Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing learned that the Holy Alliance and Monster Race had made him an enemy after he killed Nascent Soul cultivators who ambushed him during his tribulation. After learning that the Gongshu Family had helped target his acquaintances, he asked Nangong Yuanwu about the Holy Alliance Heavenly Prison and departed with Xiao Yan, leaving Nangong medicine for his injuries.

• Nangong Yuanwu told Lu Qing that the Holy Alliance and Monster Race had issued warrants for him and ordered factions to report his whereabouts.
• Lu Qing revealed that he had killed the Nascent Soul cultivators who attacked him during his tribulation, shocking Nangong Yuanwu and the Old Servant.
• Nangong Yuanwu explained that the Gongshu Family had pushed the Holy Alliance to capture people Lu Qing knew, while Mo Hongyun’s standing in the Nether Palace had helped protect him.
• Lu Qing asked Nangong Yuanwu about the Holy Alliance Heavenly Prison, then left with Xiao Yan after giving him pills to heal his injuries.
• Nangong Yuanwu realized Lu Qing had used Space Teleportation when he and Xiao Yan vanished.

After learning that the Holy Alliance had imprisoned people connected to him, Lu Qing discovered Ye Qingzhu and other Universe Sect disciples in the Heavenly Prison. He took Xiao Yan and Xiao Li to Zhou Tian City to settle his grudge with the Gongshu Family, then began a devastating sword strike as a Nascent Soul Five Tribulations elder sensed danger.

• Nangong Yuanwu watched Lu Qing use Space Teleportation and suspected he had reached Nascent Soul Five Tribulations.
• Lu Qing used a Communication Jade Talisman to locate Ye Qingzhu and found her imprisoned with Chu Xiao Jing and other Universe Sect disciples.
• After a black sword intent attacked his divination, Lu Qing crushed it and told Xiao Yan he was taking her to settle a debt.
• Lu Qing, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Li traveled by Void Flying Boat to Zhou Tian City, where Lu Qing prepared to strike the Gongshu Family.
• A Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man sensed imminent danger and saw Lu Qing's sword radiance descend toward Zhou Tian City.

Lu Qing returned to Zhou Tian City and split the city and its protective formation with one sword strike. As the Gongshu Family ancestors confronted him, he killed their Fifth Ancestor instantly, leaving the family and the citizens in shock.

• The Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man watched a strand of sword qi cut through the Zhou Tian Star Array and cleave Zhou Tian City in two.
• The people of Zhou Tian City panicked as the ground shook and the city’s two halves began moving apart.
• The Gongshu Family ancestors flew to the Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man and recognized the descending Lu Qing as the assassin who had attacked the family years earlier.
• One Gongshu Family ancestor shouted at Lu Qing, but Lu Qing killed him with a strand of sword qi before he could finish speaking.
• The Gongshu Family ancestors cried out over their Fifth Brother’s death as the citizens witnessed his body fall.

Lu Qing slaughtered the Gongshu Family Ancestors after crippling their clan-protecting array, leaving the Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man as the last survivor. When the old man tried to sacrifice himself, Lu Qing suppressed him with Space Power and seized him.

• Lu Qing killed Gongshu Family's Fifth Ancestor with one sword strike, and the Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man realized the Zhou Tian Star Array had been nearly destroyed.
• Lu Qing ignored the old man's attempt to negotiate and killed two more Gongshu Family Ancestors with sword qi.
• The Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man sent his Golden Saber at Lu Qing and ordered his sons to flee, but Lu Qing destroyed the saber and killed the remaining sons, including Eldest Brother.
• The Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man tried to detonate his Nascent Soul, but Lu Qing suppressed him with Space Power, shrank the space around him, and seized him.

Lu Qing destroyed the Gongshu Family’s remaining defenses, erased its ancestral records, and seized its treasure vaults after learning that one ancestor was still traveling in the starry sky. He left Zhou Tian City behind, where surviving clans began considering how to take advantage of the Gongshu Family’s collapse.

