Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing and September King ventured into the ancient battlefield at the mountains’ core, where gray mist concealed unknown dangers, while Xu Qing’s true body trained to advance toward the Saint Venerable Realm. In a gorge, Feng Wusheng’s group awakened two transforming statues, and Mo Li destroyed one with a sudden burst of power as the other prepared to strike Ao Tianchang.

• Xu Qing told September King the mountains were likely an ancient battlefield fashioned into a cultivation secret realm, and they continued toward its dangerous central region.
• Xu Qing’s true body tempered his physique in the Heavenly Furnace Earth Cauldron and cultivated the star-based fourth Shen Guang.
• Feng Wusheng’s group attacked a gray statue in a gorge, but it repeatedly re-formed, grew stronger, and another statue appeared behind them.
• Feng Wusheng ordered the group to attack the statue’s eyes, but the tactic failed when the statue revealed a living Half-Step Saint Venerable creature.
• The revealed statue struck the group, sending Phoenix Clan Demon Kings flying and knocking Ao Tianchang toward the opposing statue.
• Mo Li unleashed a powerful beam that shattered one statue, but the remaining statue raised its sword against the airborne Ao Tianchang while the others could not intervene.

Ao Tianchang, Mo Li, Feng Wusheng, and their allies fought the canyon’s regenerating statues, discovering that the statues’ sword tips were their weak points. After a Half-Step Saint Venerable statue emerged, Xu Qing arrived and destroyed it, and Feng Jiutian revealed that the group had only pretended to cooperate with Feng Wusheng before killing the remaining Phoenix Clan demon king.

• Mo Li suggested targeting the statues’ energy cores, and the group destroyed their sword tips to stop the smaller statues from reviving.
• A Half-Step Saint Venerable statue emerged from the canyon fissure, and Ao Tianchang used Annihilation Nine Steps to hold it off while Feng Wusheng demanded the rest of Mo Li’s map.
• Feng Wusheng attacked the statue’s sword but detonated his crimson sword to destroy it, then disappeared and left the others behind.
• A revived statue attacked the Purple Wing King, but Xu Qing appeared, sealed its tentacle with Light and Darkness, and destroyed it with Void Annihilation.
• Mo Li revealed that the group had been acting together to deceive Feng Wusheng, and Feng Jiutian killed the remaining Phoenix Clan demon king when it threatened them.

Feng Wusheng entered a mysterious inheritance hall and fought its powerful guardian, hoping to gain strength to climb the Demon King List. Just as he struggled against the Inheritance Phantom, the Darkness Saint King appeared and was identified as the Demon of the Alien Universe.

• Xu Qing subdued the Phoenix Clan Demon King and led his group out of the canyon.
• Feng Wusheng found a stone hall in the shape of a giant axe and opened its entrance, only for its guardian statue to attack him inside.
• Feng Wusheng destroyed the statue with a golden technique, then faced the Saint Venerable Rank Inheritance Phantom and fought on despite being badly injured.
• Feng Wusheng entered a half-demon state and clashed with the Inheritance Phantom, who revealed that two seals remained on his power.
• The Darkness Saint King appeared in the hall and raised the Law of Darkness, prompting the Inheritance Phantom to identify him as the Demon of the Alien Universe.

Feng Wusheng fought two Darkness Saint Kings in the stone hall, survived their attacks with help from the Phoenix Patriarch’s phantom, and tried to escape. Xu Qing stole the stone axe and fled, drawing Feng Wusheng and the Darkness Saint King into pursuit before fighting off their attacks and escaping.

• Feng Wusheng battled the Darkness Saint King, then was ambushed by a second one and trapped in dark chains.
• Feng Wusheng broke free with his Phoenix Blood, fought back with his Crimson Battle Blade, and was swallowed by darkness after the battle left both sides badly injured.
• The Phoenix Patriarch’s golden phantom preserved Feng Wusheng’s consciousness, allowing him to strike the Darkness Saint King and escape with the inheritance phantom and stone axe.
• Xu Qing struck Feng Wusheng with lightning, seized the stone axe, and fled while taunting him.
• The Darkness Saint King and Feng Wusheng pursued Xu Qing, who countered the demonic hand and Feng Wusheng’s golden phoenix feather with his techniques before escaping.

