Chapter Summaries

Luo Zheng fled Cui Xie with Xi Youqin while Xun delayed the pursuer, despite her objections to carrying Xi Youqin. Luo Zheng then stopped above a palace-like building with a strange smile, leaving Cui Xie wary of a trap.

• Xun used her spear to block Cui Xie's attack and surprised him by speaking and displaying formidable skill.
• Cui Xie unleashed his domineering aura over Void Heaven City and attacked Xun, who dispersed into Red Light and returned to Luo Zheng.
• Luo Zheng carried Xi Youqin on a winding escape route around the outskirts of the city while Xun taunted her for clinging to him.
• Xi Youqin asked Luo Zheng to let her go, but he refused, explaining that he needed to protect her for Luo Yan's sake.
• Luo Zheng stopped above a palace-like building and smiled strangely, making Cui Xie suspect that he had laid a trap.

Luo Zheng and the Void Spirit Sect lured Cui Xie into the Dragon Binding Chain, revealing that Xi Youqin had served as bait. When Cui Xie began corroding the chain with a secret art, the Void Spirit Seven Sons prepared their strongest sword formation to kill him.

• Luo Zheng drew Cui Xie over the palace, where Xi Xiao Jie, Xi Xinghuai, and the Void Spirit Seven Sons activated the Dragon Binding Chain and trapped him.
• Xi Youqin tried to free Lihua, but Xi Xiao Jie revealed that Lihua had been planted beside her by Cui Xie’s faction, and Xun warned Xi Youqin to stop arguing.
• Cui Xie laughed and revealed that the Void Spirit Sect had used Xi Youqin as bait to lure him beneath the Dragon Binding Chain, leaving Xi Youqin devastated when she realized she had been kept in the dark.
• Cui Xie released black mist that began corroding the Dragon Binding Chain, prompting the Void Spirit Seven Sons to gather their power for a decisive sword strike.

Cui Xie broke free of the Dragon Binding Chain and killed four of the Void Spirit Seven Sons, forcing Luo Zheng to flee with Xi Youqin. With Cui Xie pursuing them, Luo Zheng refused to let Xun kill Xi Youqin and headed toward Cloud Dream Marsh, where he planned to find another way to escape.

• The Void Spirit Seven Sons attacked Cui Xie, but their sword shattered and its fragments killed four of them.
• Cui Xie broke the Dragon Binding Chain, unleashed a terrifying aura, and vowed to destroy the Void Spirit Sect.
• Luo Zheng grabbed Xi Youqin and fled Void Heaven City while Xi Xiao Jie and Xi Xinghuai escaped in separate directions.
• Cui Xie pursued Luo Zheng, who struggled to keep his gang essence surging as he carried Xi Youqin.
• Xi Youqin asked Luo Zheng to kill her, and Xun nearly speared her before Luo Zheng stopped her and said he had another way.
• Luo Zheng reached the plain before Cloud Dream Marsh with Cui Xie still pursuing him.

Luo Zheng tried to evade Cui Xie by hiding in the dangerous Cloud Dream Marsh with Xi Youqin, while Wu Zhanhe joined the pursuit. After surviving a poisonous snake and discovering that even a clear pool was deadly, they continued deeper into the marsh.

• Cui Xie contacted Wu Zhanhe, who agreed to help catch Luo Zheng in the Cloud Dream Marsh.
• Luo Zheng concealed his aura and hid with Xi Youqin beneath a mud pool while Cui Xie's perception swept through the area.
• A Black Feather Snake bit Luo Zheng when he shielded Xi Youqin, but he tore the snake apart and said he was fine.
• Xi Youqin followed Luo Zheng through the marsh despite being covered in mud and wanting to bathe.
• Luo Zheng tested a clear pool with Green Reed Grass, which blackened in its poisonous water, and asked Xi Youqin if she still wanted to wash.

Luo Zheng and Xi Youqin hid in the Cloud Dream Marsh while Cui Xie recruited Wu Zhanhe and his forces to search for them. As Luo Zheng and Xi Youqin waded across a safe marsh, something approached beneath the water.

• Luo Zheng realized Cui Xie was doubling back to catch him and hid with Xi Youqin in the grass.
• Cui Xie found no sign of Luo Zheng outside the marsh, checked his Trust Jade, and waited for Wu Zhanhe.
• Wu Zhanhe arrived with martial artists and organized a search, planning to track Luo Zheng through the marsh’s vicious beasts.
• Wu Zhanhe released poisonous mist and used his knowledge of the marsh to locate Luo Zheng and Xi Youqin.
• Luo Zheng and Xi Youqin waded through a nonpoisonous marsh, and ripples began moving toward them across the water.

