Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiubai and his companions learned that the Three Treasures Sect was backed by the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and took shelter there. The black-robed figure sent new agents into the Nether River Abyss and arranged for Wu Xinyan to pursue Ye Qiubai’s group, while Dong Sanqiang led them to meet an important person.

• Xu Yeming showed the Thousand Treasures Card, and Mu Fusheng confirmed that the Myriad Treasures Pavilion backed the Three Treasures Sect.
• Dong Sanqiang invited Ye Qiubai and his companions to stay at the Three Treasures Sect because their branch hall lacked the strength to face the Styx Sect and the Yin Spirit Sect.
• Wu Xinyan asked the Nether River Ancestor to restore her severed hand, but he rejected her and dismissed her.
• The black-robed figure chastised the Nether River Ancestor for failing to defeat Ye Qiubai’s group, sent two stronger subordinates into the Nether River Abyss, and named Wu Xinyan as the person who would pursue them.
• Dong Sanqiang arranged guest accommodations for Ye Qiubai’s group, then asked them to accompany him to meet an important person while telling Yang Shao to stay behind.

Bao Zhenshu offered Ye Qiubai and his companions the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s highest-level support, while an eruption of Evil Qi from the Styx Sect shook Nether River City. In the Changsheng Realm, Xiao Shitou began merging with endless space, and Lu Changsheng sought a way to save him as immense energy stirred in the Star Orbit Well.

• Bao Zhenshu deduced that Ye Qiubai and his companions came from the lower realm, urged them to keep their actions secret, and gave them Ten Thousand Treasures Cards as the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s investment in them.
• Ye Qiubai questioned Bao Zhenshu’s motives, but Bao Zhenshu said he had high hopes for the group and introduced himself by name.
• The branch hall’s grand elder predicted that the Yin Spirit Sect and Styx Sect would behave for now, while Luo Ke vowed to destroy the Styx Sect when the Supervisory Sacred Hall’s main force returned.
• A gray-black pillar of light rose from the Styx Sect’s direction as a powerful surge of Evil Qi shook Nether River City.
• Xiao Shitou’s Void Sacred Body began merging with endless space, so Lu Changsheng and Du Zhong pulled him from the spatial tunnel; the Willow Tree warned that failure could scatter his body, consciousness, and soul into Dao Law.
• Lu Changsheng asked how they could help Xiao Shitou, and immense energy stirred inside the Star Orbit Well.

Lu Changsheng met Kong Cen of the Void Behemoth Clan, who had come to retrieve Xiao Shitou and help him awaken his Void Sacred Body. With Xiao Shitou’s condition worsening, Lu Changsheng agreed to accompany the clan and entered a black hole with them.

• A voice from the Star Orbit Well announced that the Void Behemoth Clan had come to escort the Void Holy Son back to their clan.
• Lu Changsheng sent an External Avatar to meet Kong Cen and learned that the Void Behemoths could sense an awakening Void Sacred Body through their bloodline.
• Kong Cen explained that a failed awakening could cause Xiao Shitou’s Void Dao Body to suffer a complete backlash, and said the clan could help him awaken successfully.
• Lu Changsheng said Xiao Shitou was his disciple and agreed to accompany the Void Behemoth Clan when Xiao Shitou’s spatial presence became unstable.
• Kong Cen opened a black hole, and Lu Changsheng followed him and his companions into it with Xiao Shitou.

Lu Changsheng brought the unconscious Xiao Shitou to the Void Behemoth clan, where the elders tried to take the boy without him. After Lu Changsheng forced them to let him accompany Xiao Shitou into the clan’s forbidden ground, the clan’s Supreme Elder appeared and recognized that he was using an External Avatar.

