Chapter Summaries

Chen Qing defeated two coordinated Gang Strength Late-stage puppets on Tianbao Tower’s twenty-ninth floor, raising his ranking to eighth and earning recognition as a True Disciple Candidate. He emerged exhausted to find the sect’s powerful figures reconsidering his importance and planning to watch or cultivate him.

• Chen Qing fought the Shield Puppet and Blade Puppet together, using his spear, body hardening, and True Martial Seal to create an opening and destroy both puppets.
• Chen Qing cleared the twenty-ninth floor, rested instead of challenging the thirtieth, and the stele recorded his new ranking at eighth.
• The crowd and disciples, including Shang Lujing, Zhuo Xiaoyun, Wu Anren, and He Shuang, reacted with shock as Chen Qing emerged from Tianbao Tower.
• Liu Wu recognized that Chen Qing’s new status made him harder to manipulate, while Elder Huo En ordered an investigation into Chen Qing’s background.
• Deng Ziheng praised Chen Qing’s achievement, and Elder Feng said she would monitor and guide him and report his progress to the Sect Leader.

After Chen Qing reached the twenty-ninth floor of Tianbao Tower, Elder Deng Ziheng warned him about the sect’s factions and the dangers of pursuing a True Disciple seat. News of Chen Qing’s rise reached Shen Xinyue, who invited him to a banquet and was humiliated when he refused.

• Shen Xiuyong and Qiao Hongyun gave Chen Qing a Healing Pill, and he left the plaza while pretending to be badly injured.
• Elder Deng Ziheng visited Chen Qing and advised him to choose among the sect’s factions cautiously, explaining the True Martial lineage’s troubles and Lu Chenming’s strength.
• Shen Xinyue learned that Chen Qing had reached the twenty-ninth floor and become a True Disciple Candidate, then invited him to a banquet at Green Wave Pavilion.
• Chen Qing declined Shen Xinyue’s invitation, citing a crucial period in his cultivation.
• Shen Xinyue lost her composure, smashed her teacup, and angrily rebuked Chen Qing for rejecting her.

Ke Tianzong explained the secret of the Patriarch’s Legacy to Ji Yunliang, while Chen Qing weighed the Huo Family’s offer and investigated the Tianbao Supreme Sect’s Four Veins. He discovered that his True Martial Seal was a long-lost True Martial lineage art and began leaning toward joining that lineage.

• Ke Tianzong told Ji Yunliang that the Patriarch’s Legacy might reveal how the Four Great True Scriptures shared one source and could contain arts beyond the scriptures.
• Chen Qing declined to commit to the Huo Family’s offer of becoming a Guest Elder and received time to consider it.
• Chen Qing studied the Four Veins’ legacies at Wanfa Peak and learned that the True Martial lineage had lost the True Martial Seal two hundred years earlier.
• Chen Qing realized that Li Baichuan’s claim of finding the True Martial Seal by chance was suspicious and wondered about his connection to the sect.
• Chen Qing weighed the four lineages and decided the low-key True Martial lineage best suited his goals and might help him uncover the seal’s origins.

Chen Qing joined the True Martial lineage, learned the Thousand Rain Flowing Shadow Spear, and advanced his movement art to the Seamless Realm. At Wan Shangyi’s banquet, he listened as the True Disciple Candidates considered whether Lu Chenming’s rumored attempt to reach the True Origin Realm might create an opening to challenge him.

• Chen Qing joined the True Martial lineage through a formal ceremony and learned the Thousand Rain Flowing Shadow Spear from Pei Tingchun after bargaining for a discount.
• Chen Qing practiced his martial arts over the following days and reached the Seamless Realm in the Startling Swan Shadow Escape Art.
• Wan Shangyi invited Chen Qing and other True Disciple Candidates to a banquet at Four Seas Pavilion, where the guests exchanged greetings and assessed one another.
• Wan Shangyi raised the candidates’ shared goal of claiming one of the ten True Disciple Seats, and Han Xiong reported that Lu Chenming might soon attempt to break through to the True Origin Realm.
• The candidates considered whether Lu Chenming’s possible failure or injury could give them a chance to challenge him, while Chen Qing quietly observed without joining the discussion.

