Chapter Summaries

Qin Huaian explored the Heavenly Palace Market and went to buy materials for making array flags and plates. He overheard a cultivator trying to sell the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture, and concluded that the technique was spreading beyond his own efforts.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable showed Qin Huaian and the others the Heavenly Palace Market and warned them not to fight there.
• Qin Huaian parted from Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and entered the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to buy second-tier and third-tier artifact-refining materials.
• Qin Huaian overheard a clerk discussing the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture with a True Immortal cultivator who wanted to sell it.
• Qin Huaian reasoned that the seller had probably come from the Kun Yuan World or Spirit Rock Island and decided he did not need to intervene.
• The female cultivator led Qin Huaian to the artifact-refining materials section and asked what he needed.

Qin Huaian bought artifact-refining materials, sold a large portion of his low-grade Immortal Spirit Herbs for nearly three billion Immortal Crystals, and planned to spread the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture throughout the Luo River World. He then met Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and headed with him toward the auction.

• Qin Huaian bought second- and third-grade artifact-refining materials for twenty-one million Immortal Crystals, then searched the market for scarce materials to upgrade the Flowing Cloud Sword.
• Qin Huaian sold low-grade Immortal Spirit Herbs from Golden Glow Island across many shops, raising his wealth to nearly three billion Immortal Crystals.
• Qin Huaian bought first-grade immortal and ninth-grade refining materials so he could use formations to spread the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture.
• Qin Huaian met Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, who invited him to the central hall for the upcoming auction.

Qin Huaian attended the Heavenly Palace Auction with Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable and learned how its bidding and privacy formations worked. Auctioneer Ji Chuan began the event by offering a rare batch of Seven-colored Mystic Heaven Jade Dew, leaving the bidding about to start.

• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable led Qin Huaian and the others into the auction hall and offered to lend Qin Huaian Immortal Crystals if needed.
• Qin Huaian examined the auction rules and learned that bids were binding, transactions happened immediately, and each seat had private formations and a bidding device.
• Ji Chuan appeared onstage, sealed the hall, and officially began the three-day auction.
• Ji Chuan presented a batch of Seven-colored Mystic Heaven Jade Dew and set its starting bid at thirty million Immortal Crystals.

Qin Huaian watched Mysterious Heaven Jade Dew sell for an astonishing 110 million Immortal Crystals before the auction moved on to Mist Rain Spirit Tea. The tea sold for 310,000 Immortal Crystals, and Ji Chuan introduced Thunder Purple Gold as the next item.

• Ji Chuan stirred up the bidders as the price of Mysterious Heaven Jade Dew climbed to 110 million Immortal Crystals.
• A cultivator won the fifty batches of Mysterious Heaven Jade Dew for 110 million Immortal Crystals, shocking Qin Huaian with their value.
• Ji Chuan presented a box of Mist Rain Spirit Tea, which Earthly Immortal and Heavenly Immortal cultivators eagerly bid on.
• A cultivator bought the Mist Rain Spirit Tea for 310,000 Immortal Crystals.
• Ji Chuan introduced Thunder Purple Gold, a fifth-grade immortal-grade refining material, as the next auction item.

Qin Huaian won the Thunder Purple Gold for ten million Immortal Crystals and spent heavily on other forging materials during the auction. On the third day, the white-bearded elder announced the long-awaited Dao Fruit, leaving the crowd eager to see it.

• Qin Huaian outbid the other participants and purchased the Thunder Purple Gold for ten million Immortal Crystals.
• Qin Huaian received the material and completed the transaction by paying with a storage bag.
• Qin Huaian bought several fourth-grade and fifth-grade forging materials, spending nearly five hundred million Immortal Crystals in total.
• The white-bearded elder announced that the auction’s anticipated Dao Fruit was about to be presented, exciting the crowd.

Qin Huaian watched the Golden Essence Glass Fruit auction climb to a staggering price and decided not to trade his Seven-Colored Heavenly Mysterious Jade Dew, fearing it would expose his identity. The fruit sold for 5.15 billion Immortal Crystals, and the auction closed by announcing five Primordial Unity Dao Pattern Pills.

