Chapter Summaries

Li Qing consumed ancient Sky Star Grass in the Soul Nurturing Secret Realm until his soul injury was fully healed and his Spiritual Sense approached Nascent Soul Realm strength. While investigating the temple ruins, he activated the Spirit Gold Chains and Soul Nurturing Bell, revealing a star map that was absorbed into his Jade Pendant and marked his location.

• Li Qing harvested and ate thousand-year Sky Star Grass, then sought out older stalks as its effects weakened.
• Li Qing consumed a five-thousand-year stalk and completely healed his hidden soul injury, greatly increasing his Spiritual Sense.
• Li Qing searched the Soul Nurturing Temple ruins and re-hung the Soul Nurturing Bell in the stone tower.
• Li Qing's Spiritual Sense activated the Spirit Gold Chains, which drew on his power and caused the Soul Nurturing Bell to ring.
• A beam from the tower shifted the stars into a map, and Li Qing suspected the temple's master had used the tower to uncover an ancient secret.
• The star map's light flowed into Li Qing's Jade Pendant, where he found the map and a blinking point that might mark his location.

Li Qing returned to Lingyun Sect and managed its mounting affairs before presiding over the sect’s grand opening and Ascension Ceremony. He revealed that the Forbidden Speech Snowfield was a weak passage between the Devil Realm and the human realm, leaving the gathered cultivators alarmed about a possible return of the Devil Race.

• Li Qing returned after repairing his divine soul and settled reports about depleted spirit gold mines and a newly discovered spirit lake.
• Li Qing decided Lingyun Sect needed a sect master to handle its affairs, then agreed to preside over the ceremonies two days later.
• Nearly ten thousand cultivators gathered outside Lingyun Sect, where Li Qing arrived atop Rice Bucket and received the crowd’s greetings.
• Li Qing promised that Lingyun Sect would establish rules to keep the Qingling Region peaceful and harmonious.
• Li Qing condemned Shangqing Sect’s alliance with the ancient Devil Race and disclosed that the Forbidden Speech Snowfield contained a weak Spatial Node connecting the Devil Realm and the human realm.
• The crowd erupted in shock and questioned whether the Devil Race might return.

Li Qing established Lingyun Sect's rules, promised protection and profit-sharing to cultivators who reported new mineral veins, and ordered a hunt for Shangqing Sect's surviving members. During the sect's recruitment trials, he let both a Lightning Spiritual Root girl and a young man in white join after their close-fought match, and noticed a rust-covered iron ring on the girl's wrist as she asked him to take her as a disciple.

• Li Qing set Lingyun Sect's policies for Qingling Region and offered Rogue Cultivators protection in exchange for half the harvest from newly discovered mineral veins.
• Li Qing announced that Shangqing Sect's surviving elders and disciples were wanted throughout Qingling Region, then formally declared Lingyun Sect established.
• The Cultivation Families presented congratulatory gifts, and Lingyun Sect began an Ascension Ceremony that drew thousands of Qi Refining Rogue Cultivators.
• The trials revealed promising recruits, including a Lightning Spiritual Root girl and a young man in white who used pills to defeat her.
• Li Qing ruled that both contestants could join Lingyun Sect, and the girl asked him to accept her as his disciple.
• Li Qing noticed a rust-covered iron ring on the girl's wrist as he prepared to answer her request.

At the Lingyun Sect’s Ascension Ceremony, Li Qing recognized Li Yuhuan’s iron rings as a gift he had forged for his brother’s fiancée and accepted her as his Registered Disciple. He discovered that she was his niece, and she began telling him how her family had fared and how she entered the Cultivation World.

• Li Qing recognized the iron rings on Li Yuhuan as the pair he had forged years earlier and asked her about them.
• Li Yuhuan accepted Li Qing as her Registered Disciple, and the Lingyun Sect’s ceremony concluded with 301 new disciples.
• Li Yuhuan rode Rice Bucket to Li Qing’s mountain peak, where Li Qing asked whether her father was Li Shan.
• Li Qing revealed that he had forged her iron rings and identified himself as her uncle, and Li Yuhuan joyfully recognized their family connection.
• Li Yuhuan told Li Qing that her family had fled famine to the Feng Kingdom and that an old Daoist had invited her to become an immortal.

