Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing killed the two Myriad Beast Sect disciples despite Elder Xing’s attempt to protect them, then revealed that he was the so-called Evil Demon hunted by the Holy Alliance. As Elder Xing prepared to capture him, King Zhenwu intervened to ask about Xiao Li’s origins.

• Elder Xing arrived and shielded the two Myriad Beast Sect disciples, then King Zhenwu appeared and revealed he had advanced toward the Fifth Tribulation realm.
• Elder Xing urged Lu Qing to hand over the disciples for Holy Alliance punishment, but Lu Qing rejected the offer and killed them with his suppressive power.
• Lu Qing accused Elder Xing of recognizing him through Xiao Li and admitted that he was the Evil Demon blamed for the killings at Tian Shu Holy Mountain.
• Elder Xing drew his sword and prepared to capture Lu Qing, but King Zhenwu stopped him and asked about the origin of Xiao Li, the civet-cat spirit beast.

Lu Qing overwhelmed King Zhenwu with his bare fists, then revealed his true strength after Elder Xing and the Nascent Soul cultivators prepared to join forces against him. He crushed King Zhenwu with a single palm, leaving Elder Xing and the assembled cultivators to face him.

• Lu Qing shattered space with his fist, blasted apart King Zhenwu’s arm and chest, and sent him flying.
• King Zhenwu wielded a Middle-Grade Spirit Artifact staff, but Lu Qing blocked it with his body and forced him back.
• Elder Xing arrived and persuaded King Zhenwu to join forces, while the cultivators of both races began forming battle formations.
• Lu Qing circulated his gray, murky mana and revealed an aura that terrified the Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Lu Qing struck King Zhenwu with a palm, crushed him into a lump of flesh, and left his golden staff piercing through his body.

Lu Qing transformed into his True Witch Body, crushed the two races’ Nascent Soul forces, and confronted Elder Xing and King Zhenwu. Elder Xing self-destructed his Nascent Soul to create a void that swallowed both him and King Zhenwu, and Lu Qing waited for space to stabilize.

• Lu Qing crushed King Zhenwu into flesh paste, then escaped the closing Space Turbulence as Elder Xing launched the Heaven’s Punishment Sword and the two races’ formations attacked.
• Lu Qing transformed into a hundred-zhang giant, destroyed Elder Xing’s sword shadow with a palm, and countered with Po Tian Sword Qi.
• Lu Qing crushed King Zhenwu and more than twenty Nascent Soul cultivators with his palms, then refined their flesh and Nascent Souls in the Li Fire Cauldron.
• Elder Xing and King Zhenwu re-formed their bodies, and Elder Xing threatened Lu Qing before Lu Qing unleashed another mountain-sized Po Tian Sword Qi at them.
• Elder Xing self-destructed his Nascent Soul, creating a spreading black void that swallowed him and King Zhenwu before Lu Qing escaped its reach.
• Lu Qing watched the void recede and vanish as the Tian Yuan Great World’s spatial rules restored the area.

Lu Qing fled after destroying Elder Xing’s main body, while three Holy Alliance Deputy Hall Masters arrived and examined the memories Elder Xing had preserved. They identified Lu Qing as a likely wielder of an Ancient Witch Race cultivation method, but could not determine where he had gone before more powerful figures appeared.

• Lu Qing left the crater and fled north along the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range to avoid the Holy Alliance.
• Hall Master Wu and two Deputy Hall Masters arrived, learned Elder Xing’s main body had self-destructed its Nascent Soul, and watched the memories it had transmitted.
• The Deputy Hall Masters saw Lu Qing defeat King Zhenwu, overcome the Nascent Soul cultivators, and destroy the formations, then agreed to investigate revival for those who met the Holy Alliance’s merit rules.
• Hall Master Wu proposed that Lu Qing’s immense physical strength came from a cultivation method of the Ancient Witch Race, possibly obtained in the Tian Shu Holy Mountain Secret Realm.
• The three Deputy Hall Masters concluded that Lu Qing had likely escaped but could not track him because his aura was gone and his Exotic Treasures blocked deduction and enabled spatial teleportation.
• Several figures with auras like ancient ferocious beasts appeared through a ripple in the void.

After killing King Zhenwu and escaping the battlefield, Lu Qing learned White Flood Dragon’s past and let it choose to follow him. He then meditated on his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Realm, realizing that his strength already rivaled top Nascent Soul experts.

