Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun and his impostor gave apparently identical explanations of the stone monument, but Nie Yun secretly used Duan Yi’s help to uncover the impostor’s answer. The group remained unable to distinguish them, while the real Nie Yun learned that the monument depicted three lives and three worlds.

• Fake Nie Yun rejected Nie Yun’s proposal to speak first, so Duan Yi arranged for them to record their answers separately on jade tokens.
• Nie Yun recorded “I don't know” on his token and privately signaled Duan Yi and Zitong Undestroyable to cooperate with him.
• Duan Yi secretly replaced Nie Yun’s answer with the impostor’s explanation, allowing the group to believe both jade tokens matched.
• Nie Yun read the impostor’s explanation and learned that the monument was the Three Lives Monument, depicting the past, present, and future lives.
• Duan Yi and the others claimed they still could not tell which Nie Yun was real, and Fake Nie Yun shouted for them to wait.

Duan Yi helped the two Nie Yuns agree to a test to find the way out, while Nie Yun deduced that his rival was his future life rather than a Mirror Clone. He realized that the Void Realm’s trial involved slaying one’s past, present, or future life and suspected that the person who left the realm might not have been his present self.

• False Nie Yun exposed that the message on the jade token bore Duan Yi’s soul traces, but he explained Duan Yi’s actions as proof that Duan Yi recognized his true identity.
• False Nie Yun proposed that the two Nie Yuns compete to find the way out, and Duan Yi, Zitong Undestroyable, Spiritual Elegance Emperor, and Myriad Laws Ruler agreed to the test.
• Duan Yi and Zitong Undestroyable searched around the Three Lives Monument while Nie Yun stayed back to ponder his opponent’s identity.
• Nie Yun concluded that the equal-strength opponent was likely his future life, and reasoned that they could neither sense nor influence each other.
• Nie Yun suspected that Fu Anchao and Carefree Immortal had past or future lives in the realm and that their present lives might still be missing.
• Nie Yun realized that Pill God Ruler’s Slaying the Corpse meant killing one’s past, present, or future life, and wondered whether his past life had left the Void Realm after his present life entered.

Nie Yun confronted his fake self in the Three Lives Realm, learned that it had captured Fu Anchao and the Carefree Immortal, and forced it to reveal the way out. After the fake Nie Yun escaped through the Three Lives Monument, Nie Yun prepared his companions to identify their other-life counterparts and leave.

• The fake Nie Yun threatened to kill Duan Yi and the others unless Nie Yun admitted he was fake, but Nie Yun refused and revealed that the White Head Venerable was his trump card.
• The fake Nie Yun recognized Nie Yun's trump card and escaped by striking the Past Life Body image on the Three Lives Monument.
• Duan Yi confirmed Nie Yun's identity, and Nie Yun explained that the group had to kill their past or future selves to leave the Three Lives Realm.
• Nie Yun placed Soul Imprints on his companions so they could distinguish one another from their other-life counterparts.
• Nie Yun concluded that each person could leave by striking the image corresponding to their present self on the Three Lives Monument.

Nie Yun exposed and killed the fake Myriad Laws Ruler, then followed the trail of his remains into a dangerous abyss. There, Spiritual Elegance Emperor identified the scorching force as Heavenly Domain Ice, and Nie Yun realized he had the Hellfrost Crystals needed to withstand it.

• Nie Yun restrained and killed Myriad Laws Ruler when he tried to enter the past-life pattern, confirming that the dead one's Essence, Qi, and Spirit merged into his present-life self.
• Nie Yun entered the stone stele and joined Duan Yi, Zitong Undestroyable, and Spiritual Elegance Emperor on a mountain platform above a mist-filled abyss.
• After Duan Yi reported that green smoke had flown into the abyss, Nie Yun shielded the group with Defense Qi and led them downward.
• As the heat grew worse, Spiritual Elegance Emperor explained that the abyss contained Heavenly Domain Ice, which burned the body while freezing the soul.
• Spiritual Elegance Emperor said Hellfrost Crystals could protect them from Heavenly Domain Ice, and Nie Yun revealed that he had plenty.

