Chapter Summaries

The Earth God Sect launched a surprise attack on Danxia Sect from three directions while Zhuge Tao coordinated the sect’s defense. As Danxia Sect’s ancestors sought help from Cloud Sun Sect, Zhuifeng chose to strike the Earth God Sect instead, while Qingqiu’s avatar fled after sensing danger.

• True Person Wu You, True Person Dand Ding, and True Person Tianle attacked Danxia Sect’s formation from the south, north, and west as Zhuge Tao rallied its defenders.
• Zhuge Tao contacted True Person Mingxiao and True Person Tong Ji, who realized that three Earth God Sect Nascent Soul cultivators were assaulting the sect.
• Mingxiao urgently asked Cloud Sun Sect’s Zhuifeng and Qingqiu for support.
• Zhuifeng refused to leave Fengyuan City and decided to counterattack the Earth God Sect rather than reinforce Danxia Sect.
• Qingqiu recalled the Golden Core cultivator who had killed her avatar, sensed danger, and sent her avatar retreating with most of her valuables.

As Danxia Sect came under a renewed assault, Han Yuan ambushed its disciples as they fled the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, using his strengthened Fire Domain to kill them at the entrance. He discovered a jade slip containing teleportation formation locations and incantations among the spoils.

• Ancestor Zhuifeng and Ancestor Qingqiu decided not to attack Earth God Sect first and discussed seeking help from Hidden Sword Sect and True Evolution Sect.
• True Person Mingxiao and True Person Tong Ji learned that another Nascent Soul True Person was attacking Danxia Sect and that its formation was weakening, so they headed for a secret teleportation formation.
• Danxia Sect disciples in the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm received word of the attack and rushed toward the exit while Han Yuan continued cultivating nearby.
• Han Yuan killed the first late Golden Core cultivator to emerge with his Fire Domain, then refined his control to preserve another cultivator's robes.
• Han Yuan slaughtered the Danxia Sect disciples streaming from the secret realm and found a jade slip with teleportation formation locations and incantations.

Ancestor Mingxiao and Ancestor Tongji returned to the Danxia Sect as the Earth God Sect's four ancestors attacked its weakened formation. After discovering the sect's spiritual veins were drained and their escape route had failed, they faced the invading enemies.

• Ancestor Mingxiao and Ancestor Tongji arrived at the Danxia Sect and took control of its Mountain Protecting Grand Formation.
• True Person Jiu Feng identified the formation's weak points and directed the Earth God Sect's ancestors to attack them.
• True Person Mingxiao and True Person Tongji tried to unleash the formation's offensive power, but its earth-vein energy and spiritual energy ran out.
• True Person Mingxiao discovered that the spiritual veins beneath the sect had been drained, so he and True Person Tongji gathered promising cultivators and emptied the treasure vault to flee.
• The teleportation formation failed, the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation broke, and the Earth God Sect's four ancestors stormed into the sect.

Han Yuan slaughtered the Danxia Sect cultivators leaving the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm, then used a disguise to infiltrate the sect’s secret teleportation outposts. He disabled every external Space Teleportation Array and ended up in Cloud Sun Sect territory.

• Han Yuan killed the Danxia Sect cultivators emerging from the Hundred Herbs Secret Realm and collected their robes, Storage Pouches, and other treasures.
• Han Yuan used Wind Escape to reach a secret outpost, disguised himself as Elder Baifan, and convinced its five Foundation Establishment guards to let him in.
• Han Yuan killed the guards, teleported to the next outpost, and destroyed each array behind him with delayed-explosion talismans.
• Han Yuan repeated the process across four outposts, then removed the final Space Teleportation Array along with the ground beneath it.
• Han Yuan checked his map and realized the last outpost stood in Cloud Sun Sect territory.

Cloud Sun Sect attacked Earth God Sect’s cities to draw its Nascent Soul ancestors out, while Ancestor Qingqiu led a siege on Tiantu City. Ancestor Ziyun teleported there to protect the city and pursued Qingqiu, ending with her retreating from his attack.

• Ancestor Zhuifeng and True Person Qingqiu decided to attack Earth God Sect after learning that its four Nascent Souls had appeared outside Danxia Sect.
• Cloud Sun Sect’s forces advanced against Earth God Sect, and Ancestor Ziyun appeared above the battlefield outside Tianhong City.
• True Person Qingqiu led Cloud Sun Sect’s army against Tiantu City, where Sun Hongju and the city’s cultivators defended its formation.
• Qingqiu’s attacks drained the defenders’ strength, and her Sky-Covering Claw left the formation close to breaking.
• Ancestor Ziyun teleported from Tianhong City to Tiantu City and flew out to confront Qingqiu.
• Ancestor Ziyun pursued Qingqiu as she retreated and threatened to leave her life behind.

