Chapter Summaries

Wang Qingshan and his companions escaped the Azure Carp Race and Nine Dragons Palace after seizing treasures from Monarch Hundred Puppets' cave abode. Long Tianyan and Qing Chi abandoned the chase and joined forces to pursue a Seventh Order Nine-Colored Insect, while Wang Qingshan's group regrouped safely underground.

• Wang Qingshan used Myriad Swords Return to Origin to injure Long Tianyan and the others, then escaped with his companions.
• Qing Chi revealed that the cave held the Myriad Beasts Bell and possibly other treasures, and Long Tianyan lost interest in pursuing Wang Qingshan.
• Long Tianyan told Qing Chi that a spy had leaked the treasure hunt and proposed they intercept the Witch Race and Han Family over a Seventh Order Nine-Colored Insect.
• Qing Chi confirmed Long Tianyan's account by searching a Miniature Nascent Soul, then agreed to join him in pursuing the insect.
• Wang Xiangrong teleported Wang Qingshan and the others tens of thousands of li to a hidden Underground Cave, where they destroyed the array.
• Wang Qingshan gave Wang Huanyu Wu Xin's Golden Demon Core, and Wang Qingfeng asked whether they had found Monarch Hundred Puppets' Seated Immortal Cave.

Wang Qingshan and his companions uncovered Monarch Hundred Puppets’ legacy, including a page of the Celestial Void Jade Tome containing the Thousand Puppets Tome, and decided to leave the Ten Thousand Spirits Ruins with it. The chapter ended with Han Yiqing and Han Xuemei furious over the losses caused by Shang Li’s seizure of the Seventh Order Nine-Colored Insect.

• Wang Qingshan revealed the group’s haul, which included six Middle-Grade Heavenly Treasures, many Puppet Beasts, and a page of the Celestial Void Jade Tome.
• Wang Qingfeng activated Monarch Hundred Puppets’ Legacy Pearl, and its recording recounted the cultivator’s life, his battles, and his death from the Seven Stars Soul-Extinguishing Arrow curse.
• The group learned that the Celestial Void Jade Tome held the Thousand Puppets Tome, with methods for refining powerful Puppet Beasts, the Spirit Treasure Ship, and Upper-Grade Heavenly Treasures.
• Wang Qingshan ordered the group to leave the Ten Thousand Spirits Ruins and take the tome page back to Azure Lotus Island, and the companions divided the treasures before departing the Underground Cave.
• Han Yiqing and Han Xuemei lamented that Shang Li had taken the Seventh Order Nine-Colored Insect, while three Human Race cultivators, three of their Body Integration Cultivators, and all their Void Refinement juniors had died.

Wang Qingshan and his group encountered Li Family cultivators under attack by the Barbarian Race and split up to help them. Wang Qingshan went to support Li Yunyao, while Wang Qingfeng led the others to rescue Li Qingxue; near a lake, Li Tianhe was saved from Sang Li’s spirit flame by an Azure-Gold Fire Bird.

• Han Yiqing and Han Xuemei hurried toward the exit, hoping to intercept the wounded Shang Li.
• Wang Tuntian spotted Barbarian Race cultivators fighting the Li Clan, so Wang Qingshan led his group to help.
• Wang Qingshan sent Wang Qingfeng and the others to aid Li Qingxue, then went with Duan Tongtian to support Li Yunyao.
• Wang Qingfeng and his group attacked the Barbarian Race cultivators while Wang Lei joined the fight.
• Wu Tian and Sang Li overwhelmed Li Tianhe near a lake until an Azure-Gold Fire Bird blocked Sang Li’s Violet Blaze Trueflame.

Wang Qingshan killed Sang Li and joined Li Tianhe against Wu Tian while Duan Tongtian went to help Li Yunyao. Wang Qingshan trapped Wu Tian in a nine-sword array, leaving him surrounded as the battle continued.

• Sang Li tried to subdue the Blue-Gold Fire Luan, but it escaped before Wang Qingshan attacked her with Myriad Swords Return to Origin.
• Wang Qingshan broke through Sang Li's defenses and killed her, including her escaping Miniature Nascent Soul.
• Wang Qingshan arrived beside Li Tianhe, who urged him to help Ancestor Yunyao, but Wang Qingshan said Duan Tongtian had already gone to help Lady Li.
• Wang Qingshan and Li Tianhe joined forces against Wu Tian, who stopped their weapons and attacked them with Golden Fist Shadows.
• Wang Qingshan broke Wu Tian's golden rosy clouds, then split the Sky-Piercing Sword into nine Azure Flying Swords that surrounded Wu Tian in a Sword Array.