Nie Yun and the others used Hellfrost Crystals to withstand Heavenly Domain Ice, which Nie Yun absorbed into his Storage World, stabilizing it and allowing him to replicate Ruler Divine Weapons. Beneath the ice, they found Fu Anchao and the others held captive by the crazed Past Life Body, who demanded Nie Yun’s trump card.

• Nie Yun revealed his supply of Hellfrost Crystals, and Spiritual Elegance Emperor showed the group how to use them to resist Heavenly Domain Ice.
• Protected by the crystals, Nie Yun and the others flew deeper and discovered a sea of flame-like Heavenly Domain Ice.
• Nie Yun absorbed the Heavenly Domain Ice into his Storage World, stabilizing it as a Supreme Domain.
• Nie Yun replicated a Ruler Divine Weapon and confirmed that the Storage World could now produce weapons of that level.
• Duan Yi spotted Fu Anchao, Carefree Immortal, and Myriad Laws Ruler bound to pillars beneath a palace, while the Past Life Body demanded Nie Yun’s trump card in exchange for their lives.
• Nie Yun answered by summoning White Head Venerable.

Nie Yun’s released Pill God Ruler and White Head Venerable to force the fake Nie Yun to reveal his plan, but the fake Nie Yun killed Pill God Ruler and devoured his Pseudo-Origin Great Dao. Nie Yun revealed that the Dao was corrupted and poisonous, leaving the fake Nie Yun convulsing as Nie Yun disclosed his newly gained ability to replicate Pseudo-Origin Great Daos.

• Spiritual Elegance Emperor explained that Pill God Ruler’s Pseudo-Origin Great Dao could let White Head Venerable break through to the Ruler realm, making him the fake Nie Yun’s feared trump card.
• Nie Yun released Pill God Ruler, and the fake Nie Yun called both him and White Head Venerable over to the stone pillars.
• The fake Nie Yun attacked and killed Pill God Ruler, seized his Pseudo-Origin Great Dao, and swallowed it to try to become a Ruler.
• The fake Nie Yun began convulsing and coughing black blood after discovering that Pill God Ruler’s Pseudo-Origin Great Dao was corrupted.
• Nie Yun explained that Pill God Ruler’s Dao would poison anyone who devoured it and said his stabilized Storage World now let him replicate Pseudo-Origin Great Daos.

Nie Yun killed the fake Nie Yun, purified the ancient corpse’s Pseudo-Origin Great Dao, and used it to raise White Head Venerable to Ruler level. He realized the Void Realm tested the Slaying of the Three Corpses and, after considering Nie Tong’s possible trials, turned his attention to finding a way out.

• Fake Nie Yun died as the ancient corpse’s power corroded him, and Nie Yun ordered Duan Yi and the others to rescue Fu Anchao and find their Past Life Bodies.
• Nie Yun captured and purified the Pseudo-Origin Great Dao, then gave it to White Head Venerable, who advanced to Ruler level and killed his Past Life Body.
• Duan Yi, the Spiritual Elegance Emperor, Fu Anchao, and the others fought their Past Life Bodies inside the palace.
• Nie Yun learned that the Void Realm enabled cultivators to slay one of their three corpses and realized he had slain his past and future lives but not his present life.
• Nie Yun suspected Nie Tong’s past battles and sudden departure were connected to slaying his three corpses, then decided to focus on leaving the Void Realm.

After slaying their Three Corpses in the Void Realm, Nie Yun and the others escaped with greatly increased strength, and the realm vanished behind them. As they prepared to return to Myriad Laws Palace, members of the Spiritual Elegance Tribe arrived with news that Talisman Order Serves Heaven had appeared again.

