Chapter Summaries

Hu Qi confronted the remaining Food Masters in Abyss Valley, but Shu Ming combined with the others and challenged him. After revealing overwhelming strength, Hu Qi nearly killed her with a full-power attack before a black light from the crescent-shaped fang around her neck enveloped her.

• Hu Qi faced nine Food Masters, who threatened him but kept their distance because they feared his strength.
• Hu Qi tried to trap them with his Pseudo-Domain, but Shu Ming combined with the other eight and blocked his Mind Power.
• Shu Ming transformed and attacked Hu Qi, claiming he had only endured seven-tenths of her strength.
• Hu Qi revealed that he had not yet tried and blasted Shu Ming more than ten kilometers into a mountain.
• Hu Qi struck Shu Ming with a full-strength punch that pinned her into the earth, but the crescent-shaped beast fang at her chest released black light around her.

Hu Qi escaped the Earth Mother’s attack by breaking through the underground dome and reaching the surface. He emerged on Azure Sky Plain in northern Xiya Federation, shaken by the Earth Mother’s terrifying power.

• After Shu Ming’s injuries healed, Hu Qi recognized the sinister aura of the Earth Mother and tried to flee.
• Shu Ming attacked Hu Qi with enormous black tails, but Hu Qi strengthened his Supreme Clarity Immortal Slaying Saber Technique and cut them apart.
• Hu Qi sensed the Earth Mother’s aura closing in and blasted through the dark-red underground dome to escape.
• Shu Ming reached the hole Hu Qi had made but abandoned the pursuit and left.
• Hu Qi burst through the surface of Azure Sky Plain, creating a crater, and remarked that the Earth Mother was terrifying.

Hu Qi returned from the underground encounter with Shu Ming and began cultivating the Taiyin Life Aperture Diagram while planning how to grow stronger before the Earth Mother awakened. He decided to gather more Life Aperture methods and inherited secret martial arts to accelerate his path beyond Spirit Refinement.

• Hu Qi sealed the hole he had made underground, waited to confirm Shu Ming would not pursue him, and returned to Anshan City, Zhu Xi.
• Hu Qi handed the Snake Heart Sect and Zhu Xi's affairs to Du Wang while harvesting the Black Blood Species and Exotic Beasts.
• Hu Qi used 960 Modification Points to reveal all forty Life Apertures in the Taiyin Life Aperture Diagram Divine Drawing Method, then began lighting them with Mind Power.
• Hu Qi declined the Xiya Federation elders' invitation to the capital, claiming he needed secluded recuperation.
• Hu Qi completed the Taiyin Life Diagram and drew in Void Power, but realized its transformation would take thousands of years and that fewer than three years remained before the Earth Mother's awakening.
• Hu Qi resolved to gather more Life Aperture cultivation methods and inherited secret martial arts so the Scarlet Panel could help him advance beyond Spirit Refinement.

Hu Qi visited Xuan Qing Temple and told Xuan Qing about the upheaval in the Underground World, revealing that he had grown powerful enough to face the strongest figures there. He then asked Xuan Qing for help, leaving the nature of his request unstated.

• Hu Qi decided that seizing other schools’ foundations would be faster than gathering resources alone, but first he chose to visit Xuan Qing.
• Xuan Qing sensed Hu Qi’s arrival and sent Ling Yang to welcome him into the temple.
• Hu Qi entered the main hall and met Xuan Qing, who recognized him despite his changed appearance and asked about his journey in the Underground World.
• Hu Qi said he had caused the upheaval and described killing eight Food Masters and surviving a confrontation involving Shu Ming and Earth Mother, while leaving out some details.
• Hu Qi told Xuan Qing that he had come to ask for help with several matters.

Hu Qi asked Xuan Qing for his Inherited Secret Martial Arts and Life Diagram cultivation methods, and Xuan Qing gave them to him. Xuan Qing explained that Hu Qi was an untraceable anomaly and described how Heavenly Mandate Persons had arisen in past civilizations, only to fail against Earth Mother.

• Hu Qi asked Xuan Qing to hand over his Inherited Secret Martial Arts and Life Diagram cultivation methods so he could prepare to face Earth Mother.
• Xuan Qing readily gave Hu Qi a scroll and three booklets containing the requested teachings.
• Xuan Qing explained that his Mind Evolution ability let him read fate trajectories but revealed no trace of Hu Qi, marking him as an anomaly.
• Xuan Qing said anomalies could affect humanity's prospects and explained that Heavenly Mandate Persons were chosen by the world during crises.
• Xuan Qing told Hu Qi that Heavenly Mandate Persons had appeared in three past civilizations to oppose Earth Mother, but all had failed.

