Chapter Summaries

Fang Hao completed his breakthrough and joined the others in Hong Province as they awaited the Divine Bridge’s opening. When a Nether Prison Blood Disciple ambushed the arriving True King Celestial Venerable, he shattered the bridge and unleashed an invasion toward the Spirit Realm, leaving its experts looking to Li Xuan and the Evergreen Pavilion for help.

• Fang Hao condensed five divine ability arcane patterns, returned to Hong Province, and demonstrated the power of his Qimen divine ability.
• The Evergreen Pavilion arrived in Hong Province, where Fu Tianhai explained the Divine Domain’s thirty-six realms and their connections to Spirit Domain forces.
• The Divine Bridge formed across the Azure Sea, and everyone waited for a Celestial Venerable to arrive from the Divine Domain.
• The 726 Blood Disciple gathered the Blood Slaves’ power and struck as a True King Celestial Venerable crossed the bridge, breaking the Divine Bridge and killing him.
• Blood-red forces surged from the Azure Sea Abyss toward Hong Province, and the Spirit Domain’s experts turned to the Evergreen Pavilion for hope.

726 Blood Disciple led the Blood Slaves from the Nether Prison and declared that the Spirit Domain would become a Blood Domain, but Xu Yan challenged him while Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Su Lingxiu intercepted the Blood Slaves. Xu Yan held his own against the stronger 726 Blood Disciple, and the battle continued as the others unleashed their divine abilities.

• 726 Blood Disciple announced that the Spirit Domain would become the Blood Domain and ordered its people to submit or be sacrificed.
• Xu Yan left Evergreen Pavilion to challenge 726 Blood Disciple, while Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Su Lingxiu went to fight the Blood Slaves.
• Xu Yan used the Heaven Severing Sword and other supernatural abilities, but 726 Blood Disciple's superior attacks left him at a disadvantage without defeating him.
• 726 Blood Disciple ordered the Blood Slaves to attack Hong Province while he continued fighting Xu Yan.
• Meng Chong battled a group of Blood Slaves, Fang Hao trapped others in Qimen formations, and Su Lingxiu swept some into her Divine Furnace Hundred Refinements.

Xu Yan and his companions fought to stop the 726 Blood Disciple and his Blood Slaves from blood-sacrificing the Spiritual Domain. As the Blood Disciple forced his way toward Meng Chong, Xu Yan began forming a sword formation to hold him back.

• Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Su Lingxiu battled most of the Blood Slaves, while Red Cat appeared in its giant tiger form and blocked those that had slipped through.
• Red Cat devoured a Blood Slave with its new supernatural ability and spat out a blood-red bead as the fight continued.
• Xu Yan used his Yin Yang Undying Sword and other supernatural abilities to resist the 726 Blood Disciple, who failed to break through Xu Yan’s defenses or keep his natal blood aura attached to him.
• The 726 Blood Disciple tried to reach Meng Chong’s battlefield, but Xu Yan repeatedly intercepted him and worried that Meng Chong could not withstand the stronger enemy.
• Xu Yan tried to use the Great Sky Grasping Hand, but the weak palm shattered; he then formed gigantic swords into a sword formation around the 726 Blood Disciple.

Xu Yan cultivated the Great Sky Grasping Hand and broke through to minor mastery in the Supernatural Ability Realm while fighting the 726 Blood Disciple. After Xu Yan turned the Blood Disciple’s trump-card saber strike back on him, the Blood Disciple abandoned his Spirit Domain invasion and fled to report the threat Xu Yan posed.

• Xu Yan used the Great Sky Grasping Hand to seize and fling the 726 Blood Disciple away, successfully cultivating the divine ability.
• The 726 Blood Disciple drew power from a blood-colored vortex at the Heavenly Grotto and unleashed a devastating saber strike as Xu Yan broke through to minor mastery in the Supernatural Ability Realm.
• Xu Yan’s sword wheel completed a cycle and returned the Blood Disciple’s attack with much of its force, making him stagger back.
• The 726 Blood Disciple decided to abandon the blood sacrifice and return to the Netherworld Prison to report Xu Yan, then fled despite Xu Yan calling after him.

Li Xuan captured 726 Blood Disciple, but a hidden seal destroyed the invader before he could reveal the Netherworld’s deepest secrets. After sealing the Azure Sea Abyss sky cave, Li Xuan approved a search of the Spirit Realm for other hidden dangers.

