Chapter Summaries

Ye Tian and Tang Yunsheng reached the Universe Tower’s second layer and faced a nest of Blood Jade Cold Toads. After killing the hatchlings with Ye Tian’s sword and Bone Devouring Spirit Ants, they prepared to confront the two adult toads.

• Ye Tian and Tang Yunsheng recovered their spiritual energy before crossing into the second layer, where they encountered two enormous Blood Jade Cold Toads and dozens of hatchlings.
• Ye Tian attacked the hatchlings with the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword, but their hard hides repelled the small swords, so Tang Yunsheng set up a defensive formation against the toads’ icy breath.
• Ye Tian and Tang Yunsheng coordinated to send out the Bone Devouring Spirit Ants, which survived the cold and discovered that the toads’ mouths were vulnerable.
• Ye Tian combined the ants with his sword to kill the hatchlings, while Tang Yunsheng maintained the formation against the adult toads.
• When the formation began to falter, Ye Tian took over its operation and told Tang Yunsheng to restore her spiritual energy as the two adult toads remained a threat.

Ye Tian and Tang Yunsheng faced the two adult Blood Jade Cold Toads while Jiang Wuzhi was killed by their icy qi. When Nangong Qiming and his family arrived, Ye Tian drew the toads’ attention away from the suspected entrance to the third layer, leaving the Nangong Family to organize a defense.

• Jiang Wuzhi lost an arm evading the Blood Jade Cold Toads’ icy qi, then died when a blast engulfed him as Ye Tian’s formation collapsed.
• Ye Tian retrieved Jiang Wuzhi’s storage pouch, but lost contact with his Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Swords and Bone-Corroding Spirit Ant after they entered the toads’ mouths.
• Nangong Qiming and the Nangong Family entered the second layer, and Ye Tian told Tang Yunsheng that the third-layer entrance might lie beneath the young toads’ corpses.
• Ye Tian sent thirty-six sword streaks toward the Nangong Family to lure the adult toads into attacking them, and several disciples were frozen and shattered.
• Nangong Qiming ordered his disciples to restrain the toads and reach the third layer first, so six disciples raised an azure barrier with their Array Flags and spirit stones.

Ye Tian and Tang Yunsheng entered the Universe Tower’s third layer and found a poisonous cavern with a jade-green pool. Nangong Qiming’s group caught up with them, and a powerful scaled beast emerged to attack the Nangong Family.

• Ye Tian and Tang Yunsheng entered the third layer and followed a passage to a cavern filled with poisonous green mist.
• Ye Tian tested the jade-green pool with a magical artifact, which lost its spiritual energy and divine sense as soon as it touched the water.
• Nangong Qiming arrived with the surviving Nangong Family members and arranged a Spirit Gathering Array to recover their spiritual energy.
• A jade-green tongue snatched spirit stones from the array, and Nangong Qiming’s flying sword shattered after he sent it into the passage.
• A horned, scaled spirit beast emerged and crushed a Nangong Family disciple with its eagle claws.
• Nangong Qiming led his group toward the pool and gave them antidote pills as the beast came fully into view.

Ye Tian refused Nangong Qiming’s offer to cooperate, killed a Nangong Family elder, and watched Nangong Qiming use a powerful talisman to escape to the Fourth Layer. Ye Tian entered the Emerald Water Nether Pool’s dark-green mist, while Tang Yunsheng fled from the Spirit Devouring Beasts; the mist overwhelmed Ye Tian and he fell into the pool.

• Ye Tian recognized the approaching beast as a Core Formation Stage Spirit Devouring Beast, and Nangong Qiming explained that True Person Cang Wu had tried to alter the beasts using the Emerald Water Nether Pool.
• Nangong Qiming offered to help Ye Tian reach the Seventh Layer, but Ye Tian rejected the offer because the Nangong Family had destroyed the Ye Family.
• A Nangong Family elder insulted Ye Tian, so Ye Tian killed him with his flying sword and challenged Nangong Qiming’s group.
• Nangong Qiming used a powerful talisman to kill the Spirit Devouring Beast and transport the Nangong Family into the Fourth Layer.
• Ye Tian entered the dark-green mist above the pool, while Tang Yunsheng discovered nearly a hundred Spirit Devouring Beasts and fled into a passageway.
• The mist corroded Ye Tian despite his efforts to resist it, and he fell into the Emerald Water Nether Pool as two intelligent Spirit Devouring Beasts watched.

