Chapter Summaries

Huang Xiao fled with the Slaughter Domain’s Spirit Land Cold Jade while Meng Li and other peak experts pursued him. When the other pursuers demanded a share or offered deals, Huang Xiao refused to hand over any jade before they helped him, and the six peak experts surrounded him to attack.

• Meng Li returned after killing his opponent and joined Xu Guang and Yang Zhongge in pursuing Huang Xiao, who had taken the Spirit Land Cold Jade.
• Three other peak experts offered to help Huang Xiao in exchange for twenty pieces each, but he insisted they stop the Slaughter Domain pursuers before he paid them.
• The three experts demanded jade up front, and Huang Xiao refused, accusing them of abandoning him once they got their share.
• Meng Li offered the three experts fifty pieces each to join forces with him, and they accepted after Huang Xiao again refused to pay them first.
• Huang Xiao rejected Meng Li’s offer to let him keep a hundred pieces, and Meng Li ordered the six peak experts to surround and attack him.

Huang Xiao escaped Meng Li and the others by entering the dangerous area, but a formation expert helped them pursue him faster than expected. He hid the Spirit Land Cold Jade with Chen De and Liu Zhi Da, then left to draw the pursuers away.

• Meng Li and the others cornered Huang Xiao at the edge of the Safe Area, but he charged into the dangerous area and forced his pursuers to follow or leave.
• A Barbarian Desolate Realm mid-stage expert began breaking the formations, allowing Meng Li's group to close the distance.
• Huang Xiao spotted the formation expert and hurried to Chen De and Liu Zhi Da's hiding place, using small formations to obscure his trail.
• Huang Xiao gave Chen De and Liu Zhi Da the Spirit Land Cold Jade, then filled the cloth bag with stones and a few jade pieces to disguise it.
• After Chen De urged him to stay alive, Huang Xiao left to lure Meng Li and the others away.

Huang Xiao fled from Meng Li’s group into the Dangerous Area, using formations to hide his movements but failing to shake his pursuers. When Meng Li cornered him, Huang Xiao revealed that the group had followed him too deep into unfamiliar formations, leaving their escape uncertain.

• Huang Xiao returned from visiting Chen De and his companion, but Meng Li’s formation breaker saw through his concealment and the group resumed their pursuit.
• Unable to outrun Meng Li without exposing the secret of the Longevity Chapter, Huang Xiao charged deeper into the Dangerous Area without carefully breaking the formations ahead.
• Meng Li caught up with Huang Xiao, who stopped and offered to return all but a hundred pieces of Spirit Land Cold Jade.
• Huang Xiao pointed out that their surroundings were his leverage, prompting the formation master to admit that Meng Li’s group had entered unfamiliar formations and become trapped within them.

Huang Xiao tried to trigger the formation to deter Meng Li and the others, but it remained stable, so the group attacked him. After Huang Xiao killed their formation master and found himself outmatched, he swallowed three Violent Origin Pills and challenged Meng Li to use his full strength.

• Huang Xiao slashed at the formation, but nothing happened, and the formation master urged Meng Li to kill him quickly.
• Meng Li, Yang Zhongge, Xu Guang, and two late-stage fighters pursued Huang Xiao while the formation master stayed back to study the formation.
• Huang Xiao changed direction and killed the formation master, then clashed with Xu Guang as Meng Li and the others closed in.
• Huang Xiao swallowed three Violent Origin Pills after realizing the stable formation would not help him escape the fight.
• Huang Xiao taunted Meng Li about suppressing his strength, but Meng Li insisted his current power was enough.

Huang Xiao used three Violent Origin Pills to fight Meng Li and his allies, but the pills rapidly drained his vitality. After realizing he could not win a prolonged head-on fight, he killed two of Meng Li’s men at great cost and was left badly wounded, needing to defeat the remaining opponents before his strength ran out.

• Huang Xiao killed Yang Zhongge with a swift saber strike, making Xu Guang hesitate and prompting Meng Li to reveal his heightened strength.
• Huang Xiao and Meng Li exchanged over a hundred moves, and Huang Xiao realized Meng Li was stronger than he had expected while the pills’ aftereffects drained his vitality.
• Xu Guang and his allies helped restrict Huang Xiao’s movements, forcing him to take Meng Li’s attack head-on and cough up blood.
• Huang Xiao pursued Xu Guang, then changed direction toward two late-stage barbarian desolate realm experts when Xu Guang fled toward Meng Li.
• Huang Xiao endured Meng Li’s sword qi to kill the two experts, but the damage and vitality he spent left him needing to finish the remaining fighters quickly.

Huang Xiao used the Cold Jade Key to unleash a freezing chill that killed Xu Guang and wounded Meng Li. With Meng Li alone and Huang Xiao considering escape, the fight over the Spirit Land Cold Jade remained unresolved.

