Chapter Summaries

Ji Wuchang discovered a Supreme sealed inside the Heaven-Locking Coffin beneath the Outer Sect Spirit Herb Hall and learned that the coffin was absorbing life force and fortune into his soul sea. He began negotiating with the trapped old man, who was stunned to learn that Medicine King Valley had vanished and now lay beneath the sea.

• Zhu Yuzhen concluded that hidden spaces might lie beneath other buildings, and rumors of secret realms sent the crowd searching for more barriers.
• Ji Wuchang found a rune-covered coffin pinned shut by eight black nails, while its escaping Qi flowed into the Dao Platform in his soul sea.
• A powerful old man inside the coffin threatened Ji Wuchang and revealed that the Medicine King Lineage had sealed him there.
• Ji Wuchang proposed carrying the coffin out of the secret realm, and the old man asked what had happened to Medicine King Valley.
• Ji Wuchang explained that Medicine King Valley had disappeared one or two thousand years earlier and sunk beneath the sea.

Ji Wuchang negotiated with the ancient man trapped in the Heaven-Locking Coffin for the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus and Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb. After learning that the herb was tied to breaking through to Supreme Great Emperor and could make him the enemy of all under heaven, he still decided to pursue it.

• The old man panicked when Ji Wuchang told him Medicine King Valley had been destroyed, then revealed he had spent at least two thousand years in the Heaven-Locking Coffin.
• Ji Wuchang offered to help the old man leave the secret realm in exchange for treasures, then revealed that he wanted the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus and Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb.
• The old man agreed to lead Ji Wuchang to the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus but warned that obtaining the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb could draw powerful enemies and might be connected to Medicine King Valley's destruction.
• The old man explained that the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb was connected to breaking through to Supreme Great Emperor and could make its possessor the common enemy of all under heaven.
• Ji Wuchang decided to keep pursuing both treasures and planned to hide the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb in his System Space.

Ji Wuchang bargained with Thousand Poison Venerable, who swore not to plot against him, then learned he needed to feed the Heaven-Locking Coffin spirit stones to awaken its artifact spirit. As Ji Wuchang’s soul entered the coffin, he saw Thousand Poison Venerable chained inside and a little girl guarding him.

• Thousand Poison Venerable agreed to leave with Ji Wuchang if the Heaven-Locking Coffin willingly followed, then swore a Heavenly Dao Oath not to plot against him.
• Ji Wuchang’s first attempt to communicate with the coffin was repelled by saber-like runes, and Thousand Poison Venerable explained that he had to awaken its artifact spirit.
• Thousand Poison Venerable told Ji Wuchang to replenish the coffin with spirit stones, and Ji Wuchang sacrificed millions as the coffin’s power grew.
• Ji Wuchang’s Primordial Spirit entered the coffin without resistance and found Thousand Poison Venerable bound in chains beside a little girl holding a golden whip.
• Thousand Poison Venerable threatened to devour Ji Wuchang after escaping, and the little girl lashed him with her whip.

Ji Wuchang claimed the Heaven-Locking Coffin and obeyed Thousand Poison Venerable’s request to destroy three sticks of incense. He then passed through a hidden barrier into the peaks of Medicine King Valley’s Poison Sect Lineage, learning more about the valley’s former power and its division into two lineages.

• The Heaven-Locking Coffin’s artifact spirit made Ji Wuchang her master and demanded a million low-grade spirit stones each month, then whipped his soul out of the coffin.
• The Heaven-Locking Coffin shrank into a pendant at Ji Wuchang’s waist, avoiding the Great Seal of Ten Thousand Ferocities on his chest.
• At Thousand Poison Venerable’s request, Ji Wuchang destroyed three sticks of incense in the Outer Sect Spirit Herb Hall, stopping the presences flowing from the coffin.
• Ji Wuchang found a moving gap in two deadly barriers and waited for their gaps to overlap, while Thousand Poison Venerable explained that the route led to the Poison Sect Lineage’s peaks.
• Ji Wuchang passed through the overlapping gaps and entered the Poison Sect Lineage’s territory.

