Chapter Summaries

Ye Han used a restraining formation and the Heavenly Dragon Archers to trap the Three-Transformation Soaring Serpent, then sacrificed the archers in a massive self-detonation to kill it. Red Dragon Girl charged into the blast as Ye Han pushed the Demon-Controlling Divine Bead beyond its limits, leaving her purpose unclear.

• Ye Han's golden-thread formation immobilized the Three-Transformation Soaring Serpent while he directed the Heavenly Dragon Archers through the Demon-Controlling Divine Bead.
• Red Dragon Girl rushed toward the trapped serpent, warned Fairy Ningyu not to follow, and ignored Ye Han's efforts to control the battle.
• Ye Han poured more power into the Demon-Controlling Divine Bead, causing cracks to spread across it as the archers reached the serpent.
• Ye Han made the Heavenly Dragon Archers pierce themselves on the arrows and sacrifice their lives to build a destructive formation.
• The Three-Transformation Soaring Serpent failed to escape the restraints as the archers detonated, and Red Dragon Girl charged into the resulting blood-red explosion in her Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint form.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu helped destroy the Three-Transformation Soaring Serpent, but Red Dragon Girl seized a red orb from its remains and teleported away. Ye Han feared she had taken the key to the trial, then sensed the Purple Cauldron trembling.

• Ye Han chose to prioritize killing the Three-Transformation Soaring Serpent despite suspecting Red Dragon Girl had her own plan.
• Thousands of Heavenly Dragon Archers self-detonated, destroying the serpent while Red Dragon Girl endured the blast behind a misty gray barrier.
• Red Dragon Girl seized a red orb from the serpent's shattered remains, bid Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu farewell, and teleported away.
• Ye Han concluded that Red Dragon Girl had taken the trial's key, while Fairy Ningyu regretted not following her.
• Ye Han noticed the Purple Cauldron in his divine sense sea trembling faintly.

After Red Dragon Girl took the red orb, Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu followed the Purple Cauldron’s growing response into a vast hollow beneath the serpent’s remains. They found ancient spirit iron and continued deeper, drawn toward a greater treasure whose nature remained unknown.

• The Three-Transformation Soaring Serpent’s remains dissolved, revealing a huge hollow that the Purple Cauldron pointed toward.
• Ye Han reassured Fairy Ningyu about Red Dragon Girl and urged her not to compare her with Sword Twenty-Nine.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu entered the hollow and discovered massive pillars wrapped in ancient spirit iron chains.
• Ye Han sent the Binglian Puppet and metal puppets to harvest the ancient spirit iron for future puppet crafting.
• The Purple Cauldron’s response grew stronger as Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu moved deeper into the cavern.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu reached a chamber containing a saint bone and a mysterious purple orb that drew in Ye Han’s divine sense and stirred the Purple Cauldron. Suspecting the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race might have left a dangerous restriction, Ye Han activated the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art, and the saint bone began to tremble.

• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu followed the Purple Cauldron’s growing response through the cave to a table made from bizarre Demon Beast legs.
• They found a golden, many-limbed skeleton seated on the table, holding a purple orb that absorbed Ye Han’s divine sense.
• Fairy Ningyu recognized the skeleton as saint bone, and Ye Han realized its owner must have been a Demon Saint.
• Ye Han stopped Fairy Ningyu from approaching and warned that they should not touch anything carelessly in the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race Trial Grounds.
• Ye Han activated the second layer of the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art, and the saint bone began to tremble.

Ye Han’s Purple Cauldron disguised his aura as that of the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race, prompting the saint bone to create a Dark-Gold Manual before crumbling. When Ye Han reached for the Purple Bead, the Purple Cauldron protected him, swallowed it, and began absorbing its runes.

• The Purple Cauldron shielded Ye Han from the saint bone’s probing gaze and made him appear to belong to the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race.
• The saint bone released its ancient runes into a Dark-Gold Manual, then crumbled into dust and dropped the Purple Bead.
• Ye Han took the harmless manual and, guided by the Purple Cauldron’s warning, reached for the Purple Bead with its protection around him.
• The Purple Bead’s aura immobilized Ye Han and tried to draw out his soul and primordial spirit, but the Purple Cauldron blocked it and swallowed the bead.
• The Purple Cauldron absorbed uncanny runes from the Purple Bead as Ye Han felt its space churn around a mysterious vortex.

