Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu joined Miaotong to lure and capture the adult Azure Phoenix whose young he had eaten, surviving a devastating attack before she subdued it. After recovering, he left the Martial Ancestor Sect for Town Desolation City and learned that a recent beast disaster had drawn many Martial Artists seeking resources.

• Miaotong warned Wang Yu that the young Azure Phoenix’s mother would seek revenge, and Wang Yu offered to act as bait so she could capture it.
• The adult Azure Phoenix pursued Wang Yu, wounded him severely, and forced him to hide while Miaotong fought it.
• Miaotong defeated and bound the Azure Phoenix, then gave Wang Yu medicine and ten Qi Gathering Willow Leaves before they returned to the sect.
• After his injuries healed, Wang Yu obtained permission to leave the sect and used a Magnetic Separation Gate to travel to Town Desolation City.
• Wang Yu learned that Town Desolation City had recently survived a beast disaster and that Martial Artists had gathered to seek resources from the aftermath.

Wang Yu completed his Qi Circulation cultivation and registered to comprehend the Innate Stone Tablet, hoping to enter the inner sect. His extraordinary age and cultivation stunned the deacon, while enemies who had watched him leave Town Desolation City continued plotting against him.

• Wang Yu visited Town Desolation City, bought a Space Storage Bag and a large supply of cultivation resources, then returned to the Martial Ancestor Sect as Dongfang Zhao and others watched him leave.
• Wang Yu warned Shouxu and the others not to go out, then spent the next year cultivating until his Primordial Water Qi Circulation Method reached its consummate extreme.
• Wang Yu prepared to pursue inner sect advancement by comprehending an Innate Technique from the Innate Stone Tablet, which could let him seek Old Man Baihe's help entering the Innate Realm.
• Wang Yu went to the Internal Affairs Pavilion to register for the stone tablet opportunity and stunned the deacon by presenting himself as a twenty-seven-year-old with complete Qi Circulation cultivation.

Wang Yu attended Stone Enlightenment on Innate Peak and used his Mental Power to copy the entire Innate Stone Tablet rather than enter the enlightenment realm like the other disciples. After most participants had failed and left, he acquired an Innate Technique.

• Wang Yu registered for Stone Enlightenment, while Guan Zhengrong, Dongfang Zhong, Dongfang Renjie, and Hong Anyan suspected he had come to advance and discussed killing him.
• Wang Yu joined Shouxu, Song Qi, and He Duo'er for a meal and learned that Fragment Star No. 5 remained safe, though Nanxi disciples had been seen near Gourd Valley.
• Qin Chen and Ding Zihao opened Innate Peak for the three hundred registered disciples and revealed the Innate Stone Tablet.
• Wang Yu attached his Mental Power to the tablet and spent the day copying its structure, while the other disciples tried and failed to enter the Innate Enlightenment Realm.
• Guan Zhengrong, Hong Anyan, and Dongfang Zhong left after failing, but Wang Yu completed his copy of the tablet and acquired an Innate Technique.

Wang Yu comprehended the Myriad Things Life and Death Method from the Innate Stone Tablet and entered the inner sect with two other disciples who succeeded. After learning about the Grand Clarity Treasure Tree and surveying the inner sect, he considered returning to Shattered Star to complete his Innate Realm breakthrough in Dragon Refining Abyss.

• Wang Yu endured the stone tablet’s information and discovered that its true technique was the Myriad Things Life and Death Method, the source of the shallower Breathing Innate Method.
• Dongfang Boyan left after remaining in enlightenment for much of the night, while three disciples—including Wang Yu—eventually demonstrated that they had comprehended Innate Techniques.
• Qin Chen congratulated Wang Yu and introduced him to Ding Zihao before leading him, Wu Qinglun, and Li Hongye through the Boundary Lock into the inner sect.
• Wang Yu saw that the inner sect had richer spiritual energy and learned that the Grand Clarity Treasure Tree could help disciples forge Innate Physiques.
• Qin Chen showed the three new comprehenders around the inner sect, while Wang Yu considered returning to Shattered Star to enter the Dragon Refining Abyss.

Wang Yu returned to Fragment Star No. 5, where Old Man Baihe and the others prepared to use the Blood Pool atop Illusion Wall Rock to help him enter the Innate Realm. Wang Yu climbed the rock’s steps and reached the ninety-ninth level, where a strange illusion introduced itself as Hei Xiu.

