Chapter Summaries

Ye Han killed a powerful sea beast and realized that new demon activity might be tied to changes in the Earth Realm. After he and Xu Lin continued toward the Purple-Gold Metal Rune, the beast’s father identified Ye Han and sent word to his master and the distant Star Sea Void.

• Ye Han killed a peak Nascent Soul Realm sea beast with a single sword strike and captured its demon beast soul and demon nascent soul.
• Ye Han considered how the Earth Realm’s changes might be attracting powerful races and decided to hurry toward the Purple-Gold Metal Rune to restore his cultivation and divine abilities.
• Xu Lin told Ye Han that their destination was three or four days away, and the two flew onward with the sea beast’s remains.
• The slain sea beast’s father used the Blood Souls Technique to find its killer, but Ye Han’s glance through the Bloodlight Figure injured him.
• The humanoid demon cultivator recognized Ye Han as the First Cultivator to Ascend from the Earth Realm and sent a message through a Formation Disk toward the distant Star Sea Void.

A cultivator in the Ten Thousand Demons Realm discovered Ye Han’s location and set out for the Earth Realm, while Ye Han reached True Spirit Island with Xu Lin. The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron sensed a treasure on the island, which Ye Han suspected was the Purple-Gold Runes.

• A young cultivator in the Ten Thousand Demons Realm learned that Ye Han was in the Earth Realm and flew out toward the Star Sea Void to pursue him.
• Ye Han recalled how a humanoid demon beast had used a bloodline connection to locate him, and worried that powerful enemies were tracking him.
• Ye Han asked Xu Lin about their destination, then tore through the storm to reveal True Spirit Island.
• Ye Han told Xu Lin to wait and flew alone toward the island, while Xu Lin hid beneath the sea.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron trembled as Ye Han flew over True Spirit Island, and he suspected it sensed the Purple-Gold Runes.

Ye Han killed the three-headed, six-armed monster on True Spirit Island and obtained the third Purple Metal Rune, which strengthened the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron and improved its recovery. After discovering the island held treasures and beings from other realms, he sensed that he could access the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Space.

• Ye Han used the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron to locate the final Purple Metal Rune and killed the monster guarding it.
• Ye Han absorbed the third Purple Metal Rune into the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, gaining a faint understanding of time laws and improved restorative effects.
• Ye Han found a jade ring among the monster’s remains and refined it into his nascent soul to strengthen it.
• Ye Han concluded that True Spirit Island and its unusual creatures likely came from another realm, adding to the Earth Realm’s mysteries.
• Ye Han sensed that he could now access the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Space.

After merging the fourth Metal Rune, Ye Han regained access to the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Space, where the Reincarnation Ring had left its inhabitants and treasures suspended in time. He used stored pills to aid his recovery and left True Spirit Island, while a purple-flamed eye appeared in the Star Sea Void with the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron reflected in its pupil.

• Ye Han discovered that the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Space was sealed, with its spiritual energy depleted and its inhabitants asleep, while time-law power preserved its heavenly treasures.
• Ye Han chose not to wake Fairy Water Dew, Azure Phoenix Fairy, or the other inhabitants, but found he could retrieve pills and treasures stored in the Pill Room and Treasure Pagoda.
• Ye Han swallowed more than a dozen pills to restore his strength and heal his injuries as he considered the danger posed by powerful visitors to the Earth Realm.
• Ye Han left True Spirit Island without harming Xu Lin, whose cultivation methods bore traces of the Azure Profound Sect.
• Spatial rifts opened in the Star Sea Void, and a purple-flamed eye appeared with the shadow of the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron in its pupil.

Ye Han obtained the sixth Purple-Gold Metal Rune, then discovered that the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron was counting down to the arrival of a dangerous eye. Xu Lin returned as Ye Han prepared to tell him something.

• Ye Han found the last Purple-Gold Metal Rune owner Xu Lin knew about and forced him to surrender it.
• Ye Han absorbed the rune into the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, strengthening its energy and aura.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron displayed a countdown of one hundred thirty-eight years and ninety-nine days and formed the eye associated with danger.
• Ye Han realized the eye would come for him when the countdown ended, and the display changed to one hundred thirty-eight years and ninety-eight days.
• Xu Lin returned and asked whether Ye Han was finished, and Ye Han said he had something to tell him.

