Recaps

Chen Beiwu tested Golden Egg’s new method-derivation ability, then learned he had received a place in the Heavenly Ruins. After refusing Yuyue’s proposal to perform the Shared Cultivation rite, he heard the Jade Purity Sect Leader explain the Ruins’ treasures and recommend the Huncheng Stele, leaving Chen Beiwu to weigh that path against his ambitions for Void Refinement.

• Chen Beiwu gave Golden Egg five ancient Jade Slips to test its Furnace Method-Derivation Profound Ability, and Golden Egg said it needed time to derive their methods.
• Jiang Chuan told Chen Beiwu that the sect had granted him a place in the Heavenly Ruins and suggested he study the Azure-Ming lineage’s Spirit-Transformation Secret Methods.
• Yuyue asked Chen Beiwu to perform the Shared Cultivation rite so she could enter the Heavenly Ruins with him, but Chen Beiwu avoided accepting her proposal.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader explained that the Heavenly Ruins contained the Five Great Heavenly Books and Nine Great Ruins Steles, and advised Chen Beiwu to study the Huncheng Stele.
• Chen Beiwu considered the Sect Leader’s advice while weighing his goal of reaching Void Refinement.

Chen Beiwu chose the Void Treasury Heavenly Apex Emptiness-Proven Creation Heavenly Book and the Supreme Void Reincarnation Great Grotto True Edict, despite the Sect Leader advising him to focus on the Primordial Origin Immortal Technique. After he left Jade Purity Hall, Yuyue embraced him and offered him her Jade Horn.

• The Sect Leader reminded Chen Beiwu to avoid secluded cultivation until the Heavenly Ruins opening date was set, then gave him access to the Jade Purity Thirty-Six Hunyuan Immortal Methods.
• Chen Beiwu reviewed the arts and favored the Void Treasury Heavenly Apex Emptiness-Proven Creation Heavenly Book and the Supreme Void Reincarnation Great Grotto True Edict.
• Chen Beiwu selected both arts, and the Sect Leader warned him to prioritize forging the primordial myriad tribulations body before changing his cultivation path.
• The Sect Leader asked whether Chen Beiwu would enter a shared cultivation bond with Yuyue Guardian, but Chen Beiwu declined because her cultivation was too high for him to handle.
• Yuyue and Qinghe discussed Chen Beiwu's potential and Yuyue's plans to help him cultivate the reincarnation Great Dao.
• Yuyue rushed to Chen Beiwu as he left Jade Purity Hall, embraced him, and offered him the Jade Horn from her hair.

Chen Beiwu accepted Yuyue Guardian’s Reincarnation Horn, cultivated the Void Treasury Heavenly Book, and tested a Spirit-Transformation method derived by Golden Egg. The chapter ended with Xuele reaching the pinnacle of Fourth-Realm Demon King and revealing Five Returns to Origin, a Creation Origin Art that could help complete the Fivefold Court of Origin.

• Yuyue Guardian gave Chen Beiwu a Reincarnation Horn that could help a Nascent Soul True Lord survive the Spirit Transformation Tribulation, and Qinghe suspected she had seen potential in him.
• Chen Beiwu tested the horn inside Nine-Breath Chaos, then studied the Void Treasury Heavenly Book with Zhiling and Aji while Golden Egg continued deriving a method.
• After a month, Chen Beiwu mastered two Void Treasury Profound Abilities, Void Treasury in Nothingness and Heavenly Foot Void Step, which Zhiling and Aji could not readily detect or counter.
• Golden Egg produced a nameless Spirit-Transformation method that could form a Clear-Source Fruit, then began deriving it again with Jade Purity methods as references.
• Xuele advanced to the pinnacle of Fourth-Realm Demon King and summoned a greatly strengthened Five-Phases Heavenly Corpse King.
• Chen Beiwu discovered that Xuele had mastered Five Returns to Origin, a fifth-tier Creation Origin Art that could help a Nascent Soul True Lord complete the Fivefold Court of Origin.

