Chapter Summaries

Ji Lie and several powerful figures gathered in the Hall of Imperial Supremacy to wait for Fan Mo Ke, but Huang Xuanji revealed evidence that Xu Yi had killed him. The assembly realized Xu Yi might be in the capital and could already be approaching.

• Ji Lie dismissed the red-robed supervisor and complained that Fan Mo Ke had not come to honor his accession.
• Huang Xuanji suggested Fan Mo Ke could not come, and the others inferred that Xu Yi had killed him.
• Ji Lie rejected the idea that Xu Yi could defeat Fan Mo Ke, and Huang Xuanji urged him not to lose heart.
• Huang Xuanji showed the group Fan Mo Ke’s final message, which vanished before it could be completed.
• King Jiang Bai identified Futuo Mountain in the scene, and Zhuge Divine Sense warned that Xu Yi might already be heading to the capital.

Soul Sensing Ancestors discussed Xu Yi’s possible arrival before Huang Xuanji revealed that the Dark Mountain in the Imperial Tomb was about to recover and offered the ancestors access to it. The group turned its attention to boundary tokens and the coming passage out of their world as Ji Lie prepared to begin the Heaven Worshiping Ascension Ceremony.

• Zhuge Divine Sense, War Son of Heaven, Yao Junchi, and Huang Xuanji debated Xu Yi’s threat and renewed their dispute over the boundary token from the Void Heaven Divine Palace.
• King Jiang Bai asked Huang Xuanji whether the Dark Mountain in the Imperial Tomb was about to recover, and Ji Lie protested when the secret became public.
• Huang Xuanji confirmed that the Dark Mountain would open a gate to the outside world and promised the ancestors access once they obtained boundary tokens.
• War Son of Heaven threatened to settle his rivalry with Yao Junchi, while Zhuge Divine Sense and King Jiang Bai offered to mediate and Daoyan warned that Xu Yi might possess several boundary tokens.
• The chief eunuch reported that the Heaven Worshiping Ascension Ceremony was ready to begin.

Xu Yi and Mu Shentong arrived at Ji Lie’s ascension ceremony after Marquis Anqing rescued the condemned prisoners, and the gathered Soul Sensing Ancestors tried to ease tensions. Xu Yi rejected their appeal to coexist and challenged them to answer for the sorrow in his heart.

• Ji Lie ordered the executions to proceed, then killed a Golden Armored General who reported that Marquis Anqing had taken the prisoners away.
• Xu Yi and Mu Shentong entered the hall, shocking the assembled cultivators with Mu Shentong’s changed appearance and allegiance.
• Mu Shentong recognized Zhuge Divine Sense, while Xu Yi told the others they could speak with their old friends later.
• Huang Xuanji tested Xu Yi with his aura, then praised his strength, and King Jiang Bai proposed making peace.
• Xu Yi asked what the Ancestors would do about the sorrow in his heart.

Ji Lie attacked Xu Yi with the Soul-Shaking Bell, but Xu Yi revealed the Soul-Summoning Banner and killed both Ji Lie and Dao Yan with ease. The remaining Soul Sensing Ancestors lost their will to fight, and Xu Yi ordered Mu Shentong to distribute Life-Death Gu.

• Ji Lie used the Soul-Shaking Bell to strike Xu Yi with sound waves that made blood spill from his mouth and nose.
• The Soul Sensing Ancestors rushed toward Xu Yi as Ji Lie concentrated the bell's attack on him, but Xu Yi remained unharmed and produced the Soul-Summoning Banner.
• Xu Yi used the banner to kill Dao Yan, whose soul appeared on the banner as a bluish phantom.
• Xu Yi struck Ji Lie with the banner and extracted his soul, leaving him dead as the Soul Sensing Ancestors stood frozen.
• Mu Shentong gathered Dao Yan's and Ji Lie's Sumeru Rings for Xu Yi, who then told him to distribute Life-Death Gu for everyone to swallow.

