Chapter Summaries

Xianyang Great Power announced three rules for entering the Ancient Secret Realm, barring the strongest and warning that anyone who exceeded the power limit would destroy the realm. After the passage opened, powerful factions forced Golden Core cultivators and lesser demons to enter first as scouts, while Ao Yuan and Sha Minghong each plotted to kill the other.

• True Lord Lei Zhong warned his disciples to beware of the Blood Fiend Demonic Sect and said they should strike back if an opportunity arose.
• Xianyang Great Power declared that only cultivators below Nascent Soul Great Perfection who met the cultivation-age limit could enter, and that exceeding his power limit would send the Secret Realm into spatial turbulence.
• Ao Yuan and Sha Minghong recognized each other's killing intent and privately planned to eliminate their longtime rival inside the Secret Realm.
• Xianyang Great Power dissolved into the five-colored ring, causing the Ancient Secret Realm passage to open.
• Sea Dragon True Lord ordered the Sea Dragon Association's Golden Core cultivators to enter first as scouts, threatening them with consequences if they disobeyed.
• Nascent Soul True Lords and Great Demons gathered coerced Golden Core cultivators and lesser demons and sent them into the passage ahead of themselves.

Cheng Buzheng brought Murong Wanwan back and waited for the hegemonic factions to deploy their eligible cultivators before entering the secret realm. Across the factions, leaders chose replacements, while Gongzhi Yang crippled his cultivation so he could lead the Blood Fiend Sect expedition.

• Cheng Buzheng told Murong Wanwan they would wait for the hegemonic forces to act before entering the secret realm, and he watched the Blood Puppet Elder remain still.
• The Black Spirit Tiger Shark Clan's Half-Step Demon Venerable appointed Sha Minghong to lead its secret-realm expedition and gave him protective treasures from the Ancestor.
• Ji Longzi, unable to enter because he had reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection, asked True Lord Mingxiang to lead the Sea Suppressing Alliance faction and handed her Master's contingency measures.
• Gongzhi Yang learned he could not enter the secret realm at Nascent Soul Great Perfection, but refused to yield leadership to his rivals.
• Gongzhi Yang crippled part of his cultivation to fall to Nascent Soul Late Stage, then took a Spirit Pill to stabilize himself and enter the secret realm.

Nascent Soul cultivators and other powerful figures entered the Secret Realm, where Cheng Buzheng found himself trapped in a mysterious formation after being separated from Murong Wanwan. He learned that Murong Wanwan had discovered a way to escape by completing a pill-refinement trial, and offered to help her.

• Venerable Guanping ordered his subordinates to enter the Secret Realm, and human, demonic, and Demon Race forces followed, including groups led by Gongzhi Yang, Ao Yuan, and True Lord Mingxiang.
• The Blood Puppet Elder left his concealment and entered the passage, followed by Cheng Buzheng and Murong Wanwan in the Demonic Light War Chariot.
• A mysterious force separated Cheng Buzheng from Murong Wanwan, and his incarnation arrived in an unchanging landscape that he identified as a powerful formation beyond his ability to break or analyze.
• Cheng Buzheng searched the formation but found no other figures or clues, while his true body saw Murong Wanwan using a Crystal Ball to simulate pill refinement.
• Murong Wanwan explained that a sufficiently powerful attack had revealed a trial requiring her to simulate refining a fourth-tier mid-grade Spirit Pill, with only three attempts allowed.
• Cheng Buzheng asked Murong Wanwan for the Spirit Pill's Alchemical Formula so he could help her.

Cheng Buzheng mastered Murong Wanwan’s ancient alchemy formula and began teaching her how to pass the assessment. Outside the Secret Realm, the Venerables and Demon Venerables agreed to share its inheritance, drove away the cultivators on Xianyang Island, and prepared to trap everyone inside when the Secret Realm closed.

