Arc 47Forbidden Island Trials

Chen You passed the Dead Nether Ruins Domain inheritance, returned to the Upper Realm, and established a Dao legacy on Forbidden Island. He Sheng endured a trial in the Doomsday World, lost his Fish-Tailed Clan family, and continued climbing while seeking a way to escape the Backstage Manipulator’s control.

  • Chen You passed the Domain Lord assessment, appointed Gui Buhe as his successor, and left the Dead Nether Ruins Domain with his companions.
  • Chen You returned to the Chen Family’s former stronghold, helped Chen Musheng and his descendants cultivate, and later met Ye Lin in the Upper Realm.
  • Chen You rescued Ye Lin from Cheng Kui, then created a Divine Palace on Forbidden Island and assigned ranks to those who climbed its staircase.
  • Chen You defeated Forbidden Ao Tuo and claimed authority over Forbidden Island, then used Time Reversal after his competition caused the world’s destruction.
  • The selected cultivators entered the Doomsday World, where He Sheng led survivors against Strange Spirits and gained power by Devouring their orbs.
  • He Sheng gained a Mystic Body, survived thunder tempering, and destroyed the Strange Spirits, but his relationship with the Fish-Tailed Clan left him with wives and unborn children who later vanished.
  • He Sheng vowed to uncover the Backstage Manipulator, resumed climbing Forbidden Island’s staircase, and then resolved to cooperate with the Manipulator while seeking to escape its Control.
  • After taking over a tiger’s body, He Sheng swallowed a Spiritual Qi Crystal Pillar, survived a thunder strike, formed an Origin Pill, and sensed approaching researchers.
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Ch. 1152The Eerie Old Man, Dead Nether Domain Lord

Chen You found Mo Guang recovering in the Dead Nether Ruins Domain and accepted the Old Man as his master in exchange for the meeting. The Old Man revealed his plan to make Chen You his successor, gave him a powerful inheritance, and agreed to bet on whether Chen You could complete the Domain Lord assessment within a hundred years.

  • The Old Man offered to take Chen You and his companions to Mo Guang if Chen You acknowledged him as his master.
  • The Old Man brought the group to his hall, where Heart Lotus and Chi Mang found Mo Guang recovering in a side hall.
  • Chen You kept his promise and accepted the Old Man as his master, then learned that the Old Man was the Domain Lord of the Dead Nether Ruins Domain.
  • The Old Man explained that Chen You must pass a Domain Lord assessment to inherit the domain and gave him the Myriad Dao Origin Essence and the Profound Nether Source art.
  • Chen You's cultivation rose to the Peak Emperor Realm and his Sealing Saint level reached 99,999 layers.
  • Chen You bet that he could complete the trials within a hundred years, and the Old Man agreed that Chen You could choose a request if he succeeded.

Ch. 1153Waiting for the Truth, Life's Trials

Chen You learned Mo Guang’s history and suspected the Sealing Spirit Towers were connected to his path home, then returned to Feng Hall and ignored his trial assessment. Half a year later, a masked woman massacred people in Feng Hall Territory, and Chen You confronted her after she gravely wounded Gui Buhe.

  • Chen You wagered with Old Man that he would find someone to inherit the Dead Nether Ruins Domain and give up his Domain Lord position.
  • Old Man sent Chen You memories revealing Mo Guang’s past, including how he found Heart Lotus, the Five Colors Pearl, and the Sealing Spirit Towers during his trials.
  • Chen You returned to Feng Hall, resolved to investigate the towers and their connection to his journey home, and spent the next half year neglecting his trial assessment.
  • A masked woman in black robes entered Feng Hall Territory and slaughtered its residents, defeating the Wardens and killing the four Duty Hall Elders sent by Gui Buhe.
  • Gui Buhe confronted the woman, was seriously injured, and sent Chen You a voice transmission for help.
  • Chen You teleported Gui Buhe back to Feng Hall, faced the pursuing woman, endured her attacks unharmed, and prepared to counterattack.

