Chapter Summaries

Xu Taiping warned Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian that Yuejian’s next tribulations awaited her at Youyun Pavilion, then prepared to protect her and confront the danger. On their way there the next day, he rescued them from a carriage moments before an official’s immortal carriage crushed it.

• Xu Taiping told Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian that Yuejian would face her sixth tribulation at Youyun Pavilion, where she was due to choose a treasure.
• Xu Taiping urged Yuejian to stay beside him at Youyun Pavilion and asked Su Qingtan to gather materials for Yuejian’s seventh, Earth-Killing Tribulation.
• Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping that the dangerous treasure was likely a relic from the Ancient Heavenly Court’s Treasury Pavilion and warned him to use his Dragon Whale Physique and Great Sun Golden Flame when retrieving it.
• Xu Taiping arrived at the agreed meeting place and pulled Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian from their carriage.
• An official’s immortal carriage crashed onto the women’s carriage moments later, and Xu Taiping reminded Yuejian that it was the unluckiest day of her life.

Xu Taiping escorted Dongfang Yuejian through a street full of Seven Tribulations Curse accidents to Youyun Pavilion, then traded one of his ninth-floor treasure selections for a chance to choose a treasure on the seventh floor. He left the chapter preparing to go up with Yuejian, while Su Qingtan waited outside.

• Xu Taiping left Su Qingtan at the intersection and escorted Dongfang Yuejian through a series of dangerous accidents, keeping her safe on the way to Youyun Pavilion.
• Su Qingtan thanked Xu Taiping through her voice-transmission Jade Slip and asked him to bring Dongfang Yuejian out safely.
• At Youyun Pavilion, Mu Yun congratulated Xu Taiping and gave him a Teleportation Token and an Alchemist Assembly Jade Slip.
• Xu Taiping asked the pavilion steward to exchange one of his ninth-floor treasure selections for a chance to choose a treasure on the seventh floor.
• Ye Feiyu mocked Xu Taiping, but the steward confirmed that the exchange was allowed.

Xu Taiping accompanied Dongfang Yuejian to the seventh floor of Youyun Pavilion to help her face the danger he had foreseen, while she felt guilty that he had given up his chance to choose a treasure from the ninth floor. The chapter ended as Dongfang Yuejian called for the Immortal Carp Basket.

• Dongfang Yuejian apologized to Xu Taiping for costing him the chance to select a treasure on the ninth floor, and he reassured her that he had expected this.
• The steward explained that treasures on the seventh floor could be examined, summoned by name, or might choose their owners themselves, and warned that their actions would appear in the spirit mirror.
• Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian entered the seventh-floor treasure chamber, while Mu Yun and Ji Ye watched from the sixth floor.
• Xu Taiping told Dongfang Yuejian to follow her original plan and summon treasures by name because he believed that was when the danger would appear.
• Dongfang Yuejian announced that she had come to request the ancient immortal treasure, the Immortal Carp Basket.

Dongfang Yuejian obtained the Immortal Carp Basket and Dew-Refining Disc in Youyun Pavilion, then mistakenly summoned the Cold Sky Pearl while seeking the Frost-Heaven Pearl. The Cold Sky Pearl unleashed a terrifying chill that began freezing her surroundings and attacking divine souls.

• Dongfang Yuejian summoned the Immortal Carp Basket and explained its ability to catch spirit-filled immortal carp that might grow into dragons.
• Dongfang Yuejian summoned the Dew-Refining Disc, while Xu Taiping worried that her excitement was making her careless and checked that his Golden Crow Fire mark had turned gold.
• Outside the treasury, Mu Yun praised the treasures and explained the Frost-Heaven Pearl's rumored frost-casting abilities.
• Dongfang Yuejian mistakenly called for the Cold Sky Pearl, and the earthy-yellow pearl hovered before her even after she apologized and tried to leave.
• The Cold Sky Pearl released a terrifying surge of spiritual energy, and Ji Ye warned that its chill could freeze the divine soul.

Xu Taiping tamed the Cold Sky Pearl, discovering it was the seventh floor’s Tower-Suppressing Treasure. He then headed to Youyun Pavilion’s ninth floor with Dongfang Yuejian to choose more treasures.

