Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo entered Su Mu’s mind and obtained her Ten Thousand Ages, One Body technique, though he had not fully assimilated her. He considered whether assimilating his past selves could let him use the technique without dividing his true spirit.

• After moving the Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven to Fuli Heaven, Chu Mo used All Beings Aspect to reach Su Mu in Supreme Heaven.
• Su Mu restored an incarnation of Ten Thousand Ages, One Body, but saw Chu Mo’s face appear on it and then found him standing behind her.
• Su Mu concealed the encounter from her maidservants and reflected on how difficult Sixth Realm cultivators were to assimilate.
• Chu Mo confirmed that he had obtained Ten Thousand Ages, One Body and wondered whether assimilating his past selves could bypass dividing his true spirit.

Chu Mo collected the power of time to prepare for cultivating Ten Thousand Ages, One Body, then received Cen Lingyi and Azure Depths Si Xuan at his sect. Cen Lingyi asked to use Chu Mo’s authority over reincarnation, leaving him to decide whether to grant her request.

• Chu Mo used the All Beings Aspect to make assimilating his past selves part of his plan for cultivating Ten Thousand Ages, One Body.
• Chu Mo entered the River of Time and gathered nine drops of its power using the insights he had inherited from Su Mu.
• Chu Mo learned that Heaven’s Will Sect Master Cen Lingyi and Azure Depths Si Xuan had arrived, and sent an Other Self to receive them.
• Cen Lingyi told Chu Mo she wanted to use his authority over reincarnation, and Chu Mo challenged her blunt request as a provocation.
• Cen Lingyi humbly asked Chu Mo to let her glimpse the Netherworld and explore the workings of reincarnation and fate.

Chu Mo traded Cen Lingyi access to the Netherworld for a chance to study Fate, then agreed to secretly aid the Azure Depths School against the Shuiluo Clan. Back in the Perched Cloud Blessed Land, he used the power of time to begin testing Ten Thousand Ages, One Body.

• Chu Mo agreed to exchange a Netherworld token for Cen Lingyi's Reincarnation token, giving her access to the Netherworld while he could behold Fate's mysteries.
• Azure Depths told Chu Mo that the Shuiluo Clan was invading the Eastern Sea and that the Azure Depths School had lost most of its disciples.
• Chu Mo offered to send the Harmony Truth Lineage to help in secret, while the Azure Depths School publicly maintained the situation on its own.
• Chu Mo returned to the Perched Cloud Blessed Land and refined a hundred portions of the power of time.
• Chu Mo used Ten Thousand Ages, One Body, and countless motionless figures of his past selves appeared before him.

Chu Mo used the All Beings Aspect to connect with his past self and send it his future power, then tried to alter the past. The River of Time erupted with hostile Time Hounds, which multiplied and grew stronger each time he defeated them, leaving him surrounded by dozens.

• Chu Mo connected with his past self at the moment he first joined Tribulation Deliverance and found that he could channel his future power into it, raising its cultivation to Nascent Soul early stage.
• Chu Mo considered changing the past by intervening in Jiang Yunya’s fate, but the River of Time appeared and attacked him with a Nascent Soul peak Time Hound.
• Chu Mo struck the Time Hound with the Two Forms Sword, but it regenerated into two stronger hounds after he split it in half.
• Chu Mo cut the two hounds into pieces, but the river transformed them into forty-four level 66 Time Hounds that surrounded him.

Chu Mo failed to alter the past after the Time Hounds stopped him, but assimilated his earliest past self and advanced to level 84. He then met Tai Shao at Cloudsea Hanging Mountain, where she teased him about disliking her appearance and called him dull.

