Chapter Summaries

Ye Han hid inside the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron to endure his ongoing heavenly tribulation, while waiting for a chance to earn the Heavenly Dao’s recognition. The Moon-Chasing Rabbit sensed an opening and an auspicious sign, so Ye Han emerged to face the tribulation’s final strike.

• Ye Han realized that the approaching presence might be seeking the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, but he had no way to escape the sealed passage while undergoing tribulation.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron shielded Ye Han from the tribulation and recovered its lifespan-increasing ability, though he still lacked the Heavenly Dao’s recognition needed to reach the Mahayana Stage.
• When the presence began moving away, Ye Han stayed inside the cauldron and asked the Moon-Chasing Rabbit to watch for the right time to emerge.
• The Moon-Chasing Rabbit opened a tiny spatial rift, sensed the tribulation’s deadly aura, and warned Ye Han not to go out until an opportunity appeared.
• The Moon-Chasing Rabbit spotted a gap and an auspicious sign, and Ye Han flew out of the cauldron as the heavenly tribulation’s immense pressure descended.

Ye Han survived the heavenly tribulation by standing in a mysterious gap and advanced rapidly through the Mahayana stage. He stopped just short of the middle Mahayana stage, and the restriction in the passage vanished.

• Ye Han sensed a gap in the passage, stored the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron in his divine sense sea, and stood within the gap as the heavenly tribulation struck.
• A mysterious aura of auspicious signs shielded Ye Han from the lightning and poured into him, transforming his body and raising his cultivation.
• Ye Han advanced through the first, second, and third Mahayana layers before the aura vanished just short of the middle stage.
• Ye Han realized that he had absorbed a vast amount of immortal qi, depleting the Immortal Palace Side Hall's reserves by several grades.
• The Moon-Chasing Rabbit congratulated Ye Han, and Ye Han promised him better cultivation conditions and more pills.
• Ye Han sensed that the passage's restriction had disappeared, while the Immortal Palace Side Hall remained intact despite the tribulation.

After reaching the third layer of the Mahayana Stage, Ye Han confronted the Silver Book Immortal Spirit, a being formed from a cultivation technique and the power of law. He withstood its attacks, but the spirit teleported behind him and struck with two sabers.

• Ye Han sensed the returning treasure and realized that reaching the Mahayana Stage had lifted the passage’s restriction.
• Ye Han identified the approaching silver, book-headed being as an Immortal Arts Spirit and decided to capture it.
• The Silver Book Immortal Spirit attacked Ye Han with a powerful beam of metal-element law, but Ye Han’s Vajra Body battered the beam apart with repeated punches.
• The Silver Book Immortal Spirit vanished and reappeared behind Ye Han, swinging two sabers at his back.

Ye Han fought the silver book Immortal Spirit in a fierce close-quarters duel through the Immortal Palace Side Hall passage. As Ye Han adapted to his third-level Mahayana Stage cultivation, his attacks grew stronger, and he drove the silver book Immortal Spirit back in defeat.

• Ye Han blocked the silver book Immortal Spirit’s blade strikes with his golden Bone-Refining Bone Swords and countered with the Stars Sword Formation.
• Ye Han and the silver book Immortal Spirit exchanged lethal attacks at close range, damaging the passage as they fought.
• The silver book Immortal Spirit unleashed a vast array of crescent-shaped blade-rays, but Ye Han answered with a barrage of starry sword-rays.
• Ye Han’s growing power overwhelmed the silver book Immortal Spirit and forced him backward in defeat.

Ye Han fought the silver book immortal spirit, whose attacks were devastating but whose body could dissolve into runes and reform unharmed. After identifying the spirit’s lack of combat experience and slower attacks, Ye Han pressed his advantage, leaving it repeatedly on the defensive.

• The silver book immortal spirit unleashed its Heaven-Shaking Immortal Saber, but Ye Han evaded the strike with Purple Shadow Lightning.
• Ye Han trapped the spirit with the Black-Gold Shackles and pierced it with his Bone-Refining Bone Swords, but it dissolved into runes and escaped into its silver book.
• The spirit reformed a thousand zhang away, seemingly unharmed, and charged Ye Han with a silver Great Guandao.
• Ye Han recognized that the spirit struggled to adapt in combat and was slightly slower than him.
• Ye Han forced the silver book immortal spirit back with repeated sword strikes, putting it at a disadvantage.

Ye Han used the Black-Gold Shackles as a feint to draw the Silver Book Immortal Spirit's true form within reach, then let the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron devour it. As the Silver Book Immortal Spirit pleaded for mercy, the cauldron's seal began to unravel, but Ye Han's Mahayana Stage cultivation could withstand its backlash at thirty percent.

