Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan watched a Rebirth Cult protector nearly capture a Flying Yaksha, then prepared to intervene after identifying the man. Little Monk Tianyin teleported into the battlefield and revealed the aura of his former life as Zen Master Zhengjue, leaving the protector wary and exposing the Rebirth Cult’s alliance with the Sea Clan against human cultivators in the ruins.

• The Rebirth Cult protector used the Six-Legged Strange Corpse and Gale White Bone Needles to gain the advantage over the Flying Yaksha while Chen Yan considered stealing it.
• The Flying Yaksha feigned a charge, tried to escape with the Great Earth Evasion Technique, and was forced out of the ground by the protector’s White Lotus: Finger Ground into Steel secret method.
• Chen Yan recognized the protector as a Rebirth Cult member and decided to act, but stopped when someone began teleporting into the battlefield.
• Little Monk Tianyin arrived on a Seven-Colored Golden Lotus, and Chen Yan recalled that he was the reincarnation of Zen Master Zhengjue, a former Yang God Ninth Layer Great Perfection expert.
• The Rebirth Cult protector sensed Tianyin’s unfathomable power and addressed him cautiously, while the narration revealed that the protector had allied with the Sea Clan to hunt human cultivators in the ruins.

Little Monk Tianyin used the Seven Treasures Golden Pagoda to drive off the Rebirth Cult Protector and claim the Flying Yaksha, revealing himself as Zen Master Zhengjue’s reincarnation. After Tianyin called Chen Yan out of hiding, Chen Yan asked whether he was speaking to Tianyin or Zhengjue.

• The Rebirth Cult Protector tried to capture the Flying Yaksha with the Six-Legged Strange Corpse while guarding against other powerful cultivators.
• Little Monk Tianyin arrived, became interested in the Flying Yaksha, and declared that he would guide the corpse back to the Buddha.
• The Rebirth Cult Protector ordered the Six-Legged Strange Corpse to attack, but the Seven Treasures Golden Pagoda appeared and its treasure rings sent the corpse flying.
• The Rebirth Cult Protector recognized the Seven Treasures Golden Pagoda and identified Little Monk Tianyin as Zen Master Zhengjue, then left without the Flying Yaksha.
• Little Monk Tianyin summoned Chen Yan from hiding, and Chen Yan asked whether he should address him as Master Zhengjue or Master Tianyin.

Little Monk Tianyin explained that the Seven Treasures Golden Pagoda had made his cultivation aura seem far stronger than it was, then asked Chen Yan to help him through an unknown, supposedly nonlethal tribulation. Before leaving, he gave Chen Yan the Flying Yaksha, leaving Chen Yan wary of Tianyin’s motives and facing the powerful creature alone.

• Little Monk Tianyin revealed that the Seven Treasures Golden Pagoda had created the illusion of Yang God Ninth Level strength, while his true strength remained far lower.
• Little Monk Tianyin asked Chen Yan to help him through a tribulation he could not identify and promised it would not endanger Chen Yan’s life; Chen Yan agreed.
• Little Monk Tianyin gave Chen Yan the Flying Yaksha as thanks, then departed without asking for a Heavenly Dao oath.
• Chen Yan questioned why Little Monk Tianyin had offered such a valuable gift and wondered whether Vajra Temple had a scheme, but decided to wait for the tribulation to appear.
• Chen Yan watched the compassionate-looking Flying Yaksha and considered its formidable strength and defenses.

Chen Yan used Spirit Commanding to seize control of the Flying Yaksha, gaining a powerful ally in the Yin Fiend Secret Realm. When the Flying Yaksha resisted leaving, Chen Yan let it remain there to cultivate while he prepared to depart.

• Chen Yan decided he would refine the Flying Yaksha into a second avatar after returning to Mount Lao, but first sought a way to control it safely in the secret realm.
• Chen Yan called the Flying Yaksha “Chen Hao” and noticed a faint reaction, suggesting it retained fragments of memory and some intelligence.
• Chen Yan used Spirit Commanding’s Spirit Seizing to control the Flying Yaksha, then ordered it to turn around and approach him to test whether the technique had worked.
• Chen Yan confirmed the Flying Yaksha obeyed him and considered it a powerful ally, though he planned to refine it into an avatar to avoid the risk of it eventually breaking free.
• At the secret realm entrance, Chen Yan sensed the Flying Yaksha’s resistance to leaving and agreed to let it stay and cultivate in the Yin Fiend Secret Realm.

