Recaps

Chen Mu took Chen Duo and a group of talisman masters from the Chen Kingdom aboard a new transport ship for a return journey to the Netherworld. After crossing the Chaotic Void and wormhole, they arrived near the Netherworld, where Chen Mu paused to upgrade the cross-world teleportation array.

• Chen Mu told Chen Xuejun that he would leave a clone behind and asked him to report anything unusual.
• A month later, Chen Mu invited Chen Duo to travel to the Netherworld with him for cultivation and future trade.
• Chen Mu, Chen Duo, and more than a dozen Rune Research Institute talisman masters boarded the newly built transport ship and departed Source Wood City.
• In the Chaotic Void, Chen Mu advised the passengers to cultivate before the ship entered the wormhole.
• After more than twenty hours in the wormhole, the ship arrived near the Netherworld, and Chen Mu stopped for two hours to improve the cross-world teleportation array.

Chen Mu returned to the Netherworld with Chen Duo and a group of talisman masters, then learned that the Manju Imperial Court had conquered much of the region. At Iron Soul City, he arranged for an exchange of knowledge between the Netherworld and Pan Emperor Continent.

• Chen Mu updated the cross-realm teleportation array and took the space transport ship into the Netherworld.
• Mingye welcomed Chen Mu and used the Netherworld Pearl to free Chen Duo and the talisman masters from the Heavenly Dao's rejection.
• Mingye took Chen Duo sightseeing while Chen Mu headed to Iron Soul City with the talisman masters.
• Chen Mu learned that the Manju Imperial Court controlled two-thirds of the Netherworld and that Mingye and the Manju Sacred King had killed three Sages during a battle with the Asura Sacred King.
• Chen Mu entrusted the visiting talisman masters to Li Taiping and asked him to choose ten volunteers to visit the Pan Emperor Continent for an exchange.

Chen Mu met Luo Nianhan on the northern glacier, where the Ghost Sword Saint confessed his past mistake and offered to serve Chen Mu for ten years. After Luo Nianhan revealed he knew where to find clues about the Asura Sacred King's dealings with another world, Chen Mu and Mingye prepared to investigate the Asura Imperial Court.

• Chen Mu continued developing Iron Soul City and heard from Han Xiao that Luo Nianhan had come looking for him.
• Chen Mu confronted Luo Nianhan on the northern glacier about his role in the Manju Sacred King's near-death at the Extreme Evil Imperial Court.
• Luo Nianhan explained that his village had starved to death over a thousand years earlier and said he admired Chen Mu and Iron Soul City.
• Luo Nianhan offered to lead Chen Mu to clues about the Asura Sacred King's collusion with another world and vowed to serve Chen Mu for ten years.
• Chen Mu, Mingye, and Luo Nianhan agreed to investigate the Asura Imperial Court while the Manju Sacred King remained in command.
• Chen Duo began cultivating with saint-grade medicinal herbs and was expected to break through to Saint Level soon.

Chen Mu and Luo Nianhan discovered the Asura Clan sacrificing Human Clan captives to open a passage to the Abyss Devil Realm. Mingye destroyed the passage, and Chen Mu’s forces attacked Asura City as the Asura Clan gathered to defend it.

• Chen Mu and Luo Nianhan watched an Asura priest prepare a sacrifice at a platform in Asura City.
• Luo Nianhan explained that the Asura Clan worshipped a fallen god whose fading divine sense might be connected to the Asura Sacred King’s ambitions.
• The priest opened a black vortex to the Abyss Devil Realm, and a giant hand reached for the Human Clan captives.
• Mingye destroyed the giant hand, the black spear, and the vortex before the Abyss Devil Race could claim the offerings.
• Chen Mu shattered Asura City’s defensive formation with his space battleship and led his forces into an attack alongside Luo Nianhan.

Chen Mu, Luo Nianhan, and Mingye destroyed Asura City’s defenses and forced the Asura Sacred King to agree to leave the Netherworld with his clan. The chapter ended with the Sacred King preparing to lead the surviving Asura Clan to a new home despite the threat from the Abyss Devil Race.

