Chapter Summaries

Trapped inside a blood-red realm, Chen Changqing was being overwhelmed by a God Transformation elder of the Blood God Sect. He extracted his AFK Cultivation results and broke through to half-step God Transformation, then launched the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique at the elder.

• The Blood God Sect elder trapped Chen Changqing and Hua Yao in his Blood God Heaven and Earth and attacked Chen Changqing with countless blood spears.
• Chen Changqing defended himself with a Sword Qi barrier, but the endless attacks began to crack it as Xue Wuhen anticipated his defeat.
• Chen Changqing extracted his AFK Cultivation results, causing his cultivation to surge while the elder tried to stop his breakthrough with the Quasi-Immortal Artifact Annihilation Blood Soul Spear.
• Chen Changqing broke through from Nascent Soul Middle Stage to half-step God Transformation before the elder could attack.
• Chen Changqing unleashed the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique with the Heavenly Thunder Sword.

Chen Changqing broke through to half-step God Transformation and used the Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique to kill a Blood God Sect elder. He also killed Xue Wuhen despite the Blood God Son’s warning that his Tribulation Crossing father would seek revenge, then returned to Hua Yao.

• Chen Changqing advanced from Nascent Soul Middle Stage to half-step God Transformation during the battle, and the Blood God Sect elder recognized his sword technique as the long-lost Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique.
• The elder fled, but Chen Changqing struck him down with one sword, destroying his body and soul and shattering Blood God Heaven and Earth.
• Xue Wuhen and Hua Yao watched in disbelief as Chen Changqing killed the God Transformation elder without giving him a chance to resist.
• Chen Changqing appeared before Xue Wuhen, who pleaded for his life and invoked his Tribulation Crossing father.
• Chen Changqing rejected Xue Wuhen’s threat and killed him with the Heavenly Thunder Sword, destroying his Nascent Soul before descending beside Hua Yao.

Chen Changqing killed Xue Wuhen and a Blood God Sect elder, then returned to Shushan with Hua Yao as Xue Wuhen’s father discovered the killer’s trail. At Changqing Peak, Chen Changqing introduced Hua Yao to his fellow disciples, while the Blood God Sect’s Tribulation Crossing expert held back from pursuing them into Shushan.

• Chen Changqing and Hua Yao left the battlefield on Little Black, whose Demonic King form shocked Hua Yao.
• Xue Wuhen’s father arrived, traced his son’s killer to Shushan, and vowed revenge but chose not to pursue Chen Changqing there.
• Several days later, Chen Changqing and Hua Yao returned to Changqing Peak, where Xuan Snake and Black Bear greeted Chen Changqing at the Mountain Gate.
• Ran Hua greeted Chen Changqing and called Hua Yao his sister-in-law, making her blush as Chen Changqing smiled without denying it.
• Wang Yang, Shi Tian, Qingyang, and Willow Wood greeted Chen Changqing, who introduced Hua Yao to them.

Chen Changqing left Shushan with Hua Yao to return to Medicine God Valley and prepare for the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm. He reassured his master before departing, and Hua Gu was shocked to learn that Chen Changqing had killed Xue Wuhen and a Blood God Sect elder and reached half-step God Transformation.

• Chen Changqing told Hua Yao he was ready to return to Medicine God Valley, then went to Seven Stars Peak to bid farewell to Chen Yuan.
• Chen Yuan warned Chen Changqing about the dangers of the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm and the Blood God Sect’s likely retaliation for Xue Wuhen’s death.
• Chen Changqing left Willow Wood in charge of Changqing Peak and departed with Hua Yao and Little Black.
• Hua Gu welcomed Chen Changqing and Hua Yao back to Medicine God Valley, then grew furious when he heard the Blood God Sect had ambushed them.
• Hua Yao told Hua Gu that Chen Changqing had killed Xue Wuhen and a Spirit Transformation elder, leaving Hua Gu astonished by Chen Changqing’s strength and half-step God Transformation cultivation.

Chen Changqing and Hua Xing discussed the dangers of the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm before heading to the Nine Provinces Auction House. There, Chen Changqing heard rumors of an expert beyond the True Lord realm and unexpectedly encountered Monk Rujie.

• Hua Xing warned Chen Changqing not to trust others in the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm and to put his safety before the herb they needed.
• Chen Changqing and Hua Xing decided to visit the Nine Provinces Auction House and left the tavern after eating.
• Hua Xing explained that the Nine Provinces Auction House had branches throughout the Jiuzhou Continent and was rumored to have an expert beyond a Titled True Monarch backing it.
• Chen Changqing wondered whether that rumored expert was a true immortal, but Hua Xing said he did not know if the rumor was true.
• Monk Rujie of Tianyin Temple called out to Chen Changqing near the auction house.

