Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu seized the Heavenly Yin Water Pool and uncovered the Water Ancestral Decree’s secrets, then joined Yin Gui in battle against the Nascent Soul cultivators. He killed Ghost Wood Daoist, extracted the Heavenly Yin Dragon Pearl from the Extreme Yin Dragon King, and fled with it as the remaining enemies turned against him.

• Wang Yu collected the Heavenly Yin Water Pool and integrated the Water Ancestral Decree into his Feng Shui Compass, learning about the underground palace and the Heavenly Yin Dragon Pearls.
• Wang Yu emerged to find Yin Gui Demon Lord besieged and joined him in attacking the other cultivators, using Black Demon Lightning and Yellow Springs techniques.
• Wang Yu overwhelmed Cold Bone Old Demon and Ghost Wood Daoist, killed Ghost Wood, and captured his Nascent Soul while Cold Bone fled.
• Wang Yu activated the Water Ancestral Decree to subdue the Extreme Yin Dragon King and extract its Heavenly Yin Dragon Pearl.
• Wang Yu used the Aurora Escape Technique to flee with the pearl, leaving Yin Gui and the remaining cultivators behind.

Wang Yu escaped the Underground Palace with Yin Gui Demon Lord and persuaded him to join forces in exploring the Eastern Peak Capital Ruins. They entered Palace City through a hidden passage and reached the Immortal Official Medicine Repository, where Wang Yu sought a Divine Sense secret medicine.

• Wang Yu broke through the ice sealing the Underground Palace entrance, and Yin Gui Demon Lord used the ensuing chaos to escape after him.
• Wang Yu gave Yin Gui a Heavenly Yin Divine Pearl, revealed his identity as the Extreme Law Mysterious Pill Demon Lord, and persuaded him to continue exploring the ruins.
• Wang Yu explained that his true target was the Immortal Official Medicine Repository, where he hoped to find medicine to advance his Divine Sense.
• Wang Yu and Yin Gui disguised themselves and entered Palace City through a concealed passage, with Yin Gui crawling through the narrow opening.
• Wang Yu used the Feng Shui Compass and Water Ancestral Decree to guide them past dangers to the Immortal Official Medicine Repository.
• At the repository, Wang Yu let Yin Gui take the lead in dealing with what lay ahead.

Wang Yu and Yin Gui entered the Immortal Official Medicine Repository and collected spirit pills while keeping their uneasy partnership intact. Wang Yu consumed a pill that broke through his divine sense bottleneck, revealing Nascent Soul Late Stage pressure as his cultivation breakthrough continued.

• Wang Yu directed Yin Gui to erode the medicine repository’s furnace wall at the Li Position, and the two entered through the opening.
• Wang Yu led Yin Gui through the repository and used his knowledge of its restrictions to find preserved spirit pills and rare alchemy ingredients.
• On the ninth floor, Wang Yu claimed the Jiao Luan Treasure Pill, and Yin Gui accepted the decision without objecting.
• Wang Yu and Yin Gui began refining their gains on separate floors of the repository.
• Wang Yu took a Fourth Tier Top Grade pill and shattered his divine sense bottleneck, startling Yin Gui with the pressure of a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.

Wang Yu refined the Heavenly Yin Dragon Pearl into an Extreme Yin Dragon Infant and absorbed its power, strengthening his body while preparing to defend the Immortal Official Medicine Repository from four Nascent Soul Great Cultivators. He sent Yin Gui out to draw away one pursuer and stayed behind to face the others.

• Wang Yu used the Second Nascent Soul Secret Art and his Innate Demonic Fetus Body to transform the Heavenly Yin Dragon Pearl into an Extreme Yin Dragon Infant and fuse it with his Nascent Soul.
• Wang Yu absorbed the Extreme Yin Dragon King's power, raising his body-refinement cultivation to Fourth Tier Early Stage Peak.
• Di Mingzi, Hui Dao Ren, Azure Water Demon Lord, and Crow Serpent Priest stopped at the Immortal Official Medicine Repository and began inspecting its restrictions.
• Wang Yu told Yin Gui to draw one of the Great Cultivators away while he remained at the repository, then gave Yin Gui an Antler Pearl as protection.
• Yin Gui fled the repository, and Crow Serpent Priest immediately pursued him while the others remained behind.

