Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie and his companions entered the Immortal Beast Garden, where a Sea King Clan youth’s group tried to seize their storage bags and Powder Bone. Powder Bone devoured the attackers, but the youth struck back with a trident and trapped her in a Water Law Domain.

• Zhang Tie brought Fu Yanjie and Powder Bone into the Immortal Beast Garden to search the Immortal Beast Hall.
• A lavishly dressed young man’s group surrounded them and demanded their storage bags and Powder Bone.
• Zhang Tie let Powder Bone fight, and she killed the bald middle-aged man by draining his life force.
• The young man offered an Enlightenment of Spiritual Union pill as a reward, prompting his subordinates to attack Powder Bone.
• Powder Bone ensnared the attackers in blood cocoons and began draining them, but the young man’s blue trident unleashed a Water Law Domain that slowed her down.

Zhang Tie protected Powder Bone from the young man in fine clothes, who claimed ties to the Sea King Clan and tried to capture it. Powder Bone defeated his trident attack, but the young man summoned a counterfeit Heavenly God Immortal Armor Warrior, forcing Powder Bone to evade its devastating blows.

• Zhang Tie blocked the young man’s blue trident with the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel and rescued Powder Bone.
• Powder Bone devoured the young man’s dozen companions, collected their storage rings, and sent them to Zhang Tie.
• The young man attacked Powder Bone again with his trident, but Powder Bone’s blood mist shielded it and its flying swords shattered his defenses.
• Powder Bone formed a giant blood sword and struck at the young man, whose jade talisman summoned a golden armor phantom.
• Powder Bone recognized the phantom as a counterfeit Heavenly God Immortal Armor Warrior and vanished into blood mist to evade its crushing punch.

Zhang Tie confronted a richly dressed young man after Powder Bone was captured, and proved strong enough to destroy the man’s golden summoned warrior. The young man’s law-powered flying sword struck Zhang Tie, but the man suddenly collapsed, leaving the fight’s outcome unclear.

• Powder Bone attacked the richly dressed young man, but he transformed into a treant puppet, bound her with vines, and stored her in his bracelet.
• Zhang Tie charged the young man, destroyed his golden strongman with a single punch, and watched its talisman burn away.
• The young man unleashed a black flying sword that vanished and attacked unpredictably, while Zhang Tie searched for it and struck at his defenses.
• The young man anticipated Zhang Tie’s attack from behind and summoned a yellow umbrella treasure, while the flying sword stabbed into Zhang Tie’s skull.
• The flying sword stopped in Zhang Tie’s head, and the richly dressed young man and his umbrella treasure fell toward the ground.

After killing the young man in fine clothes, Zhang Tie replenished the Indestructible Pearl and discovered that the black flying sword was a rare imitation of the Sea King Clan’s Nine Li Immortal King Sword. When he erased the dead owner’s Soul Imprint, a blue-robed man’s phantom appeared before him.

• Zhang Tie took the young man’s corpse and treasures, freed Powder Bone, and continued deeper into the Immortal Beast Garden with Fu Yanjie.
• Zhang Tie reflected on the ambush and decided to wait until the Indestructible Pearl was usable before fighting in the future; Powder Bone devoured the corpse and transformed into an alluring woman.
• Three days later, Zhang Tie stopped the flying shuttle to avoid the many forces ahead, then released Elder Mu to prepare a temporary cave dwelling.
• Zhang Tie used most of the recovered spirit stones to restore the Indestructible Pearl and found seven lightning-attribute top-grade spirit stones in the young man’s storage bracelet.
• Zhang Tie learned that the black flying sword was an imitation of the Sea King Clan’s Nine Li Immortal King Sword and erased its lingering Soul Imprint.
• A red light flashed from the flying sword, and the phantom of a middle-aged man in a blue brocade robe appeared before Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie found that the black flying sword and yellow umbrella could not be activated with divine power, then gave the treasures to Powder Bone and a life-saving talisman to Fu Yanjie. As the group continued through the area, Powder Bone attacked two Void Refinement cultivators and began questioning them.

• Zhang Tie searched the dead young man's belongings and stored several useful treasures, including blue trident talismans and a Water-Avoidance Pearl.
• Zhang Tie gave Powder Bone the black flying sword and yellow umbrella to refine, and gave Fu Yanjie a blue spirit talisman for protection.
• Powder Bone successfully refined the two treasures, and the group flew toward the depths.
• Powder Bone approached two green-robed Void Refinement cultivators under the pretense of seeking protection and offering her storage ring.
• Powder Bone killed the square-faced cultivator with a streak of black light and mesmerized the other cultivator with her pink vortex eyes.

