Chapter Summaries

The Yellow Mountain Ancestor fought Zhang Tongxuan with his Flying Smoke Divine Spear but was defeated by Zhang Tongxuan’s Great Void Heavenly Eye and returned to the well. At Denglai Mountain Market, Xiao Liang brought Chu Tianshu a token that revealed fragments of the fight, giving them clues about Zhang Tongxuan.

• The Yellow Mountain Ancestor attacked Zhang Tongxuan with the Seven-Probe Coiling Snake Spear, but Zhang used Qimen Qi threads and the Great Void Heavenly Eye to stop him.
• Zhang Tongxuan caught the falling Yellow Mountain Ancestor, ordered the guards affected by the Heavenly Eye to treat themselves, and chained him in the well again.
• Zhang Tongxuan told Chen Zhuangzhi that he had created the Great Void Heavenly Eye by studying stone slabs left by an immortal, then discussed using Human Furnaces to aid his cultivation.
• The Yellow Mountain Ancestor recovered from the strange fleshly growth caused by the Heavenly Eye and worried that his message might lead Little Liang into danger.
• Xiao Liang arrived at Denglai Mountain Market and gave Chu Tianshu the Changshan Coiling Snake Token, which showed fragments from the spearhead’s perspective.
• Chu Tianshu and Lu Yuande examined the images and inferred that Yellow Mountain Ancestor had fought a powerful enemy whose public identity was likely a Daoist priest.

Chu Tianshu refined the Penglai General Principles into an innate method for comprehending and harmonizing Dao Powers, then entered the Eighth Consciousness Realm to search for the Daoist demonic cultivator connected to the attack on his valley. He sank beneath a pool in a vision of a black bamboo grove, pursuing the presence he had remembered.

• Chu Tianshu combined Monk Qingsheng’s Demonic Consciousness trait with other evil spirit traits and deduced the Penglai General Principles of Innate Supreme Methods.
• Chu Tianshu realized the revised method would let him comprehend and harmonize powers of heaven and earth through moves without cultivating every corresponding internal art.
• Lu Yuande and Xiao Liang discussed the robes worn by the intruder and considered seeking help from the Tongxuan Sect and Grand Matriarch Gao.
• Chu Tianshu entered the Eighth Consciousness Realm using Monk Qingsheng’s manuscript and confirmed that its records could be reshaped by his imagination.
• Chu Tianshu recalled the presence on the destroyed black cloth, found himself in a black bamboo grove, and sank into its deep pool.

Chu Tianshu’s soul confronted Chen Zhuangzhi at the Tongxuan Sect’s stronghold, but escaped Zhang Tongxuan and returned to the valley. By calculating the stronghold’s location from the stars, Chu Tianshu prepared to lead Xiao Liang and the others south to settle their grudges.

• Chen Zhuangzhi detected Chu Tianshu’s soul in his cultivation hall and attacked him with a violent burst of blue flame, but Chu Tianshu dodged while studying the surroundings and stars.
• Zhang Tongxuan arrived and tried to seize Chu Tianshu, who vanished; Zhang found and erased the mark Chu Tianshu had left on the hall.
• Chu Tianshu returned to his body in the valley and told Xiao Liang and Lu Yuande that he had observed the sky over the stronghold.
• Chu Tianshu calculated the longitude and latitude of the stronghold from the stars and concluded that it was south of them, likely at the Tongxuan Sect.
• Xiao Liang urged Chu Tianshu to go to the stronghold, and Chu Tianshu decided to roll medicinal pills for the group to eat on the way.

Mingjingzi revealed the Tongxuan Sect’s practices to Chu Tianshu and Xiao Liang, who disrupted its control over the implanted Gu and confronted Zhang Tongxuan. Zhang Tongxuan proposed a journey to the moon, but when Chu Tianshu rejected his offer, Xiao Liang faced the Great Void Pagoda’s attack and Chu Tianshu charged Zhang Tongxuan.

• Mingjingzi encountered Chu Tianshu and Xiao Liang, unknowingly told them about the Tongxuan Sect, and had the Gu insect removed from his body.
• Chu Tianshu destroyed the ice jar that controlled the disciples’ Gu insects, drawing Zhang Tongxuan down from the main peak.
• Zhang Tongxuan explained his failed attempt to reach the moon and invited Chu Tianshu to join him on a trip there, promising to release eight captured Attaining the Dao experts afterward.
• Chu Tianshu questioned whether Zhang Tongxuan would cripple the captives, while Zhang Tongxuan suggested Xiao Liang could try to rescue them during a fight.
• The Great Void Pagoda fired beams at Xiao Liang as he attacked the sixteen Daoists guarding the deep well.
• Chu Tianshu used Shattering the Chan Body to break through Zhang Tongxuan’s threads and struck at him with a palm as red as the sun.

