Recaps

Li Qing guarded King Ning’s family in Jade Capital City while Prince Huai died and King Ning was severely wounded in the battle at the Valley of Hundred Flowers. After a Shadow Race assassin infiltrated King Ning’s Estate and escaped Li Qing, the emperor ordered an investigation.

• Li Qing arrived at King Ning’s Estate to protect the Princess Consorts and Crown Prince Fufeng while King Ning was away.
• News from the Valley of Hundred Flowers revealed that Prince Huai had been killed, King Ning had been severely wounded, and a division of Sky Cavalry had been wiped out.
• Prime Minister Li Tianzheng reached the battlefield and broke Qin Wuming’s Dark Domain, while Prince An led a charge against the enemy.
• Li Qing stayed at the estate until news confirmed King Ning would survive, then drove off a Shadow Race assassin who fled his flames.
• The Primary Princess Consort announced the attempted assassination, and the emperor ordered an investigation after the news spread through Jade Capital City.

Li Qing received an imperial reward for saving the Princess Consort while the Shadow Race investigation uncovered a hidden base in Prince An’s Estate, casting suspicion over the succession struggle. As Li Qing weighed evidence pointing toward King Ning and worried about the approaching end of the war, he sought to claim his promised resources and asked Master Ying to speed up a formation diagram.

• The Empress rewarded Li Qing with a Wood Jade Bead and promised that the Imperial Family would investigate the Shadow Race, while Li Qing advised the Princess Consort to remain inside King Ning’s Estate.
• Imperial secret agents found an Eye of Shadow and several Shadow Race members in Prince An’s Estate, and the Imperial Family placed its household under house arrest.
• Li Qing considered whether King Ning or Prince An had framed the other and noticed several clues that pointed toward King Ning’s possible connection to the Shadow Race.
• Li Qing returned to the Grand Academy, claimed the Art of Condensing Sha into Armor and the Five Elements Great Elixir formula, then visited Master Ying to ask about his formation diagram.
• Master Ying said the formation diagram would take about five more years and mocked Li Qing for becoming entangled in the Imperial Family’s troubles; Li Qing asked him to explain further.

After the Great Yu Kingdom captured and purified the Valley of Hundred Flowers, Li Qing feared the Princes’ return would begin the imperial struggle and focused on strengthening his Void Flame. At the capital, the palace array exposed a Shadow Race member parasitizing Prince An, who escaped the Emperor’s first attack by plunging Jade Capital City into a darkness law domain.

• Master Ying continued refining the array diagram, and Li Qing left Xia Wushuang in his care before returning to the Grand Academy to cultivate Void Flame.
• After half a year of fighting, Qin Wuming withdrew the Joyful Union Demonic Sect from the Valley of Hundred Flowers, while Great Yu’s forces claimed the territory.
• Prince An and Prince Ning stayed behind to eradicate the valley’s demonic qi, and the Great Yu troops later returned to Jade Capital City, where Prime Minister Li led the Princes toward the palace at the Emperor’s summons.
• The Imperial Palace’s qilin array revealed that Prince An was possessed by a powerful Shadow Race member, who cast off his disguise and attacked the capital.
• The Great Yu Emperor exposed the Shadow Race member beneath the city, but the enemy invoked Shadow Return Void Realm and twisted Jade Capital City as the chapter ended.

The Great Yu Imperial Lord quelled the Shadow Race attack, but the case was allowed to fade away and King Ning was chosen to inherit the throne. With the succession settled, Li Qing turned to refining the Five Elements Returning Origin Pill and learned that the palace’s Chief Alchemist, Ye Qingchen, might be able to help.

• The Great Yu Imperial Lord used the Heaven-reaching Crimson Kirin Staff and the city formation to repel the Shadow Race expert, then stopped pursuing him after Prime Minister Li urged him to protect the capital.
• Master Ying told Li Qing that the Shadow Race case would likely be set aside, and months later Prince An awoke with missing memories while the investigation became an unsolved mystery.
• The princes received rewards, King Liyang became commander-in-chief of the Thirteen Divisions of Sky Cavalry, and Prince Huai was buried with great ceremony.
• A year later, the Great Yu Imperial Lord abdicated to pursue a breakthrough, and an Imperial Decree named King Ning as his successor.
• Li Qing sought Master Wu’s help refining the Five Elements Returning Origin Pill, but Master Wu declined after describing his four failed attempts.
• Master Wu advised Li Qing to approach Ye Qingchen, the palace’s Chief Alchemist, who had once refined sentient pills.

