Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya sought information about the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill while the Yellow Ridge Gate gathered cultivators for the Immortal Assembly. Huang Hao revealed that the gate wanted help killing an elder demon beast in its Yellow Secret Realm and offered Li Xiaoya a mature life flower as a reward.

• Mouse Venerable tried to recruit Li Xiaoya for a team, but Li Xiaoya asked him to find another middle Great Void Stage cultivator first.
• Jade Fairy and a yellow-haired cultivator were summoned by the Yellow Ridge Gate, and Li Xiaoya learned that teams were being formed to qualify for the competition.
• Li Xiaoya asked Mouse Venerable and the gathered cultivators about the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill, but no one recognized it.
• Huang Hao invited Li Xiaoya to meet him and suggested that Jade Fairy, a famous alchemist, might know about the pill.
• Huang Hao told Li Xiaoya that the Yellow Ridge Gate had invited Great Void Stage cultivators to help defeat an elder demon beast occupying its Yellow Secret Realm.
• Huang Hao claimed the demon beast was at the middle Heaven-and-Earth Stage and offered Li Xiaoya a mature life flower if he helped kill it.

Li Xiaoya agreed to demonstrate his abilities to the Yellow Ridge Gate in exchange for help obtaining a mature Life Flower to treat Zhang Hong. After arriving at the gate master’s hall, he accepted Lao De’s challenge to spar, and Lao De provoked him to use his full strength.

• Huang Hao offered Li Xiaoya access to a mature Life Flower if he helped the Yellow Ridge Gate, then asked him to demonstrate his abilities before the gate master.
• Li Xiaoya passed Zhang Hong off as a protective puppet while Huang Hao escorted him to meet gate master Huang Huatian.
• Huang Huatian introduced Li Xiaoya to the Jade Fairy and Lao De, who questioned him about his origins and abilities.
• Lao De challenged Li Xiaoya to spar on the Yellow Ridge Gate’s dueling platform, and Li Xiaoya accepted.
• Lao De secretly urged Li Xiaoya to use his full strength, but Li Xiaoya replied that Lao De did not warrant it.

Li Xiaoya faced Lao De on the Dueling Platform, where the Demon Race cultivator unleashed a series of powerful transformations. Li Xiaoya held off his attacks, and Lao De escalated by transforming into a twelve-headed python.

• Huang Huatian led Li Xiaoya, Lao De, and Huang Hao to the Dueling Platform, where the cultivators gathered to watch the duel.
• Li Xiaoya sent Zhang Hong to the edge of the platform and refused Lao De’s offer to use the puppet.
• Lao De launched a blue blade transformed into a giant python, but Li Xiaoya knocked it away with a Golden Light Fist.
• Lao De attacked with gray claws and a massive tail, while Li Xiaoya countered with golden swords, a shield, and shears.
• Lao De summoned twelve blue blades, absorbed their python forms, and transformed into a twelve-headed monster with greatly increased strength.

Li Xiaoya overpowered Lao De in a duel, impressing the leaders of the Yellow Ridge Gate and establishing his strength. Huang Huatian then asked him to represent the sect at the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly, and Li Xiaoya suspected the request concealed more than he had been told.

• Li Xiaoya stood his ground as he beat back Lao De's attacks with Golden Light Fists, forcing Lao De to defend himself with a gray shield and begin chanting.
• Huang Huatian intervened before Lao De could use his next technique, and Li Xiaoya and Lao De stopped fighting.
• Huang Huatian, Huang Hao, and Jade Fairy praised Li Xiaoya, then returned with him to the Main Hall.
• Huang Huatian asked Li Xiaoya about the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly and explained its team battles, elimination rounds, and inheritance rewards.
• Huang Huatian invited Li Xiaoya to represent the Yellow Ridge Gate in the assembly, and Li Xiaoya hesitated, suspecting the sect had another motive.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill was associated with the Purple Vitality Gate on the East Xia Continent, while the Yellow Ridge Gate tried to recruit him with promises of Life Flowers. He agreed to help kill the Elder Demon Beast in the Yellow Secret Realm but deferred deciding whether to join the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly.

