Chapter Summaries

Ye Tian watched the Nangong Family elders take control of the Heavenly Cripple Trio, then used a hidden attack to kill the trio and both elders. He fled Chenshui City as the remaining Nangong Family disciples scattered.

• A Nangong Family elder arrived and subdued the closed-eyed elder, while the other two members of the Heavenly Cripple Trio returned defeated and begged for mercy.
• Ye Tian urged the Nangong Family elders to spare the trio from execution but make them atone for killing and injuring Nangong Family disciples.
• The closed-eyed elder tried to take her own life, but the elders stopped her and bound all three with Nirvana Yin Thunder, forcing them to serve the Nangong Family.
• Lin Zhengyi arrived, and the Heavenly Cripple Trio knelt and pledged to serve the Nangong Family.
• Ye Tian launched an ambush with the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword and Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants, killing the Heavenly Cripple Trio and the two elders.
• Ye Tian recalled his weapons and fled Chenshui City while the remaining Nangong Family disciples ran in panic.

Ye Tian confronted a Body Cultivator who recognized his Immortal Slaying Sword Art and claimed to know the Ye Family. After luring Ye Tian into the wilderness to demand the sword art, the man attacked, but Ye Tian evaded his blows.

• A disguised youth revealed his true, powerful Body Cultivator form and blocked Ye Tian's escape from the marketplace.
• The Body Cultivator shattered Ye Tian's Vajra Talisman with one punch and resisted the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword, then fled after recognizing the Immortal Slaying Sword Art.
• Ye Tian chased the Body Cultivator out of Chenshui City and searched for accomplices as they traveled into the wilderness.
• The Body Cultivator called Ye Tian the last descendant of the Ye Family and demanded the Immortal Slaying Sword Art, revealing that others were also seeking Ye Tian.
• The Body Cultivator attacked Ye Tian with a silver gauntlet, but Ye Tian used his speed to evade the man's punches.

Ye Tian defeated the black-clothed youth’s puppet body and destroyed the vine monster formed by his demonic art, but the youth transformed into a stronger, corrupted creature. Ye Tian weakened him with Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants, yet the youth’s Nascent Soul escaped, leaving Ye Tian to suspect that the demonic art and its practitioners came from beyond this world.

• Ye Tian wounded the body cultivator with the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword and used flames to obscure his vision before striking him down.
• The body cultivator transformed into the black-clothed youth, who sacrificed blood to summon a vine monster and begin a demonic transformation.
• Ye Tian found the vine monster’s black heart-like weakness, destroyed it with his small azure swords, and burned fallen vines to keep them from regrowing.
• The black-clothed youth’s transformation continued, so Ye Tian attacked his regenerating rotten flesh and sent Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants to consume the fallen pieces.
• The youth’s body decayed, but his Nascent Soul escaped as black light and warned Ye Tian that they would meet again.
• Ye Tian concluded that the demonic art and the fleeing Nascent Soul might originate outside this world.

Tang Yunsheng used the Soul Searching Technique on Nangong Qitian, then confronted the Misty Sect and accepted leadership as its new Sect Master. She led the sect away from Chenshui City toward a place to settle, while Ye Tian followed a flying vessel that drew the city's cultivators into pursuit.

• Nangong Qitian entered Tang Yunsheng's room, and she used the Soul Searching Technique on him as Ye Tian watched from the shadows.
• Tang Yunsheng left the room and encountered Misty Sect disciples and elders searching for her and demanding what their Sect Master had left behind.
• A Misty Sect elder attacked Tang Yunsheng with a flying sword, but Tang Yunsheng stopped and snapped it, injuring the elder through their spiritual link.
• The Misty Sect elders and disciples pleaded for Tang Yunsheng to return, and she accepted command while warning them to obey her orders.
• Tang Yunsheng ordered the Misty Sect to leave Chenshui City and return north to collect its remaining disciples before relocating to a place she had chosen.
• A large flying vessel rose from Chenshui City, and Ye Tian followed it as cultivators pursued it.

