Chapter Summaries

Xiao Hei's alliance raced through the terracotta warrior pit while Huang Jun's group tried to catch up and interfere. As the Xuanming Holy Son's alliance also closed in, Jiu Bailu prepared to hold Huang Jun back so the others could keep advancing.

• Xiao Hei led his alliance through the terracotta warriors, using his resilience and rapid healing to take the front.
• Jiu Bailu warned that Huang Jun's group was approaching, and Ye Qiubai attacked them with his sword case and Sword Domain.
• The crown prince, Tan Zongzhao, and Jiu Bailu joined the attack, but Huang Jun unleashed Meridian-Breaking Sandstorm to block them and clear a path for his group.
• Tan Zongzhao noted that the Xuanming Holy Son's alliance was also advancing close behind, while Ye Qiubai asked Xiao Hei to cover his position.
• Jiu Bailu told the others to keep moving and stood under their protection, preparing to hold Huang Jun's group back despite the seal inside her body.

Jiu Bailu used the Power of Karma to wound Huang Jun and force his group to back down, then continued toward the door with the crown prince. Elsewhere, Shi Sheng and Fang Qiong realized their passage was looping and draining their Immortal Qi.

• Jiu Bailu’s golden pressure startled the others, and Huang Jun tried to recruit her as his bandit bride.
• Jiu Bailu pierced Huang Jun’s sandstorm barrier and wounded his left shoulder with a beam of karmic power.
• Jiu Bailu dared Huang Jun to attack again, and he ended the standoff and continued toward the door with his group.
• Jiu Bailu told the crown prince she was fine and privately suspected that the person who could undo her physique’s seal had appeared.
• Shi Sheng noticed that his group had been walking in circles, and Fang Qiong warned that the passage was draining their Immortal Qi.

Shi Sheng, Fang Qiong, and Tan Ning searched the looping tomb passage for a mechanism while Sha Yuansheng’s group conserved their strength and plotted to attack them later. Following the Star God Emperor’s advice, Shi Sheng used the Power of the Stars to detect movement, and a black stone shifted above them.

• Shi Sheng and Fang Qiong ignored the quarrel between the outside and desert factions and searched the passage for a way out.
• Tan Ning joined them, while Sha Yuansheng persuaded the Sand Sea Sect and other desert factions to conserve their strength and let the others search.
• The Star God Emperor advised Shi Sheng to use suppressive power to find a movable mechanism, warning him that it would consume Immortal Qi.
• Shi Sheng told Fang Qiong and Tan Ning his plan, and Fang Qiong began constructing formations while the others guarded the group.
• Shi Sheng released the Power of the Stars and detected a black stone shifting above them.

Shi Sheng triggered a mechanism that opened a hidden passage, awakening swarms of insect Devil Beasts that attacked everyone in the tomb. Fang Qiong and the others held them back until the way out opened, though more than thirty people were killed or injured.

• Shi Sheng pressed the pitch-black stone mechanism and caused the tomb passage to tremble as insect Devil Beasts rushed toward the group.
• Tan Ning called everyone to prepare for battle, and Sha Yuansheng's group joined forces with them against the approaching beetles.
• Shi Sheng told the others to hold off the beetles while he recovered, and Fang Qiong and Tan Ning took charge of the defense.
• The beetles devoured several peak God Emperor Realm experts, while Fang Qiong's combined formations blasted a dozen of the creatures apart.
• The group fought for the time needed for the hidden passage to open, then escaped after more than thirty people were killed or injured.

The group reached a burial chamber where Sha Yuansheng tried to force Shi Sheng to approach the chained coffin, but a mysterious woman in a red dress appeared atop it. She immobilized everyone and began extracting a prodigy’s soul, leaving the group facing a deadly threat.

• The group entered the burial chamber and found a huge chained coffin surrounded by statues of the four divine beasts and a sealed door beyond it.
• Sha Yuansheng argued that Shi Sheng should approach the coffin, then used his Ancestor Realm pressure to try to force him.
• Tan Ning stepped in to protect Shi Sheng, but most of the other factions sided with Sha Yuansheng’s plan.
• A woman in a red dress appeared atop the still-chained coffin and immobilized everyone as she descended the platform.
• The woman pierced a prodigy’s brow, drew out strands of his soul power, and tasted them.

The woman in red trapped everyone in the burial chamber with the power of rules and killed those who could not speak to her. Fang Qiong used the Primordial Array to weaken the restrictions and free most of the group, then left Sha Yuansheng trapped and urged the woman to kill him.

