Chapter Summaries

The auction for the Hundun Black Fire escalated into a fierce contest between the Divine Pill Holy Land elder and Yingluo. Just as the elder seemed to have won at three million jin of Divine Source, Yingluo bid three million five hundred thousand.

• The Divine Pill Holy Land elder decided the Hundun Black Fire mattered more to him than the Seven Treasures Bodhi Pill's Pill Formula and prepared to bid aggressively.
• Fairy Yayan set the seed's starting price at five hundred thousand jin of Divine Source, and the crowd quickly drove the bidding past two million.
• The Divine Pill Holy Land elder bid two million two hundred thousand, but Yingluo countered, and the crowd recognized them as the same rivals who had competed for the Pill Formula.
• The elder and Yingluo raised their bids in turn, pushing the price from two million three hundred thousand to three million.
• After Yingluo fell silent and Fairy Yayan began counting down the elder's bid, Yingluo returned with a bid of three million five hundred thousand, stunning the auction hall.

Yingluo and her companions won the Hundun Black Fire for five million jin of Divine Source as a gift for Mu Yan, then ignored the auction’s enormous lot of illusory dream rainbow gold. Lingzhu was left astonished by their wealth and indifference to a divine metal that their sect already possessed in abundance.

• The Divine Pill Holy Land elder raised his bid to four and a half million jin of Divine Source, but Yingluo outbid him with five million and won the Hundun Black Fire.
• Lingzhu asked why Yingluo and the others had made such large bids, and Little Rou and Youruo dismissed the extra cost as small change.
• Yingluo explained that she had bought the Hundun Black Fire for Mu Yan, while Youruo said their other purchases were gifts for their fellow disciples.
• Yingluo and her companions stayed out of the later bidding until the auction presented a huge piece of illusory dream rainbow gold.
• Lingzhu urged the girls to bid on the divine metal, but Yingluo said it was too little even for Junior Brother Luo Feng to eat.

Yingluo and her companions watched the illusory dream rainbow gold sell for one billion jin of Divine Source, then accepted Lingzhu’s escort after the auction. In Blackwater City, Yingluo sensed pursuers, and Manager Nie joined the escort after apologizing, while another group blocked their path.

• Lingzhu failed to persuade Yingluo, Youruo, and Little Rou to bid on the illusory dream rainbow gold, which the Nine Li Imperial Dynasty won for one billion jin of Divine Source.
• Yingluo agreed to Lingzhu’s offer of protection, and five Profound Immortal experts escorted the three women out through a hidden passage and onward to Blackwater City.
• After reaching Blackwater City, Yingluo sensed pursuers and warned Lingzhu to put the group on guard.
• Manager Nie of the Heavenly Dragon Chamber of Commerce approached, apologized to Yingluo for his earlier offense, and received permission to join the escort.
• Another group appeared and blocked the way ahead.

Manor Lord Flying Rainbow joined Yingluo's escort team, but fifteen mysterious Immortal Lords soon surrounded them in Blackwater City to demand their treasures. After the group failed to stop an Immortal Lord seventh-stage attack, Manager Nie fled, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Manor Lord Flying Rainbow offered to protect Yingluo, Youruo, and Little Rou, and Yingluo allowed him to join the escort team.
• Fifteen masked Immortal Lords appeared over Blackwater City, and the Lord of Black Water City activated the city's defensive arrays while watching from afar.
• The Immortal Lords demanded the Pill Formula, Hundun Black Fire, and other treasures from Yingluo and her companions.
• An Immortal Lord attacked with a massive palm, and Manager Nie, Manor Lord Flying Rainbow, and their people tried to block it.
• Manager Nie recognized the attacker as at least an Immortal Lord seventh stage and fled, prompting the other Heavenly Dragon Chamber of Commerce members to run as well.

Yingluo and her companions survived an Immortal Lord’s attack with a powerful iron bell, and Youruo wounded him with a talisman that stopped his hand from healing. Four Immortal Lord experts fled, while the remaining attackers tried a soul assault that Little Rou countered with her bracelet.

