Chapter Summaries

After killing Shen BuJue, Ji Qinglin struggled to control the fire strength he had absorbed and cooled himself in a hotel fountain pool. Once he recovered, Jiang Chen jumped into the pool beside him.

• Ji Qinglin told his disciples that he had burned Shen BuJue to death, then asked about the evidence against Immortal Path Biology and Jiang Chen's failed pursuit of Kong Wei.
• Ji Qinglin's disciples escorted him to a fountain pool after discovering faint flames covering his body, while Xie Ling and the others stayed behind to fight the fire and collect evidence.
• Ji Qinglin submerged himself in the pool and spent half an hour sorting the fire strength in his body, turning the water into a steaming hot spring.
• After Ji Qinglin declared himself recovered, Yu Ye and Red Night noticed his awkward state, and he covered himself with a blanket.
• Jiang Chen abruptly jumped into the pool, startling Ji Qinglin, Yu Ye, and Red Night.

Jiang Chen, Chi Ye, and Yu Ye playfully teased Ji Qinglin in the pool before Jiang Chen warned him that Immortal Path Biology might target him at the Dao Pledge Convention. Ji Qinglin refused to promise he would stay out of the contest, and the chapter ended with NanGong Qian Feng learning he had been badly injured and rushing to visit him.

• Jiang Chen and Chi Ye jumped into the pool to tease Ji Qinglin, and Ji Qinglin struck Chi Ye with thunder-qi when she helped corner him.
• Chi Ye pulled Yu Ye into the pool, and Yu Ye accidentally yanked away Ji Qinglin’s blanket before Jiang Chen caught it with blood silk.
• Jiang Chen urged Ji Qinglin to avoid the Dao Pledge Convention because Immortal Path Biology might send a supreme expert after him, but Ji Qinglin promised only to withdraw if he faced danger.
• Ji Qinglin dragged Jiang Chen into the pool, and Chi Ye and Yu Ye joined the ensuing playful water fight until dawn.
• Uncle Mo told NanGong Qian Feng that Ji Qinglin had suffered severe internal burns after attacking an Immortal Path Biology factory and defeating Shen BuJue.
• NanGong Qian Feng ordered Uncle Mo to arrange a car so she could visit Ji Qinglin.

After the Food Processing Plant was raided, Ji Qinglin rested at a nearby hotel and taught Yu Ye and Red Night to cultivate fire energy. NanGong Qian Feng arrived worried about his injuries and embraced him, insisting that he must not risk his life for her.

• Xie Ling and Fan Yu helped undercover police collect evidence and bodies from the burned Food Processing Plant.
• Jiang Chen uploaded footage of Kong Wei escaping to the Dark Web while Ji Qinglin rested at the hotel.
• Red Night merged with Yu Ye so they could learn fire energy together, and Ji Qinglin carefully transmitted strands of it into Yu Ye.
• Ji Qinglin stopped when Yu Ye could no longer endure the heat, explaining that controlling the energy had exhausted him.
• NanGong Qian Feng visited Ji Qinglin after hearing he had been injured, scolded him for risking his life, and hugged him.

Ji Qinglin recovered and helped NanGong Qian Feng devise a plan to rally Qi Practitioners against Immortal Path Biology by promising access to Immortal Remains. Meanwhile, Kong DeCheng discovered Kong Wei had returned with an empty box, while footage of him carrying it spread across the Dark Web and threatened Immortal Path Biology’s position.

• NanGong Qian Feng embraced Ji Qinglin, checked on his recovery, and told him the Dao Pledge Convention preparations were complete.
• Ji Qinglin asked NanGong Qian Feng to investigate the whereabouts of Immortal Remains, and she revealed that the Nangong Family’s piece had passed to her second brother, NanGong Qian Xing.
• Ji Qinglin suggested that NanGong Qian Feng promise Immortal Remains to Qi Practitioners who joined her side, claiming they could obtain the piece from NanGong Qian Xing if they won.
• NanGong Qian Feng agreed to Ji Qinglin’s plan, then hugged him before leaving his room.
• Kong DeCheng slapped Kong Wei and explained that Shen BuJue had sent him away with a box containing only a cup, while carrying the real Immortal Remains himself.
• Kong DeCheng showed Kong Wei that footage of him carrying the box had gone viral on the Dark Web, raising the risk that Qi Practitioners would demand more money or switch sides.