Luo Zheng and Xi Youqin crossed the Cloud Dream Marsh while avoiding crocodiles and Cui Xie's pursuing forces. After Xi Youqin's cry drew a Void Tribulation Realm martial artist back toward their hiding place, Luo Zheng prepared to kill him if he discovered them.

• Luo Zheng rescued Xi Youqin from an attack by Orange Tooth Crocodiles and led her out of the marsh.
• Wu Zhanhe located Luo Zheng near Crocodile Pool and sent Void Tribulation Realm martial artists after him and Xi Youqin.
• Luo Zheng and Xi Youqin hid in the grass as a pursuing martial artist flew overhead.
• A Ghost Face Spider startled Xi Youqin, and her brief scream made the martial artist turn back to search the grass.
• As the martial artist drew within ten zhang, Luo Zheng tensed and prepared to kill him with astral essence.

Luo Zheng fled through the Cloud Dream Marsh with Xi Youqin as Cui Xie and Wu Zhanhe closed in. Wu Zhanhe secretly guided him toward an underground palace, intending to use its deadly dangers to kill them both.

• Luo Zheng killed a mid-stage Void Tribulation Realm pursuer with one punch and escaped with Xi Youqin.
• Luo Zheng sensed Cui Xie and another powerful pursuer gaining on them as they raced deeper into the marsh.
• Wu Zhanhe secretly contacted Luo Zheng and urged him to abandon Xi Youqin, revealing his conflict with Cui Xie.
• Luo Zheng recognized Wu Zhanhe and accepted his guidance toward an underground palace ten li ahead.
• Wu Zhanhe directed Luo Zheng into the palace, secretly expecting its dangers to claim Luo Zheng and Xi Youqin.

Luo Zheng fled into a dark underground palace with Xi Youqin while Cui Xie and Wu Zhanhe pursued them. After Xi Youqin repeatedly complained, Luo Zheng lost his temper, struck her, sealed her true essence, and began stripping her clothes as Xun watched.

• Luo Zheng carried Xi Youqin into a labyrinthine underground palace, and Cui Xie led Wu Zhanhe and the other warriors in pursuit.
• Cui Xie questioned how Luo Zheng had found the palace, while Wu Zhanhe concealed his suspicions and claimed he did not know.
• Luo Zheng wandered blindly through the dark passages as Xi Youqin complained and demanded that he take her outside.
• Luo Zheng threw Xi Youqin to the ground and slapped her twice after she challenged him.
• Luo Zheng pinned Xi Youqin against a wall, disrupted her true essence, and stripped off her clothes while Xun watched.

Luo Zheng took Xi Youqin’s Yuan Yin in the underground palace to keep Cui Xie from using her Purple Extreme Yin Body, and the two gained benefits from the process. Afterward, Xi Youqin felt confused by her lingering hatred and unexpected response, while Luo Zheng prepared to find a way out.

• Xi Youqin struggled against Luo Zheng, who said he was taking her Yuan Yin to prevent Cui Xie from using her.
• Xun guarded Luo Zheng as he and Xi Youqin absorbed the Purple Extreme Yin Body’s Yuan Yin inside a purple Light Cocoon.
• Afterward, Luo Zheng tossed Xi Youqin clothes without looking at her and said they would find a way out of the underground palace.
• Xi Youqin refused to put on the clothes, then blushed at her own petulant response.

Luo Zheng escaped the underground palace and took Xi Youqin out of the Cloud Dream Marsh, but he left her behind at Fire Sun City. As he flew away, purple flames from the Purple Extreme World erupted from Xi Youqin’s Dantian.

• Luo Zheng and Xun left Xi Youqin behind in the underground palace, but Xi Youqin dressed in Luo Zheng’s spare clothes and followed them.
• Luo Zheng traveled safely through the underground palace while Cui Xie and Wu Zhanhe suffered attacks, lost three Void Tribulation Realm martial artists, and were forced out by a ferocious beast.
• Luo Zheng found another exit and agreed to carry Xi Youqin out of the Cloud Dream Marsh after she pleaded with him not to abandon her.
• Luo Zheng brought Xi Youqin to Fire Sun City and told her to return toward Void Heaven City while he continued toward Cloud Sea City.
• After Luo Zheng flew away, Xi Youqin’s Dantian began burning and purple flames erupted from the Purple Extreme World.

Xi Youqin awakened her First Grade Black Purple Extreme Yin Body after falling into Fire Sun City, gaining a profound understanding of her talent and new strength. After killing three Divine Pill Realm martial artists who tried to prey on her, she flew toward Cloud Sea City, still uncertain about what she wanted.

