Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun strengthened Nie Tong with Essence Qi before joining the rulers and their invited experts to prepare for the journey to the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion. When Huang Ling proposed dividing the treasures equally among seven parties, Nie Yun objected.

• Nie Yun used three gourds of Essence Qi to increase Nie Tong's strength, and Nie Tong's punch blasted a hole in the air.
• Nie Yun and Nie Tong flew to the imperial palace, where Huang Ling gathered the rulers and their companions to introduce themselves and discuss cooperation.
• Nie Yun recognized Huang Ling's companions as Tu Xin and Qi Huang and spotted Qi Tao, Qi Yang's grandfather, among the invited experts without revealing what he knew.
• Huang Ling proposed that seven parties, including Sky Eye Master Mo Wudao, divide the cave mansion's treasures equally, and everyone except Nie Yun agreed.
• Nie Yun stepped forward and declared that he had an objection to Huang Ling's distribution plan.

Nie Yun insisted that treasure shares be based on Purple Splendor Jade Seals and used force to secure the group’s agreement before they traveled to the Misty Swamp. At the swamp, he saw the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion with his Heavenly Eye and discovered that Huang Chen and Empress Ziqiong were secretly following them.

• Nie Yun proposed one share per Purple Splendor Jade Seal and slapped a goateed expert who challenged his claim to three shares.
• Longxi, Ling Tian, Huang Ling, and the others agreed to distribute the treasures by Jade Seal count, while Mo Wudao accepted one share.
• Huang Ling led the group on a journey of nearly half a month to the Misty Swamp, warning everyone to stay close together.
• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye to see the cave mansion and its surrounding formations through the dense mist.
• Nie Yun spotted Huang Chen and Empress Ziqiong secretly following the group while concealing their cultivation.

Nie Yun led Nie Tong through the Misty Swamp with the group and used fabricated claims about his master to unsettle Huang Ling. Huang Ling secretly contacted Patriarch Huang Chen, while Nie Yun noticed and smiled at the growing intrigue.

• Huang Ling ordered the group into the Misty Swamp, where its sinking force pulled everyone down onto a dense liquid surface.
• Mo Wudao led the group through the mist, and Nie Yun explained that trapped demon beasts and demonfolk had turned the swamp into a dangerous refuge.
• Huang Ling questioned Nie Yun about his master, and Nie Yun claimed his master had left a will that could reverse space and rescue him.
• Nie Yun warned Huang Ling that Secret Realm experts and human-demonfolk conspirators might appear, saying his master had ordered him to destroy any traitors.
• Huang Ling secretly sent a message to Patriarch Huang Chen, and Nie Yun noticed the act with his Heavenly Eye.

Huang Chen and Empress Ziqiong argued over their stolen treasures while flying toward the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion. A message revealed that Huang Chen’s treasury had been emptied too, and its restrictions falsely identified him as the thief.

• Huang Chen tried to comfort Empress Ziqiong about his stolen treasures, then bragged that Lord Hua’s restrictions made his own treasury impossible to rob.
• A Thousand Mechanism Communication Pigeon delivered an urgent message that nearly all of Huang Chen’s treasures had been stolen.
• Empress Ziqiong celebrated Huang Chen’s loss, and Huang Chen retorted that his restrictions could identify the intruder.
• A second pigeon reported that the restrictions recorded Huang Chen’s own aura as the person who removed the treasures.
• Huang Chen spat blood and demanded to know who had framed him.

Huang Chen and Empress Ziqiong concluded that Nie Yun’s master was likely the missing Supreme Elder of the Huayun Sect and decided to pursue the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion despite the danger. As Nie Yun’s group neared the swamp’s edge, a vast swarm of poisonous Swamp Wasps attacked them.

• Empress Ziqiong mocked Huang Chen after learning his treasury had also been robbed, and Huang Chen said the thief was likely a Disguise Master rather than Nie Yun.
• Huang Chen and Empress Ziqiong reasoned that Nie Yun’s master was probably the Huayun Sect’s missing Supreme Elder, while Huang Ling’s message warned that the master could reverse space and divine fortune and misfortune.
• Huang Chen and Empress Ziqiong decided to pursue the cave mansion and kill Nie Yun if he competed with them, then hurried after Huang Ling’s trail.
• Nie Yun watched their conversation with his Heavenly Eye and was relieved that fear of his master would keep them from attacking his parents and companions.
• After three days crossing the Misty Swamp under Mo Wudao’s guidance, Nie Yun’s group neared its outer perimeter, where Mo Wudao warned that Swamp Wasps were approaching.
• Countless venomous Swamp Wasps surged toward the group, creating their greatest crisis in the swamp so far.