Chen Changqing reunited with Rujie at the Nine Provinces Auction House, where Hua Xing revealed that Tianyin Temple’s Zen Master Bado was his biological younger brother. The three entered the auction house, and a steward asked whether they had invitations.

• Rujie recognized Chen Changqing and greeted him at the auction house.
• Chen Changqing introduced Hua Xing as Hua Yao’s grandfather, and Rujie paid his respects.
• Hua Xing asked Rujie about Bado and revealed that Bado was his biological younger brother.
• Hua Xing led Chen Changqing and Rujie into the auction house, where a steward asked them for invitations.

Chen Changqing, Rujie, and Hua Xing entered the Nine Provinces Auction House after Hua Xing presented a rare VIP token, securing the Heavenly Character Number One Private Room. As auctioneer Su Yao began selling valuable treasures, Chen Changqing stayed uninterested while Rujie wanted to bid but had no money.

• Hua Xing showed the steward a Nine Provinces Auction House VIP token, and the steward led the group to the Heavenly Character Number One Private Room.
• Hua Xing explained how to bid, and Chen Changqing and Rujie took their seats as the auction hall filled.
• Su Yao introduced the first item, a Nine Revolutions Crimson Flame Pill, which sold for two hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Su Yao presented the Azure Sea Tide-Born Sword, and a mysterious buyer in a VIP private room won it for six hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• The auction continued with treasures such as a Mystic Tortoise Spirit Shield and a Shadowy Phantom Body movement-technique jade slip, while Chen Changqing drank tea and Rujie remained unable to bid because he had no money.

At the Nine Provinces Auction House, Chen Changqing recognized that the immortal-aura-wreathed treasure box might contain a token needed for his cultivation and had Hua Xing bid for it. The auction stopped at five hundred thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, with no one challenging the Heavenly Character Number One Private Room's offer.

• Su Yao presented an ancient black treasure box from an Immortal Secret Realm and explained that even True Lords could not open it, setting the starting price at one hundred thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Rujie questioned the high price, while Chen Changqing noticed the token in his Heaven Treading Ring reacting to the box and suspected it held another token.
• Chen Changqing told Hua Xing that he wanted the box, and Hua Xing decided to buy it for him.
• Bidders raised the price to three hundred thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones before bidding stopped.
• Hua Xing bid five hundred thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones from the Heavenly Character Number One Private Room, shocking the crowd and silencing further bids.

Hua Xing won the mysterious black treasure box for Chen Changqing, then examined it and found that neither his divine sense nor spiritual power could penetrate it. After Su Yao delivered the box and explained its history, Hua Xing handed it to Chen Changqing to see whether he had an affinity with it.

• Su Yao announced that Hua Xing had won the black treasure box for five hundred thousand Top-grade Spirit Stones, ending the auction.
• Chen Changqing thanked Hua Xing for buying the box for him, and Hua Xing said they were family.
• Su Yao personally delivered the box to Hua Xing and explained that buyers had repeatedly returned it over more than a thousand years.
• Hua Xing tested the box with his divine sense and spiritual power but could not penetrate or damage it.
• Hua Xing gave the black treasure box to Chen Changqing, surprising Su Yao.

Chen Changqing opened a black treasure box that even True Lord-level experts could not open, revealing a token that fused with one he already possessed. The fused token granted him cultivation methods through immortal ascension and the Invincible Avatar Technique, and Su Yao ended the chapter by asking which sect he came from.

• Chen Changqing took the black treasure box from Hua Xing, and it opened as soon as he touched it.
• Chen Changqing found an ancient token inside the box, and Rujie recognized it as resembling one he had seen Chen Changqing carry before.
• Chen Changqing revealed his own token, and the two tokens merged into a single token.
• Chen Changqing received cultivation methods from God Transformation to immortal ascension and the Invincible Avatar Technique, which could create nine avatars as strong as his original body.
• Chen Changqing used the system to begin AFK cultivation of both techniques and stored the fused token in his Heaven Treading Ring.
• Su Yao asked Chen Changqing which sect or school he came from.

Su Yao learned that Chen Changqing was the Azure Dragon Ranking’s top prodigy and gave him a guest token from the Nine Provinces Auction House. After leaving the auction house, Chen Changqing and Hua Xing traveled into the Devil Domain and reached a desolate plain crowded with different races.

