Chapter Summaries

Li Qi entered denser blood mist in the Ancient God Ruins, where its killing intent began to merge with his soul, and bought the first two levels of the soul technique Twisted Eye to counter its influence. After killing a warrior overcome by the mist, he prepared to fuse his first Blood Luo Crystal.

• Li Qi moved into denser blood mist and felt it transform his body while its killing intent eroded his will and seeped into his soul.
• Li Qi bought the first two levels of Twisted Eye in the Virtual Universe, intending to purify his soul and reduce the killing intent’s influence.
• Li Qi encountered a light-blue-armored warrior whose will had fallen to the killing intent, and killed him with a single palm strike.
• Li Qi judged that his will and physical constitution met the requirements to fuse a Blood Luo Crystal, then buried the warrior’s corpse.
• Li Qi removed his gauntlet, cut his left hand, and placed a Blood Luo Crystal against the wound to begin the fusion.

Li Qi fused three Blood Luo Crystals, studied the Golden Beast God's battle images, and developed four Beast God Claw Art forms before leaving the Ancient God Ruins. When he could not locate the Red Pagoda City Lord, he began collecting more Blood Luo Crystals and later killed a scaled man in Mountain Pine Territory City.

• Li Qi endured a painful first Blood Luo Crystal fusion, gained clearer perceptions of the origin laws, and traveled to a crater in the Ancient God Ruins.
• Li Qi watched the Golden Beast God's battle images and adapted their movements into four forms of Beast God Claw Art, which Boneforged Marquis praised.
• Over more than thirty years, Li Qi fused two more Blood Luo Crystals, became a Blood Warrior, and left the crater to seek the Gray Jade Statue in Red Pagoda City.
• Li Qi discovered that the Red Pagoda City Lord had rarely returned, changed his plans, and went to seize more Blood Luo Crystals.
• Three years later, Li Qi defeated and killed a scaled man in Mountain Pine Territory City with Beast God Strike, then collected the man's storage device.

Li Qi went to Cloud Bay World City to buy Cloud Smoke Wine and claim his Blood Luo Medal, where he reunited with Kaxiu and met Sang Kuang. After receiving the medal, Li Qi accepted Sang Kuang’s invitation to attend his succession ceremony, where he expected to encounter the Red Pagoda City Lord.

• Li Qi searched Red Pagoda City for the Red Pagoda City Lord, found no sign of him, and then traveled to Cloud Bay World City.
• Li Qi bought one bottle of Cloud Smoke Wine, ran into Kaxiu, and revealed that he had fused with three Blood Luo Crystals.
• Kaxiu led Li Qi to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Sang Kuang asked him to prove he was a Blood Warrior.
• Li Qi revealed his complete Blood Luo Secret Pattern, and Sang Kuang awarded him a Blood Luo Medal.
• Sang Kuang invited Li Qi to his succession ceremony and banquet, and Li Qi accepted, hoping to meet the Red Pagoda City Lord there.

Li Qi attended Sang Kuang’s succession banquet, where he was introduced as a Sky-level Blood Warrior, then offered the City Lord of Red Pagoda City a top-tier World-level battle saber for a Gray Jade Statue. The City Lord tricked him with a worthless imitation, and Li Qi confronted him with killing intent.

• Li Qi bought thirty jars of Cloud Smoke Wine with his Blood Warrior discount and recognized the City Lord of Red Pagoda City as the man he had long sought.
• At Sang Kuang’s succession banquet, Sang Kuang introduced Li Qi as Cloud Bay World’s newly born Blood Warrior.
• Li Qi offered the City Lord of Red Pagoda City a top-tier World-level battle saber in exchange for a peculiar Gray Jade Statue, and the City Lord agreed to trade.
• The City Lord gave Li Qi a worthless Gray Jade Statue imitation and kept the statue with the Beast God’s spiritual essence.
• Li Qi repeatedly blocked the City Lord’s attempts to leave and demanded the real statue, threatening to kill him.

