Chapter Summaries

Xu Yunfan persuaded Wukong to explore the Sea of Suffering for traces of the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit, promising to free him and rebuild his Dao Body if he succeeded. Three months later, Xu Yunfan completed the Soul Protecting Profound Mirror that would shield Wukong on the mission.

• Xu Yunfan proposed forging a Soul Protecting Profound Mirror from the Reincarnation Stone, Soul Nurturing Wood, Soul Stabilizing Pearl, and Wukong's Indestructible Golden Nature.
• Wukong doubted the plan and warned that the Sea of Suffering and its Sea of Suffering Dragon were deadly, but Xu Yunfan promised to free him and restore his Dao Body if he found traces of the Dao Fruit.
• Wukong agreed to trust Xu Yunfan and undertake the scouting mission, while warning that he would fight him if the promise proved false.
• Xu Yunfan placed Wukong's true spirit in a forged Dharma body, and his Cloud Scroll Clone began crafting the protective mirror.
• Three months later, Xu Yunfan and his Cloud Scroll Clone completed the Soul Protecting Profound Mirror in Divine Firmament Palace.

Xu Yunfan sent Wukong into the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation disguised as Xu Yunfan, using the Mysterious Mirror and Wukong’s Indestructible Golden Nature to conceal him. Xu Yunfan’s bait drew the attention of True Monarch Tongxuan, who recognized the soul fluctuation and renewed his vow of vengeance.

• Xu Yunfan gave Wukong the Mysterious Mirror and explained that its disguise could let him pass through the Nether Gate, while Wukong realized Xu Yunfan was using him to test the Sea of Suffering.
• Xu Yunfan reshaped Wukong’s face to match his own and warned him to activate the mirror as soon as he entered the Nether Gate.
• Wukong entered the gray mist and leaped into the Nether Gate, using his Indestructible Golden Nature to sustain the illusion.
• Xu Yunfan secretly watched Wukong enter, crushed a jade talisman containing his soul fluctuation, and let powerful divine senses detect the apparent entry of Xu Yunfan’s soul into reincarnation.
• True Monarch Tongxuan sensed the Divine Vault Thunder Dao intent and identified Xu Yunfan, renewing his hatred over his ruined grotto, damaged cultivation, and defeat at the Realm Sea.

True Monarch Tongxuan followed Xu Yunfan into the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation after using the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect’s Self-Slashing Sword to disguise his soul as dead. Lu Chunyang chose not to intervene, while White-Haired True Monarch realized Xu Yunfan had entered the Sea of Suffering and welcomed the opportunity.

• True Monarch Tongxuan deduced that Xu Yunfan had entered the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation to seek the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit and resolved to pursue him.
• True Monarch Tongxuan invoked the Fate Severing Sword and used the Self-Slashing Sword to weaken his presence before sending his soul after Xu Yunfan.
• Lu Chunyang sensed Tongxuan’s departure, judged that he was courting death, and chose not to stop him.
• White-Haired True Monarch sensed Xu Yunfan’s soul entering the Sea of Suffering and rejoiced at the chance to act.

Xu Yunfan secretly sent his avatar Wukong into the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation while making others believe his primordial soul had gone, drawing several hostile figures toward it. As the White-Haired True Monarch used a forbidden art to follow and Pudu True Monarch chose not to intervene, Xu Yunfan prepared to identify the other people pursuing his avatar.

• The White-Haired True Monarch used the Cycle of Life and Death, Passage of Spirit and Flesh to send his physical body through the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation.
• Pudu True Monarch saw the fluctuations in his Eight Trigrams deductions, judged Xu Yunfan's apparent choice reckless, and declined to interfere.
• Xu Yunfan remained in Divine Firmament Palace, having directed most of his mind and will to his avatar Wukong through the Attribute Panel and the Eight Sceneries of Xuan Capital Cloud Canon.
• Xu Yunfan's karmic net detected several greedy, hostile threads converging on the place where Wukong had entered the Sea of Suffering.
• Xu Yunfan opened his eyes and said he would find out how many people, including Tongxuan of Myriad Chariots, were hiding in the shadows.

