Chapter Summaries

Ye Han prepared to leave the Azure Profound Sect, gathering cultivation supplies and arranging for White Snow to remain hidden in his cave abode. On his way to the Ancient Times Teleportation Array, he discovered that a cultivator had targeted Wang Laocai’s family, and realized the trap might be meant for him.

• Ye Han decided to leave the Azure Profound Sect because he feared threats from rival cultivators and wanted to grow stronger using his treasures and the Ancient Times Teleportation Array.
• Ye Han left Zhang Qingshan a Messaging Talisman, but found Han Yuwan away and chose not to disturb his other acquaintances.
• Ye Han completed several missions, exchanged his Demon Beast materials for sect merit and Spirit Stones, and redeemed treasures, cultivation methods, pills, and crafting materials.
• Ye Han instructed White Snow to stay in his cave abode, supplied it with pills and Beast Crystals, and activated the restrictions to make the cave appear occupied.
• Ye Han disguised himself and left at night, then flew toward the mountain cave near Green Ox Village instead of visiting the village.
• Ye Han sensed that Wang Laocai’s family had been drugged or incapacitated and detected a cultivator nearby, realizing the situation was likely a trap aimed at him.

Ye Han discovered that cultivators had secretly gathered in Green Ox Village to ambush him, and he deduced that the Fifth Elder and Wang Fa were behind the trap. He prepared a formation to attack them, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Ye Han sensed that Green Ox Village's residents were sleeping unnaturally deeply and detected concealed cultivators, but avoided searching for them with his divine sense.
• Ye Han reasoned that someone from the Azure Profound Sect had revealed his origins and concluded that the Fifth Elder, Wang Fa, and their allies had traced him to the village.
• Ye Han suspected that the Fifth Elder might have come in person, but judged that no Golden Core Stage cultivator was nearby because none had detected him.
• Ye Han flew to the hills behind Green Ox Village and set up the Little Heaven-Covering Formation with twenty-four Formation Flags.
• Ye Han prepared a Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation, adding the Heavenly Thunder Drum to his other treasures in case the Fifth Elder appeared.

Ye Han prepared a trap near Green Ox Village and sent the Binglian Puppet disguised as himself to draw out his pursuers. He discovered the Black Mountain Cult Leader was among them, though the Fifth Elder was absent, and watched the group chase the puppet toward his ambush.

• Ye Han set up formations near a cliff and used the White Jade Demon Clay to make the Binglian Puppet resemble him.
• Ye Han sent the disguised puppet into Green Ox Village, then concealed himself nearby.
• Wang Fa and his companions spotted the puppet and pursued it when it turned to flee.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader led the chase, and Ye Han realized Wang Fa had joined forces with him.
• Ye Han saw Wang Fa and Jiang Ning among the pursuers, along with someone he had not expected.

Ye Han fled from Wang Fa, Jiang Ning, Jin Feng, and their allies, while realizing the injured Black Mountain Cult Leader might be vulnerable enough to kill. The pursuers attacked him with flying swords, and Ye Han effortlessly deflected their strikes.

• Ye Han spotted Wang Fa, Jiang Ning, Jin Feng, and two unknown middle-stage foundation establishment cultivators among those pursuing him.
• Ye Han concluded that the Black Mountain Cult Leader’s injuries had weakened his divine sense and prepared a Blood Restriction Pill in case he could exploit the man’s condition.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader recalled spreading rumors about Ye Han’s treasures and joining forces with Wang Fa to ambush him, but he slowed down because he suspected Ye Han might be setting a trap.
• Wang Fa and the other pursuers chased Ye Han, hoping to seize the treasures and opportunities he had gained at Treasure Mountain.
• Two middle-aged cultivators sent eight flying swords at Ye Han, but he drew two swords and knocked their attacks aside, prompting Wang Fa to call him formidable.

Ye Han lured Wang Fa, Jin Feng, Jiang Ning, and their companions toward a cliff with the Binglian Puppet while preparing formations to trap them. When the Black Mountain Cult Leader spotted danger and flew ahead, Ye Han revealed himself and drew him into pursuit, leaving the others to trigger the trap.

• Wang Fa, Jin Feng, and Jiang Ning pursued Ye Han, each hoping to kill him and claim his supposed fortune.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader sensed danger near the hilltop but concealed his suspicions and flew ahead to intercept the Binglian Puppet.
• Ye Han saw the Black Mountain Cult Leader bypass his formations through the air, revealed himself, and attacked him with eight Millennium Ironwood Swords.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader recognized the Red Masked Ye Han as the real one and pursued him, while Wang Fa and the others kept attacking the Binglian Puppet.
• Wang Fa and the others struck the apparently unharmed Binglian Puppet, then triggered a formation as twelve pillars of light and thick clouds and mist engulfed them.

