Chapter Summaries

The Eastern Wasteland’s factions broke into the ancient underground city to compete for the Nine Secrets, while the demon princess and other young elites entered under the protection of their elders. The city’s silence ended when vast ranks of ghost soldiers and generals surged from the darkness.

• The old Roc King scolded the lovestruck Golden-Winged Young Roc King, who gave up his romantic hopes and resolved to devote himself to cultivation.
• The Eastern Wasteland’s powers bombarded the ancient burial ground until its formation collapsed and revealed a yin-filled underground city.
• The factions agreed that their younger representatives would enter the city while Immortal Platform experts stayed outside to seal the area.
• Wu Zhongtian, the Yaoguang Holy Son and Holy Daughter, Yan Ruyu, Kong Teng, Ye Fan, and other cultivators entered the underground city.
• The Black Emperor and Ye Fan chose a less crowded route through the deserted ghost city.
• Countless ghost soldiers and ghost generals charged from the darkness, bringing the ancient city to life.

Ye Fan and the Black Emperor crossed the ghost-filled city while the Dao One Sacred Land fought its way forward, and the Dao One Holy Maiden briefly challenged Ye Fan’s disguise. At the deepest halls, Ye Fan fought through the Yin creatures alone and opened a path to the sixth ancient hall, astonishing the other cultivators.

• Ye Fan and the Black Emperor used the Great Void Technique to pass unseen through the ghost army and approach the Dao One Sacred Land forces.
• The Dao One Holy Maiden sensed a presence in the void, and Ye Fan struck down ghost soldiers with the Void Great Hand Seal before withdrawing.
• The Dao One Holy Maiden ordered her forces to break through, while the surrounding sects realized the ghost soldiers could not be defeated by attrition and pressed onward.
• The Black Emperor mocked Ye Fan for being noticed, so Ye Fan kicked him into the ghost army, where the dog survived using the Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns.
• At the six ancient halls, Ye Fan was forced to fight without the Great Void Technique and used techniques from multiple ancient Emperor Scriptures to clear a path to the sixth hall.

Ye Fan and the Black Emperor entered the Bright Temple, where the heirs of the Eastern Wasteland gathered to claim the Nine Secrets. The heirs became trapped by the Chaos Stone platform’s field, while Ye Fan discovered the Northern Region bandits had not brought the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.

• The Black Emperor recognized the Bright Temple and its Chaos Stone platform as relics connected to Great Emperor Wushi, and agreed with Ye Fan to take the clues to the Nine Secrets and the Great Emperor’s bed, respectively.
• The Golden-Winged Young Roc King charged toward the beast-hide scroll, prompting the Dayan Holy Son and other human and demon heirs to clash.
• The Jiang Family’s Divine King Physique, the Ji Family’s young Divine King, and the Yaoguang Holy Son tried to reach the scroll, but the platform’s force field stopped them.
• The Jiang Family’s Divine King Physique withdrew safely with the Li Fire Divine Furnace, while most cultivators remained trapped near the platform.
• Ye Fan searched Li Heishui, Tu Fei, and the other Northern Region bandits with his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye and found that they had not brought the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.

Duan De slipped away from Ye Fan and Black Emperor to search the tomb beneath the Bright Temple, while they joined the struggle for the stone platform and the Nine Secrets. When the holy land prodigies attacked Ye Fan, the demon race princess unleashed the Green Emperor's Weapon to protect him, forcing everyone else to retreat.

• Black Emperor and Ye Fan failed to find Duan De, who secretly descended beneath the Bright Temple to plunder the tomb’s three ancient coffins.
• Black Emperor charged onto the stone platform and defeated the Illusion Destruction Palace’s eldest senior brother in one blow.
• Ye Fan used the Cauldron of All-Things Mother Qi to advance toward the chaotic stone, prompting prodigies from several holy lands to attack him.
• The demon race princess unleashed the Green Emperor's Weapon against Ye Fan’s attackers, destroying the Yaoguang Holy Son’s Dragon-Patterned Divine Tripod and forcing the cultivators to retreat.

