Chapter Summaries

Ye Zhen subdued Bian You after the formation master insulted him, but spared his life so the group could enter Myriad Beasts Valley. As the gathered party waited for the last two arrivals, Ye Zhen recognized the young woman accompanying Lan Shuiqiao as Hu Qingtong.

• Bian You insulted Ye Zhen, who struck him with Soul Shocking Heavenly Lightning and held a finger to his temple.
• Yang Yiguan revealed that Bian You was needed to break Myriad Beasts Valley’s protective formation, and Shadow Blade Shao Mo offered Ye Zhen first choice of treasures to persuade him to let Bian You go.
• Ye Zhen accepted Feng Qingyue’s plea and the offer, released Bian You, and warned him not to insult him again.
• Yang Yiguan said Lan Shuiqiao and one other person were still on their way, then pointed out the pair arriving by flight.
• Ye Zhen recognized the young woman beside Lan Shuiqiao as Hu Qingtong and cried out in surprise.

Ye Zhen joined Yang Yiguan’s expedition to Myriad Beasts Valley, wary that Hu Qingtong’s arrival meant the Demon God Hall had become involved. After the group survived a poisonous fog and found the valley’s hidden entrance, Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue leaped into the spring together.

• Yang Yiguan introduced the expedition members and explained that they needed to break through Myriad Beasts Valley’s defenses to claim its treasures.
• Ye Zhen searched for anyone secretly accompanying Hu Qingtong, then agreed to let Feng Qingyue remain with the group despite the danger.
• Yang Yiguan calculated the moving entrance’s location and led the party toward it on his Black Winged Dragon Eagle.
• Hundred Poisons Venerable Lan Shuiqiao warned the group about the deadly Hundred Flower Poisonous Fog, which killed a Black Tailed Demonic Bee as they passed through.
• Yang Yiguan identified a spring as the entrance to Myriad Beasts Valley and entered it first.
• Ye Zhen took Feng Qingyue’s hand and jumped into the spring with her, while Hu Qingtong watched.

Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue entered Myriad Beasts Valley’s shifting formation with their companions, but Diviner Bian You stopped sending them guidance and left them in danger. They escaped on their own, then confronted Bian You over his betrayal and slander as Lan Shuiqiao demanded an explanation.

• Lan Shuiqiao detected Jade Dew Guanyin’s mind-altering fragrance in the entrance formation and gave the group Miasma Dispelling Pills.
• Bian You identified the Heavenly Timing Earthly Configuration formation and led the group through it with Talisman Signals.
• Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue faced intensifying spiritual storms after Bian You’s signals stopped, so Ye Zhen pulled Feng Qingyue away from the prescribed route.
• Bian You emerged with Shao Mo and claimed he had sent the same number of signals to everyone, while Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue remained missing.
• Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue escaped the formation and accused Bian You of sending only five signals and slandering them.
• Lan Shuiqiao turned on Bian You and demanded to know whether he had deliberately tricked his teammates.

Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue joined Yang Yiguan’s group at the Path of Life and Death, where three shifting routes concealed deadly traps and the group could not fly over them. After Lan Shuiqiao confirmed that Monster Beasts could not survive the barrage, Bian You proposed using Ye Zhen’s size-changing Monster Beast to test the paths.

• Lan Shuiqiao challenged Bian You over the group’s failure to receive his Talisman Signal, and Yang Yiguan warned everyone against betraying their companions.
• Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue reached three branching paths, and Yang Yiguan explained that the Path of Life and Death changed which route was safe every quarter-hour.
• The group discovered that the Geomagnetic Celestial Spirit Grand Formation prevented them from flying, while Bian You said he could not break it without reaching its core.
• Bian You suggested sending Monster Beasts through the paths, but Yang Yiguan explained that spiritual power attacks had killed every Monster Beast sent through before.
• Lan Shuiqiao tested one path and escaped after advancing only three meters through a rain of spiritual power arrows.
• Bian You pointed out that Ye Zhen’s Monster Beast could change size, and everyone turned to Ye Zhen.

