Chapter Summaries

Ye Han, Zhang Qingshan, and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor argued over whether to pursue the Sprout Birds, each probing what the others knew about the secret realm. They agreed to proceed cautiously under Ye Han’s lead as a powerful aura stirred in the mountain forest where the birds had fled.

• The Sprout Birds escaped into the mountain forest, while the Wooden Giants lost their Greenlight Runes and burned to ashes.
• The Sea Dragon Demon Emperor chased the birds briefly, then stopped when he sensed danger and challenged Zhang Qingshan for refusing to follow.
• Ye Han recognized that the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor was probing them and warned Zhang Qingshan not to reveal his abilities.
• Ye Han proposed that they vote when they disagreed and reminded the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor that the humans had not come to take his orders.
• The Sea Dragon Demon Emperor agreed to follow Ye Han’s lead, while the forest where the Sprout Birds had fled erupted with winds, swirling leaves, and Greenlight Runes.

Ye Han recognized that the uncanny face was a demon spirit rather than the master of the great illusory spirit realm and challenged it to reveal itself. The demon spirit merged with its tree giant and attacked Ye Han, Zhang Qingshan, and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor, leaving Ye Han facing a devastating saber strike.

• The uncanny face warned Ye Han, Zhang Qingshan, and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor to leave the great illusory spirit realm within fifteen minutes and summoned a giant made of trees.
• Ye Han pretended he could not find the exit, then accused the uncanny face of being a demon spirit that did not control the realm.
• Ye Han formed a Qing Xuan Sword Formation and led Zhang Qingshan and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor in attacking the tree giant.
• The furious demon spirit merged into the tree giant, strengthening it and giving it a green shield and saber.
• The tree giant blocked Ye Han's flaming sword-rays with its shield and unleashed a powerful saber-ray toward his head.

Ye Han, Zhang Qingshan, and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor drove off a cunning Demon Spirit Treant and surveyed the strange, lifeless Great Illusory Spirit Realm. They chose to travel along its enormous columns, but a powerful rune formation activated as they passed the first one.

• The Demon Spirit Treant escaped underground while Ye Han, Zhang Qingshan, and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor attacked, then threatened them from the Jungle before its wooden body burned to ashes.
• Zhang Qingshan and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor warned that the Demon Spirit could mean danger and fewer Heavenly Treasures in the Secret Realm.
• Ye Han and the others examined the ancient columns and found abundant life force but no living creatures or Heavenly Treasures.
• Zhang Qingshan advised following the columns, and Ye Han agreed that the barren ground below might conceal greater dangers.
• The Sea Dragon Demon Emperor took the lead as the three flew toward a column, and Ye Han suspected he was concealing his true strength.
• A powerful rune formation appeared on the first column as the three passed it, drawing in Heaven and Earth spiritual energy.

Ye Han fought and captured an ape demon beast soul that emerged from the Sky-Piercing Pillar’s rune formation. After the vortex vanished, Zhang Qingshan and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor were nowhere to be seen, leaving Ye Han to wonder where they had gone.

• The Sky-Piercing Pillar’s runes formed an enormous ape demon phantom whose roar created a gray vortex that swallowed Zhang Qingshan and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor.
• Ye Han resisted the vortex with his Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder and escaped above the pillar.
• Ye Han destroyed the ape demon phantom with purple-gold lightning and captured its demon beast soul in the Ghost Skull Mirror.
• Ye Han examined the pillar’s ancient demon race script as its vortex dissipated, but Zhang Qingshan and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor had disappeared.

Ye Han searched the pillars for Zhang Qingshan and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor, then released his strange insects to explore the vast Secret Realm. He sensed a whole group of insects vanish near a black hole and flew toward the spot.

• Ye Han examined an empty pillar and found no sign of Zhang Qingshan or the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor.
• Ye Han tested another pillar, found it damaged but uneventful, and decided that searching each pillar himself would take too long.
• Ye Han released groups of Blood-Spotted Ants and Poison Centipede Insects to search the ground and surrounding pillars.
• Ye Han monitored the insects while flying toward another intact pillar, which showed no reaction.
• Ye Han sensed one group of insects vanish and spotted a pitch-black hole rapidly closing where they had been.

Ye Han followed the soul connection to his Strange Insects through the vast Secret Realm, suspecting that its black holes were gathering creatures and Heavenly Treasures. He reached sight of an immense mountain made of stacked peaks, but a restriction suddenly sent him plunging toward the ground.

