Chapter Summaries

Lu Ye infiltrated Fox Immortal Valley’s Forbidden Land and discovered the Fox Demon mourning her master before vowing revenge within a month. He suspected her target was the Overlord-level Berserk Giant Ape and wondered how he and Li Baxian could escape the danger.

• Lu Ye entered the Forbidden Land and found a spotless grave for Master Lei Zhengyin beside an ancient altar whose purpose he could not determine.
• The Fox Demon arrived and wept at the grave, then vowed to avenge her master in one month as six tails of Demonic Energy appeared behind her.
• After the Fox Demon left, Lu Ye returned to his loft and concluded she was a Six-Tailed Sky Fox with strength comparable to the Divine Sea Realm.
• Yiyi sympathized with the Fox Demon, while Lu Ye reasoned that she had gathered cultivators to help her seek revenge.
• Lu Ye checked the Ten-Part Map and suspected the Fox Demon planned to attack the Overlord-level Berserk Giant Ape.
• Lu Ye worried that the coming confrontation would endanger him and Li Baxian and considered taking Li Baxian away.

After Xia Liang finished teaching Lu Ye the fundamentals of saber techniques, he introduced him to the Mad Blade Sect’s Heart’s Eye Secret Technique. Lu Ye began training the technique in the Mirage Realm, where repeated deaths gradually sharpened his ability to sense attacks with his eyes closed.

• Xia Liang told Lu Ye that battle, not further instruction, would improve his saber techniques, then demonstrated how the Heart’s Eye Secret Technique let him block attacks with his eyes closed.
• Xia Liang explained that Heart’s Eye relied on perception and could be cultivated by repeatedly facing danger without sight, though Fox Immortal Valley lacked suitable training conditions.
• Lu Ye returned to his room, used the Rest Fruit Core to enter the Mirage Realm, and closed his eyes to train against a Cloud River Tier Four opponent.
• The opponent killed Lu Ye repeatedly, but he lasted longer in each encounter and occasionally blocked its attacks as he learned to sense danger.
• After more than a dozen deaths left his mind aching, Lu Ye continued, confident that his strong soul and the Mirage Realm would help him master Heart’s Eye faster than Xia Liang had.

Lu Ye confirmed that the Fox Demon planned to take revenge on the Berserk Giant Ape and helped prepare Fox Immortal Valley for the attack. As the operation neared, Feng Yuechan and Jujia brought a large wolf pack toward the valley, while Lu Ye worried about Li Baxian’s safety.

• Lu Ye advanced his Heart's Eye Secret Technique in the Mirage Realm and began training against two enemies at once.
• Zhou Yuntian delivered materials and told Lu Ye and Xie Yunhan to refine Formation Flags within ten days.
• Xie Yunhan revealed that the Fox Demon had gathered cultivators to attack the Berserk Giant Ape, a revenge campaign that had repeatedly cost Fox Immortal Valley most of its people.
• Lu Ye and Xie Yunhan refined more than five hundred Formation Flags in six days as Fox Immortal Valley prepared for battle.
• Feng Yuechan and Jujia led a pack of more than three hundred wolves toward Fox Immortal Valley, ready to exploit the aftermath of the battle or attack the Fox Demon directly.
• Lu Ye considered the danger facing Li Baxian, whose cultivation made him vulnerable against the Berserk Giant Ape.

Lu Ye and Xie Yunhan prepared more than a hundred Formations to help Fox Immortal Valley ambush the Berserk Giant Ape. After the Fox Demon and the cultivators gathered at the site, Zhou Yuntian led a group to lure the beast out, and Yu Daiwei reported that they had succeeded.

• Lu Ye warned Li Baxian about the planned attack on the Berserk Giant Ape, and Li Baxian asked when it would begin.
• Zhou Yuntian led Lu Ye, Xie Yunhan, and their guards to the ambush site, where he explained that the Berserk Giant Ape would be lured there from its territory.
• Lu Ye and Xie Yunhan spent three days arranging more than a hundred Formations across the area, with Lu Ye taking the lead.
• The Fox Demon brought over eighty cultivators to the site, and Lu Ye guided them through the Formations so they could use them during the battle.
• After the Fox Demon ordered the attack to proceed, Zhou Yuntian led a group away to lure out the Berserk Giant Ape.
• Yu Daiwei checked a message and told the Fox Demon that Zhou Yuntian and the others had lured the beast out.

