Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang and Yang Yuanzhen determined that Dust-Leaving had sensed an anomaly on a Xuanyuan Clan cultivator despite him carrying no Upper Cultivator Will. Chen Yang alerted Dark Underworld Venerable to monitor the Xuanyuan Clan, but remained puzzled by Dust-Leaving’s ability to pierce the Sea Pavilion True Lord’s concealment.

• Chen Yang examined Dust-Leaving’s reaction and asked Yang Yuanzhen whether the Xuanyuan Clan cultivator carried an Upper Cultivator Will.
• Yang Yuanzhen reported that Dust-Leaving’s familiarity with Upper Cultivators suggested the man had no such Will, and speculated that its reaction was connected to the Sea Pavilion True Lord’s arrangements.
• Chen Yang compared the man with Cang Yu and Cang Xun and considered that he might have submitted to the Sea Pavilion True Lord voluntarily.
• Chen Yang sent a warning through the Dao Academy decree, asking Dark Underworld Venerable to watch the Xuanyuan Clan’s developments.
• Chen Yang wondered how Dust-Leaving had detected the anomaly through the Sea Pavilion True Lord’s concealment methods.

Chen Yang and Yang Yuanzhen discovered that Dust-Leaving could sense nearby threats, giving the Yang Clan a second way to track superior cultivator wills and Immortal Treasures. Chen Yang guided Yang Yuanzhen through reasoning about the suspicious Xuanyuan Clan cultivator, and her group then entered the Secret Realm.

• Chen Yang realized Yang Yuanzhen's Dust-Leaving could sense beings within a few zhang, while Blood Sun Venerable God's Blood Qi Tracing Method remained under development.
• Chen Yang considered how the Yang Clan could use both tracking methods and noted that Yang Yuanxing needed to make better use of his talent for refining spirit pearls.
• Yang Yuanzhen asked whether the suspicious cultivator had seen through her disguise, and Chen Yang judged that he had only found her unusual.
• Chen Yang advised Yang Yuanzhen to examine the situation from the other person's perspective, and she reasoned that someone who knew her identity would have stayed hidden rather than draw her attention.
• Chen Yang taught Yang Yuanzhen to step outside her own perspective when faced with confusion, and her group entered the Secret Realm.

After demonic cultivators sabotaged the passages to the Five Elements Secret Realm, the Immortal Mansion ancestors stabilized them and alerted the Yang Clan and Lingxiao Dao Academy. They realized the main demonic force had entered with the first groups, leaving the young cultivators inside at risk as the righteous leaders waited to learn what would happen.

• Demonic cultivators destroyed their bodies to disrupt the passages, prompting the Immortal Mansion guards to alert their ancestors.
• Venerable Shu Xi and the other ancestors stabilized the passages and called on the Yang Clan and Lingxiao Dao Academy for help.
• Mo Yunzhou, He Shenglai, and others screened the cultivators waiting to enter and uncovered another group of demonic cultivators from Demon Soil.
• The righteous leaders inferred that the main demonic force had already entered the Secret Realm and intended to attack while the passages remained unstable.
• Tu Shanfu worried for the core disciples inside, while Venerable Shu Xi and Liu Fangran argued that the Yang Clan and the Dao Academy should share responsibility for the attack.

A group of righteous cultivators learned that demonic cultivators had sabotaged the Secret Realm passageway and trapped them inside. Their supposed leader revealed that he and the others were demons on a hunt, then repelled two cultivators who attacked him.

• A disciple described how demonic cultivators burst apart inside the passageway, scattering everyone across the Secret Realm.
• The cultivators concluded that the demons had destroyed the passageway to isolate them and target the righteous cultivators.
• The group agreed to return, warn other righteous cultivators, and hunt down the demons, but their leader urged them to stay.
• The leader revealed that the demons had come to begin a hunt, and the crimson-robed cultivator and one-armed cultivator attacked him.
• The demonic cultivator blocked their spells with flaming black chains and dismissed their attacks as mere tricks.

A red-robed cultivator held off a demonic cultivator to let a junior escape, but revealed that he had concealed his strength. The demonic cultivator tried to defend himself as an unseen attack erupted from the ground.

• The demonic cultivator mocked the red-robed cultivator for risking his life to protect a junior and argued that fleeing would have been the rational choice.
• The red-robed cultivator reflected on the demonic cultivator’s words as he faced three incoming Blackflame Chains.
• The chains pierced the red-robed cultivator without drawing blood, and the demonic cultivator realized his attack had struck an illusion or otherwise failed to hit him.
• The demonic cultivator recalled his Blackflame Chains around himself and searched for the unseen red-robed cultivator.
• The red-robed cultivator’s voice declared that every choice would lead to the same result for the demonic cultivator, and a blast of blood-energy technique erupted from the ground.

