Chapter Summaries

Ding Hun defeated Zhang Linghuo and six Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples at the Three Origin Medical Hall without using mystical abilities. As Zhang Linghuo and the others flashed their star source power to warn their sectmates, Ren Ye realized the fight was a trap and stopped approaching.

• Ding Hun shattered Zhang Linghuo’s sword and struck him down, but Zhang Linghuo unleashed his full aura and attacked with his Myriad Phenomena Sword Art.
• The miasma amplified Zhang Linghuo’s aura, alerting people across Gutan Village; Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples rushed toward the Three Origin Medical Hall while Ren Ye sent Daoist Chu to scout it.
• Ding Hun defeated six arriving disciples and left Zhang Linghuo gravely injured, then returned Zhang Linghuo’s fly-whisk and beckoned him to fight again.
• Zhang Linghuo admitted he could not defeat Ding Hun and suspected Chaos Faction Supernatural Ability Users were luring his fellow disciples into a trap.
• Zhang Linghuo urged the six disciples to flash their star source power as a warning, and Ren Ye realized the signal meant they should not approach the medical hall.

Ren Ye discovered that Zhang Linghuo and six disciples had been trapped by the Defending Side’s formation at the Three Origin Medical Hall, but chose to try to rescue them. After silently killing an enemy Player, Ren Ye watched Brother Dog devour the man’s Guide, Scabbard, and learned that Guides could grow stronger by consuming one another.

• Ren Ye realized Zhang Linghuo’s flickering aura was a warning and suspected the Defending Side was capturing the disciples rather than killing them.
• Ding Hun used a Compass to incapacitate Zhang Linghuo and six disciples, then activated a Grand Formation built from more than two hundred Formation Flags.
• Ren Ye found the Grand Formation sealing the area and decided to approach the Three Origin Medical Hall to investigate and try to save the captives.
• Ren Ye and Divine Baby encountered a black-robed Player, whose mind Divine Baby disrupted, allowing Ren Ye to kill him without using a Mystical Ability.
• A remnant soul emerged from the dead Player’s gourd, and Brother Dog swallowed him before a notification identified him as the Second Rank Guide Scabbard.
• Ren Ye realized that a Guide could gain strength by devouring another Guide.

Ren Ye attacked the Three Origin Medical Hall to rescue Zhang Linghuo and the other captives, but his opening strike only destroyed the Jade-Faced Young Master's Substitute-Death Natal Gu. Surrounded by hidden Darkfire Squad fighters as reinforcements converged, Ren Ye prepared to stake his life in the battle.

• Ren Ye learned that Song Yi had increased his cultivation by devouring an enemy Guide and resolved to oppose the Chaos Faction's slaughter.
• Ding Hun signaled the Darkfire Squad to search the Space-Locking Grand Formation, while Yin Souls and Spirit Beasts helped locate hidden Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples.
• Divine Baby told Ren Ye that Zhang Linghuo and six others were unconscious in the Three Origin Medical Hall, guarded by four black-clad people, and Ren Ye planned an attack.
• Ren Ye ambushed the Jade-Faced Young Master with the Human Emperor Sword, but his strike cut down the man's Substitute-Death Natal Gu instead of killing him.
• The Jade-Faced Young Master and four hidden sentries surrounded Ren Ye and called for reinforcements, while the Myriad Phenomena Sect squads and Ding Hun rushed toward the medical hall.
• Daoist Chu sensed a response from his Token near the formation, and Ding Hun recognized the power of Ren Ye's sword strike and wondered whether a Super Grade or the Myriad Phenomena Sect's commander had arrived.

Ren Ye fought Ding Hun in the Three Origin Medical Hall, where Ding Hun challenged him to a duel and proved nearly impervious to his sword. As their battle escalated and Ren Ye prepared to use the Human Emperor Seal, allies rushed toward the trap and the old man intervened, prompting Ding Hun to threaten anyone who interfered.

