Chapter Summaries

Qin Fengming encountered the arriving Youfu Palace and Aoteng Mountain Range cultivators and recognized many of them, including Ying Yi, who hurried to him. As the two factions prepared to enter the dangerous Jiu Qi Land, Qin Fengming asked Ying Yi whether she knew how to cross the beast-filled territory ahead.

• Eighteen cultivators from Youfu Palace and the Aoteng Mountain Range arrived, and Qin Fengming recognized many, including Chong Ji and Jueyin, who had escaped the Dao Ancestor runes.
• Gaoyang welcomed the arrivals and noted that the two factions had agreed to limit the Mahayana cultivators entering the Jiu Qi Land.
• Jin Mao and Jian Hong discussed how Qin Fengming and his companions had survived the unstable spatial passage, while Wu Rong revealed that he wanted Qin Fengming to diagnose Hui'er's chronic illness.
• Ying Yi rushed over to Qin Fengming, and he warned her that the area was dangerous and urged her to return to You Chen.
• Ying Yi rejected Qin Fengming's warning, and he asked whether she had a way to cross the territory where beasts and demon birds gathered, causing her to stop abruptly.

Qin Fengming reunited with Ying Yi after escaping the unstable spatial passage, then drew Venerable Beidou’s attention when Beidou sensed a karmic connection to him. Beidou approached to speak with Qin Fengming, who recognized his name and recalled a prediction from the past.

• Ying Yi was relieved to see Qin Fengming safe but worried after hearing he had entered the unstable spatial passage.
• Venerable Beidou sensed a karmic connection between himself and Qin Fengming and reacted with disbelief after making a rapid deduction.
• Beidou told the Youfu Palace cultivators that Qin Fengming was not a disguised Mahayana but might be connected to him, then went to speak with him.
• Jin Mao intercepted Beidou and warned that Aoteng Mountain Range would not let him seize Qin Fengming.
• Xuan Luo identified Beidou as a powerful Mahayana of Youfu Palace, and Qin Fengming recognized the name and recalled that something someone had said seventeen or eighteen thousand years earlier had come true.

Qin Fengming recognized Venerable Beidou as the being behind a remnant soul he had destroyed long ago, while Beidou moved to seize him. Qin Fengming stepped forward to ask why Beidou wanted him, and Beidou identified him as a cultivator from a lower-plane Human Realm.

• Qin Fengming recognized Venerable Beidou as the true soul of the remnant he had destroyed when he was a Qi Gathering cultivator.
• Ying Yi told Qin Fengming that Qingzhu could not guide them through the beast-filled region, but Jun Yan's urine might let them pass safely.
• Jin Mao blocked Venerable Beidou and insisted that he had promised Fairy Ruo Jing to protect Qin Fengming.
• Qin Fengming appeared beside Jin Mao using a movement technique that astonished the Mahayana cultivators, then asked Beidou why he sought him.
• Venerable Beidou asked whether Qin Fengming came from a Human Realm in a lower plane, confirming Qin Fengming's suspicion that Beidou knew their history.

Qin Fengming confronted Venerable Beidou, who recognized him as the cultivator responsible for killing his divided soul and questioned him about a treasure from the Human Realm. Their exchange ended with Beidou confirming that he had cultivated in the Human Realm but had not originated there, deepening Qin Fengming’s suspicions about his past.

• Qin Fengming asked Venerable Beidou how he had identified him as someone from the Human Realm, and Beidou revealed that he had linked Qin Fengming to the death of his divided soul.
• Venerable Beidou asked whether Qin Fengming had found the treasure he had left behind, while Qin Fengming concealed that he already possessed the Five Dragons Profound Yellow Universe.
• Qin Fengming told Beidou that he had been only a Qi Gathering stage cultivator when the divided soul died, and offered to reveal the treasure’s whereabouts.
• Venerable Beidou threatened to capture Qin Fengming, but Qin Fengming warned that the nearby Mahayana cultivators and savage beasts made an attack risky.
• Venerable Beidou urgently asked whether Qin Fengming had brought the treasure to the upper realm, and Qin Fengming instead questioned Beidou’s origins.
• Venerable Beidou admitted that he had not originated in the Human Realm, though he had cultivated and grown there.

