Chapter Summaries

Tang Yu killed the reinforcements sent by County Magistrate Qian and exposed the officials’ corruption while sparing Qian long enough to seek help. After Tang Yu slew Golden Core cultivator Consecrated Bai, he told Prefect Zhang and the Assistant Prefect to report that he would fight his way to the imperial capital.

• County Magistrate Qian summoned three cultivators to kill Tang Yu, but Tang Yu killed them before they could act and confronted Qian at Butcher Zhang's home.
• Tang Yu questioned Qian about abusing his power and having someone's wife taken for Master He, then let Qian go to seek reinforcements.
• County Magistrate Qian reached the Provincial Assistant, but Tang Yu killed him before he could finish describing the threat.
• The Provincial Assistant and Prefect Zhang sought Consecrated Bai's help, but Tang Yu emerged from a spatial rift and killed Consecrated Bai and his white crane with one slap.
• Tang Yu challenged Prefect Zhang and the Assistant Prefect over their corruption, then ordered them to report that he planned to cut his way to the imperial capital.

Tang Yu confronted the Edgeless Sect worshipper in Mountain Green Kingdom’s court and demanded that he kill Bao Laiqian and wipe out the Bao Clan. The worshipper appeared to flee using a jade talisman, but Tang Yu killed him and sent his head back through a spatial rift.

• Tang Yu gave Governor Zhang and the Deputy Governor Divine Movement Talismans to speed their journey for reinforcements, and they set off separately after exchanging promises to care for each other’s sons.
• News of the massacre in Great Harvest County reached the imperial capital, where officials dismissed it as a rumor until a severed head rolled into court.
• Bao Laiqian recognized his nephew’s head, while the Edgeless Sect worshipper confronted Tang Yu, who blocked the old man’s sword qi with a fingernail.
• Tang Yu struck the worshipper with spatial force, then demanded that he kill Bao Laiqian and destroy the Bao Clan in exchange for his life.
• The worshipper agreed and crushed a jade talisman to escape, but Tang Yu sent his head back through a spatial rift.

Tang Yu forced the officials to eliminate Bao Laiqian’s family, then blamed them for the massacre when Bao Laifu arrived and destroyed part of the palace. Bao Laifu’s attack failed, and six Deity Transformation cultivators appeared after Tang Yu killed him and took his soul.

• Tang Yu gave the officials a choice between dying alongside Bao Laiqian or killing the Bao family, and they executed more than a hundred relatives.
• Bao Laifu arrived, and Tang Yu used a water mirror to show him the officials ordering the executions; Bao Laifu destroyed nearly half the palace with his sword.
• Tang Yu challenged Bao Laifu’s attack, endured his sword strike, and taunted him when it failed to harm him.
• Bao Laifu raised his cultivation to the peak of the Nascent Soul realm and unleashed a storm of sword qi at Tang Yu.
• Tang Yu killed Bao Laifu and pulled his soul from his chest as six Deity Transformation cultivators emerged from spatial rifts and threatened him.

Tang Yu trapped six Edgeless Sect elders in his twenty-kilometer Ice City, stripping them of their true essence, but their ancestor intervened before he could finish them. Meng Zihao arrived after breaking through to the Fusion Realm, wounded the ancestor’s dharma manifestation, and charged into battle.

• The six Edgeless Sect elders revealed their ambush and attacked Tang Yu with the Six Intent Sword Formation.
• Tang Yu spread his snowy domain across the imperial city, turning it into an Ice City that contaminated cultivators’ true essence and left the six elders powerless.
• Tang Yu approached the helpless elders and attacked them with a Thoughtless Punch, but the Edgeless Sect ancestor’s dharma manifestation appeared and stopped the blow.
• The ancestor asked Tang Yu what Dao he had comprehended, then attacked him with a palm strike.
• A lightning-wreathed sword severed the ancestor’s palm before transforming into Meng Zihao, who greeted Tang Yu and revealed he had broken through.
• Meng Zihao taunted the Third Ancestor of the Edgeless Sect and transformed back into a flying sword to attack the ancestor.

