Chapter Summaries

Gonggong and Zhurong fought their way to Mount Buzhou, where Gonggong destroyed the Heavenly Court’s supporting pillars and caused the heavens to collapse. Nuwa mended the heavens with five-colored stones and realized Mu Chen’s earlier guidance had helped make her achievement possible.

• Mu Chen sent Gonggong and Zhurong to fight near Mount Buzhou, and they each gave him a gift: the origin of water and the Fire-Controlling Divine Ability.
• Gonggong and Zhurong fought for fifty years on their way to Mount Buzhou, devastating the Primordial World with floods and heavenly flames.
• After losing, Gonggong rammed Mount Buzhou in fury, collapsing the pillars that supported the Heavenly Court and breaking the heavens.
• Hongjun ordered Nuwa to mend the heavens, and she refined five-colored stones from the soil she had collected in her palace.
• Nuwa used 36,500 stones to mend the heavens, gained Sage’s merit, and wondered whether Mu Chen had foreseen Mount Buzhou’s collapse.

Nuwa gave Mu Chen a Long-Armed Ape, and he raised it while observing the brutal war between the Witch and Demon Races. During his travels, Mu Chen encountered Houtu and received a choice concerning her plans to establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Hongjun told Nuwa that Mu Chen was extraordinary and suggested she give him a small gift in return.
• Nuwa sent Mu Chen a sleeping Long-Armed Ape, which he named Xiao Shi and began raising.
• After Gonggong rammed Mount Buzhou, the Witch-Demon war escalated, and Mu Chen sent out a clone to observe the fighting without taking sides.
• Mu Chen encountered a black-mist-shrouded woman who lamented the suffering of living beings and the Sages’ inaction.
• The system identified the woman as Houtu and offered Mu Chen the choice to help her establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation or kill her.

Mu Chen advised Houtu to create a place where wandering souls could pass through reincarnation and dispel the Primordial World's balefulness. Houtu recognized him as the mysterious sage who had guided Hongjun and Nuwa, then began comprehending the Dao of reincarnation.

• Mu Chen dismissed killing Houtu as impossible and chose to guide her instead.
• Mu Chen told Houtu that giving lonely souls and wandering ghosts a path to reincarnation could disperse the balefulness and end the slaughter.
• Houtu noticed Mu Chen was a Primordial Unity True Immortal clone and asked if he had met the Dao Ancestor during the First Dragon-Han Tribulation.
• Mu Chen said he had met Old Jun twice, and Houtu recognized him as the mysterious fellow Daoist whose guidance had impressed Hongjun and Nuwa.
• Houtu believed Mu Chen had come to show her the way to the Dao and began pondering reincarnation.

Mu Chen completed his journey through the Primordial World, cultivated to strengthen his abilities, and gained the divine ability Shrinking the Earth into Inches. Houtu established the Underworld and became a Sage of Merit, leaving the other Sages wondering who had guided her.

• After a hundred days of contemplation, Houtu awakened and returned to the Witch Race, convinced that Mu Chen had guided her toward the Dao.
• Mu Chen traveled the Primordial World with Xiao Shi for a hundred years, then returned to cultivate in the sea of clouds.
• After completing one hundred thousand years of fishing, Mu Chen gained and mastered Shrinking the Earth into Inches, then updated his attribute panel.
• Mu Chen strengthened his Body-Protecting Fire God Art with his growing understanding of fire and the Samadhi True Fire.
• Houtu announced that she would transform her body into the Six Paths, establish the Underworld and Yellow Springs, and enable reincarnation.
• Houtu gained boundless merit and became the Witch Race’s first Sage of Merit, while the other Sages wondered who had guided her.

The Sages discussed how Houtu had attained Sagehood and speculated that an unknown fellow Daoist had guided her. Mu Chen watched Houtu establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation, then rejected the system’s offer to join the Witch Race and chose to continue secluded cultivation.

• Tongtian questioned how Houtu had comprehended the chance to become a Sage, and Laozi and Yuanshi recognized the merit she had earned for the Witch Race.
• The Three Pure Ones concluded that an unknown fellow Daoist had likely helped Houtu and agreed to stop making plans within the Witch Race.
• Nuwa suspected that Mu Chen had guided Houtu, while Hongjun remained silent after the other Sages departed.
• Mu Chen considered how Houtu’s establishment of the Six Paths would protect the Witch Race and reduce slaughter in the Primordial World.
• The system offered Mu Chen the choice of continuing to fish in seclusion or joining the Witch Race to rule Yellow Springs, and he chose secluded cultivation.

