Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ruoyao and Hua Yunfei tracked two Heaven-Stealing Organization members to a sealed Bronze Coffin containing the Wood Emperor. Hua Yunfei knocked the newly awakened Wood Emperor unconscious with a brick, and Jiang Ruoyao attacked the two cult members from behind.

• Jiang Ruoyao recognized Huang Xuan's Profound Yellow Undying Body and discussed the mysterious origins of Huang Xuan and Ya Ya with Hua Yunfei.
• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao sensed two Heaven-Stealing Organization members outside the City of Contention and followed them into an ancient mountain range.
• They discovered the members undoing the Emperor Source seal around a Bronze Coffin to awaken the Wood Emperor.
• The Wood Emperor emerged from the coffin, but Hua Yunfei struck him unconscious with the Martial Virtue Brick.
• The two black-robed members attacked Hua Yunfei, and Jiang Ruoyao appeared behind them and slashed at their necks with her Crimson Slaughter Sword.

Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao killed the Wood Emperor and erased every trace of their encounter before parting ways. Three days later, the Backer Sect headed for Leaning Immortal City and met the Seven Gods Hall, whose Hall Master singled out Luo Hanyue.

• Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao ambushed two black-robed men, destroyed their divine souls, and joked about Hua Yunfei's fondness for sneak attacks.
• Jiang Ruoyao killed the Wood Emperor and destroyed his Dao platform, then Hua Yunfei burned his body to nothing and erased all traces of the scene.
• Jiang Ruoyao warned that the Heaven-Stealing Organization had deeply infiltrated the mortal world, but Hua Yunfei told her to work hard and leave the rest to fate; she departed after inviting him to the Emperor's Road in ten years.
• Three days later, the Backer Sect set out for Leaning Immortal City, and Silver Snow Ancestor carried the group through the sky.
• The Backer Sect encountered the Seven Gods Hall on a golden condor, and its Lavish-Robed Man greeted Yun Tian Zhenren before asking about Xiaxuan Zhenren and her eldest disciple, Luo Hanyue.

The Seven Gods Hall Master tried to arrange a dual cultivation match between Luo Hanyue and his son Duan Wuming, but the Backer Sect rejected him and drove the Seven Gods Hall away. When he appealed to Azure Origin Old Ancestor, she agreed that Wildlands Province was ruled by the Backer Sect, leaving him stunned.

• The Seven Gods Hall Master proposed that Luo Hanyue and Duan Wuming use their Ice and Fire Spirit Mystical Bodies for dual cultivation, and Xiaxuan Zhenren and the Backer Sect threatened him.
• Luo Hanyue refused, and Duan Wuming accepted her answer and urged his father to leave rather than provoke the Backer Sect.
• The Seven Gods Hall Master argued with Tianji Zhenren over who ruled Wildlands Province, but Duan Wuming warned that the Seven Gods Hall could not risk a fight.
• Yun Tian Zhenren ended the encounter, and Silver Snow Ancestor injured the Seven Gods Hall's golden condor as the Backer Sect departed.
• The Seven Gods Hall Master complained to Azure Origin Old Ancestor, but she affirmed that Wildlands Province was ruled by the Backer Sect, leaving him and the others speechless.

After Azure Origin Old Ancestor warned Seven Gods Hall against provoking the Backer Sect, Duan Wuming urged his father to apologize at the Backer Sect Holy Son’s wedding. At the Backer Sect, Gou Yuan Zhenren and the others discussed their newly revealed strength and refused to receive the visiting forces that had come seeking favor.

• Azure Origin Old Ancestor cautioned Seven Gods Hall to avoid provoking the Backer Sect, and its elders suspected she was warning them of the sect’s hidden power.
• Duan Wuming persuaded the Seven Gods Hall Master that they should apologize to the Backer Sect at the Holy Son’s wedding.
• The Eastern Region reacted with shock as the Backer Sect’s destruction of the Nether Heaven Sect and its Quasi-Emperor strength restored its fame and secured its place among the Nine Great Immortal Sects.
• On Gouyuan Peak, Gou Yuan Zhenren and the others joked that the Backer Sect’s Quasi-Emperor was nothing unusual for a great power.
• Gou Yuan Zhenren refused to meet the visiting forces that had arrived with gifts, and the group decided to leave those matters for the Sect Leader when he returned.

