Chapter Summaries

Chu Mo and Qing Song met Chen Tianming, who invited them to compete in the Flowing Cloud Tournament with [Moonlight Essence] as its top prize. They accepted after realizing the Chen Household hoped to use the Tribulation Deliverance Sect’s prestige to deter rival households, and Chen Tianming left determined to protect his family’s standing.

• Chen Tianming welcomed Chu Mo and Qing Song and offered them a travel allowance they privately considered inadequate.
• Chen Tianming invited the envoys to join the Flowing Cloud Tournament, where True Person Red Rosy Clouds had offered [Moonlight Essence] as the champion’s prize.
• Chu Mo and Qing Song inferred that the Chen Household wanted to use the sect’s reputation against the Han and Liu Households, and they accepted the invitation.
• Chu Mo asked about the tournament’s rules and what would happen if a competitor was injured or killed; Chen Tianming said the hosts would not intervene unless someone committed deliberate, immoral slaughter.
• Chen Tianming arranged lodging for Chu Mo and Qing Song, then told an elder that borrowing the sect’s authority was worth the risk of angering the other households.

While staying at the Chen Household, Chu Mo experimented with giving banner spirits protective paper bodies and received a visit from the Liu Household. He let Liu Zimo’s challenge pass without a fight, though he privately regretted losing the chance to claim him as banner-spirit material.

• Chu Mo used Paper Folding into Soldiers to give a banner spirit a paper body that could withstand some physical damage.
• Chu Mo spent several days improving the paper figures, testing defensive runes and a paper horse.
• Liu Wenyuan visited Chu Mo with his nephew Liu Zimo, who tried to provoke the Tribulation Deliverance Sect envoys into a sparring match.
• Chu Mo praised Liu Zimo’s talent, but Liu Wenyuan cut the visit short and dragged his nephew away.
• Liu Wenyuan warned Liu Zimo that Tribulation Deliverance Sect disciples might cripple him or take his body and soul, while Chu Mo privately lamented that he could not claim Liu Zimo as banner-spirit material.

Chu Mo attended the Chen Household’s Flowing Cloud Tournament and watched Liu Household guest elder Bai Ju decisively defeat Chen Yu before challenging him. Chu Mo accepted, and the chapter ended as Bai Ju summoned a Grand Array over the arena.

• The Chen Household hosted Chu Mo and his companion at the tournament, where its Foundation Establishment cultivators struggled against their rivals.
• Bai Ju defeated Chen Yu in one move, humiliating the Chen Household.
• Bai Ju challenged Chu Mo, hoping to raise his standing in the Liu Household by blunting the Chen Household’s prestige.
• Chu Mo accepted the challenge and appeared in the arena using the Five-Colored Mist Veil.
• Bai Ju summoned his jeweled umbrella and enveloped the arena in a Grand Array.

Chu Mo defeated Bai Ju with two divine abilities, took his soul and corpse, and silenced Elder Liu when he demanded the remains. The matches continued, with Chu Mo and Qing Song advancing as their opponents conceded, while Chu Mo began questioning Bai Ju’s soul inside the Profound Banner.

• Bai Ju trapped Chu Mo in the Treasure Net Soul-Locking Formation, but Chu Mo’s gray sword drained his cultivation and his Treasure Mirror immobilized him and pulled out his soul.
• Chu Mo captured Bai Ju’s soul in the Profound Banner and collected his corpse, dismissing Elder Liu’s demand to return the remains and challenging him to fight if he objected.
• Chu Mo returned to the viewing platform and told Chen Tianming to continue the matches, while Qing Song worried that his actions had offended the Liu Household.
• Chu Mo reassured Qing Song that True Person Xuan Cheng would protect them and kept the Five Profound Origin Veil as a private safeguard.
• Chu Mo’s and Qing Song’s opponents repeatedly conceded, and Chu Mo began questioning Bai Ju’s soul about why he had become a guest elder.

