Chapter Summaries

Ye Anyuan’s empowered Dragon Transformation still could not match Old Deer’s true form, forcing him to flee through the Demon Domain. Old Deer repeatedly caught up with him but could not stop his teleportation, leaving their pursuit unresolved.

• Old Deer transformed into his original Immortal Deer form and revealed that his energy approached the True Immortal realm.
• Ye Anyuan entered Dragon Transformation, but Old Deer overwhelmed him with two powerful attacks and injured him.
• Ye Anyuan realized he could not win and began teleporting away to outlast Old Deer’s energy.
• Old Deer pursued Ye Anyuan through repeated teleports, covering twice the distance and catching up after Ye Anyuan’s fourth jump.
• Ye Anyuan continued teleporting, while Old Deer recognized that he could not attack him unless he could interrupt the Land Immortal’s teleportation.

Old Deer led the transformed Demon Race in a decisive assault that shattered the Human Race’s defensive line, forcing its survivors to retreat toward a nearby city. As the Demon Race closed in, Ye Wudao asked Hua Tuo for Immortal Artifacts so he could extract their Immortal Power.

• Ye Anyuan realized Old Deer had returned to the battlefield and hurried back, while his borrowed Divine Dragon Bloodline had only about two hours left.
• Old Deer ordered the Demon Race to transform and attack, then swiftly incapacitated Wang Jian, Bodhidharma, and Situ Xuankong.
• The transformed Demon Race overwhelmed the Human Race, and Old Deer killed its experts while Ye Anyuan tried and failed to stop him.
• The Human Race retreated toward a city, suffering heavy casualties as the Demon Race pursued; Hua Tuo warned Ye Wudao to flee before the enemy found him.
• Ye Wudao asked Hua Tuo to bring him four Immortal Artifacts so he could extract their Immortal Power, and Hua Tuo went to collect them.

Ye Wudao used Immortal Power from five Immortal Artifacts to forge eighteen Formation Disks for a defensive array as the Demon Race attacked the city. Seventeen disks passed their tribulations, but one shattered, and a Demon Race enemy arrived and ordered Ye Wudao taken away.

• Hua Tuo gathered three Immortal Artifacts from Wang Jian, Bodhidharma, and Situ Xuankong and brought them to Ye Wudao, who extracted their Immortal Power for the Formation Disks.
• When the four Immortal Artifacts fell short, Hua Tuo borrowed Ghost Fearer's Black Iron Immortal Shield, allowing Ye Wudao to complete the disks.
• Ye Wudao and Hua Tuo traveled away from the battlefield so the eighteen Formation Disks could undergo tribulation.
• The disks endured two lightning strikes, but one cracked under the third strike while the other seventeen passed their tribulations.
• A Demon Race enemy recognized Ye Wudao's Immortal Artifact Formation Disks, noted that one had failed, and ordered Ye Wudao taken away.

Ye Anyuan returned Ye Wudao’s Divine Dragon Bloodline when its borrowed power began to clash with his own, leaving the two men vulnerable to Old Deer. Old Deer targeted Hua Tuo and Ye Wudao, while Ye Anyuan prepared to hold him off until Ye Wudao could refine a replacement Formation Disk.

• Old Deer’s giant transformation ended after Ye Anyuan’s attacks drained his energy, and he demanded that Hua Tuo come with him to refine a Primordial Spirit Treasure.
• Ye Anyuan fought Old Deer again, but the borrowed Divine Dragon Bloodline split against his own, so he returned it to Ye Wudao before it could kill him.
• Old Deer realized Ye Wudao possessed the Divine Dragon Bloodline and resolved to seize him so he could advance to become a Nine-Turn Loose Immortal.
• Old Deer attacked Ye Wudao and Hua Tuo; Ye Anyuan shielded Ye Wudao while Hua Tuo struck Old Deer, but the attack failed and Old Deer used a Spirit-Binding Rope against him.
• Ye Anyuan told Ye Wudao that he would hold Old Deer off while Ye Wudao spent at least half an hour refining a new Formation Disk.

Ye Anyuan used the Path of Slaughter to free Hua Tuo and protect Ye Wudao, but Old Deer borrowed the Path of Giantization and trapped them. Hua Tuo explained that Ye Anyuan was likely to die, while Ye Wudao prepared to fight.

