Chapter Summaries

Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang defeated the Fusion Beast, and Ying Huaixu received a massive first-clear reward that left him worried about the dangers ahead. In Starry Sky, He Xixiang watched over the two rising talents before Zhuang Mu called her back and said Ying Huaixu was being followed in secret.

• Ye Ningshuang burned her Spirit Sea, trapped the Fusion Beast in black fog, and swallowed the bead it became.
• Ying Huaixu received the team instance's first-clear rewards and opened a Mystery Gift Box containing spirit treasures, pills, talismans, and a pet training pack.
• Ying Huaixu reviewed the raid and resolved to support the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, while worrying that the Star Sea Grand Secret Realm might exceed the Spirit Sea Realm.
• He Xixiang watched Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang's success as other sects' powerful figures left with hostile expressions.
• He Xixiang stayed behind to guard against attacks, but Zhuang Mu called her back and told her that people had been sent to follow Ying Huaixu in secret.

Zhuang Mu told He Xixiang to guard the Divine Firmament Sword Sect rather than attack its enemies, while the Great Sun Saint Lord kept the secret realm’s details from Xu Yaoyang. Xu Yaoyang urged the Great Sun Sacred Ground to stay out of any attack on the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, and the Saint Lord agreed.

• Zhuang Mu explained that He Xixiang needed to guard the Divine Firmament Sword Sect because other sects might target Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang.
• He Xixiang asked which ancestor she should kill, but Zhuang Mu warned that striking first could start a war and endanger Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang.
• Xu Yaoyang, having reached Spirit Sea great perfection with help from a branch taken from the Great Sun Sacred Ground’s secret realm, asked the Great Sun Saint Lord about the realm.
• The Great Sun Saint Lord said he could not reveal the secret realm’s secrets, but assured Xu Yaoyang that it benefited rather than harmed the world.
• Xu Yaoyang advised the Great Sun Sacred Ground to stay out of any attack on the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, and the Great Sun Saint Lord followed his suggestion.

Xu Yaoyang questioned the cost of relying on Secret Realms and went to seek answers from Ying Huaixu. Meanwhile, Ying Huaixu strengthened his companions until Huang Tianqi reached his limits and Qiu Shiyi prepared to break through to the Dao Seal Realm.

• Xu Yaoyang decided that Secret Realms might be foreign species serving a hidden controller, abandoned his branch, and left to find Ying Huaixu.
• Ying Huaixu revised the Divine Firmament Sword Sect's techniques with Chen Zhiyuan's Yellow-Skinned Book, creating the Book of All Wonders-Supreme-Grade, which greatly boosted the others but conflicted with Ying Huaixu's own cultivation.
• Ying Huaixu fed Chen Zhiyuan and Qiu Shiyi enhanced Blood Luo Pills until they absorbed them, while Huang Tianqi used Dao Stones to improve his stats and control over space.
• Huang Tianqi declared that he had reached his limit, and Ying Huaixu urged Qiu Shiyi to delay breaking through so Ying Huaixu could join his Heavenly Tribulation.
• Chen Zhiyuan demonstrated that he could enter the Dao Seal Realm and immediately return to the perfected Spirit Sea stage.

Ying Huaixu gave Qiu Shiyi the Tear of the Deep Sea and arranged for the Dragonfolk Clan to move to Divine Firmament Sword Sect territory. As the main quest diverged from the game’s storyline, Xu Yaoyang arrived with a request and began trying to clear up a misunderstanding before discussing it.

• Ying Huaixu took the Tear of the Deep Sea from the Dragonfolk treasury and gave it to Qiu Shiyi, but told him to wait before entering seclusion.
• Ying Huaixu and Zhuang Mu agreed to move the Dragonfolk Clan into Divine Firmament Sword Sect territory because the sect lacked people to manage Baoyue Continent.
• The Dragonfolk Clan readily packed up and left for the sect the next day.
• Ying Huaixu worried that his changes to the storyline had made the main quest unpredictable and wondered what awaited him in the Star Sea Secret Realm.
• Xu Yaoyang arrived to ask Ying Huaixu for help, while Ye Ningshuang watched him with open hostility.
• Xu Yaoyang hesitated to discuss the Great Sun Scripture in front of Ye Ningshuang and began trying to clear up the misunderstanding first.

After Huang Tianqi explained Xu Yaoyang’s pure yang body, Ying Huaixu became less wary and agreed to help Xu Yaoyang revise the Great Sun Scripture. Chen Zhiyuan examined the scripture with the Yellow-Skinned Book and was shocked by what it revealed.

