Chapter Summaries

Shi Hao and Shi Jue visited the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, where they learned about the Azure Moon Flame and drank his Bitter Tea. The Lord then gave Shi Jue his Yin-Yang insights, leaving both young men with a rare opportunity to deepen their cultivation.

• Shi Jue explained that the Azure Moon Flame was a legendary divine flame left behind after the Azure Moon Fairy's fall, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone reassured Shi Hao that it would not harm Qingyi.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone served Shi Hao and Shi Jue tea made from his Bitter Tea Tree, which Liu Shen recognized as ordinary tea transformed by his Immortal King state of mind.
• Shi Hao and Shi Jue found the tea unbearably bitter and learned that the nine previous people to drink it had all died, though the Lord of the Forbidden Zone could not see either young man's fate.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone sent Shi Jue his balanced Yin-Yang insights, and Shi Jue thanked him after experiencing a moment of enlightenment.

Shi Hao was struck unconscious by heavenly lightning after discussing how to ignite Divine Fire, while Shi Jue prepared to travel to Ye Fan’s world. Liu Shen gave Shi Jue a protective Willow Leaf and passed her method to him before he departed.

• Shi Hao asked the Lord of the Forbidden Zone whether he could ignite himself without finding a rare Dao Fire, and the Lord said Shi Hao and Shi Jue could attempt it.
• Heavenly lightning struck Shi Hao and left him unconscious, while Shi Jue joked that he smelled like roasted meat.
• Ye Fan told the group he was preparing to break through to the Four Extremes, and the others teased him about robbing a saintess in Sacred City.
• Shi Jue arranged to visit Ye Fan’s world, and Liu Shen wished him well and gave him a golden Willow Leaf with three uses of divine power.
• Liu Shen tapped Shi Jue between the brows and passed her method to him as a golden symbol.

Shi Jue visited Ye Fan in the Shrouding the Heavens era and was shocked to find Little Nannan traveling with him. As Ye Fan prepared to target the Purple Mansion Saintess for resources, Shi Jue spoke with Ye Nan about the uncertain effects of his existence on the future.

• Liu Shen explained that she had taught the Willow Deity Method to Shi Jue and another promising figure, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone vowed to pass on everything she had learned if they met again.
• Shi Jue crossed into Ye Fan's era and discovered that Little Nannan was already traveling with him, earlier than Shi Jue expected.
• Ye Fan said he had taken in Little Nannan after finding her dirty and pitiful, and Shi Jue privately asked Ye Nan whether her Dao Fruit's presence beside Ye Fan was acceptable.
• Ye Nan said her Dao Fruit would not interfere with Ye Fan and that Shi Jue's anomalous existence made the future impossible to foresee; Shi Jue urged her to become an Immortal Emperor.
• Ye Fan explained that he planned to use the Purple Mansion Saintess to obtain the enormous amount of source he needed, while Shi Jue teased him about the Saintess's Innate Dao Embryo.
• Ye Fan worried that the Black Emperor might target the Purple Mansion Saintess because of his obsession with the Innate Saint Body Dao Embryo.

Shi Jue used the golden Willow Leaf to make the Black Emperor hand over Spiritual Medicine in exchange for news of Emperor Wushi. The Black Emperor misunderstood Shi Jue’s words and began mourning, but Shi Jue clarified that Emperor Wushi was not dead.

• Ye Fan and Shi Jue met Tu Fei and the others, where Shi Jue examined the imposing Black Emperor.
• Shi Jue teased the Black Emperor by calling it Little Blackie, prompting the dog to demand news of Emperor Wushi.
• The Black Emperor refused to trade Spiritual Medicine for information, so Shi Jue revealed the golden Willow Leaf and forced it to surrender several stalks.
• Shi Jue told the Black Emperor that Emperor Wushi was no longer in this world, and the Black Emperor began crying as if its master had died.
• Shi Jue slapped the Black Emperor and clarified that Emperor Wushi was not dead.

