Chapter Summaries

After killing Qiu Rong, Mo Hongyun went to settle the Treasure Pavilion’s affairs while Lu Qing accompanied the injured Azure Wave City Lord to his mansion. Lu Qing asked how he could enter the Tian Yuan Great World despite his conflict with the Gongshu Family, and the City Lord revealed that members of the Thirty-Six Upper Clans could travel there without using Heaven’s Heart City’s teleportation array.

• Mo Hongyun killed the unconscious Qiu Rong and agreed to go to the City Lord’s Mansion after handling the Treasure Pavilion’s affairs.
• Lu Qing escorted the wounded Azure Wave City Lord to his mansion, where they learned that the formation’s backlash had incapacitated nearly all the guards.
• The Azure Wave City Lord swallowed a precious medicinal pill that healed his external wounds, though his Nascent Soul injuries still needed time to recover.
• The Azure Wave City Lord asked about Lu Qing’s origins, but Lu Qing declined to reveal his master’s lineage.
• Lu Qing asked how he could enter the Tian Yuan Great World after making an enemy of the Gongshu Family, and the City Lord explained that upper-realm clans had other ways to travel there without paying Heaven’s Heart City.

Lu Qing learned that the Azure Wave City Lord could send him to the Tian Yuan Great World, while Mo Hongyun revealed her hidden powers and the danger posed by her Mystic Yin Jade Body. The chapter ended with her naming the Myriad Desire Esteemed One, a Grand Elder of the Joyous Union Sect, as the person who discovered her constitution.

• The Azure Wave City Lord agreed to send Lu Qing through the Nangong Family's teleportation array after recovering overnight, and Lu Qing sought cultivation guidance from him.
• Mo Hongyun gave Lu Qing Qiu Rong's Storage Bag and learned that Lu Qing still planned to enter the Tian Yuan Great World despite the risk of the Gongshu Family pursuing him.
• Mo Hongyun told Lu Qing that she had awakened the Fate Divination Divine Power and the Mystic Yin Jade Body, which could make her a target for people seeking to exploit her.
• Mo Hongyun explained that she had concealed her constitution until her parents died and she took on family responsibilities.
• Mo Hongyun revealed that the Myriad Desire Esteemed One, a Grand Elder of the Joyous Union Sect, had recognized her Mystic Yin Jade Body at a birthday banquet, horrifying the Azure Wave City Lord.

Mo Hongyun revealed that Myriad Desire Esteemed One had cursed her and planned to take her as a concubine, while Lu Qing initially doubted he could help her. After examining the curse seal with his ability, Lu Qing discovered an inheritance and chose to download its simulation.

• Mo Hongyun showed Lu Qing and the Azure Wave City Lord the Joyful Heart Corroding Curse Seal placed on her by Myriad Desire Esteemed One.
• Mo Hongyun explained that she had traded a hundred years of lifespan to secure fifty years of freedom in Azure Wave City and had sought the chance to escape her fate.
• Mo Hongyun said her Fate Divination Divine Power had identified Lu Qing as her opportunity, but Lu Qing said he could not contend with a Four Tribulation Nascent Soul Expert.
• When Mo Hongyun explained that leaving the Small Azure Realm would let Myriad Desire Esteemed One activate the curse, Lu Qing realized the curse seal was her greatest immediate trouble.
• Lu Qing examined the seal with his ability, discovered an inheritance prompt, and chose to download the simulation.

Lu Qing comprehended the Joyful Heart Corroding Curse and prepared a formation to suppress and conceal it while he attempted to break Mo Hongyun’s curse. When he disturbed the mark, Myriad Desire Esteemed One’s voice rang out from within it.

• Lu Qing used his ability to master the Joyful Heart Corroding Curse and derive a way to break it.
• Lu Qing asked the Azure Wave City Lord for Spirit Jade, then refined one hundred and eight Jade Talismans and inscribed a grand array.
• Mo Hongyun sat at the array’s center, and Lu Qing activated it to conceal their auras and isolate the space.
• Lu Qing sent his Divine Soul Power toward the curse mark on Mo Hongyun’s chest, causing it to writhe and speak in Myriad Desire Esteemed One’s voice.

