Chapter Summaries

Dongling Rui and the other Dongling Peak Grandmasters agreed to reclaim the Hall Master's position after Gongliang Yi and Gongliang Tang died on the mainland. At Gongliang Bo's meeting, he announced that the mission to seize the Blood Attraction Flower had failed, leaving the gathered Grandmasters waiting for an explanation.

• Dongling Rui warned Dongling Heng and Dongling Qing that the mainland was too dangerous for a large-scale invasion, and they agreed that Gongliang Yi's death showed the risk.
• Dongling Rui proposed taking the Hall Master's position back from Gongliang Bo, and Dongling Heng and Dongling Qing pledged their support.
• Dongling Rui and his allies planned to wait for Gongliang Bo to call a meeting, then challenge his position.
• Gongliang Bo called a meeting for the Grandmasters and Peak Grandmasters, and Dongling Rui objected that some people were missing before taking his seat.
• Gongliang Bo announced that the mission to enter the mainland and seize the Blood Attraction Flower had failed, shocking the attendees.

Gongliang Bo announced that the mission party had been killed, and King Chujiang Hall's members turned on him over the deaths and the mission's delays. Dongling Qing called for Gongliang Bo's removal as Hall Master, leaving Gongliang Bo to demand that Dongling Rui state what he wanted.

• Gongliang Bo told the hall that everyone sent to the continent had died, including Gongliang Yi and Gongliang Tang.
• Dongling Rui, Dongling Heng, and Dongling Qing blamed Gongliang Bo for delaying the mission, while Gongliang Chu defended him.
• Gongliang Bo released his aura to silence the hall, but three equally powerful auras countered him.
• Dongling Qing proposed removing Gongliang Bo as Hall Master, and nearly everyone outside the Gongliang family agreed.
• Gongliang Chu and Dongling Rui clashed with their auras, nearly bringing down the hall, before both withdrew to protect the Grandmasters.
• Gongliang Bo asked Dongling Rui what he wanted.

Dongling Rui forced Gongliang Bo to step down as King Chujiang Hall’s master, then took the position himself and moved to punish Bo. Gongliang Che proposed sending Bo to the perilous Ancestral Tomb, while Che felt relieved that his father’s death no longer left him fearing the Grandmasters.

• Dongling Rui secured the Grandmasters’ support for Gongliang Bo to relinquish the hall master position, and Bo left the meeting hall with his faction and Gongliang Chu.
• Dongling Heng proposed Dongling Rui as the new hall master, and the Grandmasters present backed the proposal.
• Dongling Rui took the seat and asked how Gongliang Bo should be held accountable for the losses he caused.
• Gongliang Hong proposed cutting Bo’s resources in half, while Gongliang Che proposed sending him to guard the Ancestral Tomb in the deadly Lisha Illusionary Realm.
• The Grandmasters regarded Gongliang Che warily, and Che felt relieved that he no longer feared them joining forces against him.

Dongling Rui secured support for his ascension and devised a plan to pressure Gongliang Bo into guarding the Ancestral Tomb. After Gongliang Bo’s relatives urged him to accept, he agreed on the condition that Dongling Rui keep his word.

• Dongling Rui won the Grandmasters’ agreement to punish Gongliang Bo by sending him to guard the Ancestral Tomb and arranged a banquet celebrating his ascension.
• Dongling Rui privately ordered Gongliang Che to invite Gongliang Bo and Gongliang Chu’s faction to the banquet, promising their punishments would be canceled if they attended.
• Gongliang Bo and Gongliang Chu’s Grandmasters attended the banquet, but Dongling Rui canceled only their punishments and kept Gongliang Bo’s in place.
• Gongliang He and the other Grandmasters urged Gongliang Bo to accept the Ancestral Tomb punishment, leaving him feeling betrayed.
• Gongliang Bo agreed to go to the Ancestral Tomb but warned that he would fight Dongling Rui to the bitter end if Dongling Rui broke his word.