Ye Tian recognized that giant lizard bats were attacking the Nangong Family’s flying vessel, apparently directed by spirit bat birds aboard it. The vessel’s barrier collapsed under a barrage of stones, and the bats began diving toward the caged birds.

• Ye Tian identified the caged black birds as spirit bat birds and realized they had been silenced with Mute Talismans, leaving the bats’ unseen commander a mystery.
• Several hundred giant lizard bats dropped stones onto the flying vessel, and the Nangong Family elder wielding the Void Trace Sword shattered some boulders to protect it.
• The vessel’s barrier buckled under the barrage, and a falling boulder crushed a Nangong Family disciple on the deck.
• The elder wielding the Cloud Thunder Sword attacked the bats with lightning while ordering disciples to feed spirit stones into the barrier formation.
• The barrier shattered, and several dozen giant lizard bats folded their wings and dove toward the caged spirit bat birds.

Ye Tian waited in hiding while the Nangong Family’s damaged flying boat was surrounded by cultivators coveting its two spirit bat birds. As a tremor approached, he concealed himself in a cave beneath the boat and prepared defenses, but the mountain began shaking again.

• The Nangong Family’s elders killed the attacking giant lizard bats and landed their damaged flying boat on a mountain ridge, while the tiny spirit bat bird sent the remaining bats into the surrounding forests.
• Ye Tian stayed concealed as more than a dozen Core Formation Stage cultivators gathered around the boat, all eyeing the spirit bat birds and preventing the Nangong elders from leaving.
• When the ground began to shake, Ye Tian evaded the elders’ divine senses and found a cave beneath the flying boat, where he set up arrays to conceal and defend it.
• A large black bear attacked Ye Tian in the cave, but its claws could not injure him, and it fled into a tunnel.
• The mountain began to tremble rhythmically again, frightening the black bear as Ye Tian remained in the cave.

Ye Tian watched the beast horde attack the Nangong Family’s flying vessel as the family’s disciples and Core Formation cultivators fought back. The three young spirit rhino leopards were killed, and their imprisoned parents died after learning of their deaths.

• Giant gecko bats surrounded Foundation Establishment cultivators, and a purple flying sword rescued the injured survivors before they fled.
• Ye Tian saw the Nangong Family prepare to defend its flying vessel while other Core Formation cultivators waited for a chance to seize the spirit bat birds.
• The wolf king sent the beast horde charging uphill, and the Nangong Family disciples attacked as the three spirit rhino leopards rushed to the front.
• The Void Trace Sword killed all three young spirit rhino leopards after one of them killed a Nangong Family disciple.
• The two adult spirit rhino leopards imprisoned aboard the vessel mourned their dead offspring, then killed each other in the cage.

Ye Tian watched as the Nangong Family’s Core Formation cultivators fought the spirit beasts and a group of hostile cultivators. The burly man was struck down, and the Nangong elders attacked the cultivators scrambling for the golden light, killing several while two escaped.

• The spirit beasts aboard the flying vessel battered their cages as beasts on the ground charged the Nangong Family disciples, while giant lizard bats circled overhead.
• The Cloud Thunder Sword killed six giant lizard bats, and the Nangong Family cultivator warned the watching cultivators not to interfere as intelligent spirit beasts approached.
• The Nangong Family cultivator attacked the burly man with the Void Trace Sword, but the man revealed the Boruo Vajra Skill and struck the sword aside.
• The Nangong cultivators used the yellow ruler and Cloud Thunder Sword to suppress the burly man, shatter his golden Buddha, and send him falling.
• The Void Trace Sword killed one cultivator reaching for the scattered golden light, and the Cloud Thunder Sword paralyzed ten more before the Void Trace Sword slew six of them; two escaped with a secret technique.

As the Nangong Family’s Core Formation cultivators fought off challengers, the Golden-Eyed Howling Sky Tiger and other spirit beasts attacked the flying vessel and killed its disciples. When the vessel’s barrier finally shattered, six rival Core Formation cultivators moved to seize the Spirit Bat Birds, leaving the Nangong cultivators facing a fight on multiple fronts.

