Recaps

Ye Han realized Old Fox had taught him the complete core incantation of the Puppet God Technique, which let him master its third layer and strengthen the Hundred-Puppet Grand Formation. He hid his true progress from Old Fox, who finally urged him to set up the formation, leaving Ye Han asking if they had to begin immediately.

• Ye Han recognized that Old Fox's incantation completed the Puppet God Technique and could increase its power by thirty percent, but he suspected Old Fox expected them not to survive.
• Old Fox explained the secret method while Ye Han pretended to struggle with understanding it.
• Ye Han secluded himself for nearly a month, secretly mastering the third layer while making his cultivation appear weak.
• Old Fox grew impatient and told Ye Han to stop wasting time and start setting up the formation.
• Ye Han asked Old Fox whether he meant they should begin then.

Ye Han and Old Fox formed a hundred-puppet formation and began crossing the Inheritance Bridge toward the distant restriction. Darkwater Soul Beasts erupted from the Profound Yin River as they charged forward.

• Ye Han explained that he had prepared Spiritual Qi Pills and evolved Blood-Spotted Ants during his seclusion, but Old Fox urged him to cross the bridge while the creatures' auras were weakened.
• Old Fox and Ye Han each released fifty puppets and coordinated their advance through the passage.
• Ye Han and Old Fox reached the ten-thousand-zhang Inheritance Bridge, where they joined their puppets' shields into a protective shell and ran toward the inheritance grounds.
• Darkwater Soul Beasts burst from the Profound Yin River, and Old Fox shouted for Ye Han to watch out and keep charging.

Ye Han and Old Fox led the Puppet Grand Formation across the Inheritance Bridge, using coordinated defense and counterattacks to fight off the Darkwater Soul Beasts. As the formation advanced, Ye Han learned more about Old Fox’s control methods, but the beasts switched to a savage close-range assault and Ye Han ran low on spell power.

• Old Fox ordered the Puppet Grand Formation to divide its power between defense and counterattack, allowing it to withstand the Darkwater Soul Beasts’ black-red energy pillars and strike back with silver sword-rays.
• Old Fox shifted the formation to four parts defense and six parts counterattack, driving the beasts back and speeding the puppets’ advance along the Inheritance Bridge.
• Ye Han observed Old Fox directing the puppets through the Puppet God Technique and realized Old Fox had withheld much of the formation’s control method.
• More Darkwater Soul Beasts emerged from the Profound Yin River, then abandoned their energy blasts and charged the formation, clawing at its shield barrier.
• Ye Han shouted to Old Fox that he was running out of spell power.

Ye Han pretended to be running out of spell power so Old Fox would teach him more about controlling the Puppet Grand Formation, while privately suspecting Old Fox planned to kill him. Together they drove the transformed puppet across the Inheritance Bridge, but the Darkwater Soul Beasts began tearing themselves apart to unleash destructive attacks as they neared the spatial passage.

• Ye Han feigned exhaustion, prompting Old Fox to explain how to control the puppets while conserving spell power.
• Ye Han observed that Old Fox's control was limited by his incomplete Puppet God Technique and his lack of a physical body.
• As the pair reached the middle of the Inheritance Bridge, larger Darkwater Soul Beasts attacked, and Old Fox ordered the hundred puppets to transform.
• The puppets merged into a hundred-zhang giant that fought through the Soul Beasts and reached the spatial passage at the bridge's end.
• The Darkwater Soul Beasts tore at their own bodies and unleashed Bloodlight Runes, and Ye Han realized they were about to self-destruct.

Ye Han and Old Fox escaped the Inheritance Bridge as the Darkwater Soul Beasts self-destructed, destroying the bridge and Old Fox’s puppets. After they reached safety, Old Fox berated Ye Han for using a Blood Escape Talisman and leaving him behind, while Ye Han noticed the Purple Cauldron trembling again.

• Old Fox ordered Ye Han to recall his puppets and charge toward the Teleportation Passage as the Darkwater Soul Beasts prepared to self-destruct.
• Ye Han recalled his puppets, activated a Blood Escape Talisman, and entered the passage before the blasts erupted.
• Old Fox formed a metal sphere with his puppets and fought his way toward the passage as the explosions destroyed his puppets and broke apart the Inheritance Bridge.
• Eight Metal Puppets shielded Old Fox into the passage, but the Darkwater Soul Beasts’ blasts engulfed the bridge and passage behind him.
• Ye Han met Old Fox at the exit, where Old Fox complained that Ye Han had escaped too quickly and used a Blood Escape Talisman.
• Ye Han pointed out that Old Fox had told him to charge through, then felt the Purple Cauldron trembling again.

