Chapter Summaries

Ren Ye led the families through the Long estate’s hidden tunnel, but General Wang’s escort turned out to be an ambush backed by a Fifth Grade fighter. As Ren Ye prepared to fight, Long Yuqing learned that Yang Ganglie had arranged to hand Ren Ye over to the Immortal Wave Sect, and openly defied him before Yang Ganglie struck him.

• Steward Bao escorted Ren Ye and the families through the Long family’s secret tunnel, and Ren Ye gave him five hundred thousand Star Source in thanks.
• General Wang appeared with armed men and carriages, claiming he had orders to escort Ren Ye’s party; Ren Ye suspected betrayal and warned his companions to prepare for a fight.
• A powerful Fifth Grade aura emerged from a nearby mountain before Ren Ye’s group could act, leaving them facing what seemed like an inescapable ambush.
• Long Yuqing received a military message revealing that General Wang had taken Ren Ye’s party, then confronted Yang Ganglie at the grand general’s residence.
• Yang Ganglie admitted arranging the handover to the Immortal Wave Sect and ordered Long Yuqing to support the plan; Long Yuqing accused him of betraying his savior, and Yang Ganglie slapped him.

After the Immortal Wave Sect cornered Ren Ye and his companions, he used the unusual blood guide mark between his eyebrows to bargain for their escape and was taken toward the sect. A sudden storm brought the Demoness of the Vengeful Ghost Sect to intercept them, leaving Ren Ye caught between rival powers.

• Yang Ganglie slapped Long Yuqing and warned him not to endanger the Dragon and Yang Families with reckless decisions; Yang Ling'er and the others left him behind.
• Ren Ye realized the Immortal Wave Sect had surrounded the group and told Ai Fei and the others to follow his plan while he faced the sect alone.
• Ren Ye revealed his blurry blood guide mark and threatened to erase it unless the Immortal Wave Sect let his companions go; Xun Immortal Master agreed, and they escaped.
• After his companions departed, Ren Ye let Xun Immortal Master carry him toward Immortal Wave Mountain while he considered how to escape.
• Dark clouds and rain halted the group, and the Demoness of the Vengeful Ghost Sect descended, announcing that she had come for the Great Emperor's opportunity.

Ren Ye escaped the battle between the Immortal Wave Sect and the Vengeful Ghost Sect, revealing his Human Emperor Seal and using its power to kill the three disciples escorting him. He reached the Western Province and received a special assignment pointing him toward the Western Liang Imperial Clan and the Boundary-Space Stone.

• Xun Immortal Master and the Demoness fought in the sky as Wu Meng and the Vengeful Ghost Sect attacked the Immortal Wave Sect disciples protecting Ren Ye.
• Ren Ye maneuvered through the battle, provoking the Immortal Wave Sect disciples into rescuing him and convincing Sword Mound to retreat with him toward Tide Dragon City.
• Once they were clear of the dark clouds, Ren Ye released Purple Fortune and the Human Emperor Seal, suppressing the three fourth-grade disciples to third grade before killing them.
• The Demoness withdrew her forces after Xun Immortal Master and the others realized Ren Ye possessed Human Destiny and a supreme treasure.
• Ren Ye fled the Immortal Wave Five Cities and received a special assignment identifying the Boundary-Space Stone as a secret treasure possibly hidden in the Western Liang Imperial Clan.

Ren Ye learned that his SSS+ errand required him to steal and refine the Realmspace Stone from the Western Liang Kingdom, then was captured by the Demoness and recruited to kill Chu Jin at a gathering in ten days. After agreeing to travel with her to Western Liang, he left the thatched cottage for food and spotted the Demoness and Wu Meng drinking with a third, strangely familiar figure.

