Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen forcibly broke apart the Saint Realm power inside Holy Maiden Qingquan, helping her advance from Half-Step Great Saint into the Saint Realm. As her Heavenly Tribulation began, her Great Saint master arrived and ordered everyone away.

• Holy Maiden Qingquan trusted Yang Zhen and let him attempt to refine the Saint Realm power within her.
• Yang Zhen used Heaven and Earth True Runes and the Heavenly Book: Life Assault Chapter to break apart the power and send it through Holy Maiden Qingquan's meridians.
• Holy Maiden Qingquan spat blood, then began undergoing a Heavenly Tribulation as she broke through into the Saint Realm.
• Yang Zhen fled the teahouse with Han Yan'er, while Shameless Cat asked what he had done and Yang Zhen explained his method.
• A Great Saint arrived beside Holy Maiden Qingquan and threatened everyone who did not leave.

Yang Zhen fled after Holy Maiden Qingquan’s master announced she would betroth Qingquan to him, suspecting the Great Saint had ulterior motives. The Great Saint caught up with Yang Zhen, Han Yan’er, and the Shameless Cat, and Yang Zhen ran again.

• Yang Zhen watched Holy Maiden Qingquan undergo her tribulation as her master demanded to know who had helped her refine Saint Realm power.
• After learning Yang Zhen was responsible, Holy Maiden Qingquan’s master announced she would betroth Qingquan to him in repayment.
• Yang Zhen grabbed Han Yan’er and fled, then joked that Qingquan’s master wanted to become his mother.
• Yang Zhen bragged about his abilities, while the Shameless Cat and Han Yan’er teased him that the Great Saint might want him for herself.
• Holy Maiden Qingquan’s master found the group, and Yang Zhen grabbed Han Yan’er and the Shameless Cat and ran again.

Yang Zhen fled from Holy Maiden Qingquan's master, who decided to recruit him into the Three Mountains Holy Land, while he and Han Yan'er continued toward Qianyuan Ridge. There, Hua Youyue prepared to give Yang Zhen an important treasure and trusted that he would protect her as the rival holy lands gathered for the Treasure Appraisal Conference.

• Yang Zhen ran from Holy Maiden Qingquan's master, then escaped after claiming he had the same problem as Holy Son Qingchen.
• Holy Maiden Qingquan's master resolved to recruit Yang Zhen into the Three Mountains Holy Land and planned to see him at the Treasure Appraisal Conference.
• Yang Zhen, Han Yan'er, and Shameless Cat headed for Qianyuan Ridge, where Yang Zhen expected to meet Hua Youyue at the conference.
• Hua Youyue told Flowerless Great Saint that the treasure mattered more to Yang Zhen than to her and insisted he retrieve it even if she faced danger.
• Yang Zhen learned that the Three Mountains Holy Land and Yaoguang Holy Land were searching for them, then declared they would enter the conference openly.

Yang Zhen, Han Yan'er, and Shameless Cat reached Qianyuan Ridge as the treasure appraisal gathering drew near, while leaders inside discussed its purpose and the danger posed by unexpected arrivals. Yang Zhen promised Han Yan'er he would be careful, and the chapter ended with Elder Diao naming Nine Dragons as the person who worried him.

• Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er wondered how they would find Hua Youyue and enter Qianyuan Ridge amid the huge crowd, while Shameless Cat mocked Yang Zhen for refusing to become Three Mountains' son-in-law.
• Yang Zhen sealed Shameless Cat inside his sleeve, and Han Yan'er warned Yang Zhen not to act recklessly before leaning into his arms and asking him not to die.
• At Qianyuan Ridge, the white-bearded elder and Elder Gong discussed reviving Holy Maiden Tianxuan and keeping the treasure appraisal gathering free of disruptions.
• Elder Gong asked Elder Diao about Yang Zhen, but Elder Diao and Li Chengyu dismissed him as a threat and Li Chengyu vowed to deal with him if he appeared.
• Elder Diao said he was worried about Nine Dragons.

Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er attended the treasure appraisal convention at Qianyuan Ridge, where Yang Zhen tried to keep a low profile while searching for the young lady. Their plans were interrupted by the arrival of powerful figures from Yaoguang Holy Land and Three Mountains Holy Land, including Holy Maiden Qingquan, whose talent made Yang Zhen itch to stir up trouble.