• Chen Mu, Luo Nianhan, and Mingye stormed Asura City, killed its guarding Sage, and wiped out most of its high-level cultivators.
• Mingye engaged the Asura Sacred King while Chen Mu and Luo Nianhan fought the other Sages; Chen Mu killed one Sage, three surrendered, and another escaped badly injured.
• Chen Mu demanded that the Asura Clan leave the Netherworld within a month in exchange for sparing its ordinary members, and the Asura Sacred King accepted.
• Chen Mu freed the Human Clan captives, and he, Luo Nianhan, and Mingye left Asura City in their spaceship.
• The Asura Sacred King told his followers to prepare to migrate, insisting that the clan could recover elsewhere despite having lost most of its fighting strength.

Chen Mu, Mingye, and Luo Nianhan discussed driving the Asura Sacred King from the Netherworld and choosing its next ruler. Mingye hesitated to become Netherworld Lord because absorbing the Heart of the Netherworld would keep her from leaving for ten years, and Chen Mu backed the Manju Sacred King as an alternative.

• Mingye worried that the Asura Sacred King might refuse to leave, but Chen Mu said he would move his people through an Ancient Starry Sky Road rather than fight a losing battle.
• Luo Nianhan said the Asura Sacred King would likely take only a small number of his million-strong clan, leaving the rest to hide among the Nether Clan.
• Chen Mu said they would leave minor matters to their followers and focus on unifying the Netherworld before he needed the Manju Sacred King's help on the Pan Emperor Continent.
• Mingye revealed that the three Night Watchers had chosen her as a candidate for Netherworld Lord, but absorbing the Heart of the Netherworld would prevent her from leaving for at least ten years.
• Mingye said she wanted the Manju Sacred King to take the position instead, but the Night Watchers refused to recognize her mother as the candidate.
• Chen Mu said the Manju Sacred King could still merge with the Heart of the Netherworld while ruling the Imperial Court, regardless of the Night Watchers' approval.

Chen Mu and Mingye accompanied the Manju Sacred King to the Netherworld’s core, where the three Night Watchers offered the Heart of the Netherworld to the Manju Sacred King. The Night Watchers then gave their lives to empower Chen Mu and urged him to marry Mingye.

• The Manju Sacred King announced the Asura Clan’s departure, and cities of the Asura Imperial Court began surrendering to the Manju Imperial Court.
• The Manju Sacred King summoned Chen Mu and Mingye to meet the three Night Watchers at the Netherworld’s core.
• Chen Mu used golden earth escape runes to speed their descent through the earth toward the Heart of the Netherworld.
• Miao Qishan offered the Heart of the Netherworld to the Manju Sacred King, while Mingye said she could not fuse with it yet.
• The three Night Watchers shattered into a rain of light that greatly increased Chen Mu’s cultivation, and Elder Miao urged Chen Mu to marry Mingye soon.

Chen Mu reached the Mid Saint Level while Mingye consolidated her cultivation, and the Manju Sacred King fused with the Heart of the Netherworld. After arranging support for her fusion, Chen Mu left for the Pan Emperor Continent with Li Wei, Netherworld Talisman Masters, and Human Clan cultivators from Iron Soul City.

• Chen Mu broke through to the Mid Saint Level and discovered his expanded inner world let him form a powerful Law Cloak without outside computing power.
• Mingye finished absorbing the rain of light just short of a breakthrough, and the Manju Sacred King urged her to cultivate the Netherworld Scripture.
• The Manju Sacred King absorbed the Heart of the Netherworld and began fusing with its rules, leaving her unable to fight while she recovered.
• Chen Mu installed a Rune Core Server program to help the Manju Sacred King complete her fusion with the Heart of the Netherworld.
• Chen Mu departed for the Pan Emperor Continent with Li Wei, more than a hundred Human Clan cultivators from Iron Soul City, and ten Netherworld Talisman Masters, while Chen Duo stayed behind to cultivate.

