Chapter Summaries

Ren Ye entered the Mountains and Rivers Brush for Xu Qingyan’s lesson and was forced to fight a summoned Double-Pupiled Netherworld Phoenix with his abilities sealed. He emerged badly injured at dawn, while Cao Yufei set a plan in motion involving the Bell Society and Xu Qingyan expanded Qinghe Academy’s offerings.

• Ren Ye visited Xu Qingyan late at night, and Xu told him to pursue body and technique dual cultivation through the Mountains and Rivers Brush.
• The Mountains and Rivers Brush sealed Ren Ye’s abilities and summoned a Double-Pupiled Netherworld Phoenix, which wounded and relentlessly tormented him.
• Xu Qingyan closed the Dragon Gate to students above third grade, stocked the hall with books for independent study, and began preparing a meal for Ren Ye.
• Cao Yufei told Ding Hun to leave the sect and have Lord Man contact the Bell Society about a special being needed for their plan against the Myriad Phenomena Sect.
• Ren Ye fell out of the Dragon Gate at dawn, charred and badly injured, and cried that he wanted to renew his subscription.

Ren Ye continued tempering his body in the Mountains and Rivers Land, built ties with Brother Chun, and proposed infiltrating the Gutan Sect to break the attackers’ disadvantage. When Wang Changfeng explained why infiltration seemed impossible, Ren Ye claimed the Ancestral Land could solve the deadlock.

• Ren Ye’s body continued to recover rapidly after refining Life Green Jade, and birds flocked to him as he ate breakfast at Qinghe Academy.
• Ren Ye promised Mrs. Xu cosmetics and learned that Xu Qingyan taught him partly for money and partly to secure a lasting reputation.
• Brother Chun asked Ren Ye to group the independent players together, and Ren Ye offered to help them obtain merchant’s permits for Qingliang Prefecture.
• Ren Ye told Wang Changfeng that the attackers should try to infiltrate the Gutan Sect during a feigned assault and rescue prisoners to reduce the numerical gap.
• Wang Changfeng explained that Route Passes and head counts would expose any infiltrators, but Ren Ye insisted the Ancestral Land could prevent either from returning and break the deadlock.

Ren Ye and Wang Changfeng finalized a plan to imprison seven defenders in the Ancestral Land while Ren Ye led six people into the Gutan Sect, and Ren Ye secured Daoist Chu’s help after Senior White Chicken agreed to the arrangement. The chapter ended with the Attacking Side drawing an auspicious lot for a main attack that night.

• Ren Ye explained his infiltration plan to Wang Changfeng and asked the Myriad Phenomena Sect to search for the remaining pieces of the Gutan Sword Formation.
• Ren Ye entered the Ancestral Land, met Senior White Chicken, and learned that White Chicken had a hostile history with the Myriad Phenomena Sect but agreed to accept its Destiny if it helped free him.
• Senior White Chicken approved Ren Ye’s plan to imprison seven opponents and take six people into the Gutan Sect, and Daoist Chu swore to return and help rescue him.
• Ren Ye returned to the Bunker with Daoist Chu and told Wang Changfeng that they would act after the blessing ritual if they drew an auspicious lot.
• Wang Changfeng activated the Seven-Star Ritual Altar, drew a favorable lot, and announced that the night’s attack would be the main attack.

Wang Changfeng led the Supernatural Ability Users in a surprise assault on the Gutan Sect, unleashing a storm of wind and lake water while Ren Ye’s group moved to seize a captive. The battle erupted at the sect’s main gate, where Xu Qingzhao and the New Year's Watchers charged Lady Yuhua.

• Zhang Linghuo announced the planned attack at Hai Hour, while Brother Chun warned his Independent Players to stay together and follow orders.
• At the Gutan Sect, Cao Yufei urged the defenders to hold the formation and warned them not to pursue the attackers into the woods.
• Wang Changfeng led 129 Supernatural Ability Users across the central bridge and launched the Attack Order Token at the sect’s Blessed Land.
• Cao Yufei rallied 150 defenders behind the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation as Wang Changfeng invoked the Seven-Star Prayer for Blessings and summoned fierce winds and lake water.
• Ren Ye asked Daoist Chu about Senior White Chicken and joked about offering him Lady Yuhua, while Xu Qingzhao led the New Year's Watchers in a charge against her.

Ren Ye’s side struggled against the Gutan Sect’s formidable Grand Formation, so he prepared to infiltrate it by sending captured fighters into the Ancestral Land. The Heavenly Dao punished each attempt by reducing Ren Ye’s level, but he chose to continue despite the escalating cost.