• Two Core Formation cultivators blocked the Cloud Thunder Sword, then withdrew, while two others who had dodged the Void Trace Sword fled.
• The Golden-Eyed Howling Sky Tiger appeared, swallowed the corpses of seven Core Formation cultivators, and fought the Nangong Family’s two Core Formation cultivators; the other six cultivators refused to join the battle.
• The wolf king howled, sending spirit beasts against the Nangong Family disciples, who were killed as the Nangong cultivators rushed to protect them.
• More than a dozen Core Formation spirit beasts attacked the flying vessel’s barrier while the Golden-Eyed Howling Sky Tiger kept pressing the Nangong cultivators.
• The Nangong cultivators used a silver star disk to delay the barrier’s collapse, but the disk cracked and the barrier shattered; spirit beasts swarmed aboard and attacked the cages.
• As the Nangong cultivators reached for the Spirit Bat Birds’ cage, the six rival Core Formation cultivators intervened and flew toward the vessel to claim it.

A flock of giant lizard bats and other spirit beasts attacked the flying vessel as several Core Formation Stage cultivators fought to seize the two Spirit Bat Birds. The cage fell amid the battle, and the Nangong Family cultivators struggled to lift the damaged vessel away while spirit beasts rampaged aboard.

• Spirit Bat Birds sent the giant lizard bats diving at the vessel, where Foundation Establishment spirit beasts were killed and thirteen Core Formation Stage beasts boarded.
• The cultivators fought over the cage as the Golden-Eyed Howling Sky Tiger attacked the men wielding the ancient oil-paper umbrella and three-story pavilion.
• Two cultivators shattered the Void Trace Sword and threatened the cage, so its wielder sent it into the swarm, where the cage lost support and fell.
• The Nangong Family cultivators turned to fighting the cultivators aboard the vessel while the Core Formation Stage beasts destroyed cages on deck.
• The cultivator controlling the Void Trace Sword shook the vessel and lifted it into the sky, but the beasts damaged the deck and caused him to spit blood.
• His junior brother urged him to abandon the vessel, but he continued trying to steady it and rise.

Ye Tian stole the two spirit bat birds and fled as the Core Formation Stage cultivators pursued him, until a newly arrived old man’s overwhelming power turned the hunt into a massacre. The old man survived a devastating strike from the missing-eared bronze bell and set his sights on Ye Tian and the bell.

• Ye Tian used the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword to seize the two spirit bat birds while the Core Formation Stage cultivators fought, then fled as they and the Nangong Family pursued him.
• A powerful divine sense immobilized Ye Tian and his pursuers, but the Book of Life and Death let Ye Tian move again; a blood-red crescent moon then slaughtered the giant lizard bats and drained the blood of those it struck.
• Ye Tian took the storage pouch of the cultivator beneath the ancient oil-paper umbrella and the pouches of the Nangong Family cultivators, then followed the two bronze-bell cultivators as the blood-red crescent moon killed the people and spirit beasts aboard the flying vessel.
• A white-haired old man appeared, claimed the flying vessel, and faced a golden strike unleashed by the two cultivators using the missing-eared bronze bell; the attack destroyed the pavilion and killed its occupant but only wounded the old man.
• The old man’s Blood Blade pierced the two bronze-bell cultivators and the bell, and he turned his attention to the spirit bat birds in Ye Tian’s hands.

Ye Tian killed the Blood Moon Cult's former Cult Leader but was gravely wounded and swept into an underground river. The Blood Moon Cult Leader captured the former leader's Nascent Soul, absorbed it, and set out to settle accounts with the Wuri Sect.

• The former Blood Moon Cult Leader attacked Ye Tian, but the Book of Life and Death devoured his divine sense before he destroyed Ye Tian's meridians and dantian with the Blood Blade.
• Ye Tian beheaded the former Cult Leader, whose Nascent Soul escaped on the Blood Blade, while Ye Tian fell unconscious into the lake.
• A giant lizard bat rescued the two spirit bat birds from their sinking cage, and the escaped Nascent Soul encountered the Blood Moon Cult Leader in the forest.
• The Blood Moon Cult Leader used the Blood Blade Art to drain the former Cult Leader's power, swallowed his Nascent Soul, and absorbed the Blood Blade's red aura.
• The Blood Moon Cult Leader's Nascent Soul awakened, drawing in spiritual energy as he advanced; he tested the Blood Blade's power and vowed to settle accounts with the Wuri Sect.
• The Treasure Seeking Mouse swam ashore and ran toward a secluded place, while Ye Tian drifted through the lake into an underground river.

