Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing subdued the Mysterious Earth Golden Dragon clan’s Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man and forced the Monster Race to pay him Spirit Stones within a day. As he waited at the Royal Capital, news of his battle at Heavenly Saint Peak reached the Nether Palace, whose members began investigating his identity and astonishing rise.

• Lu Qing overpowered the Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man’s Divine Sense Clone and demanded the Monster Race pay three hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and one hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• After the Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man protested, Lu Qing threatened to destroy the Royal Capital and gave the Monster Race one day to gather the compensation.
• The Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man sent the Monster Kings to collect Spirit Stones and went to gather more himself, while the Golden Lion Emperor flew to fetch his clan’s savings.
• Lu Qing waited on an Auspicious Cloud, confident he could track down any Monster Kings who tried to flee or deceive him.
• The Nether Palace’s leaders watched Imprint Stone footage of Lu Qing defeating the Monster Kings and Holy Alliance elders at Heavenly Saint Peak.
• A Nether Palace figure identified Lu Qing as likely being Chen Qing, an alias-bearing cultivator linked to earlier events, and the Black-Robed Old Man questioned how he could have undergone the Nascent Soul Tribulation only decades earlier.

The Black-Robed Old Man and the Demon Clan learned that Lu Qing had devastated Heavenly Saint Peak and believed the Human Race was vulnerable, prompting the Demon Lords to prepare a test attack. Lu Qing continued cultivating, collected the Monster Race’s payment, and vanished after declaring their debt settled.

• The Black-Robed Old Man recognized Lu Qing as the man from headquarters’ portrait and learned that he had likely split Zhou Tian City and looted the Gongshu Family.
• The Demon Lord Yuan Yi heard that an unknown Evil Demon had killed the Human Race elders and Monster Kings at Heavenly Saint Peak, then appointed Nirvana Demon Lord to lead a probe against the Human Race.
• Demon Lord Yuan Yi planned to ask the King to restrain Luo Yuantian and considered the unknown Evil Demon a potential ally against the Human Race.
• Lu Qing continued comprehending the Purple Star Fate Scripture and sensed that he was approaching the Dao Rhyme of the Great Dao of Karma.
• The Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man delivered the requested Spirit Stones and an additional apology gift from the Golden Lion Emperor; Lu Qing accepted them, declared the Monster Race’s debt settled, and disappeared.

Xuan Jin and Luo Yuantian debated how to respond to Lu Qing before Yuan Mo revealed that the Demon Clan had invaded human territory and trapped Luo Yuantian in his Heavenly Demon Domain. Xuan Jin hesitated over whether to intervene, leaving Luo Yuantian desperate as the invasion continued without his aid.

• Xuan Jin told Luo Yuantian that Lu Qing had extorted Spirit Stones from the Monster Race, and the two argued over who had provoked him first.
• Luo Yuantian refused to join Xuan Jin in seeking trouble with Lu Qing, warning that Lu Qing might eventually surpass them both.
• Yuan Mo arrived and, after discovering the two Integration Realm cultivators together, learned that the battle at Heavenly Saint Peak had weakened the Human Cultivators.
• Luo Yuantian sensed the Demon Clan invading human territory, but Yuan Mo transformed into his Heavenly Demon Domain and trapped him.
• Luo Yuantian urged Xuan Jin to help, while Yuan Mo promised not to invade the Monster Realm if Xuan Jin stayed out of the conflict.
• Xuan Jin hesitated between opposing the Demon Clan and risking an immediate attack on the Monster Realm, leaving Luo Yuantian despairing.

Lu Qing learned that the Demon Clan had invaded Human territory after news spread of his killing the Holy Alliance's elders, and he went to intervene. At Town Demon City, Nirvana Demon Lord destroyed the city's defenses and reached for Yang Leizheng, but a sudden arrival appeared in the sky.

• Lu Qing divined that the Demon Clan was invading Human territory and decided to stop them rather than let them claim the spoils and leave him with the resulting karma.
• Nirvana Demon Lord led a demon horde against Town Demon City, whose city lord and one deputy had already been killed, while Yang Leizheng emerged to defend it.
• Nirvana Demon Lord shattered the city's protective formations with a Black Bone Claw, grievously injuring Yang Leizheng and exposing the city to the demon horde.
• Nirvana Demon Lord reached for the helpless Yang Leizheng, who despaired of the Holy Alliance's delay, when a figure suddenly appeared in the sky.

