Chapter Summaries

Lei Chong seized the rune bones, drove off the Western Sect monks, and headed for the giant mountain. He challenged the powerful figures guarding its formation, sending five spirit bodies to try to break through while the others attacked him.

• Lei Chong defeated the seven Western Sect monks, killing two and severely wounding the other five, then refused to give the Witch the rune bones.
• The Witch realized Lei Chong had comprehended the runes and followed him toward the giant mountain, hoping he could break its formation.
• Lei Chong reached the mountain and faced eight or nine powerful figures, including the green-haired Demon Spider, who demanded to know where he had gone.
• Lei Chong sent out spirit bodies carrying the Divine Illumination Lamp, the Five Fowl Fan, and the Black Iron Whip, but Demon Spider's attack revealed that the lamp's power was suppressed.
• Lei Chong sent five flame-wreathed spirit bodies toward the formation, and Demon Spider recognized the five immortal birds and urged the others to attack.
• As the powerful figures assailed Lei Chong, his five spirit bodies sent illusory immortal birds into the formation's screen of light, where they overlapped with its five phantom figures.

Lei Chong fought off deities trying to reach the shrinking gate and entered it with the Witch, escaping their attacks. They hurried toward the mountain’s summit to gain strength before their pursuers could follow, and discovered a broad medicine field along the way.

• The altar vanished, the immortal birds’ remaining powers manifested as Precious Techniques, and the gate of light began to shrink.
• Deities attacked Lei Chong as he blocked their path to the gate, leaving him badly injured.
• The Witch arrived to protect Lei Chong, and he used sword rays to fend off the attackers before bringing her through the gate.
• The gate closed behind Lei Chong and the Witch, while the deities outside failed to break through.
• Lei Chong and the Witch hurried up the mountain and found a broad medicine field on its slope.

Lei Chong used the Heaven Ascending Ladder to bypass the formation and harvest the Phoenix Blood Grass and the other medicines. After the other cultivators negotiated with the Divine Flame Man to secure his help, Lei Chong and the Witch reached the palace atop the mountain, where they felt a terrifying presence.

• Lei Chong and the Witch found Phoenix Blood Grass and other medicines beyond a curtain of light, and Lei Chong used his Heaven Ascending Ladder to cross the formation.
• Lei Chong sent a spiritual body across the ladder, and it gathered every herb along with the scarlet soil beneath the Phoenix Blood Grass.
• The cultivators discovered that the Divine Flame Man was preventing others from learning the Bi Fang Precious Technique, and Yue Chan negotiated with him on their behalf.
• The Divine Flame Man agreed to help open the formation after the deities swore blood oaths not to attack him before the final contest for the True Phoenix Precious Technique.
• Lei Chong and the Witch climbed to the summit, saw a divine parasol tree and a palace, and pressed on after the palace's overwhelming presence briefly subsided.

Lei Chong and the Witch found the immortal medicine pool and the True Phoenix altar, where Lei Chong helped the Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang begin repairing itself. When the gods and Venerables reached the palace, the weapon opened a rift in the air.

• The Witch and Lei Chong collected the remaining immortal medicinal liquid and entered the palace to seek the True Phoenix Precious Technique.
• Lei Chong recognized the broken Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang on the altar and used the Phoenix Wing Slash as Phoenix Blood Immortal Gold and Phoenix Blood Stones fused into it.
• The gods charged into the hall and attacked Lei Chong and the Witch, but the trembling Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang repelled their strikes.
• The remaining Venerables entered, and a Heaven Severing Sect elder confirmed that the Witch was unharmed.
• The Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang glowed with fire and opened a rift in the air above the altar.

Lei Chong entered the upper palace after the flames vanished, where the gathered cultivators found a True Phoenix bone guarded by a curtain of light. As a battle erupted around the altar, the Demon Spider blocked Lei Chong's route and met his lightning-charged fist with a palm.

• The Demon Spider threatened Lei Chong, but the Phoenix-Winged Gilded Tang stopped their fight before the flames in the crack faded.
• The Western Sect's Divine Being and other cultivators rushed into the upper palace, followed by Lei Chong despite the Witch's warning.
• The cultivators saw a scarlet True Phoenix bone floating above an altar, and Jin Gang stood guard nearby.
• A Divine Being ambushed Jin Gang, triggering a chaotic battle in which Yue Chan and the Divine Flame Man stood out among the attackers.
• The Witch summoned a stone bead but chose to challenge Yue Chan fairly, while Lei Chong attacked the Demon Spider.
• The Demon Spider blocked the crack, and Lei Chong's lightning-wreathed fist collided with his jade-green palm.

