Chapter Summaries

Lu Qing asked Old Cang Long and the others about the Dark Demon Abyss, learning that Guixu Daoist had warned it could become the source of a future calamity. He also learned that Guixu Daoist disappeared after leaving for a distant place, and followed Old Cang Long to see what clues he had left behind.

• Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng were astonished by Lu Qing’s breakthrough with nine Great Daos and hoped he could eventually free them and help them find Guixu Daoist.
• Lu Qing described his expedition into the Dark Demon Abyss, including the Demonic Fire Monsters and Xuanhua’s corpse, and Old Cang Long explained how dangerous the abyss had once been.
• Old Cang Long recounted how Guixu Daoist had sent an avatar into the abyss, then warned that it might become the source of a future calamity despite being unable to resolve the danger himself.
• Lu Qing asked why Guixu Daoist disappeared, and Old Cang Long said he had left for a distant place to accomplish something and told them to await someone who might unravel the mysteries and find him.
• Old Cang Long said Guixu Daoist had left clues and led Lu Qing, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng deeper into the Immortal Palace to see them.

Lu Qing entered the deepest hall of the Immortal Palace and met a remnant Divine Sense of Guixu Daoist, who had been missing for more than three hundred thousand years. Guixu Daoist learned that his main body was still alive and was astonished to discover that Lu Qing had fused and anchored nine Great Daos when he entered the Integration Realm.

• Old Cang Long led Lu Qing, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng through the Immortal Palace to a hall containing a statue of Guixu Daoist.
• Old Cang Long activated the statue, awakening Guixu Daoist’s remnant Divine Sense, and the three guardians tearfully reunited with their master.
• Guixu Daoist explained that he could not know what his main body had experienced, but his continued existence proved that the main body was still alive.
• Old Cang Long introduced Lu Qing as the disciple who had passed Guixu Daoist’s trial and reached the Integration Realm.
• Guixu Daoist sensed several Great Dao essences within Lu Qing’s Divine Sense Clone and was shocked when Old Cang Long said Lu Qing had fused and anchored nine Great Daos at breakthrough.

Guixu Daoist explained that he had left Old Cang Long, Black Bull, and Ming Feng behind to guard his lineage until a karmic successor arrived. After recognizing Lu Qing as that successor, he began to reveal what he had encountered after leaving, but the story remained unfinished.

• Guixu Daoist examined Lu Qing’s nine integrated Great Daos and learned that Lu Qing had reached the Integration Realm after roughly two hundred years of cultivation.
• Guixu Daoist praised Lu Qing as the future of the Guixu Lineage and asked Old Cang Long, Black Bull, and Little Feng whether they still wondered why he had left them behind.
• Old Cang Long and the others admitted they had feared they had disappointed Guixu Daoist when he took his other disciples away hundreds of thousands of years earlier.
• Guixu Daoist revealed that divination had shown a karmic bond connected to his lineage, so he had left the three long-lived Strange Beasts behind to wait for the person who could preserve it.
• Guixu Daoist identified Lu Qing as the arrival foretold by that karmic bond, and Lu Qing asked where his master had gone and what he had encountered.

Guixu Daoist told Lu Qing how a Dao Dissolution Immortal massacred countless people, fled into the Dark Demon Abyss, and led him to discover Xuanhua’s corpse guarding a passage to another world. He explained that ancient Human Race cultivators had entered that world to stop an invasion, then left Lu Qing with questions about the Dark Demon Abyss and the fate of the ancient cultivators.

• Lu Qing recounted his journey into the Dark Demon Abyss, and Guixu Daoist confirmed that its weakening Darkness Power had changed the abyss.
• Guixu Daoist recalled befriending a Dao Dissolution Immortal who refined an entire city’s inhabitants after a mortal accidentally brushed his sleeve.
• After Guixu Daoist released the Immortal upon his oath, the Immortal massacred people across dozens of worlds, escaped Guixu Daoist’s pursuit, and fled toward the Dark Demon Abyss.
• Guixu Daoist sent an incarnation into the abyss, found Xuanhua’s corpse suppressing a passage to another world, and learned that ancient Human Race cultivators had crossed into that world to stop its evil invaders.
• Lu Qing asked how the Dark Demon Abyss formed and why records of the ancient cultivators had disappeared, and Guixu Daoist said those questions involved another secret.

