Chapter Summaries

Ying Huaixu fought to escape the fox sisters, but the Half-Demon fox destroyed his Teleportation Token and deduced that he needed the secret realm’s creatures to gain experience. He froze the entire realm, yet remained one million experience short of a breakthrough and faced another deadly assault.

• The Half-Demon fox sent a squirrel to destroy Ying Huaixu’s Teleportation Token, cutting off his escape, while both sides resolved to kill the other.
• Ying Huaixu dodged the fox sisters’ coordinated attacks after noticing the Half-Demon fox had anticipated his movement technique.
• The Half-Demon fox guessed that living creatures in the secret realm benefited Ying Huaixu and ordered the green-furred fox to kill them.
• Ying Huaixu detonated his artistic conception, freezing the creatures, plants, and foxes throughout the secret realm, but gained only thirteen million experience and fell one million short of a breakthrough.
• After Ying Huaixu ran out of spiritual power, the giant fox struck him with a blood-red beam, and the fox sisters unleashed a barrage of Divine Abilities as he staggered.

Ying Huaixu survived the four Nine-Tailed Foxes’ assault by embedding Frost Annihilation in the giant fox and using its lingering damage to heal, enduring the fight until he gained enough experience. He activated his own third phase, but his realm advancement left him without experience or Spirit Stones.

• Ying Huaixu embedded broken Frost Annihilation in the giant fox and sent its dust into the fox’s bloodstream so he could keep healing from the damage.
• The Half-Demon Nine-Tailed Fox ordered the others to overwhelm Ying Huaixu, who fought back and grew stronger as the White Light merged into his Way Sword.
• After Ying Huaixu collapsed and revived again, the foxes consumed Blood-Colored Ore to recover and prepared to attack him after his fifteen-second health lock.
• Ying Huaixu focused his attacks on the giant fox, using it as a source of healing, and held on for five hours while the other foxes protected it.
• Ying Huaixu gained the final hundred thousand experience, announced his third phase, and saw that his realm had advanced to Qi Sea, Eighth Layer with no experience or Spirit Stones remaining.

Ying Huaixu defeated the half-demon fox only after she fused with her three sisters, but the fox detonated herself and destroyed the Cold Pool Secret Realm. After surviving at the cost of another Revival Pill, Ying Huaixu completed the Hongmeng Mission and wondered whether he could still trust Ye Ningshuang.

• Ying Huaixu overwhelmed the fox sisters, but the half-demon fox fused with the green, blue, and giant foxes to face him alone.
• Ying Huaixu and the transformed half-demon fox fought until both were badly wounded and nearly out of strength.
• The half-demon fox detonated herself and the fused powers of her sisters, causing the Cold Pool Secret Realm to collapse.
• Ying Huaixu used a Revival Pill, Frost Shield, and blood shield to survive the explosion and reach the secret realm's exit.
• Ying Huaixu received the Hongmeng Mission completion announcement and questioned whether he could trust Ye Ningshuang.

When disciples began fleeing the Cold Pool Secret Realm, Tong Xinran learned that Ying Huaixu was still inside and that his life might be in danger. As the other sects’ people blocked her from entering, his whereabouts remained unknown.

• Disciples from other sects teleported out in terror, reporting that the Cold Pool Secret Realm had become deadly, while Tong Xinran reminded their leaders she had warned them of its changes.
• Clearheaded disciples reported that Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples were astonishingly powerful, and the leaders of other sects fell silent as their losses mounted.
• Zhuang Mu told Tong Xinran that Ying Huaixu was slaughtering king beasts and that the sect’s peak masters were guarding against interference from other sects.
• Xu Yaoyang teleported out and warned Tong Xinran that Ying Huaixu was in danger; He Xiuyuan and Ye Ningshuang also emerged, but Ying Huaixu did not.
• Zhuang Mu told Tong Xinran that Ying Huaixu’s Teleportation Token was gone and his life might be in danger, while people from other sects blocked her from entering the secret realm.

Tong Xinran and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect faced resistance as they tried to reach the Cold Pool Secret Realm, but Xu Yaoyang ordered the Great Sun Sacred Ground to stand aside. When powerful figures gathered to watch Ying Huaixu, Lü Qingyi protected him, blocked their view, and clashed with a fishing elder before he withdrew.