Zhang Tie waited while more than a hundred cultivators broke the restrictions protecting the Immortal Beast Hall, then bypassed their formation and entered the underground palace with his companions. The group reached a wall-less main hall, where a scream sounded from one direction.

• Zhang Tie questioned a green-robed cultivator under Powder Bone's Soul Control Technique and learned that the underground palace was said to be the Immortal Beast Hall, though the news might have been deliberately spread.
• Zhang Tie and his companions hid in a rock cave while more than thirty factions gathered and the red-nosed old Daoist organized a joint assault on the palace restrictions.
• After nearly ten days, the cultivators broke the restrictions and entered, while Zhang Tie waited two more hours before breaking through the sixth-tier formation himself.
• Zhang Tie sent Powder Bone into the cave to scout, then followed her with Fu Yanjie and Elder Mu into a wall-less main hall.
• Zhang Tie hesitated over which direction to take when a scream sounded from one side.

Powder Bone scouted the mist-shrouded area and was caught in a giant net set by three ambushers, but she killed two of them with her hidden black flying sword. The green-eyed old man fled deeper into the area, leaving Powder Bone to pursue or regroup with Zhang Tie.

• Zhang Tie ordered Powder Bone to scout the direction of a strange sound, and the mist suppressed her divine sense as she flew deeper.
• Powder Bone discovered the giant net and was attacked by a straw-hatted man, a thin-faced man, and a green-eyed old man.
• Powder Bone used her umbrella treasure to resist the net and killed the thin-faced man with a surprise strike from her black flying sword.
• The straw-hatted man and the green-eyed old man attacked Powder Bone, but her blood-red barrier held against their blows.
• Powder Bone's black flying sword pierced the straw-hatted man's stone shield and killed him, while the green-eyed old man fled into the distance.

Powder Bone’s group reached the Immortal Beast Hall, where a guardian explained that defeating Stone Statues in four positions could earn them the Immortal Beast Taming Scripture. Zhang Tie and Powder Bone took on the trials, and Zhang Tie began fighting a powerful Stone Statue at the Li position.

• After the green-eyed old man escaped, Powder Bone collected his array talisman and drained the corpses of two fallen cultivators before Zhang Tie and his companions arrived.
• The group continued deeper into the area, then followed sounds of battle to a great hall filled with Stone Statues and a qilin sealed in Ice Crystal.
• The hall guardian announced that defeating Stone Statues in the Zhen, Kan, Li, and Dui positions could earn the Immortal Beast Taming Scripture.
• Zhang Tie assigned Powder Bone the Zhen and Kan positions and took the Li and Dui positions for himself.
• At the Li position, Zhang Tie fought a horse-headed Stone Statue whose strength matched a perfected Void Refinement cultivator.
• Zhang Tie damaged the Stone Statue with his Dragon Claw Hand, but it counterattacked by spewing purple flames.

Zhang Tie overcame two dangerous Stone Statues and went to help Powder Bone with a third. He stood ready to strike at the incorporeal Stone Statue while Powder Bone attacked it.

• A horse-headed Stone Statue struck Zhang Tie with purple flame that poisoned his divine soul, but he used the Indestructible Pearl to cleanse the toxin and destroyed the statue with the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel.
• Zhang Tie knocked down a goat-snake Stone Statue, and it released black mist that killed three cultivators who tried to attack it.
• Zhang Tie hurled Chaos Divine Thunder into the black mist and destroyed the goat-snake Stone Statue, frightening nearby cultivators into fleeing.
• Powder Bone told Zhang Tie that she had defeated the Stone Statue in the Zhen position but could not hit the incorporeal Stone Statue in the Kan position.
• Zhang Tie told Powder Bone to attack with all her strength while he waited nearby for a chance to strike.

Zhang Tie and Powder Bone defeated a Stone Statue, triggering the release of the Hall Guardian Elder from the Ice Crystal. As he attacked the cultivators and targeted Zhang Tie and Fu Yanjie, Fu Yanjie revealed formidable power and recognized him as Old Ghost Feng Han hiding in the Water Kirin’s body.

• Zhang Tie used the word “Freeze” to hold the Stone Statue in place, allowing his black flying sword to split it apart.
• The hall shook as the statues in its niches began to explode, and the Hall Guardian Elder broke free from the Ice Crystal.
• The Hall Guardian Elder sealed the hall with an ice wall, then possessed more than a dozen cultivators and drained their lives.
• The Hall Guardian Elder attacked Zhang Tie, but sensed a life-and-death threat and retreated after Zhang Tie struck him with Chaos Divine Thunder.
• The Hall Guardian Elder charged at Fu Yanjie, whose golden aura erupted as she identified him as Old Ghost Feng Han and vowed to cleanse the sect.

