Chapter Summaries

Ye Han finally opened the Metal Gate and reunited with Zhang Qingshan, who collapsed from severe burns and depleted life force. As Ye Han tried to save him, the Purple Cauldron and Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Pearl drew the terrifying yang energy from Zhang Qingshan into a mysterious rune, leaving Ye Han stunned.

• The Metal Gate opened, revealing Zhang Qingshan on the other side, badly burned and enveloped in scorching yang energy.
• Zhang Qingshan collapsed, and Ye Han rushed through the gate to catch him as flames surged toward him.
• Ye Han used ice-attribute power to block the flames, then gave Zhang Qingshan pills and Purple Cauldron aura to stabilize him.
• The yang energy inside Zhang Qingshan consumed the replenished power and threatened to drive him into a frenzy.
• The Purple Cauldron and Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Pearl formed a vortex that pulled the yang energy from Zhang Qingshan into a blazing, mysterious rune.

Ye Han captured and absorbed the yang-energy Dragon-Snake Shadow that had possessed Zhang Qingshan, stabilizing his condition. After investigating the hall and finding signs of the shadow’s former presence, Ye Han confronted Zhang Qingshan about why he insisted on staying behind as danger loomed.

• Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror and the Purple Cauldron to trap the Dragon-Snake Shadow, and the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Pearl devoured it as the Little Sapling grew.
• Zhang Qingshan regained his senses with his cultivation intact but badly weakened, and Ye Han gave him healing spirit liquid.
• Ye Han investigated Zhang Qingshan’s hall and found a pillar bearing the shadow of a coiled dragon serpent, leading him to suspect the altar honored beings representing yin and yang.
• Zhang Qingshan warned that they could not linger and said he would stay behind because traveling with Ye Han would lead to certain death.
• Ye Han challenged Zhang Qingshan’s explanation and demanded that he tell the truth about the danger of staying behind.

Ye Han sent Zhang Qingshan into the Purple Cauldron Space to keep him safe, then continued toward the top of the God-Offering Altar. He reached another Metal Gate and realized Red Fur’s monkey-shaped token fit its recess.

• Ye Han pretended to give Zhang Qingshan pills, then pulled him into the Purple Cauldron Space to protect him.
• Zhang Qingshan explained that going with Ye Han had shown him a great fiend omen, but being inside the secret realm brought only fortune omens.
• Zhang Qingshan began recovering from his severe injuries with a powerful treasure that absorbed the space’s spiritual energy.
• Ye Han climbed the spiraling staircase for two hours and reached a huge Metal Gate bearing a human-and-serpent relief.
• Ye Han compared the recess above the relief with Red Fur’s monkey-shaped token and recognized that it fit.

Ye Han opened the Metal Gate and found a vast space filled with golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast shadows and a Golden Cudgel guarded by a humanoid Golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast. After the beast attacked, Ye Han used his own Soul-Devouring Divine Ability to draw it into his divine soul space, where the fight continued.

• Ye Han inserted the Red-Haired Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast's Token into the Metal Gate and entered the vast Circular Space beyond it.
• Ye Han saw thousands of golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast shadows circling an immense pillar, then faced a golden-furred beast's divine soul as he stepped inside.
• Ye Han and the Golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast clashed with divine soul attacks, and the beast revealed its humanoid form and spoke to him.
• The Golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast transformed the pillar into a Golden Cudgel, which made Ye Han's two Purple Cauldrons tremble.
• The Golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast attacked with the cudgel, but Ye Han used his Soul-Devouring Divine Ability to pull it into his divine soul space, where both sides prepared to fight.

Ye Han fought the golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast inside his Divine Soul Space and studied its staff intent while battling it. After 199 days, both sides had greatly improved, and their latest clash threatened to collapse the space.

• The golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast struck Ye Han's two Divine Souls with concentrated staff intent and sent them flying.
• Ye Han attacked with both Divine Souls, using the Purple Cauldron to replenish their power as he studied the beast's staff laws.
• Ye Han gradually grasped the beast's staff intent, and the techniques of both combatants continued to improve during their prolonged battle.
• After 199 days of fighting, the beast and Ye Han's Divine Souls had transformed their weapons and armor and continued exchanging fierce attacks.
• The beast unleashed eighteen giant dragon shadows, and Ye Han's Divine Souls countered with a black dragon and white tiger formed from their staff shadows.
• The two attacks collided in a burst of black-and-white light that distorted the Divine Soul Space.

