Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi faced seven powerful demon cultivators who destroyed his defensive formation while he refined the Heaven Wish Beads for his Ninth Lightning Tribulation. Huang Mei intervened to protect him, and Xu Yi used the crisis to complete a master-servant bond before sending Huang Mei into the Starry Sky Ring.

• The seven demon cultivators broke Xu Yi’s defenses and prepared to attack while he was still refining the Heaven Wish Beads.
• Xu Yi summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword and desperately called on Gourd Master and Golden Crow Old Ancestor for help, but neither answered.
• Huang Mei burst from Xu Yi’s arms and trapped the seven attackers in a sealed space with his Corpse Mist Demon Barrage.
• The yellow-haired leader turned his corpse energy into demonic miasma and began breaking through Huang Mei’s barricade.
• Xu Yi opened his eyes, drew blood from Huang Mei, completed their master-servant bond, and sent him into the Starry Sky Ring.

Xu Yi endured the Ninth Tribulation of Lightning while the heavens inexplicably shielded him, astonishing Huang Mei and the corpse cultivators pursuing him. As the tribulation continued, Xu Yi used the purified Heavenly Will to deepen his techniques, while the pursuers decided to attack him after he survived.

• Xu Yi tried to flee as dark clouds gathered and the middle-aged man with yellow hair and the others emerged from the sealed corpse-dominion space.
• The pursuers recognized that Xu Yi faced an unusually powerful Ninth Tribulation of Lightning and feared what he might become if he survived.
• Purple clouds formed an energy shield around Xu Yi, prompting the onlookers to call him an illegitimate child favored by Heaven.
• Xu Yi withstood the lightning, replenished his body with spiritual liquid, tempered the Immortal Slaying Sword, and focused on the clear Heavenly Will to expand his Nine Clear Wind Swords and deduce other models.
• After nearly an hour of repeated lightning strikes, the black-haired elder suggested retreating, but the middle-aged man with yellow hair insisted they attack Xu Yi while he was still at his weakest.

After surviving the lightning tribulation, Xu Yi fought seven powerful cultivators who trapped him with a spirit-infused sea. He broke free and unleashed his many defenses, but the yellow-haired man’s golden whip shattered them all.

• Xu Yi emerged from the lightning tribulation in the Upper Corpse stage and repelled the seven cultivators’ opening attack with an Unreasonable Point.
• Xu Yi attacked with the Immortal Slaying Sword and the Nine Clear Wind Swords, briefly forcing the group onto the defensive.
• The six three-seed cultivators infused the seawater with spirit to create a water monster, overwhelming Xu Yi and trapping him in walls of water.
• Xu Yi unleashed the Spirit Official Three Lives Aspect and broke free, then surrounded himself with an array of divine abilities and defenses.
• The yellow-haired man summoned a golden whip and shattered Xu Yi’s defenses, including the Mountain River Seal, with a single lash.

Xu Yi survived the God-Beating Whip and turned the tables on the seven Dao Lord-level powerhouses with his evolved sword techniques and their own treasure. After the metal gourd’s blade Qi killed the attackers, Xu Yi acquired a wisp of Dragon of Fortune.

• Xu Yi blocked the yellow-haired middle-aged man's whip strike with a strand of hair from his fetal light, then lured the Gold Whip into a radiant gate and weakened its wielder.
• Xu Yi summoned the Spirit Official Three Lives Aspect and Immortal Slaying Sword, using his newly expanded Twenty-One Clear Wind Swords to overwhelm the six protectors.
• The yellow-haired middle-aged man and the other six pooled their corpse aura to activate a metallic gourd and unleash a deadly white beam at Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi's Dark Gourd stopped the beam, and he commanded it to turn around, killing the yellow-haired middle-aged man and decapitating the other six.
• Huang Mei emerged from the Starry Sky Ring, identified the captured golden wisp as a Dragon of Fortune, and began devouring the corpse aura.

Xu Yi survived the ambush, suspected Demon Lord Han and Song Yuan of arranging it, and contacted Zhang Fang to turn him against Han Qi. Zhang Fang refused to help Xu Yi and wanted to see him and Han Qi fight.

