Chapter Summaries

Xing Wu was coerced into entering Xingshan with his brother, while Immortal Master Xun and Sect Master Wu Chen planned to use the hostages and Xing Wu’s blood mark for the Immortal Wave Sect’s advantage. Ren Ye’s group celebrated a huge haul from captured prodigies before learning that the Immortal Wave Sect wanted an exchange and that someone else was seeking Ren Ye.

• Immortal Master Xun forced Xing Wu to agree to enter Xingshan with his brother, threatened him with the brother’s safety, and made him drink a medicinal broth prepared by Sect Master Wu Chen.
• Outside the cultivation room, Xing Wu steadied himself and resolved to face Xingshan again despite the Immortal Wave Sect’s threats.
• Immortal Master Xun proposed taking both children to Xingshan, then exchanging them for captured prodigies or using one hostage to lure out the Ancient Emperor Successor; Sect Master Wu Chen approved the plan.
• Ren Ye and his companions collected more than eighteen million star source and sixteen blood marks from the captured Three Golden Flowers, Lu Tou, and Situ Ye.
• Sister Demoness told Ren Ye that the Immortal Wave Sect had proposed exchanging its Xing family hostage for the Three Golden Flowers and Lu Tou, and that another party was trying to find him; Ren Ye excitedly wondered if someone had arrived.

Ren Ye prepared for a possible hostage exchange while Xing Wu secretly instructed Little One before leading him and nine Immortal Wave Sect experts into Xingshan’s Emperor’s Tomb. Ren Ye was reunited with a bedraggled Daoist and three companions, while Senior White-Striped Chicken sent Jiang Yu through the void toward a secluded Unranked Land.

• Ren Ye agreed to answer the Vengeful Ghost Sect’s search for him but postponed deciding whether to accept the Immortal Wave Sect’s hostage exchange, as Sister Demoness offered to track its experts.
• Xing Wu carved figures of his family, told Little One how to survive inside the Emperor’s Tomb, and concealed the mark between his brother’s brows.
• Xun Immortal Master led Xing Wu, Little One, and eight other fifth-grade experts into Xingshan, where Xing Wu guided them to a dark tunnel as the Emperor’s dao pressure threatened them.
• Chu Jin told Wuchen he wanted to face Ren Ye in a fair fight during the hostage exchange, and Wuchen invited him to walk to Seeking Dao Peak.
• Sister Demoness brought Ren Ye four people, including a fat Daoist who complained about caring for a widow and two children; Ren Ye offered him a job involving a tongue and pretty feet.
• Senior White-Striped Chicken opened a path into the void with his sword, and Jiang Yu departed through it to seek news of an old acquaintance.

Wuchen urged Chu Jin to seize the Great Emperor’s opportunity and carry their generation toward power, while Chu Jin hid his fear behind a grateful vow. In the Emperor’s Tomb, Xing Wu opened an ancient gate, endured the Peachwood Blade’s inheritance, and lured the nine Immortal Masters inside before declaring his willingness to accept it.

• Wuchen told Chu Jin that refining his bead depended on defeating the Ancient Emperor Successor and retrieving the Great Emperor’s relic, then urged him to take responsibility for their generation.
• Xing Wu led the nine Immortal Masters to an ancient gate in the Emperor’s Tomb, where they read an inscription describing three Gods kneeling and a broken peach branch.
• Xing Wu opened the gate, received a Heavenly Dao task to find a peach branch and retrieve a treasure, and entered the purple-lit corridor alone while the Immortal Masters waited outside.
• Peach branches engulfed Xing Wu as he screamed for help, but Xun Immortal Master and Wu Immortal Master refused to intervene and waited for the opportunity to claim the treasure.
• The Peachwood Blade emerged and flew toward the Immortal Masters, prompting all nine to rush into the corridor and attack it.
• Xing Wu revealed that he had feigned his distress, then said he was willing to receive the inheritance and never return to the Human World.

Xing Wu revealed that he had inherited the Peachwood Blade and used its devouring power to kill the Immortal Masters trapped in the cave. After Little One was protected by the Great Emperor's Dao Pressure, Xing Wu spared Xun Celestial Master temporarily to learn where and when the sects planned to trade for their captives.

