Chapter Summaries

After the Ye Clan withdrew from Sword Gate Mountain, Ye Jing revealed that he and Jian Wuhen had planted tracking arrays and planned to pursue them away from the mountain. As the Sword Sect mourned its fallen disciples, a Void Crack opened before the Ye Clan’s Divine Chariot and a voice challenged their departure.

• Ye Ling ordered the Ye Clan to retreat after the Imperial Guards were nearly wiped out, and the clan vanished through a Pupil Array.
• The Sword Sect disciples celebrated surviving the battle, then grieved for their fallen companions.
• Ye Jing told Qiuyue that he had planted tracking arrays and would pursue the Ye Clan with Jian Wuhen once they left Sword Gate Mountain.
• Jian Wuhen urged the disciples to remember their grief and raise their swords for their fallen daoist friends, and the sect sent sword lights into the sky.
• Ye Ling sensed an ill omen and urged the group to leave, but a Void Crack opened before the Divine Chariot and a cold voice asked whether they had permission to go.

Ye Jing confronted Ye Ling and demonstrated that he could use powerful Divine Abilities from both the human and Demon Races. As their battle escalated, Ye Ling discovered Ye Jing had comprehended the Time Dao Principle and Dao Principles of Strength.

• Ye Jing emerged from the Void Crack, resisted Ye Ling's pressure, and clashed with him using the Imperial Grade Heavenly Seal.
• Ye Jing asked Jian Wuhen to handle the other Dao Children while he fought Ye Ling, and Jian Wuhen charged the four opponents.
• Ye Ling split into nine bodies and unleashed eight Divine Abilities, but Ye Jing answered with eight of his own, flattening the mountains below with their clash.
• Ye Ling used his Twin-Pupil Sacred Body to immobilize Ye Jing and prepared to strike him, but Ye Jing's Time Domain slowed Ye Ling's hand and weakened the restraint.
• Ye Ling realized Ye Jing had also mastered the Dao Principles of Strength.

Ye Jing fought Ye Ling and revealed that he had comprehended several powerful Dao Principles. He killed Ye Ling with the Jade Ruyi, leaving the four Dao Children to witness his overwhelming strength.

• Ye Jing broke Ye Ling's restraints with the Dao Principles of Time and Strength and punched him, while the four Dao Children were wounded by Ye Jing's sword attacks.
• Ye Ling unleashed his Giant Double Pupils and Eye of Destruction, but Ye Jing combined his Dao Principles to pierce Ye Ling's forehead with a Divine Sword that then broke.
• Ye Ling opened the Giant Double Pupils and attacked Ye Jing with Infinite Dark Pupil, but Ye Jing countered with his own Blood-Red Pupil Light.
• A Green Light brought the Jade Ruyi to Ye Jing, who infused it with his Dao Principles and pierced Ye Ling's forehead and the Eye of Destruction, killing him.

Ye Jing and Jian Wuhen killed Ye Ling and the other Ye Clan Dao Children, but a powerful stranger arrived and revealed himself as the Heavenly Court’s God of War, True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao. After he left, Jian Wuhen warned that the True Lord seemed strangely changed, deepening Ye Jing’s suspicions that something was wrong in the Heavenly Court.

• Jian Wuhen and Ye Jing killed Ye Ling and the three fleeing Dao Children, while the Jade Ruyi hid inside Ye Jing’s Divine Soul.
• True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao descended, restrained Ye Jing and Jian Wuhen, and searched for the Jade Ruyi and the man Ye Jing had impersonated.
• True Lord Qingyuan Miaodao recognized Ye Jing’s Southern Heavenly Gate Token, released them, took Ye Ling’s corpse, and departed.
• Jian Wuhen identified the stranger as Erlang Shen and said his behavior differed from the True Lord he remembered.
• Ye Jing and Jian Wuhen stripped the bodies and left, while a gaze from the heavens watched them before withdrawing.