The Black Emperor decided to find Emperor Wushi by helping raise an Innate Saint Body Dao Embryo, then led Ye Fan and the others to ambush Purple Mansion Holy Land disciples and demand their Saintess. The women refused to surrender, but a calm voice arrived just as they prepared to fight.

• The Black Emperor learned Emperor Wushi had not perished but could not locate him without an emperor-level powerhouse, and it turned its attention to Ye Fan as a possible means of raising one.
• The Black Emperor led the group to capture the Purple Mansion Saintess and ambush a dozen Purple Mansion Holy Land disciples on an ice plain.
• Tu Fei tried to announce their robbery, but Shi Jue mocked his claim about a tree, making the female disciples laugh.
• Ye Fan and the others said they would release the disciples after the Saintess arrived, while the women recognized the Black Emperor and refused to surrender.
• The disciples drew their magic treasures, but a calm voice told Junior Sister Zhao Xin that resisting would only hurt them.

Ye Fan and the Black Emperor confronted the Purple Cloud Saintess and demanded source, while the Black Emperor’s crude teasing enraged her. After she attacked them with a Primordial Demonic Mountain, Ye Fan destroyed it and still tried to bargain for Divine Source.

• The Purple Cloud Saintess appeared, and Ye Fan demanded one million catties of source to leave with his companions.
• The Black Emperor joked that the Purple Cloud Saintess should take Ye Fan as a Dao Companion, prompting Ye Fan to attack the dog as they traded insults.
• The Purple Cloud Saintess lost her composure and summoned a Primordial Demonic Mountain to crush Ye Fan and the Black Emperor.
• Ye Fan shattered the mountain with a punch, then asked the Purple Cloud Saintess for Divine Source instead of fighting.
• Ye Fan lowered his demand to nine hundred thousand catties of source, leaving the Purple Cloud Saintess nearly speechless with anger.

Ye Fan negotiated with the Purple Cloud Saintess, who paid him one million source to move aside and said she was investing in his attempt to break the Saint Body’s Four Extremes Curse. After she left, the group teased Ye Fan about Ji Ziyue and imagined powerful physiques for his future descendants before returning to Sacred City, where Tu Fei suggested they seek romance.

• Ye Fan haggled with the Purple Cloud Saintess until Shi Jue reminded him about years of unpaid parking fees.
• The Purple Cloud Saintess gave Ye Fan one million source as an investment in his attempt to break the Saint Body’s Four Extremes Curse, then left with the Purple Mansion Disciples.
• Shi Jue suggested Ye Fan recruit the Purple Cloud Saintess in the future, while Ye Fan doubted she would join his faction after their encounter.
• The Black Emperor and Pang Bo teased Ye Fan about Ji Ziyue and imagined descendants with powerful special physiques, making Ye Fan furious.
• Tu Fei led Ye Fan and the others back to Sacred City, where he suggested they look for romance.

Shi Jue joined Ye Fan and the others as they discussed Stone Gambling, then met Ji Ziyue and Ji Haoyue, who brought news of an Origin Technique competition. The group headed to Illusionary Food Mansion, where Shi Jue agreed to spar with Ji Haoyue another time and revealed that he had begun with a Mortal Body.

• Shi Jue considered visiting a place of pleasure and decided to try Stone Gambling after Li Heishui explained it.
• Ji Ziyue appeared and sarcastically confronted Ye Fan, while Ji Haoyue warned him not to bully her.
• Ji Ziyue told Ye Fan that someone wanted to compete with him in Origin Technique, and Ye Fan confidently accepted the challenge for a million jin of source.
• Ji Ziyue invited Shi Jue to Illusionary Food Mansion, and Ji Haoyue said he hoped to spar with him.
• Shi Jue agreed to a future match and told Ji Haoyue that he had started as an ordinary Mortal Body.

