Chapter Summaries

Ren Jie beat Fang Yan after the general marched troops into Jade Capital City, then held a saber to his neck until the Emperor’s edict ordered Fang Yan to withdraw and punished Ren Jie. Ren Jie spared Fang Yan but publicly claimed he had wet himself in fear, humiliating him and undermining the Emperor’s decision to promote him.

• Ren Jie had Qi Tian seize Fang Yan while he beat him in front of the Sharp Arrow Camp and the people of Jade Capital City.
• When Fang Yan’s soldiers moved to intervene, Ren Jie put a saber to Fang Yan’s neck, and the arriving eunuch read the Emperor’s edict ordering Fang Yan out of the city and Ren Jie confined for a month.
• Ren Jie pretended to accept the edict while lowering the saber, then dropped it and mocked Fang Yan for supposedly wetting himself in fear.
• Fang Yan’s men carried him away as the crowd believed Ren Jie’s taunt, and Fang Yan spat blood from rage.
• Hai Qingyun praised Ren Jie’s move for humiliating Fang Yan and weakening the Emperor’s prestige.

Ren Jie crushed Fang Yan’s prestige by making him the laughingstock of Jade Capital, then returned to the Ren Family and briefed Ren Tianzong and Yun Feng'er on the dangers surrounding them. As Ren Jie and Ren Tianzong acknowledged the Emperor’s open hostility and the upheaval caused by the Sea King’s breakthrough, Ren Jie asked how the three men were doing.

• Ren Jie watched the Sharp Arrow Camp withdraw after Fang Yan was disgraced, then left for the Ren Family while the Emperor struggled to contain his anger and vowed to deal with him.
• At the Gao Family, Gao Peng explained to Gao Zhanyuan that Ren Jie’s final remark had made his challenge to the Emperor especially dangerous, and warned that the Bright Jade Dynasty might be on the verge of change.
• Ren Jie met Ren Tianzong and Yun Feng'er at the Primordial Spirit Forest and reassured his angry Sixth Uncle that he had not suffered a loss.
• Ren Jie told Ren Tianzong and Yun Feng'er about Yu Ren Long’s fate, Yu Wu Shuang’s rescue, and the Sea King’s breakthrough to the Taiji Realm.
• Yun Feng'er left to be alone, while Ren Tianzong warned that both the Sea King and the Emperor posed dangers; Ren Jie agreed the Ren Family would not yield and asked how the three men were doing.

Ren Jie urged Sixth Master Ren Tianzong to stop rushing his cultivation of the Asura Slaughter Path and reassured him that the Ren Family could withstand its enemies. Later, Fang Yan brooded over Ren Jie’s humiliation and began refining the Ancient God Cult hand, while a disguised soldier alerted his master that Fang Yan had taken the bait.

• Ren Jie warned Sixth Master Ren Tianzong that the Asura Slaughter Path was destabilizing his state of mind, and Sixth Master reluctantly agreed to pause his rapid cultivation.
• Ren Jie reassured Sixth Master by pointing to the Ren Family’s hidden forces, allies, and trained troops, and the two discussed how a family head could let others share responsibility.
• Ren Jie and Sixth Master talked late into the night, but Ren Jie could not yet find a way to balance the killing aura in Sixth Master’s body.
• At the Sharp Arrow Camp, Fang Yan dismissed his subordinates and realized Ren Jie had used him as a pawn in a contest with the Emperor.
• Furious, Fang Yan refined the right hand he had obtained from the Ancient God Cult and used other items he had feared to try.
• A disguised soldier outside Fang Yan’s tent crushed a spirit jade to report that Fang Yan had begun using the items.

After opening the next layer of Ren Tianxing’s Storage Ring and learning the Yin Soul Realm cultivation method, Ren Jie went to the Imperial Mausoleum to refine the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner. The refinement unleashed a surge of power that alerted the Vice Hall Master and sent the Smiling Old Man racing after him.

