Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan revealed that he had trapped the Grand Sun in a vast universe and returned to the Sixth Heaven, where he vowed to confront Grand Brilliance Palace. He then entered Purple Fate Ancestor’s Root Demon Tribulation and devoured its root demons, restoring the Ancestor and leaving everyone astonished.

• Qi Yuan explained that he had sent the Grand Sun into an immense universe instead of the Door of Supreme Truth, then reunited with Ning Tao and Canary before returning to the Sixth Heaven.
• Qi Yuan appeared before the assembled cultivators, announced that the Grand Sun had gone missing, and declared he would raze Grand Brilliance Palace within a day.
• Saint No Fate triggered Purple Fate Ancestor’s Root Demon Tribulation and fled, leaving Purple Fate Heaven’s cultivators fearing for their ancestor.
• Qi Yuan entered the Root Demon Tribulation despite Purple Fate Ancestor’s warnings, and his demonic aura kept the root demons from harming him.
• Qi Yuan used his Blood-colored Longsword to devour the root demons, clearing the tribulation and restoring Purple Fate Ancestor.

Qi Yuan confronted the Grand Brilliance Palace, where Great Sun Celestial Venerable drew on the Immortal Dao’s power and wounded him. Qi Yuan revealed tens of thousands of Star Golden Cores, shattered the Grand Sun, and began killing his enemies, leaving the Sixth Heaven stunned.

• Purple Fate Ancestor warned Qi Yuan to keep Grand Sun’s fate secret and cautioned him about the Exalted Ones, while Qi Yuan decided to settle accounts with the Grand Brilliance Palace.
• Exalted Ones in the Supreme Truth Association speculated about Qi Yuan as he arrived outside the Grand Brilliance Palace and challenged its forces.
• Great Sun Celestial Venerable received power from four Great Supreme Truths and the Great Sun Exalted One’s stellar projection, then wounded Qi Yuan with his first attack.
• Qi Yuan revealed a colossal Super Red Giant and tens of thousands of Star Golden Cores, then used their power to shatter Great Sun Celestial Venerable and the Grand Sun star.
• Qi Yuan killed Banner Master despite his Great Supreme Truth Imprint, then struck Saint No Fate three times, destroying his body, soul, and imprint.

Qi Yuan annihilated True Origin Heavenly Venerate and drove Grand Brilliance Palace into the Seventh Heaven, where he sensed something strange among the Unique Hall’s watching eyes. Afterward, he discussed the threat with Purple Fate Ancestor and prepared to seek the Exalted Ones and more Black Demon Ancestral Blood.

• Qi Yuan killed True Origin Heavenly Venerate and attacked the remaining Yang Spirits of Grand Brilliance Palace.
• A Great Supreme Truth used the Unique Decree to send Grand Brilliance Palace into the Seventh Heaven, while Qi Yuan’s strike damaged the decree’s protector.
• Qi Yuan noticed greed in the Unique Hall’s eyes and heard Great Sun Celestial Venerable cry for help, though Great Sun’s star remained lit in the Star Realm.
• News of Qi Yuan’s victory stunned the Sixth Heaven, and Purple Fate Xiao Lu and An Xun Lu argued over his strength.
• Qi Yuan met Purple Fate Ancestor, asked for Black Demon Ancestral Blood, and agreed he should meet the Exalted Ones to learn about the Unique Hall and the Supreme Truth Association.

Qi Yuan visited the Supreme Truth Association and learned how the Unique Hall sought to sacrifice the Sixth Heaven to restore the Immortal Realm’s future. The chapter left him planning to strengthen himself before going to the Seventh Heaven to arrest Grand Brilliance Palace’s survivors and to seek answers from Moon God Palace.

