Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming defeated Lei He, but discovered that Lei He had poisoned him with Sandman Poison while plotting to steal his Thunder God's Hammer. With Qi Ye's guidance, Yuan Ming learned that Flower Branch could potentially absorb the Purple Extreme Tai Sui's power to cure him, and received a technique to delay the poison while she tried.

• Yuan Ming used his allies and magical treasures to defeat Lei He, then extracted his memories and learned that Lei He had poisoned him with Sandman Poison to steal his Thunder God's Hammer.
• Yuan Ming discovered that Lei He had investigated the hammer because it was the lost treasure of Shenxiao Island, paired with Lei He's Spirit-Rumbling Cone.
• Yuan Ming woke Flower Branch and asked her to drain the poison, but her ability proved too weak to counter Sandman Poison.
• Qi Ye revealed that Flower Branch was a Demon Heart Vine whose symbiosis ability could let her absorb the Purple Extreme Tai Sui and greatly strengthen her poison-draining power.
• Qi Ye taught Yuan Ming the Lunar Spleen Refining Technique, which could gather and compress the poison to delay its spread while Flower Branch attempted to cure him.

Yuan Ming learned to use the Lunar Spleen Refining Technique to draw out the Sandman Poison, and Qi Ye helped him survive the strain. As Black Treants overwhelmed the Fire Essence Palace, Yuan Ming hid inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron while they wrecked the Li Palace Hall.

• Qi Ye explained that Yuan Ming could cultivate the Lunar Spleen Refining Technique by refining Wutu Spiritual Energy already stored in his body, and Yuan Ming used it to gather the Sandman Poison in his spleen.
• When the poison damaged Yuan Ming's spleen, Qi Ye infused it with life force from the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram, allowing Yuan Ming to expel the poison and regain movement.
• Yuan Ming sensed changes in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, secured the Golden Crow Divine Arrow inside it, and refined Lei He into a Blood Slave.
• Qi Ye warned Yuan Ming that something had awakened early and that the island would be dangerous for the next three days before abruptly falling silent.
• Black Treants flooded the Fire Essence Palace and attacked Jin Chao's avatar, Fairy Jinyun, Yan Xiang, True Man Jinhua, and the others.
• Yuan Ming hid inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron as Black Treants broke into the Li Palace Hall and smashed its interior before rushing back outside.

Yuan Ming watched the Black Treants overwhelm the cultivators in the Fire Essence Palace before the Golden Divine Bow unleashed five arrows and decimated their ranks. Remaining hidden in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, he refined Lei He's Spirit Thunder Cone and discovered its connection to the Thunder God's Hammer.

• Yuan Ming used his Spiritual Sense to observe the cultivators being captured, including Gu Xuanyang, True Man Jinhua, Yan Xiang, and Jin Chao's clone, while Fairy Jinyun remained unconscious in a treant's cage.
• Zhao Gui defeated and captured Gu Xuanyang, revealing himself as a powerful treant dressed like an old farmer.
• The Golden Divine Bow appeared above the Fire Essence Palace, and five Golden Crow Divine Arrows struck down more than half of the Black Treants.
• Yuan Ming stayed hidden in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and examined Lei He's storage pouch after the remaining treants fled.
• Yuan Ming found the Spirit Thunder Cone, sensed its connection to the Thunder God's Hammer, and successfully refined it.

Yuan Ming tested the combined lightning treasures, recovered valuable techniques and treasures from Lei He, and checked that Xiying was safe. Through Yan Siyun, he learned that the Wuyue Cult had conquered Fusang Island and was rapidly taking over the East Sea.

• Yuan Ming combined Thunder God's Hammer with the Spirit-Rumbling Cone, but their amplified lightning vanished upon entering the sword-scar ravine.
• Yuan Ming found the Golden Sunflower Heavenly Tome’s Round Light Technique and a spatial Crimson Ancient Scroll among Lei He’s belongings, along with numerous resources and treasures.
• Yuan Ming used Guoguo to check on Xiying and found her cultivating safely in a lush space beneath two contrasting suns.
• Yuan Ming contacted Miao Xian, while Yan Siyun reported to Nether Moon God that the Wuyue Cult had conquered Fusang Island and was attacking islands across the East Sea.
• Nether Moon God said the Wuyue Cult had expected to use its attack on Fusang Island as an opening to subdue the entire East Sea.

