Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming completed his star-gathering hall and arranged for Huanlingzi to retrieve a massive Hou Tu Mountain Suppressing Peak and demon beast corpses. After learning that Queen Mingkong had obtained Ice Soul Silk from the Nether Moon God, Yuan Wuji led the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance to seek a meeting with her.

• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying built an imitation Cloud Top Hall, where Yuan Ming drew down the Power of Stars and used a formation to charge the Silver Crystal with Spatial Power.
• Yuan Ming rewarded Huanlingzi with spirit herbs and immortal grasses, then sent him with the Crimson Ancient Scroll to retrieve a Hou Tu Mountain Suppressing Stone and collect demon beast corpses.
• Huanlingzi gathered more than two thousand demon beast corpses, removed the enormous Hou Tu Mountain Suppressing Peak, escaped the collapsing valley, and attacked the fleeing demon beasts.
• After more than half a year, Yuan Ming received the scroll and fed its demon beast corpses to the little black tree; meanwhile, Queen Mingkong refined the Ice Soul Pipa in forty-nine days.
• Poison Shadow reported that Queen Mingkong and others had received items from outside the secret realm through the Nether Moon God, prompting Yuan Wuji to seek a meeting with him through Queen Mingkong.
• Yuan Wuji and the others arrived to see Queen Mingkong, and Yuan Wuji congratulated her on refining the Ice Soul Pipa.

Yuan Ming arranged a trade with Lan Xiao for Immortal Blood Jade and Crimson Mulberry Immortal Fruit, allowing Yuan Wuji to prepare to refine the Blood God Seed and Xi Ying to make a breakthrough pill. The chapter ended with Flower Branch awakening in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron's space after fusing with the Purple Extreme Tai Sui and reaching the fourth rank.

• Yuan Ming agreed to exchange two pieces of Immortal Blood Jade for two portions of Lan Xiao's spiritual materials, and Yuan Wuji accepted the deal to help refine the Blood God Seed.
• Yuan Ming contacted Yan Siyun, who bought Immortal Blood Jade from Bi Shui Rou, and Queen Mingkong completed the exchange three days later.
• Yuan Ming gave Xi Ying the Crimson Mulberry Immortal Fruit, and Xi Ying refined a Five Elements Nascent Soul Condensing Pill before entering seclusion to attempt a breakthrough.
• Flower Branch awoke in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron's space, explained that her long sleep followed her breakthrough and symbiosis art, and said she had mastered the Purple Extreme Tai Sui's abilities.

Yuan Ming witnessed Xiying successfully enter the Nascent Soul Realm, while Yuan Wuji emerged from seclusion with the Blood God Seed and challenged Queen Mingkong to draw out the Nether Moon God. After overpowering her and damaging her Ice Soul Pipa, Yuan Wuji left her facing the gap between their strength and the god’s uncertain presence.

• Flower Branch described her breakthrough to Yuan Ming and promised to fight for him when needed.
• After months of preparation, Xiying formed a Nascent Soul, and Yuan Ming congratulated her as she began stabilizing her cultivation.
• Yuan Wuji emerged from seclusion after refining the Blood God Seed, and he and his allies decided to confront Queen Mingkong and test the Nether Moon God.
• Queen Mingkong said she had never seen the Nether Moon God, and Yuan Wuji demanded that she summon him before attacking her with three Triad Blood Needles.
• Queen Mingkong destroyed Yuan Wuji’s needles and struck him with the Ice Soul Pipa, but Yuan Wuji’s blood-colored figure broke free and overwhelmed her, fouling her pipa.
• Yuan Wuji asked whether the Nether Moon God would have intervened if he had tried to kill Queen Mingkong, and she silently glared at him.

Yuan Ming sent Flower Branch to confront Yuan Wuji, whose Blood God Seed was destroyed in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s space. Flower Branch then revealed her parasitic spores, forcing Yuan Wuji to cleanse his allies and withdraw, while the two sides remained hostile.

• Yuan Wuji learned from Queen Mingkong that Yuan Ming was the Nether Moon God's apostle and demanded to meet him.
• Yuan Ming agreed to let Flower Branch challenge Yuan Wuji, ordering her to follow his commands.
• Flower Branch fought Yuan Wuji and swallowed his Blood God Seed; Yuan Ming lured it into a chasm, where Sword Qi destroyed it.
• Flower Branch's spores drained Yuan Wuji, Blood Realm Venerable, Lan Xiao, and Bing Li of magic power, but Yuan Wuji used bloodlight to destroy the spores and withdrew with his allies.

