Chapter Summaries

Mo Li reported to the Mirror Moon Sect’s Dispatch Office, where Zhou Tianyu destroyed her keepsakes and forced her into a dangerous mission. Chen Beiwu learned the identity of the demon cultivators plotting in Yunlong Market and chose to keep watching rather than expose them.

• Zhiling secretly followed Mo Li into the Dispatch Office while Chen Beiwu watched from Shuyu Pavilion.
• Zhou Tianyu demanded a bribe from Mo Li, then shattered her two treasured Jade Slips and assigned her a Grade-A Urgent Mission to deliver supplies to Blackstone Gorge.
• Mo Li left the office vowing to kill Zhou Tianyu, while Chen Beiwu decided to keep him alive to uncover the faction targeting the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Chen Beiwu and his companions located Blood Marrow True Lord and Inspectorate Director Yan Song conspiring in a hidden chamber beneath the War Affairs Hall.
• Xuele confirmed that Blood Marrow True Lord was present only through a Blood Body, and Chen Beiwu decided not to attack and risk alerting the demon sect.

Mo Li joined a perilous Mirror Moon Sect supply mission to Blackstone Gorge while Chen Beiwu uncovered a scheme involving Blood Marrow True Lord and a valuable shipment. As the mission reached the dangerous Blood-Weeping River, Mo Li saw the immortal master she had longed to find aboard an approaching spirit boat.

• Mo Li accepted a dangerous transport assignment and joined Wang Hao, Bai Zhi, and a thin old cultivator on the journey to Blackstone Gorge.
• Xuele revealed that Zhou Tianyu's backers were tied to Yan Song and Deputy Market Master Lin, while Chen Beiwu learned that nine teams were carrying one real shipment and eight decoys, including a Nascent Soul Nurturing Pill.
• Chen Beiwu suspected Blood Marrow True Lord was targeting Blackstone Gorge and vanished after considering the sect's motives for sending the shipment without a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Wang Hao's team fought bandits and survived a Rotting Elephant Bee swarm, but the thin old cultivator died and Mo Li's sword artifact broke.
• Blood Marrow True Lord and Shan Junjie secretly traveled on the Blood-Weeping River as Wang Hao's group waited for a spirit boat to cross.
• A spirit boat arrived at dawn, and Mo Li recognized the figure aboard as the immortal master she had long sought.

Chen Beiwu met Mo Li, Wang Hao, and Bai Zhi aboard his spirit boat, healed Wang Hao and Bai Zhi, and led them into a Blood Fortune Sect ambush on the Blood-Weeping River. After Zhiling killed Shan Junjie and Chen Beiwu revealed his Nascent Soul cultivation, Blood Marrow True Lord moved to attack, but Suspended Mirror True Lord Zhu Jinglong and Clear Abyss True Lord Xin Yu arrived to confront him.

• Chen Beiwu welcomed Wang Hao and Bai Zhi, recognized Mo Li, and healed Wang Hao's severed arm and Bai Zhi's facial scar with pills.
• Chen Beiwu warned that the Blood-Weeping River would be dangerous, and the Myriad Defilements Soul-Locking Blood River Formation trapped the spirit boat.
• Shan Junjie appeared with nine Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Zhiling killed him with the Great Space-Rending Claw.
• Blood Marrow True Lord attacked Chen Beiwu with a blood bead, but Chen Beiwu teleported away and revealed his Nascent Soul True Lord cultivation.
• Bai Zhi urged Chen Beiwu to flee, and Blood Marrow True Lord declared that he would kill him.
• Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu appeared aboard the spirit boat and challenged Blood Marrow True Lord, who insisted they could not protect Chen Beiwu.

Chen Beiwu was surrounded by three demonic True Lords after their ambush disabled the Mirror Moon Sect’s plan and trapped Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu. He revealed his overwhelming strength by killing Yu Qianpo with a single finger, leaving the other enemies facing him.

