Chapter Summaries

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fled the Metal Puppets, discovering that Spatial Rifts could destroy them and that the puppets could merge into a giant. They escaped into a dangerous field of ancient square pillars, where their pursuers halted and went motionless.

• Ye Han used a Blood Escape Talisman to evade a Spatial Rift, but it cut his arm and destroyed three Metal Puppets.
• The remaining Metal Puppets merged into a giant, forcing Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan to fight while retreating.
• Ye Han slowed the puppets with muddy ground and vines while Zhang Qingshan struck them with his axe.
• Zhang Qingshan led Ye Han through the boundary of a field of ancient square pillars, narrowly avoiding hidden spatial power.
• The Metal Puppets stopped outside the pillars, and their blue lights faded until they stood motionless.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan entered an area where the Metal Puppets would not follow, and Zhang Qingshan sensed that good fortune increased when Ye Han led. Ye Han recovered with the Purple Cauldron’s help, then realized he would need to choose a safe route through an ancient formation.

• Zhang Qingshan told Ye Han that danger grew when he led, while auspicious signs increased when Ye Han took the lead.
• Ye Han used pills to replenish the Purple Cauldron and recover his strength as Zhang Qingshan stood guard.
• Zhang Qingshan noticed that auspicious signs around Ye Han had increased and sensed that Ye Han’s decisions would determine their fortune or danger.
• Ye Han examined the square pillars and recognized that their positions formed an ancient formation with damaged gaps.
• Ye Han concluded that they needed to pass through a gap without triggering the formation’s restriction.

Ye Han guided Zhang Qingshan through a deadly, damaged ancient formation, exhausting himself but gaining a deeper understanding of formations. They reached a vast metal gate at the canyon’s end, where Zhang Qingshan sensed an extraordinary opportunity beyond it.

• Ye Han used the Creation Heaven Cube to protect himself and Zhang Qingshan as he carefully navigated the formation pillars and scattered Spatial Rifts.
• Ye Han found a safe route through the pillars, avoiding a false opening that would have trapped them in the formation’s killing array.
• After emerging, Ye Han swallowed a high-grade Divine Spirit Pill to recover and told Zhang Qingshan that studying the formation had improved his skills.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan reached an enormous metal gate beneath a towering cliff, and Zhang Qingshan sensed auspicious signs beyond it.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan entered the only passage out of the cavern, finding murals that depicted the ancient War Between Humans and Demons. Their cautious progress ended when metal puppets emerged from hidden doors in the walls.

• Ye Han replenished the Purple Cauldron with Spiritual Qi Pills and set out with Zhang Qingshan, convinced they had to press forward.
• The two approached the enormous cavern entrance, passed an already-open Metal Wall Gate, and entered with Zhang Qingshan leading.
• Inside, Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan examined murals showing the Devil Race emerging through a hole in the sky, a battle with human cultivators, and the construction of a great altar.
• They found that the murals from the fourth onward had been destroyed and saw many signs of past spell combat.
• Zhang Qingshan warned Ye Han of danger as hidden doors opened in both walls and several-z丈-tall metal puppets emerged.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fought their way through a passage crowded with damaged Metal Puppets, using their treasures and coordinated attacks to break through. They reached a spacious hall and found a towering Metal Puppet wielding two enormous sabers, which startled them with its half-destroyed body.

• Ye Han noticed that the Metal Puppets emerging from the doors were badly damaged, suggesting they had fought someone before he and Zhang Qingshan arrived.
• Zhang Qingshan armored himself and prepared to charge while Ye Han summoned his sword treasures and defensive Creation Heaven Cube.
• Ye Han's Creation Heaven Cube repelled the puppets' blue beams, sending some back into the Metal Puppets and disrupting their formation.
• Zhang Qingshan smashed puppets with his axe as Ye Han targeted their joints and restrained them with his bracelets.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fought through the passage and entered a spacious hall, where they saw a towering Metal Puppet with two enormous sabers and only half a body.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan were trapped in a hall with a giant Metal Puppet and struggled against its gravity restriction and deadly saber attacks. Ye Han destroyed the puppet by striking the crack in its waist, and a golden object fell from its mouth.

