Chapter Summaries

The Heavenly Fiend Corpse King offered Zhou Yang survival in exchange for his cooperation, promising that he could continue living through Body Seizure. While trapped serving the corpse king, Zhou Yang planned for his future cultivation and learned about the Golden Core divine abilities he could pursue.

• The Heavenly Fiend Corpse King explained that it would not continue hatching the Yin Yang Soul Devouring Worm because it could not control the insect and feared Guo Jinhong had tampered with its egg.
• The Heavenly Fiend Corpse King offered to let Zhou Yang undergo Body Seizure after helping it with a task, and Zhou Yang pretended to accept in exchange for a Dao Heart Oath.
• The Heavenly Fiend Corpse King sealed the unconscious Qin Yue'er in a Nether Ironwood coffin and took Zhou Yang through several locations before settling in a yin-filled tomb cluster.
• Zhou Yang used his spare time to plan his cultivation and discovered that Great Sun Embracing had raised his spiritual root aptitude to High-grade.
• Zhou Yang identified three Golden Core divine abilities in the Qianyang Immortal Scripture but could not cultivate them freely while serving the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King.
• Zhou Yang refined several Tier 5 artifacts while keeping the materials for his Qianyang Golden Pagoda hidden, and the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King expected to claim his possessions after his eventual death.

Xiao Ying and Zhou Guangxiang returned to the Cultivation World of the Boundless Sea of Sand, while Xu Song learned of the Haoyang Sect upheaval and wondered what Zhou Yang had overlooked. After eleven years of helping the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King cultivate, Zhou Yang faced being forced to practice the Corpse Transformation Secret Art, and a lapse during their next session set an unseen danger in motion.

• Xiao Ying and Zhou Guangxiang used the teleportation array to return to the Cultivation World of the Boundless Sea of Sand, leaving Xu Song behind to remove the High-grade Spirit Stones and investigate Zhou Yang's situation.
• Xu Song learned about the events at Haoyang Mountain, marveled at Zhou Yang's knack for causing trouble, and wondered what important detail he had forgotten.
• Zhou Yang spent ten years using Qianyang True Fire to refine the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King's magic power, while the Qianyang Treasure Bead recovered and gained the Qianyang Skyfire Shield.
• In the eleventh year, the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King told Zhou Yang that the female soul in the Nether Ironwood coffin would be erased in a month and he could then begin the Corpse Transformation Secret Art.
• Zhou Yang grew distracted and repeatedly faltered while assisting the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King's cultivation, until his Qianyang True Fire went out and the fiend ordered him to continue.

Zhou Yang used the trembling Kunxu Token and the enhanced Qianyang True Fire to escape the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King, taking the Netherworld Profound Coffin with him. He arrived in the Kunxu Realm and discovered the vast Linghuan Realm beyond its sky.

• Zhou Yang noticed the Kunxu Token trembling and secretly prepared to activate it while following the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King's order to release Qianyang True Fire.
• Zhou Yang enhanced the Qianyang True Fire with the Qianyang Treasure Bead, burned the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King, and stored the Netherworld Profound Coffin in the Spirit Planting Diagram.
• Zhou Yang activated the Kunxu Token and vanished before the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King's claw could hit him.
• The Heavenly Fiend Corpse King suppressed the flames and vowed to kill Zhou Yang when he returned from the Kunxu Realm three years later.
• Zhou Yang arrived on a cloud-wreathed mountain in the Kunxu Realm and saw the seven-colored Linghuan Realm beyond its sky.

After arriving in the Kunxu Realm, Zhou Yang examined Qin Yue'er and found that the Heavenly Fiend Corpse King's methods had left her unable to awaken. He searched for a safe place to forge his Natal Artifact, but after spotting a familiar fairy fighting a powerful demonic beast, he realized an old acquaintance had also entered the realm.

• Zhou Yang released Qin Yue'er from the Netherworld Profound Coffin and discovered that her soul had fused with her body, leaving him unable to awaken her.
• He put Qin Yue'er away and descended the mountain to find a safer place to forge the Qianyang Golden Pagoda.
• Zhou Yang killed a Tier 4 High-grade blue-black giant snake and harvested its materials along with a three-thousand-year-old Green Jade Ganoderma.
• He began carving out a temporary cave residence, then sensed a Golden Core-level battle and went to investigate.
• Zhou Yang found a familiar, peerlessly beautiful fairy fighting a Tier 5 Mid-grade blue bird while riding a seven-colored giant python.

