Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi began his breakthrough to the Divine Embryo Realm to dispel Gong Yushang’s Dao intent and faced the First Tribulation of Lightning. After enduring the final Lightning Dragon, he felt the Thunder True Intent enter his Hidden Vessels space and surround two spheres of clear light.

• Lu Huo told Xu Yi that breaking through to the Divine Embryo Realm was the only way to dispel Gong Yushang’s Dao intent.
• Xu Yi swallowed a Heavenly Heart Pill, and the First Tribulation of Lightning descended as Lu Huo watched from a distance.
• Xu Yi used Purple Firmament Lightning Strike Bamboo to absorb most of the lightning and endured the Lightning Dragons without letting their Thunder True Intent break his resolve.
• The icy feeling in Xu Yi’s body disappeared during the fourth Lightning Dragon, and he survived eight strikes with only minor injuries.
• Xu Yi endured the final Lightning Dragon as clear light emerged from his dantian and spirit platform, and the Thunder True Intent entered his Hidden Vessels space to surround the two spheres.

Xu Yi formed a Divine Embryo and glimpsed the principles of the Heavenly Dao, but a new lightning tribulation immediately pursued him. After surviving nine bolts, he faced a tenth as Lu Huo watched, realizing heaven seemed intent on killing him.

• Xu Yi formed a Divine Embryo and comprehended the Heavenly Dao, helping Lu Huo shed most of the spikes on his face.
• The Divine Embryo awakened Xu Yi’s sense of self, and a new mass of tribulation clouds gathered overhead.
• Xu Yi teleported a thousand li away and then dove beneath the sea, but the Heavenly Net dragged him back to the surface.
• Xu Yi endured nine lightning bolts with the Purple Firmament Lightning Strike Bamboo, while trying to understand why another tribulation had come.
• A tenth Lightning Dragon descended, and Xu Yi called on Lu Huo to save him as Lu Huo watched in shock and jealousy.

Xu Yi escaped the Endless Lightning Tribulation by repeatedly using the Four-Colored Seal to enter the Purple Domain Space, but the energy mass pulled him back into the storm each time. As the next attack began, he refined a wish pearl to draw in wish power, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Lu Huo warned Xu Yi that the Endless Lightning Tribulation targeted those who had slipped from Heaven's grasp, and Xu Yi realized his otherworldly soul might be the cause.
• Xu Yi endured another Lightning Dragon, charged the Four-Colored Seal, and escaped into the Purple Domain Space with six sections of Purple Firmament Lightning Strike Bamboo.
• Xu Yi exhausted his healing supplies and fell asleep, but he was pulled from the space and dragged back toward the energy mass.
• Xu Yi used a Great Spring Return Talisman to restore some vitality, then charged the Four-Colored Seal while enduring more Lightning Dragons.
• Xu Yi escaped again, used three barbs to drain his Mana Yuan, and was pulled back into the storm as a whirlpool formed in his dantian.
• Xu Yi activated a secret art to refine a wish pearl, and its wish power began seeping into his body as the energy mass swallowed him.

Xu Yi survived the relentless lightning tribulation by clouding his divine embryo with hundreds of refined beast cores, then recovered with Lu Huo’s help. Lu Huo praised his resourcefulness and, still curious about his strength, attacked him to test it.

• Xu Yi endured five Lightning Dragons by refining beast cores to cloud his divine embryo, and the Calamity Cloud dispersed.
• Lu Huo gave the badly burned Xu Yi a Snow Baby Fruit, allowing him to restore his body.
• Xu Yi explained that he used a wish bead as kindling to refine hundreds of beast cores and obscure Heaven’s will.
• Lu Huo said the lightning had refined the beast cores’ chaotic energy, leaving Xu Yi with abundant qi, vigorous blood, and deep Mana Yuan.
• Lu Huo rushed Xu Yi and punched toward his face to test his strength.