Nie Yun and the others fought through deadly Swamp Wasps, while the poisonous fumes killed a powerful Supreme. After discovering the Nine Nether Cold Pearl could turn the toxins into energy, Nie Yun took Nie Tong into the swarm to hunt wasps and replenish his qi sea.

• Qi Tao, Mo Wudao, Huang Ling, and the others slaughtered Swamp Wasps as Nie Yun killed them with Hidden Strength and Nie Tong struck them down with precise swordplay.
• The poisonous fumes overwhelmed a peak Heaven Ranking Supreme, and the wasps devoured him after he fell.
• Nie Tong told Nie Yun that he could cultivate with the poisonous fumes, while Nie Yun realized the Nine Nether Cold Pearl was absorbing them and restoring his strength.
• Nie Yun brought out the Nine Nether Cold Pearl and realized he could use it to filter the Swamp Wasps' poisonous demon cores into energy.
• Nie Yun told Huang Ling that he and Nie Tong would seek out the wasps' nest, then charged into the swarm with his brother.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong charged into the Swamp Wasp swarm, while Huang Ling and the others plotted to kill Nie Yun for the cave’s treasures. Nie Yun slaughtered the wasps and absorbed their demonic cores, reaching 9,999 elephant-force in the late Supreme Realm, and suspected he could surpass the usual limit because he no longer had the Mystic Realm barrier.

• Huang Ling persuaded Qi Tao and the others to cooperate in killing Nie Yun once they found a place filled with Hellish Cold Current.
• Nie Yun led Nie Tong into the wasp swarm and urged him to fight, while recognizing that Nie Tong was developing a unique Dao.
• Nie Tong attacked the Swamp Wasps with his own swordsmanship, and Nie Yun began killing them and absorbing their demonic cores.
• Nie Yun slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Swamp Wasps, restoring his strength to the peak of the middle Supreme Realm before breaking through to the late Supreme Realm.
• Nie Yun’s strength climbed to 9,999 elephant-force, and he realized the missing Mystic Realm barrier might let him exceed the usual Supreme-level limit.

Nie Yun realized his next nirvana would demand an immense amount of energy, then stopped fighting the Swamp Wasps and waited with Nie Tong. The brothers hid in a sealed underground refuge to watch Huang Ling and the others struggle against the wasps.

• Nie Yun sensed that his third nirvana would only occur at the Supreme Peak and worried about finding enough energy to fuel it.
• Nie Yun stopped killing Swamp Wasps and watched Nie Tong train, wondering whether Nie Haotian had targeted his younger brother because of his unusual talent.
• Nie Tong told Nie Yun that his strength had reached its limit and that he could fight Huang Chen.
• Nie Yun told Nie Tong they would not search for the beehive and chose to wait for Huang Ling and the others to be worn down by the Swamp Wasps.
• Nie Yun and Nie Tong dug and sealed a hole beyond the water, settled in with food and wine, and used Nie Yun's Heavenly Eye Qi to watch the others.

Nie Yun and Nie Tong waited out the Swamp Wasp tide while the other factions fought and suffered heavy losses. When the wasps retreated, Nie Yun claimed he had found the hive and forced the queen to withdraw, then beat Mo Wudao for exposing him, only for Mo Wudao to beg him to keep slapping.

• Yuan Feng weakened from the poisonous gas, and Huang Ling gave him an antidote pill.
• Mo Wudao used his Heavenly Eye and briefly saw Nie Yun and Nie Tong relaxing with wine and food, then told Huang Ling they had not searched for the hive.
• After more than two days of fighting, Yuan Feng and the emperor of the Shenyang Empire died, leaving only eight survivors as the wasps began to retreat.
• Nie Yun and Nie Tong arrived, and Nie Yun claimed they had found the hive and threatened the queen wasp into retreating.
• Mo Wudao accused Nie Yun of lying, so Nie Yun slapped him repeatedly, prompting Huang Ling and the others to surround Nie Yun.
• Mo Wudao pleaded with Nie Yun to slap him more, leaving the others baffled.

Nie Yun used the Nine Nether Cold Pearl to secretly draw the poison from Mo Wudao while pretending to treat him with a Thousand Silk Poison Dispelling Hand. After Mo Wudao recovered, Emperor Long Xi begged Nie Yun to detoxify him too and offered a treasure from the Shentian Empire.