• Tong Xinran prepared to fight the sects blocking her, while Xu Yaoyang ordered the Great Sun Sacred Ground to stay put and support the Divine Firmament Sword Sect if needed.
• Powerful elders and sacred lords appeared above the Cold Pool Secret Realm, and Xu Yaoyang warned the Great Sun Sacred Lord not to make an enemy of the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• The powerful figures watched Ying Huaixu face four foxes, expecting him to die, while Lü Qingyi monitored the secret realm.
• When Ying Huaixu appeared close to death, Lü Qingyi tried to pull him out, but lightning struck and a power enveloped him; he then revived at full strength.
• Lü Qingyi hid the secret realm from view and fought off the fishing elder with star-forged swords until he withdrew, citing their Dao injuries.

Ying Huaixu survived the Secret Realm and killed all four foxes, while He Xixiang drove off the mighty figures who had tried to learn his secrets. After He Xixiang carried the exhausted Ying Huaixu back to the sect, Ye Ningshuang left alone, and his companions were left shaken by having abandoned him.

• The mighty figures learned that Ying Huaixu had survived and killed the four foxes, and they grew curious about his cultivation and what Lü Qingyi had concealed.
• When the old woman threatened Lü Qingyi, He Xixiang arrived and punched her into the depths of the starry sky, leaving only a drop of blood behind.
• He Xixiang also blasted the fishing old man away, and the other mighty figures withdrew from the Secret Realm.
• As the Secret Realm collapsed, Lü Qingyi lifted it while Ying Huaixu struggled to the exit; He Xixiang caught him, and Lü Qingyi healed his wounds.
• Ye Ningshuang cried over Ying Huaixu but left alone, while Black Cat and Black Shadow feared her anger and Huang Tianqi, Qin Erniu, and He Xiuyuan stood in shame.

Ye Ningshuang forced Black Cat and Black Shadow to reveal a way to control them, then followed Black Cat toward a place where she could grow stronger. At the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, Zhuang Mu questioned the Grand Ancestor’s prophecy, prepared to protect Ying Huaixu, and identified the Ten Thousand Demons Sacred Land as a possible threat over the Blood Crystal.

• Ye Ningshuang nearly killed Black Cat and Black Shadow for overriding her choices, but spared them after they promised to help her grow stronger.
• Black Cat and Black Shadow taught Ye Ningshuang the Nether Soul Life-and-Death Talisman, which she tested on a demonic cultivator before agreeing to follow Black Cat.
• The Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s leaders watched Ying Huaixu’s battle and doubted the prophecy that Ye Ningshuang would resolve the Secret Realm crisis.
• Zhuang Mu inspected Ying Huaixu’s records, concealed a discovery about his application form, and ordered the sect to prepare for Ying Huaixu’s future heavenly tribulation.
• Scholar reported that Blood Crystal powder dramatically strengthened demonic beasts, and Zhuang Mu warned that the Ten Thousand Demons Sacred Land could turn the substance into a valuable weapon.

After recovering from his battle with the Nine-Tailed Fox, Ying Huaixu examined his rewards, cursed at an unresponsive Heavenly Dao account, and prepared for the challenges ahead. He then found Lü Qingyi researching his Revival Pill, though she did not yet know whether she could reproduce it.

• Ying Huaixu reviewed his mistakes in the Secret Realm and received 30 million experience, Spirit Leaves, Spirit Stones, and a mysterious gift pack for completing Secret Realm Calamity.
• Ying Huaixu opened the gift pack and received fifty improved Creation Rejuvenation Pills, one hundred Thunder-Attracting Talismans, and ten drops of Creation Spirit Milk.
• Ying Huaixu added Heavenly Dao as a friend and tried to ask for the quit button and a difficulty adjustment, but received no reply.
• Ying Huaixu decided not to advance to the Spirit Sea Realm until he had prepared for Tribulation Transcendence, then resolved to keep fighting despite Primordial Difficulty.
• Ying Huaixu found Lü Qingyi directing He Xixiang as she crushed Star Essence Crystal Cores, and Lü Qingyi explained that she was studying his Revival Pill to see if it could be refined.

