Chapter Summaries

Manju, God of the Other Shore, led the Maha Corps in an assault on Mountain and River Pass while Divine Lord Xuanji tried to defend it. The pass fell into ruins, and Heavenly King Linlang watched his army being harried by Chen Kingdom’s forces.

• Manju confronted Divine Lord Xuanji at Mountain and River Pass and used the Nine Nether Netherworld’s power to suppress her.
• Manju lent power to the Maha Corps, which broke through the fortress defenses and attacked the high-level heavenly soldiers.
• The fighting reduced Mountain and River Pass to ruins, leaving the heavenly soldiers with no defensible position.
• Heavenly King Linlang watched through a bronze mirror as Chen Kingdom’s corps harried the retreating Heavenly Court army.

Heavenly King Linlang attacked the Maha Corps, but Manju’s warning and Chen Mu’s Spirit Network shields limited the damage. The Abyss Devil Race broke through Heavenly Defense Pass, leaving Linlang responsible for aiding the troubled Haotian Empire as the Heavenly Court’s advantage over the Chen Kingdom largely disappeared.

• Manju sensed danger through Chen Mu’s Mystic Heaven Fate Momentum Talisman and ordered the Maha Corps to prepare as Linlang struck with his Heaven-Shaking Fist.
• Manju ordered the Maha Corps to retreat, but Linlang pursued them with another punch.
• Chen Mu shielded the corps with repeated Spirit Network projections and showed Linlang that an Abyss Devil had breached Heavenly Defense Pass.
• Linlang attacked Chen Mu, whose projection vanished before the strike could hit him.
• The battle ended with more than fifteen thousand Heavenly Soldiers and a hundred thousand Haotian Empire soldiers dead, while the Abyss Devil Race’s assault forced the Haotian Imperial Family to seek Linlang’s help.

Over drinks at Ten Thousand Stars Pass, White Turtle and Di Lin discussed the Chen Kingdom’s Rune Artifact trade and the coming collapse of the Pan Emperor Heavenly Dao. As the Heavenly Court prepared for war over the Heart of Pan Emperor, White Turtle decided to seek cooperation with the True Esoteric Buddhist Sect.

• Di Lin praised the Chen Kingdom’s particle missiles and asked White Turtle to sell him more, while White Turtle said production was limited because the kingdom was still at war with the Heavenly Court.
• White Turtle noted that other factions, including the Heavenly Court’s Talisman Department, were imitating Chen Kingdom Rune Artifacts but could not match their quality or reliability.
• Di Lin asked what the Chen Kingdom would do when the Pan Emperor Heavenly Dao collapsed, and White Turtle vowed that the kingdom would defend itself against anyone who threatened it.
• Di Lin warned that the Heavenly Court was preparing for war and that Heavenly Emperor Haoyu wanted the Heart of Pan Emperor, while White Turtle worried that the coming conflict would endanger the Chen Kingdom.
• Di Lin suggested that White Turtle approach the True Esoteric Buddhist Sect on the Far Northern Grassland, and White Turtle agreed that it was time to visit them.

Chen Duo and A Huo traveled to the Far Northern Grassland to establish relations with the True Esoteric Buddhist Sect and seek an audience with its Supreme Living Buddha. As they approached the Heavenly Mountain, the Living Buddha watched them and decided to test Chen Duo’s wisdom.

• Chen Mu sent Chen Duo and A Huo to learn the True Esoteric Buddhist Sect’s position and pursue relations on behalf of the Chen Kingdom.
• Chen Duo and A Huo entered the sect’s barrier, where they avoided using powers that might provoke the Buddhists.
• Local herders directed them toward the Heavenly Mountain, and the pair continued along the road among devout pilgrims.
• A storm struck, and Chen Duo used her Buddhist cultivation to repel the rain while A Huo blocked it with a curtain of sword strikes.
• The Supreme Living Buddha sensed A Huo’s Great Dao of Slaughter and Chen Duo’s Vajra Body, then decided to test whether Chen Duo possessed the root of wisdom.

