Chapter Summaries

Nie Yun demonstrated his combat skill to Miss Bi'er after she demanded to know how to refine the Spirit of the Blazing Dragon. Their fight ended with Bi'er staggered back in shock after Nie Yun countered her attacks.

• Miss Bi'er visited Nie Yun at night to ask how to refine the Spirit of the Blazing Dragon and offered to have her father appoint him a commander.
• Nie Yun rejected the offer and challenged Bi'er to test her judgment of his strength.
• Nie Yun used Three Whip Palm and quick finger strikes to force Bi'er to retreat.
• Bi'er attacked with Blazing Thousand Illusions Hand, but Nie Yun read and countered her technique with two fingers.
• Bi'er used the Fire God Sect's special flame, and Nie Yun met her attack directly, sending her staggering backward.

Nie Yun defeated Miss Bi'er and explained that he had fought her to assess her cultivation so he could devise a way for her to refine the Spirit of the Blazing Dragon. Miss Bi'er left believing his offer to help was driven by improper intentions, while Nie Yun was pleased with his gains.

• Miss Bi'er realized Nie Yun's strength far exceeded hers and offered to recommend him as a deputy general.
• Miss Bi'er suspected Nie Yun wanted her as a Dao Companion, but Nie Yun denied it and sent her a detailed refinement plan for the Spirit of the Blazing Dragon.
• Nie Yun suggested helping Miss Bi'er refine the spirit, but she refused and left the courtyard.
• Miss Bi'er concluded that Nie Yun had offered to stand guard because he harbored dirty thoughts and vowed to settle things with him after refining the spirit.
• Nie Yun revealed a jade-green flame at his fingertip and laughed at his harvest.

Nie Yun refined the Fire God Sect’s flame into a new talent, causing his Blazing Fire Dantian to rise above the Heavenly Dao Dantian in rank. After General Zhi Yao prepared to investigate the Qiu Long Beast’s valley, Nie Yun joined the expedition and impressed the general with his composure.

• Nie Yun purified the Fire God Sect’s azure flames and fused them into his Blazing Fire Dantian, which rose to a position ahead of the Heavenly Dao Dantian alongside the Devouring Dantian.
• Nie Yun tried to link the Storage World with the Universal Divine Realm but found no way to connect them.
• Fei Tong told Nie Yun that General Zhi Yao planned to investigate the valley where they had found the Qiu Long Beast, and Nie Yun decided to go while Nie Tong stayed behind to cultivate.
• Fei Tong introduced Nie Yun to General Zhi Yao, who tested him with his natural pressure and then praised his willpower and discernment.
• General Zhi Yao invited Nie Yun to join the Zhi Yao Camp and revealed that he knew Nie Yun had defeated Miss Bi'er.

General Zhi Yao took Nie Yun, Fei Tong, and Bi'er back to the valley where the Qiu Long Beast had been found, keeping the trip discreet because they were in Fire God Sect territory. After reaching the valley, the group rested before entering, and Bi'er thanked Nie Yun for the Spirit of the Blazing Dragon.

• General Zhi Yao decided that only a small group would leave camp to avoid drawing the Fire God Sect's attention.
• Bi'er arrived, revealed that she had advanced to the high-grade King realm, and joined her father’s expedition.
• General Zhi Yao carried Nie Yun, Fei Tong, and Bi'er to the valley in less than a day.
• General Zhi Yao ordered everyone to rest and recover before entering the valley.
• Bi'er thanked Nie Yun for the Spirit of the Blazing Dragon and asked whether the Qiu Long Beast had truly come back to life.

Nie Yun and the others followed General Zhi Yao back to the cave, where he discovered a concealed Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation created with Emperor realm Realm Force. General Zhi Yao began placing stone pillars inside the cave to reveal the formation, leaving the group preparing to find a way through it.

• Miss Bi'er asked Nie Yun where he had obtained the Spirit of the Blazing Dragon, and he dismissed the question as a chance encounter.
• Fei Tong gathered the group, and they followed the recovered General Zhi Yao into the valley and back to the cave.
• General Zhi Yao detected the concealed Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation and explained that it used Realm Force beyond Nie Yun's ability to perceive.
• Miss Bi'er explained that Emperor realm experts had to nurture a realm and create a Realm Stone before attempting to advance.
• General Zhi Yao said bypassing the formation was impossible and began placing more than thirty stone pillars throughout the cave to make it reveal itself.

