Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing joined Battalion Commander Li Ya’s investigation into the massacre of Li Yuanwai’s household, where 113 people had been killed in the Capital City Suburbs. After examining the lone apparent suicide and reading Li Xi’s file, Xu Qing suspected that Li Yuanwai’s son was an impostor.

• Xu Qing visited the old man’s grave in Luoshan Village, then returned to the capital and spent a month consolidating his cultivation.
• Li Ya led Xu Qing and the other Hundred Commanders to investigate the massacre at the Li Residence, where all 113 residents had died.
• Song Yi told Xu Qing that Li Yuanwai’s jade gambling business might have angered martial-world figures, but Xu Qing doubted that explained Li Ya’s involvement.
• Xu Qing and the others found bloodied corpses throughout the residence and learned that Li Yuanwai’s son, Li Xi, was the only apparent suicide.
• Bai Lu’s autopsy indicated that Li Xi had died later than the other victims, and Li Ya asked Xu Qing to review his dossier.
• After reading Li Xi’s life record, Xu Qing asked whether Li Xi was fake.

Xu Qing investigated the massacre at the Li Residence and considered whether an unknown creature had killed the victims, while Li Ya learned that the case involved a cultivator from the Heavenly Saint Sect. The chapter ended with Wang Zhi warning Li Ya to withdraw from the investigation because its consequences were beyond what he could bear.

• Li Ya and Xu Qing questioned the suspiciously detailed dossier and found that the young master's body showed no decay despite having died by hanging.
• Li Ya ordered Xu Qing to document the crime scene, then summoned Liu Zun and learned that Wang Zhi had ordered the dossier altered.
• Xu Qing organized the scene investigation and, after Er Tiao described giant mosquitoes that pierced prey's skulls, reconsidered how the Li Residence victims might have been killed.
• Xu Qing found that the ordinary residents had died without struggling, while guards had suffered multiple irregular cuts, leaving him puzzled about the massacre and the young master's death.
• Li Ya read the real dossier and discovered that the Honored Scholar in the eastern suburbs was a cultivator from the Heavenly Saint Sect.
• Wang Zhi advised Li Ya to hand the case to his subordinates and avoid involvement, and Li Ya acknowledged the warning.

Xu Qing investigated the Li Residence massacre and concluded that a monster, possibly connected to cultivators, had killed the victims. After learning that Li Xi was a cultivator, Xu Qing joined Honored Scholar Zheng Tong on a mission to the residence, where Zheng led the group using a Wind Control Art.

• Xu Qing questioned Er Tiao and sketched the wingless, furry mosquito-like monster that had attacked the Li Residence.
• Xu Qing matched Er Tiao's description of the monster's hunting method to the corpses and ordered Song Yi to search for animal traces.
• Xu Qing learned that Li Xi was an Honored Scholar from the Heavenly Saint Sect, and Song Yi found reptile-like tracks on the East Wing roof.
• Xu Qing reported his theory to Li Ya, who summoned him the next morning to work with Honored Scholar Zheng Tong.
• Zheng Tong ordered Xu Qing to gather ten second-rate martial artists, then led them toward the Li Residence at great speed using a Wind Control Art.

Xu Qing helped Zheng Tong track the demonic creature responsible for the deaths at Li Residence, while sidestepping Wang Wei’s challenge to his authority. The tracking talisman led them to a pit of sacrificial victims, and Zheng Tong prepared the group to hunt the beast together.

• Wang Wei ingratiated himself with Zheng Tong on the way to Li Residence, while Xu Qing ignored his attempt to undermine his leadership.
• At Li Residence, Xu Qing showed Zheng Tong the monster’s tracks, and Zheng Tong explained that Xu Qing’s deductions had helped identify the creature.
• Zheng Tong used a Tracking Talisman to follow the beast’s aura, and Xu Qing warned Song Yi to stay close and avoid rushing into a fight.
• The group found dozens of victims in a pit behind an abandoned temple, and Zheng Tong identified them as sacrifices used by an evil cultivator to create the beast.
• Xu Qing and Zheng Tong reassured the frightened martial artists that the creature was flesh and blood, and Zheng Tong urged them to fight in formation for merit.

