Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan rejected Liu Xian'er’s attempt to recruit him into the Rebirth Cult and discovered that a powerful Yang God presence was monitoring her. After the Cult’s Protector ordered Liu Xian'er to help with a plan to capture Chen Yan, an unknown figure appeared at her cave and she knelt to greet them.

• Liu Xian'er offered Chen Yan a Yang Extremity Pill to persuade him to join the Rebirth Cult, but he refused and warned the cult to stay out of Xiang Prefecture.
• Chen Yan sensed a concealed Yang God fluctuation on Liu Xian'er and suspected a powerful Rebirth Cult figure was using it to monitor her or learn his response.
• After leaving Mount Lao, Liu Xian'er met the Rebirth Cult Protector in a cave and confirmed that Chen Yan had once saved her from demons.
• The Protector dismissed Chen Yan’s refusal and ordered that he be refined into a weapon when the Old Mother Buddha Kingdom opened, then told Liu Xian'er to return for the next phase of the plan.
• While Liu Xian'er meditated in the cave, an unknown figure arrived, and she knelt to pay her respects.

Liu Xian'er revealed the Rebirth Cult’s plan for the Old Mother Buddha Kingdom, prompting Chen Yan to summon True Monarch Wuchen and hide her at Mount Lao. She then showed him a powerful tattoo on her back and explained that the cult’s saintesses were made into vessels for Lifeless Old Mother’s descent.

• Chen Yan discovered the Rebirth Cult Protector’s surveillance aura on Liu Xian'er and secretly followed her to a cave.
• Liu Xian'er told Chen Yan that the Rebirth Cult was preparing the Old Mother Buddha Kingdom, a scheme said to make even Yang God True Monarchs seem like ants.
• Chen Yan decided to seek help from True Monarch Wuchen without revealing the secret in his message, and offered to hide Liu Xian'er at Mount Lao.
• Liu Xian'er refused to hide and showed Chen Yan a lifelike Old Mother tattoo on her back that radiated power beyond his own.
• Liu Xian'er explained that the Great Method of Old Mother's Seed Demon turned selected virgin saintesses into vessels for Lifeless Old Mother's descent.

Chen Yan learned that Liu Xian'er was the vessel for Lifeless Old Mother's descent and promised to try to remove the Seed Demon within her. He then told True Monarch Wuchen that the Rebirth Cult planned to turn the Netherworld Realm into an Old Mother Buddha Kingdom, and they began planning to rally the world's factions against the cult.

• Liu Xian'er told Chen Yan that the Rebirth Cult intended to use the Great Method of Old Mother's Seed Demon as a vessel for Lifeless Old Mother's descent, and that only the main branch's protectors knew how to remove it.
• Chen Yan promised to try to remove Liu Xian'er's Seed Demon before the battle and gave her a simplified version of Abyssal Shrinking Ground so she could escape danger.
• Liu Xian'er departed for Zhongzhou after hinting at her feelings for Chen Yan, while Chen Yan resolved to focus on growing stronger and confronting his enemies.
• Chen Yan met True Monarch Wuchen at Mount Lao and explained that the Rebirth Cult had spent ten years preparing to turn the Netherworld Realm into an Old Mother Buddha Kingdom.
• True Monarch Wuchen explained that the ritual would sacrifice the world's living beings to Lifeless Old Mother and help the cult produce Yang God cultivators.
• True Monarch Wuchen proposed informing the Dao Alliance, Vajra Temple, and other factions, then joining their Yang God cultivators to destroy the Rebirth Cult in the Netherworld Realm.

True Monarch Wuchen told Chen Yan that the Yellow Springs Organization had declared a High-grade Netherworld Dao Fruit ownerless, drawing nearly twenty Yang God True Monarchs to the Netherworld Realm as the Rebirth Cult’s schemes also threatened to spread. Chen Yan sought extreme-Yang treasures to prepare for his own breakthrough, while the realm’s growing turmoil left him feeling increasingly pressed for time.

