Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen returned to White Cloud Mountain and discovered that its thin Primordial Qi came from surrounding mountains sealing its Primordial Gate. He spent half a month reshaping the terrain around the Shangyuan Sect to give it a stroke of good fortune, then learned Shameless Cat had already caused trouble at the Sword Attendant Sect and predicted that fat sheep would arrive soon.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat found White Cloud Mountain barren, and Yang Zhen realized his low cultivation had kept him from noticing its thin Primordial Qi before.
• Yang Zhen used the Heavenly Book: Profound Principles Chapter to discover that surrounding mountains had sealed the area's Primordial Gate.
• Yang Zhen spent half a month creating terrain nexuses near the Shangyuan Sect to improve the surrounding mountains and rivers.
• Shameless Cat returned and told Yang Zhen he had eaten more than half the spiritual materials at the Sword Attendant Sect, alerting the sect to Yang Zhen's presence.
• Yang Zhen predicted that fat sheep would come knocking in two days, while Shameless Cat demanded cumin mutton.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat waited at White Cloud Mountain as rumors of a hidden treasure drew cultivators and five Spirit Wandering Realm experts toward them. The five experts attacked, and Shameless Cat welcomed their arrival as five fat sheep.

• Yang Zhen waited at White Cloud Mountain while Shameless Cat complained about the delay and asked about his preparations.
• Rumors spread that Yang Zhen was waiting for a hidden treasure, drawing enemies, treasure seekers, and other cultivators to White Cloud Mountain.
• A scout reported that Yang Zhen had not left, and five elders debated whether to approach him cautiously or capture him at once.
• After another scout said the area showed nothing unusual, Elder Feng led the five Spirit Wandering Realm experts toward White Cloud Mountain.
• The five experts’ surging Qi alarmed the Shangyuan Sect disciples and drew nearby cultivators toward the mountain, while Shameless Cat celebrated the arrival of five fat sheep.

Five Spirit Wandering Realm experts arrived at White Cloud Mountain to kill Yang Zhen, terrifying the Shangyuan Sect as its elders prepared to defend their home. Yang Zhen answered his pursuer’s challenge with a lazy insult, leaving the assembled cultivators waiting tensely for what he would do next.

• Five Spirit Wandering Realm experts appeared at White Cloud Mountain, and the watching cultivators assumed Yang Zhen was their target.
• Lu Chenghui ordered Gou Shengtian and True Person Changyue to evacuate the disciples, but the Shangyuan Sect elders and Liu Ruoning refused to abandon him or their home.
• One of the five experts shouted for Yang Zhen to come out and face death, revealing to the Shangyuan Sect that the attack was aimed at him.
• Gou Shengtian blamed Yang Zhen for bringing danger to the sect, then worried that he had not returned home to make a plan with them.
• Yang Zhen called out that he did not know the old man and asked why he wanted to kill him; the old man replied that he needed no reason, and Yang Zhen answered, “Oh!”

Yang Zhen baited five Spirit Wandering Realm experts and the watching cultivators with a fake confession that a Great Emperor’s inheritance lay beneath him. As Elder Dai charged to kill him, Yang Zhen began demonstrating his acting to the Shameless Cat and punched toward the old man.

• The Shangyuan Sect members arrived and recognized the Shameless Cat, whose thefts and near-invulnerability had made it infamous.
• Elder Dai of the Earth Spring Grotto-Heaven demanded to know whether Yang Zhen had found a hidden inheritance.
• Yang Zhen pretended to reveal that a Great Emperor’s inheritance was beneath his feet, exciting the watching cultivators.
• Elder Dai charged at Yang Zhen, while Elder Feng of the Flower Mountain Blessed Land tried to stop him.
• Yang Zhen explained his exaggerated acting to the Shameless Cat, then shouted that he would fight Elder Dai to the death and punched at him.

Yang Zhen knocked Elder Dai out and sealed his True Essence, letting Shameless Cat tie him up, then charged four more Spirit Wandering Realm experts at once. As Yang Zhen fought them, another opponent fell and Shameless Cat began tying him up too.

• Yang Zhen dodged Elder Dai’s punch, struck him on the head, and sealed his True Essence.
• Shameless Cat tied up Elder Dai while Elder Feng and three other Spirit Wandering Realm experts confronted Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen charged the four experts and fought them all at once.
• One of the four experts fell from the fight, and Shameless Cat started tying him up while asking Yang Zhen how the song went.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat defeated and captured four Spirit Wandering Realm experts while Yang Zhen denied luring anyone to the supposed Great Emperor’s treasure trove. He revealed that he wanted people to stop targeting him, then challenged Elder Feng by trying to overwhelm the Spirit Wandering State expert with his presence.

