Chapter Summaries

Bai Yusheng urged Chen Lingfeng to join him in targeting Shen Changchuan for the Elephant Mountain Sect’s inheritance, just as the array sealing Enlightenment Cave Heaven collapsed and the gathered prodigies rushed inside. Elsewhere, Shen Changchuan comforted Nangong Cheng after a wounded companion died, warning him about a betrayal tied to the Nangong Heir.

• Bai Yusheng told Chen Lingfeng that Shen Changchuan was suspected of taking the Elephant Mountain Sect’s greatest treasures and would become a target if the cave yielded little.
• Chen Lingfeng considered cooperating with Bai Yusheng to pursue Shen Changchuan’s inheritance despite his master’s influence.
• The grand array around Enlightenment Cave Heaven shattered, and the outer-domain prodigies surged toward the entrance as other cultivators followed.
• A dying young man warned Nangong Cheng that someone had exposed him and urged him to be wary before he died in Nangong Cheng’s arms.
• Shen Changchuan offered Nangong Cheng condolences and comfort, recognizing that the dead man’s wounds and Nangong Cheng’s pursuit were connected to the Nangong Heir.

Nangong Cheng sealed Liu Zi’s body in an ice coffin and vowed to avenge him as he and Shen Changchuan hurried toward Enlightenment Cave Heaven. There, Luo Jiuzhang watched the growing battle, profiting from the turmoil he had helped stir up, while Shen Changchuan noticed him but continued on.

• Nangong Cheng rejected Shen Changchuan’s offer of help, sealed Liu Zi’s body in an ice coffin, and vowed to make Liu Zi’s killer pay.
• Nangong Cheng warned Shen Changchuan that the God Calculation Sect’s disciples had nearly broken Enlightenment Cave Heaven’s outer formation, and they set off toward it.
• Luo Jiuzhang absorbed tribulation qi and fate energy through his tortoise shell while the disciples inside Enlightenment Cave Heaven began fighting.
• Luo Jiuzhang reflected that the battle would benefit his Heavenly Secret Calculation and considered the larger conflicts he hoped to exploit in the future.
• Shen Changchuan and Nangong Cheng flew past Luo Jiuzhang toward Enlightenment Cave Heaven, and Shen Changchuan remarked that Luo seemed strange.

The foreign-region prodigies fought over the jade platform in the Enlightenment Cave Heaven, while Bai Yusheng and Nangong Yunfan clashed over their rival families. As the battle stalled with every faction watching the platform, Chen Lingfeng proposed that he seize it with Bai Yusheng’s help.

• The foreign-region prodigies split into factions and fought, first eliminating lone competitors and then turning on one another.
• Bai Yusheng urged Nangong Yunfan to help him claim the Enlightenment Stone’s jade platform, but Nangong Yunfan revealed his ninth-level Out-of-Body Realm strength and refused.
• Nangong Yunfan and Bai Yusheng exchanged powerful attacks, and Bai Yusheng accused Nangong Yunfan of arranging Nangong Cheng’s death and said he had evidence.
• Nangong Yunfan charged at Bai Yusheng as their followers joined the battle, while fighting continued across the cave heaven over the jade platform.
• Chen Lingfeng warned Bai Yusheng that more ox-demons and snake-spirits might arrive, then asked him to cover him while he seized the platform and promised to divide it afterward.

Bai Yusheng used his ancestor’s Spirit Wandering Realm power to clear a path for Chen Lingfeng, who seized the Jade Platform and escaped with a talisman. As Chen Lingfeng raced out of the valley, he collided with Shen Changchuan, who prepared to defend himself against the newcomer’s attack.

• Bai Yusheng decided to act and activated a jade talisman containing a strike from the Bai Clan’s ancestor.
• Bai Yusheng directed the ancestor’s overwhelming palm toward the prodigies besieging Chen Lingfeng, forcing them to scatter.
• Chen Lingfeng took advantage of the chaos, broke through the remaining formations, and put the Jade Platform into his Storage Bag.
• Chen Lingfeng used a talisman to flee at Spirit Wandering Realm speed and thanked Bai Yusheng as he escaped.
• Shen Changchuan and Nangong Cheng entered from outside the valley, and Chen Lingfeng raced toward Shen Changchuan, who sensed the attack and prepared to counter.