• The Elephant King and other Monster Kings arrived at the battlefield, watched Elder Xing Jian’s recorded memory, and accepted that King Zhenwu had likely been killed by the Evil Demon.
• Lu Qing fled tens of thousands of miles with Xiao Li and the others, then released them in a concealed cave.
• White Flood Dragon explained that it was a direct descendant of the Flood Dragon Clan, had been driven from the Monster Realm with its father, and had hidden in the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range after its father died.
• Lu Qing offered White Flood Dragon a choice between being taken somewhere to cultivate or staying with him, and White Flood Dragon chose to follow him.
• Lu Qing entered meditation while Xiao Li and the others talked quietly and Xiao Li offered to teach White Flood Dragon a transformation technique.
• Lu Qing reviewed his new strength, including his transformed mana, True Witch Body, and powerful Nascent Soul, and judged that ordinary Four Tribulations cultivators could no longer match him.

After entering the Nascent Soul Realm, Lu Qing studied the Great Dao Chapter and began creating a method suited to his unusual cultivation. Just as he emerged from seclusion and agreed that Xiao Li could teach the White Flood Dragon the complete True Dragon Nine Transformations, a sudden attack engulfed him and destroyed the cave and mountain.

• Lu Qing realized that his Minor Divine Powers had weakened and planned to cultivate them into Greater Divine Powers, then studied the Great Dao Chapter's lessons about Nascent Soul tribulations and Spatial Laws.
• Lu Qing concluded that his Nascent Soul was a Perfected Nascent Soul and decided to combine his cultivation methods into a new Perfected Nascent Soul Method.
• Lu Qing entered seclusion and established the rough framework for the method's First Tribulation before emerging to see Xiao Li teaching the White Flood Dragon a transformation technique.
• Xiao Li asked to teach the White Flood Dragon the complete True Dragon Nine Transformations, and Lu Qing gave her permission.
• As Lu Qing began agreeing to Xiao Li's request to return home, he sensed danger and pulled Xiao Li, Five Elements, and the White Flood Dragon into the Li Fire Cauldron.
• A dazzling light struck, dissolving the cave and causing the mountain peak to collapse and explode around Lu Qing.

Lu Qing was ambushed by eight Five Tribulations Nascent Soul Grandmasters, who had tracked him through the Flood Dragon Patriarch’s Bloodline Sense and sealed the surrounding space. Trapped but determined to fight before using his hidden trump card, Lu Qing transformed into his True Witch Body and overwhelmed the White Ape King in their opening clash.

• The Holy Alliance and Monster Race attacked Lu Qing’s mountain hideout with the Ten Directions Pillar, but he survived the Sun Realm strike and rapidly healed.
• Lu Qing identified the Flood Dragon Patriarch’s Bloodline Secret Technique as the means by which the enemies had located him, while the spatial seal blocked his attempts to escape.
• Lu Qing transformed into his hundred-zhang True Witch Body, summoned King Zhenwu’s Sky-Supporting Cudgel, and challenged the eight Grandmasters.
• The White Ape King charged Lu Qing to avenge King Zhenwu, and Lu Qing struck him back with the golden staff.
• The White Ape King tried to block Lu Qing’s follow-up blow with his own staff, but Lu Qing sent him crashing into the ground and through mountain peaks.

Lu Qing used an illusion and a carefully prepared strike to blow apart the White Ape King, then escaped the siege of seven Five-Tribulation Nascent Souls with the ancient stone tablet. The great powers were left unable to stop him and uncertain whether the White Ape King had survived.

• Lu Qing battled the White Ape King, overpowering him in strength while the Elephant King and other great powers watched and discussed capturing him.
• Lu Qing used his [Illusion] Minor Divine Power to stun the White Ape King for an instant, then struck with his strongest blow and shattered his body.
• Lu Qing used the Li Fire Cauldron to swallow the White Ape King's remains as the other great powers attacked him together.
• The ancient stone tablet protected Lu Qing from their attacks and carried him through a spatial rift, despite the taoist's attempts to stop him with Space Power.
• The Elephant King learned that the Flood Dragon King could no longer sense Little Flood Dragon, and the great powers were left facing the loss of the White Ape King and Lu Qing's escape.