• Xu Qingzhao trapped Lady Yuhua in her Yin-Yang Chaos Realm, where she and her allies fought the Super Grade until Mao Shan and others rescued her.
• Wang Changfeng’s Gale Talisman unleashed 108,000 water swords against the Gutan Sect’s Grand Formation, but the formation absorbed them without damage.
• Dragon Head killed a Super Grade and rallied the attackers, while Ren Ye’s group captured seven isolated fighters to use in their infiltration plan.
• Ren Ye led his allies underwater to Divine Throne Mountain and prepared to send the captives through the Ancestral Land’s Grand Formation as Daoist Chu altered their auras.
• The Heavenly Dao penalized Ren Ye for each captive he sent through, lowering his level first by one minor level and then by two more; Ren Ye continued and suffered a four-level reduction.

Ren Ye, Lü Ji, and Daoist Chu infiltrated the Gutan Sect by disguising themselves as defenders and hiding in its Blessed Land. As the next day's treasure hunt began, a trap in Gutan Village revealed that Brother Chun had been working undercover for the Wall-Facing People.

• Ren Ye chose Daoist Chu and Lü Ji to infiltrate the Ancestral Land with him, while Zhang Linghuo killed the five remaining captives and the others withdrew.
• Ren Ye and his companions disguised themselves with Daoist Chu's masks, passed the defenders' head count, and found a room inside the Gutan Sect's Blessed Land.
• The next morning, the three cut off their teleportation before leaving the sect and concealed themselves inside the arrays while Divine Baby scouted ahead.
• Ding Hun ambushed Wu Dali in Gutan Village and struck him down before he could warn Brother Chun and the others.
• Brother Chun arrived, pinned Wu Dali with Source-Sealing Nails, and revealed that he was a Wall-Facing Person who had spent thirty years hidden within Order.

Ren Ye’s group found the Gutan Sect Divine Temple, but its terrifying guardian, the Upside-Down Old Man, blocked their way. Meanwhile, the Defending Side discovered that fourteen independent attackers had vanished, and Ren Ye learned they had been captured while another familiar man appeared to have betrayed them.

• The Divine Baby found the Divine Temple and awakened the Upside-Down Old Man, whose aura threatened to spread through the Gutan Sect Secret Realm.
• Ren Ye, Daoist Chu, and Lü Ji retrieved the Divine Baby and reasoned that they needed a Temple Entry Token or a way past the guardian.
• The Defending Side discovered that fourteen independent attackers had failed to return, prompting suspicions that they had been captured or betrayed.
• Ren Ye and his companions blended in with the Defending Side as they returned to camp and saw Cao Yufei escorting the captured Wu Dali, Ding Jun, and other independent players.
• Ren Ye recognized a familiar middle-aged man standing beside Cao Yufei and calling himself one of the Wall-Facing People, while Wu Dali insisted his elder brother had not betrayed them.

Brother Chun betrayed his longtime companions in the dungeon, but the conflict between two intertwined souls left him collapsing in pain and confusion. Ren Ye and his allies sneaked into his room to investigate, while Cao Yufei noticed that a foreign Magic Treasure in his consciousness space had weakened.

• Brother Chun exposed prisoners’ hidden Life-Bound Treasures, and Li Hu tortured them until all thirteen surrendered their treasures.
• Brother Chun identified Ding Jun and Wu Dali, insisting that his years of friendship with the squad had been a deception; his companions were brutalized and left hanging from the God-Binding Pillars.
• Alone in his room, Brother Chun’s memories and feelings returned in a painful clash with his identity as a Wall-Facing mole, and he collapsed unconscious.
• Ren Ye, Lü Ji, and Daoist Chu entered Brother Chun’s room, where the Divine Baby determined that a damaged yin soul had possessed him and could not be removed by ordinary means.
• Cao Yufei sensed that a foreign Magic Treasure in his consciousness space had weakened, then hurried out of the main hall with Ding Hun.

Cao Yufei revived the remnant soul controlling Brother Chun, but Ren Ye and his companions captured Brother Chun and used Divine Baby’s Netherworld Curse to restore his memories. With thirty-five prisoners in danger, Ren Ye made Brother Chun their best chance to steal Cao Yufei’s authorization token and turn the situation around; the chapter ended as Brother Chun began a late-night drinking visit to Li Hu.

