Chapter Summaries

Bai Louxie visited Ye Liang seeking guidance and left convinced that an immortal had recognized his imperial potential, giving his officers a story to spread. Ye Liang then set out with Yilong for the former imperial capital to see how the world had changed and visit Tuotuo.

• Bai Louxie entered Ye Liang’s courtyard alone and asked for guidance, and Ye Liang praised his Imperial Talent before inviting him to eat.
• Bai Louxie spent the afternoon with Ye Liang, then told his officers that Ye Liang had recognized his bearing as an emperor and predicted that he might unite the world.
• Ye Liang told Yilong that Bai Louxie had found what he wanted despite their saying little, while Yilong remained confused.
• Ye Liang realized that the Xuanhu Sect’s struggle was tied to the Way of Heaven and decided to travel to the former imperial capital to visit Tuotuo.
• Yilong drove Ye Liang’s carriage and reflected that war’s suffering made it the cruelest force in the world.

Ye Liang experienced an epiphany and tried to break through from the Golden Core realm to Nascent Soul, but conflicting cultivation systems drew a Heavenly Tribulation far beyond his ability to survive. After his system spent its last energy defending him, the lightning erased his body and left only a weeping ghost.

• Ye Liang sent Yilong away and flew to a mountaintop, where he realized he was experiencing an epiphany.
• Ye Liang began breaking through to Nascent Soul, and his cultivation triggered a Heavenly Tribulation meant for Tribulation Transcending cultivators.
• Ye Liang endured the first two bolts, but the third shattered his body and left only his bones and soul protected by the system.
• Ye Liang ordered the system to release all its energy, and it activated its hidden power and Invincible Golden Body to protect him.
• The Heavenly Tribulation instantly scattered the system's defenses and destroyed Ye Liang's bones, leaving only a weeping ghost.

After losing the system, Ye Liang survived the final tribulation lightning, which rebuilt his body and raised his power. Ten years later, he reunited with Yilong, gave Yilong’s child a cultivation technique, and flew away.

• Ye Liang mourned the system’s loss as the final Baptismal Lightning descended but struck beside him instead of hitting him.
• The lightning’s power rebuilt Ye Liang’s body, raised his realm from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, and gave him an immortal body.
• Ye Liang tested his strength by punching holes in the atmosphere, and two Earth Immortals warned him not to endanger the mortal realm.
• Ye Liang reached an inn and learned from Yilong that ten years had passed while he recovered from the tribulation.
• Ye Liang met Yilong’s wife and child, gave the child a cultivation technique, and departed after Yilong bid him farewell.

Ten years after leaving Dieyi, Ye Liang returned to find the Diancang Sect ruling Kyoto City and learned that True Person Qionghua had vanished. When Xuanhu Sect cultivators tried to kill Dieyi, Ye Liang intervened, but she warned him not to challenge them.

• Ye Liang asked a bun shop owner about Kyoto City and learned that the Imperial Advisor had disappeared three years earlier, allowing the Diancang Sect to seize the city.
• Ye Liang vanished after leaving the shopkeeper golden buns in payment.
• Xuanhu Sect cultivators confronted Dieyi and declared that True Person Qionghua had been executed and that they had come to kill her.
• Ye Liang emerged from hiding and caught a cultivator's flying sword before it could strike Dieyi.
• The cultivators mocked Ye Liang, and Dieyi urged him to let the matter go because they were true immortals.

Ye Liang killed the cultivators threatening Dieyi and brought her to the Diancang Sect’s residence in Kyoto, where he learned that True Person Qionghua had been missing for a long time. After securing Dieyi, Ye Liang examined the cultivators’ belongings and found five elemental cultivation manuals and a strange map.

• Dieyi tried to draw the cultivators’ attention away from Ye Liang, but Ye Liang summoned a white wolf that devoured their leader and then killed the rest.
• Ye Liang killed the final cultivator after the man claimed he could sense Nascent Soul experts, and Dieyi worried that the man’s family would seek revenge.
• Ye Liang told Dieyi he did not know whether True Person Qionghua had been executed and took her back to rest at the palace in Kyoto.
• Dieyi explained that the Diancang Sect members had begun coveting power because True Person Qionghua had been missing for a long time.
• Ye Liang treated Dieyi’s injuries, secured her room with a barrier, and searched the dead cultivators’ luggage.
• Ye Liang found five elemental cultivation manuals and a map marked with unusual locations, then began studying the manuals.

