Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Yingcai guided the Tiger Chasing cultivators, offered them connections and advice, and reassured He Shenglai and Shen Yue about the Yang Family. The group returned to Baishi City resolved to grow stronger, while the immortal vessel set off for the Yang Family’s eastern frontier fief.

• Dongfang Yingcai discussed the duel with He Shenglai and Shen Yue, answered the cultivators’ questions, and offered several of them introductions to Central Region experts.
• Dongfang Yingcai revealed her Cheng Yang stele ornament to He Shenglai and Shen Yue, reassuring them that the Yang Family was not in immediate danger.
• He Shenglai and Shen Yue distributed Dongfang Yingcai’s gifts, then told the others in Baishi City that the Yang Family still had a chance to resolve its predicament.
• He Shenglai urged the Tiger Chasing cultivators to strengthen themselves so they could help Ling Rui and the Yang Family and face future crises.
• The Dynasty’s forces prepared for the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm, and the immortal vessel departed for the Yang Family’s eastern frontier fief.

Dongfang Yingcai visited the recovering Wu Tong and treated her with precious pills and medicines, restoring her mobility and lost lifespan. As Wu Tong improved, Chen Yang considered how to integrate the Immortal Dao’s hundred arts with Divine Dao methods and planned to gather practitioners of the four foundational arts after the Secret Realm matter was settled.

• Dongfang Yingcai traveled with Yang Lingqing to the Yang Family’s fief and visited Wu Tong, who was still weakened by the cost of helping Yang Yuanhong survive his tribulation.
• Dongfang Yingcai examined Wu Tong with tiny puppets and treated her with spirit pills while Yang Lingqing helped her refine them.
• After three days of treatment, Wu Tong regained her mobility and ability to meditate, and a precious pill restored the fifty years of lifespan she had lost.
• Chen Yang reflected on the value of alchemy and considered improving the Immortal Dao’s hundred arts through the methods of the Union of Immortals and Gods.
• Chen Yang planned to summon Chen Huaien and Yao Santu after the Secret Realm matter was settled, joining Liu Zihao and himself to work on talismans, formations, artifacts, and pills.

As the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm neared its opening, Dongfang Yingcai and selected Yang Family cultivators set out to join the competition while Chen Yang prepared the family’s next steps. Central Region forces gathered at the entrance, leaving Northwest factions pushed to the outskirts, and Yang Lingrui’s long-held grudge against Solitary Moon Mountain remained unresolved.

• Dongfang Yingcai received word that the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm would open within a month, arranged protection for Wu Tong and the Yang Family’s fief, and departed with Yang Lingrui, Xue Qingluan, and He Songyi.
• Chen Yang chose only the Yang Family’s Essence Condensation cultivators for the dangerous expedition and planned for Yang Lingrui to break through to the Spiritual Connection Realm in the Secret Realm.
• Chen Yang saw Yang Lingrui gaze toward Solitary Moon Mountain, where his anger over the Yang Family’s old debts and grudges continued to build.
• The Donglai Sect’s immortal vessel returned to Pine Mountain, collected two True Intent Cultivators at Tiger Chasing Imperial Capital, and continued toward the Secret Realm entrance.
• Immortal vessels from the Northwest and Central Region gathered at the entrance, where Central Region allies secured the best positions and local Northwest forces were relegated to the outskirts.
• A Central Region vessel with a single True Intent Mid-stage cultivator took the position closest to the Secret Realm entrance.

The Donglai Sect’s immortal boat challenged the Central Region powers by ascending past them, but its two True Intent Cultivators were forced back by a Central Region imperial dynasty. The dynasty’s cultivator then met someone aboard the boat and yielded its place after learning she was surnamed Dongfang.

• Northwest cultivators watched the Donglai Sect’s immortal boat arrive and wondered why it was heading toward the highest position.
• The Donglai Sect’s boat passed the Northwest kingdoms and Central Region powers, drawing the attention of their True Intent Cultivators.
• A True Intent Cultivator from the Central Region imperial dynasty halted the boat and pressed it downward despite the Donglai Sect cultivators’ resistance.
• The imperial dynasty’s cultivator boarded the Donglai Sect’s boat, then returned and lowered his own boat to yield its position.
• The imperial dynasty’s cultivator explained that the woman aboard the Donglai Sect’s boat had introduced herself as Dongfang.

