Chapter Summaries

After learning that Carnival had been captured by Wu Gui Country, Qi Yuan set out to rescue him himself and arranged to enter the national Martial Arts Tournament later. On the way to the front lines, Qi Yuan found Cui Long Grass and joined a smuggling convoy bound for Wu Gui Country.

• The general decided to keep Carnival's capture quiet and dismissed the prospect of helping his family.
• Kuangxi told Qi Yuan that Carnival had been captured at the Sa Qing Military Camp, and Qi Yuan announced he would rescue him personally.
• Qi Yuan called Yang Shan, who agreed to help him bypass the city tournament and enter the national competition after he returned.
• Kuangxi arranged Qi Yuan's journey, and he traveled toward the front lines with one of Carnival's mercenary subordinates.
• Qi Yuan stopped to collect Cui Long Grass, then learned that the two countries' elites still relied on smuggling luxury goods during the war.
• The burly subordinate warned Qi Yuan that their route would take them into Wu Gui Country with a smuggler convoy, and Qi Yuan continued onward.

Qi Yuan entered Wu Gui Country with Wen Min to rescue Carnival and insisted they take him to a military camp, while dismissing the need for weapons. Along the way, he took in Ya Ji and his younger sister in exchange for a little of their blood, then continued toward the camp to retrieve his friend before leaving the country.

• A uniformed smuggler took Wen Min and Qi Yuan’s weapons before leading their convoy into Wu Gui Country, while Qi Yuan said he would need no weapons and wanted to see a military camp.
• Wen Min explained the red scarves on trees marked places protected by the Wu God and could be stained with the blood of persecuted outsiders.
• Qi Yuan stopped at a town and offered to take Ya Ji and his little sister out of Wu Gui Country in exchange for some of their blood; the siblings agreed and joined his car.
• Ya Ji asked when they would leave, and Qi Yuan said they would go after he picked up a friend.
• Wen Min refueled and drove toward the military camp as more drones appeared overhead.

Qi Yuan went to the Wu Gui Country military camp to retrieve someone, but the Gene Warriors tried to seize him and the soldiers opened fire. He destroyed the camp and killed its forces, then discovered more than a hundred civilians imprisoned for blood-drawing experiments.

• Qi Yuan left Wen Min, Ya Ji, and Ya Ji’s brother on a hill and walked toward the military camp to pick someone up.
• The Gene Warrior commander tried to take Qi Yuan for the camp’s experiments, so Qi Yuan killed the Gene Warriors who confronted him.
• Qi Yuan blocked the soldiers’ bullets, turned their fire back on them, and charged into the camp, destroying its watchtower, tanks, and defenses.
• The camp’s soldiers routed, and Qi Yuan summoned a gigantic blood-colored sword that annihilated the military camp and its forces.
• Qi Yuan used his divine sense to spare imprisoned civilians and found more than a hundred captives with tubes drawing blood from their bodies.

Qi Yuan rescued Carnival and Big Beard from a military camp in Wu Gui Country, killing its soldiers and destroying a human experimentation facility. He carried the two back toward Qin Yuan Country and planned to return after the Martial Arts Tournament to settle accounts with the Gui Ran People.

• Ya Ji and Wen Min witnessed a blood-red flash, while Carnival and Big Beard wondered what had happened at the camp.
• Qi Yuan cut open the dungeon door, rescued Carnival and Big Beard, and told them he had killed the camp's soldiers with one sword strike.
• Qi Yuan led them to a laboratory where civilians had been drained to create a giant beast; he destroyed the beast and discovered its Blood Essence core.
• Qi Yuan severed the tubes and collapsed the facility, then carried Carnival and Big Beard aboveground to find the military camp in ruins.
• Qi Yuan said he would return to deal with the Gui Ran People after competing in the Martial Arts Tournament, and Big Beard said winning would probably not be difficult for him.

After destroying Little Yellow Beach Military Camp and rescuing Huanhuan, Qi Yuan headed toward the national Martial Arts Tournament while the Wu Sect discovered that Power God Number One and the entire camp had been wiped out. As Qi Yuan’s group fled Wu Gui Country, he killed a soldier who had insulted Wang Shi Qiao online and decided to claim the promised million yuan for the man’s head.

