Chapter Summaries

Ye Xuan and Qin Xian’s group entered the ruins and found a spatial rift leading to a hidden space created by a powerful expert. When a young man questioned Ye Xuan, he revealed that he was the famous Ye Xuan of the Eastern Wasteland, drawing the crowd’s attention and leaving Qin Xian and the others worried trouble would follow.

• Ye Xuan agreed to enter the ruins after Qin Xian and the others asked him to lead them.
• Ye Xuan and the Sacred Frost Palace disciples reached a clearing where a spatial rift released dense Spiritual Qi.
• Ye Xuan recognized that the rift contained a separate space created by a true Emperor Realm expert or someone even stronger.
• A young man approached Ye Xuan while eyeing Qin Xian and the other women, and Ye Xuan introduced himself as being from the Eastern Wasteland.
• The gathered cultivators recognized Ye Xuan as the third-ranked figure on the Venerable Ranking, and Qin Xian and the others reacted with surprise.

Lu Xuanyi challenged Ye Xuan, a Lower Realm Venerable, despite being a Half-Saint, while Qin Xian and the others protested. Zi'er revealed that she, Yue Rong, and Qin Xian belonged to the Sacred Frost Palace, forcing Lu Xuanyi to abandon his threat, while the crowd grew more hostile toward Ye Xuan.

• Lu Xuanyi politely challenged Ye Xuan to a fight, despite being a Half-Saint Realm expert facing a Venerable.
• Qin Xian objected that Lu Xuanyi was using his superior cultivation realm to pressure Ye Xuan, but Lu Xuanyi defended the challenge.
• Lu Xuanyi taunted Yue Rong and invited her to fight him, prompting Zi'er to insult him.
• As Lu Xuanyi prepared to strike, Zi'er named herself, Yue Rong, and Qin Xian as disciples of the Sacred Frost Palace of the Mystic Heaven Immortal Domain.
• Lu Xuanyi withdrew his killing intent, and the crowd became more jealous and hostile toward Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan accepted Lu Xuanyi’s challenge and used Rule Suppression to raise his presence to the saint realm while weakening Lu Xuanyi. He beat Lu Xuanyi into the ground and left the crowd silent as he asked whether anyone else wanted to challenge him.

• Lu Xuanyi demanded that Ye Xuan fight him, and Ye Xuan accepted the challenge.
• Lu Xuanyi attacked Ye Xuan, who activated the Nine Heavens Dragon Transformation Formula and Rule Suppression.
• Ye Xuan’s presence surged to the saint realm while Lu Xuanyi’s presence fell to the venerable realm peak stage.
• Ye Xuan swept aside Lu Xuanyi’s attack, grabbed him by the neck, and repeatedly smashed him into the ground.
• Ye Xuan planted his foot on the battered Lu Xuanyi and asked the crowd if anyone else wanted to challenge him.

Ye Xuan overwhelmed the crowd with his strength, then approached a spatial rift rich in Immortal Spiritual Qi and joined other cultivators in widening it. Though the others rushed inside first, Ye Xuan sensed danger and prepared to enter with Qin Xian and the other six women, warning them to stay close.

• Ye Xuan killed Lu Xuanyi with one move and led Qin Xian and the other six women to the front of the crowd.
• Ye Xuan sensed dense Immortal Spiritual Qi and agreed with Qin Tian, Xue Yong, Zha Meng, and Shi Jiao to break the restrictions around the rift.
• Qin Tian, Xue Yong, Zha Meng, Shi Jiao, and the other cultivators rushed into the widened rift while Ye Xuan waited outside.
• Ye Xuan told Qin Xian and the others that he sensed danger inside, but they reassured him they accepted the risks of cultivation.
• Ye Xuan agreed to enter the rift and told the seven women to stay close, prompting them to crowd around him and cling to his arms and clothes.

Ye Xuan and his companions entered a hidden realm filled with dense Immortal Spiritual Qi and visions of a flourishing immortal court. After his Divine Eyes revealed the ruined palaces beneath the illusions, the group advanced toward them, and Ye Xuan noticed that some apparitions seemed to watch him.

• Ye Xuan crossed the rift and found himself among floating immortal palaces and illusory immortals.
• Ye Xuan used his Divine Eyes to dispel the illusions, revealing ruined palaces and a black spear piercing the central palace, while Qin Tian and the others remained missing.
• Ye Xuan led Qin Xian, Yue Rong, and the others toward the palaces under layers of lightning defenses, but his Absolute Domain could not reach structures his eyes could see.
• The group relaxed as they traveled through increasingly dense Immortal Spiritual Qi, while Ye Xuan continued tempering his cultivation instead of breaking through to Half-Saint.
• Ye Xuan noticed that some illusory figures glanced at him, and Qin Xian asked what was wrong.

