Chapter Summaries

Yan Bingyun and Ye Liang uncovered that the Chunyu Organization’s fighters were Divine Sense Clones, while Ye Liang remained sealed and unable to move. In the Sky Fox Realm, Wang Peng tortured Purple Jade Immortal to lure out the hidden Sky Foxes, whose watchers recognized his appearance as familiar.

• Yan Bingyun killed the black-robed leader and his fleeing subordinates after Ye Liang’s seal left him unable to move.
• Ye Liang explained that the Chunyu Organization’s fighters had been transformed from ordinary people into Divine Sense Clones by a powerful being.
• Yan Bingyun carried Ye Liang into an empty earthen house while he worked to undo the seal.
• Wang Peng and the village chief reached a dense forest in the Sky Fox Realm with the poisoned and wounded Purple Jade Immortal.
• Wang Peng beat Purple Jade Immortal to provoke the Sky Foxes hiding nearby into revealing themselves.
• Bai Fei stopped the younger Sky Fox women from attacking and wondered where she had seen Wang Peng before.

Bai Fei’s group watched Wang Peng overpower the Celestial Fox women with the Anti-Immortal Poison, while Zi Ling emerged from seclusion as a Saint and hurried to confront him. Seeing the injured foxes, Zi Ling recognized that the man was not Ye Liang and prepared to act.

• Ziyan and several Celestial Fox women attacked Wang Peng, but he used black qi to knock them unconscious.
• Wang Peng boasted that the Holy Lord’s Anti-Immortal Poison made him a match for even a Saint.
• Bai Fei withdrew with the remaining women and decided that Zi Ling should handle the outsiders.
• Zi Ling broke free of her ice sphere after successfully advancing to Saint and sensed a dark aura near Wang Peng.
• The women told Zi Ling that a man claiming to be Ye Liang had attacked their companions, so she flew to investigate.
• Zi Ling saw Wang Peng and the injured foxes, concluded he was an impostor, and refused to believe Ye Liang would harm them.

Zi Ling confronted Wang Peng after he impersonated Ye Liang and revealed his plan to capture her. Wang Peng drained Lin Pingping’s life to recover and grow stronger, then challenged Zi Ling again.

• Zi Ling attacked Wang Peng with ice shards, and he revealed that Spring Rain had sent him to capture her as a concubine for a powerful figure.
• Zi Ling’s icy power overwhelmed Wang Peng’s black aura, leaving him kneeling despite his claims about dark power.
• Wang Peng lured Lin Pingping with the promise of immortality, and Lin Pingping admitted he wanted to escape mortal life.
• Lin Pingping accused Zi Ling of hiding the truth about spiritual roots, citing Pang Hu’s cultivation, and rushed toward Wang Peng.
• A black snake drained Lin Pingping’s life, raising Wang Peng from the Third Tier to the Fifth Tier of Saint Spirit and healing his injuries.
• Wang Peng turned on Zi Ling and challenged her to fight again.

Ye Liang killed Wang Peng after trapping him with the Demon Extermination Barrier and pulling out his soul, then treated Zi Ling’s poison. Yan Bingyun reported that Lin Pingping had fled and the abducted Celestial Fox Clan members were dead, while Ye Liang learned that mortals and smugglers could enter the Immortal World despite the Rainbow Bridge.

• Wang Peng revived after Ye Liang decapitated him, revealing that the Body and Mind Transformation Technique had copied Ye Liang’s immortality and other passive abilities.
• Ye Liang slowed and froze Wang Peng with the Demon Extermination Barrier, then used Soul Stripping to remove his soul and kill him.
• Yan Bingyun brought Ye Liang to Zi Ling, and Ye Liang froze and removed the remaining poison from Zi Ling’s body.
• Yan Bingyun said Lin Pingping had fled and all the abducted Celestial Fox Clan members appeared to be dead.
• Yan Bingyun explained that mortals and smugglers could enter the Immortal World by special means, making Ye Liang doubt the Rainbow Bridge’s security.