• Wang Yu continued deducing the obscure Myriad Things Life and Death Method, then released the awakened Old Turtle into a river so it could search for its ancestor.
• On Fragment Star No. 5, Liu Xinjian warned Old Man Baihe that Nanxi was nearing the discovery of a Star Vein, and Old Man Baihe received word that their plans had borne fruit early.
• Wang Yu returned through the Magnetic Separation Gate, reunited with Old Man Baihe and the others, and learned that the Blood Pool atop Illusion Wall Rock contained Innate essence.
• Old Man Baihe gave Wang Yu an Explosive Qi Pill, and Wang Yu began ascending Illusion Wall Rock, swiftly defeating the illusions on the steps.
• Wang Yu reached the ninety-ninth level, where a black-robed illusion opened its eyes and introduced itself as Hei Xiu.

Wang Yu defeated the illusion Hei Xiu on Illusion Wall Rock and discovered the Shrieking Dragon blood and innate essence in the summit’s Blood Pool. After absorbing its blood droplets for several days, he completed the first layer of his Body Refining Method and underwent a major breakthrough, leaving him with pale golden blood and overwhelming physical power.

• Wang Yu fought Hei Xiu, countered his fire-attributed True Intent Saber Control, and defeated the illusion, which asked him to erase the Shrieking Dragon blood so the lingering souls could be freed.
• Wang Yu reached the summit’s Blood Pool and found rolling blood droplets and a tiny gray snake that carried the innate essence he sought.
• Wang Yu discovered that destroying and absorbing the blood droplets greatly advanced his Body Refining Method, so he drew out and refined them while guarding against the gray snake.
• Wang Yu cultivated beside the Blood Pool for three days, absorbed its remaining blood droplets, and filled the last stretch of proficiency in his Body Refining Method.
• Wang Yu began the method’s second layer, endured two days of transformation, and emerged with hundredfold Qi and Blood, immense physical pressure, and pale golden blood.

Wang Yu consumed Shrieking Dragon marrow fluid, broke through to the Innate Realm, and thanked Old Man Baihe for his guidance. After returning to the Martial Ancestor Sect and traveling to the Boundless Mountains, he was cornered by more than twenty Dongfang Imperial Family experts who had come to kill him.

• Wang Yu reached the second level of his Body Refining Method, named his heightened-senses mode Combat State, and absorbed the Shrieking Dragon marrow fluid after destroying its lingering will.
• The loss of the marrow fluid caused Illusion Wall Rock to collapse and released countless skeleton phantoms, burying Wang Yu as he transformed into an Innate Physique.
• Wang Yu broke through the rubble with Innate Forceful Qi, tested his new power, and thanked Old Man Baihe for helping him cultivate.
• Wang Yu visited Sun Chengshan, Chen Wenlin, and other old acquaintances on Shattered Star before returning to the Martial Ancestor Sect and heading to the Boundless Mountains.
• Dongfang Renjie led more than twenty Qi Circulation Realm experts into the mountains, where Dongfang Luochuan tracked Wang Yu by scent.
• Wang Yu turned to face the gathered pursuers beside a river and calmly said, "Everyone's here."

Wang Yu revealed his Innate Realm strength and killed the Dongfang Family disciples who had come to ambush him, then concealed the massacre and waited before reporting his breakthrough to the inner sect. A Summoning Dove brought him to Purple Bamboo Peak, where True Person Hanyang intercepted him.

• Dongfang Renjie and his group searched for traps, then attacked Wang Yu after finding none.
• Wang Yu used Innate Forceful Qi to kill the attacking clan disciples, including Dongfang Boyan, and disposed of their bodies with Corpse-Rot Water.
• After waiting half a month without drawing notice from the Martial Ancestor Sect or Nanxi, Wang Yu told Qin Chen he had entered the Innate Realm.
• A Summoning Dove summoned Wang Yu to Purple Bamboo Peak, and he followed it through the Boundary Lock into the inner sect.
• As Wang Yu approached Purple Bamboo Peak, True Person Hanyang arrived and greeted him warmly.

Wang Yu entered the inner sect and was taken to Purple Bamboo Peak, where True Person Purple Bamboo chose him as a prospective personal disciple. After settling in and cultivating rapidly with a mid-grade Innate Pill, Wang Yu attended Purple Bamboo Peak’s monthly gathering to learn Innate Battle Methods.

