Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun discovered that the cage, Soul Character, and Soul Devouring Mirror combined into the legendary Soul Capturing Cage, a weapon that could immobilize powerful opponents by restraining their souls. Meanwhile, Zang Hongyi and Hu Kui plotted to kill City Lord Bao Tong to obtain the Prayer Beads and advance to the Void Breaking Realm.

• Nie Yun used controlled Hidden Strength to pulverize the middle-aged man's arm, then left the trading grounds while considering how to combine his combat techniques.
• Zang Hongyi and Hu Kui decided to use Hu Kui's Void Breaking Mountain Chart to kill Thousand Illusions the Divine Thief and seize his treasures and Prayer Beads.
• Zang Hongyi ordered a disciple to summon City Lord Bao Tong, sealed the room when Bao Tong arrived, and attacked him.
• Nie Yun entered the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion and brought out the cage and the coffin bearing the Soul Character.
• The Soul Character merged with the cage, and Nie Yun fitted the Soul Devouring Mirror into the resulting skull-shaped artifact.
• The completed artifact revealed itself as the Soul Capturing Cage, and Nie Yun celebrated its power to restrain souls and immobilize opponents.

Nie Yun acquired the Soul Capturing Cage in Xuanjin City, but before he could pursue the Prayer Beads and Earth Vein Crystal Marrow, Hu Kui and Zang Hongyi trapped him in the Void Breaking Mountain Chart. Mistaking him for Thousand Illusions, they attacked him, and Nie Yun fought back with Huayun Sect's Heaven-Shattering Immortal Fist.

• Nie Yun decided to use the unrefined Soul Capturing Cage only once against Void Breaking Realm experts and took Little Dragon to eat at One Drunk Tower.
• Nie Yun heard that the Treasure Appraisal Convention's final auction had been canceled and suspected Hu Kui and Zang Hongyi had taken the Prayer Beads and Earth Vein Crystal Marrow.
• Hu Kui and Zang Hongyi transported Nie Yun and Little Dragon into the Void Breaking Mountain Chart, where they mistook Nie Yun for Thousand Illusions and declared he could not escape.
• A Huayun Sect disciple attacked Nie Yun with the Eight-Armed Divine Fist, and Nie Yun countered with the Heaven-Shattering Immortal Fist.
• Hu Kui and Zang Hongyi accused Nie Yun of stealing Huayun Sect's secret martial art, while Nie Yun broke through the disciple's attack and struck again with greater force.

Nie Yun fought Hu Kui, Zang Hongyi, and their disciples inside the Void Breaking Mountain Chart, but the Huayun Sect’s Thunder God Celestial Array and the two peak experts pushed him into a desperate battle. After Zang Hongyi recognized him as the Sword God Sect’s new sect master, Nie Yun brought out the Soul Capturing Cage as the fight intensified.

• Nie Yun killed a Huayun Sect disciple, then dodged and countered Hu Kui and Zang Hongyi’s combined attacks with two Supreme Sword Arts.
• Zang Hongyi ordered the remaining disciples to form the Thunder God Celestial Array, whose lightning bolts struck Nie Yun and helped overwhelm his attacks.
• Zang Hongyi hurled a Peerless Spirit Weapon hammer at Nie Yun, who blocked it with the Sky-Breaking Annihilation Supreme Great Sword Art and wounded Zang Hongyi.
• Zang Hongyi recognized Nie Yun as the Sword God Sect’s new sect master and urged Hu Kui to kill him before he could escape.
• As Hu Kui and Zang Hongyi intensified their assault and sealed off the surrounding space, Nie Yun produced the Soul Capturing Cage.

Nie Yun used the Soul Capturing Cage to immobilize Hu Kui, but Zang Hongyi rescued him before Nie Yun could kill him. After Little Dragon destroyed the Thunder God Celestial Array with a roar, Nie Yun wounded Zang Hongyi with the Immortal Sound Master Talent and Supreme Great Sword Art, prompting Zang Hongyi to force a breakthrough into the Void Breaking Realm.