• Qi Yuan arrived at the Supreme Truth Association, where No Saint Celestial Venerable led him to the Myriad Images Mirror after its Supreme Venerate refused to meet him.
• The Myriad Images Mirror explained that Venerate Ming had severed the Immortal Realm’s future, and that the Supreme Truth Association and Unique Hall had formed different paths to break the resulting cultivation limit.
• Qi Yuan learned that the Unique Hall planned to turn the Sixth Heaven’s living beings into aberrant spirits, and that Yang Spirit cultivators entering the Seventh Heaven would not survive.
• Qi Yuan sent a message to Grand Brilliance Palace urging its people to surrender within three days, but the survivors’ cries for help did not reach him.
• Qi Yuan asked the Myriad Images Mirror about Moon God Yuanjun and Ruan Yixi, learned he would need to visit Moon God Palace, and then stumped it with questions about 3 nm chips and the national football team.

Qi Yuan visited the Supreme Truth Association, learned that Unique Hall might intervene in the Lin Ya Transformation, and agreed to help No Saint Celestial Venerable survive his Root Demon Tribulation. After advancing his Ancestor Blood Art, he met Bing Yue at Moon God Palace and learned that Ruan Yixi might be Moon God Yuanjun, who existed in the past or future; Qi Yuan left determined to grow stronger and change the cultivation world's hostile ways.

• Qi Yuan teased No Saint Celestial Venerable about taking the Myriad Images Mirror, then heard that Unique Hall might intervene in the Lin Ya Transformation and vowed to hold it accountable for protecting Grand Brilliance Palace.
• No Saint Celestial Venerable gave Qi Yuan Black Demon Ancestral Blood and asked for help with his approaching Root Demon Tribulation, and Qi Yuan agreed to face it as soon as it came.
• Qi Yuan cultivated with the Black Demon Ancestral Blood and advanced his Ancestor Blood Art to the Fourteenth Layer, then set out for Moon God Palace.
• Moon Radiance Celestial Venerable tried to keep Qi Yuan from seeing Moon God Yuanjun, but Bing Yue summoned him and told him that Ruan Yixi might be Moon God Yuanjun, who was absent from the present world.
• Bing Yue explained the strength of Root Demons and Unique Hall and warned Qi Yuan that the Sixth Heaven was a cage; Qi Yuan resolved to grow stronger and improve the cultivation world's atmosphere.

Qi Yuan entered a new game as the Shen Family’s live-in son-in-law, a mysterious Divine Descent, and a Kitchen Knife, and found himself trapped in a Madhouse in a world haunted by Malevolent Spirits. After meeting a strange old man who called him a god and asked to follow him, Qi Yuan was left unsure what the man would do next.

• Bing Yue warned Qi Yuan that the Lin Ya Transformation would continue and that Unique Hall threatened him and those around him, so Qi Yuan declared he would become a god.
• Qi Yuan brought Jin Li to his house on Seven Colors Peak, where she met Jiang Lingsu and the two exchanged tense, polite remarks before Qi Yuan took Jin Li to see the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree.
• Huang Yanshou paid Zhou Mo to kill Qi Yuan, who had been framed for assaulting Widow Liu and confined to Ninghe County’s Madhouse, while Zhou Mo promised to arrange his death within three days.
• A woman from the Shen Family learned that Qi Yuan was in the Madhouse and ordered her attendant to retrieve him, investigate whether he had been framed, and help Widow Liu’s family.
• Qi Yuan awakened in the Madhouse as the first of three beings he had to portray and discovered that he could not cultivate, though he could see health bars above people.
• A pale-faced old man told Qi Yuan that he had eaten the original live-in son-in-law, called him a god, and asked to follow him before claiming he was hungry.

Qi Yuan recruited Chen Kangbao as his strategist, planned to escape the madhouse, and raised his level by killing mosquitoes. The chapter ended as Director Zhou Mo arrived with his enormous mutated dog, confronting Qi Yuan and Chen Kangbao.