• The white-bearded elder presented a Golden Essence Glass Fruit and announced that its consignor would accept a wind-element Dao Fruit or one thousand portions of Seven-Colored Heavenly Mysterious Jade Dew in a direct exchange.
• Bidding for the Golden Essence Glass Fruit quickly rose past three billion Immortal Crystals as Qin Huaian considered offering his jade dew.
• Qin Huaian realized that trading a thousand portions could reveal he had reached the fourth level of Origin Eye cultivation, so he chose not to bid or barter.
• The Golden Essence Glass Fruit sold for 5.15 billion Immortal Crystals.
• The white-bearded elder announced a final auction of five Primordial Unity Dao Pattern Pills, startling the Golden Core cultivators preparing to leave.

Qin Huaian won a Primordial Unity Dao Pattern Pill at the Heavenly Palace Auction, which ended with the announcement of yearly auctions. Back at his cave abode, he began refining formation plates to help Supreme Purity Master.

• The auction set a five-breath, single-bid contest for five Primordial Unity Dao Pattern Pills, and Qin Huaian bid three hundred million Immortal Crystals.
• The five highest bids were revealed, and Qin Huaian won a pill with the fourth-highest bid before paying for it.
• The white-bearded elder declared the first Heavenly Palace Auction over and announced that auctions would be held yearly until the Void Hall secret realm closed.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, Kong Zhang, and the others returned to their cave abode, pleased with what they had gained.
• Qin Huaian set up a defensive formation and began refining ninth-rank and first-rank immortal formation plates for Supreme Purity Master.

Qin Huaian prepared thousands of concealment array discs and Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture jade slips, then secretly planted formations around Meteorfall City and its surrounding markets. After a year of cultivation, he reached great perfection in the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

• Qin Huaian refined over three thousand concealment array discs and made many jade slips containing the Supreme Purity Ascension Scripture and the Supreme Purity True Person's portrait.
• Qin Huaian left Meteorfall City and disguised himself to visit markets around it, planting concealment formations while changing his appearance and displayed cultivation.
• Over ten days, Qin Huaian visited nearly a hundred markets and set up formations around the area roughly ten thousand li from Meteorfall City.
• Qin Huaian returned to his rented cave residence and devoted his twelve Mirror Bodies to cultivating with Seven-colored Mystic Heaven Jade Dew while his true body comprehended the Laws of Yin and Yang.
• A year later, Qin Huaian opened his eyes after reaching great perfection in the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Qin Huaian reached the great perfection of the Heavenly Immortal Realm but chose to postpone his Golden Immortal tribulation until after entering the Void Hall. Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable warned him that survival there depended on strength as well as luck and gave him a jade slip containing intelligence about the Hall.

• Qin Huaian decided to wait until after the Void Hall opened to undergo his Golden Immortal tribulation so he would not miss his chance to enter.
• Qin Huaian stopped cultivating in seclusion and discovered that Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable had also left his room.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable noticed Qin Huaian’s breakthrough and congratulated him on reaching the great perfection of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable explained that stronger cultivators had better chances of surviving the Void Hall, despite luck playing a major role.
• Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable gave Qin Huaian a jade slip compiled from past visitors’ accounts, while cautioning him not to trust its information completely.

Qin Huaian went to Meteorfall Plaza to buy talismans for protection before the Void Hall opened, then noticed a shop selling information about the Void Hall. As he looked toward it, he sensed someone watching him.

• The Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable warned Qin Huaian that cultivators carrying Void Tokens were being robbed outside the city, so Qin Huaian decided to stay in Meteorfall City.
• Qin Huaian visited Meteorfall Plaza and examined the Star Pavilion headquarters, whose upper floors were hidden by an array.
• Qin Huaian bought several third- and fourth-grade immortal talismans from the Star Merchant Association for nearly forty million Immortal Crystals.
• Qin Huaian left the plaza and saw a shop selling Secrets of the Void Hall, then sensed a gaze fixed on him.

Qin Huaian met Yu Ruoxue again in the city, and she was shocked to discover that his cultivation had reached the great completion of the Heavenly Immortal Realm. They went to a private teahouse to talk, where Qin Huaian left Yu Ruoxue curious about his rapid progress.