Ye Tian survived his fall into the Bailing River, but his golden core shattered and his cultivation fell away as the Nine Revolutions Guiding Stars Xiantian Art helped ease his injuries. Wan'er and A Niu rescued him and brought him to their village, where he began recovering in a peaceful rural setting.

• Ye Tian washed ashore after falling into the Bailing River, and his golden core shattered as his injuries worsened.
• The Nine Revolutions Guiding Stars Xiantian Art drew stellar power into Ye Tian, easing his pain even as his cultivation fell to that of an ordinary mortal.
• Several days later, Ye Tian awoke on the riverbank and chased off a stray dog before A Niu and Wan'er found him.
• A Niu urged Wan'er to leave Ye Tian alone, but Wan'er insisted on helping him and bandaged his wounds.
• A Niu and Wan'er carried Ye Tian home, treated his injuries, and gave him a place to rest.
• As Ye Tian looked out at the village and its fields, the peaceful scenery reminded him of his childhood home.

Ye Tian recovered in hiding at A Niu and Wan'er’s home, slowly rebuilding his cultivation while growing close to Wan'er. After he rejected her request to leave with him, he secretly cultivated in the Bailing River tributary, unaware that someone had approached Wan'er at the riverbank.

• Ye Tian concealed his identity from Wan'er, shared stories with her, and learned that she and A Niu had been left alone after their parents were wronged and died.
• Ye Tian resumed cultivation and recovered to the first level of the Qi Refining Stage, then discussed the meaning of life with Wan'er as she brought him food.
• Wan'er asked Ye Tian to take her with him when he left, but Ye Tian’s silence made her understand that he would not agree.
• Wan'er continued caring for Ye Tian but became more distant, while Ye Tian wondered whether she wanted to escape village life as much as she cared for him.
• Ye Tian secretly cultivated at the bottom of the Bailing River tributary and restored his cultivation to the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage.
• As Wan'er drew water at the riverbank, someone slapped her shoulder and splashed water onto her shoes.

Ye Tian rescued Wan'er from Li Xiangfeng, then met five cultivators who identified him as the Ye Family’s new head and pledged to help him seek revenge on the Nangong Family. Before he could learn more, masked attackers arrived and launched an assault.

• Li Xiangfeng threatened Wan'er and tried to force himself on her, but Ye Tian arrived and knocked him down with a single palm.
• Ye Tian defeated Li Xiangfeng’s armed lackeys with streams of spiritual energy, dislocated both of Li Xiangfeng’s arms, and warned the group not to harass Wan'er again.
• Five cultivators arrived and recognized Ye Tian as the young master and inheritor of the Ye Family, asking him to become its family head and avenge its destruction.
• Ye Tian accepted their allegiance and ordered them to unite against the Nangong Family, while Wan'er left at his request.
• More than ten masked cultivators descended, and one attacked Ye Tian’s group with twin blades that could not move downward against their target.

Ye Tian and Ye Wuque escaped a ghost-masked group seeking Ye Tian on behalf of the Nangong Family, while three Ye Family guards held the attackers with a golden talisman. The pursuers raced ahead and used a formation to seal a vast area around the escape route.

• Ye Wuque and the Ye Family cultivators confronted the ghost-masked attackers, who demanded that they hand over Ye Tian.
• The bearded man killed the insider who had revealed Ye Tian's whereabouts, while Ye Tian tried to dissuade the attackers by warning them of the risks and offering them a reward.
• The Ye Family guards activated the golden talisman to immobilize the attackers, and Ye Wuque carried Ye Tian underground to escape.
• The ghost-masked cultivators pursued them toward the Ling Tian Sect, and four early Core Formation cultivators deployed a Lesser Heavenly Capital Formation that began contracting around the area.

