Chapter Summaries

Qin Fengming decided to activate Daoist Yimu’s contract rune patterns because deciphering the spatial restriction could take decades or longer. As he prepared to do so, Fang Liang offered to activate the contract instead.

• Fang Liang suggested summoning the two powerful beings inside Qin Fengming’s divine palace to attack the restriction, but Qin Fengming judged their chances of success to be below fifty percent.
• Qin Fengming withheld the matter from the two beings, fearing they would learn of Daoist Yimu’s message and claim the underground palace’s location for themselves.
• Qin Fengming considered his urgent plans to reach the Profound Spirit realm, search for Li Ning and Bing'er, and return to the Tianhong Realm, then decided the contract held no hidden danger.
• Qin Fengming concluded that Daoist Yimu was likely dead and prepared to activate the contract rune patterns.
• Fang Liang stopped Qin Fengming and offered to activate the contract himself, prompting Qin Fengming to reconsider.

After leaving Daoist Yimu's Cave Abode, Qin Fengming and Fang Liang traveled through Hanyou Valley, where Fang Liang prepared to attempt another breakthrough with Qin Fengming's help. Their discussion of the Five Elements Beast led Qin Fengming to learn that its eggs had once appeared in the Suyu Realm, raising new questions about the origin of his five spirit beasts.

• Qin Fengming sent his avatar puppet to search Hanyou Valley for Ice Lotus Fruits while he and Fang Liang headed toward the valley's outskirts.
• Fang Liang told Qin Fengming that his magical power had reached the limit of the mid Spirit Severing stage and asked for help with his next breakthrough.
• Qin Fengming promised Fang Liang that his five spirit beasts would help him undergo the advancement tribulation.
• Fang Liang recognized the Five Elements Beast and told Qin Fengming that its eggs had once appeared in the Suyu Realm, drawing Mahayana cultivators from several realms.
• Qin Fengming asked about the beast eggs' history, reflecting that his five eggs had come from an ancient Cave Abode in the Human Realm and had belonged to a cultivator named Qin'er.

Qin Fengming prepared to help Fang Liang cross the Heaven’s Tribulation as he advanced, entrusting his Second Soul Spirit with guarding them. Fang Liang began breaking through his bottleneck, while Qin Fengming hoped the tribulation might also strengthen his ghost-path cultivation or yield energy for Soul Thunder Beads.

• Qin Fengming recalled the rarity and danger of Five Elements Beast eggs and considered investigating records about the eggs once found in the Suyu Realm.
• Qin Fengming sent his Second Soul Spirit and two mid-Profound-ranked puppets away to guard against outside threats during the tribulation.
• Qin Fengming assured Fang Liang that he could withstand the tribulation without the Silver Sheath Worms or Five Elements Beasts assisting him.
• Fang Liang adjusted his condition, swallowed three pills, and began attacking his bottleneck.
• Qin Fengming watched Fang Liang begin his breakthrough and hoped to gain ghost-path cultivation or Soul Thunder Beads from the tribulation.

Qin Fengming helped Fang Liang endure a powerful heavenly tribulation while taking some of its lightning himself. After discovering that the Gluttonous Heaven and Earth Pot could swallow the black lightning, Qin Fengming sent Taotie to collect it as Fang Liang’s tribulation continued.

• Fang Liang warned Qin Fengming to release the Five Elements Beasts as the first black lightning bolt struck him.
• Qin Fengming sent the Five Elements Beasts to help Fang Liang, then defended himself against the tribulation’s lightning with his mist, sword array, and Silver Spirit Shield.
• Qin Fengming summoned Taotie through the Gluttonous Heaven and Earth Pot after ordinary treasures failed to collect much purifying lightning.
• Qin Fengming sent Taotie toward the lightning bolts, and Taotie swallowed them with ease.

Qin Fengming endured the intensified lightning of his advancement tribulation before beginning its second stage, while Fairy Shami detected his approach to Hanyou Valley. Elsewhere, Jiang Zhiyi’s gathered cultivators welcomed two powerful arrivals who asked about two people.

• The Heavenly Tribulation increased its lightning strikes, and Qin Fengming realized it was ensuring he received the full tempering despite the Taotie ferocious beast swallowing some bolts.
• The advancement tribulation entered its second stage, and Qin Fengming recalled his defenses and refined the incoming Vital Energy and Power with the Profound Ghost Art.
• Fairy Shami’s third transmission talisman reached Qin Fengming, and she recognized that he had survived the insect tide and was approaching Hanyou Valley.
• Jiang Zhiyi and more than twenty Spirit Severing cultivators welcomed Old Ancestor and Senior Huang at Hanyou Valley’s outskirts.
• The arriving young female cultivator asked Jiang Zhiyi to tell them about two people.

