Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo abandoned his Cinnabar Cloud cultivation, mastered the Profound Nether True Qi, and broke through to Foundation Establishment using the Netherworld-Passing Register. The secret realm collapsed as he emerged to find the gathered cultivators and concealed pursuers waiting for him.

• Chu Mo dissolved his Cinnabar Cloud True Qi and returned to ninth-level Qi Refining to cultivate the Profound Nether Commanding Myriad Spirits True Scripture.
• Chu Mo consumed Demon Essence Cores for half a month, restored his life-bound qi, and prepared to establish his Dao Mansion with the Netherworld-Passing Register.
• Rogue cultivators grew impatient outside the vanished secret realm while three concealed cultivators arrived to capture Chu Mo for Senior Brother Zhou.
• Chu Mo broke through the secret realm's restriction while attempting Foundation Establishment, achieved Dao Mansion Foundation Establishment, and caused the unmastered secret realm to collapse.
• Chu Mo emerged from the collapsing secret realm and asked the waiting cultivators if they had all come to welcome him.

Chu Mo used the Profound Banner to destroy the cultivators who ambushed him at sea, learning that Zhou Huan had sent three Foundation Establishment cultivators to summon him. After the battle left him alone, a cultivator in moon-white robes arrived.

• A mind-bewitching voice provoked the cultivators gathered at sea into attacking Chu Mo, while three Foundation Establishment cultivators watched from the clouds.
• Chu Mo unleashed the Profound Banner, trapping attacks, devouring Qi Refining cultivators, and nearly overwhelming the Foundation Establishment cultivators.
• The leader in the clouds revealed that Zhou Huan had ordered them to invite Chu Mo, and urged the rogue cultivators to attack together.
• Chu Mo expanded the banner’s formation, killing the attackers and pulling the three disciples’ souls toward Cloudsea Hanging Mountain.
• Chu Mo recalled the banner and prepared to leave, but a cultivator in moon-white dharmic robes arrived before him.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Chu Mo returned to the Tribulation Deliverance Sect with Yuan Bai, who explained the realm’s three stages and warned him about Zhou Huan. Chu Mo became an Inner Sect disciple, acquired the complete Three Corpses Severing Form Profound Capital Sword, and explored his Dao Mansion, where he sensed a mysterious connection to a world-like existence.

• Yuan Bai met Chu Mo at the Turbid Abyss Sea and invited him to return to the sect aboard his tower ship.
• Yuan Bai explained the stages of Foundation Establishment: estate stabilization, treasure assimilation, and scenery generation.
• At the sect, Yuan Bai warned Chu Mo that Zhou Huan held grudges, and Chu Mo updated his status as an Inner Sect disciple under the Daoist name Youxuan.
• Chu Mo exchanged Dharma Coins for the complete Three Corpses Severing Form Profound Capital Sword and secluded himself in an Inner Sect Cave Abode.
• Chu Mo examined his Dao Mansion, reflected on his innate talent Communing with the Nether, and sensed a connection to an immense world-like existence.

Chu Mo discovered that the Netherworld-Passing Register had linked his Dao Mansion to an unknown world that Fuli Heaven seemed to want him to consume, then focused on cultivation while Zhou Huan prepared to confront him. As the sect’s new pills and cultivation methods sparked a rush of progress, Chu Mo received a message that Zhou Huan wanted to meet him.

• Chu Mo sensed that the Netherworld-Passing Register had connected his Dao Mansion to an unknown world, and he suspected Fuli Heaven expected him to help consume it.
• Zhou Huan learned that Chu Mo had reached Foundation Establishment and decided to visit High Person Youxuan himself.
• Ji Qing visited Chu Mo for advice about Foundation Establishment, listened to his insights, and left him a Storage Bag of Dharma Coins.
• Chu Mo cultivated the Three Corpses Severing Form Profound Capital Sword and used the Banner Spirit to monitor the sect.
• Chu Mo learned that a lifespan-consuming secret art and the perfected Great Rosy Cloud Origin Pill had driven disciples to progress rapidly and lowered the prices of artifacts and Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Chu Mo saw a Voice Transmission Talisman and realized Zhou Huan wanted to meet him.

