Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing discovered that the Blood River looped back to the ancient tree and six coffins, then learned the tree was an Innate Spirit from the Starry Sky Battlefield. After a year of cultivation, Lu Yaoyao’s finger briefly turned transparent, and a colossal golden palm descended on the Taiqing Sect before being restrained by golden chains, leaving Zhou Qing to catch the collapsing Lu Yaoyao.

• Zhou Qing crossed the Blood River back to the ancient tree and coffins, failed to free his grandmaster, and learned through Appraisal that the tree was an Innate Spirit carrying its close friend’s heart.
• Zhou Qing returned home, washed the Old Hen, and discovered it was undergoing a third mutation and could ignore most Three-Colored Restrictions.
• Over the following year, Zhou Qing consolidated his cultivation while Lu Yaoyao improved her artistic conception and repeatedly tried to copy his lightning move.
• Lu Yaoyao urged Zhou Qing to leave the sect or find a Dao Companion, and he considered traveling to seek another talent skill.
• Lu Yaoyao’s right little finger briefly turned transparent, then a colossal golden palm descended over the Taiqing Sect and was forced away by golden chains.
• Lu Yaoyao collapsed in the sky, and Zhou Qing caught her as the sect’s experts gathered in alarm.

After a mysterious giant palm threatened Taiqing Sect, Zhou Qing agreed to leave with Lu Yaoyao so the sect could preserve its future disciples and he could grow strong enough to face the unknown enemy. They departed for the Heavenly Fortune Saint Dynasty, with Zhou Qing planning to visit Master Lin and attend Zhang Wanbao’s wedding first.

• After searching unsuccessfully for the source of the giant palm, Zhou Qing learned that Lu Yaoyao had recovered and that the sect had relocated most of its disciples as a precaution.
• In the Qing Luo Beast Sea Domain, Xuan Yuan Shuo confronted the Qing Luo Beast, discovered his secret knowledge of a six-colored secret realm, and negotiated a pact to divide its resources.
• Xuan Yuan Shuo learned that Yan Sen and the mysterious Eighth Uncle had likely died inside the secret realm, then opened the inland lake’s restriction with the Qing Luo Beast but could not determine how to enter.
• Cao Zhengyang, Mo Xingjian, and the Lu Sisters urged Zhou Qing to leave Taiqing Sect with Lu Yaoyao as its fireseed, and Zhou Qing agreed after considering the threat posed by the giant palm.
• Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao departed by flying vessel while Taiqing Sect’s disciples and elders gathered to bid them farewell.
• Zhou Qing decided to detour to the White Jade Grand Ruins Academy to visit Master Lin and attend Zhang Wanbao’s wedding before continuing to the Heavenly Fortune Saint Dynasty.

Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao visited Soaring Cloud Prefecture for Zhang Wanbao’s wedding, then traveled through the White Jade Grand Ruins Academy and a sealed secret realm before reaching the Nine Li Imperial Capital. There, Zhou Qing met Yu Yan and learned of her suspicion toward him, while Lu Yaoyao’s claim that he was her father remained unexplained; the chapter ended with Zhao Muye fighting four Severing Spirit Realm Experts and fleeing.

• Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao arrived early for Zhang Wanbao’s wedding, where Zhang Wanbao revealed that he was marrying Xiao Cancan because she was pregnant with twins.
• Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao visited the deserted White Jade Grand Ruins Academy, where Master Lin greeted Zhou Qing, then watched several powerful cultivators fail to break open the secret realm’s entrance.
• Two years later, Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao reached the Nine Li Imperial Capital, where Zhou Qing encountered Yu Yan and clashed with her after she mistook him for someone sent to watch her.
• Zhou Qing questioned Lu Yaoyao about knowing Yu Yan’s name, and Lu Yaoyao claimed that Zhou Qing was her father, but he dismissed her answer and left the matter alone.
• Zhou Qing learned that array master Cheng Bin had died, then saw Zhao Muye withstand attacks from four Severing Spirit Realm Experts before escaping as they pursued him.

