Chapter Summaries

Chen Sanshi rescued the White Jade Spirit Snake from a tiger demon, killed the demon, and then confronted Dugu Ao and two other great demons. Dugu Ao revealed that they were searching for the Azure Blood Hou, whose essence blood Chen Sanshi also needed.

• Chen Sanshi forced Old Green Wood Demon to surrender the Essence Wood and withdrew his Law-Devouring Cicadas after escaping the demon’s reach.
• Chen Sanshi sensed that the White Jade Spirit Snake was in danger and rushed to find her fighting Old Wolf and his demon soldiers.
• A Core Formation demon cultivator wounded the White Jade Spirit Snake, but Chen Sanshi arrived, rescued her, and defeated the tiger demon after it attacked him.
• Dugu Ao appeared, and Chen Sanshi fought him briefly before recognizing him as the senior he had met before.
• Old Green Wood Demon and a shapeshifted female demon arrived and discussed the tiger demon’s death with Dugu Ao and Chen Sanshi.
• Dugu Ao said they were searching for the Azure Blood Hou and noted that Chen Sanshi needed its essence blood as well.

Chen Sanshi helped the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon and Old Green Wood Demon capture an Azure Blood Hou, then returned to the Great Han camp as Xu Wencai began divining the secret realm and Great Han’s national fortune. Xu Wencai revealed that the ancestral vein had revived and ordered the Main Military Tent sealed for forty-nine days to seek a way through the danger facing Chen Sanshi and Great Han.

• Chen Sanshi gave the white snake’s essence blood for the Illusion Dragon Pill and received Azure Blood Hou essence blood after the demons used the pill to lure and capture the beast.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox Demon warned Chen Sanshi that people among rogue cultivators and the Demon Realm wanted to kill him, while Dugu Ao explained the limits of the agreement protecting him.
• Chen Sanshi returned to camp, sent Old Green Wood Demon’s Essence Vine and Cloud Seal Demon Binding Silk to Tianyong City for Zinan to forge into a bow and arrows, and inspected the Border Great Wall.
• After Wang Li reported another Blood Demon Army attack, Chen Sanshi flew southeast, leaving Xu Wencai to reveal to Qi Cheng that the ancestral vein had revived and Great Han’s fortune showed a deadly omen.
• Xu Wencai ordered that no one approach the Main Military Tent for forty-nine days, then began his divination at Five Zhang Plain.

Chen Sanshi prepared for the secret realm and set out for Yufang Mountain after Wang Jun apologized by killing his Cold Iron Bird. Xu Wencai found the secret realm entrance and a way to address danger facing the emperor, then died after passing his final instructions to Qi Cheng.

• Chen Sanshi received the Hundred Deer Chasing Moon Bow and gave Qu Lingchuan a demon core while promising to prepare Core Formation Spirit Materials for Zinan.
• Chen Sanshi returned to camp, where Wang Jun killed his Cold Iron Bird, swore a Heavenly Dao Oath, and left gifts as an apology to His Majesty Tianwu.
• Mu Chutai told Chen Sanshi that cultivators were heading to Yufang Mountain, and Chen Sanshi set out to find the secret realm entrance.
• After forty-nine days of divination, Xu Wencai gave Qi Cheng the entrance method and a way to break the predicament threatening the emperor, but said he could not determine when to use it.
• Xu Wencai entrusted Qi Cheng with a secret art, gave him the courtesy name Boyue, and died after reflecting on his life and service to Great Han.
• On the twenty-seventh year of Tianwu, the Big Dipper became disordered, the Emperor Star was surrounded by blood-red halos, and the Central Terrace Star went dark.

Chen Sanshi used his knowledge of alchemy to make and sell Five Qi Toxin Purging Pills, then led the Qingxu Sect group through the Thousand Miasma Forest. As they finally emerged, he discovered that most of the disciples following him had disappeared.

• Chen Sanshi realized the Money Toad sold Five Qi Toxin Purging Pills for treasure coins, but deciphered the formula from Su Yang’s pill and chose to gather the ingredients himself.
• Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue entered the miasma to collect herbs while Lu Zhao and an elderly cultivator discussed plotting against him and waiting for their allies.
• Chen Sanshi refined pills, sold them to Wang Jun and other cultivators, and increased his treasure coins from ten to fifty.
• Chen Sanshi led the group through the forest for ten days, found ancient battlefield remains but no Fuxi Black Sand, and continued onward with the Qingxu Sect disciples.
• Chen Sanshi and the group crossed the dense miasma and reached sunlight, where Su Yang turned back and discovered that only two of the six disciples behind them remained.

Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue were ambushed by four Mid Core Formation cultivators hired by Cao Xie, and Chen Sanshi fought two of them while protecting the others. After his trump cards failed to turn the battle, he created an opening to escape with Jiang Xiyue.

• Chen Sanshi found two slain Qingxu Sect disciples and sent Su Yang and the other disciples away before confronting Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi.
• Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi attacked Chen Sanshi with their water-based magic treasures, while two other cultivators engaged Jiang Xiyue.
• Chen Sanshi used the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Burning Blood Tribulation to damage the enemies' treasures and nearly wound Yuwen Jiangyi, but Yuwen's Glazed Golden Body let him counterattack.
• Chen Sanshi realized he could not defeat the two Mid Core Formation cultivators and worried that Jiang Xiyue's Vermilion Ink Mystic Light would erupt.
• Chen Sanshi escaped their assault with Earth Escape, sent Law-Devouring Cicadas to detonate, and used an illusion-formation talisman to cover their retreat.
• Chen Sanshi grabbed Jiang Xiyue and used Triple Blood Burning to flee.

