Chapter Summaries

Shen Changchuan tested the Flying Sky Spirit Breaking Ant King and decided its immense power did not outweigh its weaknesses, so he still planned to refine it into a Void Escape Gu. Back in Great Bay Village, he reunited with Nangong Cheng and was surprised by how quickly his old friend had advanced in cultivation.

• Shen Changchuan ordered the Flying Sky Spirit Breaking Ant King to attack, and its spatial shockwave blasted a huge gap through a mountain.
• Shen Changchuan judged that the Ant King's lack of Spiritual Sense and fragile defenses made it unsuitable for direct combat, and reaffirmed his plan to refine it into a Void Escape Gu.
• Shen Changchuan returned to Great Bay Village and met his old friend Nangong Cheng after nearly ten years apart.
• Nangong Cheng said Shen Changchuan had become a renowned Peerless Prodigy, and Shen Changchuan noticed Nangong Cheng had reached the peak of the Out of Body Stage Fifth Layer.

Nangong Cheng visited Shen Changchuan to warn him that the ruins of the Elephant Mountain Sect were about to reappear and that powerful sects had taken an interest in him. He revealed that those sects’ geniuses were investigating the ruins and were especially interested in Shen Changchuan’s extraordinary rise.

• Shen Changchuan welcomed Nangong Cheng and offered to host a banquet, but Nangong Cheng said he had urgent confidential business and had come to warn him.
• Nangong Cheng recounted how the Elephant Mountain Sect had betrayed the Yuqing Immortal Sect’s forces during a war with the Tianmo Sect more than three hundred years earlier.
• Nangong Cheng explained that the Yuqing Immortal Sect later destroyed the Elephant Mountain Sect, whose mountain-gate secret realm vanished into the void.
• Shen Changchuan realized that people might connect his rapid cultivation and past Elephant Mountain Sect inheritance to the sect’s lost ruins.
• Nangong Cheng clarified that Shen Changchuan’s main danger came from powerful forces whose core inheritances had been lost in the betrayal, and that their visiting geniuses were interested in him.

Shen Changchuan returned to Great Bay Village intent on refining the Void Escape Gu, but rumors of the Elephant Mountain Sect ruins and a visit from You Longzi brought new complications. You Longzi took Lu Haoxuan away and gave Shen Changchuan cultivation pills, leaving him resolved to focus on his training despite the growing commotion.

• Shen Changchuan learned from Nangong Cheng that Outer Region prodigies were coming to challenge him amid rumors that the Elephant Mountain Sect ruins would emerge.
• Shen Changchuan returned to Great Bay Village, planning to refine the Void Escape Gu and prioritize his preparation for the Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• You Longzi visited Shen Changchuan and asked what he knew about the Elephant Mountain Sect ruins, but Shen Changchuan had no useful information.
• You Longzi took Lu Haoxuan with him and gave Shen Changchuan Purple Haze Spirit Nurturing Pills, urging him to cultivate diligently.
• Shen Changchuan lamented the likely trouble surrounding the ruins and turned back to his own priorities.

As Outer Region geniuses stirred up conflict across Tiannan Domain, Shen Changchuan secluded himself to improve his cultivation and prepare to refine the Void Escape Gu. After months of training and study, he felt eighty to ninety percent certain he could succeed, and decided the time had come.

• Outer Region geniuses sought information on the Elephant Mountain Sect ruins by recruiting or coercing local powers, causing widespread conflict in Tiannan Domain.
• Shen Changchuan postponed refining the Void Escape Gu and used the Purple Haze Spirit Nurturing Pills to cultivate.
• Shen Changchuan advanced to the late Out of Body Stage Seventh Layer but realized that further breakthroughs would become increasingly difficult.
• Shen Changchuan continued preparing to refine the Void Escape Gu because he believed his current strength would not be enough for the Centennial Grand Competition.
• After another month of practice and study, Shen Changchuan became eighty to ninety percent certain he could successfully refine the Void Escape Gu and decided to proceed.

