Chapter Summaries

Mu Qing and his companions ventured deeper into the Heaven-Equaling Hall, where immortal beasts and powerful rivals made the search for the Ruyi Jingu Bang perilous. After Mu Qing advanced his cultivation, they crossed a Barrier into vast ruins filled with dense immortal qi and immortal medicines growing from the stones.

• Xu Yun warned that the Immortal Clan leader had been defeated by an immortal-level beast in the unexplored depths of the Heaven-Equaling Hall.
• Mu Qing consumed ten immortal medicines with the Immortal-Seizing Heart, transformed his Mental Power into divine consciousness, and reached fifty percent immortal consciousness.
• The group defeated the immortal beasts they encountered and reached a deep-blue Barrier marking an area the Immortal Clan leader had barely explored.
• Mu Qing led the group through the Barrier, where they found immortal qi several times denser than outside, though it offered him little help in advancing.
• Mu Qing and the others discovered extensive ruins containing immortal medicines whose roots were connected to ruin stones that had been drained of their energy.

Mu Qing entered the ape statue’s golden trial and fought successive waves of increasingly powerful golden apes to claim the Great Sage inheritance. After defeating four Half-Immortal apes, he received a golden eye that merged into his left eye.

• Sheng Ling’er was blasted back and injured when she tried to contact the ape statue, while Mu Qing was drawn into a golden space to face the inheritance trial.
• Mu Qing defeated the trial’s increasingly powerful apes and used the Myriad Domains Star Chart to break a deadly illusion.
• Mu Qing released the power of his Chaos Chains to defeat two Half-Immortal apes, then fought four more for several hours.
• After Mu Qing defeated the final four apes, a golden eye flew into his left eye and merged with him.

Mu Qing and his companions found a powerful Phoenix Immortal Herb in the ruins, but the Heavenly Feather Patriarch appeared and tried to steal it. The herb turned on him, burning him and destroying his immortal sword.

• Xu Yun spotted many immortal herbs, and Mu Qing absorbed the energy from a Crouching Dragon Grass.
• Mu Qing's group followed the Phoenix Immortal Herb's enormous phoenix apparition, collected herbs along the way, and killed the five Half-Immortal beasts guarding it.
• Mu Qing tried to capture the Phoenix Immortal Herb with his Starry Sky Divine Kingdom, but the herb broke free.
• The Heavenly Feather Patriarch arrived, revealed that he had become a Half-Immortal, and seized the Phoenix Immortal Herb.
• The Phoenix Immortal Herb engulfed the Heavenly Feather Patriarch in fire and burned his tenth-tier immortal sword to ashes.

Mu Qing fought Heavenly Feather Patriarch while Sheng Ling'er bound the fleeing Phoenix immortal medicine, but Heavenly Feather Patriarch’s Giant Tree of Life repeatedly healed his wounds and even revived him after Mu Qing burned him to ashes. The battle continued with Mu Qing still facing an opponent who seemed impossible to kill.

• Mu Qing wounded Heavenly Feather Patriarch with the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation as Sheng Ling'er trapped the Phoenix immortal medicine with Great Moon Serpents.
• Heavenly Feather Patriarch summoned the Giant Tree of Life, which healed his wounds as he traded attacks with Mu Qing.
• Mu Qing severed Heavenly Feather Patriarch’s arm, but the Giant Tree of Life restored it while Heavenly Feather Patriarch wounded Mu Qing.
• Mu Qing used Myriad Flames Reincarnation to burn Heavenly Feather Patriarch to ashes, but a leaf from the Giant Tree of Life revived him by restoring his shattered soul.

Mu Qing and his allies sealed Heavenly Feather Patriarch, but the Tree of Life revived him even after he died inside the array. Heavenly Feather Patriarch attacked again and unleashed a Blood Sword Art as Mu Qing struggled to stop him.