Lu Qing returned to the Trial Secret Realm and entered the Li Fire Cauldron to confront the White Ape King, who had nearly broken free. He repeatedly shattered the White Ape King's body until the Monster King attempted to self-destruct, and Lu Qing threw him out of the cauldron just before the blast.

• Vice Hall Master Wu and the Monster Kings agreed to prepare together for Lu Qing's eventual return after he escaped their pursuit.
• Lu Qing returned to the Trial Secret Realm through the Teleportation Stone Tablet and rushed into the Li Fire Cauldron to help Yan contain the White Ape King.
• Lu Qing reinforced the Spirit Artifact Space's suppression and attacked the trapped White Ape King with his golden staff.
• Lu Qing repeatedly blew apart the White Ape King's body until his origin weakened and he realized the Elephant King and the others would not rescue him.
• The White Ape King began to self-destruct, and Lu Qing threw him out of the Li Fire Cauldron before the blast shook the secret realm.

Lu Qing returned to the Witch Clan trial secret realm after escaping seven Five Tribulations Nascent Soul Grandmasters, bringing Xiao Li, Five Elements, and the White Flood Dragon to meet the Mysterious Existence. The Mysterious Existence discovered that Lu Qing’s newly formed True Witch Body was a hundred zhang tall and privately recognized his potential as an Ancestral Witch Seed, while Lu Qing asked to stay and consolidate his breakthrough.

• The White Ape King's self-destruction stirred an energy storm, and Lu Qing emerged safely in the trial secret realm after using the Li Fire Cauldron.
• The Mysterious Existence summoned Lu Qing to the Trial Witch Tower, where he released Xiao Li, Five Elements, and the White Flood Dragon and introduced them.
• Xiao Li confirmed that it had cultivated the third transformation of the True Dragon Nine Transformations, and the Mysterious Existence approved of Xiao Li teaching the art to the others.
• Lu Qing recounted how he escaped seven Five Tribulations Nascent Soul Grandmasters and forced the White Ape King to self-destruct.
• Lu Qing manifested his hundred-zhang True Witch Body, startling the Mysterious Existence, which privately wondered whether he possessed the potential of an Ancestral Witch Seed.
• The Mysterious Existence told Lu Qing he could stay in the secret realm as long as he wished, and Lu Qing asked to cultivate there while consolidating his breakthrough.

Lu Qing secluded himself in an ancient stone chamber, learned Witch Race inheritances, and began creating his own Nascent Soul Method. Meanwhile, black-qi-shrouded devils arrived at the Holy Mountain, where Xiao Yan attacked them.

• The Mysterious Existence brought Lu Qing to a stone chamber filled with Dao Marks left by ancient Witch Race cultivators.
• Lu Qing downloaded and learned the Goldglint Axe Technique, discovering that Great Witches grew stronger by controlling Great Dao Laws.
• After half a month of studying the chamber’s Dao Marks, Lu Qing entered deep meditation to create his Perfected Nascent Soul Method.
• The Mysterious Existence sent Xiao Li and the Five Elements to absorb primordial blood essence and planned to train them after Lu Qing began his seclusion.
• Four black-qi-shrouded figures confronted Xiao Yan, the three Holy Lords, and Han Lingbai above the Holy Mountain.
• After the devils argued over Xiao Yan, she struck at them with her sword, alarming the three Holy Lords and Han Lingbai.

Xiao Yan attacked four powerful demons, but their rapidly healing bodies forced the Holy Mountain to activate a grand array Lu Qing had left behind. The First Holy Master used the formation to repel the demons’ attacks and persuaded Xiao Yan to stay protected, while the demons debated how to obtain the Mountain Soul’s power.

• Xiao Yan split her sword light into four streams and wounded all four demons, but their injuries quickly healed.
• The First Holy Master ordered the Holy Mountain disciples to return to their cave dwellings and channel their power into Lu Qing’s hidden grand array.
• The First Holy Master used the array to form Lu Qing’s Five Elements Myriad Law Palm, shattering the Eagle Demon’s black claw and forcing the four demons to dodge.
• Xiao Yan learned that Lu Qing had left the formation as a safeguard and agreed to remain inside its protection.
• The demons recognized the formation as a threat to their plan to seize the Mountain Soul’s power and discussed what to do next.

