Chapter Summaries

Li Qingqiu investigated a mysterious sea whirlpool and organized Qingxiao Sect to explore the coast and develop its resources while the sect battled the Lingtian Sect. As reports emerged of the Qi Clan’s ambitions and a northern general riding a Suanni, Li Qingqiu learned that Hell Kirin had also grown restless.

• Li Qingqiu learned that a whirlpool near the Source Iron Blessed Lands might conceal a spatial formation and ordered the disciples there not to investigate it recklessly.
• Li Qingqiu arranged for Heavenly Works Hall disciples to help develop the port, while Zhu Yan planned ships and maps and Zhang Yuchun proposed exploring the coast by river.
• Zhu Yan reported that the Lingtian Sect was working with the Qi Clan, whose army was attacking Weizhou, and Li Qingqiu told her to monitor the Qi Clan without intervening.
• Zhang Yuchun reported that a fierce general in Cangzhou rode a legendary Suanni, then said Hell Kirin had become irritable and was keeping ordinary disciples away.

Li Qingqiu received the Heavenly Gang Golden Body Art inheritance and taught it to four disciples while confirming Li Sifeng was safe. After Jiang Zhaoxia and Xu Ning returned with their group, they introduced Mo Jiuhong, a lone cultivator who had fought the Qi Clan over its Demonic Creatures.

• Li Qingqiu sent a True Disciple to check on Li Sifeng, and Xiao Ba later reported that Li Sifeng was safe in a military camp with ten True Disciples guarding him.
• Li Qingqiu obtained the Heavenly Gang Golden Body Art inheritance and taught the secret body-tempering technique to Yuan Li, Zhao Zhen, Ji Ya, and Xiao Wudi.
• The four disciples began training the five-layer technique, and Yuan Li and Xiao Wudi sensed that it suited them especially well.
• Jiang Zhaoxia and Xu Ning returned to Qingxiao Sect with fifty True Disciples and introduced Mo Jiuhong to Li Qingqiu.
• Mo Jiuhong explained that he had fought the Qi Clan because it was raising Demonic Creatures, and said he had recently left northern-border seclusion after an earthquake alerted him.

Li Qingqiu learned from Mo Jiuhong about the Ancient God’s true nature as a ravenous demonic tree and accepted him into Qingxiao Sect. The chapter ended with Li Qingqiu considering how to restrain the Qi Clan and discovering that Mo Jiuhong had high loyalty and a talent for stealth.

• Chu Jing revealed that he had wounded Mo Jiuhong ten years earlier when Mo Jiuhong tried to kill Zhao Zhi in the Imperial Palace.
• Mo Jiuhong explained that the Ancient God was a demonic tree that fed on flesh and blood, manipulated the Qi Clan, and planned to possess a Divine Child so it could move through avatars.
• Li Qingqiu agreed to let Mo Jiuhong join Qingxiao Sect as an inner sect disciple after hearing his warning and information about the tree.
• Jiang Zhaoxia and Xu Ning reported that they had destroyed Lingtian Mansions and killed three protectors but had failed to find Lingtian Sect’s sect master; Li Qingqiu ended their mission without giving them a reward.
• Chu Jing urged Li Qingqiu to build Qingxiao Sect’s strength and hinder the tree’s recovery, while Li Qingqiu worried about the innocent people who would suffer in the meantime.
• Li Qingqiu checked the Legacy System and found that Mo Jiuhong had loyalty scores of 67 and 82, along with the fates Bends Without Breaking and Way of Stealth.

Mo Jiuhong settled into the Qingxiao Sect and became devoted to the Qingxiao True Person, while Li Qingqiu oversaw his disciples and ordered an underground palace built. The chapter left Li Qingqiu offering to teach Yun Cai a secret art for controlling demon bees.

• Mo Jiuhong learned about the Qingxiao Sect’s strength and charitable conduct, then began taking inner sect missions to earn Dao Yuan and put down roots there.
• Mo Jiuhong recognized the Qingxiao True Person as the man who had saved him years earlier, knelt to thank him, and began following him around.
• Li Qingqiu watched his disciples train as Zhang Yuchun reported that Mo Jiuhong was serving the Qingxiao True Person and that preparations for the underground palace were complete.
• Li Qingqiu agreed to name the town at the mountain’s foot Seeking Immortals Town, and Zhang Yuchun left with funding and the sect master’s token.
• Yun Cai asked Li Qingqiu for permission to take missions for Dao Yuan, and Li Qingqiu offered to teach her a secret art for controlling demon bees instead.

