Chapter Summaries

Ye Xingchen entered the Polar Ice Cavern, effortlessly killed an ancient ice flood dragon, and continued toward the Ice and Snow Divine Lotus. In the cavern’s depths, Hong Niangzi faced the wicked monk Wuyin while the Yin-Yang Divine Mark overwhelmed and restrained her, until a domineering newcomer interrupted him.

• Ye Xingchen killed the ice flood dragon with a single finger and stored its body, intending to use its scales and life essence for Divine Palace disciples.
• Ye Xingchen used Huang Yan’s memories to locate the likely site of the Ice and Snow Divine Lotus and vanished deeper into the Polar Ice Cavern.
• Hong Niangzi struggled to resist the flames within her as Wuyin confronted her and revealed that the Yin-Yang Divine Mark had sealed her Divine Qi.
• Hong Niangzi collapsed and appeared to lose consciousness as Wuyin approached her.
• A scornful voice and domineering presence suddenly arrived, leaving Wuyin shocked and terrified.

Ye Xingchen appeared in the Polar Ice Cavern and confronted Wuyin, who had been trying to attack Hong Niangzi. Ye Xingchen killed Wuyin despite his space-time escape ability, but Hong Niangzi then embraced him from behind.

• Ye Xingchen immobilized Wuyin with his presence and revealed himself as the lord of the Divine Palace.
• Wuyin begged Ye Xingchen for his life, then tried to escape by traveling through space-time and threatened Ye Xingchen's women.
• Ye Xingchen struck Wuyin as he fled, tearing his body apart across space-time.
• Wuyin's soul hid inside his golden storage ring, but Ye Xingchen discovered and destroyed it before claiming the ring's treasures.
• Hong Niangzi embraced Ye Xingchen from behind, and he realized she was another trouble waiting for him.

Ye Xingchen discovered the Divine Key of the Starry Sky on Hong Niangzi and stayed with her through the night in the ice cave. By morning, Hong Niangzi had left, recognizing their encounter as the Blazing Fire Love Tribulation foretold by her ancestor, while Ye Xingchen set out toward the depths of the Polar Ice Cavern.

• Hong Niangzi struggled against the effects overwhelming her, and Ye Xingchen changed his mind and decided to save her.
• Ye Xingchen spotted the Divine Key of the Starry Sky at Hong Niangzi's neckline, sealed the ice cave, and covered them with a golden barrier.
• The next morning, Ye Xingchen pretended to remain asleep as Hong Niangzi dressed and left the cave.
• Ye Xingchen concealed the cave so only someone bearing his presence could enter, then headed toward the deepest, coldest region of the Polar Ice Cavern.
• Hong Niangzi left from the cavern entrance and wondered whether their encounter was the Blazing Fire Love Tribulation her ancestor had divined.

Ye Xingchen entered the deepest ice cave in the Polar Ice Cavern and found the Ice and Snow Divine Lotus growing within an immortal-ancient Golden Crow’s skeleton. After sending the Golden Crow’s lingering obsession into reincarnation and claiming the lotus, he placed it in System Space and began his daily check-in.

• Ye Xingchen braved the ice cave’s extreme cold and followed a golden light to its center.
• Ye Xingchen discovered the Golden Crow skeleton and the Ice and Snow Divine Lotus growing within it.
• The Golden Crow’s lingering obsession attacked Ye Xingchen with ice and snow power and blue flames.
• Ye Xingchen opened a black hole of reincarnation and sent the Golden Crow’s obsession through it, receiving a golden feather.
• Ye Xingchen claimed the Ice and Snow Divine Lotus, stored it in System Space, and asked the system to begin his daily check-in.

Ye Xingchen received three powerful treasures from the system and sealed the entrance to the Polar Ice Cavern before returning to the Chaos God Realm. At the Hehuan Sect, Hong Niangzi remained secluded, anxiously wondering how Ye Xingchen would react when he woke.