• Ye Han sensed that his Poison Centipede Insects and Blood-Spotted Ants had been swallowed by the black holes, then traced their faint soul connection and followed it.
• Ye Han sent Blood-Spotted Ants ahead to probe the route and recalled his more valuable Poison Centipede Insects after the holes repeatedly swallowed insects.
• Ye Han suspected the black holes combined restraining, spatial, and teleportation powers to gather the Secret Realm’s living creatures and Heavenly Treasures.
• Ye Han followed the strengthening soul connection through increasingly steep mountains and abundant Spiritual Energy, but found no Demon Spirit or Heavenly Treasures.
• Ye Han spotted an enormous mountain formed from stacked peaks, then suddenly fell toward the ground when a restriction caught him.

Ye Han discovered that the secret realm’s treasures and his missing companions might be on a mountain where flight was prohibited, then confronted the demon spirit following him. He deployed his newly devised Strange Insects Formation against the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal, but the demon spirit broke through it with one strike.

• Ye Han found that a flight-prohibiting force prevented him from flying toward the mountain, where he sensed the swallowed insects and spotted ruins, caves, and spirit-light ripples.
• Ye Han sensed someone following him and forced the hidden demon spirit to reveal itself; the spirit offered to help him find his companions and treasures.
• The demon spirit claimed to be stronger than the remnant Ape Demon Beast Soul and revealed the phantom of a Three-Tailed Fox Immortal.
• Ye Han recognized the demon spirit’s connection to the Demon Fox Clan and summoned his Blood-Spotted Ants to surround it.
• Ye Han used his divine sense to arrange the ants into a Strange Insects Formation, but the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal demon spirit shattered through the formation in a single strike.

Ye Han attacked the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit with the Blood-Spotted Ants and the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation, but the spirit escaped through a black hollow by manipulating the Mysterious Secret Realm’s formations. Ye Han remained suspicious of the spirit and continued toward the mountain, while a chained Three-Tailed Fox Immortal awakened deep inside it.

• The Blood-Spotted Ants’ formations trapped the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit and began biting his spirit form as Ye Han refused his offer to cooperate.
• Ye Han used the Five Elements Ancient Treasure Formation and Heavenly Thunder Drum to bombard the spirit with demon-breaking divine thunder.
• A black hollow appeared and carried the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit away, deflecting Ye Han’s lightning.
• Ye Han realized the spirit could control the Mysterious Secret Realm’s formations and recalled Zhang Qingshan’s warning signs that made the spirit untrustworthy.
• Ye Han sent the Blood-Spotted Ants toward the mountain and followed them, while a chained Three-Tailed Fox Immortal opened his eyes in a hidden cavern and cursed Ye Han.

Ye Han released the Purple Cauldron’s perception and followed its pull up the mountain, where he discovered signs that demons once lived. He then caught the scent of a potent medicinal treasure coming from a small valley.

• Ye Han sent Blood-Spotted Ants to search the hollowed iron trees and learned that demons had lived in them.
• As the mountain’s demon aura thickened and divine sense restrictions intensified, Ye Han worried that Zhang Qingshan and the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor had been deliberately separated from him.
• Ye Han released the Purple Cauldron’s outward perception, and it trembled toward a direction away from the missing insects.
• Ye Han directed the Blood-Spotted Ants toward the Purple Cauldron’s signal and passed steep cliffs lined with houses built from ironwood logs.
• Ye Han smelled a rich medicinal fragrance near a small valley and drove the ants toward it.

Ye Han discovered Kui Water Gourds and Golden-Thread Spirit Fish in the secret realm and transported them into his Purple Cauldron Space before continuing to plunder treasures on the mountain. Meanwhile, the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit confronted the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor and warned him that Ye Han was gathering treasures while they fought.

• Ye Han found a pool surrounded by Kui Water Gourds and spotted Golden-Thread Spirit Fish living in its spirit-rich water.
• Ye Han used the Heavenly Water Bottle to drain the pool and collect the fish, then sent the water, fish, and Kui Water Gourd vines into the Purple Cauldron Space.
• Ye Han urged the Blood-Spotted Ants onward and swept up more treasures as he climbed toward the mountain peak, encountering no further danger.
• The Sea Dragon Demon Emperor fought the Giant Tree Treants with blasts of water that froze them.
• The Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit appeared and told the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor that Ye Han was gathering treasures while he remained occupied; the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor rejected the warning as a trick.