• Nie Yun feinted at a disciple maintaining the array, then used the Soul Capturing Cage to immobilize Hu Kui and struck him before Zang Hongyi pulled him away.
• Nie Yun attacked Zang Hongyi with the Heaven-Shattering Immortal Foot, but Zang Hongyi escaped with a secret art, and Hu Kui warned him about the Soul Capturing Cage.
• Zang Hongyi ordered the group to attack Nie Yun from a distance, exploiting the Soul Capturing Cage's short range.
• Nie Yun told Little Dragon to break the array, and Little Dragon's roar killed the disciples maintaining the Thunder God Celestial Array.
• Nie Yun used the Immortal Sound Master Talent and Supreme Great Sword Art to sever Zang Hongyi's arm and wound his chest.
• Zang Hongyi shut off his hearing, but Nie Yun struck him again, so Zang Hongyi forced his cultivation through to the Void Breaking Realm.

Zang Hongyi forced himself into the Void Breaking Realm and overwhelmed Nie Yun, who stole Hu Kui’s Prayer Beads while fighting to survive. After his Wind Thunder Demonic Wings reached their limit, Nie Yun welcomed the clash of Buddha and demon within himself and began using stored demonic qi to advance his Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique.

• Zang Hongyi used a secret art to break through to the Void Breaking Realm, then repeatedly sent Nie Yun flying with his attacks.
• Nie Yun used the Supreme Great Sword Art and the Maha Divine Palm to hold off Zang Hongyi while maneuvering toward Hu Kui.
• Nie Yun dodged Hu Kui’s attack and stole the Prayer Beads from his Storage Dantian.
• Zang Hongyi and Hu Kui pursued Nie Yun until he had used the Wind Thunder Demonic Wings ten times.
• Nie Yun released the demonic qi stored in the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion and began advancing his Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique.

Nie Yun completed his Buddha-demon breakthrough, reaching the sixth level in both body-refining techniques and gaining overwhelming physical strength. He killed Hu Kui and caught Zang Hongyi as the latter tried to flee into his Void Breaking Tribulation.

• Nie Yun fused the Buddha Bone Sarira and Buddhist Prayer Beads into his body, breaking through to the sixth level of the Vajra Glazed Body and Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique.
• Zang Hongyi and Hu Kui attacked Nie Yun during his breakthrough, but his Buddhist light and demonic energy stopped their strikes.
• After his Buddhist and demonic powers merged, Nie Yun shattered their attacks and broke Hu Kui's Whirlwind Shield with one grab.
• Nie Yun caught Hu Kui as he fled and killed him despite his pleas and threat that Grand Elder Lu Xiao would seek revenge.
• The Void Breaking Mountain Chart released Nie Yun and Zang Hongyi into the ruined One Drunk Tower as Zang Hongyi's Void Breaking Tribulation formed.
• Zang Hongyi rushed toward the thunderclouds to avoid being killed by Nie Yun, but Nie Yun caught him by the neck before he could reach them.

Nie Yun killed Zang Hongyi and Hu Kui in Xuanjin City, then disguised himself and traveled to Huayun City to pursue his goal of joining the Huayun Sect. As the sect’s disciple examinations began, he stood ready to enter the sect again.

• Nie Yun killed Zang Hongyi, collected the dead disciples’ treasures, burned their corpses, and fled Xuanjin City with Little Dragon.
• Zang Shuo and Lu Xiao learned their disciples had died and ordered an investigation, while Lu Xiao revealed that he had already massacred the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Du Jun received word that Zang Hongyi and Hu Kui had fought a youth accompanied by a Golden Armored Dragon, and Zang Shuo ordered him to investigate the youth’s background.
• Nie Yun changed his appearance repeatedly, traveled through several cities, and arrived in Huayun City after more than twenty days.
• Nie Yun rested and cultivated in Huayun City, then watched the crowd gather for the Huayun Sect’s disciple examinations and resolved to join the sect.

Nie Yun arrived at Huayun City for Huayun Sect’s assessment and found the candidates crowded with powerful young geniuses. After hiding eleven of his twenty Dantians, he joined the Void Absorption Realm group and met a friendly young man of comparable strength.

