Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan registered with the Firecloud Sect, received temporary rooms, and waited under strict rules for transport to Firecloud Divine Mountain. Wang Yan studied how to craft Fireball Spell Immortal Cards, but as the recruits headed to the Back Mountain, he recognized Huā Tiánlíng’s voice and realized trouble might follow.

• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan registered without Summoning Order Talismans and received temporary Identity Tokens and basic rewards.
• A female cultivator assigned each of them a room and explained that they must remain silent and wait for the sect’s flying vessel.
• Wang Yan discussed his Spell Collection Cards with Card Fairy and decided to collect a Fire Trap spell and either Fire Fist or Fire Arrow, while Card Fairy urged him to craft Fireball Spell Immortal Cards.
• Wang Yan stayed in his room for several days studying Fireball Spell Immortal Card crafting until the recruits were summoned to depart for Firecloud Divine Mountain.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan joined the silent crowd heading to the Back Mountain, where Wang Yan recognized Huā Tiánlíng’s familiar voice asking why two people were missing.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan denied having Huā Tiánlíng's Summoning Order Talismans, and a Firecloud Sect cultivator stopped her from attacking them. The new disciples boarded the Firecloud Boat, where two women approached Wang Yan and Ye Shisan and asked to sit beside them.

• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan pretended not to recognize Huā Tiánlíng's Summoning Order Talismans and said they would not join the Firecloud Sect.
• Huā Tiánlíng unleashed her spiritual pressure, but a bearded Firecloud Sect cultivator persuaded her to stop and warned her about the consequences of her recruiting methods.
• Huā Tiánlíng let slip that the new disciples were going to their deaths, prompting the gathered cultivators to question the sect.
• A massive Firecloud Boat descended, and the bearded cultivator ordered everyone aboard; Wang Yan and Ye Shisan boarded first.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan sat near the front of the cabin, and two women asked if they could sit there, startling Ye Shisan.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan met twin female cultivators aboard the Firecloud Sect’s flying boat, where Young Master Lei tried to force the sisters to sit with him. Wang Yan helped them evade him, and the boat began its journey to the Firecloud Mountains as tensions remained unresolved.

• Wang Yan let the twin sisters sit beside him and began refining a Beast Hide while speaking with them.
• Young Master Lei offered Wang Yan Spirit Stones to take his seat, then revealed he wanted the sisters, his relatives, to help him advance to the Core Condensation Realm.
• Wang Yan accepted payment to give up his seat, then arranged new seats for himself, Ye Shisan, and the sisters, frustrating Young Master Lei.
• The sisters pushed past Young Master Lei, and a Firecloud Sect female disciple confiscated Wang Yan’s offered Spirit Stones and warned Lei not to cause trouble.
• The flying boat jolted and began rising.

Wang Yan arrived at Firecloud Divine Mountain with the other new cultivators and learned that they were only provisional disciples. Their status depended on passing a trial, and one cultivator publicly asked whether it was Cloud Mountain Treasure Land.

• The female Firecloud Sect disciples stopped Young Master Lei from causing trouble, and Wang Yan spent the flight studying while he and the others remained wary of him.
• After several hours, the Firecloud Boat landed at the vast Firecloud Sect, where Wang Yan delayed disembarking until Young Master Lei had left the aisle.
• Zhang Qiulang and Zhang Qiulin introduced themselves to Wang Yan and warned him that Young Master Lei would not let the earlier conflict go.
• Wang Yan sensed the dense spiritual energy of Firecloud Divine Mountain as Lingyu gathered the newcomers and explained that they were provisional disciples until they passed a trial.
• A cultivator asked whether the trial was Cloud Mountain Treasure Land, drawing every cultivator’s attention.

Lingyu revealed that the Firecloud Sect’s prospective disciples would face the dangerous Cloud Mountain Treasure Land alongside cultivators from the other four great sects, then confined them to Temporary Cave Abodes under strict rules. Wang Yan secured two fire spells for his Spell Collection Cards and returned to cultivation, while the Card Fairy warned him to keep the cards secret.

