Chapter Summaries

Three cultivators were corroded by strange red Qi pouring from a spatial rift, but Ye Chen arrived and used the power of rules to remove it from them and contain the leak. The cultivators woke with their bodies restored and their realms raised to Immortal King, while Ye Chen warned them that the Qi had nearly killed them.

• The female cultivator agreed to guard her two brothers while they approached the spatial rift to absorb its red Qi.
• The red Qi rushed into all three cultivators, corroded their bodies and souls, and transformed them into eerie beings whose realms surged to the Immortal King level.
• Ye Chen appeared, temporarily sealed the rift, then used the power of rules to restrain the red Qi and extract it from the three cultivators.
• The three cultivators regained consciousness with the corruption gone and discovered that they had all become Immortal Kings.
• The middle-aged man praised the red Qi, but Ye Chen told them they would have died without his intervention and continued collecting the Qi nearby.

Ye Chen sealed the eerie red rule that had infected the Myriad Realms of the Heavens, saved three cultivators, and returned to the Heavenly Divine Realm to investigate the threat. After the cultivators recognized him as the Lord of Kunlun, Ye Chen destroyed the captured rule and considered preparing his disciples for the danger ahead.

• Ye Chen gathered the eerie red presence, restrained it with the power of rules, and vanished after warning the three cultivators to be less curious.
• The three cultivators realized Ye Chen had saved them from the painful corruption that had accompanied their breakthroughs to the Immortal King Realm Stage.
• The female cultivator recognized Ye Chen as the Lord of Kunlun, and she and her brothers celebrated having met him.
• Ye Chen examined the captured eerie red presence and discovered it was an unfamiliar rule that had invaded the Myriad Realms of the Heavens.
• Ye Chen thought the Heavenly Divine Realm might face a growing threat and considered training his disciples to become powerful allies.
• Ye Chen crushed the eerie red rule with the power of other rules, making it disappear completely.

Ye Chen scanned the entire Void Kun Realm with his divine soul to check for more traces of the dangerous power. His sweep startled powerful reclusive experts across the realm, who wondered whether an immensely strong outsider had arrived.

• Ye Chen spread his divine soul power across the Void Kun Realm to search for similar cases.
• Vast Sea Sect's secluded old monsters felt the sweep, discussed who could possess such strength, and decided to act as though nothing had happened.
• Blood Jade Palace's secluded ancestors mistook the divine soul power for an attack and prepared to fight.
• After the sweep ended without an attack, the Blood Jade Palace ancestors debated whether an outsider or a newly ascended expert was responsible.
• The Blood Jade Palace ancestors rejected the idea that someone in the realm had just broken through and grew uneasy that an outside expert might target them.

Ye Chen swept his divine soul across the entire Void Kun Realm and discovered an eerie-power invasion. The realm’s powerful figures feared the mysterious expert and speculated about his intentions while the Vast Sea Sect Master planned to identify and recruit him.

• Blood Jade Palace ancestors and other hidden experts worried that Ye Chen might attack, then relaxed when nothing further happened.
• Ye Chen searched the entire Void Kun Realm with his divine soul and discovered a place being invaded by eerie power.
• Ye Chen vanished and rushed toward the site of the invasion.
• At the Void Kun Genius Battle, the Vast Sea Sect Master and the other leaders sensed Ye Chen’s overwhelming divine soul power and cautiously discussed his motives.
• The Vast Sea Sect Master decided to investigate Ye Chen’s identity and try to win him over, while resenting Kunlun’s personal disciples.

Ye Chen reached the Mist Swamp to investigate the long-standing red power at its depths, but paused to explore the strange region. A party seeking Extreme Baleful Intent Yin Dragon Divine Liquid encountered him near the swamp’s middle region.

• Ye Chen entered the Mist Swamp, whose disorienting mist could not affect him, and sensed the red power had been present for a long time.
• Ye Chen decided there was no need to rush toward the source and took the opportunity to study the swamp and its creatures.
• A ten-person party led by a bearded man entered the swamp, protected by four blue lamps, while Zhilan worried about the danger ahead.
• The party continued in search of the rare Extreme Baleful Intent Yin Dragon Divine Liquid, hoping to use it to improve their future breakthroughs.
• The bearded man spotted a figure in the mist and warned the party that it might be a swamp creature.
• The mist cleared to reveal Ye Chen, and the party relaxed when they saw he was a human cultivator.