Ye Han and Old Fox emerged from the Inheritance Bridge into a palace and headed toward the supposed true inheritance, though Ye Han remained wary of Old Fox and the danger ahead. Riding rune-covered Flying Carpets across a restricted area, they saw an enormous tree surrounded by five-colored spirit light and waves of law power.

• Ye Han suppressed the Purple Cauldron's perception after it sensed something powerful about a hundred li away.
• Old Fox urged Ye Han onward, claiming the true inheritance would help Ye Han reach the Golden Core stage and let Old Fox reclaim his physical body.
• Ye Han hid his suspicions and followed Old Fox out of the Great Hall.
• Old Fox used a Heavenly Secret Token to board a Flying Carpet and travel toward the inheritance tree, and Ye Han followed on another.
• Ye Han saw an immense tree on the horizon, wreathed in five-colored spirit light and surging with power of law.

Ye Han and Old Fox reached the inheritance tree, where Old Fox explained how its Legacy Fruits trapped unsuitable cultivators and revealed that his physical body was inside one of them. Ye Han pretended to accept Old Fox’s guidance and prepared to choose an inheritance, while Old Fox believed he would never escape.

• Ye Han admired the inheritance tree and asked Old Fox how to obtain a Legacy Fruit.
• Old Fox warned Ye Han that other Human-Demon Kings had been trapped by the tree and explained that an unsuitable inheritance repeatedly trapped a cultivator’s physical body.
• Old Fox told Ye Han to use his divine sense to find a fruit calling to him, and Ye Han pretended to be grateful and offered to become Old Fox’s disciple.
• Old Fox pointed out the fruit containing his physical body and said Ye Han could free him by obtaining an inheritance and gaining control of the tree.
• Ye Han acted eager to choose an inheritance, and Old Fox cautioned him about the danger before Ye Han asked what he should do.

Ye Han investigated the Inheritance Tree’s enticing Legacy Fruits while suspecting Old Fox was trying to manipulate him into freeing his trapped body. The chapter ended with Ye Han approaching a metal-element fruit that eagerly invited him, as Old Fox watched with hope.

• Old Fox warned Ye Han to resist tempting Legacy Fruits and choose one that suited him, while Ye Han suspected a hidden scheme.
• Ye Han sensed varied law-based inheritances in the fruits and decided to test Old Fox by feigning interest in one.
• Ye Han flew around the Inheritance Tree and watched Old Fox’s reactions as Old Fox silently expected his plan to work.
• Ye Han reasoned that Old Fox’s physical body might be trapped inside the fruit Old Fox wanted him to choose.
• Ye Han sensed an intensely inviting metal-element fruit and slowly approached it, brightening Old Fox’s hopes.

Ye Han suspected Old Fox had lured him toward a Legacy Fruit to free his trapped body, so he held back and considered his options. When Ye Han released the Purple Cauldron’s senses, it reacted violently, shaking the inheritance tree and every Legacy Fruit.

• Ye Han approached the Legacy Fruit Old Fox wanted him to choose, then changed course to test Old Fox’s intentions.
• Old Fox urged Ye Han to distinguish the genuine attraction from false ones, making Ye Han more certain that he was being schemed against.
• Ye Han suspected Old Fox had used the Puppet God Technique to make his trapped body’s fruit attract him, and weighed killing Old Fox against the risk of hidden defenses.
• Ye Han remembered the Purple Cauldron’s earlier reaction to the level and lifted the restriction on its senses.
• The Purple Cauldron trembled and flashed with Purple-Gold Runes as the inheritance tree shook and all the Legacy Fruits began to tremble.

Ye Han’s Purple Cauldron triggered the death tree, whose runes seized him and pulled him into a vast realm. Old Fox recovered his trapped physical body, while Ye Han found himself before an enormous coffin and heard a woman recognize him.

• Ye Han struggled to suppress the Purple Cauldron as the Legacy Fruits trembled and Old Fox warned him to stop causing a commotion.
• The inheritance tree sealed Ye Han’s cultivation, bound him with five-colored runic chains, and dragged him into a vortex.
• Old Fox watched Ye Han vanish and realized the inheritance tree was a death tree as its Legacy Fruits began opening.
• Old Fox’s original physical body fell from a fruit, and his Primordial Spirit and soul entered it.
• Ye Han came to in a vast realm before an enormous coffin, where a woman’s voice asked, “It’s you?!”

Ye Han's Purple Cauldron absorbed a mysterious coffin and its occupant, expanding its space and accelerating the recovery of his cultivation aura. As the spiritual grass around the coffin began to wither, Ye Han hurried to gather it before it lost its value.

