Chapter Summaries

Qin Shaofeng and Qi Dongming’s group entered the Source Crystal Space and struggled against its immense gravity. After Qin Shaofeng helped them reach safer ground and they found a weaker gravity zone, a massive Heiyun approached from behind.

• Qin Shaofeng used his Pill Realm to reduce the gravity on the falling group and guide everyone to a safe landing.
• Qin Shaofeng and Qi Dongming discovered that the ground and nearby trees had crystallized, and Qi Dongming measured the local gravity at three hundred times that of the Origin Continent.
• Qiuqiu told Qin Shaofeng that divine sense was restricted, the group was in a third-level gravity zone, and gravity increased toward the center of the Source Crystal Space.
• Qin Shaofeng led the group toward the edge, where Qi Dongming confirmed that the gravity had fallen below three hundred times the Origin Continent’s gravity.
• Qin Shaofeng spotted a vast mass of Heiyun approaching the group like a sandstorm.

Qin Shaofeng led Qi Dongming and the others toward shelter from a lethal sandstorm in the Source Crystal Space, rescuing them by carrying all twenty-one people into a cave at the last moment. He collapsed from exhaustion inside, while the group faced the rumbling storm and wondered whether the cave could withstand it.

• Qin Shaofeng warned Qi Dongming and the others that the sandstorm’s force and the debris it carried made it far more dangerous than an ordinary storm, and he urged everyone to flee within his Pill Realm.
• Qin Shaofeng spotted several domain experts being swallowed and killed by the approaching sandstorm, then learned from Qiuqiu that a cave lay ahead.
• Qin Shaofeng activated Thunder Prison, raised the Pill Realm to the Second Heaven, and used the Dance of the Sky Technique to carry Qi Dongming and the other twenty-one people into the cave just before the storm caught them.
• Qi Dongming released his domain to protect everyone as Qin Shaofeng withdrew the Pill Realm, collapsed from exhaustion, and swallowed three Ninefold Saint Spirit Pills to recover.
• Qin Shaofeng sensed through his Fiery Golden Eyes that the sandstorm’s grains struck with terrifying force, while the group heard the storm battering the mountain and feared the cave would collapse.

Qin Shaofeng and Qi Dongming’s group took shelter from a sandstorm and met Li Kai and Hou Yanqing, the Divine Prefecture’s top genius. Qin Shaofeng discovered Hou Yanqing’s immense power and Third Heaven Domain, while Qiuqiu privately called him a hypocrite; Qi Dongming then praised Qin Shaofeng for saving them from the storm.

• Qin Shaofeng led Qi Dongming and the others deeper into a cave as the sandstorm intensified, and Qiuqiu confirmed they were safe there.
• Qin Shaofeng sensed people approaching through the storm and recognized them as fellow contestants from the Divine Prefecture.
• Qi Dongming greeted Li Kai, who had arrived with Hou Yanqing, the Divine Prefecture’s famed number one genius.
• Qin Shaofeng used his Fiery Golden Eyes to learn that Hou Yanqing had 18.3 billion Saint Origin Value and a Third Heaven Five Elements Fire Domain.
• Hou Yanqing greeted Qin Shaofeng warmly, but Qiuqiu privately called him a hypocrite.
• Qi Dongming told Hou Yanqing that Qin Shaofeng had exhausted himself raising his Domain to save the group from the sandstorm.

Qin Shaofeng learned how Hou Yanqing’s group survived the sandstorm and grew wary after Qiuqiu accused Hou Yanqing of hiding his true ability. After the storm passed, Hou Yanqing established the cave as a gathering point and sent Qin Shaofeng and the other domain users to hunt Source Crystal Beasts for Source Cores, while warning them about the dangers of advancing without a powerful domain.

• Li Kai explained that Zhou Yan had urged the domain users to abandon the weaker disciples during the sandstorm, while Hou Yanqing stayed to protect them.
• Qiuqiu told Qin Shaofeng that Hou Yanqing’s Third Heaven Five Elements Fire Domain could have protected over a hundred people, prompting Qin Shaofeng to become cautious of him.
• After the sandstorm passed, Hou Yanqing designated the cave as a gathering point and planned to use Formation Disks to contact other Divine Mansion disciples.
• Hou Yanqing explained that the great powers would use collected Source Cores to reinforce the passage and determine how many people each power could send into the Source Crystal Space.
• Hou Yanqing assigned Qin Shaofeng and the other domain users to hunt Source Crystal Beasts while he stayed behind to manage the gathering point.
• Hou Yanqing warned Qin Shaofeng and the others not to advance to Saint Monarch without a powerful domain, since higher cultivation brought stronger restrictions in the central regions.

