Chapter Summaries

Bi Zaize arrived at Black Wind Valley with a hundred-man force and found Hua Xiaoyao, Hua Sijun, Sangqina, and their mech warriors looting the Snow Monster King's lair. He surrounded them and demanded the Snow Marrow Crystals, while Hua Qiang and his family watched from hiding to see how the young leaders would respond.

• Bi Zaize traveled to Black Wind Valley in a luxurious carriage pulled by two dragons, accompanied by Lei Shan and a hundred armed riders.
• Lei Shan reported that Hua Xiaoyao and Hua Sijun had killed the Snow Monster King and were taking the Snow Marrow Crystals with their armored allies.
• Bi Zaize ordered Lei Shan to surround the valley and stop the group from taking the crystals.
• Hua Xiaoyao, Hua Sijun, and Sangqina readied themselves as two hundred mech warriors formed a defensive circle against the encircling force.
• Bi Zaize threatened the group and demanded that they surrender the crystals and kneel.
• Hua Qiang stopped Mo Yanran and Ye Bingxue from intervening and watched with his family from concealment.

Sangqina fought Lei Shan and his lightning-powered white tiger after Bi Zaize ordered her captured alive. Seriously wounded, she summoned an ice phoenix to continue resisting.

• Hua Sijun insulted Bi Zaize, then left Sangqina to face him and his forces.
• Bi Zaize ordered Lei Shan to capture Sangqina alive, and Lei Shan attacked her with his white tiger.
• Sangqina defended herself with Frost and ice barriers, but Lei Shan’s thunder attacks broke through and wounded her.
• The white tiger struck Sangqina across the back, leaving her badly injured as Lei Shan hesitated to press the attack.
• Sangqina unleashed her ice spiritual energy and summoned a gigantic ice phoenix with Ice Phoenix Three Nods.

Sangqina and Lei Shan fought to a standstill, leaving her gravely injured until Hua Qiang arrived and sealed the battlefield with his Space-time Domain. He healed Sangqina and let Hua Xiaoyao and Hua Sijun punish Bi Zaize and his guards.

• Sangqina unleashed Ice Phoenix Three Nods, and the phoenixes broke through Lei Shan and the white tiger’s lightning defense, wounding them both.
• Lei Shan and Sangqina exchanged attacks until he knocked her down and she could no longer move.
• Hua Qiang sealed the battlefield, suppressed the guards’ strength, and healed Sangqina with Life Divine Water.
• Hua Xiaoyao and Hua Sijun bound the guards and beat Bi Zaize while Hua Qiang watched over Sangqina.

Hua Xiaoyao beat Bi Fushou after Hua Qiang sealed most of the old man's power, while Bi Zaize remained pinned beneath Hua Xiaoyao's foot. Hua Qiang stopped the fight and demanded that Bi Fushou tell him about the Bi Family.

• Bi Zaize called for his guardian, Bi Fushou, who arrived after being delayed to relieve himself and buy wine.
• Hua Xiaoyao taunted Bi Fushou and charged at him while Hua Sijun urged her brother on.
• Hua Qiang sealed most of Bi Fushou's power, reducing him from the Star Sea Realm to the Space-time Realm.
• Hua Xiaoyao battered Bi Fushou as the old man held back his strongest moves out of fear of Hua Qiang.
• Hua Qiang seized the injured Bi Fushou and demanded that he explain the Bi Family.

Hua Qiang and Hua Xiaoyao captured Bi Fushou and Bi Zaize, learned that the Bi Family wanted Snow Marrow Crystals to help their ancestor break through to the Star Lord Realm, and took the crystals. Deep underground, Bi Jianxiao overcame his century-long bottleneck and became a Star Lord.

• Hua Qiang forced Bi Fushou to reveal the Bi Family's strength and identify Bi Jianxiao as its peak Void Realm ancestor.
• Hua Xiaoyao broke Bi Zaize's legs and threatened him until he revealed that the Bi Family had come to collect Snow Marrow Crystals for Boundary Breaking Pills.
• Hua Xiaoyao handed the collected Snow Marrow Crystals to Hua Qiang, who praised him.
• Bi Jianxiao failed another attempt to break through, then remembered his master's advice and realized he needed to temper his state of mind.
• Bi Jianxiao let the barrier in his dantian dissolve, broke through to the Star Lord Realm, and sent a beam of starlight into the heavens.