At the Illusionary Food Mansion, Shi Jue negotiated with Ji Haoyue to exchange the Kunpeng Method for access to the Ji Family’s Void Scripture. At the Yaoguang Stone Workshop, Shi Jue used the Eye of Deriving Heaven to choose and cut open a Mysterious Stone, revealing a snow-white rat.

• Shi Jue asked Ji Ziyue to let him read the Void Scripture in exchange for the Kunpeng Method, and Ji Haoyue agreed to consider the exchange over the next few days.
• Shi Jue went ahead to the Yaoguang Stone Workshop before Ye Fan’s contest with the Origin Technique Aristocratic Family.
• Shi Jue used the Eye of Deriving Heaven to inspect Mysterious Stones and spotted a tiny rat sealed inside one.
• Shi Jue paid thirty thousand jin of source for the stone and cut it open with sword qi.
• Shi Jue revealed a snow-white rat inside the stone, astonishing the old man in charge.

Shi Jue learned that the white rat he opened from a Mysterious Stone was a rare Spiritually Communicating Rat, and the Saintess of Yaochi offered Immortal Tear Green Gold for one chance to use its treasure-finding abilities. After their teasing exchange, Shi Jue accepted her offer, leaving her suspicious of his intentions.

• An old man told Shi Jue that the white rat appeared ordinary, but Shi Jue kept it alive and noted that it was waking from dormancy.
• The Saintess of Yaochi approached Shi Jue and identified the rat as a Spiritually Communicating Rat, a rare creature known for finding precious treasures.
• Shi Jue teased the Saintess of Yaochi about her appearance and marriage, and she learned that he already had a first wife.
• The Saintess of Yaochi offered a piece of Immortal Tear Green Gold in exchange for one chance to have the rat search for a rare treasure, and Shi Jue agreed.
• The Saintess of Yaochi suspected Shi Jue was plotting something bad after he accepted the offer.

Shi Jue realized Ye Fan was using his Origin Master's Heavenly Eye to peek at the Saintesses and warned Ji Ziyue before he could expose him. Ji Ziyue caught Ye Fan, threatened to tell the Saintesses, and made him agree to three future requests, leaving him worried about what she would demand.

• Saintess of Yaochi put on a jade bracelet that shielded her from Shi Jue's sight, while he joked about seeing through it and carrying her back to his village.
• Shi Jue noticed Ye Fan's glowing eyes and realized he was using his Heavenly Eye to look at the Saintesses.
• Shi Jue privately warned Ji Ziyue that Ye Fan was staring at the Saintesses, and she saw his purple-glowing eyes.
• Ji Ziyue confronted Ye Fan through voice transmission and warned that the Saintesses would hunt him if they learned he had seen them naked.
• Ji Ziyue made Ye Fan promise to grant her three future requests in exchange for keeping his secret, and he reluctantly agreed.

Shi Jue defended Ye Fan from powerful figures demanding his Kirin Seed, defeating Li Yishui with the Six Paths Reincarnation Heavenly Art before the Crimson Dragon Daoist ended the confrontation. Later, Ye Fan reported that his identity had been exposed and called Shi Jue for help while fleeing a crowd of pursuers.

• Ji Ziyue told Shi Jue that her Origin Spirit Body’s divine radiance prevented Ye Fan from seeing through her, and Ye Fan stopped peeking at the Saintesses.
• Li Yishui threatened Ye Fan over the Kirin Seed, so Shi Jue rebuked him and challenged him to a fight.
• Shi Jue struck Li Yishui down with the Six Paths Reincarnation Heavenly Art, leaving him injured and unconscious.
• Li Heishui taunted Li Yishui, and the Crimson Dragon Daoist arrived, prompting the Nangong Family to back down.
• The Saintess of Yaochi praised Shi Jue, who said he had no interest in taking part in the great era.
• Ye Fan messaged Shi Jue that an Origin Technique expert had exposed him and that a crowd was pursuing him as he fled.