• Cheng Buzheng used the Creation Small Plate to master the ancient alchemy formula and reassured Murong Wanwan before instructing her in its principles.
• Powerful cultivators unable to enter the Secret Realm began plotting to seize opportunities from those who did enter.
• Venerable Tianzhao, Venerable Guanping, Venerable Zongbao, and other supreme beings agreed to share the ascension secret and Xianyang Great Power’s inheritance, leaving the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine and its fruits to their juniors’ fortunes.
• Blood Sea Venerable and Demon Venerable Luosha ordered the cultivators on Xianyang Island to leave, and the crowd fled before the deadline.
• Demon Venerable Nether Sea and the other supreme beings departed to guard all eight directions around the Secret Realm, leaving its occupants unaware that they were surrounded.

Cheng Buzheng tested the formation barrier and discovered he had to unleash more power to trigger its hidden examination. The Secret Realm selected artifact refinement for his trial, and after presenting a strange compass and hundreds of golden spheres, it left him facing the next stage of the test.

• Cheng Buzheng left the Demonic Light War Chariot and tried striking the formation barrier, but his first attacks caused no change.
• Cheng Buzheng increased the power of his [One Sword Tilts the Heavens] divine ability until a powerful strike triggered the formation.
• Golden runes appeared and declared that the examination concerned Artifact Refinement.
• The formation manifested a turning compass and a golden sphere that burst into hundreds of distinct golden balls.
• The golden balls divided into smaller groups as golden runes formed, then the runes faded back into the compass.

Cheng Buzheng refined the Origin-Sealing Mother Disk after correcting a failed attempt caused by the distance between his true body and incarnation. The compasses merged, triggering the final trial: he had to defeat a golden array beast to make the gate appear.

• Cheng Buzheng studied the Origin-Sealing Mother Disk’s blueprint and used his Great Luo Dharma Eye to analyze its unfamiliar Spirit Restrictions.
• Cheng Buzheng’s first refinement failed when the spatial barrier disrupted the coordination between his true body and incarnation, so he reviewed the delicate steps he needed to perform faster.
• Cheng Buzheng refined the Origin-Sealing Mother Disk on his second attempt and let it merge with the illusory compass.
• A golden giant beast appeared after the compasses fused and declared that Cheng Buzheng had to defeat it for the gate to appear.
• Cheng Buzheng recognized the beast as an array puppet and sensed that its vast power was sealed, limiting its strength to slightly above that of an ordinary Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.

Cheng Buzheng survived the golden giant beast’s trial, changed his appearance to comply with the Secret Realm’s entry rules, and entered the next level. There, Ao Yuan broke the yellow-sand trial with his bloodline ability and discovered he had to pass an artifact-refining assessment.

• Cheng Buzheng’s sword strikes failed to injure the golden giant beast, so he evaded its attacks until it merged into the golden cloud and revealed a gateway.
• Cheng Buzheng changed his disguise from Devil Lord Beili to an old Daoist, then to a middle-aged Daoist before entering the golden gateway.
• Ao Yuan searched the endless yellow-sand world for a way out but found that flight was restricted and the sand corroded Magic Power.
• Ao Yuan used his Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Fist bloodline ability, causing the yellow sand to reveal an artifact-refining assessment.
• Ao Yuan failed his first two attempts, then successfully refined a special Magic Treasure using the third Metal Pearl.

Ao Yuan, Gongzhi Yang, and True Lord Mingxiang passed the first-stage trials and entered the next area, while Sea Dragon True Lord remained trapped in the forest world. Blood Puppet Elder used an Identity Token to reach the inheritance ground first, but found his divine sense and flight restricted as he set out to explore.

• Ao Yuan fought the yellow-sand beast until it vanished and revealed a Rosy Cloud gate, then entered it.
• Gongzhi Yang faced a second trial beast after merging two spirit Talismans, defeated it, and cautiously entered the gate that appeared.
• True Lord Mingxiang’s Bronze Bottle failed to refine the deep-sea behemoth; when it vanished and revealed a gate, she entered.
• Sea Dragon True Lord repeatedly cleared trees in the endless forest but failed to trigger a trial and remained trapped.
• Blood Puppet Elder used his Identity Token to enter the inheritance ground, discovered that his divine sense and flight were restricted, and followed the token’s direction to explore.

