Chapter Summaries

Shi Jin revealed that he had been the Carefree Pill Immortal ten thousand years ago and explained the hidden powers of the Son of the Ancient Immortal. The group realized they could be tracked and targeted inside the Ancient Immortal Realm, while Lin Chuan worried his prominence would draw attention.

• Shi Jin said he had ascended ten thousand years ago but had awakened in the cultivation world, and explained that entering the Ancient Immortal Realm restored some of his memories.
• Shi Jin revealed that the Son of the Ancient Immortal could track every entrant’s location and life-or-death status, teleport once a day for free, and absorb spiritual energy without difficulty.
• Xiao Heng explained that the Ancient Immortal Realm granted the Son these advantages, and Shi Jin said the Son had been forbidden from revealing them.
• Lin Chuan compared the Son to a player using cheats and worried that his reputation as the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor’s successor would attract attention.
• Bu Lianshi thanked Shi Jin for warning them, and Shi Jin said his previous-life name had been Li Xiaoyao, making Lin Chuan spit blood.

Lin Chuan's group crossed into the eighth level of the Ancient Immortal Realm, pushing toward the known opportunities they sought. After Qin Lang drove off a pack of blood wolves, a newcomer sensed the lingering aura of Bing Fire Yang Thunder and found it familiar.

• Shui Mochan explained that their destination lay in a dangerous deeper region, while Lin Chuan focused on finding the Void Spirit Pill and other known opportunities.
• Lin Chuan's group passed through a spatial boundary wall into the eighth level using their first-grade Ancient Immortal Jades.
• Bu Lianshi detected nearly a thousand blood wolves, and the group tried to evade them rather than waste time fighting.
• Qin Lang released the aura of his Bing Fire Yang Thunder, making the blood wolves retreat before the group continued onward.
• A figure arrived after the group had left and recognized a familiar aura of Bing Fire Yang Thunder.

Lin Chuan's group continued through the Ancient Immortal Realm after Bu Lianshi detected a powerful stranger investigating their trail. At night, they went to investigate a battle over a medicinal herb and discovered that the cultivators fighting the Spirit Serpent belonged to the Origin Sect, though Lin Chuan could not find the figure he was seeking.

• A sickly youth found no signs of battle at the site where Vermilion Bird had used Bing Fire Yang Thunder, reported his discovery, and vanished.
• Bu Lianshi sensed that someone had investigated the group, but said the stranger had already left her perception, so Lin Chuan ordered everyone to continue toward the fifth level.
• As night fell, Xiao Heng suggested they find shelter, and the group rested while guarding against the dangerous Spirit Beasts.
• A blast awakened the group, and Bu Lianshi detected cultivators fighting a late Void Refinement Spirit Beast that appeared to be guarding a medicinal herb.
• Lin Chuan led the group toward the battle and recognized the cultivators as members of the Origin Sect, then searched for a particular figure without finding him.
• Bu Lianshi's expression changed as she looked toward a direction beneath the night sky.

Lin Chuan watched as two powerful snakes came to the aid of the injured giant snake and slaughtered the Origin Sect cultivators. After the survivors sent a distress signal and died, Lin Chuan ordered Akatsuki to attack the three Spirit Beasts before reinforcements arrived.

• Bu Lianshi sensed that the giant snake’s companions were approaching, while Lin Chuan chose to watch the Origin Sect fight from a distance.
• Two enormous azure snakes arrived, forcing the Origin Sect cultivators to retreat from the giant snake they had nearly subdued.
• The snakes caught the fleeing cultivators and broke through their defensive formation, leaving them badly injured.
• The Origin Sect leader begged Lin Chuan for help, but Lin Chuan refused and withdrew farther away.
• The leader sent an Origin Sect distress signal before the three giant snakes killed every cultivator.
• Lin Chuan told Akatsuki to deal with the three Spirit Beasts before other Origin Sect members arrived.

Akatsuki fought the three spirit snakes, using Xiao Heng and Shi Jin’s techniques to capture one and the green snake to suppress another. Lin Chuan controlled the last snake while Shui Mochan drained its spiritual energy pathways, and she signaled that the others could attack.

• Xiao Heng warned Lin Chuan to finish the fight quickly, then offered to handle the charging spirit snake while Lin Chuan dealt with the other two.
• Deva Path used Amenotejikara to swap places with the injured young spirit snake, and Bu Lianshi’s green snake coiled around and suppressed it with its Azure Dragon bloodline.
• Xiao Heng trapped the great-perfection spirit snake in an illusion, and Shi Jin captured it inside his pill furnace.
• Lin Chuan controlled the remaining spirit snake with his Sharingan as Shui Mochan used Spirit Path Weaving Cords to drain and refine its spiritual energy pathways.
• Shui Mochan told the others they could attack after completing her technique.