• True Person Purple Bamboo claimed Wang Yu as his disciple after True Person Hanyang tried to recruit him to Rising Sun Peak.
• True Person Purple Bamboo brought Wang Yu to Purple Bamboo Peak, introduced him to Miaotong, and assigned her to guide him.
• Miaotong gave Wang Yu a high-quality bamboo tower and ten mid-grade Innate Pills, which he used to refine his ordinary forceful qi into Innate Forceful Qi.
• Wang Yu cultivated for three days, exhausting one pill, and realized his rapid progress required more resources than ordinary disciples needed.
• Miaotong took Wang Yu to True Person Purple Bamboo’s monthly gathering, where the master began teaching the Heart Bamboo Wonderful Method, Grass Sword Technique, and Netherlight Heart Seal Method.

Wang Yu mastered the Way of Nature, became True Person Purple Bamboo’s personal disciple, and settled into a year of steady cultivation. When he was finally drawn into a spar at Purple Bamboo Peak, he revealed a powerful command of the Heart Bamboo Wonderful Method and faced Su Zhan’s next attack.

• True Person Purple Bamboo taught Wang Yu the Way of Nature and explained how its Six Bridges could grant him six spiritual roots and convert his Innate Forceful Qi into different attributes.
• After three months of instruction and deduction, Wang Yu mastered the Way of Nature, became a personal disciple, and received ten high-grade Innate Pills.
• Wang Yu took a Medicine Field tending commission at Pill Peak and spent the next year cultivating, completing his Water Bridge and advancing his body refinement.
• Su Zhan challenged Wang Yu to spar, and True Person Purple Bamboo told Wang Yu to accept.
• Wang Yu matched Su Zhan’s Heart Bamboo Wonderful Method with a larger, more solid bamboo and overwhelmed his first volley of attacks.
• Su Zhan seized his Heart Bamboo and swept it toward Wang Yu with a combined physical and Mental Power attack.

Wang Yu defeated Su Zhan in a spar, revealed that he had completed the Water Bridge, and was sent with Miaotong to suppress a cave-beast disturbance on the mining star. After rescuing miners and fighting cracked worms along the way, they reached Cave Number Seven, where Cracked Worm Kings appeared among the attackers.

• Wang Yu defeated Su Zhan with his Heart Bamboo Wonderful Method, and Shen Qiuhe declined to spar with him.
• Wang Yu told True Person Purple Bamboo that he had completed the Water Bridge, and True Person Purple Bamboo assigned him and Miaotong to suppress cave beasts and train in the Thunder Marsh.
• Wang Yu and Miaotong traveled through the Magnetic Separation Gate to the mining star and received directions from Xiao Wuji to assist at Cave Number Seven.
• Miaotong and Wang Yu rescued miners from cracked worms, and Wang Yu killed several more as they continued toward the cave.
• At Cave Number Seven, Martial Ancestor Sect disciples fought waves of cracked worms until three Cracked Worm Kings broke through their defenses.

Wang Yu helped Miaotong and Bai Hao suppress a Cracked Worm outbreak on Mining Star, revealing overwhelming strength as he killed a Tingfu Insect and several Cracked Worm Kings. After a second wave emerged, he swiftly killed another Tingfu Insect, while the group faced a crisis expected to last for months.

• Miaotong and Wang Yu joined Bai Hao and the inner disciples at Cave Number Seven, where Cracked Worms poured from an underground fissure and three Cracked Worm Kings attacked.
• Wang Yu used the Heart Bamboo Wonderful Method to clear Cracked Worms, then killed a Tingfu Insect with his saber after it wounded an inner disciple and targeted him.
• Wang Yu helped Bai Hao and Miaotong kill the three Cracked Worm Kings, collecting their Blood Qi as the group temporarily suppressed the outbreak.
• Bai Hao told Miaotong and Wang Yu that thirteen caverns had erupted and the disturbances could take months to control; Miaotong offered to show Wang Yu the Thunder Marsh after other sect disciples arrived.
• A second wave of Cracked Worms emerged, and Wang Yu swiftly killed another Tingfu Insect, leaving Bai Hao and the others astonished by his strength.