• Chu Mo restrained the Time Hounds with [Light-Congealing Form Fixation], and they vanished when he gave up trying to change the past.
• Chu Mo realized that assimilating his past selves through [Ten Thousand Ages, One Body] could strengthen him without changing history.
• Chu Mo gathered Power of Time and assimilated his earliest self, advancing from level 82 to level 84.
• Chu Mo left Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven and went to Cloudsea Hanging Mountain to answer [Yan Huan He Ji]'s message.
• Tai Shao appeared in male form and teased Chu Mo for seeming to dislike both her female and male appearances.

Tai Shao arranged for Chu Mo to hand the dream origin to the Immortal Garden, which claimed it while Chu Mo focused on cultivation for two hundred years. When Ning Chu reported that the Dragon Emperor had emerged from seclusion, Chu Mo suspected the Dragon Emperor was concealing a scheme.

• Tai Shao reminded Chu Mo of their agreement and asked him to release the dream origin to the Immortal Garden; Chu Mo agreed and left Yan Huan to coordinate the transfer.
• Chu Mo gave Chang Le the dream origin to pass on, then remained in Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven and did not take part in the ensuing contest.
• The dream origin fell into the Immortal Garden's hands, while Chu Mo perfected [Six Demon True Edict] and advanced both of his paths to level eighty-four.
• After two hundred years, Ning Chu visited Chu Mo at level fifty-nine in Spirit Transformation and credited his progress to Chu Mo's guidance and the conquest of otherworlds.
• Ning Chu reported that Tai Shao had sent word that the Dragon Emperor had emerged from seclusion, and Chu Mo wondered why the Dragon Emperor had kept even his own people uninformed.

The Dragon Emperor emerged from seclusion as the Outer Sea prepared to reclaim lost Dao statuses, while Chu Mo and the Tribulation Deliverance lineages gathered at Azure Depths Si Xuan’s true realm. Heaven’s Will Sect arrived with all four lineages, and Cen Lingyi declared that they would bring the Dragon Emperor down from his seat as a Great Dao Venerable.

• The Dragon Empress told the Dragon Emperor that the Shuiluo Clan had seized four statuses of vastness and that Harmony Truth’s aid had helped the Azure Depths School withstand them.
• The Dragon Emperor said Fuli’s heavenly will had begun bestowing far more Heavenly Registers and urged dragonkind to reclaim [cloud and rain] and recover its other statuses.
• Chu Mo arrived at Azure Depths Si Xuan’s true realm with Baoyun, Tai Xuan, and Yan Huan, warning that the Dragon Emperor had emerged from seclusion and that the Outer Sea now had two Great Dao Venerables.
• Cen Lingyi and the other Heaven’s Will Sect lineages broke through the true realm’s barriers, and Cen Lingyi announced that they would bring the Dragon Emperor down from his seat as a Great Dao Venerable.

Cen Lingyi and Chu Mo drew Si Xuan into a plan to oppose the Dragon Emperor, while Great Evolution and Dragonkind resumed their war after Harmony Truth withdrew. The Dragon Empress joined the battle and attacked Great Evolution’s water Dao Venerables, but an unknown young man in a Mysterious Water Robe countered her; the chapter ended as she looked toward him.

• Cen Lingyi said Heaven’s Will and Thunder Ancestor both backed the plan to knock the Dragon Emperor from his seat, and Si Xuan agreed to fight despite the danger.
• Taiyuan Xuanshui learned that Harmony Truth had withdrawn from the Eastern Sea and ordered Great Evolution to continue its campaign to claim the stations of vastness.
• Great Evolution and Dragonkind fought across the Spirit Realm, with their Dao Venerables and Dragon Kings joining the battle.
• The Dragon Empress descended, healed Dragonkind’s fighters, and attacked Great Evolution’s water Dao Venerables with seventeen Hung Abyss Pearls.
• A young man in a Mysterious Water Robe used vast waters to lift and repel the Hung Abyss Pearls, drawing the Dragon Empress’s attention.

The Dragon Emperor and Dragon Empress launched their plan to reclaim Water Virtue and confront Great Evolution, while Chu Mo and his allies attacked the Dragon Kings. Chu Mo cut down Pinglan with one strike, sending him toward reincarnation.

