Chapter Summaries

Qin Fengming tried to exploit Gong Meier’s depleted magic power by unleashing his fire spirits and sword techniques, while she used pills and powerful Water attribute abilities to defend herself. The chapter ended with her swallowing his Myriad Threads Soul Melting sword web in a water sphere and calling for it to explode.

• Gong Meier swallowed a pill to restore her nearly exhausted magic power, and Qin Fengming answered by releasing the Spirit Devouring Netherflame and his concealed Profound Micro Pure Radiance Sword.
• Qin Fengming sent four fire spirits and charged Gong Meier, who was shocked by his Demonic Flame Divine Ability and swallowed two more pills.
• Gong Meier summoned four enormous water dragons that overwhelmed three of the fire spirits and forced the Azure Dragon fire spirit to struggle to hold its opponent back.
• Qin Fengming attacked from the side with his Myriad Threads Soul Melting sword art, but Gong Meier formed a vast water sphere that swallowed the sword webs.
• Gong Meier chanted a spell to make the water sphere explode as Qin Fengming prepared to move away.

Qin Fengming attacked Gong Meier as she attempted to detonate her water-based secret arts, and both were caught in the resulting devastating blast. He endured the explosion with his dharmic body and Immortal-Demonic Armor, then realized a powerful red light had stopped his axe blades from killing Gong Meier.

• Gong Meier began detonating her summoned water energy, and Qin Fengming charged at her with his dharmic body and giant axe.
• Qin Fengming's axe blades closed in, but Gong Meier released her secret arts in a massive explosion that swept across the surrounding land.
• Qin Fengming activated the Spirit Devouring Netherflame, recalled his magic treasures, and braced against the blast with his Immortal-Demonic Armor.
• The explosion unleashed spatial black holes and a destructive wave that Qin Fengming struggled to withstand.
• Qin Fengming discovered that a powerful red light had blocked his axe blades before they could kill Gong Meier.

Qin Fengming survived the explosion and pursued the wounded Gong Meier, hoping to kill her before she could escape. Just as he closed in, an unseen speaker warned him to stop, and Qin Fengming prepared to summon the divine hall.

• Qin Fengming shut down the saturated Sun-Absorbing Pearl and endured the explosion until its energy faded.
• Qin Fengming discovered that Gong Meier had survived and fled, then gathered his treasures and pursued her.
• Qin Fengming caught up with Gong Meier as she fled through the snow, and she feared she would die if he captured her.
• An unseen voice warned Qin Fengming not to act ferociously, and he stopped, put away his treasures, and gripped the divine hall while preparing to summon it.

Qin Fengming survived a confrontation with Gong Meier, forcing her to retreat before Huang Tingjian arrived. Huang Tingjian demanded the Shuyi Clan’s sacred object, and Qin Fengming asked for time to consult his friend.

• Huang Tingjian arrived and found Gong Meier badly injured after Qin Fengming defeated her through a contest of magic power.
• Huang Tingjian gave Gong Meier spiritual liquid, and she entered his Storage Treasure to recover.
• Fairy Shami arrived and confirmed that neither she nor Huang Tingjian had won their earlier battle.
• Huang Tingjian demanded that Qin Fengming hand over the Shuyi Clan’s sacred object in exchange for peace.
• Qin Fengming agreed to consider the demand but said he first needed to ask his friend about the object.

Qin Fengming traded the Shuyi Clan’s jade sculpture to Huang Tingjian for an Ice Lotus Fruit, then thwarted Huang’s attempt to reclaim it. After Huang departed, Qin Fengming admitted he lacked the strength to kill him, and Fairy Shami praised his daring.

• Qin Fengming examined the Shuyi Clan’s sacred jade sculpture and negotiated with Huang Tingjian to exchange it for three Ice Lotus Fruits, but Huang offered only one.
• Qin Fengming accepted the single Ice Lotus Fruit and agreed to exchange it for the jade sculpture.
• As the objects crossed in midair, Huang Tingjian struck at Qin Fengming’s energy hand, but Qin Fengming and his Glimmering Firefly Sword secured the fruit.
• Qin Fengming sent the Ice Lotus Fruit into the Divine Machine Mansion and let Huang Tingjian leave with the jade sculpture.
• Fairy Shami praised Qin Fengming for daring to scheme before a late Profound Tier cultivator, and Qin Fengming replied that Huang would not have truly attacked with her present.

Qin Fengming, Fang Liang, and Fairy Shami reached Duanshan City after a ten-year journey across Miwang Sea. The chapter recounted He Xuan’s effort to refine a new body from a powerful Killing Intent Corpse and left Qin Fengming and Fang Liang arriving in the city to handle their own matters.

