Chapter Summaries

Su Zhan advised Jiang Shiyue on improving his Thousand Year Drunk refining and furnace, then checked on the hatchling and learned that it was a time-controlling creature with the potential to become a legendary divine beast. He left the hatchling’s abilities and rapid growth on his mind.

• Su Zhan visited Jiang Shiyue, teased him about his refining results, and offered to help.
• Su Zhan pointed out that Jiang Shiyue’s furnace was too weak for his fierce materials and suggested a Black Stone Rock furnace with a different material at the bottom.
• Jiang Shiyue hurried off to refine a new tool, while Su Zhan planned to have him make more artifacts.
• The Moon Beast asked Su Zhan to have Jiang Shiyue forge larger containers and revealed that the hatchling had been unleashing fire and wind in its space.
• Su Zhan noticed the hatchling had grown in half a day, and Years explained that it could control its growth, live an exceedingly long time, and perhaps eventually leap through time.

Su Zhan discovered that a colossal Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon had tracked its hatchling to his barren planet and was attacking the defensive barrier. He lured the beast away with the hatchling’s scent, then returned safely while keeping his theft secret from Jiang Shiyue and True Man Lin Lie.

• Su Zhan gave the hatchling Thousand Year Drunk, and the Moon Beast sensed that the drink had accelerated its growth.
• A giant beast resembling the hatchling attacked the planet’s barrier, and Su Zhan realized it was the hatchling’s family searching for it.
• Su Zhan left the protected area, carried the hatchling away, and used its blood to draw the beast toward a distant spot.
• The enraged beast destroyed the surrounding planet while searching for Su Zhan, who escaped back to the barren planet after hiding the hatchling.
• Su Zhan blamed the Moon Beast for his guilty behavior when Jiang Shiyue and True Man Lin Lie questioned him, then claimed he knew how to win with brains.

Su Zhan admitted that he had taken the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon’s hatchling and lured the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s leader away from the protective barrier for a duel. He brought the man to a secluded barren star, intending to use its natural concealment formation to protect Jiang Shiyue and True Man Lin Lie if he killed him.

• Jiang Shiyue ignored Su Zhan’s provocation, and True Man Lin Lie warned Su Zhan to be careful before leaving him with the Moon Beast.
• Half a day later, the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s leader attacked the weakened protective barrier and threw down fragments of the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon’s wing.
• Su Zhan confessed that he had taken the dragon’s egg, while the leader demanded its hatchling and dismissed Su Zhan’s threats about the sect’s reputation.
• To keep Jiang Shiyue and True Man Lin Lie out of danger, Su Zhan agreed to fight the leader away from the barrier rather than hand over the hatchling.
• Su Zhan led the overconfident leader to the barren star where they had gathered Black Stone Rock, hoping its natural concealment formation would hide the man’s death.

Su Zhan defeated and killed the man who had challenged him for the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon's hatchling, then claimed the man's treasures. He left the fight exhausted but delighted by the riches in the man's Space Artifact.

• Su Zhan hid the hatchling inside the Mirror of Insight and agreed to wager everything on a fight with the man.
• Su Zhan endured the man's attacks and feigned weakness before surrounding him with more than a dozen technique avatars.
• Su Zhan pursued the wounded man into the dense forest and killed him with White Dragon Flame, leaving only ashes.
• The Years Avatar handed Su Zhan the man's small bell-shaped Space Artifact, which contained many rare treasures.
• Su Zhan examined the haul and wondered whether he should become a roadside robber.

Su Zhan returned safely after confronting an opponent alone, then warned Jiang Shiyue that their Black Stone Rock mine might attract attention. While Jiang Shiyue went to secure the mine, Su Zhan fed his spoils to his cultivation techniques and began seeing the Heavenly Mystery Sect as a source of further gains.

• True Man Lin Lie and Jiang Shiyue worried over Su Zhan's solo confrontation, but he returned unharmed a few hours later.
• Jiang Shiyue scolded Su Zhan for acting recklessly, and Su Zhan told him to mine their Black Stone Rock deposit before others found it.
• Su Zhan explained that his battle had burned a large patch of forest above the concealed mine, prompting Jiang Shiyue to rush over and protect it.
• True Man Lin Lie dismissed the risk of losing the mine, while Su Zhan sorted his spoils and selected items for his cultivation techniques to devour.
• Su Zhan's techniques devoured several spoils and gained 3,000-times cultivation speed for all attributes, leading him to view the Heavenly Mystery Sect as a source of rewards.