Ye Chen encountered a group of cultivators in the Mist Swamp, where Zhilan became fascinated by him and warned him about the dangers ahead. After he continued into the mist, her companions rebuked her for trusting a stranger, and the group set off toward the Extreme Baleful Intent Yin Dragon Divine Liquid.

• The bearded man and his companions saw that Ye Chen was human and remained wary of him.
• Zhilan was captivated by Ye Chen, but her senior brother warned her that he could be dangerous.
• Zhilan cautioned Ye Chen about going deeper into the Mist Swamp, but he said he could travel through it safely and disappeared into the mist.
• The bearded man mocked Zhilan for watching Ye Chen leave, and she said she had thought he seemed like a good person.
• Zhilan's companions lectured her about trusting a stranger and letting outsiders join their group.
• The bearded man told the group to change direction and search near a hazy mountain peak for the Extreme Baleful Intent Yin Dragon Divine Liquid.

Ye Chen entered the Mist Swamp and defeated its powerful but instinct-driven creatures with ease. After killing several humanoid crocodiles, he crossed into the territory of another species, whose attacking roots burst apart before reaching him.

• Ye Chen waited as a hundred-foot humanoid crocodile charged from the mist and attacked him with its claws.
• Ye Chen evaded the crocodile's strikes and criticized its crude fighting techniques.
• When the crocodile attacked with its tail, Ye Chen sliced through it and the creature's body with a ray of white light, also cutting through distant mountain peaks.
• Ye Chen continued through the crocodiles' territory, killing every one that attacked him in a single move.
• Ye Chen entered another stretch of swamp, where countless roots lunged at him and exploded before they could reach him.

Ye Chen crossed the Mist Swamp’s giant trees and mind-corroding fog without being harmed. He encountered a group of giant red snakes led by an early-stage Hunyuan Divine Lord, and the chapter ended as the snakes prepared to fight him.

• The strange trees attacked Ye Chen with painful, soul-shaking howls, but he set them ablaze and continued through the swamp.
• Ye Chen ignored the increasingly thick fog’s effects on the soul and mind as he passed through the giant trees’ territory.
• A giant red python detected Ye Chen’s scent, and more than a dozen giant red snakes gathered, drawn by the prospect of devouring him.
• The leading snake recognized Ye Chen as an outsider and refused to move aside; Ye Chen warned the snakes to let him pass, but they chose to attack.

Ye Chen effortlessly survived the red giant serpents’ poisonous smoke and killed them with a thread formed from the Space Principle. He continued deeper into the Mist Swamp as Zhilan and her companions unknowingly followed his route.

• The red giant serpents engulfed Ye Chen in corrosive smoke, but he emerged unharmed and mocked their attack.
• The leading red giant serpent ordered the others to kill Ye Chen, and they charged him with their powerful bodies.
• Ye Chen cut the serpents into pieces with a thread formed from the Space Principle.
• Ye Chen continued deeper into the Mist Swamp while Zhilan’s team unknowingly converged onto his path.
• Zhilan worried that the team had lost its way, and the bushy-bearded man checked their map with uncertainty.

Zhilan and her companions, lost in the Mist Swamp, discovered signs of a powerful fighter who had slain a savage swamp crocodile and burned away the mist. They continued into the scorched area, stunned by the scale of the destruction.

• Zhilan urged the bearded man to turn back, but he scolded her and insisted they keep going.
• The group found a freshly killed savage swamp crocodile, cut apart in a single strike, with mountain peaks behind it sliced flat.
• Zhilan suspected the extraordinary man they had met earlier had killed the crocodile, but the bearded man dismissed her theory.
• The group found no lingering Immortal Power or other traces at the crocodile's corpse and resumed their journey.
• They entered an area burned to ashes, where the flames had cleared away the Mist Swamp's mist and revealed the sky.