Wukong entered the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation and saw the Underworld, while Xu Yunfan warned him that pursuers were closing in. True Monarch Tongxuan arrived and mistook Wukong for Xu Yunfan, as a second, unsettling figure appeared.

• Xu Yunfan used his connection with Wukong to monitor the Sea of Suffering and warned him to hide from approaching enemies.
• Wukong concealed himself beneath a black reef after seeing the Underworld and its streams of true spirits.
• True Monarch Tongxuan arrived and mistook Wukong's hidden aura for Xu Yunfan's, then sent out sword threads to search the Sea of Suffering.
• A pale middle-aged man in a Purple Gold Daoist Robe appeared in a genuine flesh-and-blood body, unsettling Wukong and Xu Yunfan.

Wukong’s concealment failed when the White-Haired True Monarch used dead souls to locate him, and True Monarch Tongxuan and the White-Haired True Monarch launched a combined attack. Xu Yunfan sent his Divine Firmament Thunder through their connection to Wukong, who braced himself to fight back.

• The White-Haired True Monarch recognized True Monarch Tongxuan and revealed his desire to claim the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit.
• True Monarch Tongxuan searched the Sea of Suffering with sword threads but failed to detect Wukong hiding in a black reef.
• The White-Haired True Monarch used Silent Extinction of All Spirits to gather dead souls and pinpoint Wukong’s hiding place.
• The White-Haired True Monarch sent chains of vengeful souls toward Wukong, while True Monarch Tongxuan summoned three ice blades to strike the reef.
• Xu Yunfan transmitted Divine Firmament Mana to Wukong, who unleashed purple-gold lightning and prepared to confront the two True Monarchs.

Xu Yunfan used Wukong to unleash Divine Vault Thunder inside the Bitter Sea, disrupting its laws and letting them escape the two Golden Core cultivators. As Tongxuan pursued Wukong through the gray mist, Xu Yunfan searched for the source of extreme yin and spotted Bone Island and its strange tree.

• Xu Yunfan detonated the Netherworld’s blood waves and resentment reefs with Divine Vault Thunder, triggering a vortex and Heaven’s Punishment lightning that struck Wukong, True Monarch Tongxuan, and the White-Haired True Monarch.
• Wukong used the explosion’s recoil to flee, while True Monarch Tongxuan pursued him and the White-Haired True Monarch stayed behind to absorb the backlash.
• Wukong warned that the Stone Womb’s mana was nearly exhausted, but Xu Yunfan continued supplying Divine Firmament Mana and directed him toward the source of extreme yin.
• Wukong spotted a bone-built island shaped like a coiled skeletal dragon, with a twisted black-jade tree standing atop its highest point.

Xu Yunfan's Wukong avatar found the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit, but the Sea of Suffering Dragon awakened as Tongxuan and the White-Haired True Monarch closed in. Pudu True Monarch warned Xu Yunfan to abandon his dangerous pursuit and revealed that he would not tolerate another Mid Golden Core True Monarch in the Primal Beginning Sect, but Xu Yunfan remained determined to obtain the Dao Fruit.

• Wukong saw the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit hanging from a strange tree beside the enormous dragon.
• The Sea of Suffering Dragon awakened and trapped Wukong between itself, Tongxuan, and the White-Haired True Monarch, who both claimed Xu Yunfan's Dao Fruit.
• Pudu True Monarch contacted Xu Yunfan and warned him that Tongxuan, the White-Haired True Monarch, and the Sea of Suffering Dragon made the pursuit a likely death sentence.
• Pudu True Monarch said the Three Sects would unite against the Primal Beginning Sect if Xu Yunfan succeeded, and warned that the sect could not withstand losing another True Monarch.
• Pudu True Monarch offered to obtain a Lunar Dao Fruit for Xu Yunfan later, but Xu Yunfan understood that Pudu intended to preserve his own authority and resolved not to retreat.

Xu Yunfan, using Wukong, fought True Monarch Tongxuan and the White-Haired True Monarch over the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit as the Sea of Suffering Dragon joined the battle. Tongxuan was destroyed, and Xu Yunfan sacrificed the Star Dou Banner to strike at the dragon’s inverse scale, leaving the fight unresolved.

