Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing fought the Six-armed Monster that emerged after Xuan Yuan Yi Chen sacrificed himself, defeating the ancient fiend despite its overwhelming power. The monster’s offer of service came too late, and Zhou Qing destroyed it with his Thunder Seal Unification attack.

• Zhou Qing charged Xuan Yuan Yi Chen, who revealed a demonic brand and sacrificed his lifespan and body to summon the presence within it.
• The Black Mist consumed Xuan Yuan Yi Chen and transformed him into a Six-armed Monster whose aura revealed its origins in a Fifth-Level Cultivation Country.
• Xuan Yuan Hao’s Soul Protection Mark appeared to defend his son, but the Six-armed Monster destroyed the dragon phantom and then targeted Zhou Qing as its ideal vessel.
• Zhou Qing sent Town Mountain and the commanders away before battling the Six-armed Monster with his Golden Crow, lightning, Tetanus, and formations.
• The Six-armed Monster wounded Zhou Qing with six Demonic Artifacts, but Zhou Qing healed, drove it back, and pierced it with his Thunder Seal Unification spear.
• The Six-armed Monster offered to serve Zhou Qing and reveal a secret treasure, but Zhou Qing rejected its plea and destroyed it with a final burst of lightning.

After Zhou Qing was saved from a vengeful black light, Nangong Xiong Ba revealed that he intended to seize Zhou Qing’s body and use his identity for revenge. Zhou Qing’s desperate attack failed, but Nangong Xiong Ba was interrupted by four approaching figures just as he was about to enter Zhou Qing’s Sea of Consciousness.

• Zhou Qing fell from the sky after exhausting his spiritual power, but Nangong Xiong Ba trapped the black light that had tried to possess him.
• Nangong Xiong Ba revealed that he had been waiting to seize Zhou Qing’s body, hoping to gain his talent and Array Master memories and use his identity to take revenge.
• Nangong Xiong Ba explained that Xuan Yuan Shuo had imprisoned him at the border with a restriction, and that he saw body seizing as his chance to escape his impending death.
• After secretly recovering, Zhou Qing attacked Nangong Xiong Ba with Tetanus, but Nangong Xiong Ba disarmed and pinned him down with his Severing Spirit Realm power.
• Nangong Xiong Ba’s Seven-Colored Nascent Soul began entering Zhou Qing’s Sea of Consciousness, then stopped when he sensed four figures nearby and turned to attack them.

Zhou Qing defeated Nangong Xiong Ba’s attempt to seize his body, destroyed the dangerous black spirit, and escaped the border battlefield. After recovering and refining Nangong Xiong Ba’s corpse for three Blood Phoenix Tribulation Crystals, he returned to the Imperial Capital to gather materials for a Severing Spirit breakthrough, while learning Shen Han Yi had not yet arrived.

• Town Mountain let Chen Xuanming and three Dao Protectors pass, but Nangong Xiong Ba killed all four with a giant palm before Zhou Qing could be interrupted.
• Inside Zhou Qing’s Sea of Consciousness, Nangong Xiong Ba discovered Zhou Qing’s Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown Dao foundation and was refined by its four powers.
• Zhou Qing absorbed Nangong Xiong Ba’s breakthrough insights, then destroyed the black spirit from Xuan Yuan Yi Chen rather than risk cooperating with it.
• Zhou Qing escaped the battlefield, recovered for two months, and refined Nangong Xiong Ba’s corpse into three powerful Blood Phoenix Tribulation Crystals.
• Zhou Qing decided to seek materials from the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce and return to the Taiqing Sect to prepare for a Severing Spirit breakthrough.
• More than three months later, Zhou Qing reached the Imperial Capital, learned Shen Han Yi had not returned, and headed for the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce.

Zhou Qing reunited with his companions after asking Mo Tianheng to gather rare Four Color Array materials, then met Zhao Muye, a powerful cultivator from the Heavenly Fortune Saint Dynasty’s Zhao Family. Zhao Muye recognized Zhou Qing’s Silent Abyss Temple token and explained his family’s body-cultivation path, while Yan Luo’s pursuit of the Yan Family’s interests left Zhou Qing facing new dangers.