• Xin Yu discovered that the Mirror-Returning Moonfrost Demon-Subduing Grand Formation had been destroyed, while Yu Qianpo’s Nine Netherworlds Soul-Locking Demon-Binding Formation surrounded the Weeping Blood River.
• Zhao Caixuan appeared and joined Yu Qianpo and Yun Xi in ambushing Zhu Jinglong and Xin Yu, trapping the two Mirror Moon Sect True Lords and isolating Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu refused the demonic cultivators’ offers to join them, and Mo Li stood before him to protect him despite the danger.
• Chen Beiwu summoned a flood dragon, a dog, and a vine, then used the Cavern Truth Calamity-Heaven Finger to shatter Yu Qianpo’s nascent soul and kill him instantly.

Chen Beiwu and his companions overwhelmed the Soul Refining Sect forces, killing Yu Qianpo and Yun Xi with his powerful techniques. Zhao Caixuan escaped after revealing that the opponent they had cornered was only a clone, leaving Chen Beiwu wishing he had been strong enough to kill her true body.

• Chen Beiwu killed Yu Qianpo with a Grotto-Heaven Calamity True Finger, and Zhao Caixuan attacked him while Yun Xi fled.
• Golden Egg blocked Zhao Caixuan's Red Phoenix Heart-Eroding Needle, while Iron Egg and Xuele struck at Yun Xi and seized his arm and storage rings.
• Chen Beiwu used his Primordial Origin Dharma Form to destroy Yun Xi's Myriad-Marrow Self-Sovereign Demon and kill him outright.
• Zhao Caixuan fled in two directions with her clone and the Seven Emotions Heavenly Netkerchief, but Chen Beiwu used the Five Phases Bright King Wings to intercept the treasure.
• Chen Beiwu and his companions surrounded Zhao Caixuan, but he recognized that she was a clone, which dissipated after she promised to remember him.

After defeating two demonic True Lords, Chen Beiwu refused to return to the sect, took Mo Li and Wang Hao under his wing, and examined the spoils. He returned to the Immortal Alliance intent on preparing to kill Xiao Yu, while news of his victory spread across the realms.

• Xin Yu and Zhu Jinglong praised Chen Beiwu for killing two Nascent Soul middle-stage enemies, then suspected a traitor had exposed their location; Chen Beiwu declined to return to the sect after sensing danger in doing so.
• At Blackstone Gorge, Chen Beiwu offered to make Mo Li his disciple, but she chose to remain by his side; her fortune transformed into a Fortune Crimson Dragon, while Wang Hao accepted entry-level discipleship.
• Chen Beiwu gave Mo Li and Wang Hao cultivation methods and entered seclusion in his cave abode.
• Chen Beiwu and the four little ones examined Yun Xi and Yu Qianpo's storage rings, and Chen Beiwu set aside the Ten-Thousand Souls Banner rather than risk using its illicit resources.
• Chen Beiwu considered killing Xiao Yu to seize his fortune and decided to act after refining Nascent Soul-Nurturing Liquid and completing the Nascent Soul Formation ceremony; he then used the Ten Directions Gate to return to the Immortal Alliance.
• News of Chen Beiwu's victory on the Blood-Weeping River spread through Earth Evolution, Western Expansion, and Yellow Expansion, drawing attention and skepticism from powerful sects.

Ning Xuanji hired the Blood Demon Venerable to kill Chen Zi'ang, while Zhao Caixuan backed the Mirror Moon Sect and fought Zhu Buwei. After Lin Zimo escaped Zhu Wuya's execution, Chen Beiwu emerged from seclusion before his Nascent Soul Formation ceremony and offered Chi Quan discipleship.

• Ning Wujiu learned that Chen Zi'ang had formed a Nascent Soul and sealed himself away to attempt his own breakthrough.
• Ning Xuanji persuaded the Blood Demon Venerable to kill Chen Zi'ang by offering him half a Spirit Transformation opportunity.
• Zhao Caixuan declared her intention to bet on the Mirror Moon Sect, prompting Zhu Buwei to attack her as their Dharma forms clashed.
• Zhu Shaoyuan and Zhu Wuya learned of Chen Zi'ang's victories, and Zhu Wuya ordered the traitor's kin punished before confronting Lin Zimo.
• Lin Zimo used the Taiyi Three Truths Corpse-Severing Self-Realization Dao Register to escape Zhu Wuya's killing blow.
• After refining the Nascent Soul-Nurturing Liquid for fourteen days, Chen Beiwu met Yu Zhaohua and Chi Quan, then offered Chi Quan a place as his disciple.