After fleeing his pursuers, Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue entered the Luoxiao Sword Pool, where they escaped a deadly sword formation using Chen Sanshi’s Guardian Envoy token. They reached a second Sword Tomb containing intact magic treasures and twelve swords embedded in Fuxi Black Sand.

• Chen Sanshi escaped the four Mid Golden Core cultivators but was tracked by a mark left on his palm, then found a Money Toad checkpoint and bought a Soul Sealing Sword Sheath.
• Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue entered the Luoxiao Sword Pool and discovered its powerful sword formation as Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi caught up with them.
• The pursuers drove Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue into the sword formation, which unleashed a vast tide of swords and forced everyone else to retreat.
• Chen Sanshi led Jiang Xiyue deeper into the formation, and his Guardian Envoy wooden token created a safe path through the sword qi.
• Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue emerged at a second Sword Tomb filled with intact magic treasures, including twelve swords set in Fuxi Black Sand.

Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue learned that the sword pool held the sealed remnants of Sword Heart Valley’s disciples and sought the Sword Cave for the Taiyin Sword and a way to strengthen themselves. After discovering that their sword spirits were trying to possess them, Chen forced the spirits to reveal how to cross the Heavenly Fiend Sword Domain as pursuers waited outside.

• Chen Sanshi found Fuxi Black Sand and learned from the stone tablet that the sword pool contained Sword Heart Valley and its sealed Nascent Soul sword spirits.
• Chen Sanshi and Jiang Xiyue captured two remnant souls with the Soul Sealing Sword Sheath, then learned that the Taiyin Sword and Heaven-Mending Stone spiritual liquid were in the Sword Cave.
• Chen Sanshi gathered the Fuxi Black Sand and agreed to follow the sword spirits toward the Sword Cave, where another person had already gone.
• Outside the sword formation, Lu Zhao and the other cultivators failed to break through and waited for Daoist Dongwei to arrive.
• At the suspension bridge, Chen Sanshi realized the spirits’ Man-Sword Unity method was an attempt at possession and tortured them until they revealed that sword-art footwork would let them cross.

Chen Sanshi and the Blind Woman reached Sword Heart Valley’s Sword Cave, where they found the Taiyin Lu Po Sword sealed above a lava pool and the Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid already taken. A masked cultivator revealed the Valley Master’s trapped soul and asked them to destroy the twelve traitorous holy sons’ sword spirits; Chen Sanshi agreed and the two remaining spirits were killed.

• Hook-nosed revealed that the Valley Master had become a sword demon and turned the sect’s disciples into sword spirits, but Chen Sanshi pressed onward into the Sword Cave.
• Chen Sanshi and the Blind Woman found the Taiyin Lu Po Sword bound by a failing ice-and-fire seal, but neither could draw it.
• Chen Sanshi searched the cultivation chamber for Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid and found it empty, then confronted the masked cultivator hiding there.
• The masked cultivator offered half a bottle of spirit liquid and instructions for drawing the sword in exchange for destroying the twelve holy sons’ sword spirits.
• The masked cultivator showed them the Valley Master’s soul and explained that the holy sons had betrayed him, prompting Chen Sanshi and the Blind Woman to destroy the two sword spirits with the Soul Sealing Sword Sheath.

Chen Sanshi guarded Jiang Xiyue as she passed the Heart’s Inquiry and drew the Taiyin Lu Po Sword, then used the secret chamber’s resources to break through to the Early Lapis Lazuli Golden Body Realm. After three days of cultivation, he emerged alive and learned how long his breakthrough had taken.

• Jiang Xiyue offered her essence blood to the Taiyin Sword, passed the Heart’s Inquiry, and drew the Taiyin Lu Po Sword, though she could wield only part of its power.
• Chen Sanshi had the masked cultivator test the Sky-Mending Stone Spirit Liquid, then prepared to break through while Jiang Xiyue guarded him.
• Chen Sanshi refined Fuxi Black Sand and used it with the Xuanji Azure Blood Hou’s essence blood and the spirit liquid to temper his body.
• Chen Sanshi endured eighty-one cycles of destruction and regeneration, opened the three passes, and reached the Early Lapis Lazuli Golden Body Realm.
• Chen Sanshi emerged from the secret chamber and learned from the masked cultivator that three days had passed.

After forging his golden body in three days, Chen Sanshi emerged from the Sword Pool Secret Realm and fought the waiting Golden Core assassins. He killed Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi, while Wang Jun escaped with the Sword Demon, leaving the remaining battle unresolved.

• Chen Sanshi and the Blind Woman retraced their path through the secret realm, and the Blind Woman cut down the remaining flying swords in the Sword Tomb.
• Chen Sanshi opened the Myriad Sword Great Formation and used the Hundred Deer Chasing Moon Bow and Mystic Spirit Six Arms to overwhelm the four waiting assassins, killing the black-robed cultivator.
• Wang Jun used Earth Escape to flee the Sword Pool Secret Realm, and the Sword Demon urged him to accept its conditions and promised to help him ascend to the upper realm.
• After exhausting his arrows, Chen Sanshi fought Lu Zhao and Yuwen Jiangyi directly, revealing his Glazed Golden Body and using his weapons and techniques to overpower them.
• Chen Sanshi pierced Lu Zhao with the Dragon Gallant Bright Silver Spear and then killed Yuwen Jiangyi after breaking his Glazed Five Viscera.

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.