• Ye Han looked at the woman in the coffin and was blinded by her pressure until the Purple Cauldron broke through the restriction.
• The woman ordered Ye Han to take her out, and the Purple Cauldron pulled her coffin inside without his permission.
• The Purple Cauldron merged its runes with the coffin's, expanded to three times its former size, and accelerated Ye Han's cultivation recovery.
• Ye Han realized the white flowers were valuable immortal spirit grass and tried to gather them as they withered.
• Ye Han stored the grass he collected in the Purple Cauldron, but the stalks near the coffin quickly dried out.

Ye Han harvested immortal spirit grass and discovered that the coffin inside his Purple Cauldron had expanded the space and supplied the energy keeping the plants alive. As the collapsing space hurled him out, the inheritance tree began to wither, Old Fox recovered his body, and Ye Han landed beside Old Fox and two surviving Demon Kings.

• Ye Han realized the white flowers were immortal spirit grass and had stored more than a thousand stalks in the Purple Cauldron Space.
• Ye Han found that the absorbed coffin had expanded the Purple Cauldron Space and introduced five-colored spirit energy that helped the grass survive, but an invisible force kept him from contacting the woman inside the coffin.
• Ye Han sensed the strange space was empty and drying up, then used the Creation Heaven Cube and four defensive treasures as the space began to collapse around him.
• The inheritance tree withered and fractured, while Old Fox's fruit split open and restored his physical body and cultivation.
• Old Fox faced two surviving Demon Kings, and Ye Han burst out of the inheritance tree and landed nearby.

Ye Han emerged to find Old Fox restored to a physical body and clashing with the Mountain Spirit King and Wolf Howl King. When a teleportation passage opened in the withering inheritance tree, Ye Han escaped through it while Old Fox was held back by the two Demon Kings.

• Ye Han greeted Old Fox, but the Mountain Spirit King and Wolf Howl King charged at him until Old Fox blasted them away with his puppet arms.
• Ye Han positioned himself beside the inheritance tree, wary that Old Fox might target him after noticing the purple runes on him.
• The inheritance tree withered and split open, revealing a teleportation passage in its trunk.
• Ye Han used Cloud-Chasing Divine Steps to enter the passage and vanish before Old Fox and the Demon Kings could follow.
• The Mountain Spirit King and Wolf Howl King attacked Old Fox together, preventing him from reaching the passage as he tried to persuade them to stop fighting.

Ye Han escaped the Inheritance Tower and fled aboard the Cloud-Piercing Boat, while Old Fox pursued him and the Mountain Spirit King and Wolf Howl King chased after them both. The chapter ended with Old Fox urging Ye Han to stop and fight the Demon Kings as Ye Han suddenly called out, “Five Elements Binding Storm!”

• The Mountain Spirit King and Wolf Howl King entered the Teleportation Passage after agreeing to fight Old Fox outside, and Old Fox followed them.
• Ye Han emerged from the Inheritance Tower and immediately fled on the Cloud-Piercing Boat.
• The Mountain Spirit King and Wolf Howl King attacked Old Fox as soon as they emerged, but Old Fox vanished with gray-light runes and reappeared behind Ye Han’s boat.
• Old Fox chased Ye Han and urged him by voice transmission to help kill the two Demon Kings, while the Demon Kings pursued them.
• Ye Han rejected Old Fox’s offer and suddenly shouted, “Five Elements Binding Storm!”

Ye Han escaped Elder Fox's attack with a Thunder Escape Technique, exposing his ability to use thunder spells and deepening Elder Fox's suspicion that he held an enormous secret. As the five elements binding storm swept in and forced Ye Han, Elder Fox, and two Demon Kings down onto a cliff, Ye Han released a group of metal puppets.

• Ye Han put away the Cloud-Piercing Boat and switched to the Thunderclap Art as the five elements binding storm began to disrupt his flight.
• Elder Fox used instantaneous movement and a metal puppet hand to attack Ye Han, but Ye Han escaped with the Thunder Escape Technique.
• Elder Fox realized Ye Han had concealed his thunder spells and grew convinced that the Foundation Establishment cultivator possessed a valuable secret.
• Elder Fox chased Ye Han, while Ye Han urged him toward a cliff; the storm then disrupted both their spell power and sent them falling.
• The Mountain Spirit King and Wolf Howl King deduced that Elder Fox was pursuing Ye Han for something he coveted and chased after them, but the storm forced them down as well.
• After landing on the cliff, Ye Han revealed his killing intent and sent numerous metal puppets out of his Storage Bag.

