Chapter Summaries

Dong Santong fought Elder Qianling while trying to protect Liu Xian'er, whose qi deviation sent her fleeing in a demonic frenzy. Elder Qianling targeted Liu Xian'er to stop Dong Santong, just as an unknown figure inside a sealed chamber sensed danger and called her name.

• Elder Qianling beheaded Dong Santong, but Dong Santong reappeared above him and struck with the Moonlight Crescent Saber, cutting deeply into his neck despite his Bronze Shield.
• Dong Santong escaped the Bronze Shield's counterattack and raced after Liu Xian'er, while Elder Qianling pursued him and the surrounding cultivators retreated.
• Elder Qianling caught up with Dong Santong and struck him, but Dong Santong escaped again using his substitution ability.
• Elder Qianling seized at the fleeing Liu Xian'er with an enormous azure hand to exploit Dong Santong's concern for her.
• A voice inside a sealed chamber cried out Liu Xian'er's name as five-colored divine light flared in alarm.

Li Xiaoya emerged from seclusion as a Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator and went to check on Second Better. The chapter explained his breakthrough attempt, which had stalled at merging with the Dao of Heaven and Earth until his impatience led him to take a second Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pill and face a major crisis.

• Li Xiaoya opened the sealed chamber, greeted the Five-Element Spirits, and learned from the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast that Second Better was cultivating on the fifth level.
• Li Xiaoya moved toward Second Better's room with astonishing speed, leading the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast to suspect he had already reached the middle Heaven-and-Earth Stage.
• During his seclusion, Li Xiaoya studied the Heaven-and-Earth Heavenly Dao Art, reached Great Void Stage perfection, and took a Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pill to attempt his breakthrough.
• After refining the first pill, Li Xiaoya sensed the Dao of Heaven and Earth but could not merge with it, and his anxiety over his limited time grew.
• Li Xiaoya took a second Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pill to force the breakthrough, triggering the greatest crisis of his attempt to enter the Heaven-and-Earth Realm.

Li Xiaoya’s third Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pill triggered another surge of power, but the five-element spirits subdued his heart demons and guided him into a prolonged, near-breakthrough state. As the Hell Tower’s opening approached, he took a third pill, and the spirits’ chanting began shaping a new heaven and earth above his Nascent Soul while they grew dim from exhaustion.

• Li Xiaoya lost control of the power from his second Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pill, and guilt-filled heart demons overwhelmed him with visions of his enemies and loved ones.
• The five-element spirits surrounded Li Xiaoya, devoured the demonic qi, and chanted until his heart demons and raging powers subsided.
• Li Xiaoya used the spirits’ five-colored light to refine the pill’s medicinal power and approach the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, but remained stuck at the threshold for three years.
• With the Hell Tower’s opening approaching, Li Xiaoya took a third Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pill and relied on the spirits to control its power.
• The five-element spirits intensified their chant as black and white lights formed a new heaven and earth above Li Xiaoya’s Nascent Soul, while their bodies grew dim from exhaustion.

Li Xiaoya used three Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pills to force his advancement, and the Five-Element Spirits’ chanting helped contain the immense power until his body began to rupture. As he crossed the greatest hurdle to the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, the spirits burned themselves and entered his body, leaving him enclosed in a ball of five-colored light.

• Li Xiaoya refined the three Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pills while the Five-Element Spirits chanted to control the surging magic power.
• Li Xiaoya’s body swelled and split open, spraying golden-tinged essence blood that the Five-Element Spirits absorbed to restore their strength.
• The Five-Element Spirits’ renewed chanting healed Li Xiaoya and activated the True Immortal Soul and mysterious power within him, allowing him to comprehend the Heaven-and-Earth Dao.
• Li Xiaoya’s body returned to its original form as five-colored runes appeared and a celestial phenomenon began to form.
• The Five-Element Spirits burned their souls and spirit bodies to suppress the phenomenon, then transformed into streaks of light and entered Li Xiaoya.
• A barrier of five-colored light formed around Li Xiaoya, concealing him inside a radiant sphere.

Li Xiaoya advanced through the Heaven-and-Earth Realm while the Five-Element Spirits’ power and the sealed celestial phenomenon continued to strengthen him. After nearly a century in seclusion, he broke into the middle Heaven-and-Earth stage and left the Skyvault Secret Realm because he sensed that something had happened to Liu Xian'er.

• Li Xiaoya advanced to the Heaven-and-Earth Realm inside the five-colored barrier, which continued to pour power and cosmic laws into him.
• Li Xiaoya’s cultivation surged as the Five-Element Spirits, nine-heavens immortalizing grass, and Great Immortal Haocang’s true immortal soul aided his progress.
• Li Xiaoya reached the second layer of the Heaven-and-Earth Realm after a year, then continued cultivating as the barrier gradually weakened.
• After around ninety-seven years, Li Xiaoya used elixirs and spiritual qi to break into the middle Heaven-and-Earth stage.
• Li Xiaoya sensed that something had happened to Liu Xian'er and decided to leave the Skyvault Secret Realm at once.

