Chapter Summaries

After fighting off a fierce beast, Ji Wuchang agreed to travel with Yu Ling and used his remaining cultivation to strengthen his Primordial Spirit and Purple Mansion. He checked in at Yunchuan Academy’s cultivation tower and further improved his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps.

• Mo Bingyuan invited Ji Wuchang to stay with him, but Yu Ling asked Ji Wuchang to accompany her on a journey lasting over two months, and he agreed.
• Ji Wuchang used his remaining cultivation to improve his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps by twenty percent.
• Ji Wuchang’s purple token entered his Primordial Spirit, causing it to double in size as his Purple Mansion expanded to fill his dantian.
• The old dean advised Ji Wuchang to study the Three Life-Risking Swords, and Ji Wuchang then went to Yunchuan Academy’s cultivation tower.
• Ji Wuchang checked in at the cultivation tower and used the sixteen years of cultivation he received to reach minor mastery of Shrinking the Ground to an Inch, increasing his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps’ speed by another fifty percent.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling traveled to Dove Thunder Mountain, where Yu Ling revealed she had come to find a wisp of Lightning Origin and showed him her incomplete Origin of Water. After they camped near the mountain’s center, a lightning-covered little beast appeared and escaped Yu Ling’s attempts to catch it.

• Ji Wuchang asked Yu Ling why she knew the way into Dove Thunder Mountain, and she explained that she had come to collect a wisp of Lightning Origin.
• Yu Ling showed Ji Wuchang her incomplete Origin of Water and advised him to seek the Origin of Fire or refine a beast flame to strengthen his fire-attributed cultivation.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling camped on lightning-charged rocks a few hundred li from the mountain’s center.
• A little beast covered in lightning appeared, and Yu Ling tried to seize it, but it repeatedly vanished with its extraordinary speed.
• Ji Wuchang used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to help pursue the little beast, but it escaped without a trace.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling traveled deeper into Dove Thunder Mountain, where Ji Wuchang discovered that the lightning pool strengthened his body, cultivation, and soul. Yu Ling used White Feather Immortal Water as bait to lure the lightning origin, beginning her attempt to capture it with Yu Gang concealed nearby.

• Yu Ling revealed that the little beast was a phantom of the lightning origin, inspiring Ji Wuchang to consider improving his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps.
• After spending the night pondering the beast's movements, Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling continued toward the center of Dove Thunder Mountain.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling reached a lightning pool and absorbed its surging power, which greatly strengthened Ji Wuchang and caused a phantom of the Divine Soul Dao Platform to appear on his mountain.
• Yu Ling opened a Supreme Weapon containing White Feather Immortal Water at the center of the pool to attract the lightning origin, while Yu Gang concealed himself behind her.
• Yu Ling began her contest with the lightning origin, relying on her earlier failed capture attempt to make it underestimate her speed.

Ji Wuchang refined a fragment of the lightning origin and advanced to the Purple Mansion Realm Sixth Level, while Yu Ling fought to protect the White Feather Immortal Water and porcelain bottle from the true lightning origin. The chapter left Ji Wuchang bewildered by his sudden breakthrough as Yu Gang captured the lightning dragon.

• Ji Wuchang gained insight into the Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps while refining the lightning surrounding him.
• Yu Ling repelled golden fish and a lightning dragon that attacked the porcelain bottle containing the White Feather Immortal Water.
• Three lightning dragons bound Yu Ling with chains of lightning, and the true lightning origin tried to swallow the porcelain bottle.
• The bottle swallowed part of the lightning dragon's head, and Yu Gang seized the dragon before a fragment of its body escaped.
• The escaped fragment flew into Ji Wuchang, transforming his Purple Mansion and raising his cultivation to the Purple Mansion Realm Sixth Level.

Ji Wuchang checked in at Dove Thunder Mountain’s lightning pool and improved his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps while Yu Ling cultivated nearby. Meanwhile, Wu Caojun’s group uncovered a barrier hiding Venerable Purple Flame’s tomb, and Yu Gang discovered that entering it required cultivation below the Six Spirits Realm Ninth Level.

• Yu Ling accepted the loss of thirty percent of the Origin of Lightning, while Ji Wuchang entered the lightning pool and checked in for six years of cultivation and six Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang used the cultivation to improve his Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, extending Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to fifteen hundred zhang, then continued absorbing lightning.
• Wu Caojun led Tian Huafeng, Ma Xinsheng, Wang Chunmian, Hu Baochao, and Zhou Fujian to a small peak and revealed its hidden barrier using the Thirty-Six Star Mansions Great Formation.
• Wu Caojun explained that the barrier protected Venerable Purple Flame’s tomb and that the formation would be strongest at night; more than twenty followers secretly watched his group.
• Yu Gang detected a self-destruct formation that would activate against anyone above the Six Spirits Realm Ninth Level, then told Yu Ling about the tomb, and she decided to investigate later.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling watched Wu Caojun open a Supreme Realm expert’s secret realm, then followed the rival groups inside. Two mysterious figures entered after them, and the doorway vanished, leaving later arrivals unable to find the entrance.

