Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong sought the Ice Spirit Stele to revive Ying Huanhuan and charged into the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestral Land after the clan refused him. As Yan Qingshan set out to support him, the Ice Spirit Ancestor revealed Ying Huanhuan’s image to guests gathered at a banquet.

• Lin Dong told Yan Qingshan that the Ice Spirit Stele held the Ice Spirit needed to restore Ying Huanhuan’s damaged soul, and vowed to obtain it even by force.
• Yan Qingshan gave Lin Dong the Thunder Emperor Scepter, and Lin Dong put away Ying Huanhuan’s ice coffin before heading for the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestral Land.
• Yan Qingshan told Ah Li and Little Fox that Lin Dong had reached the Heavenly Sovereign realm, then decided to go support him.
• At a banquet hosted by the Ice Spirit Ancestor, guests including Snow Demon Elder, Dragon Venerable, and the War Emperor learned that Lin Dong had forced his way into the ancestral land.
• The Ice Spirit Ancestor displayed the Ice Spirit Stele in an Ice Mirror and used it to reveal Ying Huanhuan’s figure.

Lin Dong demanded the Ice Spirit Stele to save Ying Huanhuan, but the Ice Spirit Ancestor refused and revealed contempt for her royal branch. Lin Dong stormed the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestral Land, shattered its defenses, and faced three Heavenly Sovereigns before an unfamiliar ally appeared.

• The Ice Spirit Ancestor agreed to give Ying Huanhuan's remnant soul to the Battle Emperor, while Yan Qingshan watched their conversation through a projection.
• Lin Dong emerged from the ancestral land and asked to borrow the Ice Spirit Stele, but the Ice Spirit Ancestor refused.
• After learning that the clan had discussed giving away Ying Huanhuan's remnant soul, Lin Dong unleashed Thunder Breaking Law Light and destroyed the clan's formation.
• Lin Dong pursued the fleeing Ice Spirit Ancestor into the ancestral land, where Snow Demon Elder, Dragon Venerable, and the Battle Emperor blocked his path.
• Lin Dong ordered the three Heavenly Sovereigns to move, and an unfamiliar Heavenly Sovereign appeared behind him.

Lin Dong pursued the Ice Spirit Ancestor to retrieve the Ice Spirit Stele while Yan Qingshan confronted the three Heavenly Sovereigns. Yan Qingshan defeated Snow Demon Elder, the War Emperor, and Dragon Venerable, leaving the Ice Spirit Clan's ancestral land in turmoil as Lin Dong continued his pursuit.

• Yan Qingshan told Lin Dong to retrieve the Ice Spirit Stele and held off the three Heavenly Sovereigns as Lin Dong flew deeper into the ancestral land after the Ice Spirit Ancestor.
• Yan Qingshan revealed the recording of the Ice Spirit Ancestor and the three Heavenly Sovereigns discussing Ying Huanhuan's remnant Ice Spirit soul, then demanded that they kneel and admit their mistakes.
• Snow Demon Elder attacked Yan Qingshan with a storm of black snow, but Yan Qingshan burned it away and trapped him in a fire prison.
• The War Emperor demanded that Yan Qingshan release Snow Demon Elder, and Yan Qingshan struck him away with a giant hand of flame.
• Dragon Venerable attacked with a golden dragon palm, but Yan Qingshan's Golden Lightning True Dragon suppressed his bloodline and trapped him in lightning strikes.

Yan Qingshan overwhelmed the War Emperor in the Ice Spirit Clan Ancestral Land, breaking his strongest divine abilities with the Dragon-Phoenix Power. The War Emperor ended the chapter battered and pinned beneath Yan Qingshan’s palm.

