Chapter Summaries

Chu Kuangren killed One-Eyed Dragon and the Third Dragon Crown Prince after resisting their attacks, then learned that One-Eyed Dragon belonged to the Purple Pupil Family. Ice Silkworm Ruxue offered to submit to him to save her life, and Chu Kuangren had Xiao Ai analyze her.

• Chu Kuangren repelled One-Eyed Dragon's soul attack and killed him with a punch, keeping his purple eye to study.
• The Third Dragon Crown Prince transformed into a True Dragon and attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren shattered his dragon claw and battered him to death.
• Chu Kuangren questioned Ice Silkworm Ruxue, who explained that she had not joined the attack because she believed it would make no difference.
• Ice Silkworm Ruxue revealed that One-Eyed Dragon came from the Purple Pupil Family, known for its powerful soul-related techniques.
• Chu Kuangren refused to spare Ice Silkworm Ruxue for her information, so she knelt and offered to serve him.
• Chu Kuangren accepted her submission for the moment and asked Xiao Ai to analyze Ice Silkworm Ruxue for useful qualities.

Chu Kuangren recruited Ice Silkworm Ruxue as a follower and reverse-engineered the Purple Pupil Cultivation Techniques while Yin Honghua cultivated in the Dragon Well. Yin Honghua emerged with Golden Nature and a powerful Dragon Might, though the evil qi within her remained a concern.

• Chu Kuangren endured Ice Silkworm Ruxue's poison, refined it to strengthen his body, and planted a life-and-death restriction in her spiritual sea.
• Shi Ying approached the Buddhist lotus guarding Yin Honghua without being repelled, prompting Chu Kuangren to suspect she possessed a power connected to Buddhism.
• Chu Kuangren learned that the evil qi within Yin Honghua had less than a ten percent chance of being eliminated by the Golden Ancient Dragon's blood.
• Chu Kuangren used Xiao Ai and the purple pupil taken from One-Eyed Dragon to reverse-engineer the Purple Pupil Cultivation Techniques.
• Yin Honghua absorbed most of the dragon blood, gained physical Golden Nature, and emerged from seclusion radiating powerful Dragon Might.

Yin Honghua mastered the powers of the Golden Ancient Dragon and the Asura Blood Dragon, then set out with Chu Kuangren to rescue Jinghui from the Dragon Family. Meanwhile, the Mountain Ghost Divine Son forced the Dragon Family to surrender the Mysterious Maiden Token, and Yin Honghua arrived at the estate as the Divine Sons departed.

• Yin Honghua broke free of the Buddhist lotus and told Chu Kuangren she needed to rescue Jinghui, who had helped suppress her evil nature.
• Chu Kuangren agreed to accompany Yin Honghua to the Dragon Family, warning her that the evil qi within her remained dangerous.
• The Dragon Family head kept Jinghui imprisoned and awaited news about the Third Dragon Crown Prince and the Golden Ancient Dragon's inheritance.
• The Mountain Ghost Divine Son, the Lord of the East Divine Son, and the Great Fate Goddess demanded the Mysterious Maiden Token from the Dragon Family head.
• The Mountain Ghost Divine Son killed a Dragon Family disciple and damaged much of the estate, forcing the Dragon Family head to surrender the token.
• Yin Honghua arrived at the Dragon Family with the powers of both dragons, alarming the Dragon Family head.

Yin Honghua confronted the Dragon Family and demanded Jinghui, revealing the overwhelming strength of her Golden Ancient Dragon and Asura Blood Dragon powers. As she fought the family’s formation, Chu Kuangren arrived at the Feng Family restaurant and confronted Feng Yu over her hidden plans.

• Yin Honghua arrived at the Dragon Family estate and demanded that they hand over Jinghui, while the Mountain Ghost Divine Son and other observers recognized her two dragon powers.
• A Dragon Family Heavenly Pride attacked Yin Honghua, but she killed him with one spear strike, shocking the city and enraging the Dragon Family Head.
• The Dragon Family Head sent disciples to trap Yin Honghua in a formation, and she unleashed the power of both dragons to fight back.
• At a restaurant, Feng Yu told her younger brother that the real show had not begun and suggested someone was about to take the head seat among the Eight Great Families.
• Chu Kuangren, Shi Ying, and Ice Silkworm Ruxue appeared, and Chu Kuangren confronted Feng Yu about meddling behind the scenes.

