Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang freed Ou Haoyang, but the Scholar exploited a loophole in his oath and wounded Han Li before leaving. As Ye Liang pursued him through an ancient city, Han Li identified it as the legendary Kuye Kingdom, whose mysterious power could greatly extend lifespans.

• Ye Liang released Ou Haoyang, who defeated the guards and left without acknowledging him.
• Ou Haoyang stabbed Han Li with a Ghost-Head Blade, and Ye Liang carried her away after sealing the Yin Qi in her leg.
• The King of the Kuye Kingdom broke through his seal and entered the prison after Ye Liang and Han Li had left.
• Ye Liang followed Ou Haoyang through a ruined ancient city and sensed the force that revived the dead and suppressed his power.
• Han Li recognized the city as the Kuye Kingdom and explained that its people used a Yin-infused power to strengthen their bodies and live much longer.

Ye Liang tried to absorb the prison’s icy power to break his seal, but the Kuye King reached the prison while Ye Liang was frozen. Elsewhere, Scholar found Imperial Advisor Long Ju in a crystal coffin and fought her.

• Han Li explained that Grand Buddha Zhang had sought to use the special power to protect his descendants and lift their curse.
• Ye Liang broke into a stone room and inhaled its icy power, which froze him and Han Li while his sealed strength began to recover.
• The Kuye King passed the frozen Ye Liang and continued deeper into the prison, so Ye Liang focused on recovering enough strength to escape.
• Scholar found Imperial Advisor Long Ju in a crystal coffin and attacked her after she emerged.
• Long Ju used a Charm Spell and dodged Scholar’s attacks, then withdrew and complained that he was not going easy on her.

Scholar fought Long Ju for Kuye Kingdom’s secret to longevity and the secret of the Immortal Artifact, but Kuye King intervened. Kuye King and Scholar both fell in battle, and Kuye King declared that only he could kill Long Ju.

• Scholar struck Long Ju and demanded the secret of the Immortal Artifact, revealing that he knew she came from the Immortal Realm.
• Kuye King appeared and attacked Scholar with freezing power to claim the right to kill Long Ju himself.
• Scholar activated Fire Dragon King Mode and blasted Kuye King with the Roar of the Fire Dragon.
• Kuye King charged through the flames, knocked Scholar unconscious, then collapsed as his Dao heart and soul failed.
• Long Ju caught Kuye King and cried over his choice to stay and fight, while he insisted that no other man could touch her.

Ye Liang escaped the collapsing graveyard space with a mysterious dagger and arrived at the ruins of the Kuye Kingdom, where Long Ju asked him to close Kuye King's coffin. He learned that the dagger could take him out of the void, but only if he helped Long Ju.

• As the Imperial Advisor's death destabilized the graveyard space, Ye Liang used Flying Thunder God to escape with Han Li.
• Ye Liang emerged in a void, protected Han Li from a dagger, and was pulled along by it at tremendous speed.
• The dagger brought Ye Liang to a desolate land, where he found Long Ju carrying Kuye King's corpse into a crystal coffin.
• Long Ju identified herself as the master of the graveyard and asked Ye Liang to close the coffin in exchange for the dagger.
• Ye Liang tested his Flying Thunder God Technique and confirmed that it no longer worked in the ruins.

Ye Liang learned from the fox that his Immortal Physique preserved his body from deterioration, then mastered the Ice Sealing Art she taught him. The fox warned that the art had corrupted her husband’s mind and began recounting how his ambition to bring the Kuye Kingdom to the Immortal Realm led him to target a neighboring kingdom.

• Ye Liang failed to lift the crystal coffin, and the fox discovered that he was a Nascent Soul cultivator with an Immortal Physique.
• The fox explained that Ye Liang’s Immortal Physique prevented his body’s energy from dissipating, though he could still be killed.
• The fox revealed that she was an immortal exiled from the Immortal Realm and asked Ye Liang to help her die beside her husband, but he could not move the coffin.
• The fox taught Ye Liang the Cultivation Technique for the Power of Ice Sealing, and he practiced until its chill became part of his bearing.
• The fox warned Ye Liang that the Ice Sealing Art could erode its cultivator’s mind and described how her husband’s ambition to ascend with the Kuye Kingdom led him to target a neighboring kingdom.

The fox recounted how Ye Wushuang rescued her from ancient martial artists, bringing the City of Kuye into conflict with the martial world. She explained that their bond eventually led her to teach him and the Kuye Kingdom Immortal Realm cultivation methods, revealing the secret of immortality.