After tens of thousands of years in seclusion, Mu Chen finally broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm. His rise shook the seas and astonished the countless creatures living beneath the Cloud Sea Grand Formation.

• Three hundred years after Houtu became a Sage, Mu Chen let Little Seven, Little Eight, and Little Nine leave to travel after teaching them new abilities and warning them not to join the Demon Race or invoke his name.
• A hundred years later, Mu Chen sent Xiao Shi away with the True God Lightning Control Method and Hong Yun, giving him the same warnings.
• After parting from his companions, Mu Chen returned to seclusion, resolved to reach the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Tens of thousands of years passed as the waters beneath the Cloud Sea Grand Formation became a refuge for living beings and some great witches and demons.
• Mu Chen broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, and the resulting thunder and surging seas stunned the creatures nearby.

After becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal, Mu Chen chose to keep fishing and obtained the Great Way of the Golden Elixir. When Di Jun’s Ten Golden Crows crossed his territory, he faced a choice between letting them pass and killing them for the Incomplete Text of the Zhou Tian Star Formation.

• Mu Chen’s body and primordial spirit were purified as he advanced to Daluo Golden Immortal, and his Cloud Sea Grand Formation spread across the surrounding region.
• The system offered Mu Chen a choice between continuing to fish and venturing into the Primordial World, and he chose to fish for one thousand years.
• After one thousand years, Mu Chen obtained the Great Way of the Golden Elixir, which he intended to pass on to the Human Race.
• The Ten Golden Crows flew from the Sun Star through Mu Chen’s territory, scattering Solar Divine Fire.
• The system offered Mu Chen a choice to let the Ten Golden Crows pass or kill them for the Incomplete Text of the Zhou Tian Star Formation.

Mu Chen decided against killing the ten Golden Crows but chose to punish Yin You, the youngest son of Di Jun, for scorching living beings from the sea of clouds. Yin You was left screaming in pain as Mu Chen beat him under a false accusation.

• Mu Chen weighed the danger of killing the Golden Crows and decided not to fight the Demon Race.
• Seeing Yin You attack inhabited areas with Sun True Fire, Mu Chen pulled him into the Cloud Sea Grand Formation.
• Yin You sensed Mu Chen's Quasi-Sage presence, transformed into human form, and identified himself as Di Jun's ninth son.
• Mu Chen slapped Yin You and accused him of defiling the sea of clouds by taking a shit.
• Yin You protested that he could not excrete and had been mistaken for burning debris, but Mu Chen insisted he was guilty and beat him.

Mu Chen stopped Yin You from joining his brothers, saving him from Hou Yi’s arrows as the Great Witch-Demon Catastrophe unfolded. After Hou Yi and Kuafu died, Mu Chen preserved their souls and asked whether they would reincarnate into the Human Race, leaving their decision uncertain.

• Mu Chen beat Yin You into submission and sent him back to the Sun Star, where Yin You hid instead of pursuing his brothers.
• The nine Golden Crows descended on the mortal world, and Kuafu died of exhaustion chasing them after years of scorching the land.
• Hou Yi shot down all nine Golden Crows, and Yin You returned to Di Jun, who killed Hou Yi and declared war on the Witch Race.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi fought the Ancestral Witches beneath Mount Buzhou in a battle watched by the Sages.
• Mu Chen used the system to preserve Hou Yi’s and Kuafu’s spiritual consciousness as souls and asked whether they would reincarnate into the Human Race.

Mu Chen sent Hou Yi and Kuafu to reincarnate as humans, then watched the Great Witch-Demon Catastrophe from afar. He talked Nuwa out of interfering in the battle, but ended by pleading with his big sister to stop sending him animals.

• Mu Chen persuaded Hou Yi and Kuafu to reincarnate into the Human Race and sent their remnant souls into a vortex.
• Mu Chen refused the system’s offer to join the battle and sent a clone to observe it instead.
• Mu Chen’s clone watched the Witch and Demon Races clash, and saw the Primordial World split into the Three Realms.
• Nuwa appeared beside Mu Chen and asked what he thought of the battle.
• Mu Chen warned Nuwa that interfering could bring the Heavenly Dao’s wrath and reminded her that her Great Dao rested on the Human Race, so she chose not to intervene.
• Mu Chen shouted toward the horizon for his big sister to stop sending him animals because he could not afford to feed them.