• Qi Yuan told Xu Tiehua that he had bypassed the city-level Martial Arts Tournament and would enter the national competition, then told Wang Shi Qiao that he was in Wu Gui Country.
• Qi Yuan led Huanhuan and the bearded man away from the ruined military camp, dismissing concerns about retaliation from Wu Gui Country, the Wu Sect, and Can Xing.
• The Seal Artifact Priest learned that Power God Number One and everyone at Little Yellow Beach Military Camp were dead, then watched footage of a gigantic sword destroying the base.
• The Holy Son recognized the sword strike as the work of a god and decided to seek safety in Can Xing.
• While fleeing Wu Gui Country, Qi Yuan killed a soldier who had traded insults with Wang Shi Qiao online, cut off his head, and said it was worth a million yuan.
• Qi Yuan worried that security would prevent him from bringing the head home, and Kuanghuan offered to get it through while following the rules.

Qi Yuan returned to Bright Martial Martial Hall and gave Wang Shi Qiao the head of a Gui Ran officer she had once joked he should bring back, demanding the promised million. After collecting the money and taking a broken sword, he told Second Senior Brother he would attend the National Martial Arts Tournament despite the school dismissing his ambitions.

• Xu Tiehua celebrated placing ninth in the city-level Martial Arts Tournament, while the students discussed his military ambitions and a rumored massacre in Wu Gui Country.
• Wang Shi Qiao met Zhao Di outside the hall, where Zhao Di offered her a broken sword she had obtained through threats and inducements.
• Qi Yuan arrived with a gift box, revealed the head of the Gui Ran officer Wang Shi Qiao had argued with online, and asked her to pay the million she had jokingly promised.
• Wang Shi Qiao recognized the officer and agreed to transfer the money, while Qi Yuan picked up the broken sword and claimed it as ownerless.
• Qi Yuan told Second Senior Brother he would visit the martial arts school less often and said he still planned to compete in the National Martial Arts Tournament.

Ling Yi intercepted a hacker targeting Qi Yuan and helped arrange Ya Ji and his sister’s documents while Qi Yuan prepared to leave for a Martial Arts Alliance assessment. He left Tian Yue City with Yang Shan, who explained that Qi Yuan would qualify for the national Martial Arts Tournament by defeating an examiner.

• Ling Yi reported that she had blocked an attempt to hack Qi Yuan’s phone, and Qi Yuan ordered her to expose the hackers’ secrets and send coffins to their homes.
• Qi Yuan told Ling Yi that he would be away for three or four days and that his wife would come down soon; he also asked her to watch the house and prepare supplies.
• Wang Zhiqi asked to care for Qi Yuan’s cat while he was away, and Qi Yuan agreed to let her visit at noon the next day when Ling Yi opened the door.
• Qi Yuan and Yang Shan left Tian Yue City by car for a Martial Arts Alliance branch so Qi Yuan could take the assessment for the national Martial Arts Tournament.
• Yang Shan explained that Qi Yuan needed to defeat the examiner to qualify, and Qi Yuan promised to buy him beef noodles if he won the tournament.

Qi Yuan traveled with Yang Shan to Lan Tai City for the Martial Arts Tournament, where he met North Crane Han Xianyun and a mysterious fortune teller. The fortune teller revealed hidden truths about Zhang Yang and Han Xianyun, and Qi Yuan asked him to predict when he would clear the game.

• Yang Shan described the Martial Arts Tournament and Lan Tai City's Martial Cloud Pavilion, while Qi Yuan declared he would win without cheating.
• Qi Yuan and Yang Shan encountered North Crane Han Xianyun, and Qi Yuan told him his rooster-and-crane image did not match his rat bloodline.
• Qi Yuan, Han Xianyun, and others watched Southern Lion Zhang Yang challenge the fortune teller, who predicted Zhang Yang would accomplish nothing in this life.
• Han Xianyun placed her hand on the Bronze Plate, and the fortune teller revealed her household's secret ancestry and identified her bloodline's progenitor as a Colony Rat.
• The fortune teller described Han Xianyun's private dream of being chased by a giant rat, and Qi Yuan asked him when he would clear the game.

Qi Yuan shattered Yu Xiu’s Blood Compass while seeking answers about his mission, then impressed the Martial Arts Alliance by defeating Iron Armor Mad Wind. Yu Xiu fled with his curse worsening, while Southern Lion Zhang Yang revealed he had become an immortal cultivator and Yu Xiu faced a terrifying monster.