• Manor Lord Flying Rainbow and Manager Nie fled with their followers, leaving Yingluo and the others behind.
• Yingluo used an iron bell to shield the group from an Immortal Lord’s devastating palm strike.
• Youruo severed the attacker’s wrist with a talisman, whose power prevented him from healing.
• Four of the fifteen Immortal Lord experts withdrew, while the remaining eleven prepared to continue the attack.
• A masked expert rang a small bell that attacked everyone’s souls, and Little Rou used her bracelet’s sound waves to counter it.

Eleven Immortal Lords shattered the girls’ great bell, but Yingluo, Little Rou, and Youruo continued resisting with the Five Elements Creation and Destruction Formation and more Law Treasures. The attackers prepared a coordinated assault, and one of them struck the formation with the Six Heaven-Burying Blades.

• The Immortal Lords attacked the great bell together until white lightning shattered it, leaving Lingzhu and the others exposed.
• Yingluo activated a formation disk while Little Rou and Youruo used Law Treasures, and the Five Elements Creation and Destruction Formation absorbed or repelled the Immortal Lords’ attacks.
• Little Rou’s jade pendant released a powerful Sword-Ray, while Youruo’s black stele was destroyed after forcing an Immortal Lord back more than a dozen steps.
• Manager Nie and Manor Lord Flying Rainbow questioned their decisions as the girls’ treasures revealed the strength of their backing.
• The eleven Immortal Lords resolved to attack the formation together, and one dark figure unleashed the Six Heaven-Burying Blades as five-colored light flared from the formation.

Yingluo, Youruo, Little Rou, and Lingzhu used a barrage of Law Treasures to hold off the attacking Immortal Lords after the Five Elements Creation and Destruction Formation shattered. As the Immortal Lords struggled to break through, one revealed nine Immortal Emperor Characters from his gouged-out eye and prepared to unleash them.

• Two Immortal Lords attacked the weakened Five Elements Creation and Destruction Formation, shattering it and exposing the group to their assaults.
• Yingluo threw talismans and a suppressive scroll to block attacks, while Youruo and Little Rou used Law Treasures to disrupt and restrain the Immortal Lords.
• A Profound Immortal from the auction house tried to flee, but the Immortal Lords' chaotic powers killed him and scattered his soul.
• Lingzhu urged the remaining auction house experts to help, and they joined Yingluo, Youruo, and Little Rou in resisting the attackers.
• Little Rou unleashed more Law Treasures, leaving the Immortal Lords unable to escape or reach the girls.
• One Immortal Lord gouged out his left eye and activated nine characters left by an Immortal Emperor, intending to destroy the girls.

An inner sect elder of Kunlun intervened when an Immortal Lord unleashed nine characters left by an Immortal Emperor against Yingluo and the others. The elder nullified their power and killed all eleven Immortal Lords with a single move.

• The nine Immortal Emperor characters shook Blackwater City, forcing its inhabitants to flee as their power overwhelmed the city’s defenses.
• The Immortal Lord’s eyeball exploded from bearing the characters, but he and the other Immortal Lords pressed on, intent on taking Yingluo and the others’ treasures.
• A transparent man appeared and walked through the Immortal Emperor’s pressure, which failed to harm Lingzhu, Yingluo, and the others.
• The man revealed himself as a peak Immortal King and inner sect elder of Kunlun, then declared the Immortal Lords’ crime punishable by death.
• The eleven Immortal Lords fled, but the elder released one speck of white light that split into eleven streaks and killed them all.

After the inner sect elder rescued Yingluo and her companions, Elder Qianping recognized them as Kunlun Holy Land’s personal disciples, stunning the onlookers and filling Manor Lord Flying Rainbow and Manager Nie with regret. Yingluo learned the assassins belonged to powerful factions below the holy lands and left their punishment to the elder.

