Chapter Summaries

Ji Yuan mourned Wen Jiu and Yan Lanlan, collected Wen Jiu’s inherited combat skill, and began learning it before returning to Western Border City. He arranged to teleport to Cangluo, but as he prepared to leave the teleportation site, he sensed someone to the north.

• Ji Yuan found Wen Jiu and Yan Lanlan’s grave in Cold Bamboo Valley and read Wen Jiu’s letter, which thanked him, worried about Yu'er, and directed him to collect an inherited technique.
• Ji Yuan placed concealed restrictions around the grave, then claimed Wen Jiu’s deposit from the Clearfrost Repository Shop and received a piece of beast hide.
• Ji Yuan used his qi and blood to activate the hide and discovered that Blood-Burning Crash was a combat skill; the Martial God Tower’s artifact spirit explained its ranking and limits as Ji Yuan practiced it.
• Ji Yuan teleported to Western Border City, found that his old acquaintances were gone, and searched unsuccessfully for Du Wanyi before heading west.
• Ji Yuan paid 15,000 Middle-Grade Spirit Stones for a travel token to Cangluo and was told to return in a month; as he turned to leave, he sensed someone to the north, and Tu Yue recognized him.

Ji Yuan returned to the Cangluo Continent and followed Icefire Old Man to Heavenly Pillar Peak, where several Golden Core Peak cultivators gathered to seize a suspected Nascent Soul opportunity. As a battle began beneath the peak’s formation, Ji Yuan sensed that another Nascent Soul Cultivator was hidden nearby.

• Ji Yuan drove Nine-Fiend Venerable away from Icefire Old Man, then spent a month in the Martial God Tower mastering Blood-Burning Crash.
• Ji Yuan and Icefire Old Man returned to Cangluo through the Transcontinental Teleportation Formation, and Ji Yuan followed Icefire Old Man southwest from Coastal City.
• Ji Yuan followed Icefire Old Man and Luo Zheng to Heavenly Pillar Peak and discovered a powerful formation around the summit.
• Icefire Old Man, Luo Zheng, and Chen Mo joined forces to attack the formation, while Wondrous Thunder and Blue-Sea Old Devil defended it.
• Ji Yuan watched the five Golden Core Peak cultivators fight and concluded that another Nascent Soul Cultivator was concealed nearby.

Ji Yuan entered the contest for the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl, a treasure that could help Long Fei or Long Yun advance to the Fourth Tier. After Tuyao High Person claimed it and fled from Ji Yuan, Ji Yuan obtained the pearl himself and was recognized by Icefire Old Man, who asked if he was Senior Ji Yuan.

• Ji Yuan watched the Golden Core Peak cultivators fight as the Cloud-Sea Vortex formed and revealed the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl.
• Miaole True Person named the treasure, and Ji Yuan resolved to take it to help Long Fei and Long Yun advance.
• Tuyao High Person emerged from Heavenly Pillar Peak and claimed the pearl, but Ji Yuan appeared and pursued him with the Azure Billow Sword Formation.
• Tuyao High Person escaped through the mountain, so Ji Yuan returned to the vortex and took the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl.
• Icefire Old Man followed Ji Yuan and thanked him for saving his life in the Far Western Lands of the Abyssal Continent.
• Icefire Old Man recognized Ji Yuan and asked whether he was Senior Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan returned to Cangluo Continent, learned about its changed powers, and helped Icefire Old Man before heading toward Thunderclap Marsh. After giving Long Fei the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl and reuniting with Hu Li at Mystic Crystal Mountain, he learned Blood Luo Mountain had identified him as Ji Yuan; Tu Yue then reported Long Fei had reached the Fourth Tier.

• Icefire Old Man told Ji Yuan about Cangluo Continent's factions, including Blood Luo Mountain, Eastern Corner Mountain, and the Black-and-White Divine Hall, and named Blue-Sea Old Devil as his deepest enemy.
• Ji Yuan left and soon returned with Blue-Sea Old Devil's Storage Bag and a Qi-Blood Pill for Icefire Old Man, then departed toward Thunderclap Marsh.
• Ji Yuan gave Long Fei the Cloud-Sea Flood Dragon Pearl, and she swallowed it before entering cultivation to advance to the Fourth Tier.
• Ji Yuan found Hu Li at Mystic Crystal Mountain, learned he had remained there and reached Golden Core Middle Stage, and heard that Blood Luo Mountain had learned Ji Yuan's identity.
• Tu Yue told Ji Yuan that Long Fei had advanced to the Fourth Tier.

