Chapter Summaries

Chen Beiwu analyzed the third-tier incomplete formation guarding a stone hall and used Feng Yuan as a pawn to test a safe route through it. After Feng Yuan died, Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg crossed the formation and opened the hall, where an ancient aura emerged.

• Chen Beiwu discovered a stone hall protected by a third-tier incomplete formation and identified golden flame crystal marrow inside it.
• Chen Beiwu studied the formation, chose to exploit its flaws rather than break it, and waited for a cultivator to test his theory.
• Feng Yuan attacked Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg, but Chen Beiwu used an illusion to make Feng Yuan follow his directions through the formation.
• Feng Yuan turned back into the formation and died, while Chen Beiwu collected his Storage Ring and led Golden Egg safely through.
• Chen Beiwu opened the hall's doors and took out a Puppet Talisman as an ancient aura spilled out.

Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg discovered a protected herb field containing seven surviving treasures, including the myriad forms mystic grass, but could not break its formation. Luo Yongjie arrived, demanded Chen Beiwu help him dismantle it, and the two sides faced off.

• Chen Beiwu sent a puppet into the herb field and found a fourth-tier mystic spring surrounded by seventy-two herb beds, with only seven medicines still alive.
• Chen Beiwu entered with Golden Egg and recognized the myriad forms mystic grass as a treasure that could help Golden Core cultivators condense a heavenly gang dharma form.
• Golden Egg tried to harvest the blood dragon ginseng through the puppet, but the formation crushed the puppet before it could reach the plant.
• Chen Beiwu judged the herb-field formation too powerful to break and considered collecting water from the mystic spring instead.
• Luo Yongjie appeared, identified Chen Beiwu as a high-grade second-tier formation master, and demanded that he serve him and dismantle the formation.
• Chen Beiwu challenged Luo Yongjie, while Golden Egg threatened him; Luo Yongjie countered Golden Egg's dragon might as two more Flameburn Sect cultivators arrived.

Chen Beiwu killed Jiang Tian with one sword after breaking his Flameburn Heavenly Wheel, revealing mastery of the fourth realm of the sword path. Luo Yongjie recognized Chen Beiwu as an extraordinary sword prodigy from the Mirror Moon Sect and faced him with grave caution.

• Luo Yongjie dismissed Chen Beiwu and left Yan Yue and Jiang Tian to deal with him.
• Jiang Tian attacked Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg with the Flameburn Heavenly Wheel.
• Chen Beiwu drew Cold Pool and shattered the spell with one sword strike.
• Chen Beiwu’s sword light pierced Jiang Tian’s forehead and killed him instantly.
• Yan Yue retreated beside Luo Yongjie, who identified Chen Beiwu’s swordsmanship as the fourth realm, one sword breaks ten thousand arts.

Chen Beiwu fought Luo Yongjie and revealed the power of the Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate True-Spirit Diagram. The chapter ended as Golden Egg’s dormant dragon blood awakened beneath the manifest Dragon Gate, releasing the pressure of a Third Realm Flood Dragon.

• Luo Yongjie challenged Chen Beiwu, and Chen Beiwu dodged his flame attacks before clashing swords with him.
• Luo Yongjie’s spear attack engulfed Golden Egg, but Golden Egg emerged unharmed.
• Luo Yongjie awakened the Crimson Sky Flowing Flame Spear’s immortal spirituality and prepared to decide the fight with one strike.
• Chen Beiwu summoned the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu, which transformed into the Fish Leaping Over the Dragon Gate True-Spirit Diagram.
• Golden Egg received the diagram’s Dao resonance, awakened his dormant dragon blood, and released a pressure that shook Luo Yongjie and Yan Yue.

Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg defeated Luo Yongjie and Yan Yue, though Golden Egg fell into a deep sleep after the battle. With Yan Yue pleading for her life, she offered Chen Beiwu knowledge of ancient ruins containing a teleportation array to the Eastern Land.

