Chapter Summaries

Zheng Siqi conceded to Ye Liang, who left the arena to wait for Qian Duoduo, while Qian Duoduo chose to improve his cultivation instead of appearing. Chen Jie then challenged Xiao Ran, and their fight began as Liu Yi watched to assess Chen Jie's Artifact Cultivation System.

• Zheng Siqi admitted defeat to Ye Liang, who spared him and let him leave the arena.
• Ye Liang searched for Qian Duoduo, then left the arena to wait for him after failing to find him.
• Liu Yi messaged Qian Duoduo, who said he would use the next thirty days to improve his cultivation with divine liquid.
• Liu Yi saw Chen Jie take the stage and watched to evaluate the treasure body he had forged through the Artifact Cultivation System.
• Chen Jie challenged Xiao Ran, taunted him, and met his spear thrust with an overbearing punch.

Chen Jie defeated Xiao Ran in two blows, then taunted the other sects’ holy sons and holy maidens, who were too intimidated to challenge him. As Chen Jie threatened to challenge them himself, someone finally stepped forward to face him.

• Chen Jie broke Xiao Ran’s spear and arms with two punches, knocking him unconscious and mocking him.
• The crowd reacted to Chen Jie’s strength, while the holy sons and holy maidens stayed silent rather than risk being defeated.
• Chen Jie boasted that none of them could match him, and Chen Fan and Chen Lin worried that his arrogance would bring trouble to their Chen Household.
• Liu Yi recognized the power of Chen Jie’s treasure body but wondered whether his arrogance came from his past life.
• Chen Jie warned the sect disciples that they would have to fight him to earn a place in the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm, and Ye Liang held back from challenging him.
• A cool voice announced that its owner would enter the arena to test Chen Jie’s techniques.

Ye Qingxue accepted Chen Jie's arena challenge and fought him with her sword and Body-Turning-into-a-Sword Technique, but Chen Jie ultimately defeated her. After provoking the gathered holy sons and maidens without drawing another challenger, Chen Jie left the arena and gave up its defense.

• Ye Qingxue ignored Ye Liang's warning and stepped into the arena to challenge Chen Jie.
• Ye Qingxue and Chen Jie exchanged fierce attacks, and she used the Body-Turning-into-a-Sword Technique to fight him to a standstill.
• Chen Jie struck Ye Qingxue's transformed divine sword away, forcing her back into human form, whereupon she spat blood and admitted defeat.
• Chen Jie praised Ye Qingxue's strength and said he intended to challenge Spirit Transformation Realm experts before fighting Liu Yi.
• Chen Jie taunted the other holy sons and maidens, but none accepted his challenge, so he left the arena and gave up its defense.

Chen Jie gave up defending his platform, then challenged Li Kang, an Early Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator, and defeated him at the cost of serious injuries. His victory left the gathered cultivators wary of him, while Liu Yi realized Chen Jie was a ruthless madman driven in part by the pressure of Liu Yi’s own feats.

• Chen Jie declined to defend his platform, and the holy sons and holy maidens waited while other cultivators competed.
• Chen Jie suddenly challenged Li Kang, who warned him to leave the platform but then attacked with a flying sword.
• Li Kang’s Sword Qi wounded Chen Jie, but Chen Jie broke through the assault and fought Li Kang at close range.
• Chen Jie let Li Kang’s sword strike his armor so he could seize Li Kang’s wrist, then battered him until Li Kang could no longer resist.
• Chen Jie threw Li Kang from the platform, and the crowd—including the Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators—reacted with shock and fear.
• Liu Yi recognized Chen Jie’s ruthless resolve, while the livestream chat praised Chen Jie’s cross-realm victory and compared it with Liu Yi’s greater feat.

After Chen Jie left to heal, the system hosts challenged the sects’ holy sons and daughters, defeating them one after another. Liu Yi watched their victories and resolved to make the Eastern Desolation’s immortal cultivators compete alongside the mortals they had once despised.

• Chen Jie assessed his injuries, left the arena, and hurried to the Chen Household's encampment, prompting the holy sons and daughters to begin claiming arena qualifications.
• Su Wantang challenged Li Qingwan and used her zither and the Great Dao of Lust to defeat her, though Li Qingwan insisted she had been careless.
• Liu Yi recognized Su Wantang’s Great Dao of Lust and realized its effectiveness against living opponents made her stronger than the Trial Tower rankings suggested.
• Xu Cheng'an defeated Lei Xiao with a lightning attack, and Xu Wang blasted Lu Yan off his arena with the Nine Yang Heaven-Burning Instruction.
• System hosts defeated holy sons and daughters across the venue, while Liu Yi watched and planned to bring the entire Eastern Desolation immortal cultivation world down from its pedestal.

