Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingyuan traveled through the volatile Yuantian Realm, revealing his cultivation to deter ambushes while searching for Zhao Yuanyang’s group. He encountered remnants of Medicine King Valley under attack by a powerful old man, and the chapter left their battle unresolved.

• Zhang Qingyuan defeated two groups of ambushers and began displaying his aura at the True Essence Ninth Layer Early Stage to keep other cultivators at bay.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Jade Talisman Token to search for Zhao Yuanyang’s group but still could not determine how close he was to them.
• Zhang Qingyuan heard a battle in a stream valley and recognized a familiar spell among the combatants.
• A leading young cultivator from Medicine King Valley summoned treant guards and attacked an emaciated old man with a giant Ghost Claw.
• The old man shattered the treant guards, wounded the leading youth, and dismissed the group’s spell as ineffective against a stronger opponent.

Zhang Qingyuan intervened when Black Evil Old Ghost attacked the remnants of Medicine King Valley, saving one cultivator and revealing himself under the alias Li Feiyu. He asked Black Evil Old Ghost to let the matter end, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Black Evil Old Ghost demanded that the Medicine King Valley survivors reveal their secret, while the leading young man told Zhiyan to take the others and escape.
• Black Evil Old Ghost pierced the leading young man's shoulder with a black attack, and the others rushed to help him.
• Black Evil Old Ghost pursued a fleeing Medicine King Valley cultivator and prepared to kill him from behind.
• Zhang Qingyuan appeared, blocked Black Evil Old Ghost's strike with his longsword, and rescued the young cultivator.
• The leading young man thanked Zhang Qingyuan, who introduced himself as Li and asked Black Evil Old Ghost to end the fight.

Zhang Qingyuan intervened when Black Evil Old Ghost threatened the Medicine King Valley disciples, then killed him with a single sword strike. After inspecting the old ghost’s Storage Bag, Zhang Qingyuan prepared to leave while the disciples recovered.

• The Medicine King Valley youth warned Zhang Qingyuan that Black Evil Old Ghost was a notorious demonic cultivator who had once escaped Zhengyang Daoist Child.
• Zhang Qingyuan told Black Evil Old Ghost to withdraw and revealed an aura at the True Essence Ninth Layer, Ninth Stage Mid-phase.
• Black Evil Old Ghost pretended to leave, then abruptly launched a lethal sneak attack on Zhang Qingyuan.
• Zhang Qingyuan used his Sword Pellet to kill Black Evil Old Ghost with one sword strike and took his Storage Bag.
• Zhang Qingyuan found little of value in the Storage Bag and told the Medicine King Valley disciples to recover before he departed.

After Zhang Qingyuan saved Chen Xiqi and the surviving Medicine King Valley cultivators, Chen Xiqi revealed the Yuantian Realm’s connection to the Ancient Five Elements Sect and offered to lead Zhang Qingyuan to its main hall. The main hall might help Zhang Qingyuan find his missing friends, and Chen Xiqi hoped he would travel there with them.

• Zhang Qingyuan killed the Black Evil Old Ghost in a single breath and rescued the Medicine King Valley cultivators.
• Chen Xiqi thanked Zhang Qingyuan, exchanged contact tokens with him, and asked about Yang Yuyan, but Zhang Qingyuan left the choice to her.
• Zhang Qingyuan refused Chen Xiqi’s request to travel together because he had come to find his trapped friends.
• Chen Xiqi explained that the Yuantian Realm had once served as a trial ground for the Ancient Five Elements Sect, whose branch-lineage inheritors knew its origins.
• Chen Xiqi said the realm’s main hall held a map that could help Zhang Qingyuan locate his friends, and offered to guide him there.

Zhang Qingyuan joined Chen Xiqi’s group and headed for the Yuantian Realm’s main hall, seeking its Five Elements inheritance and a map. Outside the realm, Daoist Ming Shui sent Wang Yuènián inside while Cave True experts, including Daoist Jin Xiao, waited for their descendants and a chance to act.

• Zhang Qingyuan agreed to travel with Chen Xiqi’s group toward the main hall, hoping to find the Five Elements advancement inheritance and a map of the Yuantian Realm.
• Daoist Ming Shui recalled how he had built the Water Element Lineage and lamented that his plans had failed and his master’s lineage would end with him.
• Daoist Ming Shui gave Wang Yuènián a Jade Talisman, urged him to find his own path, and sent him into the Yuantian Realm.
• Daoist Jin Xiao explained to Cheng Sheng that they should not confront the dying Daoist Ming Shui because a trapped Cave True expert might drag them down with him.
• Daoist Jin Xiao said he trusted his grandson Long Cheng to retrieve what he wanted, while hidden Cave True experts waited around the Yuantian Realm.