Li Qing equipped his disciple Li Yuhuan for the Lingyun Sect tournament and watched her take second place, while the rebuilt sect settled into a new era. Afterward, he turned his attention back to cultivation and considered how to nourish the Blood Lotus Seed.

• Li Qing gave Li Yuhuan cultivation resources and the Thunder Extreme Technique, then set her the tasks of gathering bow materials and earning a place among the inner disciples.
• Li Yuhuan gathered Lightning-struck Wood and an Azure Nether Python tendon, and Li Qing forged her the High-grade Lightning Light Bow and promised the matching Thunderclap Arrow if she placed in the top three.
• The Lingyun Sect held its inner disciples' tournament, where Li Yuhuan took second place behind Jiang Han and earned the Thunderclap Arrow from Li Qing.
• Li Qing moved the Blood Lotus into a hidden medicinal field, suspecting it might need essence blood to grow and considering the sea beasts of the Boundless Sea as a source.
• After the tournament, Li Qing resumed cultivation and reflected on how he had risen from a Qi Refining disciple to a Core Formation ancestor.

Li Qing worried that Lingyun Sect lacked the talent and resources to withstand future threats, so he ordered the Pill Hall to search for ingredients for a Core Formation pill. After Li Yuhuan established her foundation, Li Qing set out across the Boundless Sea to hunt sea beasts for pill ingredients and blood essence for his Blood Lotus Seed.

• Li Qing reflected on his stalled cultivation and Lingyun Sect's lack of a Nascent Soul cultivator, alchemists, and a protective formation.
• Li Yuhuan successfully established her foundation, and Li Qing gave her Purple Sun Pills and told her to choose a lightning-art divine ability.
• Li Qing inspected the Blood Lotus Seed, the three Golden Silk Silkworm cocoons, and the Withered Vine in his hidden chamber.
• Li Qing asked Jiang Han to gather ingredients for the Spirit Nurturing Pill, learning that the Pill Hall lacked a five-hundred-year Heavenly Origin Flower.
• Li Qing decided to hunt third-tier sea beasts for their cores and blood essence, then flew east into the Boundless Sea.
• Li Qing noticed bubbles rising from the sea nearby.

Li Qing hunted and killed a Deep Sea Rock Crab and an Eight-armed Purple Octopus in the Boundless Sea, then encountered a powerful sea demon while fleeing the depths. He escaped to the surface, where a scarlet flood dragon emerged to confront him.

• Li Qing watched an Eight-armed Purple Octopus and a Deep Sea Rock Crab fight, then used the Shattering Yuan Great Fire Seal and Primordial Peerless Hammer to cripple the crab and kill it.
• Li Qing pursued the wounded Eight-armed Purple Octopus beneath the sea, caught it with Kunpeng Extreme Speed, and killed it with his Breaking Army Blades and physical strength.
• After storing both demonic beasts, Li Qing tried to leave the deep sea but sensed a Late Third-tier creature approaching and fled toward the surface.
• The sea demon stirred up a vortex to drag Li Qing back, but he escaped with Kunpeng Extreme Speed and Spatial Traversal.
• A scarlet flood dragon burst from the sea as Li Qing looked down from the sky.

Li Qing battled a Late Third-tier scarlet flood dragon at sea, meeting its physical attacks and Dragon King Curse with his magical treasures and Kunpeng Art. As he fled toward his sect, a Heavenly Wind swept in and swallowed both of them.

• The scarlet dragon attacked Li Qing after accusing him of killing its subordinates, and its claws left marks on the Xiling Pagoda.
• Li Qing fought the dragon with the Xiling Pagoda, Primordial Peerless Hammer, and Golden Jade Armor, but could not overpower its body.
• The scarlet dragon unleashed its Dragon King Curse, and Li Qing countered with Kunpeng Sky-Tearing Hand enhanced by Seven-Colored Vitality Essence, injuring his arm as the divine powers collided.
• Li Qing fled using Kunpeng Extreme Speed while the scarlet dragon pursued him, and he planned to return to his sect for help.
• A vast Heavenly Wind appeared, and despite both trying to escape it, the storm swallowed Li Qing and the scarlet dragon.