Li Qing attended Emperor Ning’s enthronement, declined an appointment as Director of the Secret Supervision Institute, and asked the new emperor to arrange for Ye Qingchen to refine pills for him. At the Imperial Pill Pavilion, Ye Qingchen demanded a thousand years of lifespan for each refinement, and Li Qing proposed the Five Elements Returning Origin Pill.

• Li Qing received Prince Ning’s invitation to the enthronement and decided to attend so he could ask for Ye Qingchen’s help.
• Prince Ning ascended the throne as Emperor Ning, while a Purple Gold Kirin appeared over the palace and impressed the gathered crowds.
• Emperor Ning offered Li Qing the post of Director of the Secret Supervision Institute, but Li Qing declined because he planned to travel to Tianyuan Continent.
• In the Imperial Study, Li Qing asked Emperor Ning to speak with Ye Qingchen about refining pills, and Emperor Ning agreed to approach the Chief Alchemist.
• Li Qing visited the Imperial Pill Pavilion, where Ye Qingchen said he would take a thousand years of lifespan for each refinement.
• Li Qing asked whether Ye Qingchen could refine the Five Elements Returning Origin Pill.

Li Qing paid Ye Qingchen a thousand years of lifespan to refine the Five Elements Returning Origin Pill using his Five Yuan Dates. The pill batch succeeded, produced a Spirit Forming Pill that survived a Pill Tribulation, and left Li Qing with twelve pills.

• Ye Qingchen agreed to refine the pill after Li Qing confirmed the Five Yuan Dates he had gathered, then extracted exactly one thousand years of Li Qing's lifespan in a demon-spirit cauldron.
• Ye Qingchen used the five dates and his Senluo Spirit Fire to begin refining the pill while Li Qing waited in the Imperial Pill Pavilion.
• After thirty days, Ye Qingchen opened the cauldron, releasing a five-colored Pill Cloud and thunder as the batch triggered a Pill Tribulation.
• A leopard-shaped Spirit Forming Pill leaped from the cauldron and endured the lightning before guarding the other pills.
• Li Qing collected twelve pills, including the leopard-patterned Spirit Forming Pill, and thanked Ye Qingchen.

Li Qing said farewell to his graduating disciples, received the Myriad Manifestation Immortal Formation from Master Ying, and left the Great Yu Kingdom with Xia Wushuang. They set out toward Canglan Continent on a route that would eventually take them to Tianyuan Continent, while Emperor Ning learned that Li Qing had departed without saying goodbye.

• More than thirty graduating disciples thanked Li Qing for teaching them artifact refinement, and he encouraged them to face the unknown before they left the Grand Academy.
• Dean Chen used his Painting Dao to make Li Qing’s parting poem appear across the academy’s sky and on a scroll for departing students to see.
• Master Ying gave Li Qing the Myriad Manifestation Immortal Formation, an Eighth-tier Grand Array that still required rare materials to reach its full power.
• Li Qing and Xia Wushuang bid farewell to Master Ying and left for the Great Yu Kingdom’s frontier, planning to travel through Canglan Continent, Empty Reef Island, the Night Sea, and Leiming Continent.
• Emperor Ning learned that Li Qing had left without saying goodbye and regretted that he could not recruit him.

Li Qing and Xia Wushuang reached Empty Reef Island after years of sailing and crossed its heavenly river to the dangerous Night Sea. After being caught in a dream bubble they could not quickly escape, Li Qing awoke in an unfamiliar scene where he had apparently been waiting for his wife to give birth to twins.

