Chapter Summaries

Ye Fan bargained with Black Emperor for Great Emperor Wushi’s Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns in exchange for the Demon Emperor Ancient Sutra and a trip to Jade Lake’s former site. Black Emperor accepted, hoping to investigate Wushi’s hidden contingency, while Ye Fan remained confident he could prepare for the coming dark upheaval.

• Black Emperor asked Ye Fan to trade the Demon Emperor Ancient Sutra for a visit to the ancient site of Jade Lake, and Ye Fan demanded Wushi’s Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns as an additional price.
• Black Emperor refused to hand over the patterns, and it and Ye Fan fought until both were exhausted.
• Black Emperor considered its need for a demon emperor scripture and recalled Wushi’s instruction to find an Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus to activate a contingency against a future dark upheaval.
• Black Emperor agreed to give Ye Fan the Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns and take him to Jade Lake’s former site in exchange for the Demon Emperor Ancient Sutra.
• Ye Fan accepted the deal and decided he would not force a relationship with the Purple Mansion Holy Maiden, remaining confident he had time to prepare for the dark upheaval.

Ye Fan and the Black Emperor entered Purple Mountain to find the fifth-generation Source Master, using Nether Yin Grass and a powerful borrowed body and weapons to confront the red-haired monster. The monster resisted the Green Emperor's Weapon with an earth-vein formation and began breaking free.

• A Jiang Family expert delivered Ye Fan eight stalks of Nether Yin Grass, which the family had found near a patch of Yellow Springs.
• Ye Fan entered Purple Mountain with the Black Emperor, and exchanged an ancient medicine king for two drops of Demon Emperor blood essence.
• The Black Emperor led Ye Fan to the red-haired monster, warning that it could fight a Saint King and that Gu Tianshu had once spared it.
• Ye Fan controlled the saint's remains and opened the ancient hall, but the red-haired monster attacked and knocked him back.
• Ye Fan awakened the Green Emperor's Weapon and pinned the monster down, but nine golden Heavenly Dragons formed an array that weakened the weapon's pressure and let the monster start to break free.

Ye Fan and the Black Emperor subdued Zhang Lin’s red-haired monster form in Purple Mountain, and a single toll from the Wushi Bell restored Zhang Lin’s consciousness. Ye Fan proposed a dangerous rebirth using a stone-fetus holy spirit, while Zhang Lin brought out the divine source containing Yang Yi.

• Ye Fan lured the red-haired monster toward the right-side hall, letting the saint’s remains and the Green Emperor’s Weapon suppress it as the Black Emperor trapped it with eighty-one formation flags.
• The Wushi Bell rang, and Zhang Lin regained his consciousness and pleaded to be released from the formation.
• Ye Fan greeted Zhang Lin as his master and explained that Nether Yin Grass and the Nine-Orifice Stone Man might let him abandon his red-haired shell and seek rebirth.
• Zhang Lin accepted the gamble, told Ye Fan to call him Master, and entered the side hall.
• Zhang Lin returned carrying peerless divine source containing Yang Yi, the Jade Lake Holy Maiden.

Zhang Lin awakened Yang Yi and began a dangerous rebirth into the Nine-Orifice Stone Man, with Ye Fan and Yang Yi helping him seize control of it. He discovered a Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword within the stone man, while the chapter questioned Shaking Light Sacred Land’s account of how its imperial weapon was forged.

• Ye Fan offered an Ancient Medicine King, and Zhang Lin used it to free Yang Yi from the divine source and heal her enough to awaken.
• Yang Yi agreed to watch over Zhang Lin as he underwent rebirth, and Zhang Lin swallowed Nether Yin Grass to weaken his failing body and free his divine consciousness.
• After enduring more than an hour of agony, Zhang Lin sent his golden divine consciousness into the Nine-Orifice Stone Man.
• Zhang Lin and Yang Yi shattered the developing Sacred Spirit’s consciousness, allowing Zhang Lin to take control of the stone man.
• Zhang Lin discovered a Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Sword, and the account contrasted it with Shaking Light Sacred Land’s claim about forging its Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Tripod.