Ye Han sent Xu Lin back to the Azure Profound Sect with its Legacy Disciple Token and instructions to enlist the Grand Elder’s help in finding Purple-Gold Runes. After parting from Xu Lin, Ye Han noticed the sect’s Puppet Arts had developed and flew off to investigate.

• Ye Han gave Xu Lin the Azure Profound Sect’s Legacy Disciple Token and asked him to deliver it to the Grand Elder.
• Ye Han gave Xu Lin additional instructions and several items, then flew away while Xu Lin prepared to return to the sect.
• Ye Han flew across the Earth Realm and noticed the Azure Profound Sect’s Puppet Arts had changed.
• Ye Han headed toward the left to see how the Puppet Arts he had left behind had developed.

Ye Han watched Azure Profound Sect disciples use his Mechanism Puppet techniques to fight Ox-Dragon Beasts, then secretly killed a Golden Core Stage beast before departing. He awakened his two clones to search the Earth Realm for treasures and Purple-Gold Metal Runes while considering taking the entire realm to escape the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils.

• Ye Han observed six Azure Profound Sect disciples in Metal Puppets holding off a horde of Foundation Establishment Realm Ox-Dragon Beasts with the techniques he had developed.
• Ye Han sensed a Golden Core Stage Ox-Dragon Beast approaching and killed it with a sword-ray to protect the disciples.
• Ye Han flew away and awakened his two clones, finding that the Earth Realm's laws restricted them to the Void Refinement Stage.
• Ye Han sent his clones to search for heavenly treasures and the Purple-Gold Metal Rune, while planning to have the Azure Profound Sect search for more runes.
• Ye Han considered taking the entire Earth Realm away to escape the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils and concluded they were not tracking him through the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.

Ye Han concluded that the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils had come to the Earth Realm for the Purple-Gold Runes and devised plans to gather them while restoring the Cauldron and his own power. Meanwhile, a young man at the Azure Profound Sect believed Ye Han had returned.

• Ye Han reasoned that the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron had brought him to the Earth Realm to get ahead of rival Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils seeking the Purple-Gold Runes.
• Ye Han planned to collect the runes, restore the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Space, and prepare for the other Pupils' arrival, while keeping his clone and the Azure Profound Sect involved.
• Ye Han decided not to wake the Moon-Chasing Rabbit, fearing the rabbit might exploit his weakness for its own benefit.
• As Ye Han traveled, the growing number of Purple-Gold Runes helped restore his cultivation and spell power, though he still needed more resources.
• Ye Han noticed something unusual and flew down toward it.
• At the Azure Profound Sect, a young man heard Xu Lin's report and declared that Ye Han had returned.

Ye Han found his ninth Purple-Gold Metal Rune but remained worried that he could not gather enough runes or regain the power needed to face the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils. A message from Daoist Yuqing invited him back to the Azure Profound Sect, which claimed it had prepared for his return for ten thousand years.

• Ye Han killed a colossal Icicles Behemoth and recovered its Purple-Gold Metal Rune, bringing his total to nine.
• Ye Han merged the rune into the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, whose runes had yet to form a complete matrix.
• Ye Han considered how his weakened cultivation and the scarcity of runes endangered his plans to control the Earth Realm and survive the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils.
• Ye Han sent four Metal Puppets to collect the behemoth's resources, then received a message from Daoist Yuqing inviting him to the Azure Profound Sect.
• Daoist Yuqing said the sect had spent ten thousand years preparing for Ye Han's return, leaving Ye Han wondering what the preparations involved.

Ye Han returned to the Azure Profound Sect and learned that Elder Liu had arranged for Daoist Yuqing to remain in the Earth Realm and gather Purple-Gold Metal Runes. The sect gave Ye Han a gourd containing thirty-six runes, leaving him to wonder about the purpose behind Elder Liu’s plans and the risk of letting the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron absorb them.

• Ye Han arrived above the greatly expanded Azure Profound Sect and entered its main hall.
• Daoist Yuqing greeted Ye Han and explained that Elder Liu had instructed him to stay in the Earth Realm instead of ascending.
• Daoist Yuqing told Ye Han that Elder Liu’s messages and teachings had helped him reach the Void Refinement Stage and had directed the sect’s Earth Realm arrangements.
• Daoist Yuqing handed Ye Han a purple-gold gourd containing thirty-six Purple-Gold Metal Runes collected by the Azure Profound Sect.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron reacted to the runes, and Ye Han worried that absorbing so many at once might cause another backlash.

