Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun absorbed all the Blood Thunder Qi in the ocean, greatly strengthening his body, and the contestants moved on to a physical-combat agility test on a small island. After collecting ten transmission jade tokens, Nie Yun waited as Yao Wuhen and two others plotted against him and threatened Yao Wushang for refusing to join them.

• Nie Yun used the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique to absorb the ocean’s Blood Thunder Qi, increasing his Mighty Dantian’s power to fifty times its original level.
• Yao Shang voided the previous test’s rankings and announced an island contest in which contestants had to seize tokens using only physical strength, with killing forbidden.
• Nie Yun landed on the island, drove off opponents who approached, and collected ten jade tokens in less than half a day.
• Nie Yun sensed that Yao Wuhen, Yao Wushang, Qing Yan, and a female monsterfolk were the remaining contestants, and he waited while they discussed their next move.
• Yao Wuhen proposed that the four contestants attack Nie Yun together, but Yao Wushang refused and tried to leave.
• Yao Wuhen and the other two surrounded Yao Wushang and threatened to take his tokens unless he joined their attack on Nie Yun.

Nie Yun defeated Yao Wushang, Yao Wuhen, Qing Yan, and Yao Yanyan in the Strength God Competition and was named champion. The five finalists were sent to the Saint Emperor Palace, where Nie Yun discovered something troubling about the Saint Emperor Talisman he received.

• Yao Wushang joined Yao Wuhen, Qing Yan, and Yao Yanyan in a plan to ambush Nie Yun, but Nie Yun saw through the ruse and defeated Yao Wushang with one strike.
• Yao Wuhen attacked Qing Yan as the demons fled, but Nie Yun struck all three remaining demons down and took their jade plaques.
• The island trial ended, and Yao Shang announced Nie Yun as champion, with Yao Wuhen, Yao Wushang, Qing Yan, and Yao Yanyan completing the top five.
• Yao Shang said all five finalists could enter the Saint Emperor Palace, though only three would receive empowerment and unsuccessful candidates would be replaced.
• Yao Shang gave each finalist a Saint Emperor Talisman and warned them not to lose it; Nie Yun inspected his talisman with his soul and his expression changed.

Nie Yun entered the Saint Emperor Palace with the other Strength God Competition winners and discovered that the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor’s purification ritual used sacred light to hypnotize and indoctrinate them. While the others absorbed it, Nie Yun protected his soul and planned to search the palace treasury for the Sect Master's Seal.

• Nie Yun sensed the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor’s 999-gradient Soul Imprint in the Saint Emperor Talisman and resolved to stay cautious in the Demon Emperor’s lair.
• Yao Shang led Nie Yun and the other four competition winners into the palace, where the masked Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor ordered them to bathe and receive three days of sacred light before empowerment.
• Yao Shang brought the five to the Purifying Spirit Liquid, and they bathed as the liquid drew impurities from their bodies.
• Nie Yun recognized that the sacred light could hypnotize souls and create faith, but the other four believed it was purifying them and absorbed it willingly.
• Nie Yun shielded his soul with Defense Qi and decided to use the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor’s absence to search for his treasury and steal the Sect Master's Seal.

Nie Yun used a fusion of Divine Thief and Heavenly Eye abilities to find and enter the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor’s hidden treasure vault. He collected its weapons and medicinal herbs, then discovered a vast sea of Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid.

• Nie Yun disguised the Nine Nether Pavilion Master as himself and burrowed through the Saint Emperor Palace using his map.
• Thousand Illusions used Nie Yun’s Heavenly Eye Qi to locate the hidden treasure vault, and Nie Yun fused Divine Thief Qi with Heavenly Eye Qi to reveal its gate.
• Nie Yun used the Nine Nether Pavilion Master’s method to open the vault and summoned Thousand Illusions and Old Drunkard inside.
• Nie Yun gathered tens of thousands of Peerless Spirit Weapons and swept up the vault’s medicinal herbs.
• Nie Yun, Thousand Illusions, and Old Drunkard saw a vast golden sea that Nie Yun recognized as Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid.