Cheng Buzheng, Sha Minghong, and Blood Puppet Elder entered the vast secret realm and contended with its spatial suppression and dangers as they sought its opportunities. Murong Wanwan completed the pill-refinement trial, entered the secret realm, and flew toward an unknown destination.

• Cheng Buzheng entered the secret realm, found his divine sense restricted, and used a bronze warboat to travel above the dangerous low-altitude beasts.
• Sha Minghong entered in a golden Flood Dragon carriage, discovered the realm's spatial suppression, and received no reply from his clansmen through his sea conch.
• Blood Puppet Elder killed a powerful Desolate Beast with his Golden-Armored Puppets and followed the direction indicated by his Identity Token.
• Murong Wanwan completed the pill-refinement assessment and defeated the colossal beast in the first trial.
• Murong Wanwan passed through the gate of light into the secret realm and flew off in a chosen direction.

Cheng Buzheng used Little Roar as a mount to travel deeper into the secret realm after the Bronze War Boat was crushed by spatial pressure. When a hidden Great Demon Perfection Realm Desolate Beast attacked, Little Roar stood between it and Cheng Buzheng rather than flee.

• Spatial pressure shattered Cheng Buzheng's Bronze War Boat, so he transformed Little Roar into a one-horned thunder spirit heavenly steed and rode it onward.
• Little Roar killed a mountain-sized Desolate Bird, but its lightning attack only lightly wounded the creature.
• A gigantic beast hidden inside a mountain seized and devoured the Desolate Bird while Cheng Buzheng briefly replenished his Magic Power.
• Cheng Buzheng realized the beast was at the Great Demon Perfection Realm and urged Little Roar to flee while keeping the [Great Luo Dharma Eye] active.
• The hidden beast revealed its enormous maw and many fleshly arms, and Little Roar faced the attack while anxiously urging Cheng Buzheng to escape.

Little Roar and Cheng Buzheng fled a powerful multi-armed Desolate Beast until a terrifying Desolate Snake swallowed it and then pursued them. Cheng Buzheng killed the Desolate Snake with a combined sword technique and began harvesting its prized materials, but vanished when he sensed another danger.

• Little Roar unleashed lightning at the multi-armed Desolate Beast, but it pursued Cheng Buzheng as he fled.
• The Desolate Snake appeared from the dark clouds, swallowed the multi-armed Desolate Beast, and targeted Little Roar.
• The Desolate Snake's sonic power suppressed Cheng Buzheng's escape, so he fought it with the Great Sun Tathagata Sword and then a chaotic sword aura.
• Cheng Buzheng killed the Desolate Snake, retrieved its two fangs, and prepared to collect its neck scales.
• Cheng Buzheng sensed danger, enveloped himself in Mystic Light, and vanished, abandoning the scales.

Cheng Buzheng escaped a gigantic Beast Venerable that devoured the desolate serpent, while the danger of the Secret Realm drove many cultivators to retreat toward its outer regions. Ye Han and Blood Puppet Elder continued deeper by choosing routes they could survive, leaving Blood Puppet Elder optimistic about reaching the core first.

• A colossal desolate bird appeared, slaughtered nearby Desolate Beasts, and devoured the severed desolate serpent before vanishing; Cheng Buzheng escaped after abandoning the serpent’s body.
• Cheng Buzheng realized the Secret Realm held multiple terrifying Desolate Beasts and resumed his journey deeper with Little Roar transformed into a thunder spirit heavenly steed.
• Chu Daofeng assessed the traces of the battle and turned back toward the outer regions, while True Lord Tianzhong also fled after sensing a powerful Desolate Beast.
• Ye Han killed a Desolate Beast, harvested its valuable Spirit Materials, and followed his sword heart toward a route with only a faint sense of danger.
• Blood Puppet Elder’s Golden-Armored Divine Men killed another Desolate Beast, and he followed his Identity Token toward the core, believing other cultivators could not easily catch up.

Blood Puppet Elder watched a Cloud Whale Clan expert get swallowed by a terrifying Desolate Beast, then continued cautiously through the Secret Realm. Cheng Buzheng deduced that the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine lay where spiritual energy was densest and sent his wife the clue, while Murong Wanwan continued alone and hid from a Desolate Scale Winged Dragon.