Zhilan and her companions followed the trail of a mysterious expert through the Mist Swamp, finding evidence that he had annihilated powerful monsters with a single attack. They grew eager to find him, while Zhilan privately suspected he was the striking man she had met earlier.

• Zhilan and her companions found a vast stretch of the Mist Swamp burned away, with only a few terrified Swamp Tree Demons surviving.
• Zhilan suspected the mysterious expert they had met earlier was responsible, while the bearded man and the others decided to follow the scorched trail.
• The ten companions hurried onward, hoping to catch up with the expert and escape the Mist Swamp more safely.
• They discovered more than a dozen Crimson Shadow Soaring Serpents cut into pieces, including one whose oppressive aura revealed it had reached the hunyuan divine lord realm stage.
• The bearded man concluded that the expert had killed every serpent in a single move and excitedly guessed that he might be a hunyuan divine king realm expert.

Ye Chen entered the deepest part of the Mist Swamp, where powerful swamp creatures demanded that he leave and then attacked after he refused. A ten-person group caught up with him, and Zhilan recognized him as the mysterious expert they had been pursuing, while the bearded man and the others were shocked and embarrassed.

• Ye Chen entered the deepest region of the Mist Swamp and sensed the hostility of its powerful creatures.
• Several swamp creatures ordered Ye Chen to leave, but he calmly warned them not to provoke him.
• The swamp creatures erupted in anger and murderous intent, preparing to kill Ye Chen.
• The ten-person group caught up with Ye Chen, hoping the mysterious expert would protect them.
• Zhilan recognized Ye Chen and greeted him with delight, while the bearded man and his companions were stunned to learn the expert was Ye Chen.

Five Kings of the swamp creatures surrounded Ye Chen and launched a combined attack while Zhilan and the others watched in terror. Ye Chen remained calm as their attacks closed in.

• Five Kings of the swamp creatures emerged from the fog and surrounded Ye Chen.
• Zhilan and the bearded man feared the Kings would overwhelm Ye Chen and kill them all.
• Ye Chen said he had given the Kings a chance, but they had failed to take it.
• The swamp bull demon, giant octopus, spider, sludge mass, and purple vines attacked Ye Chen together.
• Zhilan and the others were overcome with terror as the five Kings' attacks converged on Ye Chen.

Ye Chen erased the five swamp Kings with a mysterious breeze, saving Zhilan and the others from their combined assault. The swamp creatures fled in fear, unable to understand how the Kings had vanished.

• The swamp bull demon attacked Ye Chen with a black pillar of light, but Ye Chen’s breeze dissolved the attack and erased the demon.
• The breeze erased the giant swamp spider, the giant octopus, the purple vine, and the enormous mass of sludge as they tried to resist or escape.
• Ye Chen remained motionless as all five Kings disappeared, leaving the depths of the Mist Swamp silent and bewildered.
• Zhilan and her companions realized they had survived and stared in shock at Ye Chen.
• The swamp creatures retreated from Ye Chen, afraid that he would erase them as well.

Ye Chen faced three Hunyuan Divine Emperor swamp creatures after the other Kings fled in fear of his power. He revealed he intended to reach the deepest part of the Mist Swamp, where the creatures warned him that a dangerous change had occurred.

• The swamp Kings panicked over Ye Chen's unexplained power and dared not confront him.
• Zhilan and the others realized Ye Chen's arrival had saved them, and Zhilan discreetly changed her soiled skirt.
• A gray scorpion, a gigantic rhinoceros, and a black-and-white bat emerged from the mist as Hunyuan Divine Emperors.
• The gray scorpion cautiously asked Ye Chen why he had entered their territory, and Ye Chen said he would not trouble them if they stayed out of his way.
• Ye Chen said he was heading to the deepest part of the swamp, and the bat warned him that the area had become extraordinarily dangerous.

Ye Chen entered the deepest reaches of the Mist Swamp to confront the eerie red power seeping from a spatial rift, while the swamp’s Kings and Emperors followed him. Zhilan chose to go after Ye Chen, but the bearded man and the others abandoned her and retreated.