Fu Yanjie confronted Old Ghost Feng Han over his betrayal of Guanghan Palace, and their divine-soul battle left him at a disadvantage. Feng Han broke free and attacked Zhang Tie, who was trapped as Feng Han prepared a deadly Ice Law spear.

• A golden barrier sealed the great hall and blocked Zhang Tie's divine sense from reaching outside.
• Fu Yanjie accused Old Ghost Feng Han of betraying Guanghan Palace and causing their master's death, then attacked him with golden waves of divine-soul power.
• Old Ghost Feng Han fought back with a frost dragon, but Fu Yanjie gained the upper hand and restrained him with golden chains.
• Feng Han escaped the chains through a trick, appeared above Zhang Tie, and knocked Elder Mu and Powder Bone aside when they tried to stop him.
• Fu Yanjie sealed the qilin body while Feng Han froze the area around Zhang Tie and formed an Ice Law spear to attack him.

Zhang Tie used Shape Shift to escape Old Ghost Feng Han’s attack, switching places with Fu Yanjie and reaching the qilin inside the Ice Crystal. Old Ghost Feng Han fought the injured Senior Brother Zhu, who unleashed the power of his brow rune and froze everyone in place.

• Zhang Tie switched places with Fu Yanjie as Old Ghost Feng Han’s ice spear struck, then flew into the partly unsealed Ice Crystal and set up formations around its opening.
• Old Ghost Feng Han’s attack turned Fu Yanjie into an ice sculpture, and Senior Brother Zhu escaped from her body while badly injured.
• Old Ghost Feng Han pursued Senior Brother Zhu, and the two exchanged soul-power attacks as Zhang Tie completed the formations and began recovering on the qilin’s back.
• Old Ghost Feng Han’s blue python caught Senior Brother Zhu and dragged him toward a millstone that threatened to grind apart his soul.
• Senior Brother Zhu charged toward Old Ghost Feng Han, called out to his master, and triggered the rune between his brows, freezing everyone in place.

Zhu Kejian’s golden sword killed Old Ghost Feng Han, spared Zhang Tie, and broke the seal on the Water Kirin after Zhang Tie promised to find a successor for Guanghan Palace. Zhang Tie learned about Zhu Kejian and Guanghan Palace’s three foundational techniques, but Powder Bone suddenly collapsed in agony.

• Zhu Kejian’s golden sword pierced and destroyed Old Ghost Feng Han, then stopped before Zhang Tie and asked him to find a suitable sword cultivator to succeed Guanghan Palace.
• Zhang Tie swore to fulfill Zhu Kejian’s request, received the Sacrificing Sword Art, the Sacrificing God Art, and the Sacrificing Life Art, and watched the golden sword break the Water Kirin’s seal.
• Powder Bone collected the Water Kirin’s blood essence and materials while Zhang Tie searched the dead cultivators’ belongings and examined Elder Mu’s ruined puppet body.
• Zhang Tie read Zhu Kejian’s memories and learned of his past, then studied the three arts and discovered they offered a path to Dao Ancestor-level strength without the usual drawbacks.
• Powder Bone suddenly clutched her head, rolled across the ground, and screamed in agony.

Zhang Tie formed an alliance with Kui Luo, the Water Kirin phantom, after learning that the 'Divine Refinement Technique' could not be abandoned once begun. Kui Luo took up residence in Soul-Hosting Wood and directed Zhang Tie toward a possible opportunity north of their location.

• Zhang Tie repelled Kui Luo's attempt to possess him, and Kui Luo revealed that he had recognized Zhang Tie's 'Divine Refinement Technique.'
• Zhang Tie offered Kui Luo an alliance contract in exchange for information, and they agreed never to harm each other, oppose external enemies together, and remain allied for a thousand years.
• Kui Luo explained that anyone who began the 'Divine Refinement Technique' had to complete all seven layers or explode and die, with long intervals between layers.
• Zhang Tie gave Kui Luo Soul-Hosting Wood to inhabit, and Kui Luo said he could seek clues to the later techniques after returning to the Immortal Realm.
• Powder Bone refined the immortal beast's remains, extracted one and a half bottles of essence blood, and absorbed what essence remained in the remains.
• Kui Luo told Zhang Tie to head north, turn right, and seek a lake in a mountain forest where a great opportunity might be hidden.

Zhang Tie followed Kui Luo’s directions through a hidden passage and found a nine-headed kirin statue that offered him a chance to comprehend Ice Law. As Zhang Tie entered enlightenment, Powder Bone revealed her determination to avenge her parents, and Kui Luo encountered the Water Kirin Ying Di.

