Chapter Summaries

Han Bing left the Black-Yellow Sect to seek places rich in Yin Qi and advance his cultivation. After reaching the seventh level of the True Qi Realm, he killed a tomb robber from the mysterious Thief Sect and found a map to a supermassive underground tomb, which he set off to explore.

• Lin Ye gave Han Bing several protective talismans, and Han Bing said farewell to his fellow disciples before leaving the Black-Yellow Sect to temper himself.
• Han Bing cultivated in a mass grave near Spirit Yang City until he reached the peak of the fifth level of the True Qi Realm, then moved on when its corpse Sha Qi grew too weak.
• Han Bing reached Gaoliang City and cultivated in a burial chamber, breaking through to the seventh level of the True Qi Realm.
• A tomb robber broke into the chamber, attacked Han Bing, and was killed after Han Bing crushed his shoulder and pierced his heart.
• Han Bing discovered the robber belonged to the Thief Sect and found a map to a supermassive underground tomb; he destroyed the robber's remains and set off for the tomb.

Han Bing entered an ancient tomb, used a Feign Death Talisman to evade its puppet guards, and cultivated inside an ancient bronze coffin until he reached the Innate Realm and formed a Golden Corpse Body. Meanwhile, Lin Ye and his other disciples grew stronger, and a group of people arrived after the tomb’s location was exposed.

• Han Bing used an Earth Evasion Talisman to enter the tomb, where its spatial suppression prevented him from using his Teleportation Talisman.
• Han Bing used a Feign Death Talisman to fool the puppet guards and passed through the tomb to its main burial chamber.
• Han Bing took the youth’s jade pendant and clothes, stored the corpse, and cultivated in the ancient bronze coffin until he reached the Innate Realm First Layer and formed a Golden Corpse Body.
• Lin Ye learned that Han Bing’s cultivation was rising rapidly, while Dongfang Bai, Ye Chen, and Yang Yang also advanced over the following two months.
• Chu He broke through to the Innate Realm First Layer and improved his Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique, prompting Lin Ye to perfect its foundational chapter and reach the peak of the Grandmaster Realm Ninth Layer.
• A group of people carrying maps arrived at the tomb after its location was exposed.

A great tomb containing powerful puppets was exposed in the Heavenly Horn Mountain Range, prompting the Chu Kingdom’s major sects to prepare expeditions. Dongfang Bai learned about the tomb’s suspected connection to the Yin Puppet Sect and the history of the orthodox and unorthodox sects, then reported what he learned to his master before the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s group set out.

• A Grandmaster-level puppet slaughtered the martial artists who entered the newly opened tomb, while two Thief Sect members stayed outside and survived.
• Huang Qin and the Supreme Simplicity Sect elders debated the tomb’s origins and risks, then decided to investigate it, as did the Mist River Sect and Jade Star Sect.
• Han Bing continued refining Yin Qi inside the tomb, unaware that news of it had spread.
• Li Xuansu told Dongfang Bai that the Supreme Simplicity Sect would take him to the tomb and explained the Profound Heaven Realm, the seventy-two orthodox sects, and the eight hundred unorthodox sects.
• Dongfang Bai sent his master everything he had learned and prepared to enter the tomb the next day.

Lin Ye received intelligence about the Profound Heaven Realm and chose not to pursue the Yin Puppet Sect tomb, while the sect’s resurrection ritual trapped martial artists inside. Han Bing absorbed the tomb’s Yin Qi and was mistaken for the revived Holy Son Yintian, leaving him panicked as he realized he had disrupted the sect’s plan.

• Lin Ye received Dongfang Bai’s report on the Profound Heaven Realm and earned 50,000 Devil Dao Points, then decided to avoid the suspected Yin Puppet Sect tomb.
• Grandmasters from several sects and rogue cultivators entered the tomb, where its passages sealed and a formation began drawing Yin Qi toward the burial chamber.
• Han Bing absorbed the surging Yin Qi, rapidly strengthening his Golden Corpse Body and cultivation as the trapped martial artists faced a puppet massacre.
• Two Thief Sect disciples identified the Blood Sacrifice Resurrection Grand Formation, and Li Xu arrived as a Martial Saint to secure the survivors’ escape.
• The Yin Puppet Sect resumed the ritual after the survivors left, while Han Bing broke through to the Grandmaster Realm and Lin Ye reached the first level of the Great Grandmaster Realm through cultivation feedback.
• The Yin Puppet Sect members welcomed Han Bing as Holy Son Yintian, and Han Bing panicked when he realized they had mistaken him for the corpse they intended to resurrect.