• Xing Wu explained how he had found the Peachwood Blade, refused the Unfeeling Dao's price of forgetting his family, and secretly gained its inheritance.
• Xing Wu took up the Peachwood Blade and devoured Wu Immortal Master, then killed three more Immortal Masters as the others struggled to escape.
• Xun Immortal Master tried to seize Little One, but the Stone Stele's Emperor Dao Pressure repelled him and the other Immortal Masters back into the cave.
• Xing Wu killed the remaining Immortal Masters except Xun Celestial Master, who knelt and begged to become Xing Wu's Path Guardian.
• Xing Wu forced Xun Celestial Master to reveal when and where the Fourteen Ancient Sects and Clans planned to exchange his younger brother for the four captured Heavenly Pride.
• Ren Ye asked the Demoness whether the Immortal Wave Sect had chosen a trading place, and she confirmed that it had.

Xing Wu learned that the Immortal Wave Sect planned to exchange him and his brother for four Heavenly Prides at Haoyang Summer Resort in five days, then used the Peachwood Blade to kill Xun Celestial Master and escaped Xingshan. As the Immortal Wave Sect’s Dragon Beam cracked and its purple fortune surged skyward, Ren Ye prepared for the exchange with Chu Jin; five days later, Yang Ling’er secretly brought food to someone behind a locked door.

• Xun Celestial Master revealed that the Immortal Wave Sect planned to take Xing Wu and his brother to Haoyang Summer Resort in five days and exchange them for four Heavenly Prides, while experts waited in Western Liang to capture the Ancient Emperor Successor.
• Xing Wu hurled the Peachwood Blade at Xun Celestial Master, and its devouring power killed him despite Xun’s protests that Xing Wu had sworn not to kill him inside the Emperor’s Tomb.
• Xing Wu prostrated himself in thanks, carried his younger brother out of Xingshan, and looked back toward Great Marsh Township as he left.
• The Immortal Wave Sect’s Dragon Beam cracked, and purple fortune poured into the sky; Wuchen secretly gathered the fortune again, while the sect’s disciples mistook the sign for a display of prosperity.
• Ren Ye learned that Chu Jin would attend the hostage exchange and decided to plan the route to Western Liang, while Demoness Sister agreed that the exchange could be dangerous.
• Five days later, Yang Ling’er carried steamed rice cake and smoked chicken to a locked room and told the person inside that she had come alone.

After learning that Xun Immortal Master and eight other Immortal Masters might have died in Xingshan, Chu Jin went ahead alone to lure out Ren Ye and secure a Great Emperor blood mark. Ren Ye’s side redirected him through a series of costly secret-realm errands, while Western Liang’s experts waited in the wrong place.

• Chu Jin read Wuchen’s letter, learned that the hostages and nine Immortal Masters might be lost, and decided to draw out the Ancient Emperor Successor himself.
• Chu Jin persuaded Situ Bin and the Immortal Wave Sect elders to let him attend the meeting alone as bait, then left Haoyang Summer Resort.
• Ren Ye learned that Chu Jin had arrived without hostages or escorts and told Demoness Sister to lead him into a trap without revealing himself.
• A black-robed Vengeful Ghost Sect agent sent Chu Jin to the Cauliflower River Secret Realm and charged him five hundred thousand star source for its route pass.
• Chu Jin’s contact demanded a Treasure Gourd to reach the next meeting point and charged him one million, while Situ Bin’s hidden experts waited outside the secret realm and lost track of him.

Xing Wu escaped toward Western Liang with Little One as his awakening began draining vitality from everything around him, while Chu Jin followed a series of costly contacts to meet the Ancient Emperor Successor. Chu Jin saw through the trap and identified Ren Ye, and the two prepared to fight as powerful allies gathered elsewhere.

• Xing Wu found Little One near Haoyang Manor, learned that Western Liang experts had left to ambush their benefactor, and fled with him toward the mountains.
• As Xing Wu carried Little One away, his awakening absorbed spiritual qi from the grass and insects, and he urged his brother to grow strong enough to protect their family.
• Chu Jin spent over four million star source following five contacts into Western Liang City, where he entered the abandoned Ye Residence alone.
• At the final meeting point, Ren Ye's masked contact offered Chu Jin wine or a Ghost Bronze Statue for another three million star source, but Chu Jin refused and played the zither while deducing the trap.
• Chu Jin recognized the masked man as Ren Ye, and Ren Ye removed his mask, released his purple fortune, and challenged Chu Jin to a fight.
• The King of Hell opened his eyes above the residence, while fifteen sixth-grade leaders gathered at the Seeking Dao Palace and a middle-aged man brought reinforcements into an unknown world.

