Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo was invited by Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord to enter the Demon Grotto’s Inner Region and learn about the Calamity, while secretly planning to keep killing Demon Kings for their blood essence. Meanwhile, High Person Minghe arrived in the Profound Sun Realm with five disciples to seize the Precious Jade from Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord at Baleful Yin Cave.

• A Tiger Demon envoy invited Chu Mo to Baleful Yin Cave on Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord’s orders, and Chu Mo agreed to go.
• Chu Mo arrived at Baleful Yin Cave, where Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord welcomed him and offered him a place in the Inner Region.
• Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord warned Chu Mo not to kill Demon Kings of his rank, but Chu Mo privately resolved to keep harvesting their blood essence if he could defeat them.
• High Person Minghe and five cultivators entered the Profound Sun Realm and sensed that its numinous vitality had been polluted and turned hostile.
• Minghe learned that the Precious Jade was held by Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord at Baleful Yin Cave and said he had brought a formation to deal with the demons.

Chu Mo joined the Demon Grotto’s twenty demon kings and challenged their fear of the rumored Immortals, proposing an attack on Yi Province. The Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord rejected the plan and revealed that the Demon Grotto might have to awaken its sealed Demon Emperor, leaving Chu Mo worried about the difficulty of Xuan Cheng’s mission.

• The Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord introduced Blood Pupil as a new demon king to the assembled rulers of the Demon Grotto.
• The Rat King and the Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord warned that the rumored Tribulation Deliverance Disciples might be Immortals, and that investigators had disappeared.
• Chu Mo dismissed the Immortals as a human bluff, provoked the demon kings, and mocked them as rats turned demons.
• Chu Mo urged the demon kings to march on Yi Province, but the Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord refused to risk the Demon Grotto before learning the Immortals’ strength.
• The Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord explained that Immortals had once suppressed the Calamities and might force the demons to awaken their sealed Demon Emperor.
• Chu Mo realized the Demon Emperor might be a Golden Core demon and worried that Xuan Cheng’s mission was far more dangerous than he had expected.

Chu Mo lured the Rat Demon into his cave, trapped him with a formation, and refined him into blood essence. Meanwhile, Ming He activated a grand formation over the Demon Grotto, alerting Chu Mo and the Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord to an unknown plan.

• The Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord assigned Chu Mo a cave near the Demon Grotto’s channels, and Chu Mo learned that the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade was being used to restore the Demon Emperor Ancestor.
• The Rat Demon returned to attack Chu Mo, but Chu Mo’s Six Harmonies, Nine Hells Illusion-Destroying Formation weakened him and Chu Mo captured him with the Demon-Refining Bottle.
• High Person Minghe placed the thirty-six main Formation Banners and activated the Heaven-Sealing Void-Locking Grand Formation with the Void-Suppressing Tower.
• The formation’s light briefly covered the Demon Grotto, alarming its demons and prompting the Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord to recognize it as a formation.
• Chu Mo sensed the grand formation and suspected that Ming He was behind it.

Chu Mo used the Heavenly Net’s threat to turn the demons against High Person Minghe, then slipped into the Baleful Yin Cave amid the battle. He found the sleeping Golden Core realm White Emperor guarding the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade.

• Chu Mo sensed that a formation had strengthened the space around him and headed toward the Baleful Yin Cave.
• High Person Minghe announced that he had laid the Heavenly Net to recover the Tribulation Deliverance Sect’s Baleful Yin Treasure Jade and threatened to kill every demon in the Demon Grotto.
• Chu Mo urged the demons, especially the Golden-Eyed Mountain Lord, to resist Minghe, arguing that the threat showed the formation had limits.
• Several demon kings attacked the barrier, but Minghe summoned a treasure pagoda and golden chains that crushed lesser demons and bound some demon kings.
• Chu Mo entered the Baleful Yin Cave under cover of his Five-Colored Mist Veil and found the White Emperor guarding the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade.

Chu Mo stole the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade from the sleeping White Emperor, then tricked the awakened demon into charging out to fight Ming He by claiming the Demon Grotto was under attack. After the White Emperor left, Chu Mo prepared to search for the source of the Law before time ran out.

• Chu Mo carefully approached the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade and took it from its place beside the sleeping White Tiger.
• The White Emperor woke in a rage and blasted Chu Mo into the cavern wall for stealing his treasure.
• Chu Mo disguised himself as Blood Pupil and convinced the White Emperor that immortals had sealed the Demon Grotto and were slaughtering its demons.
• Chu Mo told the White Emperor that Immortal Ming He had insulted their ancestors, provoking the demon to rush out and confront him.
• Chu Mo put away the Precious Jade and turned back toward the place where the White Emperor had been lying, intent on finding the Law and fulfilling True Person Xuan Cheng's request.

