Recaps

Ye Han escaped the Four-Clawed Ape by hiding inside a tree and leaving Blood Daoist to draw the beast away, then collected the Five-Poison Double-Horned Beast’s remains and fled. Elsewhere, two Foundation Establishment cultivators cornered three Azure Profound Sect disciples in a cave, but an unseen voice challenged them at the end.

• Blood Daoist damaged his bronze mirror while fending off the Four-Clawed Ape, then used a Blood Escape Talisman and explosive beads to escape its pursuit.
• Ye Han emerged from a tree after the Four-Clawed Ape chased Blood Daoist away and collected the Five-Poison Double-Horned Beast’s remains.
• A ghostlike figure praised Ye Han’s sharpness and disappeared.
• Three Qi Refining cultivators entered a cave in the Demon Sky Battlefield, where two Foundation Establishment cultivators followed and threatened them.
• The leader of the three revealed they were Azure Profound Sect disciples, and one pursuer said his group had come to kill people from that sect.
• A languid voice from outside the cave challenged the two pursuers.

Ye Han encountered Wang Lan, Wang Chunyang, and Liu Jingzhi trapped by two Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators in a cave and intervened to save them. He fought the red-armored cultivator and the sinister cultivator’s skeletal puppets, which kept resurrecting, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye Han discovered that two Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators were pursuing Wang Lan, Wang Chunyang, and Liu Jingzhi, so he followed them to a cave where they tried to rob the three.
• Ye Han confronted the two attackers, and the red-armored cultivator charged him as the sinister cultivator summoned skeletal hands and puppets.
• Ye Han used Thick Earth Art to pin down the skeletal hands and Blood Refining Art to trade punches with the red-armored cultivator, who drove him out of the cave with a barrage of strikes.
• Ye Han drew the Soul-Chasing Sword and cut down several skeletal puppets while battling the red-armored cultivator.
• The sinister cultivator revived the shattered puppets with death aura, and Ye Han realized that the two opponents would be difficult to defeat.

Ye Han defeated two Foundation Establishment cultivators, killing the red-armored cultivator and burying the sinister cultivator beneath the earth. Wang Lan and the others watched in shock, and Wang Lan felt that Ye Han's aura was familiar.

• Ye Han burned the skeletal puppets while Wang Lan, Wang Chunyang, and Liu Jingzhi held off the sinister cultivator and his yin souls.
• Ye Han used the Dragon-Binding Bracelet, vines, and golden Sword-Rays to kill the red-armored cultivator, then burned his body and left his golden bones behind.
• The sinister cultivator fled, but Ye Han's Wood Dragon Staff struck him down and the earth swallowed him.
• Bones and Storage Bags burst from the ground, and Wang Lan and the others stared at Ye Han as Wang Lan sensed a familiar aura.

Ye Han defeated two Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators and rescued Wang Lan, Wang Chunyang, and Liu Jingzhi. After they recognized him and thanked him, he agreed to escort them partway to Demon Mountain Ravine before they went their separate ways.

• Ye Han explained how his transformed spirit roots and elemental counters had helped him defeat the gloomy cultivator and the red-armored cultivator.
• Wang Lan recognized Ye Han by his voice, and Ye Han revealed his true appearance to Wang Lan, Wang Chunyang, and Liu Jingzhi.
• Wang Lan, Wang Chunyang, and Liu Jingzhi bowed to thank Ye Han for saving them, and he urged them to dispense with formalities.
• Ye Han offered to escort the three disciples toward Demon Mountain Ravine, and Wang Lan accepted while admitting their destination.
• Ye Han noticed that the three were reluctant to share their opportunities with him, so he clarified that he would escort them only part of the way.

Ye Han parted ways with Wang Lan, Wang Chunyang, and Liu Jingzhi as they headed for the Demon Mountain Ravine, while he continued toward Heavenly Demon Valley to find Zhang Qingshan. After traveling deeper into the Demon Sky Battlefield, he narrowly dodged a mysterious attack that carved a fissure where he had been standing.

