Chapter Summaries

After spending more than half a month enslaving Venerable Wang Jia, Cao Bing attacked Palace Master Qi Xue, whose Divine Body had been worn down by the grand formation. Cao Bing severely wounded and dazed Palace Master Qi Xue, then brought out the Soul Locking Tower to enslave him.

• Venerable Wang Jia tried to self-destruct rather than become Cao Bing's slave, but Cao Bing and his Soul Slaves suppressed him while Cao Bing worked for more than half a month to enslave him.
• Venerable Bei Feng barely held out against Cao Bing's grand formation, while Palace Master Qi Xue burned his Divine Body as the formations steadily worsened his injuries.
• Cao Bing attacked Palace Master Qi Xue from within the formation with Blood Blade, striking him with the Remnant Snow Divine Spear and cleaving his Divine Body in two with a phantom blade.
• Palace Master Qi Xue recognized Cao Bing as the attacker, but Cao Bing continued using his Ultimate Secret Arts until Palace Master Qi Xue was too badly wounded to resist effectively.
• Cao Bing used the Nascent Blade Heart to daze Palace Master Qi Xue, then brought out the Soul Locking Tower.

Cao Bing enslaved Palace Master Qi Xue and attacked Venerable Bei Feng, who sacrificed himself in a devastating explosion. Cao Bing survived with serious damage to his avatar, then left the ruined formation through a spatial vortex.

• Cao Bing used the Soul Locking Tower and his Nascent Blade Heart to capture and enslave Palace Master Qi Xue, with Venerable Wang Jia and the other Venerables suppressing Qi Xue’s attempt to self-destruct.
• Cao Bing prepared to attack Venerable Bei Feng, confident that the formation’s illusion array and his Wuxu secret technique hid his presence.
• Venerable Bei Feng anticipated Cao Bing’s attack, lowered his defenses, and self-destructed with most of his divine body intact.
• Cao Bing survived the explosion using defensive formations and Heavenly Divine Artifacts, but lost thirty percent of his avatar’s divine body as the blast destroyed the grand formation.
• Cao Bing noticed others approaching the explosion site and left through a spatial vortex.

Luo Feng met Cao Bing in the Virtual Universe after entering Original Star as his Golden Horned Beast clone, and learned that the sword he had found was the last piece of the Jianhe Luo set. Cao Bing warned him to flee and shared coordinates for a formation, then prepared to expand his network of enslaved spies as news arrived of another suspected Top-grade supreme treasure.

• Luo Feng told Cao Bing he had entered Original Star and showed him a sword-type Top-grade supreme treasure he had found the previous day.
• Cao Bing recognized the sword as the final divine sword of the Jianhe Luo set and warned that the Thorn Ring Alliance and many other experts would pursue Luo Feng for it.
• Cao Bing gave Luo Feng coordinates to a formation and explained how to control it if he could not escape, and Luo Feng immediately left to flee.
• Cao Bing decided to make his move on Original Star with the Soul Locking Tower and rely on his enslaved High-level Universe Venerable spies.
• A Universe Venerable from the Northern Border Alliance sent Cao Bing word that a treasure suspected to be a Top-grade supreme treasure was about to emerge.

Cao Bing concealed himself among powerful beings gathered on an Original Star, waiting for a supreme treasure to emerge while his Soul Slaves helped him move closer to it. When the treasure appeared, Venerable Mingyang rushed to claim it, and the other contenders gave chase.

• Powerful beings from many factions gathered in a valley, where a violet-gold pillar signaled the imminent emergence of a supreme treasure.
• Cao Bing and Wuxu hid among the crowd as Cao Bing's Soul Slaves pretended to fight and edged toward the pillar.
• Venerable Kong Jiang battled Snow Demon Venerable, Venerable Mingyang, and Evil Bone Venerable, resisting Snow Demon Venerable's attempt to form an alliance against Evil Bone.
• The pillar flared and began to fade, signaling that the supreme treasure had fully emerged.
• Venerable Mingyang charged toward the treasure, and Evil Bone Venerable, Venerable Kong Jiang, and Snow Demon Venerable abandoned their fight to pursue him.