• 726 Blood Disciple fled toward the Azure Sea Abyss, but Li Xuan used the Great Sky Grasping Hand to capture him.
• Li Xuan searched 726 Blood Disciple’s soul and learned about the Netherworld and the mysterious Prison Blood Lord before a seal annihilated the Blood Disciple.
• Li Xuan and his disciples entered the Azure Sea Abyss sky cave, where he suppressed the blood waves and found three Netherworld Blood Beads.
• Li Xuan sealed the Azure Sea Abyss sky cave and Xu Yan’s smaller sky cave, while an eye briefly appeared behind the smaller cave’s barrier.
• Fang Hao asked to investigate other dangers in the Spirit Realm, and Li Xuan agreed; Xu Yan, Meng Chong, Fang Hao, Red Cat, and Spirit Realm experts set out to search.

Li Xuan restored the Divine Bridge and led the Spirit Realm experts toward Qinghua Realm, where the Nether Prison Heavenly Grottoes and Blood Shadow Tower had plunged the realm into chaos. As the Great Yue Kingdom faced collapse, the Great Yue Emperor ordered the Realm Gate opened to request outside aid.

• Li Xuan compiled the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao and began considering a path for others to cultivate supernatural abilities independently.
• After Xu Yan and the others returned with no further hidden dangers found, Li Xuan restored the Divine Bridge and led the Spirit Realm group across the Azure Sea.
• The group reached the far end of the Divine Bridge as the chapter shifted to Qinghua Realm, where Heavenly Grotto invasions and Blood Shadow Tower attacks had overwhelmed the three major powers.
• The Great Yue Emperor confronted a blood-colored figure at a Heavenly Grotto and ordered a silver-armored man to open the Realm Gate and seek reinforcements.

Li Xuan and his disciples crossed the reopened Divine Bridge into the Divine Realm and found Lingguan City blood-sacrificed by the Blood Shadow Tower and its allies. They attacked the waiting blood shadows, and Xu Yan left the canyon to challenge a powerful Blood Shadow despite Cheng Zhan’s warning.

• Blood shadows slaughtered everyone in Lingguan City and gathered their blood into a pool as Cheng Zhan and other Divine Realm warriors fought to defend the city.
• The Divine Bridge reopened, and Li Xuan, Xu Yan, and their companions crossed into the Divine Realm aboard the Flying Ship.
• Li Xuan ordered his disciples and their demon companions to kill the blood shadows gathered at the canyon’s exit.
• Xu Yan and the others overwhelmed the weaker blood shadows with their martial techniques, startling Cheng Zhan and the other Divine Realm experts.
• When Cheng Zhan warned Xu Yan that the enemy was too powerful, Xu Yan charged into the midair battle and used the Absolute Heaven Sword to draw one Blood Shadow away.

Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Fang Hao helped Li Xuan save Cheng Zhan and his wounded warriors, then defeated a powerful Blood Shadow. Cheng Zhan explained that the Qinghua Realm was besieged by Nether Prison forces and began describing the Nether Prison and its servants.

• Xu Yan fought a Blood Shadow to temper his abilities while Li Xuan secretly destroyed the Blood Shadow attacking Cheng Zhan, and the remaining enemies vanished.
• Yue'er treated Cheng Zhan's wounded warriors and accepted spirit medicines and Divine Medicines as payment.
• Xu Yan, Meng Chong, and Fang Hao joined forces to kill the last Blood Shadow after Red Cat was beaten back from the battle.
• Cheng Zhan told Li Xuan that the Qinghua Realm faced a grave crisis, with its grottoes threatened and the Blood Shadow Tower Master now an Immortal Celestial Venerable.
• Cheng Zhan described the Qinghua Realm's three great Nether Prison Grottoes, the destruction spreading across the realm, and the origins and ranks of Blood Disciples and Blood Slaves.

Cheng Zhan explained the Nether Prison and the Blood Shadow Tower, and Li Xuan set out for the Great Yue Kingdom to deal with the Blood Shadow Tower Lord. In Qiyun Commandery, a Nether Prison infiltrator and the Blood Shadows launched a betrayal and attack, trapping the city beneath the Slaughtering Life Blood Refining Cover.

