Chapter Summaries

Mo Wenjian received the life insights of a cultivator who created the Record of Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotion, perfected Three Flowers Gather at the Crown, and ascended. He chose Shatter the Void and Behold the Indestructible Divine and awoke to find three colored lotuses formed from the divided sarira.

• Mo Wenjian chose Shatter the Void and Behold the Indestructible Divine from the offered Dao fruits.
• Mo Wenjian absorbed a stream of insights into the mysterious state of Shattering the Void and Beholding the Indestructible Divine.
• Mo Wenjian awoke and discovered that the sarira had divided into black, white, and azure lotuses.
• Mo Wenjian felt the three flowers at his crown resonate with the five Qi in his chest.

After realizing he could ascend whenever he wished, Mo Wenjian left the Shaolin Temple and met Ye Fan, the sole survivor of a family slaughtered by a corrupt prefect. Mo Wenjian agreed to make Ye Fan a lay disciple and let him choose three ultimate techniques, but forbade him from leaving Shaolin until he reached Dan Jin.

• Mo Wenjian left the Shaolin Temple to explore the world and felt his state of mind change as he stepped outside.
• Mo Wenjian found Ye Fan kneeling beside an old farmer and learned that Ye Fan sought martial arts to avenge his executed family.
• The old farmer explained that he had rescued Ye Fan after the prefect framed and destroyed the Ye family.
• Ye Fan insisted on revenge despite the old farmer urging him to preserve his family line and avoid Shaolin.
• Mo Wenjian suspected Ye Fan might be the world’s child of destiny and offered to make him a lay disciple, with access to three ultimate techniques if he stayed at Shaolin until reaching Dan Jin.
• Ye Fan accepted, and Mo Wenjian led him back to the temple.

Mo Wenjian let Ye Fan choose three Shaolin martial arts, and Ye Fan selected the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Fists, the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, and the Precept-Breaking Saber Technique. Mo Wenjian then simulated a future in which Ye Fan rose to power, avenged his family, and led the Righteous Path Alliance into a costly battle against the Qing forces.

• Mo Wenjian brought Ye Fan to the Scripture Depository and allowed him to choose three manuals, excluding the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic.
• Ye Fan chose the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Fists, the Vajra Indestructible Divine Art, and the Precept-Breaking Saber Technique, explaining that they suited his ambitions and desire for revenge.
• Mo Wenjian explained that the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Fists could be combined with Shaolin's Seventy-Two Supreme Skills to form the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha Fist Intent.
• Mo Wenjian simulated the future and saw Ye Fan become a renowned Buddhist disciple, avenge his family, lead the Righteous Path Alliance, and kill numerous martial-world opponents.
• In the simulation, Ye Fan's alliance fought the Qing forces for three days and nights; Ye Fan killed twenty-four Qing grandmasters before leading a breakout with the alliance's wounded.

Ye Fan rose from a Shaolin fighter to the ruler of Southeast Asia and launched a campaign against the Great Qing Dynasty. After taking the Capital, he agreed to a nonaggression treaty that set Shanhai Pass as the border, then ordered the people of the Central Plains to abandon the queue and revive Han and Tang culture.

• The Daoguang Emperor sent the Bordered Blue Banner's lord to Shaolin Temple to apologize to Ye Fan, but Ye Fan refused to give him Six-Revolution Golden Pills, and Master Xingdian left Shaolin with the lord.
• Master Xingdian broke the Righteous Path Alliance's power, defeated Ye Fan in battle, and later fought him to a draw atop the Forbidden City; Ye Fan eventually wounded him and handed him over to Shaolin Temple for lifelong confinement.
• Ye Fan rebuilt the Righteous Path Alliance, gathered more than three hundred grandmasters, and rejected the Daoguang Emperor's offer to make him King of Penglai before later accepting the lands of the Three Feudatories as King of the South.
• Ye Fan expanded into Tianzhu and Southeast Asia, defeated the East India Company's allied forces, and spent years consolidating his rule across the region.
• After the Daoguang Emperor died, Ye Fan invaded the Great Qing Dynasty, whose factions struggled over how to respond, and breached the Capital as the Xianfeng Emperor fled beyond Shanhai Pass.
• Ye Fan signed a nonaggression treaty making Shanhai Pass the boundary and issued a decree forbidding the Central Plains' queue hairstyle, calling for a return to Han and Tang culture.

