Chapter Summaries

Yue Qianchou drove a gigantic Moonlight Crocodile into the lake and pursued it underwater, where he discovered an ancient being hiding beneath the lakebed. The being claimed to be a fallen Immortal Emperor defeated by the Myriad Sword Demon Lord, and Yue Qianchou paused to question its story.

• Jialan hugged Yue Qianchou naked, but he pushed her away before spotting a huge swell racing across the lake.
• Yue Qianchou warned the Cannibal Tribe back, then struck a colossal Moonlight Crocodile with six spears and knocked it into the lake.
• Yue Qianchou entered the lake and searched its depths, using his water technique to sense a large living presence buried beneath the central silt.
• An aged voice addressed Yue Qianchou and claimed he had killed hundreds of its incarnations, then insisted it had once been an Immortal Emperor.
• Yue Qianchou threatened the voice with hundreds of Azure Fire flying swords, and it claimed the Myriad Sword Demon Lord had defeated it one hundred thousand years earlier.

Yue Qianchou uncovered Crocodile Immortal Lord’s colossal true body and learned how Myriad Sword Demon Lord’s sword had trapped him beneath the lake for over a hundred thousand years. Crocodile Immortal Lord explained the Immortal Realm’s ranks and the legendary power of Myriad Sword’s ten thousand blades, leaving Yue Qianchou eager to learn more about the ancient swords.

• Yue Qianchou churned up the lakebed and exposed Crocodile Immortal Lord’s giant crocodile body, pinned down by an enormous sword.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord revealed that he was one of the Twelve Immortal Lords, known as Crocodile Snow Lord, and had been trapped for over a hundred thousand years.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord explained the ranks of the Immortal Realm and Netherworld and confirmed Myriad Sword Demon Lord had used the sword to imprison him.
• Yue Qianchou told Crocodile Immortal Lord that Myriad Sword Demon Lord had died, and Crocodile Immortal Lord accepted the news after considering how his sword had been left behind.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord described Myriad Sword’s divine dragon and the immense power of his ten thousand swords, while warning Yue Qianchou that the trapping sword weighed one hundred and eight thousand jin.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord began explaining that the ten thousand flying swords came from an ancient legend and could not simply be refined by anyone.

Crocodile Immortal Lord explained that Myriad Sword Demon Lord’s ten thousand flying swords came from one of the nine legendary Solitary Nine Arrows, which could divide into swords and reunite as a world-splitting arrow. He revealed how the arrow’s remnant soul kept him imprisoned and demonstrated the limits of his power, leaving Yue Qianchou suspicious and curious about how he might escape.

• Crocodile Immortal Lord recounted how Great God Yi fired nine arrows to separate the ten suns into different spacetimes.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord explained that Myriad Sword Demon Lord had acquired one Solitary Nine Arrow, which could become ten thousand flying swords and then reform.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord said Great God Yi’s remnant soul had pinned down his Life Soul and suppressed him for a hundred thousand years.
• Yue Qianchou accused Crocodile Immortal Lord of lying because he had created crocodile clones, and Crocodile Immortal Lord explained that his suppression weakened roughly every three hundred years.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord manifested a large crocodile using his limited cultivation, then explained that water control made its illusion capable of physical attacks.

Yue Qianchou confronted Crocodile Immortal Lord over his attack on the tribe by the lake, then struggled to kill him when the demon’s hide resisted his swords. He finally set Crocodile Immortal Lord ablaze underwater, and the Cannibal Tribe saw the lake glow as dawn approached.

• Crocodile Immortal Lord explained that he attacked the tribe so his crocodile incarnations could feed during the suppression’s brief loosening.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord said he wanted to die, and Yue Qianchou attacked him with Azure Fire flying swords that barely pierced his hide.
• Yue Qianchou unleashed all three thousand swords in a frantic barrage, frightening Crocodile Immortal Lord into pleading for a quick death.
• Yue Qianchou embedded the swords in Crocodile Immortal Lord’s body and ignited them with azure flames beneath the lake.
• Clan Leader Jialan and the Cannibal Tribe saw the lake glow azure near dawn, and their hope returned.