• Cheng Zhan explained that the Nether Prison threatened the Qinghua Realm and asked Li Xuan to suppress the Blood Shadow Tower Lord, who was believed to be in the Great Yue Kingdom.
• Li Xuan agreed to go to the Great Yue Kingdom, and Fang Hao brought the Great Zhou Emperor and others aboard the Evergreen Pavilion Flying Ship.
• Li Xuan secretly restricted the passage to the Spirit Realm before the Flying Ship departed for the Great Yue Kingdom.
• A Nether Prison young man ordered the Blood Shadows to blood-sacrifice Qiyun Commandery City so he could advance to Blood Child.
• A traitorous True King Celestial Venerable ambushed and severely wounded the Qiyun Commandery City Lord as Blood Shadows attacked the city.
• The attackers activated the Slaughtering Life Blood Refining Cover over Qiyun Commandery City, and the True King Celestial Venerables recognized that they could not break it.

As Blood Son Tu rose to power in the Qinghua Realm, his converted True King Celestial Venerables began blood-sacrificing Qiyun Commandery. In Xiashan City, the crippled Jiang Buping revealed himself to confront King Shanzhen as the city faced slaughter.

• The Evergreen Pavilion group learned that Blood Son Tu had been born after Qiyun Commandery City was blood-sacrificed, and they changed course toward the commandery.
• Blood Son Tu ordered more than thirty surrendered True King Celestial Venerables to blood-sacrifice cities and gather Essence Blood for his ascension.
• King Shanzhen arrived in Xiashan City, killed Tang Qian, suppressed the city's Law Condensation Celestial Venerables, and prepared to blood-sacrifice its people.
• Jiang Buping overcame his listlessness, revealed his identity as the abandoned prodigy of the Taicang Realm, and launched a spear attack at King Shanzhen.

Jiang Buping wandered away from Xiashan City, badly wounded and convinced he was nearing death, while Blood Son Tu’s rise threatened the Qinghua Realm. Feng Yan and Sui Hongwu were trapped by Blood Son Tu in Qiyun Commandery City when Li Xuan’s group arrived, and Su Lingxiu ordered them to rescue a pitiful-looking person.

• Jiang Buping left Xiashan City after King Shanzhen’s death, struggling to keep his body and consciousness intact as he reflected on his past and the realm’s calamity.
• Feng Yan joined Sui Hongwu against the Blood Shadow Tower Lord, who fled to Qiyun Commandery City and offered to help Blood Son Tu fight them.
• Blood Son Tu pretended to teach the Blood Shadow Tower Lord a secret art, then devoured him to strengthen himself.
• Blood Son Tu trapped Feng Yan and Sui Hongwu in a blood-refining battle, draining their blood qi while giving them Netherworld Blood Beads to prolong their resistance.
• Li Xuan’s group traveled toward Qiyun Commandery City, and Li Xuan killed a King preparing to sacrifice a small city.
• Su Lingxiu spotted a pitiful-looking person and told the group to bring him aboard and save him.

Li Xuan and the others rescued the unconscious Jiang Buping, whose unusual soul led Li Xuan to choose him as his fifth disciple and begin planning a new martial path. As Blood Son Tu pursued Feng Yan and Sui Hongwu with an army of Blood Disciples and Blood Slaves, the Evergreen Pavilion's Flying Ship arrived in their path.

• Su Lingxiu healed Jiang Buping's physical injuries but could not remove the Unchanging Qi staining his soul, and Li Xuan warned her not to let her Primordial Spirit touch it.
• Cheng Zhan recognized Jiang Buping as the abandoned prodigy of Tai Kun, and Li Xuan decided to make him his fifth disciple and develop a martial path around his unusual soul.
• Cheng Zhan and Li Xuan's group reached a city under attack in Qiyun Commandery, where Li Xuan slew the Blood Disciples and continued toward Qiyun Commandery City.
• Feng Yan and Sui Hongwu broke through Blood Son Tu's blockade with a combined attack that devastated Qiyun Commandery, then fled toward Wanlei Sect while Blood Son Tu pursued with dozens of Blood Disciples and tens of thousands of Blood Slaves.
• Feng Yan and Sui Hongwu spotted the unfamiliar Evergreen Pavilion's Flying Ship approaching them as Blood Son Tu followed close behind.

Li Xuan revealed his overwhelming strength when Blood Son Tu and his Netherworld army threatened the Flying Ship. He left Feng Yan, Sui Hongwu, and Cheng Zhan stunned after destroying the entire army with one palm, saving Qinghua Realm from the invasion.