Xie Feng persuaded the other demons to refine the Demonic Fiend Blood Soul Banner and sacrifice the Holy City to break Holy Mountain’s formation. Eagle Demon’s assault on the city was stopped by its restored formation, and Xiaoyan’s sword strike split him in two and drove all four demons to flee.

• Xie Feng convinced Eagle Demon and the other two demons to refine the Demonic Fiend Blood Soul Banner and use the Holy City as a blood sacrifice.
• Eagle Demon attacked the Holy City with a vortex of Demonic Qi, but the Master of Heaven's Secret Pavilion and the city's experts sustained the city-protecting formation.
• Eagle Demon empowered his vortex until the formation began to crack, prompting Xiaoyan to launch a powerful sword strike from Holy Mountain.
• Xiaoyan's sword light cleaved Eagle Demon in two, and he fled while the other demons abandoned him.
• The sword light pursued Xie Feng and the other two demons, who escaped after suffering injuries.

Xiao Yan drove off the fiends with Holy Mountain’s grand array, while the First Holy Master and Han Lingbai worried that her growing killing intent and desire to find Lu Qing would lead her into danger. In the Secret Realm, Lu Qing completed the first tribulation of his Perfected Nascent Soul Method, felt a foreboding about his Home World, and prepared to leave after seeing Xiao Li and the others training.

• Xiao Yan used Holy Mountain’s grand array to empower her flying sword and drive the fiends away, then stopped when the strain began to weaken her.
• The First Holy Master and Han Lingbai feared Xiao Yan’s killing intent was changing her and suspected she wanted to reach the Nascent Soul Realm to search the Starry Sky for Lu Qing.
• The Bewitchingly Handsome Man and the other fiends agreed to gather materials for the Demonic Fiend Blood Soul Banner so they could break the array and seize the Mountain Soul.
• Lu Qing spent a year building the framework of the first tribulation of the Perfected Nascent Soul Method, then felt a premonition about someone close to him in his Home World.
• Lu Qing completed the first-tribulation method after three more months and left seclusion, where the Mysterious Existence showed him Xiao Li, Five Elements, and Xiao Bai battling the Strange Beasts for training.
• Lu Qing asked the Mysterious Existence to call Xiao Li and the others back because he planned to leave the Secret Realm.

Lu Qing left the Secret Realm early because he sensed a close relative might be in danger, and the Mysterious Existence sent him and his companions back to the Tian Yuan Great World. After confirming the Nascent Soul cultivators were gone, Lu Qing decided to escape the world by flying through its astral wind layer and membrane aboard the Void Flying Boat.

• Lu Qing told the Mysterious Existence that his intuition compelled him to return, and It brought Xiao Li and the others to him.
• The Mysterious Existence explained that the Teleportation Stone Tablet would return Lu Qing to his original location and that Xiao Bai could hide from bloodline sensing by using True Dragon Nine Transformations.
• Lu Qing activated the Teleportation Stone Tablet, glimpsed strange and terrifying sights in the void, and returned safely to the Tian Yuan Great World.
• Lu Qing found no powerful presences near his return point and used a Teleportation Jade Talisman to move to a hidden mountain forest.
• Lu Qing ruled out contacting Nangong Yuanwu or using a teleportation formation, then summoned the Void Flying Boat to escape through the Tian Yuan Great World's astral wind layer and world membrane.
• Lu Qing's Void Flying Boat reached the astral wind layer and plunged into it.

Lu Qing forced the Void Flying Boat through the Tian Yuan Great World's astral wind layer and world membrane, then escaped into the Starry Sky. After a long-range spatial jump brought him near the Hong Yuan Realm, he and his companions set out for their Home World.

• Lu Qing guided the Void Flying Boat through fierce astral lightning, glimpsed a golden lotus and other strange objects, and reached the Tian Yuan Great World's world membrane.
• Lu Qing sent Xiao Li and Five Elements into the Li Fire Cauldron, then spent ten High-Grade Spirit Stones to power the Void Flying Boat through the membrane despite its crushing pressure.
• An Old Taoist arrived to investigate the breach, but he could not discover who had pierced the world membrane.
• Lu Qing performed a long-range spatial jump and found that the Void Flying Boat had brought him near the Hong Yuan Realm.
• Lu Qing released Xiao Li, Five Elements, and White Flood Dragon, explained their escape, and drove the Void Flying Boat toward their Home World.