• Lingyu announced the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land mission, promised rewards for survivors, and imposed strict rules forbidding the prospective disciples from leaving, contacting one another, or fighting.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan received nearby Temporary Cave Abodes and agreed to cultivate and prepare separately for the months before the mission.
• A Firecloud Sect disciple named Ziwu delivered Wang Yan three Fasting Pills, and Wang Yan offered him three intermediate spirit stones to cast fire spells.
• Wang Yan sealed the Fire Blast Technique and Fire Fist Spell into two Spell Collection Cards, and Ziwu offered to report his formation skills in exchange for more money.
• The Card Fairy cautioned Wang Yan that revealing his Immortal Cards could be dangerous, and Wang Yan decided to focus on cultivation.

After more than four months of secluded cultivation, Wang Yan mastered the second layer of the Heart-Control Art and prepared his cards for the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land. As the provisional disciples boarded a Flying Boat to enter the treasure land, Wang Yan reunited with a much stronger Ye Shisan and encountered Young Master Lei.

• Wang Yan completed a Fire Blast Card and spoke with the Card Fairy through spiritual sense after mastering the second layer of the Heart-Control Art.
• During his seclusion, Wang Yan learned two spells through Spell Collection Cards, crafted a Fireball Spell Card and two Magic Artifact Fusion Cards, and assembled an arsenal of Immortal Cards.
• A white-haired old man reported to the red-haired Ancestor that preparations for the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land were complete, but their chances were only twenty percent and the Purple Flame Sect was stronger.
• After briefly cultivating his magic power, Wang Yan was summoned to enter the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land and discovered that Ye Shisan had grown taller and reached the peak of full completion of the cultivation realm.
• Lingyu ordered the provisional disciples to board the Flying Boat, and Young Master Lei approached Wang Yan and Ye Shisan as they were about to leave.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan traveled with Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang to the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land, where they joined hundreds of Firecloud Sect cultivators. Golden Core cultivator Hua Zhitian revealed that the journey was a trial to gather ingredients for Qi Condensation Pills, leaving the disciples eager to begin.

• Wang Yan told Ye Shisan they would kill Young Master Lei if the chance arose, and Ye Shisan hardened his resolve before practicing the Heart-Control Art.
• Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang offered to team up with Wang Yan in the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land, but he postponed deciding.
• The Firecloud Boats carried the cultivators to a wasteland surrounded by five walled cities, where hundreds of Firecloud Sect disciples gathered.
• Hua Zhitian arrived on a giant Snow Eagle Beast, and Wang Yan learned from Card Fairy that he was a Golden Core cultivator.
• Hua Zhitian explained that the disciples had to collect primary ingredients for Qi Condensation Pills to qualify for the sect and earn rewards.

Wang Yan learned that the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land likely concealed an ancient cultivator’s legacy and formed a team with Ye Shisan and the Zhang sisters. After the sects activated a random teleportation array, Wang Yan arrived in the treasure land with his companions and encountered Young Master Lei.

• Wang Yan consulted Card Fairy, who explained that the treasure land’s restriction favored lower cultivation levels and that the ancient ruins were probably in its central region.
• Wang Yan invited Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang to team up with him and Ye Shisan, while learning about the other sects competing to enter the treasure land.
• Hua Zhitian sent ten elite Firecloud Sect disciples, including Yue Yang, to seize a target in the treasure land’s center.
• The sects’ cultivators assembled as a five-colored formation appeared, and Card Fairy warned Wang Yan that it would teleport them randomly.
• Wang Yan, Ye Shisan, Zhang Qiulin, and Zhang Qiulang were transported to a yellow expanse, where Young Master Lei approached them.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan confronted Young Master Lei and the Hengshan Four Fiends, who intended to capture Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang. Ye Shisan and Wang Yan fought back, and the chapter ended as the two women joined the battle.

