Chapter Summaries

Yun Che tried to buy Boundless Divine Water from the Divine Talisman Sect, but Elder Shi Fu reneged on their bargain after Yun Che produced the requested Netherworld Prison Ghost Crystal. Yun Che secretly took a bottle of the water and left with Zu Tangtang for the Grand Void Zhang Family.

• Yun Che reviewed the Creation Codex, Star Compass, and Nine-Revolution Nirvana Pill, then sent Yuezheng Xiangling and the others back to the Star-Catching Ancient Sect to cultivate.
• Zu Tangtang chose to travel with Yun Che instead of cultivating, and they headed to the Divine Talisman Sect to seek Boundless Divine Water.
• Shi Fu demanded a fist-sized Netherworld Prison Ghost Crystal in exchange for three drops of Boundless Divine Water, claiming the sect needed it for a talisman.
• Yun Che produced the crystal, but Shi Fu falsely claimed the talisman was complete and refused to give him the water.
• Yun Che used Divine Hand to obtain a bottle containing ten drops of Boundless Divine Water and left with Zu Tangtang for the Grand Void Zhang Family.

Yun Che visited the Grand Void Zhang Family to investigate Yu Rou’s murder and learned that a Divine Domain faction’s young master was suspected. Zhang Xianzong directed him to Yu Rou’s elder sister, Yu Huan, who might know about her belongings, and Yun Che prepared to use his grabbing ability on her.

• Yun Che proved to Zhang Xianzong that he had inherited Zhang Taixu’s Void God Skystep and insisted on investigating Yu Rou’s death.
• Zhang Xianzong revealed that Yu Rou had been murdered during an expedition to the Fallen God Abyss, possibly by a young master from a top faction in the Divine Domain.
• Yun Che examined Yu Rou’s diary, which hinted that a treasure, betrayal, and a Divine Domain young master were connected to her death.
• Zhang Xianzong suggested Yun Che ask Yu Rou’s elder sister, Yu Huan, about belongings Yu Rou had entrusted to her.
• Zhang Xianzong brought Yun Che and Zu Tangtang to Yu Huan’s pavilion, where Yun Che spotted the spatial-path Great Emperor and prepared to grab her.

Yun Che uncovered Yu Rou's murderer by tracing the memories in her Memory Divine Stone and identified the Heavenly Tomb Hall through a jade pendant. Yu Huan set out to attack the Heavenly Tomb Hall branch in Mist Swamp, and Yun Che and Zu Tangtang followed her.

• Yun Che received Yu Rou's belongings from Yu Huan and quickly removed the restriction on the Flowing Cloud Ring.
• Yun Che used his Time-Trace Talent on Yu Rou's Memory Divine Stone and saw her killer wearing a jade pendant marked "Heavenly Tomb."
• Yu Huan identified the killer's faction as Heavenly Tomb Hall and described its ruthless methods.
• Zhang Xianzong said Heavenly Tomb Hall had a branch in Mist Swamp, where its young master might be.
• Yu Huan headed for Mist Swamp to avenge Yu Rou, and Yun Che took Zu Tangtang and followed.

Yun Che and Zhang Xianzong fought through the Mist Swamp toward the Heavenly Tomb Hall, where Yu Huan was mortally wounded by Liu Shenghui. Yun Che offered Life Source Liquid to save her, despite its dangerous permanent drawback.

• Zhang Xianzong followed Yun Che into the Mist Swamp, where he destroyed three Rotting Corpse Guards and Yun Che began killing the guards for spirit points and experience.
• Yu Huan fought Liu Shenghui at the Heavenly Tomb Hall while two Great Emperors interfered, and Liu Shenghui taunted her about her sister Yu Rou and Brother Taixu.
• Liu Shenghui stabbed Yu Huan through the heart, mocking her as she fell and declared her hatred for him.
• Zhang Xianzong caught Yu Huan as Yun Che realized she could be saved with Life Source Liquid, which restored health but could permanently reduce one attribute to 1 point.
• Yun Che urged Zhang Xianzong to give Yu Huan the Life Source Liquid.