Guixu Daoist revealed that the ancient sages erased memories of themselves to protect the Starry Sky, and that Great Expert Xuanhua sacrificed himself to hold shut a passage from the Otherworld. Lu Qing learned that the weakening Dark Demon Abyss might signal the passage was opening and a great calamity was approaching.

• Guixu Daoist explained that the ancient great experts used the Cutting Karma Technique to make the Starry Sky forget them and conceal the Home World's location.
• Guixu Daoist recounted how Great Expert Xuanhua burned his divine soul, shattered a blood-sacrifice altar, and used his body to suppress the passage to the Home World.
• Lu Qing realized that Xuanhua's corpse in the Dark Demon Abyss had been holding back the passage and that the Demonic Fire Monsters were slipping through its cracks.
• Guixu Daoist warned that Xuanhua's suppression was weakening and that the Dark Demon Abyss's reduced Darkness Power might signal changes beyond the passage.
• Lu Qing connected the possible opening of the passage to Qiu Ruofeng's prophecy that a great calamity was drawing near.

Lu Qing learned that Guixu Daoist had taken his disciples into the Otherworld to settle a karmic debt and warn Great Expert Xuanhua’s comrades about the Dark Demon Abyss. Before his remnant will vanished, Guixu Daoist warned Lu Qing about the Black and White Monastery and entrusted Old Cang Long, Black Bull, and Ming Feng to him; Lu Qing agreed to refine the Immortal Palace and take them along.

• Lu Qing told Guixu Daoist about the Black and White Monastery, and Guixu Daoist warned that its patriarch might have been corrupted by the Darkness Power from the Dark Demon Abyss.
• Guixu Daoist revealed that he had pursued an Evil Demon into the Otherworld to settle his karma and inform Great Expert Xuanhua’s comrades about the dangerous World Passage.
• Guixu Daoist explained that he had taken most of his disciples with him to protect them from karmic tracking, while leaving Old Cang Long, Black Bull, and Ming Feng in the Immortal Palace.
• As his remnant will faded, Guixu Daoist urged Lu Qing to remain vigilant and told the three Strange Beasts they could choose whether to follow him.
• Old Cang Long, Black Bull, and Ming Feng asked Lu Qing to take them to find Guixu Daoist, and Lu Qing agreed to refine the Immortal Palace and bring them along.
• Lu Qing’s main body teleported through the Star River Array and entered the Guixu Secret Realm.

Lu Qing entered the Guixu Secret Realm in his true body and refined the Immortal Palace’s Heaven-reaching Jade Pillar, gaining control of the Dao Artifact. He released Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng from the Immortal Palace’s restriction.

• Lu Qing crossed the Star River Array and appeared before Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng, astonishing them with his mastery of space.
• Old Cang Long explained that Lu Qing needed to refine the Immortal Palace’s core, a Heaven-reaching Jade Pillar deep within the Dao Artifact.
• Lu Qing followed Old Cang Long through the Immortal Palace’s layered spaces and approached the jade pillar despite its overwhelming pressure.
• Lu Qing entered the pillar’s inner space and spent a day and night refining its core while Old Cang Long and the others stood guard.
• Lu Qing succeeded, sensed the Immortal Palace’s workings, and removed its restriction on Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng.

Lu Qing freed Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng from the Immortal Palace’s restrictions, then built Cross-Domain Teleportation Arrays between the Guixu Secret Realm and the Home World. After telling the Old Doctor about the ancient threat and the Guixu Daoist’s inheritance, Lu Qing brought him, Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and Xiao Bai through the array to the Immortal Palace.

