Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yueming’s reunion with Shui Yan’er and his attention to Lin Qingyao sparked jealousy and rumors, while Shui Qingrou revealed her breakthrough to Soul Formation and checked Feng Xiaotian’s challenge. Storm Mountain and the Purple Thunder Sect completed their alliance ceremony, and Feng Xiaotian announced a contest whose rules seemed designed to favor Feng Wuhen.

• Dongfang Yueming told Qin Rushuang that he had helped Shui Qingrou break through a bottleneck after Shui Yan’er claimed her mother had dual cultivated with him.
• Shui Yan’er linked arms with Dongfang Yueming, and onlookers envied him for attracting the attention of two holy-land successors.
• Feng Xiaotian pressured the Water and Fire Sect over Shui Yan’er’s behavior, but Shui Qingrou released Soul Formation pressure and forced him to back down.
• Feng Xiaotian led the alliance rites between Storm Mountain and the Purple Thunder Sect, and the assembled factions congratulated the two sects.
• Feng Xiaotian announced a contest for cultivators under a hundred and no higher than Early Nascent Soul, offering the fourth-tier Primordial Umbrella as its prize; observers suspected the rules favored Feng Wuhen.

Feng Wuhen defeated several challengers, including Lei Dong, and provoked Dongfang Yueming before a crimson flying boat interrupted the gathering. Chi Yan arrived from the Crimson Realm and challenged Feng Wuhen for the fourth-tier magic treasure, while a mysterious red-dressed woman sensed something unusual about Dongfang Yueming.

• Feng Wuhen easily defeated a Heavenly Sword Sect youth and then crushed several other golden core challengers.
• Lei Dong of the Purple Thunder Sect challenged Feng Wuhen, but Feng Wuhen used Wind Shadow Kill to knock him from the arena.
• Feng Wuhen provoked Dongfang Yueming, while Li Hongxiu continued watching Dongfang Yueming and Li Hanyi considered Feng Wuhen as a possible Dao companion for her.
• A crimson flying boat descended, carrying Chi Yan, another crimson-armored fighter, and a mysterious woman in a red dress who sensed an unusual aura about Dongfang Yueming.
• Chi Yan announced that he was at golden core perfection and challenged Feng Wuhen for the fourth-tier magic treasure.

Chi Yan challenged Storm Mountain’s Feng Wuhen and defeated him despite being only at Golden Core Perfection, then beat a Purple Thunder Sect elder as well. After Storm Mountain’s Void Refinement envoy yielded the Primordial Umbrella, Chi Yan left to challenge the other holy lands, while Dongfang Yueming considered seeking a Martial Dao cultivation technique from the Crimson Realm.

• Chi Yan challenged Feng Wuhen, who dismissed him as an insignificant Golden Core cultivator.
• Chi Yan fought Feng Wuhen with overwhelming physical strength and defeated him with the earth-grade Crimson Dragon Tyrant Fist.
• Chi Yan defeated a mid Nascent Soul elder of the Purple Thunder Sect in fewer than ten moves, angering Feng Xiaotian.
• Feng Xiaotian ordered several elders to seize Chi Yan, but the woman in red revealed her Void Refinement pressure and stopped them.
• Storm Mountain’s Upper Realm envoy confronted the woman in red, then accepted Feng Wuhen’s loss and gave Chi Yan the Primordial Umbrella.
• Chi Yan left to challenge the other holy lands, and Dongfang Yueming considered obtaining a Martial Dao cultivation technique from the Crimson Realm.

After the alliance ceremony collapsed, Dongfang Yueming disguised himself, defeated the Upper Realm envoy Feng Wuji, and seized the Nine Heavens Wind-Control Art and his spirit stones before killing him. He returned to find Shui Qingrou and Shui Yan'er waiting with a proposal for the Water and Fire Sect to ally with the Martial Sect.

• Feng Xiaotian ordered Storm Mountain sealed while he entered seclusion to pursue Soul Formation, and the Immortal-Abandoned Continent’s forces despaired over the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace’s power.
• Dongfang Yueming took the Blood God Scripture techniques he had obtained from Xue Tu and told Qin Rushuang to return to the Martial Sect without him.
• Dongfang Yueming attacked Feng Wuji at Storm Mountain, defeated him, and demanded the complete Nine Heavens Wind-Control Art and his spirit stones.
• Feng Wuji handed over his storage ring, and Dongfang Yueming killed him and erased the traces of the attack.
• Shui Yan'er told Dongfang Yueming that Shui Qingrou wanted his help with her cultivation, and Shui Qingrou proposed an alliance between the Water and Fire Sect and the Martial Sect.

