Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang persuaded Nangong Jinghe to help nurture the unhatched Creation Origin while claiming he wanted only the mineral marrow. He admitted he had withheld some techniques, leaving their bargain dependent on the methods he kept for himself.

• Chen Yang explained the Creation Origin's weak fluctuation and let Nangong Jinghe sense it using a method Chen Yang had secretly prepared to work.
• Chen Yang offered Nangong Jinghe the mineral marrow, but Nangong Jinghe suspected a hidden motive and refused to accept it as a gift.
• Chen Yang proposed that Nangong Jinghe use his Golden Sea Dragon Ring and lineage's spirit sacrifices to speed the Creation Origin's incubation and possibly improve its grade.
• Chen Yang promised Nangong Jinghe ownership of the newborn Creation Origin and said he wanted the mineral marrow to become a foundation for a treasure that could accelerate Creation Origin cultivation.
• Nangong Jinghe guessed Chen Yang had withheld the final nurturing techniques, and Chen Yang admitted he had kept a few subtle methods as safeguards.

Chen Yang convinced Nangong Jinghe that a piece of spiritual mineral essence was a rare Creation Origin and secured the Nangong Clan’s help incubating it for ten years. After Nangong Jinghe accepted the scheme, Chen Yang offered him the nearby Fire Vein and jokingly held him to his promise of providing more in the future.

• Chen Yang persuaded Nangong Jinghe to take the spiritual mineral essence and nurture it with the Nangong Clan’s offerings for about ten years.
• Nangong Jinghe agreed to split the treasures inside and outside the supposed Creation Origin with Chen Yang when it finished incubating.
• Chen Yang revealed that his plan could use the Golden Sea Dragon Ring to refine the mineral essence into a Dragon Crystal for Yang Yuanhong, while secretly channeling the spirit offerings to himself.
• Chen Yang explained that his Dao Integration mark would alert him if Nangong Jinghe broke open the mineral essence, allowing him to abandon their agreement if the deception was discovered.
• Chen Yang offered Nangong Jinghe the nearby Fire Vein, and Nangong Jinghe told him to take it and promised to provide as many as twenty Fire Veins at Anshen Valley.

Chen Yang concealed the Stellar Flame Seed by taking the entire Fire Vein, then parted from Nangong Jinghe as the Nangong Clan's True Intent Cultivator arrived. Nangong Jinghe investigated the cultivator's inner demon, uncovered a grievance tied to the demon-slaying campaign, and began preparing to visit the southeastern Demon Soil.

• Chen Yang pulled the entire Fire Vein underground into his Stone Body Clone's grotto-heaven, impressing and making Nangong Jinghe more wary of him.
• Chen Yang and Nangong Jinghe agreed to meet again within ten years, and Chen Yang departed for two undiscovered Fire Veins.
• The Nangong Clan's True Intent Cultivator knelt before Nangong Jinghe and explained how he and five others had faced a grotto-heaven trial, which he had failed.
• Nangong Jinghe entered the cultivator's divine consciousness and confronted the resentful ghost of a father who accused him of taking his life, killing his wife, and stealing his son.
• The ghost claimed that its clan's Young Master would escape Azure Waves and avenge it, prompting Nangong Jinghe to suspect someone had tampered with the cultivator during the demon-slaying campaign.
• Nangong Jinghe declared that he would visit the southeastern Demon Soil, then rapidly raised his cultivation to the Spiritual Connection Ninth Layer.

Chen Yang returned the last Starfire Seed to the Divine Palace and advanced from the Early-Spiritual Connection Realm to the late stage, while Yang Lingrui and the others explored the Heavenly Palace and gained opportunities. The chapter ended with Chen Yang realizing that the Yang Family had produced its first spirit communicator from its own bloodline.

