Chapter Summaries

Liu Xi encountered Qing Yan Jing fleeing the Fu Tu Ancient Clan and rescued her after Xuan Guang and Mo Tong cornered her. He confronted the Heaven Supremes as he held the injured runaway bride.

• Liu Xi sensed intense spatial fluctuations over the sea and traveled there to investigate.
• Qing Yan Jing emerged from a spatial rift, gravely injured after fleeing the Fu Tu Ancient Clan.
• Xuan Guang and Mo Tong arrived with other Heaven Supremes and demanded Qing Yan Jing return to face the marriage alliance with the Mo Ke Ancient Clan.
• Xuan Guang attacked Qing Yan Jing, and she used a spirit array to resist before being blasted backward.
• Liu Xi caught Qing Yan Jing, calmed her spiritual energy, and rebuked the Heaven Supremes for attacking her.

Liu Xi confronted Mo Tong and Xuan Guang when they came to take Qing Yan Jing back to the Fu Tu Ancient Clan. He revealed himself as Green Lotus, refused to surrender her, and left Mo Tong and Xuan Guang fleeing into a Spatial Storm after a single attack.

• Mo Tong and Xuan Guang demanded that Liu Xi hand over Qing Yan Jing, invoking the Fu Tu and Mo Ke Ancient Clans.
• Liu Xi said he had knocked Mo Ke Tian unconscious with one slap, leading Qing Yan Jing and the others to recognize him as Green Lotus.
• Mo Tong offered Liu Xi the Fu Tu Ancient Clan's favor if he returned Qing Yan Jing, while Xuan Guang warned him about the two clans' power.
• Liu Xi refused to give Qing Yan Jing up, and Mo Tong and Xuan Guang ordered their group to attack him.
• Liu Xi summoned the Indestructible Green Lotus Body and destroyed Mo Tong and Xuan Guang's Dharma Bodies with one strike.
• Xuan Guang and Mo Tong led the remaining four experts into a Spatial Storm to escape Liu Xi.

Liu Xi rescued Qing Yan Jing from Mo Tong, Xuan Guang, and their companions, then brought her to a cave to recover from damaged meridians. He began refining medicine for her, but secretly altered the process so it would produce spiritual liquid for external use instead of a pill.

• Liu Xi forced two Immortal Grade Heaven Supremes and four Spiritual Grade Heaven Supremes into the Spatial Storm, then rescued Qing Yan Jing and left with her.
• Qing Yan Jing thanked Liu Xi and asked why he had saved her; Liu Xi replied that a hero did not need a reason to save a beauty.
• Liu Xi examined Qing Yan Jing in a cave and told her that her meridians would recover with rest and proper treatment.
• Liu Xi gathered roughly a thousand spiritual herbs and used Azure Flame to refine them while Qing Yan Jing watched in admiration.
• Liu Xi changed the final refining process so the medicine would become spiritual liquid for external application rather than a pill.

Liu Xi gave Qing Yan Jing Spiritual Liquid to help heal her meridians, and she prepared to bathe in it while wrestling with her feelings about him. Liu Xi secretly watched her before withdrawing his senses and resolved to face the Mo Ke Ancient Clan without fear once he reached Saint Grade.

• Liu Xi refined the nascent spirit pill into Spiritual Liquid and gave Qing Yan Jing a bottle, instructing her to use it in three baths to help her meridians recover.
• After Liu Xi left, Qing Yan Jing felt both pleased by his favor and uncertain about his intentions, then noticed the Spiritual Liquid had begun to loosen her Heaven Supreme bottleneck.
• Qing Yan Jing made a pool of Supreme Spirit Liquid with a Spiritual Array and poured a third of Liu Xi's Spiritual Liquid into it before preparing to bathe.
• Liu Xi secretly watched Qing Yan Jing prepare to undress, then withdrew his senses and admitted to himself that he liked her.
• Liu Xi considered how to deal with Mo Ke Tian and the Mo Ke Ancient Clan, then decided he would not fear them once he broke through to Saint Grade.

Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing explored the unfamiliar continent as he charmed her into sharing her past. They found a life-filled Black Egg in a scorched cave, and Liu Xi thought he recognized where they were.

• Qing Yan Jing emerged from the cave feeling better after bathing in Liu Xi's spiritual liquid.
• Liu Xi flew with Qing Yan Jing in his arms and questioned her about the Fu Tu Ancient Clan.
• Liu Xi feigned sorrow over his difficult rise from an ordinary person, prompting Qing Yan Jing to comfort him and share her childhood and family troubles.
• Liu Xi sensed a strange disturbance and brought Qing Yan Jing down to a charred cave.
• Liu Xi found a Black Egg radiating life force and said he thought he knew where they were.

Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing traveled together after taking in the Nirvana Egg of a Nine Nether Sparrow, growing closer as she recovered. Meanwhile, the Fu Tu Ancient Clan lost contact with Mo Tong and Xuan Guang’s group, and Mo Ke Tian’s failed marriage pursuit and defeat damaged his standing.

• Qing Yan Jing identified the Black Egg as a Nine Nether Sparrow’s Nirvana Egg, and Liu Xi decided that they would raise it together.
• Liu Xi took the egg and exposed it to Azure Flame to help strengthen Nine Nether’s bloodline and Undying Flame.
• Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing learned they were on the Hundred Spirits Continent, shared their pasts, and traveled to a nearby human city while she recovered.
• The Fu Tu Ancient Clan lost contact with Mo Tong, Xuan Guang, and four Spiritual Grade Heaven Supremes after they entered a Spatial Storm, though their soul lamps remained lit.
• The Fu Tu Ancient Clan recalled those searching for Qing Yan Jing, while the Mo Ke Ancient Clan continued looking for her and Mo Ke Tian grew increasingly irritable over his damaged reputation.

Qing Yan Jing recovered from her injuries with Liu Xi’s spiritual liquid but resolved to leave so the Fu Tu Ancient Clan and Mo Ke Ancient Clan would not endanger him. Liu Xi persuaded her to stay by proposing that they elope, and she agreed.

• Qing Yan Jing absorbed Liu Xi’s spiritual liquid, healed her injuries, and approached the bottleneck of Heaven Supreme.
• Qing Yan Jing decided to leave Liu Xi, believing her pursuers would bring him trouble.
• Liu Xi appeared before Qing Yan Jing and embraced her, refusing to let her leave.
• Liu Xi warned Qing Yan Jing that leaving him would expose her traces and proposed that they elope.
• Liu Xi kissed Qing Yan Jing and demanded her promise, and Qing Yan Jing agreed.

Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing entered a forbidden zone in the North Desolation Forest, where an eerie power suppressed their spiritual energy. After Liu Xi protected Qing Yan Jing from the spirit beasts, they reached a waterfall whose source seemed connected to the strange power.

• Liu Xi accompanied Qing Yan Jing to explore the North Desolation Forest's forbidden zone after hearing that it suppressed spiritual energy.
• Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing entered the zone, and the eerie power stripped away both of their spiritual energy.
• Liu Xi reassured Qing Yan Jing and led her through the mountains, defeating spirit beasts and guiding her safely through a beast tide.
• Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing reached a massive waterfall, where Liu Xi noticed a boulder before it and sensed that the source of the eerie power lay behind the falls.

Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing reached the waterfall and discovered that an Innate Spirit Array concealed a world beyond it. Liu Xi triggered its entrance by leaping toward the waterfall, and the two passed through a spatial gate together.

• Liu Xi carried Qing Yan Jing up a series of boulders to the cliffside waterfall.
• Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing examined the waterfall, and Qing Yan Jing identified an Innate Spirit Array formed by the surrounding mountains and water.
• Qing Yan Jing said they might enter by discovering the array's rules, while Liu Xi sensed the landscape was familiar and proposed jumping into the waterfall.
• Liu Xi leaped toward the waterfall with Qing Yan Jing in his arms and endured the array's crushing gravity.
• A spatial gate opened before the waterfall, and Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing jumped through it together.

Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing explored the hidden paradise and found Earth Heart Divine Marrow and the even rarer Earth Heart Source Marrow. Liu Xi gave the Source Marrow to Qing Yan Jing before approaching a strange platform at the end of a flight of nine steps.

• Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing entered the cave dwelling and followed its winding passages toward a mysterious source.
• Qing Yan Jing found Earth Heart Divine Marrow and explained that it could help an Earth Supreme Great Perfection break through to the Heaven Supreme realm.
• Liu Xi climbed a stalactite, discovered Earth Heart Source Marrow inside it, and collected most of the treasure.
• Qing Yan Jing identified the Source Marrow as a divine treasure that could guarantee a breakthrough to the Heaven Supreme realm.
• Liu Xi gave the Source Marrow to Qing Yan Jing, then walked toward a strange platform beyond nine steps.

Liu Xi tested the pressure on the cave abode’s raised platform and was thrown unconscious when he tried to reach the eighth stair. After recovering, he settled on the sixth stair to temper his body while Qing Yan Jing began studying the Innate Spirit Array.

