Chapter Summaries

After awarding seven soul bones to his disciples, Jiang Han recruited Dugu Bo into the Tang Sect and witnessed Tang Hao reunite with Tang Xiao and Tang San reunite with Liu Erlong. Jiang Han then arrived on Mount Tai in the Shrouding the Heavens world, realized he was trapped there, and concluded that Ye Fan and the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin were nearby.

• Yu Xiaogang chose to follow Jiang Han, who distributed seven soul bones among Tang San, Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, and Xiao Wu.
• At the Tang Sect, Jiang Han had Tang San promise to cure Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan's snake venom and made Dugu Bo a sect instructor.
• Tang Xiao reunited with Tang Hao, while Liu Erlong reunited with Tang San.
• Jiang Han arrived at Mount Tai, discovered a mysterious restriction kept him from leaving, and inferred that Ye Fan was visiting with his classmates and the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin was about to arrive.

Jiang Han tried to give Ye Fan the Rumble-Rumble Fruit to help him survive the coming calamity, but Ye Fan mistook it for a convincing collectible and refused to eat it. As the group reached Jade Emperor Temple, Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin appeared over Mount Tai, leaving Ye Fan and the tourists stunned.

• Jiang Han recognized Ye Fan and offered him the Rumble-Rumble Fruit in exchange for a drop of blood, warning him of an impending calamity.
• Ye Fan mistook the fruit for an imitation and offered Jiang Han money to buy it, so Jiang Han put it away.
• Jiang Han warned Ye Fan that the nine dragons and the Road to Immortality were approaching, but Ye Fan dismissed him as a charlatan.
• Ye Fan and Lin Jia rejoined their group and reached Jade Emperor Temple as thousands of tourists gathered on Mount Tai.
• Nine enormous dragon-like creatures pulling a coffin descended toward Mount Tai, shocking Ye Fan's group and the crowd.

Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin crashed onto Mount Tai, and Ye Fan’s group was pulled into the Bronze Ancient Coffin after an ancient altar activated. Jiang Han recognized the event’s connection to the Ruthless Empress and entered the coffin with the others, leaving their fate unknown in the darkness.

• Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin landed on Jade Emperor Peak, killing and injuring tourists as the mountain shook.
• Jiang Han recalled the Ruthless Empress and told Ye Fan that the Rumble-Rumble Fruit was a real opportunity.
• The ground beneath Ye Fan, Lin Jia, and their companions collapsed, dropping them onto a Five-Colored Altar that immobilized them with mysterious power.
• Ancient runes formed an Eight Trigrams diagram around the altar, and the Bronze Ancient Coffin opened and pulled the group inside.
• Jiang Han darted into the coffin before its lid closed, leaving Ye Fan and the others trapped in the pitch-black interior.

Jiang Han, Ye Fan, and the others were carried away from Earth inside the Bronze Ancient Coffin and transported through a rune vortex to an unfamiliar place. They followed a mysterious bell to an ancient temple with sealed gates.

• The students discovered their phones had no signal, and Jiang Han told them they were no longer on Earth but traveling through the universe.
• Ye Fan found his friend Pang Bo among the group, and everyone explored the coffin and discovered its carvings and a smaller bronze coffin whose lid they could not open.
• The Bronze Ancient Coffin shook, its runes glowed, and a vortex pulled everyone through it to an unfamiliar place.
• A bell sounded in the strange place, so Ye Fan led the group toward it, where they found an ancient temple with tightly shut, rune-covered gates.

After the Bronze Ancient Coffin stopped on Mars, Ye Fan and the others discovered the ruins of the Great Thunderclap Temple and heard a mysterious Buddhist chant. Jiang Han revealed little about their journey, leaving the group facing an unknown destination and the possibility that Buddhist legends were real.

