Chapter Summaries

Zhong Yunxin and Mo Qingxian attacked Liu Xia and Hua Wubai, disrupting Cherishing Flower Palace’s plan to force Golden Pills on the poisoned fighters. As Jing Feng warned Hua Wubai that a hidden Dragon Martial Pavilion Grandmaster had defeated Mo Zifeng’s inner Senior, she stabbed Hua Wubai in the chest.

• Liu Xia ordered Hua Wubai to distribute Golden Pills to the poisoned Xiantian geniuses and Grandmasters.
• Zhong Yunxin and Mo Qingxian revealed they had resisted the Aura Breaking Powder and attacked Liu Xia and Hua Wubai.
• Zhong Yunxin fought Liu Xia while Hua Wubai trapped Mo Qingxian in the Hundred Flower Array.
• Jing Feng reported that a powerful, young Dragon Martial Pavilion Grandmaster had defeated the Senior inside Mo Zifeng in fewer than two moves.
• Jing Feng stabbed Hua Wubai in the chest with a dagger.

Jing Feng secretly controlled Hua Wubai, causing Mo Qingxian to kill him and triggering Liu Xia to abandon the alliance and unleash a massacre. As Golden Cores drove the survivors to transform into demons and the battle spiraled into chaos, the unnoticed Jing Feng crept toward Liu Xia.

• Jing Feng used invisible threads to control Hua Wubai and made him charge at Mo Qingxian, who stabbed him through the heart.
• Jing Feng's scream distracted Liu Xia, allowing Zhong Yunxin to wound her with a powerful sword strike.
• Li Xue Ren appeared to protect Mo Qingxian, and Liu Xia ordered the Demon Sect to kill everyone in Dragon Martial Pavilion after discovering Hua Wubai had died.
• Liu Xia ordered the surviving fighters to eat Golden Cores or die, and those who ate them grew stronger but began losing their reason as they transformed into demons.
• Elder Long tried to stop the slaughter, but Bone Demon blocked him and resumed their fight while the venue descended into chaos.
• Jing Feng quietly moved toward Liu Xia without anyone noticing.

Li Qi disguised himself as Jing Feng and killed Liu Xia during the chaos at Dragon Martial Pavilion, while Li Xue Ren and Elder Long defeated Bone Demon. Li Xue Ren secretly let the fleeing Cherishing Flower Palace disciples escape to protect Li Qi’s identity as a Grandmaster under seventeen.

• Li Qi approached Liu Xia disguised as Jing Feng, used Hua Wubai’s corpse to distract her, and beheaded her before pretending to discover the body.
• Bone Demon recognized that the righteous martial world’s plan had failed and tried to retreat, but Li Xue Ren ambushed him alongside Elder Long.
• Li Xue Ren and Elder Long overwhelmed Bone Demon, then Elder Long destroyed his escaping Will Body to prevent his return.
• Elder Long attacked the fleeing Cherishing Flower Palace disciples, but Li Xue Ren secretly diverted the golden dragon and asked him to let them escape.
• Li Xue Ren recognized the disguised Jing Feng as his grandson Li Qi and concealed Li Qi’s Great Grandmaster cultivation to protect Ingenious Manor.

Li Qi, disguised as Jing Feng, escaped the Dragon Martial Pavilion with a few Cherishing Flower Palace disciples and headed for their overseas meeting point. Meanwhile, the surviving orthodox sects blamed the Cherishing Flower Palace, accepted Ingenious Manor as a replacement among the six sects, and established the Righteous Path Alliance.

• Li Qi led the remaining Cherishing Flower Palace disciples away from the Dragon Martial Pavilion and learned that they were to meet the Palace Master before fleeing overseas.
• The Dragon Martial Pavilion subdued the remaining demon-transformed martial artists, while the five surviving orthodox sects gathered to address their heavy losses.
• Zhao Jiu apologized for the Dragon Martial Pavilion's failures and gave up its bid for leadership of the future alliance.
• The gathered Grandmasters questioned the Cherishing Flower Palace's betrayal, and Zhong Yunxin suspected its headquarters had already been abandoned.
• Zhao Jiu proposed that Ingenious Manor replace the Cherishing Flower Palace among the six sects, and Li Xue Ren tacitly accepted.
• The Righteous Path Alliance was established, while Li Qi traveled east toward the agreed meeting place in Jiangzhou.

