Chapter Summaries

Ye Han advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm with the Purple Cauldron’s help, but remained troubled by the Mysterious Woman’s warnings about heavenly retribution. He began planning to stabilize his cultivation and practice new techniques, until Teacher Lan Qing came to see him.

• The Purple Cauldron sealed the Mysterious Woman and gave Ye Han purple rune armor that protected his nascent soul and let it cultivate.
• Ye Han asked the Purple Cauldron what heavenly retribution meant, but it refused to answer.
• Ye Han decided not to dwell on heavenly retribution and reassured himself that he could rely on the Purple Cauldron if it came.
• Ye Han considered his new Nascent Soul Realm abilities and the cultivation techniques he still needed to master, while keeping his advancement secret from Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race.
• After Ye Han had cultivated for only a dozen or so days, Teacher Lan Qing came looking for him.

Ye Han advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm and received Teacher Lan Qing’s Nascent Soul Clone Art, then began using the Rebirth Gourd to cultivate a clone. His attempt was interrupted by a tremendous disturbance in the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden as the Hell Messenger arrived.

• Teacher Lan Qing discovered that Ye Han had reached the Nascent Soul Realm without triggering a heavenly tribulation, and Ye Han explained that he had advanced using a Nine-Turn Nascent Soul Condensation Pill.
• Teacher Lan Qing gave Ye Han the Nascent Soul Clone Art and advised him about his newly formed nascent soul, while Ye Han supplied him with medicinal treasures and agreed to honor his promise before leaving the garden.
• After Teacher Lan Qing left, Ye Han studied the clone art and realized it could produce multiple clones.
• After more than a year of study and over a dozen attempts, Ye Han used the Rebirth Gourd to begin cultivating a clone.
• A powerful explosion shook the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden, and the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race warned Ye Han that the Hell Messenger had arrived.

Ye Han, now in the Nascent Soul Realm, faced the arrival of the Hell Messenger in the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden and tried to escape with Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider. As they opened a way out, the Hell Messenger noticed them and turned his gaze on Ye Han.

• Ye Han left the Restrictive Barrier and saw the Hell Messenger attacking the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden with a massive scythe.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider rushed to Ye Han and urged him to run, then discovered Ye Han had reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Teacher Lan Qing joined them, and Ye Han led the others toward the garden's exit while secretly taking the Spirit-Gathering Fruit Tree into his Purple Cauldron Space.
• Ye Han used the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Medicine Garden's Token to open the Restrictive Barrier's exit as the Hell Messenger struck the barrier again.
• The Hell Messenger sensed Ye Han and turned toward him with a suffocating pressure of evil qi.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider escaped the Hell Messenger after leaving the Medicine Garden. The Immortal-Thief Outsider proposed going to the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave, where a place could turn them into baleful ghosts, though Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing did not understand how that would help them reach the Land of Despair.

• The Hell Messenger attacked Ye Han with a devastating scythe strike, and Ye Han escaped it using the Sword Escape Art.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider and Teacher Lan Qing joined Ye Han, and the three fled while the Hell Messenger pursued them for more than two hours.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing hid in a cave until the Hell Messenger's tremors faded, then decided not to return to the depleted Medicine Garden.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider appeared and urged them to go to the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave to deal with the Blood Baleful Old Devil.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider revealed that a special place in the cave could turn them into baleful ghosts, leaving Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing wondering how that would help them enter the Land of Despair.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator reached the Spirit-Devouring Abyss and weighed crossing it against taking a decades-long detour. After his insects and Metal Puppets were devoured, Ye Han realized he had found a possible way across.

• Teacher Lan Qing asked the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator to scout the abyss, but the cultivator refused and explained its dangers.
• The cultivator described the Spirit-Devouring Beasts and suggested Ye Han lead the crossing, while Ye Han considered the cost and risks of taking the long route.
• Ye Han insisted they test the abyss, and Teacher Lan Qing made the cultivator agree to scout while they investigated.
• Ye Han sent Poison Centipede Insects and Blood-Spotted Ants into the abyss, where the spirit-devouring vortices drained and devoured them.
• Ye Han sent Metal Puppets forward, and the vortices destroyed and devoured them after they lasted only slightly longer than the insects.
• Ye Han exclaimed that he had found a way, and Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator asked what he meant.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing used ice and lightning to cross the Spirit-Devouring Abyss while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member scouted ahead. When a Greater Spirit-Devouring Beast appeared, Ye Han sent the ice god giant against it as its enormous vortices swept toward them.

