Chapter Summaries

Ye Changge defeated the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, then used its blood pool to advance his Vajra Glazed Body to its ten-zhang form. He and his companions traveled to the Ancient Domain Platform, where he reunited with Xun'er and learned that the gathered experts were preparing to cross a beast tide toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Ye Changge stopped his giant form from killing the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, and Qing Lin controlled the injured beast with her three-flower pupils.
• Ye Changge followed the Python to its lair and spent two days absorbing the Demonic Serpent Blood Pool to temper his Vajra Glazed Body.
• Ye Changge broke through to a ten-zhang golden body, emerged from the cave, and led his companions toward the Ancient Domain Platform.
• Ye Changge and his group rode the Heavenly Demon Python to the platform, where Ye Changge reunited with Xun'er.
• Xun'er told Ye Changge that the gathered experts were waiting to cross a beast tide and pointed out Feng Qing'er and Jiu Feng of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.

Feng Qing'er and Jiu Feng competed to become the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s Young Clan Leader, with the Bodhi Heart mission serving as their assessment. At the Bodhi Ancient Tree gathering, Jiu Feng confronted Ye Changge over the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and his younger brother’s injuries, and Ye Changge answered with a taunt.

• Feng Qing'er awakened a powerful Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Bloodline and rose to rival Jiu Feng, prompting the clan’s elders to reconsider their support for him.
• The Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan sent Feng Qing'er and Jiu Feng to retrieve the Bodhi Heart, making the mission an assessment for the Young Clan Leader position.
• Feng Qing'er recognized Ye Changge and considered asking him to kill Jiu Feng, while warning him through a voice transmission about Hun Yu of the Soul Clan.
• Jiu Feng ignored Feng Qing'er’s advice and approached Ye Changge, as the gathered competitors watched for a fight.
• Jiu Feng challenged Ye Changge over the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and his younger brother, and Ye Changge admitted taking the fruit and beating him.

Ye Changge subdued Jiu Feng’s Heavenly Phoenix Illusion with his Ancient Dragon Phoenix Illusion, then confronted Hun Yu and revealed his hostility toward the Soul Clan prodigy. The chapter left Hun Yu plotting to kill Ye Changge and sacrifice the Central Continent experts during the coming beast tide.

• Jiu Feng summoned a massive Heavenly Phoenix Illusion, prompting Feng Qing'er to decide he should be eliminated soon.
• Ye Changge summoned an Ancient Dragon Phoenix Illusion that overwhelmed Jiu Feng’s illusion and inflicted backlash on him.
• Jiu Feng recognized the Ancient Dragon Phoenix and left after Ye Changge mocked him, while privately considering an alliance with Hun Yu.
• Ye Changge approached Hun Yu, insulted his false smile, and warned him not to die in the beast tide before turning away.
• Hun Yu hid his anger from the onlookers and plotted to kill Ye Changge and send the Central Continent experts to their deaths during the beast tide.

Ye Changge joined Hun Yu’s force to cross the beast tide, but exposed Hun Yu’s retreat to the rear as the group suffered heavy losses. The formation turned against Hun Yu, who chose to ignore the accusations rather than confront the crowd.

• Xun'er told Ye Changge that they would wait until noon the next day for more experts before charging through the beast tide.
• Hun Yu rallied over a thousand experts and led them into the beast tide, while Ye Changge and the others followed at a measured distance.
• As the force reached the beast tide’s middle, stronger beasts killed many experts, and Gu Qingyang noticed Hun Yu had retreated to the back with the Soul Clan members.
• At Ye Changge’s prompting, accusations against Hun Yu rang through the formation, and the exhausted experts joined in, condemning him for abandoning the vanguard.
• Hun Yu told an elderly Soul Clan man to ignore the insults because he doubted anyone would dare attack the Soul Clan first.

Hun Yu was forced to lead the Soul Clan through the beast tide after an unseen provocateur turned the crowd against him. The survivors emerged with fewer than two hundred people left, while Hun Yu raged over whoever had set him up.

• An unidentified voice threatened to turn the beast tide against the crowd, prompting the experts to threaten Hun Yu and surround the Soul Clan members.
• A Soul Clan expert suggested escaping the crowd, but another voice warned everyone not to let them leave, forcing Hun Yu to move toward the front of the formation.
• Ye Changge killed several eighth-tier ferocious beasts and remarked that Hun Yu was suffering the consequences of deception.
• Hun Yu led the Soul Clan members in a full-strength charge at the beasts, drawing greater hostility from the other survivors.
• The group fought through the beast tide and emerged with fewer than two hundred people alive from the original gathering of more than ten thousand.
• Hun Yu roared that he would kill whoever had set him up, and the crowd laughed at him.

