Chapter Summaries

Zhu Qingling transformed Totoro and Catbus into a small tiger and red horse before setting out to rescue more transmigrators. After leaving a group under the Liang Brothers’ protection, she traveled with her companions toward the Ice Devil Clan’s territory, where they believed Haku was being held.

• Zhu Qingling used Great Transformation Magic to turn Totoro into a small white tiger and Catbus into a red foal, and Totoro eagerly played with its new forms.
• Zhu Qingling took Arrietty, Ogino Chihiro, Bo BaoBao, the Four Old Pawns, the Liang Brothers, Totoro, and Catbus through the Anywhere Door to relocate transmigrators from the sea to land.
• Zhu Qingling left the Liang Brothers to guard the transmigrators and departed with her smaller party, while Hua Furen stayed behind and began making a longevity tablet for Ding Ling.
• Bo BaoBao sensed Haku’s aura in the Ice Devil Clan’s territory, and Erliel explained that Qiu Xiang had likely chosen the Ice Devils as an easier target after her stalemate with the Water Devil Clan.
• Zhu Qingling arrived near the Ice Devil Clan’s void ice island and learned that it was one of the nine former holy lands of the Elf Clan, divided among the Nine Devil Clans.

Arrietty and the others learned more about the Elf Clan’s lost holy land and arrived at Ice Island, where Qiu Xiang was freeing imprisoned Elves. After Qiu Xiang and the group reunited, the Ice Devil Clan surrounded them as they tried to escape with the rescued prisoners.

• The Four Old Pawns explained that the Demon Clan had divided the Elf Clan’s holy land, and Zhu Qingling suggested gathering the Elf Mother Tree to help restore the Elf Clan.
• Zhu Qingling brought the group to Ice Island, where they heard a commotion and found Qiu Xiang attacking Ice Devil guards outside a dungeon.
• Qiu Xiang killed the guards and led hundreds of imprisoned Elf Clan members out of the dungeon, while Zhu Qingling recognized them as Little People Clan members.
• Qiu Xiang reunited with Arrietty and Chun Xiang, then hurried to lead the rescued Elves away as Ice Devil forces gathered.
• Qiu Xiang found the main street packed with Ice Devil soldiers, blocking their escape.

Zhu Qingling protected Autumn Fragrance and the others from the Ice Devil Clan’s arrows, then defeated hundreds of thousands of soldiers and seized their Ice Origin and secret arts. She led the group toward the Ice Devil Royal Family’s palace to find the Elf Mother Tree.

• Autumn Fragrance stood forward and claimed responsibility for entering Ice Island, while Royal Uncle ordered his soldiers to execute the intruders.
• Zhu Qingling’s invisible shield deflected the Demon Piercing Arrows, protecting the Elf Clan members from successive volleys.
• Royal Uncle summoned hundreds of thousands more soldiers, but Zhu Qingling used a tornado of Curse Sources to strip them of their Origins and stop their attack.
• Zhu Qingling gathered the Ice Devil Clan’s Ice Origin and secret arts, including Glacial Apocalypse, and increased her power.
• Zhu Qingling led Tang Bohu, Autumn Fragrance, and the others toward the Ice Devil Royal Family’s palace to seek the Elf Mother Tree.

After defeating the Ice Devil Clan, Zhu Qingling secured the Elf Mother Tree, placed the clan’s soldiers under guard, and helped the elves take control of Ice Island, where Arrietty became City Lord. Ding Ling reached the Perfection Realm in Martial Dao True Understanding 5.0 while Zhu Qingling studied the Ice Devil library; the chapter ended as Totoro dug a withered sapling out of the royal treasury.

• The Ice King welcomed Zhu Qingling and agreed to hand over the Elf Mother Tree, while Ding Ling advised her to judge demons by their deeds.
• Zhu Qingling drained the essence of the remaining soldiers with heavy Baleful Qi, fortified Ice Island, and helped the Elf Clan elect Arrietty to lead the city.
• Ding Ling mastered the Howling Sky Wolf Star Sprint and completed Martial Dao True Understanding version 5.0, bringing his main body closer to becoming a Profound Immortal if his incarnation returned with the Curse Source Water.
• Zhu Qingling read the Ice Devil library’s books, gained a deeper understanding of Water and Ice techniques, and Ogino Chihiro decided to study magic rather than risk a contract with a demon.
• Zhu Qingling, Ogino Chihiro, Bo BaoBao, Totoro, and Xiaohong entered the royal treasury, where Totoro dug up a withered sapling.