• Golden Egg transformed into a Golden Core Flood Dragon and crushed Luo Yongjie's spear attack with one claw.
• Luo Yongjie activated a Scarlet-Gold Jade Talisman that unleashed the Heaven-Burning True Flame, while Chen Beiwu used Golden Egg's abilities to appear behind Luo Yongjie and Yan Yue.
• Chen Beiwu killed Luo Yongjie, and Golden Egg survived the flames before collapsing into a deep sleep and returning to his Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Chen Beiwu looted Luo Yongjie's treasures and threatened Yan Yue, who offered to become his slave under a heart-demon blood contract.
• When Chen Beiwu rejected the contract, Yan Yue revealed that she knew of ancient ruins with a teleportation array leading to the Eastern Land.

Chen Beiwu killed Yan Yue after learning about the Grand Void Formation Sect ruins, while Li Yuanhang fled a terrifying demon ape in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm. The ape killed Li Yuanhang and turned southeast to seek its next target.

• Yan Yue showed Chen Beiwu a Grand Void Formation Sect token and inheritance Jade Slip, hoping to lure him to the ruins and kill him.
• Chen Beiwu secretly recovered his magic power, used Which Is Real, Which Is Illusory to deceive Yan Yue, and beheaded her before capturing her remnant soul's memories.
• Gu Jianfeng ordered a Mysterious Sword Pavilion cultivator to break the formation in one day and learned that Li Yuanhang was still missing.
• Li Yuanhang fled the Visored Demon Ape, hoping to reach his companions and warn them to leave the secret realm.
• The Visored Demon Ape bound Li Yuanhang with dark-gold chains, shattered his Dao foundation, and killed him before searching southeast for another target.

Chen Beiwu explored the Grand Void Formation Sect ruins and the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, planning to return for the protected medicinal field later. After half a month of searching, his Spirit Rhinoceros Pill shattered, signaling that Senior Sister Feng had encountered a deadly threat.

• Chen Beiwu learned from Yan Yue's memories that the Flameburn Sect had excavated the Grand Void Formation Sect ruins for centuries, while Yan Yue's Ancient Teleportation Formation site remained undiscovered by them.
• Chen Beiwu failed to break the formation protecting the Jade Medicine Plot, recorded its characteristics, and established a spatial anchor with the Ten Directions Gate before teleporting away.
• Chen Beiwu arrived in a forest, killed an ambushing Dual-Tier Nether Snake, and headed northwest after using divination to guide his exploration.
• Chen Beiwu found a five-colored spatial passage leading out of the Heavenly Evolution True Realm but continued exploring with Senior Brother Jiang's Fourth-Rank Profound Talisman for protection.
• After half a month of searching and gathering spirit materials, Chen Beiwu's Spirit Rhinoceros Pill shattered, suggesting Senior Sister Feng had signaled a fatal calamity.

Chen Beiwu discovered signs of a terrifying power in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm as a Visored Demon Ape slaughtered cultivators across the region. The ape revealed itself as a fourth-tier Demon King and turned its attention toward Chen Beiwu and the core inheritance region.

• Chen Beiwu spotted a vast spatial rift and a devastated basin, then prepared to use the Ten Directions Gate to escape danger.
• The Visored Demon Ape killed Feng Yao after she fled from its attack on her group.
• Gu Jianfeng sensed an imminent catastrophe and watched Ji Sinian die after the demon ape appeared behind him.
• Gu Jianfeng attacked the demon ape with the Five Elements Sword Formation, but it caught his flying sword and destroyed the sword qi.
• Gu Jianfeng used his master's sword talisman to sever the demon ape's head, but the head returned to its body while his four fellow disciples died.
• The demon ape killed Gu Jianfeng and looked southwest toward Chen Beiwu and the core inheritance region.

Chen Beiwu secretly watched Zhou Yuan and Zhao Green Vine fight over a True Lord’s inheritance tablet, then joined the gathering after Gu Yun Si exposed his presence. The rival sects became wary of Chen Beiwu’s Mirror Moon Sect illusion aura as the struggle for the inheritance remained unresolved.

