Chapter Summaries

Ye Han and Old Fox were discovered by three Mountain Stone Beasts and fought their way onward while trapped in the five elements binding storm. Ye Han combined twenty Metal Puppets into a towering warrior and struck at the beasts’ chains.

• The three Mountain Stone Beasts detected Ye Han and Old Fox, charged toward their hiding place, and attacked them with a crushing stone fist.
• Old Fox released twenty Metal Puppets, whose linked shields blocked the beast’s blows and gave him and Ye Han time to flee.
• Two more Mountain Stone Beasts joined the attack, swinging magma-covered hands on enormous chains at the puppet formation.
• Ye Han released twenty Metal Puppets of his own and combined them into a giant Metal Puppet that slashed at the chains.

Ye Han and Old Fox fought the Mountain Stone Beasts with giant Puppets, using their sword techniques to deflect the beasts’ chained lava fists. When more beasts arrived, Old Fox revealed his own skill at puppet combat, and Ye Han’s strike made one beast’s chains wrap around its body.

• Ye Han used his giant Metal Puppet to deflect the Mountain Stone Beasts’ chains, while Old Fox praised his swordsmanship.
• Ye Han and Old Fox retreated while their Puppets’ attacks carved grooves into the beasts’ rocky bodies without causing serious damage.
• Two more Mountain Stone Beasts charged, and Old Fox warned Ye Han not to let them join forces.
• Old Fox combined thirty Puppets into a giant sword-and-shield Puppet that drove one beast backward.
• Ye Han sent his giant Puppet up a beast’s arm and struck its chains, causing them to whip around and wrap around the beast itself.

Ye Han and Old Fox escaped the Mountain Stone Beasts after tangling their chains and briefly knocking them down. As the beasts reformed from lava and gave chase, the two neared the Inheritance Tower at the Fortuitous Opportunity Site.

• Ye Han used his puppet to tangle a Mountain Stone Beast’s chains and slash its eyes while it lay trapped.
• Old Fox’s puppets tangled the chains of two more Mountain Stone Beasts, but he urged Ye Han to stop attacking and flee.
• Ye Han and Old Fox recalled their puppets and ran, preserving them for reaching the topmost inheritance layer and rescuing Old Fox’s physical body.
• The Mountain Stone Beasts turned themselves into lava, freed their chains, and pursued Ye Han and Old Fox.
• Ye Han sensed the Purple Cauldron trembling more intensely, and Old Fox announced that they were almost at the Inheritance Tower.

Ye Han and Old Fox reached the Inheritance Tower while fleeing the Mountain Stone Beast, then entered to face its trials. A hidden figure followed them inside, recognizing Old Fox as someone from the Puppet God Cult.

• Ye Han recognized the colossal tower as the one on his map, and the Purple Cauldron sensed treasures inside it.
• Old Fox asked Ye Han for a Heavenly Secret Token, and Ye Han gave him one so they could enter the Legacy Treasure Pagoda.
• The tower’s wind chimes stopped the Mountain Stone Beast from approaching, while its Flying Dragon Statues inspected Ye Han and Old Fox and let them pass after their tokens activated.
• Old Fox entered the Inheritance Tower first and told Ye Han to clear the first four layers alone, promising to wait on the fifth.
• Ye Han entered the tower, and a hidden figure emerged from the ground and followed, suspecting Old Fox belonged to the Puppet God Cult.

Ye Han entered the Inheritance Tower and found that his compass could no longer guide him, though the Purple Cauldron still sensed a valuable treasure inside. On the first floor, more than ten thousand Ironclad Beasts surrounded him, and he launched a counterattack with his swords and Truefire Gourd.

• Ye Han entered the Inheritance Tower, questioned whether it truly held an inheritance, and found that the Gold-and-Silver Runes Compass no longer pointed the way.
• Ye Han sent two Puppets ahead across the barren first floor, where flight and Divine Sense were restricted.
• Ironclad Beasts burst out of the ground and gathered into a vast swarm of more than ten thousand.
• Ye Han recalled his Puppets, summoned eight Millennium Ironwood Swords and the Truefire Gourd, and attacked the charging beasts with flames.
• Ye Han charged directly at the Ironclad Beasts.

