Chapter Summaries

Ye Han rescued Ouyang Changning from the Green Pearl Ring and prepared to part ways with her after escaping the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect. Eager to learn what was inside her mysterious box, he agreed to reveal his identity in exchange for a look, and the Purple Cauldron trembled as she brought it out.

• Ye Han revived Ouyang Changning after spatial power in the Green Pearl Ring left her unconscious, and she complained about nearly being crushed.
• Ouyang Changning learned they were aboard Ye Han's fast Flying Boat, and Ye Han said they would part ways once they were farther from the Clear Mystery Sect.
• Ye Han asked to buy the treasure from Ouyang Changning's box, but she refused because it was important to her.
• Ye Han asked to inspect the treasure, and Ouyang Changning agreed if he revealed his real name, appearance, and origins.
• Ye Han removed his Red Mask and identified himself as Ye Han, a stranded disciple of the Azure Profound Sect from another continent.
• Ouyang Changning produced the wooden box, and the Purple Cauldron in Ye Han's divine sense sea began to tremble.

Ye Han learned that Ouyang Changning’s treasure was Geng Metal Spirit Liquid, which he needed in far greater quantities than she possessed. After she revealed that her family’s supply might have come from North Li Boundless Mountain, they parted ways, leaving Ye Han alone to test whether he could bring out the Purple Cauldron.

• Ouyang Changning opened the box and showed Ye Han the Geng Metal Spirit Liquid, whose pure metal-element aura stirred the Purple Cauldron in his divine sense sea.
• Ye Han realized he could control the Purple Cauldron after completing the original runes, but kept it concealed from Ouyang Changning.
• Ouyang Changning explained that she needed the Geng Metal Spirit Liquid to cultivate her family’s Secret Method, and Ye Han assured her he would not take it.
• Ye Han asked where her ancestors had obtained the liquid, and Ouyang Changning said it might have come from a fortuitous opportunity at North Li Boundless Mountain.
• Ouyang Changning and Ye Han exchanged farewells and went their separate ways.
• After Ouyang Changning left, Ye Han prepared to test whether he could bring out the Purple Cauldron.

Ye Han brought the Purple Cauldron out of his divine sense sea and discovered he could enter the space inside it. He began testing the space as a mobile medicine garden, and the seeds he planted immediately absorbed its abundant spiritual energy.

• Ye Han hid in a heavily concealed mountain cave and used the completed Purple-Gold Runes to summon the Purple Cauldron from his divine sense sea.
• Ye Han entered the Purple Cauldron space and confirmed that he could travel into and out of it while the cauldron remained outside his divine sense sea.
• Ye Han examined the space’s abundant spiritual energy and considered growing spirit medicines there, though he could sense little of the area around the cauldron while inside.
• Ye Han reclaimed medicinal plots and scattered spirit medicine seeds across them to test whether the ground could grow different plants.
• The newly planted seeds began absorbing heaven and earth spiritual energy.

Ye Han failed once again to break through to the Foundation Establishment middle stage and decided to leave seclusion to search for his eldest senior brother and new opportunities. He chose North Li Boundless Mountain as his destination while reflecting on the growth and risks of his Purple Cauldron Space.

• Ye Han spent over a month attempting to break through the peak of the Foundation Establishment early stage but remained stuck just short of advancing.
• Ye Han decided to travel rather than continue attempting a breakthrough in seclusion, hoping to find an opportunity and locate his eldest senior brother in Northern Lu Province Continent.
• Ye Han chose to head toward North Li Boundless Mountain after learning that Ouyang Changning's ancestor might have found Geng metal spirit liquid there.
• Ye Han inspected the Purple Cauldron Space and found that its medicinal herbs had gained over a year's maturity in a little more than a month.
• Ye Han considered expanding the Purple Cauldron Space into a mobile cave abode but worried that powerful cultivators might detect and seize the Purple Cauldron.

Ye Han strengthened his talisman-making, completed the Great Dragon-Trapping Formation, and traveled in disguise to Abundant Heaven City to learn about the Northern Lu Province Continent and North Li Boundless Mountain. He entered the Myriad Books Tower to seek information and overheard people discussing the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect’s wanted list.

• Ye Han found that the completed Purple-Gold Runes boosted his talisman crafting success rates and increased the power of talismans he crafted or activated.
• Ye Han spent about a month preparing in his cave abode and successfully crafted the Twelve Formation Flags for the Great Dragon-Trapping Formation using damaged flags as a reference.
• Ye Han restored the cave abode, disguised himself as a middle-aged cultivator in black with the Myriad Images Mask, and flew away on a black Flying Sword.
• Ye Han reached Abundant Heaven City, paid the entrance fee, and surveyed the city while seeking information about North Li Boundless Mountain and the Northern Lu Province Continent’s relation to Great Cheng.
• Ye Han entered the Myriad Books Tower and asked a shop attendant for basic information about treasured lands.
• Ye Han overheard people asking why the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect had put someone on its wanted list.

