Chapter Summaries

Yang Shan reunited with Zi Yan, entered the newly opened Refining Domain, and learned that the Array Seal Domain was in chaos while competitors raced toward the third domain. He reached the Refining Domain with Zi Yan and Lei Che, then sent Lei Che to seek opportunities on his own.

• Zi Yan gave Yang Shan the Bodhi Pill to hold, and Yang Shan introduced her as the Wind and Thunder Pavilion's beloved Junior Sister.
• The Players reported that the Refining Domain and Array Seal Domain had opened, and they discussed their rewards, opponents, and the intense competition around the array seal barrier.
• Yang Shan told Su Yitang to race ahead for opportunities, then hurried toward the third domain with Zi Yan in pursuit of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Yang Shan and Zi Yan passed through the light curtain and reached a settlement of wooden houses in the Refining Domain.
• Lei Che greeted Yang Shan after recounting his defeat by Shi Xiaowei, and Yang Shan urged him to search for opportunities rather than follow him.

Yang Shan searched the Third Domain for an inheritance opportunity and encountered a powerful figure impersonating his Cheng E identity. After fortune led him to a vast sea and a mysterious Kun Fish, Wu Ying appeared with unexpectedly stronger Soul Strength and threatened him.

• Yang Shan guided Zi Yan through the wooden huts, and she chose an opportunity before teleporting away.
• Yang Shan reasoned that Jiu Feng was his main rival for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and encountered a masked figure dressed exactly like Cheng E.
• The impostor matched Yang Shan's Spirit Realm Perfect Stage Soul Strength, escaped into another hut, and prompted Yang Shan to consider using the Thunder Phantom Body and allies to deal with him.
• A system prompt directed Yang Shan to a hut marked by purple qi, where he arrived above a sea and saw a gigantic Kun Fish.
• Wu Ying appeared beside Yang Shan with a bone scythe, threatened him, and displayed Spirit Realm Perfect Stage Soul Strength despite having been weaker earlier.

Yang Shan tried to keep Wu Ying from entering the Kun Fish’s soul-filled inner world and persuaded the Creation Saint’s soul remnant to make them fight first. Wu Ying revealed the Soul Clan’s Bone Soul Saint Scythe and attacked the remnant, which privately asked Yang Shan for help.

• The Creation Saint’s soul remnant explained that the Kun Fish’s inner world had collapsed and its dead inhabitants’ souls remained sealed inside, with only one visitor able to claim their Soul Strength.
• Yang Shan questioned the contest’s rules, sealed the remnant’s spatial rift with Supreme Void Power, and proposed that he and Wu Ying fight before entering the Kun Fish.
• The remnant agreed to Yang Shan’s proposal despite Wu Ying’s objections, and Wu Ying angrily challenged the remnant’s authority.
• Wu Ying activated the Bone Soul Saint Scythe, a Heaven-tier Soul Clan secret art, and prepared to sacrifice the remnant’s soul.
• The Creation Saint’s soul remnant secretly asked Yang Shan to save him.

Yang Shan fought the impostor posing as Wu Ying, a Six Star Dou Zun wielding the Bone Soul Saint Scythe, while the Creation Saint's remnant soul prepared to intervene. The Creation Saint fused with his skeleton and unleashed the Great Heaven Creation Palm, trapping the impostor as Yang Shan urgently asked the senior to spare his life.

• Yang Shan attacked the impostor with Yama and discovered that the Bone Soul Saint Scythe could match his blade momentum with powerful soul attacks.
• Yang Shan forced the impostor to reveal his Six Star Dou Zun cultivation, then continued fighting him as the Creation Saint's remnant soul formed hand seals nearby.
• Yang Shan used Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls and staged a fall into the sea, secretly releasing a Thunder Phantom Body while the impostor prepared Soul Severing Palm.
• The Creation Saint's remnant soul fused with its jade-like skeleton and blocked Soul Severing Palm with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• The Creation Remains sealed the space around the impostor and sent a spreading black ring toward him, prompting Yang Shan to ask the senior to spare the impostor's life.

Yang Shan watched the Creation Saintly Remains defeat the impostor with Great Creation Palm, then interrogated the helpless man after the remnant departed. The impostor finally revealed that he was Hun Li, a young master of a Soul Clan branch, and threatened Yang Shan with his powerful ancestor.