Qin Shaofeng led a team to hunt Source Crystal Beasts while remaining at the peak of the Heavenly Saint-tier to avoid revealing his strength to Hou Yanqing. The team found seven beasts, and Li Kai’s reckless first attack was repelled by their powerful defense.

• Hou Yanqing stayed behind to guard the cave and appointed Qin Shaofeng captain of the five-man hunting team.
• Qin Shaofeng decided not to break through into the Saint Monarch realm yet, following Qiuqiu’s warning that Hou Yanqing might notice his true cultivation.
• Using Qiuqiu’s senses, Qin Shaofeng led the team away from other factions and toward a group of Source Crystal Beasts.
• Qin Shaofeng and the others spotted seven crystal-bodied beasts beneath a crystalline forest and planned to approach carefully.
• Li Kai charged ahead and punched one beast, but its defense rebounded the blow and sent him flying backward.

Li Kai and the other disciples learned how to defeat Source Crystal Beasts after Qin Shaofeng revealed their weakness and demonstrated his strength. The group continued hunting under Qin Shaofeng’s domain, which weakened the beasts and secretly let him gain Experience Points even when others killed them.

• Li Kai’s first attack failed, and a Source Crystal Beast damaged his domain before Qin Shaofeng instructed the group to restrain the beasts with their domains and attack from range.
• Qin Shaofeng killed three Source Crystal Beasts, while Li Kai, Qi Dongming, and the other disciples defeated the rest by following his method.
• Li Kai and the other two disciples admitted their recklessness and accepted Qi Dongming’s proposed split of the gains: ten percent each for them, twenty percent for Qi Dongming, and thirty percent for Qin Shaofeng.
• Qin Shaofeng examined a Source Core and realized that Source Crystal Beasts drew their defenses from the Source Crystal Space’s power, which domains could weaken.
• Qin Shaofeng led the group to another set of beasts and used his Pill Realm to suppress them, allowing the others to kill them while he secretly earned Experience Points from the domain’s attacks.

Qin Shaofeng led Qi Dongming and the others from the first-class area into the more dangerous second-class area while revealing that Source Crystal Beast remains could be turned into Spirit Pearls. He aimed to have Hou Yanqing rally the Divine Mansion disciples to gather the remains, and the chapter left Hou Yanqing astonished by a subordinate who had just cultivated a domain.

• Qin Shaofeng and his companions hunted more than a hundred Source Crystal Beasts over two or three days, collecting their Source Cores and learning to fight them effectively.
• After his group adapted to the first-class area, Qin Shaofeng led them into the second-class area, where his domain shielded them from the increased gravity.
• Qin Shaofeng discovered that feeding the beasts’ crystalline remains to his Spirit Source produced mid-grade Spirit Pearls that aided domain cultivation and strengthened his Origin World Space.
• Qin Shaofeng had Qi Dongming send word to Hou Yanqing about the remains and supplied the messenger with five Spirit Pearls to encourage their collection.
• Hou Yanqing stared in shock at a Saint Monarch realm subordinate who had just cultivated a domain.

Hou Yanqing learned that Source Crystal Beast remains could be refined into spirit pearls, while Qin Shaofeng led his group into the second-tier region to hunt giant python beasts. After a fierce first fight, more than fifty pythons emerged from underground, forcing the group to flee.

• Hou Yanqing ordered his people to collect Source Crystal Beast remains after learning they could be refined into spirit pearls, while Qin Shaofeng concealed the true yield and method.
• Qin Shaofeng and his four companions found five giant python Source Crystal Beasts and attacked them in the second-tier region.
• Qin Shaofeng used Almighty Push to repel a python's tail, broke it, and killed the beast with Thousand Mountain Fist.
• Qi Dongming, Li Kai, and the other two killed the remaining pythons, and Qin Shaofeng collected the Source Cores and crystal fragments.
• Qiuqiu warned Qin Shaofeng that more than fifty pythons were emerging underground, so he ordered the group to run as dozens burst out behind them.