• Ji Wuchang recognized the site and suspected that the skeletons he remembered from the secret realm belonged to the groups gathering outside it.
• Wu Caojun used the Thirty-Six Star Mansions Great Formation to draw down starlight and open a doorway through the defensive barrier.
• Jiang Shifei and his group confronted Wu Caojun, but the two sides agreed to enter together and compete for treasure separately.
• Wu Caojun entered first, followed by his companions, Jiang Shifei’s group, Yu Ling, and Ji Wuchang.
• Two pitch-black figures entered just before the doorway and formation vanished, while later arrivals searched the mountain peak and found nothing.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling encountered a horde of Ghost Beasts with Demonic Qi in an unfamiliar secret realm. Ji Wuchang suspected someone was controlling them and cut through the beasts to reach the source of a flute melody.

• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling explored a pitch-black forest after being teleported into an unfamiliar place.
• Ji Yaoyao warned Ji Wuchang that Yu Ling was powerful and had a peerless expert protecting her, then fell silent.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling encountered at least five hundred Ghost Beasts whose bodies were covered in Demonic Qi.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling fought the Ghost Beasts, with Yu Ling freezing groups of them and Ji Wuchang striking them down with his sword and small flying swords.
• Ji Wuchang heard a flute melody from the forest, suspected someone was controlling the Ghost Beasts, and used Autumn Wind Kill to slaughter the beasts blocking his path.

Ji Wuchang fought a black-clad Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall expert who controlled the Ghost Beasts with a flute. The enemy escaped after Ji Wuchang severed his arm, leaving Ji to consider the lethal potential of Shrinking the Ground to an Inch.

• Ji Wuchang identified the black-clad flute player as an agent of the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall and used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to reach him.
• The black-clad man, whose strength was at Soul Splitting Realm Ninth Level, knocked Ji Wuchang back and pressed his attack while Yu Ling intervened.
• Ji Wuchang used Grinding Yin and Yang to wound the black-clad man, then appeared behind him and severed his right arm with Silent Extinction Netherlight Slash.
• The black-clad man used Blood Escape Technique to vanish, leaving his pitch-black flute behind.
• Ji Wuchang concluded that Shrinking the Ground to an Inch was a deadly weapon and resolved to prioritize cultivating Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling headed toward a Devil Qi-shrouded mountain after Yu Ling explained that it was a fallen Devil Race site rich in valuable herbs. They discovered Wu Caojun and his companions searching the mountain for Venerable Purple Flame’s tomb, then followed them into the forest.

• Yu Ling wondered how Ji Wuchang had learned the Ji Family’s secret art, Grinding Yin and Yang, while Yu Gang considered whether Ji Wuchang might be connected to the Ji Family.
• After the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall member escaped, the Ghost Beasts regained their clarity and scattered, and Yu Ling praised Ji Wuchang’s improved movement art.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling waited until dawn, then spotted a vast cloud of Devil Qi covering the sky and Yu Ling explained the history and potential treasures of fallen Devil Race sites.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling flew to the Devil Qi-shrouded mountain and hid when they sensed six approaching figures.
• Wu Caojun told his companions that Venerable Purple Flame had died there after establishing his tomb, and led them into the forest using a map.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling appeared after Wu Caojun’s group left and followed them into the forest.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling entered the Demonic Qi-filled forest, where they found rare Seven Demons Fallen Star Grass and followed a group of six toward a battle with a powerful beast. Jiang Shifei’s arrival disrupted the fight, and he revealed that the forest was only the secret realm’s outskirts before proposing that the groups work together.

• Jiang Shifei and his group, followed by black-robed figures and members of the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall, entered the forest after Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling.
• Yu Ling found seventh-tier Seven Demons Fallen Star Grass, and Ji Wuchang spotted an eighth-tier stalk; he killed a hidden ink-black snake before Yu Ling harvested it.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling followed the six ahead and watched them fight a powerful tiger-headed, leopard-bodied beast.
• Jiang Shifei and nearly twenty others arrived, disrupting the six’s formation and allowing the beast to injure Zhou Fujian and Hu Baochao.
• Jiang Shifei told Wu Caojun that the forest was only the secret realm’s outskirts and proposed joining forces to open the true realm.

Jiang Shifei and Wu Caojun joined forces to fight their way through the ferocious beasts and reach the true secret-realm entrance, while Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling followed behind. Beneath the forest, the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall used human blood to revive a giant Devil Venerable, who demanded still more blood.

