Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan used the Grand Sun aura to overpower and slaughter the Five Souls, completing the Five Elements and clearing the Core Land. After leaving the Five Elements Forbidden Ground with Tang Yan and the others, he encountered the green-clad young woman, who vowed to pursue him until he killed the Extraterrestrial Demon.

• Qi Yuan imitated the Grand Sun's aura from the Daydream Fantasy Skill, grew cold, and saw Jiang Lingsu suffering from a similar chill.
• Qi Yuan entered the Core Land and used the Grand Sun aura to weaken the Five Souls, then slaughtered them for experience and Five Essences Qi.
• After killing the Water Soul, Qi Yuan completed the Five Elements, but told Tang Yan he would stay to finish off the remaining Five Souls.
• Qi Yuan continued killing until he had slain the Gold Soul, reached nearly level 96, and cleared the Core Land.
• Qi Yuan left the Five Elements Forbidden Ground with Tang Yan and the others, then heard the green-clad young woman vow to keep pursuing him until he killed the Extraterrestrial Demon.

Qi Yuan received the Five Elements power from the five ancestors, who disappeared after fulfilling their promise, and returned to the real world as the power began changing his surroundings. At the Shinguang Sect, Dong Xian gained the sect master’s support for the Dragon Seizing Competition, but his magical artifact unexpectedly came alive.

• The five ancestors warned Qi Yuan about the Extraterrestrial Demon’s Flesh Fishing Line, undying body, and possibility of being multiple people, then poured their Five Elements power into him and vanished.
• Qi Yuan logged off with Little Bride, reflected on the ancestors’ sacrifice, and fell asleep as Five Elements Qi spread through his body and altered the Shinguang Sect.
• Withered Wood True Lord told Dong Xian that the Shinguang Sect would support him in the Dragon Seizing Competition and let him choose two Foundation Establishment disciples to accompany him.
• Dong Xian showed Withered Wood True Lord his Profound Heaven Treasure Ruler, but it broke into three pieces that formed a stick figure and ran out of the hall.

Qi Yuan’s newly completed Metal Element caused a sect-wide riot among metal objects, and he stopped it by taking back the Kitchen Knife. Dong Xian learned that the Kitchen Knife might be a Supreme Treasure and began planning to win Qi Yuan’s help in the Dragon Seizing Competition.

• Metal objects across Shinguang Sect flew into the sky, prompting Withered Wood True Lord and the elders to suspect that a metal-element Supreme Treasure had appeared.
• Jiang Lingsu told Qi Yuan that the Kitchen Knife had joined the airborne magical artifacts, and Qi Yuan realized his Five Elements transformation had triggered the chaos.
• Qi Yuan discovered that he could damage metal magical artifacts and walked up to the Kitchen Knife despite the others’ doubts.
• Qi Yuan grabbed the Kitchen Knife, causing the flying treasures to return to their owners, whereupon cultivators found many had grown stronger.
• Old Artifact told Dong Xian that the Kitchen Knife might be a Supreme Treasure, and Dong Xian decided to offer Qi Yuan a rare banned game to seek his help in the Dragon Seizing Competition.

Qi Yuan received the Five Elements Forbidden Ground’s rewards and the memories and cultivation insights of its experts, then traveled to the Yin Yang Forbidden Ground. There, Burying Flower attacked him, with control of the forbidden ground at stake.

• Qi Yuan claimed ten uncontaminated Fragments of Heavenly Dao and a Five Elements Heart after clearing the Five Elements Forbidden Ground.
• Fifty-three people performed Shen Ying on Qi Yuan, passing on their memories, cultivation insights, and experience after he swore to slay the Extraterrestrial Demon.
• Yu and Dragon Arbiter reminded Qi Yuan about the Demon Subjugation Assembly and revealed that defeating Burying Flower would give him control of the Yin Yang Forbidden Ground.
• Qi Yuan learned that Jin Li had seized control of Southern Qian and planned to relinquish her throne to meet him beneath the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree.
• Qi Yuan entered the Yin Yang Forbidden Ground, where Burying Flower attacked him and declared that defeating her would put the forbidden ground under his control.