• The inner sect elder joined Yingluo and the others after killing eleven Immortal Lord experts, and Yingluo teased him for arriving late while Lingzhu thanked her for saving them.
• Manor Lord Flying Rainbow regretted fleeing the battle, while Manager Nie decided to focus on building ties with Kunlun Holy Land through Elder Qianping.
• Elder Qianping recognized the inner sect elder and realized Yingluo and her companions were Kunlun’s personal disciples, then bowed respectfully to them.
• The crowd was shocked to learn Yingluo and her companions’ identities, and Manor Lord Flying Rainbow feared the consequences of his earlier intentions toward them.
• Yingluo asked whether the assassins came from other holy lands, and the inner sect elder said they did not but that their factions were powerful; Yingluo entrusted the matter to him.

After Yingluo and the others departed Blackwater City, its cultivators mocked the people who had abandoned Kunlun’s personal disciples and marveled at the disciples’ strength. The Lord of Black Water City regretted missing his chance to approach them, while the city learned Yingluo’s identity and cultivation level.

• Blackwater City’s cultivators mocked Manager Nie and Manor Lord Flying Rainbow for fleeing from Yingluo and the others, and both men slunk away in shame and fear.
• The Lord of Black Water City resolved to approach Yingluo, but the peak Immortal King elder opened a spatial rift and took Yingluo and her companions back to Kunlun before he could reach them.
• The Lord of Black Water City regretted missing his chance and returned to his mansion as the cultivators quietly mocked him.
• Blackwater City’s cultivators discussed the strength of Kunlun’s personal disciples and identified Yingluo as Gu Yingluo, Kunlun’s second personal disciple, already at the ninth level of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Cultivators in Blackwater City recounted the battle involving Kunlun’s direct disciples, while the Nine Li Imperial Dynasty suffered devastating losses defending the illusory dream rainbow gold. Elsewhere, the eldest prince of Nine Li continued his solitary cultivation and killed a powerful fish demon with ease.

• Outsiders gathered in Blackwater City to hear eyewitnesses describe how Kunlun’s direct disciples fought eleven Immortal Lord experts using Immortal Emperor Characters and an abundance of treasures.
• The Nine Li Imperial Dynasty’s forces were ambushed after leaving East Mound Island, and the imperial uncle and many experts died while one gravely injured Immortal King escaped with the illusory dream rainbow gold.
• The eldest prince of Nine Li, cultivating alone in the mountains, washed in a lake after years of life-and-death battles had clarified his path of ceaseless battle.
• A gigantic fish demon attacked the eldest prince with a towering wave, but he split the wave and wounded the demon with a single strike.
• The fish demon transformed into a small fish and tried to flee, but the eldest prince caught and killed him with an Immortal Emperor-level secret method.

The First Prince of Nine Li learned that Kunlun’s disciples had advanced far beyond him and decided to challenge the Nine Li Imperial Dynasty’s deadly Emperor’s Trial. Meanwhile, Shen Cangsheng emerged from seclusion at the Mahayana Realm eighth level, and a junior disciple began arguing that Kunlun’s strength came from its abundant resources.

• After defeating a ninth-level Mahayana Realm fish demon, the First Prince of Nine Li went to a city restaurant to rest and hear news.
• He learned that Gu Yingluo had reached the ninth level of the Heavenly Immortal Realm and that Kunlun’s youngest personal disciple had reached the fifth layer of the True Immortal Realm.
• Shaken by how far Kunlun’s disciples had surpassed him, the First Prince of Nine Li crushed his identity token and summoned an ancestor of the Nine Li Imperial Dynasty.
• The First Prince of Nine Li told his ancestor he wanted to challenge the Emperor’s Trial, and the ancestor took him back to the dynasty.
• Shen Cangsheng emerged from seclusion at the Mahayana Realm eighth level after creating a powerful Secret Method, while the Falling Moon Holy Land’s disciples praised him.
• A junior disciple claimed that Shen Cangsheng was no worse than Kunlun’s personal disciples and suggested their progress depended on their resources.

Shen Cangsheng learned that Gu Yingluo had reached the ninth level of the Heavenly Immortal Realm and returned to seclusion, spurring cultivators across the Desolate Immortal Great World to train harder. Back in Kunlun, Mu Yan sealed the Hundun Black Fire with his Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame and swallowed it to refine it.

