Chapter Summaries

Chen Beiwu tested Golden Egg’s new method-derivation ability, then learned he had been granted a place in the Heavenly Ruins. After refusing Yuyue’s proposal to perform the companion rite, he heard that the Huncheng Stele could help him advance along the Primordial Origin Great Dao, but he considered whether another path better suited his ambition to reach Void Refinement.

• Chen Beiwu gave Golden Egg five original cultivation texts to smelt, and Golden Egg began deducing their methods without knowing how long it would take.
• Jiang Chuan told Chen Beiwu that the sect had granted him a place in the Heavenly Ruins and directed him to the lineage’s Eldest Senior Brother for Spirit Transformation secret methods.
• Yuyue asked Chen Beiwu to perform the companion rite so she could enter the Heavenly Ruins with him, but he avoided agreeing, and Qinghe confirmed that he had rejected her.
• The Jade Purity Sect Leader explained that the Heavenly Ruins contained the Five Great Heavenly Books and Nine Great Ruin Steles, then recommended the Huncheng Stele to help Chen Beiwu cultivate the Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body and understand Spirit Transformation.

Chen Beiwu chose the Void Treasury Celestial Apex Emptiness-Proving Creation Heavenly Scripture and the Supreme Void Reincarnation Great Grotto True Edict, though the Sect Master advised him to focus on his Primordial Origin cultivation first. Outside the hall, Yuyue Guardian insisted on bonding with him and embraced him, then offered him her jade horn.

• The Sect Master let Chen Beiwu review the Jade Purity Thirty-Six Hunyuan Immortal Methods and warned him not to enter secluded cultivation before the Heavenly Ruins opened.
• Chen Beiwu examined several supreme arts and decided the Void Treasury scripture suited his abilities, while keeping the reincarnation art under consideration.
• Chen Beiwu selected the Void Treasury scripture and the Supreme Void Reincarnation edict, and the Sect Master urged him to prioritize forging the primordial myriad tribulations body.
• The Sect Master asked whether Chen Beiwu would bond with Yuyue Guardian, but Chen Beiwu declined because her cultivation was too high.
• Yuyue Guardian and Qinghe discussed Chen Beiwu's prospects and the risks of changing from the Primordial Origin Great Dao to reincarnation.
• Yuyue Guardian rushed to embrace Chen Beiwu outside Jade Purity Hall and offered him the jade horn from her hair.

Yuyue gave Chen Beiwu a Reincarnation Horn that could protect a Nascent Soul True Lord during the Spirit Transformation Tribulation, while Chen Beiwu cultivated new void abilities and tested Golden Egg’s method-deriving power. Xuele reached the pinnacle of the fourth realm and revealed a powerful new Profound Ability that could help Chen Beiwu complete the Fivefold Court of Origin.

• Yuyue gave Chen Beiwu the Reincarnation Horn and said she would not force him to form a companion bond, while Qinghe wondered whether she had foreseen something about him.
• Chen Beiwu tested the horn inside Nine-Breath Chaos, then studied the Heavenly Book of Void Concealment with Zhiling and Aji while Golden Egg worked on Furnace Method Derivation.
• Chen Beiwu mastered Void Treasury in Nothingness and Heavenly Foot Void Step, demonstrating that Zhiling and Aji could not detect his movements.
• Golden Egg derived an unnamed Spirit Transformation secret method that could form a clear-source fruit and an embryonic Dharma Image, then began deriving it again using Jade Purity methods.
• Xuele advanced to the pinnacle of the fourth realm, summoned a greatly enhanced Five-Phases Heavenly Corpse King, and showed Chen Beiwu the Five Returns to Origin Profound Ability, which could help complete the Fivefold Court of Origin.

Ke Zhijing met Xuantong after it awakened Seven Phases Origin, learned that its defensive Golden Egg could bury hostile spell arts, and discovered the origin qi could strengthen his cultivation and status. After eight years, the Heavenly Ruins opening was announced, and the Ten Thousand Poisons and Cangmo Sects’ fortunes gathered beneath Mirror Moon’s Purple Qi Canopy.