• Nie Yun's slaps expelled the poison from Mo Wudao, and the onlookers realized the beating had been a cure.
• Nie Yun claimed his Thousand Silk Poison Dispelling Hand could remove poison but said he would stop unless Mo Wudao swore never to attack him.
• Mo Wudao swore an oath, and Nie Yun slapped him about a hundred times until the poison was gone.
• Mo Wudao thanked Nie Yun and took medicinal pills to recover his strength and heal his swollen face.
• Emperor Long Xi, the most deeply poisoned among the group, begged Nie Yun to treat him and offered the Shentian Empire's most precious treasure.

Nie Yun cured the poisoned emperors by slapping them and collected their precious treasures, then arranged for Nie Tong to treat Huang Ling. Nie Tong began beating Huang Ling while Nie Yun secretly handled the poison, giving his brother a chance to avenge his torture.

• Nie Yun dispelled Longxi's poison with more than two hundred slaps, then cured the others and accepted their treasures as payment.
• Nie Yun deliberately slapped Tu Xin and Qi Huang five hundred times each while secretly curing them.
• Huang Ling asked Nie Yun to cure him, and Nie Yun taunted him about a dream involving Huang Chen, Empress Ziqiong, and Qi Huang plotting against him.
• Nie Yun claimed he was too exhausted to continue and told Nie Tong to use the Thousand Silk Poison Dispelling Hand on Huang Ling while he secretly took responsibility for removing the poison.
• Nie Tong understood that Nie Yun was giving him a chance to retaliate and began fiercely slapping Huang Ling.

Nie Yun forced Huang Ling to endure thousands of slaps before secretly removing his poison, then demanded to use Qi Huang as a mount while they continued toward the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion. Qi Huang and Huang Ling concealed their anger and endured the humiliation, hoping to take revenge once Ancestor Huang Chen and Empress Ziqiong arrived.

• Nie Tong slapped Huang Ling thousands of times while Nie Yun pretended the poison-dispelling technique had failed, then Nie Yun secretly drew the poison out with the Nine Nether Cold Pearl.
• After the group rested and recovered, Nie Yun claimed his legs were numb and asked Huang Ling to lend him the Golden Armored Flood Ape as transportation.
• Nie Yun recognized the Golden Armored Flood Ape as Qi Huang and deliberately insulted him, while Huang Ling persuaded Qi Huang over voice transmission not to attack.
• Huang Ling agreed to Nie Yun's demand, and Nie Yun forced Qi Huang to the ground before riding him with Nie Tong toward the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion.

The group crossed the Hell Bone Shattering Sand and reached the palace, only to be attacked by a powerful human-demon. Nie Yun explained that human-demons were descendants of humans who had intermarried with demon people or demon beasts.

• Nie Yun and Mo Wudao found a shifting opening through the Hell Bone Shattering Sand, and the group followed it safely to the palace.
• Huang Ling identified a place to insert the Purple Splendor Jade Seal, while Nie Yun recognized that a Heavenly Star Flight Ban Formation prevented flight near the palace.
• As the group approached the palace, a human-demon attacked with the Myriad Heavens Suppressing Demon Palm, and Qi Tao and Mo Wudao were forced back after countering it together.
• Nie Tong asked what human-demons were, and Nie Yun explained how stranded humans had formed families with demon people and demon beasts.

Nie Yun and his group encountered Wuchen Supreme and a powerful human-demon who demanded their treasures and attacked them. After the human-demon trapped the group, Nie Yun broke free and killed him with a single thrust of his Black Sword.

• The human-demon, Wuchen Supreme, and a demon-human confronted Nie Yun's group and demanded their treasures.
• Wuchen Supreme recognized Qi Tao and demanded the Purple Splendor Jade Seal, explaining that jade seals disappeared after remaining in the Misty Swamp for a time.
• Wuchen Supreme defeated Qi Tao with one strike, leaving Huang Ling and the others alarmed.
• Mo Wudao urged the group to retreat toward the Hell Bone Shattering Sand, but the human-demon sealed their path and restrained them.
• Nie Yun broke free of the human-demon's restraints, drew his Black Sword, and killed him with a single thrust.

Nie Yun killed the Human-Demon and another demon, then learned from Wuchen Supreme that Purple Splendor Jade Seals vanished seven days after entering the Misty Swamp. He let Nie Tong fight Wuchen Supreme, who was swiftly killed, leaving Huang Ling and the others terrified of the brothers.

• Nie Yun killed the Human-Demon and another demon with one sword strike each, then stored their bodies to use as resources for his allies.
• Nie Yun asked Wuchen Supreme why the Purple Splendor Jade Seal disappeared in the Misty Swamp, and Wuchen explained that it vanished if it was not used within seven days.
• Nie Yun promised Wuchen Supreme a chance to live if he defeated Nie Tong in a fight.
• Nie Tong killed Wuchen Supreme with a single swift sword strike before Wuchen could react.
• Huang Ling and the others were overwhelmed by the brothers' strength and regretted considering a plot against them.

