Chapter Summaries

Hu Qi used the prayers of Panshan Gathering Place’s survivors to manifest the Sun God’s Divine Avatar, which killed the Fifth-Tier Desolate God Rudra with one arrow. After absorbing Rudra and beginning to study its rune, Hu Qi’s power stirred alarm among the strongest beings on Barren Star, who recalled the recent destruction of Iron City.

• Hu Qi identified Rudra as a newly ascended Fifth-Tier Desolate God, and Zhang Ming received confirmation that the radar had misjudged its threat level.
• Hu Qi refused to flee and told everyone in Panshan Gathering Place to pray to the Sun God as Rudra’s tornado drew near.
• The survivors’ prayers let Hu Qi manifest the Sun God’s Divine Avatar, which fired an arrow through Rudra’s tornado and killed the Desolate God.
• Hu Qi absorbed Rudra’s body, leaving behind a black bone covered in runes, then sat down to study it.
• On Barren Star, powerful Humans and Desolate Gods sensed Hu Qi’s aura and remembered the destruction of Iron City and the suspected severe injury of the Western War Zone’s leader.

Marshal Muke Duo warned the other War Zone leaders about a Demon from Beyond the Heavens, while Hu Qi advanced to the peak of the fifth tier at Panshan Gathering Place. After revealing that an unknown force was tracking him, Hu Qi followed the red thread leading from his wrist, as a survivor in a nearby gathering place begged for his life.

• Muke Duo recovered in an underground cavern, sensed a troubling aura, and sent a secret message to the other War Zones warning them about the Demon from Beyond the Heavens.
• Huang Lin received the Western War Zone's warning, and the Eastern and Northern War Zones received the same information.
• Hu Qi spent over four thousand Modification Points to advance to the peak of the fifth-tier Human War God, triggering a fifth-tier alert at Panshan Gathering Place that Zhang Ming identified as Hu Qi's breakthrough.
• Hu Qi sensed a vast talisman hidden in the sky that resembled the runes in his body and considered whether completing the Unknown Talisman would let him borrow its power.
• Hu Qi stopped concealing himself with Twisted Light, saw a red tracking thread winding around his wrist, and decided to find who was tracking him.
• At a gathering place three hundred kilometers away, survivors and Evolver leaders lay as shriveled corpses while someone begged an unseen assailant not to kill him.

Gerard tracked Hu Qi to lead Caius and six Heavenly Kings to him, but Hu Qi overwhelmed the group, captured Caius, killed Gerard, and forced the survivors to submit. In the Western War Zone, Muke Duo sensed that his protective power on Caius had been broken and rushed to find out what had happened.

• Gerard used Bloodline Tracking to find Hu Qi, then joined Caius and six Heavenly Kings in pursuing him.
• Hu Qi’s overwhelming pressure brought down the group, and he froze the Heavenly Kings as Caius fled.
• Hu Qi caught Caius, shattered his defenses, and knocked him unconscious after hurling him through a mountain.
• Gerard and the remaining Heavenly Kings offered to submit, but Hu Qi killed Gerard and bound the six survivors with icy power.
• Muke Duo sensed that the power protecting Caius had been destroyed and left his cave to investigate.

Muke Duo learned that his son Caius had gone to the Southern War Zone and prepared to seek revenge on Hu Qi, while Hu Qi waited at Panshan Gathering Place for the Western leader and other Fifth Tier powerhouses to arrive. When the leaders of the Northern, Eastern, and Western War Zones joined Huang Lin to attack, the Sun God statue began to move in response to the danger.

• Muke Duo struck the Fourth Tier King who had followed Caius's order to keep his departure secret, then ordered him to contact the leaders of the three major war zones.
• Hu Qi refused Zhang Ming's suggestion to visit the Empress after ashes and Copper Knife cut off trade with Panshan Gathering Place, choosing instead to wait for his enemies.
• Several days later, Yu Mo, Li Xinghai, Muke Duo, and Huang Lin arrived above Panshan Gathering Place and planned to destroy Hu Qi before he recovered his strength.
• Yu Mo enlarged himself to a thousand meters and brought a gigantic foot down toward Panshan Gathering Place, triggering its alarm and pinning its people beneath his pressure.
• The Sun God statue released golden light that healed the gathered survivors, who prayed in relief as the statue began to move.

