Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian reached the Heaven-Piercing Tower after months of travel and learned it was called the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower. As he sought information about entering it, he reunited with Jiang Jun, who offered him a family-collected guide, and the chapter ended with Qin Huaian urging Jiang Jun to inspect a Storage Pouch he had given him in return.

• Qin Huaian stopped eating Vermilion Fruits after their effect on his cultivation became negligible and discovered unhatched Golden-Winged Sky Bees in his Small World, which he decided to raise.
• Qin Huaian took the Royal Jelly from the hive, left seclusion, and traveled for half a year toward the Heaven-Piercing Tower.
• Qin Huaian arrived at a vast marketplace near the tower and learned from a stall owner that cultivators called it the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.
• Qin Huaian encountered Jiang Jun, who offered him a jade slip containing information gathered by the Jiang Family about the tower.
• Qin Huaian accepted the jade slip and slipped a Storage Pouch into Jiang Jun's hand, then asked him to look inside when Jiang Jun tried to return it.

Qin Huaian entered the Nine Tribulations Immortal-Seeking Tower and was trapped in a vast ocean world where he fought waves of water demons. As he discovered an exit and found the water-element laws increasingly easy to perceive, he hesitated over whether to escape or keep fighting.

• Jiang Jun gave Qin Huaian ten vermilion fruits and a jade slip about the Nine Tribulations Immortal-Seeking Tower before they parted ways.
• Qin Huaian bought materials for refining array flags, reached the tower, and entered through one of its enormous gateways.
• Qin Huaian appeared above a vast ocean and fought successive waves of water demons, using the Flowing Cloud Sword and the Heavenbreaking Sword Formula.
• After days of fighting, Qin Huaian noticed the water-element laws becoming clearer and replenished his spiritual power with Golden-Winged Sky Bee queen jelly.
• Qin Huaian spotted the world's exit, broke free of the current wave with the Grand Void Dual Polarity Sword Canon, and hesitated to leave because killing more demons might help him comprehend the water-element law.

Qin Huaian continued fighting increasingly powerful water demons in the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower while Huang Kai arrived at another entrance and learned of the tower’s supposed blood-acknowledgment ritual. Two years later, Qin Huaian defeated the final batch of seventh-rank water demons, though his spiritual power was nearly exhausted.

• Qin Huaian noticed that the water demons were growing stronger, but continued fighting to deepen his understanding of water-element laws.
• Huang Kai arrived at the tower after rising from the Golden Core Realm to the Void Refinement Realm and joining the Purple Light Sacred Land.
• Huang Kai heard cultivators discuss making the tower acknowledge them as its master, tried dripping his own blood on it, and entered the tower when nothing happened.
• Over the next two years, Qin Huaian fought successive batches of water demons and improved his combat skills.
• Qin Huaian used the Great Square Cauldron to smash the final batch of seventh-rank water demons, exhausting most of his spiritual power.

Qin Huaian comprehended the water-attribute law, created the Mirror Flower Water Moon divine ability, and advanced to the great completion of the Body Integration Realm. As he headed for the world’s exit, powerful cultivators in the Violet Thorn Domain continued investigating the mysterious world phantom above them.

• After slaying the last demonic beast, Qin Huaian meditated in the void to comprehend the water-attribute law.
• A year later, Qin Huaian formed a water mirror and named his illusion-type divine ability Mirror Flower Water Moon.
• Qin Huaian absorbed the spiritual energy drawn to him after comprehending the law and advanced to the great completion of the Body Integration Realm.
• Qin Huaian set off toward the exit after spending more than three years in the world.
• Jiang, Zhou, Master Yuantong, and the three sacred-land Holy Lords discussed the unexplained world phantom above the Violet Thorn Domain, then reacted to a sudden change in the sky.

