Chapter Summaries

Li Qing fought the Ghost Horn Race after the Myriad Weapons Demon Extermination Formation broke, killing Yan Mozi and several other powerful opponents with his treasures and techniques. As the battle continued, Li Qing defeated three more attackers, while the fight between Heaven Refining Pavilion and the remaining Ghost Horn Race cultivators remained unresolved.

• The formation’s final eruption killed four Ghost Horn Race cultivators, while the wounded Yan Mozi survived and attacked Li Qing.
• Li Qing used six Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires and the Jade Firmament Divine Bell to injure Yan Mozi, then killed him with the Immortal Slaying Sword and the bell.
• Three Ghost Horn Race cultivators attacked Li Qing, and he trapped one in Void Flame while the other fought behind a Black Tortoise phantom.
• Li Qing froze the Black Tortoise-protected cultivator with the Time Freezing Pearl and took him into his Grotto-Heaven Treasure.
• Li Qing killed the remaining early-stage attacker with the Immortal Slaying Sword as the wider battle continued.

Li Qing used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to turn the battle at Heaven Refining Pavilion against the Ghost Horn Race, though three enemies escaped. Afterward, the Pavilion Master warned that Li Qing’s strength could attract powerful enemies, while the Dao Palace learned of the attack too late and awaited a message from Heaven Refining Pavilion.

• Li Qing activated the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and unleashed its sword power against the Ghost Horn Race while sparing the human cultivators.
• Li Qing and the Heaven Refining Pavilion elders killed many Ghost Horn Race cultivators, but three escaped with severe wounds using Ghost Shadow Escape Technique.
• The Pavilion Master of Heaven Refining Pavilion thanked Li Qing and warned him that his display of strength could draw the attention of powerful races and old monsters.
• The Pavilion Master explained that Carefree Heavenly Venerate and his Chaos Supreme Treasure offered protection, while the human race prepared for more cultivators to attempt breakthroughs to the Mahayana Realm.
• Heaven Refining Pavilion began arranging repairs after the battle, while the Dao Palace received delayed intelligence about the Ghost Horn Race attack and feared the worst.
• The Dao Palace elders received a brief message from Heaven Refining Pavilion.

The Dao Palace learned that Heaven Refining Pavilion had nearly wiped out the Ghost Horn Race attackers, and news of Li Qing’s prowess spread across the Human Cultivation World. While Li Qing remained unaware of the fame and Yuan Zhou’s challenge, he recovered in seclusion and began forging the Immortal Severing Sword, leaving the Destruction Law to be refined into it.

• Elder Tao read Xiao Chen’s report and clarified that Heaven Refining Pavilion had nearly wiped out the nineteen Ghost Horn Race attackers, though its formation had been destroyed.
• Reports from across Human territory described victories and losses as the war escalated into decisive duels, while Yuan Zhou killed three Human Body Integration Realm cultivators.
• News spread that Yuan Zhou challenged a sword cultivator from Heaven Refining Pavilion after the team attacking it was defeated, and Li Qing became renowned as the peerless sword cultivator who had slain several attackers.
• Li Qing recovered his mana in seclusion, then used six Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires to forge the initial form of the Immortal Severing Sword from Eternal Secret Silver and the Stone of the Northern Star Extreme Mountain.
• After several months of refining the sword with his true essence, Li Qing prepared to fuse the Destruction Law into it and released his Grotto-Heaven Treasure as an aura of destruction rose.

Li Qing reforged the Immortal Severing Sword with the Destruction Law while remaining in seclusion as the war between the Human Race and Ghost Horn Race continued. After two Mahayana Realm experts fell in a battle between the Ghost Horn and Beast Tooth Races, Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate returned and retaliated against the Ghost Horn army before Star Eye Divine Lord stopped him and arranged for him to take spirit veins instead.

• Li Qing used Chaos Law and his true essence to keep the Immortal Severing Sword from breaking as the Destruction Law and six Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires fueled its transformation.
• Yuan Zhou won two of three battles over four months, then threatened to slaughter cities of ordinary Human Race civilians unless the cultivator who killed his younger brother came out to fight.
• Two Mahayana Realm experts fell in the Beast Tooth Race conflict, where the Beast Tooth Race killed one Ghost Horn ancestor and lost Ancestor Cangya; Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate then returned to the Human Race.
• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate attacked the Ghost Horn camp, killing tens of thousands and threatening to wipe out the remaining invaders while searching for Yuan Zhou.
• Star Eye Divine Lord stopped Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate and offered him several Ghost Horn spirit veins in exchange for sparing the remaining army; Taiyuan agreed, and Star Eye took the Ghost Horn members away.

