Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo survived the world-ending tribulation by anchoring his Dao Fruits to [existence] and attained the Seventh Realm of Mahayana, becoming a Great Dao Venerable. He reshaped the Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven, sent the Nether Soul Banner and Reincarnation Disc toward Fuli Heaven, and Tai Zhen entered the endless ocean to investigate his breakthrough.

• Chu Mo reduced his existence and connected his all beings Dao Fruit to the Yin-Yang Jade, stabilizing it and easing the loss of his other-self aspects during the tribulation.
• Chu Mo nurtured his netherworld and all beings Dao Fruits until both reached perfection, and the floodwaters receded as Fuli Heaven was renewed.
• Chu Mo reached Mahayana and discovered that his Dao resonance had filled the Perched Cloud Grotto-Heaven with living people and an ordered cycle of life and death.
• Chu Mo realized his authority over all beings had expanded, including the power to possess cultivators below the Sixth Realm and restore assimilated other-self aspects.
• Chu Mo sent the Nether Soul Banner and Reincarnation Disc toward Fuli Heaven, where Tai Zhen Miaoyuan sensed his breakthrough and entered the boundless ocean through a mirror to investigate.

Chu Mo passed the final ordeal, ascended to Great Dao Venerable, and established an independent Netherworld Lineage within Duo'e. After discovering that his losses in the ordeal were real but the White Dragon he had gained was only an illusion, he met the four Ancestral Veins, who came to congratulate him.

• Tai Zhen told Tai Shao that Chu Mo had ascended to Mahayana, surprising her because she remembered him pursuing the True Self Dao.
• Tai Shao continued working on the information fragment and considered going outside after the Dream Origin achieved Dao Integration.
• Primordial Beginning congratulated Chu Mo on becoming a Great Dao Venerable as Tribulation Deliverance Sect disciples bowed to him.
• Chu Mo declared that the Netherworld Lineage would stand independently within Duo'e and welcome those with an affinity for the Netherworld.
• In the Main Hall, Chu Mo lamented that the White Dragon from the ordeal had vanished while his losses remained, and he kept the Hung Abyss Pearl he had brought back.
• The four Ancestral Veins arrived, and Tai Zhen formally addressed Chu Mo as a fellow Daoist.

After reaching Mahayana, Chu Mo learned that Tai Zhen wanted their sect to cooperate in competing for the coming Heavenly Venerable position, while Tai Yi secretly proposed a trade. Chu Mo turned his attention to the World Cluster, where Heavenly Pivot faced the Sacred Venerable of Heaven until a black-robed figure intervened.

• Tai Zhen congratulated Chu Mo on reaching Mahayana and invited him to join a sect alliance against other candidates for the Heavenly Venerable position.
• Tai Zhen and the other Ancestral Veins departed, and Tai Yi secretly asked Chu Mo to make a trade.
• Chu Mo considered how to reach level one hundred before the Heavenly Venerable position was completed and sent his consciousness to the Sacred God Domain.
• The Sacred Venerable of Heaven questioned Heavenly Pivot about missing cultivators and tried to search his disguised Dao aura.
• Heavenly Pivot resisted the Sacred Venerable of Heaven's restraint, and a black-robed figure appeared amid blooming Other Shore Flowers to stop him.

Chu Mo revealed his Seventh Realm cultivation in the Sacred God Domain and fought Heaven's Sacred Venerable after demanding an explanation for Heavenly Pivot's mistreatment. The clash drew Yang's Sacred Venerable and Yin's Sacred Venerable, who joined Heaven's Sacred Venerable against the concealed outsider.

• Heavenly Pivot regained his freedom and was stunned to discover that Chu Mo had reached the Seventh Realm.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable confronted Chu Mo over concealing his cultivation, and Chu Mo demanded to know why Heavenly Pivot had been bullied.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable attacked with All-Beings Radiance, but Chu Mo stopped it and turned the Sacred God Domain's believers into his likeness, redirecting the radiance against their deity.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable blocked the redirected radiance with a black ruler as the Sacred God Domain shook and cracks spread through the cosmos.
• Yang's Sacred Venerable and Yin's Sacred Venerable arrived, and Heaven's Sacred Venerable warned them that Chu Hei was an outsider who had concealed his Seventh Realm strength.

