Chapter Summaries

Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei made progress in the Cultivation Tower while their allies prepared to face Avici Purgatory at Nebula City. Pan Xie’s forces arrived and threatened to attack, leaving Yuezheng Chi and the others to hold them off without disturbing the cultivators.

• Ye Qiubai broke through to the early Turbid Immortal Realm, while Mu Fusheng revealed that he had mastered heavenly punishment divine lightning and reached the sixth floor of the Cultivation Tower.
• Xiao Hei reached the ninth floor as Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng advanced to the eighth floor.
• Yuezheng Chi, Su Muyou, Chen Hui, Lin Zhinan, and Miao Bangdao learned that Avici Purgatory had found Nebula City and agreed to face them without calling the others away from cultivation.
• Yuan Han and the other two members of Immortal Ape Village joined Yuezheng Chi’s group to confront the threat.
• Pan Xie and Qiu Genyin arrived outside Nebula City with four members of the Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Hall, and Pan Xie prepared to attack the defenders while Ye Qiubai’s trio remained absent.

With Ye Qiubai absent, Lin Zhinan led the defenders of Nebula City against Pan Xie and his allies, but their combined attack overwhelmed the defenders. Ye Qiubai and two companions arrived just as the blood-colored giant was about to strike again.

• Lin Zhinan assigned Yuan Han and his companions to face Qiu Genyin's group and directed Yuezheng Chi and the others to hold off Pan Xie.
• Qiu Genyin trapped Yuan Han and his companions in an array while Pan Xie and his allies formed a blood-colored giant that routed Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, Su Muyou, Lin Zhinan, and Miao Bangdao.
• Pan Xie drove the defenders back, shattered Nebula City's wall, and sent the blood-colored giant to attack them again.
• A sword slash severed the giant's leg, and Ye Qiubai and his two companions appeared beside Lin Zhinan's group.

Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei joined Lin Zhinan and the others as Pan Xie and his companions unleashed their secret technique and advanced to the Earth Immortal Realm. The fight to the death began, and Ye Qiubai revealed his half-step Immortal Sword Realm as he clashed with Pan Xie.

• Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei arrived, and Pan Xie challenged them to settle the battle between their sides.
• Pan Xie and the other three used their secret technique, while Ye Qiubai revealed his middle Turbid Immortal Realm cultivation and Xiao Hei displayed six patterns.
• Pan Xie and his companions charged at Ye Qiubai’s group, and Mu Fusheng gave talismans to Yuezheng Chi and the others before directing them to hold off an opponent.
• Qiu Genyin realized Xiao Hei had become too powerful for him to defeat and decided to inform the hall master of Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Hall.
• Pan Xie attacked Ye Qiubai with a blood claw, and Ye Qiubai countered with his Sword Domain and half-step Immortal Sword Realm, shocking Yuezheng Chi.

Ye Qiubai fought Pan Xie, who had used a secret technique to reach the Earth Immortal Realm, and gradually matched his strength with the Starfall Sword Technique. As Pan Xie's secret technique began to fail, he burned the soul-power mark between his brows, risking his cultivation future to stay alive.

• Ye Qiubai blocked Pan Xie's blood-claw attack and countered with the Starfall Sword Technique's successive strikes.
• Pan Xie sent blood-red vengeful ghosts at Ye Qiubai, whose Sword Intent protected him as he endured their soul attacks and impacts.
• Ye Qiubai's Starfall Sword Technique grew stronger with each strike, allowing him to push through the ghosts and advance on Pan Xie.
• Ye Qiubai's forty-ninth strike collided with Pan Xie's blood-wrapped palm, leaving them evenly matched and shaking Nebula City.
• Pan Xie felt his secret technique's backlash spreading and, facing certain death if it ended, burned the soul-power mark between his brows despite the danger to his cultivation future.

Pan Xie and the others burned their soul marks to unleash a stronger secret technique, forcing Mu Fusheng to divide his attention between restraining Yu Huang and battling Han Hua. As Jiang Chen called for Han Hua to help him kill Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng began merging his purple and golden lightning.

