Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan descended into the ghost mist and crossed the vast Immortal Tombs, relying on the Thunder Department Seal to repel ghost creatures. He avoided a battle between a Sea Clan Yang God and a Ghost King, then passed an enormous altar and continued toward the source of the baleful aura to resolve Facai’s soul issue.

• Chen Yan climbed down an iron chain into the ghost mist after Facai could no longer hear the mysterious sound.
• Chen Yan discovered the vast Immortal Tombs and used the Thunder Department Seal’s lightning to destroy attacking ghost creatures.
• Chen Yan heard fighting ahead but concealed his aura and circled around rather than approaching the battle.
• Harim, a wounded Sea Clan Yang God fighting a Ghost King, called for Chen Yan’s help, but Chen Yan ignored him and continued onward.
• Chen Yan left the Immortal Tombs and passed a massive altar where Yang God-level fighting could be heard, continuing toward the source of the baleful aura.

Chen Yan followed Facai’s call to a jade wall that transported them into a strange inner realm, where he discovered Immortal Remains radiating Immortal Spiritual Energy. As Chen Yan faced Tie Muzhen, a powerful Sea Clan prodigy and Sword Cultivator, Tie Muzhen challenged him to battle and struck first.

• Facai sensed a familiar call from the baleful aura, so Chen Yan hurried toward its source and entered the jade wall that served as a teleportation formation.
• Chen Yan arrived in a realm of floating land fragments and sensed Immortal Spiritual Energy coming from a dried-up lake.
• Chen Yan found crystalline Immortal Remains on a reef and realized their lingering energy could help him break through to the Yang God realm.
• Chen Yan encountered Tie Muzhen, a first-level Yang God Sea Clan prodigy who recognized Chen Yan and said they both possessed Dao Fruits.
• Tie Muzhen introduced himself as a direct disciple of the Venerable, summoned an immortal embryo-grade spirit sword, and attacked Chen Yan.

Chen Yan fought Tie Muzhen, a Sea Clan Sword Cultivator and personal disciple of an Immortal Venerable, and used his Dao Fruits and Dragon Sparrow Saber to gain the upper hand. Tie Muzhen survived Chen Yan’s planned killing strike by deploying a powerful Miniature Wooden Sword, leaving the two still locked in battle.

• Chen Yan’s Dragon Sparrow Saber overpowered Tie Muzhen’s flying sword, but Tie Muzhen evaded the follow-up strike with Sword Escape.
• Tie Muzhen launched a full-force attack using his mid-grade Dao Fruit: Sword Soul, and Chen Yan countered with Indestructible Vajra and Damo’s Whale Toss.
• Chen Yan’s flames and wind caught Tie Muzhen during a pause in his sword technique, putting him in mortal danger.
• Tie Muzhen used a Miniature Wooden Sword to summon the Ten Directions Sword Wall, whose regenerating Sword Qi forest shielded him from Chen Yan’s attack.
• Chen Yan recognized that the Miniature Wooden Sword could also trap enemies and reflected that he had planned his attacks to kill Tie Muzhen before war between humanity and the Sea Clan.

Chen Yan survived his battle with Tie Muzhen, who conceded the fight and left to pursue a more important goal. Touching the Immortal Remains revealed Yun Zhongzi’s legacy and the history of the Qiongqi disaster, while Chen Yan ended the chapter focused on the remains and their Immortal Spiritual Energy.

• Tie Muzhen admitted defeat but said he would fight Chen Yan again after finishing his more important task, then left the secret realm without approaching the Immortal Remains.
• Chen Yan approached the Immortal Remains and absorbed information identifying their owner as Yun Zhongzi, a Human Immortal from the Cloud Top Realm.
• Chen Yan learned that Yun Zhongzi had died after joining other Immortals in a hunt for an adult Ancient Fierce Beast Qiongqi whose power had reached the Earth Immortal level.
• Chen Yan learned that Yun Zhongzi had left behind the Jade Bright Profound Origin Scripture, a cultivation art that pointed directly to the Immortal Realm.
• Chen Yan considered how the Qiongqi had died and why it had appeared, then set aside the unanswered questions and focused on resolving Facai’s divine-soul trouble and reaching the Yang God Realm.
• Chen Yan gazed at the Immortal Remains and their pure Immortal Spiritual Energy, recognizing them as the greatest gain of his trip.