Chu Mo broke the ancient seal in the Baleful Yin Cave and began absorbing the three calamity statues while Ming He’s formation struggled against the White Emperor. The White Emperor sensed the calamities vanish and rushed into the cave, leaving Ming He’s array behind.

• The White Emperor attacked Ming He’s formation with demonic ghosts and enormous claws, pushing the array toward collapse.
• Chu Mo had banner spirits dig beneath the White Tiger’s former resting place and uncovered a golden seal enclosing three calamity statues.
• Chu Mo used the Demon-Refining Bottle to erode and shatter the seal, then activated Xuan Cheng’s reception and tried to absorb the statues.
• Ming He prepared to retreat as the White Emperor’s attacks destroyed core formation banners and weakened the array.
• The White Emperor sensed the calamities’ aura vanish, abandoned his assault on the formation, and charged into the Baleful Yin Cave.

Chu Mo escaped the White Emperor by entering a teleportation passage and delivered the Three Laws to True Person Xuan Cheng, who captured and condemned the demon to become a Myriad Demons Banner’s artifact spirit. Chu Mo returned to his Cave Abode with the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade and began consuming demon blood essence to raise his level before High Person Minghe could claim the treasure.

• Chu Mo entered the teleportation passage with the Three Laws, and the enraged White Emperor chased him into the hall beyond it.
• True Person Xuan Cheng immobilized the White Emperor while Chu Mo returned the Demon-Refining Bottle and reported that he had recovered all Three Laws.
• Xuan Cheng judged the White Emperor suitable for refining into a Myriad Demons Banner and stored him away as its future chief artifact spirit.
• Chu Mo left Tongming Hall and returned to his Cave Abode with the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade.
• Chu Mo prepared to reach level 15 by consuming the demon blood essence he had collected, hoping to secure the treasure before High Person Minghe could take it.

Chu Mo absorbed the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade into his Dao Mansion, reaching the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and gaining a stronger presence in Fuli Heaven. Meanwhile, Minghe blamed the Blissful Immortal Garden for his failed expedition and planned to report the matter to the Sect Master Lineage.

• True Person Xuan Cheng celebrated obtaining three complete Laws and decided to let the Immortal Garden and Sect Master Lineage dispute the remaining spoils.
• High Person Minghe suspected Xuan Cheng had sabotaged his expedition and resolved to blame the Immortal Garden when reporting the failure.
• Chu Mo reached the peak of early Foundation Establishment and drew the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade into his Dao Mansion.
• Chu Mo guided the jade's power into the Dao Mansion until it merged completely and made the Inner Landscape more substantial.
• Chu Mo broke through to Level 16, entered the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and saw a map message for the Eternal Night Sea.

After assimilating a treasure, Chu Mo observed the Eternal Night Sea and focused on a frightened boy whose strange habits suggested he feared sunset. When Chu Mo emerged from seclusion, Yuan Bai congratulated him on his cultivation and hinted that a major event had occurred in the sect.

• Chu Mo explored the Eternal Night Sea through his Dao Mansion and found himself anchored to a boy weaving baskets in a small town.
• As sunset approached, the boy hurried indoors, bolted the door, arranged his sandals in opposite directions, and hid under his quilt.
• Chu Mo observed the boy for several days, noticed he reacted to his attempts to speak, and withdrew without learning what frightened him.
• Chu Mo emerged from seclusion and received a message from Yuan Bai, who soon arrived at his cave abode.
• Yuan Bai congratulated Chu Mo on his cultivation and told him that a major event had happened in the sect during his seclusion.

Chu Mo heard how Ming He’s failed expedition had sparked a dispute between the Sect Master Lineage and the Blissful Immortal Garden over control of the Profound Sun Realm. Yuan Bai warned him about the danger of opposing Ming He, then invited him to explore the dao mansion of a long-dead Golden Core True Person.

• Yuan Bai told Chu Mo that Ming He blamed the Blissful Immortal Garden for his failed attempt to seize the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade, while the Sect Master Lineage used the dispute to claim a share of the Profound Sun Realm.
• Yuan Bai warned Chu Mo that Ming He might privately hunt for the person who thwarted him and cautioned him against provoking Dao Lord Darkworld by harming the sect master's personal disciple.
• Yuan Bai revealed that he had found a way into a secret realm that was the dao mansion of Crimson Sun, a Golden Core True Person of their sect who had died more than a thousand years earlier.
• Yuan Bai invited Chu Mo along, citing his strength and trustworthiness, and said Crimson Sun had established his foundation through the Heavenly Register and excelled at alchemy and artifact crafting.
• Yuan Bai began to explain that Crimson Sun’s dao mansion might contain the method for Seizing the Law, Refining the True, but the chapter ended before he finished.

