Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoya defeated the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor with the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff and a five-colored spiritual attack, then claimed the Devil Ancestor’s treasures. After sensing a powerful divine sense approaching, Li Xiaoya fled, while a five-colored figure recognized the devil and celebrated his death.

• The Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff battered the Ghost-Head Fleshball Devil Ancestor, who detonated his body and fled as black mist with a crimson eye.
• Li Xiaoya survived the blast and struck the fleeing Devil Ancestor with a five-colored sphere, unleashing massive spatial explosions.
• A figure emerged from a Five-Colored Spiritual Light Vortex over the ocean, sensed Li Xiaoya fighting, and rushed toward him.
• Li Xiaoya collected the Demonblood Battle Axe, the Storage Pouch, and the black cauldron holding Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru, then fled after sensing a powerful divine sense.
• The five-colored figure realized Li Xiaoya had killed the devil from its past and laughed in delight.

Li Xiaoya rescued Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru from a Devil Ancestor, then asked them for heavenly materials before departing. Their wary response prompted him to reflect on acting according to his heart, and his state of mind advanced.

• Li Xiaoya freed the unconscious Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru from the cauldron and broke the restraints he had placed on them.
• Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru thanked Li Xiaoya warily, and he asked them to check three Jade Slips for heavenly materials he needed.
• Qian Lan offered a few of the listed materials, and Li Xiaoya left after meeting with the two women.
• Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru decided to return to the Purple Vitality Gate for the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pill before returning to the Heavenly Demon Race.
• Li Xiaoya reflected that he had rescued them because it was right, reaffirmed that he would follow his nature, and felt his state of mind improve.

Li Xiaoya returned to Purple Vitality City and headed up Purple Vitality Mountain to meet the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch. After Jerkov escorted him to the patriarch’s pavilion, the gate opened for Li Xiaoya to enter.

• Li Xiaoya traveled toward a teleportation plaza while thinking about the materials needed for the Skyreach Vine Body-Tempering Spirit Elixir.
• At the plaza, Li Xiaoya saw Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru, concealed his aura, and teleported with them to the next city before leaving separately.
• Several months later, Li Xiaoya returned to Purple Vitality City and flew up Purple Vitality Mountain to find the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch.
• Jerkov met Li Xiaoya, expressed surprise at his middle Heaven-and-Earth stage cultivation, and said the patriarch had sent him to welcome Li Xiaoya.
• Jerkov escorted Li Xiaoya to the patriarch’s pavilion, where the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch told Jerkov to leave and the gate opened.

Li Xiaoya met with the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch, learned that the Hell Tower would not open for another fifty years, and asked whether he could return to the lesser star realm he had ascended from. The patriarch explained the dangers of returning and offered to help Li Xiaoya contact its people.

• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch praised Li Xiaoya for reaching the middle heaven-and-earth stage and said the Hell Tower would open in another fifty-odd years, giving him a scroll of information and advising him to prepare at the Purple Vitality Gate.
• Li Xiaoya asked whether the patriarch knew where he came from, explained that he had ascended from a lesser star realm, and said he feared something had happened to someone important there.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch explained that entering a lesser star realm at Li Xiaoya's cultivation level could destroy it, though the Purple Vitality Gate could open a spatial tunnel if Li Xiaoya paid the costs and materials.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch said Li Xiaoya could safely enter any star realm after reaching the immortal tribulation stage, then offered to help him contact the Human Realm instead.
• Li Xiaoya eagerly accepted the offer, and the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch told him to get ready before moving behind him.

Li Xiaoya spoke with his parents in the Human Realm through a brief transmission enabled by the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch. He learned that Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong had ascended, while his parents planned to wait until their abilities were strong enough, and the transmission ended before he could finish speaking.

• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch helped Li Xiaoya project his voice to Mother Li and Li Muzhi, who joyfully recognized him and asked how he was doing.
• Li Xiaoya reassured his parents that he and Zhang Hong were safe, then learned Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong had ascended a year earlier.
• Li Muzhi and Mother Li explained that Dong Santong faced a heavenly tribulation and that they had chosen to wait before ascending; the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch warned that their insufficient abilities made ascending dangerous.
• Li Xiaoya accepted that his parents should cultivate before attempting ascension, asked whether he could send them treasures, and was told that the Heavenly Dao made it impossible.
• Li Muzhi told Li Xiaoya that Qianshan, Buddha Xuanmen, and Hehuan had also ascended, and that Fairy Qingxia and Heavenly Venerable Daoling were cultivating in seclusion.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch ended the transmission before Li Xiaoya could finish speaking, leaving Mother Li tearful; Li Xiaoya then asked the patriarch why he had cut it off.

