Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi questioned the group about the Spirit Derivation Pill, exposing Long Face’s inability to explain its risks and prompting Jing Chun to assert his expertise. Jing Chun explained the pill’s possible outcomes and the importance of a strong foundation before taking it.

• Long Face answered Xu Yi’s question about the Spirit Derivation Pill, while Su the Great Leader challenged his explanation and praised Xu Yi’s cultivation.
• Xu Yi dismissed Su’s general remarks and pressed Long Face for details about the pill’s process and risks; Long Face admitted he did not know and collapsed in fear.
• Xu Yi accused Jing Chun of withholding his knowledge, and Jing Chun begged not to be punished, offering to help with the trial’s enemies.
• Xu Yi promised not to punish anyone for speaking, and Jing Chun explained that his Outer Sect training gave him access to knowledge others lacked.
• Jing Chun said the pill could either form a spiritual root or permanently end a cultivator’s progress, and he explained that cultivators improved their chances by building a strong foundation first.

Xu Yi investigated why his Hun Tian Sword Formation collapsed after his spiritual energy transformed, while learning that his attack had revealed four legendary Domain Sources. He concluded that the changed spiritual energy disrupted the old formation and left the new Domain Sources for him to study.

• Jing Chun explained that Fourth Young Master Feng had delayed advancing to the Spiritual Root stage, and clarified that he knew little about the Spirit Derivation Pill.
• Xu Yi demonstrated the Hun Tian Sword, but the formation shattered as it produced four Domain Sources.
• Xu Yi tested Seven Thousand Swords and found that its power had increased while the technique remained unaffected by the changed spiritual energy.
• Jing Chun explained the grading of Domains and told Xu Yi that four Domain Sources were considered legendary.
• Xu Yi tried the Hun Tian Sword again, spotted four points where spiritual energy converged, and realized they were Domain Sources formed by this world's spiritual energy.

Xu Yi studied the Domain Source by enduring and observing attacks, then refined his understanding through the Unlucky Legion’s exhausting demonstrations. After falling into a vision of weaving and breaking networks, he returned to find Qiu Wa and A Li playing together.

• Xu Yi asked Jing Chun to attack him and studied the Domain Source as Jing Chun’s techniques struck him without causing harm.
• Xu Yi had Long Face and his two companions use a combined attack, then ordered Su the Great Leader and the others to demonstrate more domain variations.
• Four Gold-robed Hunters saw the group fighting and mistook their demonstrations for a trap before fleeing.
• Xu Yi dismissed the exhausted Unlucky Legion and fell into a vision in which he repeatedly wove and shattered networks of lines.
• Qiu Wa woke Xu Yi from his vision, and he teased her before asking A Li to catch her with a net of water.
• A Li freed Qiu Wa and pretended to be knocked out, then startled her into chasing him.

Xu Yi refined his understanding of domain structures and learned that Desolate Ancestor was nearby, while Xiong Bei Ming’s attempt to free captives from Song Qi’s hunting grounds ended with Song Qi breaking his promise and capturing him. The captives remained under Song Qi’s control as Xu Yi’s group set out toward Desolate Ancestor.

• Xu Yi used mathematical principles to organize spiritual-energy structures into categories, completing an illusory domain framework while recognizing that he still needed to develop it further into a technique.
• A Li sensed Desolate Ancestor about a thousand li to the west, and Xu Yi ordered his exhausted companions to resume their journey.
• Song Qi explained that he had arranged a combat game to rank the surviving prey before selling them, but Xiong Bei Ming disrupted his plans by winning three fights.
• Xiong Bei Ming reminded Song Qi of his promise to release the captives, but Song Qi dismissed one victory and challenged him to endure three moves.
• With his strength spent, Xiong Bei Ming prepared to die, but Song Qi trapped him in a net of light and intimidated the captives into silence.