A month later, Shen Changchuan successfully refined the Void Escape Gu and tested its ability to teleport through space. He discovered that its Space Power was difficult to control, but he managed to unleash a devastating attack and resolved to keep developing techniques such as Space Slash and Dimension Slash.

• Shen Changchuan emerged from spatial ripples in a valley ten li from where he had started, confirming that the Void Escape Gu let him teleport instantly.
• He examined the Gu’s silver patterns and realized its power could bypass ordinary formations, though its crude control made it difficult to use safely in battle.
• Shen Changchuan repeatedly teleported across the valley to test the Gu, finding that he could not precisely control the distance or direction of each jump.
• He gathered Space Power in his palm and struck a distant mountain, shattering everything above its waist.
• Shen Changchuan concluded that he could use the Gu’s power for attacks despite its lack of precision, and resolved to develop his envisioned spatial techniques step by step.

Shen Changchuan returned to Great Bay Village and told Wei Yuting why he had fled the Southern Yue Land after a Corpse Refining Sect elder ambushed him. Wei Yuting came with a request tied to the sect’s troubles with prodigies from the Outer Region, but the chapter ended before she explained the details.

• Shen Changchuan returned to Half-Mountain Courtyard, where Wei Yuting congratulated him on reaching the late Out of Body Stage Seventh Layer.
• Shen Changchuan told Wei Yuting that he had left the Southern Yue Land after the Corpse Refining Sect’s Supreme Old Ancestor ambushed him in Jue Tian Valley.
• Wei Yuting blamed herself for bringing trouble upon Shen Changchuan because he had rescued her at Jinfeng Valley.
• Shen Changchuan explained that the Demonic Path Alliance likely targeted him over his Gu Control Secret Art, not merely because of the Jinfeng Valley incident.
• Wei Yuting admitted she had come to ask Shen Changchuan for help with a problem facing the sect, connected to prodigies from the Outer Region entering the Tiannan Domain.

Shen Changchuan learned that Outer Region factions and rogue cultivators were flooding Tiannan Domain in search of the Elephant Mountain Sect ruins, stirring up unrest while Dragon Firmament Sect’s forces were away. At a gathering in Tiannan City, Bai proposed sharing information and identified a rapidly rising local cultivator as a likely lead to the ruins.

• Outer Region powers sent prodigies into Tiannan Domain to recover inheritances and treasures lost when Elephant Mountain Sect vanished into the chaotic void three hundred years earlier.
• Outer Region prodigies and rogue cultivators caused widespread unrest, targeting local factions and Dragon Firmament Sect’s allied groups while its senior disciples remained in the Southern Yue Land.
• Wei Yuting asked her junior brother to help Dragon Firmament Sect deter troublemakers.
• At Juxian Tower, Bai gathered Outer Region prodigies to exchange information after half a year of searching without finding the ruins.
• Bai pointed to a local young man who had practiced Elephant Mountain Qi Refining Art and Azure Wood Sword Light, arguing that his rapid rise suggested a connection to the ruins.

Brother Bai argued that Shen Changchuan likely possessed the Elephant Mountain Sect inheritance, but learned the supposed secret information had already been spread by Shen Family Manor’s First Madam. A contemptuous Outer Region cultivator flew to Great Bay Village to confront Shen Changchuan, and the others followed to watch.

• Brother Bai claimed Shen Changchuan’s rapid rise and cultivation techniques proved his connection to the Elephant Mountain Sect.
• The crowd revealed that Shen Family Manor’s First Madam had spread the information, and Brother Bai realized his exclusive source had deceived him.
• Several cultivators questioned how they could force information from Shen Changchuan, given his strength and ties to the Dragon Firmament Sect and You Longzi.
• A burly Outer Region cultivator dismissed local cultivators as weak and flew toward Great Bay Village to make Shen Changchuan reveal the secret.
• The other cultivators set out after him, and Brother Bai decided to join them.