Ye Wuque and Ye Tian were trapped by masked cultivators inside the Lesser Heavenly Capital Formation, where Ye Wuque used a Blood Burning Yuan Transforming Pill to reach mid Core Formation and break the barrier. Ye Tian escaped through the opening while Ye Wuque stayed behind to hold off their pursuers.

• Ye Wuque brought Ye Tian to the surface, where masked cultivators surrounded them inside the Lesser Heavenly Capital Formation.
• Ye Tian offered to surrender himself, but Ye Wuque refused and vowed to protect the Ye Family's last direct bloodline.
• Ye Wuque swallowed a Blood Burning Yuan Transforming Pill, raised his cultivation to mid Core Formation, and grievously wounded an early Core Formation assassin.
• The three Ye Family guardians strengthened their talismans to keep the bearded giant and his group immobilized as they tried to break free.
• Ye Wuque struck a gap in the formation, and Ye Tian used his Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword to shatter it and escape.
• Ye Wuque remained behind to block the masked cultivators while Ye Tian fled, silently bidding farewell to Brother Wuque.

Ye Wuque fought the ghost-masked cultivators to give Ye Tian time to escape, but the bearded giant killed him and the three pursuers cornered Ye Tian. Ye Tian survived their attacks and vanished from the bearded giant’s sight, leaving the search for him in chaos.

• Ye Wuque used Rock Mountain Town to crush most of the ghost-masked cultivators, then killed one of the four early Core Formation cultivators before the bearded giant intervened.
• The bearded giant sent three cultivators after Ye Tian and overwhelmed Ye Wuque, draining his spiritual energy and snapping his neck.
• The three pursuers caught up with Ye Tian, but he endured their Whirlwind Slash and killed one with the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword.
• The Town Yue Turtle Mountain Diagram shielded Ye Tian from the remaining attackers, and the bearded giant arrived carrying Ye Wuque’s head.
• The bearded giant attacked Ye Tian with Mount Tai Crushes Down, but Ye Tian disappeared before he could land another strike.
• Realizing Ye Tian had escaped, the bearded giant ordered his remaining subordinates to search a thousand li.

Ye Tian used the Hidden Blood Curse to kill the bearded, burly man and his two subordinates, but suffered severe damage from its backlash. After returning to the village, he studied the curse and tried to recover through cultivation, learning that its effects remained despite some improvement by dawn.

• Ye Tian killed the bearded, burly man with his flying sword, then used Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants to kill the man's two subordinates.
• Ye Tian suffered blood essence loss and further damage to his Seventh-grade Golden Core, then took pills and burned the three corpses.
• Ye Tian returned to the village, reassured Wan'er that the attackers would not return, and avoided comforting her as she grew dejected.
• Ye Tian studied the Hidden Blood Curse and suspected that its missing portion might explain a powerful attack or a way to reduce its side effects.
• Ye Tian collected valuable items from the attackers' storage pouches, ate a three-hundred-year-old Blood Ginseng, and cultivated through the night.
• Ye Tian found that the Nine Revolutions Guiding Stars Xiantian Art had only slightly eased the curse's effects by dawn, while his recovery remained unusually slow.

Ye Tian recovered in A Niu and Wan'er’s home while the Yan Kingdom faced invasion and forced conscription. As A Niu urged Wan'er to flee south with him, officials arrived to order all eligible men into the army, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Ye Tian gave Wan'er gold to buy necessities, and she and A Niu returned from the market with new clothes, beef, and liquor.
• Ye Tian drank with A Niu and Wan'er, carried them to bed after they passed out, and continued cultivating while using an Ice Condensation Technique to preserve the food.
• A Niu brought news that the Cangyue army had invaded the Northern Lands and that authorities were forcibly recruiting men; officials killed a tenant farmer’s four sons and burned their home after demanding payment.
• A Niu urged Wan'er to leave the village with him, and Ye Tian agreed that she should go south but said he would stay behind.
• A town official shouted that every man aged twelve to under forty had to join the army or be taken away as a laborer, threatening to behead anyone who resisted.