• Ye Han summoned an ice god giant to freeze spirit-devouring vortices and prevent ordinary Spirit-Devouring Beasts from reviving.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing advanced together, with Teacher Lan Qing blasting apart the beasts that charged at them.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member warned Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing about a Greater Spirit-Devouring Beast ahead and vanished to scout.
• The Greater Spirit-Devouring Beast charged at them, and Teacher Lan Qing shouted for Ye Han to dodge.
• Ye Han sent the ice god giant at the Greater Spirit-Devouring Beast as it swept up two enormous vortices and hurled them toward Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing fled the Greater Spirit-Devouring Beast, only to encounter an enormous six-eyed creature radiating deadly blue-black mist. Ye Han sent Teacher Lan Qing away and faced the creature, using the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda to absorb its death beams and unleash a towering phantom attack as the Purple Cauldron shook.

• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing fought off the Greater Spirit-Devouring Beast until it and the other Spirit-Devouring Beasts fled toward the Spirit-Devouring Abyss, apparently frightened by something approaching.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider emerged and warned Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing that a terrifying unknown creature was coming.
• Ye Han learned that the cliff was only a few tens of thousands of zhang away, then flung Teacher Lan Qing toward it while the Immortal-Thief Outsider escaped into the void.
• Ye Han charged the enormous six-eyed creature, whose six green beams vanished into the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda.
• The Exquisite Treasure Pagoda absorbed the beams, filled with light across all seven tiers, and unleashed a gigantic phantom at the creature.
• Ye Han revealed that he had sent the others away because the Purple Cauldron had begun shaking violently when the creature appeared.

Ye Han used the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda, nested inside the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, to devour the death-aura shadow in the Spirit-Devouring Abyss, though the feat drained much of the Purple Cauldron’s power. He rescued Teacher Lan Qing from Centaur Monsters near the abyss’s edge, but the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race warned him to flee rather than fight the centaur undead.

• Ye Han discovered the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda trembling inside the Purple Cauldron and unleashed the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda at its urging.
• The Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda emerged within the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, destroyed the death-aura shadow, and devoured it along with its starlight and death aura.
• The Purple Cauldron restrained the Heaven-Turning Treasure Pagoda, which then slammed the Mysterious Woman’s Water Spirit Coffin shut as she tried to escape.
• Ye Han replenished the Purple Cauldron’s depleted aura with pills and rushed toward the abyss’s edge, where Centaur Monsters were attacking Teacher Lan Qing.
• Ye Han blasted the Centaur Monsters away with the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race emerged and urged them to flee.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider escaped the Centaur Wraiths but found themselves trapped in a maze filled with lifespan-draining deathly energy. The Immortal-Thief Outsider recognized it as the Death Maze and let slip that he had heard about it from someone whose identity he concealed.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider led Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing into a mountain cave as Centaur Wraiths charged after them.
• Ye Han used talismans to slow the Centaur Wraiths, then collapsed rocks in a narrow passage to delay their pursuit.
• After escaping the Wraiths, Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing realized the winding caves blocked divine sense and contained deathly energy that drained lifespan.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider appeared and wondered aloud whether they had entered the Death Maze.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing pressed the Immortal-Thief Outsider about the person he had mentioned, but he claimed that person had died long ago.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race ran deeper into the Death Maze while debating the mysterious death-wreathed figure Ye Han had defeated. Their escape was interrupted when Death Dolls attacked, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race vanished to hide.

• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing questioned the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race about their route as Centaur Wraiths pursued them through the Death Maze.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race warned them about the Lord of Death, and the three took the widest passage at a fork.
• Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race pressed Ye Han about how he escaped the figure; Ye Han claimed he had killed it with a special divine ability and gained a treasure.
• A Death Aura Storm swept through the passage, and Death Dolls charged at Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing with Soul-Summoning Banners.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race identified the Death Dolls, warned that they drained lifespan, and disappeared to hide.

Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing fought the Death Dolls as Centaur Wraiths caught up behind them. Ye Han unleashed demon-breaking divine thunder through the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, overwhelming the Death Dolls and turning them into greenlight rune beads.