• Ye Anyuan returned Ye Wudao's Divine Dragon Bloodline power, then borrowed the Path of Slaughter and knocked Old Deer down, freeing Hua Tuo.
• Hua Tuo urged Ye Wudao to flee and explained that the Path of Slaughter would eventually consume Ye Anyuan's mind and body.
• Old Deer borrowed the Path of Giantization, grew enormous, and sealed the surrounding space so no one could teleport away.
• Ye Anyuan attacked Old Deer, but Old Deer overpowered him and said his stronger cultivation made him the likely victor.
• Hua Tuo told Ye Wudao that they had missed their chance to escape, and Ye Wudao clenched his fists and said he would fight.

Ye Wudao used his body as the missing Formation Disk to activate the Eighteen Return to Origin array, risking his life to defeat the Deer Demon. The array destroyed Old Deer's body and targeted his Primordial Spirit, while Hua Tuo carried the unconscious Ye Anyuan to safety.

• Ye Wudao revealed that he would complete the array by using his body as its final Formation Disk and told Hua Tuo to take the unconscious Ye Anyuan away.
• Ye Wudao activated the Eighteen Return to Origin array, and its immense pressure shattered his bones despite his Dragon Transformation.
• Ye Wudao knocked Ye Anyuan unconscious and moved him to Hua Tuo before challenging the Deer Demon.
• The array trapped Old Deer when he tried to flee, and its white beams pierced his body and destroyed his head.
• Old Deer's Primordial Spirit survived the attack, but Ye Wudao sent another beam toward it while the array kept it restrained.

Ye Wudao exposed the Deer Demon's attempt to fake his death, then killed him when he self-destructed, using the array's remaining power to strike the monsters invading the city. The array collapsed after its final attack, leaving Ye Wudao near death, and Hua Tuo sought Wang Jian's help to save him.

• Ye Wudao scanned the array, found the Deer Demon's hidden Primordial Spirit, and struck it with a white beam.
• The Deer Demon self-destructed, blasting open the array barrier, but Ye Wudao survived inside the array.
• Ye Wudao released the remaining beams at monsters above the Integration Realm, killing more than half of the top-tier monsters in the city.
• After the array's power ran out, Ye Wudao collapsed with catastrophic injuries, and Hua Tuo caught him.
• Hua Tuo found that only the Divine Dragon Bloodline's energy kept Ye Wudao alive, then teleported to Wang Jian and asked him to find a way to save Wudao.

Wang Jian gathered the surviving sect masters to find a way to save Ye Wudao, whose body was too damaged for ordinary medicine and whose Divine Sense could not be transferred. With a Tiger Immortal rumored to threaten the Human Race, the group left the decision on a risky puppet-body method to Ye Anyuan, and Hua Tuo began waking him.

• Wang Jian and Hua Tuo found that Ye Wudao’s body could not be repaired or have its Divine Sense extracted, so Wang Jian summoned the surviving sect masters.
• Wang Jian told the sect masters that Ye Wudao had used his body as a formation disk to defeat the Deer Demon and save the Human Race.
• The sect masters discussed possible cures, but concluded that only rare immortal medicine could restore Ye Wudao’s body.
• Xuankai proposed refining Ye Wudao’s ruined body into a puppet that could preserve his consciousness, warning of a seventy percent chance of death and a cultivation ceiling at the Great Vehicle Realm.
• Hua Tuo revealed that a Tiger Immortal might attack from the Demon Domain and urged the sects to prepare pills and consider cultivating Loose Immortals.
• Wang Jian deferred the decision until Ye Anyuan could advise them, and Hua Tuo used his Divine Sense to wake Ye Anyuan.

Hua Tuo awakened Ye Anyuan from the Path of Slaughter and explained how Ye Wudao had sacrificed himself to kill the Deer Demon. With no other way to save Ye Wudao, Ye Anyuan agreed to let Xuankai attempt to refine him into a puppet, despite the risks and drawbacks.