• Meng Li and Xu Guang pressed their attack as Huang Xiao grew increasingly wounded, while Meng Li claimed he could maintain his strength until the fight ended.
• Meng Li and Xu Guang charged together, and Huang Xiao drew on the Cold Jade Key to release a chill that stiffened them.
• Huang Xiao struck Meng Li and knocked his sword away, then killed Xu Guang with a sweep of the Minghong Saber.
• Meng Li recovered, retrieved his sword, and said he would kill Huang Xiao and take his treasure.
• Huang Xiao asked whether Meng Li could stop him from leaving, and Meng Li warned that the formations would keep him from escaping.

Huang Xiao and Meng Li fought inside the Dangerous Area while Huang Xiao’s Heavenly Demon Disintegration aftereffects left him nearly powerless. A sudden change in the formation let Huang Xiao ambush and kill Meng Li, but two newcomers then found him in his weakened state.

• Meng Li pressed Huang Xiao, whose vitality was nearly exhausted and who believed he could manage only one more full-strength saber strike.
• The formation shifted, widening the apparent distance between the two and trapping Meng Li while Huang Xiao realized he could move nearby.
• Huang Xiao approached Meng Li, but Meng Li sensed him and guarded against an ambush.
• Huang Xiao used the Cold Jade Key’s chilling effect to stiffen Meng Li’s sword arm, then struck him down with the Minghong Saber.
• Huang Xiao’s aftereffects left him pale and nearly out of vitality, and two newcomers arrived asking whether the formation had broken before recognizing him.

Huang Xiao was separated from two Alliance Domain men when a formation erupted, and he slowly regained consciousness somewhere else. He sensed that the Cold Jade Key had affected the formation and heard a familiar voice calling him “Junior Junior Brother,” but he could not open his eyes.

• Two Alliance Domain men found Huang Xiao beside the Slaughter Domain corpses and decided not to attack him after realizing he had killed Meng Li and the others.
• Huang Xiao turned to leave, but a violent formation eruption swept him away from the two men.
• The two men assumed Huang Xiao had been teleported elsewhere and waited, pleased with the Spirit Land Cold Jade they had collected.
• Huang Xiao regained consciousness in a state of deep comfort and suspected the Cold Jade Key had caused the formation’s unusual change.
• Huang Xiao heard a familiar voice call him “Junior Junior Brother,” but he remained unable to open his eyes.

Huang Xiao reunited with Qingfeng in a wondrous land where neither could escape, and learned that its rare plants were helping the Soaring Immortal Fruit grow stronger. The fruit had developed a human face and the ability to speak, and Huang Xiao saw that it still resented him for draining its aura in the Martial World.

• Huang Xiao woke beside Qingfeng in a strange place filled with extraordinary flowers and plants, and Qingfeng said he and the Soaring Immortal Fruit had been trapped there for years.
• Huang Xiao examined the surrounding formations but could not break them, then told Qingfeng how he had arrived and learned more about the place from him.
• Huang Xiao showed Qingfeng the Cold Jade Key, whose chill made Qingfeng uncomfortable, and Qingfeng explained that his realm had advanced through years of meditation.
• Qingfeng told Huang Xiao that the land's rare plants and fruits were helping the Soaring Immortal Fruit improve, and that the fruit had found another way to advance.
• Huang Xiao and Qingfeng approached the Soaring Immortal Fruit, which spoke in a child's voice and showed a faint human face; Huang Xiao realized it still held a grudge against him.

Huang Xiao reunited with Qingfeng and the Soaring Immortal Fruit, opened the Cold Jade Key, and learned that it might offer a way out. As the Soaring Immortal Fruit sensed powerful vitality beneath the ground, a broken stem appeared where a formation had been.

• The Soaring Immortal Fruit reminded Huang Xiao that he had saved him twice, and Huang Xiao thanked him.
• Qingfeng explained how Huang Xiao entered with the Cold Jade Key, prompting the Soaring Immortal Fruit to ask to inspect it.
• Huang Xiao opened the key’s box, and the Soaring Immortal Fruit shielded the surrounding plants from its intense chill with his vitality.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit said the Cold Jade Key might let them escape and urged Huang Xiao to study how to activate it.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit sensed powerful vitality beneath the ground and said a formation had prevented him from digging there.
• Huang Xiao noticed something appearing on the ground, and a broken stem emerged before them.

Huang Xiao and Qingfeng discovered that the surviving roots of a Heavenly Immortal Fruit had been kept alive by a formation, and the Soaring Immortal Fruit learned that it could grow toward becoming one. The Soaring Immortal Fruit feared being harvested for pills, and Qingfeng reassured it that Junior Junior Brother would eventually be strong enough to protect it.

