Chapter Summaries

Yue Qianchou killed a Waxi Tribe group that tried to extort the Cannibal Tribe, then gave Boli enough gold to support his people. After secretly sending the entire Cannibal Tribe to Utopia, he was left facing Boli’s decision to abandon the Enclosure Competition and return to protect them.

• Yue Qianchou killed the man who seized Bodo’s money pouch and slaughtered the seven Waxi Tribe members who attacked him.
• Yue Qianchou shared a meal with Boli and the others, then supplied them with a large pile of gold coins.
• Yue Qianchou secretly sent the entire Cannibal Tribe out of the Eastern Pole Sacred Land while he was away for over an hour.
• Boli decided the group should abandon the Enclosure Competition and return to protect their tribe from Waxi Tribe retaliation.
• Yue Qianchou refused to let them withdraw and insisted that they participate in the Enclosure Competition.

Yue Qianchou persuaded Boli and the other Cannibal Tribe warriors to enter the Enclosure Competition, then used the theft of their horses to punish the Crocodile Immortal Lord by setting a town ablaze. At the Great Snow Mountain, Yan Zhuixing unleashed a terrifying roar, fell into the abyss, and emerged with a Demonic Fist that sent Bing Chengzi flying.

• Yue Qianchou convinced Boli and the other Cannibal Tribe warriors to participate in the Enclosure Competition by shaming them and threatening to take back their gold coins.
• Boli and the others discovered their horses had been stolen, so Yue Qianchou led them in taking replacement horses from a stable.
• Yue Qianchou set the stable on fire as the group fled, then told the Crocodile Immortal Lord that the deaths in the burning town were a reminder that they had to help each other.
• Yan Zhuixing emerged from the secret chamber and roared so violently that the ice palace cracked and much of Ice Cliff collapsed beneath him.
• Yan Zhuixing shot out of the abyss and struck Bing Chengzi, then declared that he was using the Demonic Fist.

Gu An registered Yue Qianchou and the others in Yellow Earth City, where Yue learned how the city’s rulers controlled its residents and the surrounding tribes. After two boys mocked and spat on him and Gu An, Yue lured them into an alley with gold coins, leaving his intentions unclear.

• Gu An registered the group at the city gate, changing Crocodile Immortal Lord’s name to Big Ox.
• Gu An showed the newcomers around Yellow Earth City, and Yue Qianchou learned that its residents and tribal workers were controlled through the city’s rules and salt supply.
• Two boys insulted Yue Qianchou for his size and spat on him, while another boy mocked Gu An for wearing city clothes with his braids.
• Yue Qianchou offered the boys gold coins in exchange for answers and led them deeper into an alley.

Yue Qianchou led the group through Yellow Earth City, first arranging food for Gu An and then deciding they needed clothes. At a clothing shop, they met the immortal cultivator Huang Tian, who gave them outfits for free.

• Yue Qianchou secretly knocked two children unconscious in an alley, then told Boli they had realized their mistakes and gone home.
• The group visited Gu An’s cramped shack, and Yue Qianchou decided to pay for everyone’s food during the Enclosure Competition.
• Gu An led them toward the city’s finest restaurant after Yue Qianchou promised to cover the cost.
• Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord noticed their revealing clothes drew attention and took the group into a clothing shop.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord warned Yue Qianchou that the shopkeeper was a powerful immortal cultivator, and the man introduced himself as Huang Tian.
• Huang Tian gave the group several outfits for free, and Yue Qianchou hurried out with them.

Yue Qianchou disguised his group with hats so they could eat at Heavenly Fragrance Tower without drawing attention. The feast was underway when the two children he had knocked unconscious recognized him, leaving him exposed in front of their armored uncle and soldiers.

