Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie survived the blood-red lightning mountain by breaking through another shackle and fusing the Chaos Divine Thunder laws with his Void Aperture. A Soul Annihilation Tribulation then formed a giant black sword, and the Taoist in white revealed that one person in recorded history had faced all three such tribulations.

• At the brink of being crushed, Zhang Tie split the blood-red lightning mountain with a burst of black lightning.
• Zhang Tie gained a deeper understanding of the Chaos Divine Thunder laws and fused them with his Void Aperture.
• The tribulation clouds formed a massive black sword from black lightning and golden runes, while its pressure killed low-level cultivators nearby.
• The Taoist in white identified the sword as the Soul Annihilation Tribulation, which targeted the soul and had appeared only three times in recorded history.
• The Taoist in white revealed that the same person had encountered all three Soul Annihilation Tribulations.

Zhang Tie faced the Soul Annihilation Tribulation, summoned his armor and the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel, and shattered the black colossal sword. The tribulation clouds dispersed and rewarded him with a seven-colored beam, while the Indestructible Pearl in his void aperture began changing.

• The white-robed Daoist recounted a legendary figure who survived three Soul Annihilation Tribulations, then announced that Zhang Tie's tribulation had begun.
• Zhang Tie donned the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor, releasing spiritual soul pressure that the white-robed Daoist recognized as Mahayana-stage power.
• Zhang Tie summoned the Profound Heaven Spirit Extermination Shovel and smashed the descending black colossal sword in a single strike.
• Zhang Tie challenged the tribulation clouds, which dispersed and were replaced by seven-colored auspicious clouds.
• A seven-colored beam cleansed Zhang Tie's spiritual soul and tempered his body, while the Indestructible Pearl in his void aperture underwent an abnormal change.

After completing his tribulation, Zhang Tie met Xiang Shang, a Mahayana cultivator, and spoke with him about the breakthrough and Zhang Tie’s background. Left alone to consolidate his cultivation, Zhang Tie assessed his new abilities and planned to travel to Xuetian Continent to find his clone and Zhao Daosheng.

• The seven-colored radiance surged into Zhang Tie’s Indestructible Pearl, turning its surface mottled purple and black as the clouds vanished.
• Xiang Shang introduced himself to Zhang Tie and brought him to a quiet courtyard, where Zhang Tie identified himself as a Night Clan member from Leiming Continent and a disciple of Xuanyuan Muxue.
• Xiang Shang and Zhang Tie discussed the tribulation and ancient body-refining system for more than three hours before Xiang Shang left Zhang Tie to rest and consolidate his cultivation.
• Zhang Tie reviewed his breakthrough, including the Mirror Image divine ability that let him create up to nine clones and switch places with them instantly.
• Zhang Tie noted that the seven-colored radiance had briefly loosened his stagnant witchcraft and planned to head to Xuetian Continent to find his clone and Zhao Daosheng.

Zhang Tie waited in Cloud City for the monthly teleportation to the Xuetian Continent, where he learned about the Nine Profound Divine Clan's Secret Realm and its Blood-Eye Bodhi Fruit. Si Mo invited him to join their group and began explaining the treasure’s dangers.

• Zhang Tie declined Xiang Shang’s offers to arrange a dual-cultivation partner and traveled to Cloud City’s Teleportation Hall to await the next activation.
• A short-haired middle-aged man tried to secure an extra teleportation slot, but Si Mo warned him that Zhang Tie was the cultivator who had survived the Three-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Zhang Tie arrived at the hall, and the short-haired middle-aged man apologized after recognizing him.
• Si Mo introduced himself and told Zhang Tie that the Nine Profound Divine Clan's Secret Realm opened once every thousand years and contained rare treasures, including the Blood-Eye Bodhi Fruit.
• Si Mo offered to share his map to the Blood-Eye Bodhi Fruit if Zhang Tie joined his group, then explained the fruit’s effects and began warning of its dangers.