• Kong Cen and the Void Behemoth clansmen watched Lu Changsheng endure black-hole travel unharmed as they brought him and Xiao Shitou to their clan’s castle.
• The Void Behemoths welcomed Xiao Shitou as their Holy Son because he possessed the Void Sacred Body, and the First Void Elder said the boy’s condition was critical.
• Lu Changsheng refused to hand Xiao Shitou over without accompanying him, then shattered the Second Void Elder’s spatial attack with his presence.
• The First Void Elder let Lu Changsheng carry Xiao Shitou into the forbidden ground after acknowledging his strength and the importance of the boy.
• Lu Changsheng laid Xiao Shitou on a bed made from the ancestor’s Void Sacred Body Essence Blood and Dao Rhyme, where he would have to awaken by comprehending and absorbing them.
• The clan’s Supreme Elder appeared and recognized Lu Changsheng’s strength as belonging to an External Avatar, prompting the First Void Elder to address him as a senior.

Lu Changsheng examined the Void Behemoth ancestor’s inheritance while Xiao Hei set off for the Nine Nether Underworld. Meanwhile, Ye Qiubai and the others investigated a black pillar of light at the Styx Sect after learning that the Sacred Church had broken a seal on an evil Void Behemoth.

• Kong Zhuxin brought Lu Changsheng to the Void Behemoth Clan’s forbidden ground, where he absorbed a wisp of purple haze from the ancestor’s inheritance and denied understanding Space Dao Law.
• Xiao Hei told Lu Changsheng that the Nine Nether Underworld had summoned him through the Nether Lord’s inheritance, and Lu Changsheng let him go.
• The Sacred Hall received word that the Sacred Church had attacked and broken the seal in the Nether River Abyss, releasing the remains of a royal-clan Void Behemoth corrupted by Evil Qi.
• The grand elder sent Ye Qiubai, Yang Shao, Luo Ke, Mu Fusheng, and Jiu Bailu to investigate the black pillar of light at the Styx Sect and warned them not to act rashly.
• Yang Shao, Luo Ke, and Mu Fusheng suspected the Sacred Church had orchestrated the Styx Sect’s attack and the Nether River Ancestor’s sudden rise in power, while Mu Fusheng wondered if events had been arranged to lead them there.
• The group concealed their presence near the black curtain of light, and a cold purple gleam flashed.

A purple dagger transported Ye Qiubai and the others into the sealed ground of the Nether River Abyss, where they realized they had been deliberately lured there. They descended to the abyss's bottom and found a young beast that might be the Void Behemoth's cub.

• A purple dagger pulled Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and their companions into a hidden space and dropped them into the Nether River Abyss.
• Yang Shao and Mu Fusheng suspected the grand elder had set a trap to draw them into a larger scheme.
• With the Void Behemoth fighting the main force above and no safe way back, the group chose to descend the abyss.
• Ye Qiubai and the others cautiously climbed down the cliff for half a day, passing broken chains from the shattered seal.
• Ye Qiubai spotted a young beast asleep at the bottom of the abyss and wondered if it was the Void Behemoth's cub.

Xu Yeming bound the Void Behemoth cub, then made it swallow the treasure beneath it instead of destroying it. The cub rapidly grew stronger, just as a wave of Evil Qi and crushing wind pressure descended on the group.

• Luo Ke and Yang Shao realized the cub’s existence could make them enemies of the Void Behemoth Clan and suspected someone had lured them toward its treasure.
• Xu Yeming proposed destroying the treasure to foil the hidden plot, then revealed he could use the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Heavenly Wilderness Spirit-Controlling Brush to bind the cub.
• Xu Yeming commanded the cub to swallow the accompanying treasure, leaving the others stunned by his reckless solution.
• The cub’s Power of Space surged, its body grew, and a powerful blast of wind pressure carrying Evil Qi crashed down from above.

Xu Yeming and his companions survived the Void Behemoth evil puppet’s crushing descent when it stopped above the cub, then joined the allied forces attacking it. Deputy Hall Master Lin brought Xu Yeming toward the beast to use his ability to control its movements.

• Xu Yeming used the Heavenly Wilderness Spirit-Controlling Brush to position the Void Behemoth cub beneath its mother, and the evil puppet stopped before crushing them.
• Deputy Hall Master Lin and the allied forces attacked the evil puppet while the sealing formation was being repaired, and Luo Ke reunited with her father.
• Yang Shao revealed that Xu Yeming could control beasts, so Deputy Hall Master Lin asked him to interfere with the evil puppet’s movements.
• Xu Yeming chose not to use the cub as a shield, and Deputy Hall Master Lin protected him as they charged toward the evil puppet.
• The allied experts restrained the evil puppet with threads of rule power while Xu Yeming approached it astride the cub.

