Recaps

Liang Si attacked and captured Han Luan on the Holy Rain Sect Master's orders, telling her that Wu Yu had died in the Underground World. He brought her to Hu Qi in Anshan City, where Hu Qi accepted her and hinted that he might have been responsible for Wu Yu's death.

• Han Luan left her cultivation chamber and encountered Liang Si, who attacked her with True Essence and shattered her arms.
• Liang Si used his Qi Sealing Finger to immobilize Han Luan and told her that Wu Yu had died in the Underground World and that their master had ordered the attack.
• Liang Si knocked Han Luan unconscious, carried her out of the Holy Rain Sect, and flew to Anshan City.
• At Zhu Xi Building, Liang Si presented Han Luan to Hu Qi on his master's orders and said other spiritual materials and medicinal treasures would arrive later.
• Hu Qi praised Liang Si and said Wu Yu might have survived if he had been more tactful, leaving Liang Si to wonder whether Hu Qi had killed him.

Hu Qi killed Han Luan in revenge, while news spread that the Snake Heart Sect Master had become a Spirit Refining Venerable. After upgrading his cultivation, Hu Qi reached the peak of the Myriad Manifestations Realm and sensed a tiny point of light in his palm.

• Hu Qi awakened Han Luan, revealed his former appearance, and killed her with his Spirit Devouring Talent.
• Liang Si reported to Li Xianyu that her assigned task was complete, then left her watching the rain.
• Word spread that the Snake Heart Sect Master had broken through to the Spirit Refinement Realm, prompting faction leaders to bring gifts and seek her favor.
• Hu Qi inspected a golden badge, set it aside cautiously, and used his Modification Points to upgrade the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Spirit Devouring Diagram to Level Three.
• Hu Qi reached the peak of the Myriad Manifestations Realm and discovered a tiny point of light in his palm through his Mind Power perception.

Hu Qi used his Mind Power and a Modification Point to illuminate the Yin Frost Life Aperture in his palm, discovering that the process consumed enormous reserves. After replenishing his Mind Power with Spirit Nurturing Tea, he completed the aperture and felt a subtle improvement to his body.

• Hu Qi noticed that his Taiyin Life Aperture Diagram Divine Drawing Method had revealed the Yin Frost Life Aperture at one percent.
• Hu Qi spent his remaining Modification Point to raise the aperture’s progress to eleven percent, then used Mind Power to illuminate it further.
• Hu Qi exhausted nearly all his Mind Power and suffered a splitting headache, but recovered by operating his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Spirit Devouring Diagram and drinking two cups of Spirit Nurturing Tea.
• Hu Qi resumed illuminating the Yin Frost Life Aperture until its progress reached one hundred percent.
• Hu Qi sensed an unknown power gathering into the completed aperture and felt a subtle improvement in his muscles, bones, and flesh.

Hu Qi reflected on his newly opened life aperture while the Snake Heart Sect prospered under his status as a Spirit Refining Venerable. At an Exotic Beast breeding facility, he inspected the first White-Spined Black Bear cubs, and the aggressive father bear was subdued by the enclosure’s electric system.

• Hu Qi tested his first life aperture and found that it could release a chill strong enough to frost a tabletop.
• The Holy Rain Sect and Sword Pavilion delivered six hundred kilograms of mostly low-grade precious medicines, while other sects sent resources and assistance to the Snake Heart Sect.
• Hu Qi’s rise to Spirit Refining Venerable status made the Snake Heart Sect one of the Xiya Federation’s top-tier sects and helped its resources and disciples grow.
• Dai Shu told Hu Qi that a White-Spined Black Bear had given birth to three healthy cubs at the breeding facility.
• The male White-Spined Black Bear charged at Hu Qi and Dai Shu, but the facility’s electric system stopped it and made it collapse.

Hu Qi reflected on how Exotic Beasts evolved and spent a peaceful evening eating bear paw before deciding to improve his strength. The chapter ended with his status panel showing four opened Life Apertures and 503 Modification Points.

• Hu Qi scanned the White-Spined Black Bear cubs and learned from Dai Shu that surface and Underground World Exotic Beasts showed few differences and likely descended from ancient surface organisms.
• Hu Qi reasoned that environmental changes had shaped Exotic Beasts through evolution and that present-day Exotic Beasts represented a return to ancestral forms.
• Hu Qi had a male White-Spined Black Bear's forepaw removed and later ate the roasted bear paw at home.
• Hu Qi considered why the Xiya Federation had not made Inherited Secret Martial Arts public, suspecting the seven great schools wanted to protect their position.
• Hu Qi checked on the Camphor Tea Duck and Xiao Bai, then reviewed his panel, which showed the Moonlight, Flowing Light, and Night Sea Life Apertures alongside Silver Frost and 503 Modification Points.

