Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ming uncovered Silver Dragon Daoist’s spies on Spirit Ape Island, removed them from power, and secured the island’s resources. He imprisoned the conspirators in the Asura Palace and forced them to pray to his Nether Moon God identity, leaving them as a source of wish power.

• Yuan Ming used his nightmare ability and soul-searching divine ability to expose Ruan Hongxiang, Ye San, and several Core Formation Cultivators as Silver Dragon Daoist’s spies, then subdued them and confiscated their treasures.
• Yuan Ming ordered the Ruan Family to leave Spirit Ape Island, reassured the remaining cultivators, and appointed Cao Gang and Li Muhai to manage the spirit fields and spirit lake.
• Yuan Ming broke the restriction protecting the White Infant Fruit Trees, installed a fourth-grade formation around them, and built a new cave residence protected by formations and the Spirit Gathering Tree.
• Yuan Ming brought the conspirators into the Asura Palace and told them he would spare them if they prayed to him as the Nether Moon God.
• Yuan Ming threatened the captives with the Immortal Slaying Sword, and they began praying, sending wish power toward the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron.

Yuan Ming settled into his new cave abode on Spirit Ape Island, planned to spread the Mingyue Cult, and discovered that his mana cultivation required a five-element technique. He traveled to Xihe Island to seek one and learned from Sikong Zhan that the East Pole Palace’s Follow Your Heart Pavilion sold Void Return techniques to qualified island lords.

• Yuan Ming contacted Xi Ying, who said she was aboard a Tianpeng Flying Ship bound for Central Continent and urged him to gather wish power in the East Pole Sea.
• Yuan Ming possessed Wulu through the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and found him injured in a primeval forest far from the East Pole Sea.
• Yuan Ming began cultivating with his three souls, but his mana became unstable; Qi Ye explained that the single-attribute Nine Yuan Art no longer suited his completed five-element spiritual roots.
• Yuan Ming went to Xihe Island with Sikong Zhan and learned he could seek a Void Return technique at Follow Your Heart Pavilion because he was now the island lord of Spirit Ape Island.
• Sikong Zhan recommended the Myriad Goods Immortal Trading Post when Yuan Ming said he wanted spirit materials for a defensive formation.

Yuan Ming explored Xihe Island’s Myriad Goods Immortal Trading Post, learned about the renowned pill master Shopkeeper San, and bought materials while considering the value of becoming a formation master. He then arrived at Follow Your Heart Pavilion to purchase cultivation techniques, leaving Sikong Zhan and the others outside debating whether to flee their pursuers.

• Yuan Ming visited the Myriad Goods Immortal Trading Post, learned why Void Return pills were costly, and asked about Soul Refining Pills.
• Shopkeeper San arrived with newly refined Earth Essence Pills, and Sikong Zhan told Yuan Ming of the master’s renown and sixth-grade pill expertise.
• Yuan Ming studied Shopkeeper San’s formidable soul power, then bought water-attribute spiritual materials and supplies for refining formations.
• Sikong Zhan explained the Merit Hall’s missions and rewards to Yuan Ming, who inspected the available tasks before heading to Follow Your Heart Pavilion.
• Yuan Ming showed his Island Master token and entered Follow Your Heart Pavilion to seek cultivation techniques.
• Sikong Zhuo and Sikong Lin urged Sikong Zhan to leave or hide from their pursuers, but Sikong Zhan told them he knew what he was doing.

Yuan Ming searched Follow Your Heart Pavilion for a cultivation art compatible with his seven types of mana and discovered the attribute-free Primordial Chaos True Art. He purchased it for nine hundred thousand spirit stones, choosing a path he could cultivate with his existing Chaos Hole Secret Art and strong body.

• Yuan Ming passed through Follow Your Heart Pavilion's Heart-Questioning Restriction without revealing the devilish qi he carried, then introduced himself to steward elder Mao Yi.
• Yuan Ming found that the pavilion's Void Return cultivation arts all required five attributes, which did not suit his seven types of mana.
• Mao Yi explained attribute-free cultivation arts and brought Yuan Ming jade slips for the Phantom Sound Art, Nebula Transformation, and Primordial Chaos True Art.
• Yuan Ming chose the Primordial Chaos True Art because its Chaos Hole vortex could help contain his mixed mana, and his Chaos Hole Secret Art and sturdy body suited its demands.
• Mao Yi said the Primordial Chaos True Art had six levels and could reach the Dharma Aspect Stage, and Yuan Ming bought it for nine hundred thousand spirit stones.

