Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiubai, Yuezheng Chi, and Lin Zhinan planned a two-pronged attack on Purgatory City after Miao Bangdao confirmed that their enemies were inside. As sunset approached, both forces prepared to strike, though Mu Fusheng warned that the enemy might suppress their escape talismans and that he sensed danger.

• Yuezheng Chi showed Ye Qiubai and Lin Zhinan Miao Bangdao's map and confirmed that Avici Purgatory and the Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Hall were inside Purgatory City.
• Lin Zhinan proposed that Demon King City's forces attack from the north while Nebula City's forces attacked from the east, and Ye Qiubai and Yuezheng Chi agreed.
• Yuezheng Chi told Chen Hui that Ye Qiubai had defeated Gu Xi and Yuezheng Chi, convincing Chen Hui that Ye Qiubai deserved to lead.
• Yuezheng Chi ordered Miao Bangdao to monitor the enemy and told the forces to prepare to attack at sunset.
• Mu Fusheng warned Ye Qiubai and the others that the enemy might suppress their Heavenly Lightning Escape Talismans and that he had a bad feeling.

As night fell, rogue cultivators attacked Purgatory City from the north while another group struck the eastern wall. Pan Xie and the other Avici Purgatory fighters confronted the northern attackers, then revealed a blood technique that rapidly boosted their cultivation toward the Earth Immortal Realm.

• At night, Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, Miao Bangdao, and other rogue cultivators attacked the northern wall and destroyed its two Half-Step Turbid Immortal Realm puppets.
• Pan Xie and the other three Avici Purgatory fighters blocked the attackers’ next assault with blood-colored palm strikes.
• When Pan Xie asked where Su Muyou and Lin Zhinan’s forces were, Chen Hui mocked the four defenders, while an attack shattered the eastern gate.
• Pan Xie sent Qiu Genyin to the eastern wall with Han Lichen and two others, while the northern fighters prepared to battle.
• Pan Xie, Jiang Chen, Han Hua, and Yu Huang activated a blood technique that made their cultivation surge toward the Earth Immortal Realm, alarming the rogue cultivators and Ye Qiubai’s group.

Ye Qiubai and the others were trapped by the Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Array while Avici Purgatory’s secret art raised Pan Xie and three others to the Earth Immortal Realm. Yuezheng Chi and the surviving rogue cultivators fled after a devastating battle, leaving Pan Xie free to turn his attention toward the eastern city wall.

• Ye Qiubai and the others sensed the Earth Immortal Realm presence at the northern city wall and tried to finish their own fight quickly.
• Qiu Genyin and the other three used their compasses to form the Yellow Springs and Blue Heaven Array, blocking Ye Qiubai and his companions’ attacks.
• Pan Xie, Jiang Chen, Han Hua, and Yu Huang used Avici Purgatory’s secret art to reach the Earth Immortal Realm and attacked Yuezheng Chi’s group.
• Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, Miao Bangdao, and the rogue cultivators combined their attacks to repel Pan Xie’s blood-colored palm, but three cultivators were killed in a surprise strike.
• After holding out for an incense stick, Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, Miao Bangdao, and Nie Bingchen escaped with their trump cards while the remaining rogue cultivators perished.
• Pan Xie ordered his people to collect the souls and slaughter the group at the eastern city wall.

Pan Xie abandoned the pursuit of Yuezheng Chi and the others to hunt down Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei, whose talents threatened Avici Purgatory's plans. As four Earth Immortal opponents caught up, Mu Fusheng stopped the group and pretended to surrender while holding a talisman.

• Pan Xie decided Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei were too dangerous to let grow and led Jiang Chen and the others toward the eastern city wall.
• After Lin Zhinan reported that Yuezheng Chi's group had retreated, Ye Qiubai ordered everyone to flee as Pan Xie and three Earth Immortals approached.
• Xiao Hei prepared to unleash his bloodline, but Mu Fusheng told him and the others to keep retreating because he had a way to hold off their pursuers.
• Jiang Chen's blood-red palm strike was blocked by Yuan Han, Yuan Lin, and Yuan Li, who exhausted themselves unleashing their Ape Devil Bloodline.
• As Pan Xie and the other three prepared another attack, Mu Fusheng stopped the group, held up a talisman, and claimed they had decided to ally with Avici Purgatory.

