Chapter Summaries

Wang Pan explored the Stone Gambling Workshop, where Zhou Lin lost nearly all the Spirit Stones he had embezzled on a raw material that yielded only a thin layer of High-Grade Spirit Stones; Gou Fugui recognized it as the model for an old counterfeit he had made. In a separate story, Lu Ye, a mine slave in the Nine Provinces, defeated two brothers who tried to rob him, then encountered Steward Yang, who hurriedly took him along.

• Wang Pan entered a Stone Gambling Workshop and examined its Spirit Stone Raw Materials, while Zhou Lin's costly gamble yielded only twenty or thirty High-Grade Spirit Stones and left him fearing the consequences of embezzlement.
• Gou Fugui recognized Zhou Lin's raw material as the original model for a counterfeit he had made over twenty years earlier, then quietly retreated from the crowd.
• Lu Ye reflected on his year as a Mine Slave for Evil Moon Valley and continued working toward opening his Spirit Apertures while carrying an unexplained Shadow Tree in his vision.
• Lu Ye ambushed the Liu brothers as they hid near a mine tunnel exit, knocked them down, and left them injured after they had been robbing Mine Slaves.
• Steward Yang rushed into the tunnel and struck Lu Ye with spiritual power, but recognized him and grabbed his shoulder, telling him to come along.

Gou Fugui faced Zhou Lin’s accusation that a forged Spirit Seeker’s Handbook page had led him to waste three thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones, but the Strange Stone Workshop’s Soul Transformation Daoist drove Zhou Lin away. Gou Fugui then pointed customers toward an expensive piece of spirit stone ore, and Wang Pan decided to buy it after sensing a strange ripple in its surface.

• Gou Fugui recognized the spirit stone raw material he had studied for decades and realized Zhou Lin might recognize him as the man who had given him a forged remnant page.
• Zhou Lin identified Gou Fugui, grabbed him, and accused him of causing his loss, but a Soul Transformation Daoist intervened and expelled Zhou Lin for attacking someone inside the Strange Stone Workshop.
• Zhou Lin showed the crowd his remnant page, but Gou Fugui argued that it promised a chance of finding High-Grade Spirit Stones, which Zhou Lin had in fact cut out; the crowd turned against Zhou Lin again.
• Gou Fugui recommended a millstone-sized piece of spirit stone ore with ninety percent confidence, and Wang Pan stepped in to buy it for 138,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Gou Fugui warned Wang Pan that he had chosen the ore only because it was expensive, but Wang Pan bought it anyway, explaining that he had sensed a ripple after Zhou Lin’s blood touched it.
• Wang Pan offered a spiritual herb as payment, prompting the Strange Stone Workshop’s Inner Disciple to lavish him with hospitality and order additional entertainment.

Wang Pan uncovered a soul-devouring Finger Bone while gambling at Strange Stone Workshop, then refused Yu Qi’s demand to sell it. When Yu Qi threatened him and trapped the witnesses, Wang Pan killed the Deity Transformation cultivator with one blow.

• Wang Pan ordered the cutting master to keep cutting the Jade Raw Material as it shrank, while he silently formed a Ninth-Grade Golden Core.
• The cutting master’s magical tool snapped, and the Jade Raw Material dragged his soul inside before revealing a section of Finger Bone that devoured the souls of dozens of cultivators.
• Yu Qi offered Wang Pan two hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones for the Finger Bone, but Wang Pan refused and Yu Qi threatened him.
• Gou Fugui quietly fled the Strange Stone Workshop, while Yu Qi activated its grand formation and trapped the remaining cultivators.
• Yu Qi pressured Wang Pan to surrender the Finger Bone, but Wang Pan tore out Yu Qi’s heart and annihilated his origin, killing him.

Wang Pan defeated Yu Qi, absorbed the Strange Stone Workshop’s mysterious Finger Bone into his soul, and looted the workshop’s cultivators, stone materials, and treasury. As Netherworld Sect hunters entered the immortal city, Wang Pan left the Stone Man Holy Land’s warehouse with its Spirit Stones.

