Recaps

Qi Yuan trained Moon Girl to wield his Magnificent Sword and destroyed the Hundred Cities Alliance’s invading army before taking her to confront the Black Robe Guards. At Ten Thousand Graves Cave, he began slaughtering the guards while Moon Girl said she had learned ninety percent of the sword technique.

• Qi Yuan killed seven Emperors who attacked Moon Girl and left his sword planted by Seventh Moon Lake as a warning.
• The Hundred Cities Alliance decided to attack the Moon Emperor Clan in ten days with three thousand Iron Pagoda soldiers and twenty-five Supreme Emperors, intending to capture its Saintesses.
• Moon Girl admitted she feared dying, so Qi Yuan promised to guide her and told her to draw his sword when the alliance army arrived.
• Moon Girl drew Qi Yuan’s sword and used the Magnificent Sword he had taught her to destroy the three thousand Iron Pagodas and kill all twenty-five Supreme Emperors.
• Qi Yuan took Moon Girl through the Hundred Cities Alliance and reached Ten Thousand Graves Cave, where he attacked the Black Robe Guards and learned Moon Girl had mastered ninety percent of the technique.

Qi Yuan wiped out the Extraterrestrial Demon's forces across the Hundred Cities Alliance, then entered Land's End to confront the final boss. After cutting down the Heavenly God Golden Armor repeatedly, he faced Hu Shan, whose power resisted Qi Yuan's sword, and watched him present an image from Kunwu City.

• Qi Yuan and Moon Girl traveled through the Hundred Cities Alliance, killing its emperors and nobles and clearing the Extraterrestrial Demon's strongholds while Moon Girl continued to claim she had learned nine tenths of the sword.
• At Seventh Moon Lake, a Flesh Fishing Line attacked Moon Girl, but Qi Yuan shielded her, severed the line, and gave her the Wooden Hairpin named As If Seeing You to keep for Jin Li.
• Moon Girl bit Qi Yuan's wound and left a crescent-shaped mark before Qi Yuan vanished into the snow and entered Land's End alone.
• Qi Yuan recognized the Heavenly God Golden Armor as Little Bride's father and repeatedly beheaded him, only for him to revive each time.
• Hu Shan appeared and withstood Qi Yuan's sword, then denied being an Extraterrestrial Demon and claimed he and his fellow cultivators had come to save the world.
• Hu Shan mentioned Qi Yuan's visit to Kunwu City and waved his hand to show him an image.

Qi Yuan confronted the Extraterrestrial Demons in Land’s End, rejected their plea that their cruelty was necessary to prevent greater disasters, and fought alone at the Bronze Gate until he killed every one of them. He obtained the Fragment of Heavenly Dao, while Moon Girl and the Demon Subjugation Assembly waited for news of him, and he faced the greatest challenge of the game.

• Qi Yuan learned that the Extraterrestrial Demons prolonged their lives by devouring people, then deduced that they feared dying naturally because they would become demon abominations.
• Qi Yuan fought the Extraterrestrial Demons at the Bronze Gate, discovered that his flesh could not replenish their lifespans, and killed their white-haired leader.
• Qi Yuan continued battling hundreds of Extraterrestrial Demons for days, enduring catastrophic injuries as he killed them one by one.
• Moon Girl felt Qi Yuan’s injuries through the Moon Mark while the mortal world changed over the passing decades and the Demon Subjugation Assembly approached.
• At the Five Elements Forbidden Ground, Tong announced the Demon Subjugation Assembly, while Burying Flower and Dragon Arbiter waited for the missing Attire Department Head.
• Qi Yuan killed the last Extraterrestrial Demon, claimed the Fragment of Heavenly Dao, and prepared for the game’s greatest challenge.

After killing every Extraterrestrial Demon in Land's End, Qi Yuan faced Grand Sun, who tried to possess him and revealed his scheme behind the Divine Realm experts. Qi Yuan used the complete Heavenly Dao to defeat Grand Sun’s possession, but Grand Sun’s true body attacked him, and Qi Yuan began an upgrade.

