Chapter Summaries

Li Qing completed the Azure Dragon Mace, proving his fifth-rank artifact-refining skill and earning the Azure Flood Dragon King’s friendship and a rare Source Dragon Fruit. After absorbing the fruit and strengthening his cultivation, Li Qing agreed to travel with the Black Flood Dragon King to Heavenly Pole Island for the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s invitation, while the Crimson Flood Dragon King regarded him with hostility.

• The Azure Dragon Mace survived its heavenly tribulation and became a Yellow-grade Spirit Treasure, earning Li Qing 1,900 years of lifespan.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King invited Li Qing to the Dragon Palace and offered him the Source Dragon Fruit as payment for refining the mace.
• Li Qing attended a three-day feast at the Dragon Palace, where sea-clan representatives saw the Azure Flood Dragon King treat him as a close friend.
• Li Qing subdued the Source Dragon Fruit’s Dragon Might and absorbed its power, increasing his magical power by nearly twenty percent.
• The Black Flood Dragon King invited Li Qing to travel with him to Heavenly Pole Island, and the Crimson Flood Dragon King watched Li Qing with hostility.

Li Qing traveled with the Black Flood Dragon King and Crimson Flood Dragon King to Heavenly Pole Island, where the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild was gathering cultivators to address the Demon Realm’s invasion. After meeting True Person Zhiyang, Li Qing learned that Zhiyang’s master, True Lord Tai Xuan, had been captured by the Devil Race.

• Li Qing set out with the Black Flood Dragon King and Crimson Flood Dragon King, and the three fought ancient demons and rescued endangered sea clans along the way.
• The Crimson Flood Dragon King revealed that the Azure Dragon Mace had been made using the horns of their brother, who died during an attempt to reach Spirit Transformation, making Li Qing wary of the Azure Flood Dragon King.
• The three arrived at Heavenly Pole Island, a vast island floating without visible formations, and True Lord Wanhe welcomed them before leading them toward the Heavenly Pole Tower.
• Li Qing met True Person Zhiyang, whose cultivation had reached the false Nascent Soul stage, and Zhiyang was shocked to learn that Li Qing had advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Li Qing asked Zhiyang where True Lord Tai Xuan was, and Zhiyang told him that the Devil Race had captured his master.

Li Qing attended the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s conference, where cultivators divided responsibility for sealing the lower realm’s Space Rifts with formation discs. As they debated how to ensure the ancient devils were defeated first, three Spirit Transformation ancient devils and a vast host of devils attacked Heavenly Pole Island.

• Li Qing reassured True Person Zhiyang that the conference might help rescue True Lord Tai Xuan, then spent three days cultivating on Heavenly Pole Island.
• True Lord Wanhe introduced the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation and promised the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild would provide formation discs and all the materials needed to deploy them.
• Cultivators from the regions and seas claimed responsibility for sealing their Space Rifts, while the Yuanjing Clan and Hidden Immortal Island argued over the Northern Sea before agreeing to work together with Guild assistance.
• True Lord Wanhe explained that all Space Rifts had to be sealed simultaneously, and the cultivators debated how they could make sure every ancient devil had been killed first.
• Three Spirit Transformation ancient devils and countless Nascent Soul Realm devils appeared around Heavenly Pole Island, leaving Li Qing and the assembled cultivators stunned and terrified.

Three Spirit Transformation stage ancient demons attacked Heavenly Pole Island, but Wan Shengtian activated the island’s Heavenly Evolution Spirit Formation to defend it. As more Devil Race forces joined the assault and the formation began to crack, Wan Shengtian called on hidden allies to act.

• Several Nascent Soul Realm cultivators tried to flee, but the ancient demons killed their bodies and captured their Nascent Souls.
• True Lord Wanhe called for the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s Patriarch, and Wan Shengtian appeared atop the tower.
• The three ancient demons attacked Wan Shengtian, but he activated the Heavenly Evolution Spirit Formation and blocked their strikes.
• True Lord Wanhe urged the cultivators to channel mana into the formation, and Li Qing contributed while holding some of his power back.
• A fourth Spirit Transformation stage ancient demon from the Crystal Demon Tribe joined the attack, cracking the formation’s barrier.
• Wan Shengtian called on Azure Flood Dragon and the cultivators of Mingwang Valley to join the battle.

The Mingwang Valley Lord and Azure Flood Dragon King arrived to reinforce Heavenly Pole Island and began overpowering their ancient demon opponents. As the defenders thought the crisis was nearly over, Bai Cang used a demon treasure to shatter the island and its formation, leaving Li Qing concealed inside an ancient forge as the island fell apart.