After killing a demonic cultivator, Chi Tian consumed part of his body to extract information and sent what he learned to the other Secret Realms. The group learned that the demonic cultivators were hunting living creatures for a ritual, while Bai Yu offered to share ways to counter their arts.

• Chi Tian used the essence of his blood vitality to help the injured righteous cultivators recover, but left them unconscious to conceal his identity.
• Chi Tian killed the demonic cultivator rather than interrogate him because the Black Lotus Mark could erase his consciousness and soul.
• Chi Tian consumed part of the demonic cultivator's body to extract information, then sent his findings to Chen Huai'an, Lin Qiao, and the others through a dragon-scale treasure.
• Lin Qiao and Ming Fang looked to Bai Yu after hearing about the Black Lotus Mark and black-flame chains; Bai Yu denied commanding the attackers and offered countermeasures for their arts.
• Chi Tian's transmission revealed that the demonic cultivators were hunting living creatures to complete a ritual or sacrifice for an unknown purpose.

Chen Yang’s immortal body headed to the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound to ascend, using the rite to test how the Upper Realm would respond to Wu Chang’s lingering aura. He also prepared a fallback with Xu Cang in case the Upper Cultivators set a trap.

• Lin Qiao sent her Immortal Venerable a Thought Transmission because she could not decide what to do about the unclear situation.
• Chen Yang’s immortal body left the Yang Family Sacred Land and traveled toward the Vast Sea Demonic Land to prepare for his ascension.
• Chen Yang had chosen the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound because Upper Cultivators had once descended there, making it seem like a place they might target.
• Chen Yang secretly planned to expose Wu Chang’s lingering divine power and gauge the Upper Realm’s response by ascending at the burial mound.
• Chen Yang and Xu Cang prepared a fallback to restore contact between the Upper Realm and Azure Waves if the Upper Cultivators trapped him.
• Chen Yang suspected Bai Di’s true aim in the Immortal Abode Secret Realm was not the Five Elements Blood Crystal.

Lin Qiao and Bai Yu split from Ming Fang and Xu Zheng to suppress demonic cultivators while the others searched the Earth Dao Secret Realm. Across the five Secret Realms, demonic attacks stalled exploration, so the Upper Realm people decided to use the crisis to approach the Yang Clan members indirectly.

• Lin Qiao and Bai Yu agreed to suppress demonic cultivators, while Ming Fang and Xu Zheng went to search for the Trial Ground.
• Demonic cultivators across the five Secret Realms ambushed righteous cultivators, sealing their cultivation and consciousness with Blackflame Chains.
• Righteous cultivators learned of the threat, but the demonic cultivators' concealment slowed exploration across the Secret Realms.
• The Old Devil urged the senior cultivators' soul fragments to wipe out the demonic cultivators, but the Confluence Faction senior warned that acting directly could expose their mission.
• The Dao Academy ancestor proposed using the demonic threat to approach the Yang Clan members indirectly, and the Upper Realm people began to act.

Chen Huai'an met Zhang Tao in the Water Dao Secret Realm and recognized the value of his ability to sense demonic energy. He rewarded Zhang Tao with a Water Origin Pearl, while Chen Yang was still on his way to the Demon Soil to discuss how to handle its powerful Demon Sect grandmaster.

• The Yang Clan cultivators informed Chen Yang about the Demon Soil grandmaster, and Chen Yang planned to discuss the matter with Bai Di after arriving.
• The New Heaven cultivators were left to handle the Immortal Abode Secret Realm, with instructions to rescue misled demonic cultivators if possible and execute them if necessary.
• A Penglai Palace disciple brought Zhang Tao from Water Cloud Temple to Chen Huai'an.
• Chen Huai'an calmed Zhang Tao and learned that his Pure Water Art could sense sinister arts and demonic techniques, helping the group anticipate two attacks.
• Chen Huai'an formed a Water Origin Pearl from his Dao arts and presented it as a reward for Zhang Tao.

As Zhang Tao refined the Water Origin Pearl, the three Upper Cultivator wills discovered that Chen Huai'an had a connection to Creation Origin and planned to keep serving as his assistants. Unnoticed by them, a specially crafted strand of blood aura entered Zhang Tao’s body, evading their senses.

• Zhang Tao absorbed the Water Origin Pearl, and the three Upper Cultivator wills sensed Creation Origin in Chen Huai'an’s water-technique comprehension.
• The Soul Fragment of the Confluence Faction concluded that the Yang Clan Prodigies had encountered Creation Origin and planned to earn Chen Huai'an’s trust to learn more.
• The old demon proposed refining the demon informant for his Soul Dao cultivation, but the Dao Academy ancestor rejected the idea to avoid drawing attention.
• The three Upper Cultivator wills agreed to continue acting as Zhang Tao and assist Chen Huai'an until they reached the Land of Supreme Treasures.
• A strand of blood aura entered Zhang Tao while he refined the pearl, escaping detection because it shared the Upper Realm lineage of the three wills.

