Chapter Summaries

Li Qing confronted Kun Yuan in the Cold Wind Secret Realm to reclaim Rice Bucket, his second brother, but Kun Yuan refused and the two began fighting. Kun Yuan concealed himself within the Nether Ghost Mist, leaving Li Qing unable to locate his true body as their battle escalated.

• Kun Yuan mistook Li Qing for a replacement in the ascension party, but Li explained that he had come to retrieve the Heavenly Demon Tiger Kun Yuan had taken.
• Kun Yuan released Rice Bucket, then used their Spirit Contract to stop him from reaching Li Qing and cause him pain.
• Kun Yuan demanded rare treasures and a lifespan-extending medicine in exchange for Rice Bucket, and refused Li Qing's offer of damaged Fifth-order Exotic Bird bones.
• Li Qing threatened to take Kun Yuan's life, and Old Lord Caixia warned them not to destroy the snow mountain where other Spirit Transformation cultivators remained sealed.
• Kun Yuan and Li Qing left the secret realm and fought; Kun Yuan's Nether Ghost Mist suppressed Li Qing's fire dragons, while Li Qing used his Wind Thunder Silver Wings and spirit treasures to strike back.
• Kun Yuan transformed into the Nether Ghost Mist, concealed his true body, and evaded Li Qing's Sword Qi as Li Qing prepared to shatter the surrounding space.

After defeating Kun Yuan, Li Qing reconciled with him, learned about Spirit Transformation cultivation and the Life-Extinguishing Furnace, then returned to Lingyun Sect. He announced a Spirit Transformation Grand Ceremony, and his rise as Heavenly Monarch Wuji spread throughout the Human Realm.

• Li Qing used the Immortal Slaying Sword to defeat Kun Yuan, who released Rice Bucket from their spirit contract.
• Li Qing discussed the Dao with Kun Yuan and Old Lord Caixia, learning that Unity of the Five Elements was key to reaching Void Refinement.
• Old Lord Caixia explained the origins of the Life-Extinguishing Furnace and gave Li Qing the Ice Seal Yuan Art.
• Li Qing returned to Lingyun Sect and announced a Spirit Transformation Grand Ceremony thirty days later.
• News of Li Qing's breakthrough spread across the Human Realm, making Lingyun Sect and the Qingling Region a destination for cultivators.

After entering Spirit Transformation, Li Qing learned that the Human Realm’s thin origin energy made further advancement nearly impossible, then freed the Purple Extreme Yuan Devouring Beast in exchange for the complete method to cultivate Spiritual Roots. He held the Spirit Transformation Ceremony at Lingyun Sect, where cultivators from across the region gathered to hear his teachings and hundreds achieved breakthroughs.

• Li Qing discovered that his cultivation had stalled because the Human Realm lacked sufficient origin energy and planned to search for another Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.
• Li Qing negotiated with the Purple Extreme Yuan Devouring Beast, released it after receiving the full method for cultivating Spiritual Roots, and reminded it to avoid harming innocents.
• Cultivators from the Qingling Region and beyond gathered at Lingyun Sect for Li Qing’s Spirit Transformation Ceremony, bringing gifts and greeting him.
• Li Qing warmly welcomed True Lord Tianbao and Liu Hanyue among the visitors who congratulated him.
• Li Qing expounded cultivation insights from Qi Refining through Spirit Transformation, and several hundred cultivators broke through a minor bottleneck while listening.

After his Spirit Transformation ceremony, Li Qing searched the Human Realm for a fourth Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire and a Water Attribute spiritual item. He found two spirit-fire sites already stripped of their flames, then sensed the Great Sun Golden Flame in Yan Region, where it had transformed into a golden sun and sought to replace the sun itself.

• Li Qing ended his seven-day sermon, left Lingyun Sect, and traveled toward the sea to search for a spirit fire and a Water Attribute spiritual item.
• On Qiluo Island, Li Qing learned that the Senluo Spirit Fire had once existed there but had already been taken.
• At the Extreme Cold Ice Nest, Li Qing found eggshell fragments and learned that a demonic bird had absorbed the unformed Sea Blue Ice Flame.
• Li Qing traveled to Yan Region, intending to search for a spirit fire and visit Mingwang Valley to fulfill his promise to Senior Lingmiao.
• Li Qing sensed a spirit fire above a Fire Sun Tree forest, and Profound Yellow True Flame identified it as the Great Sun Golden Flame, which had transformed into a golden sun and sought to replace the sun.

