Chapter Summaries

Ye Han, Yuwen Hong, and Bafang Cailai gathered medicinal herbs inside the New Tower and agreed that Ye Han would refine them into pills before dividing them. Outside, Ping Liangzi fought off Ancient Tower War Generals and ancient beasts while plotting to expose how to open the tower so Ye Han could not keep its rewards.

• Bafang Cailai and Yuwen Hong explained that the first levels of the New Tower held plentiful resources and little danger.
• Ye Han proposed refining the gathered herbs into pills before the three of them divided the results, and Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai agreed.
• Ye Han, Yuwen Hong, and Bafang Cailai began collecting the medicinal plants.
• Outside the New Tower, Ping Liangzi fought against Ancient Tower War Generals and ancient beasts after losing the Divine Thunder Tower and the little hammer.
• Ping Liangzi decided to tell her enemies that opening the New Tower required two Divine Thunder Towers so they could try to break in and deny Ye Han its rewards.

Ye Han, Yuwen Hong, and Bafang Cailai crossed the New Tower’s sideways staircase and reached the second layer, where Ye Han used the twin-hammer rune on his wrist to break the entrance’s Five-Colored Spirit Light. The dragon statue above the gate came alive and swooped toward Ye Han.

• Ye Han, Yuwen Hong, and Bafang Cailai struggled along the sideways staircase while the New Tower’s restrictions prevented flight and the use of divine sense.
• Ye Han worried that a powerful dragon soul qi was following him, though Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai continued onward without apparent concern.
• After more than a dozen hours, the three reached the second layer and examined its dragon-shaped entrance.
• Yuwen Hong warned that dangers began appearing from the second layer onward, so Ye Han, Yuwen Hong, and Bafang Cailai prepared their defenses.
• Ye Han poured spell power into the twin-hammer rune, summoned the Twin-Headed Hammer, and smashed the Five-Colored Spirit Light curtain.
• The dragon statue suddenly came alive and swooped down at Ye Han.

Ye Han was trapped and abducted by the Divine Thunder Tower, while Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai fought the dragon-headed beasts emerging on the tower’s second layer. In a chaotic realm, Ye Han struggled against visions and agitation before an enormous azure dragon appeared before him.

• Ye Han was shrunk and sealed by gray light, then the Twin-Headed Hammer transformed into pagodas and carried him into the dragon statue’s mouth.
• Yuwen Hong smashed the dragon statue apart, but Ye Han and the pagodas had already vanished.
• Dragon-headed, bull-bodied beasts emerged from the second layer, and Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai charged into battle to fight their way inside.
• Ye Han found himself unable to move in a chaotic expanse and was tormented by agitation and visions of people and monsters from his past.
• An enormous azure dragon appeared in the void and stared at Ye Han.

Ye Han was freed from the Divine Thunder Towers and found himself trapped in a vast hall beneath a dragon-head relief. His Purple Cauldron absorbed the spiritual energy exhaled by the relief and sprouted a sapling that appeared likely to bear fruit for advancing to the Void Refinement Stage.

• The Azure Dragon phantom appeared briefly, then its flames broke the restraints sealing Ye Han and transported him into a vast metal hall.
• Ye Han noticed his Purple Cauldron trembling and suspected the pure spiritual energy exhaled by the dragon-head relief was causing its reaction.
• Ye Han summoned his Purple Cauldron, which absorbed the spiritual energy and sprouted a tiny sapling.
• Ye Han examined a wisp of the energy and realized it could help him advance to the Void Refinement Stage, suggesting the sapling would bear suitable fruit.
• Ye Han checked Ye Tianyu's Purple Cauldron to learn why it had not reacted and immediately understood the reason.

Trapped in a sealed space, Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron’s long absorption period to begin digesting the Ancient Human Race’s inheritance while refining pills and studying other techniques. As he absorbed it, he sensed that his bloodline was no longer purely that of the Ancient Human Race and wondered what effect this would have.

• Ye Han realized the Purple Cauldron had absorbed all the Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder from the Divine Thunder Tower, leaving the sapling on Ye Tianyu’s cauldron unable to grow.
• Ye Han accepted that he was trapped in the sealed space, but saw the long wait for the Purple Cauldron’s fruit to ripen as a chance to absorb the Ancient Human Race’s inheritance.
• Ye Han prepared White Fairy, pill-refining tools, and treasures so he could refine pills, craft talismans, and study while he remained inside.
• Ye Han entered the Purple Cauldron and looked at the Water Spirit Coffin holding Ye Tianyu, resolving to bring him back to life despite his uncertain feelings about their relationship.
• Ye Han began absorbing the inheritance, which concerned the Ancient Human Race’s origins and development, and sensed that his bloodline was no longer purely Ancient Human Race.

