Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingyuan absorbed the Cave Heaven Secret Realm’s Dao Rhyme and broke through into the Cave True Law Domain realm, then worked to master his transformed power. Outside the secret realm, figures from Qianyun Mountain and North Mountain Academy gathered beneath the oppressive presence of two powerful figures.

• Zhang Qingyuan’s perfected foundation and absorption of the secret realm’s Dao Rhyme let him condense his Law Domain and break through into Cave True.
• Zhang Qingyuan unfolded his Law Domain, sensing everything within ten kilometers and glimpsing mysteries he could not yet understand.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Great Evolution Technique to control his increased strength, stabilize his new realm, and absorb his shattered Dao Injuries as nourishment.
• Figures from Qianyun Mountain and North Mountain Academy gathered to investigate the secret realm’s entrance while two terrifying figures watched from above.

Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang joined forces after realizing Zhang Yuan had manipulated them into fighting, and they mobilized their factions to break into the Cave Heaven Secret Realm. As the passage neared opening, they planned to capture Zhang Yuan and punish him, while Fan Gongliang ordered arrays set to prevent his escape.

• Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang stopped fighting, recognized they had been used, and agreed to assault the Cave Heaven Secret Realm together.
• The two factions worked under heavy pressure as their combined arrays gradually cracked the Secret Realm entrance.
• Fan Gongliang questioned whether the person inside belonged to the Five Elements Holy Sect, and Lu Shijie insisted Zhang Yuan was not one of its disciples.
• Lu Shijie vowed to torture Zhang Yuan for humiliating him, while Fan Gongliang warned that Zhang Yuan was cunning.
• Fan Gongliang ordered interception arrays placed around the entrance so Zhang Yuan could not escape when the passage opened.

Zhang Qingyuan sensed that North Mountain Academy was close to breaking into the Cave Heaven Secret Realm and decided to confront the people waiting outside. As he emerged through the entrance, his overwhelming aura darkened the surrounding sky and announced his arrival to the assembled cultivators.

• Fan Gongliang decided that Zhang Qingyuan would die after he emerged from the Cave Heaven Secret Realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed the entrance weakening, completed his recovery and cultivation, and chose to deal with the people outside.
• The entrance vortex began to tremble, and the two Cave True experts realized Zhang Qingyuan was coming out.
• Zhang Qingyuan emerged amid a terrifying aura that forced the surrounding True Essence Realm cultivators to retreat.
• Zhang Qingyuan greeted the assembled crowd and remarked on their grand welcome.

Zhang Qingyuan emerged from the Vortex Mirror Surface and annihilated hundreds of True Essence Realm cultivators from North Mountain Academy and Qianyun Mountain with a single palm. North Mountain Academy Dean Lu Shijie attacked him in a fury, bringing the chapter to a clash between the two.

• Zhang Qingyuan sent a Sky-Covering Hand through the vortex, and the cultivators struggled to overcome its terrifying pressure.
• The cultivators unleashed a barrage of attacks, but the palm crushed them and shattered the surrounding space.
• Zhang Qingyuan's strike killed hundreds of cultivators and destroyed the formations and land around them.
• Zhang Qingyuan emerged from the Vortex Mirror Surface as Lu Shijie descended and attacked him with a Five Elements-powered punch.

Zhang Qingyuan faced Lu Shijie’s full-force Five Elements attack and found his opponent’s Dao Power far weaker than his own. He caught the world-shaking punch with one hand, leaving Lu Shijie’s power dispersed and the battle at a standstill.

• Lu Shijie realized his negligence had allowed a single move to kill over a hundred elites from North Mountain Academy and Qianyun Mountain.
• Enraged, Lu Shijie unleashed his strongest Five Elements Dharma Domain punch at Zhang Qingyuan.
• Fan Gongliang judged Zhang Qingyuan outmatched and sealed the surrounding space to prevent his escape.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed that Lu Shijie’s Five Elements Dao Power was weaker than his own and chose not to meet the punch directly.
• Zhang Qingyuan caught Lu Shijie’s punch with one hand and dispersed its power completely.

Zhang Qingyuan effortlessly swallowed Lu Shijie’s Five Elements Dao Law attack, exposing its weakness and frightening the North Mountain Academy Dean. He resolved to deal with Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang before pursuing the mysteries of Yuzhou and the Nine Continents Continent.