Xuan Qing explained how Ji Wuxing, a Heavenly Mandate Person, saved the fourth Secret Martial Civilization and revealed how faith had kept him alive for over ten thousand years. Hu Qi secured Xuan Qing’s help in obtaining other schools’ Inherited Secret Martial Arts, while the chapter ended with Xuan Qing arriving at a meeting with the sect leaders alongside Hu Qi.

• Xuan Qing recounted how Ji Wuxing defeated Shajin Kingdom and led the Secret Martial Civilization to its height as the Holy Emperor.
• Xuan Qing told Hu Qi that the Yin Yang Taiyan Chapter and his Fate Diagram let him survive as a being sustained by humanity’s faith, though that faith had altered him.
• Hu Qi asked Xuan Qing to help him obtain the Inherited Secret Martial Arts of several superior schools, and Xuan Qing agreed.
• Xuan Qing reflected that the course of fate for all living beings had shifted after Hu Qi departed.
• Thunderstorm, Thick Spider, Wang Jing, and Meng Ke gathered to discuss the Spirit Realm Sea Eye, and Thunderstorm speculated that Shi Xiao and Li Xianyu had leaked information to the Food Masters.
• Xuan Qing entered the discussion hall with Hu Qi, drawing the sect leaders’ attention to the young man.

Hu Qi told the gathered Spirit Refining Venerables that the Spirit Realm Sea Eye was likely in Abyss Valley, where the Earth Mother would awaken in less than three years, and demanded their factions’ secret martial arts and cultivation methods. When Thick Spider resisted and tried to flee, Hu Qi cut him down, but the body proved to be a weakened puppet.

• Thunderstorm, Wang Jing, Meng Ke, and Thick Spider described how Food Masters had disrupted their investigations in the Underground World.
• Hu Qi claimed he had found the likely location of the Spirit Realm Sea Eye in Abyss Valley and warned that the Earth Mother would awaken in less than three years.
• Hu Qi revealed power at the limit of Spirit Refining and asked the others to surrender their factions’ Inherited Secret Martial Arts and Life Aperture cultivation methods.
• Xuan Qing supported Hu Qi, while Thick Spider rejected the demand, forced a gap in Hu Qi’s Pseudo-Domain, and tried to escape.
• Hu Qi’s blade strike split Thick Spider in two, and Xuan Qing identified him as a weakened Spirit Refining puppet.

Xuan Qing traced the Earth God Hall puppet's master to Siren's Domain, where the true Thick Spider had restored a powerful Food Master as a puppet. She awakened the creature, but then suddenly staggered and began bleeding.

• Xuan Qing explained the Earth God Hall's puppet-making inheritance and used the destroyed puppet's imprint to locate its master.
• Xuan Qing's mirror revealed a hidden research facility in Siren's Domain, far from the Federation's capital.
• The true Thick Spider awakened a sea demon in a nutrient chamber and revealed it was a Food Master whose strength rivaled the Divine Manifestation Realm.
• Thick Spider explained that she had excavated the Food Master's body and repaired it using Noki biological knowledge, preserving its power as a puppet.
• Thick Spider staggered from a sudden blow and bled from her mouth and nose.

Thick Spider learned that Hu Qi had killed her Federation puppet and prepared to seek revenge, but Hu Qi found her island first and attacked. The chapter ended with Thick Spider and her two puppets launching a coordinated assault on him.

• Thick Spider recovered the memories of her slain puppet and learned that Hu Qi had taken an interest in their Inherited Secret Martial Arts, while Xuan Qing had helped him.
• Thick Spider decided to recover and strengthen herself before pursuing revenge, and inspected the damaged corpses she was restoring in nutrient tanks.
• Hu Qi appeared over Thick Spider's island and bombarded it with thousands of vital-energy projectiles, destroying most of the island and her equipment and corpses.
• Hu Qi confronted Thick Spider and demanded that she hand over the Inherited Secret Martial Arts in exchange for her life.
• Thick Spider and her sea-demon Food Master puppet and lightning-wielding burly puppet attacked Hu Qi together, while she used a secret art to increase her strength.

Hu Qi defeated Thick Spider’s puppets and repelled her attempt to take over his body with her Heavenly Thread ability. He devoured her threads, killing her and gaining 415 Modification Points.

• Thick Spider strengthened her Pseudo-Domain and prepared to kill Hu Qi, refine him into a puppet, and advance her plans against the Federation.
• Hu Qi destroyed Thick Spider’s Spirit Refinement puppet and Divine Manifestation Realm puppet with a single punch, leaving her grievously wounded.
• Thick Spider used Heavenly Thread to turn her body into seven-colored threads and invade Hu Qi’s Heavenly Heart Divine Treasure.
• Hu Qi summoned the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake’s Spirit Devouring power and swallowed Thick Spider’s threads despite her pleas and threats.
• Hu Qi gained 415 Modification Points after Thick Spider was consumed.