Han Bing passed himself off as the resurrected Holy Son Yintian and left the tomb with the Yin Puppet Sect, while Dongfang Bai recognized him and informed Lin Ye. Lin Ye received 110,000 Devil Dao Points as Han Bing arrived at the Yin Puppet Sect in the Yu Kingdom.

• Han Bing convinced the Yin Puppet Sect that he was Holy Son Yintian by claiming memory loss and demonstrating his Golden Corpse Body as the Yin Heaven Golden Body.
• The Yin Puppet Sect escorted Han Bing from the tomb, and the activated array collapsed the tomb behind them.
• Dongfang Bai recognized Han Bing among the Yin Puppet Sect and deduced that he had taken Holy Son Yintian's identity.
• Huang Qin led the battered Supreme Simplicity Sect back, and Dongfang Bai sent Lin Ye news of Han Bing's situation.
• Lin Ye received 10,000 Devil Dao Points for Dongfang Bai's intelligence and 100,000 for Han Bing infiltrating the Yin Puppet Sect.
• The Yin Puppet Sect brought Han Bing to its home in the Yu Kingdom as Lin Ye considered which Divine Ability Technique to buy.

Han Bing settled into the Yin Puppet Sect’s Yin Mist Mountain to cultivate, while Lin Ye taught his disciples new Divine Abilities and gave Yang Yang a drop of Taotie blood. The chapter left Han Bing cultivating in seclusion and Lin Ye’s disciples equipped with new powers.

• Han Bing arrived at Yin Mist Mountain, where the dense Yin Mist Qi suited his Corpse King Canon, and the Yin Puppet Sect welcomed him as Holy Son Yintian.
• The Yin Puppet Sect’s master, Qin Huan, arranged a palace and attendants for Han Bing, who began cultivating in seclusion.
• Lin Ye told Ye Chen, Dongfang Rou, Yang Yang, and Chu He that Han Bing had gone to the Yin Puppet Sect, and Dongfang Rou explained her family’s ties to the Yu Kingdom.
• Lin Ye gave Ye Chen the Heartless Saber, Dongfang Rou the Dream Illusion Devil Pupil, and Chu He the Extreme Dao Sublimation Technique.
• After Yang Yang demanded a reward, Lin Ye spent 20,000 Devil Dao Points on a drop of Taotie blood, which Yang Yang eagerly accepted.

Lin Ye gave Yu Yu a renamed movement Divine Ability and prepared a concealed-weapon Divine Ability and treasure for Dongfang Bai. Meanwhile, Xu Yan reached the Second Layer of the True Qi Realm and sought Li Xuansu’s help to kill Ye Chen.

• Lin Ye exchanged for the Heavenly Devil Dance, renamed it the Heavenly Illusion Dance, and gave it to Yu Yu.
• Lin Ye exchanged for the Demonic Shadow Ten Arms Technique and Ten Shadow Devil Needles, renamed the technique the Phantom Shadow Ten-Arm Technique, and sent both to Dongfang Bai through Yang Yang.
• Yang Yang explained Divine Abilities to Dongfang Bai, who was excited by the power of his new technique and treasure.
• Xu Yan broke through to the Second Layer of the True Qi Realm, judged that her cultivation was progressing too slowly, and decided to seek treasures to kill Ye Chen.
• Xu Yan went to Li Xuansu’s residence and knelt to request an audience.

Xu Yan used a Thunder Pearl to attack Ye Chen at the Ye Household, but discovered he had reached the Innate Realm and was killed by his Heartless Saber. Lin Ye received tenfold feedback from Ye Chen’s breakthrough in the saber technique and tested its power in the trial secret realm.

• Xu Yan asked Li Xuansu for a treasure capable of killing a True Qi Realm martial artist, and Li Xuansu gave her a Thunder Pearl.
• Dongfang Bai warned Lin Ye that Xu Yan had left the Supreme Simplicity Sect, and Lin Ye told Ye Chen to beware of her.
• Ye Chen returned to the Ye Household to protect his family and waited for Xu Yan.
• Xu Yan detonated the Thunder Pearl against Ye Chen, but his Innate True Qi shielded him from the blast.
• Ye Chen caught Xu Yan after she tried to escape with a Teleportation Talisman and killed her with his Heartless Saber, reaching its entry level.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback that advanced his Heartless Demon Saber to minor accomplishment, then tested it in the trial secret realm.