Xuele awakened powerful Five-Phase Profound Abilities and began condensing Five-Phase Origin, which strengthened Chen Beiwu and suggested a path for advancing his physique. After three years, Chen Beiwu received confirmation that the Heavenly Ruins would open and went to meet the sect members selected for its quota, where Yuyue greeted him and Qinghe questioned her assumptions about his connection to reincarnation.

• Chen Beiwu explained that Xuele's Five-Phase Origin was distinct from a Spirit Transformation Venerable's Creation Origin, and the group learned Xuele had also awakened a defensive art that could bury Five-Phase techniques.
• Xuele said it could condense a wisp of Five-Phase Origin in three years, and Chen Beiwu promised to gather resources to help it.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Profound Evolution Realm, where the Ten Thousand Poisons and Cangmo Sects' Fortune strengthened his Purple-Gold Canopy Status.
• Three years later, Xuele gave Chen Beiwu its first wisp of Five-Phase Origin; it vanished when he touched it, slightly improving his physical strength and stirring his Five Virtues Physique toward transformation.
• Chen Beiwu said the Ten Thousand Poisons and Cangmo Sects were handling the Desolate Gu Sect, then received word confirming the Heavenly Ruins opening and learned Yu Zhaohua had secured an additional quota through her clan.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at Jade Purity Hall, where Yuyue clung to him and wondered about his compatibility with reincarnation, while Qinghe privately dismissed her speculation.

Chen Beiwu and the others traveled to the Heavenly Ruins, where True Venerable Xu Jing tested their affinities for the Heavenly Books and Ruins Steles. The results revealed surprising talents among the cultivators, and the chapter ended with everyone questioning why Yue Shan had become known for a Dao that did not match his strongest affinities.

• Yuyue Guardian openly favored Chen Beiwu, while the sect leader interrupted her embrace and led Chen Beiwu and the others to the Heavenly Ruins.
• The sect leader introduced the group to True Venerable Xu Jing, who praised Chen Beiwu for his natural alignment with the Void Great Dao.
• True Venerable Xu Jing explained the Celestial Ruins Stone affinity test, and Lin Yunlan scored 4.5 points for the Jade Expanse Heavenly Book and 6.1 for the Void Extremity Stele.
• Chen Beiwu learned that affinities above seven points indicated rare immortal seeds, while the other Jade Expanse cultivators generally scored below six points.
• True Lord Su Miao scored 5.5 for the Lunar Heavenly Book and 5.9 for the Life-Giving Stele, while Yue Shan scored 6.0 for the Huncheng Stele and 6.3 for the Two Forms Stele.
• The cultivators were surprised that Yue Shan had such strong affinities for the Primordial Origin and Yin-Yang Great Daos despite being known as Mountain-Moving True Lord.

True Venerable Xu Jing tested Chen Beiwu’s affinity and discovered exceptional aptitude for the Jade Expanse Book and Void Extremity Stele, then invited him to study at Jade Expanse Grotto-Heaven. Chen Beiwu declined, entered the Heavenly Ruins to visit the Void Extremity Stele, and encountered Profound Subtlety True Venerable, whose vast fortune alarmed him.

• True Venerable Xu Jing retested True Lord Yue Shan, whose corrected Two Forms Stele affinity was 6.0, then tested Yu Zhaohua and recorded a highest affinity of 6.3 with the Five Phases Stele.
• True Venerable Xu Jing found that Chen Beiwu had an affinity of 5.0 with every initially tested Heavenly Book Ruins Stele, but revealed his Jade Expanse Book affinity was 6.9 and his Void Extremity Stele affinity was 7.5.
• True Venerable Xu Jing invited Chen Beiwu to become his disciple or study at Jade Expanse Grotto-Heaven, but Chen Beiwu declined out of gratitude to Jade Purity.
• True Venerable Xu Jing opened a passage into the Heavenly Ruins, and Lin Yunlan exchanged contact details with Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu chose the Void Extremity Stele, arrived before its immense form, and met Profound Subtlety True Venerable, whose surrounding fortune set off alarm bells in Chen Beiwu’s heart.

At the Void Extremity Stele, Chen Beiwu revealed a 7.5 affinity for the Void Great Dao and comprehended its Void Dao Treasuries for a year, astonishing the gathered Spirit Transformation Venerables. His cultivation advanced to half-step Spirit Transformation, though the Immortal Alliance still classified him as a Nascent Soul Perfection True Lord.