• The Bronze Ancient Coffin shook, and the group climbed out onto a desolate world after mistaking the light for rescue.
• Ye Fan and the others read the inscription Ying Huo on a boulder and realized they were on Mars; Jiang Han told them the coffin had stopped to replenish energy before continuing toward its destination.
• Zhou Yi spotted collapsed tiles and bricks, prompting the group to search for signs of people while Jiang Han followed behind them.
• The group found an abandoned temple marked Great Thunderclap Temple beside a withered tree bearing several glowing green leaves.
• A Buddhist chant sounded from inside the temple, calming the group and filling them with reverence.

Jiang Han and the others searched the ruined Great Thunderclap Temple on Mars, where Buddhist artifacts protected their holders from deadly unseen attackers. After Jiang Han revealed that the attackers were tiny black creatures, Pang Bo struck one down, while the group still faced an unknown danger.

• Jiang Han sensed a mysterious resonance between the withered Bodhi Tree and the Bodhi Tree in his Sea of Consciousness as Ye Fan led the group into the temple.
• The students seized glowing Buddhist artifacts, but Xiao Hong and Xiao Ming died from unexplained wounds to their foreheads after being left without protection.
• Pang Bo’s bronze plaque repelled an unseen attack, and Lin Jia realized the artifacts protected their holders, so Ye Fan and the others shared theirs.
• Dozens of black shadows attacked the group, while Jiang Han remained untouched and was accused of hiding a secret.
• Jiang Han revealed a tiny black creature in his hand, and Pang Bo struck it with the bronze plaque, causing it to vanish in black smoke.

As the Golden Crocodile threatened Ye Fan, Lin Jia, and the others, Jiang Han joined with the Bodhi Tree and manifested a colossal Bodhi Ancient Tree. The tree killed the Golden Crocodile and destroyed the smaller crocodiles, though the group remained stranded in the mysterious space.

• Jiang Han subdued one unknown creature, while the divine artifacts protecting Ye Fan, Lin Jia, and the others began to fail.
• The Great Thunderclap Temple collapsed, and a hundred-zhang Golden Crocodile emerged and charged at the group.
• Jiang Han connected with the Bodhi Tree in his Sea of Consciousness and vanished as the tree manifested above the crowd.
• The withered tree near Thunder Sound Temple uprooted itself and joined the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which bound the Golden Crocodile and drained its life until it died.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree swept its branches across the smaller crocodiles, turning them into black mist and ending their attacks.

After the Bodhi Ancient Tree defeated the crocodiles, Jiang Han revealed himself as a Red Dust Immortal and told Ye Fan and the others that their journey offered a chance to return to Earth or gain great power. The Bronze Ancient Coffin resumed its voyage, and a star map indicated that they were nearing the Big Dipper Star Region.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree cleared the crocodiles and transformed into golden light, revealing Jiang Han and shocking Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Lin Jia, and the others.
• Jiang Han called himself a Red Dust Immortal, explained that the group had been chosen for an opportunity at the coffin’s destination, and told them their choices were to die or seek it.
• Jiang Han offered Ye Fan the Rumble-Rumble Fruit again, but Ye Fan questioned why he had been singled out and declined to accept it.
• Everyone returned to the Bronze Ancient Coffin, which set off again as Jiang Han examined the Bodhi Ancient Tree in his Sea of Consciousness.
• A female classmate noticed a glowing star-map engraving, and Ye Fan and Pang Bo inferred that the coffin was heading toward the Big Dipper Star Region.
• The Bronze Ancient Coffin shook violently as the star-map’s light reached the Big Dipper Star Region, leading the group to wonder whether they were arriving in an Immortal Realm or cultivation world.

Jiang Han led Ye Fan and the others through the Barren Ancient Forbidden Land, where they ate strange fruits and saw an unreachable Immortal Palace. After a ferocious beast attacked them beyond the forbidden land, a young cultivator killed it and Ye Fan asked her for help.

• The Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin landed, and Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Jiang Han, and the others emerged into the Barren Ancient Forbidden Land.
• Jiang Han warned the group about the forest and pointed out a gigantic golden eagle carrying two Siberian Tigers.
• Jiang Han led everyone to a spring, where they ate red fruits that restored their energy, then tried and failed to reach a distant Immortal Palace.
• After the group crossed two mountain peaks out of the forbidden land, a black beast attacked them, but a streak of sword light cut it in half.
• A young woman arrived on a rainbow and questioned the group, and Ye Fan asked her to save them.