The arrival of the Dongfang Family surprised Central Region cultivators and left a Dynasty cultivator uneasy after he had suppressed Donglai Sect’s immortal vessel. As Tiger Chasing’s forces arrived, the chapter described the rival dynasties’ strength and the First Prince’s successful rebellion against Eastern Desolation, which had left the Third Prince and Seventh Prince holding separate territories.

• A Central Region True Intent Cultivator learned that the Dongfang Family had come to the Northwest and was shocked that no one had known of its arrival.
• The Dynasty True Intent Cultivator regretted suppressing Donglai Sect’s immortal vessel, while his companion reassured him that the Dongfang Family would likely give only a verbal reprimand.
• Three immortal vessels belonging to the Tiger Chasing Dynasty appeared, carrying four True Intent Cultivators and demonstrating Tiger Chasing’s growing strength.
• The account explained that Eastern Desolation’s Third Prince relied on the dead ancestral founder’s sealed killing arts to resist the First Prince.
• The First Prince had overthrown his father and taken control of most of Eastern Desolation, while the Third Prince and Seventh Prince retained separate territories.

The major powers gathered at the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm, and Dongfang Yingcai invited Tiger Chasing to enter behind Donglai Sect. When the entrance opened, its rich spiritual aura revealed abundant opportunities, but violent spatial turbulence began to pour out.

• The First Prince's plan to join forces with his younger brother against the Third Prince collapsed after Tiger Chasing routed the younger brother and seized territory and a segment of dragon vein.
• The Tiger Chasing Grand Preceptor and Central Region True Intent Cultivators visited the other factions, then Dongfang Yingcai invited Tiger Chasing's immortal boats to follow Donglai Sect into the Secret Realm.
• He Shenglai, Shen Yue, and Zi He recognized that the Yang Family had arranged Tiger Chasing's favorable place in the entry order to help their old friends and acquaintances.
• After the gathered powers waited half a day, the entrance opened beneath the night sky and released brilliant spiritual light and a rich aura of spiritual treasures and immortal materials.
• Spatial turbulence erupted from the entrance, and the True Intent Cultivators prepared to protect the immortal boats as lightning and electric arcs fell.

Yang Lingrui refined the secret realm’s raging wind into powerful wind blades aboard the Donglai Sect’s immortal ship, while Dongfang Zonggan helped him and protected his cultivation. As spatial turbulence emerged from the entrance, a colossal heavenly soldier puppet halted it, and Dongfang Zonggan ordered the gathered cultivators to wait so Yang Lingrui would not be disturbed.

• The Northwest and Central Region cultivators watched the lightning and violent winds around the secret realm entrance, recognizing the danger they had avoided by retreating.
• Yang Lingrui asked Dongfang Zonggan to retrieve strands of the raging wind so he could study them.
• Yang Lingrui absorbed the wind essence with his Two Forms Divine Wind and formed powerful wind blades, which Dongfang Zonggan tested and judged capable of killing mid-Spiritual Connection cultivators in sufficient numbers.
• Dongfang Zonggan continued gathering wind essence while Yang Lingrui refined it, and Yang Lingrui entered an ethereal state of insight into the Soaring Book.
• Spatial turbulence began emerging from the secret realm entrance, but a colossal heavenly soldier puppet seized and stopped it.
• Dongfang Zonggan protected Yang Lingrui and told the gathered cultivators to wait while Yang Lingrui continued comprehending the Dao.

Dongfang Zonggan led the Donglai Sect into the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm ahead of the other forces and guided his juniors to its first treasures. As Dongfang Yingcai, Yang Lingrui, and the other young cultivators gathered Yellow Crisp Treasure Fruits, the chapter left the four Core Formation Realm cultivators still searching the ancient tree.