• The War Emperor attacked Yan Qingshan with the Million Grasping Heaven Hand and War Emperor Spirit Fist, but Yan Qingshan tore through the palm and knocked him back with a punch.
• The War Emperor summoned his Sovereign Spirit Body and unleashed the Nine Heavens War God Seal, which Yan Qingshan caught and shattered.
• The War Emperor brought down his Peerless Divine Ability, the War Spirit Undefeated Cauldron, while Yan Qingshan summoned the Supreme Dragon-Phoenix with the Thunder Dragon Fire Phoenix.
• The Supreme Dragon-Phoenix destroyed the cauldron and the War Emperor’s Ancient War Emperor Dharma Body, then blasted the War Emperor into a deep crater.
• Yan Qingshan dragged the battered War Emperor from the ground and pinned him there when he tried to attack again.

Yan Qingshan and Lin Dong seized the Ice Spirit Stele and used it to awaken Ying Huanhuan, whose power showed the potential to reach the Heavenly Sovereign realm. Yan Qingshan arranged for the defeated elders to serve him and Lin Dong, while the defiant War Emperor remained restrained as the others warned against killing him.

• Yan Qingshan defeated the War Emperor and the other Heavenly Sovereigns as Lin Dong caught up with the Ice Spirit Ancestor and demanded the genuine Ice Spirit Stele.
• Yan Qingshan's Golden Lightning Clone seized the stele, and the Ice Spirit Ancestor offered to help awaken Ying Huanhuan in exchange for sparing his clan.
• The Ice Spirit Ancestor activated the stele, and the Ice Master's remnant soul merged with Ying Huanhuan, whose aura began approaching the Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• Yan Qingshan ordered the Ice Spirit Ancestor and Snow Demon Elder to serve Lin Dong for a hundred years and directed Dragon Venerable to work under him.
• The War Emperor refused to submit, while the Ice Spirit Ancestor and Dragon Venerable warned Lin Dong that killing a Heavenly Sovereign could provoke major powers.

Yan Qingshan spared War Emperor but stripped him of his treasures and exiled him to Holy Abyss to guard against the Outer Realm Evil Race until he killed ten Devil Emperors. After leaving Lin Dong with the Ice Spirit Clan, Yan Qingshan returned to find the Azure Emperor Palace had grown into the foremost force in the Northern Domain.

• Yan Qingshan stopped Lin Dong from killing War Emperor and sentenced him to serve at Holy Abyss Ancient City until he had slain ten Devil Emperors.
• Old Immortal Chiyan arrived and confirmed that Yan Qingshan, as a Demon Slaying King, could impose the punishment on War Emperor.
• Yan Qingshan branded War Emperor with a restriction, seized his treasures, and had Old Immortal Chiyan carry him away in a crimson gourd.
• Lin Dong promised to ensure War Emperor never left Holy Abyss, and Yan Qingshan told him to seek help if needed before departing with Dragon Venerable.
• Yan Qingshan returned to Heavenly Net Continent and found that the Azure Emperor Palace had unified the Northern Domain and rapidly strengthened its ranks.

Yan Qingshan explained his cultivation plans to the Immortal Fox Empress and Mandala, intending to send his clones to the Dragon and Phoenix Clans while he traveled alone. After bidding farewell to his companions, he departed from the Northern Domain Divine City for the Hundred Spirits Continent.

• Yan Qingshan told the Immortal Fox Empress that Lin Dong was his only disciple and said he had found a path toward a new breakthrough.
• Mandala arrived while Yan Qingshan and the Immortal Fox Empress were together, and Yan Qingshan said he planned to leave for an extended cultivation journey.
• Yan Qingshan explained that his Thunder Dragon Clone would cultivate with the Dragon Clan and his Fire Phoenix Clone would seek ties with the Phoenix Clan through the Nine Nether Clan.
• The Immortal Fox Empress and Mandala agreed not to stop Yan Qingshan from leaving, and he urged them to focus on their own cultivation.
• Yan Qingshan bid farewell to the Immortal Fox Empress, Mandala, Little Fox, and Ah Li, then sent his two clones through separate teleportation arrays.
• Yan Qingshan entered a third teleportation array bound for the Hundred Spirits Continent.

Yan Qingshan traveled through the Northern Spirit Plains while cultivating his Sowing Seeds Across Heaven and Earth method, and secretly watched Qing Yanjing, who was traveling under the name Miss Jing. He planned to intervene in her coming ordeal and decided to make trouble for Mufeng, who had shown interest in her.