Kong DeCheng faced pressure from Qi Practitioners demanding access to the Immortal Remains and offered them Immortal Path Biology’s cultivation-enhancing research samples instead. Meanwhile, Ji Qinglin went to sleep with Yu Ye and Red Night standing guard, and his dream revealed an Immortal testing an artificial intelligence’s developing abilities and asking it to secretly monitor Lian.

• Hua Qian Shu and the other Qi Practitioners demanded that Kong DeCheng share the Immortal Remains, but Kong showed them a box containing only water and said the remains had not been recovered.
• Kong DeCheng promised to lend the remains after the Dao Pledge Convention and offered samples that could improve cultivation, easing the Qi Practitioners’ concerns.
• Ji Qinglin returned to the General Store with Yu Ye and Red Night, who lay beside him to guard him as he slept in case the Immortal Remains triggered another strange dream.
• In his dream, a young man in black entered a mountain cave and learned that Big Boss was researching Artificial Intelligence Cultivation after other experiments failed.
• The young man gave Qing some of his divine consciousness, then asked Qing to secretly record Lian’s behavior.

Ji Qinglin pieced together more of Qing’s origins, then prepared for the Dao Pledge Convention by arranging a raid on Immortal Path Biology’s Black Factories and beginning secluded cultivation. He left the chapter practicing a new sword technique and developing a fire-force cultivation art.

• Ji Qinglin concluded that Qing and Lian had both been artificial intelligences and that he would need to piece together more Immortal Remains to learn about his past.
• Ji Qinglin, Yu Ye, and Red Night spent the morning together before Xie Ling and Fan Yu confirmed plans to raid Immortal Path Biology’s Black Factories during the Dao Pledge Convention.
• Ji Qinglin reassured Xie Ling and Fan Yu that he would participate in the convention but might not need to fight.
• Ji Qinglin drove with Yu Ye, Red Night, and the Coal Boss to the wasteland ruins to cultivate before the convention.
• Ji Qinglin connected to the Qi Sea Cloud Disk and began developing sword techniques and a fire-force cultivation art.
• Ji Qinglin practiced shaping airflow and water into strands, then used Sword Qi to try forming a Sword Intent Imprint.

The Dao Pledge Convention between Immortal Path Biology and Four Seas Trade began at Century Stadium, with outside forces and hidden agendas surrounding the match. Uncle Mo won the opening snatching red contest for Four Seas Trade, giving his side the right to act second in the first round.

• Kong DeCheng and NanGong Qian Feng brought their teams to Century Stadium, while Ji Qinglin watched from the audience with Yu Ye and Red Night.
• Ji Qinglin explained that the five-on-five match would rotate fighters and that the snatching red contest would decide who acted second in the first round.
• Kong DeCheng and NanGong Qian Feng agreed to begin the snatching red segment, and host He Wei announced its rules.
• Immortal Path Biology sent Cao Lin, while Four Seas Trade sent Mo Luo Bai, to race for the red flag.
• Uncle Mo cracked the ground to tip the flagpole toward himself, seized the flag, and struck Cao Lin with it, winning the contest.

At the Dao Pledge Convention, Four Seas Trade and Immortal Path Biology began their first match with Zhang DaoAn facing Wu Gao Feng. Zhang DaoAn struck Wu with lightning, while Ji Qinglin secretly signaled Xie Ling to make a move.