Backer Sect celebrated Yun Tian Zhenren and the others’ triumphant return after destroying the Nether Heaven Sect and securing sixth place among the Immortal Sects. During the banquet, Huang Xuan asked Hua Yunfei about Jiang Ruoyao and learned she had once fought beside the Profound Yellow Great Emperor.

• Pharmacist Qin Yi joked with the Scripture Pavilion Master and other senior figures about eating all her Heavenly Dog meat and evading Yun Tian Zhenren’s invitation for tea.
• The Scripture Pavilion Master sensed the group returning through the domain gate, and Backer Sect’s disciples and elders gathered to welcome them.
• Jin Jin, Ya Ya, Dao Xuwu, Yun Tian Zhenren, Hua Yunfei, and the others emerged, and Gou Yuan Zhenren invited them to a celebratory banquet.
• Yun Tian Zhenren told Gou Yuan Zhenren to have familiar elders receive the many factions seeking ties with Backer Sect, since his presence might intimidate them.
• Huang Xuan asked Hua Yunfei whether Jiang Ruoyao had met the Profound Yellow Great Emperor, and Hua Yunfei confirmed she had fought beside him as his comrade-in-arms.
• Hua Yunfei revealed that Jiang Ruoyao was the Holy Maiden of the Primordial Divine Territory, possessed the Primordial Divine Body, and might have had greater aptitude than Huang Xuan in his past life.

Hua Yunfei and his disciples shared a warm celebration as Huang Xuan learned that Jiang Ruoyao’s potential was tied to the circumstances of his previous life’s death. Yun Tian Zhenren then urged the Backer Sect’s hidden elders and disciples to reveal more of their cultivation, leaving a young elder facing an impossible demand.

• Hua Yunfei told Huang Xuan that Jiang Ruoyao’s potential and the cause of the Profound Yellow Great Emperor’s death were connected, but postponed explaining further.
• Hua Yunfei, Ye Bufan, Huang Xuan, Jia Duobao, Chu Qing'er, Ya Ya, and Jin Jin toasted together at the celebration.
• Yun Tian Zhenren praised the Backer Sect’s Art of Lying Low and declared that the sect had reached the pinnacle of the Eastern Region.
• Yun Tian Zhenren told the sect members to reveal enough cultivation to match the Backer Sect’s new standing, and demanded that a young elder from Celestial Secrets Peak show Celestial Realm strength despite being in the early Spirit Infant Realm.
• Yun Tian Zhenren reassured the gathered members that even revealing Approaching Dao Realm cultivation would be safe and swore he had no intention of deceiving them.

At a Backer Sect gathering, Yun Tian Zhenren reassured the elders about the new cultivation standards and discussed the Ancestral Land’s rising spiritual energy with Xuanhe Daoren. Meanwhile, an arrogant black-robed man arrived at the sect’s gates and provoked its Supreme battle puppets, who took the fight into the starry void.

• Yun Tian Zhenren told the elders they could reveal their cultivation and promised the grand elder would post standards for disciples and elders.
• Xuanhe Daoren said he planned to enter seclusion and break through to the Sage Realm, crediting the Backer Sect’s unusually powerful spiritual energy.
• Hua Yunfei noticed a hostile visitor approaching the Backer Sect, while Elder Shi sensed the black-robed man appear at the gates.
• The black-robed man demanded to see the sect’s Quasi-Emperor cultivator and threatened to wipe out the Backer Sect if it refused to obey.
• Elder Shi summoned Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme, who armed themselves and challenged the black-robed man after he called them failures.
• Blood Lotus Supreme flew into the starry void to fight the black-robed man, and Boundless Supreme declared he would show the intruder a former Human Dao Supreme’s strength.

The Backer Sect remained confident as Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme fought a powerful Quasi-Emperor in outer space. Just as the enemy began to reveal his Emperor’s Might, a woman in a pale blue-white dress ambushed him with the Crimson Slaughter Sword.