• Yang Zhen told Han Yan'er and Shameless Cat that they would leave after finding the young lady, since he wanted to focus on breaking through to Half-Step Great Saint.
• Bai Xinsi approached Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er, then led them into the crowd while hoping Yang Zhen could get him closer to the convention’s most important guests.
• Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er sat with Bai Xinsi and joked about Flower-Fruit Mountain being a primordial legacy, prompting his fellow disciples to mock the claim.
• Three Great Saints from Yaoguang Holy Land appeared above Qianyuan Ridge, followed by two Great Saints from Three Mountains Holy Land.
• Bai Xinsi recognized Holy Maiden Qingquan as a newly advanced Saint, and Yang Zhen wondered how she compared with the Yaoguang Holy Son as his hands began itching.

Yang Zhen attended the treasure appraisal conference and was stunned when the Yaoguang Holy Land revealed the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, a treasure he remembered from his past. As the Yaoguang Holy Son moved to refine it, Yang Zhen wondered about the pagoda’s connection to Hua Youyue and tried to resist causing trouble.

• Yang Zhen learned that the Three Mountains Holy Land and Yaoguang Holy Land had begun the treasure appraisal conference without consulting the gathered cultivators.
• The Yaoguang Holy Land revealed the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, and Yang Zhen recognized it from his memories of entering it before.
• Bai Xinsi explained that the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda was an ancient supreme treasure comparable to the Samsara Bell.
• Yang Zhen wondered how the pagoda related to Holy Maiden Tianxuan, the ice coffin, and Hua Youyue, who was at Qianyuan Ridge.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son approached the pagoda intending to refine it, and Yang Zhen restrained his urge to show off.

Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er watched as the Yaoguang Holy Son tried to refine the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, only for the treasure to reject him and overpower the white-bearded elder's restraint. The little girl finally appeared and offered to try refining it.

• Yang Zhen sat with Han Yan'er to watch the Yaoguang Holy Son attempt to refine the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son used Law Seals to refine the pagoda, and Yang Zhen recognized that his skill was formidable.
• The Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda rejected the Yaoguang Holy Son with a beam of purple light, and the white-bearded elder restrained it with Dao Rhyme.
• The pagoda summoned thunder, broke free of the elder's restraint, and sent the Yaoguang Holy Son flying.
• The little girl appeared and offered to try refining the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, delighting Han Yan'er and startling Yang Zhen.

Hua Youyue and Mei Wuhua faced Diao Wutian over the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, and Diao Wutian proposed that Hua Youyue marry the Yaoguang Holy Son. Hua Youyue refused, and Yang Zhen stepped forward to declare that she was already spoken for.

• Diao Wutian said Hua Youyue and the Yaoguang Holy Son could each try to refine the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, then proposed a union between the Three Flowers and Yaoguang Holy Lands.
• Yang Zhen recognized Diao Wutian’s proposal as a trap, while Han Yan'er and Bai Xinsi reacted to his objections.
• Hua Youyue firmly refused the proposal, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.
• Yang Zhen drew the Great Deficiency Sword and announced that Hua Youyue was already spoken for.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son recognized Yang Zhen, and Yang Zhen traded insults with Diao Wutian.

Yang Zhen pretended to give up the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda and leave with Hua Youyue, but Diao Wutian blocked them and demanded that she stay with Yaoguang Holy Son. When Yang Zhen realized a fight was unavoidable, he loudly cursed Diao Wutian and Yaoguang Holy Son, stunning everyone.

• Bai Xinsi and the gathered disciples recognized Yang Zhen and reacted to his arrival.
• Hua Youyue told Yang Zhen the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda could help him reach the Half-Step Great Saint realm, but Yang Zhen said he could break through without it.
• Yang Zhen apologized to Yaoguang Holy Son and tried to leave with Hua Youyue.
• Diao Wutian stopped Yang Zhen and claimed Hua Youyue should stay because Yaoguang Holy Son had fallen for her.
• Yang Zhen took up the Great Deficiency Sword and asked whether they still had to fight.
• Yang Zhen cursed Diao Wutian and Yaoguang Holy Son, leaving them stunned.

Yang Zhen challenged the Yaoguang Holy Son at the treasure appraisal gathering and fought him despite being outmatched. After revealing powerful techniques and enduring several attacks, Yang Zhen gained the upper hand through brute strength, leaving the Yaoguang Holy Son scrambling to recover as the battle continued.

• Yang Zhen entrusted the little girl's safety to Mei Wuhua, then challenged the Yaoguang Holy Son to fight him.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son struck Yang Zhen with a palm technique and sent him flying, dismissing the legends about him as exaggerated.
• Yang Zhen unleashed the Nine-Character Mantra and attacked with the Great Deficiency Sword, but the Yaoguang Holy Son's sword formation knocked him to the ground and left him bleeding.
• Yang Zhen charged again, unleashed waves of blood, and activated the Ninth Dragon Elephant after clashing with the Yaoguang Holy Son's Sword-Rays.
• Yang Zhen repeatedly rushed the Yaoguang Holy Son and beat him back, astonishing Diao Wutian and the onlookers.