Disguised as Jing Feng, Li Qi led Cherishing Flower Palace’s survivors to meet Ascension Immortal Cult, then learned from Ding Xiang that the mission at Dragon Martial Pavilion had already succeeded by causing a disturbance. The chapter ended with Li Qi realizing Cherishing Flower Palace had abandoned its own operatives, including Hua Wubai and Liu Xia, from the moment they entered the pavilion.

• Li Qi traveled with Cherishing Flower Palace and newly joined sect traitors, including Zhou Hong, who blamed Li Qi for his own betrayal of Heavenly Physician Valley and remained obsessed with Huang Wanmian.
• Li Qi led the group to the agreed location, where Yin Wenfan of Ascension Immortal Cult’s Twelve Zodiacs welcomed them aboard a large ship; Li Qi also spotted Ding Xiang.
• Ding Xiang took Li Qi aside, and he reported that the plan had failed to turn any Grandmaster into a demon, though Dragon Martial Pavilion had suffered heavy losses.
• Ding Xiang told Li Qi that the plan had already succeeded when he caused a commotion at Dragon Martial Pavilion’s gathering, regardless of casualties or survival.
• Li Qi realized Cherishing Flower Palace had abandoned the group from the start, including Hua Wubai and Liu Xia.

Ding Xiang told Li Qi that the Cherishing Flower Palace’s Palace Master had altered their cultivation method and given elite disciples golden pills, while several disciples had grown suspicious or disappeared. After Yin Wenfan killed Zhou Hong and threatened the Cherishing Flower Palace disciples, Li Qi revealed his strength, killed Yin Wenfan, and exposed himself to Ding Xiang as a disguised Grandmaster.

• Ding Xiang explained that the Palace Master had changed the Cherishing Flower Palace’s cultivation method and ordered some disciples to take golden pills, while Zhang Yueling had vanished a year earlier.
• Li Qi wondered why the Palace Master’s obedient follower Hua Wubai had been sent to the Dragon Martial Pavilion as screams sounded outside.
• Li Qi found Yin Wenfan transformed into a tiger-like demon and eating a righteous-path traitor, then rejected Zhou Hong’s pleas for help and let Yin Wenfan kill him.
• Yin Wenfan grabbed Li Qi and demanded that the Cherishing Flower Palace disciples sing and dance, ignoring Ding Xiang’s warning about the Four Symbols Protectors.
• After Ding Xiang confirmed there was no Grandmaster aboard, Li Qi broke Yin Wenfan’s arm and crushed his chest with one kick.
• Ding Xiang recognized the astral energy protecting Li Qi from blood and realized that Jing Feng was a disguised Grandmaster, likely from the righteous path.

Li Qi revealed himself as a Grandmaster, killed the Ascension Immortal Cult members aboard the ship, and spared Ding Xiang and the Cherishing Flower Palace disciples to sail him to their new headquarters. As the ship set course, Li Qi summoned the follower beneath the sea and discovered that Tianhai was Adam Number Four’s puppet.

• Li Qi used Thread Pulling Line to kill the Ascension Immortal Cult members on deck, then told Ding Xiang and the Cherishing Flower Palace disciples that he would spare them.
• Li Qi searched the cabins and ordered Ding Xiang, who knew how to sail, to take the ship toward the Cherishing Flower Palace’s new headquarters.
• Li Qi told Ding Xiang to address him as Junior Sister Jing and planned to use the voyage to improve his Undying Heart Scripture.
• Li Qi called to the figure following the ship beneath the sea, and it leaped aboard and knelt before him.
• The figure identified itself as Tianhai, and Li Qi saw that it was Adam Number Four’s puppet.

Li Qi used Tianhai’s possession technique to put him in Adam Number Four, then advanced the Undying Heart Scripture by incorporating parts of two ancient techniques. After completing its Second Layer and breaking through to the Third Rank Middle Stage, Li Qi realized a Thunder Tribulation had come for the scripture he had created.