Li Qingqiu oversaw Qingxiao Sect’s expansion and cultivation efforts as Cheng Xiu and Cheng San considered buying land, while Li Sifeng’s army faced a supply fire. A prompt then rewarded Li Qingqiu because a disciple had established a sect branch, leaving him wondering who had done it.

• Li Qingqiu taught Yun Cai the Heart Devouring Bee Refining Method and continued cultivating as Qingxiao Sect announced that half the disciples on Qingxiao Mountain would move to Ziyang Peak.
• Cheng San urged Cheng Xiu to help him buy land, and she agreed to give him her savings after learning he cared for an Inner Sect Disciple.
• Li Sifeng refused to use the ten Qingxiao Sect True Disciples in battle because he wanted to develop his own military command skills.
• A soldier reported that the Pei Clan army’s provisions had been set ablaze, and Yang Dong led the True Disciples out to follow Li Sifeng.
• Li Qingqiu began preparing body-tempering medicinal water with Li Sijin and received a Divine Ability Inheritance reward after a disciple established a sect branch, but he did not know who had done so.

Li Qingqiu received the Extreme Movement Technique, sent Han Lang to investigate a disciple who had secretly founded a sect, and began practicing his new divine ability. The chapter ended with Jiang Zhaoxia challenging Xu Ning after breaking through to the Nourishing Yuan Realm Eighth Layer.

• Li Qingqiu soaked in medicinal soup and accepted the Legacy System's inheritance of the Extreme Movement Technique.
• In a vision, Li Sifeng and ten True Disciples fought ten masked figures who demanded to know where Li Sifeng's qilin was, while Pei Zhangzhi watched.
• Li Qingqiu praised Han Lang's cultivation and ordered him to take ten Sword Sect disciples to find and bring in the disciple who had secretly established a sect.
• Li Qingqiu practiced the Extreme Movement Technique, learning that he could move instantly within a hundred zhang.
• Jiang Zhaoxia challenged Xu Ning, and news spread that Jiang Zhaoxia had reached the Nourishing Yuan Realm Eighth Layer.

Xu Ning and Jiang Zhaoxia fought before a crowd on Qingxiao Mountain, revealing Xu Ning’s lightning-infused Origin Energy and leaving their duel unresolved. Elsewhere, Zhou Ya warned his young Qingxia Sect disciples that he would soon have to leave, while Qiu Dahu offered to help him confront his enemies.

• Jiang Zhaoxia challenged Xu Ning, revealed that he had formed a sword soul, and agreed with her that they should avoid taking missions together.
• Xu Ning and Jiang Zhaoxia clashed in a fierce sword battle, and the watching disciples saw Xu Ning wield lightning through her Origin Energy.
• Xu Ning scattered Jiang Zhaoxia’s Myriad Swords Returning to Origin and sent him flying, but he later drove her onto the cracked Martial Arts Stage, leaving the outcome uncertain.
• Yuan Li told Jiang Nian that Xu Ning’s constitution made her Origin Energy naturally carry lightning, prompting Yuan Li to consider developing a special kind of Origin Energy for himself.
• Zhou Ya welcomed fourteen young disciples back to the Qingxia Sect courtyard and scolded Qiu Dahu for bringing them near a fight in the village.
• Zhou Ya explained that he could not stay with the children and that remaining would bring them trouble; Qiu Dahu asked whether they could help him take revenge on an enemy.

As Qingxiao Sect expanded and Zhang Yuchun managed its growing affairs, Zhang Ping warned him that Bai Ninger seemed unusually lucky and handed over a mysterious manual. The manual’s legend alarmed Zhang Yuchun, while Qi Tianquan learned that Qingxiao Sect cultivated immortals and began preparing an assault.

• Zhou Ya complained that Qiu Dahu’s actions had brought him trouble and decided to stay only two more months before returning to Qingxiao Sect.
• Jiang Zhaoxia and Xu Ning ended their magical duel in a draw, inspiring the disciples, while Li Qingqiu continued cultivating the Extreme Movement Technique.
• Zhang Yuchun ordered rumors about the Qi Clan to spread and put off the defeated Qin Clan’s request for assistance.
• Zhang Ping gave Zhang Yuchun a blue-covered manual and warned him that Bai Ninger seemed strangely lucky and reckless.
• Zhang Yuchun read the manual’s account of the Ji Huang Dharma Aspect Spiritual Power and grew visibly shaken.
• Qi Tianquan’s hidden adviser revealed that Qingxiao Sect was an immortal-cultivation sect and promised to enter the Divine Child’s body, then ordered Qi Tianquan to gather one hundred experts within ten days.

