Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie, appearing as Lu Qian, fled Guanghan Palace with its disciples after Feng Han’s betrayal and the sect’s grand formation fell. When their one-use teleportation formation was destroyed, Senior Brother Zhu led them toward a sealed passage to the Demon Realm, where Zhang Tie sensed an attack and teleported away.

• Senior Brother Zhu took Zhang Tie from the besieged Guanghan Palace through a teleportation formation to a hidden chamber where more than twenty disciples were waiting.
• The disciples began activating a one-use formation that could carry only twenty-five people across immortal domains, while Senior Brother Zhu stayed behind.
• An explosion destroyed the formation, and Senior Brother Zhu decided to lead the group to a sealed passage to the Demon Realm.
• Senior Brother Zhu carried the disciples through the air to a black mountain surrounded by dense fog.
• Zhang Tie sensed mortal danger, teleported away, and shouted a warning to the others.

Zhang Tie and a fellow disciple fled after the Heavenly Court cultivators ambushed their group, then hid in a cave where he studied the cultivation methods of Lu Qian, the body’s original owner. He discovered Lu Qian’s unusual Three Yuan Void Severing Art and learned that Lu Qian had died with a lifelong obsession still unfulfilled.

• A thunder attack shattered the disciples’ barrier, and Zhang Tie caught a woman in purple robes as the group was scattered.
• The White-haired Old Woman cloaked the area in black mist and ordered the disciples to split up, while Zhang Tie and the woman fled together.
• The woman led Zhang Tie to a hidden cave in a remote mountain range, where they established a concealed dwelling.
• Zhang Tie inspected Lu Qian’s storage ring and learned that Lu Qian cultivated the Golden Body Forging Immortal Art and the Three Yuan Void Severing Art.
• Zhang Tie read Lu Qian’s cultivation insights and learned that the former owner had died without fulfilling his lifelong obsession.

Zhang Tie learned from Lu Qian’s jade slip how Lu Qian’s failed revenge had become a heart demon, then began rebuilding his strength after taking over the body. When he asked the purple-clothed woman to explain who she was, she drew her flying sword and treated him with suspicion.

• Lu Qian’s sect was destroyed, and after he was rescued by Hu Danyang and became a powerful cultivator, he found that his enemies had died before he could take revenge.
• Lu Qian’s inability to avenge his family became a heart demon that tormented him during cultivation.
• Zhang Tie put away Lu Qian’s cultivation insights and decided to focus on cultivating and protecting himself.
• A purple-clothed woman brought Zhang Tie cultivation resources, and he accepted half the spirit stones and pills as a loan.
• Zhang Tie said his memories were confused and asked the woman who she was, prompting her to retreat and point a red flying sword at him.

Zhang Tie reunited with Jin Linglong, cultivated for twenty-three years, and agreed to help her obtain a rare herb for a Void Breaking Pill. After they killed its guardian, an invisible barrier revealed that the herb was part of an ambush.

• Jin Linglong mistook Zhang Tie for a Heavenly Court intruder, but she recognized him after he answered questions about Lu Qian’s past and revealed their arranged Dao companion pact.
• Zhang Tie learned that Jin Linglong had an Innate Treasure Body and suspected she was connected to the Jin Linglong he had met in the Lesser Demon Realm.
• Zhang Tie cultivated for twenty-three years and reached the peak Spirit Transformation stage, but lacked the pills needed to advance further.
• Jin Linglong asked Zhang Tie to help her retrieve a Profound Leaf Soul Breaking Grass guarded by a peak fifth-grade six-legged poison toad, and he agreed.
• Jin Linglong restrained the toad for one breath, allowing Zhang Tie to kill it with a golden blade of light.
• When Zhang Tie reached for the herb, an invisible barrier repelled his attack, and he grabbed Jin Linglong and retreated after realizing they had walked into an ambush.