Li Qing discovered that the sun above the Yan Region was the Great Sun Golden Flame and battled it until he swallowed it into his dantian. He then used its Origin Flame to refine Savage Bone essence blood and gained the ability to manifest Savage Bone Battle Markings.

• Li Qing recognized the blazing sun as the Great Sun Golden Flame and climbed toward it through its scorching astral winds.
• The Great Sun Golden Flame transformed into a Golden Crow and attacked Li Qing, who escaped its fire feathers and trapped it with the Myriad Flames Burn Heaven Formation.
• Li Qing endured the Great Sun Golden Flame's fire tribulation for forty-nine days while attempting to imprint its Origin Fire Seed.
• After the formation collapsed, Li Qing swallowed the dimmed Great Sun Golden Flame and suppressed it inside his dantian.
• Li Qing refined Savage Bone battle blood with the flame's Origin Fire and gained Savage Bone Battle Markings that temporarily amplified his physical strength and power.

Li Qing subdued the Great Sun Golden Flame in the deep sea and learned that Senior Crimson Blazing had once controlled seven Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires. He then discovered the Black Flood Dragon King trapped beneath a gourd and formation, and sensed pure Water Origin Energy inside the gourd.

• Li Qing threatened the Great Sun Golden Flame and weakened it by extracting its Origin Flame as he descended into a deep-sea trench.
• The Great Sun Golden Flame surrendered, and Li Qing refined it as his fourth Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire.
• Profound Yellow True Flame told Li Qing that Senior Crimson Blazing had controlled seven spirit fires but never found the Life and Death Void Fire.
• Li Qing sensed tremors below and found the Black Flood Dragon King pinned beneath a Sapphire Blue Gourd.
• The Black Flood Dragon King explained that he had been trapped by an Ancient Formation while searching for his elder brother's scales, and Li Qing sensed pure Water Origin Energy within the gourd.

Li Qing freed the Black Flood Dragon King by overturning the ancient formation’s enormous sapphire gourd and discovered a crystal-blue peach pit inside. He kept the pit to nurture his fifth spirit root, gave the gourd to the Black Flood Dragon King, and headed toward Mingwang Valley to investigate the Hua Clan.

• Li Qing offered to rescue the Black Flood Dragon King in exchange for the contents of the sapphire gourd, and the Black Flood Dragon King agreed.
• Li Qing revealed his Spirit Transformation cultivation and used his strengthened fleshly body to topple the gourd, breaking the formation and freeing the Black Flood Dragon King.
• Li Qing opened the gourd and found a glowing peach pit with powerful water-attribute essence, which he kept as a spiritual item for completing his spirit root.
• Li Qing gave the spatial gourd to the Black Flood Dragon King, who accepted it gratefully.
• Li Qing set off for Mingwang Valley in the Yan Region to find out what had happened to the Hua Clan.

Li Qing visited Mingwang Valley to fulfill Bai Ling’s request to look after its Hua Clan branch, but the children he met included one who resembled an old acquaintance from the Eternal Night World. When the boy insisted his name was Hua Huairen after Li Qing called him Zhao Kou, Li Qing was left wondering whether he had encountered reincarnation or two similar lives.

• Li Qing entered Mingwang Valley after its cultivators recognized him as Wuji Ancestor of Lingyun Sect, and he reassured Valley Master Zhao Xiao that he had no intention of occupying their spiritual vein.
• Li Qing told Hua Luokong that Bai Ling had asked him to look after the Hua Clan branch, but Hua Luokong refused his gifts and offers of support.
• Li Qing offered to guide a promising young Hua Clan descendant and bring them to Lingyun Sect, then asked to meet the branch’s children with Spirit Roots.
• Li Qing spotted a seven-year-old boy who reminded him of Zhao Kou, an old acquaintance from the Eternal Night World, and called the child by that name.
• The boy identified himself as Hua Huairen and said his parents had named him to keep benevolence and righteousness in his heart, leaving Li Qing stunned by the resemblance.

Li Qing stayed in Mingwang Valley and took Hua Huairen as his registered disciple, teaching him the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture while nurturing a new Water Spiritual Root within himself. Over four years, Hua Huairen trained hard but lagged behind the Xie family’s Heavenly Spiritual Root prodigy, and Li Qing urged him to keep accumulating strength.

