Chapter Summaries

Ye Han harvested the Medicine Garden while Teacher Lan Qing warned him about the powerful Zhuge Family and retreated into the Green Pearl Ring. The Purple Cauldron absorbed jade spirit liquid and hundreds of black-gold dragonwhisker grass stalks, but the Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast suddenly returned.

• Teacher Lan Qing recognized Ye Han's Binglian Puppet from the Burial Ground of the Immortals and told Ye Han to leave him alone while the Jadeite Gourd refined Young Master Zhuge's primordial spirit.
• Ye Han sent the Binglian Puppet to harvest ordinary herbs and put the Jadeite Gourd into his Green Pearl Ring after Teacher Lan Qing warned that the Zhuge Family outmatched even the Azure Profound Sect.
• Ye Han discovered a pool of jade spirit liquid surrounded by hundreds of mature black-gold dragonwhisker grass stalks, and the Purple Cauldron absorbed them into its space.
• The Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast returned in a surge of black mist and demonic qi, reaching a ghostly claw out of a spatial vortex as Ye Han realized the danger.

Ye Han collected the jade spirit liquid and black-gold dragonwhisker grass just as the weakened Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast returned to the Medicine Garden and attacked him. Ye Han bound the beast with a chain, while the Black Mountain Cult Leader’s trapped companions turned on him at the garden entrance.

• The Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast vanished from the battle at the Medicine Garden entrance, leaving the Black Mountain Cult Leader and a dozen surviving Foundation Establishment cultivators behind.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader urged the survivors to break the formation, but they attacked him after realizing he had trapped them with defensive restrictions.
• The Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast attacked Ye Han, who noticed its weakened aura and that it lacked two weapons.
• The beast cried out when its attack shattered part of the medicinal field, then panicked as Ye Han’s gold-and-silver-rune chain bound and suppressed it.
• Ye Han scolded the confused beast for guarding the Medicine Garden of the people who had captured it.

Ye Han used the Demon-Sealing Chains and demon-breaking divine thunder to free the Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast from the golden crown controlling his mind. He offered the beast three paths and began with remaining trapped to guard the Medicine Garden, then the beast asked to hear the second.

• Ye Han used the Mind-Clearing Art and the Demon-Sealing Chains to provoke conflict among the Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast’s three faces.
• Ye Han struck the beast and its golden crown with demon-breaking divine thunder, then shattered the crown and freed its mind.
• The freed beast tried to attack Ye Han, but the Demon-Sealing Chains left it unable to muster strength or demonic qi.
• Ye Han offered the beast three paths, and the beast asked what the second path was.

Ye Han forced the Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast to agree to help him by suppressing him with Demon-Sealing Chains and demon-breaking divine thunder. After Ye Han released him, the beast immediately attacked, leaving their uneasy bargain in danger.

• Ye Han offered the Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast the choice of becoming his helper or dying to demon-breaking divine thunder.
• Ye Han struck the beast with demon-breaking divine thunder, and the beast recognized it as a secret method of the Heavenly Immortal Race.
• Ye Han promised to free the beast and asked him to help kill the cultivators outside, while requiring a Devil Race blood oath that he would not attack Ye Han and would follow his commands on the mountain.
• The Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast reluctantly agreed, and Ye Han released him from the Demon-Sealing Chains.
• The Three-Faced, Four-Armed Demonic Beast turned on Ye Han with his Long Halberd, and Ye Han warned him not to court death.

Ye Han freed Three-Faced Demon from the Ancient Times School’s Demon-Sealing Chains and forced him to swear a blood oath to obey him. As attackers battered the Medicine Garden’s restrictions, Ye Han prepared to escape Treasure Mountain with Three-Faced Demon’s help.

• Three-Faced Demon tested Ye Han with a sudden attack but stopped when Ye Han’s aura frightened him, and Ye Han demonstrated that he could control the original Demon-Sealing Chains.
• Three-Faced Demon swore a blood oath to obey Ye Han while they were on the mountain.
• Ye Han explained to himself that he needed a powerful ally because the Black Mountain Cult Leader and other cultivators would soon reach Treasure Mountain and target its early arrivals.
• When the Medicine Garden’s entrance came under attack, Ye Han gave Three-Faced Demon ten stalks of black-gold dragonwhisker grass so he could recover.
• Ye Han and the Binglian Puppet continued gathering spirit medicines while Three-Faced Demon absorbed the grass and recovered about a third of his strength.
• Three-Faced Demon vanished amid black runes, promising to deal with the cultivators outside.