Xu Yi used the Life-Death Gu and his Soul-Summoning Banner to force several Soul Sensing Ancestors into submission. Huang Xuanji refused the Gu and offered secret information about reaching the outside world in exchange for his freedom, leaving Xu Yi to hear his proposal.

• Mu Shentong approached Zhuge Divine Sense with the Life-Death Gu, but Zhuge snatched it and swallowed it himself.
• Xu Yi warned the Ancestors he would not force them, then King Jiang Bai, Yao Junchi, and War Son of Heaven swallowed the Gu under threat from his banner.
• Huang Xuanji refused to submit and offered top-secret information about reaching the outside world in exchange for remaining free.
• Yao Junchi asked Xu Yi to restore his freedom, but Mu Shentong pointed out that the Ancestors who had already taken the Gu had surrendered their leverage.
• Xu Yi questioned Huang Xuanji and warned him not to offer the hidden mountain in the Imperial Tomb as his secret.

Xu Yi subdued the Old Ancestors and prepared for the Third Prince’s Heaven-Sacrifice and enthronement ceremony while asking Huang Xuanji about the hidden mountains. Huang Xuanji revealed that outsiders could enter the realm, but the cost of using a realm token outweighed what they could gain.

• The Third Prince entered Taiji Hall, saw the dead Ninth Prince and the subdued Old Ancestors, then realized Xu Yi had won them over with the Life-Death Gu.
• Mu Shentong warned the Third Prince not to interrupt Xu Yi, and the Third Prince retorted that he was closer to Xu Yi before asking whether he should prepare for the ceremony.
• Xu Yi sent the Third Prince to prepare for the Heaven-Sacrifice and enthronement ceremony, and Mu Shentong cleared and sealed Taiji Hall.
• Huang Xuanji asked why no outsiders came to claim the realm, and Xu Yi clarified that an ordinary person from outside had once entered through a spatial fragment.
• Xu Yi concluded that outsiders stayed away because the cost outweighed the gain, and Huang Xuanji confirmed that a realm token’s value exceeded the benefits of entering the realm.

Xu Yi learned from Huang Xuanji that Dark Mountain’s passage destroys most objects unless each is bound to a yin soul, while space treasures cannot pass through at all. The revelation left Xu Yi weighing the cost of carrying his treasures into the outside world.

• Yao Junchi returned the boundary token to Xu Yi after Mu Shentong called him out for keeping it.
• Xu Yi agreed that Huang Xuanji’s information about Dark Mountain was worth granting him a chance at freedom.
• Huang Xuanji explained that Sumeru Rings and other space treasures could not pass through Dark Mountain, and that ordinary objects would be crushed by its spatial force.
• Huang Xuanji said a traveler could protect each treasure by binding it to a yin soul, but a Soul Sensing expert could separate only one and would suffer serious injury afterward.
• Xu Yi accepted Huang Xuanji’s explanation and considered what the restrictions meant for the treasures he hoped to take with him.

Huang Xuanji offered Xu Yi a deal involving Life-Death Gu and the treasures Xu Yi could not take out of this world, while Xu Yi set terms that could help him gather Nine Yin Liquid. Huang Xuanji then showed him a complete mid-grade Spirit Stone, leaving Xu Yi questioning why the fragments he had seen were white.

• Huang Xuanji asked Xu Yi for the Life-Death Gu bottles and treasures he could not bring with him in exchange for proof and an offer.
• Xu Yi took the bottles from Mu Shentong and offered Huang Xuanji two, while giving the others three days to gather Nine Yin Liquid to compete for their freedom.
• War Son of Heaven, King Jiang Bai, and the others accepted Xu Yi's terms and began calculating how much Taiyin Liquid they could collect.
• Huang Xuanji vanished briefly and returned with a pure white crystal that he identified as a rare mid-grade Spirit Stone.
• Xu Yi felt the Spirit Stone's spiritual energy ease the pain in his injured hand and asked why the Spirit Stone fragments he had seen were white.