• Ren Jie gave Qi Tian a Middle Grade Transcendent Treasure staff to refine and distributed other recovered weapons among his companions.
• Ren Jie opened the next layer of Ren Tianxing’s Storage Ring, received the Yin Soul Realm Jade Emperor Art, and read his father’s warning and instructions about the treasures inside.
• Ren Jie circulated the new cultivation method, then left the Ren Family to refine the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner in the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Ren Jie used the mausoleum’s formations to conceal himself and began refining the banner with his natal true fire.
• The Vice Hall Master sensed the refinement, charged toward the Imperial Mausoleum with Qing Wu, Elder Xu, and Elder Hong Yan, while the Smiling Old Man pursued from the shadows.

Ren Jie rapidly refined the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner and lured the Vice Hall Master into attacking the Imperial Mausoleum so he could slip inside amid the commotion. As the Vice Hall Master confronted the Gray-Robed Grave Keeper, Ren Jie pressed deeper into the mausoleum, while the Great Imperial Guardian arrived to face the dispute.

• Ren Jie used his Taiji Realm Divine Soul Power to erase the Vice Hall Master's remaining traces and imprint his own control on the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner.
• The Vice Hall Master rushed to the Imperial Mausoleum, attacked its guards, and broke through its outer formations while searching for Ren Jie.
• Ren Jie put away the refined banner and used the Vice Hall Master's assault as cover to enter the depths of the Imperial Mausoleum.
• The Gray-Robed Grave Keeper intercepted the Vice Hall Master, who demanded that the hidden person be handed over.
• The Great Imperial Guardian arrived as the Gray-Robed Grave Keeper questioned the Vice Hall Master's actions.

Ren Jie used the clash between Gu Vice Hall Master and the Bright Jade Dynasty as cover to investigate the Imperial Mausoleum’s hidden secret. Inside an emperor’s chamber from eight hundred years ago, he discovered a supposedly dead ruler cultivating above a mass of scorching flames.

• Gu Vice Hall Master accused the Bright Jade Dynasty of harboring someone refining his magical treasure and demanded entry to the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Lin Yong arrived with an Eight Trigrams Disc and eight Yin Yang Realm experts, while the Gray-Robed Grave Keeper activated the Dragon Protecting Grand Formation.
• The Great Imperial Guardian persuaded Gu Vice Hall Master to wait while the Bright Jade Dynasty investigated, preventing the two sides from immediately fighting.
• Ren Jie entered an outer mausoleum chamber to investigate old Ren Family records hinting at a royal secret and carefully bypassed its formidable formations.
• Ren Jie opened a massive stone door and discovered an emperor who had supposedly died more than eight hundred years earlier cultivating above scorching flames.

Ren Jie discovered that the emperor Li Shi was a corpse being tempered by Dragon Flame, then used the flame to strengthen his body and the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner. Outside the Imperial Mausoleum, Gu Vice Hall Master and Lin Yong Vice Hall Master sensed the Nine Words Kill Seal shatter and attacked their way back toward the disturbance.

• Ren Jie realized that Li Shi was a dead body being controlled and tempered by Dragon Flame, and decided the Imperial Mausoleum's deeper secret was too dangerous to investigate.
• Ren Jie drew Dragon Flame to temper his body, breaking through Yin Yang Realm Yin Soul Great Perfection and forming a balance of yin and yang.
• Ren Jie used more Dragon Flame to temper the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner, causing the flames beneath the Dragon Coffin to surge more violently.
• The Grave Keeper, Great Imperial Guardian, Gu Vice Hall Master, and Lin Yong Vice Hall Master arrived at the area Gu Vice Hall Master had searched, but found no one there.
• A tremor and killing intent emerged from below, and Gu Vice Hall Master and Lin Yong Vice Hall Master sensed that the Nine Words Kill Seal had shattered.
• Gu Vice Hall Master charged back at the Grave Keeper while Lin Yong used the Eight Trigrams Disc to blast downward.

Ren Jie struggled to control the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner as it advanced into a Low-Grade Transcendent Treasure, feeding it Dragon Flames and rare materials. While a battle erupted in the Imperial Mausoleum, the emperor sensed changes in the Dragon Flames and sent his divine sense to investigate.

