Chapter Summaries

Mystic Bone High Person heard that Su Imperial Clan Great Emperors had challenged Heavenly Net Hall and debated whether the sect should retaliate. He ordered the hall to gather information and wait until Mo Ketian emerged from seclusion before launching an all-out attack on the Su Imperial Clan and Holy Maiden Palace.

• A dark-robed man reported that Su Imperial Clan Great Emperors had challenged Heavenly Net Hall but appeared to seek fights rather than force entry.
• An elder urged Heavenly Net Hall to punish the Su Imperial Clan for provoking the sect, while a white-browed elder advised caution because no one had been harmed.
• Mystic Bone High Person silenced the arguing elders and ordered them to continue gathering information about the Su Imperial Clan and other forces.
• Mystic Bone High Person declared that Heavenly Net Hall would wait for Mo Ketian to emerge from seclusion before attacking the Su Imperial Clan and Holy Maiden Palace.

The Heavenly Net Hall elders discussed the Holy Maiden Palace’s mass abductions and expected the palace to suffer a backlash. At the Holy Maiden Palace, Lian Ruyue continued searching for the unknown man who had encountered her in the secret realm, while Lianxi suggested he might have disguised his face.

• After Mystic Bone High Person left, the remaining Heavenly Net Hall figures discussed the Holy Maiden Palace’s capture of tens of thousands of men and predicted that the palace’s actions would turn other powers against it.
• Lian Ruyue reprimanded the Holy Maiden Palace elders for failing to find the man she had encountered in the Immortal Manor Secret Realm.
• An elder explained that the palace had offered a Quasi-Emperor Weapon for information and an Emperor Weapon for the man’s capture.
• Lianxi suggested the man might have disguised his face, and Lian Ruyue considered that possibility as she worried about what he had done and whether he had recorded it.
• Lian Ruyue ordered the elders to keep searching every day, and they asked what the palace should do with the men it had captured.

Lian Ruyue ordered the Holy Maiden Palace to release its nearly thirty thousand captives as the palace faced growing threats from the Heavenly Net Hall. She revealed the looming danger to Lianxi and resolved to preserve her daughter and the holy maiden lineage, then wondered why she could not sense the young man who had encountered her.

• Lian Ruyue ordered the Holy Maiden Palace to release all the men it had captured, fearing the consequences of angering powerful factions.
• Lian Ruyue told Lianxi that her cultivation barrier had begun to loosen, but warned that Mo Ketian would likely reach Pseudo-Immortal first.
• Lian Ruyue explained that the Heavenly Net Hall's old hall master likely knew the Holy Maiden Palace's Ancestor had fallen and was waiting for Mo Ketian to become strong enough to attack.
• Lianxi feared the palace's guardian barrier could not withstand two Pseudo-Immortals, while Lian Ruyue vowed to fight and said she would send Lianxi away if the palace fell.
• Lian Ruyue told Lianxi to protect the child beginning to grow within her and preserve the holy maiden lineage.
• Alone in the hall, Lian Ruyue wondered why she could not divine anything about the young man who had encountered her.

Su Chen sent the Source of All Spirits into the Azure Yang Realm’s origin to absorb its power, protecting him while he strengthened the imperial palace’s cultivation environment. He then began creating two small worlds above the training ground to grant the Su Imperial Clan new fortunes.

• The Source of All Spirits told Su Chen that the imperial palace’s heaven and earth energy had reached its limit until he advanced further.
• Su Chen opened a rift into the Azure Yang Realm’s origin and ordered the Source of All Spirits to absorb its power, then left him protected by a shield bearing Su Chen’s presence.
• Su Chen planned to give the Su Imperial Clan special physiques so its members could better contend with heavenly geniuses in the Immortal Realm.
• Su Chen sent a beam of light above the martial arts training ground, where it split into two pillars and began forming small worlds filled with laws and living creatures.
• The Su Imperial Clan’s disciples gathered to watch the worlds take shape, while Su Ting and the others eagerly awaited Su Chen’s surprise.

Su Chen unveiled the Dao Physique Secret Realm, where Su Imperial Clan members could obtain special physiques, and the Revolving Wheel Secret Realm, where they could gain lifetimes of experience through trials. The clan celebrated the chance to raise both their talent and future cultivation, while Su Qier vowed to surpass his twin brother Su Yuanyang.