Huang Xuanji explained how Jiang Hentian’s beloved Noble Consort Xiao Xiao betrayed him, and Xu Yi reflected on love before reuniting with his old friends at Marquis Anqing’s residence. The chapter ended with Yuan Qinghua introducing his nervous wife to Xu Yi.

• Huang Xuanji revealed that Noble Consort Xiao Xiao had supplied the secrets that led to Jiang Hentian’s downfall and that Jiang Hentian had given her the mid-grade Spirit Stone.
• Xu Yi inferred that Xiao Xiao had poisoned Jiang Hentian, and Huang Xuanji confirmed his suspicion and urged him to be wary of love.
• Xu Yi thanked Huang Xuanji and left, remarking that an empty heart made long life meaningless.
• At a banquet hosted by Marquis Anqing, Yuan Qinghua and the others asked after Xu Yi and celebrated his return.
• Xu Yi reunited warmly with Yuan Qinghua, teased him about his weight, and noticed his wife, who nervously greeted him.

Xu Yi reunited with old friends and mentors at a farewell feast, reassuring Xiong Kui about Xia Zimo and thanking Master Zhou and Lu Shanren. After the others got drunk, Xu Yi left with Marquis Anqing, silently saying goodbye to the people and life he was leaving behind.

• Xu Yi gave Yuan Qinghua's wife a Starry Sky Bracelet and greeted Xiong Kui, who asked whether Xia Zimo had truly been a monster.
• Xu Yi and Marquis Anqing told Xiong Kui that Xia Zimo had been framed as a monster and that an evil spell had taken her away.
• Xu Yi apologized to Master Zhou for his imprisonment, and Master Zhou advised him to keep striving despite his achievements.
• Xu Yi reunited warmly with Lu Shanren and learned that Master Zhou had taken on new disciples after influential people sought his favor.
• Xu Yi and Marquis Anqing stayed sober while the others drank themselves unconscious, and Xu Yi looked back on the gathering before leaving his old life behind.

Xu Yi settled accounts with the Third Prince’s ghost, arranged for his allies to look after Old Yuan and search for Old Cangtou’s descendants, then went to Futuo Mountain. There, he considered how to use the thirty-three drops of Nine Yin Liquid gathered to treat his failing body.

• Xu Yi had Mu Shentong summon the Third Prince’s ghost and explained that he had killed him to avenge the Ice Rabbit, while promising that the Third Prince’s descendants would rule Great Yue.
• Xu Yi told Mu Shentong to find Old Cangtou’s close relatives and orphaned descendants so he could repay Old Cangtou’s kindness.
• Xu Yi asked Marquis Anqing to look after Old Yuan and the others, then flew to Futuo Mountain on a Mechanical Bird.
• King Jiang Bai delivered the final Nine Yin Liquid, bringing the total gathered by the searchers to thirty-three drops.
• Xu Yi spared Zhuge Divine Sense and Yao Junchi from Huang Wuji’s clutches by promising to make Huang Wuji swear a Heart Oath, then contemplated how to use the Nine Yin Liquid.

Xu Yi chose which six treasures to carry out of the Dark Mountain and recovered his exhausted Yin Soul with Nine Yin Liquid. He then studied Dao Yan’s talisman manuals and began memorizing the Swift Wind Talisman’s patterns.

• Xu Yi decided he could reliably separate six Yin Souls and chose the Soul-Summoning Banner, mid-grade Spirit Stones, the Coral Horn, the Soul-Shaking Bell, the Jade Bone Skeleton, and the blackened iron essence to take with him.
• Xu Yi accepted that he had to leave behind his other treasures, including talisman paper, the Wish Scripture, medicines, and water-escape armor.
• Xu Yi used Huang Xuanji’s Meditation Method and five drops of Nine Yin Liquid to restore his weakened Yin Soul.
• Xu Yi studied Dao Yan’s notes on talisman-making and learned that talismans required spiritual energy, suitable materials, and mastery of Talisman Patterns.
• Xu Yi read Swift Wind Talisman Comprehension and began memorizing its patterns, including Dao Yan’s method of tracing them with a Yin Soul.

