Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiubai and Mu Ziqing entered Falling Goose City and planned to join the Falling Goose Sect so they could use its rivalry with the Vast Sea Sect while growing stronger. At the sect’s recruitment ceremony, Ye Qiubai passed the first test with startling talent, but Mu Ziqing’s even greater cultivation drew all four Peak Masters into a scramble to recruit her.

• Ye Qiubai told Mu Ziqing they would join the Falling Goose Sect and earn its support against the Vast Sea Sect and the Lü Lineage.
• At the recruitment ceremony, Ye Qiubai gave the alias Ye Qiu and passed the first test with a bone age of twenty-three and half-step Spirit Division Realm cultivation.
• The crowd and other applicants reacted with shock to Ye Qiubai’s talent, while Yang Hefan looked forward to competing with him.
• Mu Ziqing’s test revealed that she was twenty-one and at the middle stage of the Dao Integration Realm.
• The four Peak Masters rushed to recruit Mu Ziqing, and Ye Qiubai privately lamented that she had stolen his chance to show off.

Mu Ziqing chose Alkaid Peak as a personal disciple, while Ye Qiubai chose the poorly founded Heaven-Hating Peak. The Vast Sea Sect then tried to poach recruits at the Falling Goose Sect’s ceremony, prompting the Falling Goose Sect’s sect master to warn that the insult would be remembered.

• Mu Ziqing chose Alkaid Peak because its peak master was a woman and became her personal disciple.
• Mu Ziqing challenged Ye Qiubai to compete over gaining influence in the Falling Goose Sect, and Ye Qiubai accepted with a condition.
• Ye Qiubai chose Heaven-Hating Peak, and Wang Xing was told to take him there without making him complete the remaining tests.
• Gong Rui arrived on behalf of the Vast Sea Sect and offered recruits who met his conditions fifty Origin-Connecting Treasure Coins each month to join his sect.
• Ming Shaoting and Li Rufei accepted Gong Rui’s offer, and the master of Primordial Chaos Peak nearly attacked him before the sect master intervened and warned that the Falling Goose Sect would remember the insult.

Ye Qiubai and Mu Ziqing joined the Falling Goose Sect after Ye Qiubai rejected Gong Rui’s offer to join the Vast Sea Sect. Ye Qiubai accepted a wager to face Li Rufei and Ming Shaoting in three months, then discovered that his chosen Heaven-Hating Peak was nearly destitute.

• Gong Rui offered Ye Qiubai a place in the Vast Sea Sect and access to the Vast Sea Pavilion, but Ye Qiubai refused and said he wanted to challenge the domain’s overlord.
• Gong Rui proposed a competition over Tongyuan Mountain’s resources in three months, wagering that Ye Qiubai and Mu Bai would join the Vast Sea Sect if the Falling Goose Sect lost; Yan Weisheng and Ye Qiubai accepted.
• Ye Qiubai joined Heaven-Hating Peak, while Mu Ziqing became the personal disciple of Alkaid Peak’s master.
• Ye Qiubai climbed to Heaven-Hating Peak and found its compound abandoned and dilapidated.
• A woman and an old man welcomed Ye Qiubai, then revealed that Heaven-Hating Peak was too poor to have any cultivation secret realms.

Ye Qiubai joined Heaven-Hating Peak, where he was put to work before discovering its hidden Yin-Yang Lightning Pool. He began tempering his body in the pool, while the peak master wondered whether he could inherit the Heavenly Spirit Technique; meanwhile, a white-robed man arrived in a lifeless star region carrying two children and Little Bird.

• Ye Qiubai helped Zhan Zhi sweep fallen leaves without Spiritual Qi and cooked a meal that earned him the job of preparing food for future drinks.
• The peak master asked why Ye Qiubai had joined Heaven-Hating Peak, then led him to a cave containing a pool of Yin and Yang lightning.
• Ye Qiubai jumped into the lightning pool and endured its violent power as it burned his hair and eyebrows and began purifying his blood and body.
• Ye Qiubai used the Primordial Sword Scripture to fuse the lightning powers and turn them into pure lightning essence that flowed through his body.
• The peak master watched Ye Qiubai cultivate and wondered whether he could inherit the Heavenly Spirit Technique.
• A white-robed man arrived in a star region devoid of vitality, carrying a small child in each arm with Little Bird perched on his shoulder.

