Chapter Summaries

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan escaped the hurricane by plunging into the caves, but the Ice Refining Prince sent demon beast puppets after them. Zhang Qingshan’s prediction revealed every route was dangerous, and the pair ended trapped between pursuing puppets and four more ahead.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan crashed through the mountain wall into a cave as the hurricane shattered the cliffs behind them.
• The Ice Refining Prince ordered his demon beast puppets into the caves to hunt them down, then discovered Zhang Qingshan’s battle-axe attack had left a troubling aura in his body.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan raced through the cave passages to avoid being surrounded by the puppets.
• At a four-way fork, Zhang Qingshan used his Fortune and Disaster Prediction and found that every passage brought an ill omen.
• Four demon beast puppets emerged from the passages ahead as another pursued from behind, trapping Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan between them.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fought through a pack of demon beast puppets toward the tunnel, with Ye Han destroying a massive two-horned puppet in their path. After they advanced a few hundred yards, another horned puppet charged at them with a spinning vortex of blood-red light.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan agreed that Ye Han would lead the charge while Zhang covered their rear.
• Ye Han used the Vine Soul Technique to snare the pursuing puppets as Zhang Qingshan battered them back with his battle axe.
• Ye Han trapped the two-horned puppet with the Thorn Bracelet, blocked its demonic qi beam with the Creation Heaven Cube, and severed its head with the Soul-Chasing Sword.
• Ye Han struck the two-horned puppet with a powerful punch and charged onward while Zhang Qingshan disrupted the puppets pursuing them.
• A helmeted demon beast puppet appeared ahead, spun its huge horn spike into a blood-red vortex, and charged at Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fought through a pursuing horde of Demon Beast puppets and chose a passage to escape, only to discover it was a dead end. As the pursuers closed in, a massive Demon Beast erupted through the floor and lunged at them.

• Ye Han decapitated a Demon Beast puppet while Zhang Qingshan used his Battle Axe to slow the pursuing puppets.
• At a four-way junction, Ye Han bound two puppets with Vine Soul Technique and led Zhang Qingshan down the passage they had not emerged from.
• Ye Han wondered at the Battle Axe’s strength and resistance to Demonic Qi as Zhang Qingshan fought off their pursuers.
• Two puppets became wedged in a narrow stretch of passage, but Zhang Qingshan sensed a terrifying omen ahead and warned Ye Han that the path was a dead end.
• As the trapped puppets broke through the walls and pursued them, the ground collapsed and a huge Demon Beast burst out to swallow Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fought modified demon beast puppets in the cavern, but Zhang Qingshan was dragged into a great hole while Ye Han faced two more attackers. Zhang Qingshan called for Ye Han to go ahead, claiming he had his own way out.

• Ye Han escaped the fanged puppet's suction with his Blood Escape Talisman, while Zhang Qingshan used his golden transformation and battle axe to shatter its fangs.
• The fanged puppet clamped down on Zhang Qingshan's axe and dragged him into a great hole despite his efforts to break free.
• Ye Han turned back to help Zhang Qingshan, but a modified Burrowing Rat Demon puppet attacked with volleys of blood-red blade rays.
• Ye Han countered with his Soul-Slaying Sword and Millennium Ironwood Swords, but the Burrowing Rat Demon puppet's attacks overwhelmed his sword-rays.
• A second puppet joined the assault by spewing blue-violet flames at Ye Han.
• Zhang Qingshan shouted from the great hole, telling Ye Han to go ahead because he had his own way out.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan decided to split up so they could escape the Demon Beast Puppets without hindering each other. Ye Han raced into another passage, where he used a Blood Escape Talisman to slip past the guardians and turn their attacks against one another.

• Zhang Qingshan told Ye Han they would be safer if they split up, and Ye Han agreed to seek another route while Zhang fought below.
• Ye Han used a Tailwind Talisman to flee down a cave passage, dodging the Demon Beast Puppets’ attacks rather than fighting them head-on.
• Ye Han encountered two Demon Beast Puppets guarding a passage while the burrowing rat demon puppet attacked him from behind.
• Ye Han activated a Blood Escape Talisman to teleport past the armored puppet, causing the puppets’ attacks to collide with one another.
• Ye Han continued through the opening, pale from using the talisman, and reflected that his improved Body Refining Art had another benefit.