After the human race’s victory over the Ghost Horn Race, Li Qing emerged from seclusion with the newly forged Immortal Severing Sword and learned how the war had reshaped human territory. He then withdrew to a wilderness cave and began traveling to the Eternal Night World.

• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate seized spirit veins from the Ghost Horn Race, and Yellow Springs Ghost Mother ordered her clan to seal itself away.
• Li Qing completed the Immortal Severing Sword after it endured a seven-day Spirit Treasure Tribulation, then tested its destructive power and considered the unfinished Immortal Trapping Sword.
• Li Qing discovered that a high-grade spirit vein had been grafted beneath Heaven Refining Pavilion and learned from his disciples that the human race had won the war and risen to ninth place on the Myriad Races Dao Tablet.
• Li Qing warned his disciples that peace would not last because the human race’s ability to forge a Chaos Supreme Treasure had become known, then left Wuji Hall and met Fan Yun in the Affairs Hall.
• Li Qing traveled through human cities and wilderness, established a secluded cave dwelling, and began Two Realms Travel to the Eternal Night World.

Li Qing investigated the Eternal Night World and learned that the Blood Central Palace and Heavenly Mystery Sect used it to cultivate power through cycles of destruction and rebirth, and that it was the Demon Venerable’s hometown. After returning to the Spirit Realm, he heard that the Great Yin Celestial Venerable’s ancient cave dwelling had appeared, drawing powerful cultivators toward it.

• Li Qing used the Boundary Suppressing Stele to discover that the Lord of Blood Central Palace cultivated a reincarnation Daoist art through the Eternal Night World’s changing eras.
• Li Qing met an ancient exile whose crippled cultivation had not prevented him from living for tens of thousands of years, and learned about the Blood Spirit Realm and its treatment of exiles as sinners.
• Li Qing realized that the Eternal Night World was the Demon Venerable’s hometown, then returned to the Spirit Realm and kept his visit from Spirit Venerable Yu Ji.
• After three years, an ancient Celestial Venerable’s cave dwelling emerged in human territory, and cultivators across the Cultivation World rushed to investigate.
• The cave dwelling was identified as the Great Yin Celestial Venerable’s, prompting the Yin-Yang Sect’s elites and old sect master to head there.

Li Qing ignored the newly discovered Great Yin Celestial Venerable's cave abode and spent months traveling and meditating, while cultivators from across the Human race broke into it. The Yin-Yang Sect's old sect master, Purple Qi Daojun, and the Peng family's head reached three stone gates, and the old sect master chose the open middle gate.

• Li Qing decided not to pursue the Great Yin Celestial Venerable's inheritance and continued traveling through the Human race's territory, contemplating his cultivation and the laws for his Immortal Trapping Sword.
• After months of attacks, cultivators broke the Great Yin restrictions around the cave abode, but an eruption of Great Yin Qi injured those who approached first.
• The Yin-Yang Sect's old sect master sensed Great Yin Origin inside, but Purple Qi Daojun appeared and challenged his claim to the inheritance.
• The Peng family's head arrived and fought off the two Peak Integration Stage elders before leading the group into the cave abode.
• At three stone gates, the Peng family's head and Purple Qi Daojun pressed the Yin-Yang Sect's old sect master to choose a route, and he led them through the open middle gate.

Li Qiyin completed the Great Yin Celestial Venerable’s inheritance and drew the attention of three powerful cultivators seeking to recruit her. She tricked them into offering treasures, then escaped through a Celestial Venerable’s restriction while her master’s lesson revealed her intentions.

• Peng Tianyun, Yin Yangzi, and Purple Qi Daojun crossed the stone bridge and found Li Qiyin receiving the Great Yin Immortal Scripture’s inheritance.
• The three recognized Li Qiyin’s extraordinary constitution and, after she finished receiving the inheritance, tried to recruit her with promises of protection, guidance, and power.
• Li Qiyin pretended to consider their offers and praised their gifts as Yin Yangzi, Peng Tianyun, and Purple Qi Daojun presented Great Yin True Water, a Primordial Heavenly Peng Feather, and a Naga Clan Natal Spirit Pearl.
• Li Qiyin refused to take any of them as her master as the estate shook and a Great Yin restriction swept away the treasures.
• Peng Tianyun, Yin Yangzi, and Purple Qi Daojun failed to break the restriction, and Li Qiyin escaped with all three treasures, saying that she already had a master.

