Chapter Summaries

Ye Chen used the Undying Body and controlled two flying swords to battle Ghostwood King while Qin Liu and the others helped keep him occupied. As the fight dragged on, nearly ten Half-Step Kings arrived, putting everyone near the battle at risk.

• Ye Chen recovered with the Undying Body and resumed fighting Ghostwood King, while Qin Liu and the dwarf elder continued their duel.
• Ghostwood King trapped Ye Chen inside a vast sphere of vines, where Ye Chen used two flying swords to fight him to a standstill.
• Murong Qingcheng, Yan Fengfeng, and Lin Gaoming attacked the vine sphere, and Qin Liu struck Ghostwood King with a Profound Void Seal, giving Ye Chen an opening to land a volley of sword strikes.
• Ghostwood King recovered and continued fighting as the seven combatants became locked in a prolonged battle.
• King Golden-Extinction, Punishment King, the lean elder, and other Half-Step Kings approached the battlefield after noticing the fight.
• Qin Liu pulled back upon sensing the newcomers, and the dwarf elder warned that they might target her group for possessing the Fire Pear Tree.

Ye Chen and Qin Liu faced seven Half-Step Kings after Ghostwood King’s battle revealed the group’s interest in a suspected high-grade spirit tree. When the pursuers tried to stop them, Qin Liu, Yan Fengfeng, and Murong Qingcheng escaped the attacks, while Ye Chen remained behind with his own plan.

• Ghostwood King stopped fighting Ye Chen as seven Half-Step Kings and their forces arrived, and Ye Chen identified Shadow Chasing King as a possible route through the encirclement.
• Iron Hand King inferred that Ye Chen’s group had obtained a high-grade spirit tree, and Punishment King demanded that they reveal their storage rings.
• Qin Liu led the group toward Shadow Chasing King, whom Ye Chen wounded with his sword phantoms while Qin Liu swept away the accompanying grandmasters.
• Iron Hand King attacked with Groundfall Seal, but Qin Liu blocked his strike and used Profound Escape to teleport herself and Lin Gaoming away.
• Punishment King used Execution Kill to send iron chains after the group; Yan Fengfeng burned through the chains with Nirvana Fire, and Murong Qingcheng escaped while Ye Chen told her to leave him behind.

Ye Chen and his companions escaped Punishment King’s attack and traveled deeper into the forbidden zone in search of the Four Supreme Emperors’ Tomb. They encountered the Thunder Spirit King, a peak Half-Step King who could withstand powerful lightning with his body alone.

• Ye Chen used the Shadow Transformation Technique to escape Punishment King’s Execution Kill, and Punishment King chose not to pursue the group.
• Shadow Chasing King attacked Iron Hand King after being mocked, but Iron Hand King returned the hidden weapons and killed Shadow Gate’s top grandmasters.
• Qin Liu, Ye Chen, Yan Fengfeng, Murong Qingcheng, and Lin Gaoming regrouped ten thousand miles away and continued searching for the tomb.
• The group reached a lightning-filled region and saw a man walking unharmed through the storm without Protective True Essence.
• Qin Liu identified the man as the Thunder Spirit King, one of the True Spirit Continent’s three peak Half-Step Kings, and warned the group to be cautious.
• Ye Chen resolved to seek a breakthrough to the Late Spirit Sea Realm to improve his chances against Half-Step Kings.

Ye Chen’s group found the graveyard entrance and descended into a dangerous Underground World, where they encountered signs of a threat in the primeval forest. The chapter ended as several figures fled from the trees after a scream.

• Xiahou Zun and Lin Ruhai fought a powerful marsh monster, and Xiahou Zun destroyed its energy core after Ironclad King explained its nature and weakness.
• After three days of searching, Ye Chen used Soul Force to locate an underground entrance to the southeast, where other cultivators had gathered and begun descending.
• Ye Chen’s group of five reached the entrance and went down the stairs, followed by Shadow Chasing King, who vowed to kill Ye Chen.
• The group emerged atop a cliff in the Underground World and sensed that the strange terrain concealed danger.
• A scream sounded from the nearby primeval forest, and several figures burst from the trees toward the black earth above.