• Su Yao discovered that Chen Changqing had opened Hua Xing’s black treasure box and learned he was the former top-ranked prodigy on the Azure Dragon Ranking, already at the half-step God Transformation level.
• Su Yao gave Chen Changqing a purple guest token that granted him access to Nine Provinces Auction House auctions and a twenty-percent discount.
• Su Yao teased Chen Changqing before leaving, while Rujie tried to win her attention and then parted ways with Chen Changqing and Hua Xing.
• Hua Xing led Chen Changqing toward the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm, and the two entered the Devil Domain.
• Several days later, Hua Xing brought Chen Changqing to a desolate plain where humans, the Devil Race, and the Demon Race had gathered, drawing attention as they arrived.

Chen Changqing arrived at the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm with Hua Xing, drawing attention after revealing his identity to Meiying and Si Youyou. The Blood River Ancestor recognized him as the killer of his son, Xue Wuhen, but held back because Hua Xing was protecting him.

• Hua Xing arrived with Chen Changqing, and cultivators from righteous and demonic sects respectfully greeted him.
• Meiying brought Si Youyou to greet Hua Xing, and Chen Changqing recognized Si Youyou from their previous encounter in the Qiankun Secret Realm.
• Chen Changqing introduced himself, shocking the gathered cultivators and Si Youyou, who hid that she already knew him.
• Si Youyou wondered how Chen Changqing, a Shushan disciple, had used the Yin Yue Holy Dynasty's Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique to kill Xue Tian.
• The Blood River Ancestor recognized Chen Changqing as the killer of his son, Xue Wuhen, but restrained himself because Hua Xing was guarding him.

Chen Changqing and Hua Xing waited as cultivators from across the region gathered for the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm to descend. The realm emerged from a vast vortex, but Hua Xing explained that they had to wait for its passage to open because immortal restrictions surrounded it.

• Blood River Ancestor decided to have Chen Changqing killed inside the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm, where his death would be difficult to avenge.
• Chen Changqing noticed hostile cultivators watching him and waited with Hua Xing as more powerful cultivators gathered on the plain.
• A vast vortex appeared, and the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm emerged as a range of peaks, waterfalls, ancient trees, and palaces.
• A spiritual tide swept across the gathered cultivators, stirring their excitement and loosening some of their bottlenecks.
• Chen Changqing asked Hua Xing why no one was entering, and Hua Xing explained that immortal restrictions made entry dangerous until a passage opened.

Chen Changqing entered the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm to search for rare medicinal herbs Hua Xing needed, while the Blood God Sect sent five God Transformation cultivators to kill him. He found a Nine-Leaf Soul-Returning Grass soon after arriving and prepared to collect it.

• Hua Xing gave Chen Changqing a scroll depicting rare medicinal herbs and urged him to put his safety first.
• Three days later, the Immortal Mountain Secret Realm passage opened, and Chen Changqing entered among the cultivators.
• Blood River Ancestor ordered five Blood God Sect cultivators to prioritize killing Chen Changqing, promising they would enter the Tribulation Crossing Realm if they succeeded.
• Chen Changqing explored the secret realm and found a Nine-Leaf Soul-Returning Grass in a mountain ravine.

Chen Changqing was confronted by a Blood God Sect cultivator seeking revenge for Xue Wuhen and clashed with him using the Heavenly Thunder Sword. After Chen Changqing broke through the cultivator’s defenses with three forms of the Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation, the enemy was left gravely wounded and terrified.

• A mid-stage Soul Transformation cultivator from the Blood God Sect appeared and declared that he had come to kill Chen Changqing, apparently to avenge Xue Wuhen.
• Chen Changqing summoned the Heavenly Thunder Sword, and the Blood God Sect cultivator recognized it as an Immortal Artifact and attacked with a blood-colored banner full of ghosts.
• Chen Changqing used the first form of the Ten Forms of Sword Annihilation, Sword Rises in Vastness, to meet the Blood God Sect cultivator’s ghost attack.
• Chen Changqing followed with Sword Falls into the Nine Netherworlds, splitting the ghostly torrent and forcing the cultivator to rely on his protective blood light.
• Chen Changqing used Sword Splits Yin and Yang to shatter the protective blood light and severely injure the cultivator, who realized he could not fight back.

Chen Changqing killed a Blood God Sect God Transformation cultivator, then confronted Long Tian, who used a Ninth-grade Sealing Talisman to prevent him from using his cultivation and swordsmanship. Long Tian charged at him to seize the Immortal Artifact, but Chen Changqing remained confident in his physical strength.