Nie Yun’s group entered the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion’s outer hall and found a trial with two passages, one leading to life and one to death. Unable to see what lay beyond either passage, the group considered splitting up to explore them.

• Huang Ling urged everyone to hurry, and Mo Wudao used his Heavenly Eye talent to guide them past dangers to the palace gate.
• Huang Ling and Nie Yun placed three Purple Splendor Jade Seals into the gate, opening the way into the cave mansion’s outer hall.
• The group found a stone tablet explaining that pulling either of two swords would open a passage, one leading to life and one to death.
• Emperor Ling Tian pulled out the yin sword, opening one passage, and Tu Xin pulled out the yang sword, opening the other.
• Mo Wudao said he could not see through the passages, so Nie Yun proposed dividing the group between them.

Nie Yun divided the group to explore two passages and sent Nie Tong down the left path with instructions to claim a bronze oil lamp and watch for a chance to kill Huang Ling. Leading the right group through Blood Fiend's Darkness, Nie Yun spotted a shifting Hellish Cold Current and prepared to use it to eliminate Xin Tu Supreme, but halted the group with a warning that something seemed wrong.

• Nie Yun split the ten survivors into two groups, sending Nie Tong with Huang Ling and Mo Wudao down the left passage while he led the others to the right.
• Nie Yun privately told Nie Tong how to navigate the left passage, take a bronze oil lamp, and kill Huang Ling if an opportunity arose.
• Huang Ling and Mo Wudao suspected Nie Yun's motives and planned to kill Nie Tong if he acted against them.
• Nie Yun's group entered the right passage, where Qi Tao identified the light-swallowing darkness as Blood Fiend's Darkness.
• Using his Heavenly Eye, Nie Yun spotted a shifting Hellish Cold Current and decided to kill Xin Tu Supreme when the others had crossed it.
• After Xin Tu Supreme remained on the far side of the current, Nie Yun stopped and warned the group that something ahead seemed wrong.

Nie Yun led the group into a hidden chamber where Life and Death Illusory Qi drove Long Xi mad. After Qi Tao killed Long Xi, he took the Purple Splendor Jade Seal, leaving Nie Yun and the others facing the chamber’s danger.

• Nie Yun watched Xin Tu Supreme freeze to death in the Hellish Cold Current, then let Qi Huang carry him as the group continued.
• Nie Yun and the others entered a stone chamber containing a huge bell and an oil lamp, and Long Xi lifted the bell from the wall.
• The wall opened to reveal a vault of weapons, but Nie Yun’s Heavenly Eye showed that the weapons were illusions formed from Life and Death Illusory Qi.
• Long Xi fell under the mist’s influence, raved about Huang Ling, and struck the bell, releasing more of the Qi.
• Qi Tao failed to damage the bell, then killed the attacking Long Xi and took the Purple Splendor Jade Seal from his body.

Nie Yun destroyed the source of the Life and Death Illusory Qi and led Qi Tao and Qi Huang through the remaining route to a hall with an altar, where they reunited with Nie Tong, Huang Ling, and Mo Wudao. The group turned their attention to finding an entrance to the inner hall.

• Qi Tao kept the Purple Splendor Jade Seal after Nie Yun refused it, and Nie Yun destroyed the oil lamp and great bell to dispel the red gas.
• Nie Yun, Qi Tao, and Qi Huang traveled onward, collected many treasures, and reached a hall containing a small altar.
• Nie Tong reunited with Nie Yun and revealed that Huang Ling and Mo Wudao had tried to mislead him, though he had only managed to injure them.
• Huang Ling and Mo Wudao accused Nie Yun of trying to kill them, and Nie Yun dismissed their complaint.
• Qi Tao urged the group to find a way into the inner hall, and Nie Yun agreed to continue searching.

Nie Yun and the others entered the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion’s inner hall, where a strange sky-blue stone drew them into illusions. Nie Yun saw the girl he had lost in his previous life and emerged from the vision in tears.

• Huang Ling, Qi Tao, and Nie Yun placed six jade seals into the altar, activating its teleportation formation and transporting the group into the inner hall.
• Empress Ziqiong and Huang Chen arrived at the altar after the group had entered and followed them through the formation.
• Nie Yun and the others found that the vast inner hall was made entirely of spirit stones and noticed a radiant sky-blue stone floating nearby.
• Huang Ling reached toward the stone and cried out in distress, and Nie Yun was pulled into an illusion of his previous life.
• Nie Yun relived his final moments with the girl in white, then the illusion vanished and he found himself beneath the stone, crying.