Ying Huaixu questioned whether he could advance without a heavenly tribulation, and Lü Qingyi tested the idea by asking him to break through. He activated tribulation transcendence, but the progress remained at zero beneath a cloudless sky.

• Ying Huaixu decided to rely less on Revival Pills and asked Lü Qingyi about the Nine-Tailed Fox and the Blood Crystals planted in the Secret Realm.
• Lü Qingyi explained that someone had planted the Blood Crystals to strengthen the demon race, but she could not identify who was responsible.
• Ying Huaixu asked whether he would be harmed if he advanced without a heavenly tribulation, and Lü Qingyi warned that tribulation was needed to reach the next tier of life.
• Ying Huaixu suggested he might not experience a heavenly tribulation, so Lü Qingyi asked him to try breaking through while she watched.
• Ying Huaixu activated tribulation transcendence, but its progress stayed at zero as he, Lü Qingyi, and He Xixiang stared at the clear sky.

Ying Huaixu tried to advance his Tribulation Transcendence progress by stealing another disciple’s Heavenly Tribulation, then used talismans to intensify it until he reached completion. As his obsessions began to manifest, four familiar projections appeared, including a mature version of Lü Qingyi, accompanied by strange music.

• Ying Huaixu discovered that he could not use a Thunder-Attracting Talisman without tribulation qi, so he asked Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang to find a disciple preparing for Tribulation Transcendence.
• Ying Huaixu took the disciple’s Heavenly Tribulation head-on, while the disciple watched from the sidelines and eventually completed his own advancement by touching stray lightning.
• Ying Huaixu used a Thunder-Attracting Talisman to summon powerful purple lightning, then activated more talismans until his progress bar reached one hundred percent.
• Lü Qingyi explained that the descending lights revealed obsessions or evil thoughts that Ying Huaixu would need to fulfill to avoid heart demons.
• Four projections appeared in the sky—Lü Qingyi, He Xixiang, Ye Ningshuang, and a mature version of Lü Qingyi—as strange background music began.

After the Heavenly Dao exposed Ying Huaixu’s supposed obsession, Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang beat him before Lü Qingyi went into seclusion. Ying Huaixu reached the Spirit Sea Realm, forged and bound a sword scabbard as his lifebound Magic Treasure, and then went to the Pill Refining Room.

• Lü Qingyi and He Xixiang confronted Ying Huaixu over the Heavenly Dao’s vision, then strung him up and beat him.
• Lü Qingyi decided to enter a long seclusion, while He Xixiang told Ying Huaixu she would teach him her legacy after he upgraded his techniques and spells.
• Ying Huaixu entered the Spirit Sea Realm and experienced its increased physical strength, presence, and Spiritual Power.
• He Xixiang urged Ying Huaixu to eat more of her fruit, and he went to the Scripture Pavilion to choose Spirit Sea spells and Divine Abilities.
• Ying Huaixu forged and bound the Sword Cultivator’s Heart scabbard as his lifebound Magic Treasure, then headed to the Pill Refining Room.

Ying Huaixu prepared for future Boss fights by making pills and talismans, then recruited Chen Zhiyuan as a potential Formation Master and set him a cultivation challenge. He left the Divine Firmament Sword Sect to find Doctor Li and bring the skilled Alchemist back with him.

• Ying Huaixu spent a day refining pills and a night drawing talismans, determined to rely on overwhelming supplies in future fights.
• Ying Huaixu lamented that he could not learn formations, noticed the Multiplayer Icon had disappeared, and updated the Illusory Dream Trial with the Nine-Tailed Fox's information and harsher taunts.
• Ying Huaixu met Chen Zhiyuan, learned he was a Formation Grandmaster, and offered him sect resources if he reached the qi sea second layer within three months.
• Ying Huaixu left the sect without Old He and headed to Peaceful Town to find Doctor Li, hoping to recruit the Alchemist to refine pills.

Chen Zhiyuan learned that Ying Huaixu was the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s Saint Son and resolved to cultivate seriously with the resources Ying Huaixu had entrusted to him. Meanwhile, He Xiuyuan decided to become stronger, and Cheng Wanshu took him away from the sect.