Xu Yi arrived as Song Qi challenged the crowd and defeated him with two strikes, one overpowering his elite technique and the other precisely breaking a hunter’s domain. The hunters recognized Xu Yi’s mastery of Domain Sources, while his allies watched in astonishment.

• Xu Yi stopped Desolate Ancestor from intervening, greeted Xiong Bei Ming, and told him to rest while the Unlucky Legion encircled the area.
• After Qiu Wa complained about Song Qi’s boasting, Xu Yi attacked and grievously wounded him with a giant sword.
• A red-haired hunter tried to block Xu Yi’s next strike with a domain, but Xu Yi’s small spirit sword hit its crucial point and shattered it.
• Xu Yi’s giant sword struck Song Qi, turning him into blood mist and killing him.
• The hunters realized Xu Yi had used overwhelming power in his first strike and precise knowledge of Domain Sources in his second.

Xu Yi faced a red-haired hunter who mocked the Immortal Destiny Users and tried to claim Qiu Wa and A Li, but Jing Chun and the newly arrived hunters were under Xu Yi’s control. Xu Yi ordered them to kill the hunters, and the battle stalled as his exhausted allies fought the enemy’s defensive formation.

• Xu Yi pocketed Song Qi’s storage bracelet and challenged the remaining hunters after Desolate Ancestor revealed that Qi Jingfeng, Qi Miao, and Old Su had died in the trial ground.
• More than a dozen golden-clad hunters arrived, and the red-haired hunter offered Xu Yi and the others to them while demanding Qiu Wa and A Li for food.
• Jing Chun asked Xu Yi for instructions, then cursed the red-haired hunter when he mistook Jing Chun’s words as support.
• Xu Yi ordered Jing Chun and the others to kill every hunter, and the red-haired hunter realized too late that the newcomers had sided against him.
• The battle reached a stalemate as Xu Yi’s worn-out allies faced the hunters’ defensive formation, and Xu Yi urged them to fight together.

After Xu Yi defeated the red-haired hunters, the surviving Immortal Destiny Users and hunters joined his group, and they settled down to rest. A new trial rule announced that seven Immortal Destiny Hunters had initiated a Joining the Dragon, sending everyone toward Spring Valley to learn its terms.

• Xu Yi’s allies wiped out the red-haired hunters, collected their storage bracelets and Ascension Tokens, and handed them to Xu Yi.
• The Immortal Destiny Users bowed and asked to stay under Xu Yi’s protection, and he agreed to lead them while Xiong Bei Ming departed on his own.
• Xu Yi’s group found a quiet place to rest as Desolate Ancestor prayed for Yan Zi and ordered Jing Chun’s hunters to prepare food.
• A trial notice announced that seven Immortal Destiny Hunters had initiated a Joining the Dragon and directed everyone to Spring Valley.
• Jing Chun explained that Joining the Dragon proposals imposed harsh rules on their initiators, recalling how four hunters had once defeated a hundred Immortal Destiny Users.

Xu Yi arrived at Spring Valley with his group as Immortal Destiny Users and Hunters gathered for a merge, and he suspected the trial’s powerful leaders had made a secret bargain. A Black Gate of Light appeared under Fourth Young Master Feng’s control, revealing that he held the key to breaking the formation and leaving the trial grounds.

• Jing Chun warned Xu Yi that Fourth Young Master Feng was a powerful Inner Sect Disciple, and Xu Yi led his group toward Spring Valley.
• Xu Yi arrived to find just over a hundred Immortal Destiny Users facing a much larger Hunter force, with captured Users concealed in a cage.
• Xu Yi noticed that the Holy Lord, the Third Holy Son, Sect Leader Du, and other powerful leaders were missing, and he suspected a secret bargain had shaped the trial rules.
• The Green Demon King told Xu Yi he would take the front in the coming fight and create an opportunity for him, and Xu Yi agreed to make use of it.
• A Black Gate of Light appeared, sent its light into Fourth Young Master Feng, and revealed him as the gate’s controller and the key to escaping the trial grounds.