Wang Yu fought Azure Water Demon Lord inside the Immortal Official Medicine Repository and killed him before escaping through the waterways beneath Eastern Peak Capital. Hui Dao Ren survived the repository’s Purple Qi Divine Fire, then identified Wang Yu as the young Extreme Law Mysterious Pill Demon Lord of the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect, leaving Di Mingzi to face the consequences of Azure Water’s death.

• Di Mingzi and Hui Dao Ren let Azure Water Demon Lord enter the Immortal Official Medicine Repository alone, where Wang Yu challenged him.
• Wang Yu used the Water Ancestral Decree, his divine abilities, and magic treasures to withstand Azure Water Demon Lord’s attacks and destroy his body.
• Hui Dao Ren entered the repository as Wang Yu escaped, but restrictions sealed the exit and Purple Qi Divine Fire engulfed the building.
• Hui Dao Ren emerged badly injured and reported that Azure Water Demon Lord was dead, while Di Mingzi worried about the political fallout.
• Hui Dao Ren formed an illusory image of Wang Yu, and Di Mingzi recognized him as the young Extreme Law Mysterious Pill Demon Lord of the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.

Wang Yu hid in the Underground Dark River, tested the Extreme Yin Dragon Body form, and recovered while cultivating. At the Heavenly Star Tower, the gathered factions discussed their rivalry before Wang Yu appeared to face Nether Child.

• Wang Yu transformed into the Extreme Yin Dragon Body, tested its amplified strength, and learned that maintaining the form consumed stored Demonic Evil Thought.
• Wang Yu opened a temporary underwater Cave Abode and cultivated until he recovered, finding that his Demonic Essence had reached 8,860 drops.
• Great Cultivators from across Red Kite gathered in Eastern Peak Capital as factions breached the Palace City and turned their attention to the Heavenly Star Tower.
• Proud Sun Old Demon and Nether Child agreed that their factions would compete separately at the tower and settle their feud later.
• Di Mingzi drew attention to Yin Gui, and Nether Child asked where Wang Yu was; Proud Sun Old Demon praised Wang Yu after hearing that he had killed Blue Water.
• Wang Yu appeared before Nether Child and answered his summons.

After refining the Heavenly Yin Divine Pearl, Wang Yu joined the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect’s group at the Heavenly Star Tower and began its trials, hoping to strengthen himself and reach the Nascent Soul Mid Stage. He cleared the first twenty floors, while the Great Cultivators entered the tower and their factions prepared for a potentially dangerous return.

• Wang Yu emerged near Yellow Springs Temple, joined Proud Sun Old Demon’s camp, and reunited with Yin Gui, You Mo, and Nether Tiger.
• Wang Yu greeted Ice Soul Fairy and Thunder Howler Lord, who revealed that he had refined the Thunder Spirit Corpse into an avatar.
• Nether Child sent the Core Formation disciples into the Heavenly Star Tower, and Wang Yu entered when it was the Nascent Souls’ turn.
• Wang Yu swiftly cleared the first ten floors, chose Demonic Essence Infusion as his reward, and pushed his Demonic Essence past ten thousand drops.
• Wang Yu chose alchemy for the eleventh-floor Skill Grounds trial and continued through the tower, selecting another Demonic Essence Infusion at the twentieth floor.
• Nether Child and Proud Sun Old Demon entered the tower first among the Great Cultivators, while the factions outside coordinated their entry times to reduce the risk of fighting when they emerged.

Wang Yu defeated the Heavenly Star Tower’s sixtieth-floor opponent, received a Demonic Essence infusion, and broke through to the Nascent Soul Fourth Layer before continuing the trials. His ranking reached 1,500th, while Yan Ling faced her Nascent Soul tribulation at the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect.

• Wang Yu fought and defeated the Brave and Stern Marquis, Fang Tianyu, on the sixtieth floor after using their clashes to temper his body.
• Wang Yu chose a reward of three hundred drops of Demonic Essence and advanced to the Nascent Soul Fourth Layer.
• Wang Yu began the sixty-first-floor trial, a test of pressure, will, and instinctive resistance.
• Wang Yu’s progress placed him 1,500th on the Heavenly Star Rankings and drew attention from the gathered forces.
• Yan Ling remained in seclusion at the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect’s Tribulation Crossing Cliff as dark clouds and heavenly might gathered around her.

Wang Yu cleared the Heavenly Star Tower’s hundredth-floor trial by defeating a Wind Feather Sky-Tearing Eagle, then chose a Rainbow Feather Rare Stone and a Golden Body Relic as his rewards. He remained on the floor to study the Sarira before continuing onward.