Zhang Tie agreed to cooperate with Si Mo to seek Blood-Eye Bodhi Fruits in the Nine Profound Divine Clan's Secret Realm and traveled with him to Blood Sky City. Short on spirit stones, Zhang Tie learned that he could earn them by fighting in the city's deadly gambling arena.

• Zhang Tie questioned Si Chi about the Blood-Eye Bodhi Fruit's dangers and agreed to give Si Mo one fruit from his share in exchange for cooperation.
• Zhang Tie and Si Mo discussed the secret realm while waiting for the teleportation group, then traveled with the others to the Xuetian Continent.
• After the group departed, Xiang Shang learned that Si Mo had partnered with Zhang Tie and explained why Si Mo was the right choice for the mission.
• In Blood Sky City, Zhang Tie asked Si Mo how to earn spirit stones, and Si Mo directed him to the Blood Sky Gambling Arena, where matches ended in death.

Zhang Tie entered Blood Sky City's betting arena to earn spirit stones and replenish the Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor's soul power. After registering under the alias Seven Mysteries, he was matched with a fighter from the Stone Demon Race and learned he could choose between two combat formats.

• Zhang Tie and Si Chi arrived at the betting arena, where Zhang Tie signed a Heavenly Demon Contract and received an Iron Rank token.
• Yin Xiang registered Zhang Tie under the alias Seven Mysteries and matched him with Ge'er Jia Shi Qi.
• Si Chi recognized Ge'er Jia Shi Qi's name as belonging to the Stone Demon Race, a bloodthirsty people known for earth-element laws and strong defenses.
• Yin Xiang asked Zhang Tie to choose between unrestricted and restricted spell combat and gave him a jade slip explaining the formats.

Zhang Tie chose a free duel at Gambling Arena No. 937 and entered the arena to face Ge'er Jia Shi Qi of the Stone Demon Race. The match began as the crowd cheered for Ge'er Jia Shi Qi and jeered at Zhang Tie.

• Yin Xiang explained the duel formats, and Zhang Tie selected a free duel for its higher prize and faster pace.
• Yin Xiang arranged Zhang Tie's match against Ge'er Jia Shi Qi for two hours later at Gambling Arena No. 937.
• Si Chi bought a ticket to enter the arena lounge and wagered ten thousand top-tier spiritual stones on Zhang Tie to win.
• Ge'er Jia Shi Qi entered the lounge, ate a human heart, and taunted Zhang Tie by saying he preferred human brains.
• Zhang Tie and Ge'er Jia Shi Qi entered the arena from opposite passages, and the announcer introduced them before declaring the match begun.

Zhang Tie instantly killed Ge'er Jia Shi Qi, won his first match, and collected the prize money before registering for another fight. His next battle began against a Blood Demon Race cultivator, who attacked while Zhang Tie seized his bone sword, and a roar sounded behind him as he tried to break it.

• Zhang Tie killed Ge'er Jia Shi Qi with one strike, absorbed his soul, and had Powder Bone drain the corpse before leaving the arena.
• Zhang Tie accepted twenty thousand high-grade spirit stones and told Si Mo he intended to keep fighting.
• Zhang Tie registered for a second match against an early Integration-stage cultivator from the Blood Demon Race.
• The Blood Demon Race youth challenged Zhang Tie before the match, but Zhang Tie ignored him and rested.
• During the fight, Zhang Tie blocked the youth's sword qi, caught his bone sword, and prepared to snap it as the youth attacked from behind.

Zhang Tie battled the Blood Demon Race youth, broke his bone sword to weaken him, and destroyed his protective net. He sealed and took the youth’s cone-shaped treasure, then struck the youth with a lightning-wreathed dragon claw, leaving him pinned against the formation barrier as Zhang Tie prepared another attack.

