Chapter Summaries

Hu Qi killed Mo Xuan and was taken by Mo Shan to Ink Peak, where Mo Shan let him avenge his mother by killing Chu Yuan. Mo Shan then revealed that becoming the Northern Sky Domain’s Dao Child would grant Hu Qi the chance to hear the Dao at Purple Cloud Palace, leaving Hu Qi wondering whether it was the legendary palace he knew.

• Mo Shan recognized Hu Qi’s rapidly refined Golden-Winged Great Peng Essence Blood, removed Mo Xuan’s corpse, and took Hu Qi away to Ink Peak.
• The disciples found the crater where Mo Ming and Mo Xuan had vanished, while Zhang Chen concluded Hu Qi was his strongest rival and resolved to advance to the Dao Lord Realm.
• Mo Shan told Hu Qi that Chu Yuan had caused his mother’s death and offered her to him for punishment.
• Hu Qi killed Chu Yuan, then thanked Mo Shan without calling him Father.
• Mo Shan explained that the Dao Child could attend the Purple Cloud Palace’s sermon in the Core Land, scheduled for a thousand years later, and Hu Qi questioned whether it was the Purple Cloud Palace he knew.

Hu Qi learned about the Dao Child contest and accepted Mo Shan’s elder token, while Mo Shan and Ling Tianzi judged him the likely winner. Hu Qi detected Mo Shan’s hidden mark and concealed his suspicions as two summoned hunters continued searching for him in another world.

• Mo Shan warned Hu Qi about the Dao Child contest, explained the Northern Sky Domain’s rival forces and rules, and gave him an elder token.
• Ling Tianzi confirmed Hu Qi’s Golden-Winged Great Peng bloodline and talents, and predicted he would win the contest.
• Mo Shan revealed to Ling Tianzi that he planned to use his Primordial Embryo Dragon Nourishing Heaven Swallowing Method to consume Hu Qi’s bloodline and inherit the benefits of his sermon.
• Hu Qi detected the secret mark Mo Shan had planted in his body but chose not to remove it yet.
• Ge Shi and a little girl searched a fog-covered world for Hu Qi, and the girl threatened Ge Shi for delaying to devour blood food.

News of Mo Ming’s defeat spread across the Sky Domains, drawing the attention of the Buddha’s Child and a Phoenix Clan woman. After ten years in seclusion, Hu Qi’s true-body power fully fused with his body in the Great Wilderness World, and he prepared to leave the Tian Lin Tribe.

• News spread that Mo Ming had defeated Mo Xuan, and figures in Cloud Thunder Temple and the Phoenix Clan took notice of his strength.
• The Buddha’s Child considered guiding Mo Ming into his Buddha as a Guardian Deity, while the Phoenix Clan woman was surprised by his ability to kill a peak True God.
• Hu Qi returned to Spirit Prison Mountain, refused invitations from other disciples, and accepted their gifts through Luo Yu and Luo Wei.
• Ten years passed, and Hu Qi continued cultivating in the Tian Lin Tribe of the Great Wilderness World.
• Hu Qi realized his true-body power had fully fused with his body, removing the risk of being erased, and decided it was time to leave.

Hu Qi bid farewell to his family in the Tian Lin Tribe and left the Great Wilderness World to pursue greater power. After restoring his main body in the True World, he destroyed a mysterious point of light and turned his attention toward Mo Shan at Ink Peak.

• Hu Qi shared a lavish farewell meal with Ayun, Feng Jiao, and Wind Phoenix, then revealed that he planned to leave the Great Wilderness World.
• Hu Qi gave his family life-saving imprints and handed Wind Phoenix a Jade Token containing the life souls of tribal leaders and elders before departing.
• Wind Phoenix vowed to reach the world beyond the Great Wilderness World, while Hu Qi chose not to bring his family into his Cave Heaven World because of the risk of attracting a True Spirit-level being.
• Hu Qi inspected Crimson’s unstable modification rune for the Divine Limit Heart Art and learned that he needed information about the True Spirit level to safely deduce a path beyond the Dao Lord Realm.
• Hu Qi reunited his restored main body with his avatar on Nether Mountain, kept the identity of Mo Ming, and destroyed a point of light containing writhing black threads.
• Hu Qi looked toward Ink Peak, where Mo Shan resided.