Yang Yang refined Taotie blood and reached the peak of the Innate Realm Sixth Layer, while Chu He and Dongfang Bai advanced their Divine Ability techniques and triggered feedback that strengthened Lin Ye. The chapter left Chu He recovering after a brutal spar with Yang Yang, while Lin Ye judged Dongfang Bai better able to survive discovery in the Supreme Simplicity Sect.

• Yang Yang devoured the Taotie blood and, after five days of refining it, reached the peak of the Innate Realm Sixth Layer with greatly increased physical strength.
• Chu He reached entry level in the Heavenly Demon Body Disintegration Technique, and Lin Ye received tenfold feedback that brought his own technique to minor accomplishment.
• Chu He pushed the technique to its limit, suffered severe bodily damage, and recovered through his physiques and refining technique.
• Yang Yang sparred with Chu He and initially overwhelmed him, but Chu He held his own with the Heavenly Demon Body Disintegration Technique until Yang Yang countered with Devour Heaven and Earth.
• Dongfang Bai reached entry level in the Demonic Shadow Ten Arms Technique, and Lin Ye received tenfold feedback that raised it to minor accomplishment.
• Lin Ye concluded that Dongfang Bai's new ability, cultivation, and heaven-grade Law Treasure gave him a chance to escape if his identity was discovered.

Li Xuansu went to Ye Household Village to find Xu Yan and kill Ye Chen, but Ye Chen overwhelmed and killed her. Meanwhile, Han Bing advanced to the Grandmaster Realm Second Layer, and Lin Ye’s cultivation rose to the Great Grandmaster Second Layer.

• Li Xuansu left the Supreme Simplicity Sect to search for Xu Yan and kill Ye Chen, while Dongfang Bai warned Lin Ye, who passed the news to Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen waited for Li Xuansu at Ye Household Village and told her Xu Yan was dead.
• Li Xuansu attacked Ye Chen with the Twelve Swords of Supreme Yin, but realized he had reached the Innate Realm Third Layer and suspected he had gained a great opportunity.
• Ye Chen tore apart Li Xuansu’s Clothes-Binding Ring with the Heartless Demon Saber and cut her in two, ending his grudge against her.
• Dongfang Bai expected Li Xuansu to be dead and decided the sect would not notice her absence for a long time.
• Han Bing reached the Grandmaster Realm Second Layer, and Lin Ye advanced to the Great Grandmaster Second Layer as his disciples’ cultivation improved.

While Lin Ye’s disciples advanced, a wounded woman used a forbidden technique to fight the Divine Paper Sect and was left near death. A golden eagle brought her to the Black-Yellow Sect, where Lin Ye used an Undying Devil Pill to save her, intending to make her his seventh disciple.

• Chu He and the others helped Lin Ye reach the third level of the Great Grandmaster realm, while Dongfang Rou mastered the Dream Illusion Devil Pupil Divine Ability.
• A peak Great Grandmaster woman fought the Divine Paper Sect’s paper figures, used the Liberation by Violence Technique, and destroyed a Martial Saint-level paper body before collapsing in the river.
• The golden eagle Demon Beast found the woman and brought her to the Black-Yellow Sect after its Devil Jade glowed.
• Dongfang Rou recognized the woman’s affinity with the sect, and Lin Ye realized she was dying and decided to take her as his seventh disciple.
• Lin Ye fed the woman an Undying Devil Pill, which encased her in a blood cocoon that he watched over in the main hall.
• The Divine Paper Sect’s paper figures searched the riverbank, failed to find the woman, and left.

Nalan Xi survived using the Liberation by Violence Technique after Lin Ye’s demon pet rescued her, and she became Lin Ye’s seventh disciple at the Black-Yellow Sect. Lin Ye gave her a specialized Body Refining Technique, which she recognized as a high-grade heaven-tier manual suited to her Nine-Tailed Fox Bloodline.

• Nalan Xi woke in Lin Ye’s hall, learned she had lost all her cultivation, and accepted his offer to become his disciple.
• Lin Ye discovered Nalan Xi had a sealed Nine-Tailed Fox Bloodline that had transformed into the Nine-Tailed Devil Fox Bloodline, and the system awarded him 10,000 Devil Dao Points for taking her in.
• Nalan Xi told Lin Ye that she had been hunted after trying to stop someone from harming common people, and Dongfang Rou arranged a residence for her.
• Lin Ye gave Nalan Xi a sect identity token, pills, Spirit Stones, and a Body Refining Technique he had renamed the Nine Fox Body Refining Technique.
• Nalan Xi read the manual and realized it was a high-grade heaven-tier technique tailored to her bloodline, giving her hope of rebuilding a powerful foundation.