• Ke Zhijing explained that Five Phases Origin was different from the Creation Origin mastered by Spirit Transformation Venerables, while Xuantong demonstrated its Seven Phases Origin and defensive Golden Egg.
• Xuantong said it could condense one wisp of Seven Phases Origin every eight years, and Ke Zhijing’s touch absorbed the wisp and strengthened his body.
• Ke Zhijing considered using Seven Phases Origin to advance his Primordial Origin cultivation and arranged to gather materials to help Xuantong produce more.
• Ke Zhijing received word that the Heavenly Ruins would open and that the Tianyuan Yu Clan had secured him a place.
• Ke Zhijing went to Jade Purity Hall, where the fortunes of the Ten Thousand Poisons and Cangmo Sects gathered under the Purple Qi Canopy, transforming it into a violet-gold canopy.

At the Heavenly Ruins, Chen Beiwu and the others tested their affinities for the Heavenly Books and Ruins Steles. The tests revealed surprising talents among the cultivators, and Chen Beiwu had yet to take his own test.

• Yuyue Guardian warmly embraced Chen Beiwu, and the Sect Master teased her before taking Chen Beiwu, Yu Zhaohua, Su Miao, and Yue Shan to the Heavenly Ruins.
• True Venerable Xu Jing welcomed the Jade Purity cultivators and praised Chen Beiwu for his natural attunement to the Great Dao of the Void, while Che Zhengyuan acknowledged Chen Beiwu had defeated him.
• True Venerable Xu Jing explained how the Celestial Ruins Stones and ancient mirror measured affinity with the Heavenly Books and Ruins Steles.
• Lin Yunlan scored 4.5 for the Jade Expanse Heavenly Book and 6.1 for the Void Extremity Stele, while the other Jade Expanse cultivators had lower results.
• Su Miao scored 5.5 for the Lunar Heavenly Book and 5.9 for the Life-Giving Stele; Yue Shan scored 3.6 for the Zhouhua Book, 6.0 for the Huncheng Stele, and 6.3 for the Two Forms Stele.

Chen Beiwu discovered that his affinity with the Void Extremity Stele was an extraordinary 7.5, but he declined True Venerable Xu Jing’s offer to join Jade Expanse Grotto-Heaven. He entered the Celestial Ruins to view the Void Extremity Stele and encountered Profound Subtlety True Venerable.

• True Lord Yue Shan repeated his affinity test, and True Venerable Xu Jing attributed the first, higher results to forgetting to recalculate with the Nature-Deriving Method.
• Yu Zhaohua’s highest affinity was 6.3 with the Five Phases Stele, while Chen Beiwu’s repeated test showed 5.0 affinity with every announced Book and Stele.
• True Venerable Xu Jing revealed Chen Beiwu’s Jade Expanse Book affinity was 6.9 and his Void Extremity Stele affinity was 7.5, then invited him to study at Jade Expanse Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Beiwu thanked True Venerable Xu Jing but declined, and Lin Yunlan exchanged contact information with him before he chose the Spatial Passage to the Void Extremity Stele.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the Void Extremity Stele and met Profound Subtlety True Venerable, whose immense fortune alarmed him.

At the Void Extremity Stele, Chen Beiwu revealed extraordinary affinity with the Void Great Dao and spent a year comprehending its Dao Treasuries. His nascent soul began transforming toward a primordial spirit, leaving him at half-step Spirit Transformation while still classified as a Nascent Soul Perfection True Lord.

• Chen Beiwu met Profound Subtlety True Venerable and drew scrutiny when Lin Yunlan announced his Void Extremity Stele affinity was 7.5.
• Chen Beiwu and Zhiling comprehended the Void Extremity Stele, where a Void Heavenly Fox appeared and stirred the Void Dao Treasuries.
• Zhiling tried to imprint the Dao Treasuries through her bloodline, while Chen Beiwu cautioned her not to endanger herself.
• After a year of study, Chen Beiwu advanced the Heavenly Book of Void Concealment to minor accomplishment and comprehended two immortal-art profound abilities.
• Chen Beiwu considered uniting the Void and Primordial Origin Great Daos into an Origin-Void Great Dao, but set the idea aside because its path remained uncertain.
• The Void Dao Treasuries transformed Chen Beiwu's nascent soul, bringing him to half-step Spirit Transformation while he remained a Nascent Soul Perfection True Lord by Immortal Alliance standards.

Chen Beiwu left the Void-Ultimate Stele after Zhiling awakened two powerful spatial abilities and acquired an incomplete cultivation method from Profound Subtlety True Venerable. At the Ending Stele, Chen Beiwu comprehended the End-Terminus Great Dao, but questioned whether it truly suited him.