Dongfang Yueming reunited with Li Hongxiu, whose master warned him to let her go, while he insisted he would defy fate. After the Love Palace departed and the Pleasure Sect invited him to visit Su Wurao, Qin Rushuang challenged him to defeat her if he wanted a harem.

• Qin Rushuang declined Shui Qingrou's offer of an alliance, and Shui Yan'er urged Dongfang Yueming to stay with her.
• Li Hanyi arrived with Li Hongxiu and Li Qingyue, and Li Hongxiu rushed into Dongfang Yueming's arms.
• Li Hanyi warned Dongfang Yueming that Li Hongxiu's path would be lonely and urged him to let her go, but he declared he did not believe in fate.
• Li Hongxiu departed with the Love Palace, and Dongfang Yueming promised he would visit her after handling matters there.
• Venerable Huolie and Ancestor Xuanbing set out to ambush Shui Qingrou on Storm Mountain.
• A messenger delivered Su Wurao's invitation to Dongfang Yueming, and Qin Rushuang told him he had to defeat her if he wanted a harem.

Dongfang Yueming parted from Qin Rushuang and traveled with Shui Qingrou and Shui Yan'er, learning that the Water and Fire Sect had uncovered a method related to Void Refinement. Two Azure Realm Soul Formation experts ambushed them, and Dongfang Yueming stepped forward to face them.

• Dongfang Yueming subdued Qin Rushuang, and she returned to the Martial Sect after they shared a tender farewell.
• Elders at Storm Mountain discovered Feng Wuji dead and the Wind-Calming Pearl cracked, then concealed the news and sealed off the valley.
• Shui Yan'er questioned Dongfang Yueming about Su Wurao, while Shui Qingrou invited him to visit the Water and Fire Sect to learn about its Void Refinement inheritance.
• Venerable Huolie and Ancestor Xuanbing confronted Dongfang Yueming, Shui Qingrou, and Shui Yan'er, threatening the women over their sects’ slain members.
• Shui Qingrou prepared to fight the two Soul Formation experts, but Dongfang Yueming reassured her and stepped forward, surprising Venerable Huolie when he could not gauge his strength.

Dongfang Yueming defeated two Soul Formation experts and revealed that he had reached Soul Formation Perfection before heading to the Pleasure Sect. There, he confronted Meiji after she tried to seduce him instead of telling him where Su Wurao was.

• Dongfang Yueming killed the Mysterious Nether Sect master and Venerable Huolie with a breath and a punch, then told Shui Qingrou and Shui Yan'er he had reached Soul Formation Perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming gave two magical treasures to Shui Qingrou and asked her to save him a Void Refinement cultivation technique if she found one.
• Shui Yan'er told Shui Qingrou they should catch up to Dongfang Yueming, and admitted she wanted to dual cultivate too.
• Meiji berated the former sect master for failing to bring Dongfang Ri to her, then ordered a disciple to bring him in when he arrived.
• Dongfang Yueming followed a disciple to Meiji's bedchamber and demanded to know where Su Wurao was.
• Meiji tried to seduce Dongfang Yueming, but he repelled her and demanded Su Wurao's whereabouts again.

Dongfang Yueming learned that Su Wurao had been taken to the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest, killed Meiji, and set out to gather techniques and power before attempting a rescue. Meanwhile, Chi Yan attacked the Purple Thunder Sect, then headed for the Martial Sect, while one of its disciples sought to grow strong enough to avenge the humiliation.

• Dongfang Yueming defeated Meiji, learned that Su Wurao was being held at the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest, and killed her before leaving the Pleasure Sect.
• Dongfang Yueming decided to pursue Void Refinement and other cultivation techniques before challenging the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest.
• Dongfang Yueming collected the Void Refinement Chapter of the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art from Shui Qingrou and left despite Shui Yan'er and Shui Qingrou wanting him to stay.
• Chi Yan stormed the Purple Thunder Sect, defeated its Nascent Soul elders, and left for the Martial Sect after hearing of it.
• A Purple Thunder Sect disciple asked to enter the Thunder Pool and comprehend Purple Crystal Treasure Thunder, and the sect master granted permission.