Gong Meier and the Shuyi Clan learned that Fang Liang and He Xuan were hiding in Hanyou Valley and began organizing a search to recover the clan’s stolen sacred treasure. Jiang Yuheng joined Gong Meier and Elder Brother Huang as they headed into the valley’s depths.

• A middle-aged cultivator reported that Fang Liang and He Xuan had entered Hanyou Valley years earlier and were believed to be hiding in its icy depths.
• Jiang Yuheng revealed that he had sensed the pair’s soul auras in several caves and could track them in enclosed spaces.
• Gong Meier promised Jiang Yuheng’s branch control of the Shuyi Clan if it helped capture the pair, angering Jiang Zhiyi, who feared losing power.
• Gong Meier ordered the cultivators to divide into six groups and search the areas where the pair had been detected.
• Gong Meier, Elder Brother Huang, and Jiang Yuheng flew into the depths of Hanyou Valley to search for Fang Liang and He Xuan.

Fang Liang survived his tribulation and advanced to the late Spirit Severing stage, while Qin Fengming reached the peak Spirit Severing stage in his Ghost Dao cultivation art. After learning Fairy Shami had arrived at Hanyou Valley and requested a meeting, Qin Fengming prepared to meet her despite his distrust of her.

• Fang Liang completed a tribulation lasting more than twenty days with help from Qin Fengming's five little beasts, and the beasts returned unharmed.
• Qin Fengming used the Heavenly Tribulation energy and seven Dragon Amber Pills to break through to the peak Spirit Severing stage in his Ghost Dao cultivation art.
• Fang Liang thanked Qin Fengming and explained that the tribulation had stabilized his cultivation and let him absorb more Heaven and Earth Origin Energy, though he gained no new divine ability.
• Qin Fengming planned to find the Ice Lotus Fruit and a body for He Xuan, but the Second Soul Spirit reported that Fairy Shami had arrived at Hanyou Valley and wanted to meet them.
• Qin Fengming suspected Fairy Shami had been injured and resented her schemes, but recognized that he still needed her help for their journey.

Qin Fengming waited in Hanyou Valley for Fairy Shami, whose strength he hoped to use to open a passage between domains and search for the Ice Lotus Fruit. As he waited beside a vast ice sea, he sensed three cultivators approaching in a crimson light, including an aura at the late Profound Spirit stage.

• Qin Fengming concluded that he needed Fairy Shami's help to open a passage between domains and chose not to fight her.
• Qin Fengming sent his Second Soul Spirit and Fang Liang to the Divine Machine Mansion, then flew toward an ice sea and summoned Fairy Shami with a voice transmission talisman.
• Qin Fengming reached the ice sea, found it unsuitable for the Ice Lotus Fruit, and waited near a low mountain for Fairy Shami.
• Fairy Shami flew across Hanyou Valley toward Qin Fengming, displeased that he had made her come to him.
• Qin Fengming sensed three cultivators approaching in a crimson light and recognized that one aura had reached the late Profound Spirit stage.

Qin Fengming encountered three cultivators searching for Fang Liang and He Xuan, then discovered their leader could sense the pair’s aura on him. When Yu Heng attacked, Qin Fengming countered with a sound-based technique and threatened the two powerful seniors with Fang Liang and He Xuan’s lives.

• Qin Fengming waited for three approaching cultivators, including two Profound-level figures, and cautiously asked what they wanted.
• A peak Spirit Severing cultivator named Yu Heng asked Qin Fengming whether he had seen Fang Liang and He Xuan, and Qin Fengming denied knowing them.
• Yu Heng sensed the pair’s lingering aura on Qin Fengming and accused him of lying, while a beautiful woman identified as the Shuyi Clan’s Supreme Ancestor ordered Yu Heng to capture him.
• Yu Heng used a sonic attack to daze Qin Fengming and moved in to seal him, but Qin Fengming’s scoff incapacitated Yu Heng.
• Qin Fengming warned the Shuyi Clan’s Supreme Ancestor and Senior Huang that Fang Liang and He Xuan would die if they attacked him.

Qin Fengming captured a Shuyi Clan cultivator and demanded to know why two Profound Spirit cultivators were pursuing Fang Liang and He Xuan. Gong Meier advanced to attack him despite his threat to kill her clansman, while Huang Tingjian warned her to be careful.

