Chapter Summaries

Li Qing confronted the Three-Headed Black Crocodile beneath the Golden Giant Tree, but the Myriad Beast Spirit Fruits appeared before they could fight. He chose the unusually brilliant Golden Road, while a Mountain Ridge Giant Elephant wondered whether an unseen figure had interfered with the ancestral tree because of Li Qing.

• Li Qing demanded the Beast King Token from the Three-Headed Black Crocodile, and the two entered a tense standoff as nearby demons judged the crocodile unlikely to defeat him.
• The Golden Giant Tree stirred and revealed the Myriad Beast Spirit Fruits, drawing the demons’ attention away from Li Qing and the crocodile.
• Golden Roads formed for the fruits, and Bai Xing was the first to charge toward one.
• Seven fruits appeared before a far brighter Golden Road emerged, and Li Qing leapt toward it.
• The Three-Headed Black Crocodile and other demons chose their own roads and took to the air after Li Qing.
• At an Elephant Clan Tomb Mansion, a Mountain Ridge Giant Elephant wondered whether an unseen figure had interfered with the ancestral tree because of Li Qing.

Li Qing climbed the Myriad Beast Spirit Tree’s Golden Road, overcame its pressure and phantom beasts, and obtained a golden Myriad Beast Spirit Fruit. He crossed to another road under the crushing Myriad Jun Shackles and confronted the Three-Headed Black Crocodile, who threatened to kill him.

• The Three-Headed Black Crocodile avoided Li Qing by choosing a different Golden Road, while the other demons claimed the remaining paths.
• Li Qing climbed his road, endured increasing pressure, and fought phantom beasts whose golden auras eased the burden and restored his strength.
• Li Qing defeated a powerful Heavenly Demon Tiger, reached the tree crown, and plucked the golden Myriad Beast Spirit Fruit.
• Li Qing crossed to another Golden Road to obtain a fruit for Chong Jiu, and the road’s Myriad Jun Shackles weighed heavily upon him.
• The Three-Headed Black Crocodile confronted Li Qing and threatened him, while Li Qing said he wanted the Beast King Tokens it had collected.

Li Qing fought the Three-Headed Black Crocodile while the Myriad Jun Shackles restricted his movements, then overcame its spiritual lights and ancestral spirit with the Kunpeng Treasure Art. After killing it and taking the Myriad Beast Spirit Fruit, he left with another grievance against a royal clan of the Demon Domain.

• The Three-Headed Black Crocodile attacked Li Qing with its Black Crocodile Three Annihilations, whose crimson light stripped away his spiritual power and true essence.
• The azure and black spiritual lights swept over Li Qing, but he sheltered inside a black furnace and emerged with his aura intact.
• Li Qing used the Kunpeng Sky-Crossing Diagram to strike the Three-Headed Black Crocodile, then tore apart the Black Crocodile Ancestral Spirit with the Kunpeng Sky-Tearing Hand.
• Li Qing subdued the unconscious Three-Headed Black Crocodile, used Soul Searching and Spirit Refining to learn its Black Crocodile Three Annihilations, and killed it.
• Li Qing took the Three-Headed Black Crocodile's corpse and claimed the Myriad Beast Spirit Fruit for Chong Jiu, knowing he had offended the Black Crocodile Clan.

After defeating the Three-Headed Black Crocodile, Li Qing obtained a Myriad Beast Spirit Fruit for Chong Jiu and another for himself. As he refined his fruit, he overcame the demon wills within it, and his bottleneck began to loosen as he advanced toward Late Core Formation.

• The surviving demons left the Golden Roads and wondered why no one had emerged from the road taken by Li Qing and the Three-Headed Black Crocodile.
• Li Qing killed the Three-Headed Black Crocodile and released the recovering Chong Jiu to eat its Myriad Beast Spirit Fruit.
• Chong Jiu swallowed the fruit, regrew its severed tentacles, and began to grow stronger.
• Li Qing swallowed his own fruit and refined its energy, improving his body and affinity for World Spiritual Energy without changing his Four Spiritual Roots.
• Demon beast wills rose within Li Qing, but he used his two Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires to suppress them.
• Li Qing felt his bottleneck loosen and began charging toward Late Core Formation.

