Chapter Summaries

Mr. Su collected a fortune for a plan that brought the gathered cultivators a way to break the formation protecting the palace. Meanwhile, Xu Yi and his companions encountered Monster Hunting Valley and entered despite the danger.

• Zhan Shence silenced the crowd so Mr. Su could explain his plan to break the formation.
• Mr. Su demanded payment and promised that the Ghost Slaying Sect would withdraw from the contest if the plan succeeded.
• The cultivators contacted their sects and Zhuge Family connections, and a Zhuge Family member sent them a counter-Luotian Illusion Formation method.
• Xu Yi and his companions left the Division of Soldiers Pavilion and found the entrance to Monster Hunting Valley.
• Xu Yi declared he would accept the risks and strode through the light gate.

Xu Yi entered the Monster Hunting Valley and learned that it was a Qitian Hall trial where participants earned points by hunting monsters for rewards. After discovering that the top participant who obtained a gold token could claim an Origin Body Pill, he chose to study the valley before risking a fight.

• Xu Yi arrived in a lush valley and sensed the abundant spiritual energy nourishing his body.
• A green object pursued Xu Yi until he let it touch his forehead, revealing the trial rules and identifying the valley as Qitian Hall's trial ground.
• Xu Yi learned that monster tokens were worth different point totals and that participants could exchange accumulated points for rewards.
• Xu Yi discovered that the highest-scoring participant who obtained a gold token could exchange it for an Origin Body Pill refined by Qitian Hall's master.
• Xu Yi decided not to rush into the valley and climbed an ancient pine to consult the Myriad Treasures Compendium.

Xu Yi discovered that the Origin Body Pill could grant a Transcendent Realm cultivator an Origin Embryo Body, then studied the realm’s stages while waiting inside Monster Hunting Valley. Outside, Zhuge Zhengwo rallied the hesitant cultivators into swearing to cooperate, but their agreement was interrupted by a bizarre arrival led by Elder Sun.

• Xu Yi read about the Origin Body Pill and memorized the stages of the Transcendent Realm, while concluding that the monsters could not cross into the bright area where he waited.
• Xu Yi sensed powerful auras beyond the boundary, but the monsters did not attack and the auras soon dispersed.
• Zhuge Zhengwo persuaded the gathered cultivators that turning back would endanger their cultivation prospects and urged them to unite against the trials ahead.
• The cultivators, including Mu Feng, Jiang Cheng, and Zhang Liufeng, swore a Heart Oath to cooperate and share the treasures in Monster Hunting Valley.
• Elder Sun led a flock of Mechanical Birds toward the group with disciples following, while more than a dozen at the rear suddenly spat blood and fell from their mounts.

Demons learned that humans had returned to their prison-like world and received orders to prepare for war, while Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi schemed to control access to the Tomb of Desire. They entered Monster Hunting Valley but found themselves rejected by its barrier, leaving them searching for a way through.

• Tiger Spirit summoned the demons and reported that humans had appeared in the forbidden zone, prompting the demons to learn that Ten Thousand Demon Valley was a human hunting ground and that the Mind Restriction had vanished.
• The giant eagle explained that the Demon Venerable hoped to free the demons from their prison with spatial arts, and Tiger Spirit delivered the Great King's orders to attack humans without drinking their blood.
• Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi joined forces, completed the Sky Locking Earth Trapping Formation, and kept Mu Shentong, War Son of Heaven, Fan Mo Ke, and King Jiang Bai outside the divine hall.
• Zhuge Divine Sense opened a passage for cultivators below the Soul Sensing Realm, intending to use them to search the Tomb of Desire, and he and Yao Junchi entered the light curtain.
• Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi tried to enter Monster Hunting Valley but were repeatedly thrown back, while people they carried passed through; Yao Junchi suggested sealing their cultivation and trying again.

Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi failed to enter the Void Divine Palace and lost their precious formation, so they tried to lure the other cultivators into helping them deal with a Cloud Swallowing Beast. Zhuge Divine Sense refused to let the others in without guarantees, leaving the group arguing over whether to cooperate.

• Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi were flung out of the palace entrance after their plan failed, and Zhuge Divine Sense mourned the loss of his formation and two supreme-grade formation stones.
• Yao Junchi proposed recovering Zhuge Divine Sense's losses by targeting the treasure vault they had passed, and Zhuge Divine Sense renewed his Heart Oath to share thirty percent of their gains.
• The two Old Ancestors rushed back to the main hall and warned the juniors not to enter, claiming a Cloud Swallowing Beast was inside.
• Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi argued over whether they could kill the beast themselves, prompting War Son of Heaven, Fan Mo Ke, King Jiang Bai, and Mu Shentong to offer their help.
• Zhuge Divine Sense rejected War Son of Heaven's offer to share the immortal opportunity, refusing to trust the four men without a firm agreement.

Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi persuaded War Son of Heaven and the others to pay for entry into the divine hall, then led them to Monster Hunting Valley, where nobody could enter. Fan Mo Ke exposed their likely deception but unexpectedly urged the others to accept the payment as worthwhile, leaving his motives unclear.

• Yao Junchi urged War Son of Heaven, Fan Mo Ke, King Jiang Bai, and Mu Shentong to pool treasures for passage, and they swore Heart Oaths before entering the divine hall.
• Zhuge Divine Sense accepted the treasures, reopened the formation for juniors, and led the group toward the Tomb of Desire.
• Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi brought the group to Monster Hunting Valley, but all six failed to pass through its curtain of light.
• Mu Shentong accused Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi of deceiving them, while Fan Mo Ke proposed separately questioning them about the Cloud Swallowing Beast.
• Fan Mo Ke then waved away the need for questioning and said the payment for passage had been worthwhile.

After the divine hall party set aside their grievances, Zhuge Divine Sense began searching for a way through its restrictions. Xu Yi entered the trial under a false identity and joined three participants, whose quarrels and deference to powerful families threatened to delay their search for the treasures in Monster Hunting Valley.

• Fan Mo Ke persuaded the group to cooperate, and Zhuge Divine Sense apologized before organizing a search for weaknesses in the formation.
• Xu Yi recognized Zhuge Yu when she appeared in his perception field, then watched as Hong Chuji and Chen Shaohua arrived and received their trial plaques.
• Xu Yi disguised himself as Northwest Azure Wolf Xue Lao San and approached the others, hoping to blend in.
• Hong Chuji threatened Chen Shaohua, then apologized after learning he belonged to the Yongzhou Chen Family.
• Xu Yi urged the group to stop arguing and head for Monster Hunting Valley before other teams claimed its treasures.

Xu Yi joined Zhuge Yu, Chen Shaohua, and Hong Chuji in Monster Hunting Valley, where the group collected cinnabar fruits while Zhuge Yu used her charm to secure Chen Shaohua’s loyalty. Their search was interrupted when Shanshan Buddha’s team arrived, and a member of that team claimed the fruit and insulted Zhuge Yu.

• Zhuge Yu, Chen Shaohua, and Hong Chuji agreed to make Zhuge Yu their leader and divide the spoils, assigning Xu Yi the smallest share before sending him into the forest first.
• Xu Yi picked a cinnabar fruit and noticed signs that the tree might be bait, then gave the fruit to Zhuge Yu, who claimed she would hold the treasures until they left.
• Zhuge Yu used her charm to calm Chen Shaohua when he objected to her keeping the team’s treasures, and Xu Yi sensed strange currents around them.
• The group collected a second cinnabar fruit and continued through the forest, finding abundant plants and unusually large animals.
• Hong Chuji blocked Shanshan Buddha’s team from reaching a third cinnabar fruit, but a man with Shanshan Buddha stepped forward, took it, and insulted Zhuge Yu.

Xu Yi and the others learned that the red-robed dwarf was a surviving member of the Shang family, who used an Azure Moon Horn to understand monsters and search for Precious Medicine. After Chen Shaohua and Zhuge Yu followed him, his guard Zuo Xin revealed his identity as the King of Assassins and threatened the Chen family.

• Zuo Xin demonstrated Dragon River Three Waves, and Hong Chuji recognized his Late Condensing Liquid Realm cultivation.
• The red-robed dwarf revealed that he could understand the Green-eyed Toad and make it disclose clues about Precious Medicine.
• Chen Shaohua identified the dwarf as a descendant of the Shang family, and the dwarf claimed upright sects had destroyed his family to steal its secret arts.
• The dwarf found another fruit tree while Chen Shaohua and Zhuge Yu followed him.
• Zuo Xin threatened Chen Shaohua and revealed his identity as the King of Assassins, prompting Hong Chuji to recognize him.

Xu Yi forced Merchant and Zuo Xin to let him travel with them, bringing Zhuge Yu, Chen Shaohua, and Hong Chuji along. The group found another Vermilion Fruit tree, but Hong Chuji destroyed its fruit, leaving Zuo Xin and Merchant furious as the standoff continued.

