Chapter Summaries

The Great Beings watched Little Nannan completely comprehend an ancient tablet in moments, confirming that the Immortal Tomb Forest truly contained Immortal Qi. Wang Mu received the rewards through his cultivation-effect return and examined the single strand of Immortal Qi he gained.

• Wang Mu counted the thirty-six ancient tablets and speculated that they might contain thirty-six strands of Immortal Qi, while Xiao Chenzhou mocked his ambition.
• Little Nannan completely comprehended her tablet, which shone with golden light before crumbling to ash, and gained a faint strand of Immortal Qi.
• The Great Beings were stunned that Little Nannan had comprehended the tablet so quickly, and Xiao Chenzhou recognized the frightening ability of an Imperial Infant.
• Wang Mu received Immortal Qi and other cultivation rewards through Little Nannan's return, then sensed the strand's overwhelming power within his chaotic void.

Little Nannan comprehended and absorbed the Immortal Qi from nearly all the ancient steles in the Immortal Tomb Forest, while Han Li, Lin Yan, and Dugu Qianxue gained Immortal Qi through their own methods. After protecting her companions, Little Nannan flew off to pursue figures she recognized from her notebook.

• Little Nannan rapidly comprehended the ancient steles, alarming the watching prodigies and making the Great Powers fear the Wang Family’s rising talents.
• Han Li used the Heavenly Scripture and his Dragon Emperor inheritance to comprehend a stele, Dugu Qianxue advanced her understanding of the Mysterious Yin Method, and Lin Yan used Dan Xuan’s possession and the Five-Wheel Saint Evolution Art to extract Immortal Qi.
• Little Nannan absorbed the Immortal Qi from twenty-four of the thirty-six steles, while Han Li, Lin Yan, and Dugu Qianxue comprehended others.
• After a day of meditation, Little Nannan gave the final stele’s Immortal Qi to Xiao Wanmeng, and the Immortal Tomb Forest’s ancient carvings vanished.
• Little Nannan set up restriction arrays to protect her companions, then flew off after several figures she had recognized from her notebook.

After refining Immortal Qi, Lin Yan and the others grew much stronger while Wang Mu secretly absorbed a vast energy feedback and suppressed his impending breakthrough. Inside the Heavenly Ruins, Little Nannan and the group hunted Soul Clan members, and she effortlessly defeated three merged into a Spirit Transformation-level enemy.

• Lin Yan reached half-step Spirit Transformation, Xiao Wanmeng and Dugu Qianxue advanced to Nascent Soul Late Stage, and Han Li reached late Golden Core Stage.
• Wang Mu concealed himself aboard the Flying Ship and absorbed thirty-six strands of pure Immortal Qi, but suppressed his power to avoid revealing his cultivation.
• Little Nannan and the others resumed hunting Soul Clan members, and Lin Yan killed a disguised Soul Clan target with a Fire Lotus.
• Little Nannan recognized three apparently innocent Cultivators as Soul Clan members, and the group attacked them until their bodies crumbled and their souls merged.
• Little Nannan shattered the merged Spirit Transformation-level Soul Clan with one punch, stunning the others with her increased strength.

Lin Yan and the others uncovered an ancient pill hall, gathered rare pills and an Alchemy Dao inheritance, and continued hunting Soul Clan spies throughout the Heavenly Ruins. Elsewhere, Shi Huang revealed his terrifying strength and refused to join forces, despite learning that someone was eliminating the Soul Clan’s divided souls.

• Dan Xuan reassured Lin Yan that the Purifying World Immortal Flame could help him catch up to Mu Ying, while Wang Mu questioned sect masters about Soul Clan spies hidden among their disciples.
• Little Nannan defeated a fused Soul Clan member, and Han Li used the laws of the void to draw an ancient bronze hall out from underground.
• Lin Yan and his companions searched the ancient hall, finding surviving pills, while Lin Yan obtained the Divine Court True Explanation of Alchemy Dao inheritance.
• The group waited near the hall, killed more Soul Clan spies drawn by its appearance, and continued collecting opportunities over the following month.
• A spirit body told Shi Huang that their divided souls were being targeted and asked him to help deal with the people around Wang Mu, but Shi Huang refused and displayed his overwhelming power.

