Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing and the Illusion Spirit Sect survived a massive Mutated Beast attack after the Illusion Spirit Sect's main force arrived, then traveled to One City, a fortress built by the Talismans and Arrays Sect. There, Xu Qing met Zhao Qi to share information about Ancient Immortal Corpses, and Zhao Qi invited him to become a guest elder of the Talismans and Arrays Sect.

• Xu Qing led the Illusion Spirit Sect group through the beast horde and retreated into a forest, where sixteen Town Immortal Realm Mutated Beast leaders joined the attack.
• The Illusion Spirit Sect's main force, led by its Sect Master, arrived and helped Xu Qing's group repel the beasts, killing thirteen Town Immortal Realm monsters.
• Xu Qing and the survivors traveled with the Illusion Spirit Sect to One City, where he was astonished by the Talismans and Arrays Sect's fusion of technology and runes.
• Xu Qing told Wang Yu that Ancient Immortal Corpses could inflict devastating damage on abnormal creatures, prompting Wang Yu to summon Elder Zhao.
• Xu Qing reunited with Zhao Qi, whom he had met at the Bao Dan Sect's Alchemy Dao Grand Assembly, and discussed the crisis in Central Province.
• Zhao Qi invited Xu Qing to become a guest elder of the Talismans and Arrays Sect, causing an uproar in the council hall.

Xu Qing accepted Zhao Qi’s offer to become a guest elder of the Talismans and Arrays Sect after learning how dire the crisis in Central Province had become. In exchange for leading a dangerous mission to destroy a creature nest, he received command of a team and won their respect before they planned the operation together.

• Xu Qing told Zhao Qi that ancient immortal corpse blood enhanced weapons against mutated creatures, and the Talismans and Arrays Sect confirmed the discovery through tests.
• After considering the offer for three days, Xu Qing agreed to become a guest elder and negotiated for cannons by offering to help destroy a hidden creature nest near Talismans and Arrays City.
• Zhao Qi tasked Xu Qing with leading nine Town Immortal Realm experts to guide the sect’s Forbidden Artifact to the nest and signal its destruction.
• At the Ninth Council Hall, Xu Qing struck down a black-robed cultivator who challenged his authority, then explained that his survival skills made him suited to lead the team.
• Xu Qing presented a battle map, and the team discussed and revised a plan to locate the creatures’ nest before preparing for the mission.

Xu Qing led a concealed expedition toward the anomalous creatures’ nest, using advanced Spirit Rune Battle Armor and drones to investigate beast hordes moving toward One City. The team found an ancient Blood Sacrifice formation guarding a Mountain Hollow, and Xu Qing moved to intercept creatures approaching as a teammate studied the barrier.

• The Talismans and Arrays Sect equipped Xu Qing’s team with Spirit Rune Battle Armor, drones, and Spirit Energy Cannons, and they set out for the anomalous creatures’ nest.
• Xu Qing’s team evaded several beast hordes, while his silent methods removed creatures that threatened to expose them; drone reconnaissance showed the hordes were organized and heading toward One City.
• Xu Qing created a clone to draw the beasts’ attention, allowing Ying Wuhen to send an emergency warning and intelligence to the sect.
• The team continued toward its calculated target point, reached a Mountain Hollow surrounded by a black-water barrier, and learned from a Lan Mei cultivator that it resembled an ancient Blood Sacrifice formation.
• As the cultivator studied the barrier, a large group of Mutated Creatures approached, and Xu Qing vanished to intercept them.

Xu Qing led the group into the Mountain Hollow, where they discovered Incubation Organs using living people to produce Mutated Creatures. After luring away the hidden guards at the first control room, Xu Qing caught up with Ying Wuhen's group and rescued nearly a thousand survivors from a dangerous battle.

• Xu Qing collected the approaching Mutated Creatures into the Immortal Spirit Space while the Talismans and Arrays Sect cultivator broke the barrier.
• Xu Qing led the group into the Mountain Hollow, where they found a maze filled with Incubation Organs and learned that living people were being turned into Biological Weapons.
• Xu Qing decided they needed to find the Core Control Room and stop the Incubation Organs from producing more creatures.
• At the apparently empty control room, Xu Qing noticed the hidden guards and drew them away so Ying Wuhen and the others could enter a Hidden Entrance.
• Xu Qing defeated the shadow creatures inside the Immortal Spirit Space, then followed Ying Wuhen's trail through the maze.
• Xu Qing arrived as Mutated Creatures besieged Ying Wuhen's group and rescued nearly a thousand survivors with his power.