Li Xiaoya learned that the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch would help investigate Liu Xian'er, Dong Santong, and the others, but barred him from leaving Purple Vitality City. After Li Xiaoya left with Jerkov, the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch spoke privately with a five-colored figure about Li Xiaoya and reports of High-Rank Devil activity.

• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya to handle the Hell Tower matter, remain at Purple Vitality Gate, and wait while he sought Human Race Alliance permission to investigate the Ascension Platform.
• Li Xiaoya left the patriarch’s cave abode with Jerkov, who tried to befriend him and asked whether the patriarch had assigned him a task.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch privately questioned a five-colored figure about why it valued Li Xiaoya, and the figure assured him that Li Xiaoya’s friends were doing well.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch asked whether the five-colored figure knew about apparent High-Rank Devil activity in one of the districts.

The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch learned that Li Xiaoya had killed his old enemy, while the five-colored figure arranged to stay at the Purple Vitality Gate and watch over Li Xiaoya. Li Xiaoya settled into a secret realm aboard the Skyvault Skiff and began reading about the Hell Tower, as a gigantic qilin approached the Thirty-Three Star Realm.

• The five-colored figure told the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch that Li Xiaoya had killed their weakened Devil Race enemy with a Heaven-Opening Treasure, and the patriarch decided to reward Li Xiaoya.
• The five-colored figure persuaded the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch to let him stay at the Purple Vitality Gate to keep an eye on Li Xiaoya.
• Jerkov brought Li Xiaoya to the Third Layer and showed him his assigned secret realm before departing.
• Li Xiaoya leveled a valley and set down the Skyvault Skiff, choosing it as his residence and activating its spiritual-qi-absorbing pipes.
• Li Xiaoya read the scroll about the Hell Tower while wondering why the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch treated him so well.
• A gigantic qilin carrying palaces within a Five-Colored Light Barrier neared the Thirty-Three Star Realm and received orders to enter.

Dong Santong survived a battle with a gigantic Demon Beast in the Flowing Light Star Realm and went to investigate its crater, while a five-colored figure arrived above the ocean on a colossal Qilin. Li Xiaoya reached Purple Vitality Market to gather information and prepare for the Hell Tower’s eighteen trials.

• Dong Santong unleashed a massive attack that killed or defeated a lion-headed, ox-bodied Demon Beast, then descended into the crater to investigate and collect its materials.
• A five-colored figure arrived above the ocean aboard a colossal red Qilin and ordered it to wait on the Savage Wilderness Continent before departing.
• Li Xiaoya left the Skyvault Skiff and flew to Purple Vitality Market in Purple Vitality City.
• Li Xiaoya reviewed what he had learned about the Hell Tower and realized its varied trials would demand more than strength, while the scroll described only the first twelve layers.
• Li Xiaoya went to the market to seek information about the Hell Tower, prepare useful divine abilities, and sell unwanted items and treasures.

Li Xiaoya visited the Purple Vitality Market District to collect his sect benefits and find rare herbs and materials to improve his cultivation and abilities. After spotting Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru, he avoided them and entered an herb shop, where he learned that the shop had nearly everything he needed but would not accept spirit stone coins.

• Li Xiaoya planned to cultivate the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram, improve his treasures and divine abilities, and trade away items he could not use.
• Li Xiaoya collected his Purple Vitality Gate rewards, including billions of spirit stone coins, elixirs, and a little over a hundred thousand Human Race Alliance contribution points.
• Li Xiaoya saw Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru in the market district and walked past without greeting them; Xilan Yuru sensed something familiar about him but did not recognize him.
• Li Xiaoya entered a medicinal herb shop and gave its head steward a list of rare herbs he needed.
• The head steward told Li Xiaoya the shop had every listed herb except purple jade lingxin grass, but the rare herbs could not be purchased with spirit stone coins.

Li Xiaoya stocked up on spirit herbs and information in the Purple Vitality Market, while planning to dismantle the demonic treasures he had recovered from a Devil Ancestor. He headed to the Purple Vitality Gate’s Heavenfire Furnace, where a powerful Giant Race cultivator noticed him and approached.

• Li Xiaoya contracted with the Qianling Treasure Pavilion to obtain spirit herbs, but learned Purple Jade Lingxin Grass required millions of race contribution points and remained beyond his reach.
• He reviewed the Devil Ancestor’s black cauldron and decided to destroy dangerous demonic methods and dismantle the remaining demonic treasures rather than let them circulate.
• After learning about the Heavenfire Furnace, Li Xiaoya spent several days buying records, guides, and a few useful cultivation manuals in the Purple Vitality Market.
• Li Xiaoya flew to the inner square beneath the market, where he encountered several Great Void Stage cultivators and a Heaven-and-Earth Realm Giant Race cultivator.
• The Giant Race cultivator spotted Li Xiaoya, stood up, and strode toward him.