Akatsuki subdued a spirit snake for Shi Jin’s alchemy, then Lin Chuan exposed a powerful youth who had secretly followed them through the eighth layer of the Ancient Immortal Realm. As Akatsuki moved to attack, the youth noticed the two full moons and vanished beyond even Bu Lianshi’s perception.

• Southern Dipper shot the spirit snake with the Arrow of Light, and Lin Chuan asked Shi Jin whether he needed the beast for alchemy.
• Shi Jin told Lin Chuan to keep the spirit snake alive, so Deva Path implanted forty-nine Black Receivers to restrain it.
• At Bu Lianshi’s suggestion, Lin Chuan aimed his Dust Release at a hidden observer and forced a sickly youth out of the void.
• White Tiger revealed that she had sensed the youth since he entered the eighth layer, and he admitted he wanted to test Akatsuki’s strength.
• Lin Chuan ordered Akatsuki to attack the youth, but the youth looked at the two full moons and vanished, escaping Bu Lianshi’s Absolute Perception.

After escaping the mysterious sickly youth, Lin Chuan’s group harvested Mystic Moon Grass and took Shi Jin’s pills, which greatly strengthened them but turned them green. The chapter ended with Lin Chuan waking and roaring in fury at his transformed appearance.

• Bu Lianshi confirmed that the sickly youth had vanished, and Xiao Heng deduced that the stranger might have been a clone connected to their group.
• Lin Chuan ordered everyone to leave, and the group harvested the spirit snakes and Mystic Moon Grass before departing.
• Shi Jin refined the spirit snake into pills with Kong Chen’s Red Cherry Karma Fire, then persuaded Lin Chuan, Xiao Heng, and the others to swallow them.
• The pills boosted everyone’s cultivation and physical resilience, but turned their skin and hair bright green, causing Shi Jin to panic.
• Lin Chuan woke two hours later and let out a furious roar.

Shi Jin’s pill turned the Akatsuki organization green, forcing the group to disguise themselves and continue through the Ancient Immortal Realm. Elsewhere, a sickly youth and a handsome cultivator discussed their mission and agreed that the handsome cultivator would handle Akatsuki.

• Lin Chuan and the other Akatsuki members woke to discover that Shi Jin’s pill had turned them bright green, though it had greatly improved their cultivation, physiques, and flexibility.
• Shi Jin tried to refine a remedy but could not reverse the color change, so he swallowed one of his pills and turned green too.
• The Akatsuki members wrapped themselves from head to toe and set off toward the depths of the Ancient Immortal Realm, determined not to lose their lead over the major factions.
• A sickly youth confronted a handsome cultivator for stopping him from attacking Akatsuki, and the handsome cultivator noted that the youth had been injured by someone with Absolute Perception.
• The handsome cultivator told the sickly youth to watch the others while he handled Akatsuki, then the sickly youth disappeared as dawn approached.

Lin Chuan and [Akatsuki] discussed the major factions tracking them as they prepared to enter the fifth layer of the Ancient Immortal Realm and pursue the Void Spirit Pill. The next morning, they reached the boundary and found more than ten familiar people waiting there.

• Lin Chuan and the others realized that major factions were monitoring their movements to seize the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor's inheritance.
• Shui Mochan warned that the Son of the Ancient Immortal might be connected to a major faction, while Bu Lianshi worried that more forces would join them in the fifth layer.
• Lin Chuan asked Shi Jin when Void Refinement cultivators might break through to Body Fusion, and Shi Jin estimated the first could appear in about half a month.
• Kong Chen complained that Shi Jin's pill had left him with vivid red-and-green coloring as the group's skin tones gradually faded.
• Lin Chuan and [Akatsuki] flew to the fifth-layer boundary and found more than ten familiar people waiting there.

Mu Li sent Lin Chuan a letter offering the Origin Sect’s help, and Lin Chuan’s group entered the fifth layer of the Ancient Immortal Realm. Lin Chuan used the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to locate the Void Spirit Pill, but its reading showed that his group could not obtain it with their current strength.

• Xu Wenhua delivered Lin Chuan a letter from Mu Li offering the Origin Sect’s assistance if the [Akatsuki] Organization encountered trouble.
• Xiao Heng concluded that Mu Li hoped to cooperate in the search for the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor’s relics rather than seize them by force.
• Lin Chuan stored the letter and led the group through the spatial barrier into the fifth layer of the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Shui Mochan warned the group that Integration-stage Spirit Beasts and other serious dangers could threaten them in this layer.
• Lin Chuan used the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to search for the Void Spirit Pill, and it indicated that the group lacked the strength to obtain it.