Zhang Tie and Jin Linglong escaped an ambush at the Profound Leaf Soul Breaking Grass, while Yang Xinwan and Zhong Zhen plotted to capture Jin Linglong for her pill-refining skills. Back at their cave abode, Zhang Tie and Jin Linglong planned to recover and prepare for another attempt to obtain the herb.

• Zhang Tie used a teleportation talisman to escape with Jin Linglong after wooden spikes and a net sprang from a swamp ambush.
• Yang Xinwan collected the Profound Leaf Soul Breaking Grass while Zhong Zhen claimed the pair would fall into another trap at the herb’s other growing location.
• Zhong Zhen secretly planned to kill Yang Xinwan after using the Void Breaking Pill as bait, confident his recovered divine sense could overcome Yang Xinwan’s restriction.
• Zhang Tie brought Jin Linglong to their cave abode, activated its concealment formation, and concluded the ambushers wanted to force her to refine pills.
• Jin Linglong said she would recover her divine sense before they tried again, and Zhang Tie asked whether they had materials to prepare a formation.

Zhang Tie crafted the Hidden Spirit Soul Annihilation Formation and joined Jin Linglong to search for the Profound Leaf Soul Breaking Grass. After they ambushed Yang Xinwan and Zhong Zhen at the poisonous pool, both targets survived the initial attacks using rare protective techniques.

• Jin Linglong gave Zhang Tie her array materials and resolved to cultivate harder so she could assist Senior Brother Lu.
• Zhang Tie spent seven days creating the tier-6 Hidden Spirit Soul Annihilation Formation, which used his spiritual sense to launch soul attacks.
• Zhang Tie and Jin Linglong searched the mountains for nearly three months and found the Profound Leaf Soul Breaking Grass beside a poisonous pool guarded by a two-headed human-faced python.
• Zhang Tie and Jin Linglong concealed themselves in the formation and waited two months for someone to approach the grass.
• Yang Xinwan and Zhong Zhen arrived, and Zhang Tie ambushed them with a golden strike and the formation's soul attack.
• Yang Xinwan sacrificed an arm to evade the strike, while Zhong Zhen blocked the soul attack with a Soul Protection Talisman.

Zhang Tie, Jin Linglong, and Zhong Zhen killed Yang Xinwan and his two-headed human-faced python after a fierce battle in the poison pool. Just as they regrouped, the sky darkened and the ground began to shake, bringing a sudden sense of danger.

• Zhang Tie collected the Profound Leaf Soul Breaking Grass while evading Yang Xinwan’s puppet beasts and the python’s tail.
• Zhong Zhen struck Yang Xinwan from behind, destroying his body, but Yang Xinwan’s Nascent Soul escaped and tried to activate a soul restriction against him.
• Jin Linglong empowered her red flying sword, and Zhang Tie teleported behind Yang Xinwan and destroyed his Nascent Soul with the Brilliant Light Body Slash.
• Zhang Tie collected Yang Xinwan’s storage ring and white jade talisman as his puppet beasts fell still.
• Jin Linglong and Zhong Zhen wounded the two-headed human-faced python, and Zhang Tie destroyed its soul with the Hidden Spirit Soul Annihilation Formation.
• The sky darkened and the ground shook as Zhang Tie, Jin Linglong, and Zhong Zhen regrouped.

Zhang Tie and Jin Linglong learned that the collapsing Guanghan Realm would soon strip its cultivators of their cultivation, and Zhong Zhen revealed a dangerous escape route using a Teleportation Bead. After Zhong Zhen departed, Zhang Tie sensed he was tracking them and secretly warned Jin Linglong to follow him.

• Zhang Tie and Jin Linglong discovered that their cultivation had suddenly fallen, and Zhong Zhen explained that the Guanghan Realm was breaking away from the Immortal Realm.
• Zhong Zhen identified himself as a steward of Guanghan Palace and told Zhang Tie that Yang Xinwan's storage ring held a Teleportation Bead that could take them near the Cangwu Mountain Range.
• Zhong Zhen admitted that crossing the realm wall could kill anyone below the Void Refinement stage and gave Zhang Tie a communication jade slip while describing a Star Diamond Shield Talisman.
• Zhong Zhen flew away, and Zhang Tie and Jin Linglong set off toward their cave abode with the Teleportation Bead.
• After sensing that Zhong Zhen was tracking them, Zhang Tie sent Jin Linglong a secret warning not to speak and to follow him.

