Chapter Summaries

As the Qingyuan River whirlpool revealed a secret realm, sect disciples and Rogue Cultivators raced toward it in search of opportunities. Jin Feihua led Six Gates into the whirlpool and used deadly force to keep other vessels away, while the Supreme Sect Saintess acknowledged her as a formidable rival.

• The Qingyuan Sect Personal Disciple led his disciples into the whirlpool, gambling that the secret realm could help him reach the Internal Refinement Grandmaster realm.
• After seeing Six Gates enter, people on the shore and river followed toward the whirlpool, hoping to seize opportunities and change their fortunes.
• Jin Feihua ordered Six Gates to destroy ships and kill anyone who came within one hundred meters of its crimson warship.
• Jin Feihua surveyed the distant great sects, and the Supreme Sect Saintess gave her a slight nod of recognition.
• The Saintess continued tempering herself in the mortal world as she prepared for the Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster and Martial Saint realms.

Yang Chan and Princess Lanyue discussed the enormous secret realm phenomenon at the Qingyuan River and legends of Longevity Carefree Immortals. Yang Chan chose to stay out of the dangerous struggle, while Princess Lanyue worried that a Martial Saint inheritance could weaken her leverage.

• Yang Chan watched the pillar of light over the Qingyuan River and decided to wait for Qingyuan Sect to return with news rather than enter the secret realm.
• Princess Lanyue told Yang Chan that the secret realm could attract forces from many nations and might contain a Martial Saint inheritance.
• Princess Lanyue described half-immortals and the legendary Longevity Carefree Immortals, whose bodies and lifespans surpassed those of Pillar-Supporting Martial Saints.
• Yang Chan grew interested in the legends and resolved that he might one day become such a being himself.
• Princess Lanyue asked whether the secret realm could contain a Pillar-Supporting Martial Saint inheritance, fearing it would reduce the value of her bargaining chips.

Jin Feihua and the other factions entered Taiyin Heaven, a small world reached through the Qingyuan River whirlpool. She revealed that entry was limited by realm and concealed a second condition, leaving the Great Yin Holy Sect to suffer the first casualties.

• Jin Feihua and the Six Gates crossed the whirlpool and found a land of spiritual herbs and a vast gray curtain leading deeper into Taiyin Heaven.
• The other factions arrived, recognized Taiyin Heaven from legend, and gathered around its stone stele.
• Jin Feihua told the Supreme Sect and Heavenly Fragrance Sect Saintesses that anyone below the Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster realm could enter.
• The Great Yin Saintess and Great Yin Holy Son led their people through the curtain to avoid a suspected encirclement.
• People inside the curtain screamed and dissolved into blood mist, and Jin Feihua revealed that anyone below External Refinement: Iron Bones could not endure Taiyin Heaven's pressure.

Jin Feihua led qualified Six Gates members and other sect representatives into Taiyin Heaven while fighting broke out among those left outside. In Yuanqing Courtyard, Yang Chan vanished when a space rift opened above the Fragmented Seal, and Qingyuan Sect leaders hurried toward the secret realm after learning its identity.

• Jin Feihua ordered the weaker Six Gates members to search outside the light screen and led five Iron Bones experts inside Taiyin Heaven.
• The Supreme Sect, Heavenly Fragrance Sect, Qingyuan Sect, Holy Light Island, and qualified Rogue Cultivators sent their eligible members through the light screen, while fighting erupted among those left outside.
• Yang Chan noticed the Fragmented Seal floating and glowing, then tested it with poison needles, fire, water, and other objects while keeping the maid out of his room.
• Yang Chan wiped the Fragmented Seal clean, revealing the incomplete character for Yin, and a rift opened above it and pulled him away with the seal.
• Hall Master Gu and Sect Master Liu Xuan learned that the secret realm was Taiyin Heaven and hurried toward it, lamenting that Qingyuan Sect had entered with too few powerful members.

Liu Xuan led Qingyuan Sect toward Taiyin Heaven, hoping to seize its opportunities and reach the Pillar-Supporting Martial Saint realm. After entering the small world, the group found a large battle underway, while the strongest experts were nowhere to be seen.

• Gu An and Liu Xuan hurried with Qingyuan Sect’s disciples toward Taiyin Heaven, which had appeared in Qingyuan River near the border with Chizhou.
• Liu Xuan resolved to claim Taiyin Heaven’s opportunities for Qingyuan Sect and pursue a breakthrough to the Pillar-Supporting Martial Saint realm.
• Liu Xuan’s group boarded a ship, learned how to enter Taiyin Heaven, and sailed through the vortex as he urged the disciples to steady themselves.
• Several hundred Qingyuan Sect disciples entered Taiyin Heaven and heard weapons clashing as a large battle raged in the outer region.
• Gu An noticed that the fighters were only at the External Refinement: Steel Tendons level, while the more powerful experts were absent, and Qingyuan Sect disciples hurried over to explain the situation.

