Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen traded the Iron Armor to Holy Son Lin for the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution, then directed everyone to rely on Lin to enter the Mo North Abyss. He left the crowd believing Lin had the only working Iron Armor while hinting to Shameless Cat that the armor he sold was a downgraded version.

• Holy Son Lin gave Yang Zhen the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution, and Yang Zhen taught him how to operate the Iron Armor.
• Holy Son Lin tested the Iron Armor by blasting through a mountain, then flew away to master it.
• Elder Mo warned Yang Zhen that selling the Iron Armor had damaged his future in artifact refining, but Yang Zhen said he had no intention of helping usher in a terrible age.
• Yang Zhen told the crowd he could no longer lead them to the Mo North Abyss and pointed them toward Holy Son Lin instead.
• After the crowd dispersed, Yang Zhen admitted to Shameless Cat that he had sold Lin a downgraded, castrated version of the Iron Armor.

Yang Zhen sold Holy Son Lin a sabotaged Iron Armor and withdrew to refine more equipment before the group entered the Mo North Abyss. Meanwhile, the Ke Clan confronted Holy Son Lin over trading away their secret cultivation method, leaving him under threat from the Great Elder.

• Yang Zhen secretly told Shameless Cat that the Iron Armor sold to Holy Son Lin was a shoddy copy rigged to disintegrate if anyone tried to unlock it.
• Elder Qian promised to handle pressuring the Ke Clan into making Holy Son Lin pilot the Iron Armor into the Mo North Abyss.
• Yang Zhen returned to his cave to refine more supplies, while Peak Master Mo and Palace Master Liu speculated that he would make additional flying machines.
• Mo Xueling denied having feelings for Yang Zhen and left after Peak Master Mo and Palace Master Liu teased her about him.
• The Ke Clan's elders berated Holy Son Lin for exchanging their cultivation method for eternal gold heavenly iron, and the Great Elder threatened him and Yang Zhen.
• Holy Son Lin put the key around his neck as the Ke Clan's younger members watched and mocked him.

Holy Son Lin revealed that the Iron Armor was a transforming suit hidden inside a seamless box and used it to challenge the Second Clan Elder. The armor’s power stunned the Ke Clan when Holy Son Lin sent the Second Clan Elder crashing into the great hall wall with one punch.

• Holy Son Lin presented the Iron Armor’s key while the Second Clan Elder and Lin Qingzhi mocked him and questioned the armor’s worth.
• Holy Son Lin asked the Second Clan Elder to help test the Iron Armor, and the Second Clan Elder accepted.
• Holy Son Lin activated the Iron Armor, which burst from its box form and assembled around him.
• Holy Son Lin sealed himself inside the armor and charged at the Second Clan Elder with an ordinary-looking punch.
• Holy Son Lin’s punch sent the Second Clan Elder flying into the wall of the Ke Clan’s great hall, shocking everyone.

The Ke Clan marveled at the Iron Armor’s power and hoped to use it to strengthen their clan, while Old Ghost Qian arrived with plans involving the Mo North Abyss. At Ink Pool Peak, Yang Zhen revealed a new Iron Armor Version 1.0 and settled down to study the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution.

• Holy Son Lin said he had only unlocked part of the Iron Armor’s power, prompting the Ke Clan elders to call it a divine weapon and imagine mass-producing it.
• The Second Clan Elder urged Holy Son Lin to demonstrate the Iron Armor’s speed, but Old Ghost Qian arrived and the elders suspected he wanted the armor returned and the Ke Clan to lead the expedition into the Mo North Abyss.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat joked about the new suit, which Yang Zhen insisted was Iron Armor Version 1.0 rather than Iron Armor.
• Yang Zhen said he planned to study the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution because its principles seemed connected to the Heavenly Book: Profound Principles Chapter.
• Yang Zhen sat down to cultivate the scripture, which the Ke Clan had never fully comprehended despite preserving it for over ten thousand years.