Lu Qing appeared at Town Demon City and stopped the Demon Clan invasion by destroying Nirvana Demon Lord with a single flick. After revealing himself as the human Nirvana had encountered in the Nether Palace Trial Secret Realm, Lu Qing crushed Cang Jue in his grip, leaving Nirvana and the watching Demon Lords stunned.

• Lu Qing arrived at Town Demon City, shattered the descending Demonic Qi palm, and blew Nirvana Demon Lord apart with a flick.
• Nirvana Demon Lord re-formed his body, while Demon Lord Yuan Yi and the other demons watching from the Demon Realm were shocked by Lu Qing's strength.
• Yuan Mo questioned Xuan Jin about Lu Qing, but Luo Yuantian laughed and warned that the Demon Clan would regret its invasion.
• Nirvana Demon Lord challenged Lu Qing, who reminded him of their past encounter in the Nether Palace Trial Secret Realm.
• Lu Qing seized Cang Jue through spatial power and crushed him to death in his grip.

Lu Qing demonstrated his Curse-Killing Art by permanently killing Cang Jue, then destroyed the Nirvana Demon Lord, two other Demon Lords, and the invading Demon Clan army. The Demon Lords at the Demon Realm border discovered that the fallen lords’ spirits had vanished from the Demon Pool, and Lu Qing turned his gaze toward them through the Demon Mirror.

• Lu Qing crushed Cang Jue and used the Curse-Killing Art to extinguish the soul fragment in his Soul Lamp, leaving the Nirvana Demon Lord unable to revive him.
• Lu Qing crushed the Nirvana Demon Lord, extracted and shattered the blood diamond heart that sustained his immortality, and killed the shadow within it.
• Two Demon Lords ambushed Lu Qing, but he emerged unharmed, seized them, and destroyed their bodies and souls.
• Lu Qing pulled in and killed the fleeing Demon Clan army, wiping out tens of thousands of soldiers.
• Demon Lord Yuan Yi and the other Demon Lords learned that Nirvana and Seven Killings’ spirits had disappeared from the Demon Pool, and Lu Qing looked toward them through the Demon Mirror.

Lu Qing wiped out the Demon Clan army at Town Demon City, then confronted the Demon Lords who had watched from the border. When they attacked together, he swallowed their combined strike in his colossal giant form and prepared to answer with a punch.

• Lu Qing used Spatial Laws and curse arts to kill the Demon Lords' bodies and their demonic spirits, leaving them unable to revive.
• Luo Yuantian and Yuan Mo recognized that Lu Qing had curse-killed the Demon Lords' distant divine sense clones and reacted with shock.
• Lu Qing sensed the Demon Lords watching him, teleported to their border outpost, and confirmed that Demon Lord Yuan Yi had identified him as the figure from Heavenly Saint Peak.
• Yuan Yi offered Lu Qing Human Race territory, but Lu Qing refused and said the Demon Clan would pay for trying to use him to gain an advantage.
• Yuan Yi and more than ten Demon Lords unleashed their strongest attacks together, but Lu Qing transformed into a giant nearly ten thousand zhang tall and swallowed the entire strike.
• Lu Qing promised to spare the Demon Lords if they survived his next punch, then swung at them.

Lu Qing transformed into a towering giant and killed Demon Lord Yuan Yi and the other Demon Lords with a single punch, whose shockwaves battered Town Demon City and transformed the surrounding land. After realizing the Demon Lords’ treasures had been destroyed along with them, Lu Qing looked toward the Demon Realm and disappeared, intent on recovering his losses.

• Lu Qing grew ten thousand zhang tall, swallowed the Demon Lords’ combined attack, and struck them with a punch they could not escape or withstand.
• Lu Qing’s punch killed Demon Lord Yuan Yi and the other Demon Lords, devastated the landscape, and sent shockwaves that damaged Town Demon City while its cultivators protected it with the city formation.
• Luo Yuantian mocked Yuan Mo for provoking Lu Qing, and Yuan Mo released Luo Yuantian and departed after recognizing the threat Lu Qing posed.
• Lu Qing confirmed the Demon Lords were dead but discovered his punch had destroyed their treasures and Storage Magic Treasures, leaving their stored items lost or ruined.
• Lu Qing recalled that he had not used the curse-killing art to destroy the Demon Lords’ True Spirits, then vanished toward the Demon Realm to recover his losses.