The Three-Faced Demon escaped the Medicine Garden with his Demon-Sealing Chains removed and attacked the Black Mountain Cult Leader, who had been trying to break through the barrier. The demon overwhelmed the Cult Leader, leaving him badly injured as the battle continued.

• The Black Mountain Cult Leader battered the Medicine Garden's Restrictive Barrier with his Blood Sword while planning to seize its treasures and flee.
• The Three-Faced Demon emerged from the Medicine Garden, and the Cult Leader assumed Young Master Zhuge had been killed.
• The Cult Leader launched a powerful blood-colored Sword-Ray at the demon, but the demon charged forward without the Demon-Sealing Chains and dodged it.
• The Three-Faced Demon struck the Cult Leader with his Long Halberd and Long Spear, blasting away his shield and sending him flying while injuring him.
• The Three-Faced Demon chanted a demonic incantation that shattered the Cult Leader's four defensive treasures, then attacked him with demonic claws.

Ye Han left the Medicine Garden with its spirit medicines while the Black Mountain Cult Leader and the Three-Faced Demon fought. He avoided joining the battle to keep his identity hidden, but the fight shattered the Black Mountain Cult Leader’s barrier and revealed the arrival of two Demon Kings.

• Ye Han and the Binglian Puppet swept up all the spirit medicine in the Medicine Garden as the Black Mountain Cult Leader and the Three-Faced Demon battled.
• Ye Han decided not to attack the Black Mountain Cult Leader, fearing the Three-Faced Demon would discover his true cultivation and turn on him.
• Ye Han left the battle concealed, but the fighters’ clash hurled him to the edge of the Black Mountain Cult Leader’s barrier.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader summoned more gravestone treasures and seized the Three-Faced Demon with ghost claws, but their attacks erupted into a storm that swept Ye Han away.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader’s barrier shattered, and Ye Han sensed two terrifying Demon King auras appear.

Ye Han escaped the Valley as the Black Mountain Cult Leader, the Toad King, and the Tearing Bird King attacked the Three-Faced Demon. Teacher Lan Qing warned Ye Han that Treasure Mountain was an enormous trap, then revealed he had planned to possess Ye Han’s body.

• The Toad King and the Tearing Bird King arrived in the Valley and joined the Black Mountain Cult Leader in attacking the Three-Faced Demon.
• Ye Han fled the Valley and saw the battle shaking the surrounding land as the spiritual energy weakened.
• Ye Han contacted Teacher Lan Qing through the Jadeite Gourd and suggested that the weakening restriction might let him rescue Teacher Lan Qing’s physical body.
• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han to leave Treasure Mountain, return to the Azure Profound Sect by heading north around Upper Tomb Land, and avoid coming out until it was safe.
• Teacher Lan Qing warned that Treasure Mountain was likely an enormous trap and confessed that he had intended to possess Ye Han’s body.

Ye Han learned that Teacher Lan Qing had abandoned his attempt to possess him because the Rebirth Gourd could help reconstruct a body, then hurried to escape as disaster struck the Medicine Garden. Before leaving, Ye Han went to a nearby Discipline Hall and joined forces with someone inside to break its barrier, revealing three figures.

• Teacher Lan Qing explained that the Jadeite Gourd was a Rebirth Gourd and said he needed to devour a Zhuge Family boy's primordial spirit to repair his own.
• A black pillar erupted from the Medicine Garden, shaking Treasure Mountain, and Ye Han decided to retreat rather than investigate.
• Ye Han headed toward another Discipline Hall because Azure Phoenix Fairy might be there, and he found battle damage around its flickering barrier.
• Ye Han deployed four treasures in the Four-Element Ancient Treasure Formation and struck the Discipline Hall's barrier, while a sword attack from inside shattered it.
• Ye Han saw three figures emerge from the exploding barrier and was startled by their number.

