Chapter Summaries

Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue killed the four Golden Core assassins, but Nascent Soul Cultivator Daoist Master Dongwei pursued Chen and forced him to bargain for his life by claiming he could open the Immortal Palace’s core treasury. Dongwei took him through the secret realm toward its deeper trials, where Chen learned the next crossing required a costly treasure to survive a dangerous teleportation array.

• Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue killed the four Golden Core assassins, and Chen released his Law-Devouring Cicadas to consume their remaining Golden Cores.
• When a Nascent Soul Cultivator approached, Jiang Xiyue fled east while Chen Sanshi fled west, but Daoist Master Dongwei caught him and shattered his Mystic Spirit Six Arms with redirected sword qi.
• Chen convinced Daoist Master Dongwei to spare him by claiming he possessed a token that could open the core treasury, then demonstrated that the Myriad Sword Great Formation recognized the token.
• Daoist Master Dongwei agreed not to kill Chen inside the secret realm and took him along as they traveled toward its deeper trials.
• At the Nether River World Devourer Gate, Daoist Cangsong explained that the unstable teleportation array could send travelers into a deadly river, while a Two Forms Boundary Stabilizing Ruler cost twenty Luoxiao Treasure Coins.
• Chen Sanshi inspected the toad’s shop and realized that bypassing Thousand Mechanisms City had saved him the Treasure Coins needed to cross safely.

Chen Sanshi used an imprinted Two Forms Boundary Stabilizing Ruler to cross the World-Devouring Gate, then explored Cangming Ancient Forest with Daoist Master Dongwei while collecting treasures. After Chen Sanshi found a Chaos Green Lotus guarded by a Transformation Realm Profound Qi Thunder Beast, Daoist Master Dongwei attacked the beast and ordered Chen Sanshi to harvest the lotus.

• Chen Sanshi tested the Yin Yang Artifact Tomb Talisman by imprinting a Two Forms Boundary Stabilizing Ruler, then sold his remaining talismans to fellow cultivators for Luoxiao Treasure Coins.
• Chen Sanshi and Daoist Master Dongwei crossed the World-Devouring Gate and reached Cangming Ancient Forest, where Chen Sanshi harvested a Three-Turn Profound Yang Fruit plant.
• Daoist Master Dongwei told Chen Sanshi that Cao Xie had obtained and repaired the Two Forms Sky Covering Plate and planned to enter the Eastern Continent, threatening the Great Han Immortal Dynasty.
• Chen Sanshi identified Profound Qi Thunder Beast Cub droppings and used them to locate a roughly three-thousand-year-old Chaos Green Lotus.
• Daoist Master Dongwei placed a tracking restriction on Chen Sanshi, then attacked the Transformation Realm Profound Qi Thunder Beast so Chen Sanshi could harvest the lotus.

Chen Sanshi stole the Chaos Green Lotus while Daoist Master Dongwei battled Profound Qi Thunder Beast, but a tiger demon nearly killed him before Dongwei intervened. As several powerful cultivators converged and fought, Zhao Rui led Chen Sanshi aside to speak with him.

• Daoist Master Dongwei trapped Profound Qi Thunder Beast with the Spirit Binding Rope and fought him with the Qianyuan Taiji Fan while Chen Sanshi stole the Chaos Green Lotus and fled.
• Geng Canmao attacked Chen Sanshi with a Nascent Soul divine sense strike, but Dongwei arrived and protected him from the tiger demon.
• Mu Qing Ming defeated Profound Qi Thunder Beast, captured his essence soul, and joined Dongwei against Geng Canmao.
• Mu Qing Ming refused Geng Canmao's demand to kill Chen Sanshi, citing the alliance between Tianwu and Kunxu, while Bai Suyin joined the battle with illusion techniques.
• Zhao Rui approached Chen Sanshi, introduced himself as the Tianxi Emperor of Great Song, and brought him to a nearby field of jagged rocks to talk.