Chu Mo rejected Zhou Huan’s invitation and planned to exploit his [Obsessive Thought] sword to counter [Illusory Mist Gauze]. He lured Zhou Huan to Fallen Star Slope with a letter about [Five-Element Profound Essence], where the two finally met.

• Chu Mo burned Zhou Huan’s Voice Transmission Talisman and asked Yuan Bai for help dealing with him.
• Yuan Bai explained that Zhou Huan’s [Illusory Mist Gauze] had let him escape past attempts on his life.
• Chu Mo revealed that his [Obsessive Thought] sword could suppress Dharmic Treasures and began forming a plan.
• Zhou Huan received an anonymous letter bearing [Five-Element Profound Essence] and agreed to meet its sender at Fallen Star Slope.
• Zhou Huan arrived at the slope, and Chu Mo emerged to meet him, surprised that Zhou Huan was only at Level 14.

Chu Mo fought Zhou Huan over the Five-Element Profound Essence and seized Zhou Huan’s Illusory Mist Gauze after crippling its connection with his sword qi. Both men unleashed their strongest abilities at Fallen Star Slope, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhou Huan attacked Chu Mo with Scarlet Firmament Flowing Flame Flying Rosy Clouds, and Chu Mo appeared to flee after suffering severe wounds.
• Chu Mo struck the Illusory Mist Gauze with the White Sword, Obsessive Thought, then baited Zhou Huan into saving the Five-Element Profound Essence while he stored the gauze in his Inventory.
• Chu Mo combined Greedy Attachment, Wrath, and Obsessive Thought into a sword attack that weakened Zhou Huan and disrupted his divine abilities and Dharmic Treasure.
• Zhou Huan resumed his attack, and Chu Mo countered with the Profound Banner as their powers swept across Fallen Star Slope and dissolved the surrounding grass, trees, and rocks.

Chu Mo defeated Zhou Huan by driving him to destroy his Dao Mansion, then weakened Zhou Huan’s departing soul before it vanished. After recovering from his wounds, Chu Mo studied his spoils and flew to the Scripture Repository to seek a formation for strengthening the Profound Banner.

• Chu Mo overwhelmed Zhou Huan with the Profound Banner’s soul-shadows as Zhou Huan’s dharma power and life-bound treasure dwindled.
• Zhou Huan destroyed his Dao Mansion in a final explosion, injuring Chu Mo but leaving his soul exposed.
• Chu Mo struck Zhou Huan’s departing soul with Mind-Cleansing Mantras and spectral light, then collected the spoils and erased his traces.
• Chu Mo returned to his cave abode and healed his chest wound during three days of meditation.
• Chu Mo examined the Five Profound Origin Screen Refining Method and considered refining a formation into the Profound Scenery Refining Truth Banner.
• Chu Mo left for the Scripture Repository to search for a suitable formation.

Chu Mo selected a powerful Soul Path formation and prepared to refine it into his treasure while Zhou Huan’s death stirred suspicion among the sect’s Foundation Establishment disciples. Yuan Bai confronted Chu Mo, then raised the unresolved division of the Profound Sun Realm and the sect’s four ancient factions.

• Yu Jing guided Chu Mo to the Six Harmonies, Nine Hells Illusion-Destroying Formation, which Chu Mo bought before returning to his cave abode to prepare to refine his treasures.
• Zhou Huan returned to the Register of Souls with most of his memories and awareness gone, and Foundation Establishment disciples began suspecting Yuan Bai of killing him.
• Yuan Bai questioned Chu Mo about Zhou Huan’s death, but Chu Mo denied involvement and feigned surprise.
• Yuan Bai told Chu Mo that the Profound Sun Realm’s benefits and ownership remained unsettled, then asked whether he knew the sect’s four enduring factions.

Yuan Bai recruited Chu Mo to represent the True Harmony Association in a contest for control of the Profound Sun Realm, offering access to treasures for his treasure assimilation. Chu Mo accepted after learning the society would provide cultivation cauldrons, though he worried that poor performance could bring punishment.