Chen Mu returned to the Pan Emperor Continent and reunited with White Turtle, who revealed that he had nearly completed a Starry Sky Passage for the Chen Kingdom. The group discussed reforms to strengthen the kingdom before the Heavenly Court recognized it as a threat.

• Chen Mu arrived at the Rune Research Institute and exchanged a powerful punch with White Turtle, who had returned from exploring the void.
• Chen Mu brought Mingye to the State Preceptor's residence, where Meng Hui, Chen Hongjie, and Chen Zihu joined them for a feast.
• White Turtle explained that he had avoided the Heavenly Court's occupied star route and opened a Starry Sky Passage of his own, which was nine-tenths complete.
• White Turtle revealed his Albino Black Tortoise abilities and warned that the Heavenly Court might destroy the Chen Kingdom if it saw the kingdom as a threat.
• Chen Mu proposed reforms and discussed plans for the Starry Sky Passage with the others until early morning.

Five months later, Chen Mu prepared to answer the Haotian Empire’s summons and set out with White Turtle and Mingye toward the Tomb of the Gods. On the journey, White Turtle reported that his Starry Sky Passage was progressing smoothly and described the powerful Thousand Illusions Demon Realm it would connect to.

• Gao Bu told Chen Mu that the three divine lords would soon descend and ordered him to reach Heavenly Emperor City within three days, and Chen Mu agreed.
• Chen Mu used one-fifth of his Divine Soul to animate his strengthened flesh-and-blood double, then left it dressed in a runic outer robe.
• Chen Mu and Mingye met White Turtle outside the realm membrane, and White Turtle joined them aboard the space warship to travel toward the Tomb of the Gods.
• Chen Mu asked White Turtle about the Starry Sky Passage, and White Turtle said it could be completed in seven or eight months and already had a route planned to the Thousand Illusions Demon Realm.
• White Turtle told Chen Mu that the Thousand Illusions Demon Realm had sixteen God Level experts, including four True Gods and its ruler, Demon Emperor Pu Qing.

Chen Mu and Mingye entered the Tomb of the Gods through an isolated entrance, adapted to its chaotic laws, and went looking for the White Turtle. They found him searching a dangerous mountain range for the hidden chamber of Cai Gen, an Innate God who had once been the White Turtle’s senior brother.

• Chen Mu entered the Tomb of the Gods with Mingye and learned that the White Turtle recognized the area as a fragment of the Primordial Heavenly Realm.
• Chen Mu helped Mingye adapt to the Tomb’s chaotic laws before they set out to find the White Turtle.
• Chen Mu and Mingye tracked the White Turtle to a mountain range filled with devil Qi and dangerous lightning.
• The White Turtle asked Chen Mu to help find Cai Gen’s secret chamber, and Chen Mu sent Talisman Puppet spiders underground to search.
• The White Turtle explained that Cai Gen was an Innate God with a powerful life force who became the Vegetable God after learning runes from his master.

Chen Mu learned that God-Slaying God’s true power came from resistance and the will to fight, not slaughter, and decided to keep delaying the Chen Clan’s bloodline awakening. He then followed a discovery beneath a rocky mountain with White Turtle, while Mingye guarded the area.

• White Turtle explained how ancient human cultivators became Acquired Gods and revealed that God-Slaying God was guided by reason and the will to resist oppression.
• Chen Mu connected God-Slaying God’s power to his own soul and the God-Slaying Art, and recalled that a true descendant could form a God-Slaying Soul Seal.
• White Turtle advised Chen Mu to wait until Saint Level Peak before considering awakening the Chen Clan’s God-Slaying Bloodline, and Chen Mu agreed.
• Chen Mu’s Talisman Puppet spider detected an intact runic restriction beneath a rocky mountain, so he brought White Turtle to investigate.
• Chen Mu located the restriction more than a hundred zhang underground and began digging with White Turtle while Mingye patrolled nearby.