Ye Qingxue watched the holy sons and holy maidens suffer repeated defeats, while sect elders debated the sudden rise of powerful opponents and chose not to intervene. After healing her injuries, Ye Qingxue entered the arena to compete for a place in the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm, where a white-clad challenger appeared after she defeated the defender.

• Ye Qingxue asked Ye Liang whether the string of defeats was the upheaval he had predicted, and Ye Liang said it was only the beginning.
• Spectators watched holy sons and holy maidens lose repeatedly over the next few days, and many suffered shattered Dao hearts.
• Void Return Realm experts debated where the new geniuses came from and dismissed the martial path as inferior to immortal cultivation.
• Sun Xuan asked whether the sects should intervene, but Lan Sheng argued that the defeats could motivate their disciples, and the elders agreed to wait.
• Ye Qingxue healed her injuries, entered the arena, and defeated its defender before another white-clad figure flew onto the platform.

Bai Qianqian and Ye Qingxue fought to a draw in the arena, leaving both injured and exhausted. Liu Yi warned Bai Qianqian that he was disguised and avoiding the Pure Void Sect, while Ye Qingxue returned to her sect’s encampment to heal and asked about the combat rankings.

• Liu Yi watched Bai Qianqian enter the arena and worried that her presence might signal trouble in the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm.
• Bai Qianqian challenged Ye Qingxue, and the two fought fiercely for an hour without either gaining the advantage.
• Ye Qingxue used the Body-Turning-into-a-Sword Technique, and Bai Qianqian countered with over a hundred sword images; both were injured and agreed to stop the match in a draw.
• Liu Yi used a Qi-observing method and found that Ye Qingxue’s fortune was exceptional but not that of a Child of Fortune, then messaged Bai Qianqian that she was close to a breakthrough and warned her he was disguised.
• Ye Qingxue asked Ye Liang about the combat rankings, learned that Bai Qianqian ranked eighth and Liu Yi topped the Golden Core Realm ranking, then flew back to heal.
• Viewers praised Ye Qingxue’s strength, while the injured holy sons and holy maidens gathered in Soaring Clouds Hall in low spirits.

Xiao Ran persuaded the holy sons and holy maidens to avoid the arena while claiming their injuries had not healed, leaving the system hosts to compete for entry to the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm. Liu Yi then defended an arena until Chen Jie challenged him, and the two opened their fight with a punch and a palm strike.

• Gu Jinghong proposed asking the elders to let the holy sons and holy maidens skip the arena matches, but Ye Liang and Lei Xiao rejected the idea.
• Xiao Ran suggested they stay out of the arena and claim they were recovering from injuries; most of the holy sons and holy maidens accepted his plan, while Ye Qingxue and Ye Liang left.
• For seven days, the holy sons and holy maidens avoided the arena, so the system hosts began competing for entry to the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm.
• Liu Yi entered an arena, intimidated one challenger into admitting defeat, and defended the arena while watching the other matches.
• Chen Jie challenged Liu Yi near the end of his defense period, confident that his rebuilt treasure body had made him stronger.
• Chen Jie attacked with a fierce punch, and Liu Yi countered with the Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm.

Liu Yi defeated Chen Jie with one palm strike, securing his entry to the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm. Seven days before the arena matches ended, Qian Duoduo returned from seclusion and faced Ye Liang, leaving the two to begin separate arena bouts before their showdown.

• Liu Yi gravely injured Chen Jie with a single palm strike, and Chen Jie vowed to surpass him before returning to the Chen Household's encampment.
• Chen Fan and Chen Lin suspected Liu Yi was a system host, then went to check on Chen Jie's injuries.
• Liu Yi secured entry to the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm and later watched the arena matches while eating spirit melon seeds.
• Qian Duoduo told Liu Yi he had emerged from seclusion and was ready to challenge Ye Liang after refining his cultivation.
• Qian Duoduo and Ye Liang agreed to take separate arenas and defeat their opponents before deciding who would win between them.

Qian Duoduo and Ye Liang fought in the arena after both revealed they had been hiding their strength, and their battle remained evenly matched. They unleashed their strongest techniques, and the resulting blast sent both men crashing onto the platform, injured and spitting blood.

• Qian Duoduo defeated Li Lei with his copper coins and then challenged Ye Liang.
• Qian Duoduo and Ye Liang clashed with their copper coins and Blazing Sun Sphere, each realizing the other had concealed his strength.
• The two exchanged accusations and curses before resuming their fierce, evenly matched fight.
• Qian Duoduo formed a net of light with his Coin Formation while Ye Liang unleashed his Sun Annihilation.
• Ye Liang's black sun exploded, shattering the net and blasting both fighters across the platform, where they spat blood.

