Chapter Summaries

Bi Changchun opened the Netherworld Gate and left the mortal world after telling Yue Qianchou to walk his own path. Yue Qianchou then went to fulfill his promise to Yu Ji, but she refused to leave the Demon Ghost Domain without General Meng.

• Bi Changchun told Yue Qianchou that the Netherworld Gate’s mysteries were beyond the Nether Emperor and Immortal Emperor, and that Yue Qianchou would eventually have to complete it.
• Bi Changchun’s words echoed through the underground space, and the faces carved on the gate changed to serene smiles.
• Bi Changchun opened the Netherworld Gate, told Yue Qianchou not to disappoint him, and vanished into the Netherworld before the gate sealed shut.
• Yue Qianchou erased the inscriptions in Nine Nether Cave, then went to Yin Feng Valley to fulfill his promise to help Yu Ji leave the Demon Ghost Domain.
• Yu Ji thanked Yue Qianchou but said she had no wish to leave alone because General Meng was gone.

Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord set out for Immortal City to seek information about Violet Fire, but their journey was interrupted when they found a badly wounded woman being pursued. Yue Qianchou rescued her and escaped underground as the pursuers attacked, leaving the bald leader wondering who had mastered the Earth Element Technique.

• Yue Qianchou left Yu Ji in Yin Feng Valley and told Crocodile Immortal Lord they would go to Immortal City to seek information about Violet Fire.
• Yue Qianchou told Crocodile Immortal Lord that Bi Changchun had killed Ye Niao and the two Netherworld generals, badly injured Ji Wu, and gone to the Netherworld.
• As Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord flew through a primeval forest, Crocodile Immortal Lord pulled him into hiding after detecting a battle nearby.
• A badly wounded woman in white collapsed near their hiding place, and Crocodile Immortal Lord urged Yue Qianchou to bring her underground.
• More than a dozen pursuers arrived under a bald man in black, so Yue Qianchou carried the unconscious woman and Crocodile Immortal Lord deep underground to escape.
• The pursuers blasted apart the forest and found no trace of the fugitives, while the bald man questioned whether Huang Tian could have used the Earth Element Technique.

Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord escaped underground with an injured woman, and Yue Qianchou discovered how to combine the Earth Art and Gold Art to pass through stone. They found a glowing underground karst cave and learned that pursuers were searching the forest, leaving them trapped there for now.

• The bald man in black ordered his people to search for the injured woman before she recovered.
• Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord fled underground while carrying the unconscious woman, both badly injured by their pursuers’ attack.
• When rocks obstructed their escape, Yue Qianchou combined the Earth Art and Gold Art to melt through stone and opened a passage into a glowing karst cave.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord recognized the woman and fed her an immortal pill, while Yue Qianchou relied on his golden core to recover without medicine.
• Yue Qianchou scouted the surface and found pursuers searching the forest, so he returned to the cave and told Crocodile Immortal Lord they could not leave yet.

Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord discovered that the wounded woman they had rescued was Ji Wu, and Crocodile stopped Yue from killing her to prevent future trouble. Ji Wu woke, reunited with Crocodile, and learned that Yue had saved her; after she explained Rakshasa’s ambush, Yue hoped to keep Bi Changchun’s role secret and avoid conflict with her.

• Crocodile Immortal Lord identified the unconscious woman as Ji Wu, one of the Twelve Immortal Lords, and Yue Qianchou considered killing her before she could learn what he had done.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord stopped Yue and explained that Rakshasa, Night Owl’s disciple, had likely pursued Ji Wu to seize power after Night Owl’s death.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord restored his appearance, and Ji Wu soon woke and recognized him, believing he had been killed by the Myriad Sword Demon Lord.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord told Ji Wu that Yue had freed him and saved her, and Ji Wu thanked Yue before asking what had happened.
• Ji Wu recounted how Bi Changchun wounded her and Rakshasa’s men ambushed her while she recovered, while Yue hoped Crocodile would keep his master’s involvement quiet.