• Yu Qi disintegrated after Wang Pan defeated him, and Wang Pan took his Spatial Ring before the Finger Bone dissolved into smoke and fused with his soul’s right middle finger.
• Wang Pan robbed the gathered cultivators of their valuables, used Wind Calling to expose and collect the contents of more than a million stone materials, and forced Zhou Chang to lead him to the treasury.
• Zhou Chang tried to flee when Wang Pan activated Yu Qi’s token, but Wang Pan suppressed the warehouse formation and killed him with a Nether God Stone blade.
• Wang Pan broke into the warehouse and swept its mountain-like piles of Spirit Stones into his Spatial Ring.
• Dozens of Netherworld Sect cultivators entered the immortal city to hunt Wang Pan, while the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts followed them in secret.

Wang Pan robbed the Strange Stone Workshop, then shattered and reforged his Golden Core, discovering that his new core surpassed the grades described in the Nine Revolutions Golden Core Method. Meanwhile, Netherworld Sect cultivators searched the Immortal City for him, and Ying Shunyi got into trouble after entering a Heavenly Palace operated by the Pure Joy Sect.

• Wang Pan summoned his Spirit Transformation clone from Boundless Purgatory, and it teleported away while the Outer Grand Elder wondered at its strength.
• Wang Yue sensed that Wang Pan might be in danger but chose not to intervene, relying on the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts he had already sent out.
• Wang Pan stayed inside the Strange Stone Workshop, robbed its cultivators, and used its secret chamber to prepare for breaking his Golden Core.
• Wang Pan shattered his Golden Core, absorbed the released spiritual power without difficulty, and formed a new core stronger than the eighth-grade core in the Nine Revolutions Golden Core Method.
• Wang Pan gathered more Spirit Stones and decided to shatter his core again, aiming to form a first-grade core.
• Ying Shunyi entered a Pure Joy Sect Heavenly Palace, balked at its prices, and was warned by the Madam not to harm its disciples.

Ying Shunyi learned from a female cultivator that Wang Pan had helped her capture Pan Junjie, then paid for information leading the Netherworld Sect to a shop where Wang Pan's trail ended. The chapter left Ying Shunyi and the other pursuers preparing to investigate the Strange Stone Workshop, before cutting to a ruined city where a motionless boy waited to hunt a vulture.

• Ying Shunyi learned that Wang Pan had helped the female cultivator catch Pan Junjie, then paid one hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones for Wang Pan's whereabouts.
• The Netherworld Sect group used the Immortal City Rental Office's information to find Wang Pan's rented cave dwelling, but discovered he was gone.
• Ying Shunyi and the Netherworld Sect cultivators followed Wang Pan's lingering aura to the Strange Stone Workshop and suspected he was inside.
• A Netherworld Sect tracker identified the shop's active formation as the likely reason Wang Pan's aura had vanished, while an Inner Elder of the White Sheep Sacred Land challenged Ying Shunyi.
• In a ruined city under blood rain, a motionless boy patiently watched a vulture feeding on a wild dog's corpse and waited for his chance.

A clash between the Netherworld Sect and Yang Province sacred land guards wrecked the Immortal City, prompting its five Void Refinement guardians to suppress the fighters and demand compensation. Just as the Netherworld Sect refused to pay and faced enslavement, a vast spiritual energy vortex drained the city and surrounding region, then unleashed a pillar of energy toward the ground.

