Chapter Summaries

Ren Jie opened Ren Tianxing’s jade tablet, received the Jade Emperor Art’s Yang Soul cultivation method, and heard a warning to avoid the Emperor. As he practiced, Ren Jie strengthened his body and began fusing his Yin Soul and Yang Soul, entering a dangerous stage that required him to break through within a year.

• Ren Jie arranged for the Black Demon Leopard to gather medicinal materials and left the Smiling Old Man alone with the still-unconscious Gu Yue.
• Ren Jie opened Ren Tianxing’s Storage Ring and found fifty pieces of Top-Grade Spirit Jade, two clumps of Jade Essence, and two Middle Grade Life Extending Heaven Pills.
• Ren Jie opened the jade tablet and received the Jade Emperor Art’s Yang Soul cultivation method along with Ren Tianxing’s repeated warning not to provoke the Emperor or let him sense Ren Jie’s strength.
• Ren Jie cultivated the Yang Soul method and raised his physical strength to the fourth layer of the Taiji Realm.
• Ren Jie began fusing his Yin Soul and Yang Soul, entering a perilous state that required a breakthrough within a year.

Ren Jie fused Yin and Yang, then refined a powerful medicine that healed Gu Yue’s damaged divine soul and awakened her. Gu Yue recognized the Smiling Old Man as the man she had once loved and her father’s murderer, and struck through his heart, leaving him dying as she broke down in tears.

• Ren Jie completed Yin Yang Fusion, alarming the Smiling Old Man, who warned him that he had only a year to reach the Taiji Realm.
• Ren Jie accepted more than thirty Storage Rings of medicinal materials from the Black Panther Demon Beast and began preparing medicine for Gu Yue.
• Ren Jie refined a medicine comparable to a Middle Grade Heaven Pill, gave it to the Smiling Old Man for Gu Yue, and withdrew to recover.
• Gu Yue awakened after taking Ren Jie’s medicine, recognized the Smiling Old Man, and struck through his chest, shattering his heart.
• The Smiling Old Man staggered away while still looking joyfully at Gu Yue, and she wept in shock over what she had done.

Ren Jie tricked Gu Yue and Ren Ming into believing they had killed each other, forcing them to confront their feelings before he left them to settle matters alone. He then rewarded the black panther and returned to the Eternal Paradise Celestial Abode, planning to travel to the Eastern Wasteland to find Dan Miao.

• Gu Yue awakened and mistakenly believed her strike had killed Ren Ming, then mourned him and wounded herself in despair.
• Ren Jie gave Gu Yue and Ren Ming antidotes, destroyed Ren Ming's smiling mask, and left them trapped in an array to reconcile privately.
• Ren Jie gave the black panther medicinal materials, a cultivation technique, and items to help it reach the Yang Soul Realm, asking it to repay the local Lineages by helping them.
• Ren Jie resumed the appearance of the Ren Family Head and secretly returned to the Eternal Paradise Celestial Abode.
• Ren Jie decided to leave for the Eastern Wasteland to search for Dan Miao and raise his strength while avoiding the emperor's growing suspicion.

Ren Jie prepared to leave Jade Capital City and enter a long seclusion, assigning his allies new paths of cultivation and influence while using Eternal Paradise Celestial Abode’s profits to strengthen his forces. He left Wen Zihao with a plan to become a renowned thinker and lead public opinion, while sending Wei Liang, Hai Qingyun, and Li Tiancheng away to advance through experience.

• Ren Jie told Chang Lao Si to gather the spirit jade earned by Eternal Paradise Celestial Abode and summon his allies for instructions.
• Wen Zihao and the others teased Ren Jie about his marriage agreement with Wen Shiyu, but Ren Jie said their relationship should follow its natural course.
• Ren Jie gave Wei Liang and Hai Qingyun cultivation materials and ordered them to return to their fathers, whose forces Chang Le Casino and Gao Ren Medicine Shop would support.
• Ren Jie gave Li Tiancheng a jade plaque reorganizing his cultivation methods and told him to leave Jade Capital City to grow through battle.
• Ren Jie assigned Wen Zihao to write books, establish doctrines, and lead the tide of thought, giving him material drawn from the sages of Ren Jie's previous life.
• Ren Jie sent the gathered allies to carry out their assignments as he prepared to enter a lengthy seclusion.

