Chapter Summaries

Li Qing used Chu Lingyi's Beast Transformation Talisman to become a Sky-Rending Eagle and qualify for the Kunpeng inheritance, then entered its trial. He hatched as a young Kunpeng, witnessed a wounded Kunpeng swallow a sea of lightning before fleeing pursuers, and awoke with the Kunpeng Art in his mind.

• Li Qing found the Beast Transformation Talisman imprinted with Sky-Rending Eagle essence blood and used it to transform into a blue-feathered eagle.
• Li Qing touched the Kunpeng stone slab, learned that he lacked Kunpeng True Blood, and chose to challenge the Kunpeng Trial.
• Li Qing entered the trial inside an eggshell and used Limitless Art to focus his strength and break free.
• Li Qing hatched as a young Kunpeng in a mountain nest beside two lifeless eggs as a tremendous storm and sea of lightning gathered overhead.
• A wounded Kunpeng swallowed the lightning and flew toward Li Qing before savage figures pursued it and his consciousness faded.
• Li Qing awoke in a new location with the Demon Race scripture Kunpeng Art in his mind.

Li Qing obtained the Kunpeng Treasure Art but discovered that the trial continued in a minor world where the One-Eyed Tribe hunted juvenile True Spirits. He turned the hunt against them, survived the trial, and received the complete inheritance, learning that its challenges had recreated Senior Kunpeng’s past experiences.

• Li Qing realized he was still inside the trial, transformed into an adolescent Kunpeng in a primordial wilderness.
• He evaded a barrage of tracking arrows with Kunpeng Extreme Speed and recognized that the One-Eyed Tribe was hunting True Spirits.
• The One-Eyed Tribe trapped Li Qing with space-restricting techniques and wounded him, but he killed one attacker with the Kunpeng Sky-Crossing Diagram.
• Li Qing used the Myriad Life Demonic Art to strengthen the Kunpeng Treasure Art with Seven-Colored Vitality Essence, breaking free and killing the Tribe members who attacked him.
• Li Qing hunted down the remaining One-Eyed Tribe throughout the minor world until the trial ended, then received the complete Kunpeng Treasure Art from Senior Kunpeng.

Li Qing returned from the Nether Realm with the Kunpeng Treasure Art inheritance, learned how to begin cultivating its divine power, and kept the inheritance secret from the Lingyun Sect cultivators. He reached the twin spirit peaks and reunited with True Person Fu Xuan, Shen Ningbing, and Chu Lingyi, then brought them to meet the returning sect members.

• Li Qing received the Kunpeng Treasure Art but was teleported from the inheritance chamber and could not enter it again.
• Li Qing failed to subdue the Sky Roaming Falcon, gave it his remaining Second-tier Red Crystals, and returned to the spirit vessel without revealing the inheritance.
• Li Qing realized he needed to cultivate Kunpeng Divine Power himself and began using the Kunpeng Treasure Art, including its Void-Rending Hand.
• Wu Chong steered the spirit vessel to the twin spirit peaks, where Li Qing reunited with True Person Fu Xuan, Shen Ningbing, and Chu Lingyi.
• Li Qing led True Person Fu Xuan and Shen Ningbing to meet the Lingyun Sect cultivators, who were astonished to see two Core Formation cultivators with him.

Li Qing gathered Lingyun Sect survivors and Core Formation allies, then set out for the Qingling Region to assess Shangqing Sect and prepare to destroy it. As his group approached, Shangqing Sect’s followers and other cultivators gathered for a grand celebration of a new Core Formation cultivator, while rumors spread that the sect had recently lost several ancestors.

• Shen Ningbing reunited with Wu Chong and revealed that she had formed her core, while Li Qing introduced True Person Fu Xuan as a new Lingyun Sect ally.
• Li Qing decided to head for the Qingling Region quickly to learn Shangqing Sect’s true condition before Wen Xia recovered.
• Li Qing visited Liu Hanyue at Moon Chasing Palace, and she agreed to join the journey despite her position as Saintess.
• Liu Hanyue saw Li Qing’s assembled Core Formation companions, and Li Qing ordered the spirit vessel north toward the Qingling Region.
• Tang Lushan and Lü Feiyu arrived at Shangqing Sect as vassals, while gathered cultivators speculated that the sect’s grand celebration concealed recent losses among its ancestors.

