Chapter Summaries

Li Qing fought the Crimson Luan Saint Son outside Xuangu City, overcoming his powerful fire abilities and nearly killing him. The Saint Son escaped through a spatial vortex, while Li Qing kept the Crimson Luan True Blood he had seized and anticipated trouble from the Flying Spirit Race.

• The Crimson Luan Saint Son attacked Li Qing in his true form, but Li Qing met his flames with four Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires and protected himself with the Golden Jade Armor.
• Li Qing used the Immortal Slaying Sword to destroy the Saint Son’s clones and flaming feathers, then evaded his Cursed Flame Radiance with Spatial Strange Light.
• Li Qing suppressed the Cursed Flame Radiance with the Nine Snake Heart Method, but the Saint Son broke it free and prepared to use a forbidden technique.
• Li Qing used Nine Snake Seed God to freeze the Saint Son, cut him with the Immortal Slaying Sword, and seized much of his Crimson Luan True Blood.
• The Saint Son’s sealed life-saving force opened a spatial vortex that pulled him away before Li Qing’s Soul Piercing Spear could finish him.

After defeating Crimson Luan Saint Son and taking much of his true blood, Li Qing left Xuangu City to avoid the Flying Spirit Race’s retaliation and chose to seek refuge beyond Tonggu Continent. The Flying Spirit Race failed to discover who had wounded its saint son, while Li Qing reached the western coast and prepared to travel to Cangxuan Continent.

• Lingxu City Lord warned Li Qing that Xuangu City could not protect him and outlined the risks of seeking refuge with the Giant Spirit Race or leaving Tonggu Continent.
• Li Qing chose to leave the continent, obtained a detailed sea route map from Merchant Lord Sikong, and departed Xuangu City after arranging for the city to distance itself from him.
• Crimson Luan Saint Son returned to the Flying Spirit Race’s holy land near death, having lost nearly half of his Crimson Luan True Blood.
• The Flying Spirit Race and other clans suspected that a Body Integration Realm expert had attacked Crimson Luan Saint Son, but their investigations found no culprit.
• After waking with severe memory loss, Crimson Luan Saint Son could not explain what happened, leaving the case unsolved.
• Li Qing reached the far western coast of Tonggu Continent and prepared to cross the sea toward Qingfu and then Cangxuan Continent.

Li Qing was driven off course by a violent sea disaster and discovered a mysterious island where spiritual power and spiritual sense were unusable. After finding a grove of Five Yuan Date Trees, he was blocked by a five-element barrier and began considering the Dao of the five elements to solve the restriction.

• Li Qing hid beneath the sea to escape a storm, but an underwater vortex and relentless vines forced him toward an unknown solitary island.
• Li Qing spotted a grove of Five Yuan Date Trees on the island and flew toward it, only to crash when the island suppressed his spiritual power.
• Li Qing found that his spiritual sense, treasures, and other spiritual abilities were also unusable, though his body cultivation remained intact.
• Li Qing crossed the mountains and tried to reach the date grove, but a Five Elements Barrier blocked him.
• Li Qing discovered that a restriction had formed the barrier and answered its question about the Dao of the five elements by sitting down to study his cultivation manuals.

Li Qing explored a mysterious island, gained Five Yuan Dates and a Five Elements Token, then continued his journey to the Qingfu Archipelago. There, he learned about the islands’ factions and the schedule for the Teleportation Array to Canglan Continent.

• Li Qing explained his understanding of the five elements, gained insight into Unity of the Five Elements, and received thirty Five Yuan Dates for answering two questions.
• Li Qing discovered a five-colored sealing altar in the island’s valley, endured its crushing pressure, and took the Five Elements Token left behind when the altar sank.
• Li Qing left the island, found his way back to the sea route, and flew for more than two months until he reached the Qingfu Archipelago.
• A long-eared Rabbitman told Li Qing that the Teleportation Array to Canglan Continent was on the main island and would likely activate in about a month once two hundred travelers registered.
• The Rabbitman described the four powers controlling the array, and Li Qing rewarded her before flying toward Qingfu Island.

While waiting for the Teleportation Array, Li Qing cultivated on Qingfu Main Island, reached Peak Spirit Transformation, and advanced the Immortal Slaying Sword to an Earth-grade Spirit Treasure. He left his cave abode to explore the island and seek news about the Tianyuan Continent and Leiming Continent.

