Chapter Summaries

Yue Shuo studied an array trapping him and used his Eye of Spiritual Insight to attack its moving energy nodes. Through a Spirit Crane’s perspective, he identified the creatures threatening He Tian as Black-Armored Soulflame Insects and warned him before the Golden Core Insect Mother appeared.

• Yue Shuo examined his array inheritance and discovered that his Eye of Spiritual Insight revealed the array’s energy nodes, which he began attacking to break the array.
• As the Spirit Cranes’ battle eased after Foundation Establishment cultivators joined them, Yue Shuo entered a Spirit Crane’s perspective and saw the strange insects they were fighting.
• Yue Shuo used the Spirit-Taming Inheritance Golden Page to identify the insects as Black-Armored Soulflame Insects, whose mature Insect Mothers were at least Golden Core Stage and possessed dangerous soul and flame attacks.
• Yue Shuo sent He Tian information about the insects and urged him not to conserve spirit pills, saying that he would arrive soon.
• Yue Shuo feared the Golden Core Insect Mother would appear as He Tian and the others continued fighting the larvae.

He Tian and the trapped disciples learned that the dangerous area was covered by a spatial formation, preventing them from contacting the sect. Min Yuanqing urged Yue Shuo to leave the Minor World and bring help, leaving Yue Shuo to decide whether to abandon the effort to break the formation from within.

• He Tian told the other disciples that Yue Shuo had arrived, lifting their spirits as they fought the alien insects.
• The disciples exchanged accounts of their missions and realized Yue Shuo had been reaching collection sites and dangerous areas before them.
• He Tian revealed that Yue Shuo had identified the alien insects and said a great formation shrouded the dangerous area.
• Min Yuanqing suggested that Yue Shuo leave the Minor World and notify the sect, fearing the formation was a trap.
• Yue Shuo heard Min Yuanqing's suggestion through the little Spirit Crane while attacking the formation nodes and considered what to do.

Yue Shuo discovered that the Minor World had become isolated from the outside and that leaving would prevent him from returning for years, but he chose to rescue He Tian and the Little Spirit Cranes. After nearly three hundred Spirit Cranes helped him break through a formation, he slipped inside and set off to find them.

• Yue Shuo failed to contact the outside world and realized that leaving the Minor World would keep him from returning until its lingering aura faded.
• Yue Shuo chose to rescue He Tian and the Little Spirit Cranes rather than leave, and summoned his Spirit Crane teams through their Soul Contracts.
• Yue Shuo suspected that someone had deliberately set up the formation and held his attacks at a level that kept its energy nodes recovering.
• Yue Shuo and nearly three hundred Spirit Cranes struck a formation node together, opened a crack, and Yue Shuo carried his contracted Spirit Cranes through before the formation closed.
• Yue Shuo confirmed that someone controlled the formation, concealed himself, and fled to search for He Tian and the Little Spirit Cranes.

Yue Shuo entered the dangerous ground and realized it was likely an Array Formation Space as he secretly made his way toward He Tian and the others. He reached within a hundred li of them, where a stronger Second-Tier insect tide was overwhelming the group, while Senior Ze prepared support from the sect.

• Yue Shuo used Stealth Escape to slip through the Black-Armored Soulflame Insects and reasoned that the dangerous ground might be an Array Formation Space formed by an Array Spirit Treasure.
• Yue Shuo contacted He Tian through their contract, and He Tian changed course toward him while relaying information from Min Yuanqing and the others.
• Senior Ze learned that Yue Shuo had triggered a calamity inside the Minor World and arranged for his master's household and martial uncle to support him if he used the Astral Gold Mirror.
• Yue Shuo sensed He Tian's group within a hundred li and found that Second-Tier insects had replaced the First-Tier insects surrounding them.
• Min Yuanqing and the others struggled against the Second-Tier insects' Divine Soul-screech attacks and were forced to rely on Body Tempering attacks.

Yue Shuo transformed into a giant azure bird and used his soul-attacking cry to slaughter the aberrant insects, weakening the Insect Mother while absorbing the insects’ energy to strengthen his bloodline. As he became absorbed in devouring the seemingly enormous swarm, Senior Ze grew worried when Yue Shuo failed to activate the Astral Gold Mirror.