A mysterious cultivator cloaked in Five-Colored Spiritual Light stopped the battle, purged Liu Xian'er's demonic possession, and took her away for further treatment. He told Dong Santong he could learn Li Xiaoya's whereabouts by coming along, while Dong Santong demanded justice from the reception officials and Elder Qianling.

• Dong Santong tried to stop Elder Qianling from capturing Liu Xian'er, but the azure attack struck her and sent her falling.
• A powerful cultivator appeared, immobilized everyone, and used Five-Colored Spiritual Light to expel the Demonic Qi from Liu Xian'er.
• The cultivator took the unconscious Liu Xian'er into his sleeve and told Dong Santong she needed further treatment.
• The cultivator privately told Dong Santong that he could learn Li Xiaoya's whereabouts by coming with him, and Dong Santong agreed.
• Dong Santong accused Elder Qianling and the two Reception Envoys of attacking him and Liu Xian'er, and the cultivator seized the Black Human Race Reception Envoy for speaking out.

A powerful five-colored spiritual light cultivator killed the two Reception Envoys and took control of the dispute over Dong Santong and Elder Qianling. He punished Elder Qianling, restrained Dong Santong, and left with him, while another Huaxia Human Race cultivator received a token and instructions to report to the Inner Clan Secret Realm.

• The five-colored spiritual light cultivator crushed the Black Human Race Reception Envoy and the Blue-Skinned Reception Envoy to nothingness.
• Dong Santong asked to handle Elder Qianling himself, but Elder Qianling claimed he had acted within his authority and the powerful cultivator ruled that he did.
• Dong Santong vanished and attacked Elder Qianling, but the five-colored spiritual light cultivator stopped him and bound him.
• The five-colored spiritual light cultivator ordered Elder Qianling to serve the Clan Alliance for ten thousand years as a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General, then took Dong Santong away through a vortex.
• A Huaxia Human Race cultivator received a five-colored spiritual light token and was told to report to the Huaxia Human Race Inner Clan Secret Realm after completing his Ascension Platform service.

A five-colored cultivator freed Dong Santong and told him that Li Xiaoya, High Person Qianshan, and Buddha Xuanmen were alive and well. The cultivator revealed that Liu Xian'er’s qi deviation had damaged her mind and sealed her cultivation, then said Dong Santong must travel to a Lesser Star Realm to find herbs for her treatment.

• The five-colored cultivator appeared before Dong Santong, confirmed that Li Xiaoya, High Person Qianshan, and Buddha Xuanmen were alive, and freed him.
• The cultivator said Li Xiaoya had reached the Heaven-and-Earth Realm, Zhang Hong had only partly recovered, and Liu Xian'er’s qi deviation had affected her mind.
• The cultivator explained that Liu Xian'er's cultivation was sealed and could be ruined without proper treatment, but Qianling had already been punished in the Hell Tower.
• The cultivator offered to treat Liu Xian'er with elixirs but said Dong Santong had to obtain several rare herbs from a Lesser Star Realm.

Li Xiaoya reunited with Second Better and learned that his imitation flying boat could absorb spiritual qi and serve as a mobile cultivation base. They could not take the enormous Skyvault Flying Boat out of the secret realm, so Second Better invited Li Xiaoya to test his smaller craft.

• Li Xiaoya found Second Better operating an imitation of the Skyvault Flying Boat and learned that he had developed Cultivation Armor that increased spiritual qi absorption.
• Second Better gave Li Xiaoya several sets of Cultivation Armor and explained that his imitation flying boat could absorb spiritual qi and use a Spirit Stone Furnace to raise the concentration inside.
• Li Xiaoya asked whether they could take the Skyvault Flying Boat out of the secret realm, but Second Better explained that no exit was large enough for it.
• Second Better offered Li Xiaoya his smaller imitation flying boat, and Li Xiaoya agreed to test its speed and defenses with him.
• Second Better led Li Xiaoya into the flying boat's control room to try operating it.

Second Better demonstrated his imitation flying boat’s speed and explained that the Skyvault Flying Boat might be powerful enough to travel between Greater Star Realms. As Li Xiaoya wondered about the vessel’s value, Second Better told him he would not accompany him on his next outing, leaving Li Xiaoya asking why.

• Second Better activated the imitation flying boat, retracting its upper pipes and using spiritual qi to propel it.
• Li Xiaoya asked for the fastest setting, and the flying boat accelerated to nearly the speed of an early Heaven-and-Earth Realm cultivator.
• Second Better explained that high-grade spirit stones could double the boat’s speed, but Li Xiaoya balked at the steep cost.
• Second Better estimated that the Skyvault Flying Boat could be over a hundred times faster and said it might travel through space between Greater Star Realms.
• Second Better told Li Xiaoya he would not go with him this time, and Li Xiaoya asked why.