Chen Yan let Flying Yaksha remain in the Yin Fiend Secret Realm to recover while he and Facai entered a realm he identified as the deathplace of the Ancient Fierce Beast Qiongqi. There, he discovered that murderous intent animated the seemingly indestructible corpses attacking him.

• Chen Yan agreed to let Flying Yaksha cultivate in the Yin Fiend Secret Realm, hoping it would heal and perhaps reach the late Yang God stage.
• Chen Yan considered why Yellow Springs had openly invited others to compete for the Netherworld Dao Fruit, suspecting it had a hidden plan or that the Dao Fruit was not there.
• Chen Yan brought Facai through the transmission path and arrived in a barren secret realm saturated with killing intent and deathly qi.
• Chen Yan recognized the realm as the deathplace of Qiongqi and flew toward its deepest part, using Light Manifestation to repel the overwhelming murderous intent.
• Scarlet mist surrounded Chen Yan and sent corpse-like figures charging at him; he cut them apart with the Dragon Sparrow Saber, but they reassembled.
• Chen Yan used Nether Insight to discover that the corpses' bodies were only outward forms and that the trace of murderous intent within each one was their true core.

Chen Yan used the Earth Fiend Technique: Demon Slaying to destroy the corpse hordes in the Baleful Intent Secret Realm and traveled to its core, where he found the human and Sea Clan Yang God True Monarchs facing off. His arrival strengthened the human side’s position, though the Sea Clan Royal and a survivor Chen Yan had previously defeated regarded him with hostility.

• Chen Yan used the Dragon Catching Bow and Demon Slaying to strike the corpses’ killing-intent cores, wiping out the horde.
• Chen Yan continued through the Baleful Intent Secret Realm, destroying more corpse hordes and flying for hours through the baleful mist.
• Chen Yan emerged beside an enormous sinkhole filled with condensed Killing Intent and found Venerable Hongye, Master Fahua, Venerable Bikong, True Monarch Jiujian, and other Yang God experts gathered there.
• Chen Yan recognized the unfamiliar woman as likely Ao Shuang, the Third Princess of the Eastern Sea, and realized she had reached the Yang God realm ahead of her famous peers.
• The Sea Clan Royal and a Yang God sixth-level cultivator Chen Yan had previously defeated showed hostility toward him, while the human experts welcomed his arrival.
• Chen Yan’s arrival brought the human side’s Yang God numbers closer to those of the Sea Clan and shifted the balance between the two factions.

Chen Yan reunited with Venerable Hongye’s group at a Baleful Qi lake, where a hidden treasure was believed to lie, and learned that the Rebirth Cult had sent a Yang God Protector into the secret realm. He entered the lake to search for the treasure, while Facai surprisingly refused his offer of shelter.

• Chen Yan told Venerable Hongye that he had encountered a Rebirth Cult Yang God Protector in the Yin Fiend Secret Realm, and Venerable Hongye briefly showed concern about the danger to the human race.
• Venerable Bikong explained that Ao Shuang had noticed a mystery in the Baleful Qi lake, and True Monarch Jiujian mocked the Sea Clan cultivators for failing to uncover it.
• Ao Shuang revealed that her treasure could detect other treasures within a hundred li and confirmed that something lay in the lake.
• Chen Yan entered the lake and endured its fierce killing intent and freezing baleful qi as he began descending.
• Chen Yan asked whether Facai wanted to hide inside the Pot Heaven Technique, but Facai shook its head and refused.

Chen Yan discovered that Facai was unaffected by the Killing Intent and used divination to locate the source beneath the lakebed. After breaking open the ground, he uncovered a swirling vortex of Killing Intent and prepared to investigate while the others waited at the shore.