Xu Qing and his team destroyed a Mutated Creature barracks by shattering its black crystal core, then used an ancient artifact’s energy signature to locate another camp and lure its defenders into a devastating Forbidden Artifact attack. The second barracks was reduced to a crater, with more than ninety percent of its Mutated Creatures destroyed.

• Xu Qing and Ying Wuhen fought through the Mountain Hollow, then destroyed the black crystal as waves of Mutated Creatures and powerful monsters attacked.
• After escaping the collapsing Mountain Hollow, Xu Qing found an ancient jade slip and learned it could reveal the energy signature of Mutated Creature barracks.
• A Talismans and Arrays Sect cultivator analyzed the jade slip and used its energy signature to locate another barracks hidden in Black Mist.
• Xu Qing and Ying Wuhen staged repeated attacks to draw more Mutated Creatures into the camp and make its defenders grow vigilant.
• Xu Qing ordered the Forbidden Artifact activated, and a Teleportation Array unleashed a sea of lightning that destroyed the barracks and over ninety percent of its Mutated Creatures.

Xu Qing and his allies destroyed several Mutated Creature barracks, but a new disaster struck One City when Wraith Shadows infected its inhabitants and an army of aberrant creatures attacked. Xu Qing ordered the city isolated and fought to contain the spreading threat as the walls came under assault.

• Xu Qing killed a Town Immortal Five Decays Mutated Creature, and his allies cleared the battlefield and the remaining barracks.
• Xu Qing led six sorties over half a month, destroying four more barracks before Zhao Qi was transferred away and delivered the promised cannons.
• Xu Qing prepared to return to the Four Alliances, but Zhao Qi rushed back and urged him to evacuate One City’s residents into his Spirit Realm space.
• Zhao Qi explained that Wraith Shadows had infected people across the city, and Xu Qing used his Divine General Spiritual Eye to reveal the puppets and sent his avatars to fight them.
• Xu Qing ordered all four districts isolated and gathered cultivators to contain the infection as an army of aberrant creatures attacked One City’s walls.

After One City fell to the Wraith Shadows and mutated creatures, Xu Qing escorted survivors to Two City and returned to Heavenly Wolf Fortress with new cannons. He fortified the fortress, forged the Ancient Immortal Art, and raided monster nests until he had twenty million Attribute Points, then returned to the sect poised to break through to the Immortal Ascension Realm.

• Xu Qing ordered the retreat from One City and transported its survivors to Two City, where Zhao Qi gave him two Charged Fire Cannons.
• Xu Qing warned Zhao Qi to isolate the survivors from possible Wraith Shadow contamination, then returned to Heavenly Wolf Fortress after taking a circuitous route to avoid the Wraith Shadows.
• Xu Qing installed the cannons at Heavenly Wolf Fortress, and their firepower drove back a mutated-creature horde.
• Xu Qing mastered the Myriad Illusions True Self Art, turned Zhou You into a Thrall Puppet, and derived the Ancient Immortal Art from three cultivation arts.
• Xu Qing led Tiger Seven, Elephant Prison, and Zhou You on raids against mutated-creature nests, collecting twenty million Attribute Points over two months.
• Xu Qing commanded his companions to return to the sect, ready to pursue the Immortal Ascension Realm.

Xu Qing advanced to the Treading Immortal Realm, discovered a world inhabited by Mutated Creatures, and learned why the Four Alliances were destroyed. Du Gu Jiu Meng revealed that he had once been an Ancient Immortal and named the South Pole Longevity Great Emperor as his enemy’s still-living master.

• Xu Qing cultivated the Ancient Immortal Art, broke through to the Treading Immortal Realm, and endured eighty-one bolts of Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xu Qing sensed hundreds of Treading Heaven experts and discovered a gray planet beyond the Star Sea Realm where Mutated Creatures lived.
• Xu Qing returned to Heavenly Wolf Fortress and told the sect masters that he had advanced to the Treading Immortal Realm.
• Du Gu Jiu Meng and the sect masters explained that the Four Alliances had been destroyed after they tried to uncover and imitate the Ancient Immortals’ power, Immortal Source.
• Du Gu Jiu Meng revealed that he had once been an Ancient Immortal, killed the Ancient Immortal responsible for the destruction, and feared the South Pole Longevity Great Emperor, that man’s master.