Chu Tianshu battled Zhang Tongxuan on the mountain and raced through it to reach the Great Void Pagoda. Zhang Tongxuan used the Great Void Heavenly Eye to seize control of his disciples’ souls, and their assault descended on Chu Tianshu in the alchemy hall.

• Zhang Tongxuan neutralized Chu Tianshu’s palm strike with a crystal of Heavenly Ji Qi and Heavenly Ren Qi, then tried to trap him in a crystalline shell.
• Chu Tianshu escaped by Shattering the Chan Body and headed for the pagoda, but he avoided a direct clash when Zhang Tongxuan’s third eye began to open.
• Zhang Tongxuan summoned his disciples to guard the deep wells and the pagoda while Chu Tianshu carved a tunnel through the mountain.
• Chu Tianshu emerged in the alchemy hall, killed the old Daoist guarding it, and used the Heavenly Heart Sorrowful Demon Slash to crack several corners of the pagoda’s seventh story.
• Zhang Tongxuan used the Great Void Heavenly Eye to force six Punishment Hall elders’ souls to attack Chu Tianshu, and Chu Tianshu destroyed the Gu insects within them with his saber.
• Zhang Tongxuan fully opened his Heavenly Eye and pulled more than two hundred disciples’ souls from their bodies, sending a surge of baleful Qi down upon the alchemy hall.

Chu Tianshu fought Zhang Tongxuan amid the Great Void Heavenly Eye’s control over the Tongxuan Sect’s souls. He gained the upper hand and drove Zhang Tongxuan into a cliff, but the battle remained unresolved when the Heavenly Eye opened on Zhang Tongxuan’s chest and Chu Tianshu struck its pupil.

• The Great Void Heavenly Eye awakened the potential of more than two hundred souls, and they tore through the hall to attack Chu Tianshu.
• Chu Tianshu cut down the attacking souls and repelled the Artifact Workshop grand elder’s pagoda form before evading Zhang Tongxuan’s combined Ding and Jia Qi sphere.
• Zhang Tongxuan seized Chu Tianshu’s right arm, but Chu Tianshu burst blood into countless rolling beads, slipped free, and struck Zhang Tongxuan in the chest.
• Chu Tianshu and Zhang Tongxuan fought at a cliff as Chu Tianshu used rapid palm strikes to keep Zhang Tongxuan from escaping, while Xiao Liang charged the iron pagoda and blocked its blue beam with sword energy.
• Zhang Tongxuan moved the Great Void Heavenly Eye from his forehead to his chest, and Chu Tianshu struck its pupil with his Crimson Hand Seal.

Chu Tianshu defeated Zhang Tongxuan by igniting the Source-Moving Samadhi Divine Fire within him, and Zhang Tongxuan burned himself to ash. After claiming the Great Void Ghost Master’s trait and recovering the Sanqi Divine Sword, Chu Tianshu saw the Great Void Pagoda tip over and descend in smoke and blue flame.

• Chu Tianshu’s attacks failed to penetrate Zhang Tongxuan’s Great Void Heavenly Eye, which unleashed images that filled the air with chaotic green ripples.
• Zhang Tongxuan struck at Chu Tianshu with the Great Void Heavenly Eye, but Chu Tianshu countered with a palm attack that sent him crashing into the mountain trees.
• The fire from Chu Tianshu’s Source-Moving Samadhi Divine Fire spread through Zhang Tongxuan’s body, and Zhang Tongxuan burned himself to ash along with the Great Void Heavenly Eye.
• Chu Tianshu checked the token screen, received the Great Void Ghost Master’s trait, and retrieved the Sanqi Divine Sword.
• Chu Tianshu saw the Great Void Pagoda tilt and begin descending through smoke as its blue flames flickered.

Chu Tianshu and Xiao Liang stabilized the falling Great Void Pagoda and sank it into a river, then planned to return and check on Old Huang. News of Chu Tianshu’s victories spread across the dynasties, and Daoist Kou learned of Tongxuan’s death and considered sending Chu Tianshu a gift from the Northern Celestial Masters’ Way.