Wang Qingshan and Li Tianhe defeated Wu Tian after breaking through his defenses and destroying his treasures. They survived the fight and prepared to join Li Yunyao, who was already on her way to them.

• Wang Qingshan used the Azure Glass Sword Array and a Divine Soul Thread to wound Wu Tian and break his Dharma Aspect.
• Wu Tian used a Bloodfiend Thunder Pearl and Bloodflame Soul-Extinguishing Talisman to weaken the Azure Glass Swords and escape the array.
• Li Tianhe struck Wu Tian with the Sky-Supporting Cudgel while Wang Qingshan's Soul Extinguishing Blade left him vulnerable, and Wu Tian's head exploded.
• Wu Tian's Miniature Nascent Soul self-detonated after Wang Qingshan trapped it with a Golden Jade Bottle.
• Wang Qingshan and Li Tianhe retreated safely, and Li Tianhe asked Wang Qingshan to help Li Yunyao before Wang Qingshan spotted her arriving.

Wang Qingshan and his companions escaped the Ten Thousand Spirits Ruins and accepted Li Tianhe’s invitation to visit the Li Family. Elsewhere, Shang Li was captured by a white-clad Integrated Body cultivator, while the surviving factions left the ruins with news of the Seventh-Order Nine-Colored Insect.

• Duan Tongtian returned with Li Yunyao’s Nascent Soul, and Li Tianhe thanked Wang Qingshan and Duan Tongtian for saving her.
• Wang Qingshan’s group left the bamboo forest and later flew out of the Ten Thousand Spirits Ruins, where Li Tianhe invited them to the Li Family.
• A white-clad young man used his Tiger Phoenix Butterfly’s Spatial Divine Ability and a Cyan Net to capture Shang Li as she left the ruins.
• Long Tianyan recovered from his injuries in an underground cave after failing to intercept Shang Li.
• Han Yiqing and Han Xuemei left the ruins and planned to expose the Witch Race’s possession of the Seventh Order Mid-Grade Nine-Colored Insect.
• Qing Chi and Long Tianyan separately escaped the ruins and headed back to report the Nine-Colored Insect’s whereabouts to their clans.

Wu Yan learned that several Barbarian Race cultivators had died in Ten Thousand Spirits Ruins, while Wang Qingshan and his companions settled at the Li family’s ancestral land. After uncovering the ruins’ secrets and sorting their spoils, Wang Qingshan began repairing his damaged swords.

• Wu Yan learned that Wu Tian and two other Barbarian Race cultivators’ Lifebond Soul Lamps had gone out, and ordered an investigation into their deaths while hoping Wu Yun had survived.
• Li Tianhe welcomed Wang Qingshan and his companions to Golden Crow Island, where Li Qinghuan arranged a manor for them to stay in.
• Duan Tongtian searched a Barbarian Race cultivator’s Miniature Nascent Soul and learned that a Seventh Order Ice Flood Dragon and a Seventh Order Five Thunder Beast had escaped in Ten Thousand Spirits Ruins.
• Wang Qingshan discussed the Five Thunder Beast’s Inner Core and the danger of returning to the ruins before their Restrictions reset in ten thousand years.
• Wang Qingshan examined and stored the spoils from three Body Integration Cultivators, including an Azure Water Turtle shell, then used Azure Lotus Trueflame to restore the spirituality of his nine Azure Glass Swords.

Wang Ruyan survived her first Grand Heavenly Tribulation, and Wang Changsheng returned with her to Azure Lotus Island to resume secluded cultivation. Elsewhere, Lord Wan Hai and Qing Sai learned that the Witch Race had obtained a Seventh Order Nine-Colored Insect and began considering how to respond.

• Han Yiqing told Lord Wan Hai that the Witch Race had obtained the Seventh Order Nine-Colored Insect, and he ordered her to spread the news before contacting Qianjin True Lord.
• Qing Chi told Qing Sai that the Nine-Colored Insect was Seventh Order Mid-Grade, and she ordered him to contact the Blood Whale Race about cooperating.
• Wang Changsheng protected Wang Ruyan as she endured the last three bolts of her Grand Heavenly Tribulation and survived, though the Mystic Tortoise Shield was cracked.
• Wang Ruyan worried about Wang Qingshan and Duan Tongtian in the Qing Li Sea Region, and Wang Changsheng reassured her that Qingshan could protect himself.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan returned to Azure Lotus Island, confirmed that the Lifebond Soul Lamps of Qingshan and the others showed no abnormalities, and entered secluded cultivation.

