Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang’s removal of the Divine Palace Treasure Mirror ended the replicated Dharma bodies’ existence, and the surviving cultivators escaped the mountain cave abodes. A celestial palace then emerged in the Secret Realm, drawing the cultivators toward it while its Crimson Spiritual Body revealed plans to claim the Canglan Divine Palace and restore the Divine Dao.

• Chen Yang returned to his stone body after taking the Divine Palace Treasure Mirror, freeing the surviving cultivators from their replicated Dharma bodies.
• Yang Lingrui and two others ascended from the cave abodes, and the cultivators returned to the immortal vessel; a count showed seven dead and ten severely injured among the twenty-three Donglai Sect cultivators who had entered.
• The cultivators saw a celestial palace rise over the Secret Realm, and their bronze fragments pointed toward it.
• Chu Jingxiao sent Hong Yao and Qiu Ran back to Qingyao Sect’s immortal vessel, gave them Cloud Thunder Peak tokens, and flew toward the palace.
• The Crimson Spiritual Body watched projections of the immortal Dao prodigies and declared that she would claim the Canglan Divine Palace and restore the Divine Dao, rejecting the Black Stone as unfit to reshape it.

Yang Lingrui, Xue Qingluan, and Dongfang Yingcai approached the celestial palace and encountered Nangong Jinghe, who had slaughtered cultivators for their bronze fragments. After he allowed them to pass, Chen Yang realized that the Gold Ring was the Void Stepping Old Monster’s true body and that the Nangong Jinghe they saw was its manifestation.

• Yang Lingrui, Xue Qingluan, and Dongfang Yingcai left their immortal vessel and flew toward the celestial palace after the strange phenomenon stopped the vessel and barred their escorts.
• Nangong Jinghe killed a fleeing Late-Spiritual Connection Realm cultivator, took his bronze fragment, and revealed that he had collected more than ten fragments.
• Nangong Jinghe considered killing Yang Lingrui, Xue Qingluan, and Dongfang Yingcai, but Dongfang Yingcai’s flattery amused him, so he let the three enter the palace.
• Nangong Jinghe vanished using Spatial Daoist Magic from the Gold Ring, while Chen Yang observed the encounter and studied the ring.
• Chen Yang deduced that the Gold Ring was the Void Stepping Old Monster’s true vessel of reincarnation and that the Nangong Jinghe before them was merely its manifested form.

Chen Yang recognized the limits and motives of Nangong Jinghe’s soul fragment and realized that Nangong Jinghe and Luo Qianchou were racing to secure Creation Origin before their paths collided. At the heavenly palace’s bronze gate, Dongfang Yingcai reunited with He Shenglai and Shen Yue and arranged for He Shenglai to seek guidance from cultivators of Miaomu Immortal Mansion.

• Chen Yang reasoned that Nangong Jinghe had sent a soul fragment into the Lower Realm to find Creation Origin for his true body, while Luo Qianchou raced to reach Mystic Insight.
• Chen Yang considered helping the Secret Realm Divine Being if Nangong Jinghe attacked it, and thought the being could become an asset to the Divine Palace and the Yang Family.
• He Shenglai and Shen Yue arrived with other cultivators, greeted Yang Lingrui, and respectfully thanked Dongfang Yingcai for her earlier guidance.
• At the bronze gate, Dongfang Yingcai led He Shenglai and Shen Yue to cultivators from Miaomu Immortal Mansion and arranged for them to answer He Shenglai’s questions about his Dao Path in exchange for Dongfang Family tokens.

He Shenglai and Shen Yue received guidance and valuable inheritances from the Miaomu Immortal Mansion and Ruyi Immortal Valley, strengthening their cultivation and ties with the Yang Family. When the Heavenly Palace opened, Nangong Jinghe and the other leading forces were sent to its higher platforms, while Yang Lingrui’s group entered the lowest-level palaces.