The Sun God Statue awakened to protect Panshan Gathering Place and battled four Tier Five Human War Gods, who eventually restrained it with a sealing formation. Hu Qi then appeared in his colossal Heavenly Phenomenon Manifestation, revealing himself as the true Demon from Beyond the Heavens, and killed Muke Duo as he fled.

• The Sun God Statue awakened, shielded Panshan Gathering Place, and pierced Yu Mo's foot with golden saber light, forcing him to sever part of his leg before it could burn him alive.
• Yu Mo, Muke Duo, Li Xinghai, and Huang Lin joined forces against the Sun God, unleashing their abilities as it fought back with the Sea-Covering Sky-Splitting Saber.
• After the Sun God blasted the four War Gods away, Muke Duo urged them to use their joint sealing move, and their formation restrained the Sun God with chains.
• Hu Qi appeared in his colossal Heavenly Phenomenon Manifestation, freezing the battlefield and revealing that he was the true Demon from Beyond the Heavens.
• Muke Duo broke free and fled, but Hu Qi struck him with his giant palm and crushed him into a blood mist.

Hu Qi killed three war zone leaders, spared Li Xinghai to reorganize humanity under his rule, and built the City of Dawn while hunting Desolate Gods and gathering runes. As the Unknown Talisman’s completion stalled at 89.13%, two former subordinates from Rotten Leaf Settlement arrived seeking an audience with him.

• Hu Qi killed Muke Duo and Yu Mo, then devoured Huang Lin when she tried to possess him.
• Hu Qi spared Li Xinghai and ordered him to unite the four war zones and establish a Central War Zone.
• Over the next three years, Hu Qi killed Desolate Gods and consolidated most of humanity in the City of Dawn, where faith in the Sun God spread.
• Hu Qi saw that the Unknown Talisman remained at 89.13% completion despite the collection of runes from Evolvers and Desolate Gods.
• A subordinate told Hu Qi that two former members of Rotten Leaf Settlement had come to see him, and Hu Qi agreed to meet them.

Hu Qi discovered that the runes implanted in Lu Shan and Lu Hong had grown, accelerating their cultivation and potentially improving his Unknown Talisman. In the City of Dawn, Meng Hao seized an opportunity to join a city-sponsored New Awakening Ritual, hoping to become an Evolver.

• Lu Shan and Lu Hong found Hu Qi and told him how their settlement had grown after he left, while reporting that Tong Chang had died in a Desolate Beast attack.
• Hu Qi examined Lu Shan and Lu Hong, discovered their implanted runes had grown at different rates, and realized he might be able to increase the Unknown Talisman's completeness by influencing more Evolvers.
• City guards distributed relief porridge and warned able-bodied adults to seek work instead of claiming emergency food.
• Meng Hao and Xiao Mo praised the City Lord's aid as Meng Hao reflected on his family's deaths and his inability to afford an Awakening Ritual.
• A guard announced that the City of Dawn would recruit ten thousand people aged twelve to twenty-five for a New Awakening Ritual and provide the needed wasteland beasts.
• Meng Hao hurried to register, seeing the city-sponsored ritual as his best chance to become an Evolver.

Meng Hao survived his transplant and discovered that he could transfer his injuries to others, while Lu Hong later recruited him to help kill the City Lord. The chapter ended as Meng Hao challenged Lu Hong to consider what would happen if their plan failed, and a tearing sound rang out.

• Meng Hao woke after his transplant and learned from Lu Hong that he was one of the few survivors and had become an official Evolver.
• Meng Hao’s injury-transfer ability healed his neck by inflicting the same wound on Lu Hong, and he demonstrated the ability again when Lu Hong cut his arm.
• Over ten years, the New Awakening Ritual spread, Evolvers multiplied, and the City of Dawn and surrounding settlements prospered under Hu Qi’s rule.
• Lu Hong urged Lu Shan to help overthrow the City Lord, but she rebuked him and threatened to take him to meet the City Lord if he spoke that way again.
• Lu Hong visited Meng Hao in Radiant Harbor and ordered him to come meet the City Lord, intending to use his Swap Injury ability to kill him.
• Meng Hao asked what they would do if their plan failed, and a tearing sound suddenly came from the courtyard.