Xu Qing and the Brocade-Clad Guards discovered an underground ritual chamber beneath the ruined temple, where a trap made of blood-red jade ignited Zhang Yu and Qian Liao. Zheng Tong and Xu Qing helped the survivors escape the chamber, but they emerged to find three corpses in the temple.

• Zheng Tong ordered the Brocade-Clad Guards to search the ruined temple, and Xu Qing found a hidden pit behind the statues.
• Zhang Yu descended into the pit and reported an underground structure, after which the guards entered and followed the passage to a ritual chamber.
• Xu Qing warned the group of danger, and Zheng Tong told him to stay close as they passed corpses and bloodstains in the tunnel.
• A guard disturbed blood-red jade in the chamber, which burst into insect-like pieces; Zhang Yu and Qian Liao caught the powder and burst into flames.
• Xu Qing rescued Song Yi and urged the others to flee, while Zheng Tong used his floating Hiltless Sword to destroy the jade and escaped with the group.
• The survivors leaped from the passage into the ruined temple and found three corpses there.

Xu Qing and the surviving Brocade-Clad Guards were surrounded by fifteen Demonic Creatures and forced to fight after their attempt to escape failed. As their strength ran low, Xu Qing revealed his ice cultivation and killed one of the creatures, leaving his true abilities exposed.

• Xu Qing realized the corpses had been attacked by multiple Demonic Creatures, but the creatures surrounded the temple before the search parties could regroup.
• After eight more Demonic Creatures joined the attack, Zheng Tong used the Wind Control Art to help the six survivors break through the encirclement and flee east.
• The Demonic Creatures pursued the group through the forest, shrugging off Zheng Tong's fire talismans and ordinary weapons.
• Xu Qing urged the group to turn and fight, and Zheng Tong slowed the pursuing creatures with ice talismans before the survivors fought them in the forest.
• As Zheng Tong exhausted his talismans and the guards began to falter, Xu Qing summoned an Ice Condensed Longsword and shattered a Demonic Creature from within.

After revealing his cultivation while fighting demonic creatures, Xu Qing gained Zheng Tong’s help in seeking entry to the Heavenly Saint Sect and was promoted to Battalion Commander. He secretly advanced to Golden Core, and the chapter ended with a sect deacon arriving to assess him.

• Xu Qing and Zheng Tong worked together to kill the remaining demonic creatures, then Xu Qing explained his inherited cultivation and asked Zheng Tong to recommend him to the Heavenly Saint Sect.
• Xu Qing returned to the capital with the surviving guards, and Li Ya learned he was a cultivator.
• Commander Zhao Gou appointed Xu Qing Battalion Commander, and Xu Qing celebrated with a large banquet attended by prominent officials, including Chen Xuelong and Chen Xi.
• Xu Qing secretly broke through to Golden Core during a thunderstorm at Repel Evil Mountain, then discussed his cultivation and the unresolved demonic-creature investigation with Er Tiao.
• Zheng Tong visited Xu Qing with Zhao Zhi, a Heavenly Saint Sect outer sect deacon, to assess Xu Qing.

Xu Qing joined the Heavenly Saint Sect as a Registered Disciple after concealing his aptitude during Zhao Zhi’s test, then learned that an ancient demonic cultivator was behind the attacks. Later, he drew a sinister force out of Lin Yu and put it inside himself to investigate; that night, he sensed You Ying watching him from the courtyard wall.

• Xu Qing deliberately concealed his aptitude too much, causing the Aptitude Stone to show the lowest grade, and accepted a position as the Heavenly Saint Sect’s Registered Disciple and contact in the Brocade-Clad Guard.
• Zheng Tong told Xu Qing that an ancient demonic cultivator had escaped a seal and was performing blood sacrifices, and Zhao Zhi warned him to summon sect experts if he found the fugitive.
• After eight months in the Great Xia World, Xu Qing discovered a sinister force in Lin Yu and learned that Lin Yu had become lost in a ghostly maze near a graveyard.
• Xu Qing pulled gray vapor from Lin Yu’s body and put it inside himself, intending to investigate the Yin Creature, while Er Tiao warned him that he smelled dangerous.
• Xu Qing sensed someone outside and found You Ying, a figure shrouded in gray mist with messy white hair, standing on the courtyard wall.

