Chapter Summaries

Ye Han used runic chains and the Earth God Flawless Art to pull the Divine Emperor toward the Golden Spirit Hall and knock him out of his Water Spirit Coffin. The Divine Emperor’s attempt to stop his flight failed, and Ye Han sent the Ghost Skull Mirror hurtling toward him.

• The Divine Emperor erupted with black-red flames, but Ye Han’s talismans absorbed their energy and formed chains around the Water Spirit Coffin.
• Ye Han strengthened the chains with spell power, seized them, and dragged the coffin toward the Golden Spirit Hall.
• The Divine Emperor broke the chains and slammed the coffin onto the ground, but Ye Han struck the earth and blasted the coffin open, sending the Divine Emperor flying toward the hall’s doors.
• The Divine Emperor tried to catch himself with gods-and-devils energy hands, but Ye Han’s restriction-breaking earthen hands crushed them.
• Ye Han sent the Ghost Skull Mirror after the airborne Divine Emperor.

Ye Han used the Water Spirit Coffin to force the Divine Emperor into the Golden Spirit Hall, where its restriction formation sealed him and suppressed his power. The Divine Emperor attacked with the Dragon-Slaying Divine Sabers, but the hall weakened his strikes and Ye Han blocked them with the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel.

• The Water Spirit Coffin's attacks drove the Divine Emperor into the Golden Spirit Hall, triggering its runes and trapping him behind a light curtain.
• Ye Han realized the hall's restrictions suppressed the Divine Emperor's cultivation and spell power.
• The Divine Emperor summoned the Dragon-Slaying Divine Sabers and threatened Ye Han, while Ye Han readied the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel.
• The Divine Emperor sent two powerful blade auras at Ye Han, but the hall's treasure-light weakened them and Ye Han blocked both with his cudgel.

Ye Han used the Golden Spirit Hall’s restrictions and his formations to trap the Divine Emperor and planned to wear down his power with repeated teleports. The Divine Emperor countered with his Tyrant Golden Armor and attacked the Myriad Treasures Formation, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Ye Han’s Myriad Treasures Formation strengthened the Golden Spirit Hall’s suppression of the Divine Emperor, who discovered the treasures arranged above him.
• The Divine Emperor summoned his Tyrant Golden Armor, reducing the hall’s suppression, then charged Ye Han with his Dragon-Slaying Divine Sabers.
• The Divine Emperor’s blades destroyed Ye Han’s apparent body, but Ye Han reappeared elsewhere in the hall after teleporting with a prepared talisman.
• Ye Han planned to exhaust the Divine Emperor, who realized the strategy and unleashed dragon-shaped blade-light against the Myriad Treasures Formation.
• The formation answered with pillars of five-colored spirit light that collided with the Divine Emperor’s attack.

Ye Han drove the Myriad Treasures Formation against the Divine Emperor, who destroyed many of its treasures and realized Ye Han possessed a source of extraordinary spell power. Ye Han prepared to detonate more than a thousand treasures, but the Divine Emperor trapped the Golden Spirit Hall in a space-and-time distortion, forcing Ye Han to summon his clone and White Fairy before the treasures struck the Divine Emperor's spatial vortex.

• The Divine Emperor's Dragon-Slaying Divine Saber shattered the Myriad Treasures Formation's barriers and destroyed many of Ye Han's treasures.
• Ye Han poured power from both Purple Cauldrons into the formation, and the Divine Emperor deduced that Ye Han possessed a treasure capable of restoring spell power.
• Ye Han sent over a thousand treasures hurtling toward the Divine Emperor, intending to detonate them.
• The Divine Emperor unleashed a spatial and temporal divine ability that slowed Ye Han and distorted the Golden Spirit Hall.
• Ye Han summoned his clone and White Fairy, who activated the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda and White Dragon Sky-Viewing Goblet as Ye Han brought out the Immortal Soul Altar.
• The Divine Emperor created a vast spatial vortex above himself, and Ye Han's attacking treasures crashed into it.

Ye Han fought the Divine Emperor inside the Golden Spirit Hall, where the Divine Emperor blocked his formation’s treasure barrage and countered his attacks with formidable space and time abilities. The Divine Emperor revealed the full power of the Heaven-and-Earth Gods-and-Devils Ring and suddenly unleashed a stronger assault, leaving Ye Han in grave danger.

• The Divine Emperor contained the self-destruction of more than a thousand treasures from Ye Han’s Myriad Treasures Formation, while the formation prevented him from absorbing spiritual energy.
• Ye Han stopped holding back and rushed at the Divine Emperor with his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, but sensed danger and dodged a black-hole bite that tore open space.
• Ye Han enlarged his cudgel and struck at the Divine Emperor, who blocked it with a skull of gods and devils before summoning the Heaven-and-Earth Gods-and-Devils Ring.
• The Divine Emperor used the ring to block Ye Han’s next strike, then attacked with both Dragon-Slaying Divine Sabers as his spell power and blade aura surged.