Tang Yunsheng froze the Spirit Devouring Beasts and entered the Fourth Layer as Ye Tian remained unconscious in the Jade Water Deep Pool, absorbing its water and breaking through to the second transformation of Refining Skin and Tempering Bones. After the Universe Tower collapsed and sent him through spatial turbulence, Ye Tian emerged in ruins, fought off cultivators seeking his possessions, and killed the Blood Moon Cult’s red-haired woman when she ambushed him.

• Tang Yunsheng froze the Spirit Devouring Beasts and the Jade Water Deep Pool, then entered the Fourth Layer while Ye Tian remained unconscious beneath the ice.
• Ye Tian absorbed the pool water as the cave collapsed, awakened with his body strengthened, and discovered that he had reached the second transformation of Refining Skin and Tempering Bones.
• The Universe Tower fractured, and Ye Tian was pulled into spatial turbulence before reappearing in ruins with his spiritual energy exhausted.
• Ye Tian defeated cultivators who attacked him for his possessions, then clashed with a hidden assailant’s red flying sword and fled the ruins.
• The red-haired woman trapped Ye Tian with Array Flags and attacked him, but Ye Tian used his formation-breaking ants and flying swords to kill her and take her array equipment.

Ye Tian fought two Core Formation members of the Blood Moon Cult inside a spiritual energy-isolating formation, using his sword and Town Yue Turtle Mountain Diagram to counter their attacks. The black-robed man fled as the woman transformed into a monster and opened the third layer of her six-tiered pagoda beneath a descending lightning net.

• Ye Tian was trapped in a formation by a black-robed man and a beautiful black-robed woman sent by the Blood Moon Cult Master to kill him.
• Ye Tian used the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword to channel the black-robed man's lightning into the woman's earthen wall and pagoda, then attacked her again as she defended herself with a giant leaf and vines.
• Ye Tian's Town Yue Turtle Mountain Diagram absorbed the formation's spiritual energy, weakening the barrier and recovering its own damaged power.
• The woman ate the leaf from her pagoda, transformed into a green-skinned monster, and pulled the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword from her shoulder after Ye Tian wounded her.
• The black-robed man opened a gap in the formation and fled while Ye Tian's Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants followed him outside.
• The black-robed woman opened the third layer of her six-tiered pagoda as a net of lightning descended on her and Ye Tian.

Ye Tian fought the strange man with the six-story pagoda, then trapped him in the Heavenly Dipper Annihilation Formation and destroyed the pagoda’s escaped Nascent Transformation Ancestor. The purple Nascent Soul tried to flee, but Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants cut off its escape, leaving it terrified and asking who Ye Tian was.

• Ye Tian used the Town Yue Turtle Mountain Diagram to withstand the pagoda’s firebird, but the strange man’s golden Sword Qi collided with his Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword and the resulting explosion destroyed the formation barrier.
• Ye Tian fled to a valley, where he activated the Heavenly Dipper Annihilation Formation and severed the strange man’s arm with an azure sword.
• After the formation’s swords exhausted the pagoda’s Five Elements power, the strange man opened its Sixth Layer and was destroyed by the purple skull inside; the pagoda then split apart and released the Nascent Transformation Ancestor.
• The Nascent Transformation Ancestor recognized Ye Tian’s sword formation as the Heavenly Dipper Annihilation Formation and demanded to know his connection to Yuan Tiangang, but Ye Tian continued attacking.
• The remaining azure swords shattered the purple skull, and its purple Nascent Soul fled before Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants forced it back toward Ye Tian.

After the purple Nascent Soul shattered, the Book of Life and Death absorbed a mysterious purple light, and a phantom vowed to remember Ye Tian. Ye Tian then fought three Core Formation cultivators sent by the Nangong Family and, left with no spiritual power, prepared to withstand their combined attack by sacrificing his essence blood.