• The fox told Ye Liang that Bei Baifa had cornered her in the desert after she fled the Mahayana martial artists hunting her.
• Ye Wushuang defeated Bei Baifa and more than ten Mahayana experts, making the City of Kuye an enemy of ancient martial artists.
• The fox explained that Ye Wushuang had rescued her because the experts had trespassed in Kuye territory and he had never seen an immortal before.
• The fox said that she and Ye Wushuang gradually developed feelings for each other while she remained in his kingdom.
• The fox revealed that Ye Wushuang fought the world rather than hand her over, so she taught him and the Kuye Kingdom Immortal Realm cultivation methods.

The fox told Ye Liang that ascension sent mortals into an ongoing war between Ancient Martial Artists and the Immortal Realm, and explained why the Kuye Kingdom had tried to ascend. Ye Liang broke through to the Soul Transformation Realm and prepared to close the fox’s coffin, while fifty years passed outside and Dieyi faced the Bai-Style Army’s assault on the old capital.

• The fox explained that the Immortal Realm’s Sovereign sealed the passage between realms and that Terrestrial Deities could stand against ordinary cultivators.
• The fox confessed that her clan had been sent to the front lines and that she sealed her husband after he tried to strengthen his people through sacrificial refinement.
• Ye Liang broke through to the Soul Transformation Realm and learned that future breakthroughs might draw Heavenly Tribulations.
• The fox asked Ye Liang to use his Immortal Physique and Soul Transformation Realm strength to close the coffin, and he took hold of its lid.
• Fifty years passed as the Bai-Style Army overwhelmed the Diancang Sect and besieged the old imperial capital of Great Yuan.
• Dieyi killed a guard who brought her bad news and lamented that Ye Liang had not come to help her.

Bai Louxie captured the old capital and accepted Dieyi’s crown, only to discover that it bound him to the mortal realm’s dragon aura. As Xuanhu Sect cultivators began their dragon-slaying ritual, Dieyi escaped and the fate of the new emperor was left uncertain.

• Bai Louxie entered the old capital with Bai Li'er and demanded that Dieyi give up the throne.
• Dieyi challenged Bai Louxie to a personal fight, then knelt, removed her crown, and declared that Bai should become emperor.
• When Bai Louxie hesitated to take the crown, Dieyi placed it on his head, revealing ghostly shadows and binding chains visible only to him.
• Dieyi laughed that she was finally free and ran away while Bai Louxie struggled against the chains.
• Xuanhu Sect cultivators pulled the chains and began dragging the phantom of a true dragon from Bai Louxie, targeting the dragon aura he had inherited with the crown.

Bai Louxie’s dragon soul resisted as the Xuanhu Sect and other cultivators tried to extract its dragon qi, suffering deadly backlash. Just as the sect prepared to continue, an unknown young man shattered the chains and appeared in the sky.

• Bai Louxie’s dragon soul fought the chains as crimson rain and the True Dragon’s backlash killed cultivators pulling them.
• More than a thousand Xuanhu Sect cultivators joined the effort, and Bai Louxie rose into the air as his dragon qi was extracted.
• The True Dragon’s lightning struck down cultivators, while the Xuanhu Sect formed a defensive formation against its attacks.
• A Mahayana Bone Hammer cultivator attacked the exposed dragon head, but the True Dragon shattered his weapon, and he fled.
• The Xuanhu Sect elder warned that extracting the dragon qi was not enough because they still had to disperse it to absorb it.
• A thunderclap shattered more than ten chains and obliterated the disciples pulling them, and the Azure Sword elder confronted a young man standing in the sky.

Tuotuo revealed that he had become a Terrestrial Deity and faced down the Xuanhu Sect cultivators, but a gathering of powerful Rogue Cultivators soon threatened to overwhelm him. As the Dragon Slaying Feast turned toward seizing Bai Louxie's dragon aura, the emperor defied the immortals, though they dismissed him as an insignificant mortal.

• Tuotuo declared himself a Terrestrial Deity and demanded that the Xuanhu Sect cultivators withdraw.
• Tuotuo shattered a cultivator's Magic Tool with his head and repelled the Azure Sword elder's attack.
• Powerful Rogue Cultivators emerged, including the White Lotus Sacred Lord and Zhu Changdao, and the Xuanhu Sect's suicide squad withdrew.
• The Rogue Cultivators gathered for the Dragon Slaying Feast, intending to take Bai Louxie's dragon aura and use it to advance toward immortality.
• Bai Louxie rejected their claim to his dragon aura, but Tuotuo and the cultivators disregarded his defiance.