Lu Qing used his formation to suppress Myriad Desire Esteemed One’s divided spirit and remove the Joyful Heart Corroding Curse from Mo Hongyun. He destroyed the divided spirit, but Myriad Desire Esteemed One vowed to find him.

• Lu Qing told Mo Hongyun to seal her senses and protect her mind while he isolated the curse mark from Myriad Desire Esteemed One’s main body.
• Myriad Desire Esteemed One manifested a Divided Spirit Dharma Body, but Lu Qing used his formation and one hundred and eight talismans to suppress it.
• Lu Qing dissolved the curse mark’s power, extracted it from Mo Hongyun, and had Yan refine it inside the Li Fire Cauldron.
• Mo Hongyun felt her mind relax but continued guarding her spiritual light as Lu Qing turned the formation against Myriad Desire Esteemed One’s divided spirit.
• Myriad Desire Esteemed One threatened to find Lu Qing, then his Divided Spirit Dharma Body was crushed and erased by the formation.

Lu Qing removed Mo Hongyun’s Joyful Heart Corroding Curse by refining Myriad Desire Esteemed One’s divided spirit, then helped her prepare to flee the Small Azure Realm safely. Mo Hongyun set out to cultivate freely, protected by a Causality Pearl and Lu Qing’s Transformation Talisman, while Lu Qing concealed the formation he had used.

• Lu Qing extinguished Myriad Desire Esteemed One’s divided spirit and called Mo Hongyun back to her body, where she discovered her curse mark was gone.
• The Azure Wave City Lord gave Mo Hongyun the Causality Pearl, and Lu Qing warned her to leave the Small Azure Realm before Myriad Desire Esteemed One could retaliate.
• Mo Hongyun revealed she had dissolved Treasure Pavilion and said she planned to travel abroad and cultivate until she could control her Mystic Yin Jade Body.
• Lu Qing gave Mo Hongyun a Transformation Talisman that concealed her Mystic Yin Jade Body’s aura, and she thanked him with a Storage Bag of Spirit Stones.
• Lu Qing collected his talismans and erased the formation’s traces as the Azure Wave City Lord praised his ability to defeat a Four Tribulation Nascent Soul Expert’s divided spirit.

Myriad Desire Esteemed One learned that Mo Hongyun’s curse had been removed and set out for the Small Azure Realm, while Gongshu Tian also planned to go there after hearing Gongshu Yu had died. Before they arrived, Lu Qing, Mo Hongyun, and the Azure Wave City Lord escaped through a teleportation array, leaving the pink Auspicious Cloud to appear over Azure Wave City.

• Myriad Desire Esteemed One discovered that Mo Hongyun’s curse had been removed and that someone had concealed the heavenly secrets, so he took Hong Luan and hurried toward the Small Azure Realm.
• Gongshu Tian learned Gongshu Yu had died in the Small Azure Realm, decided to investigate, and planned to wait for Fourth Grand Uncle before descending.
• At dawn, the Azure Wave City Lord recovered more than half his strength and prepared to take Lu Qing and Mo Hongyun through the teleportation array.
• Lu Qing brought Xiao Li and Five Elements out of his Universe Qi Bag after confirming that the array could teleport them along with the others.
• The Azure Wave City Lord activated the array, and Lu Qing, Mo Hongyun, Xiao Li, and Five Elements vanished through its Space Vortex.
• Less than half an hour later, a pink Auspicious Cloud appeared above Azure Wave City.

Myriad Desire Esteemed One arrived in Azure Wave City seeking Mo Hongyun and learned that a battle between the Nangong and Gongshu Families had left the city in ruins and Gongshu Yu dead. After hearing an account of the battle, Gongshu Old Four headed for the City Lord's Mansion, while Myriad Desire Esteemed One followed, hoping to find Mo Hongyun and take advantage of the families' conflict.

• Myriad Desire Esteemed One searched a Golden Core cultivator's soul and learned that a Nangong-Gongshu conflict had killed a Gongshu Family Dao Child and involved Mo Hongyun.
• Gongshu Old Four arrived with his companions and suspected Myriad Desire Esteemed One of killing the Dao Child, but Myriad Desire Esteemed One denied involvement.
• Gongshu Old Four sent his people to question Luo Yan, who recounted how a mysterious talisman maker defeated Gongshu Yu and how Nangong Yuanwu's actions helped defeat the Gongshu cultivators.
• Gongshu Old Four flew toward the City Lord's Mansion to confront Nangong Yuanwu and find the mysterious cultivator.
• Myriad Desire Esteemed One decided to follow Gongshu Old Four, hoping to find Mo Hongyun and use the families' conflict to take her away.
• Elsewhere in the Tian Yuan Great World, Lu Qing surveyed a valley.

