Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen used Yue Yufeng and Jiang Zuolei’s lightning attacks to temper his body and break through to the Second Dragon-Elephant stage. After escaping his metal cage, he summoned gray tribulation clouds and challenged the two experts to witness his mastery of lightning.

• Yue Yufeng and Jiang Zuolei unleashed powerful lightning attacks, but Yang Zhen’s metal cage withstood them.
• Yang Zhen grabbed and swallowed the lightning dragons, strengthening his body until a golden dragon appeared and his Dragon-Elephant Prison-Shaking Body reached the Second Dragon-Elephant stage.
• Yue Yufeng realized Yang Zhen had used their attacks to break through and proposed that she and Jiang Zuolei join forces to capture him.
• Yang Zhen summoned the Great Deficiency Sword, shattered the cage, and taunted Yue Yufeng and Jiang Zuolei.
• Yang Zhen called down gray tribulation clouds, shocking the onlookers.

Yang Zhen summoned a terrifying gray-cloud heavenly tribulation that Hua Youyue identified as Heavenly Ghost, forcing everyone nearby to flee. As the danger mounted, Yue Yufeng demanded to know what Yang Zhen had seen inside the Heaven and Earth Shackles, and Yang Zhen chased her with the tribulation in tow.

• Yang Zhen summoned gray tribulation clouds, and the gathered cultivators recognized them as a special heavenly tribulation.
• Shameless Cat identified the phenomenon as Heavenly Ghost, then fled and left Yang Zhen to face it alone.
• Hua Youyue led Dao Fanatic and Mo Xueling away, explaining that Heavenly Ghost threatened Yang Zhen and wondering what path he would follow.
• Yue Yufeng asked Yang Zhen to reveal what he had seen inside the Heaven and Earth Shackles, and Yang Zhen charged after her to make her share the danger.
• Yang Zhen commanded the heavenly lightning to strike Yue Yufeng as she ran from him.

Yang Zhen chased Yue Yufeng while demanding the truth about the Bone Mountain Great Restriction and the Heaven and Earth Shackles, then stopped as his Heavenly Ghost tribulation descended. He learned why the experts had come, while Shameless Cat gave Yang Zhen only a twenty percent chance of surviving.

• Yang Zhen pursued Yue Yufeng and threatened to drag her into his Heavenly Ghost tribulation unless she explained how she knew about what he saw inside the Heaven and Earth Shackles.
• Yue Yufeng revealed that ancient sages had created the Heaven and Earth Shackles, which Holy Maiden Tianxuan and others later reinforced when they established the Bone Mountain Great Restriction.
• Yue Yufeng explained that breaking the shackles could doom the North Isle Continent, but the person who broke them would see a hidden variable, prompting the experts to seek Yang Zhen's account.
• Yang Zhen realized the expedition had grown out of a misunderstanding, stopped chasing Yue Yufeng, and watched her flee as the Heavenly Ghost tribulation bore down on him.
• Shameless Cat told Hua Youyue and Little Dao Addict that Yang Zhen had only a twenty percent chance of surviving the tribulation, while Flirtatious Chicken called Shameless Cat a liar.

Yang Zhen faced the Heavenly Ghost tribulation despite Shameless Cat estimating his chance of success at only twenty percent. After enduring two lightning strikes, he challenged the third with the Great Deficiency Sword.

• Mo Xueling confronted Shameless Cat over his prediction that Yang Zhen had only a twenty percent chance of surviving the tribulation.
• Yang Zhen entered the Spirit Wandering State, surveyed Flower Countenance Mountain, and returned to his body as the first gray lightning dragon descended.
• Yang Zhen punched the first lightning dragon but was blasted into the rocks, leaving the watching cultivators stunned.
• Yang Zhen survived a stronger second strike despite his injuries and complained to Shameless Cat that he could not heal.
• As a third lightning dragon rushed toward him, Yang Zhen drew the Great Deficiency Sword and declared that he would destroy it.

Yang Zhen faced the gray Heavenly Ghost tribulation head-on and survived its first assault, then rose toward the thunderclouds. As two thunder dragons attacked him, he fell into a dangerous epiphany, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Yang Zhen struck the Heavenly Ghost thunder tribulation with the Great Deficiency Sword, provoking the clouds to unleash more than a dozen thunder dragons.
• After vanishing from sight, Yang Zhen reappeared high in the air, put on clothes, and flew toward the tribulation clouds.
• Yue Yufeng and Jiang Zuolei discussed making peace with Yang Zhen after the tribulation, while the onlookers wondered whether he could survive.
• Yang Zhen became confused about the purpose of undergoing a heavenly tribulation, and Shameless Cat realized he was entering an epiphany.
• Two thunder dragons descended from opposite sides and charged at Yang Zhen as he stood dazed.

