Chapter Summaries

Qin Fengming faced Venerable Beidou’s increasingly desperate attacks while refusing his offer of mentorship and cultivation aid. After Qin Fengming destroyed one powerful black orb with four spiritual artifacts, the Soul Devouring Beast swallowed Venerable Beidou’s next orb, leaving the outcome of the battle uncertain.

• Venerable Beidou offered to help Qin Fengming advance his cultivation and take him as a disciple, but Qin Fengming rejected the offer and insisted they fight.
• Venerable Beidou gathered his essence and soul into a black orb and launched it at the Yin Yang Pagoda.
• Qin Fengming detonated four spiritual artifacts to destroy the black orb and stop Venerable Beidou’s attack.
• Venerable Beidou condensed a larger black sphere and launched it again as Qin Fengming prepared to counter with talismans and spiritual artifacts.
• The Soul Devouring Beast rushed forward, enveloped the sphere in gray mist, and swallowed it.

Qin Fengming destroyed Venerable Beidou’s remnant soul and watched the Soul Devouring Beast survive swallowing its soul essence. After returning to the Luoxia Sect, he sought an audience with the Sect Master to report that the Ancient Battlefield was about to open.

• Qin Fengming overwhelmed Venerable Beidou’s weakened remnant soul with more than a thousand talismans, shattering its shield and destroying it.
• The Soul Devouring Beast struggled for half an hour before suppressing the Nascent Soul soul essence, and Qin Fengming returned it to the Soul Devouring Banner to recover.
• Qin Fengming considered Venerable Beidou’s inheritance and resolved to pursue Foundation Establishment after returning to the Luoxia Sect.
• A man resembling Venerable Beidou learned that his remnant soul in the Human Realm had been destroyed and told his subordinate to prepare for the Crossing Realms War.
• Qin Fengming traveled back to the Luoxia Sect, then went to Cloud Que Peak and asked the gatekeeping disciples to announce him to the Sect Master about an important sect matter.
• One gatekeeping disciple sent a voice-transmission talisman into the great hall.

Qin Fengming informed Luoxia Sect’s leaders that the Ancient Battlefield would open in two or three years, prompting them to consult Martial Ancestor Uncle Ximen and keep the news secret. After hearing Qin Fengming’s report, the sect rewarded him with a Foundation Establishment Pill and ten Yellow Essence Pills.

• Qin Fengming entered the hall and told Sect Master Wang and the other stewards that the Ancient Battlefield would open in two or three years.
• Sect Master Wang asked Qin Fengming whether he had shared the news, and Qin Fengming said he had returned directly to the sect without telling anyone.
• The steward surnamed Wei recommended informing Martial Ancestor Uncle Ximen, and Sect Master Wang ordered the others to keep the news secret.
• Martial Ancestor Uncle Ximen questioned Qin Fengming about the source of his information, then said he would discuss preparations and send people to Zhui Feng Valley to investigate.
• Martial Ancestor Uncle Ximen recommended rewarding Qin Fengming, and Sect Master Wang arranged for him to receive a Foundation Establishment Pill and ten Yellow Essence Pills.
• Qin Fengming returned to his cave abode on Yuqing Peak, pleased with his new pills.

While Qin Fengming cultivated in seclusion, Luoxia Sect prepared for the Ancient Battlefield after Zhui Feng Valley issued the Immortal Decree. Two years into his retreat, Qin Fengming reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, but the chapter ended as the breakthrough brought him unbearable pain.

• Luoxia Sect's leaders and disciples secretly prepared by gathering supplies and refining magical artifacts and pills.
• Zhui Feng Valley issued the Immortal Decree, summoning sect representatives, cultivators from major Lineages, and Rogue Cultivators to a gathering.
• The gathering announced that the Ancient Battlefield would open in a year and a half, prompting a rush to buy supplies and frequent fights across the Cultivation World.
• After two years in seclusion, Qin Fengming emerged as a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.
• Qin Fengming swallowed ten Yellow Essence Pills before taking a Foundation Establishment Pill, and the surge of energy caused his dantian to swell with excruciating pain.

Qin Fengming completed Foundation Establishment, mastered the Azure Frost Sword Art, and stabilized his cultivation. After Sect Master Wang assigned him to the first group of Luoxia Sect disciples entering the Ancient Battlefield, Qin Fengming began researching the place before its opening.