• The Creation Saintly Remains used Great Creation Palm to subdue the Six Star Dou Zun impostor, then told Yang Shan he could leave by reopening the opportunity passage.
• Yang Shan thanked the Creation Saintly Remains, which vanished after explaining that Yang Shan was its master's fated one.
• Yang Shan struck the drained impostor with Northern Falling Seven Star Thunder, dispelling his disguise, and demanded his identity and reason for the attempted attack.
• Yang Shan invented a tale about torture expert Heavenly Punishment Saint and threatened the impostor with his supposed Dou Skill, Torture 1001 Methods.
• The impostor gave in when Yang Shan prepared a needle and identified himself as Hun Li, the Young Master of Hun Qianmo's branch of the Soul Clan, whose ancestor LiezU was a Six Star Dou Sheng.

Yang Shan learned that Hun Li and Hun Ya had infiltrated the Creation Cave Abode under false identities to exploit the Soul Sweeping Tower as a scapegoat. After knocking Hun Li unconscious and storing him away, Yang Shan prepared to claim the Opportunity Realm’s spoils.

• Yang Shan recognized Hun Li’s identity and interrogated him while Gu You received orders from Hun Miesheng to protect Hun Ya and Hun Li.
• Saint Hun Qing told Gu You that Hun Ya and Hun Li had entered the Creation Cave Abode with Hun Chi, prompting Gu You to complain about the Soul Clan using the Soul Hall as a shield.
• Hun Li confessed that he and Hun Ya had impersonated Cheng E and Wu Ying so they could commit crimes, collect souls, and blame the Soul Sweeping Tower.
• Yang Shan devised plans to turn the Soul Clan’s scheme against them and frightened Hun Li into offering everything he knew.
• Yang Shan used the Sealing Spirit Seal to knock Hun Li unconscious, put him in a coffin, and stored him in his Storage Ring.

Yang Shan searched the Kun Fish’s ruined inner world, capturing hundreds of Ferocious Souls and gathering enough Soul energy to near his Heaven Realm breakthrough. He learned that Hun Ya had impersonated Cheng E to attack members of other clans, then persuaded Hun Dan to help keep the incident under control and return Hun Ya and Hun Li alive.

• Yang Shan captured a Ferocious Soul in the ruined city, then sent Yue Mei and his Thunder Phantom Body to hunt more while he collected hundreds himself.
• Yang Shan filled seven Soul Restraining Pearls and half-filled an eighth, bringing his stored Soul energy close to the amount needed to reach the Heaven Realm.
• Hun Dan contacted Yang Shan, accusing Cheng E of attacking Huo Ran, Gu Yan, and Yao Xingji, but Yang Shan denied leaving the secret realm and revealed Hun Ya had impersonated him.
• Yang Shan told Hun Dan that he had Hun Li under control and explained what Hun Li had revealed about Hun Ya and their powerful clan connections.
• Hun Dan refused to kill Hun Ya and Hun Li, and Yang Shan agreed to help ensure they returned safely while telling Hun Dan to keep Xiao Ding and Xiao Li calm without revealing the impersonator’s identity.

Yang Shan reunited with Xiao Xun'er after she survived the Array Seal Domain contest, then recruited her and Feng Qing'er into a plan to expose the person impersonating Cheng E. He mobilized his allies across the Creation Relic to set a trap for Hun Ya.

• Xiao Xun'er told Yang Shan that Feng Qing'er had helped her side survive the Array Seal Domain contest, though neither side won the final inheritance.
• Yang Shan met Xiao Xun'er, reassured himself that she was unharmed, and discussed how they worried about each other.
• Yang Shan explained the Cheng E impersonation to Xiao Xun'er and quietly laid out a plan for her to carry out.
• Feng Qing'er arrived, listened to the plan, and was sent out to help alongside Xiao Xun'er.
• Yang Shan enlisted Tang Zhen, Qu, the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, Lei Yang, Lei Che, and Zi Yan, then spread an opportunity through the company group chat.
• Yang Shan gathered his trusted connections to set a trap for Hun Ya.

