Chapter Summaries

As the Secret Realm grew more dangerous, Su Ye demonstrated the Golden Paper’s power to Qing Xian and offered to let her study it in exchange for all her Primal Runes. Qing Xian recognized that the treasure embodied the Great Dao, leaving her astonished by what Su Ye’s Double Pupils had enabled him to achieve.

• Yue Chan told Su Ye that the Demon Blood Ghost God Tree and other powerful opponents were likely waiting to ambush him, but Su Ye dismissed them as clowns.
• Su Ye asked Yue Chan where Qingyi had gone, and Yue Chan explained that the vast Secret Realm had kept them apart.
• Qing Xian arrived to have Su Ye honor his promise and admitted she did not expect him to survive the impending conflict.
• Su Ye activated the Golden Paper, creating a Thunder Sea and a real river streaked with lightning above them.
• Su Ye offered Qing Xian the chance to study the Golden Paper in exchange for all her Primal Runes, and Qing Xian recognized its display as the embodiment of the Great Dao.

Su Ye revealed that he was not Double-Pupil but the supposedly dead Reincarnation Eye, and explained how he could use it to trace Qing Xian’s past and study her Primal Rune. Qing Xian remained wary but questioned whether he would truly let her leave, knowing powerful figures would hunt him if his identity became known.

• Su Ye tried to persuade Qing Xian that he sincerely wanted to exchange the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique for her Primal Rune, but she refused to trust him and asked for the Black-White Bear's Treasure Art instead.
• Qing Xian warned Su Ye not to take the exchange by force, and he admitted that he could obtain her Primal Rune through other means but did not want to coerce her.
• Su Ye revealed his true appearance and told Qing Xian that his Heavenly Eye was Reincarnation, which could trace her past and potentially reveal the Primal Rune within her.
• Qing Xian asked whether Su Ye had used the Reincarnation Eye to look into her past when he previously killed her and took a fragment of her origin mark, and he denied it.
• Qing Xian asked whether Su Ye would really let her leave, warning that powerful figures would seek to capture him if they learned his identity and the abilities of the Reincarnation Eye.

Su Ye won Yue Chan's wager by abducting Qing Xian and bringing her to Yue Chan, then continued teasing Yue Chan about her promised reward. He left Qing Xian unharmed in another part of the Secret Realm and revealed that he had never fully removed the restraint he placed on Yue Chan.

• Yue Chan challenged Su Ye to capture Qing Xian and promised him a reward if he succeeded.
• Su Ye ambushed Qing Xian, knocked her unconscious, and delivered her to Yue Chan.
• Yue Chan inspected Qing Xian and questioned Su Ye about his strength, while he asked her to honor her promise.
• Su Ye sent Qing Xian elsewhere, where she woke unharmed and vowed to punish whoever had attacked her.
• Su Ye teased Yue Chan, admitted he had kept one restraint active, and refused to stop provoking her.

As the Yuantian Secret Realm descended into open conflict, Su Ye and Yue Chan entered a dangerous region where they were ambushed by Lightning Son and Underworld Son. The two attackers launched their strongest techniques against Su Ye.

• Cultivators discussed the Secret Realm’s contenders, including Double Pupil, the Immortal Palace Successor, and mysterious ancient figures.
• Su Ye and Yue Chan arrived in a perilous mountain region and spotted a Golden Luan Bird.
• Yue Chan warned Su Ye that the region might hold beings stronger than True Gods, then explained she hoped his strength could help her face its dangers.
• Su Ye detected an ambush and confronted Lightning Son and Underworld Son, demanding to know why they had joined forces.
• Lightning Son and Underworld Son attacked Su Ye with a lightning spear and a decaying world of the Underworld Earth.

Su Ye and Yue Chan explored a forbidden forest in the Yuantian Secret Realm and discovered that a Dao resonance suppressed emotions and discouraged violence. Yue Chan recognized the forest as Supreme Being of Yuantian’s Dao Discussion Ground, but its history as a forbidden zone remained unexplained.

