Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi defended Bilibili and the boy when Zali led a force of powerful warriors against him, killing three attackers and rapidly advancing in battle qi. The tiger fae who had his eye on Hu Die then challenged Lin Qi with a Stabbing Sword.

• Zali emerged injured and ordered her warriors to attack Lin Qi, who stood his ground to protect Bilibili and the boy.
• Lin Qi killed a wolfman who leaped at him, then challenged the surrounding warriors to trade their lives for his.
• Bilibili slowed a monkeyman with fireballs, allowing Lin Qi to kill a concealed catman and then the monkeyman.
• Lin Qi's battle qi advanced to the middle Human Knight level and rose toward its peak as he absorbed the vitality of his kills.
• A tiger fae with a Stabbing Sword accused Lin Qi of injuring Hu Die and lunged at him.

Lin Qi killed the tiger goblin who attacked him, but an elephant-man and six human warriors confronted him next. As the elephant-man’s axe threatened Lin Qi and the youth behind him, the youth used a technique called Intelligence Deprivation, Frenzied Counterattack.

• Lin Qi used his mental power to track the tiger goblin’s sword, then countered with a tiger roar and blows that crushed the goblin’s chest.
• Bilibili blinded the tiger goblin with fireballs, and Lin Qi finished him by slashing his throat.
• Zali retreated as an elephant-man and six human warriors arrived; the elephant-man threatened Lin Qi for hurting Zali.
• The elephant-man swung an axe at Lin Qi, who blocked it to protect the youth and Bilibili, while his arms and wounded thigh bled.
• As the elephant-man raised a second axe to strike Lin Qi, the youth shouted Intelligence Deprivation, Frenzied Counterattack and sent red light into the elephant-man’s eyes.

The boy used a blood-red power to drive the elephant man into a berserk rampage and a deadly self-destruction, giving Lin Qi a chance to attack the enemy warriors. Lin Qi killed the wounded Heavenly Knights and fled toward the Hunting Party’s camp with the boy, while Bilibili stayed behind to harass Zali.

• The boy’s violet-red gaze made the elephant man turn on his six Earthly Knights, killing them before he attacked the other warriors.
• The boy’s blood rune drove the elephant man to burn his essence blood and soul, then self-destruct within a confined radius, grievously wounding nine Heavenly Knights.
• Lin Qi gathered the boy’s clothes and boots, ordered Bilibili to protect him, and stabbed the helpless Heavenly Knights.
• Lin Qi killed the remaining wounded Heavenly Knights as Zali urged her warriors to rescue them.
• Lin Qi shielded the boy with his body and charged toward the Hunting Party’s camp while Bilibili stabbed Zali and escaped into the darkness.

Lin Qi carried the feverish youth Yun to his grandfather, an old man who subdued Lin Qi with a touch and quickly treated Yun. After hearing how Lin Qi rescued Yun from Zali’s men, the old man invited Lin Qi into his cave, where Lin Qi examined a pair of unfinished boots.

• Bilibili noticed that Yun was convulsing with a high fever and urged Lin Qi to check on him.
• Yun directed Lin Qi to his grandfather’s home behind a glowing mushroom grove near a small underground lake.
• The old man disarmed Lin Qi with a touch, took Yun from him, and used a faint light to calm Yun’s attack.
• Bilibili defended Lin Qi, and Yun confirmed that Lin Qi had saved him from Zali and the pursuing fighters.
• The old man invited Lin Qi into his cave, where Lin Qi sat by the stone table and picked up a pair of boots.

Lin Qi drank the old man's potent medicinal wine and advanced to the Earthly Rank, revealing unusual strength that prompted the old man to recognize his family. The old man connected Lin Qi to a past deal that had brought him and Yun to the prison, and Yun emerged recovered with an unflattering opinion of Lin Qi.

• The old man offered Lin Qi wine brewed from rare underground materials, and Lin Qi drank the jar, rapidly strengthening his battle qi.
• The old man discovered that Lin Qi's marrow had already been tempered and watched him reach the Earthly Rank with unusually powerful battle qi.
• Lin Qi revealed his surname, and the old man recognized him as Lin Hu's son and recalled seeing him as a child in Dunkirk.
• The old man explained that the Black Tiger Family's shipment of medicinal herbs ten years earlier had been his order and had led to his and Yun's predicament.
• Yun emerged recovered and asked whether Lin Qi was the man his grandfather had described as corrupt, savage, and vulgar.

Lin Qi confronted the old man over insults to his character, then revealed under the old man’s truth-testing potion that he had concealed several crimes and the details of how he gained two strands of divine essence. The old man concluded Lin Qi had helped Yun sincerely and, as Lin Qi fell asleep, told Yun that he could be a possible ally.