Yang Chan found himself trapped in a strange, spirit-qi-rich space and suspected it was the secret realm that had appeared over the Qingyuan River. After discovering abundant spiritual medicines, he chose to seek a way out rather than risk exploring deeper, but he could carry only a few treasures with him.

• Yang Chan examined the Fragmented Seal, disguised his face and build, and left the stone chamber after failing to use the seal to return home.
• Yang Chan explored the gloomy forest and found a hundred-and-fifty-year-old Snow Ginseng, strengthening his suspicion that he was in a secret realm.
• Yang Chan gathered the Snow Ginseng and selected other edible or valuable spiritual medicines while noting the area's extraordinary abundance of treasures.
• Yang Chan decided to prioritize escaping and avoid seeking deeper opportunities because the secret realm might contain dangerous people and beasts.
• Yang Chan continued through the forest, leaving many medicines behind because he had no storage Treasure Artifact.

Qingyuan Sect Master Liu Xuan discovered that his Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster cultivation barred him from entering Taiyin Heaven and entrusted Hall Master Gu An with leading Qingyuan Sect’s eligible disciples inside. Gu An prepared to seek opportunities while prioritizing survival and waiting for the Supreme Elders to arrive.

• Liu Xuan learned that anyone above the Internal Refinement Grandmaster realm could not enter Taiyin Heaven, and his attempts to break through its barrier failed.
• Liu Xuan recognized the danger of the secret realm and the threat posed by other sects and powerful experts, so he abandoned his plan to monopolize its resources.
• Gu An advised Liu Xuan to summon the Supreme Elders and said he would lead a team into Taiyin Heaven to contend for opportunities.
• Liu Xuan agreed to let Gu An lead the fourteen eligible Qingyuan Sect members and told them to follow Gu An’s orders and put survival first.
• Gu An promised to secure a share of Taiyin Heaven’s resources and considered the chance to advance his cultivation and discover the secret realm’s mysteries.

Yang Chan avoided dangerous exotic beasts while searching for a way out of the unfamiliar space, keeping the broken seal’s indicated direction at his back. He found a Blue Brick Courtyard and entered it cautiously, hoping it might offer a route home.

• Yang Chan avoided a massive azure serpent and a tiger-headed, dog-bodied beast by concealing his aura and fleeing with the Stepping Wind Steps.
• Yang Chan continued away from the direction indicated by the broken seal, hid his superior spiritual herbs, and monitored his Potential Points to estimate how much time had passed.
• Yang Chan considered handing the broken seal and its unknown opportunity to the Qingyuan Sect rather than risking trouble himself.
• Yang Chan came upon the Blue Brick Courtyard, detected no living presence or immediate danger, and decided to investigate it for a way out.
• Yang Chan prepared his weapons, poison, traps, torch, and fire striker before entering the courtyard cautiously.

Yang Chan explored an abandoned compound and found murals depicting a White Dragon’s rise, battle, and betrayal, along with a lingering spiritual intent. He then read a stone stele marked “Taiyin Heaven” and began to suspect that the unfamiliar space he had entered was the legendary secret realm.

• Yang Chan entered the overgrown compound cautiously, avoiding traps and examining murals that showed a White Dragon battling a Black Dragon before people attacked the wounded survivor.
• Yang Chan sensed an enduring spiritual intent in the murals and considered whether the White Dragon and other legendary beings had truly existed.
• Yang Chan decided to continue exploring for clues and a possible inheritance, then reached a stone stele in the courtyard.
• Yang Chan read “Taiyin Heaven” at the top of the stele and connected it to the Fragmented Seal and the strange phenomenon above the Qingyuan River.
• Yang Chan suspected that Taiyin Heaven had transported him from Yuanqing Courtyard into the unfamiliar space.

Yang Chan read Tai'a Ming's account of the Tai'a Clan, which had eaten the White and Black Dragons, gained strength, and later declined under a deadly curse or other consequence. He judged the Blue Brick Courtyard relatively safe but wondered how Tai'a Ming's spiritual will had endured for centuries.