Xu Yi tested his strength and combat abilities against Lu Huo after reaching the Divine Embryo Realm, then learned that Gong Yushang had sent only his severed lower corpse to attack him. Xu Yi reclaimed his Purple Firmament Lightning Strike Bamboo and promised to help Lu Huo with an unknown matter.

• Xu Yi overpowered Lu Huo in a contest of strength and shattered his storm vortices with precise control of spiritual power.
• Xu Yi and Lu Huo unleashed their water techniques, and Xu Yi formed and controlled an immense Heart Severing Sword.
• Lu Huo warned Xu Yi that his strength might not be enough to defeat Gong Yushang and explained that the previous attacker had been Gong Yushang's lower corpse.
• Xu Yi demanded his Purple Firmament Lightning Strike Bamboo, and Lu Huo returned it after protesting that Xu Yi was taking advantage of him.
• Xu Yi promised to help Lu Huo accomplish what he had entrusted to him, leaving Lu Huo puzzled about what he meant.

After surviving his tribulation, Xu Yi gained the Purple Firmament hidden inside the Purple Firmament Lightning Strike Bamboo and agreed to help Lu Huo find his missing son. Their conversation left Xu Yi wondering whether the Nine Revolutions Saint Creation Art explained why refining Beast Cores had not affected his blood.

• The Purple Firmament Lightning Strike Bamboo split open, revealing a lightning-shaped heartwood that burned Xu Yi’s hand before falling into the sea.
• Lu Huo explained that the heartwood was the legendary Purple Firmament, formed when the six-section bamboo endured Xu Yi’s tribulation, and Xu Yi retrieved it using his intent of profound sorrow.
• Lu Huo asked Xu Yi to search Yonghui City for his missing son, and Xu Yi promised to find him and bring him home if possible.
• Lu Huo offered to have Little Black Shark find Xu Yi Blood Vine Grass, then realized Xu Yi showed no ill effects from refining Beast Cores.
• Xu Yi suspected his Nine Revolutions Saint Creation Art and hidden bloodline explained his immunity, then asked Lu Huo whether Beast Core users would die if they left the Savage Wilderness Realm.

After parting from Lu Huo, Xu Yi broke through to the Divine Embryo Realm and studied the Spirit Official Three Lives Aspect, which used the stars to develop three aspects. Visualizing its deity revealed the night sky to him and finally showed him why he had never been able to decipher the Seven Star Numerology.

• Lu Huo explained that Blood Vine Grass withered outside the Savage Wilderness Realm and warned Xu Yi not to wave his Purple Firmament around him.
• Lu Huo left after reminding Xu Yi that he owed him Spirit Wine, and Xu Yi sat on the sea and recorded a new technique from the Nine Revolutions Saint Creation Art.
• Xu Yi learned that the Spirit Official Three Lives Aspect required insight rather than resources and began practicing it in a bathtub.
• Xu Yi visualized a three-headed, six-armed deity, which opened his view of the starry sky and revealed the constellations behind the technique's three aspects.
• Xu Yi realized the Seven Star Numerology could not be fully expressed in words.

Xu Yi used his understanding of Seven Star Numerology to reveal the Demon-Ghost Aspect, then woke and learned that Jiang Sihai had died and the Black-striped Flood Dragon Shark was owed 1,325 First-grade Demon Cores. Unable to pay from his depleted supplies, Xu Yi promised to take the shark to collect them himself.

• Xu Yi visualized the starry sky, solved Seven Star Numerology, and used the harmony of the Seven Mansions of the East to reveal the Demon-Ghost Aspect.
• Xu Yi failed to break through the deity's other aspects and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Xu Yi woke the following evening and called the Black-striped Flood Dragon Shark to him.
• The Black-striped Flood Dragon Shark reminded Xu Yi that it was owed 1,325 First-grade Demon Cores and showed him that Jiang Sihai had died.
• Xu Yi realized he had used up his Beast Cores and agreed to take the shark to collect its payment.