Chen Sanshi rejected Zhao Rui’s proposed alliance, but agreed to help open the Luoxiao Immortal Palace’s hidden treasury after learning about its Guardian Envoy Tokens and ancient history. When Rong Roujun attacked Zhao Rui, he merged his soul with an Extreme Yin Corpse Dragon, and the ensuing battle ended in a tense truce as the cultivators agreed to proceed together toward the next trial.

• Zhao Rui proposed that Chen Sanshi join forces with him, but Chen rejected the alliance because he could not trust Zhao Rui’s use of the common people and cooperation with the Demon Realm.
• Zhao Rui asked Chen to help open the Luoxiao Immortal Palace’s final hidden treasury and explained that its twelve Guardian Envoys had been True Immortals before the ancient sect’s collapse and the division of the world into upper and lower realms.
• Geng Canmao and the other Fourth Realm cultivators arrived, and Rong Roujun attacked Zhao Rui with her Void Shifting Ruler.
• Zhao Rui stored his body in a Jade Pivot Life Preservation Pot and merged his soul with the Extreme Yin Corpse Dragon to resist Rong Roujun and the other Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Mu Qing Ming and Daoist Master Dongwei joined forces against the corpse dragon, but Zhao Rui warned that they needed to cooperate to pass the next trial, and both sides agreed to continue together.

Chen Sanshi warned Mu Qingming that Cao Xie was preparing to break the Eastern Continent’s seal, then followed the group to the Luoxiao Immortal Sect ruins, where they defeated its Yinglong guardian. Zhao Rui then revealed his hidden allies and trapped the group in a bone sword formation.

• Mu Qingming confronted Chen Sanshi about his concealed identity and learned that Rong Roujun and Daoist Master Dongwei had been tracking him over Cao Xie's personal grudge.
• Chen Sanshi secretly warned Mu Qingming that Cao Xie had taken the Sky Covering Plate and was preparing to force his way through the Eastern Continent's seal.
• Mu Qingming lent Chen Sanshi the Azure Emperor Bamboo, and the group reached the Luoxiao Immortal Sect ruins and faced its Yinglong Puppet on the Heaven-Piercing Staircase.
• Zhao Rui and the other cultivators joined forces to destroy the Yinglong, leaving the group weakened after the battle.
• Mu Qingming demanded that Zhao Rui destroy his corpse puppet and return to Kunxu, but Zhao Rui summoned Yin Jiuzhu and Li Wushe, who trapped the group in the Thousand Bone Marrow Sword Formation.

Mu Qingming fought off the Nascent Soul cultivators and rescued Chen Sanshi, but his allies turned against him, forcing Chen to flee toward the Treasure Hall with Zhao Rui. The Treasure Hall opened as the pursuers left Mu Qingming behind and raced to reach it.

• Mu Qingming used the Mind’s Eye and the Five Thunders Orthodox Method to expose Yin Jiuzhu and helped Chen Sanshi break Li Wushe’s Thousand Bone Marrow Sword Formation with a formation prepared inside and outside the barrier.
• Rong Roujun and Daoist Master Dongwei betrayed Mu Qingming, joining the demons and rogue cultivators in a seven-person siege because they wanted Chen Sanshi dead.
• Mu Qingming took Geng Canmao’s attack while protecting Chen Sanshi, then urged him to escape; Chen fled up the Stairway to Heaven as Zhao Rui pursued him.
• Zhao Rui agreed to spare Chen Sanshi if he cooperated in obtaining the secret realm’s treasure, and the two continued toward the stone door while a force suppressed their cultivation.
• Chen Sanshi placed the token at the Treasure Hall entrance, and the palace ruins shook as the hall opened; Geng Canmao, the other attackers, and Mu Qingming rushed toward it.

Chen Sanshi fled through the collapsing Luoxiao Immortal Palace as Zhao Rui and the other cultivators pursued him. He discovered that the Training Ground’s core imposed All Laws Forbidden, letting him defeat Daoist Master Dongwei before Geng Canmao entered the forbidden area in his original form.

