Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo studied Spider Mother’s Dao of the Web of Connections and considered how to cultivate the karmic Divine Ability [Myriad Connections Return to the Treasury]. In the Sacred God Domain, the Three Sacred Venerables began their ascent to the Eighth Realm and overwhelmed the other Seventh Realm cultivators, while Chu Mo refused Sui Ming’s plea to intervene; the Three Deities then transformed into a symbol of Yin and Yang.

• Chu Mo gained some insight into karma and [Myriad Connections Return to the Treasury] by studying Spider Mother’s Dao, but he had not yet found his own method.
• Spider Mother sensed a disturbance as the Three Sacred Venerables united on Heaven’s Sacred Star and summoned beings and concepts from across the World Ocean.
• Sui Ming and four other Seventh Realm cultivators attacked to stop the Three Sacred Venerables’ ascension, but the Myriad Forms Wheel suppressed them.
• Sui Ming pleaded with Chu Mo and Spider Mother to help, but Chu Mo stepped back and said he would not fight against his own Sacred God Domain.
• The Three Deities drew black and white points of light from across the World Ocean and transformed into a Yin-and-Yang symbol.

Heaven’s Sacred Venerable appeared to reach the eighth realm, but the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace abruptly swallowed him and the yin-yang circle. Xiao Xuan Cang Huan arrived, trapped the World Ocean cultivators in separate spaces, and secretly coordinated with Chu Mo while they staged a battle around the furnace.

• Heaven’s Sacred Venerable declared himself yin and yang, while Chu Mo doubted that his power had truly surpassed the seventh realm.
• The Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace swallowed Heaven’s Sacred Venerable and the yin-yang circle, then began refining them.
• Xiao Xuan Cang Huan appeared above the furnace and identified himself as a cultivator from Supreme Heaven.
• Sui Ming and the others attacked Xiao Xuan, who separated them into countless spaces with his Infinite Heaven and Earth technique.
• Chu Mo and Xiao Xuan secretly agreed to take the half-symbol for study, then pretended to fight around the furnace.

After the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace produced the Half-Symbol, Xiao Xuan escaped with it before Chu Mo secretly reclaimed it. Back in Supreme Heaven, Kun Lord revealed he had expected the outcome and turned his attention toward Fuli and Moon Venerable, while Chu Mo returned to the Sacred God Domain pretending to have failed.

• The Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Furnace opened and released a Yin-Yang pearl as the World Ocean was drained and worlds were destroyed.
• Xiao Xuan took the Half-Symbol and Furnace and fled, while Chu Mo chased him and the others lost track of them.
• After the others were gone, Xiao Xuan let Chu Mo take the Half-Symbol and Furnace, then allowed Chu Mo to beat him before escaping.
• Xiao Xuan reported his failure to Kun Lord, who said he had already known the outcome and asked why Xiao Xuan had failed to deal with Du You.
• Xiao Xuan blamed Tai Zhen Miaoyuan for protecting Du You's past, and Kun Lord accepted the explanation and considered how to obtain Great Yin from Fuli or Moon Venerable.
• Chu Mo returned to the Sacred God Domain and claimed he had failed to catch Xiao Xuan, while Spider Mother watched him with a strange look.

After defeating Heaven, Yin, and Yang, Chu Mo revealed his identity as a Dao Venerable from Fuli Heaven to Spider Mother and promised to help sever her tie to the World Ocean. Their study of the Fate Web inspired Chu Mo to see Myriad Connections Return to the Treasury as a profound application of Karma, while his cultivation continued to advance.

• Spider Mother confronted Chu Mo, deduced that he held Heaven's bead, and asked where he truly came from.
• Chu Mo manifested the Netherworld and introduced himself as the Ancestral Vein of Tribulation Deliverance in Fuli Heaven, then reassured Spider Mother that Fuli was unlike Supreme Heaven.
• Chu Mo told Spider Mother he had found a lead on severing her connection to the World Ocean and invited her to return to Fuli, but she declined.
• Spider Mother and Chu Mo spent several days studying the Dao of the Fate Web through Dual Cultivation before she left the Sacred God Domain alone.
• Chu Mo reflected that Myriad Connections Return to the Treasury could manipulate relationships by altering Karma and suspected it was a method for applying the Dao of Karma.
• Chu Mo reviewed his progress in the Daos of Universe, Space, Yin, Yang, and the Fate Web, noting that Mahayana cultivation could no longer advance through assimilating other selves alone.