Yang Yi taught Ye Fan the Western Emperor Scripture while Zhang Lin completed the first stage of his reincarnation in the Nine-Orifice Stone Man. Once Zhang Lin awakened, he began teaching Ye Fan the Source Book as he prepared to continue cultivating within the stone.

• Zhang Lin told Yang Yi that his consciousness had settled into the Nine-Orifice Stone Man and that he would continue inscribing his Primordial Spirit into it.
• Yang Yi offered Ye Fan a reward, then agreed to teach him the Western Emperor Scripture and her cultivation insights.
• Yang Yi taught Ye Fan for seven days and nights, during which his cultivation reached the peak of the second level of the Four Extremities realm.
• Yang Yi sensed Zhang Lin’s Primordial Spirit growing stronger, and Zhang Lin awakened within the Nine-Orifice Stone Man.
• Zhang Lin declined to return to Jade Lake immediately and began teaching Ye Fan the Source Book, leaving the Black Emperor bewildered by the lesson.

Ye Fan and the Black Emperor entered the Jade Lake Old Site to seek Great Emperor Wushi’s legacy and explore the ancient sacred lake. At its depths, they found the corpses of Jade Lake’s ancient experts, including Great Saints, and realized a terrible calamity had driven the sect away.

• Ye Fan watched Yang Yi and the Nine-Orifice Stone Man depart, then prepared to leave Zhang Family Village’s affairs to the returning Zhang Lin and Jade Lake.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor set out for the Jade Lake Old Site so Ye Fan could study the Western Emperor Inscription and seek Great Emperor Wushi’s essence blood.
• The Black Emperor led Ye Fan to the Sacred Lake and challenged him to descend to its bottom, where both entered the water.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor found a lakebed crowded with dead Jade Lake women and shattered pieces of the sect’s divine source.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor descended through eight underground spaces and discovered the remains of cultivators from Immortal Platform experts to Great Saints, leaving the Black Emperor convinced this disaster explained Jade Lake’s relocation.

Ye Fan and Black Emperor found the Western Queen Mother and the Great Accomplished Sacred Body beneath Jade Lake, along with Great Emperor Wushi’s hidden contingency plan. The plan called for using an Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus and Wushi’s essence blood to summon his Dao Fruit during a future dark turmoil, and Ye Fan asked Black Emperor for two drops of the blood.

• Ye Fan and Black Emperor descended to the ninth level beneath Jade Lake, where Black Emperor used Great Emperor array patterns to shield them from the Imperial pressure.
• They found the intact corpses of the Western Queen Mother and the Great Accomplished Sacred Body in a sealed pool, and Ye Fan felt his bloodline stir at the sight of the Sacred Body.
• Black Emperor retrieved a stone chest from the pool and opened it to find Great Emperor Wushi’s essence blood, an altar, and a letter explaining the contingency plan.
• Black Emperor learned that he was to bring an Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus to the altar and use the essence blood to summon Wushi’s Dao Fruit during a coming dark turmoil.
• Black Emperor suggested that Ye Fan marry the Purple Mansion Holy Maiden to produce the needed Dao Fetus, but Ye Fan exposed the plan and mocked him.
• After they fought, Ye Fan demanded two drops of Great Emperor blood essence, one to study Wushi’s Dao and another to lure out the Wushi Bell.

Ye Fan gained a Great Accomplishment Sacred Body’s cultivation insights and mastered the Western Emperor Inscription at Jade Lake, reaching the third level of the Four Extremities Realm. He returned to Zhang Family Village, summoned Yan Ruyu, and prepared to give her the Green Emperor’s relics before heading to Purple Mountain.

