Chapter Summaries

Wang Xuan tried to take Ying Chuan away under orders from a mysterious great figure, but Black Radiance intervened to protect him. As Wang Xuan attacked with the Ask-Heaven Mirror, Black Radiance invoked the Dark Hall’s Ghost Possession secret art.

• Wang Xuan accused Ying Chuan of joining the Dark Hall and used Heaven-Earth Power to force him to turn the Soul-Slaying Saber on himself.
• Black Radiance stopped Wang Xuan with a black war spear and revealed that his true body’s power could be summoned through a talisman.
• Wang Xuan threatened Black Radiance on behalf of a great figure, then brought out the Ask-Heaven Mirror as his trump card.
• Ying Chuan and Hua Yunfei inferred that a powerful man had ordered Wang Xuan and the others to target Ying Chuan, and they moved behind Black Radiance for protection.
• Wang Xuan unleashed the Ask-Heaven Mirror’s laws against the warship, and Black Radiance invoked the Ghost Possession secret art with a purple Deputy Leader talisman.

Black Radiance used Ghost Possession to borrow a Vice Cult Leader’s power and battled Wang Xuan, who revealed increasingly powerful treasures, including an imitation of Emperor Ling Tian’s Heaven-Rending Sword. As the sword descended, the enormous figure summoned by Black Radiance caught it, declaring that the Dark Hall could stand against Emperor Ling Tian.

• Black Radiance activated a purple talisman and used Ghost Possession to gain a Vice Cult Leader’s power, astonishing Hua Yunfei and the others.
• Wang Xuan attacked Black Radiance with the Ask-Heaven Mirror, then deployed the Heaven-Suppressing Banner to suppress everyone nearby.
• Wang Xuan summoned an imitation of the Heaven-Rending Sword, collapsing the Divine Turtle Heavens and forcing the Divine Turtle Old Man to hold its fragments together.
• Ying Chuan recognized the sword’s connection to Emperor Ling Tian, while Black Radiance identified it as an imitation carrying genuine sword might.
• Wang Xuan drove the Heaven-Rending Sword at Black Radiance, but the illusory figure behind Black Radiance caught it and challenged Emperor Ling Tian.

Wang Xuan admitted defeat after the Dark Hall's deputy cult leader phantom repelled his supreme treasures, but Black Radiance refused to let the Heaven-Earth Alliance group leave without being plundered. Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan stripped Xuan Qing and Jiang Yi of their treasures and belongings, with Hua Yunfei even taking Xuan Qing's clothes.

• The Dark Hall deputy cult leader phantom spoke and struck independently, knocking Wang Xuan's Heaven-Rending Sword back and forcing Wang Xuan to admit defeat.
• Wang Xuan put away his supreme treasures and headed for the black warship with Xuan Qing and Jiang Yi, but Black Radiance stopped them and ordered Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan to take their treasures.
• Hua Yunfei made Xuan Qing undo his restrictions, then plundered his supreme treasures and Dao Ancestor artifacts despite Xuan Qing's protests.
• Ying Chuan made Jiang Yi surrender his belongings and took his treasures, crystals, pills, bracelet, and necklace.
• Ying Chuan noticed Hua Yunfei stripping Xuan Qing's clothes and was stunned by how far Hua Yunfei's plundering went.

Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan stripped their defeated opponents and forced them to sign IOUs for the clothes they kept. The chapter left Wang Xuan staring at a demand for three million high-grade heaven-earth crystals for his underpants.

• Hua Yunfei stripped Xuan Qing and treated his underpants as a million-crystal purchase, then raised the price until Xuan Qing signed an IOU for 1.2 million high-grade heaven-earth crystals.
• Ying Chuan stripped Jiang Yi and made him sign a binding IOU for 1.2 million high-grade heaven-earth crystals.
• The Vice Cult Leader's projection praised Hua Yunfei's sharp mind but judged him too unruly to teach himself.
• Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan turned their attention to Wang Xuan, who argued that his Main Alliance status should spare him.
• Hua Yunfei gave Wang Xuan an IOU demanding three million high-grade heaven-earth crystals for one pair of underpants, and Wang Xuan protested.