Gongliang Bo accepted exile to the Lisha Illusionary Realm, while Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue went to Medicine King Valley to witness the Blood Attraction Flower’s harvest. After the flower was safely collected, Jiang Liu reflected on how its attraction had led King Chujiang Hall to Medicine King Valley.

• Gongliang Bo agreed to accept punishment in the Ancestral Tomb, and Gongliang Chu secretly learned something from him that made him rejoice.
• Gongliang He and the others reported to Dongling Rui, who ordered Gongliang Bo to leave for the Lisha Illusionary Realm that night while Dongling Rui and Dongling Heng kept him under surveillance.
• Gongliang Chu secretly left King Chujiang Hall several days later to meet Gongliang Bo in the Lisha Illusionary Realm.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue received word from Medicine King Valley that the Blood Attraction Flower was nearly mature, and Jiang Liu ordered the Martial Division to assist with the valley’s relocation to Shan County.
• Jiang Liu found that the Blood Attraction Flower could not pierce his skin, then watched Qiu Su harvest its barbs, petals, bud, and stalk after it fully matured.

Jiang Liu tested the Blood Attraction Flower pills, then gave one to Gongsun Haoyue to help her cultivate. After Yun Hao uncovered King Chujiang Hall’s plans and learned Gongliang Bo had been sent to the Lisha Illusionary Realm, Jiang Liu decided to enter the desert and kill him.

• Qiu Su finished processing the Blood Attraction Flowers, gave Jiang Liu three bottles of pills, and left with Medicine King Valley for Qian Province.
• Jiang Liu tested a pill and found it accelerated primal qi cultivation, while Gongsun Haoyue expelled its bloody primal qi and benefited from its effects.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue shared an intimate moment after her cultivation session.
• Yun Hao reported that she had uncovered King Chujiang Hall’s forces in Gu Prefecture, and Jiang Liu ordered her to close the net.
• Yun Hao brought Jiang Liu confession papers revealing that Gongliang Bo had been demoted to guard the Ancestral Tomb in the Lisha Illusionary Realm.
• Jiang Liu ordered Yun Hao to handle the remaining informants and prepared to enter the desert to kill Gongliang Bo.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue traveled toward the Lisha Illusionary Realm while Gongliang Bo waited in the desert, hoping to enter it again and break through to the Saint Realm. When a horde of Sand Devouring Serpents attacked, the Fire-Winged Monkey pursued the source of their shrill cry.

• Gongsun Haoyue packed their necessities, and Jiang Liu set off with her on the Sea Turtle toward the desert, followed by the Fire-Winged Monkey.
• Gongliang Bo told Gongliang Chu that he had found a hidden realm near his elder brother's grave, where his cultivation bottleneck had loosened, and planned to return on the anniversary of his brother's death.
• Gongliang Bo and Gongliang Chu cultivated with the Blood Saint Art beside a statue of King Chujiang, drawing essence blood from Sand Devouring Serpents attracted by its blood-colored origin qi.
• Jiang Liu directed the Fire-Winged Monkey toward the Lisha Illusionary Realm as the Sea Turtle carried him and Gongsun Haoyue into the desert.
• The Fire-Winged Monkey fought off a swarm of Sand Devouring Serpents while the Sea Turtle swallowed those that neared Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue.
• After a shrill scream sent the Sand Devouring Serpents retreating, the Fire-Winged Monkey flew toward its source to pursue them.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue traveled through the desert, destroying King Chujiang Hall outposts that preyed on passersby. As they neared the Lisha Illusionary Realm, Jiang Liu warned the Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle to stay alert for Gongliang Bo and the realm’s unknown illusions.

• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue rested together after eating roasted Sand Devouring Serpent, and Gongsun Haoyue watched over Jiang Liu through the night.
• Jiang Liu spotted an oasis observation post belonging to King Chujiang Hall and found corpses and bones there before replenishing their water and leaving.
• Jiang Liu questioned a King Chujiang Hall man at a sand-walled settlement, then the Fire-Winged Monkey destroyed the houses and killed the people inside.
• Jiang Liu took the settlement’s stored food and water, and the Fire-Winged Monkey gathered more supplies before they headed toward the Lisha Illusionary Realm.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Primal Qi growing scarce near the realm and told the Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle to remain alert for Gongliang Bo and possible illusions.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue confronted Gongliang Bo and Gongliang Chu near King Chujiang’s statue in the central Lisha Illusionary Realm. Jiang Liu wounded Gongliang Bo while Gongsun Haoyue and her beasts pressed Gongliang Chu with a coordinated attack.

• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue spotted King Chujiang’s statue and detected Gongliang Bo and Gongliang Chu hiding nearby.
• Jiang Liu attacked Gongliang Bo while Gongsun Haoyue, the Fire-Winged Monkey, and the Sea Turtle engaged Gongliang Chu.
• Gongliang Chu shattered the Fire-Winged Monkey’s staff, but Gongsun Haoyue and the Sea Turtle trapped him between skyfire and rain attacks.
• Gongsun Haoyue’s skyfire burned through Gongliang Chu’s vital-energy barrier, and he cried out in pain.
• Gongliang Bo faltered after hearing Gongliang Chu’s cries, allowing Jiang Liu to wound him with his great saber and Ice Blade.
• Jiang Liu used the Five Elements Yin-Yang Steps to suppress Gongliang Bo.

Jiang Liu kept Gongliang Bo pinned down with relentless attacks while Gongsun Haoyue and the Fire-Winged Monkey battered Gongliang Chu. Gongliang Chu strengthened himself with a blood-essence technique, while Jiang Liu discovered his spiritual attacks could drain Gongliang Bo’s treasure pagoda and began exploiting that advantage.

• Jiang Liu used his aura and rapid attacks to keep Gongliang Bo entangled as chaotic essence qi continued to ravage Gongliang Bo’s body.
• The Fire-Winged Monkey smashed Gongliang Chu into the sand, extinguishing Gongsun Haoyue’s heavenly flames but severely injuring him.
• Gongliang Chu summoned an illusory figure that absorbed bloody essence qi, but Sea Turtle siphoned the energy away until Gongliang Chu fused the figure into himself.
• Gongliang Bo brought out a treasure pagoda to protect himself and prepare a technique, but Jiang Liu’s Star Godfall damaged the pagoda’s radiance and Gongliang Bo’s spiritual Sea of Consciousness.
• Jiang Liu used Nebula Extinction and Nebula Shrunken Earth to pursue Gongliang Bo, who relied on the pagoda to detect the spiritual attacks and dodged cautiously.

Gongsun Haoyue, the Fire-Winged Monkey, and the Sea Turtle drove Gongliang Chu to the brink while Jiang Liu kept Gongliang Bo occupied. As Gongliang Chu prepared to self-detonate, he was suddenly transported to an unfamiliar place filled with abundant Heaven and Earth Essence.

• The Fire-Winged Monkey knocked Gongliang Chu into the Sea Turtle’s corrosive rain, and Gongsun Haoyue trapped him in heavenly flames.
• Jiang Liu realized the statue suppressed his Essence while boosting Gongliang Bo’s speed, so he continued delaying Gongliang Bo as he waited for an opening.
• Gongliang Chu emerged from the flames gravely injured and unable to move, then decided to self-detonate to help Gongliang Bo escape.
• Gongliang Chu drew blood-colored Essence from the statue and began gathering it in his dantian, while Jiang Liu used five Ice Blades to prevent Gongliang Bo from intervening.
• Just as Gongliang Chu was about to detonate his Essence, he found himself in an unfamiliar realm with abundant Heaven and Earth Essence, and the others had disappeared.

Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue discovered a lush world inside the Lisha Illusionary Realm, where their power and cultivation recovered. They attacked the injured Gongliang Chu and Gongliang Bo, while blood Gongliang Chu had spilled slowly vanished into the ground.

