Chapter Summaries

Iron Egg overcame the bloodline ancestor phantom and passed the Blood Tempering and Spirit Condensation tribulation, but the Sun-Devouring Divine Lord intervened and made him face a Great Sun in his next trial. The chapter ended with the Divine Lord’s vertical eye overpowering Iron Egg and forcing him toward his knees.

• Profound Subtlety True Venerable warned Great Vast True Venerable that Iron Egg’s attempt to attain the Dao through the Sun-Devouring Great Dao might attract the Sun-Devouring Divine Lord’s attention.
• After five years of resisting his bloodline ancestor phantom, Iron Egg used [Fixing Time] and the Great Heaven Pure Hell Aspect to burn it away while Chen Beiwu helped him refine his bloodline.
• Iron Egg completed nine rounds of Blood Tempering and Spirit Condensation, formed a creation true spirit, and entered his bloodline tribulation as Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg watched.
• The Sun-Devouring Divine Lord sensed Iron Egg’s progress and created a Great Sun to serve as an opportunity and trial for him.
• Iron Egg discovered that his opponent was a blazing Great Sun connected to the Sun-Devouring Divine Lord, and the Divine Lord’s vertical eye left him nearly unable to stand.

Iron Egg completed his bloodline tribulation and became a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable, forging the Yingze True Form through the Great Dao of sun and moon waxing and waning. Chen Beiwu examined Iron Egg’s new form and its effects on his spiritual roots, but found he could not perceive Iron Egg’s attribute meridian.

• Iron Egg endured the destruction of his body and awakened a bloodline true form, first comprehending the Yuyi Great Dao and then deriving the moon’s path from the sun’s shadow.
• The Sun-Devouring Divine Lord watched Iron Egg’s transformation and withdrew, while Iron Egg formed the Sun and Moon Waxing and Waning Great Dao and completed his ascent as a Demon Venerable.
• Outside Whirling Flame Clear Void, Zhou Daoheng realized that thirty percent of the Mingjin Sun Liquid in his sealed furnace had vanished, likely consumed by Iron Egg’s breakthrough.
• Iron Egg emerged with a golden-and-silver form, and Chen Beiwu confirmed that he had become a Fifth-Realm Demon Venerable.
• Iron Egg told Chen Beiwu that the Sun-Devouring Divine Lord’s aura had helped him during his tribulation, and Chen Beiwu sensed that Iron Egg’s Yingze True Form had improved his spiritual root purity.
• Chen Beiwu tried to inspect Iron Egg’s attribute meridian but could not perceive it.

Iron Egg advanced to the middle stage of the Demon Venerable realm, helped Zhou Daoheng successfully refine the Specially Made Fire God Seed, and was left behind after Chen Beiwu received a new appointment. The sect revealed that the damaged Ancient Yao Realm was approaching and might have been defeated by the Myriad Heavens Realm, while Chen Beiwu chose not to pursue the dangerous opportunity within it.

• Iron Egg absorbed the Sun and Moon Responding-to-the-Stars Origin Calamity and revealed his middle-stage Demon Venerable cultivation, while his transformed spiritual root remained difficult to sense.
• Golden Egg challenged Iron Egg, lost their duel by one move, and later watched Iron Egg help Zhou Daoheng and Yuyue refine the Mingdu Sun Liquid into Specially Made Fire God Seeds.
• The Violet Firmament Venerable appointed Chen Beiwu head of the Divine Excursion Department and sent Zhou Daoheng and Yin Zhengyuan to Great Luo Heaven.
• The Violet Firmament Venerable told Chen Beiwu that a damaged Great Thousand World suspected to be the Ancient Yao Realm was approaching, and that the Myriad Heavens Realm might have defeated it.
• Chen Beiwu learned that the Ancient Yao Realm held a dangerous opportunity for cultivation magnates, but decided he would rather seek opportunities in Myriad Origin Star's Eastern Land Region.

