Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen withstood the Black Death Clan expert’s attack and mocked Elder Qian and Lu Qiju for asking him to hold the enemy off while they prepared a counterattack. He then unleashed the Desolate Heaven Technique, drawing in the True Essence of heaven and earth as he advanced on the enemy.

• Yang Zhen laughed after surviving the Black Death Clan expert’s black-light attack, prompting Elder Qian and Lu Qiju to ask him to keep the expert occupied while they prepared to strike.
• Yang Zhen told Elder Qian and Lu Qiju to step aside and watch, then challenged the Black Death Clan expert to a fight.
• The Black Death Clan expert sensed lightning and revealed that he hated its power, while Yang Zhen began gathering the True Essence of heaven and earth.
• Han Yan'er prepared to attack, but Hua Youyue stopped her and explained that Yang Zhen was not plundering the True Essence.
• Yang Zhen revealed he was using the Desolate Heaven Technique to snatch the True Essence and walked toward the Black Death Clan expert with power gathering around him.

Yang Zhen fought the Black Death Clan expert, using his Great Deficiency Sword and lightning to overpower the Spirit Transformation Realm opponent. After the expert congealed the air around him, Yang Zhen turned it to his advantage and smashed the expert’s head apart, though an eerie laugh then rose from the turbulent air.

• The Black Death Clan expert charged Yang Zhen, but Yang Zhen summoned lightning through the Great Deficiency Sword and resisted the expert’s soul-sealing attack.
• Yang Zhen used the sword’s strange stun effect to disorient the Black Death Clan expert and repeatedly knocked him back with powerful blows.
• The Black Death Clan expert congealed the air around Yang Zhen, believing he had trapped him, while Yang Zhen pretended to struggle and taunted him into sealing more air.
• Yang Zhen used Somersault Cloud to burst through the congealed air and smashed the Black Death Clan expert’s head with the Great Deficiency Sword.
• The crowd reacted in shock to the expert’s apparent death, then heard an eerie laugh from the turbulent air.

Yang Zhen faced the Black Death Clan expert’s Primordial Spirit after destroying his body, while the Great Deficiency Sword unleashed the Evil Shadow Black Taotie. The Taotie began devouring the fleeing expert, who triggered an explosion at the altar’s black hole.

• Elder Qian explained that the Black Death Clan expert could survive as a Primordial Spirit, and warned Yang Zhen to flee.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er prepared to join Yang Zhen, but Elder Qian and Lu Qiju stopped them.
• The Great Deficiency Sword released the enormous Primordial Spirit of the Evil Shadow Black Taotie, which frightened the Black Death Clan expert into fleeing.
• The Evil Shadow Black Taotie pounced on the expert and began eating him while Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken watched.
• The Black Death Clan expert roared that everyone would die, and the black hole where the altar stood exploded.

After the Black Death Clan expert vanished, Yang Zhen and the others watched a terrifying structure rise from the altar and fled the Mo North Abyss. Han Yan'er and Shameless Cat identified it as a Desolate Heaven Sacrifice created by a Great Emperor to refine heaven and earth and cast the living inside into Samsara.

• The Black Death Clan expert disappeared, and Yang Zhen escaped the altar’s apparent danger with Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, Shameless Cat, and Flirtatious Chicken.
• Yang Zhen and his companions found the altar entrance jammed with cultivators and could not get inside.
• The ground upheaved, eight pillars and a blood-red structure rose from the altar, and the trapped cultivators fell out dead.
• Yang Zhen took his companions underground and fled the Mo North Abyss as the structure appeared.
• Han Yan'er recognized the phenomenon as the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice, and Shameless Cat explained that a Great Emperor had created it to sacrifice and refine a region, stripping the outside world’s origin and condemning those within to Samsara.

The Desolate Heaven Sacrifice trapped more than ten thousand cultivators while a horde of powerful black monsters threatened the North Isle. Yang Zhen learned that a sacred domain with seven or eight Spirit Transformation Realm patriarchs had emerged, leaving the balance of power uncertain.

• The Desolate Heaven Sacrifice appeared in the Mo North Abyss, trapping the cultivators inside and killing those who tried to approach it.
• Ke Zonglin escaped the sacrifice and revealed that the trapped cultivators were safe near the altar but could not leave.
• The Scale Clan reported that Yang Zhen, Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, Shameless Cat, and Flirtatious Chicken had escaped the Sealed Land, while black monsters began attacking those trapped inside the sacrifice.
• Elder Qian killed Lu Qiju, whose body exploded into blood that rushed into the altar and preceded the monsters' emergence.
• Yang Zhen grilled steaks with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er as Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken returned and warned him about a genuine Spirit Transformation Realm monster and the sacrifice's possible collapse.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that a sacred domain with seven or eight Spirit Transformation Realm patriarchs had emerged, and Yang Zhen wondered who could stand against them.