Chen Duo and A Huo traveled to Heavenly Mountain and stayed at a temple, where they questioned the Buddhist Sect’s treatment of the herders and received scriptures from the abbot. After Chen Duo grew frustrated with the scriptures, the two planned to climb the mountain and decide how to meet the Living Buddha.

• Chen Duo and A Huo followed a cavalry unit to a herders' camp, then continued their journey without intervening.
• After traveling for three days and nights, A Huo and Chen Duo reached the foot of Heavenly Mountain and entered a temple to rest.
• Chen Duo questioned the temple’s reliance on herders’ offerings, and the abbot defended the practice as voluntary and spiritually worthwhile.
• The abbot gave A Huo scriptures written by the Living Buddha and warned that meeting him depended on having Buddha nature.
• Chen Duo dismissed the scriptures and proposed causing a commotion on Heavenly Mountain to force the Living Buddha to appear.
• A Huo agreed that they would climb the mountain the next day and decide what to do when they arrived.

Chen Duo and A Huo climbed Heavenly Mountain seeking an audience with the Supreme Living Buddha, but an ascetic monk said he would not see them because they lacked Buddha nature. After Chen Duo condemned the monks for neglecting the people threatened by the Abyss Devil Race, the Supreme Living Buddha appeared and revealed himself to them.

• Chen Duo and A Huo struggled through a blizzard and an avalanche before reaching Heavenly Mountain's summit, where thousands of monks practiced ascetic cultivation.
• A monk asked A Huo what Buddha and emptiness were, and Chen Duo provoked him into attacking her; they fought until the monk apologized for giving in to anger.
• The monk refused to help them meet the Living Buddha, saying they had no Buddha nature, and A Huo decided they should leave.
• Chen Duo returned to accuse the monks of accepting offerings while leaving the common people to the Abyss Devil Race.
• The Supreme Living Buddha descended and told Chen Duo and A Huo that he had come because they wished to see him.

Qi Huo and Chen Duo met Yuanqing, the True Esoteric Buddhist Sect’s living Buddha, to seek his help against the Heavenly Court and the Abyss Devil Race. Yuanqing agreed to fight the Abyss Devil Race but remained cautious about intervening in the Human Clan’s internal conflict, leaving Chen Mu mostly reassured about his intentions.

• Qi Huo and Chen Duo entered Yuanqing’s created space after he welcomed them to Heavenly Mountain.
• Yuanqing praised Chen Duo for mastering the Sixteen-Foot Golden Body and explained his Mahayana Dharma’s aim of relieving suffering and saving all living beings.
• Qi Huo told Yuanqing that the Chen Kingdom sought friendly cooperation against the Heavenly Court and the Abyss Devil Race.
• Qi Huo used the State Preceptor’s communication token to summon Chen Mu’s Primordial Spirit projection.
• Yuanqing agreed to act against the Abyss Devil Race but said his involvement against the Heavenly Court depended on circumstances.
• Yuanqing told Chen Mu that he sought no control over the Pan Emperor Continent and intended to guide those who reached the Bodhisattva Realm to the Great World of Ultimate Bliss.

At the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion, Manju searched for a Celestial Person, believing she had found a hidden member of the Haotian Imperial Family. Long Yin revealed himself as her target, and Manju identified him as Chen Fusheng.

• Elder Ming advanced his Immortality Talisman research at the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion.
• The Myriad Phenomena Disk warned Elder Ming that someone had entered the pavilion, and he went out to meet Manju.
• Manju asked Elder Ming whether any Celestial Person students were at the pavilion, then searched among the disciples.
• Elder Ming watched Manju's strange search and tried to learn who she was looking for.
• Long Yin appeared and told Elder Ming that Manju had come for him.
• Manju trapped Long Yin with her Divine Power and called him Chen Fusheng.