Chen Beiwu assumed his post as minister of the Divine Excursion Department, met Realm-Setting Senior, and earned the Dao Artifact’s approval and offer of help. He learned that the Ancient Yao Realm was moving toward Heavenly Abyss Star, while the department’s infiltrator Li Zhengfu continued his covert mission.

• Yuyue escorted Chen Beiwu to the Divine Excursion Department, where Liang Tiancheng and the other cultivators welcomed him, but Li Zhengfu ignored his arrival.
• Chen Beiwu learned that Deputy Minister Liu Chenxing was on a hundred years of sick leave and had Liang Tiancheng handle the handover.
• Chen Beiwu met Realm-Setting Senior, endured its test, and received praise for his potential along with permission to awaken it with the Heaven-Probing Disk if trouble arose.
• Li Zhengfu watched Chen Beiwu leave and hoped the new minister would avoid departmental affairs so he could advance the Ancient Demon Cult’s mission.
• Liang Tiancheng gave Chen Beiwu the department’s records, which showed that the Ancient Yao Realm had moved to within three hundred thousand heaven-patrolling distances of Heavenly Abyss Star.

Chen Beiwu exposed Li Zhengfu as an Ancient Demon Cult infiltrator, whose hidden restriction summoned the lingering power of Heaven-Slaying Demon Venerable before the Jade Purity Immortal Sect's Sect Master intervened. After the threat vanished, Chen Beiwu began learning the Divine Excursion Department's world-searching work, and Yuyue prepared to try the Heaven-Seeking Platform.

• Chen Beiwu questioned Liang Tiancheng about Li Zhengfu, then had Golden Egg use Dragon King Awe to expose him as an evil cultivator who had refined a God-Delivering Stele.
• Chen Beiwu searched Li Zhengfu's Blood Nascent Soul and triggered a hidden attack from Gu Tianqian, the Heaven-Slaying Demon Venerable, but suppressed its dark gleam with Rectify the Source and Clarify the Origin.
• Violet Firmament Venerable arrived after Gu Tianqian's projection vanished, praised Chen Beiwu, and left the Divine Excursion Department under his oversight.
• Chen Beiwu asked Liang Tiancheng to explain the Heaven-Seeking Platform, while Iron Egg studied its world-searching methods and found only previously recorded, worthless Hengsha Worlds over three days.
• Yuyue, eager to repeat her earlier success at finding a Middle Thousand World, offered to try the Heaven-Seeking Platform.

Yuyue found a Violet Radiance Middle Thousand World, then Chen Beiwu discovered an Emperor Sequence world whose Half-Step Void Refinement ruler attacked the Divine Excursion Department. Guangcheng Dao Venerable appeared and subdued the ruler, leaving Yuyue and the department cultivators paying their respects while Chen Beiwu remained composed.

• Yuyue used the Heaven-Seeking Platform and World-Surveying Heaven-Traverser to locate a valuable Violet Radiance Middle Thousand World.
• Chen Beiwu took over the Heaven-Seeking Platform and discovered a dark golden Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World.
• The world's Half-Step Void Refinement ruler attacked across the void, and Chen Beiwu sensed that the strike threatened him.
• Guangcheng Dao Venerable arrived at the Divine Excursion Department and dispersed the attack's pressure.
• Guangcheng Dao Venerable recalled the retreating ruler and forced him to his knees without a fight.
• Yuyue, Liang Tiancheng, and the other Nascent Soul True Lords bowed to Guangcheng Dao Venerable while Chen Beiwu remained composed.

Guangcheng Dao Venerable rewarded Chen Beiwu, invited him to become a disciple or join his family through marriage, and told him about the Ancient Yao Realm’s dangers. After Chen Beiwu declined those offers and the realm’s opportunities, Guangcheng Dao Venerable assigned him to survey and develop an Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World, and Chen Beiwu inspected the sect’s merit catalog.

