Chapter Summaries

He Mu sensed that Wang Bo’s attempt to attain the Dao had unleashed a Final Catastrophe that would end the golden age, so he forced the myriad daos open and gave the universe a thousand years to prepare for a thirty-thousand-year Age of Declining Dharma. After the thousand years, he dispersed his Great Dao and the catastrophe engulfed the universe; the chapter ended with an author’s notice about the book going premium and future plans for Pan and the Chaos Body.

• He Mu brought Pan and the Chaos Body to Undying Mountain and sensed the Final Catastrophe gathering in the universe origin.
• Wang Bo’s attempt to attain the Dao had shattered the balance He Mu and Pan had maintained, and the catastrophe began draining source qi and obscuring the Great Dao.
• He Mu sealed Pan and the Chaos Body, then forced the closing myriad daos open and announced that the great age would end, followed by a thirty-thousand-year Age of Declining Dharma.
• The Myriad Sects and Races spent the thousand years He Mu had won preparing to preserve themselves and their legacies.
• He Mu dispersed his Great Dao after the thousand years, and the Final Catastrophe swallowed the universe, ending the golden age.
• The author announced that the book would go premium the next day and said Pan and the Chaos Body would have future roles.

After two thousand years observing the Age of Declining Dharma and contemplating the universe’s cycles, He Mu cleared the obstacles to pursuing his Third Life but chose not to rush. He returned to the Undying Mountain Daoist Grounds to check on Pan and the Chaos Body, who remained sealed in immortal source.

• He Mu spent three hundred years witnessing the Age of Declining Dharma and humanity’s gradual recovery across the Universe.
• He Mu reflected on the tide of the end, the Source Heaven Great Dao, and the balance of nature, gaining clarity about his Second Lifetime and Third Life.
• He Mu decided to postpone beginning his Third Life because his current lifespan remained long and the path of red dust immortal ascension was difficult.
• He Mu continued contemplating in the Universe for another seven hundred years, completing a two-thousand-year journey.
• He Mu returned to the Undying Mountain Daoist Grounds, where Pan and the Chaos Body were still sealed within immortal source.

He Mu awakened Pan and persuaded him to dissolve his body and Dao Fruit, sacrificing them to the universe in exchange for the chance to be reborn as a Saint Spirit. He Mu kept Pan’s last spark of origin spirit light and returned to Undying Mountain, where the Chaos Body awaited him.

• He Mu used Wuliang Immortal Light and Life Essence to awaken Pan from his sealed state in the Immortal Spring array.
• Pan expressed guilt over his role in the universe’s destruction, but He Mu reassured him and proposed that he sacrifice himself to the myriad Daos and begin anew as a Saint Spirit.
• Pan agreed, and He Mu brought him into the universe and inscribed runes on his Dao body.
• Pan’s Dao Fruit, body, Secret Realms, and Primordial Spirit dissolved into heaven and earth, leaving a spark of origin spirit light.
• He Mu collected the spark and returned to Undying Mountain, intending to make Pan a Saint Spirit when the opportunity arose.

He Mu studied the sealed Chaos Body for three thousand years, using his observations to deepen his comprehension of the Chaos Great Dao. He concluded that the Chaos Body’s power came from its innate bond with the Myriad Daos, then explained why Pan had uniquely been able to block Wang Bo’s attainment of the Dao.

• He Mu examined the Chaos Body sealed in Immortal Source and experimented with reproducing its mysteries through the Chaos Great Dao.
• His experiments engulfed the Undying Mountain in Chaos energy, forcing the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree and White Tiger Immortal Medicine to flee while the Immortal Tears Green Gold Saint Spirit reacted to the danger.
• He Mu moved into the Chaos Void, where his cultivation formed a vast vortex that devoured Chaos energy as he studied the Dao for three thousand years.
• He Mu ended his experiments, returned to the Undying Mountain, and reflected beneath the Enlightenment Tree on how the Chaos Body drew the Myriad Daos into itself.
• He Mu determined that Pan had blocked Wang Bo’s attainment of the Dao because Pan was merged with the Myriad Daos and represented the will and momentum of living beings.

He Mu used Wang Bo’s Chaos Body to reshape Big Dipper Ancient Star into five domains and establish the Big Dipper Five-Colored Great Array. As the array opened a passage into another world, a devastating heavenly tribulation descended upon He Mu and his creation.