• Ye Han told Wang Lan, Wang Chunyang, and Liu Jingzhi that their routes diverged, and they thanked him for escorting them part of the way.
• Wang Chunyang and Liu Jingzhi explained that Wang Hongying and Lin Hongde had returned to the sect to attempt breakthroughs to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Ye Han and the three discussed their recent experiences, including their failed breakthrough attempts and their search for an opportunity at the Demon Mountain Ravine.
• Ye Han bade the three farewell, and Wang Lan urged Wang Chunyang and Liu Jingzhi to seize the opportunity as they continued toward the ravine.
• Ye Han traveled toward Heavenly Demon Valley to find Zhang Qingshan and sensed spiritual energy mixed with chaos energy growing stronger along the way.
• A sudden, deadly attack split the ground where Ye Han had stood, but he dodged it in time.

Ye Han discovered that invisible Spatial Rifts protected a cave full of Heavenly Treasures in the Demon Sky Battlefield. He used a Blood Escape Talisman to bypass the attacks, claimed the treasures, and found a glowing object in the soil as he escaped.

• Ye Han narrowly dodged a moving Spatial Rift and continued through the dangerous area.
• Ye Han found seven or eight Heavenly Treasures inside a cave, but a Spatial Rift severed the Vine Hand he sent to collect them.
• Ye Han used a Blood Escape Talisman to teleport past the Spatial Rift and seize the Heavenly Treasures.
• Ye Han spotted a glimmering object in the soil, grabbed it, and escaped the cave with the treasures.
• Ye Han examined the object and wondered what it was.

Ye Han realized he had become trapped in the dangerous Burial Ground of the Immortals, where ancient restrictions and spatial rifts made escape difficult. After preparing his Creation Heaven Cube and Purple Cauldron, he traveled for two days through chaotic terrain and spotted a figure in the mist.

• Ye Han stored a strange rune-covered metal object and tried to retrace his route, but the path led somewhere unfamiliar.
• Ye Han recognized the area as the Burial Ground of the Immortals, where chaos energy and ancient restrictions made cultivation and escape difficult.
• Ye Han summoned the Creation Heaven Cube and used pills to replenish the Purple Cauldron, preparing for the dangers ahead.
• Ye Han traveled for two days through an area of enormous pits and increasingly chaotic spiritual energy.
• Ye Han spotted a human figure moving through the distant mist and exclaimed that someone was there.

After narrowly surviving a Spatial Rift in the Burial Ground of the Immortals, Ye Han followed recent footprints that seemed to mark a safe route through the ruins. As he hurried after their owner, a streak of golden light suddenly attacked him.

• Ye Han spotted a distant figure, but a Spatial Rift struck before he could reach it, and the Creation Heaven Cube deflected the attack while sustaining damage that it later repaired.
• Ye Han cautiously crossed the ruins, finding decayed metal puppet fragments, a colossal humanoid puppet, and the remains of enormous Demon Beasts.
• Ye Han discovered fresh footprints and decided to follow them, hoping to find another person who might know how to escape the Burial Ground of the Immortals.
• Ye Han followed the footprints along a path free of Spatial Rift attacks and quickened his pace.
• A streak of golden light burst from a large rock and flew toward Ye Han's head.

Ye Han reunited with Zhang Qingshan in the dangerous Burial Ground of the Immortals and learned how Zhang had used Ye Han’s map to reach Heavenly Demon Valley and advance to the Foundation Establishment Realm. After explaining how they had both become trapped, Zhang revealed that he had found a way out.

• Zhang Qingshan attacked Ye Han by mistake, and the two recognized each other and discovered that both had reached the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Zhang led Ye Han along a safe route through the Spatial Rifts to shelter inside a chamber beneath a Demon Beast Skeleton.
• Zhang explained that Ye Han’s map had led him to a spirit pool in Heavenly Demon Valley, where he had advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Ye Han said he had become trapped while searching for Zhang, and Zhang explained that the Blood Daoist had chased him into the Burial Ground of the Immortals.
• Zhang told Ye Han that he had already found a way out, and Ye Han reacted with delight.

Zhang Qingshan told Ye Han that his ability to sense fortune and danger had led him to believe Ye Han was the key to escaping the Burial Ground of the Immortals. He revealed a dangerous secret passage that might lead them out and promised an extraordinary opportunity within.