Chu Kuangren confronted Feng Yu for hiding his presence to manipulate a conflict with the Dragon Family, then accepted her submission and the Feng Family's intelligence network. As Yin Honghua fought the Dragon Family outside, Feng Yu revealed that the Eastern Emperor Immortal Court and the defeated Mountain Ghost Divine Son had appeared at the Dragon Family, and Chu Kuangren decided to question them himself.

• Chu Kuangren exposed Feng Yu's plan to use him against the Dragon Family, and Feng Yu knelt to ask his forgiveness.
• Several cultivators tried to defend Feng Yu, but Ice Silkworm Ruxue froze them to death; Chu Kuangren allowed it.
• Chu Kuangren spared Feng Yu and said he would help the Feng Family take the lead among the Golden Continent's families if they gave him what he wanted.
• Feng Yu pledged the Feng Family's allegiance and offered its intelligence network to Chu Kuangren.
• Feng Yu told Chu Kuangren that people from the Eastern Emperor Immortal Court, including the Mountain Ghost Divine Son, had appeared at the Dragon Family, and Chu Kuangren said he would ask them personally.

Chu Kuangren arrived to rescue Yin Honghua from the Dragon Family and demanded that they hand over Jinghui, threatening to leave only a few survivors. After learning Chu Kuangren had killed the Third Dragon Crown Prince, the Dragon Family head decided to fight him to preserve his family.

• The Dragon Family disciples used Lock-Dragon Swords to suppress Yin Honghua’s twin dragons and attack her.
• Chu Kuangren’s sword shadow shattered the Dragon Family’s formation, while the Mountain Ghost Divine Son and Lord of the East Divine Son fled.
• Chu Kuangren joined Yin Honghua and demanded Jinghui, saying he would leave the Dragon Family a seed.
• The Dragon Family head learned Chu Kuangren had killed the Third Dragon Crown Prince and feared the Dragon Palace’s retaliation.
• The Dragon Family head called on his disciples to kill Chu Kuangren in exchange for a hundred Dragon Blood Pills, and Chu Kuangren mocked his willingness to sacrifice the younger generation.

Chu Kuangren devastated the Dragon Family estate after its disciples attacked him for the Dragon Blood Pills. When more than thirty Dragon Family True Immortals joined the battle, he unleashed the Life and Death Wheel of All Realms and killed several of them instantly.

• Dragon Family disciples rushed Chu Kuangren, and he swept them aside with Phoenix Fire that burned their karmic sin and life force.
• The disciples formed a Lock-Dragon Sword Formation, but Chu Kuangren's Azure Leaf Sword Sea overwhelmed it, killing many and wrecking the Dragon Family estate.
• Feng Yu watched Chu Kuangren's power and realized how fortunate she was to have survived their earlier encounter.
• The Dragon Family head summoned more than thirty True Immortals to surround Chu Kuangren and attack him together.
• Chu Kuangren unleashed the Life and Death Wheel of All Realms, annihilating the dragon qi and turning nearby True Immortals into blood mist as the city watched in shock.

Chu Kuangren slaughtered the Dragon Family’s True Immortals, then blocked the Fourth Elder’s Golden Immortal attack with the Great Wilderness Halberd. He faced the elder without retreating, ready to fight a Golden Immortal head-on.

• Chu Kuangren used the All-Realms Life-and-Death Wheel and Grass Sword Art to cut down the Dragon Family’s True Immortals as the witnesses watched in shock.
• Chu Kuangren continued his attack with Zhou’s Sword techniques, killing more of the Dragon Family’s cultivators while its True Immortals retreated.
• The Dragon Family’s Fourth Elder ignored the danger of karmic backlash and attacked Chu Kuangren with a Golden Immortal strike.
• Chu Kuangren used the Great Wilderness Halberd Technique to block the dragon-shaped attack and moved Yin Honghua into the space of Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve to protect her.
• The Fourth Elder suffered only slight karmic backlash, while Chu Kuangren confirmed he could fight a Golden Immortal and activated the Academy’s three great phenomena and Battle Secret Technique.

Chu Kuangren battled the Dragon Family's Fourth Elder, using his halberd, sword, and powerful body to overcome the Golden Immortal's attacks. After gravely wounding him in close combat, Chu Kuangren declared that he would make the elder the first Golden Immortal he slew himself.

