Chapter Summaries

Ye Han browsed the Treasure Pavilion for a High-Grade Magical Artifact and relied on Han Yuwan to help him choose one suited to his Wood-Type Cultivation Art. Han Yuwan found him the Thorn Ring, and Ye Han decided to exchange for it before she urgently stopped him.

• Han Yuwan explained how the Treasure Pavilion’s Magic Artifacts were arranged and recommended that Ye Han choose a High-Grade Magical Artifact.
• Ye Han recognized the Cold Iron Shield as a treasure he already owned, surprising Han Yuwan.
• Ye Han asked Han Yuwan to recommend a treasure suited to his Wood-Type Cultivation Art.
• Han Yuwan led Ye Han to the Thorn Ring and explained its abilities to trap enemies, strengthen Wood Element Spells, and aid cultivation.
• Ye Han reached for the Thorn Ring to exchange for it, but Han Yuwan hurriedly stopped him.

Ye Han redeemed the Thorn Bracelet and its matching incantation from the Treasure Pavilion, then went to the Scripture Pavilion to collect a cultivation method and an incantation. The chapter ended as a female disciple asked which elements he wanted.

• Han Yuwan retrieved the Thorn Bracelet and its matching incantation for Ye Han, who put them in his Storage Bag and completed the redemption formalities.
• Han Yuwan invited Ye Han to discuss cultivation and spar with spells, but he politely declined and left for the Scripture Pavilion.
• Two disciples saw Han Yuwan treat Ye Han warmly; one was embarrassed when she gave him little help choosing a high-grade magic artifact.
• Ye Han entered the Scripture Pavilion and presented his voucher for a basic cultivation method and incantation.
• The female disciple at the counter asked Ye Han which elements he wanted for his cultivation method and incantation.

Ye Han used the Seventh Elder’s token to secure a Scripture Pavilion pass and persuade a female disciple to let him exchange his vouchers for an intermediate spell. After browsing the Wood Element spell catalog, he chose the Qing Xuan Sword Technique, but the female disciple warned that it might not suit him.

• Ye Han showed the female disciple his token identifying him as the Seventh Elder’s nominal disciple, and she changed her attitude and arranged a free Scripture Pavilion pass.
• Ye Han bound the pass to himself and asked to exchange his basic cultivation art voucher for another Immortal Art because he already practiced the Azure Mystic Art.
• The female disciple offered to combine his two spell vouchers for one intermediate spell, and Ye Han agreed to choose a Wood Element spell.
• Ye Han browsed the intermediate spell catalog, found the Qing Xuan Sword Technique, and chose it despite the female disciple’s warning that it might not suit him.

Ye Han exchanged for the Qing Xuan Sword Technique despite Ye Lingzhi’s warning that it required the Azure Mystic Art and control of three flying swords. He went to read in the Scripture Pavilion’s fee-based section, ignoring the attendant’s demand for payment as he crossed its entrance.

• Ye Lingzhi warned Ye Han that the Qing Xuan Sword Technique required the Azure Mystic Art and enough spiritual sense to control three flying swords, but Ye Han chose to exchange for it.
• Ye Lingzhi gave Ye Han the jade slip and asked him to guide her cultivation; Ye Han agreed to compare notes and exchange insights when they had the chance.
• Ye Han decided to browse the Scripture Pavilion rather than return to his cave abode, and he headed for a section that charged one spirit stone to enter.
• The fee-collecting disciple demanded one spirit stone, but Ye Han ignored him and walked into the section as the attendant expected the barrier restrictions to activate.

Ye Han used his special permission to spend three days reading in the Scripture Pavilion, gathering basic knowledge about cultivation and searching for information on the Purple Cauldron. Back at his cave abode, he studied the Thorn Bracelet’s jade slip and began preparing to learn the Qing Xuan Sword Technique.

• The entrance guard watched Ye Han enter the Scripture Pavilion, surprised when its restrictions recognized Ye Han’s permission and let him pass.
• Ye Han found the pavilion empty and spent three days reading books about treasures, pills, demon beasts, magic artifacts, and cultivators’ experiences, hoping to learn more about the Purple Cauldron.
• After hunger drove him out, Ye Han bought food at the Food Hall and returned to his cave abode, where Zhang Qingshan had not yet returned.
• Ye Han examined the Thorn Bracelet and read its jade slip, learning that it could strengthen his wood element spells and support the Qing Xuan Sword Technique.
• Ye Han took out the Qing Xuan Sword Technique manual, intending to study it.

Ye Han struggled to understand the Qing Xuan Sword Technique but reflected on his growing knowledge of cultivation and the treasures he had read about. He began refining the unclaimed Thorn Bracelet with his blood and spell power.