Nalan Xi cultivated the Demon Fox Devil Body, rapidly rebuilding her strength and awakening a powerful black Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline. After reaching the Innate Realm, she went with Dongfang Rou to watch two senior brothers spar.

• Nalan Xi took the pill from her master and used the Demon Fox Devil Body to advance through the Body Refining Realm while drawing out her Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline.
• Nalan Xi saw that her bloodline manifested as a black Nine-Tailed Fox and guessed it had awakened from an ancestor.
• Nalan Xi learned the Formless Devil Body Secret Method and concealed the black color of her True Qi as her cultivation rose to the True Qi Realm Eighth Layer.
• Chu He asked Nalan Xi to hit him for training, and she could not injure him despite attacking until she was exhausted.
• Nalan Xi trained diligently until she reached the Innate Realm First Layer, then Dongfang Rou took her to watch Sixth Junior Brother and Fourth Junior Brother spar.

Chu He and Yang Yang sparred, Nalan Xi received and quickly mastered a Divine Ability suited to her, and the Black-Yellow Sect’s disciples advanced after a month in the trial secret realm. Yang Yang then broke through to the Grandmaster Realm and mastered Devour Heaven and Earth to minor mastery, raising Lin Ye’s cultivation to the Great Grandmaster Eighth Layer.

• Chu He and Yang Yang sparred with Divine Abilities, and Nalan Xi saw Chu He recover rapidly from severe injuries thanks to his special physique.
• Lin Ye gave Nalan Xi the Divine Ability Heavenly Fox Claw, which she mastered in three days.
• Lin Chen sent the Black-Yellow Sect’s disciples into the trial secret realm for a month; several disciples died, while the survivors made major cultivation gains.
• Yang Yang returned from the Western Mystic Mountain Range and easily broke through to the Grandmaster Realm First Layer, advancing Lin Ye to the Great Grandmaster Eighth Layer through feedback.
• Three days later, Yang Yang cultivated Devour Heaven and Earth to the minor mastery stage.

Yang Yang advanced Devour Heaven and Earth, and Lin Ye gained greater mastery through the system. Han Bing learned the Yin Puppet Sect’s Puppet Technique, giving Lin Ye another tenfold reward, while Dongfang Bai’s rapid cultivation earned her Supreme Yin Spirit Marrow.

• Yang Yang advanced Devour Heaven and Earth to lesser mastery and reached the Grandmaster Realm, prompting Lin Ye to receive tenfold feedback and master the Divine Ability at greater mastery.
• Xuanyinzi made Han Bing study the Yin Puppet Sect’s Puppet Technique and demonstrated Ten Puppet Slaughter with ten Great Grandmaster-level puppets.
• After half a month of instruction, Han Bing reached beginner stage in the Puppet Technique and received Ten Puppet Slaughter, allowing Lin Ye to cultivate the Puppet Technique to lesser mastery through tenfold feedback.
• Lin Ye used his new Puppet Technique knowledge to begin refining puppets in the trial secret realm.
• Dongfang Bai broke through to the Innate Realm Seventh Layer, and Xu Xi approved Huang Qin’s request for Supreme Yin Spirit Marrow to help her advance.

Dongfang Bai used Supreme Yin Spirit Marrow to reach the Grandmaster Realm and was chosen to become the Supreme Simplicity Sect’s third Holy Maiden. After Nalan Xi told Lin Ye about the Divine Paper Sect’s atrocities, Lin Ye accepted the system’s long-term mission to annihilate the sect and asked where to go.

• Huang Qin gave Dongfang Bai Supreme Yin Spirit Marrow, which he refined to advance from the Innate Realm Seventh Layer to the Ninth Layer Peak.
• Dongfang Bai stabilized his cultivation and broke through to the Grandmaster Realm, leading Huang Qin and the elders to choose him as the sect’s third Holy Maiden.
• Nalan Xi worried that the Divine Paper Sect’s Martial Saint was turning thousands of people in a Chu Kingdom county town into paper people.
• Nalan Xi told Lin Ye about the Divine Paper Sect and asked whether he could help deal with its Martial Saint.
• The system issued Lin Ye a long-term mission to annihilate the Divine Paper Sect, and Lin Ye asked Nalan Xi where the county town was.