• Qi Yuan found out that Chen Kangbao was a former artificer and, after sharing a meal with him, recruited him as his strategist.
• Chen Kangbao proposed killing Director Zhou Mo, taking the Mutated Beast Token, finding the culprit behind Qi Yuan's accusations, and seeking the Shen Family's protection in Jining Prefecture.
• Qi Yuan and Chen Kangbao went to the pond, where Qi Yuan killed mosquitoes and reached Level 1, then Level 2 after crushing the mosquitoes Chen Kangbao caught.
• A scholar in Confucian robes and a black-clad youth watched Chen Kangbao, discussed the damaged Majestic Dragon Xuanyuan and the Malevolent Spirit at Lord Mountain Lake, then left without taking him away.
• Director Zhou Mo approached Qi Yuan and Chen Kangbao with a huge black-and-white mutated dog and mocked their plan to harm him.

Qi Yuan killed Zhou Mo and Otherworldly Beast Black and White Dog with Chen Kangbao’s help, then identified Huang Yanshou as the one who had framed him. The next day, Constable Lin Qinghe investigated the deaths and learned that a widow had also been killed in Zhou Mo’s courtyard.

• Zhou Mo arrived with Otherworldly Beast Black and White Dog and ordered it to attack Chen Kangbao, but Qi Yuan’s blessing let Chen pin the beast down.
• Qi Yuan killed Zhou Mo with a strike to the neck, then helped Chen Kangbao kill Otherworldly Beast Black and White Dog, reaching Level 6.
• Qi Yuan deduced that Huang Yanshou had sent him to the Madmen's Asylum and told Chen Kangbao to devise a plan against the Huang Family.
• Qi Yuan told Chen Kangbao to hang Zhou Mo’s corpse and the beast on Wang Wei’s fishing hook, and Wang Wei later claimed he had caught them.
• Constable Lin Qinghe examined the corpses and learned that a widow’s half-eaten body had been found in Zhou Mo’s courtyard.

Lin Qinghe told Zhou Hu that Red Cloud Village faced a deadly Yellow Rank Malevolent Spirit, and Zhou Hu refused to abandon its people. Meanwhile, Qi Yuan killed a Seven Claw Ink Spirit, gained levels and Kitchen Knife attributes, and heard a distant voice; in Red Cloud Village, a Daoist nun offered Li Xiaodan five hundred taels for his Divine Descent idol.

• Lin Qinghe explained that a special Yellow Rank Malevolent Spirit threatened Red Cloud Village and that its villagers could not flee before their tribute porcelain was finished.
• Zhou Hu refused Lin Qinghe's offer to take him to the prefectural city and went to investigate the deaths in Red Cloud Village.
• Qi Yuan and Chen Kangbao restrained and killed a Seven Claw Ink Spirit, raising Qi Yuan to level 15 and advancing his Kitchen Knife role-playing progress to 30%.
• Qi Yuan wondered whether he had heard someone calling to him and considered whether the sound was the Soundless Sound.
• Zhou Hu warned Li Xiaodan not to drink from the old well and learned that the boy had bought a Divine Descent idol to protect himself and his sister.
• A Daoist nun said Divine Descent had been White Azure Country's national divine artifact before it shattered a hundred years earlier, then offered Li Xiaodan five hundred taels for the idol.

A Daoist-dressed Weapon Wielder told Zhou Hu and Li Xiaodan about God's Advent, the lost divine artifact of the God of Judgement, and declined to buy Li Xiaodan's statue. Meanwhile, Qi Yuan killed Huang Yanshou, searched for the Shen Family servant at Anshan Inn, and left Huang Shifan to cover up his son's death and apologize to the Shen Family.