• The Miaomu Immortal Mansion cultivators analyzed the He Family’s Wood Dao weaknesses and gave He Shenglai two secret manuals to repair gaps in its methods.
• Shen Yue impressed the Ruyi Immortal Valley cultivators with his learning and incisive questions, then advanced to Essence Condensation Perfection after receiving their teachings.
• Dongfang Yingcai reminded He Shenglai and Shen Yue to remember the Yang Family’s role in their opportunity, and both acknowledged their debt to Yang Lingrui.
• The Heavenly Palace’s bronze gate opened, and Nangong Jinghe entered the highest cloud platform while representatives of four other leading forces went to the prominent White Jade Towers.
• Yang Lingrui and the other cultivators with single bronze fragments were sent into the vast palaces on the Heavenly Palace’s lowest level.

Yang Lingrui and the others faced a growing lightning tribulation while Chen Yang secretly weakened it by destroying the forming lightning spirit. At the Heavenly Palace summit, the Secret Realm Divine Being killed Nangong Jinghe with her fire Dao Divine Art, but his Gold Ring found her hidden space and revealed her location.

• Dongfang Yingcai sent a Wood Kite into the storm clouds, and lightning destroyed it before she warned the others of the danger.
• Chen Yang used his Time Erosion Divine Art to break apart the lightning serpent forming in the clouds, leaving the group with a more manageable tribulation.
• The Secret Realm Divine Being recognized Chen Yang's power and prepared to use the Heavenly Palace's Immortal Foundation Devouring Dao principle.
• Nangong Jinghe used a Gold Ring to locate and attack the Secret Realm Divine Being's hidden space.
• The Secret Realm Divine Being used Spirit Forging to burn Nangong Jinghe to ash, but his Gold Ring vanished and then appeared in her hiding place as a voice declared, "Found you!"

Nangong Jinghe used a Gold Ring forged from an Outer Domain Golden Sea Dragon Tendon to breach the Secret Realm Divine Being’s space and attack the Glazed Treasure Robe. He sought to claim the powerful Creation Origin within, while the Secret Realm Divine Being’s attempts to stop him failed.

• The Secret Realm Divine Being’s Spirit Tempering technique failed to affect Nangong Jinghe’s Gold Ring, which he said shared the Creation Origin’s source.
• The Secret Realm Divine Being tried to repair the spatial barrier, but Nangong Jinghe recognized the power as evidence of a superior Creation Origin.
• Nangong Jinghe unleashed the Gold Ring’s dragon-breath technique and blasted open a breach in the space.
• Nangong Jinghe entered the great hall and attacked the Glazed Treasure Robe, while the Secret Realm Divine Being used divine arts and created three minor realms to resist him.
• Nangong Jinghe dismissed the Secret Realm Divine Being’s illusory methods, and her attempts to impede him dissolved.

In the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm, Yang Lingrui and his companions survived another Lightning Tribulation, while Nangong Jinghe told his Senior Brother he had found an extraordinary Creation Origin. As the group prepared for the next trial, Chen Yang discovered the Secret Realm Divine Being’s power was withdrawing throughout the heavenly palace.

• Nangong Jinghe told his Senior Brother that his divided soul had found a remarkable Creation Origin and that Luo Qianchou was not obstructing him.
• Dongfang Yingcai, Xue Qingluan, He Shenglai, Shen Yue, and Yang Lingrui combined their abilities to withstand and destroy the third purple Lightning Tribulation.
• Yang Lingrui drew strength from the support of his friends and loved ones, firming his resolve against the prophecy and the sword that had troubled him.
• As the group prepared for the next tribulation, Chen Yang sensed that the approaching purple lightning was weaker than expected.
• Chen Yang discovered that the Secret Realm Divine Being’s power was receding from every place of opportunity in the heavenly palace and wondered whether the palace would fall.

Chen Yang entered the Heavenly Palace’s top chamber and interrupted Nangong Jinghe’s fight with the Secret Realm Divine Being to claim a share of the Creation Origin. When Chen Yang used the Divine Ability of Creation to neutralize Nangong Jinghe’s attacks, Nangong Jinghe realized he was an Outer Domain cultivator.

• Chen Yang saw that Nangong Jinghe had overpowered the Secret Realm Divine Being and understood why she had withdrawn her divine power.
• Chen Yang sent a thought to Yang Lingrui, slipped through the Heavenly Palace’s barriers with the Time Erosion Divine Art, and reached the top chamber.
• Chen Yang released his aura and interrupted Nangong Jinghe’s attack, making both Nangong Jinghe and the Secret Realm Divine Being believe another powerful cultivator had arrived.
• Chen Yang demanded a share of the Creation Origin, but Nangong Jinghe refused and launched at least eight killing techniques at him.
• Chen Yang used the Divine Ability of Creation to dissolve Nangong Jinghe’s attacks, and Nangong Jinghe recognized him as an Outer Domain cultivator.

