Chapter Summaries

Ren defended Yan Ruyu from the Ji Family after she used the Azure Lotus to shield him from the Void Mirror. As the Void Mirror sealed them and the Ji Family began taking the Azure Lotus, Ren broke through part of the restraint and tried to devour it.

• Yan Ruyu used the Azure Lotus to block the Void Mirror’s divine light and took its backlash while Ren caught her.
• Yan Ruyu explained that she saved Ren because he had helped her, and Ren promised to protect her smile before attacking the Ji Family with his Double Pupils.
• Ren’s divine light killed the Ji Family members before Ji Haoyue’s father commanded the Void Mirror to seal Ren, Yan Ruyu, and the Azure Lotus.
• The Ji Family used the Void Mirror to draw the Azure Lotus toward them while Yan Ruyu accepted that she had failed to revive the Azure Emperor Lineage.
• Ren used sword aura to loosen the spatial restraint, then opened his mouth toward the Azure Lotus and silently commanded it to be devoured.

Ren swallowed the Azure Lotus and brought out the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram to fight the Ji Family’s Void Mirror. The formation held off the mirror’s divine light, but Ren suffered as the Azure Lotus’s vitality surged through his body.

• Ren swallowed the Azure Lotus, shocking Yan Ruyu, Ji Haoyue, the Ji Family, and the gathered onlookers.
• The Azure Lotus’s immense vitality began flowing into Ren’s flesh and blood.
• Ren summoned the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram, which shattered the Void Mirror’s divine light with its Sword Aura.
• The Ji Family poured Divine Source into the Void Mirror and ordered its spirit awakened, but the formation continued to hold it back.
• Yan Ruyu saw Ren grimace in pain, and Ren roared as the energy within him threatened to burst forth.

Ren swallowed the Azure Lotus and used its surging vitality to complete the first turn of the Nine-Turn Profound Technique through battle. After attacking the pursuing forces and clashing with Yaoguang Saint Son, he faced a growing coalition eager to seize the Emperor Weapon inside him.

• Ren sent Yan Ruyu away to heal, then charged at the enemies pursuing him so he could refine the Azure Lotus's energy through battle.
• Ren struck down pursuers with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist and challenged Yaoguang Saint Son of the Shaking Light Holy Land.
• Yaoguang fought Ren with the Holy Light Technique, but Ren broke through the divine light and forced him back with a punch.
• Yaoguang told the other pursuers that Ren had swallowed the Emperor Weapon and urged them to join forces against him.
• The prospect of obtaining an Emperor Weapon stirred the pursuers' greed, and one called for them to kill Ren before he could gain another.

Ren fought off the gathered young cultivators while his body digested the Azure Lotus Emperor Weapon. As the battle continued, he realized the Nine-Turn Profound Technique was breaking down the weapon, and Yan Ruyu’s group learned that Duan De had arrived to protect them.

• Ren used Nine Secrets: Dou, Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, and Zhu Xian Sword Aura to break through the attackers as Yaoguang and holy sons from several Holy Lands joined the assault.
• Yan Ruyu told Qin Yao that the Azure Lotus’s formation patterns and Dao markings were dissolving inside Ren and turning into energy.
• Duan De killed people who tried to seize the injured Yan Ruyu and said Ren had sent him to protect her and the others.
• Ren understood that the Nine-Turn Profound Technique was digesting the Azure Lotus Emperor Weapon and circulating its energy through his body.
• Ren continued drawing on the weapon’s energy as he approached the final stage of the technique, which required breaking and rebuilding his body.

Ren fought the gathered Holy Sons and Holy Maidens while digesting the Azure Lotus and using their attacks to drive his physical transformation. He defeated multiple opponents and ended the chapter overpowering Yaoguang’s Flying Immortal Art with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.

• Ren broke Yaoguang’s right arm and killed the Holy Son of Purple Mansion Holy Land with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.
• Ren killed the Holy Son of Daoyi Holy Land with Zhu Xian Sword Aura before the others’ attacks engulfed him.
• Ren survived the combined attacks, healed rapidly, and grew stronger as his Nine-Turn Profound Technique converted the battle’s energy.
• Ren charged Yaoguang with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, forcing him to reveal the Ruthless Emperor’s Flying Immortal Art.
• Ren’s punch clashed with Yaoguang’s divine art, and Yaoguang spat blood after losing the exchange.

Ren confronted the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron with his bare body after refusing Duan De’s offer of the Swallowing Heaven Demon Canopy. He blocked the Emperor Weapon with his fist but suffered severe injuries, leaving Yaoguang and the other onlookers stunned.