• The middle-aged man in black followed Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme into outer space, while onlookers in Backer Holy City feared the Backer Sect’s possible conflict with the Desolate God Holy Land.
• Yun Tian Zhenren asked Hua Yunfei whether the sect should seek help, and Hua Yunfei assured him that the Supremes could handle the fight.
• Hua Yunfei noticed an inconspicuous aura sneaking toward the battlefield and recognized that someone was preparing a sneak attack.
• After half an hour of fighting, the middle-aged man in black badly wounded Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme and began gathering Emperor’s Might.
• A woman in a pale blue-white dress struck the middle-aged man in black with the Crimson Slaughter Sword, cutting his body in two before he could evade.

Jiang Ruoyao killed a black-robed enemy of the Heaven-Stealing Organization and reunited with Hua Yunfei, who brought her to Backer Sect for a banquet. At the sect gates, Elder Shi mistook her for Hua Yunfei’s girlfriend, and she teased Hua Yunfei about the assumption.

• Jiang Ruoyao and the Martial Virtue Brick killed the black-robed middle-aged man, then burned away his body and blood.
• The Martial Virtue Brick fled without answering Jiang Ruoyao’s question about Hua Yunfei.
• Hua Yunfei arrived and healed Boundless Supreme and Blood Lotus Supreme before sending them away.
• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei she had been hunting down members of the Heaven-Stealing Organization, and he invited her to a banquet at Backer Sect.
• Hua Yunfei brought Jiang Ruoyao to Backer Sect, where Elder Shi admired her beauty and asked who she was.
• Jiang Ruoyao introduced herself as Hua Yunfei’s friend and joked that people assumed she was his girlfriend, while Hua Yunfei defended his own qualifications.

Hua Yunfei brought Jiang Ruoyao to a Backer Sect banquet, where the disciples and Elders teased them while she enjoyed the food and packed some to take home. The next day, the Grand Elder posted cultivation breakthrough targets for the sect, alarming one Elder who planned to conceal his strength after reaching the Celestial Realm.

• Hua Yunfei took Jiang Ruoyao into the Backer Sect, where she recognized its Emperor-Grade Spirit Gathering Array and compared it with the Primordial Divine Territory.
• At the banquet, Yun Tian Zhenren and the Elders teased Hua Yunfei about Jiang Ruoyao, while Jia Duobao prepared dog meat noodle soup and grilled Peng meat.
• Jiang Ruoyao and Qin Yi traded bold remarks about Qin Yi's figure, and Jia Duobao encouraged Jiang Ruoyao to pursue Hua Yunfei.
• Jiang Ruoyao enjoyed the banquet food, drank and ate with Qin Yi for hours, and left with food packed to take away.
• The Grand Elder posted cultivation breakthrough targets by age, and an Elder complained about being expected to reach the Celestial Realm before deciding to hide his cultivation afterward.

Backer Sect members reacted to Yun Tian Zhenren’s demanding cultivation targets, with many plotting ways to avoid revealing their strength. The next morning, funeral bells rang, and disciples suspected that several elders invited to tea had died.

• Disciples, elders, and pavilion masters discovered their targets and worried about being forced to reveal their cultivation.
• Qin Yi ordered the Hundred Herbs Garden into seclusion and privately planned to arrange some elders’ failed breakthroughs as an excuse.
• Zhen Xing planned to visit Yun Tian Zhenren at midnight with Enlightenment Tea, while Tianji Zhenren chose to enter the Ancestral Land rather than appoint a successor.
• Di Shen Zhenren protested that his target required him to advance from the Celestial Realm to the Approaching Dao Realm.
• The funeral bell rang three times the next morning, and disciples speculated that all the elders who had been invited to tea had died.

Backer Sect disciples spent a year attending daily funerals for elders, following Sect Leader Yun Tian’s bizarre custom. After mourning the last elder, Hua Yunfei and the others returned to Daoyuan Peak worried that they, too, might someday be forced into the same fate.

• Ye Bufan and the others gave Chu Qing'er mourning clothes, and Jin Jin was beaten unconscious after emerging from Ya Ya’s cave abode with a leering grin.
• Hua Yunfei announced that Elder Liu of Gouyuan Peak had died, and Elder Wang explained that he would die of grief the following day because he and Elder Liu were childhood companions.
• The Backer Sect held a funeral for an elder every day for a year, keeping its disciples in mourning clothes and feeding them funeral banquets.
• After the last funeral, Hua Yunfei, Ye Bufan, Jia Duobao, Huang Xuan, and Chu Qing'er complained about Yun Tian’s scheme and worried about their own futures.
• Ya Ya complained to her master that she could no longer eat funeral banquets and felt like vomiting.

