Chapter Summaries

The Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele drew millions of cultivators and the great powers of the Violet Thorn Great World, who sought talented earth-law cultivators while building their strength. After an eight-year entrant emerged and attracted recruitment offers, a second cultivator appeared, prompting all four Daluo Golden Immortals to rush over.

• More than ten million cultivators and the four Daluo Golden Immortals gathered around the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele as the great powers expanded across Parasol Tree Continent.
• The sects agreed to keep the region within a hundred thousand miles of the stele open to cultivators from across the Violet Thorn Great World.
• A Heavenly Immortal who had spent eight years inside the stele emerged, having nearly advanced his earth-element laws to the middle stage of the third realm.
• Tong Zhen, Lü Fang, and other cultivators invited the newcomer to join their sects and asked whether he had comprehended the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Before the newcomer could finish answering, another cultivator appeared, and Lingxiao Ke, Duan Linchuan, Su Yu, and Xue Changge rushed to his side.

Xing Wanjun emerged from the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele and revealed that he had comprehended the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body. The powerful cultivators competing to recruit him and learn how he obtained the inheritance gave him treasures, and he began explaining his method.

• Four Daluo Golden Immortals gathered around Xing Wanjun as he emerged from the stele, drawing the attention of the surrounding cultivators.
• Su Yu asked Xing Wanjun whether he had gained anything inside, and Xing Wanjun confirmed that he had comprehended the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Su Yu, Duan Linchuan, Lingxiao Ke, and Xue Changge each offered Xing Wanjun a high-grade Dao artifact while seeking his account and inviting him to join their groups.
• Xing Wanjun accepted the four treasures and promised to share everything he knew about gaining the inheritance.
• Xing Wanjun began by saying he had not obtained the inheritance through devoting himself to comprehending earth-attributed laws.

Xing Wanjun explained that he entered the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele by using its repulsive force to strengthen his body-tempering cultivation, rather than by comprehending earth-attributed laws. He began describing the ancient land he encountered inside, leaving Duan Linchuan puzzled because it differed from other entrants’ experiences.

• Xing Wanjun said he had little talent in earth-attributed laws and began circulating a body-tempering technique to resist the stele’s repulsive force.
• Xing Wanjun’s body-tempering cultivation rose rapidly, and within three months the stele teleported him inside.
• Xing Wanjun revealed his ordinary body-tempering technique, and Su Yu suggested he might have gained recognition through his exceptional ability to develop it further.
• Lingxiao Ke observed that body-tempering aptitude could offer another path into the stele, drawing the attention of nearby body-tempering cultivators.
• Xing Wanjun said he appeared on an ancient, desolate land before a figure as tall as heaven and earth, and Duan Linchuan noted that this differed from other entrants’ experiences.

Xing Wanjun described learning the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body inside the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, and Su Yu shared its first four stages with the others. When their attempts to cultivate it failed outside the stele, Su Yu realized the method could not retain Earth Vein Power there and felt reassured about his own failure.

• Xing Wanjun explained that the stele showed him a towering figure whose meridians and acupoints filled with Earth Vein Power, revealing the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Xing Wanjun said he had lit up 180 acupoints in three years and spent five years condensing a wisp of pseudo–Mysterious Yellow Qi.
• Su Yu offered to share the first four stages, but Duan Linchuan said the group would rather receive them from Xing Wanjun.
• Xing Wanjun inscribed the first four stages on a jade slip, and Xue Changge, Duan Linchuan, and Lingxiao Ke tried cultivating them.
• The Earth Vein Power dissipated from each cultivator, and Su Yu concluded that the method only worked inside the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele.
• Su Yu laughed with relief, while Lingxiao Ke asked him why they could not retain the power.

Su Yu and the others concluded that Xing Wanjun could cultivate the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body because he had condensed pseudo-mysterious-yellow qi inside the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele. Xing Wanjun joined the Star Pavilion, while the cultivators left outside debated how others might learn the technique.

• Xing Wanjun circulated the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body technique and absorbed Earth Vein Power, leading Su Yu and Xing Wanjun to identify pseudo-mysterious-yellow qi as the key to cultivating it.
• Su Yu invited Xing Wanjun to join the Star Pavilion, and Xing Wanjun accepted; Lingxiao Ke and the other leaders departed.
• Nearby cultivators speculated that entering the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele through body cultivation might be necessary to comprehend the technique, while one young man insisted he could match Qin Huaian and flew off to try.
• A middle-aged cultivator asked whether someone who entered the stele through Earth-Attribute Laws comprehension could cultivate pseudo-mysterious-yellow qi there.

The Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body spread through the Violet Thorn Great World, drawing body cultivators and qi refiners to the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele in hopes of comprehending it. After years of cultivation attempts and reports of varying success, Qin Huaian advanced to Immortal Venerable Great Perfection.

• News of Xing Wanjun's success spread, and cultivators flocked to the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele to pursue the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Over the following decades, body refinement grew more popular as cultivators believed it could improve their chances of transcending tribulation.
• A Blazing Sun Sect cultivator emerged from the stele after four years, reporting to his master that he had comprehended the technique and condensed three strands of pseudo-Mysterious Yellow qi.
• The cultivators learned that Xing Wanjun still held the record, having condensed eight strands of pseudo-Mysterious Yellow qi.
• Qin Huaian absorbed spiritual power for more than half a day and advanced to Immortal Venerable Great Perfection.

After reaching Immortal Venerable Great Perfection and becoming a Proficient-Level Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master, Qin Huaian prepared to take on the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land. He met Liu Qing to discuss the sect’s movements, leaving Liu stunned by Qin Huaian’s rapid advancement.

• Qin Huaian reviewed his cultivation and decided to delay the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Tribulation while strengthening his laws and preparing to avenge the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect’s disciples.
• Qin Huaian advanced to Proficient-Level Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master and spent three months refining a defensive array, a trap-killing formation, and a concealment array.
• Qin Huaian read Liu Qing’s messages about the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s forces moving to the Parasol Tree Continent and asked Liu to meet.
• Liu Qing greeted Qin Huaian at a Star Pavilion base, then was shocked to learn Qin had reached Immortal Venerable Great Perfection in thirty years.
• Qin Huaian told Liu Qing that an insight into the laws had brought him to Perfect-stage Golden Immortal.

Qin Huaian spoke with Liu Qing about the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and the changing cultivation landscape across the Violet Thorn and Parasol Tree Continents. He learned that Xing Wanjun had mastered the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body and become a prominent body-refinement elder, while Liu Qing guessed Qin Huaian had condensed nine strands of pseudo-Mysterious Yellow Qi.

• Qin Huaian told Liu Qing that his rapid cultivation did not make his foundation unstable, then asked about the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land.
• Liu Qing said the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had about three hundred Immortal Venerables and a million disciples left on the Violet Thorn Continent, while major powers were shifting forces to the improving Parasol Tree Continent.
• Liu Qing explained that the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele was drawing cultivators and helping sects recruit talented disciples.
• Liu Qing told Qin Huaian that Xing Wanjun had comprehended the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body, condensed eight strands of pseudo-Mysterious Yellow Qi, and joined Star Pavilion as an elder overseeing body-refining cultivators.
• Liu Qing said cultivators believed the technique could form at most nine strands and guessed Qin Huaian had condensed all nine.

Qin Huaian learned how body refiners now comprehended the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body through the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele. He arranged to use Star Pavilion’s teleportation network and revealed that he intended to go to the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.

• Qin Huaian told Liu Qing that he had condensed nine strands of pseudo Mysterious Yellow qi, without revealing that he had made more.
• Liu Qing explained that each year several dozen body-refining cultivators entered the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele, and about half comprehended the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body through their body-refining cultivation.
• Liu Qing said that cultivators who entered through their understanding of earth-element laws had not yet comprehended the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Qin Huaian realized that Xing Wanjun had found a direct way for body refiners to comprehend the art and wondered whether the Mystic Talisman Immortal Sect had survived the turmoil.
• Qin Huaian asked to use Star Pavilion’s teleportation network, then told Liu Qing he was going to the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.

Chen Xing and other Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators discussed Parasol Tree Continent’s growth, Qin Huaian’s past achievements, and their sect’s rising strength. Their confidence faltered when a messenger announced that Qin Huaian had entered Immortal Inquiry City.

• Chen Xing explained that the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land planned to transfer more disciples to Parasol Tree Continent as its cultivation environment improved.
• The cultivators discussed the difficulty of gaining the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body inheritance and wondered how Qin Huaian had obtained it.
• Chen Xing warned the group to follow Elder Qiu’s arrangements and revealed that Qiu Yi’s strength had advanced, potentially giving the sect a second Daluo Golden Immortal.
• A late-stage Immortal Venerable rushed into the hall and reported that Qin Huaian had entered Immortal Inquiry City.