After Nie Shanshan delivered a letter reminding Chen Qing of his promise to obtain the Nine Revolutions True Return Pill, he sought Elder Pei Tingchun’s help and learned that the lost True Martial Seal was tied to the sect’s traitor Li Qingyu and the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure Tianbao Tower. Chen Qing left with more questions about Old Deng and the Purple Light, resolved to earn Contribution Points for the pill, and vowed to be cautious about using the seal.

• Wu Anren approached Chen Qing after the banquet and offered to exchange information and support because they had both come from the Hundred Sect Selection.
• Over two months, Chen Qing advanced his spear technique, and his Golden Feather Eagle grew large enough to hunt and fly on its own.
• Nie Shanshan visited Chen Qing after reaching Gang Strength Early-stage, repaid her debt with Fine Grade Gang Quenching Pills, gave him winter clothes, and delivered a letter from Chu Jinyun.
• Chen Qing opened the letter and found Old Deng’s reminder to fulfill their agreement by obtaining the costly Nine Revolutions True Return Pill.
• At the Transmission Hall, Chen Qing asked Pei Tingchun about the True Martial Seal, and Pei Tingchun revealed that Li Qingyu had betrayed the sect two hundred years earlier and fled to Great Snow Mountain with the complete seal.
• Pei Tingchun explained that Li Qingyu’s betrayal was rumored to involve Tianbao Tower, a Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, leaving Chen Qing to wonder whether Old Deng and the Purple Light were connected to it.

Shen Xiuyong and Qiao Hongyun reunited with Ruan Lingxiu, who agreed to keep an eye on Chen Qing despite the True Martial lineage's political difficulties. Meanwhile, Chen Qing reconciled with Liu Wu for five hundred Contribution Points and learned that Meng Qianxue would challenge Lu Chenming for a True Disciple seat in three days.

• Ruan Lingxiu met Shen Xiuyong and Qiao Hongyun and explained that Chen Qing's choice of the True Martial lineage could make his path harder, but promised to watch over him.
• Ruan Lingxiu gave Shen Xiuyong and Qiao Hongyun five hundred Contribution Points each, and Zhong Yu learned that she had met her old acquaintances.
• Liu Wu offered Chen Qing five hundred Contribution Points to settle their past grievances, and Chen Qing accepted them.
• Chen Qing counted his savings and found he had four thousand Contribution Points, still two thousand short of the cost of a Nine Revolutions True Return Pill.
• Chen Qing heard that Meng Qianxue would challenge Lu Chenming for the tenth True Disciple seat in three days.

Chen Qing watched Meng Qianxue challenge Lu Chenming for a True Disciple seat and saw Lu defeat her despite her Gang Strength Perfection. The battle revealed the power of supreme cultivation arts and the widening gulf between Tianbao Supreme Sect’s direct disciples and the Hundred Sect Geniuses, while Chen Qing remained focused on accumulating Contribution Points.

• Chen Qing went with Shen Xiuyong and Qiao Hongyun to the Seven Stars Platform, where disciples and elders gathered to watch Meng Qianxue challenge Lu Chenming.
• Chen Qing spotted Luo Chengxuan, Shen Xinrou, Shen Xinyue, Han Xiong, and other familiar figures among the spectators as they discussed the contest and the True Disciples’ prospects.
• Meng Qianxue attacked Lu Chenming with two fused sword intents, but he calmly countered her moves and held off her increasingly fierce assault.
• Meng Qianxue revealed her Gang Strength Perfection cultivation and launched her strongest strike, but Lu Chenming drew his saber and defeated her with Nine Heavens Sky Rend.
• Ruan Lingxiu caught the injured Meng Qianxue and took her away, while Luo Chengxuan explained that Lu Chenming had recently failed to break through to the True Origin Realm and warned that the Hundred Sect Geniuses faced a cultivation gap.
• Chen Qing judged that his Five Elements True Gang might rival the supreme arts he had witnessed, but left the gathering focused on accumulating Contribution Points.