Disguised as Cheng E, Hun Ya seized inheritances across the Third Domain and broke several rivals’ treasures, but Zi Yan defeated and captured him. As the injured Hun Ya was surrounded by his former opponents and Hun Dan tried to intervene, a Blood-Red Cloak figure declared that Soul Sweeping Tower was not responsible.

• Hun Ya forced Xiao Xun’er and Tang Zhen to abandon inheritance spaces, then defeated or evaded other challengers while collecting valuable inheritances.
• Hun Ya avoided fighting Xiao Aotian, allowing him to claim a crucial inheritance, and later found a Mystic Blood Spirit Mushroom.
• Hun Ya attacked a little girl from Wind and Thunder Pavilion, only to be badly beaten by Zi Yan, who sealed his mouth and took the mushroom.
• Zi Yan carried Hun Ya outside and announced that she had caught Cheng E, drawing in Xiao Xun’er, Feng Qing’er, Lei Yang, Tang Zhen, Qu Tianqin, and their allies.
• Hun Dan tried to secure Hun Ya’s release by offering compensation, but a figure in a Blood-Red Cloak arrived and said the matter had nothing to do with Soul Sweeping Tower.

Yang Shan exposed Hun Ya's disguise and pressured Hun Dan and Soul Sweeping Tower while the gathered factions debated whether Hun Ya should be ransomed or killed. After Xiao Xun'er demanded his death and Hun Ya panicked, Hun Dan offered to protect him if he nodded, and Hun Ya agreed frantically.

• Yang Shan revealed a second Cheng E in the Life-Sealing Coffin and demanded that Hun Dan stop interfering or pay a ransom.
• Hun Dan and Wu Ying implied that Soul Sweeping Tower served Xiao Ding, and Hun Dan slapped Wu Ying after he mentioned Lord Qian Di.
• Zi Yan removed Hun Ya's masks, and Lei Yang identified him as the Soul Clan's Hun Ya despite Hun Dan's feigned ignorance.
• Yang Shan proposed killing Hun Ya or seeking ransom, while Tang Zhen and Qu Tianqin urged negotiation and Lei Yang and Lei Che argued for killing him.
• Xiao Xun'er accused Hun Ya of trying to kill her and demanded his death, prompting the gathered factions to support the accusation with their recordings.
• Hun Dan told Hun Ya he could no longer act for Soul Hall but offered to protect him for their shared clan, and Hun Ya nodded rapidly.

After Hun Ya and the others signed debt contracts for the damage they caused, Yang Shan was summoned by the Creation Saint and offered a chance to become a gatekeeper for the inheritance trials. Yang Shan accepted the prospect of becoming a future Players’ nightmare and discovered a list of hidden opportunities, including the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Xiao Xun'er threatened to kill Hun Ya unless he and the others paid for the damage, and Hun Dan prepared debt contracts for them to sign.
• Hun Ya regained his freedom after signing the contracts, while Su Yitang returned from an inheritance ruin with valuable gains.
• A seven-story Inheritance Trial Tower and three five-story towers for alchemy, artifacts, and formations rose in the Third Domain, and the Creation Saint announced that the trial was about to open.
• The Creation Saint summoned Yang Shan, praised his self-taught dual-attribute cultivation, and asked him to serve as a gatekeeper whose abilities would be recorded for future illusions.
• Yang Shan agreed to consider the gatekeeper role and read a list of hidden opportunities, including the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, several Heaven and Earth Oddities, and Saint Artifact gloves.

Yang Shan learned that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit was guarded by the souls of two ancient Saint Beasts and tried to recruit friends to help claim it, but the Creation Saint enforced the cave abode’s challenge rules. The Inheritance Trial Tower’s seven guardians were announced, ending with Xiao Xun’er discovering that Yang Shan would guard the seventh floor.

• The Creation Saint explained that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit grew between the skeletons of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, whose Ninth Order Saint Beast souls had resisted him for ages.
• Yang Shan asked to bring Little Zi Yan and Feng Qing’er to help claim the fruit, but the Creation Saint refused and said Yang Shan could challenge for it when the cave abode reopened.
• The Creation Saint announced the tower’s guardians: Tang Gongyu on the first floor, Feng Ye on the second, Lei Che on the third, Xiao Li on the fourth, Huo Zhi on the fifth, and Jiu Feng on the sixth.
• Yang Shan told Su Yitang that the tower’s attractive guardians seemed designed to appeal to Players, and he privately credited himself with suggesting Lei Che for the third floor.
• The Creation Saint called for the seventh-floor guardian, and Xiao Xun’er saw Yang Shan step forward and welcomed her Junior.