• Guangcheng Dao Venerable rewarded Chen Beiwu with Jade Purity Immortal Merit for discovering an Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World, drawing the envy of the Divine Excursion Department’s Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Guangcheng Dao Venerable invited Chen Beiwu to become his direct disciple and then his great-granddaughter’s husband, but Chen Beiwu declined both offers because he already had a master and a Dao Companion.
• Guangcheng Dao Venerable explained the Baxia Demon Emperor’s escape from the Immortal Alliance and revealed that the Baxia Blood Emperor Armor held an unfinished origin Great Dao and could be exchanged for a Dao-Proving Pill.
• Chen Beiwu declined to pursue the Ancient Yao Realm’s opportunities, and Guangcheng Dao Venerable assigned him to survey and develop the Emperor Sequence Middle Thousand World while promising to protect him from higher-realm attackers.
• Chen Beiwu examined the Jade Purity Immortal Merit catalog and found that his merit was insufficient to access Dao beasts, Dao artifacts, or Dao pills, then viewed the Heavenly Crown Flower entry.

Chen Beiwu exchanged for a Three-Five Dao Lotus, accelerated his cultivation, and discovered that a peak Demon Venerable Fuyu Yuanpeng had destroyed his Mirror-Illuminated Clone in Guan County. He suspected Princess Yinling or the Ninth Prince had arranged the attack, while Golden Egg learned that Guan County’s people had begun worshipping the Slay the Dragon Sword Immortal.

• Chen Beiwu rejected the Heavenly Crown Flower and Pure Yang Grass, then exchanged one Jade Purity immortal merit for a Three-Five Dao Lotus.
• Chen Beiwu invited Yuyue to explore the imperial-sequence Middle Thousand World, then refined the lotus for a year and advanced his Spirit Transformation cultivation.
• Xuele awoke with major accomplishment in Taiyi Heaven-Cutting Sword intent, and Chen Beiwu traveled to Guan County to investigate his missing Mirror-Illuminated Clone.
• Chen Beiwu used Xuele’s vine and his divination to discover that a peak Demon Venerable Fuyu Yuanpeng had fought two Sword Venerables and crushed his clone during the battle.
• Chen Beiwu suspected Princess Yinling or the Ninth Prince had instigated the attack, while Golden Egg sensed that Guan County’s people had turned from worshipping him to honoring the Slay the Dragon Sword Immortal.

Chen Beiwu reassured the little ones that their prepared identity remained safe and sought to use the Earth Church’s influence while investigating the Purple Palace Cave Abode. After meeting Shen Yuxia, he refused her offer to recommend him as a disciple to a Spirit Transformation Venerable, and she took him to Earth Mother Island instead.

• Iron Egg, Golden Egg, and Xuele discussed the danger of attracting the Great Shang Imperial Dynasty’s attention, but Chen Beiwu said their identity as Chen Zi'ang remained usable and suspected the Spirit Transformation Venerables had come for the Purple Palace Cave Abode.
• In the Wu River, Shen Yuxia killed a Fourth-Realm Demon King, met Zhao Yuanyuan, and refused to travel with him; she then hurried away after receiving a signal on her Jade Pendant.
• Chen Beiwu met Shen Yuxia and explained what had happened at Guan County’s government office, crediting Golden Egg with his escape and cultivation progress.
• Shen Yuxia offered Chen Beiwu a recommendation to take a Spirit Transformation Venerable as his master, but he refused, saying he would attain the True Venerable realm without doing so.
• Shen Yuxia took Chen Beiwu toward Earth Mother Island, while Zhao Yuanyuan chose not to involve himself in matters unrelated to the Purple Palace Cave Abode.

Shen Yuxia brought Chen Beiwu to Earth Mother Island and introduced him to Wudang Primordial Mother as a potential True Venerable. After Wudang tested his strength, Chen Beiwu revealed a saber strike powerful enough to wound her, leaving Shen Yuxia stunned.

