Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing’s breakthrough produced an unprecedented Four-Colored Flower, drawing powerful cultivators toward the Sand Sea and forcing him, Mo Xingjian, and Luo Lingling to hide before blending into the crowd. They returned to the gathering site, where Mo Xingjian maintained their alibi and reunited with Cao Zhengyang and Lu Yaoyao.

• Zhou Qing’s breakthrough formed a dazzling fourth golden flower, and he emerged with greatly increased power while Mo Xingjian and Luo Lingling celebrated.
• Zhou Qing warned Mo Xingjian and Luo Lingling that more than fifty Transformation Spirit Realm cultivators were approaching, so they fled the Sand Sea through a Teleportation Array.
• The three hid in the Soaring Void Mountain Range, concealed their cultivation, and discussed how Zhou Qing’s breakthrough could make him a target for the Saint Martial Dynasty and rival dynasties.
• Zhou Qing gained Ignorance Points while cultivators searched the area, and he examined his four Nascent Soul flower enhancements as his Reduce Presence skill improved.
• After resting, Mo Xingjian led Zhou Qing and Luo Lingling back to the crowded Sand Sea, where they joined the searchers and encountered Cao Zhengyang and Lu Yaoyao.

Zhou Qing returned to the Taiqing Sect after his Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown breakthrough became a sensation across the region, while the sect tried to conceal his identity. As Zhou Qing began Body Refinement, Bai He reunited with two imperial siblings, and Zhang Wanbao arrived at the sect seeking Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu.

• Cao Zhengyang told Mo Xingjian that witnesses across Soaring Cloud Prefecture had seen the Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown phenomenon, and the Taiqing Sect searched the area without finding clues.
• After returning to the Taiqing Sect, Zhou Qing learned that powerful forces and the Saint Martial Dynasty were searching for the mysterious cultivator, while Mo Xingjian reassured him that the evidence had been cleaned up.
• Yan Xiaohu brought Zhou Qing food and gushed over his breakthrough before Mo Xingjian dragged him away; Zhou Qing then resolved to cultivate Body Refinement and repay Mo Xingjian for the Spirit Stones.
• At the sect barrier, Xuan Yuan Yi Chen and Xuan Yuan Mu Qian recognized Bai He as their Fourth Imperial Brother, and learned that Zhou Qing had been crippled.
• Zhang Wanbao and Fu Kui arrived aboard a vessel from the Myriad Phenomena Auction to visit Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu, and Cao Zhengyang came out to greet them.

Zhou Qing avoided visitors drawn to Taiqing Sect by the Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown while Gao Xuan met secretly with Yan Chuan, who planned to use a formation to lure more people to the sect. Gao Xuan led Taiqing Sect peak lords to ambush Yan Chuan, leaving them demanding an explanation for his apparent betrayal.

• Cao Zhengyang confirmed to Zhang Wanbao that Zhou Qing’s golden core had been crushed, while Xiao Ji arrived with Xiao Cancan and Li Shitao and recognized Bai He as the Fourth Prince.
• Zhou Qing refused to meet the visitors, and Mo Xingjian turned them away while Yan Xiaohu later reported that the group had come because of the Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown.
• Yan Chuan gave Gao Xuan a formation disk that could reproduce the celestial phenomenon and explained that Azure Flame Dao Palace planned to use it to draw people toward Taiqing Sect.
• Gao Xuan challenged Yan Chuan about his promised reward and their allies, then signaled that something was wrong as Yan Chuan’s spiritual power weakened.
• Ling Yuexiao, Ruan Mingxiu, and Tong Min entered the cave with restrictions in place, trapping Yan Chuan alongside Gao Xuan.

Gao Xuan and three Taiqing Sect Peak Lords killed Yan Chuan, then followed a strange Four-Colored Flower phenomenon to Tianji Gate. As Si Kong Yan suspected Cang Lang’s role in several elders’ deaths and learned that his planned weapon had appeared at Tianji Gate, Cao Zhengyang received reports of the sect’s apparent openness, leaving the intrigue unresolved.