• The Mingwang Valley Lord and Azure Flood Dragon King arrived, drawing the Winged Demon Tribe leader and Crystal Old Demon into battle.
• The Mingwang Valley Lord purified Crystal Old Demon's demonic energy, while the Azure Flood Dragon King used the Azure Dragon Mace to drive back the Winged Demon Tribe leader.
• Li Qing and the other cultivators gained relief as the Heavenly Evolution Spirit Formation repaired itself and resisted the remaining demons' attacks.
• Bai Cang revealed the Five Elements Spirit Restraining Rings and used them to bind and break Heavenly Pole Island.
• Li Qing stopped powering the formation and hid inside an ancient forge as the island split apart and its cultivators fled.

After Heavenly Pole Island collapsed and the Nascent Soul cultivators were trapped by the Five Elements Spirit Restraining Rings, Li Qing fled the ancient devils pursuing him. The Wind Guiding Mother-Child Talismans let the Winged Demon Tribe keep pace, and Li Qing ended the chapter surrounded by twenty-three enemies and badly wounded despite summoning his Dark Willow Spirit Puppet and Fire Extreme Dharma Body.

• Heavenly Pole Island collapsed, and Bai Cang's Five Elements Spirit Restraining Rings sealed the mana of most of the Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Wan Shengtian used his ancient tower to fight the Flame Demon Tribe leader while Li Qing escaped on his Wind Thunder Silver Wings.
• Four Winged Demon Tribe cultivators pursued Li Qing with Wind Guiding Mother-Child Talismans, while the other ancient devils followed their trail.
• Li Qing turned to attack the four pursuers, but all twenty-three ancient devils gathered and surrounded him.
• Li Qing summoned the Dark Willow Spirit Puppet, but the devils set it ablaze and a Nascent Soul Late Stage ancient devil struck him with the Demonic Origin Heart Devouring Hand.
• Li Qing activated his Fire Extreme Dharma Body as the ancient devils pressed their attack.

Li Qing broke the ancient devils’ suppression by exhausting his lifespan to empower his spirit fires and Wind Thunder Silver Wings, then killed all twenty-three with a poisoned blast and his hammer. Poisoned and ravaged by devilish qi, he flew toward the East Sea and asked the Profound Yellow True Flame to keep him alive until he returned to the sect.

• Twenty-three ancient devils suppressed Li Qing, leaving him near collapse as their devilish qi and pressure drained his strength.
• Li Qing spent Seven-Colored Vitality Essence and lifespan to empower the Wind Thunder Silver Wings and his three Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires, then killed three devils with a wind, lightning, and flame strike.
• With his magic power nearly exhausted, Li Qing infused the Heart of Heavenly Poison with Seven-Colored Vitality Essence and detonated it, killing several devils and poisoning the survivors and himself.
• Li Qing used the Blood Burning Secret Method and his Wind Thunder Silver Wings to pursue the weakened devils, killing the remaining ones with the Primordial Peerless Hammer.
• Li Qing collected twenty devil bodies and flew toward the East Sea as poison and devilish qi threatened his life; he asked the Profound Yellow True Flame to protect his heart meridians until he returned to the sect.

Li Qing swam to Sea Rift Valley to seek Devil Race corpses, hoping to restore his poisoned, failing body rather than abandon it. Meanwhile, Wan Shengtian, Nie Yuan, and the Azure Flood Dragon King searched for him and found a battlefield marked by poisonous miasma, while Li Qing eventually emerged from the sea and flew toward the Qingling Region.

• Li Qing used his spiritual sense to locate Sea Rift Valley through a Black-Shelled Golden Turtle, then swam into the deep-sea rift despite the Profound Yellow True Flame warning that poison threatened his heart meridians and Nascent Soul.
• Wan Shengtian and Nie Yuan regrouped with the Azure Flood Dragon King after the battle, lamenting that the winged ancient devil had escaped and noting their victory over a Spirit Transformation Crystal Demon Tribe member.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King asked Nie Yuan and Wan Shengtian to search for Li Qing, whose artifact-refinement skills made him valuable, while he went to find his wounded second brother.
• The three Spirit Transformation powers found jade-green poisonous miasma at a battlefield and debated whether Li Qing had died or been captured by the Devil Race.
• Li Qing emerged from the Eastern Sea, drenched and barely able to fly, and headed toward the Qingling Region.