Meng Hao exposed Lu Hong’s plot and brought him before Hu Qi, who stripped Lu Hong of his powers and assigned Meng Hao to the War Department. Hu Qi then completed the Unknown Talisman, which weakened every evolver and Barren Beast, and learned that it was the Primordial Demon Refining Record, a source of world-altering power and a route to the Cangzhou Realm.

• Meng Hao used Swap Injury and his blade to defeat Lu Hong, revealing that he could transfer poisons and other negative effects after reaching the Fourth Tier.
• Lu Shan arrived, stopped Lu Hong from attacking Meng Hao, and ordered both men to accompany her to see Hu Qi.
• Lu Shan confessed Lu Hong’s crimes to Hu Qi, who spared Lu Hong’s life but stripped away his strength and possessions.
• Hu Qi examined Meng Hao, recognized his rune alteration, and sent him to report to Li Xinghai at the War Department.
• Hu Qi completed the Unknown Talisman, causing evolvers and Barren Beasts across Barren Star to lose a major realm of strength.
• The talisman entered Hu Qi and revealed itself as the Primordial Demon Refining Record, making him the world’s master and giving him a way to locate and travel to the Cangzhou Realm.

After gaining control of Barren Star through the Primordial Demon Refining Record, Hu Qi learned that the world had weakened its inhabitants and then moved the shrunken world into his Void Glimpse Space. The move advanced his Cave Heaven World’s evolution, and as he traveled onward, a dazzling beam of light pierced the Sea of Sumeru and halted everything around him.

• Lu Shan, Li Xinghai, and another Fifth Tier Evolver reported that everyone’s strength had fallen by a major realm, and Hu Qi used his new authority to learn that the world had imposed a Fourth Tier limit.
• Hu Qi explained the change to the three Evolvers, then summoned his true body and merged with his avatar, gaining a third Spirit Seed.
• Hu Qi judged that the Void Glimpse Space could not hold all of Barren Star, so he used his authority to erase barren regions and shrink the world by roughly two-fifths.
• Hu Qi swallowed Barren Star into the Void Glimpse Space, where its arrival raised the Cave Heaven World evolution progress to twenty percent.
• More than ten days later, Hu Qi noticed a dazzling beam pierce the Sea of Sumeru, freezing the surrounding lights and a nearby bubble world in place.

Hu Qi fled the White King’s overwhelming attack through the Mind Realm, but the White King’s power struck him down and sent his consciousness into an unknown state. He survived with his Spirit Seeds damaged, restored them using Crimson, and regained clarity.

• Hu Qi ignited his three Spirit Seeds to escape the White King’s confinement, then fled as she pursued and attacked him.
• Hu Qi used the Tattered Black Banner to enter the Mind Realm, but the White King’s power pierced its barrier and blew apart his body.
• Hu Qi’s consciousness drifted through darkness and a distorted ball of light before slowly re-forming, with his three Spirit Seeds near collapse and a fourth intact Spirit Seed of secret martial arts.
• Hu Qi called for Crimson and ordered it to restore his Spirit Seed losses.
• Crimson used Modification Points to repair Hu Qi’s three damaged Spirit Seeds, clearing his muddled consciousness.

Hu Qi completed his rebirth through his Cosmic Coiling Serpent bloodline and awakened as a snake in the Cangzhou Realm. As he adapted to his new body, sects across the realm began searching for the prophesied Tribulation Person.

• Hu Qi discovered that his Cosmic Coiling Serpent bloodline gave him endless growth and rebirth, while his Divine Abilities and Spirit Seeds remained preserved but unusable during incubation.
• Yuqingzi told Song Lingzi that the Patriarch had foreseen an early Great Tribulation and ordered him to find the Tribulation Person and bring them to Taiqing Palace.
• An aged monk from Jue'an Temple and a scholar from Tianyi Academy also set out to find the Tribulation Person for their respective sects.
• Hu Qi awakened inside a snake egg in the Cangzhou Realm and used his Spirit Devouring Talent to absorb spiritual energy, guided by information from his Rune Spirit Seed.
• Hu Qi hatched as a black snake over a meter long, inspected his surroundings, and found himself in a damp mountain cave beside a stream and other snake eggs.

