Chapter Summaries

The leaders of Silver Snake Valley examined Ying Wuji’s confiscated treasures and discovered that his crystal was a legendary Sound Transmission Stone, which Lu Ye used to demand his release. After the leaders refused, Lu Ye infiltrated the Wei Family residence and confronted Wei Wuguang, the man who had spoken with him.

• The Five Great Families’ leaders inspected Ying Wuji’s Storage Bag and debated where he and Lu Ye had come from.
• A voice from the crystal identified it as a Sound Transmission Stone, and Lu Ye contacted the leaders to offer terms for Ying Wuji’s release.
• Wei Wuguang and the other leaders refused to release Ying Wuji and planned to capture Lu Ye and investigate the intruders’ possessions.
• Wei Wuguang returned to his residence and considered how the Wei Family might gain an advantage from the intruders’ treasures.
• Lu Ye appeared unnoticed in Wei Wuguang’s side room and confronted him about refusing his proposal.

Lu Ye captured Wei Wuguang to exchange him for Ying Wuji, then left him in a guarded formation while he went after another member of the Five Great Families. An hour later, Long You was thrown into the courtyard, showing Wei that more captives were coming.

• Lu Ye revealed his plan to capture one person from each of the Five Great Families and trade them for Ying Wuji.
• Wei Wuguang attacked Lu Ye, but Lu Ye swiftly wounded him and trapped him inside a formation.
• Wei Wuguang surrendered, and Lu Ye escorted him from the Wei Family residence to a civilian courtyard.
• Lu Ye left Wei Wuguang in the courtyard under the guard of Amber and Yiyi, who activated the formation around him.
• About an hour later, Long You burst through the fog and Wei Wuguang struck him, realizing Lu Ye had captured another family member.

Lu Ye confronted the leaders of Silver Snake Valley’s Five Great Families and demanded the return of his companion in exchange for their five captured experts. When Chu Ruoyu tried to negotiate and threaten him, Lu Ye repeatedly wounded Chu Anhe to force the issue, leaving the families’ leaders scrambling to avoid further bloodshed.

• Wei Wuguang treated Long You and explained their predicament after Lu Ye captured them.
• Zhou Ding, Ning Boran, and Chu Anhe joined Wei Wuguang and Long You in Lu Ye’s courtyard, completing the five captured experts from the Five Great Families.
• Chu Ruoyu arrived with cultivators, and Lu Ye revealed the five prisoners and demanded that his companion be exchanged for them.
• When Chu Ruoyu tried to negotiate, Lu Ye used his controlled artifact to pierce Chu Anhe three times, warning that he would not discuss anything else.
• A cultivator advised Chu Ruoyu to comply with Lu Ye’s demand first, since Chu Anhe and the other captives were at risk.

Lu Ye negotiated Ying Wuji’s release and demanded a way to reach the other mystic realms and leave Silver Snake Valley. Chu Ruoyu accepted the trade and agreed to send them away, while Lu Ye and Ying Wuji prepared to depart in search of the remaining realms.

• Chu Ruoyu ordered Ying Wuji brought to the courtyard, and Lu Ye exchanged the injured Long You for his release.
• Lu Ye secured Ying Wuji’s Storage Bag and Sound Transmission Stone, then asked Chu Ruoyu how to contact the other mystic realms and leave Silver Snake Valley.
• Chu Ruoyu said Silver Snake Valley could not contact or locate the other realms, but offered to let the two leave in exchange for the Sound Transmission Stone’s refining method.
• Lu Ye gave Chu Ruoyu a Jade Slip containing the refining method and dismantled the Grand Array trapping Wei Wuguang and the others.
• Lu Ye calmly challenged Chu Ruoyu to stop them if he could, and Chu Ruoyu acknowledged the young man’s strength.

Lu Ye and Ying Wuji left the Silver Snake Valley Mystic Realm through a gateway that the Five Great Families secretly directed toward a dangerous location. The chapter ended with Silver Snake Valley watching to see whether Lin Xun's Great Tomb and its Corpse Race inhabitants would kill them.