Lingyun Sect prepared to defend itself as acquired devils ravaged Qingling Region, while Li Qing returned to his cave abode near death. The immortal sound and blood lotus helped him stabilize his vitality, but his poison and injuries remained severe.

• Xu Xia refused to counterattack the acquired devils and ordered the sect to await Wuji Ancestor's return, fearing ancient devils were watching Lingyun Sect.
• A disciple reported a tremendous boom at Qingyun Peak, and Xu Xia ordered everyone to keep the possible return of Wuji Ancestor secret before seeking the Supreme Elders.
• Li Qing reached his cave abode barely able to move, as devilish qi and poison overwhelmed his body and the Profound Yellow True Flame said it could do no more.
• As Li Qing's consciousness faded, Exquisite Immortal Sound revived him, and he threw Devil Race bodies into the blood pool to receive nourishment from the blood lotus.
• Li Qing used the Blood Burning Secret Method to awaken the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame and slow the poison, then fed more ancient devil corpses to the blood pool until his vitality stabilized.
• Li Qing survived the immediate crisis but resolved to recover his magical power before slowly healing his injuries.

Li Qing used the blood lotus and Suxin’s Water Spirit Pearl to recover from his injuries and remove the Origin Demonic Energy. He then deliberately unleashed the poison in his body and began using the “Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture” to temper himself, risking death in an attempt to become immune to poison.

• Li Qing fed ancient devil corpses to the blood lotus and tried to raise his cultivation, but the Origin Demonic Energy erupted and worsened his injuries.
• Wu Chong, Jiang Han, Chu Lingyi, Suxin, and other Lingyun Sect elders gathered outside Li Qing’s cave, where he reassured them and sent them away.
• Suxin entered Li Qing’s cave and used the Water Spirit Pearl to heal his injuries and purge the Origin Demonic Energy while Li Qing suppressed the poison with his three spirit fires.
• After Suxin left, Li Qing stopped suppressing the poison and circulated the “Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture” to temper his body through its deadly assault.
• Li Qing began a perilous attempt to survive the poison tribulation and transform his body into one immune to all poisons.

After enduring the Heavenly Poison Body’s poison for over two years, Li Qing burned away his corrupted body and was reborn with a body immune to poisons. His transformation advanced him to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, while the Lingyun Sect prepared to assist the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild with its plan against the ancient demons.

• Li Qing endured the poison in seclusion as the Devil Race overran more than half of the Qingling Region and demonized cultivators drove survivors toward the Lingyun Sect.
• True Treasure Yuan visited Xu Xia and Wu Chong, revealed that Spirit Transformation-stage demons had attacked Heavenly Pole Island, and sought Wuji Ancestor’s cooperation in a confidential plan.
• After Xu Xia and Wu Chong consulted him, Li Qing agreed to help and decided it was time to accelerate his own plans.
• Li Qing burned his poison-corrupted body with three Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires, spent two years of accumulated life essence to reshape himself, and gained a body that could ignore poison on the level of the Heavenly Poison Body.
• Li Qing absorbed the spiritual energy around Qingyun Peak, reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and received congratulations from the Lingyun Sect.
• Li Qing declared a three-day celebration and doubled the monthly stipends for the sect’s disciples and elders.

After consolidating his Nascent Soul Late Stage breakthrough, Li Qing refined several magical treasures to extend his lifespan and prepared the Lingyun Sect to assist the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s plan to mend the Space Rifts connected to the Demon Realm. As the operation began across the Human Realm, Li Qing secretly followed Chu Lingyi, Jiang Han, and Wu Chong to protect them.

• Li Qing refined the remaining ancient devil corpses and realized that reaching Nascent Soul perfection would be difficult, so he planned to seek more devil remains and extend his lifespan by refining magical treasures.
• Li Qing gathered materials from the Lingyun Sect treasury and refined several magical treasures, including the Zi Wu Qing Ming Sword, gaining three hundred years of lifespan.
• Xu Xia delivered the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s message that the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation would be deployed in seven days to repair the Space Rifts across the Human Realm.
• Li Qing ordered the Lingyun Sect to assist, sending teams to harass nearby devilmen and assigning Chu Lingyi, Jiang Han, and Wu Chong to guard the Qingling Region’s Space Rift.
• Li Qing gave the three Supreme Elders magical treasures, warned them to flee if danger arose, and secretly followed them as cultivators across the Human Realm began the operation.

The Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild activated the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation to repair the Demon Realm Space Rift, while Li Qing watched from hiding and realized the process would take three days and nights. Demons and demonized cultivators attacked the formation, and the Lingyun Sect elders prepared to defend it as the battle spread across the Human Realm.

• True Treasure Yuan explained the Guild’s plan to repair the Space Rift, and True Lord Tianbao began setting up the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation with help from Wu Chong and the others.
• The formation drew down starlight and began repairing the rift, while Li Qing estimated it would take three days and nights and feared the ancient demons would attack.
• A powerful demon beyond the Spirit Transformation stage ordered the Devil Race to destroy the formation, but many demons who crossed over died under the rift’s restrictions and the formation’s power.
• The Six-armed Demon General ordered the last Demon Subduing Platform used to send more ancient demons across, and some survived their descent.
• Demonized cultivators from the Qingling Region rushed toward the formation as surviving ancient demons attacked, prompting True Lord Tianbao and True Lord Guangzhu to resist.
• Wu Chong, Jiang Han, and Chu Lingyi prepared to fight the demonized cultivators and protect the formation as similar battles broke out across the Human Realm.

Li Qing arrived at the embattled Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation and turned the battle against the invading ancient demons around with his Nascent Soul Late Stage power. As the rift continued to be repaired and the battlefield stabilized, he learned from True Lord Tianbao about the outcome of the battle at Heavenly Pole Island.

• Wu Chong, Jiang Han, and Chu Lingyi fought back the demonized cultivators, and Chu Lingyi used a Heavenly Wind Talisman with fire talismans to sweep many enemies away in fiery tornadoes.
• True Lord Tianbao struggled to maintain the formation while True Lord Guangzhu fought two Nascent Soul Middle Stage ancient demons, then two more powerful ancient demons arrived and threatened to overwhelm them.
• Li Qing revealed himself as a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator, intercepted the newcomers, and killed them with attacks formed from three kinds of Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.
• Li Qing joined True Lord Tianbao and True Lord Guangzhu to eliminate the remaining ancient demons, easing the pressure as the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation repaired the rift.
• True Lord Tianbao told Li Qing that the battle at Heavenly Pole Island had killed one Spirit Transformation stage ancient demon, badly wounded another, and freed more than half the cultivators imprisoned by the Five Elements Spirit Restraining Rings.

Li Qing and the other cultivators nearly completed repairing the Demon Realm Rift in the Qingling Region when a fifth-rank Mantis-Centipede Demonic Insect emerged and attacked. Li Qing killed it with the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation’s enhancement, then learned from True Lord Tianbao that the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild came from the upper realm.

• Li Qing and the Qingling Region cultivators endured two days without further ancient devils descending, and the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation brought the Demon Realm Rift close to closing.
• A black devil cocoon fell from the nearly repaired rift, so Li Qing sent Wu Chong, Chu Lingyi, Jiang Han, and True Treasure Yuan away before it opened.
• The fifth-rank Mantis-Centipede Demonic Insect emerged, knocked True Lord Guangzhu aside, and attacked Li Qing, who evaded its blades and struck it with his Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires.
• True Lord Tianbao paused the formation’s repair and bestowed its starlight enhancement on Li Qing, who used the Primordial Peerless Hammer and Starlight Phantasmal Extinction Kill to destroy the insect.
• Li Qing asked about the formation’s connection to the upper realm, and True Lord Tianbao admitted that the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild had come from there.

Li Qing and True Lord Tianbao repaired the last Space Rift in the Qingling Region, and Tianbao revealed the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s connection to the Spirit Realm and its beacon for future ascendants. As the Demon Realm’s remaining rifts began to close, the Formless Sage Ancestor sent a Faceless Demon to investigate one that remained open.

• True Lord Tianbao told Li Qing that the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild had existed for over twenty thousand years and maintained a branch in the upper realm.
• True Lord Tianbao revealed that the Human Realm might be drifting away from the Spirit Realm and that Spirit Transformation cultivators could receive a Spirit Realm Beacon from the guild.
• Li Qing and True Lord Tianbao completed the repair of the Qingling Region’s final Space Rift, and Li Qing collected the ancient demon bodies to prevent demonic pollution.
• True Lord Tianbao took the unconscious True Lord Guangzhu and left to report, while Li Qing remained behind.
• In the Demon Realm, an armored figure persuaded the Formless Sage Ancestor to stop opening Space Rifts, but the Sage Ancestor remained curious about an extraordinary fate.
• The Formless Sage Ancestor sent a weak, unseen Faceless Demon to inspect one of the few Space Rifts still open.

