Chapter Summaries

Hua Yunfei used Equivalent Exchange to take the Sun Moon Holy Emperor’s immortal pill, then agreed to help him obtain a Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman. They planned to conceal their identities and use the captured aura of a True Immortal to turn the tables on the Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor.

• Hua Yunfei exchanged a Low-grade Spirit Stone for the Sun Moon Holy Emperor’s sealed immortal pill, leaving him stunned.
• The Sun Moon Holy Emperor asked Hua Yunfei to teach him the ability, but Hua Yunfei kept the pill and teased him about being backed by the Dao Origin Peak.
• Hua Yunfei promised to help the Sun Moon Holy Emperor get a Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman from the Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor.
• Hua Yunfei warned that they could not reveal their identities and asked whether the Sun Moon Holy Emperor had captured the True Immortal’s aura.
• The Sun Moon Holy Emperor confirmed he had a wisp of the aura, and Hua Yunfei told him to put their plan in motion.

Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor met the True Immortal who had nearly killed him to negotiate a trade involving the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman and a path to immortality. The True Immortal used Equivalent Exchange to replace the talisman and his Immortal Grade pill with Low-grade Spirit Stones, then vanished.

• Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor reflected on how his battle with a True Immortal fifty years earlier had given him insight into the Immortal Dao.
• The True Immortal threatened Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor and offered longevity substance in exchange for the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman.
• Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor agreed to meet the True Immortal at Kun Nian Tavern in Crimson Dragon Ancient City.
• The True Immortal offered an Immortal Grade pill and asked to inspect the talisman, while Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor demanded help becoming immortal.
• The True Immortal shouted "EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE" and replaced the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman and the pill box with Low-grade Spirit Stones before disappearing.

Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor failed to track the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman and planned to expose its theft to powerful forces. Hua Yunfei returned to Worry-Free Tower after obtaining the talisman for Sun Moon Holy Emperor, who asked whether the errand had succeeded.

• Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor failed to divine the location of the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman and unleashed his Imperial Might in anger.
• Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor returned to Crimson Dragon Sacred Sect and planned to tell Daoyuan Sect and Heavenly Secrets Hall about the stolen talisman before seeking other powerful forces.
• A middle-aged True Immortal felt uneasy on his way toward Spirit Domain and decided to divine the cause before continuing his journey.
• Sun Moon Holy Emperor drank wine at Worry-Free Tower and discussed enjoying himself with a woman offering special company.
• Hua Yunfei appeared in Sun Moon Holy Emperor's private room, said he had completed the errand, and asked about his empty wineglass.
• Sun Moon Holy Emperor poured Hua Yunfei wine and asked whether he had obtained the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman.

Hua Yunfei showed Sun Moon Holy Emperor the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman and discussed its mysteries before learning about the system’s new optional features. He planned to attend the Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor’s birthday banquet in three days, while Sun Moon Holy Emperor offered information about a place that could help Hua Yunfei’s Primordial Dao Body.

• Hua Yunfei showed Sun Moon Holy Emperor the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman, explaining that it had eight uses left and that he needed to refine it before handing it over.
• Hua Yunfei asked the system about the talisman, then learned that System Version 3.0 included optional Fixed-Point Check-ins and Fixed-Point Missions without penalties.
• Hua Yunfei prepared to leave the private room after the woman outside said the person had arrived, while Sun Moon Holy Emperor insisted that Worry-Free Tower helped with cultivation rather than indulgence.
• Hua Yunfei told Sun Moon Holy Emperor that they would attend the Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor’s birthday banquet in three days and return to the sect afterward.
• Sun Moon Holy Emperor asked Hua Yunfei to teach him several techniques and show him his Emperor Scripture, then offered information about a place that could draw out the Primordial Dao Body’s potential and possibly address its flaw.

Hua Yunfei learned that a relic minor world in the Cang Domain might contain a way to mend the flaws in his Primordial Dao Body, which he believed he needed to attain true immortality. He planned to visit the Lost Ruins with Xia Yun, while a Green-robed Woman elsewhere ordered her subordinate to verify the relic and contact someone if its promise proved real.

