Chapter Summaries

Hua Qiang and Zhao Zhiqing won the first round by killing the Crimson Flame Python, while Lan Zizhu and Jia Bing were left furious. After returning to his Small World, Hua Qiang took Hua Sijun and Hua Xiaoyao hunting in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

• Hua Qiang and Zhao Zhiqing killed the Crimson Flame Python and were declared the winners of the first match.
• Lan Zizhu threatened Hua Qiang, but he answered her defiantly in front of the sect disciples.
• Hua Qiang returned to his Small World, where he learned that its spiritual power was becoming Immortal Essence and Ye Bingxue was nearing the Human Immortal Realm.
• Hua Sijun and Hua Xiaoyao asked Hua Qiang to take them hunting, and he agreed.
• Hua Qiang brought the children, the White Dragon Horse, and the Lightning Thunder Roc to a marshland where they could hunt first-level demon beasts.

Hua Qiang watched his twins gather wild beasts before accompanying Zhao Zhiqing to Cloud Water Sect’s Ascension Road contest against Lan Zizhu. Lan Zizhu outlasted Zhao Zhiqing and won their grueling climb, leaving the Saintess Contest poised for its next stage.

• Hua Qiang watched his twins and the Lightning Thunder Roc capture wild beasts and add them to the Small World’s enclosure.
• Hua Qiang met Zhao Zhiqing and accompanied her to the Ascension Road, where Yun Tianxing began the contest between Zhao Zhiqing and Lan Zizhu.
• Zhao Zhiqing and Lan Zizhu climbed through the road’s pressure, illusions, and attacks, suffering injuries as they struggled onward.
• At the twenty-third step, Zhao Zhiqing fell to her knees, and a hidden force broke through her defenses and sent her tumbling down the stairs.
• Lan Zizhu gained the upper hand in the contest as Zhao Zhiqing watched her from below, unwilling to accept the defeat.

Zhao Zhiqing regained her resolve after losing to Lan Zizhu, and Hua Qiang promised to help her win the Saintess competition’s team battle. The match began with Zhao Zhiqing and Hua Qiang fighting Lan Zizhu and Jia Bing, and the four were still locked in fierce combat.

• Zhao Zhiqing overcame her despondence and vowed not to lose to Lan Zizhu in the decisive battle.
• Hua Qiang reassured Wenren Yu that he would help Zhao Zhiqing reach the Saintess's throne and promised to be careful against Jia Bing.
• Lan Zizhu taunted Zhao Zhiqing and suggested she surrender before the team battle began.
• The referee announced that the match would decide victory without allowing either side to take a life, then started the battle.
• Zhao Zhiqing fought Lan Zizhu with her swords while Hua Qiang traded saber strikes with Jia Bing's spear.
• Hua Qiang pressed Jia Bing with powerful attacks as Zhao Zhiqing and Lan Zizhu continued exchanging deadly moves, with neither team yet victorious.

Hua Qiang defeated Jia Bing despite their difference in cultivation realms, forcing Jia Bing to confront his arrogance and admit defeat. As the crowd celebrated Hua Qiang’s victory, Lan Zizhu grew anxious about facing him and Zhao Zhiqing together.

• Jia Bing attacked Hua Qiang with his True Immortal Realm power, but Hua Qiang evaded his spear techniques and countered with lightning and fire.
• Hua Qiang shattered Jia Bing’s Green Lotus Shield and wounded him, while Jia Bing accused him of using demonic sorcery.
• Hua Qiang overwhelmed Jia Bing’s final spear attack with Myriad Thunder Returns to Origin, breaking his spear and leaving him kneeling.
• Jia Bing conceded, bowed to Hua Qiang, and acknowledged that the battle had exposed his shortcomings.
• The disciples cheered Hua Qiang’s victory, and Lan Zizhu became uneasy as she considered facing Hua Qiang and Zhao Zhiqing together.

Zhao Zhiqing defeated Lan Zizhu in a fierce arena duel after Hua Qiang's presence disrupted Lan Zizhu's focus. The crowd celebrated Zhao Zhiqing's victory as she checked on her fallen opponent, while Wu Hongxiao watched in anger.