Yun Che saved Yu Huan with Life Source Liquid, then killed Liu Shenghui’s two Emperor Realm companions when they attacked him. He stole Liu Shenghui’s Shadow Domain and used it to hunt him down, ending the chapter with a sword through Liu Shenghui’s heart.

• Zhang Xianzong fed Yu Huan a drop of Yun Che’s Life Source Liquid, restoring her life despite leaving her with greatly reduced agility.
• Liu Shenghui coveted the Life Source Liquid and ordered his two Emperor Realm companions to attack Yun Che.
• Yun Che evaded their attacks and beheaded both Great Emperors with the Snow Sword.
• Yun Che used Selective Grasping to take Liu Shenghui’s Shadow Domain, then used his superior version to expose and torment Liu Shenghui.
• Yun Che pierced Liu Shenghui’s heart and asked how it felt to suffer his favorite attack.

Yun Che killed Liu Shenghui, completed Yu Rou's revenge, and wiped out a branch of Heavenly Tomb Hall with his allies. He departed with Zu Tangtang, while Zhu Qi continued expanding his power on the Divine Martial Continent and neared the Great Emperor Realm.

• Yun Che killed Liu Shenghui, broke through to the mid Emperor Realm, and received an Emperor-Level mission to kill Liu Shenghui's awakened original soul.
• Yu Huan thanked Yun Che for saving her, and Yun Che, Zu Tangtang, Zhang Xianzong, and Yu Huan destroyed the Heavenly Tomb Hall branch.
• Yun Che accepted the Grand Void Zhang Family's jade talisman and departed with Zu Tangtang aboard the Silver Shuttle.
• Zu Tangtang kissed Yun Che after he gave her a Sacred Heart Fruit, and Yun Che entered his Domain to create Mutated Demons from the Great Emperor bodies.
• Zhu Qi and Li Xuanfeng continued destroying empires and sects, while Zhu Qi advanced to the half-step Emperor Realm and boasted that he would soon become a Great Emperor.

As the Domain Lord Tournament began, Yun Che led the Star-Catching Ancient Sect's team to the ancient battlefield while Yang Tao chose to stay behind and trust them to preserve the sect. At the venue, they encountered the previous tournament's top three teams, and Yun Che gathered strength from the assembled experts as the countdown started.

• Zhu Qi grew stronger by devouring lives, while Li Xuanfeng watched him and prepared to deal with Yun Che together.
• Yang Tao sent Yun Che and eight companions to represent the Star-Catching Ancient Sect, then told Yang Tuo that the sect's best hope was to trust their team.
• Three days later, Yun Che's team arrived at the tournament venue and learned that participants would enter an ancient battlefield for points during a three-month competition.
• Ning Yi identified Ximen Chuitu, Zhou Baiying, and Piao Guochang as the leaders of the previous tournament's top three teams.
• Yun Che grabbed strength, agility, stamina, and experience points from the experts gathered at the venue as the tournament countdown began.

Yun Che led his team into the Ancient Battlefield, split them up to hunt for points, and discovered that his soul-linked clones’ kills counted toward his total. He killed a powerful Emperor Realm demon for 10,000 points, while Feng Chu and Nangong Meng faced four Sages who had targeted them.

• Yun Che and his companions entered the Ancient Battlefield, where Yuezheng Xiangling warned that resentment and curse power could corrode their minds, and Situ Kong distributed Spirit-Stabilizing Talismans.
• Yun Che divided the team into groups, sent out his clones and Mutated Demons to hunt, and learned that their kills added to his points through their soul bond.
• Yun Che killed an early-stage Emperor Realm demon with All Things Ash, earning 10,000 points and leaving its original attackers too frightened to challenge him.
• Feng Chu and Nangong Meng drew the attention of four Sages after accumulating more than three thousand points.
• Feng Chu struck the late-stage Sage who had threatened Nangong Meng and taunted him as she held him in place.