After twenty years of cultivation, Yuan Ming prepared to break through to the Slumber Witch Realm after Xi Ying explained the danger of the Inner Demon Tribulation. Xi Ying gave him the Three Souls Nine Refinements technique to master before attempting the breakthrough.

• Yuan Wuji told the others he had lost a Blood God Seed to the Nether Moon God, and the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance later stopped provoking them and coexisted peacefully with them.
• Over twenty years, Xi Ying cultivated the Five Elements Creation Tree and advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, while Yuan Ming's Undying Tree grew into a towering black tree fused with his body.
• Yuan Ming advanced his Gou Mang Spiritual Art to the third level, reached the Late Core Formation Stage and the middle stage of the Innate Body Realm, and brought his main body soul near the Slumber Witch Realm.
• Xi Ying explained that lingering thoughts within power of faith could make the Slumber Witch Realm's Inner Demon Tribulation harder, and advised Yuan Ming to remain true to himself and remember his original heart.
• Xi Ying gave Yuan Ming a Jade Slip containing the Three Souls Nine Refinements technique and told him to master it before attempting his breakthrough.

Yuan Ming endured an Inner Demon Tribulation that showed him a life in which he pursued reforms and built Three Star Mountain to improve opportunities for commoners and rogue cultivators. The vision ended with a Southern Region Nascent Soul cultivator demanding that Yuan Ming submit, while Yuan Ming refused and revealed that he had prepared contingencies.

• Yuan Ming began his final breakthrough preparations inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, and Xi Ying promised to help if his Inner Demon Tribulation went wrong.
• In a vision, Yuan Ming served as Great Jin's prime minister and burned a proposal to test commoners for spirit roots after Eunuch Zhang warned him that Changchun Temple opposed it.
• Decades later in the vision, Yuan Ming renewed his proposal, but State Preceptor Yuhu arrested and executed him; his ideals nevertheless spread and helped spark resistance to Changchun Temple.
• After returning to the Southern Border in the vision, Yuan Ming rebuilt Three Star Mountain, recruited disciples and established schools, then defeated the Azure Rock Association and brought much of the Northern Region under his influence.
• At Yuan Ming's 150th birthday banquet, the Gu Immortal Sect's Supreme Elder demanded that he join the sect and leave the Northern Region as it was, but Yuan Ming refused.
• The Supreme Elder threatened Yuan Ming, who said he had anticipated the Southern Region's intentions and had already arranged contingencies.

Yuan Ming overcame the Inner Demon Tribulation by insisting he would pursue freedom through countless lifetimes, then broke through to the Slumber Witch Realm. After stabilizing his soul and discovering its new powers, he and Xi Ying returned to cultivation.

• Yuan Ming’s recorded message united the Northern Region under Three Star Mountain, which later became its undisputed power after Fang Ge reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• The chapter recounted Yuan Ming’s different lives across the Black Wind Desert, Western Regions, Eastern Sea, and Northern Desert, where he pursued freedom and ultimately perished or rebelled.
• Xi Ying worried as Yuan Ming’s soul power fell below half during Three Souls Nine Refinements, while he faced a white figure in a dream and declared that he struggled for freedom.
• Yuan Ming’s answer shattered the dream, and his soul transformed as moonlight gathered into his sea of consciousness.
• After three days of stabilizing his breakthrough, Yuan Ming learned he could absorb moonlight to temper his soul and used the White Jade Lotus Platform to reach the peak of the Slumber Witch Realm.
• Yuan Ming inspected his strengthened soul abilities and gained Nightmare, then asked Xi Ying about the realm before they both entered seclusion.

Yuan Ming prepared to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm after reaching the peak of the Late Core Formation Stage, while arranging for his third Split Soul to return from Evergreen Island. His breakthrough endured a destructive yin-yang trial, and the chapter left him merging the Five Elements Nascent Soul Condensing Pill with his golden core amid a vast spiritual qi vortex.

• Yuan Ming reached the peak of the Late Core Formation Stage and decided to attempt a Nascent Soul breakthrough in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Yuan Ming summoned the third Split Soul from Evergreen Island and sent the second Split Soul to remain in Zuo Qinghui's body to protect his parents.
• Yuan Ming began the breakthrough with the third Split Soul, using the Soul Splitting Core Merging Art to merge it with his golden core.
• Nine streams of yin-yang power battered Yuan Ming, severely injuring his body and soul until the Undying Tree sent him life force to aid his recovery.
• Yuan Ming swallowed Xi Ying's Five Elements Nascent Soul Condensing Pill, and its power merged with his cracked golden core as a massive spiritual qi vortex formed.