Ye Fan conquered Asia, revealed that he was a reincarnating heavenly soldier, and ascended after learning from the protagonist. The protagonist studied Ye Fan’s stellar cultivation insights, developed a Heavenly Eye, and began mapping the stars linked to his acupoints, but the search remained slow.

• Ye Fan consolidated his rule, conquered the Great Qing Dynasty and all of Asia, and later established a governing council as he prepared to ascend.
• At age 108, Ye Fan visited the protagonist at Shaolin Temple, lost their spar, and became his disciple; despite years of training, he could not match the protagonist’s strength.
• Ye Fan revealed that he was a heavenly soldier under Great Emperor Ziwei who had reincarnated more than 3,000 times, shared his cultivation insights, and shattered the void to return to his original body.
• The protagonist studied Ye Fan’s insights and refined his body with lunar and solar radiance, then lost his sight when he used their conflicting powers on his eyes.
• The protagonist’s pineal gland evolved into a Heavenly Eye, which showed him that his 365 acupoints had untapped potential.
• The protagonist activated acupoints by drawing on stellar powers and used their connections to search for the stars corresponding to forty-nine unknown acupoints.

Mo Wenjian chose the Dao Fruit for strength at the limit of National Martial Arts and absorbed the power he had developed across the simulation. After awakening from a long period of enlightenment, he put his secondary soul to sleep to ease his unfamiliarity with having two souls.

• Mo Wenjian weighed the value of the three available Dao Fruits and chose strength at the limit of National Martial Arts.
• The three hundred and sixty-five Zhoutian acupoints activated and resonated with the stars as Mo Wenjian gained the Sun and Moon Twin Eyes, a heavenly eye, and star seals.
• Mo Wenjian entered a prolonged state of enlightenment while his realm continued to rise.
• Mo Wenjian awoke and found it strange to have two souls and focus on two things at once.
• Mo Wenjian made his secondary soul fall asleep, and the unfamiliar feeling immediately disappeared.

Mo Wenjian chose to remain in the National Martial Arts world and make Shaolin Temple his permanent home, then urged its monks to become Buddhas themselves and build a Buddhist kingdom on earth. He revealed that Shaolin would seal its mountain for a hundred years while Ye Fan fought the Great Qing Dynasty, leaving the monks to cultivate with him.

• Mo Wenjian summoned Shaolin Temple’s Gang Force monks and learned that Master Xingshan had been sent to Bodhidharma Cave for proposing they keep Mo Wenjian from ascending.
• Mo Wenjian asked the monks why they worshipped the Buddha, then told them to become Buddhas themselves and deliver people from suffering.
• Master Shanhui brought Master Xingshan back, and Mo Wenjian reassured him that his mistake was a heart tribulation he had overcome.
• Mo Wenjian identified Ye Fan as a heavenly general tasked with overthrowing the Great Qing Dynasty and Master Xingdian as Ye Fan’s destined archenemy.
• Mo Wenjian announced that Shaolin Temple would seal its mountain for a hundred years while Ye Fan handled the mortal world and the monks cultivated with him.

Mo Wenjian established Star Seal cultivation at Shaolin Temple, then entered a counterpart’s body in Wuxia Great Ming and began simulating his life as a Wudang disciple. The simulation left the counterpart improving Golden Bell Shield by combining it with Pine and Crane Heart Sutra.

• Mo Wenjian used the Star Seals to help Shaolin’s eminent monks begin cultivation, then instructed them to draw in stellar power gradually.
• Shaolin Temple’s eminent monks announced a hundred-year mountain closure, and Mo Wenjian continued his usual routine before opening a passage through space and time.
• Mo Wenjian’s secondary soul assimilated a counterpart named Mo Wenjian, whose memories showed he had joined Mount Wudang as a menial disciple in 1415.
• The All-Heavens Dao Fruit Simulator showed the counterpart refining Wudang Cotton Palm, advancing through the outer sect’s martial arts, opening three extraordinary meridians, and developing Spiral True Qi.
• At age 45, the counterpart combined Golden Bell Shield with Pine and Crane Heart Sutra so each breakthrough could restore half the body’s potential.