Zhang Tie and Jin Linglong laid a deadly trap for Zhong Zhen, then spent more than twenty years waiting as Zhang Tie tried to break through to the Void Refinement stage. His third attempt failed, but he realized Lu Qian’s destroyed soul had never fully fused with his body and still wondered what the giant golden tree was testing him for.

• Zhang Tie and Jin Linglong killed the tiger demon in its cave, and Zhang Tie sealed the entrance with a formation to lure Zhong Zhen.
• Zhong Zhen watched the cave for three days, left to hide in a stealth formation, then returned to check the bait before departing again; Zhang Tie secretly tracked him.
• Zhang Tie told Jin Linglong about Zhong Zhen’s movements and decided to move his dwelling near the cave and prepare an ambush to take the Star Diamond Talisman.
• Over a month, Zhang Tie built a bait dwelling and concealed a sixth-rank Thunder Fire Dragon Killing Formation across a hundred miles.
• More than twenty years later, Zhang Tie failed his third attempt to reach the Void Refinement stage after seeing an image of a corpse resembling himself.
• Zhang Tie realized Lu Qian’s soul had been destroyed and had never fully fused with his body, though he still did not understand what the giant golden tree was testing him for.

After Zhang Tie hid Jin Linglong and prepared an ambush for Zhong Zhen, Zhong Zhen attacked the bait cave abode and was caught by a formation and two powerful dragons. Zhong Zhen identified Zhang Tie’s hiding place and launched a deadly counterattack toward him.

• Zhang Tie reassured Jin Linglong after his failed breakthrough, then sensed Zhong Zhen approaching and took her into his concealed cave abode.
• Zhang Tie hid more than ten miles from the bait cave abode, prepared his defenses, and waited for Zhong Zhen.
• Zhong Zhen smashed the bait cave abode with a flaming palm, triggering a barrier and revealing Zhang Tie’s formation ambush.
• Zhang Tie’s flaming and lightning dragons attacked Zhong Zhen, who fought back with an iron staff and a five-colored feather fan.
• Zhong Zhen discovered Zhang Tie’s hiding place, rushed toward him, and sent a storm of crimson spears to seal off his escape.

Zhang Tie defeated Zhong Zhen in the formation by countering his Soul Slaying Sword Formation with a soul attack, then collected Zhong Zhen’s treasures and hurried toward Jin Linglong. His discovery inside Zhong Zhen’s storage ring left him delighted.

• Zhang Tie used the array disk to summon thunder dragons and blast a path through Zhong Zhen’s crimson spear attack.
• Zhong Zhen summoned a larger peacock and reinforced his defenses, while Zhang Tie raced toward the formation’s barrier.
• Zhang Tie’s three buried puppets ambushed Zhong Zhen, slowing his pursuit and cutting his Body Protection Spiritual Light.
• Zhong Zhen trapped Zhang Tie’s soul with the Soul Slaying Sword Formation, but Zhang Tie froze the swords and struck Zhong Zhen’s unguarded sea of consciousness with a Soul Piercing Thorn.
• Zhang Tie collected Zhong Zhen’s magic treasures and storage ring, dismissed the formation, and flew toward Jin Linglong after finding something pleasing in the ring.

Zhang Tie discovered the Soul Canon and learned the Soul Devouring Sword Formation, a powerful divine-soul technique that suited his abilities. After studying it, he set out to hide his collected treasures near the Immortal Beast Hall before his assessment ended.