Ji Wuchang explored the ruined Poison Sect lineage at the bottom of the cliff and suspected a hidden faction had orchestrated the secret realm’s opening to seek the Nine-Leaf Immortal Herb. After flying west for five days through the desert, he reached a buried building where the Thousand Poison Venerable said he had hidden a secret chamber.

• Ji Wuchang found hundreds of damaged skeletons and collapsed buildings, while the Thousand Poison Venerable recognized the dead as disciples of his Poison Sect lineage.
• At the Thousand Poison Venerable’s direction, Ji Wuchang examined the shattered mountain and flew west toward Medicine King Valley’s inner sect and medicinal fields.
• Ji Wuchang concluded that several factions had likely joined in destroying Medicine King Valley and suspected powerful forces were secretly using the groups in the secret realm.
• Ji Wuchang flew west for five days across the desert before finding a half-buried building that still radiated a peculiar pressure.
• Ji Wuchang cleared the sand around the building, saw ten ferocious beast statues, and entered to find a formation engraved with images of the same beasts.

Ji Wuchang entered Thousand Poison Venerable’s hidden chamber and collected its treasures while the Heaven-Locking Coffin absorbed the Poison Sect texts. Thousand Poison Venerable gave him a cracked Supreme Weapon and a bottle of Qianji Poison before the coffin returned to Ji Wuchang’s waist.

• Ji Wuchang followed Thousand Poison Venerable’s instructions to open the underground passage and was transported into a stone chamber.
• Thousand Poison Venerable offered Ji Wuchang access to the Poison Sect texts if he became his disciple, but Ji Wuchang refused.
• The Heaven-Locking Coffin absorbed the jade slips and scrolls, while Ji Wuchang took two chests of high-grade spirit stones for the coffin.
• Ji Wuchang found a cracked small sword, and Thousand Poison Venerable explained that it was a Supreme Weapon capable of one final strike against a Supreme Realm expert.
• Thousand Poison Venerable gave Ji Wuchang Qianji Poison and explained that it spread through a poisoned person’s body when they circulated spiritual power, unless suppressed by the power of laws.

Ji Wuchang took the Qianji Poison and the ancient shelves, then left the building to search for the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus. At a barrier in the secret realm, Chi Qianzhu learned of his brutal killings as hostile groups approached her companions.

• Ji Wuchang added the Qianji Poison to his arsenal, collected the shelves, and flew away to search for the Heavenly Dragon Mystic Lotus.
• The building shook and sank beneath the sand after Ji Wuchang left.
• Bai Juanrong told Chi Qianzhu that Ji Wuchang had killed dozens of people, including Chang Yuhuan, and showed her an image-recording stone of his violence.
• Tian Zhennan questioned the report but grew uneasy after seeing Ji Wuchang's recorded killings.
• Groups from the Yuan Clan, the Long River Sect, and the White Wolf Sect approached Chi Qianzhu's group with murderous intent, while Hou Wuqing held back and Fire Phoenix Sect leaders watched.

Chi Qianzhu refused to reveal Ji Wuchang’s whereabouts when Yuan Conghe and Li Junping threatened the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion, bringing the two sides to the brink of battle. As the pavilion’s members prepared to fight, Hou Yuqing urged Hou Wuqing to attack them, provoking Hou Wuqing’s fury.

• Yuan Conghe and Li Junping demanded that Chi Qianzhu hand over Ji Wuchang, blaming him for killing members of their clans and sects.
• Chi Qianzhu denied knowing where Ji Wuchang was, while Tian Zhennan urged her to share what she knew and drew her angry suspicion.
• Chi Qianzhu refused to yield, and Yuan Conghe and Li Junping gathered their forces to surround the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion’s seven members.
• Hou Wuqing hoped the opposing sides would fight, but Hou Yuqing asked whether they should help kill everyone from the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion.
• Hou Wuqing grew furious at Hou Yuqing, remembering how Ji Wuchang had slaughtered Hou Shugang and his companions after they tried to target him.