Meng Zihao defeated Wedge after revealing their history, while Tang Yu ambushed the Edgeless Sect disciples during the distraction. Wedge’s clone was destroyed, and a cultivator fishing at sea learned that his Number Four clone had been killed.

• Meng Zihao pierced Wedge’s Dharma Manifestation and taunted him about their former friendship as the Edgeless Sect disciples listened.
• Meng Zihao revealed that Wedge had tried to take advantage of him while they were trapped in a secret realm together, enraging Wedge into attacking recklessly.
• Tang Yu detonated the filthy true essence inside the six Edgeless Sect disciples, injuring them while their attention was on the gossip.
• Meng Zihao cut Wedge’s Dharma Manifestation into pieces until it shattered, causing one of the Edgeless Sect’s three highest soul tablets to break.
• A cultivator fishing from a giant turtle learned that his Number Four clone had died and complained that Meng Zihao had stabbed it in the ass with a flying sword.

Wedge absorbed the primordial yang essence from Edgeless Sect's Third Patriarch and returned to Defying Heaven Is Hard, while Tang Yu and Meng Zihao faced powerful reinforcements after killing Edgeless Sect cultivators. Nangong Heartless arrived to defend Tang Yu, setting the stage for a deadly confrontation with the Edgeless Sect, the Fire Spirit Sect, and the Heaven-Slaying Sect.

• Wedge released the sea serpent, swallowed the primordial yang essence from Edgeless Sect's Third Patriarch, and asked fellow Daoists in Defying Heaven Is Hard how to revive his clone.
• Tang Yu and Meng Zihao finished dealing with the aftermath of killing Edgeless Sect's Third Patriarch and six Nascent Soul cultivators when a jade talisman opened a teleportation formation.
• Chu Zhaihuo, Qin Ye, and a powerful cultivator from the Heaven-Slaying Sect emerged and confronted Tang Yu and Meng Zihao.
• Qin Ye called on Nangong Heartless to appear, and Tang Yu used a blue gemstone to summon him.
• Nangong Heartless arrived, recognized the Heaven-Slaying Sect cultivator, and declared he would fight all three opponents to protect Tang Yu.

Tang Yu’s allies faced off against Chu Zhaihuo and the Heaven-Slaying Sect, until Jia Chenyang, an Immortal Emperor from the Immortal Realm, arrived to protect him. Jia Chenyang stopped the attackers and revealed that he had once beaten the Heaven-Slaying Sect’s patriarch, Chi Zhantian.

• Qin Ye formed a sword-qi realm and engaged Chu Zhaihuo, while the Heaven-Slaying Sect cultivator blocked Nangong Heartless.
• Jia Chenyang appeared beside Tang Yu and stopped Chu Zhaihuo, frightening him into standing still.
• Jia Chenyang berated Chu Zhaihuo for bullying Tang Yu and then prevented the Heaven-Slaying Sect cultivator from leaving.
• Jia Chenyang said he had beaten Chi Zhantian and showed the cultivator the patriarch’s robe as proof.
• The Heaven-Slaying Sect cultivator recognized the robe and nearly suffered a collapse of his Dao heart.

Jia Chenyang forced the Wu cultivator and Qin Ye to hand over their storage rings, then helped Tang Yu demand the Edgeless Sect's spiritual vein as compensation. After Jia Chenyang left, Nangong Heartless dealt with Chu Zhaihuo, and Tang Yu gained a trove of cultivation resources.

• Jia Chenyang humiliated the Wu cultivator and made him give Tang Yu his storage ring before sending him away.
• Qin Ye surrendered his storage ring and swore an oath to compensate the Joyous Union Sect with the Edgeless Sect's spiritual vein.
• Jia Chenyang paused time to discuss the Great Dao with Tang Yu, who described his new understanding of the Dao of Snow.
• Jia Chenyang departed, leaving Nangong Heartless to slap Chu Zhaihuo and take his storage ring.
• Tang Yu found that the three storage rings held abundant cultivation resources, and Nangong Heartless dragged Chu Zhaihuo aside to discuss reconciliation.