Nie Yun collected the treasures in the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor’s treasury, and the vast Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid caused his Storage Dantian to advance, expanding its capacity and allowing living people inside. After nearly clearing the treasury without finding the Sect Master’s Seal or the Nine Nether Scepter, he and his companions discovered Yun Xuan sitting on a platform.

• Nie Yun tried to store the entire Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid ocean, suffered backlash, and then collected a smaller portion.
• The Storage Dantian advanced to its third form, expanding to a diameter of one hundred million kilometers; Nie Yun then stored the whole ocean and demonstrated that Old Drunkard and Thousand Illusions could enter it.
• Nie Yun, Old Drunkard, and Thousand Illusions continued through the treasury, collecting an ocean of medicinal pills and hundreds of millions of Peerless Spirit Stones, along with other treasures.
• After nearly two days of searching and finding neither the Sect Master’s Seal nor the Nine Nether Scepter, Thousand Illusions pointed out a figure seated on a platform.
• Nie Yun and Thousand Illusions recognized the figure as Yun Xuan and were shocked.

Nie Yun and his companions discovered a shattered cast-off shell of the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor that looked exactly like Yun Xuan, then tracked the final Sect Master's Seal and alerted the Saint Emperor. As Nie Yun fled her attack, she revealed that Yun Xuan had been her avatar, leaving him stunned.

• Old Drunkard identified the Yun Xuan lookalike in the treasure vault as a shattered cast-off shell, which he believed belonged to the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor.
• Nie Yun used the eight Sect Master's Seals to locate the final seal and sensed that the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor carried it.
• After the tracking resonance alerted her, Nie Yun collected Old Drunkard and Thousand Illusions into the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion and broke out of the treasure vault.
• The Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor attacked with a massive palm that devastated part of Saint Emperor City, but Nie Yun escaped the collapsing passage.
• The masked Saint Emperor intercepted Nie Yun, accused him of killing her avatar, and removed her mask to reveal Yun Xuan's face.
• Nie Yun realized that Yun Xuan had been the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor's avatar, not her daughter.

Nie Yun discovered that the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor was Yun Xuan’s avatar and failed to defeat her when she used a powerful talisman to capture him. In the Holy Light Great Hall, she revealed that the Strength God Competition had been a search for bodies to host descending Netherworld Clan experts, and that she intended to use Nie Yun as a vessel.

• Nie Yun fought the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor, whose strength overwhelmed him even after he combined two powerful fist techniques.
• Nie Yun tried to flee, but the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor bound him with a talisman and carried him to Saint Emperor Palace.
• Nie Yun saw Yao Wuhen, Yao Wushang, and three other competitors restrained on platforms in the Holy Light Great Hall.
• The Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor explained that the Strength God Competition had selected powerful bodies for Netherworld Clan experts to possess.
• The Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor declared that Nie Yun’s body would serve as the vessel for one of the descending Netherworld Clan powerhouses.

The Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor's possession ritual brought Netherworld souls into the human world, but the strongest one failed to take over Nie Yun. Two envoys awakened in Yao Wuhen and Yao Yanyan, while the Saint Emperor waited for Lord Ming Jiang to awaken in Nie Yun's body.

• The Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor began the ritual, and a Netherworld soul suppressed Nie Yun and tried to possess him.
• Nie Yun's jade pendant released a glow that identified itself as the Heavenly Dao Exquisite Heart and drew the invading soul inside.
• The Soul Gathering Spirit Pearl exploded within Nie Yun, releasing soul force as energy descended upon him, Yao Wuhen, and Yao Yanyan; Yao Wushang, Qing Yan, and the Nine Nether Pavilion Master died.
• Yao Wuhen and Yao Yanyan awakened as envoys Ming Hong and Ming Xin, while the Saint Emperor believed Lord Ming Jiang was still descending into Nie Yun.
• Ming Hong explained that the Netherworld envoys came to help unify the human and demon races and recover the Big Dipper Star Mansion, and clarified where Spiritual Thought Suspended Fishing led.
• Yao Shang reported that the treasure vault and its Innate Spirit Weapons were empty, prompting the Saint Emperor to realize Nie Yun had taken them.