Ji Wuchang revealed himself to the gathered factions, drawing the attention of numerous enemies who prepared to attack him. As the factions watched and weighed their options, the confrontation remained poised to erupt.

• Ji Wuchang emerged from concealment and challenged anyone seeking trouble, while Hou Wuqing recognized him.
• Yuan Conghe and Li Junping led their allies into the air and surrounded Ji Wuchang, intent on killing him.
• Chi Qianzhu watched with concern, torn between helping Ji Wuchang and fulfilling the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion’s mission.
• Feng Qimei questioned Qin Shulan about Ji Wuchang’s strength, while Qin Shulan warned that he was ruthless and dangerous.
• Qin Wugang learned Ji Wuchang had killed Qin Hesheng and decided the Ancient Dao Sect would wait until Ji Wuchang was weakened before striking.
• Nian Yuandie, Nian Qian Zuo, and Nian Jinwei watched the standoff without intervening.

Ji Wuchang announced that he would kill the Long River Sect, Yuan Clan, and White Wolf Sect members in the secret realm, then severed his ties with the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion before challenging them. Yuan Conghe attacked with his spear, but Ji Wuchang stopped the thrust with a punch and sent him flying.

• Ji Wuchang declared that everyone from the Long River Sect, Yuan Clan, and White Wolf Sect in the secret realm was sentenced to death.
• Ji Wuchang announced that he was leaving the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion, while Hou Wuqing warned the Hou Clan members not to act without his orders.
• Yuan Conghe attacked Ji Wuchang with the Yuan Clan's Blazing Sun Spear Art.
• Ji Wuchang met Yuan Conghe's spear thrust with the Great Sun Divine Fist and sent him flying a hundred zhang away with a bloodied hand.

Ji Wuchang overwhelmed Yuan Conghe in front of the gathered cultivators and killed him with a crushing stomp. His display of power left the onlookers shaken and made even Feng Qimei recognize him as a dangerous opponent.

• Ji Wuchang shattered Yuan Conghe's spear strike with one punch and sent him flying, while Chi Qianzhu watched with relief and wrestled with her lingering attachment to him.
• Ji Wuchang used the Night Phantom Soul Severing Technique to crack Yuan Conghe's soul-protecting ruler and wound him.
• Yuan Conghe ordered his allies to attack Ji Wuchang, and several cultivators charged alongside him.
• Ji Wuchang used Heaven-Treading Steps to immobilize Yuan Conghe, then crushed him despite the attacks of his five split-soul avatars.
• The assembled cultivators reacted in fear and disbelief, while Feng Qimei sensed that Ji Wuchang's stomp threatened her life.

Ji Wuchang slaughtered the remaining White Wolf Sect fighters and then killed three Dao Severing Realm Ninth Level cultivators in succession. The gathered onlookers were left terrified, while Qin Wugang expected stronger Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivators to enter the secret realm soon.

• Ji Wuchang took Yuan Conghe's storage ring and warned Li Junping, Yuan Yuhong, and the others that they would die for opposing him.
• Ji Wuchang killed the remaining White Wolf Sect members with the Great Sun Divine Fist and collected their storage rings.
• Li Junping ordered an all-out attack, and five Dao Severing Realm Ninth Level cultivators and more than a dozen others struck at Ji Wuchang together.
• Ji Wuchang dodged the attack and used the Immortal-Binding Rope and Netherworld Sword to kill Li Huijun and Yuan Congyun, then killed Yuan Yuhong with his Heart-Treading Steps and Mountain Fist.
• The spectators were stunned by Ji Wuchang's slaughter, while Qin Wugang believed incoming Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts would be able to challenge him.

Over a hundred Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivators entered the reopened secret realm, including six mysterious black-clad figures. After the gate closed, reports arrived that life tablets belonging to many of the factions’ entrants had shattered, leaving the Supreme experts alarmed.