Ye Liang accompanied Zi Ling to the Sky Fox Clan after the attack on God-Hidden Village and asked for help with the Ice Sealing Profound Spirit Art, which Zi Ling mistook as a wish to marry her. The next day, Yan Bingyun told him the clan had finalized a preliminary plan for God-Hidden Village and wanted to verify some matters with him.

• Ye Liang and Zi Ling agreed that the villagers of God-Hidden Village had all participated in Lin Pingping's plan, and Zi Ling took Ye Liang back to her clan to report the disturbance and let him recover.
• Zi Ling warned Ye Liang about tensions between the Sky Fox Clan's Purple and White Clans, then led him through a waterfall into the clan's cave home.
• Ye Liang asked Zi Ling for help obtaining the Ice Sealing Profound Spirit Art, but she mistook his inner demon and determination for a confession of love and agreed to be with him.
• Ye Liang accepted Zi Ling's declaration that they would be family, while Yan Bingyun privately lamented that she had no chance with him.
• The next day, Yan Bingyun told Ye Liang that the Sky Fox Clan had confirmed a preliminary plan for dealing with God-Hidden Village and wanted to verify some matters with him.

Zi Ling agreed to marry Ye Liang, and the Sky Fox Clan prepared to hold their wedding in the cavern. Yan Bingyun was accepted into the clan, while Ye Liang remained confused about how quickly the ceremony was moving.

• Yan Bingyun told Ye Liang she would leave and wander the world if the Sky Fox Clan would not take her in, then teased him about not expecting her blessing when he married.
• Zi Ling told the Sky Fox Clan elders she had decided to marry Ye Liang, and an elder read a letter from Zi Yao supporting the match.
• Ye Liang entered the cavern and greeted the elder presiding over the clan as she welcomed him as Zi Ling's chosen husband.
• Yan Bingyun asked the elder to take her in as her late master's disciple, and the elder approved her application and directed her to handle the paperwork.
• The Sky Fox Clan brought out wedding decorations and arranged the ceremony, while Ye Liang wondered what was happening as the elder placed his hand on Zi Ling's arm.

Ye Liang mistook the Sky Fox Clan’s wedding ceremony for a ritual to obtain the Ice Sealing Profound Spirit Art, while Zi Ling and Bai Xian argued over their relationship. Ye Liang accepted Bai Xian’s challenge and the two prepared to duel with secret arts as stakes.

• Ye Liang dressed in wedding clothes assumed the ceremony was required to borrow the Ice Sealing Profound Spirit Art, and Zi Ling took his hand as they stood together.
• Bai Xian stormed in with guards to disrupt the ceremony, and the old woman scolded him over his feelings for Zi Ling and the clans’ rivalry.
• Zi Ling declared that she and Ye Liang were together, while Ye Liang misunderstood Bai Xian’s objections and advised him to let go.
• Bai Xian challenged Ye Liang to a duel, and Ye Liang accepted despite the old woman’s protests.
• Ye Liang offered a nameless Demon Race secret art as a stake, and Bai Xian produced an azure ancient book radiating cold air.

Ye Liang fought Prince Bai of the Sky Fox Clan for the Profound Spirit Ice Sealing Art, which he believed could save him from Demonic Poison. After Prince Bai overwhelmed him with ancient secret arts, Ye Liang discovered that losing meant forfeiting the book and resolved to fight seriously.

• Ye Liang entered the arena and discovered Prince Bai possessed the aura of a Saint Great Perfection, half-step Sage.
• Prince Bai wounded Ye Liang with his steel claws and evaded his Shadow Clone attack using the Sky Fox Clan’s ancient secret arts.
• Ye Liang considered surrendering, but learned that the Profound Spirit Ice Sealing Art was the match’s prize and that he could not obtain it if he lost.
• Ye Liang revealed his fierce killing intent and raised his Alloy Blade, determined to defeat Prince Bai.

