Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing climbed the Illusion Spirit Ascension Ladder and drew upon the Zhou Tian stars, comprehending the Zhou Tian Unmoving Method and then the ultimate technique Star Revolution. He remained poised to continue his ascent after surviving the mountain’s crushing force.

• Xu Qing resonated with the ancient bell and began cultivating through the power of the Zhou Tian stars as he climbed.
• Ying Wuhen and You Zi watched in amazement, and Ying Wuhen predicted that Xu Qing could reach at least seven hundred steps.
• At the four-hundredth step, Xu Qing comprehended the Zhou Tian Unmoving Method in the Town Immortal Realm.
• Xu Qing continued past the five-hundredth step, where he sensed further opportunities, and reached the six-hundredth step as his body began to crack and bleed.
• At the seven-hundredth step, Xu Qing endured an overwhelming voice urging him to flee and repeatedly recited “Zhou Tian Stillness, Star Revolution.”
• Xu Qing’s body blurred as the stars shone brighter, and he comprehended the ultimate technique Star Revolution in the Town Immortal Realm.

Xu Qing used the Zhou Tian Mystic Phantom Tribulation to overcome the mountain’s remaining barriers and reached the summit, where he received the lost Myriad Illusions True Self Art. His inheritance shook Ying Wuhen and You Zi, leaving the Illusion Spirit Sect’s succession uncertain.

• Xu Qing deduced and upgraded the Zhou Tian Mystic Phantom Tribulation, then used its power to climb the mountain without further difficulty.
• Illusion Spirit True Person praised Ying Wuhen for bringing Xu Qing and ordered the elders to prepare to support the Four Alliances.
• Xu Qing reached the summit, discovered the stele inscribed with “The Dao Is Also Empty,” and received the Immortal Ascension Realm Myriad Illusions True Self Art from an illusory figure.
• Ying Wuhen and You Zi watched in shock as Illusion Spirit True Person announced that the Myriad Illusions True Self Art had found its inheritor.
• You Zi pleaded with Illusion Spirit True Person to preserve Ying Wuhen’s position as Young Sect Master, and Ying Wuhen pulled him back to his feet.

Xu Qing broke through the Town Immortal Second and Third Decays on Illusion Spirit Peak, while the Illusion Spirit Sect accepted him as its new hope. Seeking members of the Demon Race, he learned of Black Abyss and entered it, determined to find them.

• Ying Wuhen accepted that Xu Qing had inherited the Myriad Illusions True Self Art, and Illusion Spirit True Person declared that the Illusion Spirit Sect would claim Xu Qing.
• Xu Qing passed the Great Dragon Tribulation and reached the Town Immortal Second Decay, then upgraded the Zhou Tian Mystic Phantom Tribulation and overcame the Five Organs Tribulation to reach the Third Decay.
• Xu Qing resolved to pursue the Immortal Ascension Realm and uncover the truth behind the destruction of the Ancient Immortal Sect.
• Xu Qing asked Illusion Spirit True Person and Ying Wuhen where he could find Demon Race members, and Ying Wuhen gave him a map to Black Abyss.
• Xu Qing traveled to Black Abyss and stepped into the dark abyss under a barrier of Star Power.

Xu Qing entered the Black Abyss, reached the Ten Thousand Demons Great Assembly, and selected demons to ambush for Attribute Points. After the assembly’s contests and night market, he led Tiger Seven and his puppets toward their first target, a defeated Phoenix Clan dandy.

• Xu Qing killed a Crocodile Scale Race member and pressed deeper into the Black Abyss, where he found ancient Demon Race ruins.
• Xu Qing and Tiger Seven posed as demons attending the Ten Thousand Demons Great Assembly and met Niu Dali and Zhu Fugui.
• Xu Qing and Tiger Seven followed the black-robed envoy to the assembly, where Xu Qing observed the contests and marked four Town Immortal and twelve Dao Immortal targets.
• Xu Qing and Tiger Seven declined Zhu Fugui’s invitation, settled at an inn, and prepared to move under cover of the Four Directions Shadow Severing Formation with Elephant Prison, Hu Meng, and Hunchback Old Poison.
• Xu Qing’s group approached a defeated Phoenix Clan dandy, and Tiger Seven confronted him while he drank alone.

Xu Qing and Tiger Seven killed a Phoenix Clan cultivator at the Ten Thousand Demons Great Assembly, triggering a sweeping investigation that forced the demon races to grow cautious. Xu Qing then targeted departing contestants and attacked the Red Feather Demon Race procession, killing Red Feather Zheng and gravely wounding Red Scale before the chapter ended with Xu Qing's spear aimed at the elder's heart.