As Lin Yang and Mu Qingqing’s wedding drew near, the Backer Sect prepared to welcome guests from across the Big Dipper Star, including the Primordial Divine Territory. On the wedding day, Ye Bufan and his fellow disciples arrived at the sect entrance to greet guests and record gifts, where they found Lin Yang waiting in his groom’s attire.

• After recovering from a year of banquets, Ye Bufan and the others resumed serious cultivation in the Time-Space Divine Realm.
• The Backer Sect announced Lin Yang’s wedding, prompting factions across the Eastern Region and beyond to prepare lavish gifts and attend.
• The Primordial Divine Territory announced that it would attend, raising the wedding’s profile across the Big Dipper Star.
• The city lord of Backer Holy City began expanding and renovating the city as guests prepared to arrive.
• On the wedding day, Hua Yunfei led Ye Bufan and the others to the sect entrance to welcome guests and record gifts.
• Chu Qing'er tried to put a bow tie on Jin Jin, who stopped Ya Ya from revealing his secret realm, and the group found Lin Yang waiting in red groom’s attire.

Lin Yang and Mu Qingqing’s wedding celebration continued as Hua Yunfei and the others offered gifts and welcomed distinguished guests. Long Zaitian gave Lin Yang Thunder Dragon Blood Essence, while the Inviting Moon Palace arrived to congratulate the couple and reunite with Chu Qing'er.

• Hua Yunfei and the others congratulated Lin Yang and gave him wedding gifts, including Ya Ya’s Dao Tribulation Gold bracelet and Hua Yunfei’s matching rings carrying a wisp of his divine soul.
• Long Zaitian arrived, greeted Hua Yunfei and his disciples, and gave Lin Yang Thunder Dragon Blood Essence suited to his Thunder Battle Physique.
• Long Zaitian went inside to find Yun Tian Zhenren, prompting Jia Duobao to joke that the Sect Leader was about to have a bad time.
• The Inviting Moon Palace arrived, and Chu Qing'er happily reunited with her master, Elder Bai, and her senior sisters.

At Lin Yang’s wedding, Yaoguang Holy Land, Sun Moon Divine Church, and the War Clan showered Backer Sect with extraordinary gifts, while Hua Yunfei used their generosity to signal a protective alliance. As the crowd reacted to Backer Sect receiving four Supreme Weapons, the Jiang Clan arrived, leaving its gift still unknown.

• Yaoguang Holy Land offered Backer Sect a Supreme Weapon, numerous other weapons, and spirit stones, and Hua Yunfei publicly called it a loyal friend of the sect.
• Sun Moon Divine Church presented two Supreme Weapons and a vast collection of treasures, surprising the guests and darkening the Yaoguang Holy Master’s expression.
• The War Clan offered a Supreme Weapon, nine Quasi-Emperor Pills, and spirit stones, while its Grand Elder tried to outdo Yaoguang Holy Land.
• The Yaoguang Holy Master revealed the scale of his faction’s gifts to the War Clan Grand Elder, who stopped boasting after hearing the amount.
• Guests marveled that Backer Sect had received four Supreme Weapons as the Jiang Clan Chief arrived with a young man and a black-clad woman.

At Lin Yang and Chu Qing'er’s wedding celebration, major factions presented gifts, including Jiang Ruoyao’s gift of a Supreme-level Thunder Battle Physique skeleton. The festivities were interrupted when a dispute over insults against the Devil Race turned the gathered factions against a black-robed guest.

• The Jiang Clan Chief presented Hua Yunfei with a Nine-Mustache Stud Ginseng, drawing laughter from the guests.
• Jiang Ruoyao arrived on behalf of the Primordial Divine Territory and gave Lin Yang a ring containing a Supreme-level Thunder Battle Physique skeleton.
• Hua Yunfei and Long Zaitian discussed Jiang Ruoyao’s status as the Primordial Divine Territory’s Holy Maiden while guests toasted her inside the Backer Sect.
• A black-robed middle-aged man smashed a table after a refined middle-aged man insulted his clan.
• The refined man revealed that the black-robed guest was from the Devil Race and justified his insults by citing the Ancient Demon Clan’s past blood calamity, prompting hostile reactions from the gathered factions.

At Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao’s wedding celebration, a Cao family elder insulted the Backer Sect and challenged their authority. Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao beat him nearly to death, leaving the wedding guests stunned by Hua Yunfei’s strength.

• Jiang Ruoyao explained that the Devil Race of the Devil Domain had aided humanity and invited the black-robed man to sit with Hua Yunfei’s guests.
• The refined middle-aged man accused Jiang Ruoyao of fabricating history and refused Hua Yunfei’s order to leave, boasting of the Cao family’s power.
• Hua Yunfei struck the man, sealed his cultivation, and revealed strength that the guests believed was at the Sage Realm.
• Jiang Ruoyao joined Hua Yunfei in beating the Cao family elder, while Hua Yunfei kept him alive to avoid bloodshed at the wedding.

Hua Yunfei defeated Purple Sun Great Sage’s divine-soul projection after the Great Sage tried to avenge his grandson, then turned to the Demon Domain’s warning that the seal on the Demon Box was weakening. Jiang Ruoyao agreed to visit the Chaos Divine Territory, whose help was needed to reinforce the seal, but its Chaos Bell had been lost.

• Purple Sun Great Sage appeared to defend his grandson, and Jiang Ruoyao showed him what had happened before Hua Yunfei challenged him.
• Purple Sun Great Sage attacked Hua Yunfei, but Hua Yunfei shattered the attack with a glance and then crushed the Great Sage’s divine-soul projection.
• The Yaoguang Holy Master carried the unconscious middle-aged man away, while Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao returned to their seats.
• The Demon Domain’s black-robed middle-aged man explained that the Demon Box’s seal was weakening and that the Chaos Divine Territory could not be reached.
• Jiang Ruoyao recalled the Chaos Divine Territory’s missing treasure and agreed to accompany the Demon Domain envoy there after their business was settled.

After Lin Yang and Mu Qingqing’s wedding, Purple Sun Great Sage learned that Hua Yunfei had killed his grandson and prepared the Cao Lineage to retaliate against the Backer Sect. Hua Yunfei then discovered from Jiang Ruoyao that the Chaos Bell had belonged to the Chaos Divine Territory before the system gave it to him, leaving him furious as the system began an upgrade.

• Lin Yang and Mu Qingqing held their wedding, guided by Tianji Zhenren.
• Purple Sun Great Sage learned that Hua Yunfei of the Backer Sect had killed his grandson Zixuan and vowed revenge.
• Purple Sun Great Sage ordered the Cao Lineage Patriarch to summon a Quasi-Emperor Old Ancestor before they attacked the Backer Sect.
• Jiang Ruoyao told Hua Yunfei that the Chaos Great Emperor had left the Chaos Bell to the Chaos Divine Territory and that it had gone missing five years earlier.
• The system began an automatic upgrade, and Hua Yunfei cursed it for apparently stealing the Chaos Bell before Long Zaitian and Jiang Ruoyao noticed his anger.

At Lin Yang's wedding banquet, the Seven Gods Hall Master apologized to Backer Sect and Luo Hanyue, then Purple Sun Great Sage and a Cao Family Old Ancestor arrived to challenge Hua Yunfei. A plain-clothed elder from Yaoguang Holy Land instantly killed Purple Sun Great Sage, leaving the Cao Family Old Ancestor demanding to know why Yaoguang had intervened.

• The Seven Gods Hall Master and Duan Wuming apologized for Seven Gods Hall's past offense, and Luo Hanyue told them to stay away from her.
• The Seven Gods Hall Master praised Duan Wuming and said he could inherit the Hall Master position, but Duan Wuming remained focused on cultivation and the Emperor's throne.
• Purple Sun Great Sage and a middle-aged Cao Family Old Ancestor appeared above Backer Sect and called for Hua Yunfei to come out and die.
• Hua Yunfei glanced toward Yaoguang Holy Land, and its plain-clothed elder froze Purple Sun Great Sage with an incantation and killed him instantly.
• The Cao Family Old Ancestor confronted the plain-clothed elder and asked whether Yaoguang Holy Land intended to start a war between their clans.