Chu Mo learned that Si Zhe planned to reclaim Profound Thunder and complete the five thunder Daos, and Tai Zhen argued that they should help him. Tai Shao explained that their real aim was to keep the Dragon Ancestor from returning to Fuli, where his revival would bring hung abyss and flood the worlds.

• Chu Mo assessed the World Ocean and decided to leave it alone until he reached the hundredth level.
• Chu Mo praised Ning Chu’s progress and encouraged him to prepare for Dao Integration through the [Death] Root Origin.
• Chu Mo met Tai Zhen and Tai Shao in Delusive Dust Great Thousand after Tai Zhen requested a meeting.
• Tai Zhen revealed that Si Zhe intended to reclaim Profound Thunder and complete the five thunder Daos to contend for the fourth heavenly seat.
• Tai Shao explained that helping Si Zhe would prevent the Dragon Ancestor from returning to Fuli and unleashing hung abyss and floods.

Chu Mo agreed to help Si Zhe obtain the Profound Thunder after Tai Shao explained why reviving the Dragon Ancestor could endanger Fuli and the worlds. He and Tai Shao arrived at Heaven's Will Sect, where Si Zhe tested Chu Mo's strength before inviting them into the Thunder Palace.

• Tai Shao warned Chu Mo that the Dragon Ancestor could unleash the Realm of Neither Being nor Nonbeing and must not be revived.
• Chu Mo agreed to help Si Zhe seize the Profound Thunder and asked Tai Zhen about Si Zhe's ambitions after completing his Five Thunders.
• Chu Mo and Tai Shao traveled to Heaven's Will Sect, teasing each other as they discussed Chu Mo's constructed body and Tai Shao's insight into it.
• Si Zhe sent four-colored thunderclouds against Chu Mo and Tai Shao as they approached Extreme Palace Heaven.
• Chu Mo's crimson flowers dragged Si Zhe's thunderclouds down, and Si Zhe welcomed him and Tai Shao to the Thunder Palace.

Si Zhe explained his plan to seize profound thunder and enlisted Tai Shao to turn the dragon children against the Dragon Empress. Cen Lingyi then came to collect on her bargain with Chu Mo, who questioned whether her sixth-realm cultivation could let him glimpse true fate.

• Si Zhe asked Tai Shao to turn the dragon children who inherited the Way of the Five Waters against the Dragon Empress, and she agreed in exchange for the Tribulation Deliverance Sect's requested compensation.
• Cen Lingyi entered the Thunder Palace and asked Chu Mo when he would honor their agreement.
• Chu Mo recognized that Cen Lingyi seemed to be becoming a Heaven's Will Shell, while Tai Shao hinted that her condition was connected to a Heavenly Venerable but refused to explain further.
• Chu Mo told Cen Lingyi that her sixth-realm cultivation was too low to help him contemplate fate, but she insisted that her Dao could still reveal its endless variables.

Chu Mo entered the Outer Sea in the body of Ao Hong and learned that the Dragon Empress wanted him to retrieve the Scale Armor Remnant from the Beast-Treasure Cosmos to awaken the Dragon Emperor. She gave him the Great Thousand Waters Map to help him reach the secret realm, which was connected to the Tribulation Deliverance Sect.

• Chu Mo declined Cen Lingyi's invitation for the time being, then returned to the True Realm and considered the schemes surrounding the coming Fourth Heavenly Seat.
• Chu Mo used his consciousness to enter the Outer Sea as Ao Hong, a newly ascended Dragon King of the Dao of cloud and rain.
• The Dragon Empress summoned Ao Hong and praised his aptitude and suitability for a covert mission.
• The Dragon Empress asked Ao Hong to retrieve the Scale Armor Remnant, which Tai Zhen Miaoyuan had made into the Beast-Treasure Cosmos, so it could help awaken the Dragon Emperor.
• The Dragon Empress gave Ao Hong the Great Thousand Waters Map, a treasure that let him travel freely through water despite restrictive seals.