• Li Qing and Xia Wushuang confirmed they had reached Empty Reef Island and sailed up its river into the clouds.
• Li Qing used his Wind Spiritual Root to calm the waves as the Sea Breeze traveled through the heavenly river toward Night Sea.
• Xia Wushuang warned Li Qing about Night Sea’s deadly dream bubbles, and they entered the dark sea seeking starlight to navigate.
• The Sea Breeze touched a dream bubble, briefly trapping Li Qing and Xia Wushuang in a dream before they awoke.
• After another bubble caught them, Li Qing awoke beside a midwife announcing newborn twins and realized something was wrong.

Li Qing and Xia Wushuang were swallowed by a blood-red dream bubble left by a Mahayana-stage powerhouse, where they retained their awareness but could not break free. They followed a Blood Race army to a ravine with nine blood pools, and Li Qing recalled the Blood Ember Demon Lord, the Blood Race’s Mahayana ancestor.

• Li Qing escaped a dreamscape by using the Startle God Spear, then watched Xia Wushuang awaken from a dream of his own.
• The two sailed through the Night Sea, growing more resistant to dreamscapes and strengthening their souls as they traveled.
• Xia Wushuang accelerated the Sea Breeze into a massive blood-red dream bubble, which swallowed the ship and carried them into a Mahayana-level dream.
• Li Qing and Xia Wushuang realized they had retained their awareness, but Xia Wushuang’s soul formation could not break the dreamscape.
• The two followed a passing Blood Race army across a battlefield and watched its members pour gathered blood into nine pools.
• Li Qing recalled that the Blood Race had once existed on the Tianyuan Continent and had been led by the Mahayana-stage Blood Ember Demon Lord.

Xia Wushuang awakened Blood Ember Demon Lord in the Blood Race’s dreamscape, where the remnant fought Netherhorn Divine Venerable and asked Li Qing and Xia Wushuang to kill the Blood Race traitors. After Li Qing received the Demon Lord’s cultivation method, the dream’s hidden trap took hold, but the Demon Venerable’s will awakened in his sea of consciousness and shattered the dream bubble above Night Sea.

• Xia Wushuang spoke Blood Ember Demon Lord’s name, summoning the Demon Lord’s remnant spirit, which imprisoned the Blood Race members and confronted them over their sacrifice and lost inheritance.
• The Blood Race members lit soul-summoning incense, bringing Netherhorn Divine Venerable into the dreamscape; he fought Blood Ember Demon Lord, who used the Dream Dao Law to trap him in a blood-colored cage.
• Blood Ember Demon Lord asked Li Qing and Xia Wushuang to kill the Blood Race traitors and promised them his Dao methods; Xia Wushuang attacked, and Li Qing joined him in killing the confused Blood Race members.
• Blood Ember Demon Lord transmitted the Blood Soul Creation Scripture and its Scripture Introduction; Li Qing condensed a blood seed, which grew into a tree that took over his body as Xia Wushuang and the corpses vanished.
• Li Qing realized the events had been a dream, but the blood tree grew into his sea of consciousness; the Demon Venerable’s memories and will awakened, destroying the tree and the blood seed.
• The Blood Moon-like dream bubble above Night Sea shattered, the Sea Breeze fell out of it, and the awakened will in Li Qing’s sea of consciousness devoured the dream’s spiritual feedback as Night Sea began to boil.

After escaping Blood Ember Demon Lord’s dream, Li Qing gained powerful inheritances and crossed the Sea of Eternal Night with Xia Wushuang. They reached daylight and set course for Leiming Continent, where Li Qing hoped the Thunder Pool Sacred Land could remove the Sage Ancestor imprint on his wrist.

• Li Qing took control of the Sea Breeze as the Night Sea boiled and dream bubbles burst, then Xia Wushuang woke and took the helm.
• Li Qing sorted the memories of Blood Ember Demon Lord and gained his cultivation methods, including the Blazing Blood Nirvana Art and Heavenless Blood Demon Manifestation.
• The fragments of the Demon Venerable’s memories grew clearer, restoring parts of the Immortal Dao inheritances and completing more of the Spirit Fusion Art.
• Li Qing and Xia Wushuang sailed across the Night Sea for two years, strengthening their divine souls and avoiding other dangerous lingering dreams.
• The Sea Breeze reached sunlight, and Xia Wushuang told Li Qing that their next stop was Leiming Continent and its Thunder Pool Sacred Land.
• Li Qing considered entering the Thunder Pool Sacred Land to cleanse the Sage Ancestor imprint on his wrist.

