Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun nearly lost his soul after probing the Soul character, but Yi Qing saved him with her Blazing Fire Talent. He removed the chairman’s hidden heart-meridian seal from the Soul Body, injuring the chairman and exposing his scheme to secretly control it.

• Nie Yun sensed the Soul character and was nearly pulled out of his body until Yi Qing severed the connection with her Blazing Fire attack.
• Yi Qing warned Nie Yun that sensing the character with his soul could drain it completely, so he turned to studying the Soul Body instead.
• Nie Yun spotted the hidden restriction within the Soul Body and used his heavenly eye and Blazing Fire Talent to remove and burn it.
• The chairman spat blood when the destruction of his heart-meridian seal injured him, startling Yuan Jiang and Yao Qing.
• Nie Yun realized the chairman had used blood sacrifice methods to secretly control the Soul Body and had staged its auction to divert suspicion.

While refining the Soul Body, Nie Yun was trapped by a Soul Summoner’s attack and nearly had his soul torn apart. He escaped through his Origin Energy Dantian, met the bronze-masked figure Yan Zhi, and discovered the Soul Body had been refined.

• Nie Yun tried to refine the Soul Body after the Heart Meridian Blood Sacrifice’s remnants had been burned away.
• Strange notes pulled Nie Yun into darkness, where a bronze-masked face attacked his soul with a tearing gaze.
• Unable to reach his other dantians, Nie Yun drew on his Origin Energy Dantian and returned to his body.
• Nie Yun saw the bronze-masked figure again, and it identified itself as Yan Zhi before vanishing.
• Nie Yun looked at the coffin and found that the Soul Body had already been completely refined into part of him.

Nie Yun refined the Soul Body, disguised himself as the auction city’s president, and stole the city’s treasure vault before leaving Baiyan City. The real president, Yuan Jiang, Yao Qing, and their allies discovered the deception and pursued him toward the mountains.

• Nie Yun absorbed the Soul Body’s power, sent Yi Qing into the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion, and disguised himself as the president.
• Nie Yun tricked Man Xin into leading him to the auction city’s treasure vault, then took every Spirit Stone and treasure inside.
• Nie Yun left Baiyan City and settled on a mountain several thousand kilometers away to adjust to the Soul Body’s power.
• The real president confronted Man Xin and learned from a recording jade tablet that Nie Yun had impersonated him and looted the vault.
• The president offered Yuan Jiang and Yao Qing half the stolen wealth and gave up his claims to the Soul Body and Poison Hand Scepter if they helped recover them.
• The president, Yuan Jiang, and Yao Qing followed Man Xin’s directions and set off after Nie Yun.

Nie Yun faced Elder Yuan Jiang, Yao Qing, and the White Rock Auction City chairman, who sought the Poison Hand Scepter and the Soul Body. After Yuan Jiang won the right to attack first, Nie Yun held his own against him, and the fight continued as Yao Qing took his turn.

• Elder Yuan Jiang, Yao Qing, and the chairman found Nie Yun on the mountain and demanded that he surrender the Poison Hand Scepter and the Soul Body.
• Nie Yun questioned why the human leaders were cooperating with demons, then prepared to test his newly strengthened power.
• Yuan Jiang and Yao Qing played finger guessing to decide who would attack first, and Yuan Jiang won the first move.
• Yuan Jiang attacked Nie Yun with Palm Thunder and Heaven and Earth Turnover, but Nie Yun dodged and struck him with a Hidden Strength punch that injured him.
• Yao Qing mocked Yuan Jiang, who rushed at Nie Yun with a dagger; Nie Yun dodged and countered with an Iron Mountain Lean.

Nie Yun defeated Elder Yuan Jiang and then killed Yao Qing with a long-range palm strike, revealing that his ranged attacks surpassed his close combat. He left the demonfolk pursuing him dead or reduced to ash with his Soul Force and Blazing Fire Talent.

• Nie Yun tricked Elder Yuan Jiang into guarding his chest, then struck him hard enough to break his arms and send him crashing into rocks.
• Yao Qing summoned his domain and attacked Nie Yun from a distance, believing the youth was weaker at ranged combat.
• Nie Yun declared that his long-range attacks were stronger and crushed Yao Qing with a giant palm print, leaving him a desiccated corpse.
• The demonfolk fled, but Nie Yun swept them with Soul Force and Blazing Fire, killing them in bursts of flame.