• Hua Tuo avoided entering Ye Anyuan's corrupted Sea of Consciousness directly and repeatedly called to him, warning that Ye Wudao was in danger.
• Ye Anyuan broke free from the crimson space in his mind and awoke, then learned that Ye Wudao had used his body as a formation to kill the Deer Demon.
• Hua Tuo told Ye Anyuan that Ye Wudao's consciousness had retreated into his Sea of Consciousness and that refining his body into a puppet was their only chance to save him.
• Xuankai estimated a fifty percent chance of success if Ye Wudao cooperated, but warned that his puppet body would most likely be unable to cultivate.
• Ye Anyuan agreed to the procedure, and the sect masters formed a protective circle around Xuankai and Ye Wudao.

Xuankai began reconstructing Ye Wudao’s shattered body as a Flesh Puppet, using materials donated by the sect masters and preserving his Divine Dragon Bloodline. After completing a new body and head, Xuankai prepared to transfer Ye Wudao’s consciousness, warning Ye Anyuan that he would need to stop it from resisting.

• Xuankai asked for artifact-refining materials, and Ye Anyuan and sect masters from the five Heavenly Domains donated what they could.
• Xuankai used Earth Core Fire to extract the materials’ essences and carefully reshape Ye Wudao’s bones, blood vessels, and meridians.
• Xuankai formed a silver skeleton, restored Ye Wudao’s blood flow, and rebuilt his organs, muscles, and skin around it.
• Xuankai separated Ye Wudao’s head from his reconstructed body and grew an identical new head in its place.
• Xuankai told Ye Anyuan that he was about to transfer Ye Wudao’s consciousness and asked him to prevent it from resisting; Ye Anyuan agreed to keep watch.

Xuankai transferred Ye Wudao's Sea of Consciousness into a newly refined puppet body, while Ye Anyuan calmed him enough to stop resisting. Ye Wudao awakened in the new body with his system intact, but discovered that its temperature was cold and its blood and heart were still.

• Xuankai began extracting Ye Wudao's Sea of Consciousness, and Ye Wudao's consciousness resisted as the space around him trembled.
• Xuankai called on Ye Anyuan, who repeatedly told Ye Wudao that he was being saved and urged him not to resist.
• Ye Wudao recognized Ye Anyuan's voice, calmed himself, and stopped resisting, allowing Xuankai to move his Sea of Consciousness into the puppet's head.
• Xuankai fused Ye Wudao's original skull into the new body, then explained that Ye Wudao had to settle his consciousness into it.
• Ye Wudao emerged from the darkness, awakened in the new body, and confirmed that his system remained before noticing the body's cold temperature and still heart.

After Xuankai revived Ye Wudao in a body made mostly from artifact materials, Ye Wudao identified its flaws and decided to refine it into a true Flesh Puppet. His Golden Flame worked on the body, and Xuankai learned that the flame was actually Ye Wudao’s Way of Refining.

• Ye Wudao woke in the puppet-like body Xuankai had made by fusing artifact materials with his flesh.
• Ye Wudao explained how a true Flesh Puppet could withstand tribulation lightning, while Xuankai said the ancient refining method and the necessary powerful flames were lost.
• Ye Anyuan scolded Ye Wudao for risking his life against the Deer Demon, and Ye Wudao thanked Xuankai for saving him.
• Ye Wudao ignored Xuankai and Ye Anyuan’s warnings and used his Golden Flame to refine his body.
• Xuankai saw the Golden Flame burn impurities from Ye Wudao’s body, and Ye Anyuan revealed that it was the Way of Refining.
• Xuankai recognized Ye Wudao’s extraordinary potential but lamented that the road to the Immortal Realm had been severed.

Ye Wudao rebuilt his body as a flesh puppet, using Immortal Artifact-grade materials to strengthen his original flesh until it rivaled a Dao Artifact. After he survived an artifact-refinement tribulation, Xuankai realized Ye Wudao might still reach Immortal Emperor even with the path to the Immortal Realm severed.