Chu Jin warned Ren Ye that Western Liang City was a trap and urged him to leave Nine Li, then revealed that Xing Wu had gone with Xun Immortal Master into Xingshan. Ren Ye learned that Xing Wu and Little One had returned, but Xing Wu was critically afflicted by an anomalous devouring force as Situ Bin’s forces searched for Chu Jin.

• Ren Ye and Chu Jin prepared to fight, but Chu Jin dispersed his aura and explained that both of them were being used as pawns by the sects and clans of Nine Li.
• Chu Jin urged Ren Ye to leave the continent and warned him that Xing Wu and Little One had been taken into Xingshan with Xun Immortal Master and had not returned on schedule.
• After Chu Jin departed, Demoness Sister told Ren Ye that Xing Wu and Xing Tian had found the Vengeful Ghost Sect’s contact and were staying at an inn, so Ren Ye hurried there with his companions.
• Little One told Ren Ye that Xing Wu had killed all nine Fifth Grades from the Immortal Wave Sect, then begged him to help his brother, whose aura was dangerously disordered.
• Wu Meng used the Divine Punishment Bow to suppress the devouring force coming from Xing Wu, while Xing Wu pleaded to see his family before time ran out.
• At Haoyang Manor, Situ Bin cursed his men for losing track of Chu Jin while many Fifth Grades watched the Cauliflower River.

Ren Ye learned that Xing Wu had inherited Female Emperor Ping Tian’s power and killed nine Fifth-Grade Immortal Masters to rescue Little One, who bore the Great Emperor’s fate-mark. When Xing Wu faced an imminent departure through a Secret Realm gate, Ren Ye risked exposing himself to bring him home to his family; the chapter ended with enemies racing toward Lin County and the King of Hell preparing to hide Ren Ye’s Purple Fortune.

• Xing Wu revealed that the devouring power within him was consuming Wu Meng’s Divine Punishment Bow, and the King of Hell used the Jiang Character Token to suppress it temporarily.
• Ren Ye carried Xing Wu toward Lin County as Xing Wu explained his inheritance, his secret protection of Little One, and his decision to infiltrate the Immortal Wave Sect and rescue his brother.
• Xing Wu told Ren Ye that he might soon be taken away and asked him to protect Chunniang and the family; Ren Ye promised to see him home despite the danger.
• The King of Hell warned that opening Yellow Springs Road would expose them to powerful pursuers, but Ren Ye insisted on bringing Xing Wu to his family, so the King of Hell opened the road to Lin County.
• Situ Bin and the Fifth-Grade Immortal Masters saw the Yellow Springs Road and hurried toward Lin County, while Daoist Hui kept a talisman ready to monitor events.
• Ren Ye reunited Xing Wu with Chunniang and Little One, and the King of Hell asked to borrow Ren Ye’s Purple Fortune to shield them from the Immortal Wave Sect’s detection.

The King of Hell established the Nine Netherworlds Void-Suppressing Grand Formation and fought fifteen sixth-grade cultivators across the void while Western Liang’s forces attacked Ren Ye. Just as Ren Ye was surrounded, his little sister Qingning appeared and vowed to protect him, announcing that she would kill Western Liang’s fifth-grade elders.

• The King of Hell planted the Eighteen Prison Lords’ Command Flags and used the Mirror of Sin Platform to establish the Nine Netherworlds Void-Suppressing Grand Formation around Lin County.
• Situ Bin and the other Western Liang cultivators sensed the formation, while Wuchen and fourteen other sixth-grade rulers prepared to use the Dao-Sundering Shuttle to break through it.
• The King of Hell repeatedly suppressed the growing starlight as the fifteen sixth-grade cultivators attacked across the void, and Situ Bin led Western Liang’s forces into Lin County.
• The Demoness, Wu Meng, and Daoist Chu fought the invading cultivators while Ren Ye was surrounded by fourth-grade enemies near the wilderness house.
• Qingning appeared, killed a fourth-grade cultivator with her Shadow Blade, and charged toward a fifth-grade as she declared she would protect Ren Ye and bury Western Liang’s fifth-grade elders.

