Chapter Summaries

Feng Qingyue paid for and reclaimed the Mysterious Light Purple Green Ring, while the Demon Cloud Fruit auction escalated into a contest between Yan Cong and Tian Guizhang. When Yan Cong demanded an asset verification, Ye Zhen and Tian Guizhang loudly accused the auction house of targeting the Sun Moon Divine Cult, leaving the officials silent.

• Feng Qingyue paid the remaining cost of her bid and broke the seals on the jade disk to embrace the Mysterious Light Purple Green Ring.
• Duan Yingnian, Ji Xuan, and Yan Cong competed for the Demon Cloud Fruit, until Duan Yingnian ran out of funds and Yan Cong bid 4 million Mid-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Tian Guizhang, after receiving Ye Zhen's nod, entered the bidding and raised it to 4.5 million Mid-grade Spirit Crystals against Yan Cong.
• Yan Cong demanded asset verification, leaving Tian Guizhang worried that their plan would be exposed.
• Ye Zhen furiously accused the Heavenly Spirit Auction House of unfairly targeting the Sun Moon Divine Cult and threatened to demand asset verification throughout its next Treasure Appraisal Convention.
• Tian Guizhang joined Ye Zhen's protest and demanded an explanation from the auction house.

Ye Zhen helped Tian Guizhang outbid Yan Cong for the Demon Cloud Fruit, then used the proceeds from consigning the fruit to settle their auction accounts. After collecting his treasures, Ye Zhen prepared to leave, but Tian Guizhang told him to wait because it was not yet time.

• Tian Guizhang challenged the repeated fund checks, and Great Shopkeeper Qiao ended all fund verifications during auctions while warning against malicious bidding.
• Yan Cong stopped bidding on the Demon Cloud Fruit when Steward Ding revealed Myriad Stars Tower could not afford another raise, and Tian Guizhang won it for five million one hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Yan Cong realized the high sale price would ease Ye Zhen's finances and ruin his plan to obtain the Soul Refining Secret Record cheaply if Ye Zhen defaulted.
• At settlement, Ye Zhen returned Tian Guizhang's loan, and the auction house paid Ye Zhen the proceeds from the Demon Cloud Fruit after deducting its commission.
• Ye Zhen paid the remaining balance for his five treasures and collected them, including the Purple Spirit Jade, the Soul Refining Secret Record, and the Blood Shadow Spear.
• When Ye Zhen asked whether he should leave, Tian Guizhang told him to wait, and Ye Zhen's expression changed.

After helping Tian Guizhang secure the Demon Cloud Fruit, Ye Zhen arrived at Feng Qingyue’s courtyard, where the two shared a night of drinking. As they drank, mysterious figures gathered in southern Qinglan Martial Capital.

• Tian Guizhang led Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue from the auction house under guard, and Yu Hanjing appeared to threaten them before departing.
• Tian Guizhang escorted Ye Zhen to Feng Qingyue’s courtyard, thanked him for helping obtain the Demon Cloud Fruit, and promised to repay 1.8 million Mid-grade Spirit Crystals within three years.
• After Tian Guizhang left, Feng Qingyue invited Ye Zhen to drink, and the two exchanged thanks and poured a bowl of wine in remembrance of those they missed.
• Feng Qingyue and Ye Zhen agreed not to circulate spiritual power and continued drinking through the night.
• As the night faded, black-clad and secretive figures descended from every direction toward southern Qinglan Martial Capital.

While Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue drank and grew intoxicated, an attack triggered a cascade of alarms at the Longevity Sect headquarters. The chapter leaves Ye Zhen waking from a dream of Feng Qingyue to an urgent warning that something terrible has happened.

• A black-clad attacker killed a hidden Longevity Sect sentry, but another sentry sounded the alarm as intruders rushed toward the headquarters.
• Duan Yingnian and General Pan saw crimson warning talismans filling the sky, and General Pan urged Duan Yingnian to capture an attacker to save himself from punishment.
• Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue drank together, and Feng Qingyue said she hoped the Mysterious Light Purple Green Ring would help her see her mother.
• Mistaking Feng Qingyue for Caiyi, Ye Zhen touched her cheeks and leaned toward her, then passed out before they kissed.
• Ye Zhen dreamed that he was passionately embracing Feng Qingyue, then woke when an urgent male voice said something terrible had happened.