Bi Jianren broke through to the Star Lord Realm and went to punish Hua Qiang for injuring the Bi Family. Hua Qiang resisted his attacks, but Bi Jianren began using his miniature star domain to trap him and launch another assault.

• Bi Jianren broke through to the Star Lord Realm as the Bi Family discussed Bi Zaize’s injuries and the defeat of his guards.
• Bi Jianren appeared in the council hall, learned what had happened, and promised to deal with the person who had offended the Bi Family.
• Hua Qiang sensed danger, stored his companions and cruiser in his inner world, and faced Bi Jianren alone.
• Bi Jianren struck Hua Qiang with a palm, sending him crashing into a rock wall, then attacked with three miniature stars.
• Hua Qiang countered the stars by merging his ice and fire Laws, but the clash drove him back while briefly dimming Bi Jianren’s star-domain phantom.
• Bi Jianren expanded his miniature star domain and used gravity stars to weigh Hua Qiang down before speed stars attacked from multiple directions.

Hua Qiang endured Bi Jianren’s Starfall attack and turned the absorbed energy into a five-law strike that killed him. After defeating the Star Lord Realm cultivator, Hua Qiang collapsed from his injuries.

• Hua Qiang opened his Annihilation Domain and combined five laws to defend against Bi Jianren’s Starfall.
• Bi Jianren broke Hua Qiang’s barrier with a crimson star, and the assault smashed Hua Qiang into a crater.
• Hua Qiang survived by absorbing part of the stars’ energy and formed a five-colored sphere from the fused laws.
• Hua Qiang’s five-law attack pierced Bi Jianren’s weakened Star Domain and killed him.
• Hua Qiang fell to his knees, gravely injured but victorious.

Hua Qiang recovered from his injuries, advanced to the second level of the Great Void Realm, and confronted the Bi Family group arriving to avenge their clansmen. He revealed that he had killed their ancestor, leaving Bi Shuiliu and his people facing the truth.

• The Bi Family traveled through the snowy wilderness, confident that their ancestor would avenge their clansmen and punish Hua Qiang.
• Hua Qiang absorbed Slaughter Points, raised his Blood Qi Value, and reached the second level of the Great Void Realm as his injuries healed.
• Hua Qiang appeared before Bi Shuiliu's group and blocked their path; when Bi Gang insulted him, Hua Qiang slapped him thousands of meters away.
• A bearded Bi Family member attacked Hua Qiang, who killed him with a finger-pointed streak of white light.
• Bi Shuiliu identified himself as the Bi Family patriarch and explained that they had come to find the person who killed their clansmen.
• Hua Qiang told Bi Shuiliu that the battle had been intense but that the young man had won and the Bi Family's ancestor was gone.

Lan Sitong brutally punished Kai Amu and Sang Jinglian because their children had escaped his mine. He ordered his soldiers to keep beating the couple as their fellow miners watched helplessly.

• Lan Sitong led his soldiers to the mine's northwestern corner to vent his anger over the escaped siblings.
• Lan Sitong whipped Kai Amu and Sang Jinglian, demanding that their children return and that Sangqina become his sex slave.
• Kai Amu pleaded for mercy while Sang Jinglian shielded him, and Lan Sitong's soldiers kept the other miners from helping.
• Lan Sitong handed his whip to a soldier and ordered the soldiers to beat the couple for as long as they remained alive.

A Ming and A Yue returned by boat to rescue their parents and the prisoners on Ice Island, while Hua Qiang crushed the Bi Family’s revenge attack. The chapter left Kai Amu and Sang Jinglian gravely weakened in the mine and the Bi Family wiped out.

• Kai Amu urged the young miners not to resist, while A Ming and A Yue sailed toward Ice Island to rescue their parents and the other prisoners.
• Hua Qiang taunted Bi Shuiliu and revealed that he had killed the Bi Family’s old ancestor.
• The enraged Bi clansmen attacked Hua Qiang, who swallowed their strikes with a black vortex and sent them back with greater force.
• Hua Qiang trapped Bi Shuiliu and the remaining clansmen in a Spatial Prison and crushed more than two hundred people into blood mist.