• Chen Yang left Nangong Jinghe behind and traveled to the other Fire Veins while True Intent Cultivators gathered beneath the descending Heavenly Palace to support it.
• Yang Lingrui used his spirit-wandering vision to help Dongfang Yingcai, Shen Yue, and the others confirm that the cloud platform was empty, and the five cautiously reached it.
• The five entered separate cloud-platform grotto-heavens, where Yang Lingrui fought through a vast killing formation and tempered his Killing Dao.
• The Heavenly Palace's treasures and opportunities were secured before the palace collapsed, and Dongfang Zonggan praised Yang Lingrui and discussed the Yang Family's ties with Huo Yuan.
• Chen Yang returned the last Starfire Seed to the Divine Palace, absorbed the resulting cultivation, and advanced to the late stage of the Spiritual Connection Realm.

Yang Yuanhong broke through to the third level of the Spiritual Connection Realm, bringing the Yang Family closer to relocating to the Barbarian Sacred Land. With Nangong Jinghe gone, Chen Yang arranged for Liuli to create a hidden opportunity, and the Donglai Sect group discovered a dangerous spatial maze where only a few cultivators chose to enter.

• Yang Yuanhong advanced to the third level of the Spiritual Connection Realm, and Chen Yang ordered Yang Guanfeng, Yang Lingqing, Elder Yu, and the others to prepare for the Yang Family's relocation.
• Chen Yang reviewed the gains from the Secret Realm and decided that Yang Lingrui still needed a fortuitous opportunity to break through to the Spiritual Connection Realm.
• Chen Yang saw Nangong Jinghe's immortal vessel leave the Secret Realm and summoned Liuli back, reassured that the old monster could no longer threaten her there.
• Over the next half month, Liuli created a hidden opportunity aboard the Donglai Sect's immortal vessel, and the group found an illusory spatial maze at an Ancient Sect Ruins site.
• Dongfang Zonggan determined that the maze was created by a Mystic Insight Venerable and warned the cultivators about its dangers; most returned to the vessel, while Dongfang Yingcai, Yang Lingrui, Xue Qingluan, and two Spiritual Connection True Persons remained.

The five entered the illusion-realm maze after Dongfang Zonggan explained spatial Daoist Magic and cautioned them to stay alert. Yang Lingrui reached a crystal cave filled with condensed spiritual energy and began cultivating there, while Chen Yang reflected on how Lingrui had helped the Yang Family endure its early years.

• Dongfang Zonggan taught the five basic principles of spatial Daoist Magic and warned them not to become fixated if they reached a dead end.
• The five entered the illusion-realm maze and were separated into different layers of folded space.
• Yang Lingrui bypassed the maze and reached a crystal cave where spiritual energy had condensed into pale pink crystals.
• Yang Lingrui gathered high-quality crystal marrow, reviewed his experiences, and began meditating inside a cocoon of pink mist.
• Chen Yang reflected on Yang Lingrui's steadfastness and the role he had played in protecting and supporting the Yang Family.

Yang Lingrui broke through to Spiritual Connection, and Chen Yang received cultivation feedback that brought him to Spiritual Connection Perfection. Drawn to the True Self Cave Heaven, Chen Yang entered the Heart-Questioning True Self Tribulation and opened an ordinary-looking door despite his growing doubts.

• Yang Lingrui completed his breakthrough to Spiritual Connection, gaining two new inheritance insights as Chen Yang advanced to Spiritual Connection Perfection.
• Chen Yang sensed a summons from the netherworld and realized that his cultivation now let him enter the True Self Cave Heaven.
• Chen Yang instructed Liuli to watch over Yang Lingrui and the others, then followed the summons into the cave heaven.
• Before the Heart-Questioning True Self Tribulation, Chen Yang recognized that he had entered rashly and doubted whether he could succeed.
• Chen Yang steadied his resolve, opened the dark red wooden door, and stepped into the tribulation.

Chen Yang woke in a modern hospital, uncertain whether he was trapped in a tribulation illusion or had returned to reality, and sensed that spiritual energy existed in this world. He cultivated through the night with impossible speed, became a Qi Gathering Cultivator, and woke to find his body healthy as messages from his work and family awaited him.

• Chen Yang woke in a hospital and wondered whether his return to the modern world was an illusion or reality.
• Chen Yang sensed spiritual energy, used Elder Yu’s instructions to meditate, and began cultivating the Nether Spirit Path Seeking Scripture.
• Chen Yang opened Qi Meridian points with extraordinary speed and formed a Qi Mansion by early morning.
• An elderly patient and a nurse were startled to find Chen Yang meditating, and the nurse examined him and found his health indicators normal.
• Chen Yang asked the nurse for food and water, then read messages from Manager Zhang, his mother, and Sha Bi on his phone.

