Chapter Summaries

Ye Yun defeated the Black-Armored Savage Bull herd, passing the first round of the third trial before collapsing from exhaustion. After Bing Qianyue gave him a day to recover, Ye Yun restored his strength, reflected on how the Selfless Realm had let him merge Ice Origin Force, and prepared to continue.

• Ye Yun's final attack killed the Black-Armored Savage Bull herd, and he passed the first round of the third trial before fainting.
• Bing Qianyue watched Ye Yun's victory and hoped he would inherit the legacy and restore its former renown.
• Ye Yun awoke, learned that he had one day to recover before the second round, and used Superior Spirit Stones and the Tranquil Spirit Grass Mat to replenish himself.
• Ye Yun's strength recovered, and he realized the Selfless Realm had enabled him to merge energies from two Force Realms, but he chose not to test the idea yet.
• Ye Yun found that Bing Qianyue had restored the battlefield, then sat on the grass and ate roasted Black-Armored Flood Dragon meat.

Ye Yun entered the second trial, where he had to kill every Azurewind Monkey within one day. After the Azurewind Monkey King and its clan forced him into the air with relentless stone barrages, Ye Yun prepared to test whether the Selfless Realm could help him enter the state he had used against the Black-Armored Savage Bull.

• Ye Yun passed through a golden gate and arrived in a valley for the second round of trials.
• Bing Qianyue told Ye Yun to slaughter every Azurewind Monkey within one day.
• The Azurewind Monkey King charged Ye Yun, while the other monkeys hurled stones at him from the forest.
• Ye Yun evaded repeated volleys by flying beyond the monkeys' range, but realized the stalemate would drain his True Essence.
• Ye Yun activated the Selfless Realm, Fist Force, and Ice Force to test whether he could reproduce the state that had helped him defeat the Black-Armored Savage Bull.

Ye Yun unleashed a massive Ice Origin Force attack that devastated the valley and killed the Azurewind Monkey pack, though the Azurewind Monkey King survived with grievous injuries. After a fierce battle, Ye Yun defeated the king and passed his second round of trials.

• Ye Yun fused heaven-and-earth energy with ice-attributed spiritual energy into a vast sphere of Ice Origin Force and shaped it into a Black-Armored Flood Dragon.
• Ye Yun sent the dragon crashing into the valley, destroying the forest and killing the Azurewind Monkey pack while the Azurewind Monkey King survived badly wounded.
• The Azurewind Monkey King sprang from the pit and attacked Ye Yun, who dodged and struck back before they exchanged blows.
• Ye Yun and the Azurewind Monkey King fought fiercely for thirteen minutes, and the wounded king finally collapsed under Ye Yun's assault.
• Ye Yun successfully passed his second round of trials.

After defeating the Azurewind Monkey King, Ye Yun learned that the third trial would be far more difficult and used the waiting period to recover and deepen his understanding of Fist Force and Ice Force. He emerged from an Epiphany with his Fist Force at Major Accomplishment and tested its power before the final round began.

• Ye Yun defeated the Azurewind Monkey King, and Bing Qianyue told him that only the final round of the third trial remained.
• Ye Yun asked if the Gale Sea Demon Wolf would be the next target, and Bing Qianyue warned him that the third round would be much harder than the first two.
• Ye Yun apologized for his overconfidence, then began recovering his True Essence and reviewing how he had combined two kinds of heaven and earth energy.
• Ye Yun entered an Epiphany, stabilized his Ice Force, and advanced his Fist Force from Minor Accomplishment toward Major Accomplishment.
• After leaving the Epiphany with his True Essence restored, Ye Yun struck a distant cliff with Fist Force and saw that his attack had pierced through it.

Ye Yun entered the final trial and faced a Mirror Person modeled on him, with the same martial arts, cultivation, and fighting style. After more than four hours of combat, he had found no flaw and was exhausted, while the Mirror Person remained unchanged.

• Ye Yun entered the golden light door and found himself in a dim space with a mirror.
• Bing Qianyue explained that Ye Yun had to defeat a Mirror Person that possessed his abilities and could learn during battle.
• Ye Yun realized the earlier trials had gathered information to create the Mirror Person, then challenged it.
• Ye Yun fought the Mirror Person for over an hour and discovered it was gradually overcoming its initial stiffness.
• After more than four hours of fighting, Ye Yun retreated beyond the Mirror Person's range, exhausted and unable to find a weakness.

Ye Yun continued fighting the Mirror Person as the deadline for the True Dragon Society drew near, while his friends and sect leaders worried about his absence. The chapter ended with Murong Kuangshi fleeing Elder Li’s scolding as they awaited news from Sea-Calming City.