Chu Mo defeated Yang's Sacred Venerable, Yin's Sacred Venerable, and Heaven's Sacred Venerable after Heaven's Sacred Venerable tried to search Heavenly Pivot's soul. He demanded compensation, and Heavenly Pivot left the decision to Supreme Venerable Chu.

• Yang's Sacred Venerable questioned Chu Mo, who said he wanted an explanation for Heaven's Sacred Venerable bullying his junior.
• Yang's Sacred Venerable, Yin's Sacred Venerable, and Heaven's Sacred Venerable attacked Chu Mo, but Chu Mo trapped Heaven's Sacred Venerable and overwhelmed the other two with the Myriad Aspects Wheel.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable broke free and used the Heaven-Balancing Ruler to cut off Chu Mo's connection to the power of heaven and earth, weakening his attacks.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable admitted he had acted rashly and offered compensation, while Yang's Sacred Venerable warned Chu Mo about other Seventh Realm cultivators.
• Heavenly Pivot recovered from his shock and told the three Sacred Venerables that Supreme Venerable Chu would decide what happened next.

Chu Mo forced Heaven's Sacred Venerable to surrender authority over the Sacred God Domain's living beings and two divine abilities. As Chu Mo prepared to leave, Heaven's Sacred Venerable offered him a place as the domain's fourth Sacred Venerable and revealed that a realm beyond the seventh existed.

• Chu Mo restored the Sacred God Domain's inhabitants to their original forms, then demanded authority over all beings in the domain as compensation.
• Yang's Sacred Venerable urged Heaven's Sacred Venerable to refuse and fight, but Heaven agreed to give Chu Mo the authority.
• Chu Mo also demanded Heaven's Sacred Venerable's Starlight Radiance and Myriad Forms Wheel, and Heaven handed over copies of both abilities.
• Chu Mo checked with Heavenly Pivot that he had no objections, then prepared to leave after declaring the matter resolved.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable invited Chu Mo to become the domain's fourth Sacred Venerable and join an expedition into the Abyss.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable told Chu Mo that the seventh realm was not the pinnacle of cultivation and that a higher realm existed.

Chu Mo accepted the Sacred Venerable of Heaven’s invitation to become the Fourth Sacred Venerable while suspecting that the man was hiding his true plans. Later, Taiyi Chengyuan invited Chu Mo to ally with him in the contest for the approaching Heavenly Venerable position, but Chu Mo remained wary of his claims.

• The Sacred Venerable of Heaven claimed that the Abyss held a path to the Eighth Realm and offered Chu Mo a place as the Fourth Sacred Venerable.
• Chu Mo agreed to the offer, and Heavenly Pivot warned him that the Sacred Venerable of Heaven had concealed much of the truth.
• Chu Mo teased Heavenly Pivot about his cultivation, prompting Lu Cheng to thank him for his guidance.
• Chu Mo met Taiyi Chengyuan, who explained that frugality had become a habit after he spent over a hundred thousand years repaying debts from an ancient battle.
• Taiyi Chengyuan asked Chu Mo to ally with him in contending for the approaching Heavenly Venerable position and claimed that they were on the same side within the Tribulation Deliverance Sect.
• Taiyi Chengyuan defended his reputation by saying he had helped many people fulfill their wishes, while Chu Mo privately questioned the interest he charged.

Tai Yi offered to help Du You advance in exchange for cooperation, but Chu Mo refused and trusted only himself. In the Sacred God Domain, Chu Mo became its Fourth Sacred Venerable, agreed to explore the Abyss with six other domain rulers, and departed ahead of them, provoking Sui Ming.

• Tai Yi claimed his Great Dao upheld equal exchange and offered to help Du You reach perfection in the Seventh Realm, but Chu Mo declined.
• Tai Yi left, deciding to seek outside help against Tai Zhen, Tai Shao, and Tai Chen, while Chu Mo resolved to rely on himself.
• At a ceremony in Heaven's Sacred Hall, the Sacred God Domain recognized Chu Mo as its Fourth Sacred Venerable, and Chu Mo began corrupting Heaven's Sacred Venerable's remaining connection to all beings.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable invited Chu Mo to join an expedition into the Abyss, and Chu Mo agreed.
• Six Seventh Realm rulers arrived, including Sui Ming and Spider Mother, and Chu Mo proposed exploring the Abyss immediately.
• Chu Mo vanished toward the Abyss without waiting for the others, and Sui Ming took his departure as a slight.

