Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan faced Venerable Feiyao in a spar and let his opponent unleash a devastating sword strike. He reappeared unharmed, and Lu Yuanshan identified the Taicang Grotto-Heaven divine ability he had used as Illusory Bubble.

• Ji Haoyuan appeared on the Technique Practice Stage, and Venerable Feiyao challenged him to fight.
• Venerable Feiyao formed a Primordial Spirit Manifestation and sent a powerful, star-wreathed Sword Light at Ji Haoyuan.
• Ji Haoyuan stood still as the strike hit, then vanished amid the destruction, leaving the spectators unable to find him with Divine Sense.
• Ji Haoyuan reappeared unharmed after the sword's aftershocks faded, shocking Venerable Feiyao and the onlookers.
• Lu Yuanshan, Dai Yunfang, and Pei Guanghua recognized that Ji Haoyuan had used Taicang Grotto-Heaven's Illusory Bubble divine ability.

Ji Haoyuan defeated Venerable Feiyao with his Illusory Bubble divine ability and went on to win the true disciple technique competition. Martial Uncle Tianxuzi invited him to receive the promised reward from Tianxuzi and Kunyangzi.

• Venerable Feiyao used Zichen Grotto-Heaven’s Star Plucking Hand against Ji Haoyuan, but Ji Haoyuan vanished in a burst of bubbles and emerged unharmed.
• Ji Haoyuan made Venerable Feiyao turn illusory with a single point, and Kunyangzi intervened to declare Feiyao defeated.
• Venerable Feiyao bowed to Ji Haoyuan and left the stage, and Ji Haoyuan invited the other true disciples to challenge him.
• Ji Haoyuan sparred respectfully with challengers from Longding Grotto-Heaven and other grotto-heavens over the following days.
• After no one else challenged Ji Haoyuan, Tianxuzi awarded him first place and summoned him to receive the promised reward from Tianxuzi and Kunyangzi.

After winning the Dao technique exchange, Ji Haoyuan requested Kui Ox Horns to cultivate the Seven Transformations of Heaven Robbery, then received a Pure Yang Vermilion Fruit from Tianxuzi. Tianxuzi’s gift revealed that Ji Haoyuan’s Half-Innate Pure Yang Physique had a flaw he did not know about.

• Tianxuzi asked Ji Haoyuan what reward he wanted for taking first place in the exchange.
• Ji Haoyuan requested Kui Ox Horns, and Kunyangzi gave him a pair he had obtained by slaying a sixth-rank Kui Ox.
• Kunyangzi and Tianxuzi recognized that Taixu Bai had passed the Seven Transformations of Heaven Robbery to Ji Haoyuan because he was qualified to cultivate it.
• Ji Haoyuan left any further reward to Tianxuzi, who gave him a Pure Yang Vermilion Fruit to improve the purity of his Half-Innate Pure Yang Physique.
• Tianxuzi asked whether Ji Haoyuan knew about the flaw in his Pure Yang Physique and whether Taixu Bai had ever told him.

Ji Haoyuan learned that his Pure Yang Physique was only half-innate and that he had mistaken a Half-Innate Pure Yang Fruit for a true innate treasure. After sixty years in seclusion, he improved his physique, formed a towering Pure Yang Thunder Primordial Spirit Manifestation, and reached Late Deity Transformation.

• Tianxuzi explained that Ji Haoyuan had consumed a Half-Innate Pure Yang Fruit and possessed a Half-Innate Pure Yang Physique, while offering him a Pure Yang Vermilion Fruit to help improve it.
• Ji Haoyuan exchanged insights with the true disciples at Cloud Void Grotto-Heaven before returning to Taicang Grotto-Heaven and telling Taixu Bai what he had learned.
• Taixu Bai confirmed the limits of improving the physique with spiritual treasures and promised to watch for a genuine Innate Pure Yang Fruit.
• Ji Haoyuan returned to Nanhua Peak and entered seclusion to cultivate the Thunder Kui Ox Transformation and advance his cultivation.
• After sixty years, Ji Haoyuan used the Pure Yang Vermilion Fruit to improve his physique, strengthened his Primordial Spirit with a Tong Shen Pill and Fifth-Order resources, and broke through to Late Deity Transformation.