Ye Zhen identified the right-hand route as the path of life and led the others into it, while Bian You and Shao Mo waited to follow at a safe distance. The group advanced through the arrow traps, and Ye Zhen urged them to hurry when the two men entered behind them.

• Bian You urged the group to use Ye Zhen's Cloud Winged Tiger King as a scout, but Ye Zhen refused and challenged him.
• Lan Shuiqiao sent a Blood Eye Silver Ring Snake down the left route, and Ye Zhen sensed that it was killed at the path's end.
• Ye Zhen directed a second snake down the right route and identified it as the path of life.
• Yang Yiguan, Hu Qingtong, Lan Shuiqiao, and Ma Yue followed Ye Zhen into the right-hand path, while Bian You and Shao Mo waited to trail them.
• After the group advanced seven or eight li, Shao Mo and Ma Yue entered behind them, and Ye Zhen shouted for everyone to move faster.

Ye Zhen deliberately timed Bian You’s passage through the Path of Life and Death to expose him to its deadly formation, leaving him gravely wounded. After Shao Mo and Yang Yiguan rescued Bian You, Shao Mo confronted Ye Zhen and accused him of doing it on purpose.

• Ye Zhen urged the group through the tree hollow and counted down as the formation’s radiance shifted.
• Bian You entered the hollow too late and was shredded by its white light, surviving only behind his Golden Lock Moon Pattern Disk.
• Shao Mo and Yang Yiguan dragged Bian You out and gave him life-saving pills to stabilize his injuries.
• Lan Shuiqiao identified Bian You’s damaged disk, while Ye Zhen calmly acknowledged that he had schemed against him.
• Shao Mo glared at Ye Zhen and accused him of deliberately harming Bian You.

After Bian You was injured on the Path of Life and Death, the group rested while he recovered and then discovered Myriad Spirits Lake, a deadly barrier teeming with hostile aquatic creatures. Yang Yiguan explained that Ye Zhen’s Cloud Winged Tiger King might be their only way to retrieve the spirit vessel on the far shore, leaving Ye Zhen to face a perilous request.

• Shadow Blade Shao Mo confronted Ye Zhen over Bian You’s injuries, but Hundred Poisons Venerable Lan Shuiqiao judged that Bian You’s distrust and carelessness had contributed to his fate.
• The group agreed to rest for a day so Bian You could recover, and studied the next defense in Myriad Beasts Valley.
• Ye Zhen touched Myriad Spirits Lake and was attacked by its creatures; his Purple Jade Battle Armor shattered, but his spiritual energy and Mirage Dragon Pearl neutralized the poison.
• Yang Yiguan explained that the lake was crowded with dangerous aquatic life and that the Beast Taming Sect had crossed it using a spirit vessel made from a Sea Covering Tiger Shark King’s remains.
• Yang Yiguan demonstrated the lake’s danger by tossing in a Monster Beast corpse, which was stripped to bone almost instantly.
• Yang Yiguan said Ye Zhen’s Cloud Winged Tiger King could use its small size and camouflage to reach the far shore and bring back the spirit vessel, and Ye Zhen realized the danger of the task.

Yang Yiguan persuaded Ye Zhen to let Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao cross Myriad Spirits Lake, and Xiao Mao volunteered despite Ye Zhen’s fears. The group planned for Xiao Mao to set out the next morning, while Bian You woke and angrily blamed Ye Zhen for his injuries.

• Yang Yiguan demonstrated how aquatic creatures attacked Monster Beast carcasses of different sizes and argued that Xiao Mao’s intelligence made it capable of crossing the lake.
• Ye Zhen resisted risking Xiao Mao, but Yang Yiguan provoked him by suggesting the tiger would remain trapped at its current cultivation while Ye Zhen advanced.
• Xiao Mao roared from Ye Zhen’s arms, and Yang Yiguan recognized the roar as Xiao Mao volunteering for the crossing.
• Bian You woke without his legs and urged Shao Mo to kill Ye Zhen, but Ye Zhen warned him not to attack again and Lan Shuiqiao cautioned him against disrupting the expedition.
• Ye Zhen asked when Xiao Mao should cross, and Yang Yiguan recommended the following morning, when aquatic beasts were less active.

