Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun discovered the Heart of the Relic beneath a statue in the Divine Temple and learned that he lacked the strength to refine it. He obtained a Chaos Teleportation Talisman and returned to the temple to search for the Ruler Divine Weapon.

• Nie Yun toppled the intact statue, broke the seal beneath it, and entered a hidden room where a powerful puppet attacked him.
• Nie Yun subdued the puppet by refining its Chaos King Stone core, and it identified the room as the core of the Ancient Battlefield and God's Relic.
• Nie Yun tried to refine the Heart of the Relic but was repelled; the puppet explained he needed the strength of Two Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Great Daos or the combat power of Two Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Great Daos.
• The puppet confirmed that a Ruler Divine Weapon lay somewhere within the Divine Temple's boundaries and gave Nie Yun a Chaos Teleportation Talisman to return to the Heart of the Relic later.
• Nie Yun left the puppet behind and flew back through the seal into the Divine Temple.

Nie Yun found the Ji Xu Sword concealed inside the Asura King's stone statue outside the Divine Temple and returned to the Ten Absolutes Ancient Land. He used the Ruler Divine Weapon to destroy the corpse's chaotic will, though the identity of the being it might revive remained unknown.

• After searching the Divine Temple for three days, Nie Yun noticed the sword held by the half-destroyed Asura King statue and uncovered the Ruler Divine Weapon hidden beneath its stone coating.
• Nie Yun recognized the weapon as the Ji Xu Sword, bonded with it, and discovered that its full power required a Great Dao Ring or a burned Dominator Talisman Seal.
• Nie Yun returned to the Extreme Heaven King's palace, gathered the Mystic Cicada King and the other beasts, and headed to the Heart Severance Land.
• Nie Yun entered the enormous corpse's sea of consciousness and found a chaotic will made from the fused consciousnesses of beings from the Ten Absolutes Ancient Land.
• Nie Yun suspected the corpse was cultivating and harvesting living beings to form a unified will, then struck the black shadow with the Ji Xu Sword and erased it.

Nie Yun survived the shadow’s parasitic attack with the runes from the iron chain, then discovered the Ten Absolutes Ancient Land’s restraints had vanished and gained Green Leaf King and Myriad Strength King as Demon Pets. He set out to rescue the Guixu Sea disciples, leaving Gu Xiao and the others stunned when the two kings called him Master.

• Nie Yun found black threads devouring his soul, but the iron-chain runes formed a chain that subdued them, and he sealed them in a jade tablet.
• The massive corpse crumbled into dust, and Mystic Cicada King and Myriad Strength King announced that their restraints were gone and they could leave the Ten Absolutes Ancient Land.
• Green Leaf King and Myriad Strength King asked to become Nie Yun’s Demon Pets, and he accepted them.
• Nie Yun took the two kings aboard the God-Shattering Ship and set out to save the Guixu Sea disciples.
• Nie Yun released Gu Xiao and the others from the Azure Ruins Stone Cave; they feared the two kings until both knelt and called Nie Yun Master.

Nie Yun learned that the Three Great Sects had driven Guixu Sea’s disciples to Meteor Mountain and refused Gu Xiao’s request to stay out of the battle. As he prepared to help, he revealed a surprising backup plan: Prince Fu Jiang, whom he had made his attendant.

• Green Leaf King told Gu Xiao and the others that Guixu Sea’s disciples had retreated to dangerous Meteor Mountain after suffering heavy losses under attack from the Three Great Sects.
• Gu Xiao urged Nie Yun to preserve Guixu Sea’s strength by avoiding the conflict, but Nie Yun refused, while Qi Yuan and the others vowed to fight rather than abandon their sect.
• Nie Yun reassured the group that the battle’s outcome was not decided and suddenly recalled a figure from storage.
• Gu Xiao recognized the figure as Prince Fu Jiang, but Fu Jiang knelt before Nie Yun and addressed him as Master, stunning everyone.

