Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen and the others discovered that Chiding Dragon had come to the Shangyuan Sect in a smaller, furry form and seemed determined to stay. Chiding Dragon protected Yang Zhen from Han Yan'er and settled in a pool, leaving the group to wonder what his presence meant.

• Yang Zhen heard Chiding Dragon roar and led the others toward the sound despite their worries that Chiding Dragon had come to cause trouble.
• Chiding Dragon arrived in a smaller, winged form, ignored Yang Zhen's questions, and strode into the Shangyuan Sect.
• Chiding Dragon bristled and glared at Han Yan'er when she reached for her sword, prompting Hua Youyue to realize he was protecting Yang Zhen.
• Chiding Dragon jumped into a pool and did not come back out, and Yang Zhen concluded that he intended to stay.
• Gou Shengtian and the others wondered whether Chiding Dragon's decision to remain was a blessing or a danger.

Yang Zhen stayed at the Shangyuan Sect to keep watch over Chiding Dragon and help plan the sect’s future. After Chiding Dragon evolved and asked for the Emperor Treasure, Yang Zhen led everyone to White Cloud Mountain’s highest peak and began digging into it.

• Yang Zhen told Gou Shengtian he would remain at the Shangyuan Sect before traveling to bring Lu Chenghui and the others back.
• Gou Shengtian, Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels, and Heavenly Venerable Shangwu discussed the sect’s difficulty finding talented disciples amid the Great You Dynasty’s recruitment.
• Chiding Dragon burst from the pool, and Shameless Cat recognized that it had evolved after fighting Qiongqi Heavenly Void.
• Chiding Dragon nudged Yang Zhen until he realized it wanted him to take out the Emperor Treasure.
• Yang Zhen led everyone to White Cloud Mountain’s highest peak, told them to wait in the air, and plunged into the mountain to dig a hole.

Yang Zhen found a hidden chamber inside White Cloud Mountain that housed the Nine Calamities Burning Yang Formation, a perfect place for the Shangyuan Sect to cultivate and conceal its Emperor Treasure. He placed the palm-sized treasure in the formation and made it grow into a towering stone stele, leaving Shameless Cat rushing to inspect it.

• Yang Zhen led everyone into a vast, beautiful cavern inside White Cloud Mountain and explained that the Nine Calamities Burning Yang Formation could hide the Emperor Treasure from even a Half-Step Great Saint.
• Gou Shengtian rejoiced at the discovery, while Heavenly Venerable Five Wheels and Heavenly Venerable Shangwu recognized the formation and were astonished.
• Hua Youyue decided to cultivate in the cavern, while Han Yan'er declined because her cultivation already advanced quickly beside Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen placed the palm-sized Emperor Treasure in the center of the formation and told everyone to watch a miracle.
• The Emperor Treasure glowed and expanded into a ten-zhang stone stele, and Shameless Cat rushed forward to ask Yang Zhen where he had found it.

Yang Zhen learned that the Cangyuan Stele could improve cultivators’ Spirit Roots and left it with the Shangyuan Sect, where Chiding Dragon settled in to guard it. As Yang Zhen prepared to leave, he told Hua Youyue he would come talk with her by candlelight that night.

• The Shameless Cat identified the Cangyuan Stele as a treasure capable of improving ordinary cultivators’ Spirit Roots and explained its potential to help the Shangyuan Sect grow.
• Yang Zhen advised Gou Shengtian to protect the stele while strengthening the sect’s foundations, and Chiding Dragon carved out a cave and stayed to guard it.
• Yang Zhen thanked Gou Shengtian, promised to leave the Shangyuan Sect supplies, and said he would try refining the Cangyuan Stele when he returned.
• Hua Youyue told Yang Zhen to take care of himself, and Yang Zhen invited her to talk by candlelight that night.

Yang Zhen, Han Yan'er, and Shameless Cat traveled west while Shameless Cat warned them about the powerful geniuses of the descending Great Wilderness era and the danger posed by heaven and earth rejecting Yang Zhen. They reached a strange abyss containing a gigantic golden-leaved tree, where two cultivators discussed Yang Zhen as he approached.

• Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er questioned Shameless Cat about Great Wilderness cultivation, learning that ordinary cultivators advanced about five times faster and geniuses about ten times faster than those in the Cultivation World.
• Shameless Cat called Yang Zhen’s cultivation speed middling by Great Wilderness standards and warned that his rejection by heaven and earth made his reckless behavior dangerous.
• Han Yan'er scolded Yang Zhen about stirring up trouble and asked what he had done in her elder sister’s room; Yang Zhen claimed they had only talked all night.
• Shameless Cat sensed something strange ahead, and Yang Zhen led the group toward a bottomless abyss where a vast, thorny tree with golden leaves rose like a forest.
• Inside the tree, Senior Brother Ren and Junior Sister Lu discussed Yang Zhen’s rumored feat of facing and cutting down the threefold Heavenly Wrath.
• Yang Zhen arrived before the giant tree, sneezed, and wondered whether he was allergic to it.

Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er descended into a massive Abyss beneath a golden-crowned tree, where Shameless Cat identified an evil formation. They found Lu Ziyue and the wounded Ren Changsheng facing Daoist Quan, and Yang Zhen entered the danger zone just as Daoist Quan claimed no one could escape.

• Yang Zhen sneezed repeatedly near the golden-crowned tree, and Shameless Cat revealed that the Abyss had been made by someone and contained something valuable.
• Shameless Cat identified the place as a heaven-severing formation created by an Evil Cultivator, while Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er continued downward through the heavy Yin Qi.
• Han Yan'er said she was cold, and Yang Zhen offered her his clothes before she explained that invading Yin Qi caused the chill.
• Lu Ziyue and Ren Changsheng fought a dozen shadowy figures, and Ren Changsheng cut off his own left arm to resist them.
• Daoist Quan revealed himself as Ren Changsheng's old enemy and claimed his domain could trap even a Half-Step Great Saint.
• Yang Zhen mocked Daoist Quan's boast and walked into the domain with Han Yan'er despite Lu Ziyue's warning.

Yang Zhen entered Daoist Quan’s poisonous formation and effortlessly removed the poison from Ren Changsheng’s severed arm before swallowing the deadly green mist. Ren Changsheng and Lu Ziyue recognized Yang Zhen, while Daoist Quan was left stunned by his immunity.

• Lu Ziyue and Ren Changsheng warned Yang Zhen that Daoist Quan’s formation was a trap, but Yang Zhen entered with Han Yan’er.
• Daoist Quan revealed himself and threatened Yang Zhen, who picked up Ren Changsheng’s poisoned severed arm and cleansed it with a wipe.
• Ren Changsheng reattached his arm and began healing while Lu Ziyue asked Yang Zhen to save them.
• Daoist Quan released a vast cloud of poisonous green mist, but Yang Zhen swallowed it all and demanded more.
• Ren Changsheng recognized Shameless Cat, then asked whether Yang Zhen was the famous Yang Zhen, and Lu Ziyue confirmed his name was renowned.

Yang Zhen confronted Daoist Quan, who revealed that the Great You Dynasty wanted him dead for disrupting its attempt to kill the Chiding Dragon. Yang Zhen exposed Daoist Quan’s hiding place and blasted him into the Abyss with a miniature Buddha’s Wrathful Fire Lotus.

• Daoist Quan told Yang Zhen that the Great You Dynasty was hunting him for sabotaging the Dragon-Trapping Heaven-Locking Gate.
• Daoist Quan used the Hundred Ghost Formation to hide and threatened to kill Yang Zhen with lightning, but Yang Zhen located him.
• Daoist Quan charged through green mist after Yang Zhen tricked him, while Yang Zhen summoned the Golden Lotus Heavenly Fire and Netherworld Karmic Fire.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that another useful item was not there, and Daoist Quan tried to flee when Yang Zhen pressed the two fires together.
• Yang Zhen unleashed his miniature Buddha’s Wrathful Fire Lotus, burning off Daoist Quan’s arm and sending him falling into the Abyss.