Yue Qianchou tried Azure Fire and Black Fire against Crocodile Immortal Lord, but neither could harm the fire-immune Primordial Exotic Species. Crocodile Immortal Lord changed his mind about dying and offered information about Purple Fire if Yue Qianchou could remove the sword in his body; Yue Qianchou ended the chapter demonstrating another strange power on a fish.

• Yue Qianchou burned Crocodile Immortal Lord with Azure Fire, but it failed to damage him.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord explained that he was a Primordial Exotic Species immune to water and fire, then described Samadhi True Fire and the difficulty of finding Purple Fire.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord said he no longer wanted to die and offered to share what he knew about Purple Fire if Yue Qianchou removed the sword from his body.
• Yue Qianchou tested Black Fire on Crocodile Immortal Lord, but it could not pierce his hide.
• Yue Qianchou turned a live fish into a dried fish with a palm strike and let it land on Crocodile Immortal Lord's nose.

Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord negotiated over the Purple Flame and a sword embedded in Crocodile Immortal Lord. They formed a Blood Pact after Yue Qianchou promised to help him escape the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array, and Yue Qianchou began preparing to remove the sword.

• Yue Qianchou tried to frighten Crocodile Immortal Lord into revealing the Purple Flame, but Crocodile Immortal Lord demanded that Yue Qianchou pull out the sword first.
• Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord rejected each other’s promises and discussed the risks of forming a Blood Pact.
• Yue Qianchou offered to take Crocodile Immortal Lord out of the sealed continent, and Crocodile Immortal Lord agreed to the pact.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord taught Yue Qianchou how to form a Blood Pact, and they completed the ritual together.
• Yue Qianchou landed on Crocodile Immortal Lord’s body and prepared to remove the sword.

Yue Qianchou was injured when he probed the giant sword with his divine sense, but his blood awakened the sword’s ancient presence and he discovered he could make it shrink. Crocodile Immortal Lord began breaking free from the sword that had pinned him for a hundred thousand years.

• Yue Qianchou tried to pull the giant sword from the rock but could not move it.
• Yue Qianchou probed the sword with his divine sense, was blasted away, and spat blood; the sword absorbed his blood and an ancient sigh reached him.
• Yue Qianchou found that the sword shrank when he wished for it to become smaller, and Crocodile Immortal Lord confirmed he felt it move.
• Yue Qianchou repeatedly made the sword shrink until Crocodile Immortal Lord said his Life Soul was freed from its pressure.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord began raising his head and limbs and whipping his tail as he broke free.

Yue Qianchou watched Crocodile Immortal Lord escape his confinement and learned that the divine sword had recognized him as its master. Crocodile Immortal Lord warned him to hide the sword and revealed that the Purple Fire was likely somewhere within the sealed continent, powering the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array.

• The giant turtle transformed into Crocodile Immortal Lord, who celebrated escaping his hundred-thousand-year confinement.
• Yue Qianchou retrieved the dark-gold divine sword and hid it when Crocodile Immortal Lord warned that other people might try to seize it.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord suspected that the divine sword had recognized Yue Qianchou as its master, since only an acknowledged wielder could use it.
• Yue Qianchou asked Crocodile Immortal Lord for the Purple Fire's location, and Crocodile Immortal Lord admitted he knew only its approximate location.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord explained that the Purple Fire likely lay somewhere within the sealed continent and sustained the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array.

Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord made a tense bargain, escaped Moon Lake, and returned to the Cannibal Tribe, where Yue Qianchou promised to help Crocodile Immortal Lord leave the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array. The chapter ended with Yue Qianchou secretly setting up an array in the forest while Crocodile Immortal Lord questioned what he was doing.