• Nie Yun reached the assessment plaza and saw numerous young experts, including several Void Absorption Realm cultivators.
• Nie Yun sealed eleven of his Dantians to conceal them from the assessment.
• Candidates discussed powerful rivals and the Ghost Mist Underworld Sea trial, which would determine their disciple ranks or eliminate them.
• Elder Yuan Jin announced the assessment’s quotas and divided candidates into groups according to their cultivation and talents.
• Nie Yun joined the Void Absorption Realm line and met a smiling youth who claimed his family had force-fed him cultivation and asked Nie Yun to look after him.

Nie Yun registered for Huayun Sect’s entrance examination under the name Yun Feng and watched the selected disciples begin their exhibition matches. After Ouyang Shixiong defeated Liu Chao, Zhu Yin was called to fight Ma Tao, whom Nie Yun judged to be a dangerous opponent.

• Nie Yun gave Zhu Yin the alias Yun Feng, and Zhu Yin mocked Nangong Jun until he stormed away.
• Elder Yuan Jin registered the thirty entrance disciples and explained that they would fight to display their strength and talents.
• The Record Stone paired Liu Chao with Ouyang Shixiong, who defeated Liu Chao with Worldly Deer Hunt after enduring his Imperial Might Piercing Heaven Fist.
• The Record Stone paired Zhu Yin with Ma Tao, and Nie Yun warned Zhu Yin to be careful after sensing Ma Tao’s restrained power.

Zhu Yin defeated Ma Tao by using his awakened Charm Master Talent, then Nie Yun faced Nangong Jun and sent him off the stage with the power of his Immortal Sound Master Talent. The chapter left the new disciples recognizing Nie Yun’s talent.

• Ma Tao challenged Zhu Yin and struck at him with his Vajra Finger, but Zhu Yin’s Charm Master Talent made the attack miss.
• Zhu Yin used his Charm Master Talent to make Ma Tao wait for a palm strike, then broke through Ma Tao’s Wave Chasing Technique and defeated him.
• After several more bouts, Yuan Jin called Nie Yun to fight Nangong Jun.
• Nangong Jun charged at Nie Yun, but Nie Yun’s voice made him believe his punch had missed, and Nie Yun pushed him off the stage.
• Zhu Yin recognized Nie Yun’s power as the Immortal Sound Master Talent and praised his boss.

Nie Yun fought Ouyang Shixiong in a closely matched display of martial awareness, and Yuan Jin declared the match a draw before announcing the newcomers would enter Huayun Sect. The candidates still had to earn enough merit in the Ghost Mist Underworld Sea trial in three days to become Core Disciples, and Yuan Jin began explaining the rules.

• Nie Yun claimed he had only obtained a strand of Immortal Sound energy by chance, and Yuan Jin called for him and Ouyang Shixiong to fight again so the masters could assess their combat abilities.
• Ouyang Shixiong opened with a Sleeve Hammer, but Nie Yun countered with Whip Hand and answered his later attacks with precise, dangerous moves.
• Nie Yun and Ouyang Shixiong exchanged more than twenty close-range moves without touching, until Yuan Jin stopped the match and declared it a draw.
• Ouyang Shixiong thanked Nie Yun and acknowledged his superior combat awareness, while Nie Yun said they had simply fought to a draw.
• Yuan Jin announced that the candidates would receive independent courtyards in Huayun Sect and could become Core Disciples by earning sufficient merit in the Ghost Mist Underworld Sea trial three days later.
• Yuan Jin began explaining matters the candidates needed to know before entering Huayun Sect.

Yuan Jin led the new disciples through Outer Heaven, where the seven-colored lights injured one disciple and revealed Yun Feng performing the Dance of the Great Dao. Nie Yun settled into a courtyard, confirmed that his family was safe elsewhere in the sect, and decided to look for someone from his past before the trial in three days.

