Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi negotiated with the six Old Ancestors to trade his boundary token for treasures, asking them to swear a Heart Oath to protect his life. After Zhou Daogan raised suspicions that Xu Yi had another token, Xu Yi proposed a limited oath covering only their time in the hall.

• Xu Yi asked the six Old Ancestors to swear a Heart Oath not to harm him after the exchange.
• Zhou Daogan argued that Xu Yi might possess another boundary token and urged the Old Ancestors not to grant him too many advantages.
• Xu Yi asked Zhou Daogan whether he had ever seen him take more than one token, exposing that Zhou's claim was only speculation.
• Xu Yi warned that killing him could destroy the token and doom the Old Ancestors' chance to break the Cloud Prisoner Formation and reach the divine hall.
• The War Son of Heaven rebuked Zhou Daogan, while Zhuge Divine Sense revived doubts about Xu Yi's Sumeru Ring.
• Xu Yi proposed that the Old Ancestors swear not to trouble him while they remained in the hall, leaving his fate after they departed to chance.

Xu Yi traded his Boundary Plaque to the six Old Ancestors, demanding healing medicine and rare materials in return. After rejecting several offers, he chose Mu Shentong’s box, which held a Leaking Pill and Taiyi Divine Wood.

• Xu Yi made the six Old Ancestors swear a Heart Oath not to harm him, then proposed trading his Boundary Plaque for powerful healing medicine and rare materials.
• Xu Yi gave each Ancestor a box and asked them to submit their offers privately.
• Zhuge Divine Sense offered Top-grade Essence Restoration Pills and spiritual soil, while King Jiang Bai offered ten million in gold notes; Xu Yi rejected both offers.
• Xu Yi inspected the other boxes and found a Leaking Pill and a piece of Taiyi Divine Wood in Mu Shentong’s box.
• Xu Yi selected Mu Shentong’s offer, recognizing that the merchant was willing to part with the treasures he needed.

Xu Yi took Mu Shentong’s treasure and secured a Heart Oath protecting him before offering up the realm token. Zhou Daogan intercepted it, sparking a standoff between Mu Shentong and War Son of Heaven that ended with Mu Shentong demanding Xu Yi hand over another token or allow an inspection of his Sumeru Ring.

• Xu Yi accepted Mu Shentong’s treasure and swallowed the Leaking Pill, then asked Mu Shentong to swear another Heart Oath protecting him from the others.
• After Mu Shentong made the oath, Xu Yi offered him the realm token, but Zhou Daogan swept it away.
• Mu Shentong attacked for the token, and War Son of Heaven blocked him; the two Old Ancestors threatened one another while avoiding actions that would trigger their Heart Oaths.
• King Jiang Bai supported War Son of Heaven’s argument that Mu Shentong should seek the token from the person he had traded with.
• Mu Shentong blamed Xu Yi for losing the token and demanded another one or permission to inspect Xu Yi’s Sumeru Ring.

Xu Yi used his Heart Oath to deflect Mu Shentong’s anger while the Soul Sensing Ancestors gathered disciples, beasts, and treasures to contest the Boundary Token. The chapter ended with Mu Shentong threatening Xu Yi, who refused to join the fight without an incentive.

• Xu Yi recovered from his wounds with the Leaking Pill and reminded Mu Shentong that their Heart Oath protected him.
• Fan Mo Ke summoned Snake Two and swore to fight to the death if an ancestor attacked his disciple; War Son of Heaven and Zhuge Divine Sense also committed their disciples to the contest.
• King Jiang Bai revealed a Yellow Jade Figurine and joined the standoff, while Xue Muhua agreed to fight for Zhuge Divine Sense in exchange for support.
• Yao Junchi declined to take part and focused on the three Boundary Tokens sealed inside the great formation.
• Mu Shentong threatened to hunt Xu Yi down if he failed to recover the token, but Xu Yi refused to fight and insisted that his priority was staying alive.

Xu Yi bargained with Mu Shentong for a Leaking Pill and Taiyi Divine Wood in exchange for entering the fight over Zhou Daogan’s realm token. The ancestors’ layered Heart Oaths made the upcoming battle complicated, and the chapter ended with Mu Shentong doubting Xu Yi would fight even if he gathered the requested treasures.