Li Qingqiu’s group discussed a legend about the Great Yan Dynasty’s war against demons and prepared Qingxiao Sect for greater threats by expanding cultivation opportunities and patrols. During winter, Jia Yi traveled to Lone Crane Peak to secure his children’s future, but a powerful white-haired youth killed him and headed toward Qingxiao Mountain seeking Li Qingqiu.

• Zhu Yan, Shen Yue, Zhang Yu, and Li Dongyue discussed a legend that the Great Yan Dynasty had paid a terrible price to repel a demon invasion, and they wondered whether it was connected to the Qi Clan’s demon.
• Li Qingqiu announced that each of the seven halls and the Sword Sect would select twenty disciples for cultivation support, raised the True Disciple threshold to the Nourishing Yuan Realm Fourth Layer, and directed the sect to prepare for a Qi Clan attack.
• Jia Yi returned home with a deed to land at Lone Crane Peak and told Zhen he planned to develop medicinal fields and buy Spirit-Storing Grass for their children.
• Jia Yi left for Lone Crane Peak through the snow and met a white-haired youth who demanded to know whether Li Qingqiu was at Qingxiao Mountain.
• Jia Yi attacked the white-haired youth, but the youth beheaded him and continued toward Qingxiao Mountain, vowing to slaughter his way through and wait for Li Qingqiu.

A blood-covered white-haired youth attacked Qingxiao Sect territory, killing Liu Jie and fifteen Training Hall disciples before Xu Ning confronted him. Xu Ning wounded and outmatched, faced the youth as the Qingxiao Sect’s crisis continued.

• Liu Jie sent the children fleeing and challenged the approaching white-haired youth, who killed him with a single strike.
• The youth pursued the children, but Xue Jin and fifteen Training Hall disciples arrived; he defeated Xue Jin and killed all fifteen disciples.
• Xue Jin tried to avenge his fellow disciples, but Xu Ning arrived and engaged the white-haired youth.
• The youth wounded Xu Ning with a wooden vine, and she retreated while Xue Jin realized how dire the situation was.
• The white-haired youth’s hair lengthened as vines sprouted from his back, while Xu Ning watched him warily.

Xu Ning fought a powerful demonic clone until Li Qingqiu arrived and destroyed it, but the attack had killed fifteen Training Hall disciples, including Liu Jie. Li Qingqiu offered the dead disciples a choice about their souls and promised Liu Jie that many people would soon be buried with him.

• Xu Ning used her lightning secret art to battle the white-haired youth, eventually cutting his throat, while Xiao Ba tore apart the vines trapping her.
• Li Qingqiu arrived on Xiao Ba and used silver sword shadows to pin and kill the white-haired youth, then captured his soul in the Soul Refining Banner.
• Li Qingqiu treated Xu Ning and Xue Jin, then restored the awareness of the fifteen dead Training Hall disciples and offered them a choice between reincarnation and letting him use their souls.
• Li Qingqiu used the Pure Heart Incantation on Liu Jie, who awoke as a soul and apologized for disappointing him.
• Li Qingqiu reassured Liu Jie that he had done well and said many people would soon be buried with him.

After the Qi Clan’s demon killed seventeen Qingxiao Sect disciples, Li Qingqiu resolved to destroy the Qi Clan and the Ancient God. He uncovered a lead in the demon’s memories and ended the chapter confronting a giant serpent in the Source Iron Blessed Lands.

• Li Qingqiu announced that he would lead an attack on the Qi Clan, then asked Shen Yue to join him in saving the world.
• The Qingxiao Sect recalled its disciples and buried the seventeen slain; Li Qingqiu arranged for Zhen Clan and her son to enter the sect and discovered that Jia Ming had inherited the Fate of the Ancestor of Immortal Emperors.
• Li Qingqiu searched the white-haired youth’s divided soul, learned enough about its memories to locate its true self, and planned to travel to Cangzhou with Shen Yue after securing the Source Iron Blessed Lands.
• Li Qingqiu found the mysterious presence in the mountains and discovered it was a giant serpent capable of hiding its demonic aura.
• The serpent pleaded with Li Qingqiu to spare its life.