• Duan Yi and the others slew their past life bodies, then followed Nie Yun through the black vortex to leave the Void Realm.
• Nie Yun and his companions felt their strength rise after slaying their Three Corpses, and Nie Yun realized he had become powerful enough to challenge King-Sealing Experts.
• The Void Realm disappeared, and Nie Yun explained that it could only serve its purpose once.
• Myriad Laws Ruler invited everyone to Myriad Laws Palace, and Nie Yun agreed to go with them.
• Tong Xin and Zhu Yao arrived from the Spiritual Elegance Tribe, and Tong Xin reported that Talisman Order Serves Heaven had appeared again.

Tong Xin told the group that the Three Great Kings had issued Talisman Order Serves Heaven to seek an unknown Ayyena Crystal, and Nie Yun learned from Jingxin that it was a True Blood Crystal needed for the True Blood Royal Crown. Jingxin also revealed that King-Sealing Divine Weapons had been obtained from, and could be forged by, the powerful race to which Mo Ji belonged.

• Tong Xin explained that Talisman Order Serves Heaven offered no clues about the Ayyena Crystal beyond saying that anyone who saw it would recognize it.
• Carefree Immortal and the Myriad Laws Ruler dismissed the search as impractical and suggested that the group go enjoy themselves instead.
• The group looked to Nie Yun to decide what to do, but Jingxin told him that he must obtain the Ayyena Crystal because it was the most precious True Blood Crystal in the True Blood Royal Crown.
• Jingxin speculated that Mo Ji might have revealed the King-Sealing Divine Weapon's existence before his death, prompting the Three Great Kings to seek the crystal.
• Jingxin told Nie Yun that King-Sealing Divine Weapons were not forged by King-Sealing Experts but had been obtained, and that Mo Ji's race had forged them.
• Jingxin explained that Mo Ji's race was more powerful than the Three Realms and could forge King-Sealing Divine Weapons with ease.

Nie Yun learned that Ling Yi Pavilion had the best intelligence network for locating people and traveled to its headquarters in Moxu City to seek information about the Ayyena Crystal. The group reached the pavilion and prepared to investigate.

• Jingxin told Nie Yun that finding the Ayyena Crystal would complete the True Blood Royal Crown and give him a King-Sealing Divine Weapon, while Nie Yun realized his knowledge of its appearance could help him identify it.
• Carefree Immortal recommended Ling Yi Pavilion in the Juesha Supreme Domain as the best source of information on matters beyond cultivators’ strengths.
• Nie Yun decided to seek Ling Yi Pavilion’s help, and Fu Anchao piloted the Pill God Ancient Ship toward Moxu City.
• The group arrived in the Moxu Dynasty, concealed their strength, and listened to locals discuss the Ayyena Crystal without learning anything useful.
• Fu Anchao pointed out Ling Yi Pavilion’s headquarters as the group approached it.

Nie Yun and his companions arrived at Ling Yi Pavilion to learn about the Ayyena Crystal and found crowds forming paid treasure-hunting teams. After the pavilion’s guards demanded an entrance fee and clashed with Zitong Undestroyable, Nie Yun agreed to pay, but Young Master Bai arrived and mocked them.

• Duan Yi reported that Ling Yi Pavilion sold information about the Ayyena Crystal and that numerous teams, including Hu Shenfeng’s Divine Wind Team, were recruiting members.
• Nie Yun led his companions toward Ling Yi Pavilion, where Sect Master-level guards demanded an entrance fee of ten thousand Chaos Crystal Stones per person.
• Fu Anchao questioned the fee, and Zitong Undestroyable challenged the guards after one insulted their strength.
• Nie Yun stopped Zitong Undestroyable and agreed to pay the fee.
• Young Master Bai approached, mocked Nie Yun’s group, and received a respectful greeting from the guard.

Nie Yun and his companions paid their way into Ling Yi Pavilion to search for information about the Ayyena Crystal, which they needed to find the True Blood Royal Crown component. After finding only false matches in the public hall, they entered a costly top-secret chamber and came face to face with Bai Shengyi.

