Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian spent twenty years inside the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, using its painted walls to comprehend wood and fire laws to the second realm. Outside, Tang Zhiyuan and Tang Li investigated his mysterious origins and discussed how long he had remained inside.

• Qin Huaian studied the hall’s paintings and advanced his wood attribute laws to the second realm over ten years.
• Qin Huaian studied the fire paintings and advanced his fire attribute laws to the second realm over the next ten years.
• Qin Huaian decided to continue exploring the paintings to comprehend the remaining Five Element laws.
• Tang Zhiyuan asked Tang Li about Qin Huaian, who had remained inside the stele for twenty years without emerging.
• Tang Li told Tang Zhiyuan that they could not determine Qin Huaian’s origins and suspected he had come through the teleportation array from the Violet Thorn Domain.
• Tang Zhiyuan ordered Tang Li to continue investigating, while they discussed how recognition by the stele strengthened cultivators within the Kun Yuan World.

Tang Zhiyiyuan hoped Qin Huaian might eventually break Kun Yuan World's limits, while Qin Huaian continued comprehending the five elemental laws inside the Dao Repository Stele. Elsewhere, Changfeng subdued a Golden Great Lion and ordered it to open its divine soul as his servant.

• Tang Zhiyuan told Tang Li to station men near the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele and recruit Qin Huaian if he emerged.
• Qin Huaian completed fifty years inside the stele, reached the second realm in four elemental laws, and began studying the earth-element patterns on its central pillar.
• The wounded Golden Great Lion offered Changfeng a secret and then begged to become his mount, while Zhou Cang and Master Yuantong urged Changfeng to kill it.
• Changfeng restrained the lion with his chains, decided to enslave its soul, and ordered it to shrink and open its divine soul.

After the Demon Race was driven from the Southern Region, Changfeng enslaved the golden lion and assigned him to protect Lingyue. True Person Daoxuan then led the group to investigate sealed passages to other worlds, while Changfeng worried about his missing junior brother.

• Changfeng used a soul-control technique on the golden lion and told him to protect Lingyue, who named him Golden Fur.
• True Person Daoxuan ordered the remaining demons driven into the northwest rather than exterminated.
• Yun Yin asked about the great-domain passages, and the golden lion revealed that hundreds of weakening seals lay near the Violet Thorn Sea.
• True Person Daoxuan confirmed the passages led to other worlds and asked the golden lion to guide them there.
• Changfeng asked Daoxuan about the cultivators lost in a secret realm passage, and Daoxuan reassured him that his junior brother might still be alive.
• The golden lion led the group south toward the southernmost tip of the Violet Thorn Continent.

Two cultivators discovered a newly emerged great domain in the Boundless Sea and planned to assess its strength before deciding whether to exploit it or sell its location. Meanwhile, Qin Huaian’s Earth-Attribute Laws reached the limit of the second realm, and the pattern on the stone pillar suddenly changed as he sought to break through.

• The middle-aged cultivator and his younger brother followed the rising spiritual energy across the Boundless Sea and spotted an island marking the approach of a great domain.
• The two cultivators decided to enter the domain discreetly, assess its strength and Void Passages, and potentially sell its location to major factions.
• Qin Huaian cultivated before the stone pillar, advancing his Earth-Attribute Laws to the limit of the second realm over five years.
• Qin Huaian struggled to break through the apparent barrier, and the pattern on the stone pillar suddenly changed before him.

Qin Huaian inherited the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body from the stone pillar and cultivated it through its second level, forming pseudo-Mysterious Yellow Qi and transforming his flesh. He began the third level and learned that its final Earth Vein Acupoint could lead to a heavenly tribulation and a Mystic Bone Golden Body.

• Qin Huaian recognized the stone pillar's vision as an inheritance and learned that the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body could eventually forge the Earth Emperor Immortal Body.
• Qin Huaian completed the first level and used his Mirror Bodies to accelerate his cultivation of the second level.
• After two years, Qin Huaian filled 180 acupoints with Earth Vein Power, condensed pseudo-Mysterious Yellow Qi, and absorbed it to transform his flesh.
• Qin Huaian visualized the image to learn the third-level technique, which required filling another 180 acupoints and ultimately lighting the Earth Vein Acupoint.
• Qin Huaian and his Mirror Bodies cultivated the third level, converting 259 acupoints before Qin Huaian found that filling the 260th was much slower.

After leaving the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, Qin Huaian discovered that Kun Yuan Stones contained Earth Vein Power and used them to rapidly cultivate. When Tang Li attacked Gu Ran, Qin Huaian intervened and confronted the Thick Earth City Lord’s Manor.