Ren Jie arranged for his followers to grow stronger while he went into seclusion, then used the Sage Dao Discussion Realm to examine Wen Mo’s cultivation. As Ren Jie uncovered serious flaws in Wen Mo’s technique and injuries in his body, Wen Mo and Wen Yong were left stunned by Ren Jie’s scrutiny.

• Ren Jie told Xie Jian and Tong Qiang to lead the Guard Squad into the Demon Beast Abyss after Eternal Paradise Celestial Abode was settled, and asked Qi Tian to watch the house.
• Ren Jie reassured Huhu that he would return, then arranged matters with Wan Hong and Zhan Tianlong before leaving.
• Ren Jie greeted Wen Mo, Wen Yong, and Old Pill King Yu Changkong, and asked Wen Mo to lower his defenses so he could examine him.
• Ren Jie activated the Sage Dao Discussion Realm and discovered that Wen Mo had lingering injuries and a cultivation technique that could not take him beyond the peak of the Taiji Realm.
• Wen Mo grew deeply uneasy under Ren Jie’s gaze, while Wen Yong wondered how Ren Jie had made the old ancestor react that way.

Ren Jie finished examining Wen Mo and gave him detailed medicinal formulas and revised cultivation methods, then heard that Feng Bugui had provoked the Wind Control Sect. Ren Jie headed to Eternal Paradise Celestial Abode with Chang Lao Si, who regained his confidence and volunteered to handle the dispute.

• Ren Jie used spirit jades to examine Wen Mo and recorded 108 medicinal formulas and revised cultivation methods on a jade tablet.
• Wen Mo examined Ren Jie's advice and was stunned, while Ren Jie gave Old Pill King Yu Changkong cultivation guidance and arranged for the families to host Sword King Long Ao's trusted friends.
• Chang Lao Si reported that Feng Bugui had entered a movement technique competition at Eternal Paradise Celestial Abode, prompting Changfeng Wanli to demand that Feng Bugui be handed over for allegedly stealing the Wind Control Sect's technique.
• Ren Jie told Wen Yong and Old Pill King Yu Changkong to stay with Wen Mo and said that the Ren Family would handle its own people and problems.
• Ren Jie's words calmed Chang Lao Si, who volunteered to deal with the dispute himself, and Ren Jie agreed to accompany him to take a look.

Chang Lao Si defended Feng Bugui against Wind Control Sect Master Changfeng Wanli, who demanded that the fugitive return to the sect. Changfeng Wanli withdrew after Chang Lao Si refused to surrender Feng Bugui, while Ren Jie watched from nearby.

• Ren Jie let Chang Lao Si steady himself and continue handling the dispute, backing his disciple from nearby.
• Changfeng Wanli entered the speed-test sphere with two elders and demanded that Feng Bugui return to the Wind Control Sect for stealing and cultivating its technique.
• Chang Lao Si arrived with Tong Qiang and the Guard Squad, who formed up to prevent Changfeng Wanli from taking Feng Bugui.
• Chang Lao Si rejected Changfeng Wanli's threats and declared that Feng Bugui belonged to Eternal Paradise Celestial Abode and would not be handed over.
• Changfeng Wanli chose not to fight, threatened to reclaim Feng Bugui, and left as Ren Jie continued watching from above.

Ren Jie stopped Feng Bugui from leaving and learned that Changfeng Wanli and his lineage had tormented Feng Bugui’s family, turning his fear into a desire for revenge. Ren Jie promised the Ren Family’s support and urged Feng Bugui to grow strong enough to reclaim the Wind Control Sect, then left him with Chang Lao Si to recover.

• Chang Lao Si berated Feng Bugui for shrinking from Changfeng Wanli, and Ren Jie returned after failing to investigate the heavily protected Lan Manor Sky Sect.
• Ren Jie stopped Feng Bugui from leaving and told him to explain his history with the Wind Control Sect.
• Feng Bugui revealed that Changfeng Wanli had pursued his mother, then helped accuse and torture Feng Bugui and his old ancestor after his mother disappeared and his old ancestor was gravely injured.
• Ren Jie suggested that Changfeng Wanli had schemed against Feng Bugui’s family, and Feng Bugui’s fear gave way to hatred and a resolve to kill him.
• Chang Lao Si and Ren Jie pledged the Ren Family’s support, and Ren Jie proposed that Feng Bugui eventually reclaim the Wind Control Sect.
• Ren Jie told Feng Bugui to remain in the Eternal Paradise Celestial Abode until he was strong enough, then left Chang Lao Si to stay with him.

