Chapter Summaries

Li Qing subdued the Jade Firmament Divine Bell with his Chaos Law and then followed the Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron into the hidden Medicine Garden. After harvesting several rare resources, he found a second immortal medicine that appeared mature, but the chapter ended before he tried to pick it.

• Li Qing suppressed the Jade Firmament Divine Bell's Law of Darkness with Chaos Law and refined the bell, while Old Daoist Chuyun and Old Woman Wen abandoned any thought of attacking him.
• Li Qing parted ways with Old Daoist Chuyun and Old Woman Wen and followed the Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron to a hidden entrance in the inner hall.
• Li Qing entered the Medicine Garden and spotted an immature Illusory Moon Lotus, but he held back after sensing its dangerous restrictions.
• Li Qing harvested an exposed branch of Soul Nurturing Wood, took a cliff bearing Blood Jade Spirit Condensing Fruit, and uprooted several fields of valuable spirit herbs.
• Li Qing explored a snowy region of the Medicine Garden and discovered an ice crystal flower that appeared to be a mature immortal medicine.

Li Qing explored the seasonal medicine gardens, collecting unprotected medicines while Mahayana restrictions kept him away from the immortal treasures. In the Midsummer Medicine Garden, he used Void Flame to bypass the Flame Immortal Tree’s restriction and knock two Fire Dao Immortal Fruits outside it.

• Li Qing narrowly escaped the Winter Medicine Garden’s restriction after probing the Ice Crystal Immortal Flower, then harvested four Black Jade Snow Spirit Ginseng roots and a large patch of Extreme Ice Lichen.
• Li Qing entered the Autumn Harvest Medicine Garden, gathered scattered Jade Golden Ear Grain, and left the protected immortal grain untouched.
• Li Qing reached the Midsummer Medicine Garden and recognized the Flame Law around an unknown Flame Immortal Tree bearing Fire Dao Immortal Fruits.
• Li Qing tested the tree’s restriction with his Spiritual Power and Six Paths Spirit Fire, then found that his Void Flame could pass through it.
• Li Qing directed the Void Flame toward several Fire Dao Immortal Fruits, and its impact sent two fruits beyond the restriction.

Li Qing used the Chaos Law to destroy the God Sealing Curse and free the Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron from the Alchemy Tower. After escaping, she promised to guide him to the realm’s Rule Oddities.

• Li Qing stored two Flame Immortal Fruits, left the Midsummer Medicine Garden, and returned to the inner hall.
• Old Daoist Chuyun pursued Old Woman Wen over a Dao diagram, but the Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron revealed it was a fake.
• Li Qing entered the Alchemy Tower and learned that the God Sealing Curse on its walls was preventing the Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron from escaping.
• Li Qing memorized the twelve sections of the curse and used the Chaos Law to annihilate them, while the cauldron broke its Spirit Gold Chains.
• The Alchemy Tower collapsed, and the Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron emerged, thanking Li Qing and offering to lead him to the realm’s four Rule Oddities.

Li Qing entered the Tower of Destruction and battled through its deadly trials to subdue the Destruction Law Marvel with his Chaos Law. After claiming the Law Fragment, he asked the Medicine Cauldron Spirit about the remaining Marvels and learned that the blood-colored sun above the Blood Refinement Demon Prison was formed from the Blood Fiend Law.

• The Medicine Cauldron Spirit warned Li Qing that the Destruction Law Marvel was dangerous, but he entered the Tower of Destruction to claim it for his final killing sword.
• Li Qing crossed the tower’s first three floors, enduring destructive mists and evading Sword Qi with his Spatial Light.
• On the fourth floor, Li Qing resisted a domain of destruction using his Golden Brocade Armor, Deep Blue Crown, Desolate Gale, and Six Paths Spirit Fire.
• On the fifth floor, Li Qing fought the Destruction Mastiff with his Immortal Slaying Sword and ancient bronze bell, then used Chaos Law to suppress it into a Destruction Law Fragment.
• Li Qing stored the fragment in his Grotto-Heaven Treasure, and the Tower of Destruction collapsed after he claimed its treasure.
• The Medicine Cauldron Spirit asked which Law Marvel Li Qing would seek next, and Li Qing learned that the blood-colored sun above the Blood Refinement Demon Prison was the Blood Fiend Law Marvel.

Li Qing subdued the Blood Fiend Law in the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm, escaped with the Jade Cauldron, and returned to the outer seas with Wan Shengtian and Wan Hong. After a pirate fleet attacked their ship, Li Qing revealed his Body Integration Realm power and learned that Xia Wushuang was nearby.