The Violet Thorn Continent expanded as the phantom world in the sky turned to falling sand, while Chen Zihao’s caravan found its familiar route strangely stretched. In the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, Qin Huaian killed the last of nine eighth-rank earth-armored beasts and sensed earth-element laws again.

• True Person Daoxuan and Master Yuantong watched grains of sand fall through Daoxuan’s hand as the reflected world transformed.
• Chen Zihao led Zhang Yuanwai’s caravan along a road that had grown far longer than expected and sent Xiangzi and two escorts ahead to scout.
• True Person Yunyin learned that regions across the Violet Thorn Continent were expanding, with some distances increasing several times over.
• Qin Huaian defeated the ninth eighth-rank earth-armored giant beast with his Flowing Cloud Sword and sensed threads of earth-element laws.

Qin Huaian advanced to the Mahayana Realm after mastering the earth laws, then faced an unexpected lightning tribulation. He survived the first three strikes, which increasingly battered his body, as chaos spread across the Violet Thorn Continent.

• Qin Huaian mastered the earth laws and advanced to the Mahayana Realm.
• Qin Huaian sensed an imminent lightning tribulation and prepared with the Flowing Cloud Sword, the Great Square Cauldron, and defensive talismans.
• Qin Huaian endured the first lightning bolt without injury and used the Flowing Cloud Sword to weaken the second tribulation.
• Qin Huaian discovered the lightning could temper his body and chose to face the third tribulation directly.
• Qin Huaian survived three continuous bolts that tore his body apart, then began rapidly recovering as the Violet Thorn Continent descended into chaos.

The phantom world vanished, scattering cultivators from the Nine Tribulations Path to Immortality secret realm across the Violet Thorn Continent. Two cultivators discovered they had been transported far from their sacred land and found a boy with a supreme-grade fire spiritual root, while an enormous tower appeared at the continent’s center.

• The phantom world disappeared, and cultivators emerged in locations across the Violet Thorn Continent.
• A white-robed male cultivator and his blue-robed junior sister met an old man and Dog Egg in Changyang County and learned that flying immortals had recently fought nearby.
• The female cultivator tested Dog Egg’s spiritual root and discovered it was supreme-grade fire, while the old man showed no reaction to the formation instrument.
• The male cultivator questioned two Golden Core cultivators and learned they were far from the Purple Sky Sacred Land and near the Red Star Sword Sect.
• The female cultivator asked Dog Egg whether he wanted to become an immortal as the pair prepared to travel to the Red Star Sword Sect.
• An enormous tower appeared in the center of the Violet Thorn Continent, surrounded by a million li of newly added land.

Jiang Yuan learned that lightning tribulations had begun striking cultivators who advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm and above, while the Nine Tribulations Path to Immortality secret realm appeared to have merged with the Violet Thorn Domain. The chapter ended with True Person Daoxuan revealing that he had sensed an opportunity to break through.

• Jiang Yuan questioned a report that Jiang Feng had died beneath a lightning tribulation while advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• A Jiang Family junior reported that disciples had been randomly teleported out of the Nine Tribulations Path to Immortality, and that the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower had appeared in the central region of the Violet Thorn Continent.
• Jiang Yuan rushed to the teleportation plaza and traveled with the two juniors to inspect the tower.
• Master Yuantong told Jiang Yuan that cultivators advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm or above now faced lightning tribulations, while True Person Daoxuan noted that the laws of the world had become easier to comprehend.
• True Person Daoxuan suspected that the Nine Tribulations Path to Immortality had fused with the Violet Thorn Domain, and he revealed that he had sensed an opportunity for a breakthrough.

True Person Daoxuan and the other powerful cultivators discussed the new lightning tribulations and the changing rankings in the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower. Outside, cultivators discovered who could enter the tower, while Qin Huaian absorbed tribulation lightning to strengthen his body and continued his seventh wave.