• Huang Tianqi told Ying Huaixu that Xu Yaoyang’s pure yang body prevented him from having lustful thoughts, easing Ying Huaixu’s suspicions.
• Xu Yaoyang met with Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang and asked for help modifying his cultivation technique.
• Xu Yaoyang explained that he believed cultivation methods from their world could eventually surpass foreign techniques and agreed that Chen Zhiyuan needed to be involved.
• Xu Yaoyang demonstrated the Great Sun Scripture, and Chen Zhiyuan and the others began studying it.
• Chen Zhiyuan used the Yellow-Skinned Book to examine the Great Sun Scripture and stared at its deduction in disbelief.

Chen Zhiyuan, Huang Tianqi, and the others transformed Xu Yaoyang’s painful Yang-Harvesting Demonic Art into the Sun-Swallowing Scripture, restoring his body and greatly increasing his strength. Xu Yaoyang agreed to delay his breakthrough so Ying Huaixu could join his heavenly tribulation, but Ying Huaixu instead broke through instantly and revealed he planned to shield Xu Yaoyang with another Thunder-Attracting Talisman.

• Chen Zhiyuan and the others discovered that Xu Yaoyang had mastered the Yang-Harvesting Demonic Art by mistaking its corrupt energy for a heart demon and slaying it.
• Chen Zhiyuan and Huang Tianqi helped modify Xu Yaoyang’s technique into the Sun-Swallowing Scripture, which nourished his Pure Yang Body and strengthened him.
• Xu Yaoyang’s restored strength let him defeat Huang Tianqi in a spar by using Ten Suns in the Sky.
• Ying Huaixu asked Xu Yaoyang to postpone his breakthrough so Ying Huaixu could take part in his heavenly tribulation, and Xu Yaoyang agreed.
• Ying Huaixu instantly advanced to the ninth layer of the Spirit Sea realm, then used himself to shield Qiu Shiyi from the heavenly tribulation and produced another Thunder-Attracting Talisman.

Ying Huaixu used Qiu Shiyi’s heavenly tribulation to advance his own progress, but Qiu Shiyi broke through to the Dao Seal Realm before Ying Huaixu could finish. Xu Yaoyang then underwent a tribulation that manifested as a divine version of Ying Huaixu, and he also entered the Dao Seal Realm.

• Ying Huaixu redirected Qiu Shiyi’s tribulation lightning through himself, while Qiu Shiyi endured the strikes and was repeatedly blasted into charcoal.
• When Ying Huaixu revealed he needed about ninety-three more strikes, Qiu Shiyi broke through to the Dao Seal Realm and the tribulation ended.
• Ying Huaixu showed Qiu Shiyi the Lightning-Repelling Talisman Treasures he had prepared, then went to see Xu Yaoyang undergo his tribulation.
• Xu Yaoyang’s tribulation manifested as a divine version of Ying Huaixu, whose icy sword qi and descending moon overwhelmed Xu Yaoyang’s sun.
• Xu Yaoyang entered the Dao Seal Realm, and Huang Tianqi explained that the tribulation’s likeness to Ying Huaixu reflected heaven and earth’s acknowledgment of his yin.

Ying Huaixu used Huang Tianqi’s newfound ability to locate Heavenly Tribulations, causing a wave of bizarre tribulation deaths among the Thousand Mechanisms Sect in Baoyue Province. His actions completed the Main Quest, but its new follow-up task left him confused because the Star-Seizing Holy Son and Holy Maiden had been captured.

• Huang Tianqi took Ying Huaixu’s advice, broke through to the Dao Seal Realm, and learned to sense Heavenly Tribulation fluctuations through space.
• Huang Tianqi led Ying Huaixu and the others to a Thousand Mechanisms Sect disciple’s tribulation, where a lightning dragon killed the disciple.
• More Thousand Mechanisms Sect members died in bizarre Heavenly Tribulations, prompting An Ruoyun to order the sect to leave Baoyue Province and regroup in Pinglan Province.
• Ying Huaixu’s actions raised his Heavenly Tribulation progress to 35% and completed the Main Quest, which awarded rewards and began a mission to rescue the Star-Seizing Holy Son and Holy Maiden.
• Ying Huaixu wondered what the Thousand Mechanisms Sect’s plan had been and was bewildered that the Star-Seizing Holy Son and Holy Maiden had been captured.

Ying Huaixu asked Qiu Shiyi to demonstrate the gap between Spirit Sea and Dao Seal, then learned how Dao Palaces transformed power and granted cultivators unique abilities. The explanation left Ying Huaixu wondering whether his own breakthrough would follow the rules of players or those of the real world.