Zhao Muye fought four Jiuli Attendants until Yu Yan intervened and helped him escape, while Zhou Qing pursued Yan Luo, who was hunting the wounded Zhao Muye. Yan Luo confronted Zhao Muye in a canyon and mocked his faith in honor as their conflict resumed.

• Zhao Muye battled four Jiuli Attendants, unleashed his War Soul Possession, and was gradually overwhelmed by their combined realms.
• Yu Yan arrived with her Azure Feather Heavenly Net, restrained the Attendants, and revealed that she was Zhao Muye's cousin.
• Zhao Muye fled the battlefield, and Zhou Qing followed Yan Luo, who silently pursued him.
• Zhao Muye crashed into a secluded canyon and began healing his wounds with pills and Wood Spirit Stones.
• Yan Luo confronted Zhao Muye and mocked his honorable conduct before Zhao Muye challenged him over the framing.

Zhou Qing intervened when Yan Luo nearly killed Zhao Muye, and the two fought their way through Yan Luo’s deadly Intent Realm before Yu Yan rescued them. Zhou Qing returned to Lu Yaoyao, and half a month later they reached the Ancient Teleportation Array left by the Imperial Dynasty Alliance.

• Yan Luo wounded Zhao Muye and prepared to kill him, but Zhou Qing arrived and struck Yan Luo with lightning.
• Zhou Qing and Zhao Muye fought Yan Luo together, but Yan Luo trapped them in his Yan Mo Intent Realm, where Zhou Qing resisted the illusions and Zhao Muye tore open a way out using six Heaven Burying Nails.
• Yu Yan arrived, opened a Spatial Rift, and escaped with Zhou Qing and Zhao Muye; after they landed far away, she removed the nails and treated Zhao Muye while Zhou Qing slipped away through another rift.
• Zhou Qing returned to Lu Yaoyao, reassured her that she was not a burden, and left with her after she vowed to grow stronger.
• Half a month later, Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao arrived at the basin’s Ancient Teleportation Array, following Shen Yunzhou’s map.

Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao waited at a Six-Colored Teleportation Array for a journey to the Heavenly Fortune Saint Dynasty, where they encountered Zhao Muye, Yu Yan, and Yan Luo. When Inspector Su Minghe joined the group and the array activated, Lu Yaoyao’s fear of the enclosed passage overwhelmed her, and Zhou Qing knocked her unconscious to comfort her.

• Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao reached the Six-Colored Teleportation Array and paid for passage to the Heavenly Fortune Saint Dynasty, with Lu Yaoyao providing the Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Muye, Yu Yan, and the injured White Jade Elephant Demon Emperor arrived, and Lu Yaoyao and Zhou Qing pretended not to know them when Yu Yan and Zhao Muye approached.
• Yan Luo provoked Zhao Muye by displaying a recording of his defeat, but Yu Yan stopped him from attacking and angering the array’s Supreme Realm guardian.
• Inspector Su Minghe arrived, and the cultivators boarded the array together for the half-year journey to the Heavenly Fortune Saint Dynasty.
• Inside the dark void passage, Lu Yaoyao panicked and asked Zhou Qing to knock her out, so he carried her while protecting her from spatial currents.
• Yu Yan warned Zhao Muye about seeking the Imperial Dynasty Alliance’s favor, while Zhao Muye declared his ambition to reach the Starry Sky Battlefield and Yan Luo quietly considered his opportunity.

Zhou Qing learned about Su Minghe’s Heavenly Supreme cultivation and the Calamity Transference Diagram before the inspector recognized the Divine Beast in Yan Luo’s records. After surviving the journey and discovering a strange flicker in Lu Yaoyao’s finger, Zhou Qing arrived with the others in the Heavenly Fortune Saint Dynasty, a Fifth-Level Cultivation Country.