Feng Chu and Nangong Meng slaughtered Seeking Pleasure Valley cultivators and collected their points before Yun Che found a lizard-like alien stronghold. When Zhou Baiying and the Purple Sky Alliance were overwhelmed by the aliens, Yun Che appeared to attack the stronghold.

• Feng Chu killed Li Ruoji and other Seeking Pleasure Valley Sages, while Nangong Meng stopped the remaining enemies from intervening.
• Feng Chu and Nangong Meng headed toward another valley as Yun Che discovered an alien tribe led by a powerful late Emperor Realm fighter.
• Zhou Baiying and twenty Sages of the Purple Sky Alliance fought the aliens, but the leader's Same-Realm Weakening technique and the tribe's superior numbers put them at a disadvantage.
• Zhou Baiying wounded the alien leader, used her Purple Lightning Domain to cover her allies' escape, then fled with Purple Lightning Sky Flash, Thunderstring Instant.
• Yun Che appeared before the pursuing alien leader and unleashed a barrage of lightning, killing numerous Lizard People.

Yuezheng Xiangling and Ye Qingshuang defeated five Sages from the Green Bamboo Abode with their combined lightning-and-fire attacks, raising their points above twenty thousand. Elsewhere, Cao Taichun slaughtered enemies while Zu Tangtang had no chance to join the fight.

• Yun Che collected the corpses of Emperor Realm and Supreme Realm enemies and flew toward stronger demonic qi.
• Yuezheng Xiangling and Ye Qingshuang refused the Green Bamboo Abode Sages’ attempt to take their points and attacked them.
• Ye Qingshuang and Yuezheng Xiangling combined thunder and azure flames to break the green-robed Sage’s cage and force the five Sages back.
• Yuezheng Xiangling and Ye Qingshuang killed four Sages and drove off the last, then headed toward another battlefield with more than twenty thousand points.
• Cao Taichun fought alone while Zu Tangtang watched, bursting his enemies with his claw.

Cao Taichun and Zu Tangtang drove off their remaining opponents, while Ning Yi and Situ Kong faced a group of powerful pursuers. Ning Yi and Situ Kong used their Icefire Hymn Soul Guard fusion technique to defeat the Sages, then left the battlefield exhausted.

• Cao Taichun incapacitated a Sage with his Nut-Crushing Divine Claw, and the remaining enemies fled as he and Zu Tangtang chose not to pursue.
• Ning Yi and Situ Kong stopped fleeing when a mid-stage Sage, three early-stage Sages, and five peak Supreme cultivators caught up with them.
• Ning Yi froze and killed the peak Supreme cultivators while Situ Kong held off the three Sages with his Fire Rule.
• Ning Yi and Situ Kong summoned their Soul Guards and fused them into the Icefire Hymn, whose ancient note weakened and immobilized the Sages.
• Ning Yi and Situ Kong killed the three Sages with their combined ice-and-fire attacks, then left the battlefield after the technique drained them.

Yun Che encountered Zhou Baiying fighting Piao Guochang and ignored her plea for help, despite his enormous point total. After she escaped and fell from a vortex, he carried her to safety and collected her thirty thousand points before leaving.

• Piao Guochang and his Sages attacked the injured Zhou Baiying, demanding her thirty thousand points and threatening her.
• Zhou Baiying fought back fiercely, then spotted Yun Che and called for help, but he continued on his way.
• Piao Guochang saw Yun Che's 530,000 points and was stunned.
• Zhou Baiying escaped through a vortex but fell face-first near Yun Che, who dodged her and then carried her to safety.
• Yun Che demanded thirty thousand points for saving Zhou Baiying, accepted them, and left as she complained about his lack of manners.