• Mo Tianheng gave Zhou Qing two Wood Attribute Spirit Stones and agreed to gather the remaining rare Four Color Array materials from families across several prefectures.
• Zhou Qing reunited with Lu Yaoyao, Gui Ao, Luo Lingling, and Shen Yunzhou, who told him that the royal family was seeking him to repair the restrictions damaged in the Royal Treasury robbery.
• Shen Yunzhou teased Zhou Qing about his supposed feelings for Shen Han Yi, and Zhou Qing struggled to explain how he had traveled to the border and back within nine months.
• Zhao Muye tore open a Spatial Rift and entered the inn, startling the group and questioning Shen Yunzhou about his sister.
• Zhao Muye recognized Zhou Qing’s Limitless Guidance Token from Silent Abyss Temple, and Zhou Qing explained how Master Jue Ming had given it to him.
• Shen Yunzhou warned Zhou Qing that Yan Luo, a ruthless Severing Spirit Late Stage cultivator, had been pursuing the Yan Family; Zhao Muye then introduced the Zhao Family’s demanding body-cultivation methods.

Zhou Qing accepted Zhao Muye’s invitation to join the Zhao Family as an Attendant, then learned that Yan Luo was battling Old Emperor Xuan Yuan Chong. When Si Kong Yan sent word of a timely opportunity at Jintian Palace, Zhou Qing left the pursuit and entered a Spatial Rift with him to seek the Old Emperor’s secret formula.

• Zhao Muye invited Zhou Qing to join the Zhao Family, and Zhou Qing agreed to consider the offer and visit them in Southern Phoenix Province.
• Zhao Muye reunited with the Ancient Dragon Elephant and went after Yan Luo, who began fighting Old Emperor Xuan Yuan Chong above the imperial city.
• Zhou Qing and Shen Yunzhou pursued the battle but lost track of the fighters, then learned from Zhang Geng that the combatants were heading toward Wuxiang Mountain.
• Si Kong Yan sent Zhou Qing a message urging him to meet at their old place, and Zhou Qing left Shen Yunzhou to watch the battle while he headed for Jintian Palace.
• Si Kong Yan claimed he knew where the Old Emperor’s secret formula was hidden, opened a Spatial Rift, and led Zhou Qing inside.

Zhou Qing and Si Kong Yan infiltrated the royal Ancestral Land and broke through its Four Color Array, discovering an underground mausoleum filled with the corpses of prodigies who had failed to break through using the Secret Medicine. Si Kong Yan ventured toward the altar while Zhou Qing stayed behind, having completed his real objective of finishing the [Friend Post], and appraised the Bronze Cauldron.

• Zhou Qing used his Blood-Colored Double Pupils to see the Four Color Array hidden beneath the Death Qi, and Si Kong Yan explained his plan to breach it.
• Zhou Qing used Ten Thousand Spirit Seals to open a gap in the array, and he and Si Kong Yan slipped into the underground mausoleum.
• Si Kong Yan identified corpses including Pei Xunji and Lin Qingshuang, and concluded that the mausoleum held generations of failed Secret Medicine candidates.
• Zhou Qing and Si Kong Yan saw that Blood-Colored Rune Nails drew residual spiritual power from the corpses toward an altar and its Ancient Bronze Cauldron.
• Si Kong Yan paid Zhou Qing, then went deeper into the mausoleum while Zhou Qing stayed by the entrance and saw Si Kong Yan's name turn gray on the [Friend Post].
• Zhou Qing used [Daily Appraisal] on the Bronze Cauldron.

Zhou Qing seized three Blood Spirit Dao Severing Pills from the Xuanyuan clan’s underground palace while Si Kong Yan fought Xuan Yuan Sha and Xuan Yuan Hao. After they escaped, Si Kong Yan suddenly appeared before Zhou Qing, offering help.