Chu Mo learned the Golden Vault Possession Method from Bai Ju and won the Flowing Cloud Tournament. True Person Red Rosy Clouds appeared at the prize ceremony, but Chu Mo’s Peering Origin Talisman showed that the supposedly dying Golden Core cultivator was in excellent condition.

• Chu Mo questioned Bai Ju, who revealed that he had joined the Liu Household to exploit the Golden Vault Possession Method and claim a deceased Golden Core cultivator’s realm.
• Bai Ju imparted the secret art to Chu Mo, who learned it and considered whether Ming He’s soul-dividing art could overcome its confinement.
• Chu Mo and Qing Song advanced through the Flowing Cloud Tournament without fighting each other, and Chu Mo took first place while Qing Song placed second.
• The Chen Household head announced that True Person Red Rosy Clouds would attend the awards ceremony and grant the champion Moonlight Essence.
• True Person Red Rosy Clouds arrived at the ceremony, and Chu Mo’s Peering Origin Talisman revealed no signs that his life or cultivation was declining.

At True Person Red Rosy Clouds’s birthday feast, Chu Mo received a rare treasure and learned that Red Rosy Clouds’s supposedly incurable lifespan injury had improved. After questioning Bai Ju, Chu Mo suspected the Han and Liu Households would test Red Rosy Clouds rather than abandon their plans.

• True Person Red Rosy Clouds praised Chu Mo and gave him a Jade Box containing [Moonlight Essence] as thanks to Xuan Cheng.
• The Chen Household invited Chu Mo and Qing Song to the birthday banquet, where Chu Mo noticed the Han and Liu representatives exchanging uneasy glances.
• The Chen Household's head admitted that Red Rosy Clouds had found a sliver of opportunity that improved his condition, but refused to explain further.
• Chu Mo examined the [Moonlight Essence] and judged it could help transform his Dao Mansion, then put it away to refine later.
• Chu Mo questioned Bai Ju, who recalled that a True Lord of the Great Evolution Dao Sect had once stripped away Red Rosy Clouds’s lifespan and left him visibly aged.
• Bai Ju said the Han and Liu Households would likely test Red Rosy Clouds, and Chu Mo considered how they would react to his recovery.

Chu Mo attended True Person Red Rosy Clouds’s birthday ceremony, where the Han and Liu Household patriarchs attacked their host. Chu Mo fled the estate, but a stronger version of Red Rosy Clouds appeared to shield the embattled birthday celebrant.

• Chen Tianming welcomed Chu Mo and Qing Song to the birthday ceremony, where True Person Red Rosy Clouds took the seat of honor.
• The Han and Liu Household patriarchs, Golden Baleful and Cold Light, arrived in person and challenged Red Rosy Clouds.
• Cold Light unleashed [Boundless Water] while Golden Baleful attacked with [Golden Spear], driving Red Rosy Clouds into danger.
• Chu Mo vanished from the estate and retreated beyond the reach of the battle, leaving Qing Song behind.
• As the two attacks neared Red Rosy Clouds, a sigh sounded from within the Chen estate and a Level 33 True Person Red Rosy Clouds appeared to protect him.

At Chen Household’s birthday banquet, the genuine True Person Red Rosy Clouds defeated Golden Baleful and Cold Light, but Chu Mo’s talisman revealed that Red Rosy Clouds was near death. Red Rosy Clouds feared True Person Xuan Cheng intended to seize his life-bound divine ability, and Xuan Cheng set out to visit him.

• True Person Red Rosy Clouds used [Rosy Glow Stabilizing Origin] to suppress Golden Baleful and Cold Light’s attacks, forcing them to withdraw and take their seats.
• Chu Mo saw Red Rosy Clouds’s level change and realized his true body was near death despite his powerful display.
• In a secret chamber, Red Rosy Clouds told a Chen Household elder that Xuan Cheng coveted [Rosy Glow Stabilizing Origin] and might possess a way to seize it.
• Red Rosy Clouds explained that he had invited Xuan Cheng because some dangers could not be avoided by refusing to face them.
• At Cloudsea Hanging Mountain, Xuan Cheng learned that Red Rosy Clouds had only a few years left to live and departed to visit him.