Chen Qing hunted Stone Lion Beasts at Falling Star Slope to earn Contribution Points, while learning about the True Disciple competition from Qu He. After a blood-red expert rushed toward the core region, Chen Qing found his injured Golden Feather Eagle under attack by two clan disciples seeking to capture it for Miss Wang.

• Chen Qing chose Falling Star Slope as his best way to earn Contribution Points and exchanged points for a Wind-Riding Saddle for his Golden Feather Eagle.
• Qu He invited Chen Qing to discuss the True Disciple seats, their benefits, and the need for the weakened True Martial lineage to gain support.
• Chen Qing disguised himself, flew to Falling Star Slope on the saddled eagle, and hunted five Stone Lion Beasts over three days for 1,500 Contribution Points.
• Chen Qing observed the dangerous Killing Intent around the slope's core region and hid from a powerful blood-red figure rushing toward it.
• Chen Qing's Golden Feather Eagle cried out in distress, and he found it wounded by an arrow and surrounded by two clan disciples attacking under Miss Wang's orders to capture it alive.

Chen Qing rescued his injured Golden Feather Eagle from Wang Zhifu and the Wang Family retainers, then learned that the bird was a rare Golden Feather Eagle King mutant. While caring for it at Falling Star Slope, he witnessed a meteorite strike near the slope’s core, revealing a chance to find valuable treasures.

• Chen Qing killed Zhao Wei and the Qian Clan Man after they injured his Golden Feather Eagle, then killed Wang Zhifu and the remaining guards when she invoked the Wang Family name.
• Chen Qing fled with the injured eagle before Elder Zhu and two Wang Family youths arrived; Elder Zhu identified Chen Qing’s simulated Star Primordial Gang and ordered an investigation into Tianbao Supreme Sect cultivators.
• Chen Qing hid in a cave, treated the eagle, and discovered in the Wang Family’s Miscellaneous Records of Exotic Beasts that it might be a rare Golden Feather Eagle King mutant.
• Chen Qing burned the illustrated catalog, guarded the eagle for three days as it recovered, and prepared to continue exploring Falling Star Slope.
• A meteorite struck near the core region of Falling Star Slope, and Chen Qing recognized the impact as a possible source of Meteorite Mother and other valuable treasures.

Chen Qing used the violent Baleful Intent to temper his body, rescued Zhu Yu from Stone Lion Beasts, and discovered Meteorite Mother guarded by powerful factions. After fleeing Old Ancestor Huo Miao, he found another green Meteorite Mother and saw Zhu He confront several rivals at its crater.

• Chen Qing endured the surging Baleful Intent without True Gang, accelerating his Eight Extremes Vajra Body training as the Golden Feather Eagle also absorbed the energy.
• Chen Qing killed seven Stone Lion Beasts attacking Zhu Yu, collected their Meteorite Cores, and refused Zhu Yu's offer to guide him toward the meteorite's center.
• Chen Qing found three pieces of Meteorite Mother, but Old Ancestor Huo Miao of the Nanzhao Huo Family arrived and drove the other cultivators away with his True Origin Realm pressure.
• Chen Qing escaped, killed two more Stone Lion Beasts on his way back, and then sensed another source of stellar power.
• Chen Qing found a green Meteorite Mother surrounded by meteorite iron fragments and recognized Zhu He, the Xuanming Wang Family expert connected to Wang Zhifu's death.
• Zhu He called out the bow-wielding expert and a burly man with a hammer, along with their accompanying disciples, as they emerged around the crater.

Chen Qing joined the fight over the Mother Ore at Falling Star Slope, helped seize it, and killed Zhu He after the battle turned against him. Ma Tong and Liao Chuan fled, while Chen Qing left Zhu He's belongings to Luo Qianjue and disappeared into the baleful mist.