• Xi Youqin fell into a house in Fire Sun City, where Purple Fire engulfed her and kept the city’s martial artists at bay for a day and night.
• While unconscious and surrounded by Purple Fire, Xi Youqin awakened her First Grade Black Purple Extreme Yin Body and cultivated in the Purple Extreme World.
• After the flames dispersed, three Divine Pill Realm martial artists mistook Xi Youqin for a weak, wealthy woman and blocked her from leaving.
• Xi Youqin summoned more than a hundred giant swords and killed the three martial artists when they harassed her.
• Xi Youqin flew toward Cloud Sea City while thinking of Luo Zheng and wondering what she truly wanted.

Luo Zheng returned to Cloud Sea City and discovered that Cloud Hall had moved, while the Cloud Sect’s guards acted afraid of his return. He found Cloud Hall protected by its array and slipped inside, where he learned it was in the midst of internal turmoil as the Zhuo Family and other clans attacked during Ning Yu Die’s preparations for her Life and Death Tribulation.

• Luo Zheng rushed back to Cloud Sea City and found Cloud Hall missing from its usual place above the city.
• At the Cloud Sect, Luo Zheng learned Cloud Hall was thirty li northwest, while its guards’ panic made him suspect Ning Yu Die was in danger.
• Luo Zheng reached Cloud Hall, saw its barrier and a fight inside, then used his knowledge of the formation to enter.
• Cloud Hall’s turmoil was revealed to have begun when the Zhuo Family and several other Third Grade Families attacked as Ning Yu Die prepared to face her Life and Death Tribulation.

Great Master Zhuo led a faction of Cloud Palace martial artists in attacking Ning Yu Die’s ice palace while she attempted to break through to the Life and Death Realm. Hua Tianming’s sword kept the attackers at bay, and the chapter ended with Great Master Zhuo ordering a Shen Family martial artist to draw out Hua Tianming’s one deadly strike.

• Great Master Zhuo seized the chance to challenge Ning Yu Die’s authority while Jade Granny was overseas and Ning Yu Die faced her tribulation.
• The Cloud Palace split into factions led by Great Master Zhuo, Fei Han, and Grand Dream True Person as the attackers besieged Ning Yu Die’s ice palace.
• Hua Tianming used the Sword Eye’s power to defend the palace entrance, despite the damage the Azure Heaven Force inflicted on him.
• Three days earlier, Hua Tianming had killed Fei Longyang with one sword thrust, leaving the attackers afraid to approach him.
• Great Master Zhuo ordered a Shen Family Void Tribulation Realm martial artist to force Hua Tianming to use his sword so the others could attack.

Great Master Zhuo and the allied clans charged the Ice Palace, hoping to seize power before Ning Yu Die reached the Life and Death Realm. Hua Tianming’s single Heavenly Sword strike killed three Void Tribulation Realm warriors, and Great Master Zhuo ordered the survivors to attack while Hua Tianming recovered.

• Great Master Zhuo urged the allied clans to attack, but they refused to charge first until they agreed to advance together.
• Pei Tianyao warned Hua Tianming that the attackers were coming, and Hua Tianming prepared his one-use Heavenly Sword strike as the defenders drew their weapons.
• Hua Tianming adjusted his position, opened his bloodied eyes, and thrust his sword as Great Master Zhuo’s group charged.
• Hua Tianming’s sword ray pierced and killed Fei Cheng, Wu Xiaoran, and another Void Tribulation Realm warrior.
• Great Master Zhuo survived the strike and ordered the enraged remaining warriors to charge while Hua Tianming gathered strength.

Hua Tianming, Pei Tianyao, and Bai Li Hongfeng fought for Ning Yu Die as Great Master Zhuo’s forces overwhelmed them. Luo Zheng returned at the critical moment in the Void Tribulation Realm, stopped Hua Tianming’s execution, and faced four attackers after Great Master Zhuo ordered them to kill him.

• Hua Tianming abandoned his attempt to kill Great Master Zhuo and instead killed three Void Tribulation Realm martial artists, but the battle still turned against Ning Yu Die’s side.
• A Void Tribulation Realm martial artist injured Hua Tianming, while Bai Li Hongfeng and Pei Tianyao failed to stop the attacker from reaching him.
• As the attacker prepared to kill Hua Tianming, Luo Zheng appeared and caught the Emerald Great Saber with his bare hand, bending it.
• Luo Zheng announced his return, revealing that he had reached the Void Tribulation Realm and stunning Great Master Zhuo and the gathered fighters.
• Great Master Zhuo ordered his forces to attack Luo Zheng, and four Void Tribulation Realm martial artists surrounded him.

Luo Zheng returned to the Cloud Hall and effortlessly defeated four Void Tribulation Realm martial artists, revealing strength comparable to a Life and Death Realm expert. He cornered Great Master Zhuo, who tried to flee and then attacked with his Sun Extinguishing Spear, but Luo Zheng seized and began breaking the weapon.