• The Daoist-dressed woman offered Li Xiaodan five hundred taels for his statue, explained its connection to God's Advent and the God of Judgement, then decided not to buy it.
• Zhou Hu warned the woman about the Malevolent Spirit in Red Cloud Village, and she admitted it might be beyond her natal artifact's power.
• Qi Yuan captured Huang Yanshou, learned Wang Kaixuan had framed him, and killed Huang Yanshou before heading to Anshan Inn with Chen Kangbao.
• Qi Yuan learned that Lao Zhong had left with his belongings after Huang Yanshou invited him out, then booked two superior rooms at the inn.
• Zhou Hu investigated Huang Yanshou's death, but Huang Shifan declared it a sudden illness and refused to pursue the case.
• Huang Shifan blamed his wife for allowing Huang Yanshou to associate with Wang Kaixuan and planned to send an apology gift to the Shen Family residence.

Qi Yuan reached level 30 and awakened Thousand Transformations, using it to become Divine Descent and unknowingly drawing powerful forces toward Ning Country. After Zhi Shuang arrived to take him back to the prefectural city, Qi Yuan knocked her unconscious and transformed her into a spear so he could leave for Red Cloud Village.

• Qi Yuan reached level 30, regained Overlord Power, and awakened Thousand Transformations, which let him transform into people and objects.
• Qi Yuan transformed into Divine Descent, heard Li Xiaodan pray in Red Cloud Village, and answered through the divine statue; the aura alerted the Rakshasa Country court and the Judgment Assembly, whose powerful figures headed for Ning Country.
• Qi Yuan decided to visit Red Cloud Village with Chen Kangbao after learning that Malevolent Spirits might be there.
• Zhi Shuang arrived from the prefectural city and accused Qi Yuan of bullying a widow, but Qi Yuan blamed Wang Kaixuan and refused to return with her immediately.
• Qi Yuan knocked Zhi Shuang unconscious, then transformed her into a spear and prepared to leave with Chen Kangbao for Red Cloud Village.

Qi Yuan visited Red Cloud Village to investigate a Malevolent Spirit and advanced his Divine Descent role by asking Li Xiaodan whether he looked like a god. He left to gather mosquitoes, then rode hundreds of flying creations over the village and declared that he had come to sweep away demons and monsters.

• Chen Kangbao told Qi Yuan that people in Red Cloud Village had been dying at night after neighbors heard an unbroken sound of running water.
• A Daoist nun saw black dots spreading across Red Cloud Village and learned that two strange people had entered the village.
• Qi Yuan questioned Li Xiaodan about the Divine Descent statue, and Li Xiaodan tentatively called him a god, advancing Qi Yuan's role-playing progress.
• The Daoist nun questioned Li Xiaodan and learned that the statue had apparently spoken, saying it was not a god.
• Qi Yuan gathered hundreds of mosquito-like flying creations and appeared above Red Cloud Village, announcing that he had come to sweep away demons and monsters.

Qi Yuan descended on Red Cloud Village posing as a god and confronted the Malevolent Spirit that haunted its ancient well. After the spirit summoned eighty-seven others, Qi Yuan donned blood-red armor and slaughtered them all, leaving the villagers and the Daoist nun stunned.

• Qi Yuan used drones and Chen Kangbao’s proclamations to convince the Cave Dwellers that he was a Heavenly God who had come to save Red Cloud Village.
• The Daoist nun warned Qi Yuan that the village’s Malevolent Spirit could attack the divine soul and would be dangerous even for powerful Weapon Wielders.
• Chen Kangbao called the Malevolent Spirit out, and a whip-scarred woman emerged from the ancient well and attacked Qi Yuan with a dream-inducing soul attack.
• Qi Yuan resisted the attack and struck the female Malevolent Spirit, but she cried out and summoned eighty-seven more spirits from the well.
• Qi Yuan transformed into blood-red armor and used his spear to kill the eighty-seven Malevolent Spirits while Zhou Hu, Chen Kangbao, the Daoist nun, and the villagers watched.
• Qi Yuan killed the final Malevolent Spirit and told her to bring all her sisters with her in her next life.