Snow Demon Venerable and three rival Universe Hegemons fought over a pair of newly emerged Purple Gold Bells, until Crystal Hong Venerable appeared and forced them to unite against him. The bells remained unclaimed as Venerable Kong Jiang prepared to challenge Crystal Hong Venerable.

• Snow Demon Venerable froze Venerable Mingyang and shattered his divine body to stop him reaching the treasure, while the pillar of light faded to reveal two Purple Gold Bells.
• Snow Demon Venerable, Evil Bone Venerable, Venerable Kong Jiang, and Venerable Mingyang blasted back the Universe Venerables who rushed for the bells.
• Crystal Hong Venerable sped past the gathered experts and turned Venerable Mingyang into a crystal statue before shattering him.
• Evil Bone Venerable, Snow Demon Venerable, and Venerable Kong Jiang recognized Crystal Hong Venerable and joined forces against him.
• Venerable Kong Jiang declared that he wanted to test himself against Crystal Hong Venerable, while the Purple Gold Bells remained up for grabs.

Snow Demon Venerable, Venerable Kong Jiang, and Evil Bone Venerable joined forces against Crystal Hong Venerable, but his Golden Light and Splitting Arts overwhelmed their attacks. The three Venerables were left surrounded by sixteen of his bodies.

• Snow Demon Venerable proposed joining forces, and Venerable Kong Jiang and Evil Bone Venerable agreed to fight Crystal Hong Venerable together.
• Crystal Hong Venerable unleashed his Golden Light, shattering Snow Demon Venerable's ice wall before Venerable Kong Jiang countered with his saber.
• Evil Bone Venerable attacked Crystal Hong Venerable but struck a false body and was trapped in golden chains.
• Venerable Kong Jiang and Snow Demon Venerable dispersed two of Crystal Hong Venerable's bodies, allowing Evil Bone Venerable to break free.
• Evil Bone Venerable warned that Crystal Hong Venerable's Splitting Art hid his true body, but Crystal Hong Venerable multiplied into sixteen bodies and surrounded the three Venerables.

Crystal Hong Venerable fought four peak Universe Hegemons with his Fission Technique while Cao Bing secretly took the Purple Gold Bells. Cao Bing escaped with the bells, but the Universe Venerables watching from outside the battle rushed after him.

• Evil Bone Venerable explained the power of Crystal Hong Venerable's Fission Technique, and Venerable Kong Jiang and Snow Demon Venerable identified its weaknesses.
• Crystal Hong Venerable attacked with more than ten fission bodies, and Venerable Kong Jiang, Snow Demon Venerable, and Evil Bone Venerable fought back.
• Venerable Mingyang recovered and joined the battle, but the four Hegemons still could not gain the upper hand against Crystal Hong Venerable.
• Cao Bing secretly took the Purple Gold Bells while Venerable Kong Jiang unleashed repeated attacks to distract Crystal Hong Venerable and shield him.
• Cao Bing fled with the Purple Gold Bells, and the Universe Venerables outside the battle charged after him.

Cao Bing took the Purple Gold Bell and fought through the pursuing Universe Venerables while burning his divine body to escape. Crystal Hong Venerable realized the treasure was gone, but Venerable Kong Jiang and the others delayed him as Cao Bing fled.

• Cao Bing burned his divine body and wielded the Remnant Snow Divine Spear to batter the Universe Venerables surrounding him.
• Cao Bing used his Void Wings and successive Blood Blade techniques to break through the pursuers and race away with the Purple Gold Bell.
• Crystal Hong Venerable sensed Cao Bing's outburst, noticed the treasure was missing, and shouted for him to leave it behind.
• Cao Bing ignored Crystal Hong Venerable and flew farther away while Venerable Kong Jiang attacked to keep Crystal Hong Venerable from pursuing him.
• Venerable Kong Jiang misled Snow Demon Venerable and the others into blocking Crystal Hong Venerable, giving Cao Bing more time to escape.
• Snow Demon Venerable and the others saw that the Purple Gold Bell was gone and realized it had been stolen.