Yang Zhen learned that killing Black Puppets in the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice could earn him recognition from the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain and access to its sacred domain. He decided to go after hearing it held the Great Flame Thunder Wings, while the Shameless Cat was forced to explain the opportunity.

• The Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that the black devils were transformed vicious beasts and that killing them could help him raise his realm.
• The Shameless Cat explained that the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain had invited heroes who could enter the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice and kill a Black Puppet to become honored guests.
• Yang Zhen demanded to know what benefits honored guests received, and the Shameless Cat revealed that contributors could earn access to the sacred domain.
• The Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that the sacred domain held a pair of Great Flame Thunder Wings for human cultivators.
• Yang Zhen decided to visit the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice, and the Shameless Cat began trying to avoid going with him.

Yang Zhen learned that killing Ghost Heis in the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice could earn him honored guest status at the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain, so he set out to fight them and improve his cultivation. Before he left, Han Yan'er went into seclusion, and Yang Zhen discovered that Flirtatious Chicken had turned into an egg.

• Yang Zhen learned about the Great Flame Thunder Wings and decided to enter the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice to kill Ghost Heis, help protect North Isle, and raise his cultivation.
• Yang Zhen left Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er at the ice palace, teasing Han Yan'er about her skirt before she announced she was going into seclusion.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat saw cultivators across North Isle carrying pets and wondered whether they were copying Yang Zhen and Flirtatious Chicken.
• Yang Zhen told Shameless Cat that Flirtatious Chicken had turned into an egg after their trip to the Mo North Abyss.

Yang Zhen encountered crowds of people imitating his appearance and style, including an impostor using the Sage of Saunter persona to attract women. The impostor approached Ji Yourong, whose connection to the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain unsettled the crowd, while Yang Zhen decided it might be useful to let him lead the way to the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice.

• Yang Zhen questioned a cat-carrying young man, who dismissed him as an admirer and exposed him to the crowd as someone claiming to be Yang Zhen.
• Another young man arrived dressed like Yang Zhen and called himself the Sage of Saunter, boasting that he would soon go to the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice to kill Black Puppets.
• Several young women volunteered to accompany the impostor, who shoved them aside and approached a plainly dressed, ice-cold woman.
• The woman smiled and introduced herself as Ji Yourong, then gave the real Yang Zhen a chilly look when he probed her presence.
• The impostor asked whether Ji Yourong came from the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain, and she denied that her surname alone proved any connection.

Yang Zhen followed a fake impersonator who claimed he could lead a group into the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice, while Ji Yourong and the other cultivators paid him in purple crystals. At the Mo North Abyss, they encountered members of the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain, and Yang Zhen struggled to hold back after one of them insulted the group.

• Ji Yourong questioned the deluxe Yang Zhen about controlling the Death Zhi, and he claimed he could safely guide them into the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice.
• The deluxe Yang Zhen demanded purple crystals for entry, and Ji Yourong and Yang Zhen each paid him one before the other cultivators joined in.
• The deluxe Yang Zhen led the group toward the Mo North Abyss, where Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat were shocked by its changed, violent appearance.
• Ji Yourong asked what dangers awaited inside, and the deluxe Yang Zhen promised to protect everyone who stayed close to him.
• A group from the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain approached, and a young man mocked the cultivators for treating the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice like a garden.
• Yang Zhen nearly reacted to the insult before remembering he was posing as Random Passerby A.

Yang Zhen watched the North Isle cultivators and the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain provoke one another, while he tried to remain an uninvolved passerby. The rival group departed after learning the premium Yang Zhen’s identity, but the expanding Desolate Heaven Sacrifice engulfed everyone, forcing the premium Yang Zhen to act.

• Yang Zhen realized the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain disciples were deliberately provoking a fight and backed away to avoid revealing his strength.
• The North Isle cultivators drew their weapons, while Yang Zhen noticed that Ji Yourong and the rival young man seemed to know each other.
• The premium Yang Zhen warned the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain group to leave, and the North Isle crowd urged him to fight.
• The Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain young man recognized Yang Zhen, challenged him to settle their rivalry at the Sacred Domain Grand Assembly, and led his group away.
• The Desolate Heaven Sacrifice’s light curtain surged outward and engulfed everyone, so the premium Yang Zhen told the crowd to get behind him and struck the ground to form a protective wave of Qi.