• Gao Xuan and the three Peak Lords overwhelmed Yan Chuan, whose Primordial Spirit self-destructed and blasted the mountain range; Gao Xuan then knocked the others unconscious and destroyed traces of the fight.
• Tong Min, Ling Yuexiao, and Ruan Mingxiu reunited with Gao Xuan, who claimed he had found a possible Person with Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown and led them toward Tianji Gate.
• Wu Sha learned that Yan Chuan’s Soul Lamp had gone out and worried that Cang Lang could not contact him; later, Si Kong Yan suspected Cang Lang might have killed Yan Chuan and other Azure Flame Dao Palace elders.
• Gao Xuan and the Peak Lords witnessed a brief Four-Colored Flower phenomenon above Tianji Gate and fled after two elders emerged and powerful Spiritual Sense waves spread.
• Si Kong Yan learned that his intended great gift had appeared near Tianji Gate and reacted with interest, while Cao Zhengyang heard that Tianji Gate had invited outsiders to inspect its grounds.

Zhou Qing strengthened his body, watched Luo Lingling depart to seek opportunities for Spirit Transformation, and spent the next half year cultivating as the Taiqing Sect’s lockdown ended. When Second Uncle secretly tested Zhou Qing’s Four-Colored Nascent Soul and its unusual amplifications, he took him underground to test his heat resistance and left open the possibility of teaching him a disguise-changing divine ability.

• Zhou Qing rapidly cultivated the Flame Sun Overlord Body Art, while Luo Lingling revealed she planned to leave that night to deepen her artistic conception.
• Yan Xiaohu and Zhou Qing shared a farewell meal with Luo Lingling, and Yan Xiaohu offered her his Ten Thousand Year Blood Ginseng, which she later returned to him.
• Luo Lingling left the sect, and Zhou Qing continued cultivating until he completed the Flame Sun Overlord Body Art and began studying the third move of the Azure Thunder Swordplay.
• After six months, the Saint Martial Dynasty blamed another cultivation country for the Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown breakthrough, and the Taiqing Sect lifted its lockdown.
• Second Uncle revealed himself to Zhou Qing, examined his Four-Colored Nascent Soul and four amplifications, then took him underground to test how much heat he could withstand.

Zhou Qing followed Second Uncle into the Third Coffin, where they escaped the Corpse Wax Crows and discovered a vast tomb containing the remains of a Three-Legged Golden Crow. Second Uncle led Zhou Qing to a lava sea and asked him to sneak past the Flame Fire Crocodiles to find a powerful fan.

• Second Uncle took Zhou Qing through the Five-Colored Altar and the Robber Hole, then showed him how to cross the Blood River and open the Third Coffin.
• Zhou Qing and Second Uncle fled into the coffin as three Corpse Wax Crows emerged, then fell into a vast volcanic tomb where their soul power was sealed.
• Second Uncle explained that the enormous remains belonged to a Three-Legged Golden Crow and told Zhou Qing the tomb held wonders beyond the world he knew.
• Second Uncle led Zhou Qing to a lava sea inhabited by Flame Fire Crocodiles and asked him to find a fan made from Golden Crow wings while Second Uncle distracted the Crocodile King.

Zhou Qing entered the lava while Second Uncle battled the Severing Spirit Realm Crocodile King, searching for a fan made from Golden Crow wings. He found Golden Crow Blood and a divine scale but could not take the scale, and as the crocodiles hunted him, he used the blood to sense the fan’s location.

• The Four-Colored Flower protected Zhou Qing from the lava, and Second Uncle told him the Crocodile King was in the Severing Spirit Realm before drawing it out to fight.
• Zhou Qing descended through the lava, evaded Flame Fire Crocodiles, and found a formation containing ten Top-Grade Fire Attribute Spirit Stones and a guarded Golden Crow Blood drop.
• Zhou Qing seized the Golden Crow Blood with the Four-Colored Flower but failed to take the Crocodile King’s scale, which struck him back and alerted the king.
• Zhou Qing wounded two guarding Flame Fire Crocodiles, which began fighting each other, then fled as the Crocodile King sent its followers to hunt him.
• As the heat weakened him and he struggled to find the fan, Zhou Qing touched the Golden Crow Blood with a petal of the Four-Colored Flower and sensed something of the same origin.