Chu Mo accepted the Dragon Empress’s mission to enter Tribulation Deliverance, then told Tai Zhen about her plan and received the Beast-Treasure Cosmos containing the scale armor remnant. As Chu Mo left, he began to suspect Tai Zhen had a deeper purpose tied to the World Sea and the concepts embodied by Heavenly Venerables.

• Chu Mo accepted the Dragon Empress’s request to enter Tribulation Deliverance and secretly left the Outer Sea as a cloud.
• Chu Mo told Tai Zhen that the Dragon Empress intended to obtain his scale armor Dao fruit, and Tai Zhen admitted he possessed its remnant.
• Tai Zhen gave Chu Mo the Beast-Treasure Cosmos, warning that he had tampered with it so the Dragon Emperor’s revival would leave his Dao flawed.
• Chu Mo took the cosmos and departed without discussing payment, intending to charge the expense to Si Zhe.
• Chu Mo considered Tai Zhen’s motives and the roles of truth, falsehood, and other concepts in the World Sea, then had a sudden flash of inspiration.

Chu Mo deduced that Tai Zhen might be trying to make a false Heavenly Venerable real to establish Truth and Falsehood as a universal symbol, and he completed the initial form of [All Beings' Fate]. Meanwhile, Ning Chu prepared to attempt Dao Integration, and Chu Mo returned to the Dragon Empress with an incomplete Phantom Fruit.

• Chu Mo reasoned that symbols arose when Heavenly Venerables attained the Dao and suspected Tai Zhen intended to turn a false Heavenly Venerable into a real one.
• After three years of studying Spider Mother's Dao of the Fate Web, Chu Mo completed the initial form of [All Beings' Fate] and reached level 98.
• Chu Mo approved Ning Chu's attempt at Dao Integration and sent a message to Fellow Daoist Si Zhe about its effects on the Outer Sea.
• The Dragon Empress considered taking [Azure Depths Sea] to restore [Vastness] into [Hung Abyss], but worried that Tribulation Deliverance was watching Azure Depths Si Xuan.
• Chu Mo arrived disguised as Ao Hong, presented the Dragon Empress with an incomplete Phantom Fruit, and let her heal his deliberately inflicted wounds.

Chu Mo watched Si Zhe attack the Outer Sea while a new Netherworld Dao Integration weakened the profound thunder, then severed three Great Daos from vastness and forced the thunder into the form of a Dao Fruit. The Dragon Empress’s attempt to protect it faltered, leaving the profound thunder exposed.

• Chu Mo told the Dragon Empress how he had retrieved the incomplete scale armor Dao Fruit, and she prepared to use it to awaken the Dragon Emperor.
• The Dragon Empress sensed a human cultivator undergoing Dao Integration and delayed awakening the Dragon Emperor as heaven and earth weakened the Outer Sea.
• Si Zhe attacked the Outer Sea with four kinds of lightning and Purple-Gold Heavenly Thunder, and the enraged Dragon Empress transformed into a white dragon to fight him.
• A cultivator established the Netherworld Dao through [Death], further weakening the profound thunder as the Dragon Empress tried to nourish it.
• Tai Shao urged Chu Mo to honor his agreement with Si Zhe, and Chu Mo recognized her influence over his other-self aspects.
• Chu Mo made [Cloud and Rain], [River and Stream], and [Still Lake] sever their Great Daos from vastness, causing the profound thunder to become an illusory fruit.

Chu Mo revived as the Dragon Emperor after the Dragon Empress drew his consciousness from the Profound Thunder Dao Fruit, and he drove Si Zhe away. Back in the Crystal Palace, Chu Mo learned from the Dragon Emperor’s memories and ordered the Dragon Empress to return to her dragon form before three guilty Dragon Kings were brought before them.

• Si Zhe and the Dragon Empress worked together to draw the Dragon Emperor’s consciousness out of the Profound Thunder Dao Fruit and into the Scale Armor Dao Fruit.
• Chu Mo awakened as the Dragon Emperor, attacked Si Zhe with the power of myriad scales, and forced him to flee the Outer Sea.
• Chu Mo returned to the Crystal Palace and learned from the Dragon Emperor’s memories about the Dragon Ancestor, Fuli, and the origins of the Otherworlds.
• The Dragon Empress entered the hall in human form, and Chu Mo ordered her to change back into a dragon.
• The dragons brought the three guilty Dragon Kings, [Cloud and Rain], [River and Stream], and [Still Lake], before Chu Mo and the Dragon Empress.