• Chen Sanshi opened the treasure hall’s gate, triggering the ruin’s collapse, and refused Zhao Rui’s alliance before Old Green Wood Demon rescued him from the Nascent Soul Corpse Puppet.
• Chen Sanshi and Old Green Wood Demon fled deeper into the secret realm as Law Suppression weakened them and Zhao Rui, Daoist Master Dongwei, Rong Roujun, Mu Qing Ming, Geng Canmao, and others pursued Tianwu.
• Yin Jiuzhu and Daoist Master Dongwei attacked Chen Sanshi, but Chen Sanshi realized the Training Ground’s core had stripped away everyone’s spiritual power and defeated them with martial skills.
• Chen Sanshi severed Yin Jiuzhu’s arm and killed Daoist Master Dongwei’s physical body, but Rong Roujun helped Dongwei’s Nascent Soul escape beyond the forbidden boundary.
• Geng Canmao crossed into the All Laws Forbidden area and reverted to his original form, revealing himself as the Great Worm.

Chen Sanshi killed Geng Canmao, then used a Heavenly Dao Bead to regain his cultivation and fight off the others who sought the treasure. He raced toward the treasure hall as the secret realm collapsed, leaving Mu Qing Ming behind without killing him.

• Chen Sanshi killed Geng Canmao after the Mountain Lord attacked him, and Dongwei captured the tiger demon's essence soul in a talisman.
• The dwarf Nascent Soul released a horde of savage beasts, forcing Chen Sanshi and the others to flee toward Money Toads for treasures that countered Law Suppression.
• Chen Sanshi spent all his Luoxiao Treasure Coins on a Heavenly Dao Bead and regained his full cultivation, while the others could afford only False Cores or nothing.
• Chen Sanshi used his artifacts to repel the False Core-powered group as they retreated toward the edge of All Laws Forbidden.
• Chen Sanshi flew toward the treasure hall, defeated Mu Qing Ming's attempt to overtake him, and spared him because Mu Qing Ming had once saved his life.

Chen Sanshi claimed treasures from the collapsing Luoxiao Treasure Hall, then fled the cultivators pursuing him. When All Laws Forbidden failed and Nascent Soul experts closed in, Jiang Xiyue arrived possessed by Dantai Duanhong, whose overwhelming power killed Yin Jiuzhu and turned the battle.

• Chen Sanshi opened the Luoxiao Treasure Hall, spoke with a dead elder who briefly awakened, and used the Guardian Envoy token to release seven treasures from the coiled-dragon pillar.
• Chen Sanshi took the Explanation of the Spirit Sealing Formation, a Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation, a Bodhi Fruit seed, and a Heaven-Mending Talisman while the other cultivators seized the remaining treasures.
• Rong Roujun ordered Dongwei's Nascent Soul to help kill Chen Sanshi, but Chen Sanshi escaped to the protected core of All Laws Forbidden as the secret realm collapsed.
• When the laws failed, Mu Qing Ming offered to save Chen Sanshi in exchange for his treasures, but Chen Sanshi refused as the Nascent Soul cultivators prepared to attack.
• Jiang Xiyue appeared with the Taiyin Lu Po Sword, and Chen Sanshi claimed that she was Dantai Duanhong, the ancient Valley Master of Sword Heart Valley.
• Jiang Xiyue's demonic power surged, and she killed Yin Jiuzhu and crushed his fleeing Nascent Soul.

The silver-haired Witch killed Li Wushe and attacked Chen Sanshi, but spared him and revealed the history connecting their masters and the paired jade pendants. As the secret realm collapsed, Chen Sanshi followed her to Myriad Spirits Valley, where they found a teleportation route and a wealth of rare treasures.