• Ye Fan traded a medicinal king herb to the Black Emperor for the Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns, then approached the Great Accomplishment Sacred Body and received its cultivation insights.
• Ye Fan examined the Western Emperor Inscriptions for a month, using the Bodhi Immortality Medicine to activate them, and advanced to the third level of the Four Extremities Realm.
• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor left Jade Lake, with Ye Fan saying he would return to Purple Mountain to try to summon Wu Shi’s imperial weapon.
• Ye Fan found Zhang Family Village deserted because Jade Lake had taken Zhang Lin’s descendants away.
• Eastern Wasteland demon lords greeted Ye Fan as His Highness Yan Xi, and he took Yan Ruyu into a stone house while sending the Black Emperor outside.

Ye Fan gave Yan Ruyu the Demon Emperor Sacred Heart and Green Emperor's Weapon, claiming he could no longer suppress them. Their farewell turned intimate, and Yan Ruyu left with the Eastern Wasteland demons, while Ye Fan stayed behind and teased the Black Emperor.

• Ye Fan told Yan Ruyu that the relics were draining him and that she should take them to revive the demon race.
• Yan Ruyu accepted the relics, and Ye Fan placed them inside her despite her protests.
• Yan Ruyu rejected Ye Fan's objections to their relationship and promised to repay his kindness before leaving.
• Yan Ruyu departed Zhang Family Village with the Eastern Wasteland demons, and Ye Fan recalled her kiss.
• The Black Emperor found Ye Fan smiling and accused him of being lovesick; Ye Fan mocked the dog's romantic boasts.

Ye Fan used Great Emperor Wushi’s essence blood to open the Wushi Scripture in Purple Mountain and comprehended its Dao on the Wushi Dao Platform. After half a fortnight, he had grasped more than half of the Wushi Technique, while the Black Emperor chased the Undying Divine Phoenix Medicine into the darkness.

• Ye Fan tested Wushi Bell with Wushi’s essence blood, but learned only that the bell already knew what he wanted.
• Ye Fan used the remaining essence blood to open the Wushi Scripture and watched it reveal Great Emperor Wushi’s Dao.
• Ye Fan swallowed the final drop of essence blood and meditated on the Wushi Dao Platform to preserve the insights he could absorb.
• The Black Emperor failed to enter Ye Fan’s state of enlightenment, then spotted the Undying Divine Phoenix Medicine and chased it into Purple Mountain.
• After half a fortnight of comprehension, Ye Fan left the platform with more than half of the Wushi Technique understood, while remaining at the third level of the Four Extremities realm.

Ye Fan decided to seek the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and travel to the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning to upgrade his cauldron, while the Black Emperor pursued its own plans for the Purple Mansion Holy Maiden. The Black Emperor left Purple Mountain for the Central Region as Ye Fan grew suspicious of its plotting.

• Ye Fan told the Black Emperor he would pursue the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar’s lid, while the Black Emperor admitted it had once failed to enter the Ruthless Empress’s Dojo.
• Ye Fan warned the Black Emperor not to compete for the jar, but the Black Emperor privately resolved to try for it anyway.
• Ye Fan asked the Black Emperor to watch for the Ruthless Empress’s Dojo and announced he would visit the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning to improve his strength and upgrade the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi.
• The Black Emperor planned to approach the Purple Mansion Holy Maiden and arrange for her to pursue an Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus with Ye Fan.
• Ye Fan suspected the Black Emperor was plotting against him, and the Black Emperor guiltily left Purple Mountain for the Central Region.

Ye Fan hired Old Knife Handle to guide him into the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning and paid fifty thousand jin of source to reach Fallen Sun Ridge. After Ye Fan repeatedly saved him from deadly source formations, Old Knife Handle asked who he was, and Ye Fan introduced himself as Ye Fan of the human race.

• Ye Fan sought out Old Knife Handle, a guide connected to the remnants of Heavenly Court, and demanded an immediate route into the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning.
• Old Knife Handle raised his price to thirty thousand jin of source when Ye Fan named Fallen Sun Ridge, and Ye Fan offered fifty thousand jin, securing his services.
• Several days later, the two abandoned their terrified Scale Horses and followed Old Knife Handle's secret path into the forbidden zone.
• Ye Fan used his source arts to rescue Old Knife Handle from deadly formations, including the Fire Dragon Tomb and Dragon Bleeds Blood terrain.
• Old Knife Handle praised Ye Fan's source-art skill and asked his identity, and Ye Fan introduced himself as Ye Fan of the human race.