• Ying Huaixu asked Qiu Shiyi whether the gap between Spirit Sea and Dao Seal was truly enormous, and Qiu Shiyi cautiously released his pressure for him to feel.
• Qiu Shiyi explained that Dao Seal cultivators condensed Dao Palaces tied to their attributes and Great Dao, transforming their Divine Abilities and granting preliminary control over Dao principles.
• Qiu Shiyi demonstrated his Spirit Water Dao Palace by slicing off a distant mountain peak and making rain nurture plants and spirit mushrooms.
• Xu Yaoyang explained that Dao Palace Divine Abilities varied and depended on comprehension, citing Lü Qingyi's transformation of her seemingly harmful Burden ability into a source of overwhelming strength.
• Xu Yaoyang said Qiu Shiyi's Weak Water-forged Dao Palace made him powerful enough that even Xu Yaoyang might not defeat him, surprising Ying Huaixu.
• Ying Huaixu recognized that NPC Dao Palaces differed from player Dao Palaces and wondered which rules would govern his own breakthrough.

Ye Ningshuang reached the Dao Seal Realm and formed a Giant Tower Dao Palace with the Divine Abilities Black Domain and Communing with the Divine. Meanwhile, He Xiuyuan returned to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect after reaching Dao Seal, only to be repeatedly defeated in the Illusory Dream Trial and find himself still ranked below Qin Erniu.

• Ye Ningshuang repeatedly condensed and destroyed her Dao Palaces before combining them into a Giant Tower Dao Palace with Black Domain and Communing with the Divine.
• Black Cat told Black Shadow that Ye Ningshuang's Twin Spirit Seas made her a one-person army, and Black Shadow abandoned hope of matching her.
• Ye Ningshuang opened her eyes after reaching Dao Seal and told Ying Huaixu about Black Domain, while keeping Communing with the Divine secret.
• Ying Huaixu grew eager to reach Dao Seal and went to join another Heavenly Tribulation.
• He Xiuyuan returned to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect with a supreme-quality Dao Palace and the Great Severing Divine Ability, then cleared Azure Fox's Illusory Dream.
• He Xiuyuan was instantly defeated in Ying Huaixu's Illusory Dream and failed to beat Qiu Shiyi, Huang Tianqi, Chen Zhiyuan, or Qin Erniu, who teased him about remaining below him in the rankings.

He Xiuyuan adopted Qin Erniu’s new cultivation technique, rose above his old rank as the Spirit Sea Realm benchmark, but still lost to Qin Erniu in the Dao Seal Realm. Meanwhile, the Thousand Mechanisms Sect struggled with deadly Heavenly Tribulations and demanded proof of its cooperation’s value from the Mile-High Heaven Clan, which offered an Ancient God’s heart.

• Qin Erniu gave He Xiuyuan a new cultivation technique, and He Xiuyuan soon used it to defeat nearly everyone in his realm except Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang.
• He Xiuyuan challenged Qin Erniu in the Dao Seal Realm but lost to Qin Erniu’s endlessly escalating Berserk ability, while the sect’s disciples began measuring their strength in units of He.
• He Xiuyuan met Pill Peak’s Honorary Elder, an alchemy genius brought back by Sister Ying, and decided to join Qin Erniu on a trip to gather spirit herbs and sell spoiled pills.
• The Thousand Mechanisms Sect’s disciples continued dying under Heavenly Tribulations, and An Ruoyun told the sect master she could not investigate while handling the plan involving the Mile-High Heaven Clan.
• The Thousand Mechanisms Sect’s master confronted the Mile-High Heaven Clan and threatened to end their cooperation unless they showed its benefits, so the clan offered him an Ancient God’s heart.

Tang Yinchuan suspected the Mile-High Heaven Clan’s gift was dangerous and persuaded the Thousand Mechanisms Sect’s ancestors to hide the sect’s true leadership behind an expendable figurehead. An outer disciple was made Sect Master without warning and decided to enjoy the position while he could.

• Tang Yinchuan put away the suspicious ancient god's heart and went to ask the Thousand Mechanisms Sect’s ancestors to let him step down.
• The ancestors refused to let Tang Yinchuan abandon the trouble with the Mile-High Heaven Clan, so he proposed placing an unimportant disciple in the public role of Sect Master while they stayed behind the scenes.
• The ancestors accepted Tang Yinchuan’s plan but required him to remain involved in the sect’s affairs.
• After an outer disciple completed the process of leaving the sect, a steward declared him the new Sect Master and brought him to the main hall.
• The new Sect Master realized he had likely been chosen as a disposable figurehead, then took two maids to the bedchamber to enjoy his unexpected position.