Shen Changchuan and the other cultivators witnessed a mysterious Black-Skirted Maiden strike Chen Lingfeng down and appear at the Elephant Mountain Sect Ruins. She claimed she had come to retrieve her ancestor’s inheritance, leaving the gathered factions wary and uncertain of her strength.

• Chen Lingfeng charged toward Shen Changchuan, but a black beam suddenly pierced him and sent him crashing into the earth.
• Shen Changchuan pulled Nangong Cheng back as the surrounding cultivators scattered and formed a wary encirclement around Chen Lingfeng.
• A Black-Skirted Maiden appeared in the sky, and Shen Changchuan sensed an unprecedented danger from her.
• Nangong Cheng told Shen Changchuan that he did not recognize the mysterious maiden or know of a prodigy like her from nearby regions.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden greeted the gathered cultivators and asked them to let her retrieve her ancestor’s inheritance.
• A cultivator questioned whether she was descended from the remnants of the Elephant Mountain Sect, and the crowd grew tense.

A mysterious Black-Skirted Maiden entered the struggle for the Jade Platform and used a charm technique that ensnared most of the cultivators. Chen Lingfeng identified her as a possible Heavenly Demon Sect Saintess, and her revealed cultivation left the gathered prodigies eager to confront her.

• Shen Changchuan and the others suspected the Black-Skirted Maiden might be a Spirit Wandering Realm cultivator come to claim the Elephant Mountain Sect’s inheritance.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden used her alluring presence to trap cultivators below the ninth level of the Out of Body Realm in illusions, but Shen Changchuan woke Nangong Cheng and warned him not to look at her.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden asked the cultivators to let her take her ancestor’s inheritance, while Chen Lingfeng recognized her Black Heart Lotus Needle and Night Star Charm Scripture as Heavenly Demon Sect techniques.
• Chen Lingfeng accused the Black-Skirted Maiden of being a Saint Son or Saintess, and she admitted she could not let the witnesses remain alive.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden unleashed her aura, revealing that her cultivation was at the peak of the ninth level of the Out-of-Body Realm rather than the Spirit Wandering Realm.

Shi Mengting revealed her Elephant Mountain Sect inheritance and crushed the foreign-region prodigies’ combined attack, while Shen Changchuan recognized the danger and prepared to leave. Before he could escape, a massive formation sealed the Enlightenment Cave Heaven and trapped everyone inside.

• The foreign-region prodigies attacked Shi Mengting after discovering she was only at the ninth level of the Out-of-Body Realm, while Shen Changchuan sensed danger and told Nangong Cheng to retreat.
• Shi Mengting used Primordial Heaven-Swallowing to create a black-hole vortex that swallowed the attacks and tore up the surrounding land.
• The prodigies recognized Shi Mengting as a Saintess candidate descended from the Elephant Mountain Sect and fled in terror.
• Shen Changchuan considered the surviving Elephant Mountain Sect lineage and decided to avoid Shi Mengting and leave.
• A gigantic formation light curtain rose through the Enlightenment Cave Heaven, trapping everyone inside.

Luo Jiuzhang escaped the formation and realized the Heavenly Demon Sect might be targeting the Southern Great Region’s young prodigies, putting his God Calculation Sect at risk of blame. Inside the formation, the Black-Skirted Maiden killed Chen Lingfeng and recovered the Jade Platform bearing the Enlightenment Stone’s aura.

• Luo Jiuzhang escaped a hundred li from the formation using a Heavenly Mystery Escape Talisman and worried that the Heavenly Demon Sect had trapped the gathered prodigies.
• Luo Jiuzhang suspected the Heavenly Demon Sect intended to weaken the Jade Clarity Immortal Sect and feared the God Calculation Sect would be blamed for the deaths.
• Luo Jiuzhang decided to leave and seek help from immortal sect leaders or nearby Spirit Wandering Realm experts.
• The formation trapped the gathered prodigies, while their attacks failed to break its curtain of light and few dared to challenge the Black-Skirted Maiden.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden killed Chen Lingfeng, took his Storage Bag, and found the Jade Platform stained with the Enlightenment Stone’s aura.