• Xu Yi demanded a Leaking Pill and Taiyi Divine Wood from Mu Shentong before risking a fight against Zhou Daogan.
• Yao Junchi swore that if Xu Yi died, the ancestors could compete for Xu Yi’s Sumeru Ring.
• The chapter reviewed the nine Heart Oaths that constrained the ancestors and shaped the coming fight over the realm token.
• Mu Shentong refused Xu Yi’s request and offered Demon Corpses instead, but Xu Yi rejected them.
• Xu Yi urged Mu Shentong to persuade the other ancestors to provide the treasures, proposing that they split whatever they obtained seventy-thirty.
• Mu Shentong questioned whether Xu Yi would enter the fight even if he received the Leaking Pill and Taiyi Divine Wood.

Xu Yi used a carefully worded Heart Oath to persuade Mu Shentong to bargain with the five other ancestors, then revealed that he still had the Boundary Tablet and refused to hand it over. Mu Shentong attacked, but his Qi Dragon missed Xu Yi and struck the Cloud Prisoner Formation, prompting the other ancestors to confront him.

• Xu Yi swore to obtain another Boundary Tablet and present it before Mu Shentong, while preserving a loophole in the oath’s wording.
• Mu Shentong struck a costly bargain with War Son of Heaven, Fan Mo Ke, King Jiang Bai, Zhuge Divine Sense, and Yao Junchi, then secretly kept one Leaking Pill and a piece of Taiyi Divine Wood.
• Xu Yi collected two Leaking Pills and five times as much Taiyi Divine Wood as he had previously obtained.
• Xu Yi showed Mu Shentong a black Boundary Tablet, then returned it to his Sumeru Ring before Mu Shentong could seize it.
• Mu Shentong launched a Qi Dragon at Xu Yi, but it passed him and crashed into the Cloud Prisoner Formation.
• War Son of Heaven and the other ancestors surrounded Mu Shentong and demanded to know whether Xu Yi had tricked him.

Xu Yi secured the Boundary Token and enraged Mu Shentong, while the five factions’ confrontation stalled around him. King Jiang Bai then launched the Yellow Jade Figurine against Zhou Daogan, and Twin-Odd Great Snake joined the attack.

• Xu Yi revealed that he had obtained another Boundary Token, leaving Mu Shentong to realize that Xu Yi had outmaneuvered him.
• King Jiang Bai demanded his treasure back, and Mu Shentong cursed Xu Yi and swore to hunt him down.
• Mu Shentong withdrew after Xu Yi taunted him, while Xu Yi sat down to eat as the others kept their distance.
• King Jiang Bai ordered Xu Yi to hand over the Boundary Token, then sent the Yellow Jade Figurine to attack Zhou Daogan.
• Zhou Daogan broke the Figurine’s Bagua attack with repeated sword strikes, and Twin-Odd Great Snake attacked him with its tail.
• Zhou Daogan dodged the tail and slashed a long wound into it with his sword intent.

Zhou Daogan used Twin Dragons Turn Phoenix to destroy one of the Twin-Odd Great Snake’s heads, but Fan Mo Ke strengthened the wounded beast while Xue Muhua attacked Zhou Daogan. War Son of Heaven’s hidden Blue Extreme Shield saved Zhou Daogan from a lethal blow, and the battle continued with the snake and Xue Muhua closing in.

• Zhou Daogan absorbed the Twin-Odd Great Snake’s scarlet mist and corrosive rain with Twin Dragons Turn Phoenix, then shredded one of its heads with Intercept Sword Style.
• Fan Mo Ke used Bloodcurdling Technique to compress the wounded Twin-Odd Great Snake, while War Son of Heaven tried to stop him and King Jiang Bai intervened.
• Xue Muhua struck Zhou Daogan with a Bagua seal, but the Blue Extreme Shield War Son of Heaven had given him blocked the attack.
• Zhou Daogan landed after spitting blood, and Zhuge Divine Sense recognized the shield as proof of War Son of Heaven’s careful preparations.
• Fan Mo Ke completed the Bloodcurdling Technique, and the compressed Twin-Odd Great Snake vanished and reappeared before Zhou Daogan as Xue Muhua gathered power for another attack.