• Uncle Mo Luo Bai seized the red flag for Four Seas Trade, and He Wei announced the schedule for the first round.
• Kong DeCheng chose Immortal Path Biology’s Wu Gao Feng as its first fighter, and NanGong Qian Feng sent Zhang DaoAn to represent Four Seas Trade.
• He Wei introduced both Great Grandmasters and explained the match’s elimination rules before the signal began the fight.
• Wu Gao Feng attacked with stones and a powerful punch, but Zhang DaoAn blocked him with a Qi wall and escaped underground using a talisman.
• Zhang DaoAn sprang from the ground, trapped Wu Gao Feng in lightning Qi, and struck him with a lightning talisman.
• Ji Qinglin texted Xie Ling that he could make his move.

Zhang DaoAn used talismans and a carefully concealed trap to fight Wu Gao Feng, whose External Meridians amplified his strength. Both men ended the match too injured to continue, leaving Ji Qinglin to declare a draw and say they each owed him a request.

• Zhang DaoAn triggered a Five Thunder Talisman Linked Formation, but Wu Gao Feng survived and resumed attacking.
• Zhang DaoAn tried to seal Wu Gao Feng's meridians, but discovered that Wu Gao Feng's External Meridians protected him from the technique.
• Zhang DaoAn used blood to place an auxiliary talisman on Wu Gao Feng and lured him into raising his qi force to its peak.
• Zhang DaoAn canceled the talisman's meridian transmission during their final clash, causing Wu Gao Feng's meridians to rupture.
• Both fighters fell too injured to continue, and Ji Qinglin declared the match a draw and said each man owed him a request.

After the opening match ended in a draw, Jiang Chen volunteered for Four Seas Trade’s second match and faced the corpse cultivator Fang Manzhou. She used Blood Silk and Blood Burst Needles to disrupt Immortal Path Biology’s stands before returning to the arena, leaving the fight unresolved.

• He Wei declared the first match between Wu Gao Feng and Zhang DaoAn a draw after both were judged unable to continue fighting.
• Lei Qiong offered to fight next, but Jiang Chen stepped forward instead, saying Immortal Path Biology knew little about her.
• Kong DeCheng sent Fang Manzhou, a corpse cultivator known as Corpse Ghost Without Trace, to face Jiang Chen.
• Fang Manzhou attacked with gray Corpse Soul Qi, and Jiang Chen dodged while recognizing that he cultivated both corpse and soul techniques.
• Jiang Chen flew onto Immortal Path Biology’s sunshade platform, blocked Fang Manzhou’s strike, and sent Blood Burst Needles raining down on the people below.
• After He Wei ordered them to return to the arena, Jiang Chen crushed the sunshade platform on her way down and resumed the match with Fang Manzhou.

Jiang Chen fought Fang Manzhou, using her knowledge of corpse cultivation and Corpse Blood Dual Cultivation to overcome his corpse souls and Soul Eating Body Enhancement. She left him wounded at the heart, where black qi disrupted his control and turned the corpse souls against him.

• Jiang Chen provoked Immortal Path Biology on the Sunshade Platform and smashed it apart before returning to the arena to face Fang Manzhou.
• Fang Manzhou attacked with corpse souls, while Ji Qinglin explained the forbidden Corpse Soul Refinement Technique to Red Night and Yu Ye.
• Jiang Chen evaded the corpse souls, then revealed a Blood Sword inside her corpse qi blade and cut Fang Manzhou across the chest.
• Fang Manzhou used Soul Eating Body Enhancement to heal himself, but Jiang Chen pierced his heart by transforming her body into a Blood Sword.
• Fang Manzhou could no longer control the corpse souls as black qi seeped from his heart, and Jiang Chen explained that she had struck the weakness of his External Cultivation Stream.

Jiang Chen defeated Fang Manzhou by exploiting the limits of his corpse cultivation and overloading him with poisonous corpse qi. She stood victorious and called for her next opponent.

• Jiang Chen’s attack disrupted Fang Manzhou’s control of his soul bodies, which turned on him until he destroyed them with a remote control.
• Fang Manzhou absorbed the dissipated Corpse Soul Qi and formed armor that dissolved Jiang Chen’s blood needles and created a powerful suction force.
• Jiang Chen launched herself at Fang Manzhou with a Blood Sword, sacrificed both arms to slash open his chest, and let him absorb her corpse qi.
• Jiang Chen used her unusual blood and Fang Manzhou’s blood loss to make his body swell with excess corpse qi, then killed him with a newly formed Blood Sword.
• Jiang Chen stood over Fang Manzhou’s remains and called, “Next.”