Li Qing and Xia Wushuang traveled across Leiming Continent toward the Thunder Pool Sacred Land while Li Qing began studying the Golden Saint Treasure Body. They joined a battle against a Thunder Flood Dragon that had slaughtered millions, and Li Qing promised to face it in a fair fight.

• Xia Wushuang explained Leiming Continent’s lightning, powerful native races, and the dangers of drawing attention as he and Li Qing headed inland.
• Li Qing began studying the Golden Saint Treasure Body while searching for the Thunder Pool Sacred Land, but struggled to comprehend the technique.
• Li Qing and Xia Wushuang discovered six Void Refinement cultivators fighting a Thunder Flood Dragon whose Great Heavenly Tribulation had destroyed their formation.
• Xia Wushuang urged Li Qing to help the humans, and both men joined the fight against the flood dragon for the millions it had killed.
• Li Qing stopped the flood dragon from killing an early Void Refinement cultivator, then let it withdraw its claw after promising a fair fight.
• The Thunder Flood Dragon retreated to prepare for the duel, and Li Qing declared that he would slay it.

Li Qing defeated and killed the Thunder Flood Dragon, then learned that the Thunder Pool Sacred Land had been sealed by several powerful races. He sought a way inside to remove the Formless Sage Ancestor's mark and asked the human cultivators for more information.

• The Thunder Flood Dragon attacked the humans with lightning and trapped Li Qing in its Purple Gold Lightning Binding Ring, but Li Qing emerged unharmed.
• Li Qing transformed into a Nine-headed Serpent, restrained the Thunder Flood Dragon with the Cunning Snake Eyes, and wounded it before it turned into lightning to escape.
• Li Qing used Void Flame and his dual swords to burn and kill the Thunder Flood Dragon, then harvested its valuable remains and offered its leftover flesh to the other cultivators.
• The human cultivators told Li Qing that the Electric Light Falcon, Lightning Phoenix Bird, and Thunder Spirit Crane races had sealed the Thunder Pool Sacred Land for over three years, reportedly to incubate a mysterious egg.
• Li Qing learned that some mysterious beings were investigating the sealed sacred land and asked the cultivators to share more information in exchange for the Thunder Flood Dragon's remaining flesh.

Li Qing joined Sacred Whale Senior’s coalition to enter the tightly guarded Thunder Pool Sacred Land, where they hoped to claim its secrets before a mysterious bird egg hatched. When the coalition stalled over how to handle the four powerful Thunderbirds, Li Qing offered to hold off one of them, but the others doubted him until Sacred Whale Senior revealed that Li had slain the formidable Thunder Flood Dragon.

• Zijing told Li Qing that a coalition led by Sacred Whale Senior planned to break through the lightning bird races’ blockade, and Li Qing chose to join them.
• Zijing brought Li Qing and Xia Wushuang to the coalition’s hidden island base, where Sacred Whale Senior welcomed Li after hearing of his strength.
• The coalition’s members argued over whether they had enough power to attack before a mysterious bird egg in the Thunder Pool Sacred Land hatched.
• The Gold Swallowing Toad and Sky Demon Bat explained that their three Body Integration Realm fighters might be unable to counter four Seventh-tier Thunderbirds and their superior speed.
• Li Qing offered to hold off a newly advanced Body Integration Realm Thunderbird, but the Gold Swallowing Toad dismissed him as too weak.
• Sacred Whale Senior introduced Li Qing and revealed that Li had killed the Thunder Flood Dragon that had caused an uproar.

Li Qing joined the foreign races’ campaign to break the blockade around the Thunder Pool Sacred Land, while conserving his strength and waiting for the battle to begin. The force reached the Thunder Pool aboard the Giant Whale Warship, attacked it, and drew out a deadly Thunderbird response.