• Cao Yusheng and the Lunar Jade Rabbit hid from a group led by the Immortal Palace Successor, then decided to leave and spread rumors to draw more people into the forest.
• Su Ye and Yue Chan found that even powerful beings in the forest ignored one another and showed no territorial aggression.
• Su Ye deduced that a special Dao resonance bound the local beings, and he and Yue Chan realized it also suppressed their emotions.
• Yue Chan identified the giant trees as Heavenly Wood and used a rune to make a branch sound with the Dao.
• Yue Chan recognized the forest as Supreme Being of Yuantian’s Dao Discussion Ground and a land of cease-fire, while Su Ye questioned why it had been declared forbidden.

Rumors about the Immortal Palace Successor and the Supreme Art of Supreme Being of Yuantian spread as more people entered the dangerous Giant Forest. Outside the Secret Realm, the Immortal Heavenly Venerable explained the forest’s perilous history, while Cao Yusheng and the Lunar Jade Rabbit arrived at its outskirts and regretted drawing more competitors there.

• Rumors claimed that the Immortal Palace Successor had killed dozens of geniuses in the Giant Forest and obtained the Supreme Art of Supreme Being of Yuantian.
• A Divine Fire Realm expert from Mount Eternal told an aide to report that people had entered the Giant Forest, hoping to protect the sect from blame if they died.
• Cao Yusheng and the Lunar Jade Rabbit reached the Giant Forest’s outskirts, saw the crowds, and argued over the Saint Herbs they had lost and the competitors their actions had attracted.
• The Immortal Heavenly Venerable told the gathered elders that the Giant Forest was where Supreme Being of Yuantian had taught, but warned that nearly all ten Pseudo-Gods Mount Eternal sent there had perished.
• The Immortal Heavenly Venerable said Supreme Being of Yuantian’s rules restrained the Secret Realm’s dangers and reassured everyone that visitors who did not go too deep could find opportunities.

Su Ye and Yue Chan found a Nine Heavens Golden-Veined Black Orchid beside the River of Taiyin, and Su Ye took its nine leaves while avoiding the island. Soon afterward, a strange force stirred their instincts and left Su Ye wondering whether the herb had caused it.

• Su Ye and Yue Chan reached the River of Taiyin, and Yue Chan explained its connection to the River of Taiyang and the Great Dao of heaven and earth.
• Su Ye spotted a Nine Heavens Golden-Veined Black Orchid on an island and gathered its nine leaves without touching the plant itself.
• Su Ye sensed an inexplicable change, and Yue Chan embraced him and confessed that she liked him.
• Su Ye searched Yue Chan for signs of control but found none, then struggled to resist his own desire to touch her.
• Su Ye used Chaos Radiance to regain control and realized that his instincts had overwhelmed his reason.
• Su Ye began investigating what had triggered the strange change and suspected the Nine Heavens Golden-Veined Black Orchid.

Su Ye and Yue Chan discovered that the Dao Platform tested the heart by magnifying a person's weakest desires, and Yue Chan began tempering her will there. After Xuan Jiu confronted Su Ye and departed, Su Ye tried to comprehend the Dao aura, but it overwhelmed him with murderous impulses.

• Su Ye realized the Yin-Yang Rivers tested cultivators' state of mind, while Yue Chan warned him to stop touching her and stepped onto the Dao Platform to steady herself.
• Yue Chan meditated to temper her Dao Heart, and Su Ye considered how the place amplified each person's weakest impulses.
• Xuan Jiu arrived, criticized Su Ye for keeping two women at his side, and left after revealing his displeasure was personal rather than caused by the Dao aura.
• Su Ye used the Three Pure Ones Scripture to absorb the Dao aura, which filled his mind with anger and transformed him with a demonic aura and strange patterns.

