Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie turned the fight against the yellow-robed cultivator by using Little Turtle and his Four Symbols Locking Immortal Formation to suppress his opponent’s cultivation. The yellow-robed man conceded, giving Zhang Tie the second match victory.

• Tong Gensheng worried that their side was likely to lose again as Zhang Tie’s four puppet beasts struggled to hit the yellow-robed man.
• Zhang Tie summoned Little Turtle, whose blue barrier enclosed the arena, and began setting up the Four Symbols Locking Immortal Formation.
• The yellow-robed man attacked the barrier while Zhang Tie’s puppet beasts fired at him to disrupt his strikes.
• Zhang Tie completed the formation, suppressing the yellow-robed man’s cultivation and allowing the puppet beasts to injure him.
• The yellow-robed man conceded, and the white-robed young woman announced that Number Seven had won the second match.

Zhang Tie rested after his victory while the masked man with a ghost face won the next match, but the competition rules suddenly changed to a twelve-person free-for-all final. Facing the likelihood that the other teams would target his group, Zhang Tie began refining another Four-winged Demonic Scorpion puppet beast.

• Tong Gensheng praised Zhang Tie's victory and gave him Demon Essence Pills for his spirit pet.
• The masked man with a ghost face fought the scar-faced young woman for two days before defeating her with a powerful attack.
• Tong Gensheng announced that the semifinals were canceled and that all four victorious teams would compete in a twelve-person free-for-all final three days later.
• Zhang Tie worried that the other teams would unite against his group and decided to refine another Four-winged Demonic Scorpion puppet beast.
• Zhang Tie brought out his puppet-refining materials and began working on the new puppet.

Zhang Tie and Tong Gensheng’s team prepared for the grand melee, despite being heavily underestimated by spectators. The match began with Zhang Tie deploying his puppets and Little Turtle, but none of the four teams made the first attack.

• After receiving details about the other contestants, Zhang Tie worried about the dangerous opponents but resolved to pursue the mid-grade yin vein.
• Zhang Tie arrived at the arena and placed five thousand high-grade spirit stones on Tong Gensheng’s team after disguising himself.
• Tong Gensheng gave Zhang Tie and the other two Profound Water Essence Pills to boost their mana recovery during the battle.
• The four teams entered the arena, and the square-faced Integration cultivator announced that the last team remaining would win.
• Zhang Tie deployed five Four-winged Demonic Scorpion puppet beasts and summoned Little Turtle in transformed form, while all four teams hesitated to attack.

Zhang Tie’s team faced attacks from the other three teams after the short middle-aged man urged them to unite against him. As several fighters launched sudden attacks on their supposed allies, Zhang Tie used his Soul Piercing Thorn and told the bald man to freeze.

• The short middle-aged man proposed that the three teams join forces against Zhang Tie’s team, but Zhang Tie warned that allies might betray one another.
• The bald strongman charged Zhang Tie’s team, and the other teams joined the battle, destroying three Four-winged Demonic Scorpion puppet beasts and severely injuring the old woman.
• Little Turtle struggled to protect Zhang Tie from the peak-stage Nascent Soul cultivators and accumulated wounds.
• The long-haired man and Black Shadow ambushed the white-robed sword cultivator while the short middle-aged man used a suona-like treasure and the red-robed woman attacked the bald man with flying needles.
• Zhang Tie recovered quickly from the suona’s sound, struck the white-robed sword cultivator with a Soul Piercing Thorn, and silently told the bald man to freeze.

Zhang Tie’s team turned the battle around after eliminating the white-robed sword cultivator and the bald man, but the remaining enemies pressed their attack. Zhang Tie killed the red-clothed woman, and the Void Extinguishing Soul Spear struck down the sharp-mouthed, monkey-faced man as the fight continued.

• The white-robed sword cultivator escaped with a Life-Substitution Talisman, while flying needles killed the bald man and forced both of their teams to withdraw.
• The gloomy-looking man attacked the masked man with a ghost face and sent ghost creatures after the old woman and Little Turtle, while the sharp-mouthed, monkey-faced man used corrosive black liquid against the Four-winged Demonic Scorpion puppet beasts.
• The old woman conceded and left the arena, leaving Zhang Tie and Little Turtle under heavier pressure from the ghost creatures and the red-clothed woman.
• Zhang Tie shattered the red-clothed woman's flying daggers with his fist and killed her with a golden dragon claw.
• Zhang Tie charged the sharp-mouthed, monkey-faced man, but the Void Extinguishing Soul Spear emerged from the void and pierced the man through the chest.