• Young Master Lei demanded that Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang return with him, then revealed that the four cultivators accompanying him were the Hengshan Four Fiends.
• Wang Yan and Ye Shisan attacked the Hengshan Four Fiends, and Ye Shisan smashed their eight flying hooks with a punch before forcing their female member to retreat.
• The Hengshan Four Fiends used Baleful Qi Infusion to strengthen themselves and attacked Ye Shisan from four directions.
• Wang Yan launched Flying Knife Magic Artifacts at the Hengshan Four Fiends, but they evaded the knives and blocked his follow-up attacks with shields.
• Young Master Lei attacked Wang Yan with steel needles from his folding fan, but Wang Yan blocked them with a Spirit Artifact shield and counterattacked.
• Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang joined the fight by sending their ribbon Magic Artifacts against the Hengshan Four Fiends.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan fought the Hengshan Four Fiends and Young Master Lei, whose explosive talismans overwhelmed Wang Yan’s defenses. After Wang Yan appeared to be beaten, he suddenly launched a hidden attack at Young Master Lei, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Ye Shisan held off the Hengshan Four Fiends while Zhang Qiulin and the other woman bound their flying-hook magic artifacts with pink ribbons.
• Wang Yan and Young Master Lei traded attacks without breaking through each other’s defenses, but Young Master Lei grew anxious as his magic power dwindled.
• Young Master Lei bombarded Wang Yan with powerful Explosive Fire Talismans, and an explosion swallowed Wang Yan as Ye Shisan was prevented from helping him.
• Wang Yan emerged from the blast and mocked Young Master Lei’s claim about the Zhang Household of Myriad Spirit Mountain before fleeing another talisman attack.
• Young Master Lei approached the battered Wang Yan, who revealed that Young Master Lei had a talent for courting death and sent seven dark-green beams erupting from the ground toward him.

Wang Yan killed Young Master Lei with a buried flying-knife ambush, then joined Ye Shisan and the Zhang Qiulin Sisters against the Hengshan Four Fiends. As the Four Fiends gained the upper hand, twelve cultivators from the Double Happiness Sect arrived and prepared to target the fighters.

• Wang Yan revealed that he had buried his flying knives during the fight and used them to sever Young Master Lei’s limbs.
• Wang Yan killed Young Master Lei despite his plea for mercy and warning that he belonged to the Zhang Household of Myriad Spirit Mountain.
• The Hengshan Four Fiends tried to flee, but Wang Yan blocked their way and attacked alongside Ye Shisan and the Zhang Qiulin Sisters.
• The Hengshan Four Fiends transformed, endured Wang Yan’s flying knives, and began overpowering Ye Shisan and the Zhang Qiulin Sisters.
• Twelve Double Happiness Sect cultivators spotted the battle, identified the Firecloud Sect fighters and the Hengshan Four Fiends, and considered them their first targets.

Wang Yan used poisoned flying knives to bring down the leader of the Hengshan Four Fiends, and Ye Shisan and the Zhang sisters helped defeat the remaining three. As the group searched the bodies, a huge beast tide approached, led by several hundred Double-Horned Rhino Beasts.

• The Twin Joy Sect cultivators hid nearby while Ma Yan urged them not to delay their mission.
• Wang Yan's poisoned flying knives weakened the leader of the Hengshan Four Fiends, and Ye Shisan killed him with the Earth Spirit Gold Staff.
• Ye Shisan and the Zhang sisters overcame the remaining three fiends, while the Twin Joy Sect group abandoned the fight after spotting dust on the horizon.
• Wang Yan noticed the shaking ground and ordered everyone to collect the fiends' belongings as a beast tide drew near.
• Card Fairy identified the charging beasts as Double-Horned Rhino Beasts.

Wang Yan, Ye Shisan, Zhang Qiulin, and Zhang Qiulang fled into a beast tide and found themselves trapped between charging Double-Horned Rhino Beasts and other Demon Beasts. Ye Shisan broke a path through the rhinos with his Spirit Artifact armor while Wang Yan and the sisters covered him, but the herd pursued them after they escaped the encirclement.

