Chapter Summaries

Chu Heng visited the Gongsun Clan before the imperial martial contest and considered whether to cultivate the dangerous, incomplete Xuan Ming Secret. After Gongsun Xue'er offered him treasures and a martial manual, Chu Heng warned her off, then returned to his new residence to cultivate.

• Gongsun Hu promised Gongsun Xue'er he would seek the Emperor's help to protect her marriage alliance with Chu Heng.
• Gongsun Xue'er brought Chu Heng to the Gongsun residence ahead of the imperial martial contest and offered him three treasures as part of his dowry.
• Chu Heng learned from the system that the Xuan Ming Secret was incomplete, dangerous, and required special materials and further fragments to cultivate.
• Chu Heng noticed Gongsun Xue'er's unstable Water Spiritual Root and advised her not to give him the Xuan Ming God Slaying Fist manual.
• Gongsun Xue'er angrily promised to find someone to cure Chu Heng's supposed madness, then wondered why he seemed familiar before returning to her room.
• Chu Heng left the Gongsun Estate and went to his new courtyard, where he intended to cultivate in peace.

Chu Heng took Liu Yuting and Wang Feifei to Drunken Moon Pavilion, where he encountered Liu Shiyun, a young cultivator whose power had risen astonishingly fast. After Liu Shiyun introduced herself and joined them, Chu Heng stopped the two women as they were about to leave.

• Chu Heng healed Liu Yuting enough to restore her strength, then told her he planned to enter seclusion and address his depleted blood essence.
• Chu Heng bought a Barrier Breaking Pill and other medicines, found a tiny amount of Thousand Year Ice Soul in the system shop, and planned to refine a Spirit Gathering Pill.
• Chu Heng took Liu Yuting and Wang Feifei to Drunken Moon Pavilion, where he sensed a passing girl's unusual Spiritual Qi and martial aura.
• After the meal, Chu Heng saw the girl again and realized she was Liu Shiyun, who had advanced from Martial Arts Level 2 to the Martial Master Realm in only a few hours.
• Liu Shiyun asked to accompany Chu Heng and Liu Yuting, introduced herself, and Liu Yuting began to reveal Chu Heng's strength before stopping herself.
• Chu Heng introduced himself, and as Liu Yuting and Liu Shiyun prepared to leave together, he raised his hand to stop them.

Chu Heng and Liu Yuting visited a shop for high-level martial artists, then shared a meal and encountered a street performer whose aura suggested he was an Innate Realm expert. When Liu Yuting tried to arrange a purchase of his saber technique, Chu Heng agreed but told her privately that the technique was fake.

• Chu Heng and Liu Yuting entered the Gathering of Talents Pavilion, where the shopkeeper said its owner received experts above the Martial Sect realm upstairs, but Chu Heng stopped Liu Yuting from rushing to meet him.
• Back at Chu Heng’s home, Liu Yuting confessed she wanted to stay with him because she feared he might abandon her, and Chu Heng reassured her before accepting the money she had earned.
• Chu Heng and Liu Yuting went out for roast goose, and Liu Yuting noticed a street performer with the aura of a Martial Master.
• The street performer boasted about his saber technique and argued with a young man who defended his master’s secret manual.
• Liu Yuting offered to pay for the performer’s saber technique, and Chu Heng agreed to buy it before whispering that the technique was fake.

Chu Heng defeated Sword Saint Yue Shanhe, rescued Liu Yuting, and discovered her exceptional spiritual veins and golden core, taking her as his disciple. After fighting off her attackers, he brought Liu Yuting home and began treating her injuries with the Chaos Creation Art.

• Chu Heng challenged the street performer, revealed his strength, and fought Sword Saint Yue Shanhe while the crowd fled.
• Yue Shanhe defeated Chu Heng and attacked Liu Yuting, but Chu Heng rose again, stopped Yue Shanhai, and rescued her.
• Chu Heng recognized Liu Yuting’s high-grade spiritual veins and golden core, accepted her as his disciple, and gave her a Nourishing Yuan Pill.
• Mr. Wang attacked Chu Heng, and Chu Heng dislocated his arm and defeated Yue Shanhai before leaving with Liu Yuting.
• Chu Heng carried Liu Yuting home and used the Chaos Creation Art to treat her injuries.