Ch. 1154Training Assessment, Palm Dao Gear

Chen You mastered the Slaughter and Life origins by completing two trials in the training assessment, while punishing Gui Buhe and stopping threats in the Sealed Hall Territory. He secretly followed a ruler and his subordinates to the Sealing Spirit Tower to investigate whether its disturbance was another part of the assessment.

  • Chen You killed Miao Ying, entered the slaughter trial’s hidden space, and claimed the Slaughter Origin, stopping the torture and destruction generated there.
  • Chen You freed Gui Buhe from the slaughter aura, then confined him to the Commanding General Hall for a hundred years as punishment.
  • Chen You killed the Calamity Beasts invading the western territory, claimed the Life Origin from another trial pavilion, and stopped the beasts from forming.
  • The Old Man watched Chen You progress through the assessment with ease and looked forward to escaping the rules’ restrictions.
  • Chen You observed a potbellied ruler refuse to report the disturbance at the Sealing Spirit Tower, then secretly followed the ruler and his subordinates there.

Ch. 1155The Path of Trials, Blood and Rot

Chen You stopped a Sealing Spirit Tower crisis, absorbed a Bloodstained Origin Cloud, and punished the negligent overseer. After twenty quiet years, a new trial began with a deadly purple miasma spreading across the Southern Region, and Chen You tracked it to a grotesque monster underground.

  • Chen You entered the Sealing Spirit Tower, subdued its crazed prisoners, and found a Void teleportation array leading to a blood-filled space.
  • Chen You destroyed a crimson demon and fused with a Bloodstained Origin Cloud, advancing to Second Rank Source Stage and two hundred thousand Sealed Xuan layers.
  • The prisoners regained their senses, and Chen You reprimanded the overseer for concealing the crisis before giving him and his subordinates a minor punishment.
  • After twenty uneventful years, Purple Mist and a deadly rotten stench spread through the Southern Region, prompting Chen You to investigate.
  • Chen You dispersed the stench temporarily, followed its source underground, and found a round, eye-covered monster leaking vile purple liquid.

Ch. 1156Inheriting the Domain Lord, Leaving the Domain Lord

Chen You resolved the Southern Region’s calamity, completed the Domain Lord trial, and became the Domain Lord of the Dead Nether Ruins Domain. After gaining the power to leave for the Myriad Heavens, he chose Gui Buhe as his successor.

  • Chen You trapped the endlessly splitting Undying Eyeball Monsters in a Rule Formation and used Time-Space erosion to contain them, ending the Southern Region’s crisis.
  • The Domain Lord Old Man announced Chen You had passed the trial and transferred the Dead Nether Ruins Domain’s Authorities to him.
  • Chen You discovered that being Domain Lord restricted his freedom, then used his fused powers to advance to the Void Source Lord Rank and break free of the domain’s restraints.
  • Chen You found the path to the Myriad Heavens but chose to seek an inheritor for the Dead Nether Ruins Domain instead of leaving immediately.
  • Chen You summoned Gui Buhe, sent him information about the inheritance, and shocked him with the prospect of becoming Domain Lord.

Ch. 1157Inheritance Buhe, Lan Cang Star Region

Chen You appointed Gui Buhe as Domain Lord of the Dead Nether Ruins Domain, then left with The Ying Crowd and Mo Guang for the Lan Cang Star Region. There, he destroyed a Time-Space Black Hole, freeing Domain Lord Old Man and hundreds of trapped All Heavens Strongest, and revealed that he had reached the Source Lord Rank.

  • Gui Buhe refused Chen You’s order to become Domain Lord, but Chen You passed him the inheritance and later used his authority to speed up the trial and appoint him Domain Lord of the Dead Nether Ruins Domain.
  • After ten thousand years of leisure, Chen You left the domain with The Ying Crowd and Mo Guang through the All Heavens Passage.
  • In the Lan Cang Star Region, Chen You found Domain Lord Old Man unconscious beside a Time-Space Black Hole and realized its pull had trapped the old man’s consciousness.
  • When the black hole tried to drag Chen You in, he shattered it with his Void Source Lord authority, freeing hundreds of trapped All Heavens Strongest and Domain Lord Old Man’s consciousness.
  • Domain Lord Old Man returned to his body and asked about Chen You’s cultivation; Chen You told him he was a Source Lord.