Li Qing was swept into a Heavenly Wind over the sea and survived by sheltering inside the Black Furnace, while the storm carried him toward an unknown destination. Elsewhere, the Golden Bear King sought support to open the Myriad Beast Secret Realm early so his sixth son could enter, but several clans weighed the proposal or rejected it.

• Li Qing entered the Black Furnace as the Heavenly Wind slashed him with seawater and carried the furnace across the sea.
• The Azure Winged Rat King agreed to send a newly inner-core clan member into the Myriad Beast Secret Realm.
• The Earth Nether Python King rejected the Golden Bear King's proposal, while other Demon Domain clans considered its motives and sought entry for their own members.
• A white-maned lion decided to find a way into the secret realm to seek the inheritance of the ancient Nine-headed Lion King.
• The Golden Bear King learned that the Azure Winged Rat Clan had agreed but the Earth Nether Python Clan had refused, and he resolved to find another way to send his sixth son into the secret realm.

Li Qing was swept into the Myriad Beast Secret Realm by a Heavenly Wind and crashed into its desert, while the Beast Kings outside worried about the black furnace and the human inheritance hidden in their ancestral land. As Li Qing rested beneath the sand, a bone hand seized a Terror Claw Lizard that was hunting a Nether Demon Scorpion for its Beast Ancestor Token.

• The Beast Kings discussed the black furnace that had entered the secret realm, and the Azure King recalled that it might contain a human inheritance.
• The Beast Kings agreed to guard the secret realm’s exit in case a human emerged with an inheritance.
• Li Qing recovered inside his furnace after the Jade Pendant drew him into the Myriad Beast Secret Realm and the furnace crashed into a desert.
• A Nether Demon Scorpion escaped underground with a Beast Ancestor Token while a Terror Claw Lizard pursued and threatened it.
• A bone hand burst from beneath the sand, grabbed the roaring Terror Claw Lizard by the throat, and demanded quiet.

Li Qing woke in the Myriad Beast Secret Realm, learned that Beast King Tokens could grant access to ancient demon inheritances, and decided to seek them despite the powerful beasts inside. After Chong Jiu captured the Nether Demon Scorpion and revealed its token, Li Qing prepared to explore the realm with Rice Bucket.

• Li Qing subdued the Terror Claw Lizard and forced it to explain that he was in the Myriad Beast Secret Realm in the Demon Domain.
• The Terror Claw Lizard explained that Beast King Tokens granted access to ancient inheritances, while five tokens allowed entry to Beast King Mountain, which held Spirit Transformation inheritances.
• Chong Jiu emerged from the sand with the Nether Demon Scorpion it had captured, and Li Qing took the Beast King Token it carried.
• The Terror Claw Lizard warned Li Qing about powerful demons in the realm and described the rare Myriad Beast Fruit, which could greatly strengthen the body.
• Li Qing decided to seek tokens and the Myriad Beast Fruit, then summoned Rice Bucket, whose appearance frightened the Terror Claw Lizard.

Li Qing and his three demonic companions headed into a rift valley after the Life Tempering Spirit Pool unexpectedly opened, hoping to gain its healing and potential-enhancing Spirit Wood Essence. They reached the pool but were attacked by a Bone Demon Wolf, which summoned buried skeletons and was startled by Li Qing's presence.

• The Terror Claw Lizard warned Li Qing that Jin Lie, the Golden Bear King's Sixth Son, would hate Rice Bucket because the Golden Bear King had destroyed the Tiger Clan; Li Qing decided he would face Jin Lie if necessary.
• The Terror Claw Lizard followed Li Qing's group and recounted how the Golden Bear King and other royal clans wiped out the Heavenly Demon Tiger Clan.
• A surge of life force revealed that the Life Tempering Spirit Pool had opened, and Li Qing led Rice Bucket, Chong Jiu, and the Terror Claw Lizard into the rift valley.
• As Rice Bucket entered the pool's life force, a Bone Demon Wolf fired sharp fangs at him and the Terror Claw Lizard, but Li Qing burned them away with the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame.
• The Bone Demon Wolf summoned skeletal demonic beasts from underground, then froze in surprise when it sensed Li Qing's presence.