Hu Qi enhanced his cultivation and used Crimson to locate four more life apertures, then considered waiting until he grew stronger before illuminating them. At a Federation council assembly, Du Wang learned that Zhu Yan claimed his wife was a blood relative of Herlinta and agreed to consider introducing them; the gathering began as Xuan Qing and the other powerful figures took their seats.

• Hu Qi enhanced the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Spirit Devouring Diagram, sensed his Mind Power and control over World's Vital Energy increase, and used Crimson to locate four undiscovered life apertures.
• Hu Qi noticed that finding life apertures cost fewer Modification Points as his strength increased and decided that improving his cultivation first might be more efficient.
• Du Wang attended a Federation council assembly at the giant spherical building in the capital and spoke with Zhu Yan, the Sect Master of the Rock Boar Sect.
• Zhu Yan asked Du Wang to introduce him to Herlinta, claiming his wife was her blood relative, and Du Wang asked where she was.
• Xuan Qing appeared on one of the golden chairs at the assembly, and figures soon filled the other eight seats.

Hu Qi attended the Federation Council as the new Speaker for the Snake Heart Sect and watched the council discuss preparations for ominous changes in the World's Vital Energy. Professor Wang Wenshan revealed weapons and experiments developed from deciphered ruins, including the Supernova, a device designed to unleash energy from radioactive elements in the Earth's core.

• Erilosen welcomed Hu Qi as a new Speaker and opened the 137th Federation Council session.
• The council voted on internal Federation matters before Erilosen warned that rising World's Vital Energy could signal impending danger.
• Erilosen introduced Professor Wang Wenshan, who reported progress deciphering the ruins and showed Gene Warriors and Cyborgs being developed in a laboratory.
• Professor Wang Wenshan presented advanced weapons, including Annihilation Cannons, Interstellar Battleships, and the Supernova, which could trigger rapid decay of radioactive elements in the Earth's core.

Hu Qi learned how the civilizations of Planet Earth had risen and fallen, and that the Xiya Federation had salvaged powerful technology from the second civilization. After a secret council meeting, Xuan Qing said the key to escaping the Black Blood Species was finding the Spirit Realm Sea Eye, prompting Hu Qi to ask what it was.

• Hu Qi reviewed the history of Planet Earth's five civilizations and learned that the Federation's Gene Warriors, Cyborgs, Supernova, and starships came from technology recovered from the Noki Civilization.
• Hu Qi doubted that the recovered weapons could stop the Black Blood Species and sensed that their display had reassured the legislators.
• Professor Wang Wenshan said the weapons were nearly ready for use, and Erilosen ended the Federation council meeting with a speech.
• After the other legislators left, Xuan Qing said finding the Spirit Realm Sea Eye was essential to escaping the catastrophe.
• Hu Qi connected the Spirit Realm to his Yuan Eye inheritance and asked Xuan Qing what the Spirit Realm Sea Eye was.

Hu Qi learned from Xuan Qing that the Spirit Realm Sea Eye could lead to the Sea of Sumeru, a higher-dimensional source of souls and passage between worlds. The group still had not found an eye on Earth, and Xuan Qing revealed that he had reincarnated there from another world.

• Shi Xiao mocked Hu Qi for not knowing about the Spirit Realm Sea Eye, and Hu Qi threatened him while revealing his Dharma Manifestation Realm cultivation and serpent manifestation.
• Xuan Qing stopped the confrontation and explained that the Mind Realm was only an outward manifestation of the true Spirit Realm, also called the Sea of Sumeru.
• Xuan Qing said the Spirit Realm Sea Eye was the only known way to reach the Sea of Sumeru, which could connect different worlds and spacetime.
• Xuan Qing explained that the group sought the Sea Eye as a possible escape from the Black Blood Species, but believed it might lie beneath Earth's surface, within the core, or not exist.
• Hu Qi questioned the source of the information, and Xuan Qing revealed that he had reincarnated into this world through the Sea of Sumeru and later awakened memories of his previous life.

Xuan Qing explained the Spirit Realm Sea Eye and the looming threat of the Earth Mother, then urged the Spirit Refining Venerables to search the Underground World for the Sea Eye. Hu Qi agreed to join the expedition, and after the Federation Parliament session ended, he received an unexpected text message.

• Xuan Qing explained that a world’s Spirit Realm Sea Eye might be on another planet and said prehistoric records identified the catastrophic force as the Earth Mother, a being likely above Spirit Refining.
• Hu Qi and the other Spirit Refining Venerables agreed to search the Underground World for the Spirit Realm Sea Eye before the catastrophe arrived.
• After the meeting, Thunderstorm warned Hu Qi that Shi Xiao and Li Xianyu might target him during the expedition, and Hu Qi thanked him.
• Master Wang Jing offered to chant sutras to dispel the killing intent caused by Hu Qi’s Ghost Slaying Blade, but Hu Qi declined and left.
• Hu Qi received a text message from a number known to only a few people and reacted with a strange expression.