Lu Ye and Fox Immortal Valley's cultivators confronted the Berserk Giant Ape, an Overlord-level Demonic Beast, after Zhou Yuntian's group led it back. Their attacks initially drove it back, but its Demonic Energy protected it from harm, and it slaughtered several cultivators before Lu Ye triggered an Explosion Spirit Array that also failed to injure it.

• Zhou Yuntian and six others returned with the Berserk Giant Ape in pursuit, and the ape crushed a Tier Eight cultivator who fell behind.
• The Fox Demon commanded Fox Immortal Valley's cultivators to stand their ground and attack the ape as it arrived.
• Around eighty cultivators bombarded the Berserk Giant Ape, forcing it back while Lu Ye and Xie Yunhan controlled the Formation.
• The Berserk Giant Ape released Demonic Energy that disabled the cultivators' Controlled Artifacts, then leaped into their ranks and killed several of them.
• Lu Ye triggered an Explosion Spirit Array beneath the ape, but it emerged from the flames unharmed, and the Fox Demon ordered the cultivators to attack again.

Lu Ye and the cultivators of Fox Immortal Valley fought the Berserk Giant Ape with formations, but suffered heavy losses while the beast remained protected by its Demonic Energy. When the exhausted ape tried to flee, Lu Ye activated an Air Lock Grand Array and dragged it back toward the battlefield.

• Lu Ye and Xie Yunhan activated their formations as the Berserk Giant Ape rampaged through the cultivators, killing many and leaving the beast apparently unharmed.
• The Fox Demon kept her enslaved cultivators fighting, driven by her long-standing grudge against the Berserk Giant Ape and the knowledge that this was her last chance for revenge.
• Lu Ye noticed that the ape seemed to be nearing its limit as most of the formations were consumed and the valley's casualties mounted.
• When the Berserk Giant Ape leapt toward the edge of the battlefield, the Fox Demon ordered the cultivators to stop it, but its attacks killed an interceptor and its protective Demonic Energy deflected the others.
• Lu Ye activated the Air Lock Grand Array, forcing the ape and the airborne cultivators to plummet back toward the ground.

Fox Immortal Valley’s cultivators exhausted the Berserk Giant Ape’s Demonic Energy and pursued it after it broke through their encirclement with a deadly Demonic Core attack. The wounded beast finally collapsed, and the Fox Demon approached it to avenge her master.

• Fox Immortal Valley’s cultivators shattered the Berserk Giant Ape’s protective Demonic Energy with their attacks and arrays, then surrounded it.
• The Berserk Giant Ape unleashed its Demonic Core, killing seven or eight cultivators and opening a gap through which it escaped.
• The Fox Demon ordered the survivors to pursue the beast, Zhou Yuntian led the chase, and Lu Ye secretly sent a message through his Battlefield Mark.
• The cultivators caught up with the gravely weakened Berserk Giant Ape and overwhelmed it until it collapsed, unable to fight.
• The Fox Demon rose above the fallen beast and declared that the day of reckoning had finally come.

After the Berserk Giant Ape died, Lu Ye and his allies ambushed the wounded Fox Demon to free Li Baxian from her control. Lu Ye’s strike severely wounded her, but she unleashed a strange power as Jujia attacked, leaving Lu Ye uneasy.

• The Fox Demon killed the Berserk Giant Ape after it broke free long enough to strike her, and Yu Daiwei brought her its Demonic Core.
• The Fox Demon praised Lu Ye and Xie Yunhan, then ordered the surviving cultivators to rest before returning to the valley.
• Silver-white Demonic Wolves surrounded the resting group and attacked, while Feng Yuechan appeared before Li Baxian.
• Lu Ye stabbed the wounded Fox Demon in the back with his Crag Mountain Saber, and the Demonic Wolves intercepted cultivators who rushed to kill him.
• Feng Yuechan blocked Li Baxian from reaching the Fox Demon, while Jujia charged her and Lu Ye sensed a strange power spreading from her eyes.