• Lu Qing removed the Immortal Palace’s restrictions, and Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng chose to remain there and help him investigate Black and White Monastery.
• Lu Qing decided to leave the Immortal Palace in the Guixu Secret Realm and set up a Cross-Domain Teleportation Array there before returning to the Home World.
• Lu Qing told the Old Doctor, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Li about the ancient invasion, Great Expert Xuanhua, and the Guixu Daoist’s secrets.
• The Old Doctor agreed to visit the Immortal Palace, and Lu Qing built a second Cross-Domain Teleportation Array in the Jade Cave Chamber.
• Lu Qing activated the array and transported the Old Doctor, Xiao Yan, Xiao Li, and Xiao Bai from the Home World to the Guixu Secret Realm.

Lu Qing brought Chen Songqing, Xiao Yan, Xiao Bai, and Five Elements to the Guixu Secret Realm, where they settled into the Immortal Palace and met its senior Strange Beasts. He began cultivating in the palace’s core space while sending a Divine Sense Clone to investigate a Black and White Monastery Branch Altar for clues about its suspected links to the Dark Demon Abyss and ancient evil creatures.

• Lu Qing introduced Chen Songqing and the others to Old Cang Long, Ming Feng, and the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng noticed Xiao Yan’s special ice constitution.
• Lu Qing helped the newcomers choose cave residences in the Immortal Palace, with Xiao Li settling near Old Cang Long and Xiao Bai and Five Elements joining Xiao Yan.
• Lu Qing entered the Immortal Palace’s core cultivation space and used its pure spiritual essence to cultivate his Integration Body and deduce the next stage of the [Perfect Integration Method].
• Lu Qing created a Divine Sense Clone and sent it out of the Guixu Secret Realm to investigate a Black and White Monastery Branch Altar in the Starry Sky.

Lu Qing infiltrated a Black and White Monastery Branch Altar and discovered a Small World corrupted by Demonic Qi and built on the suffering of countless victims. After rescuing tens of thousands of captives from a Blood Pool, he seized the monastery disciples and began searching their souls.

• Lu Qing disguised his aura as Demonic Qi and entered the demonized Small World, where dense resentment and a Bone Mountain revealed the scale of the slaughter.
• Lu Qing hid as Black and White Monastery disciples entered the Bone Mountain and discussed how their Heavenly Demon Pool grew stronger by cultivating resentment.
• The leading disciple dumped tens of thousands of sealed Human Cultivators from a cloth bag toward the Blood Pool, but Lu Qing used space power to make them vanish and rescue them.
• Lu Qing revealed himself, declared that the disciples would die, and immobilized them with his power.
• Lu Qing brutally searched the disciples' souls and witnessed their recruitment, their resentment-based cultivation, and their enjoyment of capturing and sacrificing cultivators.

After discovering the atrocities at a Black and White Monastery Branch Altar, Lu Qing abandoned caution and destroyed its Blood Pool, freed the trapped spirits, and slaughtered every disciple in the Small World. He left for the next Branch Altar, intent on wiping out the monastery’s outposts until its Abbot emerged.

• Lu Qing killed the Black and White Monastery disciples near the Blood Pool and used a curse to erase their remaining divine sense fragments.
• Lu Qing purified the Blood Pool’s resentful spirits, releasing them from their suffering, then destroyed Bone Mountain, the Blood Pool, and the surrounding demonic corruption.
• Lu Qing searched the Small World and slaughtered every Black and White Monastery disciple remaining there.
• Lu Qing left the lifeless Small World and headed openly for the next Branch Altar, vowing to destroy every outpost and force the Abbot to respond.

Lu Qing used the Immortal Palace to cultivate at full force while his Divine Sense Clone continued toward Black and White Monastery’s Branch Altars. As the Monastery Master ordered more Heavenly Demon Pools built and entered seclusion, repeated attacks destroyed Branch Altars and killed two Elders, prompting the Vice Abbot to pursue the hidden attacker himself.

