Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye arranged for Yun Ni to work at the Human Martial Arts Group, where she tried to keep her Heart Demon at bay by immersing herself in work. Meanwhile, Shen Ye joined a legion's battle in the Immortal Kingdom, and when the Giants began resisting their control, he activated Peppa's Ship to intervene.

• Shen Ye had Yun Ni pose as his older cousin and arranged for Qian Rushan to hire her in the group's R&D department.
• Xu Xingke and the Book of Tarot analyzed Yun Ni's Contract, revealing a Soul Punishment Curse, while Kunlun erased the powerful figures' memories of the arrangement and agreed to protect Yun Ni.
• Yun Ni led her team through a full day of work and, when her Heart Demon emerged, focused on coding and overtime to deny it an opening.
• Shen Ye joined James and a legion of Descenders in the Immortal Kingdom, granting them blessings that reduced the battle's difficulty and offered a chance of escape or assistance.
• Mel used Heartbreak Walk to control the two Giants, but their Iron Heart Talent began resisting the Trait as the legion damaged one Giant.
• Shen Ye activated Peppa's Ship, moving everyone onto an enormous ironclad ship, where a voice asked the Giants which of three hammers they had dropped.

James’s team defeated the two giants in the Dharma Realm, then entered the White Bone Palace trial and was teleported to safety when the palace transformed into a monster. Shen Ye returned to Death Planet, where he saw Yun Ni use her power to save a coworker despite the heart demon threatening her, and she said her goal remained to grow stronger.

• James’s team used the voice’s hammer question to trap and defeat the giants, then James gave Shen Ye a wooden box as thanks.
• After resting, the team approached the White Bone Palace, where a voice warned Shen Ye about the deadly trial and the palace transformed into a giant skeletal monster.
• The Immortal Kingdom teleported Shen Ye and the team back to the Undead Empire before the monster could strike, and James asked Shen Ye to return with them later.
• Shen Ye visited Yun Ni at work with takeout and saw the heart demon shadow behind her as she explained the danger of using her power.
• When a coworker collapsed from a myocardial infarction, Yun Ni used her power to save him despite the heart demon’s interference, then said she had acted for her reputation and to grow stronger.

After learning that James had taken Guo Yunye and Xiao Mengyu was safe with Kalula, Shen Ye forced James to release Guo Yunye by using the Immortal Kingdom’s power against his subordinates. He then prepared for a new Seal Gate challenge, using Dark Whisper to summon the souls in a bone palace before unleashing the Phoenix King's Fan.

• Shen Ye upgraded Best Newcomer into the Fate-type trait Beginner on the Road and equipped it.
• Nangong Sirui told Shen Ye that Xiao Mengyu and Guo Yunye were missing; Eudria explained that Xiao Mengyu had chosen to visit the Earth Mother with Kalula.
• James confronted Shen Ye at the bar, and the Immortal Kingdom repeatedly made James’s attacking subordinates disappear until James left to release Guo Yunye.
• Shen Ye learned that Norton and Eudria planned to return and reclaim their kingdom, then confirmed by phone that Guo Yunye had been returned safely.
• Shen Ye consulted the old man about the bone palace and used Dark Whisper to call its souls back, then raised the Phoenix King's Fan to attack.

Shen Ye fought the giant lizard across the Immortal Kingdom and recruited Tu Fusheng after the old man tried to kill him. When Yun Ni’s Heart Demon erupted and the Supreme Dao Palace moved to execute her, Shen Ye rescued her and began sealing her to keep her alive.

• Shen Ye used the Phoenix King's Fan and Dark Whisper to drive the skeletons from the white-bone palace into madness, revealing a giant lizard beneath it.
• Shen Ye fought the giant lizard with summoned ghost gods and dragons, while Starflame advanced to Dharma Realm Second Layer and let him attack across worlds.
• Shen Ye signed Tu Fusheng’s contract after the old man offered to serve him, then received a warning that Yun Ni’s life was in danger.
• Yun Ni nearly unleashed her Dharma Form under the influence of her Heart Demon, but Baxter appeared and used a Gate Ability to remove her from the Supreme Dao Palace’s execution formation.
• Shen Ye brought Yun Ni to the Immortal Kingdom, bestowed Beginner on the Road to keep her from dying, and Tu Fusheng suppressed her Heart Demon temporarily.
• Shen Ye opened a Gate to a new sealing ground so he could confine Yun Ni and seek a way to save her.

Shen Ye passed the Immortal Kingdom trial, received the Secret Guardian Ring and a mission to learn a cultivation technique, then traveled with Tu Fusheng to the Supreme Dao Palace to fulfill Yun Ni’s request. The chapter ends with the Palace mistaking Shen Ye for a promising recruit and approving him for admission as an elder’s personal disciple.