Ji Wu told Yue Qianchou and Crocodile Immortal Lord how Night Owl had tried to use blood refinement to break the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array, while Crocodile Immortal Lord revealed the danger awaiting anyone who escaped into the mortal world. Crocodile Immortal Lord offered to trade a way out of the array for Ji Wu’s knowledge of Purple Fire, but she had not yet disclosed its location.

• Ji Wu described how Night Owl’s disciples ambushed her and explained that Night Owl had used the Enclosure Competition to gather people for blood-refinement experiments with a demonic-art scroll.
• Ji Wu told them that the array drained the spiritual qi from immortal beasts and spirit beasts, eventually killing them.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord revealed that Night Owl had sent a disciple out of the array more than two hundred years earlier, and Yue Qianchou realized that disciple was the immortal his master had killed.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord told Ji Wu that Spirit Transformation Smoke covered the Ascension Platform and disclosed that Yue Qianchou was Bi Changchun’s disciple.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord asked Ji Wu whether Silver Armor Thousand Armies could help them return to the Immortal Realm, then offered to take her out of the array in exchange for the location of Purple Fire.
• Ji Wu hesitated when Crocodile Immortal Lord asked her to reveal where the Purple Fire was, and Yue Qianchou demanded an answer.

Yue Qianchou agreed to help Crocodile Immortal Lord and Ji Wu leave the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array after Ji Wu recovered, and transported them to the Nine Nether Cave. They entered the Netherworld on their way back to the Immortal Realm, leaving Yue Qianchou with a fortune in divine-grade Spirit Stones and a way to learn whether they arrived safely.

• Ji Wu agreed to heal for three days and abandon her immediate plan to take revenge on Rakshasa and the others, leaving them trapped in the array.
• After recovering, Ji Wu bathed while Yue Qianchou waited, then she and Crocodile Immortal Lord prepared to leave with him.
• Yue Qianchou used silver balls to transport Crocodile Immortal Lord and Ji Wu to the Nine Nether Cave, where Ji Wu recognized that they had escaped the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord gave Yue Qianchou two hundred million divine-grade Spirit Stones and accepted a silver ball that could signal his safe arrival in the Immortal Realm.
• Crocodile Immortal Lord and Ji Wu entered the Nine Nether Cave, and Yue Qianchou waited until the winds showed that the Netherworld Gate had opened before relaxing.

Yue Qianchou discovered an underground palace dedicated to the Ming Emperor and encountered the Underworld’s Saintess. When she asked him to leave a handprint on a sand table, he resisted her influence and wiped it away.

• Yue Qianchou left the cavern disguised in Cannibal Tribe garb and used Earth Art to travel underground.
• Yue Qianchou found a grand underground palace with carvings of the Twelve Great Underworld Generals and the Ming Emperor.
• The Saintess of the Underworld appeared and identified the scholar carving as His Majesty the Ming Emperor.
• The Saintess told Yue Qianchou that she had been appointed to preside over the Underworld’s ceremonies and asked him to leave a handprint on a black-sand table.
• Yue Qianchou felt an inexplicable urge to obey, wiped away his handprint, and challenged the Saintess about why he should listen to her.

Yue Qianchou met the Saintess of the Underworld, who said his fate was an unknowable variable and revealed that she had no name or memories of her origins. He left the underground temple and crossed a barren, scorching wasteland, where he suspected the extreme heat came from violet fire.

• The Saintess of the Underworld read Yue Qianchou’s palm and said his life should have ended long ago, but she could not fathom his fate.
• Yue Qianchou tried to persuade the Saintess to predict his future, but she refused and warned him to leave the holy temple.
• The Saintess called Yue Qianchou by name and explained that she had no name or knowledge of who she was before the Underworld Emperor called her Saintess of the Underworld.
• Yue Qianchou left the temple and traveled underground for several days before emerging in a desolate Gobi wasteland.
• Yue Qianchou flew east across the barren land and reached mountains where the heat became difficult even for him to endure.
• Yue Qianchou realized that violet fire might be the source of the extreme heat.

Yue Qianchou searched a scorching wilderness for Purple Fire, escaping the heat with the Golden Light Umbrella and Divine Engraving. After searching for days, he realized he had been looking in the wrong way and believed he had found where Purple Fire was.