Xu Yi promised Huang Xuanji that he would help him transcend the realm if he found Yan Zi, then summoned Auspicious Duck for help searching for her. The duck arrived at Futuo Mountain and berated Xu Yi for leaving Yan Zi alone, while Marquis Anqing complained about the duck’s extravagant demands.

• Xu Yi practiced carving formation patterns with his Yin Soul and struggled to control it precisely.
• Huang Xuanji told Xu Yi that more than ten million people had searched for Yan Zi for three days without finding a trace of her.
• Xu Yi promised Huang Xuanji that he would take him beyond the realm if he helped find Yan Zi, and Huang Xuanji left to search.
• Xu Yi remembered Auspicious Duck and summoned Steward Liu to bring the duck to him.
• Marquis Anqing arrived with Auspicious Duck, who scolded Xu Yi for neglecting Yan Zi and argued with Marquis Anqing over the Precious Medicines he had been given.

Xu Yi asked Auspicious Duck to divine Yan Zi’s whereabouts, then prepared to leave the world after restoring his body and Yin Soul. He left a letter for Yan Zi and flew toward the Immortal Sea, where the Void Divine Palace had once collapsed.

• Xu Yi offered Auspicious Duck a hundred Precious Medicines to find Yan Zi, but the exhausted duck refused because divination had nearly drained his vital essence.
• Xu Yi insisted that Auspicious Duck search for Yan Zi after recovering, and Marquis Anqing trapped the furious duck in a Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Xu Yi asked Marquis Anqing to care for Yuan Qinghua and the others, find and keep Yan Zi if possible, and use the Life-Death Gu to command Mu Shentong until Xu Yi returned.
• After ten days of recovery and meditation, Xu Yi left a letter for Yan Zi in his cave abode and instructed that it remain sealed for her alone.
• Xu Yi rode his Mechanical Bird west from the Divine Capital and reached the Min River inlet, now called the Immortal Sea.

Xu Yi entered the Imperial Tomb and buried Li Xiuluo and A Luo together before a Fierce Rhinoceros emerged from the sea and clashed with the Crystal Jade Skeleton. The Fierce Rhinoceros vanished beneath the waves after the skeleton struck it, leaving Xu Yi stunned by the creatures’ sudden appearance.

• Xu Yi used Huang Xuanji’s Dragon-Patterned Gold Token to reveal the Imperial Tomb and found a sheltered, spiritually rich burial place.
• Xu Yi buried Li Xiuluo and A Luo’s remains side by side, honored them, and left the tomb on his Mechanical Bird.
• A colossal whirlpool formed in the Immortal Sea, and the Fierce Rhinoceros emerged as a Yin Tribulation gathered overhead.
• Jiang Hentian’s Crystal Jade Skeleton appeared, spoke, and charged the Fierce Rhinoceros.
• The skeleton struck the Fierce Rhinoceros’s descending hoof, and the beast plunged into the sea while Xu Yi was thrown back by the shock wave.

Xu Yi reunited with the old ghost and learned that he and Fierce Rhinoceros had both been waiting for him to obtain a boundary tablet and escape the realm. The old ghost offered to trade for one, but Xu Yi refused and prepared to leave.

• The old ghost revealed himself in the Crystal Jade Skeleton, and Xu Yi recognized him after briefly summoning the Soul-Summoning Banner.
• Fierce Rhinoceros accused the old ghost of using Xu Yi to get a boundary tablet and warned him not to leave the realm.
• The old ghost flattered Xu Yi and called him his brother, provoking Fierce Rhinoceros and amusing Xu Yi.
• The old ghost asked Xu Yi to lend him a boundary tablet in exchange for three later, but Xu Yi refused to trust his Heart Oath.
• The old ghost offered to find anything in the realm as payment, while Fierce Rhinoceros mocked the idea; Xu Yi summoned the Mechanical Bird to leave.

Xu Yi negotiated with the old ghost for protection in exchange for realm tokens, but Fierce Rhinoceros revealed the danger of surrendering a Heart Soul and offered a Rebirth Pill for Xu Yi’s tokens. The old ghost accepted Xu Yi’s terms, and Xu Yi agreed to give Fierce Rhinoceros one token while demanding the old ghost’s Heart Soul.