• Lu Qing activated the Immortal Palace’s formations to draw spiritual essence from the void and began cultivating with all his strength, while Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng sensed the disturbance and chose not to interrupt him.
• The Black and White Monastery Master discovered that a Heavenly Demon Pool had been destroyed, ordered the Branch Altars to accelerate construction of more pools, and went into seclusion to recover to peak Integration Realm.
• Black and White Monastery’s remote Branch Altars continued losing contact as the hidden attacker destroyed their Heavenly Demon Pools and killed their disciples.
• A disciple informed the Vice Abbot that a fifth Branch Altar and two Integration Realm Elders had gone missing, with no clues left behind.
• The Vice Abbot concluded that the attacker was a powerful expert and decided to confront the hidden threat himself.

Lu Qing’s Divine Sense Clone destroyed the seventh Black and White Monastery Branch Altar before confronting the monastery’s Vice Abbot in the Starry Sky. The Vice Abbot recognized Lu Qing and, after revealing his immense strength, prepared to fight him.

• The Vice Abbot left the Black and White Monastery to hunt the attacker destroying its Heavenly Demon Pools.
• Lu Qing destroyed the seventh Heavenly Demon Pool and crushed the captured Black and White Monastery disciples, then continued toward another Branch Altar.
• Lu Qing sensed a powerful malice approaching and waited as the Vice Abbot appeared before him.
• The Vice Abbot recognized Lu Qing as the Integration Realm cultivator who had killed Mo Cangtian and realized the attacker was only a Divine Sense Clone.
• The Vice Abbot’s aura rose to the peak of Great Accomplishment of Harmonization Dao, and Lu Qing began gathering the power of his Great Daos for their fight.

Lu Qing’s Divine Sense Clone fought the Vice Abbot of Black and White Monastery, whose Heavenly Demon Barrier neutralized the Great Dao attacks. Lu Qing gathered nine kinds of Power of the Great Dao into one strike while the Vice Abbot remained trapped behind his defense.

• Lu Qing attacked the Vice Abbot with Space Power and sword qi, but the Vice Abbot raised his Heavenly Demon Barrier and dissolved both attacks.
• Lu Qing tried attacks from his other mastered Great Daos, but the barrier neutralized each one.
• Lu Qing realized the Vice Abbot could not attack while maintaining the barrier and taunted him about the defense’s flaw.
• Lu Qing combined nine kinds of Power of the Great Dao in his palm, locking the Vice Abbot in place with Space Power.
• Integration Realm powerhouses, including Qiu Ruofeng, sensed Lu Qing’s immense aura as he prepared to strike.

Lu Qing used the combined power of his nine Great Daos to break the Vice Abbot of Black and White Monastery’s Heavenly Demon Barrier and strike him with a sword of light. The Vice Abbot survived and revealed his monstrous true form, which matched ancient descriptions of the evil creatures that invaded the Starry Sky.

• Lu Qing condensed the powers of nine Great Daos into a sphere of light while the Vice Abbot strengthened his Heavenly Demon Barrier and nearby Integration Realm experts watched.
• Lu Qing transformed the sphere into a sword of light and slashed the barrier, overwhelming its ability to neutralize Great Dao power.
• The barrier shattered, and the strike’s remaining force blasted the Vice Abbot through the surrounding Starry Sky, but Lu Qing sensed that he was still alive.
• The Vice Abbot emerged as a huge, many-limbed monster, shocking the watching experts with his true form.
• Qiu Ruofeng and the Nether Palace Elders recognized the monster as resembling the evil creatures recorded in their founding patriarch’s ancient scrolls.

The Vice Abbot of Black and White Monastery revealed himself as an evil creature from another world, confirming an ancient prophecy and exposing the truth about the monastery’s Patriarch. Lu Qing faced the monster in the Starry Sky, but its Darkness Power nullified his laws and forced him onto the defensive.

• The Vice Abbot transformed into a six-winged, eight-armed monster, and Qiu Ruofeng used Nether Palace’s ancient scroll to identify it as an evil creature from the Otherworld.
• Qiu Ruofeng and the other Elders realized the Patriarch of Black and White Monastery had likely been possessed after returning from the Dark Demon Abyss.
• Lu Qing confirmed the Vice Abbot was an Otherworld creature and explained that its kind had invaded the Starry Sky in the distant past.
• The Vice Abbot revealed that Xuanhua’s remnant soul could no longer suppress the World Passage and threatened to devour the Starry Sky’s inhabitants.
• The Vice Abbot attacked at overwhelming speed, and its Darkness Power neutralized Lu Qing’s Space Power and Great Dao laws, leaving Lu Qing struggling to dodge.