• Li Qing registered for the next Teleportation Array ride, paid thirty thousand spirit stones, and rented a cave abode on a Sixth-grade Spirit Vein.
• Li Qing consumed his remaining Earth Spirit Grass Fruits and cultivated for more than ten days, coming close to Peak Spirit Transformation.
• Li Qing used the Immortal Slaying Sword's Gold attribute heavenly light to break open a Wood Yuan Date and absorbed its essence, reaching Peak Spirit Transformation.
• Li Qing channeled the Wood Yuan Date's excess medicinal power into the Immortal Slaying Sword, raising it from Profound grade to Earth-grade Spirit Treasure.
• Li Qing left his cave abode to explore Qingfu Main Island and search for news of the Tianyuan Continent and Leiming Continent.

Li Qing met Xia Wushuang, a one-eyed pirate who claimed to be a native of Tianyuan Continent and offered to share a route there in exchange for help stealing Ape Wine from Ape Island. Li Qing agreed to operate a strange array disk during the raid, and the two prepared to cooperate before traveling to Canglan Continent.

• Xia Wushuang told Li Qing that he had fled Tianyuan Continent after offending powerful figures and knew a route back that required Void Refinement stage strength and many spirit stones.
• Li Qing learned that Xia Wushuang also held a token for the same Teleportation Array batch to Canglan Continent.
• Xia Wushuang proposed raiding Ape Island for Ape Wine after its ape king died in the Great Heavenly Tribulation, explaining that Li Qing would maintain a miniature formation outside while he entered the island.
• Xia Wushuang showed Li Qing an array disk that could break restrictions and enable a short-distance teleport, and promised him ten percent of the Ape Wine and information about Tianyuan Continent.
• Li Qing agreed to help, and Xia Wushuang introduced himself before Li Qing gave the name Wuji.

Xia Wushuang infiltrated Ape Island to steal Ape Wine while Li Qing waited outside to activate their escape array. They escaped just as the Black Ape King attacked, and Xia Wushuang shared some of the stolen wine with Li Qing.

• Xia Wushuang set up a miniature array with Li Qing and slipped onto Ape Island under cover of his concealment treasure.
• Xia Wushuang used Nectar Fragrance to throw the monkey settlement into chaos, searched its treehouses, and found a barrel of Ape Wine.
• Li Qing's teleportation token reached two hundred registrants and lit up, awakening the Black Ape King, who had survived his heavenly tribulation.
• Xia Wushuang set off fireworks, and Li Qing activated the array to open a brief path through Ape Island's restrictions.
• Xia Wushuang and Li Qing escaped through a spatial vortex moments before the Black Ape King smashed their former position.
• Xia Wushuang revealed the stolen Ape Wine and gave Li Qing twenty percent of it.

Li Qing and Xia Wushuang crossed the sea to Qingfu's main island and used its ancient Teleportation Array to travel to Canglan Continent. They arrived safely in a land of yellow sand, where Li Qing planned to seek secluded cultivation before eventually heading to Tianyuan Continent.

• Li Qing sampled the Ape Wine, while Xia Wushuang explained its value for newborns and realized their teleportation had taken them off course.
• Xia Wushuang used a star compass to locate them, then sailed with Li Qing aboard the Sea Breeze toward the Qingfu Archipelago and shared what he knew about Tianyuan Continent.
• After two days, Li Qing and Xia Wushuang reached Qingfu's main island and prepared to use its cross-continent Teleportation Array.
• While the array gathered power, Li Qing told Xia Wushuang he planned to cultivate in seclusion until he advanced to the Void Refinement stage.
• The Teleportation Array activated, transporting Li Qing and the others from the Qingfu Archipelago to a yellow-sand landscape on Canglan Continent.

Li Qing and Xia Wushuang arrived in Yellow Sand City, where the Calamity Breaker Division forced travelers to undergo Mysterious Light Platform inspections for Shadow Race parasites. After a Shadow Race attacker was defeated and destroyed itself, Li Qing and Xia Wushuang passed a second inspection and set out toward the Great Yu Kingdom’s imperial capital together.