Zhang Tie overwhelmed the gloomy, long-haired man in the arena and took control of his White Bone Tower. When the judge failed to announce a result, Zhang Tie hurled the Void Extinguishing Soul Spear at the fallen man.

• Zhang Tie broke the gloomy, long-haired man's bone sword with his bare hands while dodging the White Bone Tower.
• The gloomy, long-haired man transformed with a secret technique and charged Zhang Tie, whose Void Extinguishing Soul Spear barely pierced his scales.
• Zhang Tie met the man's charge with a punch, shattered his arm, and blasted him into the arena's protective formation.
• Zhang Tie seized the uncontrolled White Bone Tower and collected the storage rings of the fallen red-clothed woman and sharp-faced man.
• Zhang Tie saw that the Integration stage senior would not announce the match result and threw the Void Extinguishing Soul Spear at the gloomy, long-haired man's head.

Zhang Tie and the masked man with a ghost face defeated Team Seven’s opponents, securing the team’s victory. While recovering, Zhang Tie examined the storage rings he had acquired and found a corpse-puppet technique he considered useful.

• The effeminate man exploded, but Zhang Tie caught the rebounding Void Extinguishing Soul Spear as a dwarf man appeared and asked how Zhang Tie had discovered him.
• Zhang Tie attacked the dwarf man with the Soul Piercing Thorn, and the masked man with a ghost face emerged from the puppet wreckage and killed him with a saber strike.
• The arena announced Team Seven’s victory, and Zhang Tie took the dwarf man’s storage ring before collecting Little Turtle and the puppet beast wreckage.
• Tong Gensheng congratulated Zhang Tie and the masked man with a ghost face and gave them healing pills as other cultivators gathered around him.
• Zhang Tie examined four storage rings and found the Corpse Imprint Art, which could turn corpses into puppets that retained some of their former strength but required regular nourishment.

Zhang Tie refined the bald man's corpse into a Spirit Transformation-stage corpse puppet and had his Nascent Soul clone refine two soul-attacking treasures. After Tong Gensheng rewarded him with a mid-grade yin vein and a Hundred Nations Battlefield token, Zhang Tie left to prepare for cultivating Palm Hell and investigate the battlefield.

• Zhang Tie's Nascent Soul clone spent three days refining the bald man's corpse into a puppet, which Zhang Tie estimated was at the mid Spirit Transformation stage.
• Zhang Tie gave his Nascent Soul clone the Nine Yin White Bone Pagoda and Soul-Swaying Suona to refine, and the clone completed the task over the following month.
• Zhang Tie declined Tong Gensheng's enthronement invitation while in seclusion, then attended the gathering after Tong summoned everyone.
• Tong Gensheng rewarded Zhang Tie and two others with storage rings containing promised items and Hundred Nations Battlefield tokens.
• Zhang Tie found the mid-grade yin vein inside a Ruyi Spirit Mine Pearl and left to gather supplies, cultivate Palm Hell, and ask Gu Linfan about the Hundred Nations Battlefield.

Zhang Tie visited the Carefree Pavilion to ask about rare materials and learned about the Hundred Nations Battlefield, a dangerous region where powerful treasures could be found. He entered a rented cave abode to prepare for cultivating the Palm Hell technique and left undecided about joining the Helian Merchant Alliance’s team when the battlefield opened.

• Gu Linfan told Zhang Tie that the Carefree Pavilion still lacked the rare item he had requested, but it had all the other materials listed in his jade slip.
• Gu Linfan asked Zhang Tie to sell his Hundred Nations Battlefield qualification, then explained the battlefield and invited him to join the Helian Merchant Alliance’s team.
• Zhang Tie rented a cave abode for sixty years, inspected it, and set up isolation and defensive formations.
• Zhang Tie considered cultivating the Palm Hell technique with the materials he had gathered for his Nascent Soul clone, avoiding the need to reveal its demonic cultivation.
• Zhang Tie decided to gather more information before choosing whether to enter the Hundred Nations Battlefield, though the prospect of finding replacement materials tempted him.

Zhang Tie prepared for the Hundred Nations Battlefield while hoping to find puppet-beast materials at a Flower Rain Country auction instead. After arriving in the crowded city and finding its inns full, he hired a young guide who took him away by beast carriage to find lodging.