• Xu Taiping used his blood vitality to refine the Cold Sky Pearl until it acknowledged him as its master.
• Mu Yun and the other cultivators watched in amazement as the pearl circled Xu Taiping, and Qiu Shanyuan confirmed it was formed from the Heaven-Cold Lamp’s oil and suppressed the seventh floor’s treasures.
• Xu Taiping left the treasury with Dongfang Yuejian and told her to wait on the ninth floor while he collected his treasures.
• Xu Taiping asked Qiu Shanyuan whether the ninth floor also had a Tower-Suppressing Treasure, and Qiu Shanyuan worried that he meant to take it too.
• Mu Yun and the other cultivators followed Xu Taiping upstairs to see which treasures he would choose.

Xu Taiping searched Youyun Pavilion’s ninth-floor treasury for the True Martial Back Tai Shang Mantra Flower Coin, a treasure said to have been made by the True Martial Great Emperor and powerful enough to help seal the Profound Grotto. Unable to find it among the nameless treasures, he tried calling it forth by identifying himself as a disciple of True Martial Heaven and welcoming it home.

• Xu Taiping recalled his Little Martial Aunt’s account of the Gold Essence Coin and its importance to True Martial Heaven and the Azure Profound Sect.
• Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping the coin could restrain demonic beasts and offered to teach him how to use it if he obtained it.
• After searching the crowded treasury without success, Xu Taiping decided to use the method his Little Martial Aunt had suggested.
• Mu Yun explained to Ji Ye that the ninth-floor treasures were Emperor Youyun’s private collection and lacked an outside catalog, while Qiu Shanyuan said their names had been erased.
• Xu Taiping bowed in the Spirit Mirror, introduced himself as a disciple of the Azure Profound Sect of True Martial Heaven, and called for the senior treasure to come home.

Xu Taiping obtained the Gold Essence Coin, which became his houtian divine artifact Ghost Zha and pledged to serve him for three thousand years. With one treasure selection remaining at Youyun Pavilion, Fairy Lingyue suggested that he let the treasures choose him.

• The Gold Essence Coin emerged from the treasury and asked Xu Taiping to name it, revealing itself as a divine artifact.
• Qiu Shanyuan confirmed that the coin was the Gold Essence Coin forged by the True Martial Great Emperor, while Dongfang Yuejian celebrated Xu Taiping's good fortune.
• Xu Taiping named the coin Ghost Zha, and it accepted him as its master before entering his qi abode.
• Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping that his current cultivation could not withstand refining a divine artifact into a lifebound treasure.
• After Qiu Shanyuan reminded Xu Taiping that he had one selection left, Fairy Lingyue suggested that he let the treasures choose him.

Xu Taiping invited the treasures on Youyun Pavilion’s ninth floor to acknowledge him, while spectators debated his choice and Ye Feiyu mocked him. Just as Xu Taiping gave up and prepared to choose a treasure himself, a multitude of treasures gathered around him.

• Xu Taiping released his True Essence and blood energy, asking the treasures to journey with him as his master.
• Mu Yun recognized that Xu Taiping had subdued the Cold Sky Pearl to help Dongfang Yuejian, while Ye Feiyu mocked Xu Taiping and Dongfang Yuejian defended him.
• Qiu Shanyuan warned the arguing disciples to be quiet and expected the ancient treasures to ignore Xu Taiping.
• Xu Taiping called to the treasures a second time, then lowered his hands when none appeared to respond.
• As Xu Taiping prepared to pick a treasure at random, the treasures rushed over and surrounded him.

Xu Taiping formed a Soul Contract with the Life-and-Death Seal, a Tower-Suppressing Treasure from the Youyun Pavilion, and arranged to contact his sect. He then told Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian that the Master of the One-Leaf Book would attack Dongfang Yuejian during her tribulation the next day.

