Chapter Summaries

The Blood Raven Ancestor escaped Qin He by using villages and towns as obstacles, forcing Qin He to abandon his pursuit at the dangerous Black Wind Mountain. As Qin He suddenly turned back, the Blood Raven Ancestor suspected he was heading to rob their home.

• The Blood Raven Ancestor used a weakened Blood Colored Divine Being to escape the Golden Light Giant’s stomps while carrying the Blood Raven Holy Son.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor led Qin He toward a town, and Qin He pulled back his foot rather than crush its residents.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor fled through settlements and reached Black Wind Mountain, where its storm prevented Qin He from safely pursuing it.
• Qin He withdrew his Merit Soul Body, then suddenly flew back the way he had come.
• The Blood Raven Holy Son noticed Qin He’s departure, and the Blood Raven Ancestor proposed leaving Black Wind Mountain by another route before wondering if Qin He was going to rob their home.

The Blood Raven Ancestor returned to Nest City carrying the grievously injured Wu Zhuzi and Black Feather after an enemy ambush. He ordered the Jade Dragon Pool opened to heal them and revealed that Wu Changfeng had been captured, leaving the clan under lockdown while he prepared to seek revenge.

• Wu Yunshu refused to open Nest City's formation gate until the returning figure revealed himself.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor arrived carrying injured Wu Zhuzi and Black Feather.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor ordered Wu Yunshu to open the formation gate so he could take the elders to the Jade Dragon Pool for treatment.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor revealed that enemies had ambushed the elders and captured Wu Changfeng.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor ordered Wu Yunshu to keep the formation gate sealed, then hurried into Nest City to heal the elders.

Qin He infiltrated the Blood Raven Clan’s heavily guarded underground world to raid its home and claim the Jade Dragon Pool. He reached the clan’s hidden foundation with Wu Zhuzi, Black Feather, Little Sable, and Hui Miqiu, where a colossal phantom dragon moved through the mist.

• The Blood Raven Ancestor entered Jianmu and ordered the gate opened so he could activate the formation and seal the underground palace.
• Qin He followed the Blood Raven Ancestor into Jianmu, determined to raid the Blood Raven Clan’s home after the Ancestor and his allies escaped.
• Qin He used concealment, disguise, and other techniques to pass the increasingly powerful guards and layered formations.
• Qin He reached the glittering underground world, where dense spiritual energy filled the air and a huge phantom dragon swept through the mist.
• Qin He let Wu Zhuzi and Black Feather out, then brought Little Sable and Hui Miqiu from his beast cage; Hui Miqiu realized they had arrived at the Jade Dragon Pool he had described.

Qin He and his companions crossed the misty crystal forest, where Hui Miqiu explained the dangerous Dragon Qi of the Earth Vein. They reached the Jade Dragon Pool, whose radiant liquid overflowed with essence and qi.

• Qin He warned Hui Miqiu to avoid provoking the Dragon Qi and sent Little Sable to lead them through the mist.
• A phantom dragon appeared, and Hui Miqiu explained that it was a wisp of Dragon Vein essence whose slaughterous power could not be provoked.
• The phantom dragon charged past Qin He, Hui Miqiu, and Little Sable before vanishing into the mist.
• Qin He and his companions continued onward and found the glittering Jade Dragon Pool in a hollow among the crystals.
• Hui Miqiu identified the pool, and Qin He examined its jade-like liquid and powerful essence and qi.

Qin He, Little Sable, and Hui Miqiu entered Jade Dragon Pool and absorbed its essence, while the Blood Raven Ancestor and Wu Changfeng returned to Nest City only to find the clan’s formation gate sealed against them. The old woman at the gate believed they were impostors or captives and demanded that the Blood Raven Ancestor state his name.

• Little Sable tested Jade Dragon Pool, found it safe, and absorbed its essence.
• Qin He entered the pool and absorbed its vast, pure essence.
• Hui Miqiu joined them, and its grizzled hair darkened as its appearance grew younger.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor and Wu Changfeng arrived outside Nest City and found the defensive formation intact.
• The old woman at the formation gate refused to let them in, believing the Blood Raven Ancestor was an impostor and Wu Changfeng had been taken hostage.

Qin He and two beasts absorbed the Jade Dragon Pool’s power while Wu Yunshu mistook the Blood Raven Ancestor for an impostor and refused to open the gate. As Qin He recovered and grew stronger, he spotted Wu Zhuzi beginning to wake and attacked him with a fireball.