• Feng Yanxi announced that Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivators at the fourth level and below could enter as the gate of light reopened.
• A mysterious black-clad man arrived by warship, and Feng Yanxi treated him as a senior; he sent six black-clad cultivators into the secret realm before the other factions followed.
• The gate shattered and the secret realm sealed itself, while Feng Yanxi told the factions to wait for the entrants to emerge nearby.
• Yuan Chengshan told Yuan Jinan that the life tablets of all the Yuan Clan’s secret-realm participants had shattered, prompting Yuan Jinan to unleash his Supreme pressure.
• An elder reported that most of the Long River Sect’s entrants had died, and the White Wolf Sect learned that all its participants’ life tablets had shattered; the Supreme experts grew worried.

Ji Wuchang slaughtered the Yuan Clan survivors and turned his attention to the Long River Sect, whose members begged him to stop. He refused to spare them, vowing to destroy their sect if it ever came after him.

• Ji Wuchang killed the Yuan Clan's remaining members and destroyed one man's Primordial Spirit, while onlookers and rival groups watched in terror.
• Qin Wugang lost his desire to kill Ji Wuchang, the Hou Clan feared opposing him, and Chi Qianzhu felt relieved that she had never acted against him.
• Thousand Poison Venerable urged Ji Wuchang to kill more people so he could use their blood and Qi to recover.
• Ji Wuchang threatened Li Junping, Han Shan, and the Long River Sect, rejecting their apologies and warnings about their powerful allies.
• Ji Wuchang vowed to slaughter the Long River Sect if it ever attacked him, while Thousand Poison Venerable offered to teach him the Poison Sect Lineage's arts.

Ji Wuchang faced the Long River Sect after Feng Qimei and Qin Wugang refused to intervene. He used the Demonic Dao Blood-Disrupting Three Bows Technique to make the sect’s pill-empowered cultivators explode, leaving the onlookers terrified of him.

• Li Junping asked Feng Qimei and Qin Wugang to help the Long River Sect, but both refused to get involved.
• Li Junping, Han Shan, and several Long River Sect cultivators swallowed secret pills that greatly increased their strength at the cost of severe damage to their bodies.
• Ji Wuchang used the first bow of the Demonic Dao Blood-Disrupting Three Bows Technique, causing the cultivators’ skin to split and their blood to spray.
• Ji Wuchang’s second bow made more than half of the Long River Sect cultivators explode into blood mist, while Li Junping and Han Shan were badly injured.
• Ji Wuchang’s third bow caused Li Junping, Han Shan, and the remaining Long River Sect cultivators to explode, terrifying the witnesses.

Ji Wuchang used the Hou Clan’s Demonic Dao Blood-Disrupting Three Bows Technique to kill powerful opponents, then broke through to the Dao Severing Realm fifth level. He gained a devastating Supreme’s One Finger reward and prepared for the Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts expected to arrive.

• Feng Qimei coveted the Hou Clan’s secret technique after seeing Ji Wuchang wield it, while Qin Wugang, Hou Wuqing, and Tian Zhennan reacted with fear and defeat.
• Ji Wuchang collected the Long River Sect members’ storage rings as the system awarded him Fortune Points for killing Li Junping and Han Shan.
• Ji Wuchang used five years of cultivation to break through to the Dao Severing Realm fifth level, shocking the onlookers with his strength.
• Ji Wuchang decided not to redeem the Glazed Vajra Body and checked in at Medicine King Valley’s outer sect, receiving three years of cultivation and three Fortune Points.
• Ji Wuchang used his annual draw and obtained Supreme’s One Finger, a single-use attack capable of killing anyone below the Supreme Realm third level.

Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts entered the secret realm, including six mysterious figures from the Myriad Souls Hall, and discovered the aftermath of Ji Wuchang’s slaughter. Yuan Haisong found the Yuan Clan corpses and demanded to know who had killed them, turning the gathered experts’ attention toward Ji Wuchang.