Zhu Qingling discovered that the Elf Mother Tree the Ice King had given her was fake, obtained the real tree and the Elf Clan’s Sacred Book, and gained the elves’ support for borrowing the tree. She then confronted the Wind Devil Clan on Wind Island, where the Wind King ordered his soldiers to launch a suicide attack.

• Zhu Qingling identified Totoro’s sapling as the real Elf Mother Tree and learned from Ding Ling that it contained an inexhaustible Grotto-heaven World, so she decided to cultivate with it before returning it to the Elf Clan.
• Zhu Qingling found and memorized the Elf Clan’s Sacred Book, then received Arrietty and the other elves’ permission to borrow the Elf Mother Tree and brought Arrietty along to search for surviving elves.
• Zhu Qingling brought a group of Travelers to the mainland and handed them to the Liang Brothers before heading to Wind Island with Arrietty and the others.
• The Wind King demanded that Zhu Qingling leave Wind Island, but Zhu Qingling demanded the return of the Elf Mother Tree and Sacred Book and the release of the imprisoned elves and Travelers.
• Arrietty condemned the Wind Devil Clan for the elves’ past slaughter and imprisonment, and the Wind King rejected compromise and ordered his soldiers to self-destruct and attack Zhu Qingling with Demon Piercing Arrows.

Zhu Qingling repeatedly froze and destroyed the Wind Devil Clan’s suicide squads, despite the Wind King sending wave after wave of warriors against her. The Wind Devil Clan’s morale collapsed, and its soldiers began retreating.

• The Wind Devil Clan launched more than ten thousand death warriors as meteor-like arrows, but Zhu Qingling froze them in midair and shattered them.
• Tang Bohu urged the Wind King to withdraw from Wind Island and surrender the Elf Mother Tree and the Sacred Book, while the Wind King claimed Zhu Qingling must have exhausted her power.
• The Wind King sent another ten thousand death warriors, and Zhu Qingling froze and destroyed them just as before.
• The Wind King ordered three more suicide waves and thirty thousand elite warriors to attack, but they were also wiped out.
• The Wind Devil Clan’s morale broke, and its soldiers began retreating as the Wind King continued to demand attacks.

Zhu Qingling used Curse Sources to stop the Wind Devil Clan’s rout and defeat nearly a million warriors after the Wind King and Feng Yuan tried to flee and then fight. She spared the survivors, who became Elf Clan slaves, while Zhu Qingling drained their Wind Origin and Ding Ling learned their secret arts at max level.

• The Wind King fled with the Queen as the Wind Devil Clan’s army collapsed, but Zhu Qingling’s Curse Sources trapped the escaping demons in loops around Wind City.
• Feng Yuan and many Wind Devil Clan members knelt and begged Zhu Qingling for mercy, offering the Sacred Book, the Elf Mother Tree, and Wind Island.
• After Tang Bohu warned against sparing the demons, Zhu Qingling unleashed Curse Sources that incapacitated nearly a million Wind Devil Clan soldiers, including the Wind King and Feng Yuan.
• The Elf Clan made the surviving Wind Devil Clan members its slaves and imprisoned the Wind King, leaving him and Feng Yuan resentful of each other.
• Zhu Qingling drained the Wind Origin from over a million warriors, and Ding Ling learned the Wind Devil Clan’s secret arts at max level.

Zhu Qingling finished studying the Wind Devil Clan’s secret arts and found a second Elf Mother Tree, which fused with the first to strengthen the Elves’ sacred treasure. She then traveled with Arrietty and the others to the Fire Devil Clan’s Sky City, where the Fire Devil Clan attacked her and she turned their flaming arrows back with a powerful wind technique.

• Zhu Qingling spent ten days studying the Wind Devil Clan’s secret arts before emerging from seclusion and joining her companions at the clan treasury.
• Totoro dug up the Wind Devil Clan’s Elf Mother Tree, and it fused with the first tree to create a larger tree with a greatly expanded Grotto-heaven World.
• Zhu Qingling found three secret arts in the Wind Devil Clan’s Sacred Book and gave the book to Arrietty, who appointed clan elders to manage Wind Island.
• Zhu Qingling and her companions used Teleportation Magic to reach the Fire Devil Clan’s Sky City, where guards sounded an alarm and soldiers prepared an ambush.
• The Fire Devil Clan launched a storm of flaming arrows at Zhu Qingling, who froze them in midair and sent them flying back with Wind Sweeping Away Remnant Clouds.