Yang Zhen cultivated the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution in seclusion while Ink Pool Peak’s leaders worried about the imminent trip to the Mo North Abyss. His cultivation caused a violent celestial phenomenon, and Han Yan’er entered sudden enlightenment as Hua Youyue predicted that two people would undergo tribulations.

• Yang Zhen spent three days cultivating the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution while Shameless Cat stood guard outside his cave.
• Shameless Cat met Mo Xueling, Peak Master Mo, Palace Master Liu, and the Ink Pool Peak elders in the kitchens, where they discussed the Mahayana experts expected to enter the Mo North Abyss.
• Shameless Cat said Yang Zhen would finish cultivating quickly, just as a powerful celestial phenomenon erupted over Ink Pool Peak.
• Mo Xueling, Hua Youyue, and Han Yan’er hurried outside, and Han Yan’er entered sudden enlightenment as she watched the phenomenon.
• Hua Youyue told Peak Master Mo to prepare two cultivation grounds because two people were about to undergo tribulations.

The sects and clans gathered at Ink Pool Peak to prepare for entering the Mo North Abyss, and Holy Son Lin insisted Yang Zhen could never fully comprehend the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution. Yang Zhen then unleashed a terrifying celestial phenomenon while cultivating, leaving the Ke Clan elders unsure what he had actually achieved.

• Elder Qian urged the gathered clans and sects to cooperate against the Death Zhi in the Mo North Abyss.
• Second Clan Elder and Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits discussed who would enter the abyss first, while Holy Son Lin defended his exchange of the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution for Yang Zhen's Iron Armor.
• Sha Clan Elder asked whether Holy Son Lin feared Yang Zhen would comprehend the scripture, and Holy Son Lin dismissed that possibility.
• A powerful celestial phenomenon erupted from Ink Pool Peak, prompting Holy Son Lin and Second Clan Elder to rush toward the mountain.
• Sha Clan Elder and Elder Qian identified the presence as Yang Zhen's, and the gathered leaders followed them to his cave.
• Second Clan Elder and Holy Son Lin said Yang Zhen's cultivation was not the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution, though they could not explain what it was.

Yang Zhen fused the Heavenly Book: Profound Principles Chapter with the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution, elevating the cultivation method to xu grade and triggering a vast celestial phenomenon. As the Dao Fanatic, Han Yan'er, began undergoing tribulation, Hua Youyue shielded her and urged her to wait for Yang Zhen's own tribulation, while Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits recognized Hua Youyue's Heavenly Robe of World Avoidance.

• Elder Qian and the others argued with the Second Clan Elder and Holy Son Lin over whether Yang Zhen was cultivating the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution.
• Shameless Cat realized the Ke Clan elders were fooling themselves, while Yang Zhen used the fused scriptures to reach Spirit Wandering through Heaven and Earth and perceive Ink Pool Peak across a millennium.
• Yang Zhen raised the Ancient Scripture of Supreme Evolution from saint grade to xu grade and circulated it, drawing vast True Essence energy into a vortex.
• The Dao Fanatic, Han Yan'er, triggered a tribulation, and Elder Qian ordered everyone suppressing their realms to leave.
• Hua Youyue shielded Han Yan'er with a curtain of light and told her to wait for Yang Zhen's tribulation; Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits recognized the Heavenly Robe of World Avoidance and asked Hua Youyue who she was.

Hua Youyue helped Han Yan'er conceal her presence long enough to suppress her cultivation and delay her tribulation. Yang Zhen then emerged to face the legendary One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits feared he might not survive it.

• Hua Youyue denied using the Heavenly Robe of World Avoidance and explained that her concealment was only a similar method.
• Han Yan'er suppressed her cultivation, and Hua Youyue dispelled the concealment after the tribulation clouds lost their target.
• As Yang Zhen's special tribulation began, Elder Qian ordered everyone away from the cave, and Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits identified the danger.
• Yang Zhen emerged beneath the tribulation clouds as Gen Metal True Runes filled the sky, prompting Elder Qian to identify the One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Elder Qian said surviving the tribulation could bring Yang Zhen's physical body to a rare realm, while Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits warned that he might not endure it.