Ye Xuan discovered that True Solar Fire could destroy the otherwise invulnerable phantoms and used the energy released by them to help Qin Xian, Yue Rong, and the others cultivate. The group achieved a series of breakthroughs, while Ye Xuan stored the remaining energy and stayed below the Half-Saint Realm.

• Phantoms attacked Yue Rong and the Sacred Frost Palace group, injuring Zi'er, while their opponents' attacks repeatedly scattered the phantoms without killing them.
• Ye Xuan used Wandering Dragon Steps and the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword to protect Zi'er, then unleashed True Solar Fire and burned the phantoms into pure energy.
• Ye Xuan directed the released energy into Qin Xian, Yue Rong, and the others until they could absorb no more, then stored the remaining energy in System Space.
• Ye Xuan hunted down the remaining energy-bearing phantoms but stopped absorbing their energy to avoid breaking through to the Half-Saint Realm before claiming first place on the Divine Ranking.
• Qin Xian broke through to the fifth layer of the Half-Saint Realm, and Yue Rong and the others also began breaking through; Yue Rong accidentally blasted apart her dress when her breakthrough strength surged.

Ye Xuan’s group reached the immortal palaces, where an illusion scattered them and his Divine Eyes revealed the ruins and enormous chains hidden inside. As screams rang out, Ye Xuan was left confronting the unsettling possibility that the palaces were suppressing something.

• Yue Rong thanked Ye Xuan after he saved her from falling, while Zi’er teased him and made an outrageous remark about her master.
• Ye Xuan led the group toward the immortal palaces, using the True Solar Fire to attack phantoms as they traveled.
• More cultivators entered through the rift, including Yin Jiutian, a Half-Saint who had once ranked on the Half-Saint Divine Ranking and could kill Early Saints.
• Crossing an immortal palace’s boundary separated Ye Xuan from Qin Xian and the others, and he used his Divine Eyes to see through the illusion and locate them among the ruined palaces.
• Ye Xuan saw a divine spear pinning the central palace and discovered enormous black chains in the surrounding ruins, all leading toward it.
• A piercing scream sounded, and Ye Xuan turned back in alarm.

Ye Xuan rescued Yan Qing from three cultivators and discovered that blood from the maze’s battles was flowing toward the immortal palace. He hurried to find Qin Xian, who was ambushed in a corridor as the chapter ended.

• Yan Qing was overwhelmed by three cultivators and prepared to self-detonate before one struck her and sent her flying.
• Ye Xuan appeared, killed the three attackers, healed Yan Qing, and carried her away to find Qin Xian.
• Ye Xuan noticed that blood from fallen cultivators was gathering underground toward the immortal palace as battles spread through the maze.
• Qin Xian cautiously moved through a passage, was cut by a saber from ahead, and demanded to know who was there.

Ye Xuan rescued Qin Xian, Yan Qing, and the other Sacred Frost Palace fairies from the labyrinth, but the place transformed into a blood-soaked ruin and the surviving cultivators turned on him. The chapter ended with the cultivators charging at Ye Xuan as their common target.

• A burly Peak Half-Saint saber cultivator ambushed Qin Xian and wounded her as she tried to flee and defend herself.
• Yan Qing appeared just as the saber cultivator was about to kill Qin Xian, and Ye Xuan shattered the attacker with a barrage of punches.
• Ye Xuan gathered Qin Xian and Yan Qing, then rescued all the Sacred Frost Palace fairies by passing through walls that opened before him.
• Ye Xuan gathered the seven fairies and started to lead them out, but the labyrinth collapsed and revealed a ruin filled with corpses and battered cultivators.
• The surviving cultivators fixed their scarlet gazes on Ye Xuan and charged at him after someone shouted, “Kill!”

Ye Xuan fought off mind-controlled cultivators and tried to escape as a terrifying presence stirred inside the immortal palace. He killed Yin Jiutian when the sword cultivator blocked his way, then teleported away just as the palace exploded.

• Ye Xuan protected Qin Xian and the other six women, killing the attacking cultivators with lightning and sword strikes.
• As a menacing presence emerged from the immortal palace, Ye Xuan gathered the women and attempted to flee.
• Yin Jiutian intercepted Ye Xuan, but Ye Xuan severed both his legs with Three Primordial Unity Forms.
• Ye Xuan killed Yin Jiutian with Slay an Immortal with One Sword and escaped with Qin Xian and the others.
• The system announced that Ye Xuan had completed his mission and reached first place on the Venerable Ranking, then the immortal palace exploded.