• Yue Qianchou learned that the violet fire was probably inside the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array, but Crocodile Immortal Lord did not know where it was.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord restrained Yue Qianchou for trying to delay his release, but Yue Qianchou effortlessly broke free and agreed to help him leave.
• Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord emerged from Moon Lake, and the Cannibal Tribe celebrated Yue Qianchou for defeating the lake monster.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord grew uneasy at the crocodile corpses and demanded that Yue Qianchou keep his promise, so Yue Qianchou left the tribe with him.
• In the forest, Yue Qianchou scattered silver balls and began setting up an array as Crocodile Immortal Lord watched in confusion.

Yue Qianchou took Crocodile Immortal Lord out of the Eastern Pole Sacred Land and introduced him on Xuanxuan Island as Crocodile Snow Lord. After they left to discuss private matters, Crocodile Immortal Lord agreed to take Yue Qianchou to the Immortal Realm, but they landed before the Seven-Colored Mist, where he recognized the barrier as Spirit Transformation Smoke.

• Yue Qianchou claimed his array could teleport Crocodile Immortal Lord out of the Eastern Pole Sacred Land, and brought him to Xuanxuan Island.
• Ancestor Nanming attacked the newcomers, but Crocodile Immortal Lord struck him down before Yue Qianchou stopped him and introduced him as Crocodile Snow Lord.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord gave Ancestor Nanming a bottle of pills, and Ancestor Nanming used one to heal his injuries and improve his cultivation.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord, troubled by his diminished cultivation, agreed to take Yue Qianchou to the Immortal Realm and flew away with him.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord and Yue Qianchou landed before the Seven-Colored Mist, where Crocodile Immortal Lord recognized it as Spirit Transformation Smoke.

Yue Qianchou learned that Spirit Transformation Smoke had sealed the Ascension Platform and persuaded Crocodile Immortal Lord to accompany him to Eastern Pole Sacred Land after they dissolved their Blood Pact. When they returned to the Cannibal Tribe, they found Yue Qianchou’s master, Bi Changchun, injured and unconscious earlier, now sitting inside a tent.

• Crocodile Immortal Lord explained that Spirit Transformation Smoke poisoned anything it touched and had sealed the route to the Immortal Realm.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord described the dangers of other routes to the Immortal Realm and agreed to help Yue Qianchou seek Purple Fire at Eastern Pole Sacred Land.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord insisted they dissolve the Blood Pact before traveling, and they performed the ritual together.
• Yue Qianchou used his silver-sphere array to teleport himself and Crocodile Immortal Lord back near Eastern Pole Sacred Land.
• Jialan told Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord that an injured immortal had fallen into Moon Lake and was resting in a tent.
• Yue Qianchou entered the tent and recognized the injured immortal as his master, Bi Changchun.

Yue Qianchou found his injured master, Bi Changchun, with Crocodile Immortal Lord and learned that Bi had been wounded while challenging a Great Lord in the Immortal Realm. Bi refused healing so he could study how to reforge his physical body, and the chapter ended with Crocodile Immortal Lord doubting Bi’s account of his battle.

• Bi Changchun woke, recognized Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord, then resumed healing his wounds.
• Yue Qianchou urged Bi Changchun to return somewhere safe, but Bi refused and Crocodile Immortal Lord offered him a Yin Yang Spring Return Pill.
• Bi Changchun rejected the pill, saying his injury had helped him glimpse the Great Dao of reforging the physical body.
• Bi Changchun explained that he had challenged a Great Lord and killed three late Great Immortals who attacked him together.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord assessed Bi Changchun’s cultivation as early Great Immortal stage and questioned how he could have won; Bi dismissed his disbelief.

Yue Qianchou spoke with Bi Changchun about their pursuits and accepted that his master would continue seeking powerful opponents rather than shoulder his former responsibilities. After Bi Changchun flew to a nearby mountain, a violent storm gathered over the area, and Crocodile Immortal Lord took Yue Qianchou to investigate.