Xu Qing discovered that the white seal from Immortal Yuan Yi's coffin was immortal jade, then used the Attribute Panel to break through to the Nascent Soul realm. After fleeing the capital to avoid attention, he began the transformation that would form his Nascent Soul.

• Xu Qing froze the Yin Creature, brought it home to study, then destroyed it when it broke free and attacked him.
• Lin Yu recovered and left to serve as a High Official, while Xu Qing searched the Brocade-Clad Guard Secret Vault and identified the white seal as immortal jade.
• Over the next half year, Xu Qing reached Golden Core Perfection as the Brocade-Clad Guard continued hunting the Ancient Evil Cultivator and Lin Yu rose to fame outside the capital.
• Xu Qing advised Lin Yu to support the Fourth Prince, but declined to get involved in the imperial succession struggle.
• Xu Qing spent Attribute Points to raise the Frost Immortal Technique to Nascent Soul Level 1, triggering a surge of spiritual energy that drew the attention of a golden figure at the Imperial Palace.
• Xu Qing fled the capital and hid in a Mountain Hollow, where his Golden Core began melting into spiritual liquid and his body turned transparent as the breakthrough began.

Xu Qing broke through to the Nascent Soul realm and confronted Blood Refinement True Person, persuading him to leave without taking the Heavenly Saint Sect disciple. After helping bring down the Second Prince and stabilize the court under the Fourth Prince, Xu Qing refused the new emperor’s offer to command the Brocade-Clad Guard and revealed his cultivation to Lin Yu.

• Xu Qing emerged from his cocoon, endured ninety-nine bolts of Heavenly Thunder, and tested his new teleportation ability before returning to the capital.
• Xu Qing and Zheng Tong led Brocade-Clad Guards to Dangyang Village, where they found all 1,012 households slaughtered and Xu Qing encountered Blood Refinement True Person.
• Xu Qing let Blood Refinement True Person believe he was a reincarnated immortal, then stood firm when the evil cultivator demanded the Heavenly Saint Sect disciple; Blood Refinement True Person left, and Xu Qing revived the guards and alerted Zheng Tong.
• Xu Qing used Er Tiao to expose the Second Prince’s treason, and after the Second Prince was deposed, Lin Yu helped secure the Fourth Prince’s appointment as Crown Prince.
• After Xia Emperor died and the Fourth Prince took the throne, Lin Yu offered Xu Qing command of the Brocade-Clad Guard, but Xu Qing refused and revealed that he was a cultivator.

Xu Qing confronted Blood Refinement True Person after the ancient cultivator slaughtered everyone in Ancient Street Town, then traded Immortal Yuan Yi’s jade seal for the Blood Soul Immortal Art and warned him that the Heavenly Saint Sect was coming. As the Heavenly Saint Sect’s experts attacked Blood Refinement True Person, Xu Qing began forcing a breakthrough to strengthen himself.

• Xu Qing learned that Blood Refinement True Person had slaughtered every person and animal in Ancient Street Town and ordered the Brocade-Clad Guards to search for him.
• Xu Qing met Blood Refinement True Person, offered Immortal Yuan Yi’s jade seal in exchange for the Blood Soul Immortal Art, and completed the trade.
• Xu Qing revealed that he had sent a message to the Heavenly Saint Sect, and Blood Refinement True Person fled before a golden sword struck him from the sky.
• Xu Qing judged that he needed to grow stronger, activated his panel, and began adding points to force a breakthrough.
• Li Ziyang and Heavenly Saint Sect Sect Master Chen confronted Blood Refinement True Person, and Chen summoned an enormous golden figure to suppress him as Li Ziyang launched a crimson-gold pill.

Chen Yu and Li Ziyang fought Blood Refinement True Person, who escaped badly wounded before Xu Qing confronted and killed him. Xu Qing returned to Great Xia and later received permission to join the Heavenly Saint Sect as an Outer Sect Disciple.

