Chapter Summaries

The Spirit Cat trapped Ren Ye and the others in a soul dream, but Fan Ming’s Heavenly Eye and Daoist Chu’s Vajra Beak exposed and captured his true soul, revealing him as Yin Qi. After Yin Qi destroyed his soul body, Wang Anquan took his gravely injured son toward the Heavenly Capital for treatment, while Ren Ye prepared to leave for Heavenly Illumination City and return to the capital as soon as possible.

• The Little Marquis unleashed the Star-Pointing Twelve Spears in the dream, but the Spirit Cat effortlessly flicked the attacks back at him and the others.
• The Spirit Cat fled as the illusion realm collapsed, while Fan Ming awakened the group and used his Heavenly Eye to reveal the fleeing soul.
• Daoist Chu bound the Spirit Cat with the Vajra Beak, and Ren Ye recognized the true soul as Yin Qi, a Soul System inheritor.
• Yin Qi burned away his soul body rather than let himself be captured, and Ren Ye realized the hidden Heavenly Dao mission had not been completed.
• Wang Anquan caught his gravely injured son, and Long Er offered to bring him to the Heavenly Capital for treatment.
• Ren Ye arranged for the others to return to the Heavenly Capital and planned to obtain the Dao-Comprehending Ginseng Fruit before traveling with Daoist Chu to Heavenly Illumination City.

Ren Ye received the Dao-Comprehending Ginseng Fruit from Wang Anquan and listened as two soul shadows gave opposing accounts of Wang’s life, leading Ren Ye to realize that human nature could not be reduced to a single judgment. His Divine Avatar entered a profound state of understanding, and six days later he and Daoist Chu arrived in Heavenly Illumination City, where Liu Wei greeted them with an urgent confession.

• Ren Ye visited Wang Anquan, learned that Wang Wenping had been sent to Heavenly Capital, and received the Dao-Comprehending Ginseng Fruit that Long Er had arranged for Wang to give him.
• Wang Anquan told Ren Ye he had chosen to keep living for the surviving members of his family, then summoned a soul shadow who described him as a loyal minister and fierce general.
• Wang Anquan summoned a second soul shadow that portrayed him as a selfish, scheming official who had protected his position and family by surrendering North Wind Town while keeping a plan to reclaim it.
• Ren Ye could not determine which account was true and realized that a person could embody both loyalty and selfishness; his insight triggered a profound change in his Divine Avatar, whose facial features fell away.
• Ren Ye thanked Wang Anquan and chose to believe he was a good person, while Wang Anquan answered with a bleak smile.
• Six days later, Ren Ye and Daoist Chu reached Heavenly Illumination City, where Liu Wei jumped from bed, knelt, and began confessing; Daoist Chu cursed him for being naked.

Ren Ye tested Liu Wei’s loyalty after Liu confessed to helping the Divine Court prisoners escape, then steered him toward funding a transfer into the Divine Monk Manor. Ren Ye later secured Yuyang Arhat’s promise to recommend Liu Wei for promotion, while Yuyang made Ren Ye report to the Divine Monk Manor.

• Liu Wei confessed to Ren Ye that the Gray-Robed Woman had coerced him into releasing Divine Court prisoners and helping Wang Anquan breach the South Mountain Illusion Realm.
• Ren Ye warned Liu Wei that the temple might investigate the North Wind disaster and helped him devise a plan to seek protection by transferring into the Divine Monk Manor.
• Liu Wei offered five million Star Source and two chests of treasures to grease the way, and he, Ren Ye, and Daoist Chu became sworn brothers.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu argued over how to divide Liu Wei’s money as Ren Ye left to visit Yuyang Arhat.
• Yuyang told Ren Ye that he now belonged to the Divine Monk Manor and must report to the Divine Monk, and Ren Ye asked him to recommend Liu Wei to the temple’s leaders.
• Yuyang agreed to speak in Liu Wei’s favor, and Ren Ye asked him to help acquire protective Magic Treasures for Liu Wei.

