Chapter Summaries

Tang Tianshu tested Su Liyue’s Profound Spirit Pearl, freed her, and helped her escape Blood Yin Mountain. After she entrusted him with the Profound Fire Token’s instructions and he appeared to flee, he returned with two Blood Yin Sect disciples and revealed his betrayal.

• Tang Tianshu fused Su Liyue’s Profound Spirit Pearl into his Primordial Spirit and verified that it repelled a Blood-Devouring Worm before removing the needles from her back.
• Tang Tianshu and Su Liyue slipped past sleeping guards, and he led her along a route out of Blood Yin Mountain while she recovered her strength.
• When the Blood Yin Sect’s alarm sounded, Su Liyue gave Tang Tianshu the mnemonic for the Profound Fire Token and urged him to flee, but he promised to return and flew north.
• Su Liyue waited in a cave, believing Tang Tianshu had escaped, and resolved to practice Heaven and Earth Dual Cultivation with him if they survived.
• Tang Tianshu returned with two Blood Yin Sect disciples, and Mu Ping’er mocked Su Liyue while Tang claimed he had earned a great achievement by obtaining the Profound Fire Token.

Tang Tianshu spared Su Liyue after Mu Ping'er seized the Profound Fire Token, planning to use the Kun Origin Sect holy maiden as leverage once he could escape the Blood Yin Sect. Though he hoped his contribution would keep him out of the Spirit Sunflower Secret Realm, Mu Ping'er said she could not overrule Qian Zekun's order.

• Mu Ping'er struck down Su Liyue, while the Right Protector objected that she still knew the Profound Fire Token's mnemonic.
• Tang Tianshu discovered Su Liyue was alive, gave her a pill, and told her to keep quiet about the Profound Spirit Pearl and his knowledge of the mnemonic.
• Tang Tianshu admitted his feelings for Su Liyue had been partly false, but promised to free her from the Blood Yin Sect after reaching Foundation Establishment.
• Tang Tianshu carried Su Liyue back toward the Blood Yin Sect, intending to keep her alive as leverage with the stronger Kun Origin Sect.
• Tang Tianshu asked Mu Ping'er to excuse him from the Spirit Sunflower Secret Realm because he had helped obtain the Profound Fire Token.
• Mu Ping'er said Qian Zekun had already ordered Tang Tianshu to go, leaving Tang Tianshu to protest that his low cultivation would get him killed.

Mu Ping'er sent Tang Tianshu to the Spirit Sunflower Secret Realm despite his objections, giving him pills and Invisibility Talisman Treasures for protection. After arriving with the Blood Yin Sect disciples, Tang Tianshu was left alone when the groups formed, and chose to make a team of one.

• Mu Ping'er insisted Tang Tianshu travel to the Spirit Sunflower Secret Realm and let him keep any herbs or treasures he found.
• Mu Ping'er gave Tang Tianshu pills and three Invisibility Talisman Treasures, which could hide him from Foundation Establishment cultivators and Demon Beasts for thirty-six hours.
• Tang Tianshu decided to bring forward his plan to leave the Blood Yin Sect and gather as many herbs and materials as he could during the trip.
• After more than twenty days of travel, the twenty Blood Yin Sect disciples arrived at the Spirit Sunflower Secret Realm, and Wang Shan organized them into groups.
• The disciples formed three groups, leaving Tang Tianshu alone; Wang Shan offered to assign him to a team if he handed over his finds, but Tang Tianshu declined.
• Gu Linglong offered to let Tang Tianshu join her team and keep his finds, but he refused and chose to make a team of one.

Tang Tianshu crossed the Spirit Sunflower Secret Realm alone, keeping a low profile while searching for overlooked spirit herbs and burying dead cultivators. In a cave, he witnessed Zhou An attack Chen Hongling, then saw Chu Li intervene and lure Zhou An away, leaving Tang Tianshu a chance to escape.

• Tang Tianshu traveled across the secret realm instead of heading straight for its center, hoping to avoid other cultivators while gathering spirit herbs.
• Tang Tianshu reached the middle region, buried two cultivators’ remains, and hid in a cave after sensing someone approaching.
• Zhou An and Chen Hongling entered the cave, where Zhou An threatened Chen Hongling and began tearing off her clothes.
• Zhou An spotted Tang Tianshu and threw a dart at him, but Chu Li emerged from a crack in the rocks and deflected it.
• Chu Li fought Zhou An and fled from the cave, with Zhou An pursuing him; Tang Tianshu then ran for the exit.

