Chapter Summaries

Ye Han discovered that the Storm Demon King mistook him for Daoist Ling and spotted the demon king’s windspirit cold iron saber. He escaped Storm City’s damaged barrier and unleashed his Blood-Spotted Ants against the attacking beasts, while the city’s defenders questioned whether he was Daoist Ling.

• Ye Han wondered whether someone who looked exactly like him had impersonated him and drawn Zhang Qingshan and Han Yuwan to Storm City.
• Ye Han recognized that the Storm Demon King’s Black Long Saber was forged from windspirit cold iron and decided to pursue him.
• Ye Han broke through Storm City’s damaged Restrictive Barrier, astonishing the Storm City Lord and the cultivators defending the city.
• Seven or eight Flying Bull Beasts attacked Ye Han outside the barrier, so he released over a thousand Blood-Spotted Ants, which rapidly devoured the beasts and their souls.
• Ye Han slapped his Storage Bag again, and icy figures descended from the sky.

Ye Han used venomous insects and metal puppets to disrupt the demon beasts attacking Storm City, then confronted the Storm Demon King. When the Storm Demon King and the other two demon kings attacked him together, Ye Han’s fate remained uncertain.

• Ye Han activated the Puppet God Technique, combining metal puppets into giant warriors that drove back the demon beasts, while his venomous insects slaughtered flying beasts.
• A bamboo-hatted cultivator recognized Ye Han, then vanished as the three demon kings approached.
• The Storm Demon King attacked Ye Han with his windspirit cold iron saber, but Ye Han’s Great Geng Sword Art and demon-breaking divine thunder shattered the saber light.
• The Storm Demon King called on the Purple-Scaled Demon King and Land Calamity Demon King to attack Ye Han alongside him.
• The three demon kings surrounded Ye Han with saber light, sonic shock waves, and massive claw strikes, as the Storm City lord refused to help.

Ye Han fought the three Demon Kings, then trapped them inside the Great Heaven-Covering Formation and attacked them while concealing his abilities from Storm City. The battle ended in silence after only a dozen or so breaths, leaving the Storm City cultivators wondering how Daoist Ling had become so powerful.

• Ye Han dodged the three Demon Kings' attacks and countered the Storm Demon King, then held all three off with his sword and talismans.
• Ye Han activated the Great Heaven-Covering Formation, trapping the Storm Demon King, Purple-Scaled Demon King, and Land Calamity Demon King in a gray mist.
• Ye Han entered the formation and used the Nine-Turn Vajra Art while the formation's huge figures kept the Demon Kings from escaping.
• After a fierce battle lasting only a dozen or so breaths, the fighting fell silent, and the Storm City cultivators speculated that the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell had made Daoist Ling so powerful.

Ye Han killed the three Demon Kings who threatened Storm City, then left without accepting the city lord’s invitation. On the way back toward Heavenly Billows, he discovered that the person mistaken for “Daoist Ling” was his exact double.

• Ye Han used the Great Heaven-Covering Formation and his divine abilities to kill the three Demon Kings, while the Blood-Spotted Ants and Metal Puppets drove off the remaining Demon Beasts.
• The lord of Storm City tried to invite Ye Han inside, but Ye Han refused and warned him not to follow; a man in a bamboo hat secretly pursued Ye Han after he left.
• Ye Han rode White Snow away from Storm Plain with the Storm Demon King's black windspirit cold iron saber and told White Snow to stop asking for the Demon Kings’ spoils.
• Ye Han wondered who had been impersonating Daoist Ling and noted that he still had no news of Zhang Qingshan.
• Ye Han spotted a man reading on a distant mountain peak and realized the man had exactly the same face as him.

Ye Han reunited with Teacher Lan Qing, whom he had abandoned in a lake more than a hundred years earlier, and discovered that Lan Qing’s reborn body looked exactly like his own. Over a familiar meal, Lan Qing confirmed he was the Daoist Ling from Storm City, and Ye Han asked whether he had obtained the opportunity connected to the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell.