• At the Five Elements Forbidden Ground, Yu divined an omen of Ten Deaths Without Life, but Tong urged the assembled experts to refine their Mystic Tortoise Armor and prepare to fight.
• At the Moon Dynasty’s Moon Chasing Tower, the Moon Girl remembered the three hundred years since Mister had left, while the first Saintess of the Moon Emperor Clan warned that she might not endure the Heavenly Dog Eating the Moon.
• Qi Yuan, badly injured after killing all the Extraterrestrial Demons in Land's End, confronted the Golden Armor man, who revealed himself as Grand Sun and confessed that he had influenced the Shen Ying of the Divine Realm to claim Qi Yuan’s body.
• Grand Sun invaded Qi Yuan’s mind, but Qi Yuan used the Fragments of Heavenly Dao he had gathered to observe the whole world and break the humanoid creature’s hold over him.
• Grand Sun’s possession failed, and his true body appeared as a giant stone burning with white flames; he attacked Qi Yuan, who responded by reciting Upgrade.

Qi Yuan destroyed Land's End and its falling sun with his final sword strike, then woke from Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment after returning to Seven Colors Peak. He announced his achievement to Jiang Lingsu, while Dong Xian continued waiting for him to emerge so he could recruit him for the Dragon Seizing Competition.

• Qi Yuan unleashed his strongest sword strike against the great sun, destroying Land's End and vanishing as the Divine Realm experts watched in grief.
• Jin Li learned that the Faceless Swordsman had died destroying Land's End, then found a Wooden Hairpin in a shattered statue and said, "As If Seeing You."
• Qi Yuan awoke alone in the Attire Forbidden Area, searched for Little Bride, and asked the Attire Division Imperial Guards to deliver his sentimental verses to Jin Li.
• Dong Xian visited Seven Colors Peak to invite Qi Yuan to the Dragon Seizing Competition, but Jiang Lingsu told him Qi Yuan remained in seclusion; Old Artifact advised him to wait.
• Qi Yuan woke from his post-Foundation Establishment sleep and realized he had achieved Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.
• Qi Yuan showed off his Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment to Jiang Lingsu, who congratulated him.

After achieving Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, Qi Yuan discovered that he could hear a new game and briefly reached Ning Tao, helping her survive an attack before losing contact again. He settled into a wooden house and began planning how to strengthen himself, and the chapter ended with Dong Xian revealing that he was the seventeenth prince of Great Shang.

• Jiang Lingsu invited Qi Yuan to join the God Flower Society, and he embarrassed her by offering to buy her a bigger bra.
• Qi Yuan found a second game icon but could not enter it; when he heard Ning Tao’s wish to become the prettiest girl under heaven, he told her he believed her.
• Ning Tao heard Qi Yuan’s voice as six men threatened her, then used their distraction to kill them and escaped into a pool.
• Qi Yuan decided to strengthen his divine soul and cultivation, tried a separate female sword immortal game, and quickly defeated its opponent.
• Qi Yuan replaced his thatched cottage with a wooden house and asked Dong Xian why he had been looking for him.
• Dong Xian told Qi Yuan that he was the seventeenth prince of the Great Shang Kingdom.

Qi Yuan agreed to help Dong Xian in the Dragon Seizing Competition after its venue moved near the sect, in exchange for a soul-strengthening art that let him hear Ning Tao's voice again. He joined the God Flower Society with a costly jade-slip token and learned its members used it to communicate.

• Dong Xian asked Qi Yuan to join the Dragon Seizing Competition, and Qi Yuan refused until the competition was moved to Rong City and he demanded a secret art to strengthen his soul.
• Old Artifact told Dong Xian he had such an art, and Dong Xian delivered the Hundred Refinements Soul Enhancement Skill to Qi Yuan two days later.
• Qi Yuan modified and cultivated the soul art, growing his soul and hearing Ning Tao say she had killed her last blood relative; she heard him answer but received no further reply.
• Qi Yuan warmed Jiang Lingsu with his Five Elements Fire while she rested beside him, and she told him her ailment required a Purple Mansion realm cultivator with a water-aspected heavenly spiritual root to cure.
• Jiang Lingsu gave Qi Yuan a God Flower Society token after his application passed, and Qi Yuan mastered it and discovered its communication and forum functions.