A chained demonic beast emerged from the shattered immortal palace and began slaughtering the cultivators. As Ye Xuan desperately absorbed energy to break through, the beast targeted him, and his Demon-Devouring Divine Canon made it pause briefly before it charged at him.

• A two-legged demonic beast with a divine spear embedded in its forehead emerged from the shattered immortal palace, and its presence injured cultivators who looked at it.
• Ye Xuan fled with Qin Xian and the other six women, but the beast shattered the surrounding palaces and unleashed pressure and chains that killed countless cultivators.
• Qin Xian and the others urged Ye Xuan to leave them behind as the beast's attacks wounded them and overwhelmed his defenses.
• Ye Xuan spent a thousand Immortal Crystals and absorbed the surrounding Immortal Spiritual Qi while attempting to break through as he fled.
• The beast noticed Ye Xuan absorbing its energy, roared, and charged at him; Ye Xuan unleashed the Demon-Devouring Divine Canon, briefly making it pause before it rushed at him again.

Ye Xuan broke through to Half-Saint but was repeatedly battered by the demonic beast until he used his new sign-in ability, Draw the Ground as a Prison, to trap it. He fled with Qin Xian and the others, while the trapped beast encountered a terrifying woman in black.

• Ye Xuan broke through to Half-Saint as the demonic beast charged, but its first collision severely injured Qin Xian, the others, and Ye Xuan.
• The demonic beast struck Ye Xuan three times without killing him, leaving him desperate and bewildering the beast.
• Ye Xuan used his refreshed sign-in to obtain and cultivate Draw the Ground as a Prison.
• Ye Xuan trapped the demonic beast inside a hazy prison, then gathered Qin Xian and the others and fled while absorbing immortal Spiritual Qi.
• The trapped demonic beast saw an illusory barefoot woman in black with a crown and whip, then trembled and asked how she was there.

Ye Xuan recovered in a carriage while Sacred Frost Palace disciples cared for him, and he learned that Han Bingning had reached the Saint Realm Ranking. Their conversation about Han ended when a powerful stranger confronted the carriage and demanded that Ye Xuan come out.

• A woman in black slapped and subdued the demonic beast that had attacked one of her disciples, then began transmitting her voice.
• Ye Xuan left the secret realm with Qin Xian and the others, who traveled deeper into Heavenly Void Divine Island while he treated his injuries.
• Ye Xuan's name appeared above the divine stele after he claimed first place on the Venerable Ranking, and Han Bingning made the Divine Ranking at Saint Realm Third Stage.
• Yue Rong and the other Sacred Frost Palace disciples promised to care for Ye Xuan, then praised Han Bingning and warned him not to entertain improper ideas about her.
• After Ye Xuan questioned Han Bingning's standing, a luxurious man stopped the carriage and threatened to slay him for speaking disrespectfully of Fairy Han.

Han Yu attacked Ye Xuan for insulting Han Bingning, and Qin Xian and the other women tried to protect him but were defeated. Ye Xuan dodged Han Yu’s first two strikes, then faced his third attack directly and disarmed him with the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword, leaving its tip at Han Yu’s throat.

• Han Yu identified himself as a disciple of the Star Immortal Domain and attacked Ye Xuan for disrespecting Han Bingning.
• Qin Xian intervened, but Han Yu defeated her and then struck down Yue Rong and the other five women who tried to protect Ye Xuan.
• Han Yu pressed his attack despite learning the women belonged to the Sacred Frost Palace, while Ye Xuan warned him to stop.
• Ye Xuan dodged Han Yu’s first two strikes and said he would die if he attacked a third time.
• Han Yu attacked a third time, and Ye Xuan drew the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword, shattered Han Yu’s divine sword, and held the blade to his throat.

Ye Xuan killed Han Yu after Han Yu threatened him with the power of the Han Clan, then trapped eleven Saint Realm guards with Draw the Ground as a Prison. He sent Qin Xian and the others away while preparing to face the trapped experts.

• Ye Xuan defeated Han Yu and initially offered to spare him, but Han Yu threatened him with retaliation from the Han Clan of the Star Immortal Domain.
• Han Yu taunted Ye Xuan to kill him, so Ye Xuan stabbed him through the throat with the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Han Yu's eleven Saint Realm subordinates attacked Ye Xuan, enraged by their master's death.
• Ye Xuan used Draw the Ground as a Prison to trap the Saint Realm experts behind a luminous barrier.
• Ye Xuan told Qin Xian and the others to leave, and Qin Xian led them away after warning him to be careful.

Ye Xuan fought Pang Wu, a Saint Realm third stage cultivator, inside the prison and killed him with help from a sudden attack by a huge mouth in the void. His name rose to tenth on the Half-Saint Ranking, drawing attention across Heavenly Void Divine Island.