Ye Liang defeated Bai Xian and obtained the Ice Sealing Profound Spirit Art, which could cure his Demonic Poison. As he was led through a ceremony with Zi Ling, he realized the Zi Clan had tricked him into a wedding.

• Ye Liang overwhelmed Bai Xian with a barrage of techniques, and the old woman explained that Ye Liang had been holding back and could already have killed him.
• After Bai Xian challenged Ye Liang to fight seriously, Ye Liang used the Body Flicker Technique to stab him through the chest and win the duel.
• Bai Xian stopped his retainers from attacking Ye Liang, acknowledged his defeat, and warned him not to mistreat Zi Ling before leaving with his people.
• Ye Liang picked up the Ice Sealing Profound Spirit Art and celebrated that he could finally cure his Demonic Poison.
• The Zi Clan began the wedding ceremony, and Ye Liang realized that the bows and ceremonial robes meant he was being married to Zi Ling.

Ye Liang and Zi Ling resolved the problem of her missing Violet Spirit Pearl and married, though their icy bodies kept them from consummating the union. Three months later, Ye Liang began absorbing the pearl’s frosty essence in a cave outside God-Hidden Village, risking the process to cultivate the Profound Spirit Ice Sealing Method.

• The old woman told Zi Ling that a Sky Fox Clan marriage required her Violet Spirit Pearl, and Zi Ling confessed that she had lost it.
• Ye Liang produced the other half of Zi Ling’s pearl, and Zi Ling embraced him, believing they were destined to be together.
• Ye Liang and Zi Ling married, while the Sky Fox Clan restored order and guarded God-Hidden Village against Lin Pingping and the Chunyu Organization.
• Ye Liang learned that he needed the Violet Spirit Pearl to cultivate the Profound Spirit Ice Sealing Method and endure intimacy with Zi Ling.
• Three months later, Ye Liang entered a secluded cave outside God-Hidden Village and began drawing the pearl’s frosty essence into his divine consciousness.

Ye Liang absorbed Zi Ling’s Violet Spirit Pearl, restoring his soul power and gaining extreme resistance to cold. He then began cultivating the Ice Sealing Profound Spirit Art in hopes of breaking free from the Demon Race’s control.

• Ye Liang endured the Violet Spirit Pearl’s violent resistance as it froze his Sea of Consciousness, then adapted to its cold and absorbed its power.
• Ye Liang’s soul power fully recovered, and he scanned his attributes with the system.
• Ye Liang put away the shattered pearl and retrieved the Ice Sealing Profound Spirit Art.
• Ye Liang set up a Demon Extermination Barrier, studied the manual, and entered seclusion to cultivate its ice intent.

Ye Liang freed the demonic dragon from his body, but a lightning-wielding Saint destroyed it and told him the Slaughter Gate was willing to take him back. When Ye Liang returned to God-Hidden Village, he discovered Daoist Lei and other cultivators preparing to invade the Sky Fox Realm.

• Ye Liang tried to seal the demonic dragon with the Ice Sealing Profound Spirit Art, then decided to lure it away when it broke free.
• Daoist Lei arrived and destroyed the dragon with a bolt of violet lightning.
• Daoist Lei recognized Ye Liang as the Slaughter Gate disciple who had betrayed the sect and advised him to return and accept punishment.
• Daoist Lei reached God-Hidden Village, where a fat cultivator told him they had located the Sky Fox Clan's plane and were ready to invade.
• Ye Liang returned to the village, concealed himself at its entrance, and wondered why cultivators were there.

Ye Liang entered the besieged Celestial Fox village, learned that Thunder Gate had organized the attack, and discovered Lin Pingping inside the meeting hall. As Ye Liang watched, Rogue Cultivators attacked Lin Pingping and carried him away in a Storage Bag.

