Chapter Summaries

While Qin Fengming repaired his magic treasures, the Soul Devouring Beast refined the souls it had devoured and began advancing. Its transformation summoned a powerful heavenly tribulation, forcing Qin Fengming to remove his formation and retreat.

• Cultivators across the Sky Flame Mountain Range fought and ambushed one another after failing to find the spirit pool.
• Qin Fengming continued repairing his magic treasures while the Soul Devouring Beast refined the souls within its body.
• A cold energy fluctuation surrounded the Soul Devouring Beast, and Qin Fengming saw soul essence energy swirling around it as it appeared to advance.
• A vast pressure, dark clouds, and blue-green lightning formed overhead, while a vortex gathered sinister, cold aura around the Soul Devouring Beast.
• Qin Fengming removed the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation and ran nearly two hundred yards away to avoid the heavenly tribulation.

Qin Fengming discovered that Soul Devouring Beast’s tribulation drew powerful Yin soul energy, then watched Black Spider and the purple-black centipede spirit beast begin tribulations of their own. The overlapping Tribulation Clouds spread across the region, forcing Qin Fengming and nearby cultivators to prepare for the ordeal.

• Qin Fengming sensed that the energy gathering for Soul Devouring Beast’s tribulation was Yin soul energy rather than Five Elements energy.
• The expanding vortex drew Yin soul energy from far away, easing Qin Fengming’s concern that the scorching Sky Flame Mountain Range lacked enough of it.
• Qin Fengming summoned Black Spider and the purple-black centipede spirit beast after their bodies began radiating strange power.
• A second black vortex formed, and the three spirit beasts began undergoing their tribulations together as Qin Fengming withdrew several li.
• Nearby cultivators recognized the spreading Tribulation Clouds and fled, fearing they would be forced to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation too.

Qin Fengming watched the Soul Devouring Beast undergo its Heavenly Tribulation, only to discover that the azure lightning also repeatedly struck him with soul-attacking Yin energy. He released his Silver Sheath Worms to test whether they could absorb the lightning, and they eagerly endured five bolts.

• The Soul Devouring Beast triggered its Heavenly Tribulation and endured the descending energy and azure lightning while Qin Fengming sensed its condition.
• Azure lightning redirected itself to strike Qin Fengming, but his powerful divine sense dispersed the icy soul energy inside him.
• Qin Fengming realized the lightning carried Yin soul energy and endured dozens of bolts as they continued to target him.
• Qin Fengming released nearly two thousand Silver Sheath Worms, recalling that their king had consumed Yin mist from Smoke Crystals.
• Five bolts struck the swarm, vanished among the Silver Sheath Worms, and left them excited and unharmed.

Qin Fengming used Silver Sheath Worms to shield the Soul Devouring Beast while his spider and centipede spirit beasts began their own Grade 5 Heavenly Tribulation. As black lightning struck him again despite not being the one undergoing tribulation, Qin Fengming cursed the heavens.

• Qin Fengming sent tens of thousands of Silver Sheath Worms to block most of the azure lightning striking the Soul Devouring Beast.
• A sphere of demonic energy enveloped Qin Fengming's spider and centipede as black lightning formed in the clouds and the two beasts began undergoing tribulation.
• Cultivators gathered near the clouds and discussed the unusual phenomenon, concluding that two demon beasts were advancing to Grade 5 rather than transforming into human form.
• Black lightning from the beasts' tribulation struck Qin Fengming, causing him intense pain as he angrily cursed the heavens.

Qin Fengming struggled against the demonic-qi lightning striking during his spirit beasts’ tribulation, until his newly hatched Five Elements Beasts absorbed the bolts and drew an even greater barrage. He summoned his late Core Formation-stage corpse refinement to shield them, and the creature began benefiting from the tribulation’s energy.

• Qin Fengming endured demonic-qi lightning while his two spirit beasts underwent tribulation, unable to stop the bolts from striking him as their master.
• The five newly hatched Five Elements Beasts emerged from the Spirit Beast Bracelet, formed a five-colored sphere, and absorbed several black lightning bolts.
• The Five Elements Beasts’ appearance provoked the clouds into unleashing more than twenty black bolts, and Qin Fengming lost contact with the five beasts inside the sphere.
• Qin Fengming summoned his late Core Formation-stage corpse refinement, which flew above the sphere and blocked part of the lightning barrage.
• The corpse refinement withstood the black lightning and absorbed a stream of pure energy from the demonic qi vortex.

