Chapter Summaries

The cultivators pooled their formation masters and talismans to probe the grand formation protecting the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, but Xuan Ya warned that breaking it was dangerous. Li Qingyuan revealed his superior understanding of the ancient formation and agreed to help, demanding twenty drops of the spirit milk in return.

• Xuan Ya organized the cultivators’ Second-grade Formation Masters and Barrier-Breaking Talismans to attack the grand formation and search for its nodes.
• Blood Shadow attacked the laughing Rogue Cultivators, but Zhao Chong restrained him with a treasured mirror and ordered him to cooperate.
• The formation masters found only thirty-two nodes, and Xuan Ya warned that entering the formation without understanding its many nodes could trigger its killing arts.
• Li Qingyuan used the Heart Demon Pupil to find additional nodes and identified the formation’s hexadecimal foundation, then directed Zhao Tongxuan to strike more nodes.
• Xuan Ya acknowledged that Li Qingyuan’s formation knowledge surpassed hers, and Li Qingyuan agreed to break the formation in exchange for twenty drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.

Li Qingyuan negotiated a twelve-drop share of the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk in exchange for breaking the grand formation, then directed the gathered cultivators in a coordinated assault. He entered the formation with them, leaving Wan Yuan and Blood Shadow alive despite considering killing them inside.

• Li Qingyuan rejected objections to his share and secured agreement from the sects to receive twelve drops if he broke the formation.
• Li Qingyuan assigned cultivators to formation nodes and revealed that he had found 108 nodes, which combined with Xuan Ya’s twelve would give them 120.
• Li Qingyuan ordered 120 cultivators to attack the formation in stages, then used a Second-grade High-rank Restriction Breaking Talisman and the Heart Demon Pupil to enter it.
• The cultivators followed Li Qingyuan through the opening, and the formation’s clouds and mist concealed the cave abode and everyone inside.
• Li Qingyuan regretted that his reliance on the Heart Demon Pupil had kept him from secretly changing the formation to kill Wan Yuan and Blood Shadow and take their Storage Bags.

Li Qingyuan collected Spirit Spring Water and Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk from the Spirit Transformation cave dwelling, then escaped before Blood Shadow and Wan Yuan could pursue him. He prepared to upgrade Spirit Condensing Pills and help Ji Kun advance, planning to hunt afterward.

• Li Qingyuan filled containers with Spirit Spring Water and collected five drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk as the group drained the spring.
• Zhao Chong distributed the remaining spirit milk, giving Li Qingyuan seven more drops and allocating the rest according to cultivation level and prior agreements.
• Li Qingyuan led the group out of the formation, then departed alone while Zhao Tongxuan, Xuan Ya, and Zhao Dai delayed Blood Shadow and Wan Yuan for an hour.
• Li Qingyuan set up several formations in a hidden mountain hollow and prepared pills, spirit milk, and Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo to help Ji Kun become a Tier 3 Great Demon.

Li Qingyuan copied precious materials, prepared Third-grade Purifying Elixir Liquid, and transformed a Spirit Condensing Pill into Masterwork quality after one failed attempt. He gave the pill to Ji Kun, who began forming a Demonic Core and advancing to Tier 3.

• Li Qingyuan copied two Spirit Condensing Pills, Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, and Demonic Jade Marrow Cleansing Bamboo in the Fortune Space.
• Li Qingyuan made two batches of Third-grade Purifying Elixir Liquid and used them to upgrade a Spirit Condensing Pill, with his first attempt ending in an explosion.
• Li Qingyuan successfully refined a Third-grade Mid-rank Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill on his second attempt.
• Ji Kun rushed to claim the pill, and Li Qingyuan gave it to him after scolding and fighting with him.
• Ji Kun swallowed the Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill and began forming a Demonic Core as his aura grew toward Tier 3.

Li Qingyuan refined six Masterwork Primordial Chaos Pills and consumed one, gaining nearly two and a half years of cultivation after a month of effort. Ji Kun broke through to Tier 3 Great Demon, and Li Qingyuan set out with him to confront Blood Shadow and Wan Yuan.