• Ren Ye received an SSS+ mission to steal and refine the Realmspace Stone in Western Liang, with failure costing him entry to Xingshan.
• The Demoness appeared with Wu Meng, tested Ren Ye with Infinite Water, and had Wu Meng carry him to the Vengeful Ghost Sect's hideout.
• After Ren Ye awoke, the Demoness asked him to kill Chu Jin at a gathering of prodigies in Western Liang ten days later.
• Ren Ye agreed to help, and the Demoness promised to cover for him if he caused trouble in the Western Liang Kingdom; they planned to travel there together the next day.
• That night, Ren Ye left the thatched cottage to find food and saw the Demoness and Wu Meng drinking with a third figure he recognized as familiar.

Ren Ye suspected that the Yang Family and the Vengeful Ghost Sect were conspiring after he saw someone who resembled Yang Mingyuan drinking with the Demoness and Wu Meng, while the Immortal Wave Sect prepared to send a vast army into Tide Dragon City. The chapter ended with the Demoness telling Ren Ye that they would travel alone to Western Liang to kill Chu Jin.

• Ren Ye spotted a figure resembling Yang Mingyuan with the Demoness and Wu Meng, then suspected the Yang Family had helped the Vengeful Ghost Sect infiltrate Tide Dragon City and stage the ancestral-ceremony massacre.
• Divine Baby warned Ren Ye that the guards had returned, forcing him to abandon his attempt to identify the figure in the pavilion.
• At the Immortal Wave Sect, Xun Immortal Master reported suspicious timing around Uncle Wang's discovery of Zhu Zigui and Long Yuqing's argument with Yang Ganglie; Sect Master Wuchen ordered four cities to send 240,000 troops to Tide Dragon City.
• Long Yuqing learned that Zhu Zigui had been captured again, then received word that the four cities' armies had surrounded Tide Dragon City and demanded entry; his prayer beads shattered as he faced the crisis.
• Ren Ye suggested traveling to Western Liang with a small group, but the Demoness said that only she and Ren Ye would go kill Chu Jin.

Yang Ganglie rode alone to halt the four-city army surrounding Tide Dragon City, won three days to appeal to the Immortal Wave Sect, and then knelt outside its gates when the Sect Master was away. Three days later, Ren Ye reached Western Liang without the Demoness, sensed a Boundary-Space Stone in the city, and realized its holder might sense him too.

• Long Yuqing refused to open Tide Dragon City's gates and activated its city-guarding formation as 240,000 troops surrounded the city.
• Yang Mingtang blamed Long Yuqing for the crisis, but Yang Ganglie armed himself and rode alone to confront the four City Lords.
• Yang Ganglie secured three days before the armies would enter, then rode to the Immortal Wave Sect and knelt at its gates after learning the Sect Master had gone to Western Liang.
• Three days later, the Demoness received news of the siege, left Ren Ye to enter Western Liang alone, and told him to wait for her.
• Ren Ye entered the city with the Demoness's Pass Permit, sensed the Boundary-Space Stone through his Blood Mark, and feared that its holder could sense him in return.

Yang Ganglie learned that the Immortal Wave Sect had decreed Long Yuqing must die, then returned to Tide Dragon City. In Western Liang City, Ren Ye traced the Boundary-Space Stone to the Ye Residence, where Situ Ye revealed that he was waiting for the Son of Destiny already in the city.

• Xun Immortal Master told Yang Ganglie that Long Yuqing had to issue an Edict of Self-Blame and slit his own throat, while the Yang Family would take power if Yang Ganglie obeyed.
• Yang Ganglie accepted the Immortal Wave Sect's decree and visited Long Yuqing's father's tomb on his way back to Tide Dragon City.
• Ren Ye concealed his Emperor Character Blood Mark, entered Western Liang City, and followed the Boundary-Space Stone's resonance toward the inner city.
• A street vendor told Ren Ye that Situ Ye was the ruler's illegitimate son, and Ren Ye concluded the Boundary-Space Stone was likely inside the Ye Residence.
• Dozens of powerful cultivators left the Ye Residence, while Ren Ye decided he needed to plan carefully before taking the stone.
• Situ Ye told a middle-aged man that he was waiting for the Son of Destiny and that the man was already in Western Liang City.

