Chapter Summaries

Ye Han failed to contact Elder Liu and led Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member up the Unfixed Immortal Ladder, where its trials also strengthened his cultivation. At a fork with no visible clues, Ye Han released the Purple Cauldron’s seal, chose the right-hand path, and watched the left path disappear.

• Ye Han activated his Legacy Disciple Token but could not contact Elder Liu, then insisted that Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan were likely safe.
• Ye Han stepped onto the Unfixed Immortal Ladder and used the Heart-Calming Immortal Art to dispel illusory demonic beasts while his cultivation advanced.
• Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member followed Ye Han, and Bai Daozi warned that higher steps would bring genuine divine soul attacks.
• Ye Han continued climbing through increasingly fierce attacks and found that the ladder accelerated his cultivation.
• At a fork, Ye Han could not probe either route, so he unsealed the Purple Cauldron and chose the right-hand path.
• Ye Han stepped onto the right-hand stairs, and the left-hand branch shuddered and vanished.

Ye Han and his companions were drawn into visions by the staircase inside the Star-Seizing Tower, while Wu Xuantian encountered the Moon God outside and learned he wanted Ye Han dead. The Moon God offered to join forces with Wu Xuantian to reclaim what he said belonged to him.

• A leaf-clad sprite appeared before Ye Han and sang, drawing him into memories of a cradle and two blurred figures.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race cultivator failed to reach Ye Han with a voice transmission, while Bai Daozi and the cultivator also stepped onto the staircase and were swept into their own memories.
• Wu Xuantian worried about entering the Star-Seizing Tower alone and resolved to kill Ye Han and take his Starry Sky Stones.
• The Moon God appeared beside Wu Xuantian, who recognized him from the Immortal Race's intelligence.
• The Moon God offered to cooperate with Wu Xuantian, explaining that Ye Han had a grudge against his physical body and that he intended to kill Ye Han and reclaim what belonged to him.

Wu Xuantian agreed to help the Moon God enter the Star-Seizing Tower in exchange for guidance toward what he and the Immortal Race sought. The Moon God transformed into a crescent-marked Starry Sky Stone, and Wu Xuantian carried him through the tower’s entrance.

• Wu Xuantian questioned why the Moon God wanted to cooperate and learned he needed a Star Palace Disciple to enter the Star-Seizing Tower.
• The Moon God offered to lead Wu Xuantian to what he wanted—or, more precisely, what the Immortal Race wanted—and Wu Xuantian agreed to join forces.
• Wu Xuantian suspected the Moon God might be the legendary traitor of the ancient human race but did not ask him about it.
• Wu Xuantian activated the entrance formation with a Starry Sky Stone, and the Moon God transformed into a crescent-marked Starry Sky Stone.
• Wu Xuantian carried the Moon God’s stone through the doorway and entered the Star-Seizing Tower as its enormous door closed behind him.

Wu Xuantian entered the Star-Seizing Tower with the Moon God, who explained the dangers of its Unfixed Immortal Ladder and agreed to guide him toward valuable treasures. Ahead of them, Ye Han endured the ladder’s trials by following the Purple Cauldron’s sense of a nearby treasure.

• The Moon God told Wu Xuantian that the Star-Seizing Tower held real secrets but its stories were partly intended to lure outsiders into deadly trials.
• The Unfixed Immortal Ladder rose through the hall, and the Moon God led Wu Xuantian onto it, promising to guide him to valuable things.
• Wu Xuantian asked whether they could catch up with Ye Han, but the Moon God said they should proceed carefully and strengthen themselves first.
• Ye Han reached a fork in the ladder and noticed Bai Daozi following close behind the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member.
• Ye Han recalled that the ladder tested Cultivators’ Dao hearts by confronting them with painful memories, and that failed challengers could have their divine souls absorbed.
• Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to choose his path toward a treasure it sensed, and its vibrations grew stronger as he neared it.

Ye Han defeated another blood soul on the Unfixed Immortal Ladder and waited there to cultivate while Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member caught up. After several months, Ye Han was nearing a breakthrough and stepped onto the ladder’s final step, where the Purple Cauldron trembled.

• Ye Han froze and shattered a golden-haired cultivator, then sealed the attacker’s blood soul in White-Light Runes.
• Ye Han reached another step of the Unfixed Immortal Ladder and realized Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member were still behind him in their trials.
• Ye Han decided to wait and cultivate on the ladder, hoping to improve his cultivation and extend his limited lifespan.
• Ye Han tried to contact Elder Liu with his Legacy Disciple Token but received no response, leaving him worried about Elder Liu and Zhang Qingshan.
• After several months of cultivation, Ye Han saw Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member arrive, then stepped onto the final ladder step as the Purple Cauldron trembled.