• Chen Shaohua and Hong Chuji withdrew after Zuo Xin intimidated them, but Xu Yi refused to leave.
• Xu Yi claimed he did not care if he died and insisted that Zhuge Yu, Chen Shaohua, and Hong Chuji join the group.
• Zuo Xin threatened Xu Yi with a dragon of Killing Intent, then deliberately let it pass him rather than risk violating the trial token’s restrictions.
• Merchant reluctantly allowed everyone to come along, and Chen Shaohua praised Xu Yi while Hong Chuji mocked him.
• The group found another Vermilion Fruit tree, but Hong Chuji used a sword of qi to destroy the fruit before Zuo Xin could claim it.
• Zuo Xin and Merchant raged at Hong Chuji, who fell silent as the standoff held.

The group followed Master Shang to a valley of golden fruit, where poisonous rain and flying monsters revealed a deadly ambush. As they tried to escape, hundreds of monsters closed in from every side.

• Master Shang agreed to give Zhuge Yu's group twenty percent of the profits, then revealed that he possessed a rare treasure connected to the Shang family.
• Zhuge Yu accepted the share, and the group followed Master Shang southeast to a sunken valley filled with fruit trees.
• As the group rushed toward the fruit, a blue shadow fled and poisonous raindrops burned through the people below.
• Zhuge Yu spotted a Flying Centipede, but two white cranes swept her Star Sand back toward the group.
• The Green-eyed Toad exploded in Master Shang's face, and hundreds of spiders, snake scorpions, toads, and poison bees surrounded the group as they summoned their Mechanical Birds.

Several hundred demons ambushed the party in the hollow valley, killing most of them while Shanshan Buddha escaped by crushing his trial token. Xu Yi watched from the forest, unmoved by the deaths and astonished by the demons’ strength, as the demons dispersed to pursue another task.

• The demons unleashed a rain of poisonous attacks on the group before they could organize or get their Mechanical Birds moving.
• Hong Chuji died, and the Companion Snake Scorpion devoured his soul; Sun Shaohua tried to save Zhuge Yu but was overwhelmed by poisonous attacks.
• A Seven-Colored Ghost-faced Spider and a Poisonous Bee killed Zhuge Yu, whose trial token turned to ash.
• Shanshan Buddha regrouped with the red-robed dwarf and the gray-robed old man, then crushed his trial token and escaped despite losing an arm.
• The red-robed dwarf and the gray-robed old man died under the demons’ attacks, while Xu Yi watched from the forest without sympathy.
• The demons scattered at the calls of their four leaders, and Xu Yi was left astonished by their combat strength.

Xu Yi retrieved the Azure Moon Horn from the battlefield and used it to understand the Demon Race, only to discover two demons had set a trap for him. He killed both demons and fled northwest before their companions could arrive.

• Xu Yi waited until the demons left, then collected five Sumeru Rings and recovered the Azure Moon Horn from the red-robed dwarf.
• After placing the horn in his mouth, Xu Yi understood the Demon Race language and learned that the Colorful Poison Bee and Seven-colored Ghost-faced Spider Demon had used the rings as bait.
• Xu Yi surprised the Colorful Poison Bee with the small crimson sword and killed it, surviving its antennae without serious injury.
• Xu Yi dodged the spider demon's webbing, struck its face with sword needles, and captured its falling body in a Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi sensed the spider demon calling for help and flew northwest at full speed.

Xu Yi recovered in an abandoned demon burrow and planned how to secure a boundary token and escape Great Yue through the Dark Mountain. He concluded that Precious Medicine would be the most valuable wealth to carry into the outside world and resolved to gather as much as he could.

• Xu Yi fled a swarm of Seven-colored Ghost-faced Spider Demons and hid in an empty burrow to recover.
• Xu Yi considered the boundary tokens and decided he needed one to pass safely through the Dark Mountain.
• Xu Yi reflected on the richer spiritual energy and stronger demons beyond Great Yue and hoped the outside world could cure the Vengeful Embryo in his Qi Sea.
• Xu Yi assessed which goods would retain the most value outside Great Yue and chose Precious Medicine over crafted items.
• Xu Yi viewed Great Yue and Monster Hunting Valley as stores of wealth and planned to fill his Sumeru Ring with Precious Medicine.

After defeating the demons, Xu Yi collected their valuables and discovered golden pills that transformed his body into a towering, hairy, ape-like form. The chapter left him struggling to adapt to his new shape and damaged equipment while keeping his belongings concealed.

• Xu Yi removed two black plaques from the Demon Corpses, found hidden fruit on the spider demon, and opened five Sumeru Rings.
• Xu Yi counted twenty-one rare fruits and assessed the value of the demons and their loot.
• Xu Yi examined the red-robed dwarf's possessions and found six golden pills alongside an experimental journal and other items.
• Xu Yi swallowed one golden pill, and his body painfully grew larger and became covered in black hair as his features changed.
• Xu Yi struggled to remove or secure his equipment, found the Divine Sword Capturing Dragon unusable, and retied the Geng Essence iron box beneath his arm.