Yang Zhen provoked the One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and charged into its clouds, shocking the onlookers. Elder Qian revealed that only one person had ever entered the tribulation clouds and survived: the legendary madman who once slashed through three hundred and sixty Heavenly Tribulations.

• Elder Qian warned that Yang Zhen had not comprehended the Dao and would suffer immensely under the One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• Yang Zhen summoned the Great Deficiency Sword, while Shameless Cat announced that he planned to face the tribulation head-on.
• Yang Zhen taunted the tribulation and charged toward its clouds as its heavenly might bore down on him.
• Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits asked whether anyone had entered the tribulation clouds before, and Elder Qian identified the lone survivor as the madman who slashed through three hundred and sixty Heavenly Tribulations.
• Yang Zhen shattered a lightning dragon with his sword, laughed, and plunged into the tribulation clouds.

Yang Zhen shattered the One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, then had the Evil Shadow Black Taotie devour its crimson Heavenly Tribulation Origin instead of taking it for himself. As Yang Zhen healed through the Third Dragon Elephant, the Black Taotie evolved, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Yang Zhen entered the tribulation clouds as Elder Qian and Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits wondered if he could match a legendary figure who once made heaven tremble.
• A crimson One-Nine Heavenly Tribulation descended, but Yang Zhen activated the Third Dragon Elephant and shattered the tribulation clouds and lightning.
• As the tribulation began to reform, Yang Zhen charged it with the Great Deficiency Sword and the Evil Shadow Black Taotie, which devoured the crimson Heaven and Earth Origin.
• Yang Zhen's wounds healed rapidly through the Third Dragon Elephant, and his Qi rose without the Heaven and Earth Origin.
• The Evil Shadow Black Taotie absorbed the crimson origin and evolved, prompting Elder Qian to warn everyone to guard their minds while Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken resumed arguing.

Evil Shadow Black Taotie’s evolution released a red mist that made cultivators fall into embarrassing fantasies, and it unexpectedly showed signs of intelligence. After it withdrew the mist, Han Yan’er began preparing to undergo tribulation.

• Evil Shadow Black Taotie’s evolved presence spread a red mist that overwhelmed many cultivators, including the Shameless Cat and the Flirtatious Chicken.
• Elder Qian escaped with Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits and asked Yang Zhen to make Black Iron withdraw its Divine Ability.
• Evil Shadow Black Taotie disobeyed Yang Zhen, showed intelligence, and indicated that it wanted to eat the tribulation facing Han Yan’er.
• Evil Shadow Black Taotie returned to the Great Deficiency Sword, which flew away and left Yang Zhen to catch himself in midair.
• Yang Zhen joked with Han Yan’er, who then walked to the training ground and released her suppressed presence as thunder sounded and Evil Shadow Black Taotie bellowed.

Han Yan'er faced a transformed heavenly tribulation with Yang Zhen's Great Deficiency Sword, unleashing the Heavenly Book's Star Technique Chapter to destroy the clouds. She left the Heavenly Tribulation Origin to the Evil Shadow Black Taotie, yet still broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, leaving the onlookers baffled.

• Hua Youyue and Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits recognized that Han Yan'er's tribulation was unusual, and Elder Qian explained that Yang Zhen's presence had stirred the workings of heaven because she had entered the Dao through him.
• Han Yan'er and the Evil Shadow Black Taotie charged at the heavenly tribulation, while Yang Zhen warned the Taotie not to look at her star map.
• Elder Qian identified Han Yan'er's technique as the Star Technique Chapter of the Heavenly Book, and Yang Zhen told the Taotie to close its eyes.
• Han Yan'er and the Great Deficiency Sword struck together and scattered the tribulation clouds, leaving the Heavenly Tribulation Origin behind.
• The Evil Shadow Black Taotie devoured the Heavenly Tribulation Origin, while Han Yan'er descended and broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm without taking it.

