Recaps

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.

Li Qing refined and tested Lightning Fire Cores, then placed them in Lingyun Sect’s treasury. Three years later, Daoist Jinbao’s Core Formation failed, leaving him crippled, and the sect offered him a position guarding the Hall of Inherited Skills.

• Li Qing saw Rice Bucket’s handsome human form, gave him healing medicines, and returned with him to Lingyun Sect.
• Li Qing spent several months refining Lightning Fire Cores from heavenly lightning and Profound Yellow True Flame, then tested one and found it could threaten Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators.
• Li Qing placed the remaining Lightning Fire Cores in the sect treasury and hoped to collect stronger heavenly lightning from Old Man Chenyuan’s future breakthrough.
• Three years later, Daoist Jinbao attempted Core Formation, but his golden core collapsed despite his preparations.
• Li Qing saved Daoist Jinbao’s life, but his cultivation was lost; Li Qing offered him an elder’s stipend and the role of guardian of the Hall of Inherited Skills.
• Sect Master Xu Xia ordered the sect to protect Daoist Jinbao from mistreatment, while True Person Fu Xuan and Chu Lingyi warned elders against coveting his Golden Light Dart.

Daoist Jinbao left the Lingyun Sect after his cultivation was crippled, while Li Qing learned that a mysterious killer had slain the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Northern Ice Region and suspected the Formless Sage Ancestor was hunting him. True Lord Chen Yuan then summoned Li Qing to guard him as he prepared to undergo tribulation and break through to Spirit Transformation.

• Daoist Jinbao surrendered his Storage Bag, had his memories of Lingyun Sect inheritances erased, and left with an Ascension Token for his descendants.
• Li Qing instructed Xu Xia to watch over Daoist Jinbao and welcome any descendants with Spirit Roots into the Lingyun Sect.
• News spread that all the Northern Ice Region's Nascent Soul True Lords had been killed and left as faceless corpses with their Nascent Souls removed.
• The Formless Sage Ancestor devoured the victims' Nascent Souls, realized his target was not in the Northern Ice Region, and vanished while searching for someone with an empty, unfathomable fate.
• Li Qing learned that the Formless Sage Ancestor might be targeting him because he had destroyed one of the Sage Ancestor's Dao Bodies, and considered hiding in the Eternal Night World as a last resort.
• True Lord Chen Yuan summoned Li Qing to guard his Spirit Transformation tribulation, and Li Qing hurried toward the hidden realm where Gan Gu had once emerged.

Li Qing entered the hidden grotto-heaven and reunited with Qiu Zhen and his master, True Lord Chen Yuan, who began risking his life to break through to Spirit Transformation. After seven days of drawing on vast stores of spirit stones, Chen Yuan turned to colliding Yin and Yang energies, and a faint cracking sound suggested his attempt had reached a new stage.

• Li Qing descended through the vanished poisonous swamp and found the concealed stone door to a hidden small world.
• Qiu Zhen welcomed Li Qing, and Chen Yuan revealed that he planned to attempt a Spirit Transformation breakthrough immediately.
• Chen Yuan asked Li Qing to guard him, handed him the Lightning-Repelling Robe, and began taking pills to strengthen his aura.
• Hundreds of thousands of spirit stones and three Wood Attribute Top-grade Spirit Stones poured spiritual energy into Chen Yuan for seven days, but the Spirit Transformation barrier remained unbroken.
• Chen Yuan summoned Profound Yin and Pure Yang energies and made them collide within his body, producing a faint cracking sound.

True Lord Chen Yuan began his Spirit Transformation tribulation, while Li Qing used the Lightning-Repelling Robe and Wind Thunder Silver Wings to protect himself and collect the heavenly lightning. As Chen Yuan faced the rare Violet Void Divine Lightning, Wan Shengtian confronted the Formless Sage Ancestor’s Dao Body at sea.

• True Lord Chen Yuan left the grotto-heaven to face his Spirit Transformation tribulation, and Li Qing followed to protect him.
• The gathered tribulation drew the attention of powerful beings across the Human Realm, while mysterious voices in Moonlit Ridge discussed the Ancestral Emperor Sword.
• True Lord Chen Yuan used his treasures to withstand the Golden Night True Thunder, and Li Qing collected lightning without being detected by the tribulation.
• Violet Void Divine Lightning damaged and tempered Li Qing’s Wind Thunder Silver Wings, while Chen Yuan used his Heaven-Opening Axe to fend off several bolts.
• Wan Shengtian confronted the Formless Sage Ancestor’s Dao Body at sea and challenged him to a fight.