Zhou Qing found the Golden Crow Fan in the magma, escaped the Flame Fire Crocodiles with Second Uncle, and returned to Little Spirit Peak with new treasures and a secret recording of Second Uncle’s hand seals. After cultivating for several days, Zhou Qing swallowed the now-cooler drop of Golden Crow Blood.

• Zhou Qing found the five-feather Golden Crow Fan beneath the magma and fought through the Flame Fire Crocodiles as he escaped.
• Second Uncle used the fan’s Golden Crow phantom to wound the Flame Fire Crocodile King, then led Zhou Qing out through the Third Coffin’s Blood River using Dead Crows.
• Second Uncle gave Zhou Qing a Top-Grade Water Attribute Spirit Stone, explained the Flame Fire Crocodile King’s bloodline, and demonstrated the hand seals for the Five-Colored Altar.
• Zhou Qing secretly recorded Second Uncle’s hand seals, and Mo Xingjian later learned how to cross the Blood River using Dead Crows.
• Zhou Qing practiced the hand seals overnight, stored spirit stones for Mo Xingjian, and observed the red petal absorb fire poison and heat from the Golden Crow Blood.
• After the Golden Crow Blood cooled over ten days, Zhou Qing swallowed it.

After two elders from the Azure Feather Immortal Sect were manipulated into self-destructing at the Taiqing Sect, Mo Xingjian exposed an internal betrayal and helped contain the blast. The Azure Feather Immortal Sect later fell to the Golden Thunder Sect and a mysterious ally, leaving Taiqing Sect to weigh whether to send aid as war loomed.

• Zhou Qing began comprehending the Golden Crow Sky Burning Scripture, and Yan Xiaohu asked him to return to the back mountain to catch Ice Soul Dark Scale Fish.
• The sect’s alarm rang eight times, and Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu went to Divine Peak, where battered Azure Feather Immortal Sect survivors begged Sect Leader Cao Zhengyang for help.
• Cao Zhengyang sensed danger and sealed the Azure Feather Immortal Sect group inside an azure beast, but elders Ji Ying and Huang Xiu self-destructed within the barrier.
• Mo Xingjian realized Liu Long had betrayed the sect and seized him before he could self-destruct near Cao Zhengyang, carrying him into the sky as he exploded.
• The Taiqing Sect moved the remaining energy sphere beyond its grounds, where it detonated, and Cao Zhengyang ordered the sect to prepare for war and investigate the attack.
• Mo Xingjian reported that the Azure Feather Immortal Sect had fallen to the Golden Thunder Sect and an unknown faction, while Taiqing Sect debated whether to send aid into a likely trap.

Zhou Qing discovered that Tianji Gate’s Xuanji Zi harbored intense killing intent toward him and questioned whether Tianji Gate was involved in the crisis surrounding the Azure Feather Immortal Sect. As the Taiqing Sect prepared to send reinforcements, Zhou Qing and Mo Xingjian reconsidered the evidence and their planned routes, and Gao Xuan challenged the assumption that Tianji Gate could be trusted.

• Yan Xiaohu speculated that Profound Abyss Immortal might have joined forces with the Azure Flame Dao Palace to lure back Eldest Brother, while Mo Xingjian later announced that the Taiqing Sect would cooperate with Tianji Gate to rescue the Azure Feather Immortal Sect.
• Zhou Qing insisted on meeting Xuanji Zi, bound him with Mind Mirror Vision, and saw the note above him change to “That damned brat who deserves a thousand deaths.”
• Zhou Qing told Mo Xingjian that Xuanji Zi wanted to kill him and proposed that Tianji Gate might be the mysterious force behind the crisis; he also revealed that he had four kinds of innate skill.
• Zhou Qing and Mo Xingjian reasoned that the attack on the Azure Feather Immortal Sect and the situation at the Golden Thunder Sect might not be what they appeared, and questioned whether Tianji Gate’s two-route rescue plan could lead them into an ambush.
• Tong Min showed the sect leaders an Image Stone depicting Lei Wuji and Golden Thunder Sect figures at the damaged Azure Feather Immortal Sect, but Zhou Qing suspected the display had been staged.
• As Cao Zhengyang prepared to issue orders for the rescue, Gao Xuan objected to leaving so quickly and warned that Tianji Gate might also be part of the scheme.