• A Netherworld Sect tracker found traces of Wang Pan at Strange Stone Workshop, while Ying Shunyi's dispute with a White Sheep Sacred Land elder escalated into a fight between the Netherworld Sect and the shop guards.
• The battle killed guards and destroyed much of the Stone Gambling Workshop, but a mysterious scepter diverted the force away from Wang Pan's location.
• Five Void Refinement cultivators activated the Immortal City's grand arrays, sealed the fighters, and freed the wounded guards.
• A Heavenly Water Sacred Land cultivator demanded tens of billions of High-Grade Spirit Stones from the Netherworld Sect, then proposed using Slave Seals when they refused to pay.
• A massive spiritual energy vortex drained the Immortal City's stored Spirit Stones and the surrounding region before sending a terrifying pillar of energy toward the ground.

Wang Pan broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage with an enormous purple infant after the Heavenly Dao rewarded him with its Origin for completing the Nine Revolutions Golden Core Method. He emerged before the Void Refinement Stage powerhouses and the Netherworld Sect cultivators, who prepared to fight for him, but Wang Pan declared that he would handle the enemies himself and claim the immortal city's wealth.

• Wang Pan completed his first-grade purple Golden Core, shattered it, and received the Origin of the Heavenly Dao as a reward from the Heavenly Dao.
• Wang Pan formed a thirty-three-meter-tall Nascent Soul and mastered teleportation as he emerged before five Void Refinement Stage powerhouses.
• Ying Shunyi and the Netherworld Sect cultivators recognized Wang Pan as their eleven-year-old Holy Son and resolved to self-destruct to help him escape.
• Wang Pan teased the Netherworld Sect cultivators for pursuing him, then said he would kill them and take the immortal city's wealth.
• The Netherworld Sect cultivators warned Wang Pan that Void Refinement Stage opponents were beyond him, but Wang Pan claimed he would fight even a Dao Integration Stage cultivator.

Wang Pan killed the Netherworld Sect cultivators who had come after him, then defeated five Void Refinement Stage cultivators with a single punch and took their Dao artifacts. As the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts considered devouring the immortal city's inhabitants, the story shifted to a ruined city where a boy waited to hunt a vulture.

• The five Void Refinement Stage cultivators targeted Wang Pan, while the Netherworld Sect cultivators prepared to sacrifice themselves to help him escape.
• Wang Pan crushed dozens of Netherworld Sect cultivators with a giant hand, and they revealed who had sent them before they died.
• The five Void Refinement Stage cultivators attacked, but Wang Pan's Immortal King ability raised his cultivation and weakened theirs, letting him kill them with King Pan Splits Heaven.
• Wang Pan collected the fallen Dao artifacts as the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts plotted to devour souls in the immortal city, then realized he had overheard them.
• In a rain-soaked ruined city, a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old boy lay still and waited for a vulture to lower its guard.

Wang Pan confronted the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts and learned that Wang Yue had sent them to bring him back, but he refused to return when a Dao Integration Stage cultivator arrived. The White Sheep Sacred Land and Heavenly Water Sacred Land leaders decided to kill Wang Pan and divide the ghosts, while Wang Pan challenged them; the chapter then abruptly shifted to Shen Changqing entering a pavilion in the Demon Suppression Division.

• Wang Pan revealed himself among the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts, subdued the Twelfth Netherworld Ghost, and asked whether Wang Yue had sent them.
• The Twelve Netherworld Ghosts explained that Wang Yue had sent them to escort Wang Pan back, and Wang Pan decided to avoid returning until he grew stronger.
• A Dao Integration Stage cultivator arrived, and the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts tried to teleport away, but the White Sheep Sacred Land's Supreme Elder stopped them with the Heaven and Earth Net.
• The Sacred Lord of the Heavenly Water Sacred Land and the White Sheep Sacred Land's Supreme Elder agreed to kill Wang Pan and argued over dividing the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts.
• Wang Pan challenged the two sacred-land leaders as the White Sheep Sacred Land's Supreme Elder tightened the Heaven and Earth Net around the ghosts.
• Shen Changqing greeted acquaintances in the Demon Suppression Division and entered a tranquil pavilion, where ink and blood scents greeted him.