Ancestor Ziyun pursued and killed Ancestor Qingqiu after overwhelming her with his speed and swordsmanship. He left the approaching Zhuifeng as his next target.

• Ancestor Ziyun's Purple Sword pierced Qingqiu's wooden decoy, then battered her defenses and drained her life force.
• Ancestor Qingqiu used two Spatial Teleportation Talismans to escape and called Zhuifeng for help.
• Ancestor Ziyun tracked Qingqiu as she fled toward Zhuifeng, secretly holding back while waiting for them to meet.
• Ancestor Ziyun used Jianmu Town-Space to freeze Qingqiu in midair and killed her with the Purple Sword.
• Ancestor Qingqiu told the approaching Zhuifeng to take care of himself before her Nascent Soul scattered.

Ancestor Ziyun drove Ancestor Zhuifeng to abandon his body and flee as a Nascent Soul, while Han Yuan encountered Zhuifeng’s fleeing spirit. The chapter left Zhuifeng poised to seize Han Yuan’s exceptional spirit body.

• Ancestor Zhuifeng fled from Ancestor Ziyun, but the Purple Sword slowed him and Jianmu Town-Space suppressed his movement and blocked his Spatial Teleportation Talisman.
• Ancestor Zhuifeng released his Nascent Soul, gathered his treasures, and escaped at great speed, leaving his body and shield behind.
• Ancestor Ziyun continued toward Fengyuan City and declared that Cloud Sun Sect would be destroyed without a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator to defend it.
• Han Yuan relaxed beneath a waterfall, then noticed a streak of light pass overhead and tried to hide.
• Ancestor Zhuifeng’s Nascent Soul returned and recognized Han Yuan as a powerful spirit body, celebrating the chance to seize it and pursue greater cultivation.

Han Yuan defeated Ancestor Zhuifeng when the Nascent Soul cultivator tried to seize his body, then learned that Zhuifeng’s cultivation method made him vulnerable to the Jianmu Immortal Codex. After killing him and taking his treasures, Han Yuan realized the Cloud Sun Sect’s vault might be unguarded and decided to seize its wealth.

• Ancestor Zhuifeng entered Han Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness to seize his body, but Han Yuan froze him with a word.
• Han Yuan recognized that Zhuifeng had practiced the pseudo-Nascent Soul Divine Wood Immortal Scripture and learned that the Jianmu Immortal Codex gave him control over Zhuifeng.
• Han Yuan contacted Ancestor Ziyun, who said he had killed True Person Qingqiu and destroyed True Person Zhu Feng’s body, and warned Han Yuan not to reveal the False God Technique.
• Han Yuan used the Green Wood Primordial Spirit Chapter to destroy Zhuifeng’s consciousness, turning his Nascent Soul into a mass of pure energy.
• Han Yuan took Zhuifeng’s Storage Ring and decided to raid the Cloud Sun Sect’s treasure vault while its Nascent Soul cultivators were gone.

Han Yuan disguised himself as True Person Zhu Feng and tricked Cloud Sun Sect into evacuating its treasures. After True Person Qingqiu returned, he killed her, leaving the sect’s fate uncertain.

• Han Yuan used the Zhu Feng Great Pill’s power and a Supreme Elder Jade Talisman to impersonate Zhu Feng and enter Cloud Sun Sect.
• Han Yuan told the sect that Qingqiu had fallen and ordered everyone to gather the treasures and prepare to flee.
• True Person Qingqiu arrived in a weakened Golden Core avatar and found the sect packing its belongings.
• Qingqiu and Han Yuan went to the back mountain to discuss the sect’s future, and Qingqiu agreed to become Zhu Feng’s Dao companion.
• Han Yuan revealed his true appearance and killed Qingqiu with a sword strike to her brow.

After disguising himself as Ancestor Zhuifeng, Han Yuan gathered the Cloud Sun Sect’s supplies and evacuated fifty thousand cultivators, then contacted Ancestor Ziyun to take custody of them. While Han Yuan waited for Ancestor Ziyun, pillars of light formed a cage around the flying boat, trapping everyone inside.

• Han Yuan discovered the Primordial Wood Secret Realm beneath the cave and decided to wait for Ancestor to scout it before entering.
• Han Yuan collected the Cloud Sun Sect’s supplies, assembled its cultivators, and loaded them onto a flying boat.
• Han Yuan flew away from the Cloud Sun Sect and secretly asked Ancestor Ziyun to take the captured cultivators.
• After Han Yuan waited for two hours without Ancestor Ziyun arriving, pillars of light surrounded the flying boat and formed an enormous cage.