Ye Han confronted Elder Fox and the two Demon Kings inside a five elements binding storm, where they could rely only on their bodies and puppets. Ye Han formed a hundred-puppet grand formation, and Elder Fox attempted to seize control of it with his superior mastery of the Puppet God Technique.

• Elder Fox and the two Demon Kings were shocked that Ye Han could control a hundred puppets despite the binding storm.
• Elder Fox tried to provoke Ye Han into using the Puppet God Technique, expecting to take control of his puppets.
• Mountain Spirit King and Wolf Howl King joined Elder Fox after he claimed Ye Han held the means to leave the Heavenly Secret Hall.
• Ye Han activated the Puppet God Technique, formed the Puppet Grand Formation, and challenged the three to take the means from him.
• Elder Fox used the Puppet God Technique to send strands of light toward Ye Han's puppets, confident he could wrest control from him.

Ye Han thwarted Elder Fox’s attempt to seize control of his puppets and turned them against him. As meteors began falling through the spatial rifts, the two Demon Kings urged each other to attack.

• Elder Fox tried to take Ye Han’s puppets with the Puppet God Technique, but discovered Ye Han had reached its third level and protected the puppets with formation restrictions.
• Ye Han mocked Elder Fox and sent his hundred puppets into a giant serpent that pursued him with whirling sword light.
• Elder Fox retreated using physical techniques as the puppet serpent blasted apart cliff rocks and carved furrows into the cliff face.
• The five elements binding storm tore open spatial rifts, and enormous meteors began hurtling through them.
• The Mountain Spirit King laughed at Elder Fox, and the Wolf Howl King called on the Demon Kings to attack Ye Han.

Ye Han used his puppet formation and purple-gold lightning to badly injure the Mountain Spirit King, revealing that he was a thunder-type cultivator. The puppet serpent then charged toward the Mountain Spirit King as Old Fox and the Wolf Howl King watched in shock.

• The Mountain Spirit King and Wolf Howl King revealed their true forms and attacked Ye Han and Old Fox separately.
• The Mountain Spirit King battered apart Ye Han's puppet serpent while the Wolf Howl King bombarded Old Fox with sonic-boom attacks.
• Old Fox fought off the Wolf Howl King's attacks and warned that Ye Han was more dangerous than he appeared.
• Ye Han struck the Mountain Spirit King with purple-gold lightning, leaving him charred and hurling him into the cliff.
• Ye Han stood atop the puppet serpent with his lightning-wreathed Soul-Slaying Sword and charged toward the Mountain Spirit King.

Ye Han killed the Mountain Spirit King with his demon-breaking thunder and swordsmanship, then captured the Demon King's core, primordial spirit, and soul. Old Fox and the Wolf Howl King watched in disbelief as the battle continued under the five elements binding storm.

• Ye Han struck the Mountain Spirit King with Five Thunder Strike, suppressing his demon aura and spell power.
• Ye Han used the giant puppet serpent to evade the Mountain Spirit King's attack and cut through his throat with the Soul-Slaying Sword.
• The Mountain Spirit King's Demon Core, primordial spirit, and soul tried to escape, but Ye Han bound them with purple-gold lightning and seized them.
• Ye Han stored the Demon Core in his Storage Bag and placed the Mountain Spirit King's primordial spirit and soul in the Ghost Skull Mirror.
• Old Fox and the Wolf Howl King were stunned that Ye Han had killed the Mountain Spirit King.

Ye Han stored the Mountain Spirit King's corpse and used a few calculated remarks to make the Wolf Howl King flee, leaving him alone to fight Old Fox. The chapter ended with Ye Han's giant puppet striking at Old Fox, who raised his puppet arms to block it.

• Ye Han stored the Mountain Spirit King's corpse in the purple cauldron space and sent the Blood-Spotted Ants to devour it.
• Ye Han gathered his puppets into a giant serpent and charged toward the Wolf Howl King and Old Fox, calling for Old Fox to join forces with him.
• Old Fox rejected Ye Han's offer and urged the Wolf Howl King to help kill Ye Han, but Ye Han's remarks made the Wolf Howl King distrust them both.
• The Wolf Howl King attacked Ye Han and Old Fox with sonic-boom light, then fled, while Ye Han pretended to call after him.
• Ye Han mocked Old Fox's bad reputation and transformed his giant puppet serpent into a rectangular puppet that struck at Old Fox.
• Old Fox raised his four puppet arms to block the giant puppet's sword-ray.

Ye Han battled Old Fox on a collapsing cliff, using his puppets and the five elements binding storm to overcome the older cultivator’s advantages. After a meteor struck and injured Old Fox, Ye Han reappeared to deliver a sword strike, only to discover that Old Fox had turned his own body into a puppet.

