Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi refined the Five Elements Sword Qi Origin Marrow Stone into the embryonic Five-Colored Sword Qi Splendor and tested its overwhelming power. As the Extermination Assembly approached, he returned to the Great Luo Alliance and began preparing a powerful safeguard for it while he was away.

• Zheng Yi absorbed the Five Elements Sword Qi Origin for a year, transforming his Little Five Elements Body as the Little Five Elements Sword Sect’s search for the stolen stone gradually died down.
• The exhausted Five Elements Sword Qi Origin Marrow Stone shattered, and Zheng Yi condensed the embryonic Five-Colored Sword Qi Splendor.
• Zheng Yi tested the new sword technique in a primeval forest, where a Five Elements Giant Sword devastated the mountain range.
• With the Extermination Assembly drawing near, Zheng Yi decided to secure the Great Luo Alliance before entering the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-Heaven Paradise.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Great Luo Alliance, reunited with his concubines, and ordered Qi Lin to find pregnant female exotic beasts, preferably those with ancient savage beast bloodlines.

Zheng Yi used the Five Direction Ghost Emperors’ origin to create five powerful Ghost Mastiffs as guardians for the Great Luo Alliance, then broke through to the Purple Mansion Late Stage. With the Extermination Assembly approaching, he set out to seek the Heaven Intercepting Vine and other treasures in the Sumeru Senluo Abode.

• Zheng Yi infused five portions of a Death Ghost Egg with the Five Direction Ghost Emperors’ origin and had the Yin Blood Mother Mastiff carry them to term.
• The mother mastiff gave birth to five flesh eggs, which hatched into Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth Ghost Mastiffs that Zheng Yi found could suppress prisons and threaten even powerful cultivators.
• Zheng Yi appointed the Five Emperors Ghost Mastiffs as the Great Luo Alliance’s mountain-guarding divine beasts, arranged matters for his absence, and left the alliance.
• Zheng Yi entered seclusion and, two and a half months later, broke through to the Purple Mansion Late Stage.
• With less than two months until the Extermination Assembly, Zheng Yi prepared to travel to the Sumeru Senluo Abode to find the Heaven Intercepting Vine and other treasures.

Zheng Yi traveled to Ten Thousand Demons City for the Extermination Assembly, displaying his formidable Divine Soul to the gathered Purple Mansion cultivators. The assembly began, and he joined the demonic cultivators preparing to enter the Sumeru Senluo Abode.

• Zheng Yi traveled across the Three Desolate Mountain Range, refining his cultivation and deepening his understanding of arrays on the way to Ten Thousand Demons City.
• Zheng Yi entered Ten Thousand Demons City and went to the Welcoming Guest Pavilion, where he intimidated Purple Mansion cultivators who tried to probe him.
• Zheng Yi waited several days at the pavilion before the Extermination Assembly drew demonic cultivators from across the region.
• Ten Thousand Demons City Lord Mo Feitian led the ceremony and warned participants about spatial-temporal turbulence and the Righteous Path cultivators inside the Sumeru Senluo Abode.
• Zheng Yi watched as Mo Feitian led the qualified cultivators to the sealed passage and prepared to activate the array.

Zheng Yi entered the Sumeru Senluo Abode after the demonic cultivators opened its ancient gate, then used Divine Thought Old Ancestor’s map to identify his location after being randomly teleported. He found himself in a mountain hollow surrounded by the roars of ferocious beasts and faced a Four-Legged Green Giant Lizard.

• Zheng Yi suspected the Core Formation sects had hidden methods for entering the abode and were using lesser cultivators to scout its dangers.
• Ten Thousand Demons City Lord Mo Feitian led the demonic cultivators in opening the Sumeru Senluo Abode, and Zheng Yi entered through one of its rippling doorways.
• The Righteous Path Alliance held its own Demon Extermination Assembly and sent selected cultivators into the abode, where random teleportation could separate allies and enemies.
• Zheng Yi arrived in a desolate mountain hollow through a spatial teleportation formation and recognized the technique as an ancient one.
• Zheng Yi heard ferocious beasts roaring nearby, identified an approaching Four-Legged Green Giant Lizard, and used Divine Thought Old Ancestor’s map to determine his location.