• Huang Huatian asked Li Xiaoya to help the Yellow Ridge Gate secure one of the top three Racial Inheritance slots at the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly, scheduled for a little over a year later.
• Jade Fairy told Li Xiaoya that the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill was precious and produced by the Purple Vitality Gate on the East Xia Continent, while Lao De and Huang Hao explained that travel there required a costly trip and Demon Race Alliance approval.
• Jade Fairy and Huang Huatian offered Li Xiaoya Life Flowers to persuade him to participate in the assembly, but he said he could not wait over a year because of his friend's condition.
• Huang Huatian offered Li Xiaoya ten Life Flowers for helping with another matter in the Yellow Secret Realm, and Li Xiaoya agreed to help kill the Elder Demon Beast before deciding about the assembly.
• Huang Huatian arranged for Li Xiaoya to stay in the Yellow Ridge Gate's guest quarters while he and the others attended to the other Great Void Stage cultivators.

Li Xiaoya asked the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma about life flowers and Demon Race inheritance, then went to explore the market district. He learned that ten life flowers might keep Zhang Hong safe for fifteen or twenty years and decided to prioritize finding Spirit Stone Coins.

• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma told Li Xiaoya that ten mature life flowers could help Zhang Hong’s injuries and preserve her vitality for fifteen or twenty years.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that racial inheritance infused cultivators with ancient beast bloodlines, but Li Xiaoya chose to seek life flowers instead of undergoing it.
• Second Better asked Li Xiaoya to find artifact-forging materials and methods, and Li Xiaoya also promised to seek materials for rebuilding his body.
• Li Xiaoya declined a middle-aged Demon Race cultivator’s offer to guide him and flew to the market district.
• Li Xiaoya explored the market, gathered information, and decided he first needed to exchange his spirit stones for Spirit Stone Coins.

Li Xiaoya prepared for the Yellow Secret Realm expedition while Huang Huatian tried to secure his cooperation and supplied him with life flowers for Zhang Hong. As the group assembled to depart, a purple-haired Great Void cultivator challenged Huang Huatian about Fairy Cang’s absence and rumors that other sect members had died.

• Li Xiaoya browsed the Market Districts, exchanged spirit stones for Spirit Stone Coins, and bought materials, cultivation references, treasures, and alchemy books.
• Mouse Venerable caught up with Li Xiaoya on the way back to Yellow Ridge Gate and probed whether Huang Huatian had spoken to him privately.
• Over the next three days, Huang Huatian and Huang Hao shared information about the Yellow Secret Realm, while Huang Huatian gave Li Xiaoya two mature life flowers that improved Zhang Hong’s condition.
• Huang Huatian summoned Li Xiaoya and the other Great Void Stage Cultivators, then announced their departure for the Yellow Secret Realm with forty-six cultivators in the group.
• A purple-haired Demon Race cultivator asked why Fairy Cang was not joining the expedition, then confronted Huang Huatian about rumors that the other absent cultivators had perished.

Huang Huatian led Li Xiaoya and the assembled cultivators through a concealed series of teleportation formations to the Yellow Ridge Gate’s forbidden Yellow Secret Realm. There, they met the supposedly dead Fairy Cang and prepared to enter in two groups, with Huang Huatian warning that an Elder Demon Beast might ambush them at the entrance.

• Huang Huatian confirmed that several Yellow Ridge Gate elders had perished in the last opening of the Yellow Secret Realm, but Jade Fairy and Lao De persuaded the cultivators to stay for the promised rewards.
• Huang Huatian led the group through a guarded hall and a chain of teleportation formations to a secluded mountain valley where powerful restrictions blocked divine sense.
• Huang Huatian introduced Li Xiaoya to Fairy Cang, whose survival contradicted the rumors, and she greeted the assembled cultivators before agreeing to enter the secret realm.
• Huang Huatian assigned Fairy Cang, Jade Fairy, Li Xiaoya, Lao De, and himself to hold off the Elder Demon Beast while the others attacked the other Demon Beasts.
• Huang Huatian warned everyone that the Elder Demon Beast might ambush them as they opened the secret realm, alarming the group.