Lu Qing traveled to the Demon Clan’s holy mountain and forced Yuan Mo to negotiate by threatening to curse the captured Demon Lords’ Nascent Soul auras. Yuan Mo agreed to pay spirit stones within one day, while Lu Qing waited and reflected that he had underestimated the three races’ wealth.

• Lu Qing reached Demon Mountain, where Yuan Mo appeared as a Divine Sense Clone and identified himself as the Demon Clan’s King.
• Lu Qing burned a captured Demon Lord’s Nascent Soul aura with a curse, killing that Demon Lord permanently and convincing Yuan Mo that he could not stop him.
• Lu Qing threatened to curse the remaining Demon Lords unless Yuan Mo settled the debt, and Yuan Mo agreed to negotiate.
• Lu Qing demanded four hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and one thousand Top-Grade Spirit Stones, but Yuan Mo said the Demon Clan had only three hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Qing accepted three hundred Top-Grade Spirit Stones and gave Yuan Mo one day to deliver the payment, threatening to curse one Demon Lord for every day of delay.
• Yuan Mo left to gather the spirit stones, while Lu Qing waited on an Auspicious Cloud and realized he had demanded too little from the Human Cultivators and Monster Race.

Lu Qing collected the Demon Clan’s compensation, concealed himself from the Integration Realm cultivators watching him, and established a fortified underground retreat in Human Race territory. With Xiao Li, Xiao Yan, Qin Zheng, and the others sheltered nearby, he began cultivating toward the Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations and a realm beyond it.

• Yuan Mo delivered the agreed Spirit Stones, and Lu Qing destroyed the Nascent Soul auras without harming the Demon Lords’ demonic spirits before declaring the feud settled and teleporting away.
• Luo Yuantian and the Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man recognized that Lu Qing had hidden his aura from their surveillance and considered the threat he might pose after advancing further.
• Lu Qing used concealment techniques to evade detection, left the Demon Realm, and built powerful formations around an underground cavern in an ancient mountain forest.
• Lu Qing released Xiao Li, Xiao Yan, the Five Treasures Daoist, Qin Zheng, and the Universe Sect disciples, then offered them shelter and cultivation rooms while he entered seclusion.
• Lu Qing prepared to advance to the Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations and further develop the Perfected Nascent Soul Method, then activated a Spirit-Gathering Formation and began cultivating.

Nether Palace learned that Lu Qing had appeared in the Tian Yuan Great World and chose not to provoke him, instead planning to sell his whereabouts to Black and White Monastery. Meanwhile, Lu Qing cultivated with vast stores of Spirit Stones and broke through into the Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations.

• The Black-Robed Old Man showed the Nether Palace Grand Elder, Hei Ming, and Hong Fei a recording of Lu Qing defeating powerful Holy Alliance and Monster Race foes, and Hei Ming recognized him from the Guixu Secret Realm.
• Mo Hongyun recognized Lu Qing as the man who had once saved her and grew anxious that Nether Palace might target him.
• The Black-Robed Old Man reported that Lu Qing had extorted Spirit Stones from the Three Great Races, and the Grand Elder decided Nether Palace should avoid fighting him.
• The Grand Elder ordered the Black-Robed Old Man to sell Black and White Monastery the information that Lu Qing was in the Tian Yuan Great World while concealing his recent feats.
• Lu Qing continued cultivating with Spirit Stones until his aura erupted and the Great Dao's Tribulation Qi and Death Qi descended as he entered the Nascent Soul Nine Tribulations.

Lu Qing survived his ninth Nascent Soul Tribulation, and his Yin-Yang Five Elements Gourd transformed into a High-Grade Spirit Artifact. He began researching a possible tenth tribulation while Mo Cangtian learned that Lu Qing had appeared in the Tian Yuan Great World and vowed revenge.

• Lu Qing absorbed the ninth tribulation’s Death Qi, Tribulation Qi, and law lightning, helping the Yin-Yang Five Elements Gourd transform into a High-Grade Spirit Artifact.
• Lu Qing passed the ninth Nascent Soul Tribulation and absorbed the Great Dao’s energies as his body, magical power, and Nascent Soul transformed.
• Lu Qing concluded that reaching the tenth tribulation might give him a chance to contend with Integration Realm mighty figures, then began studying inheritance jade slips to deduce the method.
• A disciple showed Mo Cangtian an Imprint Stone depicting Lu Qing in the Tian Yuan Great World.
• Mo Cangtian recognized Lu Qing and vowed to exterminate his clan and kill everyone around him.