• Ye Han compared the difficult Qing Xuan Sword Technique with the Vine Soul Technique and resolved to keep improving his cultivation.
• Ye Han considered how becoming the Seventh Elder's registered disciple gave him greater freedom to learn at Seven Mysteries Peak.
• Ye Han recalled reading about cultivators' flying swords, magic artifacts, and rare treasures during his time in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Ye Han found no account of the Purple Cauldron but speculated that Zhang Qingshan's Axe Treasure might be a spirit artifact.
• Ye Han picked up the Thorn Bracelet, pricked his finger, and let a drop of blood essence fall onto it as he began refining it.

Ye Han practiced the Thorn Bracelet’s spells and learned how its powerful heavenly spirit thorn vines differed from the Vine Soul Technique. After two days of study, Zhang Qingshan returned to his cave abode, leaving Ye Han eager to learn how the treasure sales had gone.

• Ye Han activated the Thorn Bracelet with his blood essence, tested its vines, and found that they consumed substantial spell power while he had not fully refined it.
• Ye Han compared the bracelet’s durable heavenly spirit thorn vines with the less costly but fragile vines of the Vine Soul Technique, and planned to use the two together.
• Ye Han studied the spells accompanying the Thorn Bracelet and decided to build his understanding of basic sword techniques before attempting the Qing Xuan Sword Technique.
• After two days of practice, Ye Han used the Thorn Bracelet to bind and crush a heavy stone stool, demonstrating its strength.
• Zhang Qingshan called to Ye Han from outside his cave abode, and Ye Han realized he had returned from selling the treasures.

Zhang Qingshan returned from the Black Market with 8,305 Spirit Stones, but spent most of them preparing for the dangerous Immortal Ascension Assembly in the Darkness Forbidden Ground. He gave Ye Han pills and other supplies for cultivation, leaving Ye Han better prepared as the assembly approached.

• Zhang Qingshan hurried into Ye Han's Cave Abode and asked him to shut the door because disciples from other peaks had followed him back from the Black Market.
• Zhang Qingshan explained that someone had nearly recognized him at the Black Market and that he feared rivals might target him during the Immortal Ascension Assembly.
• Zhang Qingshan told Ye Han that their goods had sold for 8,305 Spirit Stones and warned him never to kill people for their treasures.
• Zhang Qingshan said he had spent 5,632 Spirit Stones on survival and combat supplies for the Darkness Forbidden Ground and gave Ye Han the remaining purchases, including cultivation pills and three Blood Escape Talismans.
• Ye Han accepted the supplies, and Zhang Qingshan explained that he had bought Qi Refining Pills for Ye Han instead of a magic artifact because the pills would be important to his future cultivation.

Ye Han learned that the Seventh Elder had accepted him as a Registered Disciple and discovered that his Cave Abode had once belonged to Seven Mysteries Peak's late eldest senior brother. Zhang Qingshan prepared to enter seclusion before attending the Immortal Ascension Assembly, leaving Ye Han with supplies and three Blood Escape Talismans.

• Zhang Qingshan urged Ye Han to cultivate his body alongside his Spell Power and said Body Refining Pills would support the Blood Refining Art.
• Ye Han told Zhang Qingshan that the Seventh Elder had accepted him as a Registered Disciple, and Zhang Qingshan congratulated him.
• Ye Han asked about the Cave Abode's former owner, and Zhang Qingshan said it had belonged to Seven Mysteries Peak's eldest senior brother, who had died for unknown reasons.
• Zhang Qingshan said he would register for the Immortal Ascension Assembly and enter seclusion, then gave Ye Han three Blood Escape Talismans for emergencies.
• Ye Han inspected the nearly three thousand Spirit Stones' worth of supplies Zhang Qingshan had bought and noticed something he wanted among the basic spells.

Ye Han studied Basic Swordsmanship and practiced controlling the Flying Scale Dagger, while Zhang Qingshan corrected his technique before leaving for the Immortal Ascension Assembly. Once alone in the cave abode, Ye Han tested whether the Purple Cauldron could absorb Body Tempering Pills as well as Qi Refining Pills, and it began drawing in their medicinal power.