• Cheng Zhan saw Feng Yan and Sui Hongwu fleeing from Blood Son Tu’s advancing Netherworld army and urged them to join forces with the senior aboard the Flying Ship.
• Feng Yan and Sui Hongwu boarded the ship, and Feng Yan immediately submitted after Li Xuan rested a hand on his shoulder and told him to be quiet.
• Blood Son Tu threatened Li Xuan, who manifested his immense power and condemned the Blood Path.
• Li Xuan struck with one palm, reducing Blood Son Tu and tens of thousands of Blood Slaves to ash and saving Qinghua Realm.

After defeating Blood Son Tu, Li Xuan agreed to help the Great Yue Kingdom defend its Heavenly Caves and sent the Flying Ship toward the capital. Along the way, Xu Yan and the others traded their skills for Divine Realm treasures, while Li Xuan neared completion of his fifth martial art.

• Jiang Buping woke healed, mistook Li Xuan's immense presence for a hallucination caused by the Unchanging Qi, and fell back asleep.
• Sui Hongwu and two True King Celestial Venerables begged Li Xuan to save the Great Yue Kingdom, and Li Xuan agreed to head for the capital's Heavenly Cave.
• Sui Hongwu assigned Qiyun Commandery's True King Celestial Venerables to guard its fallen Heavenly Cave and handle the remaining traitors as the Flying Ship departed.
• Feng Yan explained the treasures in the Netherworld Prison Heavenly Caves, including Blood Cloud Gold, and Xu Yan and the others eagerly discussed gathering them.
• Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu exchanged Storage Rings, inner armor, and Regeneration Pills for Feng Yan's and Cheng Zhan's treasures, astonishing Feng Yan with their methods.
• Feng Yan wondered whether Li Xuan came from a legendary place, Fang Hao began planning upgrades to the Flying Ship, and Li Xuan neared completion of his fifth martial art.

The Great Yue Emperor fought to defend the Great Yue Heavenly Cave while Blood Son Ji warned that the Qinghua Realm would fall and hinted that Blood Son Tu could become a Blood Spirit. After learning that Blood Son Tu had been defeated and an unnamed expert was coming to reinforce the battle, the Great Yue Emperor awaited the newcomer’s arrival.

• The Great Yue Emperor and Blood Son Ji clashed at the Heavenly Cave entrance while their forces fought a brutal battle.
• Blood Son Ji claimed a Blood Spirit could be born within the Qinghua Realm, and the Great Yue Emperor worried that Blood Son Tu was pursuing that goal.
• A messenger told the Great Yue Emperor that Feng Yan and Sui Hongwu had been defeated and Qiyun Commandery had fallen, so the emperor ordered evacuations and sought reinforcements.
• The messenger returned with Sui Hongwu’s report that an expert had killed Blood Son Tu and tens of thousands of Blood Slaves with one palm.
• The Great Yue Emperor learned the expert was heading to the Great Yue Heavenly Cave within three days and ordered Sui Hongwu to suppress the other troubled Heavenly Caves.

Li Xuan arrived at the Great Yue Heavenly Cave, where the Great Yue Emperor learned that the mysterious high person had killed Blood Son Tu. Li Xuan then effortlessly killed Blood Son Ji and entered the Heavenly Cave to teach his disciples by demonstrating the divine abilities of four Martial Daos.

• The Great Yue Emperor told Blood Son Ji that Blood Son Tu had been killed by a high person, and Blood Son Ji sent the news to the Nether Prison while doubting the claim.
• Fang Hao enhanced the Evergreen Pavilion's Flying Ship as Li Xuan worked on a fifth Martial Dao for Jiang Buping by seeking a way to fuse Unchanging Qi into his soul.
• Feng Yan brought Li Xuan and his disciples to the Great Yue Heavenly Cave and announced that the high person had arrived.
• Blood Son Ji attacked the Flying Ship, but Li Xuan killed him with one palm, stunning the Great Yue Emperor and silencing the battle.
• Li Xuan entered the Heavenly Cave and displayed divine abilities from four Martial Daos, leaving Xu Yan, the other disciples, and the Great Yue forces in awe.

Li Xuan annihilated the Nether Prison forces in the Great Yue Heavenly Cave, and the Great Yue Emperor explained the Heavenly Caves and the limits on invading enemies. Fang Hao demonstrated an Array Formation to seal the invasion point, and the Great Yue Emperor asked him to become Great Yue’s Imperial Preceptor and help defend Qinghua Realm.