• Yue Qianchou led the group to Heavenly Fragrance Tower, but Crocodile Immortal Lord warned that their distinctive hairstyles would attract notice.
• Yue Qianchou fetched hats from a nearby alley and had everyone hide their hair before entering the restaurant.
• Yue Qianchou ordered the best food and wine, and Boli and the others eagerly devoured the meal while Gu An worried about the bill.
• Two children came downstairs with their armored uncle and six soldiers, asking him to catch a short, skinny native.
• The children recognized Yue Qianchou as the man who had knocked them unconscious, and Yue Qianchou realized he had been discovered.

Yue Qianchou and his companions were arrested after Shang Huan recognized them as natives, then locked in Yellow Earth City's dungeon. Yue Qianchou secretly escaped to kill Shang Huan, but Huang Tian appeared immediately afterward.

• Shang Huan arrested Yue Qianchou and the six others at Heavenly Fragrance Tower after the two children identified him.
• The soldiers escorted the seven through the city and imprisoned them in an underground stone chamber, while Shang Huan left to answer the City Lord's summons.
• Yue Qianchou reassured Boli and the others, spread straw for them to sit on, and hinted to Crocodile Immortal Lord that he planned to retaliate against Shang Huan.
• In the middle of the night, Yue Qianchou placed several silver spheres in the cell and vanished, appearing in what he guessed was Shang Huan's residence.
• Yue Qianchou killed Shang Huan with a flying sword, then encountered Huang Tian when the clothing shop owner teleported in front of him.

Yue Qianchou’s failed attempt to kill Shang Huan exposed him to Huang Tian, the City Lord of Yellow Earth City, who revealed his mastery of the Earth Element Technique. Huang Tian brought Yue Qianchou to an underground palace and prepared to question him.

• Huang Tian revealed that he had taken Yue Qianchou’s face covering and identified him as a cultivator from the mortal world.
• Huang Tian dismissed the guards, buried Shang Huan’s corpse with earth magic, and ordered Yue Qianchou to follow him.
• Huang Tian led Yue Qianchou deep underground through a passage formed by the earth.
• Huang Tian used the Earth Element Technique to create an underground palace and invited Yue Qianchou to sit.
• Huang Tian explained that he was proficient in the Earth Element Technique and served wine using lifelike hands made of earth.

Yue Qianchou realized Yellow Earth City offered the right conditions to cultivate the Earth Art, but Huang Tian imprisoned him underground and demanded to learn how to leave the Eastern Pole Sacred Land. Yue Qianchou escaped by teleporting away and returned to the dungeon, where he told Crocodile Immortal Lord he was leaving for a while.

• Yue Qianchou connected Huang Tian’s yellow-earth plains and the central star chart to a chance to cultivate the Earth Art and reach the Spirit Transformation stage.
• Huang Tian deduced Yue Qianchou knew another way in and out of the Eastern Pole Sacred Land and demanded that he reveal it.
• Yue Qianchou refused, and Huang Tian sealed him inside the underground palace, warning him not to attempt escape.
• Yue Qianchou tested the regenerative earthen walls, tossed a small golden ball into a corner, and vanished from the palace.
• Huang Tian met the Immortal City envoy Yue Feng while Yue Qianchou reappeared in the western city dungeon.
• Yue Qianchou told Crocodile Immortal Lord he had killed Shang Huan, explained that Huang Tian had trapped him, and left food for the prisoners before departing.

Yue Qianchou hid underground and comprehended the Earth Art from the mid-rank star chart, completing the fifth-element technique. As his Nascent Soul formed a yellow crystal pearl and began absorbing his True Essence, he desperately drew spiritual energy from divine-grade Spirit Stones to replenish it.