True Lord Chen Yuan survived his Spirit Transformation tribulation and learned that Wan Shengtian and the Azure Flood Dragon King had fought the Demon Realm Saint Ancestor’s Dao Body in the Eastern Sea. After discussing the danger and the mysterious Saint Ancestor’s possible target, Chen Yuan joined them in deciding to visit Fellow Daoist Wuji for help forging spirit treasures.

• True Lord Chen Yuan survived the Violet Void Divine Lightning tribulation, reached the Spirit Transformation stage, and congratulated Li Qing for witnessing his breakthrough.
• Chen Yuan sensed a disturbance in the Eastern Sea and flew off after hearing the Azure Flood Dragon King’s roar, while Li Qing returned to the sect.
• The Azure Flood Dragon King and Wan Shengtian discussed their battle with the Demon Realm Saint Ancestor’s Dao Body and warned that it could become more dangerous if it reached Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Yuan arrived and learned that Wan Shengtian had nearly died fighting the Dao Body, which had likely come for Chen Yuan during his tribulation.
• Chen Yuan described the Dao Body’s shifting faces and methods, and the three considered who the Formless Sage Ancestor might be seeking.
• Wan Shengtian and the Azure Flood Dragon King agreed to visit Fellow Daoist Wuji with Chen Yuan and ask him to forge a spirit treasure.

After an attempt to refine Lightning Fire Cores with Violet Void Divine Lightning exploded, Li Qing welcomed three Spirit Transformation cultivators to Lingyun Sect and learned about their realm and the threat of the Demon Realm Saint Ancestor’s Dao Body. He agreed to refine a spirit treasure for Wan Shengtian in exchange for Top-grade Spirit Stones and to make an artifact for True Lord Chen Yuan for the Profound Calamity Dual Polarity Method.

• Li Qing tried combining Violet Void Divine Lightning with Profound Yellow True Flame to refine a Lightning Fire Core, but the unstable mixture exploded above Lingyun Sect.
• Li Qing welcomed the Azure Flood Dragon King, Wan Shengtian, and True Lord Chen Yuan into the sect, and True Lord Chen Yuan let him keep the Lightning-Repelling Robe.
• Li Qing entertained the visitors with Drunken Moon Brew and learned that Spirit Transformation cultivators could extend their lives by sealing themselves in places with ancient Great Dao environments.
• Wan Shengtian explained that the Demon Realm Saint Ancestor’s Dao Body threatened both the cultivators’ chance to ascend and the Human Realm, then asked Li Qing to refine a spirit treasure.
• Wan Shengtian offered Li Qing two fire-attribute Top-grade Spirit Stones for a successful refinement or one if it failed, and Li Qing accepted the commission.
• True Lord Chen Yuan offered Li Qing the Profound Calamity Dual Polarity Method as compensation for refining an artifact, and Li Qing agreed to that commission as well.

Li Qing prepared for the Formless Sage Ancestor by refining Lightning Fire Cores and restoring the Wind Thunder Silver Wings, then traveled to meet True Lord Chen Yuan and refine a defensive Spirit Treasure. Chen Yuan gave him the Profound Calamity Dual Polarity Method and a massive piece of Innate Gang Iron, and Li Qing began forging it into a shield.

• Li Qing spent months refining Lightning Fire Cores, producing twenty-six and exhausting the Violet Void Divine Lightning stored in the Wind Thunder Silver Wings.
• Li Qing restored the Wind Thunder Silver Wings, improving their quality and strengthening the killing power of their wingtips.
• Li Qing entered the hidden heaven and met True Lord Chen Yuan, who gave him the Profound Calamity Dual Polarity Method.
• True Lord Chen Yuan showed Li Qing a large piece of Innate Gang Iron, and Li Qing identified it and proposed refining it into a shield.
• True Lord Chen Yuan agreed to the Innate Gang Iron Shield and promised to suppress its tribulation fluctuations as Li Qing began the refinement.

