Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingyuan faced the middle-aged daoist robe cultivator’s strongest attack, a giant seal powered by his Natal Magic Treasure. Zhang Qingyuan blocked it with his Seed Sword Technique, leaving both cultivators injured and the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• The middle-aged daoist robe cultivator recognized Zhang Qingyuan’s strength and resolved to teach him a lesson rather than kill him.
• The cultivator unleashed his Natal Magic Treasure, enlarging its tiger-topped seal into a mountain-sized attack called Mountain and Sea Suppression.
• Zhang Qingyuan stood firm under the seal’s pressure and countered with Seed Sword Technique—One Sword Green Lotus Blooms.
• The attacks collided in a destructive explosion that sent Zhang Qingyuan back dozens of zhang and drew blood from his mouth.
• Zhang Qingyuan’s strike sent the seal flying and forced it to shrink back into the middle-aged cultivator’s hand, while the cultivator staggered backward.

Zhang Qingyuan survived three attacks from a powerful Daoist cultivator, then left Lianyun Stockade as two True Essence Eighth Layer experts discussed a coming contest involving the Zhang Clan. On his way back to Huashan County, he resolved to advance his cultivation method and prepare for their next meeting.

• Zhang Qingyuan endured the middle-aged Daoist-robed cultivator's third attack, and the cultivator honored their agreement and let him leave.
• Old Ghost Mu appeared and questioned why the middle-aged cultivator had not killed Zhang Qingyuan; the two discussed the weakened seal and agreed to meet at the Zhang Clan in one month.
• Old Ghost Mu departed, leaving the ruined site of Lianyun Stockade deserted.
• Little Fire asked Zhang Qingyuan why he had not used its power against the cultivator, and Zhang Qingyuan explained that he wanted to preserve his trump card and test his own strength.
• Zhang Qingyuan headed back to Huashan County to confirm whether the matter involved his family, and resolved to raise the One Origin Gui Water Scripture to its fifth level.

After losing to a True Essence Eighth Layer cultivator, Zhang Qingyuan accepted the gap in strength and resolved to grow strong enough to kill him. Back at the Zhang Family ancestral grounds, he learned from the Old Clan Leader that Li Hongbo had likely been planted as a pawn against the family.

• Zhang Qingyuan reflected on his defeat and judged that he needed to balance his Essence, Qi, and Spirit before advancing to the True Essence Seventh Layer.
• Zhang Qingyuan reviewed the strength of his body and Spiritual Sense, then resolved to kill the Daoist-robed cultivator who had shown killing intent toward him.
• Zhang Qingyuan flew back to Huashan County and told the Old Clan Leader about his attack on Lianyun Stockade and his clash with the True Essence Eighth Layer cultivator.
• The Old Clan Leader recognized the Daoist robe and concluded that Li Hongbo had been deliberately positioned to target the Zhang Family.

The Old Clan Leader revealed that the Zhang Family descended from disciples of the destroyed Thick Earth Sect and guarded a damaged martial skill and a token to its inheritance grounds. Zhang Qingyuan learned that a hidden enemy had engineered the family’s decline and resolved to kill the cultivator behind the scheme.

• The Old Clan Leader took Zhang Qingyuan into the Scripture Pavilion’s sealed depths and showed him a damaged Jade Slip and an ancient dark-gold Token.
• The Old Clan Leader explained that the Zhang Family inherited the Token from one of three Thick Earth Sect disciples who escaped the sect’s destruction a thousand years earlier.
• The Old Clan Leader recounted how the Zhang Family’s ancestor died in the Two-Continents War and mysterious attackers later devastated the family, forcing it to move to Huashan County under Cloud Water Sect protection.
• The Old Clan Leader identified Li Hongbo as a pawn used by the hidden enemy to weaken the Zhang Family and steal its inheritance without provoking the Cloud Water Sect.
• Zhang Qingyuan suspected the enemy had also ambushed the family’s True Essence Realm Cultivators and decided the middle-aged Daoist-robed cultivator must die.

Zhang Qingyuan planned to seize the Thick Earth Sect inheritance and use the Zhang Family’s Earth Covering Seal to refine Heavenly One Divine Water for deeper insight into water-element laws. After ten days of refinement, the water condensed into a hair-thin strand of dazzling light that produced the illusion of surging tsunamis.

• Zhang Qingyuan assessed the threats gathering around the Zhang Family and decided he needed to reach the True Essence Seventh Layer to defeat his rivals and claim the Thick Earth Sect inheritance.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Great Evolution Technique to learn the Zhang Family’s incomplete Earth Covering Seal and harness Earth Attribute Power.
• Zhang Qingyuan refined a bottle of Heavenly One Divine Water into a single drop, then used Earth Attribute Power to refine it further and expose more of its Water Law.
• Zhang Qingyuan spent ten days refining the drop until it was as thin as a strand of hair, as brilliant light and apparent tsunamis filled the secret chamber.