Yuan Ming discovered that Six Jia Qimen could retrieve items sent through the spatial restriction, then left the Li Palace and encountered the Golden Divine Bow. The bow revealed that Penglai Island’s Old Tree Demon was an Undying Tree and offered to send Yuan Ming there.

• Yuan Ming tested Six Jia Qimen with Yan Siyun’s storage pouch, then mastered its two-way retrieval ability through further experiments with Xu Che.
• Yuan Ming spent three more days cultivating Six Jia Qimen and the Round Light Technique before leaving the Li Palace.
• Yuan Ming found that the dead Black Treants held vigorous natural spiritual power and fed their corpses to Flower Branch, accelerating her fusion with the Purple Extreme Tai Sui.
• The Golden Divine Bow appeared and questioned Yuan Ming about the outside world; Yuan Ming recounted what he knew, including the Wuyue Cult’s resurgence.
• The Golden Divine Bow explained that the treefolk were descendants controlled by Penglai Island’s Old Tree Demon, an Undying Tree, and offered to send Yuan Ming there.

The Golden Divine Bow told Yuan Ming that the Three Immortal Islands were a prison controlled by the Undying Tree Demon and sent him to Lan Ke Island. Finding the island strangely barren and unable to locate Xi Ying, Yuan Ming decided to seek guidance from Green Pupil and the other three.

• The Golden Divine Bow revealed that the Undying Tree Demon lured cultivators to the islands to strengthen itself and that escaping required killing it, a task beyond Yuan Ming’s power.
• Yuan Ming declined to remain in the Fire Essence Palace and asked for a way to reach Lan Ke Island so he could find Xi Ying.
• The Golden Divine Bow opened a teleportation formation and gave Yuan Ming an Arrow Concealing Talisman that could be used three times.
• Yuan Ming arrived on a silent, almost entirely white island and could not sense Xi Ying or find any signs of people.
• Yuan Ming searched the island, then used the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and the Three-Eyed Crow to survey it, but found only barren ground and white trees.
• Yuan Ming decided to seek information from Green Pupil and the other three and began sensing their condition.

Yuan Ming contacted Yun Jiuxiao beneath Lan Ke Island and learned that tree demons had driven the group into hiding. He used Yun Jiuxiao to convince three clan leaders that their islands were under attack, leaving Queen Mingkong asking what the Nether Moon God demanded in return for his help.

• Yuan Ming found Green Pupil still fighting strange insects, then contacted Yun Jiuxiao and learned that he was sheltering with Bingxin, Xue Jiao, Venerable White Scale, Queen Mingkong, and a Water Ape clansman beneath Lan Ke Island.
• Yun Jiuxiao told Yuan Ming that tree demons had attacked the island, and Yuan Ming instructed him to approach the three Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Yun Jiuxiao told the leaders that the Nether Moon God had revealed attacks on Fusang Island and other islands, then produced Imprint Talismans as proof.
• Queen Mingkong and the others watched the recordings of Fusang Island burning and its people being slaughtered, prompting the Water Ape clansman to demand that they leave the Three Immortal Islands.
• Queen Mingkong asked Yun Jiuxiao what price the Nether Moon God required to help them learn the state of their islands.

Yuan Ming used an illusion to intimidate Queen Mingkong, Venerable White Scale, and the Water Ape clansman into negotiating a faith-based agreement. The Water Ape clansman prayed and sent Yuan Ming a jade pendant and orders to deliver, while Queen Mingkong and Venerable White Scale began to accept Nether Moon God’s power as real.

• Yun Jiuxiao told Queen Mingkong and the others that genuine belief in Nether Moon God could bring news and send items or orders outside the secret realm, but Venerable White Scale challenged the demand.
• Yuan Ming trapped Venerable White Scale in an illusion of dead Snake People accusing him of abandoning them, and Queen Mingkong and the Water Ape clansman begged him to release White Scale.
• Queen Mingkong and the others agreed to pray once every three hours and asked Nether Moon God to deliver their orders and items; Yuan Ming accepted after Yun Jiuxiao pressed them to compromise.
• The Water Ape clansman prayed sincerely for his island and asked Yuan Ming to deliver a half jade pendant and orders to his younger brother, including permission to awaken the Ancestor Ape in a desperate crisis.
• Yuan Ming used a Gold-Silver Light Gate to take the pendant, and Queen Mingkong and Venerable White Scale examined the Water Ape clansman before concluding that Nether Moon God was no ordinary soul cultivator.

Yuan Ming found a black chess piece on Lan Ke Island and then discovered Blood Realm Venerable and a white-browed cultivator attacking three Nascent Soul cultivators. As the besieged group prepared to resist, Blood Shadow recognized Blood Realm Venerable’s art as the Blood Transformation Technique.