• Cao Yufei found Brother Chun unconscious, used a soul artifact to revive the Wall-Facing People's remnant soul, and left him believing he had hurt himself.
• Lü Ji secretly pulled Brother Chun into the Crouching Dragon Thatched Cottage, where Ren Ye, Lü Ji, and Daoist Chu knocked him unconscious again.
• Divine Baby used the Netherworld Curse and netherworld qi to suppress the remnant soul, then possessed Brother Chun to keep it under control.
• Brother Chun regained his memories and broke down over betraying his allies, but Ren Ye urged him to help rescue the thirty-five prisoners.
• Ren Ye concluded that Brother Chun could exploit Cao Yufei’s trust to steal his Divine Temple authorization token that night.
• Brother Chun took Daoist Chu’s knockout liquor and food to Li Hu’s room, offered to discuss a money-making idea, and was invited inside.

Ren Ye and Lü Ji infiltrated the Divine Temple dungeon, secretly supplied captives with pills, and found Ming Quan, Brother Hong’s brother. After locating the Heavenly Prison and planning a possible rescue, they heard strange tides above the tower; elsewhere, a Female Emperor slew a peak evil spirit with one saber strike.

• Brother Chun tricked Li Hu into drinking poisoned wine, then Ren Ye, Lü Ji, and Daoist Chu took Li Hu’s authorization token for the Divine Temple.
• Ren Ye and Lü Ji entered the dungeon disguised as Chaotic Maniacs, gave Wu Dali pills and life green jade, and told him to wait for a chance to escape.
• Ren Ye found Ming Quan, confirmed his connection to Brother Hong, and gave him pills while urging him to survive and take Brother Hong’s belongings home.
• Ren Ye and Lü Ji reached the ninth-floor Heavenly Prison and received a Star Gate notification about awakening Celestial Wind Perfected; Lü Ji proposed altering the terrain during the decisive battle to breach the formation.
• As Ren Ye and Lü Ji left the Heavenly Prison, they heard the sound of tides above the tower and wondered if it came from a water formation.
• On Black Mountain, the Female Emperor killed a fourth-grade peak evil spirit with one saber strike and proclaimed herself invincible.

Ren Ye’s group prepared to attack the Gutan Sect while Cao Yufei planned a daytime sweep against the Attacking Side. After Wang Changfeng drew a favorable Seven-Star Prayer card, he declared that the decisive assault would begin that night.

• Ren Ye and Lü Ji returned from scouting, but Li Hu woke and forced Daoist Chu to knock him unconscious; the group disguised his head wound with wall plaster and life green jade.
• Ren Ye’s group planned to send Lü Ji back to the bunker with orders for an assault, and the next evening the defenders’ payday left the teleportation array unwatched, allowing Lü Ji to slip away.
• Cao Yufei prepared a daytime extermination sweep and planned to send A Chun back among the prisoners to confuse the Attacking Side before the battle.
• Lü Ji told Wang Changfeng to summon reinforcements, prepare their supplies, and launch the attack when he drew a favorable card; Wang Changfeng then sent a message to Lin Xiang.
• Lin Xiang ordered a hundred Super Grades to stand by near Gutan, and Wang Changfeng performed a ritual to draw an auspicious card, offering ten years of his lifespan.
• Wang Changfeng drew the Nine Heavens Thunderclap card and declared that the assault would begin that night.

Wang Changfeng launched an all-out assault on the Gutan Sect while Ren Ye and his companions infiltrated the Divine Temple and rescued the prisoners. The rescue triggered the decisive-battle storyline, and Ren Ye stayed behind with Daoist Chu to enter the Heavenly Prison while Lü Ji led the captives out.

• Wang Changfeng led the Attacking Side in a coordinated assault on the Gutan Sect, while Cao Yufei ordered the Defending Side to hold their ground.
• Ren Ye, Daoist Chu, and Lü Ji knocked out Li Hu and dungeon guards, then entered the Dungeon using Li Hu's token.
• Ren Ye freed the prisoners, explained that Brother Chun had been controlled rather than betraying them, and gave the captives supplies to recover and reclaim their Magic Treasures.
• Wang Changfeng summoned Nine Heavens lightning, and the Star Gate announced that the rescue had triggered the decisive battle and new faction challenges.
• Ren Ye sent Lü Ji and the rescued captives out to join Wang Changfeng, then chose to enter the Heavenly Prison with Daoist Chu despite Daoist Chu's objections.

Ren Ye proposed challenging the Upside-Down Old Man to awaken Celestial Wind Perfected and turn the battle for Gutan Sect around. He entered the SSS+ trial alone in name, bringing several bodies and treasures, and the Upside-Down Old Man appeared to mock him as the challenge began.