• Li Qing told Hua Huairen stories about Zhao Kou, then agreed to teach him without making him leave Mingwang Valley.
• Hua Huairen began cultivating the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture and learning refining from Li Qing, while Li Qing planted the water-blue Peach Pit inside himself to form a Water Spiritual Root.
• After Hua Huairen was beaten for boasting that his technique was the Human Realm’s best, Li Qing told him that strength would silence criticism, and Hua Huairen became more diligent.
• At the Valley Sacrifice, the Xie family’s Heavenly Spiritual Root prodigy reached the seventh layer of Qi Refining while Hua Huairen remained stuck at the sixth; Li Qing reminded him that aptitude did not determine everything.
• Over the next year, the Xie prodigy advanced to the eighth layer while Hua Huairen remained at the sixth, and Li Qing told him, “Accumulation leads to breakthrough!”

Li Qing continued developing his cultivation method while nurturing his Water Spiritual Root, and used Hua Huairen’s entry to Mingwang Valley’s Scripture Hall to secretly inspect its collection. After discovering the potential of the Immeasurable Mingwang Art, he began studying it for inspiration.

• Li Qing reflected on his nearly complete Water Spiritual Root and decided to study Mingwang Valley’s inheritance to build up his knowledge.
• Hua Huairen reached the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining, and Li Qing urged him to attend the Cultivation Transmission Ceremony and learn about the available methods.
• Li Qing taught Hua Huairen the Soul Condensing Slash, secretly planted a wisp of his divided soul in his disciple’s hair, and gave him a Thousand-Year Sky Star Grass to aid his practice.
• Hua Huairen attended the ceremony with the other Late Qi Refining descendants, while Li Qing’s divided soul secretly read every scripture and cultivation method in the Scripture Hall.
• Li Qing began studying the Immeasurable Mingwang Art and learned that it could nurture a Mingwang Spirit Body in the dantian after Foundation Establishment.

After leaving Mingwang Valley, Li Qing journeyed across the Human Realm, then tracked down the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult and defeated its Five Elements Spirit Saint. He spared the dying cultivator in exchange for the cult’s dissolution and obtained the Five Elements Heavenly Origin Canon, an inheritance that included Void Refinement-stage scriptures.

• Li Qing completed an introductory passage of the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture, then watched Hua Huairen reach consummate Qi Refining and prepared to leave Mingwang Valley.
• Li Qing gave Hua Huairen a Foundation Establishment Pill, cultivation pills, sealed chapters of his scripture, and a jade token before departing.
• Li Qing traveled through overseas islands and secret realms, eventually revealing his Spirit Transformation cultivation to suppress the cultivators gathered on Luofu Immortal Island.
• Li Qing tracked the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult to its main altar and fought the Five Elements Spirit Saint, overpowering him with his spiritual flames.
• Li Qing agreed to spare the Five Elements Spirit Saint if he disbanded the cult and shared his Five Elements Daoist methods and texts.
• Li Qing obtained the Five Elements Heavenly Origin Canon, including Void Refinement-stage scriptures, while the Five Elements Spirit Saint disbanded the cult and remained on the island with its inheritances.

Li Qing returned to the Lingyun Sect, secluded himself to study the Five Elements Dao techniques, and used their secret art to seal his vital essence. After Wu Chong broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, Li Qing decided to revisit the Eternal Night World to cultivate under its threefold flow of time.

• Li Qing returned to the prosperous Lingyun Sect and began comprehending the Five Elements Dao techniques in seclusion.
• The Lingyun Sect’s upper ranks decided to reclaim the Southern Region Snow Plains spirit vein when its tenants’ leases expired, following the sect’s ancestral rules.
• Wu Chong broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, overcame his Inner Demon Tribulation, and survived a fierce heavenly tribulation with Li Qing’s help.
• Wu Chong held a small Nascent Soul ceremony and volunteered to oversee the Southern Region Snow Plains spirit vein.
• Li Qing learned the Five Elements Self-Sealing Method from the Dao techniques and used Suxin’s Five Elements Spirit Pearls to stop his vital essence from dissipating.
• Li Qing chose to return to the Eternal Night World and use its threefold flow of time to continue comprehending Dao techniques.

