Chu Mo learned that Heavenly Venerables were symbols of the Great Dao, then defeated Heavenly Pivot and spread the Netherworld Great Dao through the Heaven's Will Sect's realms. After reincarnation took hold across those realms and Chu Mo's level rose, he released Heavenly Pivot, provoking Dragon King Yuanting.

• Heavenly Pivot explained that a Heavenly Venerable embodied a grand symbol of an essence, and described the distinct principles represented by Tribulation Deliverance and the Heaven's Will Sect.
• Heavenly Pivot accepted his defeat, withdrew his suppression of the Netherworld Great Dao, and let its murky currents spread throughout the Northern Territory.
• Zhi Su and Yan Huan sensed the Netherworld Dao's expansion, while Zhi Su regretted losing his chance to examine reincarnation.
• Chu Mo extended the Netherworld Great Dao into other realms, established reincarnation there, and rose from level 73 to level 74.
• Chu Mo told Heavenly Pivot he could leave, but Dragon King Yuanting objected to his release.

Chu Mo defeated Heavenly Pivot and let him leave after securing his promise to help take the Outer Sea and Great Evolution. Afterward, Chu Mo chose to deal with Great Evolution first, aiming to guide its Sect Master.

• Chu Mo released Heavenly Pivot from the Netherworld Court, and Heavenly Pivot left despite Yuanting's pleas to be freed.
• Outside, Heavenly Pivot confronted Yan Huan over her past deception but refrained from attacking her after Dan Jing intervened.
• Chu Mo asked Heavenly Pivot to honor his promise to help take the Outer Sea and Great Evolution, and Heavenly Pivot agreed while asking that Heaven's Will Disciples be protected in the Netherworld.
• Zhi Su regretted that Chu Mo had let Heavenly Pivot go, saying he might have examined him to cultivate a True Sword Heart.
• Chu Mo decided to target Great Evolution first because its Sect Master was only at peak spirit transformation.

Great Evolution agreed to a Dao debate with Chu Mo over the River and Rain Sources, but replaced its Sect Master with Taiyuan Xuanshui Dao Venerable to face him. After Zhi Su warned Chu Mo not to underestimate the Heaven's Will Sect, Chu Mo formed an idea and invited someone.

• Jiang Yan told Great Evolution's Dao Lords that Chu Mo had defeated Heavenly Pivot Clear Edge through trickery and predicted Chu Mo would visit their sect.
• Luo Yao revealed that Chu Mo would give the River and Rain Sources to the Upper Mound Lineage if Great Evolution refused to fight, but would return them regardless of the result if they accepted a Dao debate.
• Jiang Yan accepted the debate, and Taiyuan Xuanshui arrived and replaced him as Sect Master so he could face Chu Mo himself.
• Chu Mo learned that Great Evolution had changed its Sect Master, and Zhi Su explained that Taiyuan Xuanshui was a stronger opponent than Heavenly Pivot Clear Edge.
• Zhi Su warned Chu Mo that the Heaven's Will Sect's methods were extraordinary, and Chu Mo sent a faint glimmer into the void to invite someone.

Heavenly Pivot Clear Edge attacked Great Evolution after Chu Mo asked him to uphold his promise, and Taiyuan Xuanshui was badly wounded. Chu Mo then confronted Taiyuan over the River and Rain Sources, leaving him to decide whether to accept them under Chu Mo’s warning.

• Heavenly Pivot Clear Edge received Chu Mo’s message and traveled to Great Evolution to fight Taiyuan Xuanshui in the Great Void.
• The Great Evolution Dao Venerables stayed out of the battle while Heaven’s Will Sect and the Tribulation Deliverance Sect watched for an opportunity.
• Chu Mo observed the fight with Zhi Su and Yan Huan, using the clash to study Dao techniques.
• After several days, Taiyuan retreated gravely injured, and Chu Mo headed to Great Evolution’s ancestral range to confront him.
• Chu Mo offered Taiyuan the River and Rain Sources and warned him that the opportunity would not come twice.

