Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie taught Zhao Daosheng how to deal with enemies, then used his ability to shift the fleeing cultivators into the path of the Golden Horned Rhinoceros. The Bamboo Pole Man and the middle-aged beautiful woman died, while the handsome young man escaped, and Zhang Tie expected to meet him again.

• The remaining cultivators tried to rescue the Bamboo Pole Man, but Zhang Tie challenged them to fight or leave.
• The Golden Horned Rhinoceros charged, forcing the handsome young man to order the others to flee with him.
• Zhang Tie told Zhao Daosheng to eliminate enemies when possible, and Zhao Daosheng said they should kill them all.
• Zhang Tie shifted himself and Zhao Daosheng away and replaced them with the five fleeing cultivators, who were struck by the Golden Horned Rhinoceros.
• The red-haired old man escaped the rhinoceros, but the Bamboo Pole Man and middle-aged beautiful woman were killed by its roar and stomp.
• The handsome young man fled, and Zhang Tie told Zhao Daosheng that they would meet him again.

Zhang Tie killed a Golden Horned Rhinoceros with a powerful lightning divine ability, then brought Zhao Daosheng to Burning Heaven City after half a year of travel. He discovered that Zhao Daosheng’s cultivation had become dangerous and stopped his training, then summoned the Fire Emperor at the palace gates to arrange a feast.

• Zhang Tie struck down the Golden Horned Rhinoceros with Thunderfall, suffering a severe backlash despite using less than ten percent of his power of fortune.
• Zhang Tie warned Zhao Daosheng that diligent cultivation and a steadfast Dao heart were necessary to gain powerful abilities.
• Zhang Tie and Zhao Daosheng arrived at Burning Heaven City, where Zhang Tie noticed the city’s cool air and learned Zhao Daosheng had reached the peak of the Aperture Opening Realm.
• Zhang Tie realized Zhao Daosheng sometimes lost control because he could not purify the residual wills in the demonic beast blood essence, so he told him to stop cultivating the Nine Revolutions Undying Body.
• Zhang Tie summoned the Fire Emperor at the palace entrance, and the Fire Emperor recognized him as the Witch Immortal Envoy and welcomed him inside.

Zhang Tie visited Burning Heaven City's forbidden ground and discovered that its fiery altar was an eighth-tier possession and rebirth formation. After testing the laws inside, he summoned a spirit stone and began examining how its spiritual energy was erased.

• Zhang Tie asked the Fire Emperor to take him to Burning Heaven City's forbidden ground, and the Fire Emperor agreed.
• The Fire Emperor used a three-legged cauldron to drain the mercury-sand lake, revealing a fiery grave that could supposedly let a Fire Emperor return to youth.
• Zhang Tie entered the grave alone and heard a Divine Sense Transmission urging him to sit on the altar and undergo rebirth through fire.
• Zhang Tie examined the altar and determined that it was an eighth-tier grand formation designed to suppress a body and soul and enable possession.
• Zhang Tie tested the restricted laws of the forbidden ground by summoning a low-grade spirit stone, whose spiritual energy began to disappear.

Zhang Tie endured the Vermillion Bird True Fire to temper his body and acquired its True Fire Seed after the remnant soul attacked him. He escaped the forbidden grounds, but a streak of red light then flew from his sea of consciousness into Zhao Daosheng's head.

• Zhang Tie modified the altar's formations and sat at its center to temper his body with the flames.
• The altar's formations failed after their spirit stones ran out, but Zhang Tie endured four more days of Vermillion Bird True Fire.
• A Vermillion Bird remnant soul entered Zhang Tie's sea of consciousness and tried to devour his divine soul; the Indestructible Pearl restrained it, but the remnant soul exploded and knocked Zhang Tie unconscious.
• Zhang Tie awoke to find the remnant soul gone and the True Fire Seed remaining, then used it to open an exit from the forbidden grounds.
• Zhang Tie emerged from the lake, where Zhao Daosheng and the Fire Emperor greeted him.
• A red streak suddenly flew from Zhang Tie's sea of consciousness into Zhao Daosheng's head.

Zhang Tie stopped a remnant soul of the Vermillion Bird from possessing Zhao Daosheng, but Zhao Daosheng remained asleep while his soul fused with the Vermillion Bird True Fire. After guarding him for more than three years, Zhang Tie realized he would have to take Zhao Daosheng out of the realm to fulfill his Heavenly Dao Oath, despite the danger.

