Chapter Summaries

Ye Jing returned to the tribe and prepared to take its people to the Profound Yellow Great World. After the tribe gathered and helped power an Ultimate Teleportation Array, everyone entered it, and Ye Jing began the teleportation.

• Gongsun Yan and three other children greeted Ye Jing, apologized for attacking him, and hurried to pack their belongings when he said they could leave.
• Ye Jing met with Gongsun Lige and the tribal leaders, then told them to gather the young men who had mined before.
• The miners worked with Ye Jing for two days to exhaust a small vein, and Ye Jing used the Spirit Stones to build an Ultimate Teleportation Array.
• The tribe packed its belongings, while those who preferred to stay remained behind; tens of thousands of people then entered the formation.
• Ye Jing activated the array, and its glowing Array Patterns enveloped everyone.

Ye Jing brought the Gongsun Tribe out of the Land of Spiritual Abandonment and onto an island in the Profound Yellow Great World. After they arrived, the tribe members and children began spasming, then suddenly advanced through multiple cultivation realms, leaving Ye Jing with a powerful new force for the coming Heaven and Earth Cataclysm.

• Ye Jing teleported the crowd through the Chaos Space while keeping them blinded, then brought them safely to the island where Qiuyue waited.
• The Gongsun Tribe saw the vast ocean for the first time, while the children ran excitedly toward the shore.
• Gongsun Yan and the other children began screaming and spasming, and the adults soon suffered the same pain.
• Ye Jing examined Gongsun Yan and realized the spasms were a good sign, then told Qiuyue to wait as spiritual energy surged toward the tribe.
• The tribe members rapidly advanced to the Great Grandmaster Realm or higher, while Gongsun Yan reached the Grandmaster Realm and Qiuyue asked Ye Jing what had happened.

After the tribe members left the Land of Spiritual Abandonment, their suppressed cultivation erupted and their realms rose dramatically. Ye Jing helped them settle on the island and began forming the Jing organization, leaving its first 8,134 volunteers gathered before him.

• Ye Jing explained that the tribe members’ breakthroughs likely came from spiritual energy accumulating in their bodies while they were trapped by the Land of Spiritual Abandonment’s rules.
• Gongsun Yan accidentally floated into the air, then learned to control her spiritual energy and land under Ye Jing’s guidance.
• Ye Jing and Qiuyue helped the tribe members adjust to their new strength, and Ye Jing told them to explore the island and prepare it as a base.
• Ye Jing and the tribe members built a village and cultivation area, transforming the island over three days.
• Gongsun Lige reported that 8,134 tribe members had volunteered to join Ye Jing’s Jing organization, and Ye Jing assessed their strength and cultivation techniques.

Ye Jing organized the Gongsun Tribe on the island, trained its members, and prepared to leave with Qiuyue. As they sailed away, he read a message suggesting the Immortal Road opened whenever a Heaven and Earth Cataclysm arrived.

• Ye Jing assigned roles to the 8,134 Gongsun Tribe members, making Gongsun Lige deputy chief and appointing Gongsun Lue and Gongsun Lin as elders.
• Ye Jing gave the tribe basic cultivation insights and Divine Abilities, tailored training plans, and left more advanced methods for them to study later.
• Ye Jing decided to leave the tribe to grow stronger, postpone mining the Spirit Stone deposits, and find someone to teach them about the mainland.
• Zhang Youyou refused to teach the tribe unless Ye Jing agreed to let her have Qiuyue's face when Qiuyue was older.
• Gongsun Lige and the tribe saw Ye Jing off, while Ye Jing warned them not to damage the island's Great Array as they sparred.
• Ye Jing and Qiuyue left the island by ship, and Ye Jing read a scroll stating that the Immortal Road seemed to open during each Heaven and Earth Cataclysm.

Ye Jing and Qiuyue returned to Dali, hoping to find trusted allies and investigate the Immortal Burial Ground, but they found Hundred Rivers City strangely deserted. Four children, led by Gongsun Yan, also slipped off their ship to explore the city.

• Ye Jing read the Sage Scholar's notes about the Heaven and Earth Cataclysm and the Immortal Path, then resolved to grow stronger before investigating further.
• Ye Jing told Qiuyue they would return to Dali, and they sailed back to Hundred Rivers City after several days.
• Ye Jing and Qiuyue realized they had left the pirates and Qu Family members at sea, so Ye Jing removed their restrictions and left them aboard for now.
• Ye Jing and Qiuyue noticed the docks and city were nearly empty and entered Hundred Rivers City to find out what had happened.
• Gongsun Yan persuaded three other children to sneak away from their ship and explore Hundred Rivers City before returning to their leader.

