Chapter Summaries

Cultivators fought over Fire Crystal Stones emerging as the Central Fire Sea shrank, while Qin Huaian watched for a chance to claim the Fire Origin. Zhu Yue drove off Hou’s group after Hou mistook Zhu Yue’s power for Dao Fusion, and Qin Huaian ended the chapter moving closer to a newly appeared stone.

• A Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land elder seized a Fire Crystal Stone, but several cultivators attacked him and forced him to retreat.
• The elder threw the stone to Zhu Yue in exchange for protection, and Zhu Yue drove off Hou after Hou attacked him.
• Hou was shocked by Zhu Yue’s strength and left with his followers, while battles broke out over more stones appearing around the shrinking Central Fire Sea.
• Qin Huaian avoided the fights and edged closer to the shrinking fire, waiting for a chance to take the Fire Origin.
• A dark red Fire Crystal Stone appeared near Qin Huaian.

Qin Huaian killed a cultivator who attacked him for a Fire Crystal Stone, showing the others at the Central Fire Sea how powerful he was. As the sea shrank and more stones emerged, he collected them unchallenged while Zhu Yue watched him with fighting spirit.

• Qin Huaian took a Fire Crystal Stone and evaded a spear attack from an Immortal Venerable Late Stage cultivator.
• Qin Huaian killed the attacker with two sword strikes, took his treasures, and cast his body into the Central Fire Sea.
• The watching cultivators reconsidered Qin Huaian’s strength, and Qin Lu acknowledged him while Zhu Yue regarded him as a worthy opponent.
• Qin Huaian gathered nearby Fire Crystal Stones without facing competition as the sea of flames shrank.
• When the Central Fire Sea narrowed to a hundred li, its intense energy faded and it became an ordinary sea of flames.

As the Central Fire Sea lost its deadly energy, Qin Huaian discovered a volcano inside it covered in Fire Crystal Stones and knew the Fire Origin was hidden there. The cultivators confirmed the flames were harmless and rushed into the sea, while Qin Huaian stopped himself just before flying toward the crater.

• Qin Huaian watched the Central Fire Sea shrink and gathered more than five hundred Fire Crystal Stones without provoking the other cultivators.
• The fire sea's energy rapidly faded, allowing Qin Huaian to see a mountain and a Fire Crystal Stone-filled volcanic crater within it.
• The Fire Origin's aura disappeared, and the cultivators grew greedy at the sight of the stones but hesitated to enter the flames.
• The cultivator surnamed Hou and his companion sent a mid-stage Immortal Venerable cultivator into the fire sea, where he found the flames harmless and collected thousands of stones.
• The cultivators rushed into the fire sea after confirming it was safe, but Qin Huaian abruptly stopped himself as he prepared to fly to the crater.

Qin Huaian and the other cultivators gathered Fire Crystal Stones, then joined forces to attack the barrier around the volcanic crater. The Taiji Yin-Yang Fish unleashed a huge black-and-white pillar that devastated the Central Fire Sea and killed many cultivators, leaving a bare volcano.

• Qin Huaian saw the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish reappear above the Central Fire Sea, though the Grand Void Palace was still missing.
• Zhu Yue urged the cultivators to break the crater's protective array, while Qin Huaian and others first collected Fire Crystal Stones around the volcano.
• After the cultivators gathered around the crater and their combined attacks failed to shake its barrier, Qin Huaian sensed danger and fled the fire sea.
• The Taiji Yin-Yang Fish turned and struck the crater with a massive pillar of black-and-white light, killing more than ten cultivators who failed to escape.
• The surviving cultivators fled as the pillar extinguished every flame in the Central Fire Sea, leaving only a bare volcano.

Qin Huaian and the other cultivators retreated from the volcano as the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish's beam continued striking its steadfast defensive formation. After three days, they learned that a surviving palace had lost its defenses and energy, leaving its teleportation platforms unusable.

• The Taiji Yin-Yang Fish's pillar of light triggered the volcano's defensive formation, and Qin Huaian told the gathered cultivators he did not know what was happening.
• Chen Nian and Qin Lu said that most palace complexes had been destroyed, leaving cultivators with few known ways to escape the secret realm.
• Qin Huaian urged everyone to retreat, and reports revealed that the other eight seas of fire each had a smaller, protected volcano that had not been attacked.
• Qin Huaian and the cultivators waited more than a hundred thousand li from the volcano for three days while the beam and defensive formation remained unchanged.
• Qin Lu received word that a palace nearly ten thousand li in size had lost its defensive formation, but its teleportation platforms could no longer be activated.

