Chapter Summaries

Chu Zhiyuan asked to choose a first-rank extraordinary art, and Chu Honglin helped him secure permission to study the difficult Great Demon Subduing Seal. Chu Zhiyuan planned to use the choice to distract Chu Liechu's spies from his Great Brightness Fist.

• Chu Zhiyuan watched Chu Liechu leave and saw through Super Sensation that his eldest brother remained suspicious of him.
• Chu Honglin observed Chu Zhiyuan's rapid cultivation and heard him ask to choose an extraordinary art from Diwu Academy.
• Chu Honglin described the nine first-rank arts, and Chu Zhiyuan chose the challenging Great Demon Subduing Seal despite its demanding practice and lost companion sutra.
• Chu Honglin persuaded the Emperor to approve Chu Zhiyuan's choice and took him to Diwu Academy.
• Chu Zhiyuan explained that he wanted Chu Liechu to notice the Great Demon Subduing Seal and overlook his Great Brightness Fist.

Chu Zhiyuan visited the inheritance hall with Chu Honglin and chose the Great Demon Subduing Seal from among nine extraordinary arts. After receiving its inheritance, he found its vision unimpressive and questioned why it was considered the strongest.

• Chu Zhiyuan and Chu Honglin entered the ice palace, where Chu Zhiyuan greeted his Fifth Imperial Uncle, Chu Hongming.
• Chu Honglin took Chu Zhiyuan to the third floor and explained how the inheritance steles worked and why each person could choose only one art.
• Chu Zhiyuan selected the Great Demon Subduing Seal despite Chu Honglin warning that the inheritance could not be changed.
• Chu Honglin explained that repeated inheritances could damage the soul and that too many Martial Skill Visualization Diagrams could interfere with one another.
• Chu Zhiyuan received the Great Demon Subduing Seal inheritance and saw a golden net descend over him.
• Chu Zhiyuan asked whether Chu Honglin had seen anyone use the art, then said its vision did not seem powerful.

Chu Zhiyuan tested the Great Demon Subduing Seal with Chu Honglin and discovered that it could trap a person’s hand by absorbing its energy and blood, though the Great Brightness Fist could break it. Later, Chu Zhiyuan read about Demon Subduing Spirit Mountain and learned that its disciples chanted divine script and that the Six Paths Demon Subduing Sutra might have originated with the God Race.

• Chu Zhiyuan cast the Great Demon Subduing Seal on Chu Honglin’s palms, and Chu Honglin felt his hands lose their connection to him.
• Chu Zhiyuan intercepted another golden net and saw it trap his palm while absorbing his Primal Qi and blood.
• Chu Honglin and Chu Zhiyuan used their white light and the Great Brightness Fist to break the golden nets.
• Chu Honglin explained that Demon Subduing Spirit Mountain had lost its inheritance amid internal strife, and Chu Zhiyuan asked to read its records.
• Chu Zhiyuan read Ancient Gou Xuan Records and learned that Demon Subduing Spirit Mountain’s disciples were feared by the Devil Race and that the sect’s chants were divine script.

Chu Zhiyuan asked about the lost divine script and continued cultivating while navigating the First Prince’s attempts to buy the Imperial Guards’ loyalty. After learning that divine script was inherited by the God Race and might help him understand the Great Demon Subduing Seal, he agreed to master the seal and help Chu Honglin kill a Devil Race member.

• Chu Zhiyuan asked Youlan whether she knew divine script, and she said it had been lost.
• At Great Bright Peak, Chu Zhiyuan confronted Lu Chaosheng and Lu Junfeng about following the First Prince’s orders, then told them to report truthfully but hide his use of the Great Brightness Fist.
• Chu Honglin brought Chu Zhiyuan books about the Great Demon Subduing Seal and Demon Subduing Spirit Mountain, then confirmed that no actual divine script had survived.
• Chu Honglin explained that divine script was inherited by the God Race and that the Great Brightness Fist could not kill the Devil Race, whose members could revive if their souls remained.
• Chu Zhiyuan said the Great Demon Subduing Seal could restrain the Devil Race, and he agreed to master it and help Chu Honglin kill a Devil Race member.