Yellow Ridge Gate revealed that the secret realm’s target was a middle Heaven-and-Earth stage Earth Demon Dragon, and promised the cultivators a drop of its essence blood for helping kill it. As Huang Huatian and Fairy Cang opened the entrance, Li Xiaoya refused to send Zhang Hong’s body in first and deployed his weaker puppets instead.

• Fairy Cang warned that the intelligent demon beast might ambush them at the secret-realm entrance, and Hongyu pressed Yellow Ridge Gate to reveal its identity.
• Huang Huatian disclosed that a Primordial Earth Demon Dragon Beast had entered the secret realm, then promised each cultivator a drop of its essence blood if they helped kill it.
• Li Xiaoya noticed the deputy gate master’s disdainful smile and grew wary of Yellow Ridge Gate’s assurances.
• Lao De suggested that Li Xiaoya send his powerful puppet in first, but Li Xiaoya refused and rejected Huang Huatian’s offer of compensation.
• Li Xiaoya sent dozens of low-level Demon-Slaying Divine Soldiers ahead, while Huang Huatian and Fairy Cang joined their tokens and began opening the secret-realm entrance.

Li Xiaoya and the others entered the Yellow Secret Realm to confront the Earth Demon Dragon, whose overwhelming power forced them into a desperate battle. As Li Xiaoya evaded its tail, Lao De appeared in its path and was struck down.

• The Earth Demon Dragon destroyed Li Xiaoya's Demon-Slaying Divine Soldiers as soon as they entered the portal, revealing that it was waiting to ambush them.
• Huang Huatian led the group into the secret realm, and he, Fairy Cang, and Jade Fairy attacked the Earth Demon Dragon while retreating.
• Li Xiaoya shattered the dragon's incoming barrier with a punch and sent Zhang Hong's physical body toward a valley.
• Li Xiaoya's golden fist attacks melted against the dragon's black-purple light, and he dodged its sweeping tail with his Storm Gold-Light Wings.
• Lao De emerged in the path of the dragon's tail, was struck, and crashed into the ground.

Li Xiaoya, Fairy Cang, Jade Fairy, and Huang Huatian fought the Earth Demon Dragon while the other cultivators arrived and prepared to attack. Li Xiaoya evaded the dragon’s barrage of blade rays, and Huang Hao led the group’s counterattack.

• The Earth Demon Dragon struck Lao De into the ground, then blasted Huang Huatian and Jade Fairy with its claw while Fairy Cang vanished from the attack.
• Li Xiaoya charged the dragon with two Golden Light Giant Swords, failed to break through its defenses, and dodged its tail by flying over its back.
• Fairy Cang lured the dragon away with her fox-headed, dragon-bodied phantom, which the dragon swallowed, while Jade Fairy’s Jade Pillar helped Fairy Cang escape its bite.
• Li Xiaoya struck the dragon’s back with hundreds of Sword Rays and knocked it into a mountain, but the attack left only faint marks on its scales.
• The Earth Demon Dragon fired Black-Purple Blade Rays at Li Xiaoya, who dodged them with Immortal Flash Carefree Journey, and Huang Hao ordered the cultivators to attack.

The Earth Demon Dragon overwhelmed the cultivators with its devouring vortex and devastating attacks, while Li Xiaoya used the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon to interrupt its assault. The dragon killed many cultivators and swallowed Huang Huatian, leaving the survivors facing a furious foe.

• The Earth Demon Dragon swallowed several incoming treasures and wounded Huang Huatian with a barrage of blade rays.
• Li Xiaoya struck the dragon's head with the Giant Spirit Divine Weapon, interrupting its suction and letting the cultivators land more attacks.
• The Earth Demon Dragon unleashed a wave of black-purple light that blasted the cultivators' attacks back and forced Li Xiaoya to retreat skyward.
• The Earth Demon Dragon slammed its claws into the ground, killing more than a dozen Great Void Stage Cultivators with erupting pillars of light.
• The Earth Demon Dragon lunged at the wounded Huang Huatian and sucked him into its mouth, while Fairy Cang's attack failed to stop it.