Wang Pan fought the Supreme Elder of the White Sheep Sacred Land and the Holy Lord of the Heavenly Water Sacred Land, then used his clone’s enhanced strength to beat them and seize their resources. He left after threatening to keep their humiliation secret, while the two elders hoped he would stay silent.

• Wang Pan broke the White Sheep Sacred Land Supreme Elder’s Heaven and Earth Net and fought him and the Heavenly Water Sacred Land Holy Lord, suffering severe but rapidly healing injuries.
• The Twelve Netherworld Ghosts fled as Wang Pan battled the two Dao Integration cultivators and focused his attacks on the Supreme Elder of the White Sheep Sacred Land.
• Wang Pan transferred his soul into his approaching clone, gained Great Completion Soul Severing Stage strength, and stopped the Holy Lord of the Heavenly Water Sacred Land from escaping.
• Wang Pan beat the Supreme Elder of the White Sheep Sacred Land and the Holy Lord of the Heavenly Water Sacred Land, taking their Spatial Rings and the Heaven and Earth Net.
• Wang Pan collected treasures from the ruined immortal city, then showed the two elders an Image Stone and promised to keep their defeat secret in exchange for their silence.
• Wang Pan left, and the two elders parted while hoping he would not reveal that an eleven-year-old had beaten them.

After returning from Yang Province, Wang Pan faced the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts’ suspicions, brought them back to the Netherworld Sect, and drew the attention of enemies plotting against him. He reunited with Wang Yue, who confronted him about taking her intimate garments.

• The Heavenly Water Sacred Land’s Holy Lord decided to relocate, but the White Sheep Sacred Land’s Supreme Elder refused to abandon Yang Province, and the two parted on bad terms.
• Wang Pan returned to the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts, who suspected he had betrayed the sect, and he beat them for fleeing and asking to join him.
• The Twelve Netherworld Ghosts carried Wang Pan back to the Netherworld Sect, where the Outer Grand Elder welcomed him and gave him a Seventh-Grade Spirit Herb.
• Zhang Tianyi raged over Wang Pan’s survival, while the Seventh Lineage’s Lineage Master ordered Ying Shunyi’s wife and children killed and the Thirty-First Branch Lineage abandoned its attempt against the Holy Son.
• Wang Yue asked Wang Pan if he had fled the sect after doing something wrong, then demanded to know whether he had used her intimate garments for something unspeakable.

Wang Pan returned to the Netherworld Sect with a fortune of roughly two hundred billion High-Grade Spirit Stones after destroying an immortal city and killing powerful cultivators. Wang Yue realized the five sacred lands might retaliate, but Wang Pan insisted they had time to strengthen the sect and refused to let her keep his money.

• Wang Yue demanded her Spatial Ring back and tried to punish Wang Pan, but stopped when he offered her ten billion High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Wang Yue took the Spirit Stones and learned that Wang Pan had advanced from Foundation Establishment to the Nascent Soul Stage in two days.
• Wang Pan revealed that he had robbed two Dao Integration cultivators, killed five Void Refinement cultivators, and destroyed an immortal city jointly built by five sacred lands.
• Wang Yue urged Wang Pan to flee with her after learning he had taken roughly two hundred billion High-Grade Spirit Stones and could have brought the Netherworld Sect into conflict with the five sacred lands.
• Wang Pan argued that the Netherworld Sect had time to prepare while the sacred lands crossed the Endless Sea Domain, and he refused Wang Yue's request to hold his Spirit Stones for him.

Wang Pan admitted to destroying the Immortal City and taking its resources, while the three Yang Province Sacred Lands demanded compensation from the Netherworld Sect. The Netherworld Sect had already seized their envoys, and Wang Pan concluded that war was unavoidable as he continued tormenting Black Heaven Dao Lord.

