Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan received another puppetry inheritance and broke the Fourth-Order puppet formation protecting the Grand Xuan Clear Lotus. After he also removed the restriction around its pool and stored the treasure, two approaching cultivators called for him to stop, while True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang blocked their way.

• The Dongyuan Token resonated with the formation inscriptions and delivered a new puppetry inheritance to Ji Haoyuan, who asked True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang to guard him while he studied the Fourth-Order puppet formation.
• Ji Haoyuan advanced his Path of Puppetry to the Fourth-Order in less than half a month, but waited over a year before beginning to break the formation so his progress would not seem too extraordinary.
• Ji Haoyuan's formation inscriptions dimmed and erased the puppet formation, revealing the Grand Xuan Clear Lotus in the pool.
• Ji Haoyuan broke the restriction around the pool and stored the Grand Xuan Clear Lotus and all the pool water in his Storage Ring.
• Two cultivators rushed over and called for Ji Haoyuan to stop, so True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang moved to block them.

Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang faced two Flying Star Palace Elders demanding the Grand Xuan Clear Lotus. When the elders threatened them, the three attacked, and Ji Haoyuan shattered True Monarch Feihai’s defense before launching a volley of lightning-and-flame spears at him.

• Liu Huayuan and True Monarch Feihai confronted Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang, demanding that Ji Haoyuan surrender what he had obtained.
• Liu Huayuan identified himself and True Monarch Feihai as relatives of Flying Star Palace elders and threatened the group if they refused.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan told Ji Haoyuan and True Monarch Fuguang to attack, then struck Liu Huayuan with a giant flying sword while True Monarch Fuguang fired three radiant arrows at True Monarch Feihai.
• True Monarch Feihai raised the Ocean Blue Pearl to block the arrows, but Ji Haoyuan’s Purple Lightning Thunder Dragon Saber shattered its ocean-blue light.
• Ji Haoyuan followed with nine spears of violet lightning and crimson flame aimed at True Monarch Feihai, who sensed imminent danger.

Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang fought the Flying Star Palace elders in the Ruins Secret Realm. After True Monarch Feihai and Liu Huayuan’s bodies were destroyed, Ji Haoyuan stopped Liu Huayuan’s fleeing Nascent Soul with a treasure gourd.

• Ji Haoyuan killed True Monarch Feihai with violet lightning flame spears and Evil-Dispelling Divine Lightning, destroying both his body and Nascent Soul.
• Liu Huayuan tried to retreat, but Ji Haoyuan’s Inner Demon Curse Seal made him abandon his escape and resume fighting True Monarch Xuanyuan.
• Ji Haoyuan and True Monarch Fuguang joined True Monarch Xuanyuan’s assault, and True Monarch Xuanyuan’s Sword Light destroyed Liu Huayuan’s body.
• Liu Huayuan’s Nascent Soul fled hundreds of miles and threatened revenge on the Yanfa Sect, but Ji Haoyuan aimed a treasure gourd at it and froze it in midair.

Ji Haoyuan killed Liu Huayuan with the God Slaying Treasure Gourd and discussed dividing their spoils with True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang. They confirmed Liu Huayuan had passed the first trial, shared the contents of his and True Monarch Feihai’s Storage Rings, and Ji Haoyuan took two True Treasures with a warning to conceal their origins.

• Ji Haoyuan used the God Slaying Treasure Gourd to lock onto Liu Huayuan and destroy his Nascent Soul with Evil-Dispelling Divine Lightning.
• True Monarch Fuguang wondered whether Liu Huayuan and the others had passed the first trial, and Ji Haoyuan said the possibility remained while suggesting the earlier encounter might have been a coincidence.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang asked only for some Grand Xuan Spirit Spring, and Ji Haoyuan offered them Grand Xuan Clear Lotus seeds in exchange for five Supreme-grade spirit stones.
• The three opened Liu Huayuan and True Monarch Feihai’s Storage Rings, found a Dongyuan Token that confirmed Liu Huayuan had passed the first trial, and divided most of the contents.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang let Ji Haoyuan take Liu Huayuan’s Yin-Yang Golden Wheel and True Monarch Feihai’s Ocean Blue Pearl, warning him to refine them and avoid using them before Flying Star Palace cultivators.

Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang entered an ancient palace through a barrier guarded by Demon Kings. Inside, Ji Haoyuan warned them to follow his steps through a hall of strange statues and three passageways, while each step triggered faint tremors and cracking sounds.

• Ji Haoyuan used the Dongyuan Token to open the palace barrier as the Black Hidden Mantis King and other Demon Kings attacked.
• Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang rushed inside, while the Black Hidden Mantis King and Snow Eagle King stopped the Golden Ape King from pursuing them.
• The Black Hidden Mantis King suggested waiting outside because the humans would eventually have to return and might face enemies within.
• Inside the palace, Ji Haoyuan and his companions found humanoid statues and three passageways, and Ji Haoyuan warned the others to follow his exact path.
• Ji Haoyuan stepped carefully through the hall, and the ground trembled with faint cracking sounds as True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang followed.

Ji Haoyuan and his companions encountered a deadly trap when Nascent Soul Late Stage statues slaughtered another group of cultivators. The Dongyuan Token revealed that Ji Haoyuan had to master a Puppet Model within half a day, and he opened his eyes as the statues began to turn toward them.

• A red-dressed female cultivator and her companions approached Ji Haoyuan's group, triggering the passage's statues to awaken and kill them.
• The statues destroyed the fleeing cultivators and their Nascent Souls, including the red-dressed female cultivator despite her protective talisman.
• Ji Haoyuan activated the Dongyuan Token, stopping the statues from attacking and learning that he had to raise his puppet realm to Tier 4 High-grade within half a day.
• Ji Haoyuan told True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang to stay still while he studied the Puppet Model that appeared before him.
• As the statues began turning toward them and the Puppet Model's red points flickered urgently, Ji Haoyuan opened his eyes.

Ji Haoyuan discovered the Great Venerable’s final inheritance and learned that the cultivators who failed to claim it would be killed when the Ruins Secret Realm was cleansed. As he began refining Fourth-Order puppets to win the inheritance, a Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect cultivator used his hidden bloodline connection to activate a Silver Light Screen elsewhere.

• Ji Haoyuan calmed the Puppet Model, opened an underground passage, and led True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang to a chamber filled with Fourth-Order puppet materials and Jade Slips.
• Ji Haoyuan learned from the Dongyuan Token that the cultivators had to refine Fourth-Order puppets to compete for the Great Venerable’s inheritance, while everyone who failed would be buried in the secret realm.
• Ji Haoyuan began refining puppets, determined to secure the inheritance before anyone else could claim it.
• A cultivator from the Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect cut his wrist and poured his blood onto a Silver Light Screen, using a secret trace of connection to the Great Venerable’s bloodline.

Ji Haoyuan refined four Fourth-Order Puppets, won the inheritance contest, and collected the Great Venerable’s treasures. As the Ruins Secret Realm collapsed, he escaped with True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang, while the Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect cultivator was consumed by destruction.

• Ji Haoyuan spent several months refining a low-grade Fourth-Order Puppet, then used the following year to make three more, including two middle-grade puppets.
• The silver screen vanished after Ji Haoyuan completed his four puppets, and he told True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang that he had gained the upper hand in the inheritance contest.
• Ji Haoyuan collected the Great Venerable’s Jade Slips, Storage Bracelet, puppets, and remaining materials.
• The Ruins Secret Realm began to collapse, so Ji Haoyuan used the Dongyuan Token to transport himself, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang out.
• The Myriad Fiends Demonic Sect cultivator raged over losing the contest and was swallowed by a Fifth-Order blaze of light.

As the Ruins Secret Realm collapsed, Demon Kings and Nascent Soul cultivators tried desperately to escape, but space fissures and a Fifth-Order Flame killed many of them. Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang escaped the spreading spatial storm and returned to the Yanfa Sect.