Qi Yuan explored the God Flower Society forum, learned that Moon Gazing Continent might be connected to Moon God Yuanjun, and joined a small cultivation exchange group to acquire new techniques. As he tried to enter his game, Ning Tao faced five enemies in Flowing Wind World, and Qi Yuan’s thunderous voice suddenly appeared to interrupt the battle.

• Qi Yuan created the nickname Origin Celestial Lord, searched the forum for Moon Gazing Continent, and learned it might belong to Moon God Yuanjun’s lineage through the Moon Imperial Palace.
• A golden-robed cultivator named Great Sun Flame Emperor copied Qi Yuan’s sensational post style, befriended him, and invited him into an exchange group with Rogue Immortal Venerable and Iceberg Overlord Woman.
• Qi Yuan traded Magnificent Sword for three Profound-rank and seven Jade Rank techniques, studied them to improve the Qi Yuan Sutra, and tried to access his game again.
• In Flowing Wind World, Ning Tao confronted the five rulers of Slaughter Blood City, who demanded her treasure and accused her of relying on a hidden expert.
• As Ning Tao prepared to kill the five rulers with Death’s Scythe, Qi Yuan’s voice boomed from the heavens, startling them with a display of Origin Divine Power.

Qi Yuan failed to enter the game despite strengthening his divine soul, then traveled with Shinguang Sect members to Rong City for the Dragon Seizing Competition and its newly discovered Sky Dragon Immortal Realm. As the princes and sect representatives gathered, Qi Yuan grew eager to confront Po Lang of the Light Palace, while Po Lang planned to target the Shinguang Sect cultivators.

• Ning Tao survived the thunderbolt that killed the five rulers of Slaughter Blood City and interpreted her injuries as Qi Yuan's attempt to help her understand Origin Divine Power.
• Qi Yuan spent nearly two months cultivating his divine soul and trying unsuccessfully to enter the game before Jiang Lingsu summoned him to the Dragon Seizing Competition.
• Kang Fulu explained that the competition would take place in the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm outside Rong City, with the first prince, Seventh Prince, and eighteenth prince backed by powerful factions.
• Po Lang pressured the eighteenth prince, learned the Shinguang Sect delegation had arrived, and said he would spare Dong Xian but keep the two Shinguang Sect cultivators.
• Qi Yuan waited in the palace with Kang Fulu and read the God Flower Society group chat, where Rogue Immortal Venerable announced he had reached rank 300 on the Eastern Lands Little Pride Ranking.

Qi Yuan learned that Po Lang of the Light Palace was a powerful rival, then joined the princes and sect cultivators as they prepared for the Dragon Seizing Competition. After hearing plans to unite against the Light Palace, Qi Yuan secretly headed toward the Demonic Desire Sect’s residence to eavesdrop on Lu Fei.

• Qi Yuan asked the group about Po Lang and learned he ranked among the top seven hundred on the Eastern Lands Pride Ranking and was the disciple of Wind Fury True Lord.
• Qi Yuan entered the palace with Dong Xian, noticed Lu Fei of the Demonic Desire Sect, and eagerly accepted her invitation to visit her that night.
• Po Lang arrived with the Eighteenth Prince, threatened Qi Yuan, and drew Kang Fulu’s challenge and protection of Qi Yuan.
• The Great Shang Empress announced that the Dragon Seizing Competition would decide the kingdom’s future emperor and would begin in two days.
• Lei Wen and Miao Li asked Kang Fulu and Qi Yuan to join forces with Suspended Mountain and other sects against the Light Palace, while Miao Li warned about Lu Fei’s cultivation technique.
• Qi Yuan used stealth to leave the palace at night and approached the Demonic Desire Sect’s residence to listen for Lu Fei’s cultivation technique.

Qi Yuan secretly learned Lu Fei’s vicious Mystic Rank cultivation method before entering the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm with Dong Xian and Kang Fulu. After learning that Dong Xian’s father had died, they explored the realm and found Dong Xian’s fifth brother dead alongside two other corpses.