• Zhou Qing discovered that the Xuanyuan clan used corpses to refine Blood Spirit Dao Severing Pills with a forty percent chance of reaching the Severing Spirit Realm, and resolved to secure Severing Spirit cultivators for Taiqing Sect.
• Xuan Yuan Sha confronted Si Kong Yan, and the two fought using the Xuan Yuan Dragon Emperor Art and the Dragon Emperor’s Inverse Scale.
• While the fighters were occupied, Zhou Qing tried to take the Bronze Cauldron, then snatched its three pills when an ownership restriction stopped him.
• Si Kong Yan intercepted Xuan Yuan Sha as Zhou Qing fled, and Zhou Qing detonated Nangong Xiong Ba’s Three-Colored Array to escape Xuan Yuan Hao’s attack.
• Si Kong Yan used Sky Burning Flame Marrow to hold off Xuan Yuan Hao, then followed Zhou Qing through the closing rift.
• As Zhou Qing escaped with the pills and planned to clear himself of suspicion, Si Kong Yan emerged before him and offered help.

Zhou Qing escaped Xuan Yuan Hao by detonating his Mystic Armor Reversion Array, then survived a sword strike by fleeing through a Spatial Channel. After recovering in the Outer City, he headed toward Wuxiang Mountain, while Xuan Yuan Shuo revealed that Nangong Xiong Ba had died under mysterious circumstances and that the battle at Wuxiang Mountain was critical.

• Si Kong Yan fled with Zhou Qing while Xuan Yuan Hao and Xuan Yuan Sha pursued them with the Nine Dragon Sky Locking Seal, then hurled Zhou Qing northeast to draw the pursuers away.
• Xuan Yuan Hao intercepted Zhou Qing, but Zhou Qing detonated the Mystic Armor Reversion Array and escaped while the blast badly wounded Xuan Yuan Hao.
• Xuan Yuan Hao struck Zhou Qing through a Spatial Rift, but Zhou Qing used Elder Mo's jade talisman and his Hitchhiker token to escape through a Space Channel.
• Xuan Yuan Shuo arrived and searched the void for Zhou Qing, then told Xuan Yuan Hao that Nangong Xiong Ba was dead and that an unknown monster had likely killed him.
• Xuan Yuan Shuo left to reinforce Wuxiang Mountain, while Xuan Yuan Hao went to assist Xuan Yuan Sha in pursuing Si Kong Yan.
• Zhou Qing emerged injured in the Outer City, healed himself with a pill and stored blood qi, then set out for Wuxiang Mountain.

Zhou Qing destroyed the marked Blood Spirit Dao Severing Pills and hurried to Wuxiang Mountain, where the Old Emperor and Yan Luo were battling. As the battle intensified and an eerie lamp appeared against the Imperial Dynasty’s Fortune, Zhou Qing realized the Yan Family possessed an imitation Ultimate Weapon.

• Zhou Qing discovered that the Blood Spirit Dao Severing Pills bore tracking marks and destroyed them with lightning, freeing the resentful spirits trapped within.
• Xuan Yuan Hao and Xuan Yuan Sha arrived too late to track Zhou Qing and vowed to capture the person who destroyed the pills.
• Zhou Qing reached Wuxiang Mountain, joined Shen Yunzhou among the spectators, and watched Yan Luo fight the Old Emperor.
• Xuan Yuan Shuo questioned Zhou Qing about the border, and Zhou Qing concealed his role in Nangong Xiong Ba’s death while discussing the Seventh Prince and the Peng Emperor’s corpse.
• A hundred-zhang lamp phantom emerged over Wuxiang Mountain and sent gray-white threads toward the battle as nine golden dragons of Imperial Dynasty’s Fortune appeared.
• Zhou Qing sensed that the lamp resembled the Avici Karma Fire Mirror and suspected it was an imitation Ultimate Weapon belonging to the Yan Family.

Zhou Qing visited Bai He, who refused to join the Taiqing Sect because his royal identity would endanger Luo Lingling, then rushed with Shen Yunzhou to find the gravely wounded Shen Han Yi. He reached her icebound hideout and began to consider how to help as her condition worsened.

