Chapter Summaries

Fang Chen returned from the Ninth Secret Realm, learned the Realm Master would need a hundred years to repair its Third Layer, and reunited with Ye Qingci. Ye Qingci revealed that she wanted to craft a Magic Treasure inside her eyes, but she needed stone skins and powder from a Black Stone that Fang Chen could not break.

• Fang Chen refined the mysterious energy from the Cycle World, then helped Little Crane and Myna bird remove it before meeting the Realm Master.
• The Realm Master told Fang Chen that repairing the Third Layer of the Secret Realm would take at least a hundred years and sent him and his companions out.
• Fang Chen contacted Ye Qingci and traveled with Little Crane and Myna bird to meet her in the Qingyang Realm.
• Ye Qingci told Fang Chen how she had passed the first Checkpoint by telling a story about picking Mushrooms, then defeating a chicken demon in the story's forest.
• Ye Qingci explained that a special Qi Refining method let her nurture a Magic Treasure inside her eyes, and she asked for stone skins and powder from Fang Chen's Black Stone.
• Fang Chen contacted Chi You to ask whether he had left the Secret Realm, but Chi You did not respond.

Fang Chen checked that the Buddhist Land and Glazed Sword Sect were safe, then planned to refine a longbow while waiting for Chi You. Chi You and Ye Kong passed the Ninth Secret Realm’s second Checkpoint and joined Fang Chen, who revealed that he had cleared it using just one chance.

• Fang Chen learned from the Three Burials Buddha Emperor and the Black Flame Saint that the Buddhist Land and Glazed Sword Sect were peaceful, and he decided to refine a longbow.
• The Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm contacted Fang Chen and reported that it had passed the second Checkpoint, so Fang Chen summoned it to the Qingyang Realm.
• Fang Chen lamented that his nine Clones had not yet passed the first Checkpoint, while Ye Kong and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm traveled toward him.
• Ye Kong and the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm arrived, and Ye Kong revealed that some monsters had cleared the Checkpoint in under half an hour.
• Fang Chen told Ye Kong and the others that he had passed the second Checkpoint in one day using only one chance, surprising them.

Ye Qingci gathered Black Stone powder and stone skin with her Nirvana Immortal Eyes to prepare for crafting a Magic Treasure. She entered the Ninth Secret Realm to begin crafting, while Fang Chen accompanied her to the Rainbow Mountain Range.

• Ye Qingci told Ye Kong that she had cleared the first checkpoint by telling a story and explained the special artifact-crafting method that appeared after her breakthrough to Quasi-Emperor.
• Fang Chen asked Chi You to gnaw Black Stone into chips for Ye Qingci, and she stored the chips in her Nirvana Immortal Eyes.
• Ye Qingci used her eyes to gather stone skin from the Stone Skin Great Array and prepared to craft her Magic Treasure in the Ninth Secret Realm.
• Fang Chen escorted Ye Qingci to the Rainbow Mountain Range, where she told him she could enter on her own and urged him to attend to his work.

Fang Chen set up a Chaos Devouring Heaven Array to refine a Longbow while the Chaos Demonic Star Vine absorbed energy from the Black Stone. His nine Clones emerged from the Ninth Secret Realm stronger, and Eldest Brother Fang began explaining why they had stayed so long.

• Ye Qingci kissed Fang Chen before entering the Ninth Secret Realm, and Fang Chen returned to the Qingyang Realm to begin Artifact Crafting.
• Fang Chen summoned the Black Stone, where the Chaos Heart-Devouring Worm gnawed at it and the Chaos Demonic Star Vine began absorbing its energy.
• Fang Chen spent three months setting up a Chaos Devouring Heaven Array and filled it with stone chips, stone skin, ore, and discarded Saint Weapons to refine a Longbow.
• Fang Chen sensed that his nine Clones had emerged from the Ninth Secret Realm and summoned them to his restricted area in the Qingyang Realm.
• The Clones grew embarrassed when Fang Chen asked why they had stayed so long, and Eldest Brother Fang said the first Checkpoint had not been difficult for them.

