Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie investigated the hidden formation in the fifth passage and found that it redirected travelers rather than teleporting them. After he disrupted part of its illusion formation, Heyin detected the anomaly and began to understand how to break it.

• Zhang Tie entered the fifth passage with a Spiritual Sense Disk to search for spatial fluctuations while Heyin remained outside.
• Zhang Tie detected an abnormality near the seventh miniature light-gathering array and confirmed it by walking back past the spot.
• Zhang Tie used a formation disk and nine formation flags to reveal the hidden redirection formation, then damaged one of its formation flags.
• Zhang Tie returned to Heyin and followed her back into the passage after she said she had found the problem.
• Heyin's formation disk reacted at the seventh miniature light-gathering array, and she exclaimed that she understood the formation.

Heyin uncovered and disabled a hidden illusion and teleportation array, allowing her and Zhang Tie to enter the Five Yang Mountain Range’s core, where they began searching for fire-attributed treasures. Zhang Tie collected a Flowing Fire Stone and killed a lava lizard demonic beast, then took a crimson crystal from its head.

• Heyin revealed a hidden illusion and teleportation array that would have secretly turned travelers back toward the passage exit.
• Heyin disabled the teleportation array, and she and Zhang Tie continued deeper into the passage.
• Zhang Tie and Heyin entered the Five Yang Mountain Range’s core and agreed to search for fire-attributed materials and spirit herbs.
• Zhang Tie endured the Five Yang Demonic Fire while using azure lightning to conceal his strength, and Heyin protected herself with a water barrier.
• Zhang Tie collected a Flowing Fire Stone, evaded a lizard demonic beast, and killed it with the Void Extinguishing Soul Spear.
• Zhang Tie removed a crimson crystal from the beast’s head and stored it before discarding the corpse in the lava.

Zhang Tie and Heyin reached the Bridge of Rebirth and discovered that leaving it caused magical and divine power to dissipate. As they walked into the crimson mist, the bridge began to tremble and a stone behind them shattered.

• Zhang Tie killed the fifth-rank demonic rock lizard, and Heyin asked him to leave its valuable remains for her in the future.
• The masked man with a ghost face and the old beggar found that the fifth passage was no longer blocked by the formation and entered it to search for the old beggar’s junior sister.
• Zhang Tie and Heyin crossed the lava swamp and found the Bridge of Rebirth, which stretched into crimson mist that blocked divine sense.
• Heyin explained that flying off the bridge drained magical power, and Zhang Tie tested the rule before deciding to cross on foot.
• After Zhang Tie and Heyin had walked for more than two hours, the bridge began to hum and shake, and a crimson rock behind them shattered.

Zhang Tie and Heyin raced across the collapsing Bridge of Rebirth while surrounded by Molten Bat demonic beasts. Heyin’s blood-colored barrier protected them from the beasts’ explosions, but the Molten Bat King’s trident pierced through it and struck at Zhang Tie.

• Zhang Tie and Heyin fled the collapsing Bridge of Rebirth on the Hexagonal Formation Disk as the void drained their spiritual power.
• Molten Bat demonic beasts surrounded them and began self-destructing, while Zhang Tie pushed onward toward the bridge’s remaining span.
• Heyin used a blood-colored jade pendant to form a barrier that absorbed the beasts’ corrosive blood and shielded them from the attacks.
• Zhang Tie broke through the encirclement, but the Molten Bat King pursued them and attacked with a crimson trident.
• The trident passed through the barrier, and Heyin dodged as Zhang Tie’s back was left exposed to its strike.

Zhang Tie was wounded by the Molten Bat King but stayed behind so Heyin could escape. Once she was gone, he seized and sealed the king’s crimson trident, then unleashed his Nascent Soul clone to devour the pursuing Molten Bats.

• The Molten Bat King pierced Zhang Tie’s shoulder with its crimson trident, but azure lightning destroyed the scorching spiritual power in his wound.
• Zhang Tie told Heyin to go ahead and hold off the Molten Bat King; Heyin gave him a damaged Fire Phoenix Flowing Cloud Jade Pendant and flew into the crimson mist.
• After confirming Heyin had escaped, Zhang Tie faced the Molten Bat King and stopped its next attack by grabbing the trident and sealing away its spiritual power.
• Zhang Tie stored the powerless trident in his ring as the Molten Bat swarm surrounded him.
• Zhang Tie sent out his Nascent Soul clone, which used Hell in the Palm and the Taotie phantom to swallow the Molten Bats and feed on them.

Zhang Tie defeated the Molten Bat King and devoured its bat swarm, then returned to the Bridge of Rebirth and continued with Heyin. Suspecting Heyin had deliberately weakened her protective barrier to test or harm him, he concealed his strength and pretended to be badly injured so he could uncover her intentions.

