Chapter Summaries

After killing Long Wu, Qin Wang explored Wanyan Meng’s father’s study and was pulled into a space where he had to learn the Phantom God Fist by fighting a copy of himself. He mastered enough of the technique to reach a draw, but stayed behind to grind it toward Great Perfection.

• The onlookers left Long Wu’s stripped corpse behind to pursue Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance, while City Lord Xuandu marveled at Qin Wang’s ability to use the Heaven and Earth Dao Script.
• Wanyan Meng led Qin Wang into her father’s study, where he picked up a jade slip and entered a pitch-black space.
• A copy of Qin Wang attacked him with the Phantom God Fist, and Qin Wang realized the blows taught him the technique without injuring him.
• Qin Wang endured repeated attacks until he could counter with the Phantom God Fist and reach a draw, revealing an exit halo.
• Qin Wang checked his progress, saw that the technique was only at the Proficient level, and chose to keep fighting until he could grind it to max level.

After the undead vanished at dawn, Qin Wang emerged from a trial having mastered the Phantom God Fist and defeated Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s incarnation. He and Wanyan Meng decided to split up so the old residence would not be left unguarded while they brought Wu Su and Feng Jiutian there.

• The undead disappeared at sunrise, and residents found Long Wu dead and carried his corpse into their kitchen.
• Wu Su refused to search for Qin Wang and Wanyan Meng, while Feng Jiutian left the inn to look for them himself.
• Qin Wang mastered the Phantom God Fist, defeated Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s incarnation, and returned to the study as the jade slip crumbled.
• Wanyan Meng explained that leaving the old residence empty would let someone else claim it as its new master.
• Qin Wang and Wanyan Meng agreed that he would stay at the residence while she went to find Sister Wu.

Qin Wang continued studying Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance while City Lord Xuandu sensed his extraordinary progress. When three Integration Stage Experts attacked Wanyan Meng to force Qin Wang to surrender the inheritance, City Lord Xuandu intervened and killed them.

• Qin Wang began learning the War God Spear Art from a jade slip in the old residence.
• City Lord Xuandu sensed that Qin Wang had mastered an immortal art with astonishing speed and wondered whether his talent could help him escape the world he called a cage.
• Three Integration Stage Experts cornered Wanyan Meng and demanded to know what Qin Wang was doing inside the residence.
• Wanyan Meng admitted that Qin Wang was studying Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s inheritance, and the three attacked her to seize it.
• City Lord Xuandu appeared, easily shattered the attackers’ killing moves, and crushed all three Integration Stage Experts with a massive handprint.

City Lord Xuandu killed three Integration Stage Experts while protecting Wanyan Meng, then faced the residents’ anger over their puppet-like existence. Wanyan Meng reunited with Wu Su, while Qin Wang finished learning the jade slips’ techniques and grew strong enough to challenge powerful opponents across realms.

• City Lord Xuandu killed three Integration Stage Experts and publicly warned the city that he would protect Wanyan Meng.
• After Wanyan Meng left, residents cursed City Lord Xuandu for serving Immortal Emperor Qingshui and keeping them trapped, and he returned to the City Lord's Mansion in anger.
• City Lord Xuandu wondered whether Wanyan Meng suspected his identity or was simply naturally distant toward him.
• Wanyan Meng visited Wu Su and said Qin Wang had sent her to bring Wu Su to meet him while he received Immortal Emperor Qingshui's inheritance.
• Feng Jiutian and Zhu Jingtian heard City Lord Xuandu's announcement, and Zhu Jingtian wondered why the voice sounded familiar.
• Qin Wang mastered the jade slips’ techniques and spells, gaining the confidence to defeat a peak Nascent Soul Stage cultivator and fight a spirit transformation stage expert.

Qin Wang shattered the Heaven and Earth Dao Script for “Technique,” absorbed the released Spiritual Energy, and advanced to Peak Golden Core. He considered destroying the “Autumn” script as well, but grew concerned when Wanyan Meng and Wu Su did not return, unaware that Integration Stage Experts were waiting outside his residence.