Ye Zhen learned that a rumor had helped trigger a devastating attack on the Longevity Sect, which was preparing to retaliate. Back at Feng Qingyue’s courtyard, Young Master Nian attacked Ye Zhen after finding him disheveled, while Yin Changsheng demanded answers from the wounded Duan Yingnian.

• Tian Guizhang told Ye Zhen that the Longevity Sect had lost more than fifty martial artists, including several Pulse Forging Realm experts, in attacks on its headquarters and branches.
• Ye Zhen dismissed Tian Guizhang’s warning about retaliation and asked him to send updates on the Longevity Sect’s movements.
• Ye Zhen remembered drinking with Feng Qingyue and discovered that Little Cat was in the front courtyard with her.
• Young Master Nian saw Ye Zhen emerge barefoot and disheveled from the rear courtyard and slashed at him with his longsword.
• Yin Changsheng angrily questioned the bloodied Duan Yingnian about what had happened.

Yin Changsheng punished Duan Yingnian for the Longevity Sect’s losses but spared him and issued orders to suppress the Demon Cloud Fruit rumor. Meanwhile, Feng Qingyue drove off Nian Xinghe by combing Ye Zhen’s hair, and Ye Zhen left after asking her to watch for ways to help Xiao Mao overcome its bloodline limits.

• Yin Changsheng beat Duan Yingnian for mishandling the Demon Cloud Fruit rumor and causing sect members to die, then healed him and demoted him to Protectorate Commander.
• Yin Changsheng ordered the Longevity Sect’s leaders to follow his talisman instructions to erase the rumor and warned them not to reveal the sect’s secrets.
• Feng Qingyue shattered Nian Xinghe’s attack with her Spirit Weapon and told him to leave her courtyard.
• Feng Qingyue combed Ye Zhen’s hair in front of Nian Xinghe, who left in heartbreak after believing they were together.
• Ye Zhen asked Feng Qingyue to tell him about methods for helping Xiao Mao break through its bloodline limits, then departed.

Ye Zhen studied the Soul Refining Secret Record and began cultivating it while also advancing the Shattered Jade True Scripture toward the Purple Jade Realm. His training was interrupted when a purple talisman arrived and shocked him.

• Ye Zhen learned from Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao that neither of them knew what had happened after Ye Zhen got drunk, and Xiao Mao complained about Feng Qingyue handling it.
• Ye Zhen read the Soul Refining Secret Record and discovered its powerful cultivation method and three soul arts: Soul Chasing Stab, Soul Searching Technique, and Soul Refining Divine Eye.
• Ye Zhen began replacing his Dark Soul Art with the Soul Refining Secret Record, expecting the process to take at least twenty days.
• Ye Zhen also began using Purple Spirit Jades to advance the Shattered Jade True Scripture from the Crimson Jade Realm toward the Purple Jade Realm.
• On the third day of his cultivation, a purple talisman descended into Ye Zhen's hands, and he was shocked after reading it.

After the Longevity Sect opened its headquarters and branch halls to visitors, it dispelled most of Ye Zhen’s rumor while revealing much of its strength and beginning preparations to kill him. Ye Zhen cultivated the first level of the Soul Refining Secret Record, but as he practiced in his courtyard, the Longevity Sect launched a sudden attack.

• Tian Guizhang reported that the Longevity Sect had invited martial artists to inspect its grounds, killing more than a hundred visitors and largely suppressing Ye Zhen’s rumor while exposing its resources and powerful experts.
• Tian Guizhang warned Ye Zhen that the Longevity Sect was gathering information on him and suggested he shelter in Feng Qingyue’s spirit courtyard, but Ye Zhen chose to focus on cultivating his strength.
• After more than half a month in seclusion, Ye Zhen completed the first level of the Soul Refining Secret Record and extended his spiritual perception to about five hundred meters.
• Ye Zhen called for Baicao to prepare hot water and began practicing Black Dragon Hegemony Style in his courtyard.
• As Ye Zhen struck the black training stone, its shadow formed a sharp Black Light and attacked his vital heart point, revealing the Longevity Sect’s counterattack.