• Chu Ruoyu ordered the Five Great Families' experts to escort Lu Ye and Ying Wuji to the gateway instead of fighting them.
• When the guards deliberately stalled, Lu Ye threatened to stay and fight unless the gateway opened within one incense stick's time.
• Lu Ye and Ying Wuji entered the gateway before it had fully stabilized, despite Chu Ruoyu's warning about the risks.
• Chu Ankang revealed that the gateway had opened near Lin Xun's Great Tomb, where Silver Snake Valley hoped the Corpse Race would attack the two intruders.
• Chu Ruoyu ordered the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror used to observe what happened to Lu Ye and Ying Wuji.

Lu Ye summoned a Fire Phoenix to destroy Lin Xun’s Corpse Horde after the Silver Snake Valley cultivators watched through the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror. The phoenix burned away the horde, leaving Lu Ye to face the charred Lin Xun and sever his head with a saber.

• Silver Snake Valley cultivators used the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror to watch Lu Ye and Ying Wuji approach the advancing Corpse Horde.
• Lu Ye sensed the mirror’s gaze, then began forming a vast Fire Phoenix while Ying Wuji retreated.
• Ying Wuji recognized the Fire Phoenix as Lu Ye’s own technique, and the Silver Snake Valley cultivators watched in shock as it took shape.
• Lin Xun turned the Corpse Horde to flee, but Lu Ye’s Fire Phoenix caught it and burned away the corpses.
• Lu Ye confronted the charred Lin Xun and cut off his head with the Crag Mountain Saber.

Lu Ye defeated Lin Xun and his Corpse Horde with the Fire Phoenix Spiritual Pattern, then escaped Silver Snake Valley with Ying Wuji. While they hid from pursuers, Lu Ye encountered twin cultivators from Purple Star Dao Palace, whose arrival offered a lead to the other Mystic Realms.

• Chu Ruoyu and the Five Great Families watched as Lu Ye's technique destroyed Lin Xun and the Corpse Horde.
• Lu Ye reunited with Ying Wuji, replenished his Spiritual Power, and heard Ying Wuji vow to repay his life-saving help.
• Lu Ye set a Formation and concealed himself with Ying Wuji after detecting two people following them.
• Lu Ye trapped the twins, Fengyun Qianli and Fengyun Wanli, in the Formation, then released them after learning they came from Purple Star Dao Palace.
• Fengyun Qianli explained that he and his brother had been ordered to watch near Lin Xun's Great Tomb and had followed Lu Ye to meet him.

After killing Lin Xun, Lu Ye and Ying Wuji accepted an invitation from the Wind and Cloud Brothers to visit Purple Star Dao Palace. The chapter ended as Palace Master Pang Huanyin prepared to open the gateway and lead her cultivators into battle.

• Fengyun Qianli explained that Purple Star Dao Palace tracked powerful Corpse Race members and invited Lu Ye and Ying Wuji to visit.
• Lu Ye accepted the invitation, and he and Ying Wuji rested while the Wind and Cloud Brothers shared information about the Secret Realm.
• The following day, the Wind and Cloud Brothers led Lu Ye and Ying Wuji to the place where Purple Star Dao Palace's gateway would open.
• Pang Huanyin waited with Purple Star Dao Palace cultivators and ordered them to open the gateway without using the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror.

Lü Qing and Feng Rulie joined the Purple Star Dao Palace’s attack on Lin Xun, only to learn that Lu Ye had already slain him and his Corpse Horde. Ying Wuji introduced the two as senior brothers by ranking, and they reluctantly acknowledged Lu Ye as their Eldest Senior Brother before Pang Huanyin invited them into the Secret Realm.