• Ye Han studied Basic Swordsmanship and learned how its fundamentals clarified parts of the Qing Xuan Sword Technique.
• Ye Han practiced with the Flying Scale Dagger and refined the Thorn Bracelet while Zhang Qingshan remained in the cave abode.
• Ye Han sparred with Zhang Qingshan, who deflected his attacks and advised him to unite his divine sense, spell power, and dagger, and to gain experience fighting beasts.
• Zhang Qingshan left to register for the Immortal Ascension Assembly after reminding Ye Han to cultivate, make friends, and seek guidance.
• Ye Han sealed the cave abode and placed Qi Refining Pills and Body Tempering Pills beside the Purple Cauldron to test its absorption.
• The Purple Cauldron began absorbing the pills' medicinal power, and Ye Han noticed something strange.

Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to absorb the medicinal energy from Qi Refining Pills, but it could not absorb the Body Refining Pills. He reflected on the cauldron’s mysteries and its possible connection to Green Ox Village and the Azure Profound Sect, then began cultivating with it again.

• Ye Han watched the Purple Cauldron absorb a hundred low-grade and a hundred medium-grade Qi Refining Pills, while the two Body Refining Pills remained unchanged.
• Ye Han concluded that the Purple Cauldron could not absorb the Body Refining Pills and put them away for his own use.
• Ye Han considered the cauldron’s unexplained behavior, including its inability to be bound with blood and its failure to absorb items stored alongside it.
• Ye Han recalled the cave in Green Ox Village, the silk taken by Teacher Lan Qing, and the Azure Mystic Token, and suspected the village concealed a secret tied to the Azure Profound Sect.
• Ye Han resolved to keep the Purple Cauldron hidden from the Azure Profound Sect and began cultivating with it in the Cultivation Room.

Ye Han failed to absorb the Purple Cauldron’s aura and suspected he had hit a cultivation bottleneck, so he went to the Scripture Pavilion to study. After spending half a month reading more than ten thousand books, he met Han Yuwan, who had come looking for him and noticed that he had broken through.

• Ye Han found that his cultivation had not improved and wondered whether a bottleneck or another problem was preventing him from absorbing the Purple Cauldron’s aura.
• Ye Han decided to study cultivation knowledge and body tempering at the Scripture Pavilion, where the guard treated him with newfound deference because he was the Seventh Elder’s registered disciple.
• Ye Han read in the Scripture Pavilion for half a month, finishing more than ten thousand books before hunger forced him to leave.
• Ye Han ran into Han Yuwan, who told him she had come to find him and was surprised that he had already broken through.

Han Yuwan sought Ye Han’s help to hunt an earth-type demon beast that escaped using the Earth Escape Technique. Ye Han learned that his Thorn Bracelet could counter it, but had not yet agreed to help.

• Ye Han discovered that he had advanced to the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Realm while reading in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Han Yuwan led Ye Han away from the Scripture Pavilion, where they encountered Ye Lingzhi, who watched them leave sadly.
• At the Treasure Pavilion, Han Yuwan asked Ye Han to help her complete a demon-hunting mission, and he asked her to explain the danger first.
• Han Yuwan revealed that she wanted Ye Han to use his Thorn Bracelet against a first-tier earth-type demon beast that kept escaping with the Earth Escape Technique.

Ye Han politely refused Han Yuwan’s request to help hunt an earth-type demon beast, claiming he had not finished refining the Thorn Bracelet. Han Yuwan revealed that completing the hunt would earn her a Foundation Establishment Pill and offered him a secret method, leaving her trying to persuade him.

• Ye Han concealed how much he had refined the Thorn Bracelet and told Han Yuwan he could not help with her hunt.
• Han Yuwan asked whether Ye Han owned another treasure that could trap an earth-type demon beast, but he declined to reveal his possessions.
• Han Yuwan brought up the Immortal Ascension Assembly and explained that she feared its deadly competition in the Darkness Forbidden Ground.
• Han Yuwan told Ye Han she was nearly finished with a special sect mission and needed to kill an earth-type demon beast to earn a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Ye Han refused again, and Han Yuwan offered to give him a secret method in exchange for his help.

Han Yuwan offered Ye Han a secret method that strengthened and sped up the refinement of treasures in exchange for his help killing an earth-type Demon Beast. They agreed that Ye Han would help after a month and a half, and Han Yuwan handed him the method before leaving.

• Han Yuwan offered Ye Han a secret method as payment for his help, explaining that it enhanced treasures and reduced the time needed to refine them.
• Ye Han weighed the method against his need to refine his magic artifacts and improve his combat abilities, then asked Han Yuwan for two months.
• Han Yuwan refused the longer delay because it would make her miss her mission deadline, and negotiated the term down to a month and a half.
• Ye Han agreed to help Han Yuwan after a month and a half, having concluded that her urgent bargaining suggested she genuinely needed him.
• Han Yuwan was astonished to learn that Ye Han already had a cave abode on Seven Mysteries Peak, then gave him a Jade Slip containing the secret method.