• Chen Beiwu concealed himself and observed Zhou Yuan of the Heavy Gold Sect fight Zhao Green Vine of the Greenwood Sect over an inheritance tablet.
• Zhao Green Vine tried to stall Zhou Yuan until allies arrived, while Chen Beiwu judged the tablet and her treasure vine to be valuable and chose to wait in hiding.
• Han Shengwu of the Mirror Moon Sect appeared and proposed that the groups work together to explore the tablet.
• Zhou Yuan sensed another observer and attacked Gu Yun Si, who blocked the blow and joined Han Shengwu.
• Gu Yun Si revealed Chen Beiwu’s hiding place and invited him to join forces, startling the cultivators present.
• Zhou Yuan recognized Chen Beiwu’s Flower in the Mirror, Moon on the Water aura, and the gathered cultivators grew wary of him.

Chen Beiwu and the Five Great Sects agreed to work with three powerful demon beasts to investigate the inheritance stele, whose message revealed that only someone who subdued the Mind Ape could inherit the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk. The group learned that failure meant death, leaving them facing a dangerous trial.

• Gu Yun Si greeted Chen Beiwu, who became suspicious that Gu Yun Si had concealed how he detected him.
• Zhou Yuan proposed ending the fighting, but the Purple Kui Hou, Three-Yin Soul-Eroding Dove, and Pincer-Dragon Tortoise arrived and challenged the human cultivators.
• Zhao Green Vine proposed that the humans and demons cooperate to decipher the stele and share the medicinal treasures, and the Purple Kui Hou accepted a seventy-thirty split in the humans' favor while demanding the Purple-Thunder Mysterious Bamboo.
• The stele revealed the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk and declared that only one who subdued the Mind Ape could inherit it, while anyone else would die.

Chen Beiwu watched cultivators test the inheritance stele, whose assessments warned that they would die if they encountered the mind-monkey. He refused to test it himself, but Zhao Green Vine ultimately attacked the stele with her Green Vine Sword.

• Chen Beiwu considered what the stele meant by the mind-monkey and prepared the Ten Directions Gate while remaining wary of its warning.
• Zhou Yuan struck the stele and received a lower-middle-grade assessment that predicted certain death upon encountering the mind-monkey.
• Gu Yun Si and several other cultivators tested the stele, receiving low assessments as Chen Beiwu noticed deadly ill fortune gathering above them.
• Purple Kui Hou mocked the cultivators, while Zhao Green Vine and others urged Chen Beiwu to test himself; he refused.
• Zhao Green Vine activated her evergreen magic power and slashed the stele with the Green Vine Sword.

The inheritance stele awarded Zhao Green Vine an Azure Nether Fruit, then Chen Beiwu shattered it with an arrow and received the Heavenly Evolution Pill and Void-Traveling Escape Realm. He teleported away as Zhou Yuan and the other cultivators attacked, leaving his new inheritance and escape route in his possession.

• The inheritance stele assessed Zhao Green Vine and granted her the Azure Nether Fruit, drawing the other cultivators' covetous attention.
• Han Shengwu urged the cultivators to work together to break the stele's restrictions, and Zhou Yuan prepared the Burning Gold Sect's Formation-Unraveling Shears.
• Zhao Green Vine pointed out that Chen Beiwu had not been assessed, so he fired the Ox of the Earthly Branches · Mountain-Crushing arrow at the stele.
• The stele split open and revealed Chen Beiwu's supreme-grade assessment, awarding him the Heavenly Evolution Pill and Void-Traveling Escape Realm and offering a chance to inherit its mantle.
• Chen Beiwu activated the Ten Directions Gate and escaped as Zhou Yuan, the Heavy Gold Sect, and the Greenwood Sect attacked.

A masked demon ape attacked the cultivators gathered near the inheritance stele, killing Zhou Yuan and surviving Zhao Green Vine’s Fourth-Rank Profound Talisman. After killing the remaining Foundation Establishment cultivators, it followed Chen Beiwu’s aura, leaving the legacy seekers annihilated.