• Zhu He, Liao Chuan, and Ma Tong confronted one another over the Mother Ore, and Zhu He tried to seize it before their fight erupted.
• Chen Qing emerged from hiding to collect meteorite iron fragments, then joined Ma Tong and Liao Chuan in attacking Zhu He.
• Luo Qianjue and three Xuwang Mountain disciples arrived, and Zhu He used a Thunderclap Fire Seed to escape the encirclement before throwing the Mother Ore away.
• Chen Qing snatched the Mother Ore, and Luo Qianjue intervened to keep Liao Chuan from attacking him while he fought Ma Tong.
• Chen Qing killed the fleeing Zhu He with Violet Firmament Thunderclap Seeds and poisoned flying needles, prompting Ma Tong and Liao Chuan to flee.
• Chen Qing told Luo Qianjue to take Zhu He's belongings and vanished into the baleful mist.

Chen Qing returned from Falling Star Slope with a fortune in contribution points, exchanged for a Nine Revolutions True Return Pill, and sent it with a letter to Old Deng asking about the True Martial Seal. Back at Tianbao Supreme Sect, he learned of rumors that the Shen Family had abandoned a possible marriage alliance with him in favor of Han Xiong, while Wu Anren hoped the news would sow resentment between them.

• Luo Qianjue’s group searched the battlefield where the black-robed man had killed Zhu He, collected meteorite iron and valuables, and left after destroying clues.
• Chen Qing returned to his cave, tallied his gains, hunted two more Stone Lion Beasts, and left Falling Star Slope as True Origin Realm experts entered the area.
• Chen Qing exchanged his Meteorite Cores and herbs for contribution points, bought a Nine Revolutions True Return Pill, and sent it with a letter to Old Deng asking about the True Martial Seal.
• Chen Qing cultivated and went fishing at Bibo Pond, where disciples discussed rumors that the Shen Family had shifted its interest from him to Han Xiong.
• Wu Anren told Chen Qing about the rumored Shen Family marriage alliance and Han Xiong’s growing closeness with Shen Xinyue, hoping the news would create a rift between them.

The Shen Family elders backed Shen Xinyue’s match with Han Xiong and rejected Shen Qianshan’s proposal to marry Shen Xinwen to Chen Qing, though they allowed Shen Qianshan to maintain goodwill with Chen Qing. At Tianbao Supreme Sect, Chen Qing learned the Wang Family was investigating Wang Zhifu’s death, met True Disciple Ruan Lingxiu, and escorted the dispirited Meng Qianxue back from Four Seas Pavilion.

• Shen Boyuan and Shen Wanqing supported Shen Xinyue’s relationship with Han Xiong, while Shen Qianshan’s proposal to betroth Shen Xinwen to Chen Qing was rejected because the family intended her to become a future pillar.
• Chen Qing dismissed Shen Xiuyong’s concerns about rumors surrounding the Shen Family and Han Xiong, then learned Qiao Hongyun was preparing to break through to Gang Strength Mid-stage.
• Shen Xiuyong took Chen Qing to meet Ruan Lingxiu and Meng Qianxue at Four Seas Pavilion, where Chen Qing reassured Meng Qianxue after her defeat by Lu Chenming.
• Ruan Lingxiu revealed that the Wang Family was secretly investigating Wang Zhifu’s death because the killer appeared to have used Star Primordial Gang, and Chen Qing realized the investigation could eventually threaten him.
• Shen Xiuyong left Chen Qing to escort Meng Qianxue back, and she thanked him for his considerate treatment.

Chen Qing resolved to strengthen himself by cultivating the Eight Extremes Vajra Body while the sect leadership addressed the Wang Family’s investigation and discussed his prospects in the True Martial lineage. Han Xiong accepted the Shen Family’s support and dismissed Chen Qing as an unimportant rival for now.