General Zhi Yao revealed the hidden Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation and prepared to break it, warning the others to flee if he became trapped. After he struck its center with his spear, he vanished from their sight.

• General Zhi Yao placed stone pillars and used a drop of essence blood to reveal the hidden Formation.
• Nie Yun used his Heavenly Eye to see the Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation and recognized how difficult it would be to break.
• General Zhi Yao told the others to wait and seek reinforcements if he did not return within a day, then advanced with a peak King Grade Divine Weapon.
• General Zhi Yao thrust his spear at the Formation’s center, and after a flash of white light he disappeared.

Nie Yun realized General Zhi Yao was trapped in a Formation that absorbed his attacks, while a Qiu Long Beast suddenly attacked Nie Yun, Bi'er, and Fei Tong. As Nie Yun tried to retreat, he discovered a second Qiu Long Beast had blocked their way.

• Nie Yun watched the Formation absorb the force of General Zhi Yao's attacks and feared the General would struggle to escape.
• A Qiu Long Beast ambushed the group, and Nie Yun pulled Bi'er aside before punching its claw and injuring his hand.
• Nie Yun recognized the beast as the one with a scar on its chest and suspected it had emerged from the Formation.
• Nie Yun ordered Bi'er and Fei Tong to retreat, but halted when the first beast did not pursue and noticed a second Qiu Long Beast behind them.

Trapped between two peak King Realm Qiu Long Beasts, Nie Yun led Bi'er and Fei Tong into the Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation. Inside, he discovered the beasts could move through the maze freely and began searching for a way to escape, ending as he grabbed Bi'er's hand to try his own method.

• Nie Yun realized the Qiu Long Beasts were forcing him, Bi'er, and Fei Tong toward the Formation and ordered them to charge left.
• Nie Yun used the Sky Walker Master Talent to lead Bi'er and Fei Tong into the Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation, and the two Qiu Long Beasts followed them inside.
• Nie Yun explained that the beasts could move through the Formation freely, and he led the others away when he heard them approaching.
• Nie Yun asked Bi'er to contact General Zhi Yao, but her communication jade token could not reach him through the Formation.
• Nie Yun grabbed Bi'er's hand and pulled her in front of him as he prepared to try another way to communicate.

Nie Yun tracked General Zhi Yao through the Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation with Miss Bi'er and Fei Tong. They found Zhi Yao fighting four Qiu Long Beasts, and the chapter left Bi'er asking Nie Yun whether he had expected the beasts.

• Nie Yun used Miss Bi'er's blood to track General Zhi Yao and led her and Fei Tong through the fog-shrouded Formation.
• When Bi'er questioned whether they would find her father, Nie Yun silenced her and spotted Zhi Yao in a clearing ahead.
• Nie Yun stopped Bi'er from rushing toward Zhi Yao as the ground trembled and a Qiu Long Beast attacked him from the mist.
• Zhi Yao blocked attacks from two adult Qiu Long Beasts, while Bi'er realized they had joined the two beasts that had chased the group earlier.
• After Nie Yun assured Bi'er that her father would be fine, she asked whether he had known the beasts were there.

Nie Yun led Bi'er and Fei Tong into the Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation and used their powers to disrupt it. After they reunited with General Zhi Yao, he prepared to give the general instructions for what to do next.

• Nie Yun explained that he had inferred General Zhi Yao was in danger inside the Formation and said they needed to stop the Qiu Long Beasts and find a way to break it.
• Nie Yun sent Bi'er fifty steps in one direction to release her fire power and Fei Tong fifty steps in another to absorb the Formation's spiritual energy, each for three breaths.
• After Bi'er and Fei Tong returned, Nie Yun stomped the ground, causing the Formation to turn chaotic and driving the two King Beasts away from General Zhi Yao.
• Nie Yun led Bi'er and Fei Tong through the blank area to meet General Zhi Yao.
• Bi'er told her father that Nie Yun had brought them there and lured away the Qiu Long Beasts, and General Zhi Yao agreed to follow Nie Yun's instructions.