Lu Ye trapped the wounded Fox Demon and mind-enslaved Jujia inside the Nine Formation Map, then fought Jujia while trying to land a fatal blow on her. The Fox Demon’s secret technique failed against Lu Ye, but Jujia continued to shield her, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Fox Demon enslaved Jujia from a distance, and he struck Lu Ye before fleeing with her toward Mount Taimang.
• Yiyi intercepted Jujia with spells and the Nine Formation Map, while Lu Ye kicked him into the map and followed them inside.
• Lu Ye refused Yiyi’s offer to send Demonic Wolves in, fearing the Fox Demon would enslave them too, and attacked Jujia while aiming for the Fox Demon.
• Jujia blocked Lu Ye’s repeated saber strikes as he retreated under the pressure of the assault, while the Fox Demon realized Lu Ye resisted her secret technique.
• Lu Ye used the Heavy Pressure Spirit Pattern to stagger Jujia and stabbed toward the Fox Demon, but Jujia seized the saber and prevented the killing blow.

Lu Ye tried to kill the Fox Demon without harming Jujia, but she nearly killed him with a surprise attack before Yiyi sent Jujia out of the Nine Formation Map. The Fox Demon revealed her six-tailed true form and wounded Lu Ye with mind-shaking Fox Fire, while Lu Ye landed a counterattack and continued fighting without Yiyi’s help.

• Lu Ye repeatedly struck Jujia, using the shockwaves to worsen the Fox Demon’s injuries.
• The Fox Demon feigned weakness, then attacked Lu Ye from behind; he sensed her with the Heart’s Eye Secret Technique and narrowly avoided being killed.
• Yiyi used the Nine Formation Map to send Jujia away, leaving Lu Ye alone with the Fox Demon.
• The Fox Demon revealed her six-tailed Sky Fox form and used Fox Fire to cloud Lu Ye’s mind before tearing open his chest with her claws.
• Lu Ye dodged the Fox Demon’s next Fox Fire attack and struck her despite the illusions, injuring her.
• Yiyi told Lu Ye she could not assist because Jujia was chasing her, leaving him to face the Fox Demon alone.

Lu Ye used the Talent Tree to shield his mind from the Fox Demon's Fox Fire and defeated her in battle. As she died, the Fox Demon realized Heavenly Mechanism had passed judgment on her for enslaving and killing cultivators, while Lu Ye remained unaware of what she meant.

• Lu Ye closed his eyes and used the Heart's Eye Secret Technique to fend off the Fox Demon's Fox Fire and attacks.
• The Fox Demon unleashed a relentless assault, wounding Lu Ye as he struggled to react through the Fox Fire's mental impact.
• Lu Ye recalled how the Talent Tree had protected him in the Blazing Fire Land and activated it to shield his mind from the Fox Fire.
• Lu Ye charged through the Fox Fire and overwhelmed the exhausted Fox Demon with a series of saber attacks.
• The dying Fox Demon realized Heavenly Mechanism had passed judgment for her years of enslaving and killing cultivators, then welcomed death as she thought of her master.

Lu Ye killed the fox demon and freed the surviving cultivators of Fox Immortal Valley from her control. After discovering that the fox demon's Demonic Core had changed his Talent Tree, he watched the rescued cultivators set off for home and felt something descend upon him.

• Lu Ye killed the fox demon within the Nine Formation Map, but Xia Liang and Tan Sheng escaped before he could pursue them.
• Lu Ye took the fox demon's Storage Bag and Demonic Core, then devoured the core with his Talent Tree, causing a new pink-flamed leaf to appear.
• Yiyi sent Lu Ye out of the Nine Formation Map, where Amber and the surviving cultivators gathered around him.
• Lu Ye confirmed the fox demon was dead, and Zhou Yuntian and the others thanked him for freeing them from her control.
• The rescued cultivators decided to return to their sects and families, exchanged Battlefield Marks with Lu Ye, and departed.
• As the cultivators left, Lu Ye felt something descend upon him and the back of his hand grow warm.