Shen Yingxia reported the foreign prodigies’ plans to First Madam, who hoped they would kill Shen Changchuan, while the Third Elder secretly met with the clan leader. In Great Bay Village, Shen Changchuan realized that mastering the Void Escape Gu’s Space Power was far beyond his current ability and feared he lacked time before the Centennial Grand Competition of the Immortal Sect.

• A winehouse attendant told Shen Yingxia that foreign prodigies had departed, and Shen Yingxia ordered him to keep watching them.
• Shen Yingxia reported what he had learned to First Madam, who celebrated the prospect of Shen Changchuan being defeated or killed by the foreign prodigies.
• The Third Elder reflected that First Madam’s hostility toward Shen Changchuan was irrational and revealed he had secretly repaired his relationship with him.
• First Madam ordered the Third Elder to monitor Shen Changchuan, while privately vowing that he would die once the Lineage’s scheme was complete.
• The Third Elder secretly sent a Communication Talisman and met Shen Fuxing, who regretted not winning Shen Changchuan over earlier but trusted his illegitimate son Xiao Yang to surpass him.
• Shen Changchuan failed to make progress applying the Void Escape Gu’s Space Power and worried that mastering it could take decades, with only about eight years remaining before the Centennial Grand Competition of the Immortal Sect.

Shen Changchuan abandoned his plan to master Space Power and Space Slash after realizing it would hinder his cultivation before the Immortal Sect Grand Competition. He set new training goals and prepared to meet a secret visitor: Shen Chong.

• Shen Changchuan concluded that mastering Space Power was too difficult to pursue alongside reaching the Out of Body Stage ninth level in time for the competition.
• Shen Changchuan decided to focus on cultivating Second Order Top Grade spells and raising his realm, while treating the Void Escape Gu as a powerful escape trump card.
• Shen Changchuan planned to master the Thousand Shadow Azure Cang Sword Rain Art and Golden Body Hegemon Art, stabilize his cultivation, and pursue a breakthrough to the Out of Body Stage eighth level.
• Shen Changchuan intended to help Senior Sister Wei deal with Outer Region prodigies and use the confrontation to test his spells.
• As Shen Changchuan prepared to resume secluded cultivation, Shen Chong secretly visited him.

Shen Chong visited Shen Changchuan, gave him a token to the Elephant Mountain Sect's mountain gate Ruins, and left to settle old debts before departing the Tiannan Domain. Soon afterward, Xiong Kuangdao arrived at Big Bay City and challenged Shen Changchuan, drawing a crowd eager to witness a clash between the two domains' prodigies.

• Shen Changchuan welcomed Shen Chong and was astonished to learn his half-brother had reached the Out of Body Stage ninth level.
• Shen Chong gave Shen Changchuan a White Jade Token granting access to the Elephant Mountain Sect's mountain gate Ruins and explained how to use it.
• Shen Chong told Shen Changchuan he planned to settle old debts and leave the Tiannan Domain, then departed after sharing information about the Ruins.
• Xiong Kuangdao roared for Shen Changchuan to come out, and cultivators in Big Bay City recognized him as a formidable prodigy from the Dongping Domain.
• Cultivators and arriving spectators gathered around Big Bay City, anticipating a battle between Xiong Kuangdao and Shen Changchuan.

Xiong Kuangdao tried to force Shen Changchuan out of Big Bay City by unleashing his overwhelming presence and Divine Ability. As the prodigies expected Shen Changchuan to avoid the fight, Xiong Kuangdao formed a colossal saber of surging water and struck toward the city.

• Outer Region prodigies gathered to watch and predicted that Xiong Kuangdao would defeat Shen Changchuan because of his greater cultivation and battle experience.
• Xiong Kuangdao released his oppressive momentum over Big Bay City, forcing weaker cultivators to their knees as he tried to draw Shen Changchuan out.
• The prodigies wondered whether Shen Changchuan was afraid and had chosen not to appear.
• Xiong Kuangdao decided to press Shen Changchuan for information about the Elephant Mountain Sect's mountain gate Ruins and to test his strength.
• Xiong Kuangdao invoked his Divine Ability, formed a vast water saber, and slashed it down toward Big Bay City.