• The system rewarded Ye Xingchen with the Divine Refining Heaven Cauldron, the Divine Bow of Heaven, and the Yin-Yang Purple Bell, which he planned to give to Hong Niangzi.
• Ye Xingchen stored the Golden Crow skeleton and left the Polar Ice Cavern after gathering its treasures and learning the whereabouts of the Divine Key of the Starry Sky.
• Ye Xingchen sealed the cavern's abyss entrance with Heaven-Sealing Grand Arrays and headed for the Chaos God Realm.
• Ming Xiangxue dismissed her junior sisters' rumors about Hong Niangzi and told them their master was sorting through her gains in seclusion.
• Hong Niangzi sat alone in Yaoguang Courtyard, blushing as she wondered what Ye Xingchen would think and do after waking.

Ye Xingchen returned to the Divine Palace and gathered its disciples to prepare for the All-Heavens Grand Competition. After hearing their debate about how to handle troublemaking factions, he reminded them of his earlier lesson and began disciplining them with an emerald-green bamboo stalk.

• Ye Xingchen returned to the Divine Palace, where the disciples welcomed him with admiration for his deeds on the Bone-Burying Divine Road.
• Ye Xingchen told Shen Xiyin he had found the Ice and Snow Divine Lotus and planned to guard her while she used it to remove the fire poison in her body.
• Shen Xiyin told Ye Xingchen that Sister Yue had returned to the imperial dynasty and planned to rejoin the Divine Palace for the All-Heavens Grand Competition.
• Ye Xingchen asked the disciples how the Divine Palace should respond if factions caused trouble during the competition, and they argued over whether to expel or placate them.
• Ye Xingchen reminded the disciples of his previous warning and produced an emerald-green bamboo stalk, prompting screams as he began his so-called special care.

Ye Xingchen disciplined the fleeing Divine Palace disciples with an emerald bamboo infused with Primordial Divine Qi, strengthening their bodies and teaching them to confront anyone who bullied their sect. He then promised them an opportunity, and the sight revealed after his gesture shocked the disciples and Shen Wuji’s companions.

• The Divine Palace disciples tried to flee, but Ye Xingchen pulled them all back, including those who used ten-thousand-mile instant teleportation talismans.
• Ye Xingchen struck the disciples with emerald bamboo, causing intense pain while strengthening their flesh and meridians with Primordial Divine Qi.
• Ye Xingchen told the disciples to stand firm and slap anyone who deliberately bullied the Divine Palace, and they loudly repeated his command.
• Ye Xingchen promised the disciples an opportunity and waved his hand, revealing something that astonished them and Shen Wuji and the other Divine Palace experts.

Ye Xingchen used the Divine Refining Heaven Cauldron to prepare a supreme medicinal brew for the Divine Palace disciples, combining an ancient ice flood dragon with chaos divine water and thousands of rare medicinal plants. The brew finished simmering, leaving the disciples poised to consume it and advance their realms.

• Ye Xingchen revealed the Divine Refining Heaven Cauldron and announced he would make a medicinal brew to help the Divine Palace disciples break through.
• Ye Xingchen placed a thousand-meter ice flood dragon from the Polar Ice Cavern into the cauldron, astonishing the Divine Palace elders and disciples.
• Ye Xingchen activated the cauldron with golden divine light, added chaos divine water, and threw in thousands of medicinal plants from the immortal ancient era.
• The Divine Palace disciples admired Ye Xingchen's generosity and waited for the brew, their bodies strengthened enough to withstand its immense power.
• The cauldron released radiant light and a divine dragon-shaped force before the dragon plunged back inside, signaling that the medicinal brew was ready.

Ye Xingchen completed the great medicine from the ice wyrm’s dragon soul, allowing the Divine Palace disciples to make powerful breakthroughs before he left with Shen Xiyin to remove her fire poison. Meanwhile, the Heaven and Earth Palace pressured Hong Niangzi to submit, and she worried that its alliance with other factions was aimed at the Divine Palace in the upcoming All-Heavens Grand Competition.