• Zhang Tie entered Zhao Daosheng's sea of consciousness, immobilized the hidden Vermillion Bird remnant soul, and destroyed it with the Soul Piercing Thorn.
• Zhang Tie brought the unconscious Zhao Daosheng to a secluded courtyard in Burning Heaven City, where the Fire Emperor arranged guards and Zhang Tie kept watch.
• Zhang Tie learned that Zhao Daosheng's soul had to endure a dangerous fusion with the Vermillion Bird True Fire Seed, which could either strengthen him or kill him.
• Zhang Tie remained in Burning Heaven City for more than three years, recovering his divine sense and periodically sustaining Zhao Daosheng with his qi and blood.
• Zhang Tie saw that Zhao Daosheng's soul had grown stronger around the True Fire and concluded he must take him out of the realm to fulfill his oath, though he feared the journey might kill him.

Zhang Tie went to Shunfeng Tower to drink and encountered a grandfather and granddaughter who had been forced to poison him. After they were killed, he pursued the man who had arranged it and destroyed him and his two companions with the Heavenly Dao law of Summon Wind.

• Zhang Tie went to Shunfeng Tower, where he let a grandfather and granddaughter sing and gave them food.
• Zhang Tie sensed the pair reporting to a handsome young man that they had scattered his poison, and watched as the man’s people killed them.
• Zhang Tie recognized the handsome young man as the brother of a woman who had died in their past conflict, then lured him out of Burning Heaven City.
• The young man confronted Zhang Tie in the forest and waited for the poison to take effect, but Zhang Tie revealed it had no effect on him.
• Zhang Tie used Summon Wind to form a wind dragon that swallowed the three men and scattered their remains across the forest.

Zhang Tie spent five years meditating on the Heavenly Dao while sustaining Zhao Daosheng, who finally awakened after fusing with the Vermillion Bird True Fire. Zhang Tie then began training Zhao Daosheng to reach the Fire Emperor’s level before Zhang Tie entered seclusion to break through.

• Zhang Tie returned to the imperial palace, found Zhao Daosheng still unconscious, and resumed meditating on the Heavenly Dao laws.
• For five years, Zhang Tie practiced in seclusion and periodically transferred his blood vitality to Zhao Daosheng to sustain him.
• Zhang Tie sensed a change in Zhao Daosheng’s soul and discovered that it had fused with the Vermillion Bird True Fire; Zhao Daosheng awakened the next day.
• Zhang Tie examined Zhao Daosheng’s sea of consciousness, explained his condition, and celebrated his awakening with a three-day banquet attended by the Fire Emperor.
• Zhang Tie told Zhao Daosheng to reach the Fire Emperor’s level within three years so he could guard Zhang Tie during his coming seclusion.
• Zhang Tie and Zhao Daosheng went to Ningdu Mountain Forest, where Zhang Tie restrained Martial Ancestor-level demonic beasts with supportive witchcraft and Zhao Daosheng hunted them for their essence blood.

Zhang Tie and Zhao Daosheng encountered a Martial God realm demon woman as they prepared to leave Ningdu Mountain Forest. Zhang Tie suppressed her power, took her core blood, and left with his disciple for Burning Heaven City.

• Zhang Tie watched Zhao Daosheng fight a fiend beast and saw that the Vermillion Bird True Fire had cleared the beast's residual consciousness from him.
• Zhang Tie decided to return and study the Extreme Ice Blood Butterfly's insights after the master and disciple struggled to find more Martial Ancestor-grade fiend beasts.
• A white-haired old woman trapped Zhang Tie and Zhao Daosheng behind a wind wall and attacked Zhao Daosheng with a wind-blade arrow, but Zhang Tie pulled him out of its path.
• The old woman provoked a heavenly tribulation, but Zhang Tie used his powers to suppress the storm, seal her vital energy, and shift her in front of him.
• Zhang Tie ordered Zhao Daosheng to extract three flasks of the old woman's core blood, threatened the demon race into silence, and left her on a hill before flying with Zhao Daosheng toward Burning Heaven City.

Zhang Tie entered secluded cultivation to comprehend the Extreme Ice Blood Butterfly’s time insight mark, experiencing what felt like ten thousand years in a strange vision. After realizing only half a year had passed in reality, he restored his fortune power and prepared to study the Law of Ice.

• Zhang Tie told Zhao Daosheng that his retreat could last decades and instructed him to guard the room, while assuring him he could leave if necessary.
• Zhang Tie used his divine sense, witchcraft, and fortune power to comprehend the time insight mark and found himself as an insect crawling along a vast tree beneath an upside-down river.
• Zhang Tie returned from the vision, spent half a year in seclusion, and failed to grasp the true essence of time.
• Zhang Tie learned from Zhao Daosheng that half a year and six days had passed, despite his vision seeming to span ten thousand years.
• Zhang Tie replenished his fortune power over five months and prepared to comprehend the Law of Ice.

Zhang Tie entered an Ice Law enlightenment and encountered a white-bearded old Daoist and a young Daoist boy, whose teachings helped him grasp the nature of ice. He unleashed an intense chill that frosted Burning Heaven City and brought snow, before the phenomenon vanished.