• Pan Xie burned the mark between his brows, transforming himself and prompting Jiang Chen, Yu Huang, and Han Hua to burn their own soul marks as well.
• Yu Huang overwhelmed Yuezheng Chi and the others, so Mu Fusheng used Profound Yin Purple Lightning to hold him back and urged them to attack.
• Han Hua broke through Mu Fusheng’s Heavenly Punishment Divine Lightning and charged at him, but Mu Fusheng’s lightning spears erupted into a storm of golden lightning around Han Hua.
• Chen Hui sensed that Mu Fusheng’s lightning carried the beginnings of Dao Law as Mu Fusheng began merging his purple and golden lightning.
• Jiang Chen called to Han Hua to leave Lin Zhinan and the others and help him kill Xiao Hei.

Ye Qiubai and his companions fought Avici Purgatory’s experts as Pan Xie unleashed his strongest attack against Ye Qiubai. The Blue Heaven and Yellow Springs Hall watched, while Qiu Genyin believed Xiao Hei would survive because he had been chosen as the successor to the Low-Latitude Realm’s Nine Nether Yellow Springs.

• Jiang Chen burned his soul mark but still could not gain an advantage over Xiao Hei, whose body endured his attacks.
• Yu Huang abandoned Yuezheng Chi and the others and flew toward Xiao Hei, while Ye Qiubai taunted Pan Xie about his companions’ strength.
• Ye Qiubai used the sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth strikes of the Starfall Sword Technique, but Pan Xie pushed him back and gained the advantage.
• Pan Xie gathered his blood-colored Spiritual Qi into a giant claw filled with malevolent ghosts and launched his strongest attack at Ye Qiubai.
• Yuezheng Chi and the others watched the clash, knowing its outcome could decide the battle, while Qiu Genyin said Xiao Hei would not die because he was the chosen successor to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs of the Low-Latitude Realm.

Ye Qiubai battled Pan Xie in Nebula City, meeting the Avici Purgatory elder’s all-out attack with a sword strike of compressed half-step immortal sword intent. He shattered Pan Xie’s blood-colored claw and killed him, leaving the battle decided.

• The narration explained that the hearts of the realms and latitudes determined the growing difference in strength between the low, middle, and high latitudes.
• Pan Xie unleashed his soul-burning, all-out strike, sending a blood-colored claw and swarms of sharp-fanged ghosts at Ye Qiubai.
• Ye Qiubai met the claw with the Nine-Foot Starfall Sword, and the clash’s shock wave devastated Nebula City and forced Yuezheng Chi, Su Muyou, and Chen Hui to defend themselves.
• Ye Qiubai stepped forward and shattered the blood-colored claw, while Pan Xie, drained of Spiritual Qi and unable to burn more of his soul, could not recover.
• Ye Qiubai followed through with his sword and cut Pan Xie in half.

Ye Qiubai’s group defeated Pan Xie and Han Hua as Mu Fusheng killed Han Hua with a merged lightning spear. Xiao Hei continued fighting Jiang Chen and Yu Huang, whose desperate move coincided with his Demon God Descent awakening a sealed presence in Demon King City.

• Ye Qiubai’s battle ended with Pan Xie’s death, while Mu Fusheng completed the merger of Profound Yin Purple Lightning and Heavenly Punishment Divine Lightning.
• Mu Fusheng hurled the purple-and-gold spear through Han Hua’s palm and brow, destroying his soul with Heavenly Punishment Divine Lightning.
• Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng watched Xiao Hei fight Jiang Chen and Yu Huang, who burned their soul power and summoned the blood-colored giant again.
• Xiao Hei unleashed Demon God Descent, covering himself in the Demon God Armor as a demon god phantom appeared behind him.
• A black figure in the underground castle at Demon King City sensed Xiao Hei’s presence, unleashed soul power, and caused the castle to crumble as suppressive starlight descended from Severed Soul City.