• The four fled up a slope as a herd of Double-Horned Rhino Beasts chased them and discovered more Demon Beasts surrounding the area.
• Wang Yan recognized the beast tide and decided they would charge through the rhinos, ordering Ye Shisan to lead while he and the sisters guarded the rear.
• Ye Shisan donned his Full-Body Spirit Artifact Set and charged downhill, knocking aside the rhinos as Wang Yan and the sisters followed through the opening.
• A gigantic Double-Horned Rhino Beast stopped Ye Shisan, but Wang Yan wounded the surrounding beasts and Ye Shisan struck the giant with his staff and knocked it down.
• Ye Shisan broke through the encirclement with Wang Yan, Zhang Qiulin, and Zhang Qiulang, but the Double-Horned Rhino Beasts turned and charged after them.

Wang Yan led Ye Shisan, Zhang Qiulin, and Zhang Qiulang in fleeing a herd of Double-Horned Rhino Beasts, using Explosive Fire Talismans and poison to slow the enormous leader. The poisoned beast collapsed just before biting Wang Yan, but he was left buried in dirt as the rest of the herd closed in.

• Wang Yan and the others fled as Ye Shisan’s collision and the herd’s confusion delayed the pursuing Double-Horned Rhino Beasts.
• Wang Yan threw Explosive Fire Talismans at the herd and tried to trap the enormous leader in a crater, but it leaped over the blast and continued chasing them.
• Wang Yan kept the leader at bay with more talismans while the group ran several li, and he noticed the beast’s eyes beginning to rot from poison.
• The poisoned leader surged forward and crashed into the ground near Wang Yan, then collapsed just before biting him.
• Ye Shisan and the two women reached Wang Yan, who demanded they pull him from the dirt as the rest of the herd rushed toward them.

Wang Yan escaped a poisoned Double-Horned Rhino Beast and sought shelter with his companions, while other groups fought their own battles in Cloud Mountain Treasure Land. Wang Ziling ambushed and killed a cultivator, and a White Spirit Sect newcomer ordered his own sect members killed after they were rescued.

• Wang Yan and his companions fled after the enormous Double-Horned Rhino Beast collapsed from the poison in his Flying Knife Magic Artifact, then headed for a ravine to rest.
• Ma Yan and Junior Sister Mao led Twin Joy Sect cultivators in killing hundreds of Claw Beasts before ordering the group to clean up and move on.
• Wang Ziling poisoned a young cultivator with a trapped spirit medicine, burned him to death, looted his belongings, and went deeper into the woods to seek another target.
• White Spirit Sect cultivators rescued a group from a giant snake Demon Beast, but their bald newcomer ordered the rescuers to kill the survivors.

White Spirit Sect cultivators used translucent Demon Beasts to kill their own recruits and harvest gray vapor from the corpses, while the chapter explained why the Five Great Sects had sent thousands of cultivators into the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land. Wang Yan, Ye Shisan, Zhang Qiulin, and Zhang Qiulang escaped a rhinoceros stampede only to be ambushed by Purple Flame Sect cultivators, who attacked them as the chapter ended.

• Luo Bai and Luo Yan led White Spirit Sect cultivators as they killed their own members and fed the corpses’ gray vapor to translucent Demon Beasts.
• The Five Great Sects sent thousands of cultivators into the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land to collect its treasures before rival nations could claim them.
• Wang Yan used Explosive Fire Talismans and Ye Shisan’s Earth Spirit Gold Staff to collapse sections of a canyon and block the pursuing Two-Headed Rhinoceros Beasts.
• Card Fairy warned Wang Yan of an ambush, and he and the Zhang sisters defended themselves against Magic Artifacts and falling rocks as they escaped the canyon.
• Wang Yan sent his Flying Knife artifacts into a grove and exposed seven Purple Flame Sect cultivators, who counterattacked him.