Ye Zhen sent the Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao across Myriad Spirits Lake to reach the spirit boat, enduring hours of anxiety as their soul connection weakened. Xiao Mao survived the lake’s dangers, boarded the boat, and pushed it toward the group.

• Ye Zhen sent Xiao Mao, hidden in cloud vapor, flying over Myriad Spirits Lake while he and the others watched anxiously.
• Through Xiao Mao’s vision, Ye Zhen saw a lifeless stretch of lake and a huge underwater swell before the waters returned to normal.
• As Xiao Mao flew deeper across the lake, Ye Zhen’s shared vision ended and their soul connection weakened, leaving him waiting tensely for signs that Xiao Mao was alive.
• Xiao Mao spotted the bone-white spirit boat and descended onto it despite the pressure and Baleful Intent surrounding the vessel.
• Ye Zhen sensed that Xiao Mao had succeeded, and Xiao Mao grew larger, struck the water with a claw, and sent the spirit boat speeding forward.

Ye Zhen and the others crossed Myriad Spirits Lake aboard the spirit boat, but a powerful Single Tail Crab King dragged them underwater and attacked. Bian You was killed, Ma Yue was seized, and the chapter ended as the crab king turned its claw on Feng Qingyue.

• Ye Zhen brought the spirit boat back to shore, and everyone boarded to cross Myriad Spirits Lake.
• Ye Zhen warned the group to stay away from the rail, but Bian You dismissed his concern as the boat set off.
• The spirit boat was struck from below, and Yang Yiguan suspected a Water Beast King had emerged in the lake.
• The Single Tail Crab King pulled the boat underwater and attacked the passengers with its tentacles and claw.
• The crab king crushed Bian You and seized Ma Yue while Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue cut into its tentacles.
• The Single Tail Crab King swung its claw toward Feng Qingyue.

Ye Zhen rescued Feng Qingyue from the Single Tail Crab King by letting it swallow him, then caused the beast to flee in agony. Feng Qingyue refused to give up searching for him and used the Sea Covering Tiger Shark King's eyeball to push through the water beasts as chaos spread across Myriad Spirits Lake.

• Ma Yue was swallowed by the Single Tail Crab King, while Yang Yiguan escaped its mouthparts and the others struggled against its attacks.
• Ye Zhen filled the water with Soul Shocking Heavenly Lightning, slowing the Single Tail Crab King but also paralyzing Feng Qingyue and the others.
• Ye Zhen carried Feng Qingyue away, then shoved her clear as the Single Tail Crab King snapped him inside; the beast screamed, struggled, and disappeared into the murky lake.
• After the waters cleared, Feng Qingyue insisted on finding Ye Zhen, even if it meant dying, and refused Hu Qingtong and Lan Shuiqiao’s efforts to stop her.
• Feng Qingyue cut the Sea Covering Tiger Shark King’s eyeball from the sunken spirit boat and rode it into the depths, scattering aquatic Monster Beasts.
• The distant waters of Myriad Spirits Lake fell into chaos as the Horned Crab King rampaged, killing water beasts in its path.

Ye Zhen killed the Single Tail Crab King from within its body, then absorbed its energy and discovered that the Mirage Dragon Pearl might now refine Soul Power. As the king’s remains vanished, the lake’s water beasts surged toward him in enormous waves.

• Ye Zhen used Soul Shocking Heavenly Lightning and his Heart Sword to wound the Single Tail Crab King from inside, then pierced its pulsing blue crystal and killed it.
• Ye Zhen absorbed the Single Tail Crab King’s energy, advancing to the peak of the third stage of the Pulse Forging Realm and forming a huge Essence Soul Pearl.
• Ye Zhen sensed Soul Power flowing into his sea of consciousness and suspected that opening the Mirage Dragon Pearl’s Third Layer Space had granted it a new ability.
• The Mirage Dragon Pearl drained the Single Tail Crab King completely, and its shell crumbled before Ye Zhen could keep it.
• The surrounding water beasts lost their fear of the vanished king and charged Ye Zhen in tens of thousands of waves.

