Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan watched the Wood Spirit Physique inherit the Golden Mulberry Spirit Tree spirit’s Immortal Spiritual Energy and rapidly advance from the perfection of Refining Qi into Spirit to Yin God Nine Refinements. With some Immortal Spiritual Energy still remaining, Chen Yan wondered whether the Wood Spirit Physique could break through into the Yang God Realm.

• Chen Yan recognized the Golden Mulberry Spirit Tree spirit’s legacy as Immortal Spiritual Energy and let the Wood Spirit Physique absorb it.
• The Wood Spirit Physique broke through into Refining Spirit into Void, then advanced through the Yin God stages while Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada watched.
• The Wood Spirit Physique reached Yin God Nine Refinements in a single day, surpassing Chen Yan and becoming the strongest cultivator on his side.
• Chen Yan considered the requirements for reaching the Yang God Realm and wondered whether the remaining Immortal Spiritual Energy would let the Wood Spirit Physique break through.

Chen Yan decided to have the Wood Spirit Physique use the remaining Immortal Spiritual Energy to attempt a breakthrough to the Yang God realm. As the Wood Spirit Physique drew spiritual energy from the Golden Mulberry Secret Realm, other cultivators noticed the disturbance and an unknown woman realized someone was breaking through.

• Chen Yan chose to let the Wood Spirit Physique attempt the Yang God breakthrough, judging that its foundation was solid and that his side needed greater strength against Yellow Springs.
• The Wood Spirit Physique began his breakthrough while Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada guarded the valley entrance and Chen Yan watched from a distance.
• The Wood Spirit Physique activated his Indestructible Wood Body, strengthening his body and drawing in spiritual energy from the Golden Mulberry Spirit Tree and the surrounding realm.
• The surging spiritual energy gathered above the valley and began flowing toward it from across the Golden Mulberry Secret Realm, attracting the attention of cultivators nearby.
• A woman elsewhere in the secret realm sensed the spiritual-energy surge and realized that someone was attempting to break through to the Yang God realm.

The Wood Spirit Physique used Immortal Spiritual Energy to break through the Yin God’s limits, condensing Yang God true intent and beginning to form a Yang God Dharma form. As a hundred-li heavenly phenomenon spread from Golden Mulberry Valley, cultivators across the Inner World were alarmed, while Li Shouyi hosted Human Ranking prodigies at Drunken Immortal Tower to agree on rules for restraining their worlds’ cultivators.

• Ao Shuang sensed someone challenging the Yang God realm in Golden Mulberry Secret Realm and flew toward Golden Mulberry Valley as Rogue Cultivators gathered there.
• The Wood Spirit Physique drew Immortal Spiritual Energy into his sea of consciousness, endured the Yin God’s collapse, and condensed Yang God true intent.
• The Wood Spirit Physique tempered the Yang God true intent until it began taking the form of a tiny Dharma form, and Chen Yan sensed that he was close to becoming a Yang God True Monarch.
• The Wood Spirit Physique’s tiny cyan figure appeared and summoned a hundred-li heavenly phenomenon, alarming cultivators throughout the Inner World.
• Li Shouyi hosted Zhao Wuji and other former Human Ranking prodigies at Drunken Immortal Tower to discuss rules for keeping cultivators from their worlds in check.

Li Shouyi, Bu Lingxu, Zhao Wuji, and Little Monk Tianyin sensed a Yang God Thunder Tribulation gathering near the Golden Mulberry Secret Realm and hurried there, suspecting Chen Yan was involved. Inside Golden Mulberry Valley, Chen Yan’s Wood Spirit Physique faced the first strike as Chen Yan and his companions watched from a safe distance.

• A thunderous quake interrupted Li Shouyi’s gathering, and Little Monk Tianyin identified the distant aura as a Yang God Thunder Tribulation.
• Li Shouyi, Bu Lingxu, Zhao Wuji, and Little Monk Tianyin suspected Senior Chen was undergoing the tribulation and rushed toward the Golden Mulberry Secret Realm.
• Ao Shuang recognized the danger gathering over Golden Mulberry Valley, but greedy Rogue Cultivators rushed into its illusion array believing a great treasure had appeared.
• Tribulation clouds spread over the valley, and the resulting force crushed Rogue Cultivators who had entered as Chen Yan, Wang Lingguan, and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada watched from outside the danger zone.
• The Wood Spirit Physique rose into the air as the Yang God Thunder Tribulation began, and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada wondered whether it would have three, six, or nine layers.