• The Blood Demon Race youth ambushed Zhang Tie with a cone-shaped treasure, but Zhang Tie parried it with his bone sword and sent it flying.
• Zhang Tie forcibly snapped his bone sword, weakening the Blood Demon Race youth, then attacked him with a black-and-blue lightning palm.
• The Blood Demon Race youth used his net-shaped treasure to block the palm, but blue Ice Crystals and black lightning shattered the treasure.
• As the Blood Demon Race youth fled, Zhang Tie sealed and stored the cone-shaped treasure, revealing he had planned to capture it intact.
• The enraged Blood Demon Race youth transformed into a giant, bone-spiked creature and charged Zhang Tie, who struck him in the chest with a lightning-wreathed dragon claw and sent him crashing into the formation barrier.

Zhang Tie defeated a Blood Demon Race youth, absorbed his soul, and let Powder Bone consume his corpse before entering another arena match. His next opponent, the Shadow Race cultivator Xue Lian, approached him in the resting room and suddenly claimed to be his sister-in-law.

• Zhang Tie used his Blood Qi Sword Transformation infused with Chaos Divine Thunder to kill the Blood Demon Race youth, then absorbed his soul and took his storage ring.
• Powder Bone consumed the youth's corpse, drawing close to a breakthrough, and Zhang Tie was declared the winner.
• Zhang Tie learned that his next opponent was Xue Lian, a Shadow Race cultivator one win away from advancing to Silver Rank.
• While waiting for the match, Zhang Tie identified and refined the Purple Gold Armor-Piercing Cone, noting that its aura resembled the strange insects from the Hundred Nations Battlefield.
• Xue Lian entered Zhang Tie's resting room, first releasing frost toward him, then suddenly acting affectionate and calling him her brother-in-law.

Zhang Tie killed Xue Lian after she attacked him with a hidden needle, but the attack triggered memories of Doctor Mo and caused him to lose control of his emotions. While examining the spoils from his three matches, he discovered a book titled Evergreen Technique.

• Xue Lian used the Shadow Clan’s Void Escape Technique to vanish at the start of the match, and Zhang Tie searched for her with his divine sense.
• Xue Lian attacked Zhang Tie with a black needle, triggering his painful memories and fury, but his bronze bell stopped the attack.
• Zhang Tie dragged Xue Lian out of her spatial hiding place and killed her with the black needle, then absorbed her soul and took her belongings.
• Zhang Tie left the arena, returned to the inn, and calmed himself with the Ice God Art after realizing that his past death at Doctor Mo’s hands had become an obsession.
• Zhang Tie searched Xue Lian’s storage ring for the Void Escape Technique and found a book titled Evergreen Technique.

Zhang Tie examined the contestants’ storage rings, found an Evergreen Technique that stirred old memories, and tried to dismiss the resemblance as coincidence. After Si Chi told him about the arena tournament’s escalating spirit-stone rewards, Zhang Tie entered the secret realm, where host Gou Paili declared the tournament open.

• Zhang Tie read a copy of the Evergreen Technique in a storage ring, recalled Han Xiaozi and Doctor Mo, then put the book away and told himself the resemblance to Xue Lian’s copy was coincidence.
• Zhang Tie reviewed his previous battles before Si Chi arrived and urged him to join the arena tournament for its large rewards.
• Zhang Tie questioned the tournament’s rules, and Si Mo explained that competitors could challenge an arena defender and leave after winning rather than defend the arena.
• Zhang Tie and Si Mo paid ten high-grade spirit stones each to enter the black light gate and arrived in a secret realm filled with mountain peaks and a vast fighting platform.
• Gou Paili appeared above the platform and announced that the arena tournament had officially begun.

Chi Kun and Yue Ji fought in the arena, where Yue Ji killed Chi Kun after surviving his powerful attacks and traps. Chi Kun’s burning corpse vanished into ashes, revealing a cracking white egg protected by a barrier that Yue Ji could not break.