• The old man recounted Lin Qi’s childhood misdeeds, while Lin Qi insisted he had changed and reminded Yun that he had saved him from Zali.
• After hearing that Lin Qi was imprisoned by the Church, the old man questioned him about his case and used a green pearl and a potion to expose his lies.
• Under the potion’s influence, Lin Qi confessed to causing Master Ke Cha’s death, described acquiring the two strands of divine essence, and admitted to ambushing Elham and his companions.
• The old man decided Lin Qi had not approached them deliberately and told Yun that Lin Qi still had a conscience.
• The old man put Lin Qi into a deep sleep and told Yun that Lin Qi might be someone he could rely on.

Elder Qing explained that he planned to move with Yun to the Hunting Party and persuaded Lin Qi to let them live with him. After Lin Qi agreed, Elder Qing recounted how he and Yun had been imprisoned in Black Abyss Divine Prison, though Lin Qi suspected his story was not entirely true.

• Elder Qing told Yun that Lin Qi’s extraordinary battle-qi potential made him a valuable protector and urged Yun to get to know him.
• Elder Qing warned Yun to keep the Dream Potion secret, then decided they should seek shelter with the Hunting Party as Black Abyss Market grew dangerous.
• Lin Qi woke after his wine-induced breakthroughs, learned to call the old man Elder Qing, and offered to provide ingredients in exchange for more wine.
• Elder Qing accepted Lin Qi’s invitation to move in with him, and Yun went to pack their belongings.
• Elder Qing said the Order of Penitent Knights had imprisoned him and Yun after their guards killed several knights at a noble’s manor, but Lin Qi doubted the account.

Lin Qi learned why Elder Qing and Yun had been imprisoned and discovered that the Black Abyss Divine Prison held ancient powers far beyond the Black Abyss King’s territory. When Lin Qi reached the Hunting Party’s camp, Zali’s allied forces had surrounded it and demanded that Fat Bear answer for Lin Qi’s actions.

• Elder Qing revealed that he had fought the Black Abyss King, who had injured him, and that he was a Saint-realm mage.
• Elder Qing explained that he had surrendered to the Dawn Temple’s forces to protect Yun, after Yun fell critically ill during a raid and a Grand Light Mage threatened them with a sacred artifact.
• Elder Qing warned Lin Qi that powerful ancient beings inhabited the prison’s regions beyond the Black Abyss Market, including a Frost Giant.
• Bilibili woke with a lump on his forehead, and Lin Qi tossed him to the ground.
• Lin Qi saw Zali, Youyao, and Hu Die leading nearly two thousand people in a siege of the Hunting Party’s city and accusing him of injuring Zali and killing their warriors.
• Fat Bear challenged the accusers to explain Lin Qi’s actions, while Zali threatened the Hunting Party with their three-sided allied army; Lin Qi admitted that Fat Bear might not be able to shelter him.

Zali’s allied army surrounded the Hunting Party’s city, threatening to destroy it and seize its warriors. Elder Qing revealed his physician’s Numbing God Powder, and Lin Qi threw it into the packed enemy ranks.

• Zali’s force of more than two thousand soldiers, including five Rock Titans, advanced toward the Hunting Party’s walls.
• Fat Bear accused Zali and Hu Die of using Lin Qi as an excuse to take over the Hunting Party, while Hu Die admitted she coveted its warriors and expertise.
• Elder Qing explained that his stable potion, Numbing God Powder, could render people unconscious for half a month.
• Elder Qing gave Lin Qi and the others protective herbs, then instructed Lin Qi to throw the potion toward the enemy’s densest ranks.
• Lin Qi hurled the medicine bottle more than two hundred meters into the allied army.

Elder Qing’s medicine incapacitated Zali, Youyao, and Hu Die’s army, and Lin Qi returned to the Hunting Party with Elder Qing and Yun. After the Hunting Party captured nearly two thousand warriors, Elder Qing proposed turning them into obedient eunuch slaves rather than killing them.

• A bottle of medicine burst over a tiger-man, and its white vapor spread through the allied army, knocking most of the warriors unconscious.
• Youyao changed into human form to order a retreat, but Lin Qi struck him with a stone and Xiao wounded him with a javelin, forcing him to flee with Zali and Hu Die.
• Lin Qi reached the city wall with Elder Qing and Yun, and Fat Bear welcomed Elder Qing after learning his medicine had incapacitated the enemy army.
• Elder Qing used another medicine to clear the vapor, and the Hunting Party captured nearly two thousand unconscious warriors.
• After Lin Qi advised against releasing the captives or trying to recruit them, Elder Qing proposed making them eunuch slaves with secret medicine.

Elder Qing used pills and a strange bell to subdue more than two thousand prisoners, then gave Lin Qi control over them. Fat Bear made Lin Qi head of the Hunting Party’s labor division and ordered the prisoners to expand the city walls.