Zheng Yi fought through a massive herd of Four-Legged Green Giant Lizards in the Sumeru Senluo Abode, using Five-Colored Divine Thunder and Five-Colored Sword Qi to reach and kill their king. With the herd driven off, he discovered a humanoid skeleton and took the Golden Key hidden with it.

• Zheng Yi was surrounded by Four-Legged Green Giant Lizards and used Five-Colored Divine Thunder to kill many of them.
• Zheng Yi charged into the cave to confront the tribe’s larger leader, cutting down lizards with Five-Colored Sword Qi.
• Zheng Yi found a humanoid skeleton in the cave, but the lizard king attacked him while he examined it.
• Zheng Yi blocked the king’s tail strike with Five Elements Divine Light and killed it with Five-Colored Divine Thunder.
• The herd stopped advancing after its king died, and Zheng Yi took a Golden Key from the skeleton.

Zheng Yi found an ancient Golden Key linked to the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-heaven, then fought his way through its dangerous wilderness while following a map toward the Heaven Intercepting Vine. As he continued onward, an unseen attacker fired a deadly arrow at him, and Zheng Yi unleashed his powerful Divine Soul in response.

• Zheng Yi took the Golden Key from a skeleton and stripped the Ferocious Beast nest of valuable items before leaving.
• A sword cultivator and a muscular axe-wielding cultivator battled Ferocious Beasts in different regions of the grotto-heaven as many entrants died amid its dangers.
• Zheng Yi slaughtered Ferocious Beasts through nearly half of a mountain range, then rested and used the Divine Thought Old Ancestor's map to pinpoint his location.
• Zheng Yi resumed his journey toward the Heaven Intercepting Vine, worried that someone else might reach it first.
• An invisible, dark arrow shot toward Zheng Yi's head, but he broke free of its mental lock and unleashed Golden Core Stage Divine Soul Power.

Zheng Yi exposed and killed a group of Righteous Path cultivators who had ambushed him, then fought through more dangers in the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-heaven. He reached the mapped site of the Heaven Intercepting Vine and found a deathly silent clearing centered on a lone towering tree, with no sign of the vine.

• Zheng Yi detected a Shadowless Arrow ambush, turned the arrow back on its shooter, and forced the Righteous Path cultivators to reveal themselves.
• Zheng Yi identified the ambushers’ sect methods and killed them with two devastating Palm Thunders, then collected their Storage Bags.
• Zheng Yi continued through the grotto-heaven, defeating further attacks from Ferocious Beasts and cultivators of both paths.
• Zheng Yi reached the mapped location of the Heaven Intercepting Vine and concealed himself after sensing that something was wrong.
• Zheng Yi found a silent, bare clearing around a lone towering tree and suspected that the Heaven Intercepting Vine was hidden there.

Zheng Yi discovered that a deadly Ferocious Plant guarded the area where the Heaven Intercepting Vine was likely hidden, and he attacked it with a Thunder Talisman Great Array. He destroyed the tree’s exposed body but sensed its surviving core underground, then entered the pit to finish it before other cultivators arrived.

• Zheng Yi tested the silent forest with a Wind Walker Wolf, and roots from a Ferocious Plant drained the wolf and dragged its remains underground.
• Zheng Yi recognized the area as the Tomb of Ferocious Plants and concluded that the King of Ferocious Plants guarded the Heaven Intercepting Vine.
• Zheng Yi summoned Five-Colored Divine Thunder with Nine Heavens Thunder Control Divine Talismans and formed a Thunder Talisman Great Array.
• Zheng Yi’s lightning barrage destroyed the King of Ferocious Plants’ exposed body, leaving a deep pit where the tree had stood.
• Zheng Yi sensed the Ferocious Plant’s surviving foundation beneath the earth and jumped into the pit to confront it before other cultivators could discover the treasure.

