Chapter Summaries

Yue Qianchou bought one hundred sets of Wàngǔtōng’s illustrated guides and received a Purple Profound Token from Wan Ling. After the Divine Ruins Realm opened, Mu Bing revealed that Mu Tianjiao would enter with the group, and Yue Qianchou urged him to reconsider.

• Yue Qianchou bought one hundred sets of illustrated guides for 25 million divine-grade Spirit Stones and accepted a Purple Profound Token from Wan Ling.
• Wan Ling and three elders discussed Yue Qianchou’s wealth, concealed cultivation, and unusual purchase after he left the shop.
• A horn announced that the Divine Ruins Realm had opened, and Yue Qianchou and Tao Zhong returned to Sìtōng’s shop.
• Mu Tianjiao explained that their group would wait half a day before entering to avoid the most crowded and dangerous rush.
• Mu Bing asked the group to look after Mu Tianjiao when she entered the Divine Ruins Realm, and Yue Qianchou urged him not to send her.

Mu Tianjiao led the SITONG Chamber of Commerce team into the Divine Ruins Realm after Wu Xiong confirmed Yue Qianchou met the entry requirements. The group emerged into the realm and found a landscape littered with corpses.

• Mu Tianjiao pleaded for the assembled sects and chambers of commerce to help save the SITONG Chamber of Commerce before the Divine Ruins Realm opened.
• Wu Xiong organized the entry of the participants, and hundreds of thousands passed through the cave under the Immortal Palace’s rules.
• The SITONG Chamber of Commerce arrived with only twenty-eight eligible participants, and guards initially stopped Yue Qianchou because they suspected his cultivation exceeded the limit.
• Wu Xiong had the guards inspect Yue Qianchou, confirmed his late Spirit Transformation stage cultivation, and let the team enter.
• Yue Qianchou and the others traveled through the realm’s passage and emerged from a mountain cave, where they saw corpses strewn everywhere.

Yue Qianchou left Mu Tianjiao’s group to venture deeper into the Divine Ruins Realm, hoping to find valuable immortal herbs for himself. When thirty people ambushed him, he destroyed their weapons, killed them, and found nothing worthwhile in their storage pouches.

• Mu Tianjiao led the group across a battlefield of corpses and warned everyone to stay together and remember the route back.
• Yue Qianchou searched for immortal herbs using jade-slip illustrations while the group gathered low-grade herbs along the way.
• Yue Qianchou urged the group to fly deeper into the Divine Ruins Realm, then agreed to scout ahead alone when someone challenged him.
• Dozens of flying swords trapped Yue Qianchou in an ambush, but he used the Gold Art to destroy them and teleported to the attackers’ hiding place.
• Yue Qianchou used the Star Absorbing Great Method to kill all thirty ambushers and took their storage pouches, but found nothing valuable inside.

Yue Qianchou intervened when Shui Mingqing was cornered by blue-robed cultivators and took the Three Yuan Immortal Fruit, hoping to use it to make an Ascension Pill. After learning Shui Mingqing was a Cháotiān Palace disciple, he questioned him about pill knowledge and asked him to explain the Restriction Breaking Pill.

• Yue Qianchou hid near a valley and learned that a gray-robed man was offering the Three Yuan Immortal Fruit to anyone who could save him from a group of blue-robed cultivators.
• Yue Qianchou discovered that the fruit was a key ingredient in the Ascension Pill and decided to intervene, but a blue-robed scout attacked him first.
• Yue Qianchou killed the scout and entered the valley, frightening the blue-robed cultivators into fleeing before he could stop them.
• Shui Mingqing thanked Yue Qianchou by giving him all of the Three Yuan Immortal Fruit and identified himself as a disciple of Cháotiān Palace.
• Yue Qianchou questioned Shui Mingqing about alchemy formulas, then tested his knowledge by asking about the Restriction Breaking Pill.
• Shui Mingqing described the ordinary Restriction Breaking Pill and said its purple and red varieties were poison pills.

Yue Qianchou learned about cultivation-boosting pills and their costs, then revealed his plan to use Utopia as a base for expanding into the Immortal World. He recruited Shui Mingqing to help find rare immortal herbs and promised to help him return safely to Cháotiān Palace.