Yang Shan became the seventh-floor guardian and permanent final boss of the Creation Cave Abode dungeon, where players would eventually challenge him for cultivation inheritance rewards. After choosing a battlefield, he agreed to fight NPC challengers seriously in exchange for EXP and planned to make the seventh floor as difficult as possible.

• The system announced that the Creation Cave Abode would become a regularly opening permanent dungeon, with Yang Shan assigned as its seventh-floor guardian.
• AI Nüwa announced the seven-floor tower's timed challenge rules, a total of 344 cultivation inheritances, and the Heaven Rank Low-Level combat technique Great Creation Palm.
• Jiu Feng entered the sixth floor after exchanging pointed remarks with Yang Shan, who was teleported to the seventh floor and found a control panel with a hundred battlefield options.
• Cute Girl Customer Service 007 asked Yang Shan to fight NPC challengers at full strength so AI Nüwa could record enough data to open the tower to players.
• Cute Girl Customer Service 007 promised Yang Shan EXP for defeating NPC challengers, and Yang Shan vowed to maximize the seventh floor's difficulty.

Xiao Ding reached the seventh floor of the tower but was overwhelmed by Yang Shan’s opening assault and lasted only fourteen seconds. His rapid ascent and hidden strength convinced the watching clan geniuses that he had been concealing his true abilities, while Hun Dan’s quiet insinuations helped fuel their suspicions.

• Xiao Ding chose a three-minute challenge against Yang Shan, who began the trial with a devastating thunder-boosted assault and depleted Xiao Ding’s Protective Gang Qi in seconds.
• Yang Shan trapped Xiao Ding with the Imprisoning Spirit True Skill, and Xiao Ding’s struggle ended after fourteen seconds.
• Hun Dan ordered Old Ghost Zhaixing to stop at the fourth floor and prolong the earlier battles, then used Xiao Ding’s rapid progress to imply that he sought a hidden inheritance.
• The watching clan geniuses interpreted Xiao Ding’s progress as proof of his concealed strength, and Gu Yao judged that Xiao Ding might rival him.
• The stone stele showed Xiao Ding’s fourteen-second result against Yang Shan, shocking the gathered geniuses; Xiao Xun’er praised her Junior’s strength while Xiao Aotian and Flame Heavenly King reacted with envy and anger.

Yang Shan waited for a new challenger at the Inheritance Trial Tower, then fought Feng Qing'er in a twenty-minute trial. He left the duel impressed by her growing strength after she broke through his restrictive technique.

• Yang Shan complained that stage-defense victories gave him less experience, then waited as the guardians on the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors began defeating challengers faster to outdo one another.
• Feng Qing'er arrived and chose a twenty-minute duel, declaring that she intended to defeat Yang Shan.
• Yang Shan began the fight before Feng Qing'er finished speaking, teaching her to stay vigilant as he landed an Overload blast and a rear attack.
• Feng Qing'er used silk ribbons to conceal Overload explosions, restrain Yang Shan, and launch a Thunder Killing Finger, but his lightning chains shattered the attack.
• Yang Shan used the Imprisoning Spirit True Skill to bind Feng Qing'er, but she expanded her Demon Phoenix Bell until it snapped the chains, making him recognize how dangerous she had become.

Yang Shan outmaneuvered Feng Qing'er in their battle by secretly filling the clouds with lightning he could control, then revealed that he had planned the trap from the start. Feng Qing'er accepted the defeat but resolved to train harder and defeat him someday.

• Yang Shan and Feng Qing'er fought fiercely, with his twin blades and shifting lightning keeping her from gaining an advantage.
• Feng Qing'er used her Thunder Phantom Body to create an opening, then unleashed her Demon Phoenix Saintly Image, Heaven Swallowing Earth Devouring, and Hundred Phoenixes Paying Respects.
• Yang Shan revealed that Northern Falling Seven Star Thunder and Extraterrestrial Ghoul Lightning had been hidden throughout the clouds from the beginning, leaving Feng Qing'er's Meridians overwhelmed by the lightning.
• Yang Shan claimed Feng Qing'er's ultimate move had been within his expectations, and the system reported that her favorability rose to 78.
• Feng Qing'er resolved to keep improving until she could defeat Yang Shan at least once.