Ren Ye learned that Western Liang City’s Heavenly Prodigy Grand Gathering had drawn powerful young talents who planned to hunt him for his destiny, while he gathered information at the Martial Temple market. After the gathering’s attendees discussed using bait to draw him out, Ren Ye saw a bound criminal displayed at the city gate and was overcome with fury when he recognized the person.

• Ren Ye discovered that Young Master Situ Ye was protected by fifth-grade experts, then heard the previous night’s battle in Lianghe Township had killed many people.
• The innkeeper told Ren Ye that the Heavenly Prodigy Grand Gathering would bring young talents to Western Liang City, many hoping to kill the outsider bearing human destiny.
• Ren Ye went to the Martial Temple market to gather information and learned that the Ye Residence’s forces had fought mysterious cultivators in Lianghe Township.
• At Zetian Lake, Situ Ye and other prodigies discussed hunting Ren Ye, while Yin Jiu mocked them, left the pavilion, and urinated into the lake.
• Situ Ye said Ren Ye had already arrived in Western Liang City and revealed that bait to lure him out had been secured.
• A bound criminal was hung before the city gate, and Ren Ye recognized the person and was overcome by the urge to kill.

Ren Ye found Xu Bangzi captured and displayed outside Western Liang City, then resolved to rescue him alone and disrupt the Heavenly Prodigy Grand Gathering. He prepared by seeking out a dying, notorious man and using the Book of Life and Death Paper to summon the King of Hell, prompting a mysterious man to send him an ancient token marked “Jiang.”

• Ren Ye recognized Xu Bangzi hanging beneath the city gate, inferred that the Western Liang Imperial Clan was using him as bait, and decided to save him without waiting for help.
• Ren Ye disguised himself and hired a tea-stall proprietor to find a dying evildoer and compile information on nearby Secret Realms.
• Ren Ye chose the gravely ill Old Master You, scouted the You family residence, and infiltrated it after the household had gone to sleep.
• Ren Ye used the Book of Life and Death Paper to record Old Master You’s life and summon the King of Hell, filling the room with Netherworld Qi.
• A black-robed man saw that Ren Ye had burned the yellow paper and sent an Ancient Token That Stirs Heaven and Earth to him; the token appeared above Ren Ye and bore the character “Jiang.”

Ren Ye arrived at Western Liang’s grand gathering to rescue Xu Bangzi and confront the sects and rulers plotting to seize his destiny. After breaking through the city gate and defeating Situ Ye, he stood over the gathering and again demanded to know who deserved to be called a prodigy.

• Ren Ye placed an ancient token inside the You Family residence, then spent the following nights searching for secret realms described in the Travelogue.
• Prodigies and experts from across the Nine Li Continent gathered at Zetian Lake, where Situ Ye prepared to open the Heaven Character Arena and the rulers discussed dividing Ren Ye’s destiny.
• Ren Ye arrived at Western Liang with the Human Emperor Sword, announced his challenge, and killed the fourth-grade general guarding the gate with a single strike.
• Ren Ye rescued Xu Bangzi from the city wall, while Situ Ye refused help from the other prodigies and flew out to fight him alone.
• Situ Ye trapped Ren Ye in darkness with his innate Secret Method, but Ren Ye used the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo and Ninety-Nine Human Emperor Seal to expose and bind him.
• Ren Ye struck Situ Ye with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire Finger, beheaded him, and asked the gathered prodigies who among them deserved the name.

Ren Ye killed Situ Ye, seized his Star Source, secret method, Boundary-Space Stone, and Blood Mark, then defeated a succession of Nine Li prodigies before fleeing Western Liang City under pursuit. He reached the ruins of Yanggu County, where the legendary path to emperorship began and a Fourth Grade Secret Realm awaited.