The Nethergod Devil Lord lost his divine soul connection to Ye Han but confirmed he was still alive, while Old Ancestor Yuwen reported the events at Broken Pagoda Mountain to his master. His master refused to send help, explaining that Ye Han’s survival and fortune would prove whether he was the person they sought, leaving Old Ancestor Yuwen wondering if his master suspected Ye Han.

• The Nethergod Devil Lord lost his ability to locate Ye Han, confirmed Ye Han was still alive, and vanished to prepare his next move.
• Old Ancestor Yuwen reported to his master that Ye Han, Yuwen Hong, and Bafang Cailai had entered the New Tower at Broken Pagoda Mountain, where a Blood Cloud Race cultivator killed several attackers.
• Old Ancestor Yuwen told his master that rumors had spread in Heavenly Mirror Immortal City about a mysterious New Tower on Mo Pagoda Mountain that Void Refinement Stage cultivators could not open.
• Old Ancestor Yuwen and his master suspected someone had spread the rumor to draw cultivators to Broken Pagoda Mountain and muddy the waters.
• Old Ancestor Yuwen’s master said Ye Han was alive and refused to send help, explaining that Ye Han’s survival and success would test his Dao fortune.
• Old Ancestor Yuwen wondered whether his master suspected something about Ye Han.

Old Ancestor Yuwen learned that his master suspected Ye Han had been sent by forces beyond the heavens and was told not to involve the Yuwen Lineage in investigating Broken Pagoda Mountain. After three hundred and sixty-three years of danger around the sealed New Tower, Ye Han finished drawing the Ancient Human Race's inheritance from the Purple Cauldron into his Divine Sense Sea, freeing the cauldron as a Void Refinement Stage fruit neared ripeness.

• Old Ancestor Yuwen's master suspected Ye Han belonged to forces beyond the heavens and warned that they might be targeting the Heavenly Spirit Realm and a powerful treasure.
• Old Ancestor Yuwen's master ordered him to keep reporting news but not send Yuwen Lineage members to Broken Pagoda Mountain, saying others would investigate.
• The New Tower's restriction remained unbroken despite repeated attacks, while falling towers released dangerous guards, war generals, and Ancient Beasts that drove most cultivators away.
• Over three hundred and sixty-three years, Ye Han drew the Ancient Human Race's inheritance out of the Purple Cauldron and stored it as books in his Divine Sense Sea instead of refining it.
• Ye Han freed the Purple Cauldron for future use as its space began recovering, and the fruit that could advance him to the Void Refinement Stage neared ripeness.

After centuries in the gray metal space, Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron and four advancement pills to ripen a fruit capable of helping him reach the Void Refinement Stage. The pills unexpectedly triggered his breakthrough before he could leave, so he swallowed the fruit and began advancing.

• Ye Han realized the Purple Cauldron could no longer absorb enough spiritual energy from the dragon head to ripen its Void Refinement Stage fruit.
• Ye Han had White Fairy refine four kinds of advancement pills, then restored the depleted Purple Cauldron and took all four pills.
• The Purple Cauldron absorbed over half the pills’ medicinal power and ripened the fruit, which appeared in Ye Han’s hand.
• The pills’ remaining power triggered Ye Han’s breakthrough, and he swallowed the fruit despite wanting to leave first.

Ping Liangzi saw terrifying heavenly dragon tribulation lightning gather above Broken Pagoda Mountain and suspected Ye Han was attempting a breakthrough, but the storm seemed unable to find its target. The New Tower’s five-colored light revealed an Azure Giant Dragon that attacked the blood-red Thunder Dragon, leaving the two forces clashing in the sky.

• Ping Liangzi emerged from her restricted space atop a tower and saw heavenly dragon tribulation lightning forming over Broken Pagoda Mountain.
• Ping Liangzi suspected Ye Han was attempting to break through to the Void Refinement Stage and worried he would become harder to deal with.
• A gigantic blood-red Thunder Dragon emerged from the tribulation clouds, its roar and pressure shaking the nearby Ancient Tower Guards, War Generals, and Ancient Beasts.
• Ping Liangzi noticed the tribulation seemed unable to locate its target and sensed danger despite believing it had nothing to do with her.
• The New Tower’s five-colored light produced the image of an Azure Giant Dragon, which fired a pillar of spirit light at the blood-red Thunder Dragon.
• The attack struck the Thunder Dragon and unleashed a vast eruption of blood-red lightning across the sky.