Zhang Qingyuan led Chen Xiqi and the Medicine King Valley cultivators across a dangerous Heavenly Abyss rift, where a swarm of Mutated Mosquitoes ambushed them. The group faced the blood-draining insects as one disciple was badly injured.

• Zhang Qingyuan sensed danger in the abyss, but Chen Xiqi had no information about its origins, so the group prepared to cross.
• Zhang Qingyuan led the Medicine King Valley cultivators into the air and guided them across the rift through corrosive Gale Force.
• A dense buzzing alerted Zhang Qingyuan to a black swarm rushing toward the group, and he attacked it with a torrent of Sword Qi.
• Chen Xiqi recognized the attackers as fist-sized Mutated Mosquitoes with long proboscises and scarlet compound eyes.
• One Mutated Mosquito circled behind the group and drained a Medicine King Valley disciple's right arm, leaving him screaming.

Zhang Qingyuan led Chen Xiqi and the Medicine King Valley cultivators through a swarm of Mutated Mosquitoes, then killed the enormous Demonic Creature controlling them with a single strike. The survivors continued onward, while Chen Xiqi wondered who the disguised Li Feiyu really was.

• Chen Xiqi knocked a Mutated Mosquito off an injured cultivator and used his life force to heal the man's shriveled arm.
• Zhang Qingyuan urged the group to hurry as he sensed a stronger presence lurking below the Dark Abyss.
• A colossal Demonic Creature burst from behind a cliff and charged at the group, revealing itself as the source of the Mutated Mosquitoes.
• Zhang Qingyuan unleashed his golden round wheel and split the monster in two with a devastating sword strike.
• The Mutated Mosquitoes swarmed the falling corpse, while Chen Xiqi marveled at Li Feiyu's strength and tried to guess his identity.

Zhang Qingyuan led the Medicine King Valley group across the Fissure Heavenly Abyss, where he gained Dragon Shadow Gold for the Sword Pellet after killing a demonic creature. Just as they reached the far shore, Heaven and Earth Tower assassin A San failed to kill him and escaped, leaving Zhang Qingyuan determined to remember him.

• Zhang Qingyuan sensed the Sword Pellet reacting to golden light, destroyed a mountain peak, and recovered Dragon Shadow Gold to store for later.
• Zhang Qingyuan checked that the injured Medicine King Valley cultivators were well enough to continue and urged them toward the far shore.
• Zhang Qingyuan and the group crossed the remaining stretch of the Fissure Heavenly Abyss without further danger.
• A San ambushed Zhang Qingyuan as he was about to reach land, but the Sword Pellet deflected most of the strike and Zhang Qingyuan's body withstood the rest.
• Chen Xiqi identified the attacker as A San of Heaven and Earth Tower, and Zhang Qingyuan concluded he had attacked to steal the treasure before vowing to remember him.

A San’s ambush on Zhang Qingyuan failed, and the assassin withdrew, intending to strike again after completing his mission. Zhang Qingyuan recognized that A San used Space Power and continued onward with his companions, eventually reaching the main hall, where many cultivators had gathered.

• A San revealed that he had attacked Zhang Qingyuan to steal the Dragon Shadow Gold and coveted his Half-Spirit Artifact, but Zhang survived the ambush.
• A San decided to postpone another attempt until after he completed the Heaven and Earth Tower’s mission and Zhang Qingyuan had lowered his guard.
• Zhang Qingyuan grew more cautious, inferred that A San’s stealth and escape relied on Space Power, and vowed to remember the grudge.
• Zhang Qingyuan and his companions traveled cautiously through the area, avoiding further conflict with other True Essence Realm cultivators.
• Half a day later, Zhang Qingyuan’s group reached the main hall, where numerous True Essence Realm High Stage cultivators were gathered on the plaza.

Zhang Qingyuan, disguised as Li Feiyu, reached the Main Hall of the Yuantian Realm with Chen Xiqi and learned the palaces’ likely contents and the danger that the realm might soon collapse. Yin Tianjun led the gathered cultivators in breaking the barrier, and everyone rushed into the Great Hall.