• The Luo Ancestor confronted the Dragon Empress, and the awakened Dragon Emperor joined her to attack him.
• The Sun Venerable, Thunder Ancestor, Luo Ancestor, and Supreme Venerable Tai Chen arrived to target the Dragon Emperor as Moon Venerable engaged the Dragon Empress.
• Chu Mo, Cen Lingyi, and Si Xuan set out to suppress the Dragon Kings and prevent them from lending their ranks to the Dragon Emperor and Dragon Empress.
• Chu Mo confronted Pinglan and used the Two Forms Sword to split the Dragon King’s body and drag his consciousness toward reincarnation.
• Chu Mo recalled the sword and marveled that the Six Demon True Edict had felled a peak Dao Integration Dragon King in one strike.

Chu Mo used the Two Forms Sword and the Six Demon True Edict to cast four Dragon Kings into reincarnation, then helped Dan Jing defeat a Jade-Scaled Dragon King. Cinnabar Scenery, Containing Light thanked Chu Mo as Sect Master Du You.

• Chu Mo killed Pinglan with the Two Forms Sword and dragged his Primordial Spirit into reincarnation.
• Chu Mo defeated two Dragon Kings who tried to attack him, then pierced the Silver-Armored Dragon King and his companion at once, sending both Primordial Spirits into reincarnation.
• Chu Mo turned to the Jade-Scaled Dragon King fighting Dan Jing, and Dan Jing immobilized the Dragon King with his Treasure Mirror.
• Chu Mo beheaded the Jade-Scaled Dragon King and strengthened the force dragging his Primordial Spirit into the Netherworld.
• Cinnabar Scenery, Containing Light landed beside Chu Mo and thanked him as Sect Master Du You.

The Dragon Emperor sacrificed his body to the profound thunder Dao fruit, killing four Luo Clan Dao Venerables and transforming the waters’ Daos. The Dragon Empress escaped with the dragon forces to the Outer Sea, while Tai Zhen suggested the outcome suited the competing factions’ aims.

• Chu Mo and Dan Jing discussed the battle in the Spirit Realm and agreed to suppress the Dragon Kings quickly.
• Surrounded by four Great Dao Venerables, the Dragon Emperor sacrificed himself to the profound thunder Dao fruit and triggered contingencies that killed Taiyuan Xuanshui and three other Dao Venerables.
• Luo Ancestor and the other three Great Dao Venerables attacked, but the Dragon Emperor’s transformation spread profound thunder across the Daos of all waters.
• The Dragon Empress broke through the Moon Venerable’s blockade and withdrew with the four waters and the dragon forces to the Outer Sea.
• In the Forgotten Dust Great Thousand, Tai Zhen asked his Third Brother whether the outcome satisfied Dragonkind, the Luo Clan, and Heaven’s Will.

Tai Shao discussed the Dragon Ancestor’s symbol and left after warning Tai Zhen not to interfere, while the Dragon Empress reorganized dragonkind after its losses. Chu Mo discovered his control over the Dragon Kings let him draw mysteries from their Dao Fruits and cautiously began stealing from the masterless profound thunder Dao Fruit.

• Tai Shao explained that Luo sought the Dao of vastness and refused Tai Zhen’s offer to help before vanishing.
• The Dragon Empress learned that dragonkind had lost eleven sixth realm Dragon Kings and ordered new heirs to inherit the Dao Integration stations.
• The Dragon Empress ordered fourth realm Flood Dragon Lords to cultivate five water Daos using traces preserved in dragonkind’s bloodline.
• More than a month after the Eastern Sea battle, Chu Mo discovered that the Dragon Kings’ cultivation sustained their Dao Fruits and that he could influence their connection.
• Chu Mo chose the masterless profound thunder Dao Fruit and carefully began drawing wisps of its Dao mysteries.

