Chapter Summaries

Hu Mang comprehended Kidney Water Qi in the deep sea and strengthened his Ghost Haunt, then used it to unleash the reconstructed Black God of Wealth against Zhao Longbo. Zhao Longbo escaped the water-thread chains rather than disrupt the fat bastard’s ascension ritual.

• Hu Mang realized that Five Qi Converging at the Origin meant letting the Dragon Vein’s consciousness flow naturally toward him, and he comprehended Kidney Water Qi.
• Hu Mang’s Ghost Haunt grew stronger and doubled in size as it drew Spiritual Qi from the sea, while Zhao Longbo continued blasting it with his powerful Qi and Blood.
• Water-thread chains emerged within the Ghost Haunt and gradually burdened Zhao Longbo as he fought through waves of Ghost Qi and Water Spiritual Qi.
• Hu Mang revealed the Black God of Wealth, reconstructed from Evil God fragments and parts of the ghost ship, and sent its chains after Zhao Longbo.
• Zhao Longbo broke the chains and fled because he did not want to ruin the fat bastard’s ascension ritual and provoke him into a fight to the death.

Zhao Longbo fought his way through the Ghost Haunt, where a faceless corpse nearly erased his features and a silver-haired noble destroyed his souls and spirits. His Longbo body’s Shattering the Void ability restored him, but after escaping through a whirlpool into the sea, he discovered that some of his prized Longbo Essence Blood had become corpse blood.

• Zhao Longbo rushed through the Ghost Haunt, worried that the Black God of Wealth’s stolen fragments could threaten Wanshun Sea Hall and his plans to explore the Endless Sea.
• Zhao Longbo encountered a faceless corpse that began erasing his features, but he erupted with Qi and Blood and destroyed everything nearby.
• A silver-haired noble struck Zhao Longbo’s chest and destroyed his three souls and seven spirits, but Zhao Longbo’s body instinctively unleashed Shattering the Void and shattered the noble.
• Zhao Longbo’s Qi and Blood reached its extreme, restoring his souls and spirits and bringing him back to life; Hu Mang watched and considered studying his body.
• Zhao Longbo used his fishing rod to open a whirlpool through the Yin Qi and escaped into the sea, while Hu Mang revealed that his eruption had awakened three dangerous creatures.
• Zhao Longbo emerged from the sea in horror after discovering that some of his Longbo Essence Blood had turned into corpse blood.

Zhao Longbo fought to escape the undersea monsters, but after stopping the Faceless Sea Lord’s whirlpool, he was attacked by the Whale Marquis. Hu Mang watched as the battle plunged back into the sea, while the Withered Tide Snail Mother remained a threat.

• Zhao Longbo escaped the Ghost Haunt with some of his Longbo Essence Blood transformed into corpse blood and realized the Buddha Maiden and Immortal Woman He had not come to help.
• The Faceless Sea Lord began forming a vast face-shaped whirlpool, so Zhao Longbo used his fishing rod to disperse it and tossed a Sea-Calming Divine Pearl into the sea.
• Hu Mang identified the Faceless Sea Lord and recalled that it had formed from the corpses of an entire city, while keeping the ghost ship ready in case he needed to flee.
• A corpse whale fused with the Ghost Haunt descended on Zhao Longbo, and the Whale Marquis merged with it as the two monsters crashed into the sea.
• Old Third watched in amazement as the Whale Marquis used the Ghost Haunt to shield the corpse whale from most attacks.

Hu Mang and Chen Xiaosan used a Seaquake to strip Zhao Longbo of his power and kill him during the battle with the corpse whale. Hu Mang seized Zhao Longbo’s giant ao shell and fishing rod, then moved to stop another contender from taking the spoils.

• Zhao Longbo used his Shattering the Void Qi and Blood to fight the corpse whale while drawing it southwest, and Hu Mang foresaw his escape attempt.
• Zhao Longbo struck Hu Mang’s Sea Yaksha mask through a consciousness descent, but Hu Mang survived and secretly gave Chen Xiaosan an object and instructions.
• Zhao Longbo donned the Mountain-Bearing Giant Ao’s shell, withstanding the corpse whale’s attacks as he prepared to use three Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Chen Xiaosan lit ambergris, triggering a Seaquake that drained Zhao Longbo’s Spiritual Qi and caused his Longbo body and Three Dantian to rupture.
• Hu Mang seized Zhao Longbo’s turtle shell and fishing rod, then moved to block another streak of light racing toward the battlefield.

