Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya arrived at Purple Vitality Mountain with Ling Yun to seek help, but Jerkov, the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch’s disciple, summoned him and brought him to the mountain’s summit. The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch called Li Xiaoya into his secluded world and appeared before him.

• Li Xiaoya and Ling Yun descended under Purple Vitality Mountain’s flight restriction and headed toward the Purple Vitality Gate.
• Jerkov appeared, recognized Li Xiaoya, and took him away on a Green Leaf Flying Boat while ordering Ling Yun to stay behind.
• Jerkov brought Li Xiaoya to the summit pavilion, where the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch granted him entry.
• Li Xiaoya entered a purple-mist world that unfolded into a secluded valley and was transported to a garden.
• Li Xiaoya bowed to the youthful Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch, whose aura surpassed the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones’.

Li Xiaoya asked the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch for a Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill to heal Zhang Hong, but the sect had used its supply. Li Xiaoya produced six rare ingredients needed to brew more, then asked to see the pill formula; the patriarch reacted with a terrifying burst of pressure.

• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch praised Li Xiaoya’s cultivation and said he had the potential to strive for True Immortality.
• Li Xiaoya asked for a Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill to heal his friend Zhang Hong, but the patriarch said the sect had used all its pills.
• The patriarch named six missing supplementary ingredients, and Li Xiaoya produced all six from his Heaven-and-Earth Bag.
• The patriarch said the pill also required twin-pole netherflower and six-clawed remnant phoenix vine, which Li Xiaoya did not have.
• Li Xiaoya asked to see the pill formula, and the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch abruptly unleashed a terrifying pressure on him.

Li Xiaoya tried to obtain Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills for Zhang Hong, but the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch said the Purple Vitality Gate had none and demanded rare ingredients. The chapter ended with the patriarch revealing that the Twin-Pole Netherflower was the only principal ingredient missing from the sect’s supply and that he would seek the Six-Clawed Remnant Phoenix Vine himself.

• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch pressed Li Xiaoya to his knees for asking to see the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill ingredients, then demanded a Twin-Pole Netherflower and a Six-Clawed Remnant Phoenix Vine for a pill.
• Li Xiaoya offered three hundred, then five hundred, ten-thousand-year-old spirit herbs, but the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch insisted the Purple Vitality Gate had no pills left.
• Li Xiaoya offered the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor, but the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch returned it and warned him not to show the treasure to others.
• Li Xiaoya asked what a Twin-Pole Netherflower was, and the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch explained that it was the only principal ingredient the sect lacked and that he would seek the Six-Clawed Remnant Phoenix Vine himself.

Li Xiaoya learned that the twin-pole netherflower lay on the Hell Tower’s bottom floor, accessible only to Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivators when the tower opened in a hundred-odd years. The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch gave him an ancient secret-realm map to help him advance, recruited him to retrieve the flower, and made him an inner sect disciple of the Purple Vitality Gate; after Li Xiaoya left, a figure of five-colored spiritual light appeared before the patriarch.

• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya that the twin-pole netherflower was in the Hell Tower, which opened once every ten thousand years for Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivators selected as Heaven-and-Earth Divine Generals.
• The patriarch explained that Li Xiaoya had to reach the Heaven-and-Earth Realm within a hundred-odd years to enter the tower and obtain the flower from its bottom floor.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch gave Li Xiaoya an ancient map to a secret realm and asked him to help once he became a True Immortal, while making the flower a condition for receiving the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill.
• Li Xiaoya agreed to join the Purple Vitality Gate but said he wanted to remain in Purple Vitality City for a while before seeking the secret realm.
• Jerkov arrived, and the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch appointed Li Xiaoya an inner sect disciple with the treatment of an elder and instructed him to visit before leaving.
• After Li Xiaoya and Jerkov departed, the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch spoke to a newly appearing figure formed of five-colored spiritual light.