• Lin Qi and Fat Bear rejected Elder Qing’s suggestion to castrate the prisoners and ordered them killed, but Elder Qing offered another method to make them obedient.
• Handsome Bear and the Hunting Party forced pills into the prisoners’ mouths, and Elder Qing released black mist that woke them.
• Elder Qing rang a bell that caused the prisoners unbearable pain, then showed that an attacker could be punished individually.
• Elder Qing marked the bell with Lin Qi’s blood and gave it to him, explaining that the prisoners’ lives and deaths were now in his hands.
• Fat Bear appointed Lin Qi head of the Hunting Party’s labor division and ordered the prisoners to expand the city walls around the cave.

Lin Qi settled the captured prisoners into the Hunting Party and brought Elder Qing and Yun to live with Handsome Bear’s family. Elder Qing planned to teach Lin Qi more than a hundred languages, but Lin Qi left rather than agree.

• Elder Qing told Yun that Lin Qi was someone he could rely on and that he intended to teach him, while warning that he would seize the Hunting Party’s foundation if its members threatened them.
• The 2,135 captured prisoners swore loyalty to Lin Qi, who handed them over to Fat Bear to command and put to work quarrying stone.
• Lin Qi brought Elder Qing and Yun into the city, where Handsome Bear led them through the caves and introduced them to his mother.
• Bilibili returned with a bundle, and four bruised centaurs complained that Handsome Bear’s mother had beaten them.
• Lin Qi arranged for Elder Qing and Yun to live in his cave, and Elder Qing said he would teach Lin Qi more than a hundred languages.
• Lin Qi turned and left when he heard what Elder Qing planned to teach him.

Lin Qi rejected Elder Qing’s lessons until Elder Qing offered him a thousand gold coins a day to guard Yun and study the Three Seas Seven Wheels Scripture. Lin Qi accepted the deal, agreeing to begin learning the ancient cultivation art.

• Elder Qing tried to recruit Lin Qi as a student, but Lin Qi returned to sleep instead.
• Yun suddenly collapsed, and Elder Qing gave him a pill and treated him with green qi as black qi rose from his head.
• Lin Qi woke after a long rest, ate thirty pounds of beast meat, and planned to hunt for more food to fuel his strengthening.
• Elder Qing offered Lin Qi one thousand gold coins per day to serve as Yun’s personal guard and study the Three Seas Seven Wheels Scripture.
• Elder Qing explained the Scripture’s demands and said he wanted Yun to have a companion who could share his interests after Elder Qing died.
• After Elder Qing called the Black Tiger Family’s Profound Tiger Force trash, Lin Qi accepted the offer and agreed to study the Scripture.

After a month of enduring the painful Blood Sea Expansion, Lin Qi completed the first stage of the Three Seas Seven Wheels Scripture and discovered major gains in strength, endurance, and recovery. He demanded the next cultivation method from Elder Qing, who required him to pass a history quiz first.

• Lin Qi cultivated Blood Sea Expansion for a month, enduring intense pain as the technique transformed his blood and qi.
• Lin Qi completed the blood sea, which strengthened his body and let him heal a shallow wound within moments.
• Lin Qi easily lifted a boulder that he had struggled to move ten days earlier.
• Lin Qi announced his success to Elder Qing and demanded the Qi Sea Expansion incantation.
• Elder Qing was shocked by Lin Qi's speed and said he had to answer fifty questions on continental history before receiving the next incantation.

Lin Qi struggled with Elder Qing’s history exam until Yun secretly completed it for him and explained why learning mattered. Yun warned that Elder Qing might be able to get them out of Black Abyss Divine Prison, but they would need to inherit his knowledge because he lacked time.

• Lin Qi stared helplessly at Elder Qing’s exam, which demanded detailed knowledge of the Gallic Empire’s founding battle and many other subjects.
• Yun entered the cave and praised Lin Qi for opening his Sea of Blood in one month, then warned him about Elder Qing’s terrifying punishments.
• Yun secretly answered the exam in Lin Qi’s handwriting and explained that spiritual mental power could greatly improve his memory and comprehension.
• Yun urged Lin Qi to study languages, history, and other fields because such knowledge could help them survive and leave Black Abyss Divine Prison.
• Yun said Elder Qing might have a way to free them but lacked time, so they needed to inherit his knowledge; he handed Lin Qi the completed exam and told him to work hard next time.

Over two months, the Hunting Party expanded its city and secured Black Abyss Market through alliances, while Lin Qi trained and studied intensively under Elder Qing and Yun. As his body, spiritual power, and knowledge grew, Lin Qi became more composed, and Elder Qing taught him the Spirit Sea Expansion and Qi Sea Expansion techniques.