Li Qing and his companions battled the Bone Demon Giant Wolf and its summoned skeletons near the Life Tempering Spirit Pool. After Li Qing defeated two Golden Horned Bone Bulls and forced the wolf to surrender a Beast King Token, they entered the newly opened pool as other Demonic Beasts approached.

• The Bone Demon Giant Wolf sent its Demonic Beast Skeletons to test Li Qing, while Li Qing burned through most of them with Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame.
• Rice Bucket charged the Bone Demon Giant Wolf, and Li Qing ordered Chong Jiu and the Terror Claw Lizard to help while he fought two Golden Horned Bone Bulls.
• Li Qing activated the True Body of the Brahma King and smashed both Golden Horned Bone Bulls into powder, preserving their golden horns.
• As Li Qing prepared to attack with his Shattering Yuan Great Fire Seals, the Bone Demon Giant Wolf offered a Beast King Token to end the fight.
• The Bone Demon Giant Wolf revealed that it had sensed Li Qing's token through its innate ability to detect bones, then handed over a token as other Demonic Beasts approached.
• Li Qing led Rice Bucket, Chong Jiu, and the Terror Claw Lizard into the Life Tempering Spirit Pool, and the Bone Demon Giant Wolf followed as azure wooden platforms appeared.

Demon beasts fought brutally for the twelve spots in the Life Tempering Spirit Pool, while Li Qing’s group had already claimed five of them. The pool sealed after the remaining spots were taken, and the late-arriving Three-Headed Black Crocodile left to seek spirit herbs instead.

• Li Qing’s group entered the Life Tempering Spirit Pool first and occupied five blackwood platforms.
• Bai Xing and Jin Lie abandoned their confrontation, fought through the beasts below, and claimed two more platforms.
• An Azure Wave Snake poisoned a Golden Horn Brutal Ox and took its spot; a Wind Ape, a shadow leopard, and an Azure Winged Rat claimed three others.
• A badly wounded Flame Weasel seized the final platform, after which the Life Tempering Spirit Pool sealed and absorbed the fallen beasts and their inner cores.
• The Three-Headed Black Crocodile arrived too late, lamented missing the pool, and set off to search for spirit herbs while the twelve platform owners absorbed life energy.

Li Qing used the Life Tempering Spirit Pool to heal hidden damage and temper his body with the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame, advancing toward the Late Third-tier. As more Demon Race members emerged, Rice Bucket fought Bai Xing, Jin Lie spotted the black tiger, and Li Qing remained the last in seclusion.

• Li Qing absorbed life energy on a mystic wood platform, healing the damage from his past lightning tribulation and restoring his body’s potential.
• Li Qing climbed into the Black Furnace and used the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame to temper his body while cultivating the True Body of the Brahma King.
• The Terror Claw Lizard emerged first, followed by the shadow panther, Flame Weasel, Bone Demon Giant Wolf, and Wind Ape.
• The Azure Wave Snake attacked the Azure Winged Rat after they emerged, then invited it to travel together; the rat refused.
• Rice Bucket emerged alongside Bai Xing, and the two fought fiercely despite Rice Bucket being a realm below the White Lion.
• Jin Lie and Chong Jiu emerged, and Jin Lie noticed Rice Bucket; the others saw that Li Qing was still inside the final platform.

Li Qing emerged from the Life Tempering Spirit Pool just in time to save Chong Jiu from Jin Lie, then revealed that his body had transformed through cultivation and challenged the Golden Bear King’s descendant. Li Qing overpowered Jin Lie with a physical blow, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved as Jin Lie crashed to the ground.

• Jin Lie emerged from seclusion, attacked Rice Bucket, and fought Chong Jiu when Chong Jiu intervened.
• Jin Lie severed several of Chong Jiu’s tentacles and hurled him toward the Life Tempering Spirit Pool.
• Li Qing emerged from the Mystic Wood Platform and caught Chong Jiu before he fell into the pool.
• Jin Lie challenged Li Qing, who provoked him and met his charge with pure physical strength.
• Li Qing knocked Jin Lie backward and struck him with a punch that sent the dragon bear crashing down like a meteor.