Hu Mang killed Immortal Woman He with a devastating strike after she considered bargaining with him for Zhao Longbo’s corpse, then returned to the Zheng Family Garden. Seven days later, he reflected on the punch and sensed he was nearing Shattering the Void as Wei Kaishan and Feng Haixiao visited him.

• Immortal Woman He decided to offer Hu Mang a deal: she would help him kill Zhao Longbo in exchange for Zhao Longbo’s corpse and would teach Hu Mang the cyber Dao of everlasting life.
• Hu Mang’s Ghost Qi and thunderclouds trapped Immortal Woman He, and his strike shattered her body before she could finish speaking.
• Immortal Woman He’s remaining corpse worms muttered about the Eight Immortals becoming one and warned Hu Mang that the Sinful Dragons would pursue his two Dragon Veins; Hu Mang destroyed them with lightning.
• Hu Mang told Chen Xiaosan that the strike had exhausted his Tribulation Qi, then gathered the treasures and left for the Zheng Family Garden.
• Seven days later, Hu Mang concluded that the void was a cage and sensed that he was close to comprehending Shattering the Void.
• Wei Kaishan thanked Hu Mang for saving his life, while Hu Mang suspected Feng Haixiao had come for more than repayment.

Hu Mang recruited Feng Haixiao and Wei Kaishan for a dangerous Heavenly Gate research project, then went to a Zheng Family Garden dock to confront the undersea monsters threatening Java. He crossed the sea under Buddhist protections and reached the uncanny waters, where he prepared to face the creatures one at a time.

• Feng Haixiao and Wei Kaishan asked Hu Mang for work, and he recruited them for a Heavenly Gate project that could help their cultivation.
• Hu Mang sent them to Doctor Sun at the Zheng Family Garden's new building to make arrangements.
• Hu Mang went to a private dock, where dead, faceless fish revealed that the undersea monsters were stirring.
• Hu Mang covered himself in Buddhist Divine Abilities and walked across the sea, finding that Wisdom King Fire burned the faceless fish.
• Hu Mang reached waters distorted by uncanny forces, saw human faces, bone-like particles, and strange flesh conches beneath the surface, then took out the Clear Resonance Chime to confront them.

Hu Mang pacified the Faceless Sea Lord and arranged for the Whale Marquis to join the Mist Tide Secret Pavilion, then confronted the far more powerful Withered Tide Snail Mother. After surviving her curse with Vajrayana, he spoke with her and learned she was curious about cultivating Buddhist arts.

• Hu Mang used the Clear Resonance Chime to calm the Faceless Sea Lord and had water ghosts pull him beneath the sea.
• Hu Mang told the Whale Marquis about the Mist Tide Secret Pavilion, and the two reached an agreement after its representatives arrived.
• The Mist Tide Secret Pavilion made Hu Mang an honored guest, but its representative fled when he asked for help dealing with the Withered Tide Snail Mother.
• Hu Mang called out the Snail Mother Lady, whose presence tore his Binary Kasaya and nearly overwhelmed him with a curse.
• Hu Mang used Vajrayana to evade the Snail Mother's curse, then learned she could understand Heavenly Gate speech and asked whether she could cultivate Buddhist arts.

Hu Mang taught Snail Mother Lady the Yugi Sutra and learned that undersea monsters had been used to create Sinful Dragons. Back at Zheng Family Garden, he found Old Third documenting the monsters as a third kind of Mystery-Type, and Old Third hinted that they showed Grave Transformation characteristics and revealed a secret about the planet’s Heavenly Dao.

• Snail Mother Lady revealed her true form and nearly destroyed the harbor with her voice, so Hu Mang taught her the Yugi Sutra and received a ritual conch to summon her.
• Snail Mother Lady told Hu Mang that cultivators had gathered undersea monsters decades earlier and used them in research that produced the Sinful Dragons.
• Hu Mang returned to Zheng Family Garden to check on research into Zhao Longbo’s corpse and the Little Black God of Wealth, then realized Old Third had been spending his time writing a report.
• Old Third explained that undersea monsters were a third kind of Mystery-Type, distinguished by their contaminating nature, and said Great Judge Zhong considered them to display Grave Transformation characteristics.
• Old Third asked Hu Mang about the human way, then revealed that the planet had a Heavenly Dao.