Hu Qi searched the souls of Spirit Prison Mountain’s leaders, enslaved its Dao Lords, and learned the history of the Mountain Sea Realm and its True Spirit beings. After discovering he could claim Dao Child status early by suppressing a domain, he turned his attention to the Northern Sky Domain, where Mo Ming arrived to challenge Swordless Pavilion.

• Hu Qi forcibly entered Mo Shan’s Mind Realm, searched his soul, and branded him as a puppet.
• Hu Qi searched Ling Tianzi’s soul and controlled the Dao Lords of Spirit Prison Mountain, then learned Witch Fire’s memories of the five Heavenly Venerables and the three beings from the Void Sea.
• Hu Qi learned that he could obtain Dao Child status early by suppressing an entire domain.
• Hu Qi learned that Swordless Pavilion had risen to become a Northern Sky Domain overlord after its founder claimed the Dao Child position and won the approval of Spirit Prison Mountain and White Bone Plain.
• Su Yang tempered himself in Swordless Pavilion’s Sword Sharpening Lake when a voice announced that Mo Ming had come to challenge the mountain.

Hu Qi, posing as Mo Ming of Spirit Prison Mountain, challenged Swordless Pavilion and killed its Sword Son Su Yang with a single strike. Swordless Pavilion conceded its claim to this epoch’s Dao Child contest, while Hu Qi resolved to find another chance to eliminate Chongmingzi.

• Mo Ming’s challenge reached Swordless Pavilion, and core disciple Han Changxi confronted him but was killed after one move.
• Su Yang arrived, learned of Han Changxi’s death, and attacked Hu Qi with his strongest sword technique.
• Hu Qi erased Su Yang’s attack and killed him with a single strike, prompting Swordless Pavilion’s elders and founding ancestor Chongmingzi to intervene.
• Ling Tianzi blocked Chongmingzi’s attack and reminded him that Swordless Pavilion had also killed Spirit Prison Mountain’s Holy Sons in past Dao Child contests.
• Chongmingzi admitted defeat and withdrew Swordless Pavilion from this epoch’s Dao Child contest, transferring its qualification and fortune to Hu Qi.
• Hu Qi taunted Chongmingzi and regretted missing a chance to kill him, deciding to seek another opportunity.

Hu Qi defeated Bai Tong, the Saintess of White Bone Plain, and swore a Heavenly Dao Oath to begin the Northern Sky Domain’s Dao Child contest early. After killing nearly a hundred challengers and the Half-Step Dao Lord Bu Fengtian, Hu Qi remained undefeated at Profound Northern Sky Root as the ten-year deadline arrived.

• Hu Qi swallowed Bai Tong and forced the Sect Master of White Bone Plain to concede and withdraw from the contest.
• Hu Qi swore an oath naming Profound Northern Sky Root as the place where challengers could fight him within ten years, and the Heavenly Dao accepted it.
• Over the next nine years, Hu Qi defeated and killed challengers, including a joint attack by nearly a hundred True God prodigies.
• Hu Qi killed Bu Fengtian, a sealed peerless prodigy who had reached the Half-Step Dao Lord Realm, with a single strike.
• Mo Ran watched Hu Qi from afar and recalled that she had once intended to teach him a lesson.

Hu Qi became the Northern Sky Domain’s Dao Child after receiving the Heavenly Dao’s seal, then searched the domain for traces of True Spirit beings before heading to Swordless Pavilion. There, he discovered Chongmingzi and Xin Jue conspiring against him and confronted them in person.

• Zhang Chen abandoned any hope of challenging Hu Qi, and the other competitors either left or planned to wait for a future Dao Child selection.
• Hu Qi studied the Profound Northern Sky Root, received the Dao Seal from the Heavenly Dao, and was hailed by the crowd as Dao Child.
• Hu Qi traveled the Northern Sky Domain for several years in search of True Spirit traces, then sensed a connection to an event at Swordless Pavilion.
• Xin Jue revealed his Many-Lifetimes Body to Chongmingzi and proposed that they cooperate against Hu Qi, with Chongmingzi stopping Spirit Prison Mountain’s people.
• Hu Qi appeared inside the pavilion unnoticed and confronted Chongmingzi and Xin Jue as they felt the threat of his presence.