Qin Shaofeng and his companions escaped a pack of underground giant python Source Crystal Beasts before Han Ruoyu and the Heavenly Sword Sect disciples arrived and defeated them. After learning about Han Ruoyu’s remarkable sword talent and the requirements for his domain, Qin Shaofeng wondered whether the Source Crystal Space had appeared to help the Origin Continent’s geniuses grow stronger.

• Qin Shaofeng learned from Qiuqiu that the giant pythons had traveled underground because they shared properties with the crystallized ground, then asked it to find an escape route.
• Qiuqiu sensed a group approaching, and Qin Shaofeng recognized the twelve newcomers as disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect.
• Han Ruoyu ordered his disciples to form the Three Talents Sword Formation, and the twelve killed more than fifty giant pythons in under three minutes.
• Han Ruoyu gathered the Source Cores, greeted Qin Shaofeng’s group, and led the Heavenly Sword Sect disciples away.
• Qi Dongming identified Han Ruoyu, and Qin Shaofeng learned of his Myriad Sword Domain and his goal of condensing ten thousand domain swords before entering the Upper Three Realms.
• Qin Shaofeng wondered whether the Source Crystal Space had appeared to help the Origin Continent’s geniuses increase their strength.

After half a month of hunting in the third-grade region, Qin Shaofeng decided to regroup with Hou Yanqing’s party because his small team was struggling against the stronger beasts. Before they could leave, seventeen powerful strangers arrived to rob them, and Qi Dongming revealed that they were disciples of the Heavenly Battle Pavilion of the Divine Mansion.

• Qin Shaofeng ordered Qi Dongming and the others to collect the crystal fragments left by the giant pythons after Han Ruoyu’s group took their Source Cores.
• Qin Shaofeng led his team to hunt more cautiously, and they spent the next half month gathering experience in the third-grade region.
• Qin Shaofeng decided the five-person team should return to the cave gathering point and meet up with Hou Yanqing’s group.
• Qiuqiu warned Qin Shaofeng that a group with a special domain was approaching too quickly to evade and was coming specifically for them.
• Seventeen strangers arrived, and two Heavenly Saint-tier young men demanded that Qin Shaofeng’s group hand over their possessions.
• Qi Dongming challenged the robbers and told them that the group were disciples of the Heavenly Battle Pavilion of the Divine Mansion.

Qin Shaofeng and his companions were attacked after the enemy learned they were disciples of the Divine Mansion, but he used his Pill Realm to suppress and kill ten Saint Monarchs. The two young men fled, and Qin Shaofeng pursued them while Qi Dongming and the others stayed behind.

• The blue- and purple-clad young men ordered their Saint Monarch subordinates to kill Qin Shaofeng and his four companions because they were disciples of the Divine Mansion and associated with Zhou Yan.
• Qin Shaofeng pulled ten charging Saint Monarchs into his Pill Realm and suppressed their domains, giving his companions an opening to attack.
• Qi Dongming and the others killed or grievously wounded four enemies, while Qin Shaofeng used lightning and flying daggers to kill the remaining six.
• The blue-clad young man recognized Qin Shaofeng as a powerful domain user and ordered the surviving five Saint Monarchs to flee with him and the purple-clad young man.
• Qin Shaofeng told Qi Dongming and the others to wait, then pursued the fleeing group as the purple-clad young man panicked.

Qin Shaofeng stopped pursuing the fleeing men after five Saint Monarchs burned their Origin Cores to escape, then returned with Qi Dongming and the others to Hou Yanqing’s gathering point. Hou Yanqing identified the men as members of the Hundred Battles Palace, including one likely from the Bai family, and dismissed concerns about the conflict as the Divine Mansion and the Hundred Battles Palace already had longstanding friction.

• The blue-robed young man ordered five Saint Monarchs to burn their Origin Cores, and the group used the resulting power to flee from Qin Shaofeng.
• Qin Shaofeng abandoned the chase when he realized he could not catch them and returned to Qi Dongming and the others.
• Qi Dongming and Qin Shaofeng led their group back to Hou Yanqing’s gathering point, avoiding Source Crystal Beasts along the way.
• Qin Shaofeng and Qi Dongming reported their encounter to Hou Yanqing, who identified the opponents as people from the Hundred Battles Palace and said one young man was likely from the Bai family.
• Hou Yanqing told Qi Dongming and Qin Shaofeng not to worry about offending the Hundred Battles Palace, and Qi Dongming thanked him repeatedly.