• Qin Huaian and Yu Ruoxue recognized each other in the street and were both surprised by his cultivation and her recent advancement.
• Yu Ruoxue agreed to speak with Qin Huaian at a nearby teahouse, leaving her maidservant Xiao Cui to wait in another room.
• Qin Huaian set up third-rank defensive and soundproof immortal arrays in their private room.
• Yu Ruoxue asked Qin Huaian about his cultivation and the arrays, while he avoided directly explaining his secrets.
• Qin Huaian joked that he was an unparalleled genius who appeared only once in ten thousand years.

Qin Huaian asked Yu Ruoxue to keep his rapid cultivation a secret, then told her he planned to enter the Void Hall. Yu Ruoxue was inspired by his words about risking danger for opportunities and enthusiastically embraced the idea.

• Yu Ruoxue explained that Qin Huaian's extraordinary cultivation speed could make others suspect he had a great secret, and Qin Huaian asked her to keep it private.
• Yu Ruoxue agreed to keep the secret without accepting Qin Huaian's offer of Immortal Crystals.
• Qin Huaian prepared to leave, but Yu Ruoxue asked whether he planned to enter the Void Hall.
• Qin Huaian admitted he had a Void Token and intended to enter the Void Hall despite its dangers.
• Yu Ruoxue grew excited by Qin Huaian's claim that cultivators had to brave dangers to gain opportunities.

Yu Ruoxue told Qin Huaian that three Golden Immortal prodigies and many other powerful cultivators would enter the Void Hall this time. She revealed that the gathering might be connected to a secret about breaking through to the Great Luo Immortal Emperor.

• Yu Ruoxue named Qiyu, Blood Blade, and Liu Chengzhi as the Luo River World's three Golden Immortal prodigies entering the Void Hall.
• Qin Huaian told Yu Ruoxue that he had cultivated for only a few hundred years, surprising her because he was close to her age.
• Yu Ruoxue said that Liu Chengzhi had comprehended the Law of Space inside the Void Hall, and she remarked that Qin Huaian was stronger than him.
• Yu Ruoxue explained that powerful Golden Immortals and teams from the Chaotic Sea Region would also enter the Void Hall this time.
• Yu Ruoxue revealed that her grandfather believed the gathering might concern the secret to breaking through to the Great Luo Immortal Emperor.

Yu Ruoxue told Qin Huaian that the major powers were gathering Void Stones in the Void Hall to break a mysterious formation in the Emerald Bamboo Domain, which might be connected to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. After leaving the teahouse, Qin Huaian noticed people secretly watching him and wondered whether someone was tracking him.

• Yu Ruoxue explained that experts sought Void Stones from the Void Hall to break a formation whose complete law Dao intent had drawn the attention of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals at great perfection.
• Yu Ruoxue warned Qin Huaian to avoid powerful opponents in the Void Hall and gave him a jade slip listing famous experts and geniuses.
• Qin Huaian asked Yu Ruoxue how many Void Stones people usually found, and she said most cultivators never encountered any.
• Yu Ruoxue and Qin Huaian left the private room, and Xiao Cui remarked on how long they had been inside.
• Qin Huaian left the teahouse and noticed several people watching him before they quickly looked away.

The Void Hall opened, and Qin Huaian and the Star Rainbow Sword Sect cultivators gathered at Meteorfall City’s eastern gate. They learned that Void Tokens could guide their bearers into the Hall, but would only work for the first three days.

• Qin Huaian left secluded cultivation after hearing that the Void Hall had opened.
• Qin Huaian, Yellow Mountain Sword Venerable, and the other Star Rainbow Sword Sect cultivators headed to Meteorfall City’s eastern gate.
• Qin Huaian and the others saw the mysterious palace hovering in the eastern sky and waited with the gathered cultivators.
• An Immortal Venerable announced that Void Token holders could activate their tokens to reach the Void Hall.
• The Immortal Venerable explained that the Void Hall would remain open for ten years, but tokens would only work during its first three days.

Qin Huaian explored a barren icefield inside the Void Hall and prepared to break through to the Golden Immortal Realm. He summoned his lightning tribulation successfully, and the first bolt began to form above him.