Nie Yun woke after Ming Jiang’s possession failed and discovered that his fifth nirvana had raised his cultivation to the peak of the Dantian Acupoint Realm and his soul to three thousand gradients. As Ming Hong and the others prepared to invade the human realm, they mistook Nie Yun’s awakening for Ming Jiang’s return.

• Ming Hong and Ming Xin waited ten days while spiritual energy surged around Nie Yun, believing Ming Jiang was about to awaken.
• Nie Yun woke unpossessed, found that he had reached the peak of the Dantian Acupoint Realm, and realized his fifth nirvana had succeeded.
• Nie Yun found Ming Jiang trapped in Tantai Lingyue’s jade pendant and discovered that his soul had surpassed Heaven Level Great Perfection.
• Nie Yun measured his soul at three thousand gradients and recognized that Yao Wuhen and Yao Yanyan had completed their possessions.
• Ming Hong said they would wait two more days before exterminating the human race and unifying the Myriad Worlds of the Heavens.
• When Nie Yun opened his eyes, Ming Xin announced that Lord Ming Jiang had awakened.

Nie Yun impersonated Lord Ming Jiang long enough to obtain the final Sect Master's Seal, then fought Ming Hong and Ming Xin after they exposed him. He escaped by triggering a Spirit Breaking Tribulation and left with the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor.

• Nie Yun posed as Lord Ming Jiang, struck the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor, and took her Sect Master's Seal to complete the Heart of Floating Sky.
• Ming Xin realized Nie Yun was not Lord Ming Jiang, and Nie Yun fought Ming Xin and Ming Hong before escaping with Concealment Master Talent.
• Ming Hong cast a Spirit Binding Talisman, but Nie Yun used Heavenly Ear Talent to hear how it was made and could not inscribe it himself.
• Nie Yun released his suppressed strength and triggered a Spirit Breaking Tribulation, then redirected it toward Ming Hong and Ming Xin with Soul Disguise and Substitute the Plum for the Peach.
• Nie Yun fled during the tribulation and declared that he would borrow the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor for a while.

Nie Yun used the Substitute the Plum for the Peach technique to redirect his heavenly tribulation onto Ming Hong and Ming Xin, then stole the Spirit Beast Auspicious Cloud they hoped to use to recover. In the Void Turbulence, Little Dragon awakened and swallowed the cloud, while Nie Yun still held the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor captive.

• Nie Yun grafted his tribulation onto Ming Hong and Ming Xin, and the lightning devastated Saint Emperor City as the two envoys were trapped beneath it.
• Ming Xin and Ming Hong burned their souls to break the Lightning Tribulation, then decided to seek the Big Dipper Star Mansion and restore their strength before confronting Nie Yun.
• Ming Hong and Ming Xin spotted a Spirit Beast Auspicious Cloud, but Nie Yun reappeared and absorbed it before they could claim it.
• Nie Yun considered devouring the cloud while holding the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor in the Void Turbulence.
• Little Dragon awakened, asked to eat the Spirit Beast Auspicious Cloud, and swallowed it when Nie Yun handed it over.

Nie Yun returned to Huayun Sect with the captured Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor and learned that his sister Nie Xiaofeng had become a Pill Emperor. The Saint Emperor remained imprisoned and defiant as Nie Yun turned his attention to preparing for the Big Dipper Star Mansion and found a possible way to make her talk.

• Nie Yun returned to the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion and reunited with Thousand Illusions and Old Drunkard, who had feared he was captured or killed.
• Nie Yun recounted how he had survived the Spirit Realm envoy’s attempt to seize his body and captured the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor, then demanded answers about her Netherworld Phoenix Clan bloodline.
• The Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor resisted Nie Yun’s Soul Attack, and he struck her down before Old Drunkard urged him to keep her alive as a bargaining chip and source of secrets.
• Nie Yun imprisoned the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor and flew with Thousand Illusions, Old Drunkard, and Little Dragon to the Floating Sky Continent to prepare for the Big Dipper Star Mansion.
• The four great elders told Nie Yun that his elder sister Nie Xiaofeng had defeated Pill King Guan Xiu and refined an Emperor Grade Pill, making her a Pill Emperor.
• Nie Yun realized that refining a suitable pill might help force the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor to reveal her secrets.