Yun Che followed the Purple Sky Alliance to a valley where a Spirit God Treasure was emerging, then watched powerful factions clash over it while he secretly used the Divine Hand to steal rewards. The battle for the treasure was still raging as Yun Che continued snatching items from the participants.

• Zhou Baiying told the arriving Purple Sky Alliance elders that Yun Che had extorted 30,000 points from her, and she chose to recover before joining them at the rumored treasure site.
• Yun Che secretly followed the alliance to a valley, where he saw Ximen Chuitu and Piao Guochang confront each other as rival factions gathered for the treasure.
• The restriction vanished and revealed a white jade seal identified as a Spirit God Treasure, prompting experts across the valley to rush for it.
• Piao Guochang sent a Flame Giant Lion toward the seal while Ximen Chuitu reached for it with an enormous earthen hand, and other factions unleashed their abilities.
• Yun Che stayed hidden and used the Divine Hand to steal experience, a super-tier spell, a wind rule, a Flame Domain, and strength points from the fighting experts.

Yun Che stole the Heaven-Slaying Spirit King Seal from Zhou Baiying and used it to kill an Eight-Eyed Flower Spider. Investigating a gray vortex behind the demon’s throne pulled him into the Dead Soul Instance, where he had to clear the realm to escape.

• Zhou Baiying snatched the seal while Ximen Chuitu and Piao Guochang fought, and Yun Che used his Divine Hand to steal it from her.
• Yun Che reached a demon lair, where an Eight-Eyed Flower Spider was draining the souls of three captured cultivators.
• Yun Che smashed the spider with the Heaven-Slaying Spirit King Seal, killed it, and rescued the three cultivators.
• Yun Che found a gray vortex behind the spider’s white bone throne and was sucked into the Dead Soul Instance.
• Yun Che learned that escape was disabled until he cleared the instance, time passed one hundred times faster inside, and he would receive no experience for its creatures.

Yun Che entered the Dead Soul Domain through a bone archway and began a 100-stage instance challenge. After defeating waves of Wraith Guards, he discovered he could earn points and snatch Spirit Points from them.

• Yun Che examined the eerie sand sea and found footprints leading toward a white bone archway that concealed a dangerous formation.
• Yun Che destroyed the archway’s attacking phantom with All Things Ash and entered the archway.
• Yun Che arrived in blood-shrouded ruins and learned the Dead Soul Instance had 100 stages, with a God-Level Reward available after stage 50 or a mysterious reward for clearing them all.
• Yun Che annihilated dozens of Wraith Guards with his Snow Sword and received points for the kills.
• Yun Che used Divine Hand on the next wave of Wraith Guards and snatched Spirit Points from them.

Yun Che defeated the Bone-Armored Giant Spirit on the tenth stage of the Dead Soul Instance and continued toward the next level. Outside, the Domain Lord Tournament standings were upended when an obscure pillar suddenly surged to 69.55 million points, leaving the spectators and rival leaders stunned.

• Yun Che used his Sword Intent and All Things Ash to destroy the Bone-Armored Giant Spirit, earning 10,000 points and clearing the tenth stage.
• Yun Che worried that he could not contact his clones or use his Communication Jade Token, then entered the gate to the next level.
• Ximen Chuitu and Piao Guochang emerged from the Ancient Battlefield, raising the Azure Heaven King Pavilion and Fire God Grotto-Heaven scores to 8.84 million and 8.59 million.
• Zhou Baiying fumed that her Spirit Treasure had disappeared and feared the Purple Sky Alliance would face attacks over rumors that it had obtained one.
• An unremarkable pillar jumped from zero to 69.55 million points, shocking Ximen Chuitu, Piao Guochang, Zhou Baiying, and the crowd.

The Star-Catching Ancient Sect won the Domain Lord Tournament and received its God's Blind Box, while Yun Che remained trapped in the Dead Soul Instance. As rival leaders retreated from the sect's powerful experts, Yun Che worried that he would miss his mission deadline.