Ch. 1158Mutual Past, Returning Home Together

Chen You returned to his mortal home with the Domain Lord Old Man and discovered that the Chen Family had dwindled into an ordinary village household. They settled with his descendants, until bandits appeared in the valley a month later.

  • Chen You asked about the Domain Lord Old Man’s past, and the Old Man recounted destroying his original world after taking revenge on its era master.
  • The Domain Lord Old Man agreed to accompany Chen You home, and they traveled through Time-Space to a remote mountain valley.
  • Chen You met young descendants of the Chen Family and learned that Chen Musheng’s household lived in the family’s former northern stronghold.
  • Chen Musheng welcomed Chen You and the Domain Lord Old Man, then told them how the Chen Family and its once-prosperous city had declined.
  • Chen You and the Domain Lord Old Man settled near Chen Musheng’s family, and bandits appeared in the valley one month later.

Ch. 1159Slaying Bandits with a Wave of His Hand, Musheng Begins Cultivation

Chen You and the Domain Lord Old Man annihilated the Mountain Bandits who attacked Chen Musheng’s village. After learning that Chen Musheng wanted to change his family’s fate, Chen You began initiating him, his wife, and their children into cultivation.

  • One-Eyed Dragon led several thousand Mountain Bandits into the village, where they killed villagers and plundered their homes.
  • Chen Musheng hid his family, then went out to defend the villagers; Chen You and the Domain Lord Old Man flew to the battlefield.
  • Chen You killed the Mountain Bandits with a giant palm and a streak of Azure Light, while the bandits guarding the hollow entrance also died.
  • After hearing that the bandits had been defeated by a heavenly god, Chen Musheng returned home and asked Chen You whether he could change fate.
  • Chen Musheng resolved to cultivate, and Chen You sent Azure Light into his glabella, causing him to collapse unconscious.
  • Chen You also initiated Chen Musheng’s wife and two children into cultivation, then returned to drink and chat with the Domain Lord Old Man.

Ch. 1160Village Evolution, Cultivating in the Upper Realm

Chen You’s village became a powerful city as Musheng and his children advanced in cultivation, and Chen You later left for the Upper Realm with the Domain Lord Old Man. On a Treasure Island, Chen You followed a veiled woman named Ye Lin after she summoned him from a tavern.

  • Musheng awakened his cultivation, reached Golden Core Peak, and received a cultivation art from Chen You.
  • Chen You and the Domain Lord Old Man accepted talented villagers as disciples, while the villagers honored Chen You as Old Ancestor Tian Xing.
  • Over the following millennia, Musheng’s wife died, Musheng reached Golden Immortal Peak, and his children attained early-stage Golden Immortal Realm.
  • Musheng broke through to Taiyi Golden Immortal Realm and ascended by Reception Divine Light, while Chen You and the Domain Lord Old Man departed for the Upper Realm.
  • On a Vitality Treasure Island, Chen You stopped a runaway beast-drawn carriage and later followed a veiled woman who introduced herself as Ye Lin.

Ch. 1161Are You Him? Ye Lin's Affection

Chen You followed Ye Lin to her hall, where she told him about the lover she had lost in the Heng You Void Realm and mistook him for that man. After they became intimate and Ye Lin chose to let go of her past, Chen You joined her in ruling the hall and found the Domain Lord Old Man cultivating in a forest.

  • Chen You followed Ye Lin past the Star Ripple Mining Area, where chained cultivators from the Lower Realm were forced to mine, and entered her hall.
  • Ye Lin asked whether Chen You knew the Heng You Void Realm and recounted how her lover sacrificed himself to free her from a Time-Space Formation.
  • Chen You discovered Red Powder Poison in the wine, confronted Ye Lin, and the two became intimate; afterward, Ye Lin decided to stop dwelling on her lost lover.
  • Chen You and Ye Lin sat together on the throne as Immortal Officials appeared, reported to them, and received Imperial Decrees.
  • The Domain Lord Old Man failed to find Chen You, saved an escaped cultivator, and began cultivating in a forest; Chen You later sensed him and appeared beside him with Ye Lin.