After his Blood Refining Art reached the fifth layer, Ye Han used his strengthened blood essence to escape the Demon Beast Puppets through the underground passages. He set traps and blocked routes to shake off his pursuers as he searched for an exit and planned to investigate the Ice Refining Prince.

• Ye Han used the chaos among the Demon Beast Puppets to race into a passage, then trapped one puppet with an earth spell and buried it beneath rocks blasted loose by Fireburst Talismans.
• Ye Han chose passages without puppets, reasoning that they would take him farther from the routes the creatures had used to surround him and Zhang Qingshan.
• At a three-way junction, Ye Han destroyed all three entrances with Fireburst Talismans before fleeing down one branch, concealing which way he had gone.
• Ye Han decided to leave the underground maze through another exit and hide while investigating the Ice Refining Prince.
• At a junction with four branches, Ye Han planted trigger talismans along every route instead of collapsing the entrances, then continued with his escape plan.

Ye Han concealed himself and planned to escape the caves before confronting the Ice Refining Prince, while seeking to reunite with Zhang Qingshan. The Ice Refining Prince turned his attention to Zhang Qingshan and flew into the caves to take his Battle Axe, leaving Ye Han worried that his senior brother was in danger.

• Ye Han used the Invisibility Cloak and a Purification Talisman to hide his presence as he searched for an exit and planned to deal with the Ice Refining Prince.
• The Ice Refining Prince learned that Ye Han had vanished and Zhang Qingshan had slain three Demon Beast Puppets, including a Fourth Tier one.
• The Ice Refining Prince decided that Zhang Qingshan and his Battle Axe posed the greater threat and might help him break the Demon-Sealing Chains.
• The Ice Refining Prince rode the Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet into a cave to attack Zhang Qingshan.
• Ye Han saw the Ice Refining Prince enter the cave and realized that he had gone after Zhang Qingshan.

Ye Han escaped the caves using the Invisibility Cloak and found the Ice Refining Prince’s lair, hoping to discover a weakness in the Demon Beast Puppets. Inside, he spotted a powerful sword being tempered just as footsteps approached.

• Ye Han emerged from the cave unseen and watched the Ice Refining Prince receive a message before flying into the caves on the Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet.
• Ye Han realized the Ice Refining Prince was likely going after Zhang Qingshan, but decided that searching for the puppets’ weaknesses was more important than trying to rescue him.
• Ye Han climbed to the cliff and found the Ice Refining Prince’s residence, surrounded by puppet parts, Demon Beast skeletons, and a large portrait of the prince.
• Ye Han entered the building and saw a formidable longsword being tempered in an enormous furnace.
• Footsteps sounded nearby, and Ye Han wondered whether someone else was inside the lair.

Ye Han secretly explored the Ice Refining Prince’s lair while a Binglian Metal Puppet tended the furnace refining a powerful sword. After stripping one room of valuable materials and collecting puppet research, he found a sword design just as strange noises sounded outside.

• Ye Han hid from the Binglian Metal Puppet as it fed blue-green crystals into the furnace, intensifying the flames refining the sword.
• Ye Han entered a nearby room and took more than a hundred metal blocks and over twenty unfinished Spirit Artifacts.
• Ye Han searched the puppet research room, gathered its plans and Jade Slips, and found a design for the sword in the furnace.
• A strange clicking sound came from outside, and Ye Han turned to look.

Ye Han discovered that the Ice Refining Prince was forging a sword to sever his chains, then searched the lair for valuables and found a room filled with Binglian statues. After he took the statues, a sudden wave of freezing air engulfed the building.

• Ye Han studied the sword blueprint and realized the Ice Refining Prince was making a weapon to cut the chains binding his feet.
• Ye Han found hundreds of sealed bottles and jars of heavenly treasures and pills, but left them untouched so the Ice Refining Prince would not be alerted yet.
• Ye Han entered another room and discovered it was crowded with lifelike statues of Binglian made from valuable white spirit jade.
• Ye Han collected every Binglian statue into his Storage Bags.
• A powerful burst of freezing air swept through the hall and covered the building in icicles.