Lu Qing’s Divine Sense Clone could neither harm the Vice Abbot nor be caught, so the monster provoked him by killing an Integration Realm expert and devastating a Small World. Lu Qing stabilized the world and called on the power of his true body in the Guixu Secret Realm, whose aura began to surge with nine kinds of Great Dao intent.

• The Vice Abbot taunted Lu Qing, then sped toward an Integration Realm expert to threaten the lives of others.
• Lu Qing pursued the Vice Abbot, but it caught the rogue cultivator and crushed and devoured him in front of Lu Qing.
• The Vice Abbot unleashed Darkness Power on a nearby Small World, killing countless inhabitants in a wave of disasters.
• Lu Qing halted the disasters with a ray of light and calmly promised the Vice Abbot its death.
• Lu Qing’s true body opened its eyes in the Guixu Secret Realm as nine kinds of Great Dao intent appeared and its aura surged.

Lu Qing emerged from seclusion and brought his true body to the Starry Sky to confront the monster threatening to slaughter its inhabitants. He trapped the Vice Abbot of the Black and White Monastery with overwhelming Space Power and struck it with a crushing kick, leaving the battle’s outcome unclear.

• Lu Qing’s true body emerged from seclusion, and Old Cang Long, the Black Barbarian Bull, and Ming Feng learned that his Divine Sense Clone was fighting the monster.
• Old Cang Long used the Immortal Palace’s power to show the Strange Beasts the battle in the Starry Sky, where the Vice Abbot threatened to slaughter everyone and mocked Lu Qing for hiding his true body.
• Qiu Ruofeng and the White-clothed Woman of the Empty Clarity Sect watched the battle and placed their hopes in Lu Qing.
• Lu Qing told the Vice Abbot he would grant its wish to face his true body, then appeared with a massive foot descending from the void.
• Lu Qing’s Space Power pinned the Vice Abbot in place, but the monster raised its wings and eight arms to defend itself as his kick struck, shattering space and unleashing a vast wave of Void Turbulence.

Lu Qing emerged from seclusion and crushed the Heavenly Demon into mangled flesh, then used his ability to uncover the secret behind its immortality. He trapped the now-terrified monster in a Spatial Prison and left it facing the possibility of death.

• Lu Qing emerged from the void, and the Integration Realm experts recognized him as the one who had crushed the monster with a single kick.
• Lu Qing stomped the monster into pulp, withstood its demonic flames, and sealed it in a Spatial Prison when it continued to regenerate.
• Lu Qing used his ability to discover that the monster belonged to the Heavenly Demon Clan and would survive only while its Origin Space and core remained intact.
• Lu Qing revealed that the monster could not divide its divine sense before mastering its Origin Space, meaning its current body was its true body and its only life.
• The monster panicked and threatened Lu Qing with the Abbot and the Heavenly Demon army, while Lu Qing asked whether it was finally afraid.

Lu Qing ground away the Vice Abbot’s fleshly body and forced its Origin Core Space to emerge, then used his overwhelming physical strength to smash it. The chapter ended with the sphere exploding, while the watching cultivators wondered whether the Vice Abbot had been killed.

• The Vice Abbot insisted that Lu Qing could not find or destroy its Origin Space, but Lu Qing crushed its body with the power of the Great Dao until the Origin Core Space appeared.
• The Vice Abbot claimed its Origin Space would survive and let it recover, while Lu Qing used his ability to learn that the space could be broken if its limits were exceeded.
• Lu Qing unleashed nine kinds of Great Dao intent and placed the black sphere in his palm as his aura shook the surrounding Starry Sky.
• Lu Qing struck the Heavenly Demon Origin Space with his palm, shattering space across ten thousand miles and causing the black sphere to explode.
• The observing Integration Realm powerhouses reeled from the blast and debated whether Lu Qing had killed the Vice Abbot.