Hua Yunfei forced Wang Xuan to sign IOUs totaling 9.66 million high-grade heaven-earth crystals and began negotiating for his secret scripture. Wang Xuan and his companions left heavily indebted and humiliated, while the Dark Hall turned its attention to the supreme treasures in his internal grotto-heaven.

• Hua Yunfei charged Wang Xuan three million high-grade heaven-earth crystals for his underpants, and Wang Xuan signed the IOU.
• Hua Yunfei demanded another 6.66 million crystals to let Wang Xuan keep his clothes on, threatening to strip him when he refused.
• Wang Xuan offered a top-secret scripture in exchange for his boots and socks, and Hua Yunfei agreed to discuss it after Wang removed the restrictions inside his body.
• Wang Xuan realized the Dark Hall wanted the treasures in his internal grotto-heaven, then left with his two companions, all deeply indebted and two of them naked.
• Wang Xuan threatened to exterminate the clan of anyone who spread word of his humiliation.

Hua Yunfei secured proof that Wang Xuan, Jiang Yi, and Xuan Qing owed the Dark Hall, while Black Radiance met with the Divine Turtle Old Man, who sought the Fated Bloodthirst Vine to treat a worsening Dao injury. The Divine Turtle Old Man revealed that his troubles were tied to the Blood Radiance Scripture, prompting Black Radiance to recognize its legendary creator.

• Hua Yunfei showed Black Radiance and Ying Chuan a Recording Stone capturing the Heaven-Earth Alliance trio’s defeat, ensuring they could be pressured to honor their IOUs.
• The deputy cult leader’s phantom vanished, and Black Radiance prepared to leave after rescuing Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan.
• The Divine Turtle Old Man summoned Black Radiance, Hua Yunfei, and Ying Chuan, thanked them, and explained that he had once glimpsed the ninth step but now suffered a severe Dao injury.
• The Divine Turtle Old Man asked for the Dark Hall’s Fated Bloodthirst Vine, explaining that his cultivation had fallen to just below the late seventh step and would keep declining without it.
• The Divine Turtle Old Man asked whether Black Radiance knew of the Blood Radiance Scripture, and Black Radiance identified it as the work of the Blood Radiance Heavenly Ancestor.

Hua Yunfei learned that the Divine Turtle Old Man had found the middle volume of the Blood Radiance Scripture, a supreme cultivation method created by the legendary Blood Radiance Heavenly Ancestor. The group revealed that Blood Radiance Heavenly Ancestor had been killed by the Ancestor Grade protector of the Blue Star Civilization, though they did not know why, and the Divine Turtle Old Man explained that his incomplete scripture had damaged his cultivation.

• Ying Chuan and the Divine Turtle Old Man told Hua Yunfei that the Blood Radiance Scripture was created by Blood Radiance Heavenly Ancestor and stood among the greatest scriptures beneath Ancestor Grade.
• Hua Yunfei asked why Blood Radiance Heavenly Ancestor was called the former number one, and Ying Chuan explained that he had fallen long ago.
• Black Radiance said that the senior surnamed Ying who protected the Blue Star Civilization had killed Blood Radiance Heavenly Ancestor with a single blow.
• Black Radiance described conflicting rumors about Blood Radiance Heavenly Ancestor's offense, but declined to reveal what the Dark Hall knew.
• The Divine Turtle Old Man explained that he had obtained only the scripture's middle volume, and that cultivating without the other volumes had damaged his body and caused his realm to decline.

Divine Turtle Old Man traded a handwritten copy of the Blood Radiance Scripture to the Dark Hall for fated bloodthirst vine to slow his cultivation’s decline. Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan then received the Ghost Possession technique from Black Radiance and asked him for talismans before he left.

• Divine Turtle Old Man explained that the Blood Radiance Scripture’s blood toxin was destroying his cultivation, while Black Radiance offered fated bloodthirst vine in exchange for the scripture.
• Black Radiance and Hua Yunfei discussed the Blue Star Civilization and the rumors surrounding the Mars Civilization’s former ninth-step World Lord.
• Divine Turtle Old Man gave Black Radiance a handwritten copy of the Blood Radiance Scripture and was promised a first batch of fated bloodthirst vine in ten days.
• Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan asked Black Radiance to teach them Ghost Possession, and he sent the cultivation method into their bodies.
• Ying Chuan and Hua Yunfei asked for talismans, but Black Radiance said he would arrange for Hall Master-level ones to be delivered and refused to give them Deputy Cult Leader-level talismans.

Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan received a purple talisman from Black Radiance after he rescued them from the crisis in Divine Turtle Heavens. Black Radiance then coaxed the resentful Zhuo Yue back aboard his warship, promising not to abandon him again and offering him a purple talisman of his own.

• Black Radiance gave his last purple talisman to Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan, who argued over who should keep it before Hua Yunfei claimed it.
• Black Radiance scolded Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan for nearly causing a disaster and warned them to avoid provoking the Heaven-Earth Alliance.
• Hua Yunfei asked Black Radiance for a Sect Master-Class Warship, and Black Radiance promised he would get one after it was built.
• Hua Yunfei said he wanted to study the Blood Radiance Scripture, while Ying Chuan warned him that cultivating its incomplete middle volume could be dangerous.
• Black Radiance found Zhuo Yue brooding beside a rock, and Zhuo Yue complained that he had been abandoned.
• Black Radiance promised not to leave Zhuo Yue behind again and offered to arrange a purple talisman for him, persuading Zhuo Yue to board the warship.

Hua Yunfei accepted Yuan Shen into the Dark Hall, and the group traveled from the Giant Cloud Heavens to the Mars Civilization using a faster Earthstar Road. At the Mars Star Pass, the legendary Ge Dansheng revealed himself aboard their ship, prompting Hua Yunfei to pursue him and ask about his connection to the Blue Star Civilization.

• Yuan Shen asked to join the Dark Hall, and Hua Yunfei accepted him as a new member.
• Luo Wan used Hua Yunfei's high-grade heaven-earth crystals to increase the Bronze Ship's speed along the Earthstar Road.
• After nearly a hundred years of travel, Hua Yunfei and his companions arrived at the Mars Star Pass.
• Ge Dansheng emerged from the Bronze Ship, thanked the group for the ride, and flew toward the Mars Civilization.
• Hua Yunfei recognized Ge Dansheng as Ge Hong and hurried after him, while an armored man aboard a small boat announced their arrival to General Meng.

Hua Yunfei and his companions learned that the Giant Cloud Merchant Association had been destroyed a hundred years earlier, leaving Luo Wan devastated. They discovered that the Fallen Soul Spirit Cult was blamed for the massacre, and Liu Attendant prepared to face it while Hua Yunfei assessed its strength.

• Hua Yunfei failed to find the White-haired Old Man and suggested that the group head to Mars Civilization.
• A middle-aged man told Luo Wan that the Giant Cloud Merchant Association had been wiped out a hundred years earlier, and Liu Attendant confirmed its headquarters had changed hands.
• The middle-aged man explained that the Giant Cloud Merchant Association's success had angered local businesses and that a dispute involving a rare treasure had heightened tensions with the Mars Merchant Association.
• The middle-aged man said the Fallen Soul Spirit Cult had massacred the association, and Liu Attendant identified its Spirit-Annihilating Evil Art as the cause.
• The middle-aged man reported that the Mars Merchant Association had joined forces with the Fallen Soul Spirit Cult, and Liu Attendant flew into a rage.
• Liu Attendant said the Fallen Soul Ancestor was a Third-Step Peak expert, and Hua Yunfei judged he could handle that level of opponent.

Hua Yunfei reassured Luo Wan that her father could still return and promised to help her confront the Fallen Soul Spirit Cult. After Yuan Shen received a threatening letter from the Mars Merchant Association, the group faced a warning that the Mars Civilization would become their burial ground.

• Luo Wan asked a middle-aged man about the Fallen Soul Spirit Cult and rewarded him for sharing what he knew.
• Hua Yunfei explained that the Fallen Soul Ancestor was unlikely to have consigned Luo Wan’s father to eternal quiescence, restoring some of her hope.
• Luo Wan asked Hua Yunfei for help, and he promised to seek justice and said invoking the Dark Hall’s name might make the Fallen Soul Ancestor submit.
• Hua Yunfei sent Yuan Shen to Spirit Demon Star to investigate without alerting the enemy, while Ying Chuan agreed to help.
• Yuan Shen received a letter from the Mars Merchant Association threatening that the Mars Civilization would be the group’s burial ground.