Hu Qi discovered that his new Cosmic Coiling Serpent body could use Water Control and that his Spirit Devouring Talent could absorb essence from prey, then hid in a cave to cultivate. Half a month later, he had grown into a large black snake, while Ah Huang and Ah Hong brought him food and sought his approval.

• Hu Qi used Water Control to wash away the egg fluid, then spared the remaining eggs when two hatchlings emerged.
• Hu Qi hunted small creatures in the stream and confirmed that devouring living prey added their essence to his own.
• Hu Qi returned to the cave, began cultivating by breathing in spiritual energy, and drove Ah Huang and Ah Hong away when they approached him.
• Over the next half month, Hu Qi grew to three or four meters long while Ah Huang and Ah Hong grew to nearly a meter.
• Ah Huang and Ah Hong brought Hu Qi a red-tailed silverfish and a crab, set them down beside him, and tried to curry favor with him.

After shedding his skin, Hu Qi grew to ten meters long and discovered that he had condensed Demonic Power as his Cosmic Coiling Serpent bloodline began to awaken. He rescued Ah Huang from a Bald Eagle, then subdued a young hunter who had shot at him and demanded to know whether the man wanted to live or die.

• Hu Qi cultivated while Ah Hong and Ah Huang brought him prey, and he developed breathing techniques that improved his Spiritual Energy absorption.
• Hu Qi shed his skin, grew to around ten meters, and found a thread of Demonic Power inside his body.
• Ah Hong returned injured and urgently led Hu Qi to the stream, where a Bald Eagle was attacking Ah Huang.
• Hu Qi killed and swallowed the Bald Eagle, saving Ah Huang, but a young hunter shot an arrow at him and failed to pierce his scales.
• Hu Qi silently coiled around the young hunter and asked whether he wanted to live or die.

Hu Qi traveled toward Taize Lake seeking knowledge of the world and its cultivation paths, then ambushed a wounded Mountain Ogre and learned about the realms of cultivators and demons. The Pockmarked Old Daoist died after revealing what he knew, leaving Hu Qi with new information but no deeper details about the higher realms.

• Hu Qi questioned a hunter about the Great Ye Dynasty, then killed him and led Ah Huang and Ah Hong downstream toward Taize Lake.
• Hu Qi passed a village without stopping and continued traveling, hunting and practicing his breathing exercises along the way.
• The Pockmarked Old Daoist defeated a Mountain Ogre with his Hundred-Year Peachwood Sword, but Hu Qi struck him from behind before he could collect the monster’s remains.
• Hu Qi used Water Control to bind the Pockmarked Old Daoist and questioned him about the supernatural realms.
• The Pockmarked Old Daoist revealed the Qi Refining sub-realms and the Dao Foundation and Condensing Essence realms before Hu Qi killed him.

Hu Qi learned about the cultivation world from the Pockmarked Old Daoist and adapted his breathing method into one for snakes. At Taize Lake, he killed an electric eel monster, settled into its cave, and ordered Crimson to upgrade his new cultivation record.

• Hu Qi studied the Returning Creek Qi Induction Record and learned about the Cangzhou Realm, its orthodox traditions, and Qingli Prefecture.
• Hu Qi traveled downstream with the two small snakes and reached Taize Lake, where he sensed abundant spiritual energy and searched for a spirit-vein node.
• Hu Qi found an underwater cave and killed the Mid-Stage Qi Refining Realm Electric Eel Monster with his venom, then absorbed its corpse and gained Demonic Power.
• Hu Qi created the Mystic Scale Qi Absorption Record, cultivated in the cave, and told Crimson to modify and upgrade it.