After Han Yan'er broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm with Yang Zhen nearby, Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits asked him to protect her during her own dangerous tribulation. Yang Zhen demanded a million crystals for the job, and Elder Qian agreed to pay while warning him to keep her safe.

• Elder Qian told Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits to enter the Ancient Spirit Road after the trip to the Mo North Abyss, saying the heavenly order had changed and a great era was coming.
• The cultivators marveled that Han Yan'er had destroyed the tribulation clouds with one sword strike and then broken through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
• Yang Zhen offered to help others transcend tribulations for five hundred thousand crystals plus the Heavenly Tribulation Origin, and Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits gave him a storage ring with that amount.
• Yang Zhen returned the crystals, explaining that Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits' special tribulation was dangerous and that he would not accept less than a million crystals.
• Elder Qian put another storage ring into Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits' hand and warned Yang Zhen that he would face the Great Deficiency Sword if she lost even one hair during her tribulation.
• Yang Zhen promised Elder Qian that Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits would be safe, declaring himself a veteran driver who was steady as a dog behind the wheel.

Yang Zhen claimed he had smashed Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken’s flying devices to keep them from helping Holy Son Lin draw away the Death Zhi. The group accepted that Lin would go alone, while Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits said she could not risk using her powers; Yang Zhen and his pets knew his story was a lie.

• Elder Qian told the gathering that divination had revealed a destabilizing threat to North Isle within the Mo North Abyss, so they agreed they had to enter.
• Holy Son Lin agreed to draw away the Death Zhi with the Iron Armor and asked Yang Zhen to send Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken with him.
• Yang Zhen claimed his OCD had led him to smash both pets’ flying devices, leaving Lin without their help.
• Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken pretended to confirm the devices were destroyed, though both were intact in their storage rings.
• Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits said using her powers might trigger her tribulation in the abyss, so the Second Clan Elder accepted that Lin would go alone.
• Yang Zhen winked at the blushing Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits, while his pets realized he had fooled everyone about their devices.

Yang Zhen gave Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er experimental armor that transformed into revealing battle outfits and concealed their presence. Hua Youyue demonstrated the armor’s ability to make her nearly undetectable, while Holy Son Lin remained tasked with leading the expedition against the Death Zhi.

• Elder Qian assigned Holy Son Lin to deal with the Death Zhi, and Holy Son Lin agreed to take on the duty.
• Yang Zhen led Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er to the cultivation grounds and gave each a purple-crystal bracelet made from eternal gold.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er activated the bracelets, which transformed their clothes into ornate leather armor.
• Yang Zhen told Hua Youyue to demonstrate the armor’s abilities, and she used its Heavenly Robe of World Avoidance to vanish from sight.
• Palace Master Liu praised the concealment, and Yang Zhen explained that it worked through light refraction.

Yang Zhen equipped Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er with battle armor that concealed them and demonstrated its power before the group prepared to enter the Mo North Abyss. When the Abyss opened, the flying boats surged toward it, and Yang Zhen and his companions readied themselves to follow.

• Hua Youyue explained that the Heavenly Robe of World Avoidance came from a fragment of memory and credited its creation to the Three Flowers Holy Maiden, while Yang Zhen described his armor’s imitation as a formation-powered trick.
• Han Yan’er used her battle armor to kick apart a massive boulder without releasing True Essence, astonishing Palace Master Liu, Peak Master Mo, and the others.
• Mo Xueling asked Yang Zhen to make her battle armor, but Yang Zhen refused despite her offer to agree to any condition.
• During the following two days, Yang Zhen installed the Heavenly Robe of World Avoidance on the Spirit Learning Palace’s flying boat, then boarded Ink Pool Peak’s Heavenly Peak with the others.
• As the Mo North Abyss opened, countless flying boats charged toward it, and Holy Son Lin raced ahead while Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken shouted that they would stir things up.