Lu Qing arrived in the Tian Yuan Great World, learned its laws and received spirit stones from Nangong Yuanwu before setting out to explore. As he flew through the unfamiliar world, a Strange Bird suddenly attacked him.

• Lu Qing marveled at the spiritual energy and spiritual plants in Hundred Flowers Valley before Nangong Yuanwu identified it as a Nangong Family medicinal herb garden.
• A Nangong Family Golden Core cultivator greeted Nangong Yuanwu, learned he had broken through to Nascent Soul, and congratulated him.
• Lu Qing declined Nangong Yuanwu’s invitation to visit the family, then learned the Holy Alliance enforced rules against slaughtering innocents and colluding with the Demon Clan.
• Nangong Yuanwu gave Lu Qing a storage ring of spirit stones, and Lu Qing departed with Xiao Li and Five Elements while Mo Hongyun stayed behind.
• Nangong Yuanwu arranged for Mo Hongyun to travel to the Return Origin Great World, while Lu Qing flew onward and sensed the Tian Yuan Great World’s stronger spiritual energy and laws.
• A Strange Bird flew toward Lu Qing and clawed at him as he passed through the clouds.

Lu Qing killed a Strange Bird that had ambushed him, let Five Elements consume its corpse, and examined several storage treasures. After discovering that he possessed more than 11,500 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, he decided to prioritize cultivation and enter seclusion with Xiao Li and Five Elements.

• Lu Qing swiftly killed the aura-concealing Strange Bird, hid in a mountain cave, and allowed Five Elements to consume its corpse while keeping the demon core.
• Lu Qing inspected Master Qiu's Storage Bag and found more than a thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, which he realized had been compensation for unleashing Demonic Qi in Treasure Pavilion.
• Lu Qing discovered that Mo Hongyun's Storage Bag held at least 5,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and Nangong Yuanwu's ring held 3,000, bringing his total savings to more than 11,500.
• Lu Qing gave Xiao Li Nangong Yuanwu's Storage Ring, placed one hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones inside, and encouraged her to use them for cultivation.
• Lu Qing told Xiao Li that he planned to set aside travel and enter seclusion so they could improve their strength while Five Elements digested the Strange Bird's vital essence.

Lu Qing completed his breakthrough into the Golden Core Fifth Revolution after more than two years of secluded cultivation, while Xiao Li and Five Elements also advanced. He decided it was time to explore the Tian Yuan Great World and seek cultivation methods to develop the later stages of his Perfect Golden Core Method.

• A Gongshu Family guard reported that the family had failed to find Lu Qing, and the enraged mother of Gongshu Yu froze the guard while vowing revenge on Lu Qing and Nangong Yuanwu.
• Lu Qing completed the Golden Core Fourth Revolution and concluded that he would need to travel the Tian Yuan Great World to find cultivation methods for deducing his Perfect Golden Core Method beyond the Sixth Revolution.
• Xiao Li broke through to Golden Core Second Revolution, and Five Elements awakened at First Revolution completion after digesting the Strange Bird's corpse.
• Lu Qing gathered spiritual essence with thirty-six Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and successfully broke through into the Golden Core Fifth Revolution.
• Xiao Li celebrated Lu Qing's breakthrough, and he agreed that they would leave the cave and explore the Tian Yuan Great World.

Lu Qing traveled in disguise with a merchant convoy toward the Gale Wind Plains while recalling how the Nether Palace’s assassination of Nangong Yuanwu had plunged the Nangong and Gongshu Families into war. As the convoy entered the dangerous plains, the winds rose again and beastly roars sounded nearby.

• Commander Wang warned the convoy about the Gale Wind Plains and secured Old Man Qiao’s agreement to help if danger arose.
• Old Man Qiao suspected that Lu Qing had concealed his true abilities during an earlier demonic beast attack, while Lu Qing continued to hide his identity.
• Lu Qing recalled that the Nether Palace had nearly killed Nangong Yuanwu, leading the Nangong Family to declare war on the Gongshu Family.
• The convoy waited for the fierce winds to weaken, then entered the Gale Wind Plains under Commander Wang’s guidance.
• After about two hours, the wind strengthened and beastly roars sounded in the distance, sharply changing Commander Wang’s expression.