• Hua Yunfei gave the Sun Moon Holy Emperor the One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones method but withheld his perfect Emperor Scripture and Equivalent Exchange until he learned more about the rumored relic.
• The Sun Moon Holy Emperor revealed that the relic minor world was in the Cang Domain and said he had informed the Hongmeng Great Emperor.
• Hua Yunfei decided to investigate the relic because he refused to mend his Primordial Dao Body by sacrificing Xia Yun and remained determined to achieve true immortality.
• Hua Yunfei received a fixed-point check-in quest directing him to the Lost Ruins in the Cang Domain for a chance to obtain a transcendent treasure.
• Hua Yunfei planned to bring Xia Yun to the Lost Ruins after meeting her in Crimson Dragon Ancient City.
• In the Eternal Domain, a Green-robed Woman told her subordinate to confirm whether the relic could mend the Primordial Dao Body and contact someone if it could.

Hua Yunfei attended the Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor’s birthday banquet, where he encountered Gong Qingyan, the former Golden-haired Woman who had become Heavenly Secrets Hall’s Saintess. The Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor privately recounted the theft of the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman, unaware that Hua Yunfei was the culprit.

• The Taicang Immortal Sect and the Mo Immortal Clan clashed after Old Ghost Mo killed Tang Guyuan, and Mo Qing slew the Taicang Immortal Sect’s challenger.
• The Taicang Immortal Sect declared its support for the Daoyuan Sect after Hua Taixu rescued Zhao Qinghan, boosting the sect’s standing.
• Hua Yunfei, the Sun Moon Holy Emperor, and Xia Yun attended the Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor’s birthday banquet, where they saw Gong Qingyan serving as Heavenly Secrets Hall’s Saintess.
• The Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor invited Hua Yunfei and Gong Qingyan to a secret chamber and described the stolen Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman.
• Hua Yunfei feigned surprise as the Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor lamented losing the talisman, not realizing Hua Yunfei had taken it.

Hua Yunfei and Gong Qingyan left the Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor after learning about the stolen Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman, which Hua Yunfei admitted he had taken. As Hua Yunfei’s group traveled toward the Cang Domain, they picked up Great Emperor Yaoguang, but the journey remained far from over.

• Hua Yunfei and Gong Qingyan saw through the Crimson Dragon Ancient Emperor’s attempt to incite conflict between their sects over the Nine Deaths Substitute Talisman.
• Hua Yunfei told Gong Qingyan that he had stolen the talisman, and Gong Qingyan explained that she had severed her cultivation to pursue a new path.
• Hua Yunfei invited Gong Qingyan to visit an Ancient Ruin that might help repair the Primordial Dao Body, but she declined and described her plan to fuse her three physiques.
• Hua Yunfei, Xia Yun, and the Sun Moon Holy Emperor began traveling toward the Cang Domain, taking detours as the Sun Moon Holy Emperor explored the Immortal Realm.
• In Qiantian Ancient City, the Sun Moon Holy Emperor persuaded Great Emperor Yaoguang to join them by promising to teach him One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones.
• Another month passed, and the four travelers still had not reached the Cang Domain.

Hua Yunfei and his companions reached the Cang Domain, where they found the Ancient Ruin near the enslaved workers of the Yin Ghost Cult’s spirit crystal mine. After concealing the area and entering the ruin, Hua Yunfei received a check-in reward that provoked an angry scream from a distant figure.

• Hua Yunfei warned Huang Xuan not to associate with Sun Moon Holy Emperor, Great Emperor Yaoguang, and Great Emperor Tianxing, then reunited with the trio on the way to Cang Domain.
• The five arrived at the Ancient Spirit Mine, where the Yin Ghost Cult enslaved cultivators to extract spirit crystals, and Sun Moon Holy Emperor led them to the Ancient Ruin nearby.
• Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun recognized that the basin concealing the ruin was formed from Dao patterns, and Sun Moon Holy Emperor explained that it held a small world containing ferocious beasts and Primordial Violet Qi.
• Hua Yunfei concealed the basin with formation patterns, and Sun Moon Holy Emperor opened the ruin so the five could enter.
• Hua Yunfei triggered a designated-location check-in and received a Martial Virtue Brick (New Version), while someone in a distant ancient hall screamed that the item had been stolen again.

