Chapter Summaries

Hua Qiang and Fei Wuji were attacked by the Hundred Herbs Guards at Medicine King Valley, forcing Hua Qiang to battle the valley’s commanders and its Nine Revolutions Returning Spring Array. The array’s ultimate strike blasted Hua Qiang away, while Wei Changting and the other commanders collapsed from exhaustion, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Wei Changting ordered the Hundred Herbs Guards to attack Hua Qiang and his companions with poisonous mists and a vine cage.
• Hua Qiang swept away the guards with a hurricane, but Wei Changting activated the valley’s restrictions and summoned reinforcements to form the Eight Trigrams Medicine Array.
• Hua Qiang dismissed the guards as weak and demanded that the Valley Master appear, prompting Wei Changting and three commanders to activate the Nine Revolutions Returning Spring Array.
• The array’s attacks battered Hua Qiang with vines, fire, poison needles, and other forces until the commanders unleashed Myriad Medicines Return to Origin.
• Hua Qiang countered the array’s pillar of light with the Wudao Sword, but the impact blasted him away and left Wei Changting and the commanders collapsed; Fei Wuji was stunned.

Hua Qiang destroyed Medicine King Valley’s Ninefold Rejuvenation Array and faced down Yao Lenchen as she arrived with twelve elders. The Creation Divine Cauldron swallowed the elders’ Medicine Cauldrons, absorbing their power and missing fragments before returning to Hua Qiang.

• Hua Qiang destroyed the remaining cores of the Ninefold Rejuvenation Array, while Wei Changting and the others watched in terror.
• Hua Qiang began counting down and threatened to kill everyone unless the Valley Master appeared, prompting Yao Lenchen to arrive with twelve Immortal King Realm elders.
• Yao Lenchen confronted Hua Qiang and unleashed her Immortal Emperor Realm pressure, so Hua Qiang shielded Luo Feixuan and the others.
• Little Cauldron sensed missing fragments inside the twelve Medicine Cauldrons and urged Hua Qiang to let it fight.
• The Creation Divine Cauldron overpowered and swallowed all twelve Medicine Cauldrons, absorbed their fragments and power, then returned to Hua Qiang and strengthened him.

Hua Qiang defeated Yao Lenchen and swallowed Medicine King Valley’s twelve Fortune Legacy Medicine Furnaces, prompting Heavenly Emperor Xing Ming to send five Immortal Emperors to the Lower Realm. Yao Lenchen then summoned the Nine Revolutions Ice Soul Cauldron to face Hua Qiang.

• Hua Qiang overpowered Yao Lenchen’s Ice Phoenix and sent her crashing into a mountain, leaving her severely injured.
• An immortal official told Xing Ming that Yao Lenchen had been defeated, and Xing Ming ordered the five Immortal Emperors Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Wang, and Song to descend and retrieve his furnace vessel.
• Yao Lenchen invoked the Emperor Weapon, summoning twelve white-haired elders and the thousand-zhang Nine Revolutions Ice Soul Cauldron.
• Hua Qiang recognized the cauldron’s Immortal Emperor pressure and Heavenly Path laws as it descended and drew spiritual power from the surrounding mountains.

Hua Qiang subdued the Nine Revolutions Ice Soul Cauldron and learned that the unconscious Yao Lenchen had a rare cauldron furnace physique that could help him reach the Starry Sky Realm. With powerful enemies alerted by the battle, he prepared to defend himself and keep her in his possession.

• Hua Qiang used his space-time laws and newly upgraded Creation Divine Cauldron to suppress the Nine Revolutions Ice Soul Cauldron and make it acknowledge him as master.
• The severed connection to the cauldron killed the twelve elders, and Yao Lenchen collapsed after losing her bond with the Emperor Weapon.
• The cauldron's artifact spirit told Hua Qiang that Yao Lenchen was the current Valley Master and possessed a supreme cauldron furnace physique that could help him break through to the Starry Sky Realm.
• The artifact spirit warned Hua Qiang that powerful enemies would soon arrive to encircle and kill him, and offered to activate the Ice Soul Law if it could absorb enough immortal spiritual energy.
• Hua Qiang turned the elders' corpses to dust, lifted Yao Lenchen with spiritual energy, and had the cauldron absorb the surrounding energy in preparation for battle.

Hua Qiang held Yao Lenchen captive after destroying Medicine King Valley, while revealing that he knew about her Profound Yin Physique. Zhou Henxiao and four other Immortal Emperors arrived to confront him, relieved that Yao Lenchen remained unharmed.

