Chapter Summaries

Duke Nanshan agreed to help the black-clad men ambush Zhang Qingyuan in exchange for a Heaven-Melting Pill, hoping to obtain Zhang San Chen’s inheritance and advance to the Myriad Transformations Realm. Before the plot could proceed, a powerful intruder shattered the Cave Heaven Secret Realm and demanded that Duke Nanshan come out.

• The black-clad men offered Duke Nanshan a Heaven-Melting Pill if he struck Zhang Qingyuan with a terrifying short sword at a critical moment and escaped with a Cosmic Relocation Talisman.
• Duke Nanshan recalled his suspicion that Zhang Qingyuan had inherited Zhang San Chen’s secret treasury and decided to accept the dangerous mission.
• Duke Nanshan planned to infiltrate Zhang Qingyuan’s group, attack when the moment was right, and later search for the inheritance after Zhang Qingyuan was killed.
• A massive Magic Power hand broke through the Cave Heaven Secret Realm, tearing apart its Dao laws and shaking heaven and earth.
• The intruder’s voice thundered through the realm, ordering Duke Nanshan to come out.

Zhang Qingyuan killed Duke Nanshan, uncovered a cursed weapon tied to an unknown faction, and studied its rule-like power as a possible clue to cultivation beyond the Myriad Transformations Realm. He then claimed Nanfu Mountain and swept the Northern Eight Domains under his command, shocking Yunzhou’s Cultivation World.

• Zhang Qingyuan’s palm shattered Duke Nanshan and the two men in black, destroying much of the Cave Heaven Secret Realm and killing Duke Nanshan.
• Zhang Qingyuan discovered that an unknown faction had given Duke Nanshan a cursed black sword for use against him, but the two men in black destroyed their souls before he could identify their allies.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed that the sword’s ominous power resembled a weakened form of Immortal Qi and considered whether it could help him understand the path beyond the Myriad Transformations Realm.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to seek guidance from the Five Elements Holy Sect or Central Continent after recovering his golden body, then announced Duke Nanshan’s death and demanded Nanfu Mountain’s submission.
• Over the next seven days, Zhang Qingyuan crossed the Heavenly Pass and brought every Great Power in the Northern Eight Domains under his command, shaking Yunzhou’s Cultivation World.

After taking control of the Northern Eight Domains, Zhang Qingyuan headed to the Great Jing Dynasty to demand compensation for the Martial Emperor’s attempt to kill him. Two Wunian Temple Holy Monks blocked his way, and although Zhang Qingyuan defeated them in a clash, Compassionate Crossing Holy Monk refused to retreat.

• Zhang Qingyuan swept through the Northern Eight Domains, brought its major powers under his command, and then fell silent again.
• Zhang Qingyuan set out for the Great Jing Dynasty to seek compensation after killing its Martial Emperor.
• Compassionate Crossing Holy Monk and Suffering Crossing Holy Monk blocked Zhang Qingyuan, claiming the Great Jing Dynasty had become Buddhist land and asking him not to implicate its people.
• Zhang Qingyuan rejected their appeal and attacked with Buddha Kingdom in Palm, meeting the two Holy Monks’ Buddhist seals head-on.
• Zhang Qingyuan emerged without retreating while the Holy Monks were forced back, but Compassionate Crossing Holy Monk said he could not withdraw even if it cost him his life.

Zhang Qingyuan confronted two Wunian Temple Buddhist Venerables who guarded the Great Jing Dynasty on behalf of a reincarnated Buddha Son. He accepted their payment and the Immeasurable Maha Golden Body inheritance, then headed for Qingtian Sect while studying the method.

• Zhang Qingyuan warned Ci Du and Ku Du to retreat, and Ci Du offered one hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones to spare the Great Jing Dynasty.
• Ci Du explained that the dynasty was the Buddha Son’s family and that the Holy Buddha Son of Great Brahma Sumeru Mountain had asked Wunian Temple to protect it.
• Zhang Qingyuan demanded the Immeasurable Maha Golden Body inheritance as additional compensation, then injured Ku Du with a glance when Ku Du refused.
• Ci Du agreed to provide the inheritance, and Zhang Qingyuan left with the hundred Top-grade Spirit Stones and a Jade Slip containing the method.
• Zhang Qingyuan studied the inheritance to seek a way to resolve the problem with his Glazed Golden Body, then arrived at Qingtian Sect.