Ye Han lured the Black Mountain Cult Leader toward the formation he had prepared in Green Ox Village while evading the Cult Leader’s Tomb Treasure and escape-blocking formation. The Black Mountain Cult Leader stopped above the mist to attack from outside, but a sudden sense of danger warned him that he had walked into a trap.

• Wang Fa, Jin Feng, Jiang Ning, and the others were caught in a mist-covered formation and attacked a dark figure they believed was Ye Han.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader used his Tomb Treasure to conjure four blood-colored hands that smashed the ground where Ye Han had stood, but Ye Han escaped with his Thunder Escape Technique.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader deployed the thirty-six pillars of the Blood-Spirit Skeleton Formation to block Ye Han’s escape route.
• Ye Han called out to the Black Mountain Cult Leader, then entered the mist and clouds of the Little Heaven-Covering Formation.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader refused to enter the formation and prepared to attack from above, but a sudden sense of danger sent a chill down his spine.

Ye Han used Purple-Gold Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder and the Little Heaven-Covering Formation to trap the wounded Black Mountain Cult Leader. The chapter ended with the Cult Leader surrounded by the formation, raising his treasures and spell power to defend himself.

• The Black Mountain Cult Leader dodged Ye Han's first bolt of Purple-Gold Lightning, but the strike badly damaged his Tomb Treasure and wounded him.
• Ye Han activated hidden formation flags, drawing the Black Mountain Cult Leader into the Little Heaven-Covering Formation as he tried to escape.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader attempted to flee, but Ye Han summoned five treasures and unleashed another bolt of Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader used his Tombstone Treasure to block the strike, but the thunder wounded his mind and spirit and halted his escape.
• The Little Heaven-Covering Formation engulfed the Black Mountain Cult Leader, who surrounded himself with his Tomb Treasure and raised his defenses.

Ye Han trapped the injured Black Mountain Cult Leader in the Little Heaven-Covering Formation, but the Golden Core cultivator summoned a terrifying tomb blood man that nearly overwhelmed it. As the formation began to falter, Ye Han combined the five elemental treasures with the Heavenly Thunder Drum and launched a powerful bolt of demon-breaking divine thunder.

• The Black Mountain Cult Leader merged his gravestone and Tomb Treasure, creating a huge tomb blood man armed with a skull hammer and gravestone shield.
• The tomb blood man shattered one of the Little Heaven-Covering Formation’s giant handprints, forcing Ye Han to spend much of his spell power reinforcing the formation.
• Wang Fa and the others remained trapped and under pressure from the Binglian Puppet while the Black Mountain Cult Leader prepared another attack.
• Ye Han channeled the four elemental treasures into the Heavenly Thunder Drum and unleashed a massive bolt of demon-breaking divine thunder at the Black Mountain Cult Leader.

Ye Han used the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation to cripple the Black Mountain Cult Leader and tried to keep him trapped as he fled in his Blood Sword. The Tomb Treasure’s curse backlash halted the Black Mountain Cult Leader in midair, leaving him surrounded by Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.

• The Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation’s Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder battered the blood giant and wounded the Black Mountain Cult Leader.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader fused his Golden Core with his Blood Sword and broke through the Little Heaven-Covering Formation.
• Ye Han swallowed a Blood Restriction Pill and expanded the formation, trapping the Black Mountain Cult Leader again.
• The Black Mountain Cult Leader cut another breach in the expanded formation, but the Tomb Treasure’s curse backlash froze him in midair.
• Ye Han’s formation struck the Black Mountain Cult Leader with successive bolts of Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder as he screamed.

Ye Han killed the gravely wounded Black Mountain Cult Leader with the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation’s demon-breaking divine thunder, but the fight nearly exhausted his cultivation and lifespan. The Purple Cauldron then absorbed the enemy’s cursed treasures and revealed two purple-gold runes resembling ones Ye Han had obtained before.

• Ye Han used the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation to suppress and kill the Black Mountain Cult Leader, destroying his body, golden core, and primordial spirit with demon-breaking divine thunder.
• Ye Han stopped the Blood Restriction Pill’s effects before it consumed more of his lifespan, then gathered the Black Mountain Cult Leader’s Storage Bags and Blood Sword.
• Ye Han discovered that the Purple Cauldron had swallowed the damaged tomb and tombstone treasures.
• The Purple Cauldron’s runic light broke down the treasures and exposed two purple-gold runes, which entered the cauldron.