• The Shaking Light Holy Land sent the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron crashing toward Ren as he attacked Yaoguang.
• Duan De gave Ren the Swallowing Heaven Demon Canopy to use, but Ren examined it and returned it.
• Ren declared that his body did not fear Emperor Weapons and challenged the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.
• Ren’s fist collided with the cauldron, and he held it back with one hand despite his body cracking and blood spilling.
• Yaoguang and the other onlookers stared in disbelief as Ren laughed and dismissed the Shaking Light Holy Land’s Emperor Weapon.

Ren endured repeated blows from the Shaking Light Holy Land’s Dragon-Pattern Cauldron, hoping its attacks would destroy his body and complete the First Turn of the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique. As the Cauldron launched a final assault, a man from the Jiang Family arrived with the Hengyu Furnace and vowed to defend Ren.

• Ren punched the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist and sent it flying, humiliating the Shaking Light Holy Land.
• The Shaking Light Holy Land poured Abyss into the Cauldron, awakening it with black flames and a dragon-shaped attack.
• Ren smiled that the attack should be enough, then met the black Divine Dragon with another Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.
• A man in white arrived and warned the Shaking Light Holy Land that he would fight them if Ren died.
• The man reached into the void and summoned the Hengyu Furnace, revealing his connection to the Jiang Family.

Jiang Taixu emerged from his six-thousand-year imprisonment as a Great Saint and confronted the Shaking Light Holy Land after Ren was reduced to violet-gold blood and his Azure Lotus Emperor Weapon. The Jiang Family rallied behind Jiang Taixu as he continued battling the Shaking Light Holy Land, while Ren’s fate remained uncertain.

• Jiang Taixu broke free of his seal, strengthened by Ren’s Spirit Fruit and his own six thousand years of accumulated power.
• Ren’s body crumbled away, leaving only violet-gold blood and the Azure Lotus, while the onlookers feared or coveted what remained.
• The Shaking Light Holy Land tried to seize Ren’s blood and Emperor Weapon, but Jiang Taixu used the Hengyu Furnace to intercept them and clashed with their Dragon-Pattern Cauldron.
• Jiang Taixu declared that he had reached the Great Saint Realm and threatened to destroy the Shaking Light Holy Land if Ren died.
• The Jiang Family gathered around Jiang Taixu and pledged to stand with him against the Shaking Light Holy Land.

Ren rebuilt his body inside the Hengyu Furnace, using the Azure Lotus’s energy and the furnace flames to temper himself while Jiang Taixu fought the Shaking Light Holy Land. Outside, Duan De and Yan Ruyu feared Ren had died, but Yan Ruyu suspected Jiang Taixu’s laughter meant he was still alive.

• Ren’s violet-gold blood absorbed the Azure Lotus as his body began to reform inside the Hengyu Furnace.
• Jiang Taixu attacked the Shaking Light Holy Land, killing several elders and sending flames from the Hengyu Furnace against the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron.
• Jiang Taixu sensed Ren rebuilding his body and formed ten Golden Crows around him to intensify the flames’ tempering.
• Duan De mourned Ren and blamed Jiang Taixu for laughing, while Yan Ruyu questioned whether Ren was truly dead.
• Duan De agreed Ren might have survived and watched Jiang Taixu closely.

Ren emerged from the Hengyu Furnace after rebuilding his body through the First Turn of the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique, revealing that the Shaking Light Holy Land had unknowingly helped him refine it. When the Holy Land attacked again with the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron, Ren faced the Emperor Weapon alone with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.

• Ren completed the First Turn as the Hengyu Furnace refined his body, and his Violet-Gold Divine Light shattered the Golden Crow formation and blasted the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron away.
• Duan De recognized Ren’s light and celebrated that he was alive, while Yan Ruyu and Qin Yao rejoiced.
• Ren emerged from the furnace and told the Shaking Light Holy Land that its attack had helped him break and rebuild his body.
• The Shaking Light Holy Land drove the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron at Ren, and Jiang Taixu prepared to counter with the Hengyu Furnace.
• Ren waved Jiang Taixu back and struck the charging Black Dragon with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist.

Ren drove back the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron, prompting the Shaking Light Holy Land to recruit allies against him. As Saint Armaments and Emperor Weapons gathered, a Forbidden Zone attacked Ren directly, and the chapter ended with its Heaven-Supporting Claw descending on him.