• After hearing that Li Qing had slain the Thunder Flood Dragon, the group discussed the stronger Thunderbirds guarding the Thunder Pool Sacred Land, and Li Qing declined to take a leading role in the attack.
• Nearly half a year later, the gathered force remained without any new Body Integration Realm allies, so the Sacred Whale Race expert finalized a plan assigning the three strongest fighters to hold back the Thunderbirds’ Body Integration Realm experts.
• The Sacred Whale Race expert brought out the Giant Whale Warship, and Zijing explained its powerful formations, defenses, and treasure talismans as the group boarded.
• The Giant Whale Warship concealed itself and reached the Thunder Pool Sacred Land in ten days, where Li Qing felt the Sage Ancestor mark on his wrist respond to the sinister aura.
• The Sacred Whale Race expert fired a massive spiritual-power attack at the Thunder Pool, destroying more than ten mountains and provoking a vast eruption of heavenly lightning.
• A lightning-fast peregrine falcon and a great flock of Thunderbirds flew out to attack, and someone urged Brother Sacred Whale to fire again.

Li Qing fought among the thunderbirds attacking the Giant Whale Warship, then used Qian Yu’s surprise attack as cover to slip toward the Thunder Pool Sacred Land. As Pang Bo and Bird King Qian Yu’s battle drew everyone’s attention, Li Qing reached the pool’s edge undetected.

• The Gold Swallowing Toad swallowed a Lightning Falcon while the Sky Demon Bat and Pang Bo engaged powerful thunderbirds, and Li Qing killed a Thunder Spirit Crane with his swords.
• Li Qing went to help Zijing, but the seemingly early Void Refinement stage Thunderous Eagle Qian Yu revealed himself as the fourth Body Integration Realm thunderbird and attacked Li Qing with lightning feathers bearing the Law of Darkness.
• Bird King Qian Yu confronted Pang Bo, and their fierce battle drew the battlefield’s attention while Zijing believed Li Qing had been killed.
• Li Qing used Fiend Armor to survive Qian Yu’s attack, then combined Spatial Strange Light with Kunpeng Divine Power to escape toward the Thunder Pool unnoticed.

Li Qing entered the Thunder Pool Sacred Land to remove the Sage Ancestor imprint and find Lightning Tribulation Liquid, but discovered that most of its Eyes of Thunder Punishment had been drained by mysterious green pillars. After finding a charged Eye, he refined a lightning spirit and swallowed a Thunder Flood Dragon inner core before plunging into the lightning plasma to forge his body and form his seventh spiritual root.

• Li Qing endured the Thunder Pool’s lightning, which weakened the Sage Ancestor imprint and began dissipating the Origin Demonic Energy within it.
• Li Qing found several drained Eyes of Thunder Punishment beside dim green stone pillars, then discovered one still filled with lightning plasma.
• Li Qing captured and swallowed a lightning snake, refining its power to strengthen his body.
• Li Qing swallowed a Thunder Flood Dragon inner core and began gaining its ability to transform his body into lightning.
• Li Qing jumped into the Eye of Heavenly Punishment’s lightning plasma and used it to refine his body as an illusory purple seventh spiritual root began taking shape.

Li Qing absorbed the Eye of Heavenly Punishment’s thunder plasma, formed his seventh spirit root, and broke through to the late Void Refinement stage before discovering a Thunder Roc True Spirit Egg. He used a World Stone and spatial powers to steal the egg along with its Eye of Heavenly Punishment, leaving the Thunderbird clans to accuse Pang Bo and launch a search.

• Li Qing completed his initial Golden Saint Treasure Body tempering, formed his Lightning Spiritual Root, and found Lightning Tribulation Liquid that healed his injuries and stabilized the new root.
• Li Qing discovered the Thunder Roc Egg absorbing lightning, failed to break its restrictions or claim it, then used a World Stone with Spatial Strange Light and Kunpeng Divine Power to transfer it away.
• Thunderbirds found the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and its Thunder-Suppressing Pillar missing, while the battle above the Thunder Pool turned against Pang Bo and his allies.
• Qian Yu learned the True Spirit Egg had been stolen and accused Pang Bo of using the battle as a diversion, but Pang Bo denied involvement.
• Qian Yu ordered the Thunderbirds to notify their clan chiefs and search for the thief, while Pang Bo agreed to an investigation and asked what kind of egg had been stolen.