After confirming that he had returned to his original world, Chen Yang left the hospital, stood up to an abusive coworker, and resigned from his company. He thanked the cleaning lady who had found him unconscious and was finishing his resignation paperwork when an angry man stormed in looking for him.

• Chen Yang called his parents, reassured them, and told them he would visit the next day; he also spoke with Manager Zhang about meeting at the company.
• After normal test results, Chen Yang was discharged from the hospital and called the coworker who had berated him, insulted him in return, and blocked his number.
• Chen Yang met Manager Zhang and submitted his resignation, and Manager Zhang accepted his decision and wished him well.
• Chen Yang thanked the cleaning lady who had found him unconscious and arranged to visit her husband; his resignation procedures went smoothly until an angry pot-bellied man burst into the company demanding to see him.

After leaving his job, Chen Yang used his cultivation to heal the cleaning lady’s husband and returned home to spend time with his parents. On a rooftop, he encountered the old man from the hospital and recognized him as the Old Divine Lord, whom he respectfully greeted.

• Chen Yang drove Zhao Xijian out of the meeting room, leaving him terrified, then completed his resignation while Manager Zhang grew suspicious of the strange surveillance footage.
• Chen Yang treated the cleaning lady’s husband with spiritual energy, and the man regained the strength to walk without back pain.
• Chen Yang returned to his hometown, spent time with his parents, and accepted his mother’s matchmaking suggestions with a smile.
• Chen Yang climbed to the city’s tallest building at night to reflect on his tribulation and was startled when the old man from the hospital appeared beside him.
• The old man apologized for involving Chen Yang without warning, and Chen Yang recognized him as the Old Divine Lord and paid his respects.

The Old Divine Lord apologized to Chen Yang for the Divine Lords pulling him into the Azure Waves Divine Path without giving him a choice, then offered him the chance to stay in his original world with an extraordinary cultivation body. As Chen Yang nearly accepted, his body reacted with the familiar symptoms of his old collapse, and the Old Divine Lord explained that Chen Yang could leave the Lingyuan Realm and reunite with his family and friends.

• The Old Divine Lord thanked Chen Yang for helping the Divine Path survivors, and Chen Yang admitted that he might have chosen to return to his original world if he had been given the choice.
• The Old Divine Lord agreed that the Divine Lords had acted hastily and revealed that he had placed tiny formations throughout Chen Yang's body to create his exceptional cultivation aptitude.
• The Old Divine Lord offered Chen Yang a chance to stay in his original world, where he would be its only cultivator and receive abundant spiritual energy.
• Chen Yang nearly accepted the offer, but he suddenly felt the breathlessness, racing heart, and cold sweat he had experienced before collapsing from overtime work.
• The Old Divine Lord told Chen Yang that Wu Chang had awakened, Liuli could lead the Divine Palace, and Chen Yang's bonded immortal Dao family would remain protected.
• The Old Divine Lord offered to sever Chen Yang's karmic ties to the Lingyuan Realm so he could reunite with his family and friends.

Chen Yang resisted the Old Divine Lord’s vision of an ideal life and reaffirmed his commitment to the Yang Family and the Divine Lords. After witnessing the consequences of remaining in his original world, he returned to the wooden security door with his cultivation restored and his first divine ability formed.

• Chen Yang recalled memories from both lives and rejected the Old Divine Lord’s beautiful illusion, insisting that he would not stay.
• Chen Yang affirmed that both lives were his true selves and vowed to fulfill his blood pact with the Yang Family and his promise to the Divine Lords, even in death.
• The Old Divine Lord reversed a black river of karma and showed Chen Yang his unconscious body in the hospital, where his parents grieved and Manager Zhang apologized.
• Chen Yang silently comforted his mother and promised to return after handling two matters, and she whispered that she would wait for him.
• Chen Yang was drawn back to the wooden security door with his Spiritual Connection Perfection cultivation restored and his first divine ability on the path of Union of Immortals and Gods cultivated.

