Chapter Summaries

Ying Huaixu fought the Black Wolf King through a succession of attacks, eventually forcing him to transform into a werewolf and unleash a wide-area assault. The Wolf King fled after the attack, but Ying Huaixu pursued him and faced a sudden projectile strike.

• He Xiuyuan escaped after the Wolf King spat him out in front of Ying Huaixu, who activated his Frost Concept and prepared to fight.
• Ying Huaixu and the Wolf King traded attacks as the Wolf King trapped him behind earthen walls and sent re-forming small wolves after him.
• Ying Huaixu battered the Wolf King with frost techniques, overcoming his healing blood energy and forcing him to transform into a werewolf.
• The werewolf unleashed blood-red beams and bone spikes, then fled while Ying Huaixu used his map to chase him.
• The fleeing Black Wolf King turned to fire an eerie, blood-wreathed finger bone at Ying Huaixu's forehead.

Ying Huaixu trapped and killed the Werewolf, then checked on the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples and learned that several were fighting another minor boss. He sent He Xiuyuan to face a Vajra Giant Ape, secretly a major boss, and He Xiuyuan was immediately flung away.

• Ying Huaixu cornered the Werewolf in a frost cage, resisted its attacks and Soul-Seizing Bell, and killed it when it knelt for mercy.
• Ying Huaixu collected the Werewolf's Blood Demon Pearl and Soul-Seizing Bell and gained 500,000 experience.
• Ying Huaixu learned from Huang Tianqi that most of the sect's missing disciples had teleported out after encountering a Flood Dragon, while Huang Tianqi and Qin Erniu were fighting an old bull.
• He Xiuyuan asked to fight a minor boss alone, and Ying Huaixu led him to a Vajra Giant Ape while pretending it was a minor boss.
• The Vajra Giant Ape flicked He Xiuyuan into the air and shattered his Defensive Talismans, and He Xiuyuan cursed Ying Huaixu for tricking him.

Ying Huaixu learned that the Cold Pool Secret Realm’s beasts had been deliberately mutated and worried about the Great Sun Sacred Ground and Star-Seizing Sect secret realms. He found Ye Ningshuang, who demanded he break through before she explained her situation, and he began advancing his cultivation.

• Ying Huaixu judged the giant ape to be near the Spirit Sea Realm and learned from He Xiuyuan that the Cold Pool Secret Realm had been contaminated.
• Ying Huaixu explained that someone had mutated the beasts to raise high-quality food and warned that the Great Sun Sacred Ground and Star-Seizing Sect secret realms were also changing.
• Ying Huaixu took He Xiuyuan to find Ye Ningshuang, who was surrounded by valuable Spirit Herbs.
• Ye Ningshuang asked Ying Huaixu to break through before she told him about her situation, and he began adding points to his cultivation.
• Ying Huaixu’s breakthrough stunned Ye Ningshuang, He Xiuyuan, the black cat, and the shadow.

After Ying Huaixu broke through and Ye Ningshuang advanced her Spiritual Root, the group set out to test her strength and encountered the Vajra Giant Ape. Ying Huaixu proposed recruiting the beast, and he and Ye Ningshuang left He Xiuyuan to negotiate.

• Ying Huaixu asked Ye Ningshuang to test her newly advanced Spiritual Root by fighting monsters, and He Xiuyuan explained that he wanted to assess how well she could handle the dangers outside.
• Black Cat questioned whether Ying Huaixu was a reincarnated cultivator or possessed, and Black Shadow revealed that strange formations protected Ying Huaixu's soul from being touched or possessed.
• Ying Huaixu sensed that the thing attached to Ye Ningshuang had not been fully removed, while the world's corrective force began acting again.
• Ying Huaixu led the group to the Vajra Giant Ape's territory and suggested negotiating with the beast instead of attacking it.
• Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang both looked to He Xiuyuan to negotiate with the Vajra Giant Ape.

Ying Huaixu persuaded the Vajra Giant Ape to join their group by promising him food, freedom, and a way to survive the Secret Realm’s collapse. As they headed toward the Azure Sea Flood Dragon, the giant ape warned that he might not be strong enough to defeat him, and Ying Huaixu asked about the Secret Realm’s changes and the Azure Fox Lady.