Cao Bing escaped the Original Star and discovered that the Purple Gold Bells were a pair of extraordinarily rare Peak supreme treasures. He decided to keep them together and compensate Venerable Kong Jiang with other treasures.

• Cao Bing used his Universe Venerable-level Soul Slave and a King-level Immortal slave servant to escape the Original Star and return to Human Territory.
• Cao Bing bound the Purple Gold Bells and learned that they were a soul-attack Peak supreme treasure and a soul-defense Peak supreme treasure whose powers increased tenfold when used together.
• Cao Bing realized he owed Venerable Kong Jiang for helping him obtain the bells and worried that keeping them without compensation would damage their relationships.
• Cao Bing decided to keep the Purple Gold Bells and offer the Snow Silk Gloves and a soul-defense Heavenly Divine Artifact, with additional treasures if needed.

Cao Bing reunited with Venerable Kong Jiang on Thunder Island and revealed that the Purple Gold Bells were a soul-type Peak supreme treasure. He offered several valuable treasures in exchange for full ownership of the bells, leaving Venerable Kong Jiang to consider the deal.

• Cao Bing welcomed Venerable Kong Jiang to his palace, where Venerable Kong Jiang recounted how taking the Purple Gold Bell had made Crystal Hong and the others leave.
• Cao Bing told Venerable Kong Jiang that the paired Purple Gold Bells were a soul-type Peak supreme treasure whose combined power increased tenfold.
• Venerable Kong Jiang struggled between wanting a share of the rare treasure and keeping his promise to let Cao Bing keep it.
• Cao Bing proposed trading treasures for full ownership of Venerable Kong Jiang's half so the bells could remain together without damaging their relationship.
• Cao Bing presented the Snow Silk Gloves, a soul-defense pendant, a Low-grade Heavenly Divine Artifact armor set, and a flying shuttle as payment.

Cao Bing offered Venerable Kong Jiang an array of supreme treasures in exchange for full ownership of the pair of Purple Gold Bells. Venerable Kong Jiang accepted, and the two celebrated with Cao Bing’s fine wine.

• Cao Bing showed Venerable Kong Jiang his backup supreme treasures, astonishing him with their value and quantity.
• Cao Bing asked whether the treasures were enough to obtain full ownership of the other half of the Purple Gold Bell and offered even more if needed.
• Venerable Kong Jiang weighed the offer against his needs and the loss in value that separating the paired bells would cause.
• Venerable Kong Jiang agreed to give Cao Bing the pair of Purple Gold Bells in exchange for the treasures.
• Cao Bing invited Venerable Kong Jiang to drink, brought out his wine collection, and Venerable Kong Jiang eagerly accepted.

Luo Feng entered Crafting God Star to seek a remnant page of the Nine Tribulations Scripture, but Lord of Crafting God caught his Golden Horned Beast clone and hurled it into a forbidden land. Cao Bing suspected the forbidden land might be one of Zuo Shanke’s trials for Luo Feng.

• Cao Bing sensed Luo Feng’s Demon Killer Race clone near the center of Craftsman God Mountain and led Lord of Crafting God’s disciples away without revealing that he had noticed it.
• Cao Bing guessed Luo Feng had come to Crafting God Star to search for a remnant page of the Nine Tribulations Scripture.
• Lord of Crafting God’s overwhelming pressure spread across Craftsman God Mountain, and Cao Bing realized Luo Feng had drawn him back.
• Lord of Crafting God revealed that Luo Feng’s Golden Horned Beast clone had survived his full-force grip and taken a material, then hurled it into a forbidden land as punishment.
• Cao Bing suspected the forbidden land was a trial Zuo Shanke had arranged for Luo Feng.