The victors emerged from the Golden Roads, while the demons waited anxiously for the Three-Headed Black Crocodile and Li Qing. Li Qing appeared on the crocodile’s road, revealed he had crossed over and killed it, and left the demon victors stunned by his strength.

• Bai Xing, the Bone Demon Giant Wolf, the Azure Wave Snake, the Wind Ape, and the Azure Winged Rat emerged from their Golden Roads with enhanced power.
• The demons noticed that the Three-Headed Black Crocodile and the human on the brightest road had not yet appeared, and they speculated about what had happened.
• Rice Bucket emerged from the final road with deep wounds after defeating the Shadow Leopard.
• Li Qing appeared on the Three-Headed Black Crocodile’s Golden Road at the Late Core Formation stage.
• Li Qing explained that he had crossed to the crocodile’s road, killed it, and taken its spirit fruit, leaving the gathered demons speechless.

Li Qing and Rice Bucket reached Beast King Mountain after the Myriad Beast Spirit Tree vanished, and Li Qing gathered enough Beast King Tokens for himself and his companions to climb. The mountain tested them with unbreakable stone and overwhelming spiritual pressure, but Li Qing and Rice Bucket pressed onward toward its summit and the inheritances.

• Rice Bucket reunited with Li Qing, who said Chong Jiu was digesting a Myriad Beast Spirit Fruit and would transform after waking.
• The Myriad Beast Spirit Tree disappeared, revealing Beast King Mountain, while Bai Xing, the Bone Demon Giant Wolf, and the Azure Wave Snake tried to seize Beast King Tokens from weaker demons.
• Li Qing found seven Beast King Tokens on the Three-Headed Black Crocodile, bringing his total to sixteen, and brushed past Bai Xing as he headed for the mountain.
• Li Qing and Rice Bucket reached Beast King Mountain and found that the Breaking Army Blade could barely mark its self-healing stone.
• A Devil Ape phantom appeared as the Wind Ape began receiving an inheritance, then immense pressure from the mountain forced Li Qing and Rice Bucket to struggle uphill.
• Li Qing gave Rice Bucket five Beast King Tokens, and the two continued climbing despite the pressure bearing down on their spirits.

Li Qing climbed Beast King Mountain, where he passed a divine-soul trial and met the Hundred Spirits Dao Lord. After learning that the Moonfall Star Chart gave him access to the Soul Refining Scripture, Li Qing chose it and began receiving its inscription from an unnamed tombstone.

• Rice Bucket roared in frustration, activating the Heavenly Demon Tiger inheritance and drawing the attention of Bai Xing, the Azure Wave Snake, and the other demons gathered at the mountain’s foot.
• A Heavenly Demon Tiger phantom tested Rice Bucket with overwhelming pressure while Li Qing continued climbing alone.
• The Hundred Spirits Dao Lord appeared at the summit, used the Moonfall Star Chart to recognize Li Qing, and set him a trial of pressure from powerful demon clans.
• Li Qing endured the trial and reached the summit, where the Hundred Spirits Dao Lord revealed that he could choose between his broad inheritance and the Soul Refining Scripture.
• Li Qing chose the Soul Refining Scripture, and the Hundred Spirits Dao Lord sent its inscription from an unnamed tombstone into Li Qing’s sea of consciousness.

Li Qing memorized the Soul Refining Scripture while Rice Bucket passed the Heavenly Demon Tiger trial and claimed the right to enter the clan’s Tomb Mansion without abandoning its master. Inside, Rice Bucket encountered a powerful tiger skeleton and began learning the Demon Race’s writing from the Heavenly Demon Tiger Ancestor.

• Li Qing memorized the Soul Refining Scripture, knowing he would still need time to understand and cultivate it.
• Rice Bucket passed the Heavenly Demon Tiger clan’s trial, but refused to break its master-recognition Spirit Contract for the inheritance.
• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord reminded the Heavenly Demon Tiger Ancestor that Rice Bucket had passed the trial and carried five Beast King Tokens, so it deserved the inheritance.
• The Heavenly Demon Tiger Ancestor yielded and let Rice Bucket enter the Tomb Mansion, where it found a powerful dark-purple tiger skeleton.
• Rice Bucket struggled to read the Demonic Script, so the Heavenly Demon Tiger Ancestor taught it the Demon Race’s writing and noticed the skeleton resonating with it.