Fourth Young Master Feng challenged the Immortal Destiny Users to defeat him in groups of seven, then effortlessly crushed two groups. Xiong Bei Ming proposed an Exquisite Chess match to halt the collapse in confidence, leaving Fourth Young Master Feng to decide whether to accept.

• Fourth Young Master Feng explained that groups of seven could challenge him, but warned that resisting would bring suffering and insisted the outcome was already decided.
• A long-haired elder and his six companions attacked first, but Fourth Young Master Feng swept them aside with a palm carrying two Domain Sources and trapped them in lightning cages.
• A purple-bearded burly man and his six companions formed a wall of energy, but Fourth Young Master Feng destroyed their formation with a spiritual-energy string and caged them as well.
• Xiong Bei Ming challenged Fourth Young Master Feng to play Exquisite Chess, presenting a spiritual-energy chessboard and explaining the rules.
• Fourth Young Master Feng did not answer immediately, leaving the Immortal Destiny Users hoping he would accept the unconventional contest.

Xiong Bei Ming defeated Fourth Young Master Feng in a contest of spiritual energy and warned Xu Yi that Feng could not be trusted. The Green Demon King then challenged Feng to a fair fight and remained standing after Feng struck him, leaving their battle poised to continue.

• Fourth Young Master Feng accepted Xiong Bei Ming’s challenge and lost after Xiong Bei Ming destroyed the central stream linking Feng’s scattered spiritual energy.
• Xiong Bei Ming asked whether he could leave, then privately told Xu Yi that Feng was untrustworthy and that Xu Yi was their best chance of escaping.
• Fourth Young Master Feng demanded another opponent, and the Green Demon King stepped forward to fight him alone.
• Fourth Young Master Feng struck the Green Demon King with a radiant palm, but the Green Demon King steadied himself and prepared to test the power of Feng’s four strings.

The Green Demon King fought Fourth Young Master Feng, revealing the limits of his Hun Tian Sword and enduring a devastating attack. He unleashed a mysterious green Demon Core that broke through Feng’s defenses, but a huge ball of energy intercepted it, leaving the clash unresolved.

• The Green Demon King injured Fourth Young Master Feng with a water-spirit lion, then attacked with the Hun Tian Sword, but Feng used a Domain Source to shatter its domain and send him flying.
• Jing Chun explained that Feng’s refined technique and Domain Source overwhelmed the Green Demon King’s lower-realm domain, and Xu Yi warned the Green Demon King that Feng’s Yuan Pill had boosted his defenses.
• Fourth Young Master Feng revealed a powerful spirit sprout and two Domain Sources, then struck the Green Demon King with a giant blade of light, gravely wounding him.
• Fourth Young Master Feng offered to spare the Green Demon King as a potential mount and cast a net of light toward him.
• The Green Demon King spat out a green Demon Core, which smashed through Feng’s screens of light before a huge ball of energy stopped it; their collision vanished into a black hole.

The Green Demon King lost to Fourth Young Master Feng after six Hunters intervened, and Fourth Feng tortured him despite the rules of their duel. Xu Yi began to suspect that Fourth Feng had misrepresented the merging rules, while the Golden Corpse stepped forward to challenge him.

• The Green Demon King collapsed after his demon core’s attack was stopped by six Hunters, allowing Fourth Young Master Feng to defeat him.
• The Immortal Destiny Users accused Fourth Young Master Feng of breaking the one-on-one rules, but he claimed the intervention followed the merging rules and silenced them by threatening a fight without restrictions.
• Fourth Young Master Feng imprisoned and tortured the Green Demon King, demanding that he submit as a mount.
• The Golden Corpse challenged Fourth Young Master Feng, who claimed the Golden Corpse and the red-robed Three-Eyes could leave after completing their trial without fighting him.
• Xu Yi told Jing Chun he no longer trusted Fourth Young Master Feng’s claims about the rules, though he believed the trial grounds would not permit an unfair limit on the Immortal Destiny Users.

