Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen concealed the Shangyuan Sect as powerful factions emerged and prepared to seek the Samsara Bell. When Han Yan'er broke through to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, she drew Star Heavenly Punishment, and Yang Zhen rushed into the clouds to face it.

• Yang Zhen warned Liu Ruoning and Lu Chenghui to keep the Shangyuan Sect secluded, then strengthened its defenses with the Heavenly Spring Que Yang Array and Nine Dragons Great Saint's restriction.
• Yang Zhen refined two Saint Swords and gave them to Lu Chenghui and Liu Ruoning as the sect's heirlooms.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat discussed the coming Samsara Bell before Yang Zhen sensed that Han Yan'er had broken through.
• Han Yan'er refined the Qi of Chaos and reached the Celestial Phenomenon Realm First Heavenly Layer, drawing down Star Heavenly Punishment.
• Yang Zhen declared that he would handle the punishment and shot into the black clouds as Nine Dragons Great Saint noticed a blood-red glow within them.

Yang Zhen plunged into the Violet Firmament Lightning Punishment, while the Nine Dragons Great Saint admitted he could not help him. Mistaking the lightning for the Nine Dragons Great Saint’s tribulation, Granny Gu and the Grand Elder rushed toward the Shangyuan Sect to attack it.

• Yang Zhen darted into the tribulation clouds, shocking the Nine Dragons Great Saint.
• The Nine Dragons Great Saint told Lu Chenghui and the others that his incomplete Dao Body could not protect Yang Zhen from the Violet Firmament Lightning Punishment.
• People across Youzhou Continent noticed the terrifying storm near White Cloud Mountain and headed there to investigate.
• Granny Gu identified the Violet Firmament Lightning Punishment and wrongly concluded that the Nine Dragons Great Saint was undergoing it.
• The Grand Elder and Granny Gu rushed toward the Shangyuan Sect, hoping to destroy it and kill Yang Zhen while they thought it lacked the Nine Dragons Great Saint’s protection.

Yang Zhen entered the Nine Heavens Lightning Punishment and stirred the dormant Power of the Void within him, while Granny Gu and the Great Elder mistook the tribulation’s signs for evidence that Nine Dragons Great Saint was weakened. They charged into the thunderclouds to slay him, leaving Nine Dragons Great Saint confused on the ground inside the Shangyuan Sect.

• Yang Zhen entered the Heavenly Punishment thunderclouds, endured the lightning, and sensed the Power of the Void beginning to stir.
• Granny Gu and the Great Elder reasoned that Nine Dragons Great Saint was injured and that the Shangyuan Sect had secluded itself under his influence.
• Granny Gu sensed Void Power in the thunderclouds and concluded that Nine Dragons Great Saint had fallen to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Ninth Heavenly Layer.
• Granny Gu and the Great Elder charged into the Nine Heavens Lightning Punishment, declaring their intention to slay Nine Dragons Great Saint.
• The Great Elder denounced Nine Dragons Great Saint before the crowd, while the real Nine Dragons Great Saint stood bewildered inside the Shangyuan Sect.

Yang Zhen endured the Nine Heavens Lightning Punishment after swallowing its Blood Qi, while everyone mistook him for Nine Dragons Great Saint. When the storm dissipated, the Grand Elder and Granny Gu discovered their target was Yang Zhen instead.

• Yang Zhen’s Power of the Void drew the heavenly Blood Qi into his body, and he swallowed it with his Dragon Elephant Prison-Suppressing Physique.
• Yang Zhen endured the resulting agony and struck himself with the Heaven-Extinguishing Finger, causing his heart’s blood to erupt and the lightning punishment to surge.
• The Grand Elder and Granny Gu mistook the storm’s power for Nine Dragons Great Saint’s and tried to unsettle him, while Nine Dragons Great Saint realized Yang Zhen was inside and said his life was no longer in danger.
• Nine Dragons Great Saint told Han Yan’er that Yang Zhen had gained a blessing through misfortune, and the lightning punishment began to dissipate.
• The Grand Elder and Granny Gu rushed into the clouds to attack, then realized the figure inside was not Nine Dragons Great Saint.
• Yang Zhen revealed himself from the clouds and asked why the Grand Elder and Granny Gu no longer recognized him.