• True Person Daoxuan said that breakthroughs above the Nascent Soul Realm now brought lightning tribulations and feared he might not survive his next breakthrough.
• Jiang Yuan noticed that the stele rankings were still changing, and cultivators outside the tower concluded that the rankings reflected comprehension and harvests inside it.
• Thousands of cultivators rushed toward the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, where the white doorways admitted eligible cultivators below the Tribulation Transcendence Realm only once.
• Qin Huaian endured the sixth bolt of his seventh lightning wave and used his modified Body Refinement Art, circulated by his Mirror Bodies, to absorb the lightning's energy.
• Qin Huaian's acupoints lit up and his body-refinement cultivation surged as he realized the little tree had guided him to a technique that let him fleece the lightning tribulation.

Qin Huaian survived the eighth lightning tribulation, stabilized his Mahayana Realm cultivation, and left his name on the Immortal Inquiry Stele before entering the next world. Outside the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, cultivators noticed Li Yang take first place and questioned the first person to emerge from the tower.

• Qin Huaian used the Flowing Cloud Sword to weaken the powerful eighth lightning bolt, then absorbed its remaining energy to temper his body.
• Qin Huaian's tribulation ended, and a stream of pure energy stabilized his Mahayana Realm cultivation.
• Qin Huaian wrote his name on the Immortal Inquiry Stele and entered the next world.
• Qin Huaian's name appeared near the bottom of the stele, while Li Yang surpassed Zhou Tianyi to claim first place.
• Cultivators gathered outside the tower questioned the first cultivator to emerge, who realized that he was no longer inside the secret realm.

Qin Huaian advanced through the first eight worlds of the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, comprehending several laws and breaking through to the Mahayana Realm. As he entered the possible ninth and final world, his name rose to first place on the Immortal Inquiry Stele, while cultivators at Immortal Inquiry Plaza debated his origins and awaited his return.

• A cultivator surnamed Zhu emerged from the tower and told onlookers that he had gained little from nine years of trying to comprehend laws.
• Junior Brother Zhu reunited with his Senior Sister, who took him away to talk privately.
• Qin Huaian entered his ninth world after making progress in eight laws, reaching deep comprehension of earth, yin and yang, and sword Dao, and becoming a mastery-level ninth-rank formation master.
• Qin Huaian's name surpassed Li Yang's on the Immortal Inquiry Stele and took first place.
• Cultivators at Immortal Inquiry Plaza discussed Qin Huaian's talent, his background in the Mystic Talisman Immortal Sect, and the possibility that powerful sects would seek to recruit him.
• The Mystic Talisman Immortal Sect's immortal waited at Immortal Inquiry Plaza for Qin Huaian to emerge.

Wu Lie, Yang Hu, and Chu Xi discussed Qin Huaian’s rise in the Immortal Inquiry Stele rankings and the dangers facing cultivators after the Violet Thorn Domain changed. Inside the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower’s final gray world, Qin Huaian faced sudden spatial blades and struggled to stay alive.

• Yang Hu told Wu Lie and Chu Xi that Qin Huaian had surpassed Li Yang to become number one on the Immortal Inquiry Stele rankings.
• Wu Lie explained that he would protect Qin Huaian before he left Falling Star Peak, and described how lightning tribulations had reduced the number of cultivators despite the Violet Thorn Domain’s expanded resources and improved connections.
• Qin Huaian entered a featureless gray world and received a message that he could voluntarily teleport out of the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower at any time.
• Spatial rifts struck Qin Huaian without warning, and he used Free and Easy Wanderer to dodge while taking wounds to his arm and back.
• Qin Huaian swallowed Nirvana Spirit Liquid to heal his injuries immediately, then flashed away when he sensed another spatial blade.

Qin Huaian spent months evading spatial blades until he discovered a thread of law and immersed himself in comprehending it. Five years later, Su Xiaocan told Wu Lie that the Demon Race had invaded the Southern Region under the leadership of a demon immortal beyond the Immortal King realm, and Wu Lie learned that two of his disciples had died defending their sect.