• Liu Xi stepped onto the platform’s stairs and endured pressure that grew stronger with each step, while Qing Yan Jing watched and urged him to stop.
• Liu Xi was blasted away when he tried to climb to the eighth stair and fainted into Qing Yan Jing’s embrace.
• After waking a day later, Liu Xi rested on Qing Yan Jing’s lap and refused her offer to use the Earth Heart Source Marrow for his recovery.
• Liu Xi returned to the stairs, climbed to the sixth, and used the pressure and spirit pills to temper his body.
• Qing Yan Jing left Liu Xi to search for a place to contemplate the Innate Spirit Array and possibly gain control of it.

After spending three years tempering his body on the eighth step, Liu Xi finally stepped onto the ninth and discovered its deadly warning had been a deception. Meanwhile, Qing Yan Jing studied the Innate Spirit Array as Mo Ke Tian searched unsuccessfully for her and Liu Xi.

• After half a year on the sixth step, Liu Xi climbed the seventh and eighth steps and stopped when warnings told him the ninth would kill him.
• Liu Xi sat on the eighth step to temper his body while Qing Yan Jing climbed the mountain and entered an ethereal state of understanding the Innate Spirit Array.
• Mo Ke Tian searched for Qing Yan Jing for three years, unable to find her or Liu Xi.
• After three years of training and repeated retreats, Liu Xi overcame his fear and stepped onto the ninth step.
• The pressure from the first eight steps vanished, and Liu Xi realized the ninth step had been fake.

Liu Xi inherited the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, a Peerless Divine Ability that tempered the body, and reached its Sixth Turn after three months of cultivation. He emerged vastly stronger and reunited with Qing Yan Jing, crediting her for bringing him to the inheritance.

• The senior’s voice declared Liu Xi qualified to inherit the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique and explained its power to temper the body through nine revolutions.
• Liu Xi sat on the platform’s meditation cushion and received the technique’s knowledge and the senior’s remaining Divine Power.
• The Divine Power merged with Liu Xi’s Chaos Divine Power, tempering his body and expanding his Supreme Sea while Qing Yan Jing sensed that the spiritual energy seal had lifted.
• Qing Yan Jing returned to Liu Xi’s cave residence and found him enveloped in the inheritance’s golden light.
• After three months, Liu Xi absorbed the remaining Divine Power and advanced to the Sixth Turn, greatly strengthening his body, Supreme Sea, and combat power.
• Liu Xi appeared before Qing Yan Jing, embraced her, and thanked her for helping him find the inheritance.

Liu Xi learned that Qing Yan Jing had mastered much of the hidden realm’s spiritual array and could use it with the Earth Heart Source Marrow to attempt a breakthrough to the Heaven Supreme realm. He prepared a medicinal bath to help her absorb the marrow, and Qing Yan Jing began cultivating in it.

• Qing Yan Jing demonstrated that she had grasped most of the spiritual array’s essence and said she could use it and the Earth Heart Source Marrow to break through to the Heaven Supreme realm.
• Liu Xi revealed that he had learned the Sixth Turn of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, and Qing Yan Jing recognized its link to the Ancient War God.
• Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing spent three days exploring the hidden realm and gathering its herbs and treasures while Liu Xi prepared Qing Yan Jing for her breakthrough.
• Liu Xi refined spiritual herbs and the Earth Heart Source Marrow into a medicinal bath using Azure Flame.
• Qing Yan Jing entered the bath and began absorbing the spiritual liquid and Earth Heart Source Marrow.

Qing Yan Jing began breaking through to the Heaven Supreme realm with the aid of the Innate Spirit Array and the Fu Tu Pagoda. As she forged a Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Body, the Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation gathered overhead, leaving her to face it while Liu Xi watched helplessly.

• Qing Yan Jing released her cultivation suppression and used the Fu Tu Pagoda and its nine golden dragons to refine the spiritual energy around her.
• Qing Yan Jing drew on the Innate Spirit Array to gather a vast river of pure spiritual energy and absorb it through the Fu Tu Pagoda.
• Qing Yan Jing reached the Heaven Supreme barrier, shattered her body, and began reconstructing it as a Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Body.
• Qing Yan Jing summoned the Great Fu Tu Dharma Body to shield her from the Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation while she continued forging her new spirit body.
• Liu Xi watched as the Tribulation Clouds grew heavier, knowing Qing Yan Jing had to overcome the tribulation herself.

Qing Yan Jing endured all four stages of her Heavenly Sovereign Tribulation and reached the early Spiritual Grade Heaven Supreme realm. After Liu Xi cleared away the remaining storm, he congratulated her, drew her into his arms, and kissed her while keeping his private thoughts to himself.