After receiving a meager reward from Yuyang, Ren Ye explored Heavenly Illumination City and grew concerned about Free Faction powers drawing close to Chaos. He then entered the Divine Monk Manor’s secret realm to meet Mumu, whose attempt to probe Ren Ye’s soul left him wondering how Mumu could possess two inheritances.

• Ren Ye left Yuyang after receiving two ordinary magic treasures, then toured Heavenly Illumination City with Daoist Chu and treated him to a feast.
• Ren Ye noticed many Free Faction people gathering at the Heavenly Radiance Temple and suspected First Master Lin Xiang had been preparing to counter Chaos’s influence.
• Ren Ye decided to gather information on Free sects aligned with Chaos and report his observations to First Master.
• Ren Ye entered the Divine Monk Manor’s secret realm and reached the Lone Hall, where Mumu waited behind a screen.
• Ren Ye claimed he had visited the Maple Forest Ancient Temple and cited details only someone who had witnessed its destruction could know.
• Mumu summoned reincarnation aura and tried to examine Ren Ye’s soul, prompting Ren Ye to wonder how Mumu could possess both the Ksitigarbha and Soul System inheritances.

Ren Ye survived the Divine Monk’s attempt to examine his memories and accepted a heavenly grace-level assignment to investigate Myriad Spirits Mountain and find the last true dragon. After receiving a rare kasaya and asking the Divine Monk to take in Liu Wei, Ren Ye left the manor, where an unexpected figure soon found him.

• Little Bad King theorized that Mumu had reincarnated, preserved his former self in the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp, and possessed extraordinary talent and two rare inheritances.
• The Divine Monk tried to probe Ren Ye’s memories, but the Heavenly Dao protected him and prevented the Divine Monk from seeing through his secrets.
• The Divine Monk assigned Ren Ye to reach Myriad Spirits Mountain within twenty days, investigate its upheaval, and find out whether the last true dragon lived or died; Ren Ye accepted, hoping to claim the dragon for his Human Emperor Seal.
• The Divine Monk promised Ren Ye the position of young master and only disciple if he completed the assignment, then gave him the Sixth-Grade Realm Buddha-Burying Lotus Robe.
• Ren Ye asked the Divine Monk to let Liu Wei serve at Divine Monk Manor, then left and joked with Daoist Chu about his ordeal.
• As Ren Ye and Daoist Chu planned to meet Liu Wei before leaving, a carriage arrived and an unknown figure said they had finally found Ren Ye.

Ren Ye traveled to Huangling City with Mora, while Liu Wei’s troops joined the Divine Monk Manor’s elite Lotus Army. In Huangling, Wang Tudou disbanded the Abacus Squad before seeking justice for Yang Sanhai, and the chapter ended with a fat man asking Lord Man whether Ren Ye had arrived.

• Ren Ye agreed to accompany Mora to Huangling City, and Mora offered to cover his travel and expenses while explaining that he had been barred from accepting Heavenly Dao Missions for a year.
• Heavenly Radiance Temple transferred Liu Wei and more than seven hundred monk soldiers to the Lotus Army, where Liu Wei became commander of the Left Vanguard Camp.
• Ren Ye, Mora, Daoist Chu, and the others teleported to Huangling City, where Mora settled Ren Ye and Daoist Chu in Heavenly Elegance Pavilion.
• Wang Tudou gave the Abacus Squad members gifts and disbanded the squad, then watched them leave without changing his decision to pursue Yang Sanhai’s case.
• The Landlord warned Wang Tudou that challenging the Old Monk Lineage would bring ruin and said Heavenly Kings Hall would use Yang Sanhai as the official scapegoat.
• In Heavenly Kings Hall, a fat man asked Lord Man whether Ren Ye had arrived.

Wang Tudou rejected the Landlord’s offer of a prestigious assignment, while Lord Man explained the Wall-Facing People’s history and their doubts about the Divine Monk’s apparent return. Tan Pangzi went with Mora to meet Ren Ye in Huangling City, where Ren Ye recognized him and Tan Pangzi offered a gift.