Chen Yang learned that his new divine ability, Myriad Awakenings True Enlightenment, matched one once cultivated by the Reincarnation Divine Lord, then heard the Old Divine Lord’s warnings and advice before he vanished. Meanwhile, Dao Seeking Peak ranked Chen Yang’s title Divine Descent alongside Dao Sheng, announcing his rise as a peer of the Number One Under Heaven.

• Chen Yang accepted the name Myriad Awakenings True Enlightenment and learned that the Reincarnation Divine Lord had cultivated the same ability.
• The Old Divine Lord explained that only lingering thoughts remained of him and warned Chen Yang that rebuilding the Divine Dao would bring dangers that could threaten his life.
• The Old Divine Lord praised Chen Yang’s resolve, advised him to beware of the Wave-Chasing Sea Pavilion in the Eastern Region, and told him to seek help at the Great Awakening Temple.
• The Old Divine Lord vanished as Dao Seeking Peak began to shake in the Central Region of Canglan.
• The Mystic Insight Venerable watched the title Divine Descent appear beside Dao Sheng, equal in height to the title representing the Number One Under Heaven.

The righteous-path powers concluded that the mysterious Divine Arrival True Person must come from the Vast Sea Demonic Land and began plotting against the Demon Soil. Meanwhile, Chen Yang remained unaware of the growing attention as he focused on the Yang Family’s migration, and Dongfang Yingcai found an ancient puppet art in the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm.

• The Canglan righteous-path powers failed to identify the Divine Arrival True Person and, after ruling out the Central Region and reclusive cultivators, suspected the genius came from the Demon Soil.
• The Yantian Palace Venerable failed to divine the person’s identity, convincing the righteous figures that Demonic Path Venerables had concealed the Azure Waves prodigy.
• The righteous-path great figures agreed to seek ways to eliminate the supposed demonic threat, while the Nangong Family’s Void Stepping Old Monster also turned his attention toward the southeastern Demon Soil.
• Chen Yang remained unaware of the upheaval and prioritized preparing the Yang Family’s migration and settling an old grudge, trusting Wu Chang to handle matters in the Vast Sea Demonic Land.
• Dongfang Yingcai completed the illusory maze, found the Heavenly Crafting Puppet Technique among the Heavenly Puppet Sect ruins, and Chen Yang had Liuli move the opportunity to her.

After the Secret Realm trial, Chen Yang left the others and used Myriad Awakenings True Enlightenment to enter the Tiger Chasing Hundred Artifacts Tower unnoticed. He met with Ma Yongsheng and revealed that he had come to bring Yao Santu back, demonstrating his power by bringing Yao Santu before the artifact refiner.

• Xue Qingluan cleared the maze and received a strand of Pure Taiyin Profound Crystal, while two Donglai Sect True Persons failed to escape and received minor treasures instead.
• Yang Lingrui explained his breakthrough to the Spiritual Connection Realm as the result of an ancient wind Dao master's teachings, and Dongfang Zonggan believed the Yang Family would become a regional power.
• After exploring the Secret Realm for three more days, the group sensed it was closing, and Chen Yang left separately through a hidden exit to the Tiger Chasing Hundred Artifacts Tower.
• Chen Yang used Myriad Awakenings True Enlightenment to pass the Tower's defenses unseen and approached Ma Yongsheng in his pavilion.
• Chen Yang told Ma Yongsheng that he sought Yao Santu and explained that he had been the source of Yao Santu's Dao Entry fortune.
• Chen Yang demonstrated spatial Daoist Magic by bringing Yao Santu before Ma Yongsheng, who reacted with increased admiration.

Chen Yang took Yao Santu from Ma Yongsheng after teaching them the Divine Artificer Technique, while members of the Yang Family advanced into Core Formation. With their strength assembled, the Yang Family traveled to Solitary Moon Mountain to seek its Dao.