• Zhang Tie and Powder Bone found a concealed pool beneath a giant tree, entered a passage at its bottom, and emerged into another body of water.
• Zhang Tie rose from the water and discovered that the towering mountain was a nine-headed kirin statue; Kui Luo told him to land on one of its heads.
• Zhang Tie sat on the dark-blue head and began comprehending the Ice God Art, triggering a snowfall that covered the forest.
• Powder Bone sobbed over her dead parents and vowed to avenge them by bathing Hong Jing Country in blood.
• A blue Water Kirin appeared before Kui Luo, who recognized it as Ying Di and exclaimed that it was still alive.

Zhang Tie emerged from his enlightenment with a calm, ordinary-seeming aura, then failed to gain insight from the other Enlightenment Platforms. Kui Luo directed him and Powder Bone to the Immortal Beast Hall’s deepest treasury, where they discovered others fighting behind a partly open golden door.

• Kui Luo explained that the Enlightenment Platforms represented nine common laws, and Zhang Tie learned that his breakthrough had come from the Ice Law.
• Zhang Tie tried the other eight platforms but gained no insight, so Kui Luo suggested searching the treasury at the underground palace’s lowest level.
• Zhang Tie and Powder Bone cautiously headed deeper into the palace and heard explosions ahead.
• Powder Bone scouted the final level and found a partly open golden stone door with fighting beyond it.
• Powder Bone peered through the door and was utterly shocked by what she saw.

Powder Bone and Zhang Tie entered a treasure-filled valley, where cultivators fought over powerful treasures. Powder Bone survived a series of ambushes and defeated a black-robed man, but after a veiled woman tried to steal his gourd, an unknown figure appeared above her.

• Powder Bone found the Immortal Jade-covered valley and its golden tree, then was struck by a golden palm and nearly hit by a red spear.
• Powder Bone fought the black-robed middle-aged man, whose black sand trapped her flying swords and drew them into his gourd.
• Powder Bone used blood-red threads and duplicate figures to bind and drain the black-robed man, then tried to claim his gourd.
• A veiled woman attacked to seize the gourd, but Powder Bone slowed her with blood-red ripples and blocked her white fire phoenix with an umbrella-shaped spirit treasure.
• Powder Bone spotted a figure above the veiled woman, who had not noticed its presence.

Zhang Tie defeated the veiled woman after discovering that her apparent devotion hid a plan to sacrifice her entire bloodline for the Reincarnation Realm. He learned that the golden tree’s trials governed access to the Guanghan Palace treasure vault, then turned his attention to the treasures others were fighting over.

• The veiled woman used her yin-yang fish earrings to shield herself from Zhang Tie’s attack and warned him that her Mahayana ancestor would punish him.
• Zhang Tie covered the Eight Trigrams barrier in Ice Crystal, making the veiled woman mistake him for her long-lost senior brother and confess why she sought the Reincarnation Realm.
• Zhang Tie killed the veiled woman with the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel, and Powder Bone took the earrings before they hit the ground.
• Zhang Tie explained that the Reincarnation Realm required sacrificing every blood relative of the person it tracked, then took the woman’s storage ring and headed for the golden tree.
• Zhang Tie learned from the black-robed man’s soul that only two of the seventeen previous challengers had passed the tree spirit’s trial, and that the others would be expelled from the valley if they failed.

Zhang Tie seized two treasures with his teleportation ability, then agreed to rules for the remaining trials. The first challenger entered the golden tree’s illusion trial and vomited blood as the tree flared with golden light.

• Zhang Tie grabbed a blood-red jade talisman and made the attacks aimed at him kill the bearded bald man instead.
• Zhang Tie teleported to the Nine-headed Serpent wooden carving and took it while the crowd gathered around him.
• Zhang Tie defended his actions and agreed to let everyone take turns in the trials, with him going last.
• Zhang Tie produced thirty-four numbered ice crystal spheres, and the challengers drew their order.
• The short, wizened old man touched the golden tree and entered its trial, trembling and showing changing emotions before spitting blood as the tree blazed with golden light.

After the trial, Zhang Tie entered the golden tree’s formation and was swept through the Guanghan Realm to a mysterious river of time and space. His spiritual sense was badly damaged when he touched one of its bubbles, and the golden light carried him into a bubble before everything went still.

• Bo Zixin claimed the jade talisman after Zhang Tie’s cough stopped the others from taking it, and thanked Zhang Tie for his help.
• The next cultivator vanished when the tree’s golden light turned white, and only Bo Zixin and a green-robed young man passed the trial.
• Zhang Tie put Powder Bone away and touched the tree, then saw the treasury, the Immortal Beast Hall, and the Guanghan Realm from above.
• Zhang Tie probed a bubble in a vast river of ribbon-like energies, and the pressure shattered nearly half of his spiritual sense.
• Zhang Tie used the Ice God Art to soothe his injured soul as the golden light carried him upstream and into a bubble.