• Zhou Henxiao led Wu Xundao, Zheng Hao, Wang Dongxu, and Song Qinghe into the Seventh Heaven to hunt the enemy who had attacked Medicine King Valley.
• The five reached the ruined valley and followed the trail of pill poison toward its depths.
• Hua Qiang taunted the bound Yao Lenchen, explained that he had only recently learned of her Profound Yin Physique, and said powerful figures might seek to abduct her for its energy.
• Yao Lenchen warned Hua Qiang that others would come to kill him, and five streaks of light soon appeared in the sky.
• Zhou Henxiao and the others saw Yao Lenchen imprisoned and injured but unviolated, then faced Hua Qiang.

Hua Qiang fought Zhou Henxiao and four other Immortal Emperors in the Star Domain, overwhelming their attacks with his space-time laws and Wudao Sword. After three days and nights of battle, the five still held on through their Five Elements Great Array as Hua Qiang announced he would end the fight.

• Zhou Henxiao and the other four Immortal Emperors surrounded Hua Qiang and formed the Five Elements Great Array.
• Hua Qiang used his space-time laws and Wudao Sword to counter each opponent’s attacks, wounding Zheng Hao and breaking through the others’ defenses.
• Hua Qiang unleashed Space-Time Reincarnation, Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, piercing the five Immortal Emperors’ barrier and forcing them to use life-saving methods.
• The battle continued for three days and nights, leaving the Star Domain devastated while Hua Qiang fought without falling behind.
• Hua Qiang told the five Immortal Emperors that it was time to end the fight, leaving them terrified of his next move.

Hua Qiang sealed and killed five Immortal Emperors, then absorbed their Blood Qi and used the Slaughter Points he gained to break through to the Fourth Heaven of the Immortal Emperor Realm. The witnesses were left stunned, while Yao Lenchen feared what Hua Qiang would do to her.

• Hua Qiang trapped Zhou Henxiao, Wu Xundao, and three other Immortal Emperors with the Mountains and Rivers Map and unleashed the Nine Revolutions Ice Soul Cauldron’s Extreme Poison Ice Storm.
• The five Immortal Emperors’ defenses broke under the ice storm, and Hua Qiang killed them with five strikes of the Wudao Sword.
• Hua Qiang gained ninety million Slaughter Points, absorbed the five Immortal Emperors’ Blood Qi, and advanced to the Fourth Heaven of the Immortal Emperor Realm.
• Luo Feixuan, Xiao Qing, Fei Wuji, and the others stared in shock at the five Immortal Emperors’ deaths.
• Yao Lenchen feared Hua Qiang and wondered how he would deal with her.

Hua Qiang explained that Luo Feixuan’s rare Profound Spirit Dao Body was afflicted by an ancient curse, and offered two ways to remove it. After Luo Feixuan chose dual cultivation, the curse was broken and both of them emerged stronger.

• Hua Qiang told Fei Wuji to seek medicine for his father and promised him a surprise, then imprisoned Yao Lenchen in the Small World.
• Luo Feixuan knelt before Hua Qiang and asked him to resolve the curse in her body.
• Hua Qiang revealed that Luo Feixuan had a Profound Spirit Dao Body and would die at twenty if the curse remained.
• Hua Qiang offered to remove the curse slowly or use dual cultivation to cure her and raise her cultivation quickly, and Luo Feixuan chose the latter.
• After three days, Hua Qiang emerged at the Immortal Emperor Seventh Heaven while Luo Feixuan had reached the Immortal King Realm and was freed from the curse.

Luo Feixuan celebrated the cure of her illness and the lifting of Hua Qiang’s curse, while Fei Wuji invited them to drink. Meanwhile, Immortal Emperor Xing Ming and the Nine Heavens Inspection Department mobilized against Hua Qiang, who prepared to face their forces at Medicine King Valley.

• Luo Feixuan told Xiao Qing that her illness and Hua Qiang’s curse had been cured and that she had reached the Immortal King Realm.
• Fei Wuji invited Hua Qiang, Luo Feixuan, and Xiao Qing to share a meal and drinks.
• Immortal Emperor Xing Ming ordered one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to attack the Seventh Heaven after learning that Medicine King Valley had fallen and his five subordinates had died.
• Mo Shouye led twelve Immortal Emperor elders and tens of thousands of inspectors toward Medicine King Valley.
• Hua Qiang kept the souls of Xing Ming’s five subordinates captive and prepared to confront the approaching armies, while Yao Lenchen doubted he could face the Heavenly Court alone.