• He Mu found a faint spark of Wang Bo’s true nature surviving in his Immortal Platform Secret Realm and decided to revive him by using the Big Dipper Great Array.
• He Mu surveyed Big Dipper Ancient Star, then split the star apart and cleaved Wang Bo’s Chaos Body into five sections.
• He Mu reshaped the star into five continents, merging Wang Bo’s Five Great Secret Realms with the future domains of Big Dipper.
• He Mu formed mountains, spirit lakes, dragon veins, and source veins, then embedded formations throughout the five domains to complete the Big Dipper Five-Colored Great Array.
• The array opened an enormous passage into another world, and the heavenly tribulation struck He Mu and the array with overwhelming force.

He Mu broke through the world-destroying heavenly tribulation after discovering that the Big Dipper Great Array had unexpectedly opened a Road to Immortality. With the tribulation ended, he hurried toward the passage to investigate before it closed.

• He Mu sensed a Road to Immortality opening through the Five-Colored Great Formation on Big Dipper Ancient Star.
• He Mu charged into the sea of tribulation, destroyed the immortal medicine phantoms, and confronted a Blood-Colored Tribulation Eye.
• He Mu unleashed his forbidden domain, Wuliang, and shattered the tribulation eye, ending the heavenly tribulation.
• He Mu headed for the passage on Big Dipper Ancient Star to investigate the Road to Immortality.

He Mu returned to Big Dipper and used the Five-Colored Immortal Formation to enter and stabilize the Road to Immortality. He battled the road’s law-born guardians and smashed through the Bronze Immortal Gate, continuing toward the unknown beyond it.

• He Mu returned from beyond the star and used the Five-Colored Immortal Formation to widen and stabilize the Road to Immortality before entering it.
• He Mu destroyed the Vermilion Bird and White Tiger phantoms that tried to block his advance.
• He Mu fought through the Black-Armored Gods and Demons before attacking the Bronze Immortal Gate that sustained their endless ranks.
• He Mu unleashed the Wuliang Kalpa and struck the Bronze Immortal Gate twice with his World-Opening Divine Axe, bringing it down.
• He Mu strode onward through the fallen gate and continued along the Road to Immortality.

He Mu fought through the Road to Immortality, overcame its ten-thousand-lifetime heart trial, and severed a section of the unstable road to claim it. He returned to the Big Dipper Ancient Star with the severed section in tow.

• He Mu battled the Road to Immortality’s phantom gods and demons as immortal light and longevity essence transformed the Big Dipper Ancient Star Domain.
• He Mu endured countless illusory lifetimes, including one in which he became a Supreme called Wuliang, and overcame the heart-refinement tribulation.
• He Mu realized the Road to Immortality was unstable and that he could not use it to enter the Immortal Domain, so he chose to claim part of it instead.
• He Mu used the World-Opening Divine Axe and the five-colored great array to sever a section of the Road to Immortality from its main trunk.
• He Mu followed the great array’s guidance through collapsing space and returned to the Big Dipper Ancient Star with the severed road.

He Mu escaped the Road to Immortality with a fragment of it and prepared the last arrangements on Big Dipper. He restored Wang Bo’s spirit in the Western Desert and then turned to the preparations for Pan to become a Saint Spirit.

• He Mu cleaved open the closing passage, escaped the Road to Immortality, and carried a severed section within his Palm World.
• After the passage and Five-Colored Immortal Formation faded, He Mu decided to finish his remaining arrangements for Pan and Wang Bo.
• He Mu nourished Wang Bo’s original spiritual light with Wuliang Immortal Light and placed it in the chaos origin beneath the Western Desert.
• The Five-Colored Immortal Formation began nurturing Wang Bo’s spirit, which He Mu expected to return in a new chaos dao body after a long wait.
• He Mu began making arrangements for Pan to become a Saint Spirit.

He Mu began Pan’s transformation into a Saint Spirit in Qinling’s Dragon Veins Immortal Cave, protecting the process with the Pan Emperor Sword and a hidden Heavenly Venerable formation. As he set out for the Undying Mountain, a message invited him to the Immortal Mausoleum in five hundred years, and he accepted.

• He Mu chose Qinling’s Dragon Veins Immortal Cave as the place to nurture Pan into a Great Perfection Saint Spirit.
• He Mu arranged the cave’s dragon qi and used a perfected scripture to place Pan’s origin spirit light in the Dragon Marrow Immortal Spring, where it formed a living stone cocoon.
• He Mu placed the Pan Emperor Sword beside Pan’s cocoon to serve as his future companion weapon and guard.
• He Mu concealed the immortal cave within a Heavenly Venerable formation that strengthened the Pan Emperor Sword and protected Pan’s transformation.
• He Mu headed toward the chaos beyond the universe, received a message inviting him to the Immortal Mausoleum, and agreed to visit in five hundred years.

