Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang killed Qi Wuming and pursued Jiang Yuanzhong after he fled with a Teleportation Talisman. He tricked Jiang Yuanzhong into believing he would spare him, then caught up and killed him with Grinding Thunder and Fire.

• Ji Wuchang appeared beside Qi Wuming, killed him, crushed his Primordial Spirit, and took his storage ring.
• Ji Wuchang challenged Heavenly Stem City to seek revenge before vanishing, while Wei Feiluan chased after the people of Flying Flood Dragon City.
• Jiang Yuanzhong used a Teleportation Talisman to escape, but Ji Wuchang caught up with him after covering the distance with Shrinking the Ground to an Inch.
• Jiang Yuanzhong knelt and kowtowed after Ji Wuchang promised to spare him, then fled while hiding his resentment.
• Ji Wuchang reappeared in front of Jiang Yuanzhong, struck him with five Divine Soul Spikes, and killed him with Grinding Thunder and Fire.
• Ji Wuchang collected Jiang Yuanzhong's storage ring and admired the power of his new technique.

Ji Wuchang pursued the fleeing people from Flying Flood Dragon City and slaughtered nearly all of them, but Wei Feiluan escaped through a blood-colored passage. Ji Wuchang lost their trail and worried that Wei Feiluan would become a future threat.

• Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming watched Ji Wuchang use the Ji Family technique Grinding Thunder and Fire, leaving Ji Boshang puzzled about how he had learned it.
• Ji Wuchang vanished and ambushed the fleeing people from Flying Flood Dragon City with sword strikes and exploding flying needles.
• Ji Wuchang killed most of the fleeing group, including their escaped Primordial Spirits, while Wei Feiluan swore revenge.
• Wei Feiluan used a blood-powered rune to open a passage and escape with the few survivors before Ji Wuchang could attack.
• Ji Wuchang gathered several storage rings and pursued them with Shrinking the Ground to an Inch, but lost their trail.

Ji Wuchang drew the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique, a powerful soul-killing art, and returned to the secret realm barrier. He offered his collected tokens for sale, promising to protect buyers from anyone who tried to take them.

• The system awarded Ji Wuchang a Supreme Summoning Card and a draw, which gave him the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique and its insights.
• Ji Wuchang reviewed his status and Fortune Points, then returned to the still-weakened secret realm barrier.
• Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian saw Ji Wuchang return but kept their distance, while Jia Yi stayed away because she believed their alliance had ended.
• Ji Wuchang set out more than a dozen tokens and offered them for fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones apiece, promising to kill anyone who attacked a buyer or their city.
• The onlookers considered buying tokens but hesitated, frightened by Ji Wuchang’s recent slaughter of the Flying Flood Dragon City cultivators.

Ji Wuchang sold his remaining tournament tokens by promising buyers his protection, then began selling weapons he had seized from others. He left the gathered cultivators considering his weapons while the secret realm’s barrier went unattended.

• Ji Wuchang persuaded Yang Dawei to buy a token for fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones and promised to protect him.
• Several other cultivators bought tokens, and Ji Wuchang sold all fifteen for seven hundred and fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Ji Wuchang displayed swords he had seized and offered them for sale with protection included.
• Ji Wuchang urged the crowd to buy the weapons, while some people from Suizhou City recognized swords belonging to their dead compatriots but dared not object.

Ji Wuchang sold spirit weapons and artifacts to the eager crowd at Star-Chasing Mountain, then offered discounted token preorders to collect deposits. He left ten preorder slots open, confident he could obtain enough tokens to fulfill them.

• Bu Yixian bought three low-grade spirit weapons from Ji Wuchang for 110,000 low-grade spirit stones each.
• Gan Yue bought two longswords, and the crowd quickly bought up the remaining spirit artifacts and weapons.
• Ji Wuchang brought out more weapons from the Ancient Xuan Pavilion and the Demonic Dao First-Rank Hall, selling them all while keeping the Myriad Souls Hall's items hidden.
• Ji Wuchang introduced himself as Zhou Wudi of White Ram City and offered ten token preorders at a five-percent discount, requiring a 20,000-low-grade-spirit-stone deposit each.
• Ji Wuchang promised to return each deposit and pay an extra 1,000 low-grade spirit stones if he failed to deliver, believing he could obtain the tokens himself.

Ji Wuchang sold advance reservations for his protection to fund the rare medicines needed to revive Ji Yaoyao, then entered the secret realm after its barrier shattered. He discovered a general-mustering platform, where its armored general attacked him and declared that anyone who climbed it would die.