Li Xiaoya decided to risk using the Fire Dragon Sword to kill the Earth Demon Dragon after its attacks devastated the cultivators and injured Jade Fairy and Fairy Cang. He unleashed a life-consuming secret art and struck the dragon’s neck, leaving the outcome uncertain as its barriers shattered and a ring of black-purple light appeared.

• The Earth Demon Dragon used Heaven-and-Earth Control to trap and swallow many Demon Race cultivators, then struck Li Xiaoya, Jade Fairy, and Fairy Cang with its attacks.
• Li Xiaoya decided to make one decisive attack with the Fire Dragon Sword, hoping to save Fairy Cang and defeat the dragon.
• The Earth Demon Dragon’s next assault killed another Yellow Ridge Gate cultivator and drove the survivors to flee, but Huang Hao reminded them they were trapped inside the Yellow Secret Realm.
• Li Xiaoya activated the Lifespan-and-Cultivation-Consuming Secret Art, enlarged the Fire Dragon Sword, and charged at the dragon’s neck.
• The Earth Demon Dragon raised layers of hexagonal barriers, but Li Xiaoya’s Five-Colored Sword Ray cut across its neck and smashed him into the ground.
• The Earth Demon Dragon howled in disbelief as its barriers shattered and black-purple light shone through its neck.

Li Xiaoya killed the Earth Demon Dragon with a powerful strike from the Fire Dragon Sword, then seized most of the treasures expelled from its corpse. After Huang Huatian emerged alive, the surviving cultivators gathered around the dragon’s remains and divided the scattered loot.

• Li Xiaoya severed the Earth Demon Dragon’s neck with a surprise sword strike, then escaped its violent death throes as the beast continued to thrash.
• The Earth Demon Dragon finally died after its severed head failed to control its Demon Nascent Infant, and Fairy Cang and Jade Fairy praised Li Xiaoya’s strength.
• The Earth Demon Dragon’s corpse shuddered and expelled Huang Huatian from its severed neck, delighting Fairy Cang.
• Treasures burst from the Earth Demon Dragon’s neck, and Li Xiaoya used Golden Giant Hands to seize most of them while Jade Fairy, Fairy Cang, and other cultivators collected a few.
• The surviving Demon Race cultivators kept their resentment to themselves as Fairy Cang hesitated to speak to Li Xiaoya.

Li Xiaoya rebuffed the Demon Race cultivators’ attempts to claim the Earth Demon Dragon’s treasures and left to retrieve his puppet. In the cave, he found seven or eight large, pale yellow egg-shaped objects and was delighted.

• Fairy Cang agreed not to press Li Xiaoya for the treasures and promised the cultivators their reward, while Huang Hao had the others recover and tend to the wounded.
• The Yellow Ridge Gate cultivators found Lao De alive, as Fairy Cang and Jade Fairy began processing the Earth Demon Dragon’s remains.
• Hongyu asked Li Xiaoya to share his treasures, but Li Xiaoya refused and challenged anyone to defeat him before taking any.
• Li Xiaoya intimidated the covetous cultivators, then told Huang Hao he was going to retrieve his puppet from a nearby cave.
• Li Xiaoya entered the cave and found seven or eight millstone-sized, pale yellow egg-shaped objects.

Li Xiaoya discovered the Earth Demon Dragon’s lair and secretly took its three dragon eggs, golden nest, and supreme-grade fire spirit stones. He left with Zhang Hong after the Yellow Ridge Gate cultivators arrived, intent on collecting enough life flowers before departing.

• Li Xiaoya found three dragon eggs and a golden nest in the cavern, then stored them in his Heaven-and-Earth Bag.
• Removing the nest exposed supreme-grade fire spirit stones, which Li Xiaoya quickly collected before the other cultivators arrived.
• Li Xiaoya pretended he had been repairing Zhang Hong’s puppet and left the cavern as Huang Hao wondered whether it had been the Earth Demon Dragon’s lair.
• The chapter revealed that the male Earth Demon Dragon had brought the eggs into the Yellow Secret Realm after its mate was killed, and had used the nest and spirit stones to sustain them.
• Huang Huatian thanked Li Xiaoya for saving the Yellow Ridge Gate, and Li Xiaoya reminded him about his promised payment before flying away with Zhang Hong.