Xu Yeming calmed the Void Behemoth evil puppet and learned from its soul that the object was the key to opening the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool. The Void Behemoth revealed that the pool had been born from a petal of the World Tree.

• Xu Yeming soothed the Void Behemoth evil puppet by assuring it he would not harm its cub, while Deputy Hall Master Lin prepared to seal it.
• Chu Yan and Ba Tiance exchanged barbed remarks over Hong Ying as Xu Yeming spoke with the evil puppet.
• The Void Behemoth's soul pulled Xu Yeming into a star-filled space and challenged him for controlling its child.
• Xu Yeming explained the group's predicament and persuaded the Void Behemoth that the Sacred Church was using them to target its family.
• The Void Behemoth warned Xu Yeming that the object opened the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool, which had been born from a petal of the World Tree.

Xu Yeming learned that the Void Behemoth cub had swallowed a precious World Tree petal, then promised Kong Xuan to take the cub back to the Void Behemoth Clan. He calmed the evil puppet and helped seal it, but the petal inside the cub left the others demanding a solution.

• Xu Yeming learned that the cub had eaten the World Tree petal sought by the mastermind behind the incident, while Kong Xuan warned him that extracting it would kill the cub.
• Kong Xuan asked Xu Yeming to take his child home, gave him the Void Behemoth Clan's mark, and revealed his name and imperial bloodline before Xu Yeming returned to the cliffs.
• Xu Yeming approached the evil puppet, patted its bones, and secretly apologized to Kong Xuan for his improvised act; the puppet retreated and stopped attacking.
• Deputy Hall Master Lin activated the sealing pillars, and the Void Behemoth evil puppet allowed itself to be sealed without resisting.
• Xu Yeming warned the assembled powerhouses against taking the cub and explained his agreement with Kong Xuan, but Deputy Hall Master Lin pointed out that the cub had swallowed the key to the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool.

Xu Yeming used the key within the Void Behemoth cub to open the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool after the cub absorbed its power and reached the Dharma Aspect Realm. The pool manifested in the Nether River Abyss, while the group remained wary that Deputy Hall Master Lin was behind the events leading them there.

• Xu Yeming and his companions suspected Deputy Hall Master Lin and decided to open the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool to expose whoever was manipulating events.
• Xu Yeming waited as the Void Behemoth cub absorbed the remaining power and broke through to the Dharma Aspect Realm.
• The cub bonded with Xu Yeming, who named it Kong Xuan after its mother.
• Xu Yeming guided his soul power into Kong Xuan's beast core and used the key to direct Yin-Yang divine light into the abyss.
• The divine light purified the Evil Qi and transformed the landscape, manifesting the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool as vast black and white lakes.

The Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool opened, drawing the competing factions into its black and white waters to seek the powers of Yin and Yang. Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, and Ning Chenxin began comprehending Yang inside the white pool while Mu Fusheng, Xu Yeming, and Jiu Bailu entered the black pool, as mysterious black-robed figures appeared outside.

• Chu Yan explained that mastering both Yin and Yang could allow someone to fuse the supreme Dao laws, and said he intended to obtain the power of Yang.
• The Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool opened after the black and white waters formed taiji ripples, and the assembled experts rushed inside.
• Chu Yan and the Chu Clan entered the white pool, while Ba Tiance and the Banan Divine Kingdom also went after Yang; Deputy Hall Master Lin warned the Sacred Hall members not to trust anyone.
• Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, and Ning Chenxin entered the white pool, while Mu Fusheng, Xu Yeming, Jiu Bailu, and Kong Xuan entered the black pool.
• Inside the white pool, the three found their cultivation and physical strength suppressed and began trying to comprehend the elusive power of Yang.
• After everyone had entered, dozens of black-robed figures appeared above the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool.

Ye Qiubai and his companions rapidly descended into the Yin-Yang Heavenly Pool, where Mu Fusheng recognized the mysteriously concealed He Mengshen. He Mengshen offered to guide them to a secluded place and revealed that the black and white pools were connected, as they continued toward the depths.