Dongfang Yueming entered the Purple Thunder Sect’s forbidden grounds, subdued its two grand elders, and learned that the immortal path had been severed by a change in heaven and earth and the Heavenly Dao’s prohibition. After absorbing the sect’s Purple Crystal Treasure Thunder and comprehending an Earth-Grade divine ability, he was invited to witness the sect’s true secret, where black lightning seeped from a sealed ancient pagoda.

• Dongfang Yueming suppressed the Purple Thunder Sect’s two grand elders and demanded the sect’s inheritances.
• Dongfang Yueming discovered that the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Art described cultivation through the Earth Immortal realm, and the elders explained that the immortal path had been severed and the Heavenly Dao did not permit ascension.
• Dongfang Yueming told the elders he sought thunder-element treasures rather than the sect’s destruction, and they led him to the Purple Crystal Treasure Thunder.
• Dongfang Yueming absorbed the Purple Crystal Treasure Thunder, comprehended the Earth-Grade Purple Crystal Treasure Thunder divine ability, and demonstrated its power.
• The grand elders led Dongfang Yueming to a sealed ancient pagoda to reveal the Purple Thunder Sect’s true secret, where destructive black lightning began to emerge.

Dongfang Yueming absorbed one half of the Ancient Tribulation Lightning and learned that the other half was in the Azure Realm. At the Martial Sect, Qin Rushuang lost to Chi Yan, who tried to recruit her, until Dongfang Yueming appeared to intervene.

• Dongfang Yueming absorbed the World-Destroying Black Lightning and obtained Ancient Tribulation Lightning: Xuan (1/2), then learned its other half was in the Purple Thunder Sect's ancestral headquarters in the Upper Realm.
• Dongfang Yueming spared the Purple Thunder Sect's grand elders and told them to stop troubling the Martial Sect and look after it.
• Chi Yan and his companions arrived at the Martial Sect, where Qin Rushuang challenged Chi Yan after Little Hong Ling encouraged her to fight.
• Qin Rushuang and Chi Yan fought evenly at first, but Chi Yan defeated her with Flame Dragon Break and invited her to join the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace.
• Dongfang Yueming appeared beside Qin Rushuang as Chi Yan's companions mocked him, and Chi Yan challenged the legendary genius's appearance.

Dongfang Yueming defeated Chi Yan with a perfected lightning divine ability, earning his respect and praise for his potential. When Chi Yan urged him to pursue a Dao-Grade Nascent Soul, Dongfang Yueming declared that his path belonged to him alone.

• Dongfang Yueming dodged Chi Yan’s opening attack and brushed aside his follow-up, forcing him back with a casual move.
• Chi Yan unleashed his Crimson Dragon Tyrant Fist, and Dongfang Yueming used Point Allocation to advance Purple Crystal Treasure Thunder to perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming summoned purple lightning that shattered Chi Yan’s fire dragon and struck him down in one move.
• Chi Yan admitted defeat and praised Dongfang Yueming’s potential to strive for Dao-Grade.
• Dongfang Yueming rejected the need for Dao-Grade to define or prove his path, declaring, “My Dao... me alone!”

Dongfang Yueming’s refusal to rely on a Dao-Grade Nascent Soul inspired Chi Yan to break through with a Saint-Grade one. After revealing that he sought a cultivation art in the Crimson Realm, Dongfang Yueming showed an aura beyond ordinary Soul Formation and accepted a challenge from a Void Refinement woman; their battle began with a direct clash of strength.

• Chi Yan praised Dongfang Yueming’s independent path and broke through on the spot, forming a Saint-Grade Nascent Soul.
• Chi Yan told Dongfang Yueming about the dangers of the Crimson Realm, and Dongfang Yueming said he planned to go there for a cultivation art.
• Chi Yan offered Dongfang Yueming the Soul Formation Chapter of the Crimson Dragon Heaven-Burning Art, but Dongfang Yueming returned it and revealed that he needed a Void Refinement art.
• Dongfang Yueming released an aura that shocked everyone, and the woman in the red dress challenged him to exchange moves.
• Dongfang Yueming accepted the challenge, and the two fought with their fists as Chi Yan, Qin Rushuang, and Hong Ling watched.