• Wang Yue agreed to Wang Pan's plan to deal with the Dao Integration cultivators one at a time, then confirmed his strength with the Twelve Netherworld Ghosts as he entered seclusion to heal his Dao Injuries.
• The three Sacred Lands whose Immortal City Wang Pan destroyed sent three Soul Severing Stage envoys to demand the stolen resources and compensation, but Hundred Infants Daoist accused them of slander and sent them to the Punishment Hall.
• Hundred Infants Daoist found Wang Pan beating Black Heaven Dao Lord and told him about the envoys' accusations.
• Wang Pan admitted he had destroyed the Immortal City and taken its resources, calling them ownerless items he had picked up.
• Hundred Infants Daoist realized the envoys had told the truth and rushed to the Punishment Hall, while Wang Pan said he would not return the resources and expected war.
• Black Heaven Dao Lord praised Wang Pan and asked for a share, but Wang Pan refused and punched it again.

Wang Yue faced a revolt led by Zhang Tianyi and Bai Fan, who demanded the resources Wang Pan had seized, while Netherworld Sect Supreme Elders prepared to respond to her challenge. As Yang Province’s three Sacred Lands marched to war, Wang Yue appeared before the rebels, leaving their fate in her hands.

• Black Heaven Dao Lord chased Wang Pan until Wang Pan paid him five hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones to stop pestering him.
• Zhang Tianyi and Bai Fan agreed to use rumors about the Holy Son’s plundered resources to challenge Wang Yue’s authority and weaken her standing in the Netherworld Sect.
• Kang Yuan received Wang Yue’s message about clues to the inherited Immortal Artifact, suspected she meant to confront the Supreme Elders, and began returning to the sect as the other Supreme Elders learned of her intentions.
• The Sacred Land Masters of Yang Province’s three Sacred Lands declared war on the Netherworld Sect and dispatched a fleet across the Endless Sea Domain, followed by other factions and an Avengers Alliance.
• Zhang Tianyi and Bai Fan led a large group of Netherworld Sect members in demanding that Wang Yue hand over the Holy Son’s resources, while the Punishment Hall Master and Wang Yue’s supporters opposed them.
• Wang Yue silenced the gathering with her aura and appeared before the rebels, while Wang Pan watched them with pity, expecting them to die.

Wang Pan confronted Netherworld Sect elders who mocked his position as Holy Son, then killed the rebels who attacked him and devastated the sect grounds. Wang Yue protected him from the backlash, disciplined him after he sneaked away, and beat the Inner Elders who tried to excuse his destruction.

• Zhang Tianyi, Bai Fan, and their followers ignored Wang Pan and accused him of becoming Holy Son through favoritism and stealing sect resources.
• Wang Pan used a net woven from space rifts to kill dozens of attackers, including Void Refinement Stage experts, and trap the rest.
• Wang Yue blocked Zhang Tianyi and Bai Fan’s attack, while the Punishment Hall Master and Wang Yue backed Wang Pan’s account of the fight.
• Zhang Tianyi and Bai Fan used the Seven Desires Heavenly Demonic Art to inflame the crowd, and Wang Pan unleashed a barrage of attacks that killed them and left a giant pit.
• Wang Yue stopped Wang Pan’s destructive aftermath, scolded him, and grabbed his ear; Wang Pan startled her with a sneak attack and fled on Black Heaven Dao Lord.
• Wang Yue beat the Inner Elders who tried to calm her, then left them bruised and limping down Netherworld Peak.

Wang Yue harvested the Nine Netherworld Lotuses and discovered a mature lotus seed, bringing her into conflict with the five Supreme Elders who owned the pond. After Wang Pan learned what she had done, he promised to face the elders with her, but their conversation ended in another beating before he and Black Heaven Dao Lord set their sights on a rare fish.