Li Qiyin escaped the pursuit of three powerful seniors after obtaining Great Yin Celestial Venerable's inheritance, but the Great Yin Physique's exposure brought her to the Yin-Yang Sect. Li Qing learned of her danger and arrived to confront her pursuers, announcing himself at the sect's mountain gate.

• Li Qiyin reached Star River City, crushed the jade pendant Li Qing had given her, and waited for him to respond.
• Li Qing sensed the pendant's signal, learned that Li Qiyin had been taken by the Yin-Yang Sect's old sect master, and traveled to Yin-Yang City.
• Yin Yangzi, Peng Tianyun, and Purple Qi Daojun argued over Li Qiyin and agreed to let her choose a master or accept Yin Yangzi's offer of the inheritance and favors.
• Li Qiyin insisted that she already had a master, while the three seniors doubted he would come for her.
• Li Qing arrived outside the Yin-Yang Sect and announced himself as Wuji, saying he had come to pay a visit.

Li Qing challenged the Yin-Yang Sect to rescue Li Qiyin after Yin Yangzi tried to take her as his disciple. Li Qing and Yin Yangzi fought outside the mountain gate, and Li Qing revealed the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure Golden Killing Sword as the battle escalated.

• Li Qiyin’s master arrived at the Yin-Yang Sect’s mountain gate, and Peng Tianyun withdrew from the contest to take her as a disciple.
• Yin Yangzi brought Li Qiyin outside and demanded that Li Qing sever their master-disciple relationship, while Li Qing told the sect to release her or face its destruction.
• Yin Yangzi attacked Li Qing with the Yin-Yang Sacred Method, and Li Qing countered with six Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires and his Sha Control technique.
• Yin Yangzi summoned the Yin-Yang World Suppressing Plate, but Li Qing split it apart with a slash from his Immortal Slaying Sword.
• The spectators recognized Li Qing’s Golden Killing Sword as a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.

Li Qing fought the Yin-Yang Sect Master at the sect gates, using the clash of their powers to advance his Chaos Law and then overpower the sect’s defenses. The Yin-Yang Sect Master admitted defeat, and witnesses identified Li Qing as the cultivator Yuan Zhou of the Ghost Horn Race had vowed to fight.

• Li Qing attacked the Yin-Yang Sect Master with the Immortal Slaying Sword, but the sect master evaded the sword strikes and attacked as two powerful Yin-Yang Fish.
• Li Qing let the Yin-Yang Fish’s energies enter his body, awakened his Chaos Power, and used their yin-yang power to strengthen his Chaos Dao Seed.
• Li Qing absorbed more power from the Yin-Yang Fish and then struck the sect master with Chaos-infused sword attacks, forcing him to activate the Yin-Yang Talisman Seal and the Yin-Yang Two Forms Formation.
• Li Qing’s White Emperor Golden Sovereign Slash severely injured the Yin-Yang Sect Master, damaged the formation, and left the sect gates close to being breached.
• The Yin-Yang Sect Master admitted defeat, and Purple Qi Daojun and Peng Tianyun concluded that Li Qing was the person Yuan Zhou had challenged.

After suppressing the Yin-Yang Sect, Li Qing questioned its leaders about his junior sister Shen Ningbing and learned that the Ice Spirit Clan had taken her. He left with the possibility that she was alive among the powerful clan ranked sixth on the Myriad Races Dao Tablet.

• News of Wuji Venerable’s victory spread across the human territory, prompting the Feng family to send Su Yin and Su Ling to befriend him and seek help for Su Ling’s Yin Qi imbalance.
• Li Qing freed Li Qiyin from her restriction, reprimanded her for acting without warning him, and removed the Chaos Power from the defeated Yin-Yang Sect Master’s wounds.
• Li Qing greeted Purple Qi Daojun and Peng Tianyun, then let Li Qiyin keep the treasures they had given her as gifts.
• Li Qing asked Yin-Yang Sect Master Yin Yangzi about the sect’s ascension passages and learned that the passages had been closed, though the Spirit Realm Beacons remained effective.
• Elder Ding Feiyu revealed that an Ice Spirit Clan expert had taken Shen Ningbing from the Yin-Yang Sect, leaving Li Qing to seek her among the Ice Spirit Clan.