Shen Changchuan returned to Big Bay City just in time to shatter Xiong Kuangdao’s attack and save the city. He faced Xiong Kuangdao’s full-strength saber strike and collapsed it with a Space Power attack, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xiong Kuangdao sent a saber strike toward Big Bay City to force Shen Changchuan to appear, but Shen Changchuan’s sword light destroyed it.
• Shen Changchuan emerged from the void, and Xiong Kuangdao demanded the secret of the Elephant Mountain Sect ruins.
• Seeing that Xiong Kuangdao had threatened his relatives and home, Shen Changchuan declared him as good as dead.
• Xiong Kuangdao unleashed the Divine Ability North Sea Azure Dragon Saber, while onlookers doubted Shen Changchuan could withstand it.
• Shen Changchuan used the Void Escape Gu in his palm to attack with Space Power and instantly collapsed Xiong Kuangdao’s thousand-zhang saber light.

Shen Changchuan used the Void Escape Gu’s Space Power to shatter Xiong Kuangdao’s Divine Ability and send him crashing into a mountain. After weighing a risky plan to develop a spatial attack, Shen Changchuan chose to stick with his current cultivation plan, while Xiong Kuangdao roared that he wanted him dead.

• Shen Changchuan’s Space Power shattered Xiong Kuangdao’s saber strike and struck through his weapon, blasting him into a distant mountain.
• Shen Changchuan considered whether to develop a Space Slash but decided to focus on cultivation and mastering more Second Order Top Grade spells.
• Shen Changchuan flew to the collapsed mountain and cleared the dust to reveal Xiong Kuangdao wounded in the crater.
• Xiong Kuangdao clenched his fists, glared at Shen Changchuan, and roared that he wanted him dead.

Shen Changchuan defeated Xiong Kuangdao with the Three Azure Luo Sword Array, stunning the Outer Region prodigies watching the battle. As they speculated about Shen Changchuan’s astonishing talent, they concluded that he must have gained the Elephant Mountain Sect’s Enlightenment Secret Realm opportunity.

• Xiong Kuangdao charged at Shen Changchuan in a rage, but Shen Changchuan unleashed the Three Azure Luo Sword Array and struck him unconscious.
• The sword array’s remaining power devastated the surrounding land, leaving Xiong Kuangdao bloodied and his Spirit Tool armor ruined in a vast pit.
• The watching Outer Region prodigies marveled that Shen Changchuan had defeated Dongping Domain’s top prodigy with only two attacks.
• The prodigies discussed Shen Changchuan’s early Divine Ability Seed metamorphosis and his mastery of powerful spells.
• A prodigy claimed Shen Changchuan must have obtained the Enlightenment Secret Realm opportunity within the Ruins of the Elephant Mountain Sect’s mountain gate.

After Shen Changchuan defeated Xiong Kuangdao outside Big Bay City, cultivators across the Tiannan Domain and beyond learned of his strength. As factions speculated about his Space Power, Tianmo Sect's quasi-Saintess suspected it came from the Void Escape Gu and grew interested in him.

• Outer Region prodigies speculated that Shen Changchuan's rise was connected to Elephant Mountain Sect's mountain gate ruins, while the white-robed young man recognized him as a formidable future opponent.
• Shen Changchuan took the badly injured Xiong Kuangdao to the city prison without anyone daring to stop him.
• News of the battle spread across the Tiannan Domain and reached the Outer Region, drawing the attention of many factions to Shen Changchuan.
• First Madam cursed Shen Changchuan and his mother, then vowed to take revenge after the Zhou Family's major undertaking was complete.
• Tianmo Sect's quasi-Saintess questioned reports that Shen Changchuan wielded Space Power, and Aunt Song suggested that he had obtained a Void Escape Gu in Southern Yue Land.
• After reviewing Shen Changchuan's Southern Yue Land records, the quasi-Saintess concluded that the Void Escape Gu likely explained his power and became increasingly interested in him.

