Chapter Summaries

Fang Qingyu absorbed the Abyssal Life Spirit core and advanced his Martial Cultivation while Tie Zhan guarded him and drove the rival factions from the cavern. After Fang Qingyu awoke, the group left the ruins and headed for Dingyuan Station to continue their search for the Lightning Source Essence.

• Fang Qingyu swallowed the dark purple core, causing the Rock Nest Ant Life Spirits to submit and flee the cavern.
• Tie Zhan ordered the other factions to leave, and the Blazing, Shadow, and Frost Chosen of God and the remaining contenders withdrew.
• Zhang Hong offered Deep Blue Heavy Industries' support, while Tie Zhan and Fang Qingyu's companions guarded Fang Qingyu as he poured the core's energy into his Martial Cultivation.
• Fang Qingyu's Martial Artist experience rose to 751/800, and the Hidden Dragon Program members who arrived later saw the core was gone and retreated.
• Fang Qingyu awoke after more than an hour, thanked Tie Zhan, and left the ruins with Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, Lu Jiuyuan, and Jiang Wei.
• The group emerged onto the dark red plain and set out for Dingyuan Station to pursue the Lightning Source Essence.

Fang Qingyu’s group endured repeated expeditions into the Thunderstorm Cloud Sea while searching for the Lightning Source Essence, and Fang Qingyu perfected his Blood Qi Method during a month of training. Elder Hong summoned him to Dragon Abyss Martial Hall and asked what he would do if all the gods descended.

• Fang Qingyu and his companions reached Dingyuan Station, prepared for a long stay in the Thunderstorm Cloud Sea, and watched desperate explorers set out for newly appeared ruins.
• The five entered the Thunderstorm Cloud Sea’s core repeatedly, enduring lightning, attacks, and a dangerous hurricane, but found no Lightning Source Essence.
• After a month, Fang Qingyu perfected the Third Revolution of his Crimson Bright Nine Revolutions Tribulation Jade Scripture and reviewed his other training progress.
• Pavilion Master Yan told Fang Qingyu that Elder Hong wanted to see him, so Fang Qingyu went to Dragon Abyss Martial Hall and found Hong Qitian fishing.
• Hong Qitian asked Fang Qingyu what he would do if all the gods descended, and Fang Qingyu answered that he would chop them to death.

Fang Qingyu learned that God Reincarnation Corrosion Eclipse had destabilized the Abyss and received a mission from Hong Qitian to hunt him with a Shadow-Fixing Stone. After seeing the booklet’s image of Nether Corrosion, Fang Qingyu accepted the job but demanded higher pay.

• Hong Qitian told Fang Qingyu that the Abyss’s disorder could only be addressed by targeting the Authorities carried by gods, then asked what Fang Qingyu had experienced inside the Abyss.
• Hong Qitian revealed that Corrosion Eclipse had disrupted the Abyss’s spatial rules, preventing powers above the third order from entering, and explained that he wanted Fang Qingyu to hunt him after reaching the second order.
• Hong Qitian gave Fang Qingyu an ancient booklet and a Shadow-Fixing Stone that could briefly stop Corrosion Eclipse from escaping if Fang Qingyu touched him.
• Hong Qitian described the Abyss as a potential defensive line against the Fate Ghosts, but Fang Qingyu insisted the mission was merely a high-difficulty cleanup job.
• Fang Qingyu opened the booklet, saw the image labeled Nether Corrosion, and accepted Hong Qitian’s mission while demanding more pay.

After Fang Qingyu learned that the gods’ eventual descent was inevitable, he perfected Incinerate Calamity Body and received an urgent call to Starfire Fortress, where a Lightning Source Essence Tide was forming. As he and his companions raced there, martial artists whom he had saved began gathering to repay their debt by supporting him.

• Fang Qingyu asked Hong Qitian for more protection before leaving the riverbank with the Animal Hide booklet and Shadow-Fixing Stone.
• Jiang Wei explained that the real world, the Abyss, and the Filthy Dimension were merging, and that the Jianmu Divine Ladder would eventually reconnect the gods’ realm to reality; she promised to help Fang Qingyu draw You Shi out once he reached Grandmaster.
• Fang Qingyu perfected Incinerate Calamity Body, raising his Gold Body from 40 to 46.
• Wei Banmeng told Fang Qingyu that a large-scale Lightning Source Essence Tide was forming near Starfire Fortress, so Fang Qingyu, Jiang Wei, Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan hurried into the Abyss.
• Deng Jia and other martial artists who Fang Qingyu had saved set out for Starfire Fortress to repay their debt and support him, prompting more people to join them.

