Chapter Summaries

Chen Beiwu joined forces with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji to battle the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, eventually suppressing it with his primordial origin dharma form. He chose not to force a companion beast contract and wondered whether the ape had deliberately fought as it did after seeing something with its World-Taming Heavenly Eye.

• Chen Beiwu endured the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape’s devastating roar, then struck it repeatedly while it healed and grew more powerful.
• Chen Beiwu protected Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling from the ape’s demonic flames, and they joined him in Myriad Spirits Calamity Transformation.
• Chen Beiwu and Aji formed the Four Seasons Mirror, boosting Chen Beiwu’s power, but he still struggled to overcome the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape unleashed Four Symbols Burning Fuel, and Chen Beiwu answered with his primordial origin dharma form and Myriad Spirits Dao Edict to subdue it.
• After suppressing the ape for three quarters of an hour, Chen Beiwu let it fall asleep and refused to establish a companion beast contract while wondering what its World-Taming Heavenly Eye had shown it.

After the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape awakened, he revealed that he intended to burn his completed bloodline and ascend to Fifth-Tier Demon Venerable, asking Chen Beiwu to guard him. Chen Beiwu agreed to trade half a strand of Grand Origin Dao resonance for the chance to brave the Heavenly Star Path with him after the breakthrough.

• Xuele discovered that the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape’s injuries had healed, but his soul was fading as he prepared to awaken.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape ignited his bloodline through battle-devouring intent and asked Chen Beiwu to guard his ascension against ancient Southern Wild Region powers.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape warned Chen Beiwu that sealed Spirit Transformation Venerables and half-step Void Refinement beings might notice the breakthrough, but said he could conceal its signs.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape offered to take Chen Beiwu to the Heavenly Star Path, which might lead to the Eastern Land Region, in exchange for half a strand of Chen Beiwu’s great Dao resonance.
• Chen Beiwu agreed to the exchange and gave the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape half a strand of Grand Origin Dao resonance, while the Demon Ape refused to form a companion beast contract.

Chen Beiwu helped the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape prepare for its breakthrough, while Ye Qiling recruited Yan Changxing to pursue the beast. Heavenly Art True Venerable entered the Heavenly Evolution True Realm and confronted Chen Beiwu, who threatened to kill him if he refused to leave.

• Chen Beiwu and the others established three formations to conceal the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape's ascension phenomenon as it spent days igniting its ancient power.
• Yan Changxing awakened early from self-sealing, and Ye Qiling persuaded him to help capture the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape in exchange for its intact body.
• Ye Qiling and Yan Changxing agreed that Ye Qiling would take the beast's Primordial Spirit and blood essence while Yan Changxing claimed its body.
• Heavenly Art True Venerable and Su Lanyue detected the phenomenon, entered the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, and found Chen Beiwu beside the ascending Demon Ape.
• Chen Beiwu told Heavenly Art True Venerable to leave the True Realm and threatened to kill him if he refused.

Chen Beiwu defeated Su Tianhe’s Spirit Transformation clone and secured the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, prompting Su Lanyue to withdraw. As a new powerful cultivator arrived in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm, Chen Beiwu sensed danger approaching.

• Su Tianhe challenged Chen Beiwu to withstand three moves and attacked him with the Dharma-Breaking Awl, but Chen Beiwu’s Eight-Cornered Hanging Light stopped it.
• Su Tianhe revealed a Middle Thousand World, but Chen Beiwu vanished with his companion beasts and struck the clone from behind with the Cavern Truth Calamity-Heaven Finger.
• Su Tianhe conceded, yielded the ferocious beast, and told Su Lanyue to handle the alliance with the Earth Evolution Realm Five Great Sects.
• Su Lanyue left, while Su Tianhe explained that he had chosen not to make an enemy of Chen Beiwu over the beast.
• Chen Beiwu sensed someone powerful approaching, and Cold Evolution True Venerable appeared in the Heavenly Evolution True Realm.

Chen Beiwu and his companions fought Yan Changxing, a Spirit Transformation Venerable intent on seizing the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape. After Aji reached the Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable level, Yan Changxing realized he could not get past it without breaking his seal.