Ye Jing and Qiuyue investigated why Hundred Rivers City had been abandoned, finding its buildings intact but stripped of valuables. A mute man they questioned suddenly became possessed, warned that no one could get out, and exploded, leaving Ye Jing convinced the city faced a strange danger.

• Ye Jing and Qiuyue found Glow Pill Pavilion and the City Lord’s Mansion deserted, with valuables removed but the buildings undamaged.
• They searched the City Lord’s Mansion and several major family estates but found no clues about why everyone had left.
• Ye Jing brought a middle-aged man to an empty teahouse and questioned him, learning only that the people had left voluntarily and that he could not reveal what had happened.
• As Ye Jing prepared to let the man go, the man laughed, transformed in a horrifying way, and warned that no one could get out.
• The middle-aged man exploded before Ye Jing could strike, and Ye Jing concluded that something strange had taken hold of the city and its people were likely in grave danger.

Ye Jing and Qiuyue tried to leave Hundred Rivers City but were confronted by a mysterious Dark Shadow. After battling it and overpowering its destructive technique, Ye Jing dispelled its concealment and revealed a corpse-like young man.

• Ye Jing cut down the mutated passersby blocking the city gates, but a lingering danger remained.
• The Dark Shadow attacked Ye Jing and Qiuyue with black light and warned that the city would be where the world ended.
• Ye Jing and the Dark Shadow tested their strength, then both launched destructive spheres that collided above the ruined city gate.
• Ye Jing fought the faster Dark Shadow while Qiuyue stayed back, confident her young master would prevail.
• Ye Jing snapped his fingers and dispelled the Dark Shadow’s black mist, revealing a blue-skinned young man who was shocked that Ye Jing had broken the Great Emperor’s concealment.

Ye Jing fought a strange young man in the ruined city, but a powerful girl wielding Boundless Profound Ice intervened before he could learn what was happening. After discovering that even the Great Sun Golden Flame could not overcome her, Ye Jing planned to retreat with Qiuyue and search for a way out.

• Ye Jing wounded the young man with the Grass Character Sword Art and demanded answers about the Great Emperor and the vanished city residents.
• Ye Jing beheaded and split the young man’s head, but the young man kept speaking and claimed his body was only a shell.
• Ye Jing burned the young man with the Great Sun Golden Flame until he offered to talk, but a terrifying force melted him into blood.
• A girl in a black-and-blue robe appeared on the ruined wall, declared that Ye Jing and Qiuyue could not escape, and attacked them with her writing brush.
• The girl revealed that she wielded Boundless Profound Ice and overpowered Ye Jing’s Great Sun Golden Flame and sword; Ye Jing told Qiuyue to stay close while they sought a chance to retreat.

Ye Jing and Qiuyue escaped Hundred Rivers City after Ye Jing struck the mysterious girl and broke through her confinement formation. As the girl prepared to begin the Great Emperor’s plan, four lost children remained hidden in a room and argued over how to get back to their ship.

• Ye Jing and Qiuyue found an opening in the mysterious girl’s attacks, and Ye Jing struck her with the Xuanyuan Sword and Great Sun Golden Flame.
• Ye Jing grabbed Qiuyue and fled toward the exit, then used a formation talisman to break through the barrier around Hundred Rivers City.
• The mysterious girl saw the hole in the formation, stopped pursuing them, and learned from the Dark Shadow that the Great Emperor had given the signal to begin.
• Gongsun Li, Gongsun Yan, Gongsun Zhikai, and the other little boy argued over whether to leave their hiding place or wait for rescue.
• Gongsun Yan proposed sneaking back to the ship, while Gongsun Li insisted their leader would come save them.

Gongsun Yan and the other three children crossed the eerie city to reach their ship, but a ritual transformed Hundred Rivers City into a ghost city and brought a crowned Great Emperor into the mortal world. Just as they were about to board, black light surrounded them and ghosts appeared before them.

• Gongsun Yan led Gongsun Zhikai, Gongsun Li, and Gongsun Huangyong out of their shelter and organized their cautious journey toward the dock.
• The four children hid from snarling monsters, then continued through the city and spotted their ship.
• A girl commanded black shadows to release crystals, covering Hundred Rivers City in black light and turning its residents into ghosts.
• A bluish-black palace rose from the City Lord's Mansion, and the ghosts welcomed the crowned man seated above it as the Great Emperor.
• As Gongsun Yan and the others tried to board their ship, black light surrounded them and countless ghosts appeared in front of them.