• The woman in red drained people's souls whenever her ten-breath countdown ended without anyone speaking, while Fang Qiong searched for a way to escape.
• Fang Qiong realized that the restrictions came from the power of rules and silently activated the Primordial Array.
• When the woman in red reached Fang Qiong, he spoke, evaded her fingertip, and deployed the Primordial Array to weaken the rules restraining the group.
• Tan Ning, Shi Sheng, and others broke free and gathered beside Fang Qiong, while Sha Yuansheng's group remained trapped.
• Fang Qiong reminded the woman in red of her game and pointed out that Sha Yuansheng had not escaped, so she should kill him.

Fang Qiong offered to help the red-dressed woman escape the tomb by making her his array spirit, then promised to break open her coffin once he grew strong enough. The woman began to take his proposal seriously, though she was shocked by the plan.

• The red-dressed woman absorbed Sha Yuansheng's soul and killed him while Fang Qiong and the others watched.
• The woman threatened to keep Fang Qiong in the tomb and used her Fear Dao Law to make Tan Ning collapse.
• Fang Qiong calmly told the woman he could take her out of the tomb, drawing laughter and then suspicion from her.
• The woman lifted Fang Qiong by the neck, but loosened her grip when he offered to let her soul leave the tomb first and break open her coffin in the future.
• Fang Qiong proposed using an array to make the red-dressed woman his array spirit, leaving her aghast.

Fang Qiong persuaded the woman in the red dress to become a formation spirit, offering her a chance to leave the tomb and eventually regain her body. As her immense divine soul power flooded into him, Fang Qiong endured agonizing strain while his allies guarded him.

• Fang Qiong explained that the Nightfall formation required fear Dao Law and proposed making the woman in the red dress its formation spirit.
• The woman in the red dress sensed Fang Qiong's Good Fortune Formation Spirit Physique and believed he could help her escape the tomb.
• Fang Qiong promised to help her reclaim her body in the future, and she agreed to become his formation spirit after a million years trapped in darkness.
• The woman in the red dress transferred her divine soul power into Fang Qiong, who circulated the Holy Array Prison Body Art and the Good Fortune Formation Spirit Physique to withstand it.
• Shi Sheng, Tan Ning, and the forces from Chaotic Spirit Academy and the Nine Dragons Divine Dynasty guarded Fang Qiong as the power threatened to tear his body apart.

Fang Qiong endured the woman in red’s Demigod Realm soul power and used it to advance his Holy Array Prison Body Art and cultivation. After making Lian Zhi the formation spirit of Nightfall, he left the burial chamber’s next steps to her.

• Fang Qiong used the Holy Array Prison Body Art to repair his shattered bones as the soul power repeatedly destroyed them, eventually reaching the Jade Bone level.
• Fang Qiong endured the soul power’s destruction of his five viscera and reached the fourth level of the Holy Array Prison Body Art, while his cultivation advanced to the Half-Step Ancestor Realm.
• Fang Qiong mastered Nightfall and made the woman in red its formation spirit, then unleashed darkness throughout the burial chamber.
• Lian Zhi praised Fang Qiong’s potential and agreed to guide him and the others through the tomb.

After surviving the terracotta army pit, Ye Qiubai discovered a sword that seemed bound to him by karma and began receiving its inheritance, which shattered his bones as a voice promised to reshape his Sword Bone. When Huang Jun and the Xuanming Holy Son arrived, they tried to interrupt him, and Xiao Hei prepared to fight them.

• Xiao Hei and his companions reached the black iron doors ahead of Huang Jun and the Xuanming Holy Son, then entered the burial chamber.
• Ye Qiubai became fixated on the sword above the throne, and Jiu Bailu told the others that an unbreakable karma connected him to it.
• Ye Qiubai grasped the sword, whose Sword Intent shattered the bones throughout his body as a voice promised to reshape his Sword Bone.
• Three days later, Huang Jun and the Xuanming Holy Son arrived and accused Xiao Hei's group of monopolizing the opportunity.
• The Xuanming Holy Son moved to interrupt Ye Qiubai, but Xiao Hei blocked him and challenged him to settle their fight from the banquet.

As Ye Qiubai endured the crushing pressure before the throne, Jiu Bailu and the others fought to keep Huang Jun and his allies from disturbing him. Xiao Hei struck the Xuanming Holy Son with the ninth-level Eternal Devil Body, but the Holy Son’s Xuanming Bloodline let him withstand the blow, and their fight continued.