Qin Huaian and the others realized that the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish was draining energy from palace complexes and fire seas to attack the protective formation at the Central Fire Sea volcano. They feared that the secret realm’s remaining teleportation platforms would lose their power, leaving them with no way to escape.

• Qin Lu reported that a large palace had lost its protective formation, vitality, and usable teleportation platforms.
• Qin Huaian guessed that the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish had drained the palace’s energy to attack the volcanic protective formation.
• Chen Nian worried that the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish could drain every palace and destroy their hope of escaping through its teleportation platforms.
• Chen Nian reported that the fires and crater formations in the northeast and southeast had vanished, leaving energyless rocks behind.
• Qin Lu concluded that the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish and the remaining palace formations were fighting back against the Li Fire Heaven-Burning Grand Array.
• Chen Nian wondered what rank of formation could produce a battle beyond the power of a Daluo Golden Immortal.

Cultivators gathered around the Central Fire Sea as the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish continued draining the secret realm’s remaining energy, leaving them with no clear way out. When the Fish suddenly spun faster and released a force that made the whole world tremble, Qin Huaian wondered if it was making its final counterattack.

• Chen Nian told Qin Lu and Wei Hong that every palace complex on the map had either been destroyed or drained, leaving them little hope of finding an exit.
• Qin Lu, Chen Nian, and Wei Hong concluded that they could only wait to see whether the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish broke the formation at the Central Fire Sea’s crater.
• Wei Hong warned that escaping into a spatial rift could leave them stranded or kill them, while Qin Huaian knew he could not travel through one himself.
• The Taiji Yin-Yang Fish blazed with light and spun faster until a force that shook every living being in the world descended from it.
• Qin Huaian wondered whether the force was the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish’s final counterattack.

Cultivators witnessed the Fire Origin aura emerge openly from the Central Fire Sea as the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish clashed with the volcano’s protective formation. Meanwhile, Lingxiao Ke, Duan Linchuan, and Su Yu gathered at Cloud Viewing Residence to break its formation, and Su Yu challenged Duan Linchuan over his hostility toward Qin Huaian.

• The Fire Origin aura appeared at the volcanic crater, and cultivators at the Central Fire Sea sensed its location while waiting for the clash to end.
• Lingxiao Ke explained that several sects had failed to break the formation guarding Cloud Viewing Residence and asked Su Yu to help.
• Su Yu suggested the cave might belong to an ancient powerhouse of the Violet Thorn Sacred Land and warned that its formation could be too powerful for them.
• Duan Linchuan proposed attacking the Violet Thorn Sacred Land, but Lingxiao Ke objected that they had no justification to assault its sect-protecting formation.
• Su Yu accused Duan Linchuan of wanting to destroy Qin Huaian’s sect and warned that Qin Huaian could threaten the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land after further cultivation.
• Lingxiao Ke urged the group to focus on breaking the cave’s formation to learn about cultivation beyond the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.

Lingxiao Ke, Duan Linchuan, and Su Yu joined forces to break the formation protecting Cloud Viewing Residence. Inside, they found a stone stele and several jade slips, and agreed to study the stele separately and read the jade slips together.

• Lingxiao Ke, Duan Linchuan, and Su Yu attacked the protective formation while the other cultivators watched from a distance.
• Lingxiao Ke found the formation's weakest point, and the three focused their attacks there until Duan Linchuan shattered it.
• Lingxiao Ke, Duan Linchuan, and Su Yu entered the sparse Cloud Viewing Residence and discovered a stone stele and jade slips.
• Lingxiao Ke proposed that they study the stele separately and read the jade slips together, and Duan Linchuan and Su Yu agreed.

Lingxiao Ke, Su Yu, and Duan Linchuan opened the cave abode’s array and activated a message phantom left by its former owner. The phantom revealed that the Violet Thorn Great World had once been sealed and hinted at the fate of its ten Daluo Golden Immortals, then offered to explain what had happened.

• Lingxiao Ke quickly dismantled the array protecting the jade slips, impressing Su Yu and Duan Linchuan with his array mastery.
• As the three prepared to examine the jade slips, beams of light combined into the phantom of an old Daoist.
• The phantom said he had not returned from a dangerous journey and asked that the jade slips’ contents be passed on to a suitable person.
• The old man explained that the cave abode had been hidden for several thousand yuanhui and that breaking its array required power comparable to the late stage of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• He revealed that the Violet Thorn Great World had been sealed, preventing cultivators from advancing to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and said only ten such immortals had remained.
• The phantom offered to explain the world’s past to anyone interested, while allowing the visitors to take his belongings if they did not wish to listen.

