Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie used his Gluttonous Nascent Soul to devour Black Shadow’s ghost torrent, then seized and subdued Black Shadow’s black spear with his lightning. He left Black Shadow screaming and falling from the sky.

• Black Shadow sent a torrent of evil ghosts toward Zhang Tie, expecting the Myriad Souls Banner to be exhausted.
• Zhang Tie released his Gluttonous Nascent Soul, which summoned a Taotie phantom and swallowed the ghosts to absorb their spiritual power.
• Black Shadow attacked the Nascent Soul with a black spear that vanished and reappeared in front of Zhang Tie’s physical body.
• Zhang Tie caught the spear with his lightning-covered hands and poured lightning into it as Black Shadow rushed to stop him with a black flame dragon.
• Zhang Tie uttered “Perish,” freezing Black Shadow in midair and sending him screaming downward as the spear fell still in his hands.

Zhang Tie killed Black Shadow, whose death let the Taotie Nascent Soul clone reach and stabilize the late Spirit Transformation stage. After absorbing Si Yuan Chang’s memories, Zhang Tie learned how the Giant Demon Race had fled its homeland and later lost its Cave Heaven Treasure in another devastating attack.

• Zhang Tie struck Black Shadow with a lightning-wreathed Dragon Claw and tossed him to the Taotie Nascent Soul clone, which swallowed him.
• The clone absorbed Black Shadow’s power, broke through to the late Spirit Transformation stage, and caused the controlled ghost creatures to flee.
• Zhang Tie guarded the clone for two days as it digested its prey and stabilized its new realm, then received its memories.
• Zhang Tie learned that Black Shadow had been Si Yuan Chang, a Giant Demon Race genius who reached the Integration stage in under three thousand years.
• Zhang Tie learned that several great clans attacked the Giant Demon Race after a clansman found an immortal stone, forcing Si Yuan Chang’s branch to flee to another Spirit World plane.
• Zhang Tie learned that the Giant Demon Race was tracked down more than ten thousand years later, and the Cave Heaven Treasure carrying its people shattered during their escape.

Zhang Tie learned that Si Yuan Chang had been bait in a deadly trap and gained little useful information from his shattered memories. He claimed the Void Extinguishing Soul Spear and discovered a jade bottle that he believed held Kunpeng True Blood, which could help him reach the Hegemon Body Realm.

• Zhang Tie realized that the space was a trap designed to sacrifice nearly ten thousand Giant Demon Race clansmen, with Si Yuan Chang as the only one who knew the truth.
• Zhang Tie's Taotie Nascent Soul clone devoured Si Yuan Chang but found his memories too chaotic to yield reliable secrets.
• Zhang Tie identified the black spear as the ancient Houtian Spirit Treasure called the Void Extinguishing Soul Spear and gave it to his Nascent Soul clone.
• Zhang Tie opened the talisman-sealed jade box and found a crimson jade bottle emitting powerful blood and qi, which he suspected contained Kunpeng True Blood.
• Zhang Tie considered how the Kunpeng True Blood could help him break through to the Hegemon Body Realm and learned that its traditional body-tempering method was safe but took around ten thousand years.

Zhang Tie returned to the treasure-selection space by activating a teleportation array and claimed a sealed golden jade box as his final reward. As the space began collapsing, he grabbed several other treasures and teleported away.

• After searching for more than a month without finding an exit, Zhang Tie returned to his original arrival point and decided to use a teleportation array and witchcraft to escape.
• Zhang Tie built a random teleportation array to weaken the spatial barrier, then used it to return to the treasure-selection void.
• A familiar voice told Zhang Tie he had passed the seventh-tier restriction trial and could select one more treasure, so he called for the most valuable treasure.
• A golden jade box bearing five sealing talismans flew into Zhang Tie's hand, but the void began violently trembling and filling with spatial rifts.
• Zhang Tie grabbed numerous scattered treasures, stored them with the jade box in his internal space, and teleported away as the space shattered.

Yong E was hunted by three Tianyun cultivators after witnessing them murder someone for treasure, and she used a forbidden pill to escape. She hid behind a waterfall and began restoring her spiritual power, but her cultivation realm continued to fall.

• Yong E was pursued through the forest by three Tianyun cultivators who wanted to silence her after she witnessed their murder.
• Yong E fought back with her flying sword, then swallowed a Blazing Origin Pill and used a pentagonal array disk to flee.
• The three men followed her using earth escape talismans while Yong E's forbidden pill rapidly lost its effect.
• Yong E hid in a chamber behind a waterfall, concealed its entrance, and set up a Stealth Formation.
• Yong E took many pills to restore her spiritual power, but her cultivation realm continued to decline.