Ye Zhen survived a Shadowless Assassin’s attack in his courtyard by relying on the Mirage Dragon Pearl, then learned the assassin belonged to a feared group. At the Longevity Sect, General Pan discovered the assassin’s jade token had shattered, suggesting she had died.

• A Shadowless Assassin stabbed Ye Zhen while he practiced, but the Mirage Dragon Pearl absorbed the attack and Ye Zhen killed her with a finger strike.
• Ye Zhen found the assassin’s dagger broken and suspected the Mirage Dragon Pearl had devoured part of the High-grade Treasure Artifact; he also discovered her poison and infiltration tools.
• Tian Guizhang arrived, identified the dead woman as a third-level Pulse Forging Realm Shadowless Assassin, and lamented that Ye Zhen had torn her special leather garment.
• At the Longevity Sect, Duan Yingnian asked General Pan about the assassin sent to infiltrate the Sun Moon Divine Cult, and General Pan said she would strike when the moment was right.
• General Pan’s jade token suddenly cracked as he drank with Duan Yingnian.

After Ye Zhen killed a Shadowless Assassin, the Longevity Sect learned that its assassin and her rare Hundred Changes Thousand Shadows Garment were lost. Ye Zhen kept the garment and focused on using his improved cultivation speed to prepare for the Spirit Gathering Assembly, heading back to the Bamboo Sea Spirit Courtyard for his monthly training.

• General Pan and Duan Yingnian discovered that the life-bound Jade Talisman of the Shadowless Assassin had shattered, confirming her death and the loss of her equipment.
• Tian Guizhang explained that the Hundred Changes Thousand Shadows Garment could conceal its wearer and was essential to making a true Shadowless Assassin; Ye Zhen reclaimed the garment after Tian Guizhang tried to store it.
• Tian Guizhang questioned how Ye Zhen had defeated the assassin, but left without pressing him, and Ye Zhen kept the Mirage Dragon Pearl secret.
• Ye Zhen returned to cultivation and found that mastering the Soul Refining Secret Record had increased his cultivation and Purple Jade Spirit Seed condensation speeds by about twenty percent.
• After five more days of cultivation, Ye Zhen headed to the Bamboo Sea Spirit Courtyard to use his monthly five-day allowance and prepare for the Spirit Gathering Assembly.

Ye Zhen secured long-term cultivation in Bamboo Sea Spirit Courtyard by supplying Bai Zizai with Eighteen Seed Spirit Brew. After four months of cultivation, Ye Zhen advanced to the third layer of the Soul Sea Realm and received Feng Qingyue’s summons to return for Moonlight Hall’s grand competition.

• Bai Zizai offered Ye Zhen daily access to a High-grade Spirit Courtyard in exchange for Eighteen Seed Spirit Brew, and Ye Zhen gave him ninety jars.
• Ye Zhen entered Spirit Courtyard Number Ninety-Three and cultivated there alongside the Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao.
• Over four months, Ye Zhen advanced his Soul Refining Secret Record to the second level, reached the Purple Jade Realm in the Shattered Jade True Scripture, and broke through to the third layer of the Soul Sea Realm.
• Feng Qingyue sent Ye Zhen a Talisman Signal telling him to return because Moonlight Hall’s half-year grand competition would begin in three days.

Ye Zhen entered Moonlight Hall’s semiannual competition after Feng Qingyue told him that winning first place was necessary to qualify for the Spirit Gathering Assembly. As he entered the Sun Moon Divine Altar’s deadly trials, Tian Guizhang defended Ye Zhen’s potential against Yao Sen’s ridicule.

• Ye Zhen agreed to compete so he could keep his promise to attend the Spirit Gathering Assembly and fight for a place in its top three.
• Tu De announced that competitors would be grouped by how many levels of the Sun Moon Divine Altar they cleared, with rewards for strong performances and expulsion for failures.
• Ji Yuanxiu opened the altar, and Feng Qingyue explained that its spirit-shadow opponents were dangerous and could kill competitors who failed to escape with their Jade Talismans.
• Tian Guizhang urged Ye Zhen to challenge the altar quickly, and Ye Zhen entered last.
• Yao Sen mocked Moonlight Hall’s declining results, while Tian Guizhang argued that Ye Zhen alone could make the hall shine.