Li Qing killed Jin Lie after the dragon bear awakened his bloodline, provoking fear of the Golden Bear King’s retaliation. He left the rift valley with Rice Bucket and set his sights on Beast King Mountain and the Myriad Beast Spirit Tree, already holding enough tokens for entry.

• Jin Lie survived Li Qing’s first punch by awakening his dragon bear bloodline, but Li Qing used the Kunpeng Treasure Art to defeat and kill him, taking his Bear Gall and body.
• The Shadow Panther, Azure Wave Snake, Bone Demon Giant Wolf, Flame Weasel, and other demon beasts withdrew, warning that the Golden Bear King would seek revenge for Jin Lie’s death.
• The Terror Claw Lizard left Li Qing to protect his clan, while Li Qing accepted his choice and considered the danger of the Golden Bear King.
• Rice Bucket spoke human language and told Li Qing that he sensed a faint calling in the secret realm, which Li Qing suspected came from a Tiger Clan inheritance at Beast King Mountain.
• Li Qing and Rice Bucket left the rift valley to seek Beast King Tokens and information about the Myriad Beast Spirit Tree; Li Qing found three tokens on Jin Lie, bringing his total to five.

Li Qing waited beside a sealed burial mound, hoping to rob Beast King Tokens from another demon who opened it. When a wounded Mountain Ridge Giant Elephant tried and failed to break the restriction, Li Qing helped it open the tomb, and an ancient remnant rewarded him with three tokens.

• Demons across the Myriad Beast Secret Realm learned that Jin Lie had been killed by a human, though they could not understand how a human had entered the realm.
• Li Qing chose not to spend two Beast King Tokens on the burial mound and hid nearby, planning to take any tokens found by another demon.
• A Mountain Ridge Giant Elephant arrived and repeatedly rammed the restriction until it was badly wounded.
• Li Qing offered to open the tomb with two Beast King Tokens in exchange for any tokens inside, and the grateful elephant agreed.
• A remnant inside the tomb thanked Li Qing and gave him three Beast King Tokens as repayment.
• The remnant asked whether humans in the Demon Domain had become as physically powerful as Li Qing.

Li Qing learned that Beast King Mountain might hold a human inheritance, then traveled to the Myriad Beast Spirit Tree to compete for its fruits. He discovered that demons feared him for killing Jin Lie and learned that each fruit lay at the end of a separate path guarded by immense shackles.

• Li Qing told the Elephant Clan senior that he came from another domain, and the senior urged him to visit Beast King Mountain without explaining why.
• The Myriad Beast Spirit Tree appeared as the sky turned blood-red, and the senior explained that it absorbed spilled blood to nourish its fruits.
• The senior taught Li Qing a technique for traveling through the tree’s roots, while the Mountain Ridge Giant Elephant stayed behind to inherit the Elephant Clan’s legacy.
• Li Qing used the root technique to reach the tree and found the gathered demons recoiling from him because he had killed Jin Lie.
• Li Qing captured a Heavenly Dog demon and learned that the tree usually bore five to ten fruits, each at the end of a separate golden-leaf path, while crossing between paths required carrying ten-thousand-jun shackles.

Li Qing learned that the golden-leaf roads limited how many Myriad Beast Spirit Fruits a demon could claim, so he adjusted his plans and asked Rice Bucket to compete for one. As the demons gathered beneath the tree, the Three-Headed Black Crocodile confronted Li Qing, who demanded all its Beast King Tokens or its life.

• Li Qing took a Beast King Token from the Heavenly Dog demon, bringing his total to nine, and let it flee.
• Li Qing released Rice Bucket and asked him to compete for a Myriad Beast Spirit Fruit because Chong Jiu was injured and crossing two golden-leaf roads would be too difficult.
• Rice Bucket eagerly agreed to fight, and he and Li Qing waited beneath the Myriad Beast Spirit Tree as other demons arrived.
• The Three-Headed Black Crocodile pushed through the gathered demons and challenged Li Qing, while Rice Bucket prepared to fight it.
• Li Qing demanded that the Three-Headed Black Crocodile surrender every Beast King Token it carried or die.