Ji Haoyuan mastered the Thunder Kui Ox Transformation, a technique that briefly gave him Void Refinement-level power but left his body severely exhausted. After emerging from seclusion, he learned that the Lesser Profound Realm had opened and considered entering a realm that held opportunities and imprisoned Demonic Evil Cultivators.

• Ji Haoyuan tested the Thunder Kui Ox Transformation and discovered it could create a spatial domain, though he could sustain it for only ten breaths and needed three days to recover.
• Ji Haoyuan found that using the transformation clarified his understanding of spatial rules and the Dao of Thunder, possibly bringing him closer to the Sixth-Order bottleneck.
• Several days later, Ji Haoyuan emerged from seclusion and Miao Zixi told him that Chief Steward White Egret had invited him to enter the newly opened Lesser Profound Realm using his Grotto-Heaven Golden Seal.
• Ji Haoyuan recalled that the Lesser Profound Realm held opportunities for Spirit Transformation cultivators and served as a prison where Demonic Evil Cultivators were used as sparring opponents.
• Ji Haoyuan reflected on how the Chaos Demon Realm corrupted Demonic Cultivators and how Central Divine Continent's Sacred Lands guarded against its invasion.

After learning of his fellow disciples’ progress, Ji Haoyuan went to the Lesser Profound Realm, where Boundary Guardian Elder Fang opened the realm gate and advised him to kill the imprisoned Demonic Evil Cultivators. Ji Haoyuan entered the realm and encountered a disheveled Demonic Cultivator.

• Ji Haoyuan learned that True Person Leixia and True Person Beichen had reached Nascent Soul Middle Stage, Zhang Tianyang had entered the Nascent Soul Realm, and others had advanced as well.
• Ji Haoyuan visited the Lesser Profound Realm and met Elder Fang, its Boundary Guardian, who recognized him as Taixu Bai’s disciple.
• Elder Fang used Ji Haoyuan’s Grotto-Heaven Golden Seal to open the realm gate and advised him to kill as many imprisoned Demonic Evil Cultivators as he could.
• Ji Haoyuan entered the Lesser Profound Realm and appeared in a lush forest.
• Ji Haoyuan heard a voice and spotted a disheveled man with a black rune between his brows, recognizing him as a Demonic Cultivator.

Ji Haoyuan rejected a Demonic Cultivator’s attempt to bewitch him, defeated him, and killed him. He then sensed fortune blessing him and realized why Elder Fang had urged him to slay as many Demonic Evil Cultivators as possible.

• The black-rune man tried to tempt Ji Haoyuan with a method for advancing within the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, but Ji Haoyuan attacked with his Yuan Chen Sword Pellet.
• The black-rune man summoned a Primordial Spirit Manifestation and tried to slow Ji Haoyuan’s sword, but Ji Haoyuan’s Sword Light Splitting destroyed the manifestation.
• The black-rune man used whispers to stir violent thoughts in Ji Haoyuan, but a golden sun in Ji Haoyuan’s sea of consciousness purified the demonic influence and caused backlash.
• Ji Haoyuan pierced the black-rune man with a golden flaming spear, destroying his body and soul.
• Ji Haoyuan sensed fortune blessing him and understood why Elder Fang had told him to kill as many Demonic Evil Cultivators as possible.

Ji Haoyuan found a Dragon Silver Carp transforming into a dragon and used his Essence Blood to bind it to himself. When Venerable Feiyao and Zhuang Hefan arrived, Zhuang Hefan demanded the carp, and the chapter ended with him threatening Ji Haoyuan.

• Ji Haoyuan followed a sense of guidance to a river and found a Dragon Silver Carp in the midst of transforming into a dragon.
• Ji Haoyuan sent a wisp of his Essence Blood into the carp’s silver light, forming a close connection with it.
• Venerable Feiyao and Zhuang Hefan arrived with black qi around their brows, and Zhuang Hefan showed greed toward the carp.
• Zhuang Hefan asked Ji Haoyuan to give him the carp in exchange for a favor, but Ji Haoyuan refused and declared he would make it his mount.
• Zhuang Hefan coldly threatened that Ji Haoyuan would hand over the Dragon Silver Carp whether he wanted to or not.