The Sea Dragon Demon Emperor forced the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit to serve him by revealing the Demon-Locking Chain and demanding his obedience. He explained that he planned to let the two cultivators claim the treasures to provoke conflict among humans and create an opening for the demon race, but the Three-Tailed Fox Demon Spirit erupted in fury after withdrawing his arrangements.

• The Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit offered to help the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor obtain the greatest treasure in exchange for help escaping.
• The Sea Dragon Demon Emperor revealed the Demon-Locking Chain, frightened the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit, and made him call him Master.
• The Sea Dragon Demon Emperor told the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit that the treasures were meant for the two cultivators, so humans would fight over them and give the demon race a chance to open the passage.
• The Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit agreed to withdraw his arrangements and sent strands of runic spirit light away.
• The Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit suddenly erupted with energy and cursed furiously at what he sensed.

Ye Han raced up the Giant Mountain, collecting its treasures while wondering about the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor’s hidden motives. Guided by the Purple Cauldron, he reached a misty peak and found a cavern behind a stele inscribed with “Spirit Realm Suppression.”

• The Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit complained that Ye Han had plundered its secret realm, but the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor urged it to let the two cultivators grow stronger and cause chaos.
• The Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit tried to recover treasures and lure Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan into traps as it followed the mountain path with the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor.
• Ye Han swept rare treasures into his Purple Cauldron Space while wondering why he had encountered no danger and what the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor was really after.
• As the Purple Cauldron trembled more strongly, Ye Han hurried onward, concerned that Zhang Qingshan or the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor might reach the treasure first.
• Ye Han arrived at a restricted plaza on a mist-shrouded peak, where he found a cavern behind a massive stele inscribed with four demon-script characters: “Spirit Realm Suppression.”

Ye Han entered the cavern to claim a massive Purple Giant Cauldron identical to the one in his divine sense sea, while his Blood-Spotted Ants absorbed its aura and began to evolve. As attackers struck his defenses outside, the giant cauldron released a vortex of purple runes and the Purple Cauldron in Ye Han’s divine sense sea began to emerge.

• Ye Han sent his Blood-Spotted Ants into the cave and activated his strongest defensive treasures before following them.
• Ye Han found that the ants’ strength and soul consciousness were growing as they absorbed the cavern’s purple runes aura.
• Ye Han reached a vast cavern and saw a hundred-zhang Purple Giant Cauldron identical to the Purple Cauldron in his divine sense sea.
• Attackers struck the formations Ye Han had placed at the cave entrance, and he charged toward the giant cauldron.
• The giant cauldron released a vortex of purple runes, and Ye Han sensed that the Purple Cauldron in his divine sense sea was about to emerge.

Ye Han fought the enormous Purple Cauldron when it tried to absorb the Purple Cauldron in his divine sense sea and tear apart his Purple Cauldron Space. He blasted it out of the mountain with the Chaos Divine Wood Golden Cudgel, then watched his own Purple Cauldron drag the defeated vessel into its vortex.

• The enormous Purple Cauldron tried to pull the Purple Cauldron from Ye Han's divine sense sea into itself, then attacked him with giant rune hands.
• Ye Han used the Five Elements Magic Treasure Formation to resist the attack, but the enormous Purple Cauldron overpowered it.
• Ye Han summoned the vortex of his Purple Cauldron Space, but the enormous Purple Cauldron seized the vortex and began tearing it apart.
• Ye Han struck the enormous Purple Cauldron with the Chaos Divine Wood Golden Cudgel, blasting it through the mountain and out into the open.
• Ye Han's Purple Cauldron sent rune chains around the battered vessel and pulled it into its vortex, and Ye Han realized it was an imitation.

Ye Han severed the enormous Purple Cauldron from the formation powering it and absorbed it into his own Purple Cauldron, which grew stronger. He reunited with Zhang Qingshan in the plaza, where they discussed the vanished auspicious aura and the ominous “Spirit Realm Suppression” stele.

• Ye Han discovered that the enormous Purple Cauldron drew its power from a hidden formation and used his Chaos Divine Wood Golden Cudgel to knock it away from the formation.
• Ye Han’s Purple Cauldron absorbed the enormous cauldron, grew by thirty percent, and began absorbing the Starry Sky Stone faster.
• Ye Han vanished in a burst of purple-gold lightning and reappeared in the plaza beside Zhang Qingshan, who said he had collected many useful treasures.
• Zhang Qingshan noticed that the auspicious aura around Ye Han had vanished, and Ye Han concealed the Purple Cauldron by saying he had found a treasure useful for cultivation.
• Zhang Qingshan warned that the stone stele marked “Spirit Realm Suppression” foretold certain doom, and Ye Han advised him not to touch it.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan hurried up the Giant Mountain after sensing danger, while the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor and the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit discussed their plans below. At the summit, Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan opened the exit with their Bronze Secret Keys, and a Stone Rod fell from the divided stele.

