Chapter Summaries

Fang Che and Yan Beihan discovered that Little White Tiger was the cub of powerful white tigers and that Fang Che’s cultivation benefited the cub. After the white tiger parents accepted Fang Che’s help and entrusted their child to him, the group settled into an uneasy but cooperative arrangement.

• Yan Beihan caught Little White Tiger attacking her skirt, and Fang Che realized the cub was the child of the powerful Demon Beast they had feared.
• Fang Che cultivated with Little White Tiger and Little Bear, while Yan Beihan suspected his method came from the lost Beast Taming Sect.
• Little White Tiger returned to its parents, and its Saint Venerable father later questioned Fang Che and Yan Beihan through a mental domain.
• Fang Che’s cultivation improved the cub’s potential, so White Tiger Mother postponed killing the humans and brought White Tiger Father to meet them.
• White Tiger Mother gave Fang Che Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and entrusted the cub to him, while berating her stingy husband.

Fang Che and Yan Beihan’s comfortable life with the White Tiger family ended when Fire Phoenix drove White Tiger Father and White Tiger Mother from their territory. Hiding underwater with Little White Tiger and Little Bear, Fang Che and Yan Beihan waited out the bird clan’s patrols, while their refuge strained the cubs and their patience.

• Fang Che and Yan Beihan spent months cultivating with the White Tiger family, reaching Martial Marquis Grade Two and Martial King Grade One before advancing further through sparring and hard training.
• Yan Beihan reflected on the violence and inequality tied to the Sole True Sect, while Fang Che listened and admitted that Guardians would not spare her simply because she had avoided killing innocents.
• Fire Phoenix arrived with a flock of strange birds and confronted White Tiger Father and White Tiger Mother; Fang Che and Yan Beihan fled into the lake with Little White Tiger and Little Bear as the tiger parents lured the attackers away.
• White Tiger Father and White Tiger Mother escaped into the distance, leaving Fang Che and Yan Beihan to hide in an air-filled cavern beneath the lake while strange birds searched overhead.
• After ten days, the bird patrols weakened, but Little White Tiger grew listless underwater while Little Bear remained comfortable; Fang Che briefly let the tiger cub breathe near the surface without being spotted.
• Twenty days after taking refuge underwater, Fang Che reached Martial Marquis Grade Five, while Yan Beihan remained at Martial King Grade Two and grew frustrated.

Fang Che and Yan Beihan crossed the lake and survived a night beneath stampeding Demon Beasts searching the shattered stone plain for a hidden treasure. In the dig site’s center, Fang Che discovered that his Iron Shard reacted to the area, and he began testing how far its pull reached.

• Fang Che led Yan Beihan and the two little ones across the lake at night, using Grass Juice and Tree Sap to conceal their scents, then hid with them by day for several days.
• Yan Beihan reasoned that the stone plain had once been covered in mountains that had been shattered, and Fang Che suggested that Demon Beasts had destroyed them while searching for something like Divine Metal.
• Fang Che and Yan Beihan hid as enormous Demon Beasts flooded across the plain, trampled them, and spent the night digging and filling pits before departing at dawn.
• Fang Che and Yan Beihan traveled to the center of the dig site, where the Iron Shard in Fang Che’s sea of consciousness shed its rust, turned into white light, and seemed to yearn for something nearby.
• Fang Che tested the Iron Shard’s reaction by flying away and returning from different directions, while Yan Beihan watched in confusion.

Fang Che and Yan Beihan followed the Demon Beasts’ excavation to a buried source of ownerless divine sense power and absorbed as much as they could. After Little Bear consumed the remaining energy, it uncovered a token-shaped Iron Shard and secretly fused it with the shard in Fang Che’s Divine Sense Space.

• Fang Che and Yan Beihan tracked the Demon Beasts’ disciplined digging southeast and concluded that the beasts might be behind the life-or-death crises in the Yin Yang Realm.
• Fang Che sensed something beneath the beasts’ former work area, and he and Yan Beihan dug a deep pit for three days until they uncovered a sword-shaped mass of ownerless divine sense power.
• Fang Che, Yan Beihan, Little Bear, and Little White Tiger absorbed the divine sense power, greatly strengthening Fang Che’s and Yan Beihan’s Seas of Consciousness.
• Little Bear swallowed the entire divine sense sword, revealing a token-shaped Iron Shard that it carried to Fang Che’s brow and fused with the shard in his Divine Sense Space.
• Little Bear settled on Fang Che’s legs while Little White Tiger watched the fusion in shock.