Chu Heng forced Liu Yuting to accept his account of her family and agreed to help clear her parents’ names if she became his bodyguard. The next morning, he encountered Yue Shanhai’s bodyguard Li Zhongyi watching a little girl serve him food.

• Wang-shi and Yue Shanhai claimed the Yue home had been robbed and tried to take Liu Yuting and her younger brother back, but Liu Yuting refused to leave with them.
• Chu Heng told Liu Yuting that she was adopted and threatened to kill her if she revealed his family secret; when she tried to escape, he broke her arm and then healed it.
• Chu Heng comforted Liu Yuting about her family, and she agreed to become his bodyguard in exchange for his help clearing her parents’ names.
• The next morning, Chu Heng saw a little girl serving porridge while Li Zhongyi and two men in black suits watched nearby.

Chu Heng awakened the Demon Suppression Seal’s power through Liu Yuting’s bronze medallion and learned it could become a spirit treasure. In the Suspended Realm, an immortal artifact appeared as Qin Beihai plotted against Chen Fan, who then discovered that he had obtained the Nine Nethers Underworld Fire Fruit.

• Chu Heng’s Immortal Emperor memories activated Liu Yuting’s bronze medallion, revealing it was the powerful Demon Suppression Seal.
• Chu Heng searched for Spirit Gathering Pill ingredients and left to buy groceries, while Liu Yuting reacted affectionately to his words.
• Qin Beihai asked the Immortal Emperor for the Nine Nethers Underworld Fire Fruit so he could refine Realm Breaking Pills, and the Immortal Emperor agreed to his request.
• A golden immortal artifact appeared over the Suspended Realm, and Qin Beihai decided to wait for Chen Fan and kill him over the fruit.
• An old man promised to help Qin Beihai obtain the fruit, while Qin Beihai remained determined to confront Chen Fan.
• After Wu Zimeng and Liu Xiaoyu fainted during flight, Chen Fan stopped and discovered the Nine Nethers Underworld Fire Fruit in his hand.

Chen Fan brought Wu Zimeng and Liu Xiaoyu into Suspended Island’s inner region, where they found valuable Spirit Medicine, while other cultivators began plotting against him. After leaving the island, Chen Fan was suddenly struck by a wave of icy chill.

• Chen Fan crushed the Nine Nethers Underworld Fire Fruit to make Wu Zimeng and Liu Xiaoyu appear responsible for its destruction, then led them through Suspended Island.
• Chen Fan sent Wu Zimeng and Liu Xiaoyu to search for Spirit Medicine while he hunted for demon beasts, and the women easily defeated the beasts they encountered.
• Long Ying and his companions discussed Chen Fan’s strength and decided to return to Haiqing City to find reinforcements and kill him.
• Wu Zimeng found Grade Six and Grade Five Spirit Medicine, and Chen Fan dug up the plants and tree before sending the women to a safe place.
• Chen Fan encountered Hu Feitian and his companion, then left Suspended Island; the two collected the Spirit Medicine he had left behind.
• As Chen Fan flew away from Suspended Island, a wave of icy chill swept toward him.

Chen Fan confronted and killed the mysterious Black-Clad Man, then discovered Liu Xiaoyu had become dangerously cold and carried her deeper into the valley to seek Wu Zimeng’s help. Zhang Yunhai watched Chen Fan leave and wondered who he was and how he knew Liu Xiaoyu.

• Chen Fan recognized the Black-Clad Man as the hooded figure he had encountered earlier and chased him beyond Suspended Island.
• Chen Fan attacked the Black-Clad Man with Flying Swords, fought him at close range, and killed him.
• Chen Fan hid from two cultivators in Night Suits, then took the Black-Clad Man’s Universe Ring after they carried away the corpse.
• Chen Fan found Liu Xiaoyu unconscious with frost on her forehead, gave her a medicinal pill, and carried her toward the depths of the valley to find Wu Zimeng.
• Zhang Yunhai emerged from the grass and wondered who Chen Fan was and what his relationship with Liu Xiaoyu was.