• Ye Chen ignored the swamp creatures’ warnings and walked into the deepest reaches, prompting the Kings and Emperors to follow him.
• Zhilan’s companions urged the bearded man to retreat, and he ordered them to retrace their route through the swamp.
• Zhilan went in the opposite direction to pursue Ye Chen, while the bearded man cursed her and refused to wait.
• Ye Chen reached the region around a spatial rift, where red Qi had tainted the swamp, trees, and stones.
• The giant scorpion warned Ye Chen that the red power had infected many Kings and Emperors, causing them to lose their reason and spread the infection through contact.

Ye Chen broke the formation sealing the infected swamp creatures, restrained them, and stripped the eerie power from their bodies. After cleansing the creatures and collecting the power leaking from the rift, he discovered it continued to seep out and entered the rift to investigate its source.

• The giant scorpion explained that the swamp creatures had obtained the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Great Demon-Sealing Formation from a human cultivator to seal the infected creatures.
• Ye Chen said the formation could not contain the eerie power forever and destroyed it with a single palm strike.
• Fifteen infected Hunyuan Divine Kings and five infected Hunyuan Divine Emperors escaped, but Ye Chen restrained them all with an invisible force.
• Ye Chen used multicolored threads to strip the eerie power from the infected creatures, allowing them to regain consciousness.
• Ye Chen collected the eerie power leaking from the rift, noticed that more continued to emerge, and entered the rift to find its source.

Ye Chen entered a void rift and found a vast altar saturated with eerie power, then explored its battlefield-strewn surface and discovered a powerful skeleton seated above something hidden within. The altar began shaking as an unknown force struck from inside, leaving Ye Chen facing the question of what had survived beneath it.

• The swamp creatures worried that Ye Chen might be infected after he entered the rift, but they hoped his strength as a Hundun Saint Emperor would let him find the source of the eerie power.
• Ye Chen arrived at an enormous altar shrouded in red eerie power and resisted its force as it tried to drag him onto it.
• Ye Chen pushed away the eerie power and used a Great Dao Treasure Vase to absorb it while examining the corpses and bones of powerful Heavenly Divine Realm creatures scattered across the altar.
• Ye Chen flew to the altar's summit and found a five-hundred-zhang skeleton seated on a throne, which he suspected was suppressing the source of the eerie power.
• Ye Chen could not see through the throne into the altar, and before he could investigate further, the altar shook as something inside struck against it.

Ye Chen watched the strange power break through the altar’s cracks while the skeleton struggled to suppress it, and the giant scorpion was dragged inside the spatial rift. The Great Dao Treasure Vase saved the scorpion, but strange Hunyuan Divine Emperor creatures began escaping from the collapsing altar.

• The altar cracked under the thing sealed inside, and the skeleton’s remnant resolve briefly suppressed the leaking strange power.
• The altar shook more violently as Ye Chen watched, while the swamp creatures debated whether to approach the spatial rift.
• The giant scorpion peered into the rift, was pulled toward the altar, and was engulfed by strange power.
• Ye Chen’s Great Dao Treasure Vase appeared and absorbed the strange power surrounding the giant scorpion, saving him.
• A strange lion, a flood dragon, and other powerful creatures emerged from the altar’s widening cracks.

Ye Chen watched as the damaged altar broke apart and the eerie creature sealed within escaped in the form of a red tornado, revealing a thin old man in red robes. The Divine Martial Saint Emperor skeleton fought to stop him, but the old man overwhelmed him and began shattering his bones.

• The Divine Martial Saint Emperor skeleton and the other revived remains attacked the eerie creatures pouring from the altar while Ye Chen watched.
• The voice inside the altar revealed that the eerie creatures had once been companions of the skeletons, then boasted that the broken altar could no longer hold him.
• The altar exploded, and a red tornado emerged before revealing a thin old man who mocked the skeleton and claimed victory.
• The Divine Martial Saint Emperor skeleton charged the old man, but the old man caught most of his sword light and formed a massive red war spear.
• The skeleton tried to stop the spear with his hands, but it crushed his fingers and wrists and cracked bones throughout his body.