Fang Che and Yan Beihan survived nine years of battles in the Yin Yang Realm, growing stronger alongside Little Bear and Little White Tiger. When the true Yin Yang Realm finally opened, the White Tiger couple appeared and called Little White Tiger home, leaving him torn about parting from Fang Che and Yan Beihan.

• Fang Che and Yan Beihan cultivated in the pit, broke through to higher ranks, and discovered that Little Bear and Little White Tiger had shed several layers of fur.
• Fang Che and Yan Beihan killed a giant bird, escaped its flock, and hid from pursuing birds and insects in a forest.
• Fang Che and Yan Beihan spent the following years fighting bird, centipede, and snake swarms while Little Bear devoured Centipede Pearls and Little White Tiger grew into a powerful fighter.
• After nine years, Fang Che and Yan Beihan discussed their impending return and their feelings about the life they had shared in the Yin Yang Realm.
• Black clouds divided the realm into light and darkness, revealing that the true Yin Yang Realm had opened.
• The White Tiger couple appeared and called Little White Tiger home, and he hesitated to leave Fang Che, Yan Beihan, and Little Bear.

Fang Che parted from Yan Beihan and watched Little White and Little Bear leave before Yan Beihan departed as well, leaving him her pills and divine crystals. He then joined Lan Xinxue and the surviving Netherworld Hall disciples, manipulating their anger toward the Netherworld while presenting himself as their upright ally.

• Little White reunited with the White Tiger couple and then leaped into the Yin Yang Realm, while Little Bear also said farewell to Fang Che and Yan Beihan before leaving.
• Yan Beihan wept, told Fang Che they would go their separate ways, and departed after leaving him three bottles of Dan Yun Divine Pills and a thousand divine crystals.
• Fang Che met Lan Xinxue and thirty-one surviving Netherworld Hall disciples, then told them the Netherworld had concealed a method for avoiding the Yin Yang Realm's dangers.
• Fang Che encouraged the disciples to consider the Netherworld's motives while suggesting they might replace it, and Lan Xinxue approved secret retaliation against isolated opponents.
• Fang Che continued traveling with the group, earned their trust through a show of generosity, and secretly kept more than a thousand stalks of Lan Xu Grass he had gathered ahead.

Fang Che manipulated the sects into blaming Netherworld and nearly provoked a battle, but Dong Yunyu arrived with a vast Demon Wolf Pack and forced everyone into the Yin Yang Realm. In the dark realm, Fang Che vanished into the depths while Yan Beihan searched for him and Yin Yunxiao decided to fight before explaining the misunderstanding.

• Fang Che gained the Netherworld Hall disciples’ trust, learned what awaited them in the Yin Yang Realm, and persuaded them to wait outside while other sects arrived.
• Yan Beihan accused Yin Yunxiao of causing Netherworld’s casualties, turning the gathered sects against Netherworld; Shi Changjian and Yin Yunxiao began fighting, and Lan Xinxue led Netherworld Hall into the fray.
• Dong Yunyu rushed in pursued by hundreds of thousands of Demon Wolves, disrupting Fang Che’s plan and driving the gathered sects into the black curtain.
• Fang Che used his divine sense to move quickly through the darkness and ignored Lan Xinxue’s calls, while the Demon Wolves poured in and fought the realm’s creatures.
• Yan Beihan searched for Fang Che, encountered Feng Yun, and then continued alone; Yin Yunxiao decided Netherworld would defeat its opponents before explaining the misunderstanding.

Dong Yunyu stole and ate the Demon Wolves’ Wolf God Grass, then shared it with Fang Che while the enraged Wolf King pursued them through the Yin Yang Realm. Fang Che consumed the remaining grass and led the pack away, where the Underworld’s buried skeletons awakened and began slaughtering the wolves.