Fang Qingyu arrived at Starfire Fortress and accepted Deep Blue Heavy Industries’ offer of intelligence and support in the contest for the Lightning Source Essence. After learning that Wen Tianzong was protected by the Wen Clan’s influence and an agreement limiting the Federation’s intervention, Fang Qingyu decided to face him himself.

• Wei Banmeng warned Fang Qingyu that powerful local forces, including the Rustfire Brotherhood and Blackstone Council, would contest the Lightning Source Essence at Starfire Fortress.
• Zhang Hong welcomed Fang Qingyu and his companions at the fortress and led them through its sharply divided underground city to meet Donald, Deep Blue Heavy Industries’ local leader.
• Donald offered intelligence and support, then gave Fang Qingyu a dossier identifying Wen Tianzong as the obstacle Deep Blue Heavy Industries could not confront directly.
• Donald explained that the Wen Clan controlled independent Abyss passages and had a Third Order foundation, while an agreement limited the Federation’s intervention in the Abyss.
• Fang Qingyu understood that his mission could challenge the existing balance, but accepted the prospect of fighting Wen Tianzong and said to leave him to it.

Fang Qingyu and Deep Blue Heavy Industries raced to the Lightning Source Essence, where rival factions gathered as Wen Tianzong guarded the forming core. Fang Qingyu withstood Wen Tianzong’s opening lightning strike and charged toward the source, ending the chapter as his Thunder Blaze World Burner Slash met the Thunder Department True God’s Dharma Image.

• Donald ordered Deep Blue Heavy Industries to support Fang Qingyu, and the group drove toward the Lightning Source Essence.
• Fang Qingyu and his allies arrived at the Lightning Purgatory, where Madman Jin Wei, Cang Ning, Wen Tianzong, and other factions had gathered.
• Wei Banmeng explained that the Lightning Source Essence could greatly advance the Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity and give it thunder authority.
• As the source core began to form, Donald sent Deep Blue forces to hold off the rival factions while Fang Qingyu charged toward it.
• Wen Tianzong struck Fang Qingyu with a lightning pillar, but Fang Qingyu endured the attack and continued forward.
• Wen Tianzong summoned Wen Zhong’s Dharma Image, and Fang Qingyu met its lightning palm with Thunder Blaze World Burner Slash.

Fang Qingyu unleashed Bloodrage to destroy Wen Tianzong’s Thunder Ancestor Dharma Image and force him to flee, then began absorbing the Lightning Source Essence into Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity. As the blade’s advancement started, over a hundred greedy onlookers attacked Fang Qingyu from all sides, leaving him and the Source Core in immediate danger.

• Fang Qingyu activated Bloodrage and used the Bloodrage form of Thunder Blaze World Burner Slash to split Wen Tianzong’s giant palm and destroy the Thunder Ancestor Dharma Image.
• Wen Tianzong suffered backlash from the shattered image and escaped with Divine Movement: Lightning Escape.
• Fang Qingyu reached the Lightning Source Quality Core and stabbed Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity into it, beginning the blade’s advancement as Wei Banmeng and Deep Blue Heavy Industries moved to protect him.
• More than a hundred onlookers and hidden cultists charged Fang Qingyu, hoping to interrupt his absorption of the Source Core.
• Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, Lu Jiuyuan, Zhang Hong, and Deep Blue’s guards tried to stop the attackers, but their defenses were overwhelmed as a barrage of attacks descended on Fang Qingyu.

Jiang Wei stopped the desperados from reaching Fang Qingyu, while Hidden Dragon elites joined the fight to repay him for saving their lives. Fang Qingyu completed the Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity’s advancement into Jingzhe and took command of the battlefield.

• Jiang Wei unleashed the Sea of Embers, Return to Ruin, incinerating the attackers closest to Fang Qingyu and driving back the survivors.
• Deng Jia, Shi Yuan, the young man Fang Qingyu had saved, and other Hidden Dragon members stepped between Fang Qingyu and the desperados, then attacked the crowd.
• Fang Qingyu turned briefly to acknowledge the fighters before the Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity absorbed the Lightning Source Essence Core and began its final transformation.
• The Dragon Sparrow phantom met the white lightning, and the completed saber emerged as Dragon Sparrow Slayer of Calamity—Jingzhe.
• Fang Qingyu grasped Jingzhe as the lightning formed armor around him, then told everyone to leave the fight to him.