• Daoist Lei arrived at the Sky Fox gate and promised rewards to the Saints hauling it out of the void.
• Ye Liang learned that Thunder Gate had hired Rogue Cultivators to capture the Celestial Fox Clan and realized Daoist Lei was too strong for him to fight directly.
• Ye Liang restrained Yan Bingyun and brought her into an earthen house, where she explained how the Rogue Cultivators had attacked and driven the Celestial Fox sentries back to the village.
• Yan Bingyun led Ye Liang to the meeting hall and identified Lin Pingping as the likely source of the Celestial Fox Clan's location getting reported to Thunder Gate.
• Ye Liang watched Rogue Cultivators attack Lin Pingping, put him in a Storage Bag, and leave, then told Yan Bingyun to follow them.

Ye Liang discovered that Lin Pingping had survived, become a Saint Great Perfection, and betrayed the Celestial Fox Clan to seek entry to Thunder Gate. After killing him, Ye Liang headed toward the crisis at God-Hidden Village, where tens of thousands of Sky Fox Clan members faced the outlaw cultivators outside the gates.

• Ye Liang and Yan Bingyun followed Rogue Cultivators carrying Lin Pingping’s body to a cliff, where Lin Pingping suddenly revived and killed them.
• Lin Pingping sensed Ye Liang and revealed that a hundred years had passed while Ye Liang was in seclusion.
• Lin Pingping explained that he had reported the Celestial Fox Clan to Thunder Gate in exchange for a chance to cultivate there.
• Ye Liang killed Lin Pingping with True Meaning of Ice and then hurried toward the danger at the far end of God-Hidden Village.
• After the outlaw cultivators pulled Void Gate completely out of the void, tens of thousands of Sky Fox Clan members gathered inside the gates to face them.

Zi Ling and the Sky Fox Clan faced an imminent invasion while the White-Eared Youth Bai Xian pressured her to marry him. When Daoist Lei attacked the Gate of Void, Zi Ling and Bai Xian led their clans in forming the Sky Fox Yin-Yang Array.

• Zi Ling rejected Bai Xian’s demand that she give up on Ye Liang, insisting that Ye Liang would return after absorbing the Violet Spirit Pearl.
• Daoist Lei’s Lightning Dragon Surging Sky technique blasted open the Gate of Void and frightened the Sky Fox clanspeople.
• Zi Ling promised to lead the defense and urged the elders to help the clanspeople escape, while Bai Xian threatened to separate the Bai Clan from the Zi Clan.
• The elderly woman stopped Zi Ling and Bai Xian’s argument and ordered them to form the array.
• Tens of thousands of Sky Foxes took their positions and sent their spirit pearl power to Zi Ling and Bai Xian, who began forming the Sky Fox Yin-Yang Array.

The Sky Fox Clan escaped through the opening while Zi Ling and Bai Xian used the Sky Fox Yin-Yang Array to hold off Daoist Lei. They waited for Commander Ziyao to bring an order revoking the manhunt, but Daoist Lei claimed the Immortal Realm Alliance had arranged the clan’s persecution, leaving their hope of rescue uncertain.

• The Sky Fox phantom shattered the Heavenly Gate, allowing the Sky Fox clansmen to flee while Zi Ling and Bai Xian held off the immortals and Daoist Lei.
• The old woman and several clan elders led the main force away, leaving Zi Ling, Bai Xian, and the remaining elders to confront the Sage.
• Daoist Lei mocked Bai Qian and argued with Bai Xian over her choice to save a child from the Outer Domain.
• Zi Ling revealed that a clansman had gone to obtain a manhunt revocation order from the Immortal Realm Alliance, and Bai Xian urged her to hold out until Commander Ziyao arrived.
• Daoist Lei claimed Liu Huan had orchestrated the hunt because Bai Qian was blamed for Liu Yun’s death, while Bai Xian insisted the array could protect them until rescue came.

