Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qingyuan watched the Five Elements Holy Sect launch its assault on the Blood Demon Sect and glimpsed a mysterious imprint in a Myriad Transformations Realm attack. After the Blood River Formation broke, he joined the cultivators rushing into the sect.

• Wu Tianyang dismissed Zhang Qingyuan as a weakly backed rogue cultivator and vowed to kill him after the attack on the Blood Demon Sect.
• The Five Elements Holy Sect began its assault, using two Myriad Transformations Realm Great Powers to challenge the Blood Demon Sect’s formation.
• A Myriad Transformations Realm Great Power attacked, and Zhang Qingyuan saw a faint imprint that seemed to command heaven and earth.
• The Blood River Formation collapsed, exposing the Blood Demon Sect’s terrified cultivators through openings in the blood mist.
• The gathered cultivators surged into the Blood Demon Sect, and Zhang Qingyuan charged in with them.

Duke Nanshan, Zhang Qingyuan, and two other cultivators entered the Blood Demon Sect’s cave heaven and searched for a way to find its hidden treasures. After Duke Nanshan destroyed a group of blood-armored puppets, he uncovered a buried Blood Sea and a terrifying presence stirring beneath it.

• Duke Nanshan, Zhang Qingyuan, and the two cultivators emerged inside the Blood Demon Sect’s vast cave heaven and realized it contained both sect cultivators and millions of mortals.
• Zhang Qingyuan suggested searching populated areas for powerful cultivators who could be interrogated, while secretly seeking a chance to leave the group and act alone.
• More than a dozen blood-armored figures charged the intruders, and Duke Nanshan swept them aside, identifying them as puppets.
• Duke Nanshan sensed a hidden threat beneath the city, stamped the ground, and exposed a vast underground Blood Sea.
• A black afterimage burst from the Blood Sea as a terrifying presence began to awaken below.

Zhang Qingyuan was abandoned by Duke Nanshan when a powerful Magic Beast emerged from beneath the Blood Demon Sect’s city. Using the control method he learned from Left Heavenly Venerate’s memories, Zhang Qingyuan restrained and killed the beast with one sword strike.

• Duke Nanshan and his attendants fled after the Magic Beast drove him back, leaving Zhang Qingyuan to face it alone.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized the group had fled toward a forbidden land and, beyond it, the Blood Demon Sect’s gathered stronghold.
• The enraged Magic Beast attacked Zhang Qingyuan with its eight tentacles.
• Zhang Qingyuan used the Law of Blood and Left Heavenly Venerate’s control method to seal the Magic Beast’s power.
• Zhang Qingyuan struck the restrained Magic Beast with a golden sword and cleaved it in two.

Zhang Qingyuan assessed his strength after killing a Half-step Myriad Transformations beast and decided to seek out the Blood Demon Sect’s forbidden treasury, where a stolen supreme treasure and secrets of the Myriad Transformations Realm were said to be hidden. He began examining the beast’s corpse for clues that might help him advance further.

• Zhang Qingyuan split the Half-step Myriad Transformations beast in two with a single sword strike.
• Zhang Qingyuan judged that his strength had surpassed the Half-step Myriad Transformations Realm, though he still fell short of a true Myriad Transformations Titan.
• Zhang Qingyuan recalled Left Heavenly Venerate’s memories of forbidden areas containing the Blood Demon Sect’s treasures and the remains of its Myriad Transformations Old Ancestors.
• Zhang Qingyuan learned that the Blood Demon Sect had seized a supreme treasure from the Five Elements Holy Sect, which was now likely to be sought by the sect’s forces.
• Zhang Qingyuan examined the beast’s corpse with his Spiritual Sense, hoping to uncover the secrets of Myriad Transformations and gain another step in power.

After learning how Dao arts and the body might fuse to create a path toward the Half-step Myriad Transformations Realm, Zhang Qingyuan pursued the Blood Demon Sect’s cultivation resources. He found the refined essence of a powerful Magic Beast and planned to use it to accelerate his breakthrough.

• Zhang Qingyuan examined the Half-step Myriad Transformations Magic Beast’s corpse and deduced that fusing Magic Power with the body could lead toward Myriad Transformations.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to raise his cultivation before joining the battle over the mysterious prize, and stored the Magic Beast’s corpse in his Storage Ring.
• Zhang Qingyuan followed the escaped beast’s underground passage to a Blood Demon Sect facility where cultivators had imprisoned it and refined its blood into Supreme Blood Crystals.
• Zhang Qingyuan killed the attacking supervisors with a shockwave, collected the nearby Supreme Blood Crystals, and continued toward the strongest source of their energy.
• Zhang Qingyuan found a pool of golden-red Blood Sea essence and realized it could speed his transformation toward the Half-step Myriad Transformations Realm.