• The Calamity Breaker Division stopped the arrivals and killed several foreign race members who tried to leave without cooperating.
• The cavalry commander explained that the Mysterious Light Platform detected Shadow Race parasites, and Zhou Lin demonstrated that it was safe.
• Li Qing and Xia Wushuang passed the inspection while Xia Wushuang argued with Zhou Lin about racial equality in Great Yu.
• A Shadow Race member attacked from the sandstorm, but the cavalry commander used his formation and Blood River Halberd to expose and strike it down.
• The Shadow Race member destroyed itself before it could be captured, and Li Qing and Xia Wushuang passed a second inspection.
• Xia Wushuang invited Li Qing to travel to the imperial capital and sell the Ape Wine, and Li Qing agreed.

Li Qing and Xia Wushuang traveled through Yellow Sand City and Xidu Commandery City to reach Jade Capital City, where Xia Wushuang rented them residences on a Sixth-grade Spirit Vein. Li Qing spent five years seeking a personal method of Unity of the Five Elements for his Void Refinement breakthrough, then began examining five Five Yuan Dates for insight.

• Li Qing and Xia Wushuang used teleportation arrays to travel from Yellow Sand City through Xidu Commandery City to Jade Capital City.
• Xia Wushuang rented a cave residence for Li Qing on a Sixth-grade Spirit Vein, and Li Qing immediately began contemplating Unity of the Five Elements.
• Li Qing studied Five Elements scriptures and the Crimson Blazing Heaven Art but rejected copying the Crimson Blazing Heavenly Monarch's method of fusing Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires.
• Li Qing spent five years studying Five Elements methods, mastering related Divine Abilities and Daoist Methods without advancing his cultivation.
• Li Qing took out five Five Yuan Dates and immersed himself in examining their Five Elements essence qi for clues to Unity of the Five Elements.

After fifteen years of studying the Five Elements, Li Qing swallowed five Five Yuan Dates and used their power to unite his Five Elements Spiritual Roots and refine his internal organs. He broke through the Peak Spirit Transformation stage toward Void Refinement, and the chapter ended as Purple Extreme Heavenly Light joined his spiritual power and a Great Heavenly Tribulation began forming above Jade Capital City.

• Li Qing spent fifteen years studying the Five Elements, suffering injuries as he experimented with ways to unite them.
• Li Qing swallowed five Five Yuan Dates at once and used their power to control the destructive Five Elements forces within his body.
• Li Qing united his Five Elements Spiritual Roots and linked them with his five viscera and six bowels, advancing his spiritual and physical cultivation together.
• Li Qing surpassed the Peak Spirit Transformation stage and began forming a chaotic universe within his dantian as he advanced toward Void Refinement.
• Purple Extreme Heavenly Light surged into Li Qing's spiritual power, and a Great Heavenly Tribulation began to form above Jade Capital City.

Li Qing survived the Great Heavenly Tribulation and Inner Demon Tribulation, becoming a Void Refinement cultivator with longevity and a clearer view of the world’s origin power. After meeting Xia Wushuang, he learned that Xuantian Divine Hall had appeared in the Great Yu Kingdom nine years earlier and that people across Canglan Continent were gathering Mysterious Iron Tokens to enter it.

• Li Qing endured Five Elements Heavenly Lightning and a sea of lightning, using his spirit fires, treasures, Five Elements arts, and Purple Extreme Heavenly Light to withstand the tribulation.
• Li Qing defeated a heavenly demon with the Soul Piercing Spear and completed the Inner Demon Tribulation without harm.
• Li Qing reached the Void Refinement stage, discovered Longevity Substance, and learned that he would face a Great Heavenly Tribulation every three thousand years.
• Xia Wushuang congratulated Li Qing and explained that selling Ape Wine had helped him advance to the Peak Spirit Transformation stage.
• Xia Wushuang told Li Qing that Xuantian Divine Hall had appeared in the Great Yu Kingdom nine years earlier and that cultivators were collecting Mysterious Iron Tokens to enter it.

After reaching the Void Refinement stage, Li Qing learned about the Xuantian Divine Hall and its Mysterious Iron Tokens, then recovered and assessed his new powers. He discovered that his Qilin Purple Blood Ginseng had matured and evolved in the Spirit Realm, and planned to sell it along with other goods to fund his cultivation.