Yang Zhen emerged unharmed from the Nine Heavens Lightning Punishment, shocking the crowd and provoking the Grand Elder and Granny Gu to attack him. Nine Dragons Great Saint appeared to stop them, but Yang Zhen insisted on handling the two Half-Step Great Saints himself.

• The Grand Elder and Granny Gu realized Yang Zhen, not Nine Dragons Great Saint, had emerged from the lightning punishment and charged at him.
• The crowd believed Nine Dragons Great Saint had secretly protected Yang Zhen as their swords engulfed him.
• Yang Zhen walked out of the sword blades unharmed and mocked the pair for trying to leave after attacking him.
• The Grand Elder cursed at the empty sky, tried to flee, and stopped when Nine Dragons Great Saint appeared before him.
• Granny Gu pleaded with Nine Dragons Great Saint to spare her, and Yang Zhen asked to fight the pair himself.
• Yang Zhen approached Granny Gu and challenged her by asking what kind of trash she was.

Yang Zhen challenged Granny Gu and the Grand Elder without relying on the Nine Dragons Great Saint, destroying Granny Gu’s Dao Intent pseudo-domain before facing the Grand Elder’s devastating sword technique. As Yang Zhen raised the Great Deficiency Sword, the Nine Dragons Great Saint recognized his strike and demanded to know where he had learned it.

• Yang Zhen told the Nine Dragons Great Saint to stand back and faced Granny Gu and the Grand Elder himself.
• Granny Gu trapped Yang Zhen in a Dao Intent pseudo-domain as the Grand Elder sent his flame devil into the attack.
• Yang Zhen broke Granny Gu’s pseudo-domain with golden patterns, making her spit blood and scattering light that formed the words “Cat, you're too beautiful!”
• The Grand Elder unleashed the Thundercloud Devil Flame Sword, and Granny Gu added her Essence Blood to strengthen the attack.
• Yang Zhen declared that he would kill both Half-Step Great Saints without the Nine Dragons Great Saint’s help.
• Yang Zhen raised the Great Deficiency Sword, and the Nine Dragons Great Saint recognized the strike and asked where Yang Zhen had learned it.

Yang Zhen used the Nine Swords of Nirvanic Extinction and Desolate Heaven Sacrifice to kill the Grand Elder and Granny Gu after they burned their divine souls to attack him. He collapsed after warning the cultivators away from the Shangyuan Sect, then wondered about the saintess in the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda and Nine Dragons Great Saint’s knowledge of her.

• Yang Zhen emerged from the Nine Heavens Lightning Punishment and struck at the fleeing Grand Elder and Granny Gu with a sword slash that created a Heaven and Earth Chasm.
• Nine Dragons Great Saint recognized Yang Zhen’s sword technique as the Nine Swords of Nirvanic Extinction, and the Grand Elder and Granny Gu burned their divine souls to attack him.
• Yang Zhen used Desolate Heaven Sacrifice to unleash the sword strike at full force, killing the Grand Elder and Granny Gu and destroying their divine souls.
• Yang Zhen warned the cultivators not to threaten the Shangyuan Sect, then fell from the sky as Nine Dragons Great Saint reacted to his use of multiple Saint Laws.
• As he fell, Yang Zhen wondered about the saintess in the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda and whether Nine Dragons Great Saint knew her identity.

After waking from several days of unconsciousness, Yang Zhen learned more about the Nine Swords of Nirvanic Extinction and worried that possessing it would attract powerful enemies. Nine Dragons Great Saint reassured him, then offered him a cultivation method if he would accompany him somewhere, but Yang Zhen refused and walked away.