• Gongliang Bo found Gongliang Chu and realized they had entered the secret realm where he had previously sensed his cultivation bottleneck loosening.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the realm restored his essence and Divine Sea, eased his mental-strength bottleneck, and ended the feeling of being watched.
• Gongsun Haoyue attacked Gongliang Bo with the Skyfire Staff, while Jiang Liu struck Gongliang Chu with Frost Nether Palm and Star Godfall.
• The Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle moved to help fight Gongliang Bo as the tranquil realm filled with battle.
• The blood Gongliang Chu had spat onto the ground slowly disappeared.

Jiang Liu overwhelmed Gongliang Chu while Gongsun Haoyue, Fire-Winged Monkey, and Sea Turtle cornered Gongliang Bo. Gongliang Bo rescued his unconscious brother from Jiang Liu’s finishing strike, but the allies surrounded both men.

• Jiang Liu used a spiritual attack and a barrage of blows to leave Gongliang Chu unable to control his chaotic primordial energy.
• Fire-Winged Monkey struck Gongliang Bo down, and Gongsun Haoyue’s heavenly fire and Sea Turtle’s Aqua Forte trapped him.
• Gongliang Chu briefly rallied and tried to fight Jiang Liu, but Jiang Liu shattered his hand bones and knocked him unconscious with his staff.
• Gongliang Bo broke through the fire and Aqua Forte to shield Gongliang Chu from Jiang Liu’s staff strike.
• Gongsun Haoyue, Fire-Winged Monkey, and Sea Turtle arrived and surrounded Gongliang Bo and Gongliang Chu.

Jiang Liu and his companions killed Gongliang Chu and cornered Gongliang Bo, who died in a self-detonation. Afterward, the mysterious space began erasing the damage, leaving Jiang Liu wondering whether it could heal itself.

• Jiang Liu gave his long staff to Fire-Winged Monkey and confronted Gongliang Bo, who asked why Jiang Liu wanted to kill them.
• Jiang Liu, Gongsun Haoyue, Fire-Winged Monkey, and Sea Turtle attacked Gongliang Bo and Gongliang Chu as Gongliang Bo tried to escape.
• Sea Turtle struck Gongliang Bo with poisonous Aqua Forte, and Fire-Winged Monkey smashed him down while Gongliang Chu's corpse was destroyed.
• Jiang Liu attacked Gongliang Bo with Ice Blades and Star Godfall, but Gongliang Bo's unstable aura surged and he detonated himself.
• Jiang Liu and Gongsun Haoyue returned to find the craters and remains vanishing, prompting Jiang Liu to wonder whether the space could heal itself.

Jiang Liu examined Gongliang Bo’s treasure pagoda and gave it to Gongsun Haoyue, who quickly subdued its soul and gained protection against Spirit Power attacks. Unable to find a way out of the realm, Jiang Liu began cultivating in its unusually dense Essence, hoping to advance into the Saint Realm and return to the continent.

• Jiang Liu examined Gongliang Bo’s short blades, then focused on the treasure pagoda and discovered a frightened soul inside it.
• Jiang Liu gave the treasure pagoda to Gongsun Haoyue so she could subdue its soul and defend against Spirit Power attacks.
• Gongsun Haoyue quickly mastered the pagoda’s protection and said she wanted to spar with Flowing Cloud after they returned.
• Jiang Liu found no other abnormalities in the space and suggested that he and Gongsun Haoyue cultivate there.
• Jiang Liu discovered the realm’s Essence could replenish both his Saintly Sky Art Essence and Spirit Power, then began cultivating in hopes of reaching the Saint Realm and finding a way out.

Jiang Liu absorbed the secret realm’s abundant Essence until it enveloped him in a glowing sphere, while Gongsun Haoyue watched and searched for a way out. After more than two hours, Jiang Liu’s aura had grown stronger, though it remained unclear whether he was advancing in rank.