Ao Shuang met Li Shouyi and the other cultivators outside Golden Mulberry Valley as they speculated about the unknown person undergoing a Yang God Thunder Tribulation. Inside the valley, the Wood Spirit Physique endured the first strike and discovered that his Indestructible Wood Body could heal its damage while absorbing the tribulation’s power; he calmly awaited the second strike.

• The chapter explained that ninefold thunder tribulations were exceptionally dangerous and that True Monarch Xingyao was the only known cultivator to have survived one.
• Li Shouyi, Bu Lingxu, Zhao Wuji, and Little Monk Tianyin arrived at Golden Mulberry Valley and asked Ao Shuang about the cultivator facing the tribulation.
• Ao Shuang said the unknown cultivator had already reached the Yang God realm and was undergoing the thunder tribulation, while the others privately wondered if it was Chen Yan.
• Li Shouyi judged that the tribulation was likely sixfold and warned that a ninefold tribulation could be dangerous; Little Monk Tianyin prayed for the cultivator’s safety.
• The Wood Spirit Physique let the first thunderbolt strike him without resisting, then relied on his Indestructible Wood Body to repair the damage and absorb the tribulation’s power.
• The Wood Spirit Physique concluded that his vitality gave him confidence to survive even a ninefold tribulation and waited for the second strike.

Chen Yan’s Wood Spirit Physique endured six strikes of a ninefold Yang God Thunder Tribulation, while onlookers feared it could not survive the final three. As the last three bolts descended together, the Golden Mulberry Spirit Tree’s tree spirit intervened, leaving the Wood Spirit Physique’s fate uncertain.

• The Wood Spirit Physique survived the second thunderbolt, but the third, fourth, and fifth struck together and consumed much of his regenerative vitality.
• Chen Yan decided not to help, knowing that joining the tribulation would endanger his main body and intensify the remaining strikes.
• The Wood Spirit Physique used enormous vines to meet the sixth thunderbolt, survived it, and left Wang Lingguan and the others realizing the tribulation was ninefold.
• The final three thunderbolts gathered and descended together, leaving the badly injured Wood Spirit Physique unable to move.
• As the three bolts neared the Wood Spirit Physique, the tree spirit of the Golden Mulberry Spirit Tree descended in jade-green light and landed on his crown.

The Golden Mulberry Spirit Tree's tree spirit gave the Wood Spirit Physique its Dao Fruit, Endless Vitality, allowing him to survive the transformed final lightning tribulations and reach the fourth layer of the Yang God realm. Chen Yan gained a powerful Yang God avatar and valuable breakthrough experience, leaving him confident about facing the Netherworld Realm's revival.

• The Golden Mulberry Spirit Tree's tree spirit sacrificed its phantom and bestowed the Dao Fruit Endless Vitality on the gravely wounded Wood Spirit Physique.
• The final three lightning tribulations transformed into azure flood dragons with power comparable to Yang God True Monarchs, alarming Chen Yan and the onlookers outside Golden Mulberry Valley.
• The Wood Spirit Physique used a gigantic palm of green life force to destroy the flood dragons and tear apart the tribulation clouds.
• Heavenly rewards raised the Wood Spirit Physique's cultivation through the first three Yang God layers and into the fourth layer.
• Chen Yan realized his forces now had three Yang God-level combatants, valued the breakthrough experience, and thanked the Golden Mulberry Spirit Tree's tree spirit.

Chen Yan’s Wood Spirit Physique survived the lightning tribulation, reached the fourth level of the Yang God realm, and gained the Dao Fruit Endless Vitality. Chen Yan had the Wood Spirit Physique restore the Four-Winged Cold Cicada’s body, then learned that the Netherworld Realm’s suppressive force still prevented them from leaving Golden Mulberry Valley.

• The Wood Spirit Physique gained the Golden Mulberry Spirit Tree’s Dao Fruit Endless Vitality and descended after surviving the lightning tribulation as a Yang God True Monarch.
• Chen Yan praised Wang Lingguan for holding off Zaku and promised him Thunder-Wind Yi Wood Fiend to aid his cultivation.
• The Wood Spirit Physique used Endless Vitality to reconstruct the Four-Winged Cold Cicada’s body, healing its hidden injuries and restoring its hope of reaching the Yang God realm.
• The Four-Winged Cold Cicada pledged its loyalty to Chen Yan after he promised it future rewards.
• Chen Yan asked whether they could leave, and the Wood Spirit Physique confirmed that the Netherworld Realm’s suppressive force remained.