Qi Yuan defeated Burying Flower in the Yin Yang Forbidden Ground by drawing on Qing Ping Zi’s sword experience, then met Dong Xian, who sought his guidance. Qi Yuan proposed that a Qi Refining cultivator could turn qi into a sword and began demonstrating it.

• Burying Flower challenged Qi Yuan and attacked him with her Endless Sea of Flowers, but he identified her true body and was injured by her counterattack.
• Qi Yuan drew on Qing Ping Zi’s sword experience, fought Burying Flower again, and defeated her, gaining the Shen Ying of many powerhouses in the Yin Yang Forbidden Ground.
• After leaving the game, Qi Yuan received a visiting letter from Dong Xian and agreed to meet him on Seven Colors Peak.
• Dong Xian offered Qi Yuan collector’s edition Game Jade Slips and asked him for swordsmanship guidance at Old Artifact’s urging.
• Qi Yuan explained that a Qi Refining cultivator could transform qi into a sword and began demonstrating by extending a sword-finger gesture as golden light burst from his fingertips.

Qi Yuan repeatedly created golden swords that drew heavenly lightning, then obtained the Yin Yang Boundary Stone and was transported to Heaven's End before mastering the Yin Yang Forbidden Ground. There, a one-armed Golden Armor Divine General told him he had to climb the Daytime Ascension Platform and defeat him to become Heaven's End's master.

• Qi Yuan demonstrated transforming qi into a sword, and heavenly lightning destroyed the sword while Dong Xian and Old Artifact mistook the technique for a forbidden art.
• Qi Yuan repeatedly summoned lightning by throwing away golden swords and named the effect a secret art, amused that the lightning chased each sword like a dog chasing a bone.
• Tong told Qi Yuan that he needed to comprehend life and death to control the Yin Yang Forbidden Ground, so Qi Yuan stabbed himself and Little Bride healed him by fusing with him.
• Qi Yuan was transported to Heaven's End with Little Bride, and he warned Jin Li that the game had moved him there before they discussed the dangers of the Ascension Platform.
• Qi Yuan arrived in Heaven's End and met the one-armed Golden Armor Divine General, who said Qi Yuan had to win 129,600 battles on the Daytime Ascension Platform and kill him to take control of the forbidden ground.

Qi Yuan began climbing the Daylight Ascension Platform, using its battles to hone his combat skills with Little Bride. After seven days in the game, he learned that his killing intent had become noticeable and that the Light Palace had sent an envoy to Great Shang, leaving him anxious about a possible encounter.

• Qi Yuan accepted the Golden Armor Divine General’s challenge and learned that he could leave the platform for up to one day between battles.
• Qi Yuan entered the arena with Little Bride and defeated his first opponent by fighting as Dragon Arbiter, then continued climbing the stairs.
• Qi Yuan encountered Jiang Lingsu, whose body had sprouted wood-element essence, and asked her to give him some of it.
• Jiang Lingsu warned Qi Yuan that his heavy killing intent could attract the Light Palace, an organization that claimed to uphold justice.
• Qi Yuan declared that he would take over the Light Palace, then learned one of its Foundation Establishment cultivators had arrived in Great Shang for the Dragon Seizing Competition.
• Qi Yuan returned to his room worried about the Light Palace, but decided to focus on clearing the game and assumed he would not run into its envoy.

Qi Yuan continued slaughtering opponents on the Heaven Ascension Ladder, absorbing their combat experience while questioning whether the world’s supposed peak of the Divine Domain concealed a greater realm. After reaching Level 99 and finding that he could not level up further, he withdrew from the ladder, discovered that his transformed energies had caused terrifying dreams across the Shinguang Sect, and told Jin Li he expected to clear Heaven's End soon.