Lin Chuan and his companions learned that obtaining the Void Spirit Pill seemed impossible, but Xiao Heng’s divination suggested someone was deliberately blocking them and that investigating would not endanger their lives. They reached the Five-Colored Sand Sea, where flight was forbidden, and set off across it on Shukaku.

• The Heaven-Measuring Ruler showed Lin Chuan and the others that they had no chance of obtaining the Void Spirit Pill, so Xiao Heng performed a dangerous divination.
• Xiao Heng deduced that the pill would be difficult to obtain but that the group faced little danger, and he found signs that someone was deliberately preventing them from finding it.
• Lin Chuan and the others discussed recruiting Mu Li, Prince Yue, or Shangguan Dieche’s Jade Purity Sect, while Lin Chuan worried about the vanished Feng Yuan.
• Lin Chuan’s group followed the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to the Five-Colored Sand Sea and discovered that its ancient formation prevented flight.
• Lin Chuan summoned Shukaku, and the group rode on its back into the desert.

Lin Chuan and the [Akatsuki] members crossed the Five-Colored Sand Sea and found an ancient temple, where they stopped for the night. Shi Jin woke from a dream about skeletons emerging from the temple and chasing him, but said he had escaped because his horse was faster.

• Several figures confirmed that [Akatsuki] had entered the Five-Colored Sand Sea and left to report the news.
• Shukaku carried Lin Chuan and the others across the harsh desert for more than a hundred kilometers before exhaustion forced him to be recalled.
• Lin Chuan spotted sand-and-stone buildings in the distance with his Mangekyō Sharingan, and the group headed toward them.
• The group stopped near the buildings at night after sensing danger and rested while Lin Chuan examined the ancient temple.
• Shi Jin woke from a dream in which skeletons, including Great Ascension-stage beings, chased him from the temple, but he said his horse had outrun them.

Shi Jin’s dream alerted the group to a silent skeleton horde surrounding them, and they fought to break through as a Mahayana-stage aura erupted from the temple. The chapter ended with the group under crushing pressure while the skeletons blocked their escape.

• Shi Jin described dreaming that he and the others used Spiritual Energy Horse Transformation to flee a Mahayana-stage skeleton, and admitted he had fallen off his horse.
• Xiao Heng sensed danger, and Lin Chuan and the others discovered that millions of skeletons had silently surrounded their camp.
• The group rushed toward the newly closed section of the encirclement, while Meng Jingxian urged Shi Jin to summon horses.
• A Mahayana-stage aura erupted from the temple, and the skeletons began charging as the group attacked to clear a path.
• Lin Chuan’s Dust Release destroyed hundreds of skeletons, and the group’s combined attacks swept away thousands, but an immense pressure from the temple descended upon them.

Lin Chuan and Akatsuki escaped the skeletons after he used the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to clear a path, but they could not enter the sandstone temple or reach the Void Spirit Pill. Lin Chuan decided to draw other factions to the temple to investigate it for them, while keeping his own role in obtaining the pill secret.

• Lin Chuan's Kamui was disrupted by a fluctuation from the sandstone temple, so he used the Heaven-Measuring Ruler to destroy tens of thousands of skeletons and open a path.
• Bu Lianshi carried the depleted Lin Chuan as Akatsuki fought through the remaining skeletons and escaped into the desert.
• After recovering, the group reasoned that the Great Ascension-stage presence could not leave the temple and wondered whether the Void Spirit Pill was inside.
• Lin Chuan decided to have other factions explore the temple, since only he knew how to obtain the Void Spirit Pill.
• Bu Lianshi offered to find the factions following them and lead them toward the sandstone temple.

Lin Chuan’s group waited for Mu Yuyi to use his Tenseigan to investigate the Sandstone Temple, hoping to find a way to obtain the Void Spirit Pill. Mu Yuyi saw the temple’s deadly interior and a jade-white skeleton on a bone throne, but his gaze provoked it and caused the temple to shake.

• Lin Chuan and his companions lured pursuing factions to the Sandstone Temple, where their investigators vanished without triggering the skeletons that appeared at night.
• Lin Chuan refused to send Vermilion Bird into the temple and waited for Mu Yuyi and Luo Yuxi to arrive with the Jade Purity Sect forces.
• Mu Yuyi asked Luo Yuxi to stand guard and used his Tenseigan to see inside the temple.
• Mu Yuyi saw the corpses of the temple’s victims, a dagger, and a bottle of pills that did not contain Void Spirit Pills.
• Mu Yuyi’s gaze reached the main hall’s darkness, where he saw a jade-white skeleton on a throne of bones; the skeleton’s presence struck him with danger and made the temple shake.