• Shen Cangsheng rebuked Falling Moon Holy Land disciples for disparaging Kunlun, then learned Gu Yingluo had reached the ninth level of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• Shen Cangsheng recovered from his shock and entered seclusion again to study his Immortal Emperor ancestor's insights and pursue the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• Holy sons, sons of Immortal Emperors, and cultivators across the Desolate Immortal Great World intensified their training after Kunlun's disciples displayed their strength.
• Yingluo gave Mu Yan a seed of Hundun Black Fire, and Mu Yan crushed it despite the others' concerns.
• Mu Yan used his Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame to contain the Hundun Black Fire, then swallowed the fireball to refine it.

Yingluo and the disciples exchanged gifts and discussed how the Kunlun group’s rapid progress had shocked the outside world. Zixing and Ziyue revealed their breakthrough to the Profound Immortal ninth layer, prompting Youruo and Xie Purou to head to the back mountain forbidden grounds to ask Ye Chen for training.

• Mu Yan’s Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame subdued the Hundun Black Fire, and Yingluo handed out gifts to the disciples, including a sword stele for Su Jian and a True Dragon Clan scroll for Qin Haoran.
• The disciples discussed the outside world’s reaction to Yingluo and her companions’ dramatic advances, then dispersed to resume cultivation.
• Zixing and Ziyue broke through to the Profound Immortal ninth layer while cultivating together, after adapting to the power Ye Chen had given them.
• Youruo and Xie Purou visited the twins with their gifts and learned that both had reached the Profound Immortal ninth layer after half a year of training with Ye Chen.
• Inspired by the twins’ progress, Youruo and Xie Purou went to the back mountain forbidden grounds to ask Ye Chen for training of their own.

Youruo and Little Rou asked Ye Chen to give them the same cultivation plan as Zixing and Ziyue, then admitted they wanted to be with him more than they wanted to improve their cultivation. As Ye Chen began their training in an isolated world, the Willow God's aura surged in the forbidden area, drawing Kunlun's Immortal Emperors to watch for a possible breakthrough beyond the Immortal Emperor Realm.

• Youruo and Little Rou asked Ye Chen to let them undertake the same training plan as Zixing and Ziyue, and he showed them a vision of the sisters' cultivation.
• After seeing the plan, Youruo and Little Rou agreed to follow it, then admitted they were chiefly motivated by wanting to be with Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen teased the two disciples, drew them into an independent world, and began their cultivation plan.
• The Willow God's aura rose sharply in the back mountain's forbidden area, astonishing Kunlun's Immortal Emperors.
• Kunlun's Immortal Emperors gathered at the forbidden area's perimeter to watch for the Willow God's possible breakthrough beyond the Immortal Emperor Realm.

Willow God underwent a tremendous transformation in Kunlun’s forbidden grounds, drawing power from across the holy land as her presence shook Kunlun and the Azure Heaven Region. As her jade-green radiance erupted, observers realized she was advancing beyond the ordinary Immortal Emperor realm, though they did not yet know the outcome.

• Willow God’s breakthrough sent an oppressive presence across Kunlun, and its Immortal Emperors gathered outside the forbidden grounds to watch.
• The Dao Comprehension Tea Tree fled behind the Jianmu Divine Tree, whose power shielded him from Willow God’s presence.
• Willow God grew into an enormous jade-green tree and drew in power, while her radiance spread across the Azure Heaven Region and attracted cultivators to Kunlun.
• Immortal Emperor Honglian and Immortal Emperor Xuelian felt overwhelmed by Willow God’s pressure, and Immortal Emperor Jun Yan said she would become the strongest beneath the Sect Master.
• Willow God’s branches spread across the sky as outside observers mistook her breakthrough for the emergence of a new Immortal Emperor.
• Willow God’s jade-green light erupted like a sun, forcing everyone nearby to shield their eyes.