Ji Haoyuan defeated Zhuang Hefan and had him expelled from the Lesser Profound Realm after Zhuang attacked him. Venerable Feiyao, shaken by the display, bowed deeply to Ji Haoyuan.

• Zhuang Hefan attacked Ji Haoyuan with his purple-glowing long saber, and Ji Haoyuan made it appear that the strike had destroyed him.
• Ji Haoyuan reappeared and counterattacked with the Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear, breaking through Zhuang Hefan's Six Harmonies Seal.
• Ji Haoyuan pierced Zhuang Hefan and the Lesser Profound Realm's rules teleported him out.
• Venerable Feiyao realized he could not resist Ji Haoyuan and bowed deeply to him.

Ji Haoyuan helped the Dragon Silver Carp survive its transformation tribulation, and it became a five-clawed Silver Dragon named Ji Yinchuan. Ji Yinchuan then led Ji Haoyuan toward a place it remembered as containing something valuable, though it was unsure whether anyone had already taken it.

• Venerable Feiyao apologized for his senior brother's actions, then left after Ji Haoyuan dismissed him.
• Ji Haoyuan gave the Dragon Silver Carp the Dragon Pattern Cloud Umbrella to aid its transformation.
• The Dragon Silver Carp survived its Dragon Transformation Lightning Tribulation and became a five-clawed Silver Dragon.
• Ji Haoyuan named the dragon Ji Yinchuan, and it accepted the name and thanked its master.
• Ji Yinchuan carried Ji Haoyuan toward a place it remembered as holding something good, though it did not know exactly what it was or whether it remained there.

Ji Haoyuan rescued Sun Mingcheng and Su Yaqin from five Demonic Evil Cultivators, then confronted their Inverse Five Elements Grand Formation with his Five Elements Divine Light. The two forces clashed, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Ji Haoyuan and Ji Yinchuan encountered Sun Mingcheng and Su Yaqin fleeing from five Demonic Evil Cultivators.
• Ji Haoyuan struck one pursuer’s Black Tentacle with golden lightning, stopping its Blood Chaos attack and allowing him to reach Sun Mingcheng and Su Yaqin.
• Sun Mingcheng and Su Yaqin warned Ji Haoyuan that the five Demonic Evil Cultivators could form an Inverse Five Elements Grand Formation.
• The five Demonic Evil Cultivators activated their formation, and Ji Haoyuan answered with Five Elements Divine Light.
• Ji Haoyuan’s Five Elements Divine Light collided with the Inverse Five Elements Grand Formation as Sun Mingcheng and Su Yaqin watched in astonishment.

Ji Haoyuan and Ji Yinchuan found a Void Spirit Herb in a dangerous spatial maze, but an unknown assailant attacked just as Ji Haoyuan reached for it. The chapter ended with Ji Yinchuan countering the attack with silver flames.

• Ji Haoyuan destroyed the five Demonic Evil Cultivators with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning and hurried off with Ji Yinchuan.
• Sun Mingcheng and Su Yaqin decided not to follow Ji Haoyuan and left the area.
• Ji Yinchuan led Ji Haoyuan through a distorted canyon filled with Space Fissures and found a Void Spirit Herb.
• Ji Haoyuan recognized the herb's value for advancing to Void Refinement and lunged to take it.
• An unseen attacker warned Ji Haoyuan to wait and stabbed at him with a purple-glowing finger, so Ji Yinchuan retaliated with silver flames.

Ji Haoyuan escaped a hidden demonic cultivator in the Lesser Profound Realm and gathered the materials needed to refine the Void Treasure Pill. After the realm closed, Elder Fang used Red Lotus Pure Fire to cleanse those contaminated by Demonic Evil Cultivators.

• Ji Yinchuan drove off a blue-robed cultivator who tried to claim the Void Spirit Herb, and Ji Haoyuan left the gorge after sensing a hidden threat.
• Ji Haoyuan escaped the hooked-nosed old man, whom he suspected had once reached Void Refinement.
• Ji Haoyuan gathered more resources and slew Demonic Evil Cultivators before obtaining every material needed to refine the Void Treasure Pill.
• The Lesser Profound Realm closed, sending Ji Haoyuan and the other survivors outside.
• Elder Fang enveloped the contaminated survivors in Red Lotus Pure Fire and explained that it could purify Demonic Evil Cultivator contamination.