Chen Fan saved Liu Xiaoyu from the cold poison and learned that the black-robed attacker belonged to the Heavenly Net Palace. After Chen Fan left to buy food, trouble found him at a shop, while Empress Chang'e visited her master in the Southern Extremity to explain why she had intervened to save someone.

• Zhang Yunhai secretly followed Chen Fan and Liu Xiaoyu toward the spatial entrance, hoping to ambush them.
• Chen Fan recognized the Heavenly Net Palace’s plum blossom emblem on the dead attacker’s robe and feared the organization would hunt him down.
• Chen Fan used True Essence and immortal power to drive the cold poison from Liu Xiaoyu, who woke and learned they were back on Earth.
• Chen Fan left to buy ingredients, and Liu Xiaoyu hid her continuing pain after he departed.
• A middle-aged couple accused Chen Fan of stealing Xiaoyu’s jade pendant, and the man struck his shoulder; Chen Fan fought back and dragged him into an alley.
• Empress Chang'e traveled to the Southern Extremity and told her master how she had saved a stranger from two antique sellers.

Chen Fan crossed the eastern region, fought werewolves, and confronted cultivators while searching for the Demon King and an opportunity. In a cave in the Western region, he met a mysterious skeleton that became excited when he mentioned Yang Chaoqun.

• Chang'e's master teased her about her feelings for Chen Fan and suggested she speak with him, but she fled in embarrassment.
• Chen Fan encountered two cultivators fighting werewolves, killed most of the creatures, and learned nothing from the pair before they left.
• Chen Fan met God Realm cultivators who warned him about the Demon King's werewolf scouts, then beat their leader and drove the group away.
• Chen Fan returned to the blood-soaked Western region and found a skeleton in a black iron cage inside a Mountain Cave.
• The skeleton asked about Chen Fan's faction and grew excited when Chen Fan said he knew Yan Dragon deputy leader Yang Chaoqun.

Chen Fan explored the strange mountain beyond the cave and encountered a white fox whose black mist made it immune to his attacks. After escaping, he headed for the city to find Liu Xiaoyu, while Wu Zimeng followed his trail after discovering a mysterious iron token.

• A skeletal remnant told Chen Fan that Yang Chaoqun had died, then vanished; Chen Fan pulled an Armor Piercing Arrow from its foot and made it glow with immortal power.
• Chen Fan left the cave and found himself on a moonlike surface, while Wu Zimeng entered the cave, found a black iron token, and realized the mountain was formed from buried Otherworld army corpses.
• After the token vanished in a flash of light, Wu Zimeng descended the mountain and followed Chen Fan's trail.
• Chen Fan crossed the barren landscape and fought a white fox, which severed his right leg and resisted both the Demon Slayer Sword and his punches.
• Chen Fan escaped the white fox and ran toward the city gates to find Liu Xiaoyu.

Wu Zimeng and Wu Qi stumbled upon the Kunlun Immortal Tomb, where they met Liu Qiming, a trapped zombie who knew how to leave the Kunlun Immortal Realm. After learning that a five-hundred-year-old Snow Lotus could help break the formation, they tried to enter the lake but were blocked; the next morning, an overwhelmingly powerful presence woke Wu Zimeng in a cave dwelling.

• Lost in the fog and stranded in the mountains, Wu Zimeng and Wu Qi found a stele marking the Kunlun Immortal Tomb and approached its entrance.
• Liu Qiming appeared and recognized Wu Zimeng, who attacked him with a talisman and pressed him for a way out of Kunlun Mountain.
• Liu Qiming said he needed Wu Zimeng's essence blood, her spiritual artifacts, and a Snow Lotus over five hundred years old to break the formation trapping him.
• Wu Zimeng told Wu Qi to gather the Wu Family disciples, then led him underwater to seek the Snow Lotus, but a restriction stopped them from going farther.
• The following morning, an unseen and vastly stronger presence called to Wu Zimeng as she meditated in a mountain summit cave dwelling.