Ye Fan secured the clue to the Nine Secrets in Purple Mountain, but before he could leave, three ancient Yin corpses erupted from the Three Talents Ancient Coffin and sent the gathered cultivators fleeing. Duan De lured the corpses toward the Bright Temple, leaving the survivors scrambling to escape.

• Ye Fan took the beast-hide scroll and learned it held a map to Purple Mountain and a cloth clue he could use to ask the Merak Three Saints for help at Saint Cliff.
• Yan Ruyu prepared to escort Ye Fan and the others out, but several Holy Sons surrounded them and demanded the Nine Secrets.
• A violent upheaval shattered the sealing formation, and three golden-robed jade-boned corpse fiends burst from the ancient coffins beneath the Bright Temple.
• Duan De fled the corpses while using the Tribulation-Crossing Heavenly Art to refine their corpse qi, then deliberately led them toward the crowded hall.
• The cultivators abandoned their fight over the Nine Secrets and rushed for the exit as two Yin corpses attacked the Bright Temple and the third pursued Duan De.

Ye Fan and Yan Ruyu used their ultimate weapons to hold off an ancient Yin corpse long enough for the demon clan to escape, while Duan De’s escape unleashed more Yin corpses on the factions gathered above. The great bandits fought the first corpse with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar as the other factions’ descendants fled underground, leaving their elders facing a desperate rescue.

• Ye Fan and Yan Ruyu struck the ancient Yin corpse with their ultimate weapons while the Black Emperor opened a spatial gate for the demon clan to flee.
• The Yin corpse slaughtered cultivators left behind after the single-use mystic jade platform shattered, and Yan Ruyu led the demon clan’s survivors to safety above ground.
• Duan De emerged from the underground city and lured the Yin corpse toward Wu Dao, whose friend Tu Tian blasted it back with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• Wu Dao, Tu Fei, and the gathered experts attacked the rising Yin corpse with the awakened Devouring Heaven Demon Jar as Duan De slipped away.
• Bloodied descendants fled the underground followed by two more Dao Severing King-level Yin corpses, forcing the factions’ elders to consider risking their lives to save them.

Ye Fan and Black Emperor returned to Yan Capital to retrieve Yinyin, only to learn that the Yin-Yang Sect had abducted her and other gifted children. They rushed to the Rosy Clouds Sect, where the abductors were gathering before returning to Central Plains.

• Ye Fan and Black Emperor reached Yan Capital and discovered that Yinyin had vanished from the inn where Black Emperor had left her.
• The innkeeper explained that cultivators from a Central Plains sect had taken Yinyin, and Ye Fan learned they belonged to the Yin-Yang Sect.
• Ye Fan and Black Emperor hurried fifty thousand li to the Rosy Clouds Sect, where the Yin-Yang Sect's group was staying.
• A Yin-Yang Sect cultivator ordered a group of kidnapped children, including Yinyin, not to speak or cry.

Ye Fan rescued Yinyin from abuse by the Yin-Yang Sect and reunited with her, while the Black Emperor lamented that she preferred Ye Fan. When Yin-Yang Sect elders and cultivators arrived, Ye Fan went to face them, leaving Yinyin in the Black Emperor’s care.

• A middle-aged Yin-Yang Sect cultivator ordered servants to force-feed Yinyin a bucket of rice as punishment for speaking up.
• Ye Fan killed the two servants and crushed the middle-aged cultivator, then used his Primordial Spirit power to put the panicked children to sleep.
• Yinyin recognized Ye Fan as her brother, embraced him, and rejected the Black Emperor when it tried to approach her.
• The Black Emperor blamed Duan De for making it leave Yinyin and vowed revenge after Duan De disappeared without thanking it.
• Five Dragon Transformation elders and their fellow Yin-Yang Sect cultivators arrived, and Ye Fan handed Yinyin to the Black Emperor before ascending to confront them.