• White Snow mistook Lan Qing for an impostor and tried to attack, but Ye Han stopped it and went to meet him.
• Ye Han recognized Lan Qing and explained that he had left him in the lake while fleeing a Demon King, though Lan Qing teased him about his old schemes.
• Lan Qing said the Rebirth Gourd had rebirthed him in Ye Han’s image because it remembered Ye Han’s appearance.
• Lan Qing invited Ye Han to share familiar dishes and wine, and the two toasted to their past in Green Ox Village.
• Ye Han asked whether Lan Qing was the Daoist Ling from Storm City, and Lan Qing confirmed it.
• Ye Han asked whether Lan Qing had obtained the opportunity connected to the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell.

Teacher Lan Qing asked Ye Han to return to the dangerous Heavenly Secret Hall and help recover his original body, but Ye Han resisted his appeals and threats. Teacher Lan Qing then revealed a treasure and asked whether Ye Han was truly uninterested.

• Teacher Lan Qing toasted Ye Han for saving his life, but Ye Han said he was not interested in the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and asked him to state his real purpose.
• Teacher Lan Qing explained that his Rebirth Gourd body had limited potential and that he wanted Ye Han to return to the Heavenly Secret Hall to recover his original body.
• Ye Han questioned the danger and Teacher Lan Qing’s motives, and Teacher Lan Qing tried to persuade him with promises of opportunities and guidance.
• Ye Han rejected Teacher Lan Qing’s appeals, while Teacher Lan Qing joked about using Ye Han’s appearance to harm his reputation.
• Teacher Lan Qing released a burst of treasure light from his Storage Bag and asked Ye Han whether he was really uninterested in the treasure.

Ye Han accepted the Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell from Teacher Lan Qing and negotiated the time required to help him recover his physical body. The chapter ended with Teacher Lan Qing handing over the bell’s cultivation method and a token formalizing their fifty-year pact, while Ye Han raised one more condition.

• Teacher Lan Qing revealed that the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell was a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure and offered it to Ye Han, explaining that he had a way for Ye Han to wield it.
• Ye Han realized Teacher Lan Qing had used his appearance while traveling and had deliberately made the bell’s ownership appear connected to Ye Han.
• Ye Han accepted the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and prepared to leave, but Teacher Lan Qing reminded him that he still needed the method to activate it.
• Teacher Lan Qing asked Ye Han to help him recover his physical body, and the two haggled until Ye Han secured a fifty-year delay.
• Teacher Lan Qing gave Ye Han a Token for the Fifty-Year Pact and the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell Cultivation Method, and Ye Han added that he had another condition.

Teacher Lan Qing reclaimed a new body with the Rebirth Gourd, while Ye Han left for Heavenly Billows and weighed his future return to the Heavenly Secret Hall. Zhang Qingshan and Han Yuwan received an emergency assembly signal from the Azure Profound Sect.

• Teacher Lan Qing used the Rebirth Gourd, revealed it was a Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure, and told Ye Han he would seek him out in fifty years.
• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han that Zhang Qingshan and Han Yuwan had already left Storm City for Heavenly Billows, and Ye Han departed on White Snow.
• Ye Han studied the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell instructions and decided to return to Heavenly Billows while delaying another trip to the Heavenly Secret Hall until his arm healed.
• Beneath a cliff on Storm Plain, an unknown furious voice cursed the humans and vowed revenge over the loss of the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell.
• Zhang Qingshan and Han Yuwan received a flashing emergency signal on their Azure Profound Sect Identity Tokens.

Ye Han returned to Heavenly Billows and learned that the Azure Profound Sect had reopened after a century in seclusion while the Three Divine Sects expanded their power. After gathering information in Azure Cloud City, he decided to return to the sect, first intending to settle a matter that had troubled him for years.