Ye Han battled through a swarm of armored beasts, using the Truefire Gourd to expose gaps in their defenses and his swords, fist, and movement technique to defeat them. As the beasts continued attacking, he sent Blood-Spotted Ants to consume their corpses and grow.

• Ye Han used the Truefire Gourd’s heat to raise the armored beasts’ scales, then pierced their weakened defenses with his Millennium Ironwood Swords.
• The Ghost Skull Mirror absorbed the souls of fallen beasts as Ye Han pressed forward through the swarm.
• Ye Han punched the beasts that reached him, sending them flying with powerful golden fist barrier qi.
• The armored beasts retaliated with beams of bloody light, but Ye Han dodged them with the Cloud-Chasing Divine Steps.
• Ye Han released Blood-Spotted Ants to devour the armored beasts’ corpses, absorbing their qi, blood, and Beast Crystals.

Ye Han used his Blood-Spotted Ants to fight the seemingly endless Ironclad Beasts in the Inheritance Tower and identified a blood-red beast as the one that stood out among them. When it fled underground, Ye Han pursued it, determined not to let it escape.

• Ye Han released his Blood-Spotted Ants, which swarmed and devoured an Ironclad Beast before splitting into several clouds to attack the others.
• Ye Han searched the battlefield with the Eye Spirit Art and spotted a blood-red Ironclad Beast with a circular rune on its back.
• Ye Han hurled another Ironclad Beast toward the blood-red one, which dodged while the other beasts did not.
• Ye Han charged through the Ironclad Beasts with his Soul-Slaying Sword, and the blood-red beast fled by burrowing underground.
• Ye Han declared that the blood-red Ironclad Beast would not escape.

Ye Han killed the special blood-red Ironclad Beast, whose death opened a gateway to the second layer. After collecting the fallen beasts and tending to his Blood-Spotted Ants, he entered the gateway and found a huge metal block floating overhead.

• Ye Han used the Thick Earth Iron Mountain to force the blood-red Ironclad Beast aboveground, then struck it with Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder and severed its neck with the Soul-Slaying Sword.
• The remaining Ironclad Beasts fled underground, and Ye Han stopped the Blood-Spotted Ants from chasing them.
• The dead blood-red Ironclad Beast became Bloodlight Runes that opened a spatial gateway, confirming Old Fox’s advice about finding a special Demon Beast to reveal the exit.
• Ye Han gathered the Ironclad Beast corpses, stored the Blood-Spotted Ants in the Insect Chamber, and replenished his energy.
• Ye Han entered the gateway and arrived in an enormous space beneath a huge floating metal block.

Ye Han discovered that the Second Layer’s trial centered on a giant cube made of numbered blocks, which he could manipulate only with Divine Sense. He realized he would need to plan his rotations carefully, as the puzzle tested both his mental strength and his ability to calculate.

• Ye Han searched the empty Second Layer and found only a giant metal cube covered in blocks marked with the numbers one through six.
• Ye Han found that his Divine Sense connected to the cube and that withdrawing it caused the cube to shift, while his Spell Power was blocked by a barrier.
• Ye Han used Divine Sense to rotate the cube once and felt the heavy mental strain it caused.
• Ye Han concluded that he needed a careful sequence of rotations to align the matching numbers without wasting Divine Sense.

Ye Han tried to solve the enormous Six-Sided Metal Block by using his divine sense to arrange each number onto its own side, but the task severely strained him. After he spent hours gathering most of the ones together, the block activated and scrambled itself, undoing his progress.

• Ye Han concluded that the metal block was a trial requiring him to use divine sense to arrange each of the six numbers on its own side, while a barrier prevented him from moving it with spell power.
• Ye Han used the Mind-Clearing Art and Puppet God Technique to strengthen his divine sense, but the block weakened its force and moved only slowly.
• Ye Han began rotating the block's many numbered faces, planning to gather all the ones onto a single side first.
• After Ye Han brought seven or eight hundred ones together and exhausted much of his divine sense, the block released runes that blasted his divine sense away.
• The metal block rotated wildly on its own and scattered the ones Ye Han had arranged, leaving Ye Han frustrated.