Yang Zhen saved Ren Changsheng and Lu Ziyue, then learned that the Great You Dynasty was hiding an evil method for cultivating Half-Step Great Saints. He entered the sinister underground site in search of treasures, while Ren Changsheng followed to help him, and the place was revealed to be the Great You Purgatory.

• Yang Zhen burned off Daoist Quan’s arm with a fused strike from his two Companion Heavenly Fires and saved Ren Changsheng and Lu Ziyue.
• Ren Changsheng told Yang Zhen that the Great You Dynasty had hunted the Heavenly Moon Holy Land for discovering a secret site where it sought to cultivate Half-Step Great Saints on a large scale.
• Yang Zhen dismissed Ren Changsheng’s warning that the site held only wickedness and leaped into the Abyss with Han Yan’er and Shameless Cat.
• Ren Changsheng decided to follow Yang Zhen and told Lu Ziyue to return and inform Granny and Holy Maiden Yue.
• Yang Zhen complained about the dense Yin Qi and ghostly flames, and Ren Changsheng said the place was called the Great You Purgatory.

Yang Zhen and Ren Changsheng headed into the Abyss as rival factions gathered to investigate the Great You Purgatory and the Great You Dynasty’s plans. Inside the Purgatory, its young master learned that Yang Zhen had arrived and vowed that none of the newcomers would leave.

• Yang Zhen questioned Ren Changsheng about the Great You Purgatory and learned that it was making major moves, which might explain why the Great You Dynasty had not attacked White Cloud Mountain.
• Lu Haike told Yang Sichang that the Emperor Treasure he had obtained was a fake and said he believed the Great You Purgatory existed.
• Lu Haike pointed out the Heaven-reaching Workshop’s cultivators, including two young Half-Step Great Saints, who had come to investigate.
• The Heaven-reaching Workshop’s young man and woman said they wanted to meet Yang Zhen, who had entered the Abyss.
• The young master inside the Great You Purgatory heard that Yang Zhen and the others had arrived and declared that none of them would leave.

Thousand Yuan Holy Land planned to recruit Yang Zhen after the Great You Dynasty destroyed the Shangyuan Sect, hoping to use his fame to boost its influence. Meanwhile, Yang Zhen and his companions pressed deeper into the Great You Purgatory, where he ended by boasting that people should guard against him.

• Elder Tie learned that Yang Sichang, Lu Haike, and Yang Zhen had arrived in the Great You Purgatory and considered recruiting Yang Sichang and Lu Haike as allies.
• Yu Gan persuaded Elder Tie that Yang Zhen's reputation could help Thousand Yuan Holy Land rival the Great You Dynasty, and she assigned Yu Gan and Tian Lingshan to recruit him after the Shangyuan Sect fell.
• Yang Zhen, Shameless Cat, Han Yan'er, and Ren Changsheng passed the Purgatory's mechanisms and poisoned blades, though Ren Changsheng was alarmed by how dangerous the route was.
• Ren Changsheng warned Yang Zhen that the deeper restrictions could kill even a Half-Step Great Saint, and Yang Zhen replied, “Guard against fire, theft, and Yang Zhen!”

Yang Zhen and his companions pressed deeper into Great You Purgatory, where they were attacked by Ghost-Face Insects and learned that the Purgatory Young Master and Insect True Person were pursuing their own plans. They reached the Derivation Stone, only to find a path littered with the bones of powerful cultivators, and Yang Zhen began guiding the others through its restrictions.

• Ren Changsheng warned Yang Zhen that the Derivation Stone was heavily guarded, but Yang Zhen insisted he only wanted to look at it.
• Shameless Cat sensed a strange presence ahead, and a swarm of Ghost-Face Insects suddenly surrounded the group.
• Yang Zhen used his Netherworld Karmic Fire to burn through the insects and led Han Yan'er and Ren Changsheng away.
• Shameless Cat identified the insects as parasites that lived in human corpses, making the group suspect that the captured young women had been used to sustain them.
• Insect True Person vowed to capture Yang Zhen for his Netherworld Karmic Fire, while the Purgatory Young Master said his main targets were other intruders.
• Yang Zhen and his companions reached the Derivation Stone and found bones, including those of Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts, along the path; Yang Zhen told them to follow his footprints exactly.