Xu Qing found a rift leading to the Mutated Creatures’ realm, killed its monsters, and strengthened himself and Elephant Prison before exploring deeper. He stole the kill on a wounded Fifth Bridge Treading Immortal Mutated Creature, gaining ten million Free Attribute Points.

• Xu Qing discovered a hidden rift at a mine near Dragon Soar Mansion and entered the chaotic realm beyond it.
• Xu Qing and his Thrall Puppets killed waves of Mutated Creatures while searching for their nests.
• Xu Qing advanced the Ancient Immortal Art to Peak Mastery and raised Elephant Prison to Immortal Ascension First Bridge, then sent him back to guard Heavenly Wolf Fortress.
• Xu Qing, Tiger Seven, and Zhou You explored deeper and found a Star Sea Realm expert battling a powerful Mutated Creature.
• Xu Qing ambushed the wounded creature as it fled and killed it with the Desolate Blood Spear, earning ten million Free Attribute Points.

After meeting Upside Down True Being in the Grey Realm, Xu Qing used his map to hunt Mutated Creatures and advanced to the Seventh Bridge of the Immortal Ascension Realm. He rescued Upside Down True Being and San Qing from a deadly ambush, then learned that the Wraith Shadows had destroyed three cities, leaving him worried about the Illusion Spirit Sect.

• Xu Qing spoke with Upside Down True Being, learned why the Star Sea Realm was exploring the Grey Realm, and received a map and jade slip of known routes and encampments.
• Over the next half year, Xu Qing hunted Mutated Creatures, reached the Seventh Bridge, and killed a powerful Seventh Bridge monster.
• Xu Qing arrived as Upside Down True Being and San Qing faced four Immortal Ascension Realm Mutated Creatures, killed one, and drove off the rest.
• Xu Qing joined the injured Upside Down True Being and San Qing on their way to a nearby encampment.
• Upside Down True Being and San Qing told Xu Qing that the Wraith Shadows had destroyed Cities One, Two, and Three, prompting Xu Qing to worry about the Illusion Spirit Sect.

Xu Qing established himself at the Eleventh Province outpost by defeating Night Shadow and forcing him to swear not to seek revenge, then left to find September King. After returning to Heavenly Wolf Fortress and departing with Zhou You, Xu Qing reached the Tenth Province and searched the ocean for the Qionghai Sect, where a mysterious song interrupted his search.

• Xu Qing insulted Night Shadow after Night Shadow disparaged him, then defeated him with the Formless Step, Immortal Dragon Devours Tiger, and Star Revolution.
• Cloud Dress Fairy mediated, and Night Shadow swore not to trouble Xu Qing or the Night Fiend Sect; Xu Qing spared him and gave him a healing pill.
• Xu Qing investigated Ancient Immortal Ruins with the outpost group, then learned the location of the Qionghai Sect from Upside Down True Being and returned to Heavenly Wolf Fortress.
• Xu Qing told Zhou Tong that he sought September King only to fulfill a promise to a friend, and Zhou Tong supported his decision to leave with Zhou You.
• Xu Qing and Zhou You traveled through the Tenth Province's ocean, fought mutated sea beasts, and reached the Qionghai Sect's general location.
• Xu Qing could not pinpoint the Qionghai Sect, and a melodious song drifted across the sea.

Xu Qing found September King within Qionghai Sect, where her soul shared Chang Qing’s body, and used the Dual Soul Technique to restore her. September King awoke and reunited with Xu Qing, while the real Chang Qing lay unconscious nearby.

• Xu Qing and Zhou You followed a song to Qionghai Sect, where Xu Qing demanded to see September King and broke through the sect’s protective array.
• Sect Master Hu Lanhe recognized Xu Qing’s overwhelming strength and let him speak privately with Chang Qing, who denied being September King.
• Xu Qing studied Qionghai Sect’s Dual Soul Technique and quickly demonstrated that he could separate and control souls.
• Chang Qing revealed that September King’s soul was fading, and Xu Qing used his power to gather it and restore her.
• September King awakened in Chang Qing’s body, embraced Xu Qing, and asked him to treat Chang Qing kindly.

