Chapter Summaries

Li Qing reached the Fengyuan Region and encountered the Crimson Blood Flood Dragon he had once barely escaped, then faced its Third Uncle, the Mid Humanoid Transformation Black Flood Dragon King. The two began a fierce battle, and the chapter ended as Li Qing’s hammer strike collided with the Dragon King Curse.

• Li Qing prepared spirit treasures, Third-tier Fire Origin Paste, and fifty thousand spirit stones before leaving for the Fengyuan Region with Rice Bucket.
• After months crossing the sea, Li Qing met the Crimson Blood Flood Dragon and subdued it with a flaming hand and the Nine-story Iron Pagoda.
• The Black Flood Dragon King appeared and demanded that Li Qing spare his nephew, but Li Qing refused and challenged him.
• Li Qing and the Black Flood Dragon King fought hand to hand, and Li Qing used Profound Yellow True Flame to counter the Dragon King’s heavy water.
• The Black Flood Dragon King transformed and unleashed Black Dragon Nether Rain Fall, while Li Qing formed his Fire Extreme Dharma Body and swung the Primordial Peerless Hammer.
• The Black Flood Dragon King met Li Qing’s hammer with the Dragon King Curse, and their attacks collided.

Li Qing and the Black Flood Dragon King fought fiercely until their battle reached the City of Heavenly Treasures, where True Lord Wanhe used a token bearing the aura of a Spirit Transformation cultivator to make them stop. Li Qing revealed his name as True Monarch Wuji, and his reputation spread throughout the Human Realm.

• Li Qing and the Black Flood Dragon King traded powerful attacks, and Li Qing used the Kunpeng Treasure Art to wound the dragon in its true form.
• The fighters unknowingly carried their battle toward the City of Heavenly Treasures as cultivators gathered there for the Myriad Treasures Grand Gathering.
• True Lord Wanhe and other cultivators noticed the clash above the city, where Li Qing blocked the Black Flood Dragon King's attacks with Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.
• True Lord Wanhe displayed a golden token bearing the aura of a Spirit Transformation cultivator, prompting Li Qing and the Black Flood Dragon King to withdraw their attacks.
• Li Qing praised the battle, and the Black Flood Dragon King acknowledged him before Li Qing announced himself as True Monarch Wuji of Lingyun Sect in the Qingling Region.

Li Qing defeated the Black Flood Dragon King and then fought off the Golden Bear King, who sought revenge for Li Qing killing his son. True Lord Wanhe stopped their feud until after the auction, and days later Li Qing reconciled with the Black Flood Dragon King and received invitations from human cultivators.

• The Golden Bear King recognized Li Qing and attacked him to avenge his son, but Li Qing burned him with the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame.
• True Lord Wanhe threatened to revoke both Li Qing's and the Golden Bear King's auction qualifications unless they stopped fighting, and they reluctantly settled their dispute for the time being.
• Li Qing and the Black Flood Dragon King entered the immortal city together, where cultivators took notice of Li Qing's strength.
• Several days later, the Black Flood Dragon King visited Li Qing with the Crimson Blood Flood Dragon and returned the Xiling Pagoda as an apology.
• Li Qing accepted the Black Flood Dragon King's apology, and the two developed a friendship as human cultivators began sending Li Qing invitations and calling cards.

Li Qing attended Nascent Soul trade meets in the City of Heavenly Treasures, where he identified a mysterious Longevity Lock and traded Fire Origin Paste. After days of cultivating and socializing with renowned cultivators, the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild's auction grand event drew near.

• Li Qing attended trade meets openly, befriended fellow Nascent Soul cultivators, and discovered that Old Lord Tu Yuan's silver lock could slow aging and extend its wearer's lifespan.
• Old Lord Tu Yuan sought lifespan-increasing pills or medicines in exchange for the Longevity Lock, but no one made a suitable offer, so he planned to try the auction grand event.
• Immortal Aunt Yunrou traded an eight-hundred-year spirit herb for a branch of Thousand-Year Spirit Wood, while Li Qing sold third-grade Fire Origin Paste to Old Lord Tu Yuan for nine thousand spirit stones.
• Li Qing cultivated, attended more trade meets and banquets, and met renowned figures including Old Man Tianxing and an ancestor from West Heaven Pavilion.
• The Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild's auction grand event approached, and the cultivators prepared to compete for treasures.