Hu Qi refined his Demonic Power, broke through to the Dao Foundation Realm, and created a new cultivation method with the Scarlet Panel. After several days of consolidating his strength, he sensed a powerful intruder approaching his territory while the Yellow Python and Red Python guarded his cave.

• Hu Qi used the Mystic Scale Qi Absorption Record to refine his Demonic Power, open his meridians, and reach the Meridian Opening Realm.
• Hu Qi spent most of his Modification Points deriving the Mystic Fiend Nether Pivot Foundation Building Secret Record, then advanced to the first level of the Dao Foundation Realm and gained Demonic Sense.
• Hu Qi chose to consolidate his strength instead of continuing to improve, while the Yellow Python and Red Python cultivated outside his cave and discussed exploring beyond their territory.
• A Green Catfish nearly ten meters long arrived and challenged the two snakes, who told it Hu Qi had eaten the Electric Eel Monster and claimed the territory for him.
• The Green Catfish began threatening the snakes, but a powerful aura locked onto it, and a massive blast erupted.

Hu Qi reached the Dao Foundation level, killed the Fat Catfish Demon despite its ties to the Vortex Demon King, and set out to hunt for Modification Points. Disguised as the catfish demon, he attacked a Black-veiled Woman and swallowed her and her Black Pearl.

• Hu Qi broke through the cave entrance, revealed his new strength, and stopped the Fat Catfish Demon from harming the Yellow Python and Red Python.
• The Fat Catfish Demon explained that it served the Vortex Demon King and had come to summon nearby demon clans to the Demon King's wedding celebration.
• Hu Qi swallowed the Fat Catfish Demon, took its identity token, and upgraded the Mystic Fiend Nether Pivot Foundation Building Secret Record to the fifth layer.
• Hu Qi left the two pythons behind and used Twisted Light to transform into the Fat Catfish Demon as he set off to hunt.
• Hu Qi reached a black clam and attacked the Black-veiled Woman inside, breaking her defenses and swallowing her along with her Black Pearl.

Hu Qi attended the Vortex Demon King’s wedding after secretly hunting demons and stabilizing his cultivation, then presented Yuan Tianlong with a pill whose fragrance stirred the guests. The chapter ended as Yuan Tianlong showed interest in Hu Qi’s gift.

• Hu Qi killed a Dao Foundation Realm Black Clam Demon, continued hunting demons in Fat Catfish Demon form, and raised his Modification Points to 103 before retreating to cultivate.
• Hu Qi disguised himself as a third-level Dao Foundation Realm snake-headed demon and joined the guests at the Vortex Demon King’s wedding at Water Ape Manor.
• Hu Qi learned from a Toad Demon that the Vortex Demon King’s spiritual medicine could grant spirits humanlike forms and greater strength but exhausted their potential and dulled their minds.
• Yuan Tianlong welcomed his thirty-third concubine and hosted the gathered Dao Foundation Realm Great Demons at a wedding feast.
• Hu Qi presented Yuan Tianlong with a Great Yang Locking Essence Two Elements Pill, whose fragrance stirred the demons and drew a gleam of interest from the Demon King.

Hu Qi used a disguised pill and his Heavenly Thread divine ability to take control of Yuan Tianlong, the Essence Condensation Realm demon king who had tried to recruit him. With Yuan Tianlong immobilized, the captive Qingyang Sect disciple asked Hu Qi to release her.

• Yuan Tianlong accepted Hu Qi’s Great Yang Locking Essence Two Elements Pill and forced him to swallow a black spiritual medicine that he claimed would bind Hu Qi to his service.
• Hu Qi secretly distributed altered pellets to the Dao Foundation Realm demons at the feast, and their eyes gradually dulled as they became puppets.
• Yuan Tianlong left the feast and went to his bridal chamber, where he lifted the Red Veil of the captive Qingyang Sect disciple.
• Yuan Tianlong swallowed Hu Qi’s pill, which sent threads through his body and left him unable to move despite his efforts to expel them.
• Hu Qi entered the chamber and used his Intent Sword to damage Yuan Tianlong’s soul, allowing the Heavenly Thread to take control of the demon king.
• The captive woman asked Hu Qi to let her go and promised to reward him.