Chapter Summaries

Second Better regained a physical body, advanced to the spirit communion stage, and stabilized his cultivation while Li Xiaoya continued refining the Heart of the Earth and Earth Soul. After eight more years, Li Xiaoya’s enormous earth spirit stone cracked apart, revealing an orange-glowing figure.

• The Snow Eagle King destroyed the spirit communion heavenly tribulation that formed as Second Better advanced, allowing him to reach the spirit communion stage safely.
• Second Better cultivated in his new fire-attribute body and focused on stabilizing his realm after advancing without the Nine-Turn Spirit Communion Pill.
• A golden figure aboard a gigantic qilin learned that someone had broken free of the Upper Realm and ordered the qilin toward the Thirty-Three Star Realm.
• Eight years later, Li Xiaoya’s enormous earth spirit stone cracked, disintegrated, and revealed a figure glowing with orange light.

Li Xiaoya refined the Heart of the Earth and Earth Soul, advancing to the eighth layer of the late great void stage and strengthening his earth immortal root before visiting Zhang Hong and planning to improve his other immortal roots through alchemy. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Demon Race elders opened the Skyvault Secret Realm formation, and Liu Xian'er reached the great perfection of the spirit communion stage but said she would not ascend yet.

• Li Xiaoya absorbed the Heart of the Earth and Earth Soul, gained earth origin power, and advanced to the eighth layer of the late great void stage.
• Li Xiaoya retrieved the Primordial Chaos Golden Cauldron and planned to refine the Sharp Metal Golden Core and Thunder Wood Spirit Pill to strengthen his metal and wood immortal roots.
• Li Xiaoya entered the Secret Realm Necklace to see Zhang Hong, found her condition stable, and then left his cave abode.
• Yao Zixiu and the other three Heavenly Demon Race elders used water-element treasures to open a blue light curtain in the Skyvault Secret Realm formation.
• Liu Xian'er reached the great perfection of the spirit communion stage, then told Dong Santong and the assembled elders that she would not ascend yet.

Li Xiaoya finally refined the Thunder Wood Spirit Pill after years of failures, completing his preparations to cultivate in the Skyvault Secret Realm. Meanwhile, four Heavenly Demon Race elders entered the realm and encountered approaching creatures, while Li Xiaoya discovered that Second Better had emerged from seclusion.

• Liu Xian'er said she wanted to wait and ascend with her parents, leaving Dong Santong and the other cultivators speechless.
• Yao Zixiu, Situ Xiuya, Gongyang Yuhua, and Lin Qilu entered the Skyvault Secret Realm and headed through its snowy first layer toward the second layer.
• Yao Zixiu explained that his grandmaster's map only showed the route from the fifth layer to the hidden sixth, then warned the others when blue-eyed creatures approached through the blizzard.
• Li Xiaoya successfully refined the Sharp Metal Golden Core and then, after another half year, the Thunder Wood Spirit Pill.
• Li Xiaoya finished tidying his cave and sensed that Second Better had come out of seclusion, then vanished to find him.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Second Better and helped him plan for life in the Upper Realm before beginning cultivation with two Golden Core pills, whose combined effects caused him unexpected agony. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Demon elders searched the third layer for the fourth-layer entrance, which Lin Qilu finally discovered after more than three months.

• Li Xiaoya welcomed Second Better into his new physical body, and Second Better showed off his Puppet Bee and spoke of joining a sect to develop his artifact-refining skills.
• Li Xiaoya, the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma, and Second Better spent the day talking, and Li Xiaoya offered him cultivation guidance, protective materials, and a possible place in the Purple Vitality Gate.
• Li Xiaoya swallowed the Vibrant Wood Golden Core and Sharp Metal Golden Core together on the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma's advice, then suffered agony beyond what he had expected.
• Yao Zixiu and the other Heavenly Demon elders realized they were retracing their route through the third layer and split up to search for the hidden entrance.
• After more than three months of searching, Lin Qilu found the nearly invisible portal to the fourth layer and sent Communication Talismans to the others.

Yao Zixiu and three Heavenly Demon Race elders entered the fifth level, prompting Kaiser Sand King to send demon beasts to lure them toward his rivals and Li Xiaoya. After months of cultivation, Li Xiaoya emerged with greatly improved strength and learned that the newcomers had killed Seven-Clawed Fish King.

• Yao Zixiu led the four Heavenly Demon Race elders onto the fifth level and set out toward the sixth.
• Kaiser Sand King spotted the newcomers and ordered several demon beasts to draw them toward his rivals and Li Xiaoya.
• Li Xiaoya balanced his five-element immortal root aptitudes and increased his cultivation to the eighth layer of the late Great Void Stage.
• Kaiser Sand King arrived at Li Xiaoya's cave abode and pressed Second Better with his aura until Snow Eagle King shielded him.
• Li Xiaoya confronted Kaiser Sand King, who revealed that outside cultivators had entered and killed Seven-Clawed Fish King.

