Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue was nearly corrupted by a drop of black blood, but Shi Hao intervened and sent him into the Shrouding the Heavens era, where he began adapting his power and seeking the Shading the Heavens Method. After looting part of the Immortal Ascension Ground and sealing his strength into a Sixth Secret Realm, Xu Yue met Ye Fan in a teahouse.

• Xu Yue planned to enter the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands to study the Shading the Heavens Method, but a drop of black blood crossed time and space to attack him.
• Xu Yue called for Shi Hao, whose finger knocked away the black blood; the resulting shockwave hurled Xu Yue into the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Xu Yue recovered enough to locate Earth, then looted a quasi-Emperor-grade tower, Dao Scriptures, and some Medicine Kings from the Immortal Ascension Ground.
• Xu Yue transformed his divine body into a Mortal Body and sealed his power, including the Infinity Stones, into his divine kingdom as a Sixth Secret Realm.
• Xu Yue studied the Dao Scripture in a teahouse, where Ye Fan arrived and greeted him.

Xu Yue befriended Ye Fan through their shared interest in ancient texts while keeping his future cultivation path in mind. When Ye Fan was called to a class reunion, Xu Yue asked to come along for the food, and Ye Fan agreed to seat him nearby.

• Xu Yue and Ye Fan discussed ancient documents, and Ye Fan praised Xu Yue's knowledge and insight.
• Xu Yue warned Ye Fan that he was fated for romantic entanglements and urged him to focus on seeking the Dao.
• Ye Fan received a call from Lin Jia and learned that the matter concerned a class reunion.
• Ye Fan told Xu Yue he had to pick up a classmate and leave for the reunion.
• Xu Yue asked where they would eat, and Ye Fan agreed to open a table for him next door at Sea Moon.

Ye Fan brought Xu Yue to his class reunion, where Xu Yue’s striking appearance and eccentric behavior made an impression on his classmates. During the group’s trip to Mount Tai, Xu Yue sensed the approaching Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin and reflected on how the altered timing differed from the original story.

• Xu Yue disappeared from Ye Fan’s side to flirt with Lin Jia, then joined Ye Fan and Lin Jia in leaving Liu Yunzhi behind in embarrassment.
• Ye Fan took Lin Jia and Xu Yue to the reunion in his Mercedes-Benz, impressing Lin Jia and further embarrassing Liu Yunzhi.
• Xu Yue joined the classmates on a bus trip to Mount Tai, where his erhu playing moved several students to tears.
• Ye Fan stayed calm about Li Xiaoman’s return while repeatedly pulling Xu Yue away from flirting with other women.
• After reaching Mount Tai mostly by cable car, Xu Yue sensed the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin approaching and noted that the group had arrived earlier than in the original story.

Nine dragon corpses dragged a Bronze Coffin onto Mount Tai, and the Five-Colored Altar pulled Ye Fan, Xu Yue, and their classmates inside. Trapped in the coffin, the group faced an unknown fate as Zhou Yi urged them to stay calm.

• Nine dragon corpses and a Bronze Coffin crashed onto Jade Emperor Peak, killing tourists and terrifying Ye Fan and his classmates.
• Xu Yue claimed he was an immortal cultivator and tried to enter the Bronze Coffin, but the Five-Colored Altar activated and drew everyone inside.
• Xu Yue identified the coffin’s carvings and called the small coffin at its center a supreme treasure containing the Immortal Realm.
• Xu Yue’s erhu music deepened the trapped classmates’ despair until a sigh made him stop playing.
• Pang Bo explained that he had followed the group to Mount Tai, and Zhou Yi urged everyone to assess their situation and look for a way out.

After the Bronze Coffin landed on Mars, Xu Yue identified their location and sent Ye Fan and Pang Bo to investigate a distant light. Xu Yue stayed behind, weakened by cutting away much of his power, and secretly sent strands of his blood into the void to protect the world from the power sealed in his Sixth Secret Realm.