• Zhang Tie found the Star Diamond Talisman, the Soul Canon stele, and more than a hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones in Zhong Zhen’s storage ring.
• Jin Linglong asked Zhang Tie to wait two years before setting out while she completed cultivating a secret technique, and he agreed.
• Zhang Tie entered the Soul Canon’s divine-soul space and learned the three levels of the Soul Devouring Sword Formation from its nine stone steles.
• Zhang Tie reviewed the formation and decided to hide his collected treasures so he could retrieve them after the assessment.
• Zhang Tie studied Jin Linglong’s map, chose a remote spot near the Immortal Beast Hall, and flew toward it.

Zhang Tie searched the palace complex for the real-world underground palace but found only empty chambers until he discovered a hidden formation beneath a well. After feeding it 330,000 high-grade spirit stones, he activated the formation, which sent a brilliant beam of light into the sky.

• Zhang Tie arrived at the mapped palace complex, found no trace of the underground palace, and searched its grounds and underground without success.
• Zhang Tie spent over half a month investigating the complex and uncovered seven secret chambers, all of them empty.
• Zhang Tie sensed a barrier at the bottom of a well, passed through it, and discovered a hidden chamber containing a jade formation platform with five pillars and a mirror.
• Zhang Tie studied the formation, decided to activate it, and inserted 330,000 high-grade spirit stones.
• The formation lit up, trembled, and fired a brilliant beam through the well and into the sky, bathing the palace complex in light.

Zhang Tie destroyed the mysterious array after its immense burst of power threatened to draw attention, but then encountered Xiu Yutu, the wounded sect master of Guanghan Palace. Xiu Yutu sensed his natal Immortal Artifact’s aura in Zhang Tie’s soul and demanded an explanation, leaving Zhang Tie recounting how he had entered the Guanghan Realm.

• The array emitted a powerful pillar of light that stabbed at Zhang Tie’s soul before abruptly vanishing, leaving a spiritual disturbance behind.
• Zhang Tie memorized the array’s details, split the formation with a golden light, and fled, then stopped to consider that he might never find it again.
• Xiu Yutu, gravely wounded and lost in the void after escaping three Heavenly Court Great Luo True Immortals, received a summons from a Guanghan Palace status token and teleported toward its signal.
• Xiu Yutu arrived in the Immortal Beast Garden, subdued Zhang Tie, and sensed his natal Immortal Artifact’s aura in Zhang Tie’s soul.
• Zhang Tie introduced himself and told Xiu Yutu about the Guanghan Realm, how he entered it, and what he had experienced there.

Xiu Yutu sent Zhang Tie out of the trial after giving him a self-created divine ability and secret method, and Zhang Tie obtained the Five-Colored Sky-Forging Gourd. After refining it for half a month, Zhang Tie learned its name and discovered that it was a genuine supplementary immortal treasure.

• Xiu Yutu explained that Zhang Tie’s soul had entered Lu Qian’s body because someone used the Time Law to interfere with the Guanghan Palace Inheritance Land, then gave Zhang Tie a divine ability and secret method.
• Zhang Tie returned to the giant golden tree, obtained a five-colored gourd, and learned from Bo Zixin that he could leave the Guanghan Realm with him.
• The green-robed youth departed, while Zhang Tie set up defensive formations and spent half a month refining the gourd.
• Zhang Tie dripped three drops of essential blood onto the gourd and learned that it was the Five-Colored Sky-Forging Gourd, a genuine supplementary immortal treasure.

Zhang Tie and Bo Zixin left the Immortal Beast Garden, while the Five-Colored Sky-Forging Gourd’s power and Zhang Tie’s unreadable divine ability remained on his mind. After Zhang Tie returned through the teleportation formation and disappeared into the city, an old man and a young man followed him.

