Chapter Summaries

As Yan Kingdom began forcibly conscripting villagers for its war with Cangyue, Ye Tian saved A Niu from officials and prepared him and Wan'er to leave with supplies and cultivation manuals. A Niu used Ye Tian's gold to help the other villagers flee, while Ye Tian stayed behind; strange colored lights then appeared over the mountain.

• Government officials tried to conscript A Niu, but Ye Tian threatened them with a spirit stone, and they released him after taking its fragments.
• The villagers prepared to flee, and A Niu told Ye Tian he would take Wan'er away to protect her.
• Ye Tian gave A Niu cultivation materials and gold, then gave Wan'er a similar bundle and urged her to consider cultivating.
• A Niu distributed Ye Tian's gold among the villagers, who praised him as they gathered to leave the village.
• As the departing families assembled at the village entrance, a yellow dog cried out and colored spheres of light appeared over the mountain.

A Niu and Wan'er fled the village after Ye Tian protected it from a stampede of beasts, while Ye Tian remained behind. Ghost Daoist arrived and clashed with Jiang Qing of the Taiji Sect, and their battle continued as Jiang Qing struck his ghostly shadow with another Yang Thunder Seed.

• A flying sword controlled by Ye Tian killed a bear and kept the fleeing beasts away from the villagers.
• A Niu and Wan'er left the village at Ye Tian's urging, and he sent two pairs of Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants to protect them.
• Ghost Daoist traveled toward the village and recognized Ye Tian, but Jiang Qing intercepted him with a flying sword.
• Jiang Qing attacked Ghost Daoist with an An Yang Thunder Seed, which he countered using his ghostly shadow and a black giant axe.
• Jiang Qing launched another Yang Thunder Seed at Ghost Daoist's shadow, turning it into mist and forcing it back into his body.

Jiang Qing used Taiji Sect techniques to repel Ghost Daoist, then invited Ye Tian to join her sect. Ye Tian concealed his identity and weighed the offer, while Ghost Daoist returned under cover of darkness and attacked them again, leaving Ye Tian and Jiang Qing under his watch.

• Jiang Qing's Sealing Heaven Twin Fiends clashed with Ghost Daoist's blood-and-ghost-powered bead, but his bead shattered the Taiji diagram before Jiang Qing drove it back with the Yin Thunder Seed, Yang Thunder Seed, and a protective mirror.
• Ye Tian's divine sense forced Ghost Daoist to flee, and Jiang Qing subdued the village residents' awareness before questioning Ye Tian and introducing herself as an early Core Formation cultivator from Taiji Sect.
• Jiang Qing invited Ye Tian to Taiji Sect, and Ye Tian concealed his true identity while considering whether her protection could help him escape Ghost Daoist.
• Ghost Daoist returned to the village concealed from divine sense and sent a skeletal ghost head at Ye Tian and Jiang Qing; Jiang Qing split one with her flying sword, and Ye Tian burned another with a talisman.
• Ghost Daoist suspected Ye Tian was hiding his strength, concealed himself nearby, and watched the pair for a chance to test him.

Ghost Daoist attacked the village to test Ye Tian and lure Jiang Qing into a trap, summoning a Golden-haired Zombie from an ancient tomb. Ye Tian revealed his strength by breaking the zombie’s high-grade saber with one punch, while Ghost Daoist still failed to discern his cultivation.

• Ghost Daoist sent ghost heads to attack the village, but Jiang Qing destroyed them with her flying sword.
• Ghost Daoist summoned a powerful ghost shadow to attack Ye Tian, and Jiang Qing joined Ye Tian after her sword was knocked aside.
• Ghost Daoist transported Ye Tian and Jiang Qing to an ancient tomb, where Jiang Qing used a Yang Thunder Seed and a white screen to counter the stone stele.
• A Golden-haired Zombie emerged from the tomb and attacked Ye Tian and Jiang Qing with a heavy saber.
• Ye Tian stopped Jiang Qing from shielding him and broke the zombie’s high-grade magical artifact saber with one punch while Ghost Daoist watched.

Ye Tian and Jiang Qing escaped the Ghost Daoist and agreed to travel to the Taiji Sect, though Ye Tian concealed his past enmity with the sect. The Ghost Daoist secretly attacked the village before pursuing them, while Ye Tian arrived at the Taiji Sect to find its remaining disciples wary of him.