• Zhang Tie used the Ice Law insight mark and his power of fortune to enter an enlightenment in which he became a falling Ice Crystal.
• He heard a young voice ask whether ice and water were the same, and an aged voice explain ice’s nature as it melted into water.
• Zhang Tie descended to an ancient Daoist temple and listened as a young Daoist boy chanted while a white-bearded old Daoist meditated beside a bronze bell.
• The old Daoist noticed Zhang Tie’s struggle to grasp the teaching and sent a streak of white light into his sea of consciousness.
• Back in the palace courtyard, Zhang Tie recited the words again, understood the Ice Law, and released a wave of cold that frosted Burning Heaven City and brought snow before disappearing.

After emerging from an eighty-year seclusion, Zhang Tie learned that Zhao Daosheng had vanished after drawing a heavenly tribulation and used his disciple’s essence blood to track him. He found Zhao Daosheng beneath a cold pool in Ningdu Mountain Forest and reacted with anger after sensing what was there.

• Zhang Tie awakened with new insight into ice-element laws and tested his ability to form ice armor and summon snowflakes.
• Zhang Tie found the Fire Emperor and learned he had been in seclusion for eighty years and that Zhao Daosheng had left the imperial palace about twenty years earlier.
• The Fire Emperor told Zhang Tie about a prolonged lightning phenomenon in Ningdu Mountain Forest, and Zhang Tie realized Zhao Daosheng had attempted a breakthrough and suffered a heavenly tribulation.
• Zhang Tie used Zhao Daosheng’s essence blood to confirm that his disciple was alive but gravely injured, then rewarded the Fire Emperor with an ice bead and departed.
• After tracking Zhao Daosheng for three days, Zhang Tie reached a cold pool and sensed his disciple beneath it, then coldly declared that someone was courting death.

Zhang Tie rescued Zhao Daosheng from a tree demon and helped him recover after his failed tribulation. He left Zhao Daosheng to recuperate under strict orders, then focused on studying formations to prepare for their escape from the world.

• Zhang Tie drained the cold pool, froze the tentacles attacking him, and found Zhao Daosheng protected by Vermillion Bird True Fire.
• Zhang Tie replenished Zhao Daosheng's blood and vitality, then froze a gigantic tentacled monster before carrying his disciple to a cave.
• After two days, Zhao Daosheng awoke, admitted his mistake, and knelt as Zhang Tie ordered him to recover nearby for ten years without leaving the area.
• Zhang Tie opened a cave a hundred miles away and studied auxiliary formations to improve his chances of leaving the world with Zhao Daosheng.

After ten years of studying formations and developing law-infused witchcraft, Zhang Tie set out with Zhao Daosheng to cross realms. Su Yuling activated the Teleportation Disk’s master disk to receive them, but astral wind threatened to strike Zhang Tie as they neared the exit.

• Zhang Tie spent ten years studying formations, discovered his black chain could absorb Ice Law, and developed new witchcraft techniques including Floating Snow.
• Zhang Tie met Zhao Daosheng and flew with him to the spatial rift using a law-infused ice technique.
• Zhang Tie warned Zhao Daosheng about the dangers of crossing realms, bound them together with the black chain, and entered the rift using an array disk.
• Su Yuling sensed the Teleportation Disk’s master disk responding and activated it to guide Zhang Tie and Zhao Daosheng toward the Spirit Realm.
• The pair approached the exit fissure, but a sudden gale of astral wind swept toward Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie was swept into an unknown spatial rift, while his Nascent Soul clone received Zhao Daosheng and brought him to Su Yuling and An Yueyao. After Su Yuling handed over a teleportation formation method and supplies, he and An Yueyao attacked the clone to silence it, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Astral wind shattered Zhang Tie’s Ice Crystal defenses, swept him and Zhao Daosheng into a new spatial rift, and separated them from the Spirit Realm fissure.
• Zhang Tie’s Nascent Soul clone caught Zhao Daosheng in its defensive formation and recognized him as a likely disciple carrying Vermillion Bird True Fire.
• The clone gave Zhao Daosheng to Su Yuling and An Yueyao, claiming that an accident had left it with only its Nascent Soul body.
• Su Yuling gave the clone a paired teleportation formation method, its mother array disc, and a million Mid-grade Spirit Stones as compensation.
• An Yueyao launched an emerald hairpin at the clone, and Su Yuling trapped it with red sand that prevented it from teleporting.
• Su Yuling said he would kill the clone to keep the Vermillion Bird True Fire secret, but An Yueyao suddenly warned him to watch out.

Zhang Tie killed Su Yuling’s pursuers, transformed into Su Yuling’s appearance, and took Zhao Daosheng toward White Tiger City. A spatial rift then dropped a white light into fields near a city, prompting local officials to investigate and call it an auspicious sign.