The narrator argued that Ye Fan was the reincarnation of the Ruthless Empress's brother, while maintaining that Ye Fan chose to reject his past identity and live as himself. The chapter ended by treating reincarnation as open to interpretation and closing the debate.

• The narrator cited examples of reincarnation in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and argued that the Ruthless Empress helped Ye Fan because he was her brother reborn.
• The narrator explained that some reincarnated people accepted their past lives, while Ye Fan chose not to.
• The narrator interpreted the Ruthless Empress's words to mean she respected Ye Fan's choice and did not force his former memories on him.
• The narrator said readers could interpret the relationship either way, stated a personal belief that Ye Fan was the brother reincarnated, and ended further discussion of the topic.

Ye Fan attacked the Yin-Yang Sect cultivators trespassing in the Eastern Wasteland and killed their elders and disciples with overwhelming force. As the White-Haired Old Woman arrived to defend the sect’s Holy Maiden, the confrontation was left poised to continue.

• Ye Fan killed Chen Hua with a curse technique, then beat a lion-dragon elder to death with his fists.
• Ye Fan killed two more Dragon Transformation elders with the Heaven-Cutting Finger and Innate Taixu Astral Qi, prompting the survivors to recognize him as a Ji Family imperial son.
• Ye Fan announced he would expose the Yin-Yang Sect’s actions, then killed two elders with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist and destroyed the fleeing disciples with Zhuo Peak’s natural domain.
• Black Emperor tried to keep Yinyin from watching, but she peeked and cheered Ye Fan on as he fought.
• The White-Haired Old Woman appeared and demanded that Ye Fan kowtow and kill himself for disturbing the Yin-Yang Sect’s Holy Maiden.

Ye Fan battled two eighth-transformation elders of the Yin-Yang Sect, who mistook him for a prince of the Great Xia Dynasty because he wielded techniques resembling the Taihuang Scripture. The chapter ended with the elders recognizing Ye Fan’s use of the Lunar and Sun Divine Arts after he destroyed their Yin-Yang Mirror.

• Ye Fan mocked the White-Haired Old Woman, then fought her with the Great Void Technique and attacks resembling the Taihuang Scripture.
• Ye Fan’s Five Emperors Dragon-Controlling Fist shattered the White-Haired Old Woman’s bamboo staff and left her badly wounded.
• A slovenly old man ambushed Ye Fan with an imitation Yin-Yang Mirror, but Ye Fan evaded the strike and appeared a hundred zhang away.
• The slovenly old man helped the White-Haired Old Woman up and tried to reconcile with Ye Fan, believing him to be a Great Xia prince.
• Ye Fan used the Lunar and Sun Divine Arts to shatter the Yin-Yang Mirror, and the two elders realized he was not a Great Xia prince.

Ye Fan defeated the Yin-Yang Sect’s elders and Holy Maiden, then advanced to the second transformation of Dragon Transformation by devouring her Nine Yin Body. As the Yin-Yang Sect’s old sect master attacked him, an unknown figure reached through space to seize the sect master’s imprint.

• Ye Fan broke the elders’ Yin-Yang Dao Diagram, killed the disheveled old man, and found the Holy Maiden hidden underground.
• The Yin-Yang Holy Maiden attacked Ye Fan with Galaxy Treasure Sand, but Ye Fan’s Taihuang Sword phantom killed her and he collected the sand.
• Ye Fan discovered the Holy Maiden’s Nine Yin Body, devoured her, and reached the second transformation of Dragon Transformation.
• The old sect master’s imprint appeared and attacked Ye Fan with the Yin-Yang Great Seal to avenge his disciple.
• An unknown figure tore through space and reached for the old sect master’s imprint.

Ye Fan and his companions headed for Mystic Gate after the Mad Saint killed the Yin-Yang Sect Master and Merak Holy Land recovered its stolen treasures. At Zhuo Peak, they reunited with Li Ruoyu, whose cultivation had advanced to the Dao-Severing king realm.