• Zhou Lin and his three companions reserved tokens, and Ji Wuchang sold the remaining six slots, collecting two hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Ji Wuchang considered how much money he still needed to buy the three medicines required to revive Ji Yaoyao.
• After the barrier collapsed, Gan Yue, Bu Yixian, and Xie Zhen led their people into the secret realm, and Ji Wuchang followed.
• Ji Wuchang emerged above a square filled with terracotta-like soldiers and absorbed the surrounding Sha Qi into the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities.
• Ji Wuchang headed for the general-mustering platform, dodged the general's saber attack, and threw a flying needle at him.
• The general shattered Ji Wuchang's flying needle and warned that anyone who ascended the platform would die.

Ji Wuchang uncovered how the soldier statues used remnant souls and blood to revive, then warned the cultivators and fought to destroy the souls. When a drumbeat drove the square into madness, his Divine Soul Dao Platform protected him, and he roared to bring the others back to their senses.

• Soldier statues killed several cultivators, absorbing their life force and reviving at greater strength when their remnant souls merged into other statues.
• Gan Yue and the others attacked the statues, while Ji Wuchang recognized the lights as remnant souls and warned everyone to destroy them.
• Ji Wuchang burned the remnant souls with his flames and the others followed, though some souls escaped into intact statues.
• An armored statue began beating a drum, filling the cultivators' minds with battle visions and driving them to attack one another as blood revived more soldiers.
• Ji Wuchang's Divine Soul Dao Platform devoured the visions, and he roared across the square until many of the frenzied cultivators regained their senses.

Ji Wuchang helped the awakened cultivators attack the general's platform while he fought the soldier statues and discovered that his Divine Soul Dao Platform could absorb their remnant souls to rapidly strengthen his spiritual and soul power. He charged across the battlefield to destroy more statues and collect their souls.

• Ji Wuchang explained that Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian had to attack the general's platform while he stayed behind to stop the soldiers from growing stronger.
• Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian led more than a dozen Dao Severing Realm cultivators through the shattered barrier and fought the general statues.
• Ji Wuchang destroyed a powerful fused soldier statue and discovered that his Divine Soul Dao Platform devoured its remnant soul, granting him pure spiritual power and soul power.
• After confirming the effect, Ji Wuchang rushed through the battlefield, destroying more than a dozen soldier statues and sending their remnant souls into his soul sea.
• Ji Wuchang continued fighting wherever danger arose, saving cultivators while gathering remnant souls to strengthen himself.

Ji Wuchang strengthened his soul while destroying the soldier statues, and Gan Yue’s defeat of the general statue broke the barrier hiding an ancient palace. The group recognized the ruins as Yu Capital, the former capital of the Yu Kingdom, famed for its terrifying eye technique, King Yu’s Heavenly Eye.

• Ji Wuchang absorbed the soul power from the divine soul Dao platform while a mysterious mark prevented his cultivation from breaking through again.
• Ji Wuchang’s Primordial Spirit grew stronger, revealed his hidden acupoints, and began condensing divine soul battle armor.
• Gan Yue destroyed the general statue, causing the remaining soldier statues to crumble and revealing a token marked “Command.”
• The token shattered the barrier and exposed an enormous palace that Bu Yixian and Xie Zhen suspected was an ancient dynasty’s capital.
• Gan Yue recognized the city gate’s characters as “Yu Capital,” and Xie Zhen and Bu Yixian identified the ruins with the Yu Kingdom and its King Yu’s Heavenly Eye.

Ji Wuchang explored the Secret Directorate in Yu Capital and found a faintly glowing token that seemed to have little value. After putting it away, he spotted a box rising into the distant sky amid seven-colored radiance.

• Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian led the others toward Yu Capital, where the desiccated soldiers on the city walls turned to ash.
• Ji Wuchang noticed a strange gleam and went to the Secret Directorate, where he found its gates shut and two corpses hanging in the courtyard.
• Ji Wuchang destroyed the torture instruments with Sword Qi, tested a nearby pillar, and followed another gleam to the rear courtyard.
• Ji Wuchang found a silver Secret Directorate Token, and two people who came to seize it fled when they saw him.
• Ji Wuchang examined the token, decided it was an ordinary Treasure Artifact, and put it away.
• Ji Wuchang looked across Yu Capital and saw a box rise into the distant sky within seven-colored radiance.