Li Xiaoya joined the Purple Vitality Gate and tried for months to obtain Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills for Zhang Hong, but the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch blocked every attempt. Unable to find the pills, Li Xiaoya headed for the Skyvault Secret Realm to advance his cultivation before seeking the Twin-Pole Netherflower, while two beautiful female cultivators flew toward Purple Vitality Mountain.

• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch and the Five-Colored Figure discussed Li Xiaoya’s unusual potential and the plan to push him toward advancing to the Heaven-and-Earth Realm.
• Jerkov handled Li Xiaoya’s entry into the Purple Vitality Gate and escorted him to his cave abode.
• Li Xiaoya asked Jerkov about Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills, but the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch ordered Jerkov to claim he had taken them all.
• Li Xiaoya searched the Purple Vitality Gate’s districts for months, but the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch prevented anyone from trading him the pills.
• Li Xiaoya decided to cultivate in the Skyvault Secret Realm before going to a Hell Tower, then left the Purple Vitality Gate’s territory by teleportation formation.
• Two beautiful female cultivators flew across District 321 toward Purple Vitality Mountain.

Qian Lan and Xi Lanruyu headed for the Purple Vitality Gate while discussing Li Xiaoya’s strength, and the injured Prince Modong discovered a trove of demon-sediment stone. Li Xiaoya arrived in Giant Spirit City and flew toward its Market District while continuing his search for the Skyvault Secret Realm and twin-pole netherflowers.

• Qian Lan told Xi Lanruyu that Li Xiaoya’s strength rivaled the finest Great Void Stage cultivators and that Lord Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones wanted him kept with them by any means necessary.
• Prince Modong recovered from his injuries, found that the cave was full of demon-sediment stone, and celebrated his good fortune.
• Li Xiaoya arrived in Giant Spirit City and ignored a Blue Moon Race cultivator who tried to sell him something.
• Li Xiaoya flew over the vast city toward its Market District, intending to seek information, materials, treasures, and twin-pole netherflowers.
• Li Xiaoya recalled that his travels had confirmed the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch had deceived him.

Li Xiaoya traveled across Giant Spirit Lake in search of the hidden Skyvault Secret Realm, hoping to gain power before he had to retrieve the twin-pole netherflower from the Hell Tower. He disguised himself as a demon beast to pass through the lake’s dangerous depths, but the chapter ended with his journey still underway.

• Five cultivators consulted a Glazed Crystal Ball and flew toward a location deep within Giant Spirit Lake.
• Li Xiaoya reviewed his need for greater strength and set out to find the Skyvault Secret Realm, whose entrance lay on an island in the lake’s center.
• Azure Fish Kings attacked Li Xiaoya, but he destroyed them with golden sword rays and continued onward.
• Two female cultivators presented a token at the Purple Vitality Gate and asked to visit Elder Zicheng.
• Five cultivators battled a huge, six-eyed demon beast in the lake’s depths and urged one another to kill it before more beasts arrived.
• Li Xiaoya transformed into the Ancestor Snake Enchantress and flew deeper into the lake with a Spirit Communion Stage aura, passing several powerful demon beasts without being attacked.

Li Xiaoya approached the island holding the Skyvault Secret Realm’s entrance and encountered two Shrimp-Armored Beasts patrolling the Dragon Turtle Patriarch’s territory. After claiming to be a Crab Dao Beast’s disciple, he evaded them with the Formless Water Escape Technique and continued toward the secret realm underwater.

• Li Xiaoya found the islands near Giant Spirit Lake’s center crowded with powerful demon beasts and worried the secret realm entrance might be in occupied territory.
• Two Shrimp-Armored Beasts stopped Li Xiaoya and questioned why he had come to Giant Spirit Lake.
• Li Xiaoya claimed he was seeking his master, the Crab Dao Beast, and the Shrimp-Armored Beasts let him pass after warning him about the Dragon Turtle Patriarch’s territory.
• Li Xiaoya used the Formless Water Escape Technique to merge with the lake water and hide from the demon beasts.
• Li Xiaoya recalled that he had prepared the slow but powerful concealment technique for crossing the Dragon Turtle Patriarch’s territory and reaching the Skyvault Secret Realm.