Yuan Ming learned more about the Chuyun Realm and intervened when the Bai Family tried to seize Ye Xinyao, recruiting Sikong Zhan and his companions to Spirit Ape Island. The chapter left them preparing to spread the Mingyue Cult while the White Cold Island master remained a possible threat.

• Yuan Ming studied a map of the Chuyun Realm, including the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range and White Emperor City, then continued sightseeing with Sikong Zhan and the others.
• Bai Jingshu and two White Cold Island cultivators confronted Sikong Zhan’s group over Ye Xinyao, who accused Bai Haoshan of planning to use her Hundred Herbs Spirit Body for cultivation.
• Yuan Ming stopped the Bai Family from taking Ye Xinyao and dismissed Bai Jingshu’s warning that White Cold Island’s master might come after him.
• Yuan Ming invited Sikong Zhan, Sikong Zhuo, Sikong Lin, and Ye Xinyao to work on Spirit Ape Island, and they accepted.
• After returning to Spirit Ape Island, Yuan Ming ordered Sikong Zhan, Sikong Zhuo, and Sikong Lin to spread the Mingyue Cult and gave them a Jade Slip outlining its doctrines and methods.

Yuan Ming assigned Ye Xinyao to manage Spirit Ape Island’s spirit fields and cultivate poisonous herbs, then spent three months installing a powerful protective array. When Bai Zhengxiong arrived with Shen Fangyuan, Shi Huan, and Fairy Yun Luo to confront him over Ye Xinyao, Yuan Ming accepted Bai’s duel and followed him into the sky.

• Yuan Ming tasked Ye Xinyao with managing the island’s spirit fields and medicinal gardens and growing a variety of poisonous herbs.
• Yuan Ming spent the next three months setting up the Myriad Water Green Wave Array around Spirit Ape Island.
• Bai Zhengxiong, Shen Fangyuan, and Shi Huan traveled to Spirit Ape Island, where Fairy Yun Luo joined them along the way.
• Yuan Ming activated the new array as the group arrived, and Shi Huan recognized it as a fifth-level magic array.
• Bai Zhengxiong demanded compensation for the Bai Family’s humiliation, and Yuan Ming refused to surrender Ye Xinyao.
• With Shi Huan offering to arbitrate, Yuan Ming accepted Bai Zhengxiong’s duel and followed him into the sky above Spirit Ape Island.

Yuan Ming defeated Bai Zhengxiong in a duel over Spirit Ape Island, then exposed the Silver Dragon Daoist’s interference and secured Shi Huan’s promise of protection. After returning to the island, Yuan Ming instructed Ye Xinyao to build a tomb so he could fulfill his promise to bury the Asura Venerable’s body in the Overseas World.

• Shen Fangyuan proposed stakes for Yuan Ming and Bai Zhengxiong’s duel, and Bai Zhengxiong attacked with his Cold Intent Snow Tide Art.
• Yuan Ming saw through Bai Zhengxiong’s blizzard, turned its power against him, and forced him to concede.
• Yuan Ming exposed the Silver Dragon Daoist hiding in a cloud and warned him to stop interfering.
• Shi Huan apologized and promised East Pole Palace would prevent further harassment, then Yuan Ming hosted him and Fairy Yun Luo on Spirit Ape Island.
• Yuan Ming gave Fairy Yun Luo two White Infant Fruits and told Ye Xinyao to choose a place on the island for a tomb for the Asura Venerable.

Yuan Ming began cultivating the Primordial Chaos True Art, which greatly accelerated his progress but made breaking through more difficult. After sixty years in seclusion, he reached the Void Return Mid Stage and found that his supply of Wish Power Pills remained far short of what he needed.

• Yuan Ming rejected Fairy Yun Luo's advances, explaining that he already had a Dao companion and planned to enter seclusion.
• Yuan Ming mastered the Primordial Chaos True Art and used it to cultivate faster, transforming into the Undying Tree to draw in more spiritual energy.
• Qi Ye warned Yuan Ming that rapid cultivation could make future breakthroughs harder, and Yuan Ming planned to purify his magical power with Three Lights Divine Water.
• Over sixty years, Yuan Ming advanced to the Void Return Mid Stage, reached the mid Word Shaman realm, and grew the Undying Tree's demonic power to the mid fifth level.
• Yuan Ming counted only forty Wish Power Pills and heard Sikong Zhan report that the Mingyue Cult had spread across Spirit Ape Island and nearby islands.
• Yuan Ming rewarded Sikong Zhan and urged him to expand the Mingyue Cult's believers more quickly.