Ren Qingning arrived in the Nine Li Continent to help Ren Ye and killed Daoist Yuyang after Candle Shadow’s fight with him turned against her. Reunited with her brother, she offered her help as Li Yan sensed a large force of Sixth Grade cultivators approaching and ordered his attendants to attack.

• Ren Qingning and Li Yan entered the Nine Li Continent after learning that Ren Ye was in danger, and Qingning sent her Candle Shadow to challenge Daoist Yuyang.
• Daoist Yuyang’s Soul-Annihilating Nails failed to harm Candle Shadow, but he trapped her in his Lightfire Shield with Pure Yang Qi.
• Ren Ye prepared to break the shield, but Qingning arrived and used the Zhuyin Reverse Scale Blade to free Candle Shadow and kill Daoist Yuyang with one slash.
• Qingning reunited with Ren Ye and told him she could help him now.
• Li Yan sensed Sixth Grade cultivators approaching Western Liang and ordered his attendants to kill.

Li Yan arrived in Western Liang with six fifth-grade Wealth Protectors and revealed that he had reached fifth grade in both body and soul while creating his own cultivation system. He broke through the attackers’ blockade with his Primordial Golden Dipper and killed a fifth-grade Immortal Master with a single punch.

• Situ Bin sent Daoist Hui and nine fifth grades to intercept Li Yan’s six attendants while he continued attacking the King of Hell’s formation.
• Ren Ye recognized Li Yan’s aura and welcomed his friend’s unexpected arrival.
• Li Yan assessed the battle, entered the dark clouds to aid the King of Hell, and was intercepted by Daoist Hui and two other fifth grades.
• Daoist Hui and the other two attacked Li Yan, but his Primordial Golden Dipper absorbed and shattered their Life-Bound Treasures.
• Li Yan used his self-created Dharma Scripture to devour the broken treasures and draw their power into his body.
• Li Yan transformed into the Seven-Colored War God and killed a fifth-grade Western Liang Immortal Master with one punch.

Li Yan overwhelmed the Fifth Grade fighters while the King of Hell’s formation faltered under the assault of fifteen Sixth Grade experts. Ren Ye and the King of Hell opened a Heavenly Gate for Xing Wu, who was carried away just as two familiar figures arrived from the north.

• Li Yan killed Daoist Hui and joined the fight as his allies helped turn the battle against the remaining Fifth Grade Immortal Masters.
• The King of Hell warned Ren Ye that the fifteen Nation Lords and Sect Masters were about to break through and that they would have to flee to the Yellow Springs Underworld.
• Xing Wu said goodbye to Chunniang and his family, and Ren Ye took him to the King of Hell to attempt another way out.
• The King of Hell dismantled the Grand Formation, and Ren Ye used the Human Emperor Seal and his Destiny to help Xing Wu awaken his devouring power and open a Heavenly Gate.
• The Heavenly Gate swallowed the Dragon Fang Dao-Silencing Shuttle’s power and blocked the fifteen Sixth Grade experts from entering Western Liang.
• Xing Wu rose toward the Heavenly Gate in immortal light as two familiar figures arrived from the north with a youth.

Xing Wu entered the heavenly gate and departed for an unknown road, while Ren Ye’s allies routed Western Liang’s forces and left twelve Fifth Grade corpses hanging outside the city. With the Emperor’s Tomb opening in three days and his expected protector still absent, Ren Ye considered asking the King of Hell to seek help from the Underworld.