Zhang Qingyuan drained the golden blood pool and broke through to the Half-step Myriad Transformations realm. His aura drew attention across the Blood Demon Sect's grotto-heaven, where the escalating battle grew even fiercer.

• Zhang Qingyuan absorbed the golden blood pool's energy as it tempered his body and strengthened his aura.
• Cultivators nearby sensed Zhang Qingyuan's overwhelming presence and kept their distance, including Cave True Realm Cultivators who had entered the area.
• Zhang Qingyuan's cells completed their transformation, and their power shattered his bottleneck.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached the Half-step Myriad Transformations realm and released an aura that spread throughout the grotto-heaven.
• A white-haired Great Power of the Five Elements Holy Sect noticed Zhang Qingyuan's breakthrough, and another figure suggested recruiting him into the Sect.
• Cultivators across the grotto-heaven became more excited about the opportunities there, and the fighting intensified.

As the Five Elements Holy Sect and Yunzhou cultivators attacked the Blood Demon Sect’s Sect Gate, two Myriad Transformations Realm experts discussed using Zhang Qingyuan as a tool or turning him into a puppet. Zhang Qingyuan completed his breakthrough to the Half-step Myriad Transformations Realm and prepared to head for the Sect Gate, but stopped after noticing something.

• Five Elements Holy Sect and Yunzhou cultivators battered the Blood Demon Sect’s Sect Protection Great Formation while Myriad Transformations Realm experts watched from above.
• Two Five Elements Holy Sect experts praised Zhang Qingyuan’s new strength and threatened to make him their puppet if he refused to submit.
• Zhang Qingyuan concealed his aura after breaking through and reflected on how his body-refining cultivation had helped him reach the Half-step Myriad Transformations Realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to head for the Blood Demon Sect’s Sect Gate, then halted when he noticed something.

Zhang Qingyuan hurried toward the Blood Demon Sect’s Sect Gate, ignoring a distant battle involving Duke Nanshan as he reflected on the laws of survival and the Heavenly Dao. His insight deepened during the journey, and his newly attained Myriad Transformations Realm strength rapidly advanced.

• Zhang Qingyuan sensed Duke Nanshan fighting a Blood Demon Sect team but chose to prioritize reaching the sect’s Forbidden Land.
• Zhang Qingyuan traveled through the war-torn region, witnessing Yunzhou cultivators plunder and kill while Blood Demon Sect cultivators resisted.
• Zhang Qingyuan reflected that conflict and the strong devouring the weak were part of the world’s natural order, and that saving some people could not end all suffering.
• Zhang Qingyuan’s understanding of the Heavenly Dao deepened, making his Dao Power flow more smoothly and accelerating his strength.
• Zhang Qingyuan continued through the void as the emotions and suffering he perceived gathered within his soul, making his aura increasingly profound and mysterious.

Zhang Qingyuan watched the Five Elements Holy Sect besiege the Blood Demon Sect and searched for a way to infiltrate the battle without attracting the two Myriad Transformations experts’ attention. He disguised himself and joined the Yunzhou cultivators, but the Five Elements Holy Sect’s white-haired ancestor sensed that someone had slipped in and planned to deal with the intruder when he appeared.

• Yunzhou and Five Elements Holy Sect cultivators continued attacking the Blood Demon Sect’s battered Sect Gate after more than a month of fighting.
• Zhang Qingyuan observed the battle from a hill, remaining unseen by passing cultivators as he considered how to enter the fray.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to blend into the Yunzhou forces because the two Myriad Transformations experts made acting openly too dangerous.
• Zhang Qingyuan changed his face and clothes, then merged into the crowd of Yunzhou cultivators.
• The Five Elements Holy Sect’s white-haired ancestor noticed that someone had evaded his tracking, and another elder suggested waiting until the intruder revealed himself.

Zhang Qingyuan disguised himself and infiltrated the Blood Demon Sect’s battlefield, waiting for its grand formation to collapse so he could enter the Forbidden Land. As a Blood Demon Sect cultivator and a hidden half-step Cave True Realm attacker targeted him, the formation finally fell, drawing everyone’s attention.

• Zhang Qingyuan avoided detection by the immense Spiritual Sense Auras overhead and blended into the battlefield in disguise.
• A Blood Demon Sect cultivator attacked Zhang Qingyuan, who concealed his true strength and fought while searching for the route to the Forbidden Land.
• The Blood Demon Sect cultivator enlisted a hidden half-step Cave True Realm ally to help ambush Zhang Qingyuan.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed the concealed attacker behind him, even as the Blood Demon Sect cultivator unleashed a powerful blood-colored dragon fist.
• The Blood Demon Sect’s Sect Grand Formation collapsed, shaking the battlefield and drawing everyone’s attention.