Wei Wei explained that the Immortal Fruit had protected Ye Fan and the others from the Barren Ancient Forbidden Land’s erosion of time, then brought them to a town where elders discovered their cultivation potential. The Six Grotto-Heavens argued over the newcomers and divided them among their sects, leaving Jiang Han, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo unassigned.

• Ye Fan questioned Wei Wei about the Barren Ancient Forbidden Land, and she explained that the Immortal Fruit had shielded the group from its time-eroding power.
• Wei Wei carried the group to a town, where elders revealed they were searching for the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin and found that the newcomers’ Seas of Bitterness had awakened.
• The elders invited the group to cultivate, and everyone except Jiang Han agreed to join a sect.
• Representatives from the Six Grotto-Heavens arrived and argued over how to divide the promising new disciples.
• The Six Grotto-Heavens selected Lin Jia, Li Xiaoman, and the others, leaving only Jiang Han, Ye Fan, and Pang Bo.

The Six Grotto-Heavens discovered that Ye Fan possessed a supreme Holy Body that could not cultivate in the current era, and they left him behind while taking the other promising youths. Alone with Jiang Han, Ye Fan accepted the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and gained its lightning power as Jiang Han’s contract mission was completed.

• The elders from the Six Grotto-Heavens identified Ye Fan as a supreme Holy Body but said his physique could not cultivate, while they judged Jiang Han’s body ordinary.
• Pang Bo refused to leave without Ye Fan, but Ye Fan urged him to go, and Pang Bo and the others departed with their respective elders.
• Ye Fan questioned Jiang Han about his knowledge and the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, then agreed to eat it after Jiang Han promised to help him reach the pinnacle of life.
• Jiang Han made Ye Fan call him Master, had him register a drop of blood in the Golden Bowl, and gave him the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
• Ye Fan ate the fruit and manifested lightning, while Jiang Han received confirmation that Ye Fan’s contract was established and his mission was complete.

Jiang Han taught Ye Fan about the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, the Desolate Ancient Holy Body, and the cultivation realms of the Big Dipper, while promising to help him begin cultivating. A disturbance in the Desolate Ancient Ruins drew the Six Grotto-Heavens experts together, where a poisonous beast attacked as creatures fled from the depths.

• Ye Fan tested his newly acquired lightning powers, and Jiang Han explained how Devil Fruit development worked and why Ye Fan could not learn Three-Colored Haki.
• Jiang Han told Ye Fan that his Desolate Ancient Holy Body could thrive with the lightning energy from his fruit, then outlined the Big Dipper’s regions and cultivation realms.
• Ye Fan asked why he could not sense his Wheel of Life, and Jiang Han urged him to be patient before describing the cultivation levels of the Six Grotto-Heavens experts.
• After a roar came from the ruins, Jiang Han sensed the disturbance and told Ye Fan that the resources he needed to open the Bitter Sea had arrived.
• The Six Grotto-Heavens experts gathered at the edge of the Desolate Ancient Ruins as beasts fled from within; a Poison Dragon killed a Jade Tripod Cave Heaven disciple before an old man cut it down.

Four Lightning Birds overwhelmed the experts of the Six Grotto-Heavens and trapped Pang Bo, Lin Jia, and the others in a seemingly hopeless fight. Jiang Han and Ye Fan appeared in the Sky Battlefield, revealing their ability to fly and Ye Fan’s command of lightning, as Jiang Han calmly took control of the birds’ lightning.

• A Lightning Bird killed the old woman from Golden Haze Cave Heaven and the old man from Jade Tripod Cave Heaven, then four birds surrounded the Six Grotto-Heavens experts and the Earthlings.
• The experts tried to resist the birds, but their attacks failed, and they prepared for a final fight as Pang Bo, Lin Jia, Zhou Yi, and the others despaired.
• Jiang Han and Ye Fan appeared in the Sky Battlefield, stunning the onlookers by flying through the air.
• Ye Fan showed lightning crackling in his palm and challenged the experts’ belief that he was a useless body.
• The four Lightning Birds attacked Jiang Han, who absorbed the lightning from their wings into his fingertip.