Ji Yuan traveled to Thunderclap Marsh to temper his body and break through into the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm. After enduring the marsh’s increasingly powerful lightning for an unknown stretch of time, he finally achieved the breakthrough.

• Long Fei advanced to Fourth Tier, while Ji Yuan learned from Hu Li about Blood Luo Mountain’s three subordinate sects in Shangdong and secretly planted a Daoheart Demonseed in him.
• Ji Yuan left Hu Li to gather more information and traveled south to Thunderclap Marsh, where his divine sense revealed crimson lightning sealing off the depths and dozens of Zixiao Stones nearby.
• Ji Yuan entered the marsh with Long Fei, Long Yun, and three Ice Flood Dragons, then advanced deeper as the lightning battered his body and Long Fei collected Zixiao Stones.
• Ji Yuan endured the lightning near the 180-li boundary, using Profound Yang Blood Amber, Scarlet Yang Bone, and the Ninefold Profound Yang to repair and strengthen his body while Long Fei guarded him.
• After a long, dazed period of repeated bodily destruction and recovery, Ji Yuan awakened amid golden light and achieved the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm.

Ji Yuan emerged from a two-year seclusion in Thunderclap Marsh with his physique, mana, and Divine Soul all at Nascent Soul strength, then tested the marsh’s increasingly dangerous lightning. Meanwhile, the Blood Luo King divined that Ji Yuan had returned to Cangluo as a Nascent Soul Cultivator, and Blood Lady asked where he was.

• Ji Yuan awakened in the Golden Body Mystic Bone Realm, reunited with the injured Long Fei, and learned his breakthrough seclusion had lasted two years, three months, and eighteen days.
• Ji Yuan explored the scarlet lightning region of Thunderclap Marsh, discovered the black lightning beyond the two-hundred-mile boundary, and retreated when it damaged Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain.
• Ji Yuan manifested two Great Suns, decided to leave the marsh for now, and headed toward the outskirts with fifty-three Zixiao Stones collected by Long Fei.
• At Blood Luo Mountain, Blood Lady pressured the Blood Luo King to divine whether Qiu Qianhai had survived, while Jiang Hong watched anxiously.
• The Blood Luo King confirmed that Qiu Qianhai was Ji Yuan, had returned to Cangluo, and had formed a Nascent Soul; Blood Lady then asked whether he had divined Ji Yuan’s location.

Ji Yuan learned that someone had used divination to seek him, cleared the Martial God Tower’s second floor, and discovered that Miaole True Person had been killed and buried. Upgrading the Mass Burial Ground gave him the Netherworld Corpsefire, and he spotted a familiar corpse among the newly created Corpse Puppets.

• Blood Luo King said divination could not pinpoint Ji Yuan’s location, so he planned to lure Ji Yuan into a prepared burial ground.
• Ji Yuan felt a surge of dread while traveling and learned from the Martial God Tower’s artifact spirit that someone had used a divination secret art to seek him.
• Ji Yuan cleared the Martial God Tower’s second floor, earned a large blood-energy sphere, and reflected that he still needed stronger combat arts.
• Tu Yue told Ji Yuan that Long Fei had killed Miaole True Person and that she had buried his corpse in the Mass Burial Ground; Ji Yuan found a scroll depicting the true Heaven-Thunder Hammer among Miaole True Person’s belongings.
• Ji Yuan upgraded the Mass Burial Ground and gained the Netherworld Corpsefire, which could freeze mana and turn cultivators into Corpsefire Puppets.
• Ji Yuan spotted an old acquaintance’s corpse among the new Corpse Puppets.