After the Cloud Sun Sect surrendered to the Earth God Sect, Han Yuan revealed the Primordial Wood Secret Realm and helped Ancestor Ziyun investigate its connection to True Monarch Yuanmu. The ancestors gathered at the secret realm entrance, but the token activated and transported everyone inside before they could decide who would enter.

• Han Yuan persuaded the Cloud Sun Sect disciples to surrender, and Ancestor Ziyun promised them places in the Earth God Sect with a shortened three-year waiting period.
• Han Yuan told Ancestor Ziyun about the Primordial Wood Secret Realm, and Ziyun suspected it had belonged to True Monarch Yuanmu, a Void Comprehension Realm expert who once unified the Northern Yuan Continent.
• Han Yuan and Ziyun searched the Cloud Sun Sect's records for information about Yuanmu, then Han Yuan used his teleportation formation to bring Wu You, Tianle, Dand Ding, and Jiu Feng to them.
• Han Yuan led the ancestors to the secret realm entrance and handed Ziyun the secret realm token; as the ancestors debated who should scout ahead, the token glowed and transported them all away.

Han Yuan and five Nascent Soul cultivators arrived at the gravity-suppressed Primordial Wood Secret Realm, where Monarch Yuanmu’s message revealed that clearing the first stage was required to leave. As the others adapted to the crushing gravity, Han Yuan used his spirit artifacts to endure and temper his body, and the group waited for him before attempting the trial.

• Han Yuan and the others emerged onto a plaza surrounded by bottomless void and iron chains, where immense gravity and a lack of spiritual energy hindered them.
• Person Jiu Feng identified the secret realm’s gravity array as at least sixth rank, and Ancestor Ziyun read Monarch Yuanmu’s message requiring entrants to clear the first stage to leave without taking a reward.
• The group discovered that Han Yuan could stand while the Nascent Soul experts struggled, and he attributed his unusual resilience vaguely to his constitution.
• Han Yuan reduced his spirit artifacts’ protection to let the gravity temper his body, while their power repaired the resulting damage.
• After half an hour, the Nascent Soul experts could walk freely, but Han Yuan was still enduring the gravity as Person Tianle encouraged him to complete the trial.

Han Yuan and the other cultivators adapted to the secret realm’s crushing gravity before testing the iron-chain bridge. After Tianle wondered whether Han Yuan had been taken over by an old monster, Ancestor Ziyun began to suspect that Han Yuan’s identity might be connected to Zhu Feng.

• Han Yuan’s body grew strong enough to walk under the gravity, and a fivefold training buff secretly boosted his progress further.
• After five more days of training, Wu You crossed the iron chain and reported that the fog concealed a second platform about two hundred meters away.
• Han Yuan crossed safely, unaffected by the abyss beneath the bridge.
• Jiu Feng nearly lost his balance after looking into the abyss, but he steadied himself and crossed while hiding his fright from the others.
• Tianle remarked on Han Yuan’s unusually steady mind and wondered whether an old monster had taken over his body, prompting Ancestor Ziyun to question whether Han Yuan or Zhu Feng was disguised as the other.

Han Yuan led the group through a maze that distorted everyone’s sense of direction, and they reached a plaza with stronger gravity. On their next crossing, a strange black bird appeared in the mist.

• The group realized the plaza maze had scrambled their sense of direction, while Han Yuan remained unaffected and volunteered to guide them.
• Han Yuan led the group across the opposite diagonal bridge, and they reached a plaza where gravity had increased by ten percent.
• The group adapted to the stronger gravity for five hours while Han Yuan continued strengthening his foundation and soul.
• Han Yuan identified the next bridge, and the group crossed in the same order as before.
• A strange bird with pitch-black feathers flew toward the group as they entered the mist.

The group reached the fourth plaza and practiced fighting under its extreme gravity, while Ancestor Ziyun and True Person Wu You secretly watched Han Yuan for signs of Body Seizure. Han Yuan and True Person Tianle began sparring, and after Tianle overwhelmed his Sword Pill with her water-element Minor Divine Ability, Han Yuan unleashed a heavily enhanced fire attack.

• True Person Wu You paralyzed the Black Bird with his Thunder Sword, allowing the group to cross the Iron Chain Bridge and reach the fourth plaza.
• True Person Wu You proposed that the group split into pairs and practice fighting under the extreme gravity.
• Han Yuan's Sword Pill shattered True Person Tianle's ice sword, but her Roaring Waves pressed the Sword Pill to the ground.
• True Person Tianle explained how Minor Divine Ability power was measured and strengthened by intent and the gravity environment.
• Han Yuan used Five Elements Conversion, Fire Domain, and Spirit Script to send enhanced waves of flame toward True Person Tianle.