Hu Qi absorbed Thick Spider’s memories after killing her and learned that she alone held the complete Earth God Hall inheritance. Xuan Qing explained that Hu Qi was an anomaly capable of reversing the world’s fate, and Wang Jing agreed to hand over the inheritance in exchange for two requests.

• Hu Qi digested Thick Spider’s memories, discovered that the Earth God Hall’s disciples and leaders had largely been turned into her puppets, and learned the Thousand Spider Sacred Profound Record’s methods.
• Hu Qi left the ruined corpses behind and returned to the conference room, where Thunderstorm, Meng Ke, and Wang Jing were waiting with Xuan Qing.
• Xuan Qing told Thunderstorm that Hu Qi was the only one with a chance to reverse the world’s fated destiny and identified him as an anomaly.
• Wang Jing explained his understanding of fortune, Heavenly Mandate Persons, and anomalies, while Thunderstorm and Meng Ke listened in surprise.
• Hu Qi arrived, asked what they had decided, and Wang Jing agreed to hand over the inheritance on the condition that Hu Qi grant him two requests.

Hu Qi negotiated with the Secret Martial Arts factions and decided that Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species would be made public. After Zhu Xi announced that the sect masters of Holy Rain Sect, Sword Pavilion, and Earth God Hall had died in the Underground World, the three factions faced upheaval and decline.

• Hu Qi agreed to keep the factions’ Inherited Secret Martial Arts from being leaked but said access to his deductions depended on their performance, then insisted that Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species be publicly revealed.
• Li Baiyi told the Holy Rain Sect’s direct disciples that she had been unable to contact Li Xianyu, whose life tablet had shattered.
• A disciple reported that Zhu Xi had announced the deaths of Li Xianyu and the sect masters of Sword Pavilion and Earth God Hall, and Li Baiyi confirmed the notice on the website.
• Secret Martial Artists across the factions learned that the three Spirit Refining Venerables had died after being encircled by Food Masters in the Underground World.
• Liang Si defeated Li Baiyi and became the new sect master of Holy Rain Sect, while Sword Pavilion selected a new faction head.
• Earth God Hall lost its puppet elders and disciples after Thick Spider died, and the faction fell to lower-tier status after losing its Inherited Secret Martial Arts.

After the Xiya Federation announced that Secret Martial Arts and the Black Blood Species would be revealed to the public, Ma Zhuo, an auto repair apprentice in Hanzhou City, received a livestream link claiming that supernatural power was real. He watched as a Wind Falcon Sect martial artist demonstrated his strength against a thick steel plate, leaving the result of the strike unresolved.

• The Xiya Federation approved a decree to reveal Secret Martial Arts and the Black Blood Species and allow schools to openly recruit disciples.
• Ma Zhuo returned to his messy rental room, washed his grease-stained hands, and reflected on his difficult life and fantasies of supernatural power.
• Wu Xing sent Ma Zhuo a livestream link and called to insist that supernatural power really existed.
• Ma Zhuo opened the verified Wind Falcon Sect livestream and watched a martial artist explain how people became Secret Martial Artists.
• The martial artist gathered qi and blood around his arm and punched the center of a thick steel plate.

The Xiya Federation publicly revealed the existence of Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species, causing a nationwide rush to learn martial arts and forcing other countries to disclose the same information. The public exposure also led to hidden Black Blood Species being reported and captured, while their destination remained undisclosed.

• A Secret Martial Artist punched through a thick steel plate during a livestream and promoted the Azure Feather Combat Club under the Wind Falcon Sect.
• Ma Zhuo checked the news and discovered that the Federation had officially confirmed Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species.
• People across the Xiya Federation flooded martial arts schools and clubs to seek training, though age, physique, and limited openings excluded many.
• Other small countries revealed their own Secret Martial Artists and Black Blood Species after the public disclosure spread.
• Zhu Xi branches opened hotlines for reporting Black Blood Species, and authorities captured those they found, reducing killings.
• The captured Black Blood Species were all sent to the same undisclosed place.

Hu Qi completed the Cloud Kun Life Diagram and used his accumulated cultivation methods to deduce a vastly more demanding path, which he named the Star-Coiling Serpent Cosmic Ring Scripture. He then spent his remaining Modification Points to perfect his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Bloodline, leaving it at 100%.