Qin Shaofeng learned how Hundred Battles Palace’s Hundred Battles Domain and the Bai family’s bloodline domains worked, including Old Man Alchemist’s suspicion that rare Bai family geniuses devoured other disciples’ domains. Hou Yanqing then privately asked Qin Shaofeng to reveal how he refined special spirit pearls, leaving Qin Shaofeng questioning Hou Yanqing’s motives.

• Qin Shaofeng reflected on Qiuqiu’s explanation of the Hundred Battles Domain and the strength it gave Hundred Battles Palace.
• Qiuqiu explained that Bai family disciples could awaken a bloodline Hundred Battles Domain alongside their own domain.
• Qiuqiu relayed Old Man Alchemist’s suspicion that rare Bai family geniuses devoured other disciples’ Hundred Battles Domains to strengthen their own.
• Hou Yanqing privately asked Qin Shaofeng to share his method for refining special spirit pearls and promised to seek a reward from the Divine Mansion.
• Qin Shaofeng noticed that Hou Yanqing had raised the important matter with him alone rather than discussing it with the other faction leaders.

Qin Shaofeng concealed the true source of his special spirit pearls by claiming they came from his unique domain, then staged a demonstration for Hou Yanqing. Hou Yanqing believed the explanation, while Qin Shaofeng kept his secret and Qiuqiu privately mocked them both.

• Qin Shaofeng suspected Hou Yanqing wanted control of the special spirit pearls and decided to conceal how they were really made.
• Qin Shaofeng told Hou Yanqing that his domain purified power and had accidentally produced the special spirit pearls.
• Qin Shaofeng demonstrated his supposed refining method using crystal fragments, secretly swapping them for a spirit pearl from his Origin World Space.
• Hou Yanqing watched the demonstration and believed Qin Shaofeng's domain was responsible for the pearls.
• Qiuqiu privately mocked Qin Shaofeng as a con man emperor and Hou Yanqing as a hypocrite.

Qin Shaofeng refined special spirit pearls for the Divine Mansion disciples while Hou Yanqing watched him, then withdrew his surveillance after becoming convinced of the process. When the factions gathered after a month, the Divine Mansion had collected over twenty thousand Source Cores, and Hou Yanqing prepared to use cooperation with the other factions to accelerate his domain cultivation.

• Hou Yanqing arranged for Divine Mansion disciples to gather crystalline stone fragments, and Qin Shaofeng began refining them in exchange for Vast Sky Realm points.
• Qin Shaofeng secretly used purified fragments and the spirit source to produce special mid-grade spirit pearls while making Hou Yanqing believe his domain was refining them.
• After observing Qin Shaofeng for several days, Hou Yanqing withdrew his domain surveillance as more Divine Mansion disciples used the spirit pearls to cultivate domains.
• The factions gathered after their first month in the Source Crystal Space, and Hou Yanqing reported that the Divine Mansion had collected over twenty thousand Source Cores, far more than the other factions.
• Hou Yanqing sought the other factions' cooperation to increase the supply of crystalline materials and planned to cultivate a Fourth Heaven domain at the Heavenly Saint-tier before entering the Saint Monarch realm.

As the factions explored deeper regions of the Source Crystal Space and hunted its replenishing Source Crystal Beasts, Qin Shaofeng continued refining spirit pearls while Hou Yanqing sold them to other factions at a steep price. Outside, the Devil Race returned before the factions’ two-month deadline, opening a massive spatial rift above the entrance.

• Hou Yanqing demonstrated that Source Crystal Beast fragments could be refined into spirit pearls, then charged the other factions five thousand fragments per pearl.
• As more disciples developed domains, the factions sent vanguards including Qi Dongming and Li Kai to explore the fifth region while most others hunted Source Crystal Beasts.
• Qin Shaofeng learned that the beasts reappeared after being killed and wondered whether the Source Crystal Space had been artificially created.
• A month and a half after the disciples entered the Source Crystal Space, the factions waited outside for them to reopen the tunnel before the two-month deadline.
• With fifteen days remaining, a spatial rift more than a thousand miles long opened above the entrance, revealing returning Devil Race soldiers and warriors.