Nie Yun reunited with his elder sister Nie Xiaofeng in the alchemy hall and began refining pills to weaken the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor’s resistance. After tempering thousands of precious ingredients at once, he sent their spiritual energy into the furnace, which began to roar violently.

• Nie Yun asked Elder Bei to borrow the alchemy hall and pill furnace, then recognized Pill King Guan Xiu and reunited with Nie Xiaofeng.
• Nie Yun took the pill furnace and prepared to refine pills, while Zhuge Qingyun offered to teach him alchemy and doubted his skill.
• Nie Yun brought out thousands of hundred-thousand-year medicinal ingredients and used Golden Flame Pill Fire to temper them all at once.
• After half a day, Nie Yun sent the tempered spiritual energy into the pill furnace, and Guan Xiu feared the furnace was about to explode.

Nie Yun refined a Dao-grade Soul Splitting Pill and used it to subdue the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor, learning about her origins and Yun Xuan’s connection to her. The Saint Emperor then revealed that a member of the Nine Nether Clan had once broken through the ninth level of the Secret Realm by another method, prompting Nie Yun to suspect why she had slaughtered the clan.

• Nie Yun used the Explosive Furnace Alchemy Method to refine a Dao-grade Soul Splitting Pill, which struck Zhuge Qingyun before Nie Yun caught it.
• Nie Yun took Old Drunkard and Thousand Illusions to the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor and forced her to swallow the pill.
• Nie Yun used Immortal Sound and his Bewitchment Master talent to make the Saint Emperor obey him and answer his questions.
• The Saint Emperor explained that she had formed from the Spirit Realm Phoenix King's blood and that Yun Xuan was another life derived from her blood, planted among humans as a pawn.
• The Saint Emperor revealed that a Nine Nether Clan expert had broken through the ninth level of the Secret Realm by a different method, and Nie Yun asked whether she had slaughtered the clan to obtain it.

Nie Yun prepared the human race for a journey to the Big Dipper Star Mansion, hoping to find Innate Spiritual Qi and a way to break through the ninth level of the Secret Realm. After a month of training, he followed the Seven Swords to the mansion’s location and recognized it as Myriad Realms Mountain, where he had died in his previous life.

• Nie Yun concluded that the Nine Nether Clan could not provide a breakthrough method and agreed with Old Drunkard to seek Innate Spiritual Qi in the Big Dipper Star Mansion.
• Nie Yun delayed the expedition for a month, distributed treasures and pills, and studied the Martial Dao Master’s method while the human race trained in the Spatial Cage Zone.
• Over the month, the human race’s strength rose sharply, Nie Yun advanced his body refinement, and he made talismans to protect the Huayun Sect.
• Nie Yun set out with Old Drunkard and a carefully selected group of fifty peak Dantian Acupoint Realm experts, leaving others behind to guard against the demonfolk.
• Old Drunkard used the Seven Swords to locate the Big Dipper Star Mansion, and the group followed them for seven days.
• Nie Yun recognized the destination as Myriad Realms Mountain, the place where he had been ambushed and killed in his previous life.

Nie Yun led Old Drunkard, Luo Qingcheng, and the others into Myriad Realms Mountain to investigate the ancient civilization connected to the Nameless Art. After they encountered the Sea of Falling Clouds and its beasts, an ancient will stopped Nie Yun as he tried to shelter the group in his Storage Dantian.

• Nie Yun recalled how Myriad Realms Mountain had shaped his previous life and resolved to study the ancient civilization and the Nameless Art more closely.
• Nie Yun gathered the Seven Swords and led his companions through the Spatial Cage Zone into Myriad Realms Mountain, while Ming Hong and Ming Xin followed with hundreds of demonfolk.
• Nie Yun warned the group about the Sea of Falling Clouds, and Luo Qingcheng took his hand as he gave her Defense Qi.
• Cloud Mist Beasts charged through the fog, and Nie Yun discovered that the Purple Splendor Cave Mansion could not be used in Myriad Realms Mountain.
• As Nie Yun prepared to bring everyone into his Storage Dantian, an ancient will sounded in his mind and left him frozen.