• Qi Yuan overheard Lu Fei cultivating and secretly learned the Yin Female Great Cultivation Method, then fled when a dangerous black-robed man entered her room.
• True Lord Taiguang announced that cultivators under a hundred could enter the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm, and the princes began the Dragon Seizing Competition under his watch.
• Qi Yuan rejected Lu Fei, entered the realm with Dong Xian and Kang Fulu, and learned that Dong Xian’s imperial father had died.
• Qi Yuan and his companions explored the realm, gathered Spirit Spout Mushrooms, and discovered three corpses, including Dong Xian’s fifth brother, who bore a Dragon Regret Hand palm print.

Qi Yuan uncovered a conspiracy involving the Great Shang imperial clan and entered the Land of Sunken Coffins, where he defeated Liang Ye while pretending to be badly wounded. He left the mastermind believing he was vulnerable, hoping to draw out more enemies carrying Soul Thought Flowers.

• Kang Fulu, Qi Yuan, and Dong Xian found corpses killed by the Dragon Regret Hand and suspected a powerful killer was hunting cultivators in the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm.
• Kang Fulu, Lei Wen, and Miao Li defeated the Second Prince, who crushed a Soul Thought Flower before dying; Qi Yuan learned it could transmit the last scenes of its bearer.
• Qi Yuan left the group to seek more Soul Thought Flowers and crossed the Soul Losing River into the Land of Sunken Coffins.
• An old man in purple ordered Liang Ye to kill the intruder and vowed to avenge the Second Prince while plotting to seize the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm.
• Qi Yuan killed Liang Ye with the Kitchen Knife, then pretended to be gravely injured so the mastermind would send more enemies after him.

Qi Yuan slaughtered the death warriors guarding the Land of Sunken Coffins, including Liang Chong and nearly three hundred cultivators at Stronghold Number One. After burying them and collecting their Soul Thought Flowers, he challenged the hidden mastermind to reveal himself.

• The purple-robed old man sent Liang Chong to kill Qi Yuan and seize his treasure while keeping outsiders from entering the Land of Sunken Coffins.
• Qi Yuan pretended to struggle against two Origin Core death warriors, then killed them with his Kitchen Knife and used their deaths to learn about the guarded strongholds.
• Outside Rong City, Mad Sword True Lord warned that the old emperor was working with the Red Sword Sect, and Withered Wood True Lord agreed to send young cultivators into the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm.
• Qi Yuan abandoned his attempt to lure enemies out and began attacking their strongholds, wiping out two before Liang Chong gathered the death warriors at Stronghold Number One.
• Qi Yuan charged into Stronghold Number One and killed nearly three hundred death warriors, including Liang Chong, while music played from his jade slip.
• Qi Yuan collected the Soul Thought Flowers, buried the corpses beneath the stronghold, and shouted for the hidden mastermind to come out.

Qi Yuan killed the old emperor, a Divine Infant cultivator, then defeated Po Lang with a finger flick and took his cultivation arts. After clearing the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm, he decided to inspect the Crystal Coffin before leaving.

• Po Lang drove back Kang Fulu, Miao Li, Lei Wen, and their companions, but fled when Kang Fulu's hair began turning black; Li Xiao and Pang Long arrived and learned that the old emperor had secretly allied with the Red Sword Sect.
• Kang Fulu said Qi Yuan had gone to find the old emperor's accomplices, and Li Xiao agreed to search for him while Pang Long led the others out of the realm.
• Qi Yuan confronted the old emperor at the Land of Sunken Coffins, blocked his Dragon Regret Hand, and killed him with the Magnificent Sword.
• Po Lang arrived and challenged Qi Yuan with his own Magnificent Sword, but Qi Yuan shattered it with a finger flick and killed him, then collected his cultivation arts and Spirit Stones.
• Qi Yuan declared the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm cleared, then chose to inspect the Crystal Coffin before leaving.

Qi Yuan rescued Little Bride from the Crystal Coffin in the Land of Sunken Coffins, returned to Seven Colors Peak, and revealed that he had killed the old emperor and Po Lang. He reunited with Little Bride, obtained a Soul Splitting Pill formula, and ended the chapter refusing Ning Tao’s request to meet.