• Blood Puppet Elder identified a blue, whale-shaped Treasure Ship as belonging to the Cloud Whale Clan and watched its occupant be swallowed by a Desolate Beast before fleeing the area.
• Cheng Buzheng bypassed powerful Desolate Beasts and, after finding that spatial compression and void pressure had stopped increasing, realized the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine must be where spiritual energy was densest.
• Cheng Buzheng compared spiritual energy in nearby directions, chose a route, and relayed his deduction to Murong Wanwan through his true body.
• Murong Wanwan killed a weakened Desolate Beast, collected its valuable Spirit Materials, and prepared to explore deeper into the Secret Realm.
• Murong Wanwan sensed a colossal Desolate Scale Winged Dragon approaching and vanished into the void; the dragon swallowed the remains of her slain Desolate Beast and flew away.

Gongzhi Yang encountered Zhao Qi in the Secret Realm and attacked him over the Tianzhao Sect’s past debts. After Gongzhi Yang overwhelmed him and blocked his escape, Zhao Qi self-detonated rather than be captured, leaving Gongzhi Yang in the void.

• Gongzhi Yang hid when Zhao Qi entered the void and used a Spirit-Seeking Compass to investigate the Spirit Energy.
• Gongzhi Yang revealed himself to Zhao Qi and declared that he would settle the Tianzhao Sect’s karmic debts on behalf of his master.
• Gongzhi Yang struck Zhao Qi with a divine-ability-enhanced demonic hammer, forcing Zhao Qi to use his life-saving talisman to survive.
• Zhao Qi fled, but Gongzhi Yang caught up and suppressed Zhao Qi’s domain with his own.
• Zhao Qi begged to betray his sect, then self-detonated as Gongzhi Yang’s blood-red divine light closed in, scattering his Storage Bag fragments into the void.

Gongzhi Yang escaped a Beast Venerable by spending the power of Blood Sea Venerable’s statue, only to discover the creature could heal from being split in two. The Spirit Fusion Immortal Sect learned that Zhao Qi had died and its Grand Elder used an ancient altar to send a Soul Lamp and Jade Slip toward the Boundless Sea.

• Gongzhi Yang’s jade pendant warned him of the Beast Venerable, but the enormous creature caught up and drew him toward its maw.
• Gongzhi Yang summoned Blood Sea Venerable’s statue, trapped the Beast Venerable in an illusory sea of blood, then transformed the sea into a vast Blood Blade that cleaved the creature in two.
• The Beast Venerable healed its severed body, so Gongzhi Yang used a Talisman to vanish as the enraged creature roared.
• At the Spirit Fusion Immortal Sect, the death of Zhao Qi alarmed the sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators, who asked the Grand Elder to help locate the killer.
• The Grand Elder prepared an extinguished Ten Thousand Lotus Lamp and a Jade Slip, then used the ancient altar to transmit them toward the Boundless Sea.

The Soul Tower sent news that True Lord Zhao Qi had fallen, prompting True Lord Lei Zhong to suspect Gongzhi Yang. Deep in the Xianyang Secret Realm, Cheng Buzheng continued searching for the inheritance while Sha Minghong killed True Lord Changfeng; far away, a sect began splitting its wealth after its Ancestor's Soul Lamp went out, unaware that one elder planned to use them to break through to True Lord.

• The Grand Elder sent a message from the Soul Tower, and True Lord Lei Zhong learned that True Lord Zhao Qi had fallen and suspected Gongzhi Yang was responsible.
• Cheng Buzheng searched the Secret Realm for the ultimate Spirit Vein and the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine, but found only lesser Spirit Veins and meager spoils.
• Sha Minghong intercepted True Lord Changfeng and killed him with a single attack.
• After their Ancestor's Soul Lamp went out, a sect's Golden Core elders debated abandoning their holdings or fleeing, then began dividing the sect's wealth.
• One Golden Core elder secretly resolved to use the sect as nourishment for his breakthrough to True Lord.