Sangqina rescued Ji Ming and Sang Qiyue from the frozen shore while Hua Sijun and Hua Xiaoyao attacked a mining area after Hua Qiang weakened its defenders. The mining area fell, and Hua Xiaoyao ordered his forces to secure it.

• Ji Ming and Sang Qiyue struggled across the ice plain until Sangqina arrived aboard the Gale Force and reunited with them.
• Hua Sijun insisted on leading the assault on the mining area, and Hua Xiaoyao called on Hua Qiang to weaken its defenders.
• Hua Qiang spread his Space-Time Domain over the mining area, disabling detectors and lowering the soldiers' cultivation levels.
• Hua Sijun ordered her mech guards to bombard the plaza, killing Lan Sitong and the assembled soldiers.
• Hua Xiaoyao ordered his two thousand mech warriors to clean up the battlefield and take over the mining area.

Sangqina reunited with Kai Amu and Sang Jinglian after Hua Qiang’s forces rescued them and freed the mine’s laborers. At a welcome banquet aboard the Hua Qiang No. 1 Starship, Hua Qiang sensed a familiar aura in a distant valley and went to investigate.

• Sangqina and her siblings found Kai Amu and Sang Jinglian near death in an abandoned mine pit, and they revived them with Life Divine Water.
• Kai Amu and Sang Jinglian learned that Lan Sitong had been killed and that Sangqina had returned to save them.
• Hua Qiang freed the mine’s hundred thousand laborers, and most chose to follow him into his Inner World.
• Hua Qiang hosted a welcome banquet for Kai Amu, Sang Jinglian, A Ming, and A Yue aboard the Hua Qiang No. 1 Starship.
• Hua Qiang sensed a familiar aura in a valley beyond the window and vanished to investigate.

The Tiger Clan Ancestor refined the Tenth Generation Golden Cicada in a hidden cave, using its energy and Buddha Power to pursue a breakthrough. Hua Qiang found the cave and recognized the cicada as he descended toward it.

• The Tiger Clan Ancestor extracted golden energy and Buddha Power from the trapped cicada while attempting to break through his bottleneck.
• The golden cicada struggled against its cocoon, but the Tiger Clan Ancestor activated the stone platform’s barrier to suppress it.
• The Tiger Clan Ancestor continued refining the cicada as his aura rose and his breakthrough neared.
• Hua Qiang discovered and shattered the concealment formation hiding the cave entrance.
• Hua Qiang descended into the cave, recognized the familiar aura, and realized it belonged to the Tenth Generation Golden Cicada the Tiger Clan Ancestor had snatched away.

Hua Qiang found Luopansifu, the Tiger Clan elder who had killed him and stolen Golden Cicada, and defeated him in the underground cavern. He rescued Golden Cicada and killed Luopansifu, settling their old score.

• Hua Qiang broke through the cavern’s protective formation and confronted Luopansifu, who did not recognize him.
• Hua Qiang revealed that Luopansifu had killed him and stolen Golden Cicada, then blocked the elder’s attacks with ease.
• Hua Qiang feinted at Luopansifu and seized Golden Cicada, placing it safely in his Small World.
• Hua Qiang battered Luopansifu as the elder unleashed his ultimate tiger attack, which Hua Qiang swallowed with a vortex.
• Hua Qiang crushed Luopansifu with a giant golden hand, and the Tiger Clan elder’s soul vanished.

After defeating the Tiger Clan Ancestor, Hua Qiang began refining the Golden Silkworm to absorb its pure Buddha Power, but the creature broke free and attacked him. Hua Qiang trapped it in a Spatial Prison, where it summoned dozens of Buddha Phantoms and sent them against him.

• Hua Qiang collected the Tiger Clan Ancestor's corpse and treasures, then set up a Heaven Sealing Array around the cave.
• Hua Qiang began breaking through the restrictions on the Golden Silkworm's cocoon and drew out its Buddha Power.
• The Golden Silkworm emerged and attacked Hua Qiang, who fought back with his shield and longsword.
• Hua Qiang wounded the Golden Silkworm after more than a hundred exchanges, then stopped it from escaping with Spatial Prison.
• The trapped Golden Silkworm summoned dozens of Buddha Phantoms and sent them charging at Hua Qiang.

Hua Qiang defeated and absorbed Golden Cicada, reaching the Void Realm Third Level and mastering Buddha Kingdom in Palm. With the Heaven Sealing Array weakening, he caught the Three-Colored Spirit Treasure Rat and introduced her to Little Gray as the mate he had promised to find for him.