Yuan Ming found new ways to gather wish power by recruiting demonic beasts and hunting cultivators listed on East Pole Palace’s bounty board. After capturing Fei Shang, he traveled to Withered Leaf Island, where Hao Shang prepared to act against the people running a hidden cave estate.

• Flower Branch suggested that Yuan Ming use her intelligent demonic beast subordinates as believers and capture more beasts to expand his source of wish power.
• Yuan Ming visited Greedy Wolf Palace, memorized the bounty board’s wanted cultivators, and used Black Incense to locate them through possession.
• Yuan Ming and Flower Branch captured Fei Shang after he drugged Ning Qingshui with incense and tried to assault her.
• Two years later, at a hidden cave estate beneath Withered Leaf Island, a cultivator used a bronze bell to force Xu Chunsheng and Yan Hua to go see their master.
• Hao Shang put down his mortar and pestle, recognizing that the chance he had been waiting for had arrived.

Yuan Ming completed his hundred-year pact with the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s Artifact Spirit, delivering two hundred Wish Power Pills in exchange for another favor. Kong revealed the locations of five crystals needed to restore the cauldron, leaving Yuan Ming to consider how to obtain one held by the powerful Black Fiend Sect.

• Yuan Ming and King Kong defeated Qu Jiu Huang, and Yuan Ming subdued him with a Soul Descent Rune before imprisoning him in Asura Palace.
• Over three years, Yuan Ming captured nearly a hundred Nascent Soul evil cultivators and two Void Return cultivators, boosting his wish-power income as rumors spread about the mysterious hunter.
• King Kong entered seclusion to pursue the Myriad Manifestations Body, while Yuan Ming resumed cultivation and spent thirty-seven years in seclusion.
• When his hundred-year term ended, Yuan Ming presented Kong with two hundred Wish Power Pills and asked whether the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s depleted crystals could be restored.
• Kong explained that the crystals had to be replaced and gave Yuan Ming the locations of five missing types, including an Origin Returning Heavenly Crystal held by the Black Fiend Sect on Black Mo Island.

After learning that East Pole Palace was preparing to attack the Black Fiend Sect, Yuan Ming joined the campaign for the chance to obtain an Origin Gathering Pill and follow the artifact spirit’s lead to crystal stones. He strengthened his magic treasures and boarded the expedition’s ship, where Fairy Yun Luo joined him and explained that the Black Fiend Sect was powerful but weaker than East Pole Palace.

• Yuan Ming ordered Fei Shang and Qu Jiu Huang to cultivate secret techniques so he could learn them through possession.
• Elder Mo Sanqi invited Yuan Ming to join East Pole Palace’s campaign against the Black Fiend Sect, and Yuan Ming accepted for the promised Origin Gathering Pill.
• The artifact spirit told Yuan Ming to follow the East Pole Palace cultivators to Black Mo Island, where it would reveal how to find the crystal stones.
• Yuan Ming reforged the Soul Annihilation Sword with Nine Netherworld Iron and had Qi Ye refine the Immortal Slaying Sword with the Yin Earthworm Beast Blood Slave.
• Yuan Ming left Flower Branch with him and King Kong to guard Spirit Ape Island, then boarded the expedition ship at East Pole Island.
• Fairy Yun Luo confronted Yuan Ming about avoiding her, agreed to travel with him, and said the Black Fiend Sect was strong but far weaker than East Pole Palace.

Yuan Ming joined Huangfu Jue’s East Pole Palace force on its campaign against Black Fiend Sect, surviving the sect’s ambushes at sea as the army reached Black Mo Island. The Black Fiend Heart Array incapacitated many cultivators, and three elders began preparing the Haotian Tower to break it.

• Huangfu Jue arrived aboard the sea-crossing vessel and organized East Pole Palace’s elders, island masters, and cultivators for the assault on Black Mo Island.
• As the vessel neared the island, a seabed array unleashed giant waterspouts, which two Void Return Stage elders descended to destroy.
• Tens of thousands of frenzied demonic beasts attacked and detonated their Demonic Cores and Demonic Souls, forcing the cultivators to fight through three waves while Yuan Ming conserved his spiritual power beside Fairy Yun Luo.
• The army reached Black Mo Island, where the Black Fiend Heart Array drove some cultivators mad until Huangfu Jue’s voice steadied them.
• Huangfu Jue ordered Elder Nantian, Elder Huozhuo, and Elder Sanqi to use the Haotian Tower against the island’s array, and they enlarged it into a towering treasure that gathered the sun’s brilliance.