An Ruoyun tried to weaken the Divine Firmament Sword Sect by spreading rumors that Ying Huaixu controlled heavenly tribulations, while she set up conspicuously easy-to-break formations in Pinglan Province. Ying Huaixu wondered how the Thousand Mechanisms Sect had learned of his actions, and Huang Tianqi suggested they had simply blamed him by chance.

• An Ruoyun ordered the Thousand Mechanisms Sect disciples to claim Ying Huaixu had strengthened others’ heavenly tribulations, hoping to provoke people against him and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• An Ruoyun learned a new sect master had approved resources and authority for her, and she concluded Tang Yinchuan was using her to prepare for either outcome.
• An Ruoyun arranged crude, conspicuous formations in Pinglan Province and gave no explanation when her disciples questioned them.
• Ying Huaixu asked how the Thousand Mechanisms Sect had discovered his involvement in the tribulations, and Xu Yaoyang swore he had not revealed it.
• Huang Tianqi said the Thousand Mechanisms Sect had likely blamed Ying Huaixu because his actions had killed its disciples, and warned that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s refusal to explain itself would draw more hatred.

Ying Huaixu discovered that no one in Pinglan Province would undergo tribulation, leaving his heavenly tribulation progress stuck at 97%, but the Divine Firmament Sword Sect assigned him to rescue the Star-Seizing Sect’s abducted Holy Son and Holy Maiden. Suspecting the mission was a setup aimed at him, he stocked up on treasures and supplies, and learned that disciples from other sects were also heading to Pinglan Province.

• Ying Huaixu learned that no one in Pinglan Province was undergoing tribulation, leaving him unable to complete his breakthrough.
• Qiu Shiyi told Ying Huaixu that the sect had ordered them to rescue the Star-Seizing Sect’s Holy Son and Holy Maiden, who had been abducted by the Thousand Mechanisms Sect.
• Ying Huaixu asked Zhuang Mu about the situation and suspected the rescue mission was a setup meant to keep him in Pinglan Province; Zhuang Mu agreed but said the sect had no one else available.
• Ying Huaixu selected supreme-quality spirit treasures and scarce death-substitution items for his companions, then gathered spirit stones, talismans, and pills for the mission.
• Ying Huaixu proposed visiting the Nether Capital Merchant Guild to buy more supplies, while Xu Yaoyang asked the Great Sun Saint Lord for life-saving items.
• The Great Sun Saint Lord told Xu Yaoyang that disciples from the Great Sun Sacred Ground and other sects were also heading to Pinglan Province.

Xu Yaoyang told Ying Huaixu that other sects’ Holy Sons and Saintesses were coming to Pinglan Province for the Star-Seizing Sect’s secret realm, while the Great Sun Saint Lord refused to explain why. The Third Prince of the Ancestral Dragon Sacred Land then warned Ying Huaixu that the secret realm threatened only his sect.

• The Great Sun Saint Lord said an agreement prevented him from intervening in many matters, and Xu Yaoyang suspected he had been chosen as Holy Son because he would act against the Saint Lord.
• Xu Yaoyang told Ying Huaixu that other sects’ Holy Sons and Saintesses were coming to Pinglan Province, and Ying Huaixu asked Huang Tianqi, Chen Zhiyuan, and Qiu Shiyi to analyze why.
• Huang Tianqi and Chen Zhiyuan reasoned that the secret realm’s dangers and rewards had increased, while other sects seemed poorly prepared.
• The Third Prince of the Ancestral Dragon Sacred Land approached Ying Huaixu, offered him a severed arm, and thanked him for creating the Dragonfolk Clan.
• The Third Prince’s little sister said the secret realm posed no danger to the other sects and that only Ying Huaixu’s sect was in danger.

After learning that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect was in danger in the Star Sea Secret Realm, Ying Huaixu worried about his weaker teammates and found a way to make life-saving pills with Huang Ergou. He distributed the pills to his companions, preparing them for the dangers ahead.

• Little Dragon Girl and the Third Prince told Ying Huaixu that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect was the only sect they knew to be in danger, and Ying Huaixu fretted that he had not yet reached the Dao Seal Realm.
• Ying Huaixu remembered that Lü Qingyi had deciphered a Pill Formula and contacted Huang Ergou, who said he and Li Chunfeng still lacked healing laws to make the intended pills.
• Ying Huaixu sent Huang Ergou ten Spirit Leaves containing laws origin, and Huang Ergou refined Low-Quality Spring-Return Pills that could revive someone after death.
• Huang Ergou sent Ying Huaixu more than three hundred pills, which Ying Huaixu distributed among Ye Ningshuang and the others while explaining their effect.
• Xu Yaoyang asked for a pill because he was helping Ying Huaixu, so Huang Tianqi and the others each gave him one.