Ji Yuan learned that the Level Five Mass Burial Ground required many Nascent Soul corpses to upgrade, then used Hu Li’s intelligence to plan an attack on Medicine King Valley and confront Ten Spirits Ancestor. After luring Ten Spirits Ancestor away with a staged Chi Dragon sighting, Ji Yuan watched him fly toward Green Bamboo Mountain.

• Ji Yuan inspected the Mass Burial Ground’s new upgrade requirements and returned to find the injured Hu Li hiding near Mystic Crystal Mountain.
• Ji Yuan learned from Hu Li that Scorpion Madam and Ten Spirits Ancestor guarded Medicine King Valley, and that Blood Luo Mountain planned to establish a stronghold at the Water Dragon Sect Ruins.
• Ji Yuan decided to kill Ten Spirits Ancestor, sent Hu Li toward Coastal City, and infiltrated Medicine King Valley’s formation.
• Ji Yuan confirmed that Scorpion Madam and Ten Spirits Ancestor were cultivating beside the Ageless Spring, then withdrew to lure Ten Spirits Ancestor away from her.
• Ji Yuan arranged for a Third-Tier Peak Chi Dragon to kill two Golden Core Late Stage cultivators, prompting Ten Spirits Ancestor to fly toward Green Bamboo Mountain in pursuit of it.

Ji Yuan ambushed the Ten Spirits Ancestor at Dragon River Lake, then fought Scorpion Madam when she came to his aid. After destroying her and breaking Medicine King Valley’s Fourth-Tier Formation, he returned to find the Ten Spirits Ancestor’s Nascent Soul hiding inside the sect.

• The Ten Spirits Ancestor trapped Long Yun in a lake Formation and prepared to claim the Chi Dragon while Ji Yuan watched from concealment.
• Ji Yuan used Blood-Burning Crash to smash the Ten Spirits Ancestor’s body, but the cultivator escaped as a Nascent Soul toward Medicine King Valley.
• Scorpion Madam intercepted Ji Yuan, who broke her attack, survived her poisoned stinger, and struck her Divine Soul with the God-Slaying Spear.
• Ji Yuan burned Scorpion Madam’s body with Netherworld Corpsefire, then used the Truth-Piercing Divine Eye to destroy her fleeing Nascent Soul and shatter Medicine King Valley’s Fourth-Tier Formation.
• Ji Yuan collected the fallen treasures and Demon Beasts, returned to Medicine King Valley, and found the Ten Spirits Ancestor’s Nascent Soul hiding in an underground Formation.

Ji Yuan killed the Ten Spirits Ancestor, plundered and destroyed a Blood Luo Mountain subordinate sect, then set out to absorb his gains before visiting the Water Dragon Sect. Meanwhile, the Black-and-White Divine Hall ordered Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators to join an expedition to the Desolate Ancient Continent, and Hundred-Blossom Immortal prepared to go with them.

• Ji Yuan killed the Ten Spirits Ancestor with the God-Slaying Spear and stored his Nascent Soul Qi.
• Ji Yuan collected water from the Nether Ageless Spring, then sent his Spirit-Devouring Bees and Blazing-Fire Army Ants to slaughter the cultivators of Medicine King Valley and plunder their sect.
• Ji Yuan absorbed the souls of the fallen into his Human Sovereign Banner and decided to lie low before visiting the Water Dragon Sect and returning to the Abyssal Depths.
• Zhou Cang worried over Ji Yuan's absence, while Hundred-Blossom Immortal agreed to represent the Wave-Listening Pavilion at the Black-and-White Divine Hall's meeting.
• The Black-and-White Fiends announced that Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators or higher had to join the expedition to the Desolate Ancient Continent, with White Elder leading the group.
• The Black-and-White Fiends said Mei Zhuang would bring the transformed Demon Race great demons, and they warned the cultivators not to provoke them.

Blood Luo King learned that Medicine King Valley had been annihilated and went to the Water Dragon Sect, while Ji Yuan recovered from Scorpion Madam’s poison and claimed the treasures and techniques of the two slain Nascent Soul cultivators. Meanwhile, powerful figures on Cangluo and the Abyssal Continent reacted to the killings, and Hundred-Blossom Immortal wondered whether Ji Yuan had become strong enough to kill a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator.