• Jiang Liu absorbed the unusually powerful Essence, which flowed toward his dantians, Divine Sea, and Data Panel as he continued cultivating despite the pressure.
• A mass of Essence formed a glowing sphere around Jiang Liu, hiding him from view.
• Gongsun Haoyue examined Jiang Liu’s stable condition and noticed that cultivation in the secret realm was faster and absorbed more Essence than outside.
• Gongsun Haoyue searched the space for clues or an exit but found nothing.
• After more than two hours, Jiang Liu’s aura grew stronger as the Essence outside his sphere diminished; the Fire-Winged Monkey and Sea Turtle began eating nearby.

Jiang Liu’s spiritual force advanced as he faced a series of opponents inside the mystic realm. After defeating the Deep Sea Dragon, he confronted Jiang Zongquan and a powerful phantom, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Jiang Liu absorbed the threads of vital energy as his aura peaked, and Gongsun Haoyue sensed an intimidating change in his spiritual strength.
• Jiang Liu found himself facing the Deep Sea Dragon, defeated it with his great saber, and appeared above Tian Province’s imperial city.
• Jiang Liu clashed with Jiang Zongquan, whose golden radiance strengthened him enough to send Jiang Liu retreating.
• Jiang Zongquan summoned a crowned phantom that overwhelmed Jiang Liu’s attack and forced him backward.

Jiang Liu discovered that he could not use mental-strength attacks in the advancement space, forcing him to defeat his opponents with elemental energy. After defeating Jiang Zongquan and Dao Fan Shangren, his Divine Sea began to change.

• Jiang Liu tried to attack the phantom with Star Godfall, realized his mental-strength attacks would not work, and was injured by the phantom and Jiang Zongquan.
• Jiang Liu used ice blades and Cloudfall Strike to destroy the phantom and defeat Jiang Zongquan, but expended much of his elemental energy.
• Dao Fan Shangren appeared cloaked in golden light, and Jiang Liu attacked before he could act, countering his techniques and cleaving him in half.
• Jiang Liu felt a strange sensation in his Divine Sea, as though something was about to emerge.

Jiang Liu fought through increasingly powerful opponents as his mental power advanced, defeating Duanmu Haotian and Gongliang Chu despite severe injuries. After his Divine Sea expanded and his strength recovered, Gongliang Bo appeared as his next opponent.

• Jiang Liu noticed his Divine Sea had turned faint red and faced Duanmu Haotian, who proved faster than him.
• Duanmu Haotian summoned the Haotian Phantom, whose Five-Colored Light pursued Jiang Liu until Jiang Liu tricked it into striking Duanmu Haotian instead.
• Gongliang Chu appeared with a deep red glow and drove Jiang Liu into the ground with his staff.
• Jiang Liu’s aura grew stronger as he crossed another barrier, then he countered Gongliang Chu at close range and stabbed him through the heart.
• Jiang Liu’s Divine Sea expanded, his injuries healed, and his primordial qi surged before Gongliang Bo appeared in a pale green glow.

Jiang Liu fought three green-shrouded Beast Emperors and suffered severe damage from the Dragon Beast’s Thunder. Gongsun Haoyue used the Star Cloud Saint Art to restore his essence energy, and Jiang Liu mounted the Dragon Beast as the Phoenix Beast’s flames spread across its body.

• Jiang Liu killed Gongliang Bo, but the Tiger, Dragon, and Phoenix Beast Emperors appeared before him.
• Jiang Liu dodged the trio’s coordinated attacks and used the Phoenix Beast’s flames to injure the Tiger Beast.
• The Dragon Beast’s Thunder struck Jiang Liu and the Tiger Beast, killing the Tiger Beast while draining Jiang Liu’s essence energy.
• Gongsun Haoyue activated the Star Cloud Saint Art and directed gathered essence energy into Jiang Liu, replenishing him.
• Jiang Liu evaded the Phoenix Beast’s flames and the Dragon Beast’s tail, landed on the Dragon Beast’s back, and brought his blade down as the flames began burning up its body.