Lu Changsheng tracked the Void Behemoths to their dwelling and fought them to obtain a Void Crystal for Xiao Shitou. The Void Clan's patriarch agreed to give him the crystal on the condition that Xiao Shitou would inherit the patriarch's position, and Lu Changsheng left after the crystal stabilized his disciple.

• Little Bird absorbed the dragon and phoenix Qi from the Divine Phoenix skeleton while Lu Changsheng found traces of the Void Behemoth and entered the space they had left behind.
• Lu Changsheng followed the traces to the Void Clan's dwelling and asked its members for a Void Crystal to save Xiao Shitou.
• The Void Clan's patriarch recognized Xiao Shitou's Void Sacred Body and offered to save him if Lu Changsheng left the child behind, but Lu Changsheng refused.
• Lu Changsheng withstood the Void Behemoths' spatial storms, kicked the patriarch's enormous head, and forced the clan to negotiate.
• The patriarch offered the Void Crystal in exchange for Xiao Shitou inheriting his position, and Lu Changsheng accepted.
• Lu Changsheng placed the Void Crystal on Xiao Shitou's chest, letting it absorb the spatial power harming him, then left with his disciple.

After two months in the Yin-Yang Lightning Pool, Ye Qiubai comprehended the Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art and strengthened his Sword Domain. Elder Cui chose Ye Qiubai and Zhan Zhi to represent Heaven-Hating Peak in the Five Peaks Grand Competition, where Ye Qiubai planned to prove himself.

• While Mu Ziqing advanced to the late-stage Dao Integration Realm at Alkaid Peak, Xu Shi doubted Ye Qiubai had made progress at Heaven-Hating Peak.
• Ye Qiubai endured the Yin-Yang Lightning Pool for two months, clearing most of the turbid Qi in his body and reaching the middle Spirit Division Realm.
• As he sensed the paths of Yin and Yang lightning, Ye Qiubai formed a cultivation technique in his mind and entered the Celestial Person State.
• After another seven days, Ye Qiubai emerged and used his Sword Domain alongside Yin-Yang lightning, revealing his mastery of the Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art.
• Elder Cui named Ye Qiubai and Zhan Zhi as Heaven-Hating Peak's representatives in the Five Peaks Grand Competition, and Ye Qiubai resolved to make a name for himself.

Heaven-Hating Peak entered the Five Peaks Grand Competition with Ye Qiubai as its representative, and he challenged Ji Lian, the Falling Goose Sect’s strongest prodigy. Ye Qiubai’s swordsmanship and newly revealed Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art stunned the sect leaders as the fight continued.

• The other peak disciples doubted Heaven-Hating Peak’s chances, while Mu Ziqing suspected Ye Qiubai’s participation signaled a change.
• Cui Yuan told Yan Weisheng that Ye Qiu was not bad, and Yan Weisheng announced the competition rules.
• Ye Qiubai took the stage first and challenged Ji Lian, drawing surprise from the gathered disciples.
• Ye Qiubai used his Sword Domain and Starfall Sword Technique, but Ji Lian blocked his attacks with Soul Jade Hand.
• Ye Qiubai summoned white and black lightning, revealing the Heavenly Spirit Technique, Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art, and shocking the peak masters and Yan Weisheng.

During the Five Peaks Grand Competition, Ye Qiubai used the Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art and the Four Absolutes Primordial Sword to push Ji Lian into using his Heavenly Spirit Technique, but Ji Lian ultimately broke through Ye Qiubai’s attack. Ye Qiubai then forcibly merged the two lightning forces, triggering a devastating explosion that left the match’s outcome unknown.

• The spectators and peak masters recognized Ye Qiubai’s intertwined Yin and Yang lightning as the Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art, a pinnacle Heavenly Spirit Technique from Heaven-Hating Peak.
• Ye Qiubai combined the lightning dragons with the Four Absolutes Primordial Sword and struck at Ji Lian, who blocked the blow with Soul Jade Hand.
• Ye Qiubai’s lightning attack forced Ji Lian to unleash the Jade Soul Stone Spirit Body, but Ji Lian eventually shattered the sword and drove back the lightning dragons with a punch.
• Ye Qiubai suffered backlash, then formed seals to merge the Yin and Yang lightning into an unstable ball of power.
• Yan Weisheng and the four peak masters reinforced the arena’s defenses while Elder Cui moved to protect Ye Qiubai and Yan Weisheng shielded Ji Lian.
• The merged lightning fractured and exploded across the arena, leaving the outcome of the match unknown.

