Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiwen encountered Wei Mingyang on the ancient battlefield in the Dao Kong Mountains, where Wei Mingyang sought revenge after gaining power from his hatred. Ye Xiwen defeated him again with one punch, leaving Wei Mingyang shocked and wounded.

• Ye Xiwen entered the battlefield and saw the cities and factions established throughout the Dao Kong Mountains.
• Wei Mingyang recognized Ye Xiwen and revealed his desire to kill him to overcome the inner demons formed by his earlier defeat.
• Wei Mingyang attacked Ye Xiwen with the Eight Stars Breaking Emperor Blade, but Ye Xiwen met his strike with the Great Extinction Star Dust Fist.
• Ye Mo warned Ye Xiwen that Wei Mingyang had turned his hatred into strength, which could either benefit or destroy him.
• Ye Xiwen broke Wei Mingyang's blade intent with a punch and sent him crashing into a crater, defeating him again.

Ye Xiwen escaped Wei Mingyang and the Eight Stars Pavilion experts after their Grand Elder overwhelmed him in battle. He fled through the corrosive jade-green miasma and spotted the Yellow Springs ahead, leaving his pursuers close behind.

• The Eight Stars Pavilion Grand Elder awakened Wei Mingyang from his despair and urged him to kill Ye Xiwen to overcome his inner demon.
• The Grand Elder attacked Ye Xiwen with a storm of blade qi, but Ye Xiwen escaped using his Demon Wings and fled.
• Wei Mingyang and more than a dozen Transcendent Realm experts pursued Ye Xiwen into the jade-green miasma.
• Ye Xiwen outran the pursuing Eight Stars Shuttle with help from the dragon vein in his Heavenly Origin Mirror, while the Grand Elder expected the chase to exhaust him.
• Ye Xiwen heard water ahead and saw the Yellow Springs through the miasma.

Ye Xiwen found three Other Shore Flowers growing on corpses in a vast Yellow Springs Lake and learned they contained the essence of powerful dead experts. After he seized two flowers, Eight Stars Pavilion and White Sun Sect arrived and prepared to fight over the last one.

• Ye Xiwen discovered three Other Shore Flowers floating on the Yellow Springs Lake and pulled one from a corpse that sprang to life, then knocked the corpse back into the water.
• Ye Mo explained that each flower contained the essence of the corpse it grew upon, and Ye Xiwen seized a second flower from another Transcendent Realm corpse that had become a zombie.
• The Grand Elder of Eight Stars Pavilion recognized the flowers and sent Wei Mingyang to seize the remaining one while the others watched Ye Xiwen.
• Fu Buping and more than a dozen White Sun Sect experts arrived, and Fu Buping demanded that Eight Stars Pavilion leave the last flower to his sect.
• The Grand Elder of Eight Stars Pavilion refused to yield the flower, and the rival groups faced off over it.

Ye Xiwen distracted Wei Mingyang while he reached for the Other Shore Flower, allowing a Transcendent Realm zombie to ambush and poison him. The Eight Stars Pavilion killed the zombie and suppressed Wei Mingyang's corpse poison, while new arrivals announced themselves overhead.

• The Eight Stars Pavilion and White Sun Sect fought over the Other Shore Flower as Wei Mingyang reached to seize it.
• Ye Xiwen attacked Wei Mingyang, distracting him long enough for a zombie to burst from Yellow Springs Lake and wound him with corpse poison.
• The Grand Elder of the Eight Stars Pavilion killed the zombie and had his people suppress Wei Mingyang's poison.
• Ye Xiwen denied causing the ambush, while the White Sun Sect laughed and the Eight Stars Pavilion accused him of distracting Wei Mingyang.
• Fu Buping recognized Ye Xiwen, but two newcomers arrived and asked whether the groups had found a treasure.

Ye Xiwen’s true self broke into the Half-Step Transcendent Realm while his Star Colossus Avatar faced three hostile factions. Just as Ye Xiwen prepared to flee, more Other Shore Flowers rose from Yellow Springs Lake, suggesting that it held a vast supply of the rare flowers.

• The Tianwu Gate and Flying Star Gate groups joined Eight Stars Pavilion in targeting Ye Xiwen, while White Sun Sect refused to take either side.
• Ye Xiwen absorbed the refined energy of an Other Shore Flower and used Spirit Origin Pills to fuel repeated assaults on his cultivation barrier.
• Ye Xiwen’s true self finally entered the Half-Step Transcendent Realm, then checked on the stalemate facing his Star Colossus Avatar.
• Several Other Shore Flowers surfaced and bloomed in Yellow Springs Lake, drawing the factions’ attention and revealing that more might lie beneath the water.
• Ye Xiwen realized the lake could contain a vast sea of flowers growing on the corpses of dead experts and considered the fortune they represented.