Heavenly Emperor Xing Ming led one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to confront Hua Qiang at Medicine King Valley, but Hua Qiang summoned an equally large army of his own. The two forces began battling with volleys of arrows, and the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Xing Ming arrived above Medicine King Valley with one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals and demanded that Hua Qiang surrender.
• Hua Qiang recognized Xing Ming as the man who planned to use Yao Lenchen as a furnace, while she wished Hua Qiang would kill the Heavenly Emperor.
• Hua Qiang summoned one hundred thousand warriors from six black vortices, matching Xing Ming's army in numbers and momentum.
• Xing Ming ordered his archers to attack, but Hua Qiang's shield wall blocked the arrows.
• Hua Qiang ordered half his army to fire Black Energy arrows, and the two forces exchanged volleys across the sky.

Hua Qiang led his forces into a devastating battle against Heavenly Emperor Xing Ming and the Heavenly armies. After seven days of fighting, a world-devouring rift swallowed Hua Qiang and Xing Ming, leaving their fate unknown.

• Hua Qiang used Time Reversal to slow the Heavenly forces' attacks and ordered the Asura, Hungry Ghost, Human Race, Divine Race, and demonic beast armies to charge.
• Hua Qiang and Xing Ming clashed with the Wudao Sword and Heavenly Dao powers as their armies fought across the battlefield.
• The Asura King battled Marshal Tian Peng while the Hungry Ghosts, demonic beasts, Human Race soldiers, and Divine Race Warriors fought the Heavenly forces.
• After seven days of battle, the sky and earth fractured, and a massive purple-black rift began consuming the battlefield.
• Hua Qiang and Xing Ming unleashed their powers against the rift, but their final collision swept both into it, and they vanished.

Hua Qiang and Xing Ming were cast into the Exile Ruins, where their powers vanished and they were forced to survive as ordinary mortals. After a bitter fight, they stopped to catch their breath, and Hua Qiang began searching for his missing Storage Ring.

• Hua Qiang and Xing Ming were hurled through a rift into the Exile Ruins, where an unseen voice warned that all power would be stripped away.
• Hua Qiang and Xing Ming discovered they had become powerless mortals and blamed each other for their predicament.
• Xing Ming attacked Hua Qiang, and the two fought with fists, rocks, sticks, fragments, and bones until they were both battered and exhausted.
• Hua Qiang called an end to the fight and went looking for his Storage Ring, while Xing Ming wondered if he had found treasure.

Hua Qiang searched for his missing ring while Xing Ming became frightened by Hua Qiang’s claim that he had reached Immortal Emperor Seventh Heaven in his early twenties and fled. After three days, Hua Qiang stumbled upon a Blood Crystal and began absorbing its energy with the Blood Demon Scripture, causing his strength and Blood Qi to surge.

• Hua Qiang searched the battlefield for his ring and told Xing Ming he was only in his early twenties.
• Xing Ming believed Hua Qiang might be a terrifying genius or favored by fate, then hurried away to avoid becoming his enemy.
• Hua Qiang searched alone for three days, growing hungry, exhausted, and thirsty as he worried about surviving without the ring.
• Hua Qiang stumbled over a mound, dug out a dark red Blood Crystal, and found that it resisted his attempts to break it.
• Hua Qiang’s bleeding fingers fed blood to the crystal, and the Blood Demon Scripture drew its crimson energy into his body, restoring his strength and swelling his Blood Qi.

Hua Qiang regained strength by refining Blood Crystals in the Exile Ruins and used the Rat King to find more. After reaching Immortal Emperor Eighth Heaven, he found Xing Ming and beat him savagely.

• Hua Qiang drained a Blood Crystal, recovered his strength, and realized Xing Ming had disappeared.
• Hua Qiang summoned the Rat King, whose strength rapidly faded in the ruins, and gave it a Vitality Pill to save it.
• Hua Qiang sent the Rat King to search for Blood Crystals, and it found more than ten in one shichen.
• Hua Qiang refined the Blood Crystals, reached Immortal Emperor Eighth Heaven, and sensed Xing Ming nearby.
• Hua Qiang caught Xing Ming and beat him until he questioned his life.

Hua Qiang beat Xing Ming, then wandered through the ruins in search of clothes and food. After chasing a rabbit and getting lost, he found a hidden cave and discovered a corpse whose pressure suggested it had surpassed the Immortal Emperor Realm, leading him to wonder if it was the legendary Star Mirror.

• Hua Qiang finished beating Xing Ming and left to find leaves and vines for clothes.
• Hua Qiang chased a rabbit through the thicket but failed to catch it and realized he was lost.
• Hua Qiang entered the jungle, found a cave hidden behind branches, and climbed up to it.
• Hua Qiang explored the cave and reached a large stone chamber containing a corpse on a stone bed.
• Hua Qiang sensed the corpse's immense pressure and wondered whether it was the legendary Star Mirror.