• Profound Subtlety True Venerable warned Chen Beiwu that the Void Extremity Stele’s Dao resonance could injure him, while Lin Yunlan revealed his affinity was 7.5.
• Chen Beiwu began comprehending the stele with Zhiling and encountered the Void Heavenly Fox, which stirred his bloodline and revealed Void Dao Treasuries.
• Zhiling insisted on using her bloodline to bear and imprint the Void Dao Treasuries, and Chen Beiwu cautioned her not to endanger herself.
• After a year, Chen Beiwu had advanced the Void Treasury Heavenly Extremity, Void Attainment Creation Heavenly Book to minor accomplishment and comprehended two Immortal Method Profound Abilities.
• Chen Beiwu considered merging the Void and Primordial Origin Great Daos into an Origin-Void Great Dao, but set the uncertain path aside.
• The Void Dao Treasuries transformed Chen Beiwu’s Nascent Soul toward a Primordial Spirit, bringing him to half-step Spirit Transformation while he remained a Nascent Soul Perfection True Lord by Immortal Alliance standards.

Chen Beiwu studied the Ending Stele and discovered the End-Terminus Great Dao, which joined Primordial Origin and Nirvana and offered a path to Spirit Transformation. Though an immortal technique’s true intent appeared in his sea of consciousness, he doubted the new Dao was compatible with him.

• Zhiling reached peak Demon King and awakened the spatial-sealing Seamless Reversal Lock and the lethal Void Coffin Rift Kill.
• Profound Subtlety True Venerable sold Chen Beiwu the incomplete Nine Dragons Devouring the Void and Returning to One Mystic Art, while Lin Yunlan invited him to study at Jade Expanse Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Beiwu left the Void Extremity Stele and went to the Ending Stele to study the Nirvana Great Dao with his beasts.
• After two years of contemplation with Golden Egg, Chen Beiwu saw Primordial Origin within Nirvana and received the End-Terminus Great Dao’s true intent.
• Chen Beiwu realized the End-Terminus Great Dao could encompass Primordial Origin and Nirvana, but questioned whether it suited him.

Chen Beiwu studied the Transmigration Stele but could not stir it, while Yuyue Guardian helped Iron Egg awaken its bloodline through the stele’s power. Eight months later, Iron Egg emerged as a Perfection Demon King, and Yuyue asked Chen Beiwu for help with something.

• Chen Beiwu left the Ending Stele and traveled to the Transmigration Stele, where Yuyue and Qinghe watched him from hiding and discussed whether he could stir it.
• Chen Beiwu and his beasts contemplated the Transmigration Stele, but Chen Beiwu found no affinity for its Great Dao while Iron Egg remained immersed in its resonance.
• Yuyue Guardian offered Iron Egg a strand of Samsara true intention and a wisp of her blood to help awaken its bloodline, and Chen Beiwu agreed after consulting Iron Egg.
• Iron Egg transformed into a crimson-and-azure fire egg, and Yuyue Guardian told Chen Beiwu it would fuse with its bloodline within six months to a year.
• Eight months later, Iron Egg emerged as a Great Sun Black Hound and reached Perfection Demon King; after Chen Beiwu promised to repay Yuyue Guardian, she asked for his help immediately.

Chen Beiwu accepted Yuyue’s Transmigration Wheel and discovered that Iron Egg had awakened two powerful Profound Abilities, including one that could help temper a soul into a Primordial Spirit. He then went to study the Karmic Burden Stele, where probing its small stele transported him into an encounter with Gu Qinghan, six Spirit Transformation Venerables, and a young beast forming from white mist.

• Yuyue lent Chen Beiwu the Transmigration Wheel, explaining that she hoped he and Iron Egg would help her understand its True Intention.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Iron Egg had awakened Deliverance-Refining True Flame and Creation-Life Sun Radiance, while Golden Egg envied its offensive ability.
• Chen Beiwu decided to postpone testing Iron Egg’s new Profound Ability and went to examine the Karmic Burden Stele.
• Gu Qinghan warned Chen Beiwu not to probe the main stele with Divine Sense, so he approached the small stele instead.
• Chen Beiwu’s Divine Sense brought him into a strange space beside Gu Qinghan and six Spirit Transformation Venerables, where a young beast began to appear from white mist.