• Heavenly Feather Patriarch used the Tree of Life to revive after Mu Qing burned him, and wounded Mu Qing with his sword.
• Elder Ping, Mu Yu, Sheng Ling'er, and the others formed the Three-Origin Sealing Array while Mu Qing destroyed Heavenly Feather Patriarch's limbs and transported him into it.
• The array cut Heavenly Feather Patriarch off from the Tree of Life's healing, but he killed himself and was reborn outside the array with his power restored.
• Heavenly Feather Patriarch attacked Mu Qing again, then tore out his own heart and used the Blood Sword Art—Bury Heaven, Bury Earth, Bury Self!

Heavenly Feather Patriarch used the Blood Sword Art to severely wound Mu Qing, then revived through the Tree of Life and attacked again. As Mu Qing broke more Chaos Chains to resist, a colossal True Dragon appeared and revealed a longsword in its mouth.

• Heavenly Feather Patriarch sacrificed his vitality to forge a blood sword and struck Mu Qing, tearing through his defenses and leaving a massive wound in his chest.
• The Tree of Life revived Heavenly Feather Patriarch, who used the Blood Sword Art again, knowing he could return to life after dying.
• Sheng Ling'er and the others tried to protect Mu Qing, but Heavenly Feather Patriarch's blood sword broke through their attacks and shattered Mu Qing's golden flames.
• Mu Qing shattered another twenty Chaos Chains, driving his power to its limit as his body cracked under the strain.
• A vast black-scaled True Dragon appeared in the sky and produced a longsword from its mouth as Mu Qing called for the sword to come.

Mu Qing used the True Dragon Immortal Sword to destroy the Ancient Tree of Life, ending Heavenly Feather Patriarch’s immortality. After collecting a green-jade scroll from the patriarch’s remains, Mu Qing collapsed from the sword’s backlash.

• Mu Qing summoned the True Dragon Immortal Sword and endured its power tearing through his body.
• Mu Qing’s sword shattered Heavenly Feather Patriarch’s blood sword and killed him, but the Ancient Tree of Life revived him.
• Mu Qing sent the True Dragon Immortal Sword into the Ancient Tree of Life, where it devoured the tree’s life force.
• The True Dragon Immortal Sword split the Ancient Tree of Life, and Heavenly Feather Patriarch died as the tree shattered.
• Mu Qing stored the green-jade scroll formed from Heavenly Feather Patriarch’s corpse, then spat blood and fainted.

After waking from the backlash of unleashing fifty Chaos Chains, Mu Qing used the Ancient Tree of Life’s remaining power and the Phoenix Immortal Herb to recover and prepare for a breakthrough. He entered the Minor Immortal Tribulation and found that he could absorb its lightning to strengthen his body.

• Mu Qing awoke after five days unconscious, and Elder Tu explained that the Ancient Tree of Life’s power, preserved in the jade-green contract scroll, could restore him.
• Elder Tu shattered the scroll, and Mu Qing absorbed its life force, repairing his Chaos Chains and dispelling his weakness.
• Sheng Ling'er and the others activated a Lunar Palace formation to refine the Phoenix Immortal Herb, and Mu Qing entered it to withstand the tribulation.
• The herb’s energy raised Mu Qing’s cultivation to ninety percent immortal awareness, and he broke through to the Half-Immortal realm as the Minor Immortal Tribulation began.
• Mu Qing absorbed the tribulation lightning without injury, then entered the thunderclouds and used the Immortal-Seizing Heart to devour it.

Mu Qing broke through to Half-Immortal and rejected Cang Tong’s offer to cooperate in seeking the Ruyi Jingu Bang. When the petrified golden staff appeared and someone began breaking its seal, Mu Qing’s group hurried toward it, and Mu Qing resolved to confront the races that had oppressed humanity.