• Huang Xiao identified the broken formation and noticed the extraordinary vitality of the short stalk.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit revealed that the stalk was the root of a Heavenly Immortal Fruit and that it could communicate with the surviving roots.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit explained that it could become a Heavenly Immortal Fruit, while Huang Xiao and Qingfeng speculated that the Longevity Daoist had taken the fruit and left its roots behind.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit said the roots had been sustained by the formation and might have been revived using the rare plants gathered there, but they had not recovered after tens of thousands of years.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit worried that powerful experts would harvest it for pills, and Huang Xiao promised to protect it while Qingfeng said Junior Junior Brother would eventually be strong enough to do so.

Huang Xiao, Qingfeng, and Soaring Immortal Fruit concluded that the last Spirit Land’s energy had been channeled into the Heavenly Immortal Fruit’s root. Soaring Immortal Fruit tried to merge with the root to strengthen himself, but a fierce surge of vitality erupted before they could tell whether it had worked.

• Qingfeng and Soaring Immortal Fruit connected the Spirit Land’s recent energy fluctuations and the vanished formation to vitality flowing into the Heavenly Immortal Fruit’s root.
• Soaring Immortal Fruit proposed attaching himself to the root and merging with it to absorb its stored vitality.
• Huang Xiao agreed to help, and Qingfeng warned Soaring Immortal Fruit to stop if he faced danger.
• Huang Xiao used the Minghong Saber to cut a notch in the root, and Soaring Immortal Fruit rushed to merge with it.
• A fierce surge of vitality erupted from Soaring Immortal Fruit, and Huang Xiao and Qingfeng sensed that something might be wrong.

The Soaring Immortal Fruit struggled to absorb the overwhelming vitality from the Heavenly Immortal Fruit's remaining roots, so Huang Xiao began sharing the burden. After reaching his own limit, Huang Xiao digested some of the vitality and used Heavenly Demon Disintegration to strengthen himself before helping again.

• The Soaring Immortal Fruit warned Qingfeng and Huang Xiao that the vitality flooding into him was becoming too much, but refused to sever his connection to the remaining roots.
• Huang Xiao and Qingfeng waited as the Soaring Immortal Fruit absorbed vitality for two hours, until the escaping vitality signaled that he was nearing his limit.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit asked Huang Xiao to absorb some of the escaping vitality, and Huang Xiao's help steadied the fruit while strengthening his Longevity True Qi.
• After six hours, Huang Xiao reached his limit and withdrew to digest the vitality, while the Soaring Immortal Fruit said he could hold on longer.
• Huang Xiao returned to help share the burden and used Heavenly Demon Disintegration to boost his aura, surprising the Soaring Immortal Fruit.

Huang Xiao used Heavenly Demon Disintegration to manage the overwhelming vitality flowing into the Soaring Immortal Fruit, pushing himself to the sixteenth level before reaching his limit. When the fruit began swelling dangerously, Spirit Land Cold Jade cleared its muddled divine sense, but Huang Xiao doubted the fifteen pieces would last long enough.

• Huang Xiao repeatedly used the fourteenth and fifteenth levels of Heavenly Demon Disintegration to consume vitality, then collapsed after using the fifteenth level three times in succession.
• Over the next three days, Huang Xiao mastered the sixteenth level and briefly reached for the seventeenth, but failed to use it and exhausted his mind.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit told Huang Xiao and Qingfeng to let it continue alone, and Huang Xiao rested while the fruit absorbed more vitality.
• A day later, the Soaring Immortal Fruit swelled to more than three times its original size, and Huang Xiao and Qingfeng urged it to stop.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit asked to use Spirit Land Cold Jade to clear its divine sense, and Huang Xiao brought out fifteen pieces that quickly restored its clarity.
• Huang Xiao estimated that each piece would last about a day; the Soaring Immortal Fruit insisted fifteen days would be enough, but Huang Xiao remained doubtful.

Huang Xiao used the Cold Jade Key to help the Soaring Immortal Fruit endure the immense vitality as it merged with a remnant root. The Soaring Immortal Fruit discovered that accumulating frost could restrain its swelling body, but its Divine Sense remained in danger.

• Huang Xiao set up a formation to keep the Cold Jade Key’s cold from harming the nearby exotic flowers and plants.
• Huang Xiao brought the Cold Jade Key close to the Soaring Immortal Fruit, and frost covered the fruit’s body.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit tested how the frost restrained its swelling and concluded that thicker ice could keep vitality confined so it could absorb it slowly.
• Huang Xiao warned Qingfeng and the Soaring Immortal Fruit that the cold could not prevent the Soaring Immortal Fruit’s Divine Sense from eventually failing.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit accepted that its Divine Sense remained at risk and resolved to keep holding on.