Nie Yun directed General Zhi Yao to strike the ground, causing the Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation to collapse. He began explaining how Bi'er and Fei Tong’s actions disrupted the Formation’s balance, but the chapter ended before he finished.

• Nie Yun asked General Zhi Yao to strike the ground at the Formation’s center, and General Zhi Yao ordered everyone else to retreat.
• General Zhi Yao drove his spear into the ground with his full strength, and the Formation began to crack apart.
• The Formation collapsed, revealing that everyone was still inside the cave.
• General Zhi Yao praised Nie Yun, who explained that the Formation’s Five Elements had to be disrupted by turning its insubstantial power tangible.
• Nie Yun explained that Bi’er’s flames suppressed the Formation’s metal element and that Fei Tong had been sent to its water element, then began describing how earth generated metal.

Nie Yun explained how the group had broken the Five Elements Light-Veiling Formation and led them deeper into the cave. They found an altar with a coffin and four Qiu Long Beasts, and Nie Yun grew suspicious when the beasts seemed disappointed that the group had stopped before the steps.

• Nie Yun explained how Fei Tong’s actions and General Zhi Yao’s attack had thrown the formation into chaos and destroyed it.
• The group followed the four fleeing Qiu Long Beasts through the cave and found them standing around a cavern altar topped with a coffin.
• General Zhi Yao guessed that an Imperial Realm expert had died there and that the Qiu Long Beasts had been the expert’s Demon Pets.
• Nie Yun and the others approached the altar but stopped at the foot of its steps, suspecting a danger ahead.
• Nie Yun noticed disappointment in the Qiu Long Beasts’ eyes when the group halted, and began to doubt their earlier assumptions.

Nie Yun and General Zhi Yao planned to question the Qiu Long Beasts about whether the altar was protected by a Formation. General Zhi Yao began their plan by attacking a young Qiu Long Beast, hoping to use its safety to keep the adults from striking Nie Yun and the others.

• Nie Yun proposed asking the Qiu Long Beasts whether a Formation guarded the altar, since they had lived there for a long time.
• General Zhi Yao warned that the adult Qiu Long Beasts might attack Nie Yun, Bi'er, and Fei Tong if he engaged one of them.
• Nie Yun suggested using Imperial Armor Talismans to protect the group while General Zhi Yao threatened a young Qiu Long Beast, forcing its parents to hesitate.
• General Zhi Yao gave Nie Yun an Imperial Armor Talisman that could block attacks three times for ten breaths each.
• General Zhi Yao charged at the scar-chested young Qiu Long Beast and reached out to seize it.

Nie Yun and the others restrained a young Qiu Long Beast to stop its parents from attacking, then tried to question them about the cave, altar, and coffin. When the adults could not speak, Nie Yun noticed an Oath Formation binding them, leaving the group to wonder who had forced them to keep the place's secret.

• General Zhi Yao restrained the young Qiu Long Beast while Nie Yun shielded himself, Miss Bi'er, and Fei Tong from its parents.
• The adult Qiu Long Beasts stopped attacking when General Zhi Yao threatened their child, and he asked them about the cave, altar, and coffin.
• Nie Yun, Miss Bi'er, Fei Tong, and General Zhi Yao could not understand the beasts' words, which were neither beast language nor their racial tongue.
• General Zhi Yao pressed his spear to the young beast's throat, but Nie Yun noticed that its parents were pointing toward a corner of the cave.
• General Zhi Yao identified rippling light in the cave as an Oath Formation that prevented the Qiu Long Beasts from revealing the place's secret.

General Zhi Yao and Nie Yun investigated the altar after learning from the Qiu Long Beasts that it had no Formation. When Fei Tong and Nie Yun looked inside the coffin, they recognized the person buried there and were shocked.

• General Zhi Yao questioned the adult Qiu Long Beasts, who denied that a Formation guarded the altar.
• General Zhi Yao approached the altar, opened the coffin, and called Nie Yun over to inspect its contents.
• The adult Qiu Long Beasts offered to let the group move freely if they released the young beast, and Nie Yun agreed.
• Nie Yun, Fei Tong, and Miss Bi'er climbed the altar steps without encountering danger.
• Fei Tong recognized the person inside the coffin, and Nie Yun was shocked when he looked inside.