Nie Yun put Prince Fu Jiang and several beasts in charge of attacking the Three Great Sects while he led Gu Xiao and the others toward Meteor Mountain to find the survivors of Guixu Sea. His overwhelming strength stunned Gu Xiao and Gu Yong as his concealed ship smashed through the mountain’s dangers.

• Nie Yun gave Prince Fu Jiang the Heavenly Heart Vine and ordered him to attack the Three Great Sects, while Green Leaf, Myriad Strength, and Mystic Cicada followed as his Demon Pets.
• The God-Shattering Ship returned from the Ten Absolutes Ancient Land, and the group found many slain disciples of Guixu Sea scattered across God's Relic.
• Nie Yun sent Fu Jiang and the beasts toward Meteor Mountain aboard the God-Shattering Ship, while he and Gu Xiao’s group searched separately for Guixu Sea’s people.
• Nie Yun concealed the Dragon Boat Ancient Ship with the Great Dao of Concealment and gave Dominator Talisman Seals to the beasts accompanying Fu Jiang.
• As the Dragon Boat Ancient Ship reached Meteor Mountain, Nie Yun used the power of the Great Dao Ring to crush through Space-Time Turbulence, leaving Gu Xiao and the others astonished by his strength.

Nie Yun drove the Dragon Boat Ancient Ship through Meteor Mountain and smashed through the forces besieging Guixu Sea. As Lu Xiang boasted that no one from Guixu Sea could challenge him, a terrified messenger arrived with bad news.

• Nie Yun steered the Dragon Boat Ancient Ship through Meteor Mountain, impressing Gu Xiao, Qi Yuan, and the others with his strength.
• The group spotted tens of thousands of cultivators attacking Guixu Sea, and Nie Yun charged the ancient ship straight toward them.
• The ship crushed the attackers who rushed it, while Nie Yun reflected their combined strike and killed hundreds more.
• Lu Xiang bragged that his new strength of two thousand eight hundred and fifty Great Daos made him superior to Mo Yao and Gu Xiao.
• A terrified messenger stumbled over to Lu Xiang and announced bad news.

Nie Yun killed Lu Xiang with a single palm strike as the ancient ship carried Gu Xiao and his companions through the enemy’s blockade. They reached Du Zhao and Huang Ning’s besieged group, but Huang Ning refused to open their Formation, so Nie Yun broke it down himself.

• Lu Xiang ordered Yue Chen to punish a messenger, then learned an ancient ship was approaching and flew out to challenge Gu Xiao.
• A palm print from the ship snapped Lu Xiang’s spear and killed him in one blow, allowing the ancient ship to pass unopposed.
• Gu Xiao learned from Nie Yun that Lu Xiang had possessed the strength of 2,850 Great Daos.
• The ancient ship found Du Zhao, Huang Ning, and other Guixu Sea disciples trapped inside a Formation and nearly out of strength.
• Huang Ning refused to open the Formation, fearing the newcomers might be disguised members of the Three Great Sects, so Nie Yun dissolved the barrier and Huang Ning demanded to know who they were.

Nie Yun rescued Huang Ning and the besieged Guixu Sea disciples, then revealed the treasures and weapons Gu Xiao and the others had gained in the Ten Absolutes Ancient Land. As Nie Yun’s group left, Fu Jiang slaughtered the besiegers, and a warning announced that the Divine Trial would close within one day.

• Nie Yun brought out the Dragon Boat Ancient Ship and convinced Huang Ning to lead the survivors aboard.
• Qi Yuan displayed treasures from the Ten Absolutes Ancient Land, and Nie Yun gave Gu Xiao and the others peak Chaos Divine Weapons; Du Zhao and the others collapsed after realizing what they had missed.
• Nie Yun piloted the ship away while Fu Jiang and his forces massacred the Three Great Sects, independent cultivators, and other besiegers.
• Gu Xiao pretended not to know Fu Jiang and asked Huang Ning about other Guixu Sea survivors so they could rescue them.
• A voice announced that all disciples in the ruins had to return within one day before the Divine Trial closed.