Han Yuan’s unexpectedly powerful fire spells forced True Person Tianle to rely on her Natal Magic Treasure to win their duel, and the group resumed clearing the trial. They encountered five Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators who extorted Spirit Stones from them, then retreated to their original plaza, where Han Yuan asked Ancestor Ziyun if he wanted revenge.

• Han Yuan’s Fire Waves nearly overwhelmed True Person Tianle’s Water Wave, but she used her Jade Ruyi to defeat him, while both fighters recognized the other’s strength.
• Ancestor Ziyun and the other Nascent Soul True Persons wondered about Han Yuan’s origins, then the six resumed clearing the trial under Special Gravity.
• After crossing the mist on the Iron Chain Bridge, Han Yuan’s group found five Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators on the far plaza, who threatened them unless each paid one hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• True Person Wu You gathered six hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones and gave them to the five cultivators after they swore not to attack.
• Han Yuan’s group returned to their original plaza, where True Person Dand Ding offered restorative pills and Han Yuan asked Ancestor Ziyun whether he wanted revenge.

Han Yuan led the group around the plazas to ambush five Nascent Soul cultivators, while True Person Jiu Feng prepared a powerful formation. The five entered the concealed trap, and their expressions changed in alarm.

• Han Yuan realized he could use the Iron Chain Bridges to bypass the plaza and reach the route the five cultivators planned to take.
• Han Yuan guided the group across two plazas, where they chose a plaza to wait for their targets.
• True Person Jiu Feng set up several fourth-rank formations, combining them into a powerful concealed killing formation.
• The five Nascent Soul cultivators rested, then resumed their journey without suspecting an ambush.
• True Person Wu You spotted their approach, and the group concealed themselves as the five entered the formation.

Han Yuan and five companions ambushed and captured five Nascent Souls, then questioned True Person Songmu about the Primordial Wood Secret Realm. Songmu identified two powerful cultivators and described the first three trials, while Han Yuan learned that the realm opened twenty years ago as well.

• Han Yuan, True Person Wu You, Ancestor Ziyun, True Person Tianle, True Person Jiu Feng, and True Person Dand Ding overwhelmed five cultivators with overlapping formations and bound their Nascent Souls.
• True Person Wu You threatened the prisoners with entrapment in the soul formation, and Han Yuan recognized True Person Mingxiao among its Ghost Kings.
• True Person Jiu Feng separated the five prisoners and assigned one to Han Yuan for questioning.
• True Person Songmu told Han Yuan that Old Man Ajiu and Sword Master Cangjian were powerful cultivators who had entered the Primordial Wood Secret Realm.
• Han Yuan learned that the realm opened once every hundred years and that its first three trials were the Suspended Iron Chain Bridge, Furious Wind God Valley, and Endless Puppet Mountain.

Han Yuan and the five True Persons planned a systematic search of the Suspended Iron Chain Bridge and used his Directional Sense to reach a likely endpoint. They found a Space Gate beyond the mist, but detected cultivators lying in wait on the platform ahead.

• True Person Songmu explained the bridge's shifting gravity, dangerous platforms, and changing Iron Chain Bridges, and True Person Wu You released the six prisoners' Nascent Souls as promised.
• The group debated how to find the endpoint, and Han Yuan proposed searching outward in rings from the starting point after reaching the platform eighteen steps away.
• True Person Wu You ordered the group to rest and dismantle their formation before they resumed crossing the bridge.
• The six avoided the more dangerous platforms and reached the position eighteen platforms from their starting point without meeting other cultivators.
• True Person Wu You spotted a Space Gate beyond the mist but stopped the group to check for an ambush, and True Person Jiu Feng confirmed enemies had set up a formation on the endpoint platform.

Han Yuan and the others decided to wait out the hidden enemies rather than risk crossing the Iron Chain Bridge, while True Person Jiu Feng introduced Han Yuan to the basics of formations. Han Yuan studied the Yin-Yang Transformation Deduction Method and the Formation Primer, leaving True Person Jiu Feng curious about how quickly he would learn.

• True Person Wu You proposed stalling until the people guarding the platform left, and the others agreed it was the safest plan.
• True Person Wu You told everyone to cultivate while True Person Jiu Feng set up more formations.
• Han Yuan began reading a formation primer, and True Person Jiu Feng offered to teach him about formations.
• True Person Jiu Feng explained that formation study required numerical deduction and gave Han Yuan the Yin-Yang Transformation Deduction Method.
• Han Yuan studied the deduction method and learned how Spirit Scripts could help calculate formation arrangements.