• The Dragon Family's Fourth Elder attacked Chu Kuangren, but Chu Kuangren met his blows with the Great Wilderness Halberd and drove him back.
• Chu Kuangren drew Kunwu and clashed his Wu Dao sword strike against the elder's Dragon Soars Nine Heavens, shattering the clouds above the city.
• The elder struck with the Dragon King Claw, but Chu Kuangren broke it with his Divine Thunder Fist Technique.
• Chu Kuangren briefly restrained the elder with the Spacetime Sealing Art, then overwhelmed him with close-quarters attacks.
• The elder abandoned his defense and exposed an opening, which Chu Kuangren exploited to blast him into a deep crater and gravely wound him.
• Chu Kuangren declared that the elder would be the first Golden Immortal he slew with his own hands, as nine Imperial Dao True Dragons roared behind him.

Chu Kuangren attacked the Dragon Family to force them to hand over Jinghui, killing their Fourth Elder and trapping their Golden Immortals with the Jiuli Eighty Demon Generals. When the Dragon Family Ancestor intervened to protect his family, Chu Kuangren summoned a Great Golden Immortal-level Skeleton Underworld General and the Million Netherworld Soldiers, leaving the Dragon Family facing annihilation.

• Chu Kuangren used the seven Nine Provinces Cauldrons to kill the Dragon Family's Fourth Elder, a Golden Immortal.
• The Dragon Family Head and several elders attacked Chu Kuangren, so he summoned the Jiuli Eighty Demon Generals, who enclosed the Dragon Family's Golden Immortals in the Eighty Heavenly Demon Formation.
• The Dragon Family Ancestor emerged and shielded the Dragon Family grounds with an Immortal Essence barrier, declaring that Chu Kuangren could harm no one else.
• Chu Kuangren summoned the Ghost Gate and ordered the Skeleton Underworld General to shatter the barrier and fight the Dragon Family Ancestor.
• The Eighty Demon Generals renewed their formation as the Million Netherworld Soldiers poured from the Ghost Gate, driving the Dragon Family into despair.

Chu Kuangren destroyed the Dragon Family estate to rescue Jinghui, then learned that the Mountain Ghost Divine Son and the Eastern Emperor Immortal Court had sought the Mysterious Maiden Token. After Jinghui finished delivering the dead, Chu Kuangren gave her a Bodhi Mind in gratitude for helping Yin Honghua.

• Chu Kuangren’s Netherworld army defeated the Dragon Family, while Jinghui escaped imprisonment and chanted a Rebirth Mantra to deliver the dead souls.
• Chu Kuangren released Yin Honghua and bound the Dragon Family’s last surviving Golden Immortal, who revealed that the Mysterious Maiden Token could grant entry to the Mysterious Maiden Sect and its treasures.
• Jinghui reunited with Yin Honghua, returned her prayer beads, and offered to teach her Buddhism’s Mind-Calming Mantra to help control her remaining evil qi.
• Chu Kuangren gave Jinghui a Bodhi Mind as thanks for helping Yin Honghua, and Jinghui accepted the Buddhist treasure.

After destroying the Dragon Family, Chu Kuangren sent Feng Yu to investigate the Mysterious Maiden Sect and advanced all three of his souls to the Golden Soul realm. Learning that the Nine Heavens Glazed Realm lay under the Luo Family’s control, he set out to visit it as powerful Heavenly Prides gathered there.

• The Second Young Master of the Feng Family and Feng Yu admired Chu Kuangren after seeing the Dragon Family’s ruined grounds, while Jinghui suspected Shi Ying had a connection to Buddhism.
• Chu Kuangren told Yin Honghua to learn the Mind-Calming Mantra from Jinghui and ordered Feng Yu to investigate the Mysterious Maiden Sect.
• Chu Kuangren drew a Nine-Turn Heaven Soul Pill and refined it, raising all three of his souls to the Golden Soul realm.
• Feng Yu reported that the Nine Heavens Glazed Realm had once belonged to the Mysterious Maiden Sect and was now controlled by the Luo Family, so Chu Kuangren headed there with Shi Ying and Ice Silkworm Ruxue.
• The Luo Family agreed to open the Nine Heavens Glazed Realm as Heavenly Prides gathered outside, including three Divine Sons and Goddesses from the Eastern Emperor Immortal Court and members of the Purple Pupil Family.

Yuzhi and Qingfeng joined the many Heavenly Prides gathered to seek the Queen Mother of the West’s treasure in the Nine Heavens Glazed Realm, while Luo Yan longed for strength as the Mountain Ghost Divine Son noticed her Crimson Tears physique. Luo Yifeng opened the realm, and the Luo Family head let its extraordinary manifestation spread to draw in more contenders and create an opportunity for his family.