• Yuan Bai explained the four great factions and said the Profound Sun Realm’s traces of Law had prompted the factions to contest for control of it.
• Yuan Bai described the Illusory Void Grotto-Heaven contest, where fatal injuries would eject participants without harming their real bodies.
• Yuan Bai offered Chu Mo the chance to search worlds under the True Harmony Association’s jurisdiction for a treasure for treasure assimilation if he fought for the society.
• Yuan Bai promised cultivation cauldrons to help Chu Mo stabilize his Foundation Establishment, and Chu Mo eagerly agreed to participate.
• Yuan Bai explained that factions would capture formation eyes and defend their Profound Pivot Stones before departing.

After cultivating for more than three months, Chu Mo joined the True Harmony Association and the other factions at the entrance to the Illusory Void Grotto-Heaven. The factions entered and began carrying out Yuan Bai’s plan to unite against the Upper Mound Commerce Association.

• Chu Mo received the promised great pills, cultivated for over three months, and reached Level 13 before accepting Yuan Bai’s invitation.
• At Cloudsea Hanging Mountain, Chu Mo met the leaders of the Blissful Immortal Garden, the Life-Ending Society, and the Upper Mound Commerce Association, including Miao Xuan and High Person Jue Ming.
• Four Golden Core True Persons opened the gateway, and the four factions entered the Illusory Void Grotto-Heaven.
• Yuan Bai told the True Harmony Association members that he had formed a temporary alliance with the Blissful Immortal Garden and the Life-Ending Society to eliminate Hong Xuan’s Upper Mound Commerce Association first.
• Yuan Bai distributed imitation Firmament Thunder Pearls and other Dharmic Treasures as the True Harmony Association flew toward the planned rendezvous.

Chu Mo joined the True Harmony Association, Life-Ending Society, and Immortal Garden in a campaign against the Upper Mound Commerce Association. After the alliance removed several formation eyes, Hong Xuan calmly waited for them to advance, suggesting he had a plan of his own.

• Yuan Bai led the True Harmony Association to meet High Person Miao Xuan and High Person Jue Ming, and the three factions agreed to split into mixed teams and destroy the formation eyes.
• Chu Mo and Yuan Bai’s team attacked a formation eye guarded by two commerce association cultivators, who raised a Grand Array and called for reinforcements.
• Chu Mo hurled the unstable Firmament Thunder Pearl at the Grand Array, blasting a hole in it, and the team defeated the guards and removed the formation eye.
• Chu Mo gained spirit resonance and questioned why Hong Xuan’s defenses were so thin, but Yuan Bai insisted their three-to-one advantage guaranteed victory.
• After the other teams removed more formation eyes, Hong Xuan watched the approaching forces and said he was waiting for them.

Chu Mo and Yuan Bai’s assault on the Merchant Guild base was disrupted when Jue Ming betrayed the Immortal Garden and Harmony Truth, revealing a coordinated attack on their bases. As Chu Mo and Yuan Bai closed in on Hong Xuan and the Profound Pivot Stone, Hong Xuan saw something on the map and declared that Yuan Bai had lost.

• Chu Mo and Yuan Bai destroyed the second formation eye and joined the other factions outside the Merchant Guild base, where Hong Xuan waited beside its Profound Pivot Stone.
• Chu Mo trapped a Merchant Guild disciple in his formation while Yuan Bai and the others attacked Hong Xuan and the stone.
• Jue Ming and the Life-Ending Society turned on the Immortal Garden and Harmony Truth, and Hong Xuan revealed that their forces were attacking the two factions’ undefended bases.
• Yuan Bai ordered Harmony Truth to destroy the Merchant Guild’s Profound Pivot Stone, while Chu Mo fought Blood Soul and wondered why his opponent seemed unusually strong.
• At the True Harmony Association base, Qingsong’s Rock Rampart Formation was shattered by a Barrier-Breaking Talisman, leaving its defenders exposed to the Merchant Guild.
• Chu Mo and Yuan Bai drove Hong Xuan back and nearly reached the Profound Pivot Stone, but Hong Xuan saw the map and announced that Yuan Bai had lost.

Yuan Bai used Xuan Cheng’s Wondrous True Being to undo the destruction of the True Harmony Association’s Profound Pivot Stone, allowing Chu Mo to destroy Upper Mound’s stone and gain an overwhelming Spirit Resonance boost. Chu Mo escaped Jue Ming and Miao Xuan’s attack and reached the Life-Ending Society’s base, where he faced its Blood-Slaughter Spirit-Slaying Formation.