Elder Fang gave Ji Haoyuan a scroll painting containing his innate life-bound divine ability, and Ji Haoyuan learned that Elder Fang was the divine beast Bi Fang. Back in Taicang Grotto-Heaven, Bai Lu offered to help with Ji Yinchuan’s identity and the Void Treasure Pill before realizing their conversation had attracted Elder Fang’s attention.

• Elder Fang gave Ji Haoyuan a scroll painting as a reward and told him to prepare before viewing it, since he would have only one chance.
• Ji Haoyuan returned to Taicang Grotto-Heaven with Ji Yinchuan, and Bai Lu agreed to arrange an identity for the young true dragon within Myriad Laws Sacred Land.
• Ji Haoyuan recounted his trip to the Lesser Profound Realm to Bai Lu and showed him the scroll painting Elder Fang had given him.
• Bai Lu recognized the painting as likely containing Elder Fang’s innate life-bound divine ability, Red Lotus Pure Fire, and revealed that Elder Fang was the divine beast Bi Fang.
• Bai Lu sensed that Elder Fang was scrutinizing their conversation, stopped discussing his origins, and offered to find alchemists to refine Ji Haoyuan’s Void Treasure Pills.

Ji Haoyuan comprehended the Red Lotus Pure Fire Diagram, gained three powerful abilities, and spent decades preparing to advance to Void Refinement. He began absorbing the void across a hundred li and, with the Void Treasure Pill before him, stood on the verge of completing his breakthrough.

• Ji Haoyuan opened Elder Fang's scroll and comprehended the Red Lotus Pure Fire, Red Lotus World Destruction, and the Red Lotus Manifestation.
• Bai Lu delivered the refined Void Treasure Pill to Ji Haoyuan, who continued tempering his cultivation in seclusion.
• Over the next thirty years, Ji Haoyuan reached the peak of Spirit Transformation and touched the Void Refinement bottleneck.
• Ji Haoyuan calculated that his scripture, twin Primordial Spirit Manifestations, cultivation foundation, and Void Treasure Pill gave him a ninety-five percent chance of advancing, then began his breakthrough.
• Ji Haoyuan merged his Primordial Spirit Manifestations with his body and extended his command over the void to a hundred li.
• Taixu Bai sensed Ji Haoyuan's breakthrough and sent Bai Lu to watch over him as Ji Haoyuan opened the jade bottle containing the Void Treasure Pill.

Ji Haoyuan swallowed a Void Treasure Pill and advanced to Void Refinement, merging his mana with three hundred miles of void. He began his tribulation at Ganyang Peak, where he demonstrated that he could shift a lightning strike into the void, leaving his companions stunned by his extraordinary potential.

• Ji Haoyuan swallowed the Void Treasure Pill, and his mana merged with a three-hundred-mile stretch of void as he advanced to Void Refinement.
• Bai Lu urged Ji Haoyuan to leave the Grotto-Heaven before undergoing tribulation, and Ji Haoyuan brought True Person Leixia, Miao Zixi, Ji Qingfei, and the others to Ganyang Peak.
• Bai Lu revealed that Ji Haoyuan’s master had sent him to stand guard while Ji Haoyuan prepared for his tribulation.
• Ji Haoyuan walked into the skies above Ganyang Peak, where tribulation clouds gathered and a bolt of silver lightning struck him.
• Ji Haoyuan shifted the lightning tribulation into the void within a hundred miles, and Bai Lu explained that such mastery was rare even among Sacred Land elites.
• True Person Leixia and the others realized that Ji Haoyuan’s potential might rival that of the sect’s Mahayana cultivators.

Ji Haoyuan overcame the final Heavenly Tribulation and advanced to Void Refinement, gaining a new avatar ability and drawing attention across the Myriad Laws Sacred Land. At Zichen Grotto-Heaven, Long Fengwu ordered Zhuang Hefan and Venerable Feiyao to accompany her to Ganyang Peak to apologize and congratulate him.