• Yue Qianchou checked the supplies he had left for Crocodile Immortal Lord and the others, then concealed himself in an underground chamber he dug beneath an earthen ditch.
• Yue Qianchou calmed his mind and studied the changing stars in the mid-rank star chart until he understood their circulation pattern.
• Yue Qianchou cultivated the Earth Art, and tiny yellow sprites entered his body as earthy-yellow light spread through the soil.
• Yue Qianchou completed the Earth Art and filled his body with earth-element energy, then inspected his Dantian for the expected breakthrough.
• Yue Qianchou's Nascent Soul formed a yellow crystal pearl and arranged it with the red, black, and white pearls, which drew his True Essence back into the Dantian.
• Yue Qianchou seized divine-grade Spirit Stones and absorbed their spiritual energy to replenish the True Essence being consumed.

During Biyuan Kingdom’s mourning for the late Emperor, Princess Wen Qing secretly stayed with Yan Zhuixing in Wen Qing Palace. After he tried to leave and their violent encounter left her bleeding and near death, Yan Zhuixing realized how much she depended on him and rushed to save her.

• Wen Hao became Biyuan Kingdom’s new Emperor, while the Empress Dowager grew angry that Wen Qing was absent from the funeral rites.
• A ceremonial eunuch went to check on Wen Qing, but her guard refused him entry under her orders.
• Yan Zhuixing tried to leave Wen Qing, but she begged him to stay and clung to him.
• Yan Zhuixing forced himself on Wen Qing again, and she collapsed after he got up to leave.
• Yan Zhuixing noticed Wen Qing was bleeding, stopped the bleeding, gave her a spiritual pill, and used demonic essence to save her.

Yan Zhuixing concealed himself from Wen Hao and arranged to meet Wen Rui, while Yue Qianchou continued absorbing divine-grade Spirit Stones until his cultivation breakthrough brought him to the Spirit Transformation stage. The chapter left Yue Qianchou discovering that a second Nascent Soul had formed within his dantian, marking the birth of his Heavenly Soul.

• Yan Zhuixing stopped Wen Hao from disturbing Wen Qing, then questioned Wen Hao and Wen Bai about the palace's cultivators and ordered Wen Bai to arrange a meeting with Wen Rui.
• Yue Qianchou absorbed nearly nine hundred divine-grade Spirit Stones as his dantian consumed spiritual energy without stopping.
• Yue Qianchou's Nascent Soul transformed, exploded into a cloud that flooded his meridians, and filled him with powerful energy.
• Yue Qianchou inspected his dantian and found two Nascent Souls inside the four-colored crystal ring.
• Yue Qianchou recognized the second Nascent Soul as his Heavenly Soul and understood that he had entered the Spirit Transformation stage.

Yue Qianchou broke through to the early Spirit Transformation stage and experimented with his newly cultivated Earth Art before returning to the Yellow Earth City dungeon. He found his companions unharmed, then went back to Huang Tian’s underground palace and searched it while planning to secure their release.

• Yue Qianchou blasted his way out of the earth and confirmed that he had reached the early Spirit Transformation stage.
• Yue Qianchou raised an earthen mountain and commanded ten thousand earth swords, then pondered how to use the Earth Art and reflected on his other techniques.
• Yue Qianchou returned to the dungeon after three days and found Crocodile Immortal Lord, Boli, and the others safe.
• Yue Qianchou told Crocodile Immortal Lord that he would find Huang Tian and seek their release and legitimate identities.
• Yue Qianchou returned to the underground palace, opened and resealed an earthen wall, and smashed the earthen ball on the table.

At Yellow Earth City's Enclosure Competition, Yue Feng told Huang Tian about a powerful outsider who had repeatedly attacked Immortal City, defeated Night Nightingale Immortal Lord, and escaped through the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array. The story left Huang Tian wondering whether the attacker was connected to Yue Qianchou, while Night Nightingale Immortal Lord sought help from the two Ming Generals.