Ye Liang secretly protected Dieyi by impersonating True Person Qionghua, frightening the Diancang Sect elders into releasing her. After securing her safety, he left to explore the region and search for a cultivator inheritance.

• Ye Liang woke refreshed after practicing five cultivation techniques and rushed to the main hall when a maid said the elders had taken Dieyi.
• The Diancang Sect elders tied Dieyi to a pillar and demanded to know whether her grandfather, True Person Qionghua, would return.
• Ye Liang used Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission to impersonate True Person Qionghua and warn Dieyi to hold things down until he came back.
• The elders believed the voice and freed Dieyi, while she realized Ye Liang had spoken and thanked him as he prepared to leave.
• Ye Liang placed more restrictions around Dieyi’s room, then departed with a map to search for a cultivator inheritance.

Ye Liang joined Han Li on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to seek the tomb of Han Li’s ancestor, Grand Buddha Zhang, despite fearing its dangers. While they slept, a group of Rogue Cultivators discovered the ancient tomb and began raiding it.

• Han Li told Ye Liang that Grand Buddha Zhang was a legendary tomb robber who had been trapped in the Qinghai-Tibet Ancient Tomb three hundred years earlier.
• Ye Liang tried to leave, but Han Li revealed that Grand Buddha Zhang was his ancestor and persuaded Ye Liang to keep accompanying him.
• Ye Liang agreed to stay with Han Li for a while, warning that he would leave if they encountered danger.
• A group of Rogue Cultivators found bloodstained soil on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and began digging a tunnel into the ancient tomb.
• After checking the airflow, the cultivators descended into the tomb in search of treasure.

Ye Liang accompanied Han Li toward a tomb and rescued Wang Quanfugui by frightening off a Poison Fire Rock Lizard. After Ye Liang left without learning his name, Wang Quanfugui swore to repay his benefactor, while Ye Liang sneezed on the way to the tomb.

• Ye Liang accepted Han Li’s invitation to join his tomb raid, and Han Li took him aboard the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle.
• A Poison Fire Rock Lizard spat out Wang Quanfugui, a poisoned survivor of a group of six cultivators who had entered the tomb.
• Ye Liang made the lizard flee with a casually thrown stone, leaving Han Li astonished by its reaction.
• Ye Liang offered Wang Quanfugui a collection of pills, then left with Han Li without asking his name.
• Wang Quanfugui recognized Ye Liang as a powerful benefactor, took antidote pills, and swore to repay him; Ye Liang sneezed and suspected someone was badmouthing him.

Ye Liang and Han Li were pulled into a mysterious formation beneath the tomb raider's tunnel, where a red-furred ape attacked them. Ye Liang rescued Han Li from the ape's grasp, and the two faced the creature.

• Ye Liang recognized the tunnel as one dug by the tomb raider they had met, but Han Li stopped him from leaving.
• A surge of air carrying Law Power pulled Ye Liang and Han Li into the tunnel despite their resistance.
• They landed on a buoyant pool in a dark formation that suppressed Law Power, and Ye Liang searched for an exit.
• A red-furred arm seized Han Li and dragged him away while he could not move or call out.
• Ye Liang's hidden true self cut off the arm with the Isolation Rod and confronted the red-furred ape after using a Shadow Clone as a decoy.

Ye Liang and Han Li discovered that a red-furred Ominous Red Ape guarded the pool and learned the space was an inescapable formation. Ye Liang brought Han Li underwater to seek the Formation Eye, where they found the ape holding a glowing gemstone, but the pool transformed as Ye Liang charged toward it.

• The Ominous Red Ape dodged Ye Liang’s surprise attack, and Han Li identified it as a cursed guardian beast controlled by an evil cultivator.
• Ye Liang and Han Li flew above the pool but found themselves trapped in a looping space with no visible exit.
• Ye Liang concluded the Formation Eye had to lie beneath the pool and dragged Han Li underwater despite the ape’s presence.
• Ye Liang taught Han Li a Chakra circulation route that let him move through the water more easily.
• Ye Liang spotted the red ape holding the glowing Formation Eye gemstone and rushed toward it, triggering the water to turn into crushing black mud.

Ye Liang and Han Li became trapped in a tomb after an Anti-Air Barrier blocked their escape, and they entered a sealed chamber to flee the Golden Core auras in a ravine. Han Li identified the Buddha statues as an Evil Buddha Soul Devouring Array, which began pulling Ye Liang’s soul from his body.