• Lu Shijie’s punch vanished against Zhang Qingyuan, who appeared to absorb all its power.
• Lu Shijie fled thousands of zhang and suspected Zhang Qingyuan was a Demon Sect disciple.
• Zhang Qingyuan said he had seen through Lu Shijie’s Dao and judged his Five Elements Dao Law to be a counterfeit gained through a shortcut.
• Zhang Qingyuan considered the Five Elements Holy Sect’s possible ties to the ancient Five Elements Sect and reflected on the secrets of Yuzhou and the Upper Realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan put aside his plans to investigate those mysteries and focused on dealing with Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang.

Zhang Qingyuan revealed how he fused the Five Elements Dao Law into black-hole-like space vortices and unleashed them against Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang. As the two Cave True cultivators counterattacked with their strongest techniques, Zhang Qingyuan gained insight into Fan Gongliang’s cloud-mountain Dao Law.

• Zhang Qingyuan explained that his space-distorting vortices came from fusing the Five Elements powers through his Unique Dao.
• Zhang Qingyuan sent more than a dozen enormous vortices crashing toward Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang.
• Lu Shijie warned Fan Gongliang to use all their trump cards, sensing dangerous changes within the attacks.
• Fan Gongliang unleashed Cloud Peak Myriad Phenomena, summoning endless cloud seas and mountains to meet the vortices.
• Lu Shijie began Five Elements Rotation and formed a radiant Five Elements Round Wheel in the void.

Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang combined their attacks against the black-hole vortices, triggering a catastrophic explosion across the Qingyang Monster Beast Mountain Range. The two Cave True magnates emerged from the destruction severely injured, their power reduced to the Half-step Cave True level.

• Lu Shijie unleashed his Five Elements Round Wheel alongside Fan Gongliang's Cloud Peak Myriad Phenomena to strike the black-hole vortices.
• Their attacks collided and caused a massive explosion that devastated the surrounding area and stirred panic across the Qingyang Monster Beast Mountain Range and Chuyun Kingdom.
• The battlefield became a vast abyss, with the land destroyed and cracks spreading through the surrounding space.
• Lu Shijie and the Qianyun Mountain Great Elder stumbled out of the shattered void, both bloodied and badly wounded.
• The two men's Dao Power was nearly scattered, and their auras had fallen to the Half-step Cave True level.

After surviving the devastating explosion unharmed, Zhang Qingyuan confronted and killed North Mountain Academy Dean Lu Shijie and Qianyun Mountain Great Elder Fan Gongliang. He seized their Storage Spaces and left the shattered battlefield.

• Fan Gongliang and Lu Shijie, badly injured by the explosion, assumed Zhang Qingyuan had suffered severe backlash and discussed claiming a reward from the Righteous Alliance for killing a Demon Sect Holy Son.
• Fan Gongliang and Lu Shijie celebrated their supposed good fortune, believing the two of them had survived the blast and could take Zhang Qingyuan's corpse back as proof.
• Zhang Qingyuan appeared before the two men completely unscathed, shocking them.
• Zhang Qingyuan overwhelmed the exhausted Fan Gongliang and Lu Shijie with Dao Power and killed them.
• Zhang Qingyuan took their Storage Spaces, blasted their bodies into dust, and left.

After killing Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang, Zhang Qingyuan sealed the entrance to Lu Shan San Ren’s Cave Heaven Secret Realm and claimed it as his foothold. A residual image of Lu Shan San Ren then revealed that the Prison Heaven Pavilion had likely killed him and offered Zhang Qingyuan a chance to avenge him in return for a secret about an Ancient Immortal Scripture.

• Zhang Qingyuan explained how the deaths of Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang had created ominous phenomena that could turn the battlefield into a Forbidden Land.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Cave Heaven Secret Realm and decided to keep it as his possession and a place to cultivate.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the jade bracelet to close the Secret Realm’s entrance and conceal it.
• The jade bracelet released a residual image of Lu Shan San Ren, who congratulated Zhang Qingyuan on obtaining his Cave Heaven Secret Realm and Unique Dao inheritance.
• Lu Shan San Ren said the Prison Heaven Pavilion had likely killed him and asked Zhang Qingyuan to avenge him if he gained the ability, offering in return the secret that he had once seen one of the Thirteen Ancient Immortal Scriptures.

After gaining control of the Cave Heaven Secret Realm, Zhang Qingyuan saw a message from Zhang San Chen hinting at the Thirteen Ancient Immortal Scriptures and a coming conflict with Prison Heaven Pavilion. He reviewed his newly enhanced abilities and began examining the Spatial Rings taken from the two cultivators he had killed.