• Ye Xingchen distributed the completed great medicine to the Divine Palace disciples, who swore to defend the Divine Palace and began consuming it.
• The disciples broke through their cultivation realms, with Divine Palace Wuhuang reaching the half-step Dominion Realm.
• Ye Xingchen put away the Divine Refining Heaven Cauldron and left with Shen Xiyin to remove the fire poison from her body.
• A Heaven and Earth Palace elder demanded that Hong Niangzi make the Hehuan Sect submit, warning her of the consequences if she refused.
• After the elder and his people left, Hong Niangzi worried that the Heaven and Earth Palace was joining other factions to target the Divine Palace at the All-Heavens Grand Competition.

Hong Niangzi and the Hehuan Sect elders weighed whether to resist the Heaven and Earth Palace's demand to choose sides, and Hong Niangzi decided they would wait and watch. Meanwhile, Ye Xingchen began using the Ice and Snow Divine Lotus to neutralize Shen Xiyin's fire poison, and the power of yin and yang appeared as her success remained uncertain.

• Hehuan Sect elders warned Hong Niangzi that the Heaven and Earth Palace was coercing factions and might destroy them if they refused to submit.
• Hong Niangzi said the sect would wait to see how the other factions responded, and the elders pledged to follow her decision.
• Ye Xingchen told Shen Xiyin that refining the Ice and Snow Divine Lotus with the Heavenly Fire Red Lotus could transform her cultivation and help her create her own Great Dao.
• Ye Xingchen sent the lotus essence into Shen Xiyin and removed the Heaven-Sealing Grand Array from her meridians.
• Cold and hot forces intertwined inside Shen Xiyin, forming red and white divine fish that revealed the power of yin and yang, while Ye Xingchen said her success depended on refining it completely.

Shen Xiyin absorbed the power of yin and yang and broke through to the Dominion Realm, while a vast phenomenon above the Divine Palace sparked alarm and speculation about the Heaven and Earth Palace. She thanked Ye Xingchen, and the two vanished together as night fell.

• Ye Xingchen watched as Shen Xiyin endured the unstable power of the divine fish and prepared to intervene if her life was in danger.
• Shen Xiyin manifested an immense yin-yang diagram, absorbed its divine radiance, and broke through to the Dominion Realm.
• Onlookers outside the Divine Palace discussed the Heaven and Earth Palace's ambitions, then fled after one speaker suggested the Divine Palace might have no Supreme Realm experts.
• The Divine Palace disciples recognized the phenomenon as coming from Ye Xingchen's quarters and paid it little attention.
• Shen Xiyin thanked Ye Xingchen for helping her comprehend yin and yang, and the two vanished together after she offered to attend him to bed.

Ye Xingchen received the Hongmeng Divine Pearl from his system check-in and learned that he could only refine it in the Land of Origin. As the pearl’s presence drew the attention of powerful beings across the cosmos, Ye Xingchen remained unaware of the danger and looked forward to the world’s growing challenges.

• Ye Xingchen reflected on his loved ones and completed his daily system check-in while Shen Xiyin slept beside him.
• The system awarded Ye Xingchen the Hongmeng Divine Pearl and warned that it could only be refined in the Land of Origin, since its power would destroy this world.
• Ye Xingchen sensed the pearl’s dreadful power even through the system’s concealment and suspected that the Land of Origin lay within the Hongmeng Universe.
• An ancient figure sensed the pearl’s presence, tried to locate it with a screen of light, and found the screen had gone black.
• A dark figure rejoiced at the pearl’s appearance, then revealed a second soul that declared the pearl was its opportunity.
• Ye Xingchen looked out at the daylight and mused that the world was becoming more interesting.