After learning that Gongsun Yan and three others had gone missing, Ye Jing decided to return to Hundred Rivers City with Qiuyue and summoned the Faceless Woman. She identified the strange events as an Underworld invasion, while the four missing children encountered a mysterious girl among the ghosts.

• Gongsun Lige told Ye Jing that Gongsun Yan, Gongsun Li, Gongsun Zhikai, and Gongsun Huangyong had disappeared, and Ye Jing realized they might have stowed away on the ship.
• Ye Jing decided to return to Hundred Rivers City, and Qiuyue insisted on going with him.
• Ye Jing summoned the Faceless Woman, who sealed the Dragon Tiger Jade Ruyi's complaints and listened to his account.
• The Faceless Woman said that the Underworld was invading the mortal realm.
• In Hundred Rivers City, Gongsun Yan and the other three carefully made their way through kneeling ghosts until a strange girl appeared and asked whether they were with the two people who had escaped.

Ye Jing rescued Gongsun Yan and the other three children from the icy girl in Hundred Rivers City, then fought her while Qiuyue took the children to safety. Surrounded by powerful ghostly creatures, Ye Jing called for Sister Zhang, whose appearance shocked the girl.

• The icy girl froze Gongsun Yan and the other three children and said she wanted to study their unusual constitutions.
• Ye Jing burst from the void, rescued the children, and fled the city with the girl pursuing him.
• Ye Jing and the girl exchanged attacks, while he sent the children to Qiuyue.
• The girl revealed that ghostly creatures of the Heaven and Earth God Realm had surrounded Ye Jing.
• Ye Jing called for Sister Zhang, and the icy girl recognized the faceless woman as a senior.

Zhang Youyou rescued Ye Jing and the others from the ghost city after confronting Xiao Lou and the Great Emperor Qing Jia. The group escaped while the city transformed into Fengdu, and Ye Jing punished the four children for following them into danger.

• Zhang Youyou secured Qing Jia's permission to take Ye Jing and the others out of the formation, then told Xiao Lou to keep going and stay alive despite their opposing choices.
• The formation strengthened after Ye Jing's group passed through, and the city within it expanded, grew colder, and became Fengdu.
• Ye Jing scolded Gongsun Yan and the other three children for following the group outside and threatened them with exile, lengthy self-criticisms, and confinement.
• Gongsun Yan offered to take the blame, but the other three children accepted responsibility for their own choices as well.
• Qiuyue pleaded for the children, and Ye Jing reduced their confinement to one week while keeping the hundred-thousand-word self-criticisms.

Ye Jing learned from Zhang Youyou that underworld invasions would become more frequent and that only Saints might avoid living like rats, then set out for Dali with Qiuyue. In the Northern Desert, the Demon Extermination Alliance’s exhausted generals urged their red-haired commander to retreat as reinforcements failed to arrive.

• Ye Jing returned to Qiuyue and learned that Zhang Youyou was leaving on a mission she could not explain.
• Zhang Youyou warned Ye Jing that underworld invasions would grow more frequent and that people who could not become Saints would struggle to survive.
• Ye Jing asked why the underworld had sacrificed Hundred Rivers City, and Zhang Youyou explained that ghosts needed a suitable environment to remain in the living world.
• Zhang Youyou gave Ye Jing a task involving a spatial passage beneath the oldest Peach Tree in the Heavenly Court’s Peach Garden, then vanished after returning the Dragon Tiger Jade Ruyi.
• Ye Jing and Qiuyue headed toward Dali, while generals in the Northern Desert urged their red-haired commander to retreat because the army had suffered heavy losses and promised reinforcements would not come.

The Eastern Continent’s commander and the Southern Ridge’s leader both struggled to secure reinforcements as enemy forces threatened their regions. Meanwhile, Ye Jing and Qiuyue returned to the Great Li Dynasty, where Ye Jing caught a pickpocket in the Imperial Capital.

• The red-haired old man refused to abandon the Eastern Continent’s defense line and decided to personally request reinforcements while ordering his generals to hold on.
• The commander in the Southern Ridge said he could not send troops to the Eastern Continent until the region’s internal strife was quelled, and planned to request help from the Heavenly Court.
• Because Hundred Rivers City was gone, Ye Jing spent Spirit Stones to build a teleportation array and traveled with Qiuyue to a dilapidated temple outside the Great Li Dynasty’s Imperial Capital.
• Ye Jing and Qiuyue changed their appearances and headed into the Imperial Capital, where Ye Jing caught a lean man who brushed past him.

