Chapter Summaries

Ye Han discovered that an unidentified pitch-black grass could grow inside the Purple Cauldron Space and increase its production of spiritual energy by thirty percent. He considered returning to the Heavenly Secret Hall to search for more treasures, but held back because of his injuries and the powerful cultivators and demon beasts nearby; while searching the Thousand Mountains School cultivators’ Storage Bags, he found a map of the hall.

• The Purple Cauldron absorbed Ye Han’s pitch-black grass, which took root in its space and increased the spiritual energy it produced by thirty percent.
• Ye Han tested other heavenly treasures from the Storage Bags and his own collection, but none could enter the Purple Cauldron Space.
• Ye Han suspected the grass had come from the Heavenly Secret Hall and considered exploring it, since the Heavenly Secret Token kept its soldiers from attacking him.
• Ye Han decided to delay his exploration because his injuries remained unhealed and Golden Core cultivators and powerful demon beasts might be near the hall.
• Ye Han continued searching the three Thousand Mountains School cultivators’ Storage Bags and found a Heavenly Secret Hall Map.

Ye Han looted three Thousand Mountains School Cultivators and discovered a map of the Heavenly Secret Hall, but he judged the treasures and dangers there too great to pursue yet. After several days of recovery, he had restored seventy percent of his depleted cultivation foundation and suspected the Heavenly Secret Token had another use.

• Ye Han searched the three Thousand Mountains School Cultivators' Storage Bags, found evidence they had plundered many victims, and identified a map of the Heavenly Secret Hall.
• Ye Han considered entering the Heavenly Secret Hall but decided to avoid its dangers and catalogued the treasures he had seized.
• Ye Han sorted the Spirit Artifacts and Ancient Treasures, chose only a few to refine, and took a Yin-Yang Essence-Transmutation Pill to recover his cultivation foundation.
• Ye Han spent four or five days hidden in the mountain and restored seventy percent of the foundation depleted by using the Qing Xuan Divine Body.
• Ye Han examined the Heavenly Secret Token and murmured that it must have another use.

Ye Han decided to risk pursuing the treasures in the Heavenly Secret Hall while cautiously gathering resources and information along the way. After hiding the Heavenly Secret Token inside his body and setting out in disguise, he spotted Black Mountain Cult members attacking a Heavenly Secret Soldier.

• Ye Han resolved to seek the Heavenly Secret Hall’s opportunities but planned to proceed carefully and use trapped cultivators and demon beasts to gather resources and information.
• Ye Han swallowed the Heavenly Secret Token so he could show it quickly if a Heavenly Secret Soldier attacked and keep other cultivators from noticing it.
• Ye Han packed away his belongings, concealed his identity and aura, and left the mountain for the enormous mountain containing the Heavenly Secret Hall.
• Ye Han heard explosions, approached a valley, and discovered more than a dozen Black Mountain Cult cultivators attacking a Heavenly Secret Soldier.

Ye Han watched the Black Mountain Cult exhaust a Heavenly Secret Soldier and decided to stop them from defeating it. As the soldier was nearly overwhelmed, Ye Han silently attacked and decapitated one of the cult members.

• Ye Han recognized the cultivators attacking the Heavenly Secret Soldier as members of the Black Mountain Cult and observed that the soldier’s silver light was fading.
• The Black Mountain Cult members realized the Heavenly Secret Soldier had limited reserves and intensified their assault.
• Ye Han suspected the Black Mountain Cult was backed by a sinister-path sect from Great Feng and linked it to the Zhuge Lineage.
• Ye Han decided not to let the Black Mountain Cult succeed and moved silently down the cliff.
• A Black Mountain Cult member was decapitated, startling the others.

Ye Han disrupted the Black Mountain Cult’s formation with help from the Binglian Puppet, allowing the Heavenly Secret Soldier to turn on the cultists. The Black Mountain Cult members scattered to evade it, but the Heavenly Secret Soldier ignored Ye Han and charged another cultivator.

• Ye Han killed a Black Mountain Cult cultivator, weakening the formation that empowered the Skeleton Warrior.
• The Binglian Puppet wounded and then killed another cultist, causing the formation to collapse and the Heavenly Secret Soldier to knock the Skeleton Warrior aside.
• Ye Han used Earth Explosion to scatter the cultists and prevent them from restoring their formation.
• The Black Mountain Cult’s late-stage cultivator and the others attacked Ye Han, but Ye Han summoned a mountain from an ancient scroll to shield himself.
• The Heavenly Secret Soldier killed four cultists and wounded several more, prompting the survivors to scatter.
• The cultists expected the Heavenly Secret Soldier to attack Ye Han as its nearest target, but it charged another Black Mountain Cult member instead.