Fang Chen learned that his nine Clones had been delayed by illusory beauties and entrusted them with helping manage the Glazed Sword Sect. In the Ye Family’s Xuanhuang Origin Realm, Ye Chen attacked the mysterious meteorite with the Xuanhuang Bell, but the stone continued to withstand his blows.

• Fang Chen discovered that his Clones had lingered in an illusion of beautiful women, then assured them and assigned them responsibilities at the Glazed Sword Sect.
• The meteorite in the Ye Family’s Xuanhuang Origin Realm stopped devouring energy, but its protective force kept the Ye Family Members and Li Changsheng at a distance.
• Ye Chen, recovered from his earlier injuries, tried to approach the meteorite but could not get closer than a hundred zhang.
• Ye Chen entered the Xuanhuang Bell and smashed through the meteorite’s protective force with a powerful strike.
• Ye Chen repeatedly drove the Xuanhuang Bell into the meteorite as the Ye Family Members cheered.

The meteorite erupted with immense energy, tearing apart the Ye Family's Xuanhuang Origin Realm and injuring Ye Chen before its own Source Power began pouring out. Fang Chen set out for the Ye Family, while the Xuanhuang Origin Realm began repairing itself and outside powerhouses watched the mysterious stone.

• The meteorite cracked under the Xuanhuang Bell's strike and released a blast that shattered the Ye Family's Xuanhuang Origin Realm and devastated its cultivators.
• Powerhouses from major Human Race factions rushed to the Ye Family and discovered that the meteorite was releasing concentrated Source Power of Emperors.
• Black Flame Saint told Fang Chen that the eruption had come from the Ye Family, so Fang Chen left the Glazed Sword Sect in the care of Eldest Brother Fang and headed for the Central Barrens.
• The Xuanhuang Bell sheltered Ye Mian and the other Ye Family members, while Ye Chen coughed up blood from the backlash of the meteorite's blast.
• The meteorite continued pouring out energy, and the Ye Family powerhouses believed it was running dry.
• A surge of yellow Source Power began repairing the shattered Xuanhuang Origin Realm as outside powerhouses watched.

Fang Chen entered the Ye Family’s Xuanhuang Origin Realm to retrieve the Stone after it began releasing energy again. Ye Chen confronted him, and the chapter ended with both facing off inside the realm.

• Little Crane brought Fang Chen and his companions to the outskirts of the Ye Family’s Xuanhuang Origin Realm.
• Fang Chen and the others saw the Meteorite releasing dense energy through cracks in the realm’s barrier, and Fang Chen decided to take the Stone back.
• Despite warnings from the gathered Human Powerhouses, Fang Chen walked into the Xuanhuang Origin Realm.
• Ye Chen emerged from the Xuanhuang Bell and attacked Fang Chen with the Xuanhuang Banner.
• Fang Chen shattered Ye Chen’s Xuanhuang Qi with the Floating Immortal Sword, which absorbed some of it and strengthened Fang Chen’s body.
• Ye Chen angrily confronted Fang Chen for entering Ye Family territory.

Fang Chen fought Ye Chen inside the Xuanhuang Origin Realm, cutting apart the Xuanhuang Qi unleashed by Ye Chen’s banner and absorbing its energy through his sword. Chaos Holy Lord Yue Canglan and Yaochi Holy Lord Li Qingyao arrived to watch as Fang Chen’s sword speed and power continued to rise.

• Fang Chen provoked Ye Chen, who activated his Xuanhuang Battle Mark and attacked with the Xuanhuang Banner.
• Fang Chen used the Floating Immortal Sword to shatter Ye Chen’s Xuanhuang Qi, and their clashes sent shockwaves cracking the space outside the realm.
• Yue Canglan arrived on the Chaos Bead, and Li Qingyao appeared beside him on a peach pit before watching Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen fused the Darkness Devouring God Domain with the Floating Immortal Sword and cut down the incoming Xuanhuang Qi at tremendous speed.
• The Floating Immortal Sword absorbed most of the scattered energy, increasing Fang Chen’s power as Yue Canglan marveled at his swordsmanship.