Xu Qing and his allies defeated the Darkness Saint King and drove Feng Wusheng to flee, then followed September King’s trail into a foul-smelling forest. A tentacled black creature appeared after their departure and vowed revenge, while an unidentified shadow suddenly swept over the group in the forest.

• Xu Qing, Ao Tianchang, and Moro trapped the Darkness Saint King while Mo Li and the Phoenix Clan demon kings turned on Feng Wusheng.
• Feng Wusheng unleashed a Golden Fire Phoenix, was badly wounded by the combined attacks, and escaped as the others joined the fight against the Darkness Saint King.
• The seven fighters overwhelmed the Darkness Saint King, and Xu Qing used the Darkness Heart to absorb his black mist.
• A tentacled black creature appeared at the battlefield after Xu Qing and the others left, watched them depart, and vowed revenge.
• Xu Qing, Ao Tianchang, Mo Li, and Feng Jiutian followed September King’s trail deep into a foul-smelling forest, where a black shadow suddenly swept overhead.

Xu Qing and September King found a hidden ancient city and opened a spatial gate linked to a mysterious inheritance. They stepped onto a strange bridge whose force repelled Xu Qing, leaving them to watch his clone proceed alone.

• Xu Qing used Xiao Lei’s lightning to drive off the monsters, then reunited with September King and Purple Wing King and split the group to search for the inheritance.
• Xu Qing and September King followed traces to a rune-protected city, where Xu Qing studied the defenses and opened a way inside.
• At the city’s altar, Xu Qing infused the ball of light with Water Laws, revealing a spatial gate that he and September King entered.
• The pair arrived on a floating stone bridge leading to a stone gate bearing the words “What Can Be Done,” and Xu Qing’s clone lost contact with him after stepping onto it.
• When Xu Qing tried to cross while the clone was on the bridge, a powerful force knocked him back, and he realized the bridge allowed only one person at a time.

Xu Qing crossed the Bridge of Helplessness by resisting illusions of loved ones, but his mother’s voice broke his resolve until an unseen force shoved him safely to the far side. He continued along the Stone Path, where crushing gravity tested his physical strength, while September King began her own slow crossing.

• Xu Qing ignored the September King's cries and the voices of Zhou Tong and other loved ones, but he turned when he heard his mother call him Er Niu.
• An unseen force shoved Xu Qing off the bridge before he could turn fully; he mourned his mother, then regained his resolve with Buckwheat's encouragement.
• Xu Qing's Thunder Clone warned September King to keep walking without looking back, and she stepped onto the bridge.
• After three days, Xu Qing left September King to cross at her own pace and continued deeper along the Stone Path.
• Xu Qing endured increasing pressure, recognized it as a special gravity that tested physical strength, and stepped forward using his Immortal Origin and divine power.

Xu Qing endured the Path of No Regret, transformed his body, and crossed a vast lake while cultivating the fourth divine light. He advanced to High Grade Immortal King, then used the Heavenly Furnace Earth Cauldron to suppress a massive thunder dragon that attacked him.

• Xu Qing pushed through the crushing pressure on the Path of No Regret, healed his broken bones, and completed his physical transformation.
• Xu Qing passed a stone stele marked "No Regret" and crossed the lake on foot, refusing to use the piers marked "Rebirth" and "Next Life."
• Xu Qing cultivated beneath the lake's dazzling stars for a month and condensed the fourth divine light, starlight, advancing to High Grade Immortal Lord.
• Xu Qing spent 10 Luck Value to transform the Seven Illusions Divine Light Technique into a Low Grade Dao Art, then advanced through Low Grade and Middle Grade to High Grade Immortal King.
• A gigantic thunder dragon attacked Xu Qing with purple lightning, and Xu Qing defended himself with a seven-colored light curtain.
• Xu Qing summoned the Heavenly Furnace Earth Cauldron and began refining the thunder dragon and its thunderclouds.