• Zhao Muye explained the Imperial Dynasty Alliance, the ranks above Severing Spirit Realm, and the requirements for a Cultivation Country to advance.
• Void Beasts attacked the teleportation passage, and Su Minghe killed them with a single strike.
• Su Minghe identified Bai Xia as an innate spatial spirit beast whose Void Crystal Core had been taken, then explained that such cores were used to make the Calamity Transference Diagram.
• Yan Luo showed Su Minghe records of the Divine Beast that had fallen in Southern Phoenix Province, and Su Minghe recognized it from its outline.
• Zhou Qing’s Reduce Presence talent refreshed, and he noticed Lu Yaoyao’s pinky finger briefly turn transparent.
• The group completed the journey and arrived at an ancient teleportation platform in the Heavenly Fortune Saint Dynasty.

Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao reached Tian Lan City short on travel money, only for the Old Hen to be stolen by a gang of pickpockets. After Zhou Qing recovered the chicken and confronted the thieves, their boss Yun Jiu Mei tried to poison him with spirit stones, but he exposed the trap and faced her in the alley.

• Yu Yan apologized to Zhou Qing for her earlier misunderstanding, thanked him for saving her cousin, and invited him to visit the Yu Clan in Southern Phoenix Province.
• Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao arrived in Tian Lan City, learned that traveling to Southern Phoenix Province would cost eleven Top-Grade Spirit Stones for the group, and rested before exploring the city.
• Zhou Qing noticed the Old Hen was missing and followed the pickpocketing gang to an alley, where he forced the thieves to return the chicken and their stolen Storage Bags.
• The thieves' boss, Yun Jiu Mei, appeared and offered Zhou Qing fifty Top-Grade Spirit Stones, but he saw the poison on them and destroyed them with lightning.
• Yun Jiu Mei admitted the stones were poisoned and asked Zhou Qing how he had seen through her trap.

Zhou Qing fought Yun Jiu Mei in Tian Lan City while Lu Yaoyao used her Intent Realm to protect herself, until the city lord forced the Severing Spirit cultivators to stop. After hearing that the Teleportation Array to Southern Phoenix Province had been damaged by Void Beasts, Zhou Qing went to the City Lord's Mansion to offer help, where the crisis had already begun to spread to other provincial routes.

• Zhou Qing battled Yun Jiu Mei with his thunder techniques while Lu Yaoyao bluffed away three attackers using phantom images of Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi.
• The Tian Lan City Lord intervened and threatened to suppress Zhou Qing and Yun Jiu Mei, so Yun Jiu Mei left; the three thieves were exposed to the crowd and fled.
• Lu Yaoyao explained that her Filial Piety Conception imitated Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi, then painted the fight while Zhou Qing protected her.
• The Tian Lan City Lord announced that Void Beasts had damaged the Southern Phoenix Province Teleportation Array and called for a Fourth-Level Array Master to repair it.
• Zhou Qing decided to help repair the array despite Lu Yaoyao's worries, and they headed to the City Lord's Mansion.
• Li Chang Hong received a report that the fluctuations beyond the barrier were affecting routes to all six other provinces.

Ji Yunluo and Li Chang Hong struggled to repair the collapsing Southern Phoenix passage while Void Beasts attacked from the breach. Zhou Qing arrived with Lu Yaoyao and entered the array platform to help, and the chapter left him rushing toward the breach with Ten Thousand Spirit Seals.

• Ji Yunluo arrived in Tian Lan City seeking a way to repair the damaged passage, while reaffirming her belief that Weng Yunqi was still alive and that she would keep searching for him.
• Ji Yunluo examined the array diagram and warned Li Chang Hong that the passage needed another Array Master, had only a forty percent chance of repair, and might be threatened by someone directing the Void Beasts.
• Zhou Qing and Lu Yaoyao reached the City Lord's Mansion, where Zhou Qing demonstrated his Ten Thousand Spirit Seals and was escorted to the unstable teleportation platform.
• Zhou Qing entered the array platform with the Old Hen tied to his chest, leaving Lu Yaoyao under a guard's protection.
• Ji Yunluo and Li Chang Hong fought off Void Beasts while Ji Yunluo tried to seal the breach, but the passage continued to collapse and she was left badly injured.
• As Ji Yunluo and Li Chang Hong prepared to retreat, Zhou Qing flashed past them and sent his Ten Thousand Spirit Seals toward the breach.