Chen Mu deciphered the restriction on Cai Gen's bronze door while the White Turtle guarded the entrance against mutant monsters. After Chen Mu opened the door, he hurried inside the secret chamber with the White Turtle and Mingye before it could close again.

• Chen Mu used his inheritance and the spaceship's intelligent brains to work on the bronze door's restriction, while Mingye and the White Turtle guarded him.
• An eight-legged mutant monster attacked the entrance, and the White Turtle killed it despite its extraordinary vitality.
• More mutant monsters kept arriving, tiring the White Turtle as he defended the entrance.
• Chen Mu cracked the restriction by cutting its chive-shaped pattern, and the bronze door opened onto a dark passage.
• Chen Mu called in the White Turtle and led him and Mingye into the secret chamber, leaving an array to block the entrance.

Chen Mu, Mingye, and the White Turtle discovered Cai Gen’s hidden storehouse, where nearly a hundred chests held millions of World Crystals. After using the crystals to raise their cultivation, they prepared to leave the outskirts of the Tomb of the Gods and head toward its center, with Chen Mu aiming to revisit Divine Furnace Valley.

• Mingye opened a chest in Cai Gen’s secret chamber and found it filled with tens of thousands of World Crystals.
• Chen Mu, Mingye, and the White Turtle opened the remaining chests, found them all packed with crystals, and stored the hoard in their spatial bracelets.
• The trio escaped the chamber past battling mutated monsters by using earth escape to emerge on another mountain.
• Chen Mu and Mingye absorbed World Crystals for about ten days; Mingye reached the Mid Saint Level, and Chen Mu advanced to the Peak Mid Saint Level.
• The White Turtle suggested exploring toward the Tomb of the Gods’ center, and Chen Mu proposed revisiting Divine Furnace Valley to search its ruined hall for pills.

Chen Mu, White Turtle, and Mingye returned to Divine Furnace Valley, where rising heat and more powerful mutant monsters suggested the Tomb of the Gods was changing. Chen Mu suppressed the damaged God Level formation around the Pill Hall and led the others inside, where they found intense heat coming from deeper within.

• Chen Mu and his companions reached Divine Furnace Valley and found far more mutant monsters, including Saint Level ones, than before.
• Little Blue confirmed that violent divine fire burned underground, but Chen Mu and White Turtle decided to explore the valley instead of pursuing it.
• Chen Mu led White Turtle and Mingye to the ruined Pill Hall and warned them that its damaged God Level killing formation was dangerous.
• Chen Mu tested the formation, then used five specially prepared talismans to seal its patterns for at least a month.
• Chen Mu, White Turtle, and Mingye entered the undamaged but intensely hot Pill Hall, and Chen Mu headed toward the source of the heat.

Chen Mu, Mingye, and White Turtle discovered that the abandoned pill furnace could condense Black and Yellow Qi, then absorbed its six strands and moved the furnace out of the Pill Hall. They left with Chen Mu and Mingye strengthened by their initial fusions and the furnace in their possession.

• Chen Mu found the lidless pill furnace, and White Turtle guessed that someone had already taken the divine pill inside.
• Chen Mu failed to move the furnace and spotted a wisp of Black and Yellow Qi, which White Turtle identified as a powerful body-tempering material.
• White Turtle found six strands in the furnace and gave three each to Chen Mu and Mingye, who began absorbing them.
• After three days, Chen Mu and Mingye completed their initial fusions and joined White Turtle in moving the furnace.
• White Turtle concluded that divine fire had enabled the furnace to condense Black and Yellow Qi, and the three carried it out of the Pill Hall.

Chen Mu and his companions stored the alchemy furnace in Mingye’s porcelain bottle and set out for the Tomb of the Gods’ central region. Meanwhile, Divine Lord Xuanji led a Heavenly Court party, including Chen Mu’s double, into the tomb and toward the same destination.