• Dongfang Zonggan dispersed the Heavenly Soldier puppet after Yang Lingrui emerged from his enlightenment, allowing spatial turbulence to surge down over the area.
• Several cloud vessels and ferries turned back, while Dongfang Zonggan steered the Donglai Sect immortal vessel through the turbulence and into the Secret Realm ahead of the others.
• Dongfang Yingcai, Yang Lingrui, and the Donglai Sect cultivators spotted Yellow Crisp Treasure Fruits on an ancient tree and flew out to collect them.
• Dongfang Zonggan praised the two Donglai Sect female True Intent Cultivators for helping the Yang Family and taught them about seven rare spiritual materials in the Secret Realm.
• The Donglai Sect cultivators returned with the fruits they could gather, while the four Core Formation Realm cultivators continued searching the tree.

Dongfang Zonggan watched the cultivators gather Yellow Crisp Treasure Fruits, then refined their fruits and guided them through a Qi Nurturing Stance. He left the two Donglai Sect cultivators with a reminder to keep practicing the ancient method.

• Dongfang Yingcai and Yang Lingrui gathered the most fruits near the canopy, while Chen Yang relied on the Stone Immortal Venerable to move through it safely.
• Xue Qingluan and He Songyi each gathered twelve fruits, leading Dongfang Zonggan to wonder whether He Songyi’s bloodline was connected to a supreme treasure in the Secret Realm.
• Dongfang Yingcai returned with eighteen fruits and Yang Lingrui with seventeen, as Yang Lingrui chose not to draw too much attention to himself.
• Dongfang Zonggan refined the gathered fruits and guided the cultivators through a stance that followed the workings of heaven and earth.
• Dongfang Zonggan urged the two Donglai Sect cultivators to practice the ancient Qi Nurturing Stance in the future, and they promised to remember his guidance.

After the group entered the Secret Realm, they harvested a treasure fruit and reached the Earth Fire Red Marsh, where He Songyi sensed a bloodline connection to something beneath the marsh. Chen Yang confirmed there was something hidden there and wondered whether the Song Clan’s bloodline was tied to the Ancient God Path.

• Dongfang Zonggan helped the group refine the Yellow Crisp Treasure Fruit, and several cultivators broke through their realms.
• Dongfang Zonggan steered the immortal vessel past minor ruins and hidden caves toward the depths of the Secret Realm.
• At the Earth Fire Red Marsh, Dongfang Zonggan dispelled the marsh’s spiritual assault on several Donglai Sect cultivators and warned everyone to act within their means.
• Yang Lingrui, Xue Qingluan, He Songyi, and other cultivators entered the red mist to temper their minds while Dongfang Zonggan went to investigate a Kirin Overturning Heaven Phenomenon.
• Chen Yang examined Dongfang Zonggan’s Heavenly Soldier puppet and reflected on the Yang Family’s need for a powerful inherited cultivation method.
• He Songyi sensed a bloodline connection to a place beneath the marsh, and Chen Yang detected something there and considered its possible link to the Ancient God Path.

Yang Lingrui, Dongfang Yingcai, Xue Qingluan, and He Songyi descended into a boiling marsh and discovered a sealed formation guarding another world. He Songyi entered the formation to test its central opening, using the Song Clan bloodline’s secret art as the chapter ended.

• Yang Lingrui told Dongfang Yingcai about He Songyi’s discovery, and the four traveled to the marsh.
• Dongfang Yingcai gave everyone Calming Pills and used a mystic turtle puppet to carry them beneath the boiling water.
• Dongfang Yingcai identified a gate-guarding formation at the marsh bottom and reasoned that it concealed another world.
• He Songyi revealed that his arm had turned translucent and volunteered to test the formation’s central opening.
• Yang Lingrui, Xue Qingluan, and Dongfang Yingcai protected He Songyi as he entered the water and approached the formation.
• He Songyi encountered the formation’s barrier and began activating a secret art tied to the Song Clan bloodline.

He Songyi awakened the Song Clan bloodline and opened the formation beneath the great marsh, confirming Chen Yang’s plan to protect the surviving lineage. He Songyi let Yang Lingrui and the others enter, and answered Yang Lingrui’s respectful address by identifying himself as Song Heng.