Mo Cangtian traveled from the Black and White Monastery to the Tian Yuan Great World to find Lu Qing, hoping to deal with the cultivator who had imprisoned Mo Tu Shan’s primordial spirit. He confronted Luo Yuantian, the Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man, and Yuan Mo, then learned from their reactions that they knew Lu Qing.

• Mo Cangtian deduced that Lu Qing was in the Tian Yuan Great World and left the Black and White Monastery to pursue him.
• Luo Yuantian appeared outside the Tian Yuan Great World and questioned Mo Cangtian about his purpose.
• The Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man and Yuan Mo arrived after sensing Mo Cangtian’s chilling aura.
• Mo Cangtian displayed Lu Qing’s image and warned that the Black and White Monastery’s attitude would depend on their answer.
• Luo Yuantian and the others recognized Lu Qing, and Mo Cangtian concluded that he had found the right place.

Lu Qing comprehended the Holy Alliance’s cultivation inheritances for three years, forming a wisdom light that helped him begin deducing the tenth tribulation of the [Perfected Nascent Soul Method]. Meanwhile, Mo Cangtian investigated Lu Qing’s power and resolved to eliminate him, but still could not find him.

• Mo Cangtian questioned Luo Yuantian and the other two about Lu Qing, then learned that Lu Qing had concealed himself with a strange Transformation Technique.
• Lu Qing studied the Inheritance Jade Slips beneath the earth, combining their insights with the Guixu Daoist’s inheritances and his own cultivation experience.
• After three years, Lu Qing formed a wisdom light in his glabella aperture and began deducing the tenth tribulation method.
• Mo Cangtian’s Divine Sense Clone investigated Lu Qing’s deeds and confirmed that he had become powerful enough to resist an Integration Realm Divine Sense Clone within the Tian Yuan Great World.
• Mo Cangtian sent word to the Black and White Monastery and secretly searched for Lu Qing, but after three years his agents had found no trace.

Mo Cangtian and the Nether Palace searched for Lu Qing, while divinations hinted at an approaching calamity. After years of comprehension, Lu Qing deduced the method for the Nascent Soul’s tenth tribulation, rested for a year, and resumed cultivating; the Nether Palace then received a clue to his hiding place.

• Mo Cangtian ordered his agents to scour the Tian Yuan Great World for Lu Qing, while the Nether Palace’s White-haired Elder decided to pass any discovery to Mo Cangtian.
• Luo Yuantian sensed terrifying killing intent while divining the Human Race’s future, and Sword Master Xuan Tian learned that Mo Cangtian had secretly entered the Tian Yuan Great World.
• Lu Qing completed his deduction of the tenth-tribulation cultivation method, then slept for a year to recover from the strain.
• After waking, Lu Qing met Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and the others, guided Qin Zheng and the others, then returned to seclusion to cultivate with High-Grade Spirit Stones.
• A Nether Palace assassin discovered hidden formations fused with the earth beneath an uninhabited mountain forest, and the White-haired Elder realized they might mark Lu Qing’s hiding place.

The White-haired Elder arranged for Mo Cangtian to discover a possible trace of Lu Qing, and Mo Cangtian confirmed that the underground formations matched patterns from the Guixu Secret Realm. Meanwhile, Qing Xi and Yu Jian reunited after reaching the ninth tribulation, then learned that their masters were taking them to travel through the Tian Yuan Great World.

• The White-haired Elder told the Black-Robed Old Man to leak news of the underground formations to Mo Cangtian, believing Mo Cangtian would investigate despite suspecting the scheme.
• A Demonic Slave reported the formations to Mo Cangtian, who controlled the slave and traveled with several Demonic Slaves to inspect them.
• Mo Cangtian recognized formation patterns from the Guixu Secret Realm and concluded that Lu Qing had arranged the formations, but he ordered the Demonic Slaves to withdraw rather than force their way in.
• Qing Xi and Yu Jian discussed their recent breakthroughs and recalled how far Lu Qing had surpassed them in strength.
• The White-clothed Woman and the Sword Master told Qing Xi and Yu Jian to accompany them on a journey through the Tian Yuan Great World.