• Li Qing used the True Spirit Blood Pill, the Jade Firmament Divine Bell, the Immortal Slaying Sword, and Chaos Law to suppress the Blood Fiend Law into a rune and store it in his Grotto-Heaven World.
• As the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm expelled its visitors, Li Qing used Thousand Mile Thought to take the Jade Cauldron with him and arrived on an island with Wan Shengtian, Wan Hong, and her mother.
• Li Qing and the others boarded Wan Shengtian's spirit vessel and sailed toward the Tianyuan Continent while Li Qing recovered his magic power.
• The Xuanming Pirate Group surrounded their vessel with an illusion formation and ordered their ship to ram it, but Li Qing split the lead ship with a sword strike and scattered the fog.
• Li Qing used six Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires to destroy the escaping pirates, then questioned the Xuanming captain about Xia Wushuang of the Wushuang Pirate Group.

Li Qing reunited with Xia Wushuang, helped restore the Myriad Manifestation Immortal Formation, and returned to Heaven Refining Pavilion to prepare for seclusion. There, he learned the cauldron Artifact Spirit could refine Dao Integration Pills once but demanded a way to regain a human body, and he offered her ancient Soul Nurturing Wood.

• Li Qing brought the Xuanming Pirate Group's captain to Xia Wushuang, reunited with him, and reported that he had slain Mountain Lord You Shan.
• Li Qing used a branch from his small Heaven-reaching Tree and Earth Core Jade Milk to help Xia Wushuang completely restore the Myriad Manifestation Immortal Formation.
• After feasting with Xia Wushuang, Li Qing returned with Wan Shengtian's family to Heaven Refining Pavilion and found that the Immortal Dao War had not yet erupted in full.
• Li Qing entered seclusion preparations, gave pills to his two Registered Disciples, and learned that Li Qiyin had gone traveling to seek a breakthrough.
• The cauldron Artifact Spirit agreed to refine Dao Integration Pills once in repayment for Li Qing bringing her out of the Myriad Treasures Ancient Realm, but said she wanted a human body.
• Li Qing offered the Artifact Spirit ancient Soul Nurturing Wood from the Myriad Treasures Medicine Garden, hoping it could help her regain a human form.

Li Qing traded a piece of Soul Nurturing Wood for the Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron’s promise to refine pills and later asked him to free her using the Chaos Law. During a long seclusion, he began switching to the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture, but the change destabilized his Nascent Soul; he took out a Mystic Cloud Fruit to stabilize it.

• Li Qing agreed to help the Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron escape her cauldron if he reached the Mahayana Realm and mastered the Chaos Law’s ability to return all things to chaos, and she began refining his Dao Integration Pills.
• Li Qing studied the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture for twelve years, then began converting his true essence from the Crimson Blazing Heaven Art.
• The Spirit of the Medicine Cauldron refined two batches of Dao Integration Pills, producing six pills in the first and seven in the second, without triggering a Pill Tribulation.
• During Li Qing’s seclusion, Mo Feng defeated three Taotie Family Venerables, Peng Zhan emerged as another human Body Integration Realm Venerable, and the Beast Tooth Race and human race remained restrained.
• After forty-nine years, Li Qing had converted nearly forty percent of his true essence, but the competing energies destabilized his Nascent Soul; he produced a Mystic Cloud Fruit to stabilize it.

After a century of secluded cultivation, Li Qing refined Dao Integration Pills, including one with a pill spirit, and advanced his cultivation with their power. A secret order from the Pavilion Master summoned him to the Grand Hall because the Heavenly Venerable was ready to begin refining a Chaos Supreme Treasure.

• Li Qing completed a century of cultivation, converted to the Dao Tribulation Wuji Scripture, and refined four successful batches of Dao Integration Pills, one of which produced a pill spirit.
• Li Qing captured the golden calf pill spirit, refused to sell his pills to Star Luo Venerable, and agreed to refine pills for him in exchange for Silent Star Meteorite Jade Marrow.
• Spirit Venerable Yu Ji told Li Qing that the jade marrow could help free her from the medicine cauldron and revealed a Mystic Cloud Fruit pill formula that could aid his future Mahayana breakthrough.
• Li Qing examined his transformed true essence and spirit fires, then swallowed a Dao Integration Pill and spent ten years refining its medicinal power.
• Li Qing received a secret order summoning him to the Grand Hall, where the Heavenly Venerable was preparing to refine a Chaos Supreme Treasure.