Ye Han outlasted the golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast after a 199-day battle, then claimed its Token and staff. The Purple Cauldron absorbed the staff, identified as the Heaven-Supporting Divine Pillar, and began growing a tiny golden shoot.

• The golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast's final attack overwhelmed Ye Han's divine souls, but the Beast disintegrated when it exhausted the God-Offering Altar's spiritual energy.
• Ye Han awoke to find the arena drained of energy and the Soul-Devouring Spirit Beasts gone, then realized he had won through greater endurance.
• Ye Han found the golden Soul-Devouring Spirit Beast Token and staff, and safely collected the Token with demon-breaking divine thunder.
• The Purple Cauldron seized the golden staff and absorbed its aura after Ye Han read the inscription, Heaven-Supporting Divine Pillar.
• A tiny golden shoot sprouted from the Purple Cauldron, leaving Ye Han wondering what it would become.

Ye Han let the Purple Cauldron continue absorbing the Heaven-Supporting Divine Pillar after it warned him not to interfere, then checked on Zhang Qingshan’s slow recovery. A giant Feifei Insect egg began devouring the other strange insects on its island, and Ye Han intervened as it appeared close to hatching.

• Ye Han decided to let the Purple Cauldron absorb the Heaven-Supporting Divine Pillar after its sprout warned him not to interfere.
• Ye Han saw that Zhang Qingshan was still recovering in the Treasure Pool and would need decades to regain his fighting strength.
• Ye Han sensed a violent rumbling on the island where the strange insects lived and saw them swarm toward the Feifei Insect egg.
• The Feifei Insect egg had grown to over ten feet tall and devoured the insects entering the mouths on its surface, swelling to forty or fifty feet.
• Ye Han used his divine sense to command the strange insects to stop feeding the egg and return to their nests, just as an astonishing scene unfolded.

Ye Han used the Myriad Treasures Formation in his Purple Cauldron Space to imprison the Feifei Insect egg before it could hatch without his control. As he prepared to perform Blood-Drip Recognition, a violent tremor came from the God-Offering Altar.

• The Feifei Insect egg began devouring Ye Han’s strange insects, growing as bloody light surged around it.
• Ye Han activated the Myriad Treasures Formation and sealed the egg with its restraining power.
• Ye Han explained that he needed to perform Blood-Drip Recognition before the Feifei Insect hatched, or it could become uncontrollable and wreak havoc.
• The remaining strange insects stopped charging the egg and returned to their nests.
• A violent tremor suddenly came from the God-Offering Altar as Ye Han prepared to control the egg.

Ye Han escaped the collapsing God-Offering Altar after its defensive restrictions vanished and discovered that flaming meteors were tearing apart the surrounding world. He recognized the fissures opening in the sky as a possible entrance to the second heaven of the Three Heavens.

• Ye Han realized the God-Offering Altar’s restrictions had weakened, and his stomp cracked its floor as the Great Hall began collapsing.
• Ye Han fought through falling debris, using chunks of wall as footholds to climb toward a fissure in the ceiling.
• Ye Han shoved aside a massive boulder with a palm strike and escaped as the God-Offering Altar collapsed around him.
• Ye Han saw fiery meteors smashing into the land and fissures opening in the sky, which he recognized as a possible entrance to the second heaven.

Ye Han escaped the collapsing first heaven by racing through a hole that was rapidly healing shut. He emerged into the second heaven, where abundant spiritual energy and heavenly treasures awaited.

• Ye Han realized that the God-Offering Altar’s collapse had opened the only passage to the second heaven.
• Ye Han flew toward the hole while dodging falling rocks and used them to propel himself upward.
• Ye Han raced along the regrowing rock as the hole rapidly healed around him.
• Ye Han blasted through the closing ground with the Vajra Fire God Art and escaped just before it sealed.
• Ye Han found himself in a lush second heaven filled with spiritual energy and heavenly treasures.