• As the Enclosure Competition's next round began, Huang Tian asked Yue Feng whether the troublemaker who attacked the Great Lord's residence had been caught.
• Yue Feng recounted how the outsider killed hundreds of immortal cultivators during two incursions into Immortal City and escaped even after Night Nightingale Immortal Lord and West Palace Ji Wu Immortal Lord joined forces against him.
• Yue Feng explained that the outsider could pass through the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array and fought only to find an opponent who could defeat him.
• Huang Tian wondered if the outsider was connected to Yue Qianchou, whom he had trapped beneath the earth.
• Yue Feng said the outsider had vowed to return after recovering, so Night Nightingale Immortal Lord had gone to the underground world to contact the two Ming Generals.

Yue Qianchou convinced Huang Tian to cooperate in finding the Array Eye, identifying Violet Fire as their likely target. After demonstrating that he could freely pass through the underground palace, Yue Qianchou returned to prison while Huang Tian agreed to arrange his friends’ release.

• Huang Tian left Yue Feng to meet Yue Qianchou in the underground palace.
• Yue Qianchou claimed he could escape the sealed continent and opened passages through the underground palace with the Earth Control Technique, persuading Huang Tian to cooperate.
• Yue Qianchou proposed finding the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array’s Array Eye, and Huang Tian suggested it might be Violet Fire, the Ming Generals’ Samadhi True Fire.
• Huang Tian said the person who had mentioned Violet Fire was dead, but promised to seek other information while keeping their plan secret.
• Huang Tian told Yue Qianchou about a mysterious person who could enter and leave the array, and Yue Qianchou suspected it was his extraordinary master.
• Yue Qianchou asked Huang Tian to release his imprisoned friends and give them free status, then returned to prison through the earth.

Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord were released from the dungeon, though Yue Qianchou was barred from the Enclosure Competition and forbidden to leave Yellow Earth City. At Xixin Lake, Wen Lanfeng confronted Yan Zhuixing over Xin Lao San, but the encounter turned deadly when Wen Rui suddenly attacked Wen Lanfeng.

• Yue Qianchou told Crocodile Immortal Lord that his dealings with Huang Tian were settled, and guards soon released them from the dungeon.
• A City Guard officer stripped Yue Qianchou of his Enclosure Competition qualification and ordered him to remain in Yellow Earth City.
• Wen Rui told Wen Lanfeng that a man claiming to be Yan Zhuixing was waiting at Xixin Lake, and Wen Lanfeng hurried there.
• Yan Zhuixing proved his identity by explaining that demonic arts had restored his severed hand and raised his cultivation, then demanded Yue Qianchou's whereabouts in exchange for Xin Lao San.
• When Wen Lanfeng refused to reveal Yue Qianchou's whereabouts and tried to stop Yan Zhuixing from leaving, Wen Rui stabbed him from behind and attacked again.

Wen Lanfeng fought off Wen Rui and Yan Zhuixing at Xixin Lake, but Yan Zhuixing wounded him and escaped. Wen Lanfeng carried the incapacitated Wen Rui away while the Wen family disciples looked on in disbelief.

• Wen Lanfeng broke the sword Wen Rui had thrust into his chest and struck Wen Rui with its broken blade, then wounded Yan Zhuixing as he attacked.
• Yan Zhuixing used his Demonic Eye against Wen Lanfeng, but the attempt failed and injured Yan Zhuixing through backlash.
• Wen Lanfeng pursued Yan Zhuixing with the Giant Silver Sword, but turned back when Wen Rui charged at him and knocked Wen Rui unconscious.
• Wen Lanfeng caught up with Yan Zhuixing and exchanged a powerful punch with him, but Yan Zhuixing used the impact to flee.
• Wen Lanfeng stopped pursuing Yan Zhuixing, picked up Wen Rui, and returned as the arriving Wen family disciples stared in shock at their injured Old Ancestor.

Yan Zhuixing escaped Wen Lanfeng and realized his demonic fist had wounded him, while Wen Lanfeng recovered and tried to free Wen Rui from Yan Zhuixing’s control. A mysterious black-clad man arrived at Lingfang Valley and joined the line at the Medicine Hut.

