Chapter Summaries

The Heavenly Sun Divine Sect arrived in Sun City to bring True Person Fallen Flame back after he obtained the inheritance, while Tu Shan Jun urged him to leave despite their unfinished plans. The chapter ended with Fallen Flame accepting Tu Shan Jun's cracked Dragon-Pattern Nascent Soul Transformation Pill and storage pouch as gifts.

• True Person Fallen Flame explained that he had delayed becoming a Nascent Soul True Lord to pursue a faster path to greater power, and that the Heavenly Sun Divine Sect had forced him to seek the inheritance.
• A golden skyship carrying a Spirit Transformation Venerable arrived above Sun City, and Yang Zongchen insulted Tu Shan Jun while testing his reaction.
• The Heavenly Sun Divine Sect ordered True Person Fallen Flame to return immediately, but he resisted because he had promised to help Tu Shan Jun deal with the Blood Fiend Sect.
• Tu Shan Jun told True Person Fallen Flame to go and said he could handle the remaining matter alone.
• Tu Shan Jun gave True Person Fallen Flame the cracked Dragon-Pattern Nascent Soul Transformation Pill and his storage pouch, and Fallen Flame accepted them.

Tu Shan Jun parted from Meteorflame True Person and Purple Shaoqing, then weighed how to destroy the Blood Fiend Sect without a suitable ally or banner bearer. The Netherland’s Taiyi invited him to meet again, and Tu Shan Jun wondered whether Taiyi had reconsidered their proposed exchange.

• Tu Shan Jun rejected Purple Shaoqing’s affection, saying that romantic love would hinder his path to immortality, and she departed with Meteorflame True Person.
• Tu Shan Jun and Meteorflame True Person parted, with both acknowledging that they had been powerless to resist the Spirit Transformation Venerable’s decision.
• After Meteorflame True Person left Sun City, Tu Shan Jun considered finding a successor and weighed the dangers of attacking the Blood Fiend Sect without help.
• A black-robed peak Golden Core cultivator summoned Tu Shan Jun on behalf of his master, Taiyi, the Netherland’s Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Tu Shan Jun asked whether Taiyi would trade his artifact-refinement insights for Tu Shan Jun’s key, but the messenger told him to discuss it with Taiyi in person.

Tu Shan Jun sought True Lord Taiyi’s help to destroy the Blood Fiend Sect, whose leader was a Nascent Soul cultivator. After weighing Taiyi’s offer to help in exchange for the Yuanyang Domain key, Tu Shan Jun agreed to become a guest elder and handed Taiyi the Soul Banner, binding him as its new master.

• Tu Shan Jun asked True Lord Taiyi whether he would trade his artifact-refining insights for the Yuanyang Domain key, and Taiyi asked why Tu Shan Jun had stayed in the Little Wilderness Domain.
• Tu Shan Jun revealed that he wanted to destroy the Blood Fiend Sect, and True Lord Taiyi warned him that it had a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• True Lord Taiyi offered to help destroy the Blood Fiend Sect in exchange for the Yuanyang Domain key and invited Tu Shan Jun to join his sect as a guest elder.
• Tu Shan Jun questioned Taiyi about his sect and discovered that it had no established residence and only one other member, a dog named Ah Fu.
• After considering the offer, Tu Shan Jun agreed to become a guest elder on the condition that Taiyi take the Soul Banner and accept its danger.
• Tu Shan Jun crushed the demonized Blood Essence within the Soul Banner, and its voice asked whether to bind a new banner master; he answered yes.

Tu Shan Jun revealed himself to True Lord Taiyi as the artifact spirit of the Soul Banner, and the two discussed Taiyi’s illness and their renewed alliance. The escaped demon was recaptured by the earth dog and brought back to Tu Shan Jun, who explained its origins.

• The demon escaped after the Old Devil vanished, but the earth dog chased it while True Lord Taiyi examined the Soul Banner.
• Tu Shan Jun emerged from the Soul Banner, and True Lord Taiyi realized he was the treasure’s artifact spirit.
• True Lord Taiyi thanked Tu Shan Jun for helping him again and acknowledged that his stubborn illness threatened his life if left untreated.
• Tu Shan Jun tightened the ring around the fleeing demon’s neck, allowing the earth dog to catch and return it.
• Tu Shan Jun explained that the demon had been born from a demon embryo hidden in a Blood Fiend Sect cultivator’s sea of consciousness.