Nie Yun returned to the God's Relic exit after gathering Prince Fu Jiang and his divine beasts, then discovered that General Zhenyuan was inspecting everyone leaving the Relic. The chapter ended as Fu Jiang received a message about the inspection and furrowed his brows.

• Nie Yun sent Gu Xiao and the other Guixu Sea disciples back first and told them to warn Sect Master Gu Yong to guard against the Three Great Sects.
• Nie Yun met Prince Fu Jiang and his beasts, accepted the Heavenly Heart Vine and other treasures, and learned that the beasts could grow stronger by devouring humans.
• Nie Yun stored Fu Jiang and the beasts in his Storage World and flew back to the God's Relic exit.
• Nie Yun found Qianxue Dynasty soldiers forcing everyone into a line for inspection by General Zhenyuan, who was searching for a major criminal.
• Nie Yun grew wary when he learned the inspection included blood and age, then asked Fu Jiang to contact General Zhenyuan.
• Fu Jiang received a reply through his jade token and furrowed his brows.

Nie Yun disguised himself as Jiu Zhao and accompanied Prince Fu Jiang to the Qianxue Dynasty’s search for Nie Tong, whose fate could not be calculated. After Fu Jiang shielded him from General Liu Zhiyuan’s inspection, Zhuge Ling arrived and demanded that Jiu Zhao be inspected too, leaving Nie Yun facing renewed suspicion.

• Nie Yun learned that the Qianxue Dynasty was searching for someone with a slaughter-tainted soul aura, sword skill, and an incalculable fate, and recognized that the target was Nie Tong.
• Nie Yun transformed himself into Jiu Zhao and had Prince Fu Jiang lead him to General Liu Zhiyuan’s search station.
• Liu Zhiyuan tried to inspect Jiu Zhao, but Fu Jiang invoked his royal authority and forced the general to continue searching others instead.
• Fu Jiang prepared to leave with Nie Yun, but Zhuge Ling arrived and insisted that Jiu Zhao be inspected to confirm he was not someone in disguise.
• Fu Jiang’s expression darkened when Zhuge Ling repeated his demand to search Jiu Zhao.

Nie Yun escaped Zhuge Ling’s scrutiny by disguising himself as Prince Fu Jiang and blaming the Three Great Sects for stealing Fu Xu Carries Mountain. After returning to Gu Yong’s ship, he learned that the Three Realms Battlefield was about to open, an enormous contest held once every hundred million years.

• Zhuge Ling questioned Prince Fu Jiang about his stolen treasure, and Nie Yun’s account persuaded him that the Three Great Sects were responsible.
• Zhuge Ling inspected Nie Yun’s soul and found nothing suspicious, allowing Nie Yun and Prince Fu Jiang to leave.
• Nie Yun stored Prince Fu Jiang in the Storage World and returned to his original appearance before boarding Gu Yong’s Pure Moon Ancient Ship.
• Gu Xiao told Gu Yong about Nie Yun’s deeds in the Ten Absolutes Ancient Land, while Nie Yun confirmed that Gu Xiao had not revealed his connection to Prince Fu Jiang.
• Gu Yong explained that God's Relic had closed early because the Three Realms Battlefield was about to open, drawing fighters from the realms governed by Ashoka King, Chaos King, and Juesha King.

Gu Yong told Nie Yun about the dangers and rewards of the Three Realms Battlefield and offered him a chance to cultivate in the Guixu Ancestral Land. Nie Yun left to handle his younger brother’s affairs, while Gu Yong suspected the mission was far more dangerous than Nie Yun admitted.

• Gu Yong explained that the Three Realms Battlefield would open in three months and could offer tasks from King-Sealing Experts, Ruler Divine Weapons, and protection from a Chaos King Talisman Order.
• Gu Yong invited Nie Yun to cultivate in the Guixu Ancestral Land before the battlefield opened, but Nie Yun said he had personal matters to handle and might miss both opportunities.
• Gu Xiao offered to help, and Gu Yong promised Guixu Sea would support Nie Yun, but Nie Yun declined their assistance.
• Nie Yun departed, and Gu Yong told Gu Xiao that Nie Yun’s personal matter was extraordinarily dangerous and could lead to his death.