• Yan Changxing demanded Chen Beiwu hand over his demon beasts, but Chen Beiwu attacked and endured Yan Changxing's freezing arts and finger strike.
• Chen Beiwu identified himself as Chen Zi'ang of the Mirror Moon Sect and refused to leave despite Yan Changxing's warning and Heaven and Earth Manifestation.
• Chen Beiwu used the Northern Emperor Dao Edict to escape Yan Changxing's manifestation, then joined Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling in the Myriad Tribulations Calamity Transformation state.
• Chen Beiwu and Aji attacked Yan Changxing, but their strikes could not overcome his Heaven and Earth Manifestation; Yan Changxing then tried to seize the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape's bloodline.
• Chen Beiwu sent his Primordial Origin Dharma Form into Aji, whose four seasons returned to one and whose power rose to the Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable level.
• Aji's aura wounded Yan Changxing, who concluded he could not reach the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape unless he completely broke his seal.

Aji wounded Yan Changxing, who withdrew rather than break his self-sealing restrictions, while Chen Beiwu refused to pursue him. Zhen Yuanzi and two other powerful cultivators arrived seeking the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, and Chen Beiwu fought Nine-Origin True Venerable to protect it; Nine-Origin immobilized him with Words Manifest as Dharma.

• Aji used his yin-yang and four-seasons powers to strike Yan Changxing, severely injuring him despite his Heaven and Earth Manifestation.
• Yan Changxing withdrew into the void, and Chen Beiwu told Aji that guarding the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape mattered more than pursuing their enemies.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Nine Origins, and Northward Gaze appeared, and Chen Beiwu recognized Zhen Yuanzi as a Cultivation Magnate.
• Chen Beiwu stepped aside when the newcomers said they had come for the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape, then attacked Nine-Origin True Venerable as he approached it.
• Nine-Origin True Venerable countered Chen Beiwu's saber with great sun true fire and used Words Manifest as Dharma to restrict him.

Chen Beiwu and Aji fought Nine-Origin True Venerable and Beiwang True Venerable, who secretly let themselves lose after learning of the powerful protection behind Chen Beiwu. Zhen Yuanzi then discovered Chen Beiwu’s hidden secret and moved to capture him, but the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape finished its breakthrough and stood between them.

• Chen Beiwu revealed the Divine Firmament Demon-Slashing Origin Talisman, prompting Nine-Origin True Venerable to retreat and secretly warn him about Beiwang True Venerable’s Thousand-Eyes Immortal Art.
• Beiwang True Venerable attacked Chen Beiwu with the Jade Heaven Seal, then quietly told him its weakness, allowing Chen Beiwu to pierce his chest with a saber strike.
• Zhen Yuanzi stepped forward and used his pressure to force Chen Beiwu toward submission, then searched his memories and sensed that he carried Dao resonance and Spirit Vigor from beyond Myriad Origin Star.
• Chen Beiwu prepared to escape with the Heaven-Escaping Talisman, but Zhen Yuanzi declared he could not leave and reached to seize him.
• The pitch-black pillar collapsed, and the newly transformed Battle-Devouring Demon Ape appeared before Chen Beiwu and challenged Zhen Yuanzi.

Chen Beiwu, Aji, and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape fought to escape Zhen Yuanzi, whose avatar unleashed a powerful formation to capture them. Chen Beiwu used a concealed means of teleportation to vanish from the formation, but Zhen Yuanzi began tracking them toward the Western Evolution Realm.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape attacked Zhen Yuanzi while shielding Chen Beiwu and Aji, then used Wind Concealment to ambush him as Chen Beiwu's saber strike failed.
• Zhen Yuanzi restrained Chen Beiwu, but Aji's Two Forms, One Qi attack coincided with a punch from the concealed Battle-Devouring Demon Ape that wounded him.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape opened a spatial path for Chen Beiwu and Aji, but Zhen Yuanzi activated the Fire-Forged Cosmic Lesser Yang Demon-Burning Grand Formation.
• Chen Beiwu activated the Heaven-Escaping Talisman, and he, Aji, and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape vanished from the formation without obstruction.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized Chen Beiwu had escaped and used divination to track him toward the Western Evolution Realm.

Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape fled Zhen Yuanzi’s pursuit and headed for the Heavenly Star Path, but Zhen Yuanzi prepared a trap at its entrance. One Origin True Venerable appeared at Clearheart Lake, disrupted Zhen Yuanzi’s formation, and forced him to withdraw.