As the Soul Devouring Beast’s tribulation intensified, three vast vortices formed above Qin Fengming, and he realized the newly hatched Five Elements Beasts were about to undergo tribulation as well. A multicolored sphere enclosed him and drew his spiritual power into an uncontrollable cycle, while distant cultivators fled from the gathering energies.

• More than half of the black lightning bolts struck near Qin Fengming as the towering Corpse Refinement and multicolored light mass intercepted most of them.
• The dark clouds churned, splitting the enormous vortex into two, and a new vortex above Qin Fengming blended five-element spiritual energy with demonic energy.
• Qin Fengming realized the Five Elements Beasts were about to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation as multicolored energy poured into the light mass surrounding them.
• Multicolored lightning struck the beasts’ light sphere, and Qin Fengming’s magical power surged outward before forming a sphere around him.
• The energy fused with Qin Fengming’s sphere and forced his spiritual power to circulate according to the Profound Clarity Upper Purity Art, which he stopped resisting.
• More than one hundred distant cultivators watched three vortices draw in energy from hundreds of miles around, and some fled.

After the tribulation ended, Qin Fengming found that his spirit beasts, Silver Sheath Worms, and refined corpse had all grown stronger, with the refined corpse reaching Peak Core Formation and the spider and centipede advancing to Grade 5. He collected them and their shed shells while the Soul Devouring Beast continued consolidating its gains.

• The dark clouds receded, and dozens of cultivators rushed toward the tribulation site, hoping to attack its exhausted master.
• Qin Fengming awoke from his strange state and found his magic power greatly increased while his five small beasts and Silver Sheath Worms had grown stronger.
• Qin Fengming discovered that his refined corpse had advanced to the Peak Core Formation realm and stored it, the five beasts, and the Silver Sheath Worms in the Spirit Beast Bracelet.
• Qin Fengming found the spider and centipede had shed their skins and advanced to Grade 5, then collected them and their shells.
• Qin Fengming saw that the Soul Devouring Beast had grown larger and more golden while it digested its energy and consolidated its realm.

After escaping the Misty Zone, Qin Fengming chose to leave the Sky Flame Mountain Range through the nearest exit and sought a secluded place to consolidate his Core Formation. As he prepared to open a temporary cave abode, a demonic-path Rogue Cultivator appeared and threatened him.

• Qin Fengming evaded several groups of cultivators and spent nearly four months crossing the Misty Zone.
• Qin Fengming learned from his jade slip that he had reached Strange Stone Beach, far from the exit nearest Minzhou and the Green Snake Valley exchange gathering.
• Qin Fengming decided to use the nearest exit and cultivate in seclusion for a year before pursuing the exchange gathering.
• Qin Fengming found a concealed, spiritually rich spot among three peaks and confirmed that no cultivators were nearby.
• A demonic-path Rogue Cultivator emerged from a transparent barrier and threatened Qin Fengming, who apologized and tried to leave.

Qin Fengming clashed with Poison Dragon Ascendant, who threatened to kill him and summoned two powerful puppets. After recognizing each other as fellow disciples through their ties to Zhuang Daoqin and Zhuang Daoming, they set aside their hostility, leaving the encounter on friendly terms.

• Poison Dragon Ascendant attacked Qin Fengming, but Qin Fengming’s five-colored Sword Qi matched and dispersed the black Sword Qi.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant demanded Qin Fengming’s life and summoned two late Core Formation puppets when Qin Fengming refused to surrender.
• Qin Fengming recognized Poison Dragon Ascendant as Zhuang Daoming’s disciple and asked whether his master was Zhuang Daoming.
• Qin Fengming revealed that he was Zhuang Daoqin’s disciple, and Poison Dragon Ascendant recognized him as Junior Brother Qin Fengming.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant withdrew his puppets and laughed that they were fellow disciples who had mistaken one another for enemies.

Qin Fengming reunited with Poison Dragon Ascendant, Zhuang Daoming’s disciple, and agreed to help him confront four Tai Yin Gate cultivators who had attacked him. The two set off together to avenge Poison Dragon Ascendant and challenge the four Peak Core Formation opponents.

• Qin Fengming recognized Poison Dragon Ascendant as his senior brother and asked after their master, Zhuang Daoming.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant explained that four Tai Yin Gate cultivators had driven him from a secluded cultivation site and injured him.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant asked Qin Fengming to use his formation to trap the four cultivators, but Qin Fengming proposed fighting them directly.
• Qin Fengming said he would hold off two opponents while Poison Dragon Ascendant used a secret technique against the other two.
• Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant agreed to attack the four Tai Yin Gate cultivators and sped northeastward.

Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant confronted four Tai Yin Gate cultivators in their secluded valley. When two of the cultivators attacked Qin Fengming, he revealed overwhelming power and struck them down, leaving the other two facing him and Poison Dragon Ascendant.

• Poison Dragon Ascendant led Qin Fengming to the valley where four Tai Yin Gate cultivators were secluded.
• The four Tai Yin Gate cultivators discovered the pair, and Qin Fengming revealed that he was the young master of Manghuang Mountain.
• The Tai Yin Gate leader sent Wu and Elder Li to capture Qin Fengming while he and Pang Ran engaged Poison Dragon Ascendant.
• Qin Fengming summoned a colossal figure that repelled the attackers’ magic treasures, then stunned Wu and Elder Li with a demonic roar.
• Ten bolts of black lightning pierced Wu and Elder Li, leaving bloody holes in both of them.

Qin Fengming used his newly advanced corpse puppet and a Beast Roar Talisman to kill two Tai Yin Gate cultivators, forcing the remaining pair to retreat into a powerful defensive formation. After testing the formation’s counterattack, Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant considered how to deal with it.

• Qin Fengming stunned two Tai Yin Gate cultivators with a Beast Roar Talisman and had his corpse puppet kill them with its Ten Finger Strike.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant questioned how Qin Fengming controlled a Peak Core Formation corpse puppet, and Qin Fengming evaded the question.
• The two surviving Tai Yin Gate cultivators seized their companions’ corpses and fled into a concealed formation.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant threatened the cultivators inside the formation, while its leader claimed it could withstand even a Nascent Soul cultivator’s attacks.
• Qin Fengming tested the formation and showed that it returned attacks with greater force, then Poison Dragon Ascendant asked how they could break it.

Qin Fengming surrounded the Tai Yin Gate cultivators’ powerful formation with his Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation and launched an assault to break it. The enemy formation reflected and redirected the attacks, leaving the clash unresolved and Qin Fengming wary of its strength.

• Poison Dragon Ascendant doubted that the formation could be broken, but Qin Fengming said he had several ways to overcome it.
• Qin Fengming chose not to use his precious Myriad Silence Disk or talismans and instead began setting up his Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation around the enemy formation.
• The Tai Yin Gate cultivators recognized Qin Fengming’s plan, while Poison Dragon Ascendant taunted them from outside.
• Qin Fengming activated his formation, filling it with dark clouds, thunder, lightning, and Five-Element attacks that struck the Tai Yin Gate formation.
• The enemy formation reflected the lightning and other attacks back into Qin Fengming’s formation, and Qin Fengming realized the counterattack posed a deadly threat.

Qin Fengming’s Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation destroyed the Tai Yin Gate cultivators, and he and Poison Dragon Ascendant collected their belongings before deciding to enter seclusion in the valley. Just as Qin Fengming was about to leave, he found a black octagonal tray among the ashes and was deeply astonished by it.

• Qin Fengming’s Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation overwhelmed the Tai Yin Gate formation, whose exhausted formation plate shattered.
• The formation’s lightning and Five Elements attacks killed the two Tai Yin Gate elders before Qin Fengming could stop them.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant praised Qin Fengming’s formation, and the two gathered the storage rings and Spirit Beast Pouches left behind by the four dead cultivators.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant found something pleasing in the Spirit Beast Pouches, and he and Qin Fengming agreed to enter seclusion separately in the valley.
• Qin Fengming spotted a black octagonal tray protruding from the ashes and picked it up, becoming deeply astonished.

Qin Fengming discovered that the Tai Yin Gate cultivators' formation plate contained the ancient Immortal Sealing Six Seals Formation and recognized its power and value. He then traveled deeper into the valley and built a temporary Cave Abode to house his spirit beasts, spirit insects, and spirit herbs.

• Poison Dragon Ascendant left the valley with the four Spirit Beast Pouches after Qin Fengming stopped to inspect the formation plate.
• Qin Fengming identified the plate as a simplified Immortal Sealing Six Seals Formation, replaced its Spirit Stones, and activated it to confirm it remained intact.
• Qin Fengming realized the formation's power had been limited because the Tai Yin Gate cultivators had failed to control it properly and its Spirit Stones had run out.
• Qin Fengming searched the area, then went deeper into the valley and had his Puppets excavate a temporary Cave Abode.
• Qin Fengming prepared the Cave Abode's chambers with Restrictive Spells and placed his spirit beasts and spirit herbs inside.