Chen Yang used his divine ability and careful bluffing to convince Nangong Jinghe that fighting over the Creation Origin would be costly for them both. He proposed an exchange and hinted that he could teach Nangong Jinghe how he obtained his Divine Ability of Creation.

• Chen Yang inferred from Nangong Jinghe's words that knowledge of Creation Origins had spread through the Outer Domain only recently.
• Chen Yang provoked Nangong Jinghe and claimed his divine ability had let him pass through the Heaven Sealing Method.
• The Secret Realm Divine Being realized Chen Yang was feigning an identity to intimidate Nangong Jinghe into retreating.
• Chen Yang avoided revealing his True God Authority, fearing it would draw powerful Immortal Dao cultivators to the Cambrian Continent.
• Nangong Jinghe withdrew his golden light and became willing to negotiate after Chen Yang warned that they could become enemies.
• Chen Yang offered to exchange the Creation Origin for something valuable and asked whether Nangong Jinghe wanted to learn how he had obtained his Divine Ability of Creation.

Chen Yang used a fabricated method to tame the Creation Origin and convinced Nangong Jinghe that he could teach him how to cultivate and raise its rank. Nangong Jinghe and his Senior Brother agreed to let Chen Yang take it, believing they could stop him from leaving if he failed to keep his promise.

• Chen Yang explained that ordinary refinement methods were limited and hinted that he possessed a method for improving Creation Origin.
• Chen Yang demonstrated his supposed method, calming the Secret Realm Divine Being and making the Glazed Treasure Robe settle over him.
• Nangong Jinghe praised Chen Yang's technique and asked him to teach its essentials; Chen Yang asked whether he could take the Creation Origin first.
• Nangong Jinghe consulted his Senior Brother, whose divination confirmed that Chen Yang seemed rootless within the Cambrian Continent.
• Nangong Jinghe and his Senior Brother agreed to let Chen Yang take the Creation Origin, confident they could block his route back to the Outer Domain if he broke his promise.

Chen Yang secured Liuli in the Canglan Divine Palace while misleading Nangong Jinghe with a fabricated method to gain information about the Void Realm. Liuli, daughter of Li Huo, then offended the palace’s divine beings by calling them false gods, and Chen Yang forced her to kneel and warned her to respect his subordinates.

• Chen Yang sent the Secret Realm Divine Being into the Canglan Divine Palace, then began explaining his fabricated method to Nangong Jinghe.
• Chen Yang blended his Dao Integration experience, knowledge of Li Fire, and theories about matter into a convincing but misleading explanation.
• The Secret Realm Divine Being entered the palace, remembered its past, and introduced herself to Fu Yin as Liuli, daughter of the Divine Lord Li Huo.
• Liuli rebuked Fu Yin and the other divine beings as unworthy false gods, then interrupted Ku Yun when he tried to explain their current customs.
• Chen Yang used True God Authority to force Liuli to kneel and warned that he would hand her over to Immortal Dao cultivators if she insulted his subordinates again.

Chen Yang questioned Liuli about her survival of the catastrophe and learned how her father, Divine Lord Li Huo, had sealed her and his research inside the Secret Realm. Liuli’s account led Chen Yang to suspect that the Old Divine Lord had deliberately buried the Divine Dao’s main-lineage deities as part of a plan for the Dao’s rebirth.

• Liuli recognized her earlier arrogance, apologized to Chen Yang and the other deities, and accepted her place at the back of the gathering.
• Chen Yang asked Liuli how she had survived the catastrophe ten thousand years earlier, and she explained that the Old Divine Lord had allowed her to descend to the Lower Realm.
• Liuli said Divine Lord Li Huo and the Caiyi Divine Maiden were her parents, and that her father had sealed her and his Dao Integration Method inside the Secret Realm.
• Liuli recounted her long sleep, her gradual awakening over ten years earlier, and how she later controlled the Secret Realm and lured Chen Yang there.
• Chen Yang connected Liuli’s account to the Old Divine Lord’s capture of the main-lineage deities and suspected their deaths and the Divine Dao’s collapse were necessary for Nirvana Rebirth.