• Venerable White Scale and Queen Mingkong prayed to Yuan Ming, gave him items and orders to deliver, and Queen Mingkong asked whether he would aid her people if they prayed sincerely.
• Yuan Ming refined some of their power of faith in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, then continued exploring Lan Ke Island and found a seemingly ordinary black chess piece.
• Yuan Ming followed a distant explosion and spotted Black Bamboo Old Man, Shi Yanshi, and Myriad Flower Aunt facing Blood Realm Venerable and a white-browed young man.
• Myriad Flower Aunt’s pollen attack was swallowed by Blood Realm Venerable’s blood dragon, but flowers then bloomed on the dragon and released more pollen before the young man froze it.
• Blood Realm Venerable and the young man countered Black Bamboo Old Man’s fishing-rod attack, while Shi Yanshi sealed the void passage and saved the rod from the blood threads.
• Black Bamboo Old Man learned that Shi Yanshi needed two quarters of an hour to form an escape formation, and prepared three jade talismans as Blood Realm Venerable told the group to die.

Yuan Ming escaped the Blood Realm Venerable with Thunder Rain and Lei He’s help, but tree people and enormous roots forced him underground. Just as the roots were about to seize him, Wulu pulled him to safety.

• The Blood Realm Venerable attacked Yuan Ming, but Yuan Ming used the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram to absorb the blood dragon and fled on Thunder Rain.
• Yuan Ming questioned Blood Shadow about the Blood Transformation Technique and learned its backlash, secret arts, and the Blood Shadow Escape Technique.
• The Blood Realm Venerable accelerated with the Blood Shadow Escape Technique, but Lei He struck him with lightning, disrupting his blood qi and slowing his pursuit.
• Yuan Ming fled toward the white giant peak, evading tree people until the Blood Realm Venerable caught up again.
• Yuan Ming put away Thunder Rain and Lei He and escaped underground, where blue-black Tree Roots attacked him.
• Wulu pulled Yuan Ming out of the Tree Roots’ reach and saved him.

After Yuan Ming escaped the tree roots with Wulu, he learned more about the Undying Tree Demon and discovered that a cave at Lan Ke Island’s summit might hold clues to someone he was seeking. The two set out for Years Cave, but as they climbed through growing numbers of tree people, their presence was discovered and they were forced to flee and fight.

• Wulu recognized Zhao Gui as a long-vanished elder of the Guiyuan Sect, and Yuan Ming told him about the Undying Tree Demon and the Three Immortal Islands’ true danger.
• Wulu revealed that Years Cave stood at Lan Ke Island’s summit and that black-and-white light shone from it; Yuan Ming decided to go there to search for someone, while Wulu joined him to seek the Lan Ke Chessboard.
• After recovering their magic power, Yuan Ming and Wulu headed toward the summit under concealment, and Wulu explained that the chessboard was rumored to control time.
• Yuan Ming discovered that the tree people could sense Spiritual Sense, then used an illusion technique to confuse them as he and Wulu advanced.
• As the tree people grew more numerous, they discovered the pair, who fled across the mountain, killing isolated pursuers and using Wulu’s Heaven-Escaping Stone Talisman to hide when necessary.

Yuan Ming and Wulu reached the Years Cave, where seven powerful tree demons guarded the entrance, and discovered Yuan Wuji’s group concealed nearby. Yuan Ming exposed them to the tree demons and escaped with Wulu; after the ensuing battle drew away four tree demons, they returned to find the cave entrance less guarded.

• Yuan Ming and Wulu found seven Level Four upper-rank tree demons sealing the Years Cave, far more than Wulu had expected.
• Yuan Ming used his Split Soul to discover the Blood Swallow Island Master, Yuan Wuji, and others hiding beneath the Heaven Concealment Cover.
• Yuan Ming led Wulu out of concealment behind Yuan Wuji’s group, causing the tree demons to attack and shatter the group’s barrier.
• Yuan Wuji wielded the Blood Transformation Divine Blade to cut through the tree demons’ branches as the group became their main target.
• Yuan Ming gave Wulu a lotus seed to restore his magic power and fled with him while the tree demons pursued Yuan Wuji’s group.
• Yuan Ming circled back with Wulu after the battle drew away four tree demons, leaving only three near the Years Cave and fewer roots covering its entrance.