Li Xiaoya infiltrated the Dragon Turtle Patriarch’s territory in water form and reached the island where the Skyvault Secret Realm was hidden. Unable to approach the mountain safely, he followed a stream upstream and found a pool full of sleeping, wounded demon beasts, then spotted something on the bottom.

• Li Xiaoya used the Formless Water Escape Technique to evade demon beasts searching for human cultivators and entered the Dragon Turtle Patriarch’s territory.
• He reached the island marked on the ancient map but hesitated to leave the water because powerful demon beasts occupied it.
• Li Xiaoya heard a waterfall and followed its stream upstream, hoping it would carry him toward the mountain summit.
• He found more than a dozen wounded Heaven-and-Earth Realm demon beasts sleeping in the pool beneath the waterfall and carefully slipped between them.
• When two demon beasts blocked his path, Li Xiaoya dove deeper and discovered something near the bottom of the pool.

Li Xiaoya escaped the healing spirit pool and traveled upstream through the island’s mountain to search for the Skyvault Secret Realm entrance. He discovered Gongyang Yuhua and four other Heavenly Demon Race cultivators nearby, and they sensed his divine sense as the chapter ended.

• Li Xiaoya found strange vines and golden-thread nets beneath the healing pool, resisted the urge to touch them, and slipped past the resting demon beasts.
• Li Xiaoya climbed the waterfall in water form and learned that one demon beast had broken through a bottleneck in the pool, then continued upstream.
• Five injured cultivators healed beneath the island’s mountain and burrowed toward the surface.
• Li Xiaoya followed the narrowing stream to an ice-covered pool and cautiously spread his divine sense in search of the formation’s entrance.
• Li Xiaoya recognized Gongyang Yuhua among five disguised Heavenly Demon Race cultivators and suspected they had come for the Skyvault Secret Realm.
• Gongyang Yuhua and the others sensed Li Xiaoya’s divine sense, and Yao Zixiu told them to prepare to activate the formation.

Li Xiaoya hid in a pool while five Heavenly Demon Race elders waited nearby, all concealing themselves and watching for danger. When the elders finally moved toward the Skyvault Secret Realm, they found a formation inside the mountain, giving Li Xiaoya a chance to act on his plan to keep them from entering.

• Li Xiaoya realized the five elders were likely heading to the Skyvault Secret Realm and concluded they did not know about the teleportation formation he could use alone.
• Li Xiaoya decided to wait for an opportunity to stop the elders, then remained hidden as more than half a month passed.
• The five elders emerged from beneath the ice and used the Earth-Piercing Spirit-Concentrating Formation to travel underground toward the secret realm.
• Li Xiaoya followed their movement by listening without leaving the pool, since he lacked an earth-escape technique.
• Elder Purple Gourd exclaimed that they had found a formation inside the mountain, and Li Xiaoya welcomed the discovery.

Li Xiaoya overheard the Heavenly Demon Race elders discover the Skyvault Secret Realm’s entrance formation and began planning a way to reach it without being detected. After several days of failed study, the elders gave up on deciphering the formation, and Elder Purple Gourd proposed destroying it.

• Yao Zixiu and four other Heavenly Demon Race elders found the formation deep inside the mountain and noticed that divine sense could not extend there.
• The elders agreed to study the formation before attempting to enter the secret realm through its rift, while Li Xiaoya secretly listened from a nearby pool.
• Li Xiaoya realized he could make a waterway into the mountain, but decided to wait until the elders left before opening it.
• After several days, Elder Purple Gourd concluded that understanding the formation could take decades, and the other elders agreed to stop studying it.
• Elder Purple Gourd proposed destroying the formation.