After Ye Ling’s Soul Lamp went out, Ye Shitian learned of his death and vowed to discover who had killed him. Back at the Sword Sect, Ye Jing searched his spoils and found a token marked “God Reincarnation Pool,” then suddenly vanished.

• A guard reported that Ye Ling’s Soul Lamp had gone out, and Ye Shitian killed him for supposedly lying.
• Ye Shitian told Ye Tianchen that he had placed a Prohibition on Ye Ling and could review what happened before her death.
• Ye Jing left the Sword Sect after comforting Qiuyue and resolved to grow stronger against his growing list of enemies.
• Ye Jing searched four Storage Bags and found a golden-patterned token marked “God Reincarnation Pool.”
• Ye Jing recognized the token’s value and vanished from his room.

Ye Jing prepared to enter the Taixu Profound Realm to seek the God Reincarnation Pool, then left Sword Sect for his journey. Meanwhile, the Ye Clan’s Ancestor used Ye Ling’s birth placenta in a terrifying ritual on a captive woman.

• Ye Jing learned that the God Reincarnation Pool was in the Taixu Profound Realm and decided to grow stronger by taking the initiative despite the dangers posed by the Li Clan Ancient Clan, the Ye Imperial Clan, and Heavenly Court.
• Ye Jing strengthened Sword Sect’s protective Great Array, then reassured Qiuyue and gave her a Spirit Machine before setting out.
• Jian Wuhen entrusted Ye Jing with a Sword Pendant and promised to protect Qiuyue while Ye Jing was away.
• Li Tianchen led his clansmen away from Giant Sky City after postponing their search for the Innate Dao Body and losing their chance to rely on the Ye Imperial Clan.
• In the Ye Clan Ancestral Hall, the Ancestor took Ye Ling’s placenta and forced it into the belly of a bound woman, beginning a grotesque ritual.

Ye Jing, disguised as an ordinary middle-aged man, learned of a Sacred Tomb near Kelin City and abandoned his plans to travel to the Taixu Profound Realm after hearing it belonged to a Sage Scholar. He reached the tomb and discovered its outer chamber held books, which thrilled him despite others dismissing them as useless.

• Ye Jing rested at an inn in Kelin City and heard from the waiter that a huge Sacred Tomb had appeared over Pengping Village, attracting powerful factions.
• Ye Jing learned that the Wang Clan Ancient Clan and Liu Clan Ancient Clan had sent their Dao Children, while other major powers gathered around the tomb.
• Two guests said a Peak of Humanity expert had emerged from the tomb and identified it as the tomb of Qi Chun, a Sage Scholar; Ye Jing immediately vanished from the inn.
• Ye Jing appeared at the tomb and secretly approached the gathered cultivators to learn that the major powers were preparing to break through its Prohibition.
• A cultivator told Ye Jing that someone had entered the outer area and found only books collected by the Sage Scholar, and Ye Jing's eyes lit up.

Ye Jing entered the Ancient Tomb to read its books, but realized he could not finish before the Life Reincarnation Pool closed. He began buying Storage Bags so he could take the books, while the major forces prepared to break the Sacred Tomb’s Prohibition and looked down on him.

• Ye Jing used the name Xu Kun, paid 100 Low-grade Spirit Stones to enter the Ancient Tomb, and ignored Zhang Yang’s warning that its books held no hidden treasure.
• After seeing the many books in the first Tomb Chamber, Ye Jing decided to pack them all up and take them rather than read them one by one.
• Ye Jing left the chamber and traded pills and Magic Treasures for Storage Bags, drawing a crowd of eager sellers.
• Zhang Yang joined the crowd, sold Ye Jing a battered Storage Bag, and chased after it when Ye Jing tossed it away.
• Wang Baihong and Liu Huaqing arranged for the major forces to work together to break the Prohibition, while their Dao Children mocked Ye Jing for buying Storage Bags.