• Zhang Qingyuan spotted Yin Tianjun, Ye Han, and Wang Yuènián among the cultivators but kept his disguise and stayed apart from them.
• Chen Xiqi told Zhang Qingyuan that the eastern, southern, and western halls held treasures, while the North Hall imparted the Five Elements Great Dao.
• Chen Xiqi warned Zhang Qingyuan that the Yuantian Realm might collapse soon and that a coveted secret could provoke a battle among Cave True Great Powers.
• Yin Tianjun proposed that the cultivators attack the barrier together, and most of the gathered group agreed.
• Yin Tianjun directed the cultivators’ combined assault, which shattered the light curtain around the Great Hall.
• The cultivators surged into the Great Hall to claim its opportunities.

Zhang Qingyuan entered the palace’s main hall to find the Yuantian Realm map, but A San ambushed him before he could cross the threshold. Zhang Qingyuan revealed his strength and trapped A San in a sealed space, and the two began fighting.

• Zhang Qingyuan left Chen Xiqi and the others and hurried toward the main hall while the group explored the surrounding palaces.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached the main hall and spotted the map inside, intending to use it to locate Zhao Yuanyang and the others.
• A San followed Zhang Qingyuan and launched a concealed sword attack as he approached the entrance.
• Zhang Qingyuan evaded the assassination with an afterimage and used four Magic Swords to seal the space, wounding A San as he tried to escape.
• Zhang Qingyuan attacked with a Wind-and-Cloud Hand, but A San dodged and counterattacked with his sword.

Zhang Qingyuan overwhelmed A San after his assassination techniques were suppressed, killing the Heaven and Earth Tower assassin with a single palm strike. A gray streak escaped A San’s corpse, but Zhang Qingyuan’s Sword Pellet destroyed it.

• Zhang Qingyuan detected A San’s attack and countered his sword strike with golden sword qi.
• Zhang Qingyuan used Earth Covering Seal to intensify gravity and trap A San in the air.
• A San burned his life force with Blood-Burning Annihilation and launched a desperate three-pronged attack.
• Zhang Qingyuan stopped A San with Four Seas Suppressing Heaven Palm and killed him, extinguishing his Divine Soul.
• A gray streak shot from A San’s corpse, and Zhang Qingyuan shattered it with the Sword Pellet.

After killing A San, Zhang Qingyuan searched his belongings and discovered a rare movement skill before entering the Five Elements Main Hall. He used its map to locate Zhao Yuanyang, but the indicated position made him frown.

• Zhang Qingyuan found a fading gray shadow on his arm after A San’s death and suspected it was a tracking mark.
• Zhang Qingyuan burned A San’s corpse, searched his Spatial Ring, and found spirit stones and other items.
• Zhang Qingyuan discovered and memorized the Profound-Tier Movement Martial Skill Mayfly Between Heaven and Earth, then began deducing and cultivating it.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered the Five Elements Main Hall and examined its map of the Yuantian Realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the token to locate Zhao Yuanyang on the map and frowned at the location.

Zhang Qingyuan found a tracking compass and reached the empty North Hall, where he discovered a massive dormant formation. Elsewhere, Chen Xiqi found the hand seal for controlling the Shennong Ruler, while battles erupted throughout the Great Halls.

• Zhang Qingyuan saw more than ten lights moving together on the map, took a White Jade Compass that could track cultivators, and headed for the North Hall.
• Wang Yuènián and the Cloud Water Sect cultivators arrived at the main hall, found the map still there, and wondered who had reached it before them.
• Chen Xiqi activated a Bronze Pillar and found the hand seal for controlling the Shennong Ruler, while an unknown Medicine King Valley cultivator watched with a strange glint in his eyes.
• Cultivators fought across the cluster of Great Halls, with their clashes shaking buildings and damaging roofs and ceilings.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered the North Hall, found it apparently empty, and uncovered a massive dimmed formation beneath the dust.

Zhang Qingyuan activated the Teleportation Array and arrived at a hidden inheritance site, where he began a gravity trial on the stairs leading to a rune-covered Stone Tablet. He forced his way onto the ninety-ninth step, and the extreme pressure began compressing his vital energy, True Essence, and divine sense together.

• Zhang Qingyuan used the Teleportation Array in the North Hall to travel to another world.
• Zhang Qingyuan found a towering platform and suspected the Stone Tablet at its summit held the Five Elements inheritance.
• Zhang Qingyuan climbed the stairs as their cumulative gravity grew stronger, pausing at the seventieth and ninetieth steps.
• Zhang Qingyuan unleashed the Desolate Sky Body Refining Art, the One Origin Gui Water Scripture, and the Taiyi Spirit Refining Technique to charge up the final steps.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached the ninety-ninth step despite severe injuries and pressure, as his Essence, Qi, and Spirit began drawing together.

Under the platform’s crushing gravity, Zhang Qingyuan’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit fused, dramatically increasing his strength and bringing him closer to the Cave True realm. He reached the sealed Stone Tablet, used the Divine Wood Seal to unlock it, and then touched its exposed surface.