• Ye Yun restored his True Essence, reviewed his battle, and attacked the Mirror Person again.
• Ling Chen and He Yue waited at Ye Yun’s residence, but he did not return, and they worried he would miss the True Dragon Society.
• Ling Chen feared Ye Yun would lose his chance to attend the True Dragon Society and reach the True Dragon Continent.
• Murong Kuangshi told Elder Li he had sent people to search for Ye Yun in Sea-Calming City and expected news soon.
• Elder Li berated Murong Kuangshi for failing to arrange a Dao Protector for Ye Yun, and Murong Kuangshi hurried out of the Cultivation Manual Pavilion.

Ye Yun spent three months fighting the Mirror Person in the Sea-Change Pagoda, rapidly improving his martial arts and Force Realms but still failing to defeat his opponent. With the True Dragon Society only three months away, he fought on anxiously while Bing Qianyue warned that he had to overcome himself rather than treat the Mirror Person as a puppet.

• Ye Yun fought the Mirror Person for at least ten hours a day for three months without finding a way to win.
• Ye Yun advanced his martial arts, raising the Ten-Thousand Waves Fist Art to rival an Ultimate Martial Art at the Perfection Realm and increasing its fist force to forty layers.
• Ye Yun greatly improved his control of Fist Force and Ice Force, bringing Ice Force close to Major Accomplishment and Fist Force closer to Perfection.
• Ye Yun resumed his battle with the Mirror Person, attacking more fiercely because the True Dragon Society was only three months away, but neither fighter gained the upper hand.
• Bing Qianyue watched Ye Yun and said that he had to overcome himself instead of treating the Mirror Person as a puppet.

Ye Yun discovered that the Mirror Person could not use the Selfless Realm, and used that advantage to take control of their battle, though he still could not defeat it. He planned to reach the Major Accomplishment Realm within about a month so he could beat the Mirror Person and reach the True Dragon Society before it ended.

• Ye Yun realized the Mirror Person could not enter the Selfless Realm, but found that his Minor Achievement Realm mastery only let him gain the upper hand.
• Ye Yun used the Selfless Realm, Fist Force, and Ice Force to distract the Mirror Person with a collision, then flew behind it and landed a surprise attack.
• Ye Yun pressed his advantage while studying the Selfless Realm, estimating that he needed about a month to reach the Major Accomplishment Realm.
• Ye Yun ended the fight after five minutes, restored his True Essence with fragments of Superior Spirit Stone, and continued cultivating.
• Ye Yun recognized that he had less than two months to reach the True Dragon Society and needed to defeat the Mirror Person quickly.

After half a month of training and fighting, Ye Yun battered the Mirror Person and advanced his understanding of the Selfless Realm. He kept fighting past his ten-minute limit, leaving the battle's outcome uncertain.

• Ye Yun saw that his attacks had covered the Mirror Person with cracks and believed he was close to defeating it.
• Ye Yun used Ice Origin Force to form Ice God Armor, which doubled his offensive and defensive power.
• Ye Yun overwhelmed the Mirror Person with a barrage of punches, causing fresh cracks to appear across its body.
• Bing Qianyue watched Ye Yun fight and wondered why his Selfless Realm seemed familiar, but his incomplete memories offered no answer.
• Ye Yun extended the time he could maintain the Selfless Realm to about ten minutes, then continued fighting even as he reached his limit.

Ye Yun reached Major Accomplishment in the Selfless Realm, allowing him to predict the Mirror Person’s attacks and defeat it in the third trial. After leaving the Sea-Change Pagoda, he thanked Bing Qianyue, who began to explain what other reward awaited him.

• Ye Yun broke through to Major Accomplishment in the Selfless Realm and discovered that it let him anticipate and counter the Mirror Person’s moves.
• Ye Yun named the three states of the Selfless Realm and continued cultivating to prepare for the third trial.
• After a day of training, Ye Yun defeated the Mirror Person, which crumbled into powder, and thanked it for helping him improve.
• Ye Yun appeared outside the Sea-Change Pagoda and thanked Bing Qianyue for the trial and its lessons.
• Bing Qianyue praised Ye Yun for understanding her intentions and offered to tell him what else he could obtain for passing the third trial.

Ye Yun accepted Bing Qianyue, the former Ice God Sect master known as Ice Venerable, as his master and promised to rebuild the sect if he became strong enough. Bing Qianyue gave him several cultivation techniques and the Sea-Change Pagoda, then explained that his true inheritance and other treasures were elsewhere, leaving Ye Yun calm about what he could not obtain.