• Xing Wu remembered his brother Xing Qian, received a strand of immortal light for him, and passed through the heavenly gate before it closed.
• Ren Ye and his allies attacked the Western Liang Fifth Grade experts after the heavenly gate destroyed the Dragon Fang and cut off the fifteen sect masters’ route into the battlefield.
• The fifteen sect masters arrived too late and found twelve Western Liang Fifth Grade corpses hanging outside the city; a message challenged Situ Ang to meet the Ancient Emperor Successor at the Emperor’s Tomb, and Situ Ang swore revenge.
• Ren Ye, worried that Senior White-Striped Chicken had not arrived before the Emperor’s Tomb opened, discussed with the King of Hell whether he could return to the Underworld for reinforcements.
• Ren Qingning bluntly asked Xu Qingzhao when she and Ren Ye would have children, and Xu Qingzhao jokingly claimed Ren Ye had an embarrassing ailment.
• A white-clad figure crossed the void and flew toward a distant star.

Li Yan examined Old Liu and concluded that, although his soul appeared completely dispersed, his headless body might have become a corpse puppet and could be tied to the Great Emperor’s own beheading. Ren Ye decided he had to enter the Emperor’s Tomb to seek answers, while the Demoness offered a covert route through the guarded Immortal Wave Five Cities; suspecting her motives, Ren Ye demanded she explain her fixation on killing Chu Jin.

• Ren Ye asked Li Yan to examine Old Liu, and Li Yan found no sign of a soul but observed that blood still circulated through his headless corpse.
• Li Yan and Ren Ye connected Old Liu’s beheading to the legend that the Great Emperor had also been beheaded, and they suspected the Emperor’s Tomb held the key to Old Liu’s condition.
• The Demoness warned Ren Ye that the Immortal Wave Five Cities were heavily guarded and offered a hidden route that required the group to suppress their senses.
• Li Yan misunderstood Qingning’s request for virility medicine, then learned she wanted it for Ren Ye and laughed at him.
• Ren Ye reconsidered the Demoness’s past actions and possible ties to the Yang Family, then demanded she explain why she was determined to kill Chu Jin.

Ren Ye agreed to help the Demoness kill Chu Jin in exchange for her protection in the Emperor’s Tomb, then secretly sent Qingning’s candle-shadow body to investigate the Vengeful Ghost Sect’s tunnel. Qingning found evidence linking the tunnel to the Dragon Family and Immortal Wave Sect, leaving Ren Ye worried that the Demoness’s motives and history might be a deception.

• The Demoness told Ren Ye that Chu Jin possessed the Infinite Pearl, which completed her Infinite Goblet, and explained her blood feud with Wuchen and the Immortal Wave Sect; Ren Ye agreed to kill Chu Jin and retrieve the Pearl.
• Ren Ye arranged for Ming Quan’s and Chunniang’s families to hide while he took Little One and their companions toward the Emperor’s Tomb; Chunniang let Little One choose, and he decided to go.
• The Demoness guided Ren Ye’s party through a concealed mountain tunnel to Dragon Return Cliff, headquarters of the Vengeful Ghost Sect.
• Ren Ye sent Qingning’s candle-shadow body to scout the tunnel while the party rested, and Qingning returned with evidence that it connected to the Dragon Family’s secret passages.
• Qingning reported finding ash from burned white clothing and two scorched jade pendants; Ren Ye and Ai Fei recognized them as Immortal Wave Sect robes and identification tokens, raising Ren Ye’s suspicion that the Demoness might be connected to the sect.

Ren Ye remained suspicious of the Demoness while Wuchen prepared Chu Jin to enter the Emperor’s Tomb using Blood Marks taken from nine imprisoned rogue cultivators. In Tide Dragon City, the broken Long Yuqing stayed in hiding as an unidentified sixth-grade cultivator entered the city and asked Daoist Lai Cai to recount recent events as jokes.

• Ren Ye concluded that the Demoness and Wuchen were enemies but decided to watch her before acting.
• Wuchen comforted Chu Jin and promised to protect him in the Emperor’s Tomb, where the Great Dao Contest would determine the Immortal Wave Sect’s future.
• Chu Jin found nine imprisoned Blood Mark Bearers in the sect’s dungeon and offered them ten breaths to surrender their marks and live.
• Long Yuqing remained hidden and despondent while Yang Ling’er urged him to leave Tide Dragon City with her after the Emperor’s Tomb opened.
• An unidentified sixth-grade cultivator broke Tide Dragon City’s protective formation after refusing to pay its taxes, alarming the Immortal Wave Sect’s guards.
• The sixth-grade cultivator met Daoist Lai Cai at an inn and asked him to tell the recent stories of the Immortal Wave Sect and Western Liang as jokes.