Zhang Qingyuan swallowed refined Heavenly One Divine Water and used his body as a furnace to absorb its water-element law. Meanwhile, a middle-aged Daoist cultivator prepared to seize the Thick Earth Sect's inheritance, dismissing Zhang Qingyuan as a threat and focusing on the Black-Robed Old Ghost.

• Zhang Qingyuan swallowed the refined Heavenly One Divine Water and began refining it within his body.
• After more than half a month, the middle-aged Daoist cultivator reviewed preparations for the attempt to seize the Thick Earth Sect's inheritance with one of his disciples.
• The disciple asked whether they needed to prepare for the Zhang Family and its Cloud Water Sect prodigy, Zhang Qingyuan.
• The middle-aged Daoist cultivator said he had tested Zhang Qingyuan in their earlier clash and believed he could defeat him if necessary.
• The middle-aged Daoist cultivator focused on the Black-Robed Old Ghost as his main rival and threatened to kill Zhang Qingyuan if he interfered.

The Black Robe Old Daoist arranged with three hired True Essence Seventh Layer fighters to target Liu Daoyan’s disciples while preparing to confront Liu Daoyan and Zhang Qingyuan himself. After half a month passed, Zhang Qingyuan opened his eyes in the Zhang Family’s Secret Chamber amid surging spiritual power.

• The Black Robe Old Daoist dismissed Zhang Qingyuan as a minor threat and identified Liu Daoyan as his main rival for the Thick Earth Sect inheritance.
• The Black Robe Old Daoist relied on a powerful trump card and hired three veteran True Essence Seventh Layer cultivators to eliminate Liu Daoyan’s followers.
• The Old Woman agreed that she and her companions would attack Liu Daoyan’s disciples but would not fight Liu Daoyan or Zhang Qingyuan.
• The Black Robe Old Daoist declared that he would deal with Liu Daoyan and Zhang Qingyuan himself, and the Old Woman reaffirmed that her group could handle Liu Daoyan’s disciples.
• Half a month later, Zhang Qingyuan opened his eyes in the Zhang Family’s Secret Chamber as enormous waves of spiritual power surged around him.

Zhang Qingyuan entered the Inheritance Secret Realm with Liu Daoyan and the Black Robe Old Daoist, while their hidden followers clashed outside the entrance. Alone in a vast space with no detectable boundaries, Zhang Qingyuan encountered an illusory figure of light.

• Liu Daoyan, the Black Robe Old Daoist, and Zhang Qingyuan used their three tokens to open a triangular portal and entered the secret realm.
• Several dozen li away, Liu Daoyan and the Black Robe Old Daoist's followers arrived at the hill and fought over the entrance.
• Zhang Qingyuan explored the unfamiliar realm with his divine sense but found no boundaries.
• An illusory figure of light appeared before Zhang Qingyuan.

After defeating the Earth Giant, Zhang Qingyuan learned that the first stage tested his command of earth techniques and rewarded him with an inheritance of Earth Intent. He chose to remain in the trial space and cultivate Earth Intent in preparation for the later stages.

• Zhang Qingyuan used Earth Covering Seal to cut off the Earth Giant's connection to the ground and crush it.
• The light figure declared that Zhang Qingyuan had passed the first stage and offered him the choice to continue or leave.
• Zhang Qingyuan chose to continue and received a Jade Slip containing the Thick Earth Sect's Earth Intent inheritance.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized the first stage tested earth-element techniques and martial arts, and that the later stages might require mastery of Earth Intent.
• Zhang Qingyuan sat on his White Jade Cushion and used the Great Evolution Technique to study the Jade Slip and cultivate Earth Intent.

Zhang Qingyuan comprehended Earth Intent and advanced to the next trial after recovering his divine sense. At the final inheritance ground, Liu Daoyan and the Black Robe Old Daoist arrived together and faced off before the Thick Earth Sect’s inheritance.

• Zhang Qingyuan comprehended Earth Intent and raised the Earth Covering Seal to Great Accomplishment after ten days of cultivation.
• Zhang Qingyuan rested for half a day, recovered his divine sense, and sensed a faint resonance among his Water Momentum, Fire Momentum, and Intent of Earth.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered the passage to the next layer of trials.
• Liu Daoyan and the Black Robe Old Daoist reached the final inheritance ground, where jade Stone Tablets recorded nearly ninety percent of the Thick Earth Sect’s inheritance.
• Liu Daoyan and the Black Robe Old Daoist confronted each other, making the space around them feel tense and oppressive.