• Jiang Bihuang and Jiang Bixiao escaped into the Dark Curtain as the Demon Wolf Pack entered the Underworld in pursuit of Dong Yunyu.
• Dong Yunyu revealed that he had stolen the mature Wolf God Grass and called for Fang Che, who struggled to locate him in the dark mist.
• Fang Che reached Dong Yunyu, ate some Wolf God Grass, and fled with him as the Wolf King and its pack closed in.
• The wolves separated Fang Che and Dong Yunyu, and Yan Beihan attacked Dong Yunyu after he insulted her before pursuing him when he escaped.
• Fang Che fought the Wolf King, ate the remaining Wolf God Grass, and knocked the king back before the fleeing pack encountered awakening skeletons.
• Skeletons rose from the earth, seized and impaled the Demon Wolves, and drained their blood as the ground churned and Nether Energy surged.

Fang Che escaped the Demon Wolf Pack and gathered spirit medicines while the Golden Horned Flood Dragon devoured the Netherworld’s deathly energy, weakening its skeletons and transforming Netherworld. As the trial participants clashed over treasures and Dong Yunyu framed Feng Yun for his thefts, Fang Che learned what the Golden Horned Flood Dragon had been doing and urged it to keep eating.

• Fang Che fled after swallowing the Wolf God Grass, while white bone claws massacred the pursuing Demon Wolves and the Demon Wolf King died with its pack.
• The Golden Horned Flood Dragon devoured the deathly aura and killing intent, feeding the energy through Little Sprite and Netherworld until the spear grew far stronger.
• Fang Che collected spirit medicines, including Black White Ginseng, and used Netherworld to destroy a swarm of golden-headed giant ants before realizing the spear had become a spiritual weapon.
• Dong Yunyu stole a Spirit Fruit Tree from Bei Zhen and later robbed Snowflake Palace disciples, escaping while claiming to be Feng Yun of the Sole True Sect.
• Feng Yun threatened the Heavenly Palace disciples after Jiang Bihuang and Jiang Bixiao took a spirit medicine, then left to use the dispute as a future pretext for conflict.
• Fang Che discovered that the Golden Horned Flood Dragon had been gathering Netherworld energy, and he encouraged it to devour as much as it could.

Fang Che collected rare treasures in the Yin Yang Realm while Dong Yunyu’s robberies threw the sects into turmoil, then negotiated with Feng Yun over a Soul-Stabilizing Yin-Yang Root. As the trial neared its end, Fang Che and the Golden Horned Flood Dragon reached an enormous cemetery, where a powerful force struck him as he entered.

• Fang Che focused on gathering treasures, while Dong Yunyu robbed and impersonated people from multiple sects, even prompting Feng Yun to fight the Heavenly Palace disciples.
• Fang Che uncovered a giant Soul-Stabilizing Yin-Yang Root and clashed with Feng Yun, who explained that the root could clear the murderous influence of the Sole True Sect’s Five Elements Spirit Gu.
• Fang Che refused to trade the root until he could consult a Guardian senior after leaving the realm, then continued deeper and collected more treasures with help from the Golden Horned Flood Dragon.
• The Golden Horned Flood Dragon sensed dense death energy ahead and led Fang Che toward what appeared to be the center of the realm.
• Fang Che found a vast cemetery encircled by solidified death energy, entered through its opening, and was struck by a powerful surge of spiritual energy.

Fang Che entered the Guardians Cemetery, harvested rare spirit medicines, and was stopped from advancing deeper into its tombs. Outside, Dong Yunyu stirred chaos among the sects, while Xue Fuxiao arrived after battling four experts and provoked Duan Xiyang into demanding a fight.

• Fang Che entered the Guardians Cemetery after the Iron Shards dispelled its barrier, then paid his respects at the tomb of the Howling Sky Silver Wolf King and took its Wolf God Grass.
• Fang Che found the tombs of the Flying Sky White Tiger King, the Golden Winged Flying Bear King, and the Vermillion Bird Venerable, but the cemetery prevented him from approaching some treasure medicines, so he harvested ginseng near its Nether Energy wall.
• Yan Beihan waited outside the cemetery, unable to enter, and recalled why she had left Fang Che and tried to bury her feelings for him.
• Dong Yunyu impersonated other people to rob and attack the sects, throwing the darkness outside the cemetery into chaos and drawing Yan Beihan into the fighting.
• At Hong Er Quezi's wedding, Yun Jian Qiu and the others drugged his wine, and Hong Er Quezi found himself unable to perform on his wedding night.
• After Xue Fuxiao arrived at the Four Seas and Eight Desolations Pavilion carrying the unharmed Feng Guohai, Duan Xiyang learned that Xue Fuxiao had fought four experts for fifteen days and accused him of hiding his strength before preparing to draw his spear.