Ye Zhen used the Single Tail Crab King's Essence Soul Pearl to escape the aquatic beasts and discovered it let him move through water with an aquatic beast's speed and instincts. He found Feng Qingyue near death in a bloody battle, rescued her, and reunited with her as they kissed in the lake.

• Ye Zhen used the Single Tail Crab King's pressure to drive away the aquatic beasts surrounding him.
• Ye Zhen tested the Essence Soul Pearl's ability and found that he could swim swiftly and navigate underwater with ease.
• Ye Zhen spotted a bloody battle and discovered Feng Qingyue was being besieged by four High-grade Heaven-tier Monster Beasts.
• Feng Qingyue gave up resisting, but Ye Zhen swept her away from a three-headed water snake and revealed himself.
• Feng Qingyue recognized Ye Zhen, embraced him, and passionately kissed him after he rescued her.

After Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue returned alive from Myriad Spirits Lake and revealed that Ye Zhen had killed the Single Tail Crab King from within, the group reached shore and discovered a vast monster stampede bearing down on them. Yang Yiguan declared that their only escape was to charge toward Myriad Beasts Hall, then stowed away the spirit boat and rushed into the horde, leaving Ye Zhen to suspect he had known the danger all along.

• Hu Qingtong continued searching Myriad Spirits Lake until Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue emerged from the water alive, and Feng Qingyue revealed that the Single Tail Crab King was dead.
• Ye Zhen explained that he had entered the Single Tail Crab King's belly and pierced its heart, astonishing Lan Shuiqiao and the others.
• The group reached shore, where Ye Zhen sensed tens of thousands of Monster Beasts charging toward them and Lan Shuiqiao estimated that hundreds of thousands were coming.
• Yang Yiguan explained that the final formation had driven all the valley's Monster Beasts berserk, making retreat to Myriad Spirits Lake impossible.
• Yang Yiguan said Myriad Beasts Hall was their only path to survival, stowed away the spirit boat, and charged toward the horde as Ye Zhen accused him of knowing what would happen.

Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue fought through the beast tide on Myriad Beasts Plain while Ye Zhen discovered that Yang Yiguan had used a horn to lead the beasts away from himself and leave the others in danger. The chapter ended when an enormous beast head appeared ahead and Ye Zhen lost contact with Yang Yiguan.

• Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue split up to escape the beast tide, and Shadow Blade Shao Mo was killed by the pursuing Monster Beasts.
• Ye Zhen sensed that Lan Shuiqiao and Hu Qingtong were moving through the horde with little opposition, and saw Lan Shuiqiao command Crimson Crystal Pythons to clear their path.
• Ye Zhen discovered Yang Yiguan using a pitch-black horn to scatter the Monster Beasts, and realized Yang Yiguan had left the others to die while he raced toward the Myriad Beasts Hall.
• Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue continued at full speed for thousands of miles as Ye Zhen struggled to survive the attacks.
• An enormous metallic-looking beast head appeared in the clouds, and Ye Zhen suddenly lost contact with the divine sense he had attached to Yang Yiguan.

Ye Zhen escaped the encircling Monster Beasts by tunneling underground and entering the azure barrier, which transported him to the Beast Taming Sect’s Alchemy Hall. There he searched for the Five Elements Blood Fusion Pill but found a huge crimson figure moving in the hall.

• Lan Shuiqiao, Hu Qingtong, and Yang Yiguan entered the azure barrier, while the Monster Beasts turned on Ye Zhen and Feng Qingyue.
• Ye Zhen persuaded Feng Qingyue to enter the barrier without him, and she escaped as millions of Monster Beasts surrounded him.
• Yang Yiguan watched the beasts engulf Ye Zhen, then vanished, believing the attackers had killed him.
• Ye Zhen used the Earth Evasion Technique to evade the beasts, but a metal-element formation blocked his underground route beneath Myriad Beasts Hall.
• Ye Zhen emerged near the barrier and entered it, discovering that it transported him to the Alchemy Hall.
• Ye Zhen searched the alchemy hall for pills and spotted a huge crimson figure that began to move.