Manju found Chen Fusheng at the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion, heard his explanation of his past, and took him away to answer for his betrayal. Meanwhile, in the Kunlun Heaven Realm, Chen Haoran organized the tribes that had joined his faction as the realm neared collapse.

• Manju confronted Chen Fusheng at the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion and rejected his apology for the scheme that had harmed her and the Netherworld.
• Chen Fusheng explained that he had come to the pavilion under the name Long Yin to find his daughter, Mingye, and revealed that his real name was Long Chenyou and that he was the son of Heavenly King Chiguo.
• Manju sealed Long Chenyou's meridians and took him away, with Elder Ming allowing her to leave with him.
• In the Kunlun Heaven Realm, the Primordial Emperor Pass grew crowded as the realm's Primordial Power dwindled and its inhabitants sought ways to escape.
• Chen Haoran's identity as God-Slaying God reincarnated became public, and he gathered more than a dozen human tribes into his faction.
• Chen Haoran brought the tribes that had joined him into the Primordial Emperor Pass for centralized training.

Chen Mu gave Chen Haoran a basic Primordial Power cultivation technique for training the Kunlun forefathers and named it the Primordial Beginning Art. He then found Ling Feng training in his God Level mech and took him for maintenance and upgrades before the coming war.

• Chen Mu watched the Kunlun forefathers drill and worried that their poor control of Primordial Power made them dangerous in battle.
• Chen Mu gave Chen Haoran a cultivation manual and asked him to make its techniques a requirement for joining the Chen Kingdom.
• Chen Mu named the technique the Primordial Beginning Art and left Chen Haoran to train the forefathers.
• Chen Mu found Ling Feng fighting two God Level experts in a mech after three days and two nights of training.
• Chen Mu told Ling Feng to follow him to the artifact refining room for mech maintenance and upgrades.

With the Kunlun Heaven Realm set to collapse the next day, Chen Haoran gathered his faction at Jianmu Hill to prepare for the disaster. He put Chen Mu in charge of guiding the falling landmasses toward the Chen Kingdom, while he would lead the Undying Legion to protect them.

• Chen Haoran told his followers that the Kunlun Heaven Realm would soon vanish and promised to protect them and their families.
• Bi Wu interrupted Chen Haoran's speech, and Chen Haoran invited the gathered experts to discuss their battle plan.
• Chen Haoran said they would not fight to protect the Heart of Pan Emperor against the Abyss Devil Emperor, Heavenly Emperor Haoyu, and Insect Emperor Sala.
• Chen Haoran asked his faction to guide as many shattered landmasses as possible toward the Chen Kingdom.
• Chen Haoran assigned Chen Mu to direct the landmass guidance and said he would lead the Undying Legion to protect everyone.
• Chen Haoran warned the experts against infighting during the unprecedented collapse, and they agreed to follow his orders.

As the Kunlun Heaven Realm collapsed, the heart of Pan Emperor exploded and scattered Heavenly Dao fragments and Great Dao Fruits across the void. Chen Mu organized his allies to gather the Kunlun landmasses and guide them toward the Chen Kingdom while Chen Haoran confronted Heavenly King Linlang’s advancing legion.

• Chen Hongjie gathered his forces as the World Tree collapsed and the Kunlun Heaven Realm began to break apart.
• Chen Haoran used the bone dragon to catch the forebears, while Chen Mu instructed them to adapt to the void.
• Heavenly Emperor Haoyu, a demonic claw, and a giant white worm fought over the heart of Pan Emperor, which exploded and sent them flying.
• Chen Mu used 108 Dharma Aspect True Bodies to intercept Great Dao Fruits, while Chen Haoran warned his people not to seize Heavenly Dao fragments.
• Chen Mu sent allies with teleportation talismans and particle explosives to guide Kunlun landmasses toward the Chen Kingdom.
• Heavenly King Linlang approached with a legion, and Chen Haoran led the Undying Legion to meet him.