Zhou Yang reunited with Jiang Fengxian in the Kunxu Realm, and the two joined forces to kill a Green-faced Owl before catching up as old comrades. He accepted the owl’s demon core as a gift and asked Jiang Fengxian to guard him while he refined his Natal Artifact.

• Zhou Yang recognized Jiang Fengxian, revealed himself, and joined her fight against the Green-faced Owl.
• Jiang Fengxian warned Zhou Yang about the owl’s Wind Roc bloodline and strange wind-escape technique, but they worked together to defeat and kill it.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian returned to his temporary cave dwelling, finished excavating it, and set up an array.
• Jiang Fengxian offered Zhou Yang the Green-faced Owl’s demon core to congratulate him on forming his Golden Core, and he accepted after she insisted.
• Jiang Fengxian invited Zhou Yang to call her Fengxian, and he asked her to guard him while he refined his Natal Artifact.

Zhou Yang forged his first Natal Artifact, the Qianyang Golden Pagoda, and studied Jiang Fengxian's map of the Kunxu Realm. After learning she planned to hunt a poisonous flood dragon for her Seven-Colored Cloud Swallowing Python, he agreed to help despite the danger posed by a Tier 6 flood dragon.

• Jiang Fengxian stood guard while Zhou Yang spent twenty days forging the Qianyang Golden Pagoda from Nine Heavens Profound Gold.
• Zhou Yang absorbed the newly forged pagoda into his dantian to nurture it, then reviewed Jiang Fengxian's map of the Kunxu Realm with her.
• Jiang Fengxian revealed that she wanted to hunt a poisonous flood dragon at Poison Flood Dragon Pool to obtain its core and help her Seven-Colored Cloud Swallowing Python advance to Tier 5.
• Zhou Yang warned that a Tier 6 poisonous flood dragon might attack if its descendants were threatened, but Jiang Fengxian said she had a Wind-Suppressing Spirit-Locking Formation to block calls for help.
• Jiang Fengxian explained that she could escape with the Wood Evasion Art, and Zhou Yang agreed to help, saying they could flee separately using their escape techniques.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian crossed the Red Desert on their way to Poison Flood Dragon Pool, where Zhou Yang learned about Jiang Fengxian’s recent life and shared his own origins. When a swarm of Spirit Devouring Fire Ants pursued them and mutated flying ants caught up, Jiang Fengxian revealed a pair of Seven-Colored Phoenix Wings and prepared to fight.

• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian found the Red Desert and descended to cross it on foot because flight was forbidden there.
• As they traveled, Zhou Yang told Jiang Fengxian he came from the Cultivation World of the Boundless Sea of Sand, and she described her years in seclusion and changes in the Flowing Cloud Continent.
• After twelve days in the desert, Zhou Yang detected a Spirit Devouring Fire Ant swarm and ran with Jiang Fengxian riding in a basket on his back.
• A cloud of mutated flying Spirit Devouring Fire Ants caught up despite the desert’s flight prohibition, and Jiang Fengxian recognized that the ants had evolved to fly.
• Jiang Fengxian told Zhou Yang to keep running, then summoned a pair of Seven-Colored Phoenix Wings on her back.

Jiang Fengxian revealed her Heavenly Phoenix Clan bloodline to Zhou Yang after using her inherited powers to repel the Spirit Devouring Fire Ant swarm. She told him the tragic story of her parents and her mother's sacrifice, leaving Zhou Yang aware that she trusted him with a secret she had guarded for centuries.

• Jiang Fengxian revealed her Seven-Colored Phoenix Wings, and Zhou Yang asked whether she was human.
• Jiang Fengxian scattered and slaughtered much of the Spirit Devouring Fire Ant swarm with her wings, spiritual radiance, and seven-colored flames, forcing its leader to order a retreat.
• After they reached safety, Jiang Fengxian retracted her wings and told Zhou Yang that her father belonged to the Heavenly Phoenix Clan.
• Jiang Fengxian explained that her parents were separated, that her mother's secret technique saved her from a fatal bloodline conflict, and that her mother died less than five years after her birth.
• Jiang Fengxian told Zhou Yang the warnings her mother had given her and why she had concealed her origins, then Zhou Yang expressed surprise at her past.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian encountered Song Qingyun and Wu Zidao, two cultivators who preyed on others in the Red Desert. As the groups clashed, Zhou Yang charged forward but was confronted by Wu Zidao’s five high-grade Puppet Beasts.