• Zhou Yi calmed the students, but the Bronze Coffin suddenly plunged and tilted, its lid opening to reveal a barren wilderness.
• Xu Yue identified the wilderness as Mars by studying the stars and predicted sunrise, while the students realized they could not return to Earth.
• Kaid spotted a flickering light in the distance, and Zhou Yi proposed sending people to investigate.
• Xu Yue refused to go, and Ye Fan and Pang Bo set out to explore while Xu Yue stayed beside the Bronze Coffin.
• Xu Yue coughed up blood from his weakened state and sent several strands of Mortal Blood into the void to contain power from his Sixth Secret Realm.

Ye Fan and his classmates fled the Great Thunderclap Temple as sinister crocodiles born from the Crocodile Ancestor’s aura attacked anyone without Buddhist Treasures. The Crocodile Ancestor escaped his seal but was instantly destroyed by Xu Yue’s borrowed power, while the remaining creatures pursued the survivors to the Five-Colored Altar.

• A girl died when a sinister creature slipped through a flaw in the Great Thunderclap Temple’s seal, and the survivors realized Buddhist Treasures protected their holders.
• Ye Fan tried to shelter classmates without treasures, and Pang Bo helped him stop a student from taking Ye Fan’s bronze lamp as they fled toward the Five-Colored Altar.
• The Crocodile Ancestor broke free and vowed to destroy Shakyamuni’s legacy, but Xu Yue’s power crushed him and the mass of tiny crocodiles he had released.
• Several hundred surviving crocodiles became more frantic after their source died and attacked the fleeing classmates.
• Ye Fan and the others reached the Five-Colored Altar’s light, which held the crocodiles back and gave the survivors a temporary refuge.

Xu Yue warned the group about the Crocodile Ancestor and urged them to take shelter in the Bronze Coffin as a storm struck Mars. When a classmate tried to steal Xu Yue’s Buddhist Treasure and shove him outside, Xu Yue fought back and revealed that his frail appearance was misleading.

• Xu Yue explained that the little crocodiles might have been released when the Crocodile Ancestor escaped and warned everyone to shelter from the approaching storm.
• Ye Fan gave Xu Yue a damaged bell, prompting Li Changqing to accuse Ye Fan of withholding Buddhist Treasures from classmates.
• Xu Yue warned the group about a shadowy Divine Thought and urged them to enter the Bronze Coffin.
• A male student tried to snatch Xu Yue’s bell and shove him into the light membrane while Liu Yunzhi and others blocked Ye Fan and Pang Bo.
• Xu Yue struck the attacker down, then claimed he had trained before.

Xu Yue confronted the student who had attacked him and forced him to reveal that Li Changqing had incited the assault. Ye Fan then took Li Changqing’s Buddhist Treasure and left his punishment to Xu Yue.

• Li Changqing and Liu Yunzhi’s allies pressured Xu Yue to release the injured attacker and stop questioning him.
• Xu Yue used a painful technique on the attacker until Pang Bo pointed out that he could not speak, and the student named Li Changqing as the instigator.
• Pang Bo slapped Li Changqing after his role was exposed, while the group stayed silent.
• Ye Fan took Li Changqing’s Fish Drum and two bottles of mineral water, then told Xu Yue that the rest was up to him.

Xu Yue punished Li Changqing, who exposed Liu Yunzhi as the one behind the earlier attempt on Xu Yue’s life, then killed both men. He warned the surviving students that the cultivation world followed the law of the jungle and took Liu Yunzhi’s Vajra Pestle.

• Ye Fan refused to return Li Changqing’s Fish Drum, while Liu Yunzhi and two students tried to stop Xu Yue from punishing Li Changqing.
• Xu Yue tortured Li Changqing until he named Liu Yunzhi as the one who had ordered the earlier attack.
• Xu Yue killed Li Changqing with a tap to the crown, shocking Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and the other students.
• Xu Yue confronted Liu Yunzhi, whose Vajra Pestle lost its power when it came near Xu Yue’s Quasi-Emperor’s Small Pagoda.
• Xu Yue crushed Liu Yunzhi’s throat, took his Vajra Pestle, and told the survivors to get used to the strong preying on the weak.

