Chapter Summaries

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.

Li Qing saved the mother of the newborn suspected of possessing the Great Yin Physique, then rescued another baby girl whose mother died in childbirth. He defended Dimming Nether City until reinforcements arrived, and Cave Master Huoyun recognized the Ape Wine the baby was drinking.

• After the mysterious cultivators relocated the newborn and abandoned several women, Li Qing found the Great Yin Physique girl's dying mother and agreed to save her in exchange for searching her memories and placing a restriction in her divine soul.
• Li Qing used Seven-Colored Vitality Essence and pills to stabilize the woman's life, then found another baby girl whose mother had died and took the child with him.
• Li Qing obtained a Human Race identity token, but a terrifying will severed his connection to the Human Race's clan fortune, making the baby girl cry.
• When Dimming Nether City faced an attack by yin souls and ghosts, Li Qing held the city wall and used the Great Sun Golden Flame to destroy the attackers while the baby absorbed pure yin energy.
• Human Race reinforcements arrived after the city was saved, including Cave Master Huoyun, who recognized the Ape Wine in the baby's gourd.

Li Qing left Dimming Nether City with the mysterious baby girl he named Li Qiyin and traveled to Ascension City, where he hoped to trade Ape Wine and learn more about the Yin-Yang Sect. He arrived in the bustling human heartland and marveled at its vast, interconnected teleportation network.

• Cave Master Huoyun asked Li Qing to sell him Ape Wine, while Xiao Wuhen advised Li Qing to auction it; Li Qing agreed to meet Huoyun in Ascension City.
• Li Qing decided to keep the mysterious baby girl with him, named her Li Qiyin, and entrusted her to Chong Jiu inside his Grotto-Heaven Treasure.
• Li Qing boarded Dimming Nether City's Teleportation Array and studied a female Yin-Yang Sect cultivator's memories, learning about the sect's history and its connection to the Five Elements Sect.
• Li Qing discovered that Tianyuan Continent's teleportation network let travelers choose destinations directly from a map of linked cities, and he selected Ascension City.
• Li Qing arrived in Ascension City, where he observed the busy teleportation array and reflected on the superiority of Tianyuan Continent's cultivation arts.

Li Qing settled in Ascension City, cultivated toward Void Refinement perfection, and watched the neighbors around his secluded residence. After two and a half years, he drew essence blood from the Golden Armored Rhino and sensed the young artifact refiner next door beginning Nascent Soul Formation.

• Li Qing moved into Ascension City, concealed his true cultivation, and politely refused the herb seeds offered by the Nascent Soul couple next door.
• Li Qing observed the young artifact refiner struggling to improve and decided to learn more about his temperament before helping him.
• Li Qing cared for Qi Yin and planned to trade at the upcoming Ascension Convention for materials needed to complete the Myriad Manifestation Immortal Formation.
• Over two and a half years, Li Qing cultivated cautiously with a Five Elements Returning Origin Pill while hearing reports of rising geniuses and a rumored Great Yin Physique.
• Li Qing drew essence blood from the Golden Armored Rhino for the Nirvana Burning Blood Technique and considered taking some from Rice Bucket.
• Li Qing sensed the young man next door beginning Nascent Soul Formation.

Li Qing swallowed the sentient Five Elements Returning Origin Pill and began advancing his Void Refinement cultivation while Fan Yun reached the Nascent Soul Realm. When masked attackers targeted Li Qing’s courtyard, Fan Yun intervened, and the neighboring Wens revealed they planned to use a Luck Gu to steal Li Qing’s exceptional luck.

• Fan Yun completed his Nascent Soul tribulation, and Li Qing used the commotion to swallow the sentient Five Elements Returning Origin Pill and refine its power.
• After Fan Yun’s guests left, he tried to warn Li Qing that others might target him, but Li Qing ignored his knocking and focused on cultivation.
• A mist-shrouded cultivator arrived at Li Qing’s courtyard and hurled three magical spears inside after Fan Yun challenged him.
• Fan Yun stepped in to intercept the attack, while the surrounding cultivators noticed the fight.
• The Wens revealed that they had arranged the attack to test Li Qing’s defenses before their Luck Gu devoured his exceptional luck.

Li Qing reached Void Refinement stage perfection while intruders converged on his courtyard, then subdued a Nascent Soul couple who were trying to steal his fortune. After learning about the Luck Gu and the ancient Witch Gu Tribe from their memories, he decided to claim the gu and refine it into a Mid-grade Luck Gu before it could drain his fortune.

• The mist-shrouded cultivator attacked Fan Yun while a Nascent Soul couple slipped into Li Qing's courtyard to steal the fortune of people with Good Fortune.
• The couple found three headless Nascent Soul cultivators dead and froze when Li Qing ordered them to stop.
• Li Qing broke through to Void Refinement stage perfection, then demanded that the couple explain the Luck Gu and the Manual of Strange Gu.
• Li Qing used Cunning Snake Eyes to subdue the couple, extracted the Luck Gu from the Man surnamed Wen, and devoured their souls to obtain their memories.
• Li Qing learned that the Luck Gu came from an incomplete Witch Gu Tribe scripture and that its Low-grade version consumed its master's fortune, so he decided to refine it into a Mid-grade Luck Gu.