• The Mad Saint traced the Yin-Yang Sect Master’s mark on Yinyin and killed him in the Central Plains, leaving him gravely injured before he fainted.
• Merak Holy Land reclaimed its Divine Treasuries and territories after the Eastern Wasteland factions answered its invitation with gifts and apologies.
• Ye Fan, Yinyin, and Black Emperor set out for the Wei lands and Mystic Gate, first delivering the abducted children to Yan State authorities.
• Ye Fan brought the group to Mystic Gate to reclaim the jar body, and Li Ruoyu welcomed them at Zhuo Peak.
• Ye Fan discovered that Li Ruoyu had reached the Dao-Severing king realm and greeted him as his Martial Uncle.

Ye Fan asked Li Ruoyu about Hua Yunfei, then prepared to summon the complete Devouring Heaven Demon Jar using Yinyin and the pottery lid. The incomplete jar answered the summons from the Northern Region, erased Tu Tian’s soul imprint, and vanished toward Zhuo Peak.

• Li Ruoyu confirmed that Hua Yunfei had faked his death and escaped after Li Ruoyu killed his protector.
• Ye Fan asked Li Ruoyu to conceal Zhuo Peak while he summoned the complete Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, and Li Ruoyu enveloped the peak with his Dao of Nature.
• Ye Fan built an altar and instructed Yinyin to call the jar back by touching its pottery lid.
• Yinyin’s call sent a ripple across the Eastern Wasteland, awakening the incomplete Devouring Heaven Demon Jar above Tu Tian in the Northern Region.
• The jar ignored Tu Fei’s command, erased Tu Tian’s soul imprint, and vanished through the void, leaving Tu Tian injured and Wu Dao to support him.

The Undying Old Man failed to trace the theft of the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and ordered the Northern Region's Great Bandits to conceal its disappearance. At Mystic Gate, the jar's separated halves reunited, and Black Emperor set off on a dangerous path after handing Ye Fan the complete Wu Shi Imperial Jade.

• The Undying Old Man found no trace of whoever took the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and ordered Tu Tian and the other Great Bandits to keep its disappearance secret.
• The complete Devouring Heaven Demon Jar returned to Mystic Gate and merged above Ye Fan, while Yinyin collapsed from exhaustion after helping him.
• Ye Fan used the jar's aura to advance his cultivation, then refused to let Black Emperor take it.
• Black Emperor decided to seek the Demon God Flower in Feathered Immortal Valley and entrusted Yinyin to Ye Fan before leaving Mystic Gate.
• Black Emperor gave Ye Fan the complete Wu Shi Imperial Jade, revealing that he had lied about possessing only two pieces.

Ye Fan returned to Merak Holy Land with Yinyin and the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar, then proposed claiming Heavenly Court’s remaining legacy and drawing out its hidden descendants. Old Madman agreed to accompany Ye Fan into Saint Cliff and Undying Mountain, while the other elders stayed behind to support Merak.

• Ye Fan brought Yinyin back to Merak Holy Land, where the Three Saints welcomed the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar and noted his breakthrough to the third transformation of Dragon Transformation.
• Ye Fan connected Li City’s Movement Secret and Merak Steps to the fallen Heavenly Court, explaining that its last sect master had fled into Saint Cliff and another remnant had escaped to Undying Mountain.
• Ye Fan proposed taking Heavenly Court’s remaining legacy and using its inheritance to draw out the descendants living in Heaven’s Village, and the Three Saints approved the plan.
• Grandmother Yao warned that Saint Cliff and Undying Mountain were perilous, but Wei Yi insisted that Merak pursue both the Nine-Word Secret and Heavenly Court’s legacy.
• Old Madman decided to take Ye Fan and the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar to investigate, leaving the other elders at Merak Holy Land to prepare support.