• Wang Yu chose an armor-type True Artifact after clearing the seventieth floor and fed it to the Fiend Dragon Armor.
• Wang Yu survived the dangerous comprehensive trials on the following floors, strengthening the Fiend Dragon Armor until it could absorb no more.
• Wang Yu fought the Wind Feather Sky-Tearing Eagle on the hundredth floor, using the Moonfall Stone, his Divine Abilities, and the Frost Moon Arrow to defeat it.
• The Tower Spirit offered Wang Yu six rewards, and he selected the Rainbow Feather Rare Stone and the Golden Body Relic.
• Wang Yu examined the Sarira and considered its connection to Buddhist experts and the lost Sutra of Reincarnation and Calamity Transcendence.

Wang Yu refined a Golden Body Relic, broke through to the middle stage of Body Refinement Fourth Tier, and advanced through the Heavenly Star Tower to its 150th floor. There, he received a Fifth Tier reward and chose an Immortal Dynasty Divine Power Art, while Proud Sun Old Demon and Nether Child pursued different plans involving the tower and Yellow Springs Temple.

• Wang Yu refined the Golden Body Relic, completed his Undying Spirit Bone, and broke through to the middle stage of Body Refinement Fourth Tier.
• Wang Yu continued climbing the Heavenly Star Tower and considered leaving early to ambush Yellow Springs Temple cultivators outside.
• Proud Sun Old Demon abandoned his chance to challenge the tower and secretly set up traps for Yellow Springs Temple cultivators.
• Nether Child accumulated tower rewards in pursuit of a Spirit Transformation opportunity and prepared for the coming confrontation.
• Wang Yu reached the 150th floor, defeated Dongfang Liusu at great cost, and chose the Fifth Tier Immortal Dynasty Divine Power Art reward.

Proud Sun Old Demon learned Nether Child’s plans from captured souls and took Wang Yu into the imperial palace, leaving the others in the Heavenly Star Tower. Wang Yu chose to search the Eastern Palace for a way past its restrictions and unleashed his stored Restriction Breaking Talismans.

• Proud Sun Old Demon killed two Yellow Springs Temple cultivators, preserved their souls, and learned Nether Child had planned to summon stronger forces to the tower.
• Proud Sun Old Demon abandoned the Heavenly Star Tower and flew with Wang Yu to the imperial palace, leaving Zhou Lingjun behind in Eastern Peak Capital.
• Wang Yu used his command tablet to enter through the Eastern Dragon Gate, and he and Proud Sun Old Demon split up to search the palace.
• Wang Yu rejected the Human Emperor’s Scripture Pavilion as too risky and chose the Eastern Palace as a more manageable target.
• Wang Yu reached the Eastern Palace, found its formation blocking entry, and unleashed his Restriction Breaking Talismans.

Wang Yu opened the Eastern Palace’s spirit coffin and found the Crown Princess, whose soul had been sustained for nearly a hundred thousand years. Before she died, she revealed the truth behind the Primeval Immortal Dynasty’s destruction, gave him a Spirit Transformation treasure, and bound him by oath to hunt those marked by a blood pearl; Wang Yu then began examining the Coiled Dragon Ring.

• Wang Yu used Restriction Breaking Talismans to enter the Eastern Palace and discovered a spirit coffin nourished by Yin Spirit Qi and the souls of ancient corpses.
• Wang Yu recognized the Heavenly Star Earth Yin Soul Return Miracle Formation and opened the coffin, releasing a surge of Yin energy and awakening the Crown Princess.
• The Crown Princess told Wang Yu that the Slaughter Ancient Demon escaped after Sword Venerable and Soul Venerable were corrupted, and that demon-tainted Buddhist honored ones helped bring down the Immortal Dynasty before the Ancient Demon [Moon] sealed its defeat.
• The Crown Princess revealed that an upper-realm immortal had saved the world by swallowing the Fire Spirit, then tried to recover from a Heavenly Scourge by draining life and spirit energy before dying at Eastern Peak Capital.
• The Crown Princess summoned a Coiled Dragon Ring, gave Wang Yu the Blood Feud Source Pearl, and made him swear to kill every being in the Ice Prison Realm that caused it to glow.
• The Crown Princess dissolved into dust, and Wang Yu refined the Coiled Dragon Ring and began sensing its effects.