Fang Qingyu used Jingzhe’s new Thunder Prison ability to annihilate the attackers at the basin, then discovered the weapon’s Bone-Gnawing Thunder trait and returned to reality with his companions. There, they learned Jing Wuya had become the first of this year’s Latent Dragons to reach the Martial Path Grandmaster realm, setting up a coming contest for three Special Squad positions.

• Fang Qingyu commanded the thunderstorm to strike down everyone who had attacked the Source Core or its guardians, while the Hidden Dragon Program members who had defended him departed.
• Donald warned Fang Qingyu that the Wen Family and its Third Order Martial Saint patriarch could retaliate, and Fang Qingyu tested Jingzhe’s Bone-Gnawing Thunder, which pierced and corroded a charred rock.
• Fang Qingyu and his companions recovered at Deep Blue Heavy Industries’ stronghold, then chose to leave the Abyss and return to reality.
• Fang Qingyu’s group heard that Jing Wuya had broken through to the Martial Path Grandmaster realm after meditating at Nirvana Wind Valley.
• Fang Qingyu resolved to keep advancing, knowing the three Special Squad positions would be decided in a battle a little over a month later.

Fang Qingyu perfected the Bamboo Shadow Body Tempering Manual and fused four Great Sun Tier hard-body techniques into the Nine Tribulation Body, pushing his Golden Body to its 99-point limit. After learning that Ghost Festival would bring widespread Life Spirit outbreaks, he heard Jiang Wei warn that the Life Spirits were not the real source of trouble.

• Fang Qingyu used rare materials and skill points to perfect the Bamboo Shadow Body Tempering Manual, raising his Golden Body to 51.
• Fang Qingyu fused the four perfected hard-body techniques and comprehended the Nine Tribulation Body, reaching the 99-point Golden Body limit.
• Fang Qingyu joined Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, Lu Jiuyuan, and Jiang Wei at the Training Ground as they discussed the approaching Ghost Festival.
• Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan explained that weakened Spatial Barriers would let Life Spirits pour into the real world, forcing supernatural forces to respond across the Federation.
• Jiang Wei told Fang Qingyu and the others that the most troublesome thing had never been the Life Spirits.

As the Ghost Festival approached, Jiang Wei warned that deities might force their way into the world, causing a divine disaster. Fang Qingyu perfected and fused his martial arts and movement techniques, then declared that he was ready to enter the Abyss again.

• Jiang Wei claimed she had heard that weak Spatial Barriers during the Ghost Festival might allow True Divine Bodies to cross dimensions, and Wei Banmeng warned that such an arrival would be a divine disaster.
• Fang Qingyu practiced his perfected fists and fused Nine Hells Mountain Shatterer Fist with Baji Quan to create the Core Skill Nine Hells Breakthrough.
• Fang Qingyu spent sixteen skill points to perfect Startling Swan Shadow Steps, then fused it with Thunder Swift Cloud Steps to create Startling Thunder Shadow Evasion.
• Fang Qingyu confirmed that his martial arts, physical cultivation, Blood Qi, and contemplation methods had reached perfection and unified into one.
• Jiang Wei told Fang Qingyu that he had finally grown up, and Fang Qingyu announced that they would prepare to enter the Abyss again.

Fang Qingyu followed Yan Shouzheng’s advice and entered the Abyss with his powers sealed, facing the Thunderstorm Cloud Sea as a mortal. After enduring repeated lightning strikes and sensing the Natural Rhythm, he broke through to become a Martial Path Grandmaster.

• Yan Shouzheng explained that reaching the Martial Path Grandmaster realm required abandoning martial defenses and facing the Power of Nature with a mortal body.
• Fang Qingyu entered the Abyss with Jiang Wei and deliberately sealed his qi and blood, force, and Golden Body before heading toward the Thunderstorm Cloud Sea.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei trekked through the storm for nearly eight hours until they reached the basin at the cloud sea’s core.
• Fang Qingyu charged into the lightning and lava, endured devastating strikes, and sensed a trace of the Natural Rhythm as he repeatedly forced himself to rise.
• As countless lightning pillars engulfed him, Fang Qingyu’s will touched the laws of nature, and he broke through to become a Martial Path Grandmaster.

