Chapter Summaries

Chen Changming reached the summit of Yin-Yang Mountain ahead of the other cultivators, only to find the Yin-Yang Tree bare and the fruit missing. Outside the Cold Abyss Secret Realm, Emperor Xiao Yuan sensed several Fusion Realm powerhouses approaching and secretly warned the ancestor in the Universe Pagoda.

• Chen Changming flew to Yin-Yang Mountain on the Ghostface Butterfly, but turned back when the mountain’s rules stopped it from flying higher.
• Chen Changming climbed the mountain on foot while Sun Danyi, Wang Kui, Shi Taiyan, and the other cultivators followed, unable to find him on the trail.
• Chen Changming reached the summit and discovered that the Yin-Yang Tree had no fruit and showed no signs of anyone picking it.
• Chen Changming waited at the summit for the others, hoping to learn what had happened to the Yin-Yang Fruit.
• Emperor Xiao Yuan sensed several Fusion Realm cultivators approaching the Cold Abyss Secret Realm and secretly alerted the ancestor in the Universe Pagoda.

Emperor Xiao Yuan and the clans outside the Cold Abyss Secret Realm feared that a host of Fusion Realm cultivators had come for the Ghostface Butterfly, until they recognized the first arrivals as the Xiao Household's resurrected ancestors. The strange ancestors rejected the Imperial Clan, and more powerful cultivators arrived, leaving the Imperial Clan ancestor wondering whether they had all come for the butterfly.

• Emperor Xiao Yuan sensed a group of Fusion Realm cultivators approaching the Cold Abyss Secret Realm, alarming the Imperial Clan and the other clans.
• The Wang Family Patriarch and Chen Yuanyue ordered their people to hold position and watched the newcomers approach.
• A host of shroud-clad elders arrived, and Emperor Xiao Yuan recognized them as the Xiao Household's ancestors and released the ancestor from the Universe Pagoda.
• The Imperial Clan ancestors ignored Emperor Xiao Yuan, then one of them shouted for him to scram, forcing the Imperial Clan to retreat.
• More Fusion Realm and peak Void Refinement Realm cultivators arrived, and the Imperial Clan ancestor wondered whether the Ghostface Butterfly had drawn them all.

Chen Changming confronted the nine Void Refinement Realm cultivators on Yin-Yang Mountain after the Yin-Yang Fruits disappeared, while hundreds of ancestors gathered outside the Cold Abyss Secret Realm. As Chen Changming prepared to descend and deal with his pursuers, the Yin-Yang Tree suddenly fell.

• Chen Changming showed the nine cultivators the bare Yin-Yang Tree, and they realized none of its ten fruits remained.
• The nine agreed to retreat and ambush Chen Changming outside the mountain so they could seize the Ghostface Butterfly.
• Hundreds of resurrected ancestors gathered at the secret realm entrance, leaving Emperor Xiao Yuan and the patriarch puzzled about their purpose.
• Chen Changming found nothing beneath the tree, decided to descend and finish off the nine cultivators, then heard a sound and saw the Yin-Yang Tree topple.

After the Yin-Yang Tree died, Chen Changming suspected the Cold Abyss Secret Realm was changing, and its suppression suddenly lifted, restoring his cultivation. He confronted the nine cultivators at the mountain’s foot, where the Wang Family elder attacked him with a flying sword and Chen Changming reached out to catch it bare-handed.

• Chen Changming watched the Yin-Yang Tree wither and die, then suspected the secret realm was being destroyed or transformed.
• Chen Changming turned to descend the mountain, and the secret realm’s suppression vanished, restoring his Dao cultivation to the Second Layer and his body cultivation to the Sixth Layer of the Void Refinement Realm.
• The nine cultivators at the mountain’s foot also recovered their cultivation, and the Wang Family elder vowed to kill Chen Chuan.
• Chen Changming stopped before the nine and pretended to be shocked that their cultivation had returned.
• The Wang Family elder launched his Life-Bound Flying Sword at Chen Chuan, and Chen Changming calmly reached out to catch it with his bare hand.

Chen Changming used overwhelming body-cultivation strength to kill the Wang Family and Imperial Clan elders who had attacked him, then collected their Storage Rings. Outside the Cold Abyss Secret Realm, its entrance began trembling violently.