• Zhiling reached the peak Demon King realm and awakened Seamless Reversal Lock and Void Coffin Rift Kill, then tested the first ability against Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu decided to leave the Void-Ultimate Stele and accepted the Wondrous Method of Nine Dragons Devouring the Void and Returning to One from Profound Subtlety True Venerable in exchange for three hundred Upper Grade Spirit Stones and his cultivation insights.
• Lin Yunlan questioned Profound Subtlety True Venerable's generosity and invited Chen Beiwu to study the void arts of Jade Expanse Grotto-Heaven.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the Ending Stele and contemplated its Nirvana Great Dao with Golden Egg after the other beasts gave up.
• Chen Beiwu perceived Primordial Origin within the Ending Stele, absorbed its black current, and comprehended the End-Terminus Great Dao and its supreme immortal art.
• Chen Beiwu wondered whether the End-Terminus Great Dao was compatible with him.

Chen Beiwu studied the Ending and Transmigration Steles, but found he had little affinity for the reincarnation Great Dao. With Yuyue Guardian’s help, Iron Egg used the Transmigration Stele to awaken its bloodline and emerged eight months later as a perfected Demon King; Yuyue then asked Chen Beiwu for help.

• Chen Beiwu comprehended the Profound Art of Grand Transformation, Ending and Beginning, Silent Origin Annihilation, but chose to keep cultivating the Primordial Origin Immortal Technique.
• Chen Beiwu went to the Transmigration Stele and spent two months studying it, while Yuyue and Qinghe watched from hiding.
• Yuyue Guardian offered Iron Egg a strand of reincarnation true intent and a wisp of her blood, and Chen Beiwu agreed after consulting Iron Egg.
• The Transmigration Stele transformed Iron Egg into a fiery egg, which cracked open eight months later to reveal a perfected Demon King Great Sun Black Hound.
• Yuyue Guardian told Chen Beiwu she had something she needed him to help with immediately.

Chen Beiwu accepted Yuyue’s Transmigration Wheel and learned that Iron Egg had awakened two powerful Profound Abilities, including one that could help forge a Primordial Spirit. He then went to contemplate the Karmic Burden Stele, where his Divine Sense summoned Gu Qinghan, six mysterious Spirit Transformation Venerables, and a young beast.

• Yuyue lent Chen Beiwu the Transmigration Wheel, explaining that she wanted him and Iron Egg to nurture it and share any insights they gained.
• Chen Beiwu examined Iron Egg’s newly awakened Deliverance-Refining True Flame and Creation-Life Sun Radiance Profound Abilities, then considered which companion should first attain the Dao as a Demon Venerable.
• Chen Beiwu chose to visit the Karmic Burden Stele, where Gu Qinghan and many cultivators had gathered to contemplate it.
• Gu Qinghan warned Chen Beiwu not to probe the Karmic Burden Stele with Divine Sense and directed him to observe the small stele before it.
• When Chen Beiwu extended his Divine Sense, the scenery changed, revealing Gu Qinghan, six indistinct Spirit Transformation Venerables, and a young beast.

Chen Beiwu entered the Cause and Effect Maze and passed its first trial through astonishing luck, even as the Stele Spirit tried to test him. In the second trial, he chose jade casket number nine, and the Stele Spirit offered him six strands of Dao resonance of cause and effect for it.

• Chen Beiwu entered the Cause and Effect Maze after Gu Qinghan and several Spirit Transformation Venerables, despite warnings about its punishments.
• Chen Beiwu used a spinning piece of jade to pick routes, avoided Old Daoist Wang and the Cause and Effect Fire, and reached the Stele Spirit before Gu Qinghan.
• The Stele Spirit allowed Chen Beiwu, Gu Qinghan, Old Devil Yun, and an unidentified Spirit Transformation Venerable to begin the second trial after a day of waiting.
• Chen Beiwu chose jade casket number nine on Golden Egg's advice and refused to reconsider his choice.
• After opening two empty caskets, the Stele Spirit offered Chen Beiwu six strands of Dao resonance of cause and effect for his casket.

Chen Beiwu won ten wisps of Dao resonance of cause and effect from the Stele Spirit and gained an immortal art that could help him find the Great Dao suited to himself. After ten years studying the Ruins Steles, his five virtues physique advanced and the art’s warp-and-weft net grew clearer, while his work on the Huncheng and Cosmic Light Steles remained unfinished.