The Cheng Yun Merchant Guild convoy encountered unusually powerful Wind Beasts in the Gale Wind Plains, forcing the Armored Man to turn back after several people were killed. The scrawny young man and Hong Yan left on their own, while Old Man Qiao asked Lu Qing and the remaining middle-aged man whether they would go too.

• The Armored Man used his Wind-Fixing Lamp to shield the convoy as gales and sand intensified, and Lu Qing sensed that danger lay ahead.
• A Golden Core Realm Wind Beast killed Old Wu outside the lamp’s protection, prompting the Armored Man to order the convoy to retreat.
• The small caravan leaders protested the retreat, but the Armored Man returned their Spirit Stones and warned them to leave if they refused to obey.
• Another Wind Beast dragged away several people despite the Armored Man piercing its arm, and the frightened caravans followed the Cheng Yun Merchant Guild back.
• The scrawny young man revealed his swordsmanship by killing a Wind Beast and departed alone, while Hong Yan also left; Old Man Qiao then asked Lu Qing and the silent middle-aged man if they would follow.

As the caravan crossed the Gale Wind Plains toward the valley, five Golden Core wind beasts attacked and repeatedly reformed after being destroyed. Lu Qing proposed a way to strike at their Wind Pearls, and the chapter ended as he launched his gathered sword intent at one beast just as Old Man Qiao blasted it apart.

• Lu Qing and a taciturn middle-aged cultivator joined Old Man Qiao in returning with the caravan after the group encountered a Golden Core wind beast.
• Five Golden Core wind beasts attacked from the front and rear, and the Armored Man ordered the caravan toward the valley while Old Man Qiao, Lu Qing, and the middle-aged cultivator held off the rear attackers.
• Old Man Qiao explained that wind beasts could be permanently destroyed only by annihilating their Wind Pearls in the instant their bodies collapsed.
• Lu Qing said he would try to destroy a Wind Pearl, gathered sword intent, and asked Old Man Qiao to blast apart a wind beast at the right moment.
• Old Man Qiao shattered a wind beast, and Lu Qing's flying sword shot toward a point inside its collapsing body.

Lu Qing destroyed the Wind Pearls of two Wind Beasts and helped the convoy push toward the valley while recovering from his attacks. Just as he prepared to confront the remaining beasts, a gigantic Nascent Soul Realm Wind Beast appeared and the three lesser Wind Beasts knelt before it.

• Lu Qing used precise sword strikes to destroy the Wind Pearls of two Wind Beasts, impressing Old Man Qiao and the others.
• The Armored Man sent Lu Qing a Hundred Yuan Spring Return Pill, and Lu Qing swallowed it while concealing his true reason for appearing weakened.
• Old Man Qiao and the middle-aged man joined the fight at the convoy’s front, helping drive back the remaining three Wind Beasts as the convoy advanced toward the valley.
• Lu Qing announced that he had recovered and prepared his flying sword while sensing the hidden presence nearby.
• A towering Nascent Soul Realm Wind Beast emerged from a tornado, and the three remaining Wind Beasts knelt at its feet.

Lu Qing revealed his strength by stopping the Nascent Soul Realm Wind Beast’s attack and buying the merchant convoy time to escape toward the valley. He stayed behind to test his flying sword against the beast, suppressing its sandstorms as the fleeing travelers watched in awe.

• The Armored Man, Old Man Qiao, and the others realized the giant Wind Beast had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and despaired of surviving.
• Lu Qing examined the beast’s information and decided to use it to test the strength he had gained at the Golden Core Fifth Revolution.
• As the Wind Beast brought down its claw, Lu Qing’s sword strike split it apart and blasted away half its body, startling the travelers.
• The Armored Man and the others mistook Lu Qing for a Nascent Soul Great Power, and Lu Qing told them he could hold off the beast for only a quarter of an hour while they fled toward the valley.
• The Wind Beast conjured sandstorm tornadoes to block their escape, but Lu Qing’s yellow light suppressed the storms and formed a vast calm zone around him.