• He Xiuyuan approached the Vajra Giant Ape, who recognized him and shared food, but refused Ying Huaixu’s request for help.
• Ying Huaixu warned the giant ape that the Secret Realm would collapse and offered him a free partnership, which persuaded him to leave with the group.
• The giant ape rejected He Xiuyuan from riding on his shoulder because he smelled like feces, then swallowed a Geng Metal Vein before setting off.
• Ying Huaixu learned the giant ape was named Leng Qingqiu and that the Azure Sea Flood Dragon was second in strength only to the Azure Fox Lady.
• Leng Qingqiu warned that he might not defeat the Azure Sea Flood Dragon, but continued toward his territory after Ying Huaixu promised he would not have to fight yet.
• Ying Huaixu asked Leng Qingqiu what had caused the Secret Realm’s changes and what he knew about the Azure Fox Lady.

Ying Huaixu learned that a blood-red ore had transformed the demonic beasts in the Cold Pool Secret Realm and created four powerful Nine-Tailed Foxes called the Azure Fox Lady. As the group reached the Azure Sea Flood Dragon's territory, Ying Huaixu wondered whether Ye Ningshuang could survive the challenges ahead.

• The Giant Ape explained that a rift had released blood-red ore and smoke into the secret realm, driving its demonic beasts to slaughter one another and mutating the survivors.
• The Giant Ape recalled hearing that the blood-red ore was part of an experiment, leaving Ying Huaixu without answers about its origin.
• The Giant Ape revealed that the Azure Fox Lady consisted of four Nine-Tailed Foxes, transformed after the ore struck and fused with their leader.
• Ying Huaixu worried that the Azure Fox Lady was far stronger than the game's boss and that the secret realm had to collapse to protect the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• He Xiuyuan edged away from the group, and Ying Huaixu warned him not to use others as shields while Ye Ningshuang promised to carve a path forward.
• The Giant Ape stopped at the Azure Sea Flood Dragon's territory and sensed that the Flood Dragon had already noticed them.

The Azure Sea Flood Dragon manipulated rival factions and attacked the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, but Ye Ningshuang arrived with the Vajra Giant Ape and said her boss lady wanted to see him. The injured Qin Erniu and the others turned their attention toward He Xiuyuan.

• The Azure Sea Flood Dragon tricked humans into approaching him and swallowed them, then persuaded Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain to block the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Qin Erniu and Huang Tianqi fought Ten Thousand Buddha Mountain’s disciples, whose Golden Body Dharma Aspects were cut apart by the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s Flying Swords.
• The Azure Sea Flood Dragon launched a sneak attack on Qin Erniu, who struck back with Huang Tianqi’s help before Huang Tianqi ordered a retreat.
• The Azure Sea Flood Dragon pursued the retreating disciples, but the Vajra Giant Ape confronted him and said his boss lady wanted to see him.
• Ye Ningshuang looked at the wounded Qin Erniu and then toward He Xiuyuan, drawing Ying Huaixu’s attention to him.

Ye Ningshuang fought the Azure Sea Flood Dragon, revealing overwhelming physical strength and powerful Divine Abilities that amazed the observers. She trapped his water spears in black mist and unleashed her Black Cloud Sword Dance, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Ying Huaixu mocked He Xiuyuan while He Xiuyuan blamed Qin Erniu and the strong for making him look weak.
• The Azure Sea Flood Dragon attacked the Vajra Giant Ape, but Ye Ningshuang punched his tail and sent him flying.
• The Flood Dragon summoned a massive wave, and Ye Ningshuang countered it with a black wave of her own as the sect disciples fled to safety.
• Ye Ningshuang struck with her sword, shattered the Flood Dragon's dragon-scale shield, and enveloped the ocean in black mist.
• The Flood Dragon assumed half-dragon form and launched water spears, but Ye Ningshuang bound them with black mist and began her Black Cloud Sword Dance.