• Yao Santu paid respects to Chen Yang as his master and thanked Ma Yongsheng for his years of teaching.
• Chen Yang instructed Ma Yongsheng and Yao Santu in the Artifact Path for two months, and Ma Yongsheng awakened to the teachings.
• Chen Yang brought Yao Santu to Pine Mountain, where Yang Lingrui, Elder Yu, Yang Lingqing, and Liu Zihao successfully formed Origin Cores, followed by Yang Lingshu's return as a Core Formation Cultivator.
• The Yang Family gathered its cultivators and traveled by cloud boat to Solitary Moon Mountain, joined by Wu Tong and Elder Yu.
• Yang Lingrui struck Solitary Moon Mountain's protective formation and announced that the Songshan Yang Family had come to return the courtesy and seek the Dao.

Yang Lingrui arrived at Solitary Moon Mountain and began breaking its protective formation after its elders refused to answer him. The elders fled to the Mountain Master's hall and were let inside, while the hall doors shut behind them.

• Solitary Moon Mountain's elders recalled how their past defiance of the Tiger Chasing Dynasty and their attack on its chess pieces had led to their present isolation and ruin.
• The elders watched in fear as Yang Lingrui called to them from outside the mountain-protecting formation, but none dared answer.
• Yang Lingrui made a third inquiry and unleashed the Two Forms Divine Wind, cracking the formation and shaking the mountain peaks.
• Solitary Moon Mountain's elders fled to the Mountain Master's hall and begged him to let them take refuge.
• The Mountain Master opened the hall doors a crack, allowing the elders to enter before the doors closed again.

Yang Lingrui led the Yang Family assault on Solitary Moon Mountain and confronted its Master, who had reached Spiritual Connection Perfection through forbidden arts. Their battle began with the Master’s blood moon attack failing to shake Yang Lingrui, leaving him trapped in a terrifying vision of Yang Lingrui’s killing intent.

• Yang Lingrui and the Yang Family cultivators broke Solitary Moon Mountain’s protective formation and secured the mountain’s exits and disciples.
• Yang Lingrui split open the main hall, and a blood moon rose as the Master of Solitary Moon Mountain emerged at Spiritual Connection Perfection.
• Yang Lingrui and the Master of Solitary Moon Mountain began fighting, and the Master used his avatar and the Blood Moon Heavenly Fall technique.
• The Master’s blood moon failed to weaken Yang Lingrui’s wind manifestation, and probing it with Spiritual Sense plunged him into a nightmare of Yang Lingrui’s overwhelming killing intent.

Yang Lingrui defeated Master of Solitary Moon Mountain after countering his Blood Moon spear with a feint and Divine Wind. He avenged his family and those who had died with them by crushing the defeated cultivator with a giantified arm.

• Master of Solitary Moon Mountain fused his body and avatar into the Blood Moon and launched a desperate spear strike at Yang Lingrui.
• Yang Lingshu worried as the blood-colored spear pressed through Yang Lingrui’s green-faced Ghost King, while Xue Qingluan reassured him.
• Master of Solitary Moon Mountain drove the spear into what he believed was Yang Lingrui, but the figure burst like a bubble.
• Yang Lingrui appeared along the spear and shattered Master of Solitary Moon Mountain’s technique with Divine Wind Crossing the World.
• Yang Lingrui put on a repaired armguard, invoked the Brute Force Art, and crushed Master of Solitary Moon Mountain with his giantified right arm.

After the Yang Family defeated Solitary Moon Mountain, the Dynasty took custody of its surviving disciples and leaders while the Yang Family prepared to relocate. Chen Yang settled who would travel with the family and decided that Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu would remain in Tiger Chasing Realm.

• Xing Jiuli captured the Master of Solitary Moon Mountain's Primordial Spirit, and the Yang Family rounded up the mountain's disciples before Zi He took custody of them.
• The Yang Family returned to Pine Mountain and offered sacrifices to Yang Linghu and Lü Lianshun before making plans for their relocation.
• Chen Yang agreed that He Shengle would return to Myriad Layer Forest, He Shengyuan would join the Yang Family, and Song Heng would travel with them.
• After weighing the Yang Family's weak position in the Central Region and its ties to Tiger Chasing, Chen Yang and the cultivators decided that Yang Lingshu and Yang Yuanliu would stay behind.