• Li Qi learned that Tianhai could control Adam Number Four after possessing the puppet, and Tianhai agreed to serve him as Master.
• Li Qi decided to use Tianhai’s identity to visit Cherishing Flower Palace and learn about golden cores rather than trust Tianhai’s outdated knowledge of the sea.
• Li Qi fused parts of the Nine Lives Soul Seizing Technique and the Heaven's God Formless Technique into the Undying Heart Scripture, and sensed a soul-thread connecting him to Li Qiao.
• Li Qi completed the Second Layer of the Undying Heart Scripture, advanced to the Third Rank Middle Stage, and began developing its Third Layer.
• Li Qi felt danger overhead, hurried onto the deck, and saw thunderclouds gathering for a Thunder Tribulation aimed at the Undying Heart Scripture.

Li Qi faced a destructive thunderstorm to protect the ship, but the vessel was overturned and he vanished beneath the sea. Two months later, fisherman Hu Xiao'er rescued an unconscious female Knight Errant, who awakened just as Wang Niuniu was about to change her clothes.

• Li Qi took repeated lightning strikes, formed gills with the Undying Heart Scripture, and sank into the sea as the storm destroyed the ship.
• Surviving members of Cherishing Flower Palace were returned home, while rumors of a clash with Ascension Immortal Cult spread before the demonic and orthodox paths went to war.
• Hu Xiao'er, a fisherman who dreamed of becoming a Jianghu hero, found a female Knight Errant at sea and brought her home.
• Hu Xiao'er asked his childhood friend Wang Niuniu to help change the woman's clothes, and Wang Niuniu scolded him for chasing his martial arts dream.
• The female Knight Errant awakened and grabbed Wang Niuniu's hand.

Li Qi woke after two months underwater, having survived through the Third Layer of the Undying Heart Scripture, and resolved to separate its physical-survival traits from the Nine Lives Soul Seizing Technique to avoid further lightning tribulations. After learning from Hu Xiao'er that the Ascension Immortal Cult was recruiting disciples on a large scale, Li Qi suspected a conflict between the righteous and demonic paths had caused heavy losses.

• The female Knight Errant released Wang Niuniu, learned she was on Ascension Immortal Island, and offered Hu Xiao'er repayment for saving her.
• Hu Xiao'er asked the female Knight Errant to take him as her disciple and teach him martial arts.
• Li Qi awakened after two months unconscious underwater and realized the Third Layer of the Undying Heart Scripture had let his body adapt and survive.
• Li Qi concluded that fusing the Undying Heart Scripture with the Nine Lives Soul Seizing Technique had provoked the World Will, so he planned to separate their traits and cultivate them independently.
• After recovering and organizing his cultivation methods, Li Qi asked Hu Xiao'er what had happened while he was unconscious.
• Hu Xiao'er told Li Qi that the Ascension Immortal Cult had recruited disciples on a large scale, leading Li Qi to suspect a war between the righteous and demonic paths.

Li Qi began teaching Hu Xiao'er but discovered that Hu Xiao'er had an Innate Waste Body and resolved to find a way to open his blocked meridians. As the Righteous-Demonic War turned in the Righteous Path's favor, Li Qi contacted Li Qiao through a dream and told her he was safe on the Overseas Demonic Islands, leaving her a message that proved the encounter was real.

• Hu Xiao'er asked Li Qi to teach him Martial Arts, and Li Qi examined his aptitude and found that his meridians were blocked.
• Li Qi decided to try creating a cultivation technique that could open Hu Xiao'er's meridians.
• The Righteous Path Alliance launched an offensive against the Demonic Path and occupied some of its outer islands.
• Li Qiao grew uneasy about the Righteous Path's easy victories and worried about Li Qi, who had disappeared after the Dragon Martial Pavilion turmoil.
• Li Qi appeared to Li Qiao in a mirror during a dream and said he was safe in Ascension Immortal Cult territory, where he planned to infiltrate the cult.
• Li Qiao woke and found Li Qi's six-character message written in internal energy on her palm.

After recovering from the lightning strike, Li Qi used a dream to reassure Li Qiao and began training Hu Xiao'er in a secluded cave. Discovering Hu Xiao'er’s limited martial aptitude, Li Qi taught him Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer as an alternative path to power.

• Li Qi sent Li Qiao a dream message to reassure his family and resolved to live beyond the age of twenty.
• Hu Xiao'er brought Li Qi to a spacious karst cave where they could train in secret.
• Li Qi used the Thread Pulling Line to position Hu Xiao'er in a Horse Stance and taught him a basic breathing technique.
• Li Qi told Hu Xiao'er that his Innate Waste Body limited his martial advancement, then explained that he could cultivate spirit and will instead.
• Li Qi taught Hu Xiao'er the First Layer of Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer and its exercises, while deciding to keep the Undying Heart Scripture secret.