Fang Qingyu used the Crimson Python Scales to break through two cultivation realms and undergo a profound transformation into a Dragon Fist Grandmaster. After emerging reborn from dragon flame, he faced Jiang Wei and said he felt very good.

• Fang Qingyu consumed the Crimson Python Scales, unleashing Dragon Might that killed nearby Life Wraiths and forced the lightning to avoid him.
• Fang Qingyu advanced the Great Void Nine Revolutions Primordial Unity to the Heavenly Pillar Realm and the Crimson Bright Nine Revolutions Tribulation Jade Scripture to the Ember Viscera stage.
• The scales' dragon blood overwhelmed Fang Qingyu's new powers, transformed his body, and reshaped his Ember Cores into five dragon pearls.
• Golden dragon flame reforged Fang Qingyu's body, and the chart announced his advancement to Dragon Fist Grandmaster.
• Jiang Wei asked Fang Qingyu how he felt, and he replied, "Very good."

After becoming a three-star Dragon Fist Grandmaster, Fang Qingyu tested his new Domain, Dragon’s True Intent, Dragon Transformation, and Ultimate Skill in the Molten Lava Lightning Sea. He and Jiang Wei headed toward the nearest base, while Fang Qingyu anticipated advancing his talent next.

• Fang Qingyu manifested a hundred-meter Grandmaster Domain that amplified his True Intent and carried Dragon Might capable of intimidating foes at the level of their souls.
• Fang Qingyu inspected his new Dragon Fist Grandmaster skills and used Dragon’s True Intent to amplify his martial techniques, blood qi, movement, and weapon.
• Fang Qingyu activated Dragon Transformation, covering himself in dark-gold scales and growing dragon horns as his power surged.
• Fang Qingyu unleashed Abyssal Mountain Dragon Edict, blasting a huge depression into the Molten Lava Lightning Sea and tearing open the storm clouds above.
• After returning to human form, Fang Qingyu noticed Jiang Wei was concerned about his destroyed clothes, then took her hand and led her toward the nearest base.

Fang Qingyu entered Ash Outpost, where his fame drew immediate attention, and chose Dragon Soul Resonance as his new Three-Star Talent. Jiang Wei warned that his reputation would keep Nether Erosion away and offered a way to lure him out, on the condition that Fang Qingyu stop being Fang Qingyu.

• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei reached Ash Outpost, and the guards recognized him and opened the gates.
• Fang Qingyu entered the outpost, bought a black Combat Suit, and rented a suite at an inn.
• Fang Qingyu advanced Martial Repository Spirit Pivot and chose Dragon Soul Resonance from the five Three-Star Talent options.
• Fang Qingyu gained new insights into his martial techniques as Dragon Soul Resonance took effect.
• Jiang Wei pointed out that Nether Erosion would avoid the famous Fang Qingyu and offered to lure him out if Fang Qingyu agreed not to be Fang Qingyu.

Fang Qingyu returned to the Blessed Land as a Martial Path Grandmaster, then visited Hong Qitian to request a new identity for hunting Nether Erosion. Hong Qitian agreed to arrange it, but expelled Fang Qingyu when he tried to ask for another Divine Weaponry.

• Wei Banmeng, Chu Kuanglan, and Lu Jiuyuan were astonished when Fang Qingyu revealed he had reached the Martial Path Grandmaster realm, and he advised them to bring an extra set of clothes for their breakthroughs.
• Fang Qingyu left Jiang Wei at Bamboo Creek Courtyard and traveled to Dragon Abyss Martial Hall to meet Hong Qitian.
• Fang Qingyu realized Hong Qitian's strength remained beyond what he could perceive and explained that he needed a new identity to keep Nether Erosion from avoiding him.
• Hong Qitian agreed to send someone to help Fang Qingyu obtain an identity, while warning him that Nether Erosion's spatial abilities made him dangerous.
• Fang Qingyu insisted he could handle the mission, then tried to ask Hong Qitian for Divine Weaponry and was teleported out of the martial hall.
• Fang Qingyu found himself in the busy street outside and concluded that Hong Qitian had agreed to provide the weapon after he completed the mission.