Ye Han broke through to the Void Refinement Stage inside the gray metal space, while his tribulation lightning devastated the battlefield outside. After beginning to restore his Purple Cauldron Space, he remained to stabilize his cultivation, but a cultivator suddenly emerged through the wall.

• Ye Han's five-colored spirit light shattered the Thunderclap Giant Dragon, and the resulting blood-red lightning devastated the Ancient Tower Guards, war generals, and ancient beasts outside.
• Ping Liangzi fled into the High Tower, but the lightning destroyed the palace and its defenses, leaving her furious.
• Ye Han completed his breakthrough to the Void Refinement Stage and realized the heavenly tribulation had been unable to reach him inside the special space.
• Ye Han absorbed the Purple Cauldron's Ancient Human Race inheritance, reopened the weakened Purple Cauldron Space, and sent White Fairy and his clone to restore it.
• After three days of cultivating, Ye Han saw a hole split open in the Gray Metal Wall, and a cultivator emerged; they recognized each other as Ye Han and a fellow Daoist.

Ye Han reunited with Zhuge Baiqing inside the New Tower, where both had reached the Void Refinement Stage. After explaining how she arrived, Zhuge Baiqing asked him to help retrieve an exceptionally rare treasure.

• Ye Han was surprised when Zhuge Baiqing emerged through a hole in the Gray Metal Wall, and he learned that she too had reached the Void Refinement Stage.
• Ye Han joked that he had come to rescue Zhuge Baiqing, then apologized for not responding to her plea from Broken Pagoda Mountain.
• Zhuge Baiqing explained that a strange Divine Thunder Tower had led her to the New Tower, where she found an opportunity to advance in a phoenix-themed space.
• Zhuge Baiqing told Ye Han that the defenses had weakened three days earlier, allowing her to break through and meet him.
• Zhuge Baiqing invited Ye Han to join her in retrieving an exceptionally rare supreme treasure that she could not obtain alone.

Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing advanced through the New Tower after Ye Han broke through its weakened walls, seeking a mysterious Yin-Yang treasure that might help them reach the Body Integration Realm. Outside, Ping Liangzi took advantage of the damage caused by the heavenly tribulation lightning to enter the tower through a crack.

• Ye Han cut through a Gray Metal Wall with a few sword strokes, and Zhuge Baiqing joined him in the passage after noting the tower's restrictions had weakened.
• Ye Han broke through another wall and stored its metal in his Purple Cauldron Space, hoping to use it to restore the space's depleted spiritual energy.
• Zhuge Baiqing told Ye Han about a special treasure in the tower that carried an astonishing Yin-Yang aura and might help them reach the Body Integration Realm.
• Ping Liangzi survived the tribulation lightning's fallout because it destroyed her clone, but the blast wrecked her cultivation cave abode and defensive restrictions.
• Ping Liangzi noticed the New Tower's light had dimmed and its entrance barrier had cracked, then flew inside through the opening.

Ping Liangzi entered the New Tower and vowed to kill Ye Han and his companions to reclaim their treasures and seize Ye Han’s body. Meanwhile, Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing reached the fourth layer, where strange figures appeared above them.

• Ping Liangzi found the spirit medicines in the New Tower depleted and realized Ye Han and the others had already harvested the original growth.
• Ping Liangzi resolved to intercept Ye Han and his companions, take their treasures, and seize Ye Han’s body.
• Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing raced through the fourth layer, where Zhuge Baiqing sensed that something was watching them.
• Ye Han’s scouting puppets detected danger, and blood-red figures missing arms or heads emerged from the ceiling above the passage.

Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing encountered Blood Souls Spirits that attacked with divine soul power, and Ye Han used divine soul sword intent to counter them. His attacks held the spirits at bay, but they grew enraged and began gathering a more terrifying attack.

• Ye Han recognized the creatures as Blood Souls Spirits after they passed through the passage walls.
• Zhuge Baiqing attacked the spirits with wind-element spells, but their blood-red divine soul threads destroyed her attacks and continued toward them.
• Ye Han told Zhuge Baiqing to stop using spells and unleashed divine soul sword intent with the Soul Suppression Divine Art.
• Ye Han's sword intent clashed with the spirits' divine soul bloodlight, while Zhuge Baiqing marveled at the strength of his divine soul.
• The enraged Blood Souls Spirits released countless blood-red threads and strange runes, triggering an even more terrifying anomaly.

Ye Han used the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to stop the Blood Soul Spirits King's devastating divine soul sword attack. As the King charged again, Ye Han fed his essence blood into the cauldron and unleashed a blood-rune figure of himself.