• Ye Han learned that Zhang Qingshan had found a possible way out, though they would have only a thirty percent chance of escaping together.
• Zhang Qingshan asked whether Ye Han trusted him, and Ye Han affirmed his trust and recalled their long friendship.
• Zhang Qingshan revealed that a ray of divine light had granted him the ability to sense danger, good fortune, and auspicious directions, and Ye Han promised to keep it secret.
• Zhang Qingshan explained that he had sensed an auspicious sign in Ye Han's direction shortly after Ye Han arrived, and concluded that Ye Han was the key to their escape.
• Zhang Qingshan told Ye Han about a secret passage that might lead them out and said it contained an extraordinarily powerful auspicious aura and a tremendous opportunity.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan set out for a passage in the Burial Ground of the Immortals, but an ancient restriction launched a devastating spatial-rift attack as they crossed the cavern. They survived and identified a passage in a distant canyon as their next destination.

• Ye Han agreed to leave immediately with Zhang Qingshan, and Zhang admitted he had stayed close to Ye Han because he sensed Ye Han’s auspicious aura.
• As they passed through the cavern passage, Zhang Qingshan sensed danger and shouted for Ye Han to get down.
• A spatial rift split the passage and triggered its collapse, so Zhang Qingshan and Ye Han fled through the cavern.
• A sphere of spatial rifts struck the cavern behind them, reducing the surrounding area and its debris to ash and leaving a vast crater.
• Zhang Qingshan explained that a damaged ancient restriction attacked living creatures it detected and pointed out a passage in a distant canyon.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan reached the enormous canyon, where Zhang sensed their possible way out lay ahead. As they advanced into the canyon, a spatial rift blocked the passage and strange noises and blue light emerged from beyond it.

• Zhang Qingshan guided Ye Han through the dangerous battlefield until they reached the canyon after traveling a hundred li.
• Zhang sensed an auspicious aura ahead and warned Ye Han to stay behind him as they entered the canyon.
• Zhang equipped his axe and defensive treasures, while Ye Han summoned the Creation Heaven Cube, eight Millennium Ironwood Swords, and the Soul-Slaying Sword.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan advanced through the canyon, passing wreckage, demon beast skeletons, and human remains as the chaos aura grew denser.
• Zhang stopped when spatial ripples blocked the passage, and the two heard clacking sounds and saw flashes of blue light ahead.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan were forced to advance through a dangerous field of spatial rifts after a blast made retreat impossible. They found a narrow route through, but the rifts began moving erratically, leaving them in immediate danger.

• Zhang Qingshan identified the blue lights ahead as formidable puppets and sensed danger in advancing, but even greater calamity in retreating.
• A spatial-rift blast struck behind Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan, destroying the way back and forcing them forward.
• Ye Han used the Creation Heaven Cube to extend his protection over Zhang Qingshan, and Zhang Qingshan sensed their chances of safety improve.
• Zhang Qingshan guided Ye Han through a narrow gap in the spatial rifts by adopting careful movements, and the two passed dozens of rifts.
• A moving spatial rift cut through Zhang Qingshan's cheek and damaged Ye Han's protection, then the pair rolled forward to evade another as the rifts began moving unpredictably.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan survived a field of Spatial Rifts, but a group of ancient Metal Puppets attacked them as they crossed the Burial Ground of the Immortals. Zhang Qingshan led Ye Han toward an auspicious direction while the flying puppets caught up and launched another barrage.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan crossed the Spatial Rift field with help from the Creation Heaven Cube, suffering injuries and damaging the treasure.
• Zhang Qingshan warned Ye Han of a blue beam and blocked it with his golden shield.
• More than twenty Metal Puppets emerged from the mist, and Zhang Qingshan led Ye Han around them rather than fighting head-on.
• The Metal Puppets fired blue beams containing chaos power, which Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan dodged as they fled.
• The Metal Puppets formed blue wings, caught up with the pair, and attacked with a barrage of spear light.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fought more than twenty powerful Metal Puppets whose defenses, weapons, and wings made them difficult to damage or escape. After realizing the battle was draining their strength, they broke through the blockade, but the puppets pursued them at high speed as Zhang Qingshan shouted for Ye Han to dodge.