Su Zhan returned from robbing two Heavenly Mystery Sect members to find that Jiang Shiyue had accidentally destroyed True Man Lin Lie’s home while refining Thousand Year Drunk with Blazing Heaven Stone. With their belongings ruined and the Heavenly Mystery Sect still threatening them, Su Zhan persuaded Jiang Shiyue and True Man Lin Lie to join him on a revenge expedition.

• Su Zhan tracked down and killed two lone Heavenly Mystery Sect members, taking their valuables before returning to the desolate planet.
• Su Zhan found the planet reduced to ruins and located True Man Lin Lie and Jiang Shiyue on Green Planet.
• Jiang Shiyue admitted that he had used Blazing Heaven Stone while refining Thousand Year Drunk, causing destructive flames that forced him and True Man Lin Lie to flee.
• The Moon Beast appeared disoriented by the flames’ mental interference, while True Man Lin Lie lamented the destruction of his home and possessions.
• Su Zhan urged Jiang Shiyue and True Man Lin Lie to gather resources and retaliate against the Heavenly Mystery Sect, and they agreed to set out with him.

Su Zhan, True Man Lin Lie, and Jiang Shiyue infiltrated the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s headquarters and began secretly eliminating its leaders. After killing three of the seven remaining leaders, they prepared to continue their attack.

• Su Zhan and his companions found an entrance through the hurricane surrounding the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s Dark Star and infiltrated the headquarters using tokens taken from people they had killed.
• Su Zhan sent Demonic Birds across the planet to scout, then identified the sect’s leaders and chose isolated targets to attack first.
• Su Zhan, True Man Lin Lie, and Jiang Shiyue abandoned their first target when they found him cultivating in a heavily defended room.
• The three killed another leader while he was distracted, knocked out and bound the woman with him, and concealed the corpse behind a Defensive Array.
• Su Zhan set up an Isolation Barrier while the three attacked two more leaders together, and True Man Lin Lie knocked one down before they defeated the other.

Su Zhan, True Man Lin Lie, and Jiang Shiyue fought the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s triplets, but the sect’s terrifying master, the Wuji Sword Saint, turned the battle against them. As True Man Lin Lie and Su Zhan were trapped, Jiang Shiyue began to self-destruct to save them.

• Su Zhan and his companions attacked the Cultivation Room where the triplets were cultivating, drawing the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s attention.
• The triplets emerged and attacked Su Zhan, True Man Lin Lie, and Jiang Shiyue with coordinated, evasive moves.
• The Wuji Sword Saint emerged from seclusion, struck all three intruders, and grabbed True Man Lin Lie by the throat.
• Jiang Shiyue kicked the Wuji Sword Saint’s hand away but was injured and captured, while the triplets blocked True Man Lin Lie and Su Zhan from reaching him.
• Jiang Shiyue said he was repaying his debt and released a powerful silver light, beginning to self-destruct.

Su Zhan, True Man Lin Lie, and Jiang Shiyue infiltrated the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s headquarters and began eliminating its leaders. They had killed three of the seven remaining higher-ups, but more powerful targets still remained.

• Su Zhan, True Man Lin Lie, and Jiang Shiyue found the entrance to the Heavenly Mystery Sect’s headquarters, killed several people outside, and entered in disguise using their tokens.
• Su Zhan sent Demonic Birds across the Dark Star to scout and identified the sect’s higher-ups as their targets.
• The three abandoned their first target when they found him cultivating inside a heavily guarded Cultivation Room, then killed another leader and concealed the body and an unconscious witness.
• Su Zhan, True Man Lin Lie, and Jiang Shiyue trapped two leaders inside an Isolation Barrier and defeated them together.
• The three had eliminated three leaders, leaving six of the sect’s original eight in power still alive.

Su Zhan tried to find a way to save True Man Lin Lie and learned that the Moon Beast might know someone who could help. To travel safely, he used the hatchling Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon's Time Attribute to make it grow into a colossal beast.