• Su Chen revealed that the Dao Physique Secret Realm let clan members repeatedly attempt to gain special physiques, while the Revolving Wheel Secret Realm gave them new identities and returned their skills and experience after each trial.
• The Su Imperial Clan cheered as they realized the secret realms could improve their talent and prepare them for future cultivation.
• Su Qier challenged his twin brother Su Yuanyang, who reminded him that he already had the Supreme Sword Physique and could seek another physique too.
• Su Chen explained that he had placed a time formation in the Revolving Wheel Secret Realm so clan members could experience many years without gaining cultivation directly.
• Su Qier insisted he would obtain a stronger physique than Su Yuanyang's.

Su Chen sent the Su Imperial Clan into the secret realms to strengthen themselves and ordered Su Hong to extend the opportunity to Su Ya’s branch. Meanwhile, Mo Ketian emerged from seclusion after reaching a powerful new realm, then demanded that Mystic Bone High Person kneel.

• Su Chen told Su Ting and the other four strongest clansmen to enter the Revolving Wheel Secret Realm and warned them to handle the Heavenly Net Hall themselves.
• Su Ting entered the Revolving Wheel Secret Realm, followed by Su Yun and the others, while the rest of the Su Imperial Clan rushed into the two secret realms.
• Su Chen instructed Su Hong to invite Su Ya’s branch from the Black-Yellow Realm to use the secret realms and told him to keep the controlled Devil Race under guard.
• Su Hong arranged for Su Ya’s branch to be notified, and clansmen from across the Su Imperial Clan entered the secret realms over the following days.
• Mo Ketian emerged from seclusion, and the Heavenly Net Hall’s experts gathered to welcome him as their newly powerful hall master.
• Mo Ketian addressed Mystic Bone High Person as Xuanzi and asked why he was not kneeling.

Mo Ketian forced his former master, Mystic Bone High Person, to kneel before him after reaching the Pseudo-Immortal level, then ordered the Heavenly Net Hall to attack the Holy Maiden Palace and the Su Imperial Clan. The Holy Maiden Palace learned that the full Heavenly Net Army was approaching, leaving its leaders facing two Pseudo-Immortals with no apparent chance of resistance.

• Mo Ketian pressured Mystic Bone High Person into kneeling and publicly congratulated him for raising an immortal.
• Mo Ketian ordered the Heavenly Net Hall to destroy the Holy Maiden Palace and then annihilate the Su Imperial Clan.
• The Heavenly Net Hall's elders celebrated the campaign and adopted the slogan, “Ride the holy maidens, destroy the Su Clan!”
• Mo Ketian and Mystic Bone High Person agreed to fight together against the Holy Maiden Palace.
• An armored woman reported to the Holy Maiden Palace that the Heavenly Net Hall's entire army was marching on them.
• The Holy Maiden Palace's leaders realized their Half-Immortal palace master and fallen former palace master left them outmatched by the Heavenly Net Hall's two Pseudo-Immortals.

Lian Ruyue prepared the Holy Maiden Palace to face the Heavenly Net Hall, whose army advanced with two Pseudo-Immortals after its master gained the Immaculate Exalted Immortal's inheritance. The Heavenly Net Hall master accepted the submission of several powers, confident in his dominance, as the two sides approached war.

• Lian Ruyue learned that Elder Jingshui had sent the younger generation away with Elder Yuehua to preserve the Holy Maiden Palace's legacy.
• Elder Jingshui and the Great Emperors refused Lian Ruyue's offer to evacuate and vowed to fight for the sect.
• Lian Ruyue ordered the Holy Maiden Palace's Great Emperor Masters and Emperor Masters to take their positions for a desperate battle.
• The Heavenly Net Hall's two Pseudo-Immortals led nearly a million soldiers into the Holy Maiden Palace's territory, alarming nearby sects and lineages.
• An old man told the Heavenly Net Hall master that leaders of the Myriad Phenomena Palace, the Wondrous Sound Pavilion, and other powers wished to submit, and the master agreed to accept them.

