Chapter Summaries

Li Qingqiu learned from Wei Tianxiong that Tai Jue Sect’s buried city concealed a dangerous inheritance and that Wei carried a blood feud against the Tianming Sea. He recruited Wei into Qingxiao Sect’s Heaven Works Hall under a strict secrecy order, then considered how to gather intelligence on the Tianming Sea without risking his people.

• Wei Tianxiong explained that Tai Jue Sect’s underground city guarded its Sect-Protecting Divine Sword and hid deadly mechanisms, and that he had saved Shen Yue from the ruins.
• Wei Tianxiong recounted Tai Jue Sect’s destruction and warned that its inheritance was a trap, while Li Qingqiu agreed to keep Qingxiao Sect away from the Tianming Sea for now.
• Li Qingqiu assigned Wei Tianxiong to the Heaven Works Hall and ordered Zhu Yan to conceal his identity from everyone except himself.
• Shen Yue questioned whether Wei Tianxiong could be trusted, but Li Qingqiu defended the placement and encouraged Shen Yue to grow stronger.
• Li Qingqiu considered sending Mo Jiuhong to gather intelligence on the Tianming Sea, but worried that Mo Jiuhong’s low cultivation made the journey too dangerous.

Wei Tianxiong began warming to the Qingxiao Sect after helping the Heavenly Works Hall improve its artifact forging, while the Daoist Convention advanced to its top-ten matches. Bai Ninger gave Li Qingqiu a mysterious Green Jade from the Tai Jue Sect, and Li Qingqiu entered its inner world to face the Sword Master for the sect’s true inheritance.

• Wei Tianxiong scolded the Heavenly Works Hall disciples, then showed them a better method for forging a magical artifact.
• Zhu Yan realized Li Qingqiu had assigned Wei Tianxiong to the hall so he could help the sect, and Wei Tianxiong learned more about the Qingxiao Sect through her.
• The Daoist Convention narrowed to thirty-two participants, and Liu Jing arrived at Qingxiao Mountain with the imperial family to watch the top-ten contest.
• Bai Ninger gave Li Qingqiu a Green Jade treasure from the Tai Jue Sect, explaining that he had failed the test inside it.
• Li Qingqiu entered the Green Jade’s inner world and met an old man calling himself Sword Master, who challenged him to win the Tai Jue Sect’s true inheritance.
• Sword Master summoned a sword and lunged at Li Qingqiu.

After the Qingxiao Sect’s second Daoist Convention, Li Qingqiu expanded the sect’s influence across the Nine Provinces while its disciples grew stronger. As Ji Ya underwent tribulation, Yun Cai asked for a task and was sent north to investigate a powerful demonic creature, with strict orders to stay away from the Land of Yao and Mo.

• Li Qingqiu reflected on his defeat by Sword Master and resolved to obtain the inheritance, while Yuan Li struggled with his disappointment at missing the Daoist Convention’s top ten.
• Yun Cai won the second Daoist Convention, Ji Ya placed second, and Xue Jin placed third as the immortal path spread through the Nine Provinces.
• Three years later, Li Qingqiu ordered the Qingxiao Sect to claim Chengyang Mountain’s unmined spirit ore and told Xiao Wuqing to make the Jinyang He Clan relocate or face force.
• Li Qingqiu sensed Ji Ya undergoing tribulation and prepared to advance his own cultivation to the Spiritual Sense Realm Sixth Layer.
• Yun Cai asked Li Qingqiu for a chance to earn achievements, and he assigned her to investigate and, if possible, capture a powerful demonic creature in the Northern Territory while avoiding the Land of Yao and Mo.

Li Qingqiu met with the Qingxiao Sect's hall masters to discuss the sect's development and the threat posed by Ziyang Island. The chapter ended with him ordering preparations for sea warfare while the sect avoided provoking a conflict.

• Yun Cai set out with her seven sisters to search the northern frontier for Demonic Creatures.
• Wei Tianxiong reported that the Qingxiao Token's tracking ability would take at least another year, and Li Qingqiu continued the meeting on the sect's development.
• Xue Jin raised the need to explore the western danger zone, and Li Qingqiu added exploration missions and asked Han Lang to draft rules against disciples killing one another.
• Zhang Yuchun revealed that Sun Moxíng came from Ziyang Island, and Wei Tianxiong warned that the island had more than five hundred Spiritual Sense Realm cultivators and might raid the Qingxiao Sect if it learned of it.
• Zhang Yuchun explained that Sun Moxíng had been sent to investigate the northern lands, and Li Qingqiu ordered the sect to develop Yuantie Port Town and study artifacts for sea travel and combat.

