Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu entered the secret realm and drifted downstream, while Qu Ziyi explored a forest, collected spirit plants, and encountered an unknown attacker. The chapter left Qu Ziyi fighting a wild-looking man who spoke an unfamiliar language.

• Zhang Yu fled a terrifying presence in the forest and entered a river, where he swam downstream.
• Qu Ziyi left a barren hill and cautiously explored the forest, gathering spirit herbs and fruits.
• Qu Ziyi avoided a huge anteater-like spirit beast and claimed a Green Nether Spirit Grass after driving off another small beast.
• An arrow flew past Qu Ziyi, and a wild-looking man emerged from the bushes and attacked her.

Qu Ziyi fought a savage monkey in the Green Nether Forest, then encountered the forest’s awakened will after retrieving the [Green Nether Spirit Grass]. The Green Nether Forest revealed that her discovery of the [Green Nether Spirit Heart] had drawn the Immortal Master’s attention, leaving Qu Ziyi inside a hidden third trial whose purpose she had yet to learn.

• Qu Ziyi fought the savage monkey and wounded it while trying to understand its speech through the forest’s plants.
• The savage monkey fled in fear, and Qu Ziyi put away the [Green Nether Spirit Grass].
• The forest abruptly fell into darkness and silence as a colossal will awakened and identified itself as the Green Nether Forest.
• The Green Nether Forest told Qu Ziyi that she was suited to awaken it and that the [Green Nether Spirit Heart] had caused the Immortal Master to notice the chessboard again.
• Qu Ziyi entered a space filled with Green Nether light and considered how little was known about the hidden third trial.

Qu Ziyi refined the Green Nether Spirit Heart with Green Nether Forest’s guidance and broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, gaining transformed cultivation treasures and new insight into the returning Immortals and Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. After Green Nether Forest sent her back to the forest, she flew toward Zhang Yu, who was still competing for opportunities in the great river.

• Green Nether Forest questioned Qu Ziyi about the outside world and told her to refine the Green Nether Spirit Heart within its domain.
• With Green Nether Forest guiding and protecting her, Qu Ziyi refined the Spirit Heart as her [Leaf Sprite] became [Heart Leaf Spirit Essence] and her [Green Crystal] became [Green Luminous Nether Crystal].
• Qu Ziyi unexpectedly broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm and experienced her Primordial Core shattering and her Nascent Soul merging with her Divine Soul.
• Green Nether Forest explained its origins and warned that the Immortals’ return and Spiritual Mechanism recovery could bring back strange phenomena caused by the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• Qu Ziyi returned to the forest, then flew toward Zhang Yu and found him still competing for opportunities in the great river.

Zhang Yu was swept into a hidden cavern by a whirlpool in the Laoshan Trial Secret Realm, where he chose a mysterious crystal and was transported to another chamber. There, an ancient Giant Dragon’s soul revealed that the river was its body and claimed that everyone was imprisoned in a prison by an immortal.

• Zhang Yu sensed an ancient power in the river, but a whirlpool swallowed him and nearby trial participants.
• Zhang Yu found himself in a crystal cavern where touching crystals either granted energy or made them disappear.
• Zhang Yu selected a faintly glowing crystal and was transported to a more secluded cavern.
• An ancient Giant Dragon’s soul appeared and questioned Zhang Yu about his devil ray abilities and control of Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• The Dragon Soul said the river was its body and asked whether Zhang Yu would stay after learning they were toys imprisoned by an immortal.

Zhang Yu listened as Old Dragon explained the rise and fall of ancient races and the Immortal Race’s schemes to resist the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. Old Dragon said the world was returning from the Age of Dharma Decline and left uncertain whether the changing script belonged to the Heavenly Dao, the immortals, or the Imperial Race.