After Qingling Region’s Demonic Calamity ended, Li Qing learned that the invasion was nearing its end across the Human Realm and considered seeking Spirit Transformation ancient demon corpses to advance his cultivation. Reports of his victory over a Fifth-order Demonic Insect spread throughout the regions, bringing him to the attention of powerful factions and Spirit Transformation cultivators.

• Li Qing watched Lingyun Sect and its allies defeat the demonized cultivators and rebuild Qingling Region, whose spiritual energy and cultivation resources had been badly diminished.
• Li Qing refined a Fifth-order Demonic Insect’s corpse into essence blood and found that it nourished his cultivation far more effectively than Nascent Soul Realm ancient demon corpses.
• Li Qing received the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s report that twenty-two of twenty-seven Demon Realm Rifts had been closed and that a final operation would target the remaining five.
• Li Qing learned that captured Nascent Soul cultivators and Demon Kings had been taken to the Demon Realm, and grew wary of the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild and other powerful factions.
• Li Qing read reports describing especially severe destruction in the Great Desolation Region and Cloud Marsh Region, while learning of Spirit Transformation experts who had fought the ancient demons.
• Li Qing’s feat of killing a Fifth-order Demonic Insect became known across the Human Realm, drawing the attention of Spirit Transformation stage cultivators.

Li Qing declined the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s invitation to help repair the remaining Demon Realm Rifts and enjoyed a quiet period of cultivation. The rifts were sealed with little resistance, but a Formless Sage Ancestor followed cultivators in the Northern Ice Region, and a divination warned that a terrible catastrophe was approaching the Human Realm.

• Li Qing refused the Heaven Mending invitation, citing hidden injuries, and stayed in his cave abode to cultivate and recover.
• True Lord Duobao brought the Great Desolation Region’s cultivators together, and they repaired their Demon Realm Rift without interference.
• The cultivators in the Northern Ice Region sealed their rift, while a hidden Faceless Ancient Demon followed them and wondered whether one of them was the person he sought.
• Qiu Zhen and his master arrived in the Qingling Region to investigate a deceased Spirit Transformation stage cultivator’s residence.
• Qiu Zhen’s master divined an omen of immense calamity and said its source could not be calculated.

After the Demonic Calamity ended, Li Qing studied a secret art for refining Lightning Fire Cores and arranged for Rice Bucket to consume a Fourth-order Red Moon Spore and attempt humanoid transformation. As Rice Bucket endured his tribulation, Li Qing met Old Daoist with Goat Beard, who offered a way to approach the thunderclouds safely.

• Li Qing studied Crimson Blazing Heavenly Monarch's inheritances and decided to refine Lightning Fire Cores using heavenly lightning and spirit fire.
• Li Qing gave Rice Bucket a Fourth-order Red Moon Spore, and Rice Bucket later began his breakthrough on an island beyond the sect's sea region.
• Rice Bucket shattered his bottleneck and faced the Humanoid Transformation Tribulation as Li Qing flew over to guard him and collect lightning power.
• The heavenly lightning struck Rice Bucket repeatedly, while Li Qing hesitated to approach the thunderclouds for fear of triggering his own tribulation.
• Old Daoist with Goat Beard appeared beside Li Qing, offered a method to approach the thunderclouds safely, and said Qiu Zhen was nearing Nascent Soul formation.

Li Qing bargained with Chen Yuan for the Heaven-Deceiving Dao Patterns and used them with a Lightning-Repelling Robe to enter Rice Bucket’s tribulation and absorb enough lightning to weaken it. Rice Bucket survived his Humanoid Transformation Tribulation, and Chen Yuan departed after agreeing that Li Qing would help with his future Spirit Transformation tribulation.

• Chen Yuan offered Li Qing the Heaven-Deceiving Dao Patterns in exchange for help during his Spirit Transformation tribulation and a Spirit Treasure if he succeeded.
• Chen Yuan passed the patterns to Li Qing and lent him a Lightning-Repelling Robe that concealed him from the heavenly tribulation.
• Li Qing used the Wind Thunder Silver Wings to absorb much of the tribulation lightning, weakening the lightning striking Rice Bucket.
• Chen Yuan admitted he had not verified the patterns’ effectiveness, and Li Qing returned the robe after examining its construction.
• Chen Yuan gave his name, told Li Qing to wait for word about his tribulation, and left the area.
• Rice Bucket completed his transformation despite his injuries, and Li Qing teased him while asking to see his new form.