The Heavenly Net Hall Master explained his plan to enslave the Azure Yang Realm’s people and ensure his faction’s lasting dominance. After the army reached the Mysterious Maiden Domain, he confronted Lian Ruyue outside Holy Maiden City, where their exchange recalled his humiliating battle with the Su Imperial Clan’s Half-Immortal.

• The Heavenly Net Hall Master told an elder that the Hall would enslave other forces and suppress their potential rather than exterminate them.
• The Heavenly Net Hall’s army arrived in the Mysterious Maiden Domain two and a half months later and found its people gathered behind the Holy Maiden Palace’s barrier.
• The army stopped before the Fleeting Life Mysterious Maiden World-Suppressing Barrier as its soldiers mocked the Holy Maiden Palace and boasted about claiming its women.
• Lian Ruyue faced Mo Ketian and accused him of gaining the immortal’s inheritance only because the Su Imperial Clan’s Half-Immortal had not wanted it.
• Mo Ketian reacted sharply to Lian Ruyue’s reminder that the Su Imperial Clan’s Half-Immortal had once beaten him, while resolving to eliminate that threat later.

The Heavenly Net Hall Master demanded the Holy Maiden Palace submit, while the Holy Maiden Palace Master refused and prepared to defend the sect. The Heavenly Net Hall Master and Mystic Bone High Person attacked the Fleeting Life Mysterious Maiden World-Suppressing Barrier, which the Mysterious Maiden Army reinforced as the formation spirit appeared.

• The Heavenly Net Hall Master mocked the Holy Maiden Palace and offered to spare its members if the Holy Maiden Palace Master became his maidservant and the disciples served his hall.
• The Holy Maiden Palace Master rejected the demand, and a Great Emperor Master vowed to confront her old rival from the Heavenly Net Hall.
• The Heavenly Net Hall Master and Mystic Bone High Person rose to attack the barrier, and Mystic Bone High Person took on his youthful form at the cost of his remaining vitality.
• Mo Ketian summoned the Ten Thousand Beasts Pagoda Cauldron and the Vast Sun Meteor Hammer, while Mystic Bone High Person changed his bone staff into a sword.
• The Holy Maiden Palace Master ordered the Mysterious Maiden Army to power the barrier, and the formation spirit, Fleeting Life Mysterious Maiden, appeared above it.

The Heavenly Net Hall Master attacked the Holy Maiden Palace’s barrier, then revealed a fragment of the Immaculate Immortal Sword as his trump card. He launched it at the Fleeting Life Mysterious Maiden, and Lian Ruyue formed five Cross Star Shields to stop it.

• The Heavenly Net Hall Master and Mystic Bone High Person struck the Cross Star Shield with their sword, cauldron, and hammer, shattering it while the barrier’s phantom endured.
• Mystic Bone High Person proposed destroying the Fleeting Life Mysterious Maiden in one strike, but the Heavenly Net Hall Master told him to stand back.
• The Heavenly Net Hall Master manifested a white jade sword, which Lian Ruyue recognized as a fragment of the Immaculate Immortal Sword.
• The Heavenly Net Hall Master enlarged the sword and sent it toward the Fleeting Life Mysterious Maiden.
• Lian Ruyue controlled the barrier to form five Cross Star Shields in the sword’s path.

The Heavenly Net Hall destroyed the Holy Maiden Palace’s Fleeting Life Mysterious Maiden World-Suppressing Barrier with the Immaculate Immortal Sword fragment and launched an assault on Holy Maiden City. Lian Ruyue consumed a Holy Heart left by Lian Qingyue, gaining Pseudo-Immortal power temporarily, and challenged the Heavenly Net Hall master to the final battle.

• The Immaculate Immortal Sword fragment pierced the Fleeting Life Mysterious Maiden phantom and shattered the World-Suppressing Barrier.
• The Heavenly Net Hall master ordered his forces to attack Holy Maiden City, and the Holy Maiden Palace’s defenders charged out to fight.
• The Heavenly Net Hall master offered Lian Ruyue a chance to submit, but she refused and swallowed a pink heart.
• Mystic Bone High Person identified the heart as a Holy Heart left by Lian Qingyue, explaining that its power would temporarily raise Lian Ruyue to the Pseudo-Immortal realm.
• Lian Ruyue drew the Nine Palaces Cicada Sword and challenged the Heavenly Net Hall master to the final battle.