• Yuan Bai’s Wondrous True Being restored the True Harmony Association’s Profound Pivot Stone and caused the Upper Mound disciple who had shattered it to be ejected.
• Xuan Cheng confronted Qing Heng and the Life-Ending Society’s True Person over their interference in the grotto-heaven contest.
• Chu Mo shattered Upper Mound’s Profound Pivot Stone, gained a tremendous Spirit Resonance boost, and came under attack from Jue Ming and Miao Xuan.
• Yuan Bai held off Jue Ming and Miao Xuan while Chu Mo used the Five-Colored Mist Veil to escape their encirclement.
• Chu Mo uprooted all six formation nodes on his way to the Life-Ending Society’s base, where four disciples attacked him with the Blood-Slaughter Spirit-Slaying Formation.
• Chu Mo unleashed Dark Nether Soul-Seizing, Ten Thousand Laws Return to Silence through the Profound Banner to dissolve the formation’s arts.

Chu Mo destroyed the Life-Ending Society’s Profound Pivot Stone and rushed to stop the Immortal Garden, but Miao Xuan’s forces seized Harmony Truth’s base and eliminated him from the grotto-heaven. Outside, the True Persons mocked Xuan Cheng while Qing Heng praised Jiqing for using his Life-bound Magical Treasure.

• Chu Mo used the Profound Scenery Refining Truth Banner to defeat the four Life-Ending Society disciples and shatter their Profound Pivot Stone.
• Chu Mo found the Immortal Garden’s base deserted and discovered that True Person Jiqing’s Seven Emotions Glazed Veil protected its Profound Pivot Stone.
• Miao Xuan revealed that she was a Passion Seed incarnation, and Yuan Bai recognized the Heart of Passion, Seed Demon Great Art.
• Chu Mo and Yuan Bai raced back after learning their base was under attack, but the Immortal Garden’s disciples shattered Harmony Truth’s Profound Pivot Stone and expelled Chu Mo.
• True Person Qing Heng mocked Xuan Cheng, then praised Jiqing for bringing his Life-bound Magical Treasure into the grotto-heaven.

After the True Harmony Association lost the contest for the Profound Sun Realm, True Person Xuan Cheng reassured Youxuan and Yuan Bai that they were not to blame. He then revealed that the Heavenly Register required Youxuan to explore worlds for Fuli Heaven, and that the world connected to his Dao Mansion might hold the method he sought.

• True Person Jiqing admitted he had learned his tricks from True Person Xuan Cheng, who left after the contest ended in defeat.
• Xuan Cheng summoned Youxuan and Yuan Bai to Clear Radiance Peak, where Youxuan apologized for failing to secure the Profound Sun Realm.
• Xuan Cheng absolved the disciples, said he would settle ownership of the realm with Jiqing, and dismissed Yuan Bai while keeping Youxuan behind.
• Xuan Cheng took Youxuan to a void filled with worlds and explained that Heavenly Register holders served as Fuli Heaven’s vanguard by seeking, anchoring, and fusing worlds.
• Youxuan recognized the world marked [Map: ?Night?] in his Dao Mansion and learned he could descend there after reaching the late stage of foundation establishment to seek his method.

Xuan Cheng tasked Chu Mo with entering the Profound Sun Realm’s Demon Grotto to seize three sealed Laws and gave him a treasure that could contain them. Chu Mo accepted, hoping to claim the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade despite learning that High Person Minghe also wanted it, and received a divine ability suited to his path.

• Xuan Cheng explained that the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade suited Chu Mo’s Dao Path but was held by the Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord in the Demon Grotto.
• Xuan Cheng asked Chu Mo to retrieve the Three Laws sealed in the Demon Grotto, and Chu Mo agreed despite anticipating conflict with the Blissful Immortal Garden.
• Xuan Cheng gave Chu Mo the Demon-Refining Bottle, a golden core Dharmic Treasure that could disguise his aura and contain the Three Laws.
• Xuan Cheng revealed that High Person Minghe also sought the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade to refine a Dharmic Treasure.
• Xuan Cheng gave Chu Mo a superior divine ability, and Chu Mo’s panel displayed the option to learn Nine Nether Grotto-Form Soul-Seizing Treasure-Mirror Light.