Chu Mo used the River and Rain Sources to open the Yellow Springs, then challenged Taiyuan to a contest of the Dao in exchange for returning them. After Taiyuan’s rivers entered the Netherworld Court and lost much of their power, Taiyuan realized he had gained a chance to use the Yellow Springs to intervene in the Netherworld.

• Taiyuan confronted Chu Mo over the murky River and Rain Sources, and Chu Mo admitted he had borrowed them to open the Yellow Springs.
• Chu Mo offered to return the Sources after a contest of the Dao, mocking Taiyuan over Great Evolution’s recent changes of Sect Master.
• Taiyuan attacked with a water-colored Dharma Body hand and summoned rivers from across the worlds, forcing Chu Mo’s Netherworld Prison toward collapse.
• Chu Mo summoned the Netherworld Court, concealing the battle; Lingtu Yuming and a Dao Venerable of Wood Virtue discussed how the barrier might affect Taiyuan’s strategy.
• Zhi Su studied the hidden Netherworld Court and examined a Jade Disk, while Taiyuan rejoiced that its separation from the Present World had weakened his rivers and gave him a chance to intervene in the Netherworld.

Chu Mo outmaneuvered the wounded Taiyuan in the Netherworld Court and punished him for trying to seize authority over the Yellow Springs. Taiyuan was left pinned beneath the golden light of Chu Mo’s newly comprehended Dao art.

• Taiyuan and Chu Mo fought in the Netherworld Court, where Taiyuan’s old sword wound worsened while Chu Mo continually healed with the two qi of life and death.
• Taiyuan secretly infused the Yellow Springs with Dao mysteries, then tried to seize a portion of its authority.
• The lingering obsessions of countless dead souls overwhelmed Taiyuan’s Dao mysteries, and he realized Chu Mo had anticipated his scheme.
• Chu Mo invoked the [Six Heavens of Luofeng Great Demon Edict] and condemned Taiyuan for violating the netherworld laws.
• Golden light pierced Taiyuan’s defenses and pressed down on him until he could no longer move.

Chu Mo forced Taiyuan to release Great Evolution’s fortune to the netherworld, then returned the river and rain sources in a damaged state. After reaching the pinnacle of the Heaven and Earth Dao, Chu Mo sought the Immortal Garden’s support for his journey to the Outer Sea.

• Taiyuan conceded to Chu Mo, allowing the Yellow Springs to spread through the Western Pole Lands and raising Chu Mo to level 75.
• Chu Mo withdrew the Yin Demon Law of Zhoujue and returned the river and rain root origins, which Taiyuan discovered would take at least a hundred years to restore.
• Taiyuan left the Netherworld Court with the altered root origins, while Chu Mo returned the Netherworld Court to the Present World.
• Zhi Su acknowledged Chu Mo’s cultivation and said only the Outer Sea remained before he could enter the All Beings Dao.
• Chu Mo promised not to interfere if an Immortal Garden Dream Dao cultivator became a Source Holder and asked the Immortal Garden to support his journey to the Outer Sea.
• Zhi Su warned that Chu Mo’s treatment of Taiyuan might make Great Evolution reluctant to help, but Chu Mo claimed they had forged a friendship through their fight.

Taiyuan returned the Sect Master's Seal Token to Jiang Yan and warned him not to antagonize Du You, while Chu Mo reflected on sect fortune and his Netherworld-based Dao art. At the Netherworld Court, Chu Mo assimilated the imprisoned Dragon King Yuanting into another self.

• Taiyuan handed the Sect Master's Seal Token back to Jiang Yan, transferring the Great Evolution Dao Sect's fortune to him.
• Taiyuan showed Luo Yao the corrupted Root Origins and told Jiang Yan to treat Du You with courtesy.
• Chu Mo realized that Taiyuan's sect fortune had hindered his attempt to assimilate him and considered how to perfect the Six Heavens of Luofeng Great Demon Edict.
• Chu Mo visited the weakened Dragon King Yuanting beneath the Reincarnation Disc and offered to free him.
• Chu Mo assimilated Yuanting, who accepted becoming Chu Mo's other self despite remaining conscious as his identity was replaced.