The Black-Skirted Maiden prepared to kill the Jade Clarity Sect prodigies trapped in Enlightenment Cave Heaven, then revealed her mastery of spatial power as she slaughtered them. Watching from a nearby mountain, Shen Changchuan recognized her ability and considered taking its secrets for himself.

• The Black-Skirted Maiden examined the Storage Bag and Jade Platform, reflecting on the Enlightenment Stone and resolving to grow strong enough to reclaim what the Elephant Mountain Sect had lost.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden declared that killing the Jade Clarity Sect prodigies would earn her merit, but Huang Li attacked her from behind with a huge mace.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden evaded Huang Li's strike and killed him with a flash of Sword Qi, frightening the surrounding prodigies.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden vanished and reappeared throughout the crowd, killing seven or eight prodigies despite their spells and attempts to flee.
• Shen Changchuan sensed that the Black-Skirted Maiden had truly mastered spatial power and wondered whether he could obtain her method.

Shen Changchuan watched the Heavenly Demon Sect Saintess Candidate slaughter her opponents and realized the gap between himself and the top prodigies was greater than he had believed. When Bai Yusheng, the Nangong Heir, and others unleashed their Spirit Wandering Realm attacks, she escaped their locks with a silver bracelet and space power, leaving the survivors facing her again.

• Shen Changchuan hid behind cover and used the True Insight Pupil to study the Saintess Candidate’s methods.
• Bai Yusheng, the Nangong Heir, and other top prodigies coordinated their attacks and activated their Spirit Wandering Realm talismans.
• The Saintess Candidate’s silver bracelet broke the attacks’ spiritual-sense locks, allowing her to evade them by crossing space.
• The attacks devastated the area and shook the Enlightenment Cave Heaven’s formation, but failed to hit the Saintess Candidate.
• The Saintess Candidate appeared before the surviving prodigies, who stared at her in fear after their trump cards failed.

Shen Changchuan saw through the Black-Skirted Maiden’s use of a silver bracelet and movement technique to borrow spatial power, easing his fears but leaving him searching for a way to fight her. As she slaughtered the trapped prodigies, he finally emerged from hiding and made his move.

• Shen Changchuan used his True Insight Pupil to deduce that the Black-Skirted Maiden relied on her silver bracelet and a paired movement technique rather than having mastered the Power of Space.
• Shen Changchuan considered developing a movement technique that could draw out the Void-Escaping Gu’s power, then focused on how to confront the Black-Skirted Maiden.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden continued killing the outer-domain prodigies, evading their attacks and escape attempts with the silver bracelet.
• More than seventy percent of the gathered outer-region prodigies died, while the survivors fell into despair beneath the light curtain.
• Shen Changchuan, who had been hiding in the shadows, made his move.

Shen Changchuan discovered how to disrupt the Heavenly Demon Sect Saintess Candidate’s spatial movement and struck her while her defenses were compromised. After landing two powerful attacks, he left her teleportation advantage broken, though the fight continued.

• Shen Changchuan’s first attack struck the Heavenly Demon Sect Saintess Candidate and sent her flying, while the surviving prodigies searched for the attacker.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden realized that interference with her Sky-Controlling Bracelet had disrupted her spatial escape and left her vulnerable to a soul attack and sword strike.
• The Black-Skirted Maiden tried to teleport away from a second attack, but the spatial interference forced her to block with a palm strike.
• Shen Changchuan clashed with the Black-Skirted Maiden head-on and blasted her backward, drawing blood.
• Shen Changchuan concluded that disrupting the bracelet had broken the synergy between its spatial power and her movement technique.

Shen Changchuan struck the Heavenly Demon Sect's Saintess Candidate twice and sent her flying, astonishing the surviving outer-region prodigies who had been unable to resist her. As they recognized him and discussed his strength, Nangong Yunfan wondered whether his connection to Nangong Cheng would make them enemies in the future.

