Chapter Summaries

Shi Yan found the Innate Body-Tempering Stone guarded by a Spatial Rift Python and forced Xi Du and Lin Qiaojing to trade information for their lives. After sending them away with crocodile corpses, he concluded that the hidden Nine-Turn Divine Cicada was likely hunting the python for food.

• Shi Yan discovered the Innate Body-Tempering Stone and spotted a Spatial Rift Python lurking beside it.
• Shi Yan brought Xi Du and Lin Qiaojing to the lakebed, stopped them from fleeing, and explained that the python would have killed them if they approached the stone.
• Shi Yan demanded ten divine artifacts from each of them, then settled for information about demonic beasts in the secret realm.
• Xi Du and Lin Qiaojing gave Shi Yan jade slips, and he handed them Space Rings filled with Blackwater Demon Crocodile corpses before dismissing them.
• Shi Yan reasoned that the Spatial Rift Python was hiding because the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada might be nearby and hunting it as food.

Shi Yan discovered that the Spatial Rift Python was hiding from the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada and offered to help it evade pursuit. After displaying his Immeasurable Demon Ape and True Dragon auras, he bound the frightened python with a Soul Contract, which ended with Kong Yiyi addressing him as Master.

• Shi Yan revealed that he could conceal his and the Innate Body-Tempering Stone’s auras, then offered to help the Spatial Rift Python escape the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada.
• The Spatial Rift Python attacked Shi Yan after he stored its stone, but it backed down when he showed his peak Thirteenth Realm body-tempering aura.
• The Spatial Rift Python recognized Shi Yan’s Immeasurable Demon Ape aura and was intimidated further when he revealed a True Dragon aura.
• Shi Yan proposed an equal Soul Contract, and the Spatial Rift Python eagerly agreed to bind their souls.
• After the contract took effect, the Spatial Rift Python’s fury gave way to reverence, and Kong Yiyi greeted Shi Yan as Master.

Shi Yan learned the Secret Realm’s history from the Spatial Rift Python and discovered that the source of Azure Moon Lake’s Dark Tide was a sacred crystal once owned by the Azure Lotus True God. He secured the crystal and continued pursuing his mission in the Secret Realm.

• Shi Yan bound the Spatial Rift Python as his servant, and it explained that their connection could let them grow stronger together.
• The Spatial Rift Python told Shi Yan that the Azure Lotus True God had brought it and other creatures into the Divine Kingdom, where they became trapped after her death.
• The Spatial Rift Python explained that the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada had spent ten thousand years hunting and devouring the Secret Realm’s strongest beasts, possibly to escape an approaching crisis.
• Shi Yan asked the Spatial Rift Python to find the source of Azure Moon Lake’s Dark Tide, and it returned with a blue bead.
• The Spatial Rift Python identified the bead as the Azure Sea Sacred Crystal, one of the Azure Lotus True God’s earrings, and Shi Yan took the crystal in his hand.

Shi Yan led the group through Whispering Forest, helping them collect treasures while keeping them safe from the local demon beasts. After leaving them at a protected campsite with Shang Faqiong and the Illusory Sky Shuttle, he set off alone to hunt for the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada.

• Shi Yan returned from Azure Moon Lake with the Spatial Rift Python, Kong Yiyi, and gave Sen Liu the Azure Sea Sacred Crystal from Sen Bei.
• Kong Yiyi transported the group to Whispering Forest, where Shi Yan had her guide them while avoiding the demon-beast settlements.
• Over the next half month, Sen Liu found enough Heaven-Dream Grass for her mission, while the group gathered valuable treasures and Shi Yan's Martial Virtue Points rose to six billion.
• Shi Yan chose a campsite near the Azure Lotus True God's bathing pool and gave Shang Faqiong the Illusory Sky Shuttle to protect the group.
• Shi Yan left the others behind and began his hunt for the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada.

Shi Yan and the Spatial Rift Python swept through the secret realm, killing demon beasts and hostile people while Shi Yan sought Martial Virtue Points. After failing to remove an ancient saber scar, Shi Yan ended the chapter facing an approaching expert with nearly ten billion Martial Virtue Points.