Chu Mo released Yuanting and sent him back to the Outer Sea to gather intelligence and influence the Dragonkind. Yuanting returned disguised as himself, telling the Dragon Kings that Du You had sent him to scout ahead, while Canghan examined the deathly seal on his brow.

• Yuanting told Chu Mo that the Outer Sea was a cage confining Dragonkind and that he still occupied a station of Mysterious Water Thunder.
• Chu Mo sent Yuanting back to the Outer Sea, and Yuanting promised to carry out his intentions.
• Dragon Kings gathered in the Crystal Palace and discussed their losses, Du You's advance, and asking the Dragon Emperor and Dragon Empress to replace seven fallen Dragon Kings.
• Canghan sensed Yuanting's return, and the Dragon Kings were stunned when Chu Mo entered the hall disguised as Yuanting.
• Chu Mo claimed Du You had sealed him and sent him to scout the Outer Sea, while Canghan's attempt to weaken the mark on his brow only dimmed it slightly.

Chu Mo posed as Yuanting, accepted the loss of Yuanting’s Dao Integration seat, and then took that seat himself as Ao Huan. After urging Canghan to attack Du You, Chu Mo realized that Ao Huan’s inherited hatred of the Human Race was affecting his emotions.

• Chu Mo told Canghan that Du You had placed a restrictive seal on him and wanted him to uncover the Outer Sea’s secrets, but Canghan demanded that he surrender Yuanting’s Dao Integration seat because Du You might have tampered with his mind.
• Chu Mo acted dejected as he left the Crystal Palace, then privately planned to use Yuanting’s replacement to place more of his own people among the Dragon Kings.
• Several days later, Chu Mo inherited Yuanting’s name and Dao Integration seat as Ao Huan, and Canghan warned him that Du You’s Netherworld could threaten Dragonkind.
• Chu Mo proposed that Dragonkind channel the waters of Hung Abyss into the Eastern Sea and kill Du You, and Canghan praised his courage.
• As Ao Huan’s hatred of the Human Race surged, Chu Mo snapped out of it and realized the Immortal Garden had affected Ao Huan’s emotions.

Chu Mo recognized that the Immortal Garden's inscription had altered Ao Huan's anger toward Du You, then pledged to help Canghan stop him. Meanwhile, Yichu met Azure Depths Si Xuan on behalf of the Tribulation Deliverance Sect's Sect Master, and Si Xuan agreed to help Du You on one condition that Yichu could not accept for him.

• Chu Mo realized the Emotion-Altering Thought Inscription had intensified Ao Huan's anger and resolve to kill Du You.
• Ao Huan pledged to Canghan that he would serve as the vanguard against Du You, while Canghan warned that Azure Depths Si Xuan might also threaten the Outer Sea.
• Yichu visited Zhi Yun at the Azure Depths School and asked to meet Dao Venerable Azure Depths on behalf of his Sect Master.
• Yichu met Azure Depths Si Xuan, who questioned why Du You sought his aid after securing Heaven's Will Sect's support.
• Si Xuan agreed to help Du You with the Netherworld but demanded a condition, and Yichu said he could not agree on Du You's behalf.

Yichu secured Azure Depths's agreement to the arrangement concerning the Outer Sea, then received Chu Mo's help preparing for reincarnation. Meanwhile, Chu Mo assessed the Outer Sea's defenses and infiltrated a gathering of Dragon Lords competing for six Dragon King positions.