• Ren struck the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron with his bare body, suffered only a scrape, and dismissed it as the weakest Emperor Weapon he knew.
• The Shaking Light Holy Land urged other powers to unite and kill Ren before he could threaten their descendants.
• The Jiuli Diagram, Saint Armaments, and several Emperor Weapons appeared, while the Void Mirror's radiance faded and the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram returned to Ren.
• Jiang Taixu vowed to stand with Ren, but Ren sensed danger and ordered everyone to retreat.
• A Forbidden Zone sent dark clouds and a Heaven-Supporting Claw toward Ren, while the Void Mirror challenged it over their former agreement.

Ren and Jiang Taixu fought back against Supremes from the Forbidden Zones who attacked to seize the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram. Ren shattered their Heaven-Supporting Claw with his enhanced Six Paths Reincarnation Fist and Double Pupils, but the Supremes continued their assault.

• The Void Mirror intervened to protect Ren, but the Myriad Dragon Bell attacked it and kept it from stopping the Heaven-Supporting Claw.
• Jiang Taixu used the Hengyu Furnace to block the claw and confronted the Supremes behind the Dark Turmoil.
• The Supremes formed more Heaven-Supporting Claws and revealed they wanted Ren's Zhu Xian Formation Diagram.
• Ren combined his Six Paths Reincarnation Fist with his Purple-Gold Double Pupils and destroyed a Heaven-Supporting Claw.
• A Supreme demanded the formation diagram, but Ren refused and broke another claw with Double Pupils Opening Heaven, prompting the Supreme to threaten him.

Ren faced two Supremes seeking the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram, but summoned the Wushi Emperor Bell to stop them and silence the forbidden lands. After the bell returned to Purple Mountain, the battle ended with Ren vowing to become strong enough to defeat his enemies himself.

• Ren stored the Zhu Xian Formation Diagram and called on the Wushi Emperor Bell as two Supremes attacked him.
• The Wushi Emperor Bell shattered the Supremes' claws, enveloped Ren, and caused the battlefield to fall silent.
• The Wushi Emperor Bell warned the Primordial Forbidden Land, Undying Mountain, and the other forbidden lands before returning to Purple Mountain.
• The Void Mirror thanked Ren and promised compensation from the Ji Family, while Jiang Taixu praised him after the battle.
• Ren declared that next time he would rely on his own strength and make the forbidden lands tremble.

Ren subdued the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron, exposed the Shaking Light Holy Land’s ties to the Ruthless Lineage, and entrusted Yan Ruyu’s protection to Jiang Taixu before leaving through a black hole. As Ren departed for home, Yan Ruyu asked whether he truly had to go.

• Ren and Jiang Taixu used their Emperor Weapons and Duan De’s Swallowing Heaven Demon Canopy to suppress the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron, which Ren claimed had been made by the Ruthless Emperor.
• Ren seized the Dragon-Pattern Cauldron, accused the Shaking Light Holy Land of being controlled by the Ruthless Lineage, and gave the cauldron and a cultivation method to Duan De and Yan Ruyu.
• Yan Ruyu realized Ren was leaving, and Jiang Taixu promised to protect her from anyone who targeted her.
• Ren opened a rift to a black hole, challenged the Forbidden Zones, and stepped inside as the beings there stirred at the aura of immortality.
• Yan Ruyu watched Ren disappear and asked whether he had to leave.

Ren left Yan Ruyu behind in the Shrouding the Heavens World, where the Forbidden Zone Supremes pledged to protect her in exchange for the Immortal Ascension Method. He returned to the Investiture of the Gods World with a cracked body and asked the Trash Station whether he could travel back.

• Ren said goodbye to Yan Ruyu and vanished through a black hole, leaving Spirit Fruits and immortal aura behind.
• The Forbidden Zone Supremes absorbed the fruits and Spiritual Qi, realized Ren had used their desire for immortality to secure Yan Ruyu's safety, and vowed to protect her.
• Jiang Taixu and the surrounding factions watched as the Supremes returned to their Forbidden Zones, leaving Yan Ruyu beyond anyone's reach.
• Yan Ruyu returned to the hidden valley and decided to wait there in her wedding dress for Ren.
• Ren arrived back in the Investiture of the Gods World with cracks in his body and began repairing himself.
• The Trash Station told Ren he could return to worlds he had visited, but advised him not to revisit the Shrouding the Heavens World yet.

Ren recovered inside the Zhu Xian Sword and began cultivating in the Investiture of the Gods World, reassured that the Trash Station could return him to nearly the same point in the Shrouding the Heavens World. Yang Jian and the Howling Celestial Hound failed to find the intruder, unaware Ren was hiding in the sword.