• Chen Yang sensed the Song Clan’s faint divine power awaken and decided to protect the bloodline by bringing it under the Yang Family.
• He Songyi used his blood essence to open the formation and received its formation token.
• He Songyi chose to admit the black mystic turtle puppet rather than claim the treasure alone, trusting the Yang Family as a worthy protector.
• Yang Lingrui and the others entered the formation, and Yang Lingrui thanked He Songyi for finding the treasure ground.
• Moved by Yang Lingrui calling him Fellow Daoist Song, He Songyi saluted and said that fulfilling his duty was simply Song Heng’s responsibility.

Song Heng and his companions crossed the spatially distorted lava field and found the bloodline-linked treasure inside a black volcano. Xue Qingluan entered the crater with the Jade Rabbit, while Chen Yang sensed a familiar aura and received a message from the Blood Sun infant.

• A tongue of flame attacked Song Heng and vanished and reappeared through spatial magic, but Yang Lingrui, Dongfang Yingcai, and Xue Qingluan saved him.
• Yang Lingrui used wind arts to guide the group safely across the lava field to a black volcano, where Song Heng’s bloodline resonance grew stronger.
• Song Heng offered to scout the volcano, but Yang Lingrui and Dongfang Yingcai refused to risk his life, and Xue Qingluan volunteered instead.
• Yang Lingrui gave Xue Qingluan protective treasures, including his Stone Immortal Venerable, and she entered the crater with the Jade Rabbit after it drank away the smoke and lava above.
• Chen Yang protected Xue Qingluan with Black Armor and sensed an aura like the one in the Canglan Divine Palace.
• The Blood Sun infant sent Chen Yang the words, “Fire... fire seed... awakening... vitality...”

Chen Yang studied the ancient Divine Path Sage’s light curtain and gained new insight into Dao Integration before entering the volcano’s hidden chamber. The Jade Rabbit absorbed fire essence for Xue Qingluan to refine, while Chen Yang sent the fiery-red gemstone to the Canglan Divine Palace, where it began drawing the shattered star’s fragments together.

• Chen Yang studied the light curtain and realized its gaps had been designed to correspond to the path of divine arts.
• Chen Yang bowed to the Divine Path Sage, and the light curtain opened an entrance for Xue Qingluan.
• Xue Qingluan released the Jade Rabbit, which absorbed fire essence from the gemstone and developed cyan-blue flame patterns.
• Xue Qingluan began refining the fire essence brought back by the Jade Rabbit while Chen Yang examined the gemstone.
• Chen Yang sent the fiery-red gemstone to the Canglan Divine Palace, where its fire essence stirred the shattered star’s fragments into motion.

Chen Yang used the fireseed to begin restoring the damaged star and planned to search the Secret Realm for its scattered pieces. Elsewhere, Xue Qingluan demonstrated her new Moonfire Method, while the forces entering the Secret Realm competed for the Yellow Crisp Fruits or hurried toward deeper opportunities.

• Chen Yang learned that the fireseed could reunite the star's fragments, encouraged Blood Sun to focus on recovering, and used True God Authority to speed the restoration.
• Chen Yang concluded that the fireseed had shattered during the ancient calamity and decided to search earthly fire sites throughout the Secret Realm for its missing pieces.
• The Red Mist Marsh calmed after Chen Yang took the fireseed away, and Dongfang Zonggan returned after leaving two Donglai Sect cultivators to pursue the Kirin Overturning Heaven Phenomenon.
• Xue Qingluan demonstrated her Moonfire Method to Dongfang Zonggan, who praised its power and recognized her as a prodigy able to contend with Central Region talents.
• The Tiger Chasing cultivators entered the Secret Realm first and collected Yellow Crisp Fruits, while other newcomers competed for the remaining harvest or suffered backlash from the tree.
• The Su Family and Lanyue Sect skipped the entrance opportunities and headed deeper into the Secret Realm to pursue their respective goals.

The Su Family and Lanyue Sect prepared their promising heirs to compete with Tiger Chasing’s rising talents. Su Lingyun committed to his ruthless Dao Path, while Yue Shuwang accepted the loss of part of her soul and spirit to pursue the Moon Spirit Secret Technique; the chapter ended foreshadowing the Yang Family’s future dominance in the Northwest.