Ye Han discovered that the enormous metal block reset itself after six hours, forcing him to solve it faster by tracking all six faces at once. After stopping to recover his exhausted divine sense, he found that meditating had pushed it past its upper-limit bottleneck.

• Ye Han estimated that the metal block scrambled its numbers again after six hours, erasing his progress.
• Ye Han began tracking all six faces with his divine sense and matched more than a hundred small faces in a few dozen rotations.
• Ye Han stopped after an hour when his divine sense was exhausted and decided to recover before attempting the puzzle again.
• Ye Han took a superior-grade Divine Spirit Pill and circulated the Mind-Clearing Art to restore his divine sense.
• Ye Han discovered that his divine sense had broken through its bottleneck and increased slightly.

Ye Han discovered that working the Metal Block had pushed his divine sense beyond its Foundation Establishment limit, but the puzzle became harder as he progressed. After the block scrambled his work sooner than before and increased its resistance, he was left unsure how to pass the trial.

• Ye Han realized that repeatedly turning the Metal Block had broken through his divine sense’s Foundation Establishment limit and slightly advanced his Mind-Clearing Art and Puppet God Technique.
• After about six hours, the Metal Block scrambled itself, forcing Ye Han to start arranging its numbers again.
• Ye Han restored his divine sense, resumed turning the block, and improved his pace by tracking the numbers and planning several moves ahead.
• As Ye Han gathered most numbers onto their matching faces, the Metal Block increased its resistance, forcing him to take a superior-grade Divine Spirit Pill to keep going.
• Before six hours had passed, the Metal Block expelled Ye Han’s divine sense and scrambled his progress; Ye Han realized its reset interval shortened with repeated turns and wondered what failure would mean.

Ye Han solved the Metal Block trial on the Second Layer and entered the Third Layer, where a powerful divine sense revealed the presence of Baleful Yin Ancestor. The chapter left Ye Han facing this unexpected encounter in a vast mountain-and-forest landscape.

• Ye Han devised a more efficient plan to rotate the Metal Block as each failure shortened his time limit and increased its resistance.
• On his fifth attempt, Ye Han used two superior-grade Divine Spirit Pills to restore his divine sense and arrange all six numbered faces in order.
• The Metal Block shrank into a fist-sized block and opened a Spatial Rift, which Ye Han recognized as the entrance to the Third Layer.
• Ye Han stored the Metal Block, noted that his divine sense had grown stronger, and entered the Teleportation Passage.
• Ye Han arrived in a vast expanse of mountains and forests, then sensed a powerful divine sense sweeping toward him and exclaimed, "Baleful Yin Ancestor?!"

Ye Han encountered Baleful Yin Ancestor on the Inheritance Tower’s third layer and fled rather than fight the Middle Golden Core Stage pursuer. Baleful Yin Ancestor resolved to catch him and uncover the secrets behind his strength.

• Baleful Yin Ancestor recognized Ye Han and charged at him, eager to take revenge and claim his treasures.
• Ye Han used the Thunder Escape Technique to teleport away as Baleful Yin Ancestor pursued him with killing intent.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor launched a massive skull of killing intent, but Ye Han escaped before it could strike.
• Ye Han repeatedly used the Thunder Escape Technique to travel thousands of zhang and nearly leave the range of Baleful Yin Ancestor’s divine sense.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor marveled at Ye Han’s repeated escapes and vowed to catch him and learn the secrets of his opportunities.

Ye Han used repeated Thunder Escape Techniques to flee Baleful Yin Ancestor, who pursued him but lost his trail. Baleful Yin Ancestor searched the area and sent out Killing Intent Ghost Shadows to find him.

• Baleful Yin Ancestor repeatedly used his Killing Intent Escape Technique to catch up with Ye Han, who escaped again with bursts of purple-gold lightning.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor realized his escape techniques were rapidly consuming his power, while Ye Han seemed able to use his Thunder Escape Technique without tiring.
• After pursuing Ye Han for over a dozen li, Baleful Yin Ancestor lost the traces of his lightning and concluded Ye Han had hidden nearby.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor searched the surrounding area with his divine sense but found no sign of Ye Han or any other living creatures.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor summoned his Black-Red Gourd and released Killing Intent Ghost Shadows to search for Ye Han.