• Lü Ji led the thirty-four escaped prisoners toward the Teleportation Arrays, but a returning defender spotted them and fled outside to raise the alarm.
• Cao Yufei sent reinforcements back to Gutan Sect and ordered Lady Yuhua to guard the arrays and capture the prisoners, while the defenders' forces on the outer battlefield weakened.
• Lü Ji stopped the prisoners from retreating to the Divine Temple, fearing the Upside-Down Old Man would aid their pursuers, and Ren Ye urged the group to use the trial as their chance to reverse the crisis.
• Ren Ye summoned the Two Night Walkers, Fenglin's physical body, and the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo, then declared that he would challenge the Upside-Down Old Man alone.
• The Star Gate announced that the SSS+ challenge could admit up to 150 participants and required victory or death; the Upside-Down Old Man appeared and mocked Ren Ye.

Daoist Chu sacrificed three years of his lifespan to restore his Fourth Grade strength, while Lü Ji unleashed a Feng Shui art to turn the battle at Gutan Sect in their favor. Ren Ye, meanwhile, was badly wounded by the Upside-Down Old Man and left despairing after his Reincarnation Lotus Lamp failed.

• Mao Shan and Lady Yuhua led their forces to attack the captives at the sealed Teleportation Array, while Daoist Chu and Lü Ji prepared to hold them off.
• Daoist Chu used a Forbidden Art to sacrifice three years of his lifespan, return to Fourth Grade, shatter Mao Shan's Life-Bound Treasure, and summon eight hundred Yin Soldiers.
• Lü Ji used the Six Jia Netherworld-Penetrating Art to gather fortune and baleful energy, weakening the attackers and allowing Wu Dali, Ming Quan, Ding Jun, and the others to charge out.
• Ren Ye tried to counter the Upside-Down Old Man with his weapons and the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp, but the old man's chains overwhelmed him and the lamp's power had no effect.
• The Upside-Down Old Man mocked Ren Ye as unworthy of opening the Gate of Life and declared that Order no longer produced outstanding talents.

Ren Ye discovered that the Upside-Down Old Man’s apparent body was an illusion concealing his true shadow, then used the Lotus Lamp’s Karmic Fire to kill him. The Heavenly Dao announced that Ren Ye had averted Gutan Sect’s catastrophe and could meet Heavenly Wind.

• Ren Ye endured the Upside-Down Old Man’s chain attacks while Daoist Chu and Lü Ji struggled to protect the captives at Gutan Sect.
• Ren Ye reasoned that the Upside-Down Old Man feared light because it could reveal his hidden true body, and he used the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo to reach the Divine Temple doors.
• Ren Ye exposed the shadow beneath his feet as the Upside-Down Old Man’s true body and ignited it with the Lotus Lamp’s Karmic Fire.
• The Upside-Down Old Man died, the chains stopped, and Ren Ye declared that he had come for Heavenly Wind.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that Ren Ye had slain the Upside-Down Old Man, prevented Gutan Sect’s thousand-year catastrophe, and could meet Heavenly Wind.

After Ren Ye discovered that the Gutan Sect was an underwater reflection trapped by the Upside-Down Old Man’s forbidden arts, he began rebuilding the Nine Peaks Sword Formation to free Celestial Wind Perfected. He had restored eight anchors and was using the Human Emperor Sword for the ninth when enemies burst into the Heavenly Prison.

• Cao Yufei recognized that the attackers had smuggled people into the sect through the forbidden grounds and rallied defenders to hold the Teleportation Arrays while he reinforced the interior.
• The Heavenly Dao changed the Defending Side’s victory conditions: they had to capture 51 attackers and prevent Celestial Wind Perfected from awakening, then kill him.
• Ren Ye entered the Heavenly Prison, learned that Celestial Wind Perfected and the other Gutan Sect experts were trapped in an illusion, and realized the Nine Peaks Sword Formation could break it.
• Ren Ye inferred that the apparent Gutan Sect was an inverted reflection of the real underwater sect and that breaking the forbidden arts would open its gates to the attackers.
• Ren Ye found eight sword-anchoring mountains and restored them with the broken Ancient Swords he had collected, but the ninth mountain, Wangwu, had no matching sword.
• Sword Spirit Bro urged Ren Ye to use the Human Emperor Sword to anchor Wangwu; as Ren Ye struggled against the forbidden arts, Mao Shan and other enemies arrived in the Heavenly Prison.

Ren Ye fought to protect the captives as Cao Yufei’s forces overwhelmed the Heavenly Prison, while the Defending Side’s array guards outside sacrificed themselves to hold Wang Changfeng back. When Wu Dali returned himself to the Dao to wound Mao Shan, more than twenty conscious captives followed his example, and Ren Ye answered their sacrifice with a surge of Reincarnation light.