• Chen Yu and Li Ziyang battled Blood Refinement True Person, who used blood techniques to escape after their fight left him gravely injured.
• Blood Refinement True Person hid in a mountain cave, where Xu Qing arrived and attacked him with Heavenly Dao Power.
• Blood Refinement True Person recognized Xu Qing’s Great Xia Ancient Bloodline and died, leaving Xu Qing confused about the bloodline’s significance.
• Xu Qing cremated and buried Blood Refinement True Person, keeping his immortal jade and a jade slip containing a cultivation art.
• Xu Qing discovered that the Blood Soul Immortal Art Blood Refinement True Person had given him was genuine.
• The Heavenly Saint Sect informed Xu Qing that he could enter as an Outer Sect Disciple.

Xu Qing joined the Heavenly Saint Sect and left Er Tiao with the mysterious female cultivator before traveling to the sect. After learning that becoming an Immortal Seed would take too long, he decided to leave and continue cultivating on his own, taking his most valuable items into the mountains.

• Zheng Tong gave Xu Qing an identity token and agreed to take him to the Heavenly Saint Sect after two days.
• Xu Qing asked Zhao Gou to contact the mysterious female cultivator so he could return Er Tiao before leaving the mortal world.
• The female cultivator took Er Tiao, gave Xu Qing a gift, and told him to visit her at the Great Xia Imperial Palace if he reached the Nascent Soul realm.
• Xu Qing traveled with Zheng Tong through a Teleportation Array and arrived at the Heavenly Saint Sect.
• After a month of inquiries, Xu Qing decided against pursuing Immortal Seed status and applied to leave the sect.
• Xu Qing hid most of his belongings on a Barren Mountain and disappeared into the mountain range with his immortal jade, cultivation art, and Vajra Bracelet.

Xu Qing returned from the Great Xia World, reunited with Zhou Tong by holographic call, and turned in the items from his missions. After learning that some Great Xia immortals had joined the Martial God Hall while others had returned home, he left for the nearest human civilization planet.

• Xu Qing opened the box containing a metal wristguard and told Buckwheat that he had completed his mission.
• Xu Qing called Zhou Tong, promised he would apply to transfer to the Ten Stars Secret Sect, and told her he had gathered spirit herbs for her; Buckwheat estimated the transfer would take at least three months.
• Xu Qing told Buckwheat that Second Striped Nianniang had stayed behind in the Great Xia World and suggested they might visit again someday.
• Heavenly Ice Saint King welcomed Xu Qing and escorted him to turn in the Blood Soul Immortal Art and immortal jade, earning him 50,000 Contribution Points.
• Heavenly Ice Saint King told Xu Qing that some Great Xia True Immortals had joined the Martial God Hall and that the others had returned to the Great Xia World.
• Xu Qing boarded his spacecraft and flew toward the nearest human civilization planet.

Xu Qing arrived in the Pale Empire and reunited with Zhou Tong, then began meeting the empire’s leaders as its new Martial God Envoy. He discovered that two Domain Rank figures were conspiring against him, and learned that an elite guard unit would protect him until his own guards arrived.

• Xu Qing’s transfer to the Pale Empire was approved, and Kuruo Elder told him to travel there directly and reunite with his wife.
• Xu Qing arrived at Han River Star, where Pale Empire officials and Martial God Hall representatives welcomed him, and he embraced Zhou Tong.
• Hilton and Mona discussed carrying out a plan while watching Xu Qing, but his divine sense detected their conversation.
• Xu Qing and Zhou Tong attended a banquet, and Xu Qing visited Pale Empire leaders and representatives of the Ten Stars Secret Sect.
• Bi Luo told Xu Qing that the Imperial Honor Guard would protect him until his guard unit arrived the next day, surprising Xu Qing with the strength of his assigned protection.

At a banquet on Han River Star, Xu Qing stood up for Zhou Tong when the Pale Empire’s Third Prince, Asma, harassed her. Xu Qing and Asma’s confrontation escalated until Bi Luo asked whether the Pale Empire was declaring war on the Martial God Hall.

• Xu Qing agreed to let Bi Luo continue managing affairs in the Pale Empire and attended a banquet with the planet’s prominent figures.
• Xu Qing noticed Asma pestering Zhou Tong, and Bi Luo introduced Zhou Tong to the guests as Xu Qing’s wife and a member of the Ten Stars Secret Sect.
• Bi Luo warned Xu Qing that Asma was the Pale Empire’s arrogant, powerful Third Prince, but Xu Qing approached him with Zhou Tong.
• Asma ignored Xu Qing and kept his attention on Zhou Tong, so Xu Qing criticized his manners and threatened to gouge out his eyes.
• A powerful man behind Asma released his force against Xu Qing, and Bi Luo confronted them by asking whether the Pale Empire was declaring war on the Martial God Hall.