• Yue Shuo used the Eye of Spiritual Insight to locate the likely insect nest and Insect Mother amid the battle.
• Yue Shuo transformed into a giant azure bird and killed every aberrant insect within ten li with a soul-attacking cry.
• Yue Shuo inhaled the dead insects’ energy and refined it with Nirvana Fire, stimulating his bloodline.
• Yue Shuo continued sweeping across the swarm, killing and devouring wave after wave of insects as he discovered their numbers exceeded his initial estimate.
• Senior Ze waited in the Beast Taming Sect’s Inheritance Hall, worried that Yue Shuo had not activated the Astral Gold Mirror, and decided he could not wait any longer.

Yue Shuo slaughtered the alien insects in his giant Azure Bird form, and He Tian mistook the insects’ retreat for a sign that a heavenly calamity was approaching. After Yue Shuo reunited with the group and sent Spirit Cranes to search for remaining insects, he asked them where the Insect Mother was.

• He Tian sensed the Black-Armored Soulflame Insects retreating and warned Yue Shuo that a heavenly calamity might be coming, but Yue Shuo ignored the message while hunting insects.
• Yue Shuo flew above He Tian, Min Yuanqing, Duan Yiguang, and the others in his giant Azure Bird form, frightening them until He Tian recognized his master.
• Yue Shuo asked where the heavenly calamity was, and He Tian and the others realized that they had mistaken Yue Shuo for it.
• Yue Shuo summoned Spirit Cranes and ordered them to eat the scattered insects and report anything abnormal.
• Yue Shuo explained that the fire-element energy and Red Crystal Spirit Treasure he had absorbed were changing his body and Nirvana Fire, then asked where the Insect Mother was.

Yue Shuo found and subdued the Black-Armored Soulflame Insect Queen, but a collapsing sky forced him to flee through a spatial fissure using Senior Ze’s Astral Gold Mirror. He emerged in an unfamiliar place, realized the mirror had not brought him back to the sect, and recalled hearing a strange voice in the fissure.

• Yue Shuo discovered a moving spatial fissure and widened it with the Spirit Cranes’ help, revealing the Black-Armored Soulflame Insect Queen.
• Yue Shuo nearly killed the Insect Queen, kept it alive, condensed a Sub-Panel, and bound it with a controlling Restrictive Seal.
• The sky split apart, so Yue Shuo stored his spirit pets and used Senior Ze’s Astral Gold Mirror to flee through a dark spatial fissure.
• A gray spatial storm swept Yue Shuo off course, and he heard an unknown figure casually wonder whether it had bumped into someone.
• Yue Shuo passed through a gate of light and arrived at an unfamiliar jade plaza, where he could not sense Senior Ze through his Identity Jade Token.
• Yue Shuo entered Stealth Escape and recalled the strange voice he had heard in the fissure.

Yue Shuo found himself trapped in an unfamiliar, array-protected secret realm after a spatial escape went wrong, and he questioned the Insect Mother about its array formation abilities. Meanwhile, his fellow disciples rescued most of the people from the Minor World and assumed Yue Shuo had escaped safely, while Senior Ze confronted someone over losing his Immortal Seed.

• Yue Shuo examined the unfamiliar jade plaza, apologized for intruding, and set up a temporary array formation before asking He Tian what had happened.
• Yue Shuo guessed he was in a secret realm or sect ruin, tried cultivating Taiji, and found that the spiritual energy was thin and the surrounding arrays had absorbed much of it.
• Yue Shuo replenished the Insect Mother’s vitality and began questioning it about the Array Formation Space it had created in the Minor World.
• Ning Xin, Yan Ning, and the other Nascent Soul Cultivators broke open the Minor World and rescued eight of the ten people inside, then learned that Yue Shuo had vanished.
• Yan Ning argued that Yue Shuo had sensibly fled using his escape treasure, and the others concluded that he was probably safe.
• Senior Ze appeared in the Inheritance Hall and angrily demanded to know how someone had lost his Immortal Seed.

