Chapter Summaries

Ye Han escaped Wu Xuantian after saving the demoness cultivator, who had been attacked by a newcomer wielding Threefold Immortal Flame. Wu Xuantian’s twin allies blocked Ye Han’s path, but Ye Han broke through their sword formation and encountered a familiar aura.

• A young cultivator beheaded the demoness cultivator and attacked her escaping souls with Threefold Immortal Flame, but Wild Thunder Violet Lightning disrupted the strike.
• The demoness cultivator fled to Ye Han, who captured her souls with the Rebirth Gourd.
• Wu Xuantian offered Ye Han a chance to live as his subordinate, but Ye Han refused and escaped with purple-gold lightning.
• Wu Xuantian’s two Nascent Soul Late Stage twin allies blocked Ye Han with a black-and-white sword formation.
• Ye Han smashed through the sword formation with the Gods-and-Devils Hand and charged onward, where an extremely familiar aura appeared.

Ye Han, weakened after killing the Nine Wounds Devil Lord, was ambushed by Wu Xuantian, Dao Tianji, and two female cultivators. He broke free of Wu Xuantian’s sealing ring with demon-breaking divine thunder, but the four attackers surrounded him and struck him with a combined assault, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Dao Tianji appeared and attacked Ye Han with a spear-ray, forcing Ye Han to meet him with the Nine-Turn Vajra Art and Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel.
• Wu Xuantian attacked Ye Han from behind with a flaming Ring Treasure, crushing the demons Ye Han summoned from the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell.
• Ye Han used the Thunderclap Divine Armor and Thunderclap Shoes to escape the ring’s restraint and reappear thirty thousand feet away.
• The two female cultivators attacked Ye Han with black and white sword-rays while Dao Tianji sent spear-rays after him.
• Wu Xuantian caught up and struck Ye Han with the flaming ring as spear-rays pierced his body, leaving Wu Xuantian unsure whether he had killed him.

Ye Han evaded Wu Xuantian and the others’ ambush with a Substitute Talisman, then used his lightning movement and Exquisite Treasure Pagoda to resist their attacks and flee. Wu Xuantian’s Vermilion Bird Fire God Pearl continued pursuing him as Ye Han pulled tens of thousands of zhang ahead of his attackers.

• Ye Han used a Substitute Talisman to survive Dao Tianji’s spear-ray and reappeared several thousand zhang away.
• Wu Xuantian summoned the Vermilion Bird Fire God Pearl and sent its firebird after Ye Han, while the others attacked as well.
• Ye Han dodged the firebird’s flames with the Thunderclap Divine Armor and avoided the other cultivators’ attacks using his lightning movement technique.
• Ye Han released the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, whose seven pillars of light weakened and slowed the firebird.
• Ye Han flew tens of thousands of zhang away as Wu Xuantian roared that he would not escape.

Wu Xuantian activated his Immortal Body and nearly killed Ye Han, but Ye Han escaped with a false clone and a Random Teleportation Talisman. As he weighed how to deal with Wu Xuantian, a blood-lit shadow tracked him down and attacked.

• Wu Xuantian transformed with his Immortal Body and struck Ye Han, who burst into Bloodlight Runes and reappeared far away.
• Ye Han threatened Wu Xuantian, then vanished using a Random Teleportation Talisman as Wu Xuantian's massive attack hit empty space.
• Wu Xuantian summoned a Blood-Red Staff and sent an eerie blood shadow through the void after Ye Han.
• Ye Han emerged on a distant hilltop and considered how to kill Wu Xuantian without exposing himself to the Northern Lu Immortal Sect or the Immortal Race.
• A blood-lit black shadow emerged from the void and relentlessly pursued Ye Han as he tried to dodge it.

Ye Han escaped Wu Xuantian’s immortal spirit with help from Teacher Lan Qing and Saint As, who destroyed the pursuing shadow but refused to fight Wu Xuantian. Wu Xuantian lost Ye Han’s trail and set out for the Azure Profound Sect to find him.