Xu Yi recognized that the trial’s rules allowed Fourth Young Master Feng to cheat, then stepped forward to confront him despite the overwhelming odds. He taunted Fourth Young Master Feng and revealed an unstable Domain Source and sword technique before Feng struck him, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Xu Yi realized the trial’s controller was testing cultivators rather than protecting them, and Jing Chun urged him to focus on the wall of light and Fourth Young Master Feng.
• The Golden Corpse and the red-robed Three-Eyes man offered to help Xu Yi, but Feng said the trial rules bound Xu Yi and threatened them with the hunters.
• Xu Yi stepped out to face Feng and mocked him, asking him to send all seven fighters at once.
• Xu Yi formed Sword Qi, a sword net, and a flickering Domain Source, shocking Feng and the hunters before his technique collapsed.
• Feng attacked Xu Yi with a palm of light, but Xu Yi continued forming his sword net as Feng prepared to strike him again.

Xu Yi practiced the Hun Tian Sword while enduring Fourth Young Master Feng’s attacks, then produced two Domain Sources and turned the fight around. He struck back with an enormous sword, leaving Feng stunned as another attack bore down on him.

• Fourth Young Master Feng attacked Xu Yi repeatedly, but Xu Yi’s defenses held while he practiced the Hun Tian Sword.
• Su the Great Leader and Jing Chun exchanged voice transmissions about Xu Yi’s chances and the danger the hunters faced whoever won.
• Fourth Young Master Feng summoned a Great Guan Dao infused with two Domain Sources and struck at Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi formed a sword net with two Domain Sources, blocked Feng’s attack, and sent the Great Guan Dao vanishing in a clash.
• Xu Yi counterattacked, shattered Feng’s next Great Guan Dao, and sent another enormous sword toward him as Feng recoiled in disbelief.

Xu Yi used a vast array of sword webs to hold off Fourth Young Master Feng and the six hunters while he worked on creating a three-Domain-Source technique. The hunters began tearing down the webs, but Xu Yi remained absorbed in his repeated attempts.

• Xu Yi blocked the hunters’ combined attack with sword webs, then taunted Fourth Young Master Feng until Feng vomited blood.
• Xu Yi spread countless sword webs across the sky, leaving Fourth Young Master Feng and the hunters uncertain of his plan.
• Xu Yi’s attempt to form a sword web with a third Domain Source failed, prompting Fourth Young Master Feng to order the hunters to attack.
• Xu Yi’s sword webs absorbed the hunters’ combined strike, and the seven hunters began tearing down the formation.
• Xu Yi continued testing and dismantling models of his technique while the hunters destroyed nearly half the webs.

Xu Yi broke through to a three-Domain-Source Hun Tian Sword after the Green Demon King pointed out his mistake, then escaped Fourth Young Master Feng’s trap and killed him and six other hunters. With the hunters’ merger attempt failed, Xu Yi turned on the remaining hunters, freed the imprisoned cultivators, and joined them in a battle that remained at a stalemate.

• The Green Demon King told Xu Yi to stop fixating on the sword’s internal models and grasp the Hun Tian Sword as a whole.
• Xu Yi was struck and trapped by Fourth Young Master Feng, but transformed into an enraged ape and tore free.
• Xu Yi formed a giant sword bearing three Domain Sources and killed Fourth Young Master Feng and the six hunters attacking with him.
• The Black Gate of Light announced that the hunters’ attempt to merge forces had failed and that the Immortal Destiny Users could leave the pass.
• Xu Yi killed dozens of hunters, blocked the gate, and freed the Green Demon King and more than a hundred imprisoned cultivators.
• The freed cultivators fought alongside Xu Yi, splitting the hunters apart as the battle settled into a stalemate.