• Yan Zhuixing hid in a cave after fleeing Wen Lanfeng, then realized Wen Lanfeng had been injured and had stopped pursuing him.
• Yan Zhuixing resolved to recover and seek revenge on Wen Lanfeng, then swallowed a spiritual pill to heal.
• Wen Lanfeng recovered enough to tend to Wen Rui, regretted stopping Yue Qianchou from killing Yan Zhuixing, and tried to free Wen Rui from his control.
• A cold, black-clad long-haired man entered Lingfang Valley and quietly waited with the others at the Medicine Hut.

Yan Zhuixing used the Demonic Eye to control Xin Lao Jiu and turn the Xin brothers against each other inside Lingfang Valley. He emerged with the brothers under his command as Lu Yanqing, Hundred Charm Demoness, and Yan Yu confronted him.

• Yan Zhuixing arrived at Lingfang Valley posing as a messenger from Xin Lao San and refused to speak with Xin Lao Jiu in private.
• After revealing his identity, Yan Zhuixing used the Demonic Eye to control Xin Lao Jiu and made him kill a Lingfang Valley disciple.
• Xin Lao Jiu killed Xin Lao Er when the four other Xin brothers entered, and Yan Zhuixing subdued Xin Lao Da, Fourth Brother, and Eighth Brother.
• Lingfang Valley disciples recognized Yan Zhuixing and the Demonic Eye, prompting Lu Yanqing, Hundred Charm Demoness, and Yan Yu to rush to the cottage.
• Yan Zhuixing emerged guarded by the controlled Xin brothers and greeted Hundred Charm Demoness and Manager Yan, pleased that they were all present.

Yan Zhuixing seized control of Lingfang Valley and its disciples, then used the Demonic Eye to force Yan Yu to reveal that Yue Qianchou was actually Niu Youde. Furious at realizing Yue Qianchou had deceived him, Yan Zhuixing ordered Lu Yanqing to invite Wen Lanfeng.

• Yan Zhuixing arrived at Lingfang Valley and found Hundred Charm Demoness, Yan Yu, and Lu Yanqing still there.
• Yan Zhuixing revealed that Xin Lao Er had been killed by Xin Lao Jiu, then forced Xin Lao Da to kill himself to threaten Lu Yanqing.
• Yan Zhuixing tried to control Lu Yanqing with the Demonic Eye, but she resisted; he then used her disciples as hostages to demand Yue Qianchou's whereabouts.
• Yan Zhuixing controlled Hundred Charm Demoness and Yan Yu, and Yan Yu revealed that Yue Qianchou was Niu Youde and was likely in the Demon Ghost Domain.
• Yan Zhuixing realized Yue Qianchou had deceived him and told Lu Yanqing to invite Wen Lanfeng.

Yan Zhuixing forced Lu Yanqing to summon Wen Lanfeng by threatening Lingfang Valley’s controlled disciples, then struck Wen Lanfeng with his Blood Demon Palm under the pretense of a bargain. Wen Lanfeng demanded that Yan Zhuixing honor his oath and release the captives, despite learning the palm might kill him within ten days.

• Yan Zhuixing killed Xin Lao Si with a single demon-fist punch, causing Lingfang Valley’s disciples to flee and Lu Yanqing to give in to his demand to summon Wen Lanfeng.
• Wen Lanfeng tried and failed to free Wen Rui from the demonic eye’s control, then rushed to Lingfang Valley after Lu Yanqing contacted him.
• Wen Lanfeng arrived to find Lu Yanqing confronting Yan Zhuixing and restrained himself from attacking when Yan Zhuixing threatened Xin Lao Jiu and the other captives.
• Yan Zhuixing swore to release the captives if Wen Lanfeng survived one palm strike, and Wen Lanfeng accepted despite Lu Yanqing’s objections.
• Yan Zhuixing struck Wen Lanfeng with his Blood Demon Palm and warned that the hidden technique could dry up his blood within ten days; Wen Lanfeng demanded that he honor his oath.