Chapter Summaries

Gu Yi found the Flame Emperor’s hidden spirit sealed in a spatial interlayer beneath the Scroll Minor World and attacked the seal to break its remaining chains. The Flame Emperor’s spirit began to escape after Gu Yi’s strikes cracked the chains.

• Gu Yi learned that the Flame Emperor’s final spirit was beneath Horizon Sea Pavilion City and captured the Evil Spirit in the Blood Soul Pearl.
• Gu Yi recovered Li Shang’s Memory Jade, learned how to refine a soul banner, and discovered that Lin Feng had taken the needed Empty Parasol Tree.
• Gu Yi recognized Horizon Sea Pavilion City’s formation as part of the Flame Emperor’s seal and followed the Evil Spirit’s directions into the magma below.
• Gu Yi found the faint flame energy hidden in a spatial interlayer and saw the Flame Emperor’s spirit bound by five remaining chains.
• Gu Yi struck the Space Seal with the Blood Soul Spear, and the Flame Emperor directed the force at his chains until they began to shatter.

Gu Yi trapped the Flame Emperor's Spirit after freeing it from the seal and proposed that they protect each other as the Flame Emperor regained his strength. The Flame Emperor accepted, and Gu Yi created a new fire-aspect body for him, which he entered to begin restoring himself.

• The Flame Emperor escaped his shattered seal, but Gu Yi slowed him with Speed and Slowness Intent Realm and trapped him in a Flame Cage.
• Gu Yi revealed that he knew the Flame Emperor and offered to help him recover in exchange for the Flame Emperor becoming his Dao Protector once he reached the Venerable Martial Realm and Martial Emperor Realm.
• The Flame Emperor accepted the deal, and Gu Yi took him to the surface to find a suitable body.
• After the Flame Emperor rejected the Flame Wolf Demons and two corpses, Gu Yi formed a new fire-aspect human body from blood and Heavenly Flames.
• The Flame Emperor entered the new body, and Gu Yi severed his connection to it and left control to the Flame Emperor.

The Flame Emperor fused with Gu Yi’s Blood Martial Soul and Bone Martial Soul to form a new body, then agreed to protect Gu Yi once his strength recovered. He gave Gu Yi the Heaven-tier Thunder King Body and Divine Sense Palace techniques, and Gu Yi began cultivating the latter, leaving a Jade Palace formed from his Soul Power.

• The Flame Emperor completed his fusion with the new body, promised to become Gu Yi’s protector after recovering his strength, and asked Gu Yi to look after him until then.
• Gu Yi told the Flame Emperor about the Martial Emperor’s Tomb and asked him for techniques to strengthen his chances there, but the Flame Emperor explained that Gu Yi could not yet cultivate Emperor-level arts.
• The Flame Emperor taught Gu Yi the Heaven-tier Thunder King Body and Divine Sense Palace techniques, then hunted Fire Demons while Gu Yi memorized them.
• Gu Yi learned that the Thunder King Body could temper his physique with Power of Thunder and that the Divine Sense Palace could strengthen both his spiritual attacks and defenses.
• Gu Yi cultivated the Divine Sense Palace for several days and formed a vast Jade Palace from his Soul Power, which the Flame Emperor recognized as a powerful technique.

Gu Yi enlisted the Flame Emperor to fortify the Snow Moon Imperial Palace, then traveled to Holy Pill City to cultivate the Thunder King Body with Pill Lightning. After refining two pills and absorbing their lightning, Gu Yi’s body bore fourteen and a half thunder patterns.

• Gu Yi asked the Flame Emperor to set up trapping formations around the imperial palace, and Liu Canglan and others helped him complete them.
• Gu Yi cultivated the Thunder King Body with ordinary lightning and Lei Mang’s lightning attacks, then decided to seek stronger Pill Lightning on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Gu Yi traveled to Holy Pill City and reunited with Gu Yan, whose seventh-grade alchemy talent had attracted the Alchemy Tower’s attention.
• Gu Yi and Gu Yan refined pills, and Gu Yi absorbed the Form Transformation Pill’s Pill Lightning, raising his total to twelve thunder patterns.
• Gu Yi absorbed the weaker Pill Lightning from Gu Yan’s Instant Qi Pill and condensed another two and a half thunder patterns.