Li Xiaoya secretly reached the cavern containing the secret realm formation, then went after the Heavenly Demon Race elders when he realized they were heading for the rift. The elders plunged through the freezing wind eye, while the Dragon Turtle Patriarch stirred nearby.

• Yao Zixiu persuaded Elder Purple Gourd to keep the formation intact, and the five elders used the Earth-Piercing Spirit-Concentrating Formation to travel through the mountain.
• Li Xiaoya melted the ice above his hiding place and bored through the rock with the Fire Dragon Sword before switching to Earth Escape when divine-sense restrictions took effect.
• Li Xiaoya emerged in a cavern containing the Silver Metal Formation, recognized it from Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch's map, and then left to search for the elders.
• Yao Zixiu led the five elders out of the mountain wall and into the wind eye, where freezing gales and flying ice battered them.
• The island-sized Dragon Turtle Patriarch stopped shaking and wondered why more Human Race cultivators were heading toward the rift.

Li Xiaoya found the Wind Eye empty after the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators escaped, then returned to the mountain formation as a mysterious five-colored figure ordered the Dragon Turtle Patriarch to leave him alone for two hundred years. Li Xiaoya activated the formation and entered the blue Light Curtain, leaving for an unknown destination.

• Li Xiaoya emerged from the mountainside, found no trace of the cultivators at the Wind Eye, and burrowed back into the mountain.
• A five-colored figure appeared before the Dragon Turtle Patriarch and forbade him from harming a human or visiting Lingxiao's Sea Island for two hundred years.
• The Dragon Turtle Patriarch roared and sank into the lake, prompting demon beasts across the region, including those on Li Xiaoya's Sea Island, to flee.
• Li Xiaoya placed water attribute supreme-grade spirit stones in the four Metal Demon Beast Statues and activated the formation.
• A blue Light Curtain formed, and Li Xiaoya flew into it and vanished.

Yao Zixiu and the other Heavenly Demon Race elders escaped the repairing spatial rift and returned to the Sea Island, where demon beasts refused to pursue them because of their Patriarch’s order. Li Xiaoya entered the Skyvault Secret Realm and, after learning its first level was a vast icy world, encountered a gigantic bird in the blizzard.

• Yao Zixiu ordered the elders to flee the repairing spatial rift aboard their golden flying boat and return through the formation inside the mountain.
• Dozens of demon beasts approached the Sea Island, but one stopped them from entering because the Patriarch had forbidden it for two hundred years.
• The elders returned to the entrance formation and agreed to study how to activate it while waiting for the spatial rift to reopen.
• Gongyang Yuhua noticed signs that someone had visited the formation, and the elders wondered if it had been the Dragon Turtle Patriarch.
• Li Xiaoya entered the Skyvault Secret Realm and found himself in an icy first level with abundant spiritual qi but no interior map.
• Li Xiaoya drew the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff as a gigantic bird flew toward him through the blizzard.

Li Xiaoya defeated the Snow Eagle King and forced him to guide him through the Skyvault Secret Realm. He learned that the realm had six layers and that powerful Heaven-and-Earth Realm demon beasts occupied the fifth, while Yao Zixiu and the other Heavenly Demon Race cultivators continued studying the entrance formation outside.

• Li Xiaoya used the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff to break through the Snow Eagle King’s attacks, smash him into the ground, and force him to stop fleeing.
• Li Xiaoya threatened the injured Snow Eagle King into answering questions and learned that the Skyvault Secret Realm had six layers, with Lingxiao’s cultivation site on the sixth.
• The Snow Eagle King said he knew the entrance to the fifth layer, where several Heaven-and-Earth Realm seniors cultivated, but did not know how to reach the sixth; he also said no Mighty One Stage demon beasts remained in the realm.
• Li Xiaoya made the Snow Eagle King take him to the second layer and questioned him about the demon beasts on the first and second layers.
• Yao Zixiu and the other Heavenly Demon Race cultivators failed to identify who had entered the secret realm before them but continued studying the entrance formation.