Chi Quan became Chen Beiwu’s disciple and received guidance to repair his damaged foundation and improve his Crimson Mastiff’s cultivation. At Chen Beiwu’s Nascent Soul Formation ceremony, he established the title True Martial, triggering a resonance that made companion beasts across the gathering pay homage, while Xiao Yu reconsidered his scheme to obtain Chen Beiwu’s Primordial Origin true essence.

• Chi Quan became Chen Beiwu’s disciple, and Chen Beiwu diagnosed his damaged foundation and gave him an upgraded cultivation method to nourish it.
• Chen Beiwu examined Chi Quan’s Crimson Mastiff and advised him to replace its fire-focused cultivation method with one suited to both fire and earth.
• Xiao Yu learned that the Ancient God Cult had rejected his Primordial Origin true essence, negotiated to exchange a strand of Primordial Origin heavenly gang true essence for the God-Delivering Stele, and put his scheme against Chen Beiwu on hold.
• Representatives of the Five Great Grotto-Heavens attended Chen Beiwu’s Nascent Soul Formation ceremony and presented precious gifts.
• Chen Beiwu established his title as True Martial, causing Dao resonance and sending companion beasts throughout the Dao-Proving Square into a display of homage.
• Zhu Wu, Che Zhengyuan, and Gu Yong recognized the phenomenon as myriad spirits paying homage, while Chen Beiwu sensed a change within Nine-Breath Chaos.

Chen Beiwu considered the purple qi he had gained and used his Divine Ability to turn it into a fortuitous encounter, then went to initiate a Life-and-Death Platform Contention against Xiao Yu. The chapter ended with the Cease-War Department’s old Spirit Transformation-level elder asking whether Chen Beiwu was certain he wanted to challenge Law-Breaking True Lord Xiao Yu.

• Chen Beiwu completed his Nascent Soul Formation ceremony while the Immortal Alliance’s leaders discussed a newly discovered Great Thousand World and sweeping wartime changes to resource distribution.
• Chen Beiwu declined to join his Evergreen Lineage senior fellow disciples on an expedition to conquer Cloudmist Pool in the Cangyuan Realm.
• After his family and Xu Ziqing departed, Chen Beiwu used his Divine Ability to transform the strand of purple qi into a fortuitous encounter, exhausting his true essence in the process.
• Seven days later, Chen Beiwu visited the Cease-War Department to initiate a Life-and-Death Platform Contention.
• The old man at the department recognized Chen Beiwu and asked him to confirm that his intended opponent was Law-Breaking True Lord Xiao Yu.

Chen Beiwu initiated Life-and-Death Platform Contention against Xiao Yu, and Xiao Wangyu approved it under the sect’s rules. Despite a dire divination, Xiao Yu accepted the challenge, and Chen Beiwu arrived at the crowded Life-and-Death Tower, where Xiao Yu had yet to appear.

• Xiao Wangyu revealed his relation to Xiao Yu, confirmed Chen Beiwu’s challenge followed sect rules, and set the contest for the morning after next.
• Xiao Yu received notice of the challenge, divined a sign of great calamity, and hesitated until Xuanyuan Venerable urged him not to disgrace the Tianyuan Xiao Clan by refusing.
• News of the contest spread through the Jade Purity Immortal Sect, drawing reactions from Shen Yuanbao, Yu Zhaohua, Yu Zhaozhen, and Xiao Li.
• Chen Beiwu prepared for the fight with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling, then received confirmation of the contest date.
• Two days later, Chen Beiwu appeared on the Life-and-Death Platform before a crowd of more than a thousand cultivators, while Xiao Yu had not yet arrived.