• Shi Yan killed the Golden-Thread Demon Eagles with Nether Ghost Fire and sent the Spatial Rift Python to collect their corpses.
• Shi Yan examined an ancient saber scar, but its lingering Blade Rhyme shattered his saber and injured him when he tried to dig it out.
• Shi Yan decided to postpone studying the saber scar and ordered the Spatial Rift Python to stop restraining its aura as they continued through the secret realm.
• Over the next month, Shi Yan killed demon beasts and hostile people, while sparing those who did not threaten him.
• The Spatial Rift Python sensed a powerful expert approaching, and Shi Yan checked his status panel, which showed 9,999,861,123 Martial Virtue Points.

Shi Yan killed the Three-Legged Sparrow King after it self-destructed its body and tried to ambush him with its surviving soul. The kill brought his Martial Virtue Points to ten billion, triggering a system upgrade as Tao Yaoyao confronted him.

• Tao Yaoyao rode the Three-Headed Wolf King while pursuing the wounded Three-Legged Sparrow King, and the Spatial Rift Python refused the Sparrow King's plea for help.
• The Three-Headed Wolf King's howl confused the Sparrow King, but it regained its senses and self-destructed as Tao Yaoyao tried to capture it.
• Shi Yan and Tao Yaoyao shielded themselves from the blast, and Shi Yan spotted the Sparrow King's soul attempting to ambush him.
• Shi Yan trapped the Sparrow King's soul in a flaming cage and killed it despite Tao Yaoyao's plea to spare it.
• Tao Yaoyao angrily confronted Shi Yan, while his kill awarded five million Martial Virtue Points and triggered a system upgrade.

Shi Yan’s system evolved, allowing him to gain Martial Virtue Points when people watched footage of his battles. Tao Yaoyao attacked him after misreading his excitement, and their fight began.

• Shi Yan confronted Tao Yaoyao, but she proposed joining forces to pursue the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada.
• Shi Yan rejected the alliance and tried to leave, but Tao Yaoyao blocked his way.
• Shi Yan’s system finished upgrading and began awarding Martial Virtue Points for viewers watching his battle footage.
• Tao Yaoyao mistook Shi Yan’s laughter for mockery and attacked him.
• Shi Yan met Tao Yaoyao’s strike with a punch, and their Thirteenth Realm bodies collided.

Shi Yan fought Tao Yaoyao for a full day and eventually subdued her, but she soon shared her conclusion that the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada was fleeing from a terrifying existence within the Primal Secret Realm. The chapter left Shi Yan facing the possibility that an even more powerful threat was hunting the Divine Cicada.

• Shi Yan and Tao Yaoyao clashed in a prolonged physical battle while the Spatial Rift Python kept the Three-Headed Wolf King from interfering.
• After fighting for a full day, Shi Yan pinned Tao Yaoyao and forced her to give up, leaving her in tears.
• Tao Yaoyao used a pink thread to distract Shi Yan and bit his arm before explaining that she came from the Heavenly Demon Tower and understood demonic beasts.
• Tao Yaoyao told Shi Yan that the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada was fleeing for its life, not simply hunting demonic beasts to grow stronger.
• Tao Yaoyao concluded that a terrifying existence in the Secret Realm had driven the Divine Cicada to flee without resisting.

Shi Yan and Tao Yaoyao agreed to cooperate against the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada, then parted ways to pursue their own priorities. Half a year later, Shi Yan hunted a large horde of Earth King Red Ant Demons and examined vast blade marks on a mountainside.