• Shui Mingqing explained the toxins caused by Restriction Breaking Pills and the Marrow Cleansing Golden Pill used to remove them.
• Yue Qianchou calculated the cost of cleansing pills for Utopia's nearly ten thousand people and considered using pills to raise their cultivation.
• Shui Mingqing described the dangerous Great Restriction Breaking Pill and the enormous cost of reaching Minor Immortal cultivation afterward.
• Yue Qianchou decided that finding rare immortal herbs and gaining access to Cháotiān Palace's pill-refining expertise were his priorities.
• Yue Qianchou offered Shui Mingqing a valuable treasure and protection if he spent a month helping search for rare immortal herbs and later introduced him to Cháotiān Palace.
• Shui Mingqing accepted Yue Qianchou's offer, then asked where his men were.

Yue Qianchou hid Shui Mingqing underground, visited the weakened Tianxia Chamber of Commerce, and ordered its leaders to summon Spirit Transformation experts to the Eastern Pole Sacred Land. He then built matching underground palaces beneath Utopia and the sacred hall, preparing a way to move between them without exposing Utopia.

• Yue Qianchou created a furnished underground hiding place for Shui Mingqing and told him to wait there.
• Yue Qianchou visited the Treasure Gathering Basin and reflected on Yin Baikang’s legacy before meeting Sikong Jue and Jing Yuankong.
• Yue Qianchou ordered Sikong Jue and Jing Yuankong to notify Spirit Transformation experts that the Eastern Pole Sacred Land’s sealing formation had broken and that they must gather there within two days.
• Yue Qianchou told the martial brothers that only one of them needed to attend and that they should not notify Ancestor Nanming or Nong Zhu.
• Yue Qianchou built identical underground palaces beneath Utopia and the underground sacred hall so he could transfer between them without revealing Utopia.

Over three hundred Spirit Transformation stage masters traveled to the Eastern Pole Sacred Land, fearing that Yue Qianchou had summoned them to punish them. Yue Qianchou instead led them to an ancient underground estate and claimed it held a transmission array to an abandoned immortal herb garden, though the group remained skeptical.

• Nong Zhu led the Spirit Transformation stage masters to the Eastern Pole Sacred Land after they received Yue Qianchou’s summons and asked him to speak for them.
• The group followed Yue Qianchou’s arrow across the continent and found him waiting at a mountain peak.
• Yue Qianchou guided them into an underground estate, explaining that immortals and demonic cultivators had once lived there before returning to their realms.
• Yue Qianchou claimed the estate contained a transmission array to an abandoned immortal herb garden and offered to share the herbs if the masters helped him search.
• Nong Zhu questioned why the trapped immortals and demonic cultivators had not used the array, and Yue Qianchou explained that the ancient Heaven and Earth Qiankun Grand Array had interfered with its transmission function.

Yue Qianchou persuaded the Spirit Transformation experts to follow him into the Underworld by showing them records of immortal herbs and promising them a glimpse of its wonders. In the underground palace, he revealed the Underworld Emperor’s mural, claimed he had slain Immortal Realm cultivators, and displayed a huge hoard of divine-grade Spirit Stones, leaving the group eager and astonished.

• Yue Qianchou threatened the experts, then showed Nong Zhu a jade slip depicting valuable immortal herbs to prove the Immortal Herb Garden was real.
• Lu Yanqing, Wen Lanfeng, and the others inspected the jade slip, and the experts followed Yue Qianchou into the Underworld.
• Yue Qianchou led the group through dangerous, collapsed passages to a great hall and pointed out its ancient carvings.
• Hu Changshou guessed that the central carving depicted the Underworld Emperor, and Yue Qianchou confirmed it before identifying the Twelve Great Underworld Generals.
• Yue Qianchou claimed he had killed dozens of Immortal Realm cultivators and poured out more than ten thousand divine-grade Spirit Stones for everyone to inspect.

Yue Qianchou brought more than three hundred mortal-world cultivators into the Divine Ruins Realm and persuaded them to unite around his promise of helping them forge undying bodies. After distributing treasure guides, he pulled Shui Mingqing out of hiding, leaving the newcomers staring at the gathered experts.