Fang Chen endured Ye Chen’s assault in the Xuanhuang Origin Realm for three hours, forcing Ye Chen to use the Xuanhuang Pearl and transform. Ye Chen then invoked a different Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, Azure Yellow, and a colossal version of himself rose from the Xuanhuang Sea with Ye Qingci’s Nirvana Immortal Eyes.

• Fang Chen withstood Ye Chen’s waves of Xuanhuang Qi for three hours while absorbing power from the Floating Immortal Sword and strengthening his Sword Domain and body.
• Ye Mian urged Ye Chen to stop wearing Fang Chen down and gave him the Xuanhuang Pearl, which Ye Chen swallowed to unleash his Xuanhuang True Body.
• Fang Chen activated the Glazed Battle Runes and clashed with Ye Chen’s Xuanhuang Banner, sending both fighters flying.
• Ye Chen used the Azure Yellow Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth, surrounding Fang Chen with a vast realm of blue sky and a yellow sea.
• A vortex opened beneath Fang Chen, and a giant resembling Ye Chen rose from the Xuanhuang Sea with blue eyes that Fang Chen recognized as Ye Qingci’s Nirvana Immortal Eyes.

Ye Chen used the Xuanhuang Origin Realm’s power to overwhelm Fang Chen, who countered with his Chaos Giant Manifestation and fought back inside Ye Kong’s Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth. Ye Qingci decided to join the battle, and Little Crane brought her and Ye Kong into the realm.

• Ye Chen transformed his left arm into a Kirin Arm and struck Fang Chen with enough force to send him flying.
• Ye Chen repeatedly attacked Fang Chen, while the Floating Immortal Sword and Myriad Buddhas War Scripture strengthened Fang Chen as he blocked.
• Fang Chen merged with his Chaos Giant Manifestation and clashed with Ye Chen inside Ye Kong’s Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth.
• Myna bird relayed the battle to Ye Qingci, who asked Little Crane to bring her to the Xuanhuang Origin Realm.
• Fang Chen told Little Crane to let Ye Qingci come and to protect her when she arrived.
• Little Crane returned with Ye Qingci and Ye Kong, surprising Myna bird.

Ye Qingci and Ye Kong returned to the Xuanhuang Origin Realm as Quasi-Emperors while Fang Chen continued fighting Ye Chen and drawing strength from the Floating Immortal Sword. After Ye Chen unleashed his strongest attack without defeating Fang Chen, an Ancient Pagoda descended from the Void.

• Yellow Light Points flew into Ye Qingci and Ye Kong, and Li Changsheng recognized that both had reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Ye Mian blamed Ye Qingci and Ye Kong for the Ye Family's troubles, while the Ye Family Members planned to trap Fang Chen in the Xuanhuang Pagoda and refine him.
• Fang Chen and Ye Chen continued clashing inside Ye Chen's Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth as their strength increased.
• Ye Chen reached his peak and struck Fang Chen with a powerful punch, but Fang Chen recovered through energy from the Floating Immortal Sword.
• An Ancient Pagoda descended from the shattered Void above the Xuanhuang Origin Realm.

Fang Chen and his companions were pulled into the Ye Family’s Xuanhuang Pagoda, where Ye Mian and Ye Chen confronted them. The Ye Family believed the pagoda had trapped Fang Chen beyond escape, while Ye Chen planned to take Ye Qingci’s Essence Blood and Ye Kong’s Kirin Arm.

• The Xuanhuang Pagoda appeared and sucked Fang Chen, Ye Chen, Ye Qingci, Ye Kong, Myna bird, and Little Crane into its Ninth-Layer Space.
• Yue Canglan and Li Qingyao realized Fang Chen was trapped, while Ye Family powerhouses celebrated and entered the pagoda to help crush him.
• Fang Chen and his companions appeared above the Barren Mountain Range, where Ye Kong explained that the earlier fight had helped activate the pagoda.
• Fang Chen admitted he had been careless but reassured Ye Qingci and the others that the Ye Family would not easily kill them.
• Ye Mian, Li Changsheng, Ye Chen, and other figures confronted Fang Chen, and Ye Chen planned to use Ye Qingci’s Essence Blood and take Ye Kong’s Kirin Arm.