Ye Han let the Heavenly Secret Soldier and Binglian Puppet slaughter the Black Mountain Cult cultivators, then stopped their leader from stealing the fallen disciples’ storage bags. The Black-Robed Elder and four surviving cultivators fled, and Ye Han followed them.

• The Heavenly Secret Soldier and Binglian Puppet attacked the Black Mountain Cult cultivators while Ye Han stayed out of their attacks.
• The Black-Robed Elder ordered a retreat and tried to take a dead disciple’s storage bag, but Ye Han struck at him with Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.
• The Black-Robed Elder summoned a Bloodfiend Straw Figure, whose evil ghosts Ye Han destroyed with his purple-gold lightning.
• The Heavenly Secret Soldier and Binglian Puppet killed the Black Mountain Cult’s early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, leaving four middle-stage cultivators and the Black-Robed Elder alive.
• The Black-Robed Elder and four cultivators escaped, and Ye Han followed them at an unhurried pace.

Ye Han followed the Heavenly Secret Soldier as it hunted the fleeing Black Mountain Cult cultivators, using his treasures and a formation to help kill them without revealing his identity. The Heavenly Secret Soldier then charged toward the Black-Robed Elder, who was trapped in Ye Han’s formation.

• Ye Han let the Heavenly Secret Soldier pursue the fleeing Black Mountain Cult cultivators while he followed behind, waiting for chances to strike.
• Ye Han bound one cultivator with the Dragon-Binding Bracelet, and the Heavenly Secret Soldier killed him with a sword strike.
• The Black-Robed Elder rushed into Ye Han’s formation and became trapped as the Heavenly Secret Soldier and Ye Han killed more of the fleeing cultivators.
• Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to knock down the last two fleeing cultivators, and the Heavenly Secret Soldier killed them.
• Ye Han realized the Heavenly Secret Soldier’s sword carried a terrifying aura that helped explain its strength, then watched it rush toward the trapped Black-Robed Elder.

Ye Han trapped the fleeing Black-Robed Elder in a Dragon-Trapping Formation and used the Heavenly Secret Soldier and several treasures to wear him down. The elder escaped the formation but remained under attack, while Ye Han challenged him to identify who he was.

• Ye Han used a Dragon-Trapping Formation in the mountain forest to catch the fleeing Black-Robed Elder.
• The Heavenly Secret Soldier entered the formation and battled the Black-Robed Elder as Ye Han controlled the formation and waited for him to weaken.
• The Black-Robed Elder unleashed the Bloodfiend Straw Figure and other treasures, but Ye Han refused his offer to negotiate.
• The Black-Robed Elder tore open the formation and fled, only for Ye Han's demon-breaking divine thunder and gray-light skulls to interrupt his escape.
• The Black-Robed Elder shed the straw armor and dodged the Heavenly Secret Soldier's sword-rays, while Ye Han asked, "Do you know who I am?"

Ye Han and two Heavenly Secret Soldiers killed the Black-Robed Elder, leaving the Black Mountain Cult's foundation establishment Cultivators dead apart from the Black Mountain Cult Leader. Ye Han looted the bodies and escaped, while the Black Mountain Cult Leader reacted to the deaths and Young Master Zhuge asked what had happened.

• The Black-Robed Elder recognized Ye Han and attacked him with bloodlight ghost claws, but Ye Han evaded him with demon-breaking divine thunder.
• A newly arrived Heavenly Secret Soldier struck the Black-Robed Elder, and it and Ye Han killed him with a silver-white sword-ray and demon-breaking divine thunder.
• The Heavenly Secret Soldier trapped in the Dragon-Trapping Formation broke free, and both soldiers departed in different directions without attacking Ye Han.
• Ye Han collected 132 Storage Bags from the bodies of sixteen Black Mountain Cult foundation establishment Cultivators and left the valley.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader shouted in anger that they had all died, and Young Master Zhuge asked who had died.

The Black Mountain Cult Leader and Young Master Zhuge discussed the deaths of more than twenty Black Mountain Cult disciples and their need to reach the Heavenly Secret Hall. A violent tremor then announced that someone was attempting the Heavenly Ladder, and they rushed out to investigate.

• The Black Mountain Cult Leader revealed that more than a dozen Life Tokens had cracked, confirming the deaths of his subordinates, and suspected Ye Han or demon beasts had killed them.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader recalled Ye Han’s strength and cunning but could not understand how he could have killed sixteen Foundation Establishment cultivators so quickly.
• Young Master Zhuge offered to help resolve the losses if the Black Mountain Cult Leader protected him and helped him reach the Heavenly Secret Hall.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader said they could not attempt the Heavenly Ladder while Xue Bing and Xue Xue were injured, and suggested they needed more Golden Core cultivators.
• A violent tremor shook the cave, and the Black Mountain Cult Leader and Young Master Zhuge hurried outside to see who was braving the Heavenly Ladder.