Ye Xiwen and the other factions plunged into Yellow Springs Lake to gather the abundant Other Shore Flowers, while Ye Xiwen fought the zombies guarding them. He discovered the flowers grew from the Corpse Cores of the dead and, after taking one from a Remnant Race corpse, faced its furious attack.

• Fu Buping led the White Sun Sect into Yellow Springs Lake, and the other factions followed to gather Other Shore Flowers instead of pursuing Ye Xiwen.
• Ye Xiwen seized five flowers floating on the lake, then entered the water with six in his possession besides the one he had consumed.
• At the lakebed, Ye Xiwen defeated the zombies he had knocked into the water and found they lacked Corpse Cores.
• Ye Mo suggested the Corpse Cores had nourished the Other Shore Flowers, and Ye Xiwen saw a flower blooming atop a rising Remnant Race corpse.
• Ye Xiwen snatched the flower, awakening the four-armed Remnant Race zombie, which recognized him as human and attacked with a barrage of punches.

Ye Xiwen fought off zombies on the Yellow Springs Lake bed, collected Other Shore Flowers, and uncovered evidence that the flowers stored the zombies’ strength. The chapter ended with Ye Mo warning that the scent of the living was awakening the lake’s dormant corpses.

• Ye Xiwen used the Heavenly Origin Mirror and his fist technique to destroy a powerful Remnant Race zombie, while Ye Mo explained how Other Shore Flowers and Corpse Cores cycled energy between the flowers and the undead.
• Ye Xiwen found countless corpses on the lakebed and reasoned that the Other Shore Flowers might have been planted to create a future undead calamity.
• Ye Xiwen gathered more than a dozen Other Shore Flowers as the foreign overlords’ forces fought zombies and watched his movements.
• The Eight Stars Pavilion Grand Elder dismissed Ye Xiwen as doomed and focused on collecting flowers before killing him and taking his gains.
• A zombie whose Other Shore Flower had not been taken awakened and attacked Ye Xiwen, who eventually destroyed it.
• Ye Mo scanned the lakebed with the Heavenly Origin Mirror and warned Ye Xiwen that the living visitors’ scent was causing dormant zombies to awaken.

Ye Xiwen escaped Yellow Springs Lake before a formation sealed it and cultivated with the Other Shore Flowers while the four powers’ experts fought the zombies below. After half a day, the battered survivors fled the lake, and the Star Colossus Avatar emerged from its cocoon as Ye Xiwen prepared to confront them.

• The four powers’ experts fought the awakened zombies, still trying to protect the Other Shore Flowers, while more corpses rose from the lake bottom.
• Ye Xiwen escaped the lake just before a formation sealed it, then withdrew to a nearby hill to cultivate with his Star Colossus Avatar and guard the area with his true body.
• Ye Xiwen’s Star Colossus Avatar absorbed the Other Shore Flowers, steadily increasing its cultivation as Ye Xiwen waited for it to break through.
• After half a day, Fu Buping, the elders of the four powers, Ran Chengtian, Wei Mingyang, and other battered survivors burst out of the lake while more than a hundred zombies pursued them to the shore.
• The Star Colossus Avatar’s cocoon shattered, and Ye Xiwen declared that the survivors’ good fortune had ended.

Ye Xiwen confronted the surviving experts from Eight Stars Pavilion, Flying Star Gate, and Tianwu Gate, revealing thirty Other Shore Flowers and challenging them to take them. He fought the Grand Elder of Eight Stars Pavilion after Fu Buping withdrew with the White Sun Sect, and the chapter left the battle raging as Ye Xiwen gained the upper hand.

• Ye Xiwen appeared before the surviving experts and showed them thirty Other Shore Flowers, drawing their greedy attention.
• Fu Buping led the White Sun Sect away, warning his companions that Ye Xiwen must have prepared a trump card.
• The Grand Elder of Eight Stars Pavilion attacked Ye Xiwen with his blade, but Ye Xiwen shattered the blade shadows with the Great Extinction Star Dust Fist.
• Ye Xiwen rushed the Grand Elder and launched a relentless assault, while the other experts watched in disbelief at his newfound strength.

Ye Xiwen overwhelmed the Grand Elder of Eight Stars Pavilion and killed him, leaving Wei Mingyang and the remaining experts facing a ruthless opponent. He declared that none of them would leave the Ancient Battlefield alive.

• The Grand Elder of Eight Stars Pavilion grew exhausted as Ye Xiwen’s relentless attacks drained his strength.
• Ye Xiwen and the Grand Elder clashed in a final exchange, and Ye Xiwen shattered the elder’s blade light and sent his Transcendent Artifact longsword flying.
• Ye Xiwen crushed the Grand Elder’s attack in one move, leaving him bloodied and kneeling on the ground.
• Ye Xiwen blocked Wei Mingyang and another Eight Stars Pavilion expert with a blood-colored barrier, then punched the Grand Elder’s body apart.
• Wei Mingyang protested that Eight Stars Pavilion would retaliate, but Ye Xiwen said none of them would leave; an elder of the Flying Star Gate challenged his confidence.