Trapped in the Xuanhuang Pagoda, Fang Chen and his companions faced Ye Mian’s attack as the Xuanhuang Pearl activated a Great Emperor formation. Ye Qingci and Ye Kong began absorbing yellow motes and sensed something calling to them from deep within the mountains, which Fang Chen believed might be a treasure left by the Xuanhuang Great Emperor.

• Ye Mian celebrated capturing Fang Chen, Ye Qingci, and Ye Kong, while Ye Qingci and Ye Kong began absorbing yellow lights that made their bodies grow hot.
• Ye Chen released the Xuanhuang Pearl, and Ye Mian activated it with an incantation as Ye Family cultivators powered Great Emperor formation patterns.
• The Xuanhuang Pearl drew in yellow motes and unleashed immense pressure, causing vengeful souls to emerge from the mountains and attack Fang Chen’s group.
• Fang Chen used the Darkness Devouring God Domain to destroy the vengeful souls, then ordered Little Crane to take everyone into the Spirit Crane Space, but she could not bring Ye Qingci or Ye Kong inside.
• Ye Qingci and Ye Kong sensed a call from deep within the mountains, and Fang Chen suggested that a treasure left by the Xuanhuang Great Emperor might be calling to them and help them escape.

Fang Chen led Ye Qingci and Ye Kong toward the depths of the mountain range, believing a treasure left by the Xuanhuang Great Emperor might be calling to them. Ye Mian strengthened the attack with a Black Box that summoned Quasi-Emperor-level Otherworldly Beasts, but Fang Chen quickly cut them apart.

• Fang Chen convinced Ye Qingci and Ye Kong to investigate the possible treasure and led them into the mountain range despite the Xuanhuang Pearl's spatial pressure.
• Fang Chen flew ahead with the Floating Immortal Sword, using its energy-devouring power to push through the resistance while Ye Qingci and Ye Kong followed behind him.
• Ye Chen asked Ye Mian to let him kill Fang Chen, but Ye Mian refused because he considered Fang Chen trapped and did not want to risk his son.
• Ye Mian released a Black Box that absorbed energy and opened to reveal Scrolls depicting ferocious Otherworldly Beasts.
• The Xuanhuang Pearl empowered the beasts in the Scrolls, and Ye Mian sent them after Fang Chen.
• Fang Chen enveloped himself in the Darkness Devouring God Domain and sliced the summoned beasts into pieces, dissolving them into yellow light.

Fang Chen carried Ye Qingci and Ye Kong into the depths of the Xuanhuang Pagoda’s Ninth-Layer Space while Ye Mian attacked them with the Xuanhuang Pearl. In a valley, Stone Tablets, statue fragments, and other ruins gathered and sent Yellow Light to Ye Qingci and Ye Kong as Great Emperor formation patterns appeared beneath them.

• Fang Chen defeated the Demonic Beasts, then put Ye Qingci and Ye Kong inside the Heaven Refining Furnace to carry them deeper into the mountain range.
• Ye Mian struck the Heaven Refining Furnace with the Xuanhuang Pearl, injuring Fang Chen through the backlash, but Fang Chen continued toward the valley.
• The Ninth-Layer Space shook as Stone Tablets, statue fragments, bricks, and tiles rose from across the space and gathered above the valley.
• Yellow Light streamed from the fragments into the Heaven Refining Furnace and then into Ye Qingci and Ye Kong, whose auras surged.
• Fang Chen let Ye Qingci and Ye Kong out, and the valley floor revealed Mysterious Runes that Fang Chen recognized as Great Emperor formation patterns.

The Xuanhuang Pagoda went out of control as debris from its layers gathered in the Ninth-Layer Space and formed an ancient city called Xuanhuang City. Ye Qingci and Ye Kong were pulled toward the city, and Fang Chen was dragged along when he tried to stop them.