Qin Fengming questioned Venerable Beidou about the Big Dipper Seven Yuan Art and learned that Divine Monk Guangzhao had once copied it with Youfu Palace’s permission. Suspecting Beidou had injured Guangzhao, Qin Fengming dodged Beidou’s sudden attack, leaving the gathered cultivators astonished.

• Qin Fengming asked Venerable Beidou whether he had left the Big Dipper Seven Yuan Art in Youfu Palace.
• Venerable Beidou said Divine Monk Guangzhao had been allowed to copy the technique after serving Youfu Palace, and Qin Fengming confirmed he had obtained it from Guangzhao’s remains.
• Qin Fengming suspected Venerable Beidou had injured Guangzhao and asked him so through voice transmission.
• Venerable Beidou launched a sudden finger-seal attack, but Qin Fengming used the Profound Sky Evasive Steps to evade it.
• Jin Mao and Qin Fengming identified the attack as the Heavenly Illusory Demonic Finger and the Void-Splitting Dragon Finger Seal, while the onlookers reacted with surprise at Qin Fengming’s escape.

Qin Fengming and Venerable Beidou traded questions about their pasts, revealing that Beidou had entered the Desert Shore Ghost Domain after dying in the Human Realm hundreds of thousands of years earlier. As Qin Fengming explained why he had come to the Aoteng Realm, Beidou secretly activated a restriction formation and demanded that he surrender.

• Qin Fengming questioned Venerable Beidou about Ancestor Daoyan, and they agreed to ask each other three questions and answer truthfully.
• Venerable Beidou said he came from the Desert Shore Ghost Domain, and Qin Fengming confirmed that he was born and raised in the Human Realm.
• Venerable Beidou revealed that he had died in the Human Realm three or four hundred thousand years earlier before his soul entered the Desert Shore Ghost Domain.
• Venerable Beidou asked why Qin Fengming had come to the Aoteng Realm, and Qin Fengming explained that his clone had accidentally taken the wrong spatial passage while returning to the Human Realm.
• Venerable Beidou activated a hidden restriction formation and ordered Qin Fengming to surrender, while Qin Fengming and Jin Mao realized they had been trapped.

Venerable Beidou trapped Qin Fengming and Jin Mao in the Beidou Yin Demon Array, and Qin Fengming challenged the array’s weakness while drawing its sinister mist into his own Ghost Devouring Yin Mist. Jin Mao initially shattered a demon beast, but the array’s true power emerged through its magical banners, which surrounded him and launched a sudden attack.

• Venerable Beidou formed the Beidou Yin Demon Array around Qin Fengming and Jin Mao, while Jin Mao declared that he would test its strength.
• Qin Fengming recognized the array and suspected Venerable Beidou had met Ancestor Daoyan; he then taunted Venerable Beidou about the array’s weakness.
• Qin Fengming released Ghost Devouring Yin Mist, which spread into the array’s vortices as demon beasts began to form.
• Jin Mao charged one of the newly formed demon beasts and shattered it, mocking the apparent weakness of the array.
• Venerable Beidou revealed the array’s blue-black magical banners, which surrounded Jin Mao and attacked him with a huge fan blade.
• Jin Mao dodged the fan blade and charged toward it, but his azure light vanished as it entered one of the banners.

Qin Fengming discovered how to influence the Beidou Yinmo Formation’s attacks and escaped its range, while Jin Mao used his body to cling to one of its banners. Qin Fengming fled with Xuan Luo and the others, but Venerable Beidou pursued them.