Shen Changchuan kept Xiong Kuangdao imprisoned and found that his victory had quieted the Outer Region prodigies, but rumors linking his strength to the Elephant Mountain Sect mountain gate Ruins left him facing an uncertain threat. As he worried that the peace would not last and sought greater strength, You Longzi returned.

• Shen Changchuan decided to keep Xiong Kuangdao in the dungeon until You Longzi returned rather than risk offending Xiong Kuangdao's Master.
• After Shen Changchuan defeated Xiong Kuangdao in two moves, the Outer Region prodigies restrained themselves and unrest in Dragon Firmament Sect's territory subsided.
• Shen Changchuan learned that rumors credited an Enlightenment Secret Realm in the Elephant Mountain Sect mountain gate Ruins for his strength and ability to enter the ruins.
• Shen Changchuan suspected the Outer Region powers had a deeper motive for seeking the ruins and feared the calm was only temporary.
• You Longzi returned, giving Shen Changchuan a turning point.

You Longzi returned and praised Shen Changchuan for defeating Xiong Kuangdao, then explained that Shen's generation was exceptionally fortunate to possess rare cultivation foundations. You Longzi's presence quieted the threats around Elephant Mountain Sect, and he brought Shen a slot in the Yuqing Immortal Sect's Spirit Transformation Pool as compensation for Lu Haoxuan's affair.

• You Longzi returned and praised Shen Changchuan for defeating Xiong Kuangdao, while Shen modestly explained that his opponent's arrogance had made the victory easier.
• Shen Changchuan asked why several young cultivators possessed both a Spirit Body and a Divine Ability Seed, and You Longzi said his generation was exceptionally fortunate.
• You Longzi's arrival deterred those coveting Elephant Mountain Sect, temporarily restoring calm to its territory.
• You Longzi returned with compensation for Lu Haoxuan's affair: a slot for Shen Changchuan to enter the Spirit Transformation Pool, which might help him advance to the Out of Body Stage eighth level.

Shen Changchuan prepared to enter the Spirit Transformation Pool after You Longzi’s guidance helped him understand the path to the Out of Body Stage eighth level. Before departing, You Longzi protected Shen Changchuan’s family with a Four Symbols Guardian Formation, and the two set off for the Yuqing Immortal Sect.

• You Longzi secured Shen Changchuan a place in the Spirit Transformation Pool and warned that breaking through depended on understanding the cultivation path, not just accumulating power.
• Shen Changchuan spent nearly half a month studying under You Longzi and gained a clear understanding of how to reach the Out of Body Stage eighth level.
• Worried that Outer Region geniuses might target his family and search for clues about the Elephant Mountain Sect’s mountain gate Ruins, Shen Changchuan considered moving them to the Dragon Firmament Sect.
• You Longzi installed a Four Symbols Guardian Formation around Shen Changchuan’s family’s residence and gave Shen Changchuan the Formation Disk.
• Shen Changchuan handed the Formation Disk to Maternal Grandfather, gave him instructions, and departed with You Longzi aboard a flying vessel for the Yuqing Immortal Sect.
• As they left, Shen Changchuan resolved to prioritize cultivation and considered later seeking the Elephant Mountain Sect’s secret realm to improve his comprehension and develop Space Power techniques.

You Longzi activated the Dragon Head Flying Boat, letting Shen Changchuan experience the vessel’s resonance with spatial laws as it crossed the void. Shen Changchuan gained only a faint, fleeting impression of Space Power before they arrived at Yuqing Immortal Mountain.

• You Longzi activated the Dragon Head Flying Boat, which tore open space and carried Shen Changchuan through the void.
• You Longzi urged Shen Changchuan to focus and comprehend the spatial currents, and Shen Changchuan sensed mysterious patterns connected to the Great Dao.
• Shen Changchuan came out of the experience with a hazy realization related to space, while You Longzi explained that the flying boat’s resonance had briefly enhanced his perception.
• Shen Changchuan asked whether he could use the flying boat to study Space Power again, but You Longzi explained that the special state only occurred on a cultivator’s first contact with it.
• The Dragon Head Flying Boat reached Yuqing Immortal Mountain.