• Su Zhan insisted that he would find someone to save True Man Lin Lie, and the Moon Beast warned that its possible helper might be gone or unwilling.
• The Moon Beast reminded Su Zhan that his Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon could grow quickly if given the right energy.
• Su Zhan fed the hatchling Spirit Energy and then Years' power, but it barely grew.
• The Moon Beast urged Su Zhan to give the hatchling energy with the Time Attribute, and Su Zhan watched it expand rapidly.
• Su Zhan poured in his strength as the hatchling grew into a colossal beast capable of supporting itself by absorbing energy from its surroundings.

Su Zhan traveled with the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon Huan to search for a higher-plane being who might save True Man Lin Lie. He resolved to pursue this uncertain hope and learned that the system could bring other items with Spiritual Sense into the group.

• The Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon Huan shrank to a more manageable size, and Su Zhan rode with the Moon Beast as Huan followed its directions.
• The Moon Beast told Su Zhan that a powerful life-form from a higher plane might be able to save True Man Lin Lie, though it did not know the being’s exact location or whether he remained in this world.
• Su Zhan realized the search was his best chance to save True Man Lin Lie and reflected on his friend’s sacrifice and Jiang Shiyue’s survival.
• Su Zhan asked the system whether items with Spiritual Sense could join the group, and the system confirmed that they could.

Su Zhan traveled through the stars in search of the person the Moon Beast had indicated, but found himself trapped in a powerful illusion formation. After deducing the formation and restoring the stars to their proper positions, he was attacked by a beam of starlight that created a void capable of swallowing light and spiritual energy.

• Su Zhan traveled for a month with the Moon Beast and the others, stopping to investigate strange discoveries along the way.
• Su Zhan realized the Moon Beast, the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon, the system, and the Chat Group could not respond because he was inside an illusion formation.
• Su Zhan studied the stars, worked out the formation's pattern, and began moving the constellations back to their proper trajectories.
• Su Zhan restored the final constellation, but a beam of starlight struck from behind and he evaded it.
• Su Zhan saw that the attack had left a void that swallowed everything, including light and spiritual energy.

Su Zhan faced a deadly formation whose beams erased anything they touched, then discovered the deeper trap had separated him from the world by five seconds of time. He realized he needed to adjust time to reunite with the system and the Moon Beast, but did not yet know how.

• Su Zhan saw the beams erase everything in their path, failed to summon weapons, and layered Space Barriers around himself for protection.
• Su Zhan recognized the deadly maze as the outsider's trap and tried unsuccessfully to contact the system, the Chat Group, and the Moon Beast.
• Su Zhan noticed that he had traveled far less than expected and used his Mental and Space Attributes to probe the apparently normal surroundings.
• Su Zhan added time to his Spiritual Sense and discovered that the system and the Moon Beast were five seconds ahead of him in a different timeline.
• Su Zhan realized he needed to move five seconds forward to synchronize with them, but remained unsure how to escape the formation.

Trapped in a time formation, Su Zhan was rescued by the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon, which exhausted itself and reverted to a hatchling. They encountered the formation’s arrogant creator, and Su Zhan showed him the Eye of the Heavenly God to ask for help saving True Man Lin Lie.

• Su Zhan spent a day trapped in the formation, unable to call on his usual allies or items.
• The Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon broke through the space-time barrier and brought the Moon Beast to rescue Su Zhan, then hibernated as a palm-sized hatchling.
• The Moon Beast suspected the formation belonged to the man from beyond the heavens, and a purple lightning bolt brought his clone into view.
• Su Zhan asked the man for help, but the man dismissed him and voiced his distrust of humans.
• The Moon Beast urged the man to make a contract with Su Zhan and use him to settle old grievances, prompting the man to ask whom Su Zhan wanted to save.
• Su Zhan presented the Eye of the Heavenly God so the man could examine True Man Lin Lie.

Su Zhan traveled with the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to seek a powerful being from the Ancient Realm who might save True Man Lin Lie. He accepted that the search was uncertain but resolved to try, then asked whether items with Spiritual Sense could join the group.

• The Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon shrank to an elephant-sized form so Su Zhan could ride it discreetly, and it set off in the direction the Moon Beast indicated.
• The Moon Beast told Su Zhan that a powerful lifeform from the Ancient Realm could control time and reverse life and death, but it did not know his exact whereabouts or whether he remained in this world.
• Su Zhan decided to search for the lifeform anyway rather than leave True Man Lin Lie to recover alone in the Eye of the Heavenly God's space for millions of years.
• Su Zhan asked the system whether items with Spiritual Sense could join the group, and the system confirmed that they could.