While traveling to Qingtian Sect, Zhang Qingyuan mastered Wunian Temple’s Immeasurable Maha Golden Body and realized it was a dharma-body art rather than a way to repair his Glazed Golden Body. He reached Qingtian Sect, found it in decline, and met its aged Dao Venerable Kong Sheng.

• Zhang Qingyuan used the Great Evolution Technique to master the Immeasurable Maha Golden Body, gaining a powerful defensive art but no remedy for his Glazed Golden Body’s injuries.
• Zhang Qingyuan gained confidence that combining the two golden bodies would let him withstand nearly any opponent in Yunzhou.
• Zhang Qingyuan saw young disciples leaving Qingtian Sect and learned that the sect had declined, with no Half-step Myriad Transformations cultivators to succeed its aging ancestor.
• Zhang Qingyuan suspected other powers had suppressed Qingtian Sect to prevent another Glazed Golden Body expert from rising, and hoped to find the sect’s body-refining inheritance.
• Zhang Qingyuan announced his arrival and asked to see Senior Kong Sheng, and Dao Venerable Kong Sheng came from the back mountain and praised his strength and dual cultivation of dharma and body.

Zhang Qingyuan visited the Qingtian Sect to seek guidance on body refinement and gained a major increase in strength after a month of instruction from Dao Venerable Kong Sheng. Kong Sheng then revealed that the sect’s core Glazed Golden Body inheritance had been cut off four thousand years ago, leaving Zhang Qingyuan asking what happened.

• Zhang Qingyuan apologized for his presumptuous visit, and Dao Venerable Kong Sheng welcomed him into his simple dojo.
• Zhang Qingyuan asked Dao Venerable Kong Sheng to teach him body-refining cultivation, and Kong Sheng shared the Qingtian Sect’s knowledge and secret transmissions over a month.
• Zhang Qingyuan absorbed the instruction and increased his strength enough to crack the surrounding space before suppressing the turbulence.
• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng recounted the Qingtian Sect’s past glory and explained that its true body-refining inheritance had been cut off four thousand years earlier.
• Zhang Qingyuan asked what had happened, concerned that the lost inheritance might affect his pursuit of the Glazed Golden Body.

Dao Venerable Kong Sheng told Zhang Qingyuan how the Blood Demon Sect and the Five Elements Holy Sect had helped destroy Qingtian Sect’s inheritance and undermine its fortunes. He offered to take Zhang Qingyuan to a dangerous secret inheritance ground, but their plan was interrupted when masked men seized Qingtian Sect’s last major mine.

• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng recounted how the Battle Ancestor rose during Yunzhou’s chaotic age, reached the Glazed Golden Body realm, and vanished after repelling a Blood Demon Sect siege on Qingtian Sect.
• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng accused the Five Elements Holy Sect of orchestrating the Battle Ancestor’s disappearance and secretly eliminating Qingtian Sect’s promising disciples.
• Zhang Qingyuan affirmed his enmity with the Five Elements Holy Sect and regretted that Qingtian Sect’s lost body-cultivation inheritance could not restore his Glazed Golden Body.
• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng revealed a dangerous inheritance trial in the ruins of the Ancient Qingtian Sect and offered to guide Zhang Qingyuan there in exchange for his future help.
• Qingtian Sect’s Sect Master reported that masked men had seized the Yellow Mountain Mine Vein, and Dao Venerable Kong Zhan reacted furiously.

With Qingtian Sect's last mine under attack, Zhang Qingyuan gave Chen Tianxing a short sword powerful enough to threaten Myriad Transformations cultivators. After Chen Tianxing left to confront the attackers, Dao Venerable Kong Sheng took Zhang Qingyuan to the sect's long-sealed testing grounds and opened a passage to a strange Cave Heaven World.

• Dao Venerable Kong Zhan decided Qingtian Sect could not yet risk revealing his frail condition by confronting the forces behind its decline.
• Chen Tianxing told an unfamiliar voice that thirteen masked attackers, led by a Half-step Myriad Transformations expert, had targeted Huangshan Mine.
• Zhang Qingyuan gave Chen Tianxing a short sword containing power that could severely injure a Myriad Transformations cultivator and instructed him to activate it with his Divine Soul.
• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng praised Zhang Qingyuan's gift, and Chen Tianxing accepted the order to take the attackers' heads and departed for Huangshan Mine.
• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng brought Zhang Qingyuan to Qingtian Sect's secret testing grounds and opened the sealed passage to a strange Cave Heaven World.