• Li Qingyuan refined the remaining genuine Spirit Condensing Pills into two Masterwork Spirit Condensing Pills, then copied and upgraded the Primordial Chaos Pills into six Masterwork pills.
• Li Qingyuan swallowed a Masterwork Primordial Chaos Pill, used his body-refining cultivation and Dragon Tiger Elixirs to refine it, and gained nearly two and a half years of cultivation after more than a month.
• Ji Kun formed a seven-colored Demonic Core bearing the same mysterious runes as his eggshell and completed his breakthrough to Tier 3 Great Demon.
• Li Qingyuan learned from Li Yunmei that Blood Shadow and Wan Yuan had been searching for them, and he and Ji Kun left to go kill someone.

The Ink Jade Giant Crab and its master, a damaged Primordial Spirit hidden in Blood Red Soil, prepared for the arrival of the Seven Kingdoms’ prodigies, while Blood Shadow obtained a Fourth-Rank Yin Sha Bead and set out to hunt Liu Chuan. The chapter left Blood Shadow leading his followers toward Yellow Sand Valley, hoping to seize Liu Chuan before other hunters did.

• The Ink Jade Giant Crab felt a sudden foreboding, summoned tens of thousands of Ink Jade Scorpions to search the grotto-heaven, and discussed the coming prodigies with the Nascent Soul Elder.
• The Nascent Soul Elder revealed that he had gathered the essences of more than nine hundred Core Formation prodigies and needed several dozen to a hundred more to refine the Breathing Soil and rebuild his body.
• Blood Shadow escaped a collapsing cave abode with two damaged puppets and obtained a Fourth-Rank Yin Sha Bead after losing disciples and sacrificing a puppet.
• Blood Shadow asked Wan Yuan to help capture Zhao Tongxuan alive, offering him the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Storage Bags from Three Joys Immortal City; Wan Yuan agreed to attack the city with him.
• Blood Shadow learned that Liu Chuan had appeared near Yellow Sand Valley and led his able followers east to hunt him down.

Li Qingyuan, disguised as Liu Chuan, lured Blood Shadow into a trap in Yellow Sand Valley and revealed his true combat strength. After Ji Kun killed the Corpse Puppet Sect disciples, Li Qingyuan activated a third-grade formation around Blood Shadow and invited him to die.

• Blood Shadow arrived at Yellow Sand Valley, drove away or killed the gathered cultivators, and ordered his disciples to search for Liu Chuan.
• Blood Shadow's hidden Fireflow Stones exposed Li Qingyuan's escape, and he pursued and struck him down with the Black Gold Demon Suppressing Platform.
• Li Qingyuan revealed himself as Zhen Youde, unleashed multiple Five Elements Talisman Arrays and powerful sword and body techniques, and fought Blood Shadow.
• Ji Kun ambushed the Corpse Puppet Sect disciples as they rushed to help Blood Shadow, killing all eleven.
• Li Qingyuan activated the third-grade formation surrounding Blood Shadow and challenged him to die.

Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun overwhelmed Blood Shadow, a Core Formation prodigy of the Corpse Puppet Sect, but his Blood Shadow Escape initially seemed to let him flee. Ji Kun revealed a confinement ability that captured and sealed Blood Shadow, leaving him defeated and in Li Qingyuan’s hands.

• Li Qingyuan attacked Blood Shadow with Five Elements Talisman Arrays, the Purple Profound Sword Art, and the Primordial Cone, while Ji Kun joined the fight with its own Primordial Cone.
• Blood Shadow was wounded and, facing their combined assault, used the Corpse Puppet Sect’s Blood Shadow Escape to flee through the trapping array as dozens of phantoms.
• Li Qingyuan failed to identify the real Blood Shadow in time, but Ji Kun pursued a phantom and immobilized Blood Shadow with seven-colored spiritual power.
• Ji Kun revealed that it could speak and explained its confinement ability, then sealed Blood Shadow’s cultivation and divine sense.
• Li Qingyuan bound and injured Blood Shadow, took his Space Ring, and left him helpless and despairing.

Li Qingyuan seized Blood Shadow’s Fourth-Rank Yin Sha Bead and learned the Corpse Puppet Sect’s Divine Fiend Clone secret technique by searching his soul. He used the technique to turn Blood Shadow into a Core Formation Divine Fiend Clone, leaving himself with a powerful new puppet.