Chen Xiaosan told Hu Mang that Zhong Kui had identified a Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao whose influence created mysteries, and Hu Mang realized restoring the Nether River might let powerful underworld figures approach it. Hu Mang then joined Sun Jidao to examine Zhao Longbo’s body and learned that the Longbo Bloodline could repeatedly create new versions of him from his remaining memories.

• Chen Xiaosan explained that mysteries were ghosts altered by the Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao, which governed the yin world rather than the yang.
• Chen Xiaosan said he could choose a department in the Underworld Bureau, and Hu Mang learned that King Chujiang might be sent overseas to investigate his report.
• Hu Mang connected the severed Nether River to the Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao and wondered whether restoring it could lead to contact with the Heavenly Dao.
• Hu Mang visited Sun Jidao’s laboratory, where Sun explained that Zhao Longbo’s active Longbo Bloodline was trying to regenerate his body while his soul fragments remained in the tank.
• Sun Jidao told Hu Mang that Zhao Longbo’s Qi and Blood could create new versions of him from bodily memories, and repeated deaths had damaged his soul and hindered his formation of a Nascent Soul.

Hu Mang examined the Human Immortal Lightning Puppet and reviewed Doctor Sun's research on innate acupoints, then learned that Sun's golden core reshaping papers had made him and Wu Cai the focus of intense attention in the Heavenly Gate. Sun explained why he had kept his latest findings unpublished, and his remarks about travel restrictions on registered Nascent Soul cultivators left Hu Mang intrigued.

• Hu Mang sensed ancient patterns and a dormant will within the Human Immortal Lightning Puppet's Qi and Blood, but decided not to experiment on himself.
• Doctor Sun showed Hu Mang his research, including models for thirty-two innate acupoints and studies of innate meridians.
• Sun explained that he had not published his findings because they lacked evidence from actual cultivation and he wanted to avoid attracting more attention.
• Hu Mang discovered that Sun and Wu Cai's golden core reshaping research had become a major topic across the Heavenly Gate, drawing reporters, collaborators, and sect members.
• Sun told Hu Mang that officially registered Nascent Soul cultivators needed approval to leave the country, prompting Hu Mang to take note.

Hu Mang and Sun Jidao discussed the Human Immortal project’s innate acupoint research, including how Longbo Qi and Blood and Innate Qi could reveal acupoints in ordinary people. Sun Jidao explained that Shattering the Void might activate innate acupoints, but also warned Hu Mang that the realm’s peak eventually gave way to severe meridian atrophy unless he formed a Nascent Soul in time.

• Hu Mang and Sun Jidao discussed their completed Golden Core project and learned that another Heavenly Gate team had already developed a Golden Core substitute.
• Sun Jidao reported that he had identified thirty-two innate acupoint models but could not detect them in ordinary humans without stimulation from Longbo Qi and Blood.
• Sun Jidao found that a wisp of Innate Qi could stimulate some innate acupoints, and Hu Mang described Dao patterns he had perceived in the Longbo Bloodline through Shattering the Void.
• Little Zhang suggested that Shattering the Void cultivators might activate innate acupoints by circulating Qi and Blood.
• Sun Jidao recounted how overseas Shattering the Void martial artists had suffered extreme meridian atrophy after exploring beyond their peak, and said Hu Mang had at least sixty years before the decline began.
• Sun Jidao said forming a Nascent Soul within those sixty years could reverse the decline and preserve Hu Mang’s peak Qi and Blood.

Hu Mang investigated Wu Hun’s martial breakthrough and learned that this world’s martial artists could naturally temper their bodies beyond mortal limits by consuming Demon Beast flesh. Wu Hun explained Seeing the God, leaving Hu Mang eager to make a deal with him.

• Hu Mang asked Sun Jidao whether a naturally evolved martial-limit body could avoid the sixty-year decline in Qi and Blood, and Sun Jidao warned him against absorbing Zhao Longbo’s Qi and Blood.
• Hu Mang met Wu Hun in his Seclusion Chamber and tested his ability to withstand fist intent with his Shattering the Void body.
• Hu Mang asked whether Wu Hun’s body or martial realm had broken through first, and Wu Hun explained that the body shattered the void before the martial realm reached completion.
• Wu Hun described Seeing the God as sensing and repairing the body through the god of the self, then using it to perceive and cross a barrier in the void.
• Hu Mang concluded that martial artists could produce Innate Qi through their innate acupoints and offered to make a deal with Wu Hun.