• Xu Yi argued with Old Desolate about their binding spell and took the Four-Colored Seal after the light gate changed form.
• Xu Yi deduced that Demon Lord Han likely ordered the ambush because Han Bing's death had given him a grudge.
• Xu Yi contacted Elder Gong and learned that Song Yuan had resigned from the Imperial Observatory and gone into seclusion, strengthening Xu Yi's suspicion that Song Yuan had helped track him.
• Xu Yi identified Zhang Fang's contact symbol among the Ruyi Pearls and contacted him, proposing that Han Qi was the one he should blame.
• Zhang Fang admitted he hated Han Qi but refused to help Xu Yi, saying he wanted to watch Xu Yi and Han Qi fight.

Xu Yi tried to refine Heavenly Dao seeds into Corpse Xu Yi after preparing in seclusion, but the fire seed was the only one the corpse could absorb. He ended the chapter alarmed that this unexpected repulsion would prevent him from balancing the five elements and advancing toward becoming an Earth Immortal.

• Xu Yi failed to persuade Zhang Fang to help him, and Zhang Fang ended their communication by saying he hoped Xu Yi and Han Qi would kill each other.
• Xu Yi rested in a temporary cave dwelling, then prepared thirteen Heavenly Dao seeds for refining.
• Xu Yi and Corpse Xu Yi refined the five elemental seeds together, but only the fire seed entered the corpse.
• Xu Yi tried refining the remaining seeds together and one at a time, but the corpse rejected every seed.
• Xu Yi formed another set of five elements and began refining again, but the corpse absorbed a second fire seed, leaving Xu Yi panicked about his path to becoming an Earth Immortal.

After the Fire Element Seeds awakened a dormant cultivation art, Xu Yi learned about the Barren Frontier and restored the Gold Whip, claiming it as the God-Beating Whip. He then broke down a metallic-colored gourd and recognized its likely connection to other supreme gourd treasures from his past.

• Desolate Charm explained that Xu Yi's mutant fire spiritual root might have caused the Fire Element Seed's strange change, while Xu Yi refused to swallow his remaining seeds.
• After Xu Yi gave Desolate Charm a Heaven Wish Bead, Desolate Charm shared what the six seed cultivators knew about the Barren Frontier, an enclave said to hold the Southern Continent's ultimate secret.
• Xu Yi remembered his jade token granting him permission to observe an immortal tribulation, then sensed a cultivation art return to his mind after refining the Fire Element Seeds.
• Xu Yi entered the Purple Domain Space and restored the Gold Whip, keeping its Purple Heavenly Spirit while removing its former owner's personal marks.
• Xu Yi identified the restored treasure as the God-Beating Whip and broke down the metallic-colored gourd, suspecting it was connected to the gold and purple gourds from the Guangcheng Immortal Mansion.

Xu Yi escaped Zhang Fang’s attack and learned that Zhang Fang and Han Qi had planned to ambush him, but he had arranged for Demon Lord Xie and other powerful witnesses to arrive. The trap was exposed, leaving Zhang Fang furious and Han Qi caught before the gathered elders.

• Huang Mei told Xu Yi that the gourds only held blade-light obtained from a Five-Complete Sage, and Xu Yi kept Zhang Fang’s God-Beating Whip because he could not use it.
• Xu Yi emerged from the passage and found Zhang Fang waiting to attack him alongside Han Qi, who blamed Xu Yi for Han Bing’s death.
• Han Qi and Zhang Fang explained that they had joined forces after Zhang Fang reported Xu Yi’s earlier attempt to recruit him.
• Demon Lord Xie arrived with four Golden Hall Elders and three Demon Lords’ stewards, stopping the two attacks with a wall of clear light.
• Zhang Fang realized Xu Yi had deceived him, while Xu Yi acted aggrieved before the witnesses.
• Xu Yi revealed that he had arranged a banquet and distributed Heaven Wish Beads to bring the witnesses to Snowfield Peak.