• Yuzhi asked Qingfeng whether she could obtain the Queen Mother of the West’s treasure, and Qingfeng said Yuzhi’s inheritance made it Heaven’s Will.
• The Lord of the East Divine Son watched Yuzhi, while the Mountain Ghost Divine Son teased him about his unreturned feelings for the Great Fate Goddess.
• Luo Yan endured the other Heavenly Prides’ attention and yearned for strength, prompting the Mountain Ghost Divine Son to recognize her Crimson Tears physique.
• Ice Silkworm Feng noted the powerful gathering and regretted that Ice Silkworm Ruxue had not come.
• After Zhuo Tiancang demanded that the Luo Family open the realm, Luo Yifeng appeared beside Luo Yan and opened a spatial rift to the Nine Heavens Glazed Realm.
• The Heavenly Prides entered the realm, and the Luo Family head allowed its wondrous manifestation to spread across more than half of the Golden Continent to attract more contenders.

The Nine Heavens Glazed Realm opened, drawing cultivators from across the Golden Continent, including Chu Kuangren and several powerful factions. Luo Yifeng challenged the Mountain Ghost Divine Son over an Immortal Medicine but was overwhelmed by the Divine Son’s strength.

• The Luo Family head let cultivators enter the Nine Heavens Glazed Realm, and Chu Kuangren arrived with Shi Ying and Ice Silkworm Ruxue.
• Ice Silkworm Ruxue sensed one of her clansmen in trouble and left to find them, while Chu Kuangren and Shi Ying explored the realm.
• Luo Yifeng claimed an Immortal Medicine and drove away weaker Heavenly Prides, but he narrowly evaded a black hole attack.
• The Mountain Ghost Divine Son, the Lord of the East Divine Son, and the Great Fate Goddess appeared and demanded the Immortal Medicine.
• Luo Yan warned Luo Yifeng not to fight them, but he attacked the Mountain Ghost Divine Son and soon realized he was no match for his opponent.

Luo Yan fought the Mountain Ghost Divine Son to protect Luo Yifeng and the Luo Family disciples, but Luo Yifeng betrayed his clansmen to save himself. As the disciples sacrificed themselves to give Luo Yan a chance to escape, her Crimson Tears power forced the Lord of the East Divine Son back and let her flee.

• Luo Yan broke the Mountain Ghost Divine Son's black hole and tried to leave with Luo Yifeng and the Luo Family disciples, but he demanded she become his maid.
• The Mountain Ghost Divine Son trapped Luo Yifeng again, and Luo Yifeng begged Luo Yan to accept the demand before offering to serve the Divine Son himself.
• The Mountain Ghost Divine Son ordered Luo Yifeng to kill the Luo Family disciples, and Luo Yifeng killed one before turning on the others.
• Luo Yan tried to stop Luo Yifeng, but the Mountain Ghost Divine Son injured her and blocked her while the Luo Family disciples fought to cover her retreat.
• The Luo Family disciples self-destructed one after another to hold off the Mountain Ghost Divine Son, and Luo Yan escaped after her Crimson Tears-powered strike forced the Lord of the East Divine Son back.

After the Mountain Ghost Divine Son seized an Immortal Medicine and enslaved Luo Yifeng, Luo Yan escaped and vowed revenge on them and the Immortal Court. She warned Chu Kuangren about the Mountain Ghost Divine Son, and Chu Kuangren considered her a potential future ally.

• The Mountain Ghost Divine Son took the Immortal Medicine, placed a restriction on Luo Yifeng, and ordered the Lord of the East Divine Son to search for the Mysterious Maiden Sect with him.
• Luo Yan escaped after fighting the Lord of the East Divine Son, swore revenge for the slaughtered Luo Family disciples, and set out to find the Mysterious Maiden Sect.
• Luo Yan encountered Chu Kuangren after he killed a powerful ferocious beast and extracted its beast core.
• Luo Yan warned Chu Kuangren that the Mountain Ghost Divine Son had an Immortal Medicine and allies including the Lord of the East Divine Son, the Great Fate Goddess, and Luo Yifeng.
• Chu Kuangren dismissed the threat and considered recruiting Luo Yan, whose Crimson Tears physique might grow stronger through grief and anguish.