Wang Yu discovered that heavenly lightning in Thunder Marsh could greatly accelerate his Body Refining Method and used the marsh to cultivate. As earth beast attacks escalated across the Mining Star, he defeated Tingfu Insects near Thunder Marsh and returned to find Cave Number Seven fallen and the sect’s disciples reporting simultaneous attacks by Emperor-grade beasts.

• After Profound Sound Peak's Gu Jing Tong arrived to reinforce the defenders, Miaotong took Wang Yu to Thunder Marsh to cultivate Thunder Bridge.
• Wang Yu realized that heavenly lightning tempered his body and began deliberately enduring lightning strikes, rapidly advancing his Body Refining Method despite severe injuries.
• As earth beast attacks spread across the Mining Star and the Magnetic Separation Gate tower came under threat, more than ten Tingfu Insects reached Thunder Marsh and attacked Wang Yu.
• Wang Yu froze most of the Tingfu Insects with Ice Soul Slash, killed the rest with his physical strength, and absorbed their Blood Qi.
• Wang Yu found no reply from Miaotong and discovered that Cave Number Seven had fallen to Cracked Insects, then hurried to the sect’s tower.
• Bai Hao and other disciples reported that Emperor-grade Earth Beasts had emerged from multiple caves, with Miaotong seriously wounded while helping the others retreat.

The sect's reinforcements reached the tower, where True Person Purple Bamboo healed Miaotong and then rescued Wang Yu from the powerful Earth Fire Pupa Emperor. After the Earth Beast outbreak was contained and the True Persons investigated beneath the Earth Cavern, Wang Yu chose to remain in Thunder Marsh to continue cultivating.

• The Arid Cauldron Array protected the tower until True Person Purple Bamboo and other reinforcements arrived, and Purple Bamboo healed the unconscious Miaotong with a Myriad Spring Pill.
• Miaotong asked whether Wang Yu had returned, while Wang Yu fought the Earth Fire Pupa Emperor and suffered severe burns despite wounding it with his saber.
• True Person Purple Bamboo beheaded the Earth Fire Pupa Emperor, gave Wang Yu a Myriad Spring Pill, and brought him safely back to the tower.
• The sect's forces cleared the Earth Beast hordes, and several True Persons explored beneath the Earth Cavern before returning with grim expressions.
• Wang Yu asked to remain in Thunder Marsh to complete his Thunder Bridge, and True Person Purple Bamboo agreed while warning him to avoid the Earth Cavern and return for next year's Martial Peak Exchange Meeting.

After a year cultivating in Thunder Marsh, Wang Yu returned to the Martial Ancestor Sect for the Martial Peak Exchange Meeting and stabilized his newly formed Thunder Bridge. At the meeting, Sect Master Hongguang Tianren began expounding an ancient scripture, while Wang Yu relied on memorizing it for his Proficiency Panel to help him understand it.

• Wang Yu emerged from Thunder Marsh after a year of cultivation, having formed the Thunder Bridge but still needing to stabilize it.
• Wang Yu returned to Purple Bamboo Peak, where True Person Purple Bamboo ordered him to focus on stabilizing his cultivation before the exchange meeting.
• At Little Stone Mountain, the Mammoth Chief offered his daughter to Wang Yu, and Lei Qingqing angrily threw her father down the mountain.
• Wang Yu joined True Person Purple Bamboo and the other guests at Langya Peak, where Sect Master Hongguang Tianren appeared and opened the Martial Peak Exchange Meeting.
• Hongguang Tianren began explaining an ancient scripture that could aid a future breakthrough to the Heavenly Human Realm, and Wang Yu concentrated on memorizing it rather than trying to comprehend it himself.

Wang Yu gained the Heavenly Human Sense method and watched the sect's True Persons pass down techniques before the disciples began their combat trials. After Miaotong fought Zhang Ruo to a draw, a newly promoted disciple from Sky Dog Peak challenged Wang Yu.

• Wang Yu saw Heavenly Human Sense appear on his interface and resolved to master it so he could teach it to True Person Purple Bamboo.
• True Person Sky Dog taught the Sky Dog Chases Sun battle method, and the other True Persons taught techniques over the following month.
• Bai Hao defeated Zhao Yi in the first disciple combat trial.
• Miaotong fought Zhang Ruo to a draw after neither could gain a decisive advantage.
• Zhabu of Sky Dog Peak challenged Wang Yu to a match.