White Dragon pleaded for the three Dragon Kings, and Chu Mo pardoned them before deciding to retaliate against Heaven’s Will Sect over the lost profound thunder Dao fruit. Elsewhere, Tai Shao warned Tai Zhen away from her past illusion, while Chu Mo welcomed Ning Chu’s Dao Integration and promised to protect his pursuit of the heaven and earth Dao, leaving Ning Chu wondering why he said nothing about the Dragonkind.

• White Dragon asked Dragon Emperor Chu Mo to spare Ao Hong and the other two Dragon Kings, and Chu Mo pardoned them.
• Chu Mo told White Dragon that they had to act against Heaven’s Will Sect, suspecting the Moon Venerable had taken the great yin part of his half-symbol.
• Tai Shao confronted Tai Zhen over his interest in her past illusion and warned him not to meddle with it.
• Chu Mo considered expanding his presence across worlds and wondered whether doing so could let him reflect all heavens without a heavenly seat.
• Ning Chu visited Chu Mo after his Dao Integration, and Chu Mo promised to support his pursuit of the heaven and earth Dao.
• Ning Chu wondered why Chu Mo had not mentioned the Dragonkind of the Outer Sea.

Chu Mo oversaw the Netherworld Lineage’s growing strength, then returned to the Cosmos Sea to pursue the Half-Symbol and recruit useful cultivators. He told Spider Mother he had found a way to sever her connection to the Cosmos Sea and restore her freedom.

• Sixty years passed as Fuli prospered, and the Netherworld Lineage gained two Dao Integration cultivators while Ning Chu advanced to the All Beings Dao.
• Chu Mo praised Gu Nan and Xiao Ye for reaching Spirit Transformation, gave them cultivation instructions, and urged them to cultivate diligently.
• Chu Mo decided to return to the Cosmos Sea to retrieve the Half-Symbol and consider recruiting Spider Mother and Sui Ming.
• Heavenly Pivot asked Chu Mo to return to Fuli, but Chu Mo questioned why he was in such a hurry.
• Spider Mother arrived and asked whether Chu Mo could free her from the Cosmos Sea, and he confirmed that he could.

Spider Mother agreed to return to Fuli Heaven with Chu Mo, who then invited Sui Ming to leave the Cosmos Sea with them. Sui Ming eagerly accepted but asked whether Chu Mo could truly free him from the sea.

• Spider Mother agreed to accompany Chu Mo to Fuli Heaven after considering its connection to her Dao of the Fate Web and [Karma].
• Chu Mo said he wanted to bring Sui Ming along, and Spider Mother agreed to visit the Puppet Domain with him.
• Chu Mo and Spider Mother arrived at the Puppet Domain and saw that Sui Ming had turned its planets into concealed puppet weapons.
• Sui Ming appeared, and Chu Mo invited him to leave the Cosmos Sea and become a guest of his Netherworld in Fuli Heaven.
• After Spider Mother explained the proposal, Sui Ming eagerly agreed but asked Chu Mo whether his method could really free him from the Cosmos Sea.

Chu Mo freed Spider Mother and Sui Ming from the Cosmos Sea and brought them to Fuli Heaven, where they encountered its overwhelming Will. Heaven’s Will offered to advance Chu Mo’s treasures if he brought back the Cosmos Sea, and Chu Mo countered with a request to accelerate the rise of two Dao Venerables.

• Chu Mo used the Yin and Yang Half-Symbol to remove Sui Ming’s restraints, then freed Spider Mother as promised.
• Spider Mother agreed to leave for Fuli Heaven, while Sui Ming asked for time to salvage his Puppet Domain; Chu Mo said he would return for him in a month.
• Chu Mo, Spider Mother, and Sui Ming left the Cosmos Sea, while its living beings quietly began spreading throughout the world.
• The three arrived in Fuli Heaven, where Heaven’s Will nearly struck Sui Ming before recognizing Chu Mo and withdrawing.
• Heaven’s Will offered to make the Netherworld Court and Reincarnation top-tier Seven-Realm Supreme Treasures if Chu Mo brought back the Cosmos Sea.
• Chu Mo countered by asking Heaven’s Will to accelerate Dao Integration for the sources of Life and Ghost so the Netherworld could gain two more Dao Venerables.