• Students from the Northern Spirit Academy camped near the Northern Spirit Plains, where Qing Yanjing sensed danger after seeing a barefoot stranger pass through the woods.
• Mufeng invited Qing Yanjing to join his squad, but she declined and said she would travel alone once they entered the plains.
• Yan Qingshan watched Qing Yanjing from the forest while planting spiritual seeds and cultivating his connection with the land and its living things.
• Yan Qingshan decided that Mufeng posed no serious threat but considered causing him some trouble, then vanished into the forest to continue cultivating.

Qing Yanjing, gravely injured and hunted by beasts in the Northern Spirit Plains, was rescued by the ragged stranger she had met before. As he carried her deeper into the forest, she recognized him and fell asleep, comforted by memories of her father.

• Qing Yanjing emerged from a crater with her Sovereign Sea damaged and her spiritual energy leaking away, leaving her unable to defend herself.
• Ferocious Beasts surrounded Qing Yanjing, drawn by the spiritual energy escaping from her body.
• Mufeng and his companions arrived to rescue Qing Yanjing, but a blood-colored gray wolf attacked before they could reach her.
• The ragged stranger parted the jungle with growing plants, drove back the beasts, and carried Qing Yanjing away while telling Mufeng and the others to flee.
• Qing Yanjing recognized the stranger as the man they had mistaken for a wild man and fell asleep on his back, remembering her deceased father.

Yan Qingshan rescued the injured Qing Yanjing and carried her out of the dangerous forest while she recovered. Mufeng and his companions reached the outskirts of the Northern Spirit Plains, still unaware of where Qing Yanjing had gone.

• Qing Yanjing woke beside a stream and learned from Yan Qingshan that her leaking spiritual energy was attracting Ferocious Beasts.
• Qing Yanjing explained that someone had sabotaged her Spirit Array materials and sealed her spiritual energy, likely targeting her Qing Lineage.
• Yan Qingshan kept watch while Qing Yanjing washed, then helped her dress and carried her away on his back.
• Yan Qingshan used his connection with nature to guide them safely through the forest toward the edge of the Northern Spirit Plains.
• Mufeng and his companions rested outside the plains after escaping the Ferocious Beasts, while Mufeng worried about Qing Yanjing.

Yan Qingshan reunited Qing Yanjing with Mufeng’s group, gave them spirit beast treasures, and agreed to protect her while she recovered. As they rested, Qing Yanjing suspected she had been betrayed by someone in the Futuo Ancient Clan, while Mufeng recognized the vast gap between himself and her.

• Mufeng’s group drew their weapons when bushes shook, then greeted Qing Yanjing as Yan Qingshan brought her to them.
• Yan Qingshan killed several powerful spirit beasts and gave their treated soul essence and corpses to Mufeng and his brothers.
• Qing Yanjing thanked Mufeng for helping her, then asked Yan Qingshan to let her travel with him until she recovered.
• Qing Yanjing revealed that she feared a high-ranking Futuo Ancient Clan expert had sabotaged her Spirit Array and would pursue her if she contacted the clan.
• Mufeng offered roasted spirit bird, but Yan Qingshan used his divine ability to ripen fruit for Qing Yanjing instead.
• Yan Qingshan disclosed that he was a Third Grade Sovereign, and Mufeng watched him care for Qing Yanjing with a bitter awareness of their difference in status.

By the campfire, Qing Yanjing questioned Yan Qingshan about his background and his plans for cultivating a Sovereign Dharma Body, but he kept his origins private and declined her help. He put the camp to sleep with his spiritual energy and watched over Qing Yanjing as the group rested.