• The tournament ended with the Star-Catching Ancient Sect ranked first at 69.55 million points, and the sect received the Domain Lord title and its rewards.
• Niu Hun told Ye Qingshuang that he and Niu Gen could not contact Yun Che but believed he was safe, while the sect's delegation prepared to protect its God's Blind Box.
• Ximen Chuitu offered to exchange blind boxes in return for protecting the sect, but Zu Tangtang and Yuezheng Xiangling refused.
• Niu Gen, Niu Hun, Zero, and Niu Ken revealed their Great Emperor Realm auras, prompting Ximen Chuitu and Piao Guochang to retreat.
• Yun Che, after six days of fighting inside the Dead Soul Instance, had cleared stage 37 and feared he would exceed the ten-year limit to destroy the Lei Clan.

Five years after Yun Che disappeared into the Ancient Battlefield, the Star-Catching Ancient Sect flourished while his companions worried over his return. The Corpse Coffin, Knight Hall, and Demon Hall attacked the Azure Sparrow Empire, and the chapter ended with the Hidden Martial Practitioners fearing they could not defeat Zhu Qi, now a Divine Realm Demon King.

• Zu Tangtang, Yuezheng Xiangling, and Ye Qingshuang discussed Yun Che's five-year absence and worried because his main body could not be located.
• Feng Chu emerged from cultivation after breaking through to the Great Emperor Realm, surpassing her companions.
• Qin Keyi sent word that the Corpse Coffin, Knight Hall, and Demon Hall were attacking Azure Sparrow with Divine Realm forces, but Yuezheng Xiangling and Ye Qingshuang could not descend from the Heavenly Domain to help.
• Qin Keyi and Qin Yelan led the Niu Clan Demon Group against the attackers while a Divine Realm demon battered the Divine Pattern Heavenly Palace Yama Formation.
• Zhu Qi revealed his Divine Realm strength, taunted the Qin sisters about the plot and Yun Che, and left the Hidden Martial Practitioners fearing they had no chance of defeating him.

Qin Keyi and Qin Yelan lured Zhu Qi and his allies into the Divine Pattern Heavenly Palace Yama Formation, where its deadly attack began killing the intruders. As Yun Che challenged the 99th stage, the resulting kills flooded him with Experience Points and pushed him into the Late Emperor Realm.

• Qin Keyi proposed using the formation to trap Zhu Qi and the Demon, while she secretly adjusted its central hub to make it appear weakened.
• A one-armed Hidden Martial Practitioner rallied the despairing Hidden Martial Practitioners, and they prepared to fight again.
• Zhu Qi ordered his forces to charge through a breach in the formation, but Li Xuanfeng stopped at its edge.
• Qin Keyi activated the formation, which ensnared and killed the charging Knight Hall members and attacked Zhu Qi and the Divine Realm Demon.
• Li Xuanfeng stayed outside the formation and watched the attack unfold.
• Yun Che received Experience Points from the deaths, broke through to the Late Emperor Realm, and wondered whether his clone had killed them.

Yun Che entered the hundredth stage and faced Xingtian, a peak Divine Realm gatekeeper, after clearing the previous stages. He unleashed his trump cards and fought Xingtian, but the battle remained unresolved as Yun Che searched for a way to end it.

• Yun Che recalled his growing unease about Azure Sparrow but set the matter aside and entered stage 100.
• Yun Che found a vast Starry Sky Arena and recognized its lone gatekeeper as Xingtian, whose strength reached the peak Divine Realm.
• Yun Che successfully grabbed 3.66 million Spirit points, then activated his equipment, abilities, and Undying Kingdom domain to raise his aura to the late Divine Realm.
• Xingtian attacked, and Yun Che met his pressure with the Forbidden Item Throne and a Taiji Yin-Yang strike, but the clash forced Yun Che back.
• Yun Che used his sword techniques and Void God Skystep to evade Xingtian's fast axe blows, then decided he had to stop prolonging the fight.