• Ye Wudao extracted his original fleshly essence from the steel body, refined a miniature body from it, and transferred his Sea of Consciousness into it.
• Ye Wudao melted down the steel body and used the Golden Flame to refine and fuse stored materials into his fleshly body.
• Xuankai explained to Ye Anyuan that Ye Wudao was making a flesh puppet, with his original body as its foundation, and said its strength could rival an Immortal Artifact.
• Ye Wudao finished fusing the materials, and a tribulation cloud gathered as his body reached its restored size.
• Ye Wudao endured three lightning strikes without his defenses breaking, then received a seven-colored beam after the cloud scattered.
• Xuankai judged that Ye Wudao's body might rival a Dao Artifact and realized that, by condensing enough Immortal Power, he could potentially become an Immortal Emperor and reopen the path to the Immortal Realm.

Ye Wudao absorbed the Immortal Artifact tribulation’s multicolored light, recovered his cultivation, and advanced to the Martial Courage Realm, gaining powerful Divine Sense and teleportation. When a Tiger Demon attacked and killed the sect master, Ye Wudao teleported toward the Demon Domain to confront it.

• Ye Wudao absorbed the tribulation compensation and advanced past the peak of the Martial Golden Core Realm into the Martial Courage Realm, forming Martial Courage and gaining Divine Sense Power.
• Ye Wudao tested his newly strengthened body and teleported through the Void to Ye Anyuan, who asked him to refine a similar body later.
• Hua Tuo reminded Ye Wudao to finish refining the last Formation Disk and warned him about the Tiger Immortal in the Demon Domain.
• A messenger announced that the Demon Race had attacked, an enormous tiger had appeared, and the sect master had been killed instantly.
• Ye Wudao teleported toward the Demon Domain to face the tiger, followed by Ye Anyuan and the onlookers.

The Tiger Immortal arrived demanding to know who killed the Deer Immortal, and Ye Anyuan challenged it but was overwhelmed. Ye Wudao then formed the Eighteen Return-to-Origin Array, revealing himself as the Deer Immortal’s killer just as the Tiger Immortal attacked.

• Ye Anyuan explained that the Flame Tiger was an Immortal Beast Remnant with Immortal Power and warned Ye Wudao that it was far more dangerous than a Loose Immortal.
• The Tiger Immortal attacked Ye Anyuan, disarmed him, and then knocked him into the ground even after he used Dragon Transformation.
• Ye Wudao abandoned forging the Formation Disk and stepped forward to protect the Human Race, while the Tiger Immortal mocked his Martial Courage Realm cultivation.
• Ye Wudao deployed seventeen Immortal Artifact Array Disks and formed the Eighteen Return-to-Origin Array.
• The Tiger Immortal recognized the Immortal Array and realized Ye Wudao had killed the Deer Immortal, then sprang at him in flames.

Ye Wudao trapped Tiger Immortal in the Eighteen Return-to-Origin Array, but Tiger Immortal revealed his Immortal Realm origins and began drawing on the complete power of a Great Dao. The chapter ended with Ye Wudao realizing Tiger Immortal was using that power to break the array.

• Ye Wudao used the Eighteen Return-to-Origin Array to suppress Tiger Immortal and pierce him with a beam of light, but Tiger Immortal quickly healed.
• Tiger Immortal recognized Ye Wudao's array skills and revealed that he had escaped from the Immortal Realm, hidden in the Demon Domain for over eight thousand years, and lost his True Immortal body.
• Tiger Immortal shrank, coated himself in black flames, and repeatedly struck the array barrier while resisting Ye Wudao's attacks, but he could not break through.
• Tiger Immortal enlarged his body, stopped attacking, and summoned a beam of Great Dao Power that pierced the array barrier.
• Wang Jian warned Ye Wudao that Tiger Immortal might once have been a Heavenly Immortal, and Ye Wudao realized Tiger Immortal was borrowing the complete power of a Great Dao to break the array.

Ye Wudao intercepted Tiger Immortal’s borrowed Great Dao Power, stopping him from breaking the Eighteen Return-to-Origin Array. Tiger Immortal revealed his plan to reach the Immortal Realm, and Ye Wudao stunned him by showing that he possessed the Immortal Emperor’s Guidance.