• Yuan Jin warned the disciples about Outer Heaven's dangers and told them not to look at the seven-colored lights as they passed through the gate.
• A disciple who stared at the lights collapsed, and Ouyang Shixiong warned the others before Yuan Jin treated the injured disciple and explained the lights' danger.
• Yun Feng unconsciously performed the Dance of the Great Dao, and Yuan Jin recognized it and resolved to watch him closely.
• Nie Yun concealed that he had performed the dance and decided to seek a secluded place before attempting to comprehend the Great Dao again.
• Yuan Jin assigned the disciples separate courtyards, and Nie Yun chose courtyard 95 and sensed that his parents and elder sister were safe but cultivating farther inside the sect.
• Nie Yun recalled an immaculate figure from his previous life and decided to look for her before the Ghost Mist Underworld Sea trial.

Nie Yun went to see Tantai Lingyue, the woman he had loved in his past life, and watched her from hiding as she appeared unchanged. He followed Xiao Ling away after hearing his threats against her, while Tantai Lingyue discovered a pile of Earth Vein Crystal Stones and Earth Vein Crystal Marrow.

• Nie Yun resolved to visit Tantai Lingyue, and his cultivation loosened toward the middle stage of the Void Absorption Realm.
• Nie Yun traveled through Outer Heaven to the mountain where Tantai Lingyue lived and hid as she came out to the lake.
• Xiao Ling asked Tantai Lingyue to discuss the Ghost Mist Underworld Sea trial, but she refused and told him to leave.
• Xiao Ling left the mountain and privately threatened to assault Tantai Lingyue at the Ghost Mist Underworld Sea; Nie Yun overheard him and became angry.
• Tantai Lingyue turned back toward her cottage, noticed Earth Vein Crystal Stones and Earth Vein Crystal Marrow, and wondered why they were there.

Tantai Lingyue found the Earth Vein Crystal Stones left for her and wondered who had secretly delivered them, while Nie Yun returned to his courtyard without approaching her. There, veteran disciples tried to rob him and force him into the Lingtian Alliance, but learning that Xiao Ling led it made Nie Yun ready to retaliate.

• Tantai Lingyue collected the Earth Vein Crystal Stones and wondered who had sent them without leaving a trace.
• Nie Yun returned to his courtyard after leaving the stones for Tantai Lingyue, deciding to wait for a better chance to meet her.
• A gloomy veteran disciple and his companions forced their way into Nie Yun's courtyard and demanded treasures from him.
• Nie Yun let the gloomy young man inspect his Storage Dantian, using his Immortal Sound Master Talent to make him believe it held nothing.
• After finding no treasures, the gloomy young man demanded Nie Yun's lifeblood essence and ordered him to join the Lingtian Alliance.
• Nie Yun learned that Xiao Ling led the alliance and decided to fight back against the disciples who had come to threaten him.

Nie Yun rejected recruitment by the rival Lingtian and Huange Alliances and defeated Tie He and the other old disciples who tried to force him to join. He stopped them from leaving and attacked Tie He, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Tie He arrived with Huange Alliance disciples and demanded that Nie Yun surrender his treasures and join, but Nie Yun refused.
• Tie He attacked Nie Yun, whose Immortal Sound Master Talent split the attack; the gloomy Lingtian disciple then intervened against Tie He.
• Tie He injured the Lingtian disciple, then threatened Nie Yun, but Nie Yun sent him flying with one slap.
• Tie He and his companions demanded benefits and threatened retaliation, then began to form a formation against Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun used his Immortal Sound Master Talent to stun the other disciples and thrust his finger-sword toward Tie He.

Nie Yun crippled Tie He and the gloomy young man, knocked out the remaining veteran disciples, and had them hung from a tree outside the courtyard. Other veteran disciples saw the display and realized the new disciples had dared to resist, leaving them shaken by the upheaval to come.

• Nie Yun blasted Tie He's limbs into pieces after Tie He tried to flee.
• Nie Yun rejected the gloomy young man's offer to join the Lingtian Alliance and crippled him, then knocked out the rest and stole their treasures.
• Zhu Yin arrived to warn Nie Yun about the veteran disciples, but Nie Yun ordered him to help hang them from the tree as a warning.
• A group of veteran disciples from another alliance bragged about intimidating new disciples until they spotted the bodies hanging from the tree.
• The scar-faced veteran disciple and his companions lost their confidence when they saw dozens of veteran disciples hanging there, including two human stumps.