Chen Beiwu cleared the Cause and Effect Maze through astonishing luck and joined Gu Qinghan and two Spirit Transformation Venerables for the second trial. After he chose the ninth jade casket, the Stele Spirit offered six strands of Cause and Effect Dao Resonance to buy it, leaving its contents unknown.

• The Karmic Burden Stele Spirit changed the first trial into a dangerous hide-and-seek game, and Chen Beiwu entered the maze with Zhiling and his companions.
• Chen Beiwu used a spinning jade piece to choose passages, avoided Old Daoist Wang's Cause and Effect Flame, and reached the Stele Spirit before Gu Qinghan.
• Gu Qinghan, Old Devil Yun, and an unnamed Spirit Transformation Venerable joined Chen Beiwu, and the Stele Spirit began the second trial with twelve sealed jade caskets.
• Chen Beiwu chose the ninth casket after asking Golden Egg for advice, while the Stele Spirit opened two other caskets and offered him six strands of Cause and Effect Dao Resonance for his choice.

Chen Beiwu traded his jade casket for nine strands of Cause and Effect Dao Resonance and an Immortal Method, gaining more than the other participants in the Stele Spirit's game. Over the following ten years, he studied three more Ruins Steles and developed a framework for discerning his own Great Dao.

• Chen Beiwu refused the Stele Spirit's early offers before trading his chosen casket for nine strands of Cause and Effect Dao Resonance and a Cause and Effect Immortal Method; the casket contained only ten wisps.
• Gu Qinghan obtained six strands of Cause and Effect Dao Resonance, Old Devil Yun received an empty casket, and the other Spirit Transformation Venerable obtained one strand.
• Gu Qinghan left to cultivate in seclusion, while Chen Beiwu headed toward the Life-Giving Stele and examined his new Immortal Method.
• Chen Beiwu envisioned an interconnected net of Great Daos and concluded that the Immortal Method could eventually help him discern the path suited to himself.
• Chen Beiwu spent ten years studying the Life-Giving, Two Forms, and Five Phases Steles, advancing his five virtues physique and obtaining a strand of two forms true meaning despite Aji's failure to stir the Two Forms Stele.

Chen Beiwu visited the Cosmic Light Stele with Aji, where Shu Yunlan offered him a supreme time-based immortal technique in exchange for testing her Sundial Divine Seal. He refused the offer but agreed to teach her grandniece, then answered the stele’s questions and was engulfed by its cosmic light Dao Resonance.

• Chen Beiwu comforted Xuele after it failed to comprehend the Five Phases Stele, then chose the Cosmic Light Stele as the next destination with Aji.
• At the Cosmic Light Stele, Shu Yunlan praised Chen Beiwu’s talent in the Dao of time and offered to make him her disciple, promising that her Four Seasons Life-and-Death Scripture could help him advance.
• Chen Beiwu refused to take another master and declined Shu Yunlan’s offer of the scripture in exchange for testing the Sundial Divine Seal, but agreed to teach her grandniece Peng Yuyan after the Heavenly Ruins closed.
• Shi Wujian warned Chen Beiwu about the Cosmic Light Stele, and Chen Beiwu and Aji began answering its questions about the past, future, and present.
• The stele rejected Aji’s answers and forced its Divine Sense out, but accepted Chen Beiwu’s answers without praise or criticism before its cosmic light Dao Resonance engulfed him.

Chen Beiwu triggered a phenomenon from the Cosmic Light Stele, learned the Four Seasons Life-and-Death Scripture, and formed the Light-Tracing Key, an Immortal Intent Spirit Object that could reverse a failed breakthrough once. Aji’s attempt to advance reached the Half-Step Demon Venerable realm, and Chen Beiwu then departed for the Huncheng Stele seeking a fuller understanding of the Four Seasons Great Dao.