Chu Mo discovered that the Chen Household had sealed Chen Mountain Manor with a formation, but True Person Xuan Cheng disabled it so Chu Mo could escape. Xuan Cheng then confronted Red Rosy Clouds, and their powers met in a stalemate as Chu Mo fled the area.

• Chu Mo tried to leave Chen Mountain Manor but found an invisible formation blocking every route out.
• True Person Xuan Cheng used the Imitation Lightless Shuttle to disable the Flowing Cloud Origin-Sealing Formation.
• Chu Mo escaped the manor and met Xuan Cheng, who revealed that Chu Mo's task had helped him find an opportunity to visit Red Rosy Clouds.
• Xuan Cheng told Chu Mo to wait, then vanished toward the Chen Household, prompting Chu Mo to flee farther away.
• Xuan Cheng sent an enormous palm toward the Chen Household's main peak, and Red Rosy Clouds met it with a vast expanse of multicolored rosy light.

True Person Xuan Cheng attacked Red Rosy Clouds at the Chen Household to seize [Rosy Glow Stabilizing Origin], using a lifespan-draining demonic banner and [Wondrous True Being] to undo Red Rosy Clouds' attempt to destroy his golden vault. With Red Rosy Clouds near death and unleashing his full power, Chu Mo fired the [Blazing Fire Bow] from afar, hoping to claim an assist.

• Xuan Cheng descended on the Chen Household and demanded Red Rosy Clouds hand over [Rosy Glow Stabilizing Origin].
• Xuan Cheng used his [Myriad Demons Banner] to drain Red Rosy Clouds' lifespan, while the Chen Household elders attacked and were instantly killed.
• Red Rosy Clouds tried to destroy his golden vault, but Xuan Cheng used [Wondrous True Being] to restore it and thwart him.
• Red Rosy Clouds, reduced to 1% health, unleashed his rosy glow against Xuan Cheng and the surviving guests.
• Chu Mo approached the main peak, drew the [Blazing Fire Bow], and fired a crimson arrow toward the battle.

Chu Mo earned a kill assist for helping Xuan Cheng kill Red Rosy Clouds, while Xuan Cheng collected the rosy-glowing Golden Vault and agreed to take charge of the Chen Household’s treasury. Xuan Cheng left Chu Mo behind, who noticed a golden orb where Red Rosy Clouds had fallen.

• Chu Mo’s arrow shattered, but he received a kill-assist notification when Red Rosy Clouds died.
• Xuan Cheng used the Three-Legged Cauldron to absorb the rosy-glowing Golden Vault and said it improved his chances against the Spirit.
• Chu Mo praised Xuan Cheng, who remarked on Chu Mo’s nerve for shooting at a Golden Core cultivator.
• Golden Baleful and Cold Light arrived, accepted Xuan Cheng’s dominance, and offered him the Chen Household’s treasury.
• Xuan Cheng agreed to the offer and left with Golden Baleful and Cold Light, telling Chu Mo to wait.
• Chu Mo spotted a golden orb hovering where Red Rosy Clouds had fallen.

Chu Mo obtained the Mystic Embryo Primordial Life Great Art from the Golden Core True Person’s drop and returned to the Tribulation Deliverance Sect with Xuan Cheng. Back in his cave, he studied the art and began considering how to acquire the rare materials needed to create an incarnation.

• Chu Mo collected a drop containing the Mystic Embryo Primordial Life Great Art, a secret method for cultivating an independent incarnation.
• Xuan Cheng gave Chu Mo a Storage Bag filled with miscellaneous Dharma Coins and said the Immortal Garden would not trouble him for the time being.
• Golden Baleful and Cold Light tried to host Xuan Cheng, then discussed dividing the Chen Household’s share of the small world after he left.
• Xuan Cheng carried Chu Mo back to the Tribulation Deliverance Sect and told him not to disturb him unless necessary.
• Chu Mo studied the art in his cave and identified innate pure numinous qi and the Mysterious Female Pearl as its two crucial materials.