Ye Ningshuang defeated the Azure Sea Flood Dragon by letting it transform into a dragon and then swallowing it with her darkness ability, which raised her cultivation by three levels. The other sects withdrew from the Cold Pool Secret Realm, while the Divine Firmament Sword Sect prepared to gather spirit herbs and leave.

• Ye Ningshuang cut through the Azure Sea Flood Dragon’s defenses with her sword scars, while the Black Shadow replenished her spiritual power by devouring souls.
• The Azure Sea Flood Dragon absorbed the life force of the Azure Sea and transformed into a dragon, but Ye Ningshuang waited for him to finish.
• Ye Ningshuang trapped the transformed dragon in darkness, swallowed it, and advanced from the third to the fifth level of the qi sea realm.
• Ying Huaixu received the system reward for slaying the Azure Sea Dragon and celebrated that his age of taking it easy had arrived.
• The other sects withdrew after witnessing Ye Ningshuang’s strength, and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect decided to collect spirit herbs before leaving.
• Ying Huaixu praised Qin Erniu as promising material after Qin Erniu recovered from his injuries with supreme-quality pills.

After Ye Ningshuang’s battle, Huang Tianqi transformed his body and powers through his understanding of space, while Qin Erniu sensed that he might also gain insight through another fight. Ye Ningshuang welcomed the prospect of more enemies, and Black Shadow and Black Cat argued over their past.

• Qin Erniu and He Xiuyuan rallied themselves, while Huang Tianqi contemplated how to match the Divine Firmament’s two beauties.
• Huang Tianqi replaced his dantian and meridians with space, gained the ability to teleport, and easily immobilized He Xiuyuan.
• Huang Tianqi asked to join Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang’s battles, and Ying Huaixu gave him pills ahead of their next target, the Azure Fox Lady.
• Qin Erniu asked Ying Huaixu for healing pills so he could fight and pursue his own insight, while He Xiuyuan privately lamented that everyone else was improving.
• The Vajra Giant Ape trembled before Ye Ningshuang, who said she had deliberately let her enemies leave the secret realm so she could see how many would come after her.
• Black Shadow complained about being made to prepare soup, and Black Cat argued with her about her past and the companions she had dragged into her self-destruction.

Ying Huaixu watched his companions grow stronger as they cleared the secret realm, then set out with them to confront the Azure Fox Ladies. After the group was scattered by a strange mountain, Ying Huaixu found himself alone at the secret realm’s central town, where the map showed an even larger boss.

• Ye Ningshuang turned the demonic beasts she killed into shadows, while Huang Tianqi and Qin Erniu defeated king beasts and He Xiuyuan revealed his strength after pretending to struggle.
• Ying Huaixu led the group toward the Azure Fox Ladies’ lair, and Xu Yaoyang joined after defeating He Xiuyuan.
• The Giant Ape stopped at the edge of the Azure Fox Ladies’ domain because bloodline suppression kept him from going farther.
• Ying Huaixu sent He Xiuyuan through a mountain first, then stayed behind to nap as Ye Ningshuang and the others followed.
• A rumbling crash dropped Ying Huaixu into a tree above the ancient town, where he saw that his companions were scattered around the realm and a larger boss awaited him.

Ying Huaixu waited beneath a tree instead of facing the final boss, but the town transformed around him and triggered a story scene before Ye Ningshuang arrived. He followed an old woman home and treated her sick grandson, leaving the quest underway as he continued to stall for his companions.

• Ying Huaixu watched the map and worried that He Xiuyuan, Huang Tianqi, and Qin Erniu might be forced to use their trump card against an Azure Fox Lady.
• After four hours, the world shifted and the large tree became the center of town, where the townspeople mistook Ying Huaixu for an immortal master.
• An old woman begged Ying Huaixu for help, and he agreed to follow her home despite the story scene triggering earlier than expected.
• At the old woman's house, Ying Huaixu broke some containers, found only ordinary clothes in a chest, and examined her sick grandson.
• Ying Huaixu gave the old woman's grandson water mixed with powder scraped from a Sweet Dew Pill.