• Crocodile Immortal Lord restrained his killing intent toward the injured Bi Changchun and left the tent after promising to challenge him once he recovered.
• Yue Qianchou told Bi Changchun that he hoped to gain the power to let himself and others live freely, while Bi Changchun said Yue had a stronger heart and greater sense of responsibility than he did.
• Bi Changchun declared that he had pursued higher cultivation, stronger opponents, and fighting until death, then accepted the storage pouch of silver balls from Yue Qianchou.
• Yue Qianchou asked Clan Leader Jialan to keep Bi Changchun's presence secret, then joined Crocodile Immortal Lord by Moon Lake as Bi Changchun flew to a mountain.
• Yue Qianchou insisted Bi Changchun would overcome the limits of his mortal body, and a violent storm formed around the mountain where Bi Changchun had landed.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord identified Bi Changchun's mountain as the storm's source, grabbed Yue Qianchou, and swept away to investigate.

Bi Changchun reforged his body by enduring heavenly lightning and broke through to late Great Immortal. He revealed that the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array could no longer stop him, but he planned to visit the Eastern Pole Sacred Land’s rulers before going to the Netherworld.

• Bi Changchun summoned golden streams and heavenly lightning to temper his body while Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord watched from a distance.
• After nearly an hour, the lightning vanished, and Bi Changchun emerged unharmed as his aura flattened the surrounding trees.
• Bi Changchun confirmed that reforging his body let him break through from early Great Immortal to late Great Immortal.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord said Bi Changchun’s new body could pass safely through the Netherworld Sea of Fire.
• Bi Changchun said he had glimpsed the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array’s mysteries and could pass through it, then announced he would visit the Eastern Pole Sacred Land’s two Immortal Lords and two Netherworld Generals.

Bi Changchun confronted Jin Miao and his men after they arrived seeking to capture him, while Crocodile Immortal Lord’s return shocked them. Bi Changchun unleashed his vast righteous qi and began attacking with the Misty Immortal Finger.

• Crocodile Immortal Lord warned Bi Changchun and Yue Qianchou that the Nether Realm might conceal beings more powerful than the Immortal Emperor and Nether Emperor.
• More than a dozen immortals arrived and recognized Crocodile Immortal Lord, who revealed that Jin Miao had come with them.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord asked Jin Miao about the East and West Palace Immortal Lords, then ordered him to leave without taking Bi Changchun.
• Jin Miao refused, mocked Crocodile Immortal Lord’s diminished cultivation, and insisted on capturing Bi Changchun.
• Bi Changchun stepped forward, invoked vast righteous qi, and crushed two of Jin Miao’s men under the force of heaven and earth.
• Bi Changchun gathered qi in his palm and unleashed a storm of finger strikes, which Yue Qianchou recognized as the Misty Immortal Finger.

Yue Qianchou searched the fallen fighters’ storage bracelets, then gained an unexpected fortune when Crocodile Immortal Lord gave him one hundred million divine-grade Spirit Stones. After discussing the Immortal Realm and the Ming Realm, Yue Qianchou urged Crocodile Immortal Lord to rebuild his ambitions and proposed they help each other, beginning with finding Purple Fire.

• Yue Qianchou searched the collapsed forest for lost storage bracelets and found that they held few Spirit Stones because immortals had been trapped for over a hundred thousand years.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord revealed that he carried around four hundred million divine-grade Spirit Stones, and Yue Qianchou hugged him and asked for some.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord misunderstood Yue Qianchou’s request and gave him one hundred million divine-grade Spirit Stones, which Yue Qianchou quickly hid in Utopia.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord explained that the Ming Realm held the Three Realms’ greatest Spirit Stone reserves and described how its rulers controlled mining and trade.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord doubted that Ye Xiao and Ji Wu would respect him, so Yue Qianchou encouraged him to rebuild his strength and ambitions.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord asked how they should start over, and Yue Qianchou proposed that he help find Purple Fire so Yue Qianchou could refine the Samadhi True Fire.

Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord returned safely to the Cannibal Tribe, where Yue Qianchou offered to fight in the Enclosure Competition on its behalf. Meanwhile, the Huaxia Cultivation World repelled an invasion by the forces of many nations after Fu Xian Island and the Myriad Demon Palace revealed hidden reinforcements, and the war paused with Huaxia victorious.