• Hua Qiang watched Zhao Zhiqing and Lan Zizhu fight, and his presence unsettled Lan Zizhu while Zhao Zhiqing pressed her advantage.
• Zhao Zhiqing overwhelmed Lan Zizhu, shattered her Ice Soul Silver Whip, and countered her Forbidden Technique.
• Zhao Zhiqing pierced Lan Zizhu's shoulder with her sword radiance and declared that she had won.
• The spectators praised the duel and argued over the fighters' skills as the rain eased.
• Zhao Zhiqing inspected Lan Zizhu's injuries, Liu Piaoxu approved of her conduct, and Wu Hongxiao glared furiously.

Zhao Zhiqing won the Saintess contest and invited Hua Qiang and Wenren Yu to live at the Saintess Palace, though Hua Qiang declined while persuading Wenren Yu to accept. Their discussion was interrupted when several elders arrived to compete for the chance to take Hua Qiang as a disciple.

• Yun Tianxing declared Zhao Zhiqing the winner of the Saintess contest and announced that she would be crowned in three days.
• Zhao Zhiqing invited Hua Qiang and Wenren Yu to move into the Saintess Palace, but Hua Qiang refused and convinced Wenren Yu to move there for safety and cultivation.
• The Third Elder, Xiang Dongsheng, arrived at Hua Qiang's residence and asked to take him as his final disciple.
• Ximen Zhou and Xu Shouchang arrived, accused Xiang Dongsheng of trying to claim Hua Qiang for himself, and offered him pills, rapid advancement, and a Divine Weapon to join their factions.

Hua Qiang drew the attention of the sect’s elders and Sect Master Yun Tianxing, each of whom tried to recruit him with promises of resources and instruction. He chose the Grand Elder as his master and was told to meet her at the Langhuan Blessed Land the next day.

• Fourth Elder Xu Shouchang tried to persuade Hua Qiang to join his branch by promising to protect him.
• Sect Master Yun Tianxing and several elders offered Hua Qiang access to their branches’ skills, resources, and connections.
• Yun Tianxing offered to accept Hua Qiang as his final disciple and devote the sect’s resources to him.
• The Grand Elder arrived and offered Hua Qiang ancient inheritances and powerful secret arts.
• Hua Qiang bowed to the Grand Elder and accepted her as his master, and she told him to come to the Langhuan Blessed Land the next day.

He Liang brought Hua Qiang to the Third Heaven, where they were attacked by a Boundary Guardian Immortal Bird before a white-robed immortal maiden intervened. In Ruin City, Nalan Yan worried that her enemy might follow her there.

• He Liang met Hua Qiang at Drunken Immortal Tower and praised his progress to the peak of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
• He Liang and Hua Qiang traveled by Cloud Boat through the First and Second Heavens and entered the Third Heaven’s Myriad Islands Domain.
• The Crimson Flame Phoenix attacked their Cloud Boat, but Hua Qiang used the Law of Fire to protect himself while He Liang defended the vessel.
• A white-robed immortal maiden destroyed the phoenix’s fireballs, drove the beast away, and ordered He Liang and Hua Qiang to leave.
• Nalan Yan watched the clouds from Room 1808 in Ruin City and wondered whether her enemy would pursue her there.

Hua Qiang entered the secret realm after its gateway opened and found himself in a countryside village, where a grieving youth named Cowherd asked him to rescue a cow trapped in the Myriad Snake Den. Hua Qiang wondered if the encounter was a game quest.

• Seven elders formed the Big Dipper Formation and used a giant golden sword to split open the mountains and reveal the secret realm gateway.
• The gateway sent golden light to qualified entrants, drawing them inside before closing as the mountains sealed themselves again.
• Hua Qiang arrived on a green hillside and saw villagers working in the fields.
• Hua Qiang approached a sobbing youth and learned that his name was Cowherd.
• Cowherd asked Hua Qiang to rescue one of his family's Old Niu from the Myriad Snake Den, and Hua Qiang suspected he had received a quest.

Hua Qiang accepted Cowherd’s mission to rescue his missing Old Niu from the Myriad Snake Den and flew there with Cowherd on the Lightning Thunder Roc. Villagers discussed Cowherd’s mistreatment by Niu Tai Lang and Jin Lian, then Pan Desheng attacked Wang Ba after suspecting him of visiting his wife.

• Cowherd asked Hua Qiang to rescue Old Niu from the Myriad Snake Den, and Hua Qiang accepted the mission.
• Cowherd explained that Old Niu was trapped in a snake-filled cave more than fifty li northwest of the village and offered to guide Hua Qiang to the canyon.
• Hua Qiang summoned the Lightning Thunder Roc, took Cowherd aboard, and flew northwest as villagers watched.
• Villagers said Cowherd had gone hungry after Niu Tai Lang and Jin Lian blamed him for losing the cow and described how they mistreated him.
• Villagers joked about Wang Ba visiting Pan Desheng’s wife, and Pan Desheng raised his hoe and attacked Wang Ba.

