Chapter Summaries

After killing the Ancient Chi Demon Ancestor, Li Qing guarded the Demon Realm Rift and began repairing it with the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation. While the repairs proceeded, he refined two Golden Fire Patterns and completed the Black Furnace’s missing patterns, setting the stage to restore the Life-Extinguishing Furnace.

• Li Qing stored the Ancient Chi Demon Ancestor’s remains and learned that the Formless Sage Ancestor had ordered the attack, then decided to repair the lingering Demon Realm Rift.
• True Lord Tianbao brought the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation materials and Shengxuan Jade Iron, and Li Qing promised to help Wan Shengtian if they met in the Spirit Realm.
• Li Qing and True Lord Tianbao activated the formation, slowly mending the stable Demon Realm Rift with starlight while Li Qing stood guard.
• Li Qing used the Great Sun Golden Flame to process the Shengxuan Jade Iron and refine two Golden Fire Patterns.
• Li Qing fitted the two patterns into the Black Furnace, causing it to transform and giving him hope of restoring the Life-Extinguishing Furnace.

Li Qing reforged the Life-Extinguishing Furnace while True Lord Tianbao repaired the Demon Realm Rift, but the Formless Sage Ancestor sent three powerful Dao Bodies through it. As Li Qing fought their merged form, the furnace completed its tribulation and restored his confidence in facing the Saint Ancestor.

• Li Qing used the Great Sun Golden Flame to restore the Life-Extinguishing Furnace from its thirty-six Golden Fire Patterns.
• True Lord Tianbao continued repairing the Demon Realm Rift as several ancient demons died while descending through it.
• The Formless Sage Ancestor sent three Spirit Transformation-stage Dao Bodies through the rift, and Li Qing attacked them with the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• The three Dao Bodies used their physical, soul, and domain abilities against Li Qing, who broke the Demonic Domain with starlight, his spirit fires, and a lifespan-fueled sword strike.
• The three Dao Bodies merged and nearly overwhelmed Li Qing, but the Life-Extinguishing Furnace completed its tribulation, protected him, and healed his injuries.

Li Qing killed the Formless Sage Ancestor's Dao Body by reforging the Life-Extinguishing Furnace with the Great Sun Golden Flame and striking with the Great Sun Destruction Jade. After helping seal the Demon Realm Rift, he met the Lord of Ice Extreme Palace, who identified his curse mark and offered Spirit Realm information in exchange for his Nether Cold Fire.

• The Formless Sage Ancestor summoned a projection of the Chaos Heaven-Slaying Blade and severely damaged Li Qing's Life-Extinguishing Furnace, but Li Qing infused it with the Great Sun Golden Flame and Seven-Colored Vitality Essence.
• Li Qing used the Great Sun Destruction Jade to kill the Formless Sage Ancestor's Dao Body, which branded him with a curse mark that could track his location.
• Li Qing found True Lord Tianbao alive and told him to set up the Star Radiance Heaven Mending Formation again; True Lord Tianbao used the spare materials he had brought.
• Li Qing recovered while True Lord Tianbao repaired the Demon Realm Rift, then prepared to reforge the Life-Extinguishing Furnace with the Great Sun Golden Flame.
• The Lord of Ice Extreme Palace arrived, recognized Li Qing from their earlier encounter, and explained that his curse mark could be cleansed in the Spirit Realm.
• The Lord of Ice Extreme Palace offered to share Spirit Realm intelligence in exchange for Li Qing's Nether Cold Fire, and Li Qing declined.

Li Qing decided to ascend to the Spirit Realm because the Formless Sage Ancestor’s curse mark made remaining in the Human Realm increasingly dangerous. After finding an ascension node in the Nether Realm, he uncovered a source of its immortality and began to burn away the region’s accumulated yin energy, but someone urgently asked him to stop.

• Li Qing failed to cleanse the curse mark with the Five Elements Spirit Pearls, then spent years repairing the Life-Extinguishing Furnace and replenishing his lifespan by refining artifacts.
• Li Qing told Suxin that a Demon Realm Saint Ancestor was targeting him, married her, and defeated the Formless Sage Ancestor’s Dao Body when it attacked during their wedding.
• Li Qing left Lingyun Sect and searched the Human Realm for ascension nodes, defeating another Dao Body but realizing the Formless Sage Ancestor was learning his methods.
• Li Qing found a suitable ascension node in a ruined Nether Realm temple and investigated the Nether Realm’s source of immortality, discovering that buried cultivators could return as Corpse Decomposition Immortals.
• Li Qing raised the Great Sun Golden Flame to destroy the Nether Realm’s accumulated yin energy, but an unseen speaker urgently called for him to stop.