• The Silver Book Immortal Spirit split the Great Guandao into two blades and blocked Ye Han's attacks.
• Ye Han used the Black-Gold Shackles to make the Silver Book Immortal Spirit withdraw his feet, then appeared behind him and reached for the silver book that formed his head with purple runes.
• The Silver Book Immortal Spirit blasted Ye Han into the passage wall, but Ye Han's giant hand of purple runes seized the book and began devouring its soul and power.
• The Silver Book Immortal Spirit's body disintegrated into rune light, and he begged Ye Han to spare him as the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron consumed him.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron's seal began unraveling, and Ye Han worried about its backlash and what it would gain from the Silver Book Immortal Spirit.

Ye Han absorbed the Silver Book Immortal Spirit, allowing the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron to master the Heaven-Suppressing Blade Art and further release its seal. As the Immortal Palace Side Hall’s restrictions weakened, the cauldron trembled and the entire hall began to shake, leaving Ye Han facing an unknown danger.

• Ye Han absorbed the Silver Book Immortal Spirit’s aura, and the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron taught him the Heaven-Suppressing Blade Art at perfect mastery.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron released another ten percent of its seal, bringing it to forty percent, and its backlash weakened after Ye Han vowed to challenge the Heavenly Dao.
• The Silver Book Immortal Spirit and its book-shaped head lost their power and dissipated as the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron absorbed them.
• Ye Han noticed that the passage was damaged and the Immortal Palace Side Hall’s immortal qi had weakened, so he suspected its restrictions had failed.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron trembled violently, and the entire Immortal Palace Side Hall began to shake.

Ye Han raced toward a treasure drawing turbulent immortal qi through the Immortal Palace Side Hall, hoping to gain power to protect himself from the Golden Light Figure. On the way, he discovered the woman in the Water Spirit Coffin had been absorbing the Wilds Ancient Stele’s aura, restrained her with the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, and then spotted what appeared to be a self-contained space.

• Ye Han sensed a powerful treasure ahead and hurried toward it, seeking stronger means to defend himself from the Golden Light Figure.
• As Ye Han advanced through the passage, the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s reaction grew stronger, while he wondered why it had shown no change after absorbing the Wilds Ancient Stele.
• Ye Han felt the Water Spirit Coffin tremble and noticed eerie gray aura seeping from the woman inside as the cauldron’s purple flames opposed it.
• Ye Han used his spell power and the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s purple-gold chains to restrain the coffin, then realized the woman had secretly taken in the Wilds Ancient Stele’s aura.
• Ye Han resolved to deal with the woman later and recognized a self-contained space ahead.

Ye Han found an Immortal Treasure shield whose artifact spirit was battling an evil spirit that had invaded it. He seized the chance to take the shield, but its spirit resisted, and his giant hand crushed it beneath its force.

• Ye Han set up a Teleportation Array at the passage entrance and followed the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s signal to a vast secret realm.
• Ye Han discovered an Immortal Treasure shield in a pit and realized it was suppressing an evil spirit.
• The evil spirit and the shield’s artifact spirit fought for control as Ye Han charged in to seize the treasure.
• The shield’s artifact spirit formed a humanoid body and roared at Ye Han as his Golden Light Gang-Qi Giant Hand descended.
• Ye Han’s giant hand struck the shield immortal spirit and crushed it beneath its force.

Ye Han battled the shield Immortal Spirit, whose Absolute Defense and swastika formations countered his attacks and tried to seal him. After escaping the slow-moving formations, Ye Han was intercepted by the Immortal Spirit, which dropped a massive sphere of matrices onto him; he faced it without fear.

• Ye Han’s Golden Light Giant Hand struck the shield Immortal Spirit’s blue runes, but their defensive force shattered his attack.
• The shield Immortal Spirit unleashed its Absolute Defense, forming a huge swastika Light Shield that charged at Ye Han.
• Ye Han donned the Stars Demonic Armor and struck the advancing shield with a storm of rune-filled punches, but the swastika formations crushed through and restrained him.
• The shield Immortal Spirit layered more sealing formations onto Ye Han, so he activated Ninefold Lightness and retreated beyond their weakening reach.
• The shield Immortal Spirit teleported ahead of Ye Han and sent a vast sphere of swastika matrices crashing down at him, while Ye Han remained calm and unafraid.

Ye Han evaded the shield immortal spirit’s devastating attack with teleportation, then returned and trapped him with the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron. The shield immortal spirit transformed into a spinning metal sphere and charged the cauldron phantom, while Ye Han revealed that his apparent counterattack had drawn the enemy into a trap.