• Chen Zhiyuan used Ying Huaixu’s token to take pills from the Pill Room and learned that Ying Huaixu’s authority came from being the sect’s Saint Son.
• The steward told Chen Zhiyuan about Ying Huaixu’s battle in the Cold Pool Secret Realm and how the Inner Disciples felt they had let him down.
• Chen Zhiyuan stopped hiding his cultivation, registered as an Inner Disciple, and began collecting resources to train in earnest.
• He Xiuyuan, distressed by his weakness and the rumors that Ying Huaixu had chosen to train Chen Zhiyuan instead, told Cheng Wanshu he wanted to become stronger.
• Cheng Wanshu activated a talisman, and she and He Xiuyuan vanished from the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.

Ying Huaixu returned to Peaceful Town, learned how it had prospered and recruited Doctor Li to join the Divine Firmament Sword Sect as an alchemist. He then hunted first-clear Demonic Beasts across the sect’s territory and used his accumulated experience to advance the Duan Xue Scripture.

• Ying Huaixu found Peaceful Town transformed into a thriving settlement with a Branch Hall of the Nether Capital Merchant Guild.
• Doctor Li told Ying Huaixu that Ye Ningshuang’s actions had drawn cultivators to Peaceful Town and that Ying Huaixu’s pills had helped him become a wealthy Second-Grade Alchemist.
• Ying Huaixu invited Doctor Li to join the Divine Firmament Sword Sect and gave him a letter of recommendation.
• Ying Huaixu hunted first-clear Demonic Beasts throughout the sect’s territory, triggering Beast Tides as they fled beyond its borders.
• Ying Huaixu spent experience to advance the Duan Xue Scripture, improving its abilities and increasing his automatic idle experience gain to one million per hour.

Ying Huaixu cleared several secret realms, upgraded his divine abilities, and captured and raised a wolf spirit pet named Xiaoxue. Meanwhile, the Mile-High Heaven Clan's hidden plotters learned he had defeated their forces and decided to draw him into the Star-Seizing Sect's Star Sea Secret Realm.

• Ying Huaixu used talismans and his freezing artistic conception to clear secret realms, then upgraded three Spirit Sea Realm divine abilities with seventy million experience.
• Ying Huaixu entered the Wolf Spirit Secret Realm, killed its demonic wolf Boss, and forcibly turned its soul into his companion pet, Xiaoxue.
• Ying Huaixu rapidly raised Xiaoxue to peak Spirit Sea Realm and decided to return to his sect to receive his master's inheritance before cultivating further.
• The sect master of the Thousand Mechanisms Sect told the voice behind the blood-colored iron door that Ying Huaixu alone had killed the Mile-High Heaven Clan's forces.
• The hidden plotter abandoned the plan to kill Ying Huaixu directly and ordered the sect master to ensure he entered the Star-Seizing Sect's Star Sea Secret Realm.

The Thousand Mechanisms Sect master accepted life-essence ore from the Mile-High Heaven Clan but feared its effects and gave it to his elders and ancestor to test. Meanwhile, shadowy invaders speculated that Ying Huaixu might be the world's true Person of Heavenly Mandate and decided both he and Ye Ningshuang must die.

• The Mile-High Heaven Clan member urged the Thousand Mechanisms Sect master to target Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang, offering enhanced life essence to help him.
• The Thousand Mechanisms Sect master crushed a piece of green ore, felt it transform and strengthen him, then forced its power out because it seemed strange.
• Regretting his alliance with the Mile-High Heaven Clan, the Thousand Mechanisms Sect master gave the ore to his elders and ancestor to test before using more himself.
• Shadowy beings watched the Thousand Mechanisms Sect master's actions and discussed the danger posed by this world's powerful natives and its Heavenly Mandate.
• One shadowy being proposed that Ying Huaixu was the true Person of Heavenly Mandate and Ye Ningshuang a decoy, and the group resolved to kill both of them.

The Mile-High Heaven Clan planned to keep the world's natives complacent so they could exploit the world's hidden treasure and eventually kill them. Meanwhile, Ying Huaixu trained Xiaoxue into a battle-hardened fighter before Lü Qingyi showed him a fish that had grown dragon horns and teeth in her pond.