• Ding Hun observed Ren Ye holding off eight opponents, then appeared in time to block Ren Ye’s sword strike against the Jade-Faced Young Master.
• Ding Hun suppressed his strength to Third Grade and challenged Ren Ye to a fair fight, while Ren Ye accepted and declared that Ding Hun would lose and the Gutan Sect would fall.
• Tang Feng, Xu Qingzhao, Dragon Head, and Apu moved toward the formation, and Xu Qingzhao and Dragon Head killed opponents who tried to stop them.
• Ren Ye and Ding Hun exchanged hundreds of blows until Ren Ye pierced Ding Hun beneath the armpit but took a heavy punch that nearly shattered his bones.
• Ding Hun charged again as Ren Ye activated the Human Emperor Seal, Divine Baby awakened Zhang Linghuo, and an old man entered the formation and offered to intervene.
• Ding Hun froze and warned that he would kill anyone who interfered in his fight with Ren Ye.

Ren Ye used the Divine Light Enlightenment Pill and the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo to suppress Ding Hun, while seven super grade experts tried to kill him. Daoist Chu intervened, and Ren Ye and Chu faced the elders together with no way out.

• Ding Hun unleashed his awakened bloodline and ten thousand killing arts against Ren Ye, who used the Human Emperor Seal to block the attack.
• Ren Ye entered a state of understanding, and the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo grew and descended to bind Ding Hun beneath its roots.
• The Gloomy Old Man and six other super grade experts launched a joint sneak attack on Ren Ye, but Ding Hun angrily told them to stay out of his fight.
• Daoist Chu struck at the seven elders with the Human World's Righteous Path Staff, giving Ren Ye time to escape their attack.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu confronted the seven elders, accepting that they had no way out and resolving to fight to the death.

Ren Ye and Daoist Chu were trapped at the Three Origin Medical Hall and fought a force of Wall-Facing People while Xu Qingzhao's group hunted their hidden commander. After Wang Changfeng learned the young Human Emperor was in danger, he ordered the Myriad Phenomena Sect to charge toward the formation, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Seven Super Grade elders and more than twenty third-grade peak fighters surrounded Ren Ye and Daoist Chu, and the two fought back while trying to stay together.
• Ren Ye signaled Ai Fei and the others not to enter the formation, so Xu Qingzhao gathered Dragon Head, Tang Feng, and Apu to search for the enemy commander outside it.
• Xu Qingzhao's group attacked Cao Yufei near the ancient pool, pierced his chest, and prompted him to scream for help.
• Wang Changfeng saw Route Passes appear as Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples died, then sensed the battle and recognized Ren Ye as the young Human Emperor.
• Wang Changfeng raised an Aura Greatsword to point toward the Three Origin Medical Hall, and Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples charged toward the formation.

Ren Ye was on the verge of being captured and killed when he used the Human Emperor Seal to downgrade the Three Origin Academy’s inner courtyard, turning the tide against the Super Grades. He killed the Gloomy Old Man and Kui Shan, while the remaining enemies scattered and Daoist Chu asked Ren Ye to lend him his destiny.

• Mao Shan took control of the grand formation and used its power to free Ding Hun from the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo, but Ding Hun refused to join the attack on Ren Ye and flew away after denouncing the seven elders.
• Tang Feng, Dragon Head, and Apu fought two Super Grades while Xu Qingzhao burned Cao Yufei with the Phoenix Fire Furnace and demanded that he order the formation withdrawn.
• Wang Changfeng pressed his forces toward the grand formation as Ren Ye and Daoist Chu weakened under the Super Grades’ attacks; the Gloomy Old Man immobilized Ren Ye and pierced him with silver needles.
• Ren Ye revived the Human Emperor Seal with purple qi, downgraded the Three Origin Academy’s inner courtyard, and killed the Gloomy Old Man and Kui Shan before the effect could fade.
• The surviving elders scattered as the old fisherman vowed to kill Ren Ye, and Daoist Chu asked Ren Ye to lend him his destiny.