• Qin Fengming refined his Yellow Essence Pills and a Foundation Establishment Pill, converting his dantian’s spiritual energy into liquid and achieving Foundation Establishment.
• Qin Fengming cultivated the Profound Clarity Upper Purity Art and mastered the first layer of the Azure Frost Sword Art.
• Qin Fengming stabilized his Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivation and left seclusion.
• Sect Master Wang summoned Qin Fengming and told him he would enter the Ancient Battlefield with the first group of Luoxia Sect disciples.
• Qin Fengming returned to his cave dwelling and studied books about the Ancient Battlefield.

The chapter explained the Ancient Battlefield’s origins, rules, treasures, and dangers as cultivators prepared for its next opening. Qin Fengming planned to leave the Luoxia Sect if he survived, using the promised reward to pursue opportunities on his own.

• The chapter described the two vast Ancient Battlefields, their rare treasures, ancient Restrictive Spells, and deadly demon beasts.
• Cultivators could enter through temporary Teleportation Arrays when the boundaries weakened, remain for fifty years, and were restricted to regions matching their cultivation realm.
• A formation expert from the Floating Mountain Kingdom sensed the coming opening, but cultivators from Zhui Feng Valley overheard the news.
• Sects sent required numbers of disciples into the Ancient Battlefield, where fewer than thirty percent typically survived and even allies fought over treasures.
• Sect Master Wang promised Qin Fengming spirit stones and the choice to leave the Luoxia Sect if he returned alive.
• Qin Fengming decided that he would leave the Luoxia Sect after the Ancient Battlefield and seek opportunities on his own.

As the Ancient Battlefield expedition approached, Qin Fengming sought intermediate-grade talisman formulas and gathered materials to strengthen his preparations. He sold four top-grade magical artifacts for Spirit Stones and continued arranging resources for the dangerous trip.

• Qin Fengming decided to focus on talismans because he had too little time to practice his secret arts before entering the Ancient Battlefield.
• Qin Fengming asked the old man at Divine Talisman Hall to obtain an offensive intermediate-grade talisman formula and ordered large quantities of talisman paper and cinnabar.
• Qin Fengming decided he needed more Spirit Stones to prepare for possible opponents carrying magic treasures.
• Qin Fengming disguised himself as a middle-aged Foundation Establishment cultivator and went to Thousand Soldier Pavilion to sell materials and artifacts.
• Qin Fengming sold four top-grade magical artifacts to Thousand Soldier Pavilion for three thousand Spirit Stones.

Qin Fengming visited a shop seeking a powerful magic treasure and found a rare set of Ruyi Purple Gold Hooks. He agreed to buy them for thirty-six thousand spirit stones.

• Qin Fengming asked the middle-aged shopkeeper to show him the shop's magic treasures and was led to the third floor.
• Qin Fengming rejected a pitch-black cone-shaped magic treasure as too weak for his needs.
• The old man presented the Ruyi Purple Gold Hooks, explaining their poison and cold attributes, rarity, and faint prior-owner mark.
• Qin Fengming agreed to buy the Ruyi Purple Gold Hooks for thirty-six thousand spirit stones and placed a storage ring on the table.

Qin Fengming tempered his newly acquired Ruyi Purple Gold Hooks, traded talismans and spirit stones at the Marketplace, and failed to find another formation. Back in the Luoxia Sect, he kept his Foundation Establishment secret and began studying two intermediate talismans for the approaching Ancient Battlefield.

• Qin Fengming left the Marketplace, set up the Four Symbols Primordial Chaos Formation in a mountain cave, and began tempering the Purple Gold Hooks with his true fire.
• Qin Fengming returned to the Divine Talisman Hall and received jade slips for the intermediate talismans Turn Ground into Steel and Sky of Flames.
• Qin Fengming sold two thousand five hundred low-grade and one thousand five hundred mid-grade talismans to the old man for twenty thousand spirit stones and collected his requested talisman-making materials.
• Qin Fengming searched the Marketplace for a formation but found none, then flew back to the Luoxia Sect.
• Qin Fengming concealed his successful Foundation Establishment and studied the two intermediate talismans, focusing on the destructive potential of Sky of Flames.

Qin Fengming emerged from seclusion with two intermediate-grade talismans, the Ruyi Purple Gold Hooks, and the Soul Devouring Banner refined ahead of the Ancient Battlefield. Sect Master Wang summoned him and gave him a top-tier magical artifact to help him survive there.

• Qin Fengming spent nearly four months refining intermediate-grade talismans, the Ruyi Purple Gold Hooks, and the Soul Devouring Banner while the Great Liang Kingdom prepared for the Ancient Battlefield.
• Qin Fengming emerged from seclusion after building up the mysterious liquid in his gourd and strengthening his equipment, though he had not yet practiced the secret arts.
• Sect Master Wang summoned Qin Fengming to Cloud Gate Peak and handed him a flower basket containing a top-tier magical artifact for the Ancient Battlefield.
• Qin Fengming wondered whether Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators would receive spirit artifacts, but decided not to ask because they no longer mattered to him.