• Yang Zhen punched two Spirit Wandering Realm experts from the sky, while Shameless Cat tied up the fallen fighters.
• Elder Feng accused Yang Zhen of luring them to the site, but Yang Zhen denied it and recited a poem that hinted at the Great Emperor’s legacy.
• Yang Zhen warned that he was holding back only because he respected the law and demanded that people stop targeting him.
• Yang Zhen released a powerful presence and advanced on Elder Feng, startling the onlookers with his attempt to overwhelm a Spirit Wandering State expert.
• Elder Feng unleashed his own presence, and a phantom flood dragon appeared above him.

Yang Zhen unleashed the Desolate Heaven Technique, Samsara, and overwhelmed Elder Feng in a clash of soul power, capturing him and four other Spirit Wandering Realm experts. After discussing how to profit from their captives with Shameless Cat, Yang Zhen turned to the frightened crowd, who feared he intended to capture more people.

• Elder Feng's flood dragon projection clashed with Yang Zhen's dragon-elephant, and the crowd expected Yang Zhen to lose.
• Yang Zhen activated the Desolate Heaven Technique, Samsara, and his presence surged, shattering Elder Feng's flood dragon projection.
• Elder Feng spat blood and demanded to know how Yang Zhen had gained such power.
• Yang Zhen sealed Elder Feng's True Essence and had Shameless Cat tie him up, revealing that they had captured five Spirit Wandering Realm experts.
• Yang Zhen discussed how to make money from the captives with Shameless Cat, then addressed the terrified crowd.

Yang Zhen explained that the five captured experts had tried to kill him, then demanded that Flower Mountain Blessed Land and Earth Spring Grotto-Heaven send their sect masters to ransom them. He threatened to execute one captive each day after ten days and, if no one came by the fifteenth day, visit the sects himself, leaving the crowd to anticipate a major upheaval across the Youzhou Continent.

• Yang Zhen called on the frightened crowd to hear his side and claimed he had returned to White Cloud Mountain only to be attacked by five ungrateful men.
• Yang Zhen said he would spare the captives for now and asked the crowd to tell their sects to send their sect masters to ransom them within ten days.
• Yang Zhen threatened to kill one captive for each day the sect masters delayed after the deadline, then visit the sects himself if no one came within fifteen days.
• Shameless Cat praised Yang Zhen's plan, then wondered what preparations gave him the confidence to challenge two great powers.
• The crowd realized Yang Zhen had targeted Flower Mountain Blessed Land and Earth Spring Grotto-Heaven and feared the conflict would shake the Youzhou Continent.

Rumors spread that Yang Zhen had captured five Spirit Wandering Realm experts, while Fang Buming returned from a year on Evil Spirit Island and vowed to make Yang Zhen release Elder Dai and pay with his life. Fang Buming and Elder Ghost headed toward White Cloud Mountain as cultivators speculated that more than a dozen powerful figures would join them.

• People across the eastern Youzhou Continent learned Yang Zhen was from a village on White Cloud Mountain and heard that he had captured five Spirit Wandering Realm experts.
• Cultivators questioned Fang Buming about the rumors, and he threatened to force Yang Zhen to release Elder Dai and kneel at the Earth Spring Grotto-Heaven.
• The crowd learned Fang Buming had spent a year on Evil Spirit Island, where a sinister presence could drive living creatures into bloodthirsty madness.
• Fang Buming released a wave of killing intent and charged toward White Cloud Mountain.
• Elder Ghost of the Flower Mountain Blessed Land appeared, and Fang Buming paid his respects before both headed toward Yang Zhen.
• Cultivators set out for White Cloud Mountain, believing that more than a dozen powerful figures might be going to kill Yang Zhen.

Twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts and dozens of Void Refinement Realm cultivators arrived at White Cloud Mountain to confront Yang Zhen. As the experts called for him to release their people, Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat prepared to rely on the arrangements he had made around the mountain.

• Twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts, including Fang Buming and Elder Ghost, led a force toward White Cloud Mountain, drawing crowds of cultivators after them.
• At the Shangyuan Sect, Liu Ruoning worried about Yang Zhen, while True Person Changyue and Gou Shengtian admitted they could do little to help him.
• Lu Chenghui revealed that Yang Zhen had prepared dozens of places around White Cloud Mountain, and he urged everyone to wait for the outcome.
• The experts' arrival sent a terrifying surge of Qi across White Cloud Mountain, and Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat stopped eating to face them.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat argued over whether his Heavenly Book: Profound Principles Chapter preparations would work before a roar demanded that Yang Zhen release them.

Twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts confronted Yang Zhen at White Cloud Mountain, demanding that he surrender five elders, while he and Shameless Cat drank and mocked them. As the experts launched a combined attack, Yang Zhen calmly told Shameless Cat to wait until they got closer before striking.

• Elder Ghost arrived with other powerful cultivators and demanded that Yang Zhen release the captives.
• Elder Ghost and Fang Buming decided to wait for more cultivators so they could make an example of Yang Zhen and demonstrate the grotto-heavens' power.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat ignored the gathered experts, played a drinking game, and angered Elder Ghost with their antics.
• Yang Zhen demanded a ransom, and Fang Buming urged the twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts to attack him together.
• The twelve experts unleashed a terrifying combined strike, but Yang Zhen stayed calm and told Shameless Cat to wait until they got closer before attacking.

Yang Zhen trapped twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts in a massive killing formation around White Cloud Mountain and began robbing them. After Elder Ghost died inside the formation, Shameless Cat discovered that Jueyin Sha Qi had corrupted his intelligence, while Yang Zhen remained focused on robbing the survivors.

• Yang Zhen activated a crystal that unleashed a killing formation across White Cloud Mountain, trapping the twelve Spirit Wandering Realm experts in thick fog.
• Yang Zhen ordered everyone in the formation to stand still and surrender their storage rings, while Elder Ghost and Fang Buming tried to respond.
• Elder Ghost became lost in the formation's deadly transformations and died after his suppressed killing aura erupted.
• Yang Zhen asked Shameless Cat what had happened to Elder Ghost, and Shameless Cat identified Jueyin Sha Qi as the force that had corrupted his intelligence.
• Yang Zhen dismissed the fate of the remaining experts and told Shameless Cat to hurry up with the robbery.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat robbed cultivators trapped in the Six Harmonies Killing Formation, which also strengthened the Shangyuan Sect by enriching its Heaven and Earth Qi. As Yang Zhen prepared to leave for the Spirit Road, Ye Zhiming told him that Spirit Maiden Hua was acting strangely on Evil Spirit Island.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat took cultivators' storage rings and valuables before escorting them out of the Six Harmonies Killing Formation.
• Fang Buming went mad inside the formation and strangled himself, while the Shangyuan Sect elders realized Yang Zhen had left the sect a powerful formation that increased the surrounding Heaven and Earth Qi.
• Lu Chenghui decided the Shangyuan Sect would erect a statue of Yang Zhen in its ancestral hall and have disciples pay respects to it.
• Ye Zhiming arrived and told Yang Zhen that Spirit Maiden Hua seemed to be in trouble, though she was unharmed and acting strangely.
• Ye Zhiming said Spirit Maiden Hua was on Evil Spirit Island, and Yang Zhen reacted with alarm.

Yang Zhen learned that Hua Youyue had gone to Evil Spirit Island, where Jueyin Sha Qi threatened to affect cultivators' minds, and rushed there with Ye Zhiming and Shameless Cat. He found Bai Xuan injured beside a sinkhole and learned that something had gone wrong while Hua Youyue was cultivating.

• Yang Zhen gave the Shangyuan Sect a Jade Slip explaining how to control the Six Harmonies Killing Formation and left with Ye Zhiming and Shameless Cat for Evil Spirit Island.
• The Shangyuan Sect members discussed how to handle the fallout from Yang Zhen's actions, while news of the White Cloud Mountain killing formation spread across the eastern Youzhou Continent.
• Yang Zhen arrived on Evil Spirit Island and sensed that its Blood Qi could gradually erode the minds of those who stayed too long.
• Ye Zhiming led Yang Zhen to Bai Xuan and the Water Moon Spirit Maiden near a sinkhole, where Yang Zhen noticed signs of a fierce disturbance.
• Bai Xuan told Yang Zhen that Hua Youyue had insisted on visiting Evil Spirit Island and that something had gone wrong while she was cultivating.

Yang Zhen learned that Hua Youyue had awakened in a shattered crystal coffin with an Ancient Bloodline and reached the Spirit Wandering State, but she attacked her companions and left. Shameless Cat revealed that Hua Youyue was not a member of the Hua Household, and Bai Xuan said she had gone to Spirit Peak on the Spirit Road to find something.

• Bai Xuan and the Water Moon Spirit Maiden told Yang Zhen that Hua Youyue’s blood had seemed to catch fire inside the crystal coffin before she woke and attacked them.
• Bai Xuan and the Water Moon Spirit Maiden said Hua Youyue had reached the Spirit Wandering State.
• Shameless Cat said Hua Youyue had awakened an Ancient Bloodline and was not a member of the Hua Household.
• Yang Zhen asked where Hua Youyue had gone, and Bai Xuan said she was heading to Spirit Peak on the Spirit Road to find something.