• Ye Han's Millennium Ironwood Swords failed to pierce the Metal Puppets, while their spear-rays forced him and Zhang Qingshan onto the defensive.
• Zhang Qingshan used his Battle Axe to sever a Metal Puppet's arm and smash its head, but the headless puppet continued attacking.
• The Metal Puppets concentrated their assault on Ye Han, who evaded their attacks but could not overcome their defenses and was rapidly draining his spell power.
• Zhang Qingshan called for them to flee, knocked aside the puppets blocking their path, and led Ye Han through the blockade.
• The Metal Puppets pursued the two men with their blue wings, and Zhang Qingshan urgently shouted for Ye Han to dodge.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fled the Metal Puppets, discovering that Spatial Rifts could destroy them and that the puppets could merge into a giant. They escaped into a dangerous field of ancient square pillars, where their pursuers halted and went motionless.

• Ye Han used a Blood Escape Talisman to evade a Spatial Rift, but it cut his arm and destroyed three Metal Puppets.
• The remaining Metal Puppets merged into a giant, forcing Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan to fight while retreating.
• Ye Han slowed the puppets with muddy ground and vines while Zhang Qingshan struck them with his axe.
• Zhang Qingshan led Ye Han through the boundary of a field of ancient square pillars, narrowly avoiding hidden spatial power.
• The Metal Puppets stopped outside the pillars, and their blue lights faded until they stood motionless.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan entered an area where the Metal Puppets would not follow, and Zhang Qingshan sensed that good fortune increased when Ye Han led. Ye Han recovered with the Purple Cauldron’s help, then realized he would need to choose a safe route through an ancient formation.

• Zhang Qingshan told Ye Han that danger grew when he led, while auspicious signs increased when Ye Han took the lead.
• Ye Han used pills to replenish the Purple Cauldron and recover his strength as Zhang Qingshan stood guard.
• Zhang Qingshan noticed that auspicious signs around Ye Han had increased and sensed that Ye Han’s decisions would determine their fortune or danger.
• Ye Han examined the square pillars and recognized that their positions formed an ancient formation with damaged gaps.
• Ye Han concluded that they needed to pass through a gap without triggering the formation’s restriction.

Ye Han guided Zhang Qingshan through a deadly, damaged ancient formation, exhausting himself but gaining a deeper understanding of formations. They reached a vast metal gate at the canyon’s end, where Zhang Qingshan sensed an extraordinary opportunity beyond it.

• Ye Han used the Creation Heaven Cube to protect himself and Zhang Qingshan as he carefully navigated the formation pillars and scattered Spatial Rifts.
• Ye Han found a safe route through the pillars, avoiding a false opening that would have trapped them in the formation’s killing array.
• After emerging, Ye Han swallowed a high-grade Divine Spirit Pill to recover and told Zhang Qingshan that studying the formation had improved his skills.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan reached an enormous metal gate beneath a towering cliff, and Zhang Qingshan sensed auspicious signs beyond it.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan entered the only passage out of the cavern, finding murals that depicted the ancient War Between Humans and Demons. Their cautious progress ended when metal puppets emerged from hidden doors in the walls.

• Ye Han replenished the Purple Cauldron with Spiritual Qi Pills and set out with Zhang Qingshan, convinced they had to press forward.
• The two approached the enormous cavern entrance, passed an already-open Metal Wall Gate, and entered with Zhang Qingshan leading.
• Inside, Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan examined murals showing the Devil Race emerging through a hole in the sky, a battle with human cultivators, and the construction of a great altar.
• They found that the murals from the fourth onward had been destroyed and saw many signs of past spell combat.
• Zhang Qingshan warned Ye Han of danger as hidden doors opened in both walls and several-z丈-tall metal puppets emerged.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fought their way through a passage crowded with damaged Metal Puppets, using their treasures and coordinated attacks to break through. They reached a spacious hall and found a towering Metal Puppet wielding two enormous sabers, which startled them with its half-destroyed body.

• Ye Han noticed that the Metal Puppets emerging from the doors were badly damaged, suggesting they had fought someone before he and Zhang Qingshan arrived.
• Zhang Qingshan armored himself and prepared to charge while Ye Han summoned his sword treasures and defensive Creation Heaven Cube.
• Ye Han's Creation Heaven Cube repelled the puppets' blue beams, sending some back into the Metal Puppets and disrupting their formation.
• Zhang Qingshan smashed puppets with his axe as Ye Han targeted their joints and restrained them with his bracelets.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fought through the passage and entered a spacious hall, where they saw a towering Metal Puppet with two enormous sabers and only half a body.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan were trapped in a hall with a giant Metal Puppet and struggled against its gravity restriction and deadly saber attacks. Ye Han destroyed the puppet by striking the crack in its waist, and a golden object fell from its mouth.