• The Purple Kui Hou refused to stop Chen Beiwu, while Zhao Green Vine and Zhou Yuan recognized the significance of Chen Zi'ang’s Heavenly Evolution Dao Foundation.
• A masked demon ape appeared, and Zhou Yuan suddenly collapsed and died without warning.
• The demon ape struck Han Shengwu and Gu Yun Si through their hearts, while Zhao Green Vine activated her Nascent Soul Profound Talisman.
• Zhao Green Vine’s Jia Wood Profound Thunder devastated the area, but the demon ape emerged unharmed.
• The demon ape examined the inheritance stele, tracked Chen Beiwu’s aura, and killed the remaining cultivators, including Zhao Green Vine.

Chen Beiwu used the Heavenly Evolution Pill to advance to the foundation establishment late stage and returned from the Heavenly Evolution True Realm with the Void-Traveling Escape Realm formation disk. After presenting the disk to the Mirror Moon Sect, he waited to see whether its higher-ups would support him or demand more.

• Chen Beiwu absorbed the Heavenly Evolution Pill over a month, advancing to the foundation establishment late stage while Golden Egg also reached that stage.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, passed through its exit without encountering a guard, and emerged before Mirror Moon Sect stewards led by Zhao Heng.
• Chen Beiwu handed over his Storage Ring for the Sect's required inspection and refused Zhao Heng's offer to join True Disciple Jiang's team.
• Chen Beiwu revealed the Void-Traveling Escape Realm formation disk, prompting Zhao Heng to ask Elder Yu for instructions.
• Elder Yu summoned Chen Beiwu, who considered the disk a calculated offering and watched the Earth Baleful Treasure Ship while awaiting the Sect's response.

Chen Beiwu met Yu Shuiyao aboard the Earth Baleful Treasure Ship and revealed his Heavenly Evolution Dao foundation and secret-realm gains. After offering the sect the Void-Traveling Escape Realm, he requested upper-grade wood- and water-attribute Earth Baleful Essence as his reward.

• Zhao Heng escorted Chen Beiwu into the treasure ship’s inner section, where Yu Shuiyao had summoned him.
• Chen Beiwu resisted the Black Dragon Screen’s formation aura, impressing Yu Shuiyao with his divine sense and comprehension.
• Yu Shuiyao questioned Chen Beiwu about the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, and he disclosed his Heavenly Evolution Dao foundation and the treasures he obtained.
• Chen Beiwu offered the Void-Traveling Escape Realm to the sect, explaining that it could help the sect develop the secret realm.
• Yu Shuiyao offered Chen Beiwu a reward for contributing the fourth-tier Formation Disk, and he requested upper-grade wood- and water-attribute Earth Baleful Essence.

Chen Beiwu negotiated with Yu Shuiyao for rare cultivation resources and learned that a fourth-tier Chi Dragon’s blood could be available through the sect’s campaign against it. Yu Shuiyao then contacted the ancestor to report Chen Zi'ang’s extraordinary talent and his discovery of a fourth-tier formation disk.

• Yu Shuiyao explained the value of upper-grade earth baleful essence and agreed that the sect could provide Chen Beiwu with one wisp of ten-thousand nether earth baleful essence.
• Chen Beiwu requested third-tier water-attribute flood dragon essence blood to help Golden Egg awaken its bloodline and transform.
• Yu Shuiyao suggested requesting fourth-tier Chi Dragon essence blood, revealing that the Five Great Sects planned to slay the Xuanhao Chi Dragon before it became a fifth-tier Demon Venerable.
• Chen Beiwu thanked Yu Shuiyao and left her with the Void-Roaming Realm-Escaping Formation Disk.
• Yu Shuiyao activated the ancestor’s decree and reported that Chen Zi'ang had forged a Heavenly Evolution Dao Foundation, gained the inheritance stone stele’s recognition, and obtained a Heavenly Evolution Pill and a fourth-tier formation disk.

After Yu Shuiyao praised Chen Zi'ang's character and potential, Patriarch Zhu named him the sect's Mirror Moon Dao Child and ordered him to return so he could learn the Great Unity Golden Core method. Chen Beiwu learned that the secret realm had claimed many renowned disciples, reinforcing his resolve to avoid the ominous inheritance stele.