Wang Mu’s companions gained powerful opportunities and broke through to higher realms in the Heavenly Ruins while Wang Mu received cultivation feedback from their advances. As Shi Huang emerged with two identical, equally powerful figures, he vowed that the Wang Family’s end was near.

• Wang Mu revealed that more than seventy Heavenly Prides from prestigious factions were Soul Clan members, prompting North Sea factions to suspect their rivals had colluded with the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Chenzhou, Su Muyu, and Jiang Baiyi decided to abandon their original restraint and ordered the Soul Clan plan to proceed with indiscriminate slaughter; Ling Xiaozi then activated an ancient altar and ordered the operation to begin ahead of schedule.
• Lin Yan entered a volcanic sea of fire, subdued the Purifying World Immortal Flame, and broke through to Spirit Transformation, while Wang Mu received powerful cultivation feedback from him.
• Little Nannan broke through to Spirit Transformation, Dugu Qianxue reached Half-Step Spirit Transformation, Xiao Wanmeng reached Nascent Soul Peak, and Han Li condensed a Heaven-grade Nascent Soul.
• Dugu Qianxue obtained the ancient Dao character for Yin and reached Spirit Transformation, while Han Li found a Slaying Immortals Formation Diagram and sword art and Xiao Wanmeng obtained the Supreme Communion Art.
• Shi Huang emerged from a sealed chamber with two identical figures at his side and declared that the Wang Family’s end was near.

At Enlightenment Cliff, Ye Mo comprehended the Cosmic Purple Star Emperor Scripture and formed a second Dao domain. A Holy Arrival Meeting envoy named Su Zhe revealed that the Primal Origin Sacred Ground’s leaders were working with the organization, confirming Great Love Immortal Venerable’s warning and leaving Ye Mo facing a threat to the people of the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground.

• Ye Mo obtained the Cosmic Purple Star Emperor Scripture at Enlightenment Cliff and displayed two layers of Dao domains.
• Su Zhe appeared to Ye Mo and offered to help him kill people from the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground.
• Su Zhe reenacted a conversation between Ling Xiaozi and Jiang Baiyi about involving Ye Mo and killing several people in the Heavenly Ruins.
• Su Zhe identified himself as the Holy Arrival Meeting’s Star Soul Envoy, and Ye Mo recognized the truth of Great Love Immortal Venerable’s warning about the Sacred Ground’s collusion.

Ye Mo agreed to intercept the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground group as they hunted Soul Clan members through the Heavenly Ruins. When three powerful Soul Clan members trapped Lin Yan and the others in a killing formation, Little Nannan punched a hole through it and dismissed their attack.

• Su Zhe explained the Holy Arrival Meeting’s mission and asked Ye Mo to help kill the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground group, and Ye Mo agreed to intercept them.
• Xiao Wanmeng, Lin Yan, Han Li, and the others found a vast Godstar Ore deposit, sensed danger, and tried to retreat before a formation sealed the area.
• Su Zhe, a soft-voiced woman, and an old man appeared and revealed that they had laid a trap for the group.
• The Grotto-Heaven Mirror’s view switched away from the impending battle, and Wang Mu suspected the organizers were hiding something.
• The three Soul Clan members activated their killing formation and attacked, but Little Nannan shattered its ripples and punched a gap through it.

Lin Yan, Little Nannan, and Dugu Qianxue fought the Soul Clan envoys, while Ye Mo turned against the Holy Arrival Meeting to destroy its Blood Sacrifice formation and rescue Ouyang Qingxuan. After Shi Huang killed the envoys and left the Heavenly Ruins, he challenged Wang Mu, and Xiao Chenzhou unleashed a darkness-shrouding attack.

• Little Nannan, Lin Yan, and Dugu Qianxue battled Su Zhe and the Moon and Sun Soul Envoys, gaining the upper hand despite their soul attacks.
• Su Zhe and the other envoys activated a Blood Sacrifice formation that drained the life essence of hundreds of captured heavenly prides and boosted the envoys' strength.
• Ye Mo recognized Ouyang Qingxuan among the captives, attacked the formation, and rescued her, openly rejecting the Holy Arrival Meeting and accepting the consequences.
• Lin Yan and the others defeated the weakened envoys, but Shi Huang emerged from a spatial gateway, killed Su Zhe and the other two envoys, and left the Heavenly Ruins.
• Shi Huang confronted Wang Mu outside the Heavenly Ruins, and Xiao Chenzhou unleashed a black night that shrouded the sky.