• Ye Han rode White Snow to Heavenly Billows, studying the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and using the Purple Cauldron's power to suppress his injuries along the way.
• Ye Han discovered that the Three Great Sects had united as the Three Divine Sects and were expanding into neighboring Golden Soil.
• Ye Han went to Azure Cloud City to learn what had happened while he was away and heard cultivators speculate about his strength and the Azure Profound Sect's summons.
• Ye Han learned that the Azure Profound Sect had sealed its mountains for a hundred years after he left and had reopened in recent years.
• Ye Han concluded that the sect appeared safe and prepared to return, deciding first to settle a long-standing matter.

Ye Han visited Han Qiushui at Heavenly Peace Market, initially offering to let go of his old betrayal, but discovered him trying to contact the Zhuge Family and captured him. As Ye Han departed with the Zhuge token, he realized the family had targeted him and that Han Qiushui had been acting as its puppet.

• Ye Han appeared before Han Qiushui and said he had come only to visit, despite Han Qiushui confessing that he had once betrayed him to the Black Mountain Cult.
• Han Qiushui secretly activated a black token bearing the Zhuge name after Ye Han left, but Ye Han returned and caught him in the act.
• Han Qiushui tried to escape with a Blood Escape Talisman, but Ye Han struck him with divine sense and froze him with Icicles Storm.
• Ye Han took the Zhuge token and absorbed Han Qiushui into the Treasure Refining Furnace before leaving Heavenly Peace Market.
• Ye Han suspected the Zhuge Family had targeted him and that Han Qiushui had been its puppet.

Ye Han returned to the Azure Profound Sect after learning that the Zhuge Family had taken an interest in him and might be plotting against him. The Qing Xuan Divine Palace reacted to his return, and Ye Han discovered that the sect had three pillars from its secret realm before Han Yuwan came to greet him.

• Ye Han suspected that the Zhuge Family had controlled Han Qiushui, learned of his actions against the Black Mountain Cult, and was targeting his treasures and opportunities.
• Ye Han put away the Zhuge Family token and flew back toward the Azure Profound Sect on White Snow, who asked whether he had found news about its request.
• Ye Han and White Snow arrived at the Qing Xuan Mountain Range, where Ye Han noticed that the sect had far more Foundation Establishment cultivators than before.
• The Qing Xuan Divine Palace stirred inside Ye Han's purple cauldron space, and he sensed that its reaction came from the Main Peak.
• Ye Han spotted three enormous bronze pillars on Qing Xuan Peak and recognized them as pillars from the Qing Xuan Divine Palace's heaven and earth secret realm.
• Han Yuwan flew up to Ye Han on a white Lotus Treasure and called out to him.

Ye Han reunited with Han Yuwan after reaching the Golden Core Stage and met with Elder Liu, who examined his injured arm but refused to treat it. Elder Liu revealed that the Azure Profound Sect had sealed itself away to evade Upper Realm surveillance and hinted that a long-awaited moment had arrived, while questioning whether Ye Han thought he was the one the sect awaited.

• Ye Han reunited with Han Yuwan, who was astonished that he had reached the Golden Core Stage, then went to meet Elder Liu with White Snow.
• Elder Liu told Ye Han that White Snow's choice to follow him was his own responsibility, and White Snow flew away after arguing with Elder Liu.
• Elder Liu noticed Ye Han's injured arm and said he knew how to treat it but could not help because of his own secrets.
• Elder Liu praised Ye Han's progress in the Qing Xuan Divine Palace and explained that he had ordered the Azure Profound Sect to seal its mountain for a hundred years to evade Upper Realm powerhouses.
• Elder Liu recounted the sect's defeat in an ancient war, its decline and long preparations, then asked Ye Han if he believed he was the one the sect had been waiting for.