• The Mile-High Heaven Clan decided to make the natives believe their cultivation methods were invincible, then slaughter the younger generation once the clan could fully descend.
• Ying Huaixu forced the two-day-old Xiaoxue to fight Demonic Beasts until they learned to coordinate their attacks.
• Ying Huaixu returned to the sect, gave the old gatekeeper a bag of pills, and learned that Ancestor Lü wanted to see him at Sword-Questioning Peak.
• Lü Qingyi showed Ying Huaixu a river fish that had grown dragon horns and teeth after spending a few days in her pond.
• Ying Huaixu praised Lü Qingyi, and she punched him in the head.

Lü Qingyi discovered that living beings could adapt beyond their supposed limits and urged Ying Huaixu to change the Illusory Dream Trial to identify true geniuses. As Lü Qingyi entered death seclusion, Ying Huaixu began He Xixiang’s painful inheritance training, which proved to be primordial chaos quality.

• Lü Qingyi told Ying Huaixu that her spirit fish had adapted to intense spiritual energy and grown stronger, leading her to question the limits imposed on people in their world.
• Lü Qingyi used Ying Huaixu’s spiritual power to confirm her suspicions, then told He Xixiang she was entering death seclusion and ordered her to use force against anyone spying on the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Lü Qingyi asked Ying Huaixu to make injuries in the Illusory Dream Trial real, so that disciples who died in the trial would suffer serious injuries and the sect could identify geniuses.
• Ying Huaixu changed the trial rules, then followed He Xixiang to Tianqu Peak’s Back Mountain and entered a pool of emerald-green liquid for inheritance training.
• He Xixiang pressed an acupoint to intensify Ying Huaixu’s pain and told him to eat a fruit that kept him conscious, while Ying Huaixu saw that her inheritance was primordial chaos quality.

Ying Huaixu endured He Xixiang’s painful body-refining legacy, which included soaking, being struck, eating fruit, and holding a sword in a horse stance. The process unlocked the advancing passive Magic Sword Tier One, and Ying Huaixu planned to test its powerful all-around improvements on a Boss.

• Ying Huaixu endured the first phase of body refinement in the green liquid as He Xixiang monitored him and his progress bar slowly advanced.
• After three days, He Xixiang began the second phase by tapping Ying Huaixu’s back, causing intense bodily and spiritual pain while his progress accelerated.
• When the pool water cleared, Ying Huaixu discovered his physical toughness and strength were far below what He Xixiang expected, so they decided to complete the rest of her legacy.
• Ying Huaixu ate the fruit He Xixiang brought him, then held her longsword in a horse stance as power and itching surged through his body.
• Ying Huaixu’s progress bar filled, granting him the advancing passive Magic Sword Tier One, which increased his sword technique power, physical toughness, and Magic Power strength twelvefold.
• He Xixiang worried that the result was weak, but Ying Huaixu explained that the passive had improved him across the board and planned to find a Boss to test it.

Ying Huaixu raised his cultivation to the third level of the Spirit Sea Realm and prepared to leave the sect to investigate the Evil Dragon at Cold Mountain Temple. He learned that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect might face attacks while Lü Qingyi healed her Dao Injuries, and He Xixiang explained how Lü Qingyi had overcome her poor aptitude by creating her own cultivation system.

• Ying Huaixu chose the Evil Dragon mission at Cold Mountain Temple because he could not continue the Hongmeng Mission without finding Ye Ningshuang.
• Ying Huaixu spent his experience and Spirit Stones to reach the third level of the Spirit Sea Realm, while He Xixiang prepared supplies for his trip.
• He Xixiang warned Ying Huaixu that enemies might harass or attack the Divine Firmament Sword Sect during Lü Qingyi's seclusion to heal her Dao Injuries.
• Ying Huaixu asked whether He Xixiang or Lü Qingyi was stronger, and He Xixiang said Lü Qingyi was slightly stronger.
• He Xixiang explained that Lü Qingyi had an incompatible inferior Spiritual Root, yet developed her sword cultivation and created her own cultivation system.