Ye Han refined thirty-six Purple-Gold Runes and completed a rune on the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, allowing it to begin restoring its power through time. After he absorbed the last rune, the cauldron’s time digits suddenly began racing, leaving him alarmed.

• Ye Han deduced that Elder Liu and the Azure Profound Sect had gathered Purple-Gold Runes to conceal them from Heaven-Devouring Cauldrons and their pupils.
• Ye Han cautiously absorbed the Purple-Gold Runes from the gourd, filling in the runes on the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.
• The completed rune caused the cauldron and Reincarnation Ring to activate, and the cauldron began restoring its aura through the power of time.
• After Ye Han absorbed all thirty-six runes, two incomplete rune matrices appeared on the cauldron, showing that more runes remained undiscovered.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s time digits suddenly began racing.

Ye Han used the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron and Reincarnation Ring to accelerate time inside the cauldron, restoring its spiritual energy and growing its resources faster as the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils rapidly closed in. The cauldron’s recovery suggested that Ye Heng’s second statement could be acted upon early.

• The time remaining above Ye Han’s Heaven-Devouring Cauldron plunged as the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils accelerated their pursuit, closing the distance by fifty or sixty meters.
• Ye Han discovered that he could use the cauldron’s time laws and the Reincarnation Ring to speed up or slow down time inside the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Space by up to tenfold.
• Ye Han activated the time-law matrix and the Reincarnation Ring, causing spiritual energy, heavenly treasures, and the secret realm space to grow.
• Ye Han recognized that the cauldron and ring could form a self-reinforcing cycle, though their current energy consumption still exceeded production.
• Ye Han realized that the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s faster recovery meant Ye Heng’s second statement could be acted upon ahead of time.

Ye Han received a fourth Purple-Gold Metal Rune and advanced his plan to take the Earth Realm away, relying on the Azure Profound Sect’s preparations and the Star Realm Grand Formation. As he modified the remaining Azure Profound Towers, the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils accelerated through the Star Sea Void and encountered someone who recognized the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.

• Ye Han took the fourth Purple-Gold Metal Rune from his clone and absorbed it into the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, strengthening its aura and accelerating the flow of time within it.
• Ye Han decided to stop sending clones to search for more Purple-Gold Runes and pursue his plan to take the entire Earth Realm before the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils reached the Earth Realm in thirty-eight years and seventy-nine days.
• Ye Han considered how the Azure Profound Sect’s gathered resources, his recovering strength, and its Azure Profound Towers would help him protect and take the Earth Realm.
• Ye Han examined the starlit Formation Disk, which marked the towers he had already modified, then flew off to modify the remaining ones.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils sensed something and accelerated through the Star Sea Void, where a figure in gray escaping light spotted them and charged forward, exclaiming that it had finally found the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.

Ye Han realized the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils had defeated a powerful opponent and was rushing toward the Earth Realm. He activated the Qing Xuan Towers across the realm and entered the Star Sea Void, preparing to confront the approaching threat.

• Ye Han tracked the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s erratic countdown and inferred that the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils was fighting someone in the Star Sea Void.
• The battle shook the Earth Realm’s barrier, and the countdown settled before rapidly accelerating as the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils headed toward the realm.
• Ye Han deployed Formation Beads around the last Qing Xuan Tower and sent Messaging Talismans to order Azure Profound Sect cultivators to activate the towers together.
• The Qing Xuan Towers unleashed purple runes across the Earth Realm, shaking the heavens and causing cultivators to sense that time was accelerating.
• Ye Han flew into the Star Sea Void, activated the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron and the Reincarnation Ring, and consumed thousands of pills to replenish his spell power.

Ye Han used the Stars Formation Disk, the Qing Xuan Towers, and his nascent soul to move the Earth Realm toward the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Space. The Earth Realm became stuck halfway through the spatial gate, and its boundary wall and terrain began collapsing.

• Ye Han exhausted his spell power and pills as he used the Stars Formation Disk to pull the Earth Realm toward the spatial gate.
• The Qing Xuan Towers produced spirit-light hands that joined Ye Han's formation and dragged the Earth Realm faster, unleashing storms that threw its inhabitants into chaos.
• Ye Han sent out his three heads and six arms nascent soul, which grew enormous and pushed the Earth Realm into the spatial gate.
• Nearly half of the Earth Realm entered the gate before it became stuck, leaving Ye Han unable to push it farther.
• The Earth Realm's boundary wall began collapsing as cracks spread across its land and beneath its seas.