• Ye Tian used Bone-Corroding Spirit Ants to drive the Golden Zombie back into its tomb, then destroyed the Ghost Daoist's ghostly shadow with five exploding little ghosts and forced him to flee.
• Jiang Qing invited Ye Tian to join the Taiji Sect, and he accepted after she warned that the Ghost Daoist might return and endanger the village.
• Jiang Qing carried Ye Tian toward the Taiji Sect while the Ghost Daoist appeared over the village, sent a black ghostly shadow down to attack it, and pursued them.
• Jiang Qing brought Ye Tian to the Taiji Sect, where the remaining disciples eyed him with suspicion after their sect master and elders had died in the Cang Wu Secret Realm.

Ye Tian learned that Jiang Qing had isolated him in the Taiji Sect’s back mountain amid opposition to his presence and mounting unrest over the missing sect master and elders. As Ye Tian struggled to repair his damaged golden core, Jiang Qing came to explain the sect’s troubles and the rumors surrounding the Cang Wu Secret Realm.

• Ye Tian asked Little Bean why Jiang Qing had not visited, then told him to inform the inner disciples that he would soon meet them.
• Little Bean reported Ye Tian’s condition to Yu Feng and another disciple, who discussed the opposition to Ye Tian and the sect’s precarious situation.
• Yu Feng urged Little Bean to report the encounter to Jiang Qing, while the other disciple went to notify Zhuo Wenxuan.
• After hearing that Ye Tian had been told of the disciples’ objections, Jiang Qing left her courtyard and flew to the back mountain.
• Ye Tian continued cultivating but found that spiritual energy leaked from his damaged golden core, preventing him from repairing it fully.
• Jiang Qing visited Ye Tian and told him the sect was unsettled by the missing sect master and elders and rumors that they would never return from the Cang Wu Secret Realm.

Ye Tian accepted Jiang Qing’s Pure Qi Condensing Pill after learning what little the Taiji Sect knew about its origins, and deduced that the mysterious Yin Yang Pool might be connected to the sect’s thunder seeds. While searching his seized storage pouches, he found a strange, unreadable fragment and faced the choice of taking the pill to repair his damaged Golden Core.

• Ye Tian planned to use his physical strength to silence the Taiji Sect disciples who opposed his place in the sect, while keeping his powerful techniques in reserve.
• Jiang Qing gave Ye Tian the Taiji Sect’s last Pure Qi Condensing Pill in exchange for his promise to help the sect in the future, and described its rumored connection to Yin Yang Pool Water.
• Ye Tian inferred that the Yin Yang Pool might be where the Taiji Sect refined its Yin Thunder Seed and Yang Thunder Seed, but Jiang Qing withheld the pool’s location and the pill-refining genius’s final words.
• Ye Tian searched Black Heart Scholar’s storage pouch, found the first half of the Blood Breath Great Method, and burned the vicious cultivation technique.
• Ye Tian examined the other storage pouches, finding spirit stones, herbs, magical artifacts, and a hard fragment whose blurred writing made him dizzy.
• After finding no way to restore his Golden Core among the seized items, Ye Tian considered swallowing the Pure Qi Condensing Pill.

Ye Tian used Taiji Sect’s sole Pure Qi Condensing Pill to repair his Seventh-grade Golden Core, restoring his spiritual energy to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage. He then went to the training ground and effortlessly defeated Zhuo Wenxuan, leaving the outer sect disciples afraid of him.

• Ye Tian swallowed the Pure Qi Condensing Pill and endured its searing energy as it exposed the Golden Core’s unrepaired cracks.
• The pill’s energy repaired more than half the cracks in Ye Tian’s Golden Core, restoring his spiritual energy to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
• Ye Tian visited Jiang Qing’s courtyard, then headed to the training ground to demonstrate that her decision to admit him had not been mistaken.
• Zhuo Wenxuan introduced himself as the number one outer sect disciple and attacked Ye Tian, who caught his punch with one hand.
• Ye Tian overpowered Zhuo Wenxuan and slammed him into the ground, leaving him unconscious as the watching disciples looked on in fear.

