Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan and the Yanfa Sect’s True Lords faced down True Monarch Bihai and True Monarch Mohuo at the Boundless Sea, where Mohuo demanded that they surrender Ji Haoyuan. As the two sides prepared to fight, Lan Hailong of the Five Elements Profound Sect arrived and challenged Mohuo.

• Ji Haoyuan and the Yanfa Sect group arrived at the Boundless Sea, where gathered cultivators’ Divine Senses swept over them before True Monarch Xuanyuan, True Monarch Fuguang, and True Monarch Baihua drove them back.
• True Monarch Bihai recognized Ji Haoyuan and attacked him with his Divine Sense, but True Monarch Baihua blocked the strike and rebuked Bihai.
• True Monarch Mohuo and nine followers of the Five Elements Demonic Sect arrived, and Mohuo demanded that the Yanfa Sect hand over Ji Haoyuan.
• True Monarch Fuguang refused Mohuo’s demand, and Mohuo formed rings of five-colored flames as the Yanfa Sect’s three True Lords prepared to fight.
• Lan Hailong of the Five Elements Profound Sect arrived with six others and sent a blue flood dragon crashing into Mohuo’s flames, halting the impending battle.

The Yanfa Sect and Five Elements Profound Sect avoided a clash with the Five Elements Demonic Sect as more sects gathered for the Fuya Secret Realm. Ji Haoyuan recognized Lu Mengchan among the Joyous Union Sect before he and seven others entered the realm.

• True Monarch Kurong restrained True Monarch Mohuo, and the Five Elements Demonic Sect withdrew without fighting the Yanfa Sect.
• Lan Hailong and True Monarch Xuanyuan greeted one another, and the Five Elements Profound Sect joined the Yanfa Sect.
• Ji Haoyuan recognized Lu Mengchan among the Joyous Union Sect, but she turned away as if she did not know him.
• More Nascent Soul-level sects and clans arrived, and the Fuya Secret Realm’s entrance appeared beneath the spreading mist.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan told Ji Haoyuan and the other seven to seek one another and prioritize their safety inside the realm.
• Ji Haoyuan and the other seven activated their Fuya Tokens and entered the Fuya Secret Realm.

Ji Haoyuan entered the Fuya Secret Realm and, with the Treasure-Seeking Spirit Fox’s help, defeated an aquatic demon and obtained rare Tai Huang Wu Tu. He later found a Hundred-Tier Platform enclosed by white jade walls, but could not see what waited at its summit.

• Ji Haoyuan found himself above emerald waters with his Divine Sense suppressed and summoned the Treasure-Seeking Spirit Fox to search for treasure.
• A huge whirlpool formed beneath Ji Haoyuan, and an octopus-like demon attacked him with its tentacles.
• The Treasure-Seeking Spirit Fox sensed treasure on the demon, so Ji Haoyuan dragged it from the water and cut it in two.
• Ji Haoyuan collected the demon’s Tai Huang Wu Tu and demon core, then rewarded the Treasure-Seeking Spirit Fox with a third-tier spirit fruit.
• Ji Haoyuan found an enormous Hundred-Tier Platform surrounded by white jade walls and cautiously examined the enclosed space.

Ji Haoyuan passed the Hundred-Tier Platform’s trials and obtained a detailed Jade Slip map of the Fuya Secret Realm. He activated the teleportation array and chose where to go next.

• Ji Haoyuan tested the platform’s defenses, then climbed the stairs through escalating spiritual pressure and a physical trial.
• Ji Haoyuan crossed the soul trial and used his Silver Sword Pellet to shatter the Golden Core peak attacks on the ninety-first stair.
• Ji Haoyuan passed the remaining trials and reached the platform at the top, where he found an activated teleportation array and a Jade Slip.
• Ji Haoyuan learned the Jade Slip mapped regions, resources, and dangers in the Fuya Secret Realm, and that it allowed him to choose his destination.
• Ji Haoyuan cast several hand seals and stepped into the teleportation array.

Ji Haoyuan entered the Fuya Secret Realm seeking Nascent Soul formation materials, the Sun Moon Spiritual Spring to repair Ji Bochang’s foundation, and other treasures for his allies. He found the spring behind a Natural Restriction that consumed its contents whenever it activated, so he began studying the restriction to find a way through.