• Wang Tudou accepted that Yang Sanhai was dead but refused the Landlord’s offer to take a high-ranking assignment in the Heavenly Capital, choosing his plain clothes and Iron Club instead.
• Lord Man told Tan Pangzi that the Wall-Facing People had left their homeland six hundred years earlier, sent the first generation to support the Migration Land, and later slept beneath an ancient tree for more than five hundred years.
• Lord Man recounted that the Divine Monk died in the Migration Land’s final battle, but warned Tan Pangzi not to assume the present Divine Monk’s Successor was an impostor because the Power of Reincarnation and its inheritance might have returned.
• Lord Man sent Tan Pangzi to meet the young Zhenyi and observe while the Old Monk faction tested him, and Tan Pangzi said his close brother had gone to the Secret Realm in Xianhe City.
• Two days later, Mora brought Tan Pangzi to Heavenly Elegance Pavilion, where they found Ren Ye gambling with courtesans; Tan Pangzi introduced himself and gave Ren Ye a brocade pouch.

Ren Ye attended Mora’s banquet in Huangling City under the name Zhenyi, reunited with Tan Pang, and met the Divine Dynasty’s young talents, including Shangguan Yanci of the Celestial Minister Clan. The banquet was interrupted when Mora’s senior martial uncle arrived to test whether Ren Ye was truly the Divine Monk’s Successor.

• Ren Ye recognized Tan Pang from the Fulai County Town Secret Realm, gave him the false name Li Taishan, and learned that Tan Pang’s real name was Tan Xu.
• Mora and Tan Pang invited Ren Ye to a banquet at Mora’s residence, where he met Pang Feng and other young talents.
• Ren Ye mistook Shangguan Yanci, a beautiful man and the Celestial Minister chosen for this generation, for a woman, and Tan Pang explained his clan’s history and role.
• Mora’s senior martial uncle entered the banquet with an imposing young man and announced that he had come to see whether Ren Ye was the genuine Divine Monk’s Successor.
• Daoist Chu warned Ren Ye that the visitor was an old monster in the Sixth Grade Dao-Touching Realm.

At Mora’s banquet, Ren Ye was challenged by Xu Yan and accused by Daoist Siling of impersonating the Divine Monk’s Successor. Ren Ye ignored Xu Yan’s proposed duel and challenged Siling instead, but Siling immobilized him; the chapter ended with Ren Ye warning the Lotus Lamp’s Soul Shadow that his death would destroy the Destiny and stop the Power of Reincarnation from regenerating.

• Mora introduced Daoist Siling and Xu Yan, who insulted Ren Ye and questioned his claim to be the Divine Monk’s Successor.
• Tan Pang admitted that he was among those testing Ren Ye and warned him that Xu Yan was dangerous.
• Daoist Siling called Ren Ye a fake, and Ren Ye offered to show the protective Lotus Lamp as proof.
• Xu Yan proposed a duel that would let him expose Ren Ye’s Divine Soul memories, but Ren Ye walked past him and challenged Siling instead.
• Ren Ye summoned the Lotus Lamp and its Karmic Fire, but Siling’s Great Dao Intent instantly immobilized him.
• Ren Ye told the Soul Shadow in the Lotus Lamp that if he died, the Destiny would disappear and the Power of Reincarnation would no longer regenerate.

Ren Ye faced Daoist Siling’s attempt to examine his Divine Soul, but Mumu awakened within the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp and used reincarnation to destroy Siling’s Great Dao Intent. Mumu exhausted much of the lamp’s Reincarnation Aura and returned to sleep, leaving Ren Ye weakened as Xu Yan confronted him.

• Daoist Siling immobilized Ren Ye with his Dao-Touching pressure and sent a soul needle to probe his memories.
• Mumu awakened inside the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp, stopped the soul needle, and used the Buddha-Burying Lotus Robe to free Ren Ye from Siling’s pressure.
• Mumu taught Ren Ye to perceive reincarnation as Siling attacked with a sword of Great Dao Intent, then reversed the sword into the past through the Reincarnation Gate.
• Siling begged Mumu to spare his Dao fruit, but Mumu erased his Great Dao Intent and reduced him to an anomalous state between perfected fifth grade and the Sixth Grade Dao-Touching Realm.
• The depleted Reincarnation Lotus Lamp went out, and Mumu warned Ren Ye that he would sleep for a long time before vanishing.
• Xu Yan accused Ren Ye of cruelty, and Ren Ye mocked him despite his weakened state.