• Teacher Lan Qing seized the black-mist shadow with Green Lightning, and Saint As destroyed it with a blue-flame lotus, forcing Wu Xuantian to emerge wounded after his immortal spirit was annihilated.
• Wu Xuantian ordered Dao Tianji and the two female cultivators to keep pursuing Ye Han.
• Ye Han asked Teacher Lan Qing and Saint As to kill Wu Xuantian and his companions, but they refused and fled with him instead.
• Ye Han followed Teacher Lan Qing and Saint As in purple-gold lightning, while Wu Xuantian failed to catch up after chasing them for several thousand miles.
• Dao Tianji suggested searching the Azure Profound Sect, and Wu Xuantian agreed and flew toward Heavenly Billows with his companions.

Teacher Lan Qing and Saint As rescued Ye Han from Wu Xuantian and explained that Wu belonged to the half-immortal race, whose death could let the immortal race enter the Earth Realm. They asked Ye Han to join a dangerous mission, warning that the Azure Profound Sect would not survive if he refused.

• Teacher Lan Qing and Saint As rescued Ye Han from Wu Xuantian, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race revealed that he had overheard the hunters' plans at the Heavenly Secret Hall.
• Ye Han rewarded the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race with ten Baleful Spirit Pearls and asked why they feared Wu Xuantian's half-immortal heritage.
• Teacher Lan Qing explained that half-immortals carried both immortal and ancient human blood, and that killing one could open the Earth Realm to the immortal race.
• Saint As told Ye Han they needed him for a dangerous mission, and Ye Han asked whether he could refuse.
• Saint As warned Ye Han that the Azure Profound Sect would not survive if he declined, and Ye Han demanded to know what he meant.

Teacher Lan Qing and Saint As explained why they needed Ye Han to travel to the dangerous place: they hoped to find a way to the Upper Realm before their lifespans ran out, while Ye Han had no duty to save the Earth Realm. They argued that his departure would draw the half-immortal race away from the Azure Profound Sect and leave the sect under their protection, but Ye Han questioned what that protection meant.

• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han that the Azure Profound Sect and the ancient human race were protected by Earth Realm providence, but that the Immortal Race and others still threatened them.
• Saint As explained that the ascension passage had been sealed, leaving him with little lifespan and making the dangerous journey their only hope of reaching the Upper Realm.
• Teacher Lan Qing said Elder Liu Head had likely gone to seek a gap in the ascension passage, and Ye Han wondered why he had taken Zhang Qingshan along.
• Ye Han considered his own possible lifespan problem and worried that leaving the Azure Profound Sect would make it vulnerable to the Northern Lu Immortal Sect.
• Teacher Lan Qing said the half-immortal race would have less reason to attack the sect if Ye Han went, and promised protection from Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators, prompting Ye Han to question the promise.

Teacher Lan Qing and Saint As explained that Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators had sworn a blood oath to cooperate in finding a way to ascend, and Ye Han agreed to join their search. Before they revealed the destination, Teacher Lan Qing said they would first find Wuxie Scholar, whose arrival Ye Han sensed at the chapter’s end.

• Teacher Lan Qing told Ye Han that Spirit Transformation Stage cultivators had formed a blood oath agreement to work together toward ascension and protect one another’s sects.
• Saint As and Teacher Lan Qing explained that the Northern Lu Immortal Sect’s elders were Ancient Human Race members who had joined the agreement only superficially, despite the Immortal Race’s backing.
• Ye Han understood that refusing to go could leave him and the Azure Profound Sect exposed to the Northern Lu Immortal Sect, so he agreed to go with Teacher Lan Qing and Saint As.
• Teacher Lan Qing said they first needed to find Wuxie Scholar and resolve the matter of the Northern Lu Immortal Sect’s Half-Immortal Race member.
• Teacher Lan Qing called out to Wuxie Scholar, and Ye Han sensed a terrifyingly powerful aura appear.