Mu Fusheng used thirty-nine Turbid Immortal talismans to hold off Pan Xie and the other Avici Purgatory fighters, allowing Ye Qiubai’s group to escape. After returning to Demon King City, the survivors argued over the failed assault and their heavy losses, leaving revenge as their next concern.

• Mu Fusheng activated thirty-nine lightning talismans, trapping Pan Xie and the other three Avici Purgatory fighters while he and Ye Qiubai’s group fled along separate routes.
• Pan Xie’s group destroyed the lightning beasts after a minute, but their secret art ended and its backlash prevented them from pursuing the escapees.
• Pan Xie led his weakened companions back to Purgatory City, where the Purgatory Ancestor reprimanded them and ordered them to lure their opponents into the city.
• Ye Qiubai’s group returned to Demon King City, where Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, Miao Bangdao, and Nie Bingchen joined them.
• Nie Bingchen angrily accused Ye Qiubai’s group of failing to help, while Lin Zhinan explained that the Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Hall had trapped them with a formation; Yuezheng Chi urged them to focus on avenging the dead.

The alliance discussed how to withstand Avici Purgatory’s secret art and the Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Hall’s formation, while Su Muyou urged Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei to grow stronger. When Nie Bingchen challenged Ye Qiubai’s authority, Ye Qiubai offered to settle their dispute in a duel, and Nie accepted.

• Lin Zhinan and Ye Qiubai said the enemy’s secret art and formation would be extremely difficult to overcome.
• Su Muyou urged Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei to improve their strength, but Nie Bingchen argued they could not reach the Turbid Immortal Realm in time.
• Ye Qiubai challenged Nie Bingchen to a duel, offering to surrender command and leave if he lost, while requiring Nie to leave the alliance if he lost.
• Yuezheng Chi approved the duel as a way to prevent infighting from weakening the alliance.
• Nie Bingchen attacked Ye Qiubai with his Ice Artistic Conception, but Ye charged through the frost with his Sword Intent as Nie unleashed Nine-Direction Ice Condensation.

Ye Qiubai defeated Nie Bingchen in two sword strikes and expelled him from Demon King City, while Nie Bingchen planned to defect to Avici Purgatory. Mu Fusheng ambushed and killed him before he could deliver intelligence, then returned toward Demon King City.

• Yuezheng Chi told Chen Hui that Nie Bingchen was no longer suited to their team, and Chen Hui accepted the decision.
• Ye Qiubai broke Nie Bingchen's Nine-Direction Ice Condensation with two sword strikes, severed his arm, and defeated him.
• Nie Bingchen admitted defeat and left Demon King City after Ye Qiubai ordered him to go, while the others turned to planning how to strengthen themselves against Purgatory City.
• Nie Bingchen headed toward Purgatory City, intending to offer intelligence about Demon King City and Nebula City in exchange for joining Avici Purgatory.
• Mu Fusheng confronted Nie Bingchen in the forest and killed him with lightning talismans before he could defect.

Ye Qiubai and the others traveled to Nebula City to enter its cultivation tower, where they could gather resources but would lose access to cultivation and soul powers. The group encountered the first floor’s wolf-shaped Devil Beasts and began fighting them for the spirit herbs they carried.

• Mu Fusheng returned after tying up loose ends, and Yuezheng Chi explained the tower’s rules and dangers to the group.
• Ye Qiubai and the others decided to leave Demon King City and seek strength in Nebula City rather than stay to defend the city.
• The group climbed to Nebula City’s summit and entered the nine-floor tower, where their cultivation and soul powers were suppressed and wooden tokens appeared on their wrists.
• Yuezheng Chi explained that killing the Devil Beasts would transfer the Spiritual Qi in their spirit herbs into the tokens.
• Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, and Miao Bangdao attacked the wolf-shaped Devil Beasts guarding the staircase, and Yuezheng Chi struck with Sword Intent from his zither.