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi prepared to destroy the Blood Fiend Sect by sending a demon carrying a refined formation stone into its protective formation. The demon reached a central formation island and triggered an alarm, while Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi waited outside to attack.

• True Lord Taiyi explained that he could refine Blood Origin's token into a formation stone, and Tu Shan Jun ordered the demon to carry it into the Blood Fiend Sect's formation.
• The demon endured the formation's crushing pressure, recovered, and successfully entered without being noticed; Taiyi then sent A'Fu to block escape routes between the Blood Fiend Sect and the Myriad Dharma Sect.
• Tu Shan Jun took back the Soul Banner and told Taiyi how Blood Fiend Sect cultivators had tortured him as a youth, revealing the source of his hatred and desire for revenge.
• The demon followed its memorized map to a central formation nexus guarded by a Golden Core master and approached the formation foundation with the resonating stone.
• The demon rushed onto one of the floating islands to disrupt the formation, and the Golden Core master sensed the change and shouted that an intruder had entered the sect.

The devil disrupted the Blood Fiend Sect’s grand formation but failed to break it, while Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi arrived to attack the sect. True Person Xuan Sha summoned the Patriarch Ancestor, who escaped confinement and prepared to defend the Blood Fiend Sect.

• The sect bell rang after a Golden Core True Person was knocked into it, alarming cultivators throughout the Blood Fiend Sect.
• The devil shattered the formation stone inside the formation’s core, briefly disrupted the grand formation, and fled when the barrier stabilized.
• The devil possessed True Person Blackwood, but True Person Xuan Sha pinned it with the White Bone Dragon-Binding Spear.
• Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi appeared above the sect, and Tu Shan Jun threw the devil into the training ground and ordered it to prevent Demon Cultivators from escaping.
• True Person Xuan Sha called for the Patriarch Ancestor and used his axe to sever the woman’s arm, freeing the slovenly old man from confinement.
• The slovenly old man took the White Bone Dragon-Binding Spear and declared that he would defend the Blood Fiend Sect.

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi fought the Blood Fiend Sect’s Zhao Xuanzhen, who used the sect’s disciples and devil qi to restore his strength. As they pressed the attack, a hidden assailant struck with solar flame, leaving Tu Shan Jun badly wounded after he shielded True Lord Taiyi.

• The ragged old man hurled the White Bone Dragon-Binding Spear into the Blood Fiend Sect’s training ground and absorbed the blood qi of the disciples it swept up.
• Tu Shan Jun wounded the old man, identified him as Zhao Xuanzhen, and used the Soul Banner’s curse, but Zhao Xuanzhen recovered by drawing on more devil qi.
• True Person Xuan Sha chose to let Zhao Xuanzhen sacrifice the sect’s disciples so he could hold back Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi.
• Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi joined forces against Zhao Xuanzhen, with Tu Shan Jun’s Devour Soul true intent weakening him as True Lord Taiyi prepared the Taiyi Demon-Slaying Sword.
• A hidden attacker struck True Lord Taiyi with solar flame, and Tu Shan Jun rushed to shield him, losing an arm and suffering a severe shoulder wound.

True Lord Meteorflame survived his Nascent Soul tribulation, but learned that Yang Zongchen had stayed behind to kill Tu Shan Jun. In the Little Wilderness Domain, Yang Zongchen confronted Tu Shan Jun, and True Lord Taiyi prepared to fight him.

• True Lord Meteorflame absorbed the ninefold lightning tribulation, formed a Nascent Soul, and congratulated his adopted sons.
• True Lord Meteorflame discovered Yang Zongchen was missing and learned from Uncle De that he had remained behind on an important assignment.
• A Spirit Transformation Venerable sealed the Fire Phoenix Ark and warned True Lord Meteorflame that returning to the Little Wilderness Domain would be too late and would endanger his adopted sons.
• Tu Shan Jun regrew his severed arm while Yang Zongchen revealed that he had come under orders to kill him for giving Zi Daoxu a Dragon-Pattern Nascent Soul Transformation Pill.
• True Lord Taiyi challenged Yang Zongchen and told Tu Shan Jun to kill the rag-clad old man of the Blood Fiend Sect.

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi confronted Yang Zongchen and the Blood Fiend Sect’s tattered-clothed old man. As the old man turned the sect’s disciples into demons, Tu Shan Jun prepared to unleash the Soul Banner against them.

