Chapter Summaries

Li Qing defeated Wu Dao in the contest between the races by manifesting the Chaos Green Lotus, then claimed the contest’s stakes, including the Azure Treasure Lotus Seed. After the victory, the Carefree Heavenly Venerate brought Li Qing and Long Yi back to the Dao Palace, where news of Li Qing’s achievement spread and people began to regard him as a future Human Race Celestial Venerable.

• Li Qing blocked Wu Dao’s attack with the Chaos Green Lotus manifestation, and an unseen hand intervened to save Wu Dao from the lotus leaf’s final strike.
• Mingzun acknowledged Wu Dao’s defeat, and Wu Dao handed Li Qing the thumb ring containing the contest’s stakes and the Azure Treasure Lotus Seed.
• The Carefree Heavenly Venerate took Li Qing and Long Yi back to the Dao Palace and promised to protect their future attempts to enter the Great Vehicle Realm.
• Li Qing gave the Azure Treasure Lotus Seed to the Carefree Heavenly Venerate for Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate, who regained his depleted vital energy several days later.
• News of Li Qing’s victory spread across the human race and Tianyuan Continent, where many began calling him the future Wuji Celestial Venerable.

After Li Qing’s victory in the grand competition of all races, human factions and True Spirit Families sought to congratulate him or repair their relationships with him. Li Qing used his spoils to reach Integrated Body Perfection, but realized the path to the Mahayana Realm remained a nearly impassable barrier as the mysterious will in his sea of consciousness grew more active.

• The Yin-Yang Sect Master, Niu Family, Feng Family, Long Family, and Hu Family reacted to Li Qing’s rise, with several factions sending lavish gifts or seeking to mend their ties with him.
• Li Qing spared Abyss Venerable from an arranged death and told the Hu Family to send him to the Two Realms Battlefield to serve the human race.
• Li Qing entered seclusion and used Dao Integration Pills and rare sea spirit blue fruits, along with spirit stones, to advance his cultivation.
• Li Qing reached Integrated Body Perfection and understood that challenging the Mahayana Realm would be extremely dangerous because he still had deficiencies to overcome.
• Spirit Venerable Yu Ji warned Li Qing not to rush toward the Mahayana Realm, while the mysterious will in Li Qing’s sea of consciousness grew more active and began merging Demon Venerable memories into it.

Li Qing refined his physical body with Myriad Beast Blood Soil and Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire while preparing for the Demon Venerable's Will to revive. When a Demon Realm Progenitor opened a rift above Tianyuan Continent, Lingxu Zi sealed it, and Li Qing decided to put his plans into action rather than wait passively.

• Li Qing used Myriad Beast Blood Soil and his Golden Saint Treasure Body inheritance to refine his flesh with six Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires, greatly strengthening his body at the cost of depleting his blood and qi.
• More than thirty years passed as Demon Realm Rifts appeared across the Spirit Realm, and seven years later a Demon Realm Progenitor's palm struck toward Tianyuan Continent.
• An ancient ancestor of the Golden Crow Race shattered the palm, but stopped short of entering the rift after being warned that a Demon Realm Progenitor awaited him.
• Nirvana Origin Progenitor appeared through the rift and challenged Lingxu Zi, who sealed the rift and observed that the two realms were not due to merge for more than twenty years.
• Li Qing emerged from seclusion after using all his Myriad Beast Blood Soil and sensed the Demon Venerable's Will grow more active under Nirvana Origin Progenitor's gaze.
• After the Demon Venerable's Will calmed, Li Qing decided to put some of his earlier plans into action.

The Demonic Calamity began as the Spirit Realm and Demon Realm merged, opening passages across every continent and sea. After Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate confronted two Mahayana invaders, Li Qing answered the Dao Palace’s call, defeated seven ancient demons at a spirit-gold mine, and learned that they were planting Demonic Flame Trees, but he did not discover why the Demon Realm had invaded.

• The realms began merging, and seventeen Space Tunnels opened across the Tianyuan Continent, including one in human territory that released tens of thousands of Magic Beasts.
• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate saved the human defenders from the Magic Beasts’ mass self-destruction, then battled the Demon Hand Saint Ancestor while a Demon Realm Sorcerer planted Demonic Flame Trees.
• The Dao Palace mobilized the human race against invading demons, and Li Qing left the Heaven Refining Pavilion after receiving orders to confront ancient demons in the eastern territory.
• Li Qing reached a spirit-gold mining region and found its workers dead and seven Integration Stage ancient demons polluting the mineral veins with Demonic Flame Trees.
• Li Qing killed the seven demons and extracted their memories, learning that the trees consumed spiritual energy to produce Origin Demonic Energy, but not the reason for the invasion.