Chen Yang learned more about the Ancient God Path from Liuli and discovered that her Spirit Tempering divine art could restore the Bright Mirror, an old Divine Palace treasure. After the mirror was repaired, a new object appeared on the Divine Palace’s high platform.

• Chen Yang reflected on the Divine Lords’ plan to destroy the flawed Divine Dao and sensed an unexplained change in his mind.
• Liuli told Chen Yang that she had retained the cultivation of a lower tier god and wielded the Spirit Tempering divine art through her treasure robe.
• Liuli recognized the square mirror as the Bright Mirror and cleaned its surface, awakening its nourishing radiance and rousing Blood Sun.
• Chen Yang brought the Bright Mirror to the Divine Palace gates, where Liuli used Spirit Tempering to repair it with the gods’ help.
• The repaired Bright Mirror fused with the Divine Palace, and a hazy space on the high platform revealed an ice-blue object resembling a Cold Vein Profound Crystal.

Chen Yang awakened Frost Flower Venerable God, restored the Bright Mirror, and learned the locations of the remaining starfire seeds in the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm. He discovered that the Su Family of the Northwest had found one seed and began plotting to deal with them.

• Chen Yang bound the soul within the Cold Vein Profound Crystal to himself, and Liuli identified it as Frost Flower Venerable God, son of Profound Ice Divine Lord.
• Liuli explained that Frost Flower had supposedly perished in the Outer-Heaven Cataclysm, and Chen Yang concluded that the Divine Lords had preserved him and other sparks of their lineages in the Secret Realm.
• Chen Yang used the restored Bright Mirror to nourish the gods, helping Blood Sun approach his awakening and rapidly strengthening Frost Flower's soul.
• Liuli revealed the locations of the three remaining starfire seeds, and Chen Yang saw that the Su Family of the Northwest had found the last one.
• Recognizing Su Lingyun among the cultivators, Chen Yang abandoned the idea of compensating them and planned to use them in a scheme.

Chen Yang lured Nangong Jinghe away from the heavenly palace by claiming he had sensed a second Creation Origin, intending to confront Su Lingyun and the Su Family. At an ancient mine, Su Lingyun discovered a hidden Fire Vein whose treasure stirred the Su Family’s blood jade, just as Nangong Jinghe arrived.

• Liuli asked Chen Yang whether she should return to the Secret Realm to hide the fire seed or divert the cultivators, but he told her to stay safe and leave the matter to him.
• Chen Yang resolved to make Su Lingyun pay for his repeated attacks on Yang Lingrui and the Yang Family.
• Chen Yang stopped explaining the Dao Integration method to Nangong Jinghe and claimed he had sensed a second Creation Origin elsewhere in the Secret Realm.
• Nangong Jinghe agreed to travel with Chen Yang while he continued explaining the Dao, and they flew toward the Su Family cultivators.
• Su Lingyun led the Su Family to a hidden Fire Vein beneath an ancient mine, where their bloodline jade reacted strongly to a treasure underground.
• A Su Family True Person intercepted Nangong Jinghe as he approached the mine, unaware that the Su Family was facing a great calamity.

Nangong Jinghe detected Creation fluctuations beneath the land using the sensing method Chen Yang had taught him, then attacked the Su Family cultivators who occupied the site. After killing Su Lingyun’s incarnation and capturing his Primordial Spirit, Nangong Jinghe asked Chen Yang if the attack had been satisfying, and Chen Yang urged him to use his power against chosen prodigies instead.

• Nangong Jinghe used Chen Yang’s Creation-sensing method and detected faint fluctuations beneath the land.
• Su Lingyun tried to yield the site after recognizing Nangong Jinghe, but Nangong Jinghe mocked him and demanded that he call him Grandfather Nangong.
• Nangong Jinghe destroyed Su Lingyun’s incarnation with golden light, despite Su Lingyun’s apology and attempt to retreat.
• Nangong Jinghe captured Su Lingyun’s Primordial Spirit after Su Lingyun abandoned his body to escape.
• Nangong Jinghe asked Chen Yang whether the attack had been satisfying, and Chen Yang praised his golden light technique while suggesting he target chosen prodigies.