Li Qing attended the Myriad Treasures Grand Gathering in Heavenly Treasure Hall, where he studied the hall’s combined treasure-and-formation design and reunited with True Lord Tianbao. The auction began with a mysterious crystal containing what True Lord Wanhe identified as several wisps of dragon qi.

• Heavenly Treasure Hall rose above the City of Heavenly Treasures, and Li Qing joined the invited cultivators entering the hall.
• Li Qing examined how the hall and the city’s protective formation supported one another, considering the design as a reference for his planned Immortal Slaying Sword Formation Diagram.
• Nascent Soul Realm cultivators greeted Li Qing, the Black Flood Dragon King acknowledged him, and the Golden Bear King showed his hostility before Li Qing settled in a private room.
• True Lord Wanhe opened the auction and introduced the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s appraisal team, which included Li Qing’s acquaintance True Lord Tianbao.
• True Lord Wanhe presented a dark-brown crystal containing dragon-shaped forms and explained that it held several wisps of dragon qi, not true dragons or flood dragons.

At the auction, the Black Flood Dragon King won several wisps of true dragon qi with five-thousand-year Seven-Colored Dragon Marrow, revealing their importance to his race. Later, Geng Metal caught Li Qing’s attention, and he entered the bidding for the rare material.

• True Lord Wanhe explained that the wisps of dragon qi came from a rare True Dragon Holding Pearl terrain, and the Black Flood Dragon King bid dragon marrow for them.
• A bidder from West Heaven Pavilion challenged the Black Flood Dragon King, who raised his offer to a jar of five-thousand-year Seven-Colored Dragon Marrow and won the dragon qi after the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild verified it.
• The Black Flood Dragon King sealed his private room and rejoiced that true dragon qi might help his race flourish and purify its bloodline.
• After several less remarkable items were auctioned, True Lord Wanhe presented a piece of Geng Metal suitable for refining or improving a Natal Magic Treasure.
• Li Qing bid one hundred and twenty thousand spirit stones for the Geng Metal after Core Formation cultivators began competing for it.

Li Qing lost the bidding war for Geng Metal when Golden Bear King drove the price beyond his means. The auction continued, and True Lord Wanhe brought out the Thunder Sound Bamboo Li Qing needed to refine the Wind Thunder Silver Wings.

• Li Qing bid up to three hundred and fifty thousand Spirit Stones for the Geng Metal, but Golden Bear King raised the price to four hundred thousand.
• Li Qing withdrew, and Golden Bear King insisted he could pay after True Lord Wanhe warned him against disrupting the auction.
• Golden Bear King met privately with True Lord Wanhe, and the auction resumed with several rare treasures sold to Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.
• True Lord Wanhe presented a three-thousand-year-old section of Thunder Sound Bamboo, and Li Qing resolved to secure it for his Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.

Li Qing bid a Dragon Transformation Pill, Immortal Spirit Green Gold, and genuine Yellow Springs Water for a rare section of Thunder Sound Bamboo, which its mysterious seller wanted to exchange for resources useful in reaching Spirit Transformation. After the water was authenticated, Li Qing won the bamboo and discovered that Old Daoist with Goat Beard and Qiu Zhen were present at the gathering.

• True Lord Wanhe announced that the Thunder Sound Bamboo would go to whoever offered the seller’s preferred bid, with a breakthrough aid for Spirit Transformation as the desired exchange.
• Nascent Soul Realm cultivators offered rare treasures, including Old Lord Tu Yuan’s Longevity Lock, but True Lord Wanhe said ordinary life-extending items would not interest the seller.
• Li Qing bid a Dragon Transformation Pill, Immortal Spirit Green Gold, and a jar of Yellow Springs Water, then recognized Qiu Zhen and Old Daoist with Goat Beard among the attendees.
• The Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild tested the Yellow Springs Water in an Extreme Yang Cauldron and confirmed it was genuine.
• True Lord Wanhe awarded the Thunder Sound Bamboo to Li Qing and asked him to present the Dragon Transformation Pill and Immortal Spirit Green Gold.