Chen Beiwu and Xiao Yu began their life-and-death contention, and Xiao Yu revealed his powerful companion beasts and the Heavenly Gang Dragon-Tiger True Form. The battle escalated as Chen Beiwu prepared his own Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery, leaving the two poised to clash at full strength.

• Xiao Wangyu presided over the contention and declared that it would end only when one fighter died.
• Xiao Yu unleashed the Black Bear Azure Flood Dragon and Mysterious Netherworld Tiger, and the tiger tore apart Chen Beiwu's apparent body before Xiao Yu's heavenly eye exposed the illusion.
• Golden Egg clashed with Xiao Yu's flood dragon while Chen Beiwu struck at Xiao Yu with the Primordial Origin World-Pacifying Seal, but the tiger blocked the attack and Xiao Yu escaped with Teleportation.
• Xiao Yu summoned his dragon and tiger into the Heavenly Gang Dragon-Tiger True Form Dharma Form and spread his Dragon-Tiger True Form Combined Refining True Domain.
• Chen Beiwu manifested his Heaven-Bestowed Final Scenery as Yu Zhaozhen warned that Xiao Yu's domain could erode his strength.

Chen Beiwu defeated and killed Xiao Yu on the Life-and-Death Platform after seeing through Xiao Yu’s attempt to trap him with the Dragon-Tiger Dharma Form. After the Sect declared Chen Beiwu the victor, he sensed a brief, immense calamity aura and then gained Fourth-Tier Great Fortune from Xiao Yu’s death.

• Yu Zhaohua told Yu Zhaozhen that Xiao Yu’s Dragon-Tiger True Form Dharma Form was still inferior to Chen Beiwu’s Primordial Origin Dharma Form.
• Xiao Yu’s domain suppressed Chen Beiwu’s power, but Xuele used Five-Qi Protection to resist its effects, and Chen Beiwu continued probing Xiao Yu rather than revealing his prepared killing move.
• Xiao Yu unleashed Dragon-Tiger Chaos-Cavern Great Annihilation True Form, but Chen Beiwu transformed with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele’s power and reached an aura rivaling a Nascent Soul Late Stage True Lord.
• Chen Beiwu’s illusion caused Xiao Yu to believe his trap had worked, but Chen Beiwu stabbed him through the chest and revealed that the Dragon-Tiger Dharma Form and the apparent battle had been illusions.
• Chen Beiwu destroyed Xiao Yu’s body and Nascent Soul, and Xiao Wangyu announced Chen Beiwu as the winner of the Life-and-Death Platform Contention.
• Chen Beiwu sensed a vast calamity aura that quickly vanished, then gained Fourth-Tier Great Fortune after killing Xiao Yu.

After killing Xiao Yu, Chen Beiwu sensed the threat of Xuanyuan Venerable and resolved to grow stronger by seeking fortune in the Southern Wasteland. A cataclysm revealed the ancient Grand Void ruins at One-Line Sky, and Chen Beiwu learned of their emergence upon returning to his Southern Wasteland allies.

• Xuanyuan Venerable mourned Xiao Yu but restrained his murderous intent after the Jade Purity Sect Leader warned him not to violate sect rules.
• Chen Beiwu sensed lingering calamity qi, decided to seek strength by targeting demonic cultivators, and returned to the Southern Wasteland through the Ten Directions Gate.
• At One-Line Sky, a Great Sun descended and annihilated a Flameburn Sect search party before revealing an ancient gate marked Grand Void.
• Chen Beiwu returned to Blackstone Gorge, where Shu You reported that the Mirror Moon Sect was advancing against the Azure Spirit Sect and Blood Fortune Sect.
• Clear Abyss True Lord Xin Yu arrived with news that the ruins of an ancient Dao Lineage had emerged at One-Line Sky.

Chen Beiwu declined Xin Yu’s invitation to explore the newly emerged Grand Void Formation Sect ruins at One-Line Sky and instead prepared to retake Dragon-Breaking Cliff. After giving Beast Taming Lineage disciples guidance, he decided to enter the Heavenly Evolution True Realm and ask the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape about Blazing Sun True Venerable.