Nie Yun and Prince Fu Jiang stopped in Liuli City to gather information about Qianxue Imperial City, and Fu Jiang directed him to the Glazed Pagoda. During the Tower Forest’s Silver Moon Exchange Meet, Nie Yun rejected a girl’s handkerchief and slipped away after another girl demanded he apologize.

• Nie Yun learned from Prince Fu Jiang that Liuli City was the last checkpoint before Qianxue Imperial City, and they decided to stay there overnight.
• Nie Yun asked where to obtain sensitive information, and Prince Fu Jiang recommended the Glazed Pagoda, where the Tower Forest’s leader would keep requests confidential.
• Nie Yun disguised Prince Fu Jiang and went with him to the Tower Forest, where they discovered the annual Silver Moon Exchange Meet was underway.
• A young woman offered Nie Yun her handkerchief, but he politely refused and continued walking.
• Another woman blocked Nie Yun and demanded an apology, but he brushed past her and vanished with Prince Fu Jiang.

Nie Yun paid the Glazed Pagoda’s entrance fee and entered the tower to begin his challenge, despite the crowd’s mockery. The tower’s floors immediately lit up one after another, leaving Young Master Chongyao and the onlookers stunned.

• Nie Yun and Prince Fu Jiang arrived at the Glazed Pagoda as Young Master Chongyao emerged after reaching its fourth floor.
• Nie Yun learned that handkerchiefs were gestures of goodwill and that refusing one would be impolite.
• Nie Yun volunteered for the final tower challenge of the day, and the attendant demanded one high-grade Chaos Divine Weapon as the entrance fee.
• Nie Yun paid the fee and walked through the tower doors, disproving Young Master Chongyao’s prediction that he could not enter.
• The Glazed Pagoda lit up floor by floor as Nie Yun began his challenge.

Nie Yun rapidly surpassed Young Master Chongyao’s record in the Glazed Pagoda, drawing a huge crowd as he climbed to the eleventh floor. There, he faced a pill-refining challenge with unfamiliar ingredients and began reasoning out a formula for the Soul Breaking Pill.

• Nie Yun passed the Glazed Pagoda’s first four floors in moments, stunning Young Master Chongyao and the onlookers.
• The fifth, sixth, and seventh floors lit up together, prompting more than ten thousand people to gather and speculate about the climber.
• Nie Yun continued upward and reached the eleventh floor, where he found a shelf of medicinal ingredients, a bronze cauldron, and the name Soul Breaking Pill.
• Nie Yun learned that the pill’s effects were a soul breakthrough and strength increase, but found no ingredients that directly benefited the soul.
• Nie Yun reconsidered the properties of Red Leaf Sandalwood, Golden Stalk Grass, Mysterious Flower, and Nine-Section Wood as he tried to deduce the pill formula.

Nie Yun passed the twelfth and thirteenth floors of the Glazed Pagoda by refining a soul-breaking pill and a peak Chaos Divine Weapon. At the summit, the Tower Master and elders decided that Yue Wu would handle the talented challenger, and she appeared before them.

• Nie Yun deduced and refined a Soul Breaking Pill that strengthened the body to help the soul break through, then advanced to the twelfth floor.
• Nie Yun used runes from the Ten Absolutes Ancient Land to upgrade an iron mace made from ordinary materials into a peak Chaos Divine Weapon and reached the thirteenth floor.
• Nie Yun continued ascending the Glazed Pagoda, prompting the Tower Master to summon the elders and show them his progress.
• The elders argued over claiming Nie Yun as a cultivation cauldron, but the Tower Master silenced them and chose Yue Wu to handle him.
• Yue Wu appeared before the Tower Master, revealing herself as the woman who had defended the handkerchief seller in the Tower Forest.

The Glazed Pagoda Tower Master ordered Yue Wu to use the Blazing Body Cultivation Technique to bewitch the tower challenger and drain his power. When the small tower revealed that Nie Yun had reached the eighteenth floor, the Tower Master was left stunned.