Willow God completed her breakthrough to the Heavenly Emperor Realm Stage, overwhelming the cultivators gathered at Kunlun Holy Land and confirming that the realm existed. As the Immortal Emperors sought insight from her, Fairy Mist and Rosy Clouds regained hope that Kunlun and its Sect Master could help her overcome her limited potential.

• Willow God’s emerald radiance and imperial pressure crushed the divine souls of cultivators who looked at her, while the others knelt before her enormous willow form.
• Willow God transformed into a human figure, announced that she had reached the Heavenly Emperor Realm Stage, and said she could fight roughly fifty Immortal Emperors at once.
• Fairy Mist and Rosy Clouds regretted using the Crocodile God’s origin, fearing it had exhausted her potential, but a female Immortal Emperor urged her to trust Kunlun Holy Land and its Sect Master.
• Willow God’s breakthrough restored Fairy Mist and Rosy Clouds’ confidence, and she resolved to seek a way to advance further.
• Jun Yan and the other Peak Immortal Emperors questioned Willow God about her breakthrough, but she struggled to explain what becoming a Heavenly Emperor felt like.

Willow God showed the Kunlun Immortal Emperors how to experience the Heavenly Emperor realm by fighting them. After swiftly defeating Jun Yan, she began a battle against fifty Immortal Emperors at once, leaving them to feel her full might.

• Willow God proposed demonstrating a Heavenly Emperor’s power by beating the Immortal Emperors, and Jun Yan agreed to fight her first.
• Willow God opened an independent space, where Jun Yan unleashed his full strength but she effortlessly dissolved every attack with her willow branches.
• Jun Yan asked Willow God to use more of her strength, and she overwhelmed him with emerald divine radiance, leaving him unconscious after about one breath.
• Willow God brought Jun Yan out and called for fifty Immortal Emperors to face her at once; Honglian, Xuelian, Ling Xue, Fairy Mist, and Rosy Clouds joined the group.
• Willow God told the fifty Immortal Emperors not to fight or resist, then sent more than a hundred willow branches toward them so they could experience a Heavenly Emperor’s might.

Willow God’s strike gave Kunlun’s Immortal Emperors insights into the Heavenly Emperor realm, while she failed to find Ye Chen’s hidden small world. Half a year later, Mu Yan’s Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame flared above his palace, and Chang Ye revealed that it had affected him.

• Willow God sent the Immortal Emperors through a life-or-death strike, prompting many of them, including Jun Yan, to leave and cultivate on insights into the Heavenly Emperor realm.
• Fairy Mist and Rosy Clouds chose to study scriptures in the Scripture Repository instead of entering seclusion, while Willow God could not locate Ye Chen’s small world and decided to wait for him.
• Over the next half year, Kunlun’s Immortal Emperors improved, and Jun Yan cultivated in the Chaos Realm after gaining insight from Willow God’s attack.
• Mu Yan’s Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame surged above his palace, drawing elders and disciples who discussed its power.
• Chang Ye nearly fainted while watching the flames, recovered with the help of immortal pills, and told the disciples that the Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame had affected him.

Chang Ye explained that the Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame had suppressed his Spectral Net Ice Flame so severely that he fainted, and described the deadly risks of refining or devouring Immortal Fires. The elders revealed that Mu Yan’s Flame Spirit Saint Physique, Sect Master-bestowed cultivation method, and innate flame helped him develop his unique power, while his Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame continued to grow into a towering humanoid shape.

• Chang Ye revealed his Spectral Net Ice Flame and explained its alternating extreme heat and marrow-deep cold.
• Chang Ye said the Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame had overwhelmed and suppressed his flame, causing him to faint.
• Chang Ye warned that refining or devouring Immortal Fires could kill cultivators, and the disciples realized Mu Yan’s strength required extraordinary risks and advantages.
• Elders gathered to observe Mu Yan’s flame, and one explained that his Flame Spirit Saint Physique and a cultivation method from the Sect Master helped him produce an Immortal Fire within his body.
• The Heavenly Emperor Divine Flame swirled into a towering humanoid form, and an Immortal King elder noted that Mu Yan’s presence was rapidly rising.