• Yang Zongchen offered to spare the grandmaster alchemist if he accepted a slave seal and refined pills for the Heavenly Sun Divine Sect.
• True Lord Taiyi equipped his white treasure tower as armor and took on Yang Zongchen, allowing Tu Shan Jun to attack the tattered-clothed old man.
• Tu Shan Jun battered the old man with Soul-Devouring True Intent, weakening him while the Soul Banner tangled his White Bone Dragon-Binding Spear.
• The old man used Demonic Heart Heavenly Summons, turning half the Blood Fiend Sect’s disciples into demons and crippling the sect’s defenses.
• True Person Xuansha lamented the destruction as Tu Shan Jun raised the Soul Banner and ten thousand black clouds appeared in the sky.

Tu Shan Jun unleashed the Soul Banner’s vast army of vicious ghosts against the Blood Fiend Sect while the rag-clad old man tried to grow stronger by absorbing demonic qi. As the sect’s forces were overwhelmed and True Lord Taiyi continued battling Yang Zongchen, Taiyi revealed his inheritance and vowed to kill his opponent.

• The rag-clad old man declared himself invincible after completing the Demonic Heart Heavenly Draw, but Tu Shan Jun shook the Soul Banner and released hundreds of thousands of vicious ghosts.
• The ghosts attacked the Blood Fiend Sect’s peaks and floating islands, capturing and killing disciples as a Golden Core Grandmaster collected their souls into a banner.
• True Person Xuan Sha watched the sect’s forces collapse under the attacks of the two Nascent Soul cultivators and the Soul Banner’s Golden Core ghosts.
• The rag-clad old man’s power rose only slowly as Tu Shan Jun grew stronger, while True Lord Taiyi spent mana maintaining his battle against Yang Zongchen.
• Yang Zongchen questioned True Lord Taiyi’s origins and mocked his inheritance, so Taiyi identified himself as the direct inheritor of the Taiyi Ascension Sect and promised to defeat him.

True Lord Taiyi used his spirit treasures and a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet to drive Yang Zongchen into a difficult fight. Meanwhile, Tu Shan Jun defeated the Blood Fiend Sect patriarch and consumed his Nascent Soul and yin spirit, leaving Yang Zongchen still facing True Lord Taiyi.

• Yang Zongchen attacked True Lord Taiyi with phoenix fire, but True Lord Taiyi revealed a Heavenly Mechanism Puppet that could withstand the sun wheel and wield a copper coin greatsword.
• True Lord Taiyi disrupted Yang Zongchen with a bronze bell while the puppet struck him, and a treasured mirror tracked him even after he escaped into the clouds.
• Yang Zongchen complained about the fight and considered getting close to True Lord Taiyi, while he saw Tu Shan Jun suppressing the Blood Fiend Sect patriarch.
• The Blood Fiend Sect patriarch fled, but Tu Shan Jun caught him with Mayfly for Two Moments and struck him with his nail hammer.
• Tu Shan Jun used Soul Devour True Intent and the Soul Banner to consume the patriarch's Nascent Soul and yin spirit.

Tu Shan Jun destroyed the Blood Fiend Sect in revenge for Zhao Shixian’s crimes, absorbing its souls and advancing the Soul Banner and his own cultivation. He then joined True Lord Tai Yi’s battle with Yang Zongchen, revealing that True Person Yun Yan had used the good Dragon-Pattern Nascent Transformation Pill to form a Nascent Soul.

• Tu Shan Jun explained Zhao Shixian’s atrocities to True Person Xuan Sha and declared that no one in the Blood Fiend Sect would be spared.
• Tu Shan Jun killed True Person Xuan Sha and turned him into a Yin Spirit under the Soul Banner’s control.
• At Tu Shan Jun’s command, True Person Xuan Sha destroyed the sect’s peaks and floating islands, leaving no living things behind.
• The Soul Banner advanced to a middle-grade spirit treasure, and Tu Shan Jun’s cultivation rose to the middle stage of Nascent Soul.
• Yang Zongchen tried to attack True Lord Tai Yi but retreated when Tu Shan Jun appeared beside him with a matching aura.
• Tu Shan Jun told Yang Zongchen that True Person Yun Yan had used the good pill to form a Nascent Soul.

Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi faced Yang Zongchen after the Blood Fiend Sect’s destruction, but Yang rejected Tu Shan Jun’s offer to withdraw and fought on. Yang unleashed the Heavenly Sun Divine Sect’s secret technique, and Tu Shan Jun activated the Slaughtering Life Formation as the battle reached a decisive point.

• Yang Zongchen recognized the danger posed by Tu Shan Jun’s strength and summoned flames to attack him.
• Tu Shan Jun expanded the Soul Banner and revealed a host of Yin Gods surrounding the Blood Fiend Sect, then offered Yang a chance to leave.
• Yang refused to retreat and challenged Tu Shan Jun, who charged him with the Soul Banner transformed into a heavy staff.
• Tu Shan Jun, True Lord Taiyi, and a puppet pressured Yang in battle until Yang’s protective Fire Phoenix saved him from a near-fatal wound.
• Yang activated the Heavenly Sun Divine Sect’s secret technique, raising his power toward the late Nascent Soul stage and striking both Tu Shan Jun and True Lord Taiyi.
• Tu Shan Jun activated the Ten Directions Ghost King Slaughtering Life Formation through the Yin Gods and the formation banners around the Blood Fiend Sect.

Tu Shan Jun used the Soul Banner’s grand formation to trap and devastate Yang Zongchen, a Nascent Soul cultivator of the Heavenly Yang Divine Sect. After Yang Zongchen revived himself with a secret art, Tu Shan Jun unleashed more of the formation’s powers, but an outside voice arrived just as he prepared to use the final banners.

• Tu Shan Jun activated the Soul Banner’s formation and trapped Yang Zongchen inside it.
• Yang Zongchen used Thousand Wheels of Yang Fire, but the formation restored itself and kept him from escaping.
• Tu Shan Jun deployed successive banners that shattered Yang Zongchen’s defenses, drained his vitality and mana, and seemingly killed him.
• Yang Zongchen revived with a secret art of the Heavenly Yang Divine Sect and asked Tu Shan Jun for his title.
• Tu Shan Jun unleashed the Three Talents of yin wind, fire, and lightning against Yang Zongchen, then prepared to throw his last two banners.
• An unknown speaker sent sword light and called for Tu Shan Jun to stay his hand and hear him out.

Tu Shan Jun continued refining the Blood Fiend Sect while four Nascent Soul True Lords arrived too late to save it or the sealed devil. Yang Zongchen unleashed a supreme treasure but was defeated by Tu Shan Jun’s Devour Soul attack, leaving the fate of the confrontation unresolved beyond Tu Shan Jun’s doubt that they would meet again.

• True Lord Wuya, True Lord Taiyi, True Lord Qing Shang, and the old Dragon Lord reached the Blood Fiend Sect and saw that the formation had reduced it to ruins.
• True Lord Wuya revealed that True Lord Chenyuan of the Heavenly Sun Divine Sect was trapped inside, prompting True Lord Qing Shang to curse him for concealing their mission and prepare to leave.
• Tu Shan Jun kept two formation flags in reserve and continued fighting Yang Zongchen, who had been battered by the formation and the lightning tribulation.
• Yang Zongchen used a fire pearl to shield himself, drew a spiritual treasure bow, and threatened Tu Shan Jun with a golden feathered arrow before lowering it.
• Tu Shan Jun struck Yang Zongchen with True Intent and Devour Soul, rapidly draining his aura and cultivation until his body vanished.

After defeating the Heavenly Yang Divine Sect, Tu Shan Jun faced the Little Wasteland Region’s leaders and decided to leave for the Yuanyang Region. Three days later, he learned that pursuers were after True Lord Taiyi, so they prepared to depart immediately for the Eastern Wasteland Great Region.

• Tu Shan Jun trapped Old Devil Qing Shang, Dragon Lord, True Lord Wuji, and their companions in his formation, then released them after they saw the Blood Fiend Sect’s patriarch serving as one of his Yin Gods.
• Tu Shan Jun challenged True Lord Wuya to explain whether the Myriad Dharma Sect upheld the boundary between immortals and mortals or sought dominance, and Wuya insisted it merely upheld that boundary.
• Tu Shan Jun told the gathered leaders that he planned to leave the Little Wasteland Region for the Yuanyang Region, and they exchanged farewells.
• Three days later, Tu Shan Jun asked True Lord Taiyi whether the Yuanyang Region key could safely take them across the domain barrier to the Eastern Wasteland Great Region.
• True Lord Taiyi explained that the Taiyi Ascension Sect’s inheritance was in his mind and that Heavenly Yang Divine Sect cultivators had exposed their location, prompting Tu Shan Jun to urge an immediate departure.