• Li Xuan unleashed his divine abilities to destroy the Blood Sons, Blood Disciples, Blood Slaves, and blood-fiendish energy in the Great Yue Heavenly Cave.
• The Flying Ship entered the Heavenly Cave, where the Great Yue Emperor and Feng Yan helped kill a Blood Son and Great Yue forces set out to exterminate the remaining Nether Prison enemies.
• The Great Yue Emperor explained the history of the Heavenly Caves and said that invaders were limited in strength by the barrier of heaven and earth.
• Fang Hao proposed using Array Formations to guard the Heavenly Cave, then gathered materials and refined tools for a formation.
• Fang Hao set up the Eight Directions Imprisoning Spirit Locking Array over the invasion point, sealing it, and the Great Yue Emperor asked him to serve as Imperial Preceptor.

Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu secured Great Yue’s support to establish academies and spread Array Formation, Artifact Refining, alchemy, and healing. As Great Yue restored order, Li Xuan imparted divine abilities to Wu Tiannan and others, and Xu Yan began teaching them how to comprehend those abilities.

• Fang Hao agreed to become Great Yue’s Imperial Preceptor on the condition that the kingdom provide resources and establish an academy where he could teach Array Formation and Artifact Refining; Su Lingxiu also agreed to cooperate with Great Yue.
• The Great Yue Emperor gathered Heavenly Cave spoils, returned to the capital, and sent experts to purge invaders and rebels and reinforce Wanlei Sect and Tianwu Sect.
• Fang Hao and Su Lingxiu moved into Qimen Academy and the Alchemy and Medicine Academy, while Xu Yan and Meng Chong focused on cultivating and consolidating their divine abilities.
• Wu Tiannan asked Li Xuan to teach him divine abilities so he could grow strong enough to search the Divine Domain for his long-lost guide, and Li Xuan transmitted several abilities to him.
• Xie Tianheng, Du Yuying, Yun Miaomiao, Ziyun, Yue'er, and Yue Changming also received divine abilities from Li Xuan.
• Xu Yan explained the divine abilities to the group and described how the Taicang Martial Dao could cultivate them, drawing Li Xuan’s praise for his insight and potential to forge his own Martial Dao.

Li Xuan completed the Extreme Soul Martial Dao and took Jiang Buping, whose innate divine soul had been tainted by Unchanging Qi, as his fifth disciple. He explained that Jiang Buping could turn the contamination into an unchanging soul and become an Extreme Soul Martial Artist if he learned to resolve it himself.

• Fang Hao agreed to forge a custom Divine Artifact for Sui Hongwu, while Feng Yan stayed behind to help him and earn instruction in divine abilities.
• Wanlei Sect and Tianwu Sect visited Li Xuan, then obtained pills and array formations from Su Lingxiu and Fang Hao to strengthen Qinghua Realm.
• The Great Yue Emperor went to guard Great Yue Heavenly Cave, where Fang Hao arranged a ninth-tier Array Formation and two Immortal Celestial Venerables took up the defense.
• Li Xuan finished compiling the Extreme Soul Martial Dao, and Jiang Buping woke and was brought before him.
• Li Xuan recognized Jiang Buping’s innate divine soul and offered to teach him a martial dao suited to it; Jiang Buping accepted and became his fifth disciple.
• Li Xuan taught Jiang Buping the Extreme Soul Martial Dao and explained that absorbing the Unchanging Qi into his soul could make him an unchanging soul, if he could resolve the contamination.

Jiang Buping began cultivating Extreme Soul Martial Dao, while Li Xuan taught his other disciples the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao and revealed the Heaven and Earth Realm above the Void Breaking Realm. Xu Yan gained insight into how his previous cultivation realms formed the foundation for creating his own martial Heaven and Earth.

• Li Xuan taught Jiang Buping Extreme Soul Martial Dao, and Su Lingxiu and Fang Hao gave him pills and Divine Artifacts to aid his cultivation.
• Li Xuan transmitted the Lesser Eye of the Heavenly Dao to Xu Yan, Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, and Fang Hao, then explained that they would need to explore how to cultivate it.
• Li Xuan told Xu Yan that the Heaven and Earth Realm lay above the Void Breaking Realm and explained how a martial artist could open a Heaven and Earth within their body.
• Xu Yan connected his earlier cultivation realms to the foundations of his own Heaven and Earth, and Li Xuan affirmed his understanding.
• Li Xuan taught Xu Yan the Heaven and Earth Realm cultivation method, answering his questions until Xu Yan had memorized it.
• Fang Hao reflected that condensing Heaven and Earth Strange Patterns would allow his Qimen to become his own Heaven and Earth.