Ye Han gathered information in Abundant Heaven City about the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect's bounty on him and the route to Boundless Mountain. After buying information and supplies, he left the city without agreeing to travel with Fairy Canghai.

• Ye Han overheard that the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect had placed a bounty on the cultivator who used purple thunder arts at Black Demon Mountain.
• Xiao Chun introduced Ye Han to Fairy Canghai, and he paid her for information about North Li Boundless Mountain and the troubled Azure Kingdom.
• Fairy Canghai offered to accompany Ye Han to Boundless Mountain, but he refused because he was not planning to go soon.
• Ye Han bought more information, sold unneeded treasures, and stocked up on pills, books, and manuals before leaving Abundant Heaven City.

Ye Han decided to travel through the war-torn Azure Kingdom to reach North Li, hoping to find an opportunity to break through while fleeing the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect’s bounty. At Spirit Tiger Cliff, he witnessed Blood Cloud Sect cultivators stop and kill someone trying to escape the kingdom.

• Ye Han learned that the Azure Kingdom’s sect war had spread to Great Cheng’s border, while the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect hunted him and Ouyang Changning.
• Ye Han chose to risk crossing the Azure Kingdom rather than travel through the Boundless Sea, and continued gathering supplies on his way there.
• At Spirit Tiger Cliff, a middle-aged cultivator tried to fly past a barrier but was struck down by a barrage of attacks from blue-robed cultivators.
• The Blood Cloud Sect cultivators looted the dead man’s belongings and stored his body, while Ye Han watched from a thousand zhang away and realized they were blocking cultivators.

Ye Han discovered that the Blood Cloud Sect was ambushing cultivators at Spirit Tiger Cliff and devised a plan to break through their blockade. After luring the sect disciples into an attack, he launched a surprise assault and killed one of them.

• Ye Han observed the Blood Cloud Sect killing cultivators fleeing the Azure Kingdom and estimated that about twenty disciples guarded the passage.
• Ye Han prepared formations and Metal Puppets nearby, then sent the Binglian Puppet to attack the barrier and draw out the Blood Cloud Sect disciples.
• Senior Brother Ning led more than a dozen disciples in pursuit of the Binglian Puppet, which retreated while deflecting their attacks.
• A Blood Cloud Sect disciple suspected a trap, and Ye Han ambushed the group with green sword-rays from the cliff.
• Ye Han used eight Millennium Ironwood Swords to kill one disciple and revealed himself in Hundred-Beast Armor.

Ye Han lured Senior Brother Ning and the Blood Cloud Sect disciples into a series of traps after their Blood Cloud Formation withstood his attacks. When the sect’s forces split up to pursue Ye Han and the Binglian Puppet, hidden formations and Metal Puppets surrounded them, and Senior Brother Ning summoned Martial Uncle Xue for help.

• Ye Han attacked Senior Brother Ning and the Blood Cloud Sect disciples with the Truefire Gourd and Millennium Ironwood Swords, but their Blood Cloud Formation held.
• Ye Han and the Binglian Puppet fled into the Great Dragon-Trapping Formation, which the blood souls destroyed after three breaths.
• Ye Han and the Binglian Puppet split up, prompting Senior Brother Ning to divide the Blood Cloud Formation and send each half after one target.
• A stronger mist formation trapped Senior Brother Ning’s group while ten Metal Puppets formed a Sword Formation around the other Blood Cloud Sect group.
• Senior Brother Ning activated a Messaging Talisman to summon Martial Uncle Xue as the formation’s pressure mounted.

Ye Han trapped the Blood Cloud Sect disciples in the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and used the Heavenly Thunder Drum to shatter their blood souls. Senior Brother Ning escaped through a vortex in a blood-lit Skull Head, leaving Ye Han startled by his void-escape treasure.

• Ye Han destroyed Senior Brother Ning's Messaging Talisman with the Ghost Skull Mirror, cutting off his call for Golden Core Stage reinforcements.
• Senior Brother Ning and the Blood Cloud Sect disciples strengthened their Blood Cloud Formation, but Ye Han controlled the Little Heaven-Covering Formation to suppress it and drain their spell power.
• Ye Han revealed that the Binglian Puppet and ten Metal Puppets had lured another group of nine disciples into a separate Sword Formation.
• Ye Han summoned the seventy-percent-refined Heavenly Thunder Drum and blasted the Blood Cloud Formation's blood souls with Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.
• Senior Brother Ning entered a blood-lit Skull Head and vanished into a vortex as Ye Han's lightning hands struck toward him.