Li Qing and the Lingyun Sect remnants returned to the Qingling Region, where the Shangqing Sect learned that True Person Ziqing had resurfaced and sent Ling Ying to hunt him. Li Qing and Shen Ningbing investigated the ruined Lingyun Sect mountain gate and found its powerful spiritual vein untouched but the site abandoned.

• A rogue cultivator recognized True Person Ziqing at Hejian Marketplace and reported his sighting to the Shangqing Sect, whose elder Fan Feng withheld most of the promised reward.
• Sect Master Qingxuan informed the Shangqing Sect ancestors that True Person Ziqing had appeared, and Ling Ying volunteered to kill him.
• Li Qing and the Lingyun Sect cultivators returned to the Qingling Region, then agreed to keep the group hidden while Li Qing and Shen Ningbing investigated.
• Liu Hanyue left to investigate the former Tianhe Sect territory, while Chu Lingyi was ordered to stay with True Person Fu Xuan and study talismans.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing found the Lingyun Sect's snow-buried ruins and wondered why the abundant spiritual vein had no cultivators living there.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing investigated the Shangqing Sect by gathering intelligence at Hejian Marketplace, where they learned of its strength and an upcoming Core Formation ceremony. As they planned to infiltrate the ceremony, a sudden storm and tsunami struck the Boundless Sea.

• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing traveled to Hejian Marketplace to investigate the Shangqing Sect and learned that sea-travel tokens granted access to spirit-fishing grounds guarded by the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise.
• True Person Ziqing obtained a sea-travel token, intending to use it to approach and kill the Shangqing Sect's Mountain-Bearing Tortoise, while Ling Ying secretly watched him and prepared to confront him.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing learned that a newly advanced Shangqing Sect cultivator would hold a Core Formation ceremony in seven days, and they estimated the sect had several Core Formation ancestors and a powerful demonic tortoise.
• Li Qing proposed capturing a Cultivation Family patriarch and disguising himself and Shen Ningbing as the patriarch's attendants so they could attend the ceremony and assess the sect's strength.
• A gigantic storm and tsunami erupted across the Boundless Sea, driving spirit-fishing cultivators toward shore as immense spiritual pressure accompanied the waves.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing pressured Lin Xiaonan into posing as their relatives so they could infiltrate the Shangqing Sect’s Core Formation ceremony. After Ancestor Ziqing was captured and announced as a planned sacrifice, Li Qing sent an urgent message and continued with the infiltration, arriving at the sect’s mountain gate with Lin Xiaonan.

• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing forced Lin Xiaonan to let them attend the ceremony as Lin Qing and Lin Bing, and Li Qing planted a spirit mark in Lin Xiaonan’s sea of consciousness.
• The Shangqing Sect announced that Ling Ying had captured Ancestor Ziqing and would sacrifice him at the ceremony; Ling Ying interrogated Ziqing, who insisted he had acted alone.
• Li Qing learned that the Shangqing Sect was using Ziqing as bait to draw out his hidden companions, so he sent an urgent message and decided to continue the original infiltration plan.
• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing traveled with Lin Xiaonan toward the ceremony, where Li Qing convincingly introduced himself and Shen Ningbing as Lin family descendants to Fellow Daoist Feng.
• The group reached the mountain gate beside the Boundless Sea, where the Shangqing Sect’s ceremony was to take place.

Li Qing and Shen Ningbing entered Shangqing Sect disguised as distant Lin family relatives to attend Ling Ying’s Core Formation ceremony and search for Ancestor Ziqing. The ceremony began with Ling Ying revealing the chained and wounded Ancestor Ziqing, and Li Qing’s concealed killing intent rose as Ling Ying prepared to execute him.

• Li Qing and Shen Ningbing arrived at Shangqing Sect with Lin Xiaonan, where Lin Xiaonan exchanged barbed words with Zhong Ya.
• Lin Xiaonan introduced the disguised pair as Lin Qing and Lin Bing to his children, Lin Xiuzhu and Lin Ya, who led them toward the ceremony square.
• Lin Ya praised Shangqing Sect and its newly formed Core Formation cultivator, while Li Qing quietly observed the sect’s defenses and buildings.
• Ling Ying appeared before the gathered guests and announced that the ceremony would include the sacrifice of Ancestor Ziqing, whom he had captured.
• Ling Ying approached Ancestor Ziqing with a curved blade, while Li Qing’s killing intent began to surface.

Li Qing revealed his Core Formation strength at the Shangqing Sect’s mountain gate and intervened just before Ling Ying could execute Ancestor Ziqing. As the sect activated its protective formation and more ancestors appeared, Li Qing and Shen Ningbing engaged their opponents, and Li Qing rescued Ziqing while forcing Ling Ying to retreat.

