Chapter Summaries

Su Yu learned that Duan Linchuan was heading to the Violet Thorn Domain with Huang Yunting to target Qin Huaian, and he planned to go there himself. As the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land prepared to execute its Yellow Mountain Sword Sect captives, Qin Huaian recovered and began reading a flood of messages.

• Su Yu explained that Duan Linchuan and Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master Huang Yunting could threaten the Violet Thorn Sacred Land and force Qin Huaian to reveal himself.
• Su Yu told the Star Pavilion elders he would visit the Violet Thorn Domain and left them to manage the sect.
• Cultivators gathered in Immortal Inquiry City as the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land prepared to execute the captured Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples, doubting Qin Huaian would come.
• Qin Huaian recovered after three days of cultivation, considered whether to go to the Violet Thorn Mountains or Immortal Inquiry City, and found his communication pearl flashing with messages.

Qin Huaian learned that Qiu Yi had brought more than fifty experts to Immortal Inquiry City and was holding Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples hostage, so he hurried back to rescue them. Liu Qing also warned that Duan Linchuan and a newly advanced Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master were heading toward the Violet Thorn Continent, leaving Qin Huaian considering how to counter their threat.

• Liu Qing warned Qin Huaian that Qiu Yi had arrived in Immortal Inquiry City with more than fifty powerful cultivators and was using Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples as hostages.
• Qin Huaian decided to enter Immortal Inquiry City despite Liu Qing's warnings and set out to reach it before the three-day deadline expired.
• Liu Qing told Qin Huaian that Duan Linchuan was traveling to the Violet Thorn Continent with Huang Yunting, who had become a Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master.
• Qin Huaian recalled that he had planted his own Sixth-Order Immortal Array's Formation Flags in the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's compound and judged he could challenge Qiu Yi's formation.
• Qin Huaian worried that Duan Linchuan and Huang Yunting might threaten the Violet Thorn Sacred Land's sect-protecting formation and considered using a diversion to stop them.
• Qin Huaian saw the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower as he approached Immortal Inquiry City.

As Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land used the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect captives to condemn Qin Huaian for not appearing, Elder Zhou denounced the sect and declared his faith that Qin would avenge them. The deadline approached with Qin still absent, and an Immortal Venerable threatened to kill Elder Zhou first.

• Cultivators in Immortal Inquiry City debated Qin Huaian’s absence, while Mo Xiaomo and the young man surnamed Zheng defended his decision to avoid Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s trap.
• Mo Xiaomo urged the young man surnamed Zheng to focus on their coming attempt in the Nine Tribulations Immortal Inquiry Tower.
• An Immortal Venerable from Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land announced that the three-day deadline was nearly over and blamed Qin Huaian for the captives’ impending deaths.
• Elder Zhou accused Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land of persecuting Qin Huaian out of greed and proclaimed that Qin would avenge Yellow Mountain Sword Sect.
• An Immortal Venerable, angered by Elder Zhou’s defiance, threatened to kill him first.

Qin Huaian arrived at the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s encampment and rescued Elder Zhou, then used captured disciples to force Qiu Yi into a hostage exchange. Qiu Yi agreed to release the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples, while Qin Huaian remained unaware that the Sacred Land still intended to kill him.

• A Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land Immortal Venerable attacked Elder Zhou, but Qin Huaian appeared and killed the attacker with a single sword strike.
• Qin Huaian freed Elder Zhou from his chains and moved him into the Small World, while the array tortured the other Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples.
• Qin Huaian brought nearly a hundred captured Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators before Qiu Yi and threatened retaliation unless the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples were released.
• Qiu Yi proposed exchanging the captives, and Qin Huaian agreed while warning him not to harm the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect again.
• Qiu Yi ordered the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples released, believing Qin Huaian would die that day.

Qin Huaian rescued the captured Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples from Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and brought them into his Small World. Qiu Yi then activated a powerful array and trapped Qin Huaian as dozens of cultivators formed a battle formation around him.

• Qin Huaian killed a Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land Immortal Venerable and saved an old man, drawing the attention of Immortal Inquiry City’s cultivators.
• Liu Qing worried that Qin Huaian had walked into a trap and sent a warning to the Parasol Tree Domain.
• Qiu Yi ordered Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s cultivators to free the captured Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples, and Qin Huaian gathered them, including Xie Qingchuan.
• Qin Huaian took the rescued disciples into his Small World and sent nearly a hundred Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land disciples back to Qiu Yi.
• Qiu Yi activated a great array around the compound, and dozens of powerful figures formed a battle formation around the trapped Qin Huaian.

The Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land trapped Qin Huaian in a Sixth-Order Immortal Array, and news of the array spread through Immortal Inquiry City. As Qiu Yi mocked Qin Huaian inside the array, Su Yu entered the void passage to the Violet Thorn Domain, still wondering how Qin Huaian could escape.

• Elder Gong recognized the array trapping Qin Huaian as a Sixth-Order Immortal Array and ordered the Water Rhyme Sect to report that Huang Yunting might have advanced to a Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master.
• News of the array spread through Immortal Inquiry City, where most cultivators feared Qin Huaian could not escape and major powers reported the discovery to their sects.
• Liu Qing regretted Qin Huaian's decision to come and sent news of his predicament to Su Yu.
• Su Yu considered whether Qin Huaian had a hidden method to break the array, then entered the void passage leading to the Violet Thorn Domain.
• Qiu Yi laughed at Qin Huaian and called him foolish inside the array.

Qin Huaian was trapped in the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s Sixth-Order Immortal Array while Qiu Yi and more than fifty powerful cultivators prepared to kill him. Unable to teleport, Qin Huaian dodged their first attack and struck at the trapping array, while Qiu Yi dismissed his attempt to break it.

• Qin Huaian examined the Sixth-Order Immortal Array covering the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and criticized Qiu Yi for using low-level cultivators to lure him in.
• Qiu Yi explained that the trapping array blocked Qin Huaian’s teleportation and declared that he would die there.
• More than fifty Immortal Venerable Late Stage and Immortal Venerable Great Perfection experts formed a battle array at Qiu Yi’s command and launched an attack.
• Qin Huaian spread his Divine Sense through the trapping array and confirmed that it locked down space.
• Qin Huaian dodged the battle array’s attack with his Golden Roc Wings and thrust his sword at the trapping array.
• Qiu Yi mocked Qin Huaian’s attempt to break the array, believing he lacked the knowledge to find its weak points.

Qin Huaian endured Qiu Yi’s battle formation, then trapped the survivors inside the Li Fire Four Symbols Grand Array and began replenishing his Immortal Essence Power as the flames wore them down. Outside the arrays, Elder Gong and the other observers believed Qin Huaian was likely dead, unaware that he had turned the fight around.

• Qiu Yi kept himself at the rear as Qin Huaian’s Grand Void Birth and Extinction pierced the battle formation’s defenses and killed more than half its cultivators.
• Qiu Yi gathered the survivors into a new battle formation, but Qin Huaian activated the Li Fire Four Symbols Grand Array around Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s encampment.
• Qin Huaian concealed himself in the flames and directed the array’s attacks while his Mirror Bodies helped restore his Immortal Essence Power.
• Qiu Yi and the surviving disciples struggled against the array’s relentless fire attacks, which steadily drained their Immortal Essence Power.
• Elder Gong and another cultivator outside the trap formation assumed Qin Huaian had died, since they could not see what was happening inside.

Cultivators in Immortal Inquiry City debated whether Qin Huaian could survive the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s sealed Sixth-Order Immortal Array, while the Sacred Land sent reinforcements to investigate. The chapter ended by revealing that Elder Qiu Yi was still struggling inside the Li Fire Four Symbols Array.

• Old Fan and Brother Qi discussed Qin Huaian’s chances, with Old Fan warning that the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and its array made escape unlikely.
• A cultivator from the Blazing Sun Sect mocked Qin Huaian, and Old Fan led Brother Qi away after recognizing the danger of confronting him.
• Brother Qi said he wanted to become strong enough to challenge the Seven Great Powers after hearing Old Fan explain why they had to keep their heads down.
• Elder Sun led six other Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators into Immortal Inquiry City to investigate why the array had remained sealed for over an hour.
• Elder Sun warned his group to stay cautious and said they should kill Qin Huaian if he escaped the array.
• Elder Qiu Yi was revealed to be struggling inside the Li Fire Four Symbols Array.

Trapped in the Li Fire Four Symbols Array, Qiu Yi decided to force himself to undergo the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Tribulation to break the array and give his remaining companions a chance to survive. As Qiu Yi prepared, Qin Huaian recovered his strength and began searching for a way through the trapping array overhead.

• As the battle array’s ranks dwindled, Qiu Yi told the nine remaining cultivators that he planned to summon his tribulation to shatter the array.
• Qiu Yi asked the others to hold off the attacks for half an hour while he restored his Immortal Essence Power and prepared for the tribulation.
• The nine cultivators agreed, and Qiu Yi swallowed a precious golden pill to accelerate his recovery.
• Outside the Li Fire Four Symbols Array, Qin Huaian let it continue attacking Qiu Yi’s group while he tested the trapping array overhead for weaknesses.