Li Qing and the Heaven Refining Pavilion elders traveled to meet Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate, who exposed and executed Elder Xuan Yang for betraying the human race. Taiyuan and Carefree Heavenly Venerate began preparations to refine a Chaos Supreme Treasure in the Blazing Flame Ancient Realm, where Carefree praised Li Qing and said he might one day take his place.

• The Pavilion Master led Li Qing and four Heaven Refining Pavilion elders through a secret Teleportation Array to the Dao Palace to meet Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate.
• Taiyuan revealed that Elder Xuan Yang had betrayed the human race after a foreign Mahayana expert secretly placed a restriction in his Primordial Spirit.
• Elder Xuan Yang admitted his betrayal and accepted death, and Taiyuan erased him with a sweep of his broom.
• Taiyuan took the group to the Blazing Flame Ancient Realm, where Carefree Heavenly Venerate outlined the steps for jointly refining a Chaos Supreme Treasure in the shape of a tower.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate praised Li Qing for comprehending Laws and said he would wait for Li Qing to take over his position.

Li Qing and the Supreme Elders of Heaven Refining Pavilion began refining the divine materials for a Chaos Profound Yellow Tower, while Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate prepared the Chaos Origin. After three years of preparation, they turned to shaping the Primordial Profound Yellow Mountain into the tower’s form.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerate revealed rare divine materials and the Primordial Profound Yellow Mountain, which the group would use as the main material for a Chaos Profound Yellow Tower.
• The Pavilion Master of Heaven Refining Pavilion assigned the elders their refinement tasks, and Li Qing began purifying Solar Fire Essence with the Heaven Refining Scripture.
• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate and Carefree Heavenly Venerate released and activated the Chaos Origin, then discussed the risks of the plan and Li Qing’s unusual revelations from the Dao Canon.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate told Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate that Li Qing had seen three gates in the Dao Canon and obtained an Immortal Scripture through one of them.
• After three years, Li Qing and the other elders finished refining their assigned materials, and the Pavilion Master proposed shaping the Primordial Profound Yellow Mountain into a tower during refinement.

Li Qing and the two human Heavenly Venerates worked to fuse Chaos Origin into the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, but Netherhorn Divine Venerable arrived as the Ghost Horn Race joined the Beast Tooth Race’s assault on humanity. As Carefree Heavenly Venerate fought Netherhorn, Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate revealed that the treasure could be accelerated through a blood sacrifice and urged Li Qing to stabilize its fusion.

• Li Qing and four other artifact refiners completed the seven-tiered Mysterious Yellow Pagoda’s initial forging, then Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate began infusing it with Chaos Origin.
• The pagoda cracked as the Chaos Origin reshaped it, and Li Qing explained that it needed to break and be reforged; he and the other refiners then worked to keep it stable while the Heavenly Venerates advanced the fusion.
• Spirit Venerable Yu Ji warned Li Qing that a powerful expert had entered the Blazing Flame Ancient Realm, and Netherhorn Divine Venerable of the Ghost Horn Race appeared and announced that his race was aiding the Beast Tooth Race’s attack on humanity.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate left to fight Netherhorn, while Li Qing continued helping refine the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower and prepared to flee if the battle turned against them.
• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate told Li Qing that the Chaos Origin desired the sacrifice of powerful living beings and explained that the Heavenly Venerates planned to use Netherhorn to accelerate the treasure’s forging.
• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate asked Li Qing to maintain the fusion so he could join the battle, but assured him that the human race had other contingencies.

Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate lured Netherhorn Divine Venerate into a trap while Li Qing struggled to continue forging the Chaos Supreme Treasure. The plan succeeded when Cangya joined the two Humans to kill Netherhorn, whose body and living soul were then taken to the forge as a sacrifice.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerate used the Five Elements Mystic Light Shield to hold off Netherhorn Divine Venerate, while Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate arrived and helped him attack.
• Netherhorn Divine Venerate summoned a full moon to strengthen himself, but Cangya emerged from a Space Rift and joined the battle.
• Li Qing told the Heaven Refining Pavilion's Pavilion Master that the Chaos Origin had turned sinister and was threatening to assimilate him as the forging slowed.
• Netherhorn Divine Venerate attacked, and Carefree Heavenly Venerate, Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate, and Cangya turned on him together, tearing his body apart.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate revealed that the Beast Tooth Race had secretly allied with the Human Race and that Netherhorn had entered a trap designed to provide a Mahayana sacrifice.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate refined Netherhorn Divine Venerate's body and soul into a black sphere and carried it down to the forging ground.

Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate refined the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower, drawing a devastating Chaos Dao Tribulation that Carefree survived. The completed Chaos Supreme Treasure promised to strengthen the Human Race, but its birth had already stirred a storm beyond the Blazing Flame Ancient Realm.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerate used Netherhorn Divine Venerable's refined remains to accelerate the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda's fusion with Chaos Origin, giving the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower its initial form.
• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate told the others that the Human Race and Beast Tooth Race had secretly allied against the Ghost Horn Race, though the alliance was only for wartime.
• After seven more years of refinement, the Chaos Dao Tribulation struck, and Carefree Heavenly Venerate stayed behind to endure its Chaos Immortal Fire and Chaos Divine Lightning.
• Li Qing used the dense Chaos Power during the tribulation to comprehend the Chaos Law while the calamity raged for more than ten days.
• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate revealed the completed Chaos Profound Yellow Tower, and Carefree Heavenly Venerate emerged from within it unharmed.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate said the tower would rank below the Chaos Supreme Treasures in the top ten, while its birth had already caused a major stir in the outside world.

The Chaos Profound Yellow Tower appeared on the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking, and its arrival raised the Human Race to ninth on the Myriad Races Dao Tablet. After Li Qing and the others examined the rankings, the Carefree Heavenly Venerate summoned them to collect the rewards he had promised.

• The Chaos Profound Yellow Tower was added to the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking at thirty-eighth, stirring speculation across the myriad worlds about how it had been created.
• The Carefree Heavenly Venerate and his companions returned to Human Race territory, where the Myriad Races Dao Tablet recognized the tower as Human Race property and raised the race to ninth.
• The Carefree Heavenly Venerate and the Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate brought Li Qing and the Heaven Refining Pavilion cultivators to inspect the Chaos Myriad Spirits Ranking.
• Li Qing studied and memorized the ranked Chaos Supreme Treasures, including the newly listed Chaos Profound Yellow Tower.
• The Heaven Refining Pavilion group prepared to leave, but the Carefree Heavenly Venerate invited them to his Carefree Grotto-Heaven to collect their promised benefits.

Carefree Heavenly Venerate rewarded Li Qing and the other cultivators for helping forge the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower, then secretly gave Li Qing Netherhorn Divine Venerable’s immense store of luck. After learning about Li Qing’s Gu insects, Spirit Venerable Yu Ji demanded that he eventually refine a Heavenly Secret Gu, though she did not explain why it mattered so much to her.

• Carefree Heavenly Venerate gave each of the five cultivators a bottle of Spirit Seizing Pills and awarded Star Luo Venerable a Star Crystal Stone and the Pavilion Master of Heaven Refining Pavilion a thirty-thousand-year Dragon Blood Ginseng.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate gave Li Qing Chaos Spirit Gold and secretly passed him a vast portion of luck refined from Netherhorn Divine Venerable.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate warned Li Qing to keep his Witch Gu Tribe inheritance and Luck Gu secret, and Li Qing realized the Luck Gu could soon complete itself by devouring Netherhorn Divine Venerable’s luck.
• Li Qing returned to Heaven Refining Pavilion with the others, where Spirit Venerable Yu Ji confronted him after seeing his black Gu insect and hearing fragments of Carefree Heavenly Venerate’s message.
• Li Qing told Spirit Venerable Yu Ji about the Luck Gu and some other Gu insects, and she insisted that he refine a Heavenly Secret Gu for her in the future.
• Spirit Venerable Yu Ji told Li Qing that he would understand the power of completely obscuring heavenly secrets once he reached the Mahayana Realm.

Li Qing used Spirit Seizing Pills and a Dao Integration Pill to break through to the Integrated Body Middle Stage while tensions among the Human Race, Beast Tooth Race, and Ghost Horn Race simmered. The chapter ended with Li Qing consolidating his new realm and planning which killing sword to refine next.

• Li Qing began secluded cultivation, consuming Spirit Seizing Pills to strengthen his mana and prepare to break through.
• Ancestor Cangya warned the Human Race’s Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate that the Ghost Horn Race was preparing for war, and they discussed how to deal with it.
• The Human Race refused the Beast Tooth Race’s repeated calls to attack the Ghost Horn Race, cooling relations between the two races.
• News spread that Ancestor Cangya was near death, while he searched for a place to transform into Dao and left his legacy to the Beast Tooth Race.
• Li Qing swallowed a Dao Integration Pill and broke through to the Integrated Body Middle Stage; Xingluo Elder broke through to the same stage at the Heaven Refining Pavilion.
• Li Qing agreed to refine pills for Xingluo Elder, then remained in seclusion to consolidate his realm and choose his next killing sword to refine.