Li Qing received the Soul Refining Scripture from Hundred Spirits Dao Lord and learned that the Black Furnace was once the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure called the Life-Extinguishing Furnace. With demons guarding the exit from the Myriad Beast Secret Realm, Hundred Spirits Dao Lord offered to help Li Qing escape.

• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord warned Li Qing to keep the Soul Refining Scripture secret, and Li Qing released Chong Jiu to try for Beast King Mountain’s Mystic Jade Spider inheritance.
• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord explained that the Mystic Jade Spider’s remnant thought had not survived, then asked Li Qing about the humans of the demon domain.
• Li Qing revealed that he came from the outer regions and that humans in the demon domain had long disappeared; Hundred Spirits Dao Lord warned that Demon Kings guarded the secret realm’s exit.
• Li Qing showed Hundred Spirits Dao Lord the Black Furnace, which he identified as the damaged Life-Extinguishing Furnace, once Life-Extinguishing Elder’s Natal Magic Treasure.
• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord said Li Qing might restore the furnace by gathering all thirty-six golden flame emblems, then asked him to take out his spiritual materials so he could teach him how to escape.

Li Qing gave Hundred Spirits Dao Lord his spiritual materials and learned that Moonlit Ridge was an ascension node before agreeing to let the Dao Lord’s obsession lodge in his Immortal Spirit Green Gold and leave the Myriad Beast Secret Realm. With Demon Kings waiting outside, Hundred Spirits Dao Lord began guiding Li Qing through refining a limited-use wing artifact for their escape.

• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord recognized Li Qing’s bronze fragment from Moonlit Ridge and explained that the Forbidden Zone was an ascension node occupied by Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord asked to lodge his obsession in Li Qing’s Immortal Spirit Green Gold so he could leave the secret realm and seek a successor, and Li Qing agreed.
• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord passed wind, lightning, and spatial dao patterns to Li Qing and instructed him to refine a pair of extremely fast wings.
• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord told Li Qing to begin smelting Void Bone Stone for the limited-use Forbidden Artifact, and Li Qing used his Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame to do so.

Li Qing struggled to inscribe Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure-level Dao patterns onto the wings he had refined while the demons emerged from their inheritance tombs. Rice Bucket finally left the Heavenly Demon Tiger Ancestor’s tomb with a new ancestral pattern and a charge to honor the clan, as Li Qing’s time in the secret realm neared its end.

• Li Qing repeatedly failed to inscribe the wind, lightning, and spatial Dao patterns, while Hundred Spirits Dao Lord explained how to use divine sense and the wings’ elemental powers.
• Bai Xing emerged with the Nine-Headed Golden Lion inheritance and a drop of its essence blood, while Chong Jiu left its tomb mansion and fell asleep near Li Qing.
• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord sensed that the secret realm was about to transport Li Qing out and used a small method to buy him more time for his work.
• Rice Bucket emerged from the Heavenly Demon Tiger Ancestor’s tomb with a violet ancestral pattern and a strengthened frame, then heard the ancestor’s voice tell it not to disgrace the clan.

Li Qing refined the Wind Thunder Silver Wings and prepared to leave the Myriad Beast Secret Realm as its delayed opening finally began. Outside, the Demon Kings learned that Jin Lie and the Three-Headed Black Crocodile had died, leaving the Golden Bear King and Black Crocodile King stunned.

• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord helped Li Qing refine the Wind Thunder Silver Wings, a forbidden artifact tempered by lightning, and explained that they might someday lead to a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.
• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord withdrew his interference, the secret realm began teleporting its inhabitants out, and he hid inside Li Qing’s bronze fragment while Li Qing stored Rice Bucket and Chong Jiu in his Beast Taming Pouches.
• A Mountain Ridge Giant Elephant completed the Elephant Clan inheritance and was teleported out of the Tomb Mansion.
• The Demon Kings waited anxiously for the delayed opening, and the Golden Bear King confidently claimed that his son Jin Lie might have awakened the Ancient Dragon Bear’s ancestral spirit.
• The Black Crocodile King seized a Golden Horn Brutal Ox and questioned it about the spirit fruits; it reported that Bai Xing and the Azure Wave Snake were among the eight who obtained them.
• The Golden Horn Brutal Ox revealed that Jin Lie and the Three-Headed Black Crocodile were dead, silencing the assembled Demon Kings.