An old man recounted how the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower appeared in the Violet Thorn Great World and was followed by the loss of complete laws, making advancement to Daluo Golden Immortal impossible. Lingxiao Ke and the others wondered why the laws were now complete and they had advanced despite the tower still standing.

• Lingxiao Ke and the others learned that the 360 void passages had spread the Violet Thorn Domain’s already-complete laws and increased spiritual energy across the great domains.
• The old man described ancient records of a vortex passage to a mysterious continent and said the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower descended while he was a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Lingxiao Ke and the others recognized the tower as the one that let cultivators comprehend multiple laws and carried Qin Huaian’s name at its summit.
• The old man said that within ten thousand years of the tower’s arrival, no one could comprehend complete laws or pass the Daluo Golden Immortal lightning tribulation.
• Lingxiao Ke and the others exchanged puzzled glances because the tower still stood, yet the laws were complete and they had advanced to Daluo Golden Immortals.

An old man recounted how the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower vanished, triggering a decline in the Violet Thorn Great World's spiritual energy and the mysterious shattering of the Parasol Tree Domain. Su Yu and the others suspected the shattered domain might be connected to the Chaotic Sea Region as the old man continued his account.

• The old man explained that cultivators could no longer advance to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm after the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower appeared, though existing Daluo Golden Immortals could still slowly improve.
• The Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower vanished after about five thousand epochs, but the laws did not recover and spiritual energy across the Violet Thorn Great World began to decline.
• The old man said spiritual energy had fallen by thirty percent within a century, slowing cultivation throughout the Violet Thorn Great World.
• The Parasol Tree Domain was torn apart overnight, splitting the Parasol Tree Continent and killing countless cultivators and mortals.
• Experts from the Violet Thorn Sacred Land discovered a spatial passageway above the shattered Parasol Tree Domain, prompting Su Yu and the others to suspect it was connected to the Chaotic Sea Region.

Daoist Cloudwatcher recounted how the Violet Thorn Sacred Land fought the Devil Race and created a powerful seal around the spatial passage using its innate spirit treasure. He left three jade slips of his inheritances for later generations before his phantom vanished.

• Daoist Cloudwatcher said Devil Race cultivators slaughtered most of the Violet Thorn Great World party, prompting the Sacred Lord to send experts through the spatial passage to fight them.
• After the Devil Race sent hundreds of experts toward the passage, the Sacred Lord gathered the Violet Thorn Great World's Daluo Golden Immortals to defend their world and commissioned Daoist Cloudwatcher to devise a seal.
• Daoist Cloudwatcher joined the Sacred Lord and nine other Immortal Emperors in confronting the Devil Race, while preparing a sealing formation founded on the Violet Thorn Sacred Land's innate spirit treasure.
• Daoist Cloudwatcher left three jade slips containing knowledge of the Violet Thorn Great World, cultivation, formations, and artifact refinement, and asked that copies be made for the Sacred Land if it still existed.
• Daoist Cloudwatcher's phantom vanished, leaving Lingxiao Ke and Duan Linchuan stunned and confused.

As the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish disappeared, Qin Huaian and thousands of cultivators gathered at the Central Fire Sea and attacked the weakened barrier around the volcanic crater. Zhu Yue urged them to combine their strength, but a cultivator warned that a joint assault might trigger the formation's backlash.

• The Taiji Yin-Yang Fish and its beam of light faded away, and the formation contracted to cover only the volcanic crater.
• Qin Huaian flew above the crater and struck the pale-red barrier with the Cangwu Sword, making it flicker without breaking it.
• Zhu Yue and other peak Immortal Venerable experts joined Qin Huaian in attacking the barrier, and thousands of cultivators followed with their own strikes.
• Zhu Yue warned the gathered cultivators that the volcano might vanish and proposed they attack together before that happened.
• A cultivator cautioned that a combined assault might provoke the formation's backlash, as the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish's attack had done.

The cultivators shattered the protective array over the volcano and rushed inside to seek the Fire Origin. Qin Huaian located it first, took the Fire Crystal Stone rock containing it, and fled as Zhu Yue pursued him.

• Chen Nian proposed that the cultivators attack the array in successive groups, and Zhu Yue led the assault.
• The cultivators broke the array, releasing a surge of heat and Fire-Attribute Law resonance from the crater.
• Qin Huaian sensed the Fire Origin inside a hundred-zhang Fire Crystal Stone rock and teleported to it.
• Zhu Yue also teleported to the rock, but Qin Huaian used Near Yet Far, stored the rock, and escaped the crater.
• Qin Huaian flew away with his Golden Roc Wings, and Zhu Yue chased after him.