A seven-colored box appeared in the secret realm, and Niu Gansan’s cultivation surged after he took it. When a sacred bead emerged from the box, it overwhelmed nearly everyone nearby, while Ji Wuchang’s Divine Soul Dao Platform absorbed its power and transformed his eyes.

• Ji Wuchang attacked the box with an explosive sword, but the box’s light shattered the blast and sent it to Niu Gansan.
• Niu Gansan fled with the box, then unleashed a soul-rending roar that destroyed an attacker’s axe and sent many people falling.
• Bu Yixian urged the crowd to stop Niu Gansan, but the box opened and released a seven-colored bead that forced most people to kneel or retreat.
• Ji Wuchang’s Divine Soul Dao Platform absorbed the bead’s invisible power, and purple Qi gathered in his eyes, changing how he saw the world.

Ji Wuchang saw the laws of the world through his purple eyes and severed the red threads draining the kneeling people. He used the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique to wound King Yu's Heavenly Eye, which split open and revealed a figure dressed as the Great Yu Dynasty's king.

• Ji Wuchang saw streams of rule power and recognized the Law of Water, the Law of Lightning, and King Yu's Heavenly Eye.
• King Yu's Heavenly Eye pierced ten kneeling people with red threads and drained their blood, so Ji Wuchang severed the threads with Autumn Wind Kill.
• The people regained their senses and fled as King Yu's Heavenly Eye turned blood-red and attacked Ji Wuchang with a saber-like beam.
• Ji Wuchang discovered he could absorb the Law of Lightning but not the unrelated Law of Water, then dodged the Heavenly Eye's attack.
• Ji Wuchang used the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique to slash the blood-red eye with rule power, cracking it and shattering divine souls within.
• The blood-red eye split open, and a figure in purple-gold dragon robes and a royal crown stepped out.

Ji Wuchang and the others fought the royal-robed man’s army of powerful puppets after soul essence stones emerged from the shattered foes. As Ji Wuchang gathered stones for Ji Yaoyao, the royal-robed man slipped into a hole, and Ji Wuchang felt the same unsettling danger he had sensed before.

• The wounded royal-robed man summoned more than two hundred vacant-eyed puppets to attack everyone in the secret realm.
• Gan Yue, Bu Yixian, and Xie Zhen urged the fighters to unite, promising their cities would not seize anyone’s treasures.
• The fighters discovered soul essence stones inside the destroyed puppets, and Ji Yaoyao asked Ji Wuchang to collect them for her.
• Ji Wuchang killed several powerful puppets and caught their soul essence stones, which his storage ring absorbed for Ji Yaoyao.
• Ji Wuchang saw the royal-robed man descend into a hole and sensed the ominous feeling he had experienced when the royal city first appeared.

Ji Wuchang and the others discovered that a formation had trapped them as Devil Qi swept through the secret realm. While Gan Yue organized the survivors to break out together, Ji Wuchang crossed the barrier and emerged above the city.

• Ji Wuchang killed puppets to collect soul essence stones for Ji Yaoyao as a translucent formation sealed the battlefield.
• A fighter discovered the barrier, and the trapped people failed to break through as Devil Qi began surging toward them.
• Ji Wuchang recognized the danger posed by the Devil Qi and saw Jia Yi pass through the barrier.
• Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian agreed to cooperate, and Gan Yue ordered the survivors to form groups for the Heavenly Dragon Nine-Bend Formation.
• Ji Wuchang passed through the barrier with the Great Void Phantom Technique, found Devil Qi on the other side too, then vanished and reappeared above the city.

Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi faced the crowned man, whose shield drew on the attacks of more than two hundred people trapped below. As Jia Yi prepared a way to disable it and Ji Wuchang readied a killing strike, the Demonic Qi surged toward the people below and his ominous premonition intensified.

• Ji Wuchang found Jia Yi above a vast barrier contracting around the people below and saw the crowned man absorbing blood mist to strengthen himself.
• Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi attacked the crowned man together, but he formed a spiritual shield from the combined power of the people’s attacks and shattered their sword strikes.
• Jia Yi offered to stop the shield for half a breath, and Ji Wuchang agreed to use a killing move with a sixty percent chance of success.
• Jia Yi began preparing a blood-red turtle shell while Ji Wuchang readied himself to strike the crowned man.
• Ji Wuchang noticed the crowned man’s Demonic Qi vanish beneath the light of his vertical eye, while the Demonic Qi surged toward the chaotic people below and his ominous premonition grew stronger.

Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi broke the barrier and freed Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, Bu Yixian, and the others, but the man in royal robes rose again, possessed by an ancient voice. His terrifying attack erased the group’s counterattack and melted two Six Spirits Realm Ninth Level cultivators along with their souls.

• Jia Yi used the blood-red turtle shell to corrode and shatter the spiritual power shield, and Ji Wuchang struck down the man in royal robes with his sword technique.
• The barrier collapsed, freeing Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, Bu Yixian, and the others, who thanked Ji Wuchang and Jia Yi.
• Ji Wuchang warned everyone to retreat when the fallen man rose again, surrounded by Demonic Qi and speaking in an aged voice.
• The revived figure impaled several people with iron chains and drained their blood as Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, Bu Yixian, and others attacked him.
• The figure fired a ray from the eye between his brows, obliterating the attacks and melting two cultivators and their souls despite Gan Yue’s shields.

Ji Wuchang confronted the powerful Devil Creature to buy time for the fleeing cultivators, using the Ji Family’s World-Destroying Millstone Technique. After the Devil Creature shattered his millstone, Ji Wuchang launched another attack with his Three-Legged Golden Crow and great purple sun.

• Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, Bu Yixian, and the others fled when they realized the Devil Creature was far stronger than them.
• The Devil Creature attacked the fleeing cultivators with its chains, and Ji Wuchang chose to stay and hold it off.
• Ji Wuchang unleashed Grinding Thunder and Fire, stunning the onlookers and revealing to Ji Boshang and Ji Yongming that he had mastered the technique’s second form.
• The Devil Creature struck the millstone with its vertical-eye beam and chains until it shattered, leaving Ji Wuchang with only two-thirds of his spiritual power.
• Ji Wuchang summoned the Three-Legged Golden Crow and sent it charging at the Devil Creature with a great purple sun on its back.

Ji Wuchang battled a powerful Devil Creature until Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian joined forces and used their hidden lifesaving treasures to strike it down. The Devil Creature's severed halves began rejoining, leaving everyone afraid and with no remaining measures to stop it.

• Gan Yue persuaded Xie Zhen and Bu Yixian to help Ji Wuchang, and the three prepared their city lords' lifesaving treasures.
• Ji Wuchang's Three-Legged Golden Crow attacked the Devil Creature, but both the crow and its purple blazing sun were destroyed, leaving Ji Wuchang badly depleted.
• Bu Yixian used his porcelain bottle to draw the Devil Creature inside, but it broke free and shattered the bottle.
• Xie Zhen's saber struck the Devil Creature, and Gan Yue's sword followed, cutting it in two.
• The Devil Creature's severed halves flew toward each other to rejoin, while Gan Yue, Xie Zhen, and Bu Yixian realized they had no measures left to stop it.

Ji Wuchang unleashed Thunder Purgatory and summoned a Thunder Dragon to destroy the regenerating demonic body. King Yu’s Heavenly Eye flew into his forehead and transformed into a purple-gold eye before the demon’s final head turned to ash.

• Ji Wuchang trapped the demonic body’s two halves in Thunder Purgatory, but they continued to draw together despite the lightning.
• Ji Wuchang summoned a thousand-zhang Thunder Dragon and sent it into the lightning cage, greatly intensifying its power.
• The Thunder Dragon’s lightning reduced the demonic body to ash, while King Yu’s Heavenly Eye emerged from the flames and entered Ji Wuchang’s forehead.
• Purple qi from Ji Wuchang’s soul sea flowed into King Yu’s Heavenly Eye and changed it from gold to purple-gold.
• The demonic body’s remaining head turned to ash, and Ji Wuchang recalled the Thunder Dragon and Thunder Purgatory into his body.

After killing the Devil Race member, Ji Wuchang recovered in the secret realm and left without pursuing its treasures. Outside, robbers led by Qi Yun demanded his storage ring, giving Ji Wuchang a chance to obtain the seven tokens he still needed.

• Ji Wuchang watched the palace appear but stayed behind to recover, then checked in and received five years of cultivation.
• After an hour, Ji Wuchang recovered more than seventy percent of his spiritual power and left the secret realm.
• A group waiting outside noticed Ji Wuchang emerge and, led by a burly man at the Six Spirits Realm Eighth Level, demanded his storage ring.
• Ji Wuchang recognized Song Zhengming, Bai Qianqian, Qin Meng, and others among the onlookers, then realized the robbers might help him find the seven tokens he still needed.
• Qi Yun threatened Ji Wuchang, while Bai Qianqian and Qin Meng watched sympathetically but did not intervene.