• Zhang Tie sent his Nascent Soul clone to cultivate "Hell in the Palm" and spent a year tempering his body.
• Shopkeeper Gu gave Zhang Tie a communication jade slip for the Hundred Nations Battlefield and invited him to Carefree Pavilion's auction in Flower Rain Country.
• Zhang Tie decided to attend the auction in hopes of finding materials for a seventh-rank puppet beast and avoiding the dangerous battlefield.
• Zhang Tie entered Flower Rain Country after paying thirty low-grade spirit stones and learned that a sixth-rank air-forbidding restriction covered the city.
• After five inns turned him away, Zhang Tie hired Zhang Tiedan as a guide, and the boy arranged a beast carriage to take him to a quiet place to stay.

Zhang Tie rented a room at the Immortal Abode Pavilion and explored the Flower Rain Market ahead of the Carefree Pavilion auction. As he prepared to browse the market stalls, a stranger insulted him and reached to shove him aside.

• Zhang Tie paid the carriage youth and rented a third-floor room at the Immortal Abode Pavilion for seven days.
• Zhang Tie entered his spacious cave residence and inspected its rooms and dense spiritual energy.
• Zhang Tie went to the Flower Rain Market, paid its entry fee, and entered its bustling market square.
• Zhang Tie headed toward the street of stalls, but a gruff stranger called him a country bumpkin and reached for his shoulder.

Zhang Tie explored the market, bought a luck-energy-laden ghost-faced clay figurine and jade slip, then purchased a Beast Soul Pill. As he left the pill shop, the bearded man from earlier confronted him again.

• Zhang Tie avoided a quarrel with a bearded middle-aged man and his companions, including a woman in white guarded by an old Void Refinement cultivator.
• Zhang Tie noticed a stallholder was using an illusion to make ordinary spirit herbs look ten thousand years old.
• Zhang Tie sensed pure white luck energy around a ghost-faced clay figurine and bought it along with a black jade slip for five Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Tie bought a bottle of Beast Soul Pills for seven high-grade Spirit Stones at the Clear Wind Pill Pavilion.
• The bearded middle-aged man leaped in front of Zhang Tie as he left the shop.

Zhang Tie sold the Beast Soul Pill for a high price, then returned to his cave abode and studied a jade slip describing the Incense Godhood Path. He considered having his Nascent Soul clone cultivate it by gathering faith from the evil ghosts in its palm-held hell.

• Zhang Tie sold the Beast Soul Pill to Elder Zhao for twenty-one high-grade spirit stones after the old man offered three times its price.
• Elder Zhao told the bearded man that Zhang Tie had reached the legendary Hegemon Body Realm despite his Nascent Soul stage cultivation.
• Zhang Tie browsed Flower Rain Market for two more hours, earning spirit stones and finding rare materials for the Outline of Auxiliary Formations.
• Back at his cave abode, Zhang Tie read the jade slip and learned that the Incense Godhood Path used statues to gather the Power of Faith from worshippers.
• Zhang Tie considered having his Nascent Soul clone gather faith from the evil ghosts in its palm-held hell, and believed the yin veins might eventually help the ghosts develop intelligence.

Zhang Tie attended the Carefree Pavilion auction after failing to find the rare materials needed to refine an Earth Deity Incarnation. He won a defensive armor for Little Turtle and bid against a woman for Thunderclap Beads, hoping to study their construction.

• Zhang Tie searched the Carefree Pavilion and other shops for a Soul-Birthing Flower and Yin Soul Grass but found neither.
• A white-haired Integration-stage auctioneer opened the Carefree Pavilion auction and presented the Silver Light Azure Wave Armor.
• Zhang Tie bid three million low-grade spirit stones and won the armor, intending to strengthen Little Turtle's defense.
• The auctioneer introduced three Thunderclap Beads, and Zhang Tie bid four million low-grade spirit stones to study their lightning-based construction.
• A woman in a private room bid five million low-grade spirit stones, and Zhang Tie raised the bid to six million.

Zhang Tie attended the auction, won two items, and watched increasingly valuable treasures sell for prices beyond his means. Back in his residence, he gave the Silver Light Azure Wave Armor to Little Turtle and spent two months studying a Thunderclap Bead, leaving a compressed lightning sphere on the verge of eruption.

• Zhang Tie outbid a woman and won a Thunderclap Bead for eight million low-grade spirit stones, then declined to bid on Crimson Yin Ghost Sand, which sold for eleven million three hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Zhang Tie watched the auction's most valuable lots draw enormous bids and gave up on the Four-armed Demon Ape True Spirit true blood when its price exceeded ten billion low-grade spirit stones.
• Zhang Tie watched a private room on the fourth floor buy the Twin-tailed Demonic Flame Tiger remains for nine million three hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• Zhang Tie collected his winnings, returned to his residence, and gave the Silver Light Azure Wave Armor to Little Turtle.
• Zhang Tie studied a Thunderclap Bead for two months and compressed gathered azure lightning into a head-sized sphere that seemed ready to explode.