• Qi Yuan’s attempt to divine when he would clear the game made the Bronze Plate crack and shatter, causing Yu Xiu to bleed and flee after discussing the Blood Compass and Martial Lords.
• Han Xianyun told Qi Yuan that rumors blamed an immortal cultivator for wiping out a military camp, and Qi Yuan insisted the Martial Arts Tournament would continue as long as he was around.
• Southern Lion Zhang Yang easily defeated his opponent in the Martial Arts Alliance test, then Qi Yuan knocked Iron Armor Mad Wind out of the arena with one strike.
• The martial artists marveled at Qi Yuan’s talent, while Zhang Yang privately revealed that he had become an immortal cultivator and still intended to win the championship.
• Yu Xiu’s curse spread red marks across his face, and he collapsed in an alley as a horned giant beast carrying a bloodstained axe approached.

Qi Yuan and Han Xianyun entered a hidden execution ground, where they encountered Yu Xiu and the monstrous executioner Axe Mos. Qi Yuan revealed his Blood-colored Longsword and killed Axe Mos with one strike, leaving Han Xianyun and Yu Xiu stunned.

• Qi Yuan dismissed the Martial Arts Alliance martial artists and left with Han Xianyun, who invited him to explore Longtai before the Martial Arts Tournament.
• Han Xianyun heard a strange sound and led Qi Yuan into an alley, where Qi Yuan realized they had entered a hidden space.
• Axe Mos attacked Yu Xiu in the execution ground, and its roar knocked Han Xianyun and Yu Xiu unconscious.
• Qi Yuan woke Han Xianyun and Yu Xiu, then summoned his Blood-colored Longsword as Axe Mos advanced.
• Qi Yuan killed Axe Mos with a single sword strike, and Yu Xiu realized he had tried to divine a god.

Qi Yuan learned that Yu Xiu came from a world inhabited by the dead, then investigated the Blood Compass and planned to seek stronger Blood Essence in the ocean. At Martial Cloud Pavilion, Han Xianyun’s family arranged for him and Qi Yuan to accompany Princess Huansha, leaving Qi Yuan frustrated by his lack of power and privilege.

• Qi Yuan killed Han Xianyun’s wife in the hidden space, saved Yu Xiu, and heard that Yu Xiu would return to explain the hidden map after the curse ended.
• Yu Xiu returned to his fortress, where he told An Liangna that Qi Yuan had killed Executioner Axe Mos with one sword; she doubted that anyone from the real world could do so.
• Robot Ling Yi told Qi Yuan that Blood Compass Island had sunk seventeen hundred years earlier and that Yu Xiu had died in a car accident thirty-four years ago, prompting Qi Yuan to suspect that death was tied to entering Yu Xiu’s world.
• Qi Yuan met Han Xianyun outside Martial Cloud Pavilion, but Han Kang and his party arrived and revealed that the pavilion belonged to their Household.
• Princess Huansha proposed touring the pavilion with Qi Yuan and Han Xianyun, and Han Kang told them to protect her.

Qi Yuan escorted Princess Huansha through Martial Cloud Pavilion, then transformed her into a paramecium to hide her from the Wu Sect. At the pavilion’s Martial Cloud Carving, he discovered clues suggesting that breaking through the martial arts limit depended on bloodline, and decided mutated Sea Monsters might offer him a path forward.

• Princess Huansha explained that the Wu Sect wanted to kill her because they believed she was the reincarnation of the Wu God's daughter, while Han Xianyun boasted that Qi Yuan could protect her from the Nether Shadow Troupe.
• Qi Yuan transformed Princess Huansha into a paramecium and left her hidden in a crack between bricks as he and Han Xianyun continued their tour.
• Han Xianyun described the ancient Martial Cloud Carving and its marks left by martial artists across the ages.
• Qi Yuan examined the carving, mocked the bloodlines of its contributors, and identified a fingerprint he believed belonged to Luo Bufan.
• Qi Yuan concluded that bloodline was key to breaking the martial arts limit and that mutated Sea Monsters might provide the opportunity he needed.