Li Qingqiu recruited the timid serpent demon Bai Zhi for Qingxiao Sect’s planned Monster Taming Hall, then prepared to strike the Qi Clan after confirming Xu Ning was out of danger. He departed with Shen Yue and Mo Jiuhong for the Northern Territory, intending to retaliate against the demon that attacked his disciples.

• Li Qingqiu questioned Bai Zhi about her origins and learned she had been taught cultivation by an immortal woman who once lived in the forest.
• Li Qingqiu invited Bai Zhi and the three monsters she raised to join Qingxiao Sect, and the Legacy System revealed her loyalty and talent for guiding monsters.
• Li Qingqiu tested Bai Zhi’s strength, treated her injuries, gave her Thousand Spirit Fruits, and left to find a place for her.
• Li Qingqiu confirmed Xu Ning was out of danger, then gathered the sect leaders and announced his plan to confront the Qi Clan with Shen Yue and Mo Jiuhong.
• Li Qingqiu, Shen Yue, and Mo Jiuhong rode Xiao Ba toward the Northern Territory as Li Qingqiu said he would attack the demon first in retaliation for its assault on his disciples.

Li Qingqiu and Shen Yue attacked Night Bright City, with Li Qingqiu drawing the Ancient God out while Shen Yue prepared to fight the Qi Clan’s forces. Li Qingqiu descended into the underground realm and confronted the Ancient God as Qi Tianquan watched in shock.

• Qi Tianquan challenged the Ancient God over its schemes and urged it to help the Qi Clan defeat the realm’s lords, but the Ancient God sensed Qingxiao Sect’s arrival.
• Li Qingqiu, Shen Yue, and Mo Jiuhong approached Night Bright City on Xiao Ba as four Mountain Lords rampaged through the city.
• Li Qingqiu sent Mo Jiuhong into the city and assigned Shen Yue to draw in the Qi Clan’s martial artists while he went after the Ancient God.
• Li Qingqiu set the forest within the inner walls ablaze, then followed it into the abyss beneath Night Bright City.
• Li Qingqiu landed in the underground realm before the Ancient God, and Qi Tianquan stared at him in disbelief.

Li Qingqiu confronted the Ancient God beneath the Qi Clan’s ancestral grounds, then fought it as it erupted into Night Bright City. He warned the city’s people to flee and, as the Ancient God’s attacks demolished the inner wall, prepared to show Chu Jing the power of immortal cultivation.

• Li Qingqiu pierced the Ancient God’s face with the Heavenly Rainbow Sword, but poisonous mist forced him to retreat as the creature began emerging from the pit.
• Li Qingqiu warned the soldiers that the Ancient God would devour the city’s people, and they spread his warning while evacuating the residents.
• The Ancient God rose beneath the moon and attacked Li Qingqiu, bringing down sections of the inner city wall and sending Night Bright City into chaos.
• Li Qingqiu kept dodging the Ancient God’s attacks to expose it, while Shen Yue fought the Qi Clan martial artists elsewhere in the city.
• The Ancient God claimed that people would keep its existence secret unless Li Qingqiu destroyed it, and Li Qingqiu told Chu Jing he would demonstrate what an immortal cultivator could do.

Li Qingqiu unleashed his vast Origin Energy to destroy the Ancient God and capture its demon soul, while Chu Jing and Shen Yue witnessed the extent of his strength. After the battle, Li Qingqiu killed Qi Tianquan, prepared to claim the spoils, and left Shen Yue inspired to grow strong enough to challenge him.

• Li Qingqiu expanded the Soul Seizing Flying Sword into a massive blade and pierced the Ancient God, then destroyed it with a series of swords despite its belief that he had exhausted his Origin Energy.
• Li Qingqiu killed Qi Tianquan after he pleaded for forgiveness and drew his soul into the Soul Refining Banner, then used the Soul Seizing Curse and captured the Ancient God's demon soul.
• Li Qingqiu sent Nangong E and Lin Chuan to investigate tremors underground while Shen Yue defeated more than a thousand Qi Clan warriors without being injured.
• Li Qingqiu and Shen Yue met among Night Bright City's ruins, confirmed the Ancient God was dead, and set off to claim their spoils.
• Li Qingqiu asked whether Shen Yue might one day force him to use his full strength, inspiring Shen Yue to keep cultivating.