• The Life-and-Death Seal revealed that it was a fragment of the Heaven-Flipping Seal and offered Xu Taiping a Soul Contract with conditions, which he accepted.
• Qiu Shanyuan explained that the Life-and-Death Seal suppressed the ninth floor’s divine artifacts, making Xu Taiping the holder of two Tower-Suppressing Treasures.
• Xu Taiping asked Qiu Shanyuan to contact the Nine Prefectures or Azure Profound Sect and agreed to pay one hundred thousand Gold Essence Coins for the communication formation.
• Qiu Shanyuan warned Xu Taiping that others might covet the treasures, while Xu Taiping anticipated the next day’s plan to intercept the Master of the One-Leaf Book.
• Su Qingtan gave Xu Taiping the items he had requested, and he revealed that the Master of the One-Leaf Book had planted Dongfang Yuejian’s Seven Tribulations Curse and would attack her the next day.

Xu Taiping and Fairy Lingyue prepared for the coming confrontation with the Master of the One-Leaf Book, and she explained the major stages of cultivation. The chapter ended as Xu Taiping described the changes he sensed after reaching Spirit Refining.

• Xu Taiping memorized Fairy Lingyue’s formation, which would prevent high-level cultivators from concealing their auras.
• Xu Taiping told Fairy Lingyue that Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian had not yet agreed to flee to the Blood Rain Forest, while Fairy Lingyue predicted the One-Leaf Book would force them out of the Imperial Capital.
• Fairy Lingyue explained that cultivators progressed through Qi Refining, Spirit Refining, True Cultivation, and Dao Integration, and related the stages to realms in True Martial Heaven.
• Fairy Lingyue asked Xu Taiping to examine his body after his breakthrough, and he described the mist-shrouded mountain range and purple qi within his Cinnabar Heart.

Xu Taiping learned from Fairy Lingyue about Spirit Refining cultivation, the Transformation Realm, and the powerful cultivators in Youyun Heaven. The next morning, he learned that the Dongfang Household had been ordered to leave the Imperial Capital, but he remained determined to help Dongfang Yuejian.

• Fairy Lingyue explained that Xu Taiping’s Pill Embryo and Primordial Spirit would develop through Spirit Refining, and described the benefits of pursuing the Ultimate Realm.
• Fairy Lingyue told Xu Taiping that the Mysterious Wasteland Tower had fallen to the Demon Abyss and promised to find other secret realms for him.
• Fairy Lingyue outlined the three ranks of the Transformation Realm and revealed that the owner of the One-Leaf Book was among the few Heaven Shocking Realm cultivators in Youyun Heaven.
• Lu Rushuang told Xu Taiping that the Dongfang Household had been driven from its inn and tactfully ordered by Southern Chu’s Imperial Clan to leave the Imperial Capital.
• Lu Rushuang urged Xu Taiping to stay out of the Dongfang Household’s trouble, but he said he was confident he could help Dongfang Yuejian.

Xu Taiping reassured Lu Rushuang that he would take Dongfang Yuejian to Cloud-Hidden Temple to seek a cure for her curse. In the Imperial Capital, the Dongfang Household was driven out and shunned, but as Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian set out alone, Xu Taiping arrived and called for them to wait.

• Xu Taiping refused Lu Rushuang's offer to accompany him, explaining that he was helping the Dongfang Household because he would hope others would help Qingxuan in the same situation.
• The Qi Household Ancestor had the Dongfang Household's luggage thrown out of the Calamity-Cloud Inn, while other inns, carriage drivers, and townspeople refused to help them.
• Su Qingtan sent the Dongfang Household disciples to Youyun Prefecture and prepared to take Dongfang Yuejian toward the teleportation array to Chenglong Heaven.
• Zhang Tianze admitted to Zhu Huai that he wanted to intervene but no longer dared act freely because his life was not his own.
• Xu Taiping rode up in a Bronze Chariot and called to Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian, offering to go with them; Zhang Tianze recognized him and raised his wine in salute.

Zhang Tianze and Zhu Huai learned that Xu Taiping knew the danger facing Dongfang Yuejian and had chosen to help her and Su Qingtan. They prepared to confront One-Leaf Book in the Blood Rain Forest, while Zhu Huai watched the group leave the city.