Yang Shan completed his seventh-floor guardian trials, advanced to Eight Star Dou Zun, and shared advice with the players waiting outside. Xiao Xun'er cleared the floor after him and confronted him for leaving before she arrived, then departed with him.

• Yang Shan defeated several challengers, but Feng Qing'er, Shi Xiaoqi, and Sword Rage Howl cleared their trials; Shi Xiaoqi relied on powerful defensive Dou Skills, while Yang Shan advanced to Eight Star Dou Zun after defeating Crimson Flame Evil Monarch.
• The Creation Saint's Remnant Soul recorded Yang Shan's combat data and teleported him out of the trial tower before Xiao Xun'er arrived on the seventh floor.
• Players gathered around Yang Shan, who promised to share his strategy and advised them to lower their expectations, pursue kills early, and stall when later challenges seemed unwinnable.
• Xiao Xun'er cleared the seventh floor in two minutes and thirty-seven seconds, then asked Yang Shan why he had not waited for her; he explained that the Creation Saint had sent him out first.
• Xiao Xun'er declined Ling Quan's Spirit Spring Liquid and left with Yang Shan, who offered to peel grapes for her.

Yang Shan shared tower-clearing advice before the Players began challenging the Inheritance Trial Tower, then logged off with Su Yitang and returned the next day to review the challenge rankings. The Creation Saint arranged the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit opportunity for Yang Shan and the Golden Soul Infant Fruit opportunity for Xiao Aotian, leaving both preparing to pursue their prizes.

• Yang Shan shared his tower-clearing tips with his allies while the Players began entering the Inheritance Trial Tower to earn points.
• Su Yitang challenged Yang Shan to a fight after they logged off, and they reunited in her bedroom before both fell asleep.
• Yang Shan returned to the game and found Xiao Aotian angry that the seventh-floor illusion had defeated him in under three minutes.
• Yang Shan reviewed the challenge rankings and learned that Su Yitang ranked first, Ye Suifeng second, Yi Qingyang third, and Zhu Tianpeng fourth.
• The Creation Saint told Yang Shan that the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit opportunity was ready, while Xiao Aotian confirmed he had been summoned for the Golden Soul Infant Fruit.

Yang Shan entered the final opportunity trial with Little Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er to claim the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, disguising himself and racing toward its location. He reached the fruit first, but the chapter ended before he could take it.

• After the Creation Saint announced the final opportunity trial, Yang Shan entered the secret realm with Little Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er, who communicated through soul transmission marks.
• Yang Shan disguised Little Zi Yan as Elder Bai Jing and transformed himself into Hei Qing to avoid worsening relations with Jiu Feng and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Yang Shan told Feng Qing'er to conserve her Demon Energy and prepare to support him after he reached the opportunity first.
• Yang Shan used Supreme Void Power and his speed abilities to cross the secret realm and arrive at its center in ten seconds.
• Yang Shan found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit suspended between the skeletons of two enormous beasts and inspected its properties.

Yang Shan hid with Zi Yan while Jiu Feng, Feng Qing'er, Huang Chao, Qing Wu, Xue Hong, and Mu Qingluan fought over the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. As the battle unfolded, Yang Shan confirmed Zi Yan could call on the Ancient Void Dragon soul in the remains and told her to wait for his signal.

• Yang Shan hid in a pit near the remains and waited for Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er to take their positions.
• Jiu Feng, Huang Chao, Qing Wu, Xue Hong, and Mu Qingluan gathered at the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, setting the rival clans against one another.
• Feng Qing'er arrived and agreed to help Jiu Feng, then used her lightning and fire abilities to fight Xue Hong.
• Jiu Feng fought Qing Wu while Huang Chao battled Mu Qingluan, and Feng Qing'er held off Xue Hong.
• Zi Yan joined Yang Shan in the pit, confirmed she sensed an Ancient Void Dragon soul in the remains, and said she had a secret art to make it fight.