Qi Yuan hunted mutated Sea Monsters at sea to raise his martial arts talent, using the Ink Wraith Fish King as bait. When Chen Fan arrived and Qi Yuan asked how to enter his world, Chen Fan said death was the way in.

• Qi Yuan decided to seek a martial arts breakthrough by hunting Sea Monsters and borrowed Princess Huansha’s yacht.
• Qi Yuan retrieved the sealed Ink Wraith Fish King from the deep sea and used it as bait to attract other mutated Sea Monsters.
• Qi Yuan caught and devoured the blood of increasing numbers of Sea Monsters, but his breakthrough remained distant.
• Chen Fan, rescued by Liu Yu and her brother, tracked the Sea Monsters to Qi Yuan’s yacht and asked whether Qi Yuan was fishing.
• Qi Yuan asked Chen Fan how to enter his world, and Chen Fan replied that Qi Yuan would enter once he died.

Qi Yuan broke through the limits of martial arts, entered the Blood Scene Land, and began a mythological Tian Yan game scenario. He confronted Master Huang’s men over Xiao Mei, but his cultivation had fallen, and the chapter ended as a yellow-haired man attacked him.

• Chen Fan showed Qi Yuan a crystal containing a mutated Sea Monster and explained that martial artists could enter the Blood Scene Land after breaking through their limits, though lingering there brought risks.
• Qi Yuan killed more than a hundred Sea Monsters, collected their blood, and returned to his hotel to prepare for his breakthrough.
• Qi Yuan absorbed the blood, became a Blood Martial Artist, and entered the Blood Scene Land, where he received a mission to investigate Luo Bufan’s disappearance and the destruction of the Chen clan and Luo clan.
• Qi Yuan learned that the Blood Scene Land was a mythological version of the Tian Yan Dynasty and awoke in the role of Qi Er, whose child bride Xiao Mei was being taken by Master Huang.
• Qi Yuan opened the gate and confronted Master Huang and his men, then punched at the yellow-haired man as he charged him.

Qi Yuan killed Master Huang and his men, learned that demon essence blood could strengthen martial artists, and decided to save the blood he had collected. Meanwhile, Chen Fan and the Demon Suppression Division investigated Luo Bufan in Cloud Mist County, and Qi Yuan headed to the Luo Household the next morning.

• Qi Yuan killed the yellow-haired man and the other burly men, then defeated Master Huang with the Heaven Severing Sword Drawing Technique and collected three drops of demon essence blood.
• Xiao Mei warned Qi Yuan that demon essence blood could drive martial artists mad and revealed she belonged to the Jiang Cuo Zhao Family; Qi Yuan chose to save the blood for later.
• Xiao Mei told Qi Yuan that Master Huang's elder brother had reached great mastery in Blood Martial cultivation, then left as Qi Yuan went to sleep.
• At the Cloud Mist County Office, Chen Fan and three other Demon Suppression Division agents reviewed the Luo Residence and Chen Family cases and decided to find Luo Bufan.
• The next morning, Qi Yuan wondered whether a Star Golden Core formed inside the game would appear there or in the real world, then set out for the Luo Household.

Qi Yuan investigated the massacre at the Luo Residence alongside An Qiao and another Demon Suppression Division member, uncovering clues that tied the case to two demon factions. He learned that old martial arts only worked in one world while new martial arts were universal, then wondered whether the multiverse setting related to the Yang Spirit’s Great Supreme Truth realm.

• Qi Yuan ignored rumors about the Luo and Chen family massacres and headed to the cordoned-off Luo Residence to complete his mission.
• Li Shu tried to have Qi Yuan arrested, but An Qiao recognized him as one of the Demon Suppression Division’s newcomers and let him enter the residence.
• An Qiao’s Tracking Dog investigated the bloodstained residence, where the team found no signs of fighting and learned that the corpses had been burned to charcoal.
• The Tracking Dog detected scents belonging to a weasel demon, an aquatic-clan demon, and an unidentified familiar presence; it also noticed an unusual aquatic-clan-like scent on Qi Yuan.
• An Qiao warned Qi Yuan that old martial arts only worked in their own world, while new martial arts preserved their power across parallel worlds.
• Qi Yuan asked whether the multiverse setting was connected to the Yang Spirit’s Great Supreme Truth realm, but An Qiao did not recognize either term.