• Ji Haoyuan set out for Sun Moon Valley, the only one of his targets reachable directly by teleportation.
• Ji Haoyuan arrived in a valley rich in Spiritual Energy and discovered his Divine Sense was no longer suppressed.
• The Treasure-Seeking Spirit Fox led Ji Haoyuan to a pool containing thousands of drops of Fourth-Order Sun Moon Spiritual Spring.
• Ji Haoyuan found that a Natural Restriction blocked access to the pool and consumed some of the spring whenever it activated.
• Ji Haoyuan sat down before the restriction and began comprehending it in hopes of severing its connection to the spring.

Ji Haoyuan severed the Natural Restriction’s connection to the Sun Moon Spiritual Spring, collected what remained, and discovered Sun Moon Star Sand in the pool. After leaving Sun Moon Valley, he encountered cultivators from the Ziyang Sect and Mountain Sea Alliance, who blocked his way and demanded information about the valley.

• Ji Haoyuan used Formation Flags and hand seals to shut down the Natural Restriction, losing most of the Sun Moon Spiritual Spring but collecting the small amount left behind.
• The Treasure-Seeking Spirit Fox led Ji Haoyuan to Sun Moon Star Sand at the bottom of the pool, which he collected before confirming there were no further treasures.
• Ji Haoyuan sensed someone arriving, returned the Treasure-Seeking Spirit Fox to the Beast Taming Token, and left Sun Moon Valley.
• Ji Haoyuan found a Ziyang Sect cultivator and a Mountain Sea Alliance cultivator facing off outside the valley, and he tried to leave without getting involved.
• The Ziyang Sect cultivator called Ji Haoyuan over, and both cultivators blocked his way and demanded to know what was inside the valley.

Ji Haoyuan drove off two cultivators who tried to question him, then found three unripe Tribulation Lightning Fruits and comprehended the Lightning Aperture Body Tempering Technique while waiting for them to ripen. Three other Golden Core cultivators arrived and fixed their greedy attention on the fruits.

• Ji Haoyuan warned the Ziyang Sect and Mountain Sea Alliance cultivators to move aside, then struck them with a crimson spear and drove them away.
• Ji Haoyuan left the wounded cultivators behind when rosy light and fragrance revealed a treasure nearby.
• Ji Haoyuan found three unripe Tribulation Lightning Fruits and decided to wait for them to ripen.
• Ji Haoyuan gained insight from watching the fruits and comprehended the Lightning Aperture Body Tempering Technique.
• Three Golden Core cultivators from Ice Snow Palace, the Dao Origin Sect, and the Joyous Union Sect arrived and eyed the fruits greedily.

Ji Haoyuan killed the Ice Snow Palace cultivator and the Jade Faced True Person when they tried to seize the Tribulation Lightning Fruits, while a Dao Origin Sect cultivator escaped with a Blood-colored Talisman. After waiting several days, Ji Haoyuan harvested all three fruits and sealed them in Jade Boxes.

• Yun Xiuhua approached Ji Haoyuan, but he repelled her and refused to yield the three Tribulation Lightning Fruits without an equal-value exchange.
• When the three cultivators surrounded him, Ji Haoyuan attacked and killed the Ice Snow Palace cultivator and Yun Xiuhua.
• The Dao Origin Sect cultivator used a Blood-colored Talisman to escape, while the three Great Demons fled in panic.
• Ji Haoyuan waited several days beside the tree until the Tribulation Lightning Fruits ripened.
• Ji Haoyuan collected the lightning arcs and placed all three Tribulation Lightning Fruits into Jade Boxes.

Ji Haoyuan found rare treasures in the Storage Rings of two enemies and met the injured Pei Youlan in the Fuya Secret Realm. After Pei Youlan told him that Su Zihua had been killed in a sect ambush, Ji Haoyuan asked whether True Person Kongxuan had escaped.