Jiang Han killed the four Lightning Birds, demanded the Six Grotto-Heavens experts’ Hundred Herbs Liquid, and had Ye Fan drink it to open his Sea of Bitterness. Ye Fan’s Sea of Bitterness erupted in golden light, thunder, and towering waves, leaving everyone stunned.

• Jiang Han absorbed the Lightning Birds’ lightning and destroyed all four when they tried to flee.
• The Six Grotto-Heavens experts thanked Jiang Han and asked about his cultivation, but he demanded all their Hundred Herbs Liquid instead.
• Jiang Han collected twenty-two bottles and told Ye Fan to drink them so he could open his Sea of Bitterness.
• The experts tried to stop Ye Fan from drinking more, but Jiang Han’s aura held them back as Ye Fan continued until he sensed his Wheel of Life.
• Ye Fan drank the remaining liquid, sat cross-legged, and began trying to open his Sea of Bitterness.
• Ye Fan’s Sea of Bitterness burst with golden radiance, lightning, and enormous waves, astonishing the experts and his companions.

Ye Fan opened his golden Bitter Sea and left with Jiang Han to explore the ruins’ depths. They discovered the Demon Emperor Tomb beneath a volcano, where powerful beasts and the Six Grotto-Heavens’ leaders gathered, setting the stage for a struggle over its opportunities.

• Ye Fan successfully opened his Bitter Sea, revealing a tiny golden sea that astonished the Six Grotto-Heavens’ experts.
• Jiang Han told Ye Fan to say goodbye to his classmates, declined Pang Bo’s request to become his disciple, and led Ye Fan toward the ruins’ depths as strange sounds shook the area.
• The Six Grotto-Heavens’ experts questioned Pang Bo and then took him, Lin Jia, and the others toward the source of the sounds.
• Jiang Han and Ye Fan found a crystal palace rising and sinking in the magma of a vast volcano, and Jiang Han identified it as the Demon Emperor Tomb and an opportunity for Ye Fan.
• Powerful ruin beasts and the leaders and elders of the Six Grotto-Heavens arrived around the tomb, where a struggle over its hidden opportunities appeared imminent.

The Six Grotto-Heavens Sect Leaders and the great demons clashed over the ancient hall rising from the Volcano Crater, each claiming its treasures. Jiang Han told Ye Fan about the Desolate Tower and a mysterious bronze fragment, while the factions rushed toward the hall; the golden-haired Demon Clan Girl opened its doors with surprising ease.

• The Six Grotto-Heavens Sect Leaders and the great demons argued over whether the ancient hall belonged to humans or the Demon Clan as Emperor Script appeared above it.
• The Spirit Ruins Cave Heaven Sect Leader claimed the hall might contain the human race's supreme treasure and a lost volume of the Dao Scripture, escalating the dispute.
• Jiang Han told Ye Fan that the hall was the Yang Tomb, that the Desolate Tower lay elsewhere, and that the hall held a valuable treasure resembling scrap bronze.
• The golden-haired Demon Clan Girl attacked the human leaders, and the Spirit Ruins Cave Heaven Sect Leader blocked her with purple energy before the ancient hall rose free of the crater.
• The humans and demons raced toward the hall, and the golden-haired Demon Clan Girl pushed open its five-colored jade doors, surprising everyone with how easily they opened.

Jiang Han and Ye Fan entered the ancient hall and found the Six Grotto-Heavens experts and great demons fighting over the Dao Scripture Wheel Sea Volume. As both sides battled for the golden foil, Jiang Han snatched it away with purple lightning, drawing everyone’s attention and anger.