After the Blood Demon Sect's protective formation was broken, Zhang Qingyuan defeated two attackers and absorbed their memories to learn that the sect's arrangements had changed. He disguised himself with the Blood Law, infiltrated the sect, and reached the edge of its forbidden land.

• Zhang Qingyuan evaded a Blood Colored Flood Dragon and killed the Half-step Cave True Realm cultivator who ambushed him, then crushed the cultivator he had been fighting.
• Zhang Qingyuan devoured both cultivators' Divine Souls and used the Great Evolution Technique to examine their memories and learn of changes to the Blood Demon Sect's arrangements.
• Zhang Qingyuan killed a squad of Blood Demon Sect Cultivators but decided to avoid attracting attention as he moved deeper into the sect.
• Zhang Qingyuan imitated the Great Blood Transformation Technique and used the Blood Law to disguise himself as a Blood Demon Sect authority, causing sect members to bow and make way for him.
• Zhang Qingyuan passed into the depths of the Blood Demon Sect and reached the edge of the Sect's Forbidden Land.

Zhang Qingyuan infiltrated the Forbidden Land while the Five Elements Holy Sect and Yunzhou forces battled the Blood Demon Sect. The Blood Demon Sect unleashed a devastating blood formation against the invaders, and the Five Elements Holy Sect Old Ancestor prepared to counter it.

• Zhang Qingyuan used Left Heavenly Venerate’s memories and the Blood Law to pass into the Forbidden Land while the battle outside raged.
• The Five Elements Holy Sect Old Ancestor ordered Yan He to lead Wu Tianyang, Yuan Feng, Shao An, and their followers to seal off a location.
• A powerful voice condemned Yuan Zhen as the Blood Demon Sect’s gate erupted with blood-colored light, drawing nearby cultivators’ blood into its skull mountain.
• The blood light killed many cultivators and forced survivors, including Cave True Realm experts, to flee as the skull mountain attacked the Five Elements Holy Sect’s Myriad Transformations experts.
• The Five Elements Holy Sect Old Ancestor dismissed the attack as the Blood River Old Monster’s final struggle and struck back with a vast palm.

The Five Elements Holy Sect’s Old Ancestors battled the Blood River Old Ancestor while Yan He and Wu Tianyang were ordered to secure the Blood Demon Sect’s Forbidden Land. The Blood River Old Ancestor discovered that a third Five Elements Holy Sect cultivator had reached the Myriad Transformations Realm, and all three attacked to prevent his escape.

• The battle between Myriad Transformations cultivators shattered space and forced nearby cultivators to flee.
• A Five Elements Holy Sect Old Ancestor ordered Yan He, Wu Tianyang, and the others to seal off the Forbidden Land.
• Yan He found footprints leading into the Forbidden Land and sent Wu Tianyang inside to investigate while the others guarded its perimeter.
• Two Five Elements Holy Sect Old Ancestors attacked the Blood River Old Ancestor, who expected to escape if he could not win.
• A third Five Elements Holy Sect cultivator appeared behind the Blood River Old Ancestor and revealed that he had reached the Myriad Transformations Realm.
• The three Five Elements Holy Sect cultivators attacked together and sealed off the Blood River Old Ancestor’s escape routes.

Zhang Qingyuan pursued a trail of footprints into the Blood Demon Sect’s forbidden land, where he discovered a vast black mountain amid lethal Yin Spring winds. As he fought his way toward the mountain peak, he detected someone concealed nearby and forced them out of hiding with a punch.

• Zhang Qingyuan found chaotic footprints leading into the forbidden land’s dark mountains and worried that Blood Demon Sect cultivators had fled there.
• He crossed the deadly Yin Spring winds, which withered several skeletons, and reached a strange realm containing a colossal black mountain.
• Zhang Qingyuan spotted buildings at the mountain peak and sensed that the secluded residence of a Blood Demon Sect Myriad Transformations Great Power lay there.
• He pushed through the ghostlike winds using his Dao Essence and advanced toward the peak despite the suppression of his Spiritual Sense and the sealed space.
• Near a sunken valley halfway up the mountain, Zhang Qingyuan struck the space beside him with a Five Elements punch and forced a phantom figure out of hiding.

Zhang Qingyuan killed a strange creature and discovered its Yin Qi Crystal could slightly improve his Half-step Myriad Transformations cultivation. He chose to prioritize searching for a breakthrough method, but a horde of the creatures surrounded him after their leader attacked.

• Zhang Qingyuan killed a black shadow creature and obtained a thumb-sized Yin Qi Crystal.
• Zhang Qingyuan found that the crystal’s pure yin energy clashed with his blood, consuming the crystal while slightly tempering and improving his body.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided not to hunt for more crystals and instead continued to prioritize finding a method to advance into the Myriad Transformations Realm.
• A dim attack split the ground where Zhang Qingyuan had stood, and he dodged it with a sudden burst of speed.
• Black shadow monsters descended and surrounded Zhang Qingyuan, while their heavily built leader wielded a golden trident.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized the creature’s earlier shriek had summoned its tribe from the Nether Yin winds of Black Mountain.