• Ye Tian tried to search the purple Nascent Soul's memories, but it shattered, and a phantom sent purple light into his sea of consciousness before vanishing after recognizing the Book of Life and Death.
• Three Core Formation cultivators attacked Ye Tian with a golden sword, a spatial silver sword, and a Cloud Thunder Sword, while his artifacts blocked their strikes.
• Ye Tian used Time Stasis to counterattack, killing the weakest cultivator, but the other two survived behind defensive treasures, and the ability exhausted his spiritual power.
• Twenty-six Nangong Family disciples arrived, and the two surviving elders identified Ye Tian as their target and launched a combined attack with eight silver swords and the Cloud Thunder Sword.
• Ye Tian coated the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword with essence blood, turning it into 108 swords around him, while the Town Yue Turtle Mountain Diagram became armor over his vital areas.

Ye Tian survived the Nangong Family elders’ attacks and fled into a forest after the Blood Moon Cult Leader arrived and killed the family’s twenty-six disciples. A mysterious, overwhelming divine sense halted the ensuing fight, leaving the Blood Moon Cult Leader and the elders wary as Ye Tian escaped.

• The Cloud Thunder Sword pierced Ye Tian’s Town Yue Turtle Mountain Diagram, while the Void Trace Swords wounded his hand before his killing aura shattered one sword and his body resisted the other.
• Ye Tian summoned the Cloud Thunder Sword’s storm and endured the Nangong Family disciples’ magic artifacts, which lost their power against him.
• A blood-colored crescent killed all twenty-six Nangong Family disciples, and the Book of Life and Death absorbed a strange energy from their deaths.
• The Blood Moon Cult Leader attacked the Nangong Family elders as Ye Tian escaped into the forest using Divine Speed Talismans.
• A powerful divine sense appeared and stopped the fighting; the elders departed, and the wary Blood Moon Cult Leader did not pursue Ye Tian.

Ye Tian hid in a remote valley after escaping his pursuers, then spent months recovering and strengthening his sword while his cultivation remained stalled. When he prepared to sort through his supplies, he sensed a cultivator in a nearby village and flew toward it in disguise.

• Ye Tian used a Concealment Talisman to evade the Core Formation cultivators pursuing him and flew to a secluded mountain valley.
• Ye Tian carved out a cave, set up concealment and killing formations, then collapsed from exhaustion and slept before restoring his spiritual power.
• Ye Tian cultivated the Immortal Slaying Sword Art and strengthened all one hundred and eight small azure swords with core fire over several months, increasing their power by one-tenth.
• Ye Tian's cultivation and techniques stagnated, and he received no reply from Liu Ziyi or news of Ling Xiao.
• Ye Tian sensed a cultivator in a mountain village ten li away, concealed his identity and aura, and flew toward the village.

Ye Tian encountered Black Heart Scholar, who had grown to early Core Formation by devouring villagers and refining his blood aura. Ye Tian used the Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants and Time Stasis to destroy every trace of Black Heart Scholar’s essence blood, then took his storage bag and flew south.

• Ye Tian found a mountain village full of corpses and recognized Black Heart Scholar, who had slaughtered villagers to strengthen his cultivation.
• Black Heart Scholar’s blood river swallowed the Weeping Blood Golden Bell and destroyed the female ghost sealed inside it.
• Ye Tian used the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword to disrupt the blood river, while Black Heart Scholar’s blood aura corroded the Town Yue Turtle Mountain Diagram.
• Ye Tian released the Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants, which devoured the essence blood weakening his magical artifacts and proved capable of consuming Black Heart Scholar’s blood aura.
• Ye Tian used Time Stasis as the ants attacked Black Heart Scholar and devoured every drop of his essence blood, killing him.
• Ye Tian took Black Heart Scholar’s storage bag, recalled his spirit ants and damaged artifacts, and flew south.

Ye Tian discovered a village full of dead villagers and watched Liu Ziyi confront Ghost Daoist, a powerful former Ling Tian Sect cultivator who used black mist to kill and capture souls. Liu Ziyi revealed the Spirit Cleansing Pearl and challenged Ghost Daoist, but Ghost Daoist vanished into black mist as Liu Ziyi prepared to defend himself.