Ye Han strengthened the Purple Cauldron, then used the Little Heaven-Covering Formation to exhaust Wang Fa and four other Azure Profound Sect disciples before sending the Binglian Puppet to kill Wang Fa. The Fifth Elder discovered his grandson’s shattered Life Token and set out to find the killer.

• The Purple Cauldron absorbed the gravestone and Tomb Treasure, expelled their curse aura, and left Ye Han with clearer divine sense.
• Ye Han strengthened the Little Heaven-Covering Formation, crushing the five trapped disciples with increasingly powerful attacks as they begged, threatened, and tried to escape.
• Ye Han drained the disciples’ strength and then sent the Binglian Puppet to kill Wang Fa, avoiding killing him personally to conceal his involvement from the Fifth Elder.
• The Fifth Elder found Wang Fa’s shattered Life Token, grew enraged, and took out an ancient compass.

The Fifth Elder used Wang Fa’s shattered Life Token to track the killer, while Ye Han hurried to escape through the Ancient Times Teleportation Array. Just as Ye Han repaired and activated the array, a powerful divine sense swept over the mountain.

• The Fifth Elder summoned a blue-lit bird from Wang Fa’s shattered Life Token, marked it with his essence blood, and pursued it to avenge his grandson.
• Ye Han used the Binglian Puppet to kill Wang Fa, Jin Feng, Jiang Ning, and the others, then collected their treasures and destroyed the evidence.
• Ye Han concealed his trail, entered the cavern near Green Ox Village, and uncovered the Ancient Times Teleportation Array.
• Ye Han replaced the damaged Formation Pillars, traced the array with the Three-Eyed Vermilion Sparrow’s essence blood, and set Mid-Grade Spirit Stones in place.
• Ye Han took out Azure Phoenix Fairy’s Teleportation Token and activated the array, but a powerful divine sense swept over the mountain.

Ye Han activated an Ancient Times Teleportation Array as the Fifth Elder tracked him to the cavern and smashed through his defenses. The Fifth Elder attacked just as the array opened, but Ye Han vanished, leaving it unclear whether he had escaped by teleportation.

• Ye Han sensed the Fifth Elder approaching and hurriedly activated the Ancient Times Teleportation Array.
• The Fifth Elder followed the spiritual-energy disturbance, broke into the cavern, and destroyed Ye Han's Dragon-Trapping Formation and elemental formation.
• The Fifth Elder discovered Ye Han inside the Ancient Times Teleportation Array and attacked him as a spatial vortex opened.
• Ye Han vanished amid the blast, and the Fifth Elder was left staring at the badly damaged array.

After the Fifth Elder destroyed the Ancient Times Teleportation Array, Ye Han was thrown out of the spatial passage into an unknown wilderness. He hid from a herd of powerful Demon Beasts, still unsure where he had landed.

• The Fifth Elder regretted destroying the Ancient Times Teleportation Array and began making arrangements to find out whether Ye Han had survived.
• Ye Han crashed into a mountainside and crawled from the rubble, injured but alive thanks to the Teleportation Token, Creation Heaven Cube, Protective Ring, and his formations.
• Ye Han recognized the abundant spiritual energy and demonic aura as signs of dangerous Demon Beast territory, then fled into the forest.
• Several figures arrived at the crater and began searching for Ye Han, but fled when Demon Beasts roared and charged toward them.
• Ye Han concealed his aura as numerous fourth-tier Demon Beasts passed, including one whose power made him fear that he might be in a dangerous place.

Ye Han concluded that he had been teleported to a distant continent and sought a safe place to recover his depleted cultivation. After securing a hidden cave, he examined the storage bags he had taken from the Black Mountain Cult Leader, Wang Fa, and the others.

• Ye Han reasoned that he was probably on the Heaven-Shaking Continent or the Northern Lu Province Continent, since the damaged teleportation array and the Boundless Sea made returning to the Azure Profound Sect impossible.
• Ye Han fled from the demon beasts and cultivators fighting behind him, searching for an area with little demonic aura.
• Ye Han found a barren mountain, carved a cave into a secluded gorge, and concealed it with the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and the Creation Heaven Cube's barrier.
• Ye Han removed his masks and examined the storage bags he had taken from the Black Mountain Cult Leader, Wang Fa, and the others.
• Ye Han found a vast trove of spirit stones, pills, treasures, manuals, and artifacts in the Black Mountain Cult Leader's storage bag, and guessed the leader had emptied his cult's reserves to prepare to flee.

Ye Han used the Treasure Refining Furnace to dismantle unwanted treasures and discovered that the Purple-Gold Runes absorbed by the Purple Cauldron greatly improved its success rate. After five months of recovery and cultivation, he had reached the peak of the third layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm and strengthened his formation, while testing a new idea.