After Li Qing killed Jin Lie and the Three-Headed Black Crocodile, the Golden Bear King and Black Crocodile King attacked him as he emerged from the Myriad Beast Secret Realm. Li Qing escaped with Kunpeng Extreme Speed and headed back toward his sect, while the two kings began hunting for him across other territories.

• The Golden Horn Brutal Ox revealed that a human cultivator had killed Jin Lie and the Three-Headed Black Crocodile inside the ancestral land, and a Wind Ape confirmed the report.
• The Golden Bear King and Black Crocodile King waited at the secret realm exit, where the Golden Bear King attacked Li Qing as he emerged.
• Li Qing evaded the kings' strikes with his Wind Thunder Silver Wings, then combined them with Kunpeng Divine Power to escape their senses.
• Li Qing landed on a lonely island, recovered from his injuries, and told the Hundred Spirits Dao Lord he would return to his sect and help find an inheritor.
• Li Qing flew north toward the Qingling Region as news of his escape spread through the Demon Domain.
• The Golden Bear King and Black Crocodile King joined forces and left the Demon Domain to hunt Li Qing across other territories.

After resting on a remote island, Li Qing discovered that its people worshipped the Five Elements Spirit Pearls and that his old acquaintance Suxin appeared to possess the Water Spirit Pearl. He decided to find her privately and learn about her circumstances, while the Hundred Spirits Dao Lord offered to help him bypass the island’s protective formation.

• Li Qing concealed his identity, hid near a spirit vein on the island, and restored his depleted mana.
• As Li Qing prepared to leave, the Hundred Spirits Dao Lord recognized the islanders’ worship of the Five Elements Spirit Pearls and their Spirit Pearl Envoys.
• An elderly Core Formation cultivator performed a ritual that drew Water Attribute spiritual power from the sea, and Suxin appeared before the gathered islanders.
• The Hundred Spirits Dao Lord urged Li Qing to seize the Water Spirit Pearl, but Li Qing refused to take another person's body and revealed that he knew Suxin.
• Li Qing decided to meet Suxin discreetly after the ritual, and the Hundred Spirits Dao Lord offered to guide him through the flawed third-rank formation.

Li Qing reunited with Suxin in the island cluster and learned how she had survived and sought revenge after the Tianhe Sect fell. He revealed that he had destroyed the Shangqing Sect and discovered that Suxin’s underwater cave abode held the Heavenly Origin Flowers he needed, leaving them preparing to retrieve them despite the sea beasts guarding it.

• Li Qing infiltrated the spiritual vein grounds and surprised Suxin at her cave abode, where she recognized him and learned he had survived.
• Suxin described awakening in the Nether Realm, finding a shattered Water Spirit Pearl, and advancing to Mid Core Formation while planning revenge on the Shangqing Sect.
• Li Qing revealed that he had reached Late Core Formation and destroyed the Shangqing Sect, and he told Suxin about some of his later adventures.
• Suxin told Li Qing that her underwater cave abode contained many Heavenly Origin Flowers over five hundred years old, but fierce sea beasts had gathered around it.
• After Suxin confirmed that no fourth-tier demon was nearby, Li Qing offered to accompany her to the underwater cave abode and deal with the sea beasts.

Li Qing and Suxin descended to an undersea estate to retrieve Heavenly Origin Flowers, but the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise attacked them. Li Qing defeated and subdued it, then arranged for it to sign a Spirit Contract with Suxin and guard Lingyun Sect’s waters.

• Suxin used the Water Spirit Pearl to part the seawater and guide them toward the hidden estate.
• Li Qing recognized the approaching attacker as the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise and told Suxin to enter the estate while he held off the sea beasts.
• Li Qing used the Kunpeng Treasure Art and Demonic Kun Absorbing Spirit Art to severely wound the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise.
• The Mountain-Bearing Tortoise agreed to submit and sign a Spirit Contract after Li Qing threatened it with his Breaking Army Blades.
• Suxin emerged from the estate, and Li Qing told the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise to recognize her as its master and guard Lingyun Sect’s waters.
• Suxin recognized the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise as the creature that had killed Tianhe Sect elders when the Tianhe Sect was destroyed.

Li Qing and Suxin returned to the Qingling Region after Suxin subdued the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise and left Cloud Net Island to seek the remaining Water Spirit Pearl fragments. They arrived at Lingyun Sect, where Suxin settled in, while the sect’s growing strength still lacked a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.