Chu Mo welcomed Spider Mother and Sui Ming to Fuli, then studied the connection between the past illusion and the Hung Abyss Pearl while planning to complete a half-symbol. Meanwhile, Supreme Heaven’s Heaven-Ruling Ones considered their next target and settled on Myriad Spirits Heaven despite its dangerous beast-taming cultivators.

• Heaven’s Will granted Chu Mo’s request to stop watching Spider Mother, and Chu Mo brought her and Sui Ming into the sect as guests.
• Tai Shao tried to claim Spider Mother as immortal material, but Chu Mo stopped her and warned her not to interfere with the guests.
• Chu Mo returned to the Luo Feng True Realm, examined the embryonic Hung Abyss Pearl, and decided he needed to complete the half-symbol and return it to the Kun Lord.
• In Supreme Heaven, Lord Qian asked whether the realm could support another Heavenly Venerable, and Lord Shi said it could not yet do so without relying on the half-symbol.
• Lord Qian proposed targeting Myriad Spirits Heaven, whose cultivators had previously attacked Supreme Heaven’s envoys to capture them as tamed beasts.

Tai Shao arranged help from Chu Mo for Meng Li’s Heaven and Earth Dao journey through the Outer Sea. Years later, Meng Li reached its final step after facing hostility from Great Evolution and the Heaven’s Will Sect.

• Lord Shi assigned Qian to handle Myriad Spirits Heaven and told the End Lord to ensure Great Yin became a half-symbol.
• Tai Shao told Meng Li her foundation was ready and warned her to be careful while walking the Heaven and Earth Dao.
• Tai Shao visited Chu Mo in the Luo Feng True Realm and asked him to help Meng Li with the Outer Sea trial.
• Chu Mo denied involvement in Ning Chu’s easy passage through the Outer Sea, while privately considering how Tai Shao’s true body might draw the Moon Venerable’s attention.
• Several years later, Meng Li reached the final step of her Heaven and Earth Dao journey and asked Yan Huan and Crimson Cherry about the trials they had faced.
• Yan Huan said the sects watched them because Tai Shao was so memorable and recalled that her own trial had been even more dangerous.

Meng Li and Yan Huan were confronted by the Dragon Empress in the Outer Sea, but Tai Shao intervened and fought back. Meanwhile, Cen Xi sensed Tai Shao Wanyu’s newly embodied form and considered capturing him in the Northern Territory.

• Yan Huan and Meng Li set out with a companion to visit Dao Venerable Azure Depths Si Xuan, but the Outer Sea’s boundary swept over them and the Dragon Empress blocked their way.
• The Dragon Empress blamed Meng Li and the Immortal Garden for harming Dragonkind and attacked her with nineteen Hung Abyss Pearls.
• Tai Shao appeared, saved Meng Li and her companions, and confronted the Dragon Empress over her attack on a junior.
• The Dragon Empress revealed that the Dragon Emperor had entered the Dragon Abyss after losing Profound Thunder and suffering unstable scale armor, then attacked Tai Shao in fury.
• In Extreme Palace Heaven, Cen Xi sensed Tai Shao Wanyu’s more substantial body and decided he should be captured and brought to the Northern Territory.

Tai Shao fought the Dragon Empress and Cen Xi above the Eastern Sea while trying to draw Chu Mo into the battle. The Dragon Emperor left seclusion and joined the fight, putting the Eastern Sea in even greater danger.

• Tai Shao used her power over emotions against the Dragon Empress, but Cen Xi arrived from the moon and attacked her.
• Tai Shao manipulated the Dragon Empress into fighting Cen Xi, turning the battle into a three-way clash.
• Tai Shao pleaded with Chu Mo for help, and he decided to use the Moon Venerable’s appearance as an opportunity.
• Si Xuan hid in his true realm as the fighting devastated the Eastern Sea.
• The Dragon Emperor arrived with a host of scaled creatures, summoned a Dragon Lance, and entered the battle.