• Shen Ye sealed Yun Ni in a coffin to contain her Heart Demon, and their Contract changed to erase its restraints and assign him a final task at the Supreme Dao Palace.
• Shen Ye and Tu Fusheng helped defeat the giant lizard, completing the trial and earning Shen Ye the Immortal Kingdom Secret Guardian Ring and a mission to master a cultivation technique.
• Yun Ni’s revised Contract asked Shen Ye to destroy the Supreme Dao Palace’s God Statue with the Formation-Breaking Saint Pestle, and Tu Fusheng agreed to help him reach the Palace.
• Shen Ye and Tu Fusheng arrived at the Supreme Dao Palace, where disciples recognized Tu Fusheng and escorted them to a hall to await the Grand Supreme Elder.
• Shen Ye filled out a guest registration Jade Slip under the name Nangong Wantu, claiming he had not practiced cultivation techniques, and the Grand Supreme Elder approved him for admission as an elder’s personal disciple.

Shen Ye joined the Supreme Dao Palace’s Mystic Gate and discovered that its members believed Yun Ni was dead, though she remained sealed inside his coffin. After winning Peipei as his attendant, he learned that the sect leader planned to eat most of the sect to make up for missing his Dharma Form, leaving Shen Ye facing an urgent escape.

• Tu Fusheng offered the Dao Palace the Vacuum White Moon Slash Art Secret Record, and Shen Ye joined the Mystic Gate after revealing his Bane and Songstress names.
• Shen Ye learned that the Dao Palace believed Yun Ni had died, while he knew she was still sealed away; Tu Fusheng then left him to settle into the sect.
• Shen Ye watched the Mystic Gate’s Oddity contests and recognized Peipei, who said she had helped refine the Demon-Subduing Pestle with a wisp of her soul.
• Shen Ye entered the contest for Peipei and defeated Jiang Dazhuang’s black hen with the Ren Shen Rooster, winning Peipei as his attendant.
• Peipei warned Shen Ye that the sect leader would eat most of the sect to compensate for failing to eat Shen Ye’s Dharma Form, and urged him to flee.

Xiatelai learned that Yun Ni had died on Death Planet and chose to keep cultivating rather than return. Shen Ye joined the Supreme Dao Palace, began cultivating to open the Path to Heaven, and discovered that the palace was concealing a deadly illusion before he was summoned to the Central Hub Hall.

• Xiatelai heard that Yun Ni had died after suffering cultivation deviation on Death Planet, but decided she needed to grow stronger instead of returning.
• At the Supreme Dao Palace, Shen Ye studied the Supreme Emotionless Ascension Scripture while Jiang Dazhuang withheld a cave abode and planned to deal with him later.
• Shen Ye gained spiritual power, became a cultivation-side Professional, and received the Passage Gate ability, but his Path to Heaven quest forbade him from fighting anyone while he advanced to the Dharma Realm Eighth Layer.
• The Saint Venerable and the elders monitored the disciples who received Yun Ni's belongings, killed several of them, and arranged a trial in the Dao Palace Secret Realm for the newcomers.
• The Formation-Breaking Saint Pestle dispelled an illusion around Shen Ye, revealing a Grand Supreme Heart Demon and the Supreme Binding Fate Soul-Refining Palace Dharma Form, which Shen Ye recognized as matching Yun Ni's.
• A messenger ordered Mystic Gate True Inheritor Disciple Nangong Wantu to report immediately to the Central Hub Hall.

Shen Ye avoided fighting in the ruins trial by choosing team combat and summoning Nangong Sirui, then befriended Chu Manshu with the help of a rare bamboo gift from Tu Fusheng. The chapter left Chu Manshu offering to concede the trial to Shen Ye and Nangong Sirui.

• Shen Ye activated his Bane Trait to avoid a fight, but a falling pillar killed the pockmarked disciple who had confronted him.
• Shen Ye entered the ancient ruins, chose the team-combat trial, and summoned Nangong Sirui as his companion.
• Shen Ye and Nangong Sirui hid in the Great Hall to cultivate, then met Chu Manshu, who was assigned to defeat them before receiving her next treasure-hunting coordinates.
• Shen Ye and Nangong Sirui charmed Chu Manshu and gave her ten-thousand-year vajra saint thunder bamboo supplied by Tu Fusheng.
• Shen Ye introduced himself and Nangong Sirui as Nangong Wantu and Nangong Sirui, and invented a younger brother named Nangong Gou.
• Chu Manshu offered to concede the trial rather than fight Shen Ye and Nangong Sirui.