The Hall Master of Martial Virtue traced his stolen brick to Cang Domain and set off to find the thief, while Hua Yunfei received another Martial Virtue Brick and worried about the Hall Master’s response. In the Lost Ruins, Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun discovered a region of Primordial Violet Qi and went toward it as their companions split off to explore elsewhere.

• The Hall Master of Martial Virtue used the Karma Thread and Thread of Heaven's Secrets to locate the thief in Cang Domain, then headed for the Azure Clan.
• Hua Yunfei received a newly refined Martial Virtue Brick from the system, and the original brick considered swallowing it before the other artifacts gathered around.
• Hua Yunfei asked whether the Hall Master of Martial Virtue could divine the brick’s location, and the system warned that he probably could now that they were in the same realm.
• Hua Yunfei, Xia Yun, the Sun Moon Holy Emperor, the Chaos Bell, Supreme Cauldron of the Pill Emperor, and Eastern Sacred Sword entered the Lost Ruins and sensed that its ancient aura suppressed perception.
• Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun spotted Primordial Violet Qi in the distance, and the Sun Moon Holy Emperor told them to go ahead while the others explored elsewhere.

Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun cultivated in a pool of Primordial Violet Water, but the treasures did not mend the flaw in Hua Yunfei’s Primordial Dao Body. After eating one of the nearby purple flowers, he sensed the flaw improve slightly, while Jiang Ruoyao arrived at the pool and found them.

• Sun Moon Holy Emperor left with Great Emperor Yaoguang and Great Emperor Tianxing to search the Ancient Ruin for treasures while Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun headed toward the Primordial Violet Glow and Primordial Violet Qi.
• Hua Yunfei prepared the area with array patterns, then entered the violet pool to cultivate; Xia Yun joined him, and he turned his back when her dress clung to her body.
• Hua Yunfei absorbed the Primordial Violet Glow and Primordial Violet Qi, improving his strength and physique but failing to mend the innate flaw in his Primordial Dao Body.
• Hua Yunfei ate a purple flower and sensed that it had filled the flaw in his Primordial Dao Body by a small amount.
• Sun Moon Holy Emperor, Great Emperor Yaoguang, and Great Emperor Tianxing encountered Jiang Ruoyao, who learned that Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun were at the pool and went to meet them.
• Jiang Ruoyao arrived at the pool and saw Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun soaking in the water.

Jiang Ruoyao reunited with Hua Yunfei in the Lost Ruins and urged him to consider Xia Yun as a way to repair the flaw in his Primordial Dao Body. Hua Yunfei refused, and Jiang Ruoyao warned him not to cripple his own body; he remained silent, leaving his other plan unresolved.

• Jiang Ruoyao found Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun bathing in the Primordial Chaos Pool and teased them about being a couple.
• Hua Yunfei woke from cultivation and told Jiang Ruoyao that the purple flowers had not come close to repairing his flaw.
• Jiang Ruoyao revealed that she had become a Saintess of the Eternal Divine Hall.
• Jiang Ruoyao pressed Hua Yunfei to consider Xia Yun, but he said he had other ways to fix his flaw.
• Jiang Ruoyao warned Hua Yunfei that she would look down on him if he crippled his Primordial Dao Body himself.

Jiang Ruoyao tried to push Hua Yunfei and Xia Yun together, but Xia Yun made clear she had no romantic interest in him. Their reunion was interrupted when the Sun Moon Holy Emperor, Great Emperor Yaoguang, and Great Emperor Tianxing crashed back from the ruins, badly injured, as a powerful enemy appeared.

• Jiang Ruoyao teased Xia Yun about marrying Hua Yunfei, but Xia Yun said she had no such feelings and suspected Jiang Ruoyao had come to meddle.
• The small world shook as strange laws filled the mist and imperial Dao fluctuations erupted in the distance.
• The bloodied Sun Moon Holy Emperor, Great Emperor Yaoguang, and Great Emperor Tianxing crashed down before Hua Yunfei and the others, carrying damaged imperial weapons.
• The Sun Moon Holy Emperor and the other two warned Hua Yunfei that an Old Monster in the ruin had ambushed them and was nearly as powerful as an Immortal Being.
• An enormous hand descended as the enemy called them ants, and Hua Yunfei invoked the myriad Daos through the Primordial Dao Body.