Nie Yun was pulled into Feng Zhen’s coffin by a mysterious force, leaving General Zhi Yao and the others unable to find him. Fei Tong revealed that Nie Yun might be the long-lost prince of the Pu Tian Dynasty, whose father had sealed him away for hundreds of millions of years.

• Nie Yun recognized Feng Zhen, the former chief of the Luoshan Tribe, lying inside the coffin and wondered how he had entered the cave.
• When Nie Yun approached the coffin to investigate, a force sucked him inside and made him disappear along with Feng Zhen.
• General Zhi Yao struck open the coffin but found it empty, with no visible passage or trace of Nie Yun.
• Fei Tong told General Zhi Yao and Bi'er that he believed Nie Yun was the missing prince because he wielded the purest power of devouring.
• General Zhi Yao explained that Universal Heaven had sealed his child in slumber to protect him, and that the seal was expected to end within a few decades.

After being pulled into a dark passage, Nie Yun chose the path leading deeper inside and found a mysterious stele engraved with “Yanhuang.” As he wondered whether Yanhuang was the name of an Emperor-realm expert, a sword light suddenly attacked him from behind.

• General Zhi Yao concluded that Nie Yun was likely the missing prince and ordered everyone to keep the discovery secret while they continued searching.
• Nie Yun awoke alone in a dark passage after being drawn into the coffin and used his Heavenly Eye to examine his surroundings.
• Nie Yun compared the soil in both directions, chose the damp path toward a strange fluctuation, and walked deeper into the passage.
• Nie Yun discovered a stone stele engraved with “Yanhuang” and felt the characters’ immense power as he examined them.
• Nie Yun wondered whether Yanhuang was the name of an Emperor-realm expert, then sensed danger as a sword light stabbed toward his back.

Nie Yun fought off an ambush by Feng Zhen, whose corpse had become a powerful puppet, and discovered that he had to defeat him to pass a trial. The mysterious voice gave no further explanation, and Feng Zhen resumed his attack.

• Nie Yun used the spear shaft and three quick strikes to disrupt the ambusher’s swordsmanship, but the attacker changed moves effortlessly and proved to have a body as powerful as his own.
• Nie Yun vanished just before the sword struck his back, reappeared facing his attacker, and met the next blows with his spear.
• Nie Yun recognized his attacker as Feng Zhen, the supposedly dead father of Feng Sheng, and realized Feng Zhen looked like a puppet under someone else’s control.
• A mysterious voice told Nie Yun to kill Feng Zhen to pass the first trial and meet its speaker, but did not answer when Nie Yun asked about the trials.
• Feng Zhen launched another lightning-fast sword attack aimed at Nie Yun’s brow.

Nie Yun defeated Feng Zhen by luring him into an ambush with his clone, then arrived in Yan Huang Hall and met the living Closed-Eye Stone Turtle. The turtle revealed that Nie Yun had entered a fortune-seeking trial, with two more trials to pass or his memories of the place would be erased.

• Nie Yun retreated to bait Feng Zhen into attacking, then used his hidden clone to kill him with a single strike.
• After Feng Zhen vanished, Nie Yun was transported to a vast hall containing a giant stone turtle with its eyes closed.
• The stone turtle opened its eyes, spoke to Nie Yun, and identified the place as Yan Huang Hall.
• Nie Yun guessed that the fortune was a Realm Emperor's inheritance, and the stone turtle said he could understand it that way.
• The stone turtle warned Nie Yun that he still had two trials to pass and would lose all memories of the place if he failed.

Nie Yun learned that an Emperor Realm expert’s inheritance required him to pass two dangerous stages, with death destroying his body, soul, and clones. Despite the risks, he chose to take the test.

• The stone tortoise asked why Nie Yun had chosen the dangerous passage, and he said he would not turn back merely because he feared danger.
• The stone tortoise questioned how Nie Yun had vanished during his fight with Feng Zhen, guessed he had used a domain, and explained how domains worked.
• The stone tortoise revealed it had brought Nie Yun into the coffin because he had shown unusual ability and might pass the inheritance test.
• The stone tortoise warned that failing by refusing or surrendering would erase Nie Yun’s memories, while dying during the test would destroy his body, soul, and clones.
• The stone tortoise offered Nie Yun a Peak King Artifact if he gave up, but Nie Yun decided to take the test.