Yang Zhen learned that Hua Youyue’s awakened Ancient Bloodline could bring calamity even to Great Saints, but he welcomed the prospect of attracting heavenly lightning and set out with his companions for the Spirit Road. They reached the unexpectedly quiet Spirit Essence City, where a thunderclap struck as Shameless Cat joked about lightning, sending someone tumbling from the sky.

• Yang Zhen grabbed Shameless Cat and made him explain that Ancient Bloodlines were cursed and could draw sudden heavenly punishment, even endangering Great Saints.
• Yang Zhen decided that lightning might help him cultivate and asked Ye Zhiming to lead the group to the Spirit Road.
• Shameless Cat explained that Ancient Bloodlines came from the ancient Gu race, while Ye Zhiming led the group into the Sea East Region.
• Yang Zhen and his companions found Spirit Essence City nearly deserted and learned that the Spirit Road was not expected to open for six months, though it could be opened early.
• The Water Moon Spirit Maiden explained that five Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts guarded the city and that the strong were forbidden from oppressing the weak.
• Shameless Cat joked about Yang Zhen being struck by lightning, and a thunderclap sounded as a figure fell from the sky and crashed into the ground.

Yang Zhen learned how the Spirit Road’s Heaven’s Selection worked and decided to enter its most difficult passage. He left the others stunned when he approached a young woman on the Heavenly Mandate Road to ask about a little girl.

• Yang Zhen asked why people were falling from the sky, and the Water Moon Spirit Maiden explained that the Spirit Road had opened for Heaven’s Selection.
• Bai Xuan explained that powers used Heaven Plaques to send chosen cultivators onto the best road, while others could enter by choosing a passage themselves.
• Yang Zhen and the others reached a platform with nine spirit passages and saw that the thick black Heavenly Mandate Road held a dozen exceptionally powerful young cultivators.
• Yang Zhen chose the thickest passage, saying he wanted the best, and asked Shameless Cat whether a talented little girl would have taken it.
• Yang Zhen tapped a young cultivator on the shoulder to ask if a pretty little girl had entered, then realized the person was a young lady.

Yang Zhen talked his way out of offending Spirit Maiden Hongluan, then argued with Shameless Cat while the onlookers watched. Young Master Feng approached Yang Zhen as the atmosphere grew tense.

• Yang Zhen praised Spirit Maiden Hongluan and explained that he had mistaken her for a man, easing her anger and making her blush.
• Huang Mao admired Yang Zhen’s talent and mocked Young Master Feng for failing to make Spirit Maiden Hongluan smile.
• Spirit Maiden Hongluan scolded Xiu'er for teasing her about Yang Zhen, then threatened to make her enter the Heavenly Mandate Road first.
• Shameless Cat called Yang Zhen shameless, and the two loudly argued over who was the most low-key.
• Spirit Maiden Hongluan laughed at Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat, astonishing the other eleven people, while Young Master Feng walked toward Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat dodged Young Master Feng by staging a fight, then watched as Lin Tianli arrived and headed for the Heavenly Mandate Road. Young Master Feng revealed that Spirit Maiden Hua had entered before him, but Yang Zhen's warning came too late and Lin Tianli was sucked into the road.

• Young Master Feng approached Yang Zhen, but Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat argued and staged a fight to draw attention away from him.
• Behind a boulder, Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat discussed the strange crowd waiting beside the Heavenly Mandate Road and decided to stay cautious.
• Lin Tianli arrived, mocked the twelve gathered contenders, and announced that he would be the first to enter the road.
• Young Master Feng told Lin Tianli that Spirit Maiden Hua had already gone in and nearly killed him before.
• Yang Zhen leapt out and shouted for Lin Tianli to stop, but Lin Tianli was sucked into the Heavenly Mandate Road as its black pillar surged with True Essence.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat disrupted Lin Tianli as he endured the Heavenly Mandate Road’s heavenly might waterfalls, provoking him until he summoned a three-headed wolf. Yang Zhen mocked the creature, leaving Lin Tianli furious and bleeding as the crowd feared what he might do next.

• Lin Tianli entered the Heavenly Mandate Road and struggled against its unusually powerful heavenly might waterfalls.
• Yang Zhen learned from Spirit Maiden Hongluan that Spirit Maiden Hua had endured thirty-six waterfalls despite an injured Spirit Root.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat taunted Lin Tianli, distracting him until a waterfall struck his head.
• Lin Tianli roared at Yang Zhen and manifested a fierce three-headed wolf that unleashed soul power.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat mocked the wolf’s appearance, and Lin Tianli spat blood as the crowd feared his reaction.