After the beast tide, the survivors reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and discovered five Half-Saint Puppets beneath its branches. Ye Changge, Jiu Feng, Feng Qing'er, and Hun Yu each agreed to lead a team against one puppet.

• Hun Yu mourned the loss of twelve Soul Clan experts in the beast tide and blamed an unseen schemer, while Ye Changge's group recovered with only one Flower Sect elder badly injured.
• Nearly three-quarters of the survivors chose to stay behind, leaving around fifty people to approach the Bodhi Ancient Tree with Ye Changge and Yun Yun.
• Xun'er warned Ye Changge that the tree had once devoured a Half-Saint, and five Half-Saint figures emerged from its shade.
• Jiu Feng identified the figures as mindless Half-Saint Puppets whose strength was comparable to Nine-Revolving Dou Zun Peak experts.
• Ye Changge, Jiu Feng, Feng Qing'er, and Hun Yu each took responsibility for a puppet; Ye Changge told his team to hold theirs back while he struck its head.

Ye Changge helped the survivors defeat the Half-Saint Puppets, then entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion with a Bodhi Seed and learned how the tree had been corrupted. The tree offered him a Bodhi Heart and seeds in exchange for his help, and Ye Changge began considering another bold request.

• Ye Changge destroyed a Half-Saint Puppet with the Emperor Ye Seal, then revealed that the puppets’ heads were their weak point so the other teams could defeat them.
• Hun Yu lost his last two Soul Clan experts in the battle, and Ye Changge taunted him before the survivors approached the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s light transported everyone into an illusion, but Ye Changge stayed conscious because of the Bodhi Seed in his hand.
• The tree showed Ye Changge how a dying black-clad Dou Emperor’s resentment had corrupted it, and revealed that refining Bodhi Seeds could help cleanse the corruption.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree offered Ye Changge a Bodhi Heart and thirty-two Bodhi Seeds as compensation, and Ye Changge considered making another request.

Ye Changge tried to persuade the Bodhi Ancient Tree to return with him to the Emperor Ye Realm, but it refused and forced the Bodhi Heart and Bodhi Seeds into him. After beating him for resisting its request, the tree healed him and began transferring energy so he could refine the seeds.

• Ye Changge offered the Bodhi Ancient Tree protection and a Spirit Gathering Array in the Emperor Ye Realm, but it refused to leave.
• Ye Changge insisted that he wanted the tree instead of the Bodhi Heart and Bodhi Seeds, so the tree forced the treasures into his body.
• Ye Changge refused to help refine the seeds, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree struck him repeatedly until he agreed.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree healed Ye Changge, sat him on an emerald meditation cushion, and sent a vast surge of energy into his body.

Ye Changge purified the Bodhi Ancient Tree and was absorbed into its body, while the others emerged from the illusion and feared he was trapped. Xun'er’s group sensed that Ye Changge was safe and cultivating somewhere hidden, then joined the search for the Bodhi Heart and Bodhi Seeds.

• Ye Changge refined Bodhi Seeds for three days, removing the black qi from the Bodhi Ancient Tree and secretly taking its remaining seeds and cushion.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree dragged Ye Changge into its body as the others emerged from the illusion, leaving him missing.
• Hun Yu mocked Ye Changge’s absence and redirected attention toward finding the Bodhi Heart and Bodhi Seeds.
• Xun'er’s group used Ye Changge’s fire marks to sense his calm, rapidly rising aura and concluded he was cultivating in a hidden realm.
• Yun Yun led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to search, while Xun'er and Gu Qingyang’s Black Annihilation Army set out separately.

Hun Yu failed to seize the Bodhi Heart, and everyone cultivated beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree until its space collapsed and expelled them. As Hun Yu moved to attack Xun'er and the Ancient Clan prodigies, Ye Changge’s voice suddenly rang out.

• After searching the emerald-green space, everyone concluded the Bodhi Heart was on the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Hun Yu was the only one who dared approach it.
• A branch struck Hun Yu twice, knocking him unconscious, and Xun'er urged everyone to cultivate beneath the tree instead.
• Over several months, most of the cultivators broke through before the space began collapsing and cast them outside.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sank into the earth as Nalan Yanran and the others watched from afar.
• Hun Yu edged toward Xun'er and the Ancient Clan prodigies with his Spatial Jade Slip, but Ye Changge’s voice cut him off.

Ye Changge emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree after a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation and confronted Hun Yu and Jiu Feng. After revealing overwhelming strength, he faced a Soul Clan Half-Saint summoned by Hun Yu, only for Ye Clan’s own Half-Saint to drag the intruder out of the spatial rift.