• Ji Haoyuan found an Illusion Thousand Vine and a Cold Sky Snow Lotus among the treasures he had taken from Jade Faced True Person and the Ice Snow Palace cultivator.
• Ji Haoyuan met the badly injured Pei Youlan and let her rest while he guarded her and tried unsuccessfully to contact Ice Fire True Person and True Person Leixia.
• Pei Youlan told Ji Haoyuan that she had entered the Fuya Secret Realm with True Person Kongxuan and Su Zihua.
• Pei Youlan explained that True Word Sect and Five Elements Demonic Sect cultivators ambushed the group while Tier 3 Fierce Beasts attacked them, killing Su Zihua and severely injuring her and True Person Kongxuan.
• Ji Haoyuan asked Pei Youlan whether True Person Kongxuan had escaped the pursuit.

Ji Haoyuan and Pei Youlan reached the Natural Palace, but found its first three floors empty and a Fourth-Order Restriction blocking the fourth. Ji Haoyuan tried to break through it, and his powerful Golden Core Domain clashed with the restriction’s Fire Phoenix.

• Ji Haoyuan asked Pei Youlan about the Natural Palace she had encountered, and she agreed to lead him roughly four thousand li south.
• Ji Haoyuan and Pei Youlan found the silver-white palace emptied of its traces and searched its first three floors without finding anything.
• At the fourth-floor entrance, Pei Youlan recognized a Fourth-Order Restriction that the Golden Core cultivators who came before them could not break.
• Ji Haoyuan asked Pei Youlan to stand guard and placed Formation Flags around the restriction.
• The restriction sent a blazing Fire Phoenix at Ji Haoyuan, but his enormous Golden Core Domain manifested another Fire Phoenix that collided with it and sent ripples across the restriction.

Ji Haoyuan broke the Fourth-Order Restriction protecting the Natural Palace’s fourth level and discovered three treasures inside. He identified the first as the Heaven-Ascending Seal Method and realized he could cultivate it, while the other two treasures remained unexplored.

• Ji Haoyuan endured the restriction’s barrage of Sword Lights while studying its operating patterns.
• Ji Haoyuan placed the Seven Luminaries Heavenly Profound Pagoda at the restriction’s southeastern corner, then broke the restriction with his spear.
• Pei Youlan chose to guard the entrance rather than follow Ji Haoyuan inside, and he approved of her restraint.
• Ji Haoyuan entered the fourth level and found a Jade Slip, a Gourd, and a jade bottle.
• Ji Haoyuan examined the Jade Slip and learned that the Heaven-Ascending Seal Method could enhance his spiritual power, physical body, and divine soul.

Ji Haoyuan refined the God Slaying Treasure Gourd and found Heavenly Splendor Purple Dew among the treasures on the fourth level. He gave Pei Youlan a drop of Sun Moon Spiritual Spring to restore her damaged foundation, then set out with her for Yuandao Mountain, where the Nascent Infant Fruit grew.

• Ji Haoyuan refined the God Slaying Treasure Gourd with Third-Order soul-nourishing items, allowing it to release God Slaying Treasure Light powerful enough to destroy a late Golden Core cultivator’s divine soul.
• Ji Haoyuan discovered a bottle of Heavenly Splendor Purple Dew, which could grant cultivation without side effects, and left the fourth level with it.
• Ji Haoyuan gave Pei Youlan a drop of Sun Moon Spiritual Spring, and she accepted it without asking what he had found inside.
• Pei Youlan used the Sun Moon Spiritual Spring and restored her damaged foundation in one day while Ji Haoyuan stood guard.
• Ji Haoyuan told Pei Youlan they were heading to Yuandao Mountain, where the Nascent Infant Fruit grew, and warned that its ripening would attract cultivators and beasts.

Ji Haoyuan and Pei Youlan reached Yuandao Mountain, where they reunited with Ice Fire True Person, True Person Leixia, and others waiting for the Nascent Infant Fruits to ripen. As cultivators from several factions arrived and tensions rose, everyone remained troubled by the Fuya Secret Realm’s unnatural silence, and more arrivals approached.