He Mu spent five hundred years studying the severed Road to Immortality and cultivating on Enlightenment Cliff, gaining insights into the Immortal Domain, the Great Dao, and longevity. After emerging from his cultivation, he set out through Chaos for the Immortal Mausoleum in response to an invitation.

• He Mu studied the severed Road to Immortality for two hundred years, gaining insights from its Dao traces and longevity essence.
• He Mu put away the Severed Road to preserve it from the laws of heaven and earth.
• He Mu cultivated on Enlightenment Cliff for three hundred years and emerged from a profound state of enlightenment.
• He Mu recalled the invitation from five hundred years earlier and left the Undying Mountain.
• He Mu deduced the direction and traveled through Chaos toward the Immortal Mausoleum.

He Mu visited Heaven Venerable Daode in the Immortal Mausoleum and revealed that he had forcibly opened a Road to Immortality and obtained a broken section of it. The Immortal Road’s aura awakened astonishing phenomena in the mausoleum, hinting at hidden secrets about to emerge.

• He Mu arrived at the Immortal Mausoleum, where Heaven Venerable Daode welcomed him and asked about the changes in the Big Dipper Star Domain.
• He Mu described his Big Dipper Five-Colored Immortal Formation and said he had gained a foundation for the Great Dao that could benefit them both.
• He Mu told Heaven Venerable Daode that he had forcibly opened a Road to Immortality and brought back a section of the genuine Immortal Road.
• He Mu revealed the broken Immortal Road, shocking Heaven Venerable Daode.
• The Immortal Road’s aura stirred the Immortal Mausoleum, filling it with Great Dao Heavenly Sound and immortal light.

He Mu told Heaven Venerable Daode how he had opened and explored the Road to Immortality, then explained that he sought to become a True Immortal through his own cultivation rather than relying on the Immortal Domain. Daode embraced He Mu’s path, and they began exploring the Immortal Mausoleum together.

• He Mu could not make the Immortal Mausoleum resonate with longevity essence again, so he set aside its secrets and recounted his journey to Heaven Venerable Daode.
• Heaven Venerable Daode was astonished to learn that He Mu’s Five-Colored Immortal Formation had opened the Road to Immortality.
• He Mu explained that the Road to Immortality was not his path and described becoming a True Immortal through repeated lifetimes and self-reliance.
• Heaven Venerable Daode declared that he would pursue the same path alongside He Mu.
• He Mu brought out the Severed Road to Immortality so they could study its Dao Principles, then left it with Daode and resumed surveying the Immortal Mausoleum.

He Mu used the Immortal Domain origin light to provoke a reaction from the Immortal Mausoleum and traced the faint power answering it. He dispelled the heavenly tribulation triggered by his deductions and finally brought the mausoleum's secret to the surface.

• He Mu searched the Immortal Mausoleum with his Heavenly Eye and divine sense but could not find the source of its earlier Great Dao phenomena.
• He Mu brought out a ball of refined Immortal Domain origin light from his battles on the Road to Immortality.
• The Immortal Mausoleum responded with blazing Immortal Light, auspicious clouds, and the Great Dao Heavenly Sound.
• He Mu sensed a distant power answering the origin light and tried to trace it through deductions.
• A heavenly tribulation gathered in response, but He Mu commanded it to disperse.
• He Mu completed his deductions and began to uncover the Immortal Mausoleum's secret.

He Mu and Heaven Venerable Daode uncovered a decaying Bronze Gate hidden in an ancient tomb in the Immortal Mausoleum and learned it was a relic connected to the Boundary Sea. Unable to approach it, they recorded its Dao Resonances and sealed it away until He Mu could grow strong enough to investigate further.

• He Mu traced the Immortal Mausoleum's disturbances to an ordinary-looking burial mound, and Heaven Venerable Daode joined him there.
• He Mu agreed to open the tomb with Heaven Venerable Daode despite his poor condition, and their combined attack exposed a Bronze Gate that resisted their power.
• He Mu used his Heavenly Eye to glimpse a dried-up river inside the gate and paid for the probing with bloody tears.
• He Mu recognized the Bronze Gate as an ancient guide connected to the Boundary Sea, once left by an Immortal King and linked to the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's past.
• He Mu and Heaven Venerable Daode failed to approach the gate, copied its Dao Resonances, and sealed it away for a later investigation.