• Li Qingyuan refined Blood Shadow’s Space Ring and found valuable treasures, including a powerful Yin Sha Bead and two third-tier spells.
• Li Qingyuan took the unconscious Blood Shadow to a cave, where he used the Heart Demon Pupil to search his soul and learned that the bead was a Fourth-Rank Yin Sha Bead.
• Li Qingyuan discovered the Divine Fiend Clone technique and realized Blood Shadow met its cultivation and spirit-root requirements.
• Li Qingyuan used his Natal Soul Blood to refine the Yin Sha Bead, then split off a strand of his source divine sense and placed it inside Blood Shadow.
• The Yin Sha Qi transformed Blood Shadow into a Core Formation Divine Fiend Clone under Li Qingyuan’s control.

Li Qingyuan restored his divine sense, tested the Core Formation strength of his Blood Shadow Clone, and traveled to the Shattered Continent’s core region. There, he learned that an upcoming auction might offer the Third-grade Body Refining Cultivation Method he wanted, leaving him hopeful of forming his Core through the flesh.

• Li Qingyuan used Masterwork Spirit Nurturing Pills to restore the divine sense origin he had spent creating his Natal Corpse Puppet.
• He tested the Blood Shadow Clone’s power and found it could match Old Thief Chi Yun before Chi Yun acquired new equipment.
• Li Qingyuan traveled under various disguises to the core region of the continent and joined the gathering of cultivators there.
• Li Yunmei told Li Qingyuan that the Core Formation Prodigies of the Seven Kingdoms were holding an auction in ten days.
• Li Qingyuan met Li Yunmei at the Three Joys Immortal City camp, showed her resources he wanted to trade, and learned that the auction would include a Third-grade Body Refining Cultivation Method.

Li Qingyuan attended a vast auction and competed with Tie Wushuang for an incomplete Fourth-grade body-refining cultivation method. He won the method for Two Hundred Thousand Spirit Stones, while his wealth drew greedy attention from some cultivators.

• Li Qingyuan counted ninety-nine Core Formation Prodigies at the auction and wondered why Spirit Transformation ruins and grotto-heavens were opening so often.
• Zhao Dai opened the auction with three drops of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, which the Holy Son of the Heavenly Demon Sect bought for One Hundred Thirty Thousand Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Dai auctioned a Spirit Condensing Pill, while Li Qingyuan and Li Yunmei discussed how the Second-tier Resources would be sold later in an open market.
• Li Qingyuan bid on an incomplete Fourth-grade body-refining cultivation method after Zhao Dai introduced it as an inheritance that could be cultivated to the peak of the Third-grade.
• Tie Wushuang of the Heavenly Gang Gate challenged Li Qingyuan's bid and questioned his wealth, but other Core Formation Prodigies intervened when Tie Wushuang released his aura.
• Li Qingyuan outbid Tie Wushuang with Two Hundred Thousand Spirit Stones and won the cultivation method, attracting greedy looks from cultivators around him.

Li Qingyuan won the incomplete Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body technique and copied a fourth-grade incomplete Thunder Fire Talisman rune before the auction ended. A mysterious immortal mountain appeared in the Trial Ground, and the discovery of Heavenly Infant Fruits drove thousands of cultivators into a greedy rush as Li Qingyuan held back from the coming slaughter.

• Li Qingyuan paid two hundred thousand Spirit Stones for the incomplete Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body technique and learned that its surviving levels could cultivate a body up to the peak of the third grade.
• Zhao Tongxuan won the incomplete fourth-grade rune for ninety-eight thousand Spirit Stones, let Li Qingyuan copy it, and Li Qingyuan later recognized it as the Thunder Fire Talisman rune.
• After the auction ended, Li Qingyuan planned to seek the special space containing the Wood Ascending Heaven Art, which matched his Wood Spirit Body.
• An immortal mountain cave abode erupted from the earth in the continent's core region, and Li Qingyuan realized it was the mysterious space True Person Miao Le had mentioned.
• Cultivators identified the fruit hanging from the immortal tree as Heavenly Infant Fruit, and Li Qingyuan used the Heart Demon Pupil to suppress his greed.
• Thousands of cultivators charged toward the immortal mountain, while Li Qingyuan stayed behind the crowd and anticipated bloodshed.

The Heavenly Infant Fruit drove cultivators into a frenzy, but Li Qingyuan recognized the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm as a trap and escaped with Li Yunmei. A hidden Nascent Soul Elder unleashed an army of demonic beasts against the intruders, while a Purple Flame Lion Roc pursued Li Qingyuan as he fled.