• Jin Mao attached himself to a Yinmo Banner, preventing Venerable Beidou from using the other banners to attack him.
• Qin Fengming explained that he would counter the formation differently and used its operating patterns to make a banner attack veer away from him.
• Qin Fengming evaded a barrage of banner attacks, vanished from Venerable Beidou’s perception, and escaped beyond the formation’s range.
• Qin Fengming called to Xuan Luo and the others, and the four fled toward the scattered beast demons and demonic birds.
• Venerable Beidou pursued the group, and Xuan Luo summoned hundreds of Ao Beasts to block his path.

Qin Fengming escaped Venerable Beidou’s surprise attack with Ying Yi’s help and raced toward the region of strange beasts and ferocious birds. When Venerable Beidou stirred the beasts to block him, Qin Fengming detonated three crystal-stone formations in front of one of them.

• Xuan Luo released more than a hundred Ao Beasts to delay Venerable Beidou while Qin Fengming tried to take Xuan Luo and the other two into the Divine Machine Mansion.
• Venerable Beidou struck Qin Fengming with a Void-Splitting Dragon Finger Seal, and Ying Yi used an emerald bamboo leaf to withstand the attack as the three entered the Divine Machine Mansion.
• Qin Fengming escaped through the mountains using the Azure Cloud Maze movement technique, while Jin Mao intercepted Venerable Beidou.
• Venerable Beidou warned Qin Fengming that the beasts ahead would make survival impossible, then used his voice to rouse them.
• Qin Fengming continued toward the awakened beasts and detonated three crystal-stone formations before the nearest one.

Qin Fengming used Jun Yan’s aura to pass unharmed among enraged exotic beasts and fierce birds, provoking them to delay the Aoteng Mahayana cultivators. He reached a misty region identified as Qiyu’s lair, where Ying Yi sensed the Qi Soul Underworld Flame, and Xuan Luo warned that they would need to lure Qiyu out to find the hidden space.

• Jin Mao and Venerable Beidou watched as Qin Fengming detonated energy near the beasts and birds, rousing them into a frenzy.
• Qin Fengming approached the huge creatures, whose brief hesitation let him slip past them unharmed.
• Qin Fengming provoked the beasts and birds across the region, creating a barrier that could delay the Aoteng Mahayana cultivators.
• Qin Fengming flew beyond the beast region and stopped before a mist that consumed his divine sense.
• Qin Fengming summoned Ying Yi and the others, and Ying Yi confirmed that the mist contained Qi Soul Underworld Flame and was likely Qiyu’s lair.
• Xuan Luo told Qin Fengming that they would have to lure Qiyu out to find the hidden space.

Qin Fengming and the others approached Qi Yu’s Nest to investigate the secret space and the Profound Desolation Earth, but found Zhu Nou resting there while Qi Yu was absent. As Qin Fengming moved closer to inspect Zhu Nou, the beast awoke and turned toward him.

• Qin Fengming considered the dangers of pursuing Profound Desolation Earth and focused on reaching the secret space for its powerful formations.
• Ying Yi warned that Qi Yu’s Nest contained Qi Soul Underworld Flame, and Qin Fengming gave the others talismans to withstand the corrosive mist.
• Qin Fengming led Xuan Luo, Yao Luo, and Ying Yi toward the mist and discovered Zhu Nou lying in the mountain forest.
• Qin Fengming sensed that Qi Yu was absent and suggested it might not have returned to its nest since its last departure.
• Qin Fengming told the others to wait and cautiously approached Zhu Nou, which suddenly opened its eyes and looked at him.

Qin Fengming fled after Zhu Nou awoke and pursued him, urging Xuan Luo, Ying Yi, and Yao Luo to search for the hidden space that could save them. He used the dragon bone to resist Zhu Nou’s strange aura and escaped into a mountain, but the beast smashed the peak and broke his Earth Evasion Divine Ability; as Qin Fengming fell into the valley, someone called out that space aura was surging nearby.