Hua Qiang discovered Ye Xiao's message and remains in the ruins, then swallowed the Starry Sky Realm stardust to absorb its power. After surviving the destructive energy with the help of Life Divine Water and the Blood Demon Scripture, he gained a faint connection to Starry Sky Power and believed he could advance further with enough Slaughter Points.

• Hua Qiang touched Ye Xiao's stone bed, received the jade slip's memories, and learned that something deep in the ruins could devour life.
• Ye Xiao's corpse turned into stardust, and Hua Qiang gathered and swallowed it to absorb Ye Xiao's insights and Night Clan secret arts.
• The stardust tore through Hua Qiang's body, so he drank Life Divine Water and pushed the Blood Demon Scripture to its limit.
• Hua Qiang gradually refined the stardust, healed his body, and strengthened his meridians as the energy became docile.
• A faint starlight mark appeared on Hua Qiang's forehead, and he sensed that enough Slaughter Points could help him reach the next level.

Hua Qiang discovered that Blood Crystals stopped his vitality from draining and decided to seek more while searching for the mysterious being in the Exile Ruins. Meanwhile, Xing Ming regained his strength by eating Tai Sui and attacked Hua Qiang.

• Hua Qiang suspected a hidden being was draining his vitality and resolved to find it.
• The Rat King gave Hua Qiang more than ten Blood Crystals, and Hua Qiang found that using one in a Spirit Gathering Array stopped his vitality loss.
• Hua Qiang concluded that Blood Crystals could help him grow stronger and began searching for more.
• Xing Ming ate a basketball-sized Tai Sui and regained enough strength to challenge Hua Qiang.
• Xing Ming leaped at Hua Qiang and struck at him with a fist.

Hua Qiang humiliated and defeated Xing Ming, who was then drained of his spiritual power by Spirit Devouring Insects. As Hua Qiang cultivated in a Spirit Gathering Array, the insects attacked and swallowed his sword qi, but they recoiled when he revealed the Blood Demon Spear.

• Hua Qiang beat Xing Ming until Xing Ming broke down crying and coughed up blood before fainting.
• Spirit Devouring Insects swarmed Xing Ming, drained his spiritual power, and left him powerless.
• Hua Qiang cultivated inside a larger Spirit Gathering Array charged with Blood Crystals as Spirit Devouring Insects gathered around it.
• The insects swallowed Hua Qiang's sword qi and grew stronger, leaving him unable to stop them with his attacks.
• Hua Qiang drew the Blood Demon Spear, causing the Spirit Devouring Insects to halt and retreat.

Hua Qiang used the Blood Demon Spear to devour most of the Spirit Devouring Insects, then followed its directions to find an imprisoned Starry Sky Behemoth. After fighting his way through the underground ruins, he reached the creature’s barrier just as it awoke.

• The Blood Demon Spear devoured most of the Spirit Devouring Insects and told Hua Qiang that a Starry Sky Behemoth was imprisoned twenty kilometers to the northeast.
• Hua Qiang spent two days refining Blood Crystals, reached Immortal Emperor Peak, and headed northeast, leaving Xing Ming alone.
• Hua Qiang dug underground and killed swarms of Rock-Eating Spiders and Light-Devouring Leeches on his way down.
• Hua Qiang destroyed the Tomb Guardian Puppets with Time Stop and Earth Vein Shockwave, then collected their energy crystals.
• Hua Qiang trapped and cut apart a giant formation of Earth-Burning Boas with Abyssal Cage.
• Hua Qiang found the sealed Starry Sky Behemoth deep underground, and it opened its eyes as he approached.

Hua Qiang faced the awakened Starry Sky Behemoth beneath the earth and struggled to survive as it battered its seal. When life energy reinforced the barrier, he comprehended the Starry Sky Grade One Rune Art and formed a powerful rune in his palm.

• Hua Qiang studied the sealing runes, but they gave him no insight until he touched them and they flared with violet light.
• The Starry Sky Behemoth awakened further and fired star-feather blades at Hua Qiang, who defended himself with an Earth Law: Rock Wall.
• Hua Qiang burned away crystal vines and trapped a swarm of Lava Vein Leeches, but the Behemoth's attack cracked the barrier and destroyed one of its runes.
• Chains carried life energy into the barrier, restoring its runes as Hua Qiang focused on their patterns and entered a deep state of comprehension.
• Hua Qiang comprehended the Starry Sky Grade One Rune Art and formed a crystalline rune in his palm.