Li Xiaoya left Second Better in the Skyvault Secret Realm with the Skyvault Skiff and set out to find Liu Xian'er. Meanwhile, Dong Santong was sent to the Flowing Light Star Realm to search for spirit herbs to treat her, and he departed through an interrealm teleportation formation.

• Second Better chose to remain in the Skyvault Secret Realm to cultivate and study the flying boat, and Li Xiaoya agreed to leave him there.
• Li Xiaoya and Second Better tested the flying boat's speed, defenses, and spirit cannon, after which Second Better gave it to Li Xiaoya and named it the Skyvault Skiff.
• Li Xiaoya left the Snow Eagle King and the Two-Headed Purple Phoenix Beast with Second Better, exchanged Life-Bound Lamps with him, and departed with the Skyvault Skiff.
• Dong Santong learned that Liu Xian'er was unconscious after qi deviation and demonic qi had injured her primordial spirit and soul, then agreed to seek spirit herbs in the Flowing Light Star Realm.
• The figure shimmering with five-colored spiritual light gave Dong Santong a map and token, brought him to a huge city, and sent him to the interrealm teleportation formation.
• Dong Santong entered the formation and vanished toward the Flowing Light Star Realm.

Dong Santong arrived in the Flowing Light Star Realm to seek a Silver-Sand Golden Spirit Shark’s inner core, then realized he had no way back and was attacked by a disturbance in the desert. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoya returned from the Skyvault Secret Realm, found Giant Spirit Lake deserted, and discovered that its strange aquatic vines resisted both his strength and the Fire Dragon Sword.

• Dong Santong reached the Silver Sand Desert, marveled at its light-attribute spiritual qi, and set off to find a Silver-Sand Golden Spirit Shark’s inner core.
• Dong Santong realized he had not been told how to return, and a powerful eruption of silver sand surged toward him from dozens of miles away.
• Li Xiaoya emerged from the Skyvault Secret Realm, closed the passage, and used Earth Escape to leave the mountain without alerting the Dragon Turtle.
• Li Xiaoya found that the island held no high-ranking demon beasts and descended into the overgrown Healing Spirit Pool.
• Li Xiaoya discovered mysterious runes on the aquatic vines and Golden Light Orbs, but his divine sense could not penetrate the plants.
• Li Xiaoya failed to pull free a vine or cut it with the Fire Dragon Sword, which rebounded from its surface.

Li Xiaoya discovered that the strange waterweed was Skyreach Vine, a rare treasure from the Twenty-First Star Realm whose spirit sap could heal wounds and strengthen the body. After cutting a strand and watching it wither, he collected the escaping sap and asked the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma how to harvest the vine.

• Li Xiaoya cut a notch into the Skyreach Vine and gathered the mysterious white liquid leaking from it.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma woke after sensing the vine and identified it as Skyreach Vine, a treasure that could help him advance.
• Li Xiaoya and the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma connected the vine to the Twenty-First Star Realm and the Kreig Race, possibly brought to the realm by Lingxiao.
• The Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma explained that the vine absorbed the force of attacks through its spirit sap, then told Li Xiaoya to slice it diagonally.
• Li Xiaoya cut through a strand, which quickly withered as its spirit sap poured out, and he gathered the liquid before asking how to harvest the vine.

Li Xiaoya harvested and refined the skyreach vine’s spirit sap before fleeing Giant Spirit Lake, while a mysterious five-colored figure noticed his rapid advancement. Elsewhere, Dong Santong fled light-attribute demon beasts, and Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru were pursued by a sinister cultivator.

• Li Xiaoya used the Fire Dragon Sword to drain the skyreach vine’s spirit sap, then learned from the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma how to refine it.
• Li Xiaoya left Giant Spirit Lake’s center, concealed himself with the Invisibility Cloak, and accelerated when he sensed an overwhelming force.
• A five-colored figure discovered that Li Xiaoya had reached the middle heaven-and-earth stage and decided to seek out Purple Light.
• Dong Santong fled swarms of powerful light-attribute demon beasts in the Flowing Light Star Realm.
• Qian Lan urged Xilan Yuru to escape while she held off their pursuer, but Xilan Yuru refused to leave her master.

Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru tried to escape a powerful Devil Ancestor, while Li Xiaoya sensed their battle and turned back to help. Qian Lan struck the Devil Ancestor with an Immortal-Smiting Thunder, but he survived, forcing the two women to flee again.