Zheng Yi descended into the cave and fought the Ferocious Plant’s core, discovering that it had been hiding the Heaven Intercepting Vine. He used the Yin Yang Soul Falling Treasure Mirror and the Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd to strike the core, leaving its heart and tentacles in disarray.

• Zheng Yi blocked the Ferocious Plant’s spear-tipped tentacles with the Yin Yang Treasure Mirror and shattered them with a beam of black-and-white light.
• Zheng Yi found the Ferocious Plant’s heart-shaped core underground and saw the Heaven Intercepting Vine’s emerald glow within it.
• The Ferocious Plant’s core surged with stored energy and launched a storm of tentacles at Zheng Yi.
• Zheng Yi used the Yin Yang Soul Falling Treasure Mirror to suppress the cave and crack the core’s surface.
• Zheng Yi aimed the Godslaying Immortalslaying Gourd at the core, and its white blade pierced the crystal shell, disrupting the heart’s beat and throwing the tentacles into chaos.

Zheng Yi killed the ferocious plant guarding the Heaven Intercepting Vine and concealed the vine in his dantian, where its life energy repaired and strengthened his body. With his main objective in the Sumeru Senluo Abode accomplished, he decided to prioritize safety while continuing to explore.

• Zheng Yi used the Immortal Slaying Flying Knife to destroy the ferocious plant's soul, and its body eventually collapsed and decayed.
• Zheng Yi took the Heaven Intercepting Vine, learned that it could not be stored in a Storage Ring, and chose to follow the Divine Thought Old Ancestor's method of placing it in his dantian.
• The Heaven Intercepting Vine took root in Zheng Yi's Dantian Qi Sea and released life energy that repaired his dantian, meridians, and body while causing moss in the cave to flourish.
• Zheng Yi judged that his main goal had been achieved and decided to avoid unnecessary risks while exploring the Sumeru Senluo Abode further.

Zheng Yi watched five cultivators from Righteous Path Core Formation Sects defeat a Fire Scale Beast group and its leader in the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-heaven. After they searched the nest, the monk revealed two fragments of a Golden Key, catching Zheng Yi’s attention.

• Zheng Yi suspected the grotto-heaven concealed an opportunity for Nascent Soul Condensation but remained uncertain how to find it.
• Zheng Yi hid nearby as four cultivators from the Little Five Elements Sword Sect, Divine Weapon Sect, and Divine Melody Sound Sect fought the Fire Scale Beasts while a monk from Brahma Heaven Temple battled their leader.
• The four cultivators killed the adult Fire Scale Beasts, then joined the monk to defeat the Fire Scale Beast King.
• The five cultivators searched the beasts’ nest and emerged with a harvest, including two fragments of a Golden Key that surprised Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi discovered that the Golden Key Fragments sought by the Righteous and Devil Dao cultivators were linked to a chance to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm. He learned that the Sumeru Senluo Abode might contain Nascent Soul Gathering Pills and realized the grotto-heaven was more dangerous than he had thought.

• Zheng Yi recognized two Golden Key Fragments in the Brahma Heaven Temple monk’s hand as matching the complete Golden Key he had found earlier.
• The Brahma Heaven Temple monk told the Divine Melody Sound Sect disciple that no Nascent Soul cultivator had appeared in the Da Yi Domain for a thousand years.
• The monk explained that four Golden Key Fragments formed a key that opened a secret realm containing an opportunity to break through to Core Formation.
• Zheng Yi concluded that Core Formation cultivators from both sides had entered the Sumeru Senluo Abode, likely suppressing their realms, and decided the place had become more dangerous.
• Zheng Yi deduced that the grotto-heaven held ancient Nascent Soul Gathering Pills that could raise the chance of reaching the Nascent Soul Realm by thirty percent.

Zheng Yi investigated what the sects were seeking in the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-heaven, then experienced the Heaven Intercepting Vine merging with the Golden Seed after the grotto-heaven’s rules shifted. His Golden Key opened a Void Gate and transported him to a towering structure in a mysterious secret realm.