• Chen Yan warned True Monarch Wuchen that informing every faction could leak news of the Rebirth Cult, so Wuchen chose to notify only Venerable Hongye and Master Fahua while alerting True Monarch Xingyao.
• True Monarch Wuchen revealed that the Yellow Springs Organization had announced the Netherworld Dao Fruit was a High-grade Dao Fruit in the Netherworld Realm’s Inner World and would go to whoever could claim it.
• After Wuchen left, Chen Yan resolved to advance to the Yang God realm and sent the Flying Fish Guard and Guo Tai of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to search for extreme-Yang treasures.
• Nearly twenty Yang God True Monarchs descended upon the Netherworld Realm, including representatives of the Dao Alliance, Vajra Temple, Azure Cloud Sect, and Jade Spirit Sword Mountain.
• Chen Yan considered the dangers facing elderly cultivators who sought immortality for the Dao Fruit and judged that the Age of Dharma Decline made success far less likely than in ancient times.

Chen Yan continued waiting for news of a supreme-Yang heavenly treasure while raising his martial cultivation, as powerful Yang God cultivators gathered in the Netherworld Realm. Zhang Tianzheng then reported that an ultra-large ruin was about to emerge deep within the Inner World, leaving Chen Yan to consider whether it came from an ancient immortal sect.

• Venerable Hongye arrived at the Dao Alliance’s Lingxu Workshop, where Li Shouyi and the disciples welcomed him.
• Li Shouyi told Venerable Hongye about Chen Yan’s achievements, and Hongye encouraged him to keep striving to surpass Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan cultivated on Mount Lao to advance his martial cultivation while unrest intensified in the Inner World.
• Zhang Tianzheng brought Chen Yan news that an ultra-large ruin was about to emerge deep within the Inner World.
• Chen Yan considered whether the ruin had once belonged to an immortal sect in the Netherworld Realm.

Chen Yan led his followers to the Northern Wasteland after a super-large Ancient Immortal Sect Ruin emerged, while rumors that the Netherworld Dao Fruit lay inside drew Yang God True Monarchs from across the Netherworld Realm. As the ruin began to manifest, the True Monarchs joined forces to halt the immense Wind and Cloud Vortex above it.

• Chen Yan invited his subordinates to enter the ruins voluntarily, and Yuantong, Wu Guhan, Zhang Tianzheng, Xu Ji, Qin Chong, Enbatu, the Qing Ji Sisters, and many others chose to go.
• News that the Netherworld Dao Fruit might be inside the ruins prompted the Yang God True Monarchs to travel to the Northern Wasteland, where the great forces occupied the core region.
• Chen Yan arrived aboard a warship, and True Monarch Wuchen welcomed him to a place among the assembled True Monarchs.
• A vast Wind and Cloud Vortex appeared above the Northern Wasteland and began drawing in clouds, sand, and stones as the ancient ruins neared emergence.
• Venerable Hongye, Master Fahua, Venerable Bikong, True Monarch Jiujian, True Monarch Wuchen, and the other Yang God True Monarchs poured their Magic Power into the vortex and stopped it in place.

Chen Yan and the other cultivators entered the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins through a crimson pillar after the Yang God True Monarchs opened a passage. He arrived in a vast realm filled with violent spiritual tides and wondered whether they were connected to those in the Inner World.

• Yang God True Monarchs blasted open a gateway in the Wind and Cloud Vortex, and True Monarch Wuchen told Chen Yan it led only to the ruins' outer entrance.
• Venerable Hongye warned the cultivators that entering meant risking their lives, but Chen Yan's companions and the other factions chose to proceed.
• Venerable Hongye led the factions into a crimson pillar on flying treasures, and True Monarch Wuchen invited Chen Yan's group to follow his Jade Gourd.
• Chen Yan boarded his flying ship with his companions and followed True Monarch Wuchen into the crimson pillar.
• Chen Yan emerged in a vast realm filled with chaotic spiritual tides and wondered whether they connected to the Inner World's tides.

Chen Yan and the assembled cultivators crossed the Spirit Tide-filled Ancient Immortal Battlefield, dodging powerful tides and deadly spatial rifts as they headed toward the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins. They reached a vast wasteland beneath an enormous Wind and Cloud Vortex, where Chen Yan glimpsed a Heavenly Gate at its center.