Lian Ruyue fought the Heavenly Net Hall master and Mystic Bone High Person in the sky, using the Holy Maiden Palace’s Sacred Heart technique to reach Pseudo-Immortal power. As her power ran low and her forces fell behind below, she continued fighting recklessly against two stronger opponents.

• Lian Ruyue drew the two enemies away from the battlefield and unleashed the Nine Palaces Cicada Sword, while the Heavenly Net Hall master and Mystic Bone High Person blocked her attacks and tried to stall until her power ran out.
• Lian Ruyue used Nine Palaces Return to One, Cicada Cry Shakes the Heavens, but Mystic Bone High Person’s White Bone Heavenly Wall and the Heavenly Net Hall master’s Ten Thousand Beasts Pagoda Cauldron stopped the attack.
• Lian Ruyue launched Cicada Molting and Dragon Transformation, pierced Mystic Bone High Person’s armor, and wounded the Heavenly Net Hall master, but both opponents struck back and injured her.
• Lian Ruyue fought on without regard for defense as her Sacred Heart burned out, while Mystic Bone High Person urged the Heavenly Net Hall master to stall and Lian Ruyue saw that her forces were losing below.
• Lian Ruyue clenched her teeth and tried to activate her Sacred Heart once more.

Lian Ruyue’s Holy Heart power ran out, allowing the Heavenly Net Hall master and Mystic Bone High Person to bind and defeat her. As the Holy Maiden Palace’s forces faced capture or slaughter, a sudden change interrupted the hall master’s order.

• Lian Ruyue fell from Pseudo-Immortal to Half-Immortal, and the Heavenly Net Hall master captured her with an Immortal-Binding Rope.
• The Heavenly Net Hall master displayed Lian Ruyue before both armies and demanded the Holy Maiden Palace surrender; Lianxi saw her mother defeated while fighting Hua Wanxian.
• Lian Ruyue urged her people to keep fighting, and Holy Maiden Palace fighters launched a surprise attack on the Heavenly Net Hall forces.
• The Heavenly Net Hall master and Mystic Bone High Person used their pressure to kill tens of thousands and suppress the Holy Maiden Palace forces.
• The hall master ordered his troops to capture the survivors, but a startling change appeared among the people of the Holy Maiden Palace.

Hundreds of thousands of Holy Maiden Palace members sacrificed themselves with Golden Light Burn Blood to Exhaustion to free Lian Ruyue and Lianxi from the Heavenly Net Hall. The two escaped, and the furious hall master ordered the Heavenly Net Army to hunt them down.

• The Holy Maiden Palace members ignited golden light, and Lian Ruyue realized they were using the forbidden Golden Light Burn Blood to Exhaustion.
• Lian Ruyue and Lianxi begged the palace members to stop, but the soldiers, elders, and masters sacrificed themselves and urged the two to survive and avenge them.
• The hall master of the Heavenly Net Hall and Mystic Bone High Person tried to seal the space, but the golden light broke through and carried Lian Ruyue and Lianxi away.
• The Heavenly Net Hall’s army fell silent as the golden clouds dispersed, leaving the palace members dead and their two leaders escaped.
• The hall master of the Heavenly Net Hall ordered his forces to pursue Lian Ruyue and Lianxi wherever they fled.

Lian Ruyue and Lianxi escaped the destruction of the Holy Maiden Palace but were left badly injured and hunted by the Heavenly Net Hall. They reached the Su Imperial Clan’s territory, and Lian Ruyue decided they had to seek its help to avenge their fallen people.

• Lian Ruyue woke Lianxi and confirmed that the Holy Maiden Palace’s hundreds of thousands of people had sacrificed themselves so the two could escape.
• Lianxi vowed revenge against the Heavenly Net Hall, but Lian Ruyue warned that they were no match for its Pseudo-Immortals and would remain targets of its pursuit.
• Lian Ruyue recognized the palace near the Heavenly Emperor Mountain Range as belonging to the Su Imperial Clan and considered its strength as a possible counter to the Heavenly Net Hall.
• Lian Ruyue told Lianxi they had to approach the Su Imperial Clan despite their pride, since they carried the hopes of the fallen and could not let Mo Ketian and the Heavenly Net Hall go unopposed.