Ren Ye faced a deadly blockade at the Emperor’s Tomb, where fifteen sects waited to capture the Ancient Emperor Successor, and struggled to decide whether to enter alone. As the tomb began closing, Human World Sword restored his Great Dao resonance and sent Ren Ye soaring toward the entrance, revealing himself as Ren Ye’s protector.

• Ren Ye and his companions returned to Great Marsh Township and found fifteen sects blocking the 9.9-li route to the Emperor’s Tomb with platforms and troops.
• Ren Ye consulted the King of Hell about forcing his way into the tomb, while visitors including Celestial Master Yin and Dongdeng Prefecture’s Pang Clan arrived and the Heavenly Prides gathered.
• The Emperor’s Tomb opened, and Heavenly Prides including Chu Jin, the young man with an Ancient Sword, and the Little Marquis entered to compete for the Lord of Arms.
• As the tomb neared closing, Ren Ye chose to enter alone rather than abandon Old Liu, while the sect masters waited to identify and seize the Ancient Emperor Successor.
• Human World Sword restored his shattered Great Dao resonance, shattered the Heavenly Dao’s shackles, and lifted Ren Ye into the sky toward the tomb as the fifteen sect masters recognized him.

Ren Ye entered the Emperor’s Tomb with Little One and learned that Old Liu had become its Gate Eye, announcing the brutal rules of the Emperor Dao Contest. Ren Ye chose to protect the Fate bearer, only to discover that he and Little One would face double difficulty and shared mortality, leaving him overwhelmed as Little One asked for milk.

• Ren Ye used the Human Emperor Sword to carry Little One into the Emperor’s Tomb just before its entrance closed, while cultivators in Tide Dragon City speculated about the unseen power that had opened the path.
• The fifteen Nation Lords and Sect Masters discussed the mysterious cultivator who had gathered the breeze and agreed to wait for the Unranked Land before confronting him; Jiang Yu summoned Daoist Chu to join him in Tide Dragon City.
• Inside a vast valley, Ren Ye watched Old Liu’s headless body emerge from the Phoenix Fire Furnace and absorb the Great Emperor’s Dao resonance, becoming the Gate Eye who announced the Emperor Dao Contest’s rules.
• Ren Ye learned that time moved seven times faster inside the Tomb, contestants could steal Blood Marks, and they had to find the Human World Mountain and Arena while sheltering from nightly crimson tides.
• Ren Ye chose the Fate-Character Blood Mark Bearer, triggering an announcement that made him and his partner targets for extra rewards and bound their lives together under double-difficulty trials.
• After learning that Little One was the Fate bearer and that completing tasks would grant triple rewards, Ren Ye sank down in despair as Little One asked him for milk.

Ren Ye and Little One entered Xing Village to solve Little One’s Bronze Coffin Riddle, and Ren Ye secured a coffin by agreeing to recover the Xing Clan’s lost Fortune Source Destiny within a month. As night approached, Ren Ye still had no answer to his own riddle, but a Blood Mark Bearer recognized him outside the Ghost House.

• Ren Ye fed Little One, studied their Bronze Coffin Riddles, and led him toward an inhabited area where Remnant Souls might reveal the answers.
• Little One said he could now see Divine Baby as a blurry shadow, surprising Ren Ye, and Divine Baby confirmed that everyone in Xing Village was a Remnant Soul.
• Ren Ye solved Little One’s riddle by tracing “open the gate and see a blade” to the Xing surname, then found the Xing Clan chief and agreed to recover the clan’s Fortune Source Destiny within one month in exchange for borrowing its bronze coffin.
• Ren Ye examined the Xing Clan’s ancestral tablet and glimpsed its inscription honoring the Xing Clan’s War God, then learned the clan planned to migrate to Great Marsh Township at the Foot of Xingshan.
• With nightfall nearing, Ren Ye searched Xing Village for clues to his own riddle but found none, and he considered taking shelter inside the bronze-gated Ghost House.
• A stranger recognized Ren Ye as a Blood Mark Bearer and offered him three hundred thousand Star Source to stop pretending to be a Remnant Soul; Ren Ye dropped the act and asked what he wanted.