Ye Qiubai fought Ji Lian to a draw at the Five Peaks Grand Competition, while Mu Ziqing and Zhan Zhi also won impressive victories for their peaks. As the Falling Goose Sect prepared for its wager against the Vast Sea Sect in a month, Ye Qiubai said he had never considered Li Rufei and Ming Shaoting opponents.

• Ye Qiubai fused the Yin-Yang Divine Lightning in his match with Ji Lian, and Yan Weisheng called the fight a draw after the explosion nearly overwhelmed them.
• Mu Ziqing defeated Primordial Chaos Peak's Holy Son, raising Alkaid Peak to second place in the competition.
• Gong Rui sent Li Rufei and Ming Shaoting to cultivate in the Source-Connecting Secret Realm for a month and ordered them to win the coming wager.
• Zhan Zhi crushed Primordial Chaos Peak's Holy Son to claim third place, and the Five Peaks Grand Competition ended with Sky-Piercing Peak first and Alkaid Peak second.
• Ye Qiubai told Elder Cui that he had never considered Li Rufei and Ming Shaoting opponents, then went to the cave, where Zhan Zhi screamed during lightning body tempering.

Ye Qiubai prepared for the Falling Goose Sect’s wager against the Vast Sea Sect over Tongyuan Mountain’s resources, intending to use the contest to deepen the conflict between the sects. At Tongyuan Mountain, he challenged Li Rufei and Ming Shaoting to attack him together, but Li Rufei charged first with a Profound Rank Immortal Artifact.

• Yan Weisheng summoned the holy sons and warned them that the Vast Sea Sect’s six holy sons included Su Mingshui and Sun Kong, who were nearing the blood transformation realm.
• Ye Qiubai told Mu Ziqing that he planned to provoke a complete break between the Falling Goose Sect and the Vast Sea Sect, which he ultimately wanted to destroy.
• The two sects arrived at Tongyuan Mountain, where Gong Rui and the peak master of Sky-Piercing Peak discussed the wager and the risks Ye Qiubai faced.
• Li Rufei and Ming Shaoting confronted Ye Qiubai, and Ye Qiubai invited them to fight him together.
• Li Rufei refused and attacked Ye Qiubai with a saber and a Profound Rank Immortal Artifact, prompting the peak master of Sky-Piercing Peak to suggest Li Rufei might not withstand even one strike from Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiubai defeated Li Rufei and Ming Shaoting after they used forbidden pills to raise their strength, then refused Gong Rui's offer to join the Vast Sea Sect. The chapter ended with a Blood Transformation Realm elder accusing Ye Qiubai of stealing the Holy Son's tribute.

• Ye Qiubai sent Li Rufei flying with one sword strike, revealing that he had reached the Middle Spirit Division Realm.
• Li Rufei called on Ming Shaoting to attack with him, and Ye Qiubai revealed his Sword Domain and Supreme Sword Intent.
• Li Rufei and Ming Shaoting swallowed Blood Explosion Berserk Pills, broke through to the Peak Spirit Division Realm, and charged Ye Qiubai.
• Ye Qiubai's massive sword shattered their attacks, pierced both of them, and killed them.
• Gong Rui offered Ye Qiubai a place in the Vast Sea Sect, but Ye Qiubai refused and praised the Falling Goose Sect.
• A Blood Transformation Realm elder behind Gong Rui accused Ye Qiubai of stealing the Holy Son's tribute.

Ye Qiubai faced Su Mingshui while the Vast Sea Sect and Falling Goose Sect clashed over his capture. As Ye Qiubai unleashed Yin-Yang World Annihilation, its destructive lightning engulfed him and the nearby fighters, leaving their fate uncertain.

• He Dongxiao recognized Ye Qiubai as the sword cultivator who had abducted Su Mingshui’s tribute, and Ye Qiubai and Mu Ziqing revealed their true appearances.
• Gong Rui attacked Ye Qiubai, but the Sky-Piercing Peak Master blocked him and defended the Falling Goose Sect’s disciple, starting a clash between the sects.
• Ji Lian fought Sun Kong while Ye Qiubai faced Su Mingshui, whose immensely heavy water droplets forced Ye Qiubai backward.
• Ye Qiubai summoned black and white divine lightning, prompting the Sky-Piercing Peak Master to order the Falling Goose Sect disciples to retreat.
• Ye Qiubai invoked Yin-Yang World Annihilation, and its destructive lightning engulfed Ye Qiubai, the Sky-Piercing Peak Master, Gong Rui, and Su Mingshui.