• Chu Tianshu killed the sealed Chen Zhuangzhi with a strike from his thumb, while Xiao Liang helped him stabilize the damaged Great Void Pagoda.
• Chu Tianshu and Xiao Liang guided the pagoda into a river and discussed having Tongxuan Sect accomplices salvage it.
• Xiao Liang remembered Old Huang might be injured, and he and Chu Tianshu headed back to check on him.
• News spread that Chu Tianshu had killed Monk Qingsheng and Zhang Tongxuan, and that Zhang Tongxuan had imprisoned eight Dao-attaining masters.
• Daoist Kou read the reports, reflected on Tongxuan’s ambitions, and decided the Northern Celestial Masters’ Way had a generous gift to send Chu Tianshu.

Chu Tianshu finished copying inscriptions from the Tongxuan Sect’s stone slabs while the people he had rescued recovered at his manor. As a vast gathering of martial sects and dignitaries arrived, ten Dao attainers manifested around Chu Tianshu, and he announced the name of his new sect: Dragon Gate Dao Field.

• Chu Tianshu explained to Xiao Liang that carving the Tongxuan Sect’s inscriptions helped his whole body memorize them, and he continued copying them in case he could take the records home.
• Chu Tianshu and Xiao Liang found the Yellow Mountain Ancestor practicing calligraphy, and Chu Tianshu recognized how the brushwork could guide cultivation.
• The Yellow Mountain Ancestor revealed that guests were bringing gifts and a banquet to Chu Tianshu’s manor, while Xiao Liang guessed that Chen Wenxin and Gao Min had arranged the gathering.
• Martial sects, officials, and wanderers crowded the road to the manor, where Chen Wenxin met Northern Celestial Master Kou and brought him along.
• The arriving guests saw ten Dao attainers’ manifestations surrounding an immortal above the manor, and Gao Min recognized the gathering’s extraordinary significance.
• Chu Tianshu announced that his lineage would be called Dragon Gate Dao Field and thanked the guests for coming to congratulate him.

Chu Tianshu returned to his own world with Daoist Kou’s detailed research on harmonizing herbs and minerals, then learned that time had passed differently and that a major supernatural crisis in New York had recently been resolved. He checked on the rising incidents and political unrest before heading outside, where the chapter left him preparing to use the Great Void Heavenly Eye.

• Chu Tianshu reflected on Daoist Kou’s research into minerals and radiation-bred herbs, and considered how it could support research back home through his Calming Spirit Pharmacy.
• Chu Tianshu named the pine tree Yun Songshu after it said it wanted a name, and promised to visit again when it could pull up its roots and run around the mountain.
• Chu Tianshu left the valley and returned home, discovering that a little over three months had passed there despite his expectation that nearly five months had elapsed.
• Chu Tianshu read news about the Overflow Zone that had engulfed Roosevelt Island in New York and learned it had been dispelled after more than half a month, amid widespread protests over access to supernatural advancement.
• Chu Tianshu checked the Special Investigation Bureau’s internal website, saw that incidents at home were increasing but remained generally stable, and announced his return in the group chat.
• Chu Tianshu went out to the bamboo grove with Sanqi and took out the Great Void Heavenly Eye.

Chu Tianshu deciphered how to activate Zhang Tongxuan’s Great Void Heavenly Eye and used its radiation to temper his body. He ended the chapter adapting to its power, with stronger Qi and blood and a cheerful smile.

• Chu Tianshu studied the Heavenly Eye’s radiation pathways and used the Northern Celestial Master’s observation method to identify its inlets and outlets.
• Chu Tianshu followed the Great Void Pagoda’s activation sequence and successfully powered the Heavenly Eye with his internal force.
• Chu Tianshu tested the Heavenly Eye against Sanqi, then had the sword return to its scabbard before trying the artifact on himself.
• Chu Tianshu exposed his flesh to the Heavenly Eye’s green beam and used Sun-Boiling True Qi to adapt to its radiation.
• Chu Tianshu drew on primordial Qi to sustain the beams, tempering his body until his Qi and blood surged and his eyes glowed emerald green.

Chu Tianshu spent the evening enjoying food and sharing it with children before visiting Calming Spirit Pharmacy and learning that the Grotto-Heaven ruins had drifted into the Golden Triangle and become stuck. Helai asked him to join an observation team led by Chen Taozhi to investigate the unexplained disruption.