• Facai told Chen Yan that the lake's Killing Intent did not affect him, prompting Chen Yan to suspect he was connected to the Ancient Fierce Beast Qiongqi.
• Chen Yan searched the lakebed for the treasure Dragon Girl Ao Shuang had mentioned but found nothing with his spiritual sense.
• Chen Yan used the Earth Fiend Technique She Fu to calculate the lake's source and identified an ordinary-looking spot at the lakebed's center.
• Chen Yan stomped the spot open with his Dao Fruits, revealing a hole that poured out dense Killing Intent and formed a vortex.
• Venerable Hongye, Master Fahua, Venerable Bikong, Ao Shuang, True Monarch Jiujian, and their allies blocked the Sea Clan cultivators from entering the lake, and the Sea Clan Royal ordered them to wait.
• Chen Yan stood above the vortex and hesitated to enter until he could assess whether it was dangerous.

Chen Yan discovered a Killing Word Stele at the heart of the Killing Intent vortex and found that its deadly boundary destroyed anything that approached. Facai entered safely by transforming into its Qiongqi form, and the Heavenly Book of Merit identified the scarlet aura within the stele as the top-grade immortal treasure Innate Geng Metal Killing Qi.

• Chen Yan used Earth Fiend Technique: Nether Insight to find a weathered stele inscribed with the character “Kill” at the center of the vortex.
• Chen Yan tested the stele’s ten-meter forbidden zone with pebble-transformed eagles, which disintegrated before they could reach it.
• Facai insisted on approaching the stele, and Chen Yan let it go despite his concern.
• Facai entered the forbidden zone unharmed, transformed into its Qiongqi form, and caused the stele’s killing intent to recede.
• The Heavenly Book of Merit trembled and revealed that the scarlet aura within the stele was Innate Geng Metal Killing Qi, a top-grade immortal treasure.

Chen Yan helped Facai fuse with the Innate Geng Metal Killing Qi, a Top-grade Immortal Treasure, despite the danger to them both. Facai succeeded, reached Yin God Nine Refinements, and revealed that it had become the Innate Dao Fruit, Killing Life Dao Seed.

• Chen Yan realized Facai could approach the Innate Geng Metal Killing Qi and watched as it moved toward the scarlet lotus.
• Facai struggled to reach the treasure, so Chen Yan used his soul power to shield it from the killing intent.
• Facai fused with the Innate Geng Metal Killing Qi, unleashing a blood-red phenomenon across the Sha Qi Secret Realm that shocked Venerable Hongye, Master Fahua, Dragon Girl Ao Shuang, and the others.
• Facai returned to Chen Yan in its Black Cat form, having reached Yin God Nine Refinements and undergone a profound transformation.
• Chen Yan examined Facai's soul and learned that it had become the Innate Dao Fruit, Killing Life Dao Seed, born bearing the innate Dao of Slaughter.

Chen Yan realized that Facai had gained the Killing Life Dao Seed and comprehended the true intent of the Killing Life Great Dao, giving it immense potential and power. After warning Facai to restrain its killing, Chen Yan learned that the Flying Yaksha had been transported to Qiongqi’s suspected death site and advanced to late Yang God, then left Baleful Lake as everyone watched.

• Chen Yan recognized the Killing Life Dao Seed as a supreme Great Dao treasure that could let Facai advance toward becoming an Immortal and potentially a Dao Lord.
• Chen Yan warned Facai against killing indiscriminately, and Facai returned to his shoulder and accepted his reminder.
• Chen Yan confirmed that the Killing Character Heavenly Tablet and Innate Geng Metal Killing Qi had vanished, leaving no trace at the bottom of Baleful Lake.
• Chen Yan sensed through the Spirit Commanding Soul Seed that the Flying Yaksha had reached Qiongqi’s suspected death site, recovered, and advanced to late Yang God.
• Facai suppressed the wavering Soul Seed with its innate killing intent, and Chen Yan left an aura at the bottom of Baleful Lake before swimming to the surface.
• Chen Yan emerged from Baleful Lake, where the blood river phenomenon had vanished and everyone present focused on him.

Chen Yan faced the greedy Sea Clan after returning from Baleful Lake, but concealed his true gains by showing them depleted Immortal Remains. Ao Shuang reminded both sides that the Netherworld Dao Fruit remained undiscovered, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• A Sea Clan cultivator demanded that Chen Yan hand over his treasure, and True Monarch Jiujian rebuked him as Chen Yan returned to the human camp.
• Chen Yan judged that he and his allies could fight the Sea Clan Royal, though he worried the Rebirth Cult Protector might be lurking nearby.
• The Sea Clan Royal asked Chen Yan to reveal what he had found, and Chen Yan produced Immortal Remains with almost all their Immortal Spiritual Energy gone.
• The Sea Clan cultivators grew eager to fight over the remains, while Venerable Hongye, Master Fahua, and the others prepared to defend themselves.
• Ao Shuang reminded the Sea Clan that they had not yet found the Netherworld Dao Fruit, cooling the push toward battle.