Li Xiaoya visited the Heavenfire Furnace and learned that its Giant Race managing elder was secretly trying to buy demonic treasures for resale. After Li Xiaoya resolved to report him to the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch, the Patriarch discovered the elder’s dealings and went to have him brought in.

• The Giant Race managing elder explained to Li Xiaoya that the Heavenfire Furnace could refine demonic treasures and damaged metal artifacts, then tried to buy any demonic items Li Xiaoya had brought.
• Li Xiaoya recognized the elder’s scheme, claimed he had no demonic artifacts, and decided to report the elder to the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch.
• A Great Void stage cultivator arrived and left with the Giant Race elder, apparently to conduct a private trade.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch and a five-colored figure saw the elder secretly dealing with a Blue Moon Race cultivator through a spiritual light curtain.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch angrily said he would have the Giant Race elder brought before him and disappeared.

Li Xiaoya entered the Heavenfire Furnace while Jerkov summoned Ceno to the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch, who had discovered something amiss at the Purple Vitality Gate. The chapter ended with the Patriarch accusing Ceno of a crime and Ceno denying it.

• Li Xiaoya entered the Heavenfire Furnace through a shaft lined with ten-thousand-year ice jade.
• Jerkov arrived at the square, ordered Ceno to see the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch, and announced that the Heavenfire Furnace would close temporarily.
• Ceno asked Jerkov whether the Patriarch had uncovered their secret business, and Jerkov warned him to stay silent.
• The five-colored figure warned the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch about carelessness and something wrong within the Purple Vitality Gate.
• Jerkov and Ceno appeared before the Patriarch, who demanded that Ceno acknowledge his crime, but Ceno denied it.

Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch confronted Ceno over trading demonic artifacts, while Jerkov tried to direct the punishment toward him. A powerful figure shining with five-colored spiritual light intervened, overruled Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch, and began restraining both men to force them to confess.

• Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch hurled Ceno into a garden and threatened Soul-Searching and Spirit Extraction until Ceno admitted buying demonic artifacts for resale.
• Jerkov accused Ceno of trading demonic treasures with an outside cultivator and persuaded Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch to send the matter to the Elder Council under his supervision.
• Ceno begged not to be handed over to Jerkov, but Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch rebuked him and ordered Jerkov to investigate.
• A figure shimmering with five-colored spiritual light appeared, challenged Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch, and questioned how extensive Ceno's and Jerkov's dealings were.
• The figure demanded that Jerkov and Ceno confess, then unleashed five-colored light that immobilized them as Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch cried out in alarm.

Li Xiaoya tested the Heavenfire Furnace by feeding it a True Immortal Spirit Treasure to be smelted, then cultivated while it worked. Elsewhere, a five-colored-light figure extracted Jerkov and Ceno’s memories, and the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch attacked them after the process ended.

• The five-colored-light figure sealed Jerkov and Ceno’s magic power, pierced their minds with strands of light, and projected their memories into a sphere as the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch watched.
• Li Xiaoya descended to the Heavenfire Furnace, recognized it as a Heaven-Opening Treasure, and prepared a Black Long Saber as a test offering.
• Li Xiaoya activated the furnace with Ceno’s instructions, dropped the saber inside, and sealed the lid as the furnace’s dragon heads lit up and it began smelting the treasure.
• Li Xiaoya settled down to cultivate while the furnace worked, expecting the True Immortal Spirit Treasure to take several days to refine.
• The five-colored-light figure ended the memory extraction and dropped Jerkov and Ceno to the ground, after which the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch slashed at their heads with purple sword rays.

The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch spared Jerkov and Ceno from execution by sentencing them to serve on the Race Battlefield, while Li Xiaoya was revealed as the one who had exposed their crimes. Jerkov and Ceno plotted revenge against Li Xiaoya as he continued melting the Black Long Saber in the Heavenfire Furnace.

• The shimmering figure stopped the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch from killing Jerkov and Ceno, and they agreed to send the pair to the Race Battlefield instead.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch sentenced Jerkov and Ceno to serve at least ten thousand years and earn one hundred million merit, then made them swear Blood Oath Contracts.
• After Jerkov and Ceno left, the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch discussed his shortcomings and Li Xiaoya's search with the shimmering figure.
• Jerkov and Ceno realized Li Xiaoya had exposed their crimes, and Jerkov vowed to seek help from an old patron before going to the Race Battlefield.
• Li Xiaoya continued watching as the Black Long Saber, a True Immortal Spirit Treasure, began to melt in the Heavenfire Furnace.

Li Xiaoya refined the Black Long Saber and other treasures in the Heavenfire Furnace while studying metal lore, and Jerkov and Ceno left for the Race Battlefield after arranging a plan against him. Elsewhere, Liu Xian'er awakened and learned from a mysterious five-colored figure that Li Xiaoya had gone missing in the Renlan Star Realm.