Ye Liang returned to the village and found Zi Ling and Bai Xian fighting Daoist Lei with a celestial fox phantom to buy time for the Sky Fox Clan to escape. After the phantom collapsed and Zi Ling fell, Ye Liang caught her and confronted Daoist Lei, ending the chapter preparing to fight in alloy armor.

• Ye Liang and Yan Bingyun reached the village and saw Daoist Lei attacking the celestial fox phantom with lightning.
• Zi Ling and Bai Xian exhausted themselves sustaining the phantom while the Sky Fox Clan escaped, and the phantom finally dissipated.
• Ye Liang caught Zi Ling as she fell, then flew up to face Daoist Lei and declared that he would protect his wife.
• Daoist Lei struck Ye Liang into a crater, but Ye Liang got up, put on alloy armor, and prepared to continue the fight.

Ye Liang fought Daoist Lei to protect the Celestial Fox Clan, but the Sage killed him with a single strike. As Daoist Lei moved to kill Zi Ling and the clan, she launched an icy attack that distracted him long enough for an alloy longsword to pierce his heart.

• Daoist Lei attacked Ye Liang with tribulation-level lightning, and Ye Liang used Body Flicker and Flying Thunder God to evade the barrage.
• Ye Liang activated the Demon Extermination Barrier, but Daoist Lei's Lightning Silk isolated him from its effects.
• Zi Ling urged Ye Liang to flee, but Daoist Lei severed Ye Liang's head with a single finger, leaving his Sage-realm soul kneeling in the clouds.
• Daoist Lei prepared to kill the Celestial Fox Clan, while Zi Ling closed her eyes and asked him to make her death swift.
• Zi Ling suddenly unleashed an icy aura that distracted Daoist Lei, and an alloy longsword pierced his left ventricle.

Ye Liang survived Daoist Lei’s beheading and discovered that a Sage could wield Disorderly Force, which let Daoist Lei control the world and injure him without using his own power. Recognizing that Daoist Lei had spared them and wanted to recruit him, Ye Liang accepted him as Master and learned that the Immortal World faced a trial requiring someone below the Sage realm.

• Ye Liang reattached his head, restrained Daoist Lei with the Demon Extermination Barrier, and thanked Zi Ling for helping his ambush.
• Daoist Lei broke free with Disorderly Force and demonstrated how he could command lightning and make a stone destroy itself.
• Daoist Lei manipulated the electrons in Ye Liang’s body, injuring him without expending power, and explained the difference between Disorderly Force and Orderly Force.
• Ye Liang realized Daoist Lei had spared him, knelt, and accepted Daoist Lei as his Master.
• Daoist Lei revealed that the Immortal World faced a trial requiring someone below the Sage realm and that he had sought Ye Liang for the assignment.

Daoist Lei ordered Ye Liang to enter the Outer Domain and steal the Void Clan’s natal Sacred Artifact, explaining that the dangerous mission could also reveal how to reach the Sage Realm. Ye Liang accepted after learning the Outer Domain held humans and received a map and warnings about its inhabitants.

• Daoist Lei told Ye Liang that his mission was to travel beneath the Rainbow Bridge and steal the Void Clan’s natal Sacred Artifact because true Sages could be detected by the Outer Domain’s Sages.
• Ye Liang questioned why Daoist Lei would send him on a mission that seemed certain to kill him, and Daoist Lei explained that Ye Liang’s Disorderly Force would not alert their enemies.
• Daoist Lei revealed that the method to break through to the Sage Realm could only be found in the Outer Domain, persuading Ye Liang that the mission was worth attempting.
• Daoist Lei gave Ye Liang a map marking dangerous and uninhabited regions and explained that humans and several other races lived in the Outer Domain.
• Daoist Lei warned Ye Liang to avoid the Demon Race, Void Race, and Insectoid Race and to flee immediately if he encountered the violent Asura Race.