Chapter Summaries

After his second failed attempt to invade a Heart Demon Law tribulation in the Mysterious Yellow Realm, Zhao Hao sought precise targets by bargaining with a Nascent Soul Heavenly Demon. He learned about three worlds and discovered that the Mysterious Yellow Realm had once produced a transmigrator who reached the True Immortal realm.

• Zhao Hao saw that Azure Cloud World's sky had changed as the bronze chain began dragging it toward an unknown Star Domain, starting a ten-year countdown.
• Zhao Hao examined the soul power his Heavenly Demon avatar had lost and decided to seek precise world targets instead of invading blindly.
• Zhao Hao contacted the Nascent Soul Heavenly Demon and offered a lead to a Void Refinement Stage Heavenly Demon arm in exchange for world information and source auras.
• The Nascent Soul Heavenly Demon named the Spirit World, Shaman World, and Mysterious Yellow Realm, explaining how his race tracked people from those worlds during tribulations.
• The Nascent Soul Heavenly Demon revealed that an invader from another universe had reached the True Immortal realm in the Mysterious Yellow Realm, whose source was later damaged in a battle with pursuers from the Immortal Realm.

Zhao Hao reviewed possible worlds for smuggled ascension, completed his cultivation-art conversion, and raised his five major Heavenly Demon Divine Abilities to Ninth-grade. When the Azure Cloud World began rejecting Moro, Zhao Hao sent the avatar through a crack in its barrier, where a spatial storm nearly destroyed him and revealed that the bronze chains made the world a moving prison.

• Zhao Hao considered the Shaman World, Spirit World, and Mysterious Yellow Realm as destinations for smuggled ascension, then added the Mysterious Yellow Realm to his options.
• Zhao Hao completed his conversion to the Li Fire Imperial Spirit Canon and raised all five major Heavenly Demon Divine Abilities to Ninth-grade.
• Zhao Hao sensed the Azure Cloud World's laws rejecting Moro and ordered the avatar to leave with the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
• Moro used the Formless Demon Body to squeeze through a crack in the world barrier, but a spatial storm tore apart his black mist body before he re-formed in the void.
• Zhao Hao realized the bronze chains had made the Azure Cloud World a moving prison and considered using his Ninth-grade abilities to attempt an invasion with his true body.

Zhao Hao entered the inner landscape world in his true body and encountered a powerful winged stranger before finding a Nascent Soul breakthrough in the Mysterious Yellow Realm. His illusion was repelled by the cultivator’s soul-defense treasure, leaving Zhao Hao exposed and the cultivator bewildered by his appearance.

• Zhao Hao opened a passage into the inner landscape world and entered as black mist.
• Zhao Hao saw a light-winged man, who recognized him as a Nascent Soul Realm Heavenly Demon but could not touch him because of the world’s restrictions.
• Zhao Hao sensed a Nascent Soul breakthrough in the Mysterious Yellow Realm and entered the cultivator’s sea of consciousness.
• Zhao Hao’s Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm struck the cultivator’s Soul-Settling Golden Bell and was reflected back, dispersing his disguise.
• The cultivator saw Zhao Hao’s ordinary human appearance and wondered if this was what an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon looked like.

Zhao Hao invaded a young cultivator’s sea of consciousness, where the cultivator mistook him for a human traitor allied with the Heavenly Demons. After testing which powers worked in the space, Zhao Hao let the cultivator attack and began enhancing his Soul-Devouring Jade with the Soul-Settling Golden Bell.

• Zhao Hao’s Soul-Devouring Jade repelled the force of the young cultivator’s mid-grade Soul-Settling Golden Bell, and the young cultivator accused him of defecting to the Heavenly Demons.
• Zhao Hao grew furious and tried to use Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Golden Eyes, but neither Divine Ability worked in the sea of consciousness.
• Zhao Hao confirmed that his Formless Demon Body and divine sense still worked, then regarded the young cultivator as a corpse.
• The young cultivator expanded the Soul-Settling Golden Bell into its hundred-foot true form and sent it crashing down on Zhao Hao.
• Zhao Hao spread his divine sense over the bell and began enhancing his Soul-Devouring Jade with it.