• Hua Qiang used his Demon God Phantom to destroy Golden Cicada’s Buddha Phantoms while sealing its Buddha Power, then absorbed the power released by each shattered phantom.
• Hua Qiang refined Golden Cicada, absorbed its ten thousand years of cultivation insights, and broke through to the Void Realm Third Level.
• Hua Qiang comprehended the complete Buddha Kingdom in Palm technique from Golden Cicada’s insights.
• Hua Qiang spotted and caught the Three-Colored Spirit Treasure Rat, who failed to bite through his hand.
• Hua Qiang summoned Little Gray, who became infatuated with the Three-Colored Spirit Treasure Rat, and placed them together in a cage to keep her from escaping.

The Buddha Kingdom learned that Lord Golden Cicada’s Soul Lamp had gone out, and the Buddha Ancestor sent Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha to avenge him. Hua Qiang welcomed Burning Lamp’s force as a chance to gain Slaughter Points, and the two sides met with Zao Kang charging to test him.

• A monk reported that Lord Golden Cicada’s Soul Lamp had gone out, shocking the Buddha Ancestor and the assembly.
• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha used Time Reversal to investigate but found only a stretch of loneliness.
• The Buddha Ancestor urged the assembly to avenge Lord Golden Cicada and sent Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha to lead the campaign.
• The Starry Sky Phantom Mother Worm warned Hua Qiang that a powerful enemy was approaching, and Hua Qiang set his starship toward the monks.
• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha ordered his force to advance, then met Hua Qiang, who welcomed them warmly.
• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha ordered Zao Kang to test Hua Qiang, and Zao Kang charged at him.

Hua Qiang effortlessly defeated Zao Kang, then overcame the four Vajras and their mounts when they attacked him under Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha’s orders. With his forces destroyed, Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha resolved to confront Hua Qiang personally.

• Hua Qiang shattered Zao Kang’s attack with a casual palm strike and pinned him to a cliff.
• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha ordered Jie Tan, Jie Chen, Jie Chi, and Jie Yuan to capture Hua Qiang and protect the Buddhist sect’s honor.
• The four Vajras and their mounts attacked Hua Qiang, but he blocked their assaults, broke Jie Yuan’s blades, and knocked two mounts from the clouds.
• Jie Tan and Jie Chen unleashed their mounts’ divine abilities, then the four Vajras and four beasts formed the Eight Aspects Demon Trapping Array around Hua Qiang.
• Hua Qiang smashed through the array and killed the four Vajras and their mounts with the resulting shockwave.
• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha watched his forces die and decided he would have to act personally.

Hua Qiang defeated Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha by combining Great Void Power with powerful Buddhist techniques. Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha was left unconscious, while Hua Qiang remained standing in the fading Buddha light.

• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha sent thirty-six Glazed Arhats and a hundred monks to attack Hua Qiang, but Hua Qiang used Void Manifestation and Great Void Power to destroy them.
• Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha attacked Hua Qiang with the Heaven-Burning Seal, but Hua Qiang blocked it with Tathagata Divine Palm and shocked him with his orthodox Buddhist power.
• Hua Qiang summoned Buddha Kingdom in Palm, shattered Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha’s defenses, and swallowed him into the miniature kingdom.
• The Buddhas inside the kingdom battered Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha until his body and cultivation were nearly destroyed.
• Hua Qiang released the unconscious Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha, then remained alone as the Buddha light faded.

Hua Qiang trapped the fleeing monks in a Spatial Prison and forced them to surrender, while his children claimed their mounts. At Spirit Mountain, Manjushri reported that Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha, Samantabhadra, and Guanyin were in serious trouble, and the Buddha Ancestor secretly welcomed the news.

• Hua Qiang sealed the monks inside a Spatial Prison, where their attacks failed to break through.
• After half an hour of exhausting themselves, the monks surrendered to Hua Qiang.
• Hua Qiang's children chose the monks' mounts for themselves.
• Manjushri announced to the Buddha Ancestor that Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha, Samantabhadra, and Guanyin had encountered grave trouble.
• The Buddha Ancestor privately hoped the trouble would keep Burning Lamp and his companions from returning to Spirit Mountain.