• Zhang Tie put the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel into the Five-Colored Sky-Forging Gourd and secured the gourd to his back before leaving the Immortal Beast Hall with Bo Zixin.
• During their journey, Zhang Tie tried and failed to examine the divine ability secret art from Xiu Yutu, then traveled with Bo Zixin for about a month to a teleportation formation.
• Spiritual energy flooded toward the Immortal Beast Garden, and eight months later Jin Linglong left seclusion to find Zhang Tie but discovered his cave dwelling empty.
• Jin Linglong searched for Zhang Tie for years, then sought treasures to preserve her cultivation and eventually found an underground palace.
• Bo Zixin led Zhang Tie and the other travelers through the teleportation formation, and Zhang Tie left the teleportation hall and entered the city.
• An old man and a young man emerged from a nearby inn and followed Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie sold a collection of items to Carefree Pavilion, secured permanent residency in Cloud City, and rented a Grade D cave residence. He chose to cultivate in the city before deciding whether he was strong enough to travel to the Xuetian Continent.

• Zhang Tie sold his items to Fu Qinshou for 730,000 high-grade spirit stones and asked Carefree Pavilion to arrange permanent residency.
• Fu Qinshou delivered Zhang Tie’s permanent-residency token two days later, and Zhang Tie promised to sell him good items in the future.
• Zhang Tie decided to attempt a breakthrough in Cloud City before seeking his avatar and Zhao Daosheng on the Xuetian Continent.
• Zhang Tie rented a Grade D cave residence for one hundred years and entered Number Seventy-Three.

After nearly three hundred and seventy years of cultivation, Zhang Tie fused his ice-attributed laws with his void aperture and triggered a heavenly phenomenon while attempting to fuse Chaos Divine Thunder. He left Cloud City to undergo his tribulation in a remote desert and prepared by drinking Water Kirin blood essence.

• Zhang Tie inspected his D-grade cave abode, found no hidden surveillance formations, and installed a sixth-rank defensive formation before cultivating.
• After three days of preparation, Zhang Tie began fusing his laws with his void aperture, and a vast vortex, golden ring, and pillar of blue light appeared over Cloud City.
• Zhang Tie announced that he was about to undergo his tribulation and flew out of Cloud City, followed by more than twenty cultivators and a crowd eager to witness the event.
• Zhang Tie reached a desert tens of thousands of li from Cloud City as tribulation clouds gathered overhead.
• Zhang Tie drank the bottle and a half of Water Kirin blood essence and activated the Nine Revolutions Undying Body.

Zhang Tie endured successive waves of heavenly tribulation as he refined the Water Kirin’s essence blood and broke through into the early Primal Chaos stage. After stopping a lightning bolt with a punch, he sensed something unusual in the clash.

• Zhang Tie used the Nine Revolutions Undying Body and the Indestructible Pearl to stabilize his cracking void aperture while it refined the violent energy and Water Kirin’s essence blood.
• Zhang Tie endured the first three lightning bolts, which tempered his body as a law vortex formed inside his void aperture.
• Zhang Tie checked that the Five-Colored Sky-Forging Gourd and nine-foot black chain were unharmed, and saw the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel accumulating power inside the gourd.
• A sloppy man, a white-robed young man, and an elderly cultivator watched the tribulation and discussed Zhang Tie’s strength and chances of surviving it.
• Zhang Tie absorbed the Water Kirin’s essence blood, entered the early Primal Chaos stage, and met the fourth wave of lightning head-on with a punch.
• Zhang Tie held his ground against the yellow lightning and sensed something unusual in their collision.

Zhang Tie fought the heavenly tribulation head-on and discovered that his rising battle intent awakened the Chaos Divine Thunder within him. As his strength ran low, the eighth tribulation took the form of a blood-red mountain that drove him toward the brink of defeat.

• Zhang Tie struck the descending thunderbolts with his fists and realized that his surging battle intent was activating the Chaos Divine Thunder.
• Zhang Tie unleashed waves of black-lightning fists against the fifth tribulation, weakening it without dispersing it completely.
• The scruffy middle-aged man and the two men in white robes watched in shock as Zhang Tie challenged the tribulation with his body.
• Zhang Tie's divine power gradually ran dry as the heavenly thunderbolts grew stronger.
• The eighth tribulation formed a blood-red mountain that pressed Zhang Tie downward, and he roared in defiance as his strength failed.