Ye Han met Wuxie Scholar, who promised to restrain the Northern Lu Immortal Sect after Teacher Lan Qing pressed him about its threat to the Azure Profound Sect. Wu Xuantian received an order from his sect’s supreme elders to leave the Azure Profound Sect alone and returned, though he vowed to deal with it later.

• Wuxie Scholar examined Ye Han, praised him, and recognized Saint As as a member of the Night Spirit Clan.
• Teacher Lan Qing urged Wuxie Scholar to prevent the Northern Lu Immortal Sect from targeting the Azure Profound Sect, and Wuxie Scholar promised to recall its half-immortal members.
• Wuxie Scholar invited Ye Han, Saint As, and Teacher Lan Qing to his residence to discuss the matter.
• Wu Xuantian and Dao Tianji planned to attack the Azure Profound Sect, but two female cultivators delivered the supreme elders’ order to withdraw.
• Wu Xuantian read the talisman, changed his mind, and ordered his companions back to the Northern Lu Immortal Sect, saying they would deal with the Azure Profound Sect later.

Ye Han visited the Wuxie Sect with Teacher Lan Qing and Saint As, where Wuxie Scholar offered to show him the Ten-Thousand-Year Coiling Dragon Wall. As Wuxie Scholar led Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing toward it, Ye Han's Purple Cauldron trembled and Wuxie Scholar turned to look at him.

• Ye Han surveyed the Wuxie Sect and noted its many powerful cultivators, academies, and serious-looking disciples.
• Wuxie Scholar agreed to show Teacher Lan Qing and Ye Han the Ten-Thousand-Year Coiling Dragon Wall, while Saint As stayed behind because he could not view it.
• Zhuge Qingshan arrived, praised Ye Han for defeating the Demon Race Army and killing the Nine Wounds Devil Lord, then took Saint As away as Wuxie Scholar ordered the Wuxie Sect's army to deal with the remaining demonic threats.
• Wuxie Scholar questioned Teacher Lan Qing about his time in the Heavenly Secret Hall, and Teacher Lan Qing promised to explain after they reached the wall.
• Wuxie Scholar led Ye Han and Teacher Lan Qing toward a mountain-ringed lake, where Ye Han's Purple Cauldron trembled and Wuxie Scholar abruptly looked at him.

Ye Han joined Teacher Lan Qing and Wuxie Scholar to examine the Wuxie Sect’s Ten-Thousand-Year Nine Dragon Wall after it seemed to react to him. The wall revealed no clear insight, and Ye Han wondered whether he would have to secretly use the Purple Cauldron to understand it.

• Wuxie Scholar sensed the Ten-Thousand-Year Coiling Dragon Wall react to Ye Han and led him and Teacher Lan Qing down to the underground hall.
• Teacher Lan Qing and Wuxie Scholar discussed painting as they walked, while Ye Han worried about the Purple Cauldron’s unusual reaction.
• Wuxie Scholar explained the wall’s significance and invited Ye Han to study it after it appeared to respond to him.
• Ye Han examined the natural stone mural and its spiritually vivid dragons, but gained no insight without using the Purple Cauldron.
• Wuxie Scholar began meditating while Teacher Lan Qing continued studying the wall, and Ye Han considered secretly using the Purple Cauldron.

Ye Han became entranced by the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall and appeared to awaken a connection to its nine Ink Dragons. The chapter left Teacher Lan Qing and Wuxie Scholar stunned as Ye Han suddenly struck the wall and cracked it with one punch.

• Ye Han resisted using the Purple Cauldron, suspecting Wuxie Scholar had brought him to the wall to test him.
• Ye Han watched the nine dragons on the wall and fell into a vision of himself roaming freely through the sky and sea as a dragon.
• Wuxie Scholar and Teacher Lan Qing saw nine Ink Dragons circle Ye Han and wondered whether he had grasped something from the wall.
• Wuxie Scholar asked whether Ye Han possessed the Earth Realm's secret, and Teacher Lan Qing warned him not to pursue Ye Han.
• Ye Han shouted, drove a spell-powered punch into the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall, and cracked it as Teacher Lan Qing and Wuxie Scholar cried for him to stop.