After ten days of refining pills in Holy Pill City, Gu Yi became a genuine eighth-tier alchemist and strengthened his body and soul with Pill Lightning. He returned to the Snow Moon Kingdom when the Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace attacked the imperial palace, leaving him facing more than a dozen Heavenly Martial Realm experts.

• Gu Yi and Gu Yan refined pills for ten days, and Gu Yi absorbed Pill Lightning until he neared the fourth level of the Heavenly Martial Realm.
• Gu Yan went to Holy Pill City's trade fair to exchange pills for medicinal ingredients while Gu Yi cultivated the Thunder King Body and considered how to obtain the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Gu Yi received Gu Xiao's mental transmission, returned to the Snow Moon Kingdom's imperial palace, and found the Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace attacking its defensive formation.
• The formation broke, and Gu Yi appeared before the attackers as Lei Mang identified the two factions and warned him to flee to the Divine Palace.
• Gu Yi refused to accept Lei Mang's assessment that he could not defeat the attackers.

The Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace attacked Gu Yi and his companions to prevent them from entering the Martial Emperor Secret Realm. With the Flame Emperor’s Cloud Mist Trapping Array supporting him, Gu Yi killed their strongest fighters and wiped out the trapped Heavenly Martial Realm cultivators.

• Lei Mang, Cai Lin, and Gu Qingcheng joined Gu Yi in resisting the Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace, who had ordered them killed.
• Gu Yi told the Flame Emperor to activate the Cloud Mist Trapping Array, which shrouded the Snow Moon Imperial Palace and disoriented the attackers.
• Gu Yi used his Divine Sense Palace to kill a fifth-level Heavenly Martial Realm expert, then confronted the two strongest enemy cultivators.
• Gu Yi revealed his ninth-level Flame Intent Realm and used the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and Heaven-Battling Demonic Spear to kill the two seventh-level Heavenly Martial Realm experts.
• Gu Yi and the Flame Emperor trapped and killed more than a dozen Heavenly Martial Realm cultivators from the Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace.

Gu Yi defeated the invading Heavenly Martial Realm experts without revealing that he had done so, then learned Flame Profound Truth with Flame Emperor’s guidance. As Gu Yan advanced within the Alchemy Tower and Gu Yi sent Gu Xiao to seek opportunities, the Snow Fox Demon awakened and set out for Snow Moon Imperial City after confirming that Xue Linglong was safe.

• Gu Yi concealed his role in killing the invaders and thanked an unseen senior, while Flame Emperor offered to teach him about Flame Profound Truth and the Law of Fire.
• Gu Yi and the others listened to Flame Emperor’s lecture, and after seven days Gu Yi comprehended the first level of Flame Profound Truth.
• Gu Yan passed the Alchemy Tower’s test by refining eighth-grade pills, joined as a core disciple, and received the Grand Unity Soul Art and access to its resources.
• Gu Yi planned to return to the Dou Qi Continent and sent Gu Xiao to seek opportunities in the Qian Region and establish teleportation anchors in the Eight Desolations Realm and Nine Nether Realm.
• The Snow Fox Demon awakened after ten years, learned that Xue Linglong had gone to human territory, and used a mirror to confirm she was safe with Gu Yi in Snow Moon Imperial Palace.
• The Snow Fox Demon imprisoned the Heavenly Demons who had failed to stop Xue Linglong from leaving, then headed for Snow Moon Imperial City.

Gu Yi distributed the Intent Realm Crystals he had seized and began turning the defeated experts’ corpses into puppets, but a powerful Demon Venerable arrived at Snow Moon Imperial Palace. She was Xue Linglong’s adoptive mother, and after accepting that Qingcheng wanted to stay with Gu Yi, she tested whether he could protect her with the Snow Clan’s Horizon at Hand.

• Gu Yi divided the seized Intent Realm Crystals among the Flame Emperor, Cai Lin and the other women, himself, and Gu Xiao, whom he planned to send to Carefree Ancient City.
• As Gu Yi began refining some of the Heavenly Martial Realm corpses into Blood Shadow Puppets, a Demon Venerable’s icy aura swept over Snow Moon Imperial City.
• Gu Qingcheng reunited with her adoptive mother, who was revealed to be Xue Linglong, a powerful member of the Snow Fox Clan.
• Gu Qingcheng refused to return with Xue Linglong, explaining that she wanted to keep training beside Gu Yi, and her adoptive mother agreed to let her remain.
• Xue Linglong challenged Gu Yi to escape the Snow Clan’s Horizon at Hand within a day; Gu Yi recognized its Space Profound Truth and sat down to use his Space Intent Realm to find a way out.