Yang Zhen defeated the Yaoguang Holy Son but was surrounded by Yaoguang Holy Land’s experts. As two Great Saints advanced to fight him, Yang Zhen summoned the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice and prepared to face them both.

• Yang Zhen finished beating the Yaoguang Holy Son, and Diao Wutian rushed over and ordered Saint Realm experts to surround him.
• After recovering, the Yaoguang Holy Son demanded that Yang Zhen be killed, while the surrounding experts hesitated to attack.
• Elder Gui stepped forward to fight Yang Zhen, and Yang Zhen challenged a second old man to join him.
• The second old man revealed his overwhelming pressure as he approached, and Yang Zhen realized he was the greater threat.
• Yang Zhen put away the Great Deficiency Sword, invoked the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice, and drew in energy to face both Great Saints.

Yang Zhen challenged Elder Jian and Elder Gui after reaching the Half-Step Great Saint Realm, but Elder Jian wounded him with a branch and prepared a second strike. As Yang Zhen appeared to stare helplessly at the attack, Shameless Cat realized he had entered a state of enlightenment.

• Mei Wuhua and Hua Youyue worried that Yang Zhen could not survive against two Great Saints, while Holy Maiden Qingquan and her master watched from the Three Mountains Holy Land.
• Elder Jian asked Yang Zhen why he was called Elder Jian, and Yang Zhen joked that it was because he was shameless.
• Yang Zhen charged Elder Jian and used the Heaven-Extinguishing Finger, but Elder Jian struck his shoulder with a branch and sent him falling.
• Elder Jian rushed after Yang Zhen to deliver another strike as the crowd cried out and Yaoguang Holy Son mocked him.
• Shameless Cat realized Yang Zhen had entered a state of enlightenment while Elder Jian's attack closed in.

Yang Zhen unleashed every power within him and began a desperate breakthrough to Half-Step Great Saint while Elder Jian threatened him at close range. Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er believed he would succeed as Shameless Cat realized Yang Zhen was attempting to fuse his powers.

• Elder Jian stopped his branch sword just before Yang Zhen's forehead and threatened to make him despair before killing him.
• Yang Zhen mocked Elder Jian, then erupted with his Heaven and Earth True Runes, Companion Heavenly Fire, True Essence, Dao Intent, Qi and Blood, and soul power.
• Elder Diao recognized Yang Zhen's surging Qi and urgently shouted for the others to kill him.
• Yang Zhen burned his soul and the power in his body to force a breakthrough to Half-Step Great Saint.
• Mei Wuhua and Shameless Cat discussed the danger of Yang Zhen's attempt to fuse his powers, while Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er declared that he would succeed.

Yang Zhen’s tribulation summoned the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus, which terrified the cultivators gathered at Qianyuan Ridge. He used it to confront the Great Saints, and the lotus erupted just as they dismissed his threat.

• A World-Ending Heavenly Lotus appeared above Yang Zhen, and Shameless Cat and Mei Wuhua warned that it could destroy all living beings while leaving divine souls intact.
• Elder Jian, Elder Diao, and another Great Saint prepared to seize Yang Zhen’s divine soul, hoping to refine it into a Saint Soul Pill.
• Yang Zhen charged the Great Saints with the lotus following him, then struck Elder Jian into the ground with the Great Deficiency Sword.
• Yang Zhen traded blows with Elder Diao, who pushed him back and insisted that he could not defeat a Great Saint.
• Yang Zhen declared the warm-up over, and the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus erupted, sending lightning in every direction as the Great Saints turned pale.

Yang Zhen endured the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus’s lightning while using it to keep three Great Saints occupied, and he emerged from a chasm in the form of a golden dragon. He taunted Elder Jian and invited all three Great Saints to attack as another bolt tore into him.

• Elder Diao ordered Elder Jian and the other elder to form the Three Talents Sword Formation against Yang Zhen.
• A bolt of world-ending lightning struck Yang Zhen, breaking the formation and sending him crashing down as Elder Jian mocked him.
• Elder Jian unleashed Saint Realm power and shattered the ground where Yang Zhen had fallen, but the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus remained active.
• Yang Zhen emerged from the chasm as a golden dragon and spat on Elder Jian, who charged at him with his sword.
• Yang Zhen taunted Elder Jian and challenged all three Great Saints while enduring more lightning, which tore a large piece of flesh from him.

Yang Zhen endured the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus and used the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice and Undying Sacred Scripture to refine his power and recover. He emerged with a transformed presence, and Shameless Cat declared that he had attained sainthood in the flesh, leaving the three Great Saints in panic.