• Yang Zhen woke after several days of sleep, and Nine Dragons Great Saint asked how he had learned the Nine Swords of Nirvanic Extinction.
• Yang Zhen recounted how he had comprehended the sword technique in the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, astonishing Nine Dragons Great Saint.
• Nine Dragons Great Saint explained that the Nine Swords of Nirvanic Extinction could not simply be taught and that possessing it would not make Saint Realm experts demand it from Yang Zhen.
• Yang Zhen told Nine Dragons Great Saint that he had altered the sword technique with his own insights and admitted his cultivation method was falling behind.
• Nine Dragons Great Saint offered Yang Zhen a suitable cultivation method in exchange for a favor, but Yang Zhen refused to accompany him anywhere and left.

Yang Zhen agreed to accompany Nine Dragons Great Saint to the Central Court after hearing about the Chaos Heaven Instruction and learned that the trip was to search for his former sect. As preparations began, Yang Zhen tricked Shameless Cat into giving him a Jade Slip by pretending his cultivation method was holding him back.

• Yang Zhen refused to join Nine Dragons Great Saint until he heard that the Chaos Heaven Instruction could plunder any power, then agreed to travel with him to the Central Court.
• Nine Dragons Great Saint explained that he wanted to revisit his former sect, and Yang Zhen promised to help find it while hinting at looting its ruins.
• Yang Zhen arranged the journey with Han Yan'er and Hua Youyue, while Flirtatious Chicken remained in seclusion.
• Shameless Cat returned and agreed to join Yang Zhen after Yang Zhen described the trip as grave robbing.
• Yang Zhen claimed his cultivation method was inadequate, prompting Shameless Cat to hand him a Jade Slip before realizing he had been tricked and lunging at him.

Yang Zhen cultivated the Meditative Concentration Mysterious Canon, which unleashed the many powers inside him and threatened to overwhelm his body. The Emperor Stele’s white light helped him regain clarity, and he used the Twelve Blood Refinements Mysterious Art to bring the powers under control, creating a tremendous celestial phenomenon above Shangyuan Sect.

• Shameless Cat challenged Yang Zhen to cultivate the Meditative Concentration Mysterious Canon, a Saint Law that could strengthen Divine Sense and soul power.
• Yang Zhen entered seclusion before the Emperor Stele and began cultivating the canon, enduring dizziness and intense pain as his Divine Sense and Qi and Blood surged.
• The cultivation caused the many powers and techniques inside Yang Zhen to erupt chaotically, nearly overwhelming him.
• The Emperor Stele enveloped Yang Zhen in white light, clearing his Divine Sense and helping him recall the Twelve Blood Refinements Mysterious Art.
• Yang Zhen circulated the Twelve Blood Refinements Mysterious Art, forcing his powers back into place and summoning a gigantic Qiongqi Heavenly Void that startled everyone in Shangyuan Sect.
• Shameless Cat watched the celestial phenomenon with anticipation, wondering what Yang Zhen would become.

Yang Zhen emerged from seven days of cultivation with a powerful new dark-golden force, then learned that the Nine Dragons Great Saint had gone to the Great You Dynasty and left him a warning. The chapter ended with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er revealing that a Saint Realm expert was looking for him.

• Yang Zhen cultivated the Twelve Blood Refinements Mysterious Art, which assimilated his inner powers into a dark-golden force and strengthened him.
• Yang Zhen emerged from the Emperor Stele Cave and learned from Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er that he had cultivated for seven days.
• Han Yan'er told Yang Zhen that the Nine Dragons Great Saint had left with Chiding Dragon after visiting the Great You Dynasty and forcing it to submit.
• Yang Zhen used his newly cultivated Divine Sense power to frighten the Shameless Cat, who fled before returning with the Nine Dragons Great Saint's message.
• The Shameless Cat relayed that the Nine Dragons Great Saint was waiting for Yang Zhen in the Dustless Territory and warned him that someone was looking for him.
• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er revealed that the person looking for Yang Zhen was a Saint Realm expert.

Yang Zhen took the Heaven-Swallowing Hou toward the Central Court to draw out the unknown Saint Realm expert, but arrived without knowing where the Dustless Territory was. While seeking directions, he found a group from the Heavenly Joy Holy Land bullying Lin Dong and his grandfather over a family treasure.