Qi Yuan obtained An Qiao’s incomplete martial cultivation method and used demon essence blood to rapidly improve his strength. After finding the demons of Cloud Mist County hiding at a stronghold, he entered by presenting Little Bride as his demon wife, leaving Old Locust unsettled by the strange Wedding Dress Demon.

• An Qiao gave Qi Yuan the incomplete “Sky Shocking Art” and advised him to cultivate and investigate rather than confront the demons yet.
• Qi Yuan cultivated the method and consumed three drops of Demon Race essence blood, boosting his strength by more than two months’ worth of cultivation.
• After finding the Huang Residence empty, Qi Yuan learned that Cloud Mist County’s demons had gone into hiding at strongholds for a Demon Ascension Assembly.
• Qi Yuan went to a stronghold guarded by Old Locust and claimed he could enter because his wife was a demon.
• Qi Yuan summoned Little Bride, and Old Locust identified her as a Wedding Dress Demon and allowed them to enter.
• The Rooster Demon entered the residence, while Old Locust remarked that he would have to move his nest because the situation was beyond him.

Qi Yuan and Little Bride attended Old Goat Head’s gathering, where Master Huang announced a plan to raise a mindless Spirit Blood Child with the demons’ essence blood. Qi Yuan objected and proposed that the demons give their blood to him instead, leaving Master Huang furious as the gathering’s conflict escalated.

• Qi Yuan and Little Bride entered Old Goat Head’s hall, where Rooster Demon objected to the human taking a seat and Qi Yuan joked that he was Little Bride’s live-in son-in-law.
• Old Goat Head had his nephew Yang Fan executed by frying him in oil for selling information about the Demon Ascension Assembly, and Qi Yuan asked to buy some of Yang Fan afterward.
• Master Huang arrived and told the demons that Boss Kun had found a mindless Spirit Blood Child that could grow into a Demon Spirit if they fed it essence blood.
• Master Huang offered the demons Heart-Linking Curses with the Spirit Blood Child in exchange for their blood, and Qi Yuan objected that the arrangement would harm their health.
• Qi Yuan proposed that the demons give their blood to him instead and promised daily bottles of glucose, claiming that eating the Spirit Blood Child would make him its replacement; Master Huang flew into a rage.

Qi Yuan revealed himself to Master Huang and slaughtered the demons in the manor after merging with Little Bride. After exhausting his strength, he advanced to Qi Blood Completion, then encountered a deranged Jade Blood Realm martial artist and was found by An Qiao and her companion, who could hardly believe he had killed the demons.

• Master Huang blamed Qi Er for his brother’s death, and Qi Yuan admitted that he was Qi Er and had killed Master Huang’s brother himself.
• Qi Yuan merged with Little Bride and killed the demons in the manor, including Master Huang, while collecting their essence blood.
• Qi Yuan used the essence blood to replenish his Blood Martial Qi, improve Sky Shocking Art, and reach Qi Blood Completion.
• A deranged Jade Blood Realm martial artist arrived, lamented that Cloud Mist County was doomed, and disappeared after warning Qi Yuan to flee.
• An Qiao and a man in tight black clothes arrived and assumed the madman had killed the demons until Qi Yuan claimed responsibility and showed them the remaining essence blood.

After slaughtering the Snake Demon's group, Qi Yuan used demon essence blood to break through to the Jade Blood Realm and strengthen his martial skill. He then set out for Sea Stone Village, where Xiao Mei had been abducted as a bride for its Sea God, and entered the village claiming he wanted to learn about the wedding.

• Qi Yuan ordered An Qiao and the man in black to bury the demons, learned they had no new clues about the massacres, and decided Boss Kun was the best source of information.
• Qi Yuan left to hunt the snakes, slaughtered the Snake Demon's group, and gathered enough essence blood to deduce the Sky Shocking Art to the Jade Blood Realm.
• Qi Yuan upgraded his Exploding Kill Flying Bird Fist to Jade Blood Grade and went home to sleep.
• A boy told Qi Yuan that Sea Stone Village had kidnapped Xiao Mei to sacrifice her as a bride to the Sea God, and Qi Yuan agreed to go there.
• Qi Yuan arrived at Sea Stone Village and persuaded its suspicious gatekeepers to let him in by saying he had come to observe the wedding and learn about marriage.