After stealing the Thunder Roc Egg and the Eye of Heavenly Punishment, Li Qing hid with Shi Bentian while the thunderbird races searched Leiming Continent. The Sacred Whale Race forced the thunderbirds to release Pang Bo, and Li Qing escaped to the outer sea as the search was abandoned.

• The Sacred Whale Race sent two elders and a Giant Whale Warship to demand Pang Bo’s release from the thunderbird races.
• Li Qing hid inside Shi Bentian’s mountain, concealed the expanding Worldstone, and explained the Golden Saint Treasure Body technique in exchange for Shi Bentian’s protection.
• Shi Bentian drove off searching thunderbirds and prepared to help Li Qing teleport away, while a Thunder Crane later confronted him.
• The thunderbirds abandoned their confrontation with Shi Bentian after receiving an emergency signal from their territory.
• The Sacred Whale Race threatened the thunderbird clans with the Giant Whale Warship until they released Pang Bo and gave him Lightning Tribulation Liquid.
• The thunderbird races concluded that a mysterious Mahayana expert had taken the Thunder Roc Egg, ended their search, and allowed Li Qing to escape to the outer sea.

Li Qing refined the Worldstone into the half-finished Heavenly Marvel Silver Ring, creating the Heavenly Marvel Spirit Realm, and returned to Leiming Continent to meet Xia Wushuang and prepare for Tianyuan Continent. At Thunderclap Sea Port, they watched a beast fight whose next match featured a ferocious Heavenly Demon Tiger against a stronger Sea Wolf.

• After two and a half years of refining, Li Qing turned the Worldstone and several spatial treasures into a half-finished Grotto-Heaven Treasure that could hold living creatures and generate spiritual qi.
• Li Qing named the treasure the Heavenly Marvel Silver Ring and its inner world the Heavenly Marvel Spirit Realm, where the Eye of Heavenly Punishment struck lightning around the Thunder Roc Egg.
• Li Qing returned to Leiming Continent, searched for a super teleportation formation, and found Xia Wushuang at Thunderclap Sea Port.
• Xia Wushuang urged Li Qing to use the Thunder Roc Egg in the Beast Fighting Arena to earn spirit stones, but Li Qing refused and explained that the egg would yield a valuable dead True Spirit.
• Li Qing accompanied Xia Wushuang to watch the fights, where the host introduced a peak fifth-tier Heavenly Demon Tiger as the next opponent for a sixth-tier Sea Wolf.

Li Qing recognized Rice Bucket, his former spirit-contract beast, fighting as a captive in the Lianyun Beast Fighting Arena and wagered all his spirit stones on him. Rice Bucket defeated and devoured Sea Wolf, but Li Qing still could not reach him through their contract and feared the tiger’s overwhelming killing intent had affected his mind.

• The Beast Fighting Arena introduced Rice Bucket as a lower-realm Heavenly Demon Tiger, and Li Qing recognized him among the fighting beasts.
• Xia Wushuang told Li Qing that Immortal Aunt Qiuyun managed the arena and that Venerable Qilian was its other owner.
• Li Qing wagered one million eight hundred thousand spirit stones on Rice Bucket, and Xia Wushuang followed with two million.
• Rice Bucket and Sea Wolf fought fiercely, but Rice Bucket’s Heavenly Demon Force Field stopped Sea Wolf’s first attack.
• Rice Bucket overwhelmed Sea Wolf, killed him, and devoured his demon spirit and demon core.
• Li Qing could not sense Rice Bucket through their master-recognition Spirit Contract and worried that his killing intent had affected his mind, while Xia Wushuang celebrated his winnings.

Li Qing and Xia Wushuang confronted the Lianyun Beast Fighting Arena after it refused to pay their winnings, and Li Qing fought the arena’s forces, including Immortal Aunt Qiuyun. He defeated Qiuyun despite the Spirit Purifying Bottle’s phantom and ordered the arena looted and destroyed.