• Chen Changming shattered the Wang Family elder’s Life-Bound Flying Sword, causing the elder and the others to flee.
• Chen Changming confined the fleeing cultivators with Spatial Confinement and killed the Wang Family elder as he tried to escape.
• Chen Changming pulled the remaining eight cultivators back and killed an Imperial Clan elder who demanded to know who he was.
• Chen Changming killed a Sun Family elder after the man warned that the Cold Abyss Secret Realm had undergone a great upheaval.
• The remaining cultivators cursed Chen Changming, and he killed them all before gathering their Storage Rings.
• The vortex entrance to the Cold Abyss Secret Realm began to tremble and churn violently.

As the Cold Abyss Secret Realm’s restrictions collapsed, Imperial Clan and Aristocratic Clan ancestors entered, threatening Chen Chuan and forcing the clans gathered outside to reconsider their plans. Chen Changming then sensed a huge wave of Fusion Realm and peak Void Refinement Realm cultivators approaching inside the secret realm.

• The Imperial Clan ancestors entered the Cold Abyss Secret Realm, revealing that its rules had begun to collapse and allowing Fusion Realm cultivators to pass through.
• Chen Yuanyue feared Chen Chuan would die among the ancestors flooding into the realm, while the Imperial Clan ancestor decided to wait outside and seize Yin-Yang Fruits from whoever emerged victorious.
• The Imperial Clan ancestor sent Emperor Xiao Yuan back to the capital, and the Wang Family and other clans soon retreated from the entrance.
• After traveling several li from Yin-Yang Mountain, Chen Changming sensed numerous Fusion Realm auras and peak tenth-layer Void Refinement Realm cultivators approaching, so he stopped in midair.

Chen Changming followed a gathering of dead-looking Fusion Realm cultivators and their followers to Yin-Yang Mountain, where they claimed to have eaten the Yin-Yang Fruit and returned to life. They prepared to demonstrate a resurrection art, leaving Chen Changming to suspect the shrouded elders were ancestors of the great clans and the Imperial Clan, and that their secret might explain the Cold Abyss Secret Realm and the Yin-Yang Fruit.

• Chen Changming saw that the arriving Fusion Realm cultivators were corpse-like elders and decided to follow them into the Cold Abyss Secret Realm.
• The elders and countless Void Refinement Realm cultivators flew to Yin-Yang Mountain, ignoring Chen Changming as he followed.
• Chen Changming found the mountain's power gone and asked the elders about the missing Yin-Yang Fruit; they answered that there had never been any fruit, then said they had eaten it.
• A second-layer Fusion Realm elder told Chen Changming that the elders had eaten the Yin-Yang Fruit, come back to life, and would show him a resurrection art.
• Chen Changming agreed to watch while preparing to act, recognized that several shrouded elders resembled Emperor Xiao Yuan, and suspected the gathering's secret was tied to the secret realm, the Yin-Yang Fruit, and possibly the Ancient Ghost Clan.

Chen Changming watched hundreds of cultivators merge into the Yin-Yang Tree’s sap and form a cocoon, from which an Ancient Ghost emerged. The Ancient Ghost revealed a Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain Fragment, and Chen Changming realized it had been beneath the Yin-Yang Tree all along.

• The Fusion Realm cultivators and Void Refinement Realm elders entered the black-red sap, which formed a huge cocoon.
• The cocoon cracked open, and a man resembling an Ancient Ghost emerged in a newly formed body.
• The man confirmed he was an Ancient Ghost and threatened Chen Changming when he asked why the man was different.
• The man summoned a Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain Fragment, and Chen Changming recognized it as the source of the Yin-Yang Tree’s power.

Chen Changming confronted the Ancient Ghost, who revealed his past as a Fusion Realm cultivator wounded by a Mahayana Realm dragon and reborn through Liberation by Violence. The Ancient Ghost attacked after discovering his own strength could not harm Chen Changming, then realized Chen Changming was a Fusion Realm body cultivator and demanded to know how he entered the Cold Abyss Secret Realm.