• Zhu Huai scolded Zhang Tianze for letting Xu Taiping enter the dangerous conflict, and Zhang Tianze praised Xu Taiping’s resolve.
• Zhu Huai asked Lu Rushuang whether she had told Xu Taiping why the mother and daughter were being hunted, and Lu Rushuang confirmed that he knew.
• Lu Rushuang relayed Xu Taiping’s reason for helping, moving Zhu Huai and Zhang Tianze; Zhang Tianze declared that they had lived in disgrace for too long.
• Zhang Tianze planned to confront One-Leaf Book, but Zhu Huai urged him to wait and explained that the Blood Rain Forest would give them an advantage.
• Zhu Huai used a Spirit Mirror to watch Xu Taiping, Su Qingtan, and Dongfang Yuejian at the city gate, then told Zhang Tianze to split the mirror’s cost.

Xu Taiping reassured Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian that his plan could carry them through Dongfang Yuejian’s seventh tribulation, revealing that he knew exactly how One-Leaf Book’s disciples would ambush them. He proposed turning the ambush around and using the disciples’ identities to approach two more attackers near Blood Rain Forest.

• Xu Taiping urged Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian to trust his plan and guided them into the Bronze Chariot.
• Inside the chariot, Xu Taiping’s clone explained that Qingye, Hongye, and Baiye would ambush them at Falling Cloud Slope with specific techniques.
• Su Qingtan questioned how Xu Taiping could predict every move, and he credited a senior who had foreseen the attacks.
• Dongfang Yuejian declared that she believed Xu Taiping, and Su Qingtan agreed to hear his plan.
• Xu Taiping revealed that they would trap the three disciples and use their identities to approach two more cultivators waiting outside Blood Rain Forest.

Xu Taiping protected Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian from volleys of Rock-Splitting Arrows and fought off waves of cultivators attacking their carriage. At Falling Cloud Slope, Baiye, Old Ghost Yiye's Personal Disciple, unleashed a hurricane that began dragging the carriage toward him.

• Xu Taiping caught three Rock-Splitting Arrows inside the carriage and told Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian that his true body was guarding outside.
• Zhang Tianze and Zhu Huai watched as four earth dragons trapped the carriage and cultivators attacked it.
• Xu Taiping cut down the cultivator hidden in an earth dragon, broke the trap, and killed or injured the attacking cultivators with repeated saber strikes.
• The Bronze Chariot reached Falling Cloud Slope, where Baiye created a hurricane that began pulling it toward him.

Xu Taiping and his companions appeared to be captured after the ambush, but they had secretly replaced One-Leaf Book’s disciples and struck down Yellow Leaf and Black Leaf at the entrance to Blood Rain Forest. Zhu Huai and Zhang Tianze realized an expert from Huangting Dao Palace was involved, just as Old Ghost began to emerge.

• Xu Taiping grappled with Baiye in the sandstorm, and the Bronze Chariot was buried in a hollow before Baiye and the others dug it out and carried it toward Blood Rain Forest.
• Zhang Tianze noticed that Xu Taiping had held back during the fight and urged Zhu Huai to keep watching.
• At Blood Rain Forest, Yellow Leaf and Black Leaf met the group, and Zhang Tianze prepared to intervene to save Xu Taiping.
• Qingye, Hongye, and Baiye suddenly attacked Yellow Leaf and Black Leaf while Xu Taiping, Su Qingtan, and Dongfang Yuejian leaped from the chariot and joined the assault.
• The three apparent disciples dispersed into mist, revealing that they had been impostors who used the One Stroke Opens Heaven Art to ambush and badly injure Yellow Leaf and Black Leaf.
• Zhu Huai realized Huangting Dao Palace had likely backed Xu Taiping, and dark clouds and thunder signaled that Old Ghost was coming out.

After defeating Black Leaf and Yellow Leaf, Xu Taiping led Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian into Blood Rain Forest on a Zouwu, relying on his foresight to evade pursuit. Old Daoist Mao set a trial of eight hundred yellow leaves against them, and Su Qingtan began cutting through the flying swords as Emperor Youyun Cang Ai watched.