Ch. 1162He Returned, Ye Lin's Choice

Chen You reunited with Ye Lin just as Cheng Kui returned from Time-Space, and Ye Lin chose to stay with her husband. After Cheng Kui attacked them and became demonized, Chen You sent him to be imprisoned in Calamity Prison.

  • An Azure Light beam announced Cheng Kui's return, and Ye Lin recognized him while Chen You and Domain Lord Old Man watched.
  • Chen You released Ye Lin and left with Domain Lord Old Man, but Cheng Kui confronted Ye Lin and demanded she return to him.
  • Ye Lin rejected Cheng Kui and said she loved her husband, so Cheng Kui bound and abducted her to a cave.
  • Chen You appeared, freed Ye Lin, and repelled Cheng Kui's attacks as Cheng Kui became demonized and his power surged.
  • Ye Lin stopped Chen You from killing Cheng Kui, so Chen You sent him to Gui Buhe with orders to imprison him eternally in Calamity Prison.

Ch. 1163Seeking a Place to Settle, Descending Upon Forbidden Island

Chen You chose Forbidden Island as a home for himself and his companions, then created a palace complex and a pressure-filled staircase meant to help his followers become True Gods. The chapter ended with him appointing the island’s giant beast as the Divine Palace Guardian General.

  • Ye Lin led Chen You and the Domain Lord Old Man to Forbidden Island, where they entered its hidden, lush interior despite its reputation for swallowing cultivators.
  • Chen You subdued the giant beast with Void Source Lord Power and had it carry the group to a concealed mountain in the island’s depths.
  • Chen You used an act of Creation to build floating palaces and a White Jade Staircase around the mountain.
  • Ye Lin and the Domain Lord Old Man began climbing the staircase, and Chen You summoned the Ying Crowd and his subordinates to train on it.
  • Chen You transformed the giant beast into an Azure-armored Divine General and appointed it guardian of the Divine Palace entrance.

Ch. 1164Ascending the Stairway to Test Aptitude, Forbidden Dao Heritage

Chen You tested the aptitude of those climbing the stairway, granting the summit’s first arrivals powerful titles and divine posts. After the climbers reached the summit, he announced that he was establishing the Forbidden Dao heritage on Forbidden Island, drawing the attention of hidden Supreme experts.

  • Chen You waited at the summit as Ye Lin, Heart Lotus, the Domain Lord Old Man, and the others climbed the pressure-filled stairway, while some subordinates stopped at three hundred steps.
  • Ye Lin reached the summit first and received a transformation, the title Azure Night, and the position of Female Venerable; the subordinates who had quit were assigned low-rank Divine General posts.
  • Heart Lotus reached the summit second and received the title Azure Lotus and the position of Female Venerable, while later arrivals were granted lesser ranks and palaces.
  • The Domain Lord Old Man reached the summit fifth, became the Vast God King, and received a third rank God King Palace; Chen You later assigned posts to the remaining subordinates.
  • Chen You announced that he was establishing his Forbidden Dao heritage on Forbidden Island, and hidden Supreme experts reacted with suspicion to his proclamation.

Ch. 1165Forbidden Attack Peak, Devouring Forbidden

Chen You defeated Forbidden Ao Tuo, absorbed his Forbidden power, and gained control over Forbidden Island. As cultivators began a grand competition to select those who could explore the island, Chen You decided to make their trial harder.

  • Calamity Beasts attacked the peak, but the Azure Spear Divine General and the other Divine Generals destroyed them.
  • Chen You confronted Forbidden Ao Tuo in his hidden space, defeated him, and devoured his power, awakening the Forbidden Source and gaining authority over Forbidden Island.
  • Chen You used his new authority to destroy several thousand Old Women hidden in the island’s northern region, then returned to the Central Grand Hall with Heart Lotus and Ye Lin.
  • The supremes organized a grand competition to choose cultivators for exploring Forbidden Island, and thousands entered through four Vortex Portals.
  • Chen You arrived above the competition, saw the Magic Screen, and decided to add difficulty to the trial.