• The Ancient Ghost explained that he had been wounded by a Mahayana Realm dragon and used the Yin-Yang Fruit and a fragment of the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain to arrange his rebirth through Liberation by Violence.
• The Ancient Ghost revealed that he had been a Fusion Realm cultivator and unleashed the aura of a third-layer Fusion Realm expert against Chen Changming.
• Chen Changming remained unharmed under the Ancient Ghost's pressure, then mocked him for failing to kill him.
• The Ancient Ghost formed a giant claw to seize Chen Changming, but Chen Changming's punch shattered it and carved a furrow through the ground.
• The Ancient Ghost recognized Chen Changming as a Fusion Realm body cultivator and questioned how he had entered the Cold Abyss Secret Realm.
• Chen Changming concealed the role of Senior Mysterious Lotus-Root Node and suggested that the secret realm had been designed poorly.

Chen Changming fought an Ancient Ghost who wielded a Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain fragment, meeting its power with his Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain Replica. The two spirit mountains clashed as the Ancient Ghost armored himself and charged Chen Changming, who prepared to fight him head-on.

• The Ancient Ghost used the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain fragment to attack Chen Changming, who summoned the Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain Replica to block him.
• Chen Changming mocked the Ancient Ghost and revealed that his replica contained a Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain Fragment, prompting the Ancient Ghost to retreat and question whether Chen Changming had inherited the Ancient Human Clan's legacy.
• Chen Changming used the replica's suction against the Ancient Ghost and offered to reveal where he came from in exchange for the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain fragment.
• The Ancient Ghost refused and sent the fragment's black and red light surging against the Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain Replica, beginning a fierce clash between the spirit mountains.
• The Ancient Ghost formed black armor and charged Chen Changming, who turned his skin purple and met him with a punch.

Chen Changming fought an Ancient Ghost evenly using only his physical strength until his opponent unleashed the Nine Netherworld Turns. Chen Changming then activated the Indestructible Demonic Heart, and the Ancient Ghost vowed to kill him.

• Chen Changming and the Ancient Ghost exchanged powerful close-range blows, with neither able to seriously injure the other.
• The Ancient Ghost marveled at Chen Changming’s Immortal Furnace Body-Forging Art and demanded to know why he could not sense Chen’s cultivation.
• The Ancient Ghost activated the Nine Netherworld Turns, surrounding himself with freezing black flames and raising his aura toward the fourth layer of the Fusion Realm.
• Chen Changming recognized the technique as a strength-boosting secret art and activated the Indestructible Demonic Heart.
• The Ancient Ghost saw the demonic qi around Chen Changming, briefly wondered whether it was connected to the Ancient Demon Clan, then suppressed his doubts and vowed to kill him.

Chen Changming battled the Ancient Ghost as he unleashed the seventh turn of Nine Netherworld Turns, while Chen Changming relied on his healing art and Pagoda-Lifting Heavenly Art to keep pace. Their fight devastated Yin-Yang Mountain, and both continued attacking as their time-limited secret arts neared their limits.

• Chen Changming injured the Ancient Ghost with a full-force punch, but the Ancient Ghost's sixth turn sent him flying and cracked his skin.
• Chen Changming healed himself with the Spring Return Immortal Art, alarming the Ancient Ghost and prompting him to unleash the seventh turn of Nine Netherworld Turns.
• The Ancient Ghost attacked at greater speed, and Chen Changming enlarged his body and used the Pagoda-Lifting Heavenly Art to grow six extra arms and block the assault.
• The Ancient Ghost recognized Chen Changming's many inherited arts and resolved to outlast his temporary abilities, while knowing the seventh turn was his own limit.
• Chen Changming and the Ancient Ghost fought across Yin-Yang Mountain in a furious exchange that nearly leveled it.

Chen Changming used the Golden Dragon Horn to stop the Ancient Ghost from absorbing the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain fragment, and their clash badly injured them both. The Ancient Ghost rose from the wreckage still holding the fragment.

• The Ancient Ghost knocked the Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain Replica away and engulfed the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain fragment in black flames.
• Chen Changming summoned the Golden Dragon Horn and charged the Ancient Ghost before he could absorb the fragment.
• The Ancient Ghost spat out the fragment and used it to block the Golden Dragon Horn’s strike.
• The collision sent the Ancient Ghost crashing into a mountainside and injured Chen Changming with the recoil.
• The Ancient Ghost climbed out of the pit with the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain fragment still in his grasp.