Qi Yuan defeated eighty-seven Malevolent Spirits as Divine Descent, gained a new divine ability, and arranged for his deeds to be spread through storybooks. After waking Zhi Shuang, he revealed his plan to turn his powerful wife into a mount, leaving her furious and convinced he had become mad.

• Qi Yuan destroyed eighty-seven Yellow Rank Malevolent Spirits, announced himself as Divine Descent, and escaped before his damaged drone could drop him in front of the villagers.
• Qi Yuan reached Level 57, raised his Divine Descent role-playing completion to 12%, and gained the ability to answer believers’ prayers by sending down a Dharma Body.
• Qi Yuan tested his new power by answering Chen Kangbao’s prayer for food, but the divine miracle produced instant noodles without a seasoning packet.
• Zhi Shuang woke in pain, learned Qi Yuan had knocked her unconscious and turned her into a spear, and mistook Chen Kangbao for the person who subdued her.
• Qi Yuan learned that Zhi Shuang’s mistress was a Profound Rank Weapon Wielder and explained that he wanted to transform her into a mount for battle, enraging Zhi Shuang.

Qi Yuan returned to the Shen Residence, where Lao Zhong’s death revealed that the Ninghe County affair involved a deeper conspiracy. Madam Shen ordered an investigation into Wang Kaixuan, while Qi Yuan’s irreverent behavior continued to bewilder the household.

• Wang Kaixuan learned from Young Master Tu that a godlike young man had slain eighty-seven Yellow Rank Malevolent Spirits in Red Cloud Village, but he failed to recognize Qi Yuan as that man.
• Qi Yuan arrived at the Shen Residence with Zhi Shuang, and Shen Lingfeng charged at him with a giant log before tripping and getting pinned beneath it.
• Madam Shen revealed that Lao Zhong had been dead for half a month, making Zhi Shuang suspect that the person who accompanied Qi Yuan to Ninghe County was an impostor.
• Madam Shen told Qi Yuan to remain at the Shen Residence and ordered Zhi Shuang to confront the Wang Household over Wang Kaixuan.
• Qi Yuan offered to draw Madam Shen’s bathwater, shocking the household, while Zhi Shuang explained that his time in a madhouse might have damaged his soul.
• Shen Lingfeng apologized for accusing Qi Yuan of betraying his sister and asked him to teach him how to pick up girls; Qi Yuan eagerly claimed he had plenty of experience.

Qi Yuan advised Shen Lingfeng to pursue women through letters before interrupting a Shen Family council by bringing bathwater to his mother-in-law. As the family prepared to attend an assembly to repair Majestic Dragon Xuanyuan, Shen Wanshan ordered Chen Xianwei to teach Qi Yuan artifact forging.

• Qi Yuan taught Shen Lingfeng to write romantic letters to many women and supplied him with love lines, while Chen Kangbao questioned the plan.
• Shen Wanshan told the Shen Family that Nether Pupil Water Lord had overwhelmed the Earth Rank Weapon Wielders at Lord Mountain Lake, and announced that the family's artifact refiners and talented apprentices would attend an assembly to repair Majestic Dragon Xuanyuan.
• Qi Yuan entered the family council carrying bathwater for Madam Shen, embarrassing her and leaving the gathered relatives baffled.
• Madam Shen described the Thorns of Blood attack at Red Cloud Village, but Shen Wanshan focused on the crisis at Lord Mountain Lake and ordered Chen Xianwei to teach Qi Yuan artifact forging.
• Qi Yuan reflected that bringing bathwater had advanced his live-in son-in-law role and wondered what other humiliating tasks it involved.

Qi Yuan tried to provoke Shen Bating into bullying him so he could advance his live-in son-in-law role, but Shen Lingfeng interrupted to take him to investigate Lao Zhong’s murder. After identifying the killer as Fang Shisan of the Radiant Light Society, Qi Yuan left with Shen Lingfeng to find him.