Zhao Hao erased Ye Wuchen’s Soul-Settling Golden Bell, overcame his resistance with Heavenly Demon Dance, and turned him into an avatar. After learning of the Ye Family’s ties to the Heavenly Forge Sect, Zhao Hao chose to remain in Ye Wuchen’s body as a Nascent Soul lightning tribulation descended.

• Zhao Hao used the system to erase Ye Wuchen’s Soul-Settling Golden Bell, then trapped him in Heavenly Demon Illusion Realm.
• Ye Wuchen resisted a hundred years of torment in the illusion, so Zhao Hao used Heavenly Demon Dance to shatter his Dao heart and successfully made him an avatar.
• Zhao Hao absorbed Ye Wuchen’s memories and learned he was a direct descendant of the declining Ye Family, which served the Heavenly Forge Sect.
• Zhao Hao chose to stay in Ye Wuchen’s body after the passage to the Inner Landscape World closed, then merged Ye Wuchen’s soul with the newly formed Nascent Soul.
• A purple lightning dragon descended as the Nascent Soul tribulation began, and Zhao Hao and the azure Nascent Soul opened their eyes on the Tribulation Platform.

Zhao Hao, disguised as Ye Wuchen, survived the Nascent Soul tribulation and learned that the Mysterious Yellow Realm would eventually subject his divine soul to heavenly punishment. He secluded himself with the captured Tribulation Golden Light and decided to seek the Dust-Cleansing Pill formula from the Heavenly Forge Sect.

• Zhao Hao used the Greenwood Sword and a divine ability to repel the tribulation lightning and its attacks on his divine soul.
• Zhao Hao discovered that ascenders faced heavenly punishment every ten years unless they used a Dust-Cleansing Pill, and learned he had a ten-year grace period.
• After completing the tribulation, Zhao Hao collected all the Tribulation Golden Light and concealed his anomalous aura from the approaching Ye Family elders.
• The Eldest Elder ordered preparations for Ye Wuchen's Nascent Soul ceremony one month later while Zhao Hao retreated into his Cave Abode.
• Zhao Hao found that the Ye Family lacked the Dust-Cleansing Pill formula and resolved to visit the Heavenly Forge Sect to obtain it.

Zhao Hao strengthened his Camouflage ability to hide his demonic aura in Ye Wuchen's body and investigated the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Tower, hoping it could help him obtain a Dust-Cleansing Pill. After Ye Wuchen entered the Tower, Zhao Hao discovered its interface and opened the Alchemy section to search for the pill's recipe.

• Ye Cang told Ye Wuchen that the family would hold a Nascent Soul ceremony in a month, giving Zhao Hao an opportunity to visit the Heavenly Forge Sect and seek a Dust-Cleansing Pill.
• Zhao Hao upgraded Camouflage to a ninth-grade Divine Ability using Azure-Winged White Tiger essence blood and Nascent Soul Realm Tribulation Golden Light, concealing his demonic aura within Ye Wuchen.
• Zhao Hao found that the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Token rejected his soul, so he had Ye Wuchen enter the Mysterious Yellow Tower instead.
• Inside the Tower, Zhao Hao viewed Ye Wuchen's personal information and rankings, then watched the interface update to reflect his Nascent Soul Realm breakthrough.
• Zhao Hao opened the Alchemy section of the Tower's interface to look for the Dust-Cleansing Pill recipe.

Zhao Hao tested the Nascent Soul combat stages, learning to shield himself against hidden attacks before clearing the first stage. He then left his cave in disguise and headed for Heavenly Craft City to pursue the Dust-Cleansing Pill formula.

• Zhao Hao entered the first Nascent Soul combat stage and was twice killed by concealed sword attacks that bypassed his divine sense.
• Zhao Hao activated the [Thousand Ghost Servants Scale-Guarding Shield] before the next attack, then used [Golden Roc Spreads Wings] to catch and behead the attacker.
• Zhao Hao cleared the first combat stage and decided to focus on finding the Dust-Cleansing Pill formula by advancing through fourth-tier pill refining stages.
• Zhao Hao left his cave under [Camouflage] and flew toward Heavenly Craft City without alerting the Ye Family.

Zhao Hao, disguised as Ye Wuchen, visited the Heavenly Craft City Alchemy Dao Alliance to obtain the Dust-Cleansing Pill formula. After Gu Yi discovered Ye Wuchen’s record of clearing every third-tier pill-refinement stage, he shared the formula, whose rare primary ingredients reminded Zhao Hao of the Heart Nightmare Dao Source he already possessed.

