Chapter Summaries

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.

Chen Mu reunited with Mingye and White Turtle, learned that God Level mutated monsters had besieged the Heavenly Court, and prepared a plan to exploit their attack when the Kunlun Secret Realm opened. As the Heavenly Court’s divine sons, led by Ye Beihen, arrived, Talisman-Robed Chen Mu finished deciphering the gate’s Ancient Runes and received Spirit Stones from Divine Lord Xuanji to power the seal-breaking.

• Chen Mu reunited with Mingye and White Turtle, who told him that two God Level mutated monsters had nearly killed Divine Lord Tianlang and now threatened the Heavenly Court’s forces.
• Chen Mu introduced Elder Ming to Mingye and White Turtle, and the group prepared for the Kunlun Secret Realm to open the next day.
• Mingye spotted five young newcomers joining the Heavenly Court’s four Divine Lords, and White Turtle identified their leader as Ye Beihen, the Young Emperor.
• Chen Mu proposed luring the mutated monsters into attacking the Heavenly Court so his group could slip into the secret realm amid the confusion.
• Talisman-Robed Chen Mu told Divine Lord Xuanji that he had deciphered the Ancient Runes but needed Spirit Stones to break the seal, and she supplied dozens of Eighth-Grade Spirit Stones.

Talisman-Robed Chen Mu opened the Kunlun Secret Realm gates by draining the Spirit Stones and slipped inside, leaving the Divine Lords to battle the mutated monsters. Chen Mu and his companions fought their way toward the entrance, where Chen Mu broke through Divine Lord Xuanji’s Divine Power net and flew toward the realm.

• Talisman-Robed Chen Mu opened the gates with a Spirit Stone formation, then betrayed Divine Lord Xuanji and entered the Kunlun Secret Realm as mutated monsters attacked.
• Ye Beihen followed Talisman-Robed Chen Mu inside, while Chen Mu’s original body led White Turtle, Mingye, and Elder Ming toward the entrance under concealment.
• Divine Lord Hundred Battles attacked Chen Mu, and Elder Ming used time runes to slow Divine Lords Xuanji and Tianlang as White Turtle escorted Mingye and Elder Ming into the realm.
• White Turtle waited at the entrance to help Chen Mu, who fought Divine Lord Hundred Battles and then faced Divine Lord Xuanji while God Level monsters distracted their opponents.
• Chen Mu used Little Blue’s flames to burn through Divine Lord Xuanji’s Divine Power net and flew toward the entrance.

Chen Mu and his companions entered the Kunlun Secret Realm after the White Turtle blocked Divine Lord Xuanji’s attack. They discovered that the realm opened different grotto-heavens for each entrant, and Chen Mu chose to enter the Fifth Grotto-Heaven to retrieve his substitute.

• The White Turtle shielded Chen Mu from Divine Lord Xuanji’s starlight, and they escaped into the Kunlun Secret Realm.
• Chen Mu reunited with Mingye and Elder Ming, and the White Turtle explained how the realm’s nine grotto-heavens opened according to each person’s traits.
• Chen Mu sensed that eight grotto-heavens had opened for him, while two opened for Elder Ming and four for Mingye.
• Chen Mu learned that his substitute had entered the Fifth Grotto-Heaven and that three Heavenly Court divine sons had entered the First, Second, and Eighth.
• Elder Ming chose the Ninth Grotto-Heaven, while Chen Mu decided to enter the Fifth to recover his substitute and asked the White Turtle and Mingye which grotto-heavens they would choose.

Chen Mu entered the True Body Grotto-Heaven, where he had to rely solely on his physical body and collect True Body Profound Meaning Fragments to pass the test. After fighting a vicious beast, he traveled through the forest and mountains toward his flesh-and-blood substitute.

• Mingye chose the seventh grotto-heaven, White Turtle chose the third, and the four companions entered their selected grotto-heavens.
• Chen Mu fell into a primeval forest and discovered that he could not use his Dharma Power, spiritual perception, weapons, or storage treasures.
• A mysterious voice explained that the True Body Grotto-Heaven forbade all power except physical strength and required entrants to kill living beings and absorb their True Body Profound Meaning Fragments.
• Chen Mu rejected the idea of exploiting the grotto-heaven and used his physical strength to fight off a cheetah-like vicious beast.
• Chen Mu traveled through the forest and climbed toward a mountain, following the direction of his flesh-and-blood substitute.

Fifteen days after entering the True Body Grotto-Heaven, Chen Mu reached the canyon where his double was trapped and found Ximen Zhanpeng waiting in ambush. Chen Mu and Ximen Zhanpeng began fighting, with Ximen Zhanpeng’s Tyrant Blood giving him the advantage.

• Chen Mu crossed mountains, lakes, and desert for half a month while tracking his double through their divine-soul connection.
• Chen Mu found his double trapped in a cave by golden-furred ape-like vicious beasts in a canyon.
• Chen Mu spotted someone hiding in a distant tree and attacked, revealing Ximen Zhanpeng in golden armor.
• Ximen Zhanpeng recognized Chen Mu and met his renewed attack with a powerful punch.
• Chen Mu exchanged several blows with Ximen Zhanpeng but gained no advantage against his Celestial Person Race Tyrant Blood.