Ye Han followed the Purple Cauldron’s increasingly intense vibrations to a chamber inside the Star-Seizing Tower, where he discovered a sinister pool of purplish-red spirit liquid. The Purple Cauldron reacted to an object among the bones beneath the pool that looked like a corner of the Purple Cauldron, and the object’s awakening sent a terrifying aura through the chamber.

• Ye Han reached the top of the Unfixed Immortal Ladder after more than seven years of cultivation and entered a vast chamber containing a gourd pouring purplish-red spirit liquid into a pool.
• Ye Han spotted shadows moving beneath the pool’s surface and used his vision to discover countless cultivators’ bones at the bottom.
• Ye Han sensed that the Purple Cauldron was responding to something beside the pool and cautiously followed the wall toward it.
• Ye Han used the Bright-Eyed Divine Formula to identify an object among the bones that looked like a corner of the Purple Cauldron.
• The apparent corner trembled and released rings of purple runes, making the pool shake as a terrifying aura erupted.

Ye Han fought a violet-red giant formed from the bones and blood souls in the pool, discovering that the strange stone gourd became armor for the Blood Souls Wraith. After destroying its summoned blood souls with Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder, he faced the Wraith as it drew a blood-red saber and attacked.

• Ye Han's Gods-and-Devils Hand clashed with a violet-red liquid arm, but the arm drained its demonic qi and power until he used the Radiant Light Art to break through.
• The pool's liquid and bones formed a giant, and Ye Han sensed that an object resembling a Purple Cauldron was inside it.
• The giant seized the stone gourd, which split into armor scales and covered its body as the Blood Souls Wraith charged Ye Han.
• Ye Han used Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder to destroy the blood soul figures summoned by the Wraith.
• The Blood Souls Wraith pulled a blood-red saber from its mouth and slashed at Ye Han.

Ye Han fought the Blood Souls Wraith as it unleashed powerful saber and sword techniques, but the creature withdrew into its Stone Gourd before he could strike its main body. Ye Han's sword-rays failed to leave a mark on the gourd, leaving him to wonder what kind of treasure it was.

• The Blood Souls Wraith's blade-light anticipated Ye Han's escape, forcing him to use Baleful Ghost Body and endure an attack that struck at his soul and divine sense.
• Ye Han drew his Bone-Refining Bone Swords and fought off the wraith's blade-rays and blood maws with Golden Vast Swordsmanship and Demon-Breaking Divine Thunder.
• The Blood Souls Wraith formed a storm of saber and sword attacks, and Ye Han used Thunder Escape Technique to appear before it and attack its main body.
• The Blood Souls Wraith withdrew into its gourd armor, which closed into the Stone Gourd and withstood Ye Han's sword-rays without taking a mark.

Ye Han fought to subdue the Blood Souls Wraith and the Stone Gourd after the gourd’s power prevented him from using his spell power. With Ye Han’s help, the Purple Cauldron sealed both creatures and returned to his Divine Sense Sea, though he wondered what it was doing.

• Ye Han’s sword-rays failed to damage the Stone Gourd, which unleashed a restraining power that stopped him from mobilizing his spell power.
• The Purple Cauldron emerged from Ye Han’s Divine Sense Sea, struck the Stone Gourd, and bound it and the Blood Souls Wraith with rune chains.
• Ye Han used the Abyss-Slaying Long Halberd to drive the Blood Souls Wraith into the Purple Cauldron, while the Abyss-Slaying Art’s runes restrained him.
• Ye Han poured his spell power, star power, and nascent soul power into the Purple Cauldron, helping it suppress and seal both the Blood Souls Wraith and the Stone Gourd.
• The Purple Cauldron returned to Ye Han’s Divine Sense Sea with both creatures subdued, and Ye Han wondered what it was doing.

Ye Han’s Purple Cauldron absorbed a powerful replica hidden in the Blood Souls Wraith, growing stronger and beginning to sprout a new sapling from the auras of the Wraith and Stone Gourd. After the hall opened a path onward, Ye Han fortified himself and cultivated, discovering that the Purple Cauldron’s gains had improved its absorption of spiritual energy, star power, and traces of law power; he ended with a sudden realization that confirmed his suspicion.

• The Purple Cauldron tore the replica cauldron out of the Blood Souls Wraith and absorbed it, increasing its aura and strengthening its divine abilities.
• The Purple Cauldron absorbed the Blood Souls Wraith’s and Stone Gourd’s auras, forming a new purplish-red sprout on its lid.
• Ye Han worried that the Purple Cauldron’s release had drawn the attention of a powerful being, then saw that the hall had cleared and an enormous palace gate led onward.
• Ye Han set up Formation Beads for protection and cultivated on the Heaven and Earth Five Elements Meditation Cushion while waiting for the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and Bai Daozi.
• Ye Han found that the Purple Cauldron absorbed spiritual energy faster, could draw in more star power and traces of law power, and had expanded the Purple Cauldron Space by more than a tenth.
• Ye Han swallowed a pill and was delighted when events confirmed his suspicion.

Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron’s new ability to convert pills into ancient dragon aura and strengthen his Nine Ancient Dragon Mysteries. After breaking through to the sixth mystery, he sensed a faint call from the enormous door in the great hall.

• The Moon God sensed a powerful treasure ahead on the Unfixed Immortal Ladder and continued climbing while Wu Xuantian followed behind.
• Ye Han discovered that the Purple Cauldron could convert pills into power for secret methods and cultivation techniques, though the process wasted much of their potency and only worked well for methods he had cultivated sufficiently.
• Ye Han used converted pills to advance the Nine Ancient Dragon Mysteries because he needed to strengthen the Nine Dragons to undo Nine Dragons Locking the Sky.
• Ye Han recalled that he had not found Teacher Lan Qing at the Central Star Palace Temple and feared that Teacher Lan Qing might not have survived the Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable’s scheme.
• After more than half a month of cultivation, Ye Han broke through to the sixth mystery, and the Nine Dragons transformed into powerful purple-gold patterns around him.
• The enormous door in the great hall trembled faintly as though it were calling to Ye Han.

Ye Han waited in the Great Hall after sensing a mysterious summons connected to the Nine Dragons, while he trained with the Purple Cauldron and considered its growing power. Nearly a year later, the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and Bai Daozi finally emerged from the Unfixed Immortal Ladder.

• Ye Han stopped activating the Nine Dragons and waited for Bai Daozi and the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race, unable to see past the Restrictive Barrier at the Great Hall entrance.
• Ye Han used the Purple Cauldron to convert pills into power of the stars and tested how different pills and grades affected the conversion rate.
• Ye Han noticed that the Purple Cauldron’s sapling had grown two rune-marked leaves and wondered what fruit it would produce after absorbing the unusual being and the Stone Gourd.
• Ye Han reflected on how he and the Purple Cauldron depended on and strengthened each other.
• Nearly a year later, the member of the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race emerged from the Unfixed Immortal Ladder, followed by Bai Daozi, and Ye Han complained that they had taken too long.

Ye Han learned that latecomers had entered the Unfixed Immortal Ladder and asked whether they could follow his route, while Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider questioned what he had found in the Great Hall. Ye Han defended keeping his solo gains and urged them to continue before the newcomers could claim more treasures.

• Bai Daozi told Ye Han that hidden, powerful blood souls had injured him and the Immortal-Thief Outsider, while other cultivators had stirred the blood souls up.
• Ye Han asked whether the latecomers could follow the same route, but Bai Daozi explained that they could only share some paths, not travel the exact route taken by the three who entered together.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider asked Ye Han what treasures he had found in the Great Hall, and Ye Han reminded them that their agreement let each person keep what they obtained alone.
• Ye Han noticed that Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider had recovered from their injuries and improved their cultivation, then urged them to keep moving rather than rest.

Ye Han, the Immortal-Thief Outsider, and Bai Daozi entered a frozen world in the Star-Seizing Tower, where Bai Daozi identified the place as a Foreign Race Homeland. He explained how foreign races and remnants of the Ancient Human Race had settled inside the tower, and the group wondered whether their former ties would make passage safer.

• Ye Han and Bai Daozi discussed the dangers ahead, and Ye Han urged the group to leave the Great Hall together.
• Ye Han, the Immortal-Thief Outsider, and Bai Daozi crossed the sealed doorway and arrived in a silent, ice-covered world beneath three moons.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider questioned Bai Daozi about their destination, and Bai Daozi admitted he did not know the place but suspected it was foreign race territory.
• Bai Daozi explained that foreign races and Ancient Human Race remnants had entered the Star-Seizing Tower long ago and made new territories there called Foreign Race Homelands.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider asked whether the homeland's ties to the Ancient Human Race would make it easier for them to pass through.

Ye Han, Bai Daozi, and the Immortal-Thief Outsider crossed the Frozen Land while discussing the Star-Seizing Tower and the foreign races’ homelands. Ye Han sensed a powerful presence in a valley and discovered a massive ice beast resembling a qilin.

• Bai Daozi said he and his companions had not entered the Star Continent of their own accord and insisted that Bai was not his surname.
• Ye Han led Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider onward through the Frozen Land as powerful restrictions limited their divine sense.
• Using his ice-attribute spirit root and the Cold Art, Ye Han sensed strange chilling qi in a distant valley and guided the others toward it.
• Ye Han concealed himself and approached the valley alone while Bai Daozi and the Immortal-Thief Outsider waited for his signal.
• A surge of frost flame stopped the valley’s absorption of moonlight and chilling qi, and Ye Han saw a huge ice beast resembling a qilin.
• Ye Han sensed that someone was approaching.