• Qin Huaian dodged increasingly frequent spatial blades, then sensed a thread of law and spent months comprehending it as the blades ceased.
• Qin Huaian named the great tree in his Seed Space the World Tree, whose energy aided his comprehension.
• Su Xiaocan arrived at the Mystic Talisman Immortal Sect residence and told Yang Hu and Wu Lie that the Demon Race had attacked the Southern Region's sects.
• Su Xiaocan explained that a demon immortal had advanced beyond the Immortal King realm and that the Southern Region's human forces had gathered in the Inquiry Sect's territory.
• Su Xiaocan told Wu Lie that his eldest senior brother and third senior sister had died holding off the Demon Race, and Wu Lie asked to be left alone.

As the Demon Race invaded the southern and western regions under the command of a demon immortal beyond the Immortal King Realm, the human leaders debated how to protect their people. Daoxuan set out to confront the demon immortal while the others planned a mass evacuation, and Qin Huaian emerged from over five years of contemplation in the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.

• News reached Immortal Inquiry City that the Demon Race had attacked the southern and western regions, destroying many sects, and that a demon immortal had broken through beyond the Immortal King Realm.
• Elder Kong Cen pleaded with Daoxuan and the other leaders to save the people of the southern and western regions.
• Yunyin accused Zhou Cang and Master Yuantong of hoping Daoxuan would perish fighting the demon immortal, while Wu Chen warned that the human race could not risk losing its only expert beyond the Immortal King Realm.
• Wu Chen proposed relocating the people of the southern and western regions to the central region using Flying Boats, and Master Yuantong agreed.
• Daoxuan, Wu Chen, and Master Yuantong decided to leave at once to meet the demon immortal.
• Qin Huaian opened his eyes after more than five years of contemplation inside the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.

Qin Huaian comprehended a trace of spatial law, advanced to the late Mahayana realm, and teleported out of the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower to explore the secret realm. Meanwhile, cultivators saw his name disappear from the Immortal Inquiry Stele and mistakenly concluded that he had died in the tower.

• Qin Huaian broke through to the late Mahayana realm and learned to teleport ten zhang after years of comprehending spatial law.
• Qin Huaian found no exit to another world in the gray space and teleported out of the tower to explore the secret realm.
• Cultivators at Immortal Inquiry Plaza noticed Qin Huaian's name had vanished from the stele and Li Yang's name had taken the top place.
• Cultivators speculated that Qin Huaian had died in the ninth world, while a female cultivator from the Purple Light Sacred Land described Li Yang's encounter with its devouring law.
• News of Qin Huaian's disappearance from the Immortal Inquiry Stele spread to the major sects.

Qin Huaian emerged from the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower and learned that people believed he had died despite his first-place ranking on the Immortal Inquiry Stele. Disguised as Su Yichen, he discovered that the world had changed while he was inside and began piecing together the Demon Race’s occupation of the Western and Southern Regions.

• Qin Huaian heard cultivators say that the top-ranked Qin Huaian had fallen in the tower, then flew away and used the Illusory Face Art to disguise himself as Su Yichen.
• Qin Huaian returned to the entrance and found that the nearby market had vanished.
• A winged white tiger named Yin Peng emerged, and a leopard-headed Demon Race cultivator invoked an agreement preventing humans from harming returning Demon Race members.
• Two Limitless Sect Mahayana cultivators upheld the agreement, and the leopard demon led Yin Peng away for the Demon Race to cultivate.
• Qin Huaian concluded that he had left the secret realm and wondered whether the Demon Race had occupied the Western and Southern Regions.
• Two Demon Race cultivators flew toward Qin Huaian and told him to move aside.

Qin Huaian defeated a ninth-rank leopard demon and a late eighth-rank flying tiger, then learned that the Demon Race had occupied the Southern Domain. He declined Zhang Wei’s invitation to join the Limitless Sect and went to Immortal Inquiry Plaza to seek news of his former sect.