• Zhao Tongxuan and the other cultivators rushed toward the Heavenly Infant Fruit, while Li Qingyuan used the Heart Demon Pupil to free Li Yunmei from its influence.
• A hidden Nascent Soul Elder revealed that his greed-based Soul Transformation Artistic Conception had driven the cultivators toward the secret realm and ordered the demonic beasts to kill them.
• The Jadeite Scorpion and nearly a hundred Tier 3 Great Demons led a vast army of beasts against the human cultivators.
• Li Qingyuan took Li Yunmei and fled, but a Purple Flame Lion Roc attacked them with flaming blades and a sonic assault.
• Li Qingyuan fought the pursuing Purple Flame Lion Roc with talisman arrays and continued fleeing, leaving Zhao Tongxuan and Shang Xiuxin behind.

A Nascent Soul Elder trapped the cultivators on Immortal Mountain and began slaughtering them to refine Blood Pill Great Medicine, while the Scorpion King led the demonic beasts against them. Li Qingyuan escaped far from the battlefield and finally turned to face the Purple Flame Lion Roc pursuing him.

• The Nascent Soul Elder dismissed Li Qingyuan and Li Yunmei as threats, revealed his plan to kill everyone on the ruin continent, and ordered Xiao Yu and the demonic beasts to attack the cultivators.
• The Scorpion King killed Core Formation prodigies and Foundation Establishment Cultivators as Zhao Tongxuan and other leaders tried to organize a breakout; several prodigies escaped the beast tide but were stopped by the array barrier.
• Zhao Tongxuan’s group found the barrier unbreakable, mourned their losses, and realized Liu Chuan and Li Yunmei were not inside the secret realm.
• Zhao Chong, Zhao Tongxuan, and other Core Formation prodigies rallied the survivors and temporarily held back the Scorpion King and demonic beasts through coordinated attacks.
• The Nascent Soul Elder ordered Xiao Yu to prolong the battle while he refined the dead prodigies into blood pills, and the Scorpion King reduced its pace of slaughter.
• Li Qingyuan, having drawn the Purple Flame Lion Roc away for more than ten thousand miles, stopped fleeing and prepared to fight back.

Ji Kun killed the Purple Flame Lion Roc, and Li Qingyuan made the Flame Dragon Lizard his spirit pet in exchange for its help. The lizard led them to a hidden Earth Thunder Pool, where Li Qingyuan began cultivating the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body while waiting for a chance to escape the Scorpion King.

• Ji Kun stunned and killed the Purple Flame Lion Roc, then brought its cores to Li Qingyuan, who stored the beast's valuable remains.
• Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun confronted the Flame Dragon Lizard, which offered to show them underground treasure in exchange for leaving the region.
• Li Qingyuan made the Flame Dragon Lizard his spirit pet with a Master-Servant Contract, and it led him three thousand zhang underground.
• The Flame Dragon Lizard brought Li Qingyuan and Ji Kun to a vast Earth Thunder Pool that the Scorpion King feared, and a lightning strike injured Li Qingyuan when his divine sense touched it.
• Li Qingyuan found a Wind Thunder Sect stele describing the pool's use for body cultivation and began studying the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body there.

Li Qingyuan cultivated the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body, converting his Jade Pattern Blood Demon Body and condensing six Wind God Marks before using lightning to temper himself. After locating his Middle Dantian, he began the process of physical Core Formation.

• Li Qingyuan used the Mysterious Feminine Gate to deduce the Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body’s levels and learned that its fifth level could let him wield wind and thunder through the Wind Thunder Intent Realm.
• Li Qingyuan spent a month using Wind Attribute talisman papers, spirit milk, and elixirs to convert his body-refining cultivation, reach Peak Second-tier body refinement, and condense six Wind God Marks.
• Li Qingyuan drew repeated lightning strikes from the lightning pool to temper his body and searched within himself for the Middle Dantian.
• Li Qingyuan found the Middle Dantian near the Shanzhong acupoint, summoned three lightning bolts, and began physical Core Formation.