Ye Zhen swept through the first three layers of the Sun Moon Divine Altar, discovering that his breakthrough to the Purple Jade Realm had made him far stronger than its spiritual power incarnations. As the altar forced him out, he glimpsed a different version of the third layer, while Tian Guizhang and Yao Sen continued arguing in Moonlight Hall.

• Ye Zhen destroyed all thirty spiritual power incarnations on the first layer and entered the second layer.
• Ye Zhen used his Purple Jade Seal to eliminate the second layer's twenty stronger incarnations, then tried and failed to understand the altar's patterns.
• Ye Zhen entered the third layer and used Floating Cloud Finger to destroy two Pulse Forging Realm incarnations with one strike, then easily defeated the remaining eight.
• Ye Zhen reflected on how much his cultivation and strength had increased before the altar's crushing force began expelling him.
• As he was forced out, Ye Zhen saw an entirely different third layer, while Tian Guizhang and Yao Sen argued in Moonlight Hall.

Deputy Cult Masters Tian Guizhang and Yao Sen argued over whether Ye Zhen could rank among the fastest to clear the Sun Moon Divine Altar, then wagered Spirit Crystals on the outcome. The chapter ended when Ye Zhen suddenly tumbled out of the altar's Vortex Light Gate, shocking the onlookers and delighting Yao Sen.

• Tian Guizhang insisted Ye Zhen could rank among the top six, while Yao Sen called that impossible and challenged his assessment.
• Feng Qingyue proposed that Tian Guizhang and Yao Sen settle their disagreement with a wager, and Tian Guizhang accepted Yao Sen's challenge over a top-three ranking.
• Tian Guizhang borrowed three hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Crystals from Chen Changxing and added his own funds to wager four hundred thousand.
• Feng Qingyue backed Ye Zhen with another four hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Crystals, while Jiao Xi added four hundred thousand to Yao Sen's side.
• Ji Yuanxiu displayed the trial's progress on a purple jade disk, then cried out as Ye Zhen emerged from the Vortex Light Gate.

Ye Zhen cleared the first three levels of the Sun Moon Divine Altar in only 309 breaths, proving Yao Sen wrong and winning the wager for Tian Guizhang and Feng Qingyue. After Tian Guizhang returned Ye Zhen's share of the crystals, he told him he would need an even more astonishing display to earn a place in the Spirit Gathering Assembly, while another sword-wielding martial artist emerged from the altar.

• Yao Sen claimed Ye Zhen had failed the Divine Altar trial and collected the wager, while Jiao Xi demanded payment from Feng Qingyue.
• Ye Zhen revealed that his Protective Jade Talisman was intact, and Ji Yuanxiu confirmed that he had cleared the first three levels in 309 breaths.
• Yao Sen returned the eight hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Crystals he had taken, and Feng Qingyue collected her winnings from Jiao Xi.
• Tian Guizhang gave Ye Zhen four hundred thousand Mid-grade Spirit Crystals and told him he needed an even more astonishing display to qualify for the Spirit Gathering Assembly.
• A quarter of an hour later, a martial artist holding a treasured sword in reverse strode out from behind the Vortex Light Gate.

Ye Zhen cleared the Sun Moon Divine Altar in a record 306 breaths, surpassing Moonlight Hall Chief Yan Jingshu and leaving him embarrassed after he had contemptuously ignored Ye Zhen’s greeting. After the group stage ended, the contestants began drawing lots for the ranking matches, and Ye Zhen’s first-place finish stunned the crowd.