• Ye Liang and Han Li emerged from the underground pool into a foul-smelling cemetery, where an Anti-Air Barrier stopped Ye Liang from flying out.
• Ye Liang agreed to accompany Han Li in searching for Han Li’s ancestor, and they followed the tomb passage to a bronze gate beside a ravine.
• Ye Liang spotted countless red eyes and sensed many Golden Core auras in the ravine, so he kicked open the bronze gate and dragged Han Li inside.
• The bronze gate shut behind them, and a magic array prevented Ye Liang from using Earth Release to escape.
• Han Li recognized the Buddha statues as an Evil Buddha Soul Devouring Array, and the statues began devouring Ye Liang’s soul.

Ye Liang rescued Han Li from the Buddha Statues and escaped through a random teleport into another part of the graveyard, where they discovered a sealed coffin bound with chains and Netherworld King's Water talismans. As they fled from the pursuing burning ladybugs, the insects destroyed the coffin's seals, and a blood-wrapped corpse emerged, raging at Long Ju for betraying its empire.

• Ye Liang kicked the burning ladybugs into the Buddha Statues, weakening their hold on Han Li's soul so he could pull it back into his body.
• Ye Liang hid with Han Li from the ladybugs, then used Flying Thunder God to teleport them randomly into another cavern in the graveyard.
• Ye Liang and Han Li found a suspended coffin sealed with green talismans, and Han Li identified the liquid on them as Netherworld King's Water.
• Han Li explained that the Rebirth Coffin and its restraints were meant to contain a corpse more powerful than a Golden Core cultivator.
• Ye Liang and Han Li fled when the burning ladybugs chased them into the passage, and the insects burned away the coffin's talismans.
• The coffin fell, its chains snapped, and a blood-wrapped corpse emerged, accusing Long Ju of betraying its empire.

Ye Liang and Han Li fled the ladybugs but were weakened by a freezing wind, which drove them toward murals at the end of the path. Han Li was eaten by figures emerging from a mural, but Ye Liang forced them to return his body, and Han Li revived as they faced his ancestor’s blood-written warning.

• Han Li became too weak to walk as a freezing wind drained his strength, so Ye Liang carried him farther down the path until they reached warmer air.
• Ye Liang and Han Li found murals at the path’s end, where Han Li recognized a blood-written Zhang mark as his ancestor’s warning.
• The mural shattered, and several faces emerged to eat Han Li, tearing his body apart before transforming into lifelike figures.
• Ye Liang attacked the figures until they spat out Han Li’s body parts, which reassembled and brought Han Li back to life.
• Han Li explained that his ancestor’s blood-written mark warned of an extreme threat that required invincible strength to face.

Ye Liang and Han Li discovered that the wrapped corpse was the king of the Kuye Kingdom and learned that the Main Tomb Chamber held the imperial advisor’s inheritance and a way to suppress the tomb’s owner. Ye Liang lured the corpse away so Han Li could open the chamber, then hid inside the corpse’s coffin as it searched the stalactite cave.

• Han Li read the tomb’s inscriptions and learned that its owner had assassinated the Kuye Kingdom’s king, whose body was sealed in a silver coffin.
• Ye Liang and Han Li recognized the wandering wrapped corpse as the king, and Han Li found that the Main Tomb Chamber contained an inheritance and a method to suppress the tomb’s owner.
• Ye Liang used Shadow Camouflage to draw the corpse away while Han Li prepared to open the chamber door.
• Ye Liang endured the corpse’s deadly cold and ran toward the stalactite cave as it pursued him.
• Ye Liang hid inside the corpse’s former coffin, and the corpse searched the cave without detecting him.

Ye Liang survived a close encounter with the Tribulation Transcending Stage corpse and joined Han Li in trying to open the Main Tomb Chamber. His desperate attack shattered the wall but revealed no doorway, and the corpse’s locked-on punch was about to hit him.

• Ye Liang hid in the Reincarnation Coffin as the corpse searched it, then escaped when the corpse became distracted by thoughts of Long Ju.
• Ye Liang returned to Han Li, who said the writing identified a wall as the entrance to the Main Tomb Chamber, but their combined strength could not open it.
• As the corpse approached, Ye Liang and Han Li pushed harder, and Ye Liang’s Shadow Camouflage dropped, exposing him.
• Ye Liang gathered his Law Power and struck the wall with Ultimate—Daytime Tiger, breaking away rubble but finding only solid rock behind it.
• The corpse launched a punch that locked onto Ye Liang, and a miracle occurred just before it struck.