Xu Qing refined a thunder dragon and advanced to the Peak Immortal King Realm before crossing the Lake of Rebirth and exploring a ruined sect. He befriended a mind-damaged Saint Venerable who warned him away from a dangerous stone gate, while Origin Devils and Feng Wusheng entered the ruins in search of their own targets.

• Xu Qing refined the thunder dragon, absorbed its essence, and reached the Peak Immortal King Realm before stabilizing his cultivation.
• Mystic Heart Devil led two other Origin Devils into the secret realm to hunt for Xu Qing, while Feng Wusheng entered the ancient city ruins seeking revenge on Xu Qing, Ao Tianchang, and Mo Li.
• Xu Qing crossed the Lake of Rebirth by rejecting its apparent message of fixed destiny and affirming his own Dao.
• Xu Qing explored a decaying sect and fought a ruined Saint Venerable who repeatedly attacked him before withdrawing.
• At a blood-inscribed stone gate, the Saint Venerable warned Xu Qing not to enter, and Xu Qing stayed to build trust with him.

Xu Qing investigated the ruined sect, learned that a forbidden power tied to a statue lay beyond the stone gate, and eventually sent his Thunder Clone inside after finding himself unable to leave the ruins. The clone discovered a sealed formation surrounding a statue that looked exactly like Xu Qing, then entered the formation as the statue came into focus.

• Xu Qing traced the sect’s corruption to a forbidden power connected to a statue beyond the stone gate, but backed away after the black shadow begged him not to enter.
• The black shadow later gave Xu Qing a broken jade disk containing incomplete records about the sect’s mad Grand Martial Uncle, a dangerous source, and a prediction that everyone would die.
• Xu Qing decided not to risk entering the gate and tried to leave, but every route through the ruins led back to the shore of Lake of Rebirth.
• Unable to escape by any route, Xu Qing sent his Thunder Clone through the stone gate while the madwoman watched without stopping it.
• The Thunder Clone found an ancient formation sealing eerie energy and saw a dead sect cultivator kneeling before a statue that resembled Xu Qing.
• After recording what it had seen on a lightning jade slip and throwing it toward the gate, the Thunder Clone entered the formation, and the statue became clear.

Xu Qing used the panel to identify the statue as a soul vessel and followed its scripture to absorb the memories of countless lives, beginning to comprehend the Dao through reincarnation. As he sank deeper into the memories, the statue released a strange fluctuation that spread across the surrounding world and made living beings feel watched by the Heavenly Dao.

• Xu Qing realized the statue changed its appearance for each observer and used the panel to learn that it held vast, chaotic soul power and could impart memories through a scripture.
• Xu Qing climbed onto the statue and began reciting the scripture while Buckwheat stayed with him and agreed to call out to him every three days.
• Xu Qing experienced Wang Mu's memories of losing his family, cultivating for revenge, and eventually avenging them before returning to bury his parents.
• Xu Qing experienced Shaoyao's memories of plotting revenge against Prince Yong, whose death at the hands of a masked man led her to pursue the Daoist she believed was responsible for her family's destruction.
• Xu Qing witnessed countless other lives and experiences as he sought understanding through reincarnation.
• The statue emitted a strange fluctuation that spread beyond the sect ruins, and those who sensed it felt watched by the Heavenly Dao.

Xu Qing gained insight into the mortal world, awakened the Law of Time, and received the Soul Ancestor’s Emperor-level inheritance from the shattered statue. After consolidating his gains, he left the secret realm with the madwoman, who chose to follow him.

• Xu Qing drew the statue’s soul power into himself, comprehended the lives of beings throughout the secret realm, and caused his soul sense to sweep across the shattered universe.
• Xu Qing condensed the Law of Time and reached toward the Saint Venerable realm before the statue collapsed into his body, leaving a miniature sculpture with the Soul Ancestor’s Emperor-level inheritance in his dantian.
• Xu Qing discovered the formation’s hundreds of dead victims, erased the formation and corpses, and emerged from the stone door to reunite with his main body.
• Xu Qing consolidated his insights for a day, then asked the madwoman whether she wanted to leave with him.
• The madwoman ran deeper into the relic and returned with a pile of belongings, so Xu Qing stored them in a Storage Ring for her.