• Tao Yaoyao explained that she needed Shi Yan's and Xi Du's help to face the powerful being hunting the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada, and Shi Yan offered to make up for Xi Du's weakness.
• Tao Yaoyao gave Shi Yan a transmission stone and said she would find him in about half a year, but refused to reveal how to locate the Divine Cicada.
• Tao Yaoyao admitted she had spread false information directing people east, and she and Shi Yan agreed that each would rely on their own ability when competing for treasures.
• Shi Yan and Tao Yaoyao left in opposite directions as reports spread that demon-beast lairs had become empty and scorching.
• Half a year later, the Spatial Rift Python guided Shi Yan to a valley filled with Earth King Red Ant Demons, where Shi Yan also noticed blade marks stretching hundreds of miles along a mountain wall.

Shi Yan reached sixty billion Martial Virtue Points after wiping out the Ant Demons at the fifth Blade Rhyme Ground, then hurried to Whispering Forest after Tao Yaoyao summoned him. There, Tao Yaoyao awaited him as the Heavenly Demon Tower faced a coalition of rival factions, and Xiong Bao recognized Shi Yan when he arrived.

• Shi Yan failed to remove the fifth Blade Rhyme, then annihilated the Ant Demons with Nether Ghost Fire and surpassed sixty billion Martial Virtue Points.
• Shi Yan received Tao Yaoyao's message telling him to come to Whispering Forest and rushed there with Yiyi.
• Tao Yaoyao explained that rival factions were using the false-information scandal as an excuse to seize the Heavenly Demon Tower's discoveries and treasures.
• Tao Yaoyao told Xiong Bao that Shi Yan had wiped out the demon beasts needed for their borrowed power and that she was waiting for him to arrive.
• Shi Yan and Yiyi emerged from a spatial rift, and Xiong Bao recognized Shi Yan as the man they had met in the Northern Territory.

Shi Yan returned to Tao Yaoyao and agreed to guard her while she lured the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada out in the Whispering Forest. After Shang Faqiong identified a Heaven Bow Formation at Azure Lotus Pool, Shi Yan realized the Divine Cicada and the missing Heavenly Saber Saint Lord were likely there, and ordered everyone to leave.

• Tao Yaoyao explained that she had gathered people to provoke the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada into revealing itself, and Shi Yan agreed to serve as her bodyguard.
• Shi Yan refused Tao Yaoyao’s request to bring Zhuo Xi and the others into the plan, then visited them at Azure Lotus Pool Mountain.
• Shi Yan told Zhuo Xi and the others about the coming conflict and showed them five places with powerful Blade Rhyme as possible shelters.
• Shang Faqiong recognized the five Blade Rhyme locations as a Heaven Bow Formation, a self-destruction formation aimed at Azure Lotus Pool.
• Shi Yan connected the formation to the Heavenly Saber Saint Lord and the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada, concluding that both were likely inside Azure Lotus Pool.
• Shi Yan ordered everyone to leave the area.

Shi Yan warned Tao Yaoyao that the Heaven Bow Formation threatened the entire secret realm and negotiated for the location of the Divine Cicada's Shed Shell. Tao Yaoyao revealed that the Wind Origin shed shell could be tracked using Liya's wings, leaving Shi Yan to decide how to obtain it without harming Liya.

• Shi Yan returned to the Heavenly Demon Tower camp with the others and urged Tao Yaoyao to evacuate the Whispering Forest.
• Shang Faqiong told Tao Yaoyao about the Heaven Bow Formation and its Saint King-level danger.
• Shi Yan asked Tao Yaoyao for the shed shell's location, and she refused until he offered two favors.
• Tao Yaoyao gave Shi Yan a compass and explained that it would track the Wind Origin shed shell after absorbing Liya's wings.
• Shi Yan suspected Tao Yaoyao had deliberately made obtaining the shed shell depend on Liya, then left with the others.

Shi Yan warned Liya about the danger in Whispering Forest, helped her regrow her wings to obtain the energy needed for the compass, and urged her to evacuate her people. The compass pointed toward the Azure Lotus Pool, while Tao Yaoyao’s beast sensed the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada nearby.