Li Qingqiu made Wei Tianxiong deputy hall master of the Heavenly Works Hall after agreeing to help him seek revenge against the Longevity Immortal Alliance. Months later, Yun Cai and seven Qingxiao Sect disciples pursued the legendary demon Candle Yin south, flying toward ominous thunderclouds.

• Wei Tianxiong offered to help the Qingxiao Sect grow and reveal hidden treasures in exchange for revenge against Ziyang Island and the Longevity Immortal Alliance.
• Li Qingqiu appointed Wei Tianxiong deputy hall master of the Heavenly Works Hall, and Wei Tianxiong's Formations soon became popular with the sect's disciples.
• Yun Cai and seven disciples found a ruined village in the Northern Barbarians and used Evil Suppressing Talismans to surround it.
• Yun Cai found a dying martial arts expert, who warned her that Candle Yin had gone south and would bring calamity to the Nine Provinces before he died.
• Yun Cai ordered the disciples to bury the bodies and pursue Candle Yin south, where they encountered thunderclouds and an unsettling aura.

Li Qingqiu learned that demonic creatures were fleeing the Land of Yao and Mo, while Yun Cai returned from a successful mission with Candle Yin’s corpse and soul. Her achievement established her as a powerful fighter in her own right, and she topped the Dao Yuan ranking as news of her victory spread.

• Li Qingqiu allowed Qin Ye’s family to explore the ocean, warning them not to mention Qingxiao Sect while at sea.
• Yun Cai returned from the northern border with Candle Yin’s corpse and sealed soul, then told Li Qingqiu that the creature came from beyond a vast mountain dividing the world from the Land of Yao and Mo.
• Yun Cai reported that demonic creatures were fleeing the Land of Yao and Mo, whose ancient seal was said to break every thousand years and unleash destruction upon the mortal world.
• Li Qingqiu praised Yun Cai’s strength and promised to double her mission reward, recognizing that she could now handle major threats without him.
• Yun Cai took the top spot in the monthly Dao Yuan ranking, and news that she had slain Candle Yin greatly increased her prestige.

Sun Moxíng agreed to return to Ziyang Island under a Gu worm’s control, while Li Qingqiu offered him a possible future post in Qingxiao Sect. Later, Zhang Ping heard Bai Ninger describe the mysterious Wenxian Temple, which he planned to investigate after the holiday.

• Sun Moxíng asked Li Qingqiu to let him return to Ziyang Island and hand over his intelligence mission, promising not to expose Qingxiao Sect.
• Wei Tianxiong implanted a Gu worm in Sun Moxíng as a safeguard, and Li Qingqiu said Sun could be considered for deputy hall master of the Spirit Control Hall after returning.
• Zhang Yuchun escorted Sun Moxíng away, and Sun resolved to prove his loyalty to Qingxiao Sect despite resenting Wei Tianxiong.
• Zhang Ping visited the Treasure Pavilion to buy talisman paper and ran into Bai Ninger.
• Bai Ninger told Zhang Ping that Wenxian Temple’s founder had rejected the Son of Heaven’s recognition and that strange phenomena had appeared near the temple.
• Bai Ninger said he planned to investigate Wenxian Temple after the holiday.

Li Qingqiu expanded Qingxiao Sect’s influence, publicized its strength, and set the search for resources needed to build new arrays in motion. The chapter ended at Wenxian Temple, where Shi Yixian questioned whether Qingxiao Sect should be the world’s only path to immortality.

• Li Qingqiu reassured Li Dongyue about her position and dismissed speculation over who would succeed him as sect master.
• Li Qingqiu convened Qingxiao Sect’s leaders, then publicized the sect’s disciple numbers and offered rewards to encourage True Disciples to reach the Spiritual Sense Realm.
• Yun Cai was promoted to Divine Ability Disciple after mastering a divine ability.
• Wei Tianxiong explained that the Sky Mending Great Array needed Soil-Attracting Spirit Stones, so Li Qingqiu ordered a search for them and for spirit mines.
• Qingxiao Sect found a Soil-Attracting Spirit Stone, and news of a spirit mine arrived in early June.
• At Wenxian Temple, Shi Yixian told Bai Ninger about the Merciful World-Saving Immortal and questioned whether the world should depend on Qingxiao Sect alone for immortal cultivation.