• Qi Yuan summoned Little Bride from the Crystal Coffin, fought the vines trying to take her, and carried her unconscious body away from the Land of Sunken Coffins.
• Qi Yuan returned across the Soul Losing River and told Elder Li Xiao and Kang Fulu that the old emperor was dead, showing them over a hundred blood-stained Soul Thought Flowers.
• Qi Yuan returned to Seven Colors Peak with Little Bride and told Jiang Lingsu that he had killed Po Lang and brought home his wife.
• Qi Yuan boasted in the God Flower Four Emperors Exchange Meeting about his battles, then obtained a Soul Splitting Pill formula from Iceberg Overlord Woman and adapted it.
• Ning Tao contacted Qi Yuan from Flowing Wind World and asked when they would meet, but Qi Yuan refused and she received no further reply.

Shinguang Sect’s leaders discussed Qi Yuan’s likely role in killing Po Lang and the old emperor’s death warriors, while Withered Wood True Lord considered whether Qi Yuan might help him recover his clansmen’s legacy. Qi Yuan found that Little Bride was close to awakening, then went to Divine Medicine Peak, where Elder Xuan Chong agreed to refine a Soul Splitting Pill for him; Withered Wood True Lord appeared in Xuan Chong’s cave at the end.

• Li Xiao and Kang Fulu reported that Qi Yuan may have killed the old emperor’s death warriors and taken their Soul Thought Flowers, and Kang Fulu linked him to Po Lang’s death as well.
• Withered Wood True Lord speculated that Ruan Yixi might have empowered Qi Yuan, then resolved to investigate the Land of Sunken Coffins and consider investing in Qi Yuan if he proved worthy.
• Qi Yuan discovered that Little Bride was half-awake and could fully awaken in six days, but she soon fell unconscious again and returned to the imprint on his chest.
• Qi Yuan went to Divine Medicine Peak to have a Soul Splitting Pill refined, and he diagnosed a spiritual imbalance in the female disciple who guided him to Elder Xuan Chong.
• Elder Xuan Chong questioned Qi Yuan about the deaths in the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm, gave him Soul Splitting Pills, and agreed to refine his improved formula after Qi Yuan bought Mystic Chicken Feather.
• Withered Wood True Lord appeared in Elder Xuan Chong’s cave while Xuan Chong examined the Soul Thought Flower.

Withered Wood True Lord and Elder Xuan Chong discussed how to cultivate Qi Yuan, while Ning Tao obtained the Soul Locking Jade and signed the North-South Decision in the Flowing Wind World. Back in the Shinguang Sect, Qi Yuan reunited with Little Bride and received Soul Splitting Pills, as Luo Jing prepared to abduct him to learn what happened in the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm.

• Elder Xuan Chong told Withered Wood True Lord that Qi Yuan needed resources to strengthen his divine soul, leaving Withered Wood True Lord hesitating over whether to give up his own treasures.
• Ning Tao acquired the Soul Locking Jade and planned to use it to find and imprison the owner of the voice she called her husband.
• The Fiend Crocodile announced that the North-South Decision had begun, and Ning Tao signed it for the fiendfolk side.
• Qi Yuan rested with Little Bride, then received one hundred Soul Splitting Pills from Elder Xuan Chong by White Crane.
• Luo Jing decided to abduct Qi Yuan to discover what had happened in the Sky Dragon Immortal Realm and waited for an opportunity in the Shinguang Sect's Market.

After killing Luo Jing, Qi Yuan learned that the Light Palace planned to ignite the Hundred Kingdoms Blood War to restore the Imperial Dragon Shocking Crown, leaving him under pressure to grow stronger before the war began. He failed to enter the second game with his strengthened divine soul, but Ning Tao's voice tempted him to try again.

• Qi Yuan killed Luo Jing, a Light Palace cultivator who had followed him, and learned that the Light Palace planned to use the Hundred Kingdoms Blood War to raise the Imperial Dragon Shocking Crown to Yin Spirit level.
• Iceberg Overlord Woman explained that the Light Palace would draw the hundred kingdoms into war in two or three years, and that even Purple Mansion cultivators could not easily stop it.
• Qi Yuan studied Luo Jing's Profound-grade cultivation arts, advanced the Qi Yuan Sutra, and considered whether the Daydream Fantasy Skill could let him devour real stars on Blue Star.
• After refining his last Soul Splitting Pill, Qi Yuan reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage in divine soul strength and tried to enter the second game, but the game icon repelled him.
• Ning Tao called out as a half-undressed bride, and Qi Yuan angrily charged the game icon again while she waited for him in Sky Heart Palace.