• Zhang Qingshan sensed a great fiend omen and an auspicious sign ahead, so Ye Han packed away his puppets and formations and followed him up the mountain.
• As they climbed, Zhang Qingshan explained that the difference between one and a hundred mattered, and Ye Han praised his understanding of the great Dao.
• The Sea Dragon Demon Emperor arrived at the plaza with the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit, promised to release him after preparing a formation disk, and ordered him not to interfere with their plan.
• After more than six hours, Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan reached the summit and decided to leave after Ye Han sensed that all his strange insects had died.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan inserted their Bronze Secret Keys into the summit stele, which split into four pillars and dropped a Stone Rod.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan entered the spatial passage, only to find its exit sealed by restrictions that they fought together to break through. Ye Han realized the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor had cooperated with them to bring the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit outside, though his purpose remained unknown.

• Ye Han took the stone rod as the stone pillars opened a spatial vortex, then refused to wait for the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor and entered the passage with Zhang Qingshan.
• Ye Han discovered the passage exit was sealed and attacked its restriction runes with the Chaos Divine Wood Golden Cudgel.
• Zhang Qingshan joined Ye Han and used his Battle Axe to blast through the layered restrictions.
• Ye Han explained that the sealing formation was meant to prevent the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit and other creatures of the Great Illusory Spirit Realm from escaping.
• Zhang Qingshan revealed that the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit had also asked him for help leaving, and that he had driven it away.
• Ye Han concluded that the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor had cooperated with them to take the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit outside, leaving Zhang Qingshan wondering what the emperor intended.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan escaped the sealing passage and realized the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor and the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit might be using them to break the spirit’s restraints. Zhang Qingshan’s divination warned that confronting them meant certain death, so Ye Han fled and asked his senior brother to check the fortune of a false entrance they had passed earlier.

• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan broke through hundreds of sealing restrictions and emerged beneath the sea as the spatial passage collapsed.
• Ye Han sensed that the Purple Cauldron had begun cultivating and expanding its space, but suspected the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor had a hidden scheme.
• Ye Han warned Zhang Qingshan that the demon emperor and the Three-Tailed Fox Immortal Demon Spirit might be working together and using them to open the spirit’s restraints.
• Zhang Qingshan considered attacking the pair, but his Fortune and Disaster Prediction divine ability indicated certain death.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan fled, and Ye Han asked his senior brother to divine whether the false entrance they had seen earlier was auspicious or dangerous.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan used their bronze Secret Keys to enter a hidden passage beneath the Great Illusory Spirit Realm entrance, where they opened a stone door with the stone rod from the realm's exit. The door opened onto a surge of demon aura, leaving them facing whatever lay beyond.

• Ye Han recalled that the Sea Dragon Demon Emperor had called the entrance fake, while Zhang Qingshan revealed that his armor and battle axe formed one Life-Bound Treasure set.
• Zhang Qingshan sensed a great fortune omen at the buried entrance, and he and Ye Han dug down to the two pillars.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan inserted their bronze Secret Keys into the pillars, opening a spatial passage, and entered a sealed chamber containing a huge stone door.
• Ye Han recognized that the stone rod from the Great Illusory Spirit Realm's exit fit the door's central hole and inserted it as the Secret Key.
• The stone rod turned, the stone door slowly opened, and an eerie surge of demon aura poured through the gap.

Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan discovered an Ancient Coral Map containing the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art and a chained gourd that seemed to be a heaven-connecting spirit treasure imprisoning a powerful demon. When the chamber began to quake, Zhang Qingshan warned that they would die if they did not leave immediately.

• Zhang Qingshan picked up the coral and found that it projected ancient Demon Race script, which Ye Han recognized as a staff art.
• Zhang Qingshan gave the Ancient Coral Map to Ye Han, who identified its contents as the Heaven-Mixing Eight Demon Staff Art.
• Ye Han and Zhang Qingshan sensed certain death if they opened the rune-covered gourd and realized it was bound by Demon-Locking Chains.
• Ye Han considered leaving the gourd behind, but Zhang Qingshan's predictions warned that they could not leave it there and would have to take it.
• The chamber suddenly shook, and Zhang Qingshan urged Ye Han to take the gourd and escape before they died.