Yang Yuanxing presented Chen Yang with eight Strange Stones, prompting Chen Yang to reconsider whether purer Exotic Stones could grant him new divine abilities. The chapter left Chen Yang examining the stones after receiving two from Dark Underworld Venerable and learning about Strange Stones from Xu Cang.

• Yang Yuanxing summoned eight Strange Stones and presented them to Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang recalled that consuming ordinary Exotic Stones after reaching the Spiritual Connection Realm had granted him no benefits and had created impurities in his body.
• Chen Yang learned from Xu Cang that Primal Exotic Stones, also called Strange Stones, were unusually pure and could possess stable effects.
• Chen Yang befriended Dark Underworld Venerable after helping resolve the Lower Realm chaos caused by Lang Xiao and the other two.
• Chen Yang asked Dark Underworld Venerable about Strange Stones at Yang Yuanhong's wedding, and Dark Underworld Venerable gave him two from the Dao Academy's treasure vault.

Chen Yang received the eight Strange Stones gathered by Xue Qingluan and Yin Er and prepared to test their abilities before refining them. He promised Yang Yuanxing that his children, Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi, could return home for a month, then discovered the first stone’s actual power did not match its recorded ability.

• Chen Yang praised Xue Qingluan and Yin Er for finding the Strange Stones and ordered rewards prepared for them.
• Yang Yuanxing asked about his children’s cultivation, and Chen Yang promised Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi could visit home for a month.
• Yang Yuanxing left the Fifth Layer Heaven Domain and shared the news with his two wives.
• Chen Yang isolated Shenlin Peak and began examining the six newly gathered Strange Stones.
• Chen Yang tested a stone recorded as having the ability “Silencing” and found that sound vibrations still traveled normally within its range.

Chen Yang absorbed eight strange stones and gained six of their abilities, while two awakened stones pleaded to remain independent by acknowledging him as their master. He accepted their request, leaving the two spirits within his body and the other six absorbed.

• Chen Yang used Zhen Xuan to devour the eight strange stones, causing their Spirit Storage Spaces to gather into a ring of light inside him.
• Two of the stones awakened primitive consciousness and begged Chen Yang not to absorb them, offering to acknowledge him as their master.
• Chen Yang accepted the two stones’ request and drew their Spiritual Sense into his consciousness.
• Chen Yang absorbed the remaining six stones and gained their abilities of illusion, insight, lightning summoning, soul lodging, light concealment, and sound preservation.
• The two stones that acknowledged Chen Yang left fine black and yellow patterns etched into his crystalline body.

Chen Yang summoned Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi to test their divine abilities, while Yang Xuancang continued cultivating nearby. The siblings raced to the mountaintop, each borrowing divine power to gain an advantage, and Yang Xuanxi began catching up after using her Wind-Spirit Illusory Body Art.

• Chen Yang arrived in the Stone-Body Grotto-Heaven and saw Yang Xuancang tempering his body in the Sea of Grotto-Heavens.
• Chen Yang summoned Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi to the mountaintop.
• Yang Xuanhao froze the path with power borrowed from Frost Flower Venerable God and glided ahead using a movement art.
• Yang Xuanxi borrowed power from Fu Yin High God and Yanming High God, then used the Wind-Spirit Illusory Body Art to chase Yang Xuanhao.

Yang Xuanxi gained entry into a Dao-Unification Divine Art, impressing Chen Yang and Yang Xuanhao with a light-based movement technique formed from Yan Ming’s divine power. Her breakthrough gave Chen Yang hope that Dao-Unification methods could eventually let Path Seeking Realm cultivators apply spatial laws in concrete ways.

• Chen Yang praised Yang Xuanxi for combining diligent cultivation with deep thought, and Yang Xuanhao congratulated her after realizing she had begun cultivating a Dao-Unification Divine Art.
• Yang Xuanxi modestly said she had only just started and still had a long way to go before mastering the art.
• Chen Yang reflected that the four Divine-Blooded children could cultivate divine arts more easily, and that he had guided Yang Xuanxi toward light techniques suited to her affinity with Yan Ming.
• Chen Yang recognized Yang Xuanxi’s new art as a high-speed movement technique that used reflections of the great sun’s radiance, though its full applications remained unknown.
• Chen Yang saw her breakthrough as a promising step toward enabling Path Seeking Realm cultivators to use spatial Dao laws in practical ways.

