Chapter Summaries

Hong Batian fled with Hong Yue after drawing Bal Rakshasa and Zayik into a fight, while Cang Yun escaped Helen and Bal Rakshasa separately. Zayik caught up with the fugitives, and Hong Yue attacked him with three arrows.

• Hong Batian challenged Bal Rakshasa and Zayik, then used Phantom Seven Hands, Phantom Lake to vanish and escape with Hong Yue.
• Hong Batian told Hong Yue that Cang Yun could fend for himself as they raced away.
• Helen taunted Cang Yun while Bal Rakshasa wounded him, but Cang Yun escaped with Celestial Shift, Instant.
• Zayik pursued Hong Batian and Hong Yue, and Hong Yue fired three arrows at his clown mask.

Hong Batian and Hong Yue tried to escape Zayik’s pursuit in the Cloud Mist Secret Realm, where they would be trapped for ten days. Hong Batian used Phantom Seven Hands to fight off Zayik’s spiders, but the chapter ended as he conjured ten white spiders and a copy of Zayik.

• Hong Batian learned that no one could enter or leave the Cloud Mist Secret Realm for ten days and worried about surviving Zayik’s pursuit.
• Hong Batian tossed Hong Yue to safety and turned to face Zayik, evading his transparent threads with Phantom Seven Hands, Phantom Water.
• Zayik summoned ten enormous spiders, and Hong Batian defended himself with Phantom Bell before the spiders’ screeches shattered the golden bell.
• Hong Batian escaped the spiders’ encirclement, but Zayik sent them after him.
• Hong Batian used Phantom You to conjure ten white spiders and a second Zayik beside him.

Hong Batian escaped Zayik with Hong Yue and hid in a cave, while Cang Yun fled from two beings urging him to join the strange. Cang Yun eventually stopped running and turned to face his pursuers.

• Zayik attacked Hong Batian with transparent threads, forcing him to leave a duplicate behind and flee with Hong Yue.
• Hong Batian hid with Hong Yue in a cave, set up treasures around it, and settled down to wait out the trial.
• Hong Yue worried that the other participants might be dead, and Hong Batian reassured her before cultivating as she fell asleep.
• Cang Yun ran from two pursuers who tried to persuade him to join the strange, but realized one could track him.
• Cang Yun stopped, turned to face the two pursuers, and prepared to fight.

Cang Yun fought Helen and was badly injured before activating Heaven-Earth Killing Intent and turning his attack toward Bal Rakshasa. The chapter ended as Cang Yun summoned a golden lightning dragon to dive at Bal Rakshasa.

• Cang Yun and Helen exchanged thousands of blows until Helen struck him from behind with Hand of the Abyss, sending him crashing into a crater.
• Cang Yun rose bloodied and challenged Helen, but Bal Rakshasa intervened, and Helen withdrew.
• Cang Yun activated Heaven-Earth Killing Intent, surrounded himself with golden lightning, and charged at Bal Rakshasa.
• Bal Rakshasa sent six Long Swords to encircle Cang Yun, but Cang Yun's lightning sphere blasted them away.
• Cang Yun used Spear Emerges Like a Dragon to summon a golden lightning dragon that plunged toward Bal Rakshasa.

Cang Yun overwhelmed Bal Rakshasa with his power and unleashed a devastating spear attack, forcing Helen to intervene with a black-purple Heavenly Gate. The Ancient Royal Clan members saw the strange phenomenon and rushed to protect Cang Yun as Helen vowed to kill him.

• Cang Yun’s Cloud-Piercing Awl clashed with Bal Rakshasa’s attack, and Bal Rakshasa was shocked that an early Heavenly Immortal could overpower him.
• Cang Yun summoned a golden sacred dragon around his spear and launched Divine Might Descends at Bal Rakshasa.
• Bal Rakshasa ordered Helen to block the attack, and Helen opened a black-purple Heavenly Gate to stop the spear.
• Helen praised Cang Yun’s talent but declared that he had to die, while the Ancient Royal Clan members spotted the phenomenon and hurried toward him.