• Shu Yunlan refused Zhao Tianlei’s request to learn the Four Seasons Life-and-Death Scripture, explaining that Chen Beiwu was an exception and Zhao could not master it.
• Chen Beiwu stirred the Cosmic Light Stele’s Dao Resonance, and Aji helped him refine it as he cultivated the scripture and formed the Light-Tracing Key.
• Aji used the Dao Resonance to attempt a breakthrough, but stopped at the Half-Step Demon Venerable realm after its bloodline reached its limit.
• Chen Beiwu planned to obtain pills to support Aji’s and Xuele’s future breakthroughs, then left for the Huncheng Stele to seek what he felt was missing from his understanding of the Four Seasons Great Dao.

Chen Beiwu’s arrival at the Huncheng Stele awakened its Primordial Origin Dao Resonance, allowing him to complete the Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body and reach Great Luo Heaven. There, Primordial Origin Dao Venerable offered to teach him the Silent Origin Great Dao, but Chen Beiwu asked how it compared with the Primordial Origin Great Dao.

• Chen Beiwu met Void Embrace True Venerable Yu Wanqing and the other Spirit Transformation Venerables gathered before the Huncheng Stele.
• As Chen Beiwu approached the stele, his Primordial Origin Golden Core stirred and the stele’s Dao Resonance formed a path of nine steps beneath his feet.
• Chen Beiwu comprehended the Primordial Origin Fundamental Immortal Arts and forged the Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body with help from Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji.
• After Chen Beiwu completed the transformation, he found himself unable to move and saw an immortal palace where Primordial Origin Dao Venerable offered him a choice of eight Great Daos.
• Primordial Origin Dao Venerable recommended the Silent Origin Great Dao and offered to teach it, and Chen Beiwu asked how it ranked against the Primordial Origin Great Dao.

Chen Beiwu rejected the Primordial Origin Dao Venerable’s offer of tutelage, insisting that none of the established Great Daos suited him and hinting that he would forge his own path. The eight Great Dao Origins then poured their resonance into him, and the chapter left him newly famous among the Immortal Alliance’s cultivators, with his ambition awaiting proof.

• The Primordial Origin Dao Venerable tested Chen Beiwu with visions of eight Great Daos, but Chen Beiwu rejected them and said the Dao lay beneath his feet.
• The Primordial Origin Dao Venerable returned to Great Luo Heaven and told Dao Venerable Guangcheng that Chen Beiwu had refused the Great Daos and might seek to open a Dao of his own.
• Purple clouds and golden lotuses appeared around the Huncheng Stele, followed by the simultaneous manifestation of eight Great Dao Origins around Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu experienced the eight Daos and briefly touched the threshold of Spirit Transformation, but stopped short because he had not settled on his Dao Path.
• Yu Wanqing learned that Chen Beiwu had refused the Primordial Origin Dao Venerable’s tutelage, and the Spirit Transformation Venerables realized his name would spread throughout the Immortal Alliance.

As the Heavenly Ruins neared closing, Chen Beiwu left with Yu Wanqing and used Ninefold Peace Dragon Well to master his primordial myriad tribulations body's power. Yu Wanqing then tested him in a spar, where she suppressed him with a single word but was astonished by the strength of his body.

• Chen Beiwu learned that the Heavenly Ruins would close in seven days, and Yu Wanqing proposed that they associate as equals after he had triggered the Huncheng Stele's Dao Resonance.
• Yu Zhaohua discovered that Chen Beiwu had not returned, and Violet Firmament Venerable explained that he had left with Void Embrace True Venerable to discuss the Dao.
• Yu Wanqing served Chen Beiwu Ninefold Peace Dragon Well, helping him understand and restrain the power of his primordial myriad tribulations body.
• Chen Beiwu asked Yu Wanqing for guidance on the Formation Dao, and she answered his questions before proposing they spar.
• Yu Wanqing suppressed Chen Beiwu with the word "Suppress," while realizing that she had needed a tenth of her strength to subdue his primordial myriad tribulations body.

After Chen Beiwu advanced to fifth place on the Jade Purity Golden Register, he collected rewards and returned to the Southern Wasteland to challenge the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape. The chapter ended as Aji prepared to spar with the ape inside its newly formed Dark-Gold World.