Chen Yang tested Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi’s cultivation by presenting them with unfamiliar divine abilities and promising a month-long visit home if they impressed him. The first test began with an illusion that concealed Chen Yang, leaving the siblings to analyze how it worked.

• Yang Xuanhao praised Yang Xuanxi’s cultivation achievement, then explained that her diligence and self-reflection had helped her uncover her talent while he had relied too much on others’ power.
• Chen Yang brought out six unfamiliar divine abilities and two strange stones, then offered the siblings a month at their family home if they performed well in his test.
• Chen Yang created an independent space and unleashed the first, illusion-type divine ability, vanishing along with his Stone Body Incarnation.
• Yang Xuanhao quickly sensed the illusion’s workings, while Yang Xuanxi struggled to understand it and asked how it differed from High God Fu Yin’s technique.
• Yang Xuanhao explained that Fu Yin’s Illusory Colors Divine Technique created a convincing realm by changing things’ inner and outer forms and auras.

Chen Yang tested his lightning divine ability against Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi, increasing its power as the siblings worked together to resist it. The chapter ended with Yang Xuanxi forging a blood-and-thunder saber and striking at Chen Yang’s strongest lightning.

• Chen Yang restored Yang Xuanhao and Yang Xuanxi, then warned them that his lightning divine ability could be dangerous.
• Yang Xuanhao summoned the Blood Sun Venerable God’s power and broke apart Chen Yang’s initial azure lightning bolt.
• As Chen Yang intensified the lightning, Yang Xuanxi gathered its remnants with the Divine Artificer Technique while Yang Xuanhao defended her.
• Yang Xuanhao offered blood cores from his palms, and Yang Xuanxi fused them with the thunder aura to forge a crimson saber.
• Yang Xuanxi unleashed the Blood Thunder Slash against the falling red lightning, sending violent residual energy surging outward.

Chen Yang summoned the newly transformed Stone Spirits Thought Severance and Eroding Decay so Chen Huaien could test their cultivation. Chen Huaien placed them in his alchemy furnace for a trial by fire, while Chen Yang insisted the flames remain steady and Chen Huaien watched closely to ensure they survived.

• Chen Yang summoned Thought Severance and Eroding Decay, who greeted him and Chen Huaien.
• Chen Yang explained that the two Stone Spirits came from the eight Strange Stones Xue Qingluan and Yin Er had recovered, and that he had summoned them to test their cultivation.
• Chen Huaien summoned his alchemy furnace and unleashed its spiritual blue flames, then told the Stone Spirits to enter.
• Thought Severance and Eroding Decay nervously jumped into the furnace, and Chen Huaien closed the lid as they began struggling inside.
• Chen Huaien offered to reduce the heat, but Chen Yang refused and said the Stone Spirits needed to endure the trial.
• Chen Huaien monitored the furnace carefully, ready to extinguish the flames if either Stone Spirit faced mortal danger.

Chen Yang tested Thought Severance and Eroding Decay’s divine abilities with Chen Huaien, encouraging Thought Severance to keep developing control over Thought Transmission. Eroding Decay’s acid proved less effective against Chen Huaien’s profound protective spell, and Chen Huaien compared its corrosive effect on his body and clone.

• Chen Huaien suggested that Thought Severance learn to control the range and strength of his divine power to better conceal Thought Transmission.
• Thought Severance admitted he could not yet control the contents of Thought Transmission, and Chen Yang reassured him and encouraged him to cultivate.
• Chen Huaien tested Eroding Decay’s acid against spiritual energy and true essence defenses, and it corroded both.
• Chen Huaien used a protective spell combining Fire Method True Intent and Soul Path True Intent, which resisted Eroding Decay’s acid far more effectively.
• Chen Huaien asked Eroding Decay to put acid on the hands of his main body and clone, and the acid left their palms in different states.

Chen Yang helped Eroding Decay transform Zhen Xuan power into a corrosive smoke and tested its effects on his stone body. The smoke proved capable of bypassing his Zhen Xuan defense, though his Black Armor easily dispelled it, leaving Chen Yang pleased with the divine ability’s potential.

• Chen Yang transferred a wisp of Zhen Xuan power into Eroding Decay and helped him refine it through his divine ability over several days.
• Eroding Decay transformed the Zhen Xuan into grayish-brown corrosive smoke, and Chen Yang had him release it onto his stone body.
• The smoke mimicked Chen Yang’s Zhen Xuan aura, passed through his defense, and corroded his stone body, but failed to harm his divine soul.
• Chen Yang summoned Black Armor, which stripped away the smoke and protected his stone body.
• Chen Yang considered how the corrosive divine ability could grow stronger with higher-grade power of heaven and earth.