Xu Yue led the students to the Big Dipper after killing the crocodiles that threatened them. At the edge of the Archaic Forbidden Land, he studied the sleeping Ruthless Great Emperor and reverse-derived several of her cultivation arts.

• Xu Yue warned the students that the strong preyed on the weak, then led them into the Bronze Coffin as the remaining crocodiles failed to breach its barrier.
• Ye Fan heard a Dao-resonant scripture near the small bronze coffin, while Xu Yue listened and integrated scriptures he had obtained from the Immortal Ascension Ground.
• The Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin reached the Big Dipper and crashed beside a sinkhole in the Archaic Forbidden Land, where the students emerged and rejoiced at finding a habitable world.
• Xu Yue looked into the sinkhole and told Ye Fan that an immortal fairy was sleeping below, while he secretly observed the transforming Ruthless Great Emperor.
• Xu Yue studied the cultivation arts within the Ruthless Great Emperor and restored traces of the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art and the Undying Heavenly Art before withdrawing his gaze.

Xu Yue led Ye Fan, Pang Bo, and their classmates to escape the Archaic Forbidden Land after dividing up the Nine Marvel Immortal Medicine and drinking from its divine spring. Once outside, most of the classmates aged dramatically while Xu Yue remained unchanged, and Village Chief Weiwei took them to Lingxu Grotto-Heaven as cultivation prospects.

• Ye Fan recognized the broken stele’s inscription as Archaic Forbidden Land while Xu Yue finished copying down the cultivation techniques.
• Xu Yue, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo found the Nine Marvel Immortal Medicine and divine spring, and Xu Yue ate the remaining fruits and drank much of the spring water.
• Xu Yue led the group along a shortcut out of the Archaic Forbidden Land, where the classmates’ drained lifespans erupted and most of them aged while Ye Fan and Pang Bo grew younger.
• The classmates accused Ye Fan and Pang Bo of taking their lifespans, while Xu Yue remained unchanged.
• Village Chief Weiwei arrived, recognized the group as potential disciples, and brought them to Lingxu Grotto-Heaven’s nearby outpost.

Lingxu Grotto-Heaven selected Xu Yue, Pang Bo, and Ye Fan from the Earth visitors, but Ye Fan’s Archaic Sacred Body was found unable to cultivate. Pang Bo and Xu Yue insisted he stay with them, and Lingxu agreed to take him along.

• Village Chief Weiwei helped Lingxu Grotto-Heaven win the right to choose first, and it selected Xu Yue, Pang Bo, and Ye Fan.
• Lingxu cultivators discovered that Ye Fan had an Archaic Sacred Body, a once-supreme constitution now considered incapable of cultivation.
• Pang Bo and Xu Yue insisted that Ye Fan continue with them, and Lingxu Grotto-Heaven agreed to accept him.
• The other Earth visitors were divided among the Six Great Grotto-Heavens, and the cultivators took their groups away.
• Lingxu Grotto-Heaven brought its chosen students to its cloud-covered grounds as the chapter described the Eastern Wilderness’s major Holy Lands and Yaoguang’s concealed inheritance.

Xu Yue and Pang Bo began cultivation under Wu Qingfeng’s guidance at Lingxu Grotto-Heaven, while Ye Fan’s Archaic Sacred Body proved unable to open its Life Wheel. Xu Yue secretly opened his Sea of Suffering using a method he had synthesized and absorbed Titan Origin, finally gaining cultivation that belonged to him; he believed he had taken his first true step on his own path.