Chu Zhiyuan learned the origins of Demon Subduing Spirit Mountain’s Great Demon Subduing Seal and reached the Sixth Turn in his cultivation. At Diwu Academy’s quota competition, he revealed that his Great Brightness Fist had reached Spirit Entry and defeated the First Prince, leaving the quota within his grasp.

• Chu Zhiyuan learned that the Great Demon Subduing Seal came from divine-script martial arts and that the Six Paths Demon Subduing Sutra had been lost.
• Chu Zhiyuan reached the Sixth Turn and found that his Yin-Yang Fish had grown livelier and its Primal Qi purer.
• Chu Zhiyuan arrived at Diwu Academy for the quota competition and challenged Chu Liechu after criticizing the other princes for avoiding a fight.
• Chu Zhiyuan struck Chu Liechu with a Spirit Entry-level Great Brightness Fist, sending him flying and injuring him.
• Chu Liechu conceded, and the Second Prince and Third Prince declined to fight Chu Zhiyuan.
• Chu Zhiyuan asked Chu Hongming to announce the result, and Chu Hongming looked to the injured First Prince.

Chu Zhiyuan won the spot to enter the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven and learned that he had only three days to seek the Void Secret Treasure at Celestial Peak. He reached the entrance with Chu Hongming and the others, where they began preparing to send him through the light gate.

• Chu Hongming awarded the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven spot to Chu Zhiyuan, surprising the princes and prompting Chu Liechu to congratulate him.
• Chu Liechu advised Chu Zhiyuan to head straight for Celestial Peak, while Chu Zhen and Chu Qiao celebrated his selection.
• Chu Hongming and Chu Honglin warned Chu Zhiyuan about the dangers inside the Cave Heaven and explained that its opening had come early.
• Chu Hongming gave Chu Zhiyuan a booklet and told him to reach Celestial Peak within three days to pursue the Void Secret Treasure.
• Chu Zhiyuan reached the summit with Chu Hongming and the others, and they formed a line before the flickering light gate as Chu Honglin began channeling power.

Chu Zhiyuan entered Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven after Chu Honglin opened its gate and gave him an Ebony Bracelet, then used Super Sensation to navigate its dangers and gather rare plants and fruits. He reached Seventh Turn by eating a Heavenly Qi Fruit and prepared to eat a Tourmaline Fruit as he continued toward Celestial Peak.

• Chu Honglin opened the gate to Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven, warned Chu Zhiyuan that he had only three days, and gave him an Ebony Bracelet and its refinement method.
• Chu Zhiyuan entered the grotto-heaven and used Super Sensation to survey the area, discovering a poisonous swamp, deadly insects, and a hidden giant beast.
• Chu Zhiyuan refined the Ebony Bracelet and gathered strange flowers and exotic fruits as he headed toward Celestial Peak.
• Chu Zhiyuan ate a Heavenly Qi Fruit and silently advanced from Sixth Turn to Seventh Turn.
• Chu Zhiyuan checked his remaining fruits and took out a Tourmaline Fruit, another Third Grade Miracle Fruit.

Chu Zhiyuan gathered miraculous fruits in the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven, reached Eight Revolutions, and advanced his Great Demon Subduing Seal to Intent Attainment. At dawn, he spotted a Heavenly Demon and resolved to kill him.

• Chu Zhiyuan continued gathering and consuming miraculous fruits, reaching his tenth third-grade fruit without finding any first- or second-grade ones.
• Chu Zhiyuan saw the eighth rings of light around the Yin-Yang Fish in his dantian, confirming he had reached Eight Revolutions.
• Chu Zhiyuan used the Great Demon Subduing Seal to immobilize a Spirit Ape at long range, then let it flee after a quarter of an hour.
• Chu Zhiyuan resumed traveling through the grotto-heaven and realized Chu Hongming had been wrong that people entering through different gates could not meet.
• Chu Zhiyuan spotted a Heavenly Demon eighteen miles away and resolved to kill him.