• Zhao Hao entered the Alchemy Dao Alliance and asked Gu Yi whether it could provide the Dust-Cleansing Pill or sell its formula.
• Gu Yi explained that the alliance did not sell formulas but offered one to members who qualified as fourth-tier Alchemists or cleared the ninetieth fourth-tier stage in the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Tower.
• Zhao Hao showed Gu Yi Ye Wuchen’s token record, and Gu Yi discovered that Ye Wuchen had cleared all ninety-nine third-tier pill-refinement stages.
• Gu Yi shared the Dust-Cleansing Pill formula and explained that its primary ingredient could be Tribulation Lightning Fluid, Dust-Cleansing Nether Lotus seeds, or any Rule Treasure.
• Zhao Hao remembered the Heart Nightmare Dao Source he had obtained from an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon and realized it could serve as the pill’s primary ingredient.

Zhao Hao learned that Rule Treasures could be used to make Dao-Comprehension Pills and planned to refine his Heart Nightmare Dao Source after mastering fourth-tier alchemy. After a month of intensive pill-making, he received word that his Nascent Soul ceremony would take place the next day.

• Gu Yi explained that Rule Treasures could produce Dao-Comprehension Pills that boosted the chance of comprehending their corresponding Rule Power, and Zhao Hao learned the recipe required thirty fourth-tier alchemy assignments.
• Zhao Hao decided to improve his fourth-tier alchemy proficiency before risking his Heart Nightmare Dao Source on a Dao-Comprehension Pill.
• Gu Yi gave Zhao Hao an Alchemical Dao Token and explained that assignments came with three ingredient sets while requiring only one batch of finished pills.
• Zhao Hao spent his spirit stones on ingredients for common fourth-tier pills and began a month of secluded practice to raise his alchemy skills.
• After completing a perfect batch of pills, Zhao Hao received a message from Ye Cang announcing that his Nascent Soul ceremony would be held the next day.

At Ye Wuchen's Nascent Soul celebration, Wei Tong accused him of cheating on an alchemy ranking and challenged him to prove his skill. Ye Wuchen accepted a contest but demanded Wei Tong wager the fire-element Dao-Comprehension Pill his family had prepared for him.

• Ye Cang celebrated Ye Wuchen's Nascent Soul breakthrough as guests praised the Ye Family's new talent.
• Artifact Peak Elder Fang Heng arrived, congratulated the family, and presented Ye Wuchen with a gift.
• Pill Peak Elder Li arrived with Wei Tong, who challenged Ye Wuchen's claim to have cleared all ninety-nine third-tier alchemy stages in the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Tower.
• Wei Tong accused the Ye Family of hiring an alchemy grandmaster and challenged Ye Wuchen to refine a third-tier supreme-grade Purple Mansion Spirit-Nurturing Pill before the gathered guests.
• Ye Wuchen denied falsifying his results and said he would accept the contest if Wei Tong wagered the fire-element Dao-Comprehension Pill his family had prepared for him.

Wei Tong challenged “Ye Wuchen” to wager the Greenwood Sword against a Dao-Comprehension Pill, and both men began refining the Purple Mansion Spirit-Nurturing Pill. When “Ye Wuchen” used two five-hundred-year Soul-Nurturing Grasses and tossed all the herbs into his furnace, a rich pill fragrance emerged, leaving Wei Tong stunned as he opened the furnace.

• Wei Tong demanded that “Ye Wuchen” wager his natal Greenwood Sword against the Wei Family’s lower-grade Dao-Comprehension Pill, and “Ye Wuchen” agreed despite Ye Cang’s warning.
• Wei Tong and “Ye Wuchen” set their stakes and prepared to refine the Purple Mansion Spirit-Nurturing Pill before the gathered cultivators.
• “Ye Wuchen” selected two five-hundred-year Soul-Nurturing Grasses instead of the required thousand-year herb, prompting Wei Tong to accuse him of being a test-taking substitute.
• “Ye Wuchen” insisted the herbs’ ages added up to a thousand years, dumped all the ingredients into his bronze furnace, and lit it with the Earth-Li Origin Flame.
• After an incense stick’s time, a rich pill fragrance drifted from the furnace, and Wei Tong lunged forward and opened its lid.