Li Qing visited Tianshou Temple in the Nether Realm and learned that its three yin corpses were meant to suppress yin energy rather than cause a calamity. After securing help for his disciples and taking the corpses, he traveled to the Spirit Treasure Realm to seek intelligence about the Spirit Realm.

• The Tianshou Temple master persuaded Li Qing to inspect the temple instead of destroying the Nether Realm.
• Li Qing examined the temple's Art of Raising Three Corpses and took all three yin corpses after hearing the master's explanation.
• Li Qing accepted five tokens so his disciples could receive help at Tianshou Temple in the future.
• Li Qing tested one yin corpse with his essence blood and found it could withstand a deadly tribulation.
• Li Qing traveled through the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild's teleportation arrays to the Spirit Treasure Realm, where True Lord Tianbao gave him records about the Spirit Realm.

Li Qing studied the Spirit Realm before preparing to ascend, then visited old demon companions to say farewell. At the Night Wolf King's request, he investigated the troubled Yellow Weasel and found it fighting the Purple Extreme Yuan Devouring Beast for control of its body; after they tried to attack him together, Li Qing suppressed them with his Spiritual Sense.

• Li Qing read Spirit Realm Records, learned about its races and dangers, and obtained beacon coordinates from True Lord Tianbao.
• Li Qing left the Myriad Treasures Merchant Guild and traveled to the Demon Region to drink with the Night Wolf King, the Terror Claw Lizard, and the Mountain Ridge Giant Elephant before ascending.
• The Night Wolf King told Li Qing that the Yellow Weasel had been behaving strangely, so Li Qing went to investigate.
• Li Qing found the Yellow Weasel battling the Purple Extreme Yuan Devouring Beast, and both offered him rewards for help.
• Li Qing waited as the two demon spirits fought, but they joined forces to attack him; he overwhelmed their soul attacks with his Spiritual Sense and froze the Yellow Weasel's body.

Li Qing searched the Yellow Weasel’s soul, found the Rakshasa Fruits nearly depleted, and toured the Myriad Beast Secret Realm before bidding farewell to the Black Flood Dragon King. After visiting the Great Desolation Region, he sensed organized Blood Path cultivators and secretly followed them through soul fragments.

• Li Qing refined the Yellow Weasel’s spirit, recovered fragments of the Blood Refining Secret Technique, and forced his way into the Myriad Beast Secret Realm.
• Li Qing found the Rakshasa Fruits nearly drained of vital essence, took them to try nourishing later, and paid respects at the Mountain Ridge Giant Elephant ancestor’s tomb and Senior Bai Ling’s grave.
• Li Qing subdued an awakened Demon Spirit at Beast King Mountain with his Late Deity Transformation aura, then left the secret realm as its remnant spirits discussed his power.
• Li Qing visited the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace, promised the Black Flood Dragon King he would look after the Azure Flood Dragon King in the upper realm, and departed without accepting a sacred beast for Lingyun Sect.
• Li Qing reached the Great Desolation Region, noticed disciplined Blood Path cultivators in a small city, and used the Soul Splitting Secret Technique to follow them through several soul fragments.

Li Qing tracked blood-path cultivators to the Rakshasa Demon Lord’s underground lair, where he found the demon torturing Purple Qilin for its blood. He helped Wang Chan kill Rakshasa and, after she offered him Purple Qilin, began examining her in hopes of finding a way to save her fading lifespan.

• Li Qing followed the demonic cultivators to a concealed underground palace and discovered that the Rakshasa Demon Lord was using Purple Qilin to cultivate Qilin Purple Blood Ginseng.
• Li Qing entered the palace, freed Purple Qilin, seized the ginseng and medicinal field, and trapped Rakshasa with spirit fire.
• Wang Chan arrived to kill Rakshasa, and Li Qing suppressed the demon’s cultivation so she could strike him down.
• Wang Chan explained that she had forced her Dragon’s Roar Physique to advance to Nascent Soul Middle Stage, leaving her lifespan nearly exhausted, and offered Purple Qilin to Li Qing.
• Purple Qilin begged Li Qing to help Wang Chan, and Li Qing asked Wang Chan to extend her hand so he could examine her.