True Lord Taiyi used the Central Origin Domain key and two ancient treasures to carry himself, Tu Shan Jun, and their companions through the Eastern Wasteland Realm’s domain barrier toward the Starry Sea Region. After they discussed founding the Taiyi Sect, a resentful ghost extinguished their lamp, leaving Tu Shan Jun to defend the boat while Taiyi tried to relight it.

• True Lord Taiyi entered the domain barrier aboard a bottomless boat and lit an ancient bronze lamp with his tooth to withstand the crushing pressure.
• True Lord Taiyi explained that they were heading for the Starry Sea Region, whose failing barrier would let them enter the Eastern Wasteland Realm.
• True Lord Taiyi proposed founding a sect and naming it Taiyi, and Tu Shan Jun agreed to serve as its Grand Elder.
• A pale, resentful ghost approached the boat and blew out the ancient lamp, causing the surrounding pressure and spirits to surge toward them.
• True Lord Taiyi asked Tu Shan Jun to hold off the spirits while he relit the lamp, and Tu Shan Jun unleashed his ghostly qi and Soul Banner protections.

Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi Zhen struggled to guide their skiff through the hostile boundary ramparts of the Eastern Wasteland Realm, where illusions made it impossible to tell the real Tu Shan Jun from a double. They escaped the worst of the attack, but Taiyi Zhen saw another Tu Shan Jun on the boat, leaving their situation unresolved.

• Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi Zhen used their powers to shield the skiff after the bronze lamp went out and the boundary ramparts unleashed a tempest.
• Tu Shan Jun and Taiyi Zhen fought off the ramparts’ attacks while doubles and illusions appeared around the boat.
• Taiyi Zhen opened his Dharma Eye and saw two identical Tu Shan Juns, while the earth dog barked at the stern.
• Tu Shan Jun reignited the bronze yin spirit and steered the skiff through nearby ripples to break out of the boundary ramparts.
• Taiyi Zhen told Tu Shan Jun that another identical Tu Shan Jun stood at the other side of the bow.

A woman called Little Ying disguised herself as a man and fled the flower tower, where she had endured years of captivity and exploitation. Cornered by Tu Shan Jun pursuers on the southern cliffs, she jumped onto a raft into the raging sea, while a badly injured Qi Refiner struggled to recover after a catastrophic battle.

• Little Ying prepared to escape by disguising herself, concealing her aura, and severing her heart meridians to evade the flower tower's tracking.
• She left the flower tower and passed its gate guards by claiming she was a recent visitor with little money.
• After the steward realized Little Ying was missing, he sent Tu Shan Jun pursuers after her with a tracking compass.
• Unable to reach the harbor before the pursuers caught up, Little Ying restored her heart meridians and ran to the southern cliffs.
• Little Ying leapt onto her wooden raft as the pursuers cornered her above the turbulent sea.
• The gravely injured Qi Refiner slowly recovered in a Daoist temple, troubled that his body and Soul Banner remained damaged and his spiritual power was missing.

Tu Shan Jun searched the Soul Banner for True Lord Taiyi and realized he might have survived their passage through the Eastern Wilderness domain barrier. After awakening on Miao Yeying’s raft as a cracked, half-formed head, he offered to help her grow stronger if she found True Lord Taiyi or a place rich in Baleful Intent.

• Tu Shan Jun found no trace of True Lord Taiyi among the honored souls and resolved to search for him near the Starry Sea Region.
• Tu Shan Jun’s body crumbled into Baleful Intent, but his consciousness remained aware as Miao Yeying drifted at sea with a cracked iron rod she had retrieved from the seabed.
• Miao Yeying examined the mysterious rod on her raft, unaware that it was the damaged Soul Banner containing Tu Shan Jun.
• Tu Shan Jun’s Soul Banner formed a cracked head, and he spoke to Miao Yeying, frightening her.
• Tu Shan Jun offered to help Miao Yeying become strong enough to resist the Flower House if she found True Lord Taiyi or a place rich in Baleful Intent.