Liu Daoyan and the Black Robe Old Daoist pretended to agree to share the inheritance, then attacked each other at the same time. The Black Robe Old Daoist revealed four powerful Human Puppets, and Liu Daoyan charged back into the fight as their battle began in earnest.

• The Black Robe Old Daoist proposed that he and Liu Daoyan copy the inheritance to avoid a costly battle, and Liu Daoyan appeared to agree.
• Liu Daoyan launched a surprise attack while the Black Robe Old Daoist unleashed a black Thunder Bead, and the two attacks collided in a destructive explosion.
• Liu Daoyan sent a massive palm strike at the Black Robe Old Daoist, who summoned four Black Armored Figures to block it.
• Liu Daoyan recognized the figures as Human Puppets, and the Black Robe Old Daoist explained that they could fight together at True Essence Seventh Layer Late Stage strength.
• Liu Daoyan charged at the Black Robe Old Daoist, beginning their battle in earnest.

Zhang Qingyuan passed the second-layer trial by mastering the Mountain Deity Seal and used Little White to search for a hidden treasure. Little White found something buried beneath the ground, and Zhang Qingyuan opened a fissure that revealed a radiant source of earth-attributed Spiritual energy.

• Zhang Qingyuan cultivated the Mountain Deity Seal to perfection within three days using the Great Evolution Technique.
• Zhang Qingyuan suspected the trial space enhanced comprehension of Earth Attribute Power but could not find its source.
• Zhang Qingyuan summoned Little White and asked it to search for traces of treasure.
• Little Fire frightened Little White, and Zhang Qingyuan told it to stop teasing the timid Spirit Devouring Rat.
• Little White found a promising spot, and Zhang Qingyuan used the Mountain Deity Seal to split the earth open.
• Zhang Qingyuan saw dazzling light and sensed dense earth-attributed Spiritual energy resonating with his Earth Intent.

Zhang Qingyuan found and took an Earth Attribute Supreme Treasure hidden beneath the trial space, ending its earth-comprehension effect. As he prepared to enter the next stage, the Black Robe Old Daoist burst through the barrier, furious that Liu Old Dog had set him up.

• Zhang Qingyuan discovered a formation core containing a sealed Earth Attribute Supreme Treasure and took it.
• Zhang Qingyuan rewarded Little White with a promise to refine Condensing True Pills for it.
• After Zhang Qingyuan removed the treasure, the trial space lost its earth-comprehension effect, and he concluded the treasure had been a hidden reward for gifted disciples.
• Zhang Qingyuan sealed the fissure in the ground and went to break through the barrier to the next stage.
• The barrier shattered, and the Black Robe Old Daoist burst through, cursing Liu Old Dog for setting him up.

After losing to Liu Daoyan, the Black Robe Old Daoist returned to the second layer trial space and planned to heal by devouring Zhang Qingyuan. His ambush failed when Zhang Qingyuan blocked his attack, and the enraged Daoist unleashed his full power.

• The Black Robe Old Daoist escaped his battle with Liu Daoyan, having lost his Human Puppets and suffered serious injuries.
• He decided to recover by devouring Zhang Qingyuan before joining his allies to attack Liu Daoyan.
• The Black Robe Old Daoist feigned weakness and asked Zhang Qingyuan for a Healing Pill.
• As Zhang Qingyuan approached with Rejuvenation Pills, the Black Robe Old Daoist attacked him with a Ghost Claw.
• Zhang Qingyuan blocked the Ghost Claw, and the Black Robe Old Daoist revealed his demonic power and threatened him.

Black Robe Old Daoist attacked Zhang Qingyuan, convinced that the younger cultivator was no threat and that devouring him would restore his strength. Zhang Qingyuan and Little Fire killed him, leaving his ambitions for the Secret Realm at an end.

• Black Robe Old Daoist dismissed Zhang Qingyuan's Cloud Water Sect backing and launched a deadly attack to devour him.
• Zhang Qingyuan drew his sword and blocked Black Robe Old Daoist's killing move.
• Little Fire pierced Black Robe Old Daoist from behind, binding him and suppressing his True Essence.
• Zhang Qingyuan's sword pierced Black Robe Old Daoist's head and destroyed his Divine Soul.
• Little Fire emerged from the corpse and complained that Zhang Qingyuan had been overly cautious.

Zhang Qingyuan killed the wounded Black Robe Old Daoist and followed his trail through the trial spaces, hoping to find Liu Daoyan. He reached the inheritance high platform, where Liu Daoyan prepared to fight him.