Hu Mang, Wu Hun, and Jiang Mingshan traveled into the southwestern mountains to seal the miasma and Gu worms, while Wu Hun taught Hu Mang his Qi Ingestion Method. After three days of refining snake demons, Hu Mang awakened the Sinew Snake and demonstrated its power through his spear techniques.

• Hu Mang, Wu Hun, and Jiang Mingshan accepted the high-level mission to seal the miasma in the Ancient Cave and entered the dangerous southwestern mountains.
• Wu Hun explained that mountain spirits and tree sprites were the region’s greatest threats, and warned that using Law Power or True Qi could rouse them.
• Wu Hun taught Hu Mang to refine Demon Beast flesh and Yao Qi, then prepared a soup from a python and a spirit deer for him to consume.
• Hu Mang absorbed the beasts’ traits, practicing movements that combined a python’s coiling strength with a spirit deer’s agility.
• Over the next three days, Wu Hun brought Hu Mang more snake demons, and Hu Mang refined their Qi and Blood into his sinews.
• Hu Mang completed his Sinew Snake refinement, causing an invisible snake demon to coil around his spear as he practiced.

Hu Mang and his fellow disciples used imported pesticides to clear the Fallen Miasma Ancient Cavern, then took on a mission to remove demonic-tainted rocks in Black Wind Rift Gorge. Hu Mang cultivated a tiger spirit’s hide and emerged from seclusion with tiger roars resonating from his pores.

• Hu Mang gathered pesticide supplies from the Zheng Family Garden and returned with Jiang Mingshan and Wu Hun to spray the miasma insects and seal the Fallen Miasma Ancient Cavern.
• The three disciples reported their mission complete and accepted an assignment to clear Demonic Qi-corrupted rocks in Black Wind Rift Gorge.
• Jiang Mingshan used an excavator to break the contaminated rock while Hu Mang began cultivating the Tiger Skin refinement.
• Wu Hun returned with a massive tiger spirit carcass, and Hu Mang used its Qi and Blood to support his cultivation.
• After two days in seclusion, Hu Mang emerged as tiger roars from his pores shook the gorge.

Hu Mang used a Pill Furnace to refine the demonic natures in his Qi and Blood with his Golden Core, strengthening his cultivation and completing the sinew, skin, and flesh refinements. Xu Nuoning’s grandfather entered the chamber and was shocked by what he saw Hu Mang doing.

• Hu Mang chose a chamber at Li Flame Mountain to test whether his Golden Core could refine the demonic natures in his body.
• Hu Mang filled a Pill Furnace with body-tempering medicine and water, then climbed inside to begin refining himself.
• Hu Mang found that his martial arts intent could only weaken the demonic natures, while his Golden Core tamed them and turned them into pure power.
• Hu Mang’s Golden Core grew stronger as a dragon and tiger emerged among his Qi and Blood, with foxes gathering behind the tiger.
• Xu Nuoning’s grandfather wandered through the Alchemy Chambers, entered Hu Mang’s chamber, and called him sick in the head.

Hu Mang refined his body and Crimson Moon Fox bloodline in a Pill Furnace, then fought the strange old man who had been watching him. The old man revealed himself as the True Person of Myriad Phenomena and brought True Person Li Fire to see Hu Mang, whom he judged could be molded into a talented pill refiner.

• Hu Mang emerged from the Pill Furnace with eight tails after digesting Yao Qi and strengthening his Crimson Moon Fox bloodline.
• Hu Mang accused the old man of being a pervert, then attacked him after mistaking him for a demonic cultivator who had refined ginseng spirits.
• The old man explained that he was a divided thought and criticized Hu Mang's cultivation method for mixing Daoist and Buddhist qualities.
• The old man summoned True Person Li Fire, who recognized Hu Mang and assessed his cultivation.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena told True Person Li Fire that Hu Mang had unusual potential for pill refinement and could be molded into a talent.

True Person of Myriad Phenomena brought Hu Mang to his cave abode on Li Flame Mountain to teach him alchemy and revealed his knowledge of the upper realm. There, he introduced himself as an Innate Pill Furnace from the Haotian Heavenly Court and asked Hu Mang to explain his origins.