• Chen Beiwu used the Heaven-Escaping Talisman to reach the Western Evolution Realm, where he and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape realized Zhen Yuanzi was still tracking them.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape refused Chen Beiwu’s offer of a companion beast contract and proposed escaping through the Heavenly Star Path in the Yellow Evolution Realm.
• Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape teleported to Huidan Market and set out for Clearheart Lake, while Zhen Yuanzi divined their destination and prepared a fifth-tier origin formation there.
• Zhen Yuanzi waited at Clearheart Lake in a powerful avatar, but a crowned cultivator arrived unnoticed and silently severed his control over the formation.
• The crowned cultivator named himself One Origin, and Zhen Yuanzi, recognizing the feared figure, chose to leave.

Chen Beiwu followed the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape through Clearheart Lake and entered the deadly Heavenly Star Path. After they destroyed a Punishment Mechanism Skeleton that ambushed them, the cave split open and a strange passage appeared.

• The crown-wearing cultivator left Clearheart Lake, betting that Chen Zi'ang might reach the Heavenly Star Path and affect the formation sealing the Southern Wild Region.
• Chen Beiwu and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape descended through Clearheart Lake, overcame its soul-chilling depths, and found a hidden cave leading into the Heavenly Star Path.
• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape paid Chen Beiwu three drops of Demon Ape Blood Essence and two hairs, then warned him that the Heavenly Star Path was lethal and that Five-Viscera Demons hunted within it.
• The group found the remains of a Spirit Transformation Venerable killed by a Punishment Mechanism Skeleton, and the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape led them around the bones.
• A Punishment Mechanism Skeleton ambushed Chen Beiwu, but the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape and the others destroyed it with their attacks.
• The cave split open after the skeleton's destruction, forming a distorted Spatial Passage and sending obscure information into Chen Beiwu's mind.

Chen Beiwu activated the altar’s Spatial Passage with his Crimson Fortune and entered the depths of the Heavenly Star Path, where he encountered a mysterious figure named Yuan. Yuan offered him the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect’s legacy in exchange for becoming its next sect master, but Chen Beiwu refused and faced an ominous threat.

• The Battle-Devouring Demon Ape warned Chen Beiwu that the Heavenly Star Path’s mutated trials had killed every cultivator who attempted them, and advised him not to chase Xing Jihai.
• After three days, Chen Beiwu reached an altar and used Crimson Fortune to ignite its jade lamp, opening a Spatial Passage into the path’s depths.
• An eternal True Dragon sensed the altar’s light and used Heavenly Observation and Dao Evolution to examine Chen Beiwu, reacting with surprise at his origins.
• Chen Beiwu arrived at the ruins of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect, where he met Yuan, an imposing cultivator who offered to make him the sect’s next master.
• Chen Beiwu declined Yuan’s offer out of loyalty to the Mirror Moon Sect, and Yuan warned him that refusing had consequences as mortal danger surged around him.

Yuan told Chen Beiwu how the Hunyuan Saint Xuanhuangzi had nearly refined the Southern Wild Region before the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect’s Dao Venerable sealed him beneath the Heavenly Star Path. Yuan then forced Chen Beiwu into the Heavenly Abyss Trial, where Chen Beiwu discovered the first stage required him to comprehend a Dao art before crossing a deadly river.

• Chen Beiwu followed Yuan into the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect ruins after warning that he would not surrender the sect’s inheritance under pressure.
• Yuan recounted how Xuanhuangzi, a Hunyuan Saint from the Azure Blue Realm, devastated the Southern Wild Region and was sealed in the Heavenly Star Path by the sacrifice of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect’s Dao Venerable.
• Yuan urged Chen Beiwu to obtain the Dao Venerable’s inheritance, but Chen Beiwu refused and was abruptly sent into the Heavenly Abyss Trial as his companions vanished.
• Chen Beiwu tested the Heavenly Abyss River and found that it dissolved a Fourth-Tier Mysterious Treasure and pulled down anything that tried to fly above it.
• Chen Beiwu read the stele’s Ancient Seal Script and realized he needed to reach the introductory level of its Heavenly Abyss Dao Art within a year to cross the river.
• Rather than begin comprehending the Dao art, Chen Beiwu closed his eyes to rest and prepared to negotiate terms with Yuan.

Yuan revealed that he was the artifact spirit Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons and offered Chen Beiwu three requests if he passed the Heavenly Abyss Trial and relinquished command of the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron. Chen Beiwu comprehended the trial stele’s scripture, reached its introductory level, and began crossing the Heavenly Abyss River with heavenly abyss true qi.