Zhou Daogan unleashed three forbidden sword strikes to defeat the Blood-Resentment little snake, Xue Muhua, and the Yellow Jade Figurine, but Xu Yi seized the chance to capture him. As War Son of Heaven and Mu Shentong were constrained by their Heart Oaths, Zhou offered the boundary stele to anyone who would protect him.

• Zhou Daogan used Eight Meridians Sword to strike down the Blood-Resentment little snake, disrupt the Bagua formation, and blast Xue Muhua and the Yellow Jade Figurine away.
• War Son of Heaven rushed to restore Zhou Daogan with a Nine Yin Pill, while Yao Junchi praised Zhou's counterattack.
• Xu Yi rushed at the weakened Zhou Daogan, and Mu Shentong pursued him to protect him under their Heart Oath.
• War Son of Heaven bound Xu Yi with Dragon-Trapping Lock, but Xu Yi's iron cord also pulled Zhou Daogan toward him.
• Zhou Daogan held up the boundary stele and five Heavenly Thunder Pearls, offering the stele to whoever would protect him.

Xu Yi’s attempt to kill Zhou Daogan was stopped by Yao Junchi’s Heart Oath, while the six ancestors’ interlocking oaths left everyone unable to fight freely. As they searched for a way out, a powerful being from the outside world arrived, and the chapter ended with the group facing a new threat.

• Yao Junchi swore to protect Zhou Daogan, forcing Xu Yi to stop his attack and leaving the six ancestors bound by their overlapping Heart Oaths.
• Zhou Daogan gave the Boundary Token to Yao Junchi, who took out a Nine Yin Pill to restore Zhou Daogan’s weakened soul.
• Xu Yi warned Yao Junchi not to help Zhou Daogan recover, and Yao Junchi put the Nine Yin Pill away.
• Xu Yi and Yao Wuhui realized the group might be trapped in the hall because no teleportation light had appeared.
• The sky blazed with star patterns, and War Son of Heaven announced that a powerful being from the outside world had arrived.

A colossal Fierce Rhinoceros appeared in the hall, and its arrival triggered the Major Yin Tribulation. Elsewhere, the Star Lord ordered Qi Tian Hall to reopen the Stellar Tunnel after a spatial anomaly disrupted the search for the young lord.

• The Fierce Rhinoceros descended from the sky, shocking Zhou Daogan, Xue Muhua, and the others with its immense size.
• The Star Lord learned that an uncontrollable spatial force had warped the Stellar Tunnel and erased the traces of the young lord.
• The Star Lord ordered her forces to gather again, threatened dissenters with death, and authorized rewards from the Treasure Vault.
• The Fierce Rhinoceros declared that it had returned after thirteen hundred years and asked whether Old Dao Yi was still alive.
• Fan Mo Ke identified the beast as a Fierce Rhinoceros, and Xu Yi recognized its legendary connection to the Sky-Splitting Rhinoceros.
• The Fierce Rhinoceros's arrival brought on the Major Yin Tribulation, sending cultivators fleeing as the group realized they faced mortal danger.

Fierce Rhinoceros’s history revealed that he had spent centuries gathering blood to escape the Monster Hunting Valley, but Xia Xingguang’s spatial forces had transported him into the palace instead. There, he recognized the Boundary Tokens and attacked the Cloud Prisoner Formation, leaving Xu Yi’s group facing the loss of Dark Mountain and the tokens.

• Fierce Rhinoceros’s past showed how he had raised a son as his successor, sacrificed him, and gathered blood for a Spatial Shuttle Grand Array meant to return him to his homeland.
• Xia Xingguang’s Stellar Tunnel interfered with Fierce Rhinoceros’s array, sending him to the palace’s lowest floor, where a Yin Tribulation began to gather.
• Fierce Rhinoceros spotted Xue Zihan’s Boundary Tokens and realized the changing Stellar Tunnel could offer him another way out.
• Xu Yi warned Xue Zihan to hold on to the Boundary Tokens, and her action roused Fierce Rhinoceros.
• Fierce Rhinoceros charged the Cloud Prisoner Formation, while Xu Yi tried to shame War Son of Heaven and the other patriarchs into stopping him.
• Fierce Rhinoceros struck again, and the Cloud Prisoner Formation burst into scattered starlight.