Ye Han killed Senior Brother Ning and the Blood Cloud Sect disciples, then broke through the restriction at Spirit Tiger Cliff and fled toward the Azure Kingdom. After masking his appearance and aura in a forest, he sensed a Golden Core cultivator searching for him and hid inside a tree.

• Ye Han used demon-breaking divine thunder and the Talisman Formation to kill Senior Brother Ning, then collected his possessions and burned his corpse.
• Ye Han took control of the puppet Sword Formation and slaughtered the Blood Cloud Sect disciples, then erased traces of the battle and headed for Spirit Tiger Cliff.
• Ye Han blasted an opening through the unmanned restriction formation and flew inside, refusing to help the cultivators waiting outside escape.
• Ye Han used a Tailwind Talisman to fly toward the Azure Kingdom, then concealed himself in a forest with the Myriad Images Mask and Red Mask.
• Ye Han sensed a Golden Core cultivator approaching and hid inside a large tree as a blood-red streak swept over the forest.

Ye Han escaped the pursuit of Golden Core Stage Martial Uncle Blood and continued through the war-torn Azure Kingdom toward Northern Li. While refining the corpses and dismantling bloodthirsty treasures taken from Blood Cloud Sect disciples, he held to his principles and felt the Mind-Clearing Art begin circulating on its own.

• Golden Core Stage Martial Uncle Blood found Spirit Tiger Cliff deserted, discovered his men had been killed, and pursued the fleeing cultivators.
• Ye Han hid from Martial Uncle Blood, then raced northwest through the forest while avoiding patrols from the Blood Cloud Sect and Yin Fiend Sect.
• Ye Han observed the devastation caused by the sect war and avoided cities caught in the fighting.
• In a secluded cave, Ye Han found hundreds of cultivators’ corpses in the Storage Bags taken from Blood Cloud Sect disciples and burned them in his Treasure Refining Furnace.
• Ye Han used purple-gold lightning to dispel the corpses’ resentful energy and killing intent, dismantled the sect disciples’ bloodthirsty treasures, and felt the Mind-Clearing Art begin circulating on its own.

Ye Han broke through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage after the Mind-Clearing Art began circulating on its own. He then spotted two Spirit Communication Sect cultivators being hunted by Blood Cloud Sect disciples and sensed that the Purple Cauldron was drawn to one unusually ordinary pursuer.

• Ye Han’s Mind-Clearing Art advanced, and he broke through to the fourth layer of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• An explosion drew Ye Han’s attention to a battle between twelve Blood Cloud Sect cultivators and two Spirit Communication Sect cultivators.
• The tall Senior Sister Liang attacked the Blood Cloud Sect pursuers while her plump companion urged her to retreat and cast talismans.
• The Purple Cauldron reacted to an ordinary-looking Blood Cloud Sect disciple, and Ye Han decided to intervene.

Ye Han ambushed a Blood Cloud Sect disciple who had been hiding his strength, but the man detected him and counterattacked with deadly techniques. Their duel escalated into a clash of violet thunder arts, leaving both sects’ fighters stunned.

• Ye Han set up the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and concealed the Binglian Puppet before approaching the battle between the Blood Cloud Sect and Spirit Communication Sect.
• Senior Sister Liang and Junior Brother Li were surrounded, and Junior Brother Li merged with his two-headed demon beast to hold off their attackers.
• Ye Han targeted the dark-skinned Blood Cloud Sect disciple, but the man detected him, fled, then used a feint and nearly invisible threads to attack Ye Han.
• Ye Han dodged the threads and used demon-breaking divine thunder to snap them and trace the attack back to the dark-skinned disciple.
• The dark-skinned disciple countered Ye Han’s violet lightning with violet lightning of his own, leaving Ye Han and the watching cultivators astonished.

Ye Han pursued the dark-skinned brat into the Little Heaven-Covering Formation and destroyed his body with a coordinated attack. The Bloodlight Ancestor emerged from the wreckage, but Ye Han struck him down with the Ghost Skull Mirror and realized who he was.

• Ye Han chased the dark-skinned brat with Thunder Escape, sword attacks, and Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.
• Ye Han herded the brat into the Little Heaven-Covering Formation, where the Binglian Puppet and the formation’s attacks confronted him.
• The brat used a five-skull treasure to try to escape through space, but Ye Han bound him with the Dragon-Binding Bracelet.
• The brat escaped the bracelet with Blood Escape but crashed into the formation barrier and was crushed by Ye Han’s lightning hands.
• The Bloodlight Ancestor emerged from the brat’s destroyed body and tried to flee, but Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to strike him down.

Ye Han killed Bloodlight Ancestor, whose soul strengthened the Ghost Skull Mirror, and took a mysterious treasure from his corpse. He then intervened in the battle between the Blood Cloud Sect and the Spirit Communication Sect, routing the Blood Cloud Sect disciples and pursuing an escapee.

