Chapter Summaries

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow entered the Tower of Hell, where spatial forces transported them toward the Demon Spirits. They arrived among enormous roots surrounded by a powerful spirit-devouring aura, and the Immortal-Thief fellow disappeared, leaving Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing to face the danger.

• Ye Han recognized the bridge’s attacks as illusions and escaped them, while Teacher Lan Qing remained trapped for several thousand steps before recovering.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing followed the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow into the Tower of Hell and felt its oppressive demonic qi.
• Teacher Lan Qing warned Ye Han to put survival ahead of greed as spatial power swept them away.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow announced that they were being transported to the Demon Spirits as scarlet Bloodthirsty Pupils appeared around them.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing arrived among enormous black roots, where the spirit-devouring aura rapidly drained Ye Han’s spell power, and the Immortal-Thief fellow vanished.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing fought off demon spirits surrounding the enormous tree roots, and Ye Han used the Gods-and-Devils Hand to destroy a giant spirit formed from thousands of them. After Ye Han obtained its rare Spirit-Devouring Pearl, the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race appeared and tried to snatch it.

• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han to use the Gods-and-Devils Hand against the demon spirits, explaining that the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member had likely arranged the attack to test his control.
• Ye Han unleashed the Gods-and-Devils Hand and crushed the attacking demon spirits, collecting the Spirit-Devouring Pearls they dropped.
• The demon spirits merged into a thousand-zhang giant that began draining Ye Han's spell power and spiritual energy.
• Ye Han used a Blood Escape Talisman to appear behind the giant and devoured it with the Gods-and-Devils Hand.
• Ye Han spotted the giant's Blood-Red Rune Spirit-Devouring Pearl, but the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race appeared and reached for it.

Ye Han defeated an Immortal-Thief Outsider who tried to steal a Spirit-Devouring Pearl, then formed a Spirit-Devouring Pearl Formation to protect himself and Teacher Lan Qing from the Tower of Hell’s aura. After the formation repelled an enormous demon spirit’s attack, Ye Han killed it and strengthened the formation with its pearl.

• Ye Han struck the Immortal-Thief Outsider with the Five Elements Golden Cudgel and caught the enormous demon spirit’s Spirit-Devouring Pearl.
• As hundreds of demon spirits began merging, Ye Han inscribed formation runes on his collected pearls and created the Spirit-Devouring Pearl Formation around himself and Teacher Lan Qing.
• Teacher Lan Qing praised Ye Han as the formation blocked the Tower of Hell’s spirit-devouring aura, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider watched from a Spatial Rift in shock.
• An enormous demon spirit attacked the formation with a beam of blood-red spirit-devouring aura, but the barrier repelled it.
• Ye Han used Blood Escape and the Gods-and-Devils Hand to kill the demon spirit, then added its Spirit-Devouring Pearl to strengthen the formation.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing confronted the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race after a Hell Messenger seemed to pursue them in the Tower of Hell. The Outsider claimed their route led to the Blood Baleful Old Devil and a treasure-filled Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden, but Ye Han suspected he had staged the disturbance.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race warned Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing that the Hell Messenger was coming, and the two prepared for the danger.
• Ye Han used Five-Turn Spiritual Qi Pills to restore his spell power while the Spirit-Devouring Pearl Formation protected them from the tower’s spirit-devouring energy.
• After the tremors stopped, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race reappeared, and Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing accused him of being untrustworthy.
• Ye Han threatened the Outsider with the Five Elements Golden Cudgel until he admitted he could not attack anything inside the Tower of Hell.
• The Outsider claimed their route was the safest way to reach the Blood Baleful Old Devil and revealed that it passed a Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden.
• Ye Han asked whether the Outsider had caused the Hell Messenger disturbance.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing forced the Immortal-Thief Outsider to prove his intentions by swearing a blood oath to cooperate with them in the Tower of Hell. After he gave them protective Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Pear Bracelets, they agreed to head to the Medicine Garden.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider admitted he had faked the hell emissary’s arrival to test Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing, angering them and ending their trust in him.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider offered Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Pear Bracelets, then chased after them to demonstrate that the treasures repelled the Spirit-Devouring Aura.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing demanded that the Immortal-Thief Outsider swear a blood oath before they would trust him.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider swore to cooperate with them, guide them to opportunities, and neither deceive nor cheat them in the Tower of Hell.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing accepted the bracelets, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider urged them to go to the Medicine Garden while reminding them that he could only guide them, not fight inside the Tower.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race descended through the Tower of Hell toward the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden, evading demon spirits and entering a ravine filled with coffins. After they became trapped in the Triple Illusion, Teacher Lan Qing turned into a corpse-like figure and lunged to bite Ye Han.