Chu Zhiyuan sent a Flying Dagger incarnation to watch a Heavenly Devil exploring the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven, then used the Moon Spirit Fruit it discarded to reach nine revolutions. He continued toward Celestial Peak, avoiding further breakthroughs that might force him out of the Cave Heaven.

• A Prince of the Jade Scenery Dynasty prepared a Flying Dagger while investigating why a Heavenly Devil had entered the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven.
• Chu Zhiyuan sent a weakened incarnation into the Flying Dagger and had it follow the Heavenly Devil.
• The Heavenly Devil found a Moon Spirit Fruit but discarded it, allowing Chu Zhiyuan to retrieve it with the Flying Dagger.
• Chu Zhiyuan ate the Moon Spirit Fruit and its pit, completing his ninth revolution.
• Chu Zhiyuan set out for Celestial Peak and avoided seeking comprehension that could push him into the Intent Transformation Realm.

Chu Zhiyuan followed a Heavenly Devil and learned it devoured animals, then reached Celestial Peak and discovered that the Great Brightness Fist could open its barrier. By sensing the fist intent, he advanced the technique to Spirit Transformation and caused a figure to appear before him.

• Chu Zhiyuan watched the handsome young Heavenly Devil kill animals and absorb seven-colored light from their foreheads, recognizing its devouring as a trait of the Devil Race.
• Chu Zhiyuan found Celestial Peak but could not pass its invisible barrier until he struck it with the Great Brightness Fist.
• Chu Zhiyuan read the inscription saying Chu Chunhan had obtained the Great Brightness Crown and left behind the intent of the Great Brightness Fist.
• Chu Zhiyuan sensed gentleness and resilience in the barrier, then used them to advance the Great Brightness Fist to Spirit Transformation.
• Chu Zhiyuan struck the stone wall with his transformed fist, and the clash of forces formed a tall, handsome middle-aged man wearing a crystalline crown.

Chu Zhiyuan met the ancestor Chu Chunhan, who directed him to seek the Void Secret Treasure in one of nine thatched cottages atop Celestial Peak. He then watched a cautious young man investigate the peak, identify its connection to the Chu clan, and leave after using a compass to locate it.

• Chu Zhiyuan met Chu Chunhan, who praised his mastery of the Great Brightness Fist and heard that he sought immortality rather than the throne.
• Chu Chunhan told Chu Zhiyuan to choose one of nine thatched cottages at the summit, then vanished.
• Chu Zhiyuan hid in a tree as a handsome young man approached Celestial Peak and tested the area with a small stone.
• The young man recognized the Great Brightness Fist's power, revealed eighteen White Bone Beads, and used a compass with purple blood to point toward Celestial Peak.
• The young man left the peak and later said he had found the Chu family's foundation; Chu Zhiyuan followed him with the Flying Dagger and decided to learn how he entered the place.

Chu Zhiyuan discovered that the eight summit huts responded to the Great Demon Subduing Seal, allowing him to reconstruct its true Visualization Diagram and reveal a bamboo house containing divine script. He found the script could affect his mind and spirit, then sensed mortal danger from four of the characters and looked away.

• Chu Zhiyuan tried the Great Demon Subduing Seal on all eight thatched huts and observed their golden light forming a pattern like its Visualization Diagram.
• He corrected the Visualization Diagram by copying the huts’ golden light and used the improved seal to make all eight huts release a golden flower.
• Chu Zhiyuan followed the flower to a bamboo grove, where it transformed a stalk of bamboo into a two-story bamboo house.
• He found at least six strange divine characters in the house and felt one fill his mind with a vision of mountains and another plunge him into darkness.
• Chu Zhiyuan sensed danger while looking at four other divine characters, averted his gaze, and escaped their influence.