Nie Yun killed the auction house president, turned Elder Yuan Jiang into a puppet, and learned about the Origin Heart Sect before heading to Aurora City. Meanwhile, Mi Hua became Sect Master of the Mishin Sect and ordered a search for Nie Yun; Nie Yun planned to infiltrate the Origin Heart Sect with greater authority than a disciple.

• Nie Yun killed the auction house president and used the Blood Pupil Master Talent to turn injured Elder Yuan Jiang into a puppet.
• Mi Hua succeeded Mi Xue as Sect Master of the Mishin Sect and ordered an investigation into the disappearance of the Huayun Sect Master and Supreme Elders.
• A report about the Baiyan City auction house led Mi Hua to identify Nie Yun and order his capture.
• Nie Yun used the president's disguise to reach Aurora City, where he questioned Elder Yuan Jiang about the Origin Heart Sect.
• Nie Yun told Yi Qing he wanted to enter the Origin Heart Sect to investigate Soul Summoners, but said he would not join as a disciple.

Nie Yun and Yi Qing discussed how they had escaped White Rock Auction City before two arrogant Origin Heart Sect disciples arrived at the inn. When one disciple displayed a Pure Clarity Pill, a beggar’s voice made Nie Yun freeze in recognition.

• Nie Yun gave Yi Qing two different accounts of how he escaped Baiyan City, and she believed his claim that he had subdued the city lord.
• Two Origin Heart Sect disciples entered the inn, bullied the waiter, and boasted about their trip to Yellow North City.
• The senior brother showed off a Pure Clarity Pill he had taken from Yellow North City’s City Lord’s Mansion.
• Nie Yun told Yi Qing the pill could help her overcome heart demons and attempt a breakthrough into the Primordial Saint Realm.
• A begging youth approached the disciples, and Nie Yun froze when he heard the youth’s voice.

Nie Yun defended a beggar youth from two Origin Heart Sect disciples and forced them to their knees. As he shared a drink with the stranger, the beggar revealed a pill stolen from inside one disciple’s Storage Dantian.

• A beggar youth pleaded for food, and two Origin Heart Sect disciples abused and attacked him.
• Nie Yun called the beggar his friend, invited him to his table, and insulted the two disciples when they tried to drive the youth out.
• The senior disciple threatened Nie Yun and Yi Qing, so Nie Yun struck the brothers down and forced them to kneel.
• Nie Yun and the beggar youth drank together despite not recognizing each other, while the inn’s diners fled in fear of the Origin Heart Sect’s retaliation.
• The beggar gave Yi Qing a Pure Clarity Pill, and the senior disciple recognized it as the pill he had stored inside his Storage Dantian.

Nie Yun recognized the little beggar as Huan Qianshou, his closest friend from his previous life, and won his trust by exposing his pulse gates. Their reunion was interrupted by Origin Heart Sect disciples, and Elder Yuan Jiang appeared just as Zhu Qiang confronted Nie Yun.

• Nie Yun stopped Huan Qianshou from leaving and revealed that he knew his favorite wine and his chosen name, Thousand Illusions.
• Nie Yun exposed his pulse gates in a gesture of trust, and Huan Qianshou clasped his hand and agreed to befriend him.
• Nie Yun and Huan Qianshou drank together while Yi Qing mistakenly thought they were romantically interested in each other.
• Zhu Qiang arrived with other Origin Heart Sect disciples, killed the tavern owner, and threatened Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun challenged Zhu Qiang and summoned an old man, whom Zhu Qiang recognized as Elder Yuan Jiang and bowed to.

Nie Yun used the puppet Yuan Jiang to intimidate Origin Heart Sect disciples and collect their treasures, then revealed his secret to Huan Qianshou. Yi Qing misunderstood Nie Yun’s motives and decided he liked men, leaving him furious and bewildered.

• Yuan Jiang struck Zhu Qiang and forced him and the other disciples to apologize to Nie Yun with Spirit Stones and treasures.
• Nie Yun demanded fifty High-grade Spirit Stones each from Su Rong and another man, then took their offerings after spotting a black object that stirred his Nameless Art.
• Huan Qianshou prepared to leave, but Nie Yun revealed that Yuan Jiang was a puppet he had refined and asked Huan to keep it secret.
• Yi Qing learned that Yuan Jiang was a puppet and mistakenly concluded that Nie Yun only liked men, while Nie Yun protested in shock.

Nie Yun brought Huan Qianshou and Yi Qing into the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion, where he and Huan Qianshou drank together and his Demon Pets told Yi Qing about his past. As Yi Qing understood Nie Yun’s grief and devotion to his younger brother, her power broke through and she began cultivating.