Qin Shaofeng became captain of a thirty-man hunting squad and used its efforts to gather Experience Points while concealing the true level of his Pill Realm. As the two-month deadline arrived, the factions gathered over one million Source Cores and activated a formation near the exit, though Qin Shaofeng sensed something strange about the light portal.

• Qin Shaofeng joined the hunt with Qi Dongming and Li Kai, then took command of a thirty-man Heavenly Battle Pavilion squad.
• Qin Shaofeng claimed his Pill Realm had reached the Second Heaven to reassure Hou Yanqing, while secretly keeping it at the First Heaven.
• The factions agreed not to attack or sabotage one another and collected more than one million Source Cores before the deadline.
• The factions withheld later crystal fragments from Hou Yanqing, who kept secret that only his special realm could refine them into spirit pearls.
• On the final day, Qin Shaofeng and the faction leaders gathered near the exit, where Qin Shaofeng felt uneasy about the light portal.
• Hou Yanqing and the other leaders arranged a special formation with the Source Cores and activated it.

Qin Shaofeng destroyed the formation after Qiuqiu warned him that the Devil Race surrounded the outside entrance and had begun entering the passage. When Hou Yanqing considered killing him to quiet the other factions’ suspicions, Qin Shaofeng challenged the conspiracy accusation, and Hou Yanqing publicly promised to hear his explanation.

• Qiuqiu warned Qin Shaofeng that the Devil Race surrounded the outside entrance and was coming through the newly connected Space Tunnel.
• Qin Shaofeng used three lightning dragons to destroy the formation’s core, causing the Space Tunnel to collapse into a light hole.
• The gathered factions surrounded Qin Shaofeng and demanded to know why he had sabotaged the formation, while some suspected the Divine Mansion of plotting against them.
• Hou Yanqing decided to kill Qin Shaofeng to appease the crowd, but Qin Shaofeng argued that the Divine Mansion’s sharing of the special spirit pearls contradicted the conspiracy theory.
• The crowd’s suspicions eased, and Hou Yanqing dropped his plan to attack Qin Shaofeng and promised to protect him while asking for his reason.

Qin Shaofeng explained that he destroyed the formation because the Devil Race had taken control of the exit and some of its forces had entered the space tunnel. As the Devil Race’s aura appeared at the light-hole entrance, Qin Shaofeng warned Hou Yanqing that over a thousand powerful Devil Race members were approaching.

• Qin Shaofeng claimed he had fought the Devil Race before and said the passage to the outside world was no longer in human hands, while Hou Yanqing confirmed his past battles.
• Xia Heng of the Emperor's Palace questioned Qin Shaofeng, who asserted that some Devil Race members had entered the space tunnel before he destroyed the formation.
• Some disciples rejected Qin Shaofeng’s warning, but he sensed the Devil Race’s arrival and urged Hou Yanqing to prepare the Divine Mansion disciples.
• Xia Heng, Hou Yanqing, and other powerful geniuses sensed the Devil Race’s aura leaking from the light-hole entrance and entered combat readiness.
• Qin Shaofeng told Hou Yanqing that his domain had detected spatial fluctuations indicating more than a thousand powerful Devil Race members were approaching.

Qin Shaofeng and the other faction leaders fled when a powerful Devil Race army poured through a newly formed Space Tunnel and began slaughtering the humans. As the survivors scattered into small teams, Qin Shaofeng led Qi Dongming and the others away, while the Devil Race pursuers eventually returned to the canyon.

• Xia Heng confirmed that more than twelve hundred Devil Race members, including Saint King-level fighters, were approaching, and the faction leaders fled.
• Qin Shaofeng released his Pill Realm, led Qi Dongming and the others away, and secretly collected Source Cores as they ran.
• Several Saint King-level Devil Race members turned the glowing entrance into a Space Tunnel, allowing the army to enter and massacre the slower human fugitives.
• Hou Yanqing warned the fleeing survivors to split up, then led twelve elite Divine Mansion disciples ahead toward the third stronghold.
• Qin Shaofeng took Qi Dongming and the others away from the main group, and the Devil Race pursuers failed to distinguish the scattered teams before returning to the canyon.