• Shen Changchuan launched a sneak attack and hit the Black-Skirted Maiden twice, blasting her away with a punch.
• The surviving outer-region prodigies watched in disbelief, unable to understand how Shen Changchuan had injured the Demoness they could not defeat.
• Someone recognized Shen Changchuan, and the prodigies recalled his earlier victory over Xiong Kuangdao at Dawan Village.
• Bai Yusheng told Nangong Yunfan that Shen Changchuan had once fought at the Seventh Level of Out-of-Body Realm with strength comparable to the early Ninth Level.
• Nangong Yunfan suspected that Nangong Cheng had a close relationship with Shen Changchuan and wondered whether they might become enemies.

Shen Changchuan used the Void-Escaping Gu and the overclocked Golden Wind Jade Dew Gu to cripple the Heavenly Demon Sect candidate Saintess’s movement technique and gain the upper hand. As he pursued her with a spatially empowered punch, she raised a shield with the ancient Sky-Controlling Bracelet and resolved to kill him and seize his spatial implement.

• Bai Yusheng reconsidered Shen Changchuan after watching him defeat the Heavenly Demon Sect candidate Saintess, while Nangong Yunfan worried that Nangong Cheng’s closeness to Shen Changchuan would make them enemies.
• Shen Changchuan recognized that the Saintess remained stronger than him despite her lost movement technique, but pressed his attack before she could recover.
• Shen Changchuan caught up with the Black-Skirted Maiden and struck with a powerful punch infused with the Void-Escaping Gu’s Power of Space.
• The Heavenly Demon Sect candidate Saintess could not evade and used the ancient Sky-Controlling Bracelet to form a spatial shield against his attack.
• The Saintess decided to kill Shen Changchuan and take his spatial implement, hoping to combine it with her bracelet.

Shen Changchuan and the Black-Skirted Maiden clashed with their space-related treasures, devastating the Enlightenment Cave Heaven. Shen Changchuan unleashed a Jade Talisman containing Roaming Dragon’s strike to exploit her divine-soul weakness, but she escaped by sacrificing an arm and a leg.

• The Black-Skirted Maiden poured her magic power into the Ancient Sky-Controlling Bracelet and met Shen Changchuan’s attack with its spatial power.
• Their collision created a vast abyss and sent the Outer Domain Prodigies fleeing from the destructive shockwave.
• Shen Changchuan crushed a Jade Talisman containing one of Roaming Dragon’s attacks and used the Void-Escaping Gu to disrupt the surrounding space.
• Shen Changchuan’s divine-soul attack exposed the Black-Skirted Maiden’s weakness and left her unable to flee at first.
• As a Spirit Wandering Realm figure’s furious roar came from Beyond the Heavens, the Black-Skirted Maiden blew off one arm and one leg and vanished through space.

Shen Changchuan seized the Black-Skirted Maiden’s bracelet, then faced a peak Spirit Wandering Realm attacker and feared his master’s Jade Talismans would not be enough to save him. The formation around the Enlightenment Cave Heaven shattered, and Ming Xuanyang intervened, forcing the injured Heavenly Demon Sect Saintess Candidate and her Dao Protector to consider retreating.

• After the Black-Skirted Maiden escaped by destroying parts of her body, Shen Changchuan grabbed the bracelet she left behind.
• A black strike from a peak Spirit Wandering Realm expert attacked Shen Changchuan, who countered with the power sealed in his Jade Talisman.
• The collision unleashed a devastating shockwave that battered the Enlightenment Cave Heaven’s formation and swept Shen Changchuan into its Mana Torrent.
• Shen Changchuan realized his remaining Jade Talismans could only delay the powerful enemy and saw no way to turn the fight around.
• The formation shattered, and Ming Xuanyang’s mana hand descended as he condemned the Heavenly Demon Sect.
• The old woman urged the wounded Heavenly Demon Sect Saintess Candidate to withdraw, while the Saintess questioned why Ming Xuanyang had appeared in Roaming Dragon’s territory.