• The Black Hidden Mantis King, Golden Ape King, Snow Eagle King, and other Demon Kings fled the collapsing realm, but space fissures sliced apart the Snow Eagle King and then killed several others.
• True Monarch Mohuo attacked True Monarch Shangyuan, using him to buy time to activate a Tier 4 High-grade Escape Talisman.
• True Monarch Shangyuan was killed by Mohuo's Demon Fire Giant Palm and the space fissures, while Mohuo emerged from the talisman into a Fifth-Order Flame that consumed him.
• Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang appeared roughly a thousand li from the realm and saw the shattered landscape and spreading spatial storm.
• Ji Haoyuan sensed danger and led True Monarch Xuanyuan and True Monarch Fuguang away before the storm expanded, and the three returned to the Yanfa Sect.

Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang returned to the Yanfa Sect after surviving the destruction of the Cave Abyss Relic Realm and reported what had happened to True Monarch Yanfa. True Monarch Yanfa had advanced to peak Nascent Soul, and the chapter ended with him and True Monarch Baihua studying the Fifth-Order inheritances Ji Haoyuan had brought back.

• Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang returned to the Yanfa Sect and told True Monarch Baihua that their trip had nearly cost them their lives.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan learned that True Monarch Yanfa had emerged from seclusion, and True Monarch Yanfa summoned the returning cultivators to the Sect Leader Hall.
• True Monarch Yanfa revealed that he had advanced to peak Nascent Soul, delighting Ji Haoyuan and the others.
• Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, and True Monarch Fuguang recounted their dangerous experience in the Cave Abyss Relic Realm to True Monarch Yanfa and True Monarch Baihua.
• Ji Haoyuan presented copied inheritance Jade Slips, including Fifth-Order cultivation techniques and the Detailed Explanation of Advancing to Deity Transformation, and True Monarch Yanfa and True Monarch Baihua began examining them.

After Ji Haoyuan and the others returned with important inheritances, True Monarch Yanfa arranged for them to swear Heart Demon Oaths before entering seclusion to study what they had recovered. Ji Haoyuan returned to Nanhua Peak and opened the black Storage Bracelet, discovering a powerful puppet, rare treasures, and an inheritance that could strengthen his weapons.

• True Monarch Yanfa proposed that he, True Monarch Xuanyuan, True Monarch Fuguang, and True Monarch Baihua swear Heart Demon Oaths to keep the recovered inheritances secret, and they agreed.
• True Monarch Yanfa entered seclusion, while True Monarch Fuguang voiced hope that he might advance beyond peak Nascent Soul.
• Ji Haoyuan learned that Ice Fire True Person had returned and begun seclusion, then went to his Cave Mansion without disturbing her.
• Ji Haoyuan removed the restrictions on the black Storage Bracelet and found a detailed Path of Puppetry inheritance and a Tier 4 High-grade Humanoid Puppet that could contend against a Great True Monarch but consumed many Supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Ji Haoyuan opened two treasures sealed in Thousand-Year Ice Jade and identified them as a Limitless Treasure Crystal, which could help a Fourth-grade True Treasure awaken spirituality, and a Golden Star Vermilion Fruit that could improve his cultivation and body refinement.

After thirty years of seclusion, Ji Haoyuan advanced his cultivation and soul to the Nascent Soul Middle and Late Stages, respectively. He then went to Miaoyu Peak as Ice Fire True Person attempted to form her Nascent Soul, and the chapter ended with her breakthrough reaching the Nascent Soul level.

• Ji Haoyuan refined the Yuan Chen Sword Pellet into a Fourth-Order True Treasure and advanced both his Dao and body-refining cultivation to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Ji Haoyuan consumed a Grand Xuan Clear Lotus seed and raised his Soul Dao cultivation to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, condensing a Soul Manifestation.
• Miao Zixi alerted Ji Haoyuan that the Spiritual Energy around Miaoyu Peak had surged as Ice Fire True Person began her breakthrough.
• Ji Haoyuan rewarded Miao Zixi with pills and went with her to Miaoyu Peak, where Xuanyuan, Floating Light, Hundred Flowers, and others had gathered.
• After several days, Ice Fire True Person’s Spiritual pressure rose to the Nascent Soul level, and Ji Haoyuan recognized that she had succeeded in entering the Nascent Soul Realm.

Ice Fire True Person overcame the lightning, Yin Fire, and Heart Demon tribulations and advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm. After everyone else left Miaoyu Peak, she told Ji Haoyuan that her trials had revealed her feelings for him and asked whether he would walk the Great Dao beside her.