Su Ye discovered that the Yuantian Secret Realm might be far more than the Supreme Being of Yuantian’s inheritance, while the Black Emperor’s actions stirred its ancient powers. Outside, the Immortal Heavenly Venerable revealed the realm might be a fragment of the Immortal Domain, as the great powers considered entering it.

• Yue Chan told Su Ye that the Heaven Mending Sect had an Ancient Freak still in seclusion and that its former ancestor had once been chosen to enter Immortal Ancient before he was exiled and killed.
• The Black Emperor appeared in the upper reaches of the River of Taiyin, and the River of Taiyin and River of Taiyang converged to reveal a palace bearing Immortal Runes.
• Su Ye questioned the Yuantian Secret Realm’s origins and concluded that the realm itself might be a greater opportunity than the Supreme Being of Yuantian’s inheritance.
• The Secret Realm’s power began fading outside, prompting the ancestral figures to consider entering and pressure the Immortal Heavenly Venerable for permission.
• The Immortal Heavenly Venerable said the Yuantian Secret Realm might be a fragment of the Immortal Domain or an immortal’s Daoist abode, and argued that its power exceeded that of a dead Supreme Being.

Su Ye and Yue Chan entered a Primordial Source World, where treasures formed from the Great Dao offered opportunities for enlightenment. After consuming a Dragon Scale Grass, Su Ye followed the trail of greater opportunities and left a battle over an Immortal Mountain behind.

• Su Ye carried Yue Chan upstream through the Chaos River, and they arrived in a Primordial Source World with the other Ancient Freaks.
• Xuan Jiu explained that the world was a fleeting realm of unformed energy and warned that its Great Dao treasures would dissipate if taken outside.
• Su Ye found a Dragon Scale Grass formed from Dao resonance and ate it, while Yue Chan also consumed it and sensed its power.
• Su Ye spotted an Ancient Freak from the Sky Talisman Sect, but the man glanced at him and moved on without provoking him.
• When figures began fighting over a descending Immortal Mountain, Su Ye avoided the battle and vanished with Yue Chan.

Su Ye killed the Demon Sunflower Garden Ancient Freak who ambushed him, then took Yue Chan into the Chaos River in search of greater opportunities. There, he suspected the Heavenly Palace in the Yuantian Secret Realm was suppressing something tied to the Sea of Worlds and a terrifying titan.

• Su Ye deflected the golden-robed Ancient Freak’s attacks, then killed his Spirit Body after accusing the Immortal Palace Successor of sending him.
• Su Ye and Yue Chan left for the depths, while other Ancient Freaks demanded a higher reward from Chen Qing for hunting Su Ye.
• Su Ye led Yue Chan into the Chaos River, where they struggled against its force and the corrosive chaos.
• Su Ye recalled the Heavenly Palace in the river and suspected it was suppressing a threat connected to the Sea of Worlds.

Su Ye fought several Ancient Freaks in the Chaos River and overwhelmed them with his Thunder Seal. As they begged to negotiate, he demanded their Primal Precious Bones, while the Black Emperor and the Demon Blood Ghost God Tree explored a mysterious Heavenly Palace upstream.

• Su Ye and Yue Chan traveled deeper into the Chaos River, where countless Dao Manifestations revealed the slaughter behind them.
• The Demon Blood Ghost God Tree and Black Emperor found a Heavenly Palace and sensed a faint aura of the Immortal Dao.
• Su Ye battled the Ancient Freaks, countering their attacks with sword techniques, a Black-White Bear, and Thunder Armor.
• Chen Qing taunted Su Ye and threatened him, while the Ancient Freaks attacked to end the fight quickly.
• Su Ye crushed their attacks with a Thunder Seal and began erasing the Ancient Freaks, forcing the Demon Sunflower Garden freak to offer compensation.
• Su Ye said he valued friendship and demanded the Ancient Freaks' Primal Precious Bones, shocking them.