Yang Zhen and the others approached the Mo North Abyss after its Death Zhi fell unusually quiet, while Holy Son Lin volunteered to lure them away. The moment Lin entered the abyss, the Death Zhi swarmed after him, and he fled with a vast cloud of enormous mosquitoes in pursuit.

• Yang Zhen mocked Holy Son Lin for hesitating to enter the Mo North Abyss, and the crowd laughed.
• Peak Master Mo said the Death Zhi had quieted before and that fewer of them might be guarding the entrance, though Yang Zhen suspected danger remained inside.
• Shameless Cat said he could smell something delicious, while Flirtatious Chicken warned Yang Zhen that danger was ahead.
• Holy Son Lin announced he would draw the Death Zhi away, then flew toward the Mo North Abyss in his Iron Armor.
• The Death Zhi surged after Holy Son Lin as soon as he entered, and he fled with enormous mosquitoes streaming behind him.

Yang Zhen and the other cultivators entered the Mo North Abyss while Holy Son Lin lured the Death Zhi away. The chapter left the flying boats reaching a new area of the abyss, where the cultivators cried out in alarm.

• Yang Zhen refused to retreat from the Death Zhi and boarded the Heavenly Peak as it entered the Mo North Abyss.
• Shameless Cat put on the Black Panther Geng Gold Battle Armor as the group advanced through the darkness and past piles of bones.
• Yang Zhen revealed that Holy Son Lin's Iron Armor had been tampered with, keeping him from shaking off the Death Zhi as he drew them away.
• Peak Master Mo pointed out the wreckage where a previous expedition had suffered heavy losses, and Yang Zhen thanked Holy Son Lin for clearing the abyss.
• Holy Son Lin flew toward the Heavenly Peak, but the cultivators' threats forced him to lead the Death Zhi away again.
• The Heavenly Peak followed the Spirit Learning Palace's flying boat into a newly opened area, where countless cultivators cried out in alarm.

Yang Zhen and the others entered the Mo North Abyss and discovered vast ruins from the Shanggen era. When the cultivators rushed toward them, a surviving mountain-protecting formation unleashed deadly red light, and Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that their journey might have been for nothing.

• Yang Zhen and the other cultivators found a hellish landscape and immense ancient ruins beneath the Mo North Abyss.
• Holy Son Lin and thousands of cultivators ignored Elder Qian's warning and charged toward the ruins.
• A bloodred beam struck Holy Son Lin, severing his left arm and Iron Armor as the rushing cultivators were caught in further attacks.
• A mountain-protecting formation appeared around the ruins, releasing waves of red Qi and killing or maiming many cultivators.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that they might have come all that way for nothing.

Yang Zhen and the others learned that the ruins lay inside a Sealed Land created by several Great Saints, and that the Ancient Spirit Clan had been sealed in a separate world for over ten thousand years. When cultivators kept charging toward the ruins despite the danger, Yang Zhen stopped them with a threat to dig up their ancestors’ graves, leaving the crowd halted and alarmed by the bodies around them.

• Shameless Cat identified the ruins as a Sealed Land where several Great Saints had burned their souls to seal off the area.
• Elder Qian and Holy Maiden Thousand Spirits explained that the Ancient Spirit Clan had been sealed in a separate world for over ten thousand years.
• Shameless Cat warned that the Sealed Land could not be entered and urged Elder Qian to call back the cultivators rushing toward the ruins.
• Yang Zhen used the Third Dragon Elephant’s Void Dragon Roar to halt the crowd, then threatened to dig up their ancestral graves if anyone entered before him.
• The halted cultivators challenged Yang Zhen, then noticed the corpses and Holy Son Lin’s missing arm and grew frightened.