• Chen Mu failed to fit the heavy alchemy furnace into his spatial wristband, but Mingye used her porcelain bottle to shrink and store it.
• Chen Mu, Mingye, and White Turtle flew toward the central region to scout ahead of the Heavenly Court’s arrival.
• Divine Lord Xuanji and five others emerged through a hole in the sky, including Divine Lord Hundred Battles, Mu Zhuo, and Chen Mu’s flesh-and-blood double.
• Divine Lord Xuanji killed attacking mutated monsters, then concealed the group’s presences after Divine Lord Cangmu and Divine Lord Tianlang urged her to do so.

Chen Mu, Mingye, and White Turtle followed the Heavenly Court's party through the dangerous Tomb of the Gods to a black mountain. Divine Lord Xuanji opened a golden gate in the mountain, revealing that the Kunlun Secret Realm could be entered again.

• Chen Mu received word that three Divine Lords had entered the Tomb of the Gods and used his reconnaissance Talisman Puppets' map to guide the group.
• Chen Mu learned that the Heavenly Court party included four Divine Lords and a Transformation Realm talisman master, then followed them with Mingye and White Turtle.
• The Heavenly Court party reached a black stone mountain, where Divine Lord Xuanji ordered the three Divine Lords to clear away the strange trees.
• Divine Lord Hundred Battles and the other Divine Lords defeated the trees by using flames of Divine Power.
• Divine Lord Xuanji used an ancient mirror to reveal a golden gate and declared that the Kunlun Secret Realm could be entered again.

Chen Mu discovered how to decipher the Kunlun Secret Realm’s gate using Yan Xue’s talisman inheritance, but hesitated to open it for the Heavenly Court. White Turtle explained that they needed Divine Lord Xuanji’s Kunlun Mirror to enter, and Chen Mu spotted mutated monsters gathering near the entrance.

• Divine Lord Xuanji ordered Chen Mu and Mu Zhuo to open the Kunlun Secret Realm’s gate and explained its history, including Yang Wentian’s last entry.
• Chen Mu used seals from the Time Dao of Talismans and Fate Dao of Talismans to make the gate’s runes rearrange.
• Chen Mu told White Turtle he could open the gate within three days but considered pretending he could not.
• White Turtle explained that the Kunlun Mirror was needed to find the secret realm’s shifting entrance, so Chen Mu realized he had to cooperate with the Divine Lords.
• White Turtle pointed out the area around the entrance, where Chen Mu saw that mutated monsters had gathered.

At the Kunlun Secret Realm, Chen Mu estimated that breaking the sealed gate would take a month, and Divine Lord Xuanji agreed while assigning True Person Qizhuo to watch him. Chen Mu then left Mingye and White Turtle in hiding and returned to the Pan Emperor Continent to retrieve the Wentian Divine Spear from the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion.

• Chen Mu told Divine Lord Xuanji that opening the gate would take about a month, and she ordered him to work quickly.
• Divine Lord Xuanji told True Person Qizhuo to keep Chen Mu under close watch while Divine Lord Hundred Battles fought off the mutated monsters.
• Chen Mu told Mingye and White Turtle that he planned to retrieve the Wentian Divine Spear, and gave them Invisibility Talismans and scouting Talisman Puppets to stay hidden.
• Chen Mu left Mingye and White Turtle at the concealed camp and traveled through the Tomb of the Gods to an exit in Yang Province.
• Chen Mu reached the Pan Emperor Continent, boarded his space battleship, and ordered Xiaozhi to set a course for the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion.

Chen Mu returned to the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion and reunited with Elder Ming, who had emerged from seclusion after reaching Saint Level. Chen Mu asked to see the Wentian Divine Spear, and Elder Ming warned him that waking it could be dangerous if it disapproved of his reason.