Li Qing forged the Immortal Slaying Sword, which ranked third among Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures, while the Pavilion Master of Heaven Refining Pavilion advanced to the Peak Integration Stage. After Ancestor Cangya died, the Ghost Horn Race attacked the grieving Beast Tooth Race, and a battle between Mahayana Realm experts began.

• Li Qing forged the Immortal Slaying Sword from the Seven Marvelous Immortal Tree and tempered it with his blood.
• The Immortal Slaying Sword survived a seven-day Spirit Treasure Tribulation, earned Li Qing six thousand years of lifespan, and ranked third on the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure Ranking.
• The Pavilion Master of Heaven Refining Pavilion emerged from seclusion at the Peak Integration Stage and worried that war between the human race and Beast Tooth Race was approaching.
• Ancestor Cangya transformed into Dao, and the Beast Tooth Race mourned his death.
• Two Mahayana Realm experts from the Ghost Horn Race attacked the Beast Tooth Race during the funeral and summoned a Mahayana Realm skeleton.
• Elder Youya and another Beast Tooth Race ancestor rose to fight the attackers.

The Ghost Horn Race’s invasion pushed the Beast Tooth Race to the brink of annihilation, but Ancestor Cangya revived and Carefree Heavenly Venerate arrived to defend them. As Carefree Heavenly Venerate fought the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother with the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower, he learned that the Ghost Horn Race had also launched an assault on Human Race territory.

• The Ghost Horn Race’s Mahayana experts attacked the Beast Tooth Race while a corpse demon skeleton slaughtered its clansmen, and Beast Tooth Race elders used their ancestral Golden Fang to pin it down.
• Ancestor Cangya emerged from the cliff where he had Transformed into Dao and joined the battle, shifting the fight in the Beast Tooth Race’s favor.
• The Yellow Springs Ghost Mother appeared and unleashed the Yellow Springs River, but Carefree Heavenly Venerate blocked it with the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate fought the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother and two Mahayana Stage corpses, using the tower to withstand her techniques and gradually stabilize the battle.
• The Yellow Springs Ghost Mother revealed that her forces had also attacked Human Race territory, and Carefree Heavenly Venerate worried that the Insect Race and Three-Eyed Sacred Race might have joined the assault.

The Ghost Horn Race launched a massive invasion of human territory, forcing Mulan City and the Dao Palace to prepare for war. Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate was drawn into battle by Star Eye Divine Lord, while Li Qing discovered that the Luck Gu had begun transferring Netherhorn Divine Venerable’s luck to him.

• Nearly a hundred Ghost Horn Race tribes broke through the human border and advanced toward Mulan City, aiming to seize its Teleportation Array.
• City Lord Zhu Da destroyed Mulan City’s Teleportation Array to keep the Ghost Horn Race from using it, then rallied the city’s defenders as the siege began.
• Humanity’s major cities and the Dao Palace mobilized after Mulan City’s array went dark and the invasion spread across the territory.
• Star Eye Divine Lord appeared and held Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate back, then fought him beyond the heavens while the Dao Palace prepared to face the Ghost Horn Race without Mahayana support.
• Li Qing paused his work on the final Immortal Severing Sword and realized the Luck Gu was transferring the luck it had devoured from Netherhorn Divine Venerable to him.

The Ghost Horn Race attacked the Heaven Refining Pavilion with nineteen Body Integration Realm cultivators and Purple Gold Spirit Devouring Worms, targeting the formation and the pavilion’s knowledge. Li Qing destroyed most of the worms with the Jade Firmament Divine Bell, but the damaged Myriad Weapons Demon Extermination Formation eventually collapsed under the enemy’s assault.

• As the war slowed into a stalemate, the Dao Palace tasked the Heaven Refining Pavilion with forging Forbidden Artifacts and guarding Star River City, while Li Qing refined seventeen Time Freezing Pearls.
• The Ghost Horn Race surrounded the Heaven Refining Pavilion and offered to spare its people if they surrendered, but the Pavilion Master refused and activated the Myriad Weapons Demon Extermination Formation.
• Nineteen Ghost Horn Race cultivators appeared, and one released Purple Gold Spirit Devouring Worms that devoured the formation’s Spiritual Power.
• Li Qing used the Jade Firmament Divine Bell and its Law of Darkness to kill nearly ninety percent of the worms, weakening the threat to the formation.
• The Ghost Horn Race cultivators summoned battle ghosts and assaulted the pavilion; the Pavilion Master’s five formation weapons struck five enemies, but the Myriad Weapons Demon Extermination Formation collapsed.