Ye Fan and Old Madman entered Undying Mountain by following a survival path left by Void Great Emperor. They found the Enlightenment Tea Tree, and Ye Fan revealed he could use the Nine-Wonder Immortality Medicine to obtain its leaves before offering them all to the sect.

• Old Madman warned Ye Fan that the true interior of Undying Mountain was deadly, and Ye Fan used the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye and void divine power to reveal Void Great Emperor's safe path.
• Ye Fan guided Old Madman through the forbidden zone while Old Madman protected them with the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar.
• Ye Fan stopped before the Enlightenment Tea Tree, and Old Madman explained that it could not be transplanted and that its leaves were rarely obtained.
• Ye Fan revealed the Nine-Wonder Immortality Medicine and told Old Madman that unripe Enlightenment Tea Leaves could be picked with it.
• Ye Fan offered to donate all one hundred and eight leaves to the sect, cutting off Old Madman's complaints.

Ye Fan and Old Madman explored the ancient Dao-comprehension site, where they gained insights from phantoms of Wu Shi and the Ruthless Empress. They later found Nether Yin Grass in the Yellow Springs region, and Ye Fan explained his plan to use it to try to save the fourth-generation Source Heaven Master, Wu Yi.

• Ye Fan gave the Merak Three Saints one hundred and eight Enlightenment Tea Tree leaves, and Old Madman stored them for the Holy Land.
• The leaves’ removal revealed phantoms of Wu Shi and the Ruthless Empress; Old Madman and Ye Fan merged with the phantoms and gained insights into the Dao and the Swallowing Heaven Demonic Art.
• Old Madman broke Ye Fan’s communion with the Ruthless Empress’s phantom, then carried him away from the site.
• Ye Fan and Old Madman avoided powerful descendants of the Stone Emperor as they traveled through the mountain ranges.
• Ye Fan found Nether Yin Grass beside the black river in the Yellow Springs region and began picking it.
• Ye Fan told Old Madman he hoped to use the Nether Yin Grass to save Wu Yi, the fourth-generation Source Heaven Master, and Old Madman agreed there might be a chance.

Ye Fan and Old Madman discovered the Book of Time beside a dead King of Assassins and tested its power to freeze space-time. Old Madman gave the treasure to Ye Fan, who planned to use it to cultivate the Wushi Technique, while warning him that frequent use could damage his origin.

• Ye Fan found the jade skeleton of an Ancient Heavenly Court King of Assassins and the Book of Time pinned beneath it.
• Old Madman recognized the Book of Time as a Quasi-Emperor time treasure and demonstrated its power by freezing Ye Fan in place.
• Ye Fan learned that the Book of Time could immobilize opponents and also contained insights into the Movement Secret.
• Old Madman reconsidered giving the treasure to the Heavenly Court lineage and wondered whether Merak Holy Land needed a Divine Son.
• Ye Fan planned to use the Book of Time to begin cultivating the Wushi Technique.
• Old Madman gave the Book of Time to Ye Fan and warned him not to use it too often because it could damage his origin.

After leaving Undying Mountain with the remains of an Ancient Heavenly Court King of Assassins, Ye Fan and Old Madman traveled to Saint Cliff, where they discovered Great Emperor Wushi’s formidable array patterns. Old Madman suggested Wushi had obtained part of the Formation Secret, and Ye Fan began considering whether the Wushi Bell’s divine spirit might know it.

• Ye Fan and Old Madman escaped Undying Mountain, but found that the self-aware Enlightenment Tea Tree had disappeared.
• Ye Fan and Old Madman headed to Saint Cliff, where Old Madman detected an ancient imperial formation covering the dangerous region.
• Old Madman identified the patterns as resembling the Formation Secret and explained that Wushi had likely obtained a fragment before creating his own array patterns.
• Ye Fan wondered why the Black Emperor had never told him about Wushi’s connection to the Formation Secret, then concluded the dog probably had not known.
• Ye Fan considered asking the divine spirit within the Wushi Bell about the Formation Secret, though the bell did not even acknowledge the Black Emperor.