• Meng Qianxue thanked Chen Qing for escorting her home and suggested they meet to exchange cultivation insights, and Chen Qing agreed.
• Chen Qing checked on his healed Golden Feather Eagle, then resolved to cultivate the Thousand Rain Flowing Shadow Spear and pursue the Indestructible Vajra realm.
• Elder Ji reported the Wang Family’s unauthorized investigation to Jiang Lishan, who ordered her to discipline some of the family’s direct descendants.
• Elder Ji described He Shuang, Wu Anren, and Chen Qing as promising disciples, and Jiang Lishan expressed confidence that the True Martial lineage would protect Chen Qing.
• Steward Shen gave Han Xiong three thousand Contribution Points on behalf of the Shen Family, binding Han Xiong more closely to its interests.
• Liu Bo told Han Xiong that Chen Qing showed no reaction to his exclusion from the gathering, and Han Xiong ordered him to stop watching Chen Qing and monitor other candidates instead.

Chen Qing advanced his spear cultivation and obtained the True Martial Demon Purging Spear after Elder Pei lent him the Contribution Points he lacked. Qu He then brought him to Danxia Peak, where Chen Qing found a cheaper source of high-grade pills and met Elder Zhang's struggling disciple, He Zhi.

• Chen Qing received Li Baichuan's one-word reply, burned the note, and returned to cultivation; several days later, he attended Qiao Hongyun's banquet after Qiao broke through to Gang Strength Mid-stage.
• Over four months, Chen Qing reached the Extreme Realm in Thousand Rain Flowing Shadow Spear and began fusing Rain Momentum with his Mountain Momentum and Thunder Momentum.
• Chen Qing asked Elder Pei to exchange for the True Martial Demon Purging Spear, and Pei advanced the nine thousand Contribution Points Chen Qing lacked before demonstrating the technique, which Chen Qing learned at Beginner realm.
• After leaving the Transmission Hall, Chen Qing met Qu He, who took him to Danxia Peak and introduced him to Elder Zhang.
• Elder Zhang had He Zhi prepare two bottles each of Fine Grade Gang Quenching Pills and Dragon Tiger Bone Tempering Pills, which Chen Qing bought for half the Myriad Phenomena Hall price.

Chen Qing exchanged for pills, trained in the True Martial Demon Purging Spear, and advanced his Eight Extremes Vajra Body to Indestructible Vajra. After consolidating his breakthrough, he accepted Zhu Yu’s offer of allegiance and learned Zhu Yu had witnessed Chen Qing’s fight at Falling Star Slope.

• Chen Qing exchanged pills at Danxia Peak and learned from Qu He about the Pure Yang Gang Pill’s value for refining True Gang and strengthening his foundation.
• Chen Qing practiced the True Martial Demon Purging Spear and spent two months cultivating his spear technique, True Gang, and physical body with medicinal pills.
• Chen Qing broke through to the Indestructible Vajra realm, gaining greatly increased strength, durability, and recovery.
• Zhu Yu visited Chen Qing, spoke about Kong Yi'an’s death and his own declining prospects, and offered to assist Chen Qing with errands and information.
• Zhu Yu revealed that he had seen the black-robed disciple at Falling Star Slope defeat seven Stone Lion Beasts, and Chen Qing warned him to keep the matter secret.
• Chen Qing accepted Zhu Yu’s allegiance, and Zhu Yu left after they spoke amicably.

The Four Veins divided twelve Pure Yang Gang Pills, and Qu He secured two for the True Martial lineage despite Luo Chengxuan’s attempt to claim them. Luo Chengxuan prompted Han Xiong to resent Chen Qing, while Qu He delivered one of the pills to Chen Qing and urged him to grow stronger.

• Elder Zhang Yi presented twelve superior Pure Yang Gang Pills, and Lu Chenming took four for the Nine Heavens Vein while Huo Qiushui took three for the Jade Empyrean lineage.
• Luo Chengxuan asked Qu He to let the Xuan Yang lineage take four pills and leave the True Martial lineage only one, but Qu He insisted on two and took them before Luo collected the remaining three.
• Luo Chengxuan told Han Xiong that Qu He had likely secured the pills for Chen Qing, fueling Han Xiong’s resentment and schemes against him.
• Zhu Yu told Chen Qing that Luo Qianjue had cleared the thirtieth floor and assessed the other True Disciple Candidates’ prospects.
• Qu He visited Chen Qing, gave him a Pure Yang Gang Pill, and urged him to cultivate hard and repay the True Martial lineage’s investment.