Chen Haoran transformed into the God-Slaying God True Form and fought Heavenly King Linlang while Chen Mu used particle explosives to redirect falling Kunlun Heaven landmasses. After the first blasts shifted their trajectories toward Chen Kingdom territory, Chen Mu continued calculating how to move them toward Source Wood City.

• Heavenly King Linlang sensed Chen Mu, brought the Thunder Battle Division over, and confronted the Chen Kingdom forces.
• Chen Haoran activated the God-Slaying God True Form, drew the Heaven-Defying Sword, and fought Heavenly King Linlang without falling behind.
• Heavenly King Linlang recognized Chen Haoran as this generation’s reincarnation of God-Slaying God and defended against his relentless attacks.
• Chen Mu’s experts finished placing the particle explosives, and Chen Mu detonated them after confirming his people were clear.
• The explosions shifted the falling landmasses’ trajectories toward the Chen Kingdom, and Chen Mu planned further blasts to direct them toward Source Wood City.

Chen Mu fought off Demon Venerable Luo Zhan of the Blood Shadow Clan while his forces positioned explosives to steer a landmass. After Luo Zhan withdrew, Chen Mu detonated the explosives and brought his plan close to completion as three Emperor-level experts battled over Heavenly Dao fragments.

• Demon Venerable Luo Zhan arrived with a Blood Shadow Clan legion to attack Chen Mu and plunder his forces.
• Chen Mu restored his full strength, summoned the World-Creation Five Elements Army, and fought Luo Zhan using the Domain of Origin.
• Chen Mu revealed that he was the Chen Kingdom’s Imperial Preceptor, and Luo Zhan chose to leave after learning his identity and weighing the battlefield.
• Chen Mu’s forces confirmed that the explosives were in place, and he detonated them, bringing the landmass’s position to ninety-five percent of his target.
• Chen Mu watched three Emperor-level experts fight over Heavenly Dao fragments and saw Heavenly Emperor Haoyu among them.

Chen Mu and Chen Haoran fought Heavenly King Linlang and the Heavenly Court forces, but Heavenly King Chiguo Long Ao arrived and turned the battle further against them. Long Ao targeted Chen Haoran over the God-Slaying God Clan’s destruction, while Chen Mu struggled to survive Linlang’s attacks.

• Chen Mu joined Chen Haoran’s battle, and the World-Creation Five Elements Army helped the Undying Legion suppress the Lightning Battle Division.
• Heavenly King Linlang contacted reinforcements, and Long Ao arrived to help him.
• Chen Haoran and Chen Mu retreated under Long Ao’s pressure, and Chen Haoran accused Long Ao of destroying the God-Slaying God Clan.
• Long Ao punched Chen Haoran away, then blocked the World-Creation Five Elements Heavenly Saber and withstood Chen Haoran’s sword attacks.
• Heavenly King Linlang attacked Chen Mu with the Thunder Battle Division, leaving Chen Mu in danger as the Heavenly Court gained the advantage.

Heavenly King Linlang and Long Ao withdrew to answer the Heavenly Emperor’s call, giving Chen Mu and Chen Haoran time to regroup as the Kunlun Heaven landmass descended. The Undying Legion began to fade, and after learning that the God-Slaying God Clan survived, its Battle Souls saw that ferocious beasts were attacking the Chen Kingdom, prompting Chen Mu to organize a defense.

• Heavenly King Linlang ordered Long Ao to leave and help seize Pan Emperor Heavenly Dao fragments, and the two threatened Chen Mu before withdrawing.
• Chen Mu set up a recovery formation for the exhausted group as the Kunlun Heaven landmass descended and sunlight returned.
• Chen Haoran told the fading Undying Battle Souls that the God-Slaying God Clan still existed and had established a kingdom, easing their fears before they disappeared.
• Chen Mu saw that more than a million ferocious beasts had descended and were attacking cities across the Chen Kingdom.
• Chen Mu used the Spirit Magnetic Network System to gather reports and dispatched Kunlun Heaven experts to defend the attacked cities.