Ye Qiubai and the others fought seven demonic wolves each in the cultivation tower’s first-floor trial, which tested combat skill, Concepts, and physical strength. Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Ye Qiubai advanced first while their injured companions continued fighting, as Pan Xie and the others set out to capture Demon King City for the Purgatory Ancestor.

• Pale blue barriers divided the cultivators into separate trials, where they had to kill seven demonic wolves without Spiritual Qi or soul power.
• Su Muyou, Lin Zhinan, and others struggled against the wolves, while Mu Fusheng used profound yin purple lightning, Ye Qiubai fought with his sword, and Xiao Hei relied on his physical strength.
• Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, Ye Qiubai, and the three from Immortal Ape Village cleared their trials before Su Muyou, Lin Zhinan, and the others, who had been injured, finished.
• Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei climbed the spiral staircase after Lin Zhinan urged them to go ahead.
• After the Purgatory Ancestor removed Pan Xie and the other three’s backlash, he sent them to capture Demon King City and asked Qiu Genyin about his proposed cooperation with Avici Purgatory.

Qiu Genyin and the Purgatory Ancestor agreed to cooperate, with the Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Hall offering to help Avici Purgatory rule the Mid-Latitude Realm in exchange for a way to reach the High-Latitude Realm. Meanwhile, Ye Qiubai entered the cultivation tower’s second floor, where he was surrounded by eight powerful avian beasts and prepared to fight.

• Qiu Genyin asked the Purgatory Ancestor to share his method of reaching the High-Latitude Realm and offered the Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Hall’s support to Avici Purgatory.
• The Purgatory Ancestor warned that the High-Latitude Realm would make them feel like ants, then agreed to cooperate.
• Qiu Genyin questioned the Purgatory Ancestor’s use of a damaging secret art on his disciples, and the Purgatory Ancestor dismissed their future prospects.
• Xiao Hei pushed open the door to the cultivation tower’s second floor, and the group was separated after entering a dense forest.
• Ye Qiubai encountered eight two-leaf-spirit-grass avian beasts and unleashed his sword intent, eager to test his combat skills.

Xiao Hei fought and killed eight bird beasts in the Cultivation Tower, overwhelming them with his physical strength and Demonic Intent. After the forest vanished and a spiral staircase appeared, he climbed onward, still eager to fight.

• Xiao Hei faced eight bird beasts in a dense forest and charged them without hesitation.
• Xiao Hei killed the first bird beast with two punches as the other six attacked together.
• Xiao Hei seized two bird beasts by their talons, swung them into the others, and smashed them into the ground.
• Xiao Hei defeated all eight bird beasts, and their Twin-Leaf Spirit Grass flowed into the wooden token at his wrist.
• The forest disappeared, revealing a spiral staircase, and Xiao Hei strode up it, still unsatisfied.

Pan Xie and the others took Demon King City without encountering anyone or any traps, while Lin Zhinan and the others watched Ye Qiubai’s group progress through the Cultivation Tower. The chapter ended with two more people reaching the tower’s fourth floor.

• Pan Xie dismissed Jiang Chen’s suspicions and led the four Avici Purgatory members in breaking into Demon King City.
• The four found the city empty, searched it, and decided to take control before reporting back to the Purgatory Ancestor.
• Lin Zhinan, Miao Bangdao, Su Muyou, Yuezheng Chi, and Chen Hui recovered outside Nebula City’s Cultivation Tower and saw that Ye Qiubai’s group had reached the third and fourth floors.
• Lin Zhinan urged everyone to recover and return to the tower, and Chen Hui noticed two more lights move from the third floor to the fourth.