• Zhang Yu realized his Zhuge Family token had lost its connection and accepted that Old Dragon controlled his fate.
• Old Dragon told Zhang Yu that the Dragon Race had once ruled many worlds before civil war and defeat forced its branches to flee.
• Old Dragon explained how the Imperial Race, the Heavenly Dao, the Demon Race, and the Devil Race shaped the rise and decline of successive powers.
• Old Dragon described how the Immortal Race cultivated humanity and exiled its main world to the Age of Dharma Decline to hinder the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• Old Dragon revealed that the world and Immortal Realm were drawing closer again, leaving him unsure who had changed the script.

Zhang Yu met the Old Dragon, who placed a wisp of his divided soul in Zhang Yu’s Jade Pendant and gave him a Dragon Blood Fruit before sending him to Qu Ziyi. Reunited, they escaped attacking Spiritual Items and discovered Dragon Qi in a pool beneath a waterfall.

• Zhang Yu asked to leave the Old Dragon’s cave, but the Old Dragon kept him there and asked him to carry a wisp of his divided soul outside.
• Zhang Yu offered his Jade Pendant, and the Old Dragon placed his divided soul inside it, then rewarded Zhang Yu with a Dragon Blood Fruit that improved his body and cultivation.
• Zhang Yu gave the Old Dragon an object carrying Qu Ziyi’s aura, and the Old Dragon sent him to a river near Greenwood Forest, where he reunited with Qu Ziyi.
• Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi traveled into hilly terrain, fought off attacking Spiritual Items, and escaped into a quiet valley.
• Qu Ziyi touched the pool beneath a small waterfall and discovered Dragon Qi in the water.

Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi retrieved a Dragon Qi Treasure Orb from a pool, then were discovered by a group of black-clad treasure seekers. They fought the group, and the battle continued as the attackers unleashed powerful spells.

• Zhang Yu used his [Shadow Spirit] clone to retrieve a Dragon Qi Treasure Orb from the pool while he and Qu Ziyi cultivated nearby.
• Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi hid from a group of black-clad people searching the pool, but the group discovered them and demanded the Treasure Orb.
• Zhang Yu tossed the Treasure Orb to Qu Ziyi and charged the black-clad people, while Qu Ziyi stored it and joined the fight.
• Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi battled the larger group with sword techniques and spells, and Qu Ziyi used Green Wall to block attacks and break their encirclement.
• A black-clad fighter unleashed Fire Dragon Technique at Zhang Yu, while another sent a storm of Wind Blades at the pair.

Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi fought a group of black-clad treasure snatchers who wanted to kill them and seize their treasures. After Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi gained the upper hand, the attackers unleashed a powerful tornado, leaving both sides preparing for their next move.

• Qu Ziyi used the Green-Light Cage to defend herself while Zhang Yu escaped the attackers and prepared to strike their leader.
• Zhang Yu wounded the black-clad leader, then killed another attacker with Heavy Strike Armor Break.
• Qu Ziyi emerged from the cage and joined Zhang Yu, who used Star Escape to dodge attacks as they countered the black-clad men.
• One attacker cast a huge tornado that forced Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi to regroup back to back against the treasure snatchers.
• Zhang Yu urged Qu Ziyi to change tactics, then flew with the wind to launch their next attack.

Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi defeated the Treasure Hunters by combining his attacks with her traps, then questioned their surviving leader about the organization behind them. The revelations tied the Treasure Hunters to schemes targeting trial participants and rival families, while the pair secured a large haul of supplies and Treasure Orbs.

• Zhang Yu used the wind and Phantom Wings to kill the tornado caster, take his Treasure Sword and Storage Bag, and retreat as Qu Ziyi prepared hidden traps.
• Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi broke the Treasure Hunters’ morale and drove them into Qu Ziyi’s trap zone, where they wounded the group and Zhang Yu picked off its members.
• The surviving leader surrendered, and Qu Ziyi disarmed and bound him before they searched the battlefield and questioned the Treasure Hunters.
• The Treasure Hunters’ leader explained that the Treasure Hunter Organization recruited resentful young people from powerful families, helped them enter the secret realm, and directed them to attack trial participants.
• The leader revealed that the group had collected more than a dozen Treasure Orbs from nearby lakes and pools, and that he had entered the trial despite being over thirty.