• Nong Zhu stole over a hundred Spirit Stones from Yue Qianchou’s pile before Yue hurried everyone toward the Immortal Realm.
• Yue Qianchou activated the teleportation formation and led the cultivators into the mist-shrouded Divine Ruins Realm.
• Yue Qianchou warned the group to stay united, then swore to help them gather immortal herbs and achieve immortality.
• Yu Nantian and Hu Changshou swore to follow Yue Qianchou, and many others joined them.
• Yue Qianchou distributed ninety-nine illustrated treasure guides for the groups to use while searching the Divine Ruins Realm.
• Yue Qianchou pulled Shui Mingqing out from underground, and the gathered cultivators silently scrutinized him.

Yue Qianchou organized the Cultivation World experts into a great triangular formation to explore the Divine Ruins Realm, then flew ahead alone and encountered Mu Tianjiao’s group cornered by the Jueqing Sect. Two unharmed teams watched the confrontation as the chapter ended.

• Yue Qianchou introduced Shui Mingqing as a disciple of Cháotiān Palace, and the experts formed a great triangular formation with shared supplies and distress signals.
• Wen Lanfeng and Li Duxing arranged for Lu Yanqing to remain at the formation’s center, where Shui Mingqing and the other late Spirit Transformation stage experts were also stationed.
• The ninety-nine groups advanced into the Divine Ruins Realm, comparing illustrated jade slips to identify herbs, while Yue Qianchou flew deeper ahead alone.
• Yue Qianchou passed groups fighting over treasures and noticed that several teams were watching him, but none dared attack.
• Yue Qianchou found Mu Tianjiao and her remaining followers surrounded in a depression by the blue-clad Jueqing Sect disciples who had killed Shui Mingqing’s fellow disciples.
• A yellow-clad team and a red-clad team, each still thirty strong, watched the confrontation as their leaders discussed the Jueqing Sect’s strength and arrogance.

Yue Qianchou rescued Mu Tianjiao and the SITONG Chamber of Commerce from Jueqing Palace, then met disciples of Lihuo Palace and the Lingxiu Sect. He learned that Ji Wu Immortal Lord’s return from the mortal world had raised the number of Great Immortal Lords to thirteen.

• Che Mingqian threatened Mu Tianjiao’s group unless she surrendered the Golden Harvest, but Mu Tianjiao and Tao Zhong refused.
• Yue Qianchou arrived, identified himself as the SITONG Chamber of Commerce’s employer, and confronted Che Mingqian’s group.
• Che Mingqian ordered the Jueqing Palace disciples to flee, but Yue Qianchou killed them as they teleported away and collected their storage bags.
• Mu Tianjiao thanked Yue Qianchou, while he warned the watching groups off and reassured her that he was doing his duty as their employer.
• Huo Yunlong of Lihuo Palace and Du Feng of the Lingxiu Sect introduced themselves and asked Yue Qianchou about his background.
• Du Feng explained that Ji Wu Immortal Lord had returned from the mortal world, leaving the Immortal World with thirteen Great Immortal Lords.

Yue Qianchou learned that Crocodile Immortal Lord had returned to the Immortal Realm, lost his position and followers, and been rescued by Ji Wu Immortal Lord. He agreed to unite the SITONG Chamber of Commerce with Lihuo Palace and Lingxiu Sect as the three groups continued deeper into the Divine Ruins Realm.

• Du Feng and Huo Yunlong told Yue Qianchou that Crocodile Immortal Lord had been gravely injured by the Immortal Emperor after clashing with him over the loss of his palace and followers.
• Huo Yunlong revealed that Ji Wu Immortal Lord had been allowed to save Crocodile Immortal Lord and suggested the Immortal Emperor’s interest in her had helped her regain a position as an Immortal Lord.
• Yue Qianchou learned that Du Feng and Huo Yunlong were blood relatives of their sect leaders and that the disciples accompanying them served under their fathers.
• Du Feng and Huo Yunlong proposed that Lihuo Palace, Lingxiu Sect, and the SITONG Chamber of Commerce search for treasures together and divide their gains equally.
• Mu Tianjiao yielded the decision to Yue Qianchou, who accepted the alliance and led the three groups onward into the Divine Ruins Realm.