• Ye Wudao used his powerful body to intercept the Great Dao Power while Tiger Immortal tried to move around the array, preventing him from borrowing enough power to break it.
• When the Great Dao Power vanished, Tiger Immortal revealed that he was a Golden Immortal and asked Ye Wudao to stop the array’s attacks so they could talk.
• Tiger Immortal offered to work with Ye Wudao to reach the Immortal Realm, explaining that he knew of a dangerous route and had left a portion of his Primordial Spirit there as guidance.
• Ye Wudao questioned Tiger Immortal’s plan and asked where the route was, while Tiger Immortal claimed Ye Wudao lacked guidance to the Immortal Realm.
• Ye Wudao showed Tiger Immortal the tiny white speck left by Primordial Immortal, and Tiger Immortal recognized it as the Immortal Emperor’s Guidance.

Ye Wudao questioned Flame Tiger about reaching the Immortal Realm and learned that a World Barrier might block the way. After consulting Wang Jian and Ye Anyuan, he gathered over a hundred Great Vehicle Realm experts inside the array to discuss the journey with Flame Tiger.

• Ye Wudao told Flame Tiger that the Primordial Immortal Emperor had given him his inheritance and rejected the need for Flame Tiger's guidance.
• Flame Tiger explained that the Immortal Realm's World Barrier could not be broken by Ye Wudao's arrays and claimed only he could open it.
• Ye Wudao left the array and asked Wang Jian about World Barriers, then explained Flame Tiger's proposal to Wang Jian and Ye Anyuan.
• Ye Anyuan warned that Flame Tiger wanted Ye Wudao's array skills, not the Great Vehicle Realm cultivators, and urged caution.
• Wang Jian consulted the other sect leaders, and they decided to investigate whether they could reach the Immortal Realm safely and whether Flame Tiger could break its barrier.
• Ye Wudao let more than a hundred Great Vehicle Realm experts enter the array, then began discussing the journey with Flame Tiger.

Ye Wudao negotiated with Tiger Immortal over how to reach the Immortal Realm, learning about the dangers of crossing the World Barrier and the defensive formation they would need. After Tiger Immortal agreed to provide materials in exchange for a Great Dao Oath, Ye Wudao insisted on inspecting the route first, and they set off into the Demon Domain.

• Tiger Immortal explained that even Integration Realm cultivators could cross the World Barrier, but Void Turbulence made the journey dangerous and required protection for both body and Primordial Spirit.
• Tiger Immortal said Ye Wudao's offensive Immortal Array could not withstand the Void Turbulence and recommended a defensive Star Array, offering materials for its Immortal Artifact Array Disks if Ye Wudao agreed to travel within ten years or upon reaching the Great Vehicle Realm.
• Ye Wudao demanded to know how Tiger Immortal could open the World Barrier, and Tiger Immortal said he could draw on Great Dao Power to tear it open or attract investigators from the Immortal Realm.
• Ye Wudao and Tiger Immortal privately discussed the Black Mist, which had chased both of them and was connected to the destruction of the Immortal Realm.
• Ye Wudao refused to swear a Great Dao Oath before seeing the place connected to the Immortal Realm, so Tiger Immortal agreed to guide him there.
• Ye Wudao activated the formation and carried everyone toward the depths of the Demon Domain.

Ye Wudao followed Tiger Immortal beyond the Spirit Realm's World Barrier and confirmed that Immortal Realm Guidance could lead them to a spatial Rift toward the Immortal Realm. He swore a Great Dao Oath to go there after reaching the Great Vehicle Realm, and the chapter ended with the Four Great Domains recovering from the war and searching for the Beast Taming Sect.

• Tiger Immortal explained that Immortal Realm Guidance would work in the endless darkness, and Ye Wudao led the group beyond the World Barrier to a spatial Rift.
• Ye Wudao and Tiger Immortal swore a Great Dao Oath: Ye Wudao would go to the Immortal Realm upon reaching the Great Vehicle Realm, or leave within ten years if his progress took too long.
• Tiger Immortal gave Ye Wudao enough Immortal Artifact-grade materials to refine four hundred Immortal Artifact Array Disks, then returned to the Demon Domain.
• Ye Wudao told the others he would notify them when it was time to go to the Immortal Realm and asked Wang Jian to help locate the Beast Taming Sect.
• Wang Jian took Ye Wudao toward the North Heavenly Domain, while the Four Great Domains began recovering and investigating sects related to beast taming.