Ye Xiwen overwhelmed the allied experts from Tianwu Gate, Flying Star Gate, and Eight Stars Pavilion, killing several and gravely injuring their elders. As Ran Chengtian and Wei Mingyang faced a chance to escape, Ye Xiwen unleashed an ancient mirror’s devastating beam at them and their protectors.

• A Tianwu Gate expert attacked Ye Xiwen, but Ye Xiwen blocked his strike and killed him with a single punch.
• Ye Xiwen broke through a Tianwu Gate elder’s attack and gravely wounded him, then tore through the Flying Star Gate elder’s starlight net and smashed him apart.
• Three Flying Star Gate experts charged Ye Xiwen, and he blasted all three apart.
• The remaining Tianwu Gate and Eight Stars Pavilion experts urged Ran Chengtian and Wei Mingyang to flee while they held Ye Xiwen back.
• Ye Xiwen summoned an ancient mirror that absorbed the slain Transcendent experts’ blood essence and fired a powerful beam at the four remaining opponents.

After killing the experts of the three great hegemonic powers, Ye Xiwen became the target of a joint bounty that stirred up the Ancient Battlefield. Ten Fiends of Shadow Gorge confronted him for the reward, and Ye Xiwen prepared to kill them.

• Ye Xiwen took the Other Shore Flowers from the fallen experts and fled the zombie-infested area.
• News spread that Ye Xiwen had slain the surviving experts of the three great hegemonic powers, prompting the powers to issue a joint kill order.
• True Martial School warned that anyone seeking the bounty would become its enemy, but countless cultivators still pursued Ye Xiwen.
• Ten Fiends of Shadow Gorge found Ye Xiwen after he killed ghosts in a mountain range and declared that they had come for the bounty.
• Ye Xiwen dismissed the Ten Fiends' confidence and said he would kill them to answer for their crimes, enraging the brothers.

Ye Xiwen swiftly killed all ten members of the Ten Fiends of Shadow Gorge, demonstrating overwhelming strength and speed. News of the slaughter spread across the Ancient Battlefield, and the three great overlords tripled the bounty on his capture, stirring his pursuers back into action.

• Ye Xiwen attacked the Ten Fiends of Shadow Gorge and killed their leader with two swift sword strikes.
• Ye Xiwen killed the remaining nine members of the Ten Fiends of Shadow Gorge, wiping out the group.
• News of the massacre spread, and independent cultivators who feared Ye Xiwen abandoned their pursuit.
• The three great overlords tripled their bounty on Ye Xiwen, prompting some former pursuers to become restless again.

After repeated assassination attempts, Ye Xiwen decided to strike back at the hegemonic powers instead of letting them keep him trapped in the Ancient Battlefield. He arrived at the Eight Stars Pavilion stronghold and challenged its experts, leaving the gathered warriors to recognize him and wonder at his audacity.

• Ye Xiwen endured thirteen ambushes in a month and killed more than thirty-seven independent cultivators, establishing his strength among the Ancient Battlefield’s strongest.
• Ye Mo urged Ye Xiwen to attack the hegemonic powers’ strongholds, arguing that their depleted forces could not safely retaliate against the True Martial School.
• Ye Xiwen agreed to take the fight to his enemies and chose the Eight Stars Pavilion stronghold as his target.
• Ye Xiwen approached the Eight Stars Pavilion’s city and shouted for its members to come out and die.
• Warriors gathered near the stronghold debated whether the azure-clad challenger was Ye Xiwen and criticized or praised his willingness to confront the hegemonic power.

Ye Xiwen and Little Wolf attacked the Eight Stars Pavilion, where Ye Xiwen slaughtered its Great Saint defenders and declared he would uproot the entire organization. After entering the city, Ye Xiwen left a Half-Step Transcendent Realm expert for Little Wolf to fight.

• Ye Xiwen charged into the Eight Stars Pavilion’s city and killed a Great Saint who attacked him, despite the defenders’ battle array.
• Ye Xiwen cut down all the Great Saint experts as Little Wolf complained that he had not been left anyone to fight.
• Ye Xiwen declared that he would not leave until he had uprooted the Eight Stars Pavilion, and he entered the city with Little Wolf.
• A Half-Step Transcendent Realm expert attacked Ye Xiwen, who effortlessly destroyed his blade light and offered him to Little Wolf as an opponent.
• Little Wolf eagerly charged the expert, who grew furious at being treated as an easy opponent.