• Chi Kun and Yue Ji entered the arena, and Gou Paili opened betting on the match.
• Chi Kun attacked Yue Ji with a giant golden brick, Netherworld Ghost Fire, and a bronze furnace, while two millstones drained Yue Ji’s Blood Qi.
• Yue Ji used the Soul-Slaying World-Ending Slash to kill Chi Kun and escaped the exploding furnace badly injured.
• Yue Ji tried to strike Chi Kun’s corpse with a seal, but a white barrier blocked him as the corpse disappeared into ashes.
• A fist-sized white egg appeared among the ashes, began to crack, and gave Yue Ji a fearful feeling.

Yue Ji shattered Chi Kun’s egg-shaped barrier with his blood-empowered great seal, but a strange insect beneath it lifted the seal, hurled it back at him, and entered his eye. After the insect emerged transformed with Chi Kun’s face, Gou Paili declared that the match could continue, leaving Chi Kun alarmed by Yue Ji’s apparently lifeless body.

• Yue Ji used his blood essence to strengthen the great seal and smash through Chi Kun’s barrier and shell.
• A thumb-sized insect lifted the great seal with its horns and threw it into Yue Ji, then burrowed into his right eye.
• The insect moved through Yue Ji’s body as he convulsed and screamed, then emerged from his left eye enlarged and bearing Chi Kun’s human face.
• Chi Kun asked Gou Paili to announce the match’s result, but Gou Paili insisted that only one person could live and surrender was not allowed.
• Chi Kun recoiled and examined Yue Ji’s shriveled body, shocked and wary that it might conceal something.

After Yue Ji and Chi Kun died in a draw, Gou Paili began the next arena match between Luo Fei Ye and Yue Fei Xian. Zhang Tie sensed danger from Luo Fei Ye and bet all his remaining spirit stones on him as the crowd overwhelmingly backed Yue Fei Xian.

• Gou Paili struck Yue Ji’s corpse with his sword aura, but Yue Ji survived as a green orb and protested the referee’s interference.
• Chi Kun tried to swallow Yue Ji, who detonated his soul; the blast killed Chi Kun, and Gou Paili declared the match a draw with the house taking all bets.
• Si Mo told Zhang Tie that Chi Kun likely belonged to the ancient Gu Clan and Yue Ji to the Soul Demon Clan.
• Luo Fei Ye and Yue Fei Xian entered the arena, and Luo Fei Ye accused her of using her higher cultivation to take advantage of him.
• The crowd heavily backed Yue Fei Xian, but Zhang Tie wagered all one hundred thousand of his remaining high-grade spirit stones on Luo Fei Ye, and Si Mo followed with ten thousand.

Luo Fei Ye defeated Yue Fei Xian with a devastating Time Law sword technique and chose to continue challenging opponents. Zhang Tie and Si Chi recognized his extraordinary talent, but his next challenger, Ye Qi, shocked them both.

• Yue Fei Xian attacked Luo Fei Ye with a blue sword and a massive water dragon, but Luo Fei Ye cut her with a sword aura that carried the seasons and drained her lifespan.
• Gou Paili declared Luo Fei Ye the winner, and the Gold-Devouring Beast delivered the spirit-stone winnings to Zhang Tie and Si Chi.
• Si Chi and Zhang Tie remarked on Luo Fei Ye's terrifying command of the Time Law, while Zhang Tie felt that Luo Fei Ye's aura was strangely familiar.
• Luo Fei Ye collected his spoils and announced that he would continue challenging opponents.
• Ye Qi entered the arena to face Luo Fei Ye, and Si Chi and Zhang Tie reacted with shock at his appearance.

Ye Qi and Luo Fei Ye agreed to decide their arena match with one strongest attack, and both were gravely wounded in the clash. Luo Fei Ye acknowledged Ye Qi’s victory, vowed to kill him in a future meeting, and then vanished in an explosion of azure light, leaving his sword to fly away.