• Ye Tian found another village whose inhabitants had all died and spotted Ghost Daoist practicing a sinister art inside an old house.
• Liu Ziyi and several Ling Tian Sect disciples arrived, and a reckless disciple was killed by Ghost Daoist's black mist.
• Liu Ziyi entered the village and confronted Ghost Daoist, who emerged after the mist revealed the disciple's skeleton.
• Ghost Daoist attacked Liu Ziyi with a skeletal claw, but Liu Ziyi used the Spirit Cleansing Pearl to dispel it.
• Ghost Daoist refused to surrender and surrounded himself with black mist, while Liu Ziyi readied the Heavenly Fire Divine Sword and Spirit Cleansing Pearl.

Ghost Daoist stole the Spirit Cleansing Pearl and killed several Ling Tian Sect disciples while Liu Ziyi struggled to locate him. Ye Tian joined Liu Ziyi, but Ghost Daoist concealed himself again and began a new attack as the chapter ended.

• Liu Ziyi used a talisman to reveal Ghost Daoist, but Ghost Daoist struck him with a black heart-piercing nail and black mist, then took the Spirit Cleansing Pearl and disappeared.
• Ghost Daoist attacked Liu Ziyi and the Ling Tian Sect disciples with black mist and ghostly faces, devouring several disciples and the pale-faced scholar.
• Ye Tian attacked Ghost Daoist with the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword, but Ghost Daoist blocked it until a fiery blaze forced the black mist away.
• Ye Tian revealed his identity to Liu Ziyi, and they discussed the missing Ling Xiao and the vanished survivors of the Cang Wu Secret Realm.
• Ghost Daoist filled the mountain village with black smoke, concealed his presence from Ye Tian, and drew the smoke inward before appearing above it.

Ye Tian and Liu Ziyi fought the Ghost Daoist, who trapped them in the Hundred Ghosts Soul Slaying Formation and used the Soul Cleansing Pearl in a ritual. They destroyed the formation, but the Ghost Daoist remained protected by a ground array and continued changing the pearl.

• The Ghost Daoist trapped Ye Tian and Liu Ziyi inside the Hundred Ghosts Soul Slaying Formation and summoned vicious ghosts to attack them.
• Liu Ziyi’s Heavenly Fire Divine Sword drove back the black mist, while Ye Tian’s Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword killed the red-faced evil ghost and his talismans burned two one-eyed ghosts to ashes.
• Liu Ziyi sent the Heavenly Fire Divine Sword through the formation’s black mist, shattering it and revealing the Ghost Daoist inside a protective ground array with the Soul Cleansing Pearl.
• Ye Tian released Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants and repeatedly struck one point of the array’s barrier with his divided swords, draining the spirit stones as the Ghost Daoist continued his ritual.
• The Soul Cleansing Pearl developed a growing black line, and Ye Tian realized he would need to investigate its origins.

Ye Tian and Liu Ziyi fought Ghost Daoist inside the Hundred Ghosts Soul Slaying Formation, where the Soul Cleansing Pearl weakened the Heavenly Fire Divine Sword and empowered the evil ghosts. As Ghost Daoist attacked Liu Ziyi, an overwhelming aura emerged from him, and the Heavenly Fire Divine Sword shattered the black iron disk.

• Ye Tian sent Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants to open a hole in the formation, allowing his Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword and Liu Ziyi's Heavenly Fire Divine Sword to enter.
• Ghost Daoist collected the Soul Cleansing Pearl and summoned scores of evil ghosts, while Liu Ziyi's merged golden-silver talisman destroyed the barrier and absorbed more than a hundred ghosts before Ghost Daoist countered it.
• Ye Tian split his sword into as many as one hundred and eight small swords to fight the ghosts, while Liu Ziyi charged into the black smoke to find Ghost Daoist.
• Ghost Daoist used the Soul Cleansing Pearl to restrain the Heavenly Fire Divine Sword and raised the black iron disk to kill Liu Ziyi.
• A vast aura erupted from Liu Ziyi, the Heavenly Fire Divine Sword broke free and destroyed nearby ghosts, then slashed the black iron disk into fragments.

Ye Tian left the haunted village and reached Chenshui, where a huge Nangong Family flying vessel and several powerful sects had gathered. He entered Zhenxiu Tower to learn more about the dangerous situation surrounding the city.