Yue Shuo used the Insect Mother’s Array Formation Space to improve his Formation Dao and began exploring the sealed palace complex while searching for a way out. He wondered whether the dangers that had trapped him were calamities whose rewards would be the treasures and knowledge he gained there.

• Senior Ze ordered a languid sect powerhouse to find Yue Shuo safely, warning that the sect needed an heir before he could Ascend.
• Yue Shuo studied the Insect Mother’s Array Formation Space, broke and repaired formations, and raised his Formation Dao to Peak Second-Tier.
• Yue Shuo concluded that time had weakened the palace formations and began exploring the areas he could now access.
• Yue Shuo entered a row of stone houses, had Spirit Cranes clean them, and kept He Tian hidden as a potential trump card.
• Yue Shuo considered whether being trapped in the palace complex was a calamity he could break and turn into fortune.

Yue Shuo discovered that his Calamity Fortune Taiji talent had improved his attributes and placed him amid the Mid-Second Tribulation. After reaching Third-Tier Peak-Grade in Formation Dao, he turned to Artifact Refining while trapped among the palaces.

• Yue Shuo examined his panel and found his lifespan, physique, and Divine Soul had improved, his Fire Spirit Root had gained a point, and he was amid the Mid-Second Tribulation.
• Yue Shuo considered whether his Azure Bird transformation had benefited Azure Feather, then decided to let the sleeping bird rest.
• Yue Shuo resumed breaking palace formations and studying Formation Dao, finding that the Black and White Taiji Diagram aided his comprehension.
• Yue Shuo reached Third-Tier Peak-Grade in Formation Dao and noted that Artifact Refining was the remaining skill he wanted to master.
• Yue Shuo began refining First-Tier and Second-Tier artifacts with the materials he had on hand while the palace formation slowly recovered.

Yue Shuo trained in the ruins by deciphering formations, cultivating, refining artifacts, and teaching the Spirit Cranes, eventually advancing his Formation Dao to the Fourth-Tier. Inside a palace, he discovered a connection to his Lunar Stellar Scripture and took control of the palace with a token, then began examining the other objects he found.

• Yue Shuo assigned the Second-Tier Spirit Cranes to study formations or other crafts, with He Tian helping keep them diligent.
• Yue Shuo spent about a month deciphering palace formations, cultivating, refining artifacts, and raising Spirit Cranes, advancing his Formation Dao to the Fourth-Tier.
• Yue Shuo sent Spirit Cranes into a palace to investigate, but they could not retrieve the objects inside, so he entered himself.
• The palace’s starlight diagram revealed a character that Yue Shuo read as “Wing,” lighting a star in his Divine Soul cultivation method and improving his cultivation efficiency.
• Yue Shuo picked up a token, used Soul Power to refine it, and gained control of the palace’s formation before studying the remaining objects.

Yue Shuo examined the palace treasures, discovering a Spirit Beast Pouch containing a living egg and an Ancient Treasure feather that granted him tremendous speed. He stored the remaining unidentified items and left the chapter with several mysteries still under investigation.

• Yue Shuo refined the pouch and found a living egg inside, while Azure Feather warned him that a powerful creature was within it.
• Yue Shuo used Rhino Nirvana Fire to strengthen the egg’s faint life force and wondered whether Azure Feather had once been an egg in the other Spirit Beast Pouch.
• Yue Shuo refined the warm jade feather and discovered it was an Ancient Treasure that let him tear through the air, though each use consumed one of its marked charges.
• Yue Shuo recognized that the Lunar Spirit-Congealing Spike was also an Ancient Treasure and considered its connection to the ruin in the Eastern Sea Region.
• Yue Shuo sealed an unidentified seed-like object and collected a resistant jade plaque, a fire-element pill, and an unknown crystal-like material from the side hall.

Yue Shuo gathered gold and jade, advanced his artifact-refining skills, and learned that the Secret Realm Grotto-Heaven recognized inheritors who could gradually claim its core. He realized refining the entire realm could take years, leaving him to weigh the scale of the task.