• Lü Qing and Feng Rulie entered the Purple Star Dao Palace portal, prepared to attack Lin Xun.
• Pang Huanyin emerged from the portal and learned from Fengyun Qianli that Lu Ye had killed Lin Xun alone and destroyed his Corpse Horde.
• Fengyun Qianli explained that Lu Ye and Ying Wuji came from the Nine Provinces, prompting Pang Huanyin to suspect Lü Qing and Feng Rulie did too.
• Ying Wuji greeted Lü Qing as Fourth Senior Brother and Feng Rulie as Sixth Senior Brother, leaving both embarrassed before Lu Ye.
• Lü Qing and Feng Rulie saluted Lu Ye as their Eldest Senior Brother, and Pang Huanyin invited the group into the Purple Star Dao Palace Secret Realm.

At a banquet in the Purple Star Dao Palace, Lu Ye explained that he and his fellow disciples had been sent to eliminate the Corpse Race and asked the Palace Master for help finding the five who were still missing. Pang Huanyin instead invited the group to join the Dao Palace, and Feng Rulie demonstrated his strength by defeating Qi Ping in one exchange.

• Old Xiao questioned Lu Ye about his group’s origins, and Lu Ye claimed they had nine fellow disciples raised by a deceased master who had commanded them to wipe out the Corpse Race.
• Lu Ye recounted how Silver Snake Valley had feared their strength and tried to use Lin Xun to kill him and Seventh Senior Brother.
• Lu Ye asked Pang Huanyin whether the Purple Star Dao Palace would help them fight the Corpse Race, and Pang Huanyin declared the Dao Palace would pursue its extermination regardless and invited them to join.
• Lu Ye asked the Dao Palace to help locate his five missing fellow disciples, describing them as fairly strong, then had Feng Rulie demonstrate what he meant.
• Feng Rulie challenged the Dao Palace cultivators, struck Qi Ping’s staff aside, and sent him flying out of the hall.

Feng Rulie defeated three Purple Star Dao Palace cultivators before Lu Ye stopped him, and Pang Huanyin learned that he ranked sixth among his fellow disciples. Lu Ye asked the Dao Palace to help find his missing junior brothers and sisters and arrange a journey to Mount Sumeru, then Lü Qing pressed him about his reasons and possible guidance from Heavenly Mechanism.

• Feng Rulie drove Qi Ping and two other Purple Star Dao Palace cultivators from the hall with three spear strikes, then stopped when Lu Ye called to him.
• Feng Rulie told Old Xiao that he ranked sixth among his fellow brothers and sisters, startling Pang Huanyin and the others.
• Lu Ye asked Pang Huanyin to help locate his missing junior brothers and sisters and help him reach the Mount Sumeru Mystic Realm; Pang Huanyin agreed to consider both requests.
• After the banquet, Lü Qing and Feng Rulie visited Lu Ye and asked about his third condition and his plans for Mount Sumeru.
• Lü Qing suggested that Lu Ye might have received special guidance from Heavenly Mechanism, but Lu Ye denied it and said he believed they had been sent to resolve the Corpse Race calamity.

Lu Ye met Pang Huanyin alone and discovered that her inexplicable trust in him came from a resonance between the Origins of their worlds. He realized Peerless Continent’s World Will had summoned help from the Nine Provinces, leaving the reason for his group’s arrival clearer as they prepared to face the world’s imminent destruction.

• After Lü Qing and the others left, Lu Ye went to a Spirit Peak and met Pang Huanyin there.
• Pang Huanyin questioned Lu Ye about his origins and his insistence on going to Mount Sumeru, but he maintained that he wanted to find his lost junior brothers and sisters himself.
• Pang Huanyin confessed that she had trusted Lu Ye since their first meeting, and Lu Ye activated the fragmented Origin of Dragon Ascent World, intensifying the resonance between them.
• Lu Ye learned that Pang Huanyin had encountered many Opportunities and concluded that she was Peerless Continent’s Child of Destiny.
• Lu Ye deduced that Peerless Continent’s World Will had called for help and that Heavenly Mechanism of the Nine Provinces had sent the nine strongest Cloud River Realm cultivators in response.