• Qin Fengming and Fang Liang traveled with Fairy Shami toward Duanshan City, the fortified cultivator stronghold in Miwang Sea.
• Fairy Shami stopped asking Qin Fengming and Fang Liang to search for rare materials after they had obtained the Ice Lotus Fruit for Fairy Yaoxi.
• Qin Fengming gave He Xuan the late Spirit Severing-stage Killing Intent Corpse to use as a replacement body, and He Xuan began refining it after stabilizing his soul infant.
• Qin Fengming and Fang Liang cultivated for several decades, advancing their Treasure Refining Ghost Art and Chi You True Demon Art.
• Qin Fengming and Fang Liang arrived at Duanshan City because they had matters to attend to there.

Qin Fengming, Fang Liang, and Fairy Shami arrived at Duanshan City to collect payment from two groups and arrange an escort across the dangerous Miwang Sea. They reached the city gate, where guards demanded a sea-beast demon core from each of them for entry.

• Qin Fengming and Fang Liang traveled with Fairy Shami to Duanshan City to collect life-saving payments and contact an escort organization for their crossing to the Lingxiang Realm.
• Fairy Shami agreed that hiring an escort was safer than crossing the Miwang Sea alone, despite her recovered strength.
• Qin Fengming and his companions approached Duanshan City and saw the Yuanji Twin Devils enter the island at high speed, prompting nearby cultivators to warn against provoking them.
• Qin Fengming discovered that Immortal Realm runes across the island imposed a binding force on cultivators below the Integration Realm.
• A gate guard told Qin Fengming, Fang Liang, and Fairy Shami that each had to pay an Integration Realm sea-beast demon core to enter Duanshan City.

Qin Fengming, Fairy Shami, and He Xuan entered Duanshan City and rented cave abodes before Qin Fengming and Fang Liang went to Flying Hawk Hall to register for a crossing of the Miwang Sea. They learned that demand for passage to the Lingxiang Realm had surged ahead of a major exchange gathering, making places scarce, and that Profound Spirit cultivators could join without paying or taking the usual assessment.

• Qin Fengming paid three Integration-stage demon cores for Duan Shan Tokens that allowed the group to enter and leave Duanshan City's islands for thirty years.
• Qin Fengming rented two cave abodes for sixty thousand high-grade Spirit Stones and gave Fairy Shami a token so she could settle into one while he and He Xuan sought passage across the Miwang Sea.
• Qin Fengming and Fang Liang traveled to Flying Hawk Hall, the escort organization founded by Skyhawk Celestial Venerable.
• An elderly attendant named Jia warned Fang Liang that the mid Spirit Severing cultivator might struggle to secure a place because only forty-nine cultivators could cross on each voyage to the Lingxiang Realm.
• Jia explained that Profound Spirit cultivators could join without taking the assessment or paying a fee, and only needed to fight sea beasts during the crossing.

Qin Fengming and Fang Liang learned that reaching the Lingxiang Realm required surviving a deadly token trial in the Ten Thousand Islands Sea Territory. After discovering He Xu could remain hidden during the trial, Qin Fengming asked Elder Jia whether they could obtain extra tokens, leaving open the possibility of selling them.

• Elder Jia explained that the ten million mid-grade Spirit Stones bought trial eligibility, while winners still had to pay an escort fee.
• Qin Fengming read the rules: participants had two years to find one of forty-nine tokens in the Ten Thousand Islands Sea Territory and escape, while facing sea beasts and rival cultivators.
• Elder Jia clarified that most beings had to participate, but a soul or Nascent Soul carried as private property was exempt; a concealed cultivator in a Storage Treasure was not.
• Qin Fengming realized He Xu would not need to reveal himself and join the trial.
• Qin Fengming asked whether a faction that obtained more tokens than it needed could use the extras for others, and Elder Jia understood that he was asking about selling them.

Qin Fengming and Fang Liang registered for the Ten Thousand Islands Sea Territory trial and went to Duanshan City to prepare for it. Qin Fengming learned that the seven Wei cultivators had arrived and waited at Huixian Tower to meet them.

• Qin Fengming and Fang Liang paid Elder Jia twenty million mid-grade Spirit Stones and received trial identity tokens, agreeing to gather in eight years.
• Qin Fengming and Fang Liang left Skyhawk Hall and headed to Duanshan City's Marketplace to seek rare materials.
• A Core Formation cultivator told Qin Fengming that seven cultivators were waiting for him at Cave Abode number 576 on Sky Candle Peak; Qin Fengming recognized them as the seven Wei cultivators from the Xian Yue Clan.
• Qin Fengming sent Fang Liang to auction ice marrow and went to Huixian Tower to summon the seven cultivators.
• A Core Formation cultivator informed Qin Fengming that the seven cultivators had arrived and asked him to release the room's restriction.

