Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen traveled from Three Rivers City to Azure Profound Kingdom, aiming for the Ten Thousand Mountains. The chapter ended with him reaching the edge of a vast desert after evading powerful demonic beasts.

• After sparring, Qi Shaofeng invited the group to dine, while Ye Chen reflected on the strength of Murong Qingcheng, Qi Shaofeng, and Wei Renjie and resolved to cultivate the Grand Dark Art.
• Qi Shaofeng showed Murong Qingcheng a cracked Sky Demon Python scale and explained that the beast might have been badly injured or killed near the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Murong Qingcheng agreed to leave with Qi Shaofeng in three days to search for the Sky Demon Flower.
• Ye Chen rejected a passenger ship and traveled overland toward Azure Profound Kingdom, crossing mountain ranges and reaching it after half a month.
• After evading several powerful demonic beasts, Ye Chen reached the edge of a golden desert, rested, and set out again at dawn.

Ye Chen searched the Ten Thousand Mountains for the ram’s-head-shaped mountain marked on his map while avoiding powerful demon beasts. He found a guarded forest covered by Bone-Corroding Miasma, and the map fragment suggested it could be the place he was seeking.

• Ye Chen crossed the desert and entered the Ten Thousand Mountains after cultivating the Grand Dark Art to the Ninth Layer.
• Qin Hao and Tian Chong headed into the Ten Thousand Mountains to find a red-dot location, while Qi Shaofeng and Murong Qingcheng followed in search of the Sky Demon Flower.
• Ye Chen searched for five days and hid from a powerful peak Level Six Yin Wind Wolf during its patrol.
• After searching for another two days, Ye Chen spotted a purple miasma above a forest guarded by hundreds of Long Blade Sect martial artists.
• Ye Chen learned from the guards that the miasma was Bone-Corroding Miasma and saw a matching purple mark on his map fragment.

Ye Chen explored the deadly forest and discovered that man-eating vines were responsible for the bones scattered throughout it. Meanwhile, Murong Qingcheng, Qi Shaofeng, Qin Hao, and the Long Blade Sect fled into the forest from a Yin Wind Wolf, where the vines began attacking the sect members.

• Ye Chen found that rocky mountains and Bone-Corroding Miasma blocked the forest’s other approaches, so he returned to its entrance.
• Tian Chong and Qin Hao led the pursuing Yin Wind Wolf toward Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng, and Tian Chong was killed during the chase.
• Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng entered the forest, while Qin Hao used an Essence Light Orb to survive the Yin Wind Wolf’s attack and was driven inside as well.
• Elder Teng ordered the Long Blade Sect members to retreat into the forest as the Yin Wind Wolf approached.
• Ye Chen sensed a bluish-red vine drain Long Blade Sect members of their flesh and blood, and realized the vines had killed the creatures whose bones littered the forest.
• The Long Blade Sect Master ordered his people to form a defensive battle formation as the man-eating vines threatened them.

Blue-red vines overwhelmed the Long Blade Sect and pursued Ye Chen through the forest, while Qin Hao and the Yin Wind Wolf were killed by Bone-Corroding Miasma. Ye Chen reached Ram's Head Peak, entered its cave, and climbed a concealed staircase as the vines eventually withdrew.

• Li Yuan ordered the Long Blade Sect to form smaller groups, but panic spread as vines killed martial artists and surrounded the survivors.
• Ye Chen cut through the pursuing vines with his Dragon Spring Sword and Whirlwind and Scattered Clouds, then drove deeper into the forest when tougher dark red vines appeared.
• Qin Hao fought through the vines toward the forest's edge but encountered the Yin Wind Wolf, and both were corroded into ash by Bone-Corroding Miasma.
• Ye Chen recognized Ram's Head Peak and escaped the vines by entering its dark cave.
• Ye Chen found a concealed staircase and climbed it, while the vines hesitated before withdrawing.

Ye Chen collected the treasures on the second level of Ram's Head Peak and entered a hidden stone chamber, where he learned the third move of the Void Piercing Finger and claimed the White Key. After returning to the inner space, he sensed Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng on the level below.