Wang Yu claimed the Coiled Dragon Ring and entered the imperial palace’s Marrow Cleansing Pool to strengthen the Fiend Dragon Armor. Meanwhile, the Nascent Soul cultivators erupted into a battle near Palace City, where Azure Lion Stone Puppets revealed their lethal power.

• Wang Yu inspected the Coiled Dragon Ring, collected the Crown Princess's Spirit Coffin, and used the ring's authority to travel through the imperial palace.
• Wang Yu reached the Marrow Cleansing Pool and absorbed its water with the Fiend Dragon Armor's dragon-vein-devouring power.
• After the Heavenly Star Tower expelled the cultivators, Tong Du discovered Wang Yu ranked two hundred ninety-ninth on the Heavenly Star Rankings, and the Nascent Souls of both factions hurried toward the imperial palace.
• Di Mingzi attacked the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect cultivators, triggering a large battle in which Ice Soul Fairy and Thunder Howler Lord fought alongside Three Corpses Daoist.
• The fighting drew Azure Lion Stone Puppets, which overwhelmed a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator from Yellow Springs Temple and killed him.

Wang Yu gained a major boost from the Marrow Cleansing Pool before Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable descended on Eastern Peak Capital. He used the Coiling Dragon Ring to order the Heavenly Star Tower to eject its remaining cultivators, interrupting Nether Child as he refined a breakthrough spirit item.

• The Azure Lion Stone Puppets confirmed their strength, and Thunder Howler Lord killed the Nether Mountain Sect priests who had come to aid Yellow Springs Temple.
• The Marrow Cleansing Pool restored Wang Yu's body, while the Fiend Dragon Armor absorbed its power and doubled its enhancement of his physique.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable arrived, and Wang Yu offered him the Heavenly Star Tower token, prompting Di Mingzi to surrender Yellow Springs Temple's tower rewards as well.
• Wang Yu returned to the Heavenly Star Tower and used the Coiling Dragon Ring's authority to command the Tower Spirit to drive out everyone inside.
• Nether Child was ejected while refining a fifth-rank Breakthrough Spirit Item, and Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable demanded that he return the spirit item.

Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable killed Nether Child after Wang Yu used the Heavenly Star Stone Tablet to drive him from the Heavenly Star Tower, and Wang Yu withdrew from Eastern Peak Capital with his allies. On the journey home, Yellow Springs Temple Master intercepted Wang Yu, who realized Proud Sun Old Demon had revealed information about him.

• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable froze Nether Child, extracted and devoured his Nascent Soul, and killed him while Wang Yu watched.
• Wang Yu returned the token, declined to pursue the imperial palace treasures, and left Eastern Peak Capital with the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect cultivators.
• Wang Yu traveled toward the sect with You Mo, Nether Tiger, Yin Gui Demon Lord, and the sect’s disciples, planning to cultivate with his gains.
• A powerful cultivator from Yellow Springs Temple arrived and targeted Wang Yu, so Wang Yu sent You Mo, Nether Tiger, and the Heaven’s Chosen away while Yin Gui stayed with him.
• Wang Yu identified the newcomer as Yellow Springs Temple Master and asked what he had traded with Proud Sun Old Demon.

Wang Yu learned that the Yellow Springs Temple Master and Proud Sun Old Demon planned to exploit the Eight Capitals Subduing Dragon Formation against Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable, and he agreed to help in exchange for Yellow Springs Temple’s advancement methods and clear terms. The three reached the Underground Dark River to enter the Longevity Medicine Repository, but Wang Yu warned that fully opening its restrictions would alert Crimson Heaven and offered to let them enter one at a time.

• The Yellow Springs Temple Master questioned Wang Yu about his Yellow Springs divine abilities, then sent Yin Gui away to speak with him privately.
• The Temple Master asked Wang Yu to help repeat Heavenly Star Tower’s removal of Nether Child, and Wang demanded Yellow Springs Temple’s advancement methods and a full explanation of the plan in return.
• The Temple Master explained that he and Proud Sun Old Demon intended to use the hidden killing formation within the Eight Capitals Subduing Dragon Formation to trap Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable.
• Wang Yu used the Water Ancestral Decree to transport himself and the Temple Master through the underground water array to meet Proud Sun Old Demon near the Longevity Medicine Repository.
• Wang Yu refused to fully lift the repository’s restrictions because Crimson Heaven would notice, and offered to partially open them so the two elders could enter one at a time.