Wang Baihong and the other experts broke the Sacred Tomb’s outer Prohibition, triggering a hidden Great Array that trapped them inside. While the cultivators outside panicked, Ye Jing entered the Tomb Chambers and began taking their books, and the trapped experts discovered that the Dao Child had vanished.

• Wang Baihong activated the Breaking Shackles Eight Trigrams Array, broke the Sacred Tomb’s outer Prohibition, and led the experts inside as the waiting cultivators rushed after them.
• A dark cyan Great Array erupted around the Sacred Tomb, trapping those inside in mist while the people outside fled from the entrance.
• Ye Jing ignored Zhang Yang’s warning, entered the Tomb Chambers, and cleared one chamber of books before moving toward the next.
• Wang Baihong and the other experts lost sight of one of their companions and heard cries of agony as they searched for the Array Eye.
• Wang Baihong discovered that the Dao Child had vanished too and told everyone to hold hands as they continued forward.

Ye Jing was pulled into the Great Array and followed his instincts through the Dark Cyan Mist, where he found the skin of a powerful cultivator. At the array’s center, the surviving intruders discovered that a terrifying old man was hunting them, and he vanished back into the mist after they fought him off.

• Ye Jing left the emptied Tomb Chamber but was suddenly dragged into the Great Array, where he used All Things Understood to guide him through the Dark Cyan Mist.
• Ye Jing found a piece of Human Skin and recognized it as belonging to a Peak of Humanity Realm powerhouse who had stood at the Array Eye.
• Liu Huaqing and three other survivors tried to destroy the Dao Platform at the center of the formation, but the Dark Cyan Mist quickly repaired every hole they made.
• Liu Huaqing discovered that the Dao Child beside her had been reduced to Human Skin, and a terrifying old man lunged at her from the mist.
• The Great Feng military general and the other survivor attacked the old man, forcing him to retreat into the Dark Cyan Mist.

Ye Jing followed the strange noises in the Sacred Tomb and discovered an old man peeling Human Skin from the Female Dao Child. After Ye Jing struck the old man and helped Liu Huaqing and the others surround him, the old man absorbed the mist and attacked Ye Jing, who knocked him flying again.

• Liu Huaqing recognized the old man as the supposedly dead Sage Scholar, and she and the others feared his strength.
• Ye Jing followed repeated explosions through the Dark Cyan Mist and found the old man approaching four Dark Shadows on a Dao Platform.
• The old man stripped the Female Dao Child's Human Skin, then retreated when her Elder attacked him.
• Ye Jing used Sword Opens Heavenly Gate to strike the old man onto the Dao Platform and warned Liu Huaqing and the others to stop him.
• The old man absorbed the surrounding mist, attacked Ye Jing from behind, and was sent flying again when Ye Jing counterattacked.

Ye Jing and his companions fought Wang Baihong’s monstrous human-skin form as it absorbed the tomb’s dark cyan mist and grew stronger. Just as Liu Huaqing and the others prepared to unleash their trump cards, Ye Jing’s terrifying attack chopped the creature into tiny pieces.

• The old man attacked the Martial General from behind, but Ye Jing warned him and drove the old man away with Sword Qi.
• Liu Huaqing used her zither technique to daze the old man, allowing Ye Jing to sever one of his arms with Sword Opens Heavenly Gate.
• The old man shed his human-skin disguise, revealing Wang Baihong’s collapsed body beneath it, then inhaled the tomb’s dark cyan mist and repelled their attacks.
• Ye Jing and the others saw corpses nailed to the ceiling and continued attacking as the old man absorbed the last of the mist and surged in strength.
• Liu Huaqing urged everyone to use their trump cards, but the old man suddenly split into tiny pieces under Ye Jing’s attack.

Ye Jing defeated the human-skin monster but realized a powerful force had drawn him into the Great Array. The Sage Scholar’s Divine Soul appeared and explained how a Demon Seed had created the evil thoughts sealed in the tomb, leaving Ye Jing to hear how his own actions had drawn the Sage Scholar’s attention.