Ye Han shattered the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall and secretly absorbed its spiritual power with the Purple Cauldron, bringing nine ink-black dragons under his control. Wuxie Scholar confronted him as Teacher Lan Qing defended his right to claim what he had comprehended, and Wuxie Scholar unleashed his pressure toward Ye Han.

• Ye Han pulled his arm from the shattered Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall and claimed he had lost consciousness.
• Wuxie Scholar discovered that the wall had lost its spiritual essence and that its nine dragons were gone.
• Ye Han revealed nine ink-black dragons in his palm and described experiencing a dragon’s journey through the starry sky.
• Ye Han recalled deliberately draining the wall’s power with the Purple Cauldron because he suspected Wuxie Scholar had schemed against him.
• Wuxie Scholar accused Ye Han of playing tricks, but Teacher Lan Qing reminded him that he had said whoever comprehended the wall could claim it.
• Wuxie Scholar rejected Teacher Lan Qing’s defense and unleashed a suffocating wave of spell pressure toward Ye Han.

Ye Han revealed that he had seen nine enormous dragons locking down the void, which Teacher Lan Qing and Wuxie Scholar believed made him the key to breaking the Earth Realm’s restriction. As Lan Qing and Wuxie debated traveling to the Star Continent despite the danger, Ye Han objected that he had never agreed to go.

• Ye Han resisted Wuxie Scholar’s divine sense pressure, then refused to explain what he had seen until Teacher Lan Qing intervened.
• Ye Han described nine enormous dragons locking down the void, and Wuxie Scholar and Teacher Lan Qing recognized the vision as the key to unlocking the restriction sealing the Human Realm.
• Ye Han claimed the nine dragons had controlled him and absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall’s power, while concealing that the Purple Cauldron had absorbed it.
• Teacher Lan Qing persuaded Wuxie Scholar that the wall had chosen Ye Han and that the nine dragons could help them open the path to ascension.
• Lan Qing affirmed his intention to go to the Star Continent despite the threat from the Upper Realm’s Immortal and Devil Races, and Ye Han said he had not agreed to go.

Ye Han spent four or five years recovering and cultivating in Wuxie Hall, using the nine Ink Dragons and the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall’s power to improve his body and reach the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm. As Heaven’s Mandate Continent remained unsettled after the Devil Race’s defeat, Ye Han sensed that someone had gone crazy again.

• Ye Han broke through the Heavenly Dragon Tyrant Body Art, the sixth layer of the Eightfold Bone Refining Art, and the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Ye Han reflected on how the nine Ink Dragons and the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall had restored the Purple Cauldron’s aura and aided his cultivation.
• The Wuxie Sect and other cultivators wiped out the leaderless Devil Race Army, after which sects and lineages fought over the abandoned territories.
• Ye Han learned from White Snow that internal strife had weakened the Demon Race Alliance, while White Snow claimed credit and said it wanted to return.
• Ye Han sensed something unusual after standing up and exclaimed that someone had gone crazy again.

Ye Han suppressed Nine Wounds Devil Lord inside the Five Elements Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and surveyed the thriving Purple Cauldron Space. He had also rebuilt the Demoness Cultivator’s body, but she had not yet awakened, and Ye Han’s lifespan was proving troublesome.

• Ye Han reinforced the Five Elements Soul-Suppressing Pagoda’s formations and chains, stopping Nine Wounds Devil Lord from trying to escape.
• Ye Han reflected that Nine Wounds Devil Lord’s treasures could serve his clone, though the battle had cost him many insects, puppets, and spell power.
• Ye Han found that the Purple Cauldron Space had expanded and grown richer in spiritual energy, while the Snow Dragon Sea King and Ten-Thousand-Year Water Spirit cultivated together.
• Ye Han reviewed how the Demoness Cultivator had been drawn into attacking Nine Wounds Devil Lord and later slain by Wu Xuantian of the Northern Lu Immortal Sect.
• Ye Han reconstructed the Demoness Cultivator’s body in the form of a white-haired Human Race woman with fox ears and waited for her to awaken.
• Ye Han sensed that something had gone wrong with his lifespan.