• The Gray-Robed Grave Keeper activated the Imperial Mausoleum’s grand formation, and fighting broke out between the guardians and Gu Vice Hall Master’s group.
• Ren Jie’s refinement pushed the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner toward becoming a Low-Grade Transcendent Treasure, and he fed it materials and the Earth Flame Vermillion Fruit’s roots.
• Ren Jie melted the Nine Words Kill Seal into the banner, whose killing aura stabilized its transformation and helped it absorb the Dragon Flames.
• The banner’s advancement consumed nearly all of Ren Jie’s five hundred million Jade Coins’ worth of spirit jade, leaving him unable to investigate the battle outside.
• The emperor sensed the Dragon Flames changing beneath the Imperial Palace and sent his divine sense through them to discover what had happened.

Ren Jie was discovered stealing Dragon Flame beneath the Imperial Mausoleum and escaped in the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner as the emperor’s power erupted. Li Shi killed Lin Yong and nearly trapped Gu Vice Hall Master’s group, but Qing Wu’s sacrifice opened a path for the survivors to flee.

• The Smiling Old Man worried outside while Gu Vice Hall Master, Lin Yong Vice Hall Master, and the Gray-Robed Grave Keeper fought above Ren Jie.
• Ren Jie absorbed Dragon Flame to strengthen the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner and advance his cultivation before the emperor’s Divine Soul Power struck him.
• Li Shi attacked Ren Jie as he emerged from beneath the Imperial Mausoleum, but Ren Jie escaped in the banner after Lin Yong’s Eight Trigrams Disc deflected the emperor’s palm.
• Li Shi pursued the fleeing group and killed Lin Yong with a strike through the Eight Trigrams Disc.
• Qing Wu sacrificed herself to pierce Li Shi’s palm, allowing Gu Vice Hall Master, Elder Xu, and Elder Hong Yan to escape.

Ren Jie followed the wounded Remnant Soul survivors from the Imperial Mausoleum and watched the Killer King ambush them. After Hong Yan was killed and Elder Xu escaped underground, Ren Jie sealed the valley and prepared to face the Killer King and Gu Vice Hall Master.

• The emperor restored the Imperial Mausoleum’s damaged formation and wondered who Ren Jie was, while Ren Jie hid nearby after escaping.
• Ren Jie tracked Gu Vice Hall Master, Elder Xu, and Elder Hong Yan as they fled far from Jade Capital City, then waited when he sensed an unseen presence.
• Gu Vice Hall Master collapsed from her injuries and mourned Qing Wu as Elder Hong Yan and Elder Xu vowed to report the Bright Jade Dynasty.
• A mysterious attacker killed Hong Yan and struck Elder Xu, who escaped by shattering his rat-whisker beard and burrowing underground.
• Ren Jie recognized the attacker as the Killer King, deployed ninety-nine Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banners, and sealed the valley.

Ren Jie reunited with the Smiling Old Man and pursued the wounded Elder Xu underground, sealing the area with the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner. Ren Jie revealed his rapid breakthrough and challenged Elder Xu head-on, but their fight remained unresolved as Elder Xu prepared another attack.

• Ren Jie reunited with the Smiling Old Man, reassured him about his injuries, and agreed to explain his trip to the Imperial Mausoleum later.
• The Smiling Old Man engaged Gu Vice Hall Master while Ren Jie pursued Elder Xu underground with the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner.
• Ren Jie trapped Elder Xu in an underground cavern, where Elder Xu realized Ren Jie had reached the Yin Yang Realm and had been the person who escaped the Imperial Mausoleum.
• Ren Jie challenged Elder Xu and used the opening forms of the Heaven Suppression Seal to clash with his black-drill attacks.
• Elder Xu failed to overpower Ren Jie in their first exchanges, then brought his hands together and slammed them down as the battle continued.

Ren Jie defeated the injured Elder Xu after using Dragon Flame and a half-formed Heaven Suppression Seal, though Elder Xu escaped unconscious and near death. Ren Jie then discovered that four of the six lights on a jade tablet linked to his father’s spies in the Remnant Soul had gone dark, leaving him alarmed about their fate.

• Ren Jie detected venomous power in Elder Xu’s attack and trapped him in Dragon Flame with the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banners.
• Elder Xu swore a life-bound oath to fight Ren Jie directly, and Ren Jie withdrew the flames and resumed their clash.
• Elder Xu’s hidden drill-like attacks wounded Ren Jie, but Ren Jie used Dragon Flame to break through to the Yang Soul Third Layer.
• Ren Jie formed a half-step Heaven Suppression Seal and crushed Elder Xu, who escaped to the cavern’s edge before losing consciousness.
• Ren Jie saw four of the six lights on Sixth Uncle’s jade tablet dim and begin to shatter, suggesting that his father’s agents within the Remnant Soul were in danger.