The Wood Spirit Physique stabilized his new Yang God cultivation in Golden Mulberry Valley and used the valley’s natural illusion array to release the trapped Rogue Cultivators. Chen Yan emerged to greet Li Shouyi and the others, who mistook the Yang God True Monarch for an elder of his; Bu Lingxu then asked why the Senior had not come out.

• The Wood Spirit Physique agreed to remain in Golden Mulberry Valley to consolidate his Yang God cultivation, since he could not yet leave the Netherworld Realm.
• The Wood Spirit Physique controlled the natural illusion array and sent the trapped Rogue Cultivators safely outside the valley.
• Li Shouyi, Bu Lingxu, Zhao Wuji, Little Monk Tianyin, and Ao Shuang decided to pay respects to the Yang God True Monarch they believed was inside.
• Chen Yan emerged from Golden Mulberry Valley, startling Li Shouyi and the others, who recognized him as the first-ranked Earth Ranking cultivator.
• Chen Yan said the Yang God True Monarch was one of his elders, reassuring the group that the Senior would not resent them for watching the breakthrough.
• Bu Lingxu asked Chen Yan why the Yang God Senior had not come out of the valley.

Chen Yan concealed the Wood Spirit Physique’s Yang God breakthrough, secured Golden Mulberry Valley for Xiang Prefecture, and departed after bidding farewell to the others. A sudden notice revealed that Chen Yan had vanished from all three Heavenly Secrets Pavilion rankings, leaving Li Shouyi and the others to speculate that he had hidden himself from the Heavenly Secrets Stele.

• Chen Yan said the injured Yang God senior was recovering in seclusion and persuaded the gathered cultivators to keep their disciples out of Golden Mulberry Secret Realm.
• Chen Yan exchanged farewells with Li Shouyi, Bu Lingxu, Little Monk Tianyin, Zhao Wuji, and Ao Shuang, then left with Wang Lingguan and the Wood Spirit Physique.
• After Chen Yan departed, Li Shouyi marveled that Chen Yan’s displayed Yin God Second Refinement cultivation had still inspired pressure like that of a Yang God True Monarch.
• Four transmission talisman swords informed Li Shouyi, Bu Lingxu, Zhao Wuji, and Little Monk Tianyin that Chen Yan had disappeared from the Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings.
• Li Shouyi ruled out Chen Yan’s Yang God breakthrough, while Zhao Wuji suggested Chen Yan might have learned a secret method that concealed him from the Heavenly Secrets Stele.

Tong Xiuyuan and True Monarch Wuchen investigated Chen Yan’s disappearance from the Heavenly Secrets Stele and learned that his Soul Lamp was still normal. After hearing that someone was undergoing a Yang God thunder tribulation, they suspected Chen Yan had broken through, and Chen Yan realized the Wood Spirit Physique’s advancement had caused the Stele to register his stronger aura.

• Tong Xiuyuan saw that Chen Yan had vanished from all three rankings and contacted True Monarch Wuchen to ask whether Chen Yan was alive.
• True Monarch Wuchen told Tong Xiuyuan that he had made Chen Yan their fourth brother, then asked Guo Tai to check Chen Yan’s Soul Lamp in Xiang Prefecture.
• Guo Tai confirmed Chen Yan’s Soul Lamp was functioning normally, and True Monarch Wuchen and Tong Xiuyuan considered whether Chen Yan had advanced or concealed his aura.
• Guo Tai reported that an informant had seen someone undergoing a thunder tribulation in the Inner World, prompting True Monarch Wuchen and Tong Xiuyuan to suspect Chen Yan was breaking through to the Yang God realm.
• Chen Yan received True Monarch Wuchen’s questions and realized the Wood Spirit Physique’s breakthrough to the Yang Spirit realm had caused the Heavenly Secrets Stele to detect his stronger aura and remove his name from the Earth Ranking.

Chen Yan learned that concealing his heavenly secrets had kept him off the rankings, while rumors of his death spread across the Three Thousand Worlds. As the Sea Clan and the Rebirth Cult advanced their plans, Chen Yan headed for Thunder Cliff to strengthen himself by refining the Nine Heavens Dao Fruit.