Taiqing Sect’s leaders tested one another over whether to trust Xuanji Zi, then Cao Zhengyang chose a cautious plan while secretly sending a small group to provide support. Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu slipped out of the sect to reach the battlefield, while Cao Zhengyang’s group changed course toward Golden Thunder Sect.

• Gao Xuan and Mo Xingjian objected to trusting Xuanji Zi, and Mo Xingjian claimed Tianji Gate was backed by Azure Flame Dao Palace.
• Cao Zhengyang agreed to try Mo Xingjian’s plan, while Mo Xingjian revealed that the apparent mass mobilization was a cover and only eighteen cultivators would go out as support.
• Zhou Qing feared for his master and suspected Azure Feather Immortal Sect might betray Taiqing Sect, so he decided to leave with Yan Xiaohu.
• Yan Xiaohu and Zhou Qing evaded Elder Wuzhu and used Bai He’s white jade pearl to pass through the mountain gate barrier.
• Cao Zhengyang led the eighteen cultivators away from Azure Feather Immortal Sect’s route and toward Golden Thunder Sect.

Gao Xuan diverted Xuanji Zi’s forces from their planned meeting by claiming Taiqing Sect was under attack, while Taiqing Sect’s leaders uncovered Azure Flame Dao Palace’s plot and sought aid from the divided Golden Thunder Sect. The chapter leaves Si Kong Yan preparing for a new assault and Gao Xuan confronting Xuanji Zi about a formation disk supplied by Tianji Gate.

• Gao Xuan redirected the warships and persuaded Xuanji Zi to send ten ships to help Taiqing Sect, while Lu Yaoyao and the Grand Elders attacked Azure Flame Dao Palace’s mountain gate.
• Cao Zhengyang and his companions reached Golden Thunder Sect, where Elder Gong Zhen revealed that internal strife had injured Lei Wuji and sealed the sect off from outside news.
• Gong Zhen asked Cao Zhengyang for help, then led him and the others through a secret passage toward the Sect Leader while Yu Fuqian guarded the entrance.
• Si Kong Yan learned that Taiqing Sect’s ships had turned back and that Azure Flame Dao Palace’s barrier was under attack, and he reacted with excitement.
• Gao Xuan asked Xuanji Zi whether Tianji Gate had supplied Azure Flame Dao Palace with the Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown Array Disk, and Xuanji Zi denied understanding the question.

Gao Xuan exposed Xuanji Zi’s double-dealing and urged him to join Taiqing Sect, while Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu infiltrated the devastated Azure Feather Immortal Sect and uncovered Azure Flame Dao Palace’s humanoid puppets. They found the wounded Yuan Ya surrounded by Meng Xing and his forces, who revealed that Taiqing Sect had entered an ambush.

• Gao Xuan told Xuanji Zi that Tianji Gate’s schemes had been exposed and urged him to ally with Taiqing Sect, but Xuanji Zi left without accepting.
• Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu discovered that Tianji Gate had used its Celestial Secret Art to disguise Azure Flame Dao Palace forces as Golden Thunder Sect members.
• Inside Azure Feather Immortal Sect, Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu found a damaged Humanoid Puppet, killed Wan Yuanmin, and learned from his Nascent Soul that Azure Flame Dao Palace had many puppets.
• Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu encountered the badly wounded Yuan Ya as Meng Xing arrived with a group of cultivators and surrounded them.
• Meng Xing revealed that Yuan Ya’s elders had gone to notify Taiqing Sect, which had likely entered Azure Flame Dao Palace’s ambush; Yan Xiaohu identified Meng Xing as one of the Five Great Heavenly Pride.

Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu rescued Yuan Ya from the disguised Azure Flame Dao Palace forces and learned that the Azure Feather Immortal Sect was under attack because its leaders had been trapped inside the Inner Sect. Yuan Ya led them to the barrier, where they prepared to break in and reach Profound Abyss Immortal.

• Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu ambushed Meng Xing and the Golden Core Realm cultivators; Zhou Qing killed Meng Xing and searched his Nascent Soul, discovering the scale of the Azure Flame Dao Palace’s infiltration.
• Yan Xiaohu freed Yuan Ya, and she joined them after confirming they were from the Taiqing Sect; Zhou Qing left briefly before returning under his own name.
• The Taiqing Sect forces withdrew from the Azure Flame Dao Palace mountain gate as its returning forces headed toward the Azure Feather Immortal Sect.
• Yuan Ya led Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu through the ravaged Outer Sect and explained how an attack and an internal betrayal had left the Sect Master unconscious and the Inner Sect sealed.
• The three reached the Inner Sect barrier and spotted a glowing object among the disguised Golden Thunder Sect attackers; Yuan Ya asked Yan Xiaohu to strike the barrier with all his strength.

Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu reached the Azure Feather Immortal Sect and warned Profound Abyss Immortal that Azure Flame Dao Palace and Tianji Gate were behind the attack. After the invaders withdrew and reinforcements arrived, the sect launched a counterattack, while Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu opportunistically looted enemy corpses; the chapter ended with the Taiqing Sect and Golden Thunder Sect departing to protect their own bases.

• Yuan Ya brought Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu to the Inner Sect barrier, where Xia Ye and Grand Elder Xin Songming admitted them.
• Zhou Qing told Profound Abyss Immortal that Azure Flame Dao Palace and Tianji Gate were attacking under disguise, and Yuan Ya confirmed his account.
• Si Kong Yan received a message and ordered his warships to turn back, while Xia Ye reported that the attackers around the barrier had withdrawn.
• After Yan Xiaohu learned that reinforcements were nearby, Profound Abyss Immortal and the Azure Feather Immortal Sect disciples charged out to pursue the invaders.
• Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu took spirit stones from the healing formation and looted enemy Storage Bags, leaving the belongings of fallen Azure Feather Immortal Sect disciples untouched.
• Mo Xingjian, Cao Zhengyang, Lei Wuji, and other reinforcements arrived; after discussing the crisis, the Taiqing Sect and Golden Thunder Sect returned to guard their own bases.

Zhou Qing learned that the Sixth Blue Ball knew of Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown, then tested the Divine Ruins Heavenly Palace’s simulation of the Grotto-Heaven and discovered he could reach the ancient tree and its chained Black Heart. After the simulation killed him, he resolved to return and try to take the tree’s green leaves and a piece of the heart.

• Mo Xingjian inspected the Humanoid Puppet and learned that it had been cruelly made from a corpse using an unknown secret technique.
• The Taiqing Sect, Golden Thunder Sect, and Azure Feather Immortal Sect declared war on the Azure Flame Dao Palace, and the Tianji Gate later sided with the Azure Flame Dao Palace.
• Yan Xiaohu gave Zhou Qing six High-Grade Spirit Stones, and they planned to disguise Zhou Qing’s return to the battlefield and share their gains.
• The Sixth Blue Ball mentioned a rumor of Four Flowers Gathered on the Crown, making Zhou Qing suspect she was close to his own cultivation country.
• Zhou Qing entered the Fifth Cyan Ball’s restricted zone, endured its crushing gravity, and used Second Uncle’s hand seals to sense the Five-Colored Altar beyond a wall.
• In the simulated Grotto-Heaven, Zhou Qing failed to move a coffin and was killed while trying to bite the ancient tree, then decided to return for its green leaves and Black Heart.

Zhou Qing returned to Taiqing Sect after two months away, where the Seventh Prince’s cryptic paintings raised suspicions that an outside power was interfering in the conflict among the five great sects. He then left with Yan Xiaohu to hunt Azure Flame Dao Palace’s Song Yuan, but in Youhuang City they encountered Yuan Ya, who asked after Li Si.