• True Monarch Tongxuan attacked Xu Yunfan with a burning sword soul, but Xu Yunfan countered with the Star Dou Banner and held off the blow.
• The Sea of Suffering Dragon burst from Bone Island, and the White-Haired True Monarch tried to seize the Dao Fruit from its inverse scale.
• The dragon, the White-Haired True Monarch, True Monarch Tongxuan, and Xu Yunfan clashed in a three-way melee while Xu Yunfan targeted Tongxuan.
• True Monarch Tongxuan unleashed Myriad Souls Return to the Ruins, wounding the White-Haired True Monarch and the dragon, before Xu Yunfan shattered Tongxuan’s sword soul and the dragon’s lightning consumed his remnant soul.
• Xu Yunfan detonated the Star Dou Banner and sent its stardust and Crimson Sun Dao Fruit embers toward the dragon’s inverse scale as his true body supplied Divine Firmament Mana.

Xu Yunfan sent Wukong to seize the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit, but the dragon and White-Haired True Monarch both attacked him. Xu Yunfan recalled the dying clone to the Star Dou Banner and escaped, leaving White-Haired True Monarch to fight the wounded dragon for the fruit.

• Xu Yunfan found that his lightning attacks could barely harm White-Haired True Monarch and redirected Wukong toward the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit.
• Wukong protested that the Golden Core dragon would kill him, but Xu Yunfan forced him onward and promised he could eventually recover through the Star Dou Banner.
• The dragon attacked Wukong while White-Haired True Monarch tried to drag him away with vengeful-soul chains.
• Xu Yunfan spent the Star Dou Banner's remaining power on Wukong's strike, shattering the chains and wounding the dragon but exhausting Wukong's magic and destroying his arm.
• Xu Yunfan recalled Wukong's clone as White-Haired True Monarch pierced it and the dragon swallowed its damaged body; Wukong's true spirit escaped into the Star Dou Banner.
• White-Haired True Monarch realized he had pursued a clone and then attacked the dragon, while Xu Yunfan returned safely with the cracked banner.

Xu Yunfan assessed the damage to the Star Spirit Banner and confirmed that the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit would complete the Minor Heavenly Cycle he needed to advance to Mid Golden Core. He decided to rebuild Han Shi’s body from rare sword materials so the surviving true spirit could serve as his aide.

• Xu Yunfan examined the Star Spirit Banner’s Thunderfire Backlash damage and began repairing its cracked foundation with Divine Firmament Mana.
• Xu Yunfan analyzed the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit and determined that its Ultimate Yin Power could balance the Divine Vault Thunder and Crimson Yang True Flame in a self-sustaining Minor Heavenly Cycle.
• Xu Yunfan accepted the loss of the Wukong clone and damage to the banner as worthwhile because he had confirmed the Lunar Dao Fruit’s compatibility with his cultivation path.
• Xu Yunfan turned to Han Shi’s surviving true spirit and announced that it was time to bring him back into the world.
• Xu Yunfan summoned rare spiritual materials, including Ten-Thousand-Year Sword Marrow Jade and Northern Darkness Cold Iron, to form Han Shi’s new body.

Xu Yunfan reforged Han Shi’s true spirit into a powerful Innate Sword Body, then suppressed Han Shi’s attempt to kill him with his Dao Field. Han Shi realized Xu Yunfan had reached Mid Golden Core.

• Xu Yunfan used Eight Sceneries Cloud Qi and Divine Vault Thunder to forge a new body from rare spiritual materials.
• Xu Yunfan pulled Han Shi’s true spirit from the Star Spirit Banner and forcibly fused it with the sword body using lightning and Crimson Sun power.
• Han Shi awakened in the new Innate Sword Body and cursed Xu Yunfan for turning him into a puppet.
• Han Shi unleashed the Thousand Chariots Geng Sea Raging Waves Sword Art against Xu Yunfan.
• Xu Yunfan’s purple-gold Dao Field dissolved Han Shi’s attack, and Han Shi recognized that Xu Yunfan had reached Mid Golden Core.

Xu Yunfan revealed that he had become a Golden Core True Monarch and forced Han Shi to accept the gulf between their powers. Three years later, Xu Yunfan sent Han Shi into the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation with a Reversing Fate Profound Mirror to seek the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit, promising him a chance at freedom if he succeeded.