Chen Yan discovered that Cloud Immortal’s remains held enough Immortal Spiritual Energy to help him enter the Yang God Realm and chose to use some of it to strengthen his weapons so he could survive the Rebirth Cult’s threat. He decided that the Dragon Sparrow Saber would advance into an Immortal Artifact first, promising the Thunder Department Seal its turn later.

• Chen Yan found that Immortal Spiritual Energy remained in Cloud Immortal’s bones and confirmed it was enough to break through to the Yang God Realm.
• Chen Yan decided not to spend all the energy on his own cultivation because he needed a way to face the Rebirth Cult Protector at the eighth layer of the Yang God Realm.
• Chen Yan considered using the remaining energy to advance either the Dragon Sparrow Saber or the Thunder Department Seal into an Immortal Artifact.
• The Dragon Sparrow Saber and Thunder Department Seal both yielded the first opportunity to the other.
• Chen Yan chose the Dragon Sparrow Saber to advance first and promised the Thunder Department Seal it would be next within the ruins.

Chen Yan began charging into the Yang God Realm at the Immortal Remains of Cloud Immortal, drawing on Immortal Spiritual Energy to break apart his Yin God and condense Yang God true intent. After enduring the shattering of his Yin God, he reached the breakthrough’s first milestone and began refining the true intent into a Yang God Dharma Form.

• Chen Yan chose to elevate the Dragon Sparrow Saber into an immortal artifact and resolved to break through to the Yang God Realm at once.
• Chen Yan drew spiritual energy across the continent fragment, prompting Li Shouyi, Bu Lingxu, Zhao Wuji, Little Monk Tianyin, and others to recognize his breakthrough; several greedy rogue cultivators and Sea Clan cultivators headed toward him.
• Chen Yan used Immortal Spiritual Energy from the Immortal Remains of Cloud Immortal to compress and shatter his Yin God, while Indestructible Vajra repaired the damage to his body.
• Chen Yan condensed a wisp of Yang God true intent from his shattered Yin God and began tempering it with more Immortal Spiritual Energy to form a Yang God Dharma Form.

Chen Yan refined his Yang God Dharma Form and faced a ninefold Yang God Thunder Tribulation, using each strike to strengthen his body and cultivation. After surviving the first six bolts, he healed his wounds and advanced to the late stage of Seeing God as the tribulation clouds remained overhead.

• Chen Yan endured the tempering of his soul until his Yang God true intent formed a Dharma Form, triggering a heavenly phenomenon across a hundred-mile radius.
• Tribulation clouds gathered over Chen Yan, and Tie Muzhen suspected that Chen Yan was undergoing a Yang God Thunder Tribulation.
• Facai watched anxiously from a distance as Chen Yan rose into the air to face the tribulation.
• Chen Yan punched the first bolt of lightning head-on and absorbed its power to strengthen his body, divine soul, and Dharma Form.
• Chen Yan endured six thunder tribulations, suffered injuries that quickly healed, and advanced to the late stage of Seeing God when he realized the clouds signaled a ninefold tribulation.

Chen Yan endured the Ninefold Lightning Tribulation, reaching Seeing God perfection as Immortal Spiritual Energy healed his ravaged body. He began breaking through to the Martial Arts Dharma Form realm, and his blood-and-qi manifestation took shape as a blazing furnace.

• Chen Yan resolved to pursue breakthroughs in both Dao Arts and martial arts while preparing cautiously for the final three lightning tribulations.
• Chen Yan met the seventh and eighth lightning tribulations head-on with his fist, suffering severe injuries while reaching Seeing God perfection.
• Chen Yan was swallowed by the ninth lightning tribulation as Facai and concealed Sea Clan Yang God True Monarchs watched from afar.
• The lightning subsided, and Immortal Spiritual Energy from the Immortal Remains healed Chen Yan as his martial arts cultivation reached Seeing God perfection.
• Chen Yan drew on the Immortal Spiritual Energy to break through toward the Martial Arts Dharma Form realm, forming a blood-colored dragon that curled into a blazing furnace.