Three men trapped Yong E in a vast sea of flames to force her out, while she sheltered in a cave with the Cold Snow Pearl. As her spiritual power dwindled, a sudden fight outside gave her hope.

• The thin-faced man tracked Yong E to a hiding place within several dozen li, and the leading man agreed to burn the area despite the danger of alerting nearby great demons.
• The short, fat man and his companions formed a Three Talents Formation around the area, and he used his stone bowl to unleash a Flame Flood Dragon.
• The Flame Flood Dragon set the forest ablaze, reducing plants and rivers to ashes and vapor as the three men waited to attack Yong E.
• Yong E endured the inferno inside a small cave protected by the Cold Snow Pearl, but she believed she could maintain the barrier for only a short time.
• Yong E heard a scream and fierce fighting outside, and her divine sense revealed the sudden commotion.

Zhang Tie rescued Yong E from three pursuers, killing two and failing to prevent the third from escaping by talisman. After reuniting with Yong E, he told her he had not seen Bo Yao since they scattered.

• Zhang Tie appeared near the cave and discovered Yong E hiding there while three men attacked her.
• Zhang Tie used the Rain Calling Technique to kill the fat man controlling the stone bowl, then battled the two remaining pursuers.
• Zhang Tie used a position swap and a Dragon Claw to kill the leading man, while his Nascent Soul clone struck down the thin-faced man as the latter escaped by jade talisman.
• The rain stopped, and Zhang Tie recovered the leader's storage bracelet before Yong E emerged from the cave.
• Yong E thanked Zhang Tie for saving her and asked whether he had seen Bo Yao; Zhang Tie said he had not seen him since they scattered.

Zhang Tie and Yong E escaped the sealed space using a random teleportation formation and reached a ruined temple. Yong E decided to return to the Spirit Realm because of her injuries, and Zhang Tie escorted her to the exit before continuing on alone.

• Zhang Tie and Yong E traveled for two days to the place where the golden gate had stood, but found it gone.
• Zhang Tie proposed using a random teleportation formation at the gate’s former location, and Yong E agreed despite the risks.
• Zhang Tie and Yong E built the formation and teleported to a moss-covered ruined temple.
• Yong E told Zhang Tie she planned to leave the ruin because her injuries and weakening cultivation made her a burden.
• Zhang Tie escorted Yong E to the exit, watched her leave for the outside world, and then flew away alone.

Zhang Tie stayed in the Giant Demon Race ruin to avoid drawing the Night Clan’s attention and to seek a safe place to cultivate. In a ruined city’s Teleportation Hall, he found one damaged array with incomplete destination coordinates and began using witchcraft to choose among the possibilities.

• Zhang Tie decided to remain in the ruin and search for a secluded place to refine the Kunpeng True Blood and advance his cultivation.
• Zhang Tie discovered a ruined city and searched its central buildings for the Teleportation Hall.
• Zhang Tie found three damaged teleportation arrays and determined that only the smallest retained incomplete destination-coordinate information.
• Zhang Tie sealed the hall, built a new teleportation array, and used witchcraft to select a numbered paper scrap; he drew the scrap marked 129.

Zhang Tie used incomplete coordinates and sorcery to teleport to a hidden place beyond a damaged formation. There, he discovered a pillar of empty tomb-like cave dwellings that appeared to be where Giant Demon Race cultivators had come to pass away.

• Zhang Tie inscribed the teleportation coordinates he had found and tried activating the array, but it failed because the formation at the destination had been destroyed.
• Zhang Tie activated sorcery alongside the teleportation array and successfully shifted to the other location.
• Zhang Tie investigated a corridor and found a stone door bearing ancient inscriptions about death, immortality, and reincarnation.
• Zhang Tie opened the door and discovered a massive black pillar covered in sealed cave dwellings surrounded by a deathly aura.
• Zhang Tie found that the dwellings were empty and inferred that the Giant Demon Race had used them as places to pass away.
• Zhang Tie concluded that the three isolated dwellings at the pillar’s summit were likely reserved for Mahayana-stage cultivators.

Zhang Tie prepared a cave abode to refine the Kunpeng True Blood and began tempering his body with its immense blood and qi. The Indestructible Pearl stabilized the dangerous energy, and he focused on strengthening his right hand as the first step toward the Hegemon Body Realm.