Yuzhi and Qingfeng entered the Mysterious Maiden Palace, where the sect’s dead souls recognized them as allies because of their ties to the Queen Mother of the West. As factions fought their way inside, the Lord of the East Divine Son and his companions advanced unnoticed behind a protective token.

• Yuzhi and Qingfeng discovered the Mysterious Maiden Palace and entered, where Qingfeng identified its guardians as dead souls from the Mysterious Maiden Sect.
• Qingfeng explained that the dead souls recognized Yuzhi as the Queen Mother of the West’s successor and Qingfeng as an Azure Luan, so they let them pass.
• Luo Yan headed toward the emerged sect, while the Lord of the East Divine Son berated Luo Yifeng for failing to find it sooner.
• Zi Yuhan and the Purple Pupil Family set out to confront Chu Kuangren over One-Eyed Dragon, intending to use their soul techniques.
• The gathered factions joined forces to enter the sect and fought its dead souls, while the Lord of the East Divine Son’s group passed through unseen using a token that shielded them.

The Lord of the East Divine Son admitted Zi Yuhan’s group into his barrier but refused the other Heavenly Prides, while Luo Yifeng abandoned Luo Yan. Later, Zhuo Tiancang stole an immortal lotus and used the others as shields; as Ice Silkworm Ruxue faced the departed souls alone, Chu Kuangren appeared and crushed them with his pressure.

• The Lord of the East Divine Son let Zi Yuhan and the Purple Pupil Family enter his barrier, then refused the other Heavenly Prides.
• Luo Yifeng offered to help Luo Yan enter if she submitted to the Mountain Ghost Divine Son, but she refused, and he left with the Lord of the East Divine Son’s group.
• Luo Yan, Ice Silkworm Ruxue, Zhuo Tiancang, and the others continued through the Mysterious Maiden Sect and found a lotus-shaped immortal medicine guarded by many departed souls.
• Zhuo Tiancang seized the lotus and led the pursuing departed souls back to the group, using them as cover to escape.
• Ice Silkworm Ruxue froze the battlefield so the others could flee, but she remained behind and was left defenseless against the freed departed souls.
• Chu Kuangren appeared beside Ice Silkworm Ruxue and released overwhelming pressure that forced the departed souls to the ground in terror.

Chu Kuangren arrived in time to save Ice Silkworm Ruxue and asserted that her life belonged to him as her master. Facing a vast horde of departed souls at the Mysterious Maiden Sect, he suppressed them with his Reincarnation Emperor Seals and discovered that a buried formation had trapped the sect’s female cultivators as earthbound spirits.

• Chu Kuangren arrived and used Ghost Emperor Authority to stop the departed souls from devouring Ice Silkworm Ruxue.
• Chu Kuangren reprimanded Ice Silkworm Ruxue for trying to sacrifice herself, and she pledged her life to him as her master.
• Ice Silkworm Feng and the other Ice Silkworm clansmen resented Ruxue’s allegiance to Chu Kuangren as a massive horde of departed souls approached.
• Chu Kuangren activated three Reincarnation Emperor Seals and forced tens of thousands of departed souls to kneel or lie prostrate.
• Chu Kuangren had Xiao Ai analyze the formation beneath the Mysterious Maiden Sect and learned it had bound the female cultivators’ souls there, combining with their obsessions to prevent reincarnation.

Chu Kuangren summoned the Ghost Gate to send the Mysterious Maiden Sect’s trapped souls to the Underworld, then destroyed the formation resisting it with a sword strike. As he prepared to explore deeper into the sect, Ice Silkworm Feng confronted Ice Silkworm Ruxue over serving him, and Chu Kuangren demanded to know what explanation he wanted.

• Chu Kuangren summoned the Ghost Gate and began drawing the Mysterious Maiden Sect’s departed souls into the Underworld.
• The Soul-Trapping Grand Array resisted the Ghost Gate, so Chu Kuangren used Kunwu and Zhou's Sword, Tyranny to shatter the weakened formation.
• With the array broken, the Ghost Gate drew in all the remaining souls, and Chu Kuangren set off deeper into the sect with Ice Silkworm Ruxue and Shi Ying.
• Ice Silkworm Feng confronted Ice Silkworm Ruxue and asked whether Chu Kuangren had forced her to accept him as her master.
• Ice Silkworm Ruxue said the matter was between her and her master and turned to leave, but Ice Silkworm Feng tried to stop her.
• Chu Kuangren looked at Ice Silkworm Feng and asked what explanation he wanted.