Chu Mo led the Seventh Realm cultivators into the Abyss, where he could detect and help exterminate the Demons from Beyond the Heavens. Near the lowest level, a Heaven-Ruling One drew Chu Mo into a verdant realm and warned him not to interfere.

• At the Abyss, Spider Mother told Chu Mo she suspected someone was controlling the Demons from Beyond the Heavens, whose empty minds resembled Sui Ming's puppets.
• Several Supreme Cultivators disguised as black figures guarded the Abyss, but Chu Mo's treasure artifact struck them and destroyed their shadow avatars.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable praised Chu Mo for locating hidden demons, and Chu Mo guided the group through the Abyss as they killed them.
• Three Seventh Realm greater demons blocked the cultivators near the lowest level, and Chu Mo recognized them as shadow avatars of the Heaven-Ruling One of the Sky-Profound Vast Expanse.
• The Heaven-Ruling One drew Chu Mo into a realm of green mountains and clear waters and told him he should not have involved himself in the matter.

Chu Mo confronted Xiao Xuan Cang Huan over Supreme Heaven’s control of the World Ocean and overwhelmed him with Starlight Radiance. The Kun Lord arrived to rescue Xiao Xuan, but after Chu Mo refused to withdraw and threatened to expose the Demons from Beyond the Heavens, the Kun Lord departed with a warning.

• Xiao Xuan Cang Huan revealed his Supreme Heaven affiliation and demanded that Chu Mo stay out of the conflict, but Chu Mo refused.
• Xiao Xuan attacked Chu Mo with flames, and Chu Mo defeated him with Starlight Radiance, trapping him and beginning to convert his consciousness.
• Xiao Xuan called for the Kun Lord, who arrived and severed the space around them, freeing Xiao Xuan from Chu Mo’s radiance.
• The Kun Lord offered to let Chu Mo withdraw peacefully, but Chu Mo refused and warned that Supreme Heaven’s secrets could be exposed.
• The Kun Lord left with Xiao Xuan after warning Chu Mo to take care of himself.

Chu Mo and the World Ocean cultivators reached the Abyss’s lowest level, where they found surviving remnants of worlds being drawn toward a hidden center. Chu Mo discovered that the level was an artificial construction concealing the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace, a powerful treasure whose ownership could not be changed.

• After Xiao Xuan withdrew from the consciousness space, Chu Mo and the World Ocean cultivators continued descending through the Abyss without encountering more demons.
• Xiao Xuan asked the Kun Lord whether they should warn the other three Lords, but the Kun Lord said the World Ocean had reached its final stage and that discovering the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace would not matter.
• At the Abyss’s lowest level, the group found surviving world remnants and recognized pieces of their former domains among them.
• Chu Mo sensed that the strange realm had an orderly structure, with increasingly fragmented world remnants falling toward golden masses of world essence at its center.
• Chu Mo returned to the second-lowest level, used his Law Eye to identify the lowest level as an artificial insertion, and revealed the enormous Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace.
• Chu Mo sensed that the furnace already had an owner and that its restrictive seals prevented its ownership from being changed.

Chu Mo discovered that the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace could not accept a new master, but its refining abilities might still benefit the World Ocean. After moving it to the Sacred God Domain, he traded Spider Mother information about the Demons from Beyond the Heavens for her Karmic Knot Spider Silk, leaving her shaken by what she learned about Supreme Heaven.

• Chu Mo identified the Pill Furnace as the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace and realized its existing master could not be changed, though he wondered whether he could become its master.
• Chu Mo and the others dragged the extraordinarily heavy furnace to the Sacred God Domain, where they agreed to study the remains of worlds inside it and make use of its abilities.
• That night, Spider Mother visited Chu Mo and offered him a strand of Karmic Knot Spider Silk in exchange for information about the three Seventh Realm demons.
• Chu Mo told Spider Mother that the Demons from Beyond the Heavens were cultivators like them and described Supreme Heaven's Seventh Realm cultivators and methods.
• Spider Mother questioned why Supreme Heaven was so powerful despite having far fewer Seventh Realm cultivators than the World Ocean, and Chu Mo left her question unanswered.