Li Xiaoya learned that four Heavenly Demon Race elders had killed the Seven-Clawed Fish King and were battling the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast. The Kaiser Sand King tried to recruit Li Xiaoya to ambush the combatants for their treasures, but Li Xiaoya refused, leaving the Kaiser Sand King furious.

• The Kaiser Sand King told Li Xiaoya that four Demon Race cultivators had entered the Skyvault Secret Realm and killed the Seven-Clawed Fish King.
• The Kaiser Sand King used a bronze mirror to show Li Xiaoya Yao Zixiu and the other Heavenly Demon Race elders fighting the wounded One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast.
• Li Xiaoya recognized the elders and regretted not luring demon beasts toward them earlier, while the Kaiser Sand King concealed that he had arranged the Seven-Clawed Fish King's ambush.
• The Kaiser Sand King asked Li Xiaoya to join him in killing the elders and the two demon beasts after their battle had weakened them, offering Li Xiaoya their treasures.
• Li Xiaoya refused to join the attack, and the Kaiser Sand King angrily challenged his decision.

Li Xiaoya refused Kaiser Sand King's attempt to draw him into fighting the cultivators, destroyed Tranquil Valley, and left with Second Better and Snow Eagle King for the fourth level's exit. Meanwhile, the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast overwhelmed the Heavenly Demon Race's Four Great Elders, who joined forces against a torrent of volcanic magma.

• Li Xiaoya told Kaiser Sand King he had no interest in the cultivators and planned to leave the Skyvault Secret Realm with Second Better and Snow Eagle King.
• Kaiser Sand King hid beneath the sand and watched Li Xiaoya depart, then decided to seek help from One-Eye and Two-Heads against the Demon Race cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya destroyed Tranquil Valley with a massive earthen palm and rode with Second Better on Snow Eagle King's head toward the fourth level's exit.
• The Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast's sound waves blasted Yao Zixiu, Gongyang Yuhua, Situ Xiuya, and Lin Qilu backward as the battle intensified.
• The One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast raised a vast volcano and sent a torrent of magma toward the four elders, who combined their powers into a gray whirlwind filled with black lightning.

Li Xiaoya left Second Better and the Snow Eagle King in safety and secretly headed toward the battle, suspecting the Heavenly Demon Race elders and Kaiser Sand King knew of the Skyvault Secret Realm’s sixth layer. As the elders nearly defeated the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast, Kaiser Sand King joined the fight, and the chapter ended with the elders trying to break free of his sand vortex.

• Li Xiaoya sensed that the Kaiser Sand King had stopped watching them, then sent the Snow Eagle King to take Second Better to the third layer while he used Earth Escape to approach the battle alone.
• Li Xiaoya reasoned that the Heavenly Demon Race elders had come seeking the sixth layer and that the Kaiser Sand King likely knew of it too, so he decided he wanted a share of the spoils.
• The Heavenly Demon Race’s four elders drove the injured One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast into retreat with black lightning.
• Kaiser Sand King burst from underground and attacked the elders with a vast storm of yellow sand, joining forces with the two demon beasts.
• The One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast launched their red-light attacks while Kaiser Sand King formed a giant sand vortex that trapped the elders’ gray-light whirlwind.
• Yao Zixiu ordered the other elders to break out before the sand vortex swallowed them.

Li Xiaoya watched the battle between the Kaiser Sand King and the Heavenly Demon Race’s Four Great Elders, weighing whether to intervene, while the Demon Beasts prepared their ultimate attacks. The four elders broke through the Kaiser Sand King’s vortex, but the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast launched their Demon Cores at them.

• The Four Great Elders used their Combined Divine Ability to hold off the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast, but their gray-light vortex collided with the Kaiser Sand King’s enormous yellow-earth vortex and the forces reached a stalemate.
• Li Xiaoya observed the battle from underground and decided to wait rather than help either side, fearing whichever group survived might turn against him.
• The Kaiser Sand King compressed his vortex around the four elders and ordered the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast to prepare Demon Core attacks.
• The four elders blasted a hole through the yellow-earth vortex and escaped, prompting the two Demon Beasts to fire their swelling Demon Cores at them.

The Kaiser Sand King trapped the four Heavenly Demon Race cultivators and used the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast’s Demon Core attacks to overwhelm them. Situ Xiuya was killed and Gongyang Yuhua’s body was swallowed after he self-detonated, while his nascent soul fled toward Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu for help.