Ye Chen’s group encountered a swarm of Darkshadow Bats, and Lin Gaoming died after the bats’ Frenzy Aura drove him mad. The survivors escaped through the forest into a marsh, while the awakened Darkshadow Bat King attacked another group and killed its last survivor.

• Murong Qingcheng warned the group about ancient killer flowers, and Qin Liu led them below the cliff into the forest.
• Darkshadow Bats attacked Ye Chen’s group, and their leader’s Frenzy Aura made Lin Gaoming lose control and attack Yan Fengfeng.
• Yan Fengfeng knocked Lin Gaoming into the swarm, where the bats devoured him, and Qin Liu led the remaining four into the forest to escape.
• Ye Chen and the others fought off killer flowers and vines before reaching a marsh, where Qin Liu urged them to stay cautious and Yan Fengfeng regretted her role in Lin Gaoming’s death.
• The Darkshadow Bat King emerged from a stone coffin after Shadow Chasing King escaped the swarm, then confronted three travelers and used Frenzy Aura to make them fight one another.
• The Darkshadow Bat King killed the surviving Half-Step King and drained his blood.

The Darkshadow Bat King devoured a Half-Step King and set out to hunt more prey, while Iron Hand King and Hawk clashed with a young man and his elderly companion at the tomb entrance. In the swamp, Ye Chen and his companions realized the Swamp King could not be killed or escaped because its Undying Body was fused with the swamp, leaving them trapped.

• The Darkshadow Bat King devoured a Half-Step King and resolved to consume three more people to regain overwhelming strength.
• Iron Hand King and Hawk confronted the young man called Tian'er and his gaunt companion, but the old man blocked Iron Hand King's attack and the visitors withdrew toward the tomb.
• Ye Chen, Yan Fengfeng, Murong Qingcheng, and Qin Liu fought three Swamp Monster Leaders and then struggled to escape the Swamp King.
• Yan Fengfeng's Nirvana Fire, Ye Chen's sword, and Murong Qingcheng's dark sphere failed to weaken the Swamp King, which repeatedly re-formed after being struck.
• Ye Chen and Qin Liu concluded that the Swamp King's Undying Body and inexhaustible power came from its bond with the swamp, trapping the group unless the entire swamp could be destroyed.

Qin Liu fought the Swamp King, whose second form overwhelmed her until she used the Fangtian Hammer, a Pseudo-Supreme Treasure, to weaken him and escape. Elsewhere, the Darkshadow Bat King turned a group of cultivators against one another and killed Hawk, leaving the remaining fighters facing a deadly battle.

• Qin Liu held off the Swamp King and sent Ye Chen, Yan Fengfeng, and Murong Qingcheng fleeing, but the Swamp King transformed and badly injured her.
• Qin Liu used the Fangtian Hammer to smash apart the Swamp King twice, weakening him, then escaped after explaining that her weapon was a Pseudo-Supreme Treasure.
• The gaunt old man, the young man, Hawk, Iron Hand King, and others agreed to join forces against the Darkshadow Bat King.
• The Darkshadow Bat King ordered his leaders to unleash Frenzy Aura, driving everyone except the gaunt old man, the young man, Hawk, and Iron Hand King mad and causing them to kill one another.
• Hawk attacked the Darkshadow Bat King alongside Iron Hand King and the others, but the bat swarm drained him until he died as a desiccated corpse.

Iron Hand King and a rune-wielding young man fled the Darkshadow Bat King, but Thunder Spirit King arrived and overwhelmed the bat, forcing it to retreat. After escaping the swamp, Ye Chen recognized how weak he was among the Half-Step Kings and resolved to seek a safe place to break through.