• Ye Changge told the assembled experts that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had let him meditate through a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation.
• Hun Yu and Jiu Feng sealed the space with the Heavenly Phoenix Illusion and declared that they would kill Ye Changge.
• Ye Changge seized Hun Yu in one move, then released him and challenged him to summon Soul Clan experts.
• Hun Yu crushed a Spatial Jade Slip, and Jiu Feng opened a spatial rift through which the Half-Saint Gu You Sheng began to emerge.
• Ye Changge revealed a Half-Saint-level aura, causing the Soul Clan Half-Saint to retreat, but a giant hand of purplish-brown flames dragged him out of the rift.
• The hunched old man shattered the flaming hand and complained that the Ye Clan boy did not respect his elders.

Ye Changge faced Hun Yu and Jiu Feng while Venerable Tianhuo engaged Gu You, the Hall of Souls’ Second Celestial Venerable. After Ye Changge killed Jiu Feng, Feng Qing’er tried to persuade Xun’er to let the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan retreat.

• Ye Changge sent Venerable Tianhuo to fight Gu You, who unleashed black beasts while Venerable Tianhuo counterattacked with the Great Heaven Crimson Flame Palm.
• Ye Changge ordered Xun’er and the others to hold off Feng Qing’er’s group while he confronted Hun Yu and Jiu Feng.
• Hun Yu used his Clan Mark and Soul Extinguishing Palm, while Jiu Feng attacked with Demonic Phoenix Kill, but neither could break Ye Changge’s Golden Giant defenses.
• Ye Changge crushed Jiu Feng, and Feng Qing’er welcomed his death as it cleared her path to becoming the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan’s Young Clan Leader.
• Feng Qing’er asked Xun’er to let her group leave, and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan elders agreed that they no longer had reason to fight.

Ye Changge killed Hun Yu and turned to face Gu You after defeating him with his fused Heavenly Flame. The chapter ended as Gu You summoned a thousand-zhang Dark Skeleton King to fight Ye Changge.

• Xun'er let Feng Qing'er and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan elders leave, and Feng Qing'er received a Bodhi Seed from Ye Changge.
• Ye Changge killed Hun Yu after trapping him with a Space Lock, while Gu You fled from Skyfire's attack and crashed into a trench.
• Ye Changge sent the newly advanced Half-Saint Skyfire to watch as Tong Xuan arrived with the Ancient Clan's experts.
• Ye Changge explained that his fused Great Earth Gang Flame had left Gu You with a wound that could not heal, then taunted him.
• Gu You summoned the thousand-zhang Dark Skeleton King and filled the sky with black mist and grotesque Soul Bodies.

Ye Changge combined the Ancient Clan’s five Emperor Seals to destroy Gu You’s Dark Skeleton King and leave him gravely weakened. When Gu You tried to escape through a spatial crack, Ye Changge forced a Five-Colored Fire Lotus into his chest and kicked him through, then closed the rift and fled back to his main body.

• Ye Changge summoned all five Emperor Seals, surprising Tong Xuan and Gu You with his knowledge and power.
• Gu You merged with the Dark Skeleton King and formed Myriad Soul Bone Armor to defend against the combined seals.
• The combined Emperor Seals shattered the Dark Skeleton King, leaving Gu You mangled and barely able to speak.
• As Gu You began escaping through a spatial crack, another Ye Changge appeared with a Five-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Ye Changge shoved the lotus into Gu You’s chest, kicked him deeper into the rift, and closed it before fleeing toward his main body.

Ye Changge returned from the Primeval Wilds Ancient Domain with the Bodhi Heart and thirty-five Bodhi Seeds, and Yao Chen prepared to refine Bodhi Pills. Before he could begin, Emperor Ye Ancestor sensed a mysterious entity invading the Emperor Ye Realm, leaving Ye Changge and the others rushing to confront the threat.

• Ye Changge explained that his Buddha's Fury Lotus had likely killed Gu You, then gave Xun'er and the other Ancient Clan members five Bodhi Seeds.
• Ye Changge promised to keep the remaining Bodhi Seeds for his companions until Yao Chen refined them into Bodhi Pills, and the group left the Primeval Wilds Ancient Domain.
• Back in the Emperor Ye Realm, Ye Changge showed Emperor Ye Ancestor and Yao Chen the Bodhi Heart and thirty-five Bodhi Seeds.
• Yao Chen said he had gathered materials for about a dozen batches of Bodhi Pills and planned to refine them into Ninth-Grade Treasure Pills.
• Emperor Ye Ancestor sensed a mysterious entity invading the Emperor Ye Realm and flew out of the hall, while Ye Changge and Yao Chen followed.

Emperor Ye Ancestor battled a powerful intruder emerging through a spatial vortex in the Emperor Ye Realm, using his Emperor-tier Soul to force the vortex nearly closed. The mysterious being revealed that it was the Bodhi Ancient Tree, leaving Emperor Ye stunned by its age and power.