• Tiger Seven and Xu Qing lured the defeated Phoenix Clan member into an isolation formation and killed him, then erased the traces of the ambush.
• The deaths of roughly ten Dao Immortal cultivators and two Town Immortals prompted Dragon Elder of the Bi Luo Sect to seal the venue and investigate.
• Xu Qing and Tiger Seven stayed hidden while the assembly grew tense, then Xu Qing assigned Tiger Seven, Elephant Prison, Hu Meng, and Hunchback Old Poison to hunt departing Dao Immortal Perfection cultivators.
• Xu Qing followed the Red Feather Demon Race procession and used an illusion to lure Red Scale away from Red Feather Zheng.
• Xu Qing disguised himself as Red Scale, killed Red Feather Zheng and the procession, then fought the returning Red Scale Elder and drove him away gravely wounded.
• Xu Qing caught up with the Red Scale Elder and thrust his Desolate Blood Spear toward the elder's heart.

Xu Qing killed the Red Scale Elder, then evaded Dragon Elder’s search and returned to find a Nether Sect remnant waiting for him. After summoning Tiger Seven and Elephant Prison, Xu Qing defeated the Town Four cultivator, absorbed his Nether Qi, and claimed the Nether Sect’s inheritance.

• Xu Qing killed the Red Scale Elder, and Dragon Elder arrived to find the bloodstains and suspect the Nether Sect.
• Dragon Elder repeatedly returned to the scene, then unleashed Azure Fire across the mountain forest before leaving for good.
• Xu Qing returned two days later, noticed the devastation, and headed toward his rendezvous with Tiger Seven and Elephant Prison.
• A mysterious Nether Sect remnant confronted Xu Qing, and the two fought after the man accused Xu Qing of framing the Nether Sect.
• Xu Qing summoned Tiger Seven and Elephant Prison, used Nether Chains to hold back the remnant’s attacks, and surrounded him with the Thrall Puppets.
• Xu Qing absorbed the remnant’s Nether Qi and killed him with Star Revolution, gaining the Nether Sect’s inheritance and attribute points.

Xu Qing returned to the Illusion Spirit Sect, revealed that he was the Ancient Immortal Sect’s Sect Master, and negotiated a joint response to the threat from Dragon Soar Mansion and Blue Spirit City. After a plan to send a vanguard and an elite strike force was approved, he entered seclusion and advanced his Zhou Tian Mystic Phantom Tribulation, triggering the Spirit Platform Tribulation within his sea of consciousness.

• Xu Qing refused Illusion Spirit True Person’s invitation to join the Illusion Spirit Sect, then disclosed that he was already the Sect Master of the Ancient Immortal Sect.
• Ye Fei gave Xu Qing a jade slip, and Xu Qing used its information to discuss the strength of Dragon Soar Mansion, Blue Spirit City, the Four Alliances, and the Illusion Spirit Sect.
• Illusion Spirit True Person explained the true and pseudo-Immortal Ascension paths and why second-rate powers concealed their Immortal Ascension cultivators.
• Xu Qing proposed sending a pseudo-Immortal Ascension expert and late-stage Town Immortal cultivators as a vanguard, followed by an elite strike force, and Illusion Spirit True Person agreed to cooperate.
• After the sects prepared to depart in five days, Xu Qing entered seclusion and spent four million Attribute Points to raise his Zhou Tian Mystic Phantom Tribulation to Great Accomplishment.
• The Spirit Platform Tribulation struck the Immortal Dragon inside Xu Qing’s sea of consciousness.

A mining disaster at Mangdang Mountain unleashed aberrant creatures that devastated the mine and destabilized Dragon Soar Mansion. After Xu Qing overcame the Spirit Platform Tribulation, he led the Illusion Spirit Sect vanguard toward the Four Alliances and learned their forces had gathered on Heavenly Wolf Mountain under an unknown threat.

• A Fox Clan miner struck something buried in Mangdang Mountain, triggering an explosion and the emergence of a colossal monster and its lethal scale-born creatures.
• Xu Qing overcame the Spirit Platform Tribulation in his sea of consciousness and emerged from seclusion with his cultivation and soul strengthened.
• Five days later, Ying Wuhen led the Illusion Spirit Sect vanguard toward the Four Alliances, where they found widespread disorder and fleeing demons.
• Ye Fei reported that aberrant creatures had appeared at Mangdang Mountain, Dragon Soar Mansion had fractured, and Blue Spirit City's reinforcement force had been wiped out.
• Xu Qing ordered the group to hurry back to the Four Alliances and sent Ye Fei to contact its leaders.
• Ye Fei confirmed that the Four Alliances had gathered on Heavenly Wolf Mountain and were struggling against the unknown threat.