Hu Qi killed Xin Jue and Chongmingzi, whose deaths led to the destruction of the Swordless Pavilion, then spent three hundred years traveling across the Mountain Sea Realm in search of clues about the True Spirit level. He left a primitive island world for the Core Land after granting spiritual power to the dinosaur that had carried him.

• Hu Qi attacked Xin Jue and Chongmingzi, killed them despite the Heavenly Dao's protection of Chongmingzi, and tested the power of his Dao Seal.
• The Swordless Pavilion sealed its mountain after Chongmingzi's death, but White Bone Plain and Spirit Prison Mountain learned the truth and destroyed it.
• Hu Qi left the Northern Sky Domain and spent three hundred years exploring heavenly domains and island worlds for clues about the True Spirit level.
• In a primitive island world, Hu Qi finished studying a secret art recorded on a bone fragment and decided to leave for the Core Land.
• Hu Qi gave spiritual power to the dinosaur that had carried him, then flew away from the world.

Hu Qi destroyed three Void Creatures on Qian Yuan and discovered that the ten suns repelled the Giant Eye’s influence. He reached the Core Land, where two approaching beings drew near as he explored its ancient forest.

• Hu Qi spotted three Void Creatures in the ruined island world of Qian Yuan and annihilated them with a golden beam.
• The Giant Eye’s power targeted Hu Qi, but the ten suns drove it away and confirmed his suspicion that they suppressed threats in the Void Sea.
• Hu Qi flew to the Core Land and entered it using his Dao Child imprint.
• Hu Qi crushed a white marten that attacked him upon arrival and found himself in an ancient forest beneath ten suns.
• Hu Qi sensed two auras approaching from the forest.

Hu Qi entered Xianyun City after learning about the human race of the Core Land and sought the legacy of Evolution Heavenly Venerable. He met Nuwa, who said she would consult the other Sages before answering his request.

• Hu Qi analyzed two members of the Core Land human race, read their memories, and left after erasing their recollection of him.
• Hu Qi disguised himself as a local human and traveled to Xianyun City to gather information about Evolution Heavenly Venerable.
• Nuwa appeared to Hu Qi in a tavern and introduced herself as Xihe or Nuwa, one of the Four Sages of the human race.
• Hu Qi revealed his identity as Mo Ming and showed Nuwa his Dao Seal while asking to visit Evolution Heavenly Venerable's legacy.
• Nuwa said she would discuss Hu Qi's request with the other Sages, then vanished as the tavern's bustle resumed.

Hu Qi negotiated with Nuwa for access to the Human Race’s lineage by agreeing to enter a troubled spacetime and help correct its timeline. He possessed the paralyzed Wang Yan in an apocalypse-themed world, healed his body, and jumped from the hospital window to avoid attracting attention.

• Fuxi, Xuanyuan, Shennong, and Nuwa debated whether Hu Qi could view the lineage of Evolution Heavenly Venerable, and they agreed to let him do so if he resolved a spacetime anomaly.
• Nuwa explained that Hu Qi had to enter Spacetime No. 33669 and help a wisp of Evolution Heavenly Venerable’s thought restore its timeline; Hu Qi accepted and used the stone she gave him to enter.
• Hu Qi awakened in the body of Wang Yan, a deliveryman left paralyzed after a hit-and-run, and rapidly healed his injuries.
• Hu Qi identified the world as an apocalypse spacetime where humanity repeatedly faced extinction, and he planned to find the wisp of Evolution Heavenly Venerable’s thought.
• As people hurried toward his hospital room, Hu Qi removed his needles, leapt out the window, and left the other patient screaming for help.

Hu Qi escaped the hospital, traveled toward Qiyan City, and strengthened his Psionic Power while pursuing the Evolution Heavenly Venerable’s avatar thought. In Qiyan City, Zhang Yi was reborn with the Heart of Immortality three months before the apocalypse and began planning for survival, but an unexpected visitor knocked at his door.