• Chen Yan suspected the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins had caused the Inner World’s Spirit Tides and feared that immortal-level Spirit Tides might lurk within them.
• Venerable Hongye warned the cultivators about the Spirit Tides and unstable space, then led the group into the Ancient Immortal Battlefield on his Jade Ruyi.
• Rogue Cultivators fought over their place in the procession, drawing Spirit Tides that sent them into chaos.
• Chen Yan followed True Monarch Wuchen and escaped a powerful Bird-shaped Spirit Tide by speeding up his flying ship.
• The procession reached a barren region beneath a vast Wind and Cloud Vortex, and Chen Yan used Spirit Sight to glimpse a Heavenly Gate at its center.

Chen Yan and the Yang God True Monarchs waited for the Wind and Cloud Vortex to reveal the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins and learned that the Netherworld Dao Fruit was inside. When the Ascension Gate appeared, Master Fahua used the Crimson Feathered Wing to expose the immortal array’s weakest point, giving them a brief chance to break through.

• True Monarch Wuchen told Chen Yan that Yellow Springs had found the ruins a thousand years earlier and that the Netherworld Dao Fruit lay within them.
• True Monarch Wuchen explained that they had to wait for the vortex’s anomaly before using the Lesser Northern Star Origin Array to breach the immortal array.
• The Wind and Cloud Vortex surged and revealed the damaged Ascension Gate beyond its eye.
• Venerable Hongye asked Master Fahua to locate the immortal array’s weakest point, and Master Fahua summoned a divine bird from the Crimson Feathered Wing.
• The divine bird burned itself out striking the vortex, forcing the array’s runes to appear, and Master Fahua identified its weakest point before it vanished.

The Yang God True Monarchs used the Lesser Northern Star Origin Array to exploit a flaw in the Immortal Array and enter the passage toward Ascension Gate. They emerged into a deadly Divine Wind within the weakened Ancient Great Array and pressed onward under Venerable Hongye’s protection.

• Master Fahua reported that Crimson Feathered Wing had revealed a temporary weak point in the Immortal Array, then withdrew to recover.
• Venerable Hongye, Venerable Bikong, True Monarch Jiujian, and True Monarch Moyan led the Yang God True Monarchs in constructing the Lesser Northern Star Origin Array with Star Stones and other spiritual objects.
• The array drew power from the stars, suppressed the Wind and Cloud Vortex, and revealed a flaw that let the group approach the Immortal Array.
• Venerable Hongye and the others repeatedly struck one point of the Immortal Array with beams of starlight until they opened a breach and led everyone through it.
• The breach closed behind the group, leaving them inside a raging Divine Wind where Venerable Hongye protected the weaker cultivators and urged everyone to keep moving.

The human cultivators reached the final barrier of the Ancient Great Array, where they encountered Sea Clan Yang God True Monarchs and discovered that three human cultivators had betrayed them. Chen Yan and True Monarch Wuchen killed Heavenly Mountain Child Nanny, but the other traitors contaminated the Lesser Northern Star Origin Array, leaving the group’s protection on the brink of collapse.

• Chen Yan and the others crossed the Divine Wind region and spotted the Heavenly Gate ahead.
• Sea Clan Yang God True Monarchs rushed out of the darkness, and Chen Yan recognized their familiar auras.
• Heavenly Mountain Child Nanny and two Yang God Rogue Cultivators revealed their allegiance to the Sea Clan and unleashed Blood Filth Divine Light.
• Chen Yan and True Monarch Wuchen struck first and killed Heavenly Mountain Child Nanny.
• The two surviving traitors drove their Blood Filth Divine Light into the Lesser Northern Star Origin Array, bringing it to the brink of collapse.

The Sea Clan ambushed Chen Yan and the human cultivators after Blood Filth Divine Light destabilized the Lesser Northern Star Origin Array. Venerable Hongye and Master Fahua stayed behind to hold off the Sea Clan’s Yang God Eighth Layer leader while the others fled toward the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins.

• Venerable Hongye tried to replace the contaminated Star Stones, but the Lesser Northern Star Origin Array shook apart and exposed the rear Rogue Cultivators to the Wind of Nothingness.
• The Sea Clan charged the humans, led by a Sea Clan Royal whose Yang God Eighth Layer cultivation surpassed Venerable Hongye and Master Fahua.
• Chen Yan ordered Wang Lingguan, the Four-Winged Cold Cicada, Zhang Tianzheng, and the others to protect themselves as the Sea Clan’s prepared attacks struck the human ranks.
• Venerable Hongye told the humans to enter the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins, then stayed with Master Fahua to confront the Sea Clan leader and buy the others time.
• Venerable Hongye released the Big Dipper Star Sword Dharma Form, Master Fahua summoned his Golden Crow Dharma Form, and the two collided with the Sea Clan leader’s Yaksa Dharma Form.