• Ye Chen stored away chests of gold, jewels, Spirit Stones, replenishing pills, and secret manuals from the second level.
• Ye Chen entered the light gate on the empty third level and arrived in a sealed stone chamber, where an invisible force kept him from taking the White Key.
• Ye Chen used the Jade Slip to learn the third move of the Void Piercing Finger and discovered he had three days to break the force around the key.
• Ye Chen comprehended the technique and used it to undo the invisible force, then took the White Key and escaped through a newly appeared light gate.
• Ye Chen returned to the second level as its light gate vanished, then sensed Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng below him.

Ye Chen rescued Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng from the vine-infested forest, then agreed to use his Essence Light Orb to help them escape in exchange for Spirit Stones and Murong's Mid-Grade Storage Ring. As the Man-Eating Vine Matriarch emerged and attacked, the Orb's blue shield blocked its purple-red vines, though they pierced a third of the barrier.

• After three days of fighting the vines, Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng were nearly exhausted and trapped near the stairs to the second level.
• Ye Chen arrived and carried Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng through the forest in his tornado-like sword technique, fighting off pursuing vines as they fled.
• Ye Chen sensed a powerful creature chasing them underground and agreed to spend his Essence Light Orb to save them in exchange for Spirit Stones and Murong Qingcheng's Mid-Grade Storage Ring.
• Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng handed Ye Chen the agreed compensation as the Man-Eating Vine Matriarch burst from underground, towering over a hundred meters tall.
• The Matriarch's purple-red vines pierced the tornado, but the Essence Light Orb raised a blue shield that stopped them after they penetrated one-third of its thickness.

Ye Chen escaped the Man-Eating Vine Matriarch with Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng, then rested in Luohui City. After waking, he discovered that the White Key revealed the words “Emperor's Tomb, Aries” and considered studying a powerful secret manual.

• Ye Chen used Crimson Flare Fusion Bombs, the barrier, and True Qi afterimages to evade the Man-Eating Vine Matriarch and escape the dense forest with Murong Qingcheng and Qi Shaofeng.
• Ye Chen, Murong Qingcheng, and Qi Shaofeng left the Ten Thousand Mountains, passed the few surviving members of the Long Blade Sect, and reached Luohui City.
• Qi Shaofeng and Murong Qingcheng thanked Ye Chen over a meal, and the exhausted companions retired to their rooms.
• Ye Chen awoke during the night and used True Qi on the White Key, revealing the words “Emperor's Tomb, Aries.”
• Ye Chen reasoned that the White Key was one of several keys to an Emperor's Tomb, then decided to examine an Earth-grade High-tier secret manual.

Ye Chen obtained the Floating Luo Three Profound Secrets and traveled with Murong Qingcheng toward the Black Dragon Empire, hoping to buy a treasure sword in Martial City. They reached the empire’s border at Fallen Mountain, whose oppressive aura was said to come from a dead Life and Death Realm King.

• Ye Chen found the Floating Luo Three Profound Secrets, which could raise the grade of his Shadow Splitter Lightness Skill, and began cultivating it alongside his True Qi.
• Qi Shaofeng and Murong Qingcheng told Ye Chen about Martial City, where he could buy a low-grade treasure sword, and Murong Qingcheng agreed to travel with him to the Black Dragon Empire.
• During the journey, Ye Chen cultivated the secret art while Murong Qingcheng tempered her True Qi and recovered her strength.
• Murong Qingcheng told Ye Chen that she had once consumed fifty pills in a day and killed more than twenty Primal Origin Realm martial artists during a conflict between Sixth-Rank Sects.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng reached the Black Dragon Empire’s border and saw Fallen Mountain, where a dead Life and Death Realm King’s will made the area dangerously oppressive.

Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng crossed the Profound Gravity Mountain Range and entered Martial City, where Ye Chen learned about its unusual gravity, strict rules, and bustling markets. Murong Qingcheng then suggested they visit the inner city’s Grand Exchange Hall, and Ye Chen qualified to enter because he carried more than five hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

• Ye Chen resisted Fallen Mountain’s oppressive influence with his Sword Intent and noticed Murong Qingcheng seemed protected by a concealed power of her own.
• Murong Qingcheng explained the Profound Gravity Mountain Range’s escalating gravity as she and Ye Chen traveled through it toward Martial City.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng crossed the abyss on a chain and paid two Low-Grade Spirit Stones to enter Martial City.
• Murong Qingcheng told Ye Chen about Martial City’s fees, ban on fighting, Spirit Sea Realm City Lord, and rules for setting up stalls.
• Ye Chen browsed secret manuals at a stall, then left with Murong Qingcheng to seek the Grand Exchange Hall in the inner city.
• Murong Qingcheng explained that entry to the Grand Exchange Hall required Late Primal Origin Realm cultivation or over two hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, and Ye Chen qualified with more than five hundred thousand.

Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng entered Martial City's Grand Exchange Hall, where Ye Chen learned about powerful martial artists and the value of rare treasures. The chapter ended with Ye Chen sensing a Low-Grade Treasure sword and hurrying over to inspect it.

• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng paid to enter the inner city, where they met the Mountain Shaking Elder, Senior Diao.
• Ye Chen displayed two hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones to enter the Grand Exchange Hall, while Murong Qingcheng used her Soaring Demon Sect Core Disciple token.
• Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng inspected the hall's wares, and Murong explained how formidable peak Late Primal Origin Realm martial artists could be.
• Murong warned Ye Chen that Mid-Grade Treasures were scarce and that Star Extremity Realm experts might kill him to seize one.
• A Star Extremity Realm martial artist began buying the Blood Sun Axe, and Ye Chen sensed a Low-Grade Treasure sword and headed toward it with Murong.

Ye Chen bought the Star Scar Sword despite Yuan Zongbo’s threats and continued browsing the Grand Exchange Hall with Murong Qingcheng. When the Second Prince tried to buy Murong Qingcheng a pair of Gold Silk Gloves, she refused his gift and left with Ye Chen, prompting the prince to order them watched.

• Ye Chen paid thirty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones for the Star Scar Sword, and Fang confirmed the sale when Yuan Zongbo tried to claim it.
• Ye Chen refused to sell the sword to Yuan Zongbo, who threatened to take revenge after they left Martial City.
• Murong Qingcheng warned Ye Chen that Yuan Zongbo was dangerous, but Ye Chen said he intended to use the threat as a chance to grow stronger.
• Ye Chen offered to buy Murong Qingcheng the Gold Silk Gloves, but the Second Prince arrived and tried to give them to her instead.
• Murong Qingcheng rejected the Second Prince’s gift and left with Ye Chen, so the prince ordered Elder Liu to have them watched and investigate their relationship.

Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng rented adjacent middle-tier cultivation rooms in Martial City, where Nether Earth Truefire vapors could speed up cultivation. Ye Chen began training to reach the Early Primal Origin Realm Peak while Yuan Zongbo and the Second Prince each learned of his situation and made different decisions about him.

• Murong Qingcheng explained the power of the three royal families and the Nine Nether Sect as she and Ye Chen approached Martial City's cultivation rooms.
• Ye Chen paid for three days in two middle-tier rooms, and he and Murong Qingcheng took Numbers Sixty-Four and Sixty-Five.
• Ye Chen tested the Star Scar Sword in his courtyard, then entered his room and began cultivating with pills and Spirit Stones.
• Yuan Zongbo ordered a spy to watch Ye Chen and planned to kill him when he left Martial City to take the Star Scar Sword.
• The Second Prince learned that Ye Chen and Murong Qingcheng were ordinary friends and ordered his men to stop watching Ye Chen.

Ye Chen trained in Martial City, advancing his Shadow Splitter Lightness Skill and reaching the Early Primal Origin Realm Peak while Yuan Zongbo watched for a chance to attack him. After an attendant warned him about the surveillance, Ye Chen prepared to return to the cultivation room.