The Black Mountain Cult Leader and Young Master Zhuge discovered that their cavern lay beneath the floating mountain and saw Demon Kings and Qin Shanzun join forces to fight the Heavenly Secret Soldiers on the celestial stairway. The Black Mountain Cult Leader joined them and called hidden cultivators to help, just as several dozen more Heavenly Secret Soldiers charged down the steps.

• The Black Mountain Cult Leader and Young Master Zhuge emerged from their cavern and found the silver stairway leading to the floating mountain, where a Demon King was fighting the Heavenly Secret Soldiers.
• The Black Snake King fled down the stairway pursued by eight Heavenly Secret Soldiers, and the Toad King, Tearing Bird King, and Qin Shanzun attacked to help him.
• The Black Snake King accepted the Toad King and Tearing Bird King's offer to join forces, and the group pushed the Heavenly Secret Soldiers back.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader joined the fight, while Young Master Zhuge went to summon Xue Bing and Xue Xue.
• Qin Shanzun called for cultivators to join the fight, and hidden cultivators emerged before several dozen more Heavenly Secret Soldiers charged down the stairway.

Qin Shanzun and the Demon Kings used Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators as cannon fodder to distract the Heavenly Secret Soldiers while they advanced up the Heavenly Ladder. The survivors were left to be slaughtered, and a Red Masked figure appeared on the corpse-strewn ladder.

• Qin Shanzun and the Demon Kings let the Heavenly Secret Soldiers kill Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators while they collected corpses and Storage Bags.
• The Demon Kings and Golden Core Stage Cultivators charged through, throwing Heavenly Secret Soldiers into the Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators to draw their attacks.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader protected Young Master Zhuge, Xue Bing, and Xue Xue as they passed through the encirclement.
• The Black Snake King asked to buy Xue Bing and Xue Xue, but the Black Mountain Cult Leader refused and Qin Shanzun urged everyone to keep moving.
• Qin Shanzun and the Demon Kings raced up the Heavenly Ladder, leaving the Foundation Establishment Realm Cultivators to face the Heavenly Secret Soldiers.
• A Red Masked figure rushed onto the Heavenly Ladder strewn with corpses.

Ye Han used his Heavenly Secret Token to evade the Heavenly Secret Soldiers, plundered the fallen Cultivators’ treasures, and climbed into the enormous mountain. There, he entered a transformed world and came face-to-face with a familiar figure.

• Ye Han burned the fallen Cultivators’ corpses and collected their Storage Bags and treasures while the Heavenly Secret Soldiers ignored him.
• A greedy Cultivator tried to seize a corpse’s loot, but the Heavenly Secret Soldiers cut him down, and Ye Han took his Storage Bag too.
• Ye Han gathered the treasures from dozens of fallen Cultivators and raced up the Heavenly Ladder as onlookers watched helplessly.
• The Heavenly Secret Soldiers ignored Ye Han as he entered the enormous mountain, where the scenery changed and the spiritual energy grew extraordinarily dense.
• Ye Han saw a familiar figure and called out, “Teacher Lan Qing?”

Ye Han reunited with Teacher Lan Qing inside the Heavenly Secret Hall and learned that Lan Qing had been trapped there for over three years as a primordial spirit. After Ye Han revealed that his Heavenly Secret Token protected him from the Heavenly Secret Soldiers, Lan Qing asked him for help escaping, and Ye Han pressed him to explain the hall and how he became trapped.

• Ye Han encountered Teacher Lan Qing in the hall and revealed his identity after Lan Qing deduced it from his name and sect.
• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han that he had been trapped in the hall for more than three years and that his apparent body was his primordial spirit.
• Teacher Lan Qing warned Ye Han that the Heavenly Secret Soldiers were approaching and said the other cultivators and Demon Kings had fled from them.
• Eight Heavenly Secret Soldiers passed Ye Han without attacking, and Ye Han explained that a Heavenly Secret Token protected him.
• Teacher Lan Qing realized Ye Han might be able to help him escape, and Ye Han asked him to explain the Heavenly Secret Hall and how he had entered it.

Ye Han questioned Teacher Lan Qing about his past and his presence in Giant Mountain, learning that a map on the golden cicada silk cloth had led him to the Heavenly Secret Hall. After Ye Han challenged Teacher Lan Qing’s claims about the treasures, Lan Qing admitted that several important locations remained unopened and asked whether Ye Han would enter them.