Chen Yan completed his breakthroughs in Daoist arts and martial cultivation, then shattered the Martial Arts Dharma Form thunder tribulation with a single punch and absorbed its lightning. As his martial cultivation surged, hostile Sea Clan cultivators and human Rogue Cultivators approached, and Chen Yan opened his eyes to face a murderous Sea Clan Yang God True Monarch.

• Chen Yan formed a Qi and Blood Furnace, causing the thunder tribulation to gather again for his Martial Arts Dharma Form breakthrough.
• The cultivators outside the continental fragment mistook Chen Yan for two people breaking through and debated whether to stay or flee as Sea Clan and human Rogue Cultivators watched.
• Chen Yan combined his three Dao Fruits and struck the descending thunder tribulation with his strongest punch, scattering the clouds.
• Chen Yan absorbed the tribulation's lightning, pushing his martial cultivation to Peak Early Dharma Form in less than a quarter of an hour.
• A Sea Clan Yang God True Monarch led cultivators toward Chen Yan, and Chen Yan opened his eyes as the approaching group bore down on him.

Chen Yan faced a Sea Clan Yang God Fifth Level expert who coveted his Immortal Spiritual Energy and the Dragon Sparrow Saber, then revealed overwhelming strength and fought him head-on. The Sea Clan expert sacrificed his Yang God in a desperate counterattack, and the chapter ended as his twin-hook Dharma Form pierced Chen Yan’s Qi and Blood Furnace.

• A Sea Clan Yang God recognized Chen Yan, learned that his companion had died, and spotted the Immortal Spiritual Energy and Dragon Sparrow Saber beside the Immortal Remains.
• The Sea Clan expert declared that he would take the treasures and kill Chen Yan, but Chen Yan attacked instead.
• Chen Yan’s punch matched and surpassed the expert’s power, and their first clash shook the riverbed and sent nearby observers fleeing.
• Chen Yan displayed Yang God Sixth Level combat strength and shattered the expert’s twin hooks with a crushing punch.
• The Sea Clan expert destroyed his own foundation and sacrificed his Yang God to unleash a desperate attack, which pierced Chen Yan’s Qi and Blood Furnace.

Chen Yan killed the Sea Clan commander and the Rogue Cultivators who had witnessed the battle, then watched the Dragon Sparrow Saber complete its advancement into an Immortal Artifact. With his new weapon and strength, he felt better prepared to face the Rebirth Cult's conspiracy.

• Chen Yan endured the Sea Clan Yang God cultivator's full-force attack, identified the threat, and killed him by crushing his neck.
• Chen Yan pursued and killed the fleeing Sea Clan cultivators, then rejected the Rogue Cultivators' pleas for mercy and killed them with Facai's help.
• The Dragon Sparrow Saber erupted in flames and transformed into the Ancient Fierce Beast Dragon Sparrow before settling into Chen Yan's hand as an Immortal Artifact.
• Chen Yan assessed his new strength and cultivation in the Heavenly Book of Merit, noting that he could now contend with late-stage Yang God cultivators.

After advancing his cultivation and upgrading the Dragon Sparrow Saber, Chen Yan buried Yun Zhongzi and continued toward the suspected death site of the Ancient Fierce Beast Qiongqi to investigate Facai’s soul. He reached a ruined Immortal City destroyed by a single enormous palm strike, leaving him to wonder whether an immortal had caused its destruction.

• Chen Yan assessed his new strength, then turned toward the Qiongqi death site to address the mystery within Facai’s divine soul.
• Chen Yan respectfully buried Yun Zhongzi and promised to find a successor for his legacy.
• Tong Xiuyuan saw Chen Yan ranked tenth on the Heaven Ranking at the third Yang God layer and suspected he had passed the ninefold lightning tribulation.
• Chen Yan arrived at the source of the fiendish baleful aura with Facai and discovered an enormous ruined Immortal City.
• Chen Yan saw a massive palm print spanning the city and realized that one palm strike had destroyed it.

After witnessing the devastating power of an Immortal Realm expert, Chen Yan renewed his resolve to grow stronger and discovered a Nine Yang Heavenly Illusion Orchid in an ancient medicinal garden. He encountered eighteen human and Sea Clan cultivators disputing the garden, including several familiar allies who recognized him.