Ying Huaixu used a Low-Quality Revival Pill to demonstrate its power, and the Third Prince bought out Li Chunfeng’s stock of Healing Pills and Spirit-Replenishing Pills for Little Dragon Girl. Li Chunfeng left with more than thirty million Supreme Spirit Stones, while Little Dragon Girl still wanted to buy more.

• Ying Huaixu recalled that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s Low-Quality Revival Pills had been expensive even in the game, though he had helped create them.
• Li Chunfeng arrived with He Xiuyuan and Qin Erniu, and He Xiuyuan mocked Ying Huaixu for being weak.
• Ye Ningshuang gave He Xiuyuan a pill and cut him in half with Black Sword Qi, then watched the pill revive him.
• Little Dragon Girl asked the Third Prince to buy the pills after sensing that He Xiuyuan’s divine soul had also been restored.
• Li Chunfeng showed the Third Prince his pill selection, and the Third Prince bought hundreds of thousands of Healing Pills and Spirit-Replenishing Pills, spending all his money.
• Li Chunfeng sold out his stock and earned more than thirty million Supreme Spirit Stones, while Little Dragon Girl watched him and urged the Third Prince to keep buying.

Li Chunfeng sold pills to the Third Prince and Xu Yaoyang, then underwent tribulation transcendence using revival pills and Ying Huaixu’s Thunder-Attracting Talismans. He emerged in the Spirit Sea realm with a soul-spirit body and a new way of fighting, while Ying Huaixu postponed his own breakthrough.

• The Third Prince and Xu Yaoyang bought Li Chunfeng’s pills at high prices, drawing attention from the other cultivators.
• Qiu Shiyi and the others compared their combat strengths by how many times they could defeat He Xiuyuan, while Qin Erniu resolved to train harder.
• Ying Huaixu had Huang Tianqi give Li Chunfeng a Revival Pill and urged him to undergo tribulation transcendence.
• Li Chunfeng repeatedly revived through the lightning, absorbing its power and rebuilding his body and soul with help from pills and Ying Huaixu’s talismans.
• Li Chunfeng endured the final bolt and reached the Spirit Sea realm with a soul-spirit body that let him control divine sense and soul power freely.
• After learning Li Chunfeng could directly attack souls and healed wounds by spending mana, Ying Huaixu decided to wait before breaking through himself.

Ying Huaixu led the group to rescue the Star-Seizing Holy Son and Saintess while the Star-Seizing Sect struggled to contain a black hole and the Star-Seizing Ancestor fought his grandfather. The chapter ended with the sect learning that the secret realm’s inhabitants had turned into the Star-Devouring Clan.

• Ying Huaixu praised Li Chunfeng’s progress, then delayed advancing after a prompt advised rescuing the Star-Seizing Holy Son and Saintess first.
• Ying Huaixu tracked the quest and led everyone toward the rescue, while Old He followed behind and was ignored by the group.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master and elders tried to seal the secret realm’s black hole as the Star-Seizing Ancestor battled his grandfather in the starry sky.
• The Star-Seizing Ancestor’s grandfather said he acted because of “her,” then continued fighting despite the Ancestor’s demands that he stop.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master fired the Star Bow to annihilate the black hole’s surroundings, weakening himself as the Ancestor survived the blast.
• An elder reported that the secret realm’s inhabitants had become the Star-Devouring Clan, and the Sect Master blamed the Ancestor’s indecision.

The Star-Seizing Ancestor and Star-Seizing Sect Master discovered that the Star Sea Secret Realm was a vast world with clear laws and powerful Star-Devouring Clan members inside. A woman from another faction claimed the realm would benefit the Star-Seizing Sect but warned them not to destroy it, while the sect master concluded the scheme was designed to endanger Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang and provoke war with the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.

• The Star-Seizing Ancestor and Star-Seizing Sect Master examined the transformed Star Sea Secret Realm and found its laws unusually clear and its Star-Devouring Clan members frighteningly strong.
• The Star-Devouring Clan leader told the Star-Seizing Ancestor that their purpose would be explained later.
• A woman appeared through a Dharma Aspect, explained that the secret realm held clear laws and Star-Seizing Sect inheritances, and warned that destroying it would bring consequences.
• The Star-Seizing Sect Master argued that hidden enemies were using the secret realm to target Ying Huaixu and Ye Ningshuang and frame the Star-Seizing Sect for starting a war with the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.