Hua Yunfei shattered a True Immortal’s giant hand, while Sun Moon Holy Emperor and his companions collected the scattered Immortal Blood and remains. When the immortal Dao Wuye attacked Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao, she destroyed his Immortal Artifact saber, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Hua Yunfei blasted apart Dao Wuye’s heaven-covering hand with a punch.
• Sun Moon Holy Emperor sealed the Immortal Blood and incomplete corpse in his golden basin while Great Emperor Yaoguang and Great Emperor Tianxing gathered the remains.
• Dao Wuye arrived in person and attacked Hua Yunfei, Jiang Ruoyao, and Xia Yun with his Immortal Artifact saber.
• Xia Yun merged into Hua Yunfei to temporarily complete his Primordial Dao Body, and Hua Yunfei charged Dao Wuye with the Thousand Laws Emperor Fist.
• Jiang Ruoyao swept away the saber’s killing rain and cleaved Dao Wuye’s black saber in two with her Silver Treasure Sword.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao defeated the armored True Immortal, and the Sun Moon Holy Emperor trio trapped his remnant soul in a golden basin. When the captive revealed that the Hongmeng Great Emperor had been captured and summoned powerful backing, Xia Yun called an Ancestral Temple ancestor through a spatial gateway.

• Jiang Ruoyao broke the armored man's Immortal Artifact sword, and Hua Yunfei overcame his Lost Laws with his Primordial Dao Body divine ability.
• Hua Yunfei shattered the armored man's palm and head, while Jiang Ruoyao dismembered and cremated his body.
• The Sun Moon Holy Emperor trio used a golden basin to capture the armored man's remnant soul, and he revealed that the Hongmeng Great Emperor had been taken.
• The armored man summoned a powerful figure from an abyss in the Lost Ruins and boasted that the figure was only one of his backers.
• Xia Yun opened a spatial gateway with a talisman stone, and an Ancestral Temple ancestor stepped through.

Hua Yunfei’s group called on Chu Jiutian to face the abyss creature summoned by the armored man, and Chu Jiutian overwhelmed the enemy with attacks empowered by Ancient King Law. The creature retreated into the abyss to seek stronger backup, while Chu Jiutian’s grudge against Hua Yunfei’s family surfaced in his fixation on kicking people’s backsides.

• Chu Jiutian appeared as Hua Yunfei’s backer, and the armored man mocked his apparent True Immortal cultivation.
• Chu Jiutian revealed his Immortal Realm strength and struck the abyss creature with a finger imbued with Ancient King Law.
• Chu Jiutian kicked the creature across the abyss, and the armored man’s companions taunted him as they began refining the armored man’s remnant soul in the golden basin.
• The creature recognized that Chu Jiutian had refined Ancient King body parts into himself and retreated after Chu Jiutian kicked him again, gravely injuring him.
• Chu Jiutian recalled that the old Hua Family had kicked him for over eighty years, glanced at Hua Yunfei’s backside, and denied doing so when Hua Yunfei noticed.
• The abyss creature withdrew to call for someone who could defeat Chu Jiutian.

Hua Yunfei and his companions discovered that the Lost Abyss housed a branch of the Lost Clan, then watched a white-robed figure overwhelm its defenders and charge into the abyss's depths. The chapter ended as the figure released a familiar-looking man wreathed in Nine-colored Mist.

• Chu Jiutian explained that the Lost Abyss was the Lost Clan's Forbidden Ancestral Artifact and that the clan's branch lived within it.
• A Quasi Immortal King emerged from the abyss and suppressed Chu Jiutian, Hua Yunfei, Jiang Ruoyao, Xia Yun, and the Sun Moon Holy Emperor's trio.
• A white-robed figure arrived through the spatial gate, beat the Quasi Immortal King, collected his blood, and killed the Immortal King Black Robe with a kick.
• The white-robed figure charged deeper into the Lost Abyss and revealed a towering man surrounded by Nine-colored Mist, whom Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao recognized as familiar.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao recognized Ao Kun emerging from the white-clad figure, and the pair pursued a Black Robe Man into the Lost Abyss. There, Ao Kun and the white-clad man fought four Ancient Kings of the Lost Clan, ending with Ao Kun cutting all four in half.

• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao recognized Ao Kun in the Nine-colored Mist and speculated about his connection to their Ancestor.
• The Black Robe Man fled deeper into the Lost Abyss as Ao Kun and the middle-aged man in white followed him toward the Lost Clan's grounds.
• The Black Robe Man joined three Ancient Kings of the Lost Clan, and all four attacked Ao Kun and the middle-aged man in white.
• Ao Kun drew his three magic artifacts and challenged all four Ancient Kings while the Lost Clan used the Lost Abyss to suppress their power.
• The middle-aged man in white used Old Ancestor Possession to halt the Lost Abyss, and Ao Kun struck all four Ancient Kings at once through the River of Time, cutting them in half.

The Hall Master of Martial Virtue attacked the Azure Clan while searching for his stolen Martial Virtue Brick, but left after sensing Ao Kun fighting in the Lost Abyss. As Hua Yunfei and the others watched the battle, Chu Jiutian renamed Ao Kun Hua Ao Kun and offered to brush dust off Hua Yunfei’s butt.

• The Hall Master of Martial Virtue demanded that the Azure Clan open its Ancient King formation so he could search for his stolen Martial Virtue Brick, threatening to tear the clan apart if they refused.
• The Hall Master of Martial Virtue sensed Ao Kun fighting in the northern Cang Domain and left the Azure Clan, convinced that Ao Kun and another Ancient King had stolen his brick.
• The Sun Moon Holy Emperor and his two companions absorbed the armored man's remnant soul while Hua Yunfei, Jiang Ruoyao, Xia Yun, and Chu Jiutian watched the battle in the Lost Abyss.
• Chu Jiutian told Hua Yunfei that Ao Kun still had uses, gave him the new name Hua Ao Kun, and stepped toward Hua Yunfei to brush dust off his butt.

Chu Jiutian harassed Hua Yunfei until the Martial Virtue Brick warned him that the Hall Master of Martial Virtue had arrived. Hua Yunfei went alone to meet him, while the Hall Master laid deadly traps outside the Lost Ruins to face Ao Kun.

• Chu Jiutian patted and rubbed Hua Yunfei's butt as Jiang Ruoyao and Xia Yun recorded the scene.
• The Martial Virtue Brick told Hua Yunfei that the Hall Master of Martial Virtue was approaching, and Hua Yunfei stopped Chu Jiutian's antics.
• Jiang Ruoyao suspected Hua Yunfei had stolen several treasures, while Hua Yunfei and the system argued about his schemes.
• The white-clad middle-aged man returned, agreed that Hua Yunfei need not give back the Martial Virtue Brick, and concealed himself with the Unseen Breath Concealment Technique.
• Hua Yunfei refused Jiang Ruoyao's offer to accompany him and headed out of the Lost Ruins alone.
• The Hall Master of Martial Virtue set deadly formations outside the ruins as he waited to face Ao Kun.

Hall Master of Martial Virtue set a trap for Ao Kun, then confronted Hua Yunfei when he emerged from the Lost Ruins with the Martial Virtue Brick. As Hall Master of Martial Virtue attacked Hua Yunfei and tried to reclaim the brick, a middle-aged man appeared and knocked him down with a wooden club.

• Hall Master of Martial Virtue prepared an Ancient King-level killing formation with Weird King blood to punish Ao Kun and his companion.
• Hua Yunfei emerged from the Lost Ruins carrying the Martial Virtue Brick, and Hall Master of Martial Virtue discovered that Hua Yunfei was a two-hundred-year-old Great Emperor.
• The Martial Virtue Brick told Hall Master of Martial Virtue that it had acknowledged Hua Yunfei as its master and tried to stop him from attacking.
• The Martial Virtue Brick blamed Ao Kun for Hall Master of Martial Virtue's grievance, and Hall Master of Martial Virtue decided to attack Hua Yunfei before confronting Ao Kun.
• Hall Master of Martial Virtue grabbed the Martial Virtue Brick, but a middle-aged man appeared and struck him on the head with a wooden club.