• Xu Yunfan suppressed Han Shi with his Golden Core power and told him that Tongxuan and True Monarch Chiyang had died, while Han Shi warned that the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect would seek revenge.
• Xu Yunfan reminded Han Shi that his true spirit remained bound to the Star Spirit Banner, then resumed repairing the banner and studying his gains from the Sea of Suffering.
• After three years, Han Shi asked what Xu Yunfan wanted from him, and Xu Yunfan ordered him to seek the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit in the Netherworld.
• Xu Yunfan gave Han Shi the Reversing Fate Profound Mirror, which he had forged to protect a physical body from the Netherworld's laws.
• Xu Yunfan promised Han Shi a chance to sever himself from the Star Banner if he obtained the Dao Fruit, and Han Shi entered the Nether Gate of Reincarnation.

Xu Yunfan monitored Han Shi’s perilous journey through the Netherworld passage to test the flawed Reversing Fate Profound Mirror. As Han Shi cursed him and the mirror began to crack, Xu Yunfan recorded its failures and gained insight into life-and-death cultivation.

• Xu Yunfan used the Attribute Panel to monitor Han Shi and the Reversing Fate Profound Mirror as Han Shi entered the Netherworld passage.
• The mirror’s surface cracked under the passage’s spatial turbulence and death qi while Han Shi struggled to survive.
• Han Shi realized the mirror was unfinished, accused Xu Yunfan of using him as a test subject, and grew consumed by hatred.
• Xu Yunfan ignored Han Shi’s anger and analyzed the mirror’s flaws, including delayed crystal energy output and inadequate soul-nurturing protection.
• Xu Yunfan considered doubts about the White-Haired True Monarch and the hidden depths of the Taihua Spiritual Void Realm.
• Xu Yunfan recorded improvements to the mirror, and the Attribute Panel notified him that his Dao cultivation had increased.

Xu Yunfan rescued Han Shi from the Nether Gate of Reincarnation and analyzed the failed Reversing Fate Profound Mirror. Half a month later, Han Shi entered the passage again with a redesigned mirror, which began to crack as Xu Yunfan monitored its new flaws without intervening immediately.

• As the Reversing Fate Profound Mirror shattered under the passage's pressure, Xu Yunfan injected mana through the Attribute Panel and dragged Han Shi back to the Divine Firmament Palace.
• Xu Yunfan took the broken mirror fragments from Han Shi and analyzed their damage, while Han Shi's anger gave way to numb resignation.
• Xu Yunfan identified problems with the Northern Darkness Mystic Crystals and the mirror's law-conversion design, then began refining a replacement and ordered another test in half a month.
• Xu Yunfan gave Han Shi a redesigned Reversing Fate Profound Mirror, and Han Shi entered the Nether Gate of Reincarnation again under Xu Yunfan's control.
• The new mirror cracked after Han Shi traveled only one-third as far as before, and Xu Yunfan monitored the damage without immediately rescuing him.

Xu Yunfan refined the Reversing Fate Profound Mirror through repeated trials with Han Shi until the sixth version safely carried him through the Netherworld passage. Han Shi arrived at the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation, while Xu Yunfan gained greater insight into the Dao of life and death and prepared to explore the Netherworld.

• Xu Yunfan repeatedly improved the Reversing Fate Profound Mirror using the failures and damage Han Shi suffered during trials in the Netherworld passage.
• On the fourth attempt, the mirror failed against a soul-eroding yin wind, and Han Shi needed a month to recover from severe soul damage.
• After six rounds of improvements, Han Shi mechanically entered the passage again as Xu Yunfan monitored him through the Attribute Panel.
• The sixth mirror held firm against the passage’s turbulent currents, and Han Shi safely crossed its most dangerous layer into the Netherworld.
• Xu Yunfan celebrated the success, advanced his understanding of yin and yang and life and death, and considered seeking guidance from the White-Haired True Monarch.
• Han Shi emerged onto cold reefs beside the Sea of Suffering of Reincarnation.