The Spider Mother offered Chu Mo a place in her Spider Domain and her Great Dao in exchange for help breaking the web that trapped the World Ocean, and Chu Mo accepted the chance to gain a Seventh Realm ally. In Heaven's Sacred Domain, Heaven's Sacred Venerable proposed feeding essence from the Pill Furnace's Shadow Worlds into the World Ocean, while Chu Mo noticed a familiar presence in the Void Sea.

• The Spider Mother offered Chu Mo the second-master position in her Spider Domain and access to her Great Dao, asking him to help break the World Ocean's web.
• Chu Mo considered the Spider Mother’s Seventh Realm strength and agreed to her proposal.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable told Chu Mo he had found an essence in the Pill Furnace matching the Divine Sacred Domain and suspected it came from a Shadow World.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable planned to pour the Shadow World essence into the World Ocean so it could become whole and gain power.
• Chu Mo examined Heaven's Sacred Venerable, found no Restrictive Seal, and then sensed a familiar presence in the Void Sea.

Chu Mo confronted Xiao Xuan in the Void Sea and countered his attacks with the Netherworld Great Dao. As Xiao Xuan trapped him with a powerful strike that manipulated time and space, Chu Mo hinted that the figure before him might not be his true self.

• Chu Mo sensed Xiao Xuan approaching the World Ocean and quietly left Heaven's Sacred Venerable to meet him.
• Xiao Xuan entered the Void Sea, confident he could defeat Chu Mo, but found himself surrounded by Other Shore Flowers.
• Chu Mo appeared, and Xiao Xuan attacked with Infinite Heaven and Earth and a black halberd.
• Chu Mo released his Netherworld Dao resonance, suppressed Xiao Xuan's technique, and nearly extinguished the halberd's spirituality with his black-and-white sword.
• Xiao Xuan reclaimed a foothold with the power of time and space, then struck Chu Mo with attacks drawn from the future.
• Chu Mo recognized Xiao Xuan's time-based technique and asked why he assumed the figure he saw was really Chu Mo.

Xiao Xuan fought Chu Mo, but Chu Mo’s hidden attack and strange Netherworld abilities forced him to escape through time. Xiao Xuan traveled back to Chu Mo’s Foundation Establishment days, where the Time Hound let him pass, setting up a confrontation in the past.

• Xiao Xuan shattered Chu Mo’s apparent body, but Chu Mo emerged from concealment and stabbed him through the heart with a blade of life and death.
• Xiao Xuan used Covering the Cosmos, Floating Through the Ages, while Chu Mo countered with the Myriad Aspects Wheel and then condemned Xiao Xuan under the Six Laws of Fengdu.
• Pinned by punishment, Xiao Xuan activated a Command Token and escaped into the past, leaving Chu Mo amused by his retreat.
• Xiao Xuan followed Chu Mo’s short span of time upstream and found the period before Chu Mo entered Fuli Heaven.
• A Time Hound confronted Xiao Xuan, then allowed him to proceed after inspecting his Command Token.
• Xiao Xuan plunged into the River of Time and descended upon the Eternal Night Sea during Chu Mo’s Foundation Establishment days.

Xiao Xuan invaded the Spirit Realm to kill the younger Chu Mo, but Chu Mo revealed that his past and future selves were one and fought back with his Heavenly Venerable traits and Dao Fruits. As Xiao Xuan’s sins accumulated and his world began to falter, Chu Mo unleashed the Fourth Law: Tranquil Radiance, Purifying Demon Law.

• Xiao Xuan descended into the Spirit Realm, found the younger Chu Mo, and attacked him with Seventh Realm power.
• Chu Mo’s cultivation rose to match Xiao Xuan’s, and Xiao Xuan realized Chu Mo’s past and future selves were united.
• Chu Mo struck Xiao Xuan with karmic punishment, while Xiao Xuan used Origin-Time Return to the Ultimate to restore his wounds.
• Chu Mo fought Xiao Xuan with the Myriad Forms Wheel and the Six Demon True Edict, while Xiao Xuan’s sins mounted and his Black Halberd weakened.
• Chu Mo formed a hand seal and invoked the Fourth Law: Tranquil Radiance, Purifying Demon Law.