• The Hunting Party expanded its city into a fortified stronghold, and Lin Qi rewarded Bilibili for his plan.
• Fat Bear made agreements with Gu Tu and Yi Feng to share authority and resources, bringing peace to Black Abyss Market.
• Lin Qi hunted Magic Beasts, tempered his body with Rock Lizard blood, and strengthened his physical and spiritual power.
• Elder Qing and Yun taught Lin Qi astronomy, geography, military strategy, architecture, languages, and other subjects.
• Lin Qi became more composed and learned to speak the ancient divine language fluently with Elder Qing.
• Elder Qing passed the Spirit Sea Expansion and Qi Sea Expansion techniques on to Lin Qi.

Lin Qi drank the Titanic Strength Potion and endured weeks of painful cultivation as he expanded his Qi Sea and opened his Spirit Sea. With all Three Seas achieved, he awakened a powerful divine inheritance and transformed his battle qi into a pale purple tiger.

• Lin Qi used the Titanic Strength Potion to compress his muscles and generate new muscle fibers, then shattered his Profound Tiger Force to temper his dantian.
• For fifteen days, Lin Qi cultivated the Qi Sea Expansion method while Elder Qing supplied him with cooked beast meat.
• Lin Qi opened his Qi Sea, joined it to his Blood Sea, and used the resulting power to clear the acupoints in his brain.
• After a month, jade fluid washed Lin Qi's body, and he opened his Spirit Sea, gaining extraordinary clarity and sensing a legacy within him.
• With all Three Seas achieved, Lin Qi absorbed the Blazing Flame Temple's divine inheritance and unleashed a three-meter pale purple tiger-shaped qi force.

Lin Qi’s breakthrough was briefly detected by the saints, who recorded it before turning their attention back to the divine formations sealing the Black Abyss. In the Chaotic Caverns, Hu Die persuaded Alda to help her seize Black Abyss Market, and Alda hurried off to consult his father.

• Lin Qi’s mid Heaven-tier breakthrough activated a bronze mirror watched by eighteen saints, and the central elder recorded his aura and cultivation.
• The saints examined the twelve caverns and their linked divine formations, confirmed the prison’s seals were intact, and forgot about Lin Qi.
• The chapter described the Chaotic Caverns’ heretic descendants and native lesser imps and cavefolk, who worked and traded for the settlement.
• Hu Die told Alda that her elite subordinates had been wiped out and asked him to help defeat Black Abyss Market’s Hunting Party and secure the territory for her.
• Alda learned that the Black Abyss King had been dead for months, realized Black Abyss Market was ripe for the taking, and ran to speak with his father.

Alda visited his imprisoned father after learning that the Black Abyss King had died and Black Abyss Market was descending into conflict. His father agreed to help Hu Die seize the market, but warned Alda to keep control for himself and doubted the king was truly dead.

• Alda transformed into a battle-demonized Moon Demon and flew to the divine prison where his father was imprisoned.
• Alda shared the food delivered to his father and told him the Black Abyss King was dead, leaving the market’s five major underlings fighting for control.
• Alda admitted Hu Die wanted to use his strength to seize Black Abyss Market, after his father identified her as a tiger enchantress.
• Alda’s father advised him to send lesser devils and cave-dwellers as the vanguard, make Hu Die a puppet if they took the market, and keep real control in his own hands.
• Alda’s father warned him to retreat and observe if others contested the market, insisting that he did not believe the Black Abyss King was truly dead.

Lin Qi discovered that the Three Seas Seven Wheels Scripture let him freely cultivate and switch between different Dou Qi techniques, and he successfully learned several powerful techniques from Gods' Revelation's records. After revealing that he had opened all three Seas, he learned that Elder Qing would teach him to condense the seven great chakras, though Yun first assigned him a punishing round of exams.

• Lin Qi repeatedly dispersed and reformed Profound Tiger Force, realizing the Three Seas Seven Wheels Scripture could hold and command many different Dou Qi techniques.
• Lin Qi studied Gods' Revelation's Complete Explanation of the Bodily Structures and Energy Pathways of All Races and used his Sea of Qi to simulate the channels needed for Golden Bear Emperor Heaven-Rending Dou Qi.
• Lin Qi mastered Golden Bear Emperor Heaven-Rending Dou Qi and practiced several other powerful techniques until he could switch them on instantly.
• Elder Qing sensed Lin Qi's immense aura and confirmed that he had opened the Blood Sea, Spirit Sea, and Sea of Qi in less than a month.
• Yun gave Lin Qi questions on statecraft, military matters, astronomy, literature, and poetry, then threatened to add more subjects if he passed.
• Elder Qing promised to teach Lin Qi to condense the seven great chakras starting the next day, and Lin Qi agreed to do his best.