Shen Ye and his companions completed the second trial after Xu Xingke battled a mysterious monster disguised as a Dao Palace disciple. The ruins rewarded Shen Ye with a special law of Dharma Form Transformation, and he discovered a gate that bypassed the void to reach the building’s missing upper floors.

• Chu Manshu infused Nangong Sirui with spiritual energy, explained the Supreme Emotionless Ascension Scripture, and conceded the first trial.
• The statue rewarded Shen Ye with advancement to the Seventh Layer of the Dharma Realm and raised all his attributes to 300, then began the second trial.
• Shen Ye summoned Xu Xingke, who fought a hostile Dao Palace disciple whose power destroyed his summoned creatures and forced the group to retreat through Shen Ye’s gate.
• Shen Ye sealed the pursuer in the empty Sealed Land, and the group returned to the trial ground to claim the second-trial reward.
• Shen Ye chose a special law of Dharma Form Transformation, which could help his Dharma Form evolve and advance him toward the Eighth Layer.
• Shen Ye used the Passage trait with his Gate Ability and opened a route past the Endless Void Universe to a staircase leading into the ruins’ upper floors.

Shen Ye’s new Fate Side trait erased evidence linking him to a missing monster, but the Sect Master began to suspect that fate had intervened. After moving into Yun Ni’s former cave residence, Shen Ye transferred the escaping monster into another sealed land just as the Sect Master arrived to inspect him.

• Shen Ye rested in the ruins’ Rest Room with Xu Xingke and Nangong Sirui, then returned to the Supreme Dao Palace and received the Deep Blue Trait “Best Rookie.”
• A disciple killed three others with a soul-devouring blade, destroying the witnesses who could have connected Shen Ye to the missing monster; the Sect Master nevertheless suspected the deaths were too convenient and ordered an investigation.
• Shen Ye received the A-1 cave residence, learned it had belonged to Yun Ni, and discovered its array could shield the residence from the Sect Master’s Dharma Form.
• When Shen Ye sensed the sealed monster was about to escape, he used all three daily Gate openings to move it from its damaged prison into an undersea seal.
• The Sect Master arrived with two elders to inspect Shen Ye and questioned him about the cave residence’s Array Plate.

Shen Ye bribed the sect master, learned more about his past from Peipei, and successfully cultivated the Supreme Emotionless Ascension Scripture, evolving his spiritual flame. During the Heart Demon tribulation, he negotiated with his original self by offering him possible new lives, and the Heart Demon chose a fate involving a beautiful white-jade woman.

• Shen Ye demonstrated his cultivation to the sect master, then bribed him with Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Spirit Jade Marrow and received a Jade Slip explaining the Supreme Emotionless Ascension Scripture.
• The sect master decided to keep Shen Ye close as a personal disciple, while the supreme elders ordered Peipei to surrender the array disc and warned against building another Magic Array.
• Peipei told Shen Ye about his abrupt change in personality after forging the Demon-Subduing Pestle and warned that the sect leader needed to eat someone soon.
• Shen Ye cultivated the scripture, fused Supreme Daoist Spirit Flame with Flame of Sealing, and gained Flame Spirit Divine Light before facing his Heart Demon.
• Shen Ye offered the Heart Demon thirty possible lives recorded on Jade Slips, and the Heart Demon chose a fate centered on a beautiful white-jade woman.
• The palace master watched from the skies above the Supreme Dao Palace and wondered whether Shen Ye's solution would work.

After passing the heart demon’s trial, Shen Ye secured a mission that let him leave the sect and brought Peipei to Panlong Town. There, he reopened the Seal Gate and confronted the being sealed as Yun Ni about whether she was actually Yun Ni’s Heart Demon.

• Shen Ye passed the heart demon’s trial, began advancing toward the Dharma Realm Eighth Layer, and sensed his heart demon cultivating elsewhere.
• Shen Ye persuaded Dao Zhengyi to help him take a one-week patrol mission in Panlong Town, then collected Peipei and left the sect as an outside challenger attacked it.
• Shen Ye and Peipei reached Panlong Town, found their assigned cultivation residence, and Peipei went to buy a defensive array disc.
• Shen Ye used his restored strength to open the Seal Gate and spoke with the being sealed inside the black coffin.
• Shen Ye accused the being of being Yun Ni’s Heart Demon and demanded to know where the real Yun Ni had gone.

Shen Ye forced Yun Ni’s heart demon to reveal the secrets behind the curse, the God Statue, and the Supreme Emotionless Ascension Scripture. After learning that Xiatelai was being hunted for her mythic profession, Shen Ye used the Scripture’s Divine Curse to access professional skills and began fusing them.