The Purple Bead transformed Ye Han’s Purple Cauldron, and he told Fairy Ningyu his Medicine Garden space had changed while hiding the cauldron’s existence. Trapped in the cave after the Red Dragon Girl took the Red Orb, they discovered a hidden passage when Fairy Ningyu’s anger overturned the strange table.

• The Purple Cauldron absorbed the Purple Bead, grew darker, and gained a steadier, more mysterious aura.
• Ye Han told Fairy Ningyu that his spirit medicine space had changed and teased her about living and cultivating together there.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu realized they were still trapped because the Red Dragon Girl had taken the Red Orb, which might have been their way out.
• Fairy Ningyu grew angry at Sword Twenty-Nine and released icy spell power that overturned the strange table.
• The table’s claws struck the cave wall and activated a mechanism, opening a stairway underground.

Fairy Ningyu accidentally revealed that the strange table was a mechanical key, opening a passage beneath it. Ye Han followed the Purple Cauldron’s guidance down one of two corridors with Fairy Ningyu, but the passage seemed endless, leaving them unsure whether they had been led astray.

• Fairy Ningyu’s spell power turned the strange table and revealed it was an enormous mechanical key that opened a passage.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu descended the passage and followed a corridor to a fork with two identical routes.
• The Purple Cauldron reacted to the left passage, so Ye Han chose it and Fairy Ningyu followed.
• The right passage silently sealed itself as Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu traveled more than a dozen li down the left corridor without finding an end.
• Fairy Ningyu wondered if they had fallen into another trick, and Ye Han began to question whether the Purple Cauldron had pointed them in the wrong direction.

Ye Han identified the saint-bone manual as the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race’s Eightfold Bone Refining Art and explained its connection to the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art. He gave Fairy Ningyu the Blood Refining Art and body-tempering pills, and the two reached the end of the passage, where they were met with a shocking sight.

• The Purple Cauldron protested Ye Han’s doubts about its guidance, and Ye Han decided to keep following it with Fairy Ningyu.
• Ye Han studied the saint-bone manual and recognized its writing as an ancient form of Heavenly Dragon Demon Race Script.
• Ye Han deciphered the manual’s name as the Eightfold Bone Refining Art, a method for refining bones that complemented the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art.
• Ye Han promised to teach Fairy Ningyu the method after deciphering it and gave her the Blood Refining Art and body-tempering pills to build her foundation.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu raced several hundred li through the passage and reached its end, where they were shocked and horrified by what they saw.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu navigated a series of deadly forks, with the Purple Cauldron guiding Ye Han toward the safe passages. After Ye Han concluded the paths tested luck, they passed dozens of junctions and saw spirit light ahead, apparently reaching the end.

• At a fork, Ye Han sent a Metal Puppet down the left passage while he and Fairy Ningyu took the right, and the Puppet was destroyed.
• The Purple Cauldron guided Ye Han left at the next fork, and he concluded that each junction tested whether a Cultivator could choose the safe path by luck.
• Ye Han concealed the Purple Cauldron's guidance from Fairy Ningyu, joked with her, and dodged her Sword-Ray as they continued onward.
• Following the Purple Cauldron through dozens of forks, Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu finally saw waves of spirit light ahead.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu reached a chamber with a statue resembling the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint and eighteen numbered doors, which Ye Han believed marked the heart of the Ascension Immortal Palace. They found that each door required an Immortal Palace Coin, and when they realized they had only one left, Ye Han remembered someone who might have more.

• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu reached a vast chamber containing a statue resembling the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint and eighteen numbered doors.
• Ye Han deduced that the statue depicted the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint’s ancestor, who may have owned the saint bone and mastered the Ascension Immortal Palace.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu discovered that each door had a slot for an Immortal Palace Coin, while the Purple Cauldron could not reveal what lay inside.
• Fairy Ningyu gave Ye Han their last Immortal Palace Coin, and Ye Han realized they needed another way to enter more than one room.
• Ye Han suddenly remembered that someone he called a damned bastard might still have Immortal Palace Coins, leaving Fairy Ningyu wondering who he meant.

Ye Han searched the Black God Sea Demon Emperor’s belongings and found an Immortal Palace Coin, then gave Fairy Ningyu the Water Element treasures. When they could not choose among eighteen doors, Fairy Ningyu noticed the statue pointed toward the sixth and tenth doors, leaving them to consider whether the gesture was a trap.