Ch. 1166Illusion Grand Competition, Returning Time

Chen You secretly turned the competition’s illusion realms into a deadly trap, and the giant beasts escaped to devastate the world. After Ye Lin asked him to save her home, Chen You reversed time, restored the competition, and watched as the selected cultivators set out for Forbidden Island.

  • Chen You secretly increased the giant beasts’ strength and made death inside the illusion realms permanent, causing the beasts to slaughter nearly all the competing cultivators and the Supreme experts who tried to rescue them.
  • The giant beasts escaped the Vortex Portals, spread across the world, and reduced it to a Dead Realm while Chen You spent a hundred years with Heart Lotus and Ye Lin.
  • After Ye Lin said the world was her home, Chen You used Time Reversal to return events to before the competition began.
  • Chen You rested with Heart Lotus and Ye Lin while the competition ran for a year, after which a hundred cultivators earned places to travel to Forbidden Island.
  • Several Supreme experts led the hundred selected cultivators toward Forbidden Island, and Chen You began making preparations of his own.

Ch. 1167Cultivators Arrive at the Island, Otherworld Beyond the Golden Gate

Several thousand cultivators entered the Golden Light gate on Forbidden Island and were transported to a ruined world where they lost their cultivation and faced attacks from Strange Spirits. Chen You watched them from the island and said their time to adjust in the Doomsday World would be brief.

  • An old man led several Supremes and thousands of cultivators to Forbidden Island, where a Golden Light gate appeared and dragged the Supremes inside.
  • The cultivators followed through the gate and arrived in a ruined world, where they discovered they had lost their cultivation and memories of it.
  • Several cultivators approached the Strange Spirits and were killed; the survivors fled as the creatures pursued them through the ruined city.
  • The Strange Spirits hunted during the red sun’s appearance, and dozens more cultivators died before the survivors found hiding places.
  • After the red sun rose again, the survivors emerged to search for food while remaining wary of the Strange Spirits.
  • Chen You watched the cultivators’ struggles on a Magic Screen and said their adjustment period in the Doomsday World would not last long.

Ch. 1168Survival Trial, Living with Courage

Cultivators trapped in a world without cultivation struggled to survive as Strange Spirits hunted them, while an axe-wielding cultivator discovered that pearls from the creatures increased his strength. After surviving the monsters’ evolution and awakening lightning powers, he returned to shelter and began recruiting for a Brave Team.

  • A group of cultivators found an underground supermarket warehouse, kept its food and water secret from the others, and sealed themselves inside.
  • After the Strange Spirits attacked, an axe-wielding cultivator rallied some survivors to fight, killed a creature, and swallowed the White Jade Pearl it dropped, gaining strength.
  • The axe-wielding cultivator became the survivors’ leader and led them in fighting Strange Spirits to collect more pearls.
  • When a Blood Moon and Red Rain transformed the Strange Spirits, the cultivator awakened lightning-element power and used it to save the remaining fighters.
  • Back at the shelter, the cultivator revealed that the pearls could increase strength and asked for volunteers to join a Brave Team.

Ch. 1169Establishing the Brave Team, Humanity at World's End

He Sheng established the Brave Team by testing seven cultivators, having them swallow Green Orbs, and awakening their talents. After newcomers stole the shelter’s supplies, He Sheng lured nearly a thousand Strange Spirits to surround them and offered them a choice.

  • He Sheng recruited eleven cultivators for the Brave Team and set a trial requiring each to kill a Strange Spirit alone; four withdrew.
  • He Sheng secretly helped the remaining seven kill Strange Spirits, then ordered them to retrieve and swallow the Green Orbs inside the corpses.
  • He Sheng explained the orbs’ power, and the seven cultivators awakened their talents, officially forming the Brave Team.
  • He Sheng led the Brave Team on hunts, while newcomers later stole the shelter’s supplies from the cultivators left behind.
  • He Sheng stopped the Brave Team from pursuing the thieves and lured nearly a thousand Strange Spirits to surround their resting place.
  • He Sheng called down to the trapped thieves and asked whether they wanted to live or die.