Su Ye and Yue Chan continued through the Chaos River after he explained why the Ancient Freaks had surrendered, while Black Emperor worked to control the Heavenly Palace. Outside the Yuantian Secret Realm, the powerful factions agreed to let the younger generation face the unfolding dangers, leaving Di Chong’s hunt for Double Pupil unopposed.

• Su Ye explained that the Chaos River’s isolation made death there permanent, then teased and flirted with Yue Chan before she urged him to continue deeper into the river.
• The Demon Blood Ghost God Tree resisted a chance to pursue the Void Dao Realm and questioned why Black Emperor was carving formation patterns into the Heavenly Palace.
• Black Emperor revealed that he had abandoned using the Heavenly Palace and Wuzhong Bell to pierce through Space-Time and instead planned to bring the palace under his control.
• As the secret realm’s entrance weakened, Immortal Heavenly Venerable and the Immortal Palace giant agreed not to interfere in the younger generation’s trial.
• The Immortal Palace giant withheld intervention because Di Chong and more than a dozen powerful geniuses were hunting Double Pupil, whose eyes could help him comprehend the Great Dao.

Shi Hao and the Great Demon God gathered treasures at the Inheritance Ground while Su Ye and Yue Chan advanced along the Chaos River. In the Heavenly Palace, the Black Emperor intimidated the Demon Blood Ghost God Tree into sparing Su Ye and revealed his suspicion that Su Ye might be an Emperor Venerable or the Dark Creatures’ representative.

• Shi Hao and the Great Demon God decided to strip the Inheritance Ground of its treasures before heading to the Dao Discussion Ground to find Su Ye.
• Su Ye and Yue Chan rode their manifestations upstream along the Chaos River, comprehending and absorbing its Great Dao Power alongside other powerful cultivators.
• The Demon Blood Ghost God Tree chose to leave the Heavenly Palace because he feared an impending breakthrough and sensed that danger was near.
• The Demon Blood Ghost God Tree insisted he needed to recover the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique, but the Black Emperor warned him not to kill Su Ye and displayed the Wuzhong Bell to enforce his command.
• The Black Emperor reflected on his investigation of Su Ye and wondered whether Su Ye was another Emperor Venerable or the Dark Creatures’ representative in this era.

Su Ye and Yue Chan reached a sealed Heaven Realm-like world of Great Dao, where a Vast Sea could bury the Dao and ancient phantoms crossed its surface. Su Ye killed a Golden Dragon, made an island from a Chaos mountain, and explained his view that reality was relative as he prepared to cook the dragon.

• Su Ye and Yue Chan arrived at the Vast Sea and Su Ye recognized the figures crossing it as phantoms left by powerful beings of the past.
• Su Ye entered the sea with Yue Chan, and its Dao Burial aura began assailing him.
• Yue Chan saw visions of worlds crumbling into the sea, so Su Ye dispelled the Dao rhyme affecting her.
• Su Ye struck the sea, wounded and killed a Golden Dragon, then formed a Chaos-wreathed mountain into an island.
• Su Ye butchered the Golden Dragon and questioned Yue Chan's assumptions about what was real before calling the dragon a nourishing tonic.

The Yuantian Secret Realm revealed a Chaos River, drawing powerful ancient beings into the realm as Shi Hao and the Great Demon God set out toward it. In the Sea of Great Dao, Su Ye uncovered the origin of its fierce beasts and decided to leave with Yue Chan before the old monsters arrived.

• The Chaos River appeared at the entrance to the Yuantian Secret Realm, and the Immortal Heavenly Venerable urged everyone to enter without robbing the juniors.
• Shi Hao left the Inheritance Ground with Treasure Arts, Divine Abilities, three Demi-God Medicines, and a golden sheet of paper, then spotted powerful beings heading toward the river.
• Shi Hao asked the Great Demon God to leave, but his grandfather insisted on accompanying him, so they headed toward the opportunities together.
• Su Ye used the Samsara Eye to discover that the Sea of Great Dao's fierce beasts had formed from the blood and Dao aura of powerful beings from ages past.
• Yue Chan wanted to keep cultivating in the Sea of Great Dao, but Su Ye warned that the old monsters were coming and said they should leave.