Zhou Qing helped Ji Yunluo and Li Chang Hong repair the Teleportation Array, but a Void Beast dragged him into the void just before it closed. There, he discovered Old Hen had attacked a mysterious carriage and found the chicken injured, while he remained stranded among the Spatial Turbulence.

• Zhou Qing joined Ji Yunluo in repairing the array while Li Chang Hong guarded them from the Void Beast.
• The Void Beast attacked Zhou Qing and Ji Yunluo, then dragged Zhou Qing through the breach with its tongues and Old Hen's pull.
• Ji Yunluo and Li Chang Hong tried to hold the breach open, but it closed, leaving them behind as Zhou Qing vanished into the void.
• Zhou Qing cut free of the Void Beast's tongues and hid near a meteorite, where he saw three chained Void Beasts, a strange carriage, and a humanoid figure fighting beside it.
• Old Hen appeared near the carriage, and the three Void Beasts escaped after their chains broke; Zhou Qing found Old Hen injured on a meteorite.
• Zhou Qing carried Old Hen into his arms, fed it a golden pill, and asked whether it felt better.

Zhou Qing spent decades stranded in the void on the shell of the Void Beast Xu Tuo, cultivating with the Wood Attribute Spirit Stones embedded there while Lu Yaoyao waited for him in Tian Lan City. When a powerful crocodile-like Void Beast attacked Xu Tuo, the awakened turtle fought back, and Zhou Qing seized the chance to collect stones shaken loose during the battle.

• Zhou Qing discovered that the mountain of Wood Attribute Spirit Stones was the shell of a sleeping Void Beast named Xu Tuo, then cultivated on it with the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree.
• Lu Yaoyao waited for Zhou Qing in Tian Lan City as successive groups of teleportees arrived and thanked her for his sacrifice; Shen Han Yi later embraced her.
• During thirty-four years in the void, Zhou Qing increased his Spirit Seals from ten thousand to twenty thousand and approached the Severing Spirit Realm Middle Stage.
• A colossal crocodile-like Void Beast attacked Xu Tuo, which woke and battled it while Zhou Qing prepared to flee.
• Xu Tuo's fight dislodged numerous spirit stones, and Zhou Qing sent spirit threads to collect them.

After drifting through the void for 150 years, Zhou Qing escaped by grabbing a Void Beast caught in Li Wusheng’s trap and was pulled onto the hunter’s platform. Li Wusheng learned Zhou Qing was a rogue cultivator, then invoked his rescue as a reason to demand compensation.

• Zhou Qing stole Spirit Stones from Xu Tuo’s shell, watched the turtle kill and devour a giant crocodile Void Beast, and realized the stones regenerated through the cycle.
• Zhou Qing spent a century stranded on Xu Tuo’s back, cultivating and tending his Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, before spotting a damaged Star Gate that he could not collect.
• After several more years in the void, Zhou Qing followed three Void Beasts to a trapped spirit herb and recognized that someone was using it to lure prey.
• Zhou Qing seized a hooked Void Beast as a chain dragged it through a spatial barrier, carrying him and the Old Hen onto Li Wusheng’s bronze platform.
• Li Wusheng introduced himself as a Severing Spirit Realm void hunter, learned Zhou Qing was a rogue cultivator rather than a member of the Zhou family, and suggested Zhou Qing owed him for the rescue.

Zhou Qing fought Li Wusheng after the old rogue cultivator tried to kill him for his treasures, breaking through two deadly arrays and defeating him with powerful lightning and Blood Phoenix abilities. He collected Li Wusheng’s loot but discovered that Spirit-Eroding Miasma had poisoned his heart meridians, forcing him to seek safety and purge it quickly.