Tang Tianshu found Chen Hongling and then hurried toward the Spirit Sunflower Secret Realm’s center, where Su Li and Zhou An were fighting. After learning Su Li might possess a Law Treasure that accelerated his cultivation, Tang Tianshu concealed himself and watched, unsure which combatant to help.

• Tang Tianshu covered Chen Hongling with his robe, then took it back, stole her lifebound jade pendant, and gave her a pill so she could move again and take revenge on Zhou An.
• Tang Tianshu headed toward the secret realm’s center and overheard Zhou An accuse Su Li of possessing a special Law Treasure that had helped him advance rapidly.
• Tang Tianshu hid near Su Li and Zhou An as they fought, observing Su Li use the Five Elements Sword Formation and a small purple shield against Zhou An’s talisman treasure and sword.
• Su Li spent nearly twenty Spirit Stones to strengthen his formation, while Tang Tianshu realized he had more than ten Spirit Stones left and wondered whether to interfere.
• Zhou An abandoned his defensive wind blades and launched a direct attack, leaving Su Li’s formation unable to protect him as Tang Tianshu hesitated over whom to help.

Chen Hongling killed Zhou An and sent Su Li after Tang Tianshu, who escaped and continued toward the Spirit Sunflower Secret Realm’s central region. When Tang Tianshu followed distress signals from fifteen Blood Yin Sect disciples, he arrived to find many of them brutally slaughtered.

• Chen Hongling recovered from the pill Tang Tianshu gave her, killed Zhou An, and questioned Su Li about the masked demonic sect disciple.
• Chen Hongling gave Zhou An’s belongings to Su Li, secured his silence, and promised a Foundation Establishment Pill if he captured Tang Tianshu.
• Su Li chopped Zhou An into mincemeat and left; Tang Tianshu avoided confronting him and headed east.
• On the seventh day, Tang Tianshu sensed fifteen fellow disciples in danger and went to investigate, hoping to help and find an opportunity.
• Tang Tianshu arrived with a flourish and found a blood-soaked scene, with seven or eight disciples’ remains scattered about and three nailed to trees.

Tang Tianshu found the surviving Blood Yin Sect disciples after Kui San massacred their companions, then agreed to track Kui San in exchange for Gu Linglong’s Foundation Establishment Pill. He followed Kui San’s trail with two puppets and hid when the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation detected approaching cultivators.

• Tang Tianshu rescued Gu Linglong and the brothers Liu Wen and Liu Wu from the trees and treated their injuries.
• Liu Wen and Gu Linglong told Tang Tianshu that Kui San had ambushed their groups, killed many disciples, and fled after robbing them.
• Gu Linglong asked Tang Tianshu to track Kui San and promised him her Foundation Establishment Pill if he found him.
• Tang Tianshu accepted, learned the direction Kui San had gone, and set out with two puppets summoned by his soul-summoning bell.
• After using Gu Linglong’s invisibility talisman, Tang Tianshu detected cultivators approaching and retreated to watch through his puppets’ eyes.

Tang Tianshu used his puppet to intervene when Kui San attacked Su Li and Miao Qian, hoping to protect Su Li and test the puppet against a Qi Refining Stage cultivator. Su Li activated his Five Elements Sword Formation and weakened Kui San, but the chapter ended as Kui San punched through the puppet’s chest.

• Tang Tianshu watched Su Li rest inside defensive formations, then saw Miao Qian flee into the clearing with Kui San pursuing her.
• Su Li and Miao Qian fought Kui San, but Kui San seized Miao Qian’s bronze mirror and killed her as she tried to escape.
• Kui San advanced on Su Li before Tang Tianshu’s hardened puppet charged him and held him long enough for Su Li to strike his back.
• Su Li activated his Five Elements Sword Formation and pressed Kui San with flying swords and wind blades while the puppet prepared another attack.
• Kui San sent his black blade at Su Li’s spirit sword and punched straight through the puppet’s chest.