• Yue Qianchou found that the heat destroyed ordinary objects and even Immortal Realm treasures, while the Golden Light Umbrella protected him only temporarily.
• Yue Qianchou used Divine Engraving as a teleportation coordinate to escape to Shuntian Island, where he cooled off before returning to the wilderness.
• Yue Qianchou searched the barren land for days, repeatedly fleeing to Shuntian Island when the umbrella could no longer withstand the heat.
• After searching the thousand-mile wilderness for more than ten days, Yue Qianchou concluded that his method of searching was wrong and wondered whether Purple Fire gathered before becoming visible.
• Yue Qianchou realized where Purple Fire might be and shouted that he had found it.

Yue Qianchou discovered that Purple Fire was dispersed throughout the Array Eye and absorbed it, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the formation. As disasters spread across the Eastern Pole Sacred Land, the Saintess of the Underworld ordered the Ming cultivators to prepare to return to the Ming Realm because the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array was about to break.

• Yue Qianchou stopped resisting the heat, collapsed, and was protected by golden light that erupted from his abdomen.
• Yue Qianchou absorbed Purple Fire elements into his dantian, causing a purple sea of fire to form overhead and condense into 108 fireballs arranged in a formation.
• Yue Qianchou pulled one fireball from the formation, causing the formation to collapse as thunder roared and the earth trembled.
• Ancestor Nanming ordered the Xuanxuan Island disciples to flee, but the volcano erupted and the island collapsed into the sea.
• The Saintess of the Underworld ordered the Ming cultivators to gather and prepare to return to the Ming Realm, saying the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array was about to break.

Yue Qianchou broke the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array by destroying its Array Eye, freeing the cultivators trapped inside and advancing his cultivation to the peak of the late Spirit Transformation stage. He returned to Shuntian Island and watched the entrance to the Nine Nether Cave through a treasure mirror, preparing to face the freed experts.

• The Underworld Saintess announced that the Eastern Pole Sacred Land was about to fall and ordered the Underworld cultivators to return.
• Yue Qianchou’s removal of a purple fireball destroyed the Array Eye, and the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array collapsed as storms swept across the land.
• Rakshasa Commander learned the array was broken, worried about Ji Wu Immortal Lord’s retaliation, and ordered his followers to prepare to return to the Underworld.
• Yue Qianchou discovered that eight new Nascent Souls had formed, bringing him to the peak of the late Spirit Transformation stage.
• Yue Qianchou returned to Shuntian Island and used a treasure mirror to observe the entrance to the Nine Nether Cave in Yin Feng Valley.

Yue Qianchou watched the Nine Nether Cave with the Heavenly Eye Mirror, knowing it could activate the Demon Ghost Exterminates Immortals Array if the Immortal and Underworld cultivators refused to leave. The Underworld cultivators returned through the cave, while the Saintess gave Yu Ji a token and noticed Yue Qianchou watching; meanwhile, Ancestor Nanming saw people streaming out of the exposed Eastern Pole Sacred Land.

• Yue Qianchou learned that the Heavenly Eye Mirror was the Array Eye and key to the Demon Ghost Exterminates Immortals Array, and watched the Nine Nether Cave to see whether the Immortal and Underworld cultivators would return.
• The Saintess of the Underworld led nearly a thousand underworld cultivators into the Demon Ghost Domain and reached the Nine Nether Cave without meeting resistance.
• The Saintess sent the underworld cultivators ahead, then gave Yu Ji a black token to help her if she encountered trouble in the Underworld.
• The Saintess looked toward Shuntian Island and met Yue Qianchou's gaze through the Heavenly Eye Mirror before she and her guards entered the Nine Nether Cave.
• Ancestor Nanming and the surviving Xuanxuan Island disciples saw the Eastern Pole Sacred Land's white mist vanish and watched people fly out of it.

Ancestor Nanming confirmed that the Eastern Pole Sacred Land had opened, while Rakshasa led thousands of immortal cultivators toward Nine Nether Cave after Spirit Transformation Smoke blocked their route home. Yue Qianchou learned that the Underworld Saintess had given Yu Ji a mysterious plaque and told her to keep it safe.