• Emperor Ye Ancestor discovered a growing spatial vortex in the Emperor Ye Mountain Range and ordered the Nine Saints of the Ye Clan and Yao Chen to seal off the area.
• Ye Zhan and other Ye Clan experts arrived to guard the perimeter while Emperor Ye Ancestor attacked the vortex with spatial power.
• Emperor Ye Ancestor used his Emperor-tier Soul to reverse the vortex's rotation and shrink it to less than three meters.
• The intruder praised Emperor Ye Ancestor's Emperor-tier aura and identified itself as the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Ye Changge revealed that the apparent intruder was the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which had come to the Emperor Ye Realm seeking a Spirit Gathering Array. Yao Chen designed an array spanning the Emperor Ye Mountain Range, and the chapter ended with Ye Zhan reacting in shock to the ancient tree.

• Ye Changge recognized the Bodhi Ancient Tree's request and persuaded Emperor Ye Ancestor to let it enter the Emperor Ye Realm.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree showed Emperor Ye Ancestor, Yao Chen, and the others images of its ancient past and its encounters with Ye Changge in the Primeval Wilds Ancient Domain.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree agreed to stay in exchange for the Ye Clan helping it gather strength, and Yao Chen offered to create a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Yao Chen proposed using the Emperor Ye Mountain Range as the array foundation, and Emperor Ye Ancestor and the Ye Clan's nine other Dou Saint experts spent a month building it.
• Ye Changge told Ye Zhan that the alarm had been lifted and introduced the Bodhi Ancient Tree as his friend, leaving Ye Zhan staring at it in shock.

The Ye Clan activated the Spirit Gathering Array around the Bodhi Ancient Tree, restoring its strength and prompting it to shower the clan with energy. The tree entered a deep slumber afterward, leaving the Emperor Ye Realm enriched with pure spiritual qi.

• The Ten Saints activated the Spirit Gathering Array, sending thirty-three pillars of light from the Emperor Ye Mountain Range to surround the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree grew taller and released energy that caused nearly all of the Ye Clan's hundred thousand descendants to advance in cultivation, including Ye Changge and Ye Zhan.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree explained that the energy it had absorbed over tens of thousands of years had become a burden, and the Emperor Ye Ancestor invited it to recover within the Emperor Ye Realm.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree thanked the Ye Clan, fell into deep slumber, and began releasing pure spiritual qi as it absorbed energy from heaven and earth.
• The Ye Clan descendants returned to their daily lives while continuing to discuss the Bodhi Ancient Tree and the array's effects.

Yao Chen refined a Bodhi Pill for Ye Changge, who began a secluded breakthrough to the Dou Saint realm on the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After two years, Ye Changge emerged with a powerful aura, and Emperor Ye Ancestor led the Nine Saints to congratulate him.

• Yao Chen explained how the Bodhi Ancient Tree would gradually increase the energy in the Emperor Ye Realm and told Ye Changge to cultivate on it while preparing to break through.
• A month later, Yao Chen gave Ye Changge a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill and explained that he would refine more Bodhi Pills for Cai Lin and other allies.
• Ye Changge opened the jade box, swallowed the Bodhi Pill’s spirit, and began his Dou Saint breakthrough as the Bodhi Ancient Tree enclosed him in a cocoon.
• A month later, Cai Lin arrived, found Ye Changge cultivating inside the cocoon, and began cultivating nearby with her own Bodhi Pill.
• After two years, Cai Lin had reached the Half-Saint realm and left, while Ye Changge emerged from the cocoon amid a surge of energy and an immense aura.
• Emperor Ye Ancestor praised Ye Changge’s breakthrough and led the Ye Family Nine Saints to congratulate him.

After two years in seclusion, Ye Changge emerged as a late One-Star Dou Saint and learned that the Heavenly Mansion Alliance had been at war with the Heavenly Underworld Sect Alliance. He joined Yao Chen’s plan to launch a final assault on the Heavenly Underworld Sect, with the attack force assembled and ready to depart.

• Emperor Ye Ancestor recognized Ye Changge’s breakthrough to late One-Star Dou Saint and congratulated him on bringing hope to the Ye Clan.
• Ye Changge learned that Ye Zhan, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Gu Ling, and Venerable Tianhuo were on the Bodhi Ancient Tree attempting breakthroughs.
• Yao Chen told Ye Changge that the Heavenly Underworld Sect, secretly backed by the Hall of Souls, had gone to war with the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, but its forces had failed to break through the alliance’s defenses after a year.
• Yao Chen revealed that the Hall of Souls had placed a late One-Star Dou Saint openly and a Three-Star Dou Saint secretly behind the Heavenly Underworld Sect, and he planned a final assault.
• Ye Changge volunteered to lead the attack and arrived above the Heavenly Underworld Sect headquarters with more than a hundred experts awaiting his orders.