Rogue Cultivators attacked Tuotuo as they competed for the mortal dragon aura, but Bai Louxie awakened the true dragon’s power and merged with it. True Lord Haotian arrived and restrained the transformed Mortal Emperor, leaving Tuotuo to decide how to protect the mortal realm.

• Rogue Cultivators surrounded Tuotuo and attacked him, so he summoned the Nascent Soul Ghost Cultivator sealed inside the Silver Needle.
• Tuotuo tried to take Bai Louxie away, but Bai Louxie refused rescue and awakened the true dragon by asserting his will as the Mortal Emperor.
• The true dragon drove the Rogue Cultivators away and merged with Bai Louxie, mastering its power as a true dragon of the mortal realm.
• The Xuanhu Sect’s sect master, True Lord Haotian, arrived and bound the true dragon with an iron chain and the Haotian Mirror.
• Tuotuo prepared to intervene because he feared the mortal realm would be left without a protector if the true dragon fell.

Tuotuo and the True Dragon fought True Lord Haotian, but Mahayana cultivators turned on the dragon to protect their chance of entering the Immortal Realm. After Bai Louxie’s body was slain and the dragon soul escaped, Haotian and the others rushed to claim its power, leaving Tuotuo convinced the Mortal Realm was doomed.

• Tuotuo cracked the Haotian Mirror, freeing the True Dragon, and joined him in battling True Lord Haotian.
• Their battle tore through the planes, sending floodwaters into the Ancient Martial Plane and threatening countless lives.
• True Lord Haotian retreated as cultivators realized the destruction could bring heavenly retribution, but some Mahayana cultivators attacked the True Dragon anyway.
• The Mortal Emperor was injured in the fighting, and the cultivators’ combined assault killed Bai Louxie’s dragon vessel.
• True Lord Haotian ordered the independent cultivators to seize the escaped dragon soul, while Tuotuo descended in despair over the Mortal Realm’s fate.

Cultivators fought over the dragon soul while Ye Liang emerged from the void and learned that the mortal world's true dragon had been slain. After discovering the dragon soul might still be saved, Ye Liang and Tuotuo set out to pursue it.

• Haotian sent the Xuanhu Sect's suicide squad into the battle for the dragon soul, as hidden cultivators and desperate families joined the fighting.
• Ye Liang emerged from the void, and Ah Li recognized him and asked him to save her brother, Bai Louxie.
• Ye Liang told Ah Li that Bai Louxie was missing and promised to investigate while she and the generals left the dangerous area.
• Ye Liang met Tuotuo, who told him the mortal world's true dragon had been slaughtered and that the dragon soul had flown away half an incense stick earlier.
• Tuotuo warned that powerful cultivators were pursuing the dragon soul, and Ye Liang revealed his Soul Transformation-stage power before they prepared to chase it.

Ye Liang and Tuotuo followed the dragon aura to Diancang Mountain, where they discovered a hidden forbidden zone beneath the former Diancang Sect. They found Earthcore Energy underground and a familiar Whisk Magic Item, leaving them with a new clue about the dragon soul.

• Ye Liang and Tuotuo hid from a group of Nascent Soul Rogue Cultivators searching Diancang Mountain for the dragon soul.
• Tuotuo told Ye Liang about a forbidden zone beneath the mountain, accessible through a deep well in the ancestral hall.
• Ye Liang moved the boulder covering the well, releasing dragon aura that drew powerful cultivators back to the mountain, then sealed the opening as he and Tuotuo descended.
• Ye Liang and Tuotuo searched the old buildings at the bottom of the well before following underground passages deeper into the forbidden zone.
• Tuotuo identified a milky-white underground water vein as Earthcore Energy and found a familiar Whisk Magic Item submerged in it.

Ye Liang and Tuotuo found a weakened dragon soul and fought a strange fish that had drained the underground river. After the dragon soul grew stronger, Tuotuo learned that it was True Person Qionghua, whose hidden soul fragment had been swallowed by it.