Yuan Ming and Wulu entered Years Cave, where an ancient black tree trapped them in an illusion and began transforming their bodies into wood. Yuan Ming broke free with the first Split Soul’s help and struck the tree with a Golden Crow Arrow, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Yuan Ming used the first Split Soul to immobilize two Blood God Puppets underground, then froze them and discovered they were Elder Lu and Elder Qi.
• Yuan Ming and Wulu evaded the remaining tree-men with the Heaven-Escaping Stone Talisman and entered Years Cave.
• An ancient black tree opened its eyes, trapped Yuan Ming and Wulu in an illusion, drained Yuan Ming’s soul power, and began turning their bodies into tree-like forms.
• The first Split Soul replenished Yuan Ming’s soul power with power of faith, allowing Yuan Ming to regain awareness and unleash the Dream of All Beings Rune.
• Yuan Ming’s magical treasures and Purple Star Nine Dragon Spear barely damaged the black tree, so he invoked Hou Yi’s Sun-Shooting Bow and fired a Golden Crow Arrow into it.

Yuan Ming and Wulu escaped the cave after Yuan Ming destroyed the old black tree, while a powerful golden arrow assault devastated the tree demons guarding Years Cave. Inside the time-distorted space, Yuan Ming reunited with Xiying and learned she had spent years cultivating there before a strange black-and-white-robed man appeared.

• Yuan Ming's Golden Crow Arrow destroyed the old black tree, freeing him and Wulu, and the two entered the black-and-white gate at the end of the cave.
• The old tree's death caused the treants on Lan Ke Island to falter, but enormous roots attacked Yuan Wuji's group until a rain of golden arrows destroyed many roots and killed seven upper fourth-level tree demons.
• Yuan Ming and Wulu reached the hidden space, where Yuan Ming found Guoguo and reunited with Xiying beside a massive Spirit Gathering Tree.
• Xiying told Yuan Ming that six or seven days outside Years Cave equaled six or seven years inside, and explained that the space held dense spiritual energy and other Spirit Gathering objects.
• A man formed from the black and white suns landed near Yuan Ming, Wulu, and Xiying, and Yuan Ming sensed that he was dangerous.

Yuan Ming learned that the Years Cave could shelter everyone for thirty years before the Immortal Demonic Tree attacked, and he helped the island’s cultivators escape into the realm. There, he revealed the tree demon’s threat, while Luo Qi presented his completed Great Luo Chessboard to the Artifact Spirit for inspection.

• The Lan Ke Chessboard Artifact Spirit told Yuan Ming that the Years Cave would collapse in thirty years and asked him to help defeat the Immortal Demonic Tree.
• Yuan Ming used the Dream of All Beings Rune to halt treants attacking the island’s cultivators and urged them to flee to the Years Cave.
• Wulu guided the assembled cultivators to Yuan Ming, who explained the Undying Tree Demon’s plan to use the Three Immortal Islands to capture cultivators and strengthen itself.
• Luo Qi knelt before the Artifact Spirit and presented his completed Great Luo Chessboard, citing his ancestor Luo Yan’s command.

Yuan Ming deterred the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance from claiming the Spirit Gathering Tree and uncovered part of Elder Lu’s secret arts before the alliance withdrew. He and Xi Ying transplanted the tree into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron space and prepared to cultivate during the thirty years available to them.

• The Artifact Spirit took Luo Qi away, while Yuan Ming confirmed that the ancient Immortal Demonic Tree posed a threat and urged the gathered cultivators to use the secret realm’s spirit-gathering sites to prepare.
• The Blood Realm Venerable tried to claim the Spirit Gathering Tree, but Xi Ying trapped him in an illusion and Yuan Ming revealed his powerful aura; Yuan Wuji then led the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance away.
• Wulu explained that Luo Qi had bound him through the Blood Puppet Armor and summoned him to help refine the Great Luo Chessboard, then departed to assist Luo Qi.
• Yuan Ming broke the seal on Elder Lu’s Nascent Soul and memorized the Golden Sunflower Beast Taming Art before the soul disintegrated, prompting the Purple-haired Beauty to sense the broken restriction.
• Yuan Wuji stopped the Blood Realm Venerable from returning to attack Yuan Ming, telling him to wait until the Blood God Seed had been fully refined.
• Xi Ying set up a formation to transplant the Spirit Gathering Tree into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron space, where it quickly increased the area’s spiritual energy.