• Chen Yan studied the gigantic palm print that had destroyed an Immortal City, then set off with Facai toward the source of the baleful aura, more determined to grow stronger.
• Chen Yan noticed a half-destroyed spirit mountain and entered its medicinal garden, where he saw abundant spirit herbs and illusions of ancient exotic beasts.
• Chen Yan recognized a Nine Yang Heavenly Illusion Orchid floating in a pool and considered how it could help the forces beneath him.
• Chen Yan found ten Sea Clan cultivators and eight human cultivators facing off at the garden entrance, with True Monarch Moyan, Li Shouyi, Zhao Wuji, Ye Ming, and Gu Panpan among the humans.
• Two figures among the human group spotted Chen Yan and cried out to him as their lord.

Chen Yan reunited with Wang Lingguan, the Four-Winged Cold Cicada, and the other humans on the spirit mountain, where he revealed that he had recently broken through to the Yang God realm. The Sea Clan launched a surprise attack, and as True Lord Moyan engaged one of their Yang God Sixth Level cultivators, Chen Yan faced the other and calmly told his ally to leave the fight to him.

• Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada explained how they and Ye Ming and Gu Panpan had discovered the Nine Yang Heavenly Illusion Orchid and ended up fighting the Sea Clan.
• Chen Yan arrived, and Li Shouyi and Zhao Wuji sensed his transformed aura before he confirmed he had broken through to the Yang God realm two days earlier.
• The Sea Clan launched a surprise attack with two Yang God Sixth Level cultivators and eight Yin Gods.
• True Lord Moyan confronted one Sea Clan Yang God, and their first clash ended in a deadlock.
• The other Sea Clan Yang God challenged Chen Yan and a Yang God Rogue Cultivator, but Chen Yan told the Rogue Cultivator that he would handle the fight alone.

Chen Yan confronted a Sea Clan Yang God Sixth Level cultivator and unleashed a devastating attack that overwhelmed the enemy’s Black Lotus Dharma Aspect. As the battle shook the medicinal garden, another Sea Clan Yang God tried to intervene but was confronted by a crimson-gold furnace of blood qi.

• Chen Yan ignored the human Yang God Rogue Cultivator’s warning and charged alone at the Sea Clan Yang God Sixth Level.
• The Sea Clan Yang God attacked with five-colored light, while Chen Yan used his blade and Dao Fruits to strike back.
• The Sea Clan Yang God summoned his Black Lotus Dharma Aspect, but Chen Yan pierced through it with a powerful slash.
• Chen Yan’s attack revealed his immense strength and a scarlet-gold furnace formed behind him as the battlefield was devastated.
• The other Sea Clan Yang God Sixth Level tried to leave his fight with True Monarch Moyan to help, but a crimson-gold radiance appeared before him.

Chen Yan defeated a Sea Clan Yang God Sixth Level and his blood-sacrificed bone dragon, then stopped True Monarch Moyan from pursuing the fleeing Sea Clan Yang God. With the remaining Sea Clan cultivators wiped out at Spirit Mountain, Chen Yan reflected on his strength and the danger his growing reputation would bring.

• The wounded Sea Clan Yang God summoned a powerful bone dragon using the Blood Sacrifice Ferocious Beast Art, and Li Shouyi warned Ye Ming that it threatened Chen Yan.
• Chen Yan met the bone dragon's attack with the Dragon Sparrow Saber, pierced its defenses, and killed Chasong inside its body.
• The other Sea Clan Yang God fled when Chen Yan turned toward him, and Chen Yan told True Monarch Moyan not to pursue.
• Chen Yan assessed that his three Dao Fruits let him fight between Yang God Sixth Level and Yang God Seventh Level, with the Immortal Artifact Dragon Sparrow Saber helping him kill Sixth-Level opponents.
• True Monarch Moyan and the Yang God Rogue Cultivator eliminated the remaining Sea Clan Yin God cultivators, while Chen Yan recognized that the Sea Clan would now consider him a major threat.