Ye Xingchen told Shen Xiyin he planned to visit the Hehuan Sect to obtain a key, then headed there to deliver its invitation to the All-Heavens Grand Competition. At the sect, Zhuge Mie demanded the starry key as a token of Hong Niangzi’s sincerity, provoking the Hehuan Sect’s experts as a visitor was announced.

• Shen Xiyin woke in Ye Xingchen’s arms, and they flirted before he told her he was going to the Hehuan Sect for a key.
• Ye Xingchen said Hong Niangzi would lend him the key because he had saved her life, while Shen Xiyin privately suspected their connection was more complicated.
• Ye Xingchen asked Shen Xiyin to have Shen Wuji prepare invitations and arrangements for the All-Heavens Grand Competition, then left to visit the Hehuan Sect.
• Zhuge Mie pressed Hong Niangzi to join the Heaven and Earth Palace, and she said she would give an answer after the competition.
• Zhuge Mie demanded the Hehuan Sect’s mysterious starlight key as proof of Hong Niangzi’s sincerity, causing the sect’s experts to release their killing intent.
• A disciple announced a visitor, breaking the standoff, and Zhuge Mie remarked that meeting the newcomer seemed destined.

Hong Niangzi resisted Zhuge Mie’s attempt to manipulate the Hehuan Sect into provoking the Divine Palace and ordered its messenger brought to the main hall. A mysterious white-robed visitor arrived, and Zhuge Mie’s attempt to strike him ended in an astonishing scene.

• Zhuge Mie urged Hong Niangzi to receive the Divine Palace messenger in the main hall, but Hong Niangzi confronted him with killing intent until he backed down.
• Hong Niangzi suspected Zhuge Mie wanted the Divine Palace disciple killed to create a conflict, and Ye Xingchen came to her mind as she decided to receive the visitor in the main hall.
• A white-robed figure whose face was hidden by a secret treasure entered, and Hong Niangzi reacted with disbelief at the sight of him.
• Zhuge Mie mocked the visitor and swung a slap at him, leaving Hong Niangzi and the others stunned by what happened next.

Ye Xingchen, disguised as a white-robed Divine Palace disciple, was nearly killed by Zhuge Mie before Hong Niangzi intervened. He then tricked Zhuge Mie into revealing a plot to infiltrate and sabotage the Divine Palace, and his final request left Hong Niangzi trembling with shy disbelief.

• Zhuge Mie attacked the white-robed Ye Xingchen, but Hong Niangzi destroyed his strike and warned him not to attack anyone inside the Hehuan Sect again.
• Hong Niangzi struck Zhuge Mie and forced him to sit down after he claimed his attack had only been a light lesson.
• Ye Xingchen pretended to seek refuge with the Heaven and Earth Palace and told Zhuge Mie that Divine Palace disciples and elders were secretly defecting.
• Zhuge Mie gave Ye Xingchen a talisman and ordered him to gather intelligence, recruit like-minded disciples, and sabotage the Divine Palace's sect-protecting formation.
• Zhuge Mie promised to personally bring Ye Xingchen into the Heaven and Earth Palace and grant him a wish, prompting Ye Xingchen to make a request that made the others laugh and left Hong Niangzi shy and stunned.

Ye Xingchen deceived Zhuge Mie with a story about longing to revisit the Polar Ice Cavern, securing a promise of entry to the Bone-Burying God Realm. Hong Niangzi recognized Ye Xingchen and agreed to play along with his deception, but the Hehuan Sect experts turned on him after he spoke.

• Ye Xingchen claimed that Divine Palace disciples were ready to betray their sect, and Zhuge Mie eagerly believed him because he wanted such news for the Heaven and Earth Palace.
• Ye Xingchen asked to visit the Polar Ice Cavern and pretended he wanted to find the beautiful woman who had left him there; Zhuge Mie promised him a place when the Bone-Burying God Realm opened again.
• Hong Niangzi realized the white-robed disciple was Ye Xingchen and felt moved by his story, while Ye Xingchen secretly winked at her.
• Hong Niangzi told Zhuge Mie she would give Palace Master Zhuge a satisfactory answer during the All-Heavens Grand Competition, and Zhuge Mie left with his people.
• Hong Niangzi dismissed the Hehuan Sect experts to speak privately with Ye Xingchen, but his sudden words provoked them to unleash killing intent against him.