• Yichu refused to impose conditions on Du You, withstood Azure Depths's pressure, and obtained his agreement to the Outer Sea arrangement.
• Yichu told Chu Mo that his preparations for reincarnation were complete, and Chu Mo promised to send him after the Outer Sea matter was settled.
• Chu Mo gave Yichu an annotated copy of the Profound Nether Spirit Refining, Origin-Opening True Method.
• While patrolling as Yuanting, Chu Mo assimilated dragons and Flood Dragons and suspected their fierce loyalty and eagerness for battle were not truly their own.
• Ao Fang announced that peak Spirit Transformation Dragon Lords could compete for six vacant Dragon King positions, prompting a heated argument among the assembled dragons.
• Disguised as Ao Chen, Chu Mo told a white-armored Dragon Lord that he did not care who became Dragon King.

Chu Mo and the White-Armored Dragon Lord discussed Dragonkind’s leadership as Canghan sought the Dragon Emperor and Dragon Empress’s help against Tribulation Deliverance’s new Dao Integration cultivator. After reclaiming six Dragon King authorities, the Dragon Emperor prepared for deeper seclusion, allowing the Immortal Garden to act with fewer restraints.

• Chu Mo agreed with the White-Armored Dragon Lord that Dragonkind’s leaders should not quarrel over who took the vacant position while the Dragon Emperor and Dragon Empress were absent.
• Canghan contacted the Dragon Emperor and Dragon Empress to report that Tribulation Deliverance’s Netherworld Dao Integration cultivator threatened the Outer Sea and asked the Dragon Emperor to reclaim six Dragon King authorities.
• The Dragon Empress ordered Canghan to choose successors for the six authorities, and the Dragon Emperor sent the authorities to him.
• The Dragon Emperor warned that the Human Race’s plans threatened Dragonkind’s future and insisted that Dragonkind must not lose Vastness.
• At Tribulation Deliverance Sect, Wanlan’s cultivation fell after the Dragon Emperor reclaimed the Dragon King authorities, while Zhi Su kept the authority he had taken.
• Zhi Su and Yan Huan concluded that the Dragon Emperor and Dragon Empress would enter fully sealed seclusion, leaving the Immortal Garden free to act, and Zhi Su sent a message to the Sect Master.

Canghan appointed six Dragon Lords to the Dragon King seats while Chu Mo held seven seats himself and prepared to act against Dragonkind. Chu Mo entered the Azure Depths True Realm to draw Dragonkind’s attention, and Azure Depths Si Xuan objected to the danger this posed to his disciples.

• Canghan appointed six outstanding Spirit Transformation Dragon Lords to inherit Dao Integration statuses and ordered them to defend the Outer Sea.
• Chu Mo reflected on how the Dragon King statuses might sustain a Dao Fruit and decided it was time to act in the Eastern Sea.
• Chu Mo brought black nether clouds over the Azure Depths School and entered its True Realm, where Azure Depths Si Xuan confronted him.
• Chu Mo told Azure Depths Si Xuan that he wanted Dragonkind to discover his arrival and predicted they would use the Eastern Sea’s Water Eyes to send the Hung Abyss’s waters back.
• Azure Depths Si Xuan warned Chu Mo that Dragonkind’s arrival could kill or injure many of his disciples, since he had never agreed to make the Eastern Sea a battlefield.

Chu Mo secured Azure Depths' support by promising to keep the Eastern Sea's population flourishing, while Canghan's dragon army opened the water eyes and invaded. As twenty dragon kings attacked Chu Mo and Azure Depths, Canghan sensed a trap just as a proclamation descended from the Nine Heavens.

• Azure Depths demanded that the Eastern Sea's population flourish for three hundred years and reincarnate only there, and Chu Mo agreed.
• Canghan ordered dragonkind to reopen the water eyes, and the Hung Abyss poured into the Eastern Sea.
• Azure Depths wondered why dragonkind had charged in without first resisting, while Chu Mo warned him to be careful.
• Canghan led twenty dragon kings to surround Chu Mo and Azure Depths, then ordered them attacked.
• Azure Depths's abyssal sea was torn apart by the dragons' combined strike, and Canghan sensed something was amiss as a proclamation rang from the Nine Heavens.