A black pillar of light erupted from Demon King City, revealing a terrifying remnant soul and alerting both the Devil Master's allies and the rebels who had once killed him. The village chief prepared to begin a ritual when the Devil Master emerged, while one of the three men in the dark realm set out to investigate the soul's possible survival and decided to visit someone.

• Purgatory Ancestor recognized the pillar's presence as belonging to the remnant soul that had nearly killed him and realized its owner had once been among the High-Latitude Realm's strongest.
• Yuan Shou identified the pillar as evidence of a Devil Master soul fragment, and the village chief warned that its release could alert the rebels and said they would begin the ritual when the Devil Master left Severed Soul City.
• Three men in a dark realm sensed the presence and recalled how they had joined forces to kill its owner by scattering his seven souls and six spirits.
• The middle man ordered one of his brothers to investigate personally and destroy any remnant soul, then decided to go see her.

A jailer confronted the silent woman imprisoned beneath the Demon King Domain and demanded the key to a supreme treasure, while she sensed that her brother’s presence had finally appeared. In Severed Soul City, Xiao Hei destroyed Jiang Chen and Yu Huang’s blood-colored giant and rushed toward Demon King City.

• The narrow-eyed man visited the chained woman in the dungeon and demanded to know what she and her brother had done and where the key was hidden.
• The man threatened to destroy the source of the presence he had sensed, then left as the woman murmured, “Finally...”
• In Severed Soul City, Xiao Hei and the others felt the black pillar of light and wondered about its connection to Xiao Hei.
• Jiang Chen and Yu Huang attacked Xiao Hei with their blood-colored giant while he stood distracted.
• Xiao Hei’s demon god phantom shattered the giant with two punches, killing Jiang Chen and Yu Huang through the backlash.
• Xiao Hei turned into a black shadow and rushed toward Demon King City.

Xiao Hei rushed toward Demon King City after the soul fragment beneath its stone pillars awakened, while Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng followed to guard him. Outside Nebula City, Qiu Genyin took Gu Xi and Chi Bing’s corpses to provide a body for the Purgatory Ancestor, and Su Muyou stopped Lin Zhinan from pursuing him.

• Xiao Hei hurried toward Demon King City as his bloodline resonated with the awakened soul fragment, while Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng followed to protect him.
• Qiu Genyin refused Han Lichen’s suggestion to investigate Xiao Hei and said their priority was restoring the Purgatory Ancestor and finding him a body.
• Qiu Genyin revealed that he had brought Gu Xi and Chi Bing’s corpses, then left with Han Lichen, Yu Xiaohe, and Zhao Hanlin.
• Lin Zhinan tried to pursue Qiu Genyin, but Su Muyou blocked him and urged him to recover before seeking revenge.
• Lin Zhinan calmed down and decided to reunite with Ye Qiubai’s group while investigating why Qiu Genyin needed Gu Xi and Chi Bing’s corpses.

Xiao Hei entered the ruins beneath Demon King City and absorbed a soul fragment despite Yuan Han’s warning. The fragment revealed the Kunlun Ruins as the next clue and showed Xiao Hei a devastating battle in his memories, ending with three black-clad men attacking the armored man from behind.

• Xiao Hei touched one of the three weakened stone pillars, causing it to collapse, then descended underground despite Yuan Han urging him to wait before absorbing the soul fragment.
• Ye Qiubai reassured Yuan Han and the others that Xiao Hei could grow stronger under pressure from the rebels.
• Xiao Hei met his soul fragment, learned that the next fragment was in the Kunlun Ruins, and was warned that a powerful pursuer had begun searching for him.
• Xiao Hei merged with the fragment and endured excruciating pain as a flood of memories entered his soul.
• Xiao Hei saw an armored man facing two immensely powerful white-robed men with the Demon King Domain’s forces behind him, before three black-clad men attacked the armored man from behind.

Xiao Hei relived memories of the Demon King Domain’s defeat and learned that a woman split his soul into seven souls and six spirits to hide them. After absorbing the fragment, he gained a regenerative bloodline ability and resolved to grow stronger, while Ye Qiubai prepared to retrieve Gu Xi and Chi Bing’s bodies.