Ye Han and the Divine Emperor continued their fierce battle in the Golden Spirit Hall, trading powerful attacks and treasures. As the Divine Emperor summoned five elemental Divine General puppets to turn the fight, Ye Han deployed his Five Elements Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure Formation to counter them.

• The Divine Emperor struck Ye Han with dragon-shaped blade-rays, but Ye Han escaped with a Teleportation Talisman and a Substitute Technique.
• Ye Han’s clone and White Fairy used the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda and White Dragon Sky-Viewing Goblet to clash with the Divine Emperor’s golden pagoda.
• Ye Han fought off the Divine Emperor’s blade attacks with the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art and his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel.
• The Divine Emperor realized the battle of attrition put him at risk and released five powerful Spell-Cultivator Divine General puppets capable of forming a Five-Element Formation.
• Ye Han sent out his five refined spirit treasures and targeted each Divine General with the elemental power that countered it.

Ye Han used his treasures and twin divine souls to create an opening and strike the Divine Emperor’s wound with the Immortal-Slaying Saber. The Divine Emperor’s aura then surged as he shed his armor and prepared to fight to the death.

• The Divine Emperor’s five Spell-Cultivator Divine Generals clashed with Ye Han’s Five Elements Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure Formation.
• Ye Han unleashed the power of his twin divine souls, but the Divine Emperor shattered it with his own powerful divine soul attack.
• Ye Han seized the brief opening and sent the Immortal-Slaying Saber through the Divine Emperor’s defenses to strike the Soul-Severing Dagger embedded in his chest.
• The Divine Emperor was wounded and staggered back as the Immortal-Slaying Saber was knocked away and cracked.
• The Divine Emperor shed his armor and activated a powerful divine ability, causing his aura to soar as Ye Han recognized that he was preparing to fight to the death.

Ye Han activated General Lu’s Demon God Talisman and fought the Divine Emperor in the Golden Spirit Hall, matching the Emperor’s time- and space-infused saber attacks with overwhelming physical strength. The Divine Emperor’s Soul-Severing Dagger wound continued to erode his body and soul, leaving him afraid that an even greater danger was closing in.

• Ye Han teleported away from the Divine Emperor’s enormous blood-red maw as it tore through the space where he had stood.
• Ye Han activated General Lu’s Demon God Talisman, boosting his cultivation to the perfected Void Refinement Stage and taking on a half-human, half-Divine Race form.
• The Divine Emperor attacked Ye Han with the Dragon-Slaying Divine Sabers, using blade strikes infused with time and space power to restrain him.
• Ye Han broke free with brute strength and clashed with the Divine Emperor, shaking the Golden Spirit Hall with their battle.
• The Divine Emperor realized the Soul-Severing Dagger was eroding his body, meridians, and divine soul, and feared that a greater danger was approaching.

A woman outside the Golden Spirit Hall used a golden token and the power of the Gods and Devils Race to unleash a terrifying force against the hall. As enormous golden hands tore through the sky, Ye Han sheltered inside Ye Tianyu's Purple Cauldron while the Divine Emperor raised his defenses.

• A woman approached the Golden Spirit Hall and used a golden token, gods-and-devils figures, and golden talismans to empower the hall's restrictions.
• Ye Han and the Divine Emperor sensed a terrifying force from outside the hall, and the Divine Emperor cursed the woman and the Gods and Devils Race.
• The Divine Emperor tried to hold Ye Han back, then stopped attacking and surrounded himself with defensive treasures.
• Ye Han recalled his clone, White Fairy, and their treasures, then entered Ye Tianyu's Purple Cauldron to withstand the approaching force.
• The Divine Emperor recognized the Purple Cauldron as an ill-omened object just before enormous Golden Light Giant Hands tore through the sky above the hall.

A vast golden attack destroyed the Golden Spirit Hall and drove the Divine Emperor’s defenses to collapse, while a giant hand reached for Ye Han’s Purple Cauldron. The Divine Emperor then summoned the Spirit Lake’s evil spirits against Heavenly Lord Yitian’s golden forces, and their colossal hands clashed in a battle that remained unresolved.