Venerable Hongye and Master Fahua held off the Sea Clan’s Yang God Eighth Layer royal long enough for Chen Yan and the others to flee toward the Ascension Gate. As the Sea Clan attacked the escaping humans and Chen Yan drew a designated pursuer, he revealed overwhelming strength and beheaded her.

• Venerable Hongye’s Big Dipper Star Sword Dharma Form clashed with the Sea Clan royal’s Yaksa Dharma Form, and Master Fahua’s Golden Crow Dharma Form took over to hold the royal back.
• Venerable Hongye ordered the humans to run, and Chen Yan warned his companions to prioritize reaching the ruins over helping him if they were intercepted.
• The Sea Clan pursued the fleeing humans, slaughtering Rogue Cultivators, while Chen Yan witnessed the Wind of Nothingness erase a Yang God and another Rogue Cultivator destroy his Yin God to injure Sea Clan pursuers.
• A Yin God Nine Refinements Sea Clan Female Cultivator intercepted Chen Yan and attacked him with ring blades, while Wang Lingguan, the Four-Winged Cold Cicada, Zhang Tianzheng, and the others stayed back.
• Chen Yan unleashed a powerful golden blade strike, revealing strength that terrified the Sea Clan Female Cultivator, and beheaded her as she tried to flee.

Chen Yan killed the Sea Clan prodigy Qimuge and faced her Yang God Fourth Level relative as his allies hurried toward the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins. His opening strike unleashed power that stunned the battlefield and rivaled the mid-stage Yang God realm.

• Chen Yan beheaded the Yin God Nine Refinements cultivator Qimuge, drawing the attention and fury of the Sea Clan.
• Chen Yan ordered Wang Lingguan, Four-Winged Cold Cicada, Zhang Tianzheng, and the others to reach the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins without him.
• Qimuge's relative, a Sea Clan Yang God Fourth Level cultivator, confronted Chen Yan and summoned his black sea serpent dharma form.
• Chen Yan met the sea serpent with a full-force Dragon Sparrow Saber strike that threatened even his Yang God Fourth Level opponent.
• Venerable Hongye, Master Fahua, the Sea Clan Royal at Yang God Eighth Level, and True Monarch Wuchen noticed Chen Yan's power as their battles paused.

Chen Yan stunned the battlefield by revealing strength that threatened even a Yang God Sixth Level expert, while facing a Yang God Fourth Level Sea Clan Middle-Aged Man. As the enemy unleashed his full power, Chen Yan answered with the full force of his Yin God Nine Refinements cultivation.

• True Monarch Wuchen and the other witnesses realized Chen Yan had grown far stronger, and their doubts about his ability to kill Yang God True Monarchs disappeared.
• Li Shouyi, Bu Lingxu, Zhao Wuji, and Little Monk Tianyin compared their cultivation with Chen Yan’s and recognized that the gap between them had widened.
• Ye Ming, Yin Mo, and Gu Panpan welcomed Chen Yan’s growing strength and regarded him with greater reverence.
• The Sea Clan Middle-Aged Man admitted he had underestimated Chen Yan, then attacked with the full power of his Sea Serpent Dharma Aspect.
• Chen Yan stood his ground and unleashed his full strength for the first time since reaching Yin God Nine Refinements.

Chen Yan unleashed the full power of his three Dao Fruits and defeated the fourth-level Yang God Sea Clan Middle-Aged Man, despite the man’s attempt to escape and counterattack. As the eighth-level Sea Clan Royal attacked, Venerable Hongye and Master Fahua held him off while Chen Yan sped toward the Ascension Gate.

• Chen Yan’s strike broke through the Sea Clan Middle-Aged Man’s tidal-wave spell and cut his body in half.
• The Middle-Aged Man’s Yang God Dharma Form escaped, but Chen Yan pursued it as the Sea Clan Royal attacked him from behind.
• The Middle-Aged Man shattered his Yang God to unleash a desperate final strike, and Chen Yan answered with the power of all three Dao Fruits, destroying his natal Dharma Form.
• The Sea Clan Royal charged Chen Yan, but Venerable Hongye and Master Fahua blocked his path.
• Chen Yan used Abyssal Shrinking Ground to race toward the Ascension Gate.