• Liu Ziyi pursued the fleeing Ghost Daoist, leaving Ye Tian to finish fighting the vicious ghosts in the village.
• Ye Tian found no other villages had been attacked, then left as black mist gathered around the abandoned village.
• Ye Tian reached Chenshui and sensed a flying vessel carrying demon beasts, along with numerous Core Formation Stage cultivators watching it.
• Ye Tian saw Nangong Family and Taiji Sect disciples enter the city, followed by a large force from the Misty Sect, and concealed his identity among the crowd.
• Ye Tian entered Zhenxiu Tower to seek information and was led to a secluded seat in the crowded main hall.

Tang Yunsheng entered Zhenxiu Tower transformed into a peerless beauty, drawing every gaze and surprising Ye Tian, who wondered if she had been possessed. After she arranged to meet Nangong Qitian at midnight, the story left him realizing she was a powerful cultivator with a potentially dangerous plan.

• Tang Yunsheng entered Zhenxiu Tower in striking new attire, and Ye Tian recognized her while wondering what had changed her.
• Nangong Qitian approached Tang Yunsheng, introduced himself, and tried to arrange a private meeting despite her cold replies.
• Tang Yunsheng accepted Nangong Qitian's invitation to meet at Jade Sail Tower at midnight after he offered her a low-grade spirit stone.
• Tang Yunsheng flattened the spirit stone into the table, revealing her strength, then left with a jar of wine.
• Guests identified Tang Yunsheng as the Misty Sect's famed beauty and speculated about her expulsion and her arrival in Chenshui City.

Ye Tian bought Concealment Talismans and spiritual energy-restoring pills at a Nangong Family shop in Chenshui City, while the shopkeeper arranged for disciples to escort him. Three old robbers then blocked his path, and Ye Tian prepared to let the Nangong Family disciples and the robbers confront one another.

• Ye Tian left the restaurant and went to the Nangong Family’s shopping district to buy Concealment Talismans.
• Ye Tian paid with spirit stones and handed over several storage pouches of loot to be appraised and sold.
• The shopkeeper gave Ye Tian ten Core Formation Stage Concealment Talismans, five bottles of restorative pills, and thirty-five medium-grade spirit stones, then sent Nangong Family disciples to escort him.
• Old Cripple Pan and two accomplices decided to rob Ye Tian after learning about his purchases and valuables.
• Three old men blocked Ye Tian’s way and demanded his spirit stones and pills, while Ye Tian refused and considered using the situation to provoke a clash with the Nangong Family disciples.

Ye Tian and Lin Zhengyi faced three Core Formation elders who attacked them for their treasures, while the Nangong Family’s escort tried to hold them off. The Chenshui City Enforcement Team learned of the fight and rushed to respond, as Lin Zhengyi began using the Nangong disciples’ combined spiritual qi to form an array.

• Lin Zhengyi trapped the closed-eyed elderly woman with three self-repairing circular puppets after she attacked him.
• The crippled-legged elder used Heavenly Profound Foot, but Ye Tian’s Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword broke the attack and wounded the elder as Lin Zhengyi protected Ye Tian.
• Guo the Dwarf joined the crippled-legged elder, and the three attackers prepared to fight together.
• The Chenshui City Enforcement Team argued over corrupt tax collection until a Nangong signal arrow alerted them to the attack, prompting them to rush to the rescue.
• Lin Zhengyi called on the Nangong Family disciples to form an array and transfer their spiritual qi to him.

Ye Tian and Lin Zhengyi were overwhelmed by the Heavenly Cripple Trio until Chenshui City law enforcers arrived, only to be swiftly defeated. As the Trio seized Ye Tian, a formidable Nangong Family expert appeared, and the surviving elders fled while the blind elder still held Ye Tian hostage.

• The dwarf elder used a divine-sense attack that killed several Nangong Family disciples and left Lin Zhengyi and Ye Tian weakened.
• Nangong Family reinforcements arrived, and the Chenshui City law enforcers attacked the Heavenly Cripple Trio but were quickly defeated.
• Ye Tian sensed that two mid Core Formation Nangong Family cultivators were approaching and secretly sent Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants into the blind elder's robes.
• The blind elder struck down the gaunt-faced young man and grabbed Ye Tian, while Lin Zhengyi tried to protect them.
• A powerful stranger appeared, prompting the crippled and dwarf elders to flee; the blind elder retreated with Ye Tian as his hostage.