Wuxie Scholar prepared to leave for the Star Continent, while Wu Xuantian persuaded the Northern Lu Immortal Sect’s Old Ancestors to emerge and pursue the Nine-Dragon Lock. After seven or eight years in seclusion, Ye Han came out and joined the three Spirit Transformation Stage seniors on their journey.

• Wuxie Scholar told Zhuge Qingshan that the Devil Race remnants had been cleared and gave him a Storage Bag of instructions before deciding to go to the Star Continent with Ye Han.
• Wu Xuantian informed the Northern Lu Immortal Sect’s Old Ancestors that the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Dragon Wall had been broken and urged them to seize the chance to reach the Upper Realm.
• Four of the Old Ancestors opened their Water Spirit Coffins and emerged, while another chose to remain behind and oversee the sect.
• Ye Han emerged from seclusion with a greatly increased cultivation aura, and Saint As, Teacher Lan Qing, and Wuxie Scholar prepared to take him to the Star Continent.

Ye Han, Wuxie Scholar, Saint As, and Teacher Lan Qing traveled through the Far Northern Lands toward the Star Continent, intending to open Nine Dragons Locking the Sky and reach the Upper Realm. They arrived at the entrance guarded by a Primordial Ancient Beast, and a blizzard began as a snow-covered mountain peak moved.

• Ye Han and the others crossed the Far Northern Lands, where its bitter cold forced Ye Han to protect himself with spell power and treasured armor.
• Wuxie Scholar, Teacher Lan Qing, Saint As, and Ye Han agreed to seek the Star Continent and open Nine Dragons Locking the Sky so they could continue cultivating in the Upper Realm.
• Wuxie Scholar and Teacher Lan Qing explained that the Star Continent was hidden among the stars and held the passage to the Earth Realm's ancient restriction.
• Wuxie Scholar warned the others not to kill the Primordial Ancient Beast guarding the entrance to the Star Continent.
• The four flew beneath a vast hole in space, where a terrifying blizzard rose and an enormous snow-covered mountain peak began to move.

Ye Han and his companions escaped the Primordial Ice Beast and broke through the interface barrier to ascend into a spatial passage. Ye Han used a golden talisman to withstand the passage’s tearing force as he wondered whether the Star Continent held the secret of the nine dragons locking the sky.

• The Primordial Ice Beast attacked Ye Han, Teacher Lan Qing, Wuxie Scholar, and Saint As, but Teacher Lan Qing urged them to charge toward the sky instead of fighting it.
• The four flew toward the vortex, and the Primordial Ice Beast pursued them before giving up and withdrawing its arm.
• Teacher Lan Qing, Wuxie Scholar, Saint As, and Ye Han struck the interface barrier with their treasures and blasted open a rift.
• Wuxie Scholar entered the rift, and Ye Han followed, using repeated strikes from his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel to stabilize it.
• Ye Han activated a golden talisman to shield himself from the spatial tearing force as he continued through the passage.

Ye Han and the others traveled through the spatial passage to the Star Continent, where Ye Han absorbed powerful star energy and hoped to find a way to advance before his lifespan ran out. They emerged into a barren, lifeless land beneath a sky crowded with stars, leaving them astonished by the continent’s desolation.

• Ye Han followed the Wuxie Scholar, Teacher Lan Qing, and Saint As into the spatial passage, protected by the Divine Gang Talisman.
• Ye Han suspected that the Purple Cauldron had consumed much of his lifespan in exchange for his cultivation, making him eager to reach the Upper Realm and find opportunities to progress.
• Ye Han endured the passage’s spatial tearing force and absorbed star energy that flowed far more strongly than it did in the Purple Cauldron Space.
• The Wuxie Scholar, Teacher Lan Qing, Saint As, and Ye Han emerged onto a barren land filled with withered trees and strange demon-beast skeletons.
• Saint As questioned whether the desolate land could really be the Star Continent, since its spiritual energy seemed depleted.