• True Person Li Fire assigned Hu Mang to follow True Person of Myriad Phenomena and learn alchemy, then warned the disciples that the senior was a nonhuman being with influence among both righteous and demonic sects.
• True Person of Myriad Phenomena explained to Hu Mang that cultivating both Yin and Yang Spirits was not necessary for every path to surviving the lightning tribulation.
• Hu Mang entered the cave abode, where its Immortal Qi stirred his Dao Yang realm, but True Person of Myriad Phenomena said his lack of an Innate Dao Body limited how much his Golden Core could improve.
• True Person of Myriad Phenomena explained that the cave held a water vent formed from an ancient fire vent and said Hu Mang's second-generation patriarch had told him about it while they spoke in the lower realm.
• At the cave's cold pool, True Person of Myriad Phenomena revealed his true body was the Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin Cauldron, one of the Haotian Heavenly Court's twenty-six Innate Pill Furnaces, and asked whether Hu Mang came from another minor chiliocosm.

Hu Mang learned from True Person of Myriad Phenomena about chiliocosm levels, his cultivation system, and the Azure Mysterious Realm’s impending merger with the upper realm. True Person revealed that he had descended to attempt a transformation into an immortal artifact, but the realm’s fierce tribulation shattered his attempt and damaged his cauldron.

• True Person of Myriad Phenomena deduced Hu Mang’s Golden Core cultivation and explained how Small, Middle, and Great Chiliocosms relate to one another.
• Hu Mang described the Heavenly Gate cultivation realms, and True Person speculated that the Nascent Soul realm arose from a dangerous upper-realm fragment and its lingering catastrophe.
• True Person told Hu Mang that the Azure Mysterious Realm would merge with the Numinous Emptiness Immortal Realm, making its inhabitants upper-realm beings and greatly extending their lifespans.
• Hu Mang asked whether True Person had descended because of the merger, and True Person revealed his true form as a cracked divine cauldron.
• True Person explained that he had come to undergo tribulation and become an immortal artifact, but the Azure Mysterious Realm’s lightning struck him down before he could transform.

The True Person of Myriad Phenomena explained his failed tribulation and sought Earth Star’s Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao fragment to repair his damaged cauldron, but Hu Mang questioned whether that plan could work. Hu Mang instead proposed using the Heavenly Tribulation Register to subject the True Person to a minor tribulation, though the True Person warned that involvement with the Heavenly Tribulation Imperial Dynasty could bring certain death.

• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena recounted how he survived three tribulations before his true body was destroyed during the Divine Immortal Pill Tribulation and later came to reside in the Mysterious Peak Sect.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena told Hu Mang that the sect master was preparing to undergo a thunder tribulation and might ascend.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena asked Hu Mang to help find Earth Star’s Grave Transformation Heavenly Dao fragment, but Hu Mang questioned whether they could find it in time or persuade a devil-path immortal to surrender it.
• Hu Mang revealed the Heavenly Tribulation Register and proposed that the True Person of Myriad Phenomena use it to undergo a minor Heavenly Tribulation and repair his damaged body.
• The True Person of Myriad Phenomena welcomed the plan, then warned Hu Mang that becoming entangled in the Heavenly Tribulation Imperial Dynasty’s karma could mean certain death.

Hu Mang asked True Person of Myriad Phenomena to help refine his body toward Shattering the Void and improve his golden core, then revealed rare High Antiquity materials that could aid the process. Meanwhile, three Mysterious Peak Sect elders arrived at the sect master’s field and Abbess Hengyue suspected he had advanced.

• True Person of Myriad Phenomena examined Hu Mang’s remolded golden core and confirmed that reaching Shattering the Void could help him return from the acquired state to the innate.
• True Person of Myriad Phenomena explained that Hu Mang’s current method could not produce a true Purple Mansion Immortal Pill without higher-grade materials.
• Hu Mang brought out Longbo blood and a Mountain-Bearing Divine Ao shell, and True Person of Myriad Phenomena recognized both as rare High Antiquity materials.
• True Person Li Fire, Abbess Hengyue, and Rogue Person Yanbo met at Spirit-Unifying Mountain and went to find the sect master.
• Abbess Hengyue found the sect master tilling a field and asked whether he had taken that step.