After seven years of brutal war, Li Qing had become a feared Human Race powerhouse while uncovering signs that Demon Realm Progenitors were pursuing an opportunity tied to the Immortal Dao and possibly the Demon Venerable. He accepted a mission to escort the Heavenly Dog Race and arrived at its ruined Holy City, where he swiftly killed the Ancient Devils attacking it.

• Li Qing’s battles over seven years established his reputation after he slew more than two hundred Body Integration Realm Ancient Devils and survived a direct threat from a Demon Realm Saint Ancestor.
• Wan Hong reported that she and her Senior Sister had killed the Ancient Devils responsible for destroying a mortal kingdom, and Li Qing comforted her.
• Li Qing reflected on clues that Demon Realm Progenitors were seeking an unparalleled opportunity connected to the Immortal Dao and possibly the Demon Venerable.
• The Dao Palace asked Li Qing to escort the endangered Heavenly Dog Race to safety in exchange for its damaged Chaos Demonic Treasure, and he accepted.
• Li Qing reached the Heavenly Dog Race’s ruined Holy City and killed every Ancient Devil there with a single strike of the Immortal Slaying Sword.

Li Qing rescued the Heavenly Dog Race, learned that a Chaos Demonic Treasure lay beneath the Profound Sky Supreme Wood Spirit Coffin, and seized it despite the protests of the Ancient Devil cultivating inside. A pure-blooded Qiongqi emerged and battled Li Qing, then unleashed its Domain of Calamity.

• Li Qing killed every Ancient Devil in the Heavenly Dog Race's Holy City, and the old patriarch confirmed the race's intention to submit to the human race.
• The old patriarch explained that a Chaos Demonic Treasure had been trapped beneath the Profound Sky Supreme Wood Spirit Coffin after an Ancient Devil attacked it.
• Li Qing lifted the coffin with his four Heaven-reaching Killing Swords and took the Primordial Chaos Demonic Thought Bead, provoking its owner inside the coffin.
• A pure-blooded Qiongqi emerged from the coffin and attacked Li Qing, identifying itself as a true spirit cultivating the Law of Calamity.
• Li Qing fought the Qiongqi with his killing swords, sword formation, and Kunpeng Daoist Method, but struggled against its strength and rapid healing.
• The Qiongqi expanded its Domain of Calamity, transforming the surrounding world as the battle continued.

Li Qing endured Qiongqi’s Domain of Calamity, then used his Chaos Green Lotus Manifestation to forge the Immortal Body of Ten Thousand Tribulations and defeat the True Spirit. After extracting Qiongqi’s inheritance and memories, he learned the Demon Realm’s invasion might be tied to a Chaos Immortal Treasure and prepared to leave with the Heavenly Dog Race.

• Qiongqi trapped Li Qing in its Domain of Calamity and battered him with meteors, magma, floods, and blade-like winds.
• Li Qing summoned the Chaos Green Lotus Manifestation and used the disasters to cultivate the Immortal Body of Ten Thousand Tribulations, shattering Qiongqi’s domain.
• Li Qing overpowered Qiongqi despite its burning its True Spirit Bloodline, then destroyed its body and soul and obtained the Qiongqi Treasure Arts.
• Li Qing extracted memories suggesting the Demon Realm’s war would sacrifice the dead to activate a mysterious Chaos Immortal Treasure.
• Li Qing descended into the Heavenly Dog Race’s Holy City and told them to return with him to human territory.

After years of cultivation amid the worsening war, Li Qing learned that four Demon Realm passages were nearing merger into a Two Realms Battlefield and prepared to refine a Heavenly Secret Gu before Long Yi’s journey to the Ancient Dragon Realm. He obtained most of the rare materials through the Dao Palace, but still needed a Star Armor Beetle corpse and Luoyuan Grass Root.

• Li Qing spent thirteen years cultivating his divine soul and comprehending the Qiongqi Treasure Arts while the war devastated races across the Tianyuan Continent.
• Li Qing had Spirit Venerable Yu Ji refine the Qiongqi’s blood essence into True Spirit Blood Pills for restoring his vitality and healing injuries.
• After learning that four Two Realms Passages were about to merge, Li Qing received word that Long Yi would soon become Long Family head and travel to the Ancient Dragon Realm.
• Li Qing left seclusion to gather materials for refining a Heavenly Secret Gu, which Spirit Venerable Yu Ji recommended to conceal him from heavenly calculations.
• The Dao Palace obtained most of Li Qing’s requested materials in exchange for his Battle Merit, but the Star Armor Beetle corpse remained with an unwilling elder and the Luoyuan Grass Root might be at Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate’s grotto-heaven.