• Wu Caojun persuaded Jiang Shifei to help kill the beast blocking the way, and the beast fled before they could attack.
• Yu Ling kept Ji Wuchang hidden as two black-robed figures and then members of the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall passed by.
• The fleeing beast led the groups into a fight with more ferocious beasts, killing Hu Baochao and three of Jiang Shifei's men before the survivors moved on.
• A giant black skeleton underground absorbed blood and Devil Qi, began regrowing flesh, and murmured that it needed more human blood.
• Wu Caojun and Jiang Shifei's groups fought blood-eyed beasts, losing another of Jiang Shifei's men and Zhou Fujian before reaching the true secret-realm entrance.
• Two black-robed men poured the blood of ten thousand people underground to revive the Devil Venerable, who telepathically demanded more.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling discovered that a Devil Race member was absorbing the dissipating Devil Qi and preparing to revive, while Wu Caojun opened the barrier to Venerable Purple Flame’s tomb. Recognizing the secret realm from his past life, Ji Wuchang resolved to keep the Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art from anyone else.

• Ji Wuchang noticed the Devil Qi thinning, and Yu Ling’s thoughts revealed that a Devil Race follower was reviving and could reach the Dao Severing Realm or even the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
• Ji Wuchang urged Yu Ling to leave, and the two headed away from the place where the Devil Qi was gathering.
• Wu Caojun grieved the deaths of Zhou Fujian and Hu Baochao as Jiang Shifei watched the entrance to the true secret realm with excitement.
• Wu Caojun used four banners depicting the Four Symbols to form a grand formation and begin opening the barrier before the bronze door.
• Two black-robed figures and the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall watched, planning to enter Venerable Purple Flame’s tomb for objects needed by their lord and the Devil Venerable.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the secret realm from his previous life and resolved to prevent anyone else from obtaining the Purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art.

Wu Caojun and his companions entered the secret realm after destroying the Four Symbols Grand Formation, while two black-robed figures forced open the barrier for the others. Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling entered the left passage, where Ji Wuchang burned several corpses, angering a Devil Race man whose chains were beginning to break.

• Wu Caojun attacked Jiang Shifei, then entered the secret realm with Tian Huafeng, Ma Xinsheng, and Wang Chunmian as the Four Symbols Grand Formation collapsed.
• Two black-robed figures used a devil saber to reopen the barrier, and Jiang Shifei led his remaining followers into the secret realm after them.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling followed the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall through the bronze door and chose the left passage.
• Ji Wuchang burned three corpses as they advanced, unknowingly destroying the Devil Race man's blood food.
• The Devil Race man roared in anger, received blood from the black-robed figure in the other passage, and snapped another chain, leaving nine remaining.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling reached the plaza beyond the passage, where the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Grand Formation blocked their way. With the other groups gathered there, Wu Caojun proposed choosing six people to break the formation, while a black-robed man singled out Jiang Shifei’s group for the extra participant.

• Ji Wuchang checked in at Venerable Purple Flame's tomb and used twelve years of cultivation to advance Wind and Thunder Great Void Steps, extending Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to ten thousand zhang.
• A black-robed man attacked Ji Wuchang with a silent blade, but Ji Wuchang evaded it and joined Yu Ling in striking the attacker until his phantom vanished.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling burned another corpse and passed through the barrier at the end of the passage into a plaza guarded by thirty-six bronze men.
• They found Wu Caojun’s group, the black-robed men, the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall, and Jiang Shifei’s reduced group gathered at the formation.
• Wu Caojun said six people had to attack the formation from different directions, and a black-robed man proposed one from each of five teams plus another from the largest team, directing his threat at Jiang Shifei.

Ji Wuchang entered the formation’s Heavenly Nobility Star gate and killed a black-robed man, revealing the man as a member of the Devil Race. Another black-robed man sacrificed himself to summon a Devil Flame Beast, while the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall blocked the survivors from fleeing.

• Ji Wuchang warned Yu Ling not to rescue him if he became trapped, then stepped forward to enter the formation.
• Wu Caojun explained the six life gates and said the formation would stop if someone destroyed the bronze figure at the Heavenly Chief Star.
• Ji Wuchang chose the Heavenly Nobility Star gate, and Ma Xinsheng chose the Heavenly Wealth Star gate.
• When a black-robed man demanded Ji Wuchang’s entrance, Ji Wuchang swiftly beheaded him and exposed his Devil Race identity.
• Yu Ling stopped the second black-robed man from escaping, but he sacrificed his life to summon a Devil Flame Beast through a token.
• Jiang Shifei and his companions tried to flee, but the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall blocked the passage and threatened to kill anyone who withdrew.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling joined forces with Wu Caojun’s group to escape a fifth-rank Devil Flame Beast by entering the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Grand Formation. The beast and the others followed them inside, where the activated formation’s bronze statues began moving with drawn sabers.