• Ancestor Ziqing defied the Shangqing Sect elders and declared that Lingyun Sect disciples would return to avenge the sect before Ling Ying prepared to kill him.
• Li Qing erupted from the crowd, confronted Ling Ying, and saluted Ancestor Ziqing as his unworthy disciple.
• The Shangqing Sect activated its mountain-gate formation, while Yan Xi and Yang Tian appeared and trapped Li Qing inside.
• Yan Xi charged Li Qing, but Shen Ningbing blocked him and began fighting him.
• When Ling Ying moved to kill Ancestor Ziqing, Li Qing used Kunpeng Extreme Speed to launch a surprise attack, prompting Ling Ying to retreat as Li Qing seized Ziqing and withdrew.

Li Qing rescued Ancestor Ziqing and confronted True Person Linglong and other Shangqing Sect cultivators inside the sect’s sealed formation. As the formation prepared to unleash its full power, a gigantic Taotie appeared overhead.

• Li Qing freed Ancestor Ziqing from the Spirit Gold Chains, but True Person Linglong sealed the area with Shangqing Sect’s protective formation.
• Li Qing announced that he had come to avenge the Lingyun Sect, which Shangqing Sect had destroyed with the ancient Devil Race.
• True Person Linglong attacked Li Qing through the formation, but his Golden Jade Armor left him unharmed as he searched for a weakness.
• Ling Ying and Yang Tian attacked Li Qing, and Li Qing used the Xiling Pagoda to suppress Yang Tian’s Red Gold Buddhist Staff.
• Li Qing struck at Yang Tian with Kunpeng Sky-Crossing Diagram, but the formation stopped his blow and let Yang Tian escape.
• Ling Ying and Yang Tian joined True Person Linglong to activate the formation, when a gigantic Taotie appeared in the sky and blocked out the light.

Li Qing, Shen Ningbing, Wu Chong, and Fu Xuan attacked the Shangqing Sect, using Forbidden Breaking Talismans to destroy its Clear Sky Spirit Locking Formation. As the Shangqing Sect pursued them after the formation fell, Liu Hanyue arrived as another Core Formation ally.

• Wu Chong arrived as a Taotie and battered the Shangqing Sect's formation while Li Qing confronted Wen Xia inside it.
• Ling Ying used the formation to block Li Qing's attacks and pursue him with golden rings as Shen Ningbing fought Yan Xi.
• Fu Xuan identified weak points in the formation, and Li Qing, Shen Ningbing, and Fu Xuan used Forbidden Breaking Talismans to blast three breaches into it.
• Li Qing rescued Shen Ningbing from Wen Xia's Nine Lives Bow, then coordinated with Fu Xuan to break the formation completely.
• True Person Linglong and the Shangqing Sect's other Core Formation cultivators pursued the retreating attackers, but Liu Hanyue arrived and joined Li Qing's side.

Lingyun Sect broke Shangqing Sect’s mountain-gate formation and brought the battle to even numbers, leaving Li Qing to face True Person Linglong. Li Qing badly wounded Linglong with his fire seals, but she recovered enough to begin playing her Thousand Silk Needles as a zither, alarming Yang Tian.

• Liu Hanyue blocked Ling Ying and confronted him over the Liu Family’s destruction, while the other Lingyun Sect cultivators engaged Shangqing Sect’s fighters.
• True Person Linglong attacked Li Qing with her red sash, Exquisite Immortal Sound, and Thousand Silk Needles; Li Qing endured the sound attack, and the needles pierced his body.
• Li Qing’s Golden Silk Silkworms gnawed apart the needles, allowing him to strike Linglong with two enhanced Shattering Yuan Great Fire Seals and injure her.
• Wen Xia summoned Shangqing Sect’s guardian Mountain-Bearing Tortoise, but Li Qing and Shen Ningbing sent Chong Jiu, Rice Bucket, and the Frost Jade Ice Butterfly to hold it back.
• Linglong emerged from the fire-seal explosion injured but recovered, formed a zither from her Thousand Silk Needles, and began playing the Exquisite Immortal Sound as Yang Tian shouted for her to stop.

Li Qing’s stone fetus absorbed True Person Linglong’s Exquisite Immortal Sound, freeing the cultivators from its soul attack. Li Qing wounded True Person Linglong with Yue Xuan’s Moon Disc, and Yang Tian self-destructed his golden core to protect her, leaving Wu Chong charging into the chaos.