• Lu Qing killed the Gongshu Family’s ancestors, learned through the Crane-Hair Youthful-Face Old Man’s memories that the family had helped capture Five Treasures Daoist and Ye Qingzhu, and discovered another ancestor was alive in the starry sky.
• Lu Qing entered the Gongshu Family’s Ancestral Hall, killed its Three Tribulations Nascent Soul guardian, and destroyed the hall, spirit tablets, and Soul Lamps.
• Lu Qing split open the mountain concealing the Gongshu Family’s main treasure vault and stored it, along with the branch vaults, in his Universe Qi Bag.
• Lu Qing slew the remaining Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators he sensed throughout the inner city, then vanished from Zhou Tian City.
• After Lu Qing left, a minor clan’s Patriarch considered breaking free from the Gongshu Family and reclaiming the tribute his clan had paid.

After destroying the Gongshu Family’s strongest cultivators in Zhou Tian City, Lu Qing fled to a secluded province and opened the family’s treasure vaults with Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and the others. They discovered a vast collection of magical treasures, and Lu Qing opened the vault’s spirit-stone storage room, revealing a surge of dense spiritual energy.

• Several powerful figures raced toward Zhou Tian City, and a flying boat bearing the Holy Alliance emblem arrived as they wondered what had happened to the city.
• Lu Qing reflected that the Gongshu Family would likely fall after he killed its leading cultivators, though an Eight Tribulations Realm ancestor still lived somewhere in the Starry Sky.
• Lu Qing teleported to a secluded mountain forest, concealed himself, and brought several Gongshu Family treasure vaults out of his Universe Qi Bag.
• Lu Qing used his ability to analyze and break the vault arrays, then opened the main vault and entered with Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, Five Elements, and Xiao Bai.
• Xiao Yan and the others examined the magical treasures while Lu Qing explored the vault’s different storage spaces and opened the spirit-stone room, releasing dense spiritual fluctuations.

After learning that a Black Cloak wearing a Ghost Face Mask had destroyed Zhou Tian City and wiped out most of the Gongshu Family, the Holy Alliance’s Hall Master recognized him as the feared enemy from decades earlier and hurried to report his return. Lu Qing and his companions counted their enormous haul from the Gongshu vaults, and Lu Qing took out an unexpected find.

• A young man reported that the masked expert had split Zhou Tian City with one sword strike, killed the Gongshu Family Patriarch and other cultivators, and looted the family’s treasure vaults.
• A young Gongshu woman identified the expert as the same person who had assassinated the family’s Seventh Master and robbed the Second Branch’s vault.
• The Hall Master ordered his people to return to the Holy Alliance, leaving the ruined Gongshu Family behind.
• Lu Qing, Xiao Li, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Bai celebrated their haul, which included more than two million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and over twenty thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Qing carefully took out a small box containing an unexpected harvest.

Lu Qing secured ten Top-Grade Spirit Stones from the Gongshu Family’s treasury and entered secluded cultivation to build his strength before attempting to rescue Five Treasures Daoist and Ye Qingzhu. The Holy Alliance suspected he had returned, allied with the Monster Race, and began plotting against him as Lu Qing sensed another breakthrough approaching.

• Lu Qing found ten Top-Grade Spirit Stones in the Gongshu Family’s treasury and decided to cultivate before attempting a rescue.
• Lu Qing set up concealment formations in an underground cavern and used a Spirit-Gathering Formation to cultivate with High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Hall Master Lei showed the Holy Alliance Elder Council evidence that Zhou Tian City had been destroyed and the Gongshu Family slain by a masked expert.
• The Holy Alliance linked the masked attacker to the Evil Demon from decades earlier and agreed to join forces with the Monster Race while guarding the Heavenly Prison and searching for him.
• The Holy Alliance sent a flying vessel into Monster Race territory as Lu Qing remained in seclusion and sensed an opportunity to break through.

Lu Qing advanced to Nascent Soul Eight Tribulations and discovered that his Yin-Yang Five Elements Gourd was nearing a transformation. When he learned the Holy Alliance planned to execute Five Treasures Daoist, Ye Qingzhu, and others to lure him out, he decided to confront them.