• Ye Han erased the lingering aura on the Black God Sea Demon Emperor’s Storage Bags and Space Rings, then found an Immortal Palace Coin among his belongings.
• Ye Han gathered the remaining treasures and gave Fairy Ningyu the Water Element treasures and cultivation methods.
• Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu examined the eighteen doors, but the Purple Cauldron revealed no clues.
• Fairy Ningyu noticed that the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race statue pointed toward the sixth and tenth doors.
• Ye Han confirmed the statue’s gestures but wondered whether they were a trap.

Ye Han and Fairy Ningyu realized the passage was likely a shortcut left for the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint's descendants, and they considered how to choose among the doors. Fairy Ningyu used the Immortal Palace Coin to enter the sixth door, leaving Ye Han to decide what to do next.

• Ye Han sensed Red Dragon Girl approaching and reasoned that the passage was a shortcut that let them reach the Ascension Immortal Palace's greatest Fortuitous Opportunity Site ahead of her group.
• Ye Han tried to use the Heavenly Dragon Demon Saint's soul and the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art to identify a door, but nothing happened.
• Fairy Ningyu placed the Immortal Palace Coin in the sixth door and was teleported away.
• Ye Han sensed that Fairy Ningyu was safe as the sixth door vanished, then decided to leave the others some trouble.

Ye Han altered the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race statue’s directions before using an Immortal Palace Coin to enter a vast hall filled with sword-practicing statues and mysterious red flames. He discovered the hall held forty-eight statues and powerful sword arts, but he could not activate either his Storage Bag or Space Ring.

• Ye Han rotated the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race statue toward the third and seventh doors, then erased the traces of his spell power and checked that Fairy Ningyu appeared safe.
• Ye Han placed an Immortal Palace Coin in the tenth door and was teleported far beyond the Token’s sensing range into an enormous, star-lit hall.
• Ye Han found Heavenly Dragon Demon Race statues holding swords in varied stances and a furnace containing red flames that repelled his divine sense and resisted his Eye Spirit Art.
• Ye Han examined sword marks on the hall’s walls and saw that their sword intent resembled aspects of his Great Geng Sword Art, Immortal Race Swordsmanship, and the Yin-Yang Sword Sect’s swordsmanship.
• Ye Han counted forty-eight statues and tried to put one into his Storage Bag, but discovered that neither his Storage Bag nor his Space Ring could be activated.

Ye Han discovered that the chamber sealed his spatial treasures and most of his techniques, then was attacked by a Heavenly Dragon Demon Race statue. He survived the sword strike with the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art and the Creation Immortal Stone’s azure-blue flame, and suspected that only Heavenly Dragon Demon Race cultivation methods worked there.

• Ye Han found that he could not access the Purple Cauldron Space, the Purple Cauldron in his Divine Sense Sea, or his stored supplies, so he decided to rely on himself.
• Ye Han approached a Heavenly Dragon Demon Race statue, which animated and slashed at him with a sword-ray carrying stellar sword intent.
• Ye Han found that the Thunder Escape Technique and demon-breaking divine thunder were sealed, so he blocked with the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art and suffered cuts to both arms.
• The Creation Immortal Stone’s azure-blue flame shattered the remaining sword-ray and sent Ye Han crashing into a wall.
• Ye Han noticed that the flame’s corrosive power over his right arm seemed slightly reduced, then tested his techniques and found that his Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art worked while his other cultivation methods did not.

Ye Han studied the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race Statues’ swordsmanship and deduced that the Ascension Immortal Palace held the legacy of a splinter lineage driven from the race. He discovered the sword forms complemented the Eightfold Bone Refining Art and began studying both, while worrying about Fairy Ningyu and Sword Twenty-Nine’s trials.

• Ye Han found that his sword arts still worked and realized he had to study the statues’ swordsmanship to reach the fire furnace.
• As he watched the statues, Ye Han sensed grief and defiance in their sword forms and deduced that the palace’s master had led a lineage away from the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race after a conflict.
• Ye Han noticed that the statues’ sword stances complemented the Eightfold Bone Refining Art, which he had obtained from the saint bone.
• Ye Han sat down to study the Eightfold Bone Refining Art, the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art, and the statues’ swordsmanship, then worried about Fairy Ningyu and Sword Twenty-Nine.