• Qin Fengming fled when Zhu Nou awoke, roared, and unleashed a gale that swept through the mountains.
• Qin Fengming told the others to split up and search for the hidden space instead of fighting Zhu Nou, and Xuan Luo, Ying Yi, and Yao Luo began searching.
• Zhu Nou pursued Qin Fengming and enveloped him in a soft aura that disrupted his movement.
• Qin Fengming used the dragon bone to counter the aura, then entered a mountain wall with his Earth Evasion Divine Ability.
• Zhu Nou struck the mountain peak, shattered it, and forced Qin Fengming out of the earth and stone.
• A voice called to Qin Fengming that space aura was surging nearby as he fell toward the valley.

Qin Fengming survived the Zhu Nou’s repeated attacks by hiding underground and then entered the turbulent spatial aura where Ying Yi and the others had gone. Swept into a churning mist, he realized the place was not the hidden space Venerable Feng Ji had described.

• Qin Fengming burrowed beneath the rocks to escape the Zhu Nou, enduring crushing pressure as the beast repeatedly slammed the ground.
• The Zhu Nou stopped attacking, and Qin Fengming received Ying Yi’s message that the others had lured the beast away and entered the spatial passage first.
• Qin Fengming emerged, hid inside the Micro-Dust Mustard-Seed Space, and waited until the Zhu Nou settled before sending a Silver Sheath Worm toward the marked location.
• Qin Fengming followed the Silver Sheath Worm to the dense spatial aura, took it and the Micro-Dust Mustard-Seed Space abode back, and stepped into the turbulence.
• Qin Fengming was swept into a churning mist and realized it was not the hidden space Venerable Feng Ji had described.

Qin Fengming emerged in a mist-shrouded region covered with Azure Origin Sand and reunited with Yao Luo and Ying Yi by following Xuan Luo’s Frost Sky Ice Moths. After a restriction captured Xuan Luo and stirred the mist, the mist abruptly cleared from the area behind them, revealing a vast expanse of sand.

• Qin Fengming found himself in a stable, mist-filled space where divine sense and communication were obstructed, and discovered that the ground was covered in Azure Origin Sand.
• Qin Fengming recognized a Frost Sky Ice Moth as Xuan Luo’s spirit insect and followed it to Yao Luo and Ying Yi.
• Ying Yi told Qin Fengming that a restriction had captured Xuan Luo while he investigated it, and the Frost Sky Ice Moths could no longer sense him.
• Qin Fengming examined the restriction and warned Yao Luo and Ying Yi to retreat when it suddenly stirred the mist.
• The mist rushed toward the restriction, then vanished from the area behind Qin Fengming, Yao Luo, and Ying Yi, exposing a broad stretch of sand.

Qin Fengming, Ying Yi, and Yao Luo entered a spatial region hidden behind a restriction in the Azure Origin Sand. They found signs that Xuan Luo had already broken through the area’s restrictions and reached halls deeper within the mist.

• Qin Fengming determined that the dune’s restriction led to another spatial region and waited for the mist to return before activating it.
• The restriction drew Qin Fengming into a desolate mountain region, and Ying Yi and Yao Luo followed him there.
• Qin Fengming noticed that Xuan Luo had broken the restrictions around them and led the women through a valley.
• Qin Fengming sensed halls ahead that differed from the three great halls Venerable Feng Ji had described.
• Yao Luo concluded that Xuan Luo knew how to break the restrictions and had likely reached the halls before them.

Qin Fengming worked with Lian Taiqing to break the ancient restriction surrounding a misty valley and entered with Yao Luo and Ying Yi. The valley’s restriction suddenly reactivated around them after Xuan Luo failed to answer from the great hall.

• Qin Fengming sent Yao Luo and Ying Yi away from the valley entrance while he studied its restriction.
• Qin Fengming consulted Lian Taiqing, who detected a faint Vitality Aura in the mist and offered to guide him in testing and breaking the formation.
• Qin Fengming used Lian Taiqing’s formation methods to break the valley’s restriction, gaining new knowledge in the process.
• Qin Fengming called to Xuan Luo from outside the great hall, but received no response or sign that its restrictions were being lifted.
• Yao Luo warned Qin Fengming that the valley’s restriction had reactivated, and the three were surrounded by its surging aura.