• The arena refused to pay Xia Wushuang and offered to return their wager only after deducting a handling fee, so its cultivators surrounded him and Li Qing.
• Immortal Aunt Qiuyun appeared, revealed Xia Wushuang’s background, and declared that the pair would not leave alive.
• Li Qing attacked with the Immortal Slaying Sword and Immortal Trapping Sword, then used the Desolate Gale and heavenly lightning to overwhelm Qiuyun and the arena’s Void Refinement cultivators.
• Qiuyun’s Spirit Purifying Bottle phantom produced a Spiritual Sense Imprint of Venerable Qilian, but Li Qing rejected his plea and burned the imprint and Qiuyun with Void Flame.
• Li Qing ordered Xia Wushuang to loot the arena and eliminate survivors while he went to inspect its demon beasts, then said he would burn the entire arena down.

Li Qing rescued Rice Bucket and seized the demon beasts imprisoned beneath the Lianyun Beast Fighting Arena, then destroyed the arena in a blaze. He and Xia Wushuang escaped with a fortune and waited near the super Teleportation Array to travel to Tianyuan Continent.

• Li Qing freed and collected the wounded Ancient Savage Beasts and demon cultivators from the underground prison, then found Rice Bucket in a berserk state and subdued him.
• Li Qing stored Rice Bucket separately in his Grotto-Heaven World and left the prison after taking all its demon beasts.
• The Lianyun Beast Fighting Arena erupted in flames and burned down, while nearby cultivators speculated that it had been robbed and Immortal Aunt Qiuyun had died.
• Li Qing and Xia Wushuang arrived at Thunderclap Sea Port with over twenty-one million spirit stones and discussed the danger posed by Venerable Qilian.
• The two went to the super Teleportation Array, which was nearing its thousand-person capacity, and divided their spoils, with Li Qing taking thirteen million spirit stones and the valuable materials.

Li Qing arrived on Tianyuan Continent and learned that humanity had lost much of its border territory in a war with the Ghost Horn Race. He reached Dimming Nether City, where he began the process of obtaining a human identity so he could travel into the heartland.

• Li Qing parted from Xia Wushuang at the coast, then flew across Tianyuan Continent toward human territory.
• After traveling for more than twenty days, Li Qing met Qiao Yu’s Azure Cloud Caravan and learned that only Dimming Nether City remained nearby.
• Qiao Yu explained that humanity was fighting the Ghost Horn Race and described how Clan Fortune determined racial rankings and tribute.
• Li Qing traveled with the Azure Cloud Caravan to Dimming Nether City, a fortress protected by the Three Sun Yin Refining Formation.
• A city guard stopped Li Qing because he lacked proof of human identity and explained that he had to verify his humanity, pass the Heart-Refining Formation, and render merit.

Li Qing waited in Dimming Nether City to earn a human identity by killing Netherworld Ghosts on Extreme Yin Day, then discovered the Yin-Yang Sect was attempting to create a Great Yin Physique. A newborn girl emerged amid a massive ghost assault, and the Myriad Races Dao Tablet showed the human race’s standing rising.

• Li Qing learned the Yin-Yang Sect guided ascenders and decided to investigate it for clues about Shen Ningbing and the Yin-Yang Spiritual Seal.
• On Extreme Yin Day, Li Qing overheard that cultivators in the city were timing births in hopes of producing a Great Yin Physique.
• Li Qing killed a Void Refinement stage Fierce Ghost with his Great Sun Golden Flame as yin energy surged toward Dimming Nether City.
• Tens of thousands of yin souls gathered to attack the city, and Li Qing traced the disturbance to a hidden yin-gathering formation beneath it.
• A woman gave birth to a girl who absorbed the surrounding yin energy, while the gathered cultivators proclaimed her an Immortal Infant and prepared to take her to the Yin-Yang Sect.
• The Myriad Races Dao Tablet shone with golden light for the human race, whose ranking began to rival the Beast Tooth Race.