• Chu Tianshu bought food from two schoolside carts, gave it to children, and then ate pork buns while walking to Calming Spirit Pharmacy.
• Yao Qianshu greeted Chu Tianshu at the pharmacy and told him Second Grandpa was busy with feng shui projects in the Spirit Realm.
• Chen Taozhi escorted Chu Tianshu through a concealed corridor to meet Helai, whose second split soul was working through a portrait.
• Chu Tianshu transferred materials he had gathered, and Helai explained that the Grotto-Heaven ruins had strayed into the Golden Triangle and become stuck.
• Helai refused to let Chu Tianshu investigate alone and assigned him to accompany an observation team led by Chen Taozhi.

Chu Tianshu met forensic doctor Sun Buyuan, who agreed to join the observation team traveling to the Golden Triangle and offered his knowledge of occult traditions. The chapter ended with Chu inviting Sun to examine unusual bodies kept in the Grotto-Heaven during their trip.

• Chu Tianshu discussed the upcoming Golden Triangle trip with Helai and learned that the observation team still had no clear leads.
• Helai introduced Sun Buyuan, a retired forensic doctor returning to work who was knowledgeable about occult arts.
• Sun Buyuan explained that practitioners from many traditions had flocked to the Golden Triangle as reality and the Spirit Realm drew closer.
• Sun Buyuan said his specialty was the Corpse Stitcher Lineage and described how he studied other traditions through the perspective of death.
• Chu Tianshu invited Sun to examine the remarkable bodies from Busan that had been brought to the Grotto-Heaven.

Sun Buyuan, Chen Taozhi, and Chu Tianshu reviewed a video of Sahong’s North Sai Democratic State and discussed the turmoil in the Golden Triangle. Chu Tianshu contacted Yungu about the Grotto-Heaven ruins, while Sun Buyuan left to sleep before their planned departure.

• Chu Tianshu showed Sun Buyuan and Chen Taozhi Sahong’s speech calling for opium eradication and international concern.
• Chen Taozhi explained that Sahong and the other North Sai leaders were former opium traffickers who were shifting to producing ice, and discussed how the conflict might accelerate a joint law enforcement operation.
• Sun Buyuan reminded Chen Taozhi that their priority was to investigate the Grotto-Heaven ruins and bring them back to their country.
• Chu Tianshu used the immortal crane jade pendant to contact Yungu, who reported that the Grotto-Heaven ruins were under growing pressure and described armed clashes nearby.
• Yungu showed off his technique for controlling bullets with force Qi as he chatted with Chu Tianshu late into the night.
• Sun Buyuan noticed it was after two o’clock, said good night, and left the cafeteria with Chen Taozhi.

Chu Tianshu and his observation group traveled to a county in Siam’s Golden Triangle, where Naichai received them and led them to a temple used to host honored guests. The group’s arrival was interrupted by Yungu, who reached the temple from the surrounding mountains and greeted Chu Tianshu.

• Chu Tianshu used the Great Void Heavenly Eye’s catalytic radiation to cultivate during the journey, while Chen Taozhi drove and Sun Buyuan rode in the front passenger seat.
• Chen Taozhi explained that local officials might treat the observation group cautiously because the county was part of an active battlefield, and Sun Buyuan identified Naichai as their contact.
• Naichai welcomed Chu Tianshu and the group at a toll station, then escorted them through the armed and unstable county to a temple.
• Naichai explained that a drug lord had expelled the temple’s monks and that officials now used the site to receive guests; Chu Tianshu noticed its shrine to Baosheng Dadi.
• Yungu arrived at the temple from the mountains, and Chu Tianshu told the startled soldiers that Yungu was his old friend and would serve as their guide.

Chu Tianshu and his companions settled in at Naichai’s estate, then discussed how to identify the Ghost God behind the trapped Grotto-Heaven. Chu Tianshu fell asleep and expanded his dreamscape to sense the outside evils across the region.

• Chu Tianshu, Yungu, and the others heard that fighting in the Golden Triangle intensified at night, and Chen Taozhi welcomed the chance to test their strength if anyone attacked them.
• Naichai led Chu Tianshu’s group to an antique-style house, where they ate; Chu Tianshu especially enjoyed the tom yum soup.
• Chu Tianshu declined to inspect the sleeping quarters and lay down, while Naichai left believing the group would avoid trouble.
• Yungu explained that a Ghost God’s influence in both the Spirit Realm and the real world had likely trapped the Grotto-Heaven, but the many possible Ghost God presences in the region made the culprit hard to identify.
• Chu Tianshu told the others to suppress their presences, then entered his dream and began expanding its boundaries to detect distant outside evils.