• The Witch killed Li Wushe by freezing him and destroying his Nascent Soul, then pursued Chen Sanshi.
• Chen Sanshi used the Yin-Yang Jade Pendant and Great Compassion Womb Soul Suppressing Bell to restrain the Witch briefly, but she broke free and knocked him unconscious.
• Chen Sanshi awoke to find the Witch had spared him; she explained that their paired pendants came from a childhood betrothal between their masters and identified Jiang Xiyue as Nangong Qingyao's daughter.
• The Witch told Chen Sanshi to activate the Medicine Valley Teleportation Array, and he opened the barrier with his Guardian Envoy token.
• Chen Sanshi followed the Witch into Myriad Spirits Valley and harvested rare spirit plants, including the Grand Unity Azure Nether Ginseng.
• Chen Sanshi searched a small cave dwelling and found Ancient Pill Recipes, Jade Dew of Creation, and Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid.

Chen Sanshi escaped the collapsing secret realm with Jiang Xiyue, resisted the Witch’s attempt to bind them with Love Poison, and fought off cultivators who accused him of harming her. He reached the Great Han Military Camp and found the soldiers in mourning, leaving him to discover what had happened during his absence.

• Chen Sanshi repaired the damaged Teleportation Array while the secret realm collapsed, and the Witch used Love Poison in an attempt to make him and Jiang Xiyue Life and Death Linked.
• Chen Sanshi used the Great Compassion Womb Soul Suppressing Bell to dispel the poison, then carried the unconscious Jiang Xiyue through the array to Yufang Mountain.
• True Person Jiuhuan and other cultivators accused Chen Sanshi of harming Jiang Xiyue, so Chen Sanshi revealed his disguise as Lu Shengzhi and claimed he had killed him.
• Zinan gave Chen Sanshi a Storage Bag of jade-forged arrows, which he used to repel the cultivators before fleeing toward the Great Han Military Camp.
• Chen Sanshi arrived at the camp and found its officers and soldiers dressed in mourning white, then asked Little Bamboo what had happened.

Chen Sanshi learned that Xu Wencai had died from divining the Heavenly Machine and realized Cao Xie was trying to reach the Eastern Continent. As Chen rushed back to protect his family, Cao Xie broke through the Nascent Soul cultivators guarding the Ancient Teleportation Array and entered the Eastern Continent.

• Chen Sanshi mourned Xu Wencai, learned his divinations had cost him his life, and suspected the danger foretold by Huohuo Guarding Heart had not passed.
• Qi Cheng began cultivating Xu Wencai’s Heluo True Explanation to forge a Heluo Chessboard and help Great Han divine the Heavenly Machine.
• Qi Cheng reported that Cao Xie was fighting Nascent Soul cultivators in Beiyang Dao and trying to enter Great Han, so Chen ordered the cultivators to assemble and raced back toward the Eastern Continent.
• Cao Xie fought Wang Shouzhi, Shen Junzhuo, and True Lord Lianhua at the Ancient Teleportation Array, wielding an Ultimate Divine Ability and his Odd Gates formation.
• Cao Xie evaded the three cultivators, activated the Ancient Teleportation Array with a jade token, and teleported into the Eastern Continent.

Cao Xie broke through the Heaven and Earth Seal at Mang Mountain and unleashed his power against the Great Han soldiers, while Old Man Li led the Hongze veterans against him. Chen Sanshi reconsidered his reckless return, chose Guiyuan Sect as the target for his plan to use All Laws Forbidden, and left the ambush waiting at the gorge to strike the sect instead.

• Cao Xie crashed onto Mang Mountain, killed thousands of soldiers, and used the Two Forms Sky Covering Plate to establish a barrier that let him unleash his cultivation.
• Old Man Li led the Hongze Camp veterans in a charge against Cao Xie, but Cao Xie destroyed the troops and spared the old general.
• Chen Sanshi calmed himself, resolved to use the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation to activate All Laws Forbidden, and chose Guiyuan Sect as his target.
• Chen Sanshi ordered Bluebird to notify the army to march on Guiyuan Sect and changed course toward the sect.
• Huang Lao Jiu, True Person Fengzhi, and Guiyuan Sect’s other leaders prepared a Lightning Tribulation Great Formation to ambush Chen Sanshi at the gorge.
• Guiyuan Sect’s disciple reported that Chen Lei had avoided the gorge and was heading straight for the sect.