• The hall sealed its entrance and activated restrictions that slowed Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan as the Metal Puppet attacked them.
• Zhang Qingshan spotted a crack in the puppet's waist, and Ye Han gave him the Creation Heaven Cube's protection before charging at the weakness.
• Zhang Qingshan drew the puppet's attacks while Ye Han used a Blood Escape Talisman to teleport beside the crack.
• Ye Han drove his fused Qing Xuan sword into the wound as Zhang Qingshan blocked the puppet's saber strikes and was injured.
• The Metal Puppet went still, and a golden glimmer fell from its mouth.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan defeated the enormous Metal Puppet and found a second metal key that matched one Ye Han had discovered near the Burial Ground of the Immortals. Zhang Qingshan sensed that their fortune had improved but warned that danger ahead had grown, and Ye Han asked how they could leave the Great Hall.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan used the puppet’s damaged state to destroy it before it could unleash its hidden attacks.
• Ye Han picked up a metal rod that had fallen from the puppet’s mouth and recognized it as a key resembling one he already had.
• Zhang Qingshan sensed an auspicious aura from the two keys and said Ye Han’s key had greatly improved their prospects.
• Zhang Qingshan warned Ye Han that the ominous signs ahead had increased despite the stronger auspicious signs.
• Ye Han put away the keys and asked Zhang Qingshan how they should leave the Great Hall.

After destroying the metal puppet, Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan discovered that the Purple Pellet Ye Han had given Zhang had greatly improved his physical aptitude. They found a hidden passage inside the puppet, but their first test of the passage triggered a deadly purple-gold lightning strike.

• Ye Han realized Zhang Qingshan's Blood Refining Art had advanced rapidly and asked whether his aptitude had improved after the Water Flood Dragon Beast Lair.
• Zhang Qingshan confirmed his aptitude had improved after waking from that ordeal, and Ye Han recognized the Purple Pellet's effect on physical aptitude.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan searched the sealed hall, then found a passage leading underground inside the metal puppet.
• The two descended through the puppet and reached a pristine passage where Zhang Qingshan sensed a terrible calamity ahead.
• Ye Han tossed two empty bottles into the passage, and purple-gold lightning struck and reduced them to ash.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan searched for a way through a passage guarded by powerful purple-gold lightning, which Ye Han identified as Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder. They left the chapter experimenting with the lightning after discovering that pieces of the metal puppet could withstand repeated strikes and began to melt.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan agreed that neither their treasures nor their abilities could safely withstand the purple-gold lightning.
• Ye Han noticed mysterious formation runes in the passage ceiling and suspected they powered the lightning.
• Ye Han tested the passage with a piece of material, and the formation struck it with lightning that reduced it to ashes.
• Ye Han told Zhang Qingshan to dismantle the metal puppet so they could use its parts to exhaust the formation's energy.
• Ye Han threw the puppet's saber fragments and metal casing into the passage, where repeated lightning strikes made them melt without destroying them.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan used Purple-Gold Lightning to refine the Metal Puppet’s materials, discovering that the molten metal absorbed its electrical light. After Zhang Qingshan found the hall’s Gravity Formation improved his Blood Refining Art, the two began practicing under its pressure.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fed pieces of the Metal Puppet into the passage, where Purple-Gold Lightning burned away impurities and melted the remaining metal.
• Zhang Qingshan dismantled the entire Metal Puppet and brought its materials to Ye Han, who continued feeding them into the lightning formation.
• Zhang Qingshan told Ye Han that practicing the Blood Refining Art under the hall’s gravity had improved his stalled cultivation.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan threw the remaining materials into the passage, then returned to the Great Hall to practice the Blood Refining Art under the formation’s pressure.
• Ye Han felt the formation suppress his blood essence and make his body heavier as he practiced, and he considered combining the gravity with Body Tempering Pills.

Ye Han cultivated the Blood Refining Art in the gravity chamber and broke through to its fifth layer, while Zhang Qingshan continued making slower progress. After the purple-gold lightning below finally stopped, they went to investigate, and the Purple Cauldron trembled as they reached the opening.