Li Qing secured the Thunder Sound Bamboo he needed for refining the Wind Thunder Silver Wings, then watched the auction’s finale before the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild revealed that spatial rifts to the demon realm had begun to fluctuate. The chapter ended as the gathering shifted to a trade fair, with cultivators left to consider the possibility of another demonic invasion.

• Li Qing received the Thunder Sound Bamboo and planned to return to the Lingyun Sect to refine the Wind Thunder Silver Wings.
• A valuable Core Formation pill formula sparked fierce bidding before an ancestor from the West Heaven Pavilion won it.
• True Lord Wanhe presented the damaged Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure Mysterious Wind Bone Staff, and Old Lord Tianxing won it by offering to develop an incomplete fifth-tier formation.
• True Lord Wanhe revealed that the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild had detected unstable spatial rifts connecting the world to the demon realm and was preparing for a possible invasion.
• True Lord Wanhe opened the post-auction trade fair, where cultivators could exchange treasures and receive appraisals.

Li Qing traded Fifth-order Exotic Bird True Bone for a Northern Darkness Essence and a spatial Empty Shell, then replenished his Life Origin before joining a gathering to discuss the coming Demonic Calamity. He learned that Immortal Aunt Yunrou was connected to the formidable Mingwang Valley and left the gathering after gaining new insights into cultivation and the Devil Race.

• Old Lord Tu Yuan traded his Longevity Lock for a thousand-year spiritual longevity peach.
• Li Qing exchanged a section of Fifth-order Exotic Bird True Bone for Northern Darkness Essence, with True Lord Tianbao verifying the trade.
• True Lord Tianbao sold Li Qing an Empty Shell capable of housing living creatures and gifted him a Spirit Spring Eye in exchange for another section of True Bone.
• Li Qing spent 130,000 spirit stones on spiritual items rich in life essence before the free trade fair ended.
• At a Dao discussion, Immortal Aunt Yunrou revealed her connection to Mingwang Valley, and Li Qing recalled Senior Bai Ling's request concerning the Hua Clan there.
• The cultivators shared intelligence about the Devil Race and discussed cultivation before Li Qing bid them farewell and departed.

Li Qing returned to the Qingling Region, reunited with True Person Mu Long, and learned that war had engulfed the Great Desolation Region. After inspecting the weak Spatial Node linked to the demon realm, he left for Lingyun Sect determined to grow stronger before the coming calamity.

• Li Qing used the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild's teleportation array to reach the southern snowfields of the Qingling Region.
• Li Qing discovered that True Person Mu Long had settled at the former Lingyun Sect mountain gate and revealed his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.
• True Person Mu Long told Li Qing that a Crocodile Venerable and a fourth-rank Demon Concubine had led the Demon Race into human territory, while the Three Demonic Sects fought fiercely and his Medicine Garden was plundered.
• Li Qing inspected the Spatial Node at the former Ice Prison, found he could not determine its anomaly, and erected a warning monument to keep people away.
• Li Qing departed for Lingyun Sect, resolved to increase his strength as much as possible.

Li Qing prepared the space inside his empty shell, then began refining a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure from a Fifth-order Exotic Bird's True Bone and rare materials. As wind and lightning gathered around his cave abode, the sect watched in alarm, while Chu Lingyi celebrated her recent Core Formation.

• Li Qing filled the empty shell with earth, planted a Spirit Spring Eye, and added twenty thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones to nourish its barren landscape.
• Li Qing surveyed the flourishing Lingyun Sect and worried that the approaching Demonic Calamity threatened everything he had built.
• After three days of meditation, Li Qing sensed Chu Lingyi forming her core; she emerged as a Core Formation Ancestor of the sect.
• Li Qing began refining the Heaven-Piercing Silver Wings, purging Killing Intent from the Fifth-order Exotic Bird's True Bone and tempering it with Void Moon Crystal Sand, Thunder Sound Bamboo, and Wind Cave Stone.
• Wind and lightning gathered over Li Qing's cave abode, astonishing Chu Lingyi and the sect's disciples and elders, who wondered whether their sect ancestor was undergoing another breakthrough.