Chu Mo defeated Xiao Xuan, imprisoned his primordial spirit in the Reincarnation Disc, and took control of his Dharma Body. After returning from the River of Time with a transformed Xiao Xuan, Chu Mo rejoined the Seventh Realm cultivators, whose leader noticed his aura had grown stronger.

• Chu Mo used the falling rain to strip Xiao Xuan of his cultivation, then drew Xiao Xuan's primordial spirit into the Reincarnation Disc.
• Chu Mo matched Xiao Xuan's aura and took control of his Dharma Body, then restored the Eternal Night Sea while leaving those whose true spirits had been destroyed unrecreated.
• Time Hounds confronted Chu Mo after he altered the past, so he withdrew into the River of Time and sent a black jade seal toward the Netherworld Soil.
• In the Void Sea, Chu Xiao Xuan gave Chu Mo a Command Token and said Lord Shi's mark was needed to use it again; Chu Mo told him to continue his original objective.
• Chu Mo returned to Heaven's Sacred Hall, where Heaven's Sacred Venerable noticed that his aura seemed stronger.

Chu Mo and the Sacred Venerables refined the Shadow World's essence in the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace, transforming the world ocean into a cosmos sea. Heaven's Sacred Venerable learned that the change had opened the path to the eighth realm, while he began weighing the other Domain Lords as rivals.

• Chu Mo urged the others to use the furnace’s essence quickly, and several days later Heaven's Sacred Venerable and the Yin-Yang Sacred Venerables began refining it.
• Spider Mother asked Chu Mo if the process would work, and he reassured her that refining the Shadow World's essence would benefit the world ocean.
• The furnace released golden Dao resonance into corresponding worlds, strengthening them and reshaping them into separate spherical universes orbiting stars.
• Chu Mo recognized the transformed world ocean as a cosmos sea and wondered whether its resemblance to his previous life's universe was connected to the Heavenly Venerable's legacy.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable sensed that the world ocean was complete and the gate to the eighth realm had opened, then regarded the other Domain Lords as potential rivals.

Chu Mo declined to pursue the Eighth Realm for himself and agreed to help Spider Mother study her Dao after it came into being. Meanwhile, Heaven's Sacred Venerable tried to seize Yin-Yang Sacred Venerable's Deities to reach the Eighth Realm, but found them strangely hollow.

• Chu Mo told Spider Mother he would study her Dao and said she must wait until the Eighth Realm came into being before she could escape.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable warned Yin-Yang Sacred Venerable that a calamity from the Shadows behind the Demon Calamity threatened the World Ocean.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable trapped Yin-Yang Sacred Venerable in a sealing array and forced their Deities, White Horse and Golden Toad, out of their bodies.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable explained that he planned to combine the three Deities of Heaven, Yin, and Yang to reach the Eighth Realm, which he called Symbol.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable examined White Horse and Golden Toad and wondered why they seemed like hollow shells compared with his own Deity.

Chu Mo used counterfeit Yin and Yang deities to assimilate Heaven's Sacred Venerable, then made the Yin-Yang Sacred Venerables join him. He began studying Spider Mother's Great Dao while she sensed a fleeting change in his karma and growing aura.

• Heaven's Sacred Venerable refined the counterfeit White Horse and Golden Toad, realized the deities were fake, and saw Chu Mo's likeness emerge in the Yin-Yang Sacred Venerables and his own deity.
• Heaven's Sacred Venerable transformed into Chu Mo, who took control of Heaven's body and planned to assimilate Yin and Yang next.
• Chu Mo tricked the Yin-Yang Sacred Venerables into the Sacred Hall and assimilated them, after which they agreed to unite as one and ascend into an inferior symbol.
• At Fate-Heaven Palace, Chu Mo studied Spider Mother's Great Dao while she endured the strange sensation of having her seals lifted.
• Spider Mother briefly saw Chu Mo's karma grow heavier and disappear, and suspected that his aura had become stronger.