Chu Mo refined the Moonlight Essence during a long seclusion, gaining two levels, then discovered that Di Yang had also advanced after finding a spent spiritual jade pendant. He decided to test whether objects could pass through their connection by throwing a Dharma coin into the Dao Mansion.

• Chu Mo considered using a Mystic Womb Incarnation to control a Golden Vault, then set aside the idea and prepared to refine the Moonlight Essence.
• Chu Mo refined the Moonlight Essence in seclusion and advanced to Level 18 after five months and eleven days.
• Chu Mo learned that Hong Xuan had visited the cave abode about a month earlier, but had been sent away by a banner spirit.
• Chu Mo sensed that Di Yang had reached the middle Qi Refining stage and learned that a jade pendant he received in Little Li Village had helped him break through.
• Chu Mo threw a miscellaneous-brand Dharma coin toward the depths of the Dao Mansion to test whether items could pass through his connection with Di Yang.

Chu Mo tested whether he could transfer objects between his Dao Mansion and the Eternal Night Sea, giving Di Yang a Dharma Coin and receiving a wandering soul in return. The ghost arrived weakened, and Chu Mo wondered whether it could grow stronger by harming people in Fuli Heaven.

• Chu Mo sent a Dharma Coin through the boundary into the Eternal Night Sea, where Di Yang caught it.
• Di Yang refined the Dharma Coin’s numinous vitality and thanked Chu Mo for promising more if he cultivated diligently.
• Chu Mo asked Di Yang to send him the wandering soul sealed in a Yin-Collecting Pouch.
• Chu Mo opened a vortex, and Di Yang pushed the bound wandering soul into it.
• The ghost arrived in Chu Mo’s cave abode at a lower level, and Chu Mo considered whether harming people in Fuli Heaven would strengthen it.

Chu Mo tested how a ghost creature from the Eternal Night Sea grew stronger and discovered that killing people made it level up far faster than killing demon beasts. Impressed by its rapid growth, he ordered Di Yang to find and capture more ghost creatures.

• Chu Mo examined the ghost creature’s fear of him and wondered whether Eternal Night Sea ghosts differed from Fuli Heaven’s souls.
• Harmony Truth disciples delivered five prisoners and five demon beasts for Chu Mo’s experiments.
• The ghost creature killed five demon beasts, growing stronger but remaining at level 1.
• The ghost creature killed the five prisoners and rose from level 1 to level 4, while Chu Mo preserved their souls in the Profound Banner.
• Chu Mo contacted Di Yang and told him to find and capture more ghost creatures in exchange for a reward.

Chu Mo posted a mission seeking innate pure numinous qi and learned that Qi Luoshuang had taken some in the Azure Wing Realm. He rewarded Zhao Xing for the lead, leaving the next step in his pursuit unresolved.

• Chu Mo warned Di Yang to stay safe, then continued investigating the Eternal Night Sea and studying the Mystic Embryo Primordial Life Great Art.
• Chu Mo posted a long-term mission at the General Affairs Hall to buy innate pure numinous qi or receive reliable leads.
• Di Yang captured six weak wandering souls in the Eternal Night Sea and offered them to Chu Mo.
• After more than half a month, Zhao Xing reported that Qi Luoshuang had collected innate pure numinous qi in the Azure Wing Realm.
• Chu Mo recognized Qi Luoshuang as High Person Hong Xuan's daughter and gave Zhao Xing ten Dharma Coins for the lead.

Chu Mo sought Qi Luoshuang’s innate pure numinous qi, but she refused to give it up for Dharma Coins and offered a deal instead. After he erased her maids’ memories of his visit, she asked him to help her kill Hong Xuan.