Huang Xiao helped the Soaring Immortal Fruit protect its body and Divine Sense while it absorbed vitality and prepared to merge with a remnant root. He then studied the Cold Jade Key’s formation and discovered how to leave their prison, though the chapter ended before he activated it.

• Huang Xiao proposed that the Soaring Immortal Fruit seal its body in ice and let its Divine Sense rest inside the Supreme Ghost Stele.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit entered the Supreme Ghost Stele and confirmed that it could move its Divine Sense in and out freely.
• Huang Xiao warned the Soaring Immortal Fruit to avoid the Hell Origin Flame and leave the strands of Divine Sense inside untouched.
• The Soaring Immortal Fruit sealed its body and the Supreme Ghost Stele in ice while Huang Xiao examined the Cold Jade Key.
• Huang Xiao found that the key’s formation had become easier to understand and spent about ten days deciphering its exit method.
• Huang Xiao told Qingfeng that he had comprehended the relevant part of the formation and could activate it to leave.

Huang Xiao decided to leave the Spirit Land without taking the Cold Jade Key or Supreme Ghost Stele, leaving them with Qingfeng to protect the Soaring Immortal Fruit. After Huang Xiao activated the key’s formation and returned to the Slaughter Domain, several people appeared before him.

• Qingfeng asked Huang Xiao to leave the Cold Jade Key and Supreme Ghost Stele behind while the Soaring Immortal Fruit continued merging with its root remnant.
• Huang Xiao explained that he could leave by activating the Cold Jade Key’s formation, though he would likely be unable to reenter the Spirit Land, and taught Qingfeng how to leave later.
• Huang Xiao gave Qingfeng a box to seal the treasures’ auras and urged him to find Huang Xiao in the Demon Domain after the Soaring Immortal Fruit was ready.
• Huang Xiao activated the Cold Jade Key’s formation and vanished from the Spirit Land, while Qingfeng remained with the Soaring Immortal Fruit.
• Huang Xiao reappeared at the place where the group had paused before entering the Spirit Land, and several people stood before him.

Huang Xiao emerged alive from the Spirit Land and returned to the Holy City, where he admitted to killing Meng Li and the others. Ren Dongju welcomed him and praised him for obtaining two hundred Spirit Land Cold Jades.

• Huang Xiao emerged from the Spirit Land and found Wood Demon Sect and Slaughter Domain groups waiting for him.
• The Wood Demon Sect expert explained that the Slaughter Domain believed Huang Xiao and Meng Li's group had perished together.
• Huang Xiao told the Slaughter Domain group that Meng Li and the others were dead and that he had killed them.
• The Wood Demon Sect expert said Ren Dongju was in the Holy City, and Huang Xiao agreed to return there.
• Ren Dongju welcomed Huang Xiao in the Holy City and praised him for obtaining two hundred Spirit Land Cold Jades, surprising Huang Xiao.

Huang Xiao learned that the Slaughter Domain had traded for much of the Spirit Land Cold Jade after losing jade to mysterious ambushes, while the Demon Domain was also blamed for the attacks. He explained to Ren Dongju that he had fled into the Dangerous Area with the jade, then asked whether Ren Dongju would believe that he had killed Meng Li and the others.

• Huang Xiao asked why nearly five hundred pieces of Spirit Land Cold Jade had not returned with the Wood Demon Sect, and Ren Dongju explained that the Slaughter Domain had traded for some of it.
• Ren Dongju told Huang Xiao that unidentified experts had ambushed returning powers, with the Alliance Domain suffering the greatest losses and the Demon Domain also being attacked.
• Ren Dongju said the Slaughter Domain had lost jade from three locations and gained none from four, making it unwise to refuse its trade offer.
• Huang Xiao said he had taken Meng Li and the others' jade and fled into the Dangerous Area, where another formation expert pursued him.
• Huang Xiao asked Ren Dongju whether he would believe that Huang Xiao had killed Meng Li and all the others.

Huang Xiao claimed that the Spirit Land's formations had trapped him after he killed Meng Li and the others, while concealing where he had really gone. He Zhe, one of the Four Fiends, demanded to keep Huang Xiao to investigate his survival, and Ren Dongju challenged him over the agreement between the Great Domains.

• Huang Xiao told Ren Dongju that he had killed Meng Li and the others with help from the Spirit Land's formations and had lost the Spirit Land Cold Jade when he was teleported out.
• He Zhe arrived and announced that he would take Huang Xiao away to learn how he had survived inside the Spirit Land for over a month.
• Ren Dongju secretly warned Huang Xiao that He Zhe was one of the Four Fiends under the Slaughter Evil Lord, and Huang Xiao repeated his account to He Zhe.
• He Zhe dismissed Huang Xiao's explanation as inconclusive and insisted on keeping him until they uncovered the mystery.
• Ren Dongju objected that He Zhe was overstepping the agreement between the Great Domains.