Yang Zhen endured repeated lightning strikes and concluded that heavenly tribulation shackled living beings rather than simply testing them. He expelled the heavenly tribulation origin from his body, leaving the onlookers wondering whether he would survive and what his realization meant.

• Yang Zhen withstood two lightning dragons without using True Essence, astonishing Yue Yufeng, Jiang Zuolei, and the others.
• Two more lightning dragons struck Yang Zhen, charring his body as he pondered the purpose of heavenly tribulation.
• Yang Zhen realized that tribulation might restrain living beings and declared that it deceived them by shackling their growth.
• Yang Zhen struck his chest and expelled a mass of heavenly tribulation origin, shocking Yue Yufeng and Jiang Zuolei.
• Shameless Cat recalled a legend about three thousand Great Daos and discussed Yang Zhen's possible calamity with Hua Youyue and Mo Xueling.

Yang Zhen rejected the heavenly tribulation origin and charged into the tribulation clouds, determined to contend with heaven on his own path. As he entered the clouds, a tremendous force erupted north of Flower Countenance Mountain, leaving everyone startled.

• Yang Zhen spat out the heavenly tribulation origin, and the onlookers wondered why he had rejected it.
• Yang Zhen forged the golden dragon, Evil Shadow Black Taotie, Golden Lotus Heavenly Fire, and Geng Gold True Pattern into a Taiji figure and pressed it into the Great Deficiency Sword.
• Yang Zhen used the Heaven-Ascending Token to rise into the air and declare that he would contend with heaven, while Shameless Cat warned everyone not to imitate him.
• Yang Zhen shattered the heavenly tribulation origin with one sword strike, took a second step, and plunged into the gray tribulation clouds.
• A powerful wave of force and golden light erupted north of Flower Countenance Mountain, shaking the mountain and startling everyone, including Shameless Cat.

Yang Zhen survived the Heavenly Ghost tribulation and gained a powerful Heavenly Tribulation Origin, then realized it was a heavenly restraint rather than true Heaven and Earth Origin. He stopped his sword just short of destroying it and asked who wanted it, leaving the onlookers tense.

• Yang Zhen endured the Heavenly Ghost tribulation inside its cloud, then broke the cloud apart and emerged beside a powerful Heavenly Tribulation Origin.
• Yue Yufeng and Jiang Zuolei marveled at the origin’s strength, while the cultivators envied Yang Zhen’s reward.
• Yang Zhen drew the Great Deficiency Sword and explained that the origin was a form of heavenly order meant to restrain living beings.
• Yang Zhen raised his sword to strike the origin but stopped at the last moment, prompting the crowd to jeer at him.
• Yang Zhen asked, “You want it? If you want it, I'll give it to you!” and left everyone wondering who he meant.

Yang Zhen absorbed the heavenly tribulation origin into his Great Deficiency Sword, then questioned Shameless Cat about the ancient catastrophe and the fate of the mighty beings. Their conversation was interrupted by news that the Ancient Clan had entered the Northern Garden Ice Cavern and triggered a terrifying eruption.

• Yang Zhen had the Evil Shadow Black Taotie swallow the heavenly tribulation origin, strengthening the Great Deficiency Sword.
• Yang Zhen pressed Shameless Cat for answers about the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, and Shameless Cat warned that Order watched over secrets of the ancient era.
• Shameless Cat said the mighty beings had died or been wounded, powerful races had vanished or hidden themselves, and the Three Flowers Holy Maiden might know what happened.
• Old Ghost Hei and other cultivators arrived, and Old Ghost Hei told Jiang Zuolei that the Ancient Clan had entered the Northern Garden Ice Cavern to open a restriction.
• Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that the Ancient Clan were no good and that their presence would make things lively under heaven.

Yang Zhen and the others discussed the Shanggen-era Ancient Clan and its inheritance restriction in the Northern Garden Ice Cavern. When Yang Zhen revealed that he had heard people cry “Long live Demacia” beyond the Heaven and Earth Shackles, Hua Youyue spoke a phrase in the Ancient Clan’s language, and Shameless Cat recognized it.

• Shameless Cat said the Ancient Clan was arrogant and powerful, while Hua Youyue recalled that it was a branch of humanity from the Shanggen era.
• Old Ghost Hei and Shangyao recognized Yang Zhen and explained that the Ancient Clan planned to open an inheritance restriction in the Northern Garden Ice Cavern.
• Old Ghost Hei and Yue Yufeng connected the awakening of the ancient races and the destruction of the Heaven and Earth Shackles to a coming calamity.
• Yang Zhen said he had seen people kneeling before an ice sculpture and shouting “Long live Demacia,” but the crowd doubted his account.
• Hua Youyue uttered “Demaliya Miansui,” and Shameless Cat identified the words as the Ancient Clan’s language and said they meant “open the heavens.”