• Nie Yun told Yi Qing he loved another woman, then left Aurora City with her and Huan Qianshou to avoid trouble from the Origin Heart Sect.
• Nie Yun revealed the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion to Huan Qianshou, who was astonished by its scale and recognized the trust Nie Yun had placed in him.
• Nie Yun and Huan Qianshou drank together for a day and a night until they both passed out.
• Little Tiger and Xiao Feng recounted parts of Nie Yun’s past to Yi Qing, including his grief after Nie Tong’s death and his search for information about Soul Summoners.
• Moved by what she learned about Nie Yun, Yi Qing broke through her cultivation shackles, reached the Primordial Saint Realm and mid-stage Spirit-level soul, and began cultivating.

After waking from a three-day drunken sleep, Nie Yun discovered that Yi Qing was cultivating through an epiphany and that Huan Qianshou had escaped the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion. He then used the Nameless Art to expand his sea of qi and generate five more dantians, leaving him with twenty.

• Nie Yun woke after three days and found Yi Qing absorbing spiritual energy while undergoing an epiphany, so he supplied her with Creation Spirit Liquid.
• Xiao Feng told Nie Yun that Huan Qianshou had left the cave mansion on his own and had promised to visit with fine wine.
• Nie Yun entered a sealed cultivation chamber to circulate the Nameless Art and try to generate another dantian.
• Nie Yun used the special auras in the Poison Hand Scepter and a piece of metal to expand his sea of qi, exhausting both objects in the process.
• Nie Yun formed five Bloodline Factors and transformed all five into dantians, bringing his total to twenty.

Nie Yun strengthened his mana and sent his Soul Body to control Elder Yuan Jiang, then entered the Origin Heart Sect to seek information about Soul Summoners. He reached the Library Pavilion as the sect prepared to welcome an envoy from the Mishin Sect.

• Nie Yun's strength rose to one million mammoths, but he realized his mid-grade soul could not fully control his expanded mana without the Soul Body's help.
• Nie Yun sent the Soul Body inside Elder Yuan Jiang's puppet toward the Origin Heart Sect while his true body stayed in the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion to cultivate.
• At the sect gate, Nie Yun learned that the sect master had summoned the elders and Core Disciples to welcome an envoy from the Mishin Sect.
• Nie Yun ignored the welcome gathering and followed Yuan Jiang's knowledge through the sect's formations toward the Library Pavilion.
• Nie Yun arrived at the nine-story Library Pavilion, intending to look for information about Soul Summoners.

Nie Yun disguised himself as Elder Yuan Jiang to search the Origin Heart Sect’s Library Pavilion for information about Soul Summoners. He learned the relevant records were restricted to the ninth floor and discovered that entering required the Sect Master’s Seal.

• Nie Yun claimed the Sect Master had ordered him to search the Library Pavilion, and the bookkeeper let him browse.
• Nie Yun asked about books on Special Talents, and the bookkeeper said they were on the ninth floor, which only the Sect Master could enter.
• Nie Yun pretended he had found the information he wanted, then realized he had picked up a book titled Yin Yang Blissful Union Nourishing Technique.
• The bookkeeper told Nie Yun that someone with the Sect Master’s Seal could enter the ninth floor.
• Nie Yun recognized that the Sect Master’s Seal carried authority over the sect and was effectively tied to becoming its Sect Master.

Nie Yun infiltrated the Origin Heart Sect's Library Pavilion but could not see through the seal protecting its ninth floor, so he followed Yuan Tao to Tongming Hall in hopes of finding another chance to obtain the Sect Master's Seal. There, a special envoy from the Mishin Sect arrived and ordered the Origin Heart Sect to capture Nie Yun alive, leaving him alarmed and suspecting Lord Hua was behind the hunt.

• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye Talent to inspect the Library Pavilion's ninth floor, but its powerful seal blocked his sight.
• Yuan Tao summoned Nie Yun to Tongming Hall, where Nie Yun disguised himself among the Origin Heart Sect's assembled elders and Core Disciples.
• Yuan Tian welcomed a Heavenly Bridge Realm special envoy from the Mishin Sect, who promised rewards if the Origin Heart Sect fulfilled the sect master's command.
• The special envoy ordered the Origin Heart Sect to find Nie Yun and capture him alive, displaying a portrait that revealed Nie Yun was the target.
• Nie Yun wondered whether Lord Hua was connected to the Mishin Sect's leadership and feared what the hunt could mean for his parents and companions.