• Xia Wushuang explained that Mysterious Iron Tokens were required to enter the Xuantian Divine Hall, whose treasures had drawn enormous prices and even attracted powerful cultivators.
• Li Qing returned to his cave abode, refused a Meng Family invitation to become a Guest Elder, and recovered from his Great Heavenly Tribulation.
• Li Qing tested his Void Refinement stage cultivation and found that his mana, body, and divine soul had strengthened, while the Unity of the Five Elements gave him an inexhaustible supply of mana.
• Li Qing realized he needed more resources to advance and decided to sell his spare Five Yuan Dates and Ape Wine.
• Li Qing found that the Qilin Purple Blood Ginseng in the Heavenly Marvel Immortal Mansion had matured and grown exceptionally potent, and he harvested some to have it appraised.

Li Qing traded Qilin Purple Blood Ginseng in Jade Capital City for a promise of high-rank snake demon essence blood, then returned to the Eternal Night World to find it ruined and devoid of life. As the realm rejected him, he shattered the surrounding space with a furious punch, briefly dispelling its suppression.

• Li Qing negotiated with Shopkeeper Fang, agreeing to trade ten Qilin Purple Blood Ginsengs for a small bottle of snake demon essence blood from King Ning's Estate.
• Li Qing declined to buy intelligence about the Xuantian Divine Hall and Mysterious Iron Token, then returned to his cave residence and cultivated.
• Li Qing found cultivation in the Void Refinement stage slow and decided to revisit the Eternal Night World.
• Li Qing arrived in the Eternal Night World and discovered that its red moon had vanished and the Blood Martial Dynasty's capital lay in ruins.
• Li Qing resisted the world's crushing suppression and found the land utterly desolate, with no living creatures or traces of its former powers.
• Li Qing roared and struck the void with his fist, shattering space across a thousand-mile area and briefly dispelling the world's pressure.

Li Qing searched the lifeless Eternal Night World for clues about Lin Jing, discovering that it was a prison realm periodically cleansed and reopened by powers from the Blood Spirit Realm. After returning to the Spirit Realm, he met King Ning at Cheng Shun Business to trade for Earth Nether Python blood essence, and King Ning asked him for at least twenty more medicines containing Kirin Treasure Blood.

• Li Qing explored the ruined Eternal Night World, found its Boundary Suppressing Stele, and learned from its Spirit Body imprint that the realm was a prison called the Sin Domain Realm, periodically cleansed and reopened by the Blood Spirit Realm.
• Li Qing concluded that Lin Jing might have survived and been taken to the Blood Spirit Realm, then left the Eternal Night World without refining the Boundary Suppressing Stele.
• Li Qing returned to the Spirit Realm and went to Cheng Shun Business, where he discovered that Shopkeeper Fang had brought King Ning to negotiate with him.
• King Ning gave Li Qing the blood essence of a Body Integration Realm Earth Nether Python Demon King, and Li Qing accepted it for his cultivation.
• King Ning asked Li Qing to provide at least twenty more medicines containing Kirin Treasure Blood in exchange for additional python blood essence, making Li Qing hesitate to refuse.

Li Qing accepted King Ning’s offer to compete for a Mysterious Iron Token after delivering thirty Qilin Purple Blood Ginseng plants. Back in his cave abode, he refined Earth Nether Python blood essence to master the second layer of the Nine Snake Heart Method, then fed Seven-Colored Vitality Essence to his serpent spirit and transformed into a Nine-headed Serpent.

• King Ning offered Li Qing a chance to represent King Ning’s Estate in a palace tournament for a Mysterious Iron Token in exchange for twenty ginseng herbs containing Kirin Treasure Blood.
• Li Qing accepted after King Ning revealed he already had a Mysterious Iron Token and promised to bear the consequences of the tournament; Li Qing handed over thirty Qilin Purple Blood Ginseng plants and received a King Ning’s Estate token.
• After King Ning left, Li Qing returned to his cave abode and swallowed the Earth Nether Python blood essence, using his divine soul and Nine Snake Heart Method to subdue it.
• Li Qing’s Nine-headed Serpent phantom devoured the blood essence and became a serpent spirit, allowing him to achieve initial mastery of the second layer of the Nine Snake Heart Method.
• Li Qing discovered the serpent spirit grew rapidly by consuming Seven-Colored Vitality Essence, so he fed it more and transformed into a giant Nine-headed Serpent.