Li Qing completed the Innate Gang Iron Shield for True Lord Chen Yuan, gained 1,600 years of lifespan, and set out for Fengyuan Region to meet Wan Shengtian. Meanwhile, the Formless Sage Ancestor searched the Great Desolation Region for his target, confronted the Lord of Ice Extreme Palace, and arrived at Moonlit Ridge, where a powerful presence began to stir.

• Li Qing forged the Yellow-grade Innate Gang Iron Shield, which survived its Spirit Treasure Tribulation, and gained 1,600 years of lifespan.
• True Lord Chen Yuan praised Li Qing’s artifact-refining skill, and Li Qing departed to fulfill his agreement with Wan Shengtian in Fengyuan Region.
• Li Qing flew openly across the sea, reasoning that the Formless Sage Ancestor was likely focused on Spirit Transformation cultivators and the weakened Spatial Node.
• The Formless Sage Ancestor searched the Extreme North Ice Plains, fought the Lord of Ice Extreme Palace, and left after declaring that she was not the person he sought.
• The Formless Sage Ancestor reached Moonlit Ridge and dismissed its inhabitants as weak, prompting a powerful aura to rise from within the forbidden zone.

While flying over the sea, Li Qing discovered the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult trying to control Jiuxiao as a vessel for the Golden Spirit Pearl. He rescued his old friend and killed the cultists who resisted, leaving the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult’s promised revenge unresolved.

• News spread across the Great Desolation Region that the Formless Sage Ancestor’s Dao Body had stormed through two forbidden zones, while Li Qing continued across the sea unaware.
• Li Qing detected pure gold-attribute spiritual power and found four Spirit Pearl Divine Cult cultivators restraining a Gold Slave with Spirit Gold Chains.
• Li Qing recognized the Gold Slave as Jiuxiao, an old friend from Tianhe Marketplace, and demanded that the cultivators release him.
• When the cultists made Jiuxiao attack, Li Qing subdued him with Nether Cold Fire and learned that the golden bell had controlled his mind.
• After the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult refused to surrender the Golden Spirit Pearl, Li Qing killed its four cultivators, including a deputy envoy who warned that the Lord Sacred Envoy would seek revenge.

Li Qing killed the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult cultivators, subdued Jiuxiao in his Gold Slave state, and learned that the cult sought the Five Elements Spirit Pearls. He reached the Spirit Treasure Realm to meet Wan Shengtian, who gave him a fire-attribute Top-grade Spirit Stone and warned him about the cult’s leader and its ability to track Spirit Pearls.

• Li Qing killed the middle-aged Daoist nun and extracted memories revealing the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult’s schemes and its efforts to restore the Golden Spirit Pearl.
• Li Qing used the Mind-Control Bell to pacify Jiuxiao, concealed him beneath a black robe, and left with him and the damaged Golden Spirit Pearl.
• Cult members at a branch altar discovered that four of their people had died and reported that the Golden Spirit Pearl might be lost.
• Li Qing traveled to the Fengyuan Region, used golden incense to enter the hidden Spirit Treasure Realm, and met Wan Shengtian.
• Wan Shengtian gave Li Qing a fire-attribute Top-grade Spirit Stone and warned him that the Five Elements Spirit Saint’s cult could track Spirit Pearls.
• Wan Shengtian assured Li Qing that the Spirit Treasure Realm could conceal him from the Five Elements Spirit Saint.

Li Qing declined Wan Shengtian’s offer to become a Guest Elder but stayed in the Spirit Treasure Realm while awaiting materials for a Spirit Treasure. After learning about Wan Shengtian’s Ascension Platform project and receiving Primordial Mother Red Marrow to forge a Blood Spirit Ruler, Li Qing looked forward to studying the guild’s ancient Dao patterns before beginning refinement.

• Li Qing politely declined Wan Shengtian’s recruitment offer and settled in the Spirit Treasure Realm while the guild retrieved the main refining material.
• Li Qing met Old Man Tianxing and True Lord Jialuo, then learned that Wan Shengtian was developing an Ascension Platform to help cultivators cross the dangerous void to the Spirit Realm.
• Li Qing exchanged ideas with Old Man Tianxing about combining formations and artifact refinement, and both gained new insights from their discussions.
• Wan Shengtian presented Li Qing with Primordial Mother Red Marrow and asked him to forge a ruler-type Spirit Treasure called the Blood Spirit Ruler.
• Li Qing agreed to consider the ruler’s design and asked to study the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild’s ancient Dao patterns before choosing supplementary materials.