• Wu Changfeng warned Wu Yunshu that a Pseudo-Immortal had tricked its way through the formation gate, while the Blood Raven Ancestor insisted that the intruder was the Green Ox Pseudo-Immortal.
• Wu Yunshu refused to believe the Blood Raven Ancestor and revealed that the clan’s Ancestor and two elders had entered the Jade Dragon Pool.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor realized its treasure was being consumed and raged as it explained that the pool was its last hope of breaking through and surviving.
• Inside the Jade Dragon Pool, Hui Miqiu worried that the Blood Raven Ancestor would return, but Qin He said he was ready to fight it.
• Qin He recovered from his lightning tribulation injuries and noticed Wu Zhuzi twitching, so he sent a fireball at him.

Qin He watched the deaths of Wu Zhuzi and Black Feather and received the Blood Refining Scripture and a Feather of the Sky Roc as rewards. He learned the scripture’s blood-refinement mysteries, while the feather’s power remained for Ma Fei to comprehend.

• Wu Zhuzi and Black Feather died in the Samadhi True Fire, and Qin He witnessed their lives through a shadow-play vision.
• The Black Robed Man judged the two Blood Raven Clan members and awarded Qin He the Blood Refining Scripture and a Feather of the Sky Roc.
• Qin He learned that the Blood Refining Scripture was a fragment of the Nine Revolutions Blood God Art and that the Blood Wheel Method had lost its essential principles.
• Qin He learned the Blood Refining Scripture and recognized that it could strengthen his cultivation by adding blood refinement to his practice of qi, soul, and body.
• Qin He realized that only Ma Fei could use the Feather of the Sky Roc by comprehending its secrets of flight and extreme speed.

Qin He cultivated the Blood Refining Scripture in the Jade Dragon Pool, using its spiritual essence to temper his blood and strengthen his heart. Outside the sealed giant tree, the Blood Raven Ancestor realized he could not reach Qin He in time and despaired at the prospect of facing an even stronger Green Ox Immortal.

• Qin He learned the Blood Refining Scripture and began cultivating in the Jade Dragon Pool.
• Qin He drew the pool's spiritual essence into his blood vessels and heart, enduring pain as his heart beat with increasing force.
• Qin He's blood and vitality grew so powerful that a crimson aura appeared above his head, and his blood began to change color.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor found himself trapped outside the giant tree after Wu Yunshu activated the clan-protecting grand formation.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor despaired, spat blood, and drew the Blood Raven Clan experts' alarm.

Hui Miqiu and Little Sable absorbed the vital essence in Jade Dragon Pool and fell asleep, followed by Qin He. Outside the pool, the Blood Raven Ancestor ordered the Blood Raven Clan to complete an array that would trap Qin He, then sent Wu Yunshu to kill his companions.

• Hui Miqiu transformed in Jade Dragon Pool and fell asleep, and Little Sable later underwent the same process.
• Qin He woke, saw the two sleeping, then fell asleep on the pool and farted Hui Miqiu out of it.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor ordered the Blood Raven Clan to complete the Exquisite Five Elements Array and seal Qin He inside Jade Dragon Pool.
• Wu Changfeng suggested selling the trapped Qin He to the Lord of Supernatural Phenomena, and the Blood Raven Ancestor agreed to seek a buyer.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor ordered Wu Yunshu to lead people east and kill Qin He's companions, leaving none alive.

While Qin He was away, the western expedition camp came under attack from the Blood Raven Sacred Clan, led by a Divine Bridge Realm old woman. The defenders reinforced their protective array as the enemy threatened to slaughter them, leaving the camp in danger without Qin He.

• Lamborghini worried that Qin He had been gone for days and might no longer need him for travel.
• Lamborghini and Wang Tie Zhu competed over whose stream reached farther until an explosion struck near the camp.
• The camp’s Protective Magic Array blocked the blast, and the defenders spotted dozens of blood-winged attackers outside.
• The old woman leading the Blood Raven Sacred Clan declared that her forces would destroy the camp, and her Divine Bridge Realm aura terrified the defenders.
• Wei Wu and Divine Chariot Pillar urged everyone to reinforce the array, and countless beams of white light strengthened the barrier.
• The old woman dismissed the array as a mid-grade magic formation and threatened to kill everyone and take their blood.