Ye Han endured the icy sword’s emergence from the furnace and fought to claim it, losing his Fire Spirit Pearl in the process. He caught the sword but was immediately frozen by its chill as Binglian attacked him with a barrage of Sword-Rays.

• Ye Han activated the Fire Mystic Art and used his Fire Spirit Pearl to shield himself from the cold pouring out of the furnace.
• The cold overwhelmed the pearl’s barrier, so Ye Han unleashed its full power to withstand the strongest wave before the Fire Spirit Pearl shattered.
• Ye Han rushed for the blue-glowing sword above the opened furnace, but a Sword-Ray from behind the furnace drove him back and disrupted his attempt to seize it.
• Ye Han used Vine Hands to catch the sword, then caught it himself after Sword-Rays cut through the vines.
• The sword’s cold froze Ye Han’s arm, and Binglian charged in and attacked him with dozens of Sword-Rays.

Ye Han stole the Furnace Treasure Sword and escaped the Binglian Puppet by using Fireburst Talismans and his Invisibility Cloak, while learning how the puppets lost track of concealed targets. Elsewhere underground, Zhang Qingshan charged into a passage and found the Ice Refining Prince riding a Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet.

• Ye Han stored the freezing Furnace Treasure Sword, blasted the Binglian Puppet back, and fled through the doorway.
• Ye Han used Fireburst Talismans to halt the Binglian Puppet, then escaped down the cliff with Ghost Step Pace and his Invisibility Cloak.
• The Binglian Puppet failed to find Ye Han after he concealed himself, revealing that she could not independently track a hidden target beyond a certain range.
• Zhang Qingshan fought off two Demon Beast Puppets and charged into a passage, where he encountered the Ice Refining Prince riding a Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet.

Zhang Qingshan charged the Ice Refining Prince and the Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet, but the prince abruptly abandoned the fight after learning Ye Han had stolen his Absolute Frost Divine Sword. As the prince escaped through the cavern ceiling, Zhang Qingshan followed an auspicious sign in a different direction.

• Zhang Qingshan encountered the Ice Refining Prince and the Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet, though his divine ability still marked their direction as auspicious.
• The Ice Refining Prince recognized Zhang Qingshan’s powerful body and battle axe and decided to turn him into a puppet.
• Zhang Qingshan attacked, and the Ice Refining Prince prepared the Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet to unleash its divine ability.
• The Ice Refining Prince sensed that Ye Han had stolen the Absolute Frost Divine Sword, which he had spent a thousand years refining to escape.
• The Ice Refining Prince ordered the Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet to blast open the cavern ceiling and carry him out.
• Zhang Qingshan recognized that Ye Han had enraged the prince, then changed course after spotting another auspicious direction.

The Ice Refining Prince discovered that Ye Han had stolen the Absolute Frost Divine Sword and other valuables, then sent his Demon Beast Puppets to hunt him down. Ye Han remained hidden in a hollow beneath the cliff, preparing to take advantage of the prince’s reaction.

• The Ice Refining Prince returned to his house and found the Absolute Frost Divine Sword and several other valuables missing.
• The Ice Refining Prince kicked the Binglian Puppet off the cliff and ordered his Demon Beast Puppets to search for Ye Han.
• The Ice Refining Prince flew out on the Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet to hunt Ye Han himself.
• Ye Han stayed concealed beneath the cliff in his Invisibility Cloak, expecting the Ice Refining Prince to return after the sword was taken.

Ye Han took advantage of the Ice Refining Prince throwing the Binglian Puppet off the cliff to return to the prince’s house and loot its remaining rooms. After checking on a lightning-charged sapling growing inside the Purple Cauldron, Ye Han entered the house and was surprised by something in Binglian’s room.

• Ye Han realized the wandering Binglian Puppet could not return to the house without a new command from the Ice Refining Prince.
• Ye Han swallowed twelve Spiritual Qi Pills and let the Purple Cauldron absorb their spell power.
• Ye Han inspected a new sapling in the Purple Cauldron, which had grown several leaves and flickered with purple-gold lightning.
• Ye Han climbed back up the cliff and cautiously checked the Ice Refining Prince’s house for traps.
• Ye Han entered the house, decided to take the furnace, and went to Binglian’s room, where he exclaimed in surprise at what he saw.

