Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie waited at the Azure Flood Dragon Sect while it prepared to refine the Dragon Soul Bloodline Pill, then joined the sect’s alchemists as they began the process. When the pill furnace burst open, he discovered a young girl in black palace robes floating inside.

• Zhang Tie settled into a guest room with the ice coffin and spent more than two months comprehending the Ice God Art.
• Qingshan informed Zhang Tie that the Azure Flood Dragon Sect had finished preparing to refine the pill, and Zhang Tie joined Qingshan and Di Huangwan at the pill-refining chamber.
• Qingshan opened a concealed underground hall where four alchemists and a massive pill furnace were waiting.
• A white-robed alchemist directed the group as earthfire blazed beneath the furnace and the alchemists poured their power into its runes.
• The furnace shook violently, its lid flew off, and Zhang Tie sensed a long-haired young girl in black palace robes floating inside.

Zhang Tie heard a trapped demon beast call him her clansman and offer him a True Spirit skeleton if he helped her escape the pill furnace. He broke the flaming cocoon, allowing her to transform into a black dragon and attack the alchemists, while the white-robed alchemist fled through the stone door.

• The white-robed alchemist suppressed the girl's surging blood and qi with a black talisman as the other alchemists heated the pill furnace.
• After a day inside the flaming cocoon, the girl sent Zhang Tie a Divine Sense Transmission, calling him her clansman and asking him to save her.
• The girl promised Zhang Tie a True Spirit skeleton, and he used his power to create a crack in the flaming cocoon.
• The girl tore open the cocoon and escaped as a black dragon while the white-robed alchemist fled through the stone door.
• The black dragon's roar dazed Zhang Tie, and she swallowed one of the alchemists.

Zhang Tie escaped the Two-clawed Black Dragon by using witchcraft to send it to the Azure Flood Dragon Sect, then fled and recovered from his injuries. Three months later, he emerged near a grand formation and discovered an enormous city floating above the clouds.

• The hemp-robed pill master opened a spatial passage with a World Breaking Bead, but the Two-clawed Black Dragon trapped and killed him and the other pill master.
• The Two-clawed Black Dragon attacked Zhang Tie, who used the Indestructible Pearl's power to escape through the spatial passage while sending the dragon to Qingjiao Hall.
• Zhang Tie hid in the Profound Spirit Pill Tower and fled across the wilderness while recovering with two Jianmu Guiyuan Pills.
• Three months later, Zhang Tie's injuries had healed, and the Tower Spirit warned him that a grand formation lay ahead.
• Zhang Tie emerged from the tower and saw a vast city floating above the clouds.

Zhang Tie arrived safely in Cloud City and sought information at Carefree Pavilion about entering the Guanghan Realm. He learned it would open in roughly twenty years and waited for the pavilion to report the price of an entry slot.

• Zhang Tie reached Cloud City, discovered it was within the Thirteen Tribes of Tianyun’s sphere of influence, and joined the line at its guarded gate.
• A cultivator told Zhang Tie that the guards were searching for Jiaochi Tribe spies because the Jiaochi Tribe was at war with the Thirteen Tribes of Feiyun.
• Zhang Tie paid for a black token that let him stay in Cloud City for a year and settled at an inn.
• Zhang Tie found Carefree Pavilion and asked its shopkeeper about the Guanghan Realm, learning that entry required a Guanghan Token and cultivation no higher than the Integration stage.
• The shopkeeper told Zhang Tie that the Guanghan Realm should open in roughly twenty years and agreed to ask the pavilion’s headquarters about entry-slot prices after learning Zhang Tie’s cultivation was equivalent to peak Void Refinement.

Zhang Tie explored Cloud City, learned of the treasure-filled Magic Gold Mountain Range, and planned to hunt there after settling his Guanghan Realm entry. At Carefree Pavilion, he negotiated a free quota with Fu Yanjie in exchange for promising to save her once if her life was in danger.

• Zhang Tie bought a strange metal fragment and a map of the Magic Gold Mountain Range from a shopkeeper whose aura he recognized as that of an Outer Realm Demon.
• Zhang Tie learned that the Magic Gold Mountain Range held natural treasures and powerful demonic beasts, and planned to hunt there after Carefree Pavilion confirmed the Guanghan Realm quota.
• Three days later, Zhang Tie met Fu Yanjie at Carefree Pavilion and rejected her request for broad protection in exchange for a free quota.
• Zhang Tie and Fu Yanjie agreed that he would save her once, within his ability, if her life was in danger, and she asked him to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.