Ch. 1170Mortal Body Enters Spirit Initiation, Second Red Rain

He Sheng grew powerful enough to enter the Spirit Body level, slaughter Strange Spirits across the world, and gather vast numbers of orbs. After the second Red Rain evolved the Strange Spirits again, he destroyed a mountain hollow full of them, then heard an ethereal cry echo across the range.

  • He Sheng helped the cultivators subdue a Talent-Awakened Cultivator, killed him, and refused special protection to two women seeking his favor.
  • He Sheng led the Brave Team on hunts until its members had awakened second talents, then disbanded it so they could fight and Devour orbs independently.
  • He Sheng gathered nearly a thousand Green Orbs and Devoured them, transforming his Mortal Body into a Spirit Body and turning his talents into vastly stronger Spirit Skills.
  • He Sheng collected a hundred thousand Green Orbs in one day and Devoured them overnight, gaining ten new Spirit Skills.
  • The Blood Moon brought a second Red Rain, evolving the Strange Spirits and driving the former Brave Team members and other cultivators back to the shelter.
  • He Sheng appeared in a mountain hollow, destroyed tens of thousands of evolved Strange Spirits with one Spirit Skill, stored their orbs, and heard an ethereal cry.

Ch. 1171Spiritual Energy Erupts, Kui Beast Red Pearl

After the realm filled with spiritual energy, He Sheng harvested orbs from the revived Strange Spirits and killed the Kui Beast, whose red orb transformed his body and abilities. He continued slaughtering Strange Spirits and absorbing their orbs, while the chapter ended with him troubled by growing restlessness after consuming the red orb.

  • Spiritual energy flooded the mountain range, reviving the Strange Spirits, and they attacked the Kui Beast.
  • He Sheng collected Purple Orbs from fallen Strange Spirits, absorbing them to increase his strength.
  • He Sheng killed the Kui Beast and consumed its red orb, gaining a holy Mystic Body and Mystic Techniques.
  • He Sheng spent seven days in the shelter with two women, then returned to the mountain range and slaughtered the remaining Strange Spirits.
  • After absorbing the orbs, He Sheng returned to the shelter transformed in appearance, and four female cultivators followed him into his room.
  • He Sheng's heart grew increasingly restless after he consumed the Kui Beast's red orb.

Ch. 1172Ink Blue Sea, Fish-Tailed Clan

He Sheng slaughtered the mutated creatures in the Ink Blue Sea and was welcomed by the Fish-Tailed Clan, whose chief Xuan Ling rewarded him for saving them. After returning to his shelter, he swallowed a Blue Pearl that erased his negative emotions and increased his strength, triggering his first Thunder Tempering in this world.

  • He Sheng fought through the Mutated Spirit Fish in the Ink Blue Sea, swallowed their dark azure pearls, and later lost control, slaughtering and eating mutated birds and beasts.
  • A fish-tailed woman explained that He Sheng had saved the Fish-Tailed Clan from the Diseased Sea Beasts and led him through a gate into their blue underwater refuge.
  • Xuan Ling welcomed He Sheng, thanked him, and gave him treasures before he toured the Fish-Tailed Clan's space for half a month and left.
  • Back at his shelter, He Sheng swallowed a Blue Pearl that sang in his Divine Soul Sea, erased his negative emotions, and increased his strength by more than a thousandfold.
  • Dark clouds and thunder gathered overhead as He Sheng began his first Thunder Tempering in this world.

Ch. 1173Control Nature, Slay the Descending Strange Rain

He Sheng completed his thunder tempering, gained the power to control the strange world, and caused the Strange Spirits to vanish as spiritual Blood Rain restored some of the cultivators’ strength. After the cultivators went searching for monsters that no longer existed, He Sheng returned to the Fish-Tailed Clan and flirted with the fish-tailed woman.