Fang Qingyu received a new appearance and a concealed aura so he could hunt Nether Erosion in the Abyss without revealing his strength. After six days of searching and using himself as bait, he reached the Taibai Wasteland’s Bone Rock Zone and heard someone shout his name during a battle.

• Fang Qingyu saw that the visitor Elder Hong had sent was a Third-Order Divine Cultist who could change his appearance and disguise his aura as that of a newly entered Profound Realm martial artist.
• The middle-aged man transformed Fang Qingyu’s body and placed a spell over his strength, warning that fighting or using martial arts would break the disguise.
• Jiang Wei warned Fang Qingyu that Nether Erosion’s ambush would begin with a deadly first strike, and Fang Qingyu agreed to be cautious.
• Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei spent six days searching the Abyss for Nether Erosion, but the bait attracted Life Ghosts instead, which Jiang Wei destroyed.
• Fang Qingyu reached the Bone Rock Zone in the Taibai Wasteland and heard a battle break out, followed by a man shouting, “If Fang Qingyu is your brother, then I'm your father!”

Fang Qingyu and Jiang Wei investigated a fight in the Abyss and discovered that the wounded man claiming to be Lin Kang was actually Abyssal Rot Reincarnation, who had staged the encounter to ambush Fang Qingyu. Fang Qingyu thwarted the attack and trapped the fleeing thugs, then confronted Abyssal Rot as he transformed back into his true form.

• Fang Qingyu followed the sounds of combat and found a wounded man posing as Lin Kang, surrounded by thugs seeking a Source Quality Fragment.
• Fang Qingyu appeared beside the impostor and claimed he would handle the attackers, while the impostor prepared a concealed spatial strike against his back.
• A small hand used a Shadow-Fixing Stone to briefly restrain the impostor, allowing Fang Qingyu's dragon scales to block the attack and his counterpunch to break the impostor's arm.
• Fang Qingyu sealed the thugs' escape with a wall of fire as the impostor recovered and shed Lin Kang's appearance, revealing the title Abyssal Rot Reincarnation.
• Fang Qingyu summoned his dragon horns and unleashed his Dragon Might, then asked Abyssal Rot how he wanted to die.

Fang Qingyu fought You Shi, whose spatial divine domain overwhelmed him with attacks, until Jiang Wei revealed the power of her Drought Ba reincarnation and shattered the domain. Fang Qingyu pursued You Shi into the Bone Eater Storm and killed him with a devastating saber strike; afterward, he learned Jiang Wei had advanced to the second rank.

• You Shi ambushed Fang Qingyu with spatial attacks, but Fang Qingyu blocked and countered him, breaking one of You Shi's Spatial Vortices.
• You Shi unleashed Boundless Abyssal Rot, weakening Fang Qingyu and repeatedly wounding him with spatial strikes.
• Jiang Wei erupted with Drought Ba's Nirvana power, destroyed You Shi's divine domain, and pierced his chest with a dark red beam.
• You Shi fled toward the Bone Eater Storm, and Fang Qingyu pursued him and struck the storm with Abyssal Mountain Dragon Edict.
• The storm's destruction annihilated You Shi, and the grimoire reported that Fang Qingyu had obtained part of the Space Origin and could advance his job.
• Fang Qingyu asked Jiang Wei whether she had reached the second rank, and she calmly said it was nothing strange.

After killing Abyssal Rot, Fang Qingyu returned from the Abyss and sought out Hong Qitian, who confirmed the kill and gave him two mysterious dark-gold threads. The threads fused into Fang Qingyu’s arms and manifested as twin dragons, revealing themselves as the Divine Weaponry Shunshi Dragon Craft.

• Jiang Wei told Fang Qingyu that the criminals who had witnessed his transformation were dead, then explained that Abyssal Rot had seemed easy to kill because Fang Qingyu had become exceptionally strong.
• Fang Qingyu recovered at Ash Outpost, returned from the Abyss with Jiang Wei, and encountered Wei Banmeng, who had broken through and urged him to rest before the quota competition.
• Fang Qingyu went to Chang'an Ancient Street and endured Hong Qitian’s distance-bending test before reaching him at Dragon Abyss Martial Hall.
• Hong Qitian confirmed that Fang Qingyu had killed You Shi and gave him a dusty box containing two dark-gold metal threads.
• Hong Qitian pressed the threads to Fang Qingyu’s wrists, and they fused into his arms before forming two miniature dragons identified as Shunshi Dragon Craft.