Qin Huaian discovered how to break the Sixth-Order Immortal Array, but a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Tribulation began gathering over Immortal Inquiry City. As cultivators fled, the elder surnamed Gong suspected that Qiu Yi, not Qin Huaian, had triggered the tribulation inside the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s array.

• Qin Huaian found the array’s weak points and realized he could break it by striking them in sequence.
• Qin Huaian sensed tribulation clouds forming and saw Qiu Yi’s aura surging inside the Li Fire Four Symbols Array.
• Cultivators fled Immortal Inquiry City after recognizing the clouds as a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Tribulation that could destroy the city and merge with their own tribulations.
• The elder surnamed Gong escaped the tribulation’s range and initially blamed Qin Huaian for summoning it.
• The elder surnamed Gong reconsidered, noting that Qin Huaian was exhausted and the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s array remained closed, and suspected one of its cultivators had triggered the tribulation.
• The tribulation clouds thickened as crowds continued fleeing, many believing Qin Huaian intended to die alongside the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators.

Qin Huaian entered the Li Fire Four Symbols Array as Qiu Yi’s tribulation neared, knowing that killing Qiu Yi would disperse the clouds before his own tribulation was triggered. Qiu Yi put on his supreme-grade defensive Dao Artifact and challenged Qin Huaian to kill him before the first lightning bolt fell.

• Mo Xiaomo and Zheng Xiao'er prepared to use Blood Escape, but the tribulation clouds dispersed, signaling that the person undergoing the tribulation had fallen.
• Qin Huaian realized Qiu Yi was undergoing the tribulation inside the Li Fire Four Symbols Array and feared that their overlapping tribulations would trigger Chaos Divine Lightning.
• Qin Huaian entered the array and strengthened its attacks with Immortal Crystals, killing the remaining Immortal Venerable Great Perfection cultivators from the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land.
• Qiu Yi recognized that Qin Huaian had set up the Sixth-Order Immortal Array and laughed as he resolved to drag Qin Huaian down with him.
• Qiu Yi summoned his golden supreme-grade defensive Dao Artifact and challenged Qin Huaian to kill him before the tribulation lightning fell.

Qin Huaian killed Qiu Yi with a devastating sword strike as the threat of the lightning tribulation loomed, then discovered a mysterious six-pointed-star jade pendant among his spoils. After the tribulation pressure eased, Qin Huaian began burning the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s stronghold.

• Qin Huaian pierced Qiu Yi’s top-grade Dao Artifact armor with Grand Void Birth and Extinction, killing him before the lightning tribulation could descend.
• Qin Huaian noted that the tribulation pressure receded after Qiu Yi’s death and surveyed the loot from Qiu Yi and the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land experts.
• Qin Huaian found an indestructible jade pendant in Qiu Yi’s Storage Ring, marked with a six-pointed star and a mountain, but could not determine what it meant.
• Qin Huaian left the Li Fire Four Symbols Array to restore his Immortal Essence Power, then used the formation to burn the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s stronghold.

After the heavenly tribulation over Immortal Inquiry City receded, Qin Huaian began attacking the Sixth-Order Immortal Array that trapped him. Elder Sun and the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land cultivators debated whether to ambush him, but chose to report what had happened to the Violet Thorn Mountains first.

• The tribulation clouds vanished, and cultivators began returning to Immortal Inquiry City after fleeing the danger.
• A day later, the trapping array around the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's compound trembled as Qin Huaian attacked it.
• Cultivators in the city concluded that Qin Huaian had survived and praised him for stopping the tribulation and saving weaker cultivators.
• Elder Sun reasoned that Elder Qiu had likely been defeated and warned that the group might not be able to stop Qin Huaian.
• Elder Sun rejected an immediate ambush and ordered the others to send word of the incident to the Violet Thorn Mountains.

Qin Huaian broke out of the Sixth-Order Immortal Array in half an hour, astonishing the cultivators who witnessed his achievement. As he emerged above the scorched remains of the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's encampment, Elder Gong suspected Qin Huaian was also a Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master.

• Qin Huaian methodically broke the array's key nodes, then struck the weakened formation with the Cangwu Sword.
• The Sixth-Order Immortal Array shook violently and exploded, forcing nearby cultivators to retreat.
• Qin Huaian emerged from the array as onlookers realized he had broken it alone in about half an hour.
• The cultivators saw that the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land's encampment had been reduced to scorched earth, and its residents, including Qiu Yi and fifty experts, were gone.
• Elder Gong suggested that Qin Huaian had broken the array through his own skill and might be a Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master.

After escaping Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s ambush and destroying its base, Qin Huaian received overtures from several sects in Immortal Inquiry City. The chapter left him discussing the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect’s displaced disciples as the Heavenly Dao Sect offered to vacate the Violet Thorn Mountains.

• Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s group sent news to the Violet Thorn Mountains, then fled Immortal Inquiry City through a secret teleportation point.
• Liu Qing congratulated Qin Huaian for surviving the ambush, and Qin Huaian thanked him.
• Wen Yu offered to keep the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples in the Joyous Union Sect’s care, and Qin Huaian asked her to look after them until he could retrieve them.
• Zuo You told Qin Huaian that the Heavenly Dao Sect would move its branch base out of the Violet Thorn Mountains, and Qin Huaian welcomed the offer.
• Zuo You added that the Heavenly Dao Sect also had disciples of the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect.

Qin Huaian received goodwill from several major sects, which had found and sheltered Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples across the Violet Thorn Great World. He learned that roughly a hundred disciples had been located, but Lin Tianyu and Min Yingzhu remained missing.

• Zuo You told Qin Huaian that the Heavenly Dao Sect had found twenty-five Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples and was sheltering them in the Luo River World.
• Qin Huaian asked Zuo You to keep the disciples in the Luo River World until the danger from Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land had passed.
• Gong Shangjiao of the Water Rhyme Sect greeted Qin Huaian, and the Water Rhyme Sect and Blood Moon Cult offered goodwill and said they were withdrawing from the Violet Thorn Mountains.
• The major sects reported that they had found some Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples, bringing the total Qin Huaian knew of to around a hundred.
• Qin Huaian asked whether the sects had found Lin Tianyu and Min Yingzhu, but none had encountered them.

Qin Huaian reached Star Pavilion’s outpost after leaving the other major sects, and learned from Liu Qing about major changes across the Violet Thorn Great World during his thirty years in seclusion. He remained determined to deal with Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land before turning to cultivation on Parasol Tree Continent.

• Gong Shangjiao and Zuo You discussed Qin Huaian’s array mastery, and Gong Shangjiao judged that he was close to becoming a Sixth-Order Immortal Array Master.
• Qin Huaian entered Star Pavilion’s outpost, where Liu Qing thanked him for rescuing the Yellow Mountain Sword Sect disciples from Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land.
• Liu Qing told Qin Huaian that Parasol Tree Continent’s cultivation environment had greatly improved and was especially favorable to those who had comprehended the Mysterious Yellow Thick Earth Body.
• Liu Qing reported that Xia Tangyue and the rogue cultivator Elder Mu Hua had become the Violet Thorn Great World’s fifth and sixth Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Liu Qing told Qin Huaian that Chu Xi had entered the Kun Yuan Dao Repository Stele as a Mahayana cultivator, gained nine strands of pseudo-Mysterious Yellow qi, advanced to the True Immortal Realm, and become the Heavenly Dao Sect Master’s direct disciple.

Qin Huaian learned that Chu Xi, his former sectmate, had become Lingxiao Ke’s disciple after making rapid progress in body cultivation. He then prepared to return to the Violet Thorn Mountains to drive out the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land and help the Violet Thorn Sacred Land reclaim its territory.

• Liu Qing showed Qin Huaian a portrait of Chu Xi, and Qin Huaian recognized her as his former fellow disciple from the Mystic Talisman Immortal Sect.
• Qin Huaian learned that Chu Xi had advanced to the Great Lightning Tribulation of Ascension to Immortality and become Lingxiao Ke’s personal disciple.
• Qin Huaian asked Liu Qing to use the outpost’s teleportation formation to travel to the Violet Thorn Mountains.
• Qin Huaian planned to expel the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land from the Violet Thorn Mountains and repay the Violet Thorn Sacred Land for its past kindness.
• Liu Qing warned Qin Huaian that the Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land still had one or two hundred Immortal Venerable-realm cultivators in the mountains.
• Qin Huaian followed Liu Qing to the teleportation hall.

The Heavenly Treasure Sacred Land’s Violet Thorn Mountains branch debated whether to evacuate after Qin Huaian killed Qiu Yi and destroyed the Immortal Inquiry City stronghold. Zhao Gang ordered low-level disciples to scatter across the Violet Thorn Continent while stronger cultivators stayed to defend the branch, and Qin Huaian arrived near the mountains after a long journey.

• The cultivators in the Central Hall learned that Qin Huaian had killed Qiu Yi and more than fifty experts and burned the Immortal Inquiry City stronghold.
• Zhao Hong and the other elders argued over whether to evacuate the million disciples or remain behind the sect-protecting formation.
• A messenger delivered Zhao Gang’s order for low-level cultivators to scatter across the Violet Thorn Continent while those above the Immortal Venerable realm held their ground.
• The branch’s cultivators dispersed to carry out Zhao Gang’s instructions.
• Qin Huaian returned to the vicinity of the Violet Thorn Mountains after an hour and a half of travel.