Chu Mo cultivated the Nine Nether Grotto-Form Soul-Seizing Treasure-Mirror Light before True Person Xuan Cheng sent him into the Profound Sun Realm to investigate the Demon Grotto and High Person Minghe. After arriving, Chu Mo disguised himself as a demon using the Demon-Refining Bottle.

• Chu Mo studied the treasure-mirror divine ability and successfully formed its illusory mirror, practicing its soul-seizing light and spirit-locking mysteries.
• After about half a month, True Person Xuan Cheng summoned Chu Mo and gave him a jade slip containing a map of the Demon Grotto, the location of the sealed Three Laws, and information about the Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord.
• Chu Mo entered the passage prepared in Tongming Hall and arrived in the Profound Sun Realm.
• Chu Mo sensed that the realm's filthy spirit qi carried faint malice toward cultivators, though it was weaker than the malice he had encountered in the Savage Realm.
• Chu Mo activated the Demon-Refining Bottle, changing his eyes to blood red and replacing his cultivator's aura with demonic energy.

Chu Mo used the Demon-Refining Bottle to disguise himself as a demon and entered the Demon Grotto seeking information about the Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord. After learning the lord stayed near the Baleful Yin Cave, Chu Mo tested the bottle by absorbing two wolf demons and refining them into Myriad Demons Blood Essence.

• Chu Mo changed his dharma power into demonic power with the Demon-Refining Bottle and flew toward the Demon Grotto.
• True Person Jiqing confronted Xuan Cheng over involving the Sect Master Lineage in the contest, and Xuan Cheng provoked him by defending Dao Lord Darkworld's position.
• Chu Mo arrived in Yellow Wind Valley, where six Mountain-Patrolling Wolf Demons challenged him, and he killed four with a wave of demonic power.
• Two surviving wolf demons told Chu Mo that the Golden-Eyed King was one of the Demon Grotto's five greatest kings and stayed near the Baleful Yin Cave, where Calamity was sealed.
• Chu Mo absorbed the two wolf demons into the Demon-Refining Bottle, which dissolved them and left behind a drop of Myriad Demons Blood Essence.

Chu Mo used the Demon-Refining Bottle to capture the Yellow Wind King and take control of Yellow Wind Valley. After ordering the wolves to serve him, he began gathering information about nearby Demon Kings.

• Chu Mo drank Myriad Demons Blood Essence and found that it increased his dharma power more effectively than a Demon Essence Core.
• Chu Mo entered Yellow Wind Valley and provoked the Yellow Wind King, who transformed and prepared to attack.
• Chu Mo used the Demon-Refining Bottle to overcome the Yellow Wind King’s resistance and refine him into the bottle.
• The wolf demons surrendered, and Chu Mo declared himself the Blood Pupil King and claimed Yellow Wind Valley.
• Chu Mo asked about nearby Demon Kings, and the wolves named the Bear King of Black Rock Mountain and the Heart Moon Fox King.

Chu Mo swept through the Demon Grotto’s outer region, using the Three Corpses Sword and Demon-Refining Bottle to defeat Demon Kings and gather their essence. As panic spread and the strongest Demon Kings discussed the possible return of Immortals, Chu Mo reached Level 14 and planned to defeat two more Demon Kings to gain access to the grotto’s depths.

• Chu Mo ordered the wolf demons to lead him to their neighbors, then weakened the Bear King with the Three Corpses Sword and captured him in the Demon-Refining Bottle.
• Chu Mo captured the Bear King’s remaining demons and ordered the wolves to take him to the Jade Scale Great King next.
• Over the following days, Chu Mo defeated the Heart Moon Fox King, the Jade Scale Great King, and other Demon Kings, spreading panic across the outer region.
• The five strongest Demon Kings discussed Blood Pupil’s rampage and the signs that Immortals might have returned, with the Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord warning they might need to awaken the ancestor.
• Chu Mo absorbed the blood essence of the demons he had refined, reached Level 14, and decided that defeating two more Demon Kings should earn him access to the Demon Grotto’s depths.