• Zheng Yi searched cultivators who attacked him, but learned little about the grotto-heaven’s secrets and decided to seek information from core disciples of the major sects.
• Zheng Yi sensed a change in the grotto-heaven’s rules, which caused the Heaven Intercepting Vine to enter his Sea of Consciousness.
• The Heaven Intercepting Vine transformed into an azure dragon and merged with the Golden Seed, though Zheng Yi could not understand what the fusion would do.
• Zheng Yi’s complete Golden Key emerged from his storage bag, opened a golden Void Gate, and carried him into the secret realm.
• Zheng Yi appeared before a towering structure.

Zheng Yi was diverted into Senluo Hall and followed the Yellow Springs River through an underground realm, where he realized the passage was part of a vast formation. After killing a Blood Monkey and drawing a horde of them, he faced their attack while wondering what Senluo Hall was suppressing.

• Zheng Yi entered Senluo Hall and descended toward the Yellow Springs River, sensing that the Nine Bends Yellow Springs formed part of a gigantic underground formation.
• Zheng Yi concluded that the Golden Key’s teleportation had gone awry, leaving him isolated in a unique underground area of the Sumeru Senluo Abode.
• Zheng Yi killed a Blood Monkey that attacked him and recognized signs that it had been altered through secret arts to survive in the Yellow Springs aura.
• The dying Blood Monkey’s cries summoned countless others, which encircled Zheng Yi and revealed their strength, tenacity, and adaptation to the Yellow Springs.
• Zheng Yi called upon the Five-Colored Divine Thunder as the Blood Monkeys launched a coordinated assault on his vital points.

Zheng Yi fought his way to the source of the Yellow Springs River and uncovered how the Core Formation Sects used cultivator deaths to fuel their scheme for obtaining Nascent Soul Gathering Pills. At the source, he placed the Nether River Daoist’s Blood Egg in the pool so his External Avatar could attempt to absorb the Yellow Springs Earth Vein and transform.

• Zheng Yi descended to the Yellow Springs River, where his Five-Colored Divine Thunder destroyed the attacking Blood Monkeys.
• Zheng Yi deduced that the Core Formation Sects gathered cultivators as blood sacrifices to power the grotto-heaven formation and pursue Nascent Soul Gathering Pills.
• A corpse-controlled Nine-Headed Serpent attacked Zheng Yi, but his Five-Colored Divine Swords severed all nine heads.
• Zheng Yi fought off more weakened monsters and reached the waterfall and pool at the river’s source.
• Zheng Yi placed the Nether River Daoist’s Blood Egg in the source pool after the Daoist sensed it could help him absorb the Yellow Springs Earth Vein and evolve.

Zheng Yi discovered the Yellow Springs River’s ancient origins and watched the Nether River Daoist attempt to devour its source. As the Blood Egg merged with the river’s power, a terrifying force descended upon the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-heaven and froze Zheng Yi in place.

• Zheng Yi found an inscription beneath a towering statue stating that the Sumeru Senluo Abode was where the Senluo Ancestor died and that the Yellow Springs Hell Dragon’s remains lay beneath the mountain.
• The Nether River Daoist’s Blood Egg drew the Yellow Springs River’s essence upstream, using its blood-red chains to absorb the river’s source power.
• Zheng Yi realized the Nether River Daoist was trying to seize the Yellow Springs True Intent and evolve into the river’s ruling spirit.
• The Yellow Springs River surged violently as the Blood Egg’s surface turned mottled dark yellow and its aura began merging with the river’s origin.
• A vast shadow and terrifying aura descended, shaking the grotto-heaven and binding Zheng Yi with invisible force.

Zheng Yi endured the pressure of a Nascent Soul aura and learned that six Late Core Formation cultivators had entered the Sumeru Divine Palace to seize the Nascent Soul Gathering Pill. In the Yellow Springs River, the Blood Egg connected with the river’s origin, and a vast formation began to appear around Zheng Yi.