Chu Zhiyuan inherited the Divine Inscription from a triangular jade pendant and discovered that it could open a mysterious white jade door. Inside, he copied the posture of a statue and triggered a violent surge of power.

• Chu Zhiyuan touched the triangular jade pendant and inherited its divine characters by experiencing life in his mother's womb.
• The pendant began to fly away, so Chu Zhiyuan drew nine divine characters in blood and merged the Divine Inscription with himself.
• Chu Zhiyuan found that the Divine Inscription absorbed his Spiritual Power and strengthened his Super Sensation.
• Chu Zhiyuan summoned a triangular white jade door, made it vanish and reappear, then entered it.
• Chu Zhiyuan appeared atop a snowy peak beside a white jade statue and copied its posture, causing violent power to crash through his body.

Chu Zhiyuan endured the violent power of the first form and discovered that the lean middle-aged statue depicted the creator of the Spiritual Abyss Body Cleansing Record. After comprehending the technique, he left the hut and found that the other huts on the mountaintop were illusions offering false instruction.

• Chu Zhiyuan restrained the violent power damaging his feet, healed them with Calamity-Relief Flowers, and found that the power dissipated after he left the Cave Heaven.
• He studied the divine inscriptions in the thatched hut and tried the statue’s posture again, enduring the needles of power entering his feet.
• Chu Zhiyuan comprehended the first of the Spiritual Abyss Body Cleansing Record’s nine forms and learned that the technique refined the body into a spirit body.
• He wondered whether he could withstand the technique’s power, then left the bamboo forest and inspected the other huts on the mountaintop.
• Chu Zhiyuan recognized the inscriptions on the other huts as marking them as illusions that imparted false techniques.

Chu Zhiyuan realized that Celestial Peak’s supposed inheritances and treasures were illusions before the peak collapsed and vanished. He then encountered a jade-eyed Heavenly Devil and concluded that the Devil Race had found a way into the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven.

• Chu Zhiyuan concluded that the Void Secret Treasure and cultivation inheritances were illusions that heightened their recipients’ confidence and comprehension.
• Eight Divine Inscriptions rose from the thatched huts and joined in a burst of golden light that destroyed and erased Celestial Peak.
• Chu Zhiyuan reflected on the differences between the worlds he had known and wondered whether other Cave Heavens also had their own Celestial Peaks.
• Chu Zhiyuan met a jade-eyed young man who identified himself as a disciple of the Chu clan and suspected that Chu Zhiyuan was the First Prince in disguise.
• Chu Zhiyuan used Super Sensation to test the young man and realized that the Devil Race had found a way into the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven.

Chu Zhiyuan subdued a Devil Race youth with the Great Demon Subduing Seal, neutralized his White Bone Beads, and decided to deliver him to the Imperial Court for questioning. He returned to Great Bright Peak before the Cave Heaven’s time limit, where Chu Honglin and Chu Hongming were waiting.

• Chu Zhiyuan trapped the handsome, pale young man with the Great Demon Subduing Seal to capture him for information about how the Devil Race entered Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven.
• Chu Zhiyuan removed the White Bone Beads with a branch and used repeated Great Demon Subduing Seals to suppress their deadly power.
• Chu Zhiyuan layered golden nets around the captive, resolved to hand him over to the Imperial Court, and hurried back before time ran out.
• Chu Zhiyuan wondered whether the ninth thatched cottage, the Spiritual Abyss Body Cleansing Record, and Ancestor Chu Chunhan had been real as he left Celestial Peak.
• Chu Hongming questioned Chu Honglin's regard for the Ninth Prince, and Chu Honglin defended the prince's character before Chu Zhiyuan arrived with the captive.

Chu Zhiyuan captured a Devil Race intruder in the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven and brought him to Chu Honglin for soul searching. The interrogation killed the intruder but revealed that the Devil Race had obtained a devil artifact.