• Ren Ye killed Situ Ye with the Reincarnation Finger, then used Forced Recruitment to claim more than 3.6 million Star Source and the Heaven-Shrouding Saber manual.
• Ren Ye took the Boundary-Space Stone from Situ Ye's corpse and absorbed Situ Ye's Blood Mark, concealing the Emperor Character on his brow with purple fortune.
• The king's younger brother moved to attack Ren Ye, but Kou Zhen challenged him instead and was defeated; He Yunqi, Li Xiuning, and three more prodigies also failed to bring Ren Ye down.
• Liao Ting, the Little Commandery Princess of the Nine Routes of Feng Province, and other experts joined the assault, forcing Ren Ye to flee while mocking the gathered clans and sects.
• The elders and prodigies pursued Ren Ye beyond Western Liang City, and he used Ground-Shrinking Talismans to reach the abandoned ruins of Yanggu County.
• Ren Ye arrived at the legendary site where the future Great Emperor had defeated sixteen challengers, and where a Fourth Grade Secret Realm could be entered by finding its Remnant Soul.

Ren Ye hid in Yanggu County after escaping the Heavenly Prodigy Grand Gathering, learned that the Immortal Wave Sect and Western Liang had attacked his companions and captured Little One, and prepared to face the pursuers. As the Boundary-Space Stone began reacting to him, Xing Wu revealed to Wuchen that he bore the Immortal Wave Five Cities’ Blood Mark and offered himself in exchange for his younger brother.

• Ren Ye concealed himself and Xu Bangzi in an inn in Yanggu County, then learned from Xu Bangzi that the Immortal Wave Sect and Western Liang had slaughtered civilians during their search and captured Little One.
• Ren Ye resolved to recover his companions and Little One, while warning that he would destroy the legacies of the Immortal Wave Sect and Western Liang for targeting his allies.
• Liao Ting led dozens of prodigies into Yanggu County to hunt Ren Ye as Situ Ang and the gathered cultivators watched outside.
• The Boundary-Space Stone broke through Ren Ye’s purple-fortune suppression and began resonating with his Emperor Character Blood Mark, seeming eager for him to refine it.
• Xing Wu met Wuchen at the Seeking Dao Palace and offered to exchange himself for his younger brother, revealing that the Immortal Wave Five Cities’ Blood Mark was between his own brows.

Xing Wu revealed a peach blossom Blood Mark with a unique right to enter Xingshan, and Sect Master Wu Chen examined him before letting him go to his brother. In Yanggu County, Ren Ye struggled to refine the Boundary-Space Stone as sect forces closed in, until the Heir of Fengdu’s guardian intervened and revealed the Biluohuangquan road.

• Xing Wu activated his golden peach blossom Blood Mark, and the hall learned that the Heavenly Dao had given him a special task and protected his mark from being seized.
• Wu Chen confirmed that Xing Wu had not attained Understanding and could not be stripped of his Blood Mark, then offered him a place in the Immortal Wave Sect and led him to see his brother.
• Ren Ye tried to suppress the Boundary-Space Stone as it shook the void, while Xu Bangzi jumped into the Phoenix Fire Furnace for safety.
• Liao Ting and other prodigies arrived at the ruined inn and watched Ren Ye struggle to refine the Boundary-Space Stone as more Fifth Grade experts gathered to capture him.
• The sect elders prepared to attack Ren Ye, but the burly guardian seated on a coffin challenged them and caused the Biluohuangquan road to appear across the sky.

King Qin Guang answered Ren Ye’s summons and defended him from the Nine Li Continent’s experts with the Yin-Yang Brush and Mirror of Sin Platform. After defeating the attackers and sending seven Fifth Grade elders to the Yellow Springs, he warned Situ Ang not to enter the Secret Realm.