• Ancestor Nanming found the Eastern Pole Sacred Land's barrier gone and ordered his disciples to move to the South Sea Purple Bamboo Forest while he went to speak with Mr. Nongzhu.
• Rakshasa brought thousands of immortal cultivators to Misty Forest, where they discovered Spirit Transformation Smoke blocking their way back to the Immortal Realm.
• Rakshasa persuaded the stranded cultivators to seek a route through Nine Nether Cave and led them into the Demon Ghost Domain after scouting it himself.
• Yu Ji showed Yue Qianchou the plaque the Underworld Saintess had given her, explaining that it might help if she faced trouble in the Underworld Realm.
• Yue Qianchou identified the giver as the Underworld Saintess and returned the plaque to Yu Ji, advising her to keep it safe.

Yue Qianchou confirmed that the intruders had passed through the sealed Netherworld Gate, then returned to Shuntian Island and prepared to attempt fusing his three true fires. He was interrupted by Mr. Nongzhu’s urgent message and arrived at the South Sea Purple Bamboo Forest, where hundreds of Xuanxuan Island disciples had gathered.

• Yue Qianchou found the Netherworld Gate tightly shut and saw no intruders remaining in the Nine Nether Cave.
• Yue Qianchou returned to Shuntian Island, restored his original appearance, and prepared to fuse his violet, black, and green fires into Samadhi True Fire.
• Wood Lady Mu told Yue Qianchou that Mr. Nongzhu had an important matter to discuss, and Yue Qianchou vanished to the South Sea Purple Bamboo Forest.
• Yue Qianchou saw hundreds of Xuanxuan Island disciples arrive and heard Ancestor Nanming direct them to find places to stay without damaging the bamboo.
• Yue Qianchou greeted Nong Zhu and Ancestor Nanming, who were startled by how quickly he had arrived.

Yue Qianchou settled his family in a quiet town, agreed to return the Azure Nether Sword to the fox clan, and decided to release everyone’s natal Primordial Spirits. Unable to locate Bi Changchun and unable to fuse the Samadhi True Fire, he finally chose to go to the Immortal Realm.

• Yue Qianchou moved Yue Changgui, Xue Erniang, and the rest of his family to a quiet town so they could live independently and avoid drawing attention.
• Bai Suzhen returned the Azure Nether Sword to Yue Qianchou, who gave it back to her and agreed she could return it to the fox clan.
• Bai Suzhen told Yue Qianchou that Xiao Wanqing wanted to take Chen Shuo away to live as an ordinary person, and Yue Qianchou agreed to send them out after settling his affairs.
• Yue Qianchou ordered Bai Suzhen to return everyone's natal Primordial Spirits and grew worried when he could no longer sense Bi Changchun or the silver sphere in the Netherworld.
• Yue Qianchou sensed Crocodile Immortal Lord's silver sphere in a different space, then spent a month trying unsuccessfully to fuse the Samadhi True Fire.
• Yue Qianchou decided to risk traveling to the Immortal Realm and vanished from the shore of Thousand Mile Lake.

Yue Qianchou arrived in the Immortal Realm and found a busy market while looking for a way to reach the Ming Realm. He joined a recruitment call without knowing what the Bada Chamber of Commerce was hiring for, then eagerly answered another recruiter’s call.

• Yue Qianchou appeared in a valley, noticed its dense spiritual energy, and found the silver ball hidden in a bird’s nest.
• Yue Qianchou flew to a nearby market and joined a crowd gathered beneath a banner.
• Yue Qianchou raised his hand when a recruiter called for volunteers, though he did not know what was happening.
• A middle-aged cultivator explained that the Bada Chamber of Commerce was recruiting people for trading runs to the Ming Realm.
• Yue Qianchou spotted a burly man carrying a flag marked “Sìtōng Lǐ” and eagerly raised his hand when the man shouted that he was recruiting.

Yue Qianchou learned that Sitong needed recruits for the Divine Ruins Realm, while the people he had inadvertently drawn into its employment faced pressure from the Chamber of Commerce Alliance and Bada. Mu Tianjiao persuaded most of them to stay with a share of the expedition’s treasure, and Yue Qianchou accepted Sitong’s guarantee so he could enter the realm and gather information.