You created and contributed several martial arts to Wudang before turning to research on extending life, eventually developing and improving the Black Tortoise Longevity Instruction for the Jiajing Emperor. After donating the Emperor's reward to Wudang for disaster relief, you died peacefully at the limit of your lifespan.

• You created the Pine and Crane Golden Bell Shield and the Three Immortals Fist, earning promotions at Wudang, then developed the Pine and Crane Soft Palm by combining movement and stillness.
• You studied the Turtle Breath Great Method and other life-preserving methods, then created the Black Tortoise Longevity Instruction based on hibernation.
• After the Renyin Palace Coup, you offered the instruction to the Jiajing Emperor and were summoned to the Capital as Imperial Preceptor.
• You proved the Emperor's pill refiner was making poisonous pills, and the Jiajing Emperor ordered the extermination of the refiner's nine familial clans.
• You improved the instruction so it reduced everyday life depletion by thirty percent and restored life by thirty percent, then gave the Emperor's reward of one hundred thousand taels to Wudang for famine relief.
• You reached your lifespan limit and died peacefully at age 149.

Mo Wenjian chose the Martial Arts Theory Dao Fruit over the Black Tortoise Longevity Instruction and used his deep knowledge to help Zhu Zhanshan, an imperial grandson, understand his Two Forms Swordsmanship. Zhu Zhanshan praised Mo Wenjian’s insight and revealed that his master was an Innate Realm general who had taught him to follow the manual without explaining its principles.

• Mo Wenjian rejected the Black Tortoise Longevity Instruction because its benefits were of little use to him and selected martial arts theory.
• After claiming his Dao Fruit, Mo Wenjian went to sweep the Eastern Arrival Hall and found Zhu Zhanshan practicing Two Forms Swordsmanship.
• Mo Wenjian recognized Zhu Zhanshan as an imperial grandson and agreed to guide him as a senior brother.
• Mo Wenjian identified flaws in Zhu Zhanshan’s swordsmanship and explained its yin-yang principles and the mismatch between his practice and his training.
• Zhu Zhanshan praised Mo Wenjian’s martial arts understanding and said his Innate Realm master, a veteran general, had taught him to follow the manual without explaining its principles.

Mo Wenjian taught Zhu Zhanshan three principles of Wudang Two Forms Swordsmanship, revealing the power of precise control and Combining Hardness and Softness. Zhu Zhanshan’s master grasped the final principle, broke through from the Innate Realm to the Grandmaster Realm, and realized he owed Mo Wenjian an enormous favor.

• Mo Wenjian demonstrated Lifting Heavy as Though Light by splitting a leaf without damaging its lower half, and Zhu Zhanshan recognized it as Minute Control.
• Mo Wenjian showed Lifting Light as Though Heavy by sending an undamaged leaf flying ten meters with a gentle tap.
• Mo Wenjian demonstrated Combining Hardness and Softness, and Zhu Zhanshan discovered that the leaf had left a small pit beneath it.
• Zhu Zhanshan’s master emerged from the shadows, then began practicing the principle with his iron spear after sensing a chance to break through his bottleneck.
• Zhu Zhanshan’s master mastered Combining Hardness and Softness in less than a quarter of an hour and advanced from the Innate Realm to the Grandmaster Realm.

Mo Wenjian reviewed a simulation in which he advanced at Wudang, created martial arts, and helped strengthen the sect and the Great Ming Dynasty. By age 51, he had opened six extraordinary meridians and began seeking a way to increase his declining True Qi activity.

• Mo Wenjian went to sleep after cleaning the Eastern Arrival Hall and checked the All-Heavens Dao Fruit Simulator the next morning while sweeping.
• In the simulation, Mo Wenjian mastered the Great Nine Heavens Hand, created the Nine Heavens Soft Palm, and was promoted to True Disciple at Wudang.
• Mo Wenjian developed the Golden Pass Locks Jade Instruction to remedy the Pure Yang Limitless Art's flaw, and Wudang True Disciples adopted the two methods together.
• Mo Wenjian created the Lifespan-Cutting Divine Art to increase True Qi activity, but Zhang Songxi forbade Wudang disciples from practicing it except in the face of annihilation.
• After the Tumu Fortress Incident weakened the Great Ming Dynasty, Mount Wudang helped quell martial sects' territorial fighting.
• At age 51, Mo Wenjian struggled to open the Ren and Du meridians and began searching for a way to increase his True Qi activity.