• A mysterious woman vanished after declaring that the Divine Emperor was dead as a golden pillar descended toward the Golden Spirit Hall.
• The golden pillar destroyed the hall and shattered the Divine Emperor’s defenses, though he tried to protect himself with his treasures and Jade Seal Treasure.
• The Purple Cauldron containing Ye Han endured the storm, and a Golden Light Giant Hand reached down to seize it.
• Evil spirits surged from the Spirit Lake and attacked the golden hands, cracking their defenses and tearing open space.
• The Divine Emperor formed hand seals in the lake, condemned Heavenly Lord Yitian, and sent an enormous evil-spirit hand crashing into the Golden Light Giant Hand.

Ye Han emerged unharmed from the Purple Cauldron after Heavenly Lord Yitian’s attack shattered the golden pupil and devastated the Third Heaven. The wounded Tyrant Divine Emperor recognized the cauldron and challenged Ye Han to hear its true origins.

• Heavenly Lord Yitian’s golden restrictions overwhelmed the golden pupil, which shattered as its figure and the rift vanished.
• The battle’s aftermath annihilated countless evil spirits, drained much of the Third Heaven’s Spiritual Energy, and reduced the Golden Spirit Hall to ruins.
• The Divine Emperor’s Gods and Devils Golden Armor broke apart, leaving him bloodied as he stared at the Purple Cauldron.
• Ye Han emerged from the Purple Cauldron and realized that the Divine Emperor recognized its origins, deciding the Divine Emperor could not be allowed to live.
• The Tyrant Divine Emperor warned Ye Han that he wanted to kill him and asked whether he wanted to learn the cauldron’s true origins.

Ye Han triggered his major lifespan and heart-demon heavenly tribulations during his battle with the Tyrant Divine Emperor, then hid inside his Purple Cauldron. The tribulation instead struck the Tyrant Divine Emperor, who fled as the blood-red lightning pursued him.

• The Divine Emperor restored his spell power while Ye Han watched and warned that he would meet his end on his own.
• Ye Han’s major lifespan heavenly tribulation and heart-demon heavenly tribulation appeared together.
• Ye Han summoned a stronger Purple Cauldron and entered it to avoid facing the tribulation himself.
• The heavenly tribulation formed a massive blood-red lightning bolt that targeted the Tyrant Divine Emperor.
• The Tyrant Divine Emperor transformed into aura flames and fled as a storm of tribulation lightning pursued him.

The Tyrant Divine Emperor fled Ye Han’s blood-red tribulation lightning and plunged into the Spirit Lake, where the storm battered him and consumed the lake’s spiritual energy. The Purple Cauldron suddenly swallowed him, only for a barrage of staff shadows to strike as soon as he arrived inside.

• The Tyrant Divine Emperor fled the pursuing blood-red tribulation lightning and dove into the Spirit Lake.
• The Spirit Lake’s evil spirits formed water dragons that collided with the lightning, but the blasts struck and injured the Tyrant Divine Emperor.
• The heavenly tribulation intensified, battering the Spirit Lake, destroying evil spirits, and consuming the spiritual energy the Tyrant Divine Emperor had accumulated.
• A lightning bolt struck the Tyrant Divine Emperor and began collapsing his physical body.
• The Purple Cauldron descended and sucked the Tyrant Divine Emperor inside, where deafening staff shadows immediately came at him.

Ye Han sealed the weakened Tyrant Divine Emperor inside the Purple Cauldron and took his treasures, then emerged to face the heavenly tribulation himself. The tribulation’s destructive power descended as Ye Han began his ordeal.

• The Purple Cauldron’s chains bound the Tyrant Divine Emperor, sealed his strength, and seized his Dragon-Slaying Divine Sabers and Space Ring.
• Ye Han told the trapped Tyrant Divine Emperor he had no time to deal with him and flew toward the Purple Cauldron’s lid.
• Ye Han reasoned that he had trapped the weakened emperor to secure his treasures and keep the Purple Cauldron’s secret from leaking.
• Ye Han emerged from the Purple Cauldron because he needed to undergo the tribulation to gain heaven and earth’s recognition and advance his cultivation.
• The tribulation clouds boomed as destructive power descended upon Ye Han.

Ye Han endured a devastating heavenly tribulation that shattered his defenses and left him badly injured, but he survived and began recovering. He then discovered that the Tyrant Divine Emperor imprisoned in the Purple Cauldron had vanished.

• Ye Han unleashed his defensive arts, treasures, and Demon God Talisman to withstand the blood-red lightning dragon.
• The tribulation shattered Ye Han's defenses and armor, then blasted him into the Spirit Lake as its clouds dispersed.
• Ye Han emerged from the lake and struggled ashore after more than two hours, badly injured and exhausted.
• Ye Han recovered by drawing spiritual energy from the Purple Cauldron Space, having exhausted his replenishing pills and consumed more than half its spiritual energy.
• Ye Han inspected the Purple Cauldron and discovered that the imprisoned Tyrant Divine Emperor had vanished.