Hu Qi confronted Zhu Yan and Herlinta’s supposed blood relatives, exposing their claim as a deception and leaving Zhu Yan terrified. Later, Hu Qi considered whether the Sea of Sumeru could lead him back to Blue Star, but decided to focus instead on entering Earth’s core.

• Du Wang warned the old woman to respect Hu Qi, but she insisted that Hu Qi was her daughter Herlinta and reached to touch him.
• Hu Qi repelled the old woman, and a burly man charging at him had his head explode; Hu Qi accused Zhu Yan of bringing frauds to deceive him.
• Hu Qi crippled Zhu Yan’s right arm, then spared him on the condition that he never bring those people back.
• Hu Qi told Du Wang the incident was nothing and reflected on Herlinta’s abandonment and tragic upbringing.
• That night, Hu Qi considered using the Sea of Sumeru to find a way back to Blue Star, then turned his thoughts to entering Earth’s core.

Hu Qi entered the Vast Desert Region, rescued a young man from a poisoned scorpion, and gave him a body-training method before heading toward a human settlement. He found an underground city and began searching the area while keeping his Mind Power contained to avoid alerting the local Food Master.

• A young man ambushed a giant scorpion, but it evaded his dagger, poisoned him, and left him unable to move.
• Hu Qi appeared, killed the scorpion, learned that the nearest settlement lay twenty li away, and healed the young man while giving him a Secret Martial Artist cultivation method.
• The young man recovered with his injuries gone and newfound strength, speed, and training knowledge, though he could not remember Hu Qi.
• Hu Qi limited his Mind Power search to a ten-kilometer radius to avoid alerting the Food Master.
• Hu Qi discovered a large underground human settlement with sprawling city structures.

Hu Qi subdued Qiusa in Arid Hill City, extracted information from him, and harvested the gathered Black Blood Species for Modification Points. Meanwhile, a figure disguised as Qiusa reached Lord Shakong in the Cave of Ancient Bones, where Shakong attacked him; the figure landed safely and challenged him.

• Hu Qi planned to search for the Spirit Realm Sea Eye while also collecting Modification Points.
• Hu Qi defeated Qiusa, the lord of Arid Hill City, and devoured his body before using a strange red gleam to plunge his consciousness into chaos.
• Hu Qi questioned Qiusa, turned him into a bracelet with Twisted Light, and left the city as the gathered Black Blood Species became Modification Points.
• A black-mist-shrouded figure entered the Cave of Ancient Bones and found the two-headed dragon Lord Shakong.
• Lord Shakong attacked the figure with his tail, but the figure dodged onto a rock and asked what Shakong was doing.

Hu Qi killed Shakong with the Yuan Eye, devoured Shakong and Qiusa, and raised his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Spirit Devouring Diagram to the sixth level of the Heavenly Heart Chapter. The story then shifted to Cold Ring Domain, where Shi Xiao and Li Xianyu met in a tavern.

• Shakong attacked Hu Qi after sensing the power of his opened Yuan Eye, but Hu Qi pierced and killed the two-headed dragon with black light.
• Hu Qi used his Spirit Devouring Talent to consume Shakong's dissipating Soul Light and gained 321 Modification Points along with the dragon's memories.
• Hu Qi restored Qiusa's head, devoured him, and raised the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Spirit Devouring Diagram to the sixth level of the Heavenly Heart Chapter.
• Shi Xiao and Li Xianyu met in a tavern in Cold Ring Domain after traveling there through separate passages.

Li Xianyu and Shi Xiao planned to use the Food Masters to kill Hu Qi rather than risk confronting him themselves. Unaware that Hu Qi had already tracked them to the Cold Ring Domain and set a Food Master on them, they were attacked in the tavern.

• Shi Xiao vowed to kill Herlinta, while Li Xianyu admitted she wanted revenge on Hu Qi but warned that fighting him could attract the Food Master of the realm.
• Li Xianyu proposed finding Hu Qi in the Vast Desert Region or Marsh Lake Domain and exposing him to the Food Masters, then timing their plan so it would not hinder their search for the Spirit Realm Sea Eye.
• Hu Qi, disguised as Shakong, met Leng Ji and persuaded him to attack Shi Xiao and Li Xianyu, agreeing that Hu Qi would take Shi Xiao and Leng Ji would take Li Xianyu.
• Leng Ji launched an attack on the tavern, and Shi Xiao and Li Xianyu sensed the danger just before a thunderous explosion struck.

Shi Xiao and Li Xianyu were ambushed by Food Masters while meeting in a tavern, and Hu Qi killed Shi Xiao after overpowering his strongest attack. Li Xianyu continued fighting Leng Ji as they crashed onto an ice field and unleashed their giant manifestations.