• Jiang Han and Ye Fan entered the Five-Colored Divine Jade hall, where the Six Grotto-Heavens experts and great demons searched for treasure.
• Jiang Han introduced himself as Ancestor Hongjun, and the golden foil flew out of the hall, prompting the humans and demons to fight over it.
• Jiang Han told Ye Fan that the foil was the Dao Scripture Wheel Sea Volume as the battle grew increasingly fierce.
• A Spirit Ruins Cave Heaven Supreme Elder seized the foil but was killed by the great demons, and the foil changed hands again before both sides hesitated to claim it.
• The golden-haired Demon Clan Girl tried to take the foil while the great demons shielded her from the humans’ attacks.
• Jiang Han used purple lightning to snatch the golden foil, and the humans and demons turned toward him in shock and anger.

Jiang Han seized the gold foil from the fighting demons and protected it effortlessly, then had Ye Fan awaken the Dao Scripture within it. As a new force arrived to claim the scripture, Ye Fan stood beside Jiang Han while the story turned toward a confrontation.

• Jiang Han revealed that he had taken the gold foil, then repelled the demons’ attacks with lightning barriers and ripples.
• Jiang Han gave the gold foil to Ye Fan and instructed him to drip blood onto it, awakening the Dao Scripture’s ancient characters.
• The Dao Scripture flowed into Ye Fan’s body and fused above his Bitter Sea as Jiang Han told him to follow its teachings for Wheel Sea Realm cultivation.
• A powerful voice demanded the Dao Scripture, and dozens of divine rainbows and Savage Beasts arrived with cultivators to seize it.
• Ye Fan watched the newcomers warily while Jiang Han remained calm and appeared unconcerned.

The Shining Light Holy Land, the Ji Clan, and the Jade Pool Holy Land arrived at the Demon Emperor’s tomb, where they targeted Ye Fan for the Dao Scripture in his Bitter Sea. Jiang Han encouraged Ye Fan to test his lightning ability, then angered the three factions by dismissing them as weak; the ancient hall began shaking before their confrontation could escalate.

• Pang Bo learned that the Shining Light Holy Land held authority over Spirit Ruins Cave Heaven, and Xiao Zhe threatened Sect Leader Bai Xuan for failing to report the tomb sooner.
• Ji Feng arrived with eighteen Ancient War Chariots, and Bai Lian led the Jade Pool Holy Land to the Volcano Crater as the three major forces gathered around the tomb.
• Xiao Zhe identified the golden fragment in Ye Fan’s Bitter Sea as the Dao Scripture Wheel Sea Volume and attacked him with a rune hand.
• Ye Fan turned into lightning to evade Xiao Zhe’s attack and struck him, but his lightning had no effect on the Four Extremes Realm cultivator.
• Jiang Han told Ye Fan that developing his Rumble-Rumble Fruit would make the three leaders insignificant, provoking Xiao Zhe, Ji Feng, and Bai Lian.
• The ancient hall shook, and a dazzling treasure shot out from its second floor as the gathered forces watched.

Jiang Han claimed the Green Bronze Shard, identified as a fragment of the Becoming Immortal Cauldron, and defeated Xiao Zhe with a single lightning attack. As the Dark-Gold Ape arrived to demand the Demon Emperor’s relics, Jiang Han effortlessly erased its attack, leaving their confrontation underway.

• Bai Lian recognized the Green Bronze Shard as the treasure lost in Central Province ten thousand years earlier, and the Jade Tripod Cave Heaven Sect Leader explained how the Demon Race Great Emperor had stolen it.
• Jiang Han used a purple lightning net to take the Green Bronze Shard and revealed that it was a fragment of the Becoming Immortal Cauldron.
• Xiao Zhe attacked Jiang Han, but Jiang Han’s finger flick destroyed Xiao Zhe’s weapon and blasted him into a pit beside the Volcano Crater.
• Ji Feng and Bai Lian backed down from challenging Jiang Han, while Ye Fan asked about Jiang Han’s Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Jiang Han told him he would understand in time.
• The Dark-Gold Ape arrived and demanded the Great Emperor’s relics; after it unleashed black waves at Jiang Han and Ye Fan, Jiang Han erased them with azure lightning.