After leaving the Yellow Secret Realm, Li Xiaoya collected his rewards from the Yellow Ridge Gate and waited for his share of the Earth Demon Dragon’s essence blood. As he examined the dragon’s remains and other spoils, he discovered several powerful treasures and an unfamiliar piece of leather containing a Body Tempering Divine Ability.

• Huang Huatian led Li Xiaoya and the surviving cultivators out of the Yellow Secret Realm and sent them back through the Teleportation Formation.
• The Yellow Ridge Gate gave Li Xiaoya twenty Life Flowers, while the surviving cultivators received rewards increased by twenty percent; Li Xiaoya refused Huang Huatian’s invitation to join the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly.
• Several Demon Race Rogue Cultivators asked Li Xiaoya to return their treasures, and he sold them back for ten billion Spirit Stone Coins each.
• Li Xiaoya sorted through his spoils, finding three dragon eggs, more than ten thousand supreme-grade fire spirit stones, powerful True Immortal Spirit Treasures, and a lump of strange black-purple metal.
• Li Xiaoya continued waiting for his share of the Earth Demon Dragon’s essence blood and found a piece of leather inscribed with a Body Tempering Divine Ability.

Li Xiaoya studied the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram, a Divine Ability that could absorb and combine essence blood from many kinds of Demon Beasts, and decided to use the Earth Demon Dragon’s blood to strengthen himself. While waiting at the Yellow Ridge Gate, he stabilized Zhang Hong’s condition with Life Flowers, but giving her more no longer helped.

• Li Xiaoya discovered that the beast hide contained the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram and learned how it differed from ordinary essence-blood-refining methods.
• Li Xiaoya concluded that he met the diagram’s requirements and that the Earth Demon Dragon’s essence blood could help him break through his physical limits and protect his treasures.
• Li Xiaoya resolved to practice the Divine Ability and waited at the Yellow Ridge Gate for the Earth Demon Dragon’s essence blood to be prepared.
• Li Xiaoya studied the diagram and gave Zhang Hong Life Flowers to stabilize her injuries.
• Zhang Hong’s aura stabilized after she took a dozen or so Life Flowers, but additional flowers had no further effect.

Li Xiaoya began cultivating the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram while the Yellow Ridge Gate finished refining the Earth Demon Dragon’s essence blood and planned how to recruit him for the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly. Fairy Cang and Huang Huatian visited Li Xiaoya the next day, leaving their proposal unresolved.

• Li Xiaoya took one Life Flower, felt his vitality and cultivation speed improve, and saved the others for Zhang Hong.
• Huang Huatian and Huang Hao discussed Li Xiaoya’s strength and how to persuade him to help the Yellow Ridge Gate at the Immortal Assembly.
• Fairy Cang reported that the Yellow Ridge Gate had refined nearly a thousand drops of Earth Demon Dragon essence blood, though the beast had devastated their secret realm.
• Fairy Cang distributed some essence blood to invited rogue cultivators, fallen elders’ lineages, and Jade Fairy before privately discussing her plan with Huang Huatian.
• Li Xiaoya began practicing the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram, and Fairy Cang and Huang Huatian visited him the next day.

Li Xiaoya tried to trade for more Earth Demon Dragon essence blood, but refused to fight for Yellow Ridge Gate at the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly. As he prepared to leave with Zhang Hong, Fairy Cang revealed she knew Zhang Hong needed a Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill, provoking Li Xiaoya’s killing intent.

• Fairy Cang gave Li Xiaoya twenty drops of Earth Demon Dragon essence blood as his reward for killing the beast.
• Li Xiaoya offered three True Immortal Spirit Treasures or thirty Spirit Treasures for thirty more drops, but Huang Huatian and Fairy Cang refused unless he helped Yellow Ridge Gate win the Yellow Territory Immortal Assembly.
• Fairy Cang offered thirty drops if Li Xiaoya would compete, but he refused to avoid exposing himself and endangering Zhang Hong.
• As Li Xiaoya left with Zhang Hong’s physical body, Fairy Cang claimed Zhang Hong needed a Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill to heal, and Li Xiaoya responded with a surge of killing intent.