• Zhou Yang swore to keep Jiang Fengxian’s identity secret, and their relationship grew closer during the journey across the Red Desert.
• After Zhou Yang sensed a fleeting life aura, he had Jiang Fengxian ride in his basket so they could face danger together.
• Song Qingyun and Wu Zidao learned from Song’s spirit lizard that two Early Golden Core cultivators were nearby, then rode a Tier 5 centipede to hunt them.
• Song Qingyun and Wu Zidao recognized Zhou Yang from the Demon Slaying Ranking and decided to attack him and Jiang Fengxian for profit.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian chose to fight; Zhou activated the Qianyang Skyfire Shield and charged, but Wu Zidao released five high-grade Puppet Beasts, including a Tier 5 humanoid puppet.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian fought Song Qingyun and Wu Zidao in the Red Desert, where their Puppet Beasts and spirit beast gave them a major advantage. Zhou Yang crippled Wu Zidao’s strongest Puppet Beast and then killed Song Qingyun with a talisman, while Jiang Fengxian continued battling Wu Zidao’s five Puppets.

• Zhou Yang charged Wu Zidao through the Puppet Beasts’ attacks, then used Azure Dragon Shadow to knock the Tier 5 Puppet Tiger-man out of action.
• Zhou Yang activated an ash-silver jade pendant that used Primal Magnetic power to immobilize the Puppet Tiger-man as Wu Zidao tried to repair it.
• Jiang Fengxian’s Heavenly Phoenix Clan bloodline abilities kept Song Qingyun and his Crimson Flame Fire Centipede from gaining an advantage.
• Wu Zidao sent five Tier 4 Puppet Beasts to attack Jiang Fengxian while Song Qingyun rode toward Zhou Yang.
• Zhou Yang used Soul Capturing Golden Light to daze Song Qingyun, then killed him with an Annihilation Golden Spear Talisman.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian defeated Song Qingyun and Wu Zidao, but Jiang Fengxian suffered severe injuries while killing Wu Zidao. As she recovered on an island, Zhou Yang studied Song Qingyun’s map and discovered Sacred Infant Valley, where a Sacred Infant Fruit could greatly improve a ninth-layer Golden Core cultivator’s chance of forming an infant.

• Zhou Yang killed Song Qingyun with the Soul Capturing Pearl and Annihilation Golden Spear Talisman, and the Crimson Flame Fire Centipede fled from Jiang Fengxian’s Phoenix Bloodline.
• Wu Zidao abandoned his Puppet Beasts and fled, so Jiang Fengxian pursued and killed him, sustaining serious injuries in the process.
• Zhou Yang collected the battlefield spoils, caught up with Jiang Fengxian, and carried her out of the Red Desert to an uninhabited island to recover.
• While Jiang Fengxian healed, Zhou Yang examined his gains, claimed Wu Zidao’s Tier 5 Puppet Beast, and studied Song Qingyun’s Kunxu Realm map.
• Zhou Yang found Sacred Infant Valley marked as the home of the Sacred Infant Tree, whose fruit could raise a ninth-layer Golden Core cultivator’s chance of forming an infant by thirty percent.

Zhou Yang learned that Sacred Infant Fruit in the Kunxu Realm could help cultivators form a Nascent Soul, then traveled with Jiang Fengxian to Hanging Heaven Peak in search of treasures. Their first attempts to climb a middle peak fell short, but Zhou Yang believed he could succeed by managing his mana better.

• Zhou Yang studied the map, learned the Sacred Infant Fruit would be accessible in the Kunxu Realm's third year, and decided to keep helping Jiang Fengxian first.
• After Jiang Fengxian recovered, Zhou Yang and she divided the Red Desert spoils, including Wu Zidao's artifacts and spirit stones, and Zhou Yang showed her the map marking the Sacred Infant Fruit.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian flew to Hanging Heaven Peak, where Zhou Yang chose an unoccupied middle peak for them to climb in hopes of finding better treasures.
• The formation pressed Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian down to the peak's base and subjected them to mounting gravity, divine-sense attacks, and mana consumption as they climbed.
• Zhou Yang gave up with about a hundred zhang left after nearly exhausting his mana, and Jiang Fengxian was thrown from her cloud with forty zhang remaining.
• Zhou Yang comforted Jiang Fengxian and said that he expected to reach the summit on another attempt if he replenished his mana with Spirit Stones sooner.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian claimed treasures from the palace atop Hanging Heaven Peak, then traveled into Poison Mist Swamp to hunt poison flood dragons. They set a baiting formation and drew the swamp’s poisonous creatures toward them, leaving the poison flood dragons still to be lured out.