• Qi Yuan used Burying Flower’s insights to kill a Giant Beetle on the Heaven Ascension Ladder, then wondered whether Dragon Arbiter, Tong, and Yu were mistaken about the limits of the Divine Domain.
• Dragon Arbiter and Yu discussed the ancient camphor tree, the coming Demon Subjugation Assembly, and the Attire Department Head’s need to temper his experience.
• After waking from a nightmare, Qi Yuan modified the Concealment Word Art so it could hide his killing intent and secretly inflict it on others.
• Qi Yuan reached Level 99 on the Ascension Platform and defeated increasingly powerful Divine Domain opponents, but an invisible restraint kept him from leveling up.
• Qi Yuan’s converted water energy brought blood-red rain to the Shinguang Sect, giving cultivators terrifying dreams for several days.
• Qi Yuan chatted with Jin Li, complained about Heaven's End’s endless enemies, and said he expected to clear it in another half month.

Jin Li prepared to leave Southern Qian after completing her mission, while Qi Yuan received a haughty calling card from Zhu Lianhua of the Light Palace. When Zhu Lianhua arrived at the Shinguang Sect's Market seeking a rumored Supreme Treasure, Wang Shuang found the discarded calling card and presented it to him as a bargain.

• Jin Li reflected that she would leave Southern Qian once she had finished handling its affairs.
• Jiang Lingsu gave Qi Yuan a calling card announcing that Zhu Lianhua of the Light Palace would visit the Shinguang Sect.
• Qi Yuan showed the calling card to his Master, who replied that she would not receive Zhu Lianhua.
• Zhu Lianhua arrived at the Market with Wang Shuang and revealed that he intended to claim the rumored Five Elements Supreme Treasure.
• Wang Shuang used the Heavenly Treasure Seeking Art and returned with an item he had bought for one Spirit Stone.
• Zhu Lianhua recognized the item as the calling card he had sent to the Shinguang Sect and angrily threw it down.

Zhu Lianhua and Wang Shuang plotted against the Shinguang Sect, while Qi Yuan mistook their private conversation for a conspiracy to destroy the sect. Jiang Lingsu followed them with Qi Yuan, but he unexpectedly killed both men before she could use her treasure.

• Zhu Lianhua vowed to take revenge on the Shinguang Sect after his calling card was torn up and sold, while Wang Shuang offered to abduct Qi Yuan later.
• Qi Yuan overheard Zhu Lianhua and Wang Shuang and concluded they were plotting to overthrow the Shinguang Sect, so Jiang Lingsu agreed to follow them and gave him talismans.
• Jiang Lingsu and Qi Yuan tracked Zhu Lianhua and Wang Shuang into a forest, where Jiang Lingsu prepared to use her treasure.
• Qi Yuan charged the two Foundation Establishment cultivators with his kitchen knife, and Zhu Lianhua and Wang Shuang fled in alarm.
• Qi Yuan caught and killed Zhu Lianhua and Wang Shuang with a single slash, then called Jiang Lingsu over.

Qi Yuan and Jiang Lingsu killed two Foundation Establishment cultivators, uncovered the Light Palace’s plans for Great Shang, and gained a powerful technique that Qi Yuan adapted into a blood-red Magnificent Sword. Qi Yuan then entered Heaven’s End with Little Bride to face the final trial: three thousand peak Divine Realm cultivators.

• Qi Yuan killed two Foundation Establishment cultivators with a single Kitchen Knife strike, and Jiang Lingsu confirmed that he had not been possessed.
• Jiang Lingsu explained that the Light Palace had sent Zhu Lianhua to bring Great Shang under its control, marked his corpse with the God Flower Society’s symbol, and gave Qi Yuan the Mystic Heaven Light Art.
• Qi Yuan studied the Magnificent Sword and successfully adapted it to form a blood-red sword fueled by his killing intent.
• Qi Yuan entered Heaven’s End with Little Bride, stepped onto its final stair, and appeared before three thousand peak Divine Realm cultivators.

Qi Yuan cleared Heaven’s End by defeating its three thousand Divine Realm experts and the Golden Armor divine general, then left for the mortal world to meet Jin Li. Jin Li waited for him in July Town beneath the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree, while Qi Yuan set out with a handmade Wooden Hairpin; upon leaving Heaven’s End, he found himself in a desert and his game interface had disappeared.