Jiang Chen defeated Fang Manzhou but suffered severe blood loss, and Ji Qinglin revealed himself as her master by carrying her off the stage. As the next round began, the attendees realized Ji Qinglin had come to the convention.

• Jiang Chen killed Fang Manzhou, and He Wei declared her the winner while reminding both sides to honor their life-and-death waivers.
• Kong DeCheng learned that forces from the chambers of commerce had raided Immortal Path Biology’s eight factories, then ordered his people to stall the investigations and destroy evidence if necessary.
• Ji Qinglin recognized that Jiang Chen was badly weakened and went down to the stage when she began to sway.
• Ji Qinglin carried Jiang Chen away for treatment and confirmed that she would not fight the next round, while He Wei preserved her victory and started the next round anew.
• Kong DeCheng, Lu Bing, and NanGong Wang were shocked to realize Ji Qinglin had arrived at the convention.

Ji Qinglin revealed himself at the Dao Pledge Convention and carried the injured Jiang Chen to safety, while his appearance unsettled Kong DeCheng and worried Lu Bing. As Pei Ruohai and Yu Hang began a fierce Buddhist duel, Ji Qinglin watched and wondered how such practitioners could be so ruthless.

• Ji Qinglin appeared in the audience, disrupting Kong DeCheng's plans and leaving Lu Bing anxious about possibly facing him.
• NanGong Wang and NanGong Qian Xing discussed Ji Qinglin's disguise while Yu Ye and Red Night hurried to check on Jiang Chen.
• Ji Qinglin carried Jiang Chen to Four Seas Trade's lounge, where Sun Yi treated her for blood loss and minor internal injuries.
• Yu Hang entered the arena for Immortal Path Biology, and Pei Ruohai volunteered to fight him for Four Seas Trade.
• Pei Ruohai and Yu Hang exchanged respectful greetings, then opened their duel with matching palm strikes and golden Buddha images.

Yu Hang and Pei Ruohai fought an escalating battle of Buddhist techniques in the Dao Pledge Convention, while Ji Qinglin checked on the covert raids against the Black Factories. The two contestants unleashed their final techniques, but the chapter ended before revealing who won.

• Pei Ruohai and Yu Hang traded Buddhist techniques, shattering their Golden Light Dharma Images and countering each other's attacks.
• Ji Qinglin called Xie Ling, who reported that the covert police and the four associations were raiding the Black Factories successfully.
• Ji Qinglin planned to use control of the Black Factories to bind the four associations to his effort against Immortal Path Biology.
• Pei Ruohai broke through Yu Hang's Golden Peak Buddha Flame with the Eleventh Layer of the Golden Bell Shield, but Yu Hang shattered it with Buddha Asks Gārava.
• Pei Ruohai used Avalokiteśvara Chaos, and Yu Hang countered with Buddha Turns the Sutra Wheel before both unleashed Tathāgata Severance and Six Paths Reincarnation Buddha Light Spin.
• A deafening clash shook the stadium, and the smoke and dust concealed the outcome of the final battle.

Yu Hang defeated Pei Ruohai in a brutal clash, leaving both fighters unable to compete in the next match. With the score tied, Ji Qinglin entered the arena as Four Seas Trade’s next contestant, while Lei Qiong’s anticipated turn was interrupted.

• Yu Hang diverted Pei Ruohai’s Tathāgata Severance with his Buddhist techniques and knocked him unconscious, though Pei Ruohai pierced his shoulder.
• He Wei declared Yu Hang the winner, and both Yu Hang and Pei Ruohai withdrew from the next match as their teams treated them.
• Ji Qinglin teased Red Night about their wager, then changed into a Daoist robe and walked onto the arena floor.
• NanGong Qian Feng, NanGong Wang, Kong DeCheng, and Lu Bing reacted with concern or suspicion as Ji Qinglin took the field.
• Ji Qinglin planned to fight in the fourth round, avoid the hidden supreme expert expected in the final round, and consider a way to disqualify that opponent.