Lu Ye told Pang Huanyin that he and his companions came from the Nine Provinces and had been sent to help save the Peerless Continent. Pang Huanyin agreed to take him to Mount Sumeru the next day, and Lu Ye chose Ying Wuji to accompany him.

• Lu Ye explained that the Nine Provinces' Heavenly Mechanism had sent him and eight others to help the Peerless Continent, and that Pang Huanyin's trust in him came from the world's will.
• Pang Huanyin said Silver Snake Valley and Mount Sumeru could not be relied on to fight the Corpse Race, but Lu Ye insisted he could make them take action.
• Lu Ye asked Pang Huanyin to help him enter Mount Sumeru, and she agreed to take him there the next day.
• Pang Huanyin asked about Lu Ye's third condition, but he said he would explain it after their plans succeeded.
• Lu Ye told Lü Qing, Feng Rulie, and Ying Wuji that he could bring one companion to Mount Sumeru, and Lü Qing recommended Ying Wuji for intelligence gathering.
• Ying Wuji agreed to accompany Lu Ye after realizing he could not safely refuse.

Pang Huanyin, Lu Ye, Ying Wuji, and Old Xiao reached the lake entrance to Mount Sumeru, where Old Xiao used a treasure to open the way into the Mystic Realm. Inside, Mount Sumeru’s cultivators discussed Liu Zhenguan’s upcoming marriage to a woman from outside, unaware that Pang Huanyin had arrived.

• Pang Huanyin led Lu Ye, Ying Wuji, and Old Xiao toward Mount Sumeru despite Old Xiao’s concerns that revealing the Dao Palace’s entrance-opening method could endanger its plans.
• The four rested by a lake, and Old Xiao confirmed that the entrance would open there at the appointed time.
• Old Xiao activated a golden ring over the lake, causing it to spin and spread golden ripples as it opened the entrance to Mount Sumeru.
• Mount Sumeru’s cultivators celebrated Liu Zhenguan’s wedding, scheduled for three days later, and speculated about the identity of his bride.
• A cultivator surnamed Zhao said the bride was one of two women who had entered from outside and could cure Origin Corpse Poison, a skill Liu Zhenguan had tested before deciding to marry her.

Pang Huanyin and her companions forcibly entered Mount Sumeru after Old Xiao opened its gate, with Lu Ye taking the lead and suffering severe injuries. The guard cultivators held them at the gate while Pang Huanyin waited for the Mountain Lord, and Ying Wuji remained concealed somewhere inside.

• Pang Huanyin announced her arrival outside Mount Sumeru, and Elder Jiang used the Heaven-Illuminating Mirror to confirm she was at the gate.
• Old Xiao forcibly opened Mount Sumeru’s gate, and Lu Ye crossed first despite being cut by the unstable passage.
• Pang Huanyin and Old Xiao followed Lu Ye through the gate, while Ying Wuji entered under cover and concealed himself.
• Elder Jiang’s guards prepared to close the gate, but Lu Ye’s threatening presence stopped them from acting rashly.
• Pang Huanyin thanked the guards and agreed to wait for the Mountain Lord while Lu Ye recovered and Old Xiao replenished his Spiritual Power.

Pang Huanyin entered the Mount Sumeru Mystic Realm to discuss cooperation with Liu Zhenguan, who welcomed her despite his anger over the forced gateway breach. As she and Lu Ye prepared a wedding gift to smooth their talks, Ying Wuji secretly opened a wooden box from Lu Ye and was shocked by its contents.

• Liu Zhenguan met Pang Huanyin at the gateway, concealed his displeasure, and invited her to his wedding celebration.
• Pang Huanyin accepted Liu Zhenguan's invitation, and he arranged for her, Lu Ye, and their companions to rest at a Spirit Peak.
• Ying Wuji secretly entered a secluded valley, opened Lu Ye's wooden box, and reacted with shock to the sealed object inside.
• Pang Huanyin asked Lu Ye for a suitable wedding gift, rejected his Spiritual Pills and Spiritual Artifacts, and requested something meant for a woman.
• Lu Ye produced an exquisite handkerchief, which Pang Huanyin considered as a gift for Liu Zhenguan's bride.