• After his lightning tribulation ended, Mu Qing broke through to Half-Immortal and discovered that his Starry Sky Divine Kingdom held more than five thousand stars.
• Cang Tong appeared as an avatar, introduced himself as a Great Sage Inheritance bearer, and proposed teaming up with Mu Qing to obtain the Ruyi Jingu Bang.
• Mu Qing refused, explaining that the inheritors were enemies, and stopped Mo Cheng and Sheng Ling'er from attacking when he revealed Cang Tong was only an avatar.
• Cang Tong vanished, and Mu Qing reasoned that the dangers posed by the Soul-Seizing Blade and Azure Sky had driven him to seek allies.
• A distant stone pillar erupted from the ground, and Xu Yun identified it as the sealed Ruyi Jingu Bang as he warned that the Soul-Seizing Blade might use it to control the Treasury World.
• Mu Qing led the group toward the golden staff and said he intended to settle accounts with the races that had persecuted humanity, while Sheng Ling'er warned that this could provoke their True Gods.

Mu Qing and his companions reached a powerful Barrier surrounding the petrified Ruyi Jingu Bang and discovered that only an enormous stone gate led inside. As more inheritors gathered, Mu Qing recognized Liu Yan as a dangerous rival for the Great Sage Inheritance.

• Mu Qing and his companions found that they could not break the Barrier, while four powerful Flood Dragon immortal beasts guarded a massive stone gate.
• Soul-Seizing Blade arrived with Ultimate Immortal Sword and Thunder Soul Pill, tore open the Barrier, and entered with them.
• Cang Tong and Zhu Feng arrived and noticed Mu Qing had reached the half-immortal realm.
• Liu Yan arrived with eleven half-immortals and insulted Cang Tong and Zhu Feng, revealing their hostility toward him.
• Mu Qing recognized Liu Yan as the inheritor of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts and regarded him as his most formidable rival for the Great Sage Inheritance.

Mu Qing and the gathered races tried to enter the Barrier, but Liu Yan’s attacks failed to break it. Azure Sky arrived, killed a Half-Immortal with a glance, and entered through an opening the Barrier made for him, leaving the others alarmed by his Divine Rank power.

• Luo Yuan recognized Mu Qing as a Half-Immortal and stopped Luo Han from attacking because Sheng Ling'er belonged to the Angel Clan.
• Cang Tong proposed that the groups work together against the four Flood Dragon immortal beasts, but Liu Yan refused and led his Half-Immortals to attack the Barrier.
• Liu Yan tried several transformations and divine abilities, but none of his attacks could damage the Barrier.
• Azure Sky appeared behind Liu Yan and killed one of his Half-Immortal subordinates with a glance.
• Azure Sky walked through an opening the Barrier created for him, and the Fierce Beast Race Demigods resolved to seek help from their Divine Rank members.

Mu Qing and the other factions joined forces to attack the stone gate, only to discover that four puppet-like Flood Dragon immortal beasts guarded it with strength far beyond ordinary Half-Immortals. Mu Qing and Sheng Ling'er fought one beast while the other factions struggled against theirs, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Liu Yan agreed to have each faction confront one Flood Dragon immortal beast, while Mu Qing noticed the stone gate had a lock and might require a key.
• Elder Tu explained that the vacant-eyed Flood Dragon immortal beasts had been refined into powerful puppets, and one beast killed two of Liu Yan's Half-Immortal subordinates with its flames.
• Mu Qing and Sheng Ling'er attacked their beast with the Starry Sky Divine Kingdom, the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and Great Moon Serpents, but it broke free and counterattacked.
• Cang Tong used clones to distract his beast while Zhu Feng struck it with a flaming cudgel, whereas the demigods' formation and Liu Yan's forces suffered heavy losses.
• Luo Yuan and Luo Han fought their beast with Godslaying Halberds and the Slaughter Heart, while Liu Yan was left to face his beast alone after six or seven subordinates died.

Mu Qing battled a Flood Dragon immortal beast and used the Dragon Leap Technique to weaken it and the surrounding fighters. After learning that the stone gate’s key was split among four beasts, he tried a bold tactic and pierced his opponent with the True Dragon Immortal Sword.