Hua Yunfei and his companions entered the Mars Civilization cautiously, while Ying Chuan rushed ahead to pursue his own business. The Mars Merchant Association watched their arrival, and two mysterious rogue cultivators, True Person Baopu and Ji Tian, arrived at the passage.

• Yuan Shen and Luo Wan warned Hua Yunfei and Ying Chuan that the Mars Merchant Association was dangerous, but Ying Chuan dismissed their concerns.
• Hua Yunfei led the group through a Teleportation Domain Gate toward Mars and told Luo Wan to gather information with Yuan Shen's help.
• Ying Chuan hurried into the Mars Civilization alone, while Hua Yunfei and the others followed and felt its intense Formless Fire.
• After the group passed inspection and entered the Heaven-Earth Passage, an attendant reported their arrival to a superior who said they were trapped in the Mars Civilization.
• True Person Baopu entered the Heaven-Earth Passage, followed by the imposing rogue cultivator Ji Tian.

Hua Yunfei and his companions passed the Mars Civilization’s Heaven-Earth Passage and explored a world where technology and cultivation coexisted. They reached Falling Cloud Star City, where Luo Wan explained how the Realm Lord’s Residence protected mortals.

• Hua Yunfei, Yuan Shen, Yan Xue, and Luo Wan passed the Heaven-Earth Passage’s trials and arrived in the Mars Civilization.
• Luo Wan pointed out Mars and Spirit Demon Star, and the group traveled to Mars to find a place to settle.
• The group encountered a mortal woman piloting a mecha and learned that mortals in the Mars Civilization could use mecha to contend with cultivators.
• Luo Wan explained the Realm Lord’s Residence’s strict rules against harming mortals and the protections provided in cities.
• Hua Yunfei said they could restore Giant Cloud Star City’s former name, and Yan Xue remarked that the people at the Realm Lord’s Residence seemed nice.

Li Yuan’s Ancestor and the Mars Merchant Association’s Great Elder planned to eliminate the Giant Cloud Merchant Association’s allies in Woliang City. The Great Elder left to lure them to Spirit Demon Star, carrying the Primordial Chaos Killing Array as a safeguard.

• Li Yuan flattered his Ancestor, received the Heaven-Candle Wheel, and suggested attacking the group in Woliang City.
• The Great Elder arrived and told the Ancestor that the group’s strongest member had left, while the remaining fighters seemed weak.
• The Ancestor agreed to send Li Yuan with the Great Elder to gain experience, trusting that the Heaven-Candle Wheel would protect him.
• The Ancestor gave the Great Elder the Primordial Chaos Killing Array as a backup and warned him not to draw the Realm Lord’s attention.
• The Great Elder departed, intending to lure the group to Spirit Demon Star and kill them.

Hua Yunfei learned that the Mars Merchant Association had arranged the destruction of the Giant Cloud Merchant Association by using Yan Chunfeng as a shill and coordinating with the Fallen Soul Spirit Cult and other merchant groups. After discovering that most of Spring Breeze Valley’s senior members had joined the plot, he sent Yuan Shen and Luo Wan to deal with the guilty, leaving the story poised for their attack.

• Ying Chuan warned Hua Yunfei that the Mars Merchant Association was likely to target them while he was away.
• Luo Wan and Yuan Shen reported that the Mars Merchant Association had masterminded the Giant Cloud Merchant Association’s destruction and that Yan Chunfeng had acted as its shill.
• Yuan Shen identified Yan Chunfeng, the injured Valley Master of Spring Breeze Valley, and offered to capture him.
• Luo Wan judged that the Mars Merchant Association would more likely confront them on Spirit Demon Star than ambush them at Spring Breeze Valley.
• Hua Yunfei learned that most of Spring Breeze Valley’s senior members had participated in the plot and ordered Yuan Shen and Luo Wan to punish the guilty and disband the valley.

Hua Yunfei wandered through Woliang City, declined invitations from strangers, and entered the Pill Tower. Meanwhile, Luo Wan and Yuan Shen began their attack on Spring Breeze Valley, where Yuan Shen called out Yan Chunfeng.