Li Qing refined the Blood Spirit Ruler for Wan Shengtian using the rare Primordial Mother Red Marrow and ancient Dao patterns. The treasure survived its tribulation and became a Yellow-grade Spirit Treasure, earning Li Qing a great lifespan reward and another Top-grade Spirit Stone.

• Li Qing studied ancient artifact-refining Dao patterns, settled on a design for the Blood Spirit Ruler, and obtained the final materials from the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild.
• Li Qing refined and shaped the Blood Spirit Ruler in the Black Furnace, inscribing Dao patterns as he worked over several weeks.
• The completed Blood Spirit Ruler emerged from Li Qing's pavilion, and Wan Shengtian opened a rift so it could undergo its tribulation outside the Spirit Treasure Realm.
• The Blood Spirit Ruler endured several days of heavenly lightning and became a Yellow-grade Spirit Treasure, granting Li Qing 2,300 years of lifespan.
• Wan Shengtian tested the ruler's power, thanked Li Qing, promised the agreed payment and a favor, and gave him a second Top-grade Spirit Stone.

Li Qing left the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild and returned to the Demon Domain to search for Devil Race corpses to refine into blood essence. After meeting the Earth Nether Python King Leng You, he learned that Bai Xing had become the White King, and prepared to ask about his other old acquaintances and the Demon Domain’s disposal of the corpses.

• Li Qing decided not to ask Wan Shengtian for cultivation pills, then bid farewell to him and left the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild with Gold Slave.
• Li Qing traveled in concealment to the Demon Domain, hoping to find Devil Race corpses and check on the Mountain Ridge Giant Elephant.
• Li Qing spotted a group of human cultivators seeking a peculiar spirit pool, but continued deeper into the Demon Domain without approaching them.
• Li Qing encountered the fourth-tier Earth Nether Python King, introduced himself as Wuji, and asked about the Demon Domain’s Demon Kings.
• Leng You recognized Li Qing as the human who had entered the Myriad Beast Secret Realm and told him that Bai Xing had become the White King, though he had been injured during the Demonic Calamity.

Li Qing visited the Night Wolf King in the Starfall Mountain Range and discovered that a hidden restriction beneath the mountains repelled his Spiritual Sense. After he and the Night Wolf King failed to find it by digging, they decided to wait until nightfall, when the strange mist appeared.

• Li Qing learned that the Demon Domain gathered devil corpses and bones in Beast Flame Valley, then left Leng You’s marsh.
• A group of human cultivators hunted lesser demons and headed toward the mountain range containing the Spirit Nurturing Pool, hoping to strengthen their chances of joining the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult.
• Li Qing traveled to the Starfall Mountain Range and reunited with the Bone Demon Giant Wolf, now known as the Night Wolf King.
• Li Qing sensed a restriction beneath the mountain range and invited the Night Wolf King to investigate it with him.
• After digging beneath the mountains until sunrise without finding the restriction, Li Qing and the Night Wolf King decided to wait for the late-night mist.

Li Qing and the Night Wolf King broke through an ancient restriction beneath the Starfall Mountain Range and discovered a Heavenly Wolf Sacred Altar. The Night Wolf King gained a blood-refining inheritance, while Li Qing claimed Sun Moon Essence useful for his Spirit Transformation breakthrough; after the mountain’s black mist vanished, they left facing questions from the demon clans and a powerful Spirit Transformation Yellow Weasel.

• Li Qing and the Night Wolf King attacked the ancient underground restriction until it shattered, collapsing part of the Starfall Mountain Range and revealing a vast underground river and altar.
• The Night Wolf King awakened the Heavenly Wolf statue and received part of the Heavenly Wolf Blood Refining Technique, then passed the inheritance to Li Qing.
• The Night Wolf King broke the statue and released golden Sun Radiance and silver moonlight, which Li Qing collected for his cultivation.
• Li Qing and the Night Wolf King escaped as nearby demon beasts investigated, and the Night Wolf King worried that the vanished black mist would draw the Demon Kings’ attention.
• Li Qing promised to handle any threat short of the demon domain’s Spirit Transformation ruler, and the Night Wolf King revealed that the ruler was a Yellow Weasel.