Bai Ninger investigated Wenxian Temple and learned that Qingxiao Sect had an undercover agent there, then witnessed Xiao Wudi claim the temple’s mountain and spirit mine for the sect. Li Qingqiu later heard that the mine was under Qingxiao Sect’s control and ordered that Wenxian Temple be investigated without harming or humiliating anyone.

• Bai Ninger questioned Shi Yixian about Qingxiao Sect and stayed at Wenxian Temple to learn about the Merciful World-Saving Immortal.
• A Wenxian Temple disciple warned Bai Ninger that Shi Yixian would hide any suspicious intentions from a Qingxiao Sect member and revealed he was on a secret sect mission.
• Bai Ninger discovered that the disciple was an undercover agent after the agent explained that his mission came from Qingxiao Sect’s upper ranks, not the Training Hall.
• Xiao Wudi arrived with eleven Qingxiao Sect disciples and demanded that Shi Yixian leave the mountain so the sect could collect its Spirit Stones.
• Bai Ninger advised Shi Yixian not to oppose Qingxiao Sect and left, while Shi Yixian yielded to Xiao Wudi’s demand.
• Xiao Wuqing told Li Qingqiu that the Central Heaven Continent spirit mine was under his elder brother’s control, and Li Qingqiu ordered an investigation of Wenxian Temple without harming or humiliating anyone.

Li Qingqiu learned that the Nine Immortal Sect was spreading across the Nine Provinces and received a Fortune Inheritance prompt warning of a full-scale Demon Race invasion. After accepting guidance to the Demon Lord Immortal Palace, he sent Xu Ning and Jiang Zhaoxia to find it and investigate its dangers.

• Chu Jing reported attacks on spirit-stone transports and the need to reinforce West Yuxian City, while Xiao Wuqing reported hauntings in the Imperial Palace; Li Qingqiu assigned disciples to address both matters.
• Zhang Yuchun warned Li Qingqiu that the Nine Immortal Sect had spread among powerful families, and Li Qingqiu secretly sent Zhao Zhen and Shen Yue to investigate it.
• Li Qingqiu received a Fortune Inheritance opportunity, detected the Demon Lord Immortal Palace, and accepted its guidance after learning that the Demon Race had launched a full-scale invasion.
• Li Qingqiu summoned Xu Ning and Jiang Zhaoxia and ordered each of them to take ten reliable disciples west to locate the Demon Lord Immortal Palace and report what they found.

A black-armored monkey demon invaded the Qingxiao Sect and attacked Yang Lin, but Yun Cai arrived in time to fight it. The battle escalated as Yun Cai unleashed her Mountain Lord Divine Incantation against the demon’s enormous staff strike.

• Bai Yutian’s black hand warned him that a powerful demon was approaching the Qingxiao Sect, then hid inside his chest as dark clouds rolled in.
• The black-armored monkey demon dropped an iron staff into the Sword Sect training ground and lunged at Yang Lin.
• Yun Cai intercepted the demon’s attack and fought it across the training ground and rooftops, gradually suppressing it.
• The demon stunned Yun Cai with a giant ape’s roar, then swung a ten-zhang staff shadow at her.
• Yun Cai summoned a giant silver tiger with her Mountain Lord Divine Incantation to counter the strike.

Yun Cai and Ji Ya stopped a powerful Black Sha Yao Monkey from harming anyone at Qingxiao Sect, and Li Qingqiu ordered the demon taken to the Town Evil Tower. The black hand warned Bai Yutian that more Demonic Creatures were coming, while True Person Bai Yan was assigned to guard the captured monkey demon.

• Yun Cai battled the black-armored monkey demon until Ji Ya blocked its escape and Yun Cai’s Soul Seizing Flying Sword brought it down.
• Li Qingqiu praised Yun Cai for preventing casualties, sent her to interrogate the demon, and rejected her advances.
• The black hand identified the demon as a Black Sha Yao Monkey with cultivation equivalent to the fifth or sixth layer of the Spiritual Sense Realm.
• The black hand told Bai Yutian that Qingxiao Sect would soon learn more about the coming danger and warned him not to reveal its existence.
• True Person Bai Yan told Bai Yutian he had been reassigned to guard the monkey demon and warned him to avoid deserted places.