• A hidden attack killed Su Yuling, while Zhang Tie’s Nascent Soul clone ambushed An Yueyao and defeated her with the Taotie Dharma Idol.
• The clone entered Su Yuling’s body, and Zhang Tie changed his appearance before carrying the unconscious Zhao Daosheng toward White Tiger City.
• A spatial rift opened above the fields and vanished after a dazzling white light struck the ground, shaking the earth.
• Gouzi ran toward the impact site, but his father stopped him and dragged him away from the danger.
• A yamen runner reported the falling object to the round-faced lord, and Old servant Ma organized Constable Zhao and others to investigate.

Zhang Tie was swept into another realm by a spatial storm, where the injured cultivator was mistaken for a man hiding a heavenly omen and sold into slavery. He awoke in a prison cell, realizing the Void Gale Force had destroyed his meridians, acupoints, and dantian, while the Indestructible Pearl had turned transparent.

• Zhang Tie landed unconscious in a huge pit, and Constable Zhao and Master Ma arrived searching for an auspicious omen.
• Master Ma presented a jade mountain he had brought in a wooden box as the heavenly sign and ordered everyone to keep the truth secret.
• The constables found nothing on Zhang Tie, and Master Ma ordered them to send him to the slave market.
• Zhang Tie awoke in a prison cell, unable to understand the constables’ language, and realized he was locked inside.
• Zhang Tie sensed that the Void Gale Force had wrecked his cultivation, but the Indestructible Pearl had protected his hidden apertures and divine soul.
• Zhang Tie closed his eyes to sense his surroundings, then abruptly opened them in disbelief.

Zhang Tie struggled to endure a world without spiritual Qi, destiny, or Heavenly Dao laws, relying on the Ice God Art to recover some mobility. After prison guards took him to a slave market, a buyer singled him out for an ominous purpose.

• Zhang Tie discovered he could sense neither spiritual Qi nor the power of destiny or Heavenly Dao laws.
• Zhang Tie endured severe pain by silently reciting the Ice God Art and found that it eased his suffering.
• A bailiff splashed food on Zhang Tie, who was too weak from pain to retaliate.
• After three days, bailiffs chained Zhang Tie and took him to a slave market to be sold.
• A monkey-faced man inspected Zhang Tie on the auction platform and appeared to offer him as breeding stock.

Zhang Tie was sold to Lord He and put to work as a servant, where he used the time to recover and learn about the unfamiliar world. After a month, he had regained much of his strength but chose to stay at the estate for now so he could gather information.

• Zhang Tie was sold at auction to a hunched old man and forced to sign a paper before being taken away in a carriage.
• The old man brought Zhang Tie to Lord He's estate, where servants left him to sleep in a damp woodshed.
• Zhang Tie began practicing the Ice God Art and hoped to recover enough to escape.
• The next morning, Zhang Tie carried ten sacks of grain at once, astonishing the estate's servants.
• Zhang Tie spent a month doing heavy labor, learned to communicate, and gained the local name Da Zhuang.
• Zhang Tie recovered enough strength to fight ordinary people, but stayed at Lord He's estate to learn more about the world.

Zhang Tie was assigned to Guard Zhao and revealed extraordinary strength while training, eventually mastering the estate’s heaviest saber. He was selected to help escort Young Master He to the Capital City for the imperial examinations, and the group assembled to depart.

• Steward He assigned Zhang Tie to assist Guard Zhao, who tested his strength with stone weights and taught him training methods.
• Zhang Tie trained by day and studied the Ice God Art by night, then began practicing with the Profound Nether Sea-Calming Blade.
• Guard Zhao selected Zhang Tie and four other guards to escort Young Master He to the Capital City.
• Zhang Tie joined Young Master He, the other guards, three martial arts experts, two maidservants, and a coachman at the estate gate with two carriages.

Zhang Tie’s convoy was ambushed by bandits after a fallen willow blocked the road. As the attackers prepared to kill the travelers and seize the women, Zhang Tie remained hidden beside the tree.

• He Jiahuan left the He residence with Ninth Madam’s farewell and traveled with the convoy, while Zhang Tie and the other low-status attendants walked behind the carriages.
• After more than half a month of uneventful travel, the convoy stopped when a freshly felled willow blocked the road.
• Tian Zhuofeng ordered Leng Zi, Da Wa, and Zhang Tie to move the tree; bandits shot Leng Zi and Da Wa, while Zhang Tie dodged and hid beside the tree.
• Tian Zhuofeng offered the bandits silver for safe passage, but their leader rejected the offer and ordered his men to kill everyone except the women.
• The bandit leader and three companions charged at Tian Zhuofeng and the other martial experts as the remaining bandits advanced on the convoy.