• The Molten Bat King ordered its swarm to flee, but Zhang Tie sent his Blood Wolf Bat Demon corpse puppet to trap the bats while his Nascent Soul clone devoured them.
• Zhang Tie's Mountain Moving Demon Ape corpse puppet caught the Molten Bat King and ripped out its magic core.
• After his Nascent Soul clone swallowed the remaining bats, Zhang Tie flew toward the opposite shore, healed his shoulder, and resolved to investigate Heyin's scheme.
• Zhang Tie found Heyin meditating on the Bridge of Rebirth and concealed his aura to appear severely injured.
• Heyin urged Zhang Tie to cross the bridge before recovering, and the two set off across it together.

Zhang Tie and Heyin reached the crimson mountains of the Five Yang Mountain Range, but a powerful formation barrier blocked their way to the heavenly treasure. Unable to break through, they decided to wait for the people who controlled the region’s resources, while two other cultivators entered the lava swamp.

• Zhang Tie and Heyin crossed the Bridge of Rebirth and found a crimson mountain region rich in fire-attribute demonic qi.
• Zhang Tie sensed formations around a distant peak, and he and Heyin flew toward it on the Hexagonal Formation Disk.
• A powerful barrier stopped them at the mountainside, rebuffing Zhang Tie’s attacks and Heyin’s attempts to break it with formation tools.
• Heyin concluded that the barrier might belong to a sixth-tier or seventh-tier defensive formation and suggested waiting for resource collectors to enter it.
• Zhang Tie and Heyin hid nearby to wait, while a scholarly man and a Daoist nun entered the lava swamp and discussed the dangers of the secret place.

A scholarly man and a female Daoist nun crossed the lava region using the Myriad Manifestations Grand Formation while a masked man and an old beggar tracked Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie confirmed the mountain’s formation was part of a seventh-order grand formation and finished setting up a sixth-order formation to integrate with it, just as two more acquaintances arrived.

• The scholarly man killed a Flame Lizard with the formation and took it, then carried himself and the female Daoist nun toward the Bridge of Rebirth inside a barrier.
• The old beggar recognized his junior martial sister’s pendant on Han and wanted to capture him, but the masked man warned him of Han’s formidable strength, so they decided to follow him and wait for a chance.
• Zhang Tie realized the masked man and the old beggar had been tracking him, and recalled that he had separated from Heyin to scout the area two hours earlier.
• Zhang Tie identified the mountain formation as a sub-formation of a seventh-order grand formation and summoned three fifth-order puppet beasts to guard the area.
• Zhang Tie set up the sixth-order Water Wave Fusion Formation so he could integrate it into the grand formation and gain partial authority over it.
• After finishing the formation, Zhang Tie discovered that two more acquaintances had arrived.

Zhang Tie and Heyin followed two cultivators through a hidden gate, only to discover they had been lured into a deadly formation. Trapped alongside the masked man and the old beggar, they fought off flaming beasts as they searched for a way out.

• Zhang Tie and Heyin watched a scholar and a Daoist nun reveal a red gate with an array disk, then followed them inside as the masked man and the old beggar entered ahead of them.
• The scholar and the Daoist nun revealed that they had used the Myriad Manifestations Grand Formation to lure the four intruders into the Death Gate while they entered through the Life Gate.
• Zhang Tie found himself inside a furnace-like formation filled with living flames, where the masked man and the old beggar were already fighting fire beasts.
• Zhang Tie trapped a black fire lizard in a golden bell to save Heyin, then told her they had fallen into a trap and needed to break the formation.
• Zhang Tie destroyed two attacking fire wyrms with golden fist phantoms, but fire leopards and pythons closed in around him and Heyin.

Zhang Tie and Heyin escaped the fire-beast formation and entered a hidden area full of spiritual herbs. As the group debated how to divide the treasures, the masked man proposed giving Zhang Tie and Heyin the largest shares.

• Zhang Tie defended Heyin while she searched for a weakness in the formation, and the masked man surnamed Yi asked how they could escape.
• When Heyin made no progress, Zhang Tie secretly used an array plate to reveal a weak point, which Heyin identified.
• Zhang Tie hurled the Void Extinguishing Soul Spear at the weak point and opened a passage; he, Heyin, the masked man, and the old beggar entered it.
• Heyin spotted several Fire Ganoderma and prepared to gather them, but Zhang Tie told her to wait for the others.
• Zhang Tie asked how they should divide the treasures, and the old beggar argued that everyone should take what they could while the masked man proposed that Zhang Tie and Heyin each receive thirty percent.

Zhang Tie and three fellow cultivators searched a sealed herb garden, where Heyin discovered a hundred-thousand-year-old Yin Soul Grass guarded by a sixth-tier Crimson Flame Poison Toad Beast. After finding a hidden formation near the herb, Zhang Tie agreed to lead the attempt to collect it in exchange for keeping the Yin Soul Grass.