After mastering the first level of the Eightfold Bone Refining Art, Ye Han challenged the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race statues again, wielding a bone sword and using Divine Insight Swordsmanship. He shattered one statue, and the others froze, leaving him wondering whether he had broken their sword formation.

• Ye Han formed a bone sword with the Eightfold Bone Refining Art, healing his injured arm more than halfway and greatly strengthening his body.
• Ye Han charged the statues, determined to break their sword formation and escape so he could find out how Fairy Ningyu was doing.
• Ye Han used Divine Insight Swordsmanship and his bone sword to deflect the first statue's attack and break the swords of several others.
• Ye Han punched a cracked statue apart, causing every remaining statue to freeze.

Ye Han destroyed one of the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race statues, disabling the sword formation and allowing him to approach the central furnace. The Ascension Immortal Palace master's mental imprint detected his human aura and trapped him with the hall's restrictions, leaving him to claim he carried half the master's bloodline.

• Ye Han used his improved swordsmanship, Eightfold Bone Refining Art, and bone sword to shatter a statue and stop the formation.
• Ye Han approached the central furnace, where a wave of red spirit light struck his soul and summoned the Ascension Immortal Palace master's mental imprint.
• The imprint questioned Ye Han's human aura and activated the hall's restrictions, pinning him beneath a pillar of starlight.
• Ye Han told the imprint he was its descendant and carried half its bloodline.
• The imprint angrily challenged the claim but made no further move.

Ye Han deceived the Ascension Immortal Palace’s divine will into recognizing him as a descendant and received the Starry Sky Stone, learning that the palace was actually the Star Palace. The Purple Cauldron absorbed the stone, and Ye Han discovered that the furnace had disappeared.

• Ye Han claimed his lineage had been nearly wiped out by the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race, convincing the Ascension Immortal Palace’s master that he was a half-blood descendant.
• The master gave Ye Han the Starry Sky Stone and memories revealing his defeat, his flight from the Heavenly Dragon Demon Race, and the Star Palace’s true name.
• Ye Han learned that the Starry Sky Stone contained time laws and that the master had hoped a descendant would return to avenge their lineage.
• The Purple Cauldron pulled the Starry Sky Stone inside and began absorbing its power, causing starlight to appear across the cauldron and within its space.
• Ye Han looked for the furnace and found that it was gone.

Ye Han used the red Immortal Palace Coin to escape the Ascension Immortal Palace, only to be struck by Sword Twenty-Nine as he arrived. He found Fairy Ningyu frozen by Sword Twenty-Nine’s attack and faced the swordsman, uncertain what had happened to her.

• Ye Han recognized the furnace and red Immortal Palace Coin as likely diversions, stored the furnace in his Purple Cauldron Space, and prepared his treasures.
• Ye Han grasped the red Immortal Palace Coin and was teleported out of the palace.
• Sword Twenty-Nine ambushed Ye Han during the teleportation, damaging his Six-Gate Cosmic Armor and blasting him into a wall.
• Ye Han saw Fairy Ningyu impaled by an ice sword, and she urged him to run before the frost froze her completely.
• Sword Twenty-Nine identified Ye Han as Fairy Ningyu’s dual cultivation partner, and Ye Han recognized the attacker as Sword Twenty-Nine.

Ye Han saved Fairy Ningyu from immediate destruction by bringing her into the Purple Cauldron Space and ordering the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit to preserve her soul and primordial spirit. Sword Twenty-Nine then unleashed a deadly strike, but Ye Han blocked it, and the two faced off at the Ascension Immortal Palace.

• Ye Han fought off Sword Twenty-Nine's sword-rays and pulled the icebound Fairy Ningyu into the Purple Cauldron Space.
• Ye Han ordered the Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit to preserve Fairy Ningyu's soul and primordial spirit, and the spirit entered her body to try to save her.
• Sword Twenty-Nine attacked Ye Han from behind with a sealing sword strike, overpowering the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell and breaking through all six gates of Ye Han's Six-Gate Cosmic Armor.
• Ye Han countered with the Bone-Refining Bone Sword and clashed head-on with Sword Twenty-Nine in the plaza before the Ascension Immortal Palace.
• Sword Twenty-Nine praised Ye Han for blocking his ultimate technique and prepared to fight him in earnest.