Zhu Qingling destroyed the Fire Demon Clan’s elite force, captured Fire Cloud City, and took its treasures and knowledge. After communicating with the Elf Mother Tree, Ding Ling learned that bringing her out of the Immortal Palace Game world might be possible if his Wood Spirit Seed fully matured and could house her Soul Seed.

• Zhu Qingling’s Meteor Shower annihilated the Fire Demon Clan’s elite soldiers, and she absorbed their Fire Origin and secret techniques.
• Fire King ordered his forces to flee, but Zhu Qingling’s Curse Sources trapped them; she stripped away the origin power of the captured demons and handed them over to the elves.
• The rescued prisoners chose Arrietty as City Lord while Zhu Qingling studied Fire Cloud City’s Library and reached the advanced stage in most of the Fire Demon Clan’s secret techniques.
• Zhu Qingling obtained the Elf Mother Tree and Sacred Book, then mastered the Elf Clan’s Wood Spirit Seed and healing magic.
• Ding Ling communicated with the Elf Mother Tree and learned that his fully matured Wood Spirit Seed could let her Soul Seed reside within it, potentially allowing her to leave the world.

Ding Ling learned that the Elf Mother Tree’s Soul Seed could grow within a max-level Wood Spirit Seed, and Zhu Qingling set out to gather wood-element magic and seek another Soul Seed. She found the Cloud Devil Clan had fled and defeated the Gold Devil Clan, then fused the Elf Mother Tree she recovered with her original tree, expanding its world and increasing its spiritual energy.

• The Elf Mother Tree gave Ding Ling a Soul Seed, which he planted in his Wood Spirit Seed and told Zhu Qingling could eventually help her obtain one too.
• Zhu Qingling traveled with Qiu Xiang, Tang Bohu, Arrietty, and the Four Old Pawns to Cloud Mist City, where they found the Cloud Devil Clan had fled after learning of her victories.
• Zhu Qingling searched Cloud Mist City’s Library and treasury, rescued the imprisoned Elf Clan members and Transmigrators, and left the city under an elder’s care with instructions for entering its defenses.
• Zhu Qingling traveled to Gold Light Island, where she defeated the Gold Devil Clan, stripped the origins from its most wicked members, and exiled a few kind-hearted ones.
• Zhu Qingling recovered the Sacred Book and an Elf Mother Tree from the Gold Devil Clan’s treasury, then fused the tree with her original and strengthened its world and spiritual-energy absorption.

Ding Ling learned more about the world's origins from the Elf Mother Tree and maxed out secret techniques obtained as Zhu Qingling seized the Devil Clans' cities and resources. Zhu Qingling then reached Black Earth City beneath the planet's core, where the Earth Devil Clan was wiped out and Ding Ling mastered several Earth techniques.

• The Elf Mother Tree told Ding Ling that the Mortal Realm, Netherworld Court, and Gods' Heaven Kingdom had formed from shattered worlds, then fell asleep to recover her soul source.
• Zhu Qingling captured Thunderclap Island, drained most Thunder Devil Clan warriors, and obtained its Elf Mother Tree, Sacred Book, and library for Ding Ling to study.
• At Forest Lost City, Zhu Qingling secured the Wood Devil Clan's surrender, took its city and resources, and Ding Ling maxed out Sky City Crafting Secret, Wood Release, and other techniques.
• The Wood Devil Clan's king led his surviving people away to seek refuge in a remote region or the universe.
• Zhu Qingling entered Black Earth City beneath the planet's core and wiped out the Earth Devil Clan; Ding Ling maxed out Earth Release, Accumulated Earth Becomes Mountain, and Expanding Territory.

Zhu Qingling collected the Water Devil and Cloud Devil Clans’ Elf Mother Trees, Sacred Books, and other resources, restoring the Elf Mother Tree to about eighty percent of its former state. The restored tree revealed ancient secrets to Ding Ling, including that a battle between two Creator-level powerhouses had destroyed its world in the Primordial Era.

• Sullivan waited at White Cloud City, hoping to win Zhu Qingling over, but she rejected him and made clear that she loved her Sect Leader Master, Ding Ling.
• The Water Devil King surrendered White Cloud City and its treasures, then withdrew with his elite warriors; Zhu Qingling spared the clan but captured and refined the origins of its most vicious members.
• Zhu Qingling fused eight Elf Mother Trees, restoring the tree to roughly eighty percent of its peak condition, and gained the secret arts from the Sacred Books through Ding Ling.
• Guided by the Elf Mother Tree, Zhu Qingling found the hidden Cloud Devil Clan, stripped the origins of its vicious members, and took its Elf Mother Tree, Sacred Book, and library while sparing the rest.
• The Elf Mother Tree fully recovered and communicated with Ding Ling, revealing that a battle between two Creator-level powerhouses had destroyed its world and that Eywa had fallen into this universe in the aftermath.