Chu Mo declined Yuan Bai’s invitation to explore a Golden Core cultivator’s secret realm and chose to strengthen his cultivation instead. He attended True Person Youzhen’s lecture on Dao Mansions, where Youzhen ended a demonstration of the Radiant Mansion Derivation Art just as the disciples began to understand it.

• Chu Mo refused Yuan Bai’s invitation, citing the dangers of the secret realm and his need to stabilize his cultivation.
• Yuan Bai told Chu Mo that Ji Qing had died after failing to reach Foundation Establishment.
• Chu Mo registered for True Person Youzhen’s lecture on Foundation Establishment cultivation and Dao Mansion studies.
• Three days later, Chu Mo attended the lecture and listened as Youzhen explained how Dao Mansions could be stabilized and cultivated.
• Youzhen demonstrated a minor technique from the Radiant Mansion Derivation Art, then let the image vanish before the disciples could fully grasp it.

True Person Youzhen presented and sold the Radiant Mansion Derivation Art, claiming it could improve a Dao Mansion's power and potential. As disciples bought the sealed Jade Slips, Chu Mo took one from a junior cultivator and chose to learn the art.

• True Person Youzhen described the Radiant Mansion Derivation Art and claimed it could refine Dao Mansions and increase their potential.
• Youzhen offered the complete art for thirty thousand Dharma Coins, prompting several disciples to purchase it.
• Youzhen suggested that disciples short on funds apply for low-interest loans through the Upper Mound Commerce Association.
• Chu Mo asked a blue-robed Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator to lend him a sealed Jade Slip, then took it.
• Chu Mo saw the prompt asking whether to learn the Radiant Mansion Derivation Art and chose to learn it.

Chu Mo learned that True Person Youzhen’s Radiant Mansion Derivation Art was experimental, then encountered High Person Minghe, who suspected he possessed a valuable treasure and pressed him to spar. Minghe summoned a sinister miniature pagoda as Chu Mo faced his hostile challenge.

• Chu Mo examined the Radiant Mansion Derivation Art and judged that its useful fundamentals did not erase the risks of its conjectural methods.
• True Person Youzhen reviewed the list of thirty-seven buyers, ordered his disciple to record their progress, and promised to consider taking him as a disciple once the data was gathered.
• True Person Youzhen regretted that Youxuan had not bought the art, since data from his Heavenly Register Foundation Establishment could help perfect it.
• High Person Minghe intercepted Chu Mo on his way to his cave abode and questioned him about his Heavenly Register Foundation Establishment and rapid progress.
• Minghe insisted that Chu Mo spar with him and summoned a chilling, black miniature pagoda covered in distorted infant faces.

Ming He challenged Chu Mo with the Ten Thousand Infant Tower, but Chu Mo defeated one of Ming He's divided souls with his formation, mirror light, and sword. Ming He gave Chu Mo the tower as promised and departed, leaving Chu Mo suspicious of his motives.

• Ming He explained the Ten Thousand Infant Tower's horrific origins and challenged Chu Mo to win it by besting him in combat.
• Ming He attacked with the tower, but Chu Mo evaded it and trapped Ming He in the Six Harmonies, Nine Hells Illusion-Destroying Formation.
• Chu Mo froze the tower's infant grudge spirits with Treasure-Mirror Light and destroyed Ming He's body with the Three Corpses Sword and the formation.
• Ming He reappeared and revealed that Chu Mo had destroyed one of his divided souls created by the Soul-Dividing Thought-Transformation Great Art.
• Ming He severed his imprint on the Ten Thousand Infant Tower, gave it to Chu Mo as promised, and flew away.
• Chu Mo inspected the tower and wondered suspiciously why Ming He had challenged him before giving it away.

Ming He accepted that Chu Mo had taken the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade and hoped to use their connection to reach the Eternal Night Sea. While Chu Mo cultivated and watched Di Yang, a night creature followed the boy home, and the mysterious voice instructed him to use the Yangblood Curse.

• Ming He decided to tolerate losing the Baleful Yin Treasure Jade and cultivate a relationship with Chu Mo to gain a chance to explore the Eternal Night Sea.
• Chu Mo recognized Ming He's likely interest in the Eternal Night Sea, stored the Ten Thousand Infant Tower, and returned to cultivation.
• Yuan Bai again tried to persuade Chu Mo to explore the Secret Realm of True Person Crimson Sun, but Chu Mo refused.
• Chu Mo learned that the boy he was observing was named Di Yang and watched him continue his daily life.
• After vicious dogs chased Di Yang home, a malicious presence entered his room and climbed onto his bed.
• A familiar voice told Di Yang to recite the Yangblood Curse and press his bleeding right middle finger between the creature's brows, and Di Yang thrust his hand toward it.

After Chu Mo used the Yangblood Curse to save Di Yang from a Wandering Soul, Daoist Wuchen arrived and offered to take him as a disciple. Di Yang accepted, and Chu Mo wondered what secrets the Eternal Night Sea and Wuchen might hold.