After Cao Bing forged his first treasure and became Lord of Crafting God's disciple, he continued cultivating and studying formations during the final year of his Divine Realm mining service. Once Cao Bing, Qin Yu, Hou Fei, and Hei Yu earned official status, they learned they had been assigned to Fu Jue Village, surprising the woman in purple.

• Cao Bing forged his first precious treasure after a little over ten thousand years, and Lord of Crafting God formally accepted him as a disciple.
• Cao Bing spent a hundred thousand years in Qin Yu's Jiang Lan Realm cultivating and studying forging and formations, while following Uncle Fu's advice to broaden his understanding before entering the first realm of The Way of Formations.
• Cao Bing, Qin Yu, Hou Fei, and Hei Yu finished their thousand years of Divine Realm labor service and turned in the required God Stones.
• The woman in purple confirmed that the four had become official members of the Divine Realm and said their identity tokens were being retrieved.
• A woman delivered the four tokens and announced that the group had been assigned to Fu Jue Village, leaving the woman in purple astonished.

Cao Bing, Qin Yu, Hou Fei, and Hei Yu were assigned to remote Fu Jue Village after failing to bribe the village assigners. As Gao Xiaqi led them there, he explained that powerful mountain factions collected taxes from villages beyond Yuchi City.

• The woman in purple assigned the four newcomers to Fu Jue Village and brought in Gao Xiaqi to escort them.
• Gao Xiaqi led Cao Bing and the others out of the Godstone Mine, and Qin Yu asked why Gao Xiaqi had changed the appearance of his standard armor.
• Gao Xiaqi was surprised by the newcomers’ rapid cultivation and wondered whether they had ascended from the Heavenly Heart Realm.
• Gao Xiaqi explained that remote villages paid taxes both to the City Lord’s Mansion and to powerful mountain factions.
• Cao Bing considered that claiming a mountain might suit him, while Qin Yu questioned how such factions could force villages to pay.

Cao Bing, Qin Yu, Hou Fei, and Hei Yu arrived at Fu Jue Village and learned how Black Dragon Pool's rule burdened the remote settlement with heavy taxes and danger. Fan Xu welcomed the four new Ascenders and gave them information about village life, leaving them to face a system that made it difficult for ordinary people to survive or improve their circumstances.

• Gao Xiaqi explained that Black Dragon Pool was one of three major factions near Yuchi City and that its leader ranked among the top five experts in the region.
• Cao Bing abandoned his thoughts of challenging the factions after judging that he was not strong enough to defeat Black Dragon Pool's leader.
• Gao Xiaqi led Cao Bing, Qin Yu, Hou Fei, and Hei Yu to Fu Jue Village, describing how remote villages paid taxes to both the City Lord's Mansion and Black Dragon Pool.
• Village chief Fan Xu received the four Ascenders and handed Cao Bing a jade slip outlining important village rules.
• Cao Bing learned that Fu Jue Village owed one thousand Divine Spirit Stones to the City Lord's Mansion and fifteen hundred to Black Dragon Pool every thousand years, consuming most residents' earnings.

Cao Bing and his companions settled in Fu Jue Village and spent centuries cultivating before Black Dragon Pool’s tax collection interrupted their quiet stay. Cao Bing later reunited with Xing Yuan, an old acquaintance from the Immortal Demon Beast Realm, and learned of Xing Yuan’s expensive plans to marry in Yuchi City.

• Cao Bing and Qin Yu agreed to stay in Fu Jue Village, where they built a small estate and mostly cultivated inside Qin Yu’s Jiang Lan Realm.
• Four hundred years later, Black Dragon Pool’s collectors arrived to demand taxes, and Cao Bing accepted the charge of fifteen hundred low-grade God Stones rather than confront them.
• Cao Bing encountered Qin Yu, Hou Fei, Xiao Hei, and Xing Yuan while taking a break from cultivation.
• Cao Bing and the others invited Xing Yuan to their residence and spent the day catching up.
• Xing Yuan told them that his prospective bride’s parents required him to buy a home in Yuchi City before they would approve their marriage.