Xu Yi traveled toward Yonghui Border Wasteland City while Gong Xian hosted a gathering of the city’s prominent figures and remained obsessed with finding Xu Yi’s supposedly dead body. Gong Xian relied on Han Zhongjun to transport people to Xizhou, while the search for Xu Yi’s corpse remained unresolved.

• Xu Yi told the Black-striped Flood Dragon Shark to take him to Yonghui Border Wasteland City, and it sped through the sea with him aboard.
• Prominent guests brought lavish gifts to Gong Xian’s celebration, including offerings from City Lord Heifu, Lord Bai Ye, and City Lord Huangdan.
• Gong Xian told Fei Wu that the guests had gathered out of fear of Gong Yushang and ordered him to handle them; he also demanded that the search party find Xu Yi’s corpse.
• Han Zhongjun arrived and explained that he had reserved at most five seats for Gong Xian’s people aboard his Sun Moon Shuttle to Xizhou.

At Gong Yushang’s birthday celebration, Gong Xian’s lackeys provoked Shi Erli until Miao Chunsheng reported that Xu Yi was alive and looking for Shi. The hall panicked, but Tan Li shut the doors and urged everyone to confront Xu Yi, while Gong Xian and Han Zhongjun secretly tried to leave.

• Gong Xian greeted Shi Erli, who said he had come to pay respects to Gong Yushang and ignored Gong Xian’s taunts.
• Gong Xian arranged for his followers to accuse Shi Erli of cheating and blame him for Xu Yi’s apparent death.
• Miao Chunsheng sent Shi Erli a message that Xu Yi was alive and asking where he was, causing Gong Xian to collapse in terror.
• Han Zhongjun tried to flee, but Tan Li closed the hall and rallied the guests to catch Xu Yi if he entered.
• Tan Li reopened the doors at Han Zhongjun’s request, and Gong Xian joined Han in pretending they meant to speak with departing guests as both sought to escape.

Xu Yi returned to Yonghui City and killed Tan Li with his bare hands, stunning everyone in the hall. Han Zhongjun’s trap and Gong Xian’s escape attempt both failed, leaving Xu Yi in control of the room.

• Xu Yi arrived at the hall, where Han Zhongjun panicked and Tan Li attacked him.
• Xu Yi killed Tan Li with three punches, reducing the True Return Realm powerhouse to blood mist.
• Han Zhongjun offered Xu Yi a recommendation slip that turned out to be a Life Soul Jade Slip, summoning the Giant Rhinoceros of Mountains and Rivers.
• Xu Yi stopped the charging beast with one hand and destroyed it with a palm strike.
• Han Zhongjun attacked with his Divine Embryo, but Xu Yi’s sword killed it and Han Zhongjun’s body collapsed.
• Gong Xian tried to escape using an extraordinary talisman, but Xu Yi seized him with a skeletal hand and erased his field.

Xu Yi killed Gong Xian, confiscated treasures from the cultivators who had gathered to watch, and then visited Shi Erli at the Shi Family estate. He returned Shi Erli’s Starry Sky Ring and reflected that powerful figures like Gong Yushang would not value the wealth he had taken.

• Xu Yi collected the treasures in the hall, including Han Zhongjun’s Sun Moon Shuttle, and confronted Gong Xian.
• Gong Xian appealed to his family’s status and tried to recruit Shi Erli to save him, but Xu Yi declared that his backing was the heavens and killed him with a giant sword.
• Xu Yi ordered the remaining cultivators to surrender their spatial treasures, threatening them until hundreds complied, including Shi Erli.
• At the Shi Family estate, Shi Erli waited for Xu Yi over a banquet and praised his rapid rise to power.
• Xu Yi returned Shi Erli’s Starry Sky Ring and said that powerful figures like Gong Yushang would consider such possessions worthless.