• Lu Qing passed his seventh Nascent Soul Tribulation, reached the late stage, and continued cultivating in seclusion.
• Lei Tian and a lion-headed Monster Race leader failed to find the Evil Demon and discussed using its captured associates as bait.
• Lu Qing passed his eighth Nascent Soul Tribulation and sensed that the Yin-Yang Five Elements Gourd was approaching High-Grade Spirit Artifact status.
• Lu Qing used the Myriad Worlds Deduction Technique to discover an announcement condemning Five Treasures Daoist, Ye Qingzhu, and others to execution in one year.
• Lu Qing resolved to go meet the Holy Alliance and face the trap they had set for him.

Lu Qing reached Heavenly Saint Peak in disguise to prepare for rescuing Five Treasures Daoist and the others, whom the Holy Alliance planned to execute as bait. As the Demon Clan considered exploiting a possible clash, Lei Tian went to the Heavenly Prison to see the condemned cultivators and give them something.

• Lu Qing learned that less than a month remained before Five Treasures Daoist and the others were to be executed, and decided to use the time to strengthen his abilities.
• Lei Tian told the White-haired Elder that the Holy Alliance had made reconciliation with Lu Qing impossible and intended to use the executions to draw him out.
• A Demon Lord learned that the Holy Alliance was trying to lure the person linked to Zhou Tian City's destruction, and Jiu Sha agreed that a clash could benefit the Demon Clan.
• Lu Qing arrived at Heavenly Saint Peak, disguised himself as an ordinary Golden Core Realm cultivator, and settled in the nearby city ahead of the execution at noon the next day.
• Lei Tian assured the Holy Alliance's old-timers that the condemned would be executed even if Lu Qing did not appear, then went to the Heavenly Prison to request a visit with them.
• The bald Elder questioned Lei Tian's motives, and Lei Tian said he wished to give the condemned cultivators something.

Lu Qing appeared at the Heavenly Punishment Platform and rescued Ye Qingzhu, Five Treasures Daoist, and the other prisoners moments before their execution. After revealing himself as the evil demon the Holy Alliance had been waiting for, he faced the gathered cultivators and powerful elders.

• Five Treasures Daoist and the other prisoners were brought to the Heavenly Punishment Platform, where Lei Tian condemned them to execution for betraying the Human Race.
• Lu Qing waited among the spectators as Elder Ce searched for him with the Sky Patrol Mirror but failed to identify him.
• Lei Tian ordered the execution, and the Lightning Array unleashed a deadly bolt at Ye Qingzhu and the others.
• Lu Qing swallowed the lightning, destroyed the Lightning Array, freed the prisoners, removed their restrictions, and moved them into the Li Fire Cauldron to recover.
• The spectators and Holy Alliance powerhouses realized Lu Qing had appeared, and the elders atop Heavenly Saint Peak welcomed the chance to confront the evil demon.

Lu Qing appeared at the Holy Alliance’s execution platform and discovered that Lei Tian had lured him into a trap, with Monster Race experts joining the Alliance to kill him. He survived their combined attack and began his counterattack against Lei Tian and the gathered forces.

• Lu Qing arrived as Lei Tian and the Holy Alliance elders sealed the surrounding space, and Lei Tian admitted he had arranged the execution to draw him out.
• Lu Qing recognized the revived Elder Xing and mocked him before Monster Race experts emerged through a teleportation array to reinforce the Holy Alliance.
• Lei Tian activated the Tian Yuan Locking Heaven Array, and the Holy Alliance elders and Monster Race experts struck Lu Qing together.
• Lu Qing stepped out of the void with only superficial wounds, explaining that his Nascent Soul Eight Tribulations body had devoured the attack’s energy.
• Lu Qing turned his attention to Lei Tian and launched a sword strike, beginning the slaughter.

Lu Qing killed Lei Tian, the Golden Lion Emperor, the Demonic Bull Emperor, and the invading Monster Race powerhouses on Heavenly Saint Peak. Just as he turned on the Holy Alliance elders, the Alliance Leader stopped his sword qi, and two Nine-Tribulation Vice Alliance Leaders appeared.