• Wu Qingfeng taught Xu Yue, Pang Bo, and Ye Fan the basics of the Five Great Secret Realms and the Dao Scripture.
• Wu Qingfeng found eleven marks on Pang Bo’s Life Wheel but could not move Ye Fan’s Life Wheel because of his Archaic Sacred Body.
• Wu Qingfeng discovered no marks on Xu Yue’s Life Wheel, and Xu Yue blamed the Saint Fruits he had eaten.
• Xu Yue used his synthesized Wheel Sea method to open his Sea of Suffering, while the Sixth Secret Realm suppressed the resulting phenomena.
• Xu Yue absorbed Titan Origin into his Mortal Body and concluded that he had broken free of an invisible restraint by making his cultivation his own.

Xu Yue opened his Sea of Suffering and formed a Spring of Life, creating a realm that blended reality and illusion. After the Quasi-Emperor's Small Pagoda joined his cultivation, Wu Qingfeng discovered Xu Yue's extraordinary talent and considered sending him to Yaoguang Holy Land.

• Xu Yue opened his Sea of Suffering and created a sea eye that circulated divine power through its illusory worlds.
• The Quasi-Emperor's Small Pagoda settled above Xu Yue's sea eye, absorbing his divine power and returning power to aid his cultivation.
• Xu Yue showed Wu Qingfeng a walnut-sized Sea of Suffering, concealing its true nature.
• Wu Qingfeng recognized Xu Yue as an exceptional talent and considered offering him to Yaoguang Holy Land in exchange for resources for Lingxu Grotto-Heaven.

Xu Yue, Pang Bo, and Ye Fan spent two months cultivating before Wu Qingfeng sent them to Lingxu Cliff for lectures. Xu Yue then used a complaint about sect corruption as an excuse to beat up medicine thieves and loot their Hundred Herbs Liquid.

• Xu Yue joked with Pang Bo and Ye Fan after opening his Sea of Suffering, and Pang Bo opened his own three days later.
• Ye Fan’s Archaic Sacred Body grew much stronger as he cultivated the Dao Scripture, though he still could not open his Sea of Suffering.
• After two months, Wu Qingfeng told Xu Yue, Pang Bo, and Ye Fan to attend lectures at Lingxu Cliff and warned them not to cause trouble.
• After a public lecture, Xu Yue confronted a young cultivator who had been taking other disciples’ Hundred Herbs Liquid.
• Xu Yue beat the young cultivator and his accomplices bloody, then pocketed their Hundred Herbs Liquid while lamenting the cultivation world’s crooked ways.

Xu Yue taught Ye Fan and Pang Bo the brutal rules of the cultivation world as they looted and fought Han Feiyu’s group. After Han Feiyu threatened them with his elder relatives, Xu Yue killed him despite two disciples’ pleas, leaving them to manage the fallout.

• Ye Fan and Pang Bo followed Xu Yue’s example and looted the injured troublemakers a second time.
• Han Feiyu confronted the trio, but Xu Yue smashed his head into a bluestone before he could act.
• Xu Yue used Han Feiyu to block his attendants’ attacks while Ye Fan and Pang Bo ambushed and defeated the four men.
• Han Feiyu threatened the trio with his grandfather and granduncle, so Xu Yue taught Ye Fan and Pang Bo that enemies would seek revenge and should be eliminated.
• Two disciples arrived and pleaded for Han Feiyu’s life, but Xu Yue tore off his head and left the newcomers to deal with the consequences.

Ye Fan decided to leave Lingxu Grotto-Heaven and pursue cultivation on his own, while Pang Bo stayed behind to grow stronger. A Yaoguang Holy Land elder arrived to inspect Xu Yue and Weiwei, judged both to be exceptional Immortal Seedlings, and prepared to take them to the holy land.