Gu Yi escaped the beautiful young woman’s Snow Path Space by strengthening his Spatial Teleportation, then received her approval and the Snow Demon Pagoda before continuing his cultivation. After two months, Gu Yi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin set out for the Martial Emperor Secret Realm, leaving the story with their journey underway.

• Gu Yi comprehended the Snow Path Space and used Spatial Teleportation to escape, bringing his Space Intent Realm understanding to the fifth level.
• The beautiful young woman warned Gu Yi to strengthen his cultivation, asked him to wait until Gu Qingcheng reached the Venerable Martial Realm before consummating their marriage, and left Gu Qingcheng in his care with the Snow Demon Pagoda.
• Gu Yi gave the Snow Demon Pagoda to Qing Lin, while the East Sea Dragon Palace and Jade Emperor Royal Clan abandoned plans to target him after learning a Venerable Martial Realm powerhouse protected him.
• Gu Yi spent two months cultivating and refining pills as the three-month appointment with Bei Ming approached.
• Gu Yi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin departed Snow Moon Kingdom on a Great Roc Heavenly Demon and traveled toward the Martial Emperor Secret Realm.

Gu Yi arrived at the Martial Emperor Secret Realm with the Northern Divine Palace and waited as the factions prepared to open it. When the hundred-year opening began, the experts formed an Eight Trigrams Array that raised a vast Emperor's Palace from beneath the earth.

• Bei Ming welcomed Gu Yi and asked him to lead the Northern Divine Palace's Profound Martial geniuses, but Gu Yi refused; Bei Ming nevertheless granted him authority equal to the leader within the secret realm.
• The Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace arrived and showed undisguised hostility toward Gu Yi, while Gu Xiao, Lin Feng, Jun Moxi, and Tang Youyou joined the Divine Palace's group.
• Gu Yi sensed the Demonic Sword's demonic power and the Demon Sealing Stone Tablet's sealing intent clashing within Lin Feng.
• When the time came, the Heavenly Martial Realm experts worked together to form an Eight Trigrams Array around the mound.
• The Array broke through the earth, and a five-colored Emperor's Palace rose from a deep pit beneath its suppressing Eight Trigrams pattern.

Gu Yi led his companions into the Martial Emperor Secret Realm, where he uncovered a Space Teleportation Array that transported them into Jade Emperor's Minor World. After the group split up to seek opportunities, Gu Yi chose to head north toward the strongest deathly aura.

• Venerables restrained the Emperor's Palace while the Sword Venerable broke open its gates, and Gu Yi led Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and others inside.
• Gu Yi fended off cultivators who ambushed his group in the dark passage and recognized the saint markings carved into its walls.
• Gu Yi identified the altar ahead as a Space Teleportation Array leading to Jade Emperor's Minor World and activated it before the other factions could use it.
• The array transported Gu Yi's group safely, while people outside its protective light were scattered by spatial storms and black holes.
• In a vast wasteland, the Divine Palace cultivators split into smaller teams, while Lin Feng left with Jun Moxi, Gu Xiao went west alone, and Tang Youyou joined Gu Yi's group.
• Gu Yi decided that his group would head north, where the deathly aura was strongest.

Gu Yi and his companions searched the Martial Emperor Small World, passed up a Sword Dao inheritance, and eventually uncovered the hidden entrance to a Venerable Lord’s grotto. The chapter left them gathered at the newly opened gateway, ready to explore it.

• Gu Yi and his companions traveled north through ruined settlements and found a palace containing Sword Dao holy inscriptions, but none of them chose to stay and comprehend them.
• After Gu Yi’s group left, Lin Feng and Jun Moxi arrived at the Sword Palace, drove off or defeated rival cultivators, and began studying the swordsmanship inheritance.
• Gu Yi and his companions searched a vast complex of ruined residences but found that its visible treasures and inheritances had already been taken.
• Gu Yi sensed a spatial fluctuation beneath the ruins, found a hidden chamber, and activated its holy inscriptions to open a gateway into a secluded grotto.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Tang Youyou answered Gu Yi’s signal and joined him at the entrance.