Ren Ye and Daoist Chu used Ren Ye’s remaining purple fortune and an ancient command token to open a gate beneath Gutan’s ancient pool, escaping their attackers as the treasure hunt ended. Their allies returned to the Bunker without them, while the Heavenly Dao’s Eye revealed that the forbidden zone beneath the pool lay beyond its influence; Ren Ye and Daoist Chu ended up unconscious on wet grass.

• Ren Ye killed two Super Grades and five Third Grade Peak opponents with the Human Emperor Sword, then exhausted his strength as the Old Fisherman and the other monsters prepared to attack.
• Daoist Chu arrived with an ancient command token and used Ren Ye’s remaining purple fortune to open a gate whose golden light pierced the formation and drew them toward the ancient pool.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu plunged into the pool and sank toward a strange underwater gate, while Xu Qingzhao, Dragon Head, Tang Feng, and Apu searched for them but found only miasma and sediment.
• After the treasure hunt ended, Xu Qingzhao and her companions returned to the Bunker without Ren Ye or Daoist Chu; Wang Changfeng said the pool might conceal a forbidden cultivation ground, and Xu Qingzhao vowed to search it the next day.
• The Heavenly Dao’s Eye looked toward the pool but could not influence the Ancestor’s Forbidden Zone, where Ren Ye and Daoist Chu lay unconscious on wet grass.

Ren Ye and Daoist Chu discovered that the shattered ancestral token had trapped them in the Gutan Sect’s ancestral grounds, a place they believed might lie beyond the Heavenly Dao’s jurisdiction. While Cao Yufei ordered reinforcements to search for them, Xu Qingzhao persuaded Wang Changfeng to seek outside help, and Vice Minister Wen slipped away after meeting with the Myriad Phenomena Sect experts.

• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu woke badly injured in a living paradise beneath the pool and learned that the ancestral token had shattered, leaving them unable to open the gate.
• Ren Ye ambushed Daoist Chu and forced him to admit that he had deliberately lured Ren Ye into the Gutan Sect’s ancestral grounds to seek its hidden supreme treasure.
• Daoist Chu explained that the grounds might be outside the Heavenly Dao’s jurisdiction, and Ren Ye feared they had escaped the mission realm with no way back.
• Cao Yufei told the gathered Defending Side leaders to stop arguing and ordered Mao Shan Old Freak to take route passes to Lord Man and bring reinforcements to the Gutan Sect.
• Xu Qingzhao persuaded Wang Changfeng to leave for reinforcements by promising that she and Ren Ye would not take the Myriad Phenomena Sect’s opportunities.
• Wang Changfeng returned that night with Myriad Phenomena Sect experts, met with them at an inn, and Vice Minister Wen later left alone into the night.

Lin Xiang organized a New Year's Watchers' mission to rescue Ren Ye from the Gutan Sect Secret Realm and ordered Zhao Baicheng to find the forbidden ground and the Wall-Facing People's Divine Inheritor. Trapped beneath Gutan Pool, Ren Ye and Daoist Chu struggled through the ancestral grounds until Daoist Chu spotted a coffin that Ren Ye could not see.

• Ruan Yin proposed using Route Passes to send New Year's Watchers into the Gutan Sect Secret Realm, including feng shui masters to locate a safe way into the forbidden ground.
• Lin Xiang ordered eight Fourth Grades to enter Gutan City with Vice Minister Wen, told Vice Minister Qin to prepare underwater magic treasures, and tasked Wen with investigating the Myriad Phenomena Sect.
• Lin Xiang told Zhao Baicheng to find the Little Dragon Vein Celestial Master and search for the forbidden-ground entrance, while the Academy secretly sought the Wall-Facing People's Divine Inheritor.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu, exhausted from their battle, wandered through the ancestral grounds and stopped to rest.
• Daoist Chu saw a coffin in a black, withered tree and hurried toward it, while Ren Ye saw only the tree and warned him not to touch anything.