• Qian Lan used a spell to create a vast white mist and fled with Xilan Yuru, but the Devil Ancestor broke through the trap and caught up with them.
• Qian Lan produced a mysterious blue orb as the Devil Ancestor pursued them.
• Li Xiaoya flew toward the Purple Vitality Gate while studying cultivation techniques and considering how to contact the lower realm and help Zhang Hong, his parents, and Xian'er.
• Li Xiaoya sensed familiar auras and powerful demonic Qi, initially chose to avoid the fight, then turned back and concealed himself with his invisibility cloak.
• Qian Lan detonated an Immortal-Smiting Thunder, blasting open the sky and mangling the Devil Ancestor, but he survived and roared in fury.
• Qian Lan grabbed Xilan Yuru and fled again as the wounded Devil Ancestor remained alive.

Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru fought the Devil Ancestor, whose ghost heads damaged Qian Lan’s Ice Mountain and his Giant Axe split her stone stele. The Devil Ancestor then summoned a giant cauldron over them as Qian Lan tried to flee.

• Qian Lan sent her Ice Mountain against the Devil Ancestor’s ghost heads and hurled her stone stele at his fleshly body.
• The Devil Ancestor revealed his monstrous face, summoned a blood-red Giant Axe, and split Qian Lan’s stone stele.
• The Devil Ancestor’s ghost heads detonated inside the Ice Mountain, injuring Qian Lan and damaging both her treasures.
• The Devil Ancestor summoned a giant black cauldron over Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru, and Qian Lan called for them to run.

Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru struggled to escape the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor’s enormous cauldron until Li Xiaoya intervened. His surprise attack wounded the devil ancestor but sent the two women into the cauldron, leaving Li Xiaoya facing the enemy.

• The Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor trapped Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru beneath his cauldron and used its suction and ghost hands to prevent their escape.
• Xilan Yuru attacked the ghost hands with countless blue swords while Qian Lan used her Gourd treasure, but the women remained trapped.
• A black-cloaked cultivator struck the cauldron, and Qian Lan glimpsed him before she and Xilan Yuru were sucked inside.
• The Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor confronted the cloaked attacker, who revealed himself as Li Xiaoya and declared his hostility toward the Devil Race.
• Li Xiaoya recalled that he had waited for the injured devil ancestor to focus on the cauldron, then struck him with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.
• The blow smashed the devil ancestor onto the cauldron, but Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru were pulled inside as Li Xiaoya recovered his staff and faced his enemy.

Li Xiaoya revealed himself and fought the injured Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor, whose Demonblood Battle Axe he overpowered with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff. As the devil ancestor tried to flee with his treasures and the trapped Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru, Li Xiaoya sealed the surrounding space and brought down a fire-charged strike.

• The Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor recognized Li Xiaoya and attacked him with the Demonblood Battle Axe, while the chapter explained that Li Xiaoya had thwarted the devil ancestor's plans years earlier.
• Li Xiaoya put away the Invisibility Cloak, revealed himself, and met the giant axe with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff.
• Li Xiaoya's staff knocked the Demonblood Battle Axe flying, and he donned the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor as the injured devil ancestor realized he was outmatched.
• The Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor opened a spatial escape route and tried to retrieve his cauldron and axe, with Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru still trapped inside the cauldron.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed the staff's fiery power, sealed the space around the fleeing devil ancestor, and swung a devastating strike at him.

Li Xiaoya battled the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor, whose blood-sacrificed Demonblood Battle Axe transformed into a towering blood demon. Their supreme treasures clashed, and the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff was damaged, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Li Xiaoya drove the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor back with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and the Red-Flame Myriad-Beast Armor’s flames.
• The Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor summoned the Demonblood Battle Axe and drenched it in essence blood, forming a giant blood demon covered in the heads of sacrificed cultivators.
• Li Xiaoya recognized the weapon’s horrific origins and intensified his attack as the Devil Ancestor used demonic qi and an incantation to empower the blood demon.
• The blood demon swung the Demonblood Battle Axe and clashed with Li Xiaoya’s Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, tearing through the sky and unleashing a devastating shock wave.
• Li Xiaoya’s staff began forcing the blood demon downward, but a crack appeared in the staff and Li Xiaoya paled from the damage to his life-bound treasure.

Li Xiaoya fought the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor, whose Demonblood Battle Axe initially overpowered his Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff. Li Xiaoya exploited the crimson monster’s weakness, destroyed it, and struck the Devil Ancestor as he tried to escape, leaving him engulfed in red flames.

• The Demonblood Battle Axe struck the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and injured Li Xiaoya, but the staff’s flames destroyed the crimson monster empowering the axe.
• Li Xiaoya struck the weakened Demonblood Battle Axe with his staff and sent it flying.
• Li Xiaoya unleashed the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff at the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor, who opened a spatial portal and tried to flee.
• Li Xiaoya used Five-Colored Spiritual Light Giant Hands to pry open the closing rift and expose the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor.
• The Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff blasted the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor out of the rift and engulfed him in red-light flame.