Blood Puppet Elder cautiously navigated the Secret Realm while Ao Yuan confronted a Desolate Spirit Saber-toothed Tiger and escaped after his ancestor’s golden True Dragon fought it. Cheng Buzheng continued searching for the inheritance, growing anxious as he made little progress.

• Blood Puppet Elder avoided dangerous Desolate Beasts and concealed himself when Ao Yuan’s battle boat passed overhead.
• Ao Yuan encountered the Desolate Spirit Saber-toothed Tiger and used Demon Venerable Nether Sea’s Reverse Scale to summon a golden True Dragon.
• The golden True Dragon repeatedly tore apart the Saber-toothed Tiger, but the beast regenerated until it finally destroyed the weakening dragon phantom.
• Ao Yuan fled while the Saber-toothed Tiger remained alive, diminished but victorious.
• Cheng Buzheng killed a Desolate Beast that ambushed him and continued searching for the inheritance, increasingly anxious about the delay.

Cheng Buzheng reached the Secret Realm’s core, convinced that it held the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine and Xianyang Great Power’s inheritance. He discovered that many Five-Colored Jellyfish Clan demons had appeared there and began targeting them, but the chapter ended without him finding the inheritance.

• Cheng Buzheng revealed his Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivation, then pressed deeper into the Secret Realm as powerful cultivators and dangerous beasts gathered near its core.
• Cheng Buzheng dismissed Little Roar and used his own swift escape art to avoid powerful Desolate Beasts as he advanced.
• Cheng Buzheng spotted a Five-Colored Jellyfish Clan lesser demon and killed it, then noticed that the clan made up an unusually large share of the cultivators he encountered.
• Cheng Buzheng suspected Xianyang Great Power had deliberately favored the Five-Colored Jellyfish Clan and decided to prioritize killing its experts in case they held the realm’s treasures.
• Cheng Buzheng killed a middle-stage Great Demon of the Five-Colored Jellyfish Clan, found only ordinary items in its storage shell, and continued onward.

Kong Yun killed a powerful Desolate Beast and ate a portion of its flesh before Cheng Buzheng arrived. Cheng Buzheng attacked with a mysterious gray sword, and Kong Yun used a five-colored space to block it as the clash began.

• Kong Yun used his bloodline divine ability to pierce the Desolate Beast with beams of five-colored light until it collapsed and died.
• Kong Yun collected the beast’s valuable Spirit Materials, transformed into his true form, and devoured much of its flesh and blood.
• Cheng Buzheng arrived, and Kong Yun tried to drive the unfamiliar human cultivator away by invoking his clan’s authority.
• Cheng Buzheng dismissed Kong Yun’s threat and attacked with a dull gray sword light that disrupted the surrounding space.
• Kong Yun used his five-colored pearl to create a space that restrained the sword light, but Cheng Buzheng’s power of disorder threw that space into chaos.

Cheng Buzheng killed Kong Yun, learned that the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine was likely still within the Xianyang Great Power's inheritance, and hurried deeper into the Secret Realm. The Five-Colored Jellyfish Clan mourned its dead and prepared to protect Kong Wuxing, who realized the killer was approaching and decided to wait for him.

• Cheng Buzheng destroyed Kong Yun's consciousness, sealed his demon nascent soul, and learned from his memories that Kong Wuxing was the clan member most likely to have obtained the Creation Heavenly Rhythm Vine.
• Cheng Buzheng concluded that the vine was probably still within the Xianyang Great Power's inheritance and flew onward before Kong Wuxing or the Blood Puppet Elder could claim the Secret Realm's fortunes.
• Ancestor Kong examined the [Jellyfish Soul Register] but could not identify the force killing the clan's members, and he warned that the attacker must be at least as powerful as a great clan.
• The Five-Colored Jellyfish Clan learned that the Bright Cloud Sea Region had been sealed off by human and demon Venerables, so Ancestor Kong ordered the clan to prepare to meet Kong Wuxing when the Secret Realm closed.
• Kong Wuxing saw his clansmen's names dimming in the subsidiary [Jellyfish Soul Register], deduced that their killer was heading toward him, and chose to wait for the attacker.