Li Qing forged the Wind Thunder Silver Wings into a spirit treasure prototype and began inscribing Dao patterns as rumors of a coming Demon Realm invasion spread. Meanwhile, Golden Bear King and Black Crocodile King reached Lingyun Sect to avenge E Sann Kong, only to find immense thunderclouds gathering over the sect.

• Li Qing completed the Wind Thunder Silver Wings prototype, awakened its spirituality with Northern Darkness Essence and Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire, and began inscribing Dao patterns.
• News of a future Demon Realm invasion spread through the Human Realm, prompting cultivators to panic and the prices of supplies to surge.
• Golden Bear King and Black Crocodile King questioned a market stall owner about Lingyun Sect and its Nascent Soul cultivator, Wuji Ancestor.
• Black Crocodile King swallowed the stall owner, and the two Demon Kings set out for Lingyun Sect to avenge his son E Sann Kong.
• Golden Bear King and Black Crocodile King arrived at Lingyun Sect and saw vast thunderclouds gathering as wind and lightning power stirred around the mountain gate.

Li Qing completed the Wind Thunder Silver Wings, but their spirit treasure tribulation unleashed an endless storm of heavenly thunder and Golden Night True Thunder. He used Yellow Springs Water to make himself share the wings’ origin and began enduring the lightning to temper his body with the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture, leaving his survival uncertain.

• As the Wind Thunder Silver Wings absorbed a vast spiritual-energy tide, Li Qing watched the tribulation gather above Lingyun Sect and ancient beings across the realm sensed the disturbance.
• The completed wings charged into the sea of lightning, withstanding ordinary heavenly thunder before Golden Night True Thunder scorched them and threatened to destroy the treasure.
• Li Qing realized that the tribulation was far more severe than expected and decided to share its pressure with the wings while cultivating the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture.
• Li Qing poured Yellow Springs Water over himself, and the tribulation calmed after sensing his shared origin with the Wind Thunder Silver Wings.
• Li Qing sat behind the scorched wings and endured the descending lightning while circulating the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture, struggling to keep consciousness through the pain.

Li Qing endured the heavenly tribulation by tempering his body with ordinary lightning and Golden Night True Thunder, sacrificing much of his lifespan to protect the Wind Thunder Silver Wings. The wings became a Yellow-grade Spirit Treasure, Li Qing advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and he sensed nearby demons whose Life Origin could replenish him.

• Li Qing replenished his Life Origin with spiritual medicines, then gradually drew Golden Night True Thunder into his body to temper his physique.
• As he endured stronger bolts, Li Qing's Life Origin ran out and his lifespan fell from over two thousand years to 397 years.
• The tribulation clouds dispersed, and Li Qing advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage with nearly twice his former mana.
• The Wind Thunder Silver Wings passed the tribulation and became a Yellow-grade Spirit Treasure, granting Li Qing 1,200 years of lifespan.
• Li Qing attached the wings to his back and used them to sense and briefly control the wind and thunder primal energy.
• Li Qing sensed that demons were nearby and remarked that they could provide the Life Origin he had lost.

After passing his tribulation, Li Qing confronted the Black Crocodile King and Golden Bear King, who had come to the Qingling Region seeking revenge. He killed both Demon Kings with the Wind Thunder Silver Wings, but the spirit treasure’s enormous energy cost left him nearly drained.

• Li Qing sensed the Black Crocodile King and Golden Bear King retreating along the southern coast, then used the Wind Thunder Silver Wings to catch up with them.
• The two Demon Kings revealed their true forms and attacked Li Qing, who evaded their strikes and severed the Black Crocodile King's tail with his bone wings.
• Li Qing bound the wounded Black Crocodile King with lightning shackles and dodged the Golden Bear King's Geng Metal claws.
• Li Qing unleashed the Wind Thunder Illusion Breaker Kill, moving at extreme speed and inflicting deep wounds that killed both Demon Kings.
• Li Qing stored the Demon Kings' corpses and reflected that the Wind Thunder Silver Wings were powerful but consumed his mana too quickly.