Qin Fengming completed his contract with seven cultivators, then learned of a mysterious place in Duanshan City that granted insights into the Great Dao. Wary of repeating the danger he encountered at Shou Xian Mountain, he and Fang Liang avoided it and waited for the monthly auction, which Fang Liang found to be enormous.

• Qin Fengming accepted the items collected by the seven cultivators, and the completed contract’s restrictions dissolved.
• Qin Fengming learned from Fang Liang that Duanshan City’s monthly auction would take place in half a month.
• Fang Liang told Qin Fengming about an ancient bounty involving a strange place where cultivators sought to comprehend an artistic conception and gain insight into the Great Dao.
• Qin Fengming recalled the dangers of Shou Xian Mountain and warned Fang Liang not to investigate the strange place; Fang Liang agreed.
• Fang Liang went to the auction and found thousands of cultivators gathered in a vast Sumeru Space hall.

Fang Liang sold five bottles of ice marrow for an astonishing seventy thousand top-grade Spirit Stones, then alerted Qin Fengming to a damaged magical treasure said to come from the Immortal Realm. Qin Fengming arrived too late to enter the auction, but his offer of three Dragon Amber Pills earned him immediate admission and recognition as a Guest Elder of the Linghan Merchant Alliance.

• Fang Liang auctioned the five bottles of ice marrow separately, and fierce bidding brought in seventy thousand top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Fang Liang sent Qin Fengming word that the auction’s finale included a damaged magical treasure from the Immortal Realm, prompting Qin Fengming to leave his cave abode for the auction hall.
• Qin Fengming found the auction already underway and offered three Dragon Amber Pills to the guards in exchange for entry.
• Elder Li and two other Divine Connection cultivators examined the pills and agreed to take Qin Fengming into the auction venue.
• Qin Fengming identified himself as a Guest Elder of the Linghan Merchant Alliance, and the auction-house cultivators recognized him as Master Qin and asked why he had come to Duanshan City instead of Sanglin Island.

Qin Fengming learned that a Pill Dao Grand Competition on Sanglin Island sought masters to refine a pill for breaking through to the Mahayana stage. He agreed to consign three Dragon Amber Pills to the Duanshan City auction house and waited for the auction’s final item, an immortal-world remnant treasure.

• Qin Fengming asked the Duanshan City auction-house cultivators about Sanglin Island and learned that the Pill Dao Grand Competition there involved a bounty from Senior Ancestor Jinyan for three Pill Dao Masters to refine a Mahayana breakthrough pill.
• The auction-house cultivators warned Qin Fengming about the dangers of crossing the Miwang Sea to the Lingxiang Realm, but Qin confirmed that he intended to go there.
• Qin Fengming agreed to let Elder Li auction his three Dragon Amber Pills in a special sale, provided they could be exchanged only for top-grade Spirit Stones.
• Elder Li signed a contract with Qin Fengming, received the pills and a voice transmission talisman, and escorted him into the auction venue.
• Qin Fengming passed on the replica spirit treasure being auctioned and sent Fang Liang a voice transmission while waiting for the final auction of the remnant treasure.

At the auction’s final lot, Ye presented a broken sword said to have come from the Immortal Realm, whose wind-and-thunder aura and dangerous spirit patterns alarmed the bidders. Qin Fengming stepped forward to test it and touched its glow with a restriction spirit pattern, triggering a burst of azure light.

• Ye opened the sealed wooden box and revealed a broken sword whose powerful wind-and-thunder aura swept across the auction plaza.
• Ye invited the cultivators to test the sword, and seven Spirit Severing cultivators who tried it retreated after its spirit patterns attacked their divine sense.
• Nearly a hundred cultivators tested the sword and quickly severed their divine-sense connections to escape its attack.
• Qin Fengming went onto the stage and touched the sword’s azure glow with a restriction spirit pattern instead of using the usual technique.
• The restriction spirit pattern entered the glow, and azure light erupted across the stone platform.

Qin Fengming restrained the Wind and Thunder Sword remnant treasure long enough to convince the crowd that it came from the Miro Realm. As the auction began, a cultivator questioned why the Profound Spirit experts had passed it over, and Ye explained that the treasure mainly benefited cultivators below their level.

• Qin Fengming used a Spirit Pattern of Restriction to briefly silence and immobilize the broken sword, astonishing Ye and the watching cultivators.
• The sword began trembling again, so Qin Fengming left the platform while Ye cast restrictions to contain it.
• A mid Spirit Severing old man asked whether the sword truly came from the Miro Realm, and Qin Fengming cited its sealed Spirit Pattern and the Thunderclap Bamboo aura near its broken edge.
• Ye announced the auction of the Wind and Thunder Sword remnant treasure, setting a starting price of one hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones and minimum increments of twenty thousand.
• An old man asked why no Profound Spirit experts had joined the auction, and Ye explained that they had passed on the treasure because it primarily aided cultivators below their level.