Li Yunyao recovered in a new body and ordered the Li Family to help Wang Qingshan find rare materials as repayment for his aid. At the Sword Debate Tournament, Wang Qingshan met She Yufeng, who had arrived with Lu Yuyun, while the threat of a racial war loomed over the Qing Li Sea Region.

• Li Yunyao asked after Wang Qingshan and learned that he had gone with Li Qinghuan to the Sword Debate Tournament.
• Li Tianhe told Li Yunyao that the Witch Race had obtained a Seventh Order Mid-Grade Nine-Colored Insect, raising fears of a racial war.
• Li Yunyao reviewed Wang Qingshan's list of rare materials and ordered the Li Family to search for them.
• Wang Qingshan met with Li Qinghuan and other cultivators at Flying Cloud Island, where Zhao Long asked about the Azure Lotus Couple.
• Lu Yuyun arrived with She Yufeng and introduced him to the assembled cultivators.
• A Gold-Robed Man asked She Yufeng whether he was related to Matriarch Golden Butterfly, and She Yufeng said she was the ancestor of his She Family.

Wang Qingshan attended an exchange gathering where he traded Azure Adamant Divine Jade raw ore for a Seventh-Order Wood Sprite Core and Nether River Water. She Yufeng returned to his lodging with high-order ores for She Xin, a transformed Seventh-Order Mid-Grade Nine-Colored Insect.

• She Yufeng met Wang Qingshan and the other cultivators, and they discussed the Wang Family’s Flood Dragons, the Nine Dragons Palace, and dangers in the Ten Thousand Spirits Ruins.
• She Yufeng explained that breeding high-order Nine-Colored Insects was extremely difficult and traded materials from the Qian Yuan Continent at the gathering.
• Wang Qingshan offered materials for exchange and gave She Yufeng and Zhao Long Azure Adamant Divine Jade raw ore in return for a Seventh-Order Wood Sprite Core and Nether River Water.
• She Yufeng returned to his courtyard and handed She Xin two pieces of Azure Adamant Divine Jade raw ore and three other Seventh-Order ores.
• She Xin, a transformed Seventh-Order Mid-Grade Nine-Colored Insect, ate all five pieces of ore.

She Yufeng tried to prepare She Xin for his fourth Grand Heavenly Tribulation by feeding him valuable ore and a Middle-Grade Heavenly Treasure, while keeping his identity secret. At Witch God Island, Wu Li faced growing pressure from rival races and ordered the Witch Race to strengthen its defenses and retaliate against the Han Family.

• She Yufeng gave She Xin an Azure Long Blade to eat, but She Xin said he still felt no sign that he would excrete Nine Radiance Divine Mud.
• She Xin explained that a Seventh Order Upper-Grade Six-Eyed Sand Spider had driven him from his nest before he became trapped and later escaped.
• She Yufeng ordered She Xin to stay hidden while he sought more Seventh Order Metal Ore at the Sword Debate Tournament.
• Shang Qiao and Wu Sheng reported that the Blood Whale Race, the Nine Dragons Palace, the Azure Carp Race, and possibly the Human Race were threatening the Witch Race.
• Wu Li sent Wu Yue to seek the Wind Falcon Race's support and ordered the Witch Race to reinforce its defenses and fight back against any attacker.
• Wu Li ordered her agents to investigate whether the Human Race had obtained the Nine-Colored Insect and to target the Han Family with curses.

Seven Swords True Person discussed the Witch Race’s Nine-Colored Insect and curses, then ordered Qin Shuang to contact other Human Race powers. On Flying Cloud Island, Duan Tongtian gave Wang Qingshan the crystal core of a Void Refinement Stage Stone Spirit.

• Seven Swords True Person dismissed the threat of Wu Li cursing him but ordered Qin Shuang to invite Lord Wan Hai and Qianjin True Lord to discuss the Witch Race.
• Seven Swords True Person told Qin Shuang he had failed to find the second half of the Myriad Spirits Sword Sutra.
• Wang Qingshan, Wang Qingfeng, and Dong Xueli discussed the Witch Race’s curse requirements and the Spirit Insects needed to kill cultivators of different stages.
• Duan Tongtian gave Wang Qingshan a yellow jade box containing a Void Refinement Stage Stone Spirit’s crystal core.