Li Qi killed Cheng Feng despite Sang Kuang’s intervention, escaped the Blood Luo Continent in an E9-grade spacecraft, and recovered the Gray Jade Beast God Statue. After collecting water from the Blood Demon Sea, he left the continent to review the gains from his cultivation mission.

• Li Qi overpowered and killed the Red Pagoda City Lord, Cheng Feng, even after Sang Kuang’s world projection tried to suppress him.
• Li Qi escaped Sang Kuang’s attack aboard an E9-grade spacecraft, while Sang Kuang stopped at the Eighteenth Cloud Layer and could not follow.
• Li Qi found that the Gray Jade Beast God Statue he had taken from Cheng Feng fit together with the gray jade beast claw he had bought in Wind Chant City.
• Li Qi flew to the Blood Demon Sea, collected water from its inner and outer seas, and then left the Blood Luo Continent.
• Li Qi began reviewing the gains from his cultivation mission aboard the spacecraft.

After completing nearly forty years of cultivation on Blood Luo Continent, Li Qi returned through Sky Eclipse Palace and received a valuable gift from its lord. He then entered the Virtual Universe to challenge the ninth level of the Heavenly Bridge, while powerful figures across the Human Race awaited his result.

• Li Qi reviewed his harvest of Blood Luo Crystals, a damaged Beast God Statue, Blood Demon Sea water, and other items, then headed for Sky Eclipse Palace.
• Sang Kuang, Kelang, and Kaxiu agreed to tell the Immortal Temple that Li killed Cheng Feng to obtain his unusual statue.
• The Lord of Eclipse Palace arranged for Marquis Li Xiao to escort Li Qi to the Primordial Secret Realm and give him one ton of Ultimate Flame Void Gold.
• Li Qi set his sights on passing the tenth Heavenly Bridge level within five hundred years to become Ice Peak Lord's personal disciple and revive his eldest brother.
• Li Qi entered the Divine Tree Heavenly Bridge to challenge its ninth level, and Prison Warden Bafen notified powerful figures and fellow geniuses.

Li Qi passed the ninth level of the Heavenly Bridge, drawing attention to his Beast God talent, but failed against the tenth-level guardian. After sharing plans for wine with Man Le, Li Qi returned to his estate on Uchen Continent.

• Keliya and Ural hurried to watch Li Qi's challenge, worried his progress could threaten their Primordial Secret Realm slots.
• Li Qi defeated the ninth-level guardian with his Beast God-infused claw technique, revealing the tenth level of the Heavenly Bridge.
• Li Qi challenged the tenth level but was swiftly defeated by its warrior guardian.
• Man Le congratulated Li Qi, resolved to improve his own Heavenly Bridge progress, and arranged to share Cloud Smoke Wine with Li Qi and Kedi.
• Months later, Li Qi returned to his estate on Uchen Continent after departing from Marquis Li Xiao.

Li Qi received points for completing his Blood River World missions and took on additional cultivation missions to earn enough for the fourth volume of the Divine Tree True Explanation. After learning that Kedi had accepted a desperate-level mission, Li Qi accepted one himself and chose a mission from the newly unlocked list.

• Li Qi confirmed that he had completed both Blood River World missions and earned 110,000 points, while the Virtual Universe Company warned him not to sell his Blood Luo Crystals without approval.
• Li Qi reviewed cultivation missions, completed the Viska Star mission and three more dangerous-level missions, and earned 50,000 points, leaving him just over 10,000 points short of his goal.
• Man Le asked Li Qi where he had obtained Cloud Smoke Wine, and Li Qi directed him to the Blood River World mission.
• Man Le told Li Qi that Kedi had accepted a desperate-level mission, prompting Li Qi to decide that he would accept one too.
• Li Qi confirmed that he would undertake a desperate-level mission, viewed the eighteen available options, ruled out Demon Mountain, and selected another mission.

Li Qi entered the Purgatory Abyss to begin his training mission and met Nightlight King, who warned him that World Masters were present there. After killing two Domain Lord-level Purgatory Beasts and collecting their cores, Li Qi was discovered by a Purgatory Beast disguised as the ground beneath him.