Xu Qing rescued people in the Four Alliances until a powerful toad-like creature devastated the battlefield, then sent his companions to Heavenly Wolf Mountain while he fought the invading Demon Race. He tracked a spatial crack into the Underground World, where he battled hordes of mutants and realized their numbers could help him collect Attribute Points.

• Xu Qing and the Illusion Spirit Sect fought through the Four Alliances to protect civilians, but a toad-like creature clashed with Zhou Qi and its shockwaves killed everyone below the Upright Immortal Realm except those Xu Qing had moved into the Immortal Spirit Space.
• After Zhou Qi survived with severe injuries, Xu Qing sent Ye Fei, Han Shan, Liu Mengxuan, and the others to Heavenly Wolf Mountain while he stayed behind to protect the region and investigate the disaster.
• Xu Qing created ninety-nine clones and sent them, Tiger Seven, Elephant Prison, Hu Meng, and Hunchback Old Poison to hunt the Demon Race, giving scattered refugees and cultivators a chance to escape.
• Xu Qing found a concealed crack in a mountain valley and followed it into the Underground World, where he fought abnormal creatures and discovered that close combat harmed them more effectively than spells.
• Xu Qing and his forces killed thousands of mutants, gaining Attribute Points, and he continued deeper into the Underground World to search for their source.

Xu Qing returned to find the Ancient Immortal Sect besieged by a vast army of mutated creatures and fought his way to the altar that summoned and controlled them. He destroyed the altar, then reached the sect and reunited with its defenders, who prepared to head for Heavenly Wolf Mountain with Illusion Spirit Sect reinforcements already on the way.

• Xu Qing discovered over a hundred thousand mutated creatures surrounding the Ancient Immortal Sect and sent his clones to attack while he searched for their commander.
• Xu Qing followed a strange ripple to a mobile altar that spawned and controlled the monsters, then destroyed it with the Desolate Blood Spear.
• The altar's phantom guardian absorbed nearby creatures and charged Xu Qing as the Ancient Immortal Sect's defenders struggled to maintain their protective formation.
• Du Gu Jiu Meng recognized the returning Xu Qing as the source of the explosions outside, and Xu Qing drove back the monsters before landing at the sect.
• Xu Qing greeted Du Gu Jiu Meng, learned the sect had been close to collapse, and announced that Illusion Spirit Sect reinforcements were heading to Heavenly Wolf Mountain before urging the group to go there too.

Xu Qing restored the Ancient Immortal Sect’s formation, rallied its forces with the Vast Sea Sect, and helped rescue survivors from Wanlin City before splitting off to investigate the affiliated sects. He led roughly three hundred cultivators to the ruined Bai Lang Sect, where they discovered that only a little over twenty members remained alive.

• Xu Qing restored the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation and led the Ancient Immortal Sect and Vast Sea Sect out to fight the abnormal creatures.
• Xu Qing avoided the dangerous skies and led the group through the ruins of Wanlin City, where his clones found survivors being pursued by a beast tide.
• Xu Qing, Hu Meng, and the allied cultivators broke through the beast horde and rescued Wan Shang, the Wanlin Sect, and thousands of other survivors.
• Xu Qing organized the wounded and survivors, then sent Tiger Seven and Hu Meng to guide the main force toward Heavenly Wolf Mountain while he led affiliated sect cultivators to investigate their sects.
• Xu Qing led a group of roughly three hundred cultivators to the Bai Lang Sect and found its buildings in ruins and nearly all its Soul Tablets dark.

Xu Qing led survivors across the devastated Ancient Immortal Sect Domain, gathering refugees and strengthening their forces while fighting the abnormal creatures. After rescuing Lin Yifeng and helping defeat a beast horde, Xu Qing visited him in camp to ask about his tribulation breakthrough.

• Xu Qing rallied the Bai Lang Sect survivors, organized a search for survivors and resources, and led them toward the Ancient Orchid Sect.
• Xu Qing united scattered survivor groups, refined Dao Immortal Realm Thrall Puppets, and guided the growing force through repeated battles and dangerous terrain.
• At Qingliang Mountain, Xu Qing found Lin Yifeng leading refugees; Lin had broken through to the Town Immortal Realm and was undergoing the Four Extremities Tribulation.
• Xu Qing and Lin Yifeng joined forces to rescue civilians and fight a seemingly endless beast horde, while Xu Qing located and attacked its hidden leader-class monster.
• Xu Qing defeated the fused monster and its twenty Dao Immortal Realm components, then led the survivors to camp and went to check on Lin Yifeng's tribulation breakthrough.