Wang Qingshan and Duan Tongtian discussed Seven Swords True Person’s upcoming Dao lecture and the growing interest in the Witch Race’s Nine-Colored Insect. On Azure Lotus Island, Wang Changsheng learned that Wang Yidao had emerged from seclusion and reached the Void Refinement Late Stage.

• Wang Qingshan gave the Stone Man a Void Refinement Stage Stone Spirit Core that Duan Tongtian had obtained for him.
• Duan Tongtian told Wang Qingshan and Wang Qingfeng that Seven Swords True Person would attend the Sword Debate Tournament and lecture on the Dao.
• Wang Qingshan and Duan Tongtian discussed the threat posed by the Witch Race’s Seventh Order Mid-Grade Nine-Colored Insect and the chance to trade for rare resources at the lecture.
• Wang Changsheng finished refining a Mystic Tortoise Shield and contacted Wang Yihong to ask whether Wang Yidao had emerged from seclusion.
• Wang Yihong reported that Wang Yidao had reached the Void Refinement Late Stage, and Wang Changsheng summoned them to Azure Lotus Peak.

Lan Fukong reported that he had found a Seventh-Order Azure Python, prompting Wang Changsheng to head into the Barren Wilds with Wang Chan, Wang Lin, and Wang Mengli. Elsewhere, Bu Hao and Bu Zhu prepared to hunt a Seventh-Order Azure Thunder Lion for a Lightning Absorption Pearl, while Wang Changsheng and Wang Lin cautiously entered a canyon.

• Wang Changsheng praised Wang Yidao’s rapid cultivation and told him to pursue marriage as he wished.
• Lan Fukong reported the Azure Python’s location and described how it had slain a Seventh-Order Li Fire Falcon with a Qilin Dharma Idol.
• Wang Changsheng sent Wang Yihong to attend to Lan Fukong, then set out for the Barren Wilds with Wang Chan, Wang Lin, and Wang Mengli.
• Bu Hao told Bu Zhu to oversee the Lizard Race clansmen if he failed to survive his next Grand Heavenly Tribulation.
• Bu Zhu reported that her husband had found a Seventh-Order Azure Thunder Lion, and Bu Hao set out with three Body Integration Cultivators to hunt it.
• Wang Changsheng and Wang Lin cautiously advanced into a narrow canyon.

Wang Changsheng searched the Barren Wilds for the Azure Python, then rescued Gongsun Yang from an Ancient Giant. After thanking him, Gongsun Yang asked whether something had happened to Wang Changsheng’s Spirit Beast.

• Wang Changsheng searched for the Azure Python, but Wang Mengli and Wang Chan found and killed other Demon Beasts instead.
• Wang Changsheng sent tens of thousands of Adamantine Beetle puppets to search, but three months passed without finding the Azure Python and more than ten thousand puppets were destroyed.
• Wang Changsheng saw Gongsun Yang fleeing from an Integrated Body Middle Stage Ancient Giant on a Jade-Eyed Golden Crow.
• Wang Changsheng attacked the Ancient Giant with a Sky-Piercing Giant Hand, sending it crashing to the ground, and the giant then fled.
• Seven days later, Gongsun Yang thanked Wang Changsheng for saving him and asked if something had happened to his Spirit Beast.

Wang Changsheng enlisted Gongsun Yang and his scent-tracking Spirit Beast to find the Azure Python, which he had encountered before. They located it and attacked, while a Lizard Race group also set out to recruit the same python.

• Wang Changsheng showed Gongsun Yang a scale from the Azure Python, and Gongsun Yang agreed to help track it with Yu'er, his Spirit-Seeking Marten.
• Xiao Feng, Bu Hao, Bu Zhu, Yi Yang, Gu Xue, and another Lizard Race cultivator killed two Azure Thunder Lions, then agreed to help Yi Yang recruit a Seventh Order Azure Python.
• The Azure Python sensed Wang Changsheng and Gongsun Yang outside its underground cave, broke out, and confronted Wang Changsheng over the True Spirit Source he had taken.
• Wang Changsheng attacked the Azure Python with three Golden Small Mirrors, while Gongsun Yang sent a Golden Flame Crow at it.