• The hall sealed its entrance and activated restrictions that slowed Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan as the Metal Puppet attacked them.
• Zhang Qingshan spotted a crack in the puppet's waist, and Ye Han gave him the Creation Heaven Cube's protection before charging at the weakness.
• Zhang Qingshan drew the puppet's attacks while Ye Han used a Blood Escape Talisman to teleport beside the crack.
• Ye Han drove his fused Azure Profound sword into the wound as Zhang Qingshan blocked the puppet's saber strikes and was injured.
• The Metal Puppet went still, and a golden glimmer fell from its mouth.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan defeated the enormous Metal Puppet and found a second metal key that matched one Ye Han had discovered near the Burial Ground of the Immortals. Zhang Qingshan sensed that their fortune had improved but warned that danger ahead had grown, and Ye Han asked how they could leave the Great Hall.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan used the puppet’s damaged state to destroy it before it could unleash its hidden attacks.
• Ye Han picked up a metal rod that had fallen from the puppet’s mouth and recognized it as a key resembling one he already had.
• Zhang Qingshan sensed an auspicious aura from the two keys and said Ye Han’s key had greatly improved their prospects.
• Zhang Qingshan warned Ye Han that the ominous signs ahead had increased despite the stronger auspicious signs.
• Ye Han put away the keys and asked Zhang Qingshan how they should leave the Great Hall.

After destroying the metal puppet, Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan discovered that the Purple Pellet Ye Han had given Zhang had greatly improved his physical aptitude. They found a hidden passage inside the puppet, but their first test of the passage triggered a deadly purple-gold lightning strike.

• Ye Han realized Zhang Qingshan's Blood Refining Art had advanced rapidly and asked whether his aptitude had improved after the Water Flood Dragon Beast Lair.
• Zhang Qingshan confirmed his aptitude had improved after waking from that ordeal, and Ye Han recognized the Purple Pellet's effect on physical aptitude.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan searched the sealed hall, then found a passage leading underground inside the metal puppet.
• The two descended through the puppet and reached a pristine passage where Zhang Qingshan sensed a terrible calamity ahead.
• Ye Han tossed two empty bottles into the passage, and purple-gold lightning struck and reduced them to ash.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan searched for a way through a passage guarded by powerful purple-gold lightning, which Ye Han identified as Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder. They left the chapter experimenting with the lightning after discovering that pieces of the metal puppet could withstand repeated strikes and began to melt.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan agreed that neither their treasures nor their abilities could safely withstand the purple-gold lightning.
• Ye Han noticed mysterious formation runes in the passage ceiling and suspected they powered the lightning.
• Ye Han tested the passage with a piece of material, and the formation struck it with lightning that reduced it to ashes.
• Ye Han told Zhang Qingshan to dismantle the metal puppet so they could use its parts to exhaust the formation's energy.
• Ye Han threw the puppet's saber fragments and metal casing into the passage, where repeated lightning strikes made them melt without destroying them.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan used Purple-Gold Lightning to refine the Metal Puppet’s materials, discovering that the molten metal absorbed its electrical light. After Zhang Qingshan found the hall’s Gravity Formation improved his Blood Refining Art, the two began practicing under its pressure.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fed pieces of the Metal Puppet into the passage, where Purple-Gold Lightning burned away impurities and melted the remaining metal.
• Zhang Qingshan dismantled the entire Metal Puppet and brought its materials to Ye Han, who continued feeding them into the lightning formation.
• Zhang Qingshan told Ye Han that practicing the Blood Refining Art under the hall’s gravity had improved his stalled cultivation.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan threw the remaining materials into the passage, then returned to the Great Hall to practice the Blood Refining Art under the formation’s pressure.
• Ye Han felt the formation suppress his blood essence and make his body heavier as he practiced, and he considered combining the gravity with Body Tempering Pills.