• Yang Zhen decided to travel to the Central Court with the Heaven-Swallowing Hou, reasoning that its dramatic arrival might draw out the Saint Realm expert seeking him.
• Three days later, Yang Zhen and his companions reached the edge of the Youzhou Continent and realized they did not know where the Dustless Territory was.
• Yang Zhen spotted cultivators gathered around an injured grandfather and grandson on a mountain peak and went to investigate.
• Yang Zhen recognized the boy as Lin Dong, a young Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator being mocked by a haughty girl and others from the Heavenly Joy Holy Land.
• Lin Dong refused to surrender the supreme treasure inherited by his family, while Yang Zhen watched from a tree with interest.

Yang Zhen intervened when Han Wushuang and the Heavenly Joy Holy Land threatened Lin Dong and his grandfather over their heirloom. He saved them from burning their divine souls, claimed Lin Dong as his young master, and summoned a Heaven-Swallowing Hou, leaving Lin Dong weeping in his grandfather’s arms.

• Han Wushuang demanded the heirloom and ordered Uncle Niu to cripple Lin Dong, while Lin Dong and his grandfather refused to surrender it.
• Lin Dong’s grandfather tried to trade the cloud disc for their freedom, but Han Wushuang said the Heavenly Joy Holy Land would kill them to avoid leaving trouble behind.
• Lin Dong’s childhood sweetheart rejected him for lacking cultivation resources and embraced another man, prompting Yang Zhen to step in.
• Yang Zhen extinguished the burning divine souls of Lin Dong and his grandfather, then called Lin Dong his young master and confronted Han Wushuang and the betraying woman.
• Yang Zhen summoned a Heaven-Swallowing Hou that terrified everyone, and Lin Dong rushed into his grandfather’s arms and wept.

Yang Zhen staged a rescue and robbery to help Lin Dong and his grandfather escape the Heavenly Joy Holy Land, then gave Lin Dong a storage ring to support his cultivation. After they left, Shameless Cat found a round disc among the spoils, and Yang Zhen recognized it with a grin.

• Yang Zhen encouraged Lin Dong to stop crying and leave with his grandfather, then halted him to demand payment from Han Wushuang and the Heavenly Joy Holy Land.
• Yang Zhen claimed to be the Left Envoy of Light from Gao Village and threatened the group until they surrendered their storage rings.
• Yang Zhen let Han Wushuang and the others leave after taking their belongings, then gave Lin Dong a storage ring and urged him to cultivate and one day confront the Heavenly Joy Holy Land.
• Shameless Cat found a round disc among the spoils, and Yang Zhen smiled when he saw it.

Yang Zhen investigated the heirloom Lin Dong had left behind and discovered that it contained sealed Emperor Qi. After using his blood and Lin Dong’s to activate it, he and his companions were transported into a world within the disc, where black world-ending lightning appeared overhead.

• Yang Zhen explained Lin Dong and his grandfather’s story, while Shameless Cat and the others questioned whether they should return the heirloom.
• Yang Zhen reasoned that Lin Dong had left the disc with him to keep it from villains and decided to examine it.
• Yang Zhen sensed sealed Emperor Qi in the disc but could not break its restrictions, so he collected Lin Dong’s blood and added his own.
• Yang Zhen activated the disc with blood and formation seals, transporting himself, Shameless Cat, Hua Youyue, and Han Yan'er into the World Within the Compass.
• The gray world transformed into mountains and rivers beneath raging black lightning, and Shameless Cat said the shadow above looked familiar.

Yang Zhen and his companions witnessed a black-winged creature crush Saint Venerable Yingling during the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. They learned Yingling had warned of beings from beyond the realm and proposed that the world undergoes cycles of samsara, while the Shameless Cat identified the object beneath them as Yingling’s Severed Dragon Disc.

• Yang Zhen asked the Shameless Cat about the enormous horned figure that withstood the black lightning, but the cat could not recall where he had seen it.
• The shadow seized and crushed a Saint Realm expert, and Hua Youyue identified the victim as Saint Venerable Yingling.
• The Shameless Cat explained that Yingling had been a powerful Saint Realm expert who vanished after claiming creatures from beyond the realm had infiltrated the Great Wilderness World.
• Hua Youyue revealed that Yingling’s dismissed theory was the Samsara of Heaven and Earth, in which the world repeats events across vast cycles.
• The Shameless Cat identified the object beneath them as Saint Venerable Yingling’s life-bound sacred treasure, the Severed Dragon Disc.