• Zhang Qingyuan identified the phantom as a residual image of Lu Shan San Ren Zhang San Chen, sealed in the jade bracelet and triggered by his control of the Cave Heaven Secret Realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan wondered what the Thirteen Ancient Immortal Scriptures were and suspected that pursuing them could bring him into conflict with Prison Heaven Pavilion.
• Zhang Qingyuan put away the jade bracelet and returned to the Cave Heaven Secret Realm, leaving the shattered battlefield behind.
• Zhang Qingyuan opened a Cave Dwelling and reviewed the battle, realizing he had defeated Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang without using his strongest techniques.
• Zhang Qingyuan assessed himself as far stronger than an ordinary early-stage Cave True cultivator and began inspecting the Spatial Rings taken from his two slain opponents.

After killing Lu Shijie and another Cave True Realm Cultivator, Zhang Qingyuan examined their Storage Rings and found resources that could strengthen his newly advanced cultivation. He discovered Lu Shijie’s Five Elements Core Pill and planned to use it to reach the Early Law Domain Realm Peak.

• Zhang Qingyuan found more than three hundred High-grade Spirit Stones in the two Storage Rings and welcomed the resources they offered for stabilizing his realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan unsealed a pill from Lu Shijie’s Storage Ring and saw it release a five-colored glow filled with the power of the Five Elements Dao Law.
• Zhang Qingyuan read Lu Shijie’s notes and learned that the pill was a rare Earth Tier Superior Five Elements Core Pill from the Five Elements Holy Sect, awarded to Lu Shijie a century earlier.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to use the pill, expecting it to help him reach the Early Law Domain Realm Peak soon.

After defeating Lu Shijie and Fan Gongliang, Zhang Qingyuan assessed his spoils, including a Five Elements Core Pill and a rare Spirit Artifact material. He uncovered Lu Shijie’s records of a Five Elements cultivation technique and entered seclusion to absorb his gains.

• Zhang Qingyuan inspected the Five Elements Core Pill, then decided to stabilize his new Cave True Realm before taking it.
• Zhang Qingyuan sorted through the two Cave True Realm Cultivators’ rings and found spirit stones, treasures, and Fan Gongliang’s Ten-Thousand-Year Purple-Gold Emerald Bamboo Wood.
• Zhang Qingyuan planned to trade away materials he could not use for Five Elements treasures and news of the Immortal Scripture.
• Zhang Qingyuan studied Lu Shijie’s Diary Notes and learned that the Five Elements Holy Sect had a Secret Technique to strengthen its Way of Five Elements.
• Zhang Qingyuan deduced the Secret Technique and entered seclusion in his cave dwelling to digest his spoils and battle insights.

While Zhang Qingyuan consolidated his foundation in the Cave Heaven Secret Realm, the beast tide and the deaths of Cave True Great Powers stirred turmoil across North Mountain Domain. Qianyun Mountain concealed the loss of Fan Gongliang as rival forces watched, leaving the region’s future uncertain.

• The battle in the Qingyang Monster Beast Mountain Range unleashed a beast tide that devastated the surrounding countries and prevented anyone from investigating what had happened.
• The Chuyun Kingdom imperial family suspected the upheaval was connected to Qianyun Mountain, but its Old Ancestor stayed silent and focused on surviving the beast tide.
• Qianyun Mountain imposed a lockdown after one of its Cave True Great Powers fell, then reopened its Sect Protection Great Formation three days later and tried to conceal the loss of Fan Gongliang.
• Other forces noticed Qianyun Mountain’s weakened state and began considering how to benefit from the upheaval.
• Zhang Qingyuan remained secluded in the Cave Heaven Secret Realm, unaware of the dark current building outside.

After five years in seclusion, Zhang Qingyuan emerged with his Early Law Domain Realm cultivation near its peak, having refined much of the Five Elements Core Pill. He planned to investigate the Nine Continents Continent and the Primordial Immortal Scripture, and began considering how to settle his grudge with the Blood Demon Sect.

• Zhang Qingyuan emerged from five years of seclusion in the Cave Heaven Secret Realm, having greatly increased his strength and advanced close to the Early Law Domain Realm Peak.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected that the Five Elements Core Pill had saved him decades or more of cultivation, though some of its power remained to be refined.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to visit the largest Cultivation Market in the North Mountain Domain to seek information about the Primordial Immortal Scripture, sell relics, and learn about Yunzhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan resolved to prepare to settle his old grudge with the Blood Demon Sect.