• Xin Yu told Chen Beiwu that the flaming mountains at One-Line Sky concealed ruins that might be a dao formation legacy left by Myriad Radiance Blazing Sun True Venerable, and invited him to investigate.
• Chen Beiwu sensed ill fortune and declined, choosing to focus on defeating the enemy forces at Dragon-Breaking Cliff; Xin Yu left for One-Line Sky.
• Chen Beiwu ordered the forces at Blackstone Gorge to rest for a week before marching to retake Dragon-Breaking Cliff.
• Chen Beiwu reassured Yu Pan about Little Gray and offered the Beast Taming Lineage disciples a Nascent Soul Formation Secret Technique for great service.
• Chen Beiwu tried to teach the disciples advanced beast-taming theory, but they struggled to understand it, so he gave them jade slips to study.
• Chen Beiwu decided to enter the Heavenly Evolution True Realm and ask the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape whether it knew of Myriad Radiance Blazing Sun True Venerable.

Chen Beiwu sparred with the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm but could not overcome its immense strength, even after using Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation. Impressed by Chen Beiwu’s potential, the demon ape agreed to give him the inheritance treasures in exchange for sparring once every hundred years.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape challenged Chen Beiwu, and its opening attack pierced a Five-Qi Puppet while Chen Beiwu’s counterattacks failed to injure it.
• Chen Beiwu combined Golden Egg, Iron Egg, and Xuele into Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation and attacked, but the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape remained unharmed.
• Chen Beiwu ended the spar rather than reveal his trump cards and asked the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape for access to the Heavenly Evolution True Realm’s inheritances.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape agreed to give Chen Beiwu the inheritance treasures on the condition that they spar once every hundred years.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape brought Chen Beiwu to the Inheritance Stele and opened its space, telling him he could take whatever he wanted.

Chen Beiwu faced the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk’s artifact spirit, Xinling, and failed her test of the Star-Dipper Life-Breath Seven-Kill Grand Formation. When he revealed three grains of star sand that could help her advance toward a Heaven-Piercing Profound Treasure, Xinling agreed to recognize him as her master, and Chen Beiwu demanded that she teach him the formation.

• The Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk chose Chen Beiwu and subjected him to a resolve test, which he passed with Great Mystery Guarding the One.
• Xinling challenged Chen Beiwu to withstand or break her fourth-tier supreme-grade formation, but the formation shattered his divine sense avatar before he could pass.
• Chen Beiwu asked Xinling to recognize him as her master, but she refused, so Golden Egg trapped the disk in its Three Lights true domain.
• Chen Beiwu offered Xinling three grains of star sand, and she recognized him as her master after realizing they could help her advance.
• Chen Beiwu changed the terms of his offer and told Xinling to teach him the Star-Dipper Life-Breath Seven-Kill Grand Formation.

Chen Beiwu bonded with the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk, found a Five Aggregates Fruit, and offered the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape a compatible cultivation art. After learning that the demon ape feared the dangers outside the secret realm, Chen Beiwu returned to Blackstone Gorge, where news of a Grand Void Formation Sect ruin and a weakened Dragon-Breaking Cliff shaped his plans for the expedition.

• Chen Beiwu bonded with the Heavenly Evolution Star-Dipper Disk and decided to study all four of its formation Dao inheritances.
• Xuele found a Five Aggregates Fruit, and Chen Beiwu entrusted it to Xuele to nurture rather than consume.
• Golden Egg found a Nascent Soul Formation Pill, while Iron Egg and Zhiling searched for resources needed for Chen Beiwu's fourfold Dao-proving.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape said it would not leave the Heavenly Evolution True Realm until its Demon-Imprisoning Dao reached perfection, and Chen Beiwu gave it the first level of the Great Freedom Chaos-Heaven Battle-Devouring Immortal Art.
• At Blackstone Gorge, Shu You told Chen Beiwu that Fuli True Lord, Jiang Buyao, had died trying to approach the flaming mountain at One-Line Sky.
• Chen Beiwu noted that Dragon-Breaking Cliff now had only two Nascent Soul cultivators guarding it.