Cang Yun fought Bal Rakshasa and Helen with golden lightning, but the two survived and forced him into a desperate struggle. Hong Batian secretly watched from a cave, judging the battle while keeping his distance.

• Cang Yun struck Helen and Bal Rakshasa with powerful punches, then hurled his Golden Spear into a storm of golden lightning.
• Bal Rakshasa and Helen dispelled the lightning and rose unharmed, revealing their immense presence.
• Cang Yun realized his immortal power was nearly exhausted and thought that Hong Batian's help might give them a chance.
• Hong Batian watched the battle from a cave and concluded that Cang Yun had not forced the strange beings to reveal their true methods.

Cang Yun endured Helen's assault until Wang San intervened and was killed by a sword through the heart. Cang Yun then unleashed his powers against Helen and Bal Rakshasa, freezing Bal Rakshasa and piercing through him with lightning.

• Helen overwhelmed Cang Yun, beating him and pinning him to the ground with two Flying Swords.
• Wang San rescued Cang Yun, but a Long Sword pierced his heart, and he sacrificed himself to escape the sinister qi.
• Cang Yun summoned his spear and used Phoenix Fire to burn Helen.
• Cang Yun opened the Sacred Dragon Eye and stopped Bal Rakshasa in place.
• Cang Yun transformed into lightning and pierced through Bal Rakshasa to avenge Wang San.

Hong Batian destroyed Bal Rakshasa and Helen as the strange entities ravaged the Cloud Mist Secret Realm. Cang Yun gathered the survivors and asked Hong Batian to keep the disaster quiet while the Ancient Royal Clan investigated, but Hong Batian refused to conceal a threat to the Star River Cosmos.

• Hong Batian killed Bal Rakshasa and Helen with ease.
• Cang Yun told the gathered survivors that the trial was over and ordered them to assemble, then mourned Wang San, who had died saving him.
• Hong Batian found Hong Yue asleep in a cave, woke her, and brought her to the gathered survivors.
• Cang Yun assembled most of the people in the secret realm, where thirty percent of living beings had died in a single day, mostly to the strange entities.
• Cang Yun asked Hong Batian to keep news of the strange entities secret while the Ancient Royal Clan investigated, but Hong Batian refused because the threat concerned the entire Star River Cosmos.

Cang Yun accepted that he could no longer protect Liu Yue and entrusted her safety to Hong Batian and the Phoenix Clan. After Liu Yue ended her relationship with Hong Batian, he left with Hong Yue, while Liu Yue went to speak with her father.

• Cang Yun told Hong Batian to take good care of Liu Yue because he could no longer protect her.
• When the secret realm opened, Ancient Royal Clan figures prevented its entrants from leaving, but Hong Batian departed with Hong Yue and Liu Yue.
• Hong Yue told Hong Batian she had to leave, and he asked whether she was going home.
• Liu Yue apologized to Hong Batian, said there was no fate between them, and asked him not to implicate those behind her.
• Hong Batian accepted her decision, wished her happiness, and left with Hong Yue.
• Liu Yue thanked Hong Batian and headed toward her father's Void Palace.

Ye Lin brought Ye Lingxi to a remote cave, where he found a beautiful woman whose heart had stopped and whose meridians were shattered. He began pouring his immortal power into her to revive her, while Ye Lingxi realized the woman seemed important to him.

• Ye Lin brought Ye Lingxi to a cave in the mountains, and she feared he planned to kill her for her treasures.
• Ye Lin told Ye Lingxi to stay quiet, then led her through a dark passage into an enormous cave.
• Ye Lin found a woman in a red dress lying on a stone table and explained that reviving her would require an enormous price.
• Ye Lin poured his immortal power into the woman's body to repair her heart and protect her fading divine soul.
• Ye Lingxi saw Ye Lin working to revive the woman and moved closer, thinking the woman was important to him.