Qin Fengming left the auction after sensing a conscious soul hidden within the damaged Wind and Thunder Sword, warning Fang Liang to avoid it. He then set out for Sanglin Island to help refine a pill for breaking through to the Mahayana stage, leaving Fang Liang in Duanshan City to keep him informed about the Ten Thousand Islands Sea Territory trial.

• The middle-aged man surnamed Ye opened bidding on the damaged treasure, and a young bidder offered five hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones.
• Qin Fengming sensed that the bidder was a peak Spirit Severing woman disguised as a man, then left the auction with Fang Liang without bidding on the sword.
• Qin Fengming warned Fang Liang that a strange presence within the damaged sword made it too dangerous to pursue, and Fang Liang agreed to stay away from it.
• Qin Fengming told Fang Liang he was going to Sanglin Island for a trip that might last several years and asked him to notify him if the Ten Thousand Islands Sea Territory trial began.
• Qin Fengming traveled toward Sanglin Island, hoping to obtain the pill formula for breaking through to the Mahayana stage, and examined a vast island after arriving.

Qin Fengming arrived at Sanglin Island to enter Ancestor Jinyan’s Pill Dao competition, but two island cultivators challenged his qualifications and provoked him. After Hu Yang apologized for their conduct, he offered to take Qin Fengming to ask whether he could still join the competition, which had been underway for seven days.

• Qin Fengming searched Sanglin Island for Ancestor Jinyan’s cave abode and explained to two Integration stage cultivators that he had come for the Pill Dao competition.
• The two cultivators mocked Qin Fengming for lacking a Grand Pill Master rank token and threatened him, so he bound them with black mist after one sent for help.
• Hu Yang arrived and questioned Qin Fengming, who explained that the cultivators had disrespected him and left restriction energy in their bodies after releasing them.
• Hu Yang apologized on behalf of Sanglin Island and said he would ask Senior Brother Gu whether Qin Fengming could still enter the competition.
• Qin Fengming agreed to accompany Hu Yang to the competition grounds.

Qin Fengming punished two Sanglin Island cultivators who tried to block his way, then learned that nine Grand Pill Masters had gathered for Ancestor Jinyan’s pill test. Hu Yang led him into Sanglin Island’s heavily protected foundation, where the competition awaited.

• The two Integration stage cultivators vowed to report Qin Fengming, then discovered he had restricted their soul energy and flew back toward the sect to remove it.
• Qin Fengming judged that his Pill Dao skill would keep him safe and asked Hu Yang how many Grand Pill Masters would attend the test.
• Hu Yang said six Grand Pill Masters were Profound Spirit cultivators and three had cultivation at Qin Fengming’s level.
• Hu Yang led Qin Fengming through a five-colored barrier into Sanglin Island’s foundation and warned him that its restrictions could be deadly.

Qin Fengming challenged Gu Feng’s doubts about his ability to refine Profound Tier pills by demonstrating his soul energy in a clash inside Pill Fragrance Hall. Gu Feng allowed him to take the test, but gave him only twelve days to comprehend the Spirit Patterns.

• Hu Yang brought Qin Fengming to Pill Fragrance Hall and asked First Senior Brother Gu Feng to let him take the Pill Dao test, despite Qin lacking Grand Pill Master certification.
• Qin Fengming insisted that he should be judged by the test, while Gu Feng dismissed his claims and told him to leave.
• Qin Fengming unleashed a divine-sense blade at Gu Feng, who defended himself with protective spiritual radiance and a divine-sense palm.
• Qin Fengming shielded Hu Yang from the clash’s soul energy and asked Gu Feng whether his soul energy was sufficient for refining Profound Tier pills.
• Gu Feng permitted Qin Fengming to take the test but warned him that he had only twelve days to comprehend the Spirit Patterns.

Qin Fengming entered Sanglin Island’s Alchemy Room to take a test on five-attribute Spirit Patterns and realized the patterns were connected to a pill for breaking through the Mahayana bottleneck. He easily activated the patterns and discovered that the room’s five Fire-Inducing Beasts produced spirit flames of different attributes.

• Gu Feng took Qin Fengming to the underground Alchemy Room after Hu Yang withdrew, then explained that he had twelve days to master three Spirit Patterns with different attributes.
• Qin Fengming entered the restricted chamber and found a stone stele bearing five-attribute Spirit Patterns amid dense energy of all five attributes.
• Qin Fengming inferred that Ancestor Jinyan was refining a pill to help cultivators break through the Mahayana bottleneck.
• Qin Fengming judged the stele’s patterns far simpler than those he had used to refine the Five Elements spiritual body and activated them with little effort.
• Qin Fengming activated the five Fire-Inducing Beasts and found that each produced a spirit flame of a different attribute.