Chu Mo completed All Beings Aspect and worried that cultivating two Great Daos might force him to face twice the Mahayana calamities. He consulted Tai Zhen, who explained the Heavenly Venerable seat and revealed that a fourth seat would form in a little over a thousand years, leaving Chu Mo wary of his motives.

• Chu Mo cultivated with the Profound Thunder Dao Fruit and reached peak Dao Integration in All Beings Aspect.
• Chu Mo realized his two Great Daos might each require ten calamities and decided to prepare additional safeguards.
• Chu Mo visited Tai Zhen, who praised his cultivation and recalled how Fuli had struggled for treasures in ancient eras.
• Tai Zhen explained that Heavenly Venerables needed a special seat to make their Dao Fruits shine across the heavens.
• Tai Zhen told Chu Mo that a fourth seat would be ready in a little over a thousand years, and Chu Mo suspected the Ancestral Vein had an ulterior motive.

After returning from Tai Zhen, Chu Mo developed a grand array to prepare for the fourth seat and perfected the Netherworld Dao. He emerged from seclusion to find Primordial Beginning managing the sect, whose concern about Chu Mo’s coming calamities gave way to thoughts of becoming the Netherworld’s foremost figure if Chu Mo died.

• Tai Zhen warned Chu Mo not to alter the past, explaining that doing so could summon the Heavenly Venerable of Supreme Heaven.
• Chu Mo returned to Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven and decided to accelerate his preparations for the fourth seat by devising a protective grand array.
• Chu Mo used the All Beings Aspect to draw on his other selves’ formation knowledge and, after a hundred years, completed the Myriad Dao Calamity-Covering Grand Array.
• Chu Mo realized that Primordial Beginning’s work spreading his Great Dao through newly discovered worlds had helped perfect the Netherworld Dao.
• Chu Mo emerged from seclusion and found Primordial Beginning directing sect affairs from the Sect Master’s seat; Primordial Beginning asked whether Chu Mo was ready to face the calamities.
• Primordial Beginning worried that Chu Mo might die in the calamities, then privately wondered whether he would become number one in the Netherworld.

Chu Mo handed the Netherworld Dao leadership and inheritance to Primordial Beginning before preparing to undergo his Mahayana tribulation. After raising his level, Chu Mo triggered a vast double Thunder Calamity that locked onto him.

• Primordial Beginning gave Chu Mo a Life Recording Command Token that could extend a person's mortal lifespan.
• Chu Mo named Primordial Beginning his successor as Sect Master and entrusted him with his Netherworld Dao insights and the complete Six Demon True Edict.
• Primordial Beginning accepted the position and promised to pass down the Six Demon True Edict.
• Chu Mo took the Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven beyond the heavens and activated the Myriad Dao Calamity-Covering Grand Array with 108,000 Formation Banners and nine supreme Spirit Treasures.
• Chu Mo raised his level from 85 to 86, triggering a vast double Thunder Calamity whose clouds covered hundreds of millions of miles.

Chu Mo endured the escalating double thunder calamity for three days, using his grand array, other-self aspects, and treasures to withstand its strikes. As the final fused lightning sphere shattered his defenses and destroyed the Golden Rosy Cloud Sword, he faced its remaining power with his Great Dao.

• Chu Mo resisted the initial purple lightning strikes with the mysteries of life and death, then activated the Myriad Dao Calamity-Covering Grand Array when purple-black bolts appeared.
• The grand array dispersed most of the purple-black lightning, but many of Chu Mo's other selves were erased and his true self was wounded.
• Over three days, Chu Mo survived eighty strikes by relying on the array, his other selves, and spirit treasures, leaving one final strike.
• The final two black thunderbolts fused into a sphere that broke through the grand array and shattered the Golden Rosy Cloud Sword.
• Chu Mo unleashed Ten Thousand Ages, One Body and confronted the sphere's remaining lightning directly with his Dao of reincarnation, life, and death.