Mo Wenjian weighed three Dao Fruits from his simulated life and chose the Strength of the Innate Realm because it best suited his goals. The Heavenly Book of Forgotten Emotions and Lifespan-Cutting Divine Art offered little use to him.

• Mo Wenjian considered the Heavenly Book of Forgotten Emotions, which could keep a cultivator's True Qi activity above its peak until they reached the Innate Realm.
• Mo Wenjian judged the Lifespan-Cutting Divine Art useful for rapidly training expendable fighters but unsuitable for his own pursuit of personal strength.
• Mo Wenjian chose the Strength of the Innate Realm, despite considering it the weakest option.

Mo Wenjian reached the Innate Realm and concealed his strength while working as a sweeper at Mount Wudang. When an inner disciple tried to drive him away with false accusations and a lethal attack, Mo Wenjian revealed his power and uncovered a scheme targeting His Highness the imperial grandson.

• Mo Wenjian opened his eight extraordinary meridians, reached the Innate Realm, and mastered his new strength while hiding it.
• An inner disciple accused Mo Wenjian of mistreating the statue of Great Emperor Zhenwu and demanded that he leave Mount Wudang.
• Mo Wenjian knocked down the inner disciple, caught his sword, and shattered it with Innate Sword Qi when the man attacked him from behind.
• A chore disciple confessed that Senior Brother Wang had sent them to watch His Highness the imperial grandson and help him gain favor.
• Mo Wenjian left the schemers for the imperial grandson to deal with, and Zhu Zhanshan's master emerged from hiding with a grim expression.

Mo Wenjian reviewed a simulated life in which he refined his sword cultivation, became Wudang’s protector during the Ming dynasty’s decline, and eventually reached the Grandmaster Realm. The simulation left him with a new Life and Death Sword Intent after Zhu Zhanshan’s death.

• Mo Wenjian opened the simulator and saw that his teachings had helped Zhu Zhanshan and the Ming army, while Zhu Di rewarded him with the Great Nine Heavens Hand.
• Mo Wenjian refined his True Qi, became a Wudang True Disciple, and later passed his cultivation to Zhu Zhanshan, who used an imperial ginseng to reach the Innate Realm.
• Mo Wenjian restored and strengthened his Innate Sword Qi, comprehended Great Sun and Supreme Yin Sword Intents, and traveled the martial world as the Sword Saint when Wudang faced growing threats.
• Mo Wenjian fused his two Sword Intents into the Two-Yi Sword Domain, reached the Grandmaster Realm, and later transformed the domain into the Taiji Sword Domain after Zhang Sanfeng taught him the Taiji Sword.
• Mo Wenjian visited the gravely ill Zhu Zhanshan and comprehended Life and Death Sword Intent as he sensed Zhu Zhanshan’s death.

Mo Wenjian selected the Celestial Person Realm Dao Fruit but delayed claiming it so he could make use of his existing Innate True Qi. He found Zhu Zhanshan and offered to pass on his True Qi through the Wedding Dress Divine Art, leaving Zhu Zhanshan to decide whether to accept.

• Mo Wenjian chose the strength at the Celestial Person Realm Dao Fruit, then held back from claiming it to avoid wasting his Innate True Qi.
• Mo Wenjian found Zhu Zhanshan practicing Two Forms Swordsmanship in the Eastern Arrival Hall.
• Mo Wenjian explained that the Wedding Dress Divine Art blunted True Qi during its first cultivation, allowing a second cultivation to bypass the hardships of opening the eight extraordinary meridians.
• Mo Wenjian offered Zhu Zhanshan all his True Qi, saying Zhu could cripple his martial arts and cultivate anew to become an innate expert within three to five years.

Mo Wenjian used the power of the Celestial Person Realm to help Zhu Zhanshan break through to the Innate Realm, then refused to take him as a disciple and told him to start cultivating again from scratch. Zhu Zhanshan’s master convinced him that Mo Wenjian was merely testing him, and Zhu Zhanshan dispersed his new cultivation.