• Zhang Tie and Si Chi discussed Ye Qi’s exceptional talent, hidden cultivation, and mastery of the Law of Light, then chose not to bet on the match.
• Ye Qi proposed a one-move contest, and Luo Fei Ye accepted before they began building their strongest attacks.
• Ye Qi formed a golden attack while Luo Fei Ye summoned seasonal scenery around his sword and revealed a golden mark between his brows, which reminded Zhang Tie of Zhu Kejian’s mark in the Guanghan Realm.
• Ye Qi’s golden strike slowed near Luo Fei Ye, allowing Luo Fei Ye’s sword qi to hit Ye Qi first, but the golden strike then pierced Luo Fei Ye’s brow; both fighters were severely injured.
• Luo Fei Ye conceded defeat, vowed to kill Ye Qi when they met again, and vanished in azure light after driving his sword into the ground.
• Luo Fei Ye’s azure flying sword rose from the earth and streaked away before Ye Qi could react.

Zhang Tie claimed Ye Qi’s spirit-bearing cyan flying sword after it recognized the Guanghan Palace sword aura on him, then entered a match against the Sky-Treading Demonic Ape. The chapter ended as Zhang Tie charged black lightning into the sword and slashed at the ape’s hundred-zhang fire wyrm.

• The cyan flying sword broke away from Ye Qi and flew to Zhang Tie, who explained that his master was Xuanyuan Muxue and asked Ye Qi to let him keep it.
• Ye Qi gave Zhang Tie the sword, and the Gold-Devouring Beast distributed spirit stones to the winners of the wagers.
• Si Chi told Zhang Tie that the Sky-Treading Demonic Ape carried Zhu Yan blood and could contend with Mahayana cultivators using its physical strength.
• Zhang Tie bet everything on his own victory and stepped forward to challenge the ape, while Si Chi wagered fifty thousand spirit stones on him.
• The Sky-Treading Demonic Ape attacked Zhang Tie with a huge fire wyrm, and Zhang Tie infused the cyan sword with black lightning before slashing at it.

Zhang Tie wielded the cyan flying sword against the Sky-Treading Demonic Ape and discovered that it could amplify the power of law into sword aura. The ape transformed and summoned a mountain to crush Zhang Tie as Zhang Tie charged the sword with black lightning for a decisive strike.

• Zhang Tie cut apart the Sky-Treading Demonic Ape’s fire wyrm and drove black lightning into the ape’s fist, but the ape burned it away.
• Zhang Tie sent dozens of black sword auras at the ape while experimenting with the cyan flying sword and learned that it amplified the power of law at least threefold.
• The Sky-Treading Demonic Ape grew to a hundred zhang tall and attacked Zhang Tie with a pillar of fire, but Zhang Tie dodged and slashed the ape’s neck.
• The Sky-Treading Demonic Ape transformed into a Three Heads Six Arms form and relentlessly pursued Zhang Tie, who avoided every blow.
• The Sky-Treading Demonic Ape raised a mountain over his six palms and hurled it at Zhang Tie as Zhang Tie saturated the flying sword with black lightning and chanted, “Amplify!”

Zhang Tie destroyed the Sky-Treading Demonic Ape’s law-formed mountain, subdued the ape, and named his new puppet Old Ape. He immediately continued the challenge against the Thousand Ghosts Daoist as spectators placed their bets.

• Zhang Tie used Chaos Divine Thunder laws to destroy the Sky-Treading Demonic Ape’s mountain attack.
• Zhang Tie subdued the Sky-Treading Demonic Ape with the Space-Suppressing Bell, Soul Piercing Thorn, and Soul Devouring Immortal-Demonic Armor, then named the puppet Old Ape.
• Gou Paili declared Zhang Tie the winner, while recognizing the breadth of his abilities and potential.
• Zhang Tie announced that he would continue challenging, and the Thousand Ghosts Daoist descended to face him.
• Si Mo added sixty thousand high-grade spirit stones to his bet on Zhang Tie, while most spectators backed the Thousand Ghosts Daoist.
• Gou Paili ended the betting and announced the start of the match.