• Ice Fire True Person faced the Heavenly Tribulation and used her swords and Ji Haoyuan’s Tribulation Lightning Fruit to survive its lightning strikes.
• Ice Fire True Person passed the Yin Fire Tribulation and overcame the Heart Demon Tribulation despite suffering a disruption and coughing blood.
• Ice Fire True Person stabilized her Nascent Soul Realm cultivation as Seven-Colored Rosy Clouds appeared, and the gathered cultivators congratulated her.
• Ice Fire True Person thanked Ji Haoyuan and exchanged greetings with True Lord Xuanyuan, True Monarch Fuguang, and True Monarch Baihua.
• After the others left, Ice Fire True Person told Ji Haoyuan that her Heart Demon Tribulation had shown her true feelings and asked if he would stay by her side.

Ji Haoyuan and Ice Fire True Person acknowledged their feelings, became Dao companions, and brought their partnership to Nanhua Peak, where she began consolidating her breakthrough. Ji Haoyuan then joined the sect’s leaders after True Monarch Yanfa summoned them to discuss several important matters, beginning with Evil Cultivator Blood Demon.

• Ice Fire True Person expressed her intentions to Ji Haoyuan, and he accepted, embracing her and inviting her to consolidate her cultivation at Nanhua Peak.
• Ji Haoyuan introduced Ice Fire True Person as Nanhua Peak’s mistress, and she asked Miao Zixi to help manage Miaoyu Peak’s affairs and gave her a defensive Dharma treasure.
• Ice Fire True Person entered a Cave Mansion to consolidate her realm, while Ji Haoyuan left a mid-grade Tier 4 puppet to protect her and strengthen Nanhua Peak.
• Ji Haoyuan went to the Sect Leader Hall after receiving a Message Talisman from True Monarch Yanfa, where True Monarch Xuanyuan, True Monarch Fuguang, and True Monarch Baihua congratulated him on becoming Dao companions with Ice Fire True Person.
• True Monarch Yanfa summoned the gathered cultivators to discuss important matters and began with Evil Cultivator Blood Demon.

True Monarch Yanfa warned Ji Haoyuan and the others about the growing threat of Evil Cultivator Blood Demons and a possible new war with the Demon Race. He then revealed that he wanted their help planning his advancement to Spirit Transformation, leaving them focused on whether he could obtain the Tier 5 spirit vein required.

• True Monarch Yanfa warned that several Nascent Soul-level Evil Cultivator Blood Demons had emerged and urged everyone to prepare against their ambushes.
• True Monarch Yanfa said the Demon Race had grown stronger after entering the Ancient Ruins and might soon launch another war against the Human Race.
• True Monarch Yanfa told Ji Haoyuan and the others that he had summoned them to ask for their help.
• True Monarch Yanfa revealed that he planned to pursue Spirit Transformation while conditions remained stable.
• True Monarch Xuanyuan asked how they could help and how likely the plan was to succeed, as they recognized that advancement required a Tier 5 spirit vein.

True Monarch Yanfa revealed that the Yanfa Sect secretly controlled a Tier 5 Minor Grotto-Heaven, but the White Bone Demonic Cult occupied its location. He planned a swift assault to seize it and asked Ji Haoyuan to prepare the formation-breaking talismans needed to destroy the cult’s defenses.

• True Monarch Yanfa disclosed to Ji Haoyuan, True Monarch Xuanyuan, True Monarch Fuguang, and True Monarch Baihua that the Yanfa Sect controlled a hidden Tier 5 Minor Grotto-Heaven near the border with the Eastern Heaven Domain.
• True Monarch Yanfa explained that the White Bone Demonic Cult had established its mountain gate there and that the sect needed to be destroyed before other forces could respond.
• True Monarch Yanfa showed his Tier 4 High-grade Concealed Illusion Array and asked Ji Haoyuan to make Restriction-Breaking Talismans capable of threatening the cult’s Tier 4 High-grade Mountain Protection Array.
• Ji Haoyuan said he could attempt Tier 4 mid-grade or high-grade Restriction-Breaking Talismans with about a sixty percent chance of success, and True Monarch Yanfa authorized him to select materials from the Yanfa Sect Treasury.
• True Monarch Yanfa said Ice Fire True Person could join the assault once Ji Haoyuan completed the talismans.