• Qin Huaian entered the Void Hall and found himself alone in an immense icefield rich in spatial law Dao rhythms but devoid of treasures and living creatures.
• Qin Huaian considered crossing into other worlds for treasures but decided to first attempt a breakthrough in the safer initial world.
• Qin Huaian prepared for the Golden Immortal lightning tribulation, carrying three Golden Rhyme Dao Pills and noting that his laws gave him strong odds of success.
• Qin Huaian circulated his Immortal Essence Power, causing tribulation clouds to gather over the icefield.
• Qin Huaian watched as the clouds finished gathering and the first bolt of lightning tribulation began to condense.

Qin Huaian endured his Golden Immortal Tribulation, using its lightning to strengthen his body while comprehending the Yin-Yang Laws. After the fifth wave, he raised his mastery of those laws to the early stage of the third level.

• Qin Huaian blocked the first wave of tribulation lightning and let some bolts strike his body to temper it.
• He swallowed a Golden Rhyme Dao Pill and used the World Tree's energy to improve his comprehension of the laws.
• Qin Huaian endured the second wave as his Immortal Essence Power grew denser and his bones began turning pale gold.
• He swallowed two more Golden Rhyme Dao Pills, but found their added benefits diminishing.
• After enduring the fifth wave, Qin Huaian raised his mastery of the Yin-Yang Laws to the early stage of the third level.

Qin Huaian endured the ninth wave of his Golden Immortal tribulation, using the lightning to temper his body and his Yin-Yang sword art to withstand its final strike. As the tribulation clouds dispersed, he sensed the laws of heaven and earth stirring and sat down to respond.

• Qin Huaian blocked the sixth wave’s first bolt with his sword, then let the remaining lightning injure and temper his body as the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body healed him.
• Qin Huaian used the time between waves to comprehend the earth-element Law, then endured the seventh and eighth waves with little difficulty.
• Qin Huaian countered the ninth wave’s first bolt with a Taiji Yin-Yang Fish and let later bolts strike his body to strengthen his body refinement.
• Qin Huaian unleashed three Taiji Yin-Yang Fish against the ninth wave’s final bolt, which weakened until it could barely harm him.
• Qin Huaian watched the tribulation clouds disperse, sensed the laws of heaven and earth becoming active, and sat down cross-legged.

Qin Huaian reached the third realm in earth-element laws, bringing on a Chaos lightning tribulation during his near-completion of the Golden Immortal tribulation. He absorbed Chaos energy while enduring its lightning, then discovered that the energy was vanishing faster than he could explain as spatial cracks widened.

• Qin Huaian advanced his earth-element laws to the third realm and realized his heart demon tribulation and heavenly gift had yet to arrive.
• The sky fractured into void rifts, revealing a Chaos lightning tribulation that spread across the ice plains.
• Qin Huaian entered the Chaos tribulation clouds, absorbed their Chaos energy with the World Tree, and endured the destructive lightning.
• The Seed Space began expanding as Qin Huaian absorbed Chaos energy, but spatial cracks widened and began releasing even more.
• More than half the Chaos energy across ten thousand li vanished while fresh energy continued pouring from the cracks, leaving Qin Huaian wondering where it had gone.

Qin Huaian survived his Golden Immortal tribulation and reached the early Golden Immortal stage, while the Void Hall absorbed most of the chaos energy. Supreme Purity True Person contacted him and began investigating how Qin Huaian had advanced so quickly.

• Qin Huaian absorbed chaos energy as his tribulation clouds shrank, and the World Tree dispelled his heart demon tribulation.
• Qin Huaian advanced to the early Golden Immortal stage, and the Seed Space began a 24-year upgrade.
• Qin Huaian flew to the largest void fissure but found that the Void Hall absorbed nearly all the chaos energy.
• Supreme Purity True Person contacted Qin Huaian, congratulated him on passing the Golden Immortal tribulation, and asked whether he had used a time-related secret realm or formation.
• Qin Huaian said he had never heard of time-related secret realms and told Supreme Purity True Person that he was 280 years old.