• Chen Beiwu refused the Stele Spirit’s offers until it traded ten wisps of Dao resonance for his jade box, which also contained ten wisps.
• Gu Qinghan chose a box containing six strands of Dao resonance, while Old Devil Yun kept his box and ended with nothing; the other Spirit Transformation Venerable gained one strand.
• Chen Beiwu examined the Treatise on Resonance Through the Warp and Weft of Cause and Effect and the Integration of Ten Thousand Arts and saw how it might reveal the Great Dao suited to him.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Life-Giving Stele and later studied the Life-Giving, Two Forms, and Five Phases Steles over ten years, while leaving the Huncheng and Cosmic Light Steles unfinished.
• Chen Beiwu gained a strand of two forms true meaning with the enhancement of three meridians in mutual cultivation, while Aji failed to stir the Two Forms Stele.

Chen Beiwu visited the Cosmic Light Stele with Aji, where Shu Yunlan offered him a Four Seasons immortal technique in exchange for testing her Sundial Divine Seal, but he refused the risky bargain and agreed to teach her grandniece. He and Aji then faced the stele’s questions about time, and after Aji was expelled, Chen Beiwu’s answers drew a vast manifestation of Cosmic Light Dao resonance.

• Chen Beiwu reassured Xuele about its inability to comprehend the Five Phases Stele and chose the Cosmic Light Stele as the next stop with Aji.
• At the Cosmic Light Stele, Shu Yunlan praised Chen Beiwu’s talent for the Dao of Time and offered to teach him the Four Seasons Life-and-Death Scripture if he tested her Sundial Divine Seal; he declined but agreed to teach her grandniece Peng Yuyan.
• Shi Wujian warned Chen Beiwu about the Cosmic Light Stele, and Chen Beiwu and Aji began observing its Dao resonance together.
• Aji answered the stele’s questions with greedy certainty and was driven out, while Chen Beiwu answered that he would not return to the past, look into the future, or remain forever in the present.
• The Cosmic Light Stele judged Chen Beiwu’s answers faultless but unremarkable, then engulfed his divine sense in a vast manifestation of Cosmic Light Dao resonance.

Chen Beiwu received the Scripture of the Four Seasons' Life and Death and stirred the Cosmic Light Stele, gaining a rare Light-Tracing Key that could reverse a failed breakthrough. Aji attempted to advance to Demon Venerable but stopped at the half-step realm, while Chen Beiwu left to study the Huncheng Stele for answers about his cultivation path.

• Shu Yunlan refused Zhao Tianlei's request to learn the Scripture of the Four Seasons' Life and Death, saying he could not master it, while defending her choice to teach Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu triggered a phenomenon from the Cosmic Light Stele, refined its Dao resonance with Aji, and formed the one-use Light-Tracing Key after his nascent soul failed to transform fully.
• Aji used the cosmic light Dao resonance to attempt a breakthrough, but after five years it stopped at the half-step Demon Venerable realm and gained a trace of a creation true spirit.
• Chen Beiwu considered securing pills to support Aji's and Xuele's future breakthroughs, then left for the Huncheng Stele to seek answers about his cultivation path.

Chen Beiwu’s resonance with the Huncheng Stele helped him complete the primordial myriad tribulations body and brought him before the Primordial Origin Dao Venerable, who offered to teach him the Great Dao of Silent Origin. Chen Beiwu asked how Silent Origin compared with the Primordial Origin Great Dao.

• Chen Beiwu’s approach caused the Huncheng Stele to stir, allowing the Spirit Transformation Venerables nearby to glimpse its primordial origin Dao resonance.
• The Huncheng Stele guided Chen Beiwu up nine jade steps, where he absorbed its resonance and began forging the primordial myriad tribulations body with help from Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji.
• Chen Beiwu completed the transformation, greatly strengthening his golden core and nascent soul, but found himself unable to move or fully control his body.
• The Primordial Origin Dao Venerable appeared in an immortal palace and offered Chen Beiwu eight Great Daos to choose from, recommending Silent Origin and offering to teach it.
• Chen Beiwu asked the Primordial Origin Dao Venerable how Silent Origin, Great Nonbeing compared with the Primordial Origin Great Dao.