Zhang Qingyuan entered the Qingtian Sect's Inheritance Secret Ground and discovered that its trial used mysterious sounds to test and temper the body. After gaining benefits and enduring growing exhaustion, he hesitated over whether to press on toward the unknown inheritance or stay and cultivate before the trial's time limit expelled him.

• Zhang Qingyuan stepped onto the white jade stairs and felt a sound resonate through his body, bypassing his Dao techniques and Heavenly Heart Dao Seal.
• Zhang Qingyuan realized the trial tested body refinement, and he recalled that only the Battle Ancestor had passed it before.
• Zhang Qingyuan continued climbing as the sound grew louder and began cleansing hidden injuries and impurities from his body.
• Zhang Qingyuan endured the sound's increasingly intense tempering and recognized that the trial might help him restore and recondense his Glazed Golden Body.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached a point of severe exhaustion, saw that the stairs still stretched beyond sight, and weighed continuing toward the inheritance against retreating to cultivate before time ran out.

Black-robed raiders seized Huangshan Mine and decided to keep it, but Chen Tianxing drove them off with a short sword carrying overwhelming power. Hidden observers then concluded that Qingtian Sect’s ancestor, Kong Sheng, was near death and resolved to press ahead with their plans against the Sect.

• The black-robed leader agreed to occupy Huangshan Mine after his third brother pointed out the mine’s riches and the chance to advance into the Myriad Transformations Realm.
• Chen Tianxing arrived with Qingtian Sect cultivators and ordered the raiders to withdraw, but the leader overpowered them with his Half-step Myriad Transformations aura and claimed the mine.
• Chen Tianxing raised a short sword, whose unleashed Sword Light annihilated the black-robed leader and most of his men while splitting the land apart.
• Chen Tianxing ordered the surviving miners back to their posts and declared that anyone who defied Qingtian Sect would be treated as a traitor.
• A hidden Demon Lord dismissed the sword’s power as a resource from Qingtian Sect’s reserves, judged Kong Sheng to be near death, and ordered the plans against Qingtian Sect to continue.

Five Elements Holy Sect observers learned that the Qingtian Sect’s use of a treasured foundation likely meant Dao Venerable Kong Sheng was in trouble, and they planned to let demonic forces test the sect before claiming its body-refinement inheritance. Half a month later, while Yunzhou was shaken by new discoveries and rising conflict, Qingtian Sect’s prestige rose after Chen Tianxing crushed the Yuan Mountain Thirteen Bandits, though he regretted the attention.

• Five Elements Holy Sect cultivators watching Huangshan Mine concluded that Qingtian Sect’s use of a lasting foundation signaled Dao Venerable Kong Sheng’s decline.
• The Five Elements Holy Sect group decided not to attack Qingtian Sect directly and planned to let demonic cultivators test its defenses before taking its body-refinement inheritance.
• Half a month later, storms receded in Yunzhou’s Barren Sea, revealing new islands, treasures, and ancient ruins that drew cultivators to explore.
• Demonic cultivators rose in the far eastern lands and clashed with local powers, causing many deaths.
• News spread that Chen Tianxing had swiftly slain the Yuan Mountain Thirteen Bandits with a short sword, boosting Qingtian Sect’s prestige.
• Chen Tianxing remained at the Qingtian Mountain Sect Gate, bitter about the fame his sect had gained.

With the Qingtian Sect besieged and Chen Tianxing overwhelmed by guilt, Dao Venerable Kong Sheng rose from his recovery to defend the Sect. He destroyed many attackers, then confronted a hidden Blood Demon Sect cultivator seeking the Sect’s body-refining inheritance and Glazed Golden Body information, and their battle began.

• Chen Tianxing wept before Dao Venerable Kong Sheng and blamed himself for the attacks and plunder that had pushed the Qingtian Sect into chaos.
• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng comforted Chen Tianxing, urged him to take up his weapon, and unleashed his Myriad Transformations Realm power.
• Kong Sheng’s aura killed attackers below the Cave True Law Domain Realm and injured and repelled Cave True Law Domain Realm cultivators.
• Kong Sheng called out hidden enemies, and a hooded Blood Demon Sect cultivator appeared and revealed that the Venerable above wanted the Qingtian Sect’s body-refining inheritance, especially information about the Glazed Golden Body.
• Kong Sheng refused to surrender the inheritance and attacked the Blood Demon Sect cultivator, beginning their battle.