• Chen Beiwu and Yu Wanqing discussed his strength and Spirit Transformation prospects, and he said he would wait until he had refined the Dao Resonance of eight Great Daos before attempting a breakthrough.
• Violet Firmament Venerable raised Chen Beiwu to fifth place on the Jade Purity Golden Register, offered him rewards and access to the immortal beast legacy species, and agreed to arrange three Spirit Transformation resources.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Southern Wasteland, where Aji, Golden Egg, Zhiling, Xuele, and Iron Egg prepared to face the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape.
• Chen Beiwu and his companions entered the Heavenly Evolution Realm, where the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape sensed them and challenged Chen Beiwu to fight.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape accepted Aji's request to spar first, then forged the surrounding land into a stable Dark-Gold World and beckoned Aji to attack.

Chen Beiwu returned to the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, received a fifth-place ranking and requested rare pills to prepare for Spirit Transformation. He then traveled to the Heavenly Evolution Realm, where Aji began a one-on-one challenge against the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape.

• Yu Wanqing explained that Chen Beiwu’s Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body still depended on his realm and Dharma-Form Origin Qi, and estimated he had a strong chance of attaining True Venerable.
• The Violet Firmament Venerable raised Chen Beiwu to fifth place on the Jade Purity Golden Register, granted him a reward, and agreed to allocate the three Spirit Transformation pills he requested.
• Chen Beiwu told the Violet Firmament Venerable he would attain True Venerable before seeking an Immortal Beast Legacy Species, then left for the Southern Wasteland with his companions.
• Aji asked to challenge the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, hoping to prove the Heaven-Wild Time Sequence’s strength and improve its standing on the Creation Origin Beast Rankings.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape sensed Chen Beiwu’s arrival and challenged him, but agreed to fight Aji first after Aji released its Demon King pressure.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape transformed the surrounding space into a stable Dark-Gold World and beckoned Aji to begin their fight.

Aji used Cosmic Wheel to strip the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape of cultivation and defeat him, but his finishing attack triggered the ape’s berserk battle-devouring demon state. Chen Beiwu stepped in as the ape attacked, and his Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body let him lift the giant demon’s body with one hand.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape recovered from Aji’s attacks, grew stronger through battle, and suppressed Aji’s healing abilities as their fight wore on.
• Aji manifested Cosmic Wheel, reversing the ape’s time and cultivation before defeating him with Autumn Killing Yin Wind.
• The ape’s surviving heart began beating, and Chen Beiwu explained that Aji’s attack had triggered the battle-devouring demon state, making the ape berserk and nearly impossible to kill.
• The regenerated Battle-Devouring Demon Ape struck at Chen Beiwu with a sky-spanning palm, but Chen Beiwu met it with his Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body and lifted the ape into the air.

Chen Beiwu and his companions battled the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, whose power continued to grow despite their attacks. Chen Beiwu ultimately suppressed the ape with his Primordial Origin Supreme Dharma Form, but chose not to bind it with a Companion Beast Contract, leaving its motives and visions unexplained.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape wounded Chen Beiwu with its Sound-Slaying Profound Ability, but Chen Beiwu appeared behind it and struck it repeatedly with Cavern Truth Calamity-Heaven Finger.
• Chen Beiwu shielded Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling from the ape's demonic flames, then joined them in Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation to fight it.
• When the combined transformation proved insufficient, Chen Beiwu resonated with Aji and transformed Aji into the Four Seasons Mirror, gaining power comparable to a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape unleashed Four Symbols Burning Fuel, but Chen Beiwu summoned the Primordial Origin Supreme Dharma Form and used Primordial Origin Returning Qi-Myriad Spirits Dao Edict to break its attack and suppress it.
• After holding the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape for three quarters of an hour, Chen Beiwu watched it fall into a deep sleep and refused to impose a Companion Beast Contract.
• Chen Beiwu wondered whether the ape had acted under the influence of something it had seen with its World-Taming Heavenly Eye.

Chen Beiwu watched the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape awaken and begin a dangerous breakthrough to become a Demon Venerable. In exchange for half a strand of Chen Beiwu’s Grand Origin Dao resonance, the Demon Ape agreed to guide him to the Heavenly Star Path after his breakthrough.