Ye Lin and Ye Lingxi treated an unconscious woman whose fire poison had attacked her heart. After Ye Lingxi gave her a precious Fire-Expelling Pill and Ye Lin helped purge the poison, Ye Lin said the woman would awaken within three days and save Ye Lingxi.

• Ye Lingxi recognized that the unconscious woman had fire poison and gave her a rare Fire-Expelling Pill.
• Ye Lin channeled immortal power into the woman as the pill forced her body to expel the fire poison as vapor.
• The woman's organs absorbed all of Ye Lin's immortal power before he could withdraw his hands.
• Ye Lingxi explained that the pill would expel the poison and remove the woman's immediate danger.
• Ye Lin told Ye Lingxi that the woman would save her and awaken within three days, though Ye Lingxi doubted him.

Ye Lin told Ye Lingxi to trust him and wait three days for a cure, despite her having only one month left before Annihilation Powder overwhelmed her. The next morning, Ye Lin found a foul-smelling black lump outside the cave and identified it as Chu Yunxiao, a powerful Human Race heir who was awakening nearby.

• Ye Lingxi said her meridians and heart were ruined and that she had only one month left to resist Annihilation Powder.
• Ye Lin told Ye Lingxi to rest in the cave for three days and trust that she would be cured.
• Ye Lin sat outside the cave through the night.
• The next morning, Ye Lin woke to a terrible stench and found a huge black lump nearly as tall as himself.
• Ye Lin's status display identified Chu Yunxiao as the Human Race Divine Emperor's son, sealed away and recently awakening.

Ye Lin encountered Chu Yunxiao, who left without entering the cave, then returned to find the injured He Yunyu awake. He and Ye Lingxi told her they had saved her, and she remembered her name.

• Ye Lin recognized Chu Yunxiao as a Child of Fortune, and Chu Yunxiao left after greeting him.
• Ye Lin reflected on the rarity and power of True Dragon Saliva Grass before entering the cave.
• He Yunyu woke and asked Ye Lingxi where she was and who she was.
• Ye Lin warned He Yunyu that her severed meridians made circulating her cultivation technique dangerous.
• Ye Lin claimed that he and Ye Lingxi had saved He Yunyu, and she remembered that her name was He Yunyu.

After Ye Lingxi swallowed He Yunyu’s antidote, the poison in her body disappeared by morning. Ye Lingxi set out for Medicine King Valley to reclaim her share, and Ye Lin and He Yunyu agreed to go with her.

• He Yunyu said she could remember her name but not her past, and He Yunyu gave Ye Lingxi an antidote pill.
• Ye Lingxi swallowed the pill, releasing poisonous white mist, while He Yunyu recalled that the Northern Region sounded familiar.
• By the next day, Ye Lingxi was free of Annihilation Powder and decided to return to Medicine King Valley to reclaim her holdings.
• Ye Lingxi invited Ye Lin and He Yunyu to come with her and offered them one-third of the valley’s holdings if she took control.
• Ye Lin agreed to go because he had someone to find at Medicine King Valley.

Ye Lin agreed to take He Yunyu to Medicine King Valley, then intervened when he discovered Song Qi fighting a black ox over a valuable secret. After killing the ox, Ye Lin demanded Song Qi’s key, but Song Qi tried to escape with a teleportation pearl, which began cracking inside Ye Lin’s domain.

• Ye Lin agreed to bring He Yunyu along to Medicine King Valley, and he and the two women left the cave.
• Ye Lin found Song Qi battling a black ox, and Song Qi called on him for help.
• Ye Lin’s panel revealed that Song Qi possessed a key to a Grand Unity Mysterious Immortal Demon Venerable’s cave estate containing a Life Creation Pill.
• Ye Lin killed the black ox and demanded the key, but Song Qi tried to use a pearl to escape.
• Ye Lin trapped Song Qi in his domain, causing cracks to spread across the teleportation pearl.