Qingtian Sect faced invasion as Dao Venerable Kong Sheng fought Blood God Son in the sky. Kong Sheng struck Blood God Son with a devastating attack, but Blood God Son survived and severed one of Kong Sheng’s arms, leaving the Sect’s fate in doubt.

• Multiple forces attacked Qingtian Sect, while Kong Sheng confronted Blood God Son overhead.
• Kong Sheng questioned how the Blood Demon Sect had regained its strength and why it had attacked Qingtian Sect.
• Blood God Son launched a crimson torrent at Kong Sheng, who evaded it and countered with a massive dharma seal.
• Kong Sheng’s attack engulfed Blood God Son in a destructive blast, and Kong Sheng believed he had dealt a decisive blow.
• Blood God Son emerged from a tear in space and struck Kong Sheng from behind, severing his arm and sending him flying.
• Qingtian Sect’s cultivators saw Kong Sheng wounded and feared their Sect faced annihilation.

As the Blood God Son overpowered the aging Dao Venerable Kong Sheng, seven Half-step Myriad Transformations experts joined the assault on the Qingtian Sect, leaving the sect’s defenders close to defeat. Chen Tianxing faced death after a desperate battle, but a familiar figure appeared behind him.

• The Blood God Son demanded the Qingtian Sect’s inheritance, and Dao Venerable Kong Sheng unleashed his strength to fight him despite his age and injuries.
• Seeing Kong Sheng falter, hidden cultivators attacked the Qingtian Sect, while seven Half-step Myriad Transformations experts arrived and drove its defenders toward despair.
• Chen Tianxing killed two Law Domain Realm attackers, but an ambusher pierced his chest and several more cultivators surrounded him.
• Chen Tianxing fought on, repairing his Dao Heart amid the battle, but the attackers overwhelmed him and prepared to deliver the final blow.
• A familiar voice spoke behind Chen Tianxing, and a figure suddenly appeared.

Zhang Qingyuan emerged from the Inheritance Secret Ground and intervened as several Law Domain Realm cultivators besieged Chen Tianxing for his Storage Ring. After effortlessly killing one attacker and sealing the others’ cultivation, Zhang Qingyuan left the fleeing cultivators powerless and trapped.

• Zhang Qingyuan appeared behind Chen Tianxing and destroyed the attacks of the cultivators surrounding him.
• The cultivators threatened Zhang Qingyuan and demanded that he leave, but he refused.
• An emaciated cultivator attacked Zhang Qingyuan with the Bloodthirst Needle, which bounced harmlessly off his head.
• Zhang Qingyuan caught the Bloodthirst Needle and killed the attacker with a glance, annihilating his Divine Soul.
• The remaining cultivators tried to flee, but Zhang Qingyuan used World Law to seal their cultivation and turn them into mortals.

Zhang Qingyuan arrived at the Qingtian Sect Gate, suppressed the fleeing attackers, and rescued the badly wounded Dao Venerable Kong Sheng. He confronted Blood God Son and unleashed a Five Elements Dragon Fist that shattered the enemy’s Blood Dao Seal.

• Zhang Qingyuan sealed the fleeing Cave True Law Domain Realm cultivators and left Chen Tianxing to restore order at the Qingtian Sect Gate.
• Zhang Qingyuan reached the battlefield and caught Dao Venerable Kong Sheng, using Wood Element vitality to sustain him.
• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng identified the attacker as Blood God Son, a former Blood Demon Sect Holy Son who had reached the Myriad Transformations Realm.
• Blood God Son attacked Zhang Qingyuan with blood-colored flames, but Zhang Qingyuan declared that one punch would defeat him.
• Zhang Qingyuan struck with Five Elements Dragon Fist, shattering Blood God Son’s Blood Dao Seal and carving a vast fissure through the sky.

Zhang Qingyuan defeated Blood God Son with a single punch and captured his fleeing remnant, hoping to learn the Blood River Old Ancestor’s whereabouts and the location of the Five Elements Sect’s supreme treasure. Blood God Son killed himself before revealing anything, and Zhang Qingyuan prepared to finish clearing the battlefield before asking Dao Venerable Kong Sheng about recent events in Yunzhou.