Li Qing treated Wang Chan’s Dragon's Roar Physique and secured her promise to protect the Lingyun Sect and preserve an ascension opportunity for its future cultivators. He visited old acquaintances before telling Liu Hanyue that a Demon Realm Sage Ancestor’s curse mark forced him to leave the Human Realm, and she embraced him, unable to bear their parting.

• Li Qing used Seven-Colored Vitality Essence to neutralize the Dragon's Roar Physique’s life-draining effects, spending about five hundred years of his lifespan to heal Wang Chan.
• Wang Chan promised to look after the Lingyun Sect and yield the Yin-Yang Spiritual Seal’s ascension opportunity to a future Spirit Transformation cultivator; she also told Li Qing that the seal was connected to the upper-realm Yin-Yang Sect.
• Li Qing visited Gui Fan at the Ghost Sword Sect, drank with him, and reminisced about their early encounters.
• Li Qing watched Liu Hanyue cultivate at the Moon Chasing Palace, but showed himself when she called out to him.
• Li Qing told Liu Hanyue that a Demon Realm Sage Ancestor had marked him and that he planned to ascend soon to avoid endangering himself and his old acquaintances; Liu Hanyue embraced him and said she could not bear to part with him.

Li Qing settled his affairs at Lingyun Sect and prepared to ascend through a Spatial Node in the Nether Realm. He arrived at the node and, despite uncertainty about the dangers ahead, resolved to ascend without waiting any longer.

• Li Qing gave Liu Hanyue a Tianshou Temple token and spent three days with her at Moon Chasing Palace.
• Li Qing welcomed Hua Huairen, praised his successful core formation, and approved his cultivation partner joining Lingyun Sect.
• Li Qing gave Hua Huairen cultivation guidance and an ancient treasure and spiritual material for his partner.
• Li Qing entrusted Suxin with a Tianshou Temple token, explained the future Yin-Yang Spiritual Seal ascension opportunity, and left the Ascension Platform and Spatial Node markers for Lingyun Sect.
• Li Qing said farewell to Suxin and Lingyun Sect, passed through Feng Kingdom, and flew to the Nether Realm.
• Li Qing reached the weakened Spatial Node at an old Daoist temple and sat down to prepare for ascension.

Li Qing ascended from the Human Realm and crossed the dangerous void toward the Spirit Realm, where the Formless Sage Ancestor ambushed him with an army of Dao Bodies. As Li Qing neared his destination, a Void Refinement stage Dao Body struck him down, but his immortal estate blocked the attack and carried him unconscious into the Spirit Realm.

• Li Qing burned open a passage with his four Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires and entered the void, using his Spirit Realm Beacon and Kunpeng Divine Power to find his way.
• Li Qing encountered a colossal white whale and fled a spatial storm caused by its passing.
• Li Qing reached a region of stars representing small worlds and encountered the Formless Sage Ancestor's Dao Bodies, who revealed that they had been waiting to kill him.
• Li Qing fought the Dao Bodies, destroyed two, and then spent his vitality essence to escape their growing encirclement.
• A Void Refinement stage Dao Body attacked Li Qing near the Spirit Realm, but the body he destroyed was a Yin corpse and Li Qing's immortal estate blocked the follow-up strike.
• The immortal estate fell with Li Qing toward the Spirit Realm as he lost consciousness.

Li Qing survived his forced arrival in the Spirit Realm and slowly recovered from his injuries before meeting a giant from the Giant Spirit Race. He learned that he was on Tonggu Continent, where humans were vassals of the Giant Spirit Race, and that the region’s recent war against the Treant Race had ended.

• Li Qing woke beneath the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion in a vast crater, confirmed that Rice Bucket was alive, and found himself gravely injured in the Spirit Realm.
• Li Qing used pills to recover for sixteen days, restoring his bones and much of his ability to move.
• A giant carrying a bone club approached the crater after sensing Li Qing’s spiritual sense, and Li Qing cautiously tried to communicate with him.
• Li Qing and the giant communicated in Ancient Demon Language, then the giant taught him the Spirit Realm’s common language and the Giant Spirit Race’s language.
• The giant told Li Qing that he was on Tonggu Continent, where humans were vassals of the Giant Spirit Race, and warned him about the hostile Treant Race in the south.
• The giant explained that the Giant Spirit Race and Treant Race had just ended a long war, and that humans would receive rewards for their help.