Yang Zhen and the upgraded Yang Zhen entered the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice with a group of cultivators, while Ji Yourong questioned Yang Zhen about his views of the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain. The group’s spirits rose as they prepared to hunt Black Puppets, but a vast torrent of them suddenly engulfed the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain disciples.

• The upgraded Yang Zhen unleashed the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice, drawing cultivators inside while others scrambled away from its restrictions.
• The Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain disciples entered under mysterious curtains of light that shielded them from the restrictions.
• Ji Yourong asked Yang Zhen his name and whether he had complaints about the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain, and Yang Zhen introduced himself as Yang Dianfeng.
• The upgraded Yang Zhen encouraged the gathered cultivators to hunt Black Puppets and prove themselves despite the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain’s power.
• Yang Zhen told the Shameless Cat that Ji Yourong might help draw the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain’s attention.
• A huge horde of Black Puppets charged from a valley and swallowed the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain disciples, leaving the cultivators inside the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice terrified.

Yang Zhen and the others fought through a horde of Black Puppets inside the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice, with Ji Yourong leading the defense. The Shameless Cat’s Italian Cannons blasted open a path through the enemies, giving the group hope of escaping.

• Ji Yourong ordered the cultivators to form a wild goose formation and fight their way out as the Black Puppets attacked.
• The disciples of the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain and the other cultivators fought back, while Yang Zhen noticed the Black Puppets resembled a Black Death Clan expert he had killed.
• Ji Yourong urged Yang Zhen, whom she called Yang Dianfeng, to fight with the group, and he answered by calling for the second battalion commander’s Italian Cannon.
• Shameless Cat produced two miniature True Essence Cannons, and their blast cleared a path through the Black Puppets.
• Yang Zhen teased Shameless Cat and asked the upgraded Yang Zhen about the cannons, while the group welcomed the chance to escape with the powerful weapons.

Yang Zhen gave Ji Yourong a True Essence Cannon, and its power drew the attention of the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain. The chapter ended with Senior Brother Lu wondering whether Yang Zhen’s village was home to an ancient powerhouse and a master artifact refiner.

• Ji Yourong asked Yang Zhen how many Italian Cannons he had, and he gave her one while explaining that she controlled it with her Divine Sense.
• Yang Zhen fired his cannon and attracted offers of up to a hundred purple crystals from the crowd, including Fei Jiehe.
• Ji Yourong fired the cannon with overwhelming force, while the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain disciples stopped and drew the crowd’s suspicion.
• Yang Zhen accidentally fired toward the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain disciples, then blamed them for moving into the path of his shot.
• Senior Brother Lu addressed Ji Yourong as his junior sister and asked where she had obtained the True Essence Cannon.
• Ji Yourong said Yang Zhen had bought the cannon at the entrance to Yang Zhen’s village, leading Senior Brother Lu to speculate that an ancient expert lived there.

Yang Zhen dropped his disguise and fired the Italian Cannon at Senior Brother Lu, a Mahayana Realm expert of the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain. Lu dodged the lethal shot but lost a strip of hair, and he roared furiously as everyone laughed.

• Yang Zhen deflected questions about his village and refused Senior Brother Lu's offer to buy the Italian Cannon.
• Senior Brother Lu accused Yang Zhen of disrespecting the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain, while Ji Yourong objected to his behavior.
• Yang Zhen addressed the Shameless Cat as the Sage of Saunter, exposing the deluxe Yang Zhen as an impostor.
• The Shameless Cat spoke, and Yang Zhen aimed the Italian Cannon at Senior Brother Lu.
• Yang Zhen fired; Senior Brother Lu dodged the lethal part of the shot but was left with a bald strip across his head.
• The Shameless Cat praised Lu's new look, the gathered cultivators laughed, and Lu roared Yang Zhen's name in anger.

Yang Zhen used his Italian Cannon to keep Senior Brother Lu under pressure, but stopped firing when Shameless Cat explained that he needed to fight barehanded to gain insight into heaven and earth. He discarded the cannon and challenged Senior Brother Lu to face him in a real-life Street Fighter.

• Yang Zhen fired on Senior Brother Lu, who dodged and was driven back by successive cannon blasts.
• Senior Brother Lu unleashed the Two-Headed Pact, and the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain disciples expected it to overwhelm Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen stopped firing and asked Shameless Cat why he had gained no insight into realms.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen to fight barehanded and sense the currents of True Essence.
• Yang Zhen threw aside the Italian Cannon, took a fighting stance, and beckoned Senior Brother Lu to attack.