• Zhang Qingyuan’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit fused under extreme gravitational pressure, letting him reach the high platform and greatly strengthening him.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected that the fusion might have completed part of the Cave True transformation ahead of time, though he still knew he could not match a Cave True Great Power.
• Zhang Qingyuan examined the sealed Stone Tablet but could not decipher its runes or open it by touch.
• Zhang Qingyuan brought out the Divine Wood Seal, which resonated with the Stone Tablet and broke apart its sealing runes.
• Zhang Qingyuan stored the Divine Wood Seal and pressed his hand against the newly exposed Stone Tablet.

Zhang Qingyuan received an inheritance depicting the Five Elements merging into the origin of all worlds and fell into deep enlightenment. Meanwhile, Lu Longcheng led captives through the Yuantian Realm, intending to use them to test the formations guarding an important item.

• Zhang Qingyuan touched the Stone Tablet and witnessed a majestic figure use a Sky-Covering Hand to reveal the Five Elements forming a Taiji Circular Wheel.
• Zhang Qingyuan entered deep enlightenment as a voice spoke of the Dao and the Origin.
• Golden Extremity Sect disciples whipped Shen Hongzhou as Zhao Yuanyang and You Xiaosheng restrained their anger, while Headmaster Liu urged the captives to wait for a chance to act.
• Lu Longcheng explained that the Yuantian Realm was nearing collapse and that he planned to use the captives to probe dangerous formations.
• Old Man Qi praised Lu Longcheng and pledged to help him seize the item for his grandfather.

Wang Yuènián defeated Flowing Sand Valley’s Secret Disciple, while Ye Han’s group returned with the water-element inheritance he wanted. Ye Han asked Wang Yuènián and the Cloud Water Sect Cultivators to help him pursue an important goal in the Yuantian Realm, and the group set out together as others followed.

• Wang Yuènián defeated Flowing Sand Valley’s Secret Disciple, who conceded and withdrew with his companions.
• Ye Han and the Cloud Water Sect Cultivators emerged from the hidden passage and gave Wang Yuènián a Storage Ring containing what he sought.
• Wang Yuènián confirmed that the water-element inheritance was complete, and Ye Han asked for his help against the powerful rivals he expected to face.
• Wang Yuènián agreed to assist Ye Han, and the Cloud Water Sect group decided to travel with them.
• Ye Han’s group left the main hall, while some spectators followed and the Great Powers continued watching the Yuantian Realm from afar.

Zhang Qingyuan spent ten days absorbing the White Jade Stone Tablet’s inheritance on entering the Cave True Realm through the Way of Five Elements, realizing that its mutual generation and restraint surpassed his own approach. He experimented with his powers and accidentally created a chaotic abyss that tore the flesh from his hand.

• Zhang Qingyuan received the Stone Tablet’s inheritance, witnessing the immense difficulty and potential of the Five Elements path to Cave True.
• After ten days of comprehension, Zhang Qingyuan recognized the inheritance as a profound method built on the mutual generation and restraint of the Five Elements.
• Zhang Qingyuan compared the inheritance with his Buddha Kingdom in Palm and Minor Immortal Slaying Sword Array, judging his own techniques shallow beside it.
• Zhang Qingyuan used his new insights to alter the circulation of Earth Fire Wind Water in his Buddha Kingdom in Palm and fuse their powers.
• A chaotic abyss formed in Zhang Qingyuan’s palm, and its Space Rift and Gale Force devoured the flesh from his hand, leaving a bloody skeletal palm.

Zhang Qingyuan tested the power of the Five Elements through Buddha Kingdom in Palm, injuring his hand before healing it, and assessed the gains from the Inheritance Stone Tablet. After gaining new insights into Gold Element intent and the movement technique Mayfly Between Heaven and Earth, he left the high platform and continued onward.

• Zhang Qingyuan used Wood Life Momentum to heal his hand after the fused Five Elements power of Buddha Kingdom in Palm stripped away its flesh.
• Zhang Qingyuan concluded that he still needed time to master the Five Elements and decided to use the Great Evolution Technique to analyze his inheritance gains.
• Zhang Qingyuan found that his Gold Element intent had neared the level of Momentum after studying the Evolution Method Inheritance.
• Zhang Qingyuan tested Mayfly Between Heaven and Earth and found that it let him conceal his presence and move through Space Crevices.
• Zhang Qingyuan left the high platform after the Inheritance Stone Tablet sealed itself, then practiced the movement technique as he departed.