• Mu Qing used Titan Body and twenty Chaos Chains to fight the Flood Dragon immortal beast, while Luo Yuan wondered about his techniques.
• Elder Tu told Mu Qing that each of the four Flood Dragon immortal beasts held part of the stone gate’s key, revealing that the factions would soon compete for them.
• Mu Qing asked Sheng Ling'er to bind the beast, then used the Dragon Leap Technique’s gusts to suppress weaker fighters and reduce the beast’s strength.
• Mu Qing summoned a True Dragon and struck the Flood Dragon immortal beast with the True Dragon Immortal Sword, piercing its scales.

Mu Qing killed a Flood Dragon immortal beast and recovered part of a stone key before using the Myriad Domains Star Chart to enter its fifth star. There, he broke the seal on an immortal’s corpse, absorbed its energy, and prepared to try to obtain the dead immortal’s art.

• Mu Qing used the Starry Sky Divine Kingdom and the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to kill the Flood Dragon immortal beast, then found a fragment of the stone key inside it.
• Mu Qing told Elder Tu to begin unlocking the fifth star of the Myriad Domains Star Chart, and they entered it after Mu Qing supplied energy from his Immortal-Seizing Heart.
• Elder Tu explained that the Heavenly Court had frozen the star and that the Starry Sky Venerable God had sealed the immortal who caused it.
• Mu Qing used the Starry Sky Origin Returning True Scripture to break the seal and absorb the energy from the meteorite, increasing the stars in his Starry Sky Divine Kingdom from five thousand to seven thousand.
• The immortal’s corpse emerged intact, and Elder Tu urged Mu Qing to use the Scripture to try to obtain the immortal’s art.

Mu Qing stripped an immortal art and Bloodline Method from the white-robed corpse, devoured it, and activated the sixth star of the Heavenly Origin Star Grand Formation with Elder Tu and Zhou Siyu. He then used the formation to seize the key fragment from Liu Yan’s Flood Dragon immortal beast and attacked Liu Yan’s forces, leaving her defending against his sword formation.

• Mu Qing extracted the Eternal Ice Seal and Frost Sky Pattern Canon from the white-robed corpse, fused the Bloodline Method into the Starry Sky Origin Returning True Scripture, and devoured the corpse’s energy.
• Mu Qing poured the energy into the sixth star, activating it, and Zhou Siyu emerged from seclusion to help Elder Tu operate the Heavenly Origin Star Grand Formation.
• Mu Qing emerged from the Starry Sky Divine Kingdom and used the formation to weaken everyone’s cultivation and pin Liu Yan in place.
• Mu Qing killed the Flood Dragon immortal beast Liu Yan had been fighting and devoured its energy along with the key fragment inside it.
• Liu Yan attacked Mu Qing as her half-immortals charged, but Mu Qing unleashed the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and pierced the half-immortals with its swordlight.

Mu Qing killed Liu Yan with the Heavenly Origin Star Grand Formation and gained the Seventy-Two Transformations, then transformed into a Kunpeng and attacked the trapped demigods. As Luo Yuan and Luo Han fought back, Luo Han revealed the powerful Asura Blade, whose might might break the formation.

• Mu Qing broke Liu Yan’s Immobilization Technique, then struck him with the star formation and killed him with a punch.
• Mu Qing absorbed Liu Yan’s energy and gained the Seventy-Two Transformations through the Great Sage Inheritance.
• Mu Qing transformed into a colossal Kunpeng and swallowed the attacks of Luo Yuan, Luo Han, and the other demigods.
• Cang Tong and Zhu Feng fled instead of helping Luo Yuan and Luo Han.
• Luo Yuan ignited his Asura bloodline and charged Mu Qing while Luo Han attacked with the Asura Blade, startling Elder Tu.

Elder Tu revealed that he was the former Asura Great Emperor who had forged the Asura Blade, and used its true power to kill Luo Han and Luo Yuan. He gave the blade to Mu Qing and turned to stop Cang Tong and Zhu Feng from escaping the Heavenly Origin Star Grand Formation.