Qian Duoduo defeated Ye Liang with his newly created Money Asks the Way Law Technique, which briefly forced Ye Liang to pursue a copper coin. After Ye Liang conceded and left to heal, Qian Duoduo presented the victory as proof that hard work could overcome poor aptitude, while Ye Liang kept the Fairness System secret.

• Ye Liang and Qian Duoduo survived the blast of Ye Liang’s newly created move, and Qian Duoduo decided to try his own Law Technique.
• Qian Duoduo used Money Asks the Way to make Ye Liang lunge for a copper coin, then trapped him with four more coins hovering overhead.
• Ye Liang admitted defeat and asked about Qian Duoduo’s strange technique, but Qian Duoduo refused to explain it.
• Liu Yi praised Qian Duoduo’s victory and urged him to refine his technique and keep cultivating in case Ye Liang challenged him again.
• Qian Duoduo told the crowd that hard work could overcome poor aptitude, while Ye Liang concealed the truth about Qian Duoduo’s artificial Heavenly Spirit Root and the Fairness System.
• Ye Liang called Qian Duoduo thick-faced and left to heal, as livestream viewers discussed the system and imagined cultivation-world beauties competing for Energy Points.

After the arena tournament ended, Liu Yi prepared for the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm while urging Little Yellow to cultivate. He discovered that the Puppet Sect had developed mass-produced mechanical puppets for labor and combat, and learned that they could follow instructions but had not awakened intelligence.

• Liu Yi warned Qian Duoduo that his boasts about Duoduo Lending could provoke people to attack him, but Qian Duoduo still advertised before returning to the Heavenly Revelation Sect to heal.
• The Immortal-Devil Secret Realm arena tournament ended, and Liu Yi decided to spend the remaining three days cultivating and checking social media.
• Liu Yi released Little Yellow and ordered him to cultivate in seclusion before entering the Pet Space again when the secret realm opened.
• Liu Yi watched Zhong Lingxiu present the Puppet Sect’s mechanical puppets, which could perform labor and fight using several kinds of power.
• Liu Yi checked the Mission Hall and learned that the puppets used mechanisms and formations, could follow instructions, and had not awakened intelligence; the Puppet Sect had received a system reward.

Liu Yi tested an intelligent mechanical puppet and surveyed how the mortal world had changed before entering the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm. Separated from the other entrants in the Devil Beast Forest, he decided to head toward the realm’s core to comprehend the Great Dao Principles.

• Liu Yi bought and tested an intelligent mechanical puppet, demonstrating its abilities to Little Yellow.
• Liu Yi watched videos about changes in daily life and reflected on how much the mortal world had advanced.
• Liu Yi joined nearly ten thousand qualified cultivators waiting outside the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm and considered the dangers ahead, including Bai Qianqian’s presence.
• Liu Yi entered the secret realm through its spatial gate and found himself alone in a strange forest.
• Liu Yi recognized the forest as the Devil Beast Forest, assessed its chaotic energies and dangerous inhabitants, and resolved to make for the secret realm’s core.

Liu Yi survived an attack by devil trees and a horde of Devil Beasts, then discovered he could refine the secret realm’s mixed energies into World True Power. Ten days later, he reached a dangerous Blood River blocking his route toward the heart of the Immortal-Devil Secret Realm.

• Liu Yi found that the secret realm had slowed the system and sealed his cultivation, but his connection to Xuanyi World remained intact.
• Liu Yi destroyed ten devil trees, then fought through a seemingly endless horde of Devil Beasts and killed a Nascent Soul Realm devil that had attacked him.
• Liu Yi realized he could refine Devil Qi, Sha Qi, and other energies into World True Power, saving the energy stored in his system.
• After flying for ten days from the Devil Beast Forest, Liu Yi reached the Blood River and saw Resentful Sha Blood Corpses filling its waters.
• Liu Yi lamented his bad luck as he faced the Blood River, where powerful corpses guarded the crossing.

Liu Yi tried to cross the blood river, where Resentful Sha Blood Corpses swarmed him and a powerful Devil Resentful Sha Blood Corpse blocked his path. He wounded the Devil corpse and cleared a way through the pursuing horde, but it attacked him again as he continued toward the opposite bank.

• Liu Yi watched a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator die after Resentful Sha Blood Corpses overwhelmed him in the river.
• Liu Yi flew across the river, using the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram to deflect attacks and their force to speed his crossing.
• A powerful Devil Resentful Sha Blood Corpse rose from the river and attacked Liu Yi, claiming it wanted revenge.
• Liu Yi armed himself with his Law Treasures and struck the Devil corpse into the river with the Heaven-Opening Divine Ability.
• Liu Yi cut through a large group of pursuing blood corpses, but the wounded Devil Resentful Sha Blood Corpse emerged and attacked him with three saber strikes.