• Chen Mu learned that time in the Tomb of the Gods had sped up, then reached the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion and stopped its mountain-protecting formation with command talismans.
• Chen Mu found Elder Ming among the elders welcoming him and greeted his master with relief.
• Elder Ming told Chen Mu he had broken through to Saint Level and praised Chen Mu's achievements.
• Chen Mu asked to meet Senior Divine Spear, and Elder Ming dismissed the other elders before accompanying him to the offering hall.
• Elder Ming warned Chen Mu that the sleeping Wentian Divine Spear might punish him if it was dissatisfied with his reason for waking it.

Chen Mu awakened the Wentian Divine Spear and asked for help against the Heavenly Court’s attempt to open the Kunlun Secret Realm. The spear agreed on the condition that Chen Mu master the first three forms of the Wentian Spear Technique, but rejected his performance after he practiced them.

• Elder Ming awakened the Wentian Divine Spear, and Chen Mu told it that the Heavenly Court was opening the Kunlun Secret Realm.
• The Wentian Divine Spear agreed to help Chen Mu if he mastered the first three forms of its spear technique.
• Chen Mu used the Biological Intelligent Brain and the Spirit Magnetic Network to analyze and practice the technique.
• By noon the next day, Chen Mu had learned the movements and Qi circulation and performed all three forms for the Wentian Divine Spear.
• The Wentian Divine Spear angrily dismissed Chen Mu, declaring that his performance was not good enough.

Chen Mu returned to the Chen Clan’s ancestral cave to draw on the ancestors’ defiant spirit and understand the spiritual essence of the Wentian Spear Technique. He sensed their unyielding will and hoped it would help him master the technique before time ran out.

• Chen Mu concluded that copying the Wentian Divine Spear’s movements was not enough and that he needed to grasp the technique’s fearless will.
• Chen Mu told Elder Ming he was returning to Source Wood City, then traveled to the Chen Kingdom’s imperial palace.
• Chen Mu opened the hidden entrance in the rear mountain and reflected on how the Chen Clan had declined after fleeing the Central Plains.
• Chen Mu reached the ancestral cave and read Chen Baxian’s poem about defying the heavens and becoming king.
• Chen Mu recognized the ancestors’ determination to resist fate and hoped their will would guide his comprehension of the Wentian Spear Technique.

Chen Mu mastered the Wentian Spear Technique and passed the Wentian Divine Spear’s test, earning the right to wield it. After giving Chen Hongjie World Crystals to support the Chen Kingdom, Chen Mu prepared to head to the Tomb of the Gods.

• Chen Mu mastered the Wentian Spear Technique and created a tremendous disturbance above the mountain behind the Chen Kingdom’s imperial palace.
• Chen Mu gave Chen Hongjie two storage rings containing about a million World Crystals, telling him to send a portion to A Huo and use the rest for the national treasury.
• Chen Mu returned to the Attendant Hall and demonstrated the Wentian Spear Technique for Elder Ming and the Wentian Divine Spear.
• The Wentian Divine Spear approved Chen Mu’s technique, and Chen Mu took hold of the weapon as its new wielder.
• Chen Mu decided to leave for the Tomb of the Gods with the Wentian Divine Spear.

Chen Mu accepted the Wentian Divine Spear’s condition to kill the Heavenly Court’s current Heavenly Emperor once he became strong enough, and completed his refinement of the spear. After advancing to Saint Level Late Stage, he set off with Elder Ming for the Kunlun Secret Realm, where the Heavenly Court’s divine lords were watching the entrance.

• The Wentian Divine Spear offered to recognize Chen Mu as its master if he agreed to kill the current Heavenly Emperor when capable, and Chen Mu accepted.
• The Wentian Divine Spear infused Chen Mu with Divine Power, transforming his body and Rune Cells as his cultivation approached a breakthrough.
• After a day and a night, Chen Mu completed the spear’s preliminary refinement, became its master, and advanced from Mid Saint Level to Saint Level Late Stage.
• Chen Mu invited Elder Ming to enter the Kunlun Secret Realm with him, and Elder Ming agreed.
• Chen Mu realized Elder Ming had advanced in the Time Dao of Talismans and boarded the space battleship with him for the entrance to the Tomb of the Gods in Yang Province.