Elder Liu told Ye Han that he was an unexpected turn rather than the person the Azure Profound Sect awaited, and warned him to hide his identity in Skywave Land. After Ye Han left with instructions for using the damaged Qing Xuan Divine Palace, Elder Liu and Qing Xuan Daoist discussed their suspicions about his connection to someone from the Upper Realm.

• Elder Liu explained that Ye Han was probably an unexpected turn in the sect's fortune and that someone else was the person the Azure Profound Sect awaited.
• Ye Han guessed that Senior Brother Zhang Qingshan might be that person, and Elder Liu neither confirmed nor denied it.
• Elder Liu revealed that the Wang Household had been expelled from the Azure Profound Sect and warned Ye Han not to reveal his identity in Skywave Land.
• Elder Liu gave Ye Han a jade slip explaining how to use the damaged Qing Xuan Divine Palace and told him not to concern himself with the Upper Realm figure.
• After Ye Han departed, Qing Xuan Daoist questioned whether the palace should remain with him and voiced concern that Ye Han might be connected to someone from above.
• Elder Liu said they could only pretend not to notice Ye Han's possible connection, and Qing Xuan Daoist agreed.

After returning to the Azure Profound Sect, Ye Han reunited with Fairy Jade Orchid, who decided to travel and improve her cultivation, and prepared her with protective treasures. He then met Ningyu, now the Peak Master of Elegant Beauty Peak, and offered her a pill, prompting her to tease him about thinking she was old and ugly.

• Ye Han reflected on Elder Liu’s revelations about the Azure Profound Sect and resolved to focus on cultivation before flying to Magnolia Valley.
• Ye Han brought Fairy Jade Orchid back to Magnolia Valley, where she reunited with the magnolia trees she had planted a hundred years earlier.
• Fairy Jade Orchid told Ye Han she planned to travel so she could advance her cultivation and live forever with him, and Ye Han gave her several protective treasures.
• As Ye Han left Magnolia Valley, Ningyu stopped him and revealed that she had become the Peak Master of Elegant Beauty Peak.
• Ye Han congratulated Ningyu and offered her an Eighteen Treasures Beauty Pill, and she teased him by asking whether he thought she was old and ugly.

Ye Han gave Ningyu a lifespan-extending Eighteen-Treasures Beauty Pill, then returned to Seven Mysteries Peak and reunited with Zhang Lingjun, who had also reached the Golden Core Stage. The two visited the Seventh Elder, whose breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm prompted a cryptic remark about someone lacking patience.

• Ye Han gave Ningyu the Eighteen-Treasures Beauty Pill and agreed to visit her cave abode in a few days to discuss something.
• Ye Han returned to his cave abode, where a Senior Sister confronted him after searching for him for more than a century.
• Zhang Lingjun arrived and congratulated White Snow on becoming a Demon King before asking for Ye Han.
• Ye Han greeted Zhang Lingjun, learned he had reached the second layer of the early Golden Core Stage, and went with him to visit their master.
• The Seventh Elder welcomed Ye Han and Zhang Lingjun and confirmed Ye Han's Golden Core breakthrough, then lamented that someone else's impatience had changed how things turned out.

Ye Han learned that his missing Eldest Senior Brother had been a talented disciple who was framed and attacked by the Fifth Elder of the Wang Household before vanishing. The Seventh Elder urged Ye Han to be cautious and then asked whether he would become the Peak Master of Seven Mysteries Peak.

• Zhang Lingjun told Ye Han that he looked almost exactly like Eldest Senior Brother, though neither he nor the Seventh Elder knew whether Ye Han was related to him.
• The Seventh Elder explained that Eldest Senior Brother had poor spirit root aptitude but rose to prominence after a fortuitous opportunity, drawing the envy of others.
• The Seventh Elder and Zhang Lingjun revealed that Eldest Senior Brother was framed within the sect and that the Fifth Elder of the Wang Household had plotted against him.
• Zhang Lingjun said Eldest Senior Brother's Life Token and Soul Token had been destroyed, leaving his fate unknown.
• The Seventh Elder warned Ye Han to be careful, asked about his injured right hand, and proposed that he become the Peak Master of Seven Mysteries Peak.