• Zhang Tie inspected the three cave abodes and chose one that appeared unoccupied.
• Zhang Tie set up Isolation, Stealth, and illusion formations inside the cave abode.
• Zhang Tie summoned his Nascent Soul clone, settled into meditation, and crushed the crimson stone containing Kunpeng True Blood.
• Zhang Tie absorbed the blood and qi, which overwhelmed his body and caused cracks to spread across his chest.
• The Indestructible Pearl released purple qi that healed Zhang Tie's cracks and calmed the surging force.
• Zhang Tie used the Nine Revolutions Undying Body to refine the force and channel it into tempering his right hand.

Zhang Tie reached the Hegemon Body Realm after refining the Kunpeng True Blood, but found the passage back to the Spirit Realm had vanished. While waiting for a hundred years, he opened a mysterious jade box, and the Indestructible Pearl consumed its contents and healed his damaged body while completing the tempering of his heart.

• Zhang Tie spent seventy years refining the two drops of Kunpeng True Blood, entered the Hegemon Body Realm, and gained the Kunpeng Transformation ability.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Zhang Tie reached the dilapidated palace and discovered the passageway had disappeared, so he opened a cave abode and waited a hundred years.
• Zhang Tie removed the five sealing talismans from a jade box and opened it, releasing a mysterious energy that cracked his body.
• The Indestructible Pearl flew out of Zhang Tie's body and devoured the white jade, changing its purple patterns toward blue.
• The Indestructible Pearl returned to Zhang Tie's acupoint space and released blue-purple mist that healed his body and fully tempered his heart.

Zhang Tie inspected the Immortal Jade and the treasures he had taken, confirming the jade was likely tied to the Giant Demon Race’s destruction. He gave Little Turtle a demon core to aid its advancement, then began studying a jade slip about puppet techniques.

• Zhang Tie suspected the thumb-sized jade was the Immortal Jade that had exposed the Giant Demon Race and powered its escape formation.
• Zhang Tie inspected fifteen jade boxes and found a gold ingot and an expandable umbrella, but judged them of little use.
• Zhang Tie identified a fifth-rank high-grade demon core as the only useful treasure and gave it to Little Turtle.
• Zhang Tie examined a jade slip containing insights into the Immortal Spirit Puppet refinement method and puppet-control technique.

After more than two hundred years in the ruins, Zhang Tie learned about the Divine Refinement Technique, strengthened his Nascent Soul clone, and watched Little Turtle advance. When the passage reopened, Zhang Tie questioned the Jiaochi Tribe members who arrived for a five-clan competition, then left the ruins to return.

• Zhang Tie studied the jade slips and learned that the Divine Refinement Technique could enhance Immortal Spirit Puppets and the Puppet Technique, with a possible lead near the Thirteen Tribes of Tianyun.
• Over a hundred years, Zhang Tie's Nascent Soul clone mastered the Void Extinguishing Soul Spear, and Little Turtle refined a fifth-rank demon core, advanced to a fifth-rank demon beast, and gained the Sky-Breaking Spirit Eye.
• Zhang Tie detected the spatial passage reopening above the ruined palace and found fifty Jiaochi Tribe members entering the ruins.
• Zhang Tie subdued the Jiaochi Tribe members with his pressure and learned they had come for the five-clan competition to determine mining shares in the Tianhe Mountain Range.
• Zhang Tie dismissed the Jiaochi Tribe group and flew through the spatial rift to leave the ruins.

Zhang Tie escaped the Sea of Restrictions after two hundred years and returned to the Night Clan. He reunited with his master, Xuanyuan Muxue, who gave him her formation insights, just as Yong E arrived requesting an audience.

• Zhang Tie emerged from the spatial rift and identified himself to the gathered cultivators as a Night Clan disciple trapped in the ruins.
• Elder Rong Sheng verified Zhang Tie’s identity token and examined him, then gave him a map so he could return to the Night Clan ahead of the others.
• Zhang Tie used his Hexagonal Formation Disk to fly back and found that his cave dwelling had changed ownership, so he went to pay respects to Xuanyuan Muxue.
• Zhang Tie told Xuanyuan Muxue he had spent two hundred years trapped in the Sea of Restrictions, and she praised his progress and gave him her formation experience.
• Yong E called from outside Xuanyuan Muxue’s cave dwelling and requested an audience.

Zhang Tie reunited with Xuanyuan Muxue and Yong E, learned that Bo Yao had returned from the ruins with a rare pill, and settled into a new cave dwelling. He then took Little Turtle to a valley for its fifth-rank tribulation, where Little Turtle endured three increasingly powerful lightning strikes.