• Shen Ye threatened to leave Yun Ni’s heart demon sealed until she revealed the truth, and she agreed to explain after he fulfilled the Contract’s conditions.
• Yun Ni’s heart demon told Shen Ye that Yun Ni had hidden herself inside the God Statue, while the Saint Venerable was also a heart demon who sought to devour sect disciples.
• The heart demon explained that Yun Ni and the Saint Venerable targeted Xiatelai because her profession had reached the realm of myths and legends, beyond the knowledge heart demons could perceive.
• Shen Ye recited the Supreme Emotionless Ascension Scripture’s Divine Curse and gained access to the class skills and knowledge available at his cultivation level.
• Shen Ye activated his Vampire Kiddo trait and chose to fuse all the class skills he had learned.

Shen Ye and his heart demon faced a lethal fate contest after another heart demon challenged them, and Shen Ye used a tiny fate setting to keep his heart demon alive. His improvised plan left the heart demon embracing the Mountain Lord as the sect’s destruction approached.

• Shen Ye lifted the Contract with Yun Ni’s heart demon, agreed to work together against Yun Ni and the Saint Venerable, and learned that other heart demons could sense his newly acquired skill.
• Shen Ye’s heart demon contest began when the Saint Venerable’s heart demon set the destruction of Penglai Immortal Mountain as their opponent’s fate.
• Shen Ye used the setting “The Sect Master loves me” to make the Mountain Lord protect his heart demon in the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• The opposing heart demon added a fate in which another man tortured and killed Shen Ye’s heart demon, but Shen Ye countered with “I was reborn,” restoring the heart demon after his suffering.
• Shen Ye coached his heart demon to persuade the Mountain Lord to hide in the furnace and promised to protect her, then told him to hug her.
• The Mountain Lord embraced the heart demon and praised him as a true man.

Shen Ye survived the Heart Demon Battle by interrupting Fate's settings and learned that Penglai Mountain's Sacred Relic held the true legacy of the Supreme Scripture. The battle ended in Panlong Town, where Shen Ye was left with the Mountain Master's instructions to enter the Sacred Relic and retrieve a hidden Jade Slip.

• Shen Ye persuaded the Mountain Master to seal him, the Heart Demon, and the Fuyun Mountain Elder inside the Alchemy Furnace, where the Heart Demon regained his freedom while the elder remained unconscious.
• Shen Ye stopped the Heart Demon from attacking the elder, and the elder later taught him that Myth-grade skills and a Supreme profession were essential to mastering the Dao scripture.
• The elder explained how to escape a Heart Demon Battle, and Shen Ye interrupted the enemy's fate setting by shouting, "Regret!"
• After the furnace opened, the Mountain Master attacked the Heart Demon to prove her love to the elder, but the elder rejected her and left; she then returned the unconscious Heart Demon to the furnace.
• The Penglai Mountain Master revealed that the Heart Demon Battle had concealed a message for Shen Ye, identified him as Penglai's true successor, and hid a Jade Slip in the Alchemy Furnace.
• The Heart Demon Battle ended, and Shen Ye found himself back in Panlong Town on patrol for the Supreme Dao Palace.

Shen Ye learned that the Heaven-Piercing Art had been guiding him and that Peipei might be connected to the Saint Venerable, then joined a mission at the Demon Abyss. After a monster devastated the camp, Xiatelai appeared before him and embraced him.

• The lizard explained that the Penglai Mountain Master had recognized Shen Ye as a trustworthy inheritor, and that the Jade Slip contained part of the Heaven-Piercing Art, which included the Supreme Emotionless Ascension Scripture.
• The Mountain Master's message warned Shen Ye about Peipei, prompting him to suspect that she was connected to the Saint Venerable, though her identity remained unclear.
• Shen Ye and Peipei received orders to report to the Demon Abyss, where they learned that the Grand Elder was missing and that lower-level disciples had to guard the camp.
• A monstrous earthworm attacked the camp, but Shen Ye used the rooster and carrot to make the array plate go unnoticed and save the nearby cultivators.
• A second enormous monster struck the ground, shattering the camp and sending Shen Ye and the others into fissures as a dream brought him a warning about enemies hunting the Heaven-Piercing Art.
• Xiatelai used the Huntian Art to turn the dream into reality, appeared before Shen Ye, and embraced him.

Shen Ye learned that Xiatelai had sacrificed herself to save him, then faced Yun Ni in a Heart Demon Spell Duel to earn her resurrection. After Shen Ye repeatedly turned Yun Ni’s lethal fate stipulations against her, the duel reversed and forced Yun Ni to participate in person, leaving Shen Ye a chance to exploit the seal on her Heart Demon.