Li Qing entered the Imperial Palace for the Imperial Grand Competition and learned about his strongest rivals and the royal family’s tangled politics. Before the competition began, Prince Ning gave him a Bloodboil Pill and urged him to defeat Prince Huai’s candidate, leaving Li Qing wary of the risks.

• Li Qing followed a eunuch to his temporary cave abode, where the eunuch mistook his questions about the competition for an invitation to an illicit affair before revealing the participants and their strongest contenders.
• Li Qing learned that Prince An and Prince Huai had each recommended two late Void Refinement stage cultivators, and he resolved to watch those rivals carefully.
• The next morning, Li Qing went to the Dao Discussion Platform and met Prince Ning, who asked whether he was confident of winning the Mysterious Iron Shield.
• Prince Huai arrived and traded veiled insults with Prince Ning over the essence blood of a great snake before leaving.
• After Prince Huai departed, Prince Ning urged Li Qing to defeat his uncle’s candidate and secretly gave him a Bloodboil Pill, which Li Qing hesitated to use.

The Great Yu palace tournament began to determine who would claim the Mysterious Iron Token, with Li Qing entering Group B. Li Qing defeated Prince Huainan in his first match and learned that his next opponent was Princess Qinghe, a formation master.

• Prince An arrived with a late Void Refinement Elephant-Camel tribesman, while Prince Huai presented Yan Hui Zhi as his candidate for the tournament.
• Prince Li Yang and the Empress arrived; the Empress displayed the Mysterious Iron Shield and declared that the tournament's final victor would receive it.
• Prince Huai oversaw the draw, placing Li Qing in Group B with Li Yu and Prince Lou Heng, and assigning him an early Spirit Transformation imperial grandson as his first opponent.
• Li Qing defeated Prince Huainan's Fire Kirin technique with the Spirit Devouring Demonic Flame, and Prince Huainan conceded.
• Li Qing learned that Princess Qinghe, a formation master, would be his next opponent.

Li Qing defeated Princess Qinghe by burning apart her Inverted Star Formation, then advanced when Li Yu and Prince Lou Heng fought to a draw and both collapsed. He entered the final group battle as the sole Group B victor, facing three formidable opponents.

• Princess Qinghe challenged Li Qing to break her Inverted Star Formation, and he accepted her terms.
• The Formation Spirit trapped Li Qing with illusory stars and attacks, but Li Qing used his four Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires to destroy the formation.
• Princess Qinghe conceded, and the other groups produced their winners while Li Yu and Prince Lou Heng fought to a standstill.
• The Empress declared Li Yu and Prince Lou Heng's match a draw after both fell unconscious, making Li Qing Group B's sole victor.
• Li Qing identified Yan Hui Zhi, an expert from the Elephant-Camel Tribe, and the black-armored Prince Li Yang as his three remaining opponents.

Li Qing faced Yan Hui Zhi in the Dao Discussion Arena, where the winner would advance toward the Xuantian Divine Hall. After Yan Hui Zhi countered Li Qing’s early attacks with the Fire-Averting Cover and the Harmony of Heaven and Earth, Li Qing unleashed the White Emperor Golden Sovereign Slash, destroyed the arena, and gravely wounded him; King Ning stopped Prince Huai from retaliating.

• Li Qing drew Yan Hui Zhi as his opponent, while Prince Li Yang drew an expert from the Elephant-Camel Tribe.
• King Ning urged Li Qing to fight without restraint, and Li Qing challenged Yan Hui Zhi on the Dao Discussion Platform.
• Yan Hui Zhi used the Fire-Averting Cover and the Harmony of Heaven and Earth to neutralize Li Qing’s spirit-fire attacks, Primordial Peerless Hammer, and Life-Extinguishing Furnace.
• Li Qing blocked Yan Hui Zhi’s Ink Blade with the Immortal Slaying Sword, damaged Yan Hui Zhi’s weapon, and gathered power for a decisive strike.
• Li Qing’s White Emperor Golden Sovereign Slash shattered the arena’s restrictions and inflicted grievous injuries on Yan Hui Zhi, who fell unconscious.
• Prince Huai attacked Li Qing in fury, but King Ning blocked him, and the Empress ordered Prince Huai to withdraw.