• Crocodile Immortal Lord warned Yue Qianchou that Jin Miao's allies might come looking for them, but Yue Qianchou assured him that the area was safe because Bi Changchun had gone elsewhere.
• Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord returned to Moon Lake, where Jialan welcomed Yue Qianchou and dropped his trial after recognizing their strength.
• Yue Qianchou offered for himself and Crocodile Immortal Lord to represent the Cannibal Tribe in the Enclosure Competition.
• The Huaxia Cultivation World united to resist an invasion by the forces of more than three hundred nations, but the invaders eventually broke through and fought inside Huaxia territory.
• Fu Xian Island and the Myriad Demon Palace revealed dozens of hidden late Tribulation Transcendence stage experts each, helping Huaxia launch a devastating counterattack that drove the allied forces out.
• The nations' forces ceased fighting after suffering heavy losses, while Huaxia celebrated its victory and Pei Fang blamed the defeat on the nations' disunity and the two sects' concealed strength.

Yue Qianchou watched Huaxia defeat the invading nations while pursuing influence in the Eastern Pole Sacred Land and secretly weighing his own desire for the Star Pearl. At Lingfang Valley, Wen Lanfeng learned Yue Qianchou had become the Demon Ghost Domain's Punishment Envoy and privately resented Bi Changchun for not choosing him.

• Yue Qianchou marveled that Fu Xian Island and the Myriad Demon Palace had revealed many late Tribulation Transcendence experts to defeat the allied invasion of Huaxia.
• Yue Qianchou forbade Hong Qi and Gu Qingyun from joining the war and considered using a fake Star Pearl to incite conflict among the nations.
• Yue Qianchou resolved to remain behind the scenes while he pursued the advantages of following powerful figures in the Eastern Pole Sacred Land.
• Lu Yanqing and Wen Lanfeng gave up searching Lingfang Valley for Yan Zhuixing and Xin Lao San and learned that Niu Youde had become the Demon Ghost Domain's Punishment Envoy.
• Lu Yanqing questioned Bi Changchun's choice of Yue Qianchou, while Wen Lanfeng denied wanting the position but privately felt slighted that Bi Changchun had not chosen him.

Lu Yanqing wondered about Yue Qianchou’s secrets while Yan Zhuixing vowed revenge against him. Meanwhile, Yue Qianchou and the Crocodile Immortal Lord disguised themselves to compete for the Cannibal Tribe in the Enclosure Competition.

• Lu Yanqing questioned how Yue Qianchou had intimidated the lords of various nations and why Bi Changchun had put him in charge of the Demon Ghost Domain; Wen Lanfeng offered to visit, but she declined, and he left.
• Bing Chengzi told Yan Zhuixing that Niu Youde had taken charge of the Demon Ghost Domain, and Yan Zhuixing vowed to make him suffer once his demonic arts were complete.
• The Cannibal Tribe celebrated as Yue Qianchou and the Crocodile Immortal Lord prepared to represent it in the Enclosure Competition.
• Yue Qianchou persuaded the Crocodile Immortal Lord to join the competition, and the two concealed their cultivation so others would not identify them as immortal cultivators.
• Yue Qianchou and the Crocodile Immortal Lord changed into the tribe’s revealing clothes, then used a mixture to bronze their skin and disguise the Crocodile Immortal Lord’s silver hair.

Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord rode with Boli toward Yellow Earth City for the Enclosure Competition. After learning that the Cannibal Tribe avoided Xizi Town because rival tribes attacked its warriors there, Yue Qianchou decided to ride into town anyway and stopped outside its finest building.

• Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord left the Cannibal Tribe with Boli and three other tribesmen, heading toward Yellow Earth City.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord warned Yue Qianchou that he expected his cultivation to be restored within five hundred years.
• Boli led the riders to Xizi Town, where he explained that rival tribes often injured Cannibal Tribe warriors to keep them out of the Enclosure Competition.
• Yue Qianchou crushed a caterpillar that had fallen on him, then ordered the others to ride into town.
• Yue Qianchou charged through Xizi Town and stopped in the street beside its most luxurious building.