After the Divine Monk’s True Soul protected Ren Ye and Siling was left severely injured, Ren Ye recovered and went with Tan Pang to meet Lord Man. Lord Man offered to divine Ren Ye’s future, leaving the reason for the meeting unresolved.

• The Heavenly Prides feared the Divine Monk’s protection of Ren Ye, while Mora and Xu Yan escorted the injured Siling from the hall.
• Ren Ye recovered at Heavenly Elegance Pavilion, where Daoist Chu warned that unseen people might be betting on his success or failure.
• Tan Pang invited Ren Ye to meet Lord Man and attend Mora’s investiture ceremony, and Ren Ye proposed charging others for answers about the Divine Monk.
• Ren Ye charged Tan Pang three hundred thousand star source to answer how the Divine Monk survived the final battle, then told him he did not know.
• At Old Cloud Garden, Lord Man asked Ren Ye to help with heavy stones and offered to divine what Ren Ye would be like a hundred years later.

Ren Ye lent Lord Man a wisp of reincarnation aura so the prophet could locate a sealed place in the Heavenly Capital, and their divination visions revealed that Ren Ye might be the key to opening it. Lord Man secretly took a second look at Ren Ye’s future, paid a heavy price, and gave him an Eight Characters appraisal as compensation before Ren Ye warned him to stop playing chess.

• Lord Man offered to divine the location of a sealed place in exchange for Ren Ye’s reincarnation aura, and the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp released a wisp on its own.
• Ren Ye and Lord Man prepared a ritual in the courtyard, where Lord Man used a skull’s Glazed Spirit-Communicating Mirror to begin the Heaven Divination Art.
• Lord Man’s vision showed Ren Ye transforming into a key that opened an ancient gate, while a second vision showed Ren Ye dying in a future inferno after losing something.
• Ren Ye saw Lord Man playing a cosmic game of chess as crimson light surrounded him, and both men returned to the courtyard with unsettling visions.
• Lord Man admitted he had taken an extra look at Ren Ye’s future, paid for it with diminished lifespan, and gave Ren Ye the Eight Characters appraisal: “The Great Dao is incomplete; conceal your edge in slumber.”
• Ren Ye told Lord Man not to play chess again, leaving the old prophet dumbfounded.

Ren Ye received the cryptic verdict “the Great Dao was incomplete; hide your edge in slumber” from Lord Man, who privately revealed that Ren Ye had lost something and might have no future after the Heavenly Capital. Elsewhere, Apu drew Xu Bangzi into a plan to buy and resell rare Secret Realm Route Passes, while Mora prepared for his Arhat investiture ceremony before an unexpected young man appeared at Qianlong Avenue.

• Ren Ye left Guyun Courtyard with Lord Man’s verdict and a yellow paper promising Lord Man’s help, then refused to let the prophecy unsettle him.
• Ren Ye charged Tan Pang three million Star Source to reveal Lord Man’s divination, while Lord Man told the Black-Robed Youth that Ren Ye had lost something and might only find it in a distant future.
• The Black-Robed Youth declined to leave for the Heavenly Capital with Tan Pang, saying he still needed to watch events unfold and make up his mind.
• Apu persuaded Xu Bangzi to accompany him to inspect three SSS+ fifth-grade Secret Realm Route Passes that Apu hoped to resell for profit.
• Mora dressed for his Old Monk Lineage investiture and walked toward Qianlong Avenue with Fulai and Daoguang.
• A straw-hatted young man raised a wine jar in a toast beside a bowl of rice and an incense burner atop the ceremonial archway as Mora approached.

Wang Tudou confronted Mora at the entrance to Qianlong Avenue, where Mora was heading to his investiture ceremony, and killed him to avenge Yang Sanhai. As the Heavenly Kings Hall’s forces and the Old Monk Lineage rushed in, Qin Heizi and Yang Mingfan joined Wang Tudou, leaving the city on the brink of a wider battle.