Li Qing learned that Shen Ningbing was with the Ice Spirit Clan and resolved to become strong enough to retrieve her, then discussed cultivation with the Yin-Yang Sect Master, Purple Qi Daojun, and Peng Tianyun. Their conversation was interrupted by an attempt to sabotage Ji Jiu’s breakthrough into the Mahayana Realm, which the Carefree Heavenly Venerate and Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate protected as the Carefree Heavenly Venerate declared that the human race would no longer tolerate interference.

• Li Qing stayed at the Yin-Yang Sect after learning Shen Ningbing had been taken by the Ice Spirit Clan, believing he needed to reach the Mahayana Realm before he could negotiate for her.
• Li Qing discussed Body Integration cultivation with the Yin-Yang Sect Master, Purple Qi Daojun, and Peng Tianyun, and asked about the Azure Cloud Temple Master.
• The group sensed a powerful aura from a cultivator beginning a Mahayana Realm breakthrough, and Peng Tianyun and the Yin-Yang Sect Master identified the cultivator as Ji Jiu.
• A concealed attacker struck at Ji Jiu with a gigantic hand, but the Carefree Heavenly Venerate used the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower to destroy it while Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate joined him.
• The attacker sent a scarlet meteor at Ji Jiu, and the Carefree Heavenly Venerate swallowed it with the tower before warning the hidden enemy to stop.
• The Carefree Heavenly Venerate swore that anyone who interfered with a human cultivator’s Mahayana breakthrough would pay a thousandfold, and Ji Jiu continued his breakthrough without further attacks.

Ji Jiu’s attempt to break through to the Mahayana Realm failed, and he transformed into Dao to create a cultivation holy land before dying. In Yin-Yang City, Su Ling and Su Yin asked Li Qing’s disciple Li Qiyin to absorb Su Ling’s excess Mystic Phoenix Yin Energy, and Li Qing agreed in exchange for a True Spirit Mystic Phoenix Feather.

• Ji Jiu failed to enter the Mahayana Realm, suffered a devastating backlash, and transformed into Dao, turning the wilderness into a blessed cultivation land.
• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate planted a spirit vein beneath the land, and the Two Heavenly Venerates departed as cultivators across the Human Race discussed Ji Jiu’s failure.
• Li Qing and his companions learned of the failed breakthrough; Peng Tianyun, Purple Qi Daojun, and later Li Qing left the Yin-Yang Sect.
• Su Yin and Su Ling met Li Qing in Yin-Yang City and asked Li Qiyin to absorb the excess Mystic Phoenix Yin Energy tormenting Su Ling.
• Li Qing raised concerns about the risks to Li Qiyin’s cultivation, while Li Qiyin jokingly suggested Su Ling and Su Yin become his master’s wives.
• Li Qing agreed to let Li Qiyin help Su Ling in exchange for Su Ling’s True Spirit Mystic Phoenix Feather, which contained the Great Yin Law.

Li Qing and Li Qiyin helped Su Ling draw out the Mystic Phoenix Yin Energy afflicting her, while Li Qing quelled the resulting disturbance and advanced his Heavenly Fiend Fire. After accepting a Mystic Phoenix Feather as payment, Li Qing took Li Qiyin to Purple Mountain City to pursue the last of two people he had promised an old friend to kill.

• Su Ling and Li Qiyin began separating the Mystic Phoenix Yin Energy from Su Ling, and the formation disrupted Yin-Yang City’s balance.
• Li Qing refined the city’s excessive yang energy into Solar Fiendish Aura, advancing the Heavenly Fiend Fire while the Yin-Yang City Lord kept onlookers away.
• After three days, Li Qing suppressed the city’s surging yin-yang currents, and Li Qiyin emerged able to wield the Mystic Phoenix Yin Energy within her.
• Su Ling gave Li Qing a Mystic Phoenix Feather in thanks, and he departed Yin-Yang City with Li Qiyin.
• Li Qing took Li Qiyin to Purple Mountain City, explaining that he had learned the whereabouts of the last person he had promised an old friend to kill.

Li Qing went to the Azure Cloud Temple to kill its master, fulfilling a Heart Demon Great Oath on behalf of Xia Wushuang. After exposing the temple master's scheme to drain his disciples’ lives and power, Li Qing destroyed the formation and killed him with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

• Li Qing and Li Qiyin learned the Azure Cloud Temple’s location and traveled to its mountain, where Li Qing confronted the temple master.
• Li Qing revealed that Xia Wushuang had entrusted him to kill the Azure Cloud Temple Master, who admitted that he had once spared Xia Wushuang and regretted it.
• The Azure Cloud Temple Master asked Li Qing to spare his disciples, then disbanded the temple and urged them to leave.
• The temple master activated the Azure Cloud Tokens to drain the disciples’ blood essence, mana, and souls, using their power to raise his cultivation.
• Li Qing broke the Azure Blood Yuan Transformation Formation by cleaving Azure Cloud Peak, but the temple master reached the Peak Integration Stage.
• Li Qing trapped the Azure Cloud Temple Master in the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and killed him.