Li Qing traveled across the Tonggu Continent toward a human city, fending off a griffonman who tried to take his Wind Thunder Silver Wings. He reached Xuangu City seeking a place to recover and information about the continent, where a city guard reacted with fervor upon learning he was an ascender from the lower realm.

• Guli explained the Giant Spirit Race’s strength and directed Li Qing southwest toward a human city.
• Li Qing flew across the vast Tonggu Continent and encountered a griffonman who demanded his Wind Thunder Silver Wings.
• When the griffonman attacked, Li Qing wounded him with the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame, then chose to leave rather than risk trouble for the humans.
• Li Qing arrived at Xuangu City, entered through its guarded gate, and received a city-entry token after the formation inspected him.
• Li Qing asked about renting a cave abode and obtaining information, then told a city guard he had ascended from the lower realm; the guard reacted with fervent reverence.

Li Qing explored Xuangu City's cultivation market, learned how Merit Points worked, and discovered that a piece of Leaving Fire Profound Jade bore patterns linked to the Crimson Blazing Heavenly Monarch. The City Lord summoned him and welcomed him warmly, leaving Li Qing about to enter the City Lord's Mansion.

• Li Qing entered Xuangu City's cultivation market, where he saw rare spirit herbs and learned that the stall owner wanted True Spirit descendant essence blood for a Yang Marrow Root.
• Li Qing examined a piece of Leaving Fire Profound Jade, learned it cost thirty thousand Merit Points, and asked how to earn and spend them.
• The Profound Yellow True Flame told Li Qing that the jade's patterns came from the Crimson Blazing Heavenly Monarch, and Li Qing decided to earn Merit Points before trying to buy it.
• The City Lord's Imperial Guards located Li Qing through his entry token and invited him to the City Lord's Mansion.
• The City Lord identified Li Qing as an ascender, noted his damaged meridians, and welcomed him into the mansion.

Li Qing learned from Lingxu City Lord about the Spirit Realm’s heavenly tribulations and the need for Dust Settling Pills, then sought out Pill Master Jian to arrange for a batch. He also heard about a possible opportunity to enter the Tianguang Secret Realm and left Pill Master Jian’s cave abode facing a costly alchemy fee.

• Lingxu City Lord explained that Spirit Transformation cultivators faced a minor heavenly tribulation every three hundred years, and that Li Qing’s ascension accident had spared him one for now.
• Lingxu City Lord told Li Qing to seek Dust Settling Pills from Old Man Jian and offered him a possible human-race slot in the Tianguang Secret Realm if he recovered in time.
• Li Qing inspected Xuangu City’s mission monument, assessed the value of Merit Points, and decided to visit the alchemist surnamed Jian.
• Pill Master Jian recognized Li Qing’s severed meridians and offered a Dragon Tiger Vein Renewing Pill before learning that Li Qing wanted Dust Settling Pills.
• Pill Master Jian realized Li Qing was the city’s new ascender and quoted five thousand Merit Points to refine a batch, with the medicinal ingredients charged separately.

Li Qing gathered Merit Points by taking artifact-refining commissions, rented a cave dwelling, and discovered that spirit medicines and Jiu'er from the Eternal Night World were changing rapidly in the Spirit Realm. He began recovering from his injuries and considered testing whether Spirit Medicine Seeds could be altered by the Eternal Night World’s environment.

• Li Qing negotiated with Old Man Jian to refine Dust Settling Pills for thirteen thousand Merit Points, but left when he could not afford the cost or a cave dwelling.
• Li Qing completed nearly every artifact-refining commission in the city, earned twenty-eight hundred Merit Points, and rented a cave dwelling.
• Li Qing inspected the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion and found that its Eternal Night World spirit medicines had grown rapidly and that Jiu'er was undergoing a transformation.
• Li Qing concluded that the changes likely came from the different flow of time between the Eternal Night World and the Spirit Realm, and sealed away the rapidly growing Blood Lotus.
• Li Qing spent more than twenty days reconnecting his meridians, then stopped before his mana recovered to the Spirit Transformation stage to avoid triggering a heavenly tribulation.
• Li Qing considered placing Spirit Medicine Seeds in the Eternal Night World to see whether its environment would change them, and decided to look for seeds in the city.

Li Qing sold the Yellow Weasel’s flesh and hide at a Xuangu City market, earning tens of thousands of Merit Points while seeking a buyer for the Spirit Treasure Bone Arrow. After agreeing to consign the unsold arrow to the Jinfeng Merchant Guild’s auction, he left for Old Man Jian’s cave abode to obtain a Dust Settling Pill and restore his spiritual power.