• After fifty years inside the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, Qin Huaian emerged and found that Kun Yuan World’s power bolstered his strength.
• Qin Huaian realized Kun Yuan Stones contained Earth Vein Power and cultivated with them, lighting five more acupoints in two months.
• Tang Li arrived with cultivators from the Thick Earth City Lord’s Manor while Gu Ran taunted them as the Heaven-Swallowing Patriarch.
• Tang Li attacked Gu Ran, whose escape was hindered by Tang Li’s Gravity Domain.
• Qin Huaian shattered Tang Li’s sword radiance and declared that he had a score to settle with the Thick Earth City Lord’s Manor.

Qin Huaian reunited with Gu Ran, killed Tang Li after demanding one million Kun Yuan Stones from Thick Earth City, and set a three-day deadline for the city to respond. After collecting Gu Ran’s purchased materials, Qin Huaian met Sikong Ming and Miao Shanshan, who suggested that his fifty years inside the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele held special significance.

• Qin Huaian revealed himself to Gu Ran, who escaped Tang Li’s Gravity Domain and joined his master.
• Qin Huaian demanded one million Kun Yuan Stones from Tang Li, and Tang Li attacked him after rejecting the demand.
• Qin Huaian killed Tang Li with one sword strike, took his Storage Ring, and ordered Thick Earth City’s attendants to report that he would visit in three days.
• Gu Ran gave Qin Huaian a Storage Ring filled with spirit stones and artifact-refining materials, and Qin Huaian returned the spirit stones to him.
• Sikong Ming introduced Miao Shanshan to Qin Huaian, and Miao Shanshan remarked on his fifty years inside the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele.

Miao Shanshan explained how time spent in the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele strengthened cultivators through the world’s blessing, and Qin Huaian learned that others believed it only helped them comprehend Earth-Attribute Laws. After revealing he had reached the peak of the second realm, Qin Huaian asked Miao Shanshan what secrets Heaven Ridge City had uncovered about the Kun Yuan World.

• Miao Shanshan brought Qin Huaian to Heaven Ridge City’s residence and explained that longer stays in the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele brought greater strength through the Kun Yuan World’s blessing.
• Miao Shanshan said Tang Zhiyuan had stayed in the stele for more than eleven years, while a cultivator from a million years earlier had stayed for nineteen and a half years and reached the peak of the second realm in Earth-Attribute Laws.
• Qin Huaian asked whether cultivators could comprehend Laws other than Earth-Attribute Laws, and Miao Shanshan realized he had studied other Laws inside the stele.
• Qin Huaian admitted that he had comprehended the other four Five Elements Laws from patterns in the hall, though he downplayed how deeply he had understood them.
• Qin Huaian told Miao Shanshan he had reached the peak of the second realm in Earth-Attribute Laws and said advancing further without a tribulation would be difficult.
• Qin Huaian asked Miao Shanshan whether Heaven Ridge City had uncovered secrets about the Kun Yuan World.

Qin Huaian questioned Miao Shanshan about the Kun Yuan World, its stones, and the wider Luo River World, but learned that no cultivator had ever escaped the prison. He chose to remain near the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele and cultivate, while Miao Shanshan began answering his question about the outside world.

• Miao Shanshan told Qin Huaian that the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele remained the world's greatest mystery and that no one had ever left the Cultivator Prison.
• Miao Shanshan explained that Kun Yuan Stones were unique to the prison and were needed to cultivate within the stele's range.
• Qin Huaian said he planned to stay and cultivate for now, and Miao Shanshan welcomed the possibility of him residing in Heaven Ridge City later.
• Qin Huaian asked Miao Shanshan about the Luo River World and the cultivators transported from other cultivation worlds.
• Miao Shanshan said she had spent over sixteen hundred years in the prison, though only eight hundred years had passed outside.

Miao Shanshan explained the Luo River World’s vast domains, powerful Immortal Venerables, and ancient void passages to Qin Huaian. She then told him that people from Thick Earth City were looking for him, and Qin Huaian went to meet them.

• Miao Shanshan told Qin Huaian that she had reached Tribulation Transcendence after entering the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, but her cultivation had stalled for 1,600 years in the Cultivator Prison.
• Miao Shanshan described the 360 domains of the Luo River World and explained that even its weakest domain had dozens of Immortal Venerables, while the Luo River Domain had over a thousand.
• Miao Shanshan explained that void passages connected the domains, shortening travel distances, and that the Luo River Continent served as the world’s main transit hub.
• Qin Huaian asked how void passages were opened, and Miao Shanshan said they had existed since time immemorial and could not have been created by human strength.
• Miao Shanshan told Qin Huaian that people from Thick Earth City were looking for him, and he thanked her before leaving to meet them.