Ye Fan entered Wu Yi’s inheritance ground in the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning and studied the Source Heavenly Map, advancing to Source Earth Master. In the ruined temple, he found Immortal Tear Green Gold and uncovered a jade tortoise containing a quasi-emperor’s corpse sealed by the Undying Emperor.

• Ye Fan told Old Knifeblade that he was Zhang Lin’s disciple and a legitimate heir to the Source Heavenly Master tradition.
• Ye Fan left Old Knifeblade outside the dangerous pine forest and entered Wu Yi’s inheritance ground alone.
• Ye Fan used the original Source Book to pass through the source formation and spent a month studying the four Source Heavenly Maps, advancing to Source Earth Master.
• Ye Fan entered the dilapidated temple and found a piece of Immortal Tear Green Gold beneath the ruined divine materials.
• Ye Fan examined a hollow jade tortoise and saw the Imperial-brilliance radiating corpse of a quasi-emperor sealed inside.

Ye Fan plundered an ancient hall, found Phoenix Blood Red Gold at Great Emperor Hengyu’s forging site, and upgraded the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi by studying Hengyu’s techniques. After learning that the Ruthless Empress’s Dojo had been announced in the Northern Region, he recognized the scheme behind the invitation and the Ruthless Empress Lineage’s infiltration of Shaking Light Sacred Land.

• Ye Fan took the ancient hall’s four totem pillars and followed Old Knife Handle’s map to Fallen Sun Ridge.
• At Great Emperor Hengyu’s forging hall, Ye Fan found Phoenix Blood Red Gold and used the Li Fire Divine Furnace to upgrade the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi.
• After a month of forging, Ye Fan completed the cauldron’s upgrade but realized he still needed seven kinds of immortal gold for its next transformation.
• The Black Emperor told Ye Fan that An Miaoyi had announced the discovery of a sealed Ruthless Empress’s Dojo, which required a Divine Body, a Sacred Body, and a Heavenly Demon Body to open.
• Ye Fan suspected the Ruthless Empress Lineage was using the dojo as bait and reflected on how it had infiltrated Shaking Light Sacred Land.

Ye Fan went to the Ji Family Stone Workshop to claim a Stone King containing the Immortal Cauldron’s artifact spirit. After five days of searching, he exposed the Stone King, which tried to flee, and trapped it with the Fourth Generation Source Heaven Master’s pillars.

• Ye Fan visited the Ji Family Stone Workshop and revealed that he had become a Source Earth Master before asking to take its hidden Stone King.
• The Ji Family source masters led Ye Fan to the Heaven-grade garden, where he immobilized the stones with Source Heaven patterns and searched for five days.
• Ye Fan found the Stone King disguised as a cracked, dirt-gray rock and attacked it with the Earth Vein Dragon Transformation Art.
• The Stone King broke free of five Heavenly Dragons and attempted to escape as its emergence shook the workshop.
• Ye Fan sealed the lake-center island with four glazed jade pillars, suppressing the Stone King before it could flee.

Ye Fan uncovered a child sealed in supreme immortal source and named him Little Fatty, then lured him into the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi. Little Fatty eagerly entered the cauldron and began absorbing its energy, while Ye Fan hoped to use him as its temporary weapon spirit.

• Ye Fan sealed the Stone King and paid the Ji Family's stone workshop three hundred thousand source before leaving.
• Ye Fan opened a block of supreme immortal source and freed a fair-skinned child who spoke an ancient language.
• The child learned to speak with Ye Fan, who named him Little Fatty and then took the immortal source, prompting the child to cry.
• Ye Fan showed Little Fatty the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi and invited him inside.
• Little Fatty entered the cauldron and joyfully absorbed its All-Things Mother Qi.