• Ye Liang recognized True Person Qionghua's whisk in the forbidden land and followed the underground river with Tuotuo.
• Ye Liang and Tuotuo found the tiny dragon soul and were attacked by swordfish and a humanoid fish creature that had drained the river.
• Ye Liang restrained the creature while Tuotuo struck it until it disgorged the river, then Ye Liang crushed it after it reverted to a swordfish.
• Tuotuo learned from the dragon soul that True Person Qionghua had manipulated Diancang's history and had been swallowed by the dragon soul while preparing to reincarnate.

Ye Liang fell into the Demon Space, where masked demons bound him above a bonfire. After enduring their ritual with help from a mysterious, powerful cultivator, he was freed and asked whether he had come to seal demons.

• Ye Liang and Tuotuo fell through a split in the rock after Dragon Soul explained that it had found Diancang Sect’s forbidden grounds.
• Ye Liang woke bound above a bonfire in the Demon Space, surrounded by masked, multicolored-eyed hulks.
• Ye Liang spoke with an amnesiac cultivator who said the space sealed demons and had not been entered for hundreds of thousands of years.
• The mysterious man blinked and restored some of Ye Liang’s strength, allowing him to use his laws to withstand the flames.
• After three shichen, the hulks left and Ye Liang and the other cultivator jumped down from their bonfires.
• Ye Liang approached the mysterious man, who asked whether he had come to the Demon Space to seal demons.

Ye Liang learned about the ancient demons sealed in the space and discovered there was no way for him to escape. When Tuotuo appeared, the man exposed him as a demon wearing Tuotuo’s form and warned that the real Tuotuo was likely dead.

• Ye Liang told the man that dragon energy was leaking in the mortal world, and the man warned that the damaged energy could weaken the seal holding the Cannibal Demons.
• The man explained that ancient Saint Spirit Experts had sealed the demons and described the realms of Saint Spirits, Saints, and Sages.
• Ye Liang asked how to leave the sealed space, but the man said the gravity seal made reaching its Formation Eye impossible.
• Tuotuo appeared and told Ye Liang that people had captured and roasted him before letting him go.
• The man struck Tuotuo, revealing that he was a demon disguised as Tuotuo and that the real Tuotuo was likely dead.

Ye Liang realized Tuotuo had been eaten by a demon impersonator and followed a surviving man to an underground chamber, where he studied ancient cultivation manuals. After resisting a series of demonic illusions, he opened the chamber door and found the woman from outside appearing behind him.

• Ye Liang recognized that the skeleton was likely Tuotuo and fled with the man to his underground chamber.
• The man warned Ye Liang not to open the door at night and went out to find food.
• Ye Liang studied the ancient manuals and found that the Flying Thunder Movement made his body much lighter and improved his reactions.
• A woman begged Ye Liang to open the door, but he ignored her pleas and the apparent attack outside.
• Maggots appeared to pour into the chamber, and Ye Liang opened the door to escape before realizing the maggots had been an illusion.
• The woman appeared behind Ye Liang and shrieked, asking why he had not saved her.

Ye Liang defeated the headless woman in the locked room, only to discover that the room was still dangerous when Tuotuo returned and attacked him. The creature impersonating Tuotuo revealed itself, leaving Ye Liang facing a new threat.

• The headless woman immobilized Ye Liang with the red glow from her severed head, strangled him, and tore off his head.
• Ye Liang played dead until the woman blocked the gap, then reattached his head, broke her spine, and smashed her body apart.
• Tuotuo arrived with a key and claimed that a big brother had sent him to the room for shelter.
• Tuotuo pretended to offer Ye Liang something, then attacked him with spikes hidden in his sleeve.
• Ye Liang used the Tenseigan to become intangible and evade the spikes, then saw that Tuotuo had transformed into a bizarre creature with compound eyes.

Ye Liang escaped the basement and found Tuotuo bound and mutilated in the strongmen’s camp. Tuotuo revealed that a Black-clothed Woman had bitten off his limbs, while the strongmen’s strange power prevented Ye Liang from treating or rescuing him safely.

• Ye Liang fled the basement and hid among the strongmen, whose lack of reaction let him search their tents.
• Ye Liang heard Tuotuo calling for help and found him tied to a post with his arms and legs severed.
• Ye Liang confirmed Tuotuo was real and tried to heal him, but the strongmen repeatedly entered whenever he used his power.
• Tuotuo woke and explained that the strongmen could sense power and suppress cultivation, preventing his escape.
• Tuotuo told Ye Liang that a Black-clothed Woman had dragged him from the bonfire and bitten off his limbs.