• Li Qi met Nightlight King at the fortress, where Nightlight King encouraged him and warned that World Masters were in the Purgatory Abyss.
• Li Qi entered the inner region and found a fourth-stage Domain Lord-level Purgatory Beast, which he killed by crushing its Purgatory Core with the Endless Vine.
• Li Qi examined the core, estimated that collecting one thousand tons would require killing only a few hundred Purgatory Beasts, and later killed a second Domain Lord-level beast.
• A nearby Purgatory Beast recognized that an alien had arrived and began searching for Li Qi.
• Li Qi found a seventh-stage Domain Lord-level Purgatory Beast, but a sudden warning voice revealed that the ground beneath him was another Purgatory Beast that had found him.

Li Qi escaped a World Master-level Purgatory Beast and discovered murals in a cave that revealed the Purgatory Abyss natives’ history and showed a trace of the essence of space laws. After cultivating there for more than fifty years, he prepared to wait for the coming Secret Realm Battle, while Wu Xuewen, Keliya, and Ural discussed their choices ahead of it.

• A World Master-level Purgatory Beast ambushed Li Qi, but he used the Kuyu Ancient Tree’s No. 2 Branch and an E9-grade spacecraft to escape.
• After repeated pursuits by World Master-level Purgatory Beasts, Li Qi hid in a cave and explored its passages, finding remains and murals left by the Purgatory Abyss natives.
• The murals showed that the natives’ civil war led them to destroy their sacred relic, triggering a catastrophe that wiped them out; a ceiling mural revealed a trace of the essence of space laws.
• Li Qi cultivated in the cave for more than fifty years, improving his comprehension of space laws and deciding to postpone attempting the tenth Heavenly Bridge level until after the Secret Realm Battle.
• Wu Xuewen met with Keliya and Ural, who planned to advance to the Domain Lord level rather than risk losing their Primordial Secret Realm positions in the coming battle.

Li Qi defeated Wu Xuewen in the Primordial Secret Realm’s internal battle, then unexpectedly defeated Kedi after noticing that Kedi was weaker than before. The chapter ended with Li Qi and the observers confused by Kedi’s second loss.

• Li Qi entered the Virtual Universe and fought Wu Xuewen, whose final-form Time Wheel attack he broke before defeating her.
• Wu Xuewen realized that her current law comprehension made the Time Wheel’s final form too stiff to use effectively against an equal opponent.
• The Secret Realm Battle paired Li Qi against Kedi in the second internal round-robin match.
• Li Qi found that he could suppress Kedi without using his strongest technique and defeated him with Beast God Collision.
• Li Qi and the watching king-level undyings and universe venerables wondered why Kedi had lost again.

Li Qi left Purgatory Abyss after exhausting the insights from its mural, then met Nightlight King, who rewarded him with weapon-making materials and revealed that Purgatory Cores were essential to producing a powerful alloy. After returning to the Primordial Secret Realm, Li Qi prepared to challenge the tenth level of the Heavenly Bridge.

• Kedi told Li Qi and Man Le that he had lost to Li Qi and Wu Xuewen while only ten percent of his consciousness was in the Virtual Universe, and Man Le discussed his chances in the coming qualification battle.
• Li Qi left the mural cave in Purgatory Abyss and escaped pursuing World Master-level Purgatory Beasts in his E9-class spacecraft.
• At the fortress, Nightlight King gave Li Qi F-class metals for crafting a weapon and a formula for top-tier F-class alloy.
• Nightlight King explained that the alloy required refined Purgatory Cores and warned Li Qi not to reveal the mission's details to other core members.
• Li Qi returned to the Primordial Secret Realm and prepared to challenge the tenth level of the Heavenly Bridge.

Li Qi failed to pass the tenth level of the Divine Tree Heavenly Bridge, then bought the first four volumes of the Divine Tree True Explanation and accepted a cultivation mission on Giant God Star. After arriving, he learned that he had sixteen years to earn six medals and enter the Hero Trial Tournament, though the planet’s residents were known for being unusually lively.