Ji Qinglin faced Hua Qian Shu, an Immortal Path Biology agent who attacked with Wind Force and flower-blade techniques. Ji Qinglin escaped Hua Qian Shu’s trap with a sudden pillar of fire, leaving Hua singed and Kong DeCheng’s confidence shaken.

• Kong DeCheng sent Hua Qian Shu to fight Ji Qinglin after Hua agreed to kill him in exchange for borrowing the Immortal Remains.
• Hua Qian Shu opened the match by sending wind-driven flower petals at Ji Qinglin, who dodged them with ease.
• Hua Qian Shu surrounded Ji Qinglin with his Wind Blade Thousand Twirls, while Ji Qinglin’s Lightning Force failed to clear a path through the petals.
• As Hua Qian Shu moved in above him, Ji Qinglin unleashed a Heavenly Fire Pillar that engulfed the petals and Hua.
• Hua Qian Shu leaped out of the flames singed and smoking, then glared at Kong DeCheng over the misleading intelligence about Ji Qinglin.

Ji Qinglin overwhelmed Hua Qian Shu with a vast fire array and a series of thunder and sword attacks during their Dao Pledge Convention match. As Hua Qian Shu planned his counterattack, a hidden thread cut across his neck, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Ji Qinglin revealed his fire force, alarming his companions and spectators who worried that combining fire and thunder would damage his meridians.
• Ji Qinglin unleashed Seven Tribulations Five Prisons across the arena, shocking the crowd and prompting Kong Wei to realize Ji Qinglin had started the Food Processing Plant fire.
• Hua Qian Shu attacked with his wind-and-fire fan, but Ji Qinglin countered with Only Consciousness Sword Intent and wounded Hua Qian Shu's mechanical arm using Sword Intent Flowing Clouds.
• Ji Qinglin struck Hua Qian Shu with Thunderous Sword Intent and World Splitting Thunder Force, blasting him backward as Hua Qian Shu prepared to use his Nine Dragons Fan.
• A nearly invisible thread crossed Hua Qian Shu's path and cut the back of his neck while he was still airborne.

Ji Qinglin defeated Hua Qian Shu with a concealed sword technique, then declined to fight a second match and asked to meet Immortal Path Biology’s final contestant. A little girl in a Red Black Daoist Robe emerged from the lounge as the venue awaited the final match.

• Ji Qinglin used Sword Intent Imprint to behead Hua Qian Shu, then searched his corpse and took the Nine Dragons Fan.
• The flames faded to reveal Hua Qian Shu dead and Ji Qinglin apparently unharmed, leaving both sides shocked by the result.
• Ji Qinglin declined to enter the fifth match, citing his depleted strength and the need for a fair final contest.
• Ji Qinglin asked to meet Immortal Path Biology’s fifth contestant before leaving the arena, and He Wei allowed it.
• Immortal Path Biology’s stand remained still until a little girl in a Red Black Daoist Robe walked out carrying half a bottle of cola.

At the Dao Pledge Convention, Immortal Path Biology revealed Water Hero Lu Bing as its fifth fighter, leaving Four Seas Trade seemingly unable to win. Ji Qinglin then named Red Night as his strongest disciple and sent her to face Lu Bing.

• Lu Bing entered the arena as Immortal Path Biology’s fifth fighter, shocking the audience and making them expect Four Seas Trade to lose.
• Red Night realized Lu Bing had come to fight for Immortal Path Biology, while Ji Qinglin suspected she might be investigating Red Night’s origins.
• Ji Qinglin declined to fight Lu Bing himself and said his disciple would take the match instead.
• Ji Qinglin revealed that his strongest disciple was Red Night and went to bring her from the lounge.
• Lu Bing struggled to hide her reaction as Ji Qinglin announced Red Night’s first battle since beginning cultivation.