Ye Fan prepared for the opening of Ruthless Empress's Dojo and tracked down Duan De, who was secretly digging a passage into it. Duan De realized Ye Fan had used the spirit jade he gave him to leave a tracking mark, and angrily demanded it back.

• Ye Fan summoned Immortal Tear Green Gold and Phoenix Blood Red Gold, and the boy inside his cauldron began fusing them into his Dao weapon.
• Ye Fan reached Cloudbreak Mountains and met the Black Emperor, then took him to meet someone.
• Ye Fan recalled that Duan De had stolen the pottery lid and planned to use a hidden passage to enter the dojo before it opened.
• Duan De dug a secret passage near the dojo and boasted that he would take a powerful treasure before the superpowers arrived.
• Ye Fan appeared in an Azure Lotus and explained that he had tracked Duan De using the spirit jade pendant.
• Duan De realized Ye Fan had marked him during their earlier hug and furiously demanded the thousand-year jade back.

Ye Fan, Duan De, and the Black Emperor agreed to enter Ruthless Empress's Dojo through Duan De's hidden passage and seek the lid of the ancient Devouring Heaven Demon Jar. Ye Fan promised Duan De help breaking the seals on his Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Bowl, and they opened and concealed the passage.

• Ye Fan caught Duan De carrying an iron shovel and revealed that he knew about the plan to sneak into Ruthless Empress's Dojo.
• The Black Emperor attacked Duan De, then stopped after Ye Fan introduced them and explained the dog's connection to Great Emperor Wushi.
• Duan De angered the Black Emperor by asking where Great Emperor Wushi had passed away, and the two fought before Ye Fan called them back to business.
• Ye Fan proposed that they join forces to obtain the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar lid and offered to find a living Saint to break more seals on Duan De's Treasure Bowl.
• Duan De accepted the deal, and Ye Fan summoned the Saint's remains to open the passage while the Black Emperor concealed its entrance with a Heaven-Deceiving Grand Formation.

Ye Fan, Duan De, and Black Emperor crossed into the Daoist grounds, where Ye Fan reunited the Bronze Ring with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid and claimed the relic. The group then raced to investigate another treasure on the altar, where their cooperation gave way to a fight.

• Duan De and Black Emperor used their treasures to cross the Emperor Formation, and Ye Fan followed with the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi.
• Ye Fan used the Bronze Ring, once owned by the Ruthless Empress, to locate the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar Lid.
• The Bronze Ring and the lid resonated, and Ye Fan took the lid into his palm.
• Duan De suggested that Ye Fan seize the jar body from Tu Tian, but Ye Fan refused to act against him yet and said he had a plan.
• Black Emperor spotted another treasure on the altar, and Ye Fan, Duan De, and Black Emperor rushed up the steps and fought over it.

Ye Fan took a massive piece of Dragon-Patterned Black Gold from the Ruthless Empress's Dojo and used promises of other treasures to send Duan De and Black Emperor searching elsewhere. Outside the dojo, powerful young cultivators gathered ahead of its opening, and a White-Clad Youth confronted the Five Elements Palace's chief disciple.

• Ye Fan seized the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold, then fended off Duan De and Black Emperor before offering them the dojo's other treasures.
• Black Emperor ran off in search of an undying divine medicine, while Duan De went to excavate the supposed imperial tomb; Ye Fan stayed behind, and the three later plundered the dojo before leaving.
• In the Cloudbreak Mountains, unusual constitutions and prominent young cultivators gathered as the Ruthless Empress's Dojo neared its opening.
• The Shaking Light Holy Son rebuked a cultivator for gossiping about his relationship with Yao Xi, then publicly treated the Holy Maiden with courtesy.
• The Five Elements Palace's chief disciple angrily challenged a heckler, and a White-Clad Youth appeared with two gray-robed old servants to taunt him as a defeated subordinate.