Eagle Demon attacked Nine Li Village to torment Lu Xiaoyan, but the Old Doctor used the village array and a Void-Splitting Sword strike to split him apart and drive him off. Meanwhile, Lu Qing sped back through the Starry Sky and was caught by a familiar enemy's black mana hand.

• Eagle Demon descended on Nine Li Village, intending to use its residents as blood offerings and hurt Lu Xiaoyan through her family.
• The Old Doctor attacked Eagle Demon with sword qi, then warned Wei Shanhai to flee before the demon struck at the village.
• The Old Doctor drew on the array Lu Qing had left behind and cleaved Eagle Demon's demonic hand and body with a Void-Splitting Sword strike, forcing Eagle Demon to escape as blood mist.
• Wei Shanhai returned to the Half-Mountain Courtyard and heard the Old Doctor explain that the array's power had strengthened his sword strike.
• Lu Qing continued his fast return aboard the Void Flying Boat, but a gigantic black mana hand seized the vessel and a familiar voice challenged him to stay.

Lu Qing captured the Chilling Old Man, who had ambushed him years earlier, and discovered something unusual about him. Back in Nine Li Village, the Old Doctor set out to fight the Demonic Cultivators, leaving Lu Qing’s powerful clone to guard the village, while the Bewitchingly Handsome Man noticed the Eagle Demon had gone missing during the refinement of a blood-soul banner.

• The Chilling Old Man seized the Void Flying Boat, but Lu Qing shattered his attack, froze him, and captured him alive in the Li Fire Cauldron after noticing something unusual about him.
• The Chilling Old Man’s followers watched the flying boat depart and agreed to conceal his capture from the Righteous Path Alliance, believing he could be reborn from the Blood Pool.
• The Old Doctor told Wei Shanhai he was leaving Nine Li Village to fight the Demonic Cultivators and introduced Lu Qing’s clone as the village’s new guardian.
• The Old Doctor departed, and Wei Shanhai watched him go, wishing he were strong enough to join the fight.
• The Bewitchingly Handsome Man paused while refining the Demonic Fiend Blood Soul Banner and wondered where the missing Eagle Demon had gone.

The three fiends completed the Demonic Fiend Blood Soul Banner and launched another assault on the Holy Mountain, while the Old Doctor hurried there after sensing their demonic might. Xiaoyan took control of the mountain’s array, but the banners pierced its defenses and began corrupting the mountain as the fiends confronted her.

• The bewitchingly handsome man gave Eagle Demon half a day to return, then gathered living beings and refined them into Blood Souls to complete the Demonic Fiend Blood Soul Banner.
• The Old Doctor arrived near Azure Dragon City, saw three fiends flying toward Central Province, and hurried toward the Holy Mountain with a growing sense of foreboding.
• Xiaoyan left seclusion with Han Lingbai and met the three Holy Masters as the fiends approached the Holy Mountain.
• Xiaoyan took control of the Holy Mountain’s array, but the fiends launched blood-red banners that pierced the defenses and embedded themselves in the mountain.
• The banners released Blood Souls and corrupted the mountain’s spiritual and earth veins, weakening the array and causing the Mountain Soul to panic.
• The bewitchingly handsome man and his companions appeared above the Holy Mountain and challenged Xiaoyan to stop them again.

Xiaoyan and the three Holy Masters fought to protect the Holy Mountain’s Mountain Soul from three fiends whose blood banners weakened its formation. As Xiaoyan struggled against the fiends and the First Holy Master was gravely wounded, Old Doctor Chen arrived and prepared to take over the battle.

• The three fiends used eighteen Demonic Fiend Blood Soul Banners to weaken the Holy Mountain’s formation, while Xiaoyan and the Holy Masters refused to surrender the Mountain Soul.
• Xiaoyan used a secret art to raise her cultivation and joined the First Holy Master in breaking the Bewitchingly Handsome Man’s Black Heaven Demon Palm.
• The Bewitchingly Handsome Man pierced the First Holy Master’s chest with a sudden attack, and Han Lingbai caught him as his body was consumed by demonic energy.
• A concealed sword strike split into three and badly wounded the Bewitchingly Handsome Man and the other fiends.
• Old Doctor Chen arrived, reassured Xiaoyan that the village was safe and her brother was guarding it, then told her to rest as he turned toward the fiends.