Li Qingqiu searched the Qi Clan’s underground palace for treasures while Han Lang brought Zhou Ya back to Qingxiao Sect for founding Qingxia Sect without permission. On Qingxiao Mountain, Li Dongyue learned that the sect master’s divine eagle had returned carrying the Qi Clan demon’s enormous true form.

• Li Qingqiu, Shen Yue, and Mo Jiuhong searched the Qi Clan’s underground palace, collecting valuables and rescuing trapped civilians.
• Han Lang and ten Sword Sect disciples confronted Zhou Ya at Qingxia Sect and confirmed that he had not taught the children the Primordial Scripture.
• Zhou Ya explained that he had founded Qingxia Sect to shelter children, then agreed to return with Han Lang to face the sect master.
• Li Dongyue and Liu Yan discussed the Spirit Finance Hall’s strained resources and Yang Xuan’s potential.
• A disciple told Li Dongyue that the sect master’s divine eagle had returned with the giant tree trunk that was the Qi Clan demon’s true form, and she rushed to see it.

The Qingxiao Sect’s disciples watched Li Qingqiu’s demon-slaying spoils arrive, while Li Qingqiu traveled with Shen Yue and Mo Jiuhong. They rescued Madam Xu and her son from the Yellow Springs Army, and Xu Hong joined their party as they continued onward.

• Ji Ya reunited with Yang Lin and other Sword Sect disciples, who admired the demon wood and speculated that Li Qingqiu had slain the demon at the northern border.
• Xiao Ba brought back more demon wood each day, and the disciples discovered that even their strongest spells could not damage it.
• Li Qingqiu considered preparing for an ancient calamity by developing formations and magical artifacts from the Ancient God’s corpse.
• Xu Hong warned Li Qingqiu’s group that the Yellow Springs Army was pursuing him, Madam Xu, and her son, and explained that the army had abducted them from Yuling City.
• Mo Jiuhong killed the Yellow Springs Army’s general and routed the cavalry after Li Qingqiu ordered him to kill them.
• Li Qingqiu let Xu Hong, Madam Xu, and her son travel with the group, then ordered Shen Yue to carry Mo Jiuhong’s bundles.

Li Qingqiu returned to Qingxiao Mountain after destroying the Ancient God and the Qi Clan, then outlined plans to strengthen the sect. After punishing Zhou Ya for teaching his own cultivation method, Li Qingqiu reaffirmed Qingxiao Sect’s claim to be the orthodox lineage of cultivation.

• Li Qingqiu returned to Qingxiao Mountain with Shen Yue and reported to the hall masters that the Ancient God had been slain and the Qi Clan wiped out.
• Li Qingqiu ordered Qingxiao Sect to resume normal operations, assigned the demon wood to Heavenly Works Hall, and announced plans for new training, missions, and sect facilities.
• Li Qingqiu explained that the Ancient God's lost roots could grow into new tree demons over a thousand years, then promised Chu Jing, Nangong E, and Lin Chuan he would consider ways for them to fight alongside him.
• News of Li Qingqiu's victory spread across the world, and Zhou Ya returned and confessed that he had taught a cultivation method of his own creation.
• Li Qingqiu spared Zhou Ya's life but demoted him to a Menial Disciple for three years, and declared that Qingxiao Sect must remain the orthodox lineage of cultivation.

As Qingxiao Sect established its Monster Taming Hall, Li Qingqiu introduced its disciples to the bond between cultivators and demon beasts. A notification revealed that Yuan Li had become the sect’s first body cultivator, and he asked Li Qingqiu to examine his progress.

• Li Yang told Li Qingqiu that Li Yuzhong was his biological younger brother and warned that Li Clan elders might approach him, but Li Qingqiu refused to let the clan use their relationship to influence him.
• Qingxiao Sect officially established Monster Taming Hall, where Li Qingqiu advised Cheng Canghai to cultivate alongside demon beasts and taught the disciples to treat them as companions.
• Li Qingqiu summoned Xiao Ba and Xiao Jiu to demonstrate the demon beasts’ power to Monster Taming Hall’s disciples, then Xiao Jiu returned to Thousand Spirit Blessed Land while Xiao Ba resumed hauling demon wood.
• A notification informed Li Qingqiu that Qingxiao Sect’s first body cultivator had earned him a Fortune Inheritance opportunity, which he chose to save for later.
• Yuan Li met Li Qingqiu in Lingxiao Courtyard and asked him to assess his progress in the Heavenly Gang Golden Body Art.