• Li Qing rented a market stall and displayed the Yellow Weasel’s flesh, hide, and refined Bone Arrow, drawing a crowd with the arrow’s brilliant spiritual light.
• Li Qing set fixed prices for the flesh and hide, sold them for tens of thousands of Merit Points, and refused Hou Xianshe’s demand for the Yellow Weasel’s Essence Blood.
• Hou Xianshe threatened Li Qing by invoking his lineage, but Li Qing dismissed him and Hou Xianshe backed down.
• A manager from the Jinfeng Merchant Guild offered to consign the Bone Arrow to an auction in the Giant Spirit Race, and Li Qing agreed if it remained unsold.
• After three days passed without an offer for the Bone Arrow, Li Qing packed up and headed to Old Man Jian’s cave abode to obtain a Dust Settling Pill.

After restoring his cultivation and cleansing away his lower-realm aura, Li Qing survived his first Spirit Realm minor heavenly tribulation and drew the Lingxu City Lord’s attention. The Lingxu City Lord offered him a Tianguang Secret Realm slot in exchange for seeking Creation Source Liquid, and Li Qing met the other human cultivators who would enter with him.

• Li Qing took fifteen Dust Settling Pills, restored his cultivation, and advanced closer to the middle Spirit Transformation stage.
• Li Qing flew outside Xuangu City and endured his minor heavenly tribulation, using Golden Night True Thunder and Violet Void Divine Lightning to temper his body before swallowing the remaining thunderclouds.
• The Lingxu City Lord watched Li Qing’s tribulation and, recognizing him as an unusually powerful ascender, considered giving him a Tianguang Secret Realm slot.
• The Lingxu City Lord offered Li Qing a slot and asked him to gather Creation Source Liquid to help with his next Great Heavenly Tribulation; Li Qing agreed after confirming that conflict in the realm would not endanger Xuangu City.
• Li Qing accompanied the Lingxu City Lord to the City Lord’s Mansion, met the other three human cultivators entering the secret realm, and received a jade slip containing intelligence about its dangers and opportunities.

Li Qing learned about the Tianguang Secret Realm and its rare treasures while preparing to enter it for the Lingxu City Lord’s sake. After acquiring Ghost Eye Purple Gold from the Hou family and studying the realm’s intelligence, he discovered that Pure Origin Dew could greatly aid advancement to Void Refinement.

• Fuya tried to charm Li Qing into visiting her, but he resisted and declined her invitation; Hu Sheng then told him that Old Lord Black Nether would pursue the Earth Spirit Grass Fruit and Pure Origin Dew rather than focus on gathering Creation Source Liquid.
• Li Qing found Hou Xianshe being beaten by the Hou Family Patriarch for offending him, then accepted the patriarch’s Ghost Eye Purple Gold Ore in exchange for considering the Hou family’s request for Ancient Savage Beast blood essence.
• Li Qing refined the ore into Ghost Eye Purple Gold and decided it could serve as the main material for his second killing sword.
• Li Qing studied the Tianguang Secret Realm intelligence and learned that its Condensing Light Lake could improve cultivation potential and that Pure Origin Dew from Life Severing Cliff could help cultivate Purple Extreme Heavenly Light.
• Li Qing learned that Purple Extreme Heavenly Light could increase the chance of advancing to Void Refinement by at least thirty percent.

Li Qing sought to strengthen himself before the Tianguang Secret Realm opened, so he gathered ingredients and learned to refine Jade Bone Pills. After improving through repeated attempts, he made seventy-eight pills, then began taking one and considered using the formula to earn Merit Points.

• Li Qing decided to improve his combat power before the Tianguang Secret Realm opened and harvested 223 Luoyu Red Fruits from the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion.
• Li Qing spent nearly all his Merit Points on twenty-six Old Polygonatum branches and leaves, the last ingredient needed for Jade Bone Pills.
• Li Qing’s first attempt at refining Jade Bone Pills produced only failed pills, so he reviewed his methods and refined the next batch more carefully.
• Li Qing successfully made four Jade Bone Pills in his second batch and continued refining, producing seventy-eight pills after more than thirty days of work.
• Li Qing stopped when his soul reached its limit, planned to make and sell more Jade Bone Pills, and swallowed one to test its effects.