Ying Huaixu waited for Ye Ningshuang and her companions while learning that Lu'er had brought him to the town so he could destroy its tormented inhabitants before they became monsters. When the Blood Moon rose, Lu'er collapsed into an empty skin, and the Azure Fox Lady noticed Ying Huaixu’s presence.

• Ying Huaixu waited three days for Ye Ningshuang and the others, while Lu'er’s grandmother believed the boy had recovered.
• Lu'er asked Ying Huaixu about the Azure Fox Lady and revealed that he had brought Ying Huaixu to bury the town’s inhabitants rather than let them persist as dangerous beings.
• Lu'er explained that the Azure Fox Lady controlled their hearts and that the Human Puppets would turn into slaughtering monsters if she discovered Ying Huaixu.
• After another three days without contact from Ye Ningshuang’s group, Lu'er told Ying Huaixu that the town could hold on no longer and that his companions were safe elsewhere for now.
• A Blood Moon rose, Lu'er became an empty skin, and the Azure Fox Lady announced that she had a guest.

Ying Huaixu fought through the Azure Fox Lady’s overwhelming horde of Blood Corpses and Fox-Masked People, then found himself face-to-face with the nine-tailed woman behind them. She offered him a deal to help her escape the Secret Realm in exchange for his life and unexpected rewards.

• Ying Huaixu used Frost Annihilation and Frost Sword Qi to freeze and shatter waves of Blood Corpses, then the Azure Fox Lady released Fox-Masked People made from the townspeople’s blood.
• Ying Huaixu fought through the monsters with Frost Ribbon and Frost Sword Pear Blossom, clearing the town while spending nearly three hundred Qi-Recovery Pills.
• The Azure Fox Lady transported Ying Huaixu to another world, where he saw her sitting beneath a tree and drinking blood-red tea.
• The Azure Fox Lady tried to entice Ying Huaixu by offering to become his servant and transforming into Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang, but he rejected her advances.
• The Azure Fox Lady asked Ying Huaixu to help her escape the sealed Secret Realm, offering to spare his life and give him rewards in return.

Ying Huaixu fought the Azure Fox Lady, whose overwhelming attacks shattered his protective talismans and forced him to rethink his strategy. He used charged throws of Frost Annihilation to keep the Nine-Tailed Fox frozen, but she broke free in a burst of blood-red flames and entered Phase Two.

• Ying Huaixu refused the Azure Fox Lady’s offer and attacked, triggering a battle as she countered with a relentless assault from her nine tails.
• Ying Huaixu parried the Azure Fox Lady’s attacks and retaliated with sword energy, but her tails blocked his strikes and her blue flames shattered his protective talismans.
• Ying Huaixu tried to exploit Frost Intent’s freezing effect, but the Azure Fox Lady wrapped herself in her tails to defend against his follow-up attacks.
• Ying Huaixu changed tactics and repeatedly charged and threw Frost Annihilation, freezing the Nine-Tailed Fox and worsening her injuries.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox erupted in blood-red flames, ended her frozen state, and restored her aura to its peak as she entered Phase Two.

Ying Huaixu stalled the Azure Fox Lady in her Phase Two form while waiting for idle cultivation to let him advance. After reaching the Qi Sea Seventh Layer, he rejected her offer again and prepared to fight her with his increased strength.

• The Azure Fox Lady transformed into Phase Two and offered to spare Ying Huaixu if he abandoned his human body, but he refused.
• Ying Huaixu attacked with Frost Annihilation and his skills, but the Azure Fox Lady blocked him and sent him crashing through town with a tail strike.
• Low on pills and close to needing his Revival Pill, Ying Huaixu asked the Azure Fox Lady for time to consider her offer, and she waited as he checked his experience and the other battles.
• Ying Huaixu saw that Ye Ningshuang and the others had begun fighting their bosses, then gained enough idle experience to advance to the Qi Sea Seventh Layer.
• Ying Huaixu rejected the Azure Fox Lady again and challenged her to fight, while she sensed that his strength had changed.

After Ying Huaixu reached the seventh level of the Qi Sea realm, he gained the upper hand against the Azure Fox Lady, but her successive attacks exhausted his defenses and resources. Just as he finally broke her poise and began wearing her down, she transformed into a new form, leaving Ying Huaixu with no options.