Zhang Tie developed the Azure Lightning Bead and prepared for the Hundred Nations Battlefield by refining five of them. He joined the Helian Merchant Alliance group at the Carefree Pavilion and teleported with them toward Fenglong Kingdom.

• Zhang Tie compressed a lightning sphere and used rune-inscribed sixth-rank lightning-element demon beast hide to create the Azure Lightning Bead.
• Zhang Tie spent the next fifteen days refining four more Azure Lightning Beads, bringing his total to five.
• Zhang Tie ended his lease and went to the Carefree Pavilion, where he met Su Jinzhong, the Helian Merchant Alliance group leader.
• Su Jinzhong led the twenty cultivators through a Cave Heaven Treasure screen to a hall containing a long-distance teleportation array.
• Su Jinzhong distributed communication jade slips and teleportation talismans, then activated the array to send the group toward Fenglong Kingdom.

Zhang Tie entered the Hundred Nations Battlefield and explored its strange, mist-shrouded landscape, where he fought off mutated creatures and found no crystal cores. After flying toward denser spiritual energy, he reached an ancient, ruined city whose still-functioning formation attacked him, and several people on the wall demanded to know whether he had a qualification token.

• Su Jinzhong led the group through the spatial passage into the Hundred Nations Battlefield.
• Zhang Tie surveyed the battlefield’s fifteen suns, dense spiritual energy, demonic aura, and pink mist before dodging an attack from a mutated creature.
• Zhang Tie crushed the creature with a golden hand, searched its skull, and found no crystal core.
• Zhang Tie flew toward denser spiritual energy, defeating several weak mutated creatures along the way.
• Zhang Tie reached a dilapidated ancient city, dodged a beam from its defensive formation, and saw people appear on the wall.
• A young man in a green robe asked Zhang Tie where he came from and whether he had a qualification token.

Han Li entered Xuanwu City after passing a formation that detected demons and insects, then learned about the city’s history and the dangers of the Hundred Nations Battlefield. He agreed to travel with Mu Xiangwen’s group to Azure Dragon City in search of opportunities.

• Han Li presented his qualification token and passed Xuanwu City’s detection formation before entering.
• Mu Xiangwen explained that Xuanwu City was one of four ancient defensive cities and that the Four Symbols Formation had been destroyed in a war against the Demon Realm and Insect Realm.
• Mu Xiangwen told Han Li that treasures and mutated creatures in the outer regions had mostly been exhausted, while Azure Dragon City and White Tiger City faced more dangerous creatures and possible mutation tides.
• Mu Xiangwen said his group planned to gather companions before traveling to Azure Dragon City, and Han Li agreed to join them.

Zhang Tie traveled with five companions toward Azure Dragon City, using his sixth-tier puppet to defeat a fifth-tier mutated beast and conceal his strength. At the city gate, the guards demanded crystal cores as an entry fee, and one guard singled out Qi Zhengwen for an even higher charge.

• Mu Xiangwen welcomed Qi Zhengwen and Qian Minggui, bringing the group to six, and they set off for Azure Dragon City on a flying boat.
• Near the Demon Realm, a fifth-tier Bat Mosquito Beast attacked, and Zhang Tie sent out his Six-winged Scorpion Puppet Beast to kill it and seize its crystal core.
• The group continued through the region, defeating more fifth-tier mutated entities and collecting several crystal cores each before reaching Azure Dragon City.
• At the city gate, a guard demanded two crystal cores from each traveler, and Zhang Tie advised the group to pay rather than risk a confrontation.
• As the group prepared to enter, the guard blocked Qi Zhengwen and demanded three crystal cores from her.

Zhang Tie explored Azure Dragon City, bought a rough map of the surrounding terrain, and left alone to hunt mutated holy spirits. Min Yi and his companion followed him after he departed.

• Qi Zhengwen was forced to pay three crystal cores to leave Azure Dragon City, and Mu Xiangwen and Zhang Tie's group went their separate ways.
• Zhang Tie inspected the ruins and city gate, where Min Yi and Mi Zhuo recommended the Hundred Battles Training Ground as a source of information.
• Zhang Tie paid one high-grade spirit stone to enter the marketplace and bought a rough terrain map from a stall owner.
• Zhang Tie spent seven days exploring Azure Dragon City and studying the map before leaving alone for the Demon Realm.
• Min Yi and his companion followed Zhang Tie out of the city, calling him the man surnamed Han.