Yang Zhen and the others rushed to the Northern Garden Ice Cavern after learning that the Ancient Clan planned to perform its Opening Heaven ritual and resurrect its holy maiden. As the Ancient Clan confronted Old Ghost Hei over the cavern, Yang Zhen stepped forward to challenge their arrogant young leader.

• Shameless Cat explained that the Ancient Clan's Opening Heaven ritual might be connected to the ice statue Yang Zhen had seen, and Old Ghost Hei hurried toward the Northern Garden.
• Yang Zhen, Shameless Cat, Palace Master Liu, Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, and the others followed Old Ghost Hei and Shangyao to the Northern Garden Ice Cavern.
• Shameless Cat concluded that the Ancient Clan planned to refine the world and resurrect its holy maiden, while Old Ghost Hei warned that breaking the restriction could unleash Sha Qi across a thousand li.
• The Ancient Clan emerged from the cavern, and its young leader dismissed Old Ghost Hei's warning and claimed the land had belonged to his people ten thousand years earlier.
• Yang Zhen pointed out the young leader and announced they should capture him, then walked up and challenged him to a fight.

Yang Zhen provoked Fu Yonglin, a Saint-Chosen Son of the Ancient Clan, then lured him away and fought him with the Great Deficiency Sword. The sword revealed new earth-elemental power, leaving Fu Yonglin dazed after he crashed into a wall it raised.

• Yang Zhen mocked Fu Yonglin and learned he was a Saint-Chosen Son of the Ancient Clan.
• Yang Zhen taunted Fu Yonglin with a pose, then fled on a Somersault Cloud as Fu Yonglin chased him.
• Yang Zhen stopped and drew the Great Deficiency Sword when Fu Yonglin attacked with his longsword and Sword Qi.
• Fu Yonglin recognized the Great Deficiency Sword as a demonic weapon and tried to flee.
• Yang Zhen drove the Great Deficiency Sword into the earth, raising a wall that Fu Yonglin hit headfirst and leaving Yang Zhen to wonder if the sword had leveled up.

Yang Zhen defeated Fu Yonglin with the Great Deficiency Sword and knocked him unconscious, then tied him up to ask him questions. Fu Yonglin woke in terror at Yang Zhen’s threats, but the interrogation began with Shameless Cat asking his age and Flirtatious Chicken answering a question about his father.

• The Great Deficiency Sword’s daydream-induced paralysis effect briefly affected Fu Yonglin, who then attacked Yang Zhen with an enormous sword.
• Yang Zhen survived Fu Yonglin’s strike and repeatedly bashed him with the Great Deficiency Sword until he lost consciousness.
• Yang Zhen bound Fu Yonglin with a Star Iron chain, while Shameless Cat eagerly offered to demonstrate torture.
• Fu Yonglin woke and panicked when Yang Zhen began cutting his clothes, but Yang Zhen explained that he only wanted to ask questions.
• Shameless Cat asked Fu Yonglin how old he was, and Flirtatious Chicken answered that Fu Yonglin’s father’s surname was Fu.

Yang Zhen questioned Fu Yonglin about the Ancient Clan’s long sleep and learned that the ice box had sparked the Ancient Heng era’s world-shaking Holy War. As Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat tried to force more answers from Fu Yonglin, the Ancient Clan’s Holy Maiden appeared and Fu Yonglin fainted.

• Fu Yonglin explained that the Ancient Clan had frozen its ancestral land during the Holy War to survive a devastating change in heaven and earth.
• Shameless Cat recognized the war as the Holy War of the Ancient Heng era and warned Yang Zhen that the Ancient Clan had slept through the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• Fu Yonglin recounted how the Void Great Saint’s announcement about an ice box and the Power of the Void ignited the Holy War.
• Fu Yonglin refused to reveal the Ancient Clan’s secrets, so Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat threatened to humiliate him until he began to give in.
• The Ancient Clan’s Holy Maiden approached Yang Zhen and asked why he was humiliating one of her people, causing Fu Yonglin to pass out.

Yang Zhen and his companions encountered an Ancient Clan Holy Maiden and fled from her attendant’s holy weapon before returning to explore the ice cave. Inside, Hua Youyue and the others discovered a newly appeared ice palace complex and wondered whether its emergence had caused the power that pierced heaven and earth.

• Yang Zhen, Shameless Cat, and Flirtatious Chicken teased one another while the Holy Maiden confronted them.
• The Holy Maiden’s attendant attacked Yang Zhen with a holy weapon, so Yang Zhen escaped with Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken.
• Shameless Cat guessed that a fortune stalagmite might be inside the ice cave, and Yang Zhen decided to search for it.
• Yang Zhen and his companions returned to the empty ice cave and went inside to look for the treasure.
• Hua Youyue and Little Dao Addict examined a colossal ice palace complex that had seemingly just appeared and considered whether its arrival had caused the mysterious power.