Shi Jue advised Ye Fan to seek the Jiang Family’s protection, then confronted three Holy Lords who wanted his Six Paths Reincarnation Fist. He reached the Jiang Family’s residence and offered an Immortal Spring to help Jiang Taixu, while seeking the Hengyu Scripture.

• Shi Jue urged Ye Fan to ask the Jiang Family for protection by offering treasures that could heal Jiang Taixu.
• Three Holy Lords stopped Shi Jue and demanded the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, but Shi Jue struck them from the shadows and humiliated them until they left.
• Shi Jue went to the Jiang Family’s residence, told its guards he knew Ye Fan and could help Jiang Taixu, and was admitted.
• Shi Jue met Ye Fan inside and gave the Jiang Family a drop of Immortal Spring, which they recognized as a source of powerful life force.

Shi Jue’s Immortal Spring helped Jiang Taixu awaken, and the Jiang Family began restoring his strength as enemies gathered in Sacred City. The chapter ended with more than a dozen Holy Lords confronting the Jiang Family while another Sage Weapon kept the Hengyu Furnace occupied.

• Shi Jue gave Jiang Yun a drop of Immortal Spring and asked to borrow the Hengyu Scripture, which Jiang Yun agreed to arrange after Jiang Taixu recovered.
• The Immortal Spring awakened Jiang Taixu, and Shi Jue warned him that Fairy Caiyun might be in danger.
• After learning Caiyun could be coming to save him, Jiang Taixu took the divine medicine essence while the Jiang Family helped him recover.
• Shi Jue told Ye Fan they might need to ambush their enemies, and he suggested Little Nannan was far more powerful than she appeared.
• Several days later, more than a dozen Holy Lords arrived to attack the Jiang Family while another Great Emperor’s Sage Weapon held back the Hengyu Furnace.

Jiang Taixu returned to Divine City at his peak and confronted the thirteen Holy Lords who had surrounded the Dragon Transformation Pool to kill him. He crushed them with ease, while Ye Fan and Shi Jue discussed a possible way to help Ye Fan break through the Four Extremes.

• Thirteen Holy Lords surrounded the Dragon Transformation Pool and threatened the Jiang Family as they demanded Jiang Taixu's death.
• Jiang Taixu arrived with Fairy Caiyun, revealing that he had recovered and was ready to fight.
• Jiang Taixu reassured Fairy Caiyun that he would help restore her youth, then struck the thirteen Holy Lords while still holding her hand.
• Jiang Taixu killed all thirteen Holy Lords, shocking the watching experts with his overwhelming strength.
• Shi Jue told Ye Fan that Jiang Taixu might help him break through the Four Extremes, and offered another method at the cost of a future favor.

Jiang Taixu returned to Divine City after killing thirteen Holy Lords and protected Ye Fan, who had helped revive him. He forced Ye Fan’s enemies to back down and secured the release of the captured Holy Sons and Saintesses, while the Black Emperor’s remarks stirred fresh anger.

• Jiang Taixu thanked Shi Jue for warning him and promised Ye Fan protection, declaring that no one could harm him in Divine City.
• Jiang Yun affirmed that Ye Fan was a benefactor of the Jiang Family, and Jiang Taixu rejected demands that Ye Fan hand over the Origin Heaven Book.
• Shi Jue mocked Ouyang Ye and a Holy Lord who had once tried to steal his cultivation technique.
• Jiang Taixu told Ye Fan to release the captured Holy Sons and Saintesses, and Ye Fan freed them.
• The Black Emperor lamented that Ye Fan had not captured the Purple Mansion Saintess, prompting Zixia to snap at him.

Jiang Taixu revealed Emperor Wushi’s physique and promised to help Ye Fan enter the Four Extremes Secret Realm, despite his own weakened condition. After giving Shi Jue the Hengyu Scripture, he prepared to help Ye Fan while Fairy Caiyun insisted on staying by his side; Shi Jue and Ye Fan then left to pursue their next plans.