Chen Yang and Nangong Jinghe attacked the Su Family mine, where Su Lingyun tried to appease Nangong Jinghe and then fought back with the family’s bloodline treasure. As Nangong Jinghe’s golden light closed in, a blood-red arm emerged from Su Lingyun’s neck wound and seized it.

• Chen Yang pretended to share Nangong Jinghe’s taste for killing prodigies, and Nangong Jinghe slaughtered the Su Family cultivators guarding the mine.
• Su Lingyun recognized Nangong Jinghe’s strength and ordered the cultivators with him to kneel, then praised Nangong Jinghe and called him Grandpa when asked.
• Nangong Jinghe decided to kill Su Lingyun regardless, and Su Lingyun pulled the blood jade from his chest to resist the golden light.
• Su Lingyun commanded the other Su Family cultivators to explode into blood mist and gathered their blood energy into the blood jade for a final strike.
• As the blood-energy barrier broke, Su Lingyun cut his neck, and a blood-red arm reached from the wound and seized Nangong Jinghe’s golden light.

Chen Yang seized Su Lingyun’s blood jade and destroyed his escaping soul, but Su Dingcang used a Life-Bonding Ancient Method to protect Su Lingyun’s mind and soul. The chapter left Su Lingyun’s soul shielded by Su Dingcang’s lifespan as Chen Yang and Nangong Jinghe assessed the ancient technique.

• Chen Yang recognized the Su Family’s blood jade as a sinister treasure and decided to take it for himself.
• Chen Yang pulled the blood jade away from Su Lingyun, who abandoned his defense to hold on to it and was struck by Nangong Jinghe’s Golden Light Technique.
• Chen Yang stored the blood jade in his grotto-heaven and destroyed Su Lingyun’s escaping wisp of soul.
• Su Dingcang emerged from a broken grotto-heaven and used a Life-Bonding Ancient Method to protect Su Lingyun’s mind and soul with his own lifespan.
• Su Dingcang called across the distance and pleaded for Su Lingyun’s life, while Nangong Jinghe explained the technique’s severe costs and limitations.

Su Dingcang raced to save Su Lingyun as Nangong Jinghe attacked his consciousness, but the life-bound technique consumed Su Dingcang’s lifespan too quickly. Su Dingcang withdrew the technique to avoid dying first, and Su Lingyun’s aura vanished, leaving the Su Family’s hoped-for successor dead.

• Su Dingcang hurried toward Su Lingyun while Nangong Jinghe continued bombarding his consciousness with the Gold Ring’s golden dragon breath.
• Su Dingcang’s lifespan began draining faster, so he burned his essence blood and sacrificed the upper limit of his Dao Path to accelerate his journey.
• Chen Yang persuaded Nangong Jinghe to save his strongest methods for future threats and asked him for help with the Void Realm; Nangong Jinghe agreed.
• Nangong Jinghe manifested a dragon claw that cracked Su Lingyun’s life-bound protection before Su Dingcang could arrive.
• Su Dingcang withdrew the life-bound technique rather than let it consume his life, and Su Lingyun’s aura disappeared completely.

Chen Yang and Nangong Jinghe confirmed Su Lingyun’s death, while Su Dingcang abandoned his pursuit to protect the Su Family from powerful Central Region enemies. They then found the spiritual ore essence, and Chen Yang revealed its dazzling sign of Creation.

• Chen Yang reflected that Su Lingyun’s extraordinary fortune and many life-preserving methods had made him difficult to kill, and concluded that striking with overwhelming power had been essential.
• Su Dingcang sensed Su Lingyun’s death, weighed his hatred against the danger of confronting the powerful killers, and withdrew to avoid bringing ruin upon the Su Family.
• Nangong Jinghe praised Su Dingcang’s decision to retreat, and he and Chen Yang exchanged boasts about their combined strength.
• Nangong Jinghe failed to locate the opportunity with his unfamiliar Creation-sensing method, so he and Chen Yang used Chen Yang’s senses to find the spiritual ore essence.
• Chen Yang explained that the essence was an unawakened Origin object, removed its stone coating, and revealed a brilliant sign of Creation to Nangong Jinghe.