• Ye Qiubai remained immobilized as his bones were crushed, while Jiu Bailu stepped forward to block Huang Jun and told the crown prince and Tan Zongzhao to guard against shockwaves.
• Tan Zongzhao and the crown prince retreated to protect Ye Qiubai, and Jiu Bailu fought Huang Jun as he charged at her.
• The Xuanming Holy Son attacked Xiao Hei, boasting that his Xuanming Bloodline and Black Tortoise defenses surpassed Xiao Hei’s powers.
• Xiao Hei unleashed the ninth level of the Eternal Devil Body and knocked the Xuanming Holy Son into the burial chamber wall with one punch.
• The Xuanming Holy Son rose with only minor injuries, and Xiao Hei taunted him before the Holy Son vowed that Xiao Hei would never break through his defenses again.

Xiao Hei fought the Xuanming Holy Son inside the Xuanming Domain, overcoming the Black Tortoise bloodline’s powerful defenses through relentless attacks. The Holy Son was left bloody and wounded, but gathered the domain’s black droplets to continue the fight.

• The Xuanming Holy Son covered himself in scales and a Black Tortoise shell, then attacked Xiao Hei with a wave of heavy water.
• Xiao Hei struck the Holy Son, whose armor dispersed the force, and Tan Zongzhao warned that ordinary attacks would have little effect.
• Xiao Hei activated Bloodline Entanglement and Bloodline Boiling, then battered the Holy Son with repeated blows that damaged his scales.
• The Holy Son finally spat blood and slammed into a wall, and Xiao Hei explained that even the strongest defense had a limit.
• The Xuanming Holy Son vowed to kill anyone who insulted the Black Tortoise Bloodline, then formed seals as the black droplets in his domain began to rampage.

The Xuanming Holy Son summoned the Black Tortoise to attack Xiao Hei, but Xiao Hei unleashed his holy devil bloodline and struck the beast with a devastating punch. The chapter ended as cracks spread across the Black Tortoise’s shell.

• The Xuanming Holy Son summoned the Black Tortoise, whose pressure forced the crown prince and Tan Zongzhao to shield Ye Qiubai.
• The Black Tortoise attacked Xiao Hei and sent him flying, while the Xuanming Holy Son mocked him and drew on his own bloodline to sustain the summon.
• Xiao Hei revealed the overwhelming power of his holy devil bloodline, causing the Xuanming Holy Son’s bloodline to tremble in fear.
• Xiao Hei combined his bloodline ability with his Eternal Devil Body and struck the Black Tortoise with Demon's Descent... Heaven Breaker.
• The Black Tortoise’s shell began cracking under Xiao Hei’s punch.

Xiao Hei defeated the Xuanming Holy Son, while Jiu Bailu subdued Huang Jun and his group. Ye Qiubai formed a Sword Bone while receiving the inheritance in the prince’s tomb, revealing a connection to the Azure Cloud Sword Master and drawing concern over the dangers awaiting him.

• Xiao Hei shattered the Black Tortoise shell and defeated the Xuanming Holy Son, who escaped the tomb using a life-preserving method.
• Jiu Bailu forced Huang Jun and his companions to surrender and ordered them to stay out of the fight.
• Ye Qiubai recovered enough to stand before the throne, and Jiu Bailu recognized that his Sword Bone had formed.
• Jiu Bailu and the others connected Ye Qiubai’s inheritance to the Azure Cloud Sword Master, whose legacy had been divided into four parts.
• Tan Zongzhao and the crown prince warned that sword cultivators would target Ye Qiubai, while Jiu Bailu sensed a fatal crisis entangled with his great karma.

Ye Qiubai completed forging his Sword Bone, learned that the Azure Cloud Sword Master intended to reincarnate through a soul merger, and gained the Cloud Azure Sword and an inheritance token. He and the others continued deeper into the tomb while forces outside reacted to the first casualties and the Xuanming Holy Son's escape.

• The Azure Cloud Sword Master told Ye Qiubai that his Sword Bone would draw hostile sword cultivators and that three more inheritances awaited him, then revealed that merging souls would allow the Azure Cloud Sword Master to be reborn.
• Ye Qiubai questioned the plan and refused to accept its outcome; after the phantom vanished, he completed his Sword Bone and surged to the half-step Ancestor realm.
• Ye Qiubai received the demigod-grade Cloud Azure Sword, and the throne transformed into an Azure Cloud token that could guide him to the remaining inheritances.
• Ye Qiubai thanked Jiu Bailu and the others, then followed Xiao Hei toward the tomb passage as Huang Jun decided to trail them and wait for a chance to strike.
• Outside the tomb, the Xuanming Holy Son escaped using a divine artifact, and the grand elder learned that He Song's soul tablet had shattered and ordered a report sent to the academy.

Mu Fusheng hid in the academy to avoid being dragged into danger while Ye Qiubai’s group reached the prince’s tomb guardian chamber. The tomb guardian killed a greedy talisman master and trapped everyone in nine passages, challenging them to find a way out.