• Little Fire marveled at Zhang Qingyuan's rapid cultivation and complained that his caution and ambush tactics were excessive.
• Zhang Qingyuan confirmed the Black Robe Old Daoist was dead but found no valuables on his body.
• Zhang Qingyuan concluded Liu Daoyan was likely injured and decided to pursue him for revenge and the secret realm's inheritance.
• Zhang Qingyuan burned the Black Robe Old Daoist's body and followed the spatial traces through several trial spaces.
• After three days, Zhang Qingyuan arrived at the inheritance high platform, where Liu Daoyan turned on him and unleashed his True Essence Eighth Layer aura.

Liu Daoyan considered killing Zhang Qingyuan before leaving the Thick Earth Sect Secret Realm, but prioritized escaping with the inheritance and treasure map he had found. When Zhang Qingyuan appeared, Liu Daoyan unleashed his remaining strength to crush him, unaware of how much Zhang Qingyuan had improved.

• Liu Daoyan recalled his enmity with Zhang Qingyuan and the young man's terrifying potential, which made him want to eliminate him.
• Liu Daoyan decided to leave the Secret Realm with the Thick Earth Sect inheritance and treasure map rather than search for Zhang Qingyuan while still wary of the Black-Robed Old Ghost.
• Zhang Qingyuan appeared before Liu Daoyan just as he was about to leave, and Liu Daoyan welcomed the chance to kill him.
• Liu Daoyan ignored his injuries and launched an overwhelming True Essence palm attack, confident that his two-realm advantage would crush Zhang Qingyuan.
• Liu Daoyan misjudged Zhang Qingyuan, whose strength had changed dramatically since their previous clash.

Zhang Qingyuan repeatedly blocked Liu Daoyan’s attacks, including strikes powered by his Natal Magic Treasure, surprising Liu Daoyan with how much he had improved. Liu Daoyan renewed his resolve to kill him, and Zhang Qingyuan suddenly used Wind Intent to launch a sword attack from above as Liu Daoyan countered with the Mountain-Suppressing Seal.

• Zhang Qingyuan blocked Liu Daoyan’s opening attack and taunted him.
• Liu Daoyan brought out his Natal Magic Treasure, the Mountain-Suppressing Seal, but Zhang Qingyuan met its strikes with his sword.
• Liu Daoyan concluded Zhang Qingyuan had grown much stronger in just over a month and decided he had to kill him.
• Liu Daoyan gathered power for another attack, but Zhang Qingyuan used Wind Intent to appear above him and unleash a vast sword strike.
• Liu Daoyan laughed and raised the Mountain-Suppressing Seal to counter Zhang Qingyuan’s descending sword.

Zhang Qingyuan fought Liu Daoyan and gradually gained the advantage, having secretly advanced to True Essence Seventh Layer. After revealing his deception, Zhang Qingyuan launched a decisive palm strike to end the battle.

• Liu Daoyan repeatedly attacked Zhang Qingyuan with the Mountain-Suppressing Seal, but Zhang Qingyuan met each blow without showing signs of injury.
• Zhang Qingyuan and Liu Daoyan fought across the sky and ground as their destructive clashes shook the surrounding space.
• Zhang Qingyuan grew more skilled as the battle continued, while Liu Daoyan accumulated injuries and eventually spat out blood.
• Liu Daoyan realized Zhang Qingyuan had advanced to True Essence Seventh Layer, and Zhang Qingyuan explained that his concealed breakthrough had misled him into fighting at full strength.
• Zhang Qingyuan judged that the battle had gone on long enough and struck Liu Daoyan with his ultimate palm technique.

Zhang Qingyuan unleashed his True Three Waves Covering the Sea palm and killed Liu Daoyan, but the battle damaged the formation sustaining the Inheritance Secret Ground. He escaped with Liu Daoyan’s recorded inheritances and the possessions of two True Essence Eighth Layer cultivators.

• Zhang Qingyuan struck Liu Daoyan with the True Three Waves Covering the Sea, combining Thick Earth, Blazing Fire, and Water Momentum into one palm.
• Liu Daoyan sent the Mountain-Suppressing Seal to block the attack, but the palm destroyed the treasure and killed him.
• The battle’s force damaged the formation core, causing the Inheritance Secret Ground to shake and collapse.
• Zhang Qingyuan took Liu Daoyan’s Storage Ring and found Jade Slips containing the recorded inheritances.
• Zhang Qingyuan escaped through the passage as the secret ground crumbled, taking the possessions of Liu Daoyan and the Black Robe Old Daoist.