Xu Yi led the Immortal Destiny Users to victory over the hunters, then prepared to leave the trial grounds with his companions. He learned that they would be teleported separately unless they used a Blood Refinement Contract, and A Li urged the group to make one.

• Xu Yi fought across the battlefield while the Desolate Ancestor directed Jing Chun and the others to collect storage bracelets and Ascension Tokens.
• The final hunter was killed, and Xu Yi let the Immortal Destiny Users choose whether to leave; he gave Green Demon King and Xiong Bei Ming an Ascension Token each.
• The red-robed Three-Eyes man advised Xu Yi to continue studying numerology, and the golden corpse said he owed Xu Yi two favors before leaving.
• Jing Chun explained that people would be teleported separately according to whether they had Ascension Tokens, and that the Blood Refinement Contract was the only way to travel together.
• A Li urged Xu Yi and the others to make the Blood Refinement Contract before the light gate closed.

Xu Yi bound Qiu Wa to him with a Blood Refinement Contract but chose to let A Li pursue her own path, giving her an Ascension Token. After A Li departed, Xu Yi released the captives, and Desolate Ancestor unexpectedly begged to become his servant.

• Xu Yi signed a Blood Refinement Contract with Qiu Wa, tying their lives together.
• Xu Yi gave A Li an Ascension Token and urged her to pursue her cultivation independently.
• A Li accepted Xu Yi's gift, gave him a box of Origin Seal Beads, and vanished through the light gate.
• Xu Yi released Jing Chun and the other captives, warning them that a restriction would activate if he died.
• Xu Yi offered Desolate Ancestor a storage ring and an Ascension Token, but Desolate Ancestor knelt and asked to become his servant.

Xu Yi, Qiu Wa, and Desolate Ancestor entered the world of the Four Continents and joined the Xuanqing Sect as probationary disciples. After receiving his sect token and a cave dwelling, Xu Yi surveyed the immense mountain sect and marveled at its scale.

• Desolate Ancestor explained why he wanted to serve Xu Yi, and Xu Yi agreed after Qiu Wa asked him to bring the old man along; the three sealed their bond with a Blood Refinement Contract.
• Xu Yi, Qiu Wa, and Desolate Ancestor passed through the light gate, and Xu Yi collected two bottles of spirit liquid before arriving in a crowded hall.
• Xu Yi felt the Heavenly Dao Rules suppress his strength, while Desolate Ancestor concealed their extra Ascension Tokens from people trying to buy them.
• An elder from the Xuanqing Sect demanded the Ascension Tokens, and Xu Yi handed his over before receiving a Xuanqing Token, sect robes, an introductory manual, and a cave dwelling.
• Xu Yi and his companions flew toward their dwelling, where Desolate Ancestor noticed that the Heavenly Dao Rules had drastically slowed his flight; Xu Yi then surveyed the vast, four-tiered Xuanqing Sect.

Xu Yi, Qiu Wa, and Desolate Ancestor settled into Xu Yi’s Ding Three cave dwelling, where Desolate Ancestor prepared their rooms and cooked a meal that delighted them. After rewarding Desolate Ancestor with spirit liquid, Xu Yi read the newcomer’s handbook to learn the rules of his new surroundings.

• Xu Yi and his companions reached the trial disciples’ cave dwellings, and Xu Yi opened his Ding Three cave with the Xuanqing Token.
• Desolate Ancestor inspected and furnished the cave, giving Xu Yi and Qiu Wa separate bedrooms and setting up a hut and kitchen outside.
• Xu Yi found Qiu Wa refusing to leave her pink bedroom, then joined Desolate Ancestor for dinner.
• Desolate Ancestor served eighteen-spice soup, and Qiu Wa and Xu Yi eagerly finished the bucket.
• Xu Yi praised Desolate Ancestor and returned to the cave, while a bottle of spirit liquid arrived for Desolate Ancestor.
• Xu Yi began studying the newcomer’s handbook instead of resting.