• Zhou Qing offered Li Wusheng a human-sized Top-Grade Wood Attribute Spirit Stone raw ore as thanks, but Li Wusheng activated his Blood Dragon Heaven-Locking Array and attacked him.
• Zhou Qing used Thunder Seal Unification to destroy the array, then pierced Li Wusheng with his Purple Gold Thunder Spear, only for the apparent corpse to turn out to be a Life-Substituting Talisman.
• Li Wusheng trapped Zhou Qing inside a modified Four Color Array filled with Spirit-Eroding Miasma, which poisoned him and disrupted his spiritual power.
• Zhou Qing summoned the Blood Phoenix phantom and unleashed Hundred Tribulations Blood Curtain, surviving the array’s explosion and fatally wounding Li Wusheng.
• Zhou Qing killed Li Wusheng, collected three Blood Phoenix Tribulation Crystals and his Storage Bag, and suppressed the poison spreading toward his heart meridians.

After escaping the Land of Nothingness, Zhou Qing fell poisoned into the Graystone Mountains and was rescued by Cao Aman and his mother, Sun. As Zhou Qing recovered, he learned Aman had been rejected by Silent Abyss Temple, and Sun’s defense of him rekindled his determination.

• Zhou Qing killed Yan Weiyi, sensed other cultivators approaching, and fled through a spatial rift, only to collapse from Li Wusheng’s cultivation-sealing poison in the Graystone Mountains.
• Cao Aman was bitten by a Black-Spine Snake, tricked a Rotbone Hound into taking the venomous snake’s bite, and followed it while searching for antidotal herbs.
• Zhou Qing fell from the sky onto the poisoned Aman, and Sun found them, treated their poison, and brought them home with the Old Hen.
• Zhou Qing woke, thanked Sun and Aman, learned they had saved him, and discovered Li Wusheng’s poison was temporary as he began recovering his cultivation.
• Zhou Qing recovered to the Transformation Spirit Realm, reflected on his escape and increased Spirit Seals, and examined Li Wusheng’s Storage Bag.
• Cao Quan, Cao Xian, and Cao Ying mocked Aman for Silent Abyss Temple’s rejection, but Sun defended her son and urged him to choose his own path among the many sects of Southern Phoenix Province.

Zhou Qing brought Cao Aman and Sun to Silent Abyss Temple so Aman could try to join, but learned that his old friend Li Niang had died. As he prepared to help Aman anyway, Kong Chan arrived and joyfully recognized Zhou Qing.

• After recovering, Zhou Qing agreed to take Cao Aman to Silent Abyss Temple and invited Sun to come with them.
• Zhou Qing took Sun and Cao Aman aboard his flying boat and reached Silent Abyss Temple after five days.
• Cao Quan, Cao Xian, and Cao Ying questioned Cao Aman at the temple, but he stood his ground with Sun's support.
• At the temple gate, Zhou Qing learned from a bhikshu that Li Niang had died a year earlier after declining life-extending medicine.
• Kong Chan arrived on a bronze lotus platform, recognized Zhou Qing, and greeted him excitedly.

Zhou Qing reunited with Kong Chan and met Buddha’s Son Gui Cang at Silent Abyss Temple before continuing his search for Lu Yaoyao in Tian Lan City. After learning she had left with Shen Han Yi, he traveled to Wind Breath City and began planning a covert visit to the Shen Family, whose situation remained dangerous.

• Zhou Qing learned that Kong Chan had reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection and that Gui Cang had entered the Severing Spirit Realm.
• Jue Ming recognized Zhou Qing as a Severing Spirit Great Power, arranged for Cao Aman to become Kong Chan’s disciple, and sent Zhou Qing to meet Gui Cang.
• Gui Cang repaid Zhou Qing with a thousand Wood Attribute Spirit Stones and urged him to stay at Silent Abyss Temple, but Zhou Qing left after sensing something was amiss.
• Zhou Qing traveled to Tian Lan City and learned from Li Chang Hong that Lu Yaoyao had waited for him before leaving with Shen Han Yi for Southern Phoenix Province.
• Li Chang Hong granted Zhou Qing free use of Tian Lan City’s teleportation arrays for life and asked him to give Ji Yunluo hope if they met.
• Zhou Qing studied a map of the Eight Great Families and decided to visit the Shen Family secretly because Shen Han Yi faced threats from the Third Branch and the Yan Family.