Ji Ya warned the disciples that the demonic beast attack and the Imperial Palace haunting might signal a threat to Qingxiao Sect, while Chu Jing and Yun Cai interrogated the Black Sha Yao Monkey. Yun Cai discovered another demonic aura inside the captive, suggesting a different demon had used him to spy on the sect.

• Ji Ya told Yang Lin and four disciples to stay alert and said he would investigate the Imperial Palace haunting without them.
• Hu Yan gave Duan Xiaojuan high-grade Talismans and warned her that Qingxiao Sect might face further trouble.
• Yun Cai failed to find useful information in the Black Sha Yao Monkey's disordered memories.
• Yun Cai unleashed Heart Devouring Bees on the Black Sha Yao Monkey after he taunted her and Chu Jing.
• Yun Cai used her Myriad Laws Spiritual Eye and found a demonic aura inside the monkey that did not belong to him.

The Qingxiao Sect struggled to understand the demon faction behind the Black Sha Yao Monkey while preparing for an attack, and Shen Yue pursued a lead connecting the Nine Immortal Sect to demons. Ji Ya began investigating the strange nighttime disturbances in Liu Jing’s palace.

• Yun Cai’s blue flames engulfed the Black Sha Yao Monkey after his demonic aura drove off the Heart Devouring Bees, but he continued laughing.
• The Centipede Spirit ordered Shi Yixian and its followers to spread panic through the Qingxiao Sect before it went to Qingxiao Mountain at year’s end.
• Li Qingqiu and Wei Tianxiong discussed defending the sect, then learned that Shen Yue was tracking a lesser demon in Southern Chu Province.
• Shen Yue continued after the demon despite Li Qingqiu’s warning, while Li Qingqiu prepared Wei Tianxiong and other disciples for the coming threat.
• Ji Ya questioned Liu Jing about the footsteps and strange fragrance in the Imperial Palace, then concealed himself on the palace roof to keep watch.

Yuan Li struggled to break through the limits of his body while Central Heaven Immortal City came under a demonic assault. As a golden dragon-shaped shadow arrived, the fox demon killed Yuan Qi, leaving the city’s fate uncertain.

• Yuan Qi learned that poisonous insects had appeared around Central Heaven Immortal City and prepared to sound the battle bell.
• Yuan Li pushed Gang Yuan into his acupoints, failed to break his bodily limits, and felt an inexplicable terror.
• Demons and poisonous insects attacked Central Heaven Immortal City as Yuan Qi and the disciples fought amid the burning ruins.
• Yang Chengyu urged the wounded Yuan Qi to retreat, but Yuan Qi sent him to rescue the other disciples.
• The fox demon revealed that a formation concealed the attack from Qingxiao Sect and advanced on Yuan Qi.
• A golden dragon-shaped shadow swept into the city, but the fox demon beheaded Yuan Qi and stood on his head.

Li Qingqiu rushed to Central Heaven Immortal City after the Legacy System showed its disciples dying, but arrived after a devastating demon attack that killed Yuan Qi and hundreds of others. At a sect meeting, the leaders discussed the enemy’s hidden forces and considered sending Qingxiao Sect’s demons to find their lair, while Ji Ya fought in the Imperial Palace.

• Li Qingqiu saw the number of disciples fall and hurried from Qingxiao Mountain to Central Heaven Immortal City.
• He found the city devastated, treated the wounded, and discovered that Yuan Qi had been beheaded and his soul taken.
• Qiao Dingbei reported that the demons had cut off the Qingxiao Tokens before suddenly withdrawing, and Li Qingqiu ordered a casualty count.
• Zhao Zhen returned with two demon corpses, said a mysterious force had destroyed their souls, and accepted Li Qingqiu’s order to guard the city.
• At Lingxiao Courtyard, Li Qingqiu reported 237 disciples dead and 452 injured, and the sect leaders discussed finding the demons’ lair.
• Wei Tianxiong proposed sending Qingxiao Sect’s demons to search for the enemy, while Ji Ya fought in the Imperial Palace.