Lian Ruyue and Lianxi sought an audience with the Su Imperial Clan’s Half-Immortal, hoping to enlist the clan’s help against the Heavenly Net Hall. After kneeling for hours, they faced a formidable group of Su clan cultivators led by Su Ya, who asked if they had come to see the clan leader.

• Lian Ruyue and Lianxi arrived at the Eternal Imperial Palace and knelt to request an audience with the Su Imperial Clan’s Half-Immortal.
• After hours without a response, Lianxi wondered if the clan was ignoring them, but Lian Ruyue told her to remain respectful.
• A passage opened in the palace’s protective barrier, and more than thirty Su clan members emerged, most of them at the Great Perfection Peak Emperor Realm or the Ninth Heaven of the Emperor Realm.
• Su Ya revealed that he had gained a Heavenly Tyrant Physique and reached the Great Perfection Peak Emperor Realm after training in the clan’s secret realms.
• Lian Ruyue asked to see Half-Immortal Su Ting, and Su Ya replied that she was looking for the Su Imperial Clan’s clan leader.

Lian Ruyue sought the Su Imperial Clan’s help after the Heavenly Net Hall destroyed the Holy Maiden Palace, but Su Hong dismissed her and mocked the threat to the clan. Just as she was about to be turned away, Su Hong revealed that the clan’s ancestor would meet them.

• Lian Ruyue introduced herself to Su Hong and asked to speak with the Su Imperial Clan’s leader, but Su Hong said the leader was in seclusion and refused to receive visitors.
• Lian Ruyue explained that the Heavenly Net Hall’s two Pseudo-Immortals had attacked the Holy Maiden Palace and offered to serve the Su Imperial Clan if it helped her take revenge.
• Su Hong laughed at the idea that the Heavenly Net Hall could threaten the Su Imperial Clan and ordered Lian Ruyue and her companion to leave.
• Lian Ruyue pleaded to meet the clan leader and offered to become a slave or servant, but Su Hong initially continued toward the barrier.
• Su Hong stopped and told Lian Ruyue that the Su Imperial Clan’s ancestor had given her a chance to meet him.

Lian Ruyue and Lianxi entered the Su Imperial Clan after its ancestor allowed them in, and were overwhelmed by its miniature world, abundant Immortal Yuan, and secret realms. They realized the clan’s resources and the special physiques of its young members were far beyond anything they had seen, leaving them wondering if they had entered the Immortal Realm.

• Su Hong escorted Lian Ruyue and Lianxi through the barrier after explaining that they could look around but should keep their talking to a minimum.
• Lian Ruyue and Lianxi saw that the Su Imperial Clan occupied a vast miniature world filled with Immortal Yuan far denser than that of the Immortal Manor Secret Realm.
• Several Su Imperial Clan youths emerged from a secret realm, boasted about their special physiques, and challenged each other to a future fight with a wager.
• Su Hong encouraged Xiao Che after learning that he had failed to obtain a special physique, then sent the youths on their way.
• Lian Ruyue and Lianxi observed the secret realms and cultivation areas and concluded that the Su Imperial Clan’s resources surpassed anything they knew.

Lian Ruyue and Lianxi entered the hidden small world of the Su Imperial Clan's ancestor and discovered that he was the young man who had once treated Lian Ruyue's Supreme Mysterious Yin Soul. The ancestor asked what they wanted with him, leaving the two women stunned and embarrassed.

• Su Hong brought Lian Ruyue and Lianxi to the Eternal Emperor Hall and sent them up the golden staircase to meet the ancestor.
• Lian Ruyue and Lianxi entered the ancestor's small world and searched the courtyard for him.
• The ancestor appeared before the bamboo pavilion, and Lian Ruyue and Lianxi knelt to greet him.
• Lian Ruyue recognized the ancestor as the young man who had treated her Yin Soul in the Mysterious Maiden Domain.
• Lianxi realized that her mother’s former search for that young man had led the Holy Maiden Palace to target the wrong men.
• The ancestor reclined beneath the osmanthus tree, ate a spirit peach, and asked what they wanted with him.