Zhou Qing entered the Desolate Forbidden Zone seeking a Three-Colored Flower that might help him survive the Supreme Tribulation, and reunited with Weng Yunqi before exploring the zone’s first stage. In the Divine Ruins Heavenly Palace, he discovered that Si Kong Yan had also arrived in Southern Phoenix Province, and Si Kong Yan realized Zhou Qing had reached the second stage.

• Zhou Qing traveled to the Four Great Ancient Clans’ territory after learning that a headless Three Flowers Gatherer’s corpse and a moving Tree Stump had been found in the Desolate Forbidden Zone.
• In Qingyun City, Zhou Qing heard that the Three-Colored Flower might block part of the Supreme Tribulation and decided to claim it for his future preparations.
• At the Desolate Forbidden Zone, Zhou Qing reunited with Weng Yunqi, who sought the Tree Stump and warned Zhou Qing that Supreme Realm cultivators would also compete for the three flowers.
• Zhou Qing entered the forbidden zone, confirmed its first stage behaved like a secret realm within a special world, then withdrew to contact the Divine Ruins Heavenly Palace.
• Zhou Qing noticed that Number Seven’s image showed the Desolate Forbidden Zone, recognized Si Kong Yan in the purple orb, and asked whether he was in Southern Phoenix Province.
• Si Kong Yan realized Zhou Qing’s image showed the forbidden zone’s second stage and, after puzzling over how he had reached it, concluded that Number Six was involved.

Zhou Qing reunited with Shen Han Yi in the Desolate Forbidden Zone and agreed to help investigate the Three-Flower Dried Corpse. After recognizing Second Uncle’s recording technique in the widely circulated footage, Zhou Qing suspected Second Uncle was behind the hunt for the Three Flowers, and Shen Han Yi suddenly retched as she invited him to dangerous sites.

• Si Kong Yan realized Number One had ties to the Desolate Forbidden Zone, then sent Wu Sha to search for familiar faces while he studied gathered materials.
• Zhou Qing pretended not to recognize Number Four and Number Five before joining Shen Han Yi in the Desolate Forbidden Zone.
• Zhou Qing and Shen Han Yi discussed their past, her cultivation, and Number Seven’s new forbidden-zone scene, while Zhou Qing refused to reveal Number Seven’s identity.
• Shen Han Yi showed Zhou Qing footage of a Three-Flower Dried Corpse that cultivators believed could help them survive the Supreme Tribulation.
• Zhou Qing recognized Second Uncle’s recording technique and suspected he had staged the events surrounding the dried corpse and its footage.
• Shen Han Yi asked Zhou Qing to help investigate dangerous areas, then abruptly covered her mouth and retched.

Zhou Qing discovered that Shen Han Yi was pregnant and suspected the child was his, then hurried toward the Shen family. Lu Yaoyao decided to stay with Shen Han Yi while continuing to search for Zhou Qing, who later met Shen Han Yi in the Divine Ruins Heavenly Palace and secretly used a Mind-Reading Talisman.

• Zhou Qing sensed a life pulse in Shen Han Yi's abdomen, realized she was pregnant, and rushed out to travel toward the Shen family with Old Hen.
• Shen Han Yi watched Lu Yaoyao's farewell message, then tore open a spatial rift and left her secret chamber.
• Lu Yaoyao told Shen Yunzhou she planned to search for Zhou Qing, but Shen Han Yi persuaded her to return home and wait until she was stronger.
• Seven days later, Zhou Qing entered the Divine Ruins Heavenly Palace and waited for Shen Han Yi, intending to use a Mind-Reading Talisman to learn whether the child was his.
• Zhou Qing joined Shen Han Yi in the desolate forbidden zone and asked how she had identified the ship holding the key to clearing the stage.