• The Holy Mother reported that Medicine King Valley had been destroyed and its people killed, while Blood Lady and the Holy Mother argued over who was responsible.
• Blood Luo King suspected Ji Yuan and went to the Water Dragon Sect, ordering Blood Lady to follow him and the Holy Mother to manage Blood Luo Mountain.
• Ji Yuan recovered, refined Scorpion Madam’s Seven-Colored Poison Pouch and Ten Spirits Ancestor’s Spirit Beast Bag, and acquired their cultivation techniques and other treasures.
• Ji Yuan sent Tu Yue to give Long Yun five Third-Tier Peak Monster Cores and demon beast corpses to help him advance to the Fourth Tier.
• Devil Lord White Bone and Demonflame True Lord learned Blood Luo King was heading to the Water Dragon Sect and decided to go there, suspecting a secret treasure or a connection to Spirit Transformation.
• White Elder told the Eight Sacred Grounds’ leaders that Medicine King Valley had been destroyed and two Nascent Soul cultivators had died, leaving Hundred-Blossom Immortal wondering whether Junior Brother Ji was responsible.

Ji Yuan traveled to the Cloud-Rain Marsh to bid farewell to the Water Dragon Sect’s former lands, but the Blood Luo King trapped him in a Fourth-Tier Formation and overwhelmed him. Injured and surrounded, Ji Yuan prepared to use the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew and the Level Four Fish Pond’s phenomenon to lure nearby Nascent Soul Cultivators into a fight.

• Ji Yuan reached the ruined Cloud-Rain Marsh, saw that Blood Luo Mountain had transformed it into Demonic Dao territory, and decided not to enter the Water Dragon Sect.
• As Ji Yuan tried to leave, the Blood Luo King revealed himself and activated the Luo Heaven Blood Sea Formation, with the Blood Lady and Corpse Luo Old Devil waiting nearby.
• Ji Yuan rejected the Blood Luo King’s offer to join Blood Luo Mountain and fought back, but the Blood Luo King’s attacks broke through his defenses and battered him into the Blood Sea.
• Ji Yuan used Blood-Burning Crash against the Fuluo Old Devil, escaped the Formation’s restraints with the Void-Escaping Claw, and summoned Tu Yue’s Buddha Puppets to attack the Walking Buddhas.
• After the Blood Luo King struck Ji Yuan down again, Ji Yuan resolved to drink the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew and draw more Nascent Soul Cultivators into the fight by unleashing the Level Four Fish Pond across the marshes.

Ji Yuan activated his Level Four [Fish Pond], causing a spectacular phenomenon across the Boundless Marsh that convinced the surrounding Nascent Soul Cultivators a great treasure had emerged. Blood Luo King fought Devil Lord White Bone and Demonflame True Lord over the supposed treasure, while Ji Yuan drank the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew and prepared to enter the conflict.

• Demonflame True Lord and Devil Lord White Bone suspected a treasure tied to the True Dragon beneath the Water Dragon Sect had drawn Blood Luo King and his unknown opponent to the area.
• Lu Shi suspected the hidden opponent was Xu Sheng, while the other Nascent Soul Cultivators debated whether to join the looming fight.
• Ji Yuan summoned his Level Four [Fish Pond], stirring the Cloud-Rain Marsh and Boundless Marsh and causing numerous Spirit Fish and water beasts to break through.
• Blood Luo King left Blood Lady and Corpse Luo Old Devil to watch Ji Yuan, then confronted Devil Lord White Bone and Demonflame True Lord, who attacked him with their Life-bound Dharma Treasures.
• Blood Luo King unleashed his Ten-Thousand Tribulations Blood Stupa and gained the upper hand, making the watching cultivators reconsider joining the battle.
• Ji Yuan weighed the cost of using the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew, then drank it as Blood Lady watched from above.

After drinking the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew, Ji Yuan surged to Nascent Soul Peak, killed Blood Lady, and pursued Blood Luo King across the region. He destroyed Blood Luo King with his treasures and Zixiao Divine Thunder, but Blood Luo King detonated himself, leaving Ji Yuan to assess the aftermath.