Gu Yi and the three women explored a hidden residence, where he found three low-grade Saint Artifacts and learned how Jade Emperor and the Demon Empress had destroyed the Martial Emperor Small World. After killing cultivators who tried to rob them, Gu Yi set out with his companions to find the other lords’ residences and uncover more treasures.

• Gu Yi and the three women searched the hidden residence, collecting treasures and discovering a lord’s skeleton beside three Saint Artifacts and a Gold Profound Meaning inheritance.
• Gu Yi took the golden cloak, golden gloves, and Ancient Bronze Bell, then read the lord’s final words describing Jade Emperor’s flight from the Demon Empress and the destruction of the Small World.
• Gu Yi learned that the four lords’ residences formed an array around the Dragon Veins and used a compass refined by the Flame Emperor to locate the eastern residence.
• More than a dozen cultivators surrounded Gu Yi and the women as they emerged, demanding their treasures, so Gu Yi killed them with the cloak and bell.
• Gu Yi took the cultivators’ Storage Rings and belongings, then prepared to continue toward the other lords’ residences.

Gu Yi and his companions uncovered the third Venerable Lord's Mansion beneath a golden desert, revealing a sealed pool of powerful dragon bloodline energy. He let Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Tang Youyou absorb its power first while he stood guard, hoping the bloodline might especially transform Qing Lin's abilities.

• Gu Xiao found another Venerable Lord's Mansion, defeated the rivals there, and claimed the Yinsha Gourd, a low-grade Saint Artifact with powerful spatial flight abilities.
• Gu Yi used the Flame Emperor's compass to lead Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Tang Youyou into the desert and locate the third Venerable Lord's Mansion beneath the sand.
• Gu Yi released his Blood Martial Soul and broke the thousand-year-old seal protecting a golden pool filled with dragon bloodline power.
• Gu Yi urged Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Tang Youyou to enter the pool first so they could strengthen themselves while he guarded them.
• As the three women absorbed the pool's energy, Gu Yi hoped its dragon bloodline would help Qing Lin's Snake Martial Soul and Jade-Green Snake Three-Flower Pupils evolve.

Gu Yi defended the Venerable Lord’s blood pool from the major factions, then absorbed its remaining energy with the Blood Soul Spear and Blood Soul Pearl. After the pool dried up, he emerged with a powerful aura and thirty-six golden halos behind him.

• Gu Yi killed intruders who approached within fifty zhang of the blood pool and later annihilated a group of forty or fifty Profound Martial Realm experts with one strike.
• Yu Tianji, Ao Jiao, Huang Feng, Di Ling, and the geniuses of their factions attacked Gu Yi, but his bell and the blood pool’s power defeated them, forcing the survivors to flee.
• Lin Feng and Jun Moxi arrived, congratulated Gu Yi, and left to search for the final Venerable Lord’s Mansion without asking for the blood pool.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Tang Youyou, and Qing Lin emerged from the pool with improved strength and treasures, and Gu Yi traded golden gloves for Tang Youyou’s Dragon Axe.
• Gu Yi entered the blood pool and used his Devouring Intent Realm, Blood Soul Spear, and Blood Soul Pearl to absorb its energy.
• After a day, the blood pool dried up, and Gu Yi opened his eyes with thirty-six golden halos shining behind him.

Gu Yi and his companions reached the plain where the Small World's Dragon Veins converged as the Jade Emperor Palace emerged and the world began to collapse. Gu Yi found the palace's safe entrance, and as they entered, Huangfu Long and others tried to hold its closing jaws open for the people still outside.

• Gu Yi absorbed part of the blood pool's power, strengthening his Blood and Bone Martial Souls, then set out with Xiao Yi Xian, Tang Youyou, and Qing Lin for the region between the four Venerable Lord's Mansions.
• Huang Feng and the Jade Emperor Royal Clan used their bloodline power and Imperial Qi to draw the Jade Emperor Palace from its sealed space, triggering the Small World's destruction.
• Gu Yi and his companions reached the palace first, and Gu Yi used Blood Shadow Avatars to identify the fifth of its nine dragon-mouth entrances as the safe passage.
• Gu Yi called Lin Feng, Jun Moxi, Gu Xiao, and members of the Divine Palace to follow him into the palace as the Jade Emperor Royal Clan entered and the passage began to close.
• Huangfu Long held the dragon's jaws apart so the people outside could enter, while Lin Feng, Jun Moxi, and others turned back to help him.