• Ye Jing killed the human-skin monster but suspected that someone stronger had dragged him into the Great Array.
• Green light swept across the Dao Platform and vanished Liu Huaqing and the other two, while a gentle old man’s Divine Soul appeared before Ye Jing.
• The old man identified himself as Qi Chun, the Sage Scholar, and said he had left the Divine Soul behind to guard the Great Array.
• Qi Chun explained that the Devil Race had planted a Demon Seed in him, so he separated and sealed away the evil thoughts it created.
• Qi Chun recounted how the evil thoughts killed the cultivators trapped in the tomb and admitted he had been unable to stop them.
• Qi Chun said Ye Jing’s handling of Storage Bags and calm behavior had led him to suspect Ye Jing was powerful.

Ye Jing learned how the Sage Scholar’s evil thought became the Human Skin, then escaped the Ancient Tomb and punished the factions that tried to extort him. Afterward, he realized the Sage Scholar’s Divine Soul might have deliberately let the Demon Seed be reborn in the Sage Scholar’s heart.

• The Sage Scholar explained that his evil thought had used his skin as a vessel, then stripped bodies to form the Human Skin and become a demon.
• The Sage Scholar sent Ye Jing out of the Ancient Tomb, where Liu Huaqing and the other survivors thanked him before demanding he share his gains.
• When the factions surrounded and threatened him, Ye Jing killed Liu Huaqing, the Martial General, and another fighter, crippled the others, and left.
• Ye Jing changed his appearance in a forest and found his Storage Bag filled with other Storage Bags.
• Ye Jing realized that killing the evil thought might have caused the Demon Seed to return to the Sage Scholar’s heart, and suspected the Sage Scholar’s Divine Soul had allowed it deliberately.

Ye Jing returned to the vanished Sacred Tomb, learned that a mysterious man had defeated several factions before the tomb disappeared, and buried the dead. After returning to the city, he prepared to travel to the Taixu Profound Realm and began reading a book about the Ancient Demon Race Heavenly Court.

• Ye Jing searched himself and his belongings for signs of interference, then decided to return to the Sacred Tomb.
• Ye Jing found the tomb gone and the surrounding pit filled with dead cultivators and villagers.
• Zhang Yang told Ye Jing that a man had defeated three Peaks of Humanity and crippled the other faction members before the tomb vanished.
• Ye Jing covered the pit with earth to make a grave, then left Zhang Yang behind.
• Ye Jing rented a room in the city, set up a Heaven Concealment Array, and planned to travel with the Heng'an merchant association to the Taixu Profound Realm.
• Ye Jing read that Taiyi, the Eastern Emperor, had ruled the Ancient Demon Race Heavenly Court, whose history the current Heavenly Court had apparently suppressed.

After witnessing Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s life, Ye Jing comprehended the Primordial Chaos Spirit Great Sun Golden Flame and traveled in disguise to Niuma City for work. There, he learned that the Heng'an Merchant Association was delivering something to the Ye Imperial Clan, while the clan had restored Ye Ling to life at a horrifying cost.

• Ye Jing witnessed Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s final battle and comprehended the Primordial Chaos Spirit Great Sun Golden Flame.
• Ye Jing practiced controlling the flame through the night, then changed identities and flew toward a neighboring domain.
• The Ye Imperial Clan restored Ye Ling to life, and the old man ordered servants to clean up the dead woman left in the Ancestral Hall.
• Ye Jing took a low-paid job with the Heng'an Merchant Association in Niuma City and listened as Liu Hang discussed their delivery to the Ye Imperial Clan.
• Liu Hang revealed that the secret cargo they were delivering was people.