Zhang Qingyuan fought off a swarm of Black Shadows and killed their powerful leader, whose golden fish fork threatened him with devastating force. After finding an unusually pure Yin Qi Crystal on its remains, he sensed someone watching and demanded that they appear.

• Zhang Qingyuan used his five-colored Sword Wheel to destroy the Black Shadows surrounding him, leaving only their leader alive.
• The Black Shadow leader attacked with its golden fish fork, but Zhang Qingyuan evaded the strike and countered with the Metal Element Law.
• Zhang Qingyuan struck the leader through the head with a finger infused with the Five Elements Dao Law, killing it.
• Zhang Qingyuan picked up the leader's fist-sized Yin Qi Crystal and wondered what secrets the place held.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed a watcher in the void and called on them to appear.

Zhang Qingyuan defeated a Nether ghost general and met Xiao Jingyun, a mysterious cultivator with ties to Central Continent. After Xiao departed, Zhang Qingyuan continued across Black Mountain, pondering the Nether Yin Ghosts and Central Continent while discovering that the Yin Qi Crystal greatly strengthened him.

• Xiao Jingyun appeared after Zhang Qingyuan defeated the Nether ghost general, praised his strength, and identified the creatures as Nether Yin Ghosts of the Yin Ghost Clan.
• Xiao Jingyun introduced himself, exchanged names with Zhang Qingyuan, and vanished into the void; Zhang Qingyuan collected the battlefield spoils and left.
• Several Black Shadows arrived at the battle site, investigated the wreckage, conferred, and dispersed as black smoke.
• While walking along Black Mountain, Zhang Qingyuan considered the Nine Absolute Immortal Venerable, the Nether Yin Ghosts, and his plan to visit Central Continent someday.
• Zhang Qingyuan absorbed the remaining Yin Qi Crystal and found that it had strengthened his body and Magic Power, leaving him tempted to hunt more Nether Yin Ghosts.

Zhang Qingyuan abandoned the hunt for Yin ghosts and hurried toward the mountain peak to claim the opportunity before the Myriad Transformations Realm Titans arrived. Outside the Blood Demon Sect, the Five Elements Holy Sect’s three Titans cornered Blood River Old Ancestor, but his ominous words and surging blood light hinted at a hidden scheme.

• Zhang Qingyuan decided that the opportunity on the mountain mattered more than the Yin Qi Crystals and rushed toward the peak.
• Four powerful auras arrived at the shattered Blood Demon Sect Gate, where the three Five Elements Holy Sect Titans had Blood River Old Ancestor cornered.
• Old Ancestor Yuan Zhen reflected on his long history with Blood River Old Ancestor and believed the Blood Demon Sect would fall with him.
• Blood River Old Ancestor questioned why he had stayed to fight and why his sect had declined, as ominous red light surged from the crater.
• The three Five Elements Holy Sect Titans sensed danger and changed their expressions.

Zhang Qingyuan reached the black palace on Black Mountain and found that others had already entered and looted it. He captured a group of Blood Demon Sect cultivators to learn what had happened, while Wu Tianyang pursued him in search of revenge.

• Wu Tianyang recognized Zhang Qingyuan and left his group to pursue him, confident he could kill him quickly.
• The remaining Five Elements Holy Sect cultivators decided to contact Elder Yan and wait for reinforcements.
• Zhang Qingyuan arrived at the black palace and found its open gate and footprints suggested others had entered first.
• Inside the palace, Zhang Qingyuan discovered that his Spiritual Sense was suppressed and that much of the furniture and other items had been removed.
• Zhang Qingyuan found Blood Demon Sect cultivators looting a side hall, seized them with a Wind-and-Cloud Hand, and demanded to know what had happened.

Zhang Qingyuan killed Blood Demon Sect looters and raced toward the Myriad Transformations Old Ancestor’s library, determined to obtain the method of advancing to the Myriad Transformations Realm. He reached the library after leaving a trail of destruction, aware that his approach had drawn attention.

• Zhang Qingyuan searched the minds of Blood Demon Sect disciples, learned that Right Heavenly Venerate and a Half-step Myriad Transformations disciple had targeted the library and treasury, and killed the looters he found.
• Zhang Qingyuan took the disciples’ Storage Bags and set off for the library, hoping to catch the two Half-step Myriad Transformations cultivators.
• Zhang Qingyuan charged through buildings and killed or injured Blood Demon Sect cultivators who crossed his path.
• The surviving Blood Demon Sect cultivators feared that outside experts had entered and scattered to search for resources.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached the library and regretted that the aerial restriction had slowed him and made his approach conspicuous.