• Yang Chan read that the Tai'a Clan killed and consumed the wounded White Dragon and the Black Dragon after their people suffered grievous losses.
• The Tai'a Clan gained strength and conquered neighboring lands, but its members and descendants died young, and the clan eventually fell and was hunted down.
• Yang Chan considered whether the White Dragon had been a strange beast and whether parasites or another substance had caused the Tai'a Clan's deaths.
• Yang Chan questioned how Tai'a Ming's spiritual will had lasted for centuries despite his likely limited cultivation and lifespan, then formed a conjecture.

Yang Chan explored the Blue Brick Courtyard in Taiyin Heaven, a secluded secret realm where he feared being trapped alone for a thousand years. After finding nothing useful in its rooms, he lifted the central stone stele and discovered a stone box hidden beneath it.

• Yang Chan considered the dangers of remaining in Taiyin Heaven, including its isolation, lack of tools, and his separation from Princess Lanyue and his cultivation methods.
• Yang Chan suspected the stele’s inscriptions had been carved with extraordinary tools, but he found no trace of such a tool or anything useful in the courtyard’s rooms.
• Yang Chan decided to search beneath the central stele after confirming that the Blue Brick Courtyard was safe enough to serve as temporary shelter.
• Yang Chan used the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method to pull the massive stone stele from the ground and found no passage beneath it.
• Yang Chan noticed a stone box fused into the underside of the stele and was delighted by the discovery.

Gu An and two Qingyuan Sect members cautiously traveled through the disorienting fog of Taiyin Heaven, where the group had been separated. After a ferocious beast roared nearby, Gu An prioritized staying together and finding the sect’s missing members.

• Gu An agreed with a Qingyuan Sect elder to keep the group close together as the fog blocked their sight and senses.
• Gu An warned Yuan Liang to stay close because his External Refinement: Iron Bones cultivation gave him weaker senses.
• Gu An led the three onward in a line, avoiding searches that could separate them in the unfamiliar mist.
• A ferocious beast roared from within the fog, and Gu An released the Flood Dragon Demon's baleful aura while warning the others not to spread out.
• Gu An proceeded cautiously and focused on finding the other Qingyuan Sect members lost in Taiyin Heaven.

Yang Chan cautiously opened a stone box beneath the stele and retrieved a Dragon Tooth short sword after testing it for hidden dangers. He concluded that the tooth came from a powerful exotic beast rather than a true dragon, and kept his own longsword as his main weapon in Taiyin Heaven.

• Yang Chan used his sword and grappling claw to split open the stone box from a safe distance.
• The Dragon Tooth’s aura caused the box to explode, sending fragments into the stele and leaving a crater.
• Yang Chan roasted the Dragon Tooth over fire and smeared poison on it before taking it in his gloved hand.
• Yang Chan sensed the tooth held the exotic beast’s unwillingness and that the Tai'a Clan’s descendants had used it to preserve spiritual force.
• Yang Chan judged the Dragon Tooth short sword might surpass his longsword in material, but chose not to test it because he still relied on his longsword in Taiyin Heaven.

Yang Chan secured a temporary resting place in the Blue Brick Courtyard, adjusted his Potential Points to prioritize cultivation, and planned to leave Taiyin Heaven rather than risk seeking the Pillar-Supporting Martial Saint too soon. Meanwhile, Gu An and an Internal Refinement elder tried to escape the fog after an exotic beast attack left one Personal Disciple missing.

• Yang Chan tested the Dragon Tooth dagger and considered how its spiritual damage could interrupt opponents and help him end fights quickly.
• After finding the Blue Brick Courtyard safe, Yang Chan saw his daily Potential Point income had fallen to 5.1 and moved points from the Tai Chi Health Cultivation Technique to the Flood Dragon Demon Breath Method.
• Yang Chan decided to find a way out of Taiyin Heaven and postpone pursuing the Pillar-Supporting Martial Saint until he was stronger.
• Yang Chan set traps, rested alertly in a room with an escape passage, and kept watch for danger.
• Gu An and an Internal Refinement elder abandoned their search for a missing Personal Disciple after a concealed exotic beast attacked them in the fog.
• Gu An and the elder used the fog’s thickness and markers to try to find their way out.

Gu An and the others searched for thinner mist while Jin Feihua led the Six Gates constables through ambushes by powerful strange beasts. The Great Yin Holy Son and Saintess realized Taiyin Heaven’s mist trial had become far more dangerous than their records described, leaving them unsure whether they could escape.

• Gu An directed his group toward thinner mist, hoping the route would lead them out of the mist-filled space.
• Jin Feihua fought off a strange beast and continued protecting the Six Gates constables despite her unstable condition and their losses.
• Jin Feihua sensed that the mist was thinning and urged the remaining constables to stay close as they pressed forward.
• The Great Yin Holy Son and Great Yin Saintess discussed their losses and feared punishment if they failed to bring back opportunities from Taiyin Heaven.
• The Great Yin Saintess said their records required them to keep moving until the mist dispersed, but warned that the trial had become far more dangerous than expected.