• Six black-robed Myriad Souls Hall experts emerged from the vortex, and Ji Wuchang recognized their origins while suspecting the hall had caused Medicine King Valley’s past calamity.
• Experts from the Fire Phoenix Sect and other factions entered and gathered before the inner sect barrier, while Feng Qimei, Qin Wugang, Hou Wuqing, and the others welcomed their elders.
• Hou Langyuan questioned Hou Wuqing about the missing Hou Clan disciples, but Hou Wuqing avoided accusing Ji Wuchang.
• Ma Xiaoguang, Yuan Haisong, and Sun Anwei called for their missing sect members, then discovered only corpses and bloodstains remained.
• Yuan Haisong found dead Yuan Clan members and roared that he would kill whoever was responsible.

Yuan Haisong, Ma Xiaoguang, and Sun Anwei unleashed their Dharma Aspects after learning their sects’ disciples had been slaughtered, but Ji Wuchang withstood their combined pressure. As the arriving sect elders heard conflicting accounts that revealed Ji Wuchang’s role, the barrier to Medicine King Valley began to shatter and Yuan Haisong openly challenged him to die.

• Yuan Haisong, Ma Xiaoguang, and Sun Anwei summoned their Dharma Aspects, forcing most people present to their knees, while Ji Wuchang remained standing and grew stronger under the pressure.
• Jia Hailong questioned Feng Qimei, who explained what had happened and showed him an image-recording stone, shocking the Fire Phoenix Sect elders.
• An Xiangqin questioned Chi Qianzhu, and Tian Zhennan recounted an embellished version that emphasized Ji Wuchang’s brutality to the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion elders.
• Su Hao and the Ancient Dao Sect elders learned that Ji Wuchang had killed Qin Hesheng but showed little anger, while they watched him withstand the three Dharma Aspects.
• Someone announced that the barrier was about to shatter, drawing the crowd’s attention toward Medicine King Valley.
• Yuan Haisong learned the full story, fixed his killing intent on Ji Wuchang, and ordered him to come over and die.

After the secret realm barrier shattered, Ji Wuchang fled toward the distant mountain while his enemies threatened the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion. An Xiangqin agreed that the pavilion would attack Ji Wuchang if they encountered him, and the group headed for the mountain with Chi Qianzhu still hoping to change their situation by obtaining the inheritance.

• The barrier shattered, revealing a towering mountain, and the gathered cultivators rushed toward it.
• Ji Wuchang declared that he had killed people from several factions, challenged Yuan Haisong, and used Shrinking the Ground to an Inch to flee two thousand li.
• Ma Xiaoguang, Yuan Haisong, and Sun Anwei confronted the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion and demanded that it kill Ji Wuchang or face war.
• An Xiangqin agreed that the pavilion would act against Ji Wuchang if they encountered him inside the secret realm.
• An Xiangqin told Chi Qianzhu that obtaining the inheritance could give them a say, and the Heavenly Phoenix Pavilion's people set off toward the mountain.

Ji Wuchang reached Medicine King Peak and learned that the two things he sought were hidden in one of its secret realms. After passing through an illusion formation, he found a vast medicinal field ahead.

• Thousand Poison Venerable explained that Medicine King Valley had three lineages and that Ji Wuchang's targets were likely inside a secret realm.
• Ji Wuchang encountered six Myriad Souls Hall disciples and then Jia Hailong, Cao Daoxin, Feng Qimei, and others from the Fire Phoenix Sect on the mountain path.
• Thousand Poison Venerable directed Ji Wuchang down the left path toward the medicinal garden and warned him about the Spirit-Dissolving Grotto.
• Ji Wuchang entered a secret realm, recognized that he was trapped in an illusion formation, and used his Thousand Illusion Spirit Pupil to see through it.
• Ji Wuchang passed the illusion formation and spotted a medicinal field filled with enormous plants.