After more than a month of cultivation, Cao Bing and Qin Yu discovered a powerful gray-clad man had broken into their manor and subdued its formations with Space-Time Law. The stranger revealed that he had come specifically for four of them and urged them to come out, leaving them wary and hidden.

• Qin Yu could not help Xing Yuan financially, so Xing Yuan had to rely on himself to win a wife.
• More than a month later, Cao Bing sensed that someone had triggered a formation at the manor.
• Cao Bing and Qin Yu watched a gray-clad man easily break through the manor’s defenses and evade the killing formation.
• The gray-clad man froze the formations and their attacks with powerful Space-Time Law.
• The gray-clad man called for Cao Bing, Qin Yu, Hou Fei, and Xiao Hei to come out, saying he had come specifically for them and would not harm them.
• Cao Bing and the others stayed hidden, suspecting the stranger’s invitation might be a trick.

Cao Bing, Qin Yu, Xiao Hei, and Hou Fei left the Jiang Lan Realm to meet the powerful gray-robed man, uncertain whether he was a threat. The man revealed that he was connected to the Ape Clan’s Sacred Land of Inheritance, leaving the four wondering if he was the one who had promised to take a Shocking Heaven Staff wielder as his disciple.

• Cao Bing weighed hiding inside the Jiang Lan Realm against confronting the gray-robed man and chose to go out.
• Qin Yu, Xiao Hei, and Hou Fei agreed to join Cao Bing, and the four appeared before the gray-robed man.
• Cao Bing asked why the gray-robed man had sought them out, and he confirmed they had come from the Immortal Demon Beast Realm.
• The gray-robed man recalled the Sacred Land of Inheritance’s promise that whoever mastered the Shocking Heaven Staff and ascended to the Divine Realm would become his disciple.
• Hou Fei asked whether the gray-robed man was the senior who had left behind the Sacred Land of Inheritance.

A gray-robed Godking claimed Hou Fei as his disciple because he had mastered the Shocking Heaven Staff and insisted on taking him away despite Hou Fei's protests. He left with Hou Fei, telling Qin Yu and the others they could find him at the Asura Sea.

• The gray-robed man promised to honor his word and make Hou Fei his disciple, but Hou Fei protested that Jiang Lan was already his master.
• The gray-robed man dismissed Hou Fei's claim and said he would train him on Jiang Lan's behalf.
• Qin Yu pleaded with the gray-robed man not to separate the brothers, but the man froze Hou Fei and drew him to his side.
• Cao Bing stopped Qin Yu and Xiao Hei from trying to intervene, explaining that they could not match the gray-robed man's strength and that Hou Fei's departure might be an opportunity.
• The gray-robed man praised Cao Bing for understanding the Shocking Heaven Staff's inscriptions, then told Qin Yu and Xiao Hei to go to the Asura Sea if they wanted to find Hou Fei.
• The gray-robed man flew away with Hou Fei, and the two vanished into the distance.

After Hou Fei was taken away by a powerful senior of the Asura Sea, Qin Yu and Cao Bing left Fu Jue Village and sealed their estate for a possible return. As Cao Bing departed, Uncle Fu emerged from a long seclusion greatly strengthened in combat, formations, and artifact refinement.

• Cao Bing comforted Qin Yu, who resolved to cultivate harder after Hou Fei was taken away.
• Cao Bing and Qin Yu agreed to leave Fu Jue Village because they could not grow there and had no wish to face another overwhelming enemy.
• Cao Bing and the others departed without alerting the villagers, after repairing and sealing the estate’s formations.
• Uncle Fu contacted Cao Bing as he left and revealed that he had emerged from seventy thousand years of seclusion.
• Uncle Fu had regained a soul and advanced greatly, breaking into the first realm of the Way of Formations and improving his combat and artifact-refining skills.