After the group was humbled by the Cultivation Tower, Su Muyou resolved to keep improving, while Ye Qiubai fought four powerful ice-field behemoths on the fourth floor. Ye Qiubai was overwhelmed by their combined attack and sent flying.

• Lin Zhinan, Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, Miao Bangdao, and Su Muyou were shocked by Ye Qiubai and his companions’ strength after struggling on the tower’s first two floors.
• Su Muyou entered the Cultivation Tower again, determined to narrow the gap between herself and Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei.
• Ye Qiubai faced four ice-field behemoths on the fourth floor and found that his Sword Intent barely cracked their ice-crystal bodies.
• Ye Qiubai wounded one behemoth by slashing up its leg, but its swift counterattack and the other three behemoths’ strikes trapped him.
• Ye Qiubai tried to block all four attacks with his wooden sword, but their combined force sent him flying.

Ye Qiubai fought four powerful icefield behemoths on the Cultivation Tower’s fourth floor, killing one before their combined attack injured him badly enough to eject him. Outside the tower, he recovered with a pill and warned Yuezheng Chi and the others about the floor’s strength, though they suspected he was showing off.

• Ye Qiubai endured the icefield behemoths’ assault, healed his injuries with the intent of unending life, and charged back with wind and fire on his wooden sword.
• Ye Qiubai exploited a crack in one behemoth’s thigh, destroyed its leg, then shattered it with a sword strike while the other three attacked.
• The four-leaf spirit herb’s Spiritual Qi entered Ye Qiubai’s wooden token, but the three surviving behemoths struck him and sent him out of the Cultivation Tower with severe injuries.
• Ye Qiubai swallowed a pill refined by his Master and began recovering outside the tower.
• Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, Su Muyou, Lin Zhinan, and Miao Bangdao came out injured, and Ye Qiubai warned them that the fourth floor’s beasts were much stronger.
• Lin Zhinan and the others wondered whether Ye Qiubai was showing off, then Lin Zhinan suggested they cultivate with the Spiritual Qi they had gained.

Ye Qiubai cultivated with the Spiritual Qi gathered in his wooden token and broke through to the peak Blood Transformation Realm, while Xiao Hei revealed that he had beaten the seventh floor's Devil Beast. Mu Fusheng also broke through, and the three prepared to return to the Cultivation Tower to continue cultivating.

• Ye Qiubai released the refined Spiritual Qi from his wooden token and cultivated with the Primordial Sword Scripture.
• Ye Qiubai broke through to the peak Blood Transformation Realm, then used the remaining Spiritual Qi to stabilize his cultivation.
• Xiao Hei told Ye Qiubai that he had reached the seventh floor, beaten its Devil Beast, and come out to recover before returning to cultivate.
• Mu Fusheng concealed his breakthrough with three talismans and revealed that he had reached the fourth floor.
• Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, and Mu Fusheng headed back into the Cultivation Tower to continue cultivating.

The Purgatory Ancestor used the soul power he had left in Demon King City to reach for the remnant soul sealed beneath the stone pillars, hoping to absorb it and escape his confinement. The remnant soul manifested as a black-clad figure, overwhelmed him, and shattered his tendrils before he could touch it.

• Pan Xie told the Purgatory Ancestor that they had occupied Demon King City and left his soul power beside its stone pillars.
• The Purgatory Ancestor formed a blood-colored ancient character and sent tendrils through the stone pillars to search for the remnant soul.
• The tendrils reached an enormous underground castle built from the same material as the suppressive pillars, where a remnant soul was sealed in chains.
• As the Purgatory Ancestor reached for the remnant soul, its Demonic Intent formed a black-clad figure that made him kneel and prostrate himself.
• The black-clad figure told the Purgatory Ancestor he was not worthy and shattered the tendrils, leaving his body greatly weakened.