Zhang Yu learned how the Evil Fang Organization had spent centuries using the Treasure Hunter Organization to search for the Old Dragon and prepare a formation to awaken its Dragon Soul, but its accumulated Dragon Qi Treasure Orbs had been absorbed by his Dragon Pendant. After traveling with Qu Ziyi and meeting Han Lu and Shuangjiang of the Fuding Sect, Zhang Yu joined their group as they continued through the secret realm.

• Zhang Yu learned that the Evil Fang Organization had placed Black Widow Island and created the Treasure Hunter Organization to pursue Dragon Souls and search the secret realm’s waterways for the Old Dragon.
• The Dragon Pendant absorbed the Dragon Qi from the Treasure Hunter Organization’s accumulated Treasure Orbs, strengthening Zhang Yu’s divided soul and disrupting the organization’s plans.
• Zhang Yu suspected the Treasure Hunter leader had planned to arrange the Treasure Orbs in a formation to awaken the nearby Dragon Soul, but reasoned the Old Dragon would not willingly leave its river body.
• Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi disposed of the black-clad Treasure Hunters’ bodies, restored damaged vegetation, and gathered spirit fruits and herbs as they traveled.
• Several days later, Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi encountered Han Lu and Shuangjiang of the Fuding Sect, who exchanged information and identity tokens with them before traveling together.

After the secret realm trial, Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi exchanged their gains for a teleportation array for the Zhang Family. Dai Sect approved the request, and the two returned to Baishi Village to report to Zhang Mingshu and prepare the array’s locations.

• Everyone was teleported out of the secret realm, and the organizers decided not to investigate the deaths further.
• Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi brought their gains to the Zhuge Family’s exchange counter and requested a teleportation array.
• The Zhuge Family representative consulted the Family Head and told them that Dai Sect’s approval was required.
• Zhuge Wenyun and Dai Sect’s elders approved the exchange and told Zhang Yu to prepare two locations for the array.
• Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi left for Baishi Village to report to Zhang Mingshu and begin preparations.

Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi returned to Baishi Village with a teleportation array, Spirit Medicine, and Spirit Fruits, prompting Zhang Mingshu to plan the Lineage’s defenses and future expansion. A month later, the array’s construction began, while Zhou Buding grew increasingly worried that Zhang Mingshu’s early marriage and child had disrupted his teacher’s plan.

• Zhang Yu and Qu Ziyi rode back to Baishi Village with five Jueyun Light Cavalry and the spoils they had gained.
• Zhang Mingshu praised their work, took the Storage Bag, and tasked Qu Ziyi with cultivating any Spirit Medicine that could be replanted.
• Zhang Mingshu planned teleportation array nodes for Baishi Village and East Sea County and considered how to respond to the Evil Fang organization and growing threats.
• Qu Ziyi examined the recovered Spirit Medicine and Spirit Fruits in the Lineage’s garden.
• A month later, people from Mount Tai and the Zhuge Family arrived to build the teleportation array, while Zhang Xi prepared in East Sea County.
• Zhou Buding watched Zhang Xi’s children being born and feared that his earlier intervention in Zhang Mingshu and Zhao Siqi’s marriage had disrupted his teacher’s plan.

Leng Yunuan inspected the Wu Family’s rebuilt town and considered how its scattered households would establish themselves in their new territory. Wu Zixuan revealed that the family was preparing for the return of Wu Dalang, Wu Ergou, Grandpa Zheng, and Zhang Mingshu.

• The chapter described how Leng Yunuan had maintained the divided Wu Family and how its younger generation had grown into capable fighters.
• Leng Yunuan toured the town near Huai Ren County, where the Wu Family had settled after two years of rebuilding.
• Wu Zixuan, Wu Zihao, and Wu Zimo returned from leave, and Leng Yunuan urged them to establish the family’s reputation in its new home.
• Wu Xusong, Zheng Yiji, Wu Yunwen, Wu Yunwu, and Wu Yunjia also arrived in town.
• Wu Zixuan explained that the family had returned early to prepare for Wu Dalang, Wu Ergou, and Grandpa Zheng, and Zheng Yiji added that Zhang Mingshu would come too.