• Xuanyuan Muxue opened her cave dwelling, and Yong E greeted Zhang Tie before telling him she had found him a new place to stay.
• At Zhang Tie's new cave dwelling, Yong E said Bo Yao had returned from the ruins with a Five Elements Ascending Dragon Pill and explained that it increased the odds of a successful Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Yong E told Zhang Tie that she and Xuanyuan Muxue had asked Bo Yao about him, but he claimed he had not seen Zhang Tie after they separated in the mountain forest.
• After Yong E left, Zhang Tie activated his cave formation and prepared to help Little Turtle undergo its tribulation.
• The next day, Zhang Tie released Little Turtle in a distant valley and promised to protect it as dark clouds gathered.
• Little Turtle transformed into a giant demon beast and withstood three lightning strikes, using its shell barrier and demon core to survive the third strike.

As Little Turtle faced the final strike of its heavenly tribulation, Kui Zhao and Ge Tu arrived and tried to kill it while confronting Zhang Tie. The chapter ended with Kui Zhao’s Six-winged Scorpion Puppet Beast blocking Zhang Tie, who decided he would endure their abuse no longer.

• Little Turtle endured increasingly powerful lightning as the purple lightning spear formed for its final trial.
• Kui Zhao and Ge Tu appeared, and Zhang Tie warned them not to interfere with the tribulation.
• Kui Zhao summoned a Six-winged Scorpion Puppet Beast and ordered Ge Tu to attack Little Turtle.
• Ge Tu formed a flame wyrm and sent it toward Little Turtle while Zhang Tie rushed to stop him.
• The Six-winged Scorpion Puppet Beast intercepted Zhang Tie, and Kui Zhao taunted him as Zhang Tie resolved to fight back.

Zhang Tie overwhelmed Ge Tu and Kui Zhao while Little Turtle endured the final heavenly tribulation. Kui Zhao’s attempted escape failed, and he was annihilated by the lightning.

• Zhang Tie shattered Ge Tu’s fire dragon and hurled him into the final heavenly tribulation, where the lightning destroyed him.
• Little Turtle used his demon core to maintain a blue barrier against the purple lightning spear.
• Kui Zhao ordered the Six-winged Scorpion Puppet Beast to attack Little Turtle, but Zhang Tie smashed its pincers and head and sent its body crashing into a mountain.
• Zhang Tie seized Kui Zhao and threw him into the tribulation, where a black barrier protected him from the lightning.
• Kui Zhao began to teleport away, but Zhang Tie froze him until the barrier broke and the lightning reduced him to smoke.

Little Turtle survived its tribulation with Zhang Tie’s help, while Zhang Tie reported killing Kui Zhao and Ge Tu to his master, Xuanyuan Muxue. Facing likely punishment from the Night Clan, Zhang Tie chose to leave and departed with Xuanyuan Muxue’s parting gift.

• Little Turtle recovered after the tribulation, thanked Zhang Tie, and gave him the storage rings of two individuals before returning to the Mountain River Cave Heaven Diagram.
• Zhang Tie visited Xuanyuan Muxue and told her that Kui Zhao and Ge Tu had tried to sabotage Little Turtle’s tribulation and had died in it.
• Xuanyuan Muxue explained that Kui Zhao had likely resented Zhang Tie for receiving beast blood that had been reserved for him, and warned that Kui Zhao’s grandfather would pursue the matter.
• Xuanyuan Muxue offered Zhang Tie the choice of taking the seventh-tier formation assessment or leaving the Night Clan, and Zhang Tie chose to leave.
• Xuanyuan Muxue gave Zhang Tie spirit stones and her formation insights in a jade slip, and Zhang Tie departed while she watched him go.

Zhang Tie accepted a dangerous Night Clan mission to exterminate the Green Ghost Tribe, hoping to use it as a route out of the Night Clan and toward the Thirteen Tribes of Tianyun. He joined the assembled team under Elder Lan Ji, who prepared to transport them inside his Palm Mountain treasure.

• Zhang Tie chose the Green Ghost Tribe extermination mission because it departed the next morning and could take him closer to the Thirteen Tribes of Tianyun.
• A red-haired young man sent a yellow talisman after Zhang Tie left the mission hall.
• Zhang Tie met the mission team at Danyang Restaurant, where Elder Lan Ji collected and inspected everyone’s identity tokens.
• Elder Lan Ji led the team to the teleportation array outside Yuyang City and revealed his Palm Mountain treasure, telling them to enter it for the journey.