• True Person Linglong used the Thousand Silk Zither’s Exquisite Immortal Sound to torment the cultivators and disrupt their thoughts, while Ling Ying and Yan Xi attacked Liu Hanyue and Shen Ningbing.
• As Li Qing’s soul began to crack, the stone fetus flew from his Storage Bag, absorbed the immortal sound, and restored everyone’s clarity.
• Li Qing used the Moon Disc Yue Xuan had given him to fire a beam that pierced True Person Linglong, while True Person Fu Xuan blocked Yang Tian with a Thunder Annihilation Talisman.
• Yang Tian, grievously wounded by the lightning, self-destructed his golden core as Li Qing and the other cultivators fled the blast.
• Wu Chong charged forward and used the Gluttonous True Art, Sky Swallowing Earth Devour.

Li Qing and his allies avenged their fallen kin by killing Shangqing Sect’s Core Formation cultivators and uncovering the truth behind Lingyun Sect’s abandoned mountain gate. After killing Yan Xi and learning that its Spatial Node led to the devil realm, Li Qing returned to finish clearing Shangqing Sect’s survivors.

• Wu Chong killed Wen Xia while enduring the aftershock of True Person Yang Tian’s Golden Core explosion.
• Liu Hanyue wounded Ling Ying, and Li Qing killed him with the Primordial Peerless Hammer as he tried to escape.
• Li Qing caught Yan Xi, learned that Shangqing Sect had used him to possess Shi Nantian and infiltrate Tianhe Sect, and discovered Lingyun Sect’s mountain gate was a Spatial Node to the devil realm.
• Li Qing killed Yan Xi and destroyed his remaining spirit, then buried Shi Nantian’s body and flew back toward Shangqing Sect.
• The Mountain-Bearing Tortoise fled toward the Boundless Sea, leaving Shangqing Sect’s remaining minor forces for Li Qing to clear out.

After the Shangqing Sect was destroyed, Li Qing chose a site for rebuilding the Lingyun Sect and began searching the ruins for resources. He discovered a stone fetus that produced the Exquisite Immortal Sound and a nearly thousand-year-old Dragon Blood Vine, leaving him with promising discoveries to investigate and protect.

• Li Qing thanked Liu Hanyue for her help and chose to rebuild the Lingyun Sect among the ruins, offering Moon Chasing Palace half the spirit-stone income from the former Tianhe Sect lands.
• Liu Hanyue declined to stay and departed for Moon Chasing Palace, while Li Qing and Shen Ningbing began organizing the reconstruction and scavenging.
• Li Qing found True Person Ziqing trapped inside the Black Furnace and gave him healing pills before leaving him to rest.
• Li Qing discovered a stone fetus beside True Person Linglong's remains and sensed the Exquisite Immortal Sound within it, then stored it for later investigation.
• Wu Chong and True Person Fu Xuan opened a protected medicine garden and found a nearly thousand-year-old Dragon Blood Vine, which Li Qing entrusted to Fu Xuan to guard.

Li Qing and Lingyun Sect searched the ruins of Shangqing Sect, recovering rare spirit herbs, pill supplies, a vast collection of cultivation inheritances, and a hidden storehouse of treasures as they rebuilt their mountain gate. As visitors sought Li Qing’s favor, he pardoned several former enemies and recruited Lin Ya and Lin Xiuzhu, while realizing he needed to appoint a sect master to handle the growing workload.

• Li Qing, Wu Chong, and True Person Fu Xuan transplanted Profound Origin Trees, then Li Qing joined Shen Ningbing in uncovering Shangqing Sect’s ruined Pill Cauldron Hall and salvaging its undamaged pills.
• Lu Fan brought Lingyun Sect’s elders and disciples to the ruins, where they reunited with the surviving Ancestor Ziqing and began rebuilding the mountain gate.
• Li Qing excavated Shangqing Sect’s Scripture Repository and a concealed storehouse containing more than two hundred thousand spirit stones and shelves of spirit materials; he promised Daoist Jinbao a superior Core Formation Spirit Item as a reward for finding it.
• Li Qing forgave Zhong Ya and Lü Feiyu, accepted Zhong Ya’s Golden Warship to study, and reassured Tang Lushan that he would not punish the Tang Family for surrendering to Shangqing Sect.
• After the Lin Family Patriarch arrived with Lin Ya and Lin Xiuzhu, Li Qing spared them and admitted the siblings to Lingyun Sect on the condition that they help eliminate the remaining Shangqing Sect remnants.