• Liya insisted that the Virtual God Tower’s forces press on despite suspecting a trap, then left to meet Shi Yan when she sensed him nearby.
• Shi Yan told Liya about the Heavenly Saber Saint Lord and the Divine Cicada’s Shed Shell, and she let him remove her wings so he could use their energy.
• Shi Yan restored Liya’s wings with Nine Heavens Profound Fire and urged her to evacuate Whispering Forest and warn other factions.
• After the compass pointed toward the Azure Lotus Pool, Shi Yan reunited with Zhuo Xi and the others and said the Divine Cicada’s Shed Shell would be difficult to obtain.
• Tao Yaoyao’s Three-Headed Wolf King sensed cicada song within the souls of beasts and identified it as the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada.

Tao Yaoyao and Shi Yan stayed behind to help the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada escape when the Heaven Bow Formation activated. The cicada revealed their cultivation secrets, and Tao Yaoyao realized Shi Yan had Fire Eye as she began to recognize his identity.

• Tao Yaoyao learned that the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada had used the Three-Headed Wolf King to ask for help, then chose to stay after Shi Yan returned with the Spatial Rift Python.
• Shi Yan and Tao Yaoyao used the wolf king's and python's blood essence to form a channel through which the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada projected her golden cicada form.
• The Nine-Turn Divine Cicada explained that she would shed her shell when the Heaven Bow Formation activated and asked Shi Yan and Tao Yaoyao to protect her afterward.
• The Nine-Turn Divine Cicada revealed that Tao Yaoyao sought her shell to master her demonic powers and that Shi Yan had developed Fire Eye.
• Tao Yaoyao recoiled in shock and began to recognize Shi Yan.

Shi Yan confronted the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada and demanded a Soul Contract in exchange for saving it. After Shi Yan revealed his Dragon and Phoenix aura, the Divine Cicada agreed to an equal contract, but the system enslaved it instead, and it greeted him as its master.

• Tao Yaoyao recognized Shi Yan’s Fire Eye Ray, but Shi Yan let her keep his identity secret without threatening her.
• Shi Yan gave the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada the choice of forming a Soul Contract or being left to face the Heaven Bow Formation alone.
• The Divine Cicada warned that the formation was part of a plan to destroy the Divine Kingdom of Green Lotus, but Shi Yan refused to back down.
• Shi Yan released the aura of his Jade-Bone Dragon and Phoenix Body, silencing the Divine Cicada and forcing it to negotiate.
• Tao Yaoyao persuaded Shi Yan to call the contract a temporary equal contract, and the Divine Cicada agreed to one that would last a day.
• The system’s forced enslavement took effect, and Qingchan greeted Shi Yan as her master.

Shi Yan learned that Meng Wushuang was a descendant of the Azure Lotus True God who had sealed the god’s violent Remnant Soul inside her own body. The Nine-Turn Divine Cicada revealed that Meng Wushuang’s true main soul was in the Chaos Green Lotus, leaving Shi Yan poised to uncover the truth and save the trapped divine treasure.

• The Nine-Turn Divine Cicada acknowledged Shi Yan as its master and explained that the Azure Lotus True God’s Remnant Soul had consumed inhabitants of the Divine Kingdom to grow stronger.
• The Divine Cicada said Meng Wushuang had entered the Divine Kingdom to stop the Remnant Soul and had laid a formation intended to destroy them both.
• Shi Yan sent Tao Yaoyao away with the Spatial Rift Python and the Three-Beast Wolf King before asking the Divine Cicada for the concealed truth.
• The Divine Cicada revealed that Meng Wushuang was a descendant of the Azure Lotus True God and had let the Remnant Soul inhabit her body before sealing it inside.
• The Divine Cicada disclosed that Meng Wushuang’s soul in her body was incomplete because her true main soul was inside the Chaos Green Lotus.

Shi Yan realized Meng Wushuang was using the growing Chaos Green Lotus seed to forge a divine true body, so he carefully presented himself as the Saint Lord’s protector while approaching the Azure Lotus Pool. He reached the pool and saw Meng Wushuang imprisoned above the lotus bud, then met the cold gaze of someone watching him.