Ye Han searched for answers about his mysterious Eldest Senior Brother and checked on old friends after returning to the Azure Profound Sect. He learned that Azure Phoenix Fairy was missing and that Han Yuwan was leaving for the Han Household after a member of her lineage was killed, prompting her to question his hurried offer of protection.

• Ye Han rejected the proposal to become Seven Mysteries Peak's Peak Master and reflected on the unanswered questions surrounding Ye Tianyu and his own forgotten past.
• Ye Han found Zhang Qingshan in seclusion attempting to reach the Golden Core Stage and sent him pills to aid the breakthrough.
• Ye Han learned that Azure Phoenix Fairy had been missing for more than a hundred years and worried about Mo Lan and Qin Jiuzhen, who remained on the Northern Lu Province Continent.
• Han Yuwan told Ye Han she needed to return to the Han Household because a member of her lineage had been killed in their market.
• Ye Han quickly offered Han Yuwan treasures for protection, and she asked why he was in such a hurry.

Ye Han returned to Green Ox Village after more than a century and found it flourishing, then discovered that the Azure Phoenix Fairy had repaired the Ancient Times Teleportation Array and left for the Northern Lu Province Continent. Still injured and uncertain about Ye Tianyu and the Fairy, he postponed traveling there and focused on healing and refining his damaged treasures.

• Ye Han found Green Ox Village thriving, with Wang Laocai's family still prominent and a wedding underway, and chose not to disturb the villagers.
• Ye Han discovered that the Ancient Times Teleportation Array had been repaired and protected by a Restriction Formation.
• Ye Han found the Azure Phoenix Fairy's jade pendant and inferred that she had used the array to travel to the Northern Lu Province Continent, possibly seeking him or Ye Tianyu.
• Ye Han decided not to travel to the Northern Lu Province Continent while his injuries remained unhealed and his doubts about Ye Tianyu persisted.
• Ye Han considered using the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and Qing Xuan Divine Palace to heal, and planned to refine the damaged treasures before merging the Qing Xuan Divine Palace into his Purple Cauldron Space.

Ye Han spent eight days refining the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell until he could barely activate it, then successfully fused the Purple-Scaled Demon King's soul into it. He failed to add the Storm Demon King and turned his attention to the Qing Xuan Divine Palace, with the two treasures central to healing his injured arm.

• Ye Han struggled to refine the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell, using the Purple Cauldron Space to restore his Spell Power and reflecting on the danger of trusting Teacher Lan Qing.
• After eight days, Ye Han established a faint connection with the bell but could not yet use its Divine Abilities.
• Ye Han released the Purple-Scaled Demon King's imprisoned Primordial Spirit and Demon Beast Soul and successfully refined them into the bell.
• Ye Han tried to refine the Storm Demon King's soul into the bell, but the attempt was repelled, so he put it away.
• Ye Han examined the Qing Xuan Divine Palace in the Purple Cauldron Space, as it and the bell were key to healing his injured arm.

Ye Han tried to repair the Qing Xuan Divine Palace so he could refine it and use it to treat his arm injury, but his latest attempt failed. Ningyu visited his cave abode to discuss something with him, and Ye Han apologized for forgetting to visit her.

• Ye Han examined the Qing Xuan Divine Palace and realized its damaged hole had to be repaired before he could refine the treasure.
• Ye Han attempted to patch the hole with molten metal, but the repair split apart, so he recorded the failure in his notebook.
• White Snow told Ye Han that a beautiful fairy had come to see him, and Ye Han recognized the visitor as Ningyu.
• Ye Han welcomed Ningyu into his cave abode and scolded White Snow when he tried to follow them inside.
• Ningyu asked whether Ye Han had truly forgotten to visit her or had been avoiding her because he feared she would trouble him.