• The Blood Souls Spirits merged into a gigantic Blood Soul Spirits King, which drew a strange longsword and defeated Ye Han's divine soul sword attack.
• Zhuge Baiqing formed a divine sense shield, but the King's attack shattered it and forced her back.
• Ye Han summoned the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, which absorbed the King's bloody Sword-Ray.
• The Blood Soul Spirits King unleashed more Sword-Rays and charged at Ye Han.
• Ye Han sent a drop of essence blood into the cauldron, releasing a figure of himself formed from blood-colored runes and powerful divine soul energy.

Ye Han used the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron and his divine soul shadow to capture the Blood Soul Spirits King. Afterward, blood-red beads emerged from the cauldron, and Ye Han discovered that both Purple Cauldrons in his divine sense sea reacted to them.

• Ye Han activated the Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, but the Blood Soul Spirits King blasted holes through its vortex and attacked a shadow of Ye Han.
• Ye Han strengthened the cauldron with the Soul Suppression Divine Art and sent it after the Blood Soul Spirits King.
• The Soul-Suppressing Cauldron's hands seized the Blood Soul Spirits King, while Ye Han's divine soul shadow struck him from behind and drove him inside.
• Ye Han sealed the cauldron and cut off the tentacles the Blood Soul Spirits King tried to push through, then confined him within.
• Blood-red beads flew out of the cauldron, and Ye Han noticed that both Purple Cauldrons in his divine sense sea trembled when he drew the beads into his hand.

Ye Han discovered that the Blood Soul Spirits King's blood-red beads were Divine Soul Beads that made his Purple Cauldron sprout a divine-soul sapling, though it grew slowly. He and Zhuge Baiqing pressed deeper into the New Tower to reach its treasures before more cultivators arrived, only to be attacked by living dragon and serpent carvings.

• Ye Han collected the Divine Soul Beads and sent them into his Purple Cauldron, which absorbed them and sprouted a blood-red sapling.
• Ye Han realized the sapling might eventually bear fruit that could greatly strengthen his divine soul and help him resist the Nethergod Devil Lord's control.
• Zhuge Baiqing praised Ye Han's divine soul power, and Ye Han urged her to hurry onward before other cultivators entered the New Tower.
• Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing raced ten thousand zhang through the tower, where dragon and serpent carvings broke free from the walls and charged at them.

Ping Liangzi raced deeper into the New Tower while Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing opened the entrance to the fifth layer. After dragon soul qi entered Ye Han’s Twin-Headed Hammer key, they entered the layer, where two enormous creatures carrying people Ye Han knew appeared.

• Ping Liangzi hurried through a ruined passage, calmed herself against the tower’s negative emotions, and pushed on to catch up with Ye Han.
• Ye Han used the Twin-Headed Hammer key to break the fifth-layer entrance’s restriction while Zhuge Baiqing watched.
• The awakened dragon statue sent dragon soul qi into the key, and the fifth-layer entrance opened to reveal abundant spiritual energy and dragon soul aura.
• Ye Han sent scouting puppets into the passage and advanced cautiously with Zhuge Baiqing, but the puppets soon exploded.
• Two enormous creatures emerged carrying people Ye Han recognized.

Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing encountered Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai trapped inside living puppet beasts in the New Tower. Ye Han destroyed both beasts and freed them, but the two cultivators ran down the passage, leaving Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing puzzled.

• Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing discovered that Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai had been embedded in living puppet beasts and attacked by them.
• Ye Han fought back, destroying the first beast while avoiding Yuwen Hong and pulling her free.
• Ye Han rescued Zhuge Baiqing from the second beast, then smashed it apart and pulled Bafang Cailai free.
• Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai regained some clarity, called to Ye Han for help, and ran down the passage despite having been rescued.

Ye Han captured Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai in the Ghost Skull Mirror and pressed on with Zhuge Baiqing toward the demonic Wilds Ancient Stele. The pair reached the great hall, where the stele confronted them and attacked.

• Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to capture Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai, then strengthened its restraints to ease their suffering.
• A furious divine-soul storm surged from the passage ahead, and Ye Han sensed that his Purple Cauldrons were reacting to a treasure there.
• Yuwen Hong and Bafang Cailai warned Ye Han that the Wilds Ancient Stele had become a demon and possessed terrifying divine-soul attacks.
• Ye Han summoned the Immortal Soul Altar to suppress the incoming soul storms as he and Zhuge Baiqing advanced.
• Ye Han and Zhuge Baiqing entered a gray-metal hall and faced the enormous Wilds Ancient Stele, which accused them of stealing its treasures and attacked.