Hua Qiang entered Snake Valley and discovered Shui Niu battling a Golden Giant Python in the Myriad Snake Den. He and his third clone slaughtered the snakes on the outskirts and reached the den, where the sight of the enormous swarm still stunned him.

• Hua Qiang sent Cowherd to hide with the Lightning Thunder Roc guarding him, then entered Snake Valley alone.
• Hua Qiang used his divine sense to discover Shui Niu wounded and surrounded by snakes, facing off against a Golden Giant Python.
• The Golden Giant Python attacked Shui Niu, who met it with his horns and hooves.
• Hua Qiang decided to clear the snakes to protect his mission target and summoned his third clone.
• Hua Qiang and his clone slaughtered snakes across the valley outskirts, earning Slaughter Points as they advanced to the Myriad Snake Den.

Hua Qiang and the Third Clone fought off a seemingly endless swarm of snakes in the cavern while Old Niu challenged the Golden Giant Python. The battle remained unresolved as Old Niu and the Python King prepared to strike again.

• Hua Qiang and the Third Clone entered the snake den, triggering tens of thousands of snakes to attack them.
• Hua Qiang used the Fire Element Law and the Third Clone wielded the Blood Demon Spear to cut through the serpent waves, but the snakes kept regrouping.
• The Golden Giant Python rallied the snakes into another assault while Hua Qiang and the Third Clone continued fighting amid fire and blood.
• Old Niu charged the Golden Giant Python, dodged its bite, and hurled it into a rock wall with his horns.
• The Golden Giant Python coiled around Old Niu, but he bit its body and escaped before preparing to charge again.

Old Niu battled the Golden Giant Python while Hua Qiang used the chaos to slaughter its snakes. Poisoned and badly injured, Old Niu escaped the Myriad Snake Den with the python pursuing him, and the Lightning Thunder Roc flew in to attack.

• The Golden Giant Python attacked Old Niu with its Natal Divine Fire, but Old Niu charged through the flames and fought it inside the cave.
• Old Niu's trampling shook the cave and disrupted the snakes attacking Hua Qiang, who used a black vortex to swallow and kill them.
• The Golden Giant Python enlarged itself, coiled around Old Niu, and poisoned him after biting his head.
• Old Niu slammed himself and the python against the cave walls until the snake's coils weakened, then broke free and fled outside.
• The Golden Giant Python chased Old Niu into the valley, and the Lightning Thunder Roc left Cowherd and dived toward the python.

The Lightning Thunder Roc killed the Golden Giant Python, devoured its inner core, and broke through to the Immortal King Realm. In the Myriad Snake Den, Hua Qiang and his Third Clone reached the True Immortal Realm Fourth Layer, while the Rat King devoured the Snake Demons and evolved into a Level 5 Immortal Beast King.

• The Lightning Thunder Roc blasted the Golden Giant Python apart, and Old Niu stomped its body into meat paste.
• The Lightning Thunder Roc tore open the Python King's head, took its inner core, and devoured it.
• The Lightning Thunder Roc refined the inner core and broke through to the Immortal King Realm.
• Hua Qiang and his Third Clone absorbed the Blood Qi in the Myriad Snake Den and advanced to the True Immortal Realm Fourth Layer.
• Hua Qiang released the Rat King, who devoured the Snake Demons' corpses and evolved into a Level 5 Immortal Beast King.

The Rat King and Lightning Thunder Roc advanced to the True Immortal Realm, and Hua Qiang helped Cowherd reunite with the wounded Old Niu. Old Niu led them to a living Immortal Vein, leaving Hua Qiang eager to claim it.

• The Rat King and Lightning Thunder Roc celebrated reaching the True Immortal Realm, while Old Niu remained wary of Hua Qiang and his companions.
• The Lightning Thunder Roc brought Cowherd to Old Niu, and Hua Qiang gave Cowherd a medicinal pill that healed Old Niu's wounds.
• Cowherd offered Hua Qiang an ancient cultivation manual, Divine Ox Prison Suppressing Strength, which Hua Qiang comprehended and perfected before returning it.
• Old Niu offered Hua Qiang a spiritual vein instead and led the group deeper into the valley.
• Old Niu split open the ground, revealing a massive, living Immortal Vein that surged with light, and Hua Qiang watched eagerly for what Old Niu would do next.