Lei Chong fought the Demon Spider Divine Being in the palace while trying to draw a response from the True Phoenix bone with the Thunder Emperor and Kunpeng techniques. The phoenix bone stirred during their battle, and Lei Chong struck the Demon Spider between the brows with a golden mark.

• Lei Chong and the Demon Spider exchanged powerful attacks, and Lei Chong burned the spider's venomous web with the five immortal birds' divine flames.
• Lei Chong's lightning wings turned poisonous smoke into blades that struck several Demon Spider Venerables, and the Demon Spider inhaled the smoke to save them.
• Lei Chong transformed into a Kunpeng and shattered the Demon Spider's black sabers, but the phoenix bone gave no response to his techniques.
• The Demon Spider revealed his giant emerald-green form and attacked Lei Chong as the phoenix bone trembled and flames appeared around it.
• The Demon Spider pierced Lei Chong's phoenix wing, but Lei Chong sent a golden mark into the Demon Spider's brow after the spider failed to intercept it.

Lei Chong killed Demon Spider and seized the True Phoenix rune bone from the altar, then fought off the cultivators trying to take it while attempting to comprehend its incomplete precious technique. He continued dodging attacks through the hall, with a True Phoenix beginning to manifest around him.

• Lei Chong struck Demon Spider's primordial spirit, killed him, and collected his corpse before driving back the Demon Spirit Lake Venerables.
• The phoenix bone awakened, and the cultivators rushed the altar, but its image repelled their attempts to seize it.
• Lei Chong reached for the bone with a phoenix-wing arm, took it, and used lightning to hold off the attackers while he began comprehending the technique.
• Jin Gang broke through Lei Chong's lightning and attacked, interrupting his comprehension, as Lei Chong discovered that the rune bone was incomplete.
• Lei Chong injured Jin Gang's primordial spirit with an imprint, but other cultivators' attacks prevented him from finishing Jin Gang.
• Lei Chong fled through the hall with lightning wings, the Earth-Shrinking Talisman, and the Void Beast Hide while continuing to study the rune bone.

Lei Chong shattered the True Phoenix rune bone to escape a fierce battle, then entered the first hall and studied the True Phoenix Precious Technique while healing his injuries. As the fighting above worsened and other cultivators gathered rune fragments, flames suddenly appeared overhead, forcing the Venerables to flee into the palace.

• Lei Chong killed five Venerables and wounded more than ten before shattering the rune bone and slipping into the first hall.
• An Immortal Mountain Venerable tried to bring a rune fragment through the crack, but its flames burned him to ashes and the fragment returned to the palace above.
• The Divine Flame Man, Yue Chan, the Witch, and Jin Gang each obtained rune fragments and began studying them amid the deadly battle.
• Lei Chong used the True Phoenix Precious Technique to heal his severe injuries while continuing to comprehend it.
• The battle above intensified, and the Venerables rushed into the palace as flames appeared overhead; Lei Chong looked up in alarm.

Lei Chong studied and absorbed the True Phoenix Nirvana Flame, improving his grasp of the incomplete Nirvana Art while other survivors fought over the runic bones. When flames engulfed the altar again, Lei Chong rushed for the rift, but Jin Gang blocked his way and attacked.

• The Witch teased Lei Chong for returning early, and he explained that he had fled after being surrounded while more than half the group had died.
• Lei Chong used the True Phoenix Art to heal his injuries as the others repeatedly battled above and retreated from the flames.
• After his injuries healed, Lei Chong entered the altar chamber and drew its Nirvana Flame into himself, replenishing his flame and partially completing the Nirvana Art.
• Jin Gang attacked Lei Chong at the altar, then was wounded by a Divine Being’s surprise sword strike while Lei Chong continued searching the altar.
• The altar trembled and flames spread as the runic bones gathered above it, prompting everyone to flee toward the rift.
• Jin Gang stood in front of the rift and struck at Lei Chong as he rushed to escape.

Lei Chong endured the Nirvana flames and climbed the altar in the third-level hall, where he seized a rune bone and passed through a fiery gate. He entered a new space with a curtain of light, while those below believed he had died.

• Jin Gang used his alms bowl to draw in Lei Chong’s God-Striking Technique, then retreated through the crack and left Lei Chong trapped in the flames.
• Lei Chong used the True Phoenix Art, Nirvana Flame, and help from immortal birds to approach the altar’s fiery gate despite being badly burned.
• In the first-level hall, Jin Gang and the others assumed Lei Chong had died, and several expressed relief or hostility.
• Lei Chong climbed the altar, seized the rune bone at the center of the fiery gate, and carried it through as the gate vanished.
• Lei Chong entered a new hall containing a curtain of light.