Lu Qing completed the ninth Nascent Soul Tribulation and began cultivating the tenth-tribulation method he had created to break the usual limits on comprehending the Great Daos. Meanwhile, the White-clothed Woman took Yu Jian and Qing Xi to the Tian Yuan Great World, leaving Sword Master behind.

• The White-clothed Woman transported Yu Jian and Qing Xi to the Tian Yuan Great World after they wondered why she wanted to take them there.
• Yu Jian recalled that a cultivator linked to the Heaven Piercing Sword Sect's inheritance and the Guixu Secret Realm had appeared in the Tian Yuan Great World.
• Lu Qing absorbed more than a hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and completed the ninth Nascent Soul Tribulation.
• Lu Qing sensed that he could enter the Integration Realm, but chose to pursue the tenth tribulation to deepen his foundation and avoid limiting himself to one Great Dao.
• Lu Qing circulated the tenth-tribulation method, absorbed more spiritual essence, and began expanding his Nascent Soul.

Lu Qing refined his Nascent Soul as he advanced toward its Tenth Tribulation, while Mo Cangtian and two Integration Realm elders prepared to ambush him with a secret treasure. The White-clothed Woman resolved to help Lu Qing, but a sudden tremor and vast Dao sound interrupted her conversation with Qing Xi and Yu Jian.

• Lu Qing repeatedly expanded and compressed his Nascent Soul, gradually strengthening it as he attempted the Tenth Tribulation.
• Mo Cangtian showed two Black and White Monastery elders an Imprint Stone of Lu Qing’s battle at Heavenly Saint Peak, convincing them that Lu Qing had to be killed.
• The Hook-nosed Old Man revealed a secret treasure that could shield the Tian Yuan Great World’s heavenly laws, and said it would be ready for their attack within three days.
• The White-clothed Woman watched the battle record with Qing Xi and Yu Jian, explained that the Black and White Monastery could use its Exotic Treasure to attack Lu Qing, and declared that she would help him.
• A sudden tremor shook the inn as a vast Dao sound rang across the world, and the White-clothed Woman appeared in the sky above it.

Lu Qing completed the tenth Nascent Soul tribulation, transforming his Nascent Soul and glabella aperture and triggering a Heaven and Earth Celebrate Together phenomenon across the Tian Yuan Great World. As powerful figures sensed his aura and debated whether to interfere, uninvited guests arrived outside his cultivation chamber.

• The White-clothed Woman and Qing Xi and Yu Jian sensed the heavenly phenomenon and headed east after she detected its source in that direction.
• Mo Cangtian and the other two suspected an Exotic Treasure had emerged and teleported east, while Luo Yuantian recognized Lu Qing’s aura in the Great Cang Mountain Range.
• Luo Yuantian refused to tell Mo Cangtian about Lu Qing, and Xuan Jin and Yuan Mo each decided not to involve themselves in the conflict.
• Lu Qing completed his tenth Nascent Soul tribulation after 108,000 condensations, rebuilding his Nascent Soul and glabella aperture into transformed forms.
• Lu Qing sensed that uninvited guests had arrived outside his cultivation chamber before he could explore his new abilities.

After reaching the tenth Nascent Soul tribulation, Lu Qing sensed the many powerful figures drawn to his breakthrough and began retrieving his formations. He discovered that Integration Realm forces and familiar cultivators were gathering nearby, while Mo Cangtian and his companions prepared to attack.

• Lu Qing transformed his Nascent Soul, concealed his aura, and sent Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, Qin Zheng, and the others into the Li Fire Cauldron.
• Lu Qing collected the formation materials buried around the Great Cang Mountain Range as Nascent Soul cultivators searched underground for the cause of the heavenly phenomena.
• Mo Cangtian, the Hook-nosed Old Man, and the Gray-robed Old Woman waited for their secret treasure to adapt to the Heavenly Dao laws before breaking the formation.
• The White-clothed Woman kept Qing Xi and Yu Jian concealed, while Luo Yuantian and the Golden-eyed Middle-aged Man watched from outside the World Membrane.
• Lu Qing recognized familiar auras among the concealed cultivators and hurried to retrieve the remaining formation materials.
• The Hook-nosed Old Man announced that the secret treasure had finished adjusting, and Mo Cangtian and the Gray-robed Old Woman prepared to act.