Li Qing obtained the Star Armor Beetle corpses and Luoyuan Grass Root needed to refine the Heavenly Secret Gu, then successfully created one that revived a dead beetle and concealed his heavenly secrets. He prepared to travel to the Ancient Dragon Realm with greater protection, while Spirit Venerable Yu Ji urged him to test the Gu’s full abilities.

• Li Qing traded Elder Mo Hai one Golden Silk Silkworm and a swarm of Fire Jade Bees for two Thousand-Year Star Armor Beetle corpses.
• Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate gave Li Qing several pots of Luoyuan Grass and warned him to be cautious in the Ancient Dragon Realm, where the True Dragon Clan looked down on other races.
• Li Qing traveled to a concealed spot in human territory and began refining the Heavenly Secret Gu using a Spirit-Entangling Tree Frog and rare materials.
• After the frog died, a Star Armor Beetle covered in seven-colored spots crawled from its mouth, and Li Qing bound the revived beetle to himself as the Heavenly Secret Gu.
• Li Qing activated the Gu and found that it concealed his aura and heavenly secrets; Spirit Venerable Yu Ji urged him to test whether it could devour heavenly secrets completely.

Li Qing tested the Heavenly Secret Gu and learned it could alter fate once before dying, then traveled with Long Yi to the Ancient Dragon Realm. They arrived and prepared to meet the True Dragon Clan and enter the Dragon Transformation Pool, while Li Qing also intended to seek the Mahayana Opportunity recorded by Myriad Treasures Ancestor.

• Li Qing confirmed that the Heavenly Secret Gu could devour one heavenly secret and that using it would kill the Gu; Spirit Venerable Yu Ji asked him to refine one for her after he reached the Mahayana Stage.
• Li Qing went to Panlong City and reunited with the Long Family, where Long Lan proposed marriage and he declined because he already had a cultivation partner and wished to focus on cultivation.
• The Long Family Elders explained the Ancient Dragon Realm’s dangers and customs, including warnings about dragon eggs, the Dragon Tomb, and Myriad Dragon Abyss.
• Long Yi emerged from seclusion stronger, and he and Li Qing departed through the Spatial Node toward the Ancient Dragon Realm.
• Long Yi told Li Qing that six Mahayana-stage beings had fought over the black dragon skeleton in the Death Realm, but the Dragon Clan drove them away and could not break its seal.
• Li Qing and Long Yi entered the Ancient Dragon Realm and flew toward the True Dragon Clan’s divine mountain, where two enormous eyes opened and fixed their gaze on them.

Long Yi challenged the Ancient Dragon Realm’s Dragon Gate so Li Qing could enter the Dragon Transformation Pool without using the Azure Dragon Sacred Token. He passed the sixth trial and defeated a true dragon in the seventh, drawing the attention of powerful dragons as he continued the challenge.

• The Mountain Rock Giant Dragon refused to let Li Qing enter the Dragon Transformation Pool, so Long Yi chose to challenge the Dragon Gate instead.
• Li Qing gave Long Yi a Qiongqi Blood Pill, and Long Yi began the nine trials as dragons across the Ancient Dragon Realm watched.
• Long Yi defeated a ninety-percent-blood Crimson Gold Flood Dragon in the sixth trial and advanced to the seventh.
• Long Yi used the Imperial Dragon Seal to overcome the Mysterious Water Black Dragon, passing the seventh trial despite severe wounds.
• Several true dragons observed Long Yi’s progress, and the Green Jade Spirit Dragon said it wanted to test his strength if he passed all nine trials.

Long Yi breached the ninth Heavenly Gate after defeating its replicas, then endured the Primal Dragon Emperor’s overwhelming trial and passed through a second awakening of his Golden Dragon Bloodline. He emerged gravely wounded, and Li Qing stopped the Jade Spirit Dragon from challenging him while he recovered.

• Long Yi used the Nine Dragon Separation Fire Formation to destroy nine replicas of himself and opened the ninth Heavenly Gate.
• Long Yi faced the Primal Dragon Emperor, who battered him relentlessly and shattered his formation and Golden Dao Law attacks.
• Long Yi swallowed a Qiongqi Blood Pill to heal and temporarily gain an Immortal Body, then endured the Emperor’s final Ten Thousand Dragons Ascend to Heaven attack.
• Long Yi’s Golden Dragon Bloodline awakened a second time, allowing him to survive the final attack and pass the trial.
• Long Yi emerged from the opened Dragon Gate to the amazement of the gathered Dragon Blood Descendants.
• Li Qing stopped the Jade Spirit Dragon from approaching the severely wounded Long Yi and offered to fight in his place.