• Shen Yuxia arrived at Earth Mother Island with Chen Beiwu and asked Li Hu to report that she had found a potential True Venerable for Wudang Primordial Mother.
• Shen Yuxia took Chen Beiwu to the Tide Pavilion, where she explained that she was helping him because she had promised Long Kui to look after him.
• After two days discussing the Dao, Chen Beiwu sensed Wudang Primordial Mother approaching, and she arrived to examine him.
• Wudang Primordial Mother asked Chen Beiwu to use his strongest Profound Ability, and he demonstrated the Silent Earth Finger before admitting he had held back.
• Chen Beiwu transformed Golden Egg into a Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Saber and struck Wudang Primordial Mother, drawing blood from her shoulder.

Chen Beiwu refused offers from Wudang Primordial Mother and Golden Sage Primordial Mother to become their disciple, insisting he would remain loyal to Longkui True Lord. Golden Sage Primordial Mother invited him to join the coming Daoist-Buddhist debate and promised a dead Primordial Chaos Dao Egg if he defeated the Buddhist Sect’s prodigies.

• Wudang Primordial Mother offered Chen Beiwu discipleship and an Earth God Grass, but he declined because he already had a master.
• Golden Sage Primordial Mother appeared and challenged Wudang Primordial Mother by offering Chen Beiwu a dead Primordial Chaos Dao Egg if he became her disciple.
• Chen Beiwu refused both Primordial Mothers, and Golden Sage Primordial Mother praised Longkui True Lord before inviting him to the Daoist-Buddhist debate.
• Shen Yuxia took Chen Beiwu to verify his identity and collect an Earth Church True Lord token.
• Chen Beiwu asked Shen Yuxia about the Western Heaven Buddhist Sect, and she said she would participate in the debate against its acclaimed Buddha Son.

Chen Beiwu studied the Eastern Land Region’s records, then accepted a Wu River mission that led him to the Purple Palace Cave Abode’s sudden emergence. As cultivators and river clans reacted to the phenomenon, Shen Yuxia invited Chen Beiwu to join her party in exploring the cave abode.

• Chen Beiwu obtained an Earth Church identity Jade Slip and researched the regions and factions in its Scripture Repository Hall.
• Chen Beiwu decided to search for the Purple Palace Cave Abode while completing Wu River missions for Merit Points.
• Zhao Yuming and Li Yueyin found the cave abode, whose emergence tore open space and sent a pillar of purple light into the sky.
• The Profound Origin Heavenly Turtle ordered the Black-Armored Turtle Clan to keep away, Bai You summoned Thunder Eel Demon Kings, and Qiu Chen led the Jade-Horned Horned Dragon Clan away from the danger.
• Chen Beiwu encountered Shen Yuxia, Han Cangyue, and Shen Susu near the purple pillar, and Han Cangyue invited him to join their expedition.

Chen Beiwu entered the Purple Palace Cave Abode with Shen Yuxia, Han Cangyue, and Shen Susu, then led them across a canyon battered by Heavenly Mountain Wind. A spatial passage separated the group, leaving Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg facing a lifelike ice sculpture that Divine Sense could not detect.

• Shen Susu showed the group a map of the Purple Palace Cave Abode, and Shen Yuxia identified the sword intent at its entrance as belonging to Silver Moon True Venerable, Li Yueyin.
• Chen Beiwu led the group onward and they found evidence that Silver Moon True Venerable had crossed the canyon, while Heavenly Mountain Wind had torn apart a Thunder Eel Demon King.
• Chen Beiwu had Golden Egg test the wind, then the group followed the dragon through the canyon instead of waiting for the wind to weaken.
• Chen Beiwu chose to enter one of four spatial exits with the others, but Fixed-Point Displacement separated Shen Yuxia, Han Cangyue, and Shen Susu from him and Golden Egg.
• Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg spotted a human-shaped ice sculpture containing a glowing purple bead, though Chen Beiwu's Divine Sense detected nothing in its location.

Chen Beiwu uncovered a Desolate Demon hiding inside an apparent Zique Pearl and learned that Purple Palace True Venerable had become a Desolate Demon after his death. Unsure whether the demon’s claims about the cave abode were true, Chen Beiwu decided to continue exploring, relying on Silver Moon True Venerable to lead the way.