• Lu Qing killed Lei Tian with one sword strike, carving a hundred-li scar into Heavenly Saint Peak.
• The Holy Alliance elders used the Tian Yuan Locking Heaven Array to block Lu Qing's next attack, while the Golden Lion Emperor and Demonic Bull Emperor ambushed him.
• Lu Qing withstood the demons' attacks, killed both emperors with his fists, and slaughtered the fleeing Monster Race powerhouses with sword qi.
• Lu Qing launched another attack at the Holy Alliance elders, but the Alliance Leader froze his sword qi and appeared before him.
• The Holy Alliance's two Vice Alliance Leaders arrived, and Lu Qing recognized them as Nine-Tribulation Primordial Spirits.

Lu Qing rejected Luo Yuantian’s offer to settle the conflict, declaring that he would destroy the Holy Alliance for its repeated attempts to capture and kill him and his friends. He killed Vice Alliance Leader Mo Xing with one punch, but Luo Yuantian’s defenses protected the other Vice Alliance Leader, leaving the Alliance Leader shaken by Lu Qing’s mastery of the Great Dao of Strength.

• Luo Yuantian arrived with two Vice Alliance Leaders, and Lu Qing identified him as an Integration Realm Divine Sense Clone restricted to perfected Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations cultivation.
• Luo Yuantian tried to discuss a misunderstanding, but Lu Qing recounted the Holy Alliance’s past attacks and vowed to kill everyone present.
• A black-robed Vice Alliance Leader attacked Lu Qing with the Dark Shuttle, but Lu Qing caught it and threw it at an elder, killing him.
• Lu Qing used his strength to punch Vice Alliance Leader Mo Xing into a blood mist, then attacked the female Vice Alliance Leader.
• Luo Yuantian shielded the female Vice Alliance Leader with layers of azure light, stopping Lu Qing’s punch, and recognized his Great Dao of Strength divine power.

Lu Qing broke free of Luo Yuantian’s wind barriers by manifesting his True Witch Body and slaughtered most of the Holy Alliance elders as they fled. He spared the female vice alliance leader’s Nascent Soul and left Luo Yuantian’s Divine Sense Clone alive before flying toward Heavenly Saint Peak.

• Luo Yuantian recognized that Lu Qing possessed a Greater Divine Power and tried to negotiate, but Lu Qing refused to reconcile with the Holy Alliance.
• Luo Yuantian trapped Lu Qing in green wind barriers and secretly ordered the elders and female vice alliance leader to flee.
• Lu Qing manifested his True Witch Body, shattered the barriers, and pursued the fleeing elders despite the stagnant space of the Tian Yuan Locking Heaven Array.
• Lu Qing killed most of the elders with his palm, fist, and sword qi, while the female vice alliance leader escaped as a Nascent Soul and Luo Yuantian protected her.
• Lu Qing rebuked Luo Yuantian over the Holy Alliance’s torture of his friends, spared the vice alliance leader’s Nascent Soul, collected the elders’ belongings, and flew toward Heavenly Saint Peak.

After defeating the Holy Alliance elders, Lu Qing entered Heavenly Saint Peak to stop them from being resurrected, but Luo Yuantian secured their Soul Lamps first. Lu Qing seized the Alliance’s treasure vault and left Luo Yuantian facing a desperate shortage of resurrection resources, then offered to negotiate if he accepted several conditions.

• Lu Qing headed for Heavenly Saint Peak to destroy the elders’ Soul Lamps, while Luo Yuantian raced ahead and collected them first.
• Lu Qing found the empty Soul Lamp tower and left when he saw Luo Yuantian had already taken the lamps.
• Lu Qing tore the Holy Alliance’s treasure vault from underground and stored it in his Universe Qi Bag while Luo Yuantian dared not intervene.
• Lu Qing warned Luo Yuantian that the elders’ divided souls would perish without the vault’s resources and within ten years if they were not resurrected.
• Luo Yuantian pleaded for Lu Qing to spare the elders, and Lu Qing said he would negotiate if Luo Yuantian agreed to several conditions.

Lu Qing negotiated with Luo Yuantian to sell resurrection resources to the Holy Alliance elders for spirit stones, then explored Heavenly Saint Peak and entered its prison. After freeing several wrongly imprisoned captives, he returned to the Li Fire Cauldron, where Xiao Li, Xiao Yan, and the others praised his battle before Chu Xiao Jing timidly addressed him.