Li Qing killed the Azure Cloud Temple Master and uncovered the sinister scheme behind the temple’s demonic art. After returning to Heaven Refining Pavilion, he entered seclusion to advance his cultivation and eventually reached the bottleneck of the Integrated Body Late Stage.

• Li Qing examined the Azure Cloud Temple Master's jade bracelet and discovered a True Bone, a manifestation cultivation method, and the Myriad Transformations Demonic Art, which had used the temple's disciples as cultivation resources.
• Li Qing found the surviving Azure Cloud Temple disciples devastated after the demonic art drained most of their power, and he warned Li Qiyin to remain vigilant in the Cultivation World.
• Li Qing returned to Heaven Refining Pavilion and began long-term seclusion to advance toward the Integrated Body Late Stage.
• Li Qing cultivated for decades, gradually using up his Dao Integration Pills and spending millions of spirit stones to accelerate his progress.
• After eighty years of seclusion, Li Qing touched the bottleneck of the Integrated Body Late Stage.

Li Qing began refining the Creation Source Crystal to weaken his Integrated Body Late Stage bottleneck, then traveled to the Long Family’s ancestral land to fulfill his promise to forge a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure for Long Yi. He arrived in the Dragon Realm beneath Panlong City and was welcomed by Long Yi, Long Lan, and two Long Family elders, who said they had important business to discuss.

• Li Qing failed to break through to the Integrated Body Late Stage and began refining the Creation Source Crystal to temper his bottleneck.
• Li Qiyin brought Li Qing a Spirit Message from Long Yi, and Li Qing decided to visit the Long Family to honor his promise to forge a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure.
• Li Qing left pills for his disciples, traveled to Panlong City, and used Dragon Claw Gold to open the passage to the Long Family’s ancestral land.
• Li Qing entered the Dragon Realm and met Long Yi, Long Lan, and two Long Family elders.
• Long Lan asked Li Qing to spar, but Long Yi said he had invited him to discuss important business.

Li Qing agreed to help Long Yi forge a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure from a sealed True Dragon’s horn in exchange for a future trip to the Ancient Dragon Realm. The two traveled through the Long family’s Ancient Void Path and entered the lifeless Death Realm, where the dragon corpse was hidden.

• Long Yi invited Li Qing to forge an Imperial Dragon Seal for the Nine Dragon Separation Fire Formation using a True Dragon’s exposed horn as its main material.
• Li Qing hesitated after learning the horn was sealed beyond the Spirit Realm, but agreed when Long Yi promised to take him to the Ancient Dragon Realm after becoming Long family head.
• Yu Ji urged Li Qing to accept, claiming the Ancient Dragon Realm held a Mahayana opportunity and that she could guide him using a map copied by Myriad Treasures Ancestor.
• Long Yi opened the Long family’s secret Ancient Void Path, and he and Li Qing traveled through it before turning away from the route to the Ancient Dragon Realm.
• Long Yi led Li Qing through the void into the Death Realm, a lifeless plane where the Long family believed the sealed True Dragon corpse lay.

Li Qing and Long Yi descended into a vast sinkhole to retrieve a Black Flame Sacred Dragon’s horn for refining the Imperial Dragon Seal. After they broke the seal and escaped with the horn, a Mahayana-stage being and the Sacred Whale Race’s ancient ancestor arrived, forcing them to flee from the ancestor’s Law of Forgetfulness.

• Li Qing and Long Yi felt powerful Dragon Might beneath the sinkhole and found a True Dragon corpse sealed in another space.
• Long Yi explained his family’s theory about the seal and revealed an exposed Black Dragon Horn that could serve as the Imperial Dragon Seal’s main material.
• Long Yi activated a spatial Secret Treasure, but its Space Slash only partly severed the horn and sent violent Space Law fluctuations outward.
• Li Qing empowered the Immortal Slaying Sword with Chaos Law and severed the horn, which Long Yi stored away.
• A Mahayana-stage lifeform arrived, and Li Qing fled with Long Yi as the being turned its attention to the dragon corpse.
• The ancient ancestor of the Sacred Whale Race appeared, and Long Yi warned Li Qing that its White Law could make the world forget anyone it erased.