Xu Yi used a staged apology to expose Han Qi’s attempt to kill him and force Demon Lord Xie to intervene. Han Qi withdrew under warning, furious and humiliated, while Zhang Fang fled in fear of Xu Yi’s growing power.

• Xu Yi asked the elders and Demon Lord Xie to accompany him to apologize to Han Qi, then went alone to Han Qi’s cave dwelling.
• Han Qi and Zhang Fang attacked Xu Yi, but Demon Lord Xie intervened before they could kill him.
• Xu Yi accused Han Qi, Zhang Fang, and Song Yuan of conspiring against him and explained Han Bing’s death had not been his fault.
• Xu Yi charged at Zhang Fang, while Demon Lord Xie warned Han Qi not to let the conflict escalate or risk bringing it before the Imperial Venerate.
• Han Qi returned to his cave dwelling, seething over his humiliation, while Zhang Fang feared Xu Yi’s strengthened Thunderbolt Sword.

Xu Yi defeated Zhang Fang and tried to force information from him, but Zhang Fang endured torture and the Chiwu Worm without yielding. After consulting interrogation experts, Xu Yi began using a strategy that balanced despair with hope, while Zhang Fang remained bound and regretted not striking Xu Yi with his whip a second time.

• Xu Yi combined Sword Frenzy and Sword Python to break Zhang Fang's defenses and bring him down with the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Xu Yi took Zhang Fang to his cave abode and tortured him, but Zhang Fang refused to reveal anything or beg for mercy.
• Xu Yi sent Huang Mei's Chiwu Worm into Zhang Fang's spiritual platform, but Zhang Fang endured its attack on his corpse aura without speaking.
• Huang Mei advised Xu Yi to stop pressing Zhang Fang and to draw knowledge from him gradually, so Xu Yi gathered interrogation experts for advice.
• Xu Yi followed their advice by setting a brazier before Zhang Fang and asking for his last words, while Zhang Fang said he regretted not striking again with the whip.

Xu Yi outmaneuvered Zhang Fang in a wager, then demanded the God-Beating Whip’s cultivation method and questioned him about the Barren Frontier. Zhang Fang explained that it offered a chance to advance beyond the limits imposed by the Four Continents, leaving Xu Yi with a new understanding of the worlds’ boundaries.

• Xu Yi provoked Zhang Fang into wagering that one fight would decide their dispute, then freed him and returned the God-Beating Whip.
• Zhang Fang caught the whip, but Xu Yi’s Immortal Slaying Sword defeated him before he could use it, breaking the restriction he had nurtured for a hundred years.
• Zhang Fang honored his loss by writing down the God-Beating Whip’s cultivation method for Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi asked Zhang Fang about the Barren Frontier, and Zhang Fang said it was a place people went when they reached the limits of cultivation elsewhere.
• Zhang Fang explained that limited resources and those who controlled them created boundaries between worlds, prompting Xu Yi to grasp why advancement required moving beyond the Four Continents.

Xu Yi let Zhang Fang go after discussing the Barren Frontier and the danger posed by Han Qi, then hurried to meet Xiong Bei Ming on Dongliu Island. Meanwhile, Han Qi used a costly forbidden formation to summon his dead son Han Bing’s remnant spirit, which appeared confused as Han Qi asked who had killed him.

• Xu Yi asked Zhang Fang whether anyone had contained two seeds of the same element, then dismissed him after Zhang Fang warned him about Han Qi.
• Zhang Fang sent Xu Yi a final warning that Han Qi’s power exceeded what an ordinary four-seed cultivator could wield.
• Xu Yi prepared to study the Ding Yuan Technique, but Xiong Bei Ming contacted him from Dongliu Island, prompting Xu Yi to hurry there.
• Song Yuan performed the Circulating Star Position Spirit Gathering Forbidden Method at Snow Ridge so Han Qi could summon Han Bing’s remnant spirit.
• Han Qi used his heart’s blood to stabilize Han Bing’s spirit and asked his son who had harmed him.

Han Qi questioned Song Yuan after Han Bing's remnant soul named Xu, then killed him to keep their suspicions secret. Xu Yi reached Dongliu Island and reunited with Xiong Bei Ming, Old Cao, and Ning Wuque.