• Ye Qiubai and his companions adjusted to the pool’s Yin-Yang power, then descended quickly enough to astonish the cultivators nearby.
• Bao Zhenshu remarked that the talented group had been targeted, while Dong Sanqiang wondered what he meant.
• Mu Fusheng and his companions spotted He Mengshen, whose Dao presence was concealed by an object and whose karmic threads Jiu Bailu could see.
• He Mengshen explained that he had been secluded with the surviving branch of the Hetu Clan, and Mu Fusheng agreed to follow him to a place suited for comprehension.
• He Mengshen told them that a channel at the pool’s bottom connected the black and white pools, allowing a cultivator with sufficient fortune to comprehend both Yin and Yang on a first visit.
• Mu Fusheng, Xu Yeming, and Jiu Bailu followed He Mengshen deeper as the water pressure began piercing their Spiritual Qi barriers.

Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying began comprehending the Dao of Yang, while Chu Yan pursued the same goal under the Chu Clan’s protection. Two months later, Ba Tiance, the Sacred Church, and other factions attacked Chu Yan, and the Chu Clan’s grand elder was stunned to see Chu Ran emerge among the attackers.

• Chu Yan used the Thunder Department Orthodox God Seal to enter a Yang Dao sea fish and begin comprehending the Dao, while the Chu Clan guarded him.
• Chu Ran resented being ordered to protect Chu Yan and withdrew into a ravine, prompting the grand elder to let him be.
• Gu You began comprehending the Dao of Yang under Mount Qingcheng’s Nine Palaces Armillary Sphere Formation, while Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying searched for a secluded place.
• Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying set up formations, talismans, and puppets to guard their sea trench before beginning their own comprehension.
• Two months later, Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying sensed more than twenty people gathering around Chu Yan’s sea fish as the Chu Clan’s grand elder shouted in fury.
• Ba Tiance, the Sacred Church, Glazed Fire Sect elders, and other attackers converged on Chu Yan, and the grand elder recognized Chu Ran among them.

Chu Ran revealed that he had secretly conspired with the Sacred Church for years, intending to claim the Chu Clan leadership and inherit Chu Yan’s comprehensions. As the Sacred Church trapped the Chu Clan grand elder and targeted the Dao of Yang sea fish, Qu Lü agreed to fight the Church’s experts.

• Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying stopped comprehending and rushed out to help Chu Yan.
• Chu Ran admitted he had pretended to be foolish while secretly building alliances, and explained that he had hoped to inherit Chu Yan’s comprehensions and take the clan head position.
• The grand elder discovered that the Glazed Fire Sect, the Banan Divine Kingdom, and the Sacred Church had trapped the Chu Clan in a formation, while Deputy Hall Master Lin refused to intervene.
• Qu Lü agreed to fight the Sacred Church’s people, and two black-robed figures charged at him as the others moved toward the Dao of Yang sea fish.

Qu Lü confronted the Sacred Church forces in the White Pool and demonstrated the overwhelming power of his Dao Law and righteous arts. He destroyed the Evil Cloud Heaven-Devouring Formation, while the Sacred Church leader turned toward the Chu Clan.

• Qu Lü trapped two Sacred Church members with wind swords and lightning spears, then killed one with a sword formed from lightning, fire, righteous Qi, and fierce winds.
• Qu Lü challenged the five remaining Sacred Church members, who formed the Evil Cloud Heaven-Devouring Formation around him.
• The formation’s wronged souls and evil Qi failed to penetrate Qu Lü’s righteous white light.
• Qu Lü summoned a mountain of righteous Qi and ordered it to destroy both the formation and its practitioners.
• The righteous mountain annihilated the wronged souls and shattered the soul banners and formation, while the Sacred Church leader went to deal with the Chu Clan.

Qu Lü shattered the Sacred Church’s Evil Cloud Heaven-Devouring Formation, but its five cultivators split their bodies and souls to strengthen it beyond his ability to break. As the Chu Clan elders burned their essence blood to protect Chu Yan, Chu Ran and the Sacred Church’s allies moved to seize Chu Yan’s Dao of Yang opportunity, prompting Ye Qiubai to intervene.