Chen Yan escaped through the Ascension Gate and was randomly teleported into the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins, where he recovered after exhausting his Magic Power. After awakening, he resolved to avoid stronger opponents and wondered whether his subordinates had survived and how the battle outside had ended.

• Chen Yan killed the Sea Clan Middle-Aged Man, then used the last of his Magic Power to evade three Sea Clan Yang Gods and rush through the Ascension Gate.
• The ancient immortal formation teleported Chen Yan into a courtyard, where a flight-ban restriction forced him and several Rogue Cultivators to crash to the ground.
• Chen Yan left the courtyard, found a cave, ordered Dragon Sparrow and Thunder Seal to guard him, and lost consciousness from exhaustion.
• After waking three days later, Chen Yan reflected on the cost of combining three Dao Fruits and decided to avoid opponents above Yang God Third Layer whenever possible.
• Chen Yan concluded that the formation had scattered entrants across the ruins and worried about Wang Lingguan, Zhang Tianzheng, Xu Ji, and the others.
• After recovering most of his Magic Power, Chen Yan left the cave and wondered how many people had survived the battle outside the Ascension Gate.

Chen Yan explored the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins and discovered that Facai had awakened after hearing a voice from the region filled with immense ferocious baleful aura. He suspected the aura came from an adult Qiongqi, whose death might be connected to the Ascension Sect’s ancient destruction.

• Chen Yan surveyed the ruins, sensed an immortal-level mass of ferocious baleful aura deep within them, and found no other cultivators nearby.
• Chen Yan released the newly awakened Facai from Earth Fiend Technique: Pot of Heaven and learned that a voice from the distant aura had awakened it.
• Chen Yan wondered whether Facai was descended from Qiongqi and whether an adult Qiongqi had died in the ruins.
• Chen Yan recalled records identifying the ruins as the Ascension Sect, whose early-stage immortal founder died before enemies besieged the sect and were ultimately wiped out by its sect master.

Chen Yan headed for the source of the fierce baleful aura, which drew cultivators toward the core of the Ancient Immortal Sect Ruins and appeared tied to Facai’s Qiongqi bloodline. At the foot of a barren mountain guarded by lethal restrictions and swarms of demon beasts, Chen Yan reunited with Ye Ming and learned that Yin Mo had been killed; the cultivators began climbing toward the ruins beyond.

• Chen Yan inferred that Facai might descend from the dead Ancient Fierce Beast Qiongqi and took him toward the fierce baleful aura to investigate its source and seek treasures.
• Chen Yan encountered human and Sea Clan cultivators on the way, killing the Sea Clan members he met while pressing toward the ruins’ core.
• Chen Yan reached a barren mountain blocking the route to the Ascension Sect’s central palaces and saw restrictions tear apart cultivators who tried to bypass it.
• Chen Yan joined the humans at the mountain’s foot, where Ye Ming and Gu Panpan told him that a late Yin God Sea Clan cultivator had killed Yin Mo.
• Chen Yan saw that tens of thousands of vulture-like demon beasts covered the mountain, and cultivators began climbing while hiding their forms and auras.

Chen Yan crossed the mountain path unharmed by the vulture demon beasts, allowing the other cultivators to reach the stone hall. Beyond it, he arrived at a sheer cliff shrouded in powerful Yin Sha Qi and sensed savage ghosts moving through the mist.

• Chen Yan stepped onto the mountain path without using defenses, and the vulture demon beasts swarmed around him as the Sea Clan youth mocked him.
• A burst of golden light drove the vulture demon beasts away, revealing Chen Yan unharmed as his Indestructible Vajra defenses withstood their attacks.
• Chen Yan used the Dragon Sparrow Saber to kill beasts and deter Sea Clan cultivators while Ye Ming, Gu Panpan, and the other humans climbed safely into the stone hall.
• Chen Yan entered the empty stone hall and passed through its far doorway to a sheer cliff surrounded by gray-white mist.
• Chen Yan recognized the potent Yin Sha Qi in the mist and sensed that the shadows within it were real, savage ghosts.