Qin Fengming settled into secluded cultivation after advancing to the Core Formation realm, first consolidating his cultivation and then mastering the Spirit Evasion flight technique. He left the chapter ready to test the technique, though he could not yet use it in the Sky Flame Mountain Range.

• Qin Fengming inspected his spirit beasts and insects, then secured the cave dwelling and returned to consolidate his Core Formation realm.
• After five months of secluded cultivation, Qin Fengming felt his Golden Core was stable and fed spirit liquid to his spirit beasts and insects.
• Qin Fengming studied the Profound Clarity Upper Purity Art and chose to cultivate the Spirit Evasion secret technique for its exceptional flight speed.
• Qin Fengming spent nearly six months forcibly opening meridians and enduring severe pain as he cultivated Spirit Evasion.
• Qin Fengming mastered Spirit Evasion and confirmed that it required no true essence or blood essence, but he could not yet test it in the Sky Flame Mountain Range.

Qin Fengming used his remaining time in the Sky Flame Mountain Range to tend his spirit beasts and sort through the storage rings he had collected. After discovering a wealth of treasures, he turned his attention to the Golden Body Art, whose formerly harsh cultivation requirements no longer seemed difficult for him.

• Qin Fengming spent a dozen days feeding his spirit beasts and insects with spiritual liquid, while the Five Elements Beasts' energy unexpectedly resonated with his own.
• Qin Fengming found that his spider and centipede spirit beasts had reached Grade 5, while the red little beast had advanced to the peak of Grade 3.
• Qin Fengming decided not to cultivate another secret art because less than five months remained before the Sky Flame Mountain Range closed.
• Qin Fengming inspected dozens of storage rings and found more than ten million spirit stones, precious herbs, refinement materials, and numerous magic treasures, including over a dozen ancient treasures.
• Qin Fengming set aside the cultivation manuals and fed captured spirit beasts to his own beasts, killing the ones above Grade 5 himself.
• Qin Fengming examined the Buddhist jade slip containing the Golden Body Art and realized its demanding cultivation requirements no longer posed an obstacle.

Qin Fengming spent months studying the Golden Body Art before Poison Dragon Ascendant called him to leave the Sky Flame Mountain Range before it closed. They disguised themselves and set off together toward an exit near the Hidden Cloud Sect cultivators.

• Qin Fengming studied the Golden Body Art, refined spiritual liquid, and cared for his spirit beasts and spirit insects for more than four months.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant called to Qin Fengming, reminding him that the Sky Flame Mountain Range would close in less than half a month.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant warned Qin Fengming that the nearest exit was crowded and chaotic, so they changed their appearances to conceal their identities.
• Qin Fengming gave Poison Dragon Ascendant Soaring Talismans, and the two used them along with Qi Concealing Invisibility Talismans to race toward the exit.

Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant waited with thousands of cultivators at the Sky Flame Mountain Range’s exit, where they avoided a confrontation with the Divine Vulture Sect. A roar then thinned the yellow fog and opened the passage, sending the cultivators rushing toward safety.

• Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant reached the exit and waited among more than ten thousand cultivators for the mountain range’s restrictions to open.
• A Divine Vulture Sect cultivator ordered Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant off their boulder, and Poison Dragon Ascendant angrily challenged the group.
• Qin Fengming warned Poison Dragon Ascendant not to fight in front of the gathered cultivators, so the two left the boulder and planned to deal with the Divine Vulture Sect later.
• A tremendous roar came from the yellow mist, and Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant raised magic treasures to defend themselves.
• The yellow fog thinned, a cultivator announced that the passage had opened, and everyone rushed toward the exit.

After leaving the Sky Flame Mountain Range, Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant parted from the gathered sect cultivators and flew away from the exit. Poison Dragon Ascendant proposed hunting down Divine Vulture Sect cultivators who had insulted them, and Qin Fengming remained wary of the danger.

• Qin Fengming and the other cultivators flew through the thinning yellow mist and emerged into a vast valley after ten years inside the Sky Flame Mountain Range.
• Sect-affiliated cultivators gathered to welcome their disciples, while Qin Fengming and Poison Dragon Ascendant left the valley with the Rogue Cultivators.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant told Qin Fengming they should hunt down the Divine Vulture Sect cultivators who had insulted them inside the mountain range.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant explained that he wanted the sect's spirit beasts and said he had not seen anyone from the Divine Vulture Sect waiting at the exit.
• Poison Dragon Ascendant proposed using Qin Fengming's powerful formation to ambush the Divine Vulture Sect cultivators, while Qin Fengming worried about their numbers and strength.