Li Qing rebuilt the Lingyun Sect, announced its founding ceremony and recruitment drive, and took over the Shangqing Sect’s assets. While searching for information about the stone embryo, he discovered it was an Earth Stone Embryo but triggered an old soul injury caused by the Exquisite Immortal Sound.

• Li Qing ordered a founding ceremony and an Ascension Ceremony for the Lingyun Sect, planning to recruit three hundred outer disciples and select fifty inner disciples after three months.
• Li Qing reviewed the Shangqing Sect’s mines, secret realms, and marketplaces, then ordered the Lingyun Sect to take them over under the former management model.
• Li Qing searched the Hall of Inherited Skills for a continuation of the Crimson Blazing Heaven Art, found none, and memorized the Myriad Flames Art as a backup.
• Li Qing found records identifying the stone embryo as an Earth Stone Embryo capable of taking the origin and potential of a living being.
• Li Qing’s soul injury from the Exquisite Immortal Sound flared after his prolonged reading, and the Soul Nurturing Bell eased the pain without curing it.

Li Qing left his sect to find Sky Star Grass in the Soul Nurturing Secret Realm and stopped at Qinghua Pond, where he reunited with Liu Sheng and intervened against the Feng Family. He crippled Feng Ming and sent him away, leaving Liu Sheng fearing the Feng Family’s retaliation.

• Li Qing, still suffering hidden soul injuries, left his sect to seek mature Sky Star Grass in the Soul Nurturing Secret Realm.
• At Qinghua Pond, Li Qing recognized Liu Sheng, whose son Liu Zheng had been killed and whose daughter Xiao Xue was being pressured by Feng Ming of the Feng Family.
• Feng Ming attacked Liu Sheng, but Li Qing seized his wrist and revealed that he was Liu Sheng’s old acquaintance from outside Longevity Valley.
• Feng Ming’s Mid-grade Magic Tool could not harm Li Qing, and Li Qing destroyed Feng Ming’s cultivation after Feng Ming threatened him.
• Li Qing ordered Feng Ming to leave, and the humiliated young master fled while Liu Sheng feared the consequences.

Li Qing avenged Liu Sheng’s son by destroying Feng Lie and the Feng Family cultivators, then revealed he had formed a core. He brought Feng Ming to the Feng Family stronghold, where his assault on their formation ended when Lingyun Sect elder Su Yue recognized him as the Wuji Ancestor.

• Li Qing reassured Liu Sheng that he would protect him and his daughter, then learned that Liu Hanyue had survived the Liu Family’s destruction.
• Li Qing annihilated Feng Lie and the Feng Family cultivators with his Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame, leaving Feng Ming alive.
• Li Qing revealed his Core Formation cultivation and told Liu Sheng that Liu Hanyue was also a Core Formation cultivator and a Nascent Soul cultivator’s disciple.
• Li Qing took Feng Ming to the Feng Family stronghold and attacked its Second-tier Great Formation while Feng Jing met with Lingyun Sect elder Su Yue.
• Su Yue recognized Li Qing as the Wuji Ancestor and prostrated himself, leaving Feng Jing stunned.

Li Qing punished Feng Jing and Lingyun Sect Elder Su Yue after discovering their ties to the Feng Family, while Liu Sheng killed Feng Ming for murdering Zheng'er. Li Qing spared the battered Feng Family in exchange for its formation plate, welcomed Liu Sheng and Liu Xue into the Lingyun Sect, and then entered the Soul Nurturing Secret Realm.

• Feng Jing and Su Yue knelt before Li Qing, who broke the Feng Family's protective formation with the Primordial Peerless Hammer.
• Liu Sheng refused to pursue the Feng Family further and killed Feng Ming for Zheng'er's murder.
• Li Qing took the Feng Family's Nine Heavens Falling Cloud Formation plate, spared the family, and sentenced Su Yue to a year in the water prison after he escorted Liu Sheng and Liu Xue to the sect.
• Li Qing invited Liu Sheng and Liu Xue to join the Lingyun Sect, and Liu Xue accepted.
• Li Qing gave Liu Sheng and Liu Xue a jade token for emergencies, warned the Feng Family against exploiting rogue cultivators, and continued westward.
• Li Qing used the Jade Pendant to gather moonlight and opened the gateway to the Soul Nurturing Secret Realm.