• Zhou Qing watched Lu Yaoyao’s Intent Realm scene, then learned from Si Kong Yan that Nanny Su had died and that Si Kong Yan would leave the Imperial Capital to mourn.
• Zhou Qing thanked Bai He for secretly investigating the Nangong Family and arranging Elder Mo’s help, and Bai He revealed his plan to fake his death and seek Luo Lingling under a new identity.
• Shen Yunzhou arrived bloodied and terrified, telling Zhou Qing that Shen Han Yi had returned gravely wounded and was fading despite his efforts to treat her.
• Zhou Qing accompanied Shen Yunzhou to a hidden ice cave in Wuxiang Mountain, where they found Shen Han Yi unconscious with a chest wound that would not stop bleeding.
• Shen Yunzhou urged Zhou Qing to examine the wound, and Zhou Qing clarified that he only meant to help rather than take advantage of her helplessness.

Zhou Qing learned of Si Kong Yan's grief over Nanny Su's death and thanked Bai He for secretly helping protect Gui Ao. When Shen Yunzhou rushed to him for help, Zhou Qing followed him to a frozen cave and found Shen Han Yi near death from a wound that would not heal.

• Zhou Qing watched Lu Yaoyao's staged family reconciliation, then left without disturbing her.
• At Jintian Palace, Si Kong Yan told Zhou Qing that Nanny Su had died, that he would take her home and mourn for three years, and warned him to leave the Imperial Capital.
• Zhou Qing thanked Bai He for warning Elder Mo about danger to Gui Ao, and Bai He explained why he planned to fake his death and seek Luo Lingling under a new identity.
• Shen Yunzhou arrived bloodied and terrified, telling Zhou Qing that Shen Han Yi had returned gravely injured and was fading despite his efforts to treat her.
• Shen Yunzhou led Zhou Qing to Shen Han Yi's ice-filled hideout in Wuxiang Mountain, where they found her unconscious with a chest wound still bleeding.
• As Shen Yunzhou urged Zhou Qing to examine the wound, Zhou Qing began to object that he did not want to take advantage of Shen Han Yi's helplessness.

After Zhou Qing accidentally triggered a Blood Phoenix pact with Shen Han Yi, she broke through to the Severing Spirit Realm Paragon while he gained Dao insights of his own. Zhou Qing then traveled with Xuan Yuan Shuo and Shen Yunzhou to Wuxiang Mountain, where Shen Han Yi was fighting a mysterious opponent.

• Shen Han Yi awakened after the Blood Phoenix pact and discovered that her cultivation had surged, while Zhou Qing lamented losing his Pure Yang Body.
• Shen Han Yi broke through to the Severing Spirit Realm Paragon, and Zhou Qing gained matching Dao benefits as they cultivated in tandem.
• Shen Han Yi sent Zhou Qing and Shen Yunzhou through a Spatial Rift to the Imperial Capital, where they fled Drunken Immortal Tower and joked about what had happened.
• Xuan Yuan Shuo asked Zhou Qing to help repair the robbed Royal Treasury, then invited him to Wuxiang Mountain to explain the Peng Emperor matter to Shen Han Yi.
• Zhou Qing and Shen Yunzhou followed Xuan Yuan Shuo to Wuxiang Mountain, where they found Shen Han Yi battling a mysterious figure shrouded in Black Mist.

Shen Han Yi battled a Netherworld Bone Dao expert, but he escaped after Zhao Muye joined the fight. Back at the inn, Shen Han Yi confronted Zhou Qing, who tried to explain his connection to the mysterious senior who taught him the Hundred Tribulations Blood Curtain.

• Shen Han Yi fought the old man in the Black Mist, revealing his Netherworld Bone Dao techniques and severing her arm to escape his Primordial Spirit-binding chains.
• Zhao Muye and Old Bai arrived to help Shen Han Yi, while Xuan Yuan Shuo took Zhou Qing and Shen Yunzhou after the battle; the old man eventually fled through a Spatial Rift.
• Zhou Qing returned to the inn and resolved to prepare the Nine Revolutions Spirit Condensing Array before attempting his breakthrough to the Severing Spirit Realm.
• Shen Yunzhou warned Zhou Qing to wait before facing Shen Han Yi, then panicked when his jade platform signaled her arrival and asked Lu Yaoyao to speak up for him.
• Shen Han Yi confronted Zhou Qing in his frozen room, asked about the masked senior who taught him the Hundred Tribulations Blood Curtain, and listened as Zhou Qing began recounting their supposed first meeting.

Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi worked together on the Nine Revolutions Spirit Condensing Array, while their awkward closeness left Zhou Qing believing she intended to repay him and move on. After Shen Han Yi left, Zhou Qing found a powerful new talisman, but a sinister old man began plotting to lure her into a trap by abducting Shen Yunzhou and Lu Yaoyao.

• Shen Han Yi apologized to Zhou Qing, offered to guard his breakthrough, and agreed to help him craft the Nine Revolutions Spirit Condensing Array.
• Lu Yaoyao used her Filial Piety Conception to conjure Shen Han Yi and Zhou Qing, then played a Jade Token game with Shen Yunzhou, who lost Spirit Stones.
• After a month of collaboration, Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi completed part of the array plates, and Shen Han Yi said she would leave once the remaining materials were gathered.
• Shen Han Yi departed, and Zhou Qing discovered the Fifty-Fifty Talisman in the Strange Post Record.
• Lu Yaoyao searched Zhou Qing's room for a hidden Ice Lotus, then heard him admit he thought he was not worthy of Shen Han Yi because of their different backgrounds.
• A sinister old man spotted Lu Yaoyao and Shen Yunzhou and decided to abduct them as bait to lure Shen Han Yi into his trap.

Zhou Qing used the refreshed Fifty-Fifty Talisman to fight a Severing Spirit Realm Paragon and gained a day of power and insight that let him counter the old man’s attacks. With Shen Han Yi and the others joining the battle, Zhou Qing shattered the old man’s Intent Realm and struck him with a lightning spear, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• An old man arrived carrying the unconscious Shen Yunzhou and threatened Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao, so Zhou Qing activated his Fifty-Fifty Talisman and entered a state of balance with heaven and earth.
• Zhou Qing fought the old man with Tetanus Broken Sword and his Golden Peng True Body, while Lu Yaoyao rescued Shen Yunzhou and brought him to Gui Ao and Luo Lingling.
• Xuan Yuan Chong, Xuan Yuan Shuo, Xuan Yuan Hao, and Xuan Yuan Sha arrived, followed by Zhao Muye, as Zhou Qing continued battling the old man.
• A blood phoenix emerged and revealed its Inscription-Level Divine Power; Zhou Qing broke the old man’s Myriad Bones Starry Sky Intent Realm, and Shen Han Yi appeared.
• The old man tried to flee, but Zhou Qing combined ten thousand array spirit seals with lightning to form a Purple Gold Thunder Spear and pierced the old man’s chest.

Zhou Qing, Shen Han Yi, and Zhao Muye pursued and killed the wounded enemy Nascent Soul, then encountered Yan Luo, who challenged Zhao Muye and sought Zhou Qing's allegiance. After Yan Luo disappeared at dawn, Shen Han Yi took Zhou Qing through a Spatial Rift, while Zhao Muye pursued Yan Luo.

• Zhou Qing used his Blood-Colored Double Pupils to track the escaping Nascent Soul, and Zhao Muye repeatedly disrupted its attempts to escape through space.
• Shen Han Yi trapped the Nascent Soul, searched it, and destroyed it, creating a vast forbidden zone of obsession; Zhou Qing told the others that his earlier power had come from a lifespan-burning secret technique.
• Yan Luo appeared, agreed to fight Zhao Muye at dawn, provoked Shen Han Yi about her past, and invited Zhou Qing to join the Yan family; Zhou Qing declined both the Yan and Zhao family invitations.
• Yan Luo showed Xuan Yuan Chong and the others an image of a young man, but they denied recognizing him; when dawn arrived, Yan Luo vanished through a Spatial Rift.
• Zhao Muye and Bai Xiang pursued Yan Luo, while Shen Han Yi opened another Spatial Rift, took Zhou Qing by the arm, and disappeared with him.

Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao dealt with the aftermath of the Blood Pact Pavilion assassin’s attack while Shen Han Yi left to retrieve the Five-Colored Array Disk. On their way to meet Mo Tianheng, Lu Yaoyao recognized Yu Yan from a dream in which Yu Yan had followed Zhou Qing and died protecting them, and she bet that they would meet again.