Hu Xiao'er reached the ninth rank of the martial path, and Li Qi equipped him with new skills and agreed to enter the Ascension Immortal Cult with him. After joining a group of recruits, Li Qi warned Hu Xiao'er and Wang Niuniu not to eat the cult's Golden Cores, then recognized the feminine disciple awaiting them as a Heaven-Grade disciple.

• Hu Xiao'er advanced to the ninth rank, and Li Qi taught him Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer and helped him make mechanism props, including three controllable arrows.
• Hu Xiao'er told Li Qi the Ascension Immortal Cult was recruiting anyone under twenty, and Li Qi agreed to go with him to investigate the cult.
• Li Qi joined the recruits as Hu Xiao'er's distant relative and listened as a pig demon disciple explained the cult's rules and praised the effects of Golden Cores.
• Li Qi secretly warned Hu Xiao'er and Wang Niuniu not to eat any Golden Cores the cult offered them.
• The recruits met a feminine disciple beside several wagons, and Li Qi identified him as a Heaven-Grade disciple.

Li Qi joined the Rabbit Gate to investigate the Ascension Immortal Cult’s Fake Cores, but the sect’s peaceful welcome only deepened his suspicions. He infiltrated the Rabbit Protector’s estate and overheard a warning that the Cult Master might abandon the sect before revealing himself as a powerful Grandmaster who immobilized Rabbit Protector and an old man.

• Li Qi chose the Rabbit Gate with Hu Xiao'er and Wang Niuniu because its medicinal duties might lead him to Fake Cores.
• After several peaceful days in the cult, Li Qi sneaked into the Rabbit Protector’s estate to search for answers.
• Li Qi found a hidden passage and overheard Rabbit Protector and an old man discussing dwindling Fake Cores and the possibility that the Cult Master would abandon the sect.
• Li Qi revealed himself and asked the old man where he had learned that the Cult Master might abandon the Ascension Immortal Cult.
• Rabbit Protector transformed and the old man released poisonous gas, but Li Qi’s astral-energy threads bound them in place, prompting the old man to recognize him as a Grandmaster.

Li Qi captured Rabbit Protector and Daoist Scorpion and used a mental attack to interrogate Rabbit Protector about the Ascension Immortal Cult. He uncovered the cult’s secret division, its Fake Core production, and its use of human victims, then learned that Rabbit Protector had married her former master, Daoist Scorpion.

• Li Qi bound Rabbit Protector and Daoist Scorpion with threads and used a Suggestion Spell to hypnotize Rabbit Protector.
• Rabbit Protector revealed that Daoist Scorpion belonged to the Ascension Immortal Cult’s secret Hidden Division, which had kidnapped Holy Sons from other sects.
• Rabbit Protector explained that the Azure Dragon Division produced Fake Cores, while the Cult Master supplied Golden Cores.
• Rabbit Protector disclosed that new recruits without martial arts aptitude became Human Cauldrons, whose bodies were used to make Fake Cores before the pills were removed by cutting them open.
• Li Qi learned that Rabbit Protector and Daoist Scorpion had once been master and disciple and were now husband and wife.

Li Qi forced Scorpion Elder and Rabbit Yu'er to help him investigate the Ascension Immortal Cult, then used his Transformation Technique to disguise himself as Rabbit Yu'er. The next morning, Hu Xiao'er learned that Li Qi had left to investigate and received a special arrow for protection.

• Scorpion Elder told Li Qi that the Ascension Immortal Cult's Cult Master had been neglecting the cult and that he and Rabbit Yu'er planned to escape.
• Li Qi threatened Rabbit Yu'er to test Scorpion Elder's loyalty, then spared them and demanded their help concealing his identity while he investigated the cult.
• Li Qi transformed his appearance to match Rabbit Yu'er, including her rabbit features, and the two explained what he needed to know to avoid exposure.
• The next morning, Hu Xiao'er found Li Qi gone and received a message explaining that Li Qi had left to investigate.
• Hu Xiao'er learned that Li Qi's arrow could be controlled three times by someone trained in Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer and could serve as a means of defense.