• The Tower Master told Yue Wu to use the challenger as a cultivation furnace, while Rou Ji and the elders argued over their past failures.
• The Tower Master silenced the elders, ordered Ru Xiang and the others to guard the tower with a Formation, and sent Rou Ji to invite the challenger to a private audience.
• The Tower Master recounted how a previous challenger had defeated the Glazed Pagoda's elders and injured its former Tower Master, then warned Yue Wu not to fall for the man she was meant to bewitch.
• The small tower showed Nie Yun reaching the fourteenth floor, so the Tower Master sent Yue Wu to set an Illusion trap for him.
• The small tower's lights surged across the fourteenth through eighteenth floors, and the astonished Tower Master dropped it.

Nie Yun reached the Glazed Pagoda’s eighteenth floor and faced Yue Wu’s Charm Cultivation and bewitching fragrance. The Pagoda Master and elders feared history would repeat itself, but Nie Yun revealed that he had never been bewitched and caught Yue Wu before she could escape.

• Nie Yun broke through the trials on the fifteenth through seventeenth floors and arrived at the empty eighteenth floor.
• Yue Wu appeared and used her Charm Cultivation, an aphrodisiac fragrance, and vivid illusions to make Nie Yun seem entranced.
• Yue Wu decided to kill Nie Yun, believing he had succumbed to her bewitchment.
• The Pagoda Master saw that Nie Yun had reached the eighteenth floor and summoned the elders, who agreed to call off their plans against him.
• The Pagoda Master realized Yue Wu was still on the eighteenth floor and feared she had tried to bewitch Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun opened his eyes, revealed he had not been bewitched, and seized Yue Wu as she tried to flee.

Nie Yun resisted Yue Wu’s Soul Shocking Dance, which drew on desire thoughts gathered by the Glazed Pagoda, even as it forced him to relive his grief over Tantai Lingyue. As the Pagoda Master and the elders watched, Nie Yun opened his eyes and shattered their image of the eighteenth floor.

• Yue Wu attacked Nie Yun with her peak Chaos soft whip, but he caught it between two fingers and revealed his overwhelming strength.
• Yue Wu began the Blazing Body Cultivation Technique’s Ninth Revolution, Soul Shocking Dance, sending waves of desire thoughts toward Nie Yun.
• Nie Yun realized the Glazed Pagoda had gathered desire thoughts from the Matchmaker Meet to fuel Yue Wu’s cultivation and bewitchment.
• Soul Shocking Dance made Nie Yun hear Tantai Lingyue’s cries and relive his grief over her sacrifice, while Yue Wu intensified her dance.
• On the nineteenth floor, the Pagoda Master stopped the elders from interrupting the soul battle and used the Glazed Pagoda Token to show them the fight.
• The Pagoda Master recognized that Nie Yun was lost in memories rather than bewitched, and Nie Yun opened his eyes, declaring he would sever his longing before shattering the projected image.

Nie Yun used Yue Wu’s Soul Shocking Dance to awaken his Wisdom Sword and sever his obsession with Tantai Lingyue, then repelled the Glazed Pagoda’s strongest defenders. The Tower Master recognized that his power had reached the Half-step Ruler level.

• Nie Yun let Yue Wu’s Soul Shocking Dance draw out his pain, then condensed the Wisdom Sword and broke free of its influence.
• The Tower Master identified Nie Yun’s Wisdom Sword and judged his soul to be at the peak of the Sect Master realm, while Yue Wu collapsed from the backlash of her own technique.
• The Tower Master and seven others surrounded Nie Yun, and the Tower Master stopped an elder from attacking after explaining Yue Wu had been injured by the backlash.
• Rou Ji tried to bewitch Nie Yun, but he struck her with a finger and sent her crashing into a wall.
• The Tower Master unleashed the Glazed Pagoda’s Formation restrictions, but Nie Yun blocked them with three rings that knocked her backward.
• The Tower Master realized Nie Yun’s strength was at the Half-step Ruler level.