• Ye Han fought off pursuing demon spirits while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race led the group toward the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden, and Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing agreed to go there.
• The demon spirits fled as the group reached a deeper level, where the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race warned Ye Han about white zombies and advised him to use lightning or fire against them.
• Ye Han used the Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Pear Bracelet to reduce the spell power drained by the stronger spirit-devouring aura as the group entered a ravine lined with caves and stone coffins.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing followed the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race through the ravine in silence, but after more than two hours Ye Han learned they were caught in the Triple Illusion.
• Teacher Lan Qing suddenly stumbled and became deathly cold; when Ye Han caught him, Teacher Lan Qing transformed into a decayed, bluish-white figure and lunged at Ye Han's neck.

Ye Han found himself alone in a vast valley filled with stone coffins and fought off the white zombies that emerged from them. After defeating the zombies and feeding their death-aura worms to his fire-devouring insects, he still could not find Teacher Lan Qing or the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member.

• Ye Han woke in an open valley after punching apart a strange man, then failed to detect an illusion with his three divine sense techniques.
• Stone coffins opened in the cliffs, and Ye Han recognized the creatures crawling out as white zombies.
• Ye Han's Golden Light Fist Barrier Qi rebounded from the first zombie, and he dodged its crushing blow before cutting it apart with his Bone-Refining Bone Sword.
• Death-aura worms poured from the zombies and multiplied when cut, so Ye Han summoned fire-devouring insects to burn and devour them.
• Ye Han wielded two Bone-Refining Bone Swords to kill dozens of white zombies, then recalled his insects and continued searching for Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member.

Ye Han used his Fire-Devouring Insects and swordsmanship to help Teacher Lan Qing defeat the White Zombies, then learned that the group had been caught in the changing Heaven-and-Earth Art. After weeks of battling their way through the Tower of Hell, Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider reached a glowing area they believed was the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden.

• Ye Han sent his Fire-Devouring Insects against the White Zombies and searched the caves for an exit, while Teacher Lan Qing's green lightning revealed his location.
• Ye Han joined Teacher Lan Qing in attacking the White Zombies with his Bone-Refining Bone Swords, Great Geng Sword Art, and Fire-Devouring Insects, and they wiped out the creatures around them.
• Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider identified the trap as the Heaven-and-Earth Art, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider explained that the Tower of Hell kept changing.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider recognized Ye Han's Great Geng Sword Art as Immortal Race Swordsmanship and led the group onward through caves filled with White Zombies.
• After several dozen days, Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider crossed the Soul-Confounding Blood Formation and battled quicksand monsters to reach an enormous cave.
• The three emerged from the cave into a glowing area that the Immortal-Thief Outsider said was the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden, leaving Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing stunned.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing reached the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden, a vast place filled with ten-thousand-year-old treasures. The Immortal-Thief Outsider revealed that powerful restrictions and two formidable guardians stood between them and the garden’s riches.

• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing surveyed the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden and saw its abundant ancient spirit medicines.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider appeared and praised Ye Han for surviving the dangers along their route.
• Ye Han questioned why the Immortal-Thief Outsider had never harvested the garden’s treasures, and the Outsider explained that its entrance was protected by powerful restrictions and guardians.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider led Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing to the entrance and identified two enormous metal pillars as the guardians.

Ye Han prepared to challenge the gold and silver puppets guarding the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden, then led his own puppet formation into battle. The guardians crushed the formation’s sword attack and blasted the Binglian Puppet away, leaving Ye Han facing their overwhelming strength.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider warned Ye Han that the two guardian puppets were formidable and that he had never entered the medicine garden.
• Ye Han questioned the Immortal-Thief Outsider about the puppets’ abilities, then told him and Teacher Lan Qing to hide while he fought.
• Ye Han deployed formation beads, his puppets, the Six-Gate Cosmic Armor, and the Bone-Refining Bone Sword before activating the Puppet God Technique.
• The gold and silver pillar puppets transformed into sword-wielding guardians and struck at Ye Han’s puppet formation.
• The guardians shattered the formation’s sword light and blasted the Binglian Puppet away.

Ye Han battled the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden’s two powerful guardian puppets and defeated them after his swordsmanship advanced during the fight. As the puppets fell, runes began appearing across their bodies, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Ye Han combined the Puppet Grand Formation and the Immortal-Slaying Yin-Yang Sword Formation to attack the two Medicine Garden Puppets, but their defenses repelled the sword-rays.
• The Medicine Garden Puppets revealed a joint sword formation that destroyed Ye Han’s puppets and broke through both of his formations.
• Ye Han fought the puppets with the Great Geng Sword Art and Divine Insight Swordsmanship, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and Teacher Lan Qing watched.
• After hundreds of exchanges, Ye Han’s sword arts began to merge, and he used two sword-rays to sever the puppets’ heads.
• The puppets went motionless, but runes began surging across their fallen bodies.