• Bai Shengyi paid the guards generously and entered Ling Yi Pavilion, while Nie Yun noticed she was a woman dressed as a man.
• Nie Yun paid seventy thousand Chaos Crystal Stones for his seven companions and entered the pavilion with them.
• A staff member showed Nie Yun and his companions rows of Ayyena Crystal specimens, but none matched the one Nie Yun sought.
• Nie Yun learned that the pavilion held more recent, unverified Ayyena Crystal information in a top-secret chamber and paid seven hundred thousand Chaos Crystal Stones to enter.
• Nie Yun and his companions entered the chamber, where they saw three crystal stones and found Bai Shengyi already there.

Nie Yun demanded access to the Ling Yi Pavilion Master's secret information about the Ayyena Crystal, but grew angry at the Pavilion's escalating fees and ordered the Master to come to him. Duan Yi struck down Zhang Quan, and when the Ling Yi Pavilion Master arrived to confront them, he was slapped to the ground.

• Nie Yun rejected the Pavilion's one-million-per-person fee and demanded that the Pavilion Master show him the information before he paid.
• Young Master Bai paid the fee for her group and followed Zhang Quan, while Nie Yun ordered the Pavilion Master to appear within ten breaths or face consequences.
• Duan Yi spread his Soul Force across Ling Yi Pavilion and sent Zhang Quan crashing to the ground with a shout.
• Young Master Bai called on Uncle Feng to seize the intruders, but Uncle Feng warned that he could not see through their cultivation.
• The Ling Yi Pavilion Master arrived and threatened Duan Yi, who challenged him to act.
• Before the Pavilion Master could attack, someone slapped him and sent him tumbling to the ground.

Duan Yi struck down the Ling Yi Pavilion Master, then Ling Yi Ruler arrived and recognized Nie Yun and his companions. Nie Yun set aside the confrontation and asked Ling Yi Pavilion for information about the Ayyena Crystal, whose trail led him to a room with two crystals.

• Duan Yi revealed his Ruler-level strength by slapping the Ling Yi Pavilion Master to the ground.
• The Ling Yi Pavilion Master summoned Ling Yi Ruler, who recognized Nie Yun and apologized for the attack.
• Young Master Bai and her companions realized they had mocked Nie Yun, while Zhang Quan regretted treating him with contempt.
• Nie Yun told Ling Yi Ruler that he had come seeking information about the Ayyena Crystal and sealed the room against eavesdroppers.
• Ling Yi Ruler led Nie Yun and the others to a room containing two crystals, and Nie Yun's eyes lit up at one of them.

Nie Yun learned that the Ayyena Crystal might lie in Jue Ming Cave in the Qing Ling Heavenly Domain and prepared to seek it with help from Ling Yi Pavilion. He discovered that the pavilion master and Ling Yi Ruler were Golden Spirit Beetles, then learned the rogue cultivator who knew the cave was being hunted.

• Nie Yun examined the lead identifying Jue Ming Cave in the Qing Ling Heavenly Domain as the place where a rogue cultivator had lost a life-saving gemstone.
• Fu Anchao estimated that the rogue cultivator had been at least a Minor Triple Stage Half-step Ruler tens of thousands of years earlier, strengthening Nie Yun's belief that the gemstone was the Ayyena Crystal.
• Nie Yun asked the master of Ling Yi Pavilion to take him to Jue Ming Cave, and Ling Yi Ruler suggested finding the rogue cultivator to guide their search.
• Nie Yun recognized the pavilion master as a Golden Spirit Beetle and used his Heavenly Eye to discover that Ling Yi Ruler was also one, likely related to the pavilion master.
• The pavilion master found the rogue cultivator but reported that he was being hunted and was in danger.

Nie Yun learned that Mo Ge was being hunted so that powerful factions could force him to lead them to Jue Ming Cave, and he raced toward him aboard the Pill God Ancient Ship. Mo Ge was cornered by Juesha Sect members and nearly killed, but an unknown group intervened.