• True Monarch Wuchen and Tong Xiuyuan accepted Chen Yan's explanation that he had concealed his aura, and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion issued new rankings that left him off the lists.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion stayed silent as people across the Three Thousand Worlds speculated that Chen Yan had died.
• A Sea Clan leader learned that Zaku, Saka, Talon, and the others were dead, but ordered the clan's plan to continue.
• Kong Liang told the Rebirth Cult protector that ten million sacrifices were ready to open the White Lotus Buddha Kingdom, and the protector dismissed concerns about a newly emerged Yang God.
• Liu Xian'er decided to risk revealing the Rebirth Cult's conspiracy to Chen Yan, despite hearing that he might be dead.
• Chen Yan left Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada, then headed to Thunder Cliff to check the Thunder Department Seal and pursue cultivation with the Nine Heavens Dao Fruit.

Chen Yan returned to Thunder Cliff, found the Thunder Department Seal restored, and began cultivating in the Ancient Thunder Pool. After a year of secluded cultivation, he advanced from Yin God Second Refinement to Yin God Fifth Refinement, while the pool’s remaining energy dwindled to less than one-fifth.

• Chen Yan entered Thunder Cliff, where lightning could not harm him, and reached the Ancient Thunder Pool.
• The Thunder Department Seal emerged, nearly restored to its former peak, and helped Chen Yan refine the pool’s lightning power.
• Chen Yan entered the Ancient Thunder Pool and absorbed its lightning to strengthen his Yin God and physical body.
• After two months, Chen Yan advanced to Yin God Third Refinement, then reached Yin God Fourth Refinement after another three months.
• Half a year later, Chen Yan reached Yin God Fifth Refinement, and the Ancient Thunder Pool’s remaining energy fell below one-fifth.

Chen Yan returned to Mount Lao after Lu Da announced that the prototype Yang God-grade Super Thunder God Cannon had been forged. He inspected the cannon and praised Lu Da’s work, leaving the weapon’s actual power yet to be tested.

• Chen Yan received Lu Da’s message that the Super Thunder God Cannon prototype was complete and left the Ancient Thunder Pool before finishing his cultivation.
• Chen Yan returned to Mount Lao and went straight to Lu Da’s guarded workshop, where Lu Da, Wang Lingguan, and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada discussed the cannon’s estimated power.
• Lu Da showed Chen Yan the enormous Super Thunder God Cannon, explaining that its strength against late-stage Yang Gods remained uncertain.
• Chen Yan examined the cannon, thanked Lu Da for his hard work, and promised to help him find a wife after Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada teased them.

Chen Yan examined Lu Da’s newly completed Super Thunder God Cannon and learned that it could unleash a strike comparable to a third-layer Yang God cultivator, though firing it required substantial power. He carried the cannon to a secluded valley and prepared to test it against a huge ironstone target.

• Chen Yan praised Lu Da’s work and urged him to rest and cultivate after spending two years completing the cannon.
• Lu Da explained the cannon’s Five-Elements Divine Thunder inscriptions, its estimated power, and the energy needed to fire it.
• Chen Yan decided to test the cannon and placed nine spirit stones into its power grooves.
• Chen Yan lifted the cannon, carried it to a prepared testing valley, and positioned himself to fire at an ironstone target.
• Chen Yan ordered Lu Da, Wang Lingguan, and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada to retreat a thousand zhang before the test.

Chen Yan tested Lu Da’s Super Thunder God Cannon, charging it with his magic power and firing it at a massive Fine Iron Ore deposit. The cannon unleashed Yang God-level destruction that shook Mount Lao, leaving its people stunned by the weapon’s power.

• Chen Yan activated Dao Fruit: Indestructible Vajra to shield himself before testing the cannon, while Wang Lingguan, Lu Da, and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada watched from a safe distance.
• Chen Yan fed magic power into the Super Thunder God Cannon, and its energy rose beyond the strength of even a ninth-refinement Yin God cultivator.
• Lu Da rejoiced at the cannon’s Yang God-level power, while Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada watched in dread.
• Chen Yan fired the cannon at the enormous raw Fine Iron Ore, melting it and blasting the surrounding ground into ash with a blinding eruption of heat and force.
• The flash and shockwave swept across Mount Lao, temporarily blinding some people and sending the Flying Fish Guard into a defensive stance.
• Zhang Tianzheng recognized the blast as Chen Yan’s Thunder God Cannon, and he and Zhang Yan realized its Yang God power could establish control over the Netherworld Realm.