Ye Han and Azure Phoenix Fairy tried to escape Treasure Mountain as its restrictions weakened, but Xue Bing and Xue Xue confronted them over Young Master Zhuge’s ring and Chasing Wind Boat. After the Black Snake King appeared, the four fled north together, with the demon king in pursuit.

• Ye Han reunited with Azure Phoenix Fairy and urged her to leave Treasure Mountain without revealing his identity.
• Treasure Mountain’s protective barrier and restrictions began to collapse, so Ye Han and Azure Phoenix Fairy prepared to escape.
• Xue Bing and Xue Xue blocked Ye Han and demanded to know what happened to Young Master Zhuge and his possessions.
• Ye Han claimed a Demon King had killed Young Master Zhuge, and Xue Bing and Xue Xue celebrated his death before warning that the Black Snake King was coming.
• Ye Han, Azure Phoenix Fairy, Xue Bing, and Xue Xue flew north as new Cultivators arrived at Treasure Mountain and the Black Snake King pursued them.

Ye Han, Azure Phoenix Fairy, Xue Bing, and Xue Xue fled Black Snake King aboard the Chasing Wind Boat, which accelerated enough to leave him behind temporarily. Meanwhile, Golden Core cultivators converged on Treasure Mountain as those already there escaped with their gains, and Black Mountain Cult Leader fled from pursuers after finding the Medicine Garden empty.

• Xue Bing and Xue Xue followed Ye Han and Azure Phoenix Fairy while Black Snake King pursued them, so Ye Han launched the Chasing Wind Boat and the women boarded it.
• Xue Bing and Xue Xue fueled the boat with Spirit Stones, then asked Ye Han and Azure Phoenix Fairy to help activate its acceleration formation.
• The Chasing Wind Boat surged ahead, but Black Snake King grew fleshy wings and continued chasing the four cultivators.
• More than a hundred Golden Core Stage cultivators rushed toward Treasure Mountain, while cultivators already there fled with the treasures they had found.
• Black Mountain Cult Leader fled northwest after the demonic beast's trap nearly killed him and the Medicine Garden proved empty, but several cultivators pursued him.

Ye Han and the three women fled the Black Snake King aboard the Chasing Wind Boat, but he tracked them with a demonic rune. Northwind Blade intercepted the Black Snake King and began fighting him, giving Ye Han and the others a chance to escape.

• Ye Han used the Chasing Wind Boat to flee with Azure Phoenix Fairy, Xue Bing, and Xue Xue, who explained that the Black Snake King had marked them with his sinister art.
• Ye Han secretly restored his spell power with the Purple Cauldron, while the others increased their output and he added Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to boost the boat's speed.
• The Black Snake King followed the boat using a black rune and tracking bell, intent on capturing Xue Bing and Xue Xue and seizing the boat.
• Northwind Blade ambushed the Black Snake King with two saber strikes, forcing him off course.
• The Black Snake King tried to fly after Ye Han and the others, but Northwind Blade blocked him and attacked, declaring that he had come for the Black Snake King's head.

Ye Han and Azure Phoenix Fairy escaped the Black Snake King with Xue Bing and Xue Xue, then parted ways after agreeing to keep the Chasing Wind Boat and Young Master Zhuge’s death secret. As they traveled toward Heavenly Billows, Ye Han stopped near the Ice and Snow Mountain Range to handle something alone.

• Ye Han used Spirit Stones to help the exhausted group continue fleeing until they believed they had escaped the Black Snake King's tracking range.
• Ye Han and Azure Phoenix Fairy told Xue Bing and Xue Xue they would travel separately, and the four exchanged farewells.
• Ye Han warned Xue Bing and Xue Xue not to reveal that he possessed the Chasing Wind Boat, and they agreed to keep silent.
• Xue Bing and Xue Xue flew northwest on a flying saber while Ye Han steered the Chasing Wind Boat north with Azure Phoenix Fairy.
• Half a day later, Ye Han stopped near the Ice and Snow Mountain Range and flew down alone, telling Azure Phoenix Fairy to wait for him.