• Hua Yunfei sent Luo Wan and Yuan Shen to Spring Breeze Valley with Liu Attendant to help capture the sinners, then went out to explore the city.
• Hua Yunfei politely turned down a young woman's request for his contact details and declined an invitation from a woman waiting in a black sedan.
• The woman told her attendant to keep a closer eye on Hua Yunfei after recognizing his strength.
• Hua Yunfei entered Woliang City's Pill Tower.
• On Spring Breeze Star, Luo Wan and Yuan Shen divided their forces to attack the elders in Spring Breeze Valley's ninety-nine valleys while avoiding alerting Yan Chunfeng.
• Yuan Shen sent Luo Wan with nine monkey clones and left Liu Attendant to guard, then roared a challenge to Yan Chunfeng outside the Valley Master's grand hall.

Yuan Shen, Luo Wan, and the nine little monkeys destroyed Spring Breeze Valley, captured Yan Chunfeng, and looted its treasure vault. When a masked elder from the Mars Merchant Association confronted them, they escaped by teleportation, leaving him an insulting mark.

• Yuan Shen broke the Flower Realm Killing Formation, defeated Yan Chunfeng, and took him captive before declaring Spring Breeze Valley disbanded.
• Luo Wan and the nine little monkeys defeated Spring Breeze Valley’s elders and joined Yuan Shen with Yan Chunfeng.
• Yuan Shen sealed Yan Chunfeng’s mouth and soul, then searched his soul until he revealed the Treasure Vault’s location.
• Luo Wan and the nine little monkeys collected Spring Breeze Valley’s possessions, and Liu Attendant urged them to return to Woliang City.
• A masked elder from the Mars Merchant Association appeared, but Yuan Shen, Luo Wan, Liu Attendant, and Yan Chunfeng escaped through a prepared teleportation formation.
• The black-robed elder found a marking of a monkey making a face and sticking up its middle finger, then roared in fury.

Hua Yunfei’s group interrogated Yan Chunfeng and learned that the Mars Merchant Association’s supposed supreme treasure was a reincarnation beast cub. Luo Wan connected the revelation to an Ancient Scroll’s prophecy of a reincarnation expert who would bring chaos to the various realms.

• Hua Yunfei’s group returned to the hotel after escaping the Mars Merchant Association and agreed to avoid further attacks for the time being.
• Hua Yunfei released Yan Chunfeng and confronted him over helping the Mars Merchant Association destroy the Giant Cloud Merchant Association.
• Yan Chunfeng revealed that the rumored supreme treasure was a cub, not an ordinary treasure.
• Luo Wan recalled that an Ancient Scroll described reincarnation beasts as rulers of reincarnation and foretold that one would appear before a supreme reincarnation expert brought devastation to the various realms.
• Hua Yunfei and the others realized the cub was a reincarnation beast, while Luo Wan wondered whether the Ancient Scroll’s prophecy was genuine.

Hua Yunfei learned that the Mars Merchant Association had used the Reincarnation Beast cub as a pretext to move against Luo Wan's family, and he decided to delay retaliation until Nian Chuan arrived. After reading Luo Wan's ancient scroll, he discovered a dire prophecy about the Reincarnation Beast and suffered a severe headache, unlike Luo Wan.

• Yan Chunfeng told Hua Yunfei that Senior Li had urged the Mars Merchant Association to use the Reincarnation Beast cub as a pretext to attack the Giant Cloud Merchant Association.
• Luo Wan and Liu Attendant discussed the fall of the Giant Cloud Merchant Association and Luo Wan's belief that World Lord Chi had not known about the attack beforehand.
• Hua Yunfei ordered Yuan Shen to refine and kill Yan Chunfeng, then chose to wait for Nian Chuan rather than immediately attack the other merchant associations and the Fallen Soul Spirit Cult.
• Hua Yunfei asked Luo Wan to call him Yun Xuan and examined her ancient Reincarnation Scroll.
• Hua Yunfei read that the Reincarnation Beast was an innate Dao Ancestor and that its appearance would bring chaos and the destruction of the present world.
• Hua Yunfei closed the scroll after suffering a severe headache and wondered whether his cultivation of the Reincarnation Path caused his reaction.