Yun Feng humiliated veteran disciples who tried to recruit and intimidate him, prompting the leaders of the Lingtian Alliance and Huange Alliance to gather their forces against him. As Xiao Ling’s attack struck toward Little Tiger, the confrontation began to escalate.

• Xiao Ling learned that Yun Feng had beaten and hung Xie Jun and the other Lingtian Alliance members, and vowed to make an example of him.
• Ge Huan also learned that Tie He had been humiliated, and he and Xiao Ling led crowds of veteran disciples toward the new disciples’ residence.
• Jing Hong and Bai Xi heard about Yun Feng’s actions and set out to see him.
• Ouyang Shixiong decided to go warn Yun Feng, and Zhang Bai went with him despite the risk of being treated as an accomplice.
• Nie Yun dismissed Zhu Yin’s worries, and Little Tiger slapped the veteran disciples hanging from the trees after they threatened him.
• Xiao Ling arrived and sent a massive palm imprint crashing toward Little Tiger.

Nie Yun faced Xiao Ling and Ge Huan after their subordinates invaded his courtyard, while Little Tiger held the intruders hostage. Surrounded by hundreds of old disciples, Nie Yun demanded compensation from the two Alliance Leaders, leaving the confrontation on the brink of a fight.

• Xiao Ling arrived and stopped his Primordial Chaos Palm before it struck his subordinates, whom Little Tiger had seized as shields.
• Xiao Ling demanded that Nie Yun release the hostages and pay one million Peerless Spirit Stones, then threatened to make him pay when Nie Yun refused.
• Ge Huan arrived with hundreds of old disciples and challenged Nie Yun, while Zhu Yin, Ouyang Shixiong, and Zhang Bai feared the overwhelming odds.
• Nie Yun rebuked Xiao Ling and Ge Huan, then demanded compensation for their people entering his courtyard without permission.

Nie Yun demanded fifty thousand Peerless Spirit Stones from each alliance to stop crippling their disciples, using Little Tiger to mutilate captives when Xiao Ling and Ge Huan refused. After they paid and attacked him, a powerful force of wind and lightning struck them from below, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Nie Yun ordered Little Tiger to seize disciples from both alliances and demanded fifty thousand Peerless Spirit Stones from Xiao Ling and Ge Huan.
• When the alliance leaders refused to pay, Nie Yun and Little Tiger severed the limbs of several veteran disciples and threatened to cripple more.
• Jing Hong and Bai Xi watched from a distant treetop as Jing Hong predicted Nie Yun could shake up the Void Breaking Potential Ranking.
• Xiao Ling and Ge Huan paid the demanded compensation, and Nie Yun ordered Little Tiger to return the captured disciples.
• Xiao Ling and Ge Huan attacked Nie Yun, but a surge of wind and lightning struck them from beneath and launched their scorched bodies into the air.

Nie Yun used Xiao Feng to drive off Xiao Ling and Ge Huan, then agreed to lead the newly admitted disciples in forming the Fengyun Alliance. The chapter ended by revealing how Xiao Feng had reached half-step Void Breaking Realm and ambushed the two alliance leaders.

• Xiao Feng emerged from underground and severely injured Xiao Ling and Ge Huan, whose followers recognized that they could not win and withdrew.
• Xiao Ling and Ge Huan threatened Nie Yun before leaving, while Nie Yun made clear he would face them in the Void Breaking Potential Ranking contest.
• Ouyang Shixiong proposed forming an alliance of newly admitted disciples, and Nie Yun agreed to lead it after Zhu Yin and the others urged him.
• The disciples named their group the Fengyun Alliance, while Nie Yun returned to his residence with Xiao Feng and Little Tiger.
• The chapter revealed that Xiao Feng had reached half-step Void Breaking Realm after absorbing the Golden Light Wind Thunder Beast's crystal core and treasures, and that Nie Yun had hidden him underground using Earth Walking Qi.