Ye Jing caught a lean thief who had stolen his purse, but the man turned the crowd against Ye Jing and Qiuyue by pretending the money was meant to treat his sick mother. Ye Jing broke the thief’s arm and headed to the yamen after the man threatened to report him.

• The lean man stole Ye Jing’s purse, but Ye Jing grabbed him and recovered it.
• The thief claimed Ye Jing had stolen his money and won the bystanders’ sympathy with a story about his bedridden mother.
• Qiuyue defended Ye Jing, while Ye Jing told her not to argue with the crowd and broke the thief’s arm.
• Ye Jing produced many identical purses, convincing the crowd that the lean man had lied and prompting the onlookers to fall silent.
• The lean man threatened to report Ye Jing to the authorities, then ran to the yamen as Ye Jing and Qiuyue followed.

Ye Jing used a staged pickpocketing incident to bring Liu Donglin before him, then faced corrupt constables led by Captain Gao. After Captain Gao seized Ye Jing’s purses and demanded more money, Ye Jing invited him to come along and collect it.

• Little San bribed Captain Gao and reported that Ye Jing had injured him, prompting the constables to set out after Ye Jing and Qiuyue.
• Captain Gao accused Ye Jing of assault, but Ye Jing argued that he had punished Little San for stealing from him.
• Ye Jing secretly told Liu Donglin to meet him at Horizon Inn that night and warned him not to reveal their connection.
• Captain Gao confiscated Ye Jing’s purses, which held two hundred and twenty Low-grade Spirit Stones, and ordered Liu Donglin to leave.
• Captain Gao demanded more money to let Ye Jing go, and Ye Jing agreed to take him somewhere to get it.

Ye Jing lured Captain Gao and the corrupt constables to an inn with the promise of Spirit Stones, then used an Illusion Array to punish them for abusing their authority. The constables ended up covered in filth outside the magistrate's office and lost their jobs and a year's pay, while Ye Jing and Qiuyue left undetected.

• Ye Jing invited Captain Gao and the constables to follow him to an inn, and they greedily went along.
• Ye Jing showed the men a pile of Spirit Stones, and they rushed to grab them while he and Qiuyue slipped away.
• Ye Jing took Qiuyue to a rooftop, where they watched Captain Gao and the constables appear outside the magistrate's office covered in filth.
• Captain Gao and the constables vomited and smeared filth across themselves as horrified passersby watched.
• The constables, including Captain Gao, were dismissed and fined a year's salary, while Ye Jing and Qiuyue escaped blame by changing their faces.

Ye Jing secretly contacted constable Li Donglin at the Horizon Inn and asked him to leave the Imperial Capital with his family in exchange for a generous reward. Investigators found no direct clues, but the chapter ended with their leader ordering a search for two out-of-town visitors who might be connected to Ye Jing.

• Li Donglin worried that Ye Jing had returned to the Imperial Capital, where he was wanted for killing nobles from the Taixu Profound Realm.
• Ye Jing contacted Li Donglin through a formation and offered him ten High-grade Spirit Stones a month and help raising his son to the Great Grandmaster Realm if he left the city with his family.
• Li Donglin agreed to Ye Jing's request, and Ye Jing ended the transmission and destroyed the formation.
• Investigators searched the Horizon Inn after Li Donglin left but found no clues connecting him to Ye Jing.
• The investigators discussed an incident in which two out-of-town visitors had tricked corrupt constables into touching feces, and their leader ordered them to find the visitors.

Ye Jing and Qiuyue avoided suspicion after Ye Lan questioned them under a hallucinogenic drug, and Ye Jing prepared to visit Li Donglin the next day. At the Heavenly Court, a furious red-haired general demanded troops to reinforce the fight against the Devil Race and was finally allowed inside.

• Ye Jing explained that he intended to let investigators clear him of suspicion so he could enter Li Donglin's home and set up a teleportation array.
• Ye Lan and his subordinate questioned the sleeping Ye Jing and Qiuyue, who pretended to be under a spell and denied knowing Ye Jing.
• Ye Lan found nothing suspicious, left with his subordinate, and planned to falsify the reimbursement for the hallucinogenic drug.
• Ye Jing told Qiuyue they would visit Li Donglin the next day, and they went back to sleep.
• A red-haired old man barged into the Heavenly Court and demanded a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers to reinforce his troops against the Devil Race.
• A deep voice ordered the guards to let the red-haired old man in.