• Hu Qi completed the Cloud Kun Life Diagram, bringing his collection to six complete and four incomplete Life Diagram methods.
• Hu Qi integrated the Inherited Secret Martial Arts of the remaining schools into his cultivation method and gained Heavenly Thread, Myriad Thunders, Buddha Realm, and Mind Evolution.
• Hu Qi ordered Crimson to combine his Life Diagram methods and Secret Martial Arts, producing a new cultivation method that required lighting all 14,800 Life Apertures.
• Hu Qi named the new method the Star-Coiling Serpent Cosmic Ring Scripture.
• Hu Qi spent Modification Points to raise his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Bloodline from 85% to 100%, causing his eyes to turn into blood-red snake pupils and his Yuan Eye to appear.

Hu Qi completed his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Bloodline and discovered it had mutated, then watched the World Will direct a vast wave of fortune toward him and his Red Mirror Saber. Elsewhere, an ancient presence beneath Abyss Valley stirred, while Xuan Qing sensed the World Will’s extraordinary effort and wondered what threat had prompted it.

• Hu Qi completed his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Bloodline, gained greater strength and longevity, and noticed that the bloodline had mutated.
• Hu Qi saw the World Will’s fortune approach him but resist being absorbed, so it flowed into the Red Mirror Saber instead.
• The Red Mirror Saber absorbed the fortune and became stronger, allowing its wielder to receive the World Will’s favor without Hu Qi being bound by it.
• Beneath the magma in Abyss Valley, an enormous shadow stirred, fixed a greedy gaze on something, and then withdrew its attention.
• At Xuan Qing Pass, Xuan Qing sensed the World Will’s unprecedented expenditure of fortune and predicted that stronger or more numerous Heavenly Mandate Persons would appear.

As World's Vital Energy surged across Earth, Li Yi revealed that he had reached the Qi and Blood Realm by defeating Pei Yan in a university training room. He left Shen Qinghan stunned after slapping her for using him as a shield against Pei Yan.

• Xuan Qing saw that an anomaly had obscured the future's fate, though traces of the World Will's imprints remained.
• World's Vital Energy rapidly intensified across Earth, transforming the environment and benefiting living creatures and some people.
• At Teachers University, Pei Yan challenged Li Yi over Shen Qinghan, and Li Yi blocked his punch before kicking him down and smashing his head against the ring.
• A spectator recognized Li Yi as a Secret Martial Artist in the Qi and Blood Realm, astonishing the crowd.
• Li Yi approached Shen Qinghan, slapped her before she could apologize, and blamed her for using him as a shield.

Li Yi left the university after beating Shen Qinghan, while Chen Wu warned the students to seek his forgiveness because of Hu Qi’s power. Li Yi discussed his rapid cultivation with the AI Nuo Xing, and the chapter then shifted to a group assaulting someone in a freezing alley in the Sand Sea Nation.

• Li Yi struck Shen Qinghan and ignored her demand that he apologize or be expelled.
• Chen Wu arrived and ordered the students to apologize to Li Yi, explaining that Li Yi was Hu Qi’s younger brother.
• Li Yi left with Nuo Xing, who said her optimized Snake Form Stance could help him reach the Qi and Blood Transformation Three in half a month.
• In the Sand Sea Nation, five figures beat a person in an alley, and their leader demanded that the victim kneel and call them Daddy.

Ji Wuxing revived in the body of a frail young man, killed the men who had beaten him, and vowed to defeat the Earth Mother. In a hospital, Ouyang Shuokong also awakened in Li Hai’s body after the young man’s vital signs had ceased.

• A group of men beat Ji Wuxing’s descendant until they thought he was dead, but he stood up and fought back.
• Ji Wuxing killed or incapacitated the attackers and drove the last man away with a thrown brick.
• Ji Wuxing realized his revival had succeeded, assessed his weakened body, and vowed not to lose to the Earth Mother again.
• A golden light entered a hospital room and restored Li Hai’s brain activity after his monitor showed a flatline.
• Li Hai sat up and remembered that he was Ouyang Shuokong, founder of the Blood and Qi Martial Path.

Ouyang Shuokong awakened in a body tens of thousands of years in the future, while Hu Qi advanced his Star-Coiling Serpent Cosmic Ring Scripture and sought Modification Points to reach the Void-Cavern Realm before Earth Mother awakened. Li Yi visited Zhu Xi hoping to speak with Hu Qi about Nuo Xing, but she confronted him about his distrust and said she could not be removed from his brain.

• Ouyang Shuokong absorbed the original owner's memories and marveled at how martial cultivation had developed in the future.
• Hu Qi completed his twenty-fifth secondary Life Diagram after lighting more than a thousand Life Apertures.
• Hu Qi left his mountain secret chamber to gather Modification Points and sensed something in the direction of Zhu Xi.
• Dai Shu told Li Yi that Hu Qi was still in closed-door cultivation, and Li Yi asked her to join him and Hu Qi for dinner sometime.
• Nuo Xing appeared to Li Yi outside Zhu Xi, accused him of guarding against her, and explained that she was fused with his brain and could not be removed.