• Xu Taiping warned Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian that a Transformation Realm pursuer might be after them, and Dongfang Yuejian summoned a swift Zouwu for their escape.
• Xu Taiping sent his Mysterious Origin Avatar ahead and instructed Dongfang Yuejian to follow a planned route while Su Qingtan prepared to strike any yellow leaves he identified.
• At Golden Toad Valley, Cang Ai asked Old Daoist Mao to help the group, but Mao refused and challenged them to evade three yellow leaves.
• Old Daoist Mao dropped a yellow leaf into his Spirit Mirror, turning it into eight hundred flying swords that attacked Xu Taiping and his companions.
• Su Qingtan shouted and swung her twin sabers at the approaching Yellow Leaf Flying Swords.

Xu Taiping and Su Qingtan twice shattered Old Daoist Mao’s Yellow Leaf Sword Formation, prompting him to attack them directly. Xu Taiping lured Old Daoist Mao to a lake where his Mysterious Origin Avatar’s formation trapped him, and Old Daoist Mao recognized it as the Spirit-Shocking Formation.

• Su Qingtan opened a gap in the Yellow Leaf Sword Formation, and Xu Taiping struck the yellow leaf controlling it, destroying the flying swords.
• Su Qingtan and Xu Taiping struck again, and Xu Taiping shattered the yellow leaf even after Old Daoist Mao moved it to evade his saber.
• Old Daoist Mao deduced that Xu Taiping could foresee his actions and sent a gigantic hand after Xu Taiping, Su Qingtan, and their companions.
• Dongfang Yuejian used the Zouwu to carry the group to a lake, where Xu Taiping timed a second jump to evade Old Daoist Mao’s palm.
• Old Daoist Mao prepared to attack with swords made from the lake water, but runes and eight stone steles appeared around him, and he recognized the Spirit-Shocking Formation.

Xu Taiping revealed that he intended to kill Old Daoist Mao rather than flee, then used a Jade Slip to recite a Law of Heaven and Earth that terrified the trapped Heaven Shocking Realm expert. Old Daoist Mao demanded to know who Xu Taiping’s senior was.

• After the Spirit-Shocking Formation’s steles murmured with an ancient aura, Old Daoist Mao suppressed his aura and stood still to avoid attracting a terrifying presence.
• Dongfang Yuejian’s Zouwu phantom shattered, leaving her, Su Qingtan, and Xu Taiping injured and drained.
• Xu Taiping said they would kill Old Daoist Mao instead of escaping to Cloud-Hidden Temple, though Su Qingtan and Dongfang Yuejian urged him to flee.
• Old Daoist Mao pressured the women with his aura and Divine Soul, while Xu Taiping warned Su Qingtan to resist and prepared a Jade Slip.
• Xu Taiping recited, “The Way of Heaven takes from what has a surplus to replenish what is lacking,” and Old Daoist Mao turned pale and asked who Xu Taiping’s senior was.

Xu Taiping activated the Spirit-Shocking Formation, and its judgment targeted Old Daoist Mao, a Heaven Shocking Realm cultivator. After a sword descended from a fissure in the sky, Mao tried to flee, only for dozens of new fissures and terrifying auras to surround him.

• Xu Taiping continued pouring true essence into the Jade Slip, causing Old Daoist Mao to beg him to stop activating the Spirit-Shocking Formation.
• Zhang Tianze told Zhu Huai that his father had called Heaven Shocking Realm cultivators “Surplus Ones” whose existence Heaven and Earth could not tolerate.
• The formation’s stone steles revealed eyes, and Old Daoist Mao’s aura broke free of his control as he pleaded with Xu Taiping and the senior behind him for mercy.
• Xu Taiping recited the formation’s final incantation, and the Jade Slip shattered as a protective light enveloped him, Su Qingtan, and Dongfang Yuejian.
• Old Daoist Mao attacked Xu Taiping, but a sword descended from a fissure in the sky and pierced Mao’s Dharma manifestation.
• Mao broke the sword light and tried to flee, but dozens of pitch-black fissures opened around him, releasing powerful auras.