• Yuan told Chen Beiwu that passing the trial could earn him the Heavenly Abyss Dao Venerable’s legacy and the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron, then offered three requests in exchange for its command.
• Yuan identified himself as Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons, explained the trial’s dangers, and promised to help Golden Egg advance its bloodline if Chen Beiwu agreed to attempt the trial.
• Chen Beiwu agreed, used two wisps of purple qi to create fortuitous encounters, and began comprehending the supreme Dao art on the stone stele.
• Chen Beiwu’s sudden enlightenment gave him insight into uniting the Great Daos, and the Eternal True Dragon observed his unusually rapid progress.
• After two months, Chen Beiwu reached the introductory level of the Heavenly Abyss Scripture of Melting the Void, Embracing the Real, and Returning to the Origin and used its true qi to step onto the Heavenly Abyss River.
• Chen Beiwu turned the river’s waves into a path, while Golden Egg’s attempt to touch the water left its scales corroded.

Chen Beiwu crossed the Heavenly Abyss River, earned an Abyss True Pill, and learned the second trial would pit him against a restricted clone of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Venerable. He entered the trial but was defeated instantly by the first finger strike, leaving the trial marked as failed.

• Chen Beiwu reached the island after crossing the Heavenly Abyss River and received an Abyss True Pill for his aptitude and comprehension.
• Chen Beiwu declined Yuan's offer to transform Golden Egg's bloodline and instead accepted a Heavenly Water Pill for it.
• Chen Beiwu discovered that the second trial required him to survive three moves from a Heavenly Abyss Dao Venerable clone, whose cultivation matched his own.
• Chen Beiwu entered the trial with Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji, but their abilities were weakened by the projection.
• A colossal finger struck before Chen Beiwu could use a Profound Ability, collapsing his Nascent Soul and causing the stele to declare the trial failed.

Chen Beiwu repeatedly challenged the Heavenly Abyss Trial, learned that its Dao Venerable avatar used the Abyssal Sinking technique, and briefly blocked it before being overwhelmed by a greater power. After a year of studying and failing, he began creating an art by simplifying the Great Daos he had been trying to combine.

• Chen Beiwu and his companions were expelled from the Bronze Giant Stele when the Dao Venerable avatar struck, and Chen Beiwu realized its projected strength was diminished.
• Chen Beiwu failed dozens of attempts, discovered that the avatar's finger used Abyssal Sinking, and blocked it with Northern Emperor Dao Edict before an enormous palm crushed him.
• Yuan told Chen Beiwu that the trial favored cultivators of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art and that he would need a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable Companion Beast or major accomplishment in the art to pass quickly.
• Yuan judged Chen Beiwu slightly stronger than the Southern Wasteland Dao Sects' Dao Children in combat without external aids, and Chen Beiwu chose to keep studying and challenging the trial.
• After a year of study and repeated defeats, Chen Beiwu reconsidered how to combine the Great Daos and began creating an art by discarding some of them.

After years of studying the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art, Chen Beiwu learned to imitate its advanced techniques with Primordial Origin and devised a plan to borrow the Heavenly Abyss River’s power for the trial. He overcame the trial’s final attack, but the Dao Venerable’s Abyss-Transformed Profound Ability consumed his projected avatar as the trial collapsed.

• Chen Beiwu demonstrated the Abyssal Return Palm and Abyss-Sinking Finger, using Primordial Origin to wield techniques beyond his Heavenly Abyss Dao Art cultivation stage.
• In the trial, Chen Beiwu blocked the Dao Venerable’s finger strike and palm strike, then withdrew when the final Abyssal Transformation Strike threatened his projection.
• Chen Beiwu enlisted Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji to transform into divine weapons and used the Sundial Four Seasons Mirror to bring Heavenly Abyss River Water into the trial.
• With the river’s power, Chen Beiwu overcame the Dao Venerable’s final attack and believed he had passed the trial.
• The trial space collapsed, and an Abyss-Transformed mark spread across Chen Beiwu’s palm, consuming his projected avatar.

Chen Beiwu passed the Heavenly Abyss Trial and received the sect’s Dao Lineage inheritance, advancing the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art to the pinnacle of major accomplishment and gaining the Dao-Casting Long River. He began the master recognition ritual with the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and discovered that it was producing fortune his Nine-Breath Chaos could absorb.