After the Edgeless Sect conflict was settled, Tang Yu went to the Treasure Pavilion and found Amber safe after she crushed Huangfu Wuwei’s rebellion. The two compared what had happened, and Tang Yu ended by collapsing against Amber in exhaustion.

• Nangong Heartless told Tang Yu that the Fire Spirit Sect had agreed to pay compensation equal to about two hundred years of its income, then took him to the Treasure Pavilion.
• Tang Yu confirmed Amber was unharmed and left Nangong Heartless to return to his business.
• Amber’s forces reported that the purge was complete, and Huangfu Wuwei accused Li Xing of betraying him before Li Xing explained his defection.
• Amber condemned Huangfu Wuwei under sect law and burned him and the other corpses to ashes, then appointed replacements and dismissed the Treasure Pavilion’s disciples and elders.
• Tang Yu told Amber about the dangerous events surrounding the operation, and Amber admitted she had suffered a minor injury.
• Tang Yu said he was exhausted and collapsed against Amber.

After surviving the crisis involving the Treasure Pavilion, Tang Yu and Amber celebrated their victory by dual cultivating in the Star-Picking Tower. Amber emerged three days later having reached the Body Integration Realm, while two Supreme Elders realized what had happened.

• Tang Yu and Amber discussed their narrow escape and agreed to celebrate their survival together.
• Tang Yu carried Amber to the bed, and they dual cultivated in the sealed Star-Picking Tower for three days.
• Senior Sister Liu and another Supreme Elder waited outside the tower, believing Amber might be healing from injuries.
• Amber emerged with a blush, and Senior Sister Liu discovered that Amber had reached the Body Integration Realm.
• Tang Yu left for the Joyous Union Sect, and the two Supreme Elders realized that he and Amber had spent the three days dual cultivating.

Amber admitted to the Treasure Pavilion’s Grand Elders that she and Tang Yu had become Dao companions, while Tang Yu recovered from their three days of dual cultivation and returned to the Joyous Union Sect. He arrived amid preparations to move the Edgeless Sect’s spirit vein and was immediately surrounded by four of his master’s affectionate mistresses.

• The black-robed old woman teased Amber about her relationship with Tang Yu, and Amber confirmed they were Dao companions.
• Amber told her curious Senior Sister that dual cultivation with Tang Yu felt so good that she wanted to stay with him for the rest of her life.
• Tang Yu drank medicinal tea and complained that dual cultivation with Amber had drained his strength and nearly lowered his cultivation.
• Tang Yu returned to the Joyous Union Sect, where Liu Yanlan directed preparations for a teleportation array to move the Edgeless Sect’s spirit vein.
• Liu Yanlan introduced Tang Yu to Third Mistress, Fifth Mistress, Sixth Mistress, and Eighth Mistress, who embraced and teased him.

Tang Yu faced teasing from his four martial aunts before Nangong Heartless appeared and argued with them. Liu Yanlan worried over Tang Yu and reunited with him, while the formation transferred the Edgeless Sect’s spiritual vein to the Joyous Union Sect.

• Tang Yu gave his four martial aunts complexion-preserving pills, but the Third Martial Aunt continued to tease him and left a lipstick mark on his face.
• Nangong Heartless appeared, traded insults with his dao companions, and vanished with the four martial aunts after a quarrel.
• Liu Yanlan warned Tang Yu about his weakened cultivation and admitted she had worried after learning he had concealed the danger of his dealings with the Edgeless Sect.
• The formation opened a rift in the sky, and the Edgeless Sect’s spiritual vein passed through it and descended beneath the Joyous Union Sect.
• The Joyous Union Sect’s elders and disciples cheered as their sect gained the spiritual vein.