Nie Yun realized Lord Hua had somehow narrowed down his location, then tried to conceal his identity while the Mishin Sect envoy questioned the Origin Heart Sect about him. The envoy exposed Nie Yun’s lie, and Nie Yun responded with a false confession that still denied knowing Nie Yun or obtaining the Soul Body.

• Nie Yun deduced that Lord Hua had used local information to direct the Origin Heart Sect to search for him.
• The envoy told Yuan Tian that Nie Yun was a peak Primordial Saint who had bought a Soul Body at White Rock Auction City, and Yuan Tian questioned Yuan Jiang.
• Nie Yun, controlling Yuan Jiang’s puppet, admitted that a Soul Body had been sold but claimed he did not know whether the buyer was Nie Yun.
• The envoy accused Yuan Jiang of lying, threatened the Origin Heart Sect, and ordered him to tell the truth.
• Nie Yun pretended to confess that Yuan Jiang had planned to rob the buyer, who escaped disguised as the auction city president, while insisting he had never met Nie Yun or obtained the Soul Body.

Nie Yun’s deception was exposed after Yuan Chong brought forward disciples who recognized him, and the Mishin Sect envoy captured him with a single attack. Nie Yun lay pinned and gravely injured, unable to escape.

• Nie Yun convinced the envoy that Yuan Jiang was not a Disguise Master, and the envoy’s Truth-Distinguishing Mirror failed to expose the controlled puppet.
• Yuan Chong reported that elite disciples had seen Yuan Jiang with Nie Yun in Aurora City, prompting the envoy to summon them.
• Su Rong and the others identified Nie Yun from their account and a memory jade tablet, exposing the disguised identity.
• Nie Yun fled and used the Winter Plum Fragrance sword art to resist the envoy’s attack.
• The envoy overpowered Nie Yun, shattered his sword radiance, and pinned him to the ground with broken bones.

Thousand Illusions disguised himself as Yuan Tao and rescued Nie Yun from the envoy, revealing that he had stolen the Sect Master's Seal. Rather than flee the Origin Heart Sect, Nie Yun persuaded Thousand Illusions to help him return and steal a book from the Library Pavilion.

• Yuan Tao claimed he could use an ancient Puppet Daoist technique to make Nie Yun reveal his controller, then sealed Nie Yun when he tried to self-destruct.
• Yuan Tao revealed himself as Thousand Illusions and used his Earth Walker talent to escape underground with Nie Yun.
• Thousand Illusions told Nie Yun he had stolen the Sect Master's Seal, and Nie Yun borrowed it for his own purposes.
• Nie Yun refused to flee and convinced Thousand Illusions to help him return to the Origin Heart Sect to steal a book from the Library Pavilion.
• Thousand Illusions changed both their appearances before they headed back.

Nie Yun and Thousand Illusions infiltrated the Library Pavilion to steal its books while Thousand Illusions impersonated the Sect Master. After escaping the elders, Thousand Illusions refused to leave before raiding the Origin Heart Sect's treasure vault.

• Thousand Illusions disguised himself as Yuan Tian and disguised Nie Yun as the Mishin Sect's envoy before leading him underground into the Origin Heart Sect.
• Impersonating the Sect Master, Thousand Illusions used the Sect Master's Seal to enter the Library Pavilion's ninth floor.
• Nie Yun told Thousand Illusions to take every book, and Thousand Illusions stored them all in his dantian.
• Thousand Illusions concealed himself and Nie Yun with Concealment Qi, allowing them to evade the elders searching the pavilion.
• After they escaped the Library Pavilion, Nie Yun urged them to leave, but Thousand Illusions proposed robbing the sect's treasure vault first.

Nie Yun and Thousand Illusions raided Origin Heart Sect’s treasury, then set it ablaze to create a distraction and escape. Disguised as ordinary disciples, they reached the Library Pavilion, where Nie Yun decided to burn that too.

• Nie Yun agreed with Thousand Illusions that stealing the treasury could distract their pursuers and give them a chance to escape.
• Thousand Illusions used Divine Thief Qi to guide them past the treasury’s seals and collected all its treasures in moments.
• Nie Yun used Blazing Fire to ignite the treasury after Thousand Illusions gave him Great Return Strength Pills, throwing Origin Heart Sect into chaos.
• Thousand Illusions disguised them both as ordinary disciples, and they used the commotion to slip toward the sect’s exit.
• At the Library Pavilion, Nie Yun stopped Thousand Illusions and said he would burn it as well.