• Qin Fengming blocked the restriction energy and captured the middle-aged cultivator who had been trapped in a daze.
• Qin Fengming asked Gong Meier and Huang Tingjian why they were pursuing Fang Liang and He Xuan, but Gong Meier rejected his attempt to bargain.
• The chapter revealed that Gong Meier admired Huang Tingjian, who had reached the late Profound Spirit stage in seven thousand years and had once saved her life.
• Huang Tingjian warned Gong Meier that Qin Fengming seemed to have something to rely on, and she agreed to be careful.
• Qin Fengming sent a voice transmission talisman to Fairy Shami and threatened to kill Gong Meier's clansman if she attacked him.
• Gong Meier continued advancing and threatened to capture Qin Fengming and torment him for a thousand years.

Qin Fengming used a Spirit Severing clansman’s self-detonation to repel Gong Meier, a mid-Profound Spirit cultivator, but his attempt to close in and capture her failed. He withdrew his Ghost Devouring Yin Mist and seized an unconscious Pill Infant as the two faced off.

• Qin Fengming hurled the middle-aged clansman toward Gong Meier and triggered the energy in his Pill Sea to explode.
• Gong Meier shielded herself and escaped the blast, then recognized that Qin Fengming was a Profound-level existence.
• Gong Meier’s azure rope cut through Qin Fengming’s Ghost Devouring Yin Mist and forced him to defend himself with Qinglin Sword Qi.
• Qin Fengming withdrew the Yin Mist and seized an unconscious Pill Infant, while Gong Meier steadied herself two hundred zhang away.

Qin Fengming faced Miss Gong while Senior Huang watched, promising to let him leave if he endured her attacks for the time it took an incense stick to burn. After Qin Fengming’s sword attack failed to catch her, Miss Gong enveloped him in Soul-Chilling Demonic Fog, leaving him dazed as her azure rope struck toward him.

• Qin Fengming confirmed that Senior Huang would not join the fight and accepted his challenge to last against Miss Gong.
• Miss Gong formed an incantation, and Qin Fengming attacked her with a rain of condensed Sword Qi.
• Miss Gong dodged the sword attack and sent a silent short sword at Qin Fengming, but his silver shield blocked it.
• Miss Gong released Soul-Chilling Demonic Fog, whose chilling force invaded Qin Fengming’s body and surged toward his sea of consciousness.
• Qin Fengming’s thoughts began to stagnate under the fog’s terror, and Miss Gong sent her azure rope toward him.

Qin Fengming trapped Miss Gong in his newly refined Four Symbols Sword Array, but she countered with the terrifying Qianyuan Erosion Frost Divine Light. The chapter ended with her threatening to kill him as the light sphere overwhelmed the array.

• Miss Gong’s Soul-Chilling Demonic Fog failed to daze Qin Fengming, and he dodged her rope magic treasure with Gale Phantom Steps.
• Miss Gong’s short swords disrupted Qin Fengming’s attack, and she withdrew the ineffective demonic fog.
• Qin Fengming activated the Four Symbols Sword Array and trapped Miss Gong within its wind and thunder.
• The middle-aged cultivator stayed out of the battle, while Qin Fengming reminded him of their agreement to wait another quarter of an hour.
• Miss Gong’s Qianyuan Erosion Frost Divine Light absorbed the array’s attacks and threatened to swallow the Four Symbols Sword.
• Miss Gong declared that Qin Fengming would meet his end.

Qin Fengming countered Gong Meier’s Qianyuan Erosion Frost Divine Light with his Profound Extreme Light, but Huang’s arrival and overwhelming movement ability left him fearing for his life. He called on the hidden Immortal Fairy for help as he sensed her nearby.

• Gong Meier unleashed the Qianyuan Erosion Frost Divine Light and sent its flood-dragon form at Qin Fengming.
• Qin Fengming summoned the Profound Extreme Light, and the two divine-light flood dragons became locked in a stalemate.
• Huang recognized the materials within Qin Fengming’s divine-light ability and used a bizarre movement art to reach the battle.
• Qin Fengming realized Huang’s late Profound Tier strength made resistance seem futile and urgently called to the Immortal Fairy when he sensed her nearby.

Qin Fengming and Gong Meier stopped fighting when Fairy Shami appeared, but Gong Meier immediately attacked her and nearly died to her arrows. Elder Brother Huang saved Gong Meier, leaving Fairy Shami facing the two Shuyi Clan cultivators.

• Qin Fengming and Gong Meier withdrew their attacks after sensing a newcomer, and Qin Fengming reflected on how his Profound Extreme Light had withstood Gong Meier's Qianyuan Erosion Frost Divine Light.
• Fairy Shami appeared, and Gong Meier accused her of backing Qin Fengming and threatened to capture him for the Shuyi Clan.
• Fairy Shami suddenly launched pale-black arrows at Gong Meier, whose divine light failed to stop them.
• Elder Brother Huang rushed to Gong Meier and used a black-red ice barrier to stop and erase the arrows before they struck her.
• Gong Meier thanked Elder Brother Huang and withdrew her divine light, shaken by Fairy Shami's attack.