• Ye Han teleported away from the shield immortal spirit’s massive attack, which blasted a crater into the vast space.
• The shield immortal spirit realized Ye Han had stolen the immortal qi and power of the stars that he had tried to absorb.
• Ye Han reappeared beside the shield immortal spirit and summoned a Heaven-Devouring Cauldron phantom that sealed the space around them.
• The shield immortal spirit tried to teleport away, but the cauldron’s power disrupted him and purple rune chains bound him.
• The shield immortal spirit broke free by transforming into a gigantic spinning metal sphere and rammed toward the cauldron phantom as Ye Han smiled, believing the enemy had fallen for his trick.

Ye Han lured the shield immortal spirit into a trap using the Ghost Skull Mirror and unleashed the Immortal Soul Altar and Soul Suppression Divine Art against its weak divine soul. The bone dragon began devouring the spirit, though the struggle was still underway.

• The shield immortal spirit broke through the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s restraints and charged at Ye Han.
• Ye Han trapped the spirit in the Ghost Skull Mirror’s formation, where golden skeleton hands seized its spikes and halted its movement.
• The Ghost Skull Mirror’s bone dragon clamped down on the shield immortal spirit while Ye Han fed it power from the Immortal Soul Altar and his Soul Suppression Divine Art.
• The bone dragon’s soul-suppressing power began dissolving and devouring the shield immortal spirit’s body and divine soul.

Ye Han exploited the shield immortal spirit’s weakened divine soul to separate it from the shield immortal treasure and captured the treasure in the Purple Cauldron Space. As he tried to destroy the spirit with the Ghost Skull Mirror, a blood-red evil spirit emerged and threatened the mirror.

• Ye Han realized that the evil spirit’s invasion had weakened the shield immortal spirit’s divine soul, leaving it vulnerable despite its formidable defenses.
• Ye Han unleashed his divine soul power through the Ghost Skull Mirror and drew the shield immortal spirit’s soul into its mirror space, leaving the shield immortal treasure uncontrolled.
• The shield immortal treasure broke free of the collapsing formation, but Ye Han opened a Spatial Gate and swallowed it into the Purple Cauldron Space, where his formation suppressed it.
• Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to pin the shield immortal spirit and began crushing it, rejecting its pleas for mercy.
• A blood-red evil spirit seeped out of the mirror space and tried to burrow into the Ghost Skull Mirror.

Ye Han sealed the evil spirit and shield immortal spirit inside the Ghost Skull Mirror, then examined the newly freed Absolute Yin Treasure Shield. He decided to bind and refine the defensive immortal treasure himself, while keeping it from the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.

• Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to seal the evil spirit and chose to devour the divine soul auras of both it and the shield immortal spirit.
• Ye Han and his four Body Integration Realm clones completed the seal on the Absolute Yin Treasure Shield after exhausting much of the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s and formation’s spiritual energy.
• Ye Han identified the shield by its Ancient Times Script inscription and blocked the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron from sensing it, fearing the cauldron would grow too powerful.
• Ye Han concluded the evil spirit had suppressed the shield’s power and recognized that the shield might be one of the five immortal treasures needed to find the True Immortal’s fortuitous opportunity.
• Ye Han decided to perform blood-drip recognition and refine the Absolute Yin Treasure Shield before the dangers ahead.

Ye Han used the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s aura and pills to refine more than thirty percent of the Absolute Yin Treasure Shield before a spatial formation teleported him from the Immortal Palace Side Hall to a barren desert. Powerful attackers immediately ambushed him there, and Ye Han recognized them as he raised the shield to defend himself.

• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron poured its aura into the Absolute Yin Treasure Shield, rapidly advancing Ye Han’s refinement of it.
• Ye Han swallowed hundreds of pills to replenish the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s aura and refined more than thirty percent of the shield before stopping to conserve his remaining pills.
• A spatial formation appeared in the Immortal Palace Side Hall and teleported Ye Han to a vast desert within the True Immortal Secret Realm.
• Several powerful auras locked onto Ye Han, and he summoned the Absolute Yin Treasure Shield as a silver ghost-claw blast struck at him.
• Ye Han recognized the attackers and looked at them with murderous intent.

Ye Han fought Ghost Claw Sky Tree, the Mahayana immortal spirit who had ambushed him, and overwhelmed him with his strength. When Green Spider and Green Fruit Immortal Spirit joined the fight, Ye Han used Ghost Claw Sky Tree to block their attacks, leaving him caught in the crossfire.