Ye Han discovered that the Metal Sphere in the Purple Cauldron Space produced Blue-Cyan Crystal Stones and contained spatial power. The Purple Cauldron absorbed it and formed an independent, icy realm within itself, which Ye Han realized might solve a problem troubling him.

• Ye Han inspected the Metal Sphere as it transformed blue-cyan runes into Blue-Cyan Crystal Stones and found spatial power within it.
• Ye Han confirmed the room had no dangerous restrictions and approached the Metal Sphere when the Purple Cauldron began to tremble.
• The Purple Cauldron drew the Metal Sphere into itself, where the sphere expanded and its spatial power created a realm over a hundred feet across.
• The Metal Sphere released blue-cyan runes, decayed into icy blue-cyan soil, and left the new realm filled with cold spiritual energy.
• Ye Han sensed that the Purple Cauldron's independent space might resolve a problem troubling him.

Ye Han discovered that the Purple Cauldron had gained a slowly replenishing spatial realm, then took the Ice Refining Prince’s furnace and hidden treasures. He prepared a talisman trap and fled, leaving the enraged Ice Refining Prince to discover his stolen valuables.

• Ye Han found that the Purple Cauldron’s new space produced a small amount of spiritual energy and considered how it might grow.
• Ye Han took the furnace used to refine the Absolute Frost Divine Sword and deduced how the Ice Refining Prince planned to escape his imprisonment.
• Ye Han arranged more than two hundred Offensive Talismans throughout the hall and concealed the formation with three Concealment Talismans.
• Ye Han swept up the Ice Refining Prince’s heavenly treasures and valuables, then flew out of the house.
• The Ice Refining Prince sensed that his treasures had been disturbed and roared in fury.

The Ice Refining Prince rushed back to his lair after realizing Ye Han had stolen more of his treasures, only to trigger Ye Han’s concealed talisman formation. He survived the explosion and ordered his Demon Beast Puppets to capture Ye Han, whom he vowed to torture and turn into a Humanoid Puppet.

• The Ice Refining Prince ordered the Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet and the other Demon Beast Puppets to surround the cliff and capture Ye Han.
• The Ice Refining Prince stormed into the house, found the Extreme Yin Furnace missing, and sensed danger too late.
• Ye Han’s concealed talisman formation detonated, destroying the house, blasting the cliff, and sending the Two-Winged Demon Beast Puppet flying.
• The Ice Refining Prince re-formed inside the crater and realized Ye Han had lured him into the trap.
• The Ice Refining Prince ordered his Demon Beast Puppets to capture Ye Han and swore to torture him and refine him into a Humanoid Puppet.

Zhang Qingshan turned away from rescuing Ye Han after hearing that the Ice Refining Prince was searching for him, then followed an auspicious aura to a sealed metal door. He smashed a hole through it and smelled a powerful medicinal fragrance, but had not yet seen what lay beyond.

• Zhang Qingshan heard the Ice Refining Prince order his followers to search for Ye Han and decided not to risk exposing himself by turning back.
• Zhang Qingshan followed the auspicious aura to a massive metal door and concluded that treasure lay behind it.
• Zhang Qingshan transformed with his Golden Light Armor and repeatedly struck the door with his Battle Axe.
• Zhang Qingshan broke a circular hole through the door, smelled a potent medicinal fragrance, and peered inside.

Zhang Qingshan found a sealed pool of potent medicinal liquid underground, but after his storage bottle broke, he entered the pool to absorb it. As he recovered old injuries and advanced his Blood Refining Art, the Ice Refining Prince searched the cliff above in fury for the Heavenly Spirit Realm intruder.

• Zhang Qingshan entered the metal chamber and realized its walls were meant to keep the medicinal liquid's potency from escaping.
• Zhang Qingshan tried to collect the medicinal liquid in a jade bottle, but it filled after taking only a third of the pool and then shattered.
• Zhang Qingshan decided to absorb the liquid himself and jumped into the pool, unable to take any back for Junior Brother Ye.
• Zhang Qingshan circulated the Blood Refining Art as the liquid healed his lingering injuries and pushed his cultivation toward the seventh level.
• The Ice Refining Prince cursed the Heavenly Spirit Realm intruders and searched the cliff for the cunning brat who had repeatedly outmaneuvered him.