Qin Huaian accepted Thick Earth City's compensation and left to cultivate, while assigning Gu Ran to spread the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture throughout the Kun Yuan World. As Qin Huaian resumed cultivation at the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, two visitors explored the Violet Thorn Continent and wondered why its powerhouses were so few.

• Ni Yaohui offered Qin Huaian one million Kun Yuan Stones on Thick Earth City's behalf, and Qin Huaian accepted the compensation and ended the dispute.
• Qin Huaian parted ways with Miao Shanshan and Sikong Ming, then warned Gu Ran to stay cautious around Thick Earth City.
• Qin Huaian gave Gu Ran the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture and ordered him to spread it widely while concealing his tracks.
• Qin Huaian returned to the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele and began a longer period of cultivation.
• Two men aboard a Flying Boat surveyed the Violet Thorn Continent and noted its abundant resources, powerful foundational techniques, and surprisingly few strong cultivators.

Two Golden Immortal bandits considered visiting the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower, where Zhao Zhicai and Ouyang Peng spotted them and moved to stop them. The bandits were surrounded by cultivators from nearby sects.

• The young cultivator urged his middle-aged big brother to seek more wealth, but they decided to lie low before visiting the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.
• Ouyang Peng and Zhao Zhicai discussed Zhao Zhicai's station at the tower and the rise of young geniuses around it.
• Zhao Zhicai detected two unfamiliar Golden Immortals attempting to claim the tower and suspected they were the bandits robbing sects.
• The middle-aged cultivator sensed Ouyang Peng's Divine Sense scan and tried to leave with his younger brother.
• Zhao Zhicai attacked the fleeing men with his spear while Ouyang Peng summoned nearby sect experts.
• Seven or eight Golden Immortal cultivators surrounded the two bandits.

Qin Huaian continued cultivating beneath the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele until he lit all 360 acupoints and reached the limit of the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body. He then began comprehending the next realm’s cultivation method from the Earth Sovereign Sky-Supporting Diagram.

• Qin Huaian’s reputation spread through the Kun Yuan World, and cultivators from Purple Sky Sacred Land gathered outside the stele while waiting for him to emerge.
• Senior Brother Chen and Junior Brother Huo discussed how few of their fellow disciples they could contact and the rapid spread of the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture.
• Gu Ran pursued the Thousand-Eyed Dragon Leech through the Kun Yuan Mountains, blaming it for Qin Huaian becoming trapped in the world.
• After five more years of cultivation, Qin Huaian lit his 360th acupoint and reached the limit of his Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Qin Huaian visualized the Earth Sovereign Sky-Supporting Diagram and used the World Tree’s phantom to improve his comprehension of the next realm.

Qin Huaian illuminated his 361st acupoint, reaching the peak of the aura that signaled an impending Immortal Ascension Tribulation, but no tribulation clouds appeared. Just as his aura began to fade and he feared he could never progress further, an ancient voice spoke in his mind and he vanished.

• Qin Huaian used a Mirror Body to deduce the fourth-level Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body method and began gathering Earth Vein Power to illuminate his 361st acupoint.
• Over half a year, Qin Huaian's aura grew stronger as cultivators near the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele watched him.
• Miao Shanshan recognized Qin Huaian's aura as an omen of tribulation, but she and Sikong Ming saw no tribulation clouds gather.
• Qin Huaian completely illuminated his 361st acupoint, but his imposing presence peaked and then began to recede.
• An ancient voice spoke in Qin Huaian's mind, and he vanished as the watching cultivators wondered where he had gone.

Qin Huaian met the mysterious old man inside the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele and learned that the Kun Yuan World had been sealed, preventing cultivators from sensing their ascension tribulations. The old man began investigating why the world had changed, leaving Qin Huaian with more questions about the seal and the lost cultivation method.

• Qin Huaian found the grand hall empty before the old man appeared behind him and praised his cultivation of the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Qin Huaian told the old man that his ascension tribulation had failed to descend, and the old man realized someone had tampered with the world and sealed it.
• The old man said he had slept for several hundred yuanhui and wondered why Qin Huaian was the only one to cultivate the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body to perfection.
• The old man dozed off while investigating, and Qin Huaian shouted until he woke and resumed his explanation.
• The old man said the Kun Yuan World was no longer the world it had once been, leaving Qin Huaian wondering how it had changed.