• Ying Huaixu used his stronger Frost Intent and Frost Mark to interrupt the Azure Fox Lady's attacks, break her poise, and keep her trapped in a damaging sword barrage.
• The Azure Fox Lady recovered, unleashed waves of attacks, and struck Ying Huaixu with two enormous energy orbs, consuming his pills, warning token, Substitute Death Token, and Zhuang Mu's death-substitute doll.
• Ying Huaixu froze the Azure Fox Lady again and healed himself by repeatedly throwing his frost longsword, but he ran out of spiritual energy and lost his Frost Concept.
• Ying Huaixu attacked the kneeling Azure Fox Lady with Frost Annihilation, dealing soul damage as she neared defeat.
• The Azure Fox Lady rose into the air inside a bloody cocoon and transformed into a black Half-Demon fox with blue markings, beginning phase three.

Ying Huaixu was nearly killed by the Half-Demon Azure Fox, but power awakened in his Dao Sword Spiritual Root and let him fight her to a stalemate. They agreed to wait and see which side’s allies arrived first.

• The Half-Demon Azure Fox took Ying Huaixu’s Teleportation Token and struck him down, leaving him near death.
• Ying Huaixu thought of He Xixiang, and a silvery-white power from the fruit she had fed him merged into his Dao Sword Spiritual Root.
• Ying Huaixu’s new power healed his injuries and let his fists trigger Frost Annihilation and his Dao Sword Spiritual Root’s passive, turning the fight against the Half-Demon Azure Fox into a prolonged brawl.
• Ying Huaixu and the Half-Demon Azure Fox shattered space and fell back into the Cold Pool Secret Realm, then fought through hundreds of exchanges without either gaining the upper hand.
• The Half-Demon Azure Fox proposed that they wait to see whose allies arrived first, and Ying Huaixu agreed.

Xu Yaoyang, Huang Tianqi, He Xiuyuan, Qin Erniu, and Ye Ningshuang were forced out of the Secret Realm or removed from the fight as the Nine-Tailed Foxes overwhelmed them. Ying Huaixu was left facing the Half-Demon Azure Fox as three more foxes converged on him.

• Xu Yaoyang defeated the Nine-Tailed Fox's second phase, but its third phase killed him and his Substitute Death Escape Talisman carried him out of the Secret Realm.
• Huang Tianqi restrained the Nine-Tailed Fox while He Xiuyuan nearly beheaded it, then tried to pull out his spine to grow stronger before a branch shattered his Teleportation Token and expelled him.
• The Nine-Tailed Fox used vines to crush Qin Erniu and Huang Tianqi's Teleportation Tokens, then sensed that Big Sister was in trouble.
• Ye Ningshuang refused to leave despite her injuries, but Black Cat and Black Shadow activated a Formation that sent her out of the Secret Realm.
• The Half-Demon Azure Fox told Ying Huaixu that it had won, and three foxes approached him from different directions.

Ying Huaixu faced four Nine-Tailed Foxes after they sealed the Secret Realm and cut off his communications. He used a Primordial Chaos Creation Pill to revive, then fled while Frost Annihilation harvested experience from the realm’s creatures.

• The Azure Fox Lady ordered the four Nine-Tailed Foxes to seal the Secret Realm, and the blue fox’s water curtain blocked Ying Huaixu’s signals.
• Ying Huaixu realized the ongoing Hongmeng Mission gave him a chance if he slaughtered every creature in the Secret Realm, and he decided to use a Primordial Chaos Creation Pill.
• The Half-Demon Nine-Tailed Fox led the attack, and Ying Huaixu deliberately touched her explosive energy spheres to trigger the game’s revival prompt.
• Ying Huaixu used a Primordial Chaos Creation Pill to revive with white hair and blue eyes as snow fell across the Secret Realm.
• The Half-Demon Nine-Tailed Fox ordered the others to fight Ying Huaixu at close range, while Frost Annihilation marked and detonated living creatures across the Secret Realm.
• Ying Huaixu avoided fighting the four foxes directly and used his Movement Technique to run as he gained experience.