• Jiang Taixu recognized the Black Emperor, who revealed that Emperor Wushi had possessed the Innate Saint Body Dao Embryo, prompting the Holy Lords to reconsider Ye Fan and the Purple Mansion Saintess’s potential union.
• Jiang Taixu said he would help Ye Fan attempt the Four Extremes Secret Realm and gave Shi Jue a copy of the Hengyu Scripture.
• Jiang Taixu coughed blood, explained that four thousand years of erosion had left him in poor condition, and insisted on helping Ye Fan despite the risk.
• Fairy Caiyun told Jiang Taixu she no longer wanted to wait apart and would accompany him whatever happened.
• Shi Jue and Ye Fan left the conspicuous gathering, and Shi Jue said he would seek Ji Haoyue and obtain the Void Scripture.

Shi Jue returned from the Shrouding the Heavens era to the forbidden zone with scriptures and discussed his cultivation with Liu Shen. Shi Hao was close to reaching the Venerable realm, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone explained that Qingyi might awaken after merging with Qingyue’s Dao flame and igniting her Divine Fire.

• Shi Jue told Yao Qing he was leaving and gave her ways to contact him, and she revealed her name before he departed.
• Shi Jue returned to the forbidden zone after ten days and copied the Dao Scripture and other texts for Liu Shen.
• Shi Jue asked whether he could adapt the Dao Scripture to create a Heavenly Passage, but Liu Shen warned that mixing cultivation systems could cripple him and advised him to pursue a Unique Cave Heaven.
• Shi Hao greeted Shi Jue, and Shi Jue noticed that Shi Hao was nearing a breakthrough to the Venerable realm.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone discussed the Human Body Secret Realm scriptures with Liu Shen and warned that further talk could bring heavenly lightning.
• Shi Hao asked when Qingyi would wake, and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone said she might awaken after merging with Qingyue’s Dao flame and igniting her Divine Fire.

Shi Hao and Shi Jue left the Forbidden Zone after Shi Jue was struck by heavenly lightning, while Qingyi avoided discussing her feelings for Shi Hao. Back in Stone Village, Qin Hao challenged Shi Hao, and Shi Jue went to fight him instead.

• Shi Hao and Shi Jue used Qingyi’s Azure Moon Flame to roast meat until the Lord of the Forbidden Zone caught them and sent them away with Liu Shen.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Zone warned that Shi Hao and Shi Jue would face a minor tribulation, and heavenly lightning struck Shi Jue after he blamed Shi Hao for it.
• Liu Shen restored Shi Jue, and she left the Forbidden Zone with him and Shi Hao.
• Qingyi told the Lord of the Forbidden Zone that Shi Hao should focus on cultivation, and she refused to discuss her feelings further.
• Shi Hao returned to Stone Village and reunited with Shi Ziling and Qin Yining.
• Qin Hao challenged Shi Hao, but Shi Jue offered to fight him and followed him to the outskirts of Stone Village.

Shi Jue trained Qin Hao by defeating him, and Shi Hao agreed to help teach his younger brother. When the Primordial Treasure Realm appeared, Liu Shen erased a Western Sect expert’s projection and sent Shi Jue, Shi Hao, and Qin Hao to seek opportunities there.

• Shi Jue beat Qin Hao in a sparring match and carried him back to Stone Village after Qin Hao could no longer stand.
• Shi Hao offered to teach Qin Hao his Precious Techniques, while Shi Jue agreed to help him improve his combat experience.
• A golden projection from the Western Sect appeared, and the Small Pagoda identified it as a formidable Buddhist expert.
• Liu Shen erased the projection and told Shi Jue, Shi Hao, and Qin Hao to enter the Primordial Treasure Realm and seek opportunities.
• Shi Jue, Shi Hao, and Qin Hao left for the Primordial Treasure Realm as the Western Sect expert blamed the mysterious Lower Realm expert for releasing Kunpeng Son.