• Patriarch Zhu learned that Chen Zi'ang had a Heavenly Evolution Dao Foundation, and Yu Shuiyao vouched for his loyalty and promise.
• Unable to divine Chen Zi'ang's fate, Patriarch Zhu declared him the Mirror Moon Dao Child, granted him candidate Sect Master treatment, and ordered him to return for personal instruction in the Great Unity Golden Core method.
• Yu Shuiyao requested earth baleful essences, Chi Dragon essence blood, and a Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill on Chen Zi'ang's behalf, and Patriarch Zhu granted the request.
• Chen Beiwu and Zhao Heng returned to the Earth Baleful Treasure Ship and heard that Elder Yu planned to return to the sect.
• Zhao Heng told Chen Beiwu that Feng Yao, Han, and prodigies from several sects had likely perished in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, and Chen Beiwu concluded that he must not touch the inheritance stele.

Chen Beiwu arrived at the Mirror Moon Sect as its newly appointed Dao Child and received a secret formation technique from Yu Shuiyao. His promotion stirred resentment from Yu Xuanhao and surprised Li Wan'er, while Chen Beiwu prepared to collect Earth Baleful Essence and meet the ancestor.

• After five days aboard the Earth Baleful Treasure Ship, Chen Beiwu learned he had become the Sect's Dao Child and discussed the Formation Dao with Yu Shuiyao.
• Yu Shuiyao gave Chen Beiwu her Illuminating Secret Art and took him to the Mysterious Pivot Hall to collect Earth Baleful Essence before meeting the ancestor.
• Yun Cang welcomed Yu Shuiyao and Chen Beiwu at the Mysterious Pivot Hall, and the disciples realized Chen Beiwu was the Dao Child.
• Yu Xuanhao complained to Yu Shuxian that Chen Zi'ang had been chosen over him, but Yu Shuxian said Chen was better than him.
• Li Wan'er learned from a message talisman that Chen Zi'ang had become the Mirror Moon Dao Child, but stayed in the Alchemy Hall because her Golden Tower Elixir was nearly ready.

Chen Beiwu visited the Sect's ancestor, Zhu Wuya, after collecting two high-grade Earth Baleful Essences for his planned Primordial Origin Golden Core. Zhu Wuya revealed the Sect's secret Core Formation method and imparted it directly to Chen Beiwu.

• Chen Beiwu collected Ten Thousand Nether Baleful Qi and Evergreen Earth Baleful Essence from the Mysterious Pivot Hall with Elder Yu's help.
• Yu Shuiyao led Chen Beiwu to meet the ancestor at Taiyi Peak, where two Fire-Scaled Flood Dragons guarded the hall.
• Chen Beiwu saw Zhu Wuya's purple fortune radiance and used the One-Guarding Mirror to clear his thoughts.
• Zhu Wuya demonstrated the Five Directions and Five Elders Taiyi Pill-Casting Method and sent its vision into Chen Beiwu's brow.

Patriarch Zhu helped Chen Zi'ang gather the five Earth Baleful Essences, and Chen reached minor accomplishment in the Five Directions, Five Venerables Great Unity Core-Forging Art. Yu Shuiyao received the promised Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill and warned that danger in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm threatened the Sect's plans to secure its inheritance and pill.

• Patriarch Zhu combined the five Earth Baleful Essences in Chen Zi'ang's dantian while Chen endured the dangerous refinement.
• Chen Zi'ang stabilized his cultivation and attained minor accomplishment in the Five Directions, Five Venerables Great Unity Core-Forging Art.
• Golden Egg rushed out of the Spirit Beast Pouch, but Yu Shuiyao held it back and told it not to disturb Chen.
• Patriarch Zhu gave Yu Shuiyao the Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill, which he said could increase her chance of Nascent Soul Formation by forty percent, at a price.
• Yu Shuiyao warned that the Greenwood Sect suspected a Nascent Soul True Lord was in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm and presented the Void-Traveling Escape Realm formation disk.