• Zhang Tie proposed splitting into pairs to gather herbs, then paired himself with the wary old beggar.
• On the third day, Heyin told Zhang Tie that she had found a hundred-thousand-year-old Yin Soul Grass guarded by a Crimson Flame Poison Toad Beast.
• Zhang Tie and the old beggar joined Heyin and the masked man with a ghost face, then investigated the Yin Spirit Pool and the beast's nearby cave.
• Zhang Tie discovered a concealed Three Talents Demon Extermination Formation near the pool.
• Heyin proposed that Zhang Tie take the Yin Soul Grass while the others and the formation held off the beast, and Zhang Tie agreed on the condition that the herb would belong to him.

Zhang Tie tried to take the Yin Soul Grass from the Yin Spirit Pool, but an unseen barrier and the Crimson Flame Poison Toad Beast stopped him. After battling the beast alone, he tried to retreat and found a huge, eye-covered tentacle blocking his way.

• Zhang Tie persuaded the masked man with a ghost face to let him keep the Yin Soul Grass in exchange for cultivation resources.
• Heyin and the other two activated the Three Talents Demon Extermination Formation while Zhang Tie approached the Yin Spirit Pool and encountered an invisible barrier.
• The Crimson Flame Poison Toad Beast emerged and attacked Zhang Tie with its tongue, poisonous gas, and fire, while his golden palm and blood-red small tripod failed to stop it.
• Zhang Tie struck the beast with a golden dragon claw and sent the white bone pagoda crashing down, but the beast knocked the pagoda away and fired at him again.
• Zhang Tie called for the three others to attack, then tried to flee and found a huge tentacle covered in eyes blocking him.

Zhang Tie and three others were trapped by a powerful formation controlled by a scholarly man, who seized the Yin Soul Grass and demanded their possessions. The old beggar revealed his Blood God Sect identity and was released, while Zhang Tie claimed ties to the sect to save himself.

• Zhang Tie fought off the Crimson Flame Poison Toad Beast before a man and a woman appeared above the Yin Spirit Pool.
• The scholarly man activated a seventh-rank formation that bound Zhang Tie, the old beggar, and two others and sealed their spiritual power.
• The Crimson Flame Poison Toad Beast charged for the Yin Soul Grass, but the scholarly man struck it with lightning and severely injured it.
• The scholarly man harvested the Yin Soul Grass, then loosened the old beggar's chains after he showed a Blood God Sect token and surrendered his storage ring.
• Zhang Tie claimed he was a disciple of the Blood God Sect's Second Elder and said he had an identity token.

Zhang Tie seized control of the formation disk and killed the old beggar, the robed scholar, the female Daoist nun, the masked man, and Heyin. He forced Blazing Flame Poison Toad Beast to submit, named it Little Toad, and prepared to leave after giving it spirit herbs.

• Zhang Tie used the formation disk to free himself, then sent his corpse puppets to kill the fleeing old beggar and the scholar and female Daoist nun.
• Zhang Tie collected the three corpses and their storage rings, then killed the masked man with a ghost face and Heyin when they begged for mercy.
• Zhang Tie threatened to kill Blazing Flame Poison Toad Beast and refine its corpse into a puppet, so it agreed to become his mount and signed a master-servant contract.
• Zhang Tie planted nine restriction seals in Blazing Flame Poison Toad Beast's sea of consciousness and learned that its Golden Crow bloodline required it to reach the seventh tier before transforming.
• Zhang Tie named Blazing Flame Poison Toad Beast Little Toad, gave it fire-attribute spirit herbs to heal, and began inspecting the harvested storage rings.

After recovering from his injuries and sorting through his gains, Zhang Tie traveled to the battlefield secret trove and encountered a deceptive illusion formation. He exposed the disguised attacker, but the surrounding scenery began to twist as the formation activated.

• Little Toad recovered from its injuries, and Zhang Tie sorted his spoils, including the Five Yang Demonic Crystal, Yin Soul Grass, and the Shadow Kill technique.
• Zhang Tie failed to activate the formation disk, escaped the Five Yang Mountain Range through a random teleportation formation, and set off for White Tiger City.
• After nearly three months of travel, Zhang Tie entered a blood-misted area filled with Life Dust and found a dead forest that was absent from the jade slip's description.
• The Crimson Flame Poison Toad Beast burned three pursuing insect corpses, while a lame cultivator approached Zhang Tie with a jade slip claiming to show the route to the Life Gate.
• Zhang Tie recognized the jade slip as part of an illusion formation and attacked the lame cultivator, who dissolved into black mist and admitted he had underestimated Zhang Tie.
• The scenery around Zhang Tie twisted and distorted as the illusion formation took effect.