Xu Yi discovered that the pill’s beastly transformation came from surging qi and blood and could be controlled by the Still Water Art, while granting immense strength. He pieced together the Bone Burst Pill’s history and the red-robed dwarf’s origins, leaving the Shang family’s revenge scheme exposed as a failure.

• Xu Yi used the Still Water Art to calm his qi and blood, making his coarse body hair disappear, then stopped and watched it return.
• Xu Yi struck the stone ground and left a huge crater, realizing the pill had greatly strengthened his body by stimulating his qi and blood.
• The Shang family developed the Bone Burst Pill to imitate a great demon’s strength, but early users died and a later transformed disciple killed nine Liquid Condensation experts.
• Several clans seized the pills, lost their disciples, and concealed the disaster by branding the Bone Burst Pill a demonic poison.
• The red-robed dwarf’s ancestor survived the Shang family’s destruction, learned to use the pill by compressing his body, and passed the method on to the dwarf.
• The red-robed dwarf transformed to survive Monster Hunting Valley, recruited Shanshan Buddha and the old man in the kudzu robe, and died before he could use the pill again to escape.

Xu Yi used his demonlike body and a stolen Green Token to disguise himself among the Demon Race, then followed a familiar figure fleeing a battle. He blocked three human cultivators, allowing four great demons to surround them, and the last cultivator, a white-robed woman, lost her Trial Token to a Companion Snake Scorpion.

• Xu Yi realized his beastlike body and the Azure Moon Horn could help him infiltrate the demon caves and find the Precious Medicine.
• Xu Yi killed an enormous pig demon, took its Green Token, and stowed its body in his Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi watched Ming Shenzong and a group of cultivators battle more than a hundred demons before the humans fled in scattered directions.
• Xu Yi pursued a familiar figure and landed in front of three fleeing human cultivators, letting four great demons catch up and surround them.
• Two cultivators crushed their Trial Tokens and vanished, while a Companion Snake Scorpion snatched the white-robed woman's token and claimed it wanted half her body as a reward.

Xu Yi used a number puzzle to distract four great demons, then killed them and gave the white-robed woman her trial token, armor, and two black iron tokens. The woman fled with enough tokens to qualify for the Reward Palace, while Xu Yi disappeared.

• The white-robed woman posed the demons a climbing-snake puzzle, captivating all four great demons as they tried to solve it.
• Xu Yi secretly killed the Companion Snake Scorpion and the Green-eyed Toad with his Crimson Short Sword.
• Xu Yi smashed the Giant-horned Spotted Leopard's skull and tore the fleeing Two-headed Centipede in two.
• Xu Yi gathered the four Demon Corpses, intercepted the fleeing woman, returned her trial token, and offered her black armor in exchange for a smile.
• Xu Yi vanished after giving the woman two black iron tokens, and she collected her rewards and fled toward safety.

Xu Yi disguised himself as a demon and joined a squad led by the pink rabbit, hoping to move unnoticed while searching for opportunities. The squad returned to Tiger Venerate County, where the demons gathered around loaded food boats.

• Xu Yi left Xue Zihan and transformed into a clumsy demon with a Green Token.
• The pink rabbit mistook Xu Yi for a stray soldier and assigned him to her squad with a hedgehog, a leopard, and an eagle.
• The pink rabbit led her squad through the forest, where they found no humans, then returned to Tiger Venerate County.
• Demons mocked the pink rabbit when she entered the valley, and she led her squad to their cave.
• A squad led by a giant gray bear brought three wooden boats, and the pink rabbit ordered the demons to line up for food.

Xu Yi joined the Pink Rabbit’s demon squad as they entered the West Foot Mountain Range, where they clashed with a human cultivator squad. After the fat pig hedgehog sacrificed itself to save Xu Yi, the bald-tailed eagle and frail old leopard rushed into danger to protect him.

• Xu Yi fed the three demons under his command and watched the Pink Rabbit argue with the Great Grey Bear about leading her troops into battle.
• A horn sounded, and the Pink Rabbit led her squad into the West Foot Mountain Range with a red token from the Great Grey Bear.
• The Pink Rabbit’s squad encountered more than thirty human cultivators, including early Condensing Liquid powerhouses, and she ordered her demons to attack.
• Xu Yi tried to flee, but three Qi Sea Realm martial artists surrounded him and attacked; the fat pig hedgehog blocked their blow and told him to run.
• A human martial artist struck off the fat pig hedgehog’s head, but Xu Yi used his ability to retrieve its body and beast token.
• The human cultivators renewed their attack on Xu Yi, and the bald-tailed eagle and frail old leopard raced to help him into a burst of peak Sword Qi.