Qin Fengming prepared for the Ancient Battlefield after Sect Master Wang gave him pills and urged him to help fellow disciples when possible. As Luoxia Sect’s participants gathered at Cloud Que Peak, Qin Fengming felt an inexplicable yearning for the battlefield and waited with the others for their escort.

• Sect Master Wang gave Qin Fengming two bottles of pills and told him to lend fellow disciples a hand if he could.
• Qin Fengming returned to his Cave Abode, organized his artifacts and talismans, and watched the red demonic beast grow stronger and more skilled at concealing itself.
• As the departure date approached, Qin Fengming felt an intense, unexplained yearning to enter the Ancient Battlefield.
• The Purple Gold Bell summoned the participants, and Qin Fengming left Yuqing Peak for Cloud Que Peak after looking back at the place where he had lived for several years.
• Qin Fengming joined the solemn crowd at Cloud Que Peak, where Sect Master Wang and the other cultivators waited in silence.

Qin Fengming joined Luoxia Sect’s disciples at the main hall plaza as seven Core Formation Martial Uncles arrived to lead the expedition into the Ancient Battlefield. After Sect Master Wang introduced the elders and Foundation Establishment cultivators, the group prepared to enter a perilous place in search of opportunity.

• Qin Fengming recognized Jiang Feng, Feng Kai, and Senior Disciple Brother Hua among the disciples gathered at the plaza, all still at the Qi Gathering peak.
• Seven Core Formation cultivators arrived, including two late-stage cultivators whose levels Qin Fengming could not discern.
• Sect Master Wang introduced Han Yueshan as the expedition leader, a late Core Formation cultivator who had entered the Ancient Battlefield more than two hundred years earlier as a Qi Gathering disciple.
• Qin Fengming was astonished to learn that Yang Shuo had reached mid Core Formation at just over one hundred and twenty years old.
• Sect Master Wang introduced the Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Qin Fengming memorized most of their names.

Luoxia Sect’s disciples prepared to enter the Ancient Battlefield, where Sect Master Wang warned them of its dangers and issued identity tokens and maps. While waiting for the teleportation passage to open, Qin Fengming met Senior Disciple Brother Hua, who bought a hundred offensive mid-grade talismans from him.

• Sect Master Wang explained the battlefield’s dangers and gave each disciple an identity token and map before sending the group off.
• The Luoxia Sect group traveled for three days to the border valley and waited for the clouds to clear and the Teleportation Array to open.
• After two days of waiting, Senior Disciple Brother Hua approached Qin Fengming and asked to buy talismans for the battlefield.
• Qin Fengming agreed to sell Senior Disciple Brother Hua one hundred offensive mid-grade talismans for eight hundred spirit stones.

Qin Fengming sold talismans to Senior Disciple Brother Hua before Zhui Feng Valley arrived at the Ancient Battlefield staging area. Elder Han reunited emotionally with his old benefactor, Elder Brother Fang, and the sects settled on neighboring peaks.

• Senior Disciple Brother Hua bought Qin Fengming’s mid-grade talismans for eight hundred spirit stones and left.
• Zhui Feng Valley’s Divine Machine Boat arrived carrying more than a thousand cultivators, and Elder Han identified it to the Luoxia Sect disciples.
• Elder Han greeted Elder Brother Fang, knelt before him, and thanked him for saving his life nearly a century earlier.
• Elder Han and Elder Brother Fang recalled how Fang had rescued him from a fifth-level demonic beast and how Han later sent him rare spirit herbs.
• The Zhui Feng Valley cultivators disembarked and settled on a nearby peak, and Qin Fengming saw that they wore jade tablets marked with the sect’s name.

As cultivators gathered before entering the Ancient Battlefield, Qin Fengming spotted a familiar girl among the Rogue Cultivators and wondered why she planned to enter despite her low cultivation. The arrival of Hundred Skills Gate and White Phoenix Sect drew the crowd’s attention, and Qin Fengming was left curious about the strange objects carried by Hundred Skills Gate’s disciples.