Ye Han hid from Baleful Yin Ancestor on the third layer of the Inheritance Tower and suspected the tower required them to fight for passage. As he searched for another way forward, Baleful Yin Ancestor unleashed a deadly, freezing attack that threatened to sweep over him.

• Ye Han used the Myriad Images Mask and the Red Mask to conceal his aura after escaping Baleful Yin Ancestor with the Thunder Escape Technique.
• Ye Han worried Baleful Yin Ancestor would find a way to counter his escape technique and resolved to find a route to the fourth layer.
• Ye Han noticed the third layer seemed devoid of living creatures and questioned how he was supposed to pass it.
• Ye Han suspected the tower had sent him and Baleful Yin Ancestor to the same layer so they would have to kill each other to advance.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor sent ghostly figures within a freezing gale of killing intent toward Ye Han, who realized the attack could not be allowed to reach him.

Ye Han realized the Inheritance Tower had trapped him and Baleful Yin Ancestor on the same floor so they would fight for the right to advance. He began planning how to defeat the middle Golden Core Stage cultivator, but still needed more puppets to make his strategy viable.

• Ye Han used Cloud-Chasing Divine Steps to evade the Killing Intent Ghost Shadows that Baleful Yin Ancestor sent sweeping across the area.
• Ye Han found no creatures, Heavenly Secret constructs, or worthwhile treasures on the floor and concluded that it was designed to force him and Baleful Yin Ancestor to fight.
• Ye Han assessed Baleful Yin Ancestor’s strength and considered weakening him before deploying a Puppet Grand Formation, using the ancestor’s severed hand as bait.
• Ye Han realized his improved divine sense and the Purple Cauldron’s ability to restore spell power could let him control a hundred puppets, but he had only seventy-odd puppets available.

Baleful Yin Ancestor tried to track down Ye Han by spreading killing intent across the Third Layer, convinced that one of them had to kill the other to advance. After eight days, he had still failed to find Ye Han and wondered whether the younger cultivator had taken to the skies or reached the Fourth Layer.

• Baleful Yin Ancestor recalled his Black-Red Gourd after a Killing Intent Ghost Shadow returned without finding Ye Han.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor reasoned that the Third Layer forced him and Ye Han to fight, and planned to cover the layer with killing intent to track Ye Han.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor unleashed Killing Intent Ghost Shadows throughout the Third Layer, hoping to mark Ye Han and counter his Thunder Escape Technique.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor spent eight days blanketing the Third Layer with killing intent, withering its plants and trees but failing to locate Ye Han.
• Baleful Yin Ancestor wondered whether Ye Han had taken to the skies or entered the Fourth Layer, then insisted that Ye Han must still be hiding on the Third Layer.

Ye Han hid inside the Purple Cauldron to evade Baleful Yin Ancestor’s sweeping search and refined puppets to prepare for a fight. He planned to build a hundred-puppet formation and use additional traps to kill Baleful Yin Ancestor.

• Baleful Yin Ancestor searched the third layer with killing intent but could not find Ye Han.
• Ye Han concealed the stone-form Purple Cauldron deep inside a mountain and entered its space, where Baleful Yin Ancestor could not detect him.
• Ye Han refined puppet parts inside the Purple Cauldron to strengthen his chances against the Middle Golden Core Stage Baleful Yin Ancestor.
• Ye Han planned to use a hundred-puppet formation, refine spare puppets, and spring additional traps on Baleful Yin Ancestor.

After searching the Third Layer for nearly a month, the Baleful Yin Ancestor finally sensed Ye Han and his severed hand, but their auras split in opposite directions. Suspecting a trap, he chose to chase Ye Han and left his hand behind.

• The Baleful Yin Ancestor despaired of finding Ye Han or a way out of the Third Layer as his killing intent began to fade.
• The Baleful Yin Ancestor sensed Ye Han’s aura and the aura of his severed hand, then hurried toward them.
• The Baleful Yin Ancestor noticed the two auras moving in opposite directions and suspected Ye Han was luring him into a trap.
• The Baleful Yin Ancestor reached the foot of a mountain and weighed whether to pursue his severed hand or Ye Han.
• The Baleful Yin Ancestor abandoned his hand and raced after Ye Han’s aura.