Yue Qianchou traveled through the Divine Ruins Realm with Du Feng and Huo Yunlong as Mu Tianjiao led the Sìtōng Commercial Association into a clash with the Bada Commercial Association. When Yue Qianchou and the two sect leaders arrived, they ordered their disciples to join the fight, leaving the Bada team surrounded and facing a ruthless attack.

• Yue Qianchou reflected on the dangers of the Divine Ruins Realm and his plans to use the lords of the various nations to find immortal herbs.
• Mu Tianjiao’s group encountered Li Lanting and the Bada Commercial Association while they were digging up a rare plant root.
• Mu Tianjiao ordered her people to attack, then fought Li Lanting and four opponents while her team battled the rest.
• Yue Qianchou, Du Feng, and Huo Yunlong spotted Mu Tianjiao in danger and recognized the attackers as the Bada Commercial Association.
• Du Feng and Huo Yunlong ordered their disciples to join the battle, turning the fight against Li Lanting’s group.
• Li Lanting begged for mercy, but Huo Yunlong ordered his disciples to kill the Bada team without leaving anyone alive.

The Lihuo Palace and Lingxiu Sect helped Mu Tianjiao defeat the Bada Commercial Association, but Guan Tianli later surrounded their party with a much larger force from the Jueqing Palace and allied groups. Elsewhere, Yu Nantian’s advancing army attacked travelers and found an immensely valuable immortal herb, setting its sights on richer spoils.

• The Lihuo Palace and Lingxiu Sect used fire techniques and silver tokens to kill the Bada Commercial Association disciples attacking Mu Tianjiao’s group.
• Mu Tianjiao thanked Du Feng and Huo Yunlong for their help, and Yue Qianchou noticed both men showing unusual interest in her.
• Du Feng identified Guan Tianli among the Jueqing Palace disciples, who withdrew after spotting the group; he warned that they might gather allies.
• Less than half a day later, Guan Tianli returned with six other groups and surrounded Yue Qianchou’s party with roughly one hundred sixty or seventy people.
• Guan Tianli accused Du Feng and Huo Yunlong of siding with those who killed Jueqing Palace disciples, while Yue Qianchou crushed a jade stone.
• Yu Nantian led more than a hundred people in attacking a group of travelers, and they found an immortal herb worth over ten million divine-grade Spirit Stones in a storage bag.

Yue Qianchou’s followers raided Immortal World cultivators and gathered their spoils before sensing his summons and rushing to his aid. They arrived as Guan Tianli’s forces prepared to attack Yue, and a large group appeared to join the confrontation.

• The more than three hundred cultivators continued robbing their opponents, while Lu Yanqing stopped trying to dissuade them and focused on collecting the spoils and immortal herbs.
• Yu Nantian kept two storage bracelets for himself, argued with Shu Xin, and then learned that Yue Qianchou had broken the jade token used to summon them.
• Nong Zhu gathered the group and led them at full speed toward Yue Qianchou’s location.
• Yue Qianchou confronted Guan Tianli and declared that he alone was responsible for killing Jueqing Palace’s disciples.
• Guan Tianli ordered his allies to attack Yue Qianchou, but a dense crowd arrived and offered to join the fight.

Nong Zhu and Shui Mingqing rallied more than three hundred allies against Guan Tianli’s Jueqing Palace forces, and Yue Qianchou’s overwhelming strength helped decide the ensuing battle. The fighting ended with Jueqing Palace and its allies defeated, while the victors stripped the dead of their storage treasures and Yue Qianchou lamented how quickly the battle was over.

• Nong Zhu surrounded Guan Tianli’s group with more than three hundred fighters, while Shui Mingqing claimed they had gathered to avenge the slaughter of Cháotiān Palace disciples.
• Nong Zhu called on the gathered sects to repay Cháotiān Palace’s kindness, and Yue Qianchou urged the allies to attack.
• Yue Qianchou charged into the battle, and Mu Tianjiao, Du Feng, Huo Yunlong, and the others joined the assault.
• Yue Qianchou shattered the flying swords of fifteen late Spirit Transformation stage experts and killed them with the Star Absorbing Great Method.
• The allies overwhelmed the remaining fighters from Jueqing Palace and six other sects, then scrambled to claim storage bags and bracelets from the dead.
• Yue Qianchou found the battle had ended before he could enjoy a satisfying fight and felt a taste of Bi Changchun’s loneliness.