Xu Qing left September King in Tenth Province with a protective jade pendant and returned to Heavenly Wolf Fortress, where he helped strengthen the Four Alliances and test its defenses. After a half-month of reforms, he entered the Grey Realm and found that the Mutated Creatures had vanished.

• Xu Qing gave September King a Nether Shadow body, respected her choice to remain in Tenth Province, and left her a protective pendant containing powerful inheritances.
• Xu Qing promised Hu Lanhe that the Qionghai Sect would protect September King, rebuilt its formation, and departed with Zhou You for Eleventh Province.
• Xu Qing toured Heavenly Wolf Fortress’s expanded underground city and learned that the Four Alliances had opened cultivation to citizens and adopted the Genetic Martial Path.
• Xu Qing led a simulated assault on Heavenly Wolf Fortress, exposed a weakness in the Primal Chaos Heavenly Constellation Array, and helped the formation masters build version 2.0.
• After the fortress completed a half-month review and improvements, Xu Qing entered the Grey Realm and discovered that its Mutated Creatures had disappeared.

Xu Qing discovered how to refine Immortal Source from the South Sky Divine General’s corpse and defeated the Divine General’s remnant soul hidden in his token. Four days later, a reply arrived from the Upside Down True Being, and Xu Qing went to the edge of the Grey Realm to meet it.

• Xu Qing told the sect masters that the Grey Realm’s Human Race stronghold was ruined and its Mutated Creatures had nearly vanished, then decided to investigate Immortal Source.
• Xu Qing used his panel to learn the method for refining Immortal Source from the South Sky Divine General’s corpse and secretly moved the corpse into the Immortal Spirit Space.
• Xu Qing refined the corpse’s materials into Immortal Source, but the South Sky Divine General’s remnant soul emerged from its token and attacked him.
• Xu Qing defeated the remnant soul, absorbed the gray curse from the token, and chose not to absorb the Immortal Source yet.
• Four days later, Xu Qing received a reply from the Upside Down True Being and went to the edge of the Grey Realm with the sound-transmission talisman.

Xu Qing traveled to Wangxian City to meet Upside Down True Being and South Pole Immortal Elder, where a clash between Xu Qing and the Immortal Elder was interrupted by the arrival of the South Pole Longevity Great Emperor. The Great Emperor revealed a spreading dark force in the Grey Realm’s core and secured their agreement to work together against it.

• Xu Qing followed Upside Down True Being’s summons to Wangxian City, where he learned that sect elites were gathering to strike at the Grey Realm’s Mutated Creatures.
• Upside Down True Being brought Xu Qing to meet South Pole Immortal Elder, who attacked him and provoked a fight.
• Xu Qing and South Pole Immortal Elder exchanged powerful techniques, but the Immortal Elder began invoking Immortal Source before the South Pole Longevity Great Emperor intervened.
• The South Pole Longevity Great Emperor revealed that a deep, unprecedented dark force was spreading through the Grey Realm’s core.
• Xu Qing and South Pole Immortal Elder agreed to put aside their grievances and hear the Great Emperor’s plan for confronting the threat.

Xu Qing and Upside Down True Being uncovered a hidden age-old secret about Wangxian City, then set out to destroy a Gray Realm ancestral altar. Their attack exposed a powerful black stele beneath the altar, and Xu Qing charged at it as its frightening power emerged.

• At the Longevity Great Emperor's council, Xu Qing chose to destroy the Gray Realm creatures' ancestral land, and Upside Down True Being volunteered to join him.
• Xu Qing and Upside Down True Being noticed Wangxian City's walls seemed far older than its official history, and Xu Qing's appraisal revealed the city had been built one hundred million years ago and reset every two hundred thousand years.
• Three days later, Xu Qing and Upside Down True Being reached a Gray Vein Mountain Valley ahead of the main army and attacked its altar, guarded by eight Gray Giants.
• Upside Down True Being destroyed the altar's top, revealing a massive black stele beneath it as an ancient evil aura shook the valley.
• Xu Qing endured the Gray Giants' blows and sent a blood-colored dragon formed from his Desolate Blood Spear toward the stele.