Yuan Ming broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm and briefly reached Half-step Speech Witch strength by drawing on the White Jade Lotus Platform’s power of faith. When the appointed time came to leave Years Cave, Yuan Ming and Xi Ying were missing, and the Artifact Spirit refused to explain their whereabouts.

• Yuan Ming successfully formed his Nascent Soul with help from Xi Ying, the Five Elements Nascent Soul Condensing Pill, and the Undying Tree’s vitality.
• Yuan Ming found that the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s space had expanded and tested how his new cultivation strengthened his magic treasures.
• Yuan Ming absorbed the White Jade Lotus Platform’s power of faith, reaching Half-step Speech Witch soul power before withdrawing it because his body could not bear the strain.
• Two months later, the black-and-white Artifact Spirit summoned everyone in Years Cave, and Luo Qi and Venerable White Scale arrived as Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators.
• Flower Branch told the gathered cultivators that she had not seen Yuan Ming for years, and the Artifact Spirit confirmed that Yuan Ming and Xi Ying were no longer in Years Cave without revealing where they had gone.

Yuan Ming secretly surveyed Penglai Immortal Island and discovered traces of the Undying Tree among its ordinary-looking trees while the others entered Penglai Immortal Palace and harvested its treasures. The group began searching the palace, where Flower Branch and the Blood Realm Venerable each took two powerful landscape paintings.

• The Nether Moon God ordered Black Bamboo Old Man, Venerable White Scale, Yuan Wuji, and the others to proceed to Penglai Immortal Island, and they vanished through the teleportation array.
• Yuan Ming used the Three-Eyed Crow to survey Penglai Island from Flower Branch's Storage Artifact, found no Undying Tree aura underground, and detected traces of it in several small gray trees.
• Yuan Wuji led the group to Penglai Immortal Palace, where they broke the restrictions on the courtyard's flower beds and gathered rare spiritual materials; Flower Branch collected the most with the Purple Star Nine Dragon Spear.
• Xi Ying fed the harvested herbs to the Five Elements Creation Tree inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, helping it grow and hastening her Gou Mang Spiritual Art.
• Flower Branch, Yuan Wuji, and the Blood Realm Venerable took the four Mountain River Scenery Paintings from the reception hall, then the group began searching the palace's side halls.

Flower Branch defeated the Blood Realm Venerable after he tried to seize her Mountain River Scenery Paintings, then kept his storage thumb ring. The group reached three branching paths, and as they split up to explore, Venerable White Scale explained to the Nether Moon God why his companions did not want to follow Flower Branch.

• The Blood Realm Venerable attacked Flower Branch with the Blood Spirit Great Law, but Yuan Ming empowered her and she struck off his arm before taking his storage thumb ring.
• Yuan Wuji rebuked the Blood Realm Venerable for provoking Flower Branch, then warned his group to avoid further conflict with the Nether Moon God's people.
• The group reached paths leading to Evergreen Garden, Gilded Hall, and Black Cloud Tower; Yuan Wuji led the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance toward Black Cloud Tower, while Flower Branch's group chose Evergreen Garden.
• Venerable White Scale, Queen Mingkong, and the burly Water Ape clansman decided to explore Gilded Hall separately, despite the Black Bamboo Old Man's warning to stay together.
• The Nether Moon God questioned Venerable White Scale's group about splitting up, and Venerable White Scale said they feared gaining no treasures if they followed Flower Branch.

Yuan Ming recognized Zhu Yu as an Undying Tree Puppet and ordered the group to attack, but the puppet transformed into a powerful blue-black tree man. Yuan Ming stopped its assault and killed it with his Soul Extinguishing Sword Qi, but Flower Branch found no divine soul to search.

• Venerable White Scale, Queen Mingkong, and the Water Ape clansman left for the golden hall while Yuan Ming led the others toward Evergreen Garden.
• Shi Yanshi identified a spatial extension restriction, and the group reached the garden, where Zhu Yu appeared and offered them a test to enter.
• Yuan Ming recognized Zhu Yu as an Undying Tree Puppet and ordered Black Bamboo Old Man, Myriad Flower Aunt, Shi Yanshi, Long Chong, and Wulu to attack.
• Zhu Yu transformed into a blue-black tree man, overwhelmed the group, and destroyed Flower Branch's poisoned vines with black flames.
• Yuan Ming used his nightmare ability to freeze the tree man, then struck it down with Soul Extinguishing Sword Qi.
• Flower Branch searched the corpse but found no divine soul, leaving Yuan Ming surprised that the attack might have destroyed it.