Ye Han abandoned Teacher Lan Qing in a lake and hurried away on the Chasing Wind Boat, deciding he would not risk keeping the dangerous cultivator near him. Azure Phoenix Fairy gave Ye Han the Teleportation Token for the Ancient Times Teleportation Array, but then said she could not go with him to find their eldest senior brother.

• Ye Han sent the Rebirth Gourd containing Teacher Lan Qing down a cliff into a lake, where Teacher Lan Qing cursed him and sank beneath the water.
• Ye Han returned to the Chasing Wind Boat and urged it to leave, telling Azure Phoenix Fairy they were still not safe.
• Ye Han considered Teacher Lan Qing’s threat to possess his body and decided to abandon him rather than keep him nearby or risk trying to kill him.
• Ye Han asked Azure Phoenix Fairy whether she had found the Teleportation Token for the Ancient Times Teleportation Array.
• Azure Phoenix Fairy showed Ye Han the token and said she had also found Treasure Mountain’s map and the Heavenly Secret Token in the Ancient Land.
• Azure Phoenix Fairy told Ye Han to keep the Teleportation Token because she would not be able to travel with him through the array, leaving Ye Han to ask what she meant.

Ye Han learned that Azure Phoenix Fairy could not accompany him to find Eldest Senior Brother because the Teleportation Token could transport only one person and her injuries required her to recuperate. As news of Treasure Mountain’s dangers and Ye Han’s reported gains spread across Heavenly Billows, rumors confirmed that he had visited Upper Tomb Land.

• Azure Phoenix Fairy told Ye Han that her injuries had damaged her foundation and lifespan, so she needed to recover on the mountain.
• Ye Han suspected someone in the Azure Profound Sect had deliberately leaked his whereabouts and resolved to investigate when he returned.
• Xue Bing and Xue Xue decided to delay returning to the Zhuge Family and pretend they knew nothing about Ye Han.
• News spread that Treasure Mountain had sunk beneath the ground after over a hundred Golden Core Stage cultivators entered, trapping everyone inside.
• Rumors claimed Ye Han had obtained Ancient Treasures and heavenly spirit medicine at Treasure Mountain, and further news confirmed he had gone to Upper Tomb Land.

After safely returning to the Azure Profound Sect, Ye Han turned in twelve missions and grew suspicious that Jiang Ning had helped Wang Fa learn his whereabouts. Ye Han reached Seven Mysteries Peak with new rewards and plans to cultivate, while Jiang Ning went to report his return to Wang Fa.

• Jiang Ning escorted Ye Han from the Mission Hall with warm smiles, then turned cold and flew toward Profound Heaven Peak to seek Wang Fa.
• Ye Han recalled how he and the Azure Phoenix Fairy had returned safely, completed all twelve missions, and parted ways at the sect’s Mountain Gate.
• Ye Han noticed Jiang Ning’s brief hostility despite his generous mission ratings and suspected he had leaked Ye Han’s location to Wang Fa.
• Ye Han reasoned that Wang Fa had the motive and influence to obtain confidential mission information, and vowed to deal with him despite the Fifth Elder’s backing.
• Ye Han counted the mission rewards, including two hundred thousand sect merit and a Treasure and Technique Exchange Token, then flew toward his cave abode on Seven Mysteries Peak.
• Ye Han saw White Snow talking with several disciples and was surprised to find that White Snow had reached the level of a third-tier demon beast.

Ye Han returned safely to the Azure Profound Sect, gave Magic Artifacts to its disciples, and reviewed the lessons of his dangerous trip to Treasure Mountain before counting his spoils. News from the Upper Tomb Land then confirmed Teacher Lan Qing's suspicion that Treasure Mountain had been a trap.