After killing the Fox Demon, Lu Ye realized that Heavenly Mechanism's Favor had descended on him again and discovered he had received a new Divine Pattern called Charm. He recovered from his injuries and prepared to return to the Spirit Land, but first decided to visit Fox Immortal Valley for something that concerned him.

• Lu Ye connected the Fox Demon's death and the many coincidences surrounding it to Heavenly Mechanism's Favor, then found a golden mark on his hand.
• Lu Ye comforted Jujia, while Feng Yuechan questioned Li Baxian about Yu Daiwei and explained that Lu Ye's strong Divine Soul had protected him from the Fox Demon's Soul Secret Technique.
• Lu Ye recovered for half a day and examined the new information on his Talent Tree, discovering the Charm Divine Pattern, which required Soul Power he could not yet use.
• Lu Ye told Li Baxian he wanted to return to the Spirit Land but first make a stop at Fox Immortal Valley.

Lu Ye returned to Fox Immortal Valley with Li Baxian, Feng Yuechan, and Jujia to investigate its Forbidden Land. After activating an ancient altar with Spirit Stones and the Heavenly Mechanism reward he received for killing the Fox Demon, they entered a misty world that Li Baxian recognized as a Heaven's Mystery Baptism.

• Lu Ye broke the Grand Array around the Forbidden Land, revealing Master Lei Zhengyin's grave and an ancient Sacrificial Altar.
• Lu Ye, Li Baxian, Feng Yuechan, and Jujia filled the altar's grooves with more than a thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, draining their Spiritual Power.
• Lu Ye's golden Heavenly Mechanism mark flew into the altar and activated a golden light screen, which he explained was a reward for killing the Fox Demon.
• Lu Ye had Jujia and the Demonic Wolves guard the area, then entered the light screen with Feng Yuechan and Li Baxian.
• The group emerged in a misty world, where Li Baxian recognized the surroundings as a Heaven's Mystery Baptism.

Lu Ye and his companions discovered that the altar’s reward was a powerful Heaven’s Mystery Baptism that could raise their cultivation, and they began absorbing it. Meanwhile, Xia Liang and Tan Sheng escaped Fox Immortal Valley and planned to expose Lu Ye’s Spirit Land to Myriad Demon Ridge forces, especially the Sacred Fire Sect.

• Li Baxian confirmed that the altar’s Heaven’s Mystery Baptism still benefited him and Lu Ye, and the group spread out to cultivate in the mist.
• Lu Ye used Spirit Gathering Funnels to absorb the higher-grade mist and found that it strengthened his physique and Mind Power while rapidly raising his cultivation.
• Xia Liang and Tan Sheng rested after fleeing Fox Immortal Valley, then discussed how Lu Ye had resisted the Fox Demon’s Soul Secret Technique and defeated their plans.
• Xia Liang suggested secretly revealing Lu Ye’s Spirit Land to attract enemies, including nearby Sacred Fire Sect cultivators who hated the Crimson Blood Sect.

After completing Heaven's Mystery's baptism, Lu Ye and his companions returned to their Spirit Land with their cultivation and strength greatly improved. Knowing Tan Sheng and Xia Liang could reveal its location and bring danger, Lu Ye planned to set up more Teleportation Arrays, and the group reached Return Heaven Valley without finding signs of an attack.

• Three days after entering the baptism site, Lu Ye, Li Baxian, Feng Yuechan, Jujia, Amber, and Yiyi were expelled from it with their cultivation advanced and their bodies and minds strengthened.
• Li Baxian and the others thanked Lu Ye for earning Heaven's Mystery's reward by killing the Fox Demon, and they found the Sacrificial Altar shattered.
• As the group flew back toward the Spirit Land, Lu Ye warned Li Baxian that Tan Sheng and Xia Liang were alive and knew where the Spirit Land was.
• Lu Ye and Li Baxian discussed the risks of moving the Spirit Land and decided that Lu Ye would prepare more Teleportation Arrays as escape routes.
• The group reached Return Heaven Valley in the evening and saw no sign that the Spirit Land had been attacked.

Lu Ye returned to his Spirit Land and prepared defenses as Huo Liaoyuan and Tu Guanxiong learned of his location and sent Yan Gui to investigate. The chapter ended with Yan Gui setting out for Return Heaven Valley, where Lu Ye’s group was staying.