Ren Jie flew deeper into the Eastern Wasteland, recalling Dan Miao, and came across a village under attack by a powerful Unicorn Boar Demon King. As the beast charged at a child and his injured grandfather, someone stopped its assault, leaving the old man startled.

• Changfeng Wanli discussed Feng Bugui and Ren Jie with Changfeng Qingwu, then planned to work with Lan Tian against Ren Jie.
• The Emperor learned that his envoy had been killed and the Sharp Arrow Camp's five hundred thousand troops had vanished, and ordered the Heavenly Surveillance and Dragon Shadow departments to investigate.
• Eunuch Sanbao returned after breaking through to the second layer of the Taiji Realm and offered to handle the Emperor's troubles.
• Ren Jie flew deeper into the Eastern Wasteland, passed through Three Stone Mountain and the valley where he had parted from Dan Miao, and continued searching for her.
• Ren Jie saw a village besieged by a mutated Unicorn Boar Demon King and was about to pass by when the beast charged toward an injured old man and his grandson.
• The old man's grandson tried to defend the village, but a sudden shockwave stopped the Unicorn Boar Demon King's attack.

Ren Jie killed the Unicorn Boar Demon King to obtain its horn for medicine, saving Ancient Village in the process. He refused Gu Kun’s thanks and flew deeper into the Eastern Wasteland, leaving Gu Kun alarmed by his words.

• Ren Jie stopped the Unicorn Boar Demon King’s charge and battered it with his physical strength while Gu Kun and Gu Xiaobao watched.
• Ren Jie activated the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner, killed the Unicorn Boar Demon King, and collected its transformed red horn.
• Gu Xiaobao praised Ren Jie and asked him to teach him, while Gu Kun pulled him away and explained that injuries and cultivation problems had changed his behavior.
• Ren Jie said he had no interest in Gu Xiaobao’s secrets or the demon king’s motives, then flew deeper into the Eastern Wasteland.
• Gu Kun’s expression changed several times after Ren Jie left.

Ren Jie reached Sky Water One Color City and secretly infiltrated Sky Water Sect, where he learned that Sect Master Shui Zhipeng was negotiating with Saint Pill Sect Master Si Ma Yin over the benefits in Sky Water Sect’s territory. Recognizing Si Ma Yin as an old enemy, Ren Jie listened in as the negotiations broke down over Sky Water Sect demanding seventy percent.

• Gu Kun warned Ren Jie that Sky Water Sect had prohibited fighting and demon beast hunting within a hundred thousand li, and Ren Jie headed toward its headquarters.
• Ren Jie entered Sky Water One Color City, searched for Dan Miao, and used his Divine Soul Power to penetrate Sky Water Sect’s defenses.
• Ren Jie discovered Sky Water Sect’s upper ranks discussing negotiations with Saint Pill Sect and the possibility of expanding their territory.
• Ren Jie recognized Si Ma Yin as the man who had tried to kill him over the Wushuang Relic and decided to make him repay what he had taken.
• Ren Jie broke through the array formation around Sky Water Sect’s main hall and heard Si Ma Yin angrily reject Sect Master Shui Zhipeng’s demand for seventy percent of the benefits.

Ren Jie listened as Saint Pill Sect and Sky Water Sect negotiated an equal share of a mysterious Cave Residence, then waited for their planned expedition. At Ancient Village, Hua Meiyu and his powerful companions questioned Gu Kun about the masked man, and Gu Xiaobao disappeared while Gu Kun prepared to evacuate the villagers.

• Shui Zhipeng and Si Ma Yin argued over the Cave Residence until they agreed to split its gains evenly and swore an oath to heaven.
• Ren Jie learned that the two sects planned to enter the Cave Residence in three days and decided to keep watching them.
• Gu Xiaobao excitedly told Gu Kun he wanted to find the smiling-faced man and become his disciple, then went off with the village children.
• Hua Meiyu, Hua Qingqing, and Hua Wenzhe arrived at Ancient Village and demanded to know where the masked man had gone.
• Gu Kun misdirected the visitors, who left to pursue the man, while Gu Kun prepared to hide the villagers in the Ancestor Cave.
• Gu Kun discovered that Gu Xiaobao had slipped away during the questioning.