• The Death Dolls attacked Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing with death aura that drained lifespan, while Teacher Lan Qing's Azure Lightning destroyed Skull Monsters but was devoured by the Dolls' blood-red skulls.
• The Dolls' illusion-inducing sound waves disoriented Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing until Ye Han used purple runes to protect his soul and divine sense.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow returned and warned that Centaur Wraiths were pursuing them, prompting Teacher Lan Qing to curse him for bringing trouble.
• Ye Han struck the gray wraith aura clinging to the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow, accidentally hitting him too, and joked that he had done it on purpose.
• Ye Han sent the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda into the Death Dolls with demon-breaking divine thunder, destroying their blood-red skulls and sucking the Dolls inside.
• The divine thunder blasted the captured Death Dolls apart, leaving behind large beads of greenlight runes.

Ye Han used Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder to destroy death dolls and Centaur Wraiths, while the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race warned him about the King of Death. Afterward, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race tried to trade a lightning-attribute top-grade magic treasure for death spirit beads, but Ye Han rejected the offer as insufficient.

• Ye Han slaughtered the death dolls with Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race warned that the King of Death might appear.
• Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race escaped through a passage after the thunder also overwhelmed the pursuing Centaur Wraiths.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race asked Ye Han for twenty-one death spirit beads, but Ye Han refused to give them away for free.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race offered a lightning-attribute top-grade magic treasure in exchange, but Ye Han rejected the trade as unfair.

Ye Han traded six Death Spirit Orbs for the Immortal-Thief Outsider’s Thunderclap Gloves while he and Teacher Lan Qing pressed the outsider about his hidden treasures. As they raced deeper into the Death Maze, the danger and lifespan drain worsened, and a sudden tremor left them fearing the King of Death had arrived.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider revealed that his Thunderclap Gloves were worth at least five Death Spirit Orbs, and Ye Han traded him six for them.
• Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing teased the Immortal-Thief Outsider about his Treasure Chest and suspected he was hiding secrets connected to Saint As.
• The group continued through the Death Maze, where the death aura and spirit-devouring aura increasingly drained their life force and spiritual energy.
• Ye Han asked the Immortal-Thief Outsider how to escape, but the outsider admitted he had never been there and warned they might encounter the King of Death.
• A violent tremor shook the maze from behind them, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider cried out that the King of Death was there.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider fled the Hell Messenger through the Death Maze, then chased a swift rabbit that might lead them to an escape route. The Hell Messenger continued smashing through the maze behind them as the rabbit suddenly accelerated and vanished ahead.

• Ye Han identified the pursuing being as the Hell Messenger rather than the King of Death, and the three companions fled as it battered its way into the Death Maze.
• Teacher Lan Qing guessed that the Hell Messenger had returned because the spirit medicine was gone, but none of them knew how it had tracked them.
• A white rabbit appeared at a distant passage, and Ye Han urged the others to follow it through the maze.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider recognized the rabbit as a member of the Big-Eared Moon Race, and Ye Han suspected the Hell Messenger might be chasing it instead of them.
• The rabbit's speed suddenly multiplied, and it vanished in a flash while the Hell Messenger's pursuit shook the maze.

Ye Han pursued the Big-Eared Moon Race rabbit through the Death Maze, believing it could lead him to an exit, while Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member trailed behind. After emerging into a barren canyon, Ye Han hesitated over whether to wait for them, but the Hell Messenger appeared nearby.

• Ye Han used his Nascent Soul power and Lightning God Steps to chase the Big-Eared Moon Race rabbit, leaving an aura trail for Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member.
• Ye Han noticed the Death Maze's death aura growing thinner as he followed the rabbit, though his spell power drained rapidly.
• The rabbit led Ye Han into a cavern where spirit-devouring aura weakened his speed, and he used the Purple Cauldron to replenish his spell power.
• Ye Han followed the rabbit out of the cavern into a barren canyon, where the rabbit raced into the mountains.
• As Ye Han debated whether to wait for his companions, the Hell Messenger erupted from the ground nearby.

Ye Han was badly injured when the Hell Messenger struck him while pursuing a Big-Eared Moon Race rabbit, then searched a damaged mountain cave after sensing a familiar aura. There, he discovered Starry Sky Stones and wondered how they had ended up in the Tower of Hell.