After the Witch-Demon Catastrophe devastated the Primordial World, Mu Chen returned to seclusion and completed a ten-thousand-year fishing mission, gaining Fiery Golden Eyes. As the Human Race began rising and rumors spread about Hongjun’s sayings, a human in a boat approached Mu Chen and called out to him.

• Nuwa withdrew into seclusion, Houtu became the Yellow Springs, and the Witch-Demon battle continued for more than a hundred years until Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and many Ancestral Witches died.
• The war devastated the Primordial World, and the Witch and Demon Races lost their power to compete for supremacy.
• Mu Chen’s clone surveyed the ruined battlefield, reflected that the races had been pawns of the Heavenly Dao, and returned to seclusion until he became a Sage.
• The Sages supported the Human Race’s rise, and the surviving demons became its enemies as the Great Witch-Demon Catastrophe ended.
• Ten thousand years later, Mu Chen completed his fishing mission and received Fiery Golden Eyes, while he learned that Hongjun’s sayings concerned the Human Race’s rise and Six-Eared Macaque’s eavesdropping.
• A human wearing a bamboo hat drifted up to Mu Chen in a small boat and called out to ask where the immortal was.

Xuandu visited Mu Chen to ask for guidance for the Human Race, which lacked a stable cultivation system and was being slaughtered by the Demon Race. After hearing Xuandu's plea, Mu Chen faced a choice between guiding him to Laozi or accepting him as a disciple.

• Xuandu called out to Mu Chen, and Prime Minister Turtle rebuked him before Mu Chen invited him up.
• Mu Chen recognized Xuandu and asked where his master was, but Xuandu did not know of Laozi.
• Xuandu explained that legends of Mu Chen had spread among the Human Race and that people had founded the Mu God Sect to worship him.
• Xuandu pleaded with Mu Chen to show the Human Race a path to the Great Dao.
• A system offered Mu Chen the choice to teach Xuandu the golden elixir path and guide him to Laozi, or accept Xuandu as his disciple and risk becoming Laozi's enemy.

Mu Chen gave Xuandu the incomplete Great Way of the Golden Elixir and treasures to bring to the Human Race, then withdrew into seclusion when the system failed to offer another fishing reward. A century later, Xuandu became Laozi’s disciple and recited the method, causing Heaven Beyond Heaven to rumble as Laozi reacted with shock.

• Mu Chen refused to interfere with the Demon Race’s hold over the Human Race but gave Xuandu the incomplete Great Way of the Golden Elixir for a future master to revise.
• Mu Chen handed Xuandu spiritual pills, medicines, and weapons to distribute among mortals, then told him to keep Mu Chen’s deeds secret.
• After Xuandu left, Mu Chen noticed that the system had not offered him another chance to fish and committed himself to seclusion.
• A hundred years later, Laozi took Xuandu as his eldest disciple, and Xuandu gave him the Golden Elixir method and recounted his meeting with Mu Chen.
• Laozi asked Xuandu to recite the method, and Heaven Beyond Heaven shook as five-colored light appeared and Laozi reacted in shock.

Laozi was shocked when Xuandu recited the Great Way of the Golden Elixir, believing Mu Chen had created a method with no flaws. After the sects spread their teachings and Mu Chen’s cultivation stalled, he sensed someone had appeared in his sea of clouds.

• Xuandu told Laozi that Senior Mu God had said the Great Way of the Golden Elixir needed Laozi to refine and complete it.
• After Xuandu left, Laozi reread the method and found no flaws, growing intensely curious about Mu Chen.
• Following the Great Witch-Demon Catastrophe, the Jie Sect flourished by accepting any being capable of cultivating, while the Human Sect, Chan Sect, and Mu God Sect also spread their teachings.
• Mu Chen ended his secluded cultivation after making little progress and decided to rely on time to overcome his bottleneck.
• As Mu Chen prepared to check the outside world with a clone, he sensed someone else in his sea of clouds.

Laozi visited Mu Chen’s sanctuary and invited him to join the Human Sect, offering Primordial Purple Qi and later the deputy sect leader position. Mu Chen refused, choosing to avoid entanglement in the coming tribulation and continue cultivating in seclusion.

• Mu Chen sensed an intruder inside his Cloud Sea Grand Formation and demanded to know who had entered.
• Laozi emerged from the clouds, explained that he had come to inspect Mu Chen’s formation, and apologized for arriving uninvited.
• Laozi asked how Mu Chen had learned alchemy, and Mu Chen claimed he had listened to Laozi’s sermons.
• Laozi praised Mu Chen’s talent and invited him to join the Human Sect, offering him Primordial Purple Qi to help him become a Sage.
• When Mu Chen hesitated, Laozi offered him the deputy sect leader position once he reached Quasi-Sage, but Mu Chen declined and said he wanted to cultivate in seclusion.