Li Qing returned to the Eternal Night World and discovered that the Blood Martial Dynasty had transformed into a prosperous realm where humans and different races lived together. After learning how qi and blood martial arts had advanced, he set out to visit the royal capital and find out whether any old friends remained alive.

• Li Qing entered Chongze City and found its enormous population living peacefully alongside different races in a brightly lit city.
• Li Qing explored a school and learned that children across the dynasty received general education and training in qi and blood martial arts.
• Li Qing read the Dynastic Chronicles and learned that Chen Chaosheng had ignited his Blood Pill, founded the Divine Fire Realm, and charted a path toward opening the Human Body's Secret Treasury.
• Li Qing studied the current martial arts realms, from Qi and Blood Embracing Pill through Divine Fire Realm and Martial Saint.
• Li Qing decided to travel to the royal capital to investigate the imperial family and Martial Alliance, then vanished from Chongze City.

Li Qing entered the Royal City and defeated three Martial Saints before meeting Chen Chaosheng, the qi-and-blood martial arts pioneer. After their battle, Chen said Lin Jing had left a sealed letter, and Li Qing went with him to the Martial Alliance headquarters to see it.

• The Ironwood Tree ritual spirit detected Li Qing entering the Royal City and raised an alarm, bringing three Martial Saints to confront him.
• Li Qing defeated Marquis Jingshan and two other Martial Saints with ease, then faced the hidden powerhouse in the Imperial Palace.
• Chen Chaosheng recognized Li Qing as the Dao Guardian and asked him to give guidance on the future of qi-and-blood martial arts.
• Li Qing and Chen Chaosheng battled in the sky for an hour, and Li Qing emerged without injury while Chen Chaosheng was wounded.
• Chen Chaosheng offered Li Qing martial arts manuals and told him that Lin Jing had left a sealed letter before traveling away.
• Li Qing asked to see Lin Jing's letter, and Chen Chaosheng led him to the Martial Alliance headquarters.

Li Qing learned that Lin Jing had left on a long journey, then studied the qi-and-blood martial path and ignited his divine fire. He discovered his body had no shackles because his Immortal Dao body refinement had already made it flawless, and he began examining the Blood Martial Dynasty’s excavated relics, focusing on the lifeless spirit seeds.

• Li Qing read Lin Jing’s letter and learned she had departed more than two or three hundred years earlier to travel the world.
• Chen Chaosheng showed Li Qing the Martial Alliance’s foundational qi-and-blood cultivation manual and explained how divine fire revealed the body’s shackles.
• Li Qing comprehended the manual and ignited his divine fire in less than half an hour, but found no shackles or fetters within himself.
• Li Qing explained that Immortal Dao body refinement had already perfected his body, then asked Chen Chaosheng about discoveries from excavated Immortal Dao ruins.
• Chen Chaosheng brought Li Qing to the Imperial Palace pagoda where relics were stored, and Li Qing focused his attention on the shriveled spirit seeds on its second level.

Li Qing traded spirit medicines and pills for ancient Spirit Seeds, then explored old cultivation texts before visiting Miao Tuo’s mausoleum and Giant Mushroom City. He obtained two Red Moon Spores, ended his contract with the Mushroom Spirit, and began cultivating in the Imperial Palace as Chen Chaosheng launched a new wave of ruin excavations.

• Li Qing accepted ancient Spirit Seeds from Chen Chaosheng, including a remarkable dark-cyan seed, and offered him a five-hundred-year-old Purple Fusion Ganoderma and spirit pills in exchange.
• Li Qing promised to trade spirit medicines for more ancient seeds and help with dangerous ruins, then read the incomplete cultivation inheritances stored in the tower.
• Li Qing visited Miao Tuo’s mausoleum and traveled to Giant Mushroom City, where he asked the Mushroom Spirit for two Fourth-order Red Moon Spores for the Fire Jade Bee Queen and Chong Jiu.
• The Mushroom Spirit gave Li Qing the two Red Moon Spores, and Li Qing severed their contract before departing.
• Li Qing returned to the Imperial Palace to cultivate while Chen Chaosheng sent Martial Artists into the wilderness to search for Immortal Dao ruins.