As the Kunlun Heaven Realm collapsed, Chen Haoran received Chen Guanhai’s soul seal and promise to find Gu Ningbi, while Chen Mu helped defend the Chen Kingdom from the beasts. After the disaster reshaped the Pan Emperor Continent, Chen Mu traveled to the Nine Nether Netherworld and discovered that Mingye’s True Spirit remained inside the Netherworld Pearl, making her resurrection more certain.

• The Undying Battle Souls gave their soul-seal power to descendants of the God-Slaying God Clan, and Chen Guanhai entrusted Chen Haoran with a message for his wife, Gu Ningbi.
• Chen Guanhai explained that Chen Mu did not need a soul seal because his own seal was already the strongest possible at his cultivation realm.
• Chen Mu used Spiritual Magnetization to help the cities of the Chen Kingdom fight the ancient ferocious beasts while Chen Haoran comprehended his new soul seal.
• In the twenty-second year of the Chen Kingdom calendar, the Kunlun Heaven Realm collapsed, transforming the Pan Emperor Continent and unleashing more than a million ferocious beasts.
• After arranging the Chen Kingdom’s response, Chen Mu went to the Nine Nether Netherworld and found fragments of Mingye’s True Spirit inside the Netherworld Pearl.

Chen Mu used the Nine Revolutions Soul-Restoring Formation and Mingye’s soul fragments to begin restoring her soul, then waited in the Nether River while cultivating. He left Mingye still asleep but slowly recovering, as his inner plane continued to grow and he reflected on the difficulty of mastering a Great Dao after creating a plane.

• Chen Mu replenished the Netherworld Pearl in the Nether River until it recovered enough strength to safely help revive Mingye.
• Chen Mu activated the Nine Revolutions Soul-Restoring Formation and nourished Mingye’s true spirit with sacred medicines for three days and nights until it formed a faint soul.
• Chen Mu used the small porcelain bottle to fuse Mingye’s soul fragments into her newly formed soul, leaving her asleep but showing signs of life.
• Chen Mu spent over a year nurturing Mingye’s soul and cultivating in the Nether River, which strengthened his inner plane.
• Chen Mu estimated that his inner plane would soon reach the mature stage of a lower plane and considered how controlling a plane made comprehending a Great Dao far more difficult.

Chen Mu reflected on how he would use the Great Dao Fruits he had collected before sensing that Mingye had awakened. Mingye did not recognize him and attacked when he claimed they were lovers, but she stopped once he admitted he had no proof and said he loved her; Chen Mu then embraced her.

• Chen Mu considered cultivating loyal and talented Void God Realm experts with the Great Dao Fruits he had gathered.
• Chen Mu sensed that Mingye's soul had awakened in the Nether River.
• Mingye failed to recognize Chen Mu and attacked him after he said they were lovers.
• Chen Mu used his Soul Seal, Domain of Origin, to defend himself while trying not to harm Mingye's soul body.
• Chen Mu admitted he had no proof of their relationship and told Mingye he loved her, causing her attacks to vanish.
• Chen Mu realized Mingye had been testing him and pulled her into an embrace.

After Mingye’s resurrection, Chen Mu’s inner world matured and he created the Battle Talisman Clan, while he and Mingye planned their wedding for two years later. Mingye declined Manju’s offer to inherit the Nine Nether Netherworld immediately, saying she would first finish hatching her own plane and merge it with the Netherworld.

• Chen Mu created the Battle Talisman Clan and named his inner world the Battle Talisman Realm.
• Manju proposed that Chen Mu and Mingye hold their wedding, and they agreed to wait until the Nine Nether Netherworld was close to the Pan Emperor Continent.
• Manju offered Mingye the lordship of the Nine Nether Netherworld so she could quickly reach the True God Realm.
• Mingye asked to wait until her own plane finished hatching, then planned to merge it into the Nine Nether Netherworld so Manju could retain her Divine Realm and Mingye could control the merged plane better.
• Manju accepted Mingye’s plan after learning Chen Mu had provided the resources she needed to create a plane.