Nie Yun and his companions fought through endless Cloud Mist Beasts in Myriad Realms Mountain, where an ancient consciousness forbade them from using Storage Dantians to carry people. After learning that the mountain had nine layers, Nie Yun went to search for the next layer and found a colossal Cloud Mist Beast that seemed to spawn the others, but he could not identify its vital point.

• An ancient consciousness told Nie Yun that everyone had to cross Myriad Realms Mountain by their own strength, and Cloud Mist Beasts immediately attacked the group.
• Nie Yun and his companions killed the beasts and absorbed their pure-energy cores, then Nie Yun used the Immortal Sound Master Talent to blast open a path through the swarming horde.
• The Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor explained that Myriad Realms Mountain had nine layers and that the Big Dipper Star Mansion lay on the ninth.
• Nie Yun ordered the Heavenly Demon Saint Emperor, Little Dragon, and Senior Xia Xing to defend the group while he searched for the entrance to the second layer.
• Using his Heavenly Eye Talent, Nie Yun discovered a gigantic Cloud Mist Beast that appeared to produce the smaller beasts, but he could not find its vital point.

Nie Yun killed the Cloud Mist Beast King, scattered its herd, and led his companions through the spatial gate into a soul-thirsting desert. The group encountered Heart-Piercing Snakes, and one of the Eighteen Demon Emperors was poisoned and collapsed.

• Nie Yun used Heavenly Eye Martial Dao Qi to find the Cloud Mist Beast King's vital point, killed it, and absorbed its crystal core, advancing his Disguise Dantian to the third form.
• Nie Yun reunited with Old Drunkard and the others, then opened the spatial gate to the second level and led the group through it.
• Nie Yun and his companions entered an endless desert that suppressed their souls and caused an intense thirst of the soul, and Nie Yun set off toward the next spatial gate.
• A Heart-Piercing Snake attacked Nie Yun, and he cut it into several pieces with the Sword God's Sword.
• One of the Eighteen Demon Emperors collapsed, convulsing and foaming at the mouth after a Heart-Piercing Snake struck.

Nie Yun led his group through the soul-thirsting desert, protecting them from poisonous creatures and sustaining them with Wood Life Qi. After Luo Qingcheng killed a Snake-headed Person and Nie Yun killed a Scorpion-tailed Person, the group reached the gate to the third level, where Nie Yun prepared to revisit the place where he had fallen in his previous life.

• Nie Yun killed the Heart-Piercing Snakes attacking the group and absorbed their venom with Extreme Poison Qi.
• When Bai Huaxiu and the others weakened from soul thirst, Nie Yun used Wood Life Qi to restore them, and they continued toward the second-level gate.
• Nie Yun shielded the group from a sandstorm and confronted a Snake-headed Person and a Scorpion-tailed Person, both at the peak of the Dantian Acupoint Realm.
• Luo Qingcheng shot the Snake-headed Person through the throat with a concealed eighth arrow, while Nie Yun killed the fleeing Scorpion-tailed Person.
• Nie Yun absorbed the monsters' poison, advancing his Extreme Poison Dantian to the second form, then warned the group about the dangers of the third level.
• The group affirmed their resolve to face the danger, and Nie Yun declared that he had returned to Myriad Realms Mountain, where he had fallen in his previous life.

Nie Yun led the group through the third level, where Civilization Demons drove several ancestors mad until his Buddhist techniques dispelled them. When the Civilization Demon King appeared beside a river of scripts, Nie Yun stayed behind to fight it while Old Drunkard led the others onward.

• Nie Yun warned the group to guard their minds as they encountered ancient civilizations, including those of the Ink Race and the Sin Dragon Clan.
• Civilization Demons attacked, and Ancestor Xu Yun and another ancestor went mad, causing Xu Yun to kill a Demon Emperor puppet and attack the others.
• Nie Yun recited Buddhist teachings with his Immortal Voice Talent, driving back the Civilization Demons and restoring the ancestors' senses.
• The group reached a river filled with scripts, where the Civilization Demon King appeared and challenged them.
• Nie Yun told Old Drunkard to take the group across the river while he held off the king, then intercepted its Ghost Claw with a Great Mercy Great Compassion Immovable Wisdom King Fist.