• The gaunt old man escaped with Wind Escape while Iron Hand King used the Azure Origin Armor and Layered Essence Technique to flee the Darkshadow Bat King.
• The young man trapped the Darkshadow Bat King inside a Thousand-Talisman Formation, then escaped as the formation held the bat back.
• Thunder Spirit King arrived, annihilated the Darkshadow Bats with a palm blade, and nearly split the Darkshadow Bat King in two.
• The Darkshadow Bat King fled when Thunder Spirit King began drawing his saber, and the bats opened a passage for him.
• Ye Chen reflected on the dangers and powerful Half-Step Kings in the Four Supreme Emperors' Tomb and decided to break through to the Late Spirit Sea Realm or its peak.
• Murong Qingcheng asked Ye Chen if he was all right, and he said they should wait for Senior Qin Liu.

Qin Liu, Ye Chen, and Murong Qingcheng crossed a stone forest filled with nearly invisible Predator webs, while Ironclad King lost Lin Ruhai rescuing Xiahou Zun. The groups reached a gathering of more than thirty people at what appeared to be an entrance, where several powerful factions had already arrived.

• Qin Liu rejoined Ye Chen and Yan Fengfeng after escaping the Swamp King, whose strength and lingering fear remained after their fight.
• Qin Liu became trapped in Invisible Spider Silk, but Ye Chen cut her free, and Qin Liu killed the Predator that had ambushed them.
• Ironclad King chose to rescue Xiahou Zun instead of Lin Ruhai when two Predator Kings attacked, and Lin Ruhai was killed.
• Ironclad King killed both Predator Kings, while Xiahou Zun vowed to become strong enough to protect himself.
• Qin Liu's group survived several more Predator ambushes and reached the stone forest's deepest area, where they found more than thirty people from powerful factions already gathered.

Ye Chen and the other masters attacked the Hunter Queen’s cave, but her spider silk killed or captured most of the group. Ye Chen suspected King Guanglin had used the newcomers as shields, and the survivors faced a new shift in power when Thunder Spirit King arrived.

• Xiahou Zun reflected on how Ye Chen’s rise had ended the Five Great Prodigies’ dominance, while Ye Chen examined the cave leading to the tomb.
• King Guanglin explained that the cave was the Hunter Queen’s nest and persuaded thirty-six masters to bombard it together.
• Ye Chen sensed danger and led his companions higher; after the second attack, the Hunter Queen’s spider silk struck and dragged many people into the cave.
• Ye Chen and Qin Liu rescued Sun Tianlang, and Ye Chen warned him that King Guanglin might have used the group as shields.
• Iron Hand King arrived, followed by Thunder Spirit King, whose strength immediately changed the balance among the survivors.

Thunder Spirit King led a group of more than twenty-five into the Predator nest, where Hunter Queens attacked them in the pitch-black tunnels. Ye Chen and his companions reached the cave’s glowing exit, but several dozen webs and Predator Kings blocked their escape.

• Thunder Spirit King agreed to lead the group into the cave once more than twenty-five people had gathered, and King Guanglin urged everyone to charge in together.
• Ye Chen recognized the Soul Stone ore in the walls, used his Soul Eye to spot incoming webs, and helped guide Qin Liu, Murong Qingcheng, Yan Fengfeng, and Sun Tianlang through the darkness.
• A Hunter Queen attacked Thunder Spirit King’s group, and webs dragged away two top-tier masters, including Ice Spear King’s junior brother.
• Two Hunter Queens hunted the group from opposite walls, capturing eleven people as Thunder Spirit King fought off one of them.
• Qin Liu opened a passage with her Fangtian Hammer when dozens of webs and Predator Kings blocked the exit, and Ye Chen and his companions followed her inside.

Ye Chen and the other survivors reached Azure Wolf King's cemetery, where Jiang Tian used the Azure Wolf Constellation Key to open the entrance. A spatial array separated everyone inside, and Ye Chen emerged alone in a maze-like passage as the Dream-Eating Wolf stirred in his Beast Taming Token.

• The survivors escaped the web-filled cave and arrived at a silent world of cemeteries, where Thunder Spirit King failed to force open Azure Wolf King's gate.
• Punishment King and Tantai Mingyue arrived through a teleportation gate, and the group discovered that the cemetery entrance required a key.
• Jiang Tian revealed the Azure Wolf Constellation Key and opened the gate, while Ironclad King and Qin Liu described his rare Dao Body and great potential.
• The group entered the cemetery and was scattered by a spatial array that distorted sight, Soul Force, distance, and direction.
• Ye Chen emerged alone in a dim passage and wandered through the maze as the Dream-Eating Wolf grew restless inside his Beast Taming Token.