Ye Tian established his authority over the Taiji Sect’s outer and inner disciples by defeating a peak Foundation Establishment disciple and warning Yu Feng to keep the sect in order. After Jiang Qing summoned him to the back mountain, the disciples were left to recognize his strength, while Zhuo Wenxuan received a high-grade magical artifact and responsibility for the outer sect.

• Ye Tian revived Zhuo Wenxuan, warned him to keep the outer sect disciples in line, and Zhuo Wenxuan agreed.
• Yu Feng arrived with inner sect disciples, and a peak Foundation Establishment disciple attacked Ye Tian with a mid-grade Taiji Sword.
• Ye Tian shattered the Taiji Sword with one punch and left its wielder badly injured, frightening the other peak Foundation Establishment disciples.
• Ye Tian warned Yu Feng against causing disorder and gave Zhuo Wenxuan a high-grade magical artifact to help manage the outer sect.
• Jiang Qing summoned Ye Tian to the back mountain, and he flew after her as the inner sect disciples speculated about his power.
• Zhuo Wenxuan showed off his new artifact, and no one at the training ground dared speak against Ye Tian.

Ye Tian used the Taiji Sect’s Yin Yang Pool in an attempt to restore his cultivation, but the Yin Sha Qi and Yang Sha unexpectedly drew him into a prolonged transformation. He awoke with his Seventh-grade Golden Core restored and his strength returned, while discovering that his body had changed in ways he was still testing.

• Ye Tian admitted his identity to Jiang Qing and promised to reveal what he knew about the Taiji Sect’s Core Formation experts after his cultivation recovered.
• Jiang Qing led Ye Tian to the Yin Yang Pool and allowed him to stay there until his cultivation returned.
• Ye Tian tried to merge the Yin Sha Qi and Yang Sha in his alchemy furnace, exhausted himself, and collapsed beside the pool.
• The Yin Sha Qi and Yang Sha entered Ye Tian’s body, drew him above the pool, and began repairing his Golden Core as Jiang Qing’s attempts to reach him were repelled.
• Ye Tian regained his early Core Formation cultivation, restored his Seventh-grade Golden Core, and advanced the second layer of the Nine Revolutions Guiding Stars Xiantian Art to its fourth transformation.
• Ye Tian tested his transformed body and found that his skin healed quickly while his bones had become exceptionally hard.

Ye Tian emerged from cultivation and flew to the Taiji Sect’s mountain gate, where he stopped Tang Yunsheng’s attempt to seize the sect. After he admitted that he had killed the Taiji Sect’s sect master and elders, Tang Yunsheng withdrew with the Misty Sect, while Jiang Qing remained cold toward him.

• Ye Tian learned that Jiang Qing had left to defend the Taiji Sect’s mountain gate and flew there after hearing that the Misty Sect was attacking.
• Jiang Qing and Tang Yunsheng confronted each other, and Jiang Qing attacked Tang Yunsheng with a Yang Thunder Seed.
• Ye Tian appeared between the Yang Thunder Seed and Tang Yunsheng, then used the Town Yue Turtle Mountain Diagram to repel Tang Yunsheng’s sword when she attacked him.
• Ye Tian confessed to Jiang Qing that he had killed the Taiji Sect’s sect master and several elders in the Cang Wu Secret Realm.
• Tang Yunsheng promised that the Misty Sect would no longer claim Taiji Sect land and led her disciples away.
• Jiang Qing asked Ye Tian when he would leave, and he departed the Taiji Sect after offering to help her in the future.

Ye Tian left the Taiji Sect and led the pursuing Ghost Daoist into an encounter with two Ling Tian Sect elders. The Ghost Daoist killed the white-haired elder with his Blood Fiend Array, while the burly elder survived and faced him under the returning night sky.

• Ye Tian departed the Taiji Sect at night, and the Ghost Daoist followed him toward the mountains.
• Ye Tian waited in the mountains, where two Ling Tian Sect elders arrived and trapped the Ghost Daoist with an Eight Trigrams Mirror.
• The Ghost Daoist broke the barrier with his ghost shadow and fought back against the elders, whose attacks badly injured the shadow.
• The Ghost Daoist summoned five ghost heads and then activated the Blood Fiend Array, separating the elders inside a blood-red illusion.
• The Ghost Daoist killed the white-haired elder and took his storage pouch, while the burly elder fought the illusion and shattered the Ghost Daoist’s blood-colored spear.
• The Blood Fiend Array vanished, and the burly elder saw his companion’s corpse and turned scarlet-eyed.