An Ancient Clan elder tried to drive the other cultivators away from the newly revealed ice-palace ruins while preparing an Opening Heaven ceremony around a sinister ice statue. Meanwhile, Yang Zhen and his companions searched the cavern and used his ridiculous “Nicholas Yang's First Law” to choose a path.

• The Ancient Clan elder demanded that the gathered cultivators leave the ruins, but Old Ghost Hei, Palace Master Liu, and Peak Master Mo refused.
• The elder learned that Fu Yonglin had been badly shaken after a Tribulation Transcendence Realm man stripped him, then ordered the Saintess to attend the Opening Heaven ceremony.
• Mo Xueling sensed Sha Qi around the elder, and Hua Youyue explained that the Ancient Clan cultivated methods that gathered Sha Qi.
• The group watched Ancient Clan members carve a formation beside a lifelike, sinister ice statue as they prepared to begin the ceremony.
• Yang Zhen, Shameless Cat, and Flirtatious Chicken found themselves facing many cavern forks, so Yang Zhen plucked a feather and used its fall to pick a direction.

Yang Zhen, Shameless Cat, and Flirtatious Chicken found and looted the Ancient Clan's empty ancestral land before a surge of Sha Qi erupted nearby. At the ice palace, Little Ice Sister, also called Nuoyu, approached the sculpture and said she would accept her fate, while Yang Zhen watched in shock.

• Yang Zhen used a drifting feather to choose a path, and the trio discovered the Ancient Clan's underground ancestral land deserted for the Opening Heaven ceremony.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat decided to take treasures while leaving Spirit Plant roots behind, but Flirtatious Chicken rushed ahead to eat a vermilion fruit.
• After the trio emptied the ancestral land, a terrifying hum drew their attention toward the ice palace complex.
• Sha Qi engulfed the cavern, harming cultivators' minds, and Shangyao, Old Ghost Hei, Palace Master Liu, and Peak Master Mo tried to respond and protect those nearby.
• The Sha Clan elder refused to stop Opening Heaven, and Little Ice Sister approached the ice sculpture, revealing her resolve to die for her fate.
• Yang Zhen watched from a hill and asked Shameless Cat what the Sha Clan intended to do.

Yang Zhen rushed into the Sha Clan’s frozen ancestral land and pulled Gu Nuoyu away from the ice statue as she prepared to sacrifice herself for the clan. He left the Sha Clan elders furious and had no explanation ready for why he had seized their holy maiden.

• As Little Ice Sister began burning her bloodline to approach the ice statue, Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that she, Little Dao Addict, Spirit Maiden Hua, and many others would die.
• Yang Zhen flew down from the hill and called out to Little Ice Sister to stop.
• Gu Nuoyu saw Yang Zhen arrive but believed he could not overcome the restriction around the statue.
• Yang Zhen walked through the restriction, grabbed Gu Nuoyu’s hand, and dragged her away from the statue.
• The Sha Clan elders shouted at Yang Zhen, who realized he had rushed in before Shameless Cat could explain the danger.

Yang Zhen charged through the Sha Clan’s restriction and pulled Gu Nuoyu away from the Opening Heaven ritual, then furiously berated the clan for intending to sacrifice her. He learned that he had misunderstood the ritual’s purpose, but the Sha Clan elder confirmed that Gu Nuoyu still had to die to preserve the clan.

• Yang Zhen entered the Sha Clan’s restriction and rescued Gu Nuoyu during the Opening Heaven ceremony.
• The Sha Clan members demanded to know who Yang Zhen was and why he had disrupted their ritual, but he shouted them into silence.
• Yang Zhen accused the Sha Clan of cruelly sacrificing Gu Nuoyu and vowed to protect her.
• The Sha Clan elder explained that they wanted Gu Nuoyu to protect the clan, then confirmed that her death was considered necessary for its survival.
• Shameless Cat reached Yang Zhen and quietly told him that he had misunderstood the situation.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat exposed how someone had manipulated the Sha Clan’s Opening Heaven formation to steal the clan’s accumulated spiritual essence. Their warning was confirmed when Great Saint Tianti emerged from the largest ice palace, leaving Yang Zhen urging the Sha Clan to attack while he retreated into the crowd.

• Shameless Cat accused the Sha Clan of committing a sin by attempting Opening Heaven and said someone had tampered with the formation.
• Yang Zhen used the Heavenly Numbers Earth Treasury Chapter to identify the formation’s secrets and explained that the Holy Maiden had been gravely injured when she created it.
• Yang Zhen revealed that the ice palaces had been moved into place to let someone inside seize the Sha Clan’s accumulated spiritual charm.
• A furious roar came from the largest ice palace, and black Qi formed the figure of Great Saint Tianti.
• Yang Zhen told the Sha Clan to get Great Saint Tianti, then stepped back into the crowd.