The Joyous Union Sect settled the Edgeless Sect’s spirit vein, only to discover Nangong Ying and Tang Maomao hiding inside it to steal spirit stones. After punishing them and planning an expedition to the Nether Sea, Tang Yu heard that Lin Xuan had reached the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm and ordered his surveillance and a project to create a world for him.

• Tang Yu and Liu Yanlan inspected the spirit vein after it took root in the Joyous Union Sect.
• Liu Yanlan uncovered a hidden formation and found Nangong Ying and Tang Maomao inside, where they admitted they had been stealing spirit stones.
• Liu Yanlan confined Nangong Ying to the sect for ten years and ordered regular inspections of the spirit vein.
• Liu Yanlan led an elders’ meeting to prepare for the dangerous Nether Sea expedition, which Tang Yu would lead.
• Zhao Dashun reported that Lin Xuan had reached the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm, and Tang Yu told him to keep watching Lin Xuan.
• Tang Yu learned that the project to combine several minor worlds into a nation for Lin Xuan would be completed within half a year.

Lin Xuan negotiated with Three Thousand Pills to refine White Mist Pills in exchange for help finding the missing pieces of a damaged jade disc. Meanwhile, Tang Yu dealt violently with a female cultivator protesting his bookstore’s jade-tube illustrations, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Tang Maomao gave Tang Yu hundreds of high-grade spirit stones, then asked him for another thousand clean ones.
• Lin Xuan arrived in White Deer City and arranged with the shop master of Three Thousand Pills to refine White Mist Pills and search for the missing pieces of his damaged jade disc.
• The major sects finished preparing for the journey to the Li Tang Mountains as the Joyous Union Sect’s rise became apparent.
• After cultivating with Amber, Tang Yu went to his bookstore to investigate declining sales and found a Nascent Soul female cultivator leading a boycott of jade-tube illustrations.
• Tang Yu slammed the protesting cultivator into the street repeatedly and insulted another woman who challenged him.

Tang Yu confronted a protester, negotiated compensation from the White Phoenix Sect, and led the Joyous Union Sect’s team to the Li Tang Sect for the coming sea-demon battle. After settling his group in, he headed toward the Jade Maiden Sect’s lodging island.

• Tang Yu mocked the female warrior who opposed jade-slip illustrations, then gave the watching male cultivators three illustrations each.
• The White Phoenix Sect’s elders arrived, but its leader agreed to compensate Tang Yu after recognizing him as the Joyous Union Sect’s deputy sect master.
• Tang Yu returned to the Joyous Union Sect and accepted Liu Yanlan’s instructions to lead its team to the front lines.
• Tang Yu and the Joyous Union Sect’s disciples traveled for half a month before reaching the Li Tang Mountains and meeting the Li Tang Sect’s reception party.
• The Li Tang Sect’s guide showed Tang Yu’s group to their floating-island lodging and explained that the next beast tide would begin within three days.
• After reviewing the sea-demon information, Tang Yu flew toward the floating island where the Jade Maiden Sect was staying.

Tang Yu secretly visited Ning Qingyan, interrupted her meeting with fellow disciples, and learned that Fang Meiyun might still be alive. Meanwhile, Zhou Yunsheng and an elderly woman continued searching the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range for a clever pig demon.

• Tang Yu used a magical artifact and his Snow Dao divine ability to sneak into Ning Qingyan's room and embrace her.
• Ning Qingyan's fellow Jade Maiden Sect cultivators arrived to discuss forming a battle formation against the coming demonic beast assault, while Tang Yu hid invisibly and secretly teased her.
• After the cultivators left, Ning Qingyan showed Tang Yu a divine ability from Fang Meiyun's belongings that could preserve a divided soul, suggesting her master might still be alive.
• Tang Yu and Ning Qingyan played music together to cultivate, with Tang Yu claiming he would help her reach the Divine Transformation Realm sooner.
• Zhou Yunsheng and an elderly Golden Core cultivator searched the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range for a clever pig demon that Zhou Yunsheng wanted to capture as a spirit pet.