• Chen Changqing used Sword Shatters Void to kill the fleeing Blood God Sect God Transformation cultivator and took his Storage Pouch.
• Chen Changqing revealed that he had sensed a hidden observer, and Long Tian emerged and praised his strength while expressing hostility.
• Long Tian recalled his humiliation at Medicine God Valley and admitted he had waited for Chen Changqing to finish fighting so he could ambush him.
• Long Tian activated a Ninth-grade Sealing Talisman that sealed cultivation arts and true qi throughout the area.
• Long Tian boasted of the Ancient Dragon Clan's physical strength and charged at Chen Changqing to claim his Immortal Artifact.
• Chen Changqing dismissed Long Tian's challenge and said he feared no one in a contest of physical strength.

With true qi sealed, Chen Changqing defeated Long Tian in a contest of physical strength and revealed the power of his Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist. Long Tian struggled to rise under Chen Changqing’s attack and charged at him again.

• Long Tian sealed the area with a Ninth-grade Sealing Talisman and attacked Chen Changqing with a punch, expecting his Ancient Dragon Clan physique to prevail.
• Chen Changqing met Long Tian’s punch head-on and sent him crashing into a mountain.
• Long Tian emerged shocked by Chen Changqing’s strength, while Chen Changqing explained that his Primordial Nine Revolutions Body Refining Technique had made his body comparable to a Spiritual Treasure.
• Chen Changqing unleashed the Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist’s Heaven Collapse Style, forcing Long Tian to his knees and making him spit blood.
• Long Tian resisted the pressure, rose to his feet, and charged at Chen Changqing again.

Chen Changqing defeated and killed Long Tian with the Heavenly Emperor Divine Fist, then continued gathering medicinal herbs for Hua Xing. Three days later, while searching for the final herb, he followed a familiar aura and found Si Youyou.

• Chen Changqing overwhelmed Long Tian in combat, even after Long Tian activated his true dragon bloodline.
• Long Tian begged for mercy and swore not to oppose Chen Changqing, but Chen Changqing refused and crushed his body and soul.
• Chen Changqing took Long Tian's Storage Pouch, found no precious treasures in it, and left with the Nine-Leaf Soul-Returning Grass after the Ninth-grade Sealing Talisman's seals broke.
• Over the next three days, Chen Changqing gathered medicinal herbs for Hua Xing and came within one herb of completing the collection.
• Chen Changqing sensed a familiar aura, followed it, and found the Heavenly Demon Sect's Holy Maiden, Si Youyou.

Si Youyou and her Heavenly Demon Sect guards were besieged by cultivators from several Demonic Sects, who demanded the Tribulation Crossing Flower. Chen Changqing watched from the shadows as Bai Yushan arrived and the fighting paused, leaving Si Youyou surrounded and in grave danger.

• Chen Changqing spotted Si Youyou and wondered why Demonic Sect cultivators were attacking the Heavenly Demon Sect Saintess.
• Si Youyou was wounded by poison needles and struck by a Blood Fiend Sect cultivator's Blood Python Impact, then evaded the Yin Soul Sect's Soul Splitting Claw.
• More God Transformation cultivators joined the attackers, worsening the battle for Si Youyou and her injured guards.
• Bai Yushan arrived with a winged demon tiger and demanded that Si Youyou hand over the Tribulation Crossing Flower.
• Chen Changqing realized the Tribulation Crossing Flower was the reason so many Demonic Sects wanted Si Youyou dead.

Chen Changqing watched as Bai Yushan, Ji Ruqianxue, and Mo Ye converged on Si Youyou to seize her Tribulation Crossing Flower. As the three attacked, Si Youyou’s Heavenly Demon Sect guards sacrificed themselves to protect her.

• Chen Changqing recognized that the Tribulation Crossing Flower could help a peak Spirit Transformation cultivator survive heavenly tribulation and enter the Tribulation Crossing stage.
• Ji Ruqianxue of Flower Palace arrived and used her charm arts to bewitch several Spirit Transformation cultivators, but Bai Yushan broke the spell.
• Mo Ye of the Yin Yue Holy Dynasty arrived, and Si Youyou realized she was outmatched by the three sect prodigies.
• Bai Yushan declared that whoever seized the Tribulation Crossing Flower could claim it, then charged Si Youyou with his demon tiger as Ji Ruqianxue and Mo Ye followed.
• Si Youyou’s God Transformation guards charged to protect her and self-destructed in a series of devastating explosions.