• Li Xiaoya recovered valuable metals from the Black Long Saber, then fed the Ghost-Head Hammer and other treasures into the Heavenfire Furnace while reading books about metals.
• Jerkov received a message confirming that a senior would help them attack Li Xiaoya outside Purple Vitality Gate, and said his two disciples would handle matters while Li Xiaoya remained inside.
• Jerkov and Ceno departed through a Teleportation Formation for the Race Battlefield.
• A mysterious figure in five-colored light restored Liu Xian'er, who awoke and asked about her senior brother, Dong Santong.
• The figure told Liu Xian'er that it had saved her for Li Xiaoya's sake and claimed Li Xiaoya had gone missing in the Renlan Star Realm.

Liu Xian'er learned that Li Xiaoya had been missing in the Renlan Star Realm for over a hundred years and insisted on going there to search for him. Meanwhile, the five-colored figure delivered something for Li Xiaoya to the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch and met another powerful figure above Giant Spirit Lake.

• The five-colored figure told Liu Xian'er that Li Xiaoya had gone to the Renlan Star Realm to find a spirit herb for Zhang Hong, and that Dong Santong had gone there to look for him.
• Liu Xian'er persuaded the five-colored figure to send her to the Renlan Star Realm, despite warnings about the danger.
• After arriving in the stormy, icebound realm, Liu Xian'er sensed its abundant water spiritual qi and set off to find Li Xiaoya.
• The five-colored figure gave the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch a Jade Slip containing something Li Xiaoya needed, then left to attend to other matters.
• Above Giant Spirit Lake, the five-colored figure encountered another enormous figure, who asked whether the five-colored figure had caused a recent event; the figure denied it and said it was a fortuitous opportunity.

Li Xiaoya finished smelting the Demonblood Battle Axe and discovered qianyuan true essence among its materials. After three or four months in the Heavenfire Furnace, he emerged to find the hall empty and sensed two figures watching him.

• Two five-colored figures argued over whether to interfere with someone, then vanished when they sensed the one above watching them.
• Li Xiaoya completed smelting the Demonblood Battle Axe and recovered several pieces of qianyuan true essence.
• Li Xiaoya assessed the recovered materials and reflected on his gains from smelting demonic treasures and studying books during his stay.
• Li Xiaoya left the Heavenfire Furnace and found the hall empty because the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch had sent Ceno, Jerkov, and their accomplices to the Race Battlefield and temporarily closed the furnace.
• Li Xiaoya sensed two figures watching him from dozens of stories above and wondered who they were.

Li Xiaoya completed his trade at the Qianling Treasure Pavilion and learned that Liu Xian'er, Dong Santong, and the others who ascended with him were safe for now. After discovering that Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong had been taken to the Human Race Alliance, he asked the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch for permission to leave for the Heavenly Dao Sect, but the patriarch refused.

• Li Xiaoya left the Heavenfire Furnace and went to the Qianling Treasure Pavilion to collect his order and complete their trade.
• The Qianling Treasure Pavilion's manager invited Li Xiaoya to become a guest retainer, but he declined and accepted an honored guest token instead.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch and his five-colored-light companion discussed Li Xiaoya's innate five immortal roots and his exceptional fortune.
• Li Xiaoya returned to the Purple Vitality Pavilion, where the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch gave him a Jade Slip confirming that those who ascended with him were safe for now.
• After reading the Jade Slip, Li Xiaoya asked to visit the Heavenly Dao Sect in District Four Hundred and Fifty-Six, but the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch refused; Li Xiaoya then asked whether Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong had been taken to the Human Race Alliance.

Li Xiaoya learned that Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong had joined the Human Race Alliance and that he could reach them after completing the Hell Tower task, but he chose to focus on finding the twin-pole netherflower while Zhang Hong remained unconscious. As Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru left Purple Vitality City, Liu Xian'er was fleeing pursuing demon beasts through an underground ice cavern.

• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch told Li Xiaoya that Liu Xian'er and Dong Santong had been taken to the Human Race Alliance, while High Person Qianshan, Buddha Xuanmen, and the Hehuan Twin Demons were at the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• The Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch explained that passing the Hell Tower's tenth layer would make Li Xiaoya a Heaven-and-Earth Divine General and grant him access to the Human Race Alliance after he obtained the twin-pole netherflower on the eighteenth layer.
• Li Xiaoya decided to pursue the twin-pole netherflower rather than seek Liu Xian'er immediately, since Zhang Hong was still unconscious, and the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch sent him away to cultivate.
• Qian Lan and Xilan Yuru flew away from Purple Vitality City and discussed the Soul-Restoring Purple Vitality Pills, which the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Bones had requested because of Li Xiaoya.
• Liu Xian'er raced through an underground ice cavern in the Renlan Star Realm as enraged demon beasts pursued her, smashing through the ice formations behind her.