• King Qin Guang appeared along the Yellow Springs road, and Ren Ye addressed him as his senior brother while asking him to protect him as he refined the Boundary-Space Stone.
• King Qin Guang declared that the experts who attacked Fengdu’s successor would be sent to the Yellow Springs, and thirteen Fifth Grade cultivators attacked him together.
• King Qin Guang used the Yin-Yang Brush to mark Kou Hua with sin and drain his lifespan, then summoned the Mirror of Sin Platform to expose and burn the cultivators’ karmic burdens.
• Situ Ang intervened with Western Liang’s purple fortune and a golden war saber, but King Qin Guang’s karmic fire overcame his attack and forced the nine flying dragons to retreat.
• Qu Yang and five other cultivators escaped, while King Qin Guang dragged Kou Hua and five other elders away as Yin Souls and warned Situ Ang to stay out of the Secret Realm.

Ren Ye refined the Boundary-Space Stone and escaped Yanggu County with the King of Hell, while Situ Ang watched helplessly. In Tide Dragon City, Long Yuqing discovered that Bao Cheng'an had poisoned himself to help him escape and accepted his own impending death rather than betray his family.

• The King of Hell explained that Ren Ye could return from the Yellow Springs after seven days, and Ren Ye refined the Boundary-Space Stone despite its cost of lifespan.
• Ren Ye used the Boundary-Space Stone to vanish through the void with the King of Hell and escape five hundred li; Situ Ang and the spectators watched them disappear.
• Long Yuqing remained under house arrest in Tide Dragon City as unfamiliar soldiers guarded the City Lord's Residence and blocked him from seeing Yang Ling'er.
• Long Yuqing found Bao Cheng'an waiting with food and wine, and Bao declared his loyalty before drinking the poisoned wine and dying.
• Long Yuqing thanked his father-in-law for granting him death, refused to write a confession, and drank as he faced his own fate.

Ren Ye learned that Long Yuqing had reportedly died after the Immortal Wave Sect and the Yang Family forced him to drink poison, and he resolved to retaliate against the sect. He joined forces with the Demoness, then sought information about the younger-generation prodigies and the Three Golden Flowers, who were hunting Yin Jiu.

• The Demoness arrived in Stele Forest City and told Ren Ye and Xu Bangzi that Long Yuqing had supposedly died by poisoned wine after the Immortal Wave Sect pressured him for helping Ren Ye escape.
• Ren Ye suspected something was wrong with Long Yuqing’s death, but the Demoness said Soul-Devouring Gu Poison had destroyed his souls and spirits and that his body had already been buried.
• Ren Ye asked the Demoness to help him lure out Chu Jin so he could kill him, and he vowed to slaughter the Immortal Wave Sect’s outstanding disciples and the men who had hunted him in Western Liang.
• The Demoness agreed to help Ren Ye in exchange for a fair transaction, and Ren Ye confirmed that he had obtained the Boundary-Space Stone.
• Ren Ye met the information broker Daoist Lai Cai, who described the prodigies’ exploits and said the Three Golden Flowers were pursuing Yin Jiu after he stole a Blood Mark from a defeated clan successor.
• Ren Ye asked Daoist Lai Cai for more information about the Three Golden Flowers’ whereabouts.

The Three Golden Flowers captured Yin Jiu and imprisoned him in Luanping, while Du Yuer devised a plan to use him to provoke the Ancient Emperor Successor and unleash the Mad Daoist. The chapter ended when Liu Daniu, secretly disguised among the inn servants, emerged from the Little Commandery Princess’s bath and startled her.

• The Three Golden Flowers defeated and captured Yin Jiu at the Zhuma River market, then brought him to the Heavenly Pavilion Tower under guard.
• The Little Commandery Princess tormented Yin Jiu, while he taunted her and warned that she did not dare kill or seriously injure him.
• Liu Daniu disguised himself as an inn servant and entered the Heavenly Pavilion Tower with the workers carrying bathing supplies.
• Du Yuer proposed secretly controlling Yin Jiu and making him challenge the Ancient Emperor Successor, hoping his death would provoke the Mad Daoist; the Little Commandery Princess and Bai Ling agreed.
• After the Little Commandery Princess entered her bath, Liu Daniu suddenly rose from the water and spoke to her.