• Chu Mo dismissed Zhao Xing with ten Dharma Coins and decided to approach Qi Luoshuang directly despite Hong Xuan’s protection of her.
• Chu Mo broke the ward at Qi Luoshuang’s cave abode and demanded to know whether she possessed innate pure numinous qi.
• Qi Luoshuang admitted she had the qi but refused to sell it, warning that Chu Mo could not obtain it by force.
• Qi Luoshuang offered the qi in exchange for Chu Mo’s help and asked him to erase her maids’ memories of his visit.
• After Chu Mo erased the maids’ memories, Qi Luoshuang sealed the cave abode and asked him to help her kill Hong Xuan.

Qi Luoshuang offered Chu Mo a seven-emotion glazed body in exchange for help killing Hong Xuan, explaining that her father planned to strip away her foundation after she established Foundation Establishment. Chu Mo doubted her story, found one wisp of Pure Spirit Qi in her Storage Bag, and pressed her about the other wisps she had hidden.

• Chu Mo challenged Qi Luoshuang over the value of her proposed bargain and her ability to kill the Foundation Establishment cultivator Hong Xuan.
• Qi Luoshuang revealed that her seven-emotion glazed body could produce a valuable origin, but Hong Xuan intended to consume her entire foundation and leave her with no soul.
• Chu Mo rejected the seven-emotion origin, questioned Qi Luoshuang's account, and said he would verify it himself.
• Chu Mo searched the Cave Abode, took Qi Luoshuang's Storage Bag, and found a sealed box containing one wisp of Pure Spirit Qi.
• Chu Mo asked how many wisps Qi Luoshuang had obtained in the Azure Wing Realm, and she said eight were hidden in other safe places.
• Chu Mo considered searching Qi Luoshuang as he narrowed his eyes at her answer.

Chu Mo negotiated with Qi Luoshuang for her Pure Spirit Qi and agreed to help her kill Hong Xuan, but privately decided he was not bound to honor his promise. After taking four wisps of Pure Spirit Qi, he turned his attention to finding the Mysterious Female Pearl.

• Qi Luoshuang offered to let Chu Mo search her soul, but he found a Soul-Locking Seal placed by Hong Xuan and withdrew his Divine Thought.
• Chu Mo demanded five wisps of Pure Spirit Qi, while Qi Luoshuang bargained and finally swore an oath to give him the rest after Hong Xuan was slain and she reached Foundation Establishment.
• Chu Mo accepted the deal, and Qi Luoshuang brought him a Jade Box the next morning before hurrying away.
• Chu Mo learned from the Banner Spirit that Qi Luoshuang had retrieved items from three separate locations, then counted four wisps of Pure Spirit Qi in total.
• Chu Mo decided he could disregard Qi Luoshuang's oath and began studying the Mystic Embryo Primordial Life Great Art, which still required the Mysterious Female Pearl.

Chu Mo investigated the Mysterious Female Pearl and experimented with ghosts, discovering that most could not grow beyond level 10 while a vengeful ghost from Ghost Village reached level 20. A mountain-shaking disturbance revealed that Xuan Cheng had advanced to Nascent Soul and claimed Clearlight Peak, leaving Chu Mo wondering whether Red Rosy Clouds had helped him break through.

• Chu Mo searched the Scripture Repository and other channels for clues about the Mysterious Female Pearl.
• Chu Mo found that most ghosts reached a level 10 limit, but a vengeful ghost from Ghost Village grew to level 20 through slaughter.
• Chu Mo felt the sect's peaks tremble and flew outside to investigate the disturbance.
• Xuan Cheng moved an immortal peak to the sect's central region and announced his Nascent Soul breakthrough, naming it Clearlight Peak.
• Chu Mo returned to his cave abode and wondered whether Red Rosy Clouds' Rosy Glow Stabilizing Origin had helped Xuan Cheng advance.