Ren Ye and Daoist Chu reached the Heaven-Reaching Residence after discovering that someone had stripped treasures from the ancestral land’s other graves. Inside, they found the Gutan Sect’s founding ancestor in a jade coffin assembled with those missing treasures, and a crack sounded from within as they wondered whether he could awaken.

• Daoist Chu broke open the Hidden Sea Dragon Cypress and found a corpse that crumbled to dust, while Ren Ye realized the tree’s vitality had been extracted long ago.
• After opening more than a dozen graves, Daoist Chu noticed that each had lost its most important treasure, and he and Ren Ye suspected someone had gathered them elsewhere.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu climbed to the Heaven-Reaching Residence, entered its open tomb, and found tally marks and rare plants along the passage.
• In the main chamber, Daoist Chu identified the vines and luminous pearl on the jade coffin as treasures taken from other graves and assembled around the body inside.
• Ren Ye warned Daoist Chu that the founding ancestor might have risen to collect the treasures, and a crack suddenly sounded from inside the coffin.

The Myriad Phenomena Sect and the New Year's Watchers prepared to enter the Gutan Sect Secret Realm while the Wall-Facing People gathered to destroy the anomaly beneath the ancient pool. In the ancestral grounds, Daoist Chu opened the jade coffin and found a well-preserved man holding a wooden puppet, while an old man arrived outside Qingshan.

• Vice Minister Wen brought Lü Ji and eight young Supernatural Ability Users to meet Wang Changfeng, and Lü Ji agreed to help find the gate of life beneath the ancient pool.
• Mao Shan told Cao Yufei that Lord Man planned to come to Gutan City, and the Wall-Facing People prepared to gather at the ancient pool and smash the gate of life.
• Cao Yufei told Ding Hun that Tan had lost to the young Human Emperor through strategy and urged him not to reject his allies.
• Xu Qingyan wondered why Ren Ye had not returned to class, and said he would stop teaching in Gutan City after teaching him.
• Daoist Chu opened the jade coffin despite Ren Ye's warnings and found a well-preserved middle-aged man holding a wooden puppet.
• An old man sniffed the flowers and grass outside Qingshan, looked toward the Heaven-Reaching Residence, and walked away.

Ren Ye and Daoist Chu investigated the mysterious corpse in the Heaven-Reaching Residence, where Daoist Chu stripped it of treasures and accidentally activated a mechanism. After Ren Ye found life-giving fruit, Daoist Chu encountered the Old Fisherman and three allies outside, while other cultivators began leaving the Gutan Sect Secret Realm.

• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu suspected the corpse was an outsider trapped in the Heaven-Reaching Residence, though they could not explain how he had entered or where the Gutan Sect's Ancestor had gone.
• Daoist Chu stripped the corpse of its treasures and tried to move the jade coffin, triggering a mechanism that shut the entrance's stone doors; Ren Ye reopened them, and Daoist Chu went out to hunt and find timber.
• Ren Ye covered the corpse, ate three crimson fruits, and recovered some star source power as the fruit's life aura nourished his Star Core.
• The Old Fisherman and three companions ambushed Daoist Chu and demanded that he lead them to the Heaven-Reaching Residence, but Daoist Chu attacked and shouted for Ren Ye to run.
• Wang Changfeng sent Lü Ji, Xu Qingzhao, and the other Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples through the Teleportation Array, while Cao Yufei and the other Super Grade Supernatural Ability Users also left for the North Bank of the Ancient Pool.

Lü Ji used feng shui to locate the tomb beneath the pool, while Ren Ye fled Old Fisherman and three other Super Grades through the ancestral land. As Ren Ye’s pursuers closed in and his strength dwindled, Cao Yufei led the Defending Side into battle at the pool.