• Food Masters attacked the tavern, forcing Shi Xiao and Li Xianyu to flee in opposite directions as Leng Ji pursued Li Xianyu and Hu Qi chased Shi Xiao.
• Hu Qi struck Shi Xiao with a single palm, severely injuring him and revealing their vast difference in strength.
• Shi Xiao used his blood and Intent Sword to unleash Immortal Burial, but Hu Qi’s blood-colored scales repelled the sword.
• Hu Qi summoned a gigantic Three-Eyed Yuan Snake and crushed Shi Xiao into a crater, then stabbed him with the Red Mirror Saber and killed him.
• Li Xianyu and Leng Ji battled across the sky before landing on an ice field, where her giant blue-robed manifestation clashed with his one-eyed giant’s blue beam.

Hu Qi arrived during Li Xianyu’s battle with Leng Ji, killed Li Xianyu, and swallowed Leng Ji despite the Black Blood Species’ taboo against eating their own kind. After confirming the method worked, Hu Qi sensed a large group approaching.

• Li Xianyu used her Water Control ability to bind Leng Ji in a sphere of water, but Hu Qi arrived before she could escape.
• Li Xianyu trapped Hu Qi with Flowing River, but he broke free and struck her with Intent Sword, killing her and devouring her corpse and Soul Light.
• Hu Qi swallowed Leng Ji with his serpent Dharma Manifestation, and Leng Ji realized Hu Qi intended to use him as compensation.
• Hu Qi gained Modification Points and concluded that combining the Gluttony Domain with the Dharma Manifestation worked.
• Hu Qi sensed that a large group had arrived and remarked that there were too many of them.

Hu Qi learned from the memories of the Food Masters he had killed that Earth Mother had orchestrated the destruction and reformation of human civilization. Meanwhile, Shu Ming confirmed that Leng Ji and Shakong were dead, and declared that the Secret Martial Artists who had entered the Underground World would pay for their attack.

• Hu Qi vanished from the battlefield as more than a dozen Food Masters arrived and Shu Ming sensed the aftermath.
• Shu Ming said Leng Ji and Shakong were likely dead, alarming Ao Lin and enraging the other Food Masters.
• Shu Ming reminded the Food Masters that Earth Mother had permitted humanity and Secret Martial Artists to exist, but said the intruders would pay for attacking them.
• Hu Qi withdrew to the Thousand Peaks Domain after sensing the approaching Food Masters and deciding not to risk a fight against their numbers.
• Hu Qi finished digesting the memories of two Food Masters and two Spirit Refining Venerables and learned that Earth Mother had caused the destruction and reformation of human civilization.

Hu Qi learned that Earth Mother had destroyed past civilizations to heal her injuries and was due to awaken in less than three years. After half a month adapting to his power, he advanced the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Spirit Devouring Diagram to the ninth layer of the Heavenly Heart Chapter and reached the Divine Manifestation Realm.

• Hu Qi learned from the Food Masters’ memories that Earth Mother controlled the Black Blood Species and harvested civilizations, and he realized she would awaken in less than three years.
• Hu Qi recalled that a saber strike resembling his Supreme Clarity Immortal Slaying Saber Technique had injured Earth Mother during the destruction of the Fourth Secret Martial Civilization.
• Hu Qi used his time in hiding to adapt to his peak Dharma Manifestation Realm strength while Food Masters searched for him; Thunderstorm and Wang Jing escaped the Underground World severely injured, while Thick Spider and Meng Ke evaded pursuit.
• After half a month, Hu Qi spent nine hundred Modification Points to raise the Three-Eyed Yuan Snake Spirit Devouring Diagram to the ninth layer of the Heavenly Heart Chapter.
• Hu Qi perfected the three gates of essence, qi, and spirit, and his Three-Eyed Yuan Snake soul transformed into a young man resembling his original appearance, marking his entry into the Divine Manifestation Realm.

After reaching the Divine Manifestation Realm, Hu Qi discovered that his Mind Power could reshape molecules and freeze enemies within a Pseudo-Domain, which he used to kill two Food Masters. He searched the Underground World for a Spirit Realm Sea Eye and found a sleeping Earth Mother beneath Abyss Valley, but powerful figures appeared before he could leave.

• Hu Qi tested his new Pseudo-Domain by reshaping a pine cypress until its molecular structure collapsed and it exploded.
• Two Food Masters arrived to attack Hu Qi, but he froze them in midair and devoured them using his Pseudo-Domain and Gluttony Domain.
• Hu Qi continued hunting Food Masters and mapped the Underground World, but found no Spirit Realm Spring Eye.
• Hu Qi went to Abyss Valley, sensed the sleeping Earth Mother deep beneath the magma, and felt that he could not challenge her.
• As Hu Qi turned to leave Abyss Valley, several figures with powerful auras appeared around him.

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.