• Tao Zhong explained that Sitong had borrowed fifty million divine-grade Spirit Stones for entry to the Divine Ruins Realm but lacked enough people for the expedition.
• Yue Qianchou learned that his actions had left the group bound by the Chamber of Commerce Alliance’s rules after they volunteered to work for Bada.
• Mu Bing appeared and said Sitong would not force anyone to honor the recruitment, but Mu Tianjiao argued they should uphold the rules and offered recruits one-tenth of the appraised treasure value.
• Mu Tianjiao offered departing recruits a written declaration and promised guarantees to those who stayed, prompting nine of the thirty-seven people to leave.
• Yue Qianchou accepted Mu Tianjiao’s jade tablet and remained with Sitong’s recruits to explore the Divine Ruins Realm and seek information.

Yue Qianchou joined SITONG Chamber of Commerce’s group as they hurried toward the Divine Ruins Realm, learning about the Immortal Realm and the dangers awaiting inside. The group reached the crowded gathering site and began setting up SITONG’s stall as Yue Qianchou eagerly anticipated the competition and opportunities ahead.

• Mu Bing confirmed Yue Qianchou’s cultivation was below the immortal level, then announced that the group had to depart immediately for the Divine Ruins Realm.
• Nan Tianlong piloted SITONG’s flying shuttle for nearly two and a half days while Yue Qianchou learned about life in the Immortal Realm and heard from Tao Zhong that cultivators entering the Divine Ruins Realm would become rivals.
• The shuttle arrived at a crowded platform near the Divine Ruins Realm, where Yue Qianchou noticed golden-robed guards watching a huge cave.
• Nan Tianlong found SITONG’s assigned site and led the group to a relatively remote plot among the many stalls.
• Nan Tianlong brought out bamboo and timber, and the SITONG group began building its stall.

Mu Tianjiao challenged the Bada Chamber of Commerce’s seizure of SITONG’s stall and persuaded Great Commander Hua to restore the space and punish the corrupt guard. After the dispute, Yue Qianchou and the others helped build SITONG’s tent, but Qi Fengsheng returned as Mu Bing, Mu Tianjiao, and Nan Tianlong discussed what to do next.

• Nan Tianlong discovered that SITONG’s stall was a third smaller than the neighboring plot, which Qi Fengsheng’s Bada Chamber of Commerce had occupied.
• Qi Fengsheng threatened Mu Bing’s group, and an Immortal Palace guard dismissed Mu Tianjiao’s complaint and ordered her away.
• Mu Tianjiao blocked Great Commander Hua’s path and explained that SITONG had paid the same fee as the other chambers of commerce.
• Great Commander Hua had the guard’s cultivation crippled and ordered Qi Fengsheng to return the extra space to SITONG.
• Mu Tianjiao and Yue Qianchou joined the others in building SITONG’s tent, and she quietly thanked him for helping.
• After the others left, Qi Fengsheng entered the tent again while Mu Bing, Mu Tianjiao, and Nan Tianlong discussed their next steps.

Yue Qianchou explored the Divine Ruins Realm marketplace with Tao Zhong, learned how the Immortal Palace profited from entry fees and unrestricted access, and discovered that rare immortal herbs were worth far more than he had imagined. He sought illustrated guides to help identify valuable finds, but learned they were sold in grades according to rarity.

• Yue Qianchou gave Tao Zhong a storage bracelet, ending Tao Zhong's attempts to evade his questions.
• Tao Zhong explained that each marketplace stall paid the Immortal Palace fifty million divine-grade Spirit Stones and that the Palace could send cultivators of any level into the Divine Ruins Realm.
• Yue Qianchou saw Cháotiān Palace's high purchase prices for immortal herbs and realized his fortune might not buy even one stalk of Dragon Scale Grass.
• Yue Qianchou asked Tao Zhong to take him to Wàngǔtōng to find illustrated guides to precious items.
• At Wàngǔtōng, a shop attendant showed Yue Qianchou guides for many categories and explained that they came in grades; Tao Zhong clarified that their contents could not be copied.