Ye Han watched the Ice Qilin King battle a burly, long-tailed man who had challenged it, then rescued the man when the Ice Qilin King sent him flying. The Ice Qilin King recognized Ye Han as an outsider and attacked him with waves of icy sword-rays.

• Ye Han called the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race member and Bai Daozi over to watch a tailed man emerge from a cavern and challenge the Ice Qilin King.
• The Ice Qilin King attacked the challenger with an icy storm, but the man blocked it with his silver shield and countered with spear-rays that failed to harm the beast.
• The Ice Qilin King shattered the man's shield with its tail and sent him flying toward Ye Han and the others.
• Ye Han appeared in front of the man, blocked the Ice Qilin King's icy pillar with the Thousand Illusion Heavenly Bell, and caught him with a Golden Light Giant Hand.
• The Ice Qilin King called Ye Han an outsider, strengthened its aura, and attacked him with waves of icy sword-rays.

Ye Han, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race, and Bai Daozi attacked the Ice Qilin King together and seemingly destroyed his body. Ye Han recognized that the Ice Qilin King had escaped using an Ice-Escape Technique, pursued him to a distant glacial mountain, and brought down the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda.

• Ye Han fought the Ice Qilin King's ice attacks with flame sword-rays and dodged his ice blade using the Baleful Spirit Path Art.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race summoned a giant baleful spirit and struck the Ice Qilin King with a Killing Intent Blade Light, but the Ice Qilin King blocked it with an ice wall.
• Ye Han appeared beside the Ice Qilin King and attacked with the Gods-and-Devils Hand, while Bai Daozi struck him with a pillar of flame.
• The Ice Qilin King's body cracked apart and scattered as icy water, but Ye Han realized he had used an Ice-Escape Technique to flee.
• Ye Han teleported to a distant glacial mountain, enlarged the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda, and sent it crashing down in flames.

Ye Han exposed the Ice Qilin King’s fake corpse and attacked him with his companions, overwhelming him in a coordinated assault. As Ye Han continued beating the trapped king, the Ice Qilin King begged for mercy and offered to take them out of there.

• Ye Han melted the ice mountain and forced the real Ice Qilin King, who had hidden nearby after escaping in an ice sculpture, to reveal himself.
• Ye Han transformed into a giant and charged the Ice Qilin King with his Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel while his companions joined the attack.
• Ye Han put away his cudgel and grabbed the Ice Qilin King’s horns as the baleful spirit seized his feet and flaming meteors rained down on him.
• The Ice Qilin King’s blood-ice attack failed to stop Ye Han, and Ye Han smashed him into the ground with the Exquisite Treasure Pagoda.
• Ye Han pummeled the trapped Ice Qilin King until he begged him to stop and offered to take them out of there.

Ye Han, the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race, and Bai Daozi defeated the Ice Qilin King, and Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to capture his blood soul. The burly Tailfolk man celebrated their freedom, but an icy voice warned him not to celebrate too soon.

• The Ice Qilin King exploded into blood-red icicles to escape, but Ye Han used the Nine Ancient Dragon Mysteries to force him out of the ground.
• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race and Bai Daozi attacked the Ice Qilin King as he emerged, exploiting his lack of battle experience.
• Ye Han smashed the Ice Qilin King's head with the Thunderous Five-Element Golden Cudgel, driving out his blood soul.
• Ye Han used the Ghost Skull Mirror to seize the fleeing blood soul and capture it.
• The Ice Qilin King's body crashed to the ground, and the burly man rejoiced that the Tailfolk were free before an icy voice warned him not to celebrate too soon.

Ye Han and his companions questioned Xu Nuo, a Tailfolk warrior they had saved from the Ice Qilin King, while seeking information about the foreign land. Xu Nuo offered to trade for the Ice Qilin King’s corpse and hinted that the Tailfolk had something the outsiders wanted.

• The Immortal-Thief Outsider Race intimidated Xu Nuo, and Ye Han stepped in to calm him and learn about the Tailfolk.
• Bai Daozi identified the Tailfolk as a branch of the ancient human race, while Xu Nuo thanked Ye Han for saving him and his people.
• Ye Han had the Immortal-Thief Outsider Race collect the Ice Qilin King’s corpse for the group to divide later.
• Xu Nuo asked Ye Han to give the corpse to the Tailfolk, but Ye Han refused.
• Xu Nuo offered something in exchange, saying the Tailfolk would perish without the corpse, and Ye Han and Bai Daozi realized their questioning had worked.