Ye Wuchen defeated Wei Tong again by refining six supreme-grade Purple Mansion Spirit-Nurturing Pills barehanded, winning a Dao-Comprehension Pill and a magical treasure. He left the hall after declaring that the Dao of Alchemy would have remained in darkness without him.

• Wei Tong accused Ye Wuchen of cheating after finding six supreme-grade pills in his furnace, but Ye Wuchen pocketed the wagered Dao-Comprehension Pill.
• Ye Wuchen challenged Wei Tong to another contest, offering to refine pills barehanded, and Elder Li supplied another Dao-Comprehension Pill as the stake.
• Elder Fang gave Ye Wuchen the supreme-grade Heaven-Earth Eight-Trigram Mirror, and Ye Wuchen began refining with two five-hundred-year Soul-Nurturing Grass plants.
• Ye Wuchen used his hidden enhancement ability to combine the herbs’ potency and produced six supreme-grade Purple Mansion Spirit-Nurturing Pills without a furnace.
• Wei Tong collapsed in disbelief, and Ye Wuchen left the hall after proclaiming his greatness in alchemy.

Zhao Hao, disguised as Ye Wuchen, attended a Nascent Soul trade fair and offered a top-grade Dust-Cleansing Pill for Azure Netherwater. Wei Tong tried to outbid him to provoke him, but the elder accepted Wei Tong’s spirit treasure instead, leaving Wei Tong with the water treasure and a costly mistake.

• Gu Yi escorted Zhao Hao, disguised as Ye Wuchen, into the Alchemy Dao Alliance’s Nascent Soul trade fair, where Wei Tong glared at him.
• A brown-robed elder offered Azure Netherwater containing a trace of the Rule of Water in exchange for a Dao-Comprehension Pill or something of equivalent value.
• Zhao Hao offered a top-grade Dust-Cleansing Pill, drawing astonishment from the gathered cultivators.
• Wei Tong tried to provoke Zhao Hao by bidding a low-quality offensive spirit treasure and reminding him of his old promise to write his name backward.
• Zhao Hao asked Wei Tong whether he had started writing his name backward, and the brown-robed elder accepted Wei Tong’s spirit treasure for the Azure Netherwater.
• Wei Tong realized he had spent a spirit treasure rented from his clan without provoking Zhao Hao into raising his bid.

At the trade fair, a brown-robed cultivator revealed a map to the deadly Fallen Dragon Valley and recruited a group that included Zhao Hao, disguised as Ye Wuchen. After agreeing to meet in three days, Zhao Hao displayed a supreme-quality Icefire Duality Pill and sought a high-grade array disk.

• The brown-robed old cultivator revealed that the Azure Netherwater came from Fallen Dragon Valley and offered a map to its outskirts in exchange for priority in choosing one discovery.
• Wei Tong and several other Nascent Soul Cultivators joined the expedition, and Wei Tong hoped to use the journey to kill Ye Wuchen.
• Zhao Hao accepted the invitation, and the nine participants agreed to meet in an unnamed gorge north of Heavenly Craft City three days later.
• Zhao Hao went onto the platform, displayed a fourth-grade supreme-quality Icefire Duality Pill, and offered pills to buy a high-grade array disk.

“Ye Wuchen” traded top-grade pills for portable multifunctional array plates and other valuable materials at the Heavenly Forge Sect trade meet. After receiving a warning about the deadly Killing Intent in Fallen Dragon Valley, he returned to the Ye Family’s Cave Abode and eagerly examined his new array plates.

• “Ye Wuchen” asked for a portable array plate that could teleport Storage Bags, prompting Old Monster Feng and Old Ghost Lei to argue over their formations.
• Old Ghost Lei demonstrated his twenty-one-array portable plate, and “Ye Wuchen” traded two top-grade Icefire Duality Pills for a pair.
• “Ye Wuchen” made further trades for thousand-year spirit herbs and intact high-grade magic treasures.
• The old cultivator in brown told “Ye Wuchen” to meet him at One-Line Sky Gorge in three days and warned him to prepare for Fallen Dragon Valley’s dense Killing Intent.
• “Ye Wuchen” returned to the Ye Family’s Cave Abode, sealed it with restrictions, and took out the two array plates.