The Soul Clan ambushed the Heavenly Pride Assembly with a force that overwhelmed the scattered Human Race experts. When a seventh-tribulation Soul Clan expert attacked the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground’s flying ship, Yin Jiuzhu, Luo Feng, and the other Yellow Springs Twelve Guards appeared to confront him.

• The Soul Clan emerged from a strange darkness and attacked the gathered cultivators, leaving the Human Race seemingly outnumbered and without many of its expected Earth Immortals.
• Li Yuanhua fought his way to the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground’s flying ship and learned that Young Master Wang was safe inside.
• A seventh-tribulation Soul Clan expert attacked the flying ship, nearly breaking through its protective formation.
• Yin Jiuzhu emerged from the ship and used the Nine-Jointed Soul-Reaping Whip to block the expert’s attack.
• Luo Feng arrived with a bronze coffin and released one hundred thousand corpse puppets against the Soul Clan.
• The other Yellow Springs Twelve Guards appeared, joining Yin Jiuzhu and Luo Feng to face the Soul Clan expert.

Wang Mu’s guards revealed the power of Reincarnation Gu and fought a Soul Clan expert, but Li Yuanhua discovered that Wang Mu had disappeared from the flying ship. Wang Mu was trapped in an imitation Creation Yin-Yang Diagram with Shi Huang, where they argued over the destruction of Shi Huang’s clan and the Wang Family’s crimes, leaving Shi Huang poised to kill him.

• Yin Jiuzhu and the other Yellow Springs Twelve Guards revealed their Reincarnation Gu and summoned a one-armed Nether King to battle the Soul Clan expert.
• Li Yuanhua went to check on Wang Mu and discovered that he was missing from the flying ship.
• Wang Mu examined the gray world inside the imitation Creation Yin-Yang Diagram and identified it to the unseen speaker.
• Shi Huang appeared and accused the Wang Family of destroying his clan and bringing chaos to the Northern Region.
• Wang Mu taunted Shi Huang about failing to wipe out the entire Martial King Lineage, then accused Shi Huang’s clan of betraying humanity and colluding with foreign races.

Wang Mu revealed that the Holy Arrival Meeting manipulated both the new emperor and Prince Wu, leading to Prince Wu's Mansion being destroyed. He claimed Shi Huang's Supreme Bone came from the Holy Arrival Meeting and had been influencing his temperament, leaving Shi Huang shaken by the possibility that his family had been deceived.

• Wang Mu accused Shi Huang's family of colluding with the Holy Arrival Meeting and recounted how Prince Wei crushed Prince Wu's alleged rebellion.
• Wang Mu explained that the young emperor had feared the power of Prince Wu's gifted descendant and had moved to weaken Prince Wu's Mansion.
• Wang Mu said the Holy Arrival Meeting had incited both the emperor and Shi Huang's grandfather, turning their suspicions into a catastrophe.
• Wang Mu revealed that the Holy Arrival Meeting had bestowed Shi Huang's Supreme Bone and suggested it had made him increasingly violent and bloodthirsty.
• Shi Huang wavered as Wang Mu argued that his natural talent and fortune would have made him powerful even without the Holy Arrival Meeting.

Wang Mu revealed overwhelming strength after Shi Huang’s demonic bone pushed him to attack. Shi Huang’s Kunpeng Technique was crushed by Wang Mu’s far more powerful Golden-Winged Peng manifestation, leaving Shi Huang stunned.

• Wang Mu told Shi Huang how Prince of Wei, Wang Tiangang, had ordered the removal of Shi Huang’s Supreme Bone to protect his family.
• A voice from the demonic bone urged Shi Huang to kill Wang Mu, and Shi Huang’s mind and body were consumed by its influence.
• Shi Huang attacked Wang Mu, but Wang Mu struck him flying and revealed that he was not a mortal who could not cultivate.
• Shi Huang accused Wang Mu of hiding his strength and attacked again with the Kunpeng Technique.
• Wang Mu summoned a vast Golden-Winged Peng phantom that instantly shattered Shi Huang’s Kunpeng manifestation.