Ye Han discovered that the Tyrant Divine Emperor had died inside the Purple Cauldron, but learned from the Mysterious Woman that opening the Heavenly Gate to leave the Third Heaven would drain his lifespan. As she dealt with the emperor’s divine soul, the Purple Cauldron poured its aura into her, leaving Ye Han injured and worried about his dwindling resources.

• Ye Han found the Tyrant Divine Emperor’s shattered stone corpse and a purple-gold dagger inside the Purple Cauldron, and wondered how the emperor had died.
• Ye Han noticed black-red aura in the Mysterious Woman’s Water Spirit Coffin and accused her of causing the Tyrant Divine Emperor’s death.
• The Mysterious Woman told Ye Han that the Heavenly Gate was the only way out of the Third Heaven, but warned him not to open it himself because it would drain his lifespan.
• The Mysterious Woman began dealing with the Tyrant Divine Emperor’s divine soul, and the Purple Cauldron sent its aura into her while drawing more from the sword qi Little Sapling.
• Ye Han worried about his injuries and depleted treasures, then wondered whether the Tyrant Divine Emperor had left behind any usable pills.

After surviving two overlapping heavenly tribulations, Ye Han was badly injured and his cultivation fell to mid-Spirit Transformation. He found three High Lord Pills among the Tyrant Divine Emperor’s belongings and swallowed one, then activated the Purple Cauldron to absorb its overwhelming pill aura.

• Ye Han survived the final strike of his heavenly tribulations but suffered severe injuries, lost treasures, and fell from Void Refinement to mid-Spirit Transformation.
• Ye Han searched the Tyrant Divine Emperor’s five Space Rings for pills and treasures that could restore his cultivation and purple cauldron aura.
• Ye Han found the Tyrant Divine Emperor’s Divine Spirit Hand and several other treasures, but few useful pills or heavenly treasures.
• Ye Han discovered a sealed metal box containing three High Lord Pills, two of which the Tyrant Divine Emperor had already used.
• Ye Han swallowed a High Lord Pill, found its aura too powerful for his weakened body, and activated the Purple Cauldron to absorb much of it.

Ye Han recovered from his injuries and broke through to the sixth layer of the void refinement stage after absorbing the High Lord Pills. As he struggled to find a way out of Third Heaven, a message revealed the Heavenly Gate’s location.

• Ye Han cultivated with his final High Lord Pill and restored his cultivation to its peak.
• Ye Han broke through to the sixth layer of the void refinement stage, drawing on his tribulation and battle insights.
• Ye Han learned that the Mysterious Woman had subdued the Tyrant Divine Emperor, but she ignored his questions and went back to sleep.
• Ye Han searched the underground divine palace and wondered where the Heavenly Gate was, since he needed it to leave Third Heaven.
• A messaging talisman told Ye Han that the Heavenly Gate was hidden at the bottom of Myriad Spirit Lake.

After receiving a mysterious message that placed the Heavenly Gate at the bottom of Ten Thousand Spirits Lake, Ye Han suspected the Mysterious Woman had sent it but chose to investigate the gate rather than seek her out. He searched the drained lake and finally found the Heavenly Gate.

• Ye Han received a Messaging Talisman revealing that the Heavenly Gate lay at the bottom of Ten Thousand Spirits Lake.
• Ye Han suspected the Mysterious Woman from the Small Pagoda had sent the message and recalled her warning that opening the Heavenly Gate could consume the opener’s lifespan.
• Ye Han decided not to seek out the Mysterious Woman, citing his depleted supplies and uncertainty about her schemes.
• Ye Han packed away his formation and Qing Xuan Divine Palace, then leaped into Ten Thousand Spirits Lake.
• Ye Han found the lake free of evil spirits and its spiritual energy greatly diminished, then searched the lakebed and spotted the Heavenly Gate.

Ye Han explored the ruins beside the Heavenly Gate and gathered ancient spirit grass and formation materials, but discovered that the Gate drained his lifespan even from a distance. After realizing he needed immense physical strength to open it without touching it, he devised a plan involving the Vajra Fire God Art and returned to the Divine Palace.

• Ye Han entered the collapsed Great Hall beside the Heavenly Gate and collected ten-thousand-year-old immortal spirit grass, formation restrictions, and leftover materials.
• Ye Han approached the Heavenly Gate and felt his lifespan draining, so he quickly retreated several thousand zhang.
• Ye Han concluded that spell power alone could not open the Gate and suspected the Heavenly Profound Star King and the Nethergod Devil Lord had concealed its lifespan-draining danger from him.
• Ye Han thought of using the Vajra Fire God Art to wield great strength without touching the Heavenly Gate and swam back to the Divine Palace.