Yuan Ming entered the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron to cultivate while Xi Ying planted the Five Elements Creation Tree seed, but a black demon tree seed invaded Yuan Ming’s dantian and began draining his mana and blood qi. Xi Ying identified it as an Undying Tree seed and proposed using the Gou Mang Spiritual Art to refine it, explaining that Yuan Ming’s spiritual roots might match its seven roots; she began to reveal how he had cultivated a yang-attribute technique.

• Yuan Ming hid the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron at the bottom of a lake, set a fish demon beast to guard it, and entered with Xi Ying, who planted the Five Elements Creation Tree seed.
• Yuan Ming fed the revived black demon tree to Flower Branch, which drained it and left behind a black seed that entered Yuan Ming’s dantian and rooted itself there.
• Yuan Ming used the Soul Annihilation Sword’s Curse Rune, the Soul Crows, the Golden Sunflower Beast Taming Art, Sandman Poison, and the White Jade Lotus Platform to suppress the seed, but could not destroy it.
• Xi Ying examined the seed and identified it as closely related to the Undying Tree, then said the Gou Mang Spiritual Art could offer a solution.
• Xi Ying explained that Yuan Ming’s metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and yin attributes matched the seed’s roots, then said he had also cultivated a yang-attribute technique.

Yuan Ming learned that his cultivation in body and soul arts gave him all seven spirit roots, allowing him to tame the Undying Tree with the Gou Mang Spiritual Art. After a year of feeding it blood vitality, the tree grew rapidly, while Xi Ying also successfully bonded with the Five Elements Creation Tree.

• Xi Ying explained that Yuan Ming’s body and soul cultivation, Lunar Spleen Refining Technique, and Quad Spirit Root made him compatible with the Undying Tree.
• Yuan Ming used the Gou Mang Spiritual Art and numerous soul attacks to wear down the black seed’s resistance, eventually making it accept his taming.
• The black seed’s seven strands of spiritual energy merged with Yuan Ming’s spirit roots, and its roots absorbed Fire Toxin and weakened the Sandman Poison in his spleen.
• Yuan Ming supplied the seed with blood vitality, and over the next year it grew into a small black tree as he completed the first level of the Gou Mang Spiritual Art.
• Yuan Ming drained a blue wolf demon beast through a transformed black branch, while Xi Ying meditated beside the sprouted Five Elements Creation Tree after bonding with it.

Yuan Ming strengthened his cultivation and forced Venerable White Scale, Queen Mingkong, and the Water Ape clansman to pray more faithfully by using his illusions and promising to help them escape the Three Immortal Islands. He then used Long Chong to recruit Shi Yanshi, Black Bamboo Old Man, and Myriad Flower Aunt into the Nether Moon Divine Cult, gaining more wish power and accelerating his soul cultivation.

• Yuan Ming reviewed his progress in spiritual, body, and soul cultivation, then decided to subjugate the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators who had grown lax in their prayers.
• Yuan Ming trapped Venerable White Scale in a painful illusion, demanded five daily prayers, and promised to help him leave the Three Immortal Islands in thirty years.
• Yuan Ming warned Queen Mingkong and the Water Ape clansman and reassured them, gaining substantial wish power from both.
• Yuan Ming directed Long Chong to tell Shi Yanshi, Black Bamboo Old Man, and Myriad Flower Aunt about Fusang Island's destruction and offer the Nether Moon God's help in exchange for joining the cult.
• Yuan Ming met the three island masters through an illusion, gained their wish power, and absorbed it to accelerate his soul cultivation.

Queen Mingkong sought Ice Soul Silk and, after the Tide Riders tried to exploit her need, obtained it from Yuan Ming at a modest markup. Yuan Ming struggled to make his imitation Vacuum Hall draw down the Power of Stars, then sent Huanlingzi to inspect the similar Cloud Top Hall for clues.

• Queen Mingkong failed to finish refining her Ice Soul Pipa without Ice Soul Silk and went to negotiate with the Tide Riders.
• Yuan Wuji and Blood Realm Venerable refused Queen Mingkong's terms and planned to keep pressuring her for a better deal.
• Venerable White Scale suggested that Queen Mingkong ask Yuan Ming for help, and Yuan Ming agreed to obtain Ice Soul Silk for a price only slightly above its outside value.
• Yuan Ming explained that repeated requests for spiritual materials had depleted much of the Spatial Power in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron's Silver Crystal.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying modified his imitation Vacuum Hall, but it still could not draw down the Power of Stars.
• Yuan Ming contacted Huanlingzi and told him to inspect the Cloud Top Hall and report its structure in detail.