Ren Jie learned why the Sky Water Sect and Saint Pill Sect were vying for Long Rainbow Daoist’s Cave Residence, then prepared to follow their leaders as they set out. Before he could leave, Gu Xiaobao arrived and called him Master.

• Ren Jie learned that Long Rainbow Daoist had reincarnated as Guo Xiu and that the two sects sought his Cave Residence for its inheritance.
• Ren Jie concluded that Long Rainbow Daoist’s legacy could help either sect produce a Thousand Year Old Ancestor.
• Shui Zhipeng and Si Ma Yin staged distractions, gathered their forces, and began traveling toward the Cave Residence.
• Ren Jie chose to follow the sect leaders cautiously, mindful of their powerful Old Ancestors.
• An attendant told Ren Jie that a visitor claimed to be his disciple, and Gu Xiaobao then smashed through the establishment’s barriers to reach him.
• Ren Jie compensated the attendant and invited Gu Xiaobao into his room to explain why he had come.

Ren Jie discovered that Gu Xiaobao could track auras and sense powers resembling the Jade Emperor Art, but he left to follow Shui Zhipeng and Si Ma Yin when Red Stork carried them to the Long Rainbow Daoist's Cave Residence. The two sects' Old Ancestors began breaking the cave's arrays while Ren Jie watched from concealment.

• Gu Xiaobao explained that he could track Ren Jie's aura and sense his cultivation power, and Ren Jie felt the Jade Emperor Art react when Gu Xiaobao circulated his power.
• Ren Jie left Gu Xiaobao with food and hurried after Shui Zhipeng and Si Ma Yin when Red Stork rapidly carried the two sects' members away.
• Red Stork brought both sects to a canyon where Si Ma Tianchen and Shui Feixiang had agreed to cooperate in entering Long Rainbow Daoist's Cave Residence.
• Shui Feixiang led six array experts in breaking the cave's restrictions while Si Ma Tianchen prepared to extract Wan Changhong's reincarnation memories from Guo Xiu.
• Ren Jie reached the canyon, hid above the cliff wall, and observed the two sects working on the cave entrance.

Ren Jie followed Saint Pill Sect and Sky Water Sect into Long Rainbow Daoist’s collapsing Independent Space after they forcibly breached its entrance. Inside, Si Ma Yin and Shui Zhipeng immediately attacked Ren Jie with their swords, leaving him facing the two sect masters.

• Ren Jie watched Si Ma Tianchen and Shui Feixiang lead their sects in breaking the formations while Si Ma Yin and Shui Zhipeng killed newcomers drawn by the commotion.
• The two Old Ancestors forcibly opened the entrance, and Ren Jie followed them into the collapsing Independent Space.
• Hua Qingqing, Hua Meiyu, and Hua Wenzhe arrived after detecting the breach, and Hua Qingqing decided they would investigate before returning to destroy the village that had misled them.
• Ren Jie forced his way through the collapsing entrance and discovered Long Rainbow Daoist’s vast Cave Residence and its central mountain formation.
• Si Ma Yin and Shui Zhipeng attacked Ren Jie with the Heavenly Rainbow Sword and the Dividing Water Sword.

Ren Jie used the arrival of Hua Qingqing, Hua Meiyu, and Hua Wenzhe to turn the Saint Pill Sect and Sky Water Sect against them, then killed Shui Zechuan amid the ensuing clash. The two sides began a fierce battle, with Hua Qingqing ordering her companions to focus on surviving the attack.

• Ren Jie evaded Si Ma Yin and Shui Zhipeng while secretly waiting for the other sect leaders and their forces to react.
• Hua Qingqing, Hua Meiyu, and Hua Wenzhe forced their way through the unstable entrance, where Hua Qingqing injured the Heavenly Demon Beast Red Stork and Shui Zechuan.
• Ren Jie killed the badly wounded Shui Zechuan with a single punch, shocking Si Ma Yin and Shui Zhipeng.
• Ren Jie claimed he had been following the Saint Pill Sect and Sky Water Sect and pretended that Hua Meiyu's group were his allies, prompting the two sects to attack them.
• Hua Meiyu recognized Ren Jie's deception and accused him of drawing the fighting onto her group, while Hua Qingqing ordered her companions to coordinate against their attackers.