• City Lord Xuandu wondered how Qin Wang had learned Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s arts so quickly and concluded that his talent was extraordinary.
• Qin Wang wrote the Heaven and Earth Dao Script for “Technique,” then let it shatter when he could not supply enough energy to sustain it.
• Qin Wang absorbed the pure Spiritual Energy released by the broken script, while a Spiritual Energy Storm drew attention across the city.
• Wanyan Meng and Wu Su saw the storm and returned to the inn to avoid Integration Stage Experts who might target Wu Su.
• City Lord Xuandu was astonished that Qin Wang had destroyed a priceless Dao Script to cultivate.
• Qin Wang reached Peak Golden Core, considered shattering the “Autumn” script, then headed for the gate after noticing Wanyan Meng and Wu Su had not returned; Integration Stage Experts waited outside.

Qin Wang emerged from his residence to find Wanyan Meng and Wu Su surrounded by Integration Stage experts demanding Immortal Emperor Qingshui's inheritance. City Lord Xuandu offered Qin Wang a fair contest against Gongsun Zhengyang, but Qin Wang realized he could not use the Heaven and Earth Dao Script without enough Spiritual Energy.

• Qin Wang sensed Wanyan Meng and Wu Su surrounded outside and opened the gate to confront the Integration Stage experts.
• Qin Wang admitted that Immortal Emperor Qingshui's inheritance was inside, and the experts demanded that he hand it over.
• City Lord Xuandu arrived to protect Wanyan Meng and challenged the experts' threats.
• Gongsun Zhengyang demanded access to the inheritance, and the crowd noticed Qin Wang had advanced to Peak Golden Core.
• City Lord Xuandu proposed a fair contest between Qin Wang and Gongsun Zhengyang, then secretly told Qin Wang to use his Heaven and Earth Dao Script to kill his opponent.
• Qin Wang realized that he lacked the Spiritual Energy needed to use the Heaven and Earth Dao Script.

Qin Wang revealed that his “Autumn” Heaven and Earth Dao Script had run out of energy, leaving him unable to face Gongsun Zhengyang in the contest City Lord Xuandu had arranged. Qin Wang then proposed a disguise scheme and demonstrated Water Formless, surprising City Lord Xuandu with the secret art of Immortal Emperor Qingshui.

• Gongsun Zhengyang questioned the contest rules, and City Lord Xuandu announced that the fighters could use anything they had brought.
• City Lord Xuandu struck Gongsun Zhengyang for challenging him, lightly injuring him before dismissing the gathered cultivators.
• Qin Wang showed City Lord Xuandu his depleted “Autumn” Heaven and Earth Dao Script and explained that he could not replenish its energy.
• Qin Wang and City Lord Xuandu rejected Wanyan Meng's suggestion to abandon the inheritance, since both wanted Qin Wang to obtain it.
• Qin Wang proposed that City Lord Xuandu disguise himself as Qin Wang while Qin Wang impersonated the City Lord.
• Qin Wang used the Qingping Sword to take on City Lord Xuandu's aura, and City Lord Xuandu recognized the technique as Water Formless.

Qin Wang learned that City Lord Xuandu and Gongsun Zhengyang planned to kill him and take his body, while Feng Jiutian had been captured and was being transferred to the City Lord’s Mansion. After discovering the threats through the Daily Intel, Qin Wang went to find Wanyan Meng to discuss what to do.

• Qin Wang demonstrated that he had mastered Water Formless and could disguise himself as City Lord Xuandu, who agreed to take part in the next day’s battle.
• Qin Wang warned Wanyan Meng and Wu Su that City Lord Xuandu’s loyalty after more than a hundred thousand years seemed suspicious, and told them to stay wary.
• Qin Wang read the updated intel and learned that City Lord Xuandu was a Candle Dragon who intended to possess his body, and that Xuandu and Gongsun Zhengyang planned to kill him the next day.
• Qin Wang learned that Feng Jiutian had been captured and would be transferred to the City Lord’s Mansion that night, and that Xuandu could use the Candle Dragon Mark on Qin Wang to gather information or trigger it.
• Qin Wang went to find Wanyan Meng, who was lying awake in her childhood bedroom and noticed him standing at the doorway.