Yang Zhen shattered the Derivation Stone, uncovered a Three Flowers Derivation Stone, and wiped out the Purgatory Blood Guards with a mysterious finger snap. He and his companions escaped as the Purgatory Young Master and Insect True Person wondered what had just rushed past them.

• Ren Changsheng followed Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er through the dangerous restrictions to the Derivation Stone.
• Yang Zhen lifted the Derivation Stone, smashed it, and found a Three Flowers Derivation Stone among the fragments.
• Thirty Purgatory Blood Guards rushed toward them, and Yang Zhen used his so-called Thanos's Finger Snap to turn all but one into skeletons.
• Yang Zhen led Han Yan'er, Ren Changsheng, and Shameless Cat toward the exit while the surviving guard fled.
• The Purgatory Young Master and Insect True Person heard the commotion, then saw a black shadow dart past them.

Yang Zhen and the others discovered that the Golden Crown Giant Tree was using cultivators as nutrients, while the young master of Purgatory gathered the intruders and demanded Yang Zhen's loyalty. Yang Zhen appeared to accept the demand just as the people from the Heavenly Moon Holy Land arrived.

• The young master of Purgatory learned that Yang Zhen had destroyed the Derivation Stone, tested the altered restrictions with a Purgatory Blood Guard, and restored them.
• The young master of Purgatory activated the Golden Crown Giant Tree and rushed after Yang Zhen, declaring that everyone who entered the Great You Purgatory would die.
• Yang Zhen found pits filled with cultivators drained by the tree's roots and transparent cocoons holding cultivators who were nearing breakthroughs.
• Yang Sichang, Lu Haike, and their companions arrived and reacted with horror to the cultivators and corpses in the pits.
• The young master of Purgatory gathered the intruders and offered to spare Yang Zhen if he pledged loyalty and killed everyone; Yang Zhen eagerly asked whether he would then be allowed to leave.
• Tian Lingshan and Yu Gan expressed disbelief and disappointment in Yang Zhen, and the people from the Heavenly Moon Holy Land entered.

Yang Zhen lured the Purgatory Blood Guards toward him, then unleashed white fire and disrupted the giant golden-crowned trees to free the cultivators drawing vital Qi from them. As Yang Sichang and Lu Haike fought to shield him, the Purgatory Young Master charged Yang Zhen, who grinned and challenged him.

• Yang Zhen abruptly ran into the pit swarming with Ghost-Face Insects, leaving everyone stunned by his apparent escape attempt.
• Yang Zhen unleashed eerie white fire that burned the attacking Ghost-Face Insects to ash, then reminded the Purgatory Young Master of his promise to let them go if Yang Zhen killed everyone there.
• Yang Zhen stamped the ground, sending bones and earth flying and disrupting the giant golden-crowned trees as vital Qi surged back into the cultivators trapped on their roots.
• The Purgatory Young Master ordered the Purgatory Blood Guards to attack, while Yang Sichang and Lu Haike charged in to protect Yang Zhen and cut down the guards.
• The Half-Step Great Saint Purgatory Young Master broke through the fighting and charged Yang Zhen, who grinned and challenged him to wreak havoc in the Purgatory Abyss.

Yang Zhen and the others discovered that the Great You Purgatory was using the Demon-Seeding Grotto to turn living cultivators into nourishment. As the Purgatory Young Master ordered everyone killed and powerful enemies surrounded them, Yang Zhen faced their most dangerous crisis yet.

• The Purgatory Young Master revealed that he planned to turn Yang Zhen and the woman beside him into demon slaves and use everyone else as nourishment in the Demon-Seeding Pit.
• The Shameless Cat identified the site as a Demon-Seeding Grotto, and Ren Changsheng explained how the Demon-Seeding Great Emperor had devastated the Great Wilderness World thirty thousand years earlier.
• Yang Sichang attacked the Purgatory Young Master, but a dark Half-Step Great Saint wielding a Half-Step Saint Weapon repelled him and broke his sword.
• With Ghost-Face Insects, Purgatory Blood Guards, and three Half-Step Great Saints threatening them, the Purgatory Young Master ordered his forces to leave no one alive.
• The Shameless Cat leapt onto Yang Zhen's shoulder and urged him to find a way to save them as the Demon-Seeding Pit erupted into action.