Lin Feng and his companions entered Jade Emperor Palace, searched its ruined halls, and discovered the Dao Seeking Hall with statues honoring four legendary experts. Lin Feng and Gu Xiao stayed behind to study the statues while Gu Yi and the others continued exploring the palace.

• Lin Feng, Huangfu Long, and the others helped hold the fifth dragon mouth open until it shut and sealed the survivors inside Jade Emperor Palace.
• The group explored the ruined palace, where the crowd gathered Intent Realm Crystals and discovered Essence Crystals, powerful materials, artifacts, and inscriptions.
• Gu Yi and his companions found the intact Dao Seeking Hall and entered it, where four statues and inscriptions revealed the histories of the Lawless Sword Emperor, Emperor Xi, the Three Lives Great Emperor, and the Demon Empress.
• Lin Feng's Sword Dao Intent Realm surged toward the Lawless Sword Emperor's statue and vanished, while Gu Xiao's spear qi clashed with its sword qi.
• Gu Yi and the others left to search the palace, while Lin Feng and Gu Xiao remained to study the statues and began cultivating in the hall.

Gu Yi and his companions crossed the Bridge of Profound Truths and reached the Jade Emperor Hall, where the Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace prepared to fight them for its treasures. Huang Feng and Ao Jiao ambushed Gu Yi with powerful artifacts, but his body shrugged off their attacks.

• Gu Yi, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Jun Moxi, and Tang Youyou crossed the Bridge of Profound Truths using divine power and supreme qi.
• Gu Yi and his companions reached the Jade Emperor Hall, where Huang Feng and Ao Jiao's forces faced off outside its damaged golden gate.
• Huang Feng and Ao Jiao agreed to enter the hall together after Gu Yi's approach threatened their chance to claim its treasures.
• Inside the hall, Ao Jiao used the Sea Stabilizing Pearl to hinder Gu Yi's group while Huang Feng attacked with the Pseudo-Jade Emperor Crown and their forces joined in.
• Gu Yi broke free of the pearl's restraint, shielded his companions, and repelled the crown and the attackers' barrage without being seriously harmed.

Gu Yi withstood the Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace’s attacks, defeated and captured their fighters, and entered the Jade Emperor’s Inner Hall after Huang Feng fled inside to claim the inheritance. Huang Feng’s ritual failed to summon the inheritance, and he surrendered to Gu Yi as the chapter ended.

• Huang Feng urged the Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace to attack Gu Yi again, then opened the Inner Hall doors with his map and slipped inside alone.
• Gu Yi dissolved the attackers’ blows with his lightning-charged body while Huang Feng’s allies tried to flee or seize his companions.
• Huang Feng found the Jade Emperor’s preserved body and performed the prescribed ritual, but the inheritance did not appear.
• Gu Yi and his group broke into the Inner Hall after defeating the Jade Emperor Royal Clan and East Sea Dragon Palace, leaving many dead and the survivors captured.
• Gu Yi demanded that Huang Feng surrender or die, and Huang Feng removed his crown and admitted defeat.

Gu Yi learned that the Jade Emperor's inheritance was bound to his heart and began refining it, triggering the emperor's lingering imprint. Lin Feng recognized the Chinese writing on the wall as he arrived, while Gu Yi's companions fought off those trying to seize the inheritance.

• After Huang Feng surrendered, Gu Yi sealed his cultivation and gave the imitation Jade Emperor Crown to Jun Moxi.
• Gu Yi read the Demon Empress's Chinese inscription and learned that the Jade Emperor's heart contained the inheritance and control of the Jade Emperor Palace.
• Gu Yi mastered the refinement secret art and asked Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Tang Youyou, and Jun Moxi to guard him as he reached into the Jade Emperor's corpse.
• Lin Feng and Gu Xiao arrived with other cultivators; Lin Feng recognized the Chinese characters on the wall, while Gu Yi pierced the Jade Emperor's body and grasped his heart.
• The Jade Emperor's imprint attacked Gu Yi's soul, but Gu Yi resisted and continued refining the heart as Yu Tianji, Kong Jiuye, Gu Qianqiu, and others tried to stop him and seize it.