Yuan Ming joined the assault on Black Mo Island after Huangfu Jue broke the Black Fiend Sect’s blood-powered defense. As the battle erupted, Yuan Ming tore through the demonic cultivators and met a peak Nascent Soul elder wielding two Wengjin Hammers.

• The Black Fiend Sect activated its Blood Sacrifice Method, overpowering the Haotian Divine Pagoda and ensnaring the cultivators channeling spiritual power in an illusion.
• Huangfu Jue unleashed a lightning-charged golden axe, and the Haotian Divine Pagoda helped destroy the blood-armored demonic phantom and breach the island’s defenses.
• Huangfu Jue pursued a black-clad figure from the island while the forces of East Pole Palace charged into battle; Yuan Ming disappeared into the enemy ranks, and Fairy Yun Luo joined the fighting.
• Yuan Ming used the Demon Elephant Prison Suppressing Technique to carve through hundreds and thousands of demonic cultivators, reaching the rear of their formation.
• A peak Nascent Soul elder blocked Yuan Ming with two Wengjin Hammers and attacked with Magic Beast phantoms, but Yuan Ming met the strike with both fists.

Yuan Ming fought through the Black Fiend Sect cultivators and found a hidden chamber containing the crystal he sought. The crystal loosened the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s seal, and Yuan Ming also discovered strange tree bark that made the Undying Tree submit.

• Yuan Ming used the Immortal Slaying Sword to kill the bald Demonic Cultivator, took his Storage Ring, and left the battlefield.
• Yuan Ming followed the Artifact Spirit’s directions to a hidden chamber at the end of a valley on Black Mo Island.
• Yuan Ming found the crystal, which flew into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron and loosened the seal on its inner space.
• Yuan Ming opened an emerald jade box and discovered tree bark that caused the Undying Tree to submit.
• Yuan Ming put away the Strange Tree Bark and the incense burner, then prepared to leave the chamber.

Yuan Ming discovered that East Pole Palace was searching for the Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel, but the mission on Black Mo Island turned disastrous when Mao Yi revealed himself as a Dharma Aspect Stage mighty expert. As Mao Yi subdued the island’s cultivators with his gravity divine ability, Yuan Ming hid his belongings and main soul in the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s spatial passage.

• Elder Mo Sanqi and Elder Nantian searched Gui Mu’s secret chamber for the Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel, while Yuan Ming overheard their discussion and searched the chamber himself without finding anything.
• The ground shook across Black Mo Island, and Gui Mu escaped underground as Huangfu Jue defeated his attack.
• Mao Yi appeared, overwhelmed Huangfu Jue with his Dharma Aspect, and struck him down with two palm attacks.
• Mao Yi’s gravity divine ability forced Yuan Ming and the other cultivators to the ground, leaving Mao Yi alone in the air.
• Yuan Ming pretended to be trapped, stopped Flower Branch from acting, and placed his possessions, spirit beasts, Soul Annihilation Sword, and main soul into the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron’s spatial passage.

Mao Yi captured Huangfu Jue and the East Pole Sea cultivators, then revealed that he had trapped them to draw out Ouyang Qiang and obtain her Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel. Yuan Ming recognized Mao Yi’s cudgel as identical to his Black Fire-Stirring Rod, and the chapter ended as Mao Yi enveloped everyone in darkness.

• Mao Yi sealed the captives’ Nascent Souls, while Yuan Ming secretly reopened and closed a passage to the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron using the Undying Tree’s demonic power.
• A Black Dragon Turtle emerged from beneath Black Mo Island and carried Mao Yi, Huangfu Jue, and the captured cultivators away as Gui Mu and the Black Fiend Sect members stayed behind to erase the traces.
• Huangfu Jue identified Mao Yi’s turtle-and-serpent Dharma Aspect as linked to the Three Realms Sacred Cult and deduced that the trap concerned rumors of the Flame Emperor’s Tomb.
• Mao Yi revealed that Huangfu Jue was Ouyang Qiang’s biological son and that he planned to trade Huangfu Jue for her Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel.
• Mao Yi displayed a Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel that looked exactly like Yuan Ming’s Black Fire-Stirring Rod, then covered the captives in black light that plunged Yuan Ming into darkness.