• Lü Ji descended alone into the pool, read the underwater currents and terrain, and found the sealed entrance to a great tomb.
• Lü Ji sensed Ren Ye’s aura flowing from the forbidden ground and signaled the others to wait while he examined the tomb entrance.
• Ren Ye tried to escape Old Fisherman and three Super Grades, but the tomb’s formation blocked his Ground-Shrinking Talisman until he reached the passage exit.
• Daoist Chu distracted the pursuers with a warning, allowing Ren Ye to teleport away, but Old Fisherman and the others tracked him and continued their pursuit.
• Ren Ye used more than a dozen talismans to flee, suffering severe injuries as the four Super Grades repeatedly attacked him.
• Cao Yufei judged that Ren Ye was near defeat and ordered the Defending Side to drive the Attacking Side from the eastern shore before jumping into the pool.

Ren Ye escaped the four Fourth Grade pursuers and began planning a decisive way out of his predicament. Meanwhile, Lü Ji used his Dragon Vein Celestial Master abilities to trap and kill an advance party from Cao Yufei’s force, leaving the larger force facing his feng shui killing trap.

• Ren Ye ambushed the Old Fisherman and the other three with the Human Emperor Seal and Human Emperor Sword, then escaped while they carried Daoist Chu away.
• The Old Fisherman decided the four would stay together and wait at the Heaven-Reaching Residence, threatening to torture Daoist Chu to lure Ren Ye out.
• Ren Ye rested in a forest, accepted a berry from a small bird, and resolved to make a decisive move rather than let his enemies control the pace.
• Cao Yufei led more than a hundred Supernatural Ability Users toward Divine Throne Mountain, while Lü Ji signaled Wang Changfeng’s group not to intervene.
• Lü Ji reversed the pool’s water flow and summoned the terrain’s hidden dragon, turning Divine Throne Mountain into a feng shui killing trap.
• Zhou Guang and seven others entered the trap and were crushed by falling earth energy as Lü Ji challenged the remaining Super Grades to face him.

Ren Ye returned to the Heaven-Reaching Residence to save Daoist Chu and used a trap to lure four Fourth Grade elders into the sealed tomb passage. He unleashed the Reincarnation Finger, killing them and shattering the barriers around the Ancestral Land, then collapsed with no sign of life as Xu Qingzhao rushed to the pool.

• Lü Ji used the earth energy around Divine Throne Mountain to hold off more than a hundred Super Grades while Cao Yufei and Zhou Guang warned their allies not to charge in.
• Ren Ye resolved to return for Daoist Chu, paid his respects to his father, and restored himself before setting out.
• Ren Ye used Fenglin's body and the Human Emperor Sword to mislead the four elders, then returned to the Heaven-Reaching Residence and told Daoist Chu to shut the tomb gate when they came back together.
• The elders caught Ren Ye in their Illusion Formation and battered him, but he revealed that he had been luring them into the confined tomb passage for his final attack.
• Ren Ye activated the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp and unleashed the Reincarnation Finger, killing the four elders, destroying their treasures, and piercing the Ancestral Land's barrier.
• Xu Qingzhao sensed the Reincarnation Finger and charged toward the pool, while Ren Ye collapsed and saw the young monk claiming him as a disciple.

Ren Ye survived the Reincarnation Finger’s backlash and used a High Monk’s Sarira to enter an awakening that helped him study Mumu’s technique. As Ren Ye remained in meditation, Senior White Chicken revived and revealed that he had slept for five hundred years.

• Ren Ye’s finger strike killed four Super Grades, prompting Xu Qingzhao and Wang Changfeng to lead the Myriad Phenomena Sect into battle against the Wall-Facing People, who eventually retreated.
• Wang Changfeng questioned a captured defender, and Tang Feng forced him to reveal that the prisoners were held near the Divine Temple and that a major calamity assignment was approaching before the prisoner died.
• Daoist Chu carried the gravely injured Ren Ye to the jade coffin and fed him a High Monk’s Sarira, which repaired his body and strengthened his consciousness.
• Ren Ye saw Mumu demonstrating a technique and used Holy Eyes to slow the movements, entering meditation to study the finger forms and power of reincarnation.
• Senior White Chicken revived, knocked Daoist Chu aside, demanded his clothes, and said he had lived in the Ancestral Land for five hundred years.