• Ye Han fled toward the mountains, but the Hell Messenger’s scythe strike hit him and sent him crashing through several peaks.
• The Hell Messenger continued after the Big-Eared Moon Race rabbit, while Ye Han retrieved the damaged Qing Xuan Divine Palace and avoided using the Purple Cauldron.
• Ye Han treated his injuries and worried that Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race fellow might also have been struck.
• Ye Han sensed a familiar aura in a mountain cave and found a Bronze Metal Box overturned beside scattered Starry Sky Stones.

Ye Han found and collected more than a hundred Starry Sky Stones while hiding from the Hell Messenger. Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider rejoined him in Black Mountain Land, where they discussed their escape and asked what the mysterious rabbit was.

• Ye Han discovered a chest of Starry Sky Stones behind a mountain and swept the stones and chest into his Storage Bag.
• Ye Han heard the Hell Messenger pursuing the Big-Eared Moon Race rabbit and waited to see whether Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider had survived.
• Teacher Lan Qing's aura appeared, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider materialized beside Ye Han.
• Ye Han learned that the Immortal-Thief Outsider had hidden Teacher Lan Qing in a spatial rift to evade the Hell Messenger.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider identified their location as Black Mountain Land, and Teacher Lan Qing asked about the rabbit.

Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider crossed the Black Mountain Region toward the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave while discussing the Big-Eared Moon Race and the King of Death. The Immortal-Thief Outsider claimed he had already picked the region clean, then reminded Ye Han that they still had a deal to discuss.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider explained that the Big-Eared Moon Race and his own race had been enslaved by the Immortal Race, and that the Big-Eared Moon Race could supposedly pass spirit roots to others.
• Teacher Lan Qing asked whether the Heavenly Secret Hall and Tower of Hell had ties to the Immortal Race, but the Immortal-Thief Outsider denied knowing and wondered why the King of Death had not appeared.
• Ye Han claimed he had killed the King of Death, but the Immortal-Thief Outsider dismissed the story and urged them to leave before the King returned.
• Teacher Lan Qing asked how to reach the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider used his eye ability to find a route through the safer Black Mountain Region.
• As they raced through the region, Ye Han asked about treasures; the Immortal-Thief Outsider said he had searched the area already and never found the rumored Starry Sky Stones.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider told Ye Han that they still had not finished discussing their deal.

Ye Han traded fifteen Death Spirit Orbs to the Immortal-Thief Outsider for the remaining pieces of the Thunderclap Divine Armor set. The Immortal-Thief Outsider then asked Ye Han to kill the Blood Baleful Old Devil and hand over a stolen treasure when they reached the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave.

• Ye Han realized he had obtained the Starry Sky Stone and considered how he had found it.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider revealed the Thunderclap Boots, Thunderclap Armor, and Thunderclap Helmet, completing the set with Ye Han's Thunderclap Gloves.
• Ye Han exchanged fifteen Death Spirit Orbs for the three treasures after the Immortal-Thief Outsider said Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder would let him unleash the armor's full power.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider asked Ye Han to kill the Blood Baleful Old Devil at the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave and give him the treasure the devil had stolen.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider headed toward the cliff to hide, and Ye Han eyed the Treasure Chest on his back until the Outsider warned him not to target it.

Ye Han and his companions spent six years recovering and strengthening themselves in a hidden cave in Black Mountain Land. They set out again and reached the edge of the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave, where the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race being said they would rely on Ye Han’s Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.

• Ye Han refined the Thunderclap Divine Armor and strengthened his other treasures with Nascent Soul power while Teacher Lan Qing and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race being recovered.
• Ye Han discovered he could absorb the Power of the Stars directly from Starry Sky Stones and used them to enrich his cultivation.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race being continued to insist that Ye Han kill the Blood Baleful Old Devil and obtain a treasure from him if they encountered him.
• Teacher Lan Qing worried that their delay would worsen his physical condition and loss of Lifespan, but the group remained in seclusion for six years.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race being emerged stronger but said he still could not fight within the Tower of Hell, then led Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing toward the Spirit Baleful Ghost Cave.
• At the cliff overlooking the strange stretches of Eastern Kui Land, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race being told Ye Han they would depend on his Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.