Ye Tian fled Ghost Daoist and the golden zombie, leading their pursuit toward the Yan Kingdom army, where cultivators recognized him and attacked. The chapter ended with Ye Tian evading a devastating saber strike as another cultivator launched a hair-thin thread at him.

• Ghost Daoist summoned the golden zombie, which stayed behind to kill the burly Ling Tian Sect cultivator and take his golden core and storage pouch.
• Ghost Daoist chased Ye Tian north, and Ye Tian deliberately led him toward the Yan Kingdom city.
• Ye Tian entered the city, where cultivators accused him of betraying the Shangqing Sect and sought the Spirit Shaking Divine Wood he supposedly possessed.
• The pale-faced cultivator sent five bone needles at Ye Tian while the fat cultivator attacked with his Hu Tou saber and its tiger spirit.
• Ye Tian resisted the tiger's roar with help from the Book of Life and Death, destroyed the bone needles, and dodged the saber strike.
• The Daoist with the mole between his brows halted his hand seals and sent a hair-thin thread toward Ye Tian.

Ye Tian fought off three cultivators who coveted his treasures, killing the pale-faced cultivator and driving the fat cultivator away. He then faced the Daoist with a mole on his forehead alongside Ghost Daoist, who revealed a Core Formation Stage ghostly shadow.

• The Daoist with a mole on his forehead restrained Ye Tian's wrist with Wuming Silk, but it could not cut through his skin.
• The pale-faced cultivator sent a bone bird resembling an Ancient Bone Stork to attack Ye Tian, who crushed it with his Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword.
• Ye Tian killed the fleeing pale-faced cultivator with two small azure swords and took his storage bag.
• The fat cultivator and the Daoist with a mole on his forehead blocked Ye Tian's sword attacks, while the fat cultivator then retreated toward the city.
• Ghost Daoist joined Ye Tian and proposed an alliance to the Daoist with a mole on his forehead, then summoned a ghostly shadow with Core Formation Stage strength.

Ye Tian survived a battle over his treasures, but the Wuri Sect Master appeared and overwhelmed the Yan Kingdom cultivators before declaring that Ye Tian would join the Wuri Sect and inherit its leadership. The chapter ended as Cangyue launched its full-scale assault on Yan the next day.

• The Daoist with a mole on his forehead bound Ye Tian with Wuming Silk, while Ghost Daoist prepared to strike, but three Core Formation Stage cultivators arrived and tried to seize Ye Tian's treasures.
• A golden zombie emerged from its coffin, killed the three newcomers and the Daoist with a mole on his forehead, while Ghost Daoist escaped Ye Tian's sword attack.
• The Wuri Sect Master appeared, killed seven Core Formation Stage cultivators, wounded the golden zombie, and destroyed its coffin and the stone stele.
• The Wuri Sect Master took Ye Tian to Cangyue's camp and announced that he would join the Wuri Sect and eventually become its leader.
• Cangyue launched its full-scale assault against Yan the next day.

Ye Tian accompanied the Wuri Sect Master onto the battlefield, where three Yan Kingdom cultivators trapped the Wuri Sect Master in the Three Yuan Heaven Covering Formation. The Wuri Sect Master effortlessly destroyed their formation and killed them, leaving Ye Tian to weigh the vast gulf between their powers and consider relying on the Book of Life and Death or Time Stasis.

• The Wuri Sect Master led Ye Tian from the Cang Yue camp to the battlefield and shielded Cang Yue's soldiers from flaming arrows.
• Three Core Formation Stage cultivators from Yan Kingdom surrounded the Wuri Sect Master and formed the Three Yuan Heaven Covering Formation.
• The three cultivators summoned the Blood Jade Pixiu, which struck the Wuri Sect Master but cracked apart against him.
• The Wuri Sect Master used spiritual energy to shatter the Jade Ruyi and flying sword, then killed all three cultivators with fragments of the Jade Ruyi.
• Ye Tian reflected on the Wuri Sect Master's overwhelming Nascent Soul power and considered using the Book of Life and Death or Time Stasis if he had to fight him.