• Ye Fan told Pang Bo he was leaving Lingxu Grotto-Heaven because he feared future retaliation and needed more cultivation resources.
• Pang Bo offered to leave with Ye Fan, but Xu Yue urged him to stay and become strong enough to help Ye Fan later.
• Xu Yue, Pang Bo, and Ye Fan said their farewells as Ye Fan left Lingxu Grotto-Heaven.
• A Dragon Transformation Realm elder from Yaoguang Holy Land arrived with Lingxu Grotto-Heaven's headmaster to inspect the Immortal Seedlings.
• The elder examined Weiwei and Xu Yue, praised their talents, and said Xu Yue could become a saint son.
• Lingxu Grotto-Heaven's higher-ups rejoiced at the prospect of rewards, while Xu Yue saw joining Yaoguang Holy Land as a useful way to access its scriptures and conceal his plans.

Ye Fan and Pang Bo reached the Azure Emperor’s Tomb after escaping an attempt on Ye Fan’s life, while the gathered human cultivators and Great Demons prepared to contest its treasures. Pang Bo was possessed by a descendant of the Azure Emperor, and Xu Yue protected Ye Fan as the tomb’s secrets drew everyone’s attention.

• Elder Liu praised Xu Yue and Weiwei before a burst of rosy light drew the cultivators toward an ancient palace.
• Lingxu Grotto-Heaven’s elders and the Great Demons recognized the palace as the Azure Emperor’s Tomb and argued over who had the right to enter it.
• Xu Yue noticed green flames in Pang Bo’s eyes and warned the others that something was wrong with him.
• An elder sealed Pang Bo after the Azure Emperor’s descendant possessed him, while Xu Yue moved to protect Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan told Xu Yue that Han Feiyu’s great-uncle had sent disciples after him, and Xu Yue promised to deal with the elder later.

The Great Demon possessing Pang Bo broke free and attacked Xu Yue, hoping to take his body, but Xu Yue overwhelmed him without harming Pang Bo's origin. Xu Yue then approached the frightened demon and prepared to negotiate, using the Small Pagoda's Emperor might to make him believe Xu Yue was a reincarnated Great Emperor.

• The Great Demon broke his seal and revealed that he planned to seize Xu Yue's body while the powerful cultivators fought above.
• The demon attacked Xu Yue, who used his physical strength and Void Divine Power to shatter the demon's arm and send Pang Bo crashing into a tree.
• Ye Fan tried to rush to Pang Bo, but Xu Yue stopped him and explained that the demon still occupied Pang Bo's body and that he had spared Pang Bo's origin.
• The demon feared Xu Yue would kill him, then suspected Xu Yue was an Ancient Great Emperor who had survived by cultivating anew.
• Xu Yue told Ye Fan they needed to compromise to save Pang Bo, then showed the demon the Small Pagoda's Emperor might as he offered him two choices.

Xu Yue and Ye Fan let the old demon leave in Pang Bo’s body after he promised to free Pang Bo, and Xu Yue gave Ye Fan the Dao Scripture’s Wheel Sea Chapter. As Yaoguang and the Ji Family arrived at the Demon Emperor’s Tomb, the old demon reunited with the Great Demons and warned them not to harm Xu Yue and Ye Fan.

• Xu Yue told Ye Fan that the old demon had sworn to find a new body and return Pang Bo’s freedom, while Pang Bo briefly urged them to leave because the old demon had allies coming.
• The old demon escaped in a streak of green light and tossed Xu Yue a corpse carrying the complete Wheel Sea Chapter of the Dao Scripture; Xu Yue memorized it and gave the scripture to Ye Fan to keep.
• Yaoguang’s forces arrived and drove away the Great Demons, then the Ji Family arrived and challenged Yaoguang’s presence; Xu Yue and Ye Fan withdrew before the two powers could clash.
• After Xu Yue and Ye Fan left, the Azure Emperor’s Heart was blasted from the Yang Tomb, and the Dragon Transformation Realm cultivators failed to capture it.
• In a hidden valley, the old demon ordered his followers not to harm Xu Yue and Ye Fan, then tore apart a demon who suggested killing everyone Pang Bo cared about.
• The old demon told the Great Demons that human powerhouses would soon arrive and ordered them to prepare.