• Xuele discovered that the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape’s injuries had healed, but his soul was fading as he lay unconscious.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape erupted with Sha Qi and revealed that his bloodline had become complete, allowing him to attempt a breakthrough without creation Dao resonance.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape asked Chen Beiwu to guard him from powerful old monsters in the Southern Wild Region while he became a Demon Venerable.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape offered to take Chen Beiwu to the Heavenly Star Path in exchange for half a strand of his Great Dao resonance.
• Chen Beiwu accepted the exchange and gave the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape half a strand of Grand Origin Dao resonance.

Chen Beiwu helped the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape prepare to attain the Dao as a Demon Venerable while Ye Qiling recruited Yan Changxing to pursue the beast for its blood and body. As the breakthrough’s celestial phenomenon intensified, Heavenly Art True Venerable and Su Lanyue entered Chen Beiwu’s true realm, where Chen threatened Heavenly Art and awaited his response.

• Chen Beiwu and his companions set up formations to conceal and support the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape’s breakthrough, while Chen began deducing a new method.
• Yan Changxing awakened early from self-sealing, then agreed to join Ye Qiling’s hunt for the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape in exchange for its intact body.
• Ye Qiling divined that the hunt had only one chance of survival and hoped to learn whether a Dao Venerable had reincarnated as Chen Zi'ang.
• Heavenly Art True Venerable and Su Lanyue found the Heavenly Evolution True Realm after its space distorted, and Heavenly Art opened a passage inside.
• Su Lanyue was overwhelmed by the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape’s aura, and Chen Beiwu ordered Heavenly Art to leave, threatening to kill him if he refused.

Chen Beiwu confronted Su Tianhe over the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape and defeated the Spirit Transformation Venerable’s avatar, forcing Su Lanyue to withdraw. As Chen Beiwu sensed another powerful expert arriving, Cold Evolution True Venerable entered the Heavenly Evolution True Realm and took notice of him.

• Su Tianhe unleashed his Spirit Transformation might and attacked Chen Beiwu with the Dharma-Breaking Awl, but Aji intervened and Chen Beiwu’s Eight-Cornered Hanging Light stopped the attack.
• Su Tianhe manifested a Middle Thousand World, but Chen Beiwu vanished with his companions and struck from behind with the Cavern Truth Calamity-Heaven Finger, piercing Su Tianhe’s defenses.
• Su Tianhe conceded defeat, yielded the ferocious beast, and assigned Su Lanyue responsibility for the alliance; he then told her privately that he had chosen not to make an enemy of Chen Beiwu.
• Su Lanyue departed, while Chen Beiwu wondered why Su Tianhe had held back and Golden Egg questioned how they had won so easily.
• Chen Beiwu sensed a powerful expert approaching, and Cold Evolution True Venerable entered the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, impressed by the junior’s Divine Sense and Nascent Soul.

Chen Beiwu and his companions fought Yan Changxing, a self-sealed Spirit Transformation Venerable who sought to seize the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape. Chen Beiwu’s defenses and Aji’s transformed power forced Yan Changxing to abandon his attack, though the fight remained unresolved.

• Yan Changxing appeared before Chen Beiwu, demanded the five Demon Beasts, and used his Spirit Transformation might to freeze Chen Beiwu and the others.
• Chen Beiwu and the Demon Beasts escaped the ice, and Chen Beiwu protected Xuele from Yan Changxing’s Dharma-Form Origin attack while revealing his connection to the Mirror Moon Sect.
• Yan Changxing trapped Chen Beiwu within his Heaven and Earth Manifestation, but Chen Beiwu broke free with the Northern Emperor Dao Edict and empowered the Demon Beasts with the Myriad Tribulations Calamity Transformation.
• Chen Beiwu and Aji attacked Yan Changxing, but his Heaven and Earth Manifestation resisted their blows and he dissolved into smoke to target the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape.
• Chen Beiwu summoned his Primordial Origin Dharma Form into Aji, raising Aji to the Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable level and forcing Yan Changxing to concede that he could not attack the Demon Ape without undoing his seal.