After emerging from two months of secluded study, Zhu Qingling visited Magic Association president Suliman, who agreed to help gather magic books and locate transmigrators in exchange for Zhu Qingling capturing Howl. Suliman learned about Ding Ling and saw his portrait, while Zhu Qingling tracked Howl to a Moving Castle.

• Zhu Qingling finished studying the Demon Clan libraries and mastered many secret arts, while Ding Ling further deepened his magic knowledge.
• After Zhu Qingling's victory over the Nine Devil Clans became widely known, Suliman met her and offered the Magic Association's help finding transmigrators and collecting magic books.
• Qiu Xiang told Suliman about Ding Ling, and Zhu Qingling drew his portrait, leaving Suliman captivated and impressed.
• Suliman asked Zhu Qingling to capture the hunted Howl, and Zhu Qingling agreed to use the Fire Devil Tracking Art to find him.
• Zhu Qingling took Qiu Xiang and teleported to the location of a Moving Castle, where she began searching for Howl.

Zhu Qingling and Qiu Xiang caught up with Haer’s Moving Castle, where they met Sophie and Maruk, and Zhu Qingling dispelled Sophie’s curse. After hearing about Zhu Qingling’s long-unreturned love for Ding Ling, they learned Haer was away trying to stop the war between two kingdoms.

• Zhu Qingling and Qiu Xiang boarded Haer’s Moving Castle and met Sophie and Maruk, who recognized them from stories of their deeds.
• Zhu Qingling identified Sophie’s curse from the Witch of the Waste and removed it, restoring Sophie’s youthful appearance.
• Sophie, Qiu Xiang, and Zhu Qingling chatted about their male gods, and Zhu Qingling admitted she had confessed to Ding Ling for years without success.
• Maruk and Calcifer urged Qiu Xiang to continue telling the story of Ding Ling and Zhu Qingling, but Zhu Qingling changed the subject and asked where Haer was.
• Sophie explained that Haer was away trying to stop the war between two kingdoms, and Qiu Xiang said his efforts would have little effect unless he was powerful enough to compel both sides to listen.

Zhu Qingling found the missing prince of Fudelu Kingdom and helped Sophie break his curse, allowing him to return home and end the war with Spalding Kingdom. The armies withdrew, and Haer returned to the Moving Castle exhausted and confused.

• Zhu Qingling located the scarecrow prince and brought him to the Moving Castle, where Sophie recognized him as Turnip Head.
• Zhu Qingling told Sophie that a kiss from the person the prince loved would lift his curse, and Qiu Xiang, Calcifer, and Maruk reassured Sophie that she was beautiful and that Haer loved her.
• Sophie kissed the scarecrow, breaking the curse and restoring Prince Christian, who promised to return to Fudelu Kingdom and stop the war.
• Zhu Qingling escorted Christian to Fudelu Kingdom, where he reunited with the King, Queen, and Court Wizard Sophia and agreed to contact Suliman to end the conflict.
• Christian and Sophia arranged a ceasefire, and the armies of Fudelu Kingdom and Spalding Kingdom withdrew from the battlefield.
• Haer returned to the Moving Castle in the form of a black eagle, bewildered by the sudden end to the fighting.

Haer returned to the Mobile Fortress badly injured and learned that Zhu Qingling could help with his demonic corruption, but he resisted meeting Lady Suliman until he could see Ding Ling’s appearance. After Zhu Qingling painted a three-dimensional image of Ding Ling, the others were stunned, and Qiu Xiang begged her for a portrait.

• Haer returned to the Mobile Fortress injured and prepared to rest after the war between the two countries ended.
• Zhu Qingling, Qiu Xiang, Sophie, and Maruk visited Haer and explained that Lady Suliman wanted to monitor him because he was nearing demonic corruption.
• Qiu Xiang told Haer that Zhu Qingling could help him and described Ding Ling as the God Lord Zhu Qingling pursued.
• Haer agreed to meet Lady Suliman if Zhu Qingling showed him what Ding Ling looked like, so Zhu Qingling painted a three-dimensional image using the Curse Source of the Illusory Realm.
• After seeing the image, Qiu Xiang praised Ding Ling’s beauty and clung to Zhu Qingling, asking her to secretly paint a portrait for her.