Xu Qing gave the madwoman a Storage Ring, reunited with September King, and sent her to Lake of Rebirth before killing Feng Wusheng and claiming his Luck Value. After learning that Feng Wusheng was the Phoenix Clan’s Saint Child, the clan’s leader ordered a massive mobilization against humanity.

• Xu Qing led the madwoman to the Path of No Regret, where September King completed the Stone Path and agreed to explore Lake of Rebirth.
• Xu Qing left September King at the lake and took the madwoman with him to confront Feng Wusheng.
• Xu Qing overwhelmed Feng Wusheng with his spear and time law, resisted his Phoenix Clan divine-soul attack, and killed him after searching his memories.
• Xu Qing gained 10 Luck Value and set off toward the three members of the Prime Devil Race while the madwoman followed him.
• A Phoenix Clan leader learned that Xu Qing had killed the clan’s Saint Child and ordered the clan and its subordinate races to prepare for war against humanity.

Xu Qing followed the mark left by a Mystic Heart Devil into an ancient burial site, where he discovered the Nether King's domain and witnessed an illusion of a battle between the Nether King and a powerful angel. The angel had just revealed himself as an agent of the Gods when Xu Qing recognized his resemblance to the angels from Blue Star.

• Xu Qing used Qi-Attracting Soul Condensation to follow the Mystic Heart Devil's mark to a burial site deep beneath the ancient city.
• Xu Qing fought a Dark Night Demon Race tomb guardian, refined it with his spirit dragon, and collected its puppet statue.
• Xu Qing opened the stone door to the Nether King's domain and entered its colorless world.
• The Nether King attacked Xu Qing, but Xu Qing discovered the apparent battle was an illusion replaying events from the past.
• A white-masked, winged man challenged the Nether King on behalf of the Gods, and Xu Qing recognized him as an angel.

Xu Qing witnessed an illusion in which a mysterious angel defeated Immortal Venerable Dao Xuan, then discovered the Seven Gods Coffins and collected their contents. He returned to the Lake of Rebirth and found September King gravely weakened at the center of a whirlpool.

• The angel used divine power to suppress Immortal Venerable Dao Xuan, who revealed his identity as the Nether King before being seized and taken through a rift.
• Xu Qing examined the transformed altar, placed the Dark Night Demon Race puppet sculpture in its groove, and revealed the Seven Gods Coffins.
• Xu Qing opened all seven coffins and stored their contents, including two demon dragons, an ancient skeleton, a Golden Winged Great Peng Bird, a divine beast egg, the Tree of Life, and the Heart of Law.
• Xu Qing left the Nether King's Cave, returned to the Lake of Rebirth, and followed the madwoman to September King.
• Xu Qing found September King floating in a vast whirlpool, deathly pale and surrounded by a deathly aura.

Xu Qing saved September King from a life-draining creature hidden in the Lake of Rebirth, then gained a demonic Flame Origin by subduing the will within Feng Wusheng’s Red Feather. After Xu Qing left the ancient city with September King and the madwoman, three Prime Devil Race members followed his trail, intending to hunt him for merit.

• Xu Qing discovered a spatial rift at the bottom of the Lake of Rebirth and drove away the creature draining September King’s life force, stopping her condition from worsening.
• Xu Qing examined Feng Wusheng’s Storage Ring and began absorbing the flame power of its Red Feathers to forge his own Flame Origin.
• The Red Feather’s Vermilion Bird revealed Prime Devil Race power and overwhelmed Xu Qing’s firebird, but Xu Qing infused it with Devil Qi until its will submitted and became a black-patterned firebird.
• Xu Qing formed a deep crimson Flame Origin, absorbed power from the remaining Red Feathers, and left the secret realm with September King and the madwoman.
• Three Prime Devil Race members arrived at the ancient city, identified traces of ancient devil power, and followed Xu Qing after deciding to risk an attack.

Xu Qing defeated three Prime Devils who ambushed him while he comprehended the Devil Fire Origin, then captured Shadow Devil’s remnant soul and learned that Venerable Devil wanted him. Sensing a stronger Prime Devil approaching, Xu Qing sent September King and the madwoman away and waited alone on a mountain peak.