Xu Qing rescued refugees and cultivators while reorganizing his forces, then led a swift team to aid the besieged Red Flame Hall. He and Lougu Zhenjun joined the battle against the abnormal creatures, leaving the Red Flame Hall’s defenders encouraged as the rescue force broke through the horde.

• Xu Qing offered Lin Yifeng and the surviving Clear Wave Sword Sect a place in the Ancient Immortal Sect, and gave him a Special Rejuvenation Elixir.
• Xu Qing had cultivators build sleds and organize a convoy that cut the refugees’ journey to the vicinity of Heavenly Wolf Mountain from fifteen days to five.
• Lougu Zhenjun and Tiger Seven arrived with a Dao Immortal Realm escort team, and Xu Qing split his forces, sending the wounded and Clear Wave Sword Sect back to the Heavenly Wolf Fortress while he continued south.
• Xu Qing’s team reached Red Flame Hall and found Fire Lie Feng battling a Town Immortal Realm monstrosity amid a massive siege.
• Lougu Zhenjun struck and wounded the monstrosity, while Xu Qing entered the fight and blasted away a towering creature formed from nearly a hundred Dao Immortal Realm aberrant creatures.
• Xu Qing’s avatar led the rest of his force through the beast tide toward Red Flame Hall, whose defenders cheered at his arrival.

Xu Qing rescued Red Flame Hall from the beast tide, then led his clones away to draw the creatures off while the others fled toward Heavenly Wolf Mountain. He defeated a false Immortal Ascension Realm giant beast and returned to the group, leaving them stunned by his victory.

• Xu Qing and his cultivators broke through the beast tide and reached Red Flame Hall, where Red Flame True Person agreed to evacuate with them toward Heavenly Wolf Mountain.
• Xu Qing sent dozens of his clones west to lure the beast tide away while Lougu Zhenjun and Fire Lie Feng led the others north under concealment.
• An Immortal Ascension Realm giant beast appeared, and Xu Qing faced it with his nine clones and true body as the others continued their escape.
• Xu Qing fought through the beast's attacks and tore it in two with the Desolate Blood Spear, earning a million attribute points and one hundred thousand luck.
• Xu Qing returned to the group and told Lougu Zhenjun, Red Flame True Person, and the others that he had slain the monster.

After Xu Qing led the Four Alliances through a beast tide to Heavenly Wolf Fortress, their leaders gathered to address the crisis and investigate the ominous rain of fire. The Illusion Spirit Sect’s Grand Elder reported sensing an ancient immortal’s aura in the celestial sign, leaving the allies facing a potentially greater threat.

• Xu Qing’s victory inspired the Ancient Immortal Sect, and a Heavenly Dao Gift strengthened his cultivation.
• A meteor and rain of fire awakened the abnormal creatures, so Xu Qing led the survivors toward Heavenly Wolf Mountain.
• Xu Qing’s party found the mountain surrounded by monsters and fought through the tide alongside Du Gu Jiu Meng and the other Town Immortal Realm experts.
• Three Immortal Ascension monsters appeared, but the Flowing Cloud Sect, Heavenly Wolf Sect, and Fei Lian Sect joined the battle, and Xu Qing unleashed his powers to help clear a path into Heavenly Wolf Fortress.
• Zhao Wuji and the other leaders discussed the fortress’s shortages and casualties before the Illusion Spirit Sect’s Grand Elder warned that the rain of fire carried an ancient immortal’s aura.

Xu Qing led the defense of Heavenly Wolf Fortress while undergoing the final Dao Tribulation of the Town Immortal Realm. After surviving an overnight monster assault, he began reforging the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill into a Five-Colored Danxia and swallowed it to aid his breakthrough.

• Xu Qing was chosen to lead a reconnaissance team investigating the Ancient Immortal ruins, while he secretly reached Perfection in the Zhou Tian Mystic Phantom Tribulation and began his final Town Immortal Realm tribulation.
• Abnormal creatures breached Heavenly Wolf Fortress through the sewers, and Xu Qing sent his four companions to defend the walls before joining the battle himself.
• Xu Qing fought back the monsters with his clones and spear techniques, helping the Four Alliances repel the assault by dawn despite suffering injuries during his tribulation.
• Xu Qing withdrew to the Immortal Spirit Space, endured ten days of the difficult tribulation, and resolved to forge an Undying Immortal Body.
• Xu Qing used the Heavenly Furnace Earth Cauldron to reforge the damaged Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill into a Five-Colored Danxia, then swallowed it.