Old Niu defeated the Immortal Vein dragon and gave the sealed vein to Hua Qiang, whose Small World transformed into an immortal realm and empowered its inhabitants. After everyone broke through to the Human Immortal Realm, Hua Qiang offered Old Niu Life Divine Water.

• Old Niu fought and defeated the Immortal Vein dragon, then sealed the vein into a small dragon-shaped mold and gave it to Hua Qiang.
• Hua Qiang placed the Immortal Vein in his Small World, where it revived and transformed the land into an immortal realm.
• Liu Li, Ye Wendao, Hua Xingchen, Gu Hongyan, Ye Bingxue, Mo Yanran, Long Mo'er, Ao Miaomiao, Yokoyama Sakurako, and Ao Shanshan awakened powerful changes as the Small World’s immortal aura reached them.
• Ten pillars of light carried everyone through the clouds, and they emerged having reached the Human Immortal Realm.
• Hua Qiang gave the exhausted Old Niu a bottle of Life Divine Water, which Old Niu recognized with shock.

Wang Bujv searched the forest for Nalan Yan while she fought a burly man over three Spirit Fruits, only for a woman in white to steal them. As Nalan Yan pursued the thief, one of Wang Bujv’s men spotted her and sent up a signal flare, drawing the search party toward her.

• Wang Bujv berated his men for failing to find Nalan Yan and gave them two more days to locate her.
• Nalan Yan battled a burly man with a Mountain Splitting Axe over three Spirit Fruits in a bamboo grove.
• A woman in white stole the Spirit Fruits while Nalan Yan and the burly man were fighting, then fled.
• Nalan Yan abandoned her fight with the burly man and chased the woman in white through the forest.
• A burly man searching for Nalan Yan recognized her, fired a signal flare, and alerted the scattered search party.

Wang Bujv tracked down Nalan Yan in the forest and demanded that she accept their arranged marriage, threatening her when she refused. Nalan Yan fought back, but his Immortal King guard repelled her, and Wang Bujv ordered his men to capture her.

• A White Tiger Token flare signaled that Nalan Yan had been found, so Wang Bujv and his men hurried into the forest.
• Wang Bujv's men surrounded Nalan Yan after she pursued a white-clothed woman who then disappeared.
• Nalan Yan rejected Wang Bujv and their arranged marriage, saying she already had someone in her heart.
• Wang Bujv threatened Nalan Yan and gave her ten seconds to accept her fate.
• Nalan Yan drew her sword and charged Wang Bujv, but the spear-wielding guard struck her back.
• Wang Bujv ordered his men to take Nalan Yan down.

Nalan Yan unleashed her Hell Black Flame against the men surrounding her, but Qin Manzi subdued her and extinguished the flames. Wang Bujv demanded to know who she had called a bastard, and Nalan Yan refused to tell him before the men dragged her away alive.

• Nalan Yan fought the encircling men in black, then hurled Hell Black Flame fireballs at them in a desperate attempt to escape.
• Wang Bujv ordered Qin Manzi to take Nalan Yan down, and Qin Manzi shielded Wang Bujv before dispersing the fireballs with his spear.
• Qin Manzi immobilized Nalan Yan with a black palm seal, seized her, and struck her acupoints until her spiritual power collapsed.
• Wang Bujv grabbed Nalan Yan by the throat and demanded to know who the bastard was, but she spat blood in his face and refused to answer.
• Qin Manzi stopped Wang Bujv from killing Nalan Yan, warning that they had to keep her alive for Fairy Jiangyun, and the men dragged her away.

Hua Qiang sensed that something had happened and discovered Nalan Yan being dragged and abused by Wang Bujv. He rescued her by attacking Qin Manzi’s group, then revived her with Water of Life and reunited with her.

• Hua Qiang sent the Lightning Thunder Roc to scout and saw Wang Bujv dragging Nalan Yan by her hair.
• Hua Qiang entered a berserk state, ordered the Lightning Thunder Roc to block the group, and traveled through a Void Rift with the Rat King.
• The Lightning Thunder Roc blocked Qin Manzi’s party, and Hua Qiang emerged from a rift to attack Qin Manzi.
• The Rat King unleashed a swarm of rats that overwhelmed the guards while Qin Manzi tried to protect Wang Bujv.
• Hua Qiang held Nalan Yan, gave her Water of Life, and comforted her when she woke.