• Bing Qianyue asked whether Ye Yun had a master and offered to take him as his disciple.
• Ye Yun agreed, knelt, and kowtowed three times to Bing Qianyue.
• Bing Qianyue revealed that he had been the thirty-fifth sect master of the Ice God Sect and asked Ye Yun to rebuild it if he reached the peak of martial cultivation.
• Ye Yun firmly promised to make the Ice God Sect's name resound across the True Dragon Continent again.
• Bing Qianyue presented the Sea-Change Pagoda, the complete Ice Jade Divine Art, and the Ice Dance Nine Heavens Sword Art and movement technique.
• Bing Qianyue explained that his consciousness was only a remnant and that his true inheritance and other treasures were not in the secret realm; Ye Yun accepted the limitation calmly.

Ye Yun received the location of Bing Qianyue’s true inheritance and was warned not to seek it until he reached the Spirit Sea Realm. As Bing Qianyue’s consciousness prepared to send him away, Ye Yun asked about the origins of the Selfless Realm, but Bing Qianyue could not remember them.

• Bing Qianyue told Ye Yun that his true inheritance remained untouched and gave him its location, advising him to seek it only after reaching the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Ye Yun accepted a flood of information from Bing Qianyue and learned that the inheritance ground was a perilous place where martial artists below the Spirit Sea Realm would almost certainly die.
• Bing Qianyue revealed that his consciousness was nearly exhausted and that the secret realm would collapse after he sent Ye Yun out.
• Bing Qianyue asked Ye Yun to help restore the Ice God Sect’s name on the True Dragon Continent.
• Ye Yun asked Bing Qianyue about the origins of the Selfless Realm, but Bing Qianyue could not recall them, and the two stared at each other in silence.

Ye Yun learned that Bing Qianyue could not explain the origins of the Selfless Realm until Ye Yun found his true inheritance, and received a warning and a technique concerning Soul Sense. After Ye Yun escaped the collapsing secret realm, he wondered why knowledge of Soul Sense had vanished from the world and decided to ask Sect Master Murong.

• Bing Qianyue told Ye Yun that the answers about the Selfless Realm awaited him at Bing Qianyue’s true inheritance.
• Bing Qianyue warned Ye Yun to build a firm foundation in the Core Elixir Realm and explained that Soul Sense had to merge with the Elixir Core for advancement to the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Ye Yun and Bing Qianyue questioned why Ye Yun had never heard of Soul Sense before the secret realm began collapsing.
• Bing Qianyue taught Ye Yun the method for separating Soul Sense and sent him out of the collapsing secret realm.
• Ye Yun emerged on Giant Whale Island, wondered whether an unknown conspiracy had hidden Soul Sense from the world, and resolved to ask Sect Master Murong.

Ye Yun left Giant Whale Island aboard the Puppet Mechanism Ship, heading for Sea-Calming City before the True Dragon Society. During the journey, he opened the Continuation Manual of the Ice Jade Divine Art and began studying it.

• Ye Yun left the valley and crossed Giant Whale Island to its coast in less than a day.
• Ye Yun summoned the Puppet Mechanism Ship, fueled it with Spirit Stones, and set its course for Sea-Calming City.
• Ye Yun learned to control the ship and let it fly toward its destination.
• Ye Yun took out the Continuation Manual of the Ice Jade Divine Art and began reading it as the ship traveled.

Ye Yun studied Bing Qianyue’s treasures and learned that the Ice Jade Divine Art was only a prerequisite for the Ice God Sect’s Heaven-Grade Mid-Rank martial art, the Ice Ruins Prison Suppression Force. He chose the Ice Dance Nine Heavens Movement Art as a key focus and decided to cultivate its matching sword art once he found a suitable sword.

• Ye Yun learned that the Ice Jade Divine Art was an Earth-Grade Low-Rank martial art whose perfected form created an Ice Domain, and that it qualified its practitioner to cultivate the Ice God Sect’s Ice Ruins Prison Suppression Force.
• Ye Yun wondered why the powerful Ice God Sect had been destroyed and reflected on how much stronger the True Dragon Continent was than the Land of Seven Kingdoms.
• Ye Yun examined Bing Qianyue’s other treasures and found that the Ice Dance Nine Heavens Movement Art was especially useful to him.
• Ye Yun learned that the movement art could create afterimages, which could attack at Perfection Realm, and resolved to prioritize cultivating it.
• Ye Yun decided to cultivate the matching Ice Dance Nine Heavens Sword Art after finding a suitable treasured sword, and regretted giving his Superior Spirit Weapon-grade sword to Ling Chen.