As the Earth Realm began collapsing inside the Spatial Gate, Ye Han split it into fragments and drew them into the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Space, where the Qing Xuan Towers protected the inhabitants and guided the continents. After the final continent entered, Ye Han saw the cauldron’s time digits changing rapidly.

• Daoist Yuqing and the Azure Profound Sect disciples struggled to sustain the formation as the Earth Realm cracked apart.
• Ye Han decided to split the Earth Realm rather than let it collapse and unleashed the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s power.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron tore the Earth Realm into fragments and pulled them through the gate into its space.
• The Qing Xuan Towers shielded the continents from spatial storms and lowered beings caught in the upheaval safely to the ground.
• Ye Han watched the final continent enter the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Space, then noticed the cauldron’s time digits changing at an alarming rate.

Ye Han fled through the Star Sea Void aboard the Black Flying Boat as a Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupil pursued him. With his strength depleted and the pupil rapidly gaining, he called on the people aboard the boat to help him escape.

• Ye Han saw a Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupil approaching and realized the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron’s warning meant the danger had already arrived.
• Ye Han summoned the Black Flying Boat, entered it, and sped away while the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupil pursued him through the void.
• Ye Han sensed the pupil was faster and knew his depleted cultivation, lifespan, and supplies left him unable to outrun it alone.
• Ye Han sent a message summoning Fairy Water Dew, Fairy Fire Spirit, Azure Phoenix Fairy, Red Dragon Girl, Fairy Ningyu, Fairy Jade Orchid, and the others to help drive the flying boat faster.

Ye Han awakened Fairy Water Dew and Fairy Fire Spirit to help power the Black Flying Boat as the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils pursued them through the Star Sea Void. After the pursuer tore open space ahead of them, Ye Han and the two fairies used the Yin-Yang Divine Formula to restore his power, and the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron and Reincarnation Ring began spinning.

• Ye Han awakened Fairy Water Dew and Fairy Fire Spirit and had them channel their power into the Black Flying Boat.
• Fairy Water Dew and Fairy Fire Spirit accelerated the boat, but the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils continued gaining on them.
• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils tore through space and appeared ahead of the Black Flying Boat, attacking it with purple flame wings.
• Ye Han and the two fairies activated the Yin-Yang Divine Formula, restoring more than half of Ye Han's depleted spell power.
• Ye Han poured power into the Black Flying Boat as the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron and the Reincarnation Ring began spinning.

Ye Han used the Black Flying Boat, the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, and the Reincarnation Ring to escape the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils’ attacks by traversing space. With his and his companions’ power running low, he sought to restore their reserves with pills as the pursuit continued.

• Ye Han sent the Black Flying Boat through a spatial vortex, causing the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils’ sword-rays to miss.
• The Black Flying Boat emerged ten million li away and continued speeding through the Star Sea Void.
• Ye Han, Fairy Water Dew, and Fairy Fire Spirit had spent more than half their spell power, so Ye Han asked the two women for their pills.
• Ye Han rejected fighting the stronger Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils, fearing it would devour his own Heaven-Devouring Cauldron.
• Fairy Water Dew and Fairy Fire Spirit handed over dozens of bottles each, and Ye Han swallowed the pills to replenish the cauldron’s energy.

Ye Han used the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron and Reincarnation Ring to teleport the pursuing Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils away. The spatial vortex vanished, and Ye Han revealed a purple-gold gourd as the next step of his plan.

• The Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils pursued Ye Han, intent on taking his Heaven-Devouring Cauldron, Reincarnation Ring, and Purple-Gold Runes.
• Ye Han realized that fleeing farther would not shake the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils' ability to sense his cauldron, and his supply of pills was running low.
• Ye Han slowed the Black Flying Boat and began gathering power from the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron and Reincarnation Ring while the pursuer held back to conserve spell power.
• Ye Han unleashed Time-Space Leap, engulfing the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron Pupils in a purple vortex and teleporting him away.
• Ye Han watched the vortex disappear, then produced a purple-gold gourd that he considered the key to his plan.