After nearly ten years of preparation, Ji Haoyuan and the Yanfa Sect’s Grand Elders attacked the White Bone Demonic Cult, using the sect’s alleged killing of Yanfa Sect cultivators as a pretext. The assault began at the cult’s mountain gate, where its leaders tried to negotiate with True Monarch Yanfa.

• Ji Haoyuan advanced his formation skills and refined Restriction-Breaking Talismans, while Ice Fire True Person consolidated her cultivation and turned the Ice Fire Twin Swords into a natal True Treasure.
• True Monarch Yanfa gathered Ji Haoyuan, Ice Fire True Person, and the other Grand Elders, then led them to destroy the White Bone Demonic Cult.
• The Yanfa Sect’s group watched from the Nine Heavens Gale Wind Layer as White Bone Demonic Cult cultivators used tens of thousands of mortals to refine White Bone Banners.
• True Monarch Yanfa ordered Junior Brother Nanhua to set up surrounding restrictions while he and the others attacked the cult’s Mountain Protection Array.
• True Monarch Kukou, Demon Lord Tianyin, and True Monarch Baigui emerged, and True Monarch Yanfa accused them of killing Yanfa Sect cultivators.
• True Monarch Kukou pleaded that there had been a misunderstanding and offered to investigate and hand over whoever was responsible.

True Monarch Yanfa and four allies attacked the White Bone Demonic Cult, ignoring its leaders’ pleas and threats. The cult’s Mountain Protection Array finally collapsed after they activated Fourth-Order Restriction-Breaking Talismans.

• True Monarch Yanfa and four allies repeatedly attacked the White Bone Demonic Cult’s Mountain Protection Array, but its Spiritual Vein sustained it.
• True Monarch Kukou, Demon Lord Tianyin, and True Monarch Baigui pleaded for mercy, then threatened Yanfa Sect disciples when their appeals failed.
• True Monarch Yanfa and the others revealed Fourth-Order Restriction-Breaking Talismans and activated them, shaking the array and its Earth Vein.
• True Monarch Kukou and the other two rallied tens of thousands of cultivators to stabilize the array.
• The Mountain Protection Array’s Formation Bases and array nodes began exploding, and it collapsed completely.

True Monarch Yanfa and Ji Haoyuan led the destruction of the White Bone Demonic Cult, killing its leaders and every remaining cultivator. They then searched the sect treasury and found a valuable trove of accumulated treasures.

• True Monarch Yanfa shattered the White Bone Demonic Cult's defenses and slaughtered thousands of its cultivators with his Life-and-Death Grinding Mill.
• True Monarch Baigui, True Monarch Kukou, and Demon Lord Tianyin tried to flee, but a Fourth-Order Trapping Array blocked their escape.
• Ji Haoyuan confronted the trapped leaders, crippled their True Treasures with his lightning saber, and crushed their Physical Bodies with his Pure Yang Primordial Great Capture.
• True Monarch Yanfa destroyed True Monarch Kukou and Demon Lord Tianyin's Nascent Souls, while Ji Haoyuan and the other Nascent Soul True Lords wiped out the rest of the White Bone Demonic Cult.
• True Monarch Yanfa led Ji Haoyuan and the others to the sect treasury, where they collected valuable items from the cult's hoard.

True Monarch Yanfa and Ji Haoyuan discovered a Tier 5 Minor Grotto-Heaven filled with abundant Spiritual Energy and rare resources. True Monarch Yanfa established a Yanfa Sect Branch Courtyard there and appointed Ji Haoyuan as its Courtyard Head.

• True Monarch Yanfa used a compass to locate the Minor Grotto-Heaven and opened its entrance.
• Ji Haoyuan and the others entered the grotto-heaven and found plentiful spiritual treasures, including materials for Nascent Soul Nurturing Pills.
• True Monarch Yanfa proposed establishing a Yanfa Sect Branch Courtyard within the grotto-heaven.
• True Monarch Yanfa appointed Ji Haoyuan as Courtyard Head, and the others accepted the decision.
• True Monarch Yanfa gave Ji Haoyuan a Jade Token for entering the grotto-heaven and authorized him to recruit people and manage the new Branch Courtyard.