• Zhang Qingyuan’s punch tore a fissure more than a hundred li across the sky, astonishing the watching cultivators and Dao Venerable Kong Sheng.
• Zhang Qingyuan sensed Blood God Son trying to escape in the form of a tiny blood-colored loach and trapped him in a Five Elements cage.
• Zhang Qingyuan demanded to know what had happened to the Blood Demon Sect and where the Blood River Old Ancestor was, but Blood God Son recognized him and threatened that the Sacred Gate would not repeat its past mistakes.
• Blood God Son detonated himself inside Zhang Qingyuan’s palm, destroying his body and divine soul before Zhang Qingyuan could question him.
• Dao Venerable Kong Sheng explained that Blood God Son’s Myriad Spirit Transformation Art could preserve fragments of his soul and memories in disciples, while Zhang Qingyuan resolved to clear the remaining enemies and ask about Yunzhou.

Zhang Qingyuan pursued and defeated the fleeing Five Elements Holy Sect elder, but the sect’s Founding Ancestor intervened through a jade talisman and possessed the elder. The Founding Ancestor unleashed a deadly attack, and Zhang Qingyuan answered with his golden bodies and Great Zhou Heavenly Five Elements Samsara.

• The Five Elements Holy Sect elder fled from Zhang Qingyuan, recalling how Zhang had killed the Blood God Son and the sect elders who had plotted against the Qingtian Sect.
• Zhang Qingyuan caught up, shattered the elder’s Five Elements Pagoda, and trapped him before he could use his Heaven-Earth Great Shift Talisman.
• A jade talisman on the elder’s chest freed him from Zhang Qingyuan’s grasp and revealed the sect’s Founding Ancestor, who ordered Zhang to let him go.
• The Founding Ancestor possessed the elder and empowered him beyond the Myriad Transformations Realm, then attacked Zhang Qingyuan with a devastating Five Elements punch.
• Zhang Qingyuan activated his Immeasurable Maha Golden Body and flawed Glazed Golden Body, then unleashed Great Zhou Heavenly Five Elements Samsara.

Zhang Qingyuan survived a clash with the Five Elements Holy Sect's Founding Ancestor and returned to the Qingtian Sect, where he was celebrated for saving them. The Founding Ancestor resolved to move up his plans to deal with Zhang Qingyuan, while Zhang gained a rare moment of insight amid the sect’s festivities.

• Zhang Qingyuan unleashed his strongest attack against the Founding Ancestor across time and space, was wounded, and retreated after acknowledging his opponent’s strength.
• The Five Elements Holy Sect Elder’s body burst apart, while the Founding Ancestor suffered a backlash, restored himself with blood essence, and decided to target Zhang Qingyuan sooner.
• Zhang Qingyuan returned to the Qingtian Sect after driving away the remaining cultivators lurking nearby.
• Qingtian Sect's Old Ancestor Kong Sheng welcomed and thanked Zhang Qingyuan, who explained through his actions that he was repaying Kong Sheng’s past kindness.
• Qingtian Sect held a ten-day feast, and Zhang Qingyuan watched from a mountain peak, sensing the human warmth and gaining vague insights.

After reviewing the Qingtian Sect inheritance, Zhang Qingyuan discovered that Nine Deaths Returning Soul Grass could repair his shattered Glazed Golden Body and found records linking it to the Barren Sea. He left the Qingtian Sect for Qianyun Mountain, intending to investigate the Barren Sea and its Intercontinental Teleportation Array.

• Zhang Qingyuan reviewed his gains and learned body-refining techniques and a method to repair his Glazed Golden Body using Nine Deaths Returning Soul Grass.
• Zhang Qingyuan found Qingtian Sect records that Battle Dao Venerable Ku Yixin had obtained the sacred fruit’s grass in the Barren Sea thousands of years earlier.
• Zhang Qingyuan decided to travel to the Barren Sea, where its receding black mist had revealed islands and Spirit Items, and planned to consult Old Ancestor Murong.
• Zhang Qingyuan copied inherited Jade Slips for Dao Venerable Kong Sheng, left three short swords and a promise of aid for the Qingtian Sect, then departed for Qianyun Mountain.
• Zhang Qingyuan planned to use Qianyun Mountain to gather resources and news while investigating whether the Barren Sea upheaval had affected the Intercontinental Teleportation Array.