Li Qi disguised himself as Rabbit Yu'er and arranged for Hu Xiao'er and Wang Niuniu to be taken away safely while he investigated the Ascension Immortal Cult. He went with the Scorpion Protector to meet Left Emissary Chai Bushun, whose formidable presence threatened to expose the disguise.

• Hu Xiao'er and Wang Niuniu joined the Rabbit Gate disciples being escorted toward Sacred Mountain, while Hu Xiao'er sensed danger and steadied his mind with Heavenly Craft Soul Transfer after Li Qi secretly contacted him.
• Li Qi instructed Hu Xiao'er and Wang Niuniu to follow an old man who would take them away, then watched Rabbit Gate hand them over to Scorpion Elder.
• Disguised as Rabbit Yu'er, Li Qi sent his two accompanying disciples away and waited while the Scorpion Protector arranged for the newcomers to be settled.
• Li Qi and the Scorpion Protector agreed to meet Left Emissary Chai Bushun in the side hall, where Chai Bushun appeared in his mask and revealed his Third Rank Peak aura.

Li Qi learned that Ten Thousand Demon Dao Sect Master Liu Xuan was in seclusion to break through to the First Rank, and the Righteous Path Alliance halted its assault on the Blood Demon Sect to confront the threat. The chapter left the alliance preparing to head for the Ten Thousand Demon Dao before Liu Xuan could complete his breakthrough.

• Chai Bushun told the Scorpion Protector that the Ten Thousand Demon Dao had agreed to let the Ascension Immortal Cult establish a Seventh Dao, and he said Liu Xuan would demand the golden-pill method from Zhao Yusheng after his seclusion.
• The Scorpion Protector and Li Qi realized Liu Xuan might be trying to reach the First Rank, and Li Qi planned to send the warning to Li Qiao.
• Jiang Anyan prepared the Shushan Dao fleet to attack the Blood Demon Sect, but the Shushan Dao, Dragon Martial Pavilion, and Snow Cloud Sword Sect leaders ordered their forces to retreat.
• Li Xue Ren told Long Lie and the other elders that Liu Xuan was preparing to break through to the First Rank and urged them to march on the Ten Thousand Demon Dao instead of continuing their campaign.

Li Xue Ren threatened to withdraw the Ingenious Manor from the Righteous Path Alliance unless the other sects confirmed whether Liu Xuan was nearing the Martial Saint realm. Li Qi continued investigating the golden pills and left for the Cherishing Flower Palace, while growing more concerned about the danger facing Li Qiao.

• Li Xue Ren gave the other grandmasters three days to verify the warning about Liu Xuan before he withdrew the Ingenious Manor and relocated it.
• The White Eyebrows Daoist urged the sects to activate their hidden agents in the demonic sects and prepare to stop Liu Xuan if he was truly breaking through.
• Li Qi learned from Chai Bushun that Cult Master Zhao Yusheng supplied the golden pills and had arranged for the Ascension Immortal Cult to assist the Cherishing Flower Palace.
• Li Qi told Li Qiao to warn Sister Yuzhu to protect herself and leave with the Ingenious Manor if possible.
• Li Qi sensed that the World Will's hostility was putting Li Qiao in greater danger and decided to create Eve Number One soon.
• Li Qi boarded a ship bound for the Cherishing Flower Palace to continue investigating the golden pills.

Li Qi flew to the Cherishing Flower Palace under his new Ascension Immortal Cult Protector identity and found its gates shut, with blood scenting the grounds. Meanwhile, Hu Xiao'er and Wang Niuniu sheltered from a storm in a cave, where Wang Niuniu saw someone in the darkness and Hu Xiao'er went to investigate.

• Li Qi left Hu Xiao'er and Wang Niuniu to shelter on an island and flew toward the Cherishing Flower Palace.
• Li Qi arrived at the Palace, called himself the newly appointed Tiger Protector Li Zhen, and received no answer at the gates.
• Li Qi shattered the gates and saw what lay inside the seemingly lifeless Cherishing Flower Palace.
• Hu Xiao'er and Wang Niuniu secured their boat, took shelter in a cave, and lit a fire while the storm raged outside.
• Wang Niuniu screamed after spotting someone deeper in the cave, and Hu Xiao'er made a torch and walked toward the darkness.