• Ji Haoyuan and Pei Youlan noticed that Great Demons and Fierce Beasts had nearly vanished from the Fuya Secret Realm, but continued toward Yuandao Mountain.
• After half a month, Ji Haoyuan and Pei Youlan reached Yuandao Mountain and reunited with Ice Fire True Person, True Person Leixia, True Person Beichen, and two Five Elements Profound Sect cultivators.
• Ji Haoyuan saw seven Nascent Infant Fruits growing nearby, and the group expected competition for them as more cultivators arrived.
• Ice Fire True Person, True Person Leixia, True Person Beichen, and the Five Elements Profound Sect cultivators confirmed that the realm had become unnaturally quiet.
• Cultivators from the Mountain Sea Alliance, the Murong Family, and the Dao Origin Sect arrived, creating a tense atmosphere as Ji Haoyuan noted that the injured Dao Origin Sect cultivator he had fought was absent.
• Several more piercing sounds came from the distant sky as additional arrivals approached.

Cultivators from several factions gathered on Yuandao Mountain as the Seven Nascent Infant Fruits neared ripeness, while old rivalries threatened to erupt. Ji Haoyuan confronted Gu Changhe and Qiuyangzi over Su Zihua’s death, and True Person Lingji tried to rally the other factions against him.

• Two cultivators from the Ziyang Sect arrived and joined the Mountain Sea Alliance, Murong Family, and Dao Origin Sect, leaving the Five Elements Profound Sect at a disadvantage.
• Seven or eight cultivators from the True Word Sect and Five Elements Demonic Sect arrived, and Pei Youlan identified Gu Changhe and Qiuyangzi as the men who killed Su Zihua.
• The Seven Nascent Infant Fruits began emitting radiant light and fragrance, signaling that they were close to ripening.
• Ji Haoyuan threatened to kill Gu Changhe and Qiuyangzi, and True Person Lingji urged him to postpone the fight until after the fruit competition.
• When Ji Haoyuan rejected the appeal and claimed the True Word Sect would be easy to kill, True Person Lingji asked the other factions to join forces against him.

Ji Haoyuan attacked the True Word Sect without warning and killed True Person Lingji, Gu Changhe, and Qiuyangzi. He then turned on the Five Elements Demonic Sect, crushing Chiyanzi beneath a Starlight fist seal.

• The Sixty-Year-Old Elder urged the factions to set aside their grudges and discuss how to distribute the Nascent Infant Fruit, but Ji Haoyuan ignored him and attacked Gu Changhe and Qiuyangzi.
• Ji Haoyuan broke True Person Lingji, Gu Changhe, and Qiuyangzi's combined attack with one strike, then killed Gu Changhe and Qiuyangzi with lightning.
• Ji Haoyuan summoned countless Flame Spears and a Fire Phoenix, burning True Person Lingji to ashes.
• Ji Haoyuan attacked the Five Elements Demonic Sect with a Starlight fist seal, shattering Chiyanzi's body.

Ji Haoyuan and his allies killed the remaining Five Elements Demonic Sect cultivators and claimed the seven ripened Nascent Infant Fruits. A monstrous tentacle then appeared on Yuandao Mountain and began dragging them toward it, forcing Ji Haoyuan to act.

• Ji Haoyuan and his allies killed the fleeing Five Elements Demonic Sect cultivators as the Mountain Sea Alliance, Murong Family, Ziyang Sect, and Dao Origin Sect cultivators fled Yuandao Mountain.
• The seven Nascent Infant Fruits ripened, and Ji Haoyuan proposed that the seven allies each take one; Jiang Xin and Chen Qingxue agreed.
• After the group collected the fruits, Pei Youlan sensed that the fleeing cultivators had vanished, and their Fuya Tokens began glowing crimson.
• A gigantic, blood-covered tentacle crushed hundreds of Demon Beasts and absorbed their blood mist.
• Ji Haoyuan and his allies tried to escape, but the tentacle's suction pulled them toward it despite their attempts to resist.
• Ji Haoyuan unleashed streams of lightning-charged Starlight from his body.

Ji Haoyuan broke through to the Fourth-Order realm and used his newly comprehended divine ability, Star Burst Thunder Flame, to destroy the blood-colored vortex and help his group escape the Blood Tentacles. The Fuya Secret Realm began to collapse, forcing everyone to flee with their Fuya Tokens, while the Nascent Soul True Lords outside recognized the blood-red mist as an unprecedented change in recent history.