Xu Yi risked his life to keep the Fierce Rhinoceros from destroying the Cloud Prisoner Formation and forced Mu Shentong and the other Soul Sensing Ancestors to join the fight. The formation’s light vanished, and War Son of Heaven began his attack as the battle erupted.

• Xu Yi struck the Fierce Rhinoceros with a Heaven Heavenly Thunder Pearl, and Mu Shentong urged War Son of Heaven, Fan Mo Ke, King Jiang Bai, Zhuge Divine Sense, and Yao Junchi to fight together.
• The Fierce Rhinoceros battered the Cloud Prisoner Formation until its light went out, while Xu Yi charged it and Xue Zihan stopped herself from striking her own throat after seeing his signal.
• Xu Yi hit the Fierce Rhinoceros with three more Heaven Heavenly Thunder Pearls, slowing its charge, and Mu Shentong shielded him with his Body Protection Golden Kasaya.
• The Fierce Rhinoceros destroyed Mu Shentong’s cassock and sent Xu Yi flying into a wall, badly injuring him.
• With the Cloud Prisoner Formation gone and their chance at the Boundary Stele at risk, the Ancestors joined the battle, and War Son of Heaven called out, “Hundred Thousand Stars!”

Xu Yi exposed Fierce Rhinoceros’s claim of peaceful intent as a lie, revealing that the monster was weakened and trying to escape the Cloud Prisoner Formation before a Major Yin Tribulation arrived. The six Ancestors moved to contain him, while Xu Yi and War Son of Heaven faced the monster’s flames.

• War Son of Heaven and the other five Ancestors attacked Fierce Rhinoceros together, but their combined assault left no mark on him.
• Fierce Rhinoceros urged the Ancestors to let him return home, but Xu Yi warned them that the monster was hiding his weakness.
• The Ancestors realized Fierce Rhinoceros was trying to break the Cloud Prisoner Formation before the Major Yin Tribulation struck, and they considered holding him back until it arrived.
• Fierce Rhinoceros fired a deep-blue flame at Xu Yi and charged toward the formation, while Xu Yi endured repeated blows as his tarnished-silver defense repelled the flame.
• Fierce Rhinoceros sent flames at all six Ancestors; War Son of Heaven contained them while assigning two Ancestors to help and three to stop the monster.

The Six Ancestors fought to stop Fierce Rhinoceros from breaking the Cloud Prisoner Formation, while Yao Junchi revealed his magical Spirit-Beating Whip and struck the demon down. Fierce Rhinoceros recovered, his fury rose, and the Six Ancestors charged him again, now eager to seize him.

• War Son of Heaven, Fan Mo Ke, and King Jiang Bai surrounded the six fire streaks until they dissipated.
• Zhuge Divine Sense worked to complete the Cloud Prisoner Formation as Mu Shentong and Yao Junchi tried to hold back Fierce Rhinoceros.
• Mu Shentong briefly restrained Fierce Rhinoceros with Mountain Collapse Force, and Yao Junchi struck him with the Spirit-Beating Whip, opening a wound in his hide.
• Zhuge Divine Sense completed the formation, and its blue curtains threw Fierce Rhinoceros back when his hooves shattered two of them.
• Fierce Rhinoceros declared that he would kill the Six Ancestors, who charged him from all sides with weapons of Killing Intent.

Fierce Rhinoceros used its fire dragon and innate Divine Firmament Purple Lightning to overwhelm the Six Ancestors, leaving them charred and their fates unknown. As it approached Xue Zihan’s formation, the injured Xu Yi struggled back to his feet, but Fierce Rhinoceros brought its hoof down on the barrier.

• Fierce Rhinoceros unleashed a hundred-foot fire dragon that swallowed the Six Ancestors’ qi weapons and burned Mu Shentong’s arm away.
• War Son of Heaven reversed the flow of his meridians, sent a black dragon of Killing Intent into the fire dragon, and helped the Old Ancestors destroy it.
• Fierce Rhinoceros summoned Divine Firmament Purple Lightning and blasted through Zhuge Divine Sense’s formation and the Six Ancestors’ defenses, hurling them into the walls.
• Xue Muhua fainted and Zhou Daogan fell silent as Fierce Rhinoceros descended toward Xue Zihan’s formation.
• Xu Yi struggled up and swallowed pills while Xue Zihan urged him to flee, then watched with delight until Fierce Rhinoceros’s hoof struck the formation.