• Hu Qi used his divine soul power to descend from the hospital’s fifteenth floor, and the hospital staff called the police after discovering he had vanished.
• Director Song Zhongguo reviewed evidence of Wang Yan’s impossible escape and ordered Li Yue to find him, then reported the incident to his superiors.
• Hu Qi left for Qiyan City by rideshare and used the Myriad Manifestations Heart Sutra to raise his Psionic Power to the ninth layer.
• Hu Qi left the car outside the city and flew toward Qiyan City, while his Psionic Power subtly altered the driver’s memory.
• Zhang Yi awoke in Qiyan City on October 3, 2036, realized he had been reborn for the seventh time with the Heart of Immortality, and began preparing for the apocalypse.
• A visitor claiming to inspect the gas line knocked on Zhang Yi’s door as he began writing his survival plan.

Zhang Yi was captured after armed men discovered his extraordinary healing ability, then brought before Hu Qi, who subdued him with supernatural powers and revealed that he knew Zhang Yi was a reincarnator. The Qiyan City mayor took Zhang Yi away to learn about the coming apocalypse, while Hu Qi watched and waited for his true power to descend.

• Zhang Yi sensed six heartbeats outside his door, but armed men broke in and shot him while trying to capture him alive.
• Zhang Yi healed from gunshot wounds and attacked the intruders, but anesthetic darts finally knocked him unconscious.
• Zhang Yi awoke in a Qiyan City office and tried to attack Hu Qi, who stopped him with an invisible barrier and crushing force.
• Hu Qi identified Zhang Yi as a reincarnator, explained that his special heart granted his recovery ability, and demanded his cooperation with research.
• The Qiyan City mayor escorted Zhang Yi away to discuss the apocalypse, while Hu Qi reflected on his search and anticipated the arrival of his true power.

Hu Qi warned Xia Kingdom’s leaders of the coming apocalypse, prompting a massive relocation toward Qiyan City despite skepticism abroad and resistance at home. As the apocalypse began, Hu Qi used the Scarlet Panel to enhance his cultivation and his power surged beyond the Sixth Tier Demigod level, leaving Zhang Yi stunned.

• Hu Qi met Xia Kingdom’s leaders, told them to gather people near Qiyan City, and vanished from their conference room.
• Xia Kingdom’s leaders chose to prepare for the apocalypse, and the government sealed its borders and relocated citizens while other nations began making precautions.
• Over three months, roughly sixty percent of Xia Kingdom’s population moved to the region around Qiyan City, while the rest refused to leave their homes.
• Ten minutes before the apocalypse, Zhang Yi waited atop a skyscraper with Hu Qi and wondered whether his rebirth had changed Hu Qi’s fate.
• When the apocalypse arrived at 18:10, Hu Qi sensed the Will of Heaven, summoned the Scarlet Panel, and ordered it to enhance the Myriad Manifestations Heart Sutra.
• Hu Qi’s power erupted and rapidly rose from the Fifth Tier Lord level past the Sixth Tier Demigod level as Zhang Yi froze in terror.

Hu Qi reached the Eighth-Tier God King level, cleared the fog and monsters from Qiyan City and its surroundings, and enclosed a vast area in a protective crystal barrier. As governments around the world mistook the first monster attacks for a manageable disaster, Hu Qi considered how to hasten the apocalypse’s evolution, while the first Spiritual Tide remained a month away.

• The sky darkened worldwide, and strange white fog spread as giant mosquito-like insects emerged and killed people on a beach.
• Hu Qi raised the Myriad Manifestations Heart Sutra to its fifteenth layer and attained Eighth-Tier God King strength, while Zhang Yi watched in disbelief.
• Hu Qi used a burst of silver light to erase the fog and monsters around Qiyan City, then formed a crystal barrier covering a five-hundred-kilometer radius and promised protection to those inside.
• Zhang Yi asked why Hu Qi would not establish a new nation, and Hu Qi said he did not want to and explained that he intended only to preserve a spark of humanity while the apocalypse evolved.
• Hu Qi considered finding a way to accelerate the apocalypse, while governments worldwide subdued the initial monster attacks with modern weapons and the first Spiritual Tide remained a month away.

As nations struggled to contain the mists and studied Evolvers, Star Country’s experiment with Demonic Beast crystals caused test subjects to explode before Zora Ashton awakened a powerful ability and received a divine revelation. Hu Qi learned that revelations had strengthened select Evolvers worldwide and warned that the first Spiritual Tide was only the beginning of the apocalypse.