“Ye Wuchen” entered the Misty Fog Swamp, where he captured the Wei brothers and extracted a wisp of Heart Nightmare Dao Source from an illusory enemy. After leaving the fog, he killed the brown-robed old cultivator who tried to seize his loot and faced the remaining six cultivators.

• “Ye Wuchen” entered the Misty Fog Swamp after the brown-robed old cultivator and the others, then the Wei brothers ambushed him and ordered him killed for comprehending the Fire Law.
• “Ye Wuchen” defeated the Wei brothers, sealed their Nascent Souls, and took their Storage Bags.
• “Ye Wuchen” fought an illusory Elder Fang with his Red Lotus Karmic Fire, refined a wisp of Heart Nightmare Dao Source, and left the swamp.
• The brown-robed old cultivator demanded the Storage Bags and threatened to exclude “Ye Wuchen” from the exploration, then prepared to attack with his Fire-Parting Flying Shuttle.
• “Ye Wuchen” swiftly took the Fire-Parting Flying Shuttle, killed the brown-robed old cultivator, and asked the six remaining cultivators whether they took sides unfairly or robbed robbers.

Zhao Hao, disguised as Ye Wuchen, forced the survivors in Fallen Dragon Valley to swear Heavenly Demon contracts so they would not reveal what they had witnessed. Old Monster Feng tried to escape and was killed, leaving the others bound by their oaths.

• Zhao Hao used his speed and Red Lotus Karmic Fire to seize the brown-robed cultivator's Nascent Soul, spirit treasure, and Storage Bag, terrifying the seven survivors.
• Miaoyin Fairy tried to approach Ye Wuchen, and he offered the group Heavenly Demon Contracts to keep them from exposing him.
• Li Mingquan, Miaoyin Fairy, and Shi Kai accepted the contracts, while Old Monster Feng urged the others to fight their way out.
• Old Monster Feng attempted to flee, but Ye Wuchen intercepted him and engulfed his Dharma Idol in Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
• Old Monster Feng tried to detonate himself, but Ye Wuchen avoided the blast, captured his Nascent Soul, and the three Wang Family brothers swore their contracts.

Zhao Hao sensed the Heavenly Demon Contract linking him to six souls while meditating, as “Ye Wuchen” led survivors deeper into Fallen Dragon Valley. After the group entered the Space-Shattered Forest, a transparent Void Mantis rushed toward Li Mingquan, and “Ye Wuchen” spotted it with his Golden Eyes.

• Zhao Hao felt the Heavenly Demon Contract connect him to six divine souls and returned to comprehending the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art.
• The three Wang brothers offered their Storage Bags to “Ye Wuchen,” who returned them and let them leave after hearing their excuse about forgetting to close their Cave Abode doors.
• Miaoyin Fairy, Shi Kai, and Li Mingquan stayed with “Ye Wuchen,” forming a four-person team that followed a map deeper into Fallen Dragon Valley.
• “Ye Wuchen” identified the Space-Shattered Forest, warned the others about its spatial fissures and Void Mantises, and led them safely through the dangerous area.
• After a fissure cut Li Mingquan’s robe, “Ye Wuchen” activated his Golden Eyes and saw a transparent shadow emerge from a fissure and lunge toward Li Mingquan.

“Ye Wuchen” rescued Li Mingquan from a Void Mantis ambush, then unleashed a compressed Red Lotus Karmic Fire attack into the Space-Shattered Forest. The resulting spatial storm consumed the forest, and he and the others fled from its advancing shock wave.

• “Ye Wuchen” trapped Li Mingquan and a Void Mantis in a Red Lotus Karmic Fire sphere, but the mantis escaped through a spatial fissure after badly wounding Li Mingquan.
• More Void Mantises attacked the group, so “Ye Wuchen” used walls of Red Lotus Karmic Fire to cover their retreat from the Space-Shattered Forest.
• After the group reached safety, “Ye Wuchen” gathered fire spiritual energy and formed a massive Black-Red Lotus while Miaoyin Fairy, Li Mingquan, and Shi Kai watched in alarm.
• “Ye Wuchen” compressed the fire lotus and hurled it into the forest, where its explosion created a spatial storm that destroyed the Void Mantises and shattered the surrounding space.
• When the spatial storm surged toward him, “Ye Wuchen” fled using Golden Roc Spreads Wings, while Miaoyin Fairy, Li Mingquan, and Shi Kai continued escaping.