Chen Yan and his allies reached the enormous palace at the heart of the Sha Qi Secret Realm, where Facai sensed the voice tied to its soul flaw and Chen Yan suspected Qiongqi’s remains lay within. He found the Sea Clan allied with the Rebirth Cult outside the palace’s weakened Protector Array and prepared for the conflicts ahead.

• The Sea Clan Royal led the Sea Clan Yang Gods away from the Baleful Lake, and Chen Yan’s group set out toward the secret realm’s core by another route.
• The Flying Yaksha reached the Baleful Lake and began absorbing its Killing Intent in the vortex Chen Yan had marked for it.
• Facai used the Killing Life Dao Seed to kill hundreds of ghosts while traveling with Chen Yan’s group.
• Venerable Hongye announced that the group had reached a vast palace surrounded by a weakened Protector Array, and Facai confirmed to Chen Yan that the voice was inside.
• Chen Yan saw the Sea Clan Royal standing with the Rebirth Cult Protector and several black-robed disciples, recognized the alliance, and suspected Liu Xian'er was among them.

Chen Yan proposed that the humans and Sea Clan break the ancient palace’s immortal Protector Array from separate directions after testing its strength. Master Fahua volunteered to test it and began activating his Golden Crow Crimson Feathered Wing.

• The Sea Clan Royal offered to join forces with the humans to break the Protector Array so both factions could enter the palace.
• Venerable Hongye consulted the human Yang Gods, who worried about a Sea Clan betrayal but agreed they could not break the formation alone.
• Chen Yan suggested attacking from separate directions and first testing the formation’s power.
• Chen Yan and Ao Shuang both prepared to volunteer, but Master Fahua stepped forward and persuaded the others to let him test the array.
• Venerable Hongye agreed with the Sea Clan Royal that each faction would work separately, then Master Fahua flew toward the formation and began charging his Golden Crow Crimson Feathered Wing with Buddhist light.

Master Fahua’s Golden Crow phantom failed to break the Protector Array and was badly damaged, forcing the humans to cooperate with the Sea Clan in attacking it from a distance. As the assault began, Dragon Girl Ao Shuang finally acted by activating two Silver Dragon Jade Pendants.

• Crimson Feathered Wing formed a Golden Crow phantom, but the Protector Array’s white pillar destroyed it and badly injured Master Fahua through their connection.
• Venerable Hongye healed Master Fahua, then agreed with the Sea Clan Royal to attack the array from opposite sides without interfering with one another.
• Chen Yan and the others used long-range attacks from beyond the array’s roughly four-to-five-li range, while the Sea Clan Royal struck the barrier with powerful gauntlets.
• Dragon Girl Ao Shuang remained still as the others attacked, then brought out two Silver Dragon Jade Pendants and poured Demonic Power into them.

Ao Shuang used the Silver Dragon Jade Pendants to shatter the ancient array protecting the great hall, revealing the way to the Netherworld Dao Fruit and other possible treasures. The human cultivators and Sea Clan cautiously entered the hall together, leaving its dark interior unexplored.

• Ao Shuang's Silver Dragon Jade Pendants broke through the protective array, and the cultivators realized they were powerful Yang God talisman treasures.
• The Sea Clan Royal and the Rebirth Cult Protector regarded Ao Shuang with caution and respect, while both sides turned their attention to the great hall and its presumed treasures.
• The Sea Clan Royal proposed that everyone enter the hall and claim treasures according to their abilities, and Ao Shuang agreed after putting away the pendants.
• The two groups approached the blood-colored crystal palace warily, and its doors opened on their own to reveal a pitch-black interior.
• A Yang God Sixth Level Sea Clan cultivator entered first, followed by the other Sea Clan cultivators and the Sea Clan Royal.
• Venerable Hongye led the human cultivators inside after Ao Shuang nodded, and Chen Yan followed him and Master Fahua through the gates.