He Mu and Heaven Venerable Daode studied the Road to Immortality, exchanged Dao insights, and developed the Saint Spirit Transformation Method as a path to longevity. After nearly twenty thousand years of secluded cultivation, He Mu neared the end of his second life and left the Undying Mountain to travel the mortal world.

• Heaven Venerable Daode failed to breach the Bronze Gate, then studied the Road to Immortality with He Mu for three hundred years.
• He Mu and Heaven Venerable Daode exchanged Dao insights for another thousand years, improving their cultivation and understanding.
• He Mu taught Heaven Venerable Daode the Saint Spirit Transformation Method, and they extrapolated how it could let him rebuild his Five Great Secret Realms and live another lifetime.
• He Mu returned to the Wuliang cultivation ground and spent nearly twenty thousand years consolidating the many Great Daos and methods he had mastered.
• As his second lifetime declined, He Mu left the Undying Mountain and set out to experience the mortal world.

He Mu spent the final five thousand years of his Second Lifetime wandering the Mortal World before using Changsheng Dao Fire to forge a new body and enter a new Lifetime. His nine-year transformation ended as the Final Catastrophe dispersed and the Universe's Myriad Daos revived.

• He Mu sensed the approaching end of the Age of Declining Dharma and wandered the Mortal World as an old Daoist for five thousand years.
• He Mu guided talented younger cultivators and left legacies, trials, and his first Lifetime's scripture for potential future disciples.
• He Mu reached the end of his Second Lifetime and began his transformation in the void before declining Dharma had fully dispersed.
• He Mu used Changsheng Dao Fire and Immortal Longevity Essence to repeatedly destroy and rebuild his body over nine years, expelling the Great Dao's Poison.
• He Mu completed his transformation with a youthful, stronger body and advanced further along the path of a Red Dust Immortal.
• The Final Catastrophe dispersed as He Mu finished his transformation, freeing the Myriad Daos and ushering in the Universe's revival.

After the Final Catastrophe ended and the universe entered a new age, He Mu remained in seclusion on Undying Mountain, focused on the Red Dust Immortal Path. He observed an old acquaintance successfully attain the Dao, sensing that their connection would bring them together again.

• The Final Catastrophe dispersed, the Heavenly Heart Imprint condensed anew, and the Age of Declining Dharma ended.
• He Mu continued his retirement from mortal affairs and studied the Daoist Canon beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree.
• He Mu noticed a Dao attainment tribulation at the Cosmic Frontier and recognized the person undergoing it as a youngster he had once guided.
• The youngster survived the tribulation and became a venerable, surprising He Mu with his title and prompting He Mu to foresee further contact.

Carefree Heavenly Venerate attained the Dao and began building his legacy while searching for He Mu, the previous generation’s legendary Heavenly Venerate. He Mu chose not to meet him, leaving Carefree Heavenly Venerate determined to find him and discuss the Dao.

• He Mu watched Carefree Heavenly Venerate reshape the myriad Daos and complete his attainment, then returned to reading rather than meet him.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate returned to his sect and established a new Heavenly Venerable lineage.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate explored the Universe, dealt with the Forbidden Zones without provoking a God War, and discussed the Dao with Netherworld Venerable.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate investigated He Mu’s past deeds and came to admire him as an idol.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate resolved to search for He Mu and meet him to discuss heaven and earth.

Carefree Heavenly Venerate entered the chaos in search of He Mu, whom he hoped to meet before his life ended. Guided to the Undying Mountain, he arrived at Immeasurable Heaven Venerable’s Dao grounds and bowed to the figure seated beneath an Immortal Divine Medicine.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerate left his temple and entered the chaos to find Immeasurable Heaven Venerable, having spent years searching for He Mu.
• He Mu sensed Carefree Heavenly Venerate and formed a Great Dao Golden Bridge to guide him to the Undying Mountain.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate followed the bridge and realized he could not influence its path, revealing to him the vast gap between his power and He Mu’s.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerable arrived at the Undying Mountain and was astonished by its treasures, immortal springs, and longevity essence.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerable saw a figure beneath an Immortal Divine Medicine on the central peak and bowed, believing him to be Immeasurable Heaven Venerable.