• Mystic Heart Devil, Split-Back Devil, and Shadow Devil attacked Xu Qing, but he used his Devil Fire, Light Origin, dragon, and clones to defeat them.
• Split-Back Devil revealed that Venerable Devil had ordered them to track Xu Qing, and Xu Qing killed her and Mystic Heart Devil while capturing Shadow Devil’s remnant soul.
• A powerful being in the Prime Devil Race’s universe ordered Venerable Devil to bring Xu Qing back, and a figure in the Star Realm accepted the command.
• Xu Qing discovered that his Immortal Dragon had transformed and that the Immortal Dragon Heaven Devouring Art had absorbed Devil Markings, greatly strengthening him.
• Xu Qing told September King that the Prime Devil Race still threatened them, then sent her and the madwoman away when he sensed a powerful enemy approaching.
• Xu Qing waited alone on a mountain peak for the arriving Venerable Devil.

Xu Qing fought Venerable Devil, whose attacks revealed power over both space and time, and countered with his spear and Time Light. As Venerable Devil summoned more Prime Devil Race fighters, Xu Qing manifested light, thunder, and fire clones and unleashed tens of thousands of Yin Immortals, forcing Venerable Devil to tear out his own heart.

• Xu Qing dismissed the value of the Alien Universe inheritance and considered how to exchange its Stone Axe before Venerable Devil appeared.
• Xu Qing and his Thunder Clone attacked Venerable Devil, who swallowed their spear strikes with Devil Qi and countered with his Devil God Star Imprisoning Hand.
• Xu Qing invoked Time Light and destroyed Venerable Devil's devil hand, then met his enormous Devil Sword in a clash that ended in a draw.
• Xu Qing attacked with the Big Dipper formation and four divine lights while Venerable Devil summoned more than a hundred Prime Devil Race fighters.
• Xu Qing gathered the realm's light, thunder, and fire into three powerful clones, then sent tens of thousands of Yin Immortals to overwhelm the Prime Devil fighters.
• The four Xu Qings struck Venerable Devil and shattered his body; after reassembling, he declared that the immortals must be eradicated and tore out his own heart.

Xu Qing defeated Venerable Devil, but a Devil God seized them both through a rift and sealed Xu Qing away. The secret realm collapsed, and years later September King and the others returned without him, leaving Kuruo Elder to search for Xu Qing.

• Xu Qing and Venerable Devil clashed with their full strength, shattering the secret realm, and Xu Qing gained the upper hand as his black brands drained Venerable Devil’s life force.
• A demonic hand dragged Venerable Devil into a rift, then the Devil God’s power immobilized Xu Qing and pulled him into a black prison despite his attempt to break free.
• Ao Tianchang, Mo Li, September King, and the others found Xu Qing missing as the secret realm collapsed, while Clear Rain King appeared and identified traces of the Devil-Seeding Dao Attainment.
• September King and the others searched for Xu Qing for ten years, then returned to the human universe without finding him when the teleportation array opened.
• Kuruo Elder arrived to seek Xu Qing and promised to find him, while September King cared for the madwoman, who sometimes regained her senses and asked where Xu Qing was.

For fifty years after Xu Qing vanished, September King and his allies searched for him while humanity fought the Demon Race and his family worked to support the war. The chapter ended with Kuruo Elder entering the Beginning Demon Realm to find Xu Qing, only for the Martial God City Lord to discover that Xu Qing’s aura was not there.

• September King searched secret realms for thirty years and found a tablet inscribed, “Shatter the void, only to meet again.”
• The Demon Race launched a devastating war against humanity, and Xu Feng fought on the front lines to gain authority and learn what had happened to his father.
• The Demon Race attacked the Solar System but was driven back by powerful defenders, while the Third Prince and Thomas continued to await news of Xu Qing.
• Zhou Tong and Xu Dan treated wounded soldiers at a major medical hub, and Xu Dan told her mother that Xu Feng was returning briefly before heading back to battle.
• Kuruo Elder entered the Beginning Demon Realm with the Martial God City Lord’s help, but the City Lord found no trace of Xu Qing’s aura.