Xu Yi swallowed two Demon Transformation Pills and numerous top-grade pills, becoming a giant with immense strength to stop Fierce Rhinoceros from breaking through the Cloud Prisoner Formation. He hurled Fierce Rhinoceros away and struck him back again, while the Major Yin Tribulation drew near.

• Fierce Rhinoceros broke through Zhuge Divine Sense's formation and nearly brought his hoof down on the Cloud Prisoner Formation.
• Xu Yi swallowed a Demon Transformation Pill and top-grade pills, transformed into a giant, then took another Demon Transformation Pill to grow stronger.
• Xu Yi caught Fierce Rhinoceros's tail and flung him more than ten yards.
• Fierce Rhinoceros charged Xu Yi as the Major Yin Tribulation approached, and Xu Yi used the Overlord Strength Art to knock him back more than thirty yards.

Xu Yi fought Fierce Rhinoceros while protecting Xue Zihan inside the Cloud Prisoner Formation, using the Circles' Mysteries to turn the beast's strength against it as his own body failed. The Nine Heavens Yin Calamity struck the formation, and Xue Zihan and everything inside it vanished as the six charred figures fled toward the breach.

• Xu Yi realized Xue Zihan had reminded him to use force against itself, and he knocked Fierce Rhinoceros away with the Circles' Mysteries while guarding the formation.
• Fierce Rhinoceros charged Xu Yi repeatedly as the storm gathered, leaving his arms ruined and his body barely able to move.
• Xu Yi kicked his twelve Heaven's Thunder Pearls at Fierce Rhinoceros, caught pills with his mouth, and used a flying knife and the Wailing Stick to fight back.
• Fierce Rhinoceros turned from Xu Yi and struck at the Cloud Prisoner Formation just as the starry-sky pattern released shimmering green light around Xue Zihan.
• The Nine Heavens Yin Calamity punched through the divine hall and struck the green light, making Xue Zihan, the starry-sky pattern, the boundary tablet, and the provisions disappear.
• The six charred figures awoke and flew toward the breach in the divine hall.

Xu Yi and Zhou Daogan were caught in the Yin Tribulation as Fierce Rhinoceros fled, and the lightning struck them before the beast escaped beneath the sea. After the storm passed, Jiang Hentian’s Crystal Jade Skeleton entered the dissolving Divine Palace and reunited with the old ghost.

• Fierce Rhinoceros dodged the Yin Tribulation while Xu Yi tried to pull himself toward Zhou Daogan with an iron essence cord.
• Fierce Rhinoceros carried Xu Yi toward the palace opening, and Xu Yi used the cord to drag Zhou Daogan close before a lightning bolt engulfed them.
• The lightning charred Xu Yi and reduced Zhou Daogan to ashes, while Fierce Rhinoceros plunged beneath the sea and the tribulation pursued it.
• Jiang Hentian’s Crystal Jade Skeleton emerged from the sea and entered the Divine Palace, drawn there by Jiang Hentian’s lingering presence.
• The old ghost re-formed from pale smoke in the palace, recognized the Crystal Jade Skeleton, and faced an unexpected reunion.

The old ghost possessed the Crystal Jade Skeleton and escaped, while Auspicious Duck found Xu Yi nearly dead and used his Golden Blood Drop to save him. Xu Yi regained a little warmth and managed to twitch a finger.

• The old ghost copied the Crystal Jade Skeleton's form, possessed it, and flew away after celebrating his freedom.
• Auspicious Duck traveled west through a snowy forest, found the stream blocked by a cliff, and spotted Xu Yi's charred body drifting downstream.
• Auspicious Duck checked Xu Yi and, believing him dead, worried that the auspicious hexagram he had read could not be wrong.
• Xu Yi remained conscious but unable to move, as the Yin Tribulation had destroyed his body while leaving his yin soul alive.
• Auspicious Duck decided to help Xu Yi for Little Missy's sake, left him a message in the snow, and gave him his Golden Blood Drop.
• The Golden Blood Drop nourished Xu Yi, who regained some warmth and eventually twitched a finger.