• Zheng Yi felt a space-wide Nascent Soul aura crush his Divine Soul, then recovered and wondered whether it came from a hidden trump card or a Nascent Soul expert.
• The chapter revealed that the sects had used Golden Key Fragments and secret techniques to send six Late Core Formation cultivators into the upper Sumeru Divine Palace, where they pursued the Nascent Soul Gathering Pill.
• The six old rivals—three righteous and three devilish cultivators, including Daoist Xuanxiao and Old Poison Fiend—gathered outside the palace and hurried inside when its gates opened.
• The Blood Egg absorbed essence after the Nascent Soul aura stirred it, illuminating the Yellow Springs River and activating formation nodes laid down by the Senluo Ancestor.
• Zheng Yi recognized the light pillars as part of a vast formation linking the Yellow Springs River and understood that Nether River Daoist had connected with the river’s origin.

Zheng Yi watched the Blood Egg fuse completely with the Yellow Springs River after resonating with the Nine Bends Yellow Springs Array Diagram. In the Sumeru Divine Palace, six Late Core Formation cultivators discovered four Nascent Soul Gathering Pills and abandoned their apparent agreement to fight over them.

• Zheng Yi transmitted the Nine Bends Yellow Springs Array Diagram to the lifeform inside the Blood Egg, causing its Yellow Springs aura to surge.
• The Blood Egg’s aura became identical to the Yellow Springs River, and it dissolved into the river as one with it.
• Six Late Core Formation cultivators entered the Sumeru Divine Palace and recognized four pills on the Sumeru Dao Platform as Nascent Soul Gathering Pills.
• Moon Lone Old Demon proposed that the righteous and demonic sides take two pills each, and the Little Five Elements Sword Sect’s leader agreed.
• The cultivators attacked one another as they reached for the pills, breaking their supposed agreement and beginning a battle between the righteous and demonic paths.

As a battle between Late Core Formation cultivators shook the Sumeru Senluo Abode, Nether River Daoist absorbed the Yellow Springs River’s source and its array diagram, causing a Golden Little Dragon to hatch inside the Blood Egg. The clash above escalated to Nascent Soul-level power, and a Nascent Soul Gathering Pill fell into the egg.

• Daoist Xuanxiao and the demonic cultivators clashed with terrifying force, triggering a beast tide that slaughtered most cultivators in the Sumeru Senluo Abode.
• Zheng Yi sensed the upheaval and watched the Nine Bends Yellow Springs Array Diagram resist the pressure descending from the Sumeru Divine Palace.
• Nether River Daoist absorbed the Yellow Springs River’s Source Power and fused the Nine Bends Yellow Springs Array Diagram into the Blood Egg.
• A Golden Little Dragon bearing the Yellow Springs Array Diagram began hatching inside the Blood Egg, astonishing Zheng Yi.
• Several sect-protecting Nascent Soul Spirit Treasures unleashed their power in a battle above Yellow Springs, and a Nascent Soul Gathering Pill fell into the river.
• The Nascent Soul Gathering Pill entered the Blood Egg.

Zheng Yi witnessed the Golden Little Dragon claim a Nascent Soul Gathering Pill and awaken the Yellow Springs Source True Intent, just as a Nascent Soul-level presence erupted beneath the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-heaven. The Sea God Bloodline Descendant Saimoqikesi broke free and battled Giant Divine Soldier Number Three, leaving Zheng Yi caught near a spatial rift amid the devastation.

• The Golden Little Dragon took the fallen Nascent Soul Gathering Pill and concealed its aura with the Nine Bends Yellow Springs Array Diagram.
• A Taiyin Xuantian Sect powerhouse traced the vanished pill’s trail and confronted Zheng Yi, but a terrifying force erupted from beneath them and hurled Zheng Yi and the Core Formation cultivators away.
• Giant Divine Soldier Number Three emerged as the Sea God Bloodline Descendant Saimoqikesi broke free from its three-thousand-year imprisonment beneath the Sumeru Divine Palace.
• The six Core Formation cultivators fled as the two Nascent Soul-level beings clashed and tore open a vast rift in the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-heaven.
• Zheng Yi watched from the Yellow Springs region as the battle’s shockwaves intensified and the grotto-heaven’s formations struggled to contain the spatial rupture.