After Shen Changchuan defeated the Heavenly Demon Sect’s Saintess Candidate, Aunt Song took her away as a powerful cultivator’s attack arrived. The danger passed, and Shen Changchuan resolved to reach the Spirit Wandering Realm before Luo Jiuzhang introduced himself and explained how support had arrived.

• The Saintess Candidate recognized Shen Changchuan as the opponent who had defeated her and vowed to repay the humiliation, while Aunt Song urged her to retreat.
• Aunt Song opened a spatial rift and escaped with the Saintess Candidate before a giant hand descended; the arriving powerhouse dispersed the magical storm and then vanished.
• Shen Changchuan reflected on how close he had come to death and resolved to advance to the Spirit Wandering Realm so he could control his own fate.
• Luo Jiuzhang introduced himself to Shen Changchuan and said he had encountered Uncle-Master Ming, allowing support to arrive in time.

Shen Changchuan learned from Luo Jiuzhang that Shi Mengting’s attack had killed many prodigies and several Spirit Wandering Realm experts, leaving the immortal sects likely to retaliate. After leaving the survivors, Shen decided to seek safety at the Dragon Firmament Sect and began inspecting Shi Mengting’s storage bracelet.

• Shen Changchuan greeted Luo Jiuzhang, who explained Shi Mengting’s identity and speculated about why she had come to the Elephant Mountain Sect Ruins.
• Luo Jiuzhang revealed that Shi Mengting’s Dao Protector had killed several Spirit Wandering Realm experts outside, and Shen Changchuan considered the scale of the casualties.
• Nangong Cheng declined to leave with Shen Changchuan because he wanted to stay with the injured Nangong Family and avenge Xiao Liu.
• Shen Changchuan accepted Bai Yusheng and the other survivors’ thanks, then left the ruins.
• Shen Changchuan decided to seek refuge at the Dragon Firmament Sect’s mountain gate and checked the storage bracelet he had taken from Shi Mengting.

Shen Changchuan escaped the Elephant Mountain Sect Ruins and assessed the gains that could help him improve his cultivation and comprehension. The Jade Platform led him to suspect that the Enlightenment Stone was behind the region’s powerful cultivators and the Immortal Sect’s renewed campaign against the Heavenly Demon Sect, so he resolved to return and strengthen himself.

• Shen Changchuan flew toward Dawan Village on Little Wind and reflected on how Thunder Flame Body Tempering and the Golden Wind Jade Dew Gu had strengthened his body and sped up his cultivation.
• Shen Changchuan examined the bracelet taken from the Heavenly Demon Sect Saintess Candidate and found abundant resources that could help him advance before the Immortal Sect Grand Competition.
• Shen Changchuan sensed that the Jade Platform enhanced his comprehension and believed it could eventually help him develop a spell using the Void-Escaping Gu’s Power of Space.
• Shen Changchuan suspected that the Enlightenment Stone had helped the old Elephant Mountain Sect produce three Mystic Core Realm cultivators and was the reason the Immortal Sect planned to strike the Heavenly Demon Sect again.
• Shen Changchuan decided to return and focus on improving his strength because he could not yet resist the larger conflict he foresaw.

Shen Changchuan returned to Dawan Village and arranged for his maternal relatives to leave for their safety before he went into seclusion at the Dragon Firmament Sect. His mother Han Yue'er refused to go with him, and his grandfather Han Qinhu chose to remain behind and guard the village.

• Shen Changchuan returned to Dawan Village and decided to seek refuge at the Dragon Firmament Sect until he knew whether Shi Mengting would retaliate.
• Shen Changchuan arranged secret escape routes and new homes for his maternal relatives, but Han Yue'er refused to stay at the Dragon Firmament Sect's mountain gate.
• Han Qinhu also refused to leave Dawan Village, saying he wanted to guard the place he had managed for decades despite his age and poor health.
• Han Yue'er, Han Dayong, and the rest of the Han Clan tried to change Han Qinhu's mind, but he remained firm, so they left while he stayed with several elderly villagers.
• Shen Changchuan bowed toward Dawan Village in gratitude for Han Qinhu's support and the resources the village had provided throughout his rise.