Li Qing defeated the Jade Spirit Dragon and earned permission for himself and the badly injured Long Yi to enter the Dragon Transformation Pool. As the pool’s dragon might intensified, Li Qing cultivated his body and felt the Demon Venerable’s Will awaken, while both humans endured beyond the dragon clan’s nine-day record.

• Li Qing fought off and suppressed the Jade Spirit Dragon, then used the Four Immortal Slaying Swords to nearly kill him before the Mountain Rock Giant Dragon intervened and declared Li Qing the winner.
• The Mountain Rock Giant Dragon allowed Li Qing and Long Yi to enter the Dragon Transformation Pool, and Long Yi revealed that the final trial had been the Primal Dragon Emperor.
• Li Qing and Long Yi entered the pool; Long Yi purified his dragon blood while Li Qing absorbed its energy and endured the growing dragon might.
• Li Qing cultivated the Golden Saint Treasure Body with the pool’s energy, but the pressure awakened the Demon Venerable’s Will in his sea of consciousness.
• After seven days and then two more, Li Qing and Long Yi remained in the pool despite its intensifying pressure, surpassing the dragon clan’s nine-day benchmark.

Li Qing spent twenty-two days in the Dragon Transformation Pool, greatly strengthening his body, then used the seven days before his return to the Spirit Realm to explore the Ancient Dragon Realm. He concealed his plans by taking over a Dragon Blood Demonic Crocodile’s cave abode and controlling the creature with Cunning Snake Eyes.

• Long Yi left the Dragon Transformation Pool after twelve days, while Li Qing continued absorbing its energy until the pool became useless to him on his twenty-second day.
• Li Qing emerged with a greatly strengthened physique, thanked the Mountain Rock Giant Dragon, and learned from Long Yi that he could explore the Ancient Dragon Realm for seven days.
• Following Spirit Venerable Yu Ji’s advice, Li Qing gathered wilderness herbs to disguise his search for a possible Mahayana Opportunity.
• Li Qing collected Dragon Claw Fruits and subdued the Dragon Blood Demonic Crocodile that had ambushed him.
• Li Qing followed the Dragon Blood Demonic Crocodile to its cave abode and used Cunning Snake Eyes to control it, ordering it to remember that he had stayed there for the next seven days.

Li Qing followed Spirit Venerable Yu Ji’s lead to a hidden True Spirit Origin beneath the Star Sea, only to discover it was an active Pixiu Origin trapped in a space concealed by the Heaven Sealing Marvelous Art. He fought the instinct-driven Pixiu with his spirit fires and Immortal Severing Sword, but the Pixiu swallowed him whole.

• Li Qing concealed his heavenly secrets, escaped the cave region, and learned from Spirit Venerable Yu Ji that Old Ghost Myriad Treasures had recorded the location of a True Spirit Origin.
• Li Qing reached the Star Sea and used his Grotto-Heaven Treasure to expose an abyss hidden by the Heaven Sealing Marvelous Art.
• The abyss swallowed Li Qing into a strange space, where he and Spirit Venerable Yu Ji realized the supposed sealed origin was an active Pixiu Origin.
• Li Qing attacked the Pixiu with fused Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires, then wounded it with destructive sword energy from the Immortal Severing Sword.
• As Li Qing moved in for another strike, the Pixiu unleashed its suction force and swallowed him whole.

Li Qing was swallowed by the Pixiu Origin, but the Demon Venerable awakened through him and refined the origin before returning control of his body. After Li Qing escaped the Ancient Dragon Realm with a greatly strengthened foundation, the Two Realms Battlefield appeared ahead of schedule and the Spirit Realm and Devil Realm began fighting.

• As the Pixiu Origin began refining Li Qing, the Demon Venerable awakened through him and reversed the process, absorbing the True Spirit Origin.
• The Demon Venerable made a deal with Spirit Venerable Yu Ji to help Li Qing reach the Mahayana stage, then visited the Eternal Night World before falling dormant again.
• Li Qing regained control, realized the Demon Venerable had awakened, and escaped the Pixiu Swallowing Wealth space into the Ancient Dragon Realm.
• Li Qing sensed that the Pixiu Origin had repaired his cultivation flaws and brought him close to the Mahayana stage, then left the Dragon Blood Demonic Crocodile's cave estate with Long Yi.
• The Two Realms Battlefield appeared ahead of schedule, and Mahayana experts from the Spirit Realm and Devil Realm clashed as both armies charged into battle.

After Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate’s death, Li Qing saved Ascension City and six other cities from demon attacks, then learned a Mahayana Realm being was reaching for Heaven Refining Pavilion. As the being’s giant hand seized the pavilion, the Feng Family summoned a true spirit heavenly phoenix to intervene.

• Human cultivators mourned Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate, who had sacrificed himself to kill a Demon Realm Saint Ancestor, while ancient demons continued invading human territory.
• City Lord Bai Mei prepared to defend Ascension City as nine seventh-rank Demon Realm war beasts threatened to break through its walls.
• Li Qing arrived and killed the war beasts and surrounding demons with his sword, saving Ascension City, then said he had already rescued Mengshan City, Yuanfeng City, and four other cities.
• Li Qing paid respects to Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate and resolved to enter seclusion to break through to the Mahayana Realm.
• A mysterious Mahayana Realm being sent a giant hand toward Heaven Refining Pavilion and lifted it, breaking its protective formation.
• The Feng Family summoned a true spirit heavenly phoenix to rush to the human race’s rescue.

After Heaven Refining Pavilion was destroyed in an invasion, Li Qing rescued his disciples and entrusted them to the Long family before setting out to break through to the Mahayana Realm. He thanked the Feng family for summoning the Heavenly Phoenix and left to seek a place for seclusion, as the human race faced war and his disciples awaited his return.

• The Feng family summoned a Heavenly Phoenix, who shattered the giant hand holding Heaven Refining Pavilion aloft and fought the invading Mahayana expert.
• Li Qing entered the chaotic battlefield, rescued the unconscious Wan Hong and Li Qiyin, and found that his other two disciples had escaped by taking a mission away from the pavilion.
• Li Qing brought all four disciples to Panlong City and left them under Long Yi's protection at the Long family's ancestral grounds before departing to attempt a breakthrough.
• Li Qing visited the Feng family, thanked Su Yin and the Feng Family Patriarch for their intervention, and drank their Enlightenment Spirit Tea.
• Li Qing told the Feng family he was ready to enter seclusion and advance to the Mahayana Realm, then left to search for a place to break through.

After three years in seclusion, Li Qing began breaking through to the Mahayana Realm as the human race faced mounting pressure from foreign powers. His breakthrough stirred a Mahayana heavenly sign, but foreign-race Mahayana powerhouses gathered to stop him before he could attain the Dao.

• A foreign-race Mahayana powerhouse threatened the Dao Palace and took the Heaven Refining Scripture in exchange for sparing the human race from another battlefield conscription.
• As the human race’s situation worsened, Su Ling, Su Yin, Li Qiyin, Long Yi, and others waited for Li Qing to return, while a grandfather tried to flee overseas with his grandson.
• Li Qing emerged from three years of seclusion by the sea, having refined the Pixiu Origin and advanced all six of his Heaven and Earth Spirit Fires.
• Li Qing swallowed the Solidifying Nascent Soul Pill and began breaking through the Mahayana Realm, unleashing a vast heavenly sign across human territory.
• Human cultivators recognized Li Qing’s breakthrough and celebrated the prospect of a new Heavenly Venerate, while three foreign-race Mahayana powerhouses appeared and threatened to interrupt his ascension.

Li Qing broke free from his chaos cocoon with his Chaos Daoist Method perfected, but the Six-winged Heavenly Demon attacked before he could rebuild his Mahayana Dharma Body or begin his tribulation. As the Six-winged Heavenly Demon sought to claim the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower, Li Qing summoned the Mahayana-level Chaos Green Lotus Manifestation to confront him.

• Human cultivators cursed the three invading Mahayana beings, while the Long lineage summoned a purple-gold true dragon to aid them.
• Two foreign Mahayana cultivators engaged the true dragon as the third attacked Li Qing’s cocoon, only for the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower to shatter his dharma seal.
• Carefree Heavenly Venerate arrived as a Dao Body, exposed the invaders as the Six-winged Heavenly Demon, Azure-Eyed Nether Venerate, and Star Eye Divine Lord, then fought the Six-winged Heavenly Demon.
• The Six-winged Heavenly Demon destroyed Carefree Heavenly Venerate’s Dao Body and began trying to refine the Chaos Profound Yellow Tower.
• Li Qing emerged from his cocoon with his Chaos Daoist Method perfected, and the Six-winged Heavenly Demon attacked before he could reconstruct his Dharma Body.
• Li Qing summoned the Mahayana-level Chaos Green Lotus Manifestation as the Six-winged Heavenly Demon struck.