Chen Sanshi attacked Guiyuan Sect, destroyed Jinyu Peak’s spirit vein, and fought the returning sect elders. Huang Lao Jiu joined the battle and revealed he had prepared a countermeasure, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Chen Sanshi exposed himself to Lin Cangwu, declared that he would wipe out Guiyuan Sect, and killed the elder in a surprise attack.
• Chen Sanshi activated the Spirit Extinguishing Great Formation, killed Jinyu Peak’s Pulse Spirit, and destroyed its spirit vein.
• Huang Lao Jiu returned with Guiyuan Sect’s cultivators, and Murong Chu, True Person Fengzhi, and Helian Shan attacked Chen Sanshi.
• Murong Chu activated the Nine Heavens Golden Light Sword Formation, but Chen Sanshi defended against its swords and fought back against the three Golden Core cultivators.
• Huang Lao Jiu struck Chen Sanshi with the Qingming Nine-Toothed Rake, but Chen Sanshi burned through Huang Lao Jiu’s Vine Armor Shield and resisted his wood spells.
• Huang Lao Jiu said he had come prepared, leaving his next move unrevealed.

Chen Sanshi endured the Guiyuan Sect elders’ assault until the Great Han army arrived and broke through the sect’s defenses. As Huang Lao Jiu transformed into a half-demon and overpowered him again, Chen Sanshi summoned the Imperial Seal and gathered thousands of Official Seals into the Jade Emperor Sky-Turning Seal.

• Huang Lao Jiu, Murong Chu, Fengzhi, and Helian Shan joined forces and repeatedly wounded Chen Sanshi, while Huang Lao Jiu condemned his devotion to mortal ties.
• Chen Sanshi revealed that reinforcements were coming, used a Great Compassion Womb Soul Suppressing Bell to drive Huang Lao Jiu back, and shattered Murong Chu’s formation token.
• Qi Cheng led Tianyong City’s immortal officials and soldiers into battle, and their fire-powered army overwhelmed the Guiyuan Sect disciples.
• Huang Lao Jiu bound the Soul Suppressing Bell, fused with the Crimson Wutong Bronze Wood, and sent Chen Sanshi crashing into a cliff despite Chen’s Burning Blood Tribulation.
• Chen Sanshi produced the Imperial Seal as more than ten thousand Official Seals gathered around it, forming the Map of the Nation and its Altars and empowering the Jade Emperor Sky-Turning Seal.

Chen Sanshi defeated True Person Fengqi and helped destroy the Guiyuan Sect while rushing back toward the Eastern Continent. After learning that the Three Great Sects might block him, he accepted a mysterious stranger’s route to an Ancient Teleportation Array and activated it, despite suspecting the stranger was helping Cao Xie lure him to his death.

• Chen Sanshi used the Jade Emperor Sky-Turning Seal to defeat True Person Fengqi, who died after warning the others to run.
• True Person Fengzhi and Helian Shan tried to hold off Chen Sanshi, but Chen Sanshi killed them and then impaled the fleeing Murong Chu.
• Chen Sanshi left Qi Cheng to finish occupying the Guiyuan Sect and flew toward the Eastern Continent.
• Shen Junzhuo, True Lord Lianhua, and Wang Shouzhi discussed stopping Chen Sanshi from returning, while Wang Shouzhi secretly activated a talisman.
• Chen Sanshi prepared to reach Beiyang Dao, but a mysterious man redirected him to an abandoned Blessed Land with an Ancient Teleportation Array.
• Chen Sanshi suspected the mysterious man was helping Cao Xie, but stepped onto the array and activated it anyway.