• Ye Han recognized Ghost Claw Sky Tree and repelled his silver-claw ambush with a Golden Light Giant Hand.
• Ye Han seized Ghost Claw Sky Tree, dragged him out of hiding, and repeatedly slammed him into the desert.
• Green Spider and Green Fruit Immortal Spirit emerged and attacked Ye Han from opposite sides.
• Ye Han hurled Ghost Claw Sky Tree into their attacks, where Green Spider's webs bound him and Azure Kingdom Immortal Spirit's sword-rays struck.

Ye Han fought Ghost Claw Sky Tree, Green Spider, and Green Fruit Immortal Spirit after the Azure Kingdom Immortal Spirit joined the battle. He broke Green Spider’s restraint with the Heaven-Suppressing Blade Art, and as the three opponents fled, he used the Immortal Soul Altar to lock onto them.

• The Azure Kingdom Immortal Spirit redirected their sword-rays toward Ye Han, who countered with the Sword Emperor Divine Sword and overwhelmed their attack.
• Green Spider joined the battle and trapped Ye Han in a web of dark-green threads while Ghost Claw Sky Tree struggled free and added blood-red runes to the restraint.
• Ye Han wielded the Immortal-Slaying Saber with the Heaven-Suppressing Blade Art, cutting through Green Spider’s web despite the restraining power.
• Ghost Claw Sky Tree fled, and Green Spider and Green Fruit Immortal Spirit escaped in separate directions.
• Ye Han activated the Immortal Soul Altar and sent divine soul beams after the three fleeing opponents, marking them with Blood-Red Runes.

Ye Han killed the Ghost Claw Sky Tree, collected its hoard, and entered seclusion in a hidden seabed refuge to break through to the middle Mahayana stage. His retreat ended when a battle erupted nearby, and he opened his eyes to confront the disturbance.

• Ye Han used the Heaven-Suppressing Blade Art to kill the Ghost Claw Sky Tree and absorbed its body, divine soul, and immortal spirit into the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.
• Ye Han discovered that the Ghost Claw Sky Tree had collected more than ten thousand mature spirit medicines and considered the cost of his recent battles.
• Ye Han suspected that the Golden Light Figures were hunting immortal spirits throughout the True Immortal Secret Realm and chose to cultivate before facing them again.
• Ye Han found that the sea’s energy had fallen to about a fifth of its former strength, then swam in search of a richer place to cultivate and replenish his cauldron.
• Ye Han secluded himself in an Immortal Vine Cocoon inside a hidden seabed space and began cultivating amid abundant immortal qi.
• A battle’s roar sounded outside Ye Han’s cave abode, and he opened his eyes as his middle Mahayana stage cultivation surged.

Ye Han ambushed the Nethergod Devil Lord’s Star Clan pursuers with the Immortal-Slaying Saber, capturing Icicles Old Fiend and forcing the others to flee. Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei ran into two figures blocking their escape routes.

• The Nethergod Devil Lord fled from three Star Clan Mahayana cultivators and six Body Integration cultivators, preparing to use a costly treasure.
• Ye Han’s blade-light shattered Icicles Old Fiend’s defenses, and a Golden-Light Bone Dragon dragged him into the Ghost Skull Mirror.
• Ye Han emerged from the sea and unleashed the Heaven-Suppressing Blade Art against the Star Clan cultivators.
• Mountainwalker Daoist and Bu Jinglei fled, but two figures appeared in their escape routes.

Ye Han crushed the Star Clan cultivators with his Heaven-Suppressing Blade Art and captured their fleeing souls in the Ghost Skull Mirror, while Nethergod Devil Lord recognized Ye Han’s ancient human bloodline and feared the Myriad Realms might enter a new cycle. After the battle, Nethergod thanked Ye Han, who treated the Star Clan’s attack as reason enough to kill them.

• Ye Han’s blade-light overwhelmed six Body Integration Realm Star Clan cultivators, and the Ghost Skull Mirror’s Golden-Light Bone Dragon swallowed their fleeing souls.
• Nethergod Devil Lord recognized Ye Han’s black hair, black eyes, and ancient human bloodline, recalling a Devil Race prophecy that the Ancient Human Race’s return might trigger a new cycle in the Myriad Realms.
• Ye Han flew to aid Mountainwalker Daoist while Nethergod Devil Lord charged toward Bu Jinglei.
• After the fighting, the Ghost Skull Mirror captured Bu Jinglei’s fleeing divine soul nascent soul, along with the souls of other Star Clan cultivators and the Evil Spirit Nascent Soul.
• Nethergod Devil Lord thanked Ye Han for saving him, and Ye Han replied that they should kill the Star Clan cultivators who attacked them.