• Teacher Lan Qing led Ye Han to a secluded stone house and explained that his primordial spirit had escaped after his physical body became trapped in the Heavenly Secret Hall.
• Teacher Lan Qing revealed that the golden cicada silk cloth Ye Han had once given him contained a map to the Heavenly Secret Hall, where he had been trapped for more than three years.
• Teacher Lan Qing said Cultivators from the Thousand Mountains School triggered a restriction half a month earlier, exposing the Heavenly Secret Hall, and urged Ye Han to join him in seeking its supreme treasure.
• Ye Han doubted Teacher Lan Qing’s claim that he had already gathered the treasures and challenged him about visiting the Happy Red Courtyard.
• Teacher Lan Qing admitted the Medicine Garden, Scripture Repository, and Treasury Pavilion remained unopened, then asked Ye Han whether he wanted to enter them.

Ye Han learned that Heavenly Secret Mountain was an ancient sect’s hidden mountain gate, not an Immortal’s Tomb, and that its powerful Heavenly Secret Soldiers were transformed mechanism men. After collecting a fortune from fallen cultivators, he learned that the Black Mountain Cult Leader and the Demon Kings had fled up the mountain, and Teacher Lan Qing pointed him toward the Treasure Pagoda.

• Teacher Lan Qing explained that Heavenly Secret Mountain had once been an ancient cultivation sect’s mountain gate and dismissed the claim that it was an Immortal’s Tomb.
• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han that the Heavenly Secret Soldiers were mechanism men whose armor had been strengthened by years of exposure to spiritual energy.
• Ye Han sorted the Storage Bags taken from fallen Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators and gathered treasures worth more than ten million Spirit Stones.
• Ye Han asked where the Black Mountain Cult Leader and the Demon Kings had gone, and Teacher Lan Qing said they had fled up the mountain while pursued by the Heavenly Secret Soldiers.
• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han that the Heavenly Secret Token could help him find an opportunity at the Treasure Pagoda.

Ye Han followed Teacher Lan Qing’s directions to the Treasure Pagoda, where the Black Mountain Cult Leader was drawing away its guards. Inside, Ye Han disguised himself and confronted Young Master Zhuge, who had entered ahead of him.

• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han that the Treasure Pagoda was accessible with his Heavenly Secret Token and asked for a soul-nourishing treasure.
• Ye Han gave Teacher Lan Qing a Jadeite Gourd, and Teacher Lan Qing entered it before guiding Ye Han toward the pagoda.
• Ye Han saw the Black Mountain Cult Leader fighting four Heavenly Secret Soldiers to lure them away from the Treasure Pagoda.
• Ye Han reached the unguarded pagoda, disguised himself, and entered its vast, mostly empty hall.
• Ye Han found Young Master Zhuge at the barrier to the second floor and approached him with a threatening pose.

Ye Han bluffed Young Master Zhuge into believing he was a Golden Core Stage cultivator and forced him to surrender his storage bag and spatial ring. Young Master Zhuge left, but the Black Mountain Cult Leader returned just as Ye Han collected the treasures.

• Young Master Zhuge mistook Ye Han for a Golden Core Stage cultivator and obeyed when Ye Han ordered him to leave.
• Ye Han demanded Young Master Zhuge’s storage bag, and Young Master Zhuge surrendered it rather than risk a fight.
• Ye Han recognized Young Master Zhuge’s spatial ring and forced him to hand it over too.
• Young Master Zhuge left after Ye Han collected the treasures, and the Black Mountain Cult Leader entered and asked what had happened.

Ye Han trapped the Black Mountain Cult Leader in a Dragon-Trapping Formation and escaped through the restriction to the second floor. The Black Mountain Cult Leader pursued him, while Young Master Zhuge concealed how Ye Han had tricked him out of his treasures.

• Ye Han released his Dragon-Trapping Formation Flags and ran toward the stairs as the Black Mountain Cult Leader returned.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader shattered the formation, but Ye Han had vanished from the hall.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader used his Secret Method to search the hall and detected Ye Han’s trail leading to the second floor.
• Young Master Zhuge claimed Ye Han had come from inside and urged the Black Mountain Cult Leader to catch him and recover the treasures.
• Young Master Zhuge hid that he had handed over his Storage Bag and spatial ring, while the Black Mountain Cult Leader suspected the fugitive was Ye Han.

The Black Mountain Cult Leader realized Ye Han had entered the Treasure Pagoda’s second-floor restriction but could neither break it nor follow him. Young Master Zhuge hid from returning Heavenly Secret Soldiers, while Ye Han explored the chamber beyond the restriction.

• The Black Mountain Cult Leader recognized Ye Han and realized the second-floor restriction could swallow his divine sense, leaving him unable to force it open.
• Young Master Zhuge urged the Black Mountain Cult Leader to open the restriction but hid the fact that Ye Han had swindled him out of his Storage Bag and Space Ring.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader told Young Master Zhuge that Ye Han must have a Token or another way to pass through the restriction, and privately wondered whether Ye Han possessed a Fortune Treasure.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader and Young Master Zhuge concealed themselves when the Heavenly Secret Soldiers returned.
• Ye Han entered the space beyond the restriction and found the second floor filled with shelves.