Ye Han negotiated with Han Yuwan for her Treasure Refining Art and insisted she teach him her cultivation insights in exchange for his help refining her Thorn Bracelet. After learning the art in detail, he left the Treasure Pavilion, while Han Yuwan saw him off despite her frustration.

• Han Yuwan gave Ye Han the Treasure Refining Art, trusting him partly because he was friends with Zhang Qingshan and was backed by the Seventh Elder.
• Ye Han asked Han Yuwan to explain her cultivation insights, arguing that her guidance would help him learn the art in time to refine her Thorn Bracelet.
• Han Yuwan reluctantly agreed and spent four to six hours teaching Ye Han the art and answering his questions.
• Ye Han drank all of Han Yuwan's spirit tea before leaving, leaving her vexed as she personally escorted him out of the Treasure Pavilion.
• Other disciples recognized Ye Han as the Peak Master's newly accepted disciple and envied Han Yuwan's courteous treatment of him.
• Ye Han bought a meal of demon beast meat and spirit fruits, then planned to cultivate the Treasure Refining Art himself.

Ye Han mastered the Treasure Refining Art and spent a month and a half using the Purple Cauldron to refine all his magic artifacts and strengthen himself. He reached the peak of the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Realm and left his cave abode with Han Yuwan to hunt the Earth-Attribute Demon Beast.

• Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to refine all his treasures with the Treasure Refining Art, finishing in a little over twenty days and making them respond to his control with greatly increased power.
• The refining consumed half the Purple Cauldron's stored aura, and Ye Han's cultivation advanced to the peak of the eighth layer before he could no longer use it to cultivate.
• Ye Han practiced basic spells but failed to master the Qing Xuan Sword Technique because he had spread his efforts across too many pursuits.
• Ye Han prepared for the hunt by feeding five high-grade Qi Refining Pills to the Purple Cauldron, leaving it stone-like again.
• Han Yuwan arrived outside Ye Han's cave abode, called him out, and asked if he was ready to set out.

Han Yuwan realized Ye Han was only eleven or twelve after he showed little interest in her appearance, and she changed into practical clothes before they set out to hunt demon beasts. She then asked about his progress refining the Thorn Bracelet, which was essential to her plan for killing a special earth-type demon beast.

• Han Yuwan dressed carefully to impress Ye Han, but he questioned whether her outfit was practical for fighting demon beasts.
• Han Yuwan asked Ye Han his age and learned he was only about eleven or twelve, leaving her embarrassed by her earlier assumptions.
• Han Yuwan asked to use Ye Han's Cave Abode to change, and he let her inside after she explained she only wanted to change clothes.
• Han Yuwan emerged in subdued blue-gray clothing, and Ye Han said she had looked prettier in white.
• Han Yuwan asked how his Thorn Bracelet refinement was going, and Ye Han hinted that he had refined only a tiny bit.

Ye Han told Han Yuwan that he had fully refined the Thorn Bracelet and mastered its divine ability, reassuring her before they set out to hunt an Earthwalker Demon Beast. As they traveled toward Wilds Valley, Han Yuwan admitted she had kept something from him, leaving Ye Han wondering what it was.

• Ye Han told Han Yuwan he had fully refined the Thorn Bracelet and mastered its divine ability.
• Han Yuwan was surprised and pleased, and she urged Ye Han to set out with her for the demon-beast hunt.
• Ye Han and Han Yuwan left the Azure Profound Sect and headed toward Wilds Valley.
• Han Yuwan explained that she sought a second-rank Earthwalker Demon Beast, and Ye Han described its skill at earth escape and its timid nature.
• Han Yuwan told Ye Han she had kept something from him, and he asked what it was.

Ye Han and Han Yuwan hunted demon beasts in Wilds Valley, using his Thorn Bracelet and her Flame Spear to kill an Earth-Armored Beast. Ye Han remained wary of their mission to capture an Earthwalker Demon Beast alive, but agreed to help in exchange for a larger share of their other spoils.

• Ye Han and Han Yuwan trapped an Earth-Armored Beast with the Thorn Bracelet and killed it with Han Yuwan’s Flame Spear.
• Han Yuwan praised Ye Han’s support, and he retrieved the Thorn Bracelet.
• Ye Han recalled that Han Yuwan had told him only after they set out that they needed to capture an Earthwalker Demon Beast alive.
• Han Yuwan offered Ye Han seventy percent of the other demon beasts and treasures they found, persuading him to continue the mission.
• Ye Han agreed to travel with Han Yuwan but took an additional precaution and made another request of her.