Qin Huaian attacked the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's compound in Immortal Inquiry City after secretly placing Formation Flags around it. The compound's defenders waited for Qiu Yi and reinforcements from the Violet Thorn Mountains, while Qiu Yi learned that Qin Huaian had reached Immortal Venerable Great Perfection.

• Qin Huaian flew to the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's compound, secretly planted Formation Flags around it, and drew the attention of powerful observers.
• Qin Huaian struck the compound's Defensive Array with the Cangwu Sword and detected a flaw in the fifth-order immortal array.
• Chen Xing ordered his people to notify Qiu Yi and reassured the defenders that the array could hold until reinforcements arrived.
• The defenders discussed the growing difficulty of teleportation across the Violet Thorn Great World as they waited for Qiu Yi and his group.
• Qiu Yi received the report that Qin Huaian had reached Immortal Venerable Great Perfection and responded with a cold laugh.

Qin Huaian broke the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s defensive array in Immortal Inquiry City and attacked its encampment. Chen Xing’s thirty cultivators formed a battle formation to hold him off, and five more cultivators arrived as reinforcements.

• Qiu Yi arranged for five squads to travel to Immortal Inquiry City and ordered the remaining squads to guard the Central Hall and activate the defensive array if Qin Huaian returned to the Violet Thorn Mountains.
• Blazing Sun Sect cultivators chose not to intervene while Qin Huaian attacked the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s defensive array.
• Qin Huaian found the array’s weakest point and shattered it with successive sword attacks.
• Chen Xing led three ten-man squads out to face Qin Huaian, who destroyed buildings in the encampment before charging at them.
• Chen Xing united the thirty cultivators into a defensive battle formation, which withstood Qin Huaian’s first sword-light attack.
• Five cultivators arrived to help Chen Xing hold off Qin Huaian.

Qin Huaian attacked the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s battle formation, then turned on five cultivators from the Blazing Sun Sect and Azure Water Sword Pavilion who had come to support it. He killed four of them before Chen Xing charged at him with the formation.

• Qin Huaian probed the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s battle formation and discovered a weak point.
• Qin Huaian struck the formation’s weak point and killed a late-stage Immortal Venerable cultivator.
• Qin Huaian teleported behind the five supporting cultivators and killed one with a sword strike.
• The four survivors fled, but Qin Huaian pursued and killed three more, including one who tried to use the crowd in Immortal Inquiry City as cover.
• Chen Xing charged at Qin Huaian with the battle formation.

Qin Huaian exploited the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's battle formation, killing several disciples while evading its attacks. As Chen Xing's formation continued to pressure him and reinforcements threatened to arrive, Qin Huaian unleashed his destructive divine ability.

• Chen Xing ordered the battle formation to attack, but Qin Huaian teleported clear and pierced its weak point, killing a disciple.
• Qin Huaian struck a second weak point with Yin-Yang First Manifestation, killing another disciple and alarming the formation's cultivators.
• Chen Xing rallied the formation to attack, but Qin Huaian dodged with teleportation and Golden Roc Wings and killed three more cultivators.
• Onlookers from the Water Rhyme Sect speculated that Qin Huaian had mastered arrays or had encountered the formation before.
• Qin Huaian unleashed an invisible blade of light steeped in destruction, which Chen Xing had been expecting.

Qin Huaian shattered Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s battle formation with Grand Void Birth and Extinction, then pursued and killed its leader, Chen Xing. The remaining cultivators were left without their formation or leader.

• Chen Xing retreated behind the thirty-person battle formation and ordered it to maximize its defenses against Qin Huaian’s Grand Void Birth and Extinction.
• Qin Huaian’s attack broke through the formation’s barrier and killed more than a dozen cultivators, leaving fewer than ten Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators standing.
• Qin Huaian struck Chen Xing with a spatial sword attack, cracking his armor and wounding him, then teleported behind him and sent him flying with another blow.
• Several cultivators flew to rescue Chen Xing while he burned his blood essence and fled beyond Immortal Inquiry City.
• Qin Huaian pursued Chen Xing and used Near Yet Far to strike him down, causing his body to burst into blood mist.

Qin Huaian defeated the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s forces in Immortal Inquiry City, killed Chen Xing, and pursued one of the eight survivors while conserving his remaining strength. After he left, the Sacred Land’s stronghold emptied, and Qiu Yi arrived to declare the Sacred Land and Qin Huaian irreconcilable enemies.