Ye Chen discovered a still-operating pill furnace and an enormous Supreme-Grade Demon Energy Crystal, then encountered Jiang Tian, who demanded the treasures and attacked him. Their battle escalated in the stone chamber as Tantai Mingyue arrived to watch, and Jiang Tian trapped Ye Chen inside a vast rune sphere.

• Ye Chen found a pill furnace producing demon beast cultivation fluid and removed its unusually heavy green crystal and the furnace.
• Jiang Tian entered the chamber, claimed the Supreme-Grade Demon Energy Crystal, and threatened Ye Chen unless he surrendered it.
• Tantai Mingyue arrived as Ye Chen and Jiang Tian prepared to fight over the treasures.
• Jiang Tian attacked with Five Sigil Palm, and Ye Chen countered with his Thunder Calamity Sword and Thunder Devour.
• Ye Chen's lightning sphere collided with Jiang Tian's barrage of rune palm forces, and Jiang Tian then enclosed Ye Chen in an enormous rune sphere.

Ye Chen broke Jiang Tian’s rune micro-world, resisted his soul attack, and wounded him with the Blood Severing Ghost Finger. Jiang Tian fled with Ye Chen in pursuit, then lured him toward the Storm King.

• Ye Chen unleashed his Destruction Sword Intent to shatter Jiang Tian’s control over the rune sphere and blasted Jiang Tian into the stone chamber wall.
• Jiang Tian destroyed Ye Chen’s Golden Sword and attacked his Soul Sea with the Rune Soul-Slaying Curse, but Ye Chen’s Destruction Sword Soul destroyed the curse seals.
• Ye Chen struck Jiang Tian with the Blood Severing Ghost Finger several times, draining his Blood and Qi, and chased him out of the stone chamber.
• Jiang Tian used rune wings to speed away, but Ye Chen pursued on a flying sword and began closing the distance.
• Jiang Tian revealed that he was leading Ye Chen toward the Storm King, whose presence the sensing jade tablet had detected.

Ye Chen was trapped by Jiang Tian and Storm King, then endured attacks from Storm King and Iron Hand King while escaping through the tomb’s passages. He lost his pursuers but remained gravely injured and planned to find a place to raise his cultivation to the Late Spirit Sea Realm.

• Ye Chen chased Jiang Tian through the tomb until Storm King arrived and blocked his escape with walls of wind.
• Storm King and Jiang Tian tried to trick Ye Chen into revealing the Blood Severing Ghost Finger, but Ye Chen struck them with it and escaped through the wind barriers.
• Storm King wounded Ye Chen with successive palm strikes, and Iron Hand King joined in by punching him as he fled.
• Despite his shattered organs, severed meridians, and broken bones, Ye Chen relied on his Undying Body and iron will to race through the passages.
• Storm King and Iron Hand King lost Ye Chen after he wound through more than a dozen passages, then discussed capturing his companions.

After escaping into a stone chamber, Ye Chen recovered from his near-fatal injuries and prepared to break through to the Late Spirit Sea Realm. Meanwhile, others entered the Firebird King Tomb, where several enemies hoped to find him, and Ye Chen began his breakthrough using a Top-Grade Spirit Stone.

• Ye Chen found a stone chamber, shut himself inside, and passed out as his Undying Body began healing him.
• After recovering for five days, Ye Chen healed his injuries, grew stronger, and decided to attempt a breakthrough to the Late Spirit Sea Realm.
• Ghostwood King and Earth Rat King entered the Firebird King Tomb with other cultivators and vowed to kill Ye Chen if they found him.
• Storm King, Jiang Tian, and Iron Hand King entered the tomb, followed later by Qin Liu and Yan Fengfeng, who wondered how Ye Chen was doing.
• Ye Chen absorbed energy from a Top-Grade Spirit Stone and charged his True Essence at the barrier to the Late Spirit Sea Realm.