• Ji Haoyuan enlarged himself and used the Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear to wound the Blood Tentacle, allowing Ice Fire True Person, True Person Leixia, Pei Youlan, True Person Beichen, Jiang Xin, and Chen Qingxue to flee.
• The Blood Tentacle's master unleashed a stronger suction force, pulling Ji Haoyuan's group back toward a blood-colored vortex.
• Ji Haoyuan used the Heaven Ascending Dharma Seal to break into the Fourth-Order realm and comprehended Star Burst Thunder Flame, tearing apart the vortex and opening Space Fissures.
• Ji Haoyuan urged everyone to activate their Fuya Tokens, and his group escaped the Fuya Secret Realm as its space began to fracture.
• More Blood Tentacles swept through the area after the group vanished, while the Nascent Yuan True Lords outside saw blood-red mist and discussed how the change had not occurred in several thousand years.
• Lan Hailong told True Monarch Xuanyuan that the situation might have occurred more than several thousand years earlier.

True Monarch Xuanyuan, Lan Hailong, and the others connected the Fuya Secret Realm’s deadly changes to a seal that might be weakening around a terrifying Fifth-Order Existence. After Ji Haoyuan and the other survivors recounted their escape, the group feared the realm could remain inaccessible for centuries, cutting off a major source of Nascent Soul Spirit Items.

• True Monarch Xuanyuan recalled that nearly ninety percent of cultivators had died in a similar Fuya Secret Realm incident three thousand years earlier, and Lan Hailong explained that the realm’s power came from something sealed within it.
• Several panicked cultivators fled the blood-red mist, followed by Ji Haoyuan, Ice Fire True Person, and the others.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan protected Ji Haoyuan and asked him to describe what had happened inside the realm; Ji Haoyuan and the other survivors recounted their experiences.
• Golden Light Sword Lord suggested that the changes were related to the seal loosening, and the True Lords explained their suspicions to Ji Haoyuan and the others.
• Jiang Xin pointed out that the Fuya Secret Realm might be inaccessible for centuries, leaving everyone concerned about the loss of a major source of Nascent Soul Spirit Items.

After the Fuya Secret Realm left many sects devastated, Ji Haoyuan returned to the Yanfa Sect, gave away two spiritual treasures, and began secluding himself to prepare for forming his Nascent Soul. Twenty years later, he had reached the peak of the Golden Core realm and forged a powerful defensive treasure, while his body-refinement progress remained unfinished.

• Lu Mengchan emerged from the Fuya Secret Realm, and seven more days passed without another survivor appearing.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan led Ji Haoyuan and the others away from the Boundless Sea, where rival sects' hostility threatened further conflict.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan and Ji Haoyuan reported the expedition's events to True Monarch Yanfa, who decided to go to the Boundless Sea himself.
• Ji Haoyuan gave Shi Siyao Sun Moon Spiritual Spring for the Ji Family and gave True Monarch Xuanyuan Heavenly Splendor Purple Dew.
• Ji Haoyuan entered seclusion to advance his cultivation and refine his body, then spent twenty years reaching Golden Core peak and forging the quasi-Fourth-Order defensive True Treasure Tai Hao Huang Tian Zhao.

Ji Haoyuan completed a batch of Nascent Soul Pills after twenty years in seclusion and learned from Miao Zixi about the Four Sect War and rumors of Ancient Ruins in Demon territory. He began considering how to investigate the ruins, while Miao Zixi was about to share another development.

• Ji Haoyuan’s Sun Moon Star Thunder Body reached Fourth-Order power, and his brother Ji Bochang recovered his foundation and became the Ji Family’s second Golden Core True Person.
• The Four Sect War erupted six months earlier after years of conflict, though Golden Core True Persons had not yet entered the battlefield.
• Ji Haoyuan refined three Nascent Soul Pills and left seclusion, then summoned Miao Zixi to report the important events of the past twenty years.
• Miao Zixi reported that Ice Fire True Person and other Great Golden Core Cultivators remained in seclusion, and that Ancient Ruins might have appeared in the North Mang Mountain Range.
• Ji Haoyuan considered investigating the ruins to seek the Infant Transformation Grass and Foundation Establishment Flower, but recognized the dangers of entering Demon territory.