• Several sects and thousands of cultivators gathered at the Ancient Battlefield, and Qin Fengming reflected on his future without sect protection.
• Qin Fengming recognized the girl who had once sold him a magical treasure fragment and saw that she had reached Qi Gathering Stage Nine beside a cultivator who appeared to be her Elder Brother.
• Two imposing ships arrived, carrying the cultivators of Hundred Skills Gate and White Phoenix Sect from Haoyu Kingdom.
• The crowd admired White Phoenix Sect’s many female disciples, while Qin Fengming examined the mysterious black-cloth-wrapped objects strapped to Hundred Skills Gate’s disciples.

Qin Fengming waited with the Luoxia Sect as the mist around the Ancient Battlefield’s Teleportation Array dispersed. The array appeared, and the Core Formation cultivators began preparing it for the disciples’ entry.

• Qin Fengming found that the Gongsun sisters were absent and watched the cultivators from the various sects gather as the opening day approached.
• A cultivator announced that the mist was dispersing, and Elder Han told the Luoxia Sect disciples where to regroup inside the Ancient Battlefield before leading them toward the array.
• The mist vanished, revealing six stone platforms bearing Teleportation Arrays as more than a hundred Core Formation cultivators watched.
• The arrays’ Restrictive Spells disappeared, and Elder Han and an elder from the Spirit Driving Gate placed eight mid-grade Spirit Stones into the grooves of one array.

Qin Fengming entered the Ancient Battlefield through a teleportation array and found himself alone in the Yellow Stone Desert. After consulting his map and assessing the dangers, he decided he would need to travel east through several regions to reach the area where Qi Gathering stage cultivators operated.

• Elder Han organized the Luoxia Sect cultivators into groups of one hundred, and Qin Fengming watched them teleport into the Ancient Battlefield.
• Qin Fengming collected a Teleportation Talisman, entered the array, and appeared in a barren desert of yellow sand and stones.
• Qin Fengming activated a Diamond Talisman and found no living creatures within fifty li of his arrival point.
• Qin Fengming identified the location as the Yellow Stone Desert and recalled its demonic beasts, ancient restrictive spells, and rare medicinal herbs.
• Qin Fengming studied his map and determined he would have to travel east through Meadow Swamp, Red Leaf Forest, and the Black Stone Mountain Range to reach the White Jade Mountain Range.

Qin Fengming cautiously crossed the Yellow Stone Desert, hoping to find a suitable place for seclusion, and discovered cultivators fighting ahead. Hidden beneath a dune, he recognized one fighter as a Biling Sect disciple facing a powerful Scarlet-tailed Scorpion.

• Qin Fengming concealed his presence and flew east through the Yellow Stone Desert, carefully avoiding danger and an ancient restrictive spell.
• After detecting signs of a fight, Qin Fengming circled the area to check for other cultivators before approaching.
• Qin Fengming watched a burly, bearded man use two venomous snakes and a spiritual artifact against a Grade 4 demon beast.
• Qin Fengming recognized the man as a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage disciple of the Biling Sect and identified his opponent as a Scarlet-tailed Scorpion.

Qin Fengming watched a Biling Sect cultivator weaken and slay a Grade 4 Scarlet-tailed Scorpion, then secretly took the Moonlit Grass the man had been fighting to obtain. He revealed himself to the exhausted cultivator and taunted him, leaving the two poised to fight.

• Qin Fengming observed the Biling Sect cultivator use yellow powder to weaken the Scarlet-tailed Scorpion and spotted Moonlit Grass nearby.
• Qin Fengming recognized the herb as a rare ingredient for the Pill of Four Yellows for Sustaining Scenery and quietly collected it.
• The Burly Man intensified his assault and killed the Scarlet-tailed Scorpion after a prolonged battle.
• Qin Fengming revealed himself after collecting the Moonlit Grass, and the Burly Man realized he had taken it.
• The Burly Man threatened Qin Fengming and prepared to attack him with his two venomous snakes.

Qin Fengming fought Fang Qiying with a trapping spiritual weapon and a powerful Sky of Flames Talisman, but Fang Qiying used a life-saving talisman to damage the Five Elements Ring and escape. Fang Qiying fled south, vowing to kill Qin Fengming when they met again.

• Qin Fengming trapped Fang Qiying with the Five Elements Ring and attacked him with a Sky of Flames Talisman.
• Fang Qiying endured the flames with a defensive spiritual weapon and demanded to know what kind of talisman Qin Fengming had used.
• Qin Fengming refused to reveal the talisman's origin and waited for Fang Qiying to break free, while Fang Qiying worried that his recent battle had left him at a disadvantage.
• Fang Qiying used a powerful talisman to strike the Five Elements Ring, badly damaging it and rendering it unusable.
• Fang Qiying revealed his name, vowed to kill Qin Fengming at their next meeting, and fled south.