Immortal Heavenly Venerable revealed that an Immortal Corpse was sealed inside the Yuantian Secret Realm, prompting powerful figures to head toward the Heavenly Palace. Su Ye and Yue Chan emerged from the Chaos River, only for a sinister voice to immobilize Su Ye.

• Immortal Palace elder questioned Immortal Heavenly Venerable about the secret of the Chaos River, and Immortal Heavenly Venerable disclosed the sealed Immortal Corpse.
• Immortal Heavenly Venerable led the way toward the Heavenly Palace as experts from several major forces followed or split off.
• Black Emperor continued refining the Heavenly Palace with runes, then sensed that something inside might be awakening.
• Su Ye carried Yue Chan through a different stretch of the Chaos River and emerged beside the River of Taiyin and River of Taiyang.
• Yue Chan urged Su Ye to leave, but a sinister voice bound him in place with a powerful force.

Su Ye negotiated with the Demon Blood Ghost God Tree, offering it access to the Thunder Emperor inheritance in exchange for protection in the Secret Realm. He then crossed the Extreme Yang River alone as enemies watched, leaving the promised duel with Shi Hao ahead.

• The Demon Blood Ghost God Tree demanded the half-sheet of inheritance, but Su Ye challenged its claim to ownership.
• Su Ye offered to show the tree both halves of the Thunder Emperor inheritance if it protected him in the Secret Realm, and the tree agreed.
• Su Ye lent the golden sheet to the tree to study and warned it not to let its study prevent it from protecting him.
• Su Ye parted ways with Yue Chan and crossed the Extreme Yang River alone to comprehend its extreme yang power.
• Observers discussed the forces seeking to kill Su Ye and take his Double-Pupil, while he ignored them and remained ready to fight.

Su Ye confronted Di Chong and the Immortal Palace forces at the River of Taiyang, then unleashed his Dharma Image and slaughtered their Venerables. The battle remained underway as a three-eyed young man identified Su Ye’s real body inside the mountain and attacked it.

• Su Ye demanded that Di Chong and the Immortal Palace forces kneel, while Di Chong challenged him to kneel instead.
• Su Ye summoned the Demon Blood Ghost God Tree to intimidate enemies lurking in the shadows, then said the conflict between their generation should be settled by them.
• Su Ye conjured a vast mountain and charged the Immortal Palace prodigies with his Dharma Image, unleashing a Thunder Sea that killed many Venerables.
• Di Chong suspected Su Ye was a stand-in and taunted him, while Su Ye let him believe the real Double-Pupil had fled.
• A three-eyed young man recognized that Su Ye’s real body was inside the mountain and blasted it with a beam, but the mountain only shook.

Su Ye fought the geniuses besieging him and killed a black-mist-shrouded Ancient Freak in a clash of mental power. The Ancient Freak escaped as Light Rain through his Life Talisman, and Su Ye prepared to finish the remaining enemies before his time ran out.

• The Three-Eyed God Clan youth exposed how Su Ye used the River of Taiyang to sustain his Dharma Image, prompting Di Chong and the others to destroy the mountain.
• A black-mist-shrouded Ancient Freak arrived and broke Su Ye's Yin-Yang Grinding Disc with a single finger.
• The Ancient Freak tried to probe Su Ye's memories, but Su Ye defeated him in a contest of mental power and smashed his head.
• The Ancient Freak's Life Talisman carried him away as Light Rain, and the Demon Blood Ghost God Tree warned Su Ye that he could not stop the escape.
• Su Ye promised to honor his agreement with the Demon Blood Ghost God Tree and challenged the remaining geniuses to show their true strength.