• Qi Yuan confronted Shen Bating about secretly wanting him dead and wore a sign inviting Shen Bating to bully him, but Shen Bating apologized instead.
• Shen Lingfeng arrived with news that he had found Lao Zhong’s residence and brought Qi Yuan there to investigate the death.
• Lin Qinghe said Lao Zhong had likely been killed with one sword strike to the throat but could not identify the killer.
• Qi Yuan examined the corpse and named Fang Shisan of the Radiant Light Society as Lao Zhong’s killer.
• Qi Yuan and Shen Lingfeng left to find Fang Shisan, while Shen Lingfeng asked Lin Qinghe to issue a wanted notice.

Qi Yuan persuaded Shen Bating to bully him, then killed him after learning he used a Radiant Light Society technique. His role-playing progress reached thirty percent, granting him the Heart of Artifact Refining, and he began studying artifact refining with Chen Xianwei.

• Lin Qinghe ordered the constables to issue a wanted list for Fang Shisan of the Radiant Light Society.
• Shen Bating tried to secretly injure Qi Yuan and stage himself as the victim, but Qi Yuan exposed him and left him to drown in the pond.
• Qi Yuan reached thirty percent role-playing progress and gained the Heart of Artifact Refining, which increased artifact-refining success by five percent.
• Shen Lingfeng brought Chen Xianwei to teach Qi Yuan artifact refining, and Qi Yuan teased the meticulous teacher about his habits.
• Chen Xianwei explained the origins of magical artifacts and gave Qi Yuan the Basic Artifact Refining Method; Qi Yuan recognized that it shared an origin with the Celestial Race's methods.

Qi Yuan awakened Heart Fire, began refining artifacts, and was questioned about Shen Bating’s death, which he denied causing. After making a weak drone and planning to sell other odd creations, he spent nearly half a month studying before Wu Zhen mocked Chen Xianwei about Qi Yuan’s progress; Chen Xianwei hurried to check on his student.

• Qi Yuan studied the Basic Artifact Refining Method, awakened Heart Fire, and asked Chen Kangbao to gather materials for a flying artifact.
• A lean man from the Enforcement Hall questioned Qi Yuan about a Malevolent Spirit and Shen Bating’s death, and Qi Yuan denied pushing Shen Bating into the pond.
• Qi Yuan forged a tiny drone with the strength of ten mosquitoes and planned to sell unusual artifacts at the Black Market to buy more materials.
• Shen Wanshan told Chen Xianwei that someone had erased Qi Yuan’s father’s name, while Chen Xianwei continued teaching Qi Yuan the history of artifact refining.
• Nearly half a month later, Wu Zhen boasted that his apprentice had awakened Heart Fire and mocked Chen Xianwei about Qi Yuan’s progress, prompting Chen Xianwei to hurry to check on him.

Qi Yuan revealed to Chen Xianwei that he had awakened Heart Fire and refined unusual magical artifacts, prompting Shen Wanshan to keep his talent and techniques secret. That night, Qi Yuan and Chen Kangbao set up a stall at the Ghost Market, where Young Master Tu noticed Qi Yuan’s artifact and asked to buy an offensive weapon.

• Chen Xianwei learned that Qi Yuan had awakened white Heart Fire on his first night of practice and had already refined several magical artifacts, including a selfie stick.
• Chen Xianwei reported Qi Yuan’s exceptional talent and unidentifiable forging art to Shen Wanshan, who ordered him to keep the matter secret and claim he had taught Qi Yuan the technique.
• Qi Yuan and Chen Kangbao used Thousand Transformations to disguise themselves and sell Qi Yuan’s unconventional artifacts at the Ghost Market.
• Young Master Tu’s Thorns of Blood artifact reacted to Qi Yuan, and Tu inferred that the stall owner had killed many Malevolent Spirits.
• Young Master Tu asked Qi Yuan for an offensive artifact, and Qi Yuan offered him a flashlight-shaped lightsaber while the noble young master criticized its appearance.