Xu Yi asked Shi Erli how to protect himself from repercussions for killing Gong Xian and Han Zhongjun, and learned about the Northern Continent’s recent developments. After revealing that he had originally smuggled himself from the Northern Continent into the Western Continent, Xu Yi asked Shi Erli to explain what he knew about his homeland.

• Shi Erli warned Xu Yi that the Gong Family and Han Zhongjun’s powerful connections might retaliate, then offered him an official tablet to help secure official status.
• Xu Yi revealed that he already possessed a fourth-rank official seal, and Shi Erli let him keep the tablet after jokingly trying to take it back.
• Xu Yi told Shi Erli he planned to visit the Great World in the Northern Continent before returning to the Western Continent, and Shi Erli warned him about a special force hunting poachers there.
• Xu Yi revealed that he had smuggled himself from the Northern Continent into the Western Continent and intended to visit old friends.
• Shi Erli began explaining that the Northern Continent was a desolate place of exile later used to send cultivators undergoing the Heavenly Decline and gather pure wish power.

Xu Yi learned that Shi Erli’s childhood name matched a prophecy tied to his search for the Sky Lung, but Shi Erli had never heard of it. The three City Lords of Yonghui arrived at the Shi Family estate to confront Xu Yi after his attack on Gong Xian’s estate, leaving negotiations on the verge of conflict.

• Shi Erli explained that the Northern Continent had once been made a land of exile and later declined after the other continents concealed its spatial passages.
• Xu Yi recalled Elder Yu Zhi Qiu’s prophecy and realized that “thirty stones” might refer to Shi Erli.
• Shi Erli revealed that his childhood name was Thirty, and Xu Yi celebrated the apparent match while Shi Erli was pleased at the thought of becoming Xu Yi’s benefactor.
• Shi Erli said he had never heard of the Sky Lung, and Xu Yi could not reconcile that with Elder Yu Zhi Qiu’s account.
• Xu Yi sensed three approaching figures, and the City Lords Huangdan, Bai Ye, and Heifu arrived at the Shi Family estate.
• Huangdan asked whether Xu Yi intended to make an enemy of all Yonghui City, and Xu Yi said their meeting might require a fight; Heifu challenged his confidence.

Xu Yi defeated City Lord Heifu and forced the three City Lords to help him search Yonghui Border Wasteland City for Lu Huo’s descendants. After Heifu handed over a jar containing a juvenile Golden Dragon-Horned Python, Xu Yi left the city.

• Xu Yi shattered Heifu’s Six Lines Net and wounded him with a giant sword, then prepared to strike again.
• Lord Bai Ye used his treasure to destroy Xu Yi’s sword, while City Lord Huangdan urged the others to stop fighting.
• Xu Yi demanded that the City Lords search for Lu Huo’s descendants within an hour or face a fight that could destroy the city.
• Heifu gave Xu Yi a jar containing a sleeping juvenile Golden Dragon-Horned Python, which Xu Yi recognized as having been nourished with Li Tian Hen Shui Jing.
• Xu Yi bid farewell to Shi Erli and departed, and Huangdan warned Shi Erli not to meet him inside the city again.

Xu Yi learned to operate Han Zhongjun's Sun Moon Shuttle and traveled from the Savage Wilderness Realm to Central City in the Northern Continent. He arrived hoping to reunite with Yan Zi and Qiu Wa, but armed guards rushed toward him at the city gate.

• Shi Erli secured Gong Xian's twelve gambling dens after the city lords departed.
• Xu Yi delivered two thousand first-grade beast cores to Black-striped Flood Dragon Shark, then left Lu Huo after promising to repay his spirit wine debt in a month.
• Xu Yi summoned Shi Erli to explain the controls of Han Zhongjun's Sun Moon Shuttle, and Shi Erli gave him a cloak that concealed his aura.
• Xu Yi flew more than thirty million li to the Northern Continent, bought a map, and continued to Central City.
• Xu Yi pinned his Golden Core Society badge to his cloak and approached Central City's northern gate, where two squads of guards charged toward him.