Ye Qiubai’s devastating attack at Tongyuan Mountain secured the Falling Goose Sect’s victory and made him a target of the Vast Sea Sect. He entered the Source-Connecting Secret Realm to seek the Source-Connecting Sacred Art, which could raise the grade of any art he used.

• Ye Qiubai’s Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art devastated Tongyuan Mountain, but the Sky-Piercing Peak Master and Gong Rui shielded Ye Qiubai and Su Mingshui from the attack.
• Gong Rui left with the Vast Sea Sect after the Sky-Piercing Peak Master refused to surrender Ye Qiubai, and the Falling Goose Sect claimed sixty percent of Tongyuan Mountain’s resources from the wager.
• The Falling Goose Sect’s sect master granted Ye Qiubai three months in the Source-Connecting Secret Realm and warned him to remain within the sect because the Vast Sea Sect wanted him dead.
• Elder Cui explained that the Source-Connecting Secret Realm contained the Source-Connecting Sacred Art, which could raise any art’s grade, and told Ye Qiubai to comprehend it.
• Three days later, Ye Qiubai entered the Source-Connecting Secret Realm with Mu Ziqing and Ji Lian.

Ye Qiubai entered the Source-Connecting Secret Realm and secretly comprehended the Source-Connecting Sacred Art, while Xiao Hei completed the Ape Devil Race’s trials and was recognized as their Devil Master. The chapter ended with Xiao Hei setting out for the secret realm and Ye Qiubai using his newfound understanding to strengthen his technique before rapidly advancing his cultivation.

• Ye Qiubai, Mu Ziqing, and Ji Lian entered the Source-Connecting Secret Realm, where Ji Lian advised them to cultivate rather than expect to comprehend the sacred art in three months.
• Xiao Hei carried a massive star-fragment rock across the final meteorite pillar and completed the Ape Devil Race’s trials.
• Yuan Xiao and the other Ape Devils knelt before Xiao Hei and recognized him as the Devil Master.
• Xiao Hei asked about recovering his memories, and Yuan Xiao told him a Devil Race inheritance site lay inside the Source-Connecting Secret Realm.
• Xiao Hei set out for the Vast Sea Star Domain with Yuan Shou as his guide.
• Ye Qiubai realized an ancient character in his sea of consciousness was the Source-Connecting Sacred Art, used it to greatly enhance the Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art, and then focused on cultivation.

After learning that the Lü Lineage had abducted Mu Bai and offered her to the Vast Sea Sect, Xiao Hei went to Vast Sea City to avenge his sister-in-law. He slaughtered the Lü Lineage’s elders and patriarch, leaving the lineage on the verge of annihilation.

• Xiao Hei and Yuan Shou heard that the Lü Lineage had captured Mu Bai and offered her to the Vast Sea Sect as tribute.
• Xiao Hei learned that the Lü Lineage was in Vast Sea City and traveled there with Yuan Shou.
• The Lü Lineage patriarch tried to reason with Xiao Hei, but Xiao Hei attacked and killed a Dao Integration Realm elder with one punch.
• Xiao Hei unleashed his Devil Qi and killed the six Dao Integration Realm elders who attacked him.
• The Lü Lineage patriarch invoked the Vast Sea Sect’s backing and fought back, but Xiao Hei’s Devil Qi fist shattered his attack and smashed him into the ground.

Xiao Hei reached the Falling Goose Sect while Ye Qiubai emerged from the Source-Connecting Secret Realm having mastered its sacred art and advanced to the late-stage Spirit Division Realm. Ji Yuan arrived to demand a fight to the death between Ye Qiubai and Su Mingshui, leaving the sects facing a deadly challenge.

• After destroying the Lü Lineage, Xiao Hei left Vast Sea City and headed to the Falling Goose Sect.
• Su Mingshui emerged from the Source-Connecting Secret Realm and told Ji Yuan he had begun using the Source-Connecting Sacred Art; he planned to challenge Ye Qiu.
• Ye Qiubai emerged from the secret realm at the late-stage Spirit Division Realm and revealed that he had mastered the Source-Connecting Sacred Art.
• Ye Qiubai reunited with Xiao Hei at Heaven-Hating Peak, where Yuan Shou learned that Xiao Hei's master was not a Heavenly Lord and was warned against challenging him.
• Ji Yuan arrived at the Falling Goose Sect and proposed that Ye Qiu and Su Mingshui settle their affairs in a fight to the death.