• Ji Haoyuan burned away the sixth Heavenly Tribulation with his crimson fire lotus and used Illusory Bubble to evade the seventh.
• Ji Haoyuan combined the Flowing Flame Profound Yellow Spear with the light of his Primordial Spirit to withstand the final Heavenly Tribulation and comprehend the path of the true self.
• Ji Haoyuan gained greater power in Illusory Bubble and the ability to create a temporary avatar at thirty percent of his strength.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed over Ganyang Peak, and Ji Haoyuan advanced to Void Refinement as cultivators across the Myriad Laws Sacred Land noticed his breakthrough.
• Long Fengwu rejected Zhuang Hefan and Venerable Feiyao's claims about Ji Haoyuan and ordered them to go with her to Ganyang Peak to apologize and congratulate him.

After Ji Haoyuan consolidated his Void Refinement breakthrough, Taixu Bai appointed him to posts in the Law Suppression Hall and the Dao Palace’s Punishment and Reward Courtyard. Taixu Bai gave him the Evil-Punishing Whip and tasked him with asserting Taicang Grotto-Heaven’s authority in the courtyard.

• Ji Haoyuan received congratulations after reaching the Void Refinement realm, then spent three years consolidating his cultivation and advancing his spells and abilities to the sixth tier.
• Ji Haoyuan visited Taixu Bai, who gave him an elder token and approved his choice to serve in the Law Suppression Hall.
• Taixu Bai explained that Taicang Grotto-Heaven governed the Dao Palace’s Punishment and Reward Courtyard but lacked disciples in important posts.
• Taixu Bai appointed Ji Haoyuan First Vice Head of the Court and gave him the Evil-Punishing Whip to enforce his orders.
• Ji Haoyuan promised to carry out Taixu Bai’s instructions, and Taixu Bai told him to act without reservations against anyone who defied him.

Ji Haoyuan prepared to take charge of the Dao Palace’s Punishment and Reward Courtyard, gathering trusted companions after learning that his master expected trouble there. At the courtyard, its Stone Array Sect leaders debated how to respond to Ji Haoyuan and whether to summon the Morality Sacred Sect for help.

• Taixu Bai told Ji Haoyuan to bring trusted people to the Dao Palace and advised him to show no restraint at the Punishment and Reward Courtyard, while Bai Lu explained the Dao Palace’s protection and the courtyard’s ties to Taicang Grotto-Heaven.
• Ji Haoyuan accepted an Elder position in the Law Suppression Hall, then summoned Sun Mingcheng, Su Yaqin, Meng Wan, and Jin Xiao to accompany him to the courtyard.
• Ji Haoyuan also planned to bring Nangong Jin and True Person Leixia as his group prepared to travel to the Dao Palace.
• Shi Daozhen warned Lin Yuan and Bai Hai that Ji Haoyuan was coming to the courtyard, and Lin Yuan cautioned that the new chief might know they had pledged themselves to the Morality Sacred Sect.
• Bai Hai proposed informing the Morality Sacred Sect and relying on its support to prevent Ji Haoyuan from acting against them, prompting Shi Daozhen and Lin Yuan to take notice.

Shi Daozhen, Divine Monarch Bai Hai, and Divine Monarch Lin Yuan decided to align the Stone Array Sect with the Morality Sacred Sect to protect themselves from the Myriad Laws Sacred Land. At the Punishment and Reward Courtyard, Ji Haoyuan challenged its stewards over alleged misconduct and offered a reward to anyone who reported the truth.

• Divine Monarch Bai Hai warned Shi Daozhen and Divine Monarch Lin Yuan that the Myriad Laws Sacred Land would punish them for their past actions, so Shi Daozhen decided they must align with the Morality Sacred Sect.
• More than ten days later, Ji Haoyuan arrived above the Punishment and Reward Courtyard and sent Sun Mingcheng and Su Yaqin to summon its vice heads.
• Shi Daozhen, Divine Monarch Bai Hai, and Divine Monarch Lin Yuan went with other stewards to greet Ji Haoyuan, who questioned them about unfair rewards and punishments.
• Ji Haoyuan promised protection and rewards to stewards who spoke truthfully, then interrupted Shi Daozhen's defense and invited the others to report first.
• Ji Haoyuan offered three Tong Shen Pills to whoever first reported on the Punishment and Reward Courtyard's conduct.