Qin Huaian learned from the old man about ancient and Golden Core Qi Refining techniques, humanity’s ancient war with the Demon and Devil races, and the old man’s connection to the Earth Emperor. The old man promised to break the seal trapping the humans, then closed his eyes to contact his master while Qin Huaian watched for signs that he might fall asleep again.

• The old man recognized Qin Huaian’s Earth Origin Pearl, small world, and powerful Golden Core Qi Refining technique, then withdrew his probing gaze after sensing danger in the unseen depths.
• The old man explained that ancient Qi Refining required abundant spiritual energy and great aptitude, while the later Golden Core method made cultivation accessible to more humans.
• The old man recounted how the Demon and Devil races waged a war against humanity, but he had fallen asleep within the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele before learning its outcome.
• The old man revealed that he served the Earth Emperor and guarded the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele to pass down the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body technique.
• Qin Huaian asked the old man to free the humans trapped by the seal, and the old man promised to do so before closing his eyes to contact his master.

Qin Huaian learned from the old man about higher Golden Immortal realms and the history of his master, the Supreme Purity True Person, before the old man decided to avoid him. The old man created a void passage to the nearest continent, and Qin Huaian returned to find countless people staring at him.

• The old man said he was breaking the seal and explained that leaving would put Qin Huaian in an endless sea, far from the nearest continent.
• The old man explained that Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and Daluo Golden Immortals came after Golden Immortals, and that Daluo Golden Immortals escaped great heavenly calamities.
• Qin Huaian revealed he was the Supreme Purity True Person's disciple, and the old man described his master's ancient fame before abruptly sending Qin Huaian out of the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele.
• The old man withdrew to sleep inside the giant turtle beneath the Kun Yuan Mountains, whose movement shook the mountains and terrified cultivators there.
• After Qin Huaian asked about a shortcut, the old man opened a void passage above the sea and told him to head east and enter it.
• Qin Huaian opened his eyes and found countless gazes fixed on him.

After returning from the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, Qin Huaian announced that the Kun Yuan World's seal would lift in one day and revealed the location of a nearby Void Passage. His announcement raised hopes among trapped cultivators and prompted Miao Shanshan to ask whether they would be able to undergo heavenly tribulation there.

• Qin Huaian left the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele's range and met Gu Ran, who asked whether he had entered the stele again.
• Chen Zhihong and other Purple Sky Sacred Land disciples greeted Qin Huaian, who asked how many of their fellow disciples had entered the Kun Yuan World.
• Qin Huaian told the gathered cultivators that the world's seal would break in one day, freeing everyone to leave.
• Qin Huaian revealed that a Void Passage lay east of the Kun Yuan World and led to the nearest continent.
• Miao Shanshan asked whether the lifted seal would let the Kun Yuan World sense heavenly tribulation, startling cultivators at the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

After Qin Huaian warned that the world’s seal was about to lift and tribulations might begin, cultivators across Kun Yuan World prepared to undergo their heavenly tribulations. Tang Zhiyuan feared Qin Huaian would escape and ordered him watched, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Miao Shanshan warned that nearby cultivators at Tribulation Transcendence Realm Great Perfection could be swept into another person’s lightning tribulation, and the news spread throughout Kun Yuan World.
• Qin Huaian told Purple Sky Sacred Land’s cultivators to prepare for tribulation and sent Gu Ran to find a safe place to undergo it separately.
• Miao Shanshan parted from Qin Huaian and checked the tribulation treasures and Clear Heart Calamity-Transcending Pill her master had prepared for her.
• Tang Zhiyuan realized that the lifted seal could let Qin Huaian escape before he could avenge his son, so he sent a black-clad figure to watch Qin Huaian at the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele.

Qin Huaian traveled northwest to prepare for his lightning tribulation, while Tang Zhiyuan pursued him. When the seal on the Kun Yuan World lifted and its boundary revealed the Boundless Sea, tribulation clouds formed across the world and gathered above Qin Huaian.

• Qin Huaian flew northwest, chose a remote valley, and set up a defensive formation before meditating to prepare for tribulation.
• Tang Zhiyuan sent two late-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivators to follow Qin Huaian, then accelerated ahead while his subordinates pursued at a leisurely pace.
• Qin Huaian reviewed the nine-layer immortal tribulation and the legendary tenth layer of Purple Sky Divine Lightning.
• A sound spread through the Kun Yuan World, and cultivators at its edges saw the Boundless Sea beyond the world's newly clear boundary.
• Cultivators began flying toward the sea and the eastern Void Passage as tribulation clouds formed throughout the Kun Yuan World.
• Qin Huaian looked up as pitch-black tribulation clouds appeared above his valley, marking the start of his immortal tribulation.