Shi Huang unleashed his vicious broken sword and an incomplete Emperor Scripture against Wang Mu, but Wang Mu effortlessly endured both attacks. The battle continued as Shi Huang summoned Five-Colored Divine Thunder and prepared to strike with the Thunder Emperor Art: Ten Directions Annihilation, while Wang Mu revealed that he also knew an Emperor Scripture.

• Shi Huang attacked Wang Mu with a broken sword, but Wang Mu stood unharmed as the Sword Qi vanished around him.
• Shi Huang struck Wang Mu with the sword, and Wang Mu caught its blade between two fingers before flicking Shi Huang through more than ten peaks.
• Shi Huang rose with his body badly injured and summoned Five-Colored Divine Thunder.
• Shi Huang formed a lightning deity and unleashed the Thunder Emperor Art: Ten Directions Annihilation, an incomplete Emperor Scripture.
• Wang Mu recognized the Emperor Scripture and said he knew one too, as golden fire lit in his eyes.

Wang Mu and Shi Huang fought with powerful techniques, but Wang Mu revealed that he knew the Primordial One-Qi Technique too and chose to spare Shi Huang. As Shi Huang tried to end his life, his demonic bone took over his body and unleashed an even greater power.

• Wang Mu countered Shi Huang's lightning with a Golden Crow formed from a sea of immortal flames, and the two youths' attacks devastated the surrounding land.
• Shi Huang revealed the Primordial One-Qi Technique and summoned two copies of himself, but Wang Mu used the same technique to summon two copies of his own.
• Stunned that Wang Mu knew his rare inheritance, Shi Huang lost his will to fight, while Wang Mu urged him to live and serve the Human Race.
• Shi Huang insisted that life had no meaning without revenge and began dispersing his cultivation, but a backlash from his demonic bone interrupted him.
• Shi Huang transformed as demonic qi erupted from his body, and Wang Mu realized the demonic bone was taking possession of him.

Wang Mu confronted the Great Annihilation Demon God, which had taken control of Shi Huang’s body, and overwhelmed it with his powers and ancient scriptures. After destroying the demonized Supreme Bone, he left Shi Huang gravely wounded and neither living nor dead.

• The Great Annihilation Demon God revealed that it had been using Shi Huang as a vessel for its ninth life and planned to devour Wang Mu’s luck.
• Wang Mu identified the demon and attacked, repeatedly overpowering it inside the unstable Small World.
• The Great Annihilation Demon God tried to escape Wang Mu’s Void laws, but Wang Mu trapped it with the Void Dragon God Scripture and revealed four Emperor Scriptures.
• Wang Mu used the four Emperor phantoms to crush the Great Annihilation Demon God and destroy its physical body.
• Wang Mu approached the wounded Shi Huang, pulled the demon-tainted golden Supreme Bone from his chest, and shattered it.

Wang Mu revived Shi Huang after defeating the Great Annihilation Demon God and revealed that the Heavenly Demons had targeted the Azure Yuan Realm. He spared Shi Huang and urged him to rebuild his strength without the Supreme Bone, while the demon vowed revenge against Wang Mu.

• Wang Mu used medicinal essence to revive Shi Huang and explained that the Heavenly Demons and their followers, the Holy Arrival Meeting, threatened the Azure Yuan Realm.
• Shi Huang realized that the Holy Arrival Meeting had manipulated Prince Wu's Mansion and asked Wang Mu why he had spared him.
• Wang Mu said Shi Huang could still become powerful without his Supreme Bone and invited him to visit one of the Northern Region academies.
• Wang Mu told Shi Huang that the Great Annihilation Demon God had survived, though its plans for Shi Huang had been ruined.
• The Great Annihilation Demon God swore to take Wang Mu's body in revenge for losing Shi Huang as its chosen vessel.