• Nations failed to destroy the mists and redirected their efforts toward studying Demonic Beasts and developing their own Evolvers after they could not reach Hu Qi.
• Steve Carvey ordered more Magic Crystal solution injected into the Evolver subjects in Star Country’s Project “Heavenly Ladder,” triggering a wave of fatal explosions.
• Zora Ashton broke out of her chamber, controlled the atmosphere, and was subdued with anesthetic gas before telling Steve Carvey that she had received a divine revelation.
• A small number of powerful Evolvers around the world received revelations that taught them to develop their abilities and warned that the true apocalypse was still to come.
• A woman in Qiyan City briefed Hu Qi on the Spiritual Tide, the newly empowered Evolvers, and organizations including Star Country’s Keystone Society and the Russian Empire’s Red Tower.

Hu Qi rejected the Xia Kingdom’s offer to lead its Evolvers and dismissed Xia Hong’s advances, while explaining that he had accelerated the apocalypse to strengthen the spacetime. As the Spiritual Tides intensified and small nations fell, Lofis saved survivors from a fifth-tier Demonic Beast and challenged someone hiding nearby.

• Xia Hong told Hu Qi that the Xia Kingdom wanted him to command its Evolvers, but he declined and directed them to Zhang Yi instead.
• Xia Hong reported that Hu Qi’s half-brother had arranged the attack that left him hospitalized; Hu Qi ordered that he never see the family again and told Xia Hong not to disturb him unless necessary.
• Xia Hong made a suggestive offer to accompany Hu Qi, but he refused, saying she was too weak, and allowed her to return for massages.
• Hu Qi reflected that he had used divine revelations to accelerate Evolver growth and the apocalypse, hoping to shorten the time before his true body could descend.
• After successive Spiritual Tides strengthened Demonic Beasts and caused several small countries to fall, a fifth-tier City Destroyer attacked Ginsberg Town in the Russian Empire.
• Lofis destroyed the City Destroyer with lightning and saved the survivors, then sensed someone nearby and demanded that they reveal themselves.

Zora Ashton recruited Lofis and Ramesses to join a plan to attack Wang Yan, with a peak Seventh-Tier Black Cat promising a pure land for humanity on behalf of its Demon King. Lofis agreed under pressure, then privately wrestled with the betrayal and his family’s deaths.

• Zora Ashton appeared before Lofis after he killed a Fifth-Tier Demonic Beast, and they left the devastated settlement to talk privately.
• Zora told Lofis that Demonic Beasts were growing stronger and proposed making a move against Wang Yan, whom she believed might hold secrets about the apocalypse.
• Ramesses arrived, and Lofis argued that attacking Wang Yan was reckless while humanity faced the Demonic Beasts.
• Zora revealed that a Demon King backed their plan, and the Black Cat promised to leave humanity a pure land if they killed Wang Yan.
• Lofis agreed to join the operation after realizing refusal would likely mean his death and the Russian Empire’s destruction.
• After the others departed, Lofis looked at a photograph of his dead wife and children and bitterly questioned becoming a traitor to humanity.

Hu Qi learned that Lofis, Zora Ashton, Ramesses, and the Demonic Beasts had joined forces against him, but he remained unconcerned. When the alliance attacked Li City, Hu Qi revealed overwhelming power, annihilated the attackers and the Demon King, and left Lofis alive to witness his strength.

• Lofis possessed Xia Hong to warn Hu Qi about the alliance, but Hu Qi expelled his will and told Xia Hong to rest.
• Lofis ordered the Russian Empire's nuclear weapons aimed at Qiyan City and controlled officials to ensure they would carry out the order.
• Zhang Yi fought Lofis, Zora Ashton, Ramesses, and five Seventh-Tier Demonic Beasts in Li City while protecting the people below.
• Hu Qi appeared and froze the battlefield, then killed Zora Ashton, Ramesses, and the five Demonic Beasts as an Eighth-Tier Demon King emerged from the fog.
• Hu Qi annihilated the Demon King with silver light, leaving Lofis alive and revealing that his power was Ninth Tier.