Yuan Ming was imprisoned with the Returning Void island masters, had his physical strength sealed, and studied the seal on his mana. The Hunchbacked Man partially restored his mana but poisoned his Nascent Soul, leaving him one month to master a secret technique or die.

• Mao Yi took Huangfu Jue away, and the Hunchbacked Man led Yuan Ming and the other captives into a cavern prison.
• The black-clothed men robbed the captives, and the Hunchbacked Man used silver needles to seal Yuan Ming’s physical strength before locking him in a cell.
• Yuan Ming studied the seal on his mana and determined that breaking it could alert Mao Yi.
• The Hunchbacked Man questioned Yuan Ming about his array formation skills, partially broke his mana seal, and infected his Nascent Soul with Purple Fluorescent Poison.
• The Hunchbacked Man gave Yuan Ming a Jade Slip and ordered him to reach the secret technique’s third level within one month or die.

Yuan Ming struggled to cultivate the Zhurong Heart Art while imprisoned and afflicted with Purple Fluorescent Poison, then used Qu Jiu Huang’s fire-control expertise and the Soul Illuminating Fire to accelerate his progress. As the one-month deadline approached, Yuan Ming had reached the peak of the second realm but had not broken through to the third.

• Yuan Ming asked Flower Branch to examine the Purple Fluorescent Poison, but she could not identify it and promised to study it.
• Yuan Ming began cultivating the Zhurong Heart Art from the Jade Slip, while Mao Yi revealed that reaching the third realm in a month was not truly expected and that time was short because Ouyang Qiang’s son had been captured.
• After making little progress, Yuan Ming possessed Qu Jiu Huang and ordered him to cultivate the Zhurong Heart Art so Yuan Ming could later learn from his insights.
• Yuan Ming possessed Qu Jiu Huang again and used his rapid progress to advance his own Zhurong Heart Art to near the second realm.
• Yuan Ming practiced controlling the Soul Illuminating Fire to improve his cultivation, then learned through a third possession that both he and Qu Jiu Huang had reached the peak of the second realm without breaking through to the third.

Yuan Ming risked severe damage to his soul to master the third level of the Zhurong Heart Art, earning a pill that temporarily suppressed the Purple Fluorescent Poison. Mao Yi then gathered Yuan Ming and the other captives and demanded that they learn a fire formation to help him with an undisclosed task.

• Yuan Ming rejected Flower Branch's proposal to seal the poison with her natal essence because it could damage her cultivation, then trained with the Soul Illuminating Fire despite the pain.
• With help from Artifact Spirit Kong's vision of a sea of flames, Yuan Ming understood the Zhurong Heart Art's emphasis on transformation and broke through to its third level.
• Mao Yi tested Yuan Ming's fire control, gave him a pill that gathered the poison into a purple-black mark on his Nascent Soul, and led him from his cell.
• Mao Yi assembled Huangfu Jue, Fairy Yun Luo, and two other Void Return cultivators, then asked them to master a fire-attribute formation in exchange for removing the poison and setting them free.
• Huangfu Jue asked Mao Yi to keep his word, and Yuan Ming asked what formation he wanted them to practice.

Mao Yi led Yuan Ming and his companions to the abyssal dead zone, where he negotiated with Ouyang Qiang to open the Flame Emperor's Tomb using their two Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgels. As both groups entered the abyss, a white-robed faction and the demons of Bailong Pool gathered behind them, setting up a confrontation.

• Mao Yi gave Yuan Ming and the others a strange Fifth-level fire formation, and they spent half a month learning it before he led them toward the abyssal dead zone.
• Mao Yi met Ouyang Qiang at the edge of the abyss and revealed that he had found the Flame Emperor's Tomb and wanted her Flame Emperor Ruyi Cudgel to open it.
• Mao Yi used Huangfu Jue as leverage, and he and Ouyang Qiang agreed to enter the tomb together after he swore to return Huangfu Jue once it was opened.
• Mao Yi warned Yuan Ming and the others about the Demon Song and abyssal behemoths, then led them into the abyss alongside Ouyang Qiang's East Pole Palace forces.
• A white-robed group led by Bai Yuan followed the cultivators, while Shopkeeper San recognized that Bailong Pool's demons were also nearby.
• Bai Yuan exposed the concealed Guo Sha, and a Green-robed Man from the shark-like sea beast appeared before the white-robed group.