Xu Yi learned that the Great Sun Divine Palace had crushed and outlawed the Golden Core Society, then encountered Ding Tao Ming in Central City and captured him. Ding Tao Ming warned that opposing the Great Sun Divine Palace would end in disaster.

• Xu Yi failed to contact Elder Yu Zhi Qiu, Yan Zi, or his friends, then entered Central City discreetly to investigate.
• Xu Yi discovered that the Great Sun Divine Palace had taken over the Immortal Palace, outlawed the Golden Core Society, and killed three of its Five Founding Elders.
• Xu Yi spotted Ding Tao Ming’s procession and entered his carriage after the attendant reported that an old friend had come to see him.
• Xu Yi subdued Ding Tao Ming with an Origin Seal Bead and questioned him.
• Ding Tao Ming warned Xu Yi that the Great Sun Divine Palace would crush anyone who opposed the tide of events.

Xu Yi questioned Ding Tao Ming about the Great Sun Divine Palace’s war against the Golden Core Society and went with him to a trap in Xuan City. There, Xu Yi recognized Leng Qingzhi among the abused dancers and attacked the man whipping her, leaving the Great Sun Divine Palace’s lords staring at Ding Tao Ming.

• Xu Yi forced Ding Tao Ming to explain that the Great Sun Divine Palace attacked the Golden Core Society over Pill Source and its Heaven’s Will Pills, and that several founding elders had been killed.
• Ding Tao Ming said a trap awaited Elder Yu Zhi Qiu in Xuan City, and Xu Yi insisted on going with him.
• Ding Tao Ming led Xu Yi into an estate where Great Sun Divine Palace lords feasted while Calamity Tribulation Realm dancers performed.
• Xu Yi recognized Leng Qingzhi among the dancers and grew concerned about Yan Zi’s fate.
• When a man in purple robes whipped Leng Qingzhi and ordered the dancers to undress, Xu Yi seized the whip and beat him.
• The Great Sun Divine Palace lords reacted to the sudden attack by turning their attention to Ding Tao Ming.

Xu Yi arrived at the Great Sun Divine Palace and forced its kings to kneel, punishing those who resisted. He learned that Yan Zi was being held by Upper Clarity Yuan Monarch and was expected to be brought to the palace as bait.

• Zhang Chulan recognized Xu Yi as Old Demon Yiling after Xu Yi shattered his saber and revealed his identity.
• Xu Yi struck Broad Sun King down with one slap and killed the long-browed old man when he urged the others to attack.
• Xu Yi ordered the kings to kneel and killed Setting Sun King when he refused, then questioned them about humiliating female cultivators.
• Leng Qingzhi greeted Xu Yi, who rescued her and let her and the other female cultivators leave if they wished.
• Xu Yi questioned Zhang Chulan, who revealed that Upper Clarity Yuan Monarch held Yan Zi and planned to bring her to the palace as bait.

Xu Yi tortured the Kings of Law, then found Yan Zi badly injured and killed Upper Clarity Yuan Monarch after he attacked. The chapter ended with Xu Yi renewing the restriction and tormenting the Kings of Law.

• Xu Yi forced Origin Seal Beads into the Kings of Law, and they writhed in agony until Ding Tao Ming warned him to stop.
• A Dragon-Tiger Beast dragged the battered Yan Zi into the hall, and Ding Tao Ming explained that Upper Clarity Yuan Monarch was using her to lure Elder Yu Zhi Qiu.
• The Dragon-Tiger Beast attacked Xu Yi, who broke its hooves, impaled it with a spear, and roasted it while rushing to save Yan Zi.
• Xu Yi fed Yan Zi a Snow Baby Fruit as Upper Clarity Yuan Monarch arrived and challenged him.
• Xu Yi shattered Upper Clarity Yuan Monarch's flying sword and trampled him to death.
• Xu Yi activated the restriction again, continuing to torment the Kings of Law.