Ye Yun examined the mysterious Sea-Change Pagoda but could neither enter it nor channel True Essence into it, and he returned toward Sea-Calming City. There, Zhang Ling planned to use Liu Haizhu’s capture to lure Ye Yun into a trap, while also plotting to kill Qing Shuang.

• Ye Yun reviewed Bing Qianyue’s warnings about the Sea-Change Pagoda, found he could not use it, and stored it in his Storage Bag despite its unexplained compatibility with the bag.
• Ye Yun neared Sea-Calming City and wondered how Liu Haizhu was doing.
• Zhang Ping told Zhang Ling and Qing Shuang that he had captured Liu Haizhu and spread the news through Sea-Calming City to draw Ye Yun out.
• Zhang Ling insulted Qing Shuang, who left after demanding respect as his wife.
• Zhang Ling decided Qing Shuang had outlived her usefulness and planned to kill her.
• Ye Yun arrived at the docks, put away the Puppet Mechanism Ship, and walked toward Sea-Calming City.

Ye Yun learned that the True Dragon Society would be held on Hidden Dragon Island, giving him time to return to Giant Whale Island and train. He then discovered that Liu Haizhu had been seized by servants of the Zhang Lineage, and learned it was because Liu had transported an enemy of the lineage’s eldest young master.

• Ye Yun heard at a restaurant that the True Dragon Society would begin in a little over two months on Hidden Dragon Island in the Great Luo Dynasty.
• Ye Yun decided to return to Giant Whale Island to test himself against Fourth-Tier Monsters and practice the Ice Dance Nine Heavens Movement Art.
• Ye Yun overheard Wang Sihai and Zhou Liufu discussing a man surnamed Liu and feared they meant Liu Haizhu.
• Ye Yun asked Wang Sihai and Zhou Liufu about Liu Haizhu, and they confirmed that servants of the Zhang Lineage had taken him away.
• Wang Sihai told Ye Yun that Liu Haizhu had transported an enemy of the Zhang Lineage’s eldest young master.

After learning that Zhang Ling had captured Liu Haizhu because of him, Ye Yun left Sea-Calming City for Dragonhead City to rescue Liu Haizhu and investigate the Zhang Lineage. He arrived in disguise and arranged a private room beside two Zhang Lineage disciples so he could eavesdrop on them.

• Wang Sihai and Zhou Liufu realized Ye Yun might be Zhang Ling's enemy and hurried out of the tavern.
• Ye Yun resolved to rescue Liu Haizhu and left Sea-Calming City, suspecting Zhang Ling had prepared a trap.
• Ye Yun reached Dragonhead City wearing a ghost mask and planned to gather information before sneaking into the Zhang Lineage.
• After finding no useful rumors at an inn, Ye Yun spotted two Zhang Lineage disciples and paid the waiter to place him in the room beside theirs.
• Ye Yun pressed his ear to the adjoining wall and tried to listen to the disciples' conversation.

Ye Yun learned that Zhang Ling had reached the Core Elixir Realm and abandoned his plan to storm the Zhang Lineage. After tracking Zhang Zixue and Zhang Zihao to the manor where Liu Haizhu was imprisoned, he left to return under cover of night.

• Ye Yun overheard Zhang Zixue and Zhang Zihao reveal that Zhang Ling had broken through to the Core Elixir Realm and was using Liu Haizhu to lure an enemy into a trap.
• Ye Yun reconsidered his plan to attack the Zhang Lineage directly and decided to locate Liu Haizhu first.
• Ye Yun marked Zhang Zixue and Zhang Zihao with Soul-Chasing Incense as they left the inn.
• Ye Yun followed the two disciples to the Zhang Lineage manor, confirmed Liu Haizhu was imprisoned there, and left to wait until nightfall.

Ye Yun infiltrated the Zhang Lineage estate and found the pavilion where Zhang Zixue and Zhang Zihao were holding Liu Haizhu, then prepared to incapacitate the brothers with Clearwind Softening Powder. Elsewhere, Zhang Wentian told Zhang Ling that the disciple he wanted investigated was Ye Yun, leaving Ye Yun’s rescue attempt and Zhang Ling’s intentions unresolved.

• Ye Yun watched the Zhang Lineage guards and slipped over the wall during a shift change.
• Ye Yun followed the scent of Soul-Chasing Incense to a secluded pavilion where Zhang Zixue and Zhang Zihao were drinking near an iron door.
• Ye Yun identified Clearwind Softening Powder and opened its bottle beside the pavilion window, intending to incapacitate the brothers and rescue Liu Haizhu.
• Zhang Wentian told Zhang Ling that Ye Yun was a talented disciple of the Purple Extreme Sect and asked whether he had truly decided to kill him.