Zhang Tie defeated two cultivators who had used an illusion formation to ambush treasure seekers, then entered the hidden treasury through its skull-built gate. Inside, he found a strange desert of needle-shaped sand so hard that he suspected the treasury was a remnant of the legendary battle between a True Immortal and a peak Mahayana stage Insect Mother.

• Zhang Tie had the Crimson Flame Poison Toad Beast dissolve the illusion’s grasping arms with venom, then use its tongue to pierce Black Shadow and burn the seven Armored Corpses.
• Zhang Tie crushed Black Shadow’s bell-holding hand and head, then used Shift to turn the two swelling storage rings into a fatal explosion that killed the Nascent Soul infant and the limping Daoist.
• The illusion dispersed after the two men died, revealing a skull-built gate and the corpses of cultivators they had killed while guarding the hidden treasury.
• Zhang Tie rode Little Toad through the gate along the route recorded on the jade slip and entered a silent desert of uniformly needle-shaped sand.
• Zhang Tie examined the hard, earth-energy-infused sand and suspected the desert had been formed during the legendary battle between a True Immortal and a peak Mahayana stage Insect Mother.

Zhang Tie encountered five cultivators fighting over a mysterious ball of white light in the Battlefield Secret Realm and proposed that they cooperate and take turns claiming future treasures. They agreed to his plan, and Zhang Tie prepared to use the Heaven Covering Bowl to draw lots for their order.

• Zhang Tie saw a white pillar of light appear in the distance and rode Little Toad toward it.
• Zhang Tie found Wu Tianyun, Chen Jiuxiao, Zhao Hongling, Lin Tianhao, and Lin Xiaoxiao fighting over a strange mass of white light.
• Zhang Tie introduced himself as Han Li and proposed that the group cooperate rather than risk their lives fighting over an unknown treasure.
• Wu Tianyun supported Zhang Tie's proposal, and the other cultivators agreed to take turns claiming future treasures.
• Zhang Tie took the last position and presented the Heaven Covering Bowl so the five cultivators could draw lots for their order.

Zhang Tie and the others chose a route through the Lifespan Devouring Zone after Lin Tianhao explained the three dangerous regions leading to the hidden treasury's central area. They reached its edge, where Zhang Tie parted ways with the group, leaving everyone to cross on their own.

• Zhang Tie arranged the treasure-drawing order, and Old Daoist Wu won a large piece of Azure God Iron.
• Lin Tianhao showed the group a map and explained the dangers of the Sluggish Zone, the Sudden Death Zone, and the Lifespan Devouring Zone.
• Zhang Tie proposed crossing the Lifespan Devouring Zone, and the group agreed despite Old Daoist Wu's hesitation.
• Zhang Tie had Little Toad grow large enough to carry everyone and led them swiftly toward the Lifespan Devouring Zone.
• At the zone's edge, Zhang Tie put Little Toad away and told the others they would have to cross separately before meeting in the central region.

Zhang Tie used sorcery to cross the Lifespan Devouring Zone and reached the Blood Debt River, where a puppet beast was dragged beneath the water. He waited for his companions and was surprised when the Lin siblings arrived first.

• Zhang Tie sent his five companions ahead, then used his divine sense to investigate the Lifespan Devouring Zone and found countless skeletons and the Blood Debt River.
• Zhang Tie used sorcery to reach the riverbank, tested the Blood Debt River with a second-tier puppet beast, and watched a bloody hand pull it underwater.
• Zhang Tie found that his divine sense could not penetrate the multicolored mist beyond the river and waited on a meditation cushion.
• The Lin siblings arrived first, and Lin Tianhao explained that their family protection and preparations had helped them cross quickly.
• Zhang Tie sensed another person arriving as he was about to continue talking with the Lin siblings.

Zhang Tie and the others crossed the Blood Debt River in an ordinary boat, following Lin Tianhao’s warning not to use magic power. As treasures drifted past, they restrained their greed, but a pill furnace filled with life-extending medicine tested Old Daoist Wu, and Zhao Hongling spotted something downstream.

• Zhang Tie waited with the Lin siblings as Chen Jiuxiao, Zhao Hongling, and Old Daoist Wu arrived; Old Daoist Wu looked greatly aged.
• Lin Tianhao warned the group not to use magic power and summoned an ordinary boat, and everyone began rowing across the Blood Debt River.
• Old Daoist Wu spotted a golden gourd hanging from a desiccated corpse, and Zhang Tie recognized it as a Xiantian Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Tianhao and Zhang Tie warned everyone not to risk using magic power to seize the treasure, and the group continued rowing.
• A pill furnace drifted downstream, and its life-extending fragrance stirred Old Daoist Wu’s greed as Zhang Tie watched him warily.
• Zhao Hongling pointed downstream and shouted after noticing something in the river.