Zhang Mingshu visited Wu Family Town and formalized the Wu Family’s leadership, ancestral rites, and division into independent branches. The arrangements settled the family’s internal conflict and left Wu Dalang’s Main Lineage managing the town while the other branches prepared to build elsewhere.

• Leng Yunuan prepared the Wu Family to welcome Zhang Mingshu, whose arrival brought the clan together for a closed-door meeting.
• Zhang Mingshu and the Wu clansmen confirmed Wu Dalang as Family Head and Wu Zixuan as Young Family Head, and planned an ancestral temple honoring Old Hunter Wu and Old Butcher Zheng.
• Wu Dalang, Wu Ergou, and Wu Sumei agreed to divide the family, with Wu Dalang’s Main Lineage managing Wu Family Town and sharing its profits with the other branches for a limited period.
• Wu Ergou’s branch assigned Wu Xusong, Zheng Yiji, Wu Xulong, and Wu Xugong to settle in East Sea County, while Wu Yunwen, Wu Yunwu, and Wu Yunjia remained in Baishi Village.
• Zhang Mingshu praised Leng Yunuan and toured Wu Family Town after resolving the branches’ internal conflict through independent development and healthy competition.

Zhang Mingshu inspected Wu Family Town and assessed the reasons behind the Wu family's planned separation, while Zhang Bairen's birth with a naturally dwelling Demonic Spirit drew his attention. The chapter ends with the Zhang Family still serving in the Royal Capital's logistics system and waiting for their turn to return to their new territory.

• Zhang Mingshu toured Wu Family Town and considered its schools, training grounds, and the strains dividing the Wu family’s lineages.
• Zhang Mingshu recognized that Wu Yunwen needed a role at the school and that Wu Sumei’s family needed a fair share of resources.
• Zhang Mingshu investigated Zhang Bairen, a child born into Zhang Fengmu’s branch with a naturally dwelling Demonic Spirit.
• Zhang Mingshu finished his inspection and left the details of the Wu family’s separation for its members to settle.
• The Zhuge Family postponed developing the dangerous Five Lotus Mountain Range until the Zhang Family recovered enough to join them.
• The Zhang Family continued escorting wounded soldiers and guarding supply routes near the Royal Capital, while its people waited to return and build their new homeland.

Four years into the siege of the Royal Capital, the Zhang Family expanded its territory, strengthened its forces, and welcomed the next generation of Zhang Xi’s children. The chapter ends with the Zhao Kingdom’s allied forces and the Royal Capital’s defenders locked in a fierce battle, their formations holding as the fighting continued.

• The Zhang Family developed its three counties, recruited cultivators and martial artists, and strengthened its administration and military forces.
• Liu Shiyuan, Meng Qiuyan, Wen Yuhan, Fan Ruohua, and Zhu Qimeng gave birth to Zhang Xi’s children, including his eldest daughter, Zhang Fangyuan.
• The family planned to prepare Zhang Yanyue, Zhang Fangyuan, and younger reserves for the Mount Lao Secret Realm trial thirty years later.
• The Zhang Family cautiously gathered resources in the Evil Dragon Pool Secret Realm while the Han Family and Zhuge Family suffered losses in conflicts with the barbarian clans.
• The Zhao Kingdom’s allied forces clashed with the defenders of the Royal Capital, and both sides used grand formations to withstand attacks.
• An enemy cultivator attacked the Zhao army’s formation, but an old True Person reinforced it and kept it from collapsing.

The allied armies battled the barbarians beneath the Royal Capital, where Buddhist Cultivators joined the enemy and strengthened their forces with Buddha’s light. Zhao Xiaojie led General Huai Ren’s manor troops into the fighting to reinforce the unstable front line.