• Li Qi challenged the tenth level of the Divine Tree Heavenly Bridge, but the yellow-clad opponent overwhelmed his defenses and defeated him.
• Li Qi spent 300,000 points to buy the first four volumes of the Divine Tree True Explanation and resolved to pass the tenth level within the three hundred years remaining before his teacher’s deadline.
• Li Qi accepted the Giant God World cultivation mission and traveled to Giant God Star after spending a day with his family.
• A World Master giant explained that Li Qi needed to collect six medals in sixteen years to qualify for the Hero Trial Tournament and compete for the Giant God's Power Fruit.
• The World Master giant warned Li Qi that the Giant God Race was lively by nature and asked him to show restraint if its people offended him.

Li Qi earned all six medals for the Giant God Star Hero Trial, impressing spectators by injuring the world master Xigang during the sixth assessment. He settled in Lichuan City to study while awaiting the main event, but an unwelcome interruption arrived when a powerful guest requested to see him.

• Li Qi traveled to several cities and quickly won the first five Hero Trial medals by defeating or outlasting his assessors.
• At the Lichuan City Dojo, Li Qi's Beast God Collision pierced Xigang's battle suit and injured his palm during the sixth medal's power test.
• Xigang judged Li Qi's strength sufficient and awarded him the sixth medal without requiring a formal combat stage.
• Li Qi declined Xigang's offer to stay at the dojo and lodged at Lichuan City's finest inn, where the proprietor waived his fees.
• After studying the fourth volume of Divine Tree True Explanation for a little over half a year, Li Qi was interrupted by an attendant who said a powerful guest wanted to see him.

Li Qi met Xike, the previous Hero Trial champion, and learned that defeating him could earn a year of cultivation in Giant God's Pool. After ten years of cultivating and completing the third move of the Five Intent Annihilation Claw, Li Qi set out to attempt the tenth layer of the Heavenly Bridge, while Kedi worried that Li Qi might surpass him as he pursued the Ice God General Inheritance.

• The inn attendant explained that the Hero Trial champion could challenge the previous champion for a year in Giant God's Pool, and Li Qi agreed to meet Xike.
• Xike asked Li Qi to spar after hearing he had injured World Master Xigang, but Li Qi declined for now and hinted they could fight later.
• Venerable Ling Tu advised Li Qi that he was close to passing the tenth layer of the Heavenly Bridge and becoming his teacher's personal disciple.
• Over the next ten years, Li Qi cultivated the Divine Tree True Explanation and completed the third move of the Five Intent Annihilation Claw.
• Li Qi went to the Divine Tree Heavenly Bridge to attempt its tenth layer, and Guardian Bafen notified interested experts and geniuses.
• Kedi read that Li Qi was attempting the tenth layer, worried Li Qi could surpass him during his inheritance training, and resolved to pass three Original Tongtian Mountains.

Li Qi passed the tenth level of the Divine Tree Heavenly Bridge with a claw technique carrying Beast God intent, completing Ice Peak Lord’s first test. Ice Peak Lord then revived Ron Royce, Isha Planton, Eric, and Daya, who reunited outside the Royce Family estate and sought answers.

• Li Qi defeated the yellow-clad gatekeeper with the third move of the Five Intent Annihilation Claw and passed the tenth level of the Heavenly Bridge.
• Bafen announced Li Qi’s success, and the watching undyings and Venerable Ling Tu and Venerable Gulen reacted to his Beast God intent.
• Ice Peak Lord returned to the Primordial Universe and reversed time to retrieve Ron Royce and Isha Planton from their deaths.
• Ice Peak Lord reversed time on Kuka Planet and retrieved Eric and Nia, then brought all four revived people outside the Royce Family estate.
• Eric reunited with Daya, Ron, and Isha, and suggested they return to the family estate to learn what had happened.