• Qing Yanjing asked whether Yan Qingshan belonged to the Wood Spirit Clan, but he said he came from an ordinary family of mercenaries and had no connection to the clan.
• Mufeng praised Yan Qingshan’s knowledge, and Yan revealed that he was over fifty and had reached the Third Grade Sovereign Realm.
• Yan cultivated by drawing plant essence from the surrounding grass and shrubs while studying a Dharma Body cultivation scroll.
• Qing Yanjing recognized the scroll as the Myriad Wood Rejuvenation Body, ranked thirty-ninth on the Dharma Body Ranking, and offered to help Yan cultivate it.
• Yan said he had his own plans for his Dharma Body and used spiritual energy to lull Qing Yanjing, Mufeng, and the others to sleep.
• Yan warned that the group trusted others too easily, then gently stroked Qing Yanjing’s forehead as he watched over them.

Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing left the Northern Spirit Plains together and traveled to Hundred Spirits City, where they learned about the Hundred Spirits King and prepared to continue their journey. They departed for the Northern Desolate Continent, where Yan Qingshan said a secret treasure trove might hold something useful to Qing Yanjing.

• Qing Yanjing woke beside Yan Qingshan, recalled that she had clung to him in her sleep, and accepted his morning affection despite her embarrassment.
• Yan Qingshan left the campsite with Qing Yanjing, while Mufeng and his companions woke later and departed the Northern Spirit Plains.
• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing discussed the Hundred Spirits Continent and the Hundred Spirits King's powerful family background at a restaurant in Hundred Spirits City.
• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing went to the city's super teleportation array, where Yan Qingshan chose the Northern Desolate Continent as their destination.
• Yan Qingshan told Qing Yanjing that a secret treasure trove there might contain clues to a treasure useful to her, and the pair teleported away.

Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing traveled to White Dragon Hill, where Yan Qingshan sought information about the region and Dragon Demon Palace. They subdued White Dragon City Lord Bai and his son, and Yan Qingshan began questioning the City Lord about his ties to Dragon Demon Palace.

• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing arrived in Northern Desolate City and decided to gather information about White Dragon Hill rather than visit Northern Desolate Spirit Academy.
• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing traveled to White Dragon City and took lodging near the City Lord's Manor.
• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing entered the City Lord's Manor at night, and Yan Qingshan quickly subdued the White Dragon City Lord and Bai Xuan.
• Qing Yanjing retrieved White Dragon City's hidden information about White Dragon Hill from the City Lord's study.
• Yan Qingshan questioned the White Dragon City Lord about Dragon Demon Palace and warned him not to deceive them.

Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing traveled to White Dragon Hill to seek the White Dragon Spirit Treasure, and he explained how the White Dragon Sovereign’s betrayal had doomed the Dragon Demon Palace. As Yan Qingshan drew out the treasure, Qing Yanjing began to suspect that his real goal concerned a secret linked to the Outer Realm Evil Race.

• Yan Qingshan gave the White Dragon City Lord spiritual pills and left with Qing Yanjing after securing his promise to keep their visit quiet.
• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing reached White Dragon Hill and found the five peaks and lake where the White Dragon Sovereign had fallen.
• Yan Qingshan explained that the Dragon Demon Palace had once attacked the Northern Desolate Spirit Academy, using an ancient array and the Great Sumeru Demonic Pillar.
• Yan Qingshan recounted how the White Dragon Sovereign betrayed the Dragon Demon Palace after opposing its blood sacrifices, then died from his wounds at White Dragon Hill.
• Qing Yanjing questioned Yan Qingshan about his true objective and began to suspect it involved a secret of the plane invaded by the Outer Realm Evil Race.
• Yan Qingshan drew on the energy of heaven and earth, causing strange light and mist to rise above the lake as the spiritual energy gathered.

Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing entered the White Dragon Spirit Treasure and met the White Dragon Sovereign’s remnant spirit. They obtained the Great Sumeru Demonic Pillar and learned that the Sovereign hoped they would save his homeland.

• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing activated the White Dragon Spirit Treasure’s entrance and traveled into its hidden world.
• They flew through the treasure’s outer regions to a black basin filled with ancient stone pillars.
• Yan Qingshan awakened the White Dragon Sovereign’s remnant spirit and asked for the Great Sumeru Demonic Pillar and the means to reach the Sovereign’s homeland.
• The White Dragon Sovereign agreed and revealed the demonic pillar, whose release shattered the surrounding space.
• The White Dragon Sovereign’s remnant spirit sealed some of the pillar’s ferocious power with a spiritual pearl, and Yan Qingshan handed the pillar to Qing Yanjing before they departed.

Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing learned from the White Dragon Sovereign’s remnant that his homeland had fallen to the Blood Evil Race, then traveled southwest to find its Spatial Node. After Qing Yanjing opened the hidden passage, they entered the Lower Plane, leaving the node concealed behind them.

• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing prepared to refine the Great Sumeru Demonic Pillar while Yan Qingshan awakened the White Dragon Spirit Pearl and viewed the destruction of the White Dragon Sovereign’s homeland.
• The White Dragon Sovereign gave Qing Yanjing a Spirit Seal that pointed toward his homeland, and Yan Qingshan decided they should prepare before confronting the Blood Evil Race.
• After six months of travel, Qing Yanjing reached Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign strength and searched the southwestern void for the homeland’s Spatial Node.
• Yan Qingshan used Intelligent Brain Dawn to detect a subtle disturbance and guided Qing Yanjing to the hidden node.
• Qing Yanjing restored her strength, set up protective spirit arrays, and opened the Spatial Node with the White Dragon Spirit Pearl before she and Yan Qingshan entered the Lower Plane.

Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing entered a Lower Plane being transformed by the Blood Evil Race and discovered that its surviving people were trapped under demonic rule. They wiped out the Blood Evil forces in a city and captured its Blood Demon General for questioning, while Yan Qingshan searched unsuccessfully for the hidden Plane Spirit.

• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing assessed the demonized world's weak energy and suspected the Blood Evil Race had nearly conquered it.
• Yan Qingshan warned Qing Yanjing that the city's surviving inhabitants might be watched, so Qing Yanjing concealed the city with a Spirit Array.
• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing saw Blood Evil figures attack the city's frightened inhabitants and used the array to exterminate them.
• The surviving inhabitants mistook Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing for celestial saviors, while Yan Qingshan sensed that the Plane Spirit was hiding.
• Qing Yanjing subdued the Blood Demon General, and Yan Qingshan ordered that he be kept alive for interrogation.

Yan Qingshan tortured a captured Blood Demon General for intelligence, learning that a Blood Demon King was stationed in Tian Yuan City. After purifying the ruined city with his Spiritual Power Seed, he and Qing Yanjing set out to ambush the Blood Demon King, while a Blood Evil Race scout discovered the city and followed their route.

• Yan Qingshan stopped Qing Yanjing from killing the captured Blood Demon General and tortured him until he revealed the Blood Evil Race’s hierarchy and strength.
• The Blood Demon General told Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing that a Blood Demon King was likely in Tian Yuan City, about a thousand li away.
• Yan Qingshan used his Spiritual Power Seed to erase the city’s evil aura and restore its vegetation, then explained its power to Qing Yanjing.
• Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing decided to attack the Blood Demon King in Tian Yuan City and flew toward it.
• A Blood Evil Race scout found the purified city, concluded that Blood Dragon Demon General had been defeated, and flew in the same direction as Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing.

Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing ambushed the Blood Demon King as he traveled from Tian Yuan City to investigate Blood Dragon City's destruction. Qing Yanjing slew the Blood Demon King with the Heavenly Emperor Sword, leaving the Blood Evil Race without its leader.

• Yan Qingshan spotted a Blood Demon General heading to Tian Yuan City and predicted the Blood Demon King would leave to investigate Blood Dragon City's destruction.
• The Blood Demon King took his troops toward Blood Dragon City, and Yan Qingshan and Qing Yanjing struck his procession from a Spirit Array in a secluded valley.
• The Blood Demon King recognized the pair as outsiders from the Great Thousand World and ordered his forces to attack them.
• Qing Yanjing wielded the Heavenly Emperor Sword to destroy the Blood Demon Generals and the rest of the Blood Evil Race troops.
• The Blood Demon King summoned a colossal blood shadow, but Qing Yanjing channeled the Spirit Array's power into the Heavenly Emperor Sword and killed him.