• The Kaiser Sand King’s yellow sand vortex broke the cultivators’ Combined Divine Ability, and the two Demon Beasts launched their Demon Core attacks as the four tried to escape.
• Yao Zixiu evaded the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast’s attack, while Gongyang Yuhua, Situ Xiuya, and Lin Qilu used their treasures to deflect it.
• Lin Qilu escaped the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast’s attack, and Gongyang Yuhua shoved Situ Xiuya into its path before fleeing; the Demon Core shattered her defenses and sent her into the vortex.
• The Kaiser Sand King seized Gongyang Yuhua with a giant yellow-earth hand, then swallowed him in the form of a vast Demon Beast head; Gongyang Yuhua self-detonated inside the vortex.
• Gongyang Yuhua’s nascent soul escaped the explosion and flew toward Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu, pleading for help.

Gongyang Yuhua was killed, leaving Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu trapped between two demon beasts and the Kaiser Sand King's whirlwind. Li Xiaoya ambushed the Kaiser Sand King from underground, revealed his true appearance, and emerged as the battle shifted to a fight between the cultivators and beasts.

• The Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast and One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast destroyed Gongyang Yuhua's Nascent Soul, then joined forces with the Kaiser Sand King to attack Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu.
• Li Xiaoya sensed Gongyang Yuhua's death, prepared his treasures underground, and decided to help the Heavenly Demon Race cultivators so he could learn how to reach the sixth layer.
• The Kaiser Sand King trapped Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu with a gigantic yellow-earth whirlwind, but fighting and explosions underground disrupted it and sent the whirlwind bursting out of control.
• Li Xiaoya blasted out of the earth on the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, severely wounded the Kaiser Sand King, and revealed his human appearance.
• Li Xiaoya told Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu to handle the two demon beasts while he fought the Kaiser Sand King, as the beasts charged at them.

Li Xiaoya fought the Kaiser Sand King with the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor and Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, using a trap to land a devastating blow. The Kaiser Sand King remained engulfed in flames and screamed, while Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu battled the other two demon beasts.

• Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu attacked the wounded One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast.
• Li Xiaoya's earthen hand failed to stop the Kaiser Sand King, who countered it with yellow sand.
• Li Xiaoya powered up the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff with his Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor and forced the Kaiser Sand King to flee toward the ground.
• Li Xiaoya summoned a silver dragon phantom and used the Immortal-Binding Rope to restrain the Kaiser Sand King, but the beast broke free by turning into sand.
• Li Xiaoya struck the Kaiser Sand King's head with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and engulfed his body in flames.

Li Xiaoya killed the Kaiser Sand King and joined the battle against the remaining beasts, sending Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu after the injured One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast while he pursued the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast. The chapter ended with Li Xiaoya overtaking the fleeing phoenix and appearing in front of it.

• Li Xiaoya blasted the Kaiser Sand King's Demon Core from his body, and Steel-armored Beetles caught and devoured it as it tried to escape underground.
• Li Xiaoya collected the Kaiser Sand King's ruined body in his Heaven-and-Earth Bag, revealing that he had defeated the realm's king in only a few dozen breaths.
• The One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast fled after noticing the Kaiser Sand King's death, and Li Xiaoya ordered Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu to chase the bull while he pursued the phoenix.
• The Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast fired red feathers, used a cultivation technique to flee faster, and offered to become Li Xiaoya's servant, but he refused to let it go.
• Li Xiaoya accelerated with his Storm Gold-Light Wings and Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor, then appeared in front of the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast as it tried to evade him.

Li Xiaoya defeated the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast and forced him to swear an enslavement blood oath. After binding the beast as his servant, whom he called A-Zi, Li Xiaoya healed his wounds and ordered him to return.

• The Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast attacked Li Xiaoya, but Li Xiaoya countered with his armor and Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.
• Li Xiaoya battered the beast with a barrage of staff blows and pinned him to the ground, forcing him to stop struggling.
• Li Xiaoya demanded the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast submit and swear an enslavement blood oath, and the beast obeyed.
• The Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast told Li Xiaoya to call him A-Zi, and Li Xiaoya gave him an elixir to heal his wounds.
• Li Xiaoya recalled the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and ordered A-Zi to take him back.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Sixth Layer entrance lay in Kaiser Sand King's cave, but its key and opening method had been taken away by a senior. Meanwhile, Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu killed the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast and went to claim its corpse.

• The Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast told Li Xiaoya that Heaven-and-Earth Realm beasts knew the Sixth Layer entrance was inside Kaiser Sand King's cave, though the key and opening method were gone.
• Li Xiaoya returned with the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast to the battle site and followed the trail of Lin Qilu, Yao Zixiu, and the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast, hoping they would weaken one another.
• Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu trapped the fleeing One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast with their spear and saber attacks.
• Yao Zixiu's spear shattered the beast's demon core, pierced its demon nascent infant, and killed it.
• Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu flew down to collect the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast's corpse.