• The defenders learned that Buddhist Cultivators from the Western Regions had joined the barbarians, and Zhao Xiaojie ordered his reserve forces to prepare for battle.
• The Buddhist Cultivators blessed the barbarian warriors with Buddha’s light, increasing their strength and speed as the Southern Jin formation began to falter.
• Buddhist Cultivators and True Persons clashed with golden Buddha statues and Dharma Forms, shaking the battlefield with their collisions.
• Cultivators and soldiers from the allied kingdoms unleashed demon spirits, Ghost Spirits, spells, and martial techniques, while Buddhist chants countered the Ghost Spirits.
• Zhao Xiaojie led General Huai Ren’s manor forces into battle to reinforce the unstable front line and prevent it from collapsing.

The three-way allied army and the barbarians fought fiercely outside the Royal Capital as high-tier cultivators clashed and the city’s defenses held. Zhao Xiaojie led an elite force into the enemy army, cutting through its ranks while avoiding the Sixth-Tier battles.

• A Sixth-Tier Buddhist high monk summoned Buddha’s Kingdom and fought a Sixth-Tier scholar, whose Word Spirits and history book turned the contest against him.
• A White Deer Cave Academy scholar used Word Spirits to strengthen the allied forces, while generals wielding demonic spirits held the wavering Southern Jin troops together.
• The high monk and scholar traded powerful attacks as the battlefield erupted with Ghost Spirits, demon spirits, soldiers, and magical artifacts around the Royal Capital’s unbroken defenses.
• Zhao Xiaojie led An Muyuan, Meng Langyue, Guan Nanxing, Huang Nanzhen, Bai Shuhua, Bai Shuping, Zhu Mingting, Huang Lindang, Huang Lingai, Wen Xunrong, Zhang Shaoqing, Zhang Shaoting, Shi Beilu, Shi Beihan, Chen Junluo, Chen Junxi, and other elites into the enemy army.
• Zhao Xiaojie, An Muyuan, and Zhu Mingting used their abilities and weapons to cut down enemy soldiers while their force avoided the high-tier cultivators’ battlefields.

Zhou Buding of the Star Cult turned the battle around with his star powers as the allied forces fought the barbarians and Buddhist Cultivators around the Royal Capital. The Celestial Master Dao then opened the passage to the Ancient Luo Yi Battlefield, and its cultivators abandoned the barbarians after using the war to achieve their goal.

• Zhou Buding wounded a seventh-tier Buddhist Cultivator and drove the Buddhist forces back with Falling Stars Like Rain and Roar of Mars.
• Zhao Xiaojie led an elite force against the enemy as Great Jin’s allies pressed the retreating barbarians and Buddhist Cultivators.
• Zhou Buding’s Milky Way Hanging Upside Down shook the Royal Capital’s defensive formation, while the Celestial Master Dao and Buddhist monks joined forces to resist it.
• An elderly Celestial Master Dao cultivator invoked the Shangyang Blood Curse, using the battlefield’s yin energy, deaths, and blood to open the Ancient Luo Yi Battlefield passage.
• The Celestial Master Dao cultivators and demon spirits broke away from the barbarians, leaving their formation without support.

After the barbarians withdrew from the Royal Capital, the factions turned their attention to exploring the Ancient Luoyang Secret Realm. Zhang Xi was assigned to lead the Zhang Household’s fourth-batch team, and the chapter left him preparing to enter and investigate the sealed passages.

• The barbarians negotiated and withdrew from the Royal Capital, while Jin Guai Guan fled to surrender to Sima Shuanghuo and Southern Jin renamed itself Southern Yong Kingdom.
• Zhao Xiaojie learned that refugees were being moved away from the Royal Capital instead of returning to rebuild it.
• Zhou Buding designated Zhang Xi to lead the Zhang Household’s expedition into the Ancient Luoyang Secret Realm.
• Liu Shiyuan, Meng Qiuyan, Wen Yuhan, and Zhu Qimeng gave birth to Zhang Xi’s second through fifth daughters, bringing his family to seven sons and five daughters.
• Zhang Xi delayed his preparations until the fourth batch entered the secret realm, then received mission plans to investigate ways to open sealed passages to four ancient kingdom realms.