• Jiang Fengxian claimed a gilded bronze dressing mirror from the palace, and Zhou Yang took a green wooden tablet before they left the mountain region.
• Zhou Yang identified the tablet as a Yimu Life-Replacing Token and refined it, while Jiang Fengxian refined her mirror artifact.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian reached Poison Mist Swamp and traveled through its depths, fighting off swarms of poisonous creatures along the way.
• Jiang Fengxian explained that she would lure poison flood dragons with a powder made from rare poisonous herbs and insects, and she and Zhou Yang set up the Wind-Suppressing Spirit-Locking Formation on an island bearing flood dragon claw marks.
• Jiang Fengxian boiled the bait powder with venomous blood from her Seven-Colored Cloud Swallowing Python, drawing poisonous creatures that began killing one another as they approached.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian lured and killed a poisonous flood dragon, then escaped before its Tier 6 ancestor could catch them. After recovering and dividing the spoils, they agreed to head to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

• Jiang Fengxian used poisonous soup to lure a Tier 5 poisonous flood dragon to the island, where she and Zhou Yang ambushed it.
• The poisonous flood dragon used a life-saving treasure from its Tier 6 ancestor to destroy the Fire Phoenix Banner and Sea Suppressing Peak, but Jiang Fengxian decapitated it with an azure feather transformed into a flying sword.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian abandoned the Wind-Suppressing Spirit-Locking Formation and fled; the Tier 6 poisonous flood dragon arrived afterward and learned what had happened through Round Light Reversal.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian reunited at their distant rendezvous island, where he recovered before they examined the spoils.
• Jiang Fengxian sealed the poisonous flood dragon's demon core, while Zhou Yang claimed and dissected its corpse, retrieving its poison sac.
• Zhou Yang proposed that they go to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, and Jiang Fengxian agreed to follow his plan.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian reached Myriad Treasures Pavilion after crossing a dangerous forest sea and began testing the defenses of a crimson palace. After destroying its Stone Warriors, they were trapped inside a powerful formation and had to prepare to break it together.

• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian crossed the forest sea, fending off repeated attacks from demonic beasts, and arrived at Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian approached a crimson palace and used the Puppet Tiger-man to test the four Stone Warriors guarding its gate.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian attacked the Stone Warriors, and Zhou Yang burned them into rubble with Qianyang True Fire.
• The treasure mirror above the gate activated when the Stone Warriors fell and transported Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian into a Domain of Law filled with molten lava.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian realized they had to combine their strength and quickly break the formation.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian broke out of a dangerous formation guarding a crimson palace, and Zhou Yang took the formation-suppressing treasure mirror after shielding Jiang Fengxian from its final strike. They found rare spiritual medicines and entered the inner hall, where a statue and offerings revealed the palace had been built in honor of True Man Xuan Zhu Huo De.

• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian studied the uncontrolled fire formation, searched for its weak point, and spent nearly three days probing its patterns while defending themselves.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian combined their attacks and spirit talismans to break through the formation, but its final Purple-red Fire Pillar shattered Zhou Yang's shields and badly injured him.
• Zhou Yang escaped the formation, seized the dimmed treasure mirror, and stabilized his injuries while Jiang Fengxian thanked him for saving her life.
• Jiang Fengxian opened the crimson palace gates, and Zhou Yang harvested the courtyard's rare fifth-tier spiritual medicines after she offered them to him.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian entered the inner hall and found a statue of True Man Xuan Zhu Huo De, along with a crimson jade slip, a fiery-red jade ruyi, and a purple-red jade pendant.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian explored Myriad Treasures Pavilion, then pursued cultivators carrying Enlightenment Profound True Fruits. The fruits’ bearers split up during the chase, and Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian chose to follow the companion who received two fruits.

• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian examined the treasures in True Man Xuan Zhu Huo De’s hall, and Zhou Yang took the Lion Fire Ruyi while Jiang Fengxian kept the jade talisman and copied the Xuantian Fire Lightning Pearl method.
• Jiang Fengxian guarded the hall while Zhou Yang recovered from his injuries, then Zhou Yang appraised the Purple-Red Bronze Mirror and decided to leave it for Zhou Guangxiang.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian resumed exploring Myriad Treasures Pavilion and heard someone accuse Yu Deshui of monopolizing the Enlightenment Profound True Fruit.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian followed the trail and joined other cultivators pursuing Yu Deshui and his companion, who had joined forces against a Late Golden Core Stage cultivator.
• Yu Deshui and his companion split up after Yu Deshui threw two Enlightenment Profound True Fruits to the other cultivator, and Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian chased the one carrying both fruits.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian killed the Seventh-layer Golden Core cultivator who had attacked them, then escaped with his treasures. While Jiang Fengxian used the Enlightenment Profound True Fruit to pursue a breakthrough, Zhou Yang struggled with guilt and questioned whether karma truly existed.

• The old man summoned dozens of rock giants, but Jiang Fengxian trapped them with her Single Wood Forest divine ability.
• The old man struck Jiang Fengxian twice with his bronze gong, prompting Zhou Yang to attack with the Lion Fire Ruyi and Soul Capturing Pearl.
• Jiang Fengxian used the Soul Disturbing Bell to disrupt the old man's mana, allowing Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian to kill him and take his belongings.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian fled the Myriad Treasures Pavilion region and divided the old man's treasures in a temporary cave dwelling.
• Jiang Fengxian told Zhou Yang to let go of his guilt over killing for treasure, then took the Enlightenment Profound True Fruit to cultivate.
• Zhou Yang reflected on his lost moral excuses and questioned whether karmic retribution existed in the Cultivation World.

After resolving his guilt over killing for treasure, Zhou Yang protected Jiang Fengxian as she advanced to the Fourth Layer of Golden Core, then traveled with her toward Sacred Infant Valley. Crossing the dangerous Sky Rift Gorge, they faced powerful beasts and fled a Stone Ghoul until it suddenly vanished, leaving them to search for whatever had frightened it.

• Zhou Yang decided to balance each evil act with a hundred good deeds and each life he took with a hundred people saved, settling his heart enough to continue cultivating.
• During Jiang Fengxian's half-year breakthrough seclusion, Zhou Yang refined the Heaven Shaking Bronze Gong and repaired a Tier 5 tiger-man Puppet Beast; Jiang Fengxian then reached the Fourth Layer of Golden Core.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian set out for Sacred Infant Valley and entered Sky Rift Gorge on foot, wary of its spatial rifts and dangerous inhabitants.
• The pair fought numerous demonic beasts, including a Three-headed Black Snake, and Zhou Yang obtained valuable materials and a large Thunder Crystal from a Tusk Thunderstorm Beast.
• A Tier 5 High-grade Stone Ghoul pursued Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian for more than ten thousand miles, but abruptly fled underground as they prepared to fight back.
• Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian searched the forest with their divine senses, suspecting that something nearby had terrified the Stone Ghoul.

Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian were captured by a Wood Imp who had once been a Nascent Soul cultivator and had been trapped in the Kunxu Realm for over two thousand years. As the Wood Imp seized their treasures and threatened them, Zhou Yang recognized that it did not know the Eye of Light and began considering what that revealed about its origins.

• After the Stone Ghoul fled, a sinister voice interrupted Zhou Yang, and the Wood Imp captured him and Jiang Fengxian with vines and branches.
• Zhou Yang recognized the captor as a Wood Imp, while Jiang Fengxian questioned whether it was a human cultivator.
• The Wood Imp threatened Jiang Fengxian and mocked Zhou Yang, who accused it of abandoning the integrity of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
• The Wood Imp explained that it had seized a Wood Imp body after its own body was destroyed, and blamed the Outer Realm True Immortals for trapping it in the Kunxu Realm.
• The Wood Imp took Zhou Yang and Jiang Fengxian's Storage Rings and examined their treasures, including a Fire Phoenix feather, a treasure cauldron, and the Eye of Light.
• Zhou Yang realized the Wood Imp did not recognize the Eye of Light and began to suspect it came from outside the nearby Cultivation Worlds.