Zhang Tie left Cloud City for the Magic Gold Mountain Range, where he tested his lightning arts by killing powerful demonic beasts and began a fierce battle with a Humanoid Three-headed Wolf Demon. The wolf was shocked when Zhang Tie’s barehanded strength surpassed its own, while Zhang Tie began to understand the source of his improved strength.

• Zhang Tie swore the Heavenly Dao oath to Fu Yanjie, exchanged communication jade slips with him, and left Cloud City for the Magic Gold Mountain Range.
• Zhang Tie entered the mountain range, where the Indestructible Pearl absorbed the dense demonic qi as he flew toward its depths.
• Zhang Tie trapped and killed a peak sixth-rank magical wolf with ice walls and Chaos Divine Thunder, then collected its valuable parts and essence blood.
• Three days later, Zhang Tie fought a Humanoid Three-headed Wolf Demon whose black hammer cracked against the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel.
• Zhang Tie put away his shovel and defeated the wolf demon in a fist clash, leaving it stunned as he began to understand why his strength had improved.

After half a month of fighting, Zhang Tie had begun to grasp how to merge the power of laws with his body, while the Three-headed Demonic Wolf grew exhausted and tried to withdraw. The Blazing Flame Demon Ape and a deer-headed beast arrived, and Zhang Tie escaped after clashing with the ape.

• Zhang Tie fought the Three-headed Demonic Wolf for half a month without suffering a wound, while the wolf became battered and exhausted.
• The Three-headed Demonic Wolf said an urgent matter had arisen at home and tried to leave, but two beasts mocked it.
• A giant Blazing Flame Demon Ape and a deer-headed humanoid beast appeared, and Zhang Tie challenged all three to attack him together.
• The Blazing Flame Demon Ape struck Zhang Tie with a flaming fist, overpowering his golden fist with its use of the power of laws.
• Zhang Tie activated his formation disk and vanished in a streak of white light.

After escaping a cunning seventh-rank magical beast and surviving severe injuries, Zhang Tie recovered, sold his spoils, and spent nine years studying law power in Cloud City. When Fu Yanjie told him the Guanghan Realm had opened, Zhang Tie joined a group of thirty who were teleported there.

• Zhang Tie returned to his hidden cave badly wounded after an eighth-rank magical beast joined a battle in the Magic Gold Mountain Range, then escaped the range before a massive beast tide erupted.
• Zhang Tie sold most of his spoils at the Carefree Pavilion for more than 1.4 million Mid-grade Spirit Stones and secluded himself to study integrating his void aperture with law power.
• After nine years, Fu Yanjie told Zhang Tie that the Guanghan Realm had opened and asked him to meet at the Carefree Pavilion.
• Zhang Tie joined Fu Yanjie and twenty-eight other cultivators, learning that a Guanghan Token could transport at most thirty people and required its holder to lead their return.
• Fu Yanjie activated the Guanghan Token, and the Yun Clan guards sent the group through the grand teleportation array toward the Guanghan Realm.

Zhang Tie accompanied Fu Yanjie’s group through the Guanghan Realm to a hidden cache site, where Yin Tong and Yang Nü broke the protective formation with a coordinated technique. Inside, they discovered a damaged stele promising immortal armor to whoever passed a trial.

• Fu Yanjie told the others to make their own arrangements, while Zhang Tie stayed with her to keep his promise and seek clues about divine consciousness refinement.
• Fu Yanjie, Elder Mu, Zhang Tie, Yin Tong, and Yang Nü traveled for half a month aboard a flying shuttle, using Elder Mu’s formation disk to avoid spatial rifts.
• At the cache site, Fu Yanjie ordered Yin Tong and Yang Nü to break the formation, and the pair opened a breach with their combined black-and-white technique.
• The group entered the formation, which soon restored itself behind them.
• The group found a black stone stele bearing a damaged inscription that promised immortal armor to whoever passed a trial and included the words “Invincible Across Ranks.”

Zhang Tie and his companions entered a vast hall filled with stone statues that awakened and attacked them. After the group swiftly defeated most of the creatures, several apparently destroyed monsters suddenly surged to late Void Refinement strength and launched surprise attacks, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Fu Yanjie sent Elder Mu to scout through the stone door, and Zhang Tie and the others followed him into the darkness.
• Bronze Lamps illuminated a vast hall containing rows of stone statues and formations etched into the floor.
• The statues cracked open to reveal green-armored creatures, which charged at Zhang Tie's group.
• Elder Mu, Fu Yanjie, and Zhang Tie fought the creatures while Yin Tong and Yang Nü protected themselves with a black-and-white barrier.
• The group defeated most of the creatures, but several fallen monsters suddenly rose with late Void Refinement strength and attacked Fu Yanjie, Elder Mu, and Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie and the others defeated the Stone Statue puppets in the hall, with Yin Tong and Yang Nü killing the last snake-shaped puppet using a law-based ability. After entering the next checkpoint, Zhang Tie was separated from the group and faced a peak Void Refinement puppet whose black beam was about to strike him.