Qi Yuan entered the Flowing Wind World as a strange NPC trapped inside a Demonic Spawn Egg, where Ning Tao revealed their centuries-old connection and tried to claim him as her child. After learning about the world’s war between north and south, Qi Yuan returned to the Azure Wave World and joined Withered Wood True Lord’s test, which brought him to a gathering of Nascent Souls and Core Formation cultivators preparing to confront Black Chicken Old Demon.

• Ning Tao summoned Qi Yuan into Sky Heart Palace, where he found himself trapped inside a chained Demonic Spawn Egg and learned she had heard his voice for nearly three thousand years.
• Ning Tao said she would seal Qi Yuan’s memories and make him call her Mother, but Qi Yuan logged out before she could do so.
• Qi Yuan learned that the Flowing Wind World had a vast time difference from the Azure Wave World and that the north and south were fighting a decades-long war over demonic aberrations.
• After returning to the Azure Wave World, Qi Yuan agreed to undergo Withered Wood True Lord’s test and traveled with him and the Great Shang Empress to a masked gathering of cultivators.
• At the gathering, the leaders discussed the presence of two impostors claiming to be Monk Wu Dian, then revealed that Black Chicken Old Demon’s cave abode lay at Ten Thousand Demons Ridge.

Qi Yuan joined the assault on the Black Chicken Old Demon and killed Zu Yuan True Person with his Kitchen Knife, shattering the Core Formation cultivator’s golden core. As the Divine Infants defeated the Black Chicken Old Demon, his roar knocked Liu Guan unconscious, and Qi Yuan discovered that Zu Yuan True Person had revived.

• The nine Divine Infants gathered cultivators to attack the Black Chicken Old Demon while he was in seclusion, and Withered Wood True Lord told Qi Yuan to kill a Core Formation cultivator to pass his test.
• Qi Yuan entered Six Demons Cave with Liu Guan, a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator who volunteered to team up with him, and Qi Yuan killed three Foundation Establishment guards with one punch.
• Qi Yuan and Liu Guan found imprisoned men and women and encountered Zu Yuan True Person, the late Core Formation disciple guarding the cave.
• Liu Guan charged at Zu Yuan True Person to give Qi Yuan a chance to escape, but Qi Yuan rushed past him and split Zu Yuan True Person’s golden core with his Kitchen Knife before killing him.
• The Black Chicken Old Demon’s dying roar knocked Liu Guan unconscious as the nine Divine Infants survived their battle with him, and Qi Yuan saw Zu Yuan True Person come back to life.

Qi Yuan killed the Black Chicken Old Demon, gained divine soul blood and blood crystals for Little Bride, and brought Liu Guan home. After Withered Wood True Lord arrived at Seven Colors Peak, he revealed that he came from the Eastern Lands and asked Qi Yuan to take his place in the Eastern Land Pride Battle.

• The Black Chicken Old Demon revived inside Zu Yuan True Person’s body, but Qi Yuan cut down his divine soul with the Kitchen Knife and absorbed the Great Void divine soul blood he left behind.
• Qi Yuan carried the unconscious Liu Guan out of the cavern and returned him to his daughter Liu Piao and granddaughter Duan Qianrou, accepting blood crystals that Little Bride later ate.
• After Liu Guan awoke, he told Liu Piao and Duan Qianrou that the masked Foundation Establishment cultivator had defeated a late-stage Core Formation cultivator, and Duan Qianrou suspected he was the same man she had met before.
• Qi Yuan found that Little Bride’s blood-colored armor had grown stronger after she ate the blood crystals and planned to secure more for her.
• Withered Wood True Lord told Qi Yuan that he had passed the test by killing an Origin Core cultivator, then revealed that he came from the Eastern Lands and asked Qi Yuan to represent him in the Eastern Land Pride Battle.