• Wang Yue beat Wang Pan and Black Heaven Dao Lord at the Netherworld Sect’s mountain gate, then went to the White Bone Soul Searching Palace and harvested the Nine Netherworld Lotuses.
• Kang Yuan sensed that the restrictions on the lotuses had been broken and hurried back with three Dao Integration Stage subordinates, worried that the mature Nine Netherworld Lotus Seed would be taken.
• Wang Yue found the mature lotus seed, took it, and harvested over a hundred thousand lotus roots before realizing the five Supreme Elders might return together.
• Wang Yue told Wang Pan she might have to face all five Great Perfection Dao Integration Stage Supreme Elders, and he insisted they should defeat them rather than run.
• Wang Pan comforted Wang Yue, then tried to take advantage of her slipping robe and was beaten until their room collapsed.
• Wang Pan and Black Heaven Dao Lord went to Heavenly Lake and decided to catch a rare, three-zhang Void Refinement Stage Seven-Colored Spirit Fish.

After eating a rare Void Refinement Stage Seven-Colored Spirit Fish, Wang Pan advanced to Great Perfection Soul Transformation Stage and formed all three clones while Black Heaven Dao Lord grew stronger through a strange transformation. Wang Pan obtained twenty-eight sections of Nine Netherworld Lotus Root from Wang Yue, who resolved to cultivate hard so he would not surpass her.

• Wang Pan and Black Heaven Dao Lord ate a Void Refinement Stage Seven-Colored Spirit Fish, and its power helped them comprehend the Heavenly Ways and increase their strength.
• Wang Pan broke through to mid-stage Soul Transformation, formed two clones, replenished his blood vitality, and formed a third clone to reach Great Perfection Soul Transformation Stage.
• Black Heaven Dao Lord absorbed Yin Energy and his Black Mountain Goat descendants, reaching Void Refinement Late Stage while Wang Pan warned him not to lose control.
• Wang Pan visited Wang Yue's bedchamber and obtained twenty-eight sections of Nine Netherworld Lotus Root from her.
• After Wang Pan left, Wang Yue worried that his cultivation would soon surpass hers and resolved to cultivate diligently.

Wang Pan used the Nine Netherworld Lotus Root to open his seven apertures, then broke through from the Divine Transformation Stage to the Void Refinement Stage and split his divine soul to empower his clones. After the Nether King Descends phenomenon shook the Netherworld Sect, Wang Pan assessed his new strength and concluded that Mahayana Stage cultivators remained beyond him.

• Wang Pan consumed the Nine Netherworld Lotus Root, opened his seven apertures, and gained a brief surge of powerful Essence, Qi, and Spirit energy.
• Wang Pan searched through the night for additional apertures, found none, corrected his arrogance toward the world's cultivation system, and entered the Soul Severing Stage.
• Wang Pan helped his three clones open their apertures, then used spirit stones and an array to advance toward the Void Refinement Stage.
• The Nether King Descends phenomenon appeared over Netherworld Peak, alarming Wang Yue and drawing the Netherworld Sect's elders as they realized Wang Pan might have broken through.
• Wang Pan wielded the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao Scepter to break through to the Void Refinement Stage, severed his divine soul to awaken two clones, and ordered them to cultivate while his soul recovered.
• Wang Pan tested his immense new strength, judged that he could overwhelm cultivators below the Mahayana Stage, and acknowledged that Mahayana cultivators still surpassed him.

Wang Pan used his newfound strength to declare that he would share the Netherworld Sect’s burdens and marry Wang Yue, then overpowered her in her chamber until she agreed. After he left, Wang Yue reflected on his overwhelming combat strength and wondered whether relying on him might not be so bad.

• Wang Pan announced to the Netherworld Sect elders that he would help Wang Yue lead the sect and put her marriage on the agenda, prompting the elders to first protest and then approve when he revealed he meant to marry her.
• Wang Pan confronted Wang Yue in her bedchamber, openly declared that she was his, and subdued her when she attacked him.
• Wang Pan spanked Wang Yue until she agreed to marry him and let him have the final say, then left her to recover beneath the covers.
• Wang Yue considered Wang Pan’s ability to overpower her despite their difference in cultivation and wondered whether relying on him might not be so bad.