• Ye Chen learned that Murong Qingcheng had returned to the Soaring Demon Sect, then heard that Mountain Shaking Elder Diao Kui had killed Evil Blade in three moves.
• Ye Chen encountered Yuan Zongbo on the street and refused to leave Martial City, then began cultivating the Floating Luo Three Profound Secrets and Void Piercing Finger.
• Ye Chen advanced the Floating Luo Three Profound Secrets to its first level, strengthening the Shadow Splitter Lightness Skill, but put aside the difficult third move of the Void Piercing Finger.
• Yuan Zongbo paid attendants to watch Ye Chen, who spent half a month cultivating and reached the Early Primal Origin Realm Peak.
• An attendant warned Ye Chen that Yuan Zongbo had people watching the courtyard, and Ye Chen prepared to return to the cultivation room the next morning.

Ye Chen led Yuan Zongbo into the Profound Gravity Mountain Range and used a concealed ambush to wound him, turning their pursuit into a fierce battle. Yuan Zongbo’s powerful attacks failed to finish Ye Chen, who survived a broad eruption of blood-colored Sword Qi with his Soul Force and formidable Protective True Qi.

• Ye Chen left Martial City, anticipating Yuan Zongbo would pursue him, and drew Yuan onto the chain crossing the abyss.
• Yuan Zongbo chased Ye Chen through the Profound Gravity Mountain Range and attacked him with Sword Qi and Eagle Strike Fist, but Ye Chen evaded the blows.
• Ye Chen used a True Qi afterimage to lure Yuan Zongbo’s attention while hiding underground, then struck him from below and inflicted serious internal injuries.
• Ye Chen pressed his advantage with a Wind Tornado and Heart-Piercing Sword, while Yuan Zongbo countered with Three Blood Eagle Swords and recognized Ye Chen as a dangerous opponent.
• Yuan Zongbo unleashed Sword Piercing the Heavens, but Ye Chen dodged its blood-colored pillars using his Soul Force and blocked a massive eruption with Mountain-Forming Sword Qi and his Protective True Qi.

Ye Chen battled Yuan Zongbo, using Hegemon Fist and his True Qi afterimages to overcome the older fighter’s attacks. After discovering that the Void Piercing Finger could pierce True Qi, Ye Chen turned to pursue a brown-robed man who had intervened to protect Yuan Zongbo.

• Yuan Zongbo took a Purple Gold Qi-Recovery Pill and charged Ye Chen, but Ye Chen met his sword and fist attacks with Eternal Overlord Aura.
• Ye Chen used True Qi afterimages and rapid attacks to evade Yuan Zongbo’s strikes and threaten his Dantian Qi Sea.
• Yuan Zongbo unleashed the Lesser Bloodfiend Disintegration Art, but Ye Chen wore down its blood-colored Sword Qi and pierced Yuan Zongbo’s protective Qi shield with the Void Piercing Finger.
• A brown-robed man blocked Ye Chen from pursuing Yuan Zongbo with a True Qi palm, and Ye Chen pierced the palm with repeated Void Piercing Fingers.
• Ye Chen abandoned Yuan Zongbo and pursued the brown-robed man, who claimed he had only come to mediate.

Ye Chen fought Yuan Zongbo and Mister Jin after Mister Jin abandoned his false offer to mediate and joined forces with Yuan. Ye Chen used his skills and replenishing pills to hold them off, then unleashed the Heart-Piercing Sword at Mister Jin, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Ye Chen countered Mister Jin’s Shattering Gold Finger with the Void Piercing Finger and sword, while Mister Jin’s Flower Blooming on Finger failed to break through Ye Chen’s attack.
• Yuan Zongbo asked Mister Jin to help kill Ye Chen, and Mister Jin agreed while demanding Ye Chen’s Storage Spirit Ring and finger-art manual.
• Ye Chen rejected Mister Jin’s demands and fought both men, using his Shadow Splitter Lightness Skill and replenishing pills to evade their coordinated attacks.
• Mister Jin activated a secret art that increased his combat strength, and Ye Chen decided to end the fight with his strongest sword move.
• Ye Chen concealed himself among True Qi afterimages and struck Mister Jin at close range with the Heart-Piercing Sword as Mister Jin reinforced his Protective True Qi.