Yang Zhen refined Saint Venerable Yingling’s Severed Dragon Disc after witnessing its repeating visions of heaven and earth, which made him question whether the world truly cycled through Samsara. He emerged from the World Within the Compass to find Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er facing more than a dozen Half-Step Great Saints, whom he immediately insulted.

• Yang Zhen sent Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, and Shameless Cat away on the Heaven-Swallowing Hou, then stayed behind to refine the Severed Dragon Disc.
• The Severed Dragon Disc showed Yang Zhen the changing eras of the world repeating in Samsara, and he realized its patterns might support Saint Venerable Yingling’s theory.
• Saint Venerable Yingling’s obsession faded as Yang Zhen finished refining the disc, and Yang Zhen condensed the World Within the Compass into a Heaven and Earth Compass.
• The World Within the Compass shattered, and Yang Zhen reappeared on the Heaven-Swallowing Hou with the refined Severed Dragon Disc.
• Yang Zhen saw Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er facing a dozen or more Half-Step Great Saints and called them trash.

Yang Zhen arrived to find Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, and the Heaven-Swallowing Hou surrounded by Half-Step Great Saints who wanted the beast for its rumored Void Power. He began turning the greedy cultivators against one another, leaving the group tense and divided.

• Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er told Yang Zhen that the Half-Step Great Saints had chased them and demanded the Heaven-Swallowing Hou.
• Shameless Cat explained that the beast was rumored to contain a universe and grant mastery of Void Power.
• Yang Zhen learned Shameless Cat had kept the cultivators’ offered storage rings despite refusing to sell the beast.
• Yang Zhen scolded Shameless Cat, then pretended he would sell the Heaven-Swallowing Hou to a representative among the cultivators.
• The Half-Step Great Saints eyed one another warily, and Shameless Cat realized Yang Zhen had sown discord among them.

Yang Zhen turned the Half-Step Great Saints’ rivalry into a bidding war for the Heaven-Swallowing Hou, then collected their treasures without naming a winner. He and the Shameless Cat laughed as the furious bidders realized they had been fleeced.

• Yang Zhen declared that the old man had lost his right to purchase the Heaven-Swallowing Hou, and two Half-Step Great Saints stopped the old man from attacking him.
• Kuang Yang of the Heavenly Joy Holy Land invited others to join him in buying the Heaven-Swallowing Hou, and Lu Xueming and Xue Shou joined him.
• Yang Zhen urged the other Half-Step Great Saints to compete by offering the highest price, and they presented Saint Laws, crystals, a palace, weapons, and other treasures.
• Xue Shou produced a coffin containing a glowing red flower and challenged Yang Zhen to choose who would get the Heaven-Swallowing Hou.
• Yang Zhen and the Shameless Cat gathered every offered treasure, including the coffin, into storage rings without choosing a buyer.
• The Half-Step Great Saints realized Yang Zhen had fleeced them as he and the Shameless Cat laughed on the Heaven-Swallowing Hou’s back.

Yang Zhen escaped a pack of Half-Step Great Saints by boosting the Heaven-Swallowing Hou’s speed and having Shameless Cat taunt them with a song. The pursuers abandoned the chase to investigate a mysterious treasure in the Dustless Territory, and Yang Zhen continued there with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er.

• Yang Zhen had the Heaven-Swallowing Hou sprint away from the enraged Half-Step Great Saints instead of fighting them.
• Yang Zhen inscribed patterns on the Heaven-Swallowing Hou to double its speed, while Shameless Cat sang and angered the pursuers until several spat blood.
• Xue Shou left the chase to investigate reports of a mysterious treasure trove in the Dustless Territory, and the other Half-Step Great Saints followed him and Kuang Yang.
• Yang Zhen estimated they would reach the Dustless Territory the next day, checked on Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er, and promised to make their attackers pay.