Elder Yun Shu of the Blood Raven Clan attacked the camp with a Blood Pool and claimed that Green Ox Immortal had been killed. Wei Wu rallied the defenders, but the Blood Pool began breaking through their formation as Yun Shu and her followers poured in more power.

• Elder Yun Shu revealed the Blood Pool and demanded that the camp surrender, claiming Green Ox Immortal had been executed.
• Wei Wu used the Blue Ox Divine Statue to deny her claim and restore the camp's morale, while Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini also challenged her.
• Elder Yun Shu enlarged the Blood Pool and brought it crashing down on the camp's formation.
• The defenders reinforced the formation and temporarily stopped the Blood Pool, but Yun Shu's followers joined her and renewed the attack.
• The formation's cracks spread faster, and Wei Wu realized the camp was in grave danger.

The Blood Pool shattered the camp’s defenses and began draining everyone’s blood, while Wu Yunshu hunted the fleeing cultivators. A pitch-black shovel appeared beside the Purple Gold Gourd and halted the Pool’s power, then struck it and shattered one corner.

• The Blood Pool broke the camp’s defensive formation, injured its people, and began drawing blood from their bodies.
• Wu Yunshu killed several fleeing cultivators by draining their blood and vital essence, leaving the survivors in despair.
• The pitch-black shovel appeared beside the sedan chair and Purple Gold Gourd, halting the Blood Pool’s pull.
• Wang Tie Zhu recognized the shovel, while Wu Yunshu mistook it for a Spirit Treasure and sought its controller.
• The shovel shot into the sky and shattered one corner of the Blood Pool.

Wu Yunshu's Blood Pool was shattered and repeatedly damaged by the Great Black Shovel, forcing her and the Blood Raven Clan to flee while the weapon pursued them. A Blood Raven Clan member's mysterious Scale Armor stopped two strikes, but a crack appeared, leaving the group still in danger.

• The Great Black Shovel destroyed the Blood Pool's skeletal evil creature and battered the pool until Wu Yunshu recalled it.
• Wu Yunshu fled with more than a dozen Blood Raven Clan members, but the Great Black Shovel pursued and killed two who fell behind.
• The Blood Raven Clan members used their weapons and techniques to defend themselves, but the shovel pierced through their treasures.
• A late Dao Palace Realm Blood Raven Clan member activated a white Scale Armor fragment that blocked two strikes from the Great Black Shovel.
• The Scale Armor cracked, and the Blood Raven Clan member realized it could not hold for long.

Wu Yunshu and the Blood Raven clansmen tried to escape after the Great Black Shovel grievously wounded one of their strongest fighters. Wu Yunshu fled with a Sky Shuttle Talisman, leaving the Blood Pool destroyed, while the Great Black Shovel returned to the Dual Corpse Sedan and covered the Purple Gold Furnace.

• The Great Black Shovel shattered the scale armor and grievously wounded a late Dao Palace Realm Blood Raven clansman with a glancing blow.
• Wu Yunshu used her vital blood to empower the Blood Pool, which trapped the Great Black Shovel for a short time.
• A Blood Raven clansman activated the Sky Shuttle Divine Talisman as the Great Black Shovel battered the Blood Pool from within.
• Wu Yunshu and the others vanished in a flash of white light, abandoning the Blood Pool and their treasures.
• The Great Black Shovel burst out of the destroyed Blood Pool, failed to sense the fugitives, and returned to cover the Purple Gold Furnace as the Demonic Eyes’ light faded.

Wu Yunshu and the Blood Raven Clan survivors were transported into the dangerous Black Wind Mountains, where they lost two members to a gale and Black Radiance devoured their souls. Half a month later, the Blood Raven Ancestor worried over their disappearance and the rumbling beneath the giant tree, fearing the Green Ox Pseudo-Immortal might escape the Five Elements Exquisite Formation.

• Wu Yunshu and the Blood Raven Clan survivors emerged in the Black Wind Mountains and realized where they had been transported.
• A gale wind cut through two Blood Raven Clan members, and the survivors gathered their belongings and fled.
• Black Radiance consumed the two dead members' living souls before fleeing from the sound of approaching chains.
• Black chains pierced the corpses and dragged them away through the mountains.
• Half a month later in Nest City, the Blood Raven Ancestor fretted over Wu Yunshu's missing group and the rumbling beneath the giant tree.