Chen Yan and the others entered the great hall and discovered the remains of the Ancient Fierce Beast Qiongqi, along with the Netherworld Dao Fruit floating above them. As the gathered cultivators began eyeing the remains greedily, Chen Yan held back from approaching while Facai remained transfixed by Qiongqi.

• Chen Yan and the other cultivators were struck by the overwhelming pressure of Qiongqi’s mountain-sized remains.
• Chen Yan spotted the Netherworld Dao Fruit above the remains and wondered why the Yellow Springs Organization had never revealed Qiongqi’s existence.
• Chen Yan asked Facai whether it had heard anything, and Facai stared at Qiongqi and indicated that it wanted to approach.
• The Sea Clan Royal, the Rebirth Cult Protector, and the other cultivators became eager to claim the Demon Immortal remains, while both sides watched one another warily.

As the Sea Clan and Rebirth Cult prepared to attack Chen Yan’s group, an Extremely Evil Being emerged from the Demon Immortal remains and proved powerful enough to send the Sea Clan Royal flying. Dragon Girl Ao Shuang moved to stop the Sea Clan Royal from reaching the remains, leaving Chen Yan questioning the true extent of her strength.

• Kong Liang urged Liu Xian'er to save Old Mother's Descent and join him in fighting Chen Yan, and she agreed.
• The Sea Clan Royal and Rebirth Cult Protector prepared to battle Chen Yan’s group, but an overwhelming wave of malice erupted from the Demon Immortal remains.
• An Extremely Evil Being emerged, and Ao Shuang explained that it was a late Yang God-level entity born from accumulated resentment and killing intent.
• The Extremely Evil Being attacked the Sea Clan Royal and sent him flying with a single blow, while the Sea Clan Royal used the momentum to approach the Demon Immortal remains.
• Ao Shuang rushed to intercept the Sea Clan Royal, unleashing an aura that made Chen Yan suspect her true combat strength exceeded the early Yang God stage.

Chen Yan realized that Ao Shuang’s attack revealed strength far beyond her supposed early Yang God cultivation, though everyone else mistook her azure flag for a second top-grade Yang God Talisman Treasure. Ao Shuang’s amplified waves broke through the Sea Clan Royal’s Absolute Ice Seal, leaving him to draw a beast fang as his last resort.

• Chen Yan concluded that Ao Shuang likely possessed late Yang God strength and wondered why she had hidden it from the Heavenly Secrets Stele and everyone around her.
• Ao Shuang unleashed Azure Sea Tidebirth, and Chen Yan judged its power to be greater than the Sea Clan Royal’s earlier attack.
• The Sea Clan Royal and the assembled cultivators mistook Ao Shuang’s azure flag for another top-grade Yang God Talisman Treasure, while Chen Yan knew it was her own power.
• The Sea Clan Royal stopped his advance and used Absolute Ice Seal to freeze Ao Shuang’s surging waves.
• Ao Shuang sent her azure flag into the waves, shattering the ice and strengthening the assault until the Sea Clan Royal feared for his life.
• The Sea Clan Royal drew an enormous beast fang from his robes to face Ao Shuang’s attack.

Ao Shuang, the Rebirth Cult, and the Sea Clan maneuvered for control of the Demon Immortal Remains while the strongest fighters were occupied battling one another. Just as a Sea Clan Yang God cultivator seemed poised to claim the remains, another Sea Clan cultivator betrayed him, and a further upheaval began.

• Ao Shuang divided the Azure Small Banner’s tidal waves between the Sea Clan Royal and the late Yang God Demonic Beast, keeping both opponents at bay.
• Chen Yan realized that the strongest fighters were holding one another in check, and the Rebirth Cult Protector, Kong Liang, and another Rebirth Cult Yang God cultivator rushed toward the Demon Immortal Remains.
• Kong Liang and the other Rebirth Cult cultivator delayed Venerable Hongye, Master Fahua, and their allies while the Rebirth Cult Protector advanced, but Miaoyin intercepted him with a golden pagoda.
• Several Sea Clan members approached the remains from the flank, forcing the Rebirth Cult Protector to fight them as the Sea Clan Royal watched the contest unfold.
• A Sea Clan Yang God cultivator struck down a fellow Sea Clan cultivator who was about to touch the remains and prepared to claim them for himself, but another unexpected change interrupted him.