Xue Fuxiao confronted the Heaven Palace and Netherworld over their handling of the Yin Yang Realm, demanded compensation for the Guardians, and negotiated a share of its gains with Ziwei Great Emperor. The chapter ended when Duan Xiyang appeared and angrily demanded that Ziwei explain why he had called him shameless.

• Xue Fuxiao calmed Duan Xiyang's anger by explaining that he had broken through during their previous fights, then scolded him until Feng Yunqi intervened and offered wine.
• Xue Fuxiao learned that the Yin Yang Realm trial was ending and that two Guardians, Fang Che and Dong Yunyu, had entered; Feng Yunqi explained the trial's changed rules and Duan Xiyang hinted at a plan involving the participants still inside.
• Xue Fuxiao confronted the Heaven Palace and Netherworld, struck Sun Star Lord, King Qin Guang, and Moon Star Lord, and demanded explanations and compensation for excluding the Guardians.
• Sun Star Lord and King Qin Guang agreed to surrender a share of the Yin Yang Realm's resources, and Xue Fuxiao demanded additional compensation and future Guardian participation.
• Ziwei Great Emperor appeared and negotiated a thirty-five-percent share for the Guardians, then compared Duan Xiyang unfavorably to Xue Fuxiao.
• Duan Xiyang revealed himself and angrily demanded to know when he had ever been shameless.

Duan Xiyang and Xue Fuxiao pressured Ziwei Great Emperor into dividing the Yin Yang Realm’s resources, while Fang Che received a mysterious message from the cemetery’s black shadow before being thrown out. After encountering Dong Yunyu, Fang Che beat him into submission, heard how he had robbed and deceived others, and headed to the exit to ambush people as the trial neared its end.

• Duan Xiyang confronted Ziwei Great Emperor over his insults and bargained for a 3.6-tenths share, while Ziwei refused to give Feng Yunqi a portion.
• Xue Fuxiao and Duan Xiyang returned to drink, where Xue Fuxiao taunted Duan Xiyang and Feng Yunqi stopped him from attacking Ziwei before their plans were complete.
• Fang Che explored the cemetery, and a grief-stricken black shadow showed him visions of his death before warning him to grow stronger and pointing toward someone about to awaken.
• A destructive lightning bolt struck the black shadow, which carried it into the sky before exploding; Fang Che, everyone outside, and the realm’s Demon Beasts all lost consciousness.
• Fang Che awoke, realized the cemetery had expelled him, and collided with Dong Yunyu; after Dong Yunyu vomited, Fang Che beat him and forced him to swear not to seek revenge.
• Dong Yunyu told Fang Che how he had robbed and deceived people, then left; Fang Che went to the exit and prepared to ambush those leaving the Yin Yang Realm.

Fang Che planned for his return from the Yin Yang Realm, then ambushed the Netherworld disciples as they left early and stole their collected Space Rings. After the realm distributed destiny and the survivors began exiting, Yin Yunxiao confronted Feng Yun outside, setting up a reckoning before Jiang Bihuang.

• Fang Che reviewed his plans for leaving the realm, decided to keep several rivals alive, and resolved to rein in his altered mindset before returning to the outside world.
• Feng Yun and Yan Beihan robbed and provoked other sects inside the realm, while the Netherworld lost many disciples and Yin Yunxiao gathered the survivors’ Space Rings for safekeeping.
• The Yin Yang Realm distributed destiny to the survivors, with an immense share pouring into Fang Che and a mysterious divine sense spending its remaining power on him.
• Fang Che disguised himself as Feng Yun, defeated Yin Yunxiao, cut off his hand, and stole the ring holding thirty-five Space Rings before withdrawing into the mist.
• The Light Gates opened, and Fang Che followed the other survivors out at the rear while Yin Yunxiao and the remaining Netherworld disciples formed a deadly barrier outside.
• Yin Yunxiao rose to confront Feng Yun and asked Jiang Bihuang to bear witness, as the assembled sects watched in confusion.