Li Qing completed the Nascent Soul Realm section of the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture, then continued cultivating while the Martial Alliance explored ancient ruins and the Blood Martial Dynasty fell into a succession crisis. After his cultivation disrupted the Second Prince’s attempt to seize the Fourth Prince, Li Qing abandoned his stalled effort to master the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion’s Treasure Cultivation Art and began cultivating the Soul Refining Scripture.

• Li Qing spent seventeen years creating the Nascent Soul Realm section of the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture and resolved to wait until he had developed its Spirit Transformation section before changing cultivation methods.
• Chen Chaosheng brought Li Qing spirit seeds, incomplete manuals, and three petrified eggs from the ruins of the Xuanwu Immortal Sect, and Li Qing rewarded the Martial Alliance’s explorers.
• Li Qing cultivated the Treasure Cultivation Art for more than twenty years while the emperor died and his four sons struggled over succession.
• The Fourth Prince sought refuge at Li Qing’s cultivation grounds, where the Second Prince later tried to take him away and Li Qing’s voice killed the Second Prince.
• Li Qing warned the Fourth Prince to leave, recognized that he had reached a bottleneck in the Treasure Cultivation Art, and began cultivating the Soul Refining Scripture.

After centuries in the Eternal Night World, Li Qing completed the second layer of the Soul Refining Scripture and returned to the Human Realm, where he revived ancient Luoyu Red Fruit seeds and planted them in the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion. He left the seeds growing in a spirit-nourished medicine garden and continued reviving more.

• Chen Chaosheng confronted Li Qing near the end of his life, learned he lacked a Spirit Root, and left the Blood Martial Dynasty the following year.
• Li Qing completed the second layer of the Soul Refining Scripture, expanding his Spiritual Sense to the level of Late Deity Transformation, then returned to the Human Realm.
• Li Qing restored his mana, learned that several snowy-mountain Spirit Transformation cultivators had ascended, and went to the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion.
• Li Qing spent nearly two thousand years of lifespan to revive thirteen ancient Luoyu Red Fruit seeds with Seven-Colored Vitality Essence.
• Li Qing planted the thirteen seeds in a medicine garden, set a Spirit Spring Eye beside the field, and continued reviving more Spirit Seeds.

After decades of cultivating, Li Qing mastered the Treasure Cultivation Art’s third level, making the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion portable, and Chong Jiu completed her humanoid transformation. A sect message then alerted Li Qing that the seal around a Spatial Node in the Southern Region Snowfields had loosened, prompting him to investigate.

• Li Qing tended the spirit medicines in the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion and continued cultivating the Treasure Cultivation Art while waiting for them to mature.
• After several decades, Li Qing mastered the third level of the Treasure Cultivation Art and shrank the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion to fit in his palm.
• Li Qing released Chong Jiu to undergo her Humanoid Transformation Tribulation; she emerged as a young girl, and he named her Jiu'er and assigned her to guard the medicine garden.
• Li Qing moved the Blood Lotus and Red Jade Beehive into the immortal mansion, then returned to his cave abode and cultivated for more than thirty years.
• A Spirit Message informed Li Qing that the sealing restriction in the Ice Prison at the Southern Region Snow Mountains had loosened, so he decided to investigate the Spatial Node connected to the Demon Realm.

Li Qing confronted the Ancient Chi Demon Ancestor after the sealing formation at the Lingyun Sect’s snow mountain stronghold failed and a Demon Realm Rift opened. Their battle escalated as Li Qing used his spirit fires to purify the demon’s energy, leaving the Ancient Chi Demon Ancestor stripped of demonic energy.

• Li Qing arrived at the Lingyun Sect’s snow mountain stronghold and found that the sealing formation protecting the Spatial Node had been destroyed.
• Li Qing and Wu Chong investigated the stable Spatial Node, but it began to tremble and open into a Demon Realm Rift.
• Wu Chong evacuated the sect’s disciples as the Ancient Chi Demon Ancestor emerged from the rift and recognized Wu Chong’s hatred.
• Li Qing stopped the Ancient Chi Demon Ancestor from seizing Wu Chong, then fought him with his spirit fires and trapped them inside the Myriad Flames Burn Heaven Formation.
• Li Qing transformed into a Golden Crow and unleashed Great Sun Extinguishes Demon Radiance, purifying the demonic energy on the Ancient Chi Demon Ancestor’s body.