Ye Liang and Han Li escaped the tomb corpse through a hidden teleportation wall, but arrived in a sealed prison where their powers were suppressed. Han Li revealed she was a woman named Zhang Li and identified the skeleton as her ancestor, while she and Ye Liang remained trapped with no way out.

• Ye Liang and Han Li passed through a hidden wall into a space channel, escaping the corpse as it destroyed the teleportation wall and blamed Long Ju.
• They emerged in a prison filled with torture tools, where Ye Liang discovered that he and Han Li had lost their powers.
• Han Li knelt before the skeleton, identified it as her ancestor Grand Buddha Zhang, and explained that she had concealed her family name and gender as Zhang Li.
• Han Li let down her hair and revealed her female appearance, prompting an awkward exchange with Ye Liang about her flat chest.
• Ye Liang searched the prison but found no exit, and he and Han Li feared they would be trapped there forever.

Ye Liang and Han Li crawled through the tunnel Grand Buddha Zhang had dug, then spent countless years breaking through the rock beyond it. They reached the prison corridor, but the Gong Beater attacked Ye Liang and tore off his arm, leaving Han Li to drag him back to the cell.

• Ye Liang found Grand Buddha Zhang's finger-dug tunnel beneath the statue and crawled into it with Han Li.
• Ye Liang discovered the tunnel ended at solid rock and vowed to keep digging until they escaped.
• Ye Liang and Han Li spent countless years striking the rock until they broke through into the prison corridor.
• Ye Liang saw the Gong Beater guarding the exit and held Han Li back while he approached.
• The Gong Beater attacked Ye Liang, tore off his arm, and knocked him unconscious, so Han Li dragged him back to the cell.

Ye Liang woke from his coma and learned that the Gong Beater had eaten his severed arm. After a hundred days of recovery, Ye Liang ambushed and killed the Gong Beater when it opened their cell, then collapsed from exhaustion beside Han Li.

• Ye Liang woke under Han Li's care and learned that the Gong Beater had eaten his arm.
• Ye Liang comforted Han Li, who blamed herself for his injury and had counted the hundred days he slept by marking the wall with her blood.
• After waking, Ye Liang hid in the tunnel behind a straw dummy while the Gong Beater arrived with a ring of keys.
• The Gong Beater unlocked the cell and lunged at Han Li, but Ye Liang struck it with the Bronze Gong.
• Ye Liang smashed the Gong Beater's head until its deathly aura disappeared, then collapsed from exhaustion.

Ye Liang and Han Li found a living Scholar imprisoned in the tomb and learned that the exit was guarded. Ye Liang opened the exit door despite his foreboding, and the two shriveled guards suddenly opened their eyes.

• Ye Liang woke Han Li, and the two left the cell where Gong Beater’s corpse lay, taking the prison key.
• At a cell near the exit, Ye Liang and Han Li discovered a living Scholar who asked them to unlock his cell; he claimed to be a Tomb Raiding Venerable trapped in a Space-Time Tomb.
• Ye Liang suspected the Scholar was scheming when he watched the lock, so Ye Liang took Han Li away without freeing him.
• At the vermilion wooden door, Ye Liang felt a deadly threat but used the key and stepped outside with Han Li.
• As Ye Liang passed between two shriveled prison guards, they opened their eyes and glared at him.

Ye Liang escaped the jailer’s attack and negotiated with the trapped Scholar, demanding an Inner Demon Oath before freeing him. The Scholar, Ou Haoyang, swore not to harm Ye Liang, leaving Ye Liang and Han Li with the choice of whether to release him.

• Ye Liang used the bronze gong to survive the jailer’s strike, crawled through the doorway, and shut the red door with Han Li’s help.
• Ye Liang assessed the jailer’s strength and realized he needed powerful allies to escape through the Vermilion Gate.
• Ye Liang and Han Li approached the Scholar, whose youthful appearance had vanished, and Ye Liang demanded that he explain himself before they helped him.
• The Scholar offered to help defeat the jailer if Ye Liang released him, but Ye Liang demanded an Inner Demon Oath first.
• Ou Haoyang swore that he would never harm Ye Liang if Ye Liang saved him.