• The Trash Station told Ren it could build a Spacetime Tunnel to return him to roughly the time he left the Shrouding the Heavens World, with at most a two- or three-year delay.
• Ren repaired his body with the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique, left the Trash Station, and entered the Zhu Xian Sword’s Sword Spirit Space.
• Yang Jian and the Howling Celestial Hound searched for the intruder but found no trace, while the Seven Meishan Monsters reported that their search around Jade Spring Mountain had also failed.
• Yang Jian ordered the Seven Meishan Monsters to keep Jade Spring Mountain surrounded and learned that Zi Yu was recovering from cultivation deviation.
• Ren watched from inside the Zhu Xian Sword and began using the Beginningless Scripture to cultivate the Sword Dao and strengthen his Sea of Bitterness.

Yuding Zhenren and Huanglong returned with news that Yang Jian’s Divine Positions were secure and that Yun Zhongzi had taken Gouchen Great Emperor from Guangchengzi for Lei Zhenzi. Yuding explained how Lei Zhenzi and he were preparing paths toward Quasi-Saint power, leaving Ren and Yang Jian stunned by the Expounding Sect’s hidden strength.

• Huanglong revealed that Yuding had defeated Guangchengzi and that Yun Zhongzi had taken Guangchengzi’s Spirit Treasures and Gouchen Great Emperor position for Lei Zhenzi.
• Huanglong condemned Guangchengzi for causing the Twelve Golden Immortals’ killing calamity and for blocking Huanglong’s cultivation and recovery of his body.
• Yuding told Yang Jian that he could retrieve his former body and advance the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique after the Investiture of the Gods ended.
• Yuding explained that Yun Zhongzi had fused the Wind-Thunder Origin into Lei Zhenzi and planned for him to sever his imperial Destiny and advance toward becoming a Quasi-Saint when the Zhou Dynasty fell.
• Huanglong explained that Yuding had entered the Quasi-Saint realm by letting Yunxiao’s formation strip away his three flowers and rebuilding his Sword Dao.

Ren realized that his rapid advancement had damaged his soul and squandered his potential, so he decided to seek guidance and focus on healing. As Yuding offered Huanglong Zhenren a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, Huanglong refused it, warning that relying on the pill carried risks.

• Ren discovered faint cracks in his soul and recognized that his rapid growth had come at the cost of his future potential.
• Ren decided he needed a good master and considered asking Yuding to take him as a disciple after he escaped the Zhu Xian Sword.
• Huanglong Zhenren explained that several Golden Immortals had not received Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs to recover their cultivation, and described his own losses.
• Yuding offered Huanglong a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir and suggested he remake his body using sentient jade from Jade Spring Mountain.
• Huanglong refused the elixir, saying he would rather rebuild his strength through cultivation and that relying on the pill carried risks.

Huanglong refused the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, choosing to rebuild his strength through his own cultivation, and Yuding offered to help him find a Jade Marrow Dragon for a new body. After discussing an intruder who injured Zi Yu, Yuding moved the Zhu Xian Sword into his cave dwelling while Yang Jian searched Jade Spring Mountain for the dragon.

• Yuding explained that the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir granted power at the cost of future growth, and Huanglong decided not to take it.
• Huanglong said he needed Primordial Jade Marrow Essence to rebuild his body, and Yuding proposed using a Jade Marrow Dragon as his new form.
• Ren listened from within the Zhu Xian Sword and began planning how to seek guidance for his cultivation.
• Yang Jian told Yuding that Zi Yu had been gravely injured by an intruder, and Yuding vowed to punish the culprit.
• Yang Jian suspected the intruder belonged to the Interception Sect, and Yuding decided to keep the sword safe in his cave dwelling.
• Yuding carried the Zhu Xian Sword into his cave dwelling, while Yang Jian began searching for the Jade Marrow Dragon.

Ren discovered that his Origin Art could see through Jade Skin in Jade Spring Mountain and devised a plan to use its jade to leave the Zhu Xian Sword and gain Yuding’s favor. As Yuding taught the Jade Marrow Lifeforms about Transformation, Ren continued refining his plan.

• Yuding returned to his cave in Jade Spring Mountain, hung up the Zhu Xian Sword, and settled down among the jade creatures.
• Ren used his Purple-Gold Double Pupils to see treasures hidden inside Jade Skin and realized Origin Art worked in the Primordial World.
• Ren considered creating a Stone Gambling industry to uncover hidden treasures and secure cultivation resources.
• Ren recalled Duan De’s method of merging with Divine Source and planned to use it to absorb jade essence, undergo Transformation, and earn Yuding’s guidance.
• Yuding began teaching the Jade Marrow Lifeforms that Transformation started with Sentience and the absorption of Spiritual Qi.