Ye Zhen fought the seemingly lifeless Arm-Extending Fire Monkey King in Myriad Beasts Hall, then discovered that destroying its body released a Crimson Spirit Pearl. As he examined the pearl, someone appeared at the hall entrance.

• The Arm-Extending Fire Monkey King awakened and overwhelmed Ye Zhen with its shield, iron hammer, and extending arms, forcing him to escape underground with Earth Evasion.
• Ye Zhen observed that the creature grew cold and motionless after a quarter of an hour, then wounded it from below and found that it neither bled nor felt pain.
• Ye Zhen deduced that the creature awakened in response to living intruders and returned to slumber when their presence disappeared.
• Ye Zhen emerged and beheaded the Arm-Extending Fire Monkey King, then struck again as its headless body continued to move.
• A Crimson Spirit Pearl burst from the creature's chest, and its body collapsed as a figure appeared at the hall entrance.

Ye Zhen defeated the Arm-Connecting Fire Monkey King Puppet and thwarted Lan Shuiqiao’s attempt to steal its Spirit Sealing Puppet Bead, then salvaged the Li Fire Alchemy Furnace and the puppet’s body. He left the alchemy hall and found another sealed hall, where he discovered that brute force weakened the seal.

• Lan Shuiqiao explained that the Arm-Connecting Fire Monkey King was a puppet controlled by the Spirit Sealing Puppet Bead, then tried to seize the bead while Ye Zhen examined it.
• Ye Zhen repelled Lan Shuiqiao’s attack, and she used illusory incarnations to search the alchemy hall before leaving with several alchemy vessels.
• Ye Zhen found and stored the million-and-eighty-thousand-jin Li Fire Alchemy Furnace and took the puppet’s body, then tested the bead and saw its trapped soul destroy his Spiritual Sense.
• Ye Zhen followed the cross-shaped passage and encountered Lan Shuiqiao trying to break a hall’s entrance seal.
• Ye Zhen reached another sealed hall, weakened its entrance seal with a Kun Yuan Divine Palm, and then realized he had overlooked something.

Ye Zhen used his Earth Evasion Technique to bypass the Myriad Beasts Hall’s sealed gates, taking a puppet and hundreds of Monster Cores while Lan Shuiqiao searched for the unseen intruder. He then reached an imposing hall and was stunned to find Yang Yiguan.

• Ye Zhen slipped into the Beast Punishment Hall, found its remains and torture instruments horrifying, and quickly left without taking anything.
• Ye Zhen entered the Monster Core Hall, defeated its Great Ape Fire Monkey King Puppet, and collected 474 Monster Cores from the cold jade boxes.
• Ye Zhen reflected on how sects amassed wealth and resolved to do something within the Sun Moon Divine Cult.
• Lan Shuiqiao entered the emptied Monster Core Hall, realized someone had taken its contents, and began investigating the other gate while Ye Zhen escaped underground.
• Ye Zhen followed an avenue lined with bronze beast heads to a grand hall and was shocked to see Yang Yiguan.

Ye Zhen discovered the Beast Spirit Hall and tried to seize its treasures, but its guardian awakened and revealed itself to be a living Arm-Connecting Fire Monkey King. Trapped inside, Ye Zhen faced the powerful creature while Yang Yiguan outside celebrated its awakening as a sign that the Beast Taming Sect could be revived.

• Ye Zhen found Yang Yiguan attacking the sealed doors of the Beast Spirit Hall and suspected the hall held the complex’s greatest treasures.
• Ye Zhen entered the hall and spotted numerous protected treasures along with a gigantic Arm-Connecting Fire Monkey King that seemed dormant.
• When Ye Zhen attacked, the creature awakened, and his Heart Sword barely wounded it despite Zi Ling’s power.
• The Arm-Connecting Fire Monkey King stomped scarlet energy through the hall, burned Ye Zhen’s soles, and blocked his Earth Escape.
• The Arm-Connecting Fire Monkey King questioned Ye Zhen about who had sent him, while Yang Yiguan rejoiced outside that the creature’s existence meant the Beast Taming Sect could be revived.