Wang Changsheng and Gongsun Yang fought the Azure Python, but the intelligent beast fled after their attacks revealed the gap in strength. Gongsun Yang used his Hundred Beast Body to turn nearby beasts against it, and Wang Changsheng joined the assault as the battle continued.

• The Azure Python escaped Wang Changsheng and Gongsun Yang’s attacks by dispersing into water vapor and reforming hundreds of kilometers away.
• Gongsun Yang summoned his Dharma Aspect and used his Hundred Beast Body to draw nearby Demon Beasts, Demon Birds, and Demon Insects toward the fight.
• The Azure Python resisted Gongsun Yang’s influence briefly, but the Lihuo Owl, Qingfeng Dove, and other beasts attacked it under his control.
• Gongsun Yang warned Wang Changsheng that his secret art consumed too much magic power, and Wang Changsheng charged the Azure Python with the Sky-Shaking Spear.
• The Azure Python attacked the Lihuo Owl and Qingfeng Dove, while its gaze struck two Tier 6 Demon Birds, which fell and dissolved into pools of deadly blood.

Wang Changsheng defeated the Seventh Order Azure Python with help from Lihuo Owl and Qingfeng Dove, then captured its miniature form after weakening its Self-Healing Physique. Bu Hao and three Lizard Race cultivators appeared to confront him, furious that humans had slain the Azure Python.

• Lihuo Owl and Qingfeng Dove assisted Wang Changsheng as he fought off the Azure Python's defenses and attacks from other Demon Beasts.
• Wang Changsheng struck the Azure Python with the Sky-Shaking Spear and crushed it beneath the White Giant Peak, but it regenerated through its Self-Healing Physique.
• Wang Changsheng repeatedly battered the Azure Python, burned its shredded flesh with the Golden Crow Lamp, and captured its miniature form in a Blue Jade Vial.
• Wang Changsheng repelled a surprise attack with his fists, the Wind Stabilizing Pearl, and a black human-shaped phantom.
• Bu Hao and three other Lizard Race Body Integration Cultivators appeared, enraged to find Wang Changsheng and the others slaughtering the Azure Python.

Wang Changsheng fought Bu Hao, Xiao Feng, and their allies, killing Bu Zhu and another Integrated Body Cultivator while the battle turned against the attackers. As Bu Hao fled, Xiao Feng used a Calamity Substitute Pearl to survive Wang Changsheng’s attack and detonated a Five-Colored Talisman near him.

• Bu Hao and the others attacked Wang Changsheng with fire, poison, ice, and wind abilities while Gongsun Yang fought two other Body Integration Cultivators.
• Wang Changsheng used the Soul-Quelling Roar to stun Bu Zhu and another attacker, then his Blue Water Dragons killed them and shattered their Essence Souls.
• The Blue Water Dragons wounded Bu Hao, while Gu Xue was killed by a golden blade; Bu Hao ordered a retreat and tried to escape in the Red Giant Tower.
• Wang Changsheng knocked the Red Giant Tower away and attacked Xiao Feng with a blue water mountain, apparently killing him as he transformed into a rain of blood.
• Xiao Feng returned after using a Calamity Substitute Pearl and detonated a Five-Colored Talisman within thirty feet of Wang Changsheng, engulfing him in a blazing sun.

Wang Changsheng defeated Xiao Feng and killed a Red-Robed Elder while helping Gongsun Yang, capturing both enemies’ miniature forms in a Blue Jade Vial. Gongsun Yang said one Lizard Race Body Integration cultivator had escaped and tracking the Lizard Race remnants in the Barren Wilds would be difficult.

• Xiao Feng tried to escape after the Five-Flame Spirit-Annihilating Talisman failed to harm Wang Changsheng, but Wang Changsheng stopped his Wind Tunneling and froze his owl phantom and Azure Long Blade.
• Wang Changsheng smashed Xiao Feng’s head and swept his miniature owl into a Blue Jade Vial, while Bu Hao escaped.
• Gongsun Yang called for help as a wounded Red-Robed Elder fled toward Wang Changsheng, who attacked him with a Blue Water Mountain and Sky-Shaking Spear.
• Wang Changsheng killed the Red-Robed Elder and captured the miniature lizard that emerged from his body.
• Gongsun Yang told Wang Changsheng that six Lizard Race Body Integration cultivators had appeared and explained that the Myriad Demon Mirror could track only specific Demon Beasts whose Essence Blood had been collected.