Ye Han reached the second heaven, where crushing gravity and suppressed divine sense made exploration dangerous. Zhang Qingshan’s Fortune and Disaster Prediction warned that leaving Ye Han’s secret realm would bring death, so Ye Han set out alone toward a dense forest after smelling a potent medicinal fragrance.

• Ye Han landed hard in the second heaven and found its gravity had risen to roughly fifteen hundred times normal, though he could endure it.
• Ye Han sensed abundant spiritual energy and Heavenly Treasures nearby, but found he could not extend his divine sense beyond his body and sensed danger around him.
• Ye Han contacted Zhang Qingshan and asked him to use Fortune and Disaster Prediction to choose a direction.
• Zhang Qingshan warned that leaving Ye Han’s secret realm would lead to death and might endanger Ye Han as well, while staying inside remained a great fortune omen.
• Ye Han let Zhang Qingshan continue cultivating, then ran toward a dense forest and caught the enticing fragrance of a medicinal treasure.

Ye Han spent months in the Second Heaven gathering rare treasures and fighting strange insects, including a Two-Horned Insect whose weakness he discovered and exploited. He continued trying to bind the Feifei Insect egg, then noticed something in the distance.

• Ye Han dug up a Ten-Thousand-Year Blood Spirit Flower and transplanted it into the Purple Cauldron Space, where Second Heaven treasures could generate far more spiritual energy.
• Ye Han spent several months collecting heavenly treasures, noting that the region’s trees were short and wondering how he would reach the Third Heaven.
• Ye Han killed a Two-Horned Insect by striking its weakly armored rear with his Bone-Refining Bone Sword, then stored its divine soul for the Ghost Skull Mirror.
• Ye Han continued performing Blood-Drip Recognition on the Feifei Insect egg but failed to fully control it despite seven or eight attempts.
• Ye Han suddenly looked into the distance with surprise.

Ye Han discovered an enormous inheritance tree in the second heaven and found a rusted longsword embedded in its trunk beside a broken gravestone bearing the words “Moon Immortal.” Sensing the Purple Cauldrons’ intense interest in the sword, he protected himself with a High-Grade Substitute Talisman and struck at it with the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel.

• Ye Han traveled for several days through strange insects and difficult terrain to reach an enormous tree that resembled the inheritance tree from the Heavenly Secret Hall.
• He concealed himself beneath the tree and saw enormous fruits that appeared to imprison creatures inside them.
• The Purple Cauldrons trembled, leading Ye Han to a rusted longsword embedded in the tree’s trunk.
• Ye Han found a broken gravestone near the tree, recognized the final characters as “Moon Immortal,” and suspected the sword had cut it apart.
• Ye Han sensed chilling sword intent from the longsword but, urged on by the Purple Cauldrons, activated his High-Grade Substitute Talisman and swung the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel at it.

Ye Han attacked the rust-covered longsword lodged in the Inheritance Tree, but the sword countered with a devastating strike that forced him to use a High-Grade Substitute Talisman. He trapped the sword inside one Purple Cauldron and used a second to subdue it, leaving the sword surrounded by purple runes.

• Ye Han struck the longsword with his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, blasting it free of the Inheritance Tree.
• The longsword unleashed a powerful attack, and Ye Han escaped it with his Thunder Escape Technique before using a High-Grade Substitute Talisman to survive its strike.
• Ye Han released the Purple Cauldron, which swallowed the longsword as it attacked from within.
• Ye Han drove a second Purple Cauldron's power into the first and finally subdued the longsword with purple runes.

Ye Han secured the longsword in the Purple Cauldron, causing a sapling to sprout, but the enormous tree erupted and released hordes of powerful creatures from its fruits. He fled the pursuing swarm and set up a formation, leaving the outcome of the chase unresolved.

• Ye Han bound the longsword with the Purple Cauldron, extracted its aura, and watched a gray sapling sprout on the cauldron lid.
• The enormous tree shook with rage, its fruits began cracking, and Ye Han fled under the threat of their release.
• A monster insect attacked Ye Han, who struck it away with his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel as more insects swarmed around him.
• The tree's fruits fell and released hundreds of Void Refinement Stage insects, demon beasts, and cultivators, which pursued Ye Han.
• Ye Han escaped beyond the tree's reach but was chased by the creatures, so he deployed Formation Beads to create a vast formation across the ground.
• The pursuing creatures charged into the formation's radiance.