• Ye Xuan entered the prison after Qin Xian and the others escaped, then attacked Pang Wu as he tried to break through the light curtain.
• Pang Wu overwhelmed Ye Xuan in battle, and Ye Xuan realized how difficult it was to kill a Saint Realm opponent without the Sealing Realm.
• As Pang Wu struck at Ye Xuan, a huge mouth appeared in the void and distracted him, allowing Ye Xuan to sever his head with the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword.
• Ye Xuan took Pang Wu's storage ring and fled as his name rose to tenth on the Half-Saint Ranking.
• Han Bingning saw Ye Xuan's new rank after emerging from seclusion and resolved to work harder.

After two months of cultivation, Ye Xuan rose to the fifth layer Half-Saint Realm and became second on the Half-Saint Ranking, drawing the attention of enemies across Heavenly Void Divine Island. As he approached Dragon Whisker City, Sha Yong prepared an ambush to kill him and seize his lightning divine ability and blood essence.

• Ye Xuan searched unsuccessfully for Qin Xian and the others, then continued deeper into the Divine Island while cultivating and anticipating a reunion with Han Bingning.
• Over two months, Ye Xuan advanced to the fifth layer Half-Saint Realm, reached second on the Half-Saint Ranking, and became the target of the Ye Extermination Alliance.
• In Dragon Whisker City, Sha Yong learned that Ye Xuan was approaching and ordered his allies to watch the city and kill Ye Xuan as soon as he arrived.
• Sha Yong revealed that he wanted Ye Xuan's lightning divine ability and blood essence, while other powerful talents also coveted Ye Xuan's abilities and secrets.
• Ye Xuan fought his way to within ten thousand li of Dragon Whisker City as Sha Yong's forces prepared for his arrival.

Saint Realm experts prepared an ambush for Ye Xuan at Dragon Whisker City, hoping to uncover the source of his abilities and kill him before he could escape. As Ye Xuan approached, he sensed the area was unnaturally empty and realized someone might be targeting him.

• Liu Chong, Hu Changyuan, and Yang Zong confirmed that Ye Xuan was nearing Dragon Whisker City and agreed to kill him, suspecting his rapid cultivation and powerful weapons came from a hidden source.
• Dozens of Saint Realm cultivators took positions around the city gates to prevent Ye Xuan from escaping, while Sha Yong ordered a Half-Emperor household slave to prepare.
• Ye Xuan sensed that the area around him was unnaturally devoid of cultivators and demonic beasts as he continued toward Dragon Whisker City.
• Ye Xuan's sense of danger intensified, and he wondered whether Sha Yong was trying to kill him.

Ye Xuan approached Dragon Whisker City despite Sha Yong’s attempt to kill him, while Yin Tianjiao realized the city’s forces had prepared an ambush. When the attackers charged outside the city, Ye Xuan fought back and killed more than a third of their Saint Realm experts, leaving Liu Chong and the others shaken.

• Ye Xuan continued toward Dragon Whisker City, determined to reach its core despite the danger.
• Liu Chong and the others prepared dozens of Saint Realm experts to kill Ye Xuan, while Yin Tianjiao anxiously sought a way to warn him.
• Ye Xuan used his Divine Eyes and Absolute Domain to detect the concealed experts, then turned away from the city.
• Liu Chong and the other two ordered the experts to charge Ye Xuan before he could escape.
• Ye Xuan raised his strength to Peak Saint Realm, killed several attackers with his bare hands and the Seven Star Dragon Abyss Sword, and survived their counterattack.
• Ye Xuan unleashed Five Thunderbolts Strike the Crown, killing seven or eight more Saint Realm experts and badly shaking Liu Chong and the other two.

Ye Xuan faced a coordinated assault from Liu Chong, Yang Zong, Hu Yuanshan, and more than twenty other Saint Realm cultivators while Sha Yong and Luocha watched from the city lord’s residence. He trapped Liu Chong inside Draw the Ground as a Prison and entered to fight him alone, ending the chapter by asking how Liu Chong wanted to die.

• Liu Chong rallied the frightened cultivators and led Yang Zong and Hu Yuanshan in a three-sided attack on Ye Xuan, while the others launched supporting attacks.
• Sha Yong and Luocha watched from the city lord’s residence, with Sha Yong choosing to wait until Liu Chong and the others were in despair before acting.
• Yin Tianjiao watched from near the city gate and worried that an Emperor Realm expert in Dragon Whisker City would target Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan decided to make an example of Liu Chong and used Draw the Ground as a Prison to trap him, then unleashed the Devil-Swallowing Divine Canon.
• Ye Xuan took injuries from the surrounding attackers but entered the prison, where its barrier kept the others out and left him alone with Liu Chong.