Lu Qing fought the Nascent Soul Realm Wind Beast on the Gale Wind Plains to test his strength, but neither could defeat the other, and he withdrew after saving the caravan. He hid in a mountain cave with Xiao Li and the Five Elements, concluding that his Golden Core Fifth Revolution cultivation still fell short of the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Lu Qing stopped the Nascent Soul Realm Wind Beast from pursuing the caravan and clashed with it, while the Armored Man and Old Man Qiao led the group to safety beyond the Gale Wind Plains.
• The Armored Man worried that Lu Qing had not emerged after a quarter of an hour, and Old Man Qiao reassured him that Lu Qing could likely escape.
• Lu Qing realized that the Wind Beast’s Wind Pearl let it regenerate and resist his attacks, so he stopped trying to kill it and escaped its wind-sand tornadoes.
• The Wind Beast pursued Lu Qing to the edge of the Gale Wind Plains but could not catch him, then roared in fury as he vanished into the mountains.
• Lu Qing concealed himself in a mountain cave, released Xiao Li and the Five Elements, and told Xiao Li he had been unable to defeat the Wind Beast.

Lu Qing found a Dragon Blood Zhu Fruit in the mountains and waited for it to ripen, drawing a horde of beasts to the valley. When Xiao Li defended the fruit, the ripened fragrance drove the beasts into a frenzy, and she began cutting them down.

• Lu Qing reflected on his battle with a Nascent Soul Realm Wind Beast, then left the caravan with Xiao Li and Five Elements to continue through the mountains.
• Xiao Li sensed a treasure, and Lu Qing identified a nearly ripe Dragon Blood Zhu Fruit growing on a cliff.
• Lu Qing and the others hid nearby and waited three days for the fruit to ripen, while its spiritual energy drew beasts toward the valley.
• When a golden eagle-like bird tried to seize the fruit, Xiao Li crushed its head with one swipe.
• The fruit ripened and its fragrance sent the gathered beasts into a frenzy, so Xiao Li began slaughtering them as Lu Qing watched and prepared to support her.

Lu Qing and Xiao Li claimed the Dragon Blood Zhu Fruit and discovered that its tree had lured beasts to their deaths so it could absorb their blood. Elsewhere, Li Motian escaped a sealed cave with a treasure and revealed that Qian Lingxiao had destroyed his family and village.

• Xiao Li slaughtered the beasts drawn to the Dragon Blood Zhu Fruit, and Lu Qing harvested the ripe fruit.
• Lu Qing discovered that the tree had absorbed the dead beasts’ blood and explained how its fragrance had lured them into becoming prey.
• Xiao Li collected the valuable corpses, and Lu Qing departed with her and Five Elements to search the mountains for more treasures.
• Zi Xiao and the other disciples escaped an Ancient Cave Abode after Li Motian attacked them, while Senior Sister Ye stayed behind to cover their retreat.
• Li Motian broke through their barriers, emerged with the injured Senior Sister Ye, and admitted he had obtained the cave’s treasure.
• Li Motian told Zi Xiao that Qian Lingxiao had killed his family and destroyed his village, leaving Zi Xiao stunned.

Li Motian attacked his former fellow disciples after revealing that Qian Lingxiao and Gongshu Zheng had destroyed his hometown, but one young woman escaped and encountered Lu Qing. Lu Qing protected her from Li Motian and effortlessly extinguished his Soul Devouring Demonic Fire, leaving Li Motian wary and demanding to know who he was.

• Li Motian told the purple-clad young man and the others that Qian Lingxiao and Gongshu Zheng had razed his hometown while sparring, but they rejected his account and accused him of slander.
• The purple-clad young man unleashed his Natal Rune and tried to hold Li Motian back while the others fled.
• After Xiao Li finished treasure hunting with Lu Qing, a fleeing young woman warned him that Li Motian had attacked her companions and begged him to save them.
• Lu Qing freed the young woman from Li Motian's black qi palm, refused to hand her over, and learned from the slips that Li Motian sought revenge for his destroyed hometown.
• Li Motian attacked Lu Qing with his Soul Devouring Demonic Fire, but Lu Qing destroyed it with a tornado of sword qi.
• Li Motian, shocked by the loss of his demonic fire, asked Lu Qing who he was.