• Ye Han sorted through Wang Fa's and the Black Mountain Cult Leader's treasures and found Jin Feng's Treasure Refining Furnace, which could break treasures down into their materials.
• Ye Han began cultivating with the Purple Cauldron, discovering that the Purple-Gold Runes improved his recovery and cultivation.
• Over five months, Ye Han recovered from his injuries and advanced to the peak of the third layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Ye Han upgraded the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation by replacing the Darkwater Heaven-Earth Bag with the Heavenly Water Bottle and refining the Heavenly Thunder Drum to seventy percent.
• Ye Han used the Treasure Refining Furnace on a low-level spirit artifact and found that the Purple-Gold Runes more than doubled its success rate.

Ye Han dismantled his surplus treasures to gather materials for strengthening the Binglian Puppet, while discovering that the Purple Cauldron improved refining and that the Treasure Refining Furnace grew stronger as it processed treasures. After collecting enough materials, he continued refining the furnace and began making a new arm for the puppet.

• Ye Han concluded that the Purple Cauldron increased his treasure-refining success rate and decided to use his unused treasures to strengthen the Binglian Puppet before leaving his current location.
• Ye Han spent more than a month breaking down treasures from the Upper Tomb Land and his enemies, gathering materials while improving his artifact-refining knowledge and divine sense.
• The Treasure Refining Furnace developed purple-gold runes and grew more powerful, leading Ye Han to consider using it in place of the Truefire Gourd in his Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation.
• Ye Han continued feeding treasures into the evolving furnace and began refining a replacement arm for the Binglian Puppet.

Ye Han used the Ice-Fire Artifact Refining Furnace to enhance the Binglian Puppet, then sent it to kill a wounded Mountain-Breaking Armadillo Demon Beast that entered his formation. Three figures arrived just as the beast fell, leaving Ye Han facing whoever had been pursuing it.

• Ye Han used materials refined from hundreds of artifacts to replace and strengthen components in the Binglian Puppet's arm, then attached the upgraded arm to its body.
• Ye Han reflected that controlling the Absolute Frost Divine Sword would require either reaching Nascent Soul Realm or finding a compatible top-tier ice or water cultivation method.
• A tremor shook Ye Han's cave abode, and he spotted a wounded mid-fourth-tier Mountain-Breaking Armadillo Demon Beast trapped in his Little Heaven-Covering Formation.
• Ye Han ordered the Binglian Puppet to attack, and it killed the beast with its Golden Light Longswords.
• Three figures raced over and one called out upon seeing the fallen Mountain-Breaking Armadillo Demon Beast.

Ye Han encountered three Clear Mystery Sect cultivators who claimed the Mountain-Splitting Armadillo he had killed as their prey. He intimidated them by posing as a Golden Core cultivator and stopped them from leaving, intending to question them for information about the unfamiliar continent.

• Three Clear Mystery Sect cultivators arrived and argued over retrieving the Mountain-Splitting Armadillo, but the Black-Robed Elder warned them about Ye Han’s formation and puppet.
• Ye Han learned the newcomers spoke an ancient language, used the Myriad Images Mask, and emerged to meet them.
• The female cultivator demanded the armadillo back, so Ye Han suppressed the group with his divine sense and claimed the beast as his own.
• The Black-Robed Elder identified the group as Clear Mystery Sect disciples and tried to leave with the others.
• Ye Han stopped the three cultivators as they retreated, leaving them terrified.

Ye Han questioned three cultivators from the Dacheng Region and learned that a Treasure Mountain had appeared in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, claiming many powerful cultivators’ lives. The report reminded Ye Han of the Treasure Mountain on Heaven's Mandate Continent and left him wondering about a danger spanning multiple continents, so he asked whether this mountain had a Heavenly Secret Hall.

• Ye Han threw the Mountain-Breaking Armadillo Demon Beast's corpse to the three cultivators and offered to let them take it if they answered his questions.
• The Black-Robed Elder told Ye Han that they had never left the Dacheng Region, and Ye Han asked about recent movements among cultivators and demon beasts.
• The Black-Robed Elder said a Treasure Mountain had appeared in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range a little over a year earlier, drawing cultivators into a deadly restriction.
• The female cultivator said Golden Core Stage cultivators from several sects had died inside the Treasure Mountain, including a grand elder of the Clear Mystery Sect.
• Ye Han connected the report to the Treasure Mountain on Heaven's Mandate Continent and asked whether the one in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range had a Heavenly Secret Hall.