Qin Wang rushed to cultivate in Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s cultivation room before his noon duel, drawing in a powerful energy that might be immortal qi. When noon arrived, he had not appeared at the central plaza, and the Integration Stage Experts headed for the old residence to force him out.

• Wanyan Meng led Qin Wang to the cultivation room after he asked to comprehend new Heaven and Earth Dao Scripts before noon.
• Qin Wang cultivated and began drawing the room’s powerful energy toward himself, but he sensed that he needed more time.
• City Lord Xuandu arrived at the old residence half an hour before noon, while Wanyan Meng and Wu Su agreed that Qin Wang did not have to honor the duel if he did not want to.
• Eleven Integration Stage Experts gathered at the central plaza with Gongsun Zhengyang, while residents watched and discussed the coming duel.
• When noon arrived without Qin Wang, the Integration Stage Experts concluded that he was hiding and surged toward the old residence, while Gongsun Zhengyang stayed behind.

Integration Stage Experts tried to break into the old residence, where Qin Wang was receiving Immortal Emperor Qingshui's inheritance, but discovered that city residents could revive after being killed. Their attack on the gates coincided with Qin Wang's lightning tribulation, which expanded to a thousand-li despite remaining at Nascent Soul intensity.

• Integration Stage Experts shouted at the closed gates, and one killed a mocking resident, who soon revived with the other victims and threatened him.
• Wu Su briefly opened the gates to postpone the duel by one hour, then shut them again.
• Ten Integration Stage Experts combined their power into a Mountain Breaker punch and struck the gates.
• Dark tribulation clouds formed overhead, prompting the Integration Stage Experts to stop their attack when they recognized Qin Tiedan's Nascent Soul lightning tribulation.
• Inside the old residence, City Lord Xuandu and Wu Su watched the clouds expand to a thousand li and explained that they had the range of a Body Integration Realm tribulation but Nascent Soul-level intensity.

Qin Wang faced his Nascent Soul lightning tribulation and used its power to temper his body. After surviving the Annihilation Lightning Tribulation, he advanced the Star Body Tempering Method to its seventh stage and reached peak Integration Stage physical strength.

• Qin Wang left Immortal Emperor Qingshui's training room and met the first two lightning tribulations head-on to temper his body.
• Qin Wang provoked the tribulation clouds, while the onlookers doubted he could survive and City Lord Xuandu identified the third strike as an Annihilation Lightning Tribulation.
• Wanyan Meng and Wu Su urged Qin Wang to use a treasure, but Qin Wang flew into the black lightning dragon instead.
• Qin Wang absorbed the annihilation energy through the Star Body Tempering Method, repeatedly destroying and regenerating his body.
• Qin Wang broke through to the seventh stage of the Star Body Tempering Method and reached peak Integration Stage physical strength.

Qin Wang passed his Nascent Soul tribulation and gained a powerful body, then refused City Lord Xuandu’s offer to fight in his place. At the duel, Gongsun Zhengyang sprang a hidden array that trapped Qin Wang, Gongsun Zhengyang, and City Lord Xuandu, leaving Wanyan Meng and Wu Su to wait for a chance to act.

• Qin Wang devoured the remaining Annihilation Lightning Tribulation, reached the Nascent Soul Early Stage, and raised his Star Body Tempering Method to the seventh rank.
• Qin Wang told City Lord Xuandu he would fight Gongsun Zhengyang himself and questioned Xuandu’s insistence on taking his place.
• Gongsun Zhengyang prepared to duel Qin Wang, believing Qin Wang had swapped appearances with City Lord Xuandu as they had planned.
• Gongsun Zhengyang activated a hidden array that engulfed himself, Qin Wang, and City Lord Xuandu in golden flames.
• Wanyan Meng wanted to intervene, but Wu Su urged her to wait because the other Integration Stage experts might join the fight.

Qin Wang exposed City Lord Xuandu’s alliance with Gongsun Zhengyang and fought them both, but their combined attacks engulfed him in Golden Flames. As Wanyan Meng and Wu Su struggled to reach him, Qin Wang moved within the flames, showing that he had survived the attack.