Ren Ye used Liu Daniu as bait to draw the Three Golden Flowers together, then revealed himself and attacked them in Heavenly Pavilion Tower. As the city’s fifth-grade experts arrived, the King of Hell emerged to deal with the Path Protectors.

• Wen Ninger attacked Liu Daniu with the Soul-Swaying Sword, and Du Yuer and Bai Ling'er joined the fight.
• Ren Ye emerged from the bathtub, revealed himself as the Ancient Emperor Successor, and turned the battle against the Three Golden Flowers.
• Ren Ye summoned the Human Emperor Sword while Du Yuer called for her Senior Martial Uncle, but no Path Protector answered.
• Daoist Lai Cai recorded the fight as dark clouds gathered over Luanping City and five fifth-grade experts rushed toward Heavenly Pavilion Tower.
• Ren Ye confronted Du Yuer and declared that he would take revenge, while the King of Hell emerged from the Jiang Character Token and decided to kill the eight Path Protectors.

Ren Ye captured the Three Golden Flowers and freed Yin Jiu while the King of Hell killed all eight Path Protectors at the Heavenly Pavilion tower. The massacre drove the Nine Li factions into a gathering at the Immortal Wave Sect, while Lu Wenfeng learned that his son Lu Tou had been captured by Ren Ye.

• The King of Hell attacked the Three Golden Flowers' eight Path Protectors and killed them all, hanging their bodies from the Heavenly Pavilion tower.
• Ren Ye subdued and captured the Little Commandery Princess, Bai Ling, and Du Yuer, then freed Yin Jiu after charging him three million Star Source.
• Ren Ye, Xu Bangzi, the Demoness, and Yin Jiu escaped as the spectators saw the eight corpses and the King of Hell returned to the Jiang Character Token.
• Sect leaders and Nation Lords gathered at the Immortal Wave Sect as rumors spread, and factions recalled their outstanding disciples ahead of the Xingshan Emperor's Tomb opening.
• Lu Wenfeng learned that his son Lu Tou had been captured after he joined Liao Ting in challenging Ren Ye, and he hurried to leave for the Immortal Wave Sect.
• An extravagantly dressed middle-aged man and a veiled young woman arrived at the Qingliang Prefectural Yamen, where Brother Huang recognized the woman as familiar.

Ren Ye captured the Three Golden Flowers and tried to make them surrender their Star Sources, Blood Marks, and treasures, while Yin Jiu refused to join the struggle for the Emperor’s Dao because he rejected its bloody competition. Ren Ye invited Yin Jiu to travel with him, and the chapter ended with Xing Wu ordered to return to Xingshan while Little One remained captive.

• Ren Ye threatened the captive Three Golden Flowers, and they refused to hand over their Blood Marks despite his warnings and Du Yuer’s attempt to negotiate.
• Ren Ye sent Yin Jiu, Xu Bangzi, and the Black Dog to frighten the Three Golden Flowers, but Yin Jiu used Heavenly Bee Honey to let the dog lick their feet instead of assaulting them.
• Yin Jiu explained that he would not attack other Blood Mark Bearers because he opposed the Heavenly Dao’s slaughter, and Ren Ye invited him to travel together as a spectator.
• Yin Jiu agreed to accompany Ren Ye but regretted paying an extra million Star Source, while Ren Ye said the Black Dog had already enjoyed the treat.
• Xun Immortal Master ordered Xing Wu to enter Xingshan again the next day, and Xing Wu asked when his little brother would be released.
• Little One remained in Sect Master Wu Chen’s Dao Palace, repeating that he would keep his secret and listen to big brother.