• The Ye Family Members lost control of the Xuanhuang Pagoda as its Formation Runes activated and debris from its layers flew into the Ninth-Layer Space.
• Ye Mian and Li Changsheng realized the pagoda was out of control, while Ye Chen wondered whether Fang Chen had caused it.
• Sand and soil rose from the valley as broken bricks and walls assembled into Xuanhuang City, with a stone tablet and 108 statues at its center.
• Yellow lights formed people, carts, and horses inside the real city, and Fang Chen used his Samsara Eye to see that the figures were made of Runes.
• Ye Qingci and Ye Kong were pulled toward Xuanhuang City, and Fang Chen grabbed them but was dragged into the city with them.

Fang Chen, Ye Qingci, and Ye Kong entered the Ancient City and discovered that its people and goods seemed real despite their strange arrival. After testing the sour plum drink and finding it safe, they set off to explore the city, wondering why the Ye Family Members had not followed them inside.

• Fang Chen, Ye Kong, and Ye Qingci landed in the Ancient City and vanished from the view of Ye Mian and the other Ye Family Members.
• Ye Qingci grew thirsty, and Fang Chen tested the sour plum drink before letting her and Ye Kong drink it.
• Fang Chen found the drink genuine, and he, Ye Qingci, Ye Kong, and their companions refreshed themselves at the stall.
• Fang Chen noticed that none of the Ye Family Members had entered the city and wondered what they were planning.
• Fang Chen led the group down the street to explore the Ancient City.

Ye Mian sent two Ye Family Saints into Xuanhuang City, but they found its streets empty and its Stone Tablet blank. Ye Chen entered next and also found no trace of Fang Chen or the others, leaving the city’s strange emptiness unexplained.

• Ye Mian refused to let Ye Chen enter first and sent two Ye Family Saints into Xuanhuang City instead.
• The two Saints found no people or signs of life in the city, and the Stone Tablet at its center was blank.
• The Saints returned and reported what they had seen, while Ye Chen argued that the city’s relics would not harm a Ye Family descendant.
• Ye Mian allowed Ye Chen to enter, and Ye Chen searched the empty streets with his Spiritual Sense but found no one.
• Ye Chen reached the central Square and discovered that the blank Stone Tablet showed no reflection of him.

Ye Chen discovered that the Stone Tablet absorbed Blood Qi and revealed golden characters, while Fang Chen’s group learned the tablet separated them from Ye Chen in a strange way. Ye Kong and Ye Qingci absorbed the characters, and Ye Chen began studying them as the chapter ended.

• Ye Chen touched the Stone Tablet, which drained his Blood Qi and revealed golden characters across its surface.
• The tablet turned transparent, allowing Ye Chen and Fang Chen’s group to see each other, though they could not find one another by walking around it.
• Fang Chen learned that the Ancient City’s residents called the tablet the Heavenly Stele and believed it offered protection.
• Ye Kong and Ye Qingci pressed their hands against the tablet, and the golden characters flowed into their bodies while unfamiliar information entered their minds.
• Ye Chen failed to reach Fang Chen’s group, returned to his side of the tablet, and began trying to comprehend the characters.
• An hour later, all the golden characters had entered Ye Kong and Ye Qingci, and their eyes returned to normal.

Ye Kong and Ye Qingci received the Indestructible Xuanhuang Body from the Stone Tablet and awakened the Xuanhuang Sacred Body, advancing to its Third Turn as they absorbed the Xuanhuang Great Emperor’s legacy. The Stone Tablet cracked and the Ye Family Members attacked them, leaving Fang Chen and the others facing an immediate threat.

• Ye Qingci and Ye Kong learned the Indestructible Xuanhuang Body and began practicing it in the Square.
• Ye Qingci and Ye Kong awakened the Xuanhuang Sacred Body as yellow flames and runes appeared around them.
• Fang Chen saw them absorb the Square’s energy and the figures within it, while their Sacred Body advanced from the Second Turn to the Third Turn.
• The Stone Tablet released a wave that scattered the Ye Family Members above Xuanhuang City and drew the city’s figures into the Stone Tablet.
• Ye Mian ordered the Ye Family Members to kill Ye Qingci and Ye Kong, and they activated the Xuanhuang Pagoda’s formation patterns to attack.