• Ji Yuan drank the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew and instantly advanced from Nascent Soul Early Stage to Nascent Soul Peak.
• Ji Yuan stopped Blood Lady from self-destructing and killed her, while Blood Luo King attacked him with the Ten-Thousand Tribulations Blood Stupa.
• Ji Yuan damaged Blood Luo King's stupa with Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain, sent Long Fei to capture Jiang Hong, and used the Star-Treading Wheel to pursue Blood Luo King.
• Ji Yuan caught Blood Luo King and struck him with Lingtai Square-Inch Mountain and twenty-seven bolts of Zixiao Divine Thunder.
• Blood Luo King declared that their enmity would end only with death, then detonated himself as Ji Yuan escaped on the Star-Treader.

Ji Yuan forced Devil Lord White Bone and the Demonflame True Lord to turn against Blood Luo Mountain, killed Jiang Hong and Corpse Luo Old Devil, and collected the souls of Jiang Hong, the Blood Lady, and others with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. After avenging Xu Fugui, Ji Yuan fled as his borrowed Nascent Soul Peak cultivation ran out, while Spirit-Communing High Person watched and wondered about his power.

• Ji Yuan confirmed that the Blood Luo King had escaped as a Nascent Soul and found a nearly ten-thousand-year-old Profound-Comprehending Ginseng in the Blood Lady's Storage Bag.
• Ji Yuan threatened Devil Lord White Bone and the Demonflame True Lord into promising to destroy Blood Luo Mountain when he returned to Cangluo.
• Ji Yuan searched Jiang Hong's soul, killed him on Water Object Island, and used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to capture Jiang Hong's and the Blood Lady's souls alongside those of Scorpion Madam, Ancestor Wuling, Bald High Person, and Ying Changkong.
• Ji Yuan learned from Jiang Hong's memories that Jiang Hong had ordered Heavenly Silkworm Hammer Person to destroy Xu Fugui's ship and kill everyone aboard, and Ji Yuan considered Xu Fugui avenged.
• Ji Yuan found and killed Corpse Luo Old Devil, then fled before his temporary Nascent Soul Peak cultivation expired.
• Spirit-Communing High Person appeared at the battlefield and wondered what treasure had let Ji Yuan reach Nascent Soul Peak.

Ji Yuan escaped the Cangluo Continent after defeating the Blood Luo King, then returned to the Abyssal Continent and learned that Wave-Listening Pavilion’s Senior Sister Baihua had gone to the Desolate Ancient Continent. He left Hu Li at Wave-Listening Pavilion and prepared to guard the Cloud-Rain Sect, where he was seeking a treasure.

• Ji Yuan used the Teleportation Formation to flee Cangluo with Hu Li, disguising himself as Fang Zhong to get past Black-and-White Divine Hall cultivators who had orders to seal the harbor.
• After reaching the Abyssal Continent, Ji Yuan told Hu Li that he had destroyed the Blood Luo King’s physical body, warned him to keep the matter and Ji Yuan’s origins secret, and took him toward Wave-Listening Pavilion.
• Ji Yuan met Zhou Cang at Wave-Listening Pavilion and learned that Senior Sister Baihua had left for the Desolate Ancient Continent two months earlier, while the Nascent Soul cultivators sent to the Star-River Archipelago had not reported back.
• Zhou Cang assigned Hu Li to assist Ping Banmeng at Wave-Listening Pavilion, and Ji Yuan departed for the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• Ji Yuan chose to guard the Cloud-Rain Sect because the Pill Cauldron Sect of the Star-River Three Sects possessed a treasure he wanted.

After returning to the Cloud-Rain Sect, Ji Yuan kept his identity as the feared Old Devil secret while Tu Yue finished sorting the spoils from his battles. He uncovered valuable techniques and Immortal Resources, and the chapter ended with Long Yun advancing to Fourth Tier as Ji Yuan prepared to leave with Long Fei.