• Mora, Fulai, and Daoguang stopped beneath the archway when they saw Wang Tudou waiting there, while Ren Ye and Tan Pang watched from the crowd.
• Wang Tudou recalled Yang Sanhai and unleashed his accumulated blood essence, reaching his Extreme Realm and transforming into a seemingly unkillable blood-covered fighter.
• Mora, Fulai, and Daoguang attacked Wang Tudou, but he regenerated from their strikes and smashed Mora’s body apart with Earthbreaker.
• Wang Tudou refined Mora’s fleeing Divine Soul with the blood of ten thousand beings and annihilated it before reinforcements could stop him.
• As sixth-grade cultivators and thousands of Old Monks converged, Wang Tudou condemned the powerful for defending the Old Monk Lineage and vowed to make Fulai and Daoguang watch their allies die.
• Qin Heizi and Yang Mingfan charged from the shadows and declared themselves willing to share their captain’s standing.

Wang Tudou killed Mora in Huangling City, then faced the Immortals alone after Qin Heizi and Yang Mingfan returned to stand with him. The Landlord secured a fifty-year confinement for Wang Tudou, while Ren Ye and Daoist Chu left Huangling City for the Heavenly Capital after winning their bet.

• Qin Heizi and Yang Mingfan returned to Huangling City and stood beside Wang Tudou, but he urged them not to intervene as he challenged a white-robed elder.
• The white-robed elder suppressed his Dao Intent, defeated Wang Tudou, and sent him to the Heavenly Prison while warning the city against further violence.
• Ren Ye bet Pang Feng that Wang Tudou would survive, and Daoist Chu joined the bet; the Landlord later arranged for Wang Tudou to receive fifty years of confinement at the San Gong Ancestral Land instead of execution.
• The Landlord told Lord Man that the Bell Society would avenge Yang Sanhai if the Old Monks demanded Wang Tudou's life, and Lord Man agreed to the confinement sentence.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu left for the Heavenly Capital after Pang Feng paid their winning bet, while Tan Pang asked them to meet him there again.

Apu and Xu Bangzi lost most of their investment when they returned three Myriad Spirits Garden Route Passes to Kang Yu after learning that entry required a ten-million-Star-Source reserve. Ren Ye and Daoist Chu returned to Heavenly Capital and reunited with their squad, where Ren Ye announced that they would enter Myriad Spirits Garden; Apu and Xu Bangzi’s earlier blunder suddenly looked like a brilliant business move.

• Apu learned that Myriad Spirits Garden opened in four days and required every Traveler to bring at least ten million Star Source, making the three Route Passes difficult to sell.
• Xu Bangzi suspected Kang Yu was driving buyers away, so he and Apu returned the passes to him for just 1.5 million Star Source, taking a three-million loss.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu arrived in Heavenly Capital, obtained Ren Ye’s assignment Route Pass from a Divine Monk Manor contact, and reunited with their squad at the Tianyunlai Inn.
• Ren Ye told the squad that his Divine Monk Manor assignment involved the SSS+ Myriad Spirits Garden Secret Realm and urged everyone to obtain Route Passes.
• Apu revealed that he and Xu Bangzi had already bought three Myriad Spirits Garden Route Passes, prompting Tang Feng to praise their apparent business maneuvering.

After Xu Bangzi and Apu refused to buy back the route passes they had lost, Ren Ye planned to secure eight passes through Fan Ming while Tang Feng prepared to trick the swindler into giving up his passes. Ren Ye met Fan Ming, who agreed to help, and learned how Heaven's Grace Tokens could change owners; meanwhile, Tang Feng and Little Songstress began their schemes against Master Kang.