Wang Yan and his companions defeated a Purple Flame Sect ambush, but Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang nearly fell victim to a poisoned hidden weapon before Wang Yan saved them. As the Double-Horned Rhino Beasts broke through the gorge, the group fled through the trees with the attackers’ belongings.

• Wang Yan used his Ironwood Shield and flying knives to repel the Purple Flame Sect cultivators, while Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang injured others with their ribbons.
• Ye Shisan arrived and smashed a Purple Flame Sect cultivator with his Earth Spirit Gold Staff, and Wang Yan killed several more with concealed attacks.
• Wang Yan warned Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang when they approached a fallen enemy, then killed the cultivator before his poisoned hidden weapon could strike them.
• Wang Yan reprimanded the sisters, and the group gathered the Purple Flame Sect cultivators’ storage bags as the Double-Horned Rhino Beasts approached.
• Wang Yan led the group through the trees, while a gigantic Two-Headed Rhino and the other beasts burst through the boulders into the valley.

Fairy Purple Smoke watched Wang Yan escape, while Wang Yan and his companions hid from the pursuing Double-Horned Rhino Beasts. Elsewhere in the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land, Yue Yang’s Firecloud Sect group defeated an ambush, and Purple Flame Sect disciples entered a newly exposed pit after killing the beasts guarding it.

• Fairy Purple Smoke recognized Wang Yan, chose not to expose the Purple Flame Sect’s secret, and hurried after him through the forest.
• Wang Yan led Ye Shisan, Zhang Qiulin, and Zhang Qiulang into a tall tree, where they suppressed their auras and recovered while Double-Horned Rhino Beasts thundered past.
• Yue Yang and the Firecloud Sect cultivators repelled an ambush by more than twenty rogue cultivators, killing them before continuing onward.
• Purple Flame Sect disciples used rune-covered devices to kill hundreds of Demon Beasts guarding a pit, then followed their leader inside.

Wang Yan and his companions searched a cliff in the Cloud Mountain Treasure Land and gathered White Orchid Jade Herbs, unaware that Pale Moon Sect cultivators were preparing an ambush above them. As they started climbing, someone sent huge tree trunks crashing down the cliff, leaving the group in danger.

• Wang Yan shared Explosive Fire Talismans with Zhang Qiulin, Zhang Qiulang, and Ye Shisan, then taught Ye Shisan how to use them.
• Wang Yan returned Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang’s Mandarin Duck Scissors from Young Master Lei’s Storage Bag and urged the group to search for spirit medicines.
• Wang Yan and his companions found a cliff, while Lin Kun led several Pale Moon Sect cultivators around the forest to ambush them from above.
• Wang Yan, Ye Shisan, Zhang Qiulin, and Zhang Qiulang gathered White Orchid Jade Herbs and other medicines on the cliff face.
• Card Fairy warned Wang Yan that enemies were above, and Ye Shisan smashed several falling tree trunks with his Earth Spirit Gold Staff as more trunks thundered toward the group.

Wang Yan and Ye Shisan fought their way past an ambush by Lin Kun and the White Spirit Sect cultivators, with the two women helping turn the battle around. After Lin Kun fell to his death, Wang Yan realized Ye Shisan had not emerged from the mountain cave and went down to search for him.

• Ye Shisan smashed through logs and into the cliff, while Wang Yan used the Ironwood Shield to help him reach the rock face.
• The Mandarin Duck Scissors saved Wang Yan from falling logs, and he climbed to the peak as the two women followed.
• Wang Yan parried Lin Kun and the White Spirit Sect cultivators' attacks while the two women killed the other ambushers with the Mandarin Duck Scissors.
• Wang Yan used his Ironwood Shield and Explosive Fire Talismans to send Lin Kun over the cliff, where Lin Kun fell to his death.
• Wang Yan noticed his damaged weapons and, after hearing Ye Shisan had not returned, began descending to search for him.