Lin Ye investigated Kuhe County City after learning that the Divine Paper Sect was secretly refining people into flesh-and-blood paper figures. He revealed himself above the city and unleashed his major-accomplishment Devour Heaven and Earth Divine Ability against Qu Fu’s forces, leaving the city being torn apart and drawn upward.

• Lin Ye learned Kuhe County City was close to Lingyang County City and left to investigate, confident he could hide his identity if he killed the Divine Paper Sect members there.
• Lin Ye used Innate Realm puppets and the Dream Illusion Devil Pupil to find Qu Fu, a Divine Paper Sect Martial Saint above the seventh level, and identify the sect’s paper figures and other disciples in the city.
• Qu Fu captured Lin Ye’s puppets, suspected they were connected to the Yin Puppet Sect, and ordered a search before preparing the Ten Thousand Paper Grand Formation.
• Lin Ye appeared above Kuhe County City and decided to destroy it because its remaining inhabitants were being turned into paper figures.
• Qu Fu sent three Martial Saint-level paper figures and many others to surround Lin Ye, but Lin Ye unleashed Devour Heaven and Earth, tearing up the city and pulling its buildings and paper figures into the air.

Lin Ye used Devour Heaven and Earth to destroy Qu Fu, his paper figures, and the county town, then returned to the Black-Yellow Sect with the remnants. The Divine Paper Sect identified Qu Fu’s death and sent Qu Ce to the Chu Kingdom to investigate and kill the responsible Martial Saint.

• Lin Ye’s Devour Heaven and Earth overwhelmed Qu Fu’s paper figures and disciples, and Qu Fu died after his Ten Thousand Paper Explosion failed to harm Lin Ye significantly.
• The Divine Paper Sect examined Qu Fu’s shattered talisman seed and learned that a Martial Saint had likely killed him in the Chu Kingdom.
• Qu Ce, the Divine Paper Sect’s sixth elder and a first-level Golden Core True Person, volunteered to investigate Qu Fu’s death and left for the Chu Kingdom.
• Lin Ye returned to the Black-Yellow Sect and showed Nalan Xi the fragments of Qu Fu, the paper figures, and the destroyed county town.
• Nalan Xi imagined Lin Ye’s overwhelming power and exclaimed that her master was amazing.

After earning 700,000 Devil Dao Points for killing members of the Divine Paper Sect and destroying a city, Lin Ye spent them on new cultivation methods and body-refining techniques for his disciples. He also exchanged points for the Heavenly Devil Tower, an intermediate Spirit Treasure.

• Lin Ye received 700,000 Devil Dao Points and the City Destroyer achievement after killing a Martial Saint and destroying the paper-person county city.
• Lin Ye exchanged points for the Hell Devil Divine Art for Ye Chen, the Charm Devil Divine Art for Dongfang Rou, the Taotie Devil Cultivation Method for Yang Yang, and the Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique for Chu He.
• Lin Ye searched for a suitable method for Dongfang Bai and bought the Yin-Yang Devil Body, which could let him cultivate male and female bodies.
• Lin Ye bought the Nine Fox Devil Cultivation Method for Nalan Xi and the True Devil Body Refining Technique for his disciples to strengthen their bodies.
• Lin Ye used more Devil Dao Points to exchange for the Heavenly Devil Tower, an intermediate Spirit Treasure.

Lin Ye created the Heavenly Realm Tower, giving his disciples a safe way to temper their combat skills and state of mind, then gave them Divine Art-grade cultivation methods. Yang Yang delivered the Yin-Yang Devil Body to Second Senior Brother and wondered whether its two forms would make him a second senior brother or sister.

• Lin Ye combined the Heavenly Devil Tower with the Human Emperor Banner to create a trial world, then let Chu He and the other disciples test it.
• After the disciples completed trials, Lin Ye created a separate combat space where they could fight one another without risking real death.
• Lin Ye gave his five disciples Divine Art-grade cultivation methods and copies of the True Devil Body Refining Technique.
• Lin Ye sent Yang Yang to deliver the Yin-Yang Devil Body and another copy of the body-refining technique to Second Senior Brother.
• Yang Yang read the Yin-Yang Devil Body and realized it could produce male and female bodies, then wondered which title to use for Second Senior Brother.