• Mo Wenjian transferred his True Qi into Zhu Zhanshan and used the power of the Celestial Person Realm to break through Zhu Zhanshan’s Heaven and Earth Mysterious Pass.
• Zhu Zhanshan realized Mo Wenjian had not exhausted his cultivation and believed he had sacrificed a great deal to help him.
• Zhu Zhanshan’s master suggested Mo Wenjian intended to make Zhu Zhanshan his inheritor, but Mo Wenjian refused to accept him as a disciple.
• Mo Wenjian told Zhu Zhanshan to cripple his cultivation and begin practicing the Two Forms Swordsmanship again before leaving.
• Zhu Zhanshan’s master reassured him that Mo Wenjian was observing him, and Zhu Zhanshan dispersed his cultivation to follow Mo Wenjian’s instructions.

Mo Wenjian opened the All-Heavens Dao Fruit Simulator and watched a life of sword cultivation unfold, from helping Zhu Zhanshan and saving the Ming army to developing increasingly elaborate methods of body tempering. The simulation ended with Mo Wenjian stalled at a bottleneck after attaining an Eight-Forged Golden Body.

• Mo Wenjian saw that Zhu Di had sent him three Celestial Person Realm manuals, and that Zhu Zhanshan later visited Mount Wudang, where Mo Wenjian helped him reach the Grandmaster Realm and develop Taiji Sword Qi.
• Mo Wenjian combined Chaos Sword Intent and Chaos Sword Qi into Chaos Sword Gang, then used it to temper his body and save the Ming army at Tumu Fortress.
• Mo Wenjian tempered his bones, then created five elemental Sword Worlds and placed them in his five viscera to overcome the Chaos Sword Gang’s interference.
• Mo Wenjian developed the Three Sword Realms of Heaven, Earth, and Man to imitate the Triple Burner Mysterious Gate and advanced through the sixth and seventh grades.
• Mo Wenjian tempered his body further with Sword Intent, reached the eighth grade, and attained an Eight-Forged Golden Body.
• Mo Wenjian encountered a bottleneck at age 330, and his cultivation stagnated.

Mo Wenjian chose the strength to shatter the void and reached that realm, then demonstrated his power to Zhu Zhanshan. He opened Zhu Zhanshan’s twelve primary meridians and set him on a path to greater martial cultivation.

• Mo Wenjian chose the strength to shatter the void over the Future Maitreya Sutra and the martial cultivation experience from webnovels.
• Mo Wenjian fused Chaos Sword Qi and Chaos Sword Intent into Chaos Sword Gang and advanced beyond the Celestial Person Realm to Shattering the Void.
• Mo Wenjian tore open the Wuxia Great Ming world’s boundary with a casual strike, shocking Zhu Zhanshan.
• Mo Wenjian opened Zhu Zhanshan’s twelve primary meridians, allowing him to reach the Grandmaster Realm directly.
• Mo Wenjian instructed Zhu Zhanshan to cultivate Two Forms Swordsmanship before switching to Taiji Swordsmanship, then left.

Mo Wenjian used the simulator to trace his long-term study of martial arts, discovering that his overwhelming strength had kept him from understanding the importance of technique and the distinct philosophies behind each school. He left sword carvings at Wudang, Shaolin, and Mount Hua, inspiring their disciples, and the simulation ended after his visit to Mount Hua.

• The simulation showed Zhu Zhanshan rescuing the Ming army at Tumu Fortress and helping depose Zhu Qizhen in favor of Zhu Qiyu.
• At a tournament showcasing many schools’ martial arts, Mo Wenjian realized that strength, physical training, and fighting technique were distinct, and that he had overlooked technique.
• Mo Wenjian began collecting martial arts through Zhu Zhanshan and found that each school’s techniques reflected its founder’s martial philosophy.
• Mo Wenjian studied Wudang martial arts and carved a sword inscription near Wudang’s Golden Summit, prompting disciples to gain insights and break through.
• Mo Wenjian studied Shaolin’s Seventy-Two Supreme Skills and left a sword carving near Bodhidharma Cave that aided the disciples’ cultivation.
• Mo Wenjian comprehended Mount Hua’s Nine Arts and carved an inscription near the Cliff of Reflection, giving Mount Hua disciples a chance to comprehend sword intent.