• Yang Zhen told the three Great Saints he would take Hua Youyue and the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, then invoked the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice when they refused.
• Yang Zhen's Undying Sacred Scripture merged with his other powers, restoring his charred body as Holy Maiden Qingquan realized he was refining the power within himself.
• The World-Ending Heavenly Lotus swallowed Yang Zhen in surging ball lightning, and the crowd feared he had been destroyed.
• Yang Zhen walked out of the lightning unharmed, wielding a translucent Great Deficiency Sword surrounded by lightning.
• Shameless Cat shouted that Yang Zhen had attained sainthood in the flesh, and the three Great Saints panicked.

Yang Zhen revealed that he had become a Saint through both body tempering and the power he had fused, then fought the Yaoguang Holy Land's Great Saints. He charged at Elder Diao, Elder Jian, and the Third Elder as the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus raged above Qianyuan Ridge.

• Yang Zhen survived the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus's lightning and chased Elder Jian through the sky.
• Diao Wutian brought out the Heaven-Overturning Mirror, but Yang Zhen used the Great Deficiency Sword to shatter its descending mountains and clash with Elder Diao.
• Elder Jian accused Yang Zhen of breaking with the Yaoguang Holy Land, and Yang Zhen declared that their conflict had already gone too far to turn back.
• Yang Zhen revealed that he had fused Holy Maiden Tianxuan's Saint Realm power with his own, becoming a Saint despite being at the Celestial Phenomenon Realm Ninth Heavenly Layer.
• Yang Zhen charged alone at Elder Diao, Elder Jian, and the Third Elder with his sword.

Yang Zhen faced Elder Jian’s Saint-Slaying Sword after the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus shielded him from the Yaoguang elders. The sword shattered the lotus and blasted Yang Zhen into the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, leaving Elder Jian stunned and coughing blood.

• Elder Jian asked Elder Diao and the Third Elder to guard him while he prepared the Saint-Slaying Sword.
• Holy Maiden Qingquan warned Yang Zhen that Elder Jian was summoning the legendary sword, and Shameless Cat urged him to escape.
• Yang Zhen formed a Body-Protecting Saint Gang as Elder Jian injured himself to unleash the Saint-Slaying Sword.
• Yang Zhen entered the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus, which absorbed the surrounding lightning before the Saint-Slaying Sword struck and shattered it.
• The blow sent Yang Zhen into the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, and Elder Jian ordered Yaoguang to refine it and erase Yang Zhen’s Divine Sense.
• Elder Jian coughed up blood, revealing that using the Saint-Slaying Sword had harmed him.

Yang Zhen refined the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda and escaped Yaoguang Holy Land’s furious disciples on the Heaven-Swallowing Hou. Back at Yaoguang Holy Land, the Holy Lord sent three elders to investigate Qianyuan Ridge, but Nine Dragons appeared at the hall entrance.

• Yang Zhen refined the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, emerged holding it, and kicked Yaoguang Holy Son as he spat blood in disbelief.
• Yaoguang Holy Land’s disciples charged Yang Zhen, but he summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Hou and fled with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er.
• Yang Zhen collapsed from exhaustion on the Heaven-Swallowing Hou’s back, and Shameless Cat checked him while Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er supported him.
• At Yaoguang Holy Land’s holy hall, the Holy Lord ordered the First Elder, Seventh Elder, and Fifth Elder to investigate Qianyuan Ridge.
• Nine Dragons appeared at the holy hall entrance, startling the Holy Lord and the elders.

Nine Dragons Great Saint took Yaoguang Holy Land’s Saint-Slaying Sword, while the Holy Lord learned that Yang Zhen had survived the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus and refined the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda. After Yang Zhen woke, Mei Wuhua told him that the legendary figure who faced 360 Heavenly Tribulations was called the greatest of all time.

• Nine Dragons Great Saint appeared in Yaoguang Holy Land and announced that he would borrow the Saint-Slaying Sword and return it within six months.
• The Holy Lord learned that Yang Zhen had survived the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus, broken through to the Saint Realm, refined the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda, and defeated the Great Saints who confronted him.
• Elder Diao and Elder Jian revealed that Nine Dragons Great Saint had seized the Saint-Slaying Sword on their way back, and the Holy Lord ordered them to investigate while she entered seclusion.
• Yang Zhen woke beside Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er and asked Mei Wuhua about the person who had endured 360 Heavenly Tribulations.
• Mei Wuhua told Yang Zhen that the mysterious figure was known as the greatest of all time, though no one knew where he came from or where he went.