Mu Chen refused Laozi’s invitation to join the Human Sect and secluded himself to grow stronger. Ten thousand years later, he reached the middle stage of Daluo Golden Immortal and fished up a Heaven-Deceiving Cloak.

• Mu Chen told Laozi he feared dying in a calamity and declined to join the Human Sect despite Laozi’s offer of protection.
• Laozi accepted that Mu Chen had no affinity with the Human Sect and left the Cloud Sea Grand Formation.
• Mu Chen sealed the formation, resolved to keep a low profile, and entered seclusion.
• After ten thousand years, Mu Chen broke through to the middle stage of Daluo Golden Immortal and obtained the Twelfth-Grade Karmic Fire Lotus Platform from the system.
• Mu Chen felt his fishing rod catch something, and the system awarded him the Heaven-Deceiving Cloak as support for his cultivation bottleneck.

Mu Chen obtained the Heaven-Deceiving Cloak and chose to use a clone to hear the Three Pure Ones preach, seeking to deepen his understanding of the Great Dao. After five hundred years of preparation, he disguised the clone and sent it to Penglai Immortal Island for Tongtian’s sermon.

• Mu Chen received the Heaven-Deceiving Cloak, which could conceal or alter his cultivation, presence, karma, and origins, even from Sages without careful examination.
• Mu Chen chose to spend fifty thousand years hearing the Three Pure Ones preach rather than fishing to force a breakthrough to late Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Mu Chen spent five hundred years preparing a clone that matched his true body so it could comprehend the Dao authentically.
• Tongtian announced that he would preach the Dao for the Jie Sect on Penglai Immortal Island, inviting all living beings to attend.
• Mu Chen's clone used the Heaven-Deceiving Cloak to disguise itself as a low-level Human Race cultivator and flew toward Penglai Immortal Island.

Mu Chen entered Penglai Immortal Island to attend Cult Leader Tongtian’s Dao lecture and explored its wonders before clashing with Zhao Gongming over a fruit. The chapter ended with Zhao Gongming introducing himself and asking Mu Chen’s name.

• Daoist Duobao announced that Cult Leader Tongtian would preach at the great altar in six hours and warned visitors not to damage the island.
• Mu Chen entered Penglai Immortal Island and marveled at its treasures and unusual sights, drawing disdainful looks from other visitors.
• Mu Chen spotted a red fruit by a lake and reached for it at the same time as a middle-aged man with a goatee.
• The man challenged Mu Chen, and Mu Chen retorted, “You. What are you going to do about it?”
• The man identified himself as Zhao Gongming of Luofu Cave on Mount Emei and asked Mu Chen’s name.

Mu Chen defeated Zhao Gongming in a duel by using the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Scattering Gourd, then took the fruit. Daoist Duobao appeared and revealed that Mu Chen had passed the trial.

• Mu Chen introduced himself as Daoist Wang Zha, leader of the Heaven-Exploding Gang, and challenged Zhao Gongming to a duel over the fruit.
• Zhao Gongming agreed to fight at Heavenly Immortal strength, confident he could defeat Mu Chen.
• Mu Chen opened the Nine-Nine Red Cloud Soul-Scattering Gourd and trapped Zhao Gongming in its red sand, forcing him to concede.
• Mu Chen plucked and ate the fruit after Zhao Gongming conceded.
• Daoist Duobao appeared and congratulated Mu Chen for passing the trial.

Mu Chen learned that he and Zhao Gongming had earned the front seats by competing for the island’s fruit, then tried to trade his seat to avoid drawing the Sage’s attention. The crowd bid with treasures, and Mu Chen turned the exchange into an auction while Zhao Gongming watched in disbelief.

• Daoist Duobao moved Mu Chen, Zhao Gongming, and the other attendees to the great altar, where Mu Chen and Zhao Gongming sat at the front.
• Daoist Duobao explained that claiming the island’s fruit was the assessment, and that Mu Chen and Zhao Gongming had passed by contending for it.
• Mu Chen worried that sitting near Sage Tongtian might expose him, so he offered to exchange his seat with someone more worthy.
• The crowd competed to offer treasures for Mu Chen’s seat, and Mu Chen called for increasingly high bids.
• Zhao Gongming watched in astonishment as Mu Chen turned the Sage’s Dao lecture into an auction.