Ye Xingchen publicly proposed marriage to Hong Niangzi, shocking the Hehuan Sect experts. The sect’s ancient ancestor approved the match, and Ye Xingchen revealed that he was the Lord of the Divine Palace.

• Ye Xingchen asked the Hehuan Sect experts to stay so they could witness his announcement to Hong Niangzi.
• Ye Xingchen proposed marriage to Hong Niangzi, prompting several experts to object and question his character.
• The Hehuan Sect’s ancient ancestor declared that he approved of the marriage and pulled an outspoken expert into the ancestral grounds.
• The experts discovered their divine senses could not probe Ye Xingchen, and Hong Niangzi urged him to reveal his identity.
• Ye Xingchen’s true identity as the Lord of the Divine Palace stunned the Hehuan Sect experts.

Ye Xingchen revealed himself to the Hehuan Sect and gave its experts lavish gifts while openly pursuing Hong Niangzi. His next words shocked the hall and prompted the ancestor to emerge from seclusion.

• Ye Xingchen revealed his identity as the master of the Divine Palace, and Hong Niangzi was overjoyed to see him.
• Ye Xingchen gave each Hehuan Sect expert a storage ring containing a thousand immortal antiquity great herbs.
• Hong Niangzi urged Ye Xingchen to take back the precious gifts, but he caught hold of her and teased her.
• The Hehuan Sect ancestor emerged from seclusion after Ye Xingchen said something that stunned everyone in the main hall.

Ye Xingchen offered Hong Niangzi the Yin-Yang Purple Bell as a betrothal gift, and the Hehuan Sect’s ancestor appeared after recognizing it as the sect’s lost guardian treasure. The ancestor reacted with stunned gratitude as Ye Xingchen returned the bell to its rightful owner.

• Ye Xingchen persuaded the Hehuan Sect’s powerhouses to accept storage rings containing a thousand Immortal Ancient medicinal plants.
• Ye Xingchen presented the Yin-Yang Purple Bell to Hong Niangzi, startling the Hehuan Sect’s powerhouses with its immense presence.
• A golden light and overwhelming pressure erupted from the Hehuan Sect’s ancestral grounds, and the sect’s ancestor arrived in the main hall.
• The ancestor recognized the bell as the Hehuan Sect’s genuine lost guardian treasure and asked Ye Xingchen how he had obtained it.
• Ye Xingchen said the bell belonged to the Hehuan Sect and that he was returning it, prompting the ancestor to exclaim that Heaven blessed the sect.

Ye Xingchen revealed the Yin-Yang True Art within the Yin-Yang Purple Bell, strengthening ties between the Divine Palace and the Hehuan Sect, then reunited with Hong Niangzi as lovers. The Hehuan Sect ancestor reflected on their future and was startled by a violet streak of divine light.

• Ye Xingchen told the Hehuan Sect ancestor that the Yin-Yang Purple Bell concealed the Yin-Yang True Art, and the ancestor pledged the sect's loyalty to the Divine Palace.
• Ye Xingchen teased Hong Niangzi about refusing his gift, prompting the Hehuan Sect experts and their ancestor to leave them alone.
• Ye Xingchen embraced Hong Niangzi and promised not to let her run away again, and she tearfully thanked him.
• Hong Niangzi called Ye Xingchen her husband, and he carried her to her bedchamber.
• The Hehuan Sect ancestor returned to the hall, judged that Hong Niangzi had passed her love tribulation, and wondered about the mysterious Ye Xingchen.
• A violet streak of divine light appeared before the ancestor, who exclaimed at the power of the Lord of the Divine Palace.