• Xiao Hei witnessed memories of the Demon King Domain’s ruins and a wounded woman hiding his divided soul as pursuers approached.
• The woman told Xiao Hei to regain his strength and avenge the Demon King Domain, then split his soul into seven souls and six spirits and sent them away.
• Xiao Hei inferred that the attackers wanted a key the woman had protected, but decided to focus on becoming stronger.
• After half a day, Xiao Hei’s wounds healed, revealing a new regeneration ability that consumed his blood and vitality.
• In Demon King City, Ye Qiubai learned that Gu Xi and Chi Bing’s bodies still existed and said they had to retrieve them.

The Purgatory Ancestor agreed to use Chi Bing’s corpse for rebirth after Pan Xie and the other three failed to bring back Xiao Hei’s body. Xiao Hei returned with his soul power increased and warned Ye Qiubai and the others that a soul was likely preparing to escape its confinement.

• The Purgatory Ancestor learned that Pan Xie and the others had died and became furious that they had failed to bring back Xiao Hei’s body.
• Qiu Genyin offered the Purgatory Ancestor the corpses of Gu Xi and Chi Bing, and the two agreed to continue their partnership.
• The Purgatory Ancestor chose Chi Bing’s corpse for its stronger, unusual sea of consciousness, destroyed Gu Xi’s corpse, and began fusing with Chi Bing’s body.
• Xiao Hei returned with a transformed bearing and explained that a soul body might need a physical body to be reborn.
• Ye Qiubai and the others concluded that a suppressed soul could escape if the rebirth succeeded, and Lin Zhinan urged them to hurry.

Qiu Genyin used the Yellow Springs Death Seal to secretly mark the Purgatory Ancestor as the Ancestor fused with Chi Bing’s corpse. When Ye Qiubai and the others confronted him in Purgatory City, he revealed that he was Qi Shadao, the ancient fiend of Avici Purgatory.

• Everyone realized Qiu Genyin had brought Chi Bing’s and Gu Xi’s corpses for the Purgatory Ancestor to fuse with, and they hurried toward Purgatory City.
• Qiu Genyin revealed that he had secretly marked the Purgatory Ancestor with the Yellow Springs Death Seal, which could track him and drain his vitality.
• The Purgatory Ancestor completed his fusion with Chi Bing’s body and said he would remember Qiu Genyin’s favor.
• The Purgatory Ancestor sensed Ye Qiubai and the others approaching, and Qiu Genyin admitted they had displayed the corpses to draw them there.
• The Purgatory Ancestor said he had burned Gu Xi’s corpse, provoking Lin Zhinan to threaten him on behalf of the Spirit Immortal Palace.
• The Purgatory Ancestor recalled the Spirit Immortal Palace’s campaign against him, leading Su Muyou and Lin Zhinan to identify him as Qi Shadao.

Lin Zhinan and the others discovered that Qi Shadao’s soul had survived and was suppressed in Severed Soul City, where he had taken over Chi Bing’s body. Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei challenged him, and the battle escalated as the group joined forces against the Purgatory Ancestor.

• Lin Zhinan warned Qi Shadao that the top factions could unite to kill him, but Qi Shadao dismissed the threat, believing they would not act unless their interests were affected.
• Ye Qiubai judged that Qi Shadao had less than a tenth of his former strength and had not yet adapted to Chi Bing’s body, then challenged him to test his remaining power.
• Qi Shadao attacked Ye Qiubai with a blood-colored palm, but Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei combined their attacks to withstand it before being driven back.
• Ye Qiubai concluded that they had to kill Qi Shadao before he fully adapted to Chi Bing’s body.
• Su Muyou, Chen Hui, Yuezheng Chi, Lin Zhinan, Miao Bangdao, Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei unleashed their attacks together against Qi Shadao outside Purgatory City.

Qi Shadao unleashed his Blood Baleful Intent Technique against Ye Qiubai and the others, but their combined attacks checked the two enormous blood spheres. The clash left Purgatory City collapsing and Qi Shadao furious that the juniors could resist him.