• Chu Mo taught Di Yang the Yangblood Curse, allowing him to drive off the Wandering Soul with his blood.
• Daoist Wuchen burst into Di Yang’s room, found the spirit gone, and heard Di Yang claim his bedside charm had frightened it away.
• Wuchen offered to take Di Yang as his disciple, and Chu Mo urged Di Yang to accept for his safety.
• Di Yang agreed to become Wuchen’s disciple, and Wuchen told him to wait in the courtyard the next morning for the formal ceremony.
• Wuchen gave Di Yang a talisman, warned him to stay inside and guard his mind, then vanished into the darkness.
• Chu Mo withdrew his awareness from the Eternal Night Sea and wondered how much Wuchen knew about that world.

Daoist Wuchen accepted Di Yang as his disciple and taught him the Profound Yin Qi-Absorption Method, while Chu Mo observed and suspected that the Eternal Night Sea’s oddities were manifestations of laws. After Di Yang struggled to sense qi, the mysterious voice returned, and he cautiously asked what it wanted from him.

• Daoist Wuchen formally accepted Di Yang as his disciple and taught him the lineage’s commandments and the Profound Yin Qi-Absorption Method.
• Chu Mo observed the lesson and considered how the Eternal Night Sea’s yin-based cultivation and cultivators might be useful to him.
• Daoist Wuchen warned Di Yang that oddities were dangerous, distorted phenomena that ordinary cultivators could only avoid.
• Chu Mo suspected oddities were the form laws took in the Eternal Night Sea and decided to spread cultivation methods there.
• Di Yang struggled to sense qi despite practicing the Profound Yin Qi-Absorption Method, and the mysterious voice spoke to him again.
• Di Yang recalled that the voice had helped him survive a wandering ghost and asked what it wanted in return.

Di Yang learned the Celestial Circuit Qi-Gathering Method from Chu Mo and quickly condensed his first thread of true qi, strengthening the connection between Chu Mo’s Dao Mansion and the Eternal Night Sea. As Chu Mo considered the possibilities, Miao Xuan arrived with a message from True Person Jiqing, but True Person Xuan Cheng summoned Chu Mo to Tongming Hall before she could explain further.

• A mysterious voice gave Di Yang the Celestial Circuit Qi-Gathering Method, and he began practicing it despite its conflict with his master’s teachings.
• Di Yang practiced intensively and condensed his first thread of true qi on the afternoon of the third day.
• Chu Mo sensed that Di Yang’s progress had strengthened the connection to the Eternal Night Sea and caused spiritual energy to flow from the Dao Mansion.
• Miao Xuan visited Chu Mo and said she had come on her master’s orders to deliver a message from True Person Jiqing.
• True Person Xuan Cheng sent his voice into the cave abode and ordered Chu Mo to come to Tongming Hall at once.

Chu Mo avoided Miao Xuan and received orders from True Person Xuan Cheng to attend True Person Red Rosy Clouds's birthday and secretly assess his health. He left the sect with Qing Song for the Flowing Cloud Mountain Range, where Qing Song began explaining why the assignment was lucrative.

• Chu Mo left Miao Xuan waiting outside his cave abode after True Person Xuan Cheng summoned him.
• True Person Xuan Cheng explained that Jiqing was probing Chu Mo and sent him away from the sect to avoid the Blissful Immortal Garden's harassment.
• True Person Xuan Cheng gave Chu Mo an invitation to the Chen Household's birthday celebration and a Peering Origin Talisman to inspect Red Rosy Clouds's condition.
• Chu Mo met Qing Song outside Tongming Hall and left the sect with him for the Flowing Cloud Mountain Range.
• Chu Mo asked about the Chen Household, and Qing Song said the birthday visit was a lucrative assignment.

Chu Mo and Qing Song traveled to the Chen Household’s Millennial Birthday Celebration as envoys of True Person Xuan Cheng, while Chu Mo monitored Di Yang’s cultivation in the Eternal Night Sea. Their arrival under the Tribulation Deliverance Sect’s name drew the Chen Household’s special respect and stirred speculation among the gathered guests.

• Qing Song explained that the Chen Household would honor the envoys and likely provide valuable return gifts, which Chu Mo welcomed.
• Chu Mo observed Di Yang’s progress with the Celestial Circuit Qi-Gathering Method and considered refining the Paper Folding into Soldiers technique with yin souls.
• Qing Song described the powers controlling the Flowing Cloud Mountain Range and identified the Chen Household as its strongest lineage.
• Chu Mo and Qing Song arrived at the Chen Residence, where the steward recognized their Tribulation Deliverance Sect affiliation and escorted them to the Immortal Welcome Pavilion.
• Guests at the celebration discussed the sect’s ties to the Chen Household, while Chu Mo noted the cultivation of the maids attending him.