• Yue Shuo found two spatial containers filled with gold and jade and moved into the palace as his new living quarters.
• Yue Shuo used stored Third-Tier materials to refine an alchemy furnace and advanced his artifact-refining skill to the Third-Tier Peak-Grade.
• Yue Shuo fused two tokens into one marked with the rune “Wing Fire” and learned that the Grotto-Heaven barred Third-Tier beings, cut off outside contact, and allowed inheritors to refine its core.
• Yue Shuo realized he could enter as an inheritor of the Lunar Stellar Scripture, while his Soul Contract allowed He Tian to remain in the realm.
• Yue Shuo estimated that the visible palaces and increasingly difficult formations could take years to overcome, despite already spending nearly a month and a half in the Grotto-Heaven.

Trapped in the Grotto-Heaven, Yue Shuo tried to strengthen himself and find a way to contend with the sealed world by visualizing the Black and White Taiji Diagram. He successfully formed a simple Taiji image in his consciousness, and its rotation coincided with his practice as the Chaos Blood Crystal began transforming his body.

• Yue Shuo decided he could not afford to remain trapped for years and chose to strengthen his Spiritual Root while seeking a way to escape.
• He arranged treasures and Spirit Pills throughout the palace, adjusted the formations to gather more spiritual energy, and began practicing Taiji while absorbing the Fire-Element Spirit Pill’s power indirectly.
• Yue Shuo tried drawing the Black and White Taiji Diagram in his consciousness with Soul Power, but the first attempt scattered and briefly made him dizzy.
• He simplified the image and eventually formed a crude Taiji visualization above the stars in his consciousness.
• Yue Shuo’s Taiji practice grew more profound as the visualization began turning in time with his movements, while the Chaos Blood Crystal burned and merged into his body and his physique status began to change.

Yue Shuo advanced his Body Tempering cultivation to Fourth-Tier and used the resulting bodily origin energy to perfect his Fire Spirit Root. He depleted the palaces’ resources and formations, then drew on a Fire Spirit Pill to recover while the formations slowly began replenishing.

• Yue Shuo’s Divine Soul rose to Late Fourth-Tier as he visualized the Taiji Diagram during his advancement.
• Yue Shuo discovered that advancing to Body Tempering Fourth-Tier required more Spirit Essence than the palaces’ resources and formations could provide.
• Yue Shuo refined the remaining Fire Spirit Pill with Nirvana Fire and used its energy to continue advancing.
• Yue Shuo observed his five Spiritual Roots and directed his newly generated bodily origin energy into his nearly perfected Fire Spirit Root.
• Yue Shuo perfected his Fire Spirit Root, then absorbed more energy from the Fire Spirit Pill to replenish his depleted origin.
• After roughly thirty-six hours, energy from other palaces began restoring the drained formations while Yue Shuo continued absorbing energy.

Yue Shuo completed the second tribulation, gained a Fire Dao Seed, and made major advances in his body and soul while absorbing energy from the linked palace formations. After discovering his resources were exhausted, he nearly crushed an unhatched egg before it acknowledged him as its master, revealing it had an Immortal Spirit Bloodline.

• Yue Shuo absorbed energy from the palace formations and refined the Fire Spirit Pill, completing the Phoenix Sovereign Nirvana Tribulation-Transmutation Art's Second Tribulation and condensing another Fire Dao Seed.
• Yue Shuo checked his panel and found that his lifespan, Fire Spirit Root, comprehension, Body Tempering, soul, and Chaos Sacred Body had all increased, while his cultivation had fallen back to the initial stage of Foundation Establishment.
• Yue Shuo reasoned that Immortal Spiritual Roots exceeded the Heavenly Dao's limits and that his Chaos Sacred Body might demand enough energy to threaten the world.
• Yue Shuo discovered that nearly all his materials and resources had been consumed during his advancement, leaving only a crystal, the Fire Spirit Pill, and a few other items.
• Yue Shuo tried to squeeze the unhatched egg, but it sent spiritual light into his consciousness and acknowledged him as its master.
• Yue Shuo realized that the egg's voluntary master acknowledgment indicated it possessed an Immortal Spirit Bloodline.

Yue Shuo learned that the jade tablet contained two Divine Ability Arts and instructions for nurturing the Winged Serpent Egg, then used the Fire Spirit Pill’s energy and Nirvana Fire to restore and strengthen it. He decided to cultivate the egg’s potential early and successfully condensed a Sub-Panel for it.