• Han Qi used a recording of Han Bing's death to restore the remnant soul's memories, and it formed the character "Xu" before fading away.
• Song Yuan suggested that Xu Yi had conspired with Plum Blossom Seven to kill Han Bing, and Han Qi killed Song Yuan to ensure the theory stayed secret.
• Han Qi collected Song Yuan's remains and resources, then left to pursue his plans against Xu Yi alone.
• Xu Yi arrived on Dongliu Island and found Xiong Bei Ming, who had advanced to the Purple Corpse stage.
• Xu Yi greeted Old Cao and Ning Wuque in a cave, where Ning Wuque said he had repaid his debt to Xu Yi through helping Xuan Xuan.

Xu Yi used the Four-Colored Seal to temporarily remove Ning Wuque’s scales, but they returned outside Purple Domain Space. Old Desolate identified the change as Heaven’s Will drawing a Mysterious Monster to another world, and Xu Yi left questioning why Heaven’s Will favored the Demon Race.

• Xu Yi examined Ning Wuque’s painful, regularly growing scales, then took him into Purple Domain Space with the Four-Colored Seal, where his skin returned to normal.
• Xu Yi hosted Ning Wuque, Gold Corpse Old Cao, and Xiong Bei Ming on Dongliu Island, but Ning Wuque’s scales started growing again when the sunlight shifted.
• Xu Yi sent Ning Wuque back into Purple Domain Space, where the scales vanished again, then watched them return after the space collapsed and noon passed.
• Old Desolate said Ning Wuque was a Mysterious Monster being claimed by Heaven’s Will, and Xu Yi recalled that Qiu Wa and A Li had disappeared in the same way.
• Xu Yi took Ning Wuque to Northern Continent World and Northern Sacred Court, where the noon transformation repeated, confirming Old Desolate’s theory and leaving Xu Yi doubtful about Heaven’s Will favoring the Demon Race.

Xu Yi studied the first level of the Ding Yuan Technique and used a Starry Sky Illusion Plate to gather stellar power for days. When Ning Wuque’s scales nearly covered him, Xu Yi removed them in Purple Domain Space, but his companions rushed Ning Wuque away before he could finish complaining.

• Ning Wuque refused to leave alone for a higher world, and Xu Yi agreed to stay with him as they returned to the Northern Continent World with Xiong Bei Ming and Gold Corpse Old Cao.
• The four settled on a deserted island, where Xu Yi focused on studying the Ding Yuan Technique’s Body Fixation level.
• Xiong Bei Ming gave Xu Yi the Starry Sky Illusion Plate to help keep the Starry River Channel open, and Xu Yi gave the others wish beads and other supplies.
• Xu Yi used the plate to gather stellar power for four days while Ning Wuque’s scales spread across his body.
• Xu Yi took Ning Wuque into Purple Domain Space and removed the scales, after which Xiong Bei Ming and Gold Corpse Old Cao carried Ning Wuque away.

Xu Yi mastered the Immobilization Technique but found it did not work as expected, while Ning Wuque’s condition worsened and he prepared to give up. After sensing a powerful search sweeping the sky, Xu Yi fled with the others and concluded that Ning’s celestial opportunity could not be avoided.

• Xu Yi gathered starlight until a phantom mountain appeared in his sea of consciousness, then discovered that his Immobilization Technique could only briefly freeze Xiong Bei Ming.
• Over nearly three months, Xu Yi refined the God-Beating Whip while Ning Wuque’s scales spread faster and letters urged Xu Yi to return to the Ancestral Court and the Church.
• Ning Wuque said he would stop resisting his fate, but Xu Yi suddenly took the group away in a flying vessel.
• Brother Zhang and Brother Li searched for a strange Mysterious Monster on Silver Venerable’s orders and planned to resume their hunt when the Heavenly Net Demon Hunting Array reactivated.
• Xu Yi told Xiong Bei Ming that he had sensed a powerful search force and brought everyone to the Purple Domain Space to avoid being found.
• Ning Wuque laughed and declared that his opportunity had come, promising to reward or punish Xiong Bei Ming and Gold Corpse Old Cao after they met again.