• Qin Wang mocked Gongsun Zhengyang’s Nine Dragon Golden Radiance Array and revealed that he knew City Lord Xuandu had joined the plot against him.
• Gongsun Zhengyang attacked with a Golden Radiance Divine Flame dragon, but Qin Wang shattered it with one punch.
• City Lord Xuandu struck Qin Wang with the Power of Rules, badly injuring him, while Gongsun Zhengyang sent two fire dragons at him.
• Qin Wang used the Qingping Sword to cut through City Lord Xuandu’s translucent palm, then was swallowed by the two fire dragons’ explosion.
• Wanyan Meng and Wu Su tried to intervene, but the Integration Stage Experts blocked them as City Lord Xuandu watched.
• Qin Wang moved while engulfed in Golden Flames and told Gongsun Zhengyang that burning him to death would not be easy.

Qin Wang extinguished Gongsun Zhengyang’s Golden Radiance Divine Flame with the Technique Rule, then used Qingping Sword to drive City Lord Xuandu into retreat. As hostile city residents targeted him, Gongsun Zhengyang seized Qin Wang’s distraction and attacked with a powerful punch.

• Qin Wang used the Technique Rule to extinguish the Golden Radiance Divine Flame, shocking Gongsun Zhengyang and revealing to City Lord Xuandu why spells could not harm him.
• City Lord Xuandu told Gongsun Zhengyang to stop using spells and attack Qin Wang with Magic Power, while onlookers watched Wanyan Meng and Wu Su remain outside the flames.
• Qin Wang rushed City Lord Xuandu with Qingping Sword, forcing the Great Ascension Stage expert to dodge rather than risk facing the blade directly.
• The city residents recognized Qingping Sword and agreed that Qin Wang had to be killed before he reached the battlefield, while other observers reconsidered their allegiance.
• Qin Wang noticed the city residents’ killing intent and became distracted, allowing Gongsun Zhengyang to charge him with a punch containing five thousand years of cultivation.

Qin Wang endured attacks from Gongsun Zhengyang and City Lord Xuandu, then used a sword strike to split Gongsun Zhengyang’s body. City Lord Xuandu captured Gongsun Zhengyang’s soul and revealed his own plan to possess Qin Wang, leaving Qin Wang badly wounded and in danger.

• City Lord Xuandu and Gongsun Zhengyang attacked Qin Wang together, while Wanyan Meng and Wu Su were blocked from reaching him.
• Qin Wang summoned the Barbarian God Shield, which shattered when it blocked City Lord Xuandu’s spear; the spear then pierced Qin Wang without hitting his heart.
• Qin Wang struck Gongsun Zhengyang with a flash of sword light, splitting his body in two, and Gongsun Zhengyang’s divine soul tried to possess Qin Wang.
• City Lord Xuandu seized Gongsun Zhengyang’s divine soul and said he intended to claim Qin Wang’s body for himself.
• Qin Wang mocked Gongsun Zhengyang while coughing up blood, and the onlookers realized City Lord Xuandu planned to possess Qin Wang.

Qin Wang killed Gongsun Zhengyang, and his Five Ghosts devoured the scattered Soul Power while City Lord Xuandu reconsidered his plan to possess Qin Wang. When Xuandu threatened Wanyan Meng and Wu Su, Wanyan Meng unleashed her death qi and triggered a catastrophic time acceleration that threw the city’s laws into chaos.

• City Lord Xuandu crushed Gongsun Zhengyang’s soul, and Qin Wang released the Five Ghosts to absorb the fragments.
• City Lord Xuandu abandoned his excuse that he had been testing Qin Wang and demanded Qin Wang’s body, threatening Wanyan Meng and Wu Su.
• Wanyan Meng and Wu Su tried to escape, but the Integration Stage Experts blocked them, so they prepared to fight rather than endanger Qin Wang.
• Wanyan Meng unleashed the Infinite Sword Domain and her death qi as the city abruptly fell into darkness and time began to rush forward.
• City Lord Xuandu sensed that Wanyan Meng’s death qi had destabilized the treasure’s rules, and he charged at her as residents’ cultivation surged and undead spirits appeared.