• Zhou Qing repeatedly fought waves of Wandering Souls in the Divine Ruins Heavenly Palace with the Golden Crow Sky Burning Scripture, but the overwhelming numbers and gravity eventually killed him in the simulation.
• Mo Xingjian took Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu on an expedition, where the two fought Azure Flame Dao Palace disciples; Zhou Qing killed three Nascent Soul cultivators, including their strongest, before they returned to Taiqing Sect.
• Cao Zhengyang showed Mo Xingjian three paintings sent by the Seventh Prince, Xuan Yuan Yi Chen, and Mo Xingjian and Zhou Qing suspected the paintings warned that someone was disrupting the five sects’ peace.
• Yan Xiaohu recruited Zhou Qing to hunt Song Yuan, and the two left Taiqing Sect at night with the Old Hen.
• Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu reached Youhuang City and met Yuan Ya, who thanked them for rescuing her and asked where Li Si was.

Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu followed Yuan Ya to an Azure Flame Dao Palace stronghold in Youhuang City, where they discovered a hidden Grotto-Heaven beneath a pond. They found captives being turned into Humanoid Puppets and witnessed the brutal process in progress.

• Yuan Ya told Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu that Song Yuan had entered a secret Azure Flame Dao Palace stronghold, and they agreed to wait for reinforcements before acting.
• After Yuan Ya left to investigate the manor, Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu followed her and discovered that the stronghold was hidden beneath its pond.
• Zhou Qing used Daily Appraisal to confirm that a Grotto-Heaven lay at the pond's bottom and held captives destined to become Humanoid Puppets.
• Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu entered the underwater cave, where Zhou Qing killed several guards and Yan Xiaohu collected their Storage Bags.
• The pair found iron cages filled with hollow-eyed Golden Core cultivators and saw Azure Flame Dao Palace disciples cutting open captives and implanting formations to make Humanoid Puppets.

Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu discovered Azure Flame Dao Palace’s human-puppet workshop and found Shi Zhen imprisoned there. After Zhou Qing wounded Song Yuan with Tetanus Broken Sword and lured him into a bloody chase, Zhou Qing stopped and began gathering firelight, leaving his next move unresolved.

• Zhou Qing and Yan Xiaohu found Shi Zhen among captives being mutilated and prepared for conversion into Humanoid Puppets.
• Song Yuan and Blood Bone Elder confronted the intruders, and Zhou Qing wounded Song Yuan’s palm with Tetanus Broken Sword while pretending to be an idiot.
• Blood Bone Elder saw through Zhou Qing’s act, and Song Yuan attacked him as Yan Xiaohu faced the surrounding enemies.
• Zhou Qing escaped into the water and taunted Song Yuan into pursuing him, worsening his bleeding wound as he used spiritual power.
• Seeing Song Yuan growing weak but judging the wound insufficient, Zhou Qing stopped and summoned a sea of flames.

Zhou Qing defeated and killed Song Yuan, then joined the Azure Feather Immortal Sect disciples to raid Blood Bone's stronghold and rescue Shi Zhen. After Blood Bone escaped, the group found the prisoners and evidence of the Azure Flame Dao Palace's puppet-making, and Chu Binli decided Zhou Qing should leave while the others dealt with those they could not take.

• Song Yuan's poisoned wound kept bleeding despite his Nascent Soul ability to regrow limbs, and Zhou Qing drove him from the pond into the sky above Youhuang City.
• Zhou Qing destroyed Song Yuan's red bell, beheaded him, and captured his fleeing Nascent Soul.
• Chu Binli and Deng Rui arrived to help at the manor, where Yan Xiaohu fought Blood Bone and rushed to check on Shi Zhen in the karst cave.
• Blood Bone escaped as Chu Binli and Deng Rui pursued him, while Zhou Qing reunited with Shi Zhen and learned about the captives and Humanoid Puppets.
• Zhou Qing gave Chu Binli an Image Stone showing the stronghold's crimes, and Chu Binli chose two prisoners to take back for study.
• Chu Binli decided the others should stay behind, told Zhou Qing to leave, and Zhou Qing and Yuan Ya wished him and Deng Rui safety.