Ye Chen escaped after fighting Yuan Zongbo and Mister Jin to a draw, then hid in a mountain cave to recover and cultivate the Grand Dark Art. As he neared a breakthrough to its Tenth Layer, a woodcutter discovered the cave and saw blue light and tremors coming from within.

• Ye Chen used afterimages and a burst of shattered rocks to escape Yuan Zongbo and Mister Jin after all three were injured.
• Ye Chen hid in a concealed cave and began recovering while aiming to cultivate the Grand Dark Art to its Tenth Layer.
• After nearly half a month, Ye Chen’s injuries had healed and his cultivation had advanced close to the middle Primal Origin Realm.
• Ye Chen sealed the cave entrance and repeatedly circulated Grand Xuan True Qi while consuming Essence-Qi-Spirit Pills.
• In winter, a woodcutter carrying a Red-Eyed War Boar sensed Heaven and Earth Origin Energy drawing into the hidden cave and began moving the rocks.
• Blue light seeped through the rocks as the ground frost cracked and the pile began to shake, frightening the woodcutter.

Ye Chen emerged from seclusion after reaching the tenth layer of the Grand Dark Art and learned that a beast tide was sweeping toward the region. He helped a woodcutter warn Huaiyang Village, cleared flying demon beasts from the sky, and the villagers set off for Iron City as the threat grew.

• Ye Chen left his cave after a blast destroyed its rubble entrance, reassured the woodcutter, and agreed to travel down the mountain with him.
• Ye Chen sensed a vast gathering of demonic energy, and the woodcutter recognized it as the long-feared beast tide.
• Ye Chen carried the woodcutter toward Huaiyang Village and killed waves of flying demon beasts, including a Level Six Eagle-Tiger Beast.
• The woodcutter warned the villagers, and Ye Chen convinced them to flee by splitting an earthen slope with his sword.
• Ye Chen used replenishing pills and repeated sword attacks to clear nearby flying beasts while the villagers headed east toward Iron City.

Ye Chen led villagers from several settlements toward Huangshan Town, protecting them through repeated demon beast attacks. He joined the town’s Primal Origin Realm martial artists to defend against the night’s beast tide, then left his gate to aid another fighter as the battle continued.

• Ye Chen redirected the fleeing villagers toward Huangshan Town and gathered survivors from Liyang Village and Dashan Village along the way.
• Ye Chen helped the villagers survive a massive demon beast attack, killing thousands of beasts before leading the wounded and survivors onward.
• Ye Chen and the burly Late True Condensation Realm martial artist reached Huangshan Town, where Ye Chen met Tian Hao and learned seven Primal Origin Realm martial artists would defend the town.
• When the beast tide reached Huangshan Town, Ye Chen killed the Level 6 Demon Beast and joined Tian Hao in holding their section of the defenses.
• After clearing their side, Ye Chen rushed to the south gate and killed a Level 6 Demon Beast that was fighting another Primal Origin Realm martial artist.

Ye Chen helped defend Huangshan Town through two waves of Demon Beast attacks, then led the survivors toward Iron City. Just as they reached safety, a Level 7 Horned Dragon Python appeared and began destroying the city, leaving Ye Chen and the defenders facing an overwhelming threat.

• Ye Chen killed Level 6 Demon Beasts at Huangshan Town's gates and helped the beautiful woman defeat a mutated Two-Headed Wolf King, while she repeatedly invited him to join Moon Plucking Pavilion.
• After the second wave devastated Huangshan Town, Ye Chen urged the survivors to leave for Iron City, and the City Lord prepared to shelter the growing influx of people.
• Ye Chen and the survivors reached Iron City after a brutal journey, with fewer than a thousand people remaining from their group.
• A thousand-meter-long Level 7 Horned Dragon Python flattened Huangshan Town, killed a Late Primal Origin Realm martial artist, and destroyed part of Iron City's wall with its black pillar of light.
• Ye Chen and the other defenders recognized the Horned Dragon Python and feared that they could not withstand its strength.