Wang Yu defeated Zhabu in a strength-focused spar, then accepted a challenge from Lan Yanfeng and gained the upper hand in their exchange of saber techniques. He launched his strongest slash yet, leaving the result of the duel unresolved.

• Zhabu challenged Wang Yu, who sent him flying with a single punch and forced him to activate Ancient Whale Form.
• Wang Yu overwhelmed Zhabu in close combat and knocked him off the cloud platform with an Innate Battle Method-breaking punch.
• Lan Yanfeng challenged Wang Yu, and Wang Yu accepted despite Miaotong's concern.
• Wang Yu and Lan Yanfeng exchanged Innate Battle Methods before Wang Yu used lightning movement to close in and defeat Lan Yanfeng in a contest of true intent.
• Wang Yu combined the Thunder Bridge and Water Bridge true intents in a powerful slash at Lan Yanfeng.

Wang Yu overwhelmed Lan Yanfeng at the exchange gathering, then secured permission to return to Thunder Marsh to refine his body after learning that a mysterious door beneath a Mining Star had once connected to a distant catastrophe. Meanwhile, the Dongfang Family prepared to invade Fragment Star No. 5 in a year, learning that Wang Yu had become an Innate Practitioner and trusting Dongfang Jingchen to confront him.

• Wang Yu unleashed Thunder and Water True Intents together, suppressing Lan Yanfeng until True Person Purple Bamboo stopped the expanding tornado.
• Lan Yanfeng withdrew, and Wang Yu returned to the Purple Bamboo lineage after completing his exchange-gathering matches and earning greater support from True Person Purple Bamboo.
• Wang Yu asked to return to Thunder Marsh to cultivate his body, and True Person Purple Bamboo agreed to a stay of up to three years while warning him away from subterranean caverns.
• True Person Purple Bamboo told Wang Yu that a door had appeared five hundred years earlier and connected to a distant catastrophe, but withheld further details.
• Dongfang Shuo reported that the Magnetic Separation Gate would be completed in a year, allowing the Dongfang Family to launch its campaign to reclaim Fragment Star No. 5.
• Dongfang Jingchen confirmed that Wang Yu had become an inner sect disciple and Innate Practitioner, then assured the Old Ancestors that he could defeat him.

Wang Yu mastered Heavenly Human Sense, gained extraordinary perception, and discovered what he believed was a Heavenly Thunder Soul in Thunder Marsh, but his first attempt to seize it left him grievously injured. As Nanxi prepared to invade Fragment Star No. 5, Dongfang Jingchen asked a mysterious black-robed figure to eliminate Wang Yu.

• Wang Yu returned to Thunder Marsh and spent more than half a year cultivating and mastering Heavenly Human Sense.
• Wang Yu's Mental Power surged, giving him a vast visual field, and he spotted a powerful object within the thunderclouds.
• Wang Yu entered the thunderclouds, identified the object as a possible Heavenly Thunder Soul, and tried to seize it, but its lightning blast badly injured him.
• Wang Yu recovered over three days and resumed cultivation, while Nanxi's Magnetic Separation Gate neared completion and its forces prepared for war.
• Dongfang Jingchen met a mysterious black-robed figure in his family's forbidden pagoda and asked it to kill Wang Yu, whom he identified as a Martial Ancestor Sect inner sect direct disciple at Thunder Marsh.

Wang Yu obtained the Heavenly Thunder Soul and used its power to kill a mysterious True Person-level attacker in the Thunder Marsh. After True Person Purple Bamboo identified the attacker as one of the demons, Wang Yu chose to return to his homeland as war approached.

• Wang Yu survived a lightning strike in the Thunder Marsh and discovered the Heavenly Thunder Soul, which he learned to use for attacks and Body Refining cultivation.
• Wang Yu prepared to leave the Thunder Marsh and return to Shattered Star as war with the Nanxi Empire drew near.
• A black-robed figure appeared at the marsh, attacked Wang Yu, and revealed a monstrous body with True Person-level physical strength.
• Wang Yu unleashed the Heavenly Thunder Soul’s full power and killed the attacker, then searched the water and recovered its head.
• True Person Purple Bamboo arrived and identified the attacker as one of the demons connected to a subterranean cave.
• Wang Yu told True Person Purple Bamboo he had to return to his homeland, and his Master agreed while warning him to avoid indiscriminate slaughter.