Ye Jing discovered that the Heng'an Merchant Association was secretly transporting 180 unconscious people in boxes to the Ye Imperial Clan, and suspected many had been abducted rather than sold as slaves. As the caravan neared the Taixu Profound Realm, its leader warned the laborers to keep their heads down when they entered.

• Liu Hang told the laborers that the caravan was transporting slaves for the Ye Imperial Clan, leaving Ye Jing puzzled about why the clan needed so many.
• Ye Jing sensed living people inside the boxes and realized the caravan carried 180 unconscious captives, each apparently kept under with a Turtle Breath Pill.
• The Goatee Man activated a formation disc that sped up the caravan, which traveled for five days without incident.
• On the sixth night, a man escaped from a box and began to protest that he was not a slave, but the Goatee Man killed him and returned his body to the box.
• Ye Jing concluded that many captives had likely been abducted, then continued traveling with the caravan for four more peaceful days.
• The caravan leader warned the laborers to keep their heads down and avoid wandering when they entered the Taixu Profound Realm the next day.

Ye Jing discovered that Chen Nuanshu had been drugged and hidden in a box among the captives bound for the Ye Family, where they would be made into Myriad Blood Pills. As the caravan entered the Taixu Profound Realm, Ye Jing set off a pill that awakened everyone in the boxes.

• Ye Jing heard Chen Nuanshu moving inside a box and warned her through his thoughts not to reveal herself to the guards.
• Chen Nuanshu begged Ye Jing to let her return to her six-year-old brother in Niuma City, but Ye Jing told her she had been gone at least nine days and could only help after they entered another world.
• Ye Jing learned that the caravan's captives would be refined into blood essence and condensed into Myriad Blood Pills for the Ye Family.
• The caravan entered Yaoxiao City and reached a Light Gate guarded by powerful cultivators, where the travelers collected identity tokens to pass through.
• Ye Jing tossed a pill into the caravan, filling the plaza with Green Smoke and causing every box on the carriages to shake as the captives woke up.

Ye Jing exposed the Ye Family’s slave transport at a checkpoint, escaped into the Taixu Profound Realm, and made his way to Lu Zhi to request a legal identity. Lu Zhi recognized the Sword Sect Master’s letter and token, then brought Ye Jing into his hut and cursed Jian Wuhen for nearly getting him into trouble.

• Ye Jing used Green Smoke to awaken the people hidden in the Ye Family’s boxes, causing them to flee and creating chaos at the checkpoint.
• Ye Jing slipped through the Light Gate, killed a God of Heaven and Earth guard, and escaped deeper into the Taixu Profound Realm.
• Ye Jing adapted to the realm’s Dao laws, checked his map, and continued toward the God Reincarnation Pool while seeking help with a legal identity.
• Ye Jing found Lu Zhi by a pond and presented the Sword Sect Master’s token and letter, asking him to help obtain a legal identity.
• Lu Zhi recognized the letter and token, brought Ye Jing into his hut, and cursed Jian Wuhen for nearly getting him into trouble.

Ye Jing visited Lu Zhi to obtain a legal identity in the Taixu Profound Realm, and Lu Zhi challenged him to learn the Grass Character Sword Art. Ye Jing instantly comprehended its complete mysteries through Heaven-Defying Comprehension, leaving Lu Zhi stunned by sword intent that surpassed his own.

• Lu Zhi read the Sword Sect Master's letter, became angry, and offered Ye Jing an identity if he learned the Grass Character Sword Art's basics within a month.
• Ye Jing asked for his identity immediately if he mastered the basics at once, while Lu Zhi boasted of his title as Sword Saint Zhenyang and explained the art's difficulty.
• Ye Jing flipped through the manual and used Heaven-Defying Comprehension to grasp the Grass Character Sword Art's complete mysteries.
• Ye Jing witnessed the Supreme Sword Grass defeat four Saints in a vision, then released sword intent infused with its aura of Endless Life.
• Lu Zhi recognized that Ye Jing's comprehension surpassed his own and matched the sword art's origin.