Wu Zimeng defeated a black-robed intruder at the Wu Family’s quarters and found the Kunlun Immortal Sect’s cultivation technique among his remains. While searching for a five-hundred-year-old Snow Lotus, Lin Hao discovered the Wu Family Guard Captain and was ambushed by Wang Yuanze; Lin Hao defeated him, but Wang Yuanze then summoned venomous scorpions.

• Wu Zimeng caught the Kunlun Tablet and hurled it at the black-robed man, whose attack shattered it and left him dead; she found the Kunlun Immortal Sect’s cultivation technique among his remains.
• Wu Zimeng gave Wu Qi healing pills, checked the other injured clansmen, and resumed restoring her strength.
• After refining pills and searching unsuccessfully for a Snow Lotus, Lin Hao found the wounded Wu Family Guard Captain and stopped his bleeding.
• The Guard Captain sprang up, revealing himself as Wang Yuanze, who attacked Lin Hao and identified himself as the Great Protector of the Western Border Witchcraft Poison Sect.
• Lin Hao used the Azure Lotus Demon Codex to destroy Wang Yuanze’s cultivation and defeat him, but Wang Yuanze spat out a pill that burst into swarms of venomous scorpions.

Lin Hao slaughtered a black-robed cultivator and his disciples, then rushed to face reinforcements alongside Zhu Ling'er and Chu Xiyan. He killed a giant python and seized a female cultivator during the ensuing battle, leaving her allies furious.

• Lin Hao killed the black-robed old man who had unleashed poisonous scorpions, then sensed and slew the old man's disciples as they tried to flee.
• Lin Hao detected three approaching auras and headed northeast, where Zhu Ling'er and Chu Xiyan were fighting black-robed cultivators.
• Lin Hao confronted a black-robed old man riding a giant python, crushed the python with his fists, and captured its fleeing divine soul.
• Lin Hao resisted Chu Xiyan's Illusory Sound Bell, vanished behind a sword-wielding female cultivator, and lifted her by the throat.
• A black-robed cultivator shouted angrily at Lin Hao for attacking his junior sister.

Lin Hao defeated the Kunlun Ruins female cultivator after overpowering her with his physical strength and soul attack, then unleashed the Red Sun Burning Flame against her. Meanwhile, Chu Feng, Chu Qingzhu, and Chu Yuxun set out to help him, and the chapter ended with the flames consuming the female cultivator.

• Lin Hao killed the Black-Clad cultivators who had attacked him and confronted the Kunlun Ruins female cultivator, who threatened to summon her sect against him.
• The female cultivator attacked Lin Hao with sword shadows, but his soul attack stunned her and he struck her back with a punch.
• At the Chu Clan grounds, Chu Feng, Chu Qingzhu, and Chu Yuxun resolved to repay Lin Hao for his help and headed toward the Deep Mountain Range.
• Lin Hao overpowered the female cultivator in battle, and she became shocked when he revealed that he had seen a seven-colored Heavenly Tribulation.
• The female cultivator summoned her Heavenly Silk Armor and charged Lin Hao, but he countered with the Red Sun Burning Flame, which engulfed her and burned away her flesh.

Lin Hao slaughtered the Kunlun Ruins cultivators who threatened him and declared that he would avenge Tian Xue'er. Jade Yao Immortal arrived to confront him, but Lin Hao’s Red Sun Departing Fire halted her spirit artifact flying sword.

• Lin Hao killed the Kunlun Ruins female cultivator, seized Chu Yuxi’s Spatial Ring, and burned more Kunlun Ruins disciples with his fire techniques.
• Lin Hao rejected the Kunlun Ruins cultivators’ pleas for mercy, killed Chu Yuxi’s soul, and said he would take on their grudge for Tian Xue'er.
• Jade Yao Immortal arrived and attacked Lin Hao with the Green Dragon Moon Slayer after he refused to submit to the Kunlun Ruins.
• Lin Hao summoned the Red Sun Departing Fire, and the Green Dragon Moon Slayer froze in midair as Jade Yao Immortal stared at the flames in shock.