• Yan Jingshu emerged from the altar expecting to have finished first and dismissed Ye Zhen’s greeting with contempt.
• Grand Commander Ji Yuanxiu revealed that Ye Zhen had cleared the altar in 306 breaths, making Yan Jingshu realize he had underestimated him.
• Feng Qingyue told Ye Zhen that martial artists often favored the powerful and invited him to celebrate with food and wine.
• The altar challenge ended with seventeen martial artists in the first group, sixty-five in the second, and eighteen in the third.
• When the ranking-match draw began, Yan Jingshu admitted that he was not first, and Ye Zhen stepped forward as the group’s top finisher.

Ye Zhen entered the ranking tournament and proposed fighting ten Moonlight Hall elites at once to create a sensation and earn a chance to attend the Spirit Gathering Assembly. The chapter ended with him escalating the challenge to all sixteen members of the first group, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Ye Zhen drew Huo Ming as his first opponent, but Huo Ming conceded after learning of Ye Zhen's past fight with Yu Huaisong.
• Ye Zhen watched the first group's matches to study the fighters and plan how to attract the higher-ups' attention.
• Ye Zhen drew Chief Yan Jingshu and refused to concede, then challenged Yan and nine others to fight him together.
• Yan Jingshu took Ye Zhen's challenge as an insult and offered to fight him alone.
• Ye Zhen said he would take on all sixteen fighters in the first group, shocking the Sun Moon Divine Cult's observers.

Ye Zhen accepted a challenge to fight all sixteen of Moonlight Hall’s first-group martial artists, then used his Purple Jade Seal to overwhelm their coordinated attacks. The battle continued as he trapped Huo Ming and three others beneath the seal, with its explosion threatening them.

• Yao Sen encouraged Yan Jingshu to let Ye Zhen fight the whole group, and Tian Guizhang considered betting on Ye Zhen before Yao Sen declined.
• All fifteen other martial artists in the first group, including Huo Ming, surrounded Ye Zhen in Fighting Arena Number One.
• The sixteen fighters attacked together, but Ye Zhen escaped above their assault and brought his Purple Jade Seal down on Yan Jingshu’s group of eight.
• Ye Zhen’s seal shattered the first group’s attacks and exploded, injuring six martial artists, while he evaded the other eight fighters’ counterattack.
• Ye Zhen changed a second seal’s detonation into suppression, trapping Huo Ming and three others before announcing that it would explode.

Ye Zhen used his Purple Jade Seal to defeat Huo Ming and the other fighters without killing them, then effortlessly overcame Yan Jingshu and Zheng Ling. The remaining four opponents conceded, leaving the martial arena stunned by Ye Zhen’s strength.

• Huo Ming and three other fighters were badly injured by the Purple Jade Seal’s residual force, then realized Ye Zhen had spared their lives and thanked him.
• Huo Ming warned Ye Zhen about Zheng Ling’s attack as Yan Jingshu struck at him with a powerful sword aura.
• Ye Zhen struck Yan Jingshu with Soul Shocking Heavenly Lightning, breaking his defenses and sending him convulsing toward the ground.
• Zheng Ling’s Golden Plum Palm Seal hit Ye Zhen’s back but failed to break his Purple Jade Spiritual Armor, and Ye Zhen knocked her unconscious with a Spiritual Power Brick.
• The four remaining fighters conceded defeat, while the spectators watched in stunned silence and Yan Jingshu continued screaming.

Ye Zhen won Moonlight Hall’s half-year grand competition and became its chief disciple after defeating sixteen elite martial artists. Law Enforcement Hall Elder Tu De offered to train him as a personal attendant, but Ye Zhen refused and chose to remain in Moonlight Hall until he reached the Pulse Forging Realm.

• Ye Zhen defeated sixteen of Moonlight Hall’s strongest martial artists in less than thirty breaths without being injured.
• Tu De announced Ye Zhen as the competition’s winner and Moonlight Hall’s new chief disciple, while Yan Jingshu regretted losing his position.
• Chen Changxing asked Feng Qingyue to transfer Ye Zhen to his command, but Feng Qingyue ignored the request.
• Tu De offered to recruit Ye Zhen into the Law Enforcement Hall as his personal attendant, but Ye Zhen declined until he reached the Pulse Forging Realm.
• Ye Zhen thanked Huo Ming and the others for sparring with him, and Zheng Ling asked whether his body-protection technique was a Heaven Grade martial skill.