Li Qingyuan completed Physical Core Formation in the earth thunder pool, greatly strengthening his body and advancing his Wind Thunder Hegemonic Body. After probing the pool and deciding he could not reach its center, he was suddenly teleported away when his jade slip activated, leaving him to curse True Person Miao Le.

• Li Qingyuan endured earth thunder for three months and condensed a Crimson Core, reaching early-stage perfection in Tier 3 physical cultivation.
• Li Qingyuan tested his new strength by smashing stone pillars, breaking a Second-grade High-rank artifact, and repelling a third-grade low-rank flying sword with his body.
• Li Qingyuan forged a second Thunder God Mark, then learned his magic power had advanced close to Peak Foundation Establishment.
• Li Qingyuan rewarded the Flame Dragon Lizard with a promised masterwork Spirit Condensing Pill and put it and Ji Kun into his Space Ring.
• Li Qingyuan entered the thunder pool, advanced a hundred zhang, and turned back when the danger threatened to exceed his ability to return.
• Li Qingyuan waited near the pool, but his jade slip activated on its own and teleported him into the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm, prompting him to curse True Person Miao Le.

A Nascent Soul Elder revealed himself as the force behind the demonic beasts and prepared to kill the surviving cultivators. He used the secret realm’s formation to teleport Li Qingyuan into the valley, where the Jade Scorpion King attacked him.

• The Nascent Soul Elder fed ninety Blood Pills to the Blood Red Soil, then collapsed the valley barrier and revealed his Primordial Spirit Body to the battered survivors.
• Zhao Tongxuan and the other remaining cultivators realized they faced a Spirit Transformation powerhouse as the Elder ordered the demonic beasts to surround them.
• The Elder used the secret realm’s formation and Li Qingyuan’s jade slip to teleport him into the valley, where Li Qingyuan arrived with his defenses ready.
• The Elder recognized Li Qingyuan as another Blood Pill Great Medicine and ordered Xiao Yu to kill him.
• The Jade Scorpion King attacked at full strength, and Li Qingyuan prepared to fight for his life.

Li Qingyuan and Blood Shadow fought the Third-grade Late-stage Scorpion King while the Nascent Soul Elder slaughtered cultivators to refine blood pills. As the Elder’s spiritual pressure left Li Qingyuan helpless and the Scorpion King moved to kill him, a rooster’s crow awakened Li Qingyuan and terrified the beast, which recognized the Sky Swallowing Chicken.

• Li Qingyuan blocked the Scorpion King’s attack with the Primordial Cone, rallying the human cultivators to keep fighting.
• Li Qingyuan and Blood Shadow battled the Scorpion King with talisman arrays and weapons, but could not break its defenses, and the Scorpion King’s power surged.
• The Nascent Soul Elder refined Xuan Ya and Xuan Dan into blood pills, while the human forces suffered heavy losses.
• The Nascent Soul Elder unleashed overwhelming spiritual pressure on Li Qingyuan, leaving him unable to defend himself as the Scorpion King struck.
• A rooster’s crow broke through Li Qingyuan’s spiritual darkness and made the Scorpion King’s power disperse; the Scorpion King cried out, recognizing the Sky Swallowing Chicken.

Ji Kun revealed power that made the Scorpion King recognize him as a Sky Swallowing Chicken, while Li Qingyuan and the cultivators faced the Nascent Soul Elder’s killing array. When the Elder’s Breathing Soil struck Li Qingyuan, the Breathing Soil vanished, leaving the Elder horrified.

• Ji Kun’s cries terrified the Scorpion King and nearby demonic creatures, and Ji Kun tore open the Scorpion King’s skull before the Nascent Soul Elder suppressed him and let it escape.
• The Scorpion King identified Ji Kun as a Sky Swallowing Chicken, and the Nascent Soul Elder declared his intention to claim Ji Kun as a spirit pet.
• The Nascent Soul Elder activated the immortal mountain’s killing array, but Ji Kun used his eggshell and essence blood to form a Primordial killing array that held it back.
• Li Qingyuan fed Ji Kun spirit milk and hundreds of pills to sustain the eggshell’s defenses while gathering the surviving cultivators around him.
• The Nascent Soul Elder summoned Breathing Soil and shattered Ji Kun’s defenses, but Li Qingyuan stepped in front of Ji Kun and was struck between the brows.
• The Nascent Soul Elder’s Breathing Soil vanished, and he cried out in terror.