Zhang Qingyuan transformed the Blood Fiend Death Zone around the Cave Heaven Secret Realm into a defensive formation and cultivated a green, spiritually rich oasis at its center. After planting a medicinal field, he found peace in the work and slightly advanced his cultivation.

• Zhang Qingyuan left the Cave Heaven Secret Realm and destroyed an Evil Spirit that attacked him.
• Zhang Qingyuan used his Five Elements Power and knowledge of formations to turn the Blood Fiend Qi around the entrance into a defensive formation that gathered Spiritual Charm.
• Zhang Qingyuan moved the Earth Veins to form a Micro Spirit Vein branch and used Wood and Water Element powers to grow a field of Spirit Herbs and Medicinal Materials.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected on the calm he felt while tending the land, and his state of mind and cultivation improved slightly.

Zhang Qingyuan finished remodeling the entrance to his Cave Heaven Secret Realm and left the Qingyang Monster Beast Mountain Range to resume his journey. He discovered that his past battle had caused the years-long beast tide threatening Qingyang Pass and began suppressing it.

• Zhang Qingyuan cultivated the medicine field, repaired the defenses around the Cave Heaven Secret Realm, and concealed its entrance with an illusion formation.
• Zhang Qingyuan left the secret realm and crossed more than a thousand li to reach the outskirts of the Qingyang Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• Zhang Qingyuan saw a beast tide battering Qingyang Pass and realized that Yue Family Town lay behind it.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed the thoughts of the defenders and learned that his battle years earlier had driven the beasts outward and caused the prolonged tide.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to end the crisis and sent an invisible pressure of divine sense down upon the beast tide.

Zhang Qingyuan drove off the beast tide near Qingyang Pass with a trace of his aura, then visited the Yue Family to fulfill his promise to guide Yue Lingyun and Yue Wenhe. He left the family recovering and its two young cultivators making further progress under his instruction.

• Zhang Qingyuan's aura frightened the Demonic Beasts into fleeing from Qingyang Pass, while the cultivators there thanked the unknown senior who had saved them.
• Zhang Qingyuan left without claiming credit and traveled to the Yue Family's new residence to gather information about the North Mountain Domain and keep his promise to the family.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that Yue Lingyun and Yue Wenhe had both reached the True Essence Realm after following his earlier guidance.
• Zhang Qingyuan examined Yue Lingyun and Yue Wenhe's cultivation, then spent several days teaching them and helping them advance further.

Zhang Qingyuan traveled toward Immortal City to seek news of the Immortal Scripture and sell his stolen goods, while reflecting on the value of wandering among mortals. Near the city, he sensed a True Essence Realm battle despite Immortal City’s ban on fighting nearby and went to investigate.

• Zhang Qingyuan learned from the Yue Family Great Elder that Immortal City was the North Mountain Domain’s main trading hub and decided to visit it before returning to secluded cultivation.
• After several days, Zhang Qingyuan left the Yue Family alone, sensing his journey might involve trouble and not wanting the two Yue Family juniors to hinder him in a fight.
• For a month, Zhang Qingyuan traveled among mortals, observing their lives and occasionally intervening in events, which helped refine his state of mind and Spiritual Sense.
• As Zhang Qingyuan approached Immortal City, he sensed a True Essence Realm battle nearby, questioned why anyone was fighting within the forbidden area, and headed toward it.

Lei Shiyuan and the Blood Demon Sect ambushed Murong Lan and the Murong Family, intending to seize her and bring down her clan. As the Murong forces were overwhelmed and Murong Lan prepared to take her own life, the battle suddenly fell silent.

• Lei Shiyuan revealed that he had trapped the forest in a Sound Isolation Array, preventing Murong Lan from calling for help.
• Lei Shiyuan proposed that Murong Lan marry him so the Lei and Murong Families could unite, but she and her followers rejected him.
• Murong Lan accused the Lei Family of arranging her ancestor’s injury and bringing a Blood Demon Sect Cave True expert to Immortal City.
• Lei Shiyuan and two Blood Demon Sect cultivators attacked Murong Lan and her outnumbered followers, who fought back rather than surrender.
• As the Murong Family was driven toward defeat, Murong Lan raised her sword to her neck, but the turmoil between heaven and earth abruptly fell silent.