After the human cultivators defeated the Sea Clan, Chen Yan arranged for the Dao Alliance to refine the Nine Yang Heavenly Illusion Orchid into Yang Extremity Pills. He surprised the gathered experts by offering most of the pills to them, leaving their reactions to his proposal unresolved.

• Chen Yan reflected on the decline of spiritual essence in the Three Thousand Worlds and wondered whether immortals had departed for other universes or hidden themselves in secret realms.
• Chen Yan and the human cultivators finished off the Sea Clan forces on their half of the spirit mountain, then descended to the medicinal garden.
• The group gathered around the Nine Yang Heavenly Illusion Orchid, and everyone tacitly accepted that Chen Yan had the right to claim it.
• Chen Yan asked Li Shouyi whether the Dao Alliance could refine the orchid into Yang Extremity Pills, and learned that its nine petals could yield nine pills.
• Chen Yan entrusted the orchid to the Dao Alliance, then proposed taking three pills and distributing the other seven among the Dao Alliance, True Monarch Moyan, Songlin, Zhao Wuji, Ye Ming, and Gu Panpan.

Chen Yan divided the nine Yang Extremity Pills refined from the Nine Yang Heavenly Illusion Orchid among the cultivators who had helped him, earning their gratitude and support. He intended to use these favors to build alliances and strengthen the Netherworld Realm against the Sea Clan, while Ye Ming and Gu Panpan became seeds for his future influence there.

• Chen Yan offered to distribute the Yang Extremity Pills among everyone present, including Ye Ming and Gu Panpan, surprising the group.
• Li Shouyi and the others urged Chen Yan to keep the pills, but Chen Yan insisted that their help had made the victory possible and upheld his decision.
• Zhao Wuji, True Lord Moyan, Deng, Ye Ming, Gu Panpan, and Li Shouyi each thanked Chen Yan or pledged future support after accepting his generosity.
• Chen Yan asked Li Shouyi to put away the Nine Yang Heavenly Illusion Orchid and reflected that his subordinates were not advanced enough to use all the pills.
• Chen Yan viewed the gifts as a way to secure allies, bring the Chongming Sect and Joyful Sect under his influence, and prepare the Netherworld Realm for a future war with the Sea Clan.

Chen Yan collected the medicinal garden after the others declined their share, then the group dispersed with plans to refine and distribute the Yang Extremity Pills. Ye Ming and Gu Panpan kept their pill’s existence from their sects, while Li Shouyi promised to deliver Chen Yan’s two pills within half a year.

• Li Shouyi, Zhao Wuji, True Monarch Moyan, and the others refused the remaining spirit herbs, so Chen Yan had the Four-Winged Cold Cicada collect the garden, including eleven fifth-rank spirit medicines.
• True Monarch Moyan and Deng Feng escorted Wang Lingguan and the Four-Winged Cold Cicada away from the dangerous continental fragment.
• Li Shouyi gave Ye Ming and Gu Panpan a Dao Alliance Token so they could claim their Yang Extremity Pill after it was refined.
• Ye Ming and Gu Panpan departed and privately decided not to tell the Chongming Sect or Joyful Sect about the pill Chen Yan had given them.
• Li Shouyi promised to bring Chen Yan’s two Yang Extremity Pills to Mount Lao within half a year, explaining that they would also save him decades of waiting for a pill.

Chen Yan entered a teleporting secret realm within the Ancient Battlefield and discovered a battle between a Flying Yaksha, a Six-Legged Strange Corpse, and a mysterious human late-stage Yang God. He watched as the black-robed cultivator’s Gale White Bone Needles began to erode the Flying Yaksha’s body.

• Li Shouyi and Zhao Wuji declined to accompany Chen Yan toward the source of the fierce baleful aura, and Chen Yan continued with Facai.
• Chen Yan reached a vast gray mist that blocked spiritual sense and transported a Sea Clan Yang God upon entry.
• Chen Yan stepped into the mist and emerged in a blood-red secret realm filled with Yin Sha Qi and blood baleful aura.
• Chen Yan heard fighting and found a Flying Yaksha battling a Six-Legged Strange Corpse while a black-robed human late-stage Yang God supported the monster.
• The black-robed cultivator attacked with Gale White Bone Needles, gradually weakening the Flying Yaksha as the battle continued.