Liu Yi escaped the Resentful Sha Blood Corpses across the blood river and reached the Undead Bone Sea, where he found the ripe Life Origin Fruits and a crowd of rival cultivators. He considered how to take the Life Origin Tree with him as the others watched him warily.

• Liu Yi fought off two Resentful Sha Blood Corpses and escaped to the opposite bank of the blood river.
• Liu Yi recovered, identified the desolate region as the Undead Bone Sea, and flew toward the secret realm's core.
• Liu Yi discovered the Life Origin Tree, entered its barrier of life, and saw that its forty-nine Life Origin Fruits were ripe.
• Liu Yi found more than three hundred cultivators beneath the tree, including Ye Qingxue, Xie Tong, Ye Xuanxiao, Su Yaoguang, and Bai Shuyan.
• Liu Yi considered whether he could uproot the Life Origin Tree while the other cultivators eyed him warily.

Liu Yi watched Shi Long’s attempt to divide the Life Origin Fruits between the Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators and the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators spark a confrontation. While the two sides argued and fought, Liu Yi seized forty fruits and prepared to take the rest.

• Liu Yi discovered that the Life Origin Tree could not be uprooted without taking the surrounding world with it, then agreed with Shi Long to divide the forty-nine fruits among the ten Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators and the others.
• Shi Long announced the proposed division, and the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators protested that the sealed Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators had no right to claim so many fruits.
• Shi Long attacked Sun Zheng, but Sun Zheng held his own, emboldening the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
• Li Yun threatened the crowd, while a cultivator urged Ye Qingxue to lead them against the Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators; Ye Qingxue said their proposed division was unreasonable and challenged them to fight.
• Liu Yi decided to take the fruits himself, collected forty, and prepared to seize the remaining ones as the others shouted at him to stop.

Liu Yi fought off cultivators trying to take the Life Origin Fruits, defeating Shi Long and Li Yun and driving back the crowd with his Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm. As he held back from seriously injuring them, he sensed someone attack him with the same palm technique.

• Xie Tong and Ye Qingxue collected the two remaining Life Origin Fruits while Liu Yi faced the pursuing cultivators.
• Shi Long attacked Liu Yi, but Liu Yi shattered his Sword Qi with one palm strike and sent him crashing toward the ground.
• Li Yun rallied the cultivators to charge Liu Yi, who burned away his Gu insects and knocked him into a branch of the Life Origin Tree.
• Liu Yi fought back the charging cultivators with repeated palm strikes, deliberately controlling his strength because he would need their help later.
• Liu Yi sensed a familiar Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm coming toward him.

Liu Yi defeated the cultivators besieging him, while Xie Tong and Ye Qingxue separately realized that Liu Xuan was Liu Yi. Ye Qingxue challenged him to a spar, and their strongest attacks collided as the chapter ended.

• Liu Yi countered Bai Shuyan's Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm and sent him crashing into the Life Origin Tree.
• Liu Yi defeated Ye Xuanxiao and Su Yaoguang's combined sword attack, then neutralized Xie Tong's Heavenly Secret Finger and threw him aside unharmed.
• Xie Tong deduced that Liu Xuan was Liu Yi and stopped attacking him.
• Liu Yi defeated the remaining cultivators, while Ye Qingxue recognized him and asked to spar.
• Ye Qingxue transformed into a divine sword with the Body-Turning-into-a-Sword Technique, and Liu Yi met her attack with the Blazing Sun Star-Shattering Palm.

After defeating Ye Qingxue and claiming the Life Origin Fruits, Liu Yi discovered that an enormous undead army surrounded the life barrier and prepared to lead the cultivators in a breakout. During five days of recovery, he used World Origin to grow more Life Origin Trees and spoke with Xie Tong before calling everyone to fight their way out.

• Liu Yi defeated Ye Qingxue, and the gathered cultivators accepted that he had won the Life Origin Fruits.
• Liu Yi urged the cultivators to inspect the area beyond the life barrier, where they discovered a vast undead army surrounding them.
• Liu Yi said an undead king likely controlled the army and told everyone to recover so they could break through together.
• Liu Yi planted a Life Origin Tree branch in the Xuanyi World with World Origin, then grew more trees from additional branches.
• Liu Yi exchanged Microchat messages with Xie Tong, who thanked him for holding back and congratulated him on reaching the Divine Acupoint Realm.
• After five days, Liu Yi saw that the cultivators had recovered and called them to begin their breakout.