Wang Mu’s allies fought the Soul Clan while searching for him, and Xiao Wanmeng’s desperation awakened signs of her Dragon Phoenix bloodline. Wang Mu then appeared from the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground’s flying ship, bringing the fighting to a sudden halt.

• Little Nannan, Lin Yan, Dugu Qianxue, Han Li, and Xiao Wanmeng joined the battle and drove back the Soul Clan with their powerful abilities.
• Xiao Chenzhou and Jiang Baiyi realized their scheme had failed, while Jiang Baiyi learned that Ye Mo had killed members of their own forces.
• Xiao Wanmeng tortured and searched Soul Clan members for news of Wang Mu, risking damage to her own soul.
• Xiao Wanmeng’s Dragon Phoenix bloodline showed signs of purification and ancestral reversion as she vowed to kill anyone who harmed Wang Mu.
• Wang Mu emerged from the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground’s flying ship, and both his allies and the Soul Clan stopped fighting in response.

Wang Mu drove off Hun Jiuyou and the Soul Clan, reunited with Xiao Wanmeng, and left the Heavenly Ruins with Luo Xuanshuang and the others. Aboard their ship, he revealed the Heavenly Demons and the coming great tribulation, while Lin Yan disclosed Wang Mu’s vision of the future, prompting Luo Xuanshuang to ask whether it was true.

• Hun Jiuyou ordered the Soul Clan to retreat after sensing danger, and Wang Mu checked on Xiao Wanmeng and praised Lin Yan, Han Li, and the other prodigies.
• Wang Mu had Li Yuanhua distribute Langya Merchant Association rewards to the prodigies who had performed well in the Heavenly Ruins.
• Luo Xuanshuang arrived, checked that Wang Mu was safe, and departed with him and the others aboard the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground's Flying Ship.
• Xiao Chenzhou and the other Sacred Ground leaders wondered what Shi Huang had done and suspected someone in their ranks was a traitor.
• Wang Mu told his companions about the Wang Family, the Stone Family, the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty, and the Heavenly Demons.
• Lin Yan revealed that Wang Mu had seen their future battle against the Heavenly Demons and had predicted that Lin Yan would become Emperor Yan, leading Luo Xuanshuang to ask Wang Mu whether he had truly seen the future.

Wang Mu warned the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground’s elders that the Holy Arrival Meeting and the Heavenly Devil Clan threatened the Azure Yuan Realm, then presented techniques and blueprints to prepare for war. The elders examined his plans and began to grasp how they could strengthen the realm’s defenses and combat power.

• Little Nannan asked Wang Mu what kind of Emperor she would become, and he called her Ruthless, prompting her to complain about the name.
• Wang Mu considered the Holy Arrival Meeting’s alliance with the two Sacred Lands and Four Great Ancient Clans, then entered seclusion to prepare for the looming conflict.
• Seven days later, Wang Mu summoned the Northern Darkness Sacred Ground’s six pavilion masters and explained that the Heavenly Devil Clan sought to devour the Azure Yuan Realm’s fortune.
• Wang Mu gave Tiangong Elder the Myriad Forges Mystical Mastery, a secret art for combining common materials into stronger substances.
• Wang Mu distributed blueprints for a Void Train, improved Pill Recipes, and two formations, explaining how they could increase travel, defenses, and combat strength.

Wang Mu prepared the Northern Region for war as the Holy Arrival Meeting stirred rebellion and deployed monstrous puppets among the Feudal Lords’ armies. After devising ways to counter them, he visited the recovered Shi Huang and urged him to return to the battlefield to confront the Holy Arrival Meeting.

• Wang Mu established the Military Industry Pavilion and ordered it to produce Five-Thunder Seven-Fire Lotus weapons to defend the Langya Merchant Association’s branches.
• Wang Mu warned Di Bailian that the Holy Arrival Meeting might have spies in the Emperor Demon Palace, then sent Lin Yan to help find them.
• The Feudal Lords’ armies gained ground with monsters transformed using the powers of ancient races, and Wang Mu identified their abilities and devised countermeasures.
• Wang Mu visited Shi Huang, learned that he had recovered and found his path again, and urged him to return to the battlefield to settle his score with the Holy Arrival Meeting.