After years of preparation, Li Xiaoya rebuilt Second Better’s body in the Skyvault Secret Realm by refining the crystal imprisoning his soul and forming a new body around his spirit. Second Better awoke and experienced having a body again, but Li Xiaoya knocked him unconscious so he could rest.

• Li Xiaoya gathered five-colored spiritual light and golden liquid in the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron to melt the red crystal imprisoning Second Better.
• Li Xiaoya shaped the gathered energy into a body and used his divine sense to restore Second Better’s soul, organs, flesh, and skin.
• Second Better awakened in his new body, and Li Xiaoya dressed him and helped him stand.
• Second Better marveled at his hands and tears, then Li Xiaoya knocked him unconscious so he could sleep for a few days.

Li Xiaoya reached the fifth level of the Skyvault Secret Realm, where he negotiated peace with the Kaiser Sand King and established a cave abode amid exceptionally dense five-element spiritual qi. After spending more than a year preparing to help Second Better refine a physical body, he broke through to the late Great Void stage.

• Li Xiaoya passed through the fire, wood, and metal layers, teaming up with the Snow Eagle King to kill the Blackgold Four-Legged Beast and enter the fifth level.
• Li Xiaoya fought the late Heaven-and-Earth-stage Kaiser Sand King to a draw, then agreed to remain neutral among the fifth level’s demon beasts while cultivating there.
• Li Xiaoya established a cave abode modeled on his old home in the Human Realm and allowed the Snow Eagle King to stay nearby and cultivate.
• Li Xiaoya made helping Second Better refine a physical body the first step of his cultivation plan, using the work to study materials, divine sense, soul, and life force.
• After spending more than a year on this work, Li Xiaoya broke through his bottleneck and advanced to the late Great Void stage.

Li Xiaoya successfully refined a physical body for Second Better and encountered Kaiser Sand King, who asked him to refine pills. Meanwhile, Xi Lanruyu left seclusion with Qian Lan, and a mysterious vortex gathered over the Lesser Star Realm, suggesting someone was about to ascend.

• Li Xiaoya completed Second Better's physical body and placed him in a medicinal bath to stabilize it.
• The Snow Eagle King asked about the unusual spiritual energy, and Li Xiaoya gave him the Kui Water Spirit Beast Pills he had requested.
• Kaiser Sand King arrived, asked Li Xiaoya to refine more Purple Spirit Beast Qi Pills, and departed after Li Xiaoya named the materials he needed.
• Li Xiaoya recalled rumors that a sixth level of the Skyvault Secret Realm existed, but he could not learn its entrance from Kaiser Sand King.
• Qian Lan ended her seclusion with Xi Lanruyu and took her traveling around East Xia to help her overcome her cultivation bottleneck.
• A five-colored vortex formed over the Lesser Star Realm as lightning and spiritual clouds gathered, accompanied by a Buddhist chant.

The Hehuan Twin Demons entered the Five-Colored Spiritual Light Vortex after Dong Santong helped them reach it, while Elder Purple Gourd abandoned the formation research beneath Giant Spirit Lake. In the fifth level of the Skyvault Secret Realm, Li Xiaoya began combining and refining the Heart of the Earth and the Earth Soul, ending as their earth spiritual qi flowed into his body.

• The Hehuan Twin Demons flew into the Five-Colored Spiritual Light Vortex, and Dong Santong joined the cultivators below as the white palace-dressed beauty watched the sky.
• Elder Purple Gourd left the formation cavern after arguing with Yao Zixiu and the others, who realized he had taken his deciphered rune formations with him.
• Yao Zixiu and the other three resumed studying the formation, hoping to reach Lingxiao's secret realm and find the treasures on its sixth level.
• Elder Purple Gourd used Water Escape to leave Giant Spirit Lake.
• Li Xiaoya placed the Earth Soul into the Heart of the Earth and bound the combined treasure with five-colored spiritual-light runes.
• Li Xiaoya began refining the Heart of the Earth, drawing streams of orange spiritual light through his arms and into his body.