• Chu Zhiyuan told Chu Honglin and Chu Hongming that he had captured a Devil Race intruder inside the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven.
• Chu Honglin explained that the passage could not be reopened, so Chu Zhiyuan had lost half a day of his allotted time in the Cave Heaven.
• Chu Honglin and Chu Hongming argued over who would interrogate the captive, and Chu Honglin began using the Soul Searching Technique.
• Chu Zhiyuan discussed the relationship between light and darkness with Chu Hongming, suggesting that understanding their coexistence could help him reach Spirit Entry in the Great Brightness Fist.
• After a quarter of an hour, the captive stopped breathing, and Chu Honglin revealed that the Devil Race had obtained a devil artifact.

Chu Zhiyuan and his uncles learned that the Myriad Worlds Demonic Gate could locate grotto-heavens using aura-guiding Demon Heart Beads made from human skulls. The beads came from Wan Jingbo, who had died in a Devil Race ambush twelve years earlier, and Chu Hongming agreed to keep Chu Zhiyuan’s mastery of the Great Demon Subduing Seal secret.

• Chu Honglin explained that the Myriad Worlds Demonic Gate could breach spatial barriers, but infiltrating the Devil Race was nearly impossible and Heavenly Devils could secretly replace returning agents.
• Chu Honglin revealed that the gate needed an aura to locate a grotto-heaven, and Chu Zhiyuan showed him the string of White Bone Beads.
• Chu Honglin identified the beads as Demon Heart Beads refined from a human skull that had once entered the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven.
• Chu Hongming recognized the skull’s owner as Wan Jingbo, a Spirit Guard who had fallen in a Devil Race ambush twelve years earlier.
• Chu Zhiyuan concluded that the Devil Race could not enter the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven whenever it pleased and asked Chu Hongming to conceal his Great Demon Subduing Seal mastery.
• Chu Hongming promised to keep Chu Zhiyuan’s secret.

Chu Zhiyuan proposed using the staggered openings of the thirty-six Cave Heavens to trap and kill Devil Race elites. He helped Chu Honglin destroy the black light awakening inside the handsome young man, then left after discussing his gains and the reward he expected from the Emperor.

• Chu Zhiyuan urged Chu Honglin and Chu Hongming to plan ambushes against Devil Race elites entering the Cave Heavens one at a time.
• Chu Zhiyuan warned that the handsome young man was not fully dead, and black light awakened around him as Chu Honglin tried to suppress it.
• Chu Honglin and Chu Hongming joined forces while Chu Zhiyuan laid golden nets over the young man and Chu Honglin struck with a Spirit Entry Great Brightness Fist.
• Chu Zhiyuan used his own Great Brightness Fist to clear the remaining black light, and the young man died completely.
• Chu Zhiyuan told Chu Honglin and Chu Hongming about the Great Brightness Fist force he found at Celestial Peak and said he had not obtained the Void Secret Treasure.
• Chu Zhiyuan took his leave after Chu Honglin promised a reward, though he doubted the Emperor would grant one.

Chu Zhiyuan shared the treasures he gained in the Jade Scenery Grotto-Heaven with his uncles, Youlan, Noble Consort Hui, Chu Zhen, and Chu Qiao. The Emperor rewarded him by granting him three days to contemplate the Intent Transformation Diagram in the Heavenly Will Pavilion.

• Chu Zhiyuan told Chu Honglin and Chu Hongming about his harvest and gave each of them a Heavenly Qi Fruit.
• Chu Honglin decided to seek a reward for Chu Zhiyuan, but Chu Hongming went in his place.
• Chu Zhiyuan gave Youlan a collection of Miracle Fruits to distribute as rewards to the Prince's Mansion's servants.
• Noble Consort Hui, Chu Zhen, and Chu Qiao visited Chu Zhiyuan, who gave them several Miracle Fruits.
• A eunuch delivered the Emperor's decree granting Chu Zhiyuan three days in the Heavenly Will Pavilion to contemplate the Intent Transformation Diagram.