• Ren Ye used the Human Emperor Seal to suppress everyone in its light to the second rank, letting the captives escape upward while he fought off Cao Yufei’s reinforcements with the Human Emperor Sword and the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo.
• As the seal’s radiance faded, Daoist Chu, Lü Ji, Ding Jun, Ming Quan, and the other defenders fell or were gravely wounded, and Mao Shan trapped Ren Ye in black flames while Cao Yufei’s Hybrid Artifact sent a remnant soul into his mind.
• The Reincarnation Refining Lamp destroyed the remnant soul, but the defenders’ attacks continued and Ren Ye remained engulfed in flames as the captives watched in despair.
• Wu Dali reversed his Star Source, shattered his Star Core, and returned himself to the Dao, sending his saber through Mao Shan’s shoulder before dissolving into the ruins.
• More than twenty conscious captives followed Wu Dali by destroying their Star Cores and launching their Magic Treasures skyward, while Ren Ye stared at them and unleashed the gray light of Reincarnation.

Ren Ye broke the Heavenly Prison’s forbidden art by driving the Human Emperor Sword into Wangwu Mountain, while reinforcements led by Erlang Manifestation-Sage Zhenjun stormed the Gutan Sect. The true sect emerged and its main gate opened, and Celestial Wind told Ren Ye to leave the rest to him.

• More than twenty prisoners dissolved into the Dao, unleashing energy that shook the Heavenly Prison and awakened the Ninth-Month Sword Formation.
• Ren Ye broke free of the Immortal-Burning Fire, refined another trace of Life Green Jade, and drove the Human Emperor Sword into Wangwu Mountain as Celestial Wind’s finger twitched.
• Wang Changfeng received twenty-three Route Passes from the prisoners, and Zhang Linghuo carried them to Vice Minister Wen to request reinforcements.
• Erlang Manifestation-Sage Zhenjun led twenty-two New Year's Watchers into battle, shattered a Gutan Sect defender, and ordered the exhausted fighters to withdraw.
• Ren Ye broke the Mirror Flowers, Water Moon forbidden art, causing the true Gutan Sect to emerge, its six Teleportation Arrays to shatter, and its main gate to open.
• Celestial Wind opened his eyes inside the sect and told Ren Ye to leave the rest to him.

After Ren Ye awakened Celestial Wind Perfected and secured victory for the Attacking Side, Cao Yufei ordered the Defending Side to retreat, and the victors captured many enemies. As the Attacking Side prepared to execute the captives, Cao Yufei returned and offered himself in exchange for their release.

• Celestial Wind Perfected awakened the Gutan Sect experts after Ren Ye placed the Human Emperor Sword and Wangwu Sword into position, forcing Cao Yufei to abandon the Defending Side’s attempt to kill him.
• Cao Yufei ordered his people to retreat, while Ren Ye and Celestial Wind Perfected defeated and captured Mao Shan and other Defending Side fighters.
• The Star Gate announced the Attacking Side’s victory and offered a reward for capturing Cao Yufei, so Ren Ye and Fan Ming helped gather captives as the Gutan Sect experts joined the battle.
• Cao Yufei escaped the fighting and considered using an ancient token to leave, while Ding Hun also accepted the defeat and withdrew.
• Ren Ye condemned Cao Yufei for abandoning his fighters, and Wang Changfeng ordered the captives executed as the Attacking Side’s survivors gathered at the gate.
• Cao Yufei returned across the bridge, admitted he could not abandon the soldiers who had fought for him, and offered to surrender if Ren Ye released the captives.

Ren Ye captured Cao Yufei, secured the release of the other captives, and received the Nine Peaks Divine Swords and a talisman that could summon the Gutan Sect experts during the calamity. As the group departed the Secret Realm, a speck of black light entered Cao Yufei’s brow.

• Cao Yufei offered himself in exchange for the captives, and Ren Ye seized his Route Pass and Communication Order Token after Mao Shan dissolved into the Dao.
• Wang Changfeng ordered the captives released, and they departed while Cao Yufei remained in Ren Ye’s custody.
• Celestial Wind Perfected gave Ren Ye the Nine Peaks Divine Swords and the Gutan Three Thousand Realms Talisman, and privately asked him to investigate a stranger’s entry into the Gutan Ancestral Land.
• Celestial Wind Perfected gave Wang Changfeng a golden key and led the Gutan Sect experts into the Three Thousand Realms to recover.
• As the group departed through the Li Gate, a speck of black light shot into Cao Yufei’s brow.