• A fifth-rank Devil Flame Beast emerged from the passage, and Qi Heming’s group attacked it.
• The beast burned a wounded Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall member to ashes, then Qi Heming lured it toward Jiang Shifei and Wu Caojun’s group with blood.
• Wu Caojun proposed entering the formation together, and Ji Wuchang agreed on the condition that he and Yu Ling take the Heavenly Wealth Star and Heavenly Nobility Star entrances.
• Ji Wuchang, Yu Ling, Wu Caojun, Tian Huafeng, Ma Xinsheng, and Wang Chunmian entered the formation, activating its mist and bronze statues.
• Jiang Shifei, Qi Heming, their followers, and finally the Devil Flame Beast entered the formation to escape or pursue the others.

Ji Wuchang led Yu Ling out of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Grand Formation before it became a killing formation, then asked her to help him obtain flame spirit crystals from a volcano filled with Flame Beasts. Yu Ling drew the million-strong swarm away from the volcano, leaving Ji Wuchang to search the beasts’ nests.

• Ji Wuchang took Yu Ling’s hand and led her through the formation, escaping just before it fully activated and killed one of the trapped people.
• Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling crossed the herb fields and reached the volcano, where he explained that flame spirit crystals lay among the Flame Beasts’ nests.
• Yu Ling agreed to lure the Flame Beasts away and struck the volcano’s crater to provoke them.
• Yu Ling killed more than a thousand Flame Beasts, then fled as the enraged swarm poured from the crater and pursued her.

Ji Wuchang retrieved a Flame Spirit Crystal and an indestructible fiery-red stone from the volcano, then offered the stone to Yu Ling in exchange for her help luring away the Flame Beasts. As the two faced the palace’s defensive barrier, injured survivors emerged from the formation and the enraged Flame Beasts charged at them.

• Ji Wuchang found only one Flame Spirit Crystal in the magma, took it and a mysterious fiery-red stone, and escaped the volcano as Yu Ling eluded the Flame Beasts.
• Yu Ling tested the stone with her low-grade spirit weapon, failed to mark it, and offered Ji Wuchang a drop of fire phoenix essence blood for it.
• Ji Wuchang gave the stone to Yu Ling, saying she deserved half the credit for luring away the Flame Beasts, and the two turned toward the palace.
• The Flame Beasts discovered their guarded treasures were gone and poured out of the volcano as eight injured people, including Wu Caojun, Tian Huafeng, Jiang Shifei, and Qi Heming, escaped the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Grand Formation with the wounded Devil Flame Beast.
• The Flame Beasts saw the survivors and charged at them in a fury.

Ji Wuchang and Yu Ling escaped the Flame Beasts by entering the palace through a weak side entrance, but a Devil Race expert emerged from beneath the plaza and confronted the beasts. Though he slaughtered many with powerful attacks, the Flame Beasts’ mass self-detonation wounded him, and he demanded that Venerable Purple Flame reveal any remaining defenses.

• The Flame Beasts devoured the wounded Devil Flame Beast and pursued Wu Caojun, Jiang Shifei, Qi Heming, and the others toward the palace, killing another injured cultivator on the way.
• Ji Wuchang led Yu Ling through the palace’s weak side entrance and explained that he knew the secret realm from a map and account he had obtained.
• The ground shook, the thirty-six bronze figures exploded, and a Devil Race expert emerged from underground, declaring that he had outlasted Venerable Purple Flame.
• The Flame Beasts turned on the Devil Race expert, who killed large numbers of them with a palm strike and the Ancient Devil Heaven-Shrouding Hand.
• The remaining Flame Beasts rushed the expert and self-detonated in vast numbers, inflicting wounds that made him stagger as he demanded more of Venerable Purple Flame’s defenses.

Venerable Purple Flame reformed from the Flame Beasts’ souls and magma to confront the wounded Ancient Devil Tahe, while Ji Wuchang realized the secret realm’s survivors may have been possessed. Their battle raged above the collapsing volcano as Qi Heming and his companions secretly prepared a formation and marked Ji Wuchang as a target.

• The Flame Beasts’ gathered spiritual power formed a phantom that stopped Ancient Devil Tahe’s attack on the palace.
• Yu Ling explained that Venerable Purple Flame had split his soul among the Flame Beasts and reassembled when they died, and Ji Wuchang connected this to the strange survivors from his previous life.
• Venerable Purple Flame absorbed magma to form a body and confronted Tahe, who revealed that he had restored his broken devil body with fresh blood.
• Tahe and Venerable Purple Flame exchanged powerful attacks, destroying the volcano as their devil and fire dragons fought in the sky.
• Qi Heming and two companions secretly set up a formation, and Qi Heming looked toward Ji Wuchang with a strange smile because he was one of their targets.