Yuan Ming and his companions broke into the heart of Evergreen Garden, where they overcame a powerful stacked array and claimed its treasures. As they gathered herbs, thirty-six Core Formation treants and five Nascent Soul-level figures surrounded them.

• Yuan Ming absorbed the blue-black treant corpse into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, where his Undying Tree devoured it and advanced the Gou Mang Spiritual Art while returning blood and vital energy to him.
• Flower Branch and the others broke into Evergreen Garden, collected its herbs, and approached a yellow bowl-shaped array protecting even rarer treasures.
• Yuan Ming identified the Spirit Source Tree inside the array and, with Xiying's insight, suspected the barrier was linked to a hidden power-supplying array underground.
• Flower Branch found and destroyed the underground array, allowing the group to break the weakened barrier, and Yuan Ming had her replant the Spirit Source Tree inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.
• Thirty-six Core Formation treants and five blue-green Nascent Soul-level figures emerged and surrounded Yuan Ming's group.

Flower Branch’s group and other factions were trapped in treant formations that drained water and spiritual energy, while the five Nascent Soul Cultivators launched attacks. Venerable White Scale betrayed Queen Mingkong and the Water Ape clansman to submit to the Immortal Undying Tree, and Flower Branch was left as the only one still able to move in her group.

• Thirty-six treants formed a cage around Flower Branch’s group, and their formation drained water vapor and spiritual energy while repairing damage to its vine walls.
• Black Bamboo Old Man and Long Chong tried fire and water attacks against the vines, but the formation absorbed their power and healed itself.
• Five Nascent Soul Realm treants appeared around Venerable White Scale, Queen Mingkong, and the Water Ape clansman, prompting White Scale to propose a plan to escape.
• As Queen Mingkong prepared to destroy the Myriad Waters Mirror, Venerable White Scale attacked her and the Water Ape clansman, then offered his service to the Immortal Undying Tree.
• Yuan Wuji’s group was also trapped in a treant formation, and Wu Yuezhi briefly showed a spark of life as the five green-skinned men began to shine.
• The treants attacked Flower Branch’s group with vines and green dust, binding or injuring everyone except Flower Branch.

Yuan Ming rescued Flower Branch and the others from the tree people, defeated five Nascent Soul Cultivators, and discovered their missing souls had gone to the distant white moon. He planned to reach the moon with Xi Ying’s help, while Qi Ye remained unreachable.

• Flower Branch weakened the vines draining Long Chong and the others, but five Nascent Soul Cultivators suppressed her until Yuan Ming used the Dream of All Beings Rune to free everyone.
• Yuan Ming released the tree people from his illusion and ordered them pursued, then tried to control the five Nascent Soul Cultivators, but one broke free and shattered his spell.
• Yuan Ming struck the five with the Great Black Heaven Divine Palm and captured their bodies, then discovered that four Spiritual Sense marks on their souls had reached the white moon.
• Xi Ying proposed using a spatial Formation Disk to teleport to the moon, and Yuan Ming asked her to refine a Spatial Array while he sought a way to send the disk there.
• The Artifact Spirit of the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram reported that Qi Ye had been out of contact, while Flower Branch told the returning group that the five cultivators had been captured and they should rest.

Inside the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron, Yuan Ming absorbed the blood and qi of five Nascent Soul Cultivators and advanced his Demon Elephant Prison Suppressing Technique, while the Undying Tree Demon prepared to defend its lair and transform captives. Yuan Ming discovered the demon’s true body beneath Guanghan City and secretly used his soul power to help Queen Mingkong and the Water Ape clansman resist its influence.

• The black Undying Tree absorbed five corpses, and Yuan Ming used their blood and qi to reach the peak of the Innate Body.
• The Undying Tree Demon summoned San Jue and sent him out with fifteen Nascent Soul tree people to stop intruders.
• The Undying Tree Demon questioned Venerable White Scale, Queen Mingkong, and the Water Ape clansman, then imprisoned them in cocoons as its power began transforming their minds.
• Queen Mingkong and the Water Ape clansman prayed to the Nether Moon God, allowing Yuan Ming to locate them inside the white moon.
• Yuan Ming discovered the Undying Tree Demon’s lair beneath Guanghan City, where Fairy Jinyun and a Fifth-level Golden Crow were also held in cocoons.
• Yuan Ming secretly sent his soul power into Queen Mingkong and the Water Ape clansman, stabilizing their Nascent Souls against the demon’s influence.