Qin Fengming and his companions tried to break the grand hall’s restriction after discovering someone was controlling it. When brute force failed, the giant tortoise unleashed a sound-wave attack that shattered the restriction, leaving the grand hall exposed.

• Qin Fengming realized someone was controlling the valley restriction, and Yao Luo suspected Xuan Luo.
• Ying Yi summoned the giant tortoise, which endured the grand hall’s attacks and agreed to help Qin Fengming break its restriction.
• Qin Fengming attacked the grand hall with the Profound Purple Sword, but its restriction blocked every strike.
• Xuan Luo called for the three cultivators to stop attacking and promised an explanation, but Qin Fengming demanded that he remove the restriction.
• Qin Fengming noticed that his sound waves had not triggered the grand hall’s defenses, and the giant tortoise offered to use a sound-wave attack.
• The giant tortoise sent a powerful wave crashing into the grand hall, causing its restriction runes to collapse.

Qin Fengming and his companions entered the main hall after Uncle Turtle broke its restrictions, where they discovered a used Yuan Rong Pearl and learned that Fairy Xuan Kun had restored her physical body. The chapter ended with Xuan Kun threatening to detonate the valley’s hidden explosive restrictions if they tried to oppose her.

• Uncle Turtle shattered the main hall’s restrictions with a sonic-wave attack and knocked open its doors, but Qin Fengming found no sign of Xuan Luo inside.
• Lian Taiqing located a life aura coming from a spring and identified the object within it as a Yuan Rong Pearl that had already been used to preserve someone’s life essence and vital blood.
• When Qin Fengming examined the pearl, a woman warned him not to touch it, and he guessed that the voice belonged to Fairy Xuan Kun.
• Fairy Xuan Kun claimed that she had restored her physical body and ordered Qin Fengming and the others to guard the hall while she stabilized it.
• Ying Yi challenged Xuan Kun’s threat, and Xuan Kun revealed that the valley contained self-detonating restrictions that could severely injure even Uncle Turtle.

Qin Fengming agreed to wait two months in Fairy Xuan Kun’s hall after learning that she could guide the group out and take them to a place of opportunity. After only thirty days, Xuan Luo and Fairy Xuan Kun appeared, and she promised Qin Fengming extraordinary benefits.

• Fairy Xuan Kun refused to let Qin Fengming, Ying Yi, and Yao Luo leave the valley until she stabilized her condition and the danger from the Aoteng Realm’s Mahayana cultivators had passed.
• Qin Fengming threatened to break the valley’s restrictions, but Xuan Luo persuaded Fairy Xuan Kun to offer the group a place of opportunity if they waited two months.
• Qin Fengming agreed to stay, then rested and cultivated while Ying Yi and Yao Luo remained with him.
• After more than thirty days, Xuan Luo and Fairy Xuan Kun appeared in the hall through an illusory pavilion.
• Xuan Luo apologized to Qin Fengming, and Fairy Xuan Kun promised to take him somewhere to obtain heaven-defying benefits.

Fairy Xuan Kun guided Qin Fengming and the others through the restricted space, explaining that its palaces held Immortal Realm divine abilities and secret arts. Qin Fengming learned her method for breaking the restrictions and led the group toward a palace whose shifting inner formations would have to be faced from within.

• Fairy Xuan Kun left the valley with Qin Fengming, Xuan Luo, Ying Yi, and Yao Luo, then used her knowledge of the restrictions to guide them through the space.
• Fairy Xuan Kun explained that nine other palaces contained divine abilities and secret arts that cultivators could comprehend but not take away, along with other possible benefits.
• Qin Fengming offered to break the restrictions in Fairy Xuan Kun's place, and she gave him a scroll describing the method.
• Qin Fengming comprehended the scroll and broke through more than twenty restrictions as Fairy Xuan Kun guided the group across the space.
• Fairy Xuan Kun led the group to a mist-shrouded mountain palace and warned that its inner restrictions changed each time someone entered.
• Fairy Xuan Kun broke through the mist, then called for the others to follow her up the mountain.