The Ancient Ghost tried to possess Chen Changming after realizing he could neither defeat nor escape him. Chen Changming’s Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root destroyed the ghost’s soul, leaving its body shattered and its eyes extinguished.

• The Ancient Ghost decided to use his possession art, knowing it would destroy his current body and make returning to his clan difficult.
• Chen Changming healed himself and attacked with the Golden Dragon Horn as the Ancient Ghost hid his possession strike beneath ghostly flames.
• The Ancient Ghost sent black light into Chen Changming’s sea of consciousness while Chen Changming’s blow knocked the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain Fragment away and shattered the ghost’s body.
• The Ancient Ghost found the Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root in Chen Changming’s sea of consciousness and tried to evade it to reach Chen Changming’s soul.
• The Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root crushed the Ancient Ghost’s black-light soul and absorbed its remaining fragments.
• The Ancient Ghost’s body broke apart, leaving only its head among the rubble as the ghost fire in its eyes went out.

Chen Changming recovered after the Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root killed the Ancient Ghost, then secured the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain fragment. He left with the Demon Spirit Vine digesting the Ancient Ghost’s remains and only the Mahayana Boundless Mountain fragment still missing from the Six Great Spirit Mountains.

• The Heaven-Escaping Spirit Root killed and absorbed the Ancient Ghost, then told Chen Changming it needed to sleep while still concealing his body cultivation aura.
• Chen Changming summoned the Demon Spirit Vine and ordered it to devour the scattered remains of the third-layer Fusion Realm Ancient Ghost.
• The Demon Spirit Vine consumed every remnant and returned to the Beast Taming Bracelet to sleep, potentially on the verge of breaking through to the Fusion Realm.
• Chen Changming teleported after the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain fragment and found the Primal Magnetism Ren Mountain Replica holding it with magnetic force.
• Chen Changming caught and calmed the fragment, leaving him with five of the Six Great Spirit Mountain fragments and the Mahayana Boundless Mountain fragment still to find.

Chen Changming persuaded the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain Fragment to acknowledge him as its master, then learned how its former master had planned to resurrect himself. The fragment revealed that the resurrection method was incomplete and had left its former master’s mind impaired.

• Chen Changming threatened to erase the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain Fragment’s intelligence unless it submitted, and claimed he could refine a Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain replica.
• The Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain Fragment agreed to become Chen Changming’s master, hoping he might eventually restore it into a complete Spirit Mountain.
• The fragment asked about the Ancient Ghost aura it had sensed, and Chen Changming explained that the Medicine Sect’s Demon Spirit Vine possessed Ancient Ghost essence.
• Chen Changming asked how the fragment’s former master had used Liberation by Violence to return to life, and the fragment described his plan to disperse a Dragon Clan law through Yin-Yang Fruit consumers and reconstruct his body from the resulting power.
• The Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain Fragment said the resurrection method was incomplete and that its former master’s mind had seemed damaged after his return.

Chen Changming left the Cold Abyss Secret Realm after reflecting on the Six Ancients’ downfall and the Ancient Ghost Clan’s resurrection art. Outside, the Imperial Clan’s patriarch confronted him and demanded to know what had happened, and Chen Changming’s claim that the resurrected ancestors were all dead enraged him.

• Chen Changming put away the Primordial Yin-Yang Mountain Fragment and considered how the Ancient Ghost Clan had tried to resurrect the ancestors through Liberation by Violence.
• Chen Changming reflected on how the Six Ancients had been weakened by their conflicts with the True Spirit Races, super races, and Ancient Immortals, as well as the Heavenly Dao’s opposition.
• Chen Changming changed back into his Snow Bamboo Sect inner disciple clothes and flew out of the Cold Abyss Secret Realm.
• The Imperial Clan’s patriarch, who had been waiting outside, released his Fusion Realm pressure when Chen Changming emerged, then recognized him as Chen Chuan of the Chen Household.
• The patriarch demanded to know where the resurrected ancestors were, and Chen Changming replied that they were all dead.
• The patriarch refused to believe him and intensified his pressure, threatening to grind Chen Changming’s bones to dust if he was lying.