• Four Void Tribulation Realm martial artists attacked Luo Zheng, but his higher-order Space Law made their strikes pass through him.
• Luo Zheng knocked all four attackers away with four punches, shocking the assembled martial artists and revealing his overwhelming strength.
• Luo Zheng urged Great Master Zhuo's followers to surrender, then pursued Great Master Zhuo when he urged them to keep resisting.
• Great Master Zhuo fled and threatened Luo Zheng with retaliation from the Zhuo Family and Cloud Sea City lineages, but Luo Zheng closed in and rejected his pleas.
• Great Master Zhuo turned and thrust his Black Spear at Luo Zheng, who caught the tip and bent the High-Grade Immortal Artifact until it began breaking apart.

Luo Zheng defeated and killed Great Master Zhuo for conspiring against Ning Yu Die, ending the rebellion’s remaining resistance. He flew to the Ice Palace after declaring Ning Yu Die was his woman, then admitted to Xun that he had been boasting.

• Great Master Zhuo begged Luo Zheng to spare him, but Luo Zheng rejected his plea and attacked again.
• Zhuo Bufan watched helplessly as Luo Zheng overwhelmed his father, while a Zhuo Family disciple stopped him from intervening.
• Luo Zheng revealed that Great Master Zhuo had spread rumors about him and Ning Yu Die, then pierced Great Master Zhuo’s heart with his sword.
• Great Master Zhuo fell to his death, and Luo Zheng flew toward the Ice Palace as Zhuo Bufan cried out for his father.
• The rebellious elders surrendered their weapons after Great Master Zhuo’s death, and Luo Zheng told Xun he had only been boasting about Ning Yu Die being his woman.

Luo Zheng learned that Ning Yu Die was undergoing the Life and Death Tribulation and entered the Ice Palace to watch over her. As the Small Heavenly Tribulation began, a bolt of lightning broke through the palace roof, leaving Luo Zheng wondering how the Electric Dragons had passed Cloud Hall’s barrier.

• Grand Dream True Person told Luo Zheng that Ning Yu Die was undergoing the Life and Death Tribulation and that Jade Granny had left to seek an opportunity.
• Luo Zheng entered the Ice Palace and found Ning Yu Die sealed inside an ice pillar, nearing the final stage of her breakthrough.
• Xun explained that the Life and Death Tribulation was called the Small Heavenly Tribulation in the Upper Realm and warned that Ning Yu Die’s cultivation technique could bring an especially formidable trial.
• Azure Dragon hinted that Luo Zheng might have a way to resolve the dangers of Ning Yu Die’s technique, but neither he nor Xun revealed the method.
• After Luo Zheng waited beside Ning Yu Die for a day and a night, the ice pillar shattered and dark clouds gathered as the Small Heavenly Tribulation descended.
• A dragon-shaped bolt of lightning pierced the Ice Palace roof, and Luo Zheng wondered how the Electric Dragons had broken through Cloud Hall’s barrier.

Ning Yu Die faced the first waves of her Life and Death Tribulation at the Cloud Palace, using a Jade Token of Ice Law to counter the descending Electric Dragons. After a fiery second wave gathered overhead, she began drawing on her own True Essence as the Ice Palace trembled.

• Electric Dragons descended over the Cloud Palace as its martial artists watched Ning Yu Die begin her Life and Death Tribulation.
• Ning Yu Die released Ice Phoenixes from a Jade Token, and they canceled out the Electric Dragons without letting one reach her.
• Xun explained to Luo Zheng that the first wave might not be the only one and that the Heavenly Dao sent stronger tribulations against greater threats.
• Crimson clouds gathered above Ning Yu Die, spreading intense heat across the Cloud Palace.
• Ning Yu Die activated the Jade Token and began releasing her own True Essence, causing the Ice Palace to tremble.

Ning Yu Die endured the first two waves of her heavenly tribulation before the rare Nightmare Tribulation descended, which attacked her soul through visions. As Ning Yu Die fought through the petals, her face grew increasingly pale, while Luo Zheng waited with the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao as a possible last resort.

• Ning Yu Die used the Ice Palace’s crystals and her ice phoenix to absorb the Fire Cloud Tribulation, easing the heat for the martial artists in the Cloud Hall.
• Luo Zheng spoke with Xun, who warned that his own Small Heavenly Tribulation would be far stronger and smiled when he complimented her.
• Xun recognized the third wave as the rare Nightmare Tribulation and told Luo Zheng that only one recorded person had overcome it, later becoming a Heavenly Venerate.
• Luo Zheng asked about the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao, and Xun explained that it came from the previous Heavenly Dao, Yingtian, rather than the current one, Cangtian.
• Ning Yu Die merged with her ice phoenix, charged into the falling petals, and began to weaken as each shattered petal sent a nightmare into her mind.