• Qin Huaian used his Gravity Domain and sword techniques to injure the leopard demon and sever half of the flying tiger’s wing.
• Zhang Wei and other human cultivators arrived, and the leopard demon withdrew with the flying tiger after the two sides argued over their agreement.
• Qin Huaian introduced himself as Su Yichen and asked Zhang Wei about the conflict between the Demon Race and the human race.
• Zhang Wei told Qin Huaian that the Nine Tribulations Path to Immortality secret realm had fused with the Violet Thorn Domain and that the Demon Race had occupied the Southern Domain.
• Qin Huaian declined Zhang Wei’s offer to recommend him to the Limitless Sect and flew to Immortal Inquiry Plaza to search for news of his former sect.
• Qin Huaian examined the Immortal Inquiry Stele, where Li Yang ranked first and Zhou Tianyi of the Limitless Sect ranked second.

After leaving Immortal Inquiry Plaza, Qin Huaian entered Immortal Inquiry City to buy materials and find a place to settle while he cultivated. He learned that world fusion had made top-grade spirit stones less valuable and examined a costly cave abode treasure.

• Qin Huaian learned that his name had vanished from the Immortal Inquiry Stele, though he did not know why, and left the plaza for Immortal Inquiry City.
• Qin Huaian decided to stay in the city and refine formation discs while slowly building up spiritual power for a future breakthrough.
• Qin Huaian bought eighth- and ninth-grade artifact-refining materials from Shopkeeper Chen for 1.8 million high-grade spirit stones.
• Shopkeeper Chen explained that the fusion of the Nine Tribulations Path to Immortality Secret Realm with Violet Thorn Continent had lowered the exchange rate for top-grade spirit stones to one to five hundred.
• Qin Huaian asked about settling in the city, then examined a palm-sized cave abode treasure priced at one million high-grade spirit stones.

Qin Huaian commissioned Shopkeeper Chen to refine a flying artifact from Golden-Winged Sky Bee King wings, bought land and a cave abode in Immortal Inquiry City, and settled in to cultivate. Meanwhile, a cultivator urged Senior Brother Shen to seek opportunities in the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower so they could eventually reclaim their homeland in the Western Region.

• Qin Huaian gave Shopkeeper Chen a pair of Golden-Winged Sky Bee King wings to refine into a flying artifact and agreed to pay according to its grade or receive compensation if the attempt failed.
• Shopkeeper Chen took the wings to the rear courtyard to begin refining them, leaving Xiao Feng to manage the shop.
• Qin Huaian bought additional materials and a cave abode artifact, then purchased a plot in Immortal Inquiry City and installed the expanded building there.
• Qin Huaian settled into the cave abode, assigned his Mirror Bodies to cultivate and study formations, and began making formation flags for ninth-rank formations.
• A middle-aged cultivator urged Senior Brother Shen to enter the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, gain recognition from the Immortal Inquiry Stele, and return to reclaim their homeland.

Shen Canglan learned that Qin Huaian had supposedly fallen inside the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower and abruptly decided to head there with Junior Brother Fan. Meanwhile, Qin Huaian finished a Spirit Gathering Array Disk and collected a flying artifact from Shopkeeper Chen before his name appeared in golden light at the tower’s summit.

• Shen Canglan heard that Qin Huaian had fallen in the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower and decided to leave for the tower with Junior Brother Fan the next day.
• Qin Huaian completed a ninth-rank Spirit Gathering Array Disk, which increased his cultivation speed by nearly twenty percent.
• Qin Huaian visited Chen's Artifact Shop and praised the top-grade True Artifact that Shopkeeper Chen had refined for him.
• Xiao Feng called Shopkeeper Chen and Qin Huaian outside after seeing people rush toward Immortal Inquiry Plaza.
• Qin Huaian saw his name blazing in golden light at the summit of the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.