Yang Zhen reversed the Demon-Seeding Pit’s power, freeing the cultivators trapped within and turning them against the young master of Purgatory. He collapsed after the feat, but the Ghost-Face Insects fled from him, leaving his fate unclear.

• Yang Zhen taunted the young master of Purgatory, claiming he would show everyone real demon-seeding and reverse heaven and earth.
• Yang Zhen used Desolate Heaven Sacrifice and Qiongqi Heavenly Void as the young master ordered Insect True Person to attack everyone with Ghost-Face Insects.
• Lu Haike stopped the young master of Purgatory from reaching Yang Zhen and repeatedly kicked him for deceiving him and giving him a fake Emperor Treasure.
• Yang Zhen reversed the Golden Crown Giant Tree’s flow of elemental Qi, freeing the seeded cultivators, who tore out their roots and joined the fight.
• Yang Zhen collapsed and was engulfed by Ghost-Face Insects, but the insects suddenly fled from him.

Yang Zhen’s Power of Faith drove off the Ghost-Face Insects and helped free the cultivators trapped by the Demon-Seeding Inheritance, triggering a battle that ended with Lu Haike killing the Purgatory Young Lord and the Purgatory Blood Guards dying with him. Yang Zhen slipped away with Han Yan'er and Shameless Cat toward the Abyss’s depths, determined to claim one valuable thing before leaving.

• The Ghost-Face Insects fled from Yang Zhen as golden light and a vast Power of Faith erupted from him, freeing the cultivators controlled by the demon-seeding pit.
• Insect True Person fled, while the freed cultivators joined the battle and protected Yang Zhen as he lay on the ground.
• Lu Haike beheaded the Purgatory Young Lord, causing the Purgatory Blood Guards to die, and the cultivators turned on those held in the transparent spheres.
• Yang Zhen got up after his golden light faded and led Han Yan'er and Shameless Cat toward the deepest part of the Abyss.
• Yang Zhen explained that he had found a solution to the Demon-Seeding Inheritance through the Earth Treasury Technique and said he intended to take one valuable thing from the Abyss.

Yang Zhen discovered the Ghost Rose Flame beneath the Abyss and plunged into it to investigate and prevent it from harming the cultivators above. As he endured its freezing waters and neared a light below, an unseen force struck him and sent him hurtling downward.

• As Yang Zhen, Han Yan'er, and Shameless Cat descended into the Abyss, Shameless Cat urged Yang Zhen to claim a mountain, but Yang Zhen said he might do so someday when he was tired of wandering.
• Han Yan'er spotted the churning Ghost Rose Flame, and Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat realized it might separate the realms of yin and yang, with Nine Nether Purgatory beneath it.
• Worried the Ghost Rose Flame might erupt and endanger the cultivators above, Yang Zhen told Han Yan'er and Shameless Cat to wait, then leaped into the black water alone.
• Yang Zhen struggled against the Ghost Rose Flame's intense cold and dove toward a glimmer of light below.
• An unseen force struck Yang Zhen from behind and hurled him downward through the water.

Yang Zhen fought a Dragon Fish in the black water and chased it into a vast underground world, where he discovered a gigantic bronze coffin suspended by nine chains. The Dragon Fish led him to the coffin and appeared to want him to chain it back to it.

• Yang Zhen used his Divine Sense to identify the attacking creature as a Dragon Fish and fought it with a dagger and whirlpool currents.
• Yang Zhen created countless illusions of himself, frightening the Dragon Fish into fleeing toward a source of light.
• Yang Zhen followed the Dragon Fish out of the black water and found a huge underground chamber filled with green vapor and a gigantic bronze coffin.
• Yang Zhen saw eight glowing skeletons attached to the coffin by bronze chains and noticed that the ninth chain was broken.
• The Dragon Fish nudged Yang Zhen toward the coffin, and Yang Zhen realized it wanted him to chain it up again.