• Nie Yun learned that Mo Ge was being pursued for his knowledge of the Ayyena Crystal and ordered the others into the cabin as he drove the Pill God Ancient Ship at three times its former speed.
• Mo Ge hid among a stone forest, swearing revenge on the factions that had killed his family and Dao Companion.
• Five Great Triple Stage Half-step Rulers from Juesha Sect confronted Mo Ge and demanded that he lead them to Jue Ming Cave.
• After the leader mocked Mo Ge’s dead Dao Companion, Mo Ge repeatedly charged him and was struck down, until the leader prepared a fatal blow.
• A bolt of lightning destroyed the leader’s blood-red palm, and several newcomers arrived, laughing that Mo Ge was their prey and Shi Xing should not break the rules.

A young man appeared as powerful factions competed to seize Mo Ge and the Ayyena Crystal, then freed him and offered to teach him three sword moves so he could take revenge on Shi Xing. Mo Ge remained uncertain but was invited to test the moves against Shi Xing himself.

• Wu Feng and the Wan Hai Sect arrived to claim Mo Ge, but Mo Ge rejected them as enemies.
• Nie Xiong and other factions surrounded Mo Ge, seeking the Ayyena Crystal’s whereabouts and promising to protect him from Shi Xing.
• Mo Ge tried to self-destruct, but the gathered experts restrained him with hundreds of seals.
• A young man arrived on an ancient ship, removed the seals, and offered Mo Ge a chance to avenge himself immediately.
• The young man taught Mo Ge three sword moves and told him to test them against Shi Xing.

Nie Yun arranged for Mo Ge to fight Shi Xing, hoping to restore Mo Ge’s confidence and secure his help navigating Jue Ming Cave. The fight began with Shi Xing overwhelming Mo Ge’s first sword move, leaving the result unresolved as Mo Ge launched the second.

• Nie Yun encouraged Mo Ge to use three sword moves he had taught him, and Mo Ge overcame his fear enough to accept Shi Xing’s challenge.
• Shi Xing secured Nie Yun’s promise that his group would stop interfering if Mo Ge failed to kill him, then demanded that Mo Ge come with him to the Juesha Sect if he lost.
• Nie Yun told Duan Yi and the others to make a bet, while the onlookers and companions questioned his confidence in Mo Ge.
• Shi Xing unleashed his strongest attack, and Mo Ge answered with the first of the three simple sword moves.
• Shi Xing’s bloody palm shattered Mo Ge’s sword qi, and Mo Ge pressed on by unleashing the second move.

Nie Yun helped Mo Ge turn Shi Xing’s close-range attack into an opportunity to use a hidden sword technique, and Mo Ge killed his enemy. Nie Yun then gave Mo Ge a Ruler Divine Weapon and vowed to help him kill everyone who had forced him, while someone in the crowd recognized Nie Yun.

• Shi Xing rushed Mo Ge to capture him, but Mo Ge linked the interrupted second sword move to the third and pierced Shi Xing through the chest.
• Shi Xing died, and the crowd realized Nie Yun had anticipated the attack and taught Mo Ge a deadly sword technique.
• Mo Ge thanked Nie Yun for helping him avenge his wife, and Nie Yun said he would help him slaughter everyone who had forced him.
• Nie Yun gave Mo Ge a Ruler Divine Weapon and told him to refine it.
• Someone in the crowd asked whether Nie Yun was Ruler Nie Yun.

Nie Yun revealed his identity and gave Mo Ge a Ruler Divine Weapon so he could avenge his family himself. He stopped the fleeing attackers, killed a man who threatened him with the Juesha King, and left the captured enemies for Mo Ge to deal with.

• The Half-step Rulers recognized Nie Yun, and he confirmed his identity.
• Mo Ge begged Nie Yun to avenge his family, but Nie Yun told him to settle the score himself and gave him a Ruler Divine Weapon to refine.
• Duan Yi, Fu Anchao, and the other Rulers stopped the attackers as they tried to flee.
• A Juesha Sect man threatened Nie Yun with the Juesha King, and Nie Yun killed him on the spot.
• Nie Yun asked whether anyone else had a King-Sealing Expert as backing, then told the captives to wait while Mo Ge finished refining the weapon and avenged his family.