Dongfang Yueming earned recognition and an honored guest token from the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace before parting from Qin Rushuang and setting out to prepare for Void Refinement. At the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest, Su Wurao heard that four Soul Formation guards had vanished, while Lord Dragon Son plotted to claim the nest's leadership with help from the Golden Feather Wanderer.

• The red-dressed woman acknowledged Dongfang Yueming's strength and gave him a Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace honored guest token granting access to most of its Scripture Pavilion.
• Dongfang Yueming said farewell to Qin Rushuang, who kissed him and resolved to grow stronger, then he departed as Hong Ling complained that she wanted a kiss too.
• Dongfang Yueming planned to visit Taiyi Immortal City for a lightning divine ability, complete the Lower Realm Sword Sect's Sword Dao inheritance, and seek a Martial Dao Soul Formation method in the Crimson Realm.
• Su Wurao heard guards say the four Soul Formation cultivators sent to the Lower Realm had lost contact and wondered whether Dongfang Yueming had defeated them.
• Lord Dragon Son arrived, considered whether Ao Ye and the others had fallen to a rival, and planned to use the Golden Feather Wanderer's search for the Coiling Dragon Pillar to secure control of the Ten Thousand Dragons' Nest.

Dongfang Yueming returned to Taiyi Immortal City and spent lavishly at Taiyi Auction House to buy lightning and wind divine abilities. After ordering a large collection of wind abilities, he asked whether the auction house had techniques from the Sword Sect of the Immortal-Abandoned Continent.

• Dongfang Yueming entered Taiyi Immortal City after paying the Nascent Soul guards a thousand spirit stones.
• Dongfang Yueming gave a suspicious cultivator a thousand spirit stones for directions to Taiyi Auction House.
• Dongfang Yueming bought four yellow-grade lightning divine abilities for three hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones.
• Dongfang Yueming ordered four movement, three defensive, and four healing wind divine abilities, then paid a million spirit stones in advance.
• Dongfang Yueming learned the wind abilities cost eight hundred and forty thousand low-grade spirit stones and asked about techniques from the Sword Sect of the Immortal-Abandoned Continent.

Dongfang Yueming bought the Lower Realm Sword Sect’s inheritance and used points to perfect and fuse lightning and wind Divine Abilities. With several Earth-Grade abilities perfected, he set out to find a place to fuse them into Heaven-Grade abilities.

• Dongfang Yueming bought the Lower Realm Sword Sect’s complete inheritance for ten thousand spirit stones, and the waitress escorted him from the auction house.
• Dongfang Yueming passed members of the Purple Thunder Sect, whose elder and disciples sensed a terrifying presence from him.
• After leaving Taiyi Immortal City, Dongfang Yueming perfected four lightning Divine Abilities and fused them into the Earth-Grade Heavenly Punishment Lightning Body.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected eleven wind Divine Abilities and fused them into three Earth-Grade abilities for movement, defense, and healing.
• Dongfang Yueming decided to find a place to fuse his perfected Earth-Grade Divine Abilities into Heaven-Grade ones.

Dongfang Yueming perfected seven Primordial Spirits and traveled to the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace to seek a path to Martial Dao Void Refinement. After defeating Long Aotian, he entered the Scripture Repository, where he began examining its body-refining techniques.

• Dongfang Yueming fused lightning abilities into the Nine Heavens Thunder God Physique, then used the dormant Ancient Tribulation Lightning to disperse his tribulation and raised his Thunder Primordial Spirit to perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming fused three wind abilities into Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities and perfected his Wind and Sword Primordial Spirits, completing all seven Primordial Spirits.
• Dongfang Yueming replenished his points with spirit stones, declared his intention to find a path to Martial Dao Void Refinement in the Crimson Realm, and traveled to the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace.
• Long Aotian challenged Dongfang Yueming over his guest elder token, but Dongfang Yueming defeated him in a ten-move contest of physical strength.
• Dongfang Yueming entered the Scripture Repository and examined its top-tier body-refining techniques, while news of his victory over Long Aotian spread through the Heavenly Palace.