• Lu Ye and his companions returned to their Spirit Land, where the wolf pups and remaining adult Demonic Wolves were safe.
• Lu Ye bought materials and began refining Formation Flags while Li Baxian and Feng Yuechan searched for places to build Teleportation Arrays.
• Huo Liaoyuan received a detailed report that Lu Yiye was staying in Return Heaven Valley with nearly three hundred Demonic Wolves.
• Huo Liaoyuan and Tu Guanxiong suspected someone had leaked the information to use them against Lu Ye, but decided to investigate the Spirit Land.
• Tu Guanxiong assigned Yan Gui to scout Return Heaven Valley, and Yan Gui departed on a controlled artifact.

Lu Ye killed Yan Gui, a Ghost Cultivator sent to investigate Return Heaven Valley, and realized how dramatically his strength had grown after reaching Cloud River Tier Five and receiving Heaven's Mystery Baptism. Li Baxian identified Yan Gui as possibly belonging to Universe Sect and connected him to the nearby Sacred Universe Spiritual Land, leaving the Spirit Land’s secret at risk of discovery.

• Lu Ye finished using the latest three hundred formation flags as he and his companions prepared Teleportation Arrays around the Spirit Land.
• After a Warning Array was triggered, Lu Ye tracked down and ambushed the concealed Yan Gui, who recognized him as Lu Yiye.
• Lu Ye overwhelmed Yan Gui and killed him before he could send a message through his Battlefield Mark.
• Lu Ye found Yan Gui’s identity token, and Li Baxian identified him as a possible member of Universe Sect.
• Li Baxian connected Yan Gui to Sacred Universe Spiritual Land, a large Myriad Demon Ridge stronghold only two or three thousand li away.

After Yan Gui discovered Lu Ye in Return Heaven Valley and died, Sacred Fire Sect and Sacred Universe Spiritual Land mobilized a large force to attack him. As their Spirit Boat headed for Mount Taimang, Xia Liang and Tan Sheng followed by another route, while Lu Ye remained unaware of the approaching threat and examined Wei Que’s Broken Arrow.

• Lu Ye and Li Baxian suspected Sacred Fire Sect would target their Spiritual Land after Yan Gui sent a message before dying.
• Tu Guanxiong received Yan Gui’s final message naming Lu Yiye and learned that Yan Gui had died.
• Huo Liaoyuan assembled seventy percent of Sacred Universe Spiritual Land’s forces and summoned nearby Sacred Fire Sect disciples to attack Return Heaven Valley.
• Xia Liang and Tan Sheng watched the Spirit Boat depart, then set out to reach Return Heaven Valley first.
• Lu Ye examined Wei Que’s Broken Arrow, an Exotic Treasure with immense power that could exhaust its user’s Spiritual Power.

Huo Liaoyuan led a large Sacred Fire Sect force to Lu Ye’s hidden Spirit Land and surrounded it, intent on killing him and taking the land. As the attackers began bombarding the Grand Array, Lu Ye and his allies remained inside, facing a much larger force than their defenses could handle.

• Lu Ye refined the Broken Arrow, using the Spiritual Power stored in his Spirit Storage Ring to make it possible for him to activate the Exotic Treasure.
• Huo Liaoyuan arrived at Return Heaven Valley aboard a Spirit Boat and identified Lu Ye as his target, drawing the Sacred Universe Spiritual Land cultivators’ attention to the hidden Spirit Land.
• Huo Liaoyuan ordered his forces to surround the Spirit Land, assembling roughly one hundred and fifty or sixty cultivators.
• Li Baxian realized their defenses could not withstand the enemy’s numbers, but Lu Ye stayed calm and agreed to retreat to the Nine Provinces if necessary.
• Xia Liang and Tan Sheng worried that Huo Liaoyuan’s overwhelming force would prompt Lu Ye to escape through the Heaven’s Mystery Pillar before they could exploit the fight.
• Huo Liaoyuan ordered the attack, exposing the Grand Array and revealing the waiting Demonic Wolves, while his cultivators prepared to face them.