Ren Jie provoked the Remnant Soul group and the Saint Pill Sect and Sky Water Sect into a devastating clash, then fled toward the core of Long Rainbow Daoist's Independent Space. Hua Meiyu and the injured pursuers chased after him while Hua Qingqing and Si Ma Tianchen stayed behind to fight.

• Hua Qingqing, Hua Meiyu, and Hua Wenzhe joined their defenses as Shui Feixiang, Si Ma Tianchen, and their allies struck them in a massive collision.
• The clash blasted Ren Jie more than ten miles away and left both sides badly injured as the Independent Space shook.
• Ren Jie recovered, swallowed medicine, and used the Small Teleportation Step Technique to rush toward the space's core.
• Si Ma Tianchen sent Red Stork to pursue Ren Jie with Shui Zhipeng, Si Ma Yin, and the others while he remained to fight Hua Qingqing and Hua Wenzhe.
• Hua Qingqing ordered Hua Meiyu to follow Ren Jie, and Hua Meiyu chased after him, vowing to avenge Gu Yue.

Ren Jie taunted Hua Meiyu while racing toward the core of the space, then used the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banners to cover its hidden formation with a vast, deadly array. Shui Zhipeng and Si Ma Yin entered the new formation with their followers and realized they faced a threat they could not take lightly.

• Ren Jie accused Hua Meiyu of abandoning Gu Yue and shamed him until his anger disrupted his mana and left him confused.
• Hua Qingqing warned Hua Meiyu through Divine Soul Power not to let Ren Jie provoke him, and Hua Meiyu resumed the chase.
• Shui Zhipeng and Si Ma Yin decided to avoid confronting Ren Jie directly and focus on securing the treasure and escaping.
• Ren Jie reached the core of the space and spread the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banners to create a three-hundred-mile formation around the original array.
• The Red Stork charged into Ren Jie's formation, where the surroundings transformed into a dangerous, unfamiliar world, prompting the sect leaders and array experts to warn one another to stay together.

Ren Jie used the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner to trap Si Ma Yin, Shui Zhipeng, and their pursuers while breaking through the defenses around Long Rainbow Daoist’s Cave Residence. The pursuers struggled against the formation’s dragons as Ren Jie advanced deeper inside.

• The Water Dragon fought the Heavenly Demon Beast Red Stork, forcing Si Ma Yin, Shui Zhipeng, and the others off its back and revealing the formation’s strength.
• Hua Meiyu arrived but sensed the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner’s power and refused to enter, while Ren Jie continued investigating Long Rainbow Daoist’s Cave Residence.
• Ren Jie broke through the outer maze and illusion formations, discovered the Cave Residence beneath a waterfall, and identified its layered defenses.
• Ren Jie analyzed and opened the defensive formations one by one, sometimes strengthening them as he advanced.
• Ren Jie sent the Fire Dragon to attack the trapped pursuers; it killed several formation-worshipping cultivators while Si Ma Yin and Shui Zhipeng struggled to defend themselves.

Shui Feixiang and Si Ma Tianchen struggled against Hua Qingqing and Hua Wenzhe, but negotiations failed and they were driven toward despair. The formation’s collapse exposed Long Rainbow Daoist’s immense breakthrough preparations, and Ren Jie raced to secure them before his enemies could intervene.

• Shui Zhipeng crushed a distress token, and Shui Feixiang and Si Ma Tianchen discussed seeking help from the Eastern Wastelands Divine Teaching after Hua Qingqing rejected their offer to divide the Cave Residence’s treasures.
• Hua Wenzhe threatened to refine their sects into his Ten Thousand Poison Soul Banner, while Hua Qingqing dismissed the danger of involving the Eastern Wastelands Divine Teaching.
• The core space shook apart, revealing five mountains made of spirit jade and a formation that Hua Qingqing and the others recognized as the Five Dragons Seizing Pearl formation, prepared to help a Thousand Year Old Ancestor reach the Law God Realm.
• Red Stork escaped the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner with the wounded Shui Zhipeng and Si Ma Yin as the formation’s collapse exposed the Cave Residence’s treasures.
• Ren Jie recovered from a lightning formation’s backlash, realized the revelation would draw his enemies, and activated the Nine Nine Yin Yang Suppressing God Banner to continue breaking through the outer formations.