Ye Xiwen fought his way into Eight Stars Pavilion and confronted its Old Sect Master, while Little Wolf battled a Half-Step Transcendent Realm Late Stage expert behind him. Ye Xiwen defeated and killed the Pavilion’s ancient leader, leaving the watching crowd stunned.

• Little Wolf injured the Half-Step Transcendent Realm Late Stage expert with a beam of light as Ye Xiwen charged into the Inner City.
• Eight Stars Pavilion’s Old Sect Master arrived and threatened Ye Xiwen, who mocked the Pavilion and vowed to uproot it.
• Eight Stars Pavilion’s Old Sect Master attacked with Dark Overlord Fist, and Ye Xiwen met his punch head-on.
• Ye Xiwen pressed the Old Sect Master through hundreds of exchanges, shattering his right arm and draining his vitality.
• Ye Xiwen punched through the Old Sect Master’s chest and killed him, shocking the surrounding crowd.

Ye Xiwen killed the Old Sect Master of Eight Stars Pavilion, then slaughtered the pavilion’s remaining experts and razed its base. News of the massacre spread across the Ancient Battlefield, leaving rival forces wary of provoking him.

• Ye Xiwen beat the Old Sect Master of Eight Stars Pavilion to death after gaining the upper hand in their fierce battle.
• More than a dozen Transcendent Realm experts from Eight Stars Pavilion attacked Ye Xiwen, but he shattered their bladelight with his sword and killed them all.
• Little Wolf returned badly wounded after fighting a Half-Step Transcendent Realm Late Stage expert, and Ye Xiwen sensed that Little Wolf was close to a breakthrough.
• Ye Xiwen declared that no one from Eight Stars Pavilion would leave and killed every member of the pavilion at its residence, sparing the independent cultivators there.
• News that Ye Xiwen had razed Eight Stars Pavilion spread throughout the Ancient Battlefield, and the experts of Flying Star Gate and Tianwu Gate fell silent, wary of confronting him.

After news of a passage to the Ancient Barrens Continent emerged, Ye Xiwen headed into the Ancient Battlefield and arrived as the three great overlords threatened True Martial School. He intervened, clashing with Eight Stars Pavilion’s sect master and preparing another punch.

• Experts discovered a passage believed to lead to the World Tree, and Ye Xiwen set out for its location, hoping to reach the Ancient Barrens Continent.
• Huang Wuji and True Martial School arrived at the passage, where other experts recognized the school as Ye Xiwen’s sect.
• More than thirty Transcendent Realm experts from Eight Stars Pavilion, Tianwu Gate, and Flying Star Gate confronted True Martial School and threatened to wipe it out.
• Huang Wuji prepared True Martial School to fight, but Ye Xiwen arrived and demanded that the three great overlords leave his sect alone.
• Eight Stars Pavilion’s sect master attacked Ye Xiwen, who met his Thousand Star Overlord Palm with the Great Extinction Star Dust Fist and sent him tumbling back.
• Ye Xiwen called out for the sect master to take another punch.

Ye Xiwen defeated the Eight Stars Pavilion sect master in two punches and silenced the factions threatening True Martial School. The experts agreed to work together to open the breach leading toward the Ancient Barrens Continent.

• Ye Xiwen struck the Eight Stars Pavilion sect master again, sending him into a mountain and leaving him badly injured by the miasma.
• The gathered experts marveled at Ye Xiwen’s speed, recovery, and strength, while Mu Shengjie called him a monster and Huang Wuji welcomed his protection of True Martial School.
• Ye Xiwen challenged the three great overlords, and their experts fell silent under his threat.
• A dignified middle-aged man urged the factions to avoid internal fighting until they crossed the Ancient Battlefield, and Ye Xiwen agreed to hold back.
• An elderly Transcendent Realm expert explained that the breach concealed a cave and a route to the Ancient Barrens Continent, and hundreds of experts attacked it together.

Ye Xiwen and the other experts entered the newly opened cave, where they encountered dozens of powerful Mao Jiang guarding the way. The battle turned into a fierce stalemate, and Ye Xiwen joined the fight as the True Martial School group struggled to hold its ground.

• After the cave opened, Li Feng told Ye Xiwen that ten tokens inside could allow someone to leave, then entered ahead of the others.
• Ye Xiwen led the True Martial School group into the vast cave, where they found several hundred experts fighting dozens of Mao Jiang.
• A Mao Jiang killed an Eight Stars Pavilion elder, demonstrating that the zombies could withstand attacks from powerful Transcendent Realm experts.
• The master of Burning Heaven Gate used Burning Heaven Gate to burn one Mao Jiang to ashes, while other factions deployed their Town Sect Artifacts to hold off the zombies.
• Ye Xiwen charged forward to fight a Mao Jiang, while the True Martial School group joined forces to hold back another.