Yang Zhen entered a strange state of insight while facing Senior Brother Lu and the Black Puppets, then prepared to counter Senior Brother Lu’s Yin-Yang Twin Pacts with an unfamiliar kung fu move. The chapter ended as Yang Zhen called out, “Taiji: Part the Wild Horse’s Mane!”

• Yang Zhen took a mortal fighting stance and sensed the fluctuations of True Essence around him as he entered an epiphany.
• Shameless Cat told upgraded Yang Zhen and Ji Yourong that Yang Zhen was using a dangerous cultivation method and urged them to watch.
• Senior Brother Lu’s Two-Headed Pact broke through, and he unleashed two serpents of gold and silver toward Yang Zhen.
• Shameless Cat shouted for Yang Zhen to run as the serpents’ opposing yin and yang powers charged at him.
• Yang Zhen assumed a strange stance and named his move, “Taiji: Part the Wild Horse’s Mane!”

Yang Zhen used Taiji to redirect Senior Brother Lu’s two serpents and revealed a powerful white crane and Taiji apparition. He sent the serpents back at Senior Brother Lu, whose attack transformed into a spinning yin-yang strike.

• Yang Zhen slowly performed Taiji: Part the Wild Horse’s Mane as Senior Brother Lu’s gold and silver serpents rushed toward him.
• Yang Zhen guided both serpents around himself without any visible True Essence fluctuations, astonishing Shameless Cat, Ji Yourong, and the crowd.
• Yang Zhen performed Taiji: White Crane Spreads Its Wings, summoning a white crane and an enormous Taiji diagram that scattered Senior Brother Lu’s celestial phenomenon.
• Yang Zhen threw the two serpents back at Senior Brother Lu, where they twisted into a spinning gold-and-silver Taiji strike.
• Senior Brother Lu watched the attack approach and shouted, “How did you do it?”

Yang Zhen entered the Celestial Person Realm while practicing Taiji Fist, stunning Ji Yourong and the others. Senior Brother Lu emerged from the Black Puppets, but the creatures fled from a dark azure Black Puppet watching from a boulder.

• Senior Brother Lu unleashed two raging serpents, and the resulting blast erased the nearby Black Puppets and rocks while he disappeared.
• As the Heavenly Snow Sacred Domain disciples searched for Senior Brother Lu, Yang Zhen practiced Taiji Fist and merged with the presence of heaven and earth.
• Shameless Cat recognized that Yang Zhen had entered the Celestial Person Realm, while Ji Yourong wondered what had enabled his breakthrough.
• Senior Brother Lu emerged from the Black Puppets, and Yang Zhen challenged him to guess how he had entered the Celestial Person Realm.
• The Black Puppets fled past Senior Brother Lu as everyone spotted a dark azure Black Puppet watching from a huge boulder.

Yang Zhen handed the Italian Cannon to Lu Tianwei, claiming it was so the strongest cultivator could protect the group from a Spirit Transformation Realm Black Puppet. After Lu Tianwei fired and the puppet vanished, Yang Zhen and the Shameless Cat fled, leaving the crowd under attack.

• Yang Zhen gave Lu Tianwei the Italian Cannon and persuaded the group that Lu Tianwei was best suited to use it against the Black Puppet.
• Lu Tianwei praised Yang Zhen, raised the cannon, and fired a devastating blast at the Black Puppet.
• The Black Puppet disappeared from its boulder, and a deadly presence threw the gathered cultivators into panic.
• The Shameless Cat urged Yang Zhen to hurry, and Yang Zhen escaped with it using the Somersault Cloud.
• The Black Puppet appeared inside the crowd, while Lu Tianwei and the others realized Yang Zhen had abandoned them.

Yang Zhen fled the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice’s restriction, then used the Earth Treasury Technique to move two mountains near the Sealed Land and draw the Spirit Transformation Realm Black Puppet away from Ji Yourong and Lu Tianwei. Ji Yourong realized Yang Zhen may have deliberately lured the puppet away and pursued it, while Lu Tianwei followed with his disciples ready to retreat.

• Yang Zhen escaped the restriction with Shameless Cat and found the Death Zhi gone from the Sealed Land.
• Ji Yourong watched the Black Puppet overpower Lu Tianwei and wondered whether Yang Zhen could have changed the fight.
• Yang Zhen used the Earth Treasury Technique to move two mountains, startling everyone and drawing the Black Puppet toward them.
• Ji Yourong concluded Yang Zhen might have intentionally lured the Black Puppet away from the group and rushed after it.
• Lu Tianwei ordered his disciples to follow Ji Yourong while staying ready to retreat.