• Qi Yuan slaughtered the three thousand Divine Realm experts, defeated the Golden Armor divine general, and received Heavenly Dao fragments and an opportunity to enter level 100.
• Qi Yuan told Jin Li he could leave Heaven’s End for a month, and they arranged to meet at Half Moon Lake in July Town.
• Jin Li told Aunt Qin she was excited to meet Qi Yuan, and they discussed attending the town’s temple fair together.
• Qi Yuan made Jin Li a Wooden Hairpin, left Heaven’s End, and discovered that he was in a desert without his game interface.

After losing the game interface, Qi Yuan traveled toward the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree and discovered that Kunwu City oppressed everyone under fifty in the name of filial piety. He learned that the Moon Imperial Clan was resisting the Hundred Cities Alliance near Seventh Moon Lake, while Jin Li waited by the lake and Aunt Qin recognized the arriving High Priest.

• Qi Yuan left Heaven's End, concealed his power with the Faceless Mask, and flew toward the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree, where he buried the remains of murdered children in the desert.
• At Kunwu City's gate, Qi Yuan learned from a fat man that residents over fifty enjoyed extensive privileges while younger people faced deadly punishment under the city's filial-piety laws.
• Qi Yuan entered Kunwu City, bought a map from Kunwu Wind Whispers, and learned that the Moon Imperial Clan near Seventh Moon Lake was at war with the Hundred Cities Alliance over the Filial Piety Decree.
• Qi Yuan gave the woman in black gauze a cultivation technique before departing, and she and an old woman decided to travel to the Moon Imperial Clan to investigate him.
• Jin Li waited by the lakeshore under the moon, and Aunt Qin stiffened when the High Priest greeted her.

Qi Yuan waited at Seventh Moon Lake for Jin Li, then flew around the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree and found countless corpses hanging from its branches. As he mourned two familiar dead, a girl named July appeared and introduced herself as one of the Moon Emperor Clan’s Twelve Sacrifices.

• Qi Yuan found Seventh Moon Lake but could not locate July Town, and he killed nine Hundred Cities Alliance martial artists after their leader lied about its location.
• A green-haired Moon Imperial Clan man invited Qi Yuan to wait by the lake, and Qi Yuan gave him Jin Li’s name and description.
• Leng Yue ordered the Moon Imperial Clan to search for Jin Li and considered recruiting Qi Yuan, whom she believed to be a Supreme Emperor.
• Qi Yuan waited at the lake for days, speaking with A Qiao and Xiao Ping, while the Hundred Cities Alliance threatened to attack.
• Qi Yuan flew around the Ancient Qixun Camphor Tree and saw countless corpses, including a woman and child he recognized from Kunwu City.
• July appeared beneath the moonlight and identified herself as one of the Moon Emperor Clan’s Twelve Sacrifices.

Jin Li learned that her mother had been the Moon Imperial Kingdom’s Saintess but refused to give up waiting for Qi Yuan. Qi Yuan agreed to protect the seven-year-old Moon Girl for twenty-six days, and as the Hundred Cities Alliance’s seven Emperors approached, he killed them with a single sword strike.

• July told Jin Li that Qing Luo was her younger sister and Jin Li’s mother, and urged Jin Li to stop waiting for the person who had not come.
• Jin Li insisted she would wait for Qi Yuan, then wondered whether another forbidden land existed and recalled the message he had sent her.
• July told Qi Yuan that the Hundred Cities Alliance was using Black Robe Guards to crush resistance, and explained that the Moon Gazing Continent had once been called the White Sun Continent.
• Qi Yuan agreed to protect the Moon Imperial Clan’s seven-year-old Saintess, Moon Girl, for twenty-six days and asked the clan to establish the Moon Dynasty and July Town.
• July left Moon Girl with Qi Yuan beside Seventh Moon Lake, where the girl brought him fish soup as snow fell.
• Seven Emperors from the Hundred Cities Alliance advanced on Qi Yuan while he ate, and he killed all seven with one sword strike.

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.