Ye Han fled from the creatures pursuing him and discovered that the giant tree had awakened as a powerful Giant Tree Spirit. After learning it was enraged because he had stolen its longsword, he fought off its attacks and used talismans and flames to escape, though the spirit continued its pursuit.

• Ye Han slowed his pursuers with a gravity formation and realized they were following the giant tree's command.
• The giant tree uprooted itself and chased Ye Han, crushing creatures and cultivators in its path.
• The Giant Tree Spirit attacked Ye Han with leaf sword-rays carrying the longsword's sword intent, and Ye Han destroyed them with his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel.
• Ye Han used a Demon God Talisman and a high-grade Tailwind Talisman, then boosted his speed with the Vajra Fire God Art and Hurricane Strange Flame.
• The Giant Tree Spirit's roots failed to catch Ye Han, and it shouted that he would not escape.

The Giant Tree Spirit trapped Ye Han in a spatial vortex, but he survived by hiding inside the Purple Cauldron. He emerged in a strange root-lined passage and suspected he was inside the Giant Tree Spirit, where he fought off its tendrils.

• The Giant Tree Spirit created a vast spatial vortex that dragged Ye Han and his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel inside.
• Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to shield himself from the vortex, which carried it into a green-lit space lined with roots and vines.
• Ye Han checked that the little sapling bearing the Yin-Yang fruit was unharmed, then recalled the Purple Cauldron into his Divine Sense Sea.
• The passage's roots and tendrils attacked Ye Han, who used the Great Geng Sword Art and his Bone-Refining Bone Swords to cut them down.
• The passage trembled, and dozens of pitch-black openings appeared around Ye Han.

Ye Han fought the giant tree spirit’s parasitic demon insects in its poison-filled internal passage, using his swordsmanship, Thunderclap Divine Armor, and a Cold Art trap to escape. More insects emerged as the Purple Cauldron began to tremble.

• Ye Han used the Great Geng Divine Insight Swordsmanship to break the insects’ thread nets, then cleaved one insect in two with a fire-infused sword-ray.
• The passage released deadly green poison, so Ye Han summoned the Thunderclap Divine Armor to shield himself from it.
• The parasitic demon insects drank the poison, grew stronger, and rolled after Ye Han as he fled into a cavern.
• Ye Han planted flame talismans to slow the pursuers, then froze them with a Cold Art trap and pierced them with sword-rays.
• More parasitic demon insects crawled from the walls, and the Purple Cauldron began to tremble.

Ye Han followed the Purple Cauldron’s response through the Giant Tree Spirit’s body and found a huge sphere of tangled roots. There, he defeated the spirit’s demon nascent soul with Soul Devouring, leaving the creature vulnerable.

• Ye Han ignored the parasitic demon insects and raced through the Giant Tree Spirit, following the Purple Cauldron’s increasingly strong response while fighting off poison, insects, and vines.
• Ye Han reached a vast space and found a huge sphere of roots that excited the Purple Cauldron.
• A humanoid Tree Demon emerged from the roots and clashed with Ye Han using green Sword-Rays.
• Ye Han recognized the Tree Demon as the Giant Tree Spirit’s demon nascent soul and used Soul Devouring with both of his divine souls to absorb its soul.

Ye Han captured the Giant Tree Spirit’s divine soul and demon nascent soul, then severed the roots protecting a broken piece of the stele. As the Giant Tree Spirit collapsed, Ye Han sent the piece into Ye Tianyu’s Purple Cauldron, triggering an unexpected event.

• Ye Han drew the Giant Tree Spirit’s divine soul into his divine soul space and fought it with one of his two divine souls, leaving his body free to act.
• Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to capture the Giant Tree Spirit’s demon nascent soul.
• Ye Han cut through the roots around a flesh-covered ball and uncovered a stone piece he recognized as part of the Broken Stele.
• Ye Han pulled out the stone, causing the Giant Tree Spirit to lose its spell power and begin collapsing.
• Ye Han chose Ye Tianyu’s Purple Cauldron to absorb the Broken Stele piece, and something unexpected happened.