• Chen Beiwu awoke after three years immersed in the inheritance and found that his Heavenly Abyss Dao Art had reached the pinnacle of major accomplishment, granting him the Dao-Casting Long River Profound Ability.
• Yuan told Chen Beiwu that he had to undergo the master recognition ritual to unlock more of the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect inheritance, and Chen Beiwu agreed after checking that the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape was unharmed.
• Chen Beiwu approached the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and passed the scrutiny of three former Void Refinement Dao Venerables, whose spiritual wills appeared before him.
• Chen Beiwu touched the Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and began the ritual, while his Nine-Breath Chaos absorbed the Nine Fortunes, Three Origins fortune emerging from it.

Chen Beiwu gained the initial acknowledgment of the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron and negotiated treasures from Yuan, including the Five-Colored Vine and a chance to master the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror. Yuan sealed most of the mirror’s power so Chen Beiwu could refine it safely, then demanded that he relinquish control of the cauldron, leaving Chen Beiwu suspicious.

• Chen Beiwu discovered that the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron had produced a complete strand of Nine Fortunes, Three Origins, but found he could barely move the Primordial Chaos Dao Artifact.
• Yuan gave Chen Beiwu a Five-Colored Vine to help Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, Zhiling, and Aji attempt the Demon Venerable realm safely.
• Chen Beiwu asked for a quasi-Dao soldier, and Yuan offered the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror, whose powers included piercing illusions, locking targets, annihilating foes, and creating copies.
• Aji and Golden Egg tested the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror and endured only briefly before Chen Beiwu took their place and withstood its trial using the Heavenly Abyss Dao Art.
• Yuan stopped Chen Beiwu when the mirror’s full power threatened to kill him, sealed most of its power, and then asked Chen Beiwu to relinquish control of the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.

Chen Beiwu escaped the Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons’ attempt to possess him when Nine-Breath Chaos devoured their spirit, leaving a miniature Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron in his Chaos Heaven and Earth. After returning to the Immortal Alliance, he sought help for Xuele’s breakthrough, then went back to the Heavenly Star Path to claim the weakened cauldron.

• Yuan froze space and time, blocked Chen Beiwu’s escape, and demanded that he master the Three Abysses Dragon-Transformation Secret Art or submit to possession.
• Yuan invaded Chen Beiwu’s Sea of Consciousness, but Nine-Breath Chaos appeared and devoured the Eight Heavenly Abyss Dragons’ spirit, consuming half a strand of Chen Beiwu’s Nine Fortunes, Three Origins fortune.
• Chen Beiwu found a miniature Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron in his Chaos Heaven and Earth, left it untouched, and teleported back to the Immortal Alliance after the Battle-Devouring Demon Ape declined to join him.
• The death of the cauldron’s spirit caused upheaval across the Profound Evolution Realm; Zhen Yuanzi suspected Chen Zi'ang was involved, while One Origin True Venerable learned that the path to Void Refinement could open in five hundred years.
• Chen Beiwu asked Violet Firmament Venerable for access to Huncheng Peak’s Creation Dao Resonance to help Xuele advance, but agreed to wait five years for pills.
• Chen Beiwu returned to the Heavenly Star Path to attempt a full refinement of the weakened Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron.

Chen Beiwu lifted the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron, discovered cross-region passages to three regions, and returned to the Immortal Alliance with Spirit Transformation resources. At Azure-Ming Peak, he watched his eldest senior brother Yue Chenfeng progress through the early trials of Spirit Transformation, though a divination left Chen Beiwu uneasy.

• Chen Beiwu successfully lifted the Heavenly Abyss Dragon-Suppressing Cauldron after it responded to the remnant essence in his consciousness, then spent five years studying it.
• Chen Beiwu found cross-region passages to the Eastern Land, Western Heaven, and Northern Profound regions, then returned to the Immortal Alliance to collect three pills from Violet Firmament Venerable.
• Violet Firmament Venerable told Chen Beiwu that Yue Chenfeng had entered seclusion to attempt Spirit Transformation, and Chen Beiwu went to Azure-Ming Peak to observe.
• Chen Beiwu joined Su Muyu, Jiang Chuan, and Mo Chen outside Taiyuan Blessed Land as they discussed Yue Chenfeng's four Spirit Transformation trials.
• Yue Chenfeng completed Three Flowers Gather at the Crown, then formed the Fivefold Court of Origin a year later; Chen Beiwu sensed unease and cast a divination.