Xu Qing and Upside Down True Being destroyed a Forbidden Curse Stele, survived the curse’s devastating eruption, and returned to Wangxian City as the conflict with the Grey Realm escalated. After capturing and killing a Gray Giant leader during a new mission, Xu Qing discovered it was a puppet secretly made by the ancient immortals of the Heavenly Court, deepening his suspicion about the war.

• Xu Qing and Upside Down True Being shattered the Forbidden Curse Stele, escaped the ensuing catastrophe, and returned to Wangxian City.
• The main force returned with heavy losses, and South Pole Longevity Great Emperor later arrived with three ancient immortals and announced that the Third Realm was approaching.
• South Pole Longevity Great Emperor assigned Xu Qing and Upside Down True Being to attack another Grey Realm ancestral land, while Xu Qing doubted the Heavenly Court’s account of the conflict.
• Xu Qing used layered clone decoys to draw away the Gray Giants as he and Upside Down True Being entered their nest and confronted its leader.
• Xu Qing captured the Gray Giant leader, killed it in his Immortal Spirit Space, and discovered through his panel that it was a puppet manufactured by the ancient immortals of the Heavenly Court.

Xu Qing confronted South Pole Immortal Elder in the Immortal Spirit Space and forced him to reveal that Heavenly Court staged the war to harvest the Star Sea Realm’s strongest cultivators. After learning the three Immortal Emperors were behind the scheme, Xu Qing killed South Pole Immortal Elder and began refining him.

• Xu Qing decided to act against the Heavenly Court after suspecting it was using the war to harvest top cultivators, then returned to Wangxian City with Upside Down True Being.
• After the celebration, Xu Qing broke into South Pole Immortal Elder’s residence and transported them both to the Immortal Spirit Space.
• Xu Qing defeated South Pole Immortal Elder with his Immortal Source Power, nine clones, and Star Revolution technique.
• South Pole Immortal Elder admitted that Heavenly Court created the Foul Language Puppets and engineered the war to use top Star Sea Realm cultivators to heal injured ancient immortals.
• South Pole Immortal Elder revealed that South Pole Longevity Great Emperor and two other Immortal Emperors were the masterminds, then offered to help Xu Qing expose them.
• Xu Qing rejected South Pole Immortal Elder’s offer, killed him, and ordered his body refined.

After killing the South Pole Immortal Elder, Xu Qing discovered the Returning to TruthManual and learned that three portions of Immortal Source could open the path to the Transcendent Realm. He lured the North Heavenly Gate General into the Immortal Spirit Space, defeated him through repeated revivals, and obtained the General’s cultivation art and two portions of Immortal Source.

• Xu Qing absorbed the South Pole Immortal Elder’s Immortal Source, then found the Returning to TruthManual in the Elder’s Storage Ring and learned that it required three portions of Immortal Source to reach the Transcendent Realm.
• The South Pole Longevity Great Emperor ordered Wangxian City searched for the missing South Pole Immortal Elder and later confined the gathered cultivators while he went to find Xu Qing.
• Xu Qing entered the North Heavenly Gate General’s residence and lured the General into the Immortal Spirit Space, where they fought fiercely.
• Xu Qing repeatedly revived and attacked until the North Heavenly Gate General was defeated, then questioned him about the Transcendent Realm and took his Heavenly Astral Law cultivation art.
• Xu Qing killed the North Heavenly Gate General and discovered that the General possessed two portions of Immortal Source, which Xu Qing began refining.

Xu Qing broke through to the Transcendent Realm, forged a new cultivation art and spear, and killed the Nine Luminaries Star Lord to seize his Immortal Source. After perfecting the Creation Spear Art, he returned to the battlefield and launched a surprise attack on Radiant Star Lord, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Xu Qing fused the True Blood Soul Refining Art with the Returning to Truth Manual, creating and upgrading the Blood Soul Returning Truth Art as he advanced to the Transcendent Realm.
• Xu Qing reforged his treasures into a new spear named Starry Sky Qiang and discovered that the army had left Wangxian City for the main battlefield.
• Xu Qing infiltrated the battle, wounded and abducted the Nine Luminaries Star Lord, then killed him in the Immortal Spirit Space and absorbed his four portions of Immortal Source.
• Xu Qing deduced and perfected the Creation Spear Art, using his remaining attribute points to strengthen it.
• Xu Qing disguised himself as a Gray Realm Creature, approached Radiant Star Lord, and struck at him with the Creation Spear Art.