• Lu Qing demanded ten thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones or ten Top-Grade Spirit Stones for each set of resurrection resources, and Luo Yuantian secured the elders’ agreement to pay.
• Luo Yuantian left to gather the spirit stones and promised to return within three days.
• Lu Qing searched the Holy Alliance Cultivation Method Hall, then entered the Heavenly Prison after intimidating its Artifact Spirit, Prison Snake.
• Lu Qing freed the wrongly imprisoned captives, ignored the guilty prisoners, and left the High-Grade Spirit Artifact behind.
• Lu Qing entered the Li Fire Cauldron, where Xiao Li, Xiao Yan, Five Elements, and Xiao Bai celebrated his victory, and Chu Xiao Jing shyly called to him.

Lu Qing rescued and healed Qin Zheng, Chu Xiao Jing, Ye Qingzhu, Five Treasures Daoist, and the others, then learned that the Universe Sect Master had handed his disciples to the Holy Alliance and that the Gongshu Family had helped provoke their capture. After explaining that he had nearly wiped out the Gongshu Family, Lu Qing obtained Five Treasures Daoist’s divination cultivation method and agreed to accompany him back to his sect.

• Lu Qing apologized for the suffering Qin Zheng and the others had endured, then restored their depleted origins with a medical Dao talisman and spiritual herbs.
• Ye Qingzhu and Chu Xiao Jing revealed that the Universe Sect Master had suppressed and handed them over to the Holy Alliance, while Five Treasures Daoist recounted how his divination had helped him endure captivity.
• Lu Qing told them that the Gongshu Family had incited their capture and that he had slain nearly all its Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators.
• Lu Qing asked Five Treasures Daoist to share his divination cultivation method, and Five Treasures Daoist recorded it on Inheritance Jade Slips.
• Five Treasures Daoist asked Lu Qing to accompany him back to his sect, and Lu Qing agreed once matters at the Holy Alliance were settled.

Lu Qing learned the [Purple Tenuity Fate Scripture] and gained insight into curses and the Path of Karma before trading resurrection resources to Luo Yuantian for spirit stones. After warning Luo Yuantian about Lei Tian, he left to collect another debt for the attack on him.

• Lu Qing comprehended the [Purple Tenuity Fate Scripture], gaining deep knowledge of divination, fate, and curses and glimpsing the Path of Karma.
• After three days of cultivation, Lu Qing manifested curse energy and concluded that his curse arts could kill even an elder-level powerhouse, though they carried restrictions and backlash.
• Luo Yuantian returned with two hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and one hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones, and Lu Qing exchanged them for thirty sets of resurrection resources.
• Lu Qing warned Luo Yuantian that Lei Tian had caused much of the Holy Alliance’s disaster and would die again if they met.
• Luo Yuantian destroyed Lei Tian’s Soul Lamp and erased his soul fragment, then discovered that Lu Qing had taken more treasures from a great hall.
• Lu Qing told Xiao Li that they were going to collect another debt for the attack on them.

Lu Qing brought Xiao Li to the Monster Race’s Royal Capital to confront the Monster Race over its attempts to kill him. He subdued the Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man, an Integration Realm Divine Sense Clone, and left him unable to move as he began transforming into a dragon.

• Lu Qing took Xiao Li through a Space Vortex toward the Monster Realm after deciding to retaliate against the Monster Race.
• The Golden Lion Emperor reported that Lu Qing had killed him and the Demonic Bull Emperor, and the Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man said the Ancestral Monster Tower would revive their fallen allies.
• Lu Qing arrived above the Royal Capital with Xiao Bai, and the Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man confronted him as the other Monster Kings gathered nearby.
• Lu Qing said he had come to settle the Monster Race’s debt and warned that the Royal Capital could be destroyed if they failed to do so.
• Lu Qing appeared beside the Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man and pinned him down by the shoulder, identifying him as a Mysterious Earth Golden Dragon.
• The Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man tried to transform and break free, but Lu Qing’s words pressed him back into immobility.