After Lü Ji confirmed Ren Ye and Daoist Chu were alive but trapped inside a great tomb, Wang Changfeng’s group resolved to avoid fighting while they secretly gathered supplies. Lin Xiang learned that a regional Calamity mission might be underway, while Senior White Chicken revived Ren Ye and revealed a plan to build a dynasty that could eventually let them escape.

• Lü Ji told Xu Qingzhao, Tang Feng, and the others that Ren Ye’s Route Pass had not returned, but that their group could not break into the tomb’s formation; he believed Ren Ye and Daoist Chu were safe for now.
• Wang Changfeng’s group agreed to stockpile supplies through the Daytime Treasure Hunt and avoid combat unless the enemy tried to intercept Ren Ye and Daoist Chu.
• Wang Changfeng informed Vice Minister Wen that the Wall-Facing People might be preparing for a regional mission called Calamity, and that the pool’s hidden site was the great tomb sought by the Myriad Phenomena Sect.
• Lin Xiang ordered daily reports on the Gutan Sect Secret Realm and studied a roster of Migration Land personnel, then declared that the contest in Gutan City had begun.
• Senior White Chicken used a drop of Life-Giving Emerald to restore Ren Ye’s life force, then told Daoist Chu that Ren Ye’s Purple Cloud could help them escape if they spent about a hundred years building a dynasty of beasts and spirit plants.

After recovering, Ren Ye discovered that Senior White Chicken would only let him leave the Ancestral Land if he swore an oath to return with enough destiny to break its prohibition within two months. Senior White Chicken sent Ren Ye out through a gap in the sky but kept Daoist Chu behind, then revealed that he had made an oath of his own.

• Ren Ye recovered with a new emerald bead in his Star Core, while Daoist Chu complained that telling jokes for Senior White Chicken had left his lips numb and painful.
• Daoist Chu suspected the sun above the Ancestral Land was a treasure sustaining the place, and Senior White Chicken caught him and Ren Ye discussing an escape.
• Ren Ye proposed using the destiny of Qingliang Prefecture, Great Qian, and the Southern Border to break the prohibition, but Senior White Chicken refused to trust him until Ren Ye offered to swear upon his Human Emperor body and human destiny.
• Ren Ye swore to return within two months if he could not borrow enough purple fortune to free Senior White Chicken, and Senior White Chicken shifted the sun to open a fissure and sent Ren Ye through it.
• Senior White Chicken left Daoist Chu behind to tell jokes and revealed that he had once promised someone, “When the flying dragon rises from the barren land, I shall reclaim the Immortal Rank.”

Ren Ye returned to the Gutan Sect bunker, reunited with Xu Qingzhao, and learned that the Myriad Phenomena Sect was preparing for another assault while seeking a way to rescue its captives. He arranged to leave the secret realm to gather Destiny and resources for the person trapped in the Ancestral Land, then headed toward a small courtyard after discovering Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai had not arrived.

• Xu Qingzhao rushed to meet Ren Ye when he returned, and he declared that he would hold a grand wedding with her once they cleared Gutan City.
• Ren Ye heard that the Myriad Phenomena Sect had suffered losses in two attacks and advised Wang Changfeng's group to avoid another reckless assault while investigating Gutan Village.
• Ren Ye told Wang Changfeng about the living person trapped in the Ancestral Land, and Wang Changfeng offered a longevity pill and sect Destiny in exchange for meeting him.
• Ren Ye agreed to seek Destiny outside the secret realm and asked Wang Changfeng for a Communication Order Token, while the two decided to maintain their stalemate and pursue victory in the Gutan Sect struggle.
• Ren Ye delivered Wang Changfeng's letter to the Myriad Phenomena Sect and asked Vice Minister Wen to summon the Southern Border's Second Prince with Destiny and three million Star Source.
• Ren Ye found that Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai had not arrived, then left the inn and walked toward a small courtyard.