• The old ghost offered Xu Yi protection in exchange for realm tokens and proposed sealing part of his Yin Soul in Xu Yi’s spiritual platform.
• Fierce Rhinoceros interrupted and explained that a Heart Soul was tied to its owner’s life, prompting Xu Yi to demand the old ghost’s Heart Soul instead.
• Fierce Rhinoceros diagnosed Xu Yi’s failing source core and said a Rebirth Pill could save him, so Xu Yi offered to trade for one.
• The old ghost panicked and agreed to Xu Yi’s terms, urging him to trade the tokens first.
• Xu Yi told the old ghost to give him his Heart Soul and promised Fierce Rhinoceros one realm token for an emergency.

Xu Yi traded with Fierce Rhinoceros for heart’s blood that replenished his Life Source Power, then went with the Crystal Jade Skeleton to the Imperial Tomb and found the Starry Sky Gate. The chapter ended with Xu Yi summoning the items needed to prepare for their departure.

• The Crystal Jade Skeleton gave Xu Yi part of his Heart Soul in exchange for his protection for three years, and Xu Yi agreed to return it afterward.
• Xu Yi offered Fierce Rhinoceros a boundary token for a Rebirth Pill, but Fierce Rhinoceros instead offered one drop of heart’s blood.
• Fierce Rhinoceros sent Xu Yi a river of blood, which Xu Yi absorbed and used to restore his fading appearance and Life Source Power; Xu Yi gave him a black boundary token in return.
• Xu Yi and the Crystal Jade Skeleton headed to the Imperial Tomb, where Xu Yi used Old Cangtou’s bloodline jade pendant to help the skeleton bypass the restrictions.
• Xu Yi and the Crystal Jade Skeleton found the Starry Sky Gate, and Xu Yi summoned the Soul-Summoning Banner, iron essence, Coral Horn, mid-grade Spirit Stone, Soul-Shaking Bell, and Jade Bone Skeleton.

Xu Yi crossed through the Starry Sky Gate into a new world, where he recovered his treasures and discovered abundant spiritual energy. He could not find the Fierce Rhinoceros, and the old ghost did not answer his attempts to communicate.

• Xu Yi and the Crystal Jade Skeleton passed through the Starry Sky Gate, and Xu Yi emerged high in the sky before crashing into a man and killing him.
• Xu Yi activated the Undefeated Golden Body, dressed himself in the dead man's clothes, and confirmed that his treasures and both boundary tablets had survived the crossing.
• Xu Yi opened the dead man's soul-sealed storage ring and moved his belongings into it before burying the body.
• Xu Yi drank from a spring, sensed that the new world's spiritual energy far exceeded Great Yue's, and replenished himself with dried meat.
• Xu Yi realized the Fierce Rhinoceros and the old ghost were missing, and the old ghost did not respond when he tried to contact it.

Xu Yi was mistaken for a disciple by the wounded Liu Shigu, who poisoned him with concealed green sand and sent him to deliver a token and claim a treasure. As Xu Yi fled south, he realized Liu Shigu had manipulated him, while Zhang Fengcheng’s men pursued him to capture him.

• Xu Yi hid in a spring but was blasted ashore by Liu Shigu, who mistook him for one of his disciples and asked whether anyone from his hall had survived.
• Liu Shigu gave Xu Yi a wooden token containing green sand that poisoned his arm, then told him to take it to Willow Leaf Workshop in Autumn Water City and find the Eldest Young Master.
• Xu Yi ran south with Return to Origin Steps, then realized Liu Shigu had deliberately played on his mistaken identity to make Xu deliver the treasure in exchange for a cure.
• Zhang Fengcheng and an elderly scholar discussed Liu Shigu, and the scholar left with a bottle containing Liu Shigu’s captured form.
• Zhang Fengcheng ordered his two followers to capture Xu Yi, and they raced after him through the forest.