Yang Chan searched Taiyin Heaven for a way out and reached a colossal city wall that might mark the realm’s boundary. Unable to climb it safely or see through its strange force, he continued walking along it while checking the Fragmented Seal.

• Yang Chan rested in the Blue Brick Courtyard, ate heated spirit herbs, and used the Fragmented Seal to confirm its guidance pointed in one direction.
• Yang Chan left the courtyard in the opposite direction from the Seal’s guidance, marking his path as he traveled through an area with fewer beasts and plants.
• Yang Chan found a towering city wall that seemed to enclose the realm and considered that it might have an exit.
• Yang Chan tested the wall with his fist and Dragon Tooth short sword, but its force erased the marks he made.
• Yang Chan chose not to risk climbing the smooth, three-hundred-meter wall and walked alongside it, watching for a way out.

Yang Chan found a towering gate in the city wall and hoped it might lead out of Taiyin Heaven, but the gate’s rebounding force prevented him from opening it. Unable to find a mechanism and wary of the danger, he continued onward alone.

• Yang Chan followed the direction indicated by the incomplete seal until he discovered a gate in the city wall.
• Yang Chan wondered whether the enormous wall and gate had been built by the giants described in ancient legends.
• Yang Chan activated the Flood Dragon Demon Martial Imprint and pushed the gate, briefly forcing it open.
• The gate’s rebounding force hurled Yang Chan back and left a deep crater where he had stood.
• Yang Chan searched the gate and nearby wall for a mechanism but found none, so he decided to keep moving forward.

Unable to find an exit from Taiyin Heaven, Yang Chan followed the Fragmented Seal through a forest filled with dangerous exotic beasts and arrived at a towering white structure. He stopped at the boundary around the tower, suspecting it was the source of the force that also surrounded the city wall.

• Yang Chan found that the remaining gates in the city wall were shut and, with his daily Potential Point gains dwindling, followed the Fragmented Seal's direction.
• Yang Chan traveled deeper into the forest, collecting several superior-grade spirit herbs while avoiding exotic beasts and their territories.
• Yang Chan spotted a five-hundred-meter white tower in a barren clearing where exotic beasts would not approach.
• Yang Chan dug at the boundary between the forest soil and the tower's gravel ground and recognized that the tower's isolating force was stronger than the similar force around the city wall.
• Yang Chan concluded that the tower might be the source of the force and regarded it with greater caution.

Yang Chan entered the mysterious pagoda, hoping the Fragmented Seal might lead him back from the unfamiliar space. He climbed through its identical, empty floors while remaining wary of the danger he sensed, and approached the floors with windows where he hoped to see beyond the city walls.

• Yang Chan followed the growing warning in his Danger Sense to the pagoda and entered after its door opened at his touch.
• The door shut behind Yang Chan, and he inspected the first floor, finding a chained stone statue shaped like an exotic beast but no sign of life or a way downward.
• Yang Chan climbed to the second floor and saw that the Fragmented Seal still pointed upward, so he continued despite the danger’s disappearance.
• Yang Chan climbed one hundred floors, each containing a different exotic beast statue but otherwise resembling the others.
• Yang Chan recalled that windows appeared around the one hundred and thirtieth floor and continued upward, hoping to see beyond the city walls.

Liu Xuan and Gu An discussed Taiyin Heaven’s deadly trials and Qingyuan Sect’s limited gains. Tianxuan Holy Land offered Qingyuan Sect a place within its blessed grotto, hoping to use the sect to access Taiyin Heaven, and Liu Xuan weighed the offer against the sect’s lack of power to compete with the major factions.

• Gu An reported that only a handful of Qingyuan Sect’s people had survived Taiyin Heaven, while most entrants had perished in its trials.
• Liu Xuan lamented that Qingyuan Sect could not compete with the powerful factions now entering Taiyin Heaven, and Gu An warned that even the early trials had been dangerous.
• Liu Xuan told Gu An that Tianxuan Holy Land’s Saintess had offered to let Qingyuan Sect return and establish a peak in its blessed grotto.
• Liu Xuan explained that Tianxuan Holy Land wanted Qingyuan Sect’s help entering Taiyin Heaven because agreements barred the distant holy land from entering directly.
• Liu Xuan considered the benefits of returning to Tianxuan Holy Land, including abundant resources and stronger cultivation inheritances, against Qingyuan Sect’s slim chances of securing Taiyin Heaven’s treasures.