Li Qing replenished his depleted life essence with the Demon Kings’ blood, recovered Geng Metal from the Golden Bear King’s claws, and prepared his companions for the coming Devil Realm invasion. After returning to the Eternal Night World to seek more resources and a new trump card, he discovered that mobilizing its thin primordial forces rapidly drained his life essence and lifespan.

• Li Qing drained the two Demon Kings’ corpses into his blood pool and spent seven days replenishing more than half his lost life essence while Exquisite Immortal Sound kept his thoughts clear.
• Li Qing spent several months separating pure Geng Metal from the Golden Bear King’s claws and decided to save it for an Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Li Qing warned Rice Bucket and Chong Jiu about the coming Devil Realm invasion, gave them Red Moon Spores to strengthen themselves, and fed two more to the Fire Jade Bee Queen.
• Li Qing traveled to Giant Mushroom City to seek exotic beast blood and another Fourth-order Red Moon Spore, then sensed his connection to the city’s Mushroom Spirit.
• Li Qing used the Wind Thunder Silver Wings to mobilize the Eternal Night World’s primordial forces and discovered that doing so uncontrollably drained his life essence and lifespan.

Li Qing returned to the Blood Martial Dynasty as the Demonic Willow awakened, intending to turn the ancient spirit tree into a Wood Spirit Puppet. When the willow’s advance stalled unexpectedly, he flew north to discover what had stopped it.

• Li Qing learned that drawing on the depleted world’s primordial energy drained his vital essence, then asked the Mushroom Spirit for another Fourth-order Red Moon Spore and collected third-order Exotic Beast blood.
• The Mushroom Spirit warned Li Qing that the Demonic Willow was awakening, so he traveled to the Blood Martial Dynasty’s capital and reassured Miao Tuo that he would face the coming threat.
• Li Qing secluded himself in the imperial palace and studied the Wood Spirit Puppet secret art, hoping to refine the Demonic Willow into a powerful puppet.
• After seven days, the Thorny Ironwood Tree sensed the Demonic Willow approaching, and Miao Tuo prepared the dynasty’s martial artists to meet it at the capital.
• When the Demonic Willow’s advance remained stalled for several days, Li Qing flew north to investigate what was blocking its path.

Li Qing confronted the Demonic Willow that had swallowed the Black Wind Domain and began refining it into a Wood Spirit Puppet. The Demonic Willow wrapped its branches around its own trunk to trap Li Qing inside the Black Furnace, leaving them locked in a battle of attrition.

• Li Qing arrived as Lin Jing used Yellow Springs River water and a monument to hold back the Demonic Willow, then saved her when the willow branches overwhelmed her defenses.
• Li Qing used his Fire Extreme Dharma Body and Primordial Peerless Hammer to turn the surrounding land into a sea of molten fire, while the Demonic Willow retaliated with crystallized Red Moon Secret Power and strange beasts.
• Li Qing deployed the Myriad Flames Burn Heaven Formation, forcing the Demonic Willow to sever its burning branches and exposing its enormous main body.
• Li Qing reached the Demonic Willow's trunk and began using the Wood Spirit Puppet secret art to bring part of it under his control.
• The Demonic Willow attacked with willow leaves, but Li Qing protected himself with the Black Furnace as it wrapped its branches around its trunk and trapped him.

Li Qing emerged after more than a year inside the black cocoon, having refined the Demonic Willow into a Wood Spirit Puppet and extinguished its consciousness. He reunited with Lin Jing, learned about the Yellow Springs Tablet Spirit and her new power, then returned to Lingyun Sect to prepare for the coming Demonic Calamity.

• Li Qing overcame the Demonic Willow’s resistance and gradually took control of its branches, forcing it to seal them both inside a black cocoon.
• Lin Jing and the Blood Martial Dynasty’s martial artists waited for more than a year, believing Li Qing had died and the Demonic Willow had been sealed with him.
• The cocoon cracked open, and Li Qing revealed that the Demonic Willow had become his puppet; Lin Jing embraced him in relief.
• Li Qing questioned the Yellow Springs Tablet Spirit about Lin Jing becoming the Yellow Springs Heavenly Maiden and warned it not to harm her.
• Li Qing and Lin Jing visited the royal city, where Li Qing advised Miao Tuo before returning with the Wood Spirit Puppet to Lingyun Sect.