• Mu Fusheng reinforced his hiding place with talismans after worrying that he might still be forced to leave the academy.
• Mu Fusheng heard that He Song had died and worried about Ye Qiubai’s group, but reminded himself that they could contact him with their master’s voice transmission jade pendants.
• Ye Qiubai’s group and their companions found a demigod-grade talisman brush in the Tomb Guardian Office and recognized that the main burial chamber lay beyond the statue.
• A greedy talisman master rushed for the brush, but the tomb guardian used it to create a peak Ancestor Realm talisman that killed him.
• The tomb guardian transformed the chamber into nine passages and told everyone they must escape through strength or skill in talismans, or remain trapped forever.

Ye Qiubai and the others entered the talisman tomb passages after the gathered talisman masters failed to find a way through them. After enduring soul-draining magic and insect swarms in a mire, Ye Qiubai called for backup.

• He Zhuang failed to find flaws in the nine tomb passages, and Jiu Bailu said breaking through would require Demigod Realm strength.
• Ye Qiubai, Xiao Hei, Fang Qiong, and Shi Sheng entered a passage, followed by the crown prince, Tan Zongzhao, Jiu Bailu, and the others.
• The group discovered that the dim light in the passages gnawed at their souls, and Ye Qiubai promised to use another method if they found no solution within two days.
• In a forked passage, insect-type Devil Beasts attacked from both directions as the walls turned to mire, so Xiao Hei and Fang Qiong cleared the way while the others fought and moved forward.
• After two days, the group reached another fork exhausted, and Ye Qiubai sent a message with his voice transmission jade pendant before telling Tan Zongzhao he was calling in backup.

Mu Fusheng entered the prince’s tomb to help his trapped senior and junior brothers, then chose to confront the Tomb Guard Office’s guardian rather than enter his deadly talisman maze. He revealed his concealed Peak Ancestor Realm strength and shattered the guardian’s attack, leaving their fight underway.

• Mu Fusheng decided to leave Chaotic Spirit Academy after receiving Ye Qiubai’s message and secretly traveled to the prince’s tomb.
• Mu Fusheng used the Ancient Divine Lightning to cross the terracotta warrior pit and reached the Tomb Guard Office, where he saw his companions trapped in a talisman maze.
• The feather-robed guardian offered Mu Fusheng the choice of entering the maze or fighting him, and Mu Fusheng chose to fight after questioning the guardian’s claims.
• Mu Fusheng accused the guardian of using the maze and soul-devouring restrictions to feed himself or the occupant of the main burial chamber.
• The guardian attacked with a talisman sword, but Mu Fusheng released his concealed restriction and shattered it with six streams of Ancient Divine Lightning.
• The guardian was shocked to discover Mu Fusheng’s Peak Ancestor Realm strength, and Mu Fusheng explained that attacking directly gave him an advantage over a talisman master who had to inscribe each talisman on the spot.

Mu Fusheng used Ancient Divine Lightning and carefully placed talismans to overwhelm the tomb guardian, a powerful talisman master from over a million years ago. As six lightning dragons and a destructive lightning spear closed in, the tomb guardian summoned talismans across the walls of the Tomb Guardian Office.

• Mu Fusheng sent six lightning dragons at the tomb guardian, who countered with talismans that made the Tomb Guardian Office tremble.
• Mu Fusheng appeared behind the tomb guardian and struck him with a lightning-wreathed fist.
• Mu Fusheng used a hidden talisman to trap the tomb guardian in lightning spears, then struck his barrier with a whip made from dozens of Peak Ancestor Realm talismans.
• Mu Fusheng revealed that a Lightning Clone Talisman had disguised his position while six lightning dragons and a lightning spear surrounded the tomb guardian.
• The tomb guardian acknowledged Mu Fusheng's strength and spread talismans across all four walls of the hall.

Mu Fusheng survived the tomb guardian’s thousands of offensive talismans, defeated him, and unraveled the maze talisman. He reunited with Ye Qiubai and the others, while Jiu Bailu seemed to know what had really happened.

• The tomb guardian activated thousands of Peak Ancestor Realm talismans and trapped Mu Fusheng, but Mu Fusheng endured the blast behind more than a thousand defensive barriers.
• Mu Fusheng exploited the tomb guardian’s exhaustion, pierced his soul-power shield with a lightning talisman, and killed him with six kinds of Ancient Divine Lightning.
• Mu Fusheng took the Demigod-grade talisman brush and unraveled the maze talisman, teleporting Ye Qiubai, Jiu Bailu, and the others into the office.
• Mu Fusheng greeted Ye Qiubai and told Tan Zongzhao that he had only spent time unraveling the talisman, while Jiu Bailu silently watched him with a knowing smile.