Mu Yuyi discovered that the white jade skeleton’s power had been divided among five skeletons bearing golden finger bones, and Lin Chuan’s group planned to seize them amid a general assault. The Jade Purity Sect ordered an attack on the sea of skeletons, giving them a chance to act.

• Mu Yuyi told Lin Chuan that a powerful white jade skeleton guarded the temple, while its golden finger bone had killed the cultivators who entered.
• Xiao Heng suggested that Mu Yuyi inspect the temple again at night, suspecting it changed after dark.
• Mu Yuyi found the white jade skeleton’s aura weakened at night and discovered five golden threads leading to skeletons with faintly golden finger bones.
• Bu Lianshi urged the group to obtain the five golden finger bones, and Xiao Heng proposed using the chaos of a mass attack to take them.
• Mu Yuyi informed Lin Chuan that the Jade Purity Sect had ordered an attack on the sea of skeletons.

The Jade Purity Sect led a nighttime assault on the Skeleton Sea, giving Lin Chuan and Akatsuki cover to hunt the five skeletons with golden finger bones. Lin Chuan and Bu Lianshi charged toward their target as the other Akatsuki teams broke off in five directions.

• Lin Chuan explained that the Jade Purity Sect suspected the temple changed between day and night, and he ordered Akatsuki to secure all five golden finger bones during the assault.
• The Jade Purity Sect charged into the Skeleton Sea, and cultivators from other factions followed in an arrowhead formation.
• Lin Chuan divided Akatsuki into teams and assigned each one a target skeleton, with Black Tortoise supporting the others.
• As the forces advanced, Lin Chuan and Bu Lianshi approached their target while coordinating their timing with the other teams.
• Lin Chuan used a narrow Dust Release beam to clear a path, and five Akatsuki teams broke away from the main force and charged toward their targets.

Lin Chuan used Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Bracken to block Zhang Qi and the Jade Purity Sect while the [Akatsuki] members advanced through the skeletons. Xiao Heng and Shi Jin reached the skeleton with the golden finger bone, where Xiao Heng severed its connections to the world and made it collapse.

• Zhang Qi redirected the Jade Purity Sect toward Lin Chuan and Bu Lianshi as they advanced through the skeletons.
• Lin Chuan raised a forest of bone with Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Bracken, blocking the Jade Purity Sect's route, then continued deeper with Bu Lianshi.
• Zhang Qi ordered the Jade Purity Sect to attack the bone forest while the other factions failed to catch up with the [Akatsuki] members.
• The skeleton with the golden finger bone attacked Xiao Heng, and Shi Jin stepped in front of him and took the strike with his pill furnace.
• Xiao Heng used black-and-white light to sever the threads connecting the skeleton to the world, causing it to collapse and leave its golden finger bone behind.

Lin Chuan and the [Akatsuki] organization fought powerful skeletons to claim their golden finger bones while the Jade Purity Sect tried to stop them. After all five bones fell into [Akatsuki]'s hands, Lin Chuan sensed that the bone he held was linked to the terrifying fingers that had haunted him before.

• Xiao Heng used a costly technique to kill a powerful skeleton, then took its golden finger bone as Shi Jin and the onlookers watched.
• Zhang Qi ordered the Jade Purity Sect to attack the bone barrier and pursue the five special skeletons.
• Southern Dipper and Northern Dipper killed another special skeleton and seized its golden finger bone.
• Jade Maiden and Kong Chen, then Qin Lang, each obtained a golden finger bone.
• Lin Chuan trapped the last skeleton with Wood Release while Bu Lianshi severed its golden finger bone, completing [Akatsuki]'s collection of all five.
• A roar shook the earth from the temple as Lin Chuan sensed that his golden finger bone resembled the fingers that had once killed him and injured Big Orange.

Lin Chuan and his companions combined five golden finger bones and entered the Sandstone Temple, where the bone’s power activated a formation that initially weakened the White Jade Skeleton. They discovered the formation had been altered, and it began strengthening the skeleton instead, leaving Lin Chuan facing an escalating threat.

• Lin Chuan and his companions fused their five pale-golden finger bones into one, but Lin Chuan could not control it.
• Lin Chuan led the group through the skeletons and into the Sandstone Temple as the Jade Purity Sect members struggled behind them.
• The White Jade Skeleton attacked, and five-colored runes emerged from the temple walls to suppress its strength after Lin Chuan’s power flowed into the finger bone.
• The White Jade Skeleton accused Jiang Yuandao of imprisoning it to protect the Void Spirit Pill for his inheritor.
• Black Zetsu and Xiao Heng realized the formation had been altered, and it began restoring the White Jade Skeleton’s strength and raising it to the middle stage of Body Fusion.