Lin Hao fought Jade Yao Immortal, revealing his Dharma Manifestation and using the Chaos Iron Box against her sword and killing array. The box transported him into a vast white world where he encountered Ji Luo, and he activated the Demonic Blood Forbidden Technique to attack her as his only hope of escape.

• Jade Yao Immortal attacked Lin Hao with the Green Dragon Moon Slayer, but Lin Hao blocked its strikes with his Chaos Iron Box and revealed his enormous Dharma Manifestation.
• Jade Yao Immortal summoned the Jade Yao Nine Palaces Killing Array, and Lin Hao’s iron box swallowed him into a vast white world.
• Lin Hao heard Ji Luo identify herself as the Sect Master of the Heaven Evolution Immortal Sect, while Jade Yao Immortal demanded her inherited treasure.
• Lin Hao fired the Extinction Pearl at Jade Yao Immortal’s nine mountains, and its projection overwhelmed one mountain before she trapped him with the remaining peaks.
• Lin Hao activated the Demonic Blood Forbidden Technique and charged Jade Yao Immortal with demonic flames and fist intent.

Lin Hao fought Jade Yao Immortal, who tried to kill him for his Immortal Fate, and survived her attacks by awakening the Soul Eater Demonic Art and Qilin Totem. As Jade Yao pursued him with Heavenly Dao tribulation lightning, Lin Hao used the Wood God Ring, summoning Ye Xiyan, whose arrival stunned Jade Yao.

• Ji Luo attacked Lin Hao with frost and lightning, then formed a lightning sword and unleashed blades and swords to kill him for refusing to surrender his Immortal Fate.
• Lin Hao invoked the Soul Eater Demonic Art, breaking Jade Yao Immortal's formation and destroying her lightning sword, while demonic Dragon Scales appeared on his body.
• Jade Yao Immortal struck Lin Hao with Heavenly Dao tribulation lightning, but the Qilin Totem shielded him from the bolts.
• Jade Yao Immortal pursued the gravely wounded Lin Hao with worldly laws and attacks until he threw the Wood God Ring behind him.
• The Wood God Ring's emerald light made Jade Yao Immortal kneel before Ye Xiyan, whom Lin Hao recognized as the Hundred Flowers Valley disciple he had once saved.

Ye Xiyan confronted Jade Yao Immortal on Jade Maiden Peak, but Jade Yao Immortal seized her and trapped Li Hao after he tried to protect her. Li Hao unleashed his hidden power and defeated Jade Yao Immortal, then escaped into the forest with Ye Xiyan.

• Ye Xiyan arrived at Jade Maiden Peak and shattered Jade Yao Immortal’s glacier attacks with a single strike.
• Ye Xiyan wounded Jade Yao Immortal and cut off her arm, then Li Hao emerged from the cave and recognized Ye Xiyan.
• Jade Yao Immortal captured Ye Xiyan and blasted Li Hao away when he tried to intervene.
• Li Hao unleashed a surge of power that broke him free, then struck Jade Yao Immortal repeatedly until she collapsed.
• Li Hao helped Ye Xiyan leave the cave, and the two fled into the dense forest.

Jade Yao Immortal attacked Li Hao, but their confrontation ended with her trapped and Li Hao unconscious after she accused him of destroying her family. Ye Xiyao then visited Yu Jintang at Li Mansion and urged him to focus on Madam Li’s birthday preparations and distance himself from the Jade Clan.

• Jade Yao Immortal tried to poison Ye Xiyao, but Li Hao arrived and stabbed her after claiming she and his master had helped ruin him.
• Jade Yao Immortal fought Li Hao, fell into a lake, and accused him of causing the deaths and hardships she had suffered; she later choked him until Ye Xiyao appeared.
• Jade Yao Immortal continued accusing Ye Xiyao of breaking up her family, then cried for help before her cries abruptly stopped, while Li Hao lay unconscious.
• Ye Xiyao entered Li Mansion and found Yu Jintang alone in a side room.
• Ye Xiyao told Yu Jintang to prepare for Madam Li’s birthday and keep his distance from the Jade Clan, saying Li Hao had been expelled and his spiritual roots crippled.