• Qi Shadao released a terrifying wave of bloody killing intent that overwhelmed Lin Zhinan and the others until Mu Fusheng steadied their minds with his soul power.
• Qi Shadao formed two mountain-sized blood spheres and sent them toward Ye Qiubai and the others.
• Xiao Hei, Ye Qiubai, and Mu Fusheng attacked the blood spheres, but the pressure forced them to retreat as Purgatory City crumbled around them.
• Su Muyou, Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, Lin Zhinan, and Miao Bangdao joined the fight with their own attacks, easing the pressure on the first three.
• Qi Shadao watched the group withstand his technique and grew furious that he could not defeat them.

Xiao Hei, Ye Qiubai, and Mu Fusheng joined forces to wound Purgatory Ancestor Qi Shadao, with Yuan Han and his companions creating an opening. Unable to keep fighting as his borrowed body rejected his soul, Qi Shadao escaped Severed Soul City with Qiu Genyin and the others, vowing to return for Xiao Hei.

• Qiu Genyin and the others were shocked that Xiao Hei, Ye Qiubai, and Mu Fusheng could contend with Qi Shadao, while Xiao Hei's soul fragment and the group's recent battle had strengthened them.
• Yuan Han and his two companions ambushed Qi Shadao with their Ape Devil phantoms, but he broke their attack and sent them flying.
• Xiao Hei, Mu Fusheng, and Ye Qiubai struck while Qi Shadao was distracted, destroying his blood spheres and wounding him with the backlash and Mu Fusheng's soul attack.
• Qi Shadao's borrowed body began rejecting his soul, so he seized Qiu Genyin and his three companions and fled Severed Soul City.
• As he escaped, Qi Shadao threatened to kill the juniors once he recovered and said he had his eye on Xiao Hei's body.

After Qi Shadao escaped and revealed his interest in Xiao Hei’s body, Ye Qiubai and Mu Fusheng prepared to occupy Severed Soul City’s three cities and continue cultivating. Five days later, their companions had made progress in the Cultivation Tower, while Xiao Hei, Ye Qiubai, and Mu Fusheng reached its peak, where Xiao Hei waited smugly for them.

• Qi Shadao escaped Severed Soul City, prompting Mu Fusheng and Ye Qiubai to warn Xiao Hei that the Purgatory Ancestor would target him as he recovered his strength.
• Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, and Miao Bangdao yielded Nebula City’s right of occupation to Xiao Hei and his companions, but Ye Qiubai insisted they would share the rewards.
• Ye Qiubai and the others occupied Purgatory City and Demon King City before heading to Nebula City to spend the remaining five days cultivating in the Cultivation Tower.
• Yuezheng Chi, Chen Hui, and Su Muyou cleared the tower’s third floor, while Lin Zhinan and Miao Bangdao cleared its second floor, and all five improved their cultivation and combat skills.
• Xiao Hei, Ye Qiubai, and Mu Fusheng reached the tower’s peak, where Xiao Hei revealed he had been waiting for them for a whole day.

Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei met the old man at the top of Nebula City's tower and learned his views on the elusive nature of the pinnacle. The old man gave each of them a book suited to their cultivation before disappearing, directing them to claim Severed Soul City's final reward.

• The old man told the three that a Primordial Sword Physique cultivator had once passed the ninth-floor trial but left without meeting him, leading Ye Qiubai to suspect he was Heavenly Sword Peak's founding ancestor.
• The old man explained to Ye Qiubai, Mu Fusheng, and Xiao Hei that every pinnacle might be surpassed by a higher realm or plane.
• The old man examined the edges of the three cultivators' seas of consciousness and said he had not looked into their memories.
• The old man gave Ye Qiubai a book about the Primordial Sword Physique, Mu Fusheng a book suited to his soul and lightning cultivation, and Xiao Hei a book suited to the Devil Race.
• The old man vanished and told the three to obtain Severed Soul City's final reward, adding that they might meet again if fate allowed.