Chu Mo survived the thunder calamity and formed two nascent Dao Fruits, then hid from the approaching wind calamity and used Yin-Yang Jade to restore himself. Heavenly Pivot was caught in the thunder calamity’s expanding reach, and Chu Mo appeared beside him as he tried to flee.

• Chu Mo overcame the thunder calamity, reached level 87, and put away his two nascent Dao Fruits.
• When the wind calamity appeared, Chu Mo escaped into the Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven and concealed it from the storm.
• Chu Mo examined his severe Dao wounds, worried about the time needed to recover, and used Yin-Yang Jade to restore himself.
• Heavenly Pivot, traveling through the World Sea, noticed the distant Mahayana calamity and tried to steer clear of it.
• The expanding thunder calamity struck Heavenly Pivot and left him badly injured after its clouds dissipated.
• Chu Mo found Heavenly Pivot as he attempted to leave and greeted him as an old friend.

Chu Mo revealed himself to Heavenly Pivot after surviving a tribulation and used his power to make Heavenly Pivot disclose a vast cluster of worlds in the World Sea. Fearing Fuli would learn of it before he survived his remaining calamities, Chu Mo seized Heavenly Pivot and dragged him toward the cluster, leaving Heavenly Pivot desperate to return to his sect.

• Chu Mo identified himself to Heavenly Pivot and explained that he concealed his Netherworld Dao resonance to avoid attracting another calamity.
• Chu Mo restrained Heavenly Pivot and questioned him about unusual sights in the World Sea.
• Heavenly Pivot involuntarily revealed a massive cluster of worlds southwest of Fuli and handed Chu Mo a jade slip containing its coordinates.
• Chu Mo realized that Fuli could save centuries by devouring the cluster, but decided to keep the discovery from it until he survived his remaining calamities.
• Chu Mo opened a void rift, grabbed Heavenly Pivot, and dragged him away despite his protests that he wanted to return to his sect.

Chu Mo and Heavenly Pivot returned to the mysterious cluster of worlds, which Chu Mo suspected had been created by a Space Dao Heavenly Venerable. After the Yin-Yang Jade recovered, Chu Mo began undergoing the remaining calamities, and his complete Great Daos withstood the Wind Calamity.

• Chu Mo and Heavenly Pivot reached the cluster of worlds, and Heavenly Pivot lamented having to make the long journey back to Fuli again.
• Chu Mo noticed that every newly born world contained the seeds of cultivation and suspected the cluster's underlying Great Dao resembled Supreme Heaven's World Within the Body.
• Chu Mo suggested entering one of the largest worlds despite Heavenly Pivot's warning that Seventh Realm cultivators could discover and kill them.
• In his True Self's grotto-heaven, Chu Mo saw that the Yin-Yang Jade had recovered and decided to undergo the remaining two calamities.
• Chu Mo faced the Wind Calamity, whose gale probed his Great Daos, but his myriad selves and coexisting Dao Paths blocked it without suffering damage.

Chu Mo survived the wind and fire calamities, using his other selves, Fire-Avoidance Pearls, and past selves to protect his dao fruits. After reaching Level 89, he escaped into the Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven as beastly silhouettes arrived to challenge the next tribulation-taker.

• Chu Mo endured the wind calamity without injury and advanced from Level 87 to Level 88.
• The fire calamity struck his netherworld and all beings dao fruits, and Chu Mo diverted some of its power through his other selves while using three Fire-Avoidance Pearls.
• When the pearls shattered and the flames intensified, Chu Mo refined more than ten Sixth Realm past selves to bolster his Dao and extinguish the remaining fire.
• Chu Mo advanced to Level 89 as his dao fruits gained substance, then retreated into the Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven to recover.
• Beastly silhouettes arrived in the Void Sea, failed to find Chu Mo, and withdrew to wait for the next person facing the tribulation.