Ye Lin discovered that Song Qi possessed a broken Identity Token connected to a Demon Venerable’s cave abode and forced him to reveal its location. Song Qi gave in after Ye Lin bound and tortured him.

• Ye Lin explained that Song Qi’s overused spatial bead could no longer help him escape, and the bead exploded.
• Ye Lin bound Song Qi with blood-red chains and took his Spatial Ring after Song Qi claimed the item was inside.
• Ye Lin found a shattered black Identity Token in the ring, and Song Qi realized Ye Lin knew about his hidden trump card.
• Ye Lin demanded the location of the Demon Venerable’s cave abode and crushed Song Qi’s shoulder when he hesitated.
• Song Qi abandoned his attempt to bargain and agreed to tell Ye Lin the location.

Ye Lin learned from Song Qi how to reach the Taiyi Mysterious Immortal Demon Venerable’s cave abode, then killed him to keep the dangerous information secret. As Ye Lingxi flew the group toward Medicine King Valley, He Yunyu’s injuries and memories continued to recover.

• Song Qi told Ye Lin that the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern lay beyond the Northern Frontier and that the cave abode was in its three hundred and fifty-second great cavern; he swore a Great Dao oath to confirm it.
• Ye Lin freed Song Qi, then killed him from a distance after he had started to leave.
• Ye Lin asked He Yunyu about her condition, and she said her injuries were mostly healed and her memories were gradually returning.
• Ye Lingxi estimated that the group was five days from Medicine King Valley, then controlled the flying sword as Ye Lin studied the black Identity Token.
• Four days passed while Ye Lingxi continued flying the group toward Medicine King Valley.

He Yunyu recovered her memories and remembered that she was the Saintess of the Skyward Sect, stranded in the Northern Region without a way back to the Central Region. She offered Ye Lin and Ye Lingxi positions as her attendants in exchange for helping her find teleportation-array materials, but both rejected her.

• He Yunyu restored her divine soul with great medicines and recovered her memories as the Saintess of the Skyward Sect.
• He Yunyu recalled that she had reached the Northern Region through a passage and needed materials to build a large-scale teleportation array back to the Central Region.
• He Yunyu offered Ye Lin and Ye Lingxi rewards and positions as her attendants if they helped her search for the materials.
• Ye Lingxi refused He Yunyu's offer, and Ye Lin also showed no interest.
• He Yunyu grew furious when both Ye Lin and Ye Lingxi rejected her.

Ye Lin refused He Yunyu’s offer to return to the Central Region and parted ways with Ye Lingxi after curing her. He planned to capture Chu Yunxiao, obtain the Life Creation Pill, and reach the Heavenly Immortal realm so he could protect himself and search for a way out of the Northern Region.

• Ye Lin rejected He Yunyu’s offer of glory, wealth, and cultivation resources, and He Yunyu left.
• Ye Lin told Ye Lingxi their paths had run their course, and she departed alone after he vanished.
• Ye Lin planned to capture Chu Yunxiao, travel to the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern, and obtain the Life Creation Pill.
• Ye Lin resolved to use the pill to break through to the Heavenly Immortal realm and wondered when someone would wake up.

Ye Lin spotted Chu Yunxiao and learned that he was destined to find Glazed Immortal Gold in the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern. Eager to claim the treasure for his swords, Ye Lin set off, only to realize he did not know where the cavern was.

• Ye Lin saw Chu Yunxiao flying overhead and read his panel, which revealed his background, fate, and upcoming opportunity.
• Ye Lin learned that Chu Yunxiao would find Glazed Immortal Gold in the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern after being pursued by a Demon Race mighty figure.
• Ye Lin decided to go to the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern and claim the Glazed Immortal Gold to improve his swords.
• Ye Lin flew off at high speed, then stopped when he realized he did not know the cavern's location.