Han Xiong challenged Chen Qing to a public duel, wagering the Pure Yang Gang Pill against thirty thousand Contribution Points, and Chen Qing accepted. As the match drew attention from the Shen Family and Luo Chengxuan, Chen Qing swallowed the pill and began refining his True Gang ahead of the fight.

• Han Xiong confronted Chen Qing over the Pure Yang Gang Pill and offered a duel at the Seven Stars Platform, raising the stakes to thirty thousand Contribution Points.
• Chen Qing accepted the match for three days later, while Zhu Yu offered to investigate Han Xiong's fighting methods.
• Chen Qing consumed the Pure Yang Gang Pill and began using its power to purify and strengthen his Five Elements True Gang.
• Shen Wanqing told Shen Xinyue that Han Xiong was favored to win, and Shen Xinyue wondered why Chen Qing had accepted the duel.
• Luo Chengxuan learned of the wager and welcomed it as a chance for the Xuan Yang lineage to reclaim the pill and undermine Qu He and the True Martial lineage.

Chen Qing faced Han Xiong on the Seven Stars Platform over a Pure Yang Gang Pill and thirty thousand Contribution Points. Though Han Xiong revealed two perfected hammer arts, Chen Qing defeated him with fused spear momentums and his Indestructible Vajra body, leaving Han Xiong gravely injured and unable to fight.

• Qu He learned that Chen Qing had accepted Han Xiong's wagered duel and decided to watch rather than intervene, while news of the match spread through the Tianbao Supreme Sect.
• Chen Qing refined his true gang with the Pure Yang Gang Pill, heard warnings about Han Xiong's strength from Meng Qianxue, and practiced until his True Martial Demon Purging Spear reached Minor Accomplishment.
• At the Seven Stars Platform, Chen Qing and Han Xiong faced each other before witnesses from their lineages and the sect, with a Pure Yang Gang Pill and thirty thousand Contribution Points at stake.
• Han Xiong opened with Blazing Heaven Eight Desolations Hammer, but Chen Qing countered his attacks and forced him back by fusing mountain, Thunder, and Rain momentums in a spear strike.
• Han Xiong unleashed Meteor Chasing Moon Hammer alongside his Molten Lava Momentum, but Chen Qing activated his Indestructible Vajra body and struck back with True Martial Demon Purging Spear.
• Chen Qing pierced Han Xiong's defenses and sent him crashing to the edge of the arena, gravely injured and unable to continue the fight.

Chen Qing defeated Han Xiong on the Seven Stars Platform and secured the full 30,000 Contribution Points, shocking the sect and drawing new attention from Lu Chenming and the Shen Family. As Lu Chenming began monitoring him and Shen Wanqing ordered the family to approach him, Chen Qing returned to Xuwang Mountain.

• Chen Qing defeated Han Xiong with the True Martial Demon Purging Spear, while disciples and senior figures reacted with shock and reassessed his strength.
• The Myriad Phenomena Hall found Han Xiong short of the wager, so Luo Chengxuan transferred the remaining Contribution Points and Chen Qing received 30,000 in total.
• Qu He praised Chen Qing, and Meng Qianxue, Wu Anren, Shen Xiuyong, Qiao Hongyun, Nie Shanshan, Zhu Yu, and others congratulated him before he returned to his courtyard.
• After hearing of the battle, Lu Chenming ordered a disciple to withdraw surveillance from Han Xiong and report every detail of Chen Qing's movements.
• Shen Wanqing learned that Han Xiong had lost, then ordered the Shen Family to stop supporting him and discreetly make contact with Chen Qing.