• Qing Yan Jing defended herself from the tribulation’s destructive torrent, Black Flame, and gale, nearly losing the Fu Tu Pagoda in the process.
• Qing Yan Jing reshaped her body into a Heavenly Sovereign Spirit Body and used a spiritual array to withstand the final lightning tribulation.
• Qing Yan Jing passed all four stages and officially reached the early Spiritual Grade Heaven Supreme realm.
• Liu Xi swept away the lingering storms and shockwaves, then praised Qing Yan Jing’s beauty.
• Liu Xi pulled the flustered Qing Yan Jing into his arms and kissed her while thinking that some things were better left hidden.

Qing Yan Jing broke through to the Heaven Supreme realm, prompting the Fu Tu Ancient Clan to prepare to summon her back through a Blood Contract. When the contract reached her, she hesitated over returning, and Liu Xi insisted she stay with him as they watched the sunrise.

• Qing Yan Jing's breakthrough revealed eight liberated Divine Meridians, and Fu Tu Xuan urged the Fu Tu Clan Leader to bring her back as a possible successor.
• The Fu Tu Clan Leader agreed to activate the Blood Contract through the Ancestral Pagoda and also summon Xuan Guang and Mo Tong.
• At Sun Worship Mountain, a black-and-white marking appeared on Qing Yan Jing, revealing that the Fu Tu Ancient Clan had located her through the Blood Contract.
• Qing Yan Jing told Liu Xi that returning could end her marriage alliance with the Mo Ke Ancient Clan, but she was unsure whether she wanted to go back.
• Liu Xi decided Qing Yan Jing would stay with him and promised to stop anyone who tried to take her away; she accepted his reassurance as the sun rose.

After Xuan Guang and Mo Tong returned to the Fu Tu Ancient Clan, they accused Green Lotus of abducting Qing Yan Jing and urged the clan to pursue him. The Fu Tu Clan Leader doubted their account, while the two men secretly tried to keep Qing Yan Jing from returning.

• Fu Tu Xuan learned that Green Lotus had taken Qing Yan Jing away from the Great Thousand World, though the Blood Contract had brought Xuan Guang and Mo Tong back to the clan.
• Fu Tu Xuan demanded that Green Lotus be executed, but the Fu Tu Clan Leader cautioned that Xuan Guang and Mo Tong's story needed verification.
• Xuan Guang and Mo Tong claimed Green Lotus had harassed Qing Yan Jing, abducted her, and cast them into spatial turbulence.
• The Fu Tu Clan Leader questioned their account, noting that Qing Yan Jing had broken through to the Heaven Supreme realm.
• Mo Tong urged the clan to give Green Lotus's whereabouts to the Mo Ke Ancient Clan, while he and Xuan Guang privately feared Qing Yan Jing's return.

Fu Tu Xuan led a force to retrieve Qing Yan Jing and confront Green Lotus, while the Mo Ke Ancient Clan mobilized an even larger army to capture them. Mo Ke Tian planned to reclaim his honor by bringing Qing Yan Jing back for the marriage and letting him deal with Green Lotus.

• Fu Tu Xuan persuaded the Fu Tu Clan Leader to let him take Xuan Guang and Mo Tong to retrieve Qing Yan Jing and investigate Green Lotus.
• Xuan Guang and Mo Tong secretly informed Mo Ke Tian about Qing Yan Jing and Green Lotus.
• Fu Tu Xuan departed with Xuan Guang, Mo Tong, and four Spiritual Grade Heaven Supremes to confront Green Lotus.
• Mo Ke Tian set out with a Saint Grade Heaven Supreme, two other Immortal Grades, five Spiritual Grade Heaven Supremes, and a large army aboard three Spirit Ships.
• Mo Ke Tian told the Second Elder that he could not overcome his grievance, and the Second Elder promised to capture Green Lotus and bring Qing Yan Jing back for the planned marriage.

Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing returned to the Western Heaven Continent, where Qing Yan Jing warned him that the Fu Tu Ancient Clan was pursuing them. Liu Xi chose to face her clan openly, and Fu Tu Xuan arrived with six others to find the couple waiting at a lakeside pavilion.

• Liu Xi and Qing Yan Jing traveled from the Hundred Spirits Continent to the Western Heaven Continent and discussed visiting the Luoshen Clan.
• Qing Yan Jing told Liu Xi that her clan was coming after them, and he promised to protect her rather than flee.
• Fu Tu Xuan followed a spiritual disc to the Western Heaven Continent with Xuan Guang, Mo Tong, and four other Heaven Supremes.
• Fu Tu Xuan tracked Qing Yan Jing to a lake where Liu Xi sat waiting with her beside him.