Ren Jie realized Elder Xu was a hidden ally of his father and saved him after nearly killing him. After Ren Jie helped Elder Xu stabilize, a powerful Sword Qi shattered Ren Jie’s formation, and the Smiling Old Man erupted into uncontrolled rage.

• Ren Jie discovered Elder Xu’s life-bound power matched the fading light on the jade token and realized he had nearly killed one of his father’s planted agents.
• Ren Jie gave Elder Xu medicine and a Low Grade Life Extending Heaven Pill, then guided him as he refined its power and recognized Ren Jie as the Ren Family Head.
• A massive Sword Qi tore apart Ren Jie’s formation, and Ren Jie found the Smiling Old Man badly wounded but still alive.
• The Smiling Old Man grabbed and shook Ren Jie, flung him aside, and then went mad, blasting apart a nearby hill and everything around him.

Ren Jie watched the Smiling Old Man unleash a new spatial technique and vanish, then helped Elder Xu recover and learned more about Remnant Soul’s vast reach. The chapter ended when Elder Xu revealed his full name: Xu Ye Ye, prompting Ren Jie to recognize him as Grandpa Xu.

• The Smiling Old Man went berserk, destroyed the surrounding hills, and escaped using a newly comprehended spatial technique.
• Ren Jie returned to Elder Xu and waited until the badly injured elder regained consciousness.
• Ren Jie apologized for failing to recognize Elder Xu, bowed to him, and promised to help treat his injuries.
• Elder Xu warned Ren Jie that Remnant Soul operated many inner halls, had Taiji Realm figures in its main hall, and possessed even higher-level powers.
• Ren Jie asked Elder Xu for his full name, and Elder Xu revealed it was Xu Ye Ye.

Ren Jie learned about Xu Yeye’s history with his father and Remnant Soul’s structure, then arranged for Xu Yeye to report the Imperial Mausoleum’s corpse-refining secret in exchange for credit. Xu Yeye returned to Remnant Soul while Ren Jie concealed himself and went back to Jade Capital City.

• Xu Yeye told Ren Jie that his father had recruited him into Remnant Soul and left him a Life-Bound Jade Token for contact.
• Xu Yeye explained Remnant Soul’s halls and said he was close to entering its core, but refused Ren Jie’s offer to leave.
• Ren Jie advised Xu Yeye to report the Imperial Mausoleum’s Dragon Flame and Dragon Coffin as a major discovery.
• Ren Jie revealed that the terrifying figure in the Imperial Mausoleum was Li Shi, an eight-hundred-year-old emperor whose body was being refined as a corpse.
• Xu Yeye left to report the secret, and Ren Jie recovered his banners before returning quietly to Jade Capital City.

The emperor studied the Eight Trigrams Disc and decided the Bright Jade Dynasty needed to stabilize its interior, sending the Great Imperial Guardian to deliver a message to Sea King Hai Wuchang. Back at the Ren Family, Ren Jie reunited with Li Tiancheng and his friends, who pressed him for news of the battle, then agreed to celebrate Li Tiancheng’s breakthrough into the Yin Yang Realm.

• The emperor dismissed the Great Imperial Guardian’s apology, gave him spirit jade for Sea King Hai Wuchang, and resolved to focus on stabilizing the Bright Jade Dynasty from within.
• The emperor stored the Eight Trigrams Disc and considered who might be targeting the Li Family and how to deal with restless forces inside the dynasty.
• Ren Jie returned to a quiet courtyard, learned Chang Lao Si had visited, and sent for him while wondering what had happened above ground.
• Li Tiancheng, Wen Zihao, Wei Liang, and Hai Qingyun arrived and eagerly questioned Ren Jie about the events in the Wushuang Relic and the Sea King’s breakthrough.
• Ren Jie congratulated Li Tiancheng on reaching the Yin Yang Realm and led the group out to celebrate, postponing Chang Lao Si’s visit.