• Zhang Tie rescued Fu Yanjie with his shifting ability and protected himself from the headless old woman's attack with his ice armor.
• Zhang Tie warned the group to target the puppets' green armor, and they destroyed the armor to stop the puppets.
• Yin Tong and Yang Nü used their black-and-white light ability to drain the last snake-shaped puppet's vitality and kill it.
• The group entered the next checkpoint, but Zhang Tie found himself alone before a blue-armored puppet of peak Void Refinement strength.
• Zhang Tie snapped the puppet's golden flying sword and burned away its wooden vines, but the puppet fired a black beam from a stone mirror at him.

Zhang Tie survived the puppet’s deadly black-beam attack and destroyed its blue armor, then entered a pavilion filled with sealed treasures and discovered the immortal armor. Fu Yanjie joined him, and both faced the choice between claiming a spiritual treasure or risking everything to obtain the armor.

• Zhang Tie used Shift to evade the black beam, causing it to strike the middle-aged puppet instead, which survived despite losing its head.
• Zhang Tie attacked the puppet twice and shattered its blue armor with a punch wreathed in black lightning, then collected its stone mirror and storage ring.
• Zhang Tie found himself in an ancient pavilion containing thousands of sealed treasures and a suit of mysterious immortal armor.
• Zhang Tie read the jade platform’s warning that attempting to claim the immortal armor could turn him into a puppet, while choosing a spiritual treasure would send him away.
• Fu Yanjie appeared, examined the warning, and hesitated over which choice to make.

Fu Yanjie ordered Elder Mu to retrieve the Immortal Armor, which consumed his soul and left him lifeless. Zhang Tie then took the armor, mastered the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor, and confronted Fu Yanjie after its power erupted.

• Fu Yanjie told the wounded Elder Mu to retrieve the Immortal Armor floating above the jade platform.
• The armor covered Elder Mu in black water and purple armor, consuming his soul; Zhang Tie briefly restored his awareness with frigid air, and Elder Mu warned that the armor demanded a soul.
• Zhang Tie seized the armor, and the black light was swallowed by the Indestructible Pearl in his void aperture.
• The Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor recognized Zhang Tie as its master, released a demonic blast that threw Fu Yanjie and Elder Mu's corpse across the pavilion, and revealed its ability to boost its wearer's cultivation by a major realm.
• Fu Yanjie asked Zhang Tie to protect her on the way to another hidden treasure site, and Zhang Tie pointed behind her, shocking her with what she saw.

Zhang Tie rescued Yin Tong and Yang Nü, then agreed with Fu Yanjie to share copies of the Divine Refinement Technique and other immortal realm techniques in exchange for her help. After traveling for three months, the group reached a graveyard said to contain immortal techniques and deadly monsters, where Zhang Tie began cautiously investigating the blank tombstones.

• Zhang Tie used the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor to control Elder Mu, dismissed the treasures as fake, and reunited with Yin Tong and Yang Nü.
• Fu Yanjie agreed to share copies of the Divine Refinement Technique and other techniques from the storage site, while Zhang Tie demanded access to any techniques she obtained there.
• Zhang Tie examined the Sky-Soaring Disk and learned it could detect nearby spatial rifts and reveal their direction and distance.
• After three months aboard the flying shuttle, the group reached a graveyard of Immortal Graves, where Fu Yanjie warned that magic and divine sense would summon dangerous monsters.
• Zhang Tie entered the graveyard with a shovel and cautiously investigated the blank tombstones using his witchcraft.

Zhang Tie explored the Immortal Graves, collecting coffin nails and finding a dead beast egg while encountering several Nascent Soul-stage zombies. After opening a tri-colored grave and finding a skeleton that thanked him, he was interrupted by a distant explosion.

• Zhang Tie opened a tri-colored grave, collected its eight coffin nails, and took a dead beast egg filled with spiritual energy.
• Zhang Tie smashed a green zombie that lunged from a green-mist grave, then resealed the coffin.
• Zhang Tie found a white zombie in a white-mist grave and buried it again, then explored seven more graves containing Nascent Soul-stage zombies.
• Zhang Tie discovered another tri-colored grave, collected its eight coffin nails, and found only a skeleton inside.
• The skeleton sat up, thanked Zhang Tie for opening the Spirit Sealing Coffin, and began to offer repayment.
• A deafening explosion sounded in the distance and shook the ground before the skeleton could finish speaking.