Wanyan Meng absorbed the death energy of Mirror Flower Water Moon as its hidden rules began to crown her the Undead Monarch, while Qin Wang and the Integration Stage Experts tried to stop City Lord Xuandu. Xuandu reclaimed his buried Candle Dragon Body and vowed to kill everyone.

• Wu Su attacked City Lord Xuandu with a sword dragon, but Xuandu transformed into a Candle Dragon and destroyed it.
• Wanyan Meng’s sealed memories opened, revealing that Mirror Flower Water Moon was a tomb for fallen human heroes and imprisoned experts, and its rules were making her the Undead Monarch.
• Xuandu moved to kill Wanyan Meng, but Qin Wang froze time around him; Zhu Jingtian then used his purer Candle Dragon bloodline to break the time stop.
• The Integration Stage Experts attacked Xuandu to protect Wanyan Meng, saying they were human.
• Xuandu summoned his buried Candle Dragon Body, abandoned his plan to possess Qin Wang, and vowed to slaughter everyone.

The Integration Stage Experts attacked City Lord Xuandu as he tried to merge with the Candle Dragon Body, but his defenses and Dragon Breath overwhelmed them. Wu Guangsheng and Xu Weihuang sacrificed themselves to wound him, leaving the others with renewed hope as they charged him in turn.

• City Lord Xuandu rose toward the Candle Dragon Body, and the Integration Stage Experts unleashed their strongest attacks to stop him from merging with it.
• City Lord Xuandu blocked their attacks with a barrier, then struck them with the Candle Dragon Body’s Dragon Breath, injuring several of them.
• Wu Guangsheng burned everything he had, broke through to the Great Ascension Stage, and became a fire meteor that wounded City Lord Xuandu before dying.
• Qin Wang sensed City Lord Xuandu’s injury and urged the others to attack, and Xu Weihuang sacrificed himself in another charge that forced Xuandu to spit blood.
• The remaining Integration Stage Experts announced their names and transformed into fire meteors, attacking City Lord Xuandu to stop him from merging with the Candle Dragon Body.

City Lord Xuandu used Zhu Jingtian as a shield to survive the human cultivators’ attacks and returned to the Candle Dragon Body. Wanyan Meng completed her inheritance as the Undead Monarch and commanded the undead, but Sacred Candle emerged and engulfed her in Dragon Breath.

• Zhu Jingtian took the desperate attacks meant for City Lord Xuandu, who seized his soul and entered the Candle Dragon Body.
• City Lord Xuandu learned from Zhu Jingtian’s memories why he had joined the humans, promised him a stronger body, and left to control his newly restored form.
• Wanyan Meng absorbed deathly energy, awakened as Immortal Emperor Qingshui’s successor, and ordered the undead to attack the fleeing city residents.
• Sacred Candle broke free of his stone covering, endured the heavenly tribulation, and thanked Wanyan Meng for weakening it.
• Sacred Candle breathed Dragon Breath at Wanyan Meng, engulfing her as Qin Wang watched in disbelief.

Sacred Candle emerged victorious after regaining his Immortal Realm power and demanded that Qin Wang and Wu Su submit, but Wanyan Meng survived his Dragon Breath and returned with Immortal Realm strength. Sacred Candle froze the city with Time Stop and discovered that Wu Su carried a sword-bearing attendant’s inheritance.

• Sacred Candle dismissed the Undead Monarch and celebrated as the city's residents knelt and praised him.
• Sacred Candle confronted Qin Wang and Wu Su, offered them a chance to submit, and threatened to capture them after Wu Su refused.
• Wanyan Meng appeared behind Sacred Candle and revealed that she had survived the Dragon Breath and reached the Immortal Realm.
• Sacred Candle used Time Stop to freeze the city and approached the immobilized Wanyan Meng.
• Wu Su struggled against the time freeze, and Sacred Candle recognized her aura as the inheritance of a sword-bearing attendant.