Fairy Shami and Huang Tingjian agreed to settle their conflict in battle, while Qin Fengming faced Gong Meier. Gong Meier summoned her sonic long-flute treasure, and Qin Fengming called forth Qiongqi as the fight began.

• Huang Tingjian blocked Fairy Shami's soul-blade attack and acknowledged that his secret technique held Golden Crow blood essence.
• Fairy Shami asked whether Qin Fengming could face Gong Meier, and Qin Fengming said he could if Fairy Shami handled Huang Tingjian.
• Fairy Shami accepted Huang Tingjian's challenge, and the two Profound Spirit cultivators moved away to fight without disturbing the others.
• Gong Meier confronted Qin Fengming and summoned her long-flute treasure, unleashing a mournful sonic attack.
• Qin Fengming summoned Qiongqi, whose roars rang out as he prepared to face Gong Meier.

Qin Fengming resisted Gong Meier’s flute music and used the Divine Emperor Seal replica to keep her natal treasure occupied. As Fairy Shami and Huang Tingjian fought at a distance with power nearing Mahayana, Qin Fengming’s resolve to seek justice from Fairy Shami faltered.

• A warning from the Second Soul Spirit helped Qin Fengming shake off the mind-affecting flute music before Gong Meier could control him.
• Qin Fengming sent the five fierce beasts of the Divine Emperor Seal replica to attack Gong Meier’s flute.
• Huodou and the other beasts intercepted the flute’s sound-wave blades, preventing Gong Meier’s natal treasure from reaching Qin Fengming despite being outmatched.
• Qin Fengming sensed Fairy Shami and Huang Tingjian fighting with terrifying, near-Mahayana power and reconsidered confronting Fairy Shami for her earlier plot against him.
• Gong Meier glanced toward Fairy Shami and Huang Tingjian, wary of the old woman’s strength, and neither she nor Qin Fengming launched another attack.

Qin Fengming faced Gong Meier and her clan-protecting banner, which trapped him in a powerful Five Elements formation. With help from the Second Soul Spirit, he broke out and prepared to fight again, leaving Gong Meier stunned that he had found the formation eye.

• Qin Fengming brought out the ice lotus and wine cup, while Gong Meier summoned the Shuyi Clan's clan-protecting banner.
• Gong Meier activated the banner's Five Elements formation, trapping Qin Fengming inside a swirling field of elemental ribbons and crushing force.
• The Second Soul Spirit told Qin Fengming to strike the Kan position on his left.
• Qin Fengming attacked the formation eye with his axe, ice lotuses, and purple ribbons, then escaped beyond the gray miasma.
• Qin Fengming prepared his treasures around him as Gong Meier cried out in disbelief that he had recognized the formation eye.

Qin Fengming used the Dragon Soul Beast’s help to locate the banner formation’s core and broke through before its full power unfolded. When Gong Meier’s formation began draining his magic power, he summoned two mid-Profound-Rank puppets to attack her, leaving them battling amid her water defenses and flexible rope treasure.

• Qin Fengming explained that the Dragon Soul Beast had sensed the banner formation’s core and helped him break through it.
• Gong Meier attacked again, and Qin Fengming used the Nine Nether Ice Lotus and Chaos Purple Qi Goblet to hold back the formation’s miasma.
• The banner formation began drawing magic power from Qin Fengming’s treasures, so he summoned two mid-Profound-Rank puppets.
• Gong Meier met the stone statue puppet with her rope treasure and blocked the other puppet’s palm imprints with deep-blue water mist.

Qin Fengming fought Gong Meier with his treasures and puppets while pretending to be near exhaustion, drawing her into spending most of her magical power and soul force. He revealed the deception and challenged her to submit, leaving the battle poised to turn in his favor.

• Gong Meier dismissed Qin Fengming's puppets as ineffective and believed her treasures gave her the advantage.
• Qin Fengming and Gong Meier continued battling with their magic treasures, while Qin appeared increasingly exhausted and Gong Meier's magical power steadily dwindled.
• Qin Fengming suddenly increased the strength of his attacks, and Gong Meier spent another half hour fighting at full force.
• Gong Meier tried to break Qin Fengming's resolve by offering to spare his soul, but he refused and kept fighting.
• Gong Meier realized Qin Fengming had been feigning exhaustion, and Qin sprang to his feet, appearing full of vitality as he taunted her about her depleted power.