Pang Huanyin and Lu Ye attended Liu Zhenguan’s banquet, where Pang sent a Flying Cloud Scarf as a gift to his intended bride. The bride, a Nine Provinces Medical Cultivator trapped at Mount Sumeru, recognized the artifact as one from the Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism Treasure Vault.

• Pang Huanyin accepted Lu Ye’s handkerchief-shaped Spiritual Artifact and warned him that Liu Zhenguan might cause trouble.
• Liu Zhenguan hosted Pang Huanyin, Lu Ye, and Old Xiao at a banquet surrounded by concealed Mount Sumeru cultivators.
• Pang Huanyin sent Liu Zhenguan’s future wife a gift, which an attendant carried to her secluded palace.
• The gentle Medical Cultivator discussed her impending marriage with her tall companion, who considered seeking Pang Huanyin’s help to free her.
• The two women opened the gift, and the Medical Cultivator recognized the Flying Cloud Scarf as an artifact from the Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism Treasure Vault.

Pang Huanyin pressed Liu Zhenguan to join forces against the Corpse Race, while Old Xiao offered himself as a hostage to make Liu choose. Their tense negotiations were interrupted when a woman wielding twin blades fought her way into the hall, and Lu Ye recognized the significance of her arrival.

• Pang Huanyin urged Liu Zhenguan to unite Mount Sumeru and Purple Star Dao Palace against the Corpse Race, and Liu said he needed to consult his elders.
• Liu Zhenguan demanded an explanation for how Purple Star Dao Palace had found and opened Mount Sumeru's gate, so Old Xiao presented a Gold Ring and claimed its secret method would die with him.
• Old Xiao challenged Liu Zhenguan to consider the Human Race's plight and offered his life if Mount Sumeru agreed to join the fight.
• A female cultivator reported that the young lady wanted to thank the guests, then revealed that the sisters could not stop her from leaving.
• A woman wielding twin blades fought past Mount Sumeru's female cultivators and rushed into the hall, while Lu Ye watched her arrival with a knowing smile.

Hua Ci and Lan Ziyi interrupted Liu Zhenguan’s attempt to keep Hua Ci’s abilities secret, and Lu Ye attacked when he realized Mount Sumeru was trying to force her into marriage. The hall fell silent after Ying Wuji appeared behind the wounded Liu Zhenguan and took him hostage, while Liu blamed Pang Huanyin for the attack.

• Liu Zhenguan tried to hurry Hua Ci and Lan Ziyi away before Pang Huanyin learned more about them, but Hua Ci recognized Lu Ye and asked him to stand up for her.
• Lu Ye confronted Liu Zhenguan over Hua Ci’s unwanted marriage, then rushed forward and wounded him with a single saber strike.
• Lan Ziyi fought off the Mount Sumeru cultivators while Pang Huanyin pulled Hua Ci to safety.
• Ying Wuji appeared behind Liu Zhenguan and held him at weapon point, forcing the fighting in the hall to stop.
• Liu Zhenguan accused Pang Huanyin of orchestrating the attack.

Lu Ye and his companions seized control of Mount Sumeru after Hua Ci revealed she had poisoned many of its cultivators. The chapter ended with a Mount Sumeru elder offering to let them leave safely, provided they accepted his condition.

• Liu Zhenguan ordered Mount Sumeru’s cultivators to attack, while Hua Ci revealed that she had secretly poisoned people in the hall.
• Hua Ci condemned Liu Zhenguan for trying to force her into marriage, and Liu Zhenguan insulted her in anger.
• Lu Ye killed Liu Zhenguan with a sudden saber strike and challenged Mount Sumeru’s cultivators to fight or let them leave.
• Hua Ci spread her poison to most of the cultivators in the hall and warned them against resisting.
• A Mount Sumeru elder offered to let Lu Ye and the others leave safely, but said he had one condition.