• Ye Han gave Zhang Qingshan a Body Tempering Pill, but Zhang Qingshan explained that fifth-layer Blood Refining Art required high-rank demon beast essence blood.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan cultivated in the hall while purple-gold lightning continued striking the metal puppet below; Ye Han rapidly refined Body Tempering Pills in the intense gravity.
• After three days, Ye Han broke through to the fifth layer of the Blood Refining Art, and the spatial aura on his wounds disappeared.
• Ye Han switched to applying demon beast essence blood when Body Tempering Pills became less effective, while Zhang Qingshan continued cultivating.
• Seven or eight days later, Ye Han noticed the lightning had stopped, and he and Zhang Qingshan headed down to investigate.
• As they reached the opening, Ye Han felt the Purple Cauldron tremble in his divine sense sea.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan discovered that the Purple-Gold Lightning formation had exhausted its power, leaving behind a dangerous Purple-Gold Metal Ball. Trusting the Purple Cauldron’s reaction despite Zhang Qingshan’s warning, Ye Han approached the ball, and the Purple Runes Vortex absorbed it.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan found a Purple-Gold Metal Ball after the formation’s Purple-Gold Lightning destroyed the Metal Puppets and ran out of power.
• Zhang Qingshan warned Ye Han that the ball was dangerous, while Ye Han sensed that the Purple Cauldron wanted it.
• Ye Han tested the passage with a chunk of metal, confirmed that the formation no longer struck, and prepared safeguards before approaching the ball.
• Ye Han stepped toward the ball as the Purple Cauldron grew more excited, and the ball’s lightning flared in warning.
• The Purple Cauldron released a Purple Runes Vortex that pulled in the Purple-Gold Metal Ball, shocking Zhang Qingshan.

Ye Han absorbed the Purple-Gold Metal Ball into the Purple Cauldron, where its lightning caused another Little Sapling to sprout. He and Zhang Qingshan continued through the passage until a massive metal gate blocked their way, as the lightning formation seemed to recover.

• The Purple Cauldron drew in the Purple-Gold Metal Ball and absorbed its lightning, causing a Little Sapling to sprout on its lid.
• Ye Han reassured Zhang Qingshan that the metal ball was dangerous to him but harmless to Ye Han.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan hurried through the passage, wary that the lightning formation might recover.
• The two found a gigantic metal gate decorated with a Two-Winged Demon Beast relief blocking the passage.
• The lamps stopped flickering, and Ye Han told Zhang Qingshan to look for a keyhole.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan used the keys to open the metal doors while the passage’s formation recovered and struck them with Purple-Gold Lightning. They escaped inside just before a stronger bolt hit the doors, then found themselves in a demonized cavern filled with powerful Demonic Qi and wondered whether a Devil Race member was sealed there.

• Ye Han spotted keyholes in the winged Demon Beast relief and showed Zhang Qingshan the two keys they had collected.
• As the formation’s white lights steadied, Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan tried the keys, swapped them, and unlocked the doors just as Purple-Gold Lightning struck.
• Ye Han’s Creation Heaven Cube shielded him from the bolt, while Zhang Qingshan endured it with his physical defenses.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan slipped through the opening before a stronger bolt hit the doors, blackening them and stopping the formation’s attack.
• Inside, Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan found a demonized cavern saturated with formidable Demonic Qi, and Ye Han asked Zhang Qingshan whether he sensed good fortune or ill.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan braved the pure demonic qi and descended a cliff after Zhang Qingshan judged the other routes deadly. They discovered a vast field of Heavenly Treasures below, but Ye Han noticed something wrong with Zhang Qingshan.

• Zhang Qingshan warned Ye Han that the demonic qi was purer than that in the Darkness Forbidden Ground and gave him a Demon-Warding Pearl for protection.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan raced through the passage as the demonic qi grew stronger, then reached an immense cliff above a bottomless abyss.
• Zhang Qingshan judged that crossing to the opposite passage or climbing upward meant death, while descending offered a chance of survival, so they climbed down.
• As the demonic qi weakened, Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan sensed pure spiritual energy and medicinal fragrance below.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan saw a vast field filled with Heavenly Treasures, and Ye Han frowned and questioned Zhang Qingshan’s reaction.

Ye Han discovered that a mind-bewildering aura had made Zhang Qingshan mistake demonized treasures for a great opportunity, then helped him recover. Zhang Qingshan sensed that Ye Han held the only auspicious sign in the basin, just as Ye Han spotted someone hiding behind a boulder.