• Ye Han attacked Old Fox at close range while his puppet formation’s giant sword also pressured him, forcing Old Fox to fight with his four Metal Arms.
• Old Fox brought out a saber, sword, shield, and mirror, using them to drive Ye Han back as the giant puppet continued attacking.
• A thousand-foot meteor fell into the battlefield, and Ye Han escaped with Thunder Escape Technique while Old Fox split the meteor with his weapons.
• The meteor’s impact blasted Old Fox into the air and badly injured him, while Ye Han remained able to use Thunder Escape Technique despite the restrictions.
• Ye Han reappeared before Old Fox and stabbed at his head, but the strike rang against metal because Old Fox had refined his own body into a puppet.

Ye Han pursued Old Fox through the five elements binding storm, but the Golden Core cultivator repeatedly escaped his attacks. As Mountain Stone Beasts joined the fight, Old Fox unleashed a deadly Bloodslaughter Art and fled again, leaving Ye Han wary of the threat.

• Ye Han wounded Old Fox with a sword strike, but Old Fox used a Blood Escape Talisman to flee.
• Ye Han caught up with the Thunder Escape Technique and attacked, while the Metal Puppet joined the battle and Mountain Stone Beasts surrounded them.
• Old Fox retracted his Metal Arms and used blood essence to escape at greatly increased speed, but Ye Han pursued him with repeated Thunder Escape Techniques.
• Old Fox deployed a metal wing to batter away Ye Han's sword-rays as a Mountain Stone Beast collided with the Metal Puppet.
• Old Fox fired a fine blood-red thread that pierced space, but Ye Han dodged it with the Thunder Escape Technique.
• Old Fox fled again after his Bloodslaughter Art missed Ye Han.

Ye Han relentlessly pursued Elder Fox with demon-breaking divine thunder, forcing the Golden Core cultivator to defend himself with an ancient Bronze Mirror and flee on his Metal Wings. Elder Fox prepared a hidden counterattack, but Ye Han sensed a terrifying aura and suddenly stopped, leaving Elder Fox’s next move uncertain.

• Ye Han chased Elder Fox with the Thunder Escape Technique and battered his blood-colored form with demon-breaking divine thunder.
• Elder Fox used Metal Puppet Arms and an ancient Bronze Mirror to deflect the lightning, but the attacks damaged the mirror and sent electricity through his arms.
• Elder Fox used his Metal Wings to speed away, slipping past a Mountain Stone Beast while Ye Han resumed the pursuit.
• Ye Han continued bombarding Elder Fox as cracks spread across the Bronze Mirror, and Elder Fox prepared a concealed Black Needle attack.
• Ye Han sensed a terrifying aura and stopped abruptly, angering Elder Fox, who had been waiting to strike.

Ye Han abandoned his pursuit of Old Fox after the enemy’s secret attack backfired and shattered his Bronze Mirror, deciding that fighting to the death was too risky. After returning to help his Puppet Grand Formation, Ye Han found that the Gold-and-Silver Runes Compass had brought him very close to its destination.

• Old Fox’s secret method backfired when Ye Han stopped, and his Bronze Mirror shattered as he fled from the falling boulders.
• Ye Han chose not to pursue Old Fox further because he lacked a decisive killing move, had exhausted much of his spell power, and could not risk a lethal counterattack.
• Ye Han raced back to find the Puppet Grand Formation fighting several Mountain Stone Beasts and struggling to break through their blockade.
• Ye Han activated Qin Jiuzhen’s Gold-and-Silver Runes Compass and discovered that he was very close to the indicated location.

Ye Han retrieved the damaged Metal Puppets and escaped the Mountain Stone Beasts by entering a protected area around a mountain with a Teleportation Array. While recovering his strength inside, he discovered the coffin in his Purple Cauldron had absorbed most of his Spiritual Qi Pills' aura, and then sensed someone watching him.

• Ye Han used his Puppet God Technique to collect the hundred Metal Puppets while the Mountain Stone Beasts attacked.
• Ye Han outran the Mountain Stone Beasts and followed the Gold-and-Silver Runes Compass to a barrier surrounding a lone mountain and a Primordial Ancient Beast statue.
• Ye Han entered the barrier, where the storm’s restraints disappeared and the Mountain Stone Beasts could not break through.
• Ye Han swallowed a hundred Spiritual Qi Pills, but the coffin inside his Purple Cauldron absorbed more than two-thirds of their aura.
• The Purple Cauldron trembled and knocked Ye Han’s divine sense away, and he sensed someone watching him.