Yin Yunxiao confronted Feng Yun over the theft of Netherworld Hall’s spirit medicines, but Feng Yun used the trial rules and Yan Beihan’s intervention to trap him in public humiliation. Fang Che’s arrival disrupted the Netherworld disciples’ killing formation, and after a disciple attacked and was killed by Feng Yun, Yin Yunxiao regained his composure and recognized that the others wanted his people dead.

• Yin Yunxiao accused Feng Yun of stealing Netherworld Hall’s resources and threatened a fight, while Feng Yun demanded proof and argued that the Yin Yang Realm’s rules let the victor keep what he took.
• Yin Yunxiao revealed that all of Netherworld Hall’s rings had been gathered into his own ring before Feng Yun cut off his hand and took them.
• Yan Beihan exposed Yin Yunxiao’s reluctance to attack and warned him against provoking her, while Fang Che refused Jiang Bihuang’s attempt to enlist him in easing Yin Yunxiao’s humiliation.
• Fang Che and Dong Yunyu mocked Yin Yunxiao, and one Netherworld Hall disciple charged at Feng Yun, who killed him with a single sword strike.
• Yin Yunxiao stopped his other disciples from attacking, acknowledged that he had brought the humiliation on himself, and laughed bitterly that everyone wanted Netherworld Hall to die.

Fang Che helped push the Netherworld Hall into a humiliating deadlock, but Yin Yunxiao accepted the blame and withdrew, strengthening his hold over his disciples. Yan Beihan robbed Fang Che of a Soul-Stabilizing Yin-Yang Root, and the chapter ended as the Yin Yang Gate opened and the elders gathered outside.

• Feng Yun and Fang Che pressured Yin Yunxiao until he took responsibility for the Netherworld Hall's rule-breaking, kowtowed, and led his disciples away.
• Fang Che recognized that Yin Yunxiao's kowtows had secured the loyalty of his twenty-five surviving junior brothers, while Feng Yun acknowledged Fang Che's role in manipulating the conflict.
• Yan Beihan drew her sword and forced Fang Che to hand over a Soul-Stabilizing Yin-Yang Root, which she planned to take back and eat.
• Feng Yun confronted Fang Che about his scheme to sow discord among the sects, and they discussed how the resulting conflict served their factions' interests.
• The rings began breaking as the Yin Yang Gate opened, but Yan Beihan and Fang Che's rings remained intact because they had stored more resources; Fang Che said he had filled his with tree trunks.
• Yin Yunxiao carried his dead junior brother through the gate, while the elders gathered outside and Ziwei Great Emperor, Xue Fuxiao, Duan Xiyang, and Feng Yunqi sat together.

After the Yin Yang Realm trial ended with catastrophic losses, Feng Che and Dong Yunyu returned with vast spoils that Xue Fuxiao and Duan Xiyang divided among themselves, while the Heavenly Palace and Netherworld were left with little. As the sects fled White Cloud Continent under Ziwei Great Emperor’s protection, an angry middle-aged man learned that the Heavenly Palace Netherworld had left a huge unpaid bill and asked which way they went.

• Yin Yunxiao reported that only twenty-six of the Netherworld’s one hundred and fifty disciples survived and that Feng Yun had taken all their gains, while Jiang Bihuang reported similarly devastating casualties for the Heavenly Palace.
• The disciples from the other sects emerged with heavy losses, and Feng Yun and Yan Beihan handed their rings over to Duan Xiyang, who claimed Yan Beihan’s spoils were only trees.
• Fang Che and Dong Yunyu emerged, and Xue Fuxiao took their rings after they claimed to have collected only wood; he discovered that Fang Che’s ring held an enormous hoard.
• Fang Che bowed to Duan Xiyang and earned a promise that Duan Xiyang would spare his life once, while Dong Yunyu embarrassedly revealed that he was the infamous troublemaker Xue Fuxiao had mentioned.
• Duan Xiyang and Xue Fuxiao divided the gathered spoils, leaving the Netherworld with only a small share, then departed with their people to watch Duan Xiyang’s next move.
• Ziwei Great Emperor ordered the Heavenly Palace and Netherworld sects to withdraw from White Cloud Continent, and a middle-aged man at the Four Seas and Eight Desolations Pavilion learned of their unpaid bill and demanded to know which direction they had gone.