• Ye Han realized the youth was Bloodlight Ancestor, a Golden Core Stage Cultivator who had survived by possessing another body, and the Ghost Skull Mirror absorbed his soul and grew stronger.
• Ye Han found that the Purple Cauldron's target was near Bloodlight Ancestor's heart and stored the corpse, along with his belongings, in the Green Pearl Ring.
• Ye Han concealed himself, then used demon-breaking divine thunder to shatter the Blood Cloud Formation and attacked the Blood Cloud Sect disciples alongside two Spirit Communication Sect Cultivators.
• Ye Han killed several Blood Cloud Sect disciples with his weapons and Heavenly Thunder Drum as the others were driven back.
• After Senior Sister Liang called out that an opponent had escaped, Ye Han sent the newly strengthened Ghost Skull Mirror after him.

Ye Han killed the remaining Blood Cloud Sect disciples, then left Senior Sister Liang and Junior Brother Zhang before they could ask for help. In a secluded ravine, he extracted a phantom resembling the Purple Cauldron from the Bloodlight Ancestor’s body, and its absorption filled him with a frenzied, savage aura.

• Ye Han used the strengthened Ghost Skull Mirror to kill the remaining Blood Cloud Sect disciples and capture their escaping primordial spirits and souls.
• Ye Han collected the disciples’ Storage Bags and treasures, burned their corpses, and immediately flew away from Senior Sister Liang and Junior Brother Zhang.
• Senior Sister Liang and Junior Brother Zhang decided to seek reinforcements for the Fourth Elder and the others.
• Ye Han hid in a mountain ravine, set up layers of defenses, and brought out the Bloodlight Ancestor’s charred body.
• Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to absorb a shadow-like Purple Cauldron Phantom from the Bloodlight Ancestor’s heart.
• The absorbed phantom dissolved into runes, and Ye Han felt a frenzied, savage aura flood his body.

Ye Han suppressed the savage remnant-soul aura Bloodlight Ancestor had left in the Purple Cauldron, discovering that the cauldron had grown stronger and could now absorb Divine Spirit Pills. He refined Bloodlight Ancestor’s body and found a Wild Thunder Violet Lightning rune, then uncovered a clue in the ancestor’s third Storage Bag that made the Purple Cauldron react.

• Ye Han used the Mind-Clearing Art and Divine Spirit Pills to overcome Bloodlight Ancestor’s remnant-soul aura after a day of struggle.
• Ye Han found that the Purple Cauldron’s space had expanded by a third and that it could now absorb Divine Spirit Pills to cultivate his divine sense.
• Ye Han planted more Spirit Medicine Seeds in the cauldron space and discovered that his perception outside it reached a hundred zhang.
• Ye Han refined Bloodlight Ancestor’s body and extracted a Wild Thunder Violet Lightning rune, which he stored in the Heavenly Thunder Drum for later use.
• Ye Han searched Bloodlight Ancestor’s Storage Bags, found a Five Elements Supreme Treasure and other clues, and noticed an object in the third bag that triggered the Purple Cauldron.

Ye Han found geng metal spirit liquid in Bloodlight Ancestor’s Storage Bag and used it to awaken a metal-type spirit root seed in the Purple Cauldron. He traveled toward Boundless Mountain in Northern Li, where he abruptly sensed danger and hid in a tree.

• Ye Han absorbed the geng metal spirit liquid into the Purple Cauldron, causing a golden sapling to sprout but not grow enough to bear a Metal Spirit Root Fruit.
• Ye Han found Bloodlight Ancestor’s Heavenly Thunder Divine Art and treasures, and realized his clash with the remnant soul had strengthened his Mind-Clearing Art and divine sense.
• Ye Han left before the Blood Cloud Sect could learn of Bloodlight Ancestor’s death and traveled toward Northern Li, avoiding fights while killing members of the Blood Cloud Sect and Yin Fiend Sect when he could.
• Ye Han crossed the Azure Kingdom after four days and headed through the forested mountains toward Northern Li, where cultivators faced attacks from the demon race and human ambushers.
• Ye Han sensed something nearby, stopped, and hid inside a large tree.

Ye Han rescued Qin Jiuzhen from four snake demons and collected their remains. After thanking Ye Han, Qin Jiuzhen asked to travel with him to Northern Li.

• Four snake demons cornered Qin Jiuzhen, but Ye Han ambushed and killed them with sword-rays, treasures, and a Ghost Skull Mirror.
• Ye Han explained that he had intervened partly to test the demon race's strength and noted that the snake demons were tougher than ordinary cultivators of their level.
• Ye Han collected the snake demons' bodies and Beast Crystals in his Storage Bag.
• Qin Jiuzhen thanked Ye Han and asked whether he could accompany him to Northern Li.