Han Shi scouted Bone Island under Xu Yunfan’s control and found the Sea of Suffering Dragon gravely wounded beside the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit. Suspecting a trap, Xu Yunfan had Han Shi investigate the area and secretly plant ninety-nine Shadow Escape Flags before ordering him to a distant blood-wave vortex with Nether Cloud Qi.

• Xu Yunfan directed Han Shi to approach Bone Island and scout for danger while concealing himself with the Reversing Fate Profound Mirror.
• Han Shi and Xu Yunfan saw the badly injured Sea of Suffering Dragon coiled beneath the strange tree, with the Great Yin Nether Dragon Dao Fruit hanging nearby.
• Xu Yunfan suspected the dragon and Dao Fruit were bait in a trap and ordered Han Shi to search the surrounding waters for formations and reincarnation-related traces.
• Han Shi found residual life-and-death mana near a reef but no clear ambush, then planted ninety-nine Shadow Escape Flags at spatial nodes around Bone Island.
• Xu Yunfan sent Han Shi to a blood-wave vortex about eight hundred li from Bone Island and ordered him to take out the Nether Cloud Qi.

Xu Yunfan directed Han Shi to build a layered thunder array around Bone Island to capture the Great Yin Dragon Dao Fruit. With the Nine Hells Profound Fiend Immortal Slaying Thunder Array established, Xu Yunfan began forming a second killing array powered by the Sea of Suffering’s Yin fiend energies and killing karma.

• Xu Yunfan used the Attribute Panel link to monitor Han Shi and transmit instructions and formation artifacts to him.
• Han Shi secretly placed Shadow Escape Flags and several Yin thunder formations around Bone Island under Xu Yunfan’s guidance.
• Xu Yunfan combined the formations under the Divine Firmament Purple Mansion Annihilation Heavenly Fiend orthodox thunder method and named the composite array the Nine Hells Profound Fiend Immortal Slaying Thunder Array.
• Xu Yunfan began constructing the Myriad Tribulation Yin Fiend Extinguishing Sword Array, directing Han Shi to place dark-red sword-shaped banners in the blood-sea vortex and bone fields.

Pudu True Monarch visited Xu Yunfan to press him to establish an orderly inheritance for the Divine Firmament lineage and take responsibility for matters left by Qingyuan True Monarch. Xu Yunfan resisted taking disciples and denied any role in Qingyuan True Monarch’s death, leaving Pudu True Monarch’s intentions unresolved.

• Xu Yunfan concealed two killing formations while arranging them remotely through Han Shi, then sensed Pudu True Monarch at the Mountain Protection Array and welcomed him into the Divine Firmament Palace.
• Pudu True Monarch argued that Xu Yunfan needed to formally accept personal disciples and pass down the Divine Firmament lineage.
• Xu Yunfan defended the Primal Beginning Sect’s tradition of survival of the fittest and said he lacked time to instruct disciples or take on the responsibility lightly.
• Pudu True Monarch remarked that Bi Yuan had only barely established his Dao foundation with help from the lineage’s fortune, then urged Xu Yunfan to handle burdens connected to Qingyuan True Monarch’s death.
• Xu Yunfan firmly denied harming Qingyuan True Monarch, while Pudu True Monarch responded with a knowing smile and said nothing.

Xu Yunfan accepted Pudu True Monarch’s demand that he recruit and cultivate promising disciples for the Primal Beginning Sect, while suspecting the senior had ulterior motives. He then returned his attention to the Sea of Suffering, where Han Shi continued building the deadly formations under Xu Yunfan’s direction.

• Pudu True Monarch pressured Xu Yunfan to take responsibility for recruiting disciples and strengthening the sect, and Xu Yunfan agreed.
• After Pudu True Monarch departed, Xu Yunfan surveyed his followers and concluded that the Divine Firmament Lineage lacked exceptional disciples who could inherit his mantle.
• Xu Yunfan decided to search across the Primal Beginning Sect’s territories for promising disciples, but postponed the effort because the Sea of Suffering required his attention.
• Xu Yunfan reactivated the grand formation and resumed guiding Han Shi through their connection as Han Shi installed formation components around Bone Island.
• As the formations grew stronger, Han Shi’s fear of being trapped and killed by them deepened, though he continued following Xu Yunfan’s orders.