Bu Chou tracked down Ziwei Great Emperor to collect the Four Seas and Eight Desolations Pavilion’s unpaid bill, after which Duan Xiyang ambushed the group and killed six leaders and elders. Xue Fuxiao then showed Feng Yunqi the rare medicines needed to save Fang Laoliu, and Feng Yunqi agreed to perform three tasks for the Guardians before recounting how he and his brothers began creating the world’s rankings.

• Bu Chou recognized Ziwei Great Emperor’s group as the diners who had underpaid at the Four Seas and Eight Desolations Pavilion, forced them to pay, and left after shaming Ziwei.
• Ziwei Great Emperor ordered Sun Star Lord to serve three hundred years of confinement, but Duan Xiyang suddenly killed Sun Star Lord and attacked the group.
• Duan Xiyang defeated Ziwei Great Emperor and killed King Chu Jiang and four elders before leaving, while the Golden Horned Flood Dragon devoured the dead men’s soul particles.
• Feng Yunqi told Xue Fuxiao he suspected Fang Laoliu had ties to the Guardians and demanded their help saving him; Xue showed him a Space Ring filled with the needed herbs, and Feng Yunqi agreed to three tasks for the Guardians.
• Feng Yunqi began explaining how he and his brothers had gathered to establish rules and rankings for the world, eventually creating Cloud Surveillance with the Heaven’s Mystery Jade.

Feng Yunqi explained how his former Ten Directions Walker brothers had fallen and arranged to revive Fang Yunzheng, while Xue Fuxiao rewarded Fang Che and Dong Yunyu for their haul. Xue Fuxiao brought Jun Lin’s enormous autobiography to Dongfang Sansan, who eagerly awaited his arrival at Guardian Headquarters.

• Feng Yunqi told Xue Fuxiao that Fang Yunzheng had likely belonged to the Guardians, arranged to refine pills to awaken him, and asked Xue Fuxiao and another powerful Guardian to assist.
• Xue Fuxiao promised Dong Yunyu a banner of honor and medal, while Dong Yunyu decided to join Fang Che despite Fang Che’s protests.
• Fang Che requested a Space Ring, medicines, battle robes, and other supplies, then gave Xue Fuxiao Jun Lin’s thirty-six jade slips containing his sixteen-million-word autobiography.
• Xue Fuxiao told Dongfang Sansan that Fang Che had brought back an immense haul and shared news about Duan Xiyang, Feng Yunqi, and Fang Laoliu.
• Xue Fuxiao revealed that he had obtained Jun Lin’s autobiography, and Dongfang Sansan eagerly prepared to polish and publish it before waiting for Xue Fuxiao to reach Headquarters.

Dongfang Sansan and Xue Fuxiao sorted through Fang Che’s enormous haul, which promised to shore up the Guardians’ resources, and Xue forced Sansan to replenish her depleted soul with Soul-Stabilizing Yin-Yang Root. After Sansan received Lord Jun Lin’s massive autobiography and began revising it in despair, Fang Che returned to Night Dream, shared the roots with her, and helped her replenish her strength.

• Xue Fuxiao showed Dongfang Sansan the treasures Fang Che had brought back, and she calculated how the pearls, cores, and spirit medicines could fund the Guardians and restore injured soldiers.
• Xue Fuxiao insisted Dongfang Sansan eat over two hundred pounds of Soul-Stabilizing Yin-Yang Root, and they reminisced about their childhood as they ate.
• Dongfang Sansan planned for Fang Che to become an ordinary inspector under An Ruoxing and to undergo a Heart Questioning Path, then worried over Xue Fuxiao’s promise to give him a Space Ring and his decision to show Feng Yunqi the resources.
• Xue Fuxiao gave Dongfang Sansan thirty-six jade slips containing Lord Jun Lin’s sixteen-million-word autobiography; she began revising it, cut most of the first slip, and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Fang Che reunited with Night Dream, gave her Soul-Stabilizing Yin-Yang Root to eat, and told her about the ten years he had spent in the strange space.
• Fang Che and Night Dream ate the roots through the night, and Night Dream found that her skin had improved and her body had absorbed the roots’ energy.