• White Snow taught Seven Mysteries Peak disciples about demons' weaknesses, and Ye Han returned to find them treating White Snow as their senior brother.
• Ye Han handed Magic Artifacts to the disciples and gave White Snow a Storage Bag to guard his Cave Abode.
• Ye Han reflected on the dangers of Treasure Mountain and concluded that his study of spells, talismans, formations, and puppets had helped him survive.
• Ye Han wrote down mistakes from the trip, including revealing his identity too soon and trusting the Three-Faced Demon too readily.
• Ye Han counted more than a hundred Spirit Artifacts, over thirty Ancient Treasures, and more than three hundred Magic Artifacts, and saw that his Purple Cauldron Space had grown stronger.
• News arrived from the Upper Tomb Land that confirmed Teacher Lan Qing's conjecture that Treasure Mountain had been a trap.

Ye Han learned that rumors about his gains at Treasure Mountain and his twelve missions in the Upper Tomb Land had spread through the Azure Profound Sect, putting him at risk. Zhang Lingjun warned him to conceal his identity and be wary of other peaks, then began to explain a more serious problem involving the Zhuge Family.

• Ye Han struggled to comprehend the Thunderclap Art until White Snow announced Zhang Lingjun’s visit and was struck for calling him Martial Uncle.
• Ye Han welcomed Zhang Lingjun into his cave abode and offered him spirit tea in a nourishing Spirit Artifact tea set.
• Zhang Lingjun told Ye Han that rumors claimed he had gained Ancient Treasures and Heavenly Treasures at Treasure Mountain, enough to advance to the golden core stage.
• Ye Han suspected the Black Mountain Cult Leader had spread the rumors, while Zhang Lingjun warned him that news of his twelve Upper Tomb Land missions had reached the entire Azure Profound Sect.
• Zhang Lingjun cautioned Ye Han about tensions between the sect’s peaks and began to raise a more troublesome matter concerning the Zhuge Family.

Ye Han learned that the Zhuge Family had demanded answers from the Azure Profound Sect over the death of its Fourth Young Master, bringing new danger as rumors about Ye Han’s treasures and exploits spread. He obtained Fairy Jade Orchid’s repaired Ancient Times Teleportation Array plans and her Little Heaven-Covering Formation, but was intercepted on his way back to Seven Mysteries Peak.

• Zhang Lingjun warned Ye Han that the Zhuge Family, one of the three great lineages of the Wuxie Sect, had asked the Azure Profound Sect whether Ye Han killed its Fourth Young Master.
• Ye Han concealed the truth from Zhang Lingjun, gave him a spirit artifact tea set, and worried that rumors were making him a target even within the Azure Profound Sect.
• Ye Han visited Fairy Jade Orchid at Magnolia Valley, where she gave him the repaired Ancient Times Teleportation Array plans.
• Ye Han gave Fairy Jade Orchid Clear Spirit Pills and a treasure to help her Foundation Establishment breakthrough, and she repaid him with her formation insights and the Little Heaven-Covering Formation.
• After exchanging formation insights with Fairy Jade Orchid, Ye Han flew toward Seven Mysteries Peak, where an approaching figure called for him to wait.

Ye Han’s recent mission successes drew unwanted attention, so he went into seclusion while White Snow investigated rumors about Treasure Mountain and the cultivators trapped there. After the Seventh Elder announced his own long seclusion and warned Ye Han that he would have little protection, Ye Han decided to leave the Azure Profound Sect for a while and flew to visit Zhang Qingshan.

• Zhu Ziqing and other cultivators sought Ye Han out to invite him on missions and to social gatherings, disrupting his attempts to cultivate.
• Ye Han activated his cave abode’s restrictions and went into seclusion, while White Snow gathered news about rumors surrounding him and Treasure Mountain.
• White Snow told Ye Han that Treasure Mountain had sunk underground again, trapping many cultivators, and that more than a hundred had reportedly died, including the Fourth Elder of Elegant Beauty Peak.
• After more than three months in seclusion, Ye Han met the Seventh Elder, who said he would enter the Ancient Mystery Cave to attempt a breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm and warned Ye Han to take care of himself.
• The Seventh Elder gave Ye Han a Protective Treasure, and Ye Han returned ten stalks of black-gold dragonwhisker grass in thanks.
• Ye Han decided to visit Green Ox Village, repair the ancient Teleportation Array, and leave the Azure Profound Sect for a while, but first flew toward Zhang Qingshan’s cave abode.