Ji Ya fought a demonic horde in the Imperial Palace and realized the attack was aimed at him, while demons also blocked Qingxiao Sect disciples from reaching the city. Li Qingqiu told Yuan Li that Yuan Qi had died in the attack on Central Heaven Immortal City, leaving Yuan Li frozen in shock.

• Ji Ya battled Demonic Creatures surrounding the Imperial Palace as Liu Jing and the Imperial Guards watched from safety.
• A consort warned Liu Jing to keep the guards back, and a massive Yao bird appeared in the demonic clouds overhead.
• Ji Ya concluded the creatures were targeting him, summoned four Mountain Lords, and drew the horde away from Liu Jing.
• Demons blocked nearby Qingxiao Sect disciples from reaching the Imperial Palace while civilians fled amid destruction in the city.
• Li Qingqiu visited Yuan Li and told him that Yuan Qi had died among the more than five hundred disciples killed or injured in the attack on Central Heaven Immortal City.

After Yuan Qi’s death, Yuan Li vowed to avenge him, while Li Qingqiu organized the sect’s response to a spreading demonic invasion across the Nine Provinces. The chapter ended with Yuan Li descending the mountain after awakening his Indestructible Hegemon Body, as the sect’s leaders suspected the enemy was targeting its geniuses.

• Li Qingqiu told Yuan Li that Yuan Qi had died, and Yuan Li grieved before promising to avenge his brother at the burial.
• Xiao Wuqing reported that Ji Ya had survived an attack on Zhenyang Imperial City after Xu Ning arrived to help him.
• The Qingxiao Sect announced the casualties in Central Heaven Immortal City and sent more than a thousand disciples across the Nine Provinces to fight Demonic Creatures.
• The fox demon who killed Yuan Qi invited Jinlang to follow her and learn about her king, and Jinlang followed her into the forest.
• Ji Ya told the sect’s leaders that tens of thousands of Demonic Creatures had attacked him, and Wei Tianxiong suggested they were targeting the Qingxiao Sect’s geniuses.
• Xiao Wuqing reported that Yuan Li had knocked Xiao Wudi unconscious and descended the mountain, and Li Qingqiu saw that Yuan Li’s Indestructible Hegemon Body had awakened.

Li Qingqiu chose not to pursue Yuan Li, who had entered a deadly transformation after Yuan Qi’s death and unleashed a powerful blood qi to draw out Demonic Creatures. As demons mobilized toward the blood qi, Li Qingqiu sensed it from the Cave Mansion and went to investigate with Lin Chuan.

• Li Qingqiu stopped Ji Ya from going after Yuan Li, sent Xiao Wuqing to watch over Xiao Wudi, and asked Ji Ya to recount the Imperial Palace battle.
• Yuan Li wandered through the snowy wilderness, grieving Yuan Qi and reflecting on his life and cultivation.
• Yuan Li’s body began to break down as his Gang Yuan surged, and he released a tremendous blood qi to lure the Demonic Creatures that had killed his brother.
• The Centipede Spirit and the demons in its temple sensed Yuan Li’s blood qi and set out, intent on claiming his body and attacking the Qingxiao Sect.
• Li Qingqiu sensed the growing blood qi, left the Cave Mansion with Lin Chuan, and looked out over the snow-covered land to find its source.

Yuan Li's body cultivation surged into an undying transformation as he drew a horde of demonic creatures and a powerful tribulation toward himself. The chapter left him facing the lightning tribulation and a gathering of terrifying great demons.

• Yang Xuan trapped a wolf demon in his Two Extremes Heaven and Earth spell, then concealed himself and the disciples as a horde of demonic creatures charged past.
• Yuan Li's flesh repeatedly melted and regenerated as his power grew, and he recognized his physique as the Indestructible Hegemon Body.
• Yuan Li killed a giant vulture with one blow and resolved to end the calamity himself.
• A lightning tribulation struck Yuan Li, while Li Qingqiu set out to find Wei Tianxiong and Yun Cai sensed Yuan Li's immense power.
• Zhao Zhen recognized Yuan Li's aura from Central Heaven Immortal City and chose to stay and protect the city.
• Yuan Li's tribulation intensified as great demons, including a python nearing transformation into a flood dragon, appeared before him.