• Qin Huaian killed Chen Xing, collected his treasures, and watched the remaining cultivators flee in different directions.
• Qin Huaian gathered the spoils from the battlefield and pursued one survivor, choosing not to spend his remaining Immortal Essence Power chasing the others or destroying the stronghold.
• Qin Huaian left the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s stronghold intact, relying on array flags he had planted there to potentially kill more of its members.
• After Qin Huaian departed, the stronghold’s low-level disciples fled, while news of his victory spread through Immortal Inquiry City and among cultivators near the Immortal Inquiry Tower.
• An old man who had once read in the Library Pavilion on East Dawn Peak recognized Qin Huaian and entered the Immortal Inquiry Tower.
• Qiu Yi arrived above the deserted stronghold and declared that the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and Qin Huaian were irreconcilable enemies.

Qiu Yi arrived at the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land residence in Immortal Inquiry City and tried to reassure its experts that Qin Huaian could be defeated. After hearing eyewitness accounts of Qin Huaian's battle, the group considered whether his strength had been greatly depleted, and one cultivator concluded he might already be at the end of his strength.

• Qiu Yi led dozens of Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land experts to Immortal Inquiry City, where the residence had been deserted by fleeing disciples.
• Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators returned and told Qiu Yi that Qin Huaian had killed more than twenty experts and broken their battle formation.
• Qiu Yi reassured the frightened experts that their numbers and his leadership would let them withstand Qin Huaian.
• Two returning cultivators reported that Qin Huaian had killed Chen Xing in a few moves after breaking the formation.
• One cultivator argued that Qin Huaian had exhausted much of his Immortal Essence Power, citing his reduced use of powerful abilities and an unsteady aura as he left.

Qiu Yi planned to lure Qin Huaian to Immortal Inquiry City by threatening the captured Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples, then trap him in a Sixth-Order Immortal Array that would block his teleportation. The Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land announced that Qin Huaian had three days to come before the twenty-seven disciples were killed.

• Qiu Yi told the elders that they needed to draw Qin Huaian into an encirclement before he could grow stronger or exploit a gap in their defenses.
• Qiu Yi revealed that the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had brought captured Yellow Mountain Sword Sect cultivators to the Violet Thorn Domain as bait, and said they would kill them if Qin Huaian refused to come.
• Qiu Yi revealed that Huang Yunting had become a Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master and prepared a trap formation designed to seal space and prevent Qin Huaian from teleporting.
• Qiu Yi assured the elders that Qin Huaian would not escape the formation and their battle formation once they trapped him.
• The Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land announced that twenty-seven Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples were in its hands and gave Qin Huaian three days to reach Immortal Inquiry City or collect their corpses.

News of Qin Huaian’s battle with the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land spread across the Violet Thorn Continent, drawing cultivators toward Immortal Inquiry City to see whether he would keep his appointment. As Qin Huaian remained absent, Qiu Yi revealed that the Sacred Lord would arrive within a month to target Qin Huaian and the Violet Thorn Sacred Land.

• Zheng Xiao'er and Mo Xiaomo discussed the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s threat against Qin Huaian, then set out to see the Immortal Inquiry Stele before entering the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.
• Cultivators from across the Violet Thorn Continent flocked to Immortal Inquiry City, hoping to see Qin Huaian, but he had not appeared after two days.
• Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land elders speculated that Qin Huaian would avoid their trap and worried he might attack their Violet Thorn Mountains branch.
• Qiu Yi said the Sacred Lord would come within a month with Huang Yunting to break the Violet Thorn Sacred Land’s protective array and deal with Qin Huaian.
• Qiu Yi ordered the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect captives hanged before the stronghold gates for public display.

Su Yu and the Star Pavilion leaders discussed Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s trap for Qin Huaian and learned that a Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master might be waiting in Immortal Inquiry City. Though Qin Huaian had not returned to the stronghold, Duan Linchuan had left for Violet Thorn Domain, leaving Qin Huaian in grave danger.

• Commander Wang reported that Qin Huaian had not appeared since attacking Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s stronghold three days earlier, with its deadline less than two hours away.
• Xing Wanjun offered to go to Violet Thorn Domain to help Qin Huaian, but Su Yu told him his strength was insufficient and urged him to remain in Parasol Tree Domain.
• Su Yu explained that Qiu Yi’s fifty-person battle formation could threaten Qin Huaian, especially if he entered it inside a Sixth-Order Immortal Array set by Huang Yunting.
• Su Yu said he had informed Liu Qing to warn Qin Huaian about Huang Yunting’s breakthrough, so Qin Huaian would not enter the trap lightly.
• Commander Wang learned that Duan Linchuan had already left Parasol Tree Continent for Violet Thorn Domain, where Qin Huaian would face another serious threat.