• Shi Yan learned from Qing Cicada that the Divine Lotus had grown into a bud and realized Meng Wushuang intended to use it to create a true body.
• Shi Yan declared that he had come to protect Meng Wushuang, prompting the Heaven Bow Formation to ease its pressure and allow him to approach.
• Shi Yan crossed the no-flight formation and climbed to the Azure Lotus Pool after more than half a day.
• Shi Yan saw Meng Wushuang bound inside a blood-red cage above the pool, while the lotus bud absorbed her dripping blood.
• Shi Yan looked up and met a pair of utterly cold eyes.

Shi Yan watched Meng Wushuang and the Azure Lotus True God's Remnant Soul struggle for control while the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada remained trapped in her hair. Meng Wushuang fired the Heavenly Bow, destroying her body and tearing apart the secret realm's laws to nourish the Divine Lotus, while Shi Yan began to feel the promised benefit.

• The Azure Lotus True God's Remnant Soul offered to release the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada and teach Shi Yan how to become a god if he poured his Dragon and Phoenix aura into the pool, but Shi Yan refused.
• Meng Wushuang regained control and told Shi Yan about Heavenly Saber, warned him that the Remnant Soul would seize his body, and vowed to surpass her distant ancestor.
• The Nine-Turn Divine Cicada emerged as the Remnant Soul and Meng Wushuang fought for control, and its blood nourished the flower bud until it rose from the pool.
• Meng Wushuang summoned the Heavenly Bow, and the Nine-Turn Divine Cicada turned into a golden arrow that shattered her body and the rune chains before landing, weakened but alive, in Shi Yan's arms.
• Blood-colored cracks spread across the sky as Meng Wushuang's attack collapsed the secret realm's laws and fed them to the Divine Lotus, while the realm began to crumble and Shi Yan felt the promised benefit take effect.

Shi Yan received an extraordinary opportunity in the blood-red world, where his Martial Arts evolved and Meng Wushuang revealed how his abilities could be unified through the Chaos Divine Fire. He chose to make the Chaos Divine Fire the foundation of his own path, then thanked Meng Wushuang, whose shy-sounding reply left him baffled.

• Shi Yan watched images of himself evolve his signature Martial Arts, including the Demon Abyss Instant Burst Fist and Reverse Dragon Seven Steps.
• The Martial Arts figures grew enormous and fought one another, repeatedly killing Shi Yan whenever he tried to intervene.
• Meng Wushuang's voice sounded, and white petals and golden light froze the figures as images of Shi Yan's Cultivation Methods, Divine Fires, weapons, and other abilities emerged.
• Threads of light from the Chaos Divine Fire connected Shi Yan's abilities, and gray mist empowered them all.
• Shi Yan resolved to strengthen the Chaos Divine Fire as the foundation of his path instead of relying on the system alone, then thanked Meng Wushuang.
• Meng Wushuang replied in a flustered, shy-sounding voice, leaving Shi Yan confused.

Shi Yan discovered that Meng Wushuang had absorbed most of his nascent Chaos Divine Fire through their union, giving it the Aura of Creation and a path to become the Chaos Divine Fire. Meng Wushuang left him the Blood Heavenly Saber and vanished with the Azure Lotus Pool, promising to return for him.

• Shi Yan awoke in a petal space with Meng Wushuang and learned she had absorbed most of his nascent Chaos Divine Fire to evolve her divine body toward the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Meng Wushuang explained that their union gave the remaining flame the Aura of Creation, ensuring it would become the Chaos Divine Fire, and said they would both need to nourish their portions.
• Meng Wushuang promised to take responsibility and marry Shi Yan, then gave him the master Blood Heavenly Saber, which could command the Heavenly Saber and help open her hidden treasure when reunited with the other eleven sabers.
• Meng Wushuang said she controlled the Green Lotus Secret Realm and would take its Azure Lotus Pool and Divine Kingdom framework with her, while Shi Yan prepared to return outside.
• Meng Wushuang revealed that two months had passed outside, gave Shi Yan the Blood Heavenly Saber, and disappeared with the Azure Lotus Pool, leaving Shi Yan to face the revealed surroundings.