• Li Qing gave Suxin control over the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise, and she subdued it with her water talisman before placing a spirit contract in its sea of consciousness.
• Li Qing and Suxin left Cloud Net Island and traveled across the sea toward the Qingling Region, surviving several dangerous encounters along the way.
• Li Qing and Suxin returned to Lingyun Sect, where Ancestor Ziqing returned Suxin’s Water Spirit Pearl Fragment and thanked her for helping the sect against the Devil Race.
• Li Qing showed Suxin around Lingyun Sect and offered her a spirit peak or Tianhe Sect’s former grounds, but she chose not to rebuild Tianhe Sect for now.
• Suxin remained in Lingyun Sect, bringing its number of Core Formation True Persons to six and adding the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise as a powerful guardian, though the sect still lacked a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.

Li Qing handled Lingyun Sect affairs, responding to turmoil in the Great Desolation Region by deciding to lease the sect’s former grounds to informed Core Formation cultivators. He arranged to meet the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild, sought a protective formation from Hundred Spirits Dao Lord, and planned to choose a sect master so he could focus on cultivation.

• Li Qing read reports that the Crocodile Venerable had united the demons in the Great Desolation Region as the Devil Dao Sects fought among themselves, driving Rogue Cultivators toward Qingling Region.
• Li Qing decided to lease cave abodes at the former site of the Lingyun Sect to Core Formation cultivators after warning them that it was a weak Spatial Node connected to the Demon Realm.
• Li Qing agreed to meet the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s representative after Hundred Spirits Dao Lord described the guild’s far-reaching influence and possible Upper Realm backing.
• After learning that Sacred Hall Tribe cultivators had been seen in northern Qingling Region, Li Qing ordered nearby Cultivation Noble Families to stay vigilant and asked Hundred Spirits Dao Lord to guide the Lingyun Sect’s formation masters in building a sect-protecting formation.
• Li Qing decided to select a sect master before the next Ascension Ceremony so he could devote himself to cultivation, then summoned the sect’s formation masters and told them they would assist with the protective formation.

Li Qing followed Hundred Spirits Dao Lord’s instructions to build a Fourth-tier Great Formation protecting the Lingyun Sect. After the formation took shape and astonished the sect’s cultivators, Li Qing named it the Heavenly Origin Spirit Extermination Formation.

• Li Qing led Elder Ma and the other Formation Masters into the Sect Treasury to gather the materials Hundred Spirits Dao Lord requested.
• Li Qing had the Formation Masters spend four days refining formation flags, which Hundred Spirits Dao Lord judged barely usable.
• Li Qing surveyed the Lingyun Sect from above and directed the elders to bury spirit materials and plant formation flags at key terrain nodes.
• Li Qing transferred his true essence to Hundred Spirits Dao Lord, who activated the flags and linked them with spiritual formation veins.
• The completed Fourth-tier Great Formation shook the earth and astonished the Lingyun Sect’s cultivators, including True Person Fu Xuan and Wu Chong.
• Li Qing announced that the formation was called the Heavenly Origin Spirit Extermination Formation.

Li Qing completed and tested the Heavenly Origin Spirit Extermination Formation, giving Lingyun Sect a formidable defense. After arranging for the sect to search for a successor to Hundred Spirits Dao Lord, he received Lü Tianbao, a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild, who came to discuss cooperation.

• Hundred Spirits Dao Lord finished restoring the Heavenly Origin Spirit Extermination Formation and explained that it could contend with Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivators before returning to the Immortal Spirit Green Gold.
• Li Qing took control of the formation and tested it by unleashing a spiritual spear that evaporated a vast stretch of seawater, frightening the Mountain-Bearing Tortoise.
• After recovering his mana, Li Qing asked Li Yuhuan to have everyone in Lingyun Sect touch the Immortal Spirit Green Gold and report anyone who made it glow.
• Lü Tianbao arrived at Lingyun Sect and revealed his Nascent Soul Realm aura, prompting Li Qing to welcome him and conceal the formation while Wu Chong and the other Supreme Elders stood ready.
• Lü Tianbao praised the formation and asked about its origins, but Li Qing attributed it to an unnamed senior he met overseas before inviting him to discuss the Merchant Guild's proposed cooperation in the main hall.