Ye Han defeated the Medicine Garden’s Metal Puppets and used their Token to enter the garden with Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider. After the Outsider triggered a lightning restriction by picking a Ten-Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit, Ye Han declared that he would find a way to claim the herbs.

• The Metal Puppets collapsed, and Ye Han collected them and their swords before taking the gold-and-silver Medicine Garden Token.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider supplied a Runes Sapling that activated the Token, and Ye Han opened the Medicine Garden’s barrier.
• Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider entered the garden, where the Outsider spotted and picked a Ten-Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit.
• A lightning restriction struck the Outsider, burned the fruit to ash, and prevented him from using his Spatial Divine Ability.
• Teacher Lan Qing warned that the herbs were protected by restrictions, but Ye Han confidently said they would take them all.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider decided to cultivate and recover in the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden before entering the Tower of Hell. As Ye Han secretly expanded the Purple Cauldron Space with the garden’s spiritual energy, he kept the Token—and his treasure’s true nature—under wraps.

• Ye Han used the garden’s Token to pick a Ten-Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit for the Immortal-Thief Outsider, whose attempt to harvest without it had injured his meridians.
• Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider urged Ye Han to cultivate in the garden, and Teacher Lan Qing agreed that the group should recover there before going deeper into the Tower of Hell.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider proposed seeking the Spirit-Gathering Immortal Fruits at the heart of the garden, and Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing agreed to go.
• Ye Han cultivated on a hilltop while secretly channeling spiritual energy into the Purple Cauldron Space, which had grown to twice its former size as puppets planted medicines and expanded its grounds.
• Teacher Lan Qing used the Rebirth Gourd to recover and refine pills, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider refined the Ten-Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit; Ye Han retained the Token and concealed the Purple Cauldron’s power.

Ye Han secured control of the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden’s treasures and diverted its pure spirit rain into his Purple Cauldron Space while planning for Teacher Lan Qing to refine the mature medicines. The chapter ended when thunder and lightning erupted in the garden, startling Ye Han as he wondered what Teacher Lan Qing was doing.

• Ye Han agreed to give the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and Teacher Lan Qing one ripe Spirit-Gathering Immortal Fruit each in exchange for control of the garden’s remaining treasures and medicines.
• Ye Han arranged for Teacher Lan Qing to refine the mature spirit medicines, dividing the finished pills fifty percent to Ye Han, thirty percent to Teacher Lan Qing, and twenty percent to the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race.
• Ye Han set up a formation to divert the garden’s pure spirit rain into his Purple Cauldron Space and used some of it to help the strange Ice-Element Law rabbit ripen another Ice Element Spirit Root fruit.
• Teacher Lan Qing reclaimed his Rebirth Gourd and told Ye Han that the Spirit-Gathering Immortal Fruit could extend his lifespan and heal his body, reassuring Ye Han about giving one away.
• Thunder and lightning erupted over one corner of the garden, and Ye Han opened his eyes and wondered what Teacher Lan Qing was doing.

Ye Han helped Teacher Lan Qing protect a batch of pills from a heavenly tribulation by using his Five Elements Magic Treasure Formation and Heavenly Thunder Drum to blast apart the lightning clouds. As spiritual energy and medicinal fragrance surged into Teacher Lan Qing’s cave, Ye Han realized the pill refinement had succeeded.

• Ye Han saw a small heavenly tribulation forming above Teacher Lan Qing’s cave and flew over to investigate.
• Teacher Lan Qing called for Ye Han’s help, explaining that the tribulation threatened most of his pills.
• Ye Han raised the Five Elements Magic Treasure Formation to shield the cave, but the first blood-red lightning strike badly weakened it.
• Ye Han used the Heavenly Thunder Drum to unleash Purple-Gold Lightning, blasting apart the tribulation vortex and dispersing the clouds as they gathered again.
• A storm of spiritual energy flowed into Teacher Lan Qing’s cave, and a rich medicinal fragrance emerged, making Ye Han realize the pills had succeeded.

Ye Han received ten Eight-Turn Primordial Unity Pills from Teacher Lan Qing and continued cultivating while expanding the medicine garden inside his Purple Cauldron Space. More than a year later, the Mysterious Woman in the Water Spirit Coffin awakened as Ye Han practiced swordsmanship.