• The Winged Serpent Egg helped Yue Shuo read the jade tablet, revealing the Clone Divine Ability, a Fire Divine Ability, and the egg’s nurturing instructions.
• Yue Shuo reasoned that the jade tablet, Fire Spirit Pill, and Innate Fetal Crystal had been arranged to protect and nurture the Winged Serpent Egg.
• Yue Shuo refined the Fire Spirit Pill and fed its energy to the egg while using Nirvana Fire to keep it alive.
• Yue Shuo entered information about the Immortal Spirit Bloodline Wingfire Serpent into the Spirit-Taming Inheritance Golden Page and considered the egg’s potential.
• Yue Shuo warned the egg to endure and successfully condensed a Sub-Panel for it.

Yue Shuo confirmed that the Winged Serpent Egg was his and discovered that using his cheat to alter its Sub-Panel weakened his Taiji visualization. He developed a plan for creating a Taiji Qi Refining art, then fed the egg refined energy to speed its bloodline awakening and hatching before planning to refine the Grotto-Heaven.

• Yue Shuo examined the Winged Serpent Egg's Sub-Panel, confirmed its Immortal Beast bloodline awakening, and added a hatching countdown.
• Yue Shuo requested more detailed Sub-Panel data and noticed that the changes blurred his Taiji Diagram and slowed his Soul Power growth.
• Yue Shuo reasoned that he could create a Taiji Qi Refining art by merging suitable cultivation arts, potentially pairing his Phoenix Sovereign Nirvana Tribulation-Transmutation Art with an opposing Yin art.
• Yue Shuo fed the Winged Serpent Egg refined energy from Fire Spirit Pills and saw its awakening progress rise as its hatching time shortened.
• Yue Shuo decided to raise the egg until it hatched, then have the “landlord” help him break the formation and refine the Grotto-Heaven.

Yue Shuo completed the Winged Serpent Egg’s bloodline awakening, rejected the Clone Divine Ability because it risked damaging his comprehension, and continued breaking formations in the Grotto-Heaven. After the Winged Serpent hatched, he fed Spirit Crystals to his spirit pets and resumed cultivating.

• Yue Shuo used the Fire Spirit Pill’s lingering soul force to complete the Winged Serpent Egg’s bloodline awakening, though three days remained before it would hatch.
• Yue Shuo decided not to cultivate the Clone Divine Ability because severing a soul fragment could harm the comprehension he needed to break formations.
• Yue Shuo broke another palace’s formation over the following week, collected an Ancient Treasure and other rewards, and fused its palace token.
• The Winged Serpent Egg hatched into a bright-red Little Winged Snake, and Yue Shuo let it eat most of its eggshell before it fell asleep around his finger.
• Yue Shuo refined Spirit Crystals and fed them to the Little Winged Snake, Azure Feather, He Tian, and the Insect Mother, then began cultivating with the remaining crystals.

Yue Shuo’s cultivation reached a limit at the Three Tribulations, so he focused on improving his Body Tempering and searching the Grotto-Heaven’s palaces for Spirit Crystals. After the Little Winged Snake guided him to easier palaces, he collected a growing stockpile and asked it to find the next one with plenty of Spirit Crystals.

• Yue Shuo filled his cultivation progress but could not advance beyond the Three Tribulations, and he suspected he needed further Body Tempering or Earth Dao enlightenment to condense another Dao Seed.
• Yue Shuo spent his Spirit Crystals cultivating Taiji Body Tempering, but estimated that he needed about five hundred more to reach the Late Fourth-Tier.
• Yue Shuo opened the fourth palace and found an Ancient Treasure, spiritual materials, twenty Spirit Crystals, and a token that merged into him.
• The Little Winged Snake warned Yue Shuo away from a larger palace and guided him toward another; he opened the fifth palace after four days and found thirty Spirit Crystals and materials whose quality had declined.
• Yue Shuo opened the sixth palace three and a half days later and gained one hundred Spirit Crystals, bringing his stockpile to one hundred and fifty.
• Yue Shuo woke the Little Winged Snake and asked it to find a palace that would open quickly and contain many Spirit Crystals.