Chu Tianshu observed monsters in his dream but found no signs of anything that had truly entered the Taboo. After drawing in a ghost reporter who had died while collecting evidence of Sahong’s forces, he decided to help recover the evidence and pursue the sorcerers connected to the Golden Triangle.

• Chu Tianshu watched strange monsters emerge in his dream and wondered why none seemed to have reached the Taboo.
• Sun Buyuan used a talisman to guide a cold breeze into the house, where it appeared as a bleeding ghost asking someone to save the evidence.
• Chu Tianshu drew the weakened ghost into his dream, learned his story, and asked Sun Buyuan to find an artifact to nurture him.
• Chu Tianshu learned that the ghost was a Bangkok reporter who had documented Sahong’s armed forces attacking civilians before a sorcerer captured him and he died while trying to escape.
• Chu Tianshu told Yungu and Sun Buyuan he would investigate the sorcerers and recover the reporter’s evidence, even if it could not change public opinion.

Zheng Jing attempted to avenge his dead friend by killing the shaman who had turned the friend’s body into a puppet, but the shaman ambushed and shot him. Yungu and Chu Tianshu arrived with other powerful fighters, defeated the shaman’s forces, and left Zheng Jing alive amid the wreckage.

• Zheng Jing prepared poisoned arrows and raided the shaman’s mansion, shooting down puppets and pursuing the shaman through the house.
• Zheng Jing recognized his dead friend’s face on a puppet, and his hesitation let the shaman attack him from behind; Zheng Jing then killed the shaman with a returning arrow.
• A second bald shaman appeared and revealed that the first had been a decoy, then had his armed puppets shoot Zheng Jing.
• Yungu arrived and caught a rocket before throwing it into the sky, while Chu Tianshu shielded Zheng Jing from bullets and knocked down the shaman and puppets with a stomp.
• Other experts arrived as Zheng Jing realized his wounds had been sealed, and Chen Taozhi remarked that they had expected to find a gathering of evil-path warlocks.

Chu Tianshu recovered the journalist’s evidence and arranged for Zheng Jing to care for the journalist’s ghost. After learning that sorcerers’ trading gatherings were temporary and unorganized, Chu Tianshu decided to establish one himself to gather intelligence.

• Chu Tianshu used his soul-bewitching power to force the bald sorcerer to reveal where he had discarded the journalist’s belongings, and a team member retrieved the camera and interview manuscripts.
• Sun Buyuan examined the ritually refined corpses and prayed for the dead, while Chu Tianshu offered Zheng Jing the chance to care for the journalist’s ghost once it was nurtured in a magical artifact; Zheng Jing agreed.
• Chu Tianshu questioned the bald sorcerer about sorcerers’ trading marketplaces, but Zheng Jing explained that recent upheavals had destroyed fixed trading spots and left only chance gatherings.
• Chu Tianshu proposed establishing a trading gathering and excluding practitioners whose methods violated humanity, so the group could attract other sorcerers and collect intelligence.
• Chen Taozhi offered to arrange publicity and support from back home, and Chu Tianshu agreed that their observation group could draw on specialists beyond its local members.

Cai Xinzhai and Andrei visited the Baosheng Temple cultivators’ market to trade a dying Golden Chain Flower, exchanging it for a fist manual and pills. Cai Xinzhai then found a carving that could complete his martial arts and was tempted by its seller’s offer to help the market organizers in the Golden Triangle.

• Cai Xinzhai and Andrei traveled to the crowded market at Baosheng Temple, where Sun Buyuan appraised their Golden Chain Flower and directed them to a trading stall.
• The mendicant at stall four traded the Golden Chain Flower for the Occam Truth Fist Manual and three Compassionate Relief Pills.
• Cai Xinzhai spotted a carved arhat at a stall run by an old man and a girl, and the old man explained that it embodied Choy Li Fut Fist Intent.
• The old man demanded Nine-Syllable Mantra manuals reaching the Taboo level for the carving and suggested Cai Xinzhai work with the market organizers in the Golden Triangle to earn it.