The Purgatory Ancestor abandoned his attempt to devour the remnant soul beneath Demon King City after it gravely damaged his soul form, then sent Pan Xie and the others to gather souls for his recovery. Meanwhile, Xiao Hei reached the sixth layer of the Eternal Devil Body on the Cultivation Tower's seventh floor and prepared to climb higher.

• The Purgatory Ancestor warned Pan Xie and the others to stay away from Demon King City's center and ordered them to extract other people's souls.
• After searching for half a month without finding Nebula City, the four members of Avici Purgatory turned back.
• Yuezheng Chi and the others saw five lights on the Cultivation Tower's sixth floor and Xiao Hei's light on the seventh.
• Xiao Hei fought the endlessly duplicating Wolf Rats for half a month until the sixth marking of his Eternal Devil Body connected completely.
• Xiao Hei unleashed his newfound strength, killed the Wolf Rats by shattering their demonic crystals, and decided to continue climbing.

Yuezheng Chi and the others saw Xiao Hei reach the Cultivation Tower’s eighth floor, while Mu Fusheng and Ye Qiubai faced dangerous battles on the sixth. Mu Fusheng withdrew, but Ye Qiubai stayed to pursue the threshold of the Immortal Sword realm.

• Yuezheng Chi and the others saw the light on the seventh floor disappear and a new light appear on the eighth, and Lin Zhinan urged everyone to strengthen themselves for the coming attack on Purgatory City.
• The Su Clan and Spirit Immortal Palace had failed to uncover the origins of Ye Qiubai and his companions, because Lu Changsheng had erased their trail.
• Mu Fusheng struggled to injure three one-eyed Devil Beasts with Profound Yin Purple Lightning while his Spiritual Qi and soul power were suppressed.
• Mu Fusheng decided he could not defeat the beasts and left the Cultivation Tower.
• Ye Qiubai’s Transcendent Sword Intent gained a faint wisp of immortal essence as he fought the one-eyed Devil Beasts on the sixth floor.
• Ye Qiubai refused to retreat, choosing to keep battling so he could comprehend the threshold of the Immortal Sword realm.

Ye Qiubai tempered his Sword Intent while fighting the one-eyed Devil Beasts on the Cultivation Tower’s sixth floor and broke through to the half-step immortal sword realm. After defeating the beasts, he left the tower to recover and use the Spiritual Qi he had gathered to pursue a breakthrough into the Turbid Immortal Realm.

• Ye Qiubai fought the three one-eyed Devil Beasts for three days, steadily condensing immortal essence within his transcendent sword intent.
• Ye Qiubai reached the half-step immortal sword realm and killed one one-eyed Devil Beast with a single sword strike.
• Ye Qiubai wounded and pinned the remaining two Devil Beasts with immortal sword intent, then destroyed them and absorbed the Spiritual Qi they yielded.
• Ye Qiubai left the Cultivation Tower, saw that Yuezheng Chi and the others had reached the second and third floors, recovered from his injuries, and began cultivating toward the Turbid Immortal Realm.

Outside Severed Soul City, Elder Su questioned Huo Zhengheng about Ye Qiubai and decided the Su Clan should seek friendship with him to connect with his mysterious master. Inside the city, Yuezheng Chi and the others returned from training to find Ye Qiubai making an astonishing breakthrough into the Turbid Immortal Realm.

• Elder Su approached Huo Zhengheng and revealed that the Su Clan had been investigating Ye Qiubai's origins.
• Huo Zhengheng concealed what he knew about Ye Qiubai's master, and Elder Su concluded that the Su Clan should build good relations with Ye Qiubai.
• Elder Su said he would visit Heavenly Sword Peak, and Huo Zhengheng welcomed the prospect of the Su Clan's visit.
• Yuezheng Chi, Su Muyou, Chen Hui, Lin Zhinan, and Miao Bangdao emerged from the Cultivation Tower with injuries and discussed their gains against the Devil Beasts.
• The group sensed a tremendous surge of Spiritual Qi and discovered that Ye Qiubai was breaking through to the Turbid Immortal Realm.