Yuan Ming learned from Qi Ye that the Undying Tree Demon’s puppets could be disrupted by a surprise attack on its Undying Tree Heart, and that the demon was weakened by a hidden ailment. After studying Qi Ye’s intelligence, Yuan Ming and Xi Ying decided to finish the Spatial Array before planning their assault.

• The Undying Tree Demon cocooned Queen Mingkong and the Water Ape clansman while Yuan Ming secretly helped their Nascent Souls resist conversion.
• Qi Ye emerged from a cocoon and helped the Undying Tree Demon refine the Golden Crow, while Yuan Ming searched the full moon for an exit and found none.
• Qi Ye contacted Yuan Ming through the Asura Blood Devouring Diagram and proposed an attack on the Undying Tree Heart to temporarily free the tree puppet servants from the demon’s control.
• Qi Ye revealed that the Undying Tree Demon was weakened by a curse-bearing evil object and sent Yuan Ming a Jade Slip detailing its puppets and the Wood Emperor Great Formation.
• Yuan Ming and Xi Ying questioned whether Qi Ye could be trusted, then agreed to complete the Spatial Array before deciding how to enter the full moon.

Yuan Ming discovered a cursed black mirror sealed inside the Undying Tree Demon and led his group through the Evergreen Garden to Penglai’s summit. There, the groups joined forces and encountered Yin Kong and a powerful fifth-level Green-robed Man, who agreed to travel with them.

• Yuan Ming found the black mirror inside the Undying Tree Demon, but its curse nearly overwhelmed him before he cut off his Spiritual Sense and resisted it with the White Jade Lotus Platform.
• Yuan Ming ordered Black Bamboo Old Man’s group to rest before they reached the end of the Evergreen Garden and saw a treasure-filled hall atop Penglai’s peak.
• Lan Xiao proposed that the Tide Rider Rogue Alliance join Flower Branch’s group, and they agreed to cooperate and not seize one another’s gains.
• Flower Branch detected hidden figures near the mountain path and attacked, revealing Yin Kong and a fifth-level Green-robed Man through a spatial rift.
• At Yuan Ming’s instruction, Flower Branch invited Yin Kong and the Green-robed Man to join them, and Yuan Wuji agreed to let them travel together.

Elder Sanjue led the Undying Tree Demon’s forces in preparing an ambush on the mountainside while Yuan Ming secretly negotiated with the Green-robed Man to join forces against him. When Sanjue’s forces attacked the approaching group, they activated the Eight Directions Fire Origin Array instead of the Wood Emperor Great Formation.

• Elder Sanjue used a Wine Command Curse to conceal his forces’ auras and sent them to establish the Wood Emperor Great Formation on the mountainside.
• Yuan Ming contacted the Green-robed Man, revealed that Elder Sanjue was waiting to ambush them, and persuaded him to fight alongside him.
• The Green-robed Man identified the red-nosed elder as Elder Sanjue, a former Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator from Changchun Temple who had recently reached the Void Return Stage.
• Elder Sanjue’s forces divided into teams and positioned themselves in the forest to complete the formation.
• Long Chong, Myriad Flower Aunt, Black Bamboo Old Man, and others entered the encirclement while arguing, and Elder Sanjue ordered the attack.
• Murong Yanyu, Tu Shixiong, and the other cultivators activated the Eight Directions Fire Origin Array instead of the Wood Emperor Great Formation.

Yuan Ming’s group ambushed Elder Sanjue’s forces with the Eight Directions Fire Origin Array, then attacked Elder Sanjue himself. Elder Sanjue survived the Green-robed Man’s lethal strike and unleashed a vast Azure-Gold Sword Formation as Yuan Ming focused on controlling him with a nightmare divine ability.

• Yuan Ming used an illusion to mislead Elder Sanjue’s forces into gathering inside the Eight Directions Fire Origin Array, where Myriad Flower Aunt, Black Bamboo Old Man, Shi Yanshi, Wulu, Long Chong, and the others activated it and bombarded them with fireballs.
• Flower Branch poisoned Elder Sanjue, but he dispelled the poison with wine vapor, leaving her intoxicated; Yuan Ming then trapped him in an illusion with the Dream of All Beings Rune.
• The Green-robed Man pierced Elder Sanjue’s chest and tore out his heart, but Elder Sanjue regenerated with the power of the Undying Tree Puppet and shattered the Green-robed Man’s claw attack with his Azure-Gold Sword Formation.
• Elder Sanjue summoned a larger sword formation and sent a torrent of flying swords at the Green-robed Man, who countered with soundwaves and cyan hurricanes while Yuan Ming gathered Spiritual Sense power to control Elder Sanjue.