• Su Dingcang praised Su Lingyun for gaining the blood jade’s recognition and told him not to waver from the Su Family’s ruthless Dao Path.
• Su Lingyun set aside his remaining hesitation and resolved to pursue his Dao Path without turning back.
• Yue Wuxiang explained that he had removed Yue Shuwang’s You Jing soul and Jing Bu spirit to help her pass the Moon Spirit Secret Technique’s trial.
• Yue Shuwang calmly accepted her father’s actions and pledged to devote herself to the sect’s great undertaking.
• The chapter foreshadowed that the Songshan Yang Family would eventually become the Co-Lord of the Northwest.

The group discovered a mysterious cave abode that Chen Yang recognized as a lost relic of the Azure Waves Divine Palace, though it did not contain the Starfire Seed. After Dongfang Zonggan led the cultivators inside, they were separated by a strange spatial effect, and Dongfang Yingcai encountered an exact replica of herself.

• Chen Yang sensed that the secluded cave abode contained a lost Azure Waves Divine Palace relic and hoped it might help awaken another figure from the Divine Palace.
• Dongfang Zonggan found that his divine sense could not uncover the cave abode's secrets and chose to lead the group inside himself.
• Dongfang Yingcai realized that Dongfang Zonggan and the other cultivators had vanished, while the entrance path had been replaced by a solid stone wall.
• Dongfang Yingcai continued deeper into the cave and saw an identical version of herself smile and disappear down a passage.

Dongfang Zonggan and five other True Intent Perfection cultivators were drawn into a mysterious space and confronted with objects tied to their pasts. Meanwhile, Chen Yang let Yang Lingrui and the others continue fighting their spell replicas, and Yang Lingrui’s killing move failed to overcome his copy.

• Dongfang Zonggan met the Baili and Qianji cultivators in a mysterious space, and the three realized they had all been separated from their juniors after entering places of opportunity.
• Three more True Intent Perfection cultivators from Qingyao Sect, East Sea Penglai Palace, and the Nangong Clan arrived, bringing the group to six.
• The six cultivators speculated that the Spirit of the Secret Realm had imprisoned them, then found personal objects arranged on tables before them.
• Dongfang Yingcai and the others faced replicas that could reproduce their spells, while Chen Yang chose not to rescue Yang Lingrui so he could benefit from the trial.
• Yang Lingrui tried to fight his replica with unfamiliar tactics, but his Divine Wind Thousand Splits collapsed after the two spells clashed.

Yang Lingrui defeated his replicated Dharma body and joined Dongfang Yingcai and Xue Qingluan in claiming three bronze fragments that opened a source of spiritual nourishment. Chen Yang used the opportunity to reach a sealed mirror, where a figure resembling his past-life self warned him of danger beneath the surface.

• Yang Lingrui used the Wind Dao disintegration method to evade his replicated Dharma body's attacks, then reformed behind it and destroyed it with four compressed Divine Winds.
• Yang Lingrui and Dongfang Yingcai reached an underground chamber, claimed two bronze fragments, and concluded that the pieces were keys to a greater opportunity.
• Xue Qingluan arrived after defeating her replicated Dharma body, took the third bronze fragment, and triggered the opening of the chamber's ceiling.
• Chen Yang recognized the descending force as nourishment for divine sense and let Yang Lingrui and Xue Qingluan receive it fully.
• Chen Yang entered a light screen, found a massive square mirror, and received a warning from a figure resembling his past-life self about the method of Li Fire and hidden dangers.

Chen Yang considered the Reincarnation Divine Lord’s warning and suspected that Nangong Jinghe or a hostile Divine Path creature hidden in the Earthly Treasure Secret Realm posed a danger. He stored the square mirror without beginning repairs to the Canglan Divine Palace, choosing to wait until the threat was resolved.

• Chen Yang saw that the Reincarnation Divine Lord had held a stone and wondered whether it had been his original form.
• Chen Yang connected the Reincarnation Divine Lord’s message about Li Huo’s method to his Dao Integration and questioned whether the warning had crossed time or been left in advance.
• Chen Yang identified Nangong Jinghe and a hidden Divine Path creature as possible threats within the Secret Realm.
• Chen Yang suspected the Divine Path creature wanted to kill him and seize his position as Canglan Palace’s master.
• Chen Yang stored the square mirror in the Star Sea Space and postponed repairing the Divine Palace to avoid exposing a weakness.