Qin Huaian used a spatial ability to take a coveted Fire Crystal Stone from Zhu Yue at the volcano, then escaped while Zhu Yue pursued him across the Central Fire Sea. A day later, Qin Huaian slowed down, and Zhu Yue prepared to attack, believing his greater reserves of Immortal Essence Power gave him the advantage.

• Qin Huaian used the Near Yet Far divine ability to delay Zhu Yue and put the Fire Crystal Stone into his Storage Ring.
• The cultivators rushed into the crater and fought violently over the Fire Crystal Stones.
• Qin Huaian fled on his Golden Roc Wings as Zhu Yue pursued him with repeated teleportations.
• Zhu Yue stopped teleporting when he realized he could not catch Qin Huaian that way without exhausting his Immortal Essence Power.
• Qin Huaian led Zhu Yue away from the Central Fire Sea for a day, then slowed down as Zhu Yue prepared to strike.

Qin Huaian killed Zhu Yue with Grand Void Birth and Extinction after trapping him, then fled to recover his Immortal Essence Power. Other cultivators found the battlefield but misjudged the outcome, while the allied sects continued searching for a way out of the secret realm.

• Zhu Yue recalled how Qin Huaian’s mastery of Spatial Law exceeded his own, but believed he could still win until Qin Huaian’s invisible sword radiance dissolved his shield and fatally wounded him.
• Zhu Yue remembered his rise from a mortal cowherd, his long pursuit of Dao Fusion, and how he had recently advanced to the Dao Fusion Realm before Qin Huaian took the Fire Origin.
• Qin Huaian collected Zhu Yue’s Storage Ring and magic treasures, removed the trapping formation, and flew away to restore his depleted Immortal Essence Power.
• Qin Lu and cultivators from the Water Rhyme Sect and Joyous Union Sect found the battle site but could not tell who had won, so they chose to search for intact ruined palaces and an exit.
• A Blazing Sun Sect cultivator and a Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivator found the same traces and assumed Zhu Yue was still pursuing Qin Huaian, then returned to gather their allies near the Central Fire Sea.

Qin Huaian entered a hidden cave and then his small world to safely study the Fire Origin he had obtained. After reassuring Han Yunting and the others that the Li Fire Heaven-Burning Grand Array had ended, he brought out the enormous boulder containing the Fire Origin.

• Qin Huaian found that the Taiji Yin-Yang Fish had drained a vast palace complex so thoroughly that its teleportation platform materials had become ordinary.
• Qin Huaian flew away from the Central Fire Sea, set up concealment and defensive formations in a barren mountain cave, and entered his small world.
• Han Yunting and the others greeted Qin Huaian, who told them the Li Fire Heaven-Burning Grand Array had ended and that he was unharmed.
• Qin Huaian considered Luo Xi's white palace and the promise to deliver it to Su Mu of Heavenly Gate Palace, but he could not open or inspect it.
• Qin Huaian took out the enormous boulder, a hundred zhang in radius, to study the Fire Origin within the small world.

Qin Huaian uncovered a Fire Origin Pearl and decided to save it for the Seed Space rather than refine it himself. He began cultivating beside the pearl and the remaining Fire Crystal Stones while waiting for the Seed Space’s upgrade.

• Qin Huaian shattered a rock of Fire Crystal Stone and revealed a fist-sized Fire Origin Pearl.
• Han Yunting and the others sensed the Fire Origin aura, and Qin Huaian reassured them.
• Qin Huaian decided not to refine the pearl because the World Tree and Seed Space needed its Fire Origin.
• Qin Huaian left the scattered Fire Crystal Stones and the pearl in place, then cultivated beside them.

Qin Huaian, Han Yunting, and Mu Qinghan cultivated in a Small World rich in Fire-Attribute Law resonance. Elsewhere, a three-faction alliance celebrated killing rival groups and set its sights on two Rogue Cultivators ahead, while believing Zhu Yue had already defeated Qin Huaian.

• Qin Huaian cultivated before the Fire Origin Pearl, while Han Yunting and Mu Qinghan also tried to comprehend the Fire-Attribute Law.
• Wang and Chen led a large alliance that had wiped out Hou Jiayin's Rogue Cultivators and seized their treasures.
• Wang received word that Ouyang's group had ambushed and killed the Blood Moon Cult's cultivators, leaving no witnesses.
• Wang and Chen discussed the remaining factions and expected Zhu Yue to return after killing Qin Huaian and obtaining the Fire Origin.
• Wang spotted two Rogue Cultivators ahead and led the group toward them.