Qin He and his companions found the formation beneath the giant tree sealed, so he began striking it to break free. As the Earth Array weakened, the Blood Raven Ancestor ordered the clan to abandon Nest City and relocate to its ancestral land.

• Hui Miqiu, Little Sable, and Qin He woke beneath the giant tree and found the formation barrier sealed.
• Qin He told Hui Miqiu and Little Sable to retreat, then attacked the barrier with repeated blows.
• The tremors shook Nest City, and a Blood Raven Clan member warned Wu Changfeng and the Blood Raven Ancestor that the Earth Array would collapse within an incense stick.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor ordered the Blood Raven Clan to gather its resources and relocate to its ancestral land.
• The Blood Raven Ancestor sent Wu Changfeng ahead with the young disciples, and Wu Changfeng vowed to avenge the clan's grievance.

Qin He claimed Nest City after the Blood Raven Clan fled, then made it the Journey to the West party’s forward base. When the party arrived, its members learned that Jade Dragon Pool still held some liquid and rushed to claim a share.

• Qin He and Hui Miqiu emerged after the Jianmu fell and confirmed that the Blood Raven Clan had escaped, so Qin He chose not to pursue them.
• Qin He claimed Nest City as a forward base, ordered Wei Wu and Wang Tie Zhu to bring the team over, and used the Obsession Technique to make demons restore order.
• Qin He found Spirit Medicine Valley stripped of its treasures and its Protective Magic Array damaged, though the Jianmu remained intact.
• Ten days later, the Journey to the West party arrived in Nest City after a difficult journey through the wilderness and greeted Qin He.
• Qin He told the party that Jade Dragon Pool still had some liquid, prompting everyone to race toward it; Wei Wu rushed after them when he heard there might not be room.

Qin He assessed his group's strength and planned to spread the Spirit Crossing Sutra while trying to make sense of the supernatural resurgence and Daoist Immortal Lingyun's history. He then entered a Shadow Play that revealed the past of the Demonic Eyes.

• Qin He judged Little Sable their strongest fighter and counted five likely Dao Palace Realm cultivators, but concluded the group remained weak in the Western Regions.
• Qin He decided to strengthen the main force at the forward base and spread the Spirit Crossing Sutra to counter supernatural domains.
• Qin He compared the dates of Daoist Immortal Lingyun's appearance, the palace remnant beneath Lin'an City, and Wu Zhuzi's birth, concluding Lingyun had reached the Abyss World before the Eastern Lands World.
• Qin He doubted that burning Blood Raven Ancestor would reveal much, but held out hope that the Demonic Eyes in the Purple Gold Gourd could uncover the truth.
• Qin He's vision blurred as a Shadow Play began, showing the past of the Demonic Eyes.

Qin He watched Demonic Eyes’ memories, learning that it had served as Tongguan Pass’s weapon before a Sword Cultivator split the pass and wounded it. The Black Robed Man awarded Qin He the Void Pháp Mắt divine art, which he learned before setting his sights on finding Black Radiance.

• Qin He watched Shadow Play reveal that Demonic Eyes had been created through a cruel secret art and passed through ages of destruction and war.
• Demonic Eyes’ memories showed it guarding Tongguan Pass, later called Lingyu Kingdom, until a Sword Cultivator opened the Heaven Gate and split the pass with one strike.
• The Black Robed Man awarded Qin He Void Pháp Mắt, a divine art that imprisoned the void wherever its gaze fell.
• Qin He learned Void Pháp Mắt and resolved to find Black Radiance and investigate the supernatural occurrences in the Western Regions.

Qin He placed the Chaos Shovel in his dantian to nourish it and learned that Hui Miqiu was restoring Nest City’s protective array. After the array was activated ahead of schedule, Qin He set out for Black Wind Mountain to find Big Toe and Black Radiance and investigate the mountain’s mysteries.

• Qin He sent the Chaos Shovel into his dantian’s Inner Sea to nourish it, then took out the Purple Gold Gourd to deal with the Demonic Eyes.
• Qin He asked Hui Miqiu when Nest City’s damaged protective array would be restored, and Hui Miqiu said it expected to finish within three days.
• Hui Miqiu explained that its Rat Clan had studied Cunning Burrow Techniques and promised to restore the grand array.
• Two days later, Hui Miqiu’s protective array was activated.
• Qin He flew to Black Wind Mountain to search for Big Toe and Black Radiance and see the source of the region’s supernatural phenomena for himself.