• Qu Lü destroyed the five Sacred Church cultivators’ formation, and Ning Chenxin chose to help the Chu Clan rather than continue his comprehension because Chu Yan had aided him.
• The five Sacred Church cultivators pierced their hearts with their bone scepters, absorbed vengeful souls, and split their bodies and divine souls into ten to form a stronger Evil Cloud Heaven-Devouring Formation.
• Qu Lü used his folding fan and arrays of Dao Laws to hold back the strengthened formation, while the Chu Clan grand elder ordered the elders to protect Chu Yan and they burned their essence blood.
• Chu Ran charged toward the Dao of Yang sea fish, while the Sacred Church’s leader blocked the grand elder and experts from the Banan Divine Kingdom and Glazed Fire Sect restrained the other elders.
• Ba Tiance, Ba Xiyue, and Fang Jinghong followed Chu Ran toward Chu Yan’s opportunity, and Ye Qiubai drew the Azure Cloud Sword and announced that it was their turn to act.

Ye Qiubai, Hong Ying, and Ning Chenxin stood against the forces surrounding the Chu Clan, each facing a different opponent. Ye Qiubai drew the Azure Cloud Sword and revealed a Sword Domain and Sword Dao Dharma Form, leaving Fang Jinghong stunned as their duel began.

• Ye Qiubai and Hong Ying defied Deputy Hall Master Lin and chose to aid the Chu Clan, while Ning Chenxin prepared to fight Chu Ran.
• Hong Ying faced Ba Tiance, Ning Chenxin faced Chu Ran, and Ye Qiubai faced Fang Jinghong.
• Fang Jinghong charged at Ye Qiubai with the Fire-Wielding God-Devouring Sword, but the Azure Cloud Sword's power made him hesitate.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed his Sword Domain, which suppressed Fang Jinghong and gathered Sword Qi behind him.
• Fang Jinghong realized Ye Qiubai had reached the Sword Dao Dharma Form realm, and Ye Qiubai challenged him to show the strength of a Soaring Realm sword cultivator.

Ye Qiubai fought Fang Jinghong while Hong Ying confronted Ba Tiance, whose hidden crimes were exposed by Ba Tianxuan. The chapter ended with Ba Xiyue stabbing Ba Tiance through the heart.

• Ye Qiubai suppressed the sword cultivators around White Pool with his Sword Domain and began fighting Fang Jinghong.
• Ba Tiance tried to persuade Hong Ying to join him, then threatened to kill her when she refused.
• A scroll from Hong Ying’s spatial ring manifested Ba Tianxuan, who revealed that he had feigned madness to gather evidence of Ba Tiance’s collusion with the Sacred Church.
• Ba Tianxuan showed Ba Tiance a recording stone proving that the imperial court had witnessed his actions.
• Ba Xiyue stabbed Ba Tiance through the heart, and Ba Tiance accused her of working with Ba Tianxuan.

Ba Xiyue stabbed Ba Tiance to stop his alliance with the Sacred Church, but Ba Tiance used the Heavy Mountain Immovable Emperor Seal to kill her and revealed that he had prepared for assassination. Hong Ying then confronted him with the Holy Willow Phoenix Fire Spear and her powers of fire, unending life, and reincarnation, as a golden holy dragon emerged from the seal.

• Ba Xiyue stabbed Ba Tiance with a restrictive dagger and accused him of colluding with Evil Cultivators.
• Ba Tiance used the Heavy Mountain Immovable Emperor Seal to break the restriction and pierce Ba Xiyue with a golden spear, killing her.
• Ba Tiance revealed that the ruler had given him the seal and that he had moved his heart to the right side of his chest to guard against assassination.
• Ba Tianxuan recovered Ba Xiyue's body while Hong Ying refused to join his dynasty's struggle and said she would protect the Chu Clan.
• Hong Ying revealed the Holy Willow Phoenix Fire Spear's powers of fire and unending life, invoked the Reincarnation Necklace, and charged at Ba Tiance.
• Ba Tiance summoned a golden holy dragon from the Emperor Seal to face Hong Ying.