• Xiatelai explained that Yun Ni had discovered Shen Ye’s Heaven-Piercing Art and had permission to use the Demon Abyss’s power against him.
• Yun Ni killed Xiatelai, who used her blood, bones, and soul to grant Shen Ye the Huntian Art and urge him to escape.
• Shen Ye refused to leave and accepted Yun Ni’s wager: if he won their Spell Duel, she would consent to Xiatelai’s resurrection.
• During Yun Ni’s Heart Demon Three Questions, Shen Ye used single-word stipulations to make the Penglai cultivators, twelve elders, and two Grand Supreme Elders perish.
• Yun Ni forcibly continued the duel, but the Law of Fate reversed it and required her to face Shen Ye’s stipulations herself because she could not summon her Heart Demon.
• Shen Ye realized Yun Ni would have to participate in the duel while her Heart Demon remained sealed.

Shen Ye trapped Yun Ni in a repeating fate setting, then traveled to the past to trigger her curse and help Xiatelai return. Xiatelai used the Huntian Art to turn their encounter into a dream, and Shen Ye awoke at the moment he was being admitted to the Supreme Dao Palace.

• Shen Ye realized he had to return to the past and set Yun Ni as the guard of the Five Desires cage, where her insistence on keeping her names trapped her in the Heart Demon Battle.
• Shen Ye and Xiatelai traveled to Cloud Mountain Port tens of thousands of years later, where Shen Ye disguised himself as Shen Xiaoye and approached Yun Ni.
• Yun Ni cursed Shen Ye's disguised self after accepting a flower, and explosions hurled the little girl into the sky, allowing Xiatelai to revive through her doppelganger.
• Xiatelai revealed she had taken the Huntian Art away to protect Shen Ye, then used its strengthened power to make their encounter into a dream and alter their fate.
• Shen Ye awoke beside Tu Fusheng in the Supreme Dao Palace, holding an admission slip that proposed placing him as an elder's personal disciple.

Shen Ye returned to the day he joined the Supreme Dao Palace and chose the Mystic Gate, determined to survive the coming purge while hiding his cultivation and intentions. After deceiving the sect leaders and protecting himself inside a cave abode, he stayed out of a battle that killed Jiang Dazhuang and other disciples, and the chapter ended with the message that he survived.

• Shen Ye learned that news of Yun Ni’s death would soon trigger a sect-wide purge, then joined the Mystic Gate after confirming that Xiatelai had escaped using Peipei’s Doppelganger.
• Shen Ye gave Jiang Dazhuang spirit stones, obtained a cave abode and other resources, and handed over the Supreme Scripture of Forgetting Emotion and Ascending to Immortality to conceal that he had learned it.
• Shen Ye used the Battle Guidance Master’s technique to disguise his flame spirit divine light as ordinary spiritual power and activated a formation disk before the Saint Venerable and two elders inspected his cave abode.
• Shen Ye placated the sect leaders with immortal spirit jade marrow and a spirit-stone mountain deed, claiming he had joined the Dao Palace to find a Dao companion and could not understand its greatest scripture.
• As the Saint Venerable fought an invading challenger and the Dao Palace’s cave abodes were destroyed, Shen Ye stayed inside listening to loud rock music, and Jiang Dazhuang died in battle.
• Shen Ye remained alive as a message appeared stating, “You survived.”

After surviving the Heart Demon spell duel, Shen Ye gained the Mythic Trait Fate's Tool Person and learned that five hours of scrutiny would determine his fate. Once the five hours passed, he entered the Ruins, where he was recognized as Penglai Immortal Mountain’s final disciple and given a task to advance to the Dharma Realm Eighth Layer without fighting.

• Shen Ye activated Fate's Tool Person on himself and received a profile warning that he had to spend five hours without secrets while under surveillance.
• The Saint Venerable secretly inspected Shen Ye, mistook his matchmaking video and purchase of a female disciples’ portrait album for harmless behavior, then followed him as he tried and failed to approach women.
• Shen Ye complained to the Grand Supreme Elder about the disciples who had rejected him, while the Sect Master learned that a grotto-heaven blessed land had been found and decided to open the ruins for new disciples.
• Before entering the ruins, Shen Ye recruited new disciples with Contracts offering spirit-stone rewards for helping him and promoting his reputation.
• After five hours had passed, Shen Ye entered the ruins and received direct access to Penglai Immortal Mountain’s Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams Alchemy Room, along with a task to reach the Dharma Realm Eighth Layer without fighting anyone.