Zhang Tie subdued a strange withered bone from the Immortal Grave land and refined it into a corpse puppet after a dangerous struggle. The puppet revealed that she had once been an immortal, and Zhang Tie asked whether she knew the Divine Refinement Technique.

• A withered bone attacked Zhang Tie, but his body resisted its bite while it drained his lifespan.
• Zhang Tie used a shamanic seal to suppress the bone, then escaped the Immortal Grave land with it and a tri-colored egg.
• Zhang Tie recovered outside the grave and spent three days refining the bone, but its rebellious consciousness emerged as terrifying tribulation clouds appeared.
• Zhang Tie used the tri-colored egg to complete the refinement and bring the withered bone under his control.
• The withered bone said she had been a sinner immortal buried in the Immortal Grave land, which nourished the realm by gradually consuming the buried immortals.
• Zhang Tie asked whether she knew the Divine Refinement Technique.

Zhang Tie learned that the Divine Refinement Technique was a forbidden art and that the Formation Spirit at the Immortal Grave Stele might lead him to it. He rescued the badly injured Fu Yanjie, who told him that Yin Tong and Yang Nü had died when the coffin they opened exploded.

• Zhang Tie forced the dry bones to explain that the Divine Refinement Technique was forbidden because it could cause qi deviation and that the Formation Spirit might know where to find it.
• The dry bones told Zhang Tie to seek the Formation Spirit at the Immortal Grave Stele and fulfill its demands to obtain what he wanted.
• Zhang Tie threatened the dry bones with the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor and entered the Immortal Grave with it following him.
• Zhang Tie had the dry bones bring Fu Yanjie out, then saved her with a Jianmu Guiyuan Pill and his divine power.
• Fu Yanjie explained that the Formation Spirit had sent her, Yin Tong, and Yang Nü to open an ancient grave, whose exploding coffin killed Yin Tong and Yang Nü and severely injured her.

Zhang Tie brought Powder Bone, Fu Yanjie, and Elder Mu to the Immortal Grave Stele to bargain with its Formation Spirit for the Divine Refinement Technique. After accepting the Spirit’s task, Zhang Tie found a grave marked by three-colored mist and opened its coffin, revealing what lay inside.

• Zhang Tie named the skeleton Powder Bone, and she accepted the name as they traveled with Fu Yanjie and Elder Mu to the Immortal Grave Stele.
• Powder Bone kicked the stele until the Formation Spirit appeared, and Zhang Tie agreed to retrieve an immortal beast’s corpse in exchange for a request.
• Zhang Tie used witchcraft to spot a grave surrounded by three-colored mist and ordered Powder Bone to dig it up.
• Powder Bone used the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel to remove the coffin’s eight nails and push open the lid.

Zhang Tie survived a possession attempt by a True Immortal’s remnant soul, then claimed the Divine Refinement Technique from the Formation Spirit. As he left the Immortal Grave, Fu Yanjie asked for his help, but he rejected her and walked on.

• A silver arm in the coffin seized Zhang Tie and tried to possess him, but Zhang Tie tore it away after the Indestructible Pearl absorbed the remnant soul.
• Zhang Tie brought the silver arm to the Formation Spirit and asked her to inscribe the Divine Refinement Technique onto a jade slip.
• The Formation Spirit criticized Zhang Tie for refusing a greater treasure but inscribed the technique and handed him the jade slip.
• Fu Yanjie grabbed Zhang Tie and begged for his help, but Zhang Tie slapped her and continued toward the exit.
• Powder Bone mocked Fu Yanjie as she followed Zhang Tie out of the Immortal Grave.

Zhang Tie cultivated the first two levels of the Divine Refinement Technique in a ruined sect, greatly strengthening his divine sense and leaving a copy of the technique behind. He then set out with Fu Yanjie and Powder Bone for the third hidden treasure site, where several factions were competing for the spoils.

• Zhang Tie studied the Divine Refinement Technique and discussed its startling divine-sense amplification and potential dangers with Powder Bone.
• Zhang Tie directed Fu Yanjie to land at a ruined sect, then entered a cave to cultivate while Fu Yanjie and Powder Bone kept watch.
• After five days, Zhang Tie completed the first level and doubled his divine sense, expanding its range to three hundred thousand li.
• Zhang Tie completed the second level after about a month, expanding his divine-sense range to five hundred thousand li, and carved a copy of the technique into the cave wall.
• Zhang Tie left the cave and told Fu Yanjie they would go to the third hidden treasure site; Fu Yanjie warned that the Jiaochi Tribe, the Night Clan, the Black Confucian Tribe, and the Thirteen Tribes of Tianyun also sought it.