• Xu Bangzi refused to repurchase the lost route passes, and Ren Ye decided to ask Fan Ming to gather eight passes for the squad.
• Tang Feng asked Ren Ye to lend him the Southern Bright Separation Fire and a thread of destiny so he could set a trap for the swindler.
• Ren Ye met Fan Ming, explained the squad's need for passes, and Fan Ming agreed to ask the ancient clans and New Year's Watchers for help by the following night.
• Fan Ming explained that Heaven's Grace Tokens could pass to new hosts after their holders died, with the Heavenly Dao changing the assignments to suit the new owner.
• Little Songstress approached Master Kang at the Tianhong Antique Shop to arrange a discreet transaction, while a disguised fat man arrived at a luxurious inn and had his attendants prepare a bucket.

Tang Feng tried to trade the Southern Bright Separation Fire for Master Kang’s Myriad Spirits Garden Route Passes, but detected a strange aura within him and learned he was a Traveler unaffiliated with Order. Ren Ye reported the suspected spy to Long Er, while Wei Tianbao prepared to join a group seeking a True Dragon.

• Wei Tianbao arrived at Wanhe Tower in extravagant fashion, reserving a building and ordering lavish banquets while he waited for guests to explore a Secret Realm.
• Tang Feng offered Master Kang the Southern Bright Separation Fire for eight Route Passes and ten million Star Source, but Master Kang resisted his greed and refused the trade.
• Master Kang suspected Tang Feng had been sent to investigate his group, so he ordered his Squad Members to leave Tianhong Antique Shop and avoid her.
• Tang Feng told Ren Ye that Master Kang was a Fifth-Grade Traveler outside Order and might be connected to Chaos, prompting Ren Ye to report suspected enemy spies to Long Er.
• Wei Tianbao told his attendant that he planned to travel with the group and seek a True Dragon amid the conflict between Order and Huangling's Wall-Breaking Divine Dynasty.

Fulong Pavilion arrested Master Kang and his companions as suspected enemy spies, and Ren Ye subjected them to separate interrogations. Kang Zhongyi broke under Ren Ye’s group’s torture and revealed the squad’s plans, including a meeting with Chaos inheritors at Gu'an Inn, while Master Kang continued to resist questioning.

• Fulong Pavilion agents arrested Master Kang and his seven companions at their South City hideout and took them to the Northern Town Security Bureau’s watchtower compound.
• Master Kang urged the group to stick to their prepared story, but an aura barrier prevented them from communicating once they entered the compound.
• Ren Ye bypassed the usual Identity-Testing Formation and sent Tang Feng, Wang Lili, and Apu to interrogate Kang Zhongyi using their abilities.
• Kang Zhongyi broke under the torture and confessed that he and Master Kang were Free Faction inheritors who planned to explore the Myriad Spirits Garden secret realm with two groups.
• Kang Zhongyi revealed that a group of Chaos inheritors would meet Master Kang at Gu'an Inn outside the city using the password “Heroes Gather, no discounts on route passes.”
• Master Kang continued to resist torture in Watchtower Compound No. 1 as a beautiful woman and her seven companions approached Gu'an Inn.

Ren Ye interrogated Kang Zhongyi about the Chaos faction’s planned meeting and the Myriad Spirits Garden Route Passes, then secured help from Deng Tongqi and prepared for the missing Chaos squad. The chapter ended with that squad already inside the Heavenly Capital, searching for Kang Yu and expecting a wealthy benefactor to provide their passes.

• Kang Zhongyi revealed that his clan had prepared sixteen Route Passes to explore the Myriad Spirits Garden Secret Realm alongside a Chaos squad led by a woman called Yan’er, but admitted they had never met the group.
• Ren Ye ordered Lord Han to send disguised men to Gu'an Inn and intensify Kang Yu’s interrogation, while the impersonators failed to find the expected Chaos squad.
• Deng Tongqi offered Ren Ye seven of his eight Route Passes after Fan Ming explained that Deng had acquired them at great expense, and Ren Ye said he might obtain enough passes for two squads.
• Lord Han reported that Kang Yu would not surrender his passes and that the Chaos squad had not appeared at Gu'an Inn, so Ren Ye prepared a plan for either outcome.
• The Chaos squad secretly entered the Heavenly Capital, and its leader decided to search the city’s markets for Kang Yu, trusting that a wealthy benefactor could help them obtain Route Passes.