Xu Qing reached perfection in the Town Immortal Realm, then led a team to investigate the fire-rain impact site and discovered that an ancient corpse was causing the monsters’ mutations. The corpse carried a jade tablet identifying its owner as the South Sky Divine General, leaving Xu Qing and Ru Feng facing the revelation of a connection to the Heavenly Court.

• Xu Qing refined a pill in the Immortal Spirit Space and reached Town Immortal Realm, Perfection.
• Xu Qing, Ying Wuhen, Han Shan, Qing Yu, and Ru Feng fought regenerating monsters and found that destroying their corpses stopped them from reviving.
• The group reached the crater, where a purple monster wounded Qing Yu; Xu Qing sent Qing Yu into the Spirit Realm and continued with his avatar in Qing Yu’s place.
• Xu Qing and Ru Feng fought past the purple guards and found a mangled iron-blue corpse at the crater’s core.
• Ru Feng identified the jade tablet on the corpse as the South Sky Divine General’s identity tablet and urged Xu Qing to report the discovery.

Xu Qing recovered the South Sky Divine General’s corpse and a jade tablet, then used the tablet to reveal memories of the Heavenly Court’s attack and the evil art that twisted its laws. After spotting a mysterious Black-Robed Person near Heavenly Wolf Fortress, Xu Qing rescued thousands of refugees and headed back with them to the fortress.

• Xu Qing stored the South Sky Divine General’s corpse in the Immortal Spirit Space and repelled a purple monster’s attack before escaping the crater with Elder Ru Feng and Elder Qing Yu.
• Xu Qing returned to Heavenly Wolf Fortress and told the Four Alliances that the jade tablet might be connected to the Heavenly Court’s upheaval and the Star Sea Realm’s crisis.
• Xu Qing and the elders studied the tablet under the full moon, revealing visions of the Heavenly Court battlefield, the South Sky Divine General, and a figure wielding an evil art that distorted the laws.
• Zhao Wuji told Xu Qing that a rescue team had returned with three hundred cultivators and four thousand refugees waiting at Azure Jade Cliff.
• Xu Qing pursued a mysterious Black-Robed Person near the fortress, but the figure vanished without leaving spatial fluctuations.
• Xu Qing reached Azure Jade Cliff, calmed the refugees, transferred them into the Immortal Spirit Space, and set off for Heavenly Wolf Fortress.

Xu Qing helped the Four Alliances shelter refugees, investigate the Black-Robed People, and turn ancient immortal blood into weapons that weakened the Mutated Creatures. He then escorted Ying Wuhen and the Illusion Spirit Sect disciples toward Central Province, learning that Dragon Soar Mansion had nearly fallen and survivors were fleeing north to Blue Spirit City.

• Xu Qing brought refugees to Heavenly Wolf Fortress, where Venerable Hong Bai and others arranged temporary housing, supplies, and rebuilding work.
• Xu Qing convened the Four Alliances' leaders to discuss the Black-Robed People, ordered stronger defenses, and learned that Dragon Soar Mansion had lost three prefectures and was clinging to Qian He City.
• Feng Wusheng reported that ancient immortal blood hindered the Mutated Creatures' healing, and Xu Qing rejected the idea of cultivators consuming ancient immortal flesh to evolve.
• Xu Qing helped forge weapons with ancient immortal blood, weakening the Mutated Creatures and easing the siege, while the Four Alliances expanded defenses and made body-tempering training mandatory.
• Xu Qing agreed to escort Ying Wuhen and the Illusion Spirit Sect disciples home, then set out with them and precious ancient immortal blood.
• In a valley, Xu Qing met Demon Race survivors fleeing Qian He City and heard that they planned to seek refuge in Blue Spirit City, which had resisted the first wave of attacks.

Xu Qing and Ying Wuhen returned with the Illusion Spirit Sect survivors to find their sect abandoned, then encountered powerful, coordinated Mutated Creatures in its forbidden ground. As they hurried toward Thousand Talisman City to warn the other sects, a vast tide of beasts surrounded them in the darkness.

• Xu Qing led the group into Central Province, where they found the Illusion Spirit Sect reduced to ruins, but Ying Wuhen confirmed that the Sect Master and most of the disciples had evacuated to Thousand Talisman City.
• Ying Wuhen led Xu Qing and a search party through the ruins to recover supplies and precious pill furnaces and magic artifacts.
• Aberrant Creatures attacked in the forbidden ground, and Xu Qing and Ying Wuhen fought off the purple-skinned monsters before retreating from the area.
• Xu Qing and Ying Wuhen warned Grand Elder Zhou Qi that the Mutated Creatures were unusually powerful and seemed to be directed by a hidden force.
• As the group traveled toward Thousand Talisman City at night, a vast tide of mutated beasts surged toward them.