Ren Jie reunited with Li Tiancheng, Wen Zihao, Wei Liang, and Hai Qingyun, then recounted the battle with the Sea King while subtly guiding their cultivation. At the Saint Pill Sect, Si Ma Yin reported Guo Xiu’s death to the Old Ancestor and learned that the sect would prioritize finding a hidden Cave Residence before pursuing Ren Jie.

• Ren Jie met his friends at the Drunken Dream Tower, raised many toasts, and shared his account of the Sea King’s breakthrough and their battles.
• Ren Jie’s story captivated Li Tiancheng, Wen Zihao, Wei Liang, and Hai Qingyun while imparting cultivation guidance.
• Si Ma Yin entered the Saint Pill Sect’s forbidden area and told the Old Ancestor that Guo Xiu had died, presenting the protected remnant of Guo Xiu’s soul core.
• Si Ma Yin blamed Ren Jie for the sect’s troubles and vowed to seek revenge and reclaim his treasures.
• The Old Ancestor warned Si Ma Yin that Hai Wuchang’s breakthrough made him dangerous and ordered him to prepare to find the Cave Residence hidden in Guo Xiu’s reincarnation inheritance.
• The Old Ancestor gave Si Ma Yin a Middle Grade Heaven Pill before the spatial entrance disappeared.

Ren Jie and his companions returned to Drunken Dream Tower, where Boss Meng Jiulin approached them to ask permission to display Ren Jie's poems. As Ren Jie prepared to write them down, an explosion and a hostile order to arrest everyone erupted outside.

• Drunken Dream Tower ran low on its potent wine as Ren Jie and his companions drank upstairs, so Boss Meng sent them more and asked to speak with them.
• Ren Jie exposed Meng Jiulin hiding near the private room and invited him inside, making clear that he disapproved of the owner's attempted observation.
• Meng Jiulin apologized by drinking a jar of wine, and Ren Jie matched him by draining a jar himself.
• Meng Jiulin asked Ren Jie for permission to record and display the poems he had composed during his previous visit, and Ren Jie agreed to write them down.
• An explosion shook the building, and an angry voice outside ordered people to arrest everyone and search the place.

Ren Jie investigated a disturbance at Ren Laoshi’s trading firm and suspected that the accusations against the honest branch-family merchant were fabricated. Shang Rong publicly charged Ren Laoshi with smuggling and aiding pirates, leaving Ren Jie watching as the case unfolded.

• Ren Jie opened the private-room window and learned from Meng Jiulin that Ren Laoshi’s trading firm had recently suffered repeated setbacks and was now accused of transporting contraband.
• Ren Jie and Hai Qingyun suspected Ren Laoshi was being framed, but Ren Jie stopped Li Tiancheng and the others from intervening immediately.
• The Grand Canal Governor’s Smuggling Suppression Squad seized Ren Laoshi and his workers and began confiscating the trading firm while bystanders quietly defended them.
• Shang Rong arrived with powerful followers and announced that Ren Laoshi had sheltered pirates, smuggled royal Sea Emperor Golden Silkwood, and dealt in stolen goods.

Ren Jie watched Shang Rong arrest Ren Lao and move to seal the Ren Family's Lineage property, while Hai Qingyun explained that the incident might be part of a wider political pressure campaign. Wei Liang then rushed in to confront Shang Rong, and Ren Jie said Hai Qingyun had only been half right.

• Shang Rong accused Ren Lao of responsibility for his employee's smuggling and flight, ordered him arrested, and commanded his men to seal Ren Lao's shops, including the Ren Family's Lineage property.
• Ren Lao protested that Shang Rong was abusing his authority and threatened to report him, but Shang Rong invoked his father's position and the Shang Family's service to the emperor.
• Ren Jie stopped Wei Liang from acting at once and asked Hai Qingyun to explain why the seemingly simple incident might be more complicated.
• Hai Qingyun reasoned that the incident could be a deliberate trap and that small abuses across Jade Capital City might be building pressure against certain families; he also declared his support for Ren Jie.
• Wen Zihao and Li Tiancheng pledged to stand with Ren Jie, and Wei Liang launched himself toward Shang Rong, demanding that he release the captives.
• Ren Jie watched Wei Liang charge in and told the others that Hai Qingyun was only half right.