  • He Sheng endured nine tribulation lightning bolts over three days and nights, then gained the ability to control Natural Power and destroyed the Strange Spirits throughout the world.
  • Crimson Blood Rain fell, and He Sheng and the cultivators absorbed it, increasing their strength and partially restoring their cultivation.
  • He Sheng rested, then found the cultivators had left the shelter to search in vain for Strange Spirits, tearing up the land as they hunted.
  • He Sheng traveled through the Blue Sea to the Fish-Tailed Clan’s territory, where the fish-tailed woman told him his singing had incapacitated the Fish-Tailed Guards.
  • He Sheng teased the fish-tailed woman about her scent, put an arm around her waist, and pulled her into his embrace.

Ch. 1174Strange Reproduction, Return from the Trial

He Sheng unexpectedly became the Fish-Tailed Clan’s son-in-law before following a mysterious force through a deep-sea pit back to the Original World. As he began climbing Forbidden Island’s mountain under increased pressure, a century passed in the other world, where Xuan Ling and the Fish-Tailed Clan fled a murderous cultivator into the pit.

  • The fish-tailed woman explained that He Sheng had impregnated her through the Fish-Tailed Clan’s unusual reproduction method, and Xuan Ling and the clan welcomed him as their son-in-law.
  • Xuan Ling summoned He Sheng to her chamber, where he woke to learn that she was also carrying his child, then he fled toward the depths of the Blue Sea.
  • He Sheng followed the guidance to a deep pit, passed through it, and emerged on Forbidden Island with his original cultivation restored.
  • The Lord of Forbidden Island welcomed He Sheng and directed him to climb the mountain, while Chen You raised the staircase’s pressure to test him.
  • Xuan Ling searched for He Sheng for a hundred years, then a cultivator slaughtered the Fish-Tailed Clan and drove her, the fish-tailed woman, and several Elders into the deep pit.

Ch. 1175Fish Tails Follow the Trail, and It Has Only Just Begun

Xuan Ling led the surviving Fish-Tailed Clan into Forbidden Island, where her song drew He Sheng away from the trial stairs. When the clan began revealing an Ancient Curse, its members vanished, and a grief-stricken He Sheng returned to climbing, determined to uncover the truth and avenge his family.

  • Xuan Ling and the surviving Fish-Tailed Clan escaped their pursuers through a deep pit and emerged on Forbidden Island.
  • Chen You told Heart Lotus that He Sheng's trial was not over, while Xuan Ling's group explored a nearby subsidiary island.
  • Xuan Ling sang to find He Sheng, and the song lured him down from the stairs despite his suspicions.
  • He Sheng accused Xuan Ling and the fish-tailed woman of manipulating him, then forced them to explain themselves.
  • As the fish-tailed woman began describing an Ancient Curse, the Fish-Tailed Clan members melted away and vanished, leaving He Sheng to mourn his wives and unborn children.
  • He Sheng vowed to uncover the Backstage Manipulator and returned to climbing the stairs, while another cultivator entered the deep pit in the other world.

Ch. 1176Reentering Another World, He Sheng Becomes a Tiger

After being sent to a new world and killed by a tiger, He Sheng possessed the beast and searched the forest for a way to grow stronger. He absorbed a Spiritual Qi Crystal Pillar, transformed into a powerful white-and-gold tiger, and sensed human researchers approaching his waterfall cave.

  • He Sheng reviewed his memories in a misty space and resolved to cooperate with the Backstage Manipulator until he could break free from its Control.
  • A tiger killed He Sheng, but azure light carried his soul into the beast, allowing him to take over its body.
  • He Sheng explored the forest, found a hidden cave behind a waterfall, and swallowed a Spiritual Qi Crystal Pillar from a hot spring.
  • The crystal pillar transformed He Sheng into a white tiger with golden stripes and a lightning mark, and he survived a day-long thunder strike.
  • An expedition team entered the forest to investigate the thunder anomaly and followed He Sheng's roar toward the waterfall.
  • He Sheng formed a glowing Origin Pill, gained the ability to Control the natural environment, and sensed the researchers approaching.
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