After clearing the tenth level of the Heavenly Bridge, Li Qi became Ice Peak Lord’s ninth personal disciple and learned that his family had been revived. He reunited with his family and Big Brother Eric, while they discussed the pressures of the family’s rapid rise and plans to grow stronger.

• The Demon Race Leader raised Li Qi to Kill List NO.3 after hearing about his Heavenly Bridge achievement and suspected Beast God talent.
• Ice Peak Lord made Li Qi his ninth personal disciple, confirmed that his family had been revived, warned him of increased assassination attempts, and assigned his Seventh Senior Brother to guide him.
• Li Qi returned to the Royce Family manor and reunited with Eric, Daya, and his revived Second Father and Second Mother.
• Eric told Li Qi that wealth and power had changed some family members, and Li Qi said he could only keep moving forward and act as the family’s pillar.
• Eric said he, Ron, and Geli planned to enter the Giant Axe Battle Arena’s Peak Genius Battle and hoped to reach the Qian Wu Secret Realm, while Li Qi aimed to strengthen the family from the Primordial Secret Realm.

Li Qi suspended plans to exchange for bloodline elixirs, stopped contributing to the family fund, and resumed cultivating while news of his family’s resurrection spread across human space and rival races. After four years of seclusion, he left his cultivation to attend Giant God Star’s Hero Trial.

• Li Qi decided to postpone exchanging for bloodline elixirs until he completed a domain lord-level Highest Points Mission, stopped his annual contribution to the family fund, and continued cultivating Divine Tree True Explanation.
• News that Ice Peak Lord had resurrected Li Qi’s family spread through Molten Starfield and Qian Wu Universe Country, prompting the Qian Wu Ruler to anticipate rewards and consider Li Qi’s future prospects.
• The Insect Race, Demon Race, and Machine Race raised Li Qi’s assassination ranking to NO.2 while keeping Kedi at NO.1.
• Venerable Gulen and Venerable Ling Tu learned that Ice Peak Lord had accepted Li Qi as a disciple, and Man Le emailed Kedi about Li Qi’s resurrected family and new master.
• Kedi considered Li Qi a stronger rival in law comprehension but trusted his Ice God General Inheritance and seventeenfold body amplitude to help him retain an advantage.
• Li Qi cultivated in seclusion for four years, then withdrew from the Virtual Universe after his alarm reminded him to attend Giant God Star’s Hero Trial.

Li Qi competed in the first stage of the Hero Trial on Everthorn Island, where contestants had to hunt their assigned Domain Lord-level beast without killing any others. He killed his Thunderhide Beast and learned he ranked fourth, then flew toward the gathering point to leave the island.

• Li Qi learned that the Hero Trial had two stages, with the first on Everthorn Island, and received a Thunderhide Beast as his assigned target.
• Li Qi traveled to Everthorn Island, avoiding other beasts because killing anything besides his target would disqualify him.
• Li Qi searched the Domain Lord-level territory, found F-grade metal ore, and eventually located a ninth-rank Domain Lord-level Thunderhide Beast.
• Li Qi evaded the Thunderhide Beast’s attacks and killed it by striking its life core.
• Li Qi checked his light computer, saw that he ranked fourth, and flew toward the gathering point.

Li Qi won the Hero Trial after the contestants were forced straight from the first stage into a one-on-one elimination tournament, and his overwhelming strength discouraged further lethal fights. When the previous champion Xike presented him with the Sacred Fruit and threatened him, Li Qi refused to accept it.

• The undying official revealed that King Sui Mi had set the rushed Hero Trial rules, then began one-on-one elimination matches based on the first-stage rankings.
• Li Qi defeated Weina with a single powerful strike, forcing him to concede and convincing the other contestants that Li Qi was beyond their reach.
• After Li Qi's display, the remaining matches became relatively amicable, and he claimed the Hero Trial championship with only three contestants dead.
• The official announced that Xike would transfer the Sacred Fruit to Li Qi, and Xike threatened him while presenting it.
• Li Qi sneered at Xike and refused the Sacred Fruit.