Ye Qiubai accepted Su Mingshui’s life-or-death challenge for two months later, and entered the Source-Connecting Secret Realm to prepare. Xiao Hei followed a mysterious presence deep into the realm and found a colossal Ape Devil holding a sky-high wooden staff.

• Ji Yuan threatened all-out war between the Vast Sea Sect and the Falling Goose Sect unless Ye Qiubai accepted Su Mingshui’s challenge.
• Ye Qiubai agreed to fight Su Mingshui on Tongyuan Mountain in two months, with neither side allowed to intervene.
• Ye Qiubai asked Yan Weisheng to let him cultivate in the Source-Connecting Secret Realm, and Xiao Hei revealed that Yuan Shou was an Earth Immortal Realm expert willing to help the Falling Goose Sect.
• Yan Weisheng arranged Origin-Connecting Treasure Coins, allowing Ye Qiubai and Xiao Hei to enter the Source-Connecting Secret Realm as news of the challenge spread across the Vast Sea Star Domain.
• Ye Qiubai began cultivating, while Xiao Hei followed a mysterious presence to the depths of the realm and encountered an enormous Ape Devil holding a wooden staff.

Xiao Hei discovered the Ape Devil Race’s first patriarch in the Source-Connecting Secret Realm, received a memory fragment, and learned that the young lady had been imprisoned after the four great Devil Kings betrayed him. After Yuan Ao passed on, Ye Qiubai completed two months of cultivation and prepared to leave.

• Xiao Hei promised the first patriarch, Yuan Ao, that he would protect the Ape Devil Race and preserve its standing among the Four Princes.
• Yuan Ao told Xiao Hei that the young lady had used Heavenly Devil Disintegration to split his souls and spirits, and that the four great Devil Kings had joined forces with the Heavenly Lord’s forces to kill him.
• Xiao Hei absorbed Yuan Ao’s memory fragment and saw a chained woman being questioned in a prison, which provoked a surge of Devil Qi and blood intent.
• Yuan Ao revealed that the next memory fragment was in the Firmament Domain, then dissipated as the Ape Devil patriarch’s corpse became starlight and bestowed the Source-Connecting Sacred Art on Xiao Hei.
• Ye Qiubai reached the Dao Integration Realm after two months of cultivation and prepared to keep his appointment.

Ye Qiubai faced Su Mingshui in their long-awaited duel on Tongyuan Mountain and revealed that he had reached the dao integration realm. Their Heavenly Spirit Techniques clashed, and the chapter ended as Su Mingshui prepared to reveal another power.

• The Vast Sea Sect and the Falling Goose Sect arrived at Tongyuan Mountain for the battle to the death.
• Ye Qiubai revealed his dao integration realm cultivation, shocking the assembled spectators and prompting Su Mingshui to unleash an attack.
• Ye Qiubai countered Su Mingshui's water-droplet assault with his Sword Domain and Heaven-Suppressing Domain.
• Su Mingshui launched Water Moon Shakes the Heavens, and Ye Qiubai met it with the Four Absolutes Primordial Sword and the Yin-Yang World-Destroying Lightning Art.
• The two techniques shattered each other, and Su Mingshui opened his eyes as an ancient character appeared on his forehead.

Ye Qiubai defeated and killed Su Mingshui after both revealed their mastery of the Source-Connecting Sacred Art, despite the Vast Sea Sect’s attempts to intervene. Ji Yuan declared that the Vast Sea Sect would destroy the Falling Goose Sect, and news of the coming war and Ye Qiubai’s role spread across the Vast Sea Star Domain.

• Su Mingshui used the Source-Connecting Sacred Art to strengthen Water Moon Shakes the Heavens, but Ye Qiubai revealed a far more complete mastery of the art.
• Ye Qiubai unleashed Heaven Slayer Blade with Yin-Yang lightning and shattered Su Mingshui’s attack and curved saber.
• Gong Rui tried to stop Ye Qiubai, but Elder Cui blocked him as Ye Qiubai pursued Su Mingshui.
• An Earth Immortal presence restrained Ye Qiubai until another presence intervened, allowing Ye Qiubai to kill Su Mingshui and cut through his soul.
• Ji Yuan threatened to muster the Vast Sea Sect and annihilate the Falling Goose Sect, then departed with its members.
• Yan Weisheng took Ye Qiubai back to the sect as news of the impending war spread throughout the Vast Sea Star Domain.