• Luo Han unleashed the Asura Blade against Mu Qing, but Zhou Siyu and Elder Tu used the Heavenly Origin Star Grand Formation to break his attack and wound Luo Yuan.
• Luo Han summoned the power of the Asura Great Emperor from the blade, and everyone realized that the figure resembled Elder Tu.
• Elder Tu revealed his horns and explained that the Asura Clan had ambushed him and stolen the Asura Blade.
• Elder Tu took control of the blade and unleashed a sea of blood that devoured Luo Yuan and Luo Han.
• Elder Tu gave the Asura Blade to Mu Qing, then summoned stars to block Cang Tong and Zhu Feng as they tried to escape.

Mu Qing defeated the remaining demigods, seized Zhu Feng’s Great Sage Inheritance, and killed Cang Tong to obtain the complete inheritance. After recovering the key to the stone door, he warned Zhou Siyu that one immortal and one god awaited them.

• Mu Qing used Eternal Ice Seal to freeze the demigods, then devoured their divine power while demanding the Great Sage Inheritance from Zhu Feng and Cang Tong.
• Zhu Feng handed over his Great Sage Inheritance, completing Mu Qing’s Fire-Eyed Golden Gaze and revealing Cang Tong’s hidden true body.
• Mu Qing restrained and killed Cang Tong, obtaining the divine ability of external avatars.
• Mu Qing burned away the ice around the two Flood Dragon immortal beasts and recovered the broken pieces of the stone-door key.
• Elder Tu returned to the Myriad Domains Star Chart, and Mu Qing warned Zhou Siyu that one immortal and one god lay ahead.

Mu Qing entered the Barrier with Sheng Ling'er and Zhou Siyu and faced the Soul-Seizing Blade and Azure Sky. The Soul-Seizing Blade seized the two women’s souls, while Mu Qing survived his attack, and Azure Sky revealed that he was still a Demigod who had yet to survive the ninth divine tribulation.

• Mu Qing left Xu Yun, Mu Yu, and the others outside the Barrier and brought Sheng Ling'er and Zhou Siyu through the stone gate.
• Mu Qing saw the Ruyi Jingu Bang and confronted the Soul-Seizing Blade and Azure Sky inside the Barrier.
• The Soul-Seizing Blade unleashed a soul attack that stripped Sheng Ling'er and Zhou Siyu of their souls but failed to seize Mu Qing’s soul.
• The Soul-Seizing Blade drew the two women’s souls into his body and revealed that he had reached the peak of the True Immortal realm.
• Mu Qing realized that Azure Sky was the other Half-Immortal who had resisted the soul-seizing power.
• Azure Sky said Mu Qing would die if he survived the ninth divine tribulation, revealing that he was still a Demigod.

Azure Sky and Mu Qing joined forces against Soul-Seizing Blade, who sought to claim the Ruyi Jingu Bang and break through to Heavenly Immortal. As Azure Sky battled Soul-Seizing Blade, Mu Qing unleashed Divine Burst and prepared to strike with the True Dragon Immortal Sword, leaving the decisive clash about to begin.

• Soul-Seizing Blade attacked Mu Qing again, but Azure Sky destroyed four of his gray palms and left the last one for Mu Qing to face.
• Mu Qing used his Starry Sky Divine Kingdom and Power of the Gods to shatter the final palm, then healed his broken arm by opening more Chaos Chains.
• Azure Sky recognized Mu Qing's strength and proposed that they join forces to kill Soul-Seizing Blade.
• Azure Sky transformed into a dragon-man and fought Soul-Seizing Blade while Mu Qing opened fifty Chaos Chains and summoned the True Dragon Immortal Sword.
• Ultimate Immortal Sword and Thunder Soul Pill tried to stop Mu Qing, but he advanced toward Soul-Seizing Blade and unleashed Eternal Ice Seal.