• Shen Yunzhou woke from a nightmare, learned Gui Ao had heard about his attack, and thanked Zhou Qing for saving his life.
• Shen Han Yi explained that the Blood Pact Pavilion assassin had been Silver Rank Forty-Seven and planned to return home to deal with her Third Aunt’s continued attempts on her life.
• Shen Han Yi left to retrieve the Five-Colored Array Disk, while Lu Yaoyao worried that Zhou Qing had burned his lifespan to protect her.
• Shen Yunzhou recovered, and Shen Han Yi later told Zhou Qing that Mo Tianheng, president of the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce, had returned to the Imperial Capital.
• Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao saw Xuan Yuan Mu Qian and Imperial Concubine Chen in the Inner City, then continued toward the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce.
• Lu Yaoyao recognized Yu Yan as the girl from her dream, approached her in tears, and bet Zhou Qing that they would meet again.

Zhou Qing received the rare materials needed for the Nine Revolutions Spirit Condensing Array and returned to the Taiqing Sect before preparing to break through to the Severing Spirit Realm. With Shen Han Yi and his loved ones guarding him, he entered a secluded cave residence, admitting to himself that he was still nervous.

• Mo Tianheng gave Zhou Qing the rare materials as a congratulatory gift and asked him to help investigate the flaw in the Severing Spirit Secret Medicine if an opportunity arose.
• Zhou Qing chose to return to the Taiqing Sect before entering seclusion, and he and Shen Han Yi completed the remaining array discs during their journey home.
• Zhou Qing reunited with Mo Xingjian, Gui Ao, Luo Lingling, Yan Xiaohu, and Lu Yaoyao, then spent several months recovering his state of mind at the sect.
• Shen Han Yi chose a secluded site in Azure Nether Prefecture and brought Zhou Qing and his six formation guards to the cave residence.
• As the others left him to prepare for his breakthrough, Zhou Qing admitted that he was still nervous.

Zhou Qing began severing his spirit under Shen Han Yi’s protection and endured a Supreme Tribulation that his Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown drew down. After confronting and overcoming his obsessions, he survived the lightning and reached the Severing Spirit Realm.

• Shen Han Yi arranged the Four Spirits Combined Array around the mountain range while Zhou Qing prepared a Nine Revolutions Spirit Condensing Array and began his breakthrough.
• Zhou Qing confronted the obsessions of Qian Dafu and Du Kui, recognized each as an illusion, and overcame them before facing the Blood Bone Old Ghost.
• As Zhou Qing’s spirit severing continued, Shen Han Yi guarded the formation from intruders drawn by the tribulation clouds, while the Old Hen’s eyes briefly showed a strange glimmer.
• On the eighteenth day, purple-gold lightning struck Zhou Qing, and his four-colored lotus absorbed and refined the tribulation bolts.
• Lu Yaoyao and Shen Yunzhou realized Zhou Qing was the Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown as he endured the lightning and reached the Severing Spirit Realm.

Zhou Qing returned to Taiqing Sect after reaching the Severing Spirit Realm, then discovered that the Old Hen was being drawn into the forbidden zone by the ancient chained heart. After defeating a simulated Corpse Wax Crow, he ventured farther along the Blood River and found inscriptions left by generations of Taiqing Sect leaders, before continuing toward its depths.

• Zhou Qing reached the Severing Spirit Realm, reunited with his fellow disciples, and accepted Shen Han Yi's insights about Space Power before she and Shen Yunzhou departed.
• Taiqing Sect publicly announced Zhou Qing's breakthrough and hosted visiting Severing Spirit Realm cultivators, but Zhou Qing declined their request to help open the Grand Beginning Dao Field.
• Wu Sha delivered a congratulatory gift from Si Kong Yan, whose note proposed another cooperation; Zhou Qing rejected the idea because he intended to destroy the formula guarded by the Xuan Yuan Family.
• Zhou Qing entered the forbidden zone and saw black airflow pass from the shriveled chained heart into the Old Hen as it fed on Dead Crows in the Blood River.
• Zhou Qing defeated a simulated Corpse Wax Crow after it advanced to the Severing Spirit Realm Middle Stage and attacked him with a corpse-baleful bead.
• Zhou Qing followed the Blood River, read inscriptions left by Taiqing Sect predecessors and Canglong Zhenren, then continued deeper toward the First Coffin.