Chen Beiwu led the Mirror Moon Sect army to Dragon-Breaking Cliff and ordered a direct assault despite its deadly restrictive formation. As the Waning Moon Dao Soldiers became trapped in a frozen hell, Chen Beiwu mounted Golden Egg and charged at True Lord Bloodsource.

• Mo Buyun learned that Chen Zi'ang, the Mirror Moon Dao Child known as True Martial True Lord, was approaching Dragon-Breaking Cliff with four thousand cultivators, and Sun Tianyi volunteered to lead the allied army into battle.
• Chen Beiwu's army established camp outside Dragon-Breaking Cliff, and Shu You explained that Lin Ziqian had betrayed the sect before Blood Marrow True Lord killed him and seized the stronghold.
• Chen Beiwu announced generous military merit rewards and ordered his army to attack Dragon-Breaking Cliff directly the next morning, despite Yu Pan warning that its formation could destroy the attackers' souls.
• The five Rising Moon Generals formed the Upper Moon Dao Formation and led the Waning Moon Dao Soldiers into the Six-Yin Clear Radiance Dragon-Breaking Absolute Formation, where Mo Buyun's six-yin baleful radiance froze them.
• Chen Beiwu mounted Golden Egg and charged past the trapped soldiers toward Mo Buyun above Dragon-Breaking Cliff.

Chen Beiwu and his companions attacked Dragon-Breaking Cliff, overcoming the Blood Fortune Sect’s blood weapon and turning the Scarlet Sun Sect’s arrow formation against the defenders. The pass’s defenses were disrupted, the Mirror Moon army advanced, and the Scarlet Sun Sect suffered devastating losses.

• Mo Buyun redirected the Blood-Transforming Pagoda Life-Slaying Platform at Chen Beiwu, but Golden Egg shattered its attack and Xuele purified its lingering corruption.
• The Scarlet Sun Sect unleashed Flame-Refining Nine Heavens at the Mirror Moon army, and Iron Egg absorbed the fire with the Great Heaven Pure Hell Aspect before reflecting a vastly stronger crimson-gold rain of fire.
• True Lord Scarlet Dragon raised a defensive barrier while Mo Buyun tried to activate Dragon-Breaking Cliff’s defenses, but Chen Beiwu seized control of the Six-Yin Clear Radiance Dragon-Breaking Absolute Formation with Xinling’s help.
• Chen Beiwu used the formation to freeze Dragon-Breaking Cliff and free the Waning Moon Dao Soldiers, who charged toward the pass gates.
• The Azure Spirit Sect raised the Ten-Thousand-Green Everlasting Spirit Ancient Wall, but Iron Egg’s fire overwhelmed the Scarlet Sun defenses, killing many cultivators and leaving barely over a thousand of the three thousand alive.

Chen Beiwu used the Mirror Moon Sect’s assault on Dragon-Breaking Cliff to detonate the Six-Yin Severing Formation, but the three allied sects suppressed the blast and foiled his attempt to destroy their army. He withdrew with his forces after learning more about the defenders’ strength, and as he considered how to capture the stronghold next, Xinling said she had a way.

• True Lord Crimson Dragon summoned the Crimson Fire Chi Dragon to intercept the Waning Moon Dao Soldiers as they charged Dragon-Breaking Cliff’s gates.
• Chen Beiwu detonated the Six-Yin Severing Formation’s hub, while Zhiling teleported more than three thousand Mirror Moon cultivators a hundred li away from the blast.
• Mo Buyun and the Azure Spirit Sect activated their formations to contain the explosion, and Chen Beiwu’s attempted attack on True Lord Crimson Dragon failed when the latter raised a defensive barrier.
• Chen Beiwu ordered the Mirror Moon army to retreat after achieving his goal of learning the three sects’ defenses, leaving over two thousand allied cultivators dead.
• Shu You reported the Mirror Moon Sect’s casualties, and Chen Beiwu ordered compensation for the fallen and treatment for the wounded.
• Chen Beiwu considered how to capture Dragon-Breaking Cliff without sacrificing his army, then Xinling told him she had a way.