Zhu Qingling healed Haer and brought him to Lady Suliman, who persuaded him to study magic under her rather than flee again. As Zhu Qingling read books in the Royal Library, Lady Suliman tried to convince Qiu Xiang to help her join the Nine Provinces Divine Sect.

• Qiu Xiang asked Zhu Qingling to paint Ding Ling, and Haer felt crushed when he realized Ding Ling’s charm surpassed his own.
• Zhu Qingling healed Haer, suppressed the Demon power within him, and brought him to Lady Suliman.
• Lady Suliman promised not to punish Haer and persuaded him to study healing, growth, and defensive magic under her, while agreeing that Maruk and Sophie could join him.
• Zhu Qingling went to the Royal Library with Qiu Xiang and read its books, entering a state of enlightenment after finishing them.
• Lady Suliman envied Zhu Qingling’s blessings and urged Qiu Xiang to seek a place in the Nine Provinces Divine Sect, then asked Qiu Xiang to take her along.

Qiu Xiang reunited Haku and Ogino Chihiro while Zhu Qingling emerged from enlightenment having mastered Time Sequence Magic. After accepting Arrietty’s invitation to the Elf Clan ceremony, Zhu Qingling agreed to celebrate with her friends and discuss matters with Lady Suliman.

• At Lady Suliman’s request, Qiu Xiang encouraged Sophie and later became her friend.
• Ogino Chihiro visited with Tang Bohu and Totoro, and told Qiu Xiang that Arrietty had reunited with her parents and invited Zhu Qingling and the others to the Elf Clan ceremony in seven days.
• Qiu Xiang called Haku out of her Dragon Form mark, and Haku led Ogino Chihiro aside so they could talk.
• Tang Bohu, Lady Suliman, and Haer witnessed Zhu Qingling’s spacetime domain and realized she had mastered Time Sequence Magic.
• Zhu Qingling awakened, accepted the Elf Mother Tree, and agreed to attend Arrietty’s ceremony and speak with Lord Yama later about the God of Death.
• Zhu Qingling said Sect Leader Master had bestowed the Time Magic knowledge on her, then accepted Qiu Xiang’s invitation to treat everyone and Lady Suliman’s invitation to the palace.

At a palace banquet, Nelson was rejected by Zhu Qingling and became an admirer of Ding Ling after learning who her Sect Leader Master was. Zhu Qingling continued gathering travelers and learned that the hidden Sea of the Dead might hold many of the missing ones, so she prepared to go there with Lady Suliman.

• Nelson approached Zhu Qingling at the banquet, but she refused his invitation to dance because she only danced with her Sect Leader Master.
• After learning that Zhu Qingling admired Ding Ling, Nelson vowed to emulate him, while Zhu Qingling painted portraits of Ding Ling for Qiu Xiang, Totoro, Chun Xiang, and others.
• The Liang Brothers brought more travelers to Yubaba, who turned them into fish; Hua Furen discovered that her son Hua Wen was also in a neighboring tank.
• Zhu Qingling asked Lady Suliman about the remaining travelers, and Lady Suliman revealed that many might be hiding among the necromancers in the Sea of the Dead.
• Zhu Qingling agreed to travel to the Sea of the Dead with Lady Suliman, while Qiu Xiang and the others stayed behind to cultivate after Sophie’s reputation as a genius spread.

Zhu Qingling attended the Elf Clan’s feast in White Cloud City, then left for a journey with Lady Suliman and helped the God of Death free Xie Tianxiang from her Catbus form. The chapter ended with Totoro showing the God of Death a portrait of the God Lord.

• Chun Xiang reminded Zhu Qingling that she had promised to attend the Elf Clan’s grand feast, where Arrietty invited her to speak and the gathered elves applauded her.
• Ding Ling used his techniques to read the Elf Clan’s tiny collection of millions of books, helping Zhu Qingling deepen her knowledge and confidence in forging a Magic Core.
• Zhu Qingling said goodbye to Arrietty and the others, then went to the Spalding Kingdom’s Royal Court to meet Lady Suliman and prepare for their journey.
• Totoro led Zhu Qingling to the God of Death, who pulled a red thread from Totoro and Xiaohong and restored Xie Tianxiang to human form.
• Totoro told the God of Death about Zhu Qingling’s victories and the God Lord’s blessings, then opened a small bundle and showed him a portrait scroll.