After defeating the One-Eyed Giant Bull Beast, Li Xiaoya realized Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu were racing to enter and seal the sixth layer, and hurried there with A-Zi. He sent a talisman to Second Better and the Snow Eagle King as they waited on the third layer.

• Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu suspected Li Xiaoya had followed them into the secret realm and decided to reach the sixth layer before him and seal its entrance.
• Li Xiaoya returned to the battlefield, inferred that the two cultivators were heading for the sixth layer, and ordered A-Zi to take the fastest route there.
• Li Xiaoya used the Kaiser Sand King's mirror treasure to locate Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu, then urged A-Zi to fly faster.
• Li Xiaoya sent a spiritual talisman toward Second Better and the Snow Eagle King, who were waiting on the third layer.
• Second Better and the Snow Eagle King spotted the talisman approaching and prepared to receive it.

Lin Qilu and Yao Zixiu reached a hidden cavern containing a sealed entrance, but Lin Qilu betrayed his senior brother and captured his nascent soul. Lin Qilu intended to bind Yao Zixiu's soul to his magic treasure.

• Li Xiaoya told Second Better and the Snow Eagle King that everything had been settled and sent them back to the fifth level.
• Yao Zixiu and Lin Qilu arrived at a cavern they believed would protect them from Li Xiaoya and found a restriction blocking a huge metal demon beast statue.
• Yao Zixiu revealed five Spiritual Qi Pearls and began explaining how they could break the restriction.
• Lin Qilu attacked Yao Zixiu with a ghost-claw treasure, but Yao Zixiu evaded the first strike and accused him of scheming.
• Lin Qilu pierced Yao Zixiu's throat with the Immortal-Devouring Dagger, then tore out and captured his nascent soul.
• Lin Qilu told Yao Zixiu that he planned to use his nascent soul to bind a magic treasure, while Yao Zixiu pleaded for his life and threatened him with the Yao Household.

Lin Qilu captured Yao Zixiu’s Nascent Soul and revealed his identity as Lu Qiling, but Li Xiaoya and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast ambushed him after learning he used the Immortal-Devouring Dagger. Lin Qilu transformed into a powerful demon and smashed through Li Xiaoya’s earth attacks, leaving Li Xiaoya injured beneath the ground.

• Lin Qilu sealed Yao Zixiu’s Nascent Soul, silenced it, and cried out that he had avenged Sansan.
• An unseen person swept away Yao Zixiu’s belongings, and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast attacked Lin Qilu from above.
• Li Xiaoya revealed that he and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast had reached the sixth-layer entrance first and had been hiding nearby.
• Li Xiaoya attacked Lin Qilu with enormous earthen hands because Lin Qilu had used the Immortal-Devouring Dagger and appeared to have joined the Devil Race.
• Lin Qilu demonized and smashed Li Xiaoya’s rock hands with a devastating charge into the ground.
• Li Xiaoya groaned beneath the earth after realizing Lin Qilu had reached the late Heaven-and-Earth stage.

Li Xiaoya used the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast to distract demonized Lin Qilu, then struck Lin Qilu with the Fire Dragon Sword. Lin Qilu was left split by the attack as the slash tore through the cavern floor toward the restrictions.

• Li Xiaoya realized Lin Qilu had been feigning a plea for mercy and escaped into the cavern ceiling while Lin Qilu pounded the ground.
• Lin Qilu spotted the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast and leapt toward him, while Li Xiaoya ordered the beast to attack.
• Li Xiaoya hurled the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast into Lin Qilu’s path, and the beast unleashed purple and red flames that Lin Qilu’s punches drove back.
• Li Xiaoya grabbed the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast with a Golden Giant Hand, shielded him, and cut off more than half of Lin Qilu’s arms with the Fire Dragon Sword.
• Li Xiaoya brought the Fire Dragon Sword down on Lin Qilu, and a five-colored light blade split the ground and raced toward the restrictions.

Li Xiaoya destroyed Lin Qilu’s Demonization with the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor, but the battle’s aftermath revealed a strange metal crystal that triggered a reaction from the Metal Demon Beast Statue. The cavern shook as five-colored spiritual light surged through it.

• Li Xiaoya split Lin Qilu in two with a sword strike, then summoned flames from the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor as Lin Qilu tried to heal and flee.
• Two hands of earth and stone seized Lin Qilu, allowing Li Xiaoya’s flame demon beasts to engulf and burn him to ashes.
• Li Xiaoya realized the flames had destroyed Lin Qilu’s Nascent Soul, Storage Pouch, and other belongings, but a silvery metallic crystal fell from the remains.
• Li Xiaoya tried to retrieve the crystal with magic power, but it did not move.
• The Metal Demon Beast Statue lit up with runes, and the cavern shook as five-colored spiritual light surged through it.