• Zhang Qingshan realized demonic qi was affecting his state of mind, while Ye Han used the Creation Heaven Cube to see through the false vision of ancient treasures.
• Ye Han used a Mind-Calming Talisman to free Zhang Qingshan from the illusion and lent him a Heart-Guarding Jade Pendant.
• Zhang Qingshan used his Fortune and Disaster Prediction ability and found no auspicious direction in the basin, then sensed an overwhelming auspicious sign on Ye Han.
• Ye Han sensed someone behind a boulder and fired icy sword qi at it, prompting the hidden person to call out for him to wait.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan encountered Binglian, a chained young woman who claimed to be the daughter of the Immortal Emperor of the Heavenly Spirit Realm. While Zhang Qingshan believed her story, Ye Han stayed wary and ended the chapter by turning his sword toward her neck.

• A streak of gray light blocked Ye Han's sword strike, revealing Binglian on a large rock.
• Binglian claimed the Immortal Emperor had sent Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan to rescue her, then said she was the Immortal Emperor of the Heavenly Spirit Realm's daughter, imprisoned by a devil for thousands of years.
• Zhang Qingshan promised to help Binglian, but Ye Han remained suspicious when he could sense no spell power or demonic qi from her.
• Ye Han realized the gold-and-silver runic chain around Binglian's feet was sealing her power.
• Ye Han pretended he would cut the chain, then redirected the Soul-Slaying Sword toward Binglian's neck.

Ye Han exposed Binglian as the imprisoned Ice Refining Prince of the Demon God Race and refused to help him escape. The prince summoned a horde of Demon Beasts and sent them after Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan.

• Ye Han beheaded Binglian after recognizing his golden eyes as matching Devil Lord Shadow’s, but the severed head kept speaking.
• Ye Han accused Binglian of being a fiend, and Binglian revealed his true form as the Ice Refining Prince of the Demon God Race.
• The Ice Refining Prince demanded that Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan kneel, but Ye Han refused to help him and threatened to leave.
• The Ice Refining Prince chanted an incantation that summoned hundreds of metal-and-flesh Demon Beasts from the surrounding holes.
• Ye Han told Zhang Qingshan to take down the Ice Refining Prince first as the Demon Beasts charged at them.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan discovered that the Ice Refining Prince was unharmed by their attacks and commanded a pack of powerful demon-beast puppets to capture them. As the two fled under pursuit, Ye Han’s Creation Heaven Cube blocked the puppets’ attacks, prompting the Ice Refining Prince to recognize him as a bastard from the Heavenly Spirit Realm.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan attacked the Ice Refining Prince, but he transformed into demonic qi and revealed his true form atop a two-winged demon beast.
• The Ice Refining Prince ordered his demon-beast puppets to capture Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan alive.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fled through the pursuing puppets, with Zhang Qingshan using his shield and axe to force a path forward.
• The Ice Refining Prince pursued from above on his two-winged demon beast and urged the puppets to keep chasing the pair.
• The puppets fired beams of demonic qi at Ye Han, but his Creation Heaven Cube blocked every attack.
• The Ice Refining Prince recognized Ye Han’s protection and angrily called him a bastard from the Heavenly Spirit Realm.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fled the Ice Refining Prince and his demon beast puppets through a Hollow, avoiding a deadly hurricane attack. The furious Ice Refining Prince ordered his forces to pursue them into the underground passage.

• Ye Han used the Creation Heaven Cube to withstand the demon beast puppets’ demonic qi beams without wasting spell power, while Zhang Qingshan struggled to endure them with his treasures.
• The Ice Refining Prince ordered his demon beast puppets to stop firing and chase Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan, then pursued them overhead on the Two-Winged Demon Beast.
• The Two-Winged Demon Beast unleashed a hurricane of saber-like Wind Blades that dragged Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan toward it.
• Ye Han used Ghost Step Pace to reach Zhang Qingshan and asked him to throw him into a nearby Hollow.
• Zhang Qingshan hurled Ye Han toward the Hollow, and Ye Han used the Vine Soul Technique to pull Zhang Qingshan along with him as they plunged inside.
• The Ice Refining Prince raged at their escape and ordered his forces to follow them into the Hollow.