• Zhou Cang told Ji Yuan about the Old Devil who had devastated Cangluo and the Blood Luo King, while Ji Yuan concealed that he was the culprit.
• Ji Yuan went to the Cloud-Rain Sect and inspected the sorted Storage Bags, deciding to save the Demonic Dao spoils for a future sale on the Desolate Ancient Continent.
• Ji Yuan examined Blood Lady's and Corpse Luo Old Devil's cultivation techniques and Life-bound Dharma Treasures, and learned that Blood Lady's spoils included a Heart-Devouring Willow needed for the Chicken Coop's upgrade.
• Ji Yuan considered returning to the Abyssal Continent to gain control of Many-Ghost Devil Master and plunder the Soul-Refining Hall's resources.
• Long Yun advanced to Fourth Tier, and Ji Yuan told him to guard the Cloud-Rain Sect while Long Fei accompanied Ji Yuan on an errand.

Ji Yuan visited the Pill Cauldron Sect to trade Ageless Spring water for one tael of Heavenly Origin Resin. After the sect elders accepted the bargain, Dan Xuzi collected the resin from the Heavenly Origin Tree, leaving the trade ready to conclude.

• Ji Yuan rejected Tu Yue's suggestion to destroy the Pill Cauldron Sect and went there while Long Yun stayed behind to cultivate in his Cave Abode.
• Dan Xuzi and Dan Yangzi discussed being summoned to the Desolate Ancient Continent and told Ji Yuan about a Barbarian God Continent cultivator whose combined body and dharma cultivation had killed several Nascent Soul Cultivators.
• Ji Yuan asked the Pill Cauldron Sect for one tael of Heavenly Origin Resin, but Dan Xuzi initially refused because extracting it could harm the Heavenly Origin Tree.
• Ji Yuan revealed that a mouthful of Ageless Spring water could extend life by twenty years, persuading Dan Xuzi to agree to the trade.
• Dan Xuzi negotiated with the Heavenly Origin Tree, collected a bottle of Heavenly Origin Resin, and repaired the cut in its trunk.

Ji Yuan traded Nether Ageless Spring for Heavenly Origin Resin and learned where to seek the remaining resources he needed on the Desolate Ancient Continent. After investigating divination techniques and copying Xuanji Tower’s design, he finally activated the Star-Gazing Tower’s panel, which appeared as upgradeable at Lv. 0.

• Ji Yuan traded Nether Ageless Spring to Dan Xuzi for Heavenly Origin Resin and learned that Spirit-Candle Fruit was held by High Person Lingzhu while Lapis Lazuli might appear at the Beihuang City fair.
• Ji Yuan decided to travel to the Desolate Ancient Continent, leaving Long Yun to help Zhou Cang protect the Cloud-Rain Sect.
• Ji Yuan built the Star-Gazing Tower on Worry-Free Peak, but its panel did not appear after he added several divination items.
• Ji Yuan asked Zhou Cang about divination, inherited the Heaven-Peering Nine Transformations, and studied the layout of Xuanji Tower.
• Ji Yuan copied Xuanji Tower’s features into the Star-Gazing Tower, causing the panel to appear as [Star-Gazing Tower: Lv0 (Upgradeable)].

Ji Yuan upgraded the Star-Gazing Tower and used its divination power to locate Du Wanyi, discovering that she was alive but apparently in the hands of the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord. He gathered the resources needed to raise the tower to Level Three and prepared to divine Du Wanyi’s whereabouts again.

• Ji Yuan upgraded the Star-Gazing Tower to Level Two, gaining protection from Golden Core divination and the ability to divine Golden Core Cultivators once per day.
• Ji Yuan learned that the Cloud-Rain Sect possessed the All-Heaven Star Compass and Six-Yin Six-Yang Stone, and Zhou Cang gave him the key to the sect’s treasure vault core area.
• At the Wave-Listening Pavilion, Ji Yuan used the tower to divine Du Wanyi and saw her cultivating in black robes before a Devil Lord sensed the divination and severed it.
• Ji Yuan concluded that the Devil Lord was likely the Ultimate Dao Devil Lord and returned to the Cloud-Rain Sect to gather the materials for the tower’s next upgrade.
• Ji Yuan entered the treasure vault’s core area, retrieved the needed Immortal Resources, and upgraded the Star-Gazing Tower to Level Three.