Yue Qianchou’s group reached a dangerous, mist-shrouded region of the Divine Ruins Realm, where six Golden Robe Figures battled a gigantic ferocious serpent. The serpent fell after their combined attack, while Yue Qianchou and the others watched from nearby.

• Nong Zhu led the sect disciples away under Yue Qianchou’s secret instructions, and Yue Qianchou’s group continued gathering treasures throughout the Divine Ruins Realm.
• As the realm’s closure drew near, Yue Qianchou’s group stopped before dense mist, and Huo Yunlong and Du Feng explained the dangers posed by ferocious beasts.
• A giant serpent burst from the mist while pursuing several Golden Robe Figures, forcing Yue Qianchou’s group to flee farther away.
• The six Golden Robe Figures blinded the serpent with a treasure mirror and struck it with a combined six-edged sword.
• The serpent collapsed, mortally wounded, as Yue Qianchou recovered from the blast of the attack.

Yue Qianchou watched Immortal Palace experts kill a giant snake and learned that they likely raided its eggs for valuable, loyal immortal beasts. After checking on Nong Zhu and his companions, he discovered they had collected herbs worth two trillion divine-grade Spirit Stones, though their raid had killed over ten thousand people.

• Yue Qianchou saw more than eighty battered Golden Robe Figures leave the giant snake's corpse behind after losing sixteen men.
• Huo Yunlong identified the corpse as a Black Dragon Giant Python and estimated its scales were worth about one billion divine-grade Spirit Stones.
• Du Feng explained that Immortal Palace groups sought fiendish beast eggs and unopened young, which could be raised into absolutely loyal immortal beasts.
• Yue Qianchou entered the mist and used Utopia to locate Nong Zhu and his companions, who had been gathering herbs safely along its edge.
• Nong Zhu told Yue Qianchou that the group had collected over three thousand varieties of immortal herbs worth about two trillion divine-grade Spirit Stones.
• Nong Zhu estimated that their group had killed more than ten thousand people while gathering the herbs.

Yue Qianchou brought the survivors back from the Divine Ruins Realm, secured their cooperation, and arranged for the stolen immortal herbs to be cultivated while preparing to build ties in the Immortal Realm. He returned to Shui Mingqing and gave him two Three Yuan Immortal Fruits, winning his friendship.

• Yue Qianchou confirmed the group had gathered the needed immortal herbs, rejected Hu Changshou’s plan to ambush people at the realm’s exit, and showed Nong Zhu the Purple Profound Token as proof of his Immortal Realm connections.
• Yue Qianchou led everyone through the teleportation array, returned their seized goods apart from the immortal herbs, and urged them to guard the array, keep their trip secret, and end their conflicts in the mortal world.
• Yue Qianchou gave Bai Suzhen and Qu Ping'er most of the immortal herbs and instructed them to oversee their cultivation and preserve the seeds.
• Yue Qianchou gave Zhang Peng eighty sets of illustrated jade slips and discussed Utopia’s army with him.
• Yue Qianchou returned to the Divine Ruins Realm, handed Shui Mingqing two Three Yuan Immortal Fruits, and gained his acknowledgment as a friend.

Yue Qianchou brought Shui Mingqing to meet Du Feng, Huo Yunlong, and Mu Tianjiao, then secured the two great sect disciples’ support for Shui Mingqing’s standing in Cháotiān Palace. He persuaded the group to leave the Divine Ruins Realm early, and they emerged before a vast crowd of sect representatives.

• Yue Qianchou reunited with Du Feng and the others, introduced Shui Mingqing, and helped them become acquainted.
• Yue Qianchou urged Du Feng and Huo Yunlong to support Shui Mingqing after Jueqing Palace slaughtered his fellow disciples, and both agreed.
• Yue Qianchou privately intended to use the support and growing reputation to strengthen Shui Mingqing’s influence and bind him to his plans.
• Yue Qianchou warned that alliances and revenge could turn the remaining days into a deadly conflict, persuading the group to leave early.
• The group traveled safely to the exit, entered the passage, and emerged before tens of thousands of waiting sect representatives.