Ye Tian killed Yan Kingdom cultivators to convince the Wuri Sect Master that he had joined the Wuri Sect, then ambushed and injured him before fleeing. After recovering, Ye Tian met Liu Ziyi, learned that the Ling Tian Sect was preparing to oppose the Wuri Sect and that the third Ye Family treasure trove had been exposed, and set out toward it.

• Ye Tian slew seventeen Yan Kingdom Foundation Establishment cultivators while the Wuri Sect Master watched, believing Ye Tian had made himself an enemy of Yan Kingdom's sects.
• Ye Tian used the Book of Life and Death's accumulated spiritual power and Time Stasis to injure the Wuri Sect Master, then escaped more than five hundred li and recovered in the mountains for half a month.
• Ye Tian encountered Liu Ziyi, who was returning to the Ling Tian Sect amid the war between Cangyue and Yan Kingdom and the Wuri Sect Master's rise to the Nascent Soul stage.
• Liu Ziyi told Ye Tian that the third Ye Family treasure trove had been exposed and warned that the news might be a trap, while urging him to use the opportunity to weaken the Nangong Family.
• Liu Ziyi gave Ye Tian a Ling Tian Sect token before they parted, and Ye Tian promised to protect any Ling Tian Sect disciples he encountered and later help the sect.

Ye Tian reached the Ye Family’s third hidden trove and found its suspension bridge filled with cultivators trapped by strange formations. After a flute melody drove the crowd into a murderous frenzy, the Barefoot Cultivator destroyed the bridge and led the survivors toward the hidden trove’s entrance.

• Ye Tian found the suspension bridge blocked by a powerful formation and crossed it after discovering that cultivators were trapped there and forced to eat regularly.
• Ye Tian noticed Dongfang Yanruo bound in black iron chains, then rescued her when a flute melody sent the cultivators into a murderous frenzy.
• The Barefoot Cultivator appeared, ended the mass fighting, and made advances toward Dongfang Yanruo, who fought him until he warned that their battle could restart the formations.
• The Barefoot Cultivator destroyed the suspension bridge with his immense strength, sending its remains and many corpses into the abyss.
• The surviving cultivators flew to the entrance beyond the bridge, and several rushed inside ahead of the Barefoot Cultivator.

Ye Tian followed Dongfang Yanruo through the Ye Family hidden treasure, found a golden pill furnace, and forced the Barefoot Cultivator to confess that the Ye Family ancient texts were a lie. When a Ginseng Spirit appeared, a Wuri Sect envoy claimed it, but the spirit vanished after an infant's cry transformed the scene.

• The Barefoot Cultivator led the cultivators through a deadly passage into the hidden treasure, where they scattered to search for treasures.
• Dongfang Yanruo told Ye Tian that finding the Ye Family ancient texts was the key to obtaining the treasures, and they searched Dian Jiang Palace together.
• Ye Tian used his sense of smell to locate a hidden golden pill furnace, which Dongfang Yanruo handed back to him.
• The Barefoot Cultivator cheated cultivators by inventing the Ye Family ancient texts, then fled when they discovered his scheme.
• Ye Tian threatened the Barefoot Cultivator with his Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword, and the Barefoot Cultivator confessed that he had fabricated the ancient texts.
• True Lord Mo Xie captured a Ginseng Spirit, but a Wuri Sect envoy claimed it; an infant's cry followed, and the Ginseng Spirit disappeared as the courtyard changed.

Ye Tian and the other cultivators became trapped in a chamber where the bridges, water, and golden barrier all threatened their lives, while the Wuri Sect's honored emissary forced others to seek the treasure inside a black crystal. As the barrier swept toward them, Ye Tian jumped into the water with his defenses raised, and the others followed.

• The Wuri Sect's honored emissary ordered cultivators to cross the bridges and fly to the platform, but they were killed by hidden dangers, golden beams, and creatures in the water.
• Dongfang Yanruo urged the cultivators to unite against the Wuri Sect's honored emissary, who seized her until Ye Tian threatened him with the Azure Resolution Cloud Piercing Sword.
• The Wuri Sect's honored emissary flew toward the platform, triggering a golden barrier that advanced on everyone in the sealed chamber.
• Ye Tian jumped into the water with the Town Yue Turtle Mountain Diagram protecting him, and the other cultivators followed.