Xu Yi and his companions planned to use the next attack on Ning Wuque to learn more about the search party and Ning Wuque’s destination. When the searchers returned, Xu Yi hid the others and posed as a fisherman, but one of the cultivators noticed him and descended to question him despite Brother Li’s warning.

• Xu Yi agreed to help Ning Wuque investigate the search party, and planned to use its next attack as a signal to hide Ning Wuque, Xiong Bei Ming, and Gold Corpse Old Cao.
• At noon, Ning Wuque began transforming, and Xu Yi used the Four-Colored Seal to send Ning Wuque and his companions away while he stayed behind disguised as a lowly cultivator.
• Xu Yi pretended to fish by the pond and overheard two searchers discussing how their Heavenly Net Demon Hunting Array had lost Ning Wuque’s trail again.
• One searcher spotted Xu Yi and decided to question him, while Brother Li urgently warned Brother Zhang to return before Silver Venerable learned of his actions.

Xu Yi lured Brother Zhang and Brother Li to a cave by pretending to know where a treasure anomaly had appeared. Inside, Ning Wuque trapped Brother Zhang with the Four-Colored Seal, while Brother Li remained outside the light gate, realizing they had walked into a trap and broken their realm-en envoy rules.

• Brother Zhang ignored Brother Li's warnings, took Xu Yi's food and wine, and demanded to know about unusual events nearby.
• Brother Li arrived, gave Xu Yi a black wish pearl, and took him with Brother Zhang to investigate a cave west of the pond.
• Xu Yi led the two men to the cave, where they found Ning Wuque deep in the passage.
• Brother Zhang seized Ning Wuque, but corpse aura activated the Four-Colored Seal and pulled both of them through a light gate.
• The Immortal Slaying Sword failed to pierce Brother Li, who released Xu Yi and retreated, recognizing that they had fallen into a trap.

Xu Yi’s ambush to capture the Immortal Envoys went awry when Brother Li resisted his attacks and outmatched him with a silver saber and purple binding rope. Xu Yi ended the chapter injured and bound, while Brother Zhang’s fate remained unclear.

• Xu Yi sent the Four-Colored Seal into the cave, trusting Ning Wuque, Xiong Bei Ming, and Gold Corpse Old Cao to deal with Brother Zhang.
• Xu Yi attacked Brother Li with the Immortal Slaying Sword, but Brother Li easily shattered his sword moves and tried to talk him down.
• Xu Yi stalled Brother Li by claiming he only wanted the person Brother Li was taking away, and Brother Li showed him a green three-leaf clover.
• Xu Yi struck with the God-Beating Whip, but Brother Li blocked it with his Silver Saber, and the clash split the mountain overhead.
• Brother Li countered with a purple rope that pierced Xu Yi’s Unreasonable Point and bound him fast.

Xu Yi broke free from Brother Li’s restraints by using his aspects to perceive and sever them, then killed Brother Li with the God-Beating Whip. His allies arrived after the fight, and Xu Yi explained that using his powerful techniques had nearly shattered his divine embryo and drained his vitality.

• Huang Mei escaped from Xu Yi’s Starry Sky Ring and stole it while Brother Li confronted Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi manifested the Wrathful Chi Ape Aspect and the Spirit Official Three Lives Aspect, sensed the ropes binding him, and broke them with starlight.
• Xu Yi immobilized Brother Li twice and struck him with the God-Beating Whip, destroying his body; Huang Mei swallowed the spreading corpse energy.
• Huang Mei fed Xu Yi Precious Medicine and spiritual liquid, and Xiong Bei Ming gave him two All-Purpose Great Tonic Pills to restore his strength.
• Ning Wuque told Xu Yi that Xiong Bei Ming and Old Cao had captured Brother Zhang using Dragon Binding Rope and Three Yang Nails.
• Xu Yi explained that his techniques had nearly destroyed his divine embryo and drained his vitality, and that he had killed Brother Li because he had been fighting for his life.