• Teacher Lan Qing gave Ye Han ten of the twenty Eight-Turn Primordial Unity Pills he had refined and promised to make more if Ye Han rescued his true body.
• Ye Han asked Teacher Lan Qing about his past in Green Ox Village, then changed the subject and received instruction in controlling alchemical fire.
• Teacher Lan Qing sent Ye Han to gather spirit medicines, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow remained in seclusion.
• Ye Han transplanted the garden's Heavenly Treasures and spirit medicines into his Purple Cauldron Space, which grew to more than three times its former size but reached its current limit.
• Over a year later, the Mysterious Woman spoke to Ye Han while he studied Divine Insight Swordsmanship.

Ye Han cultivated while waiting for the Purple Cauldron to finish absorbing the Chilling Rabbit, and he refined a Nine-Turn Nascent Soul Condensation Pill. After the cauldron produced an Ice-Attribute Spirit Root Fruit, Ye Han took the pill and noticed that the new shoots growing from the lid looked different.

• The Mysterious Woman woke briefly, criticized Ye Han’s cultivation and aptitude, refused to advise him, and sealed herself back inside the Water Spirit Coffin.
• Ye Han resumed cultivating and studying the Divine Insight Swordsmanship, while reflecting on his star-powered cultivation and his plans to advance to the Nascent Soul realm before venturing deeper into the Tower of Hell.
• After more than three years, the Purple Cauldron absorbed the Chilling Rabbit’s remaining chilling qi and formed an Ice-Attribute Spirit Root Fruit as the sapling on its lid withered.
• Ye Han swallowed the Nine-Turn Nascent Soul Condensation Pill, and the Purple Cauldron absorbed its medicinal power, producing tender green shoots that Ye Han found unusual.

Ye Han consumed the ice-attribute spirit root fruit and, after decades of cultivation, perfected the Ice God Spirit Art and advanced to the ninth-layer peak of the late Golden Core stage. He remained unable to break through to great perfection and wondered whether he would have to use the Purple Cauldron’s Nascent Soul advancement fruit.

• Ye Han discovered that the Purple Cauldron’s sapling had developed starry runes after absorbing a Nine-Turn Nascent Soul Condensation Pill, leaving him uncertain about the effects of its growth.
• Ye Han decided not to give the ice-attribute spirit root fruit to Fairy Ningyu because its conflicting attribute could worsen her condition.
• Ye Han swallowed the ice-attribute spirit root fruit and cultivated with the Ice God Spirit Art for more than fifty years.
• Ye Han perfected the Ice God Spirit Art and raised his ice spirit root to a level comparable to a supreme-grade ice-attribute immortal root.
• Ye Han reached the ninth-layer peak of the late Golden Core stage but remained stuck at a bottleneck before great perfection.

Ye Han’s Purple Cauldron unexpectedly ripened the Nascent Soul Fruit and triggered a heavenly tribulation before he was ready to break through. He swallowed the fruit, beginning to gestate a nascent soul as the tribulation clouds dispersed and a vast spiritual-energy vortex formed above the Medicine Garden.

• Ye Han examined the nearly ripe Nascent Soul Fruit and considered attempting a breakthrough because the Medicine Garden’s resources and spiritual energy were running low.
• The Purple Cauldron suddenly ripened the Nascent Soul Fruit on its own, and the fruit dropped into Ye Han’s hand.
• A heavenly tribulation gathered beyond the Restriction Formation, and Ye Han worried that Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow might discover the fruit.
• Ye Han sensed that the Purple Cauldron had weakened after ripening the fruit, suspected it was urging him toward a looming crisis, and swallowed the fruit.
• Power of Law flooded Ye Han’s golden core as a nascent soul’s rudimentary form began to take shape within it.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and a massive vortex drew the Medicine Garden’s spiritual energy toward Ye Han.

After twenty-five years of secluded cultivation, Ye Han became a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator without facing the heavenly tribulation he expected. The Mysterious Woman warned that he had stolen from heaven and would suffer heavenly retribution, but the Purple Cauldron interrupted her, suppressed her coffin, and bestowed purple armor on Ye Han’s nascent soul.

• Teacher Lan Qing sensed Ye Han’s attempt to advance and chose to remain in his cave, hoping Ye Han would succeed and further his own plan.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member sensed the advancement but continued enduring a painful process involving black energy and runes.
• Twenty-five years later, Ye Han’s golden core shattered, and his jade-like nascent soul emerged and wielded a staff.
• Ye Han realized he had advanced without the heavenly tribulation he had expected, and the Mysterious Woman warned him that stealing from heaven would bring heavenly retribution.
• The Purple Cauldron erupted with purple runes and suppressed the Mysterious Woman inside her coffin, drawing energy from Ye Han’s space and absorbing the pills he fed it.
• The Purple Cauldron sent wisps of its aura into Ye Han’s nascent soul, forming purple armor that absorbed his spell power as the nascent soul began cultivating on its own.