Chen Yan tested the Super Thunder God Cannon and ordered Xiang Prefecture to produce ten of them over the next twenty years. He returned to Thunder Cliff to cultivate before the Netherworld Realm’s spiritual energy fully revived, hoping to reach the late Yin God stage.

• Chen Yan emerged unharmed from the cannon test and judged that a direct hit could kill Yang God cultivators below the middle stage, though the cannon needed time to charge.
• Lu Da explained that he alone could inscribe the cannon’s patterns and could finish one cannon every year and a half; Chen Yan set production at one every two years and ordered ten in total.
• Chen Yan tasked Wang Lingguan, the Four-Winged Cold Cicada, and Lu Da with supporting cannon production, while they concealed the test’s effects as a natural phenomenon.
• Chen Yan returned to Thunder Cliff and resumed cultivating at the Ancient Thunder Pool, which had less than one-fifth of its energy remaining.
• Chen Yan estimated that the remaining thunder power could raise him to Yin God Six Refinements and possibly help him break through to the late Yin God stage, while also advancing his martial cultivation toward middle-stage Seeing God.

While Chen Yan continued cultivating in seclusion, outside cultivators plunged the Netherworld Realm into chaos, forcing Chongming Sect and Heavenly Corpse Sect to abandon their territories and join Joyful Sect in Youzhou. The Netherworld Realm’s complete revival then began as a radiant vortex opened in the sky.

• Chen Yan advanced to Yin God Six Refinements, exhausted the Ancient Thunder Pool, and continued cultivating at Thunder Cliff despite his slower progress.
• Wang Lingguan reported that outside cultivators were exploiting the weakened native sects, and Chongming Sect was forced to apologize and pay compensation to a Yin God Nine Refinements cultivator.
• Chongming Sect and Heavenly Corpse Sect learned that Silver Jade Villa and the Blood Demon Cult were expanding into Min Prefecture and Dianzhou, then withdrew to Youzhou and joined Joyful Sect.
• Silver Jade Villa and the Blood Demon Cult claimed Min Prefecture and Dianzhou, but banditry and demonic activity continued, driving commoners from the region as chaos spread across the Nine Provinces.
• The Netherworld Realm’s complete revival began as clouds formed a luminous vortex in the sky, drawing cultivators’ attention.

As the Netherworld Realm completed its spiritual-energy revival, Chen Yan broke through to Yin God Seven Refinements and strengthened his martial cultivation. He left Thunder Cliff with the Wood Spirit Physique to return to Mount Lao, anticipating the arrival of outside Yang God True Monarchs and the chaos they could bring.

• The Netherworld Realm's spiritual energy fully revived, transforming its lands and enabling cultivators across the realm to break through; native factions feared the arrival of outside Yang God True Monarchs.
• Chen Yan absorbed the surging spiritual energy at Thunder Cliff and advanced to Yin God Seven Refinements and mid-stage Seeing God.
• Chen Yan considered how he could obtain the Earth Fiend Yin Veins and extremely yang treasure needed to reach Yang God, then decided to return to Mount Lao as Yang God True Monarchs began descending.
• Chen Yan left Thunder Cliff and met the Wood Spirit Physique, who had guarded him during his seclusion; the two set out for Mount Lao, confident in their combined strength.

Venerable Silver Jade descended into the Netherworld Realm with Blood Vajra Pang Heng and tried to recruit him to help deal with Blood Old Demon. He offered Pang Heng Xiang Prefecture as the territory for building a new foundation.

• Venerable Silver Jade and Blood Vajra Pang Heng arrived at Silver Jade Villa's former mountain gate as the Netherworld Realm's spiritual energy fully revived.
• The Silver Jade Villa disciples welcomed Venerable Silver Jade, while the elder recognized Pang Heng as the notorious Blood Vajra of the Azure Cang Realm.
• Venerable Silver Jade hosted Pang Heng with food, wine, and dancers, then asked him to join forces against Blood Old Demon.
• Pang Heng declined to join based on the feast alone, so Venerable Silver Jade offered him a territory in the Netherworld Realm.
• Venerable Silver Jade told Pang Heng that Xiang Prefecture had been prepared for him.