After Lian Yu’s surge of Mental Power left Su Zhan struggling to control his greatly increased strength, Lian Yu asked him to find Phantom Mist Jade to save True Man Lin Lie from a worsening mental injury. The Moon Beast revealed that the jade was the reward for clearing the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces, a challenge no one had beaten in over a hundred years.

• Su Zhan discovered that Lian Yu’s Mental Power had multiplied his own, and he tested it by lifting a huge boulder with pure Mental Power.
• After finally learning to stand, Su Zhan answered Lian Yu’s call and saw that True Man Lin Lie was trapped in nightmares because of a mental injury.
• Lian Yu told Su Zhan to find Phantom Mist Jade within a month to repair True Man Lin Lie’s soul, and described the remote, water-rich places where it might be found.
• The Moon Beast told Su Zhan that Phantom Mist Jade was the reward for clearing the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces, which no one had obtained in more than a hundred years.

Su Zhan entered the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces formation, where an illusion trapped him in a brutal school that pushed him toward violence. Outside, the Moon Beast realized the formation’s true danger as it and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon failed to follow him inside.

• The Moon Beast explained that the formation reflected a person’s deepest fear, and Su Zhan decided to test it before seeking another way to obtain the prize.
• Su Zhan and the Moon Beast rode the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon to the formation near Bay Moon River.
• Su Zhan entered the formation and lost his memories, believing he was a student at a school where the bottom half of each class was erased.
• Su Zhan saw blood-red messages in his textbooks urging him to kill other students, while the oppressive illusion stoked his violent urges.
• The Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon were thrown out of the formation and could not get back in.
• The Moon Beast realized that the students in the illusion were manifestations of the trapped person’s own spiritual soul, so attacking them would destroy that person’s spirit.

Su Zhan broke free of a mind-altering formation and woke in a blank space, where he could still sense the Phantom Mist Jade. The Moon Beast proposed destroying the illusions surrounding them to find it.

• Su Zhan regained his senses by stabbing himself in the heart and woke after the school vanished.
• The Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon arrived and checked that Su Zhan was unharmed.
• Su Zhan told the Moon Beast he could sense the Phantom Mist Jade, though it remained invisible and unreachable.
• Su Zhan pointed toward the Phantom Mist Jade, startling it because he was pointing beneath its feet.
• The Moon Beast suggested destroying the illusion formations to reveal the Phantom Mist Jade.

Su Zhan broke the illusion array and collected two Phantom Mist Jades, then prepared to leave so Lian Yu could use them to save True Man Lin Lie. The Moon Beast urged him to continue through the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces, explaining that only one of its nine trials had been cleared and that time passed differently inside.

• Su Zhan used a cultivation manual to break the illusion array, revealing a landscape of birdsong and fragrant blossoms.
• Su Zhan collected the two Phantom Mist Jades from a stone platform and prepared to leave with the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon.
• The Moon Beast asked Su Zhan to continue exploring the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces, hoping to earn stronger rewards from its remaining trials.
• Su Zhan refused at first because he needed to return the Phantom Mist Jade to Lian Yu to treat True Man Lin Lie.
• The Moon Beast explained that one day outside equaled one year inside and estimated they could clear all nine trials in half a month.

Su Zhan, the Moon Beast, and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon fought through the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces and reached its ninth trial. After killing its apparent strongest beast, Su Zhan realized a more powerful monster lurked ahead, and it emerged as the chapter ended.

• Su Zhan agreed to attempt the Dragon Gate Nine Palaces after the Moon Beast persuaded him to continue.
• Over half a month, Su Zhan, the Moon Beast, and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon cleared eight increasingly dangerous trials, narrowly surviving the eighth.
• Su Zhan entered the ninth trial with the Moon Beast and the Time-Space Sealing Demon Dragon and fought through its mechanisms and monsters.
• Su Zhan killed an enormous savage beast with his nine cultivation techniques, but the techniques continued circling instead of returning to him.
• Su Zhan sensed a stronger opponent in a shadowy cave, and the monster emerged as the Moon Beast and Su Zhan reacted in alarm.