Withered Wood True Lord gave Qi Yuan the Void Bright Soul Wood and tasked him with reclaiming his clan treasure by placing in the top hundred of the Eastern Lands Pride Ranking. Meanwhile, the Light Palace demanded Great Shang hand over Qi Yuan and Kang Fulu, and Qi Yuan entered the game to witness a city besieged by demonic aberrations.

• Withered Wood True Lord explained that his clan's treasure was among the Eastern Lands Pride Ranking prizes and gave Qi Yuan the Void Bright Soul Wood to help him grow stronger.
• Qi Yuan asked the Shinguang Sect to buy Bloodless City's blood crystal mine and deliver all its blood crystals to him, and Withered Wood True Lord asked for five days.
• At Dong Xian's coronation, a Light Palace emissary ordered Great Shang to join the Light faction and hand over Kang Fulu and Qi Yuan, threatening to brand the kingdom demonic if it refused within seven days.
• Dong Xian refused to surrender Kang Fulu and Qi Yuan, despite the emissary's threat of Great Shang's ruin.
• Qi Yuan entered the game with his Foundation Establishment Late Stage divine soul and found Ning Tao watching the transformed Demonic Spawn Egg before she left to attend to Sky Heart Palace.
• Qi Yuan switched into game mode and saw a giant city under a three-day siege by thousands of demonic aberrations.

Qi Yuan entered No Return City, cleared it of demonic aberrations, and began guarding it with Little Bride at his side. Two wounded soldiers from Great Xia’s Song Character Battalion arrived, and Qi Yuan wondered whether they were NPCs meant to guard the city.

• Qi Yuan found himself alone in No Return City at level 45, with Little Bride’s mark still on his chest, and summoned her to join him.
• Qi Yuan and Little Bride fought together as Qi Yuan slaughtered the city’s demonic aberrations, reaching level 49 after ten days.
• A notification confirmed the city was cleared and began Qi Yuan’s guarding mission, which would fail if demonic aberrations entered No Return City.
• Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao, the only survivors of a 1,723-soldier reinforcement force, reached No Return City to plant Great Xia’s military flag.
• Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao found the city silent and met Qi Yuan, who identified himself as No Return City’s Garrison Envoy and wondered if they were NPCs.

Qi Yuan guarded No Return City alongside the dying Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao, while Great Xia celebrated the return of its military banner. When hundreds of fiends attacked, Qi Yuan revealed his overwhelming strength and slaughtered them all, leaving the city standing.

• Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao planted Great Xia's military banner atop No Return City's wall with Qi Yuan's permission.
• Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao buried the city's bones and offered Qi Yuan wine and medicine, but he refused to leave and gathered extra military banners to summon the fiendish army sooner.
• The Great Xia Emperor learned that No Return City's banner had been raised and celebrated the city’s return, though he feared it would soon fall again.
• Seven or eight hundred fiends charged No Return City, and Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao prepared to die defending its banner.
• Qi Yuan leaped down from the wall and used the Heaven Severing Sword Drawing Technique to kill the fiendish army, then slew the final wounded White Bone Fiend.

After half a year defending No Return City, Qi Yuan reached level sixty and gained a chance to comprehend the origin. During that comprehension, he witnessed the Myriad Paths Gate and met a flamboyantly dressed bird beside his mountain home.

• Zhang Sheng and Chen Jiao died after witnessing Qi Yuan defeat the demonic abomination army, and Qi Yuan promised to remember them.
• Qi Yuan continued defending No Return City as increasingly strong armies attacked, while Ning Tao told him the Flowing Wind World was abandoned by the gods and warned that he might be the Blood Demon.
• Yuan Qi asked the Great Xia emperor to let him bring wine and fight alongside the soldiers at No Return City, but the emperor said Great Xia could no longer send reinforcements.
• Qi Yuan reached level sixty while slaughtering another demonic abomination army, and Demon Controller Mi Sang ordered Cai Xia to lead overlord-level abominations to capture No Return City.
• Qi Yuan used his chance to comprehend the origin and saw the Myriad Paths Gate appear above the Azure Sky.
• A small, flamboyantly dressed bird called Qi Yuan an ugly neighbor, and Qi Yuan retorted that the bird was ugly.