Wang Yu entered the Longevity Medicine Repository with Proud Sun Old Demon and Yellow Springs Temple Master, secretly took three valuable pills, and waited for a chance to enter the Human Emperor’s Secret Vault. Meanwhile, Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable entered the Imperial Palace, unaware that Wang Yu had deceived him, and the chapter ended as Wang Yu’s illusory body slipped into a Coiling Dragon Pillar.

• Proud Sun Old Demon entered the Longevity Medicine Repository first, and Yellow Springs Temple Master followed by dragging Wang Yu through the restriction.
• Wang Yu took the Blood Abyss Glazed Treasure Pill, the Demon Blood Reverse Source Treasure Pill, and the Treasure Pagoda Illusion Spirit Essence Pill, then waited beside the Coiling Dragon Pillar he believed concealed the secret vault entrance.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable searched Nether Child’s memories, realized Wang Yu had misled him about the Heavenly Star Tower, and entered the Imperial Palace to explore the Golden Luan Hall.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master obtained a pill that could raise his chance of reaching Spirit Transformation, while Proud Sun Old Demon found a valuable spiritual herb.
• Wang Yu used his illusory body to slip into the Coiling Dragon Pillar as the two old demons focused on their discoveries.

Wang Yu explored the Human Emperor’s Secret Vault, collected several treasures, and found the First Generation Human Emperor’s inheritance. Outside, Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable confronted Proud Sun Old Demon and Yellow Springs Temple Master after discovering them in the Longevity Medicine Repository, then attacked Yellow Springs Temple Master.

• Wang Yu examined the secret vault’s records and collected the Water Cloud Sleeve, the damaged Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, and the Creation Longevity Pill.
• Wang Yu discovered inheritances inscribed on the secret vault’s stone wall and searched for one that suited him.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable left the Golden Luan Hall with Luck Dragon Gold and headed for the Longevity Medicine Repository.
• Proud Sun Old Demon bargained with Yellow Springs Temple Master for a way to avoid Demonic Contamination, but Wang Yu’s phantom vanished and they realized he had left them behind.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable broke into the repository, found Proud Sun and Yellow Springs, and demanded their treasures and Storage Rings.
• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable took the Storage Rings and struck at the Nascent Soul inside Yellow Springs Temple Master.

Yellow Springs Temple Master and Proud Sun Old Demon fought Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable in the Longevity Medicine Repository, where the battle triggered a catastrophic restriction. Wang Yu escaped Eastern Peak Capital through the Underground Dark River as Purple Qi Divine Fire engulfed the city.

• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable seized Proud Sun Old Demon's Blood Sun Demon Wheel and used Crimson Heaven Demon Light to injure him and force Yellow Springs Temple Master out of the Yellow Springs Great River.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master sacrificed his organs to summon the Yellow Springs Great Demon, whose curse weakened Crimson Heaven as the Wrath Blood Domain turned Proud Sun into a puppet.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master destroyed the Longevity Medicine Repository to trigger its hidden restriction, and the resulting battle reduced Proud Sun to his Nascent Soul and drove him to flee.
• Wang Yu escaped the repository through a spatial-transfer entrance and reviewed three Divine Abilities and two secret arts he had recorded from the Human Emperor's Secret Vault.
• Wang Yu used the Water Ancestral Decree to escape through the Underground Dark River as Purple Qi Divine Fire spread across Eastern Peak Capital.

Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable and Yellow Springs Temple Master fought a destructive battle inside Eastern Peak Capital, while Wang Yu escaped and weighed his next move. After deciding to leave the Red Kite Demon Domain, Wang Yu transformed the Coiling Dragon Ring into a scepter as he considered one last risky action.

• Crimson Heaven Demon Venerable summoned his Wrath Blood Dharma Idol and clashed with Yellow Springs Temple Master's White Bone Demon God Dharma Idol amid the Purple Qi Divine Fire.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master used the Yellow Springs Treasure Vase to sustain his Dharma Idol, then shed his shell and attacked Crimson Heaven's followers.
• Yellow Springs Temple Master wounded Crimson Heaven's primordial spirit with the Azure Heavens World Cleansing Demon Sword and seized the three Jiao and two Child Attendants, but Imperial Palace restrictions killed both attendants.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators who escaped Eastern Peak Capital realized that the battle could reshape the demonic factions and affect the Cloud Ridge Province Battlefield.
• Wang Yu escaped through the Underground Dark River, decided to leave the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect and Red Kite Demon Domain, and transformed the Coiling Dragon Ring into a scepter as he considered a risky job.