Ye Chen broke through to the Late Spirit Sea Realm after an exhausting night of cultivation and used Unity of Heaven and Man to greatly advance his Profundities. He transformed Golden Tempest into a high-tier Mystic Martial Art and began considering a new name for it.

• Ye Chen endured eighteen consecutive assaults on the invisible barrier and successfully broke through to the Late Spirit Sea Realm.
• Ye Chen entered Unity of Heaven and Man to stabilize his cultivation and raised Thunder Profundity to seventy percent and Gold Essence to eighty percent.
• Ye Chen advanced Wood Profundity to sixty percent and the Essence of Speed to fifty percent, strengthening Spirit Heart Sword, and raised Slowness Profundity to Lesser Mastery.
• Ye Chen raised Water Profundity to sixty percent, transforming Golden Tempest into a high-tier Mystic Martial Art.
• Ye Chen tested Golden Tempest by cleaving open the stone chamber wall and decided that the move needed a new name.

Ye Chen stabilized his cultivation, improved his understanding of several profundities, and entered the Firebird King Tomb, where he confronted Ghostwood King and the Earth Rat King. He killed the Earth Rat King with two strikes, leaving Ghostwood King shocked and facing him alone.

• Ye Chen named his enhanced sword technique Crescent Moon, improved his Space Profundity to about twenty-eight percent, and raised his Water Profundity to sixty percent before the Unity of Heaven and Man state ended.
• Ye Chen waited two days to stabilize his True Essence, then traveled to the Firebird King Tomb after finding the Azure Wolf King Tomb deserted.
• Ye Chen entered the Firebird King Tomb and encountered its scorching aura, which condensed into a firebird and attacked him.
• Ghostwood King and the Earth Rat King searched the tomb for treasures and discussed hunting Ye Chen and his companions for their premium spirit tree.
• Ye Chen confronted the two kings and attacked the Earth Rat King first, severing his arm and killing him with a second sword strike.
• Ghostwood King watched Ye Chen kill the Earth Rat King and realized Ye Chen had grown far stronger.

Ye Chen killed Ghostwood King and Shadow Chasing King, then reached the tomb’s central area as Storm King, Iron Hand King, and Jiang Tian cornered Murong Qingcheng and Sun Tianlang. He freed Murong Qingcheng from Jiang Tian’s puppet curse and prepared to face the three enemies.

• Ye Chen cut through Ghostwood King’s vine nets, killed him, and took his Storage Spirit Ring.
• Ye Chen detected and killed Shadow Chasing King, then continued toward the tomb’s central area.
• Storm King and Iron Hand King confronted Murong Qingcheng and Sun Tianlang, while Jiang Tian used the Rune Puppet Curse against Murong Qingcheng.
• Storm King wounded Sun Tianlang and prepared a Storm Spear as Murong Qingcheng struggled to resist Jiang Tian’s curse.
• Ye Chen arrived, used Undying Sword Intent to remove the puppet rune from Murong Qingcheng’s Soul Sea, and faced Storm King, Iron Hand King, and Jiang Tian.

Ye Chen fought the Iron Hand King and Storm King after choosing to stand with Sun Tianlang, and his overwhelming strength killed the Storm King. Jiang Tian fled after threatening Ye Chen with the Void Emperor’s retaliation, but Sun Tianlang and Murong Qingcheng blocked his escape.

• Ye Chen affirmed his trust in Sun Tianlang as the Storm King and Iron Hand King prepared to attack them.
• Ye Chen’s Spirit Heart Sword struck the Iron Hand King, but the Iron Hand King’s Pseudo-Top Grade Defensive Treasure protected him.
• Ye Chen used Thunder Devour and repeated Gold Essence attacks to wear down the Iron Hand King while the Storm King joined the battle.
• Ye Chen unleashed a massive lightning attack that shattered the Storm King’s wind walls and injured him, then killed him with Crescent Moon.
• Jiang Tian threatened Ye Chen on behalf of the Void Emperor and tried to flee, but Sun Tianlang and Murong Qingcheng blocked his path.