Fang Meiyun used her powerful human soul to reverse Zhou Yunsheng’s attempt to refine her into a spirit pet, then drained his cultivation and escaped. Back in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, she took the Daoist title Bo Gang and vowed to eradicate men and ascend to the Immortal Realm.

• Zhou Yunsheng captured Fang Meiyun, an intelligent pig demon, and brought her to his sect to refine her as his spirit pet.
• When Zhou Yunsheng began the Beast Taming Art, Fang Meiyun’s far stronger human soul reversed the refinement and made him her servant.
• Fang Meiyun used a dual cultivation technique to drain Zhou Yunsheng from the peak of Golden Core to initial Qi Refinement, advancing herself to middle Golden Core.
• Fang Meiyun spared Zhou Yunsheng, took his valuables, and fled the sect for the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range.
• Fang Meiyun resumed her human form, named herself Bo Gang, and vowed to eradicate men; Xiao Xiaole felt a tremor in his soul.

Xiao Xiaole learned from Old Yun’s divination that a woman named Bo Gang threatened his fate, while Tang Yu spent time with Ning Qingyan and wandered the snowy Li Tang Mountains. The chapter ended with Tang Yu rejecting Liu Jianlong’s invitation to climb the mountains on foot and watching him leave in a huff.

• Xiao Xiaole visited Old Yun, who divined that a woman named Bo Gang was tied to an approaching calamity and gave him a red thread to warn him of her presence.
• Xiao Xiaole decided to enter seclusion and kill Bo Gang if she approached him.
• Tang Yu left Ning Qingyan after they cultivated together, and she told him to meet her elsewhere rather than visit her again.
• Tang Yu wandered the Li Tang Mountains and shaped snow maidens resembling women he knew before storing them in the Divine Tree Space as someone approached.
• Liu Jianlong introduced himself as a member of the Li Tang Sect and invited Tang Yu to climb the mountains on foot, but Tang Yu refused.
• Liu Jianlong walked away muttering curses, nearly provoking Tang Yu to attack him.

Tang Yu secretly used a Great Dao ability to give Liu Jianlong severe diarrhea, then joined the Joyous Union Sect in defending the Li Tang Mountains from the Nether Sea demons. The battle began with heavy losses, and Liu Jianlong was killed by a sea demon.

• Tang Yu secretly gave the retreating Liu Jianlong diarrhea, and Liu Jianlong refused to use his cultivation to stop it before collapsing in agony.
• Tang Yu joined the Joyous Union Sect as the sects flew to the Li Tang Mountains, where Wang Yuan assigned them to defend the left flank.
• Tang Yu's forces formed groups to fight the sea demons while Wang Yuan used smoke arts to counter a giant whale's attack.
• Patriarch Red Horn summoned over a thousand crimson giant whales, but a Li Tang Sect Supreme Elder blocked their water-arrow barrage.
• A Nascent Soul-stage sea demon announced that he had killed Liu Jianlong, prompting Li Tang Sect elders and sea demons to clash overhead.

Tang Yu protected the Joyous Union Sect’s battle line during the war against the Nether Sea demons, then unleashed his Great Dao divine ability to cripple the advancing forces. The sea demons recognized his power and placed him third on their Kill List, offering ten thousand li of sea territory to whoever killed him.

• Tang Yu intercepted a Golden Core merman trying to destroy a formation, tortured it for information about the Seven-Colored Clan, and killed it after it refused to cooperate.
• After six days of fighting had exhausted the Joyous Union Sect’s cultivators, Tang Yu took the front line so they could rest.
• Tang Yu used his Great Dao divine ability, Honey Snow Ice City, weakening the sea demons across the battlefield and driving their advance back.
• Red Horn recognized that Tang Yu had comprehended the Dao, and the great demons placed him third on their Kill List with a reward of ten thousand li of sea territory.