Chen Beiwu rejected the Primordial Origin Dao Venerable’s offer of the Five Grand Primordials and Three Origins, declaring that he did not know what Dao he would cultivate and that the Dao lay beneath his feet. The eight Great Dao origins then manifested in the Heavenly Ruins, and Chen Beiwu left with a transformed foundation and a name destined to spread throughout the Immortal Alliance.

• The Primordial Origin Dao Venerable tested Chen Beiwu with several Great Daos, but Chen Beiwu said none suited him and hinted that he might open a Dao of his own.
• The Primordial Origin Dao Venerable sent eight Great Dao resonances to scour Chen Beiwu’s Spiritual Terrace and Sea of Consciousness, then discussed Chen Beiwu with the Guangcheng Dao Venerable in Great Luo Heaven.
• The Huncheng Stele released purple mist and golden lotuses, then streams bearing the resonances of eight Great Dao origins poured into the Heavenly Ruins around Chen Beiwu.
• Chen Beiwu briefly touched the threshold of Spirit Transformation, but the insight faded; he opened his eyes and decided his foundations were not ready for a breakthrough.
• Yu Wanqing asked whether the Primordial Origin Dao Venerable had taken Chen Beiwu as a disciple, and Chen Beiwu explained that he had declined the offer.
• Yu Wanqing, Zhuo Xuanyu, and the old Daoist recognized the scale of Chen Beiwu’s ambition and realized his rejection would make his name famous across the Immortal Alliance.

Chen Beiwu left the Heavenly Ruins with Yu Wanqing, whose tea helped him understand and control the power of his primordial myriad tribulations body. He sparred with Yu Wanqing and discovered how completely a Spirit Transformation Venerable could suppress him, while she was astonished by his strength.

• Chen Beiwu learned that the Heavenly Ruins would close in seven days and accepted Yu Wanqing's invitation to her garden.
• Violet Firmament Venerable told Yu Zhaohua that Chen Beiwu had left with True Venerable Xu Huai to discuss the Dao.
• Chen Beiwu drank Ninefold Peace Dragon Well, gained insight into his primordial myriad tribulations body's powers, and learned to restrain its essence.
• Yu Wanqing answered Chen Beiwu's questions about the Formation Dao and offered to spar with him while suppressing her cultivation to mid-stage Spirit Transformation.
• Yu Wanqing used the word "Suppress" to take control of Chen Beiwu's perceptions and cultivation, but she was astonished that she needed a tenth of her strength to subdue his primordial myriad tribulations body.

After sparring with Yu Wanqing, Chen Beiwu was ranked fifth on the Jade Purity Golden Register and requested rare Spirit Transformation pills before returning to the Southern Wasteland. There, he brought Aji to challenge the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, who prepared a sealed arena for their fight.

• Yu Wanqing explained the limits of Chen Beiwu’s primordial myriad tribulations body and estimated that he had a sixty-to-seventy-percent chance of attaining True Venerable.
• Violet Firmament Venerable raised Chen Beiwu to fifth place on the Jade Purity Golden Register, granted him three selections from a list of treasures, and agreed to arrange his requested pills.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Southern Wasteland, where Aji volunteered to challenge the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, while Golden Egg also demanded a fight with the ape.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape sensed Chen Beiwu’s arrival and invited him to fight; Chen Beiwu instead offered Aji as his first opponent.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape transformed the surrounding space into a stable dark-gold arena 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 its Cosmic Wheel to reduce the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape’s cultivation and seemingly defeat it, but the Ape entered its berserk Battle-Devouring Demon State instead. Chen Beiwu stepped in and met its overwhelming attack, lifting the hundred-thousand-foot Ape into the air with one palm.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape recovered from Aji’s attacks, grew stronger through combat, and suppressed Aji’s healing abilities as its Battle-Devouring Stance accumulated.
• Aji manifested the Cosmic Wheel, reversing the Ape’s time and cultivation until it had shrunk to five feet and fallen to the Late Demon King Stage.
• Aji struck with Autumn Killing Yin Wind, destroying the Ape’s body and leaving its heart intact, then declared victory.
• Chen Beiwu explained that Aji’s attack had triggered the Ape’s Battle-Devouring Demon State, and the regenerated Ape became berserk.
• The Ape attacked Chen Beiwu with a sky-spanning palm, but Chen Beiwu activated the Primordial Myriad Tribulations Body and lifted the Ape into the air with a single palm.