Chen Sanshi confronted Cao Xie at Mang Mountain, where the Common People Praying to Heaven Bead unleashed All Laws Forbidden and stripped them of their cultivation. Their fight continued with weapons and martial techniques alone, and Chen Sanshi’s injuries left him at a growing disadvantage.

• The Ancient Teleportation Array sent Chen Sanshi to Mang Mountain, while Shen Junzhuo and the others feared he was heading into certain death.
• Cao Xie confronted Chen Sanshi beneath the Two Forms Sky Covering Plate and offered to spare him if he surrendered Great Han’s Imperial Seal and Common People Praying to Heaven Bead.
• Cao Xie attacked, but Chen Sanshi activated All Laws Forbidden, nullifying their cultivation, spells, and magical weapons.
• Chen Sanshi and Cao Xie fought through the rain with swords and spear, and Chen Sanshi realized Cao Xie had mastered his Ultimate Divine Ability.
• Chen Sanshi’s injuries worsened, allowing Cao Xie to wound his shoulder, strike his chest, and knock away the Dragon Abyss Sword.

Chen Sanshi fought Cao Xie on a rain-soaked cliff and turned the battle around after realizing Cao Xie feared his potential and doubted his own Ultimate Divine Ability. Chen Sanshi defeated Cao Xie with a newly awakened spear intent and left him at his mercy.

• Cao Xie pressed his attack while Chen Sanshi, gravely wounded and stripped of his traits by All Laws Forbidden, struggled to defend himself near the cliff.
• Chen Sanshi accused Cao Xie of fearing that he would eventually surpass him, and Cao Xie’s hesitation revealed that the accusation had struck home.
• Chen Sanshi challenged Cao Xie to face his inner demon, disrupting his sword technique and creating an opening for a counterattack.
• Chen Sanshi displayed supreme spear intent and overwhelmed Cao Xie, landing several wounds before knocking him into the mud and pressing the spear to his throat.
• Cao Xie accepted his defeat and asked whether he had only grasped the surface of Ultimate Divine Ability, and Chen Sanshi explained that doubt had undone his stolen technique.

Su Yao and Zhao Lei traveled to the Northern Wasteland Snow Region to stop a force of law-infused ice that was freezing the land. After defeating an Ice Soul Dragon and an ancient sealed Ice Cultivator, they restored the region and continued their journey.

• Su Yao and Zhao Lei followed the distress clues to an ice mountain and discovered that its strange power was freezing the region.
• Su Yao opened a fissure in the mountain with a pattern of law-infused arrows, releasing the Ice Soul Dragon.
• Zhao Lei found the crystal powering the Ice Soul Dragon, and Su Yao destroyed it with an arrow combining fire, lightning, and wind laws.
• An ancient Ice Cultivator emerged after the dragon fell and attacked Su Yao and Zhao Lei for breaking his seal.
• Su Yao destroyed the Ice Cultivator's essence, causing the region's ice power to subside and life to return.
• Su Yao and Zhao Lei left the Northern Wasteland Snow Region and continued their journey.

Chen Sanshi killed Cao Zhi and the surviving Cao clan members, then returned to the Eastern Continent to mourn his senior brother and Xu Wencai. After the funeral, he ordered Sun Li and his other family members and disciples to train rigorously, leaving them confused by his sudden anger.

• Chen Sanshi told Shen Junzhuo and the others that Jiang Xiyue had escaped, then left after they accepted his explanation and discussed investigating her and the Qingxu Sect.
• Wang Shouzhi met Rong Roujun, who swore to avenge Cao and left to hide in the Demon Realm.
• True Lord Lianhua led an attack on the Xie family, and Chen Sanshi killed Cao Zhi as the Cao clan was wiped out.
• Chen Sanshi offered Huang Ninth Brother's head at his senior brother's grave and later held a state funeral for Xu Wencai.
• Chen Sanshi ordered Sun Li to train for six hours daily and demanded rigorous training from his daughters and disciples, startling everyone at the family banquet.