Dongfang Yueming defeated ten Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace challengers in the Martial Dao Arena, then used the battles to grasp the will behind the Martial Dao. After several days of study, he perfected the Void Refinement chapter, reached Void Refinement perfection, and emerged believing he could contend with a Body Integration expert.

• Long Aotian told the Crimson Realm prodigies that Dongfang Yueming had overwhelming strength and a peculiar suppressive intent in his punches.
• Dongfang Yueming established the Martial Dao Arena and defeated ten challengers in a row with a single punch each, earning three million spirit stones and insight into Martial Dao will.
• Lei Jue learned that Dongfang Yueming had entered the sect with Honglian's token and vowed to show him no mercy.
• Dongfang Yueming studied in seclusion for several days and deduced the Void Refinement chapter of the I Alone Am Supreme Technique.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to cultivate the technique to perfection, formed a supreme-grade Grotto-Heaven World, and merged his Martial Dao Primordial Spirit with it.

Dongfang Yueming emerged from seclusion having advanced to Void Refinement with a Supreme-Grade Grotto-Heaven, then killed Lei Jue before escaping the Crimson Realm. Venerable Lei pursued him, while Venerable Fire Cloud arrived and was tempted by the Heaven-Grade Divine Ability Dongfang Yueming had displayed.

• Lei Jue mocked Honglian for believing Dongfang Yueming had fled, but Dongfang Yueming appeared with Void Refinement cultivation and a Supreme-Grade Grotto-Heaven.
• Dongfang Yueming thanked Honglian and departed, and Lei Jue secretly followed him while Venerable Lei prevented Honglian from giving chase.
• Lei Jue attacked Dongfang Yueming with the Spear of the Thunder God, but Dongfang Yueming countered with a Heaven-Grade Divine Ability and killed him.
• Venerable Lei sensed Lei Jue's death and rushed toward the battlefield, while Honglian summoned Venerable Fire Cloud for help.
• Dongfang Yueming took Lei Jue's storage ring and escaped into the void before Venerable Lei arrived.
• Venerable Fire Cloud arrived and recognized Dongfang Yueming's Heaven-Grade Divine Ability, and Venerable Lei offered it to him if he stayed out of the pursuit.

Dongfang Yueming perfected five more cultivation arts, forming six perfected grotto-heavens and setting out for the Azure Realm. Meanwhile, the Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace’s palace master allowed Venerable Lei and Venerable Fire Cloud to pursue him only as a personal feud, leaving Honglian worried for his survival.

• Venerable Fire Cloud decided to report Dongfang Yueming’s Heaven-Grade Divine Ability and talent to the palace master, while Honglian feared the treasure would make him a target.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to perfect five Void Refinement cultivation arts, adding wind, sword, thunder, water-and-fire, and dragon grotto-heavens to his Martial Dao Grotto-Heaven.
• Dongfang Yueming recycled ten million low-grade spirit stones for points, considered how six fused grotto-heavens might let him face a Body Integration expert, and headed toward the Azure Realm.
• The Crimson Dragon Heavenly Palace’s palace master acknowledged Dongfang Yueming’s talent but forbade Venerable Lei and Venerable Fire Cloud from using sect forces to hunt him.
• The palace master permitted Venerable Lei and Venerable Fire Cloud to pursue Dongfang Yueming as a personal feud, and Honglian worried that he could escape two Body Integration pursuers.

Dongfang Yueming entered the Azure Realm, destroyed the Blood Refining Sect, and obtained its cultivation techniques, including a low-grade immortal technique. Meanwhile, Venerable Lei and Venerable Fire Cloud traced him to the Azure Realm and set out to kill him.

• Dongfang Yueming recycled Lei Jue’s belongings, then defeated a slave-catching squad and learned that the Blood Refining Sect lay thirty thousand li east.
• Dongfang Yueming killed the slave catchers and destroyed the Blood Refining Sect’s mountain-protecting array before crushing its patriarch, elders, and disciples.
• Dongfang Yueming found the complete Blood God Scripture and perfected its Void Refinement section, forming his seventh grotto-heaven, the Blood Sea Grotto-Heaven.
• Dongfang Yueming spent two hundred million points to initiate the Blood Sea Asura Body, a low-grade immortal technique.
• Venerable Lei and Venerable Fire Cloud followed Lei Jue’s life tablet to the Azure Realm and charged after Dongfang Yueming to avenge Lei Jue.