• Chen Beiwu noticed demonic qi inside the ice sculpture and realized it was corrupting Golden Egg and Xuele with greed.
• Chen Beiwu struck the false Zique Pearl with Abyssal Transformation, exposed the Desolate Demon, and captured it as it tried to flee.
• The Desolate Demon claimed there was no Zique Pearl in the Purple Palace Cave Abode and revealed that Purple Palace True Venerable had died as a human but begun a new life as a Desolate Demon.
• Chen Beiwu destroyed the Desolate Demon with Taiyi Heaven-Cutting and considered whether Purple Palace True Venerable had sought a path to Void Refinement.
• Chen Beiwu dismissed the idea of abandoning the exploration and said they would continue while Silver Moon True Venerable stayed ahead of them.

Chen Beiwu encountered Purple Palace True Venerable’s lingering will and the Wu River Dragon King, learning that the cave abode’s master might be transforming into a Desolate Demon. As Spirit Transformation Venerables gathered outside, Purple Palace True Venerable announced trials for his inheritance and the Zique Pearl.

• Golden Sword True Venerable and Silver Sword True Venerable found a jade slip warning that Purple Palace True Venerable intended to transform into a Desolate Demon, and Spirit Transformation Venerables gathered to discuss confronting him.
• Chen Beiwu met Purple Palace True Venerable’s lingering will, which offered to help him obtain the Zique Pearl if he killed its original self.
• Chen Beiwu entered a passage to an ancient bronze tower and encountered the Wu River Dragon King, who explained that the Demon-Subduing Stele had sealed it for three thousand years.
• The Wu River Dragon King offered to take Chen Beiwu out if he helped break the stele’s seal, while Purple Palace True Venerable’s lingering will separately offered him a way to obtain the Zique Pearl and escape.
• Silver Sword True Venerable entered the cave abode’s inner region, and Purple Palace True Venerable’s phantom announced that whoever passed three trials could inherit the Purple Palace Inheritance and Zique Pearl.

The Wu River Dragon King urged Chen Beiwu and the Spirit Transformation Venerables to enter the Demon-Imprisoning Tower and retrieve a half-step Ancient Demon's body, promising access to the Purple Palace Cave Abode Forbidden Zone and the Zique Pearl. As the group reached the tower, its powerful formation concealed it from view, leaving even Li Yueyin's sword unable to break through.

• The Wu River Dragon King told Chen Beiwu that a half-step Ancient Demon was sealed inside the Demon-Imprisoning Tower and that retrieving its body could stop Purple Palace True Venerable's transformation and open the way to the Zique Pearl.
• The Wu River Dragon King gathered Li Yueyin, Wang Yi, Guangyu True Venerable, and other cultivators, explaining that Chen Beiwu's art could help them overcome the tower's restrictions.
• Wang Yi warned Chen Beiwu not to trust the Wu River Dragon King blindly, while Chen Beiwu sensed that calamity surrounded both Li Yueyin and Wang Yi.
• Li Yueyin led the cultivators through the passage toward the Demon-Imprisoning Tower, and Chen Beiwu decided to wait for a chance to exhaust her fortune rather than reveal his strength.
• The Demon-Imprisoning Tower vanished behind a fifth-tier upper-grade Origin Formation, and Li Yueyin's sword strike failed to expose or damage it.

Guangyu True Venerable broke the formation concealing the Demon-Imprisoning Tower, but the gathered Spirit Transformation Venerables could not overcome its Desolate Demon Restriction. Chen Beiwu used Golden Egg and the Wu River Dragon King's power to clear the restriction, and Li Yueyin opened the gate, leaving the group facing a mysterious void.