After Asma renewed his provocations at Xu Qing’s residence, Xu Qing accepted his challenge to a fight to the death, suspecting that a faction within the Pale Empire was using the Third Prince to test the Martial God Hall. The two sides prepared to fight as En Gu Si and Efi Watershed arrived, while the motive behind Asma’s behavior remained unclear.

• After the banquet, Xu Qing and Zhou Tong returned to Bi Luo’s manor, where Asma arrived by spaceship and called Xu Qing out.
• Bi Luo confronted Asma and Ahe Si, but Xu Qing stopped him and said he would provide the explanation they demanded.
• Xu Qing and Zhou Tong suspected that Asma’s unusual provocations were part of a Pale Empire faction’s test of the Martial God Hall.
• Asma challenged Xu Qing to a match and demanded a public apology and Xu Qing’s wife if he won; Xu Qing accepted and told Bi Luo he intended to kill Asma.
• En Gu Si and Efi Watershed arrived above the manor after sensing the confrontation and hearing Bi Luo’s explanation.

Xu Qing defeated Third Prince Asma with a single spear strike, winning their wagered duel. The Pale Empire stripped Asma of his title and ordered his assets given to Xu Qing as compensation.

• En Gu Si left to report the incident to the Pale Empire’s emperor while Efi Watershed stayed to watch over Xu Qing.
• Asma unleashed his Pale Song domain and attacked Xu Qing with a heavenly blade as witnesses gathered around the manor.
• Xu Qing’s seven-colored spear strike split Asma’s pale domain, shattered his blade, and sent him flying.
• Xu Qing declared that Asma had lost and demanded that he fulfill the wager.
• En Gu Si announced the emperor’s decree stripping Asma of his princely status, confiscating his assets for Xu Qing, and disavowing responsibility for his actions.

After the Third Prince’s schemes were exposed, Xu Qing had Asma stripped of his cultivation and avoided escalating the conflict with the Pale Empire. A year later, Xu Qing used his accumulated points to force a breakthrough from Spirit Transformation toward the Ascension Realm while his guards secured the area.

• En Gu Si announced that the Pale Empire accepted responsibility, disowned Asma, and left him to Xu Qing and Bi Luo.
• Xu Qing ordered Bi Luo to question Asma, cripple his cultivation, return him to the Empire, and monitor his contacts.
• Bi Luo apologized, hosted Xu Qing and Zhou Tong, and gave Xu Qing the businesses formerly owned by Asma; Xu Qing agreed to avoid hostility with the Empire.
• Xu Qing and Zhou Tong toured the Pale Empire for a month before Xu Qing entered seclusion, while Zhou Tong used his herbs and pill formulas to develop cultivation medicine.
• A year later, Xu Qing spent all 18 Free Attribute Points to force a breakthrough beside Blue Demon Lake, as Qi Lin and the Close Guard watched over him and continued investigating two mysterious people and Asma.

Xu Qing absorbed saved immortal jade and spent a year completing his breakthrough into the Ascension Realm, where his cultivation and genetic realms reached the same level. After emerging from seclusion, he asked Buckwheat to search for cultivation resources and learned from Qi Lin about a near-dead strange beast and new clues in the investigation.

• Xu Qing used the immortal jade fragment he had secretly kept to condense an Ascension Crystal and begin transforming his body with immortal energy.
• Xu Qing sat in seclusion for a year as his breakthrough attracted beasts and martial artists, whom his guards drove away, while Bi Luo came to stand watch.
• Xu Qing completed his breakthrough, formed a frost robe from his icy mist, and found that Buckwheat's radar could no longer detect his true strength.
• Xu Qing asked Buckwheat to search the Martial God Hall exchange system for immortal jade and cultivation techniques, especially the Frost Immortal Technique.
• Xu Qing summoned Qi Lin, who reported that Bi Luo had found a powerful, injured strange beast and that the investigation into the two mysterious people had produced preliminary clues.