• Guangyu True Venerable traded a fifth-tier origin pill for Thunder Eel Demon Venerable's blood essence and used his artifact to reveal the Demon-Imprisoning Tower.
• Li Yueyin and the other Spirit Transformation Venerables failed to break the tower gate's Desolate Demon Restriction with their own abilities and treasures.
• The Wu River Dragon King empowered Golden Egg with Wu River True Form power and urged Chen Beiwu to use it against the restriction.
• Chen Beiwu had Golden Egg invoke the Clear Source Profound Ability, which melted away the restriction.
• Li Yueyin cut through the gate with her Moon Wheel Sword Qi, and the opened entrance revealed a mysterious void.

Chen Beiwu entered the Demon-Imprisoning Tower with Li Yueyin and Yu Tianhai, where they encountered a Heavenly Intent Salamander, a rare and powerful Creation Origin Beast. As Yu Tianhai prepared a formation, the Salamander struck through Li Yueyin’s defenses and pierced her chest.

• Guangyu True Venerable divined that the group faced a death trap, but Li Yueyin led the Spirit Transformation cultivators into the Demon-Imprisoning Tower.
• The tower split them apart, leaving Chen Beiwu with Li Yueyin and Yu Tianhai, who warned him about the Wu River Dragon King and proposed escaping through the forbidden zone.
• They appeared among gravestones bearing their names and encountered a Heavenly Intent Salamander that Chen Beiwu recognized as a valuable Creation Origin Beast.
• Li Yueyin and Yu Tianhai attacked the Salamander while Chen Beiwu and his companions watched, and Yu Tianhai began setting up the Great Radiance Thunder Pivot Origin Formation.
• The Salamander nullified Li Yueyin’s sword-light defense and pierced through her chest, shattering her defensive Origin Artifact.

Li Yueyin and Guangyu True Venerable tried to capture the Heavenly Intent Salamander, but it transformed into a Heavenly Intent Nine-Patterned Dragon and revealed power near Demon Venerable perfection. Chen Beiwu prepared to intervene as the dragon trapped Li Yueyin, Yu Tianhai, and Guangyu True Venerable within its True Form Domain Fusion.

• Li Yueyin's Four Strings, Four Layers sword strike failed to harm the Heavenly Intent Salamander, which devoured her sword intent and later cracked her lifebound Silver Moon Sword with its eyelid.
• Guangyu True Venerable trapped the salamander in the Great Radiance Thunder Pivot Origin Formation, but it grew more powerful and forced him to detonate the formation disks.
• The salamander transformed into a Heavenly Intent Nine-Patterned Dragon, revealing a vast world-domain that made Li Yueyin and Yu Tianhai recognize it as a Perfection Demon Venerable.
• The dragon ignored Chen Beiwu and focused on Li Yueyin and Yu Tianhai, while Chen Beiwu readied the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror and his companions prepared to act.
• The dragon used True Form Domain Fusion to suppress Guangyu True Venerable's defenses, threatening to annihilate the three Spirit Transformation cultivators unless they broke free.

Li Yueyin, Yu Tianhai, and Chen Beiwu fought the Heavenly Intent Salamander after it entered its perfected Demon Venerable form, but Yu Tianhai was killed despite revealing the God-Slaying Nail. Li Yueyin prepared to strike with a Quasi-Dao Soldier, while Chen Beiwu readied an escape as the salamander hinted that she had underestimated its strength.

• Yu Tianhai urged Li Yueyin and Chen Beiwu to fight together, but Li Yueyin tried to flee before agreeing to prepare a killing strike while Yu Tianhai held off the Heavenly Intent Salamander.
• Li Yueyin threatened Chen Beiwu into joining the fight, and Chen Beiwu had Golden Egg feign an attack before moving them both away from danger.
• The Heavenly Intent Salamander used Heavenly Will Convergence to kill Yu Tianhai, then demanded that Li Yueyin submit while crushing her Silver Moon Sword with a claw.
• Yu Tianhai reappeared and stabbed the salamander with the God-Slaying Nail, but the salamander used Heavenly Will Replaces the Light to escape the attack and devoured Yu Tianhai's Primordial Spirit.
• Li Yueyin said she needed only twenty breaths to kill the salamander, which recognized her Quasi-Dao Soldier and prompted Chen Beiwu to prepare an escape.