Chapter Summaries

Qin Yan defeated Ye Hen and Yuan Li, then discovered six Thousand Illusion Spirit Herbs and began cultivating Myriad Disguise through his Shadow Clone. After interrogating the two men for information about the Medicine Garden and Dragon Marrow Essence, he walked away and ordered them to explode.

• Qin Yan shattered Ye Hen and Yuan Li's Golden Body and knocked them unconscious with a Yin-Yang Five-Element Spear Qi attack.
• Qin Yan looted their Storage Rings and found six Thousand Illusion Spirit Herbs in Yuan Li's ring.
• Qin Yan sent the herbs to his Shadow Clone, which began cultivating Myriad Disguise.
• Qin Yan found Scarlet Sun Fruits and all the supplementary ingredients for the Dragon Marrow Scarlet Sun Pill, leaving him only Dragon Marrow Essence to obtain.
• Qin Yan interrogated Ye Hen and Yuan Li about Dragon Marrow Essence, the Thousand Illusion Spirit Herb, and useful places in the Medicine Garden.
• Qin Yan walked away after confirming their answers, then ordered Ye Hen and Yuan Li to explode.

Qin Yan descended into a deep valley and found the Earth-Attribute True Dragon whose Dragon Marrow Essence he sought. He overwhelmed it with his three Supreme Grade Spear Domains and drove Mo Yuan into its skull, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Qin Yan headed toward the Core Zone after absorbing the blood essence of two Nine Nether Abyss prodigies.
• Qin Yan reached the hidden valley where Ye Hen and Yuan Li had tracked the True Dragon.
• Qin Yan descended past Dragon-Shaped Grass and found the True Dragon’s enormous nest on the valley floor.
• The Earth-Attribute True Dragon emerged from its nest and roared at Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan’s three Supreme Grade Spear Domains shattered the dragon’s domain and pinned it to the ground.
• Qin Yan repeatedly broke the scales on the dragon’s head, then thrust Mo Yuan through the wound and unleashed his powers inside its skull.

Qin Yan killed the Earth-Attribute True Dragon, obtained its Dragon Marrow and collected its trove of rare ores for Mo Yuan. Searching for the Thousand Illusion Spirit Herbs, he uncovered a hidden chamber where the herbs had been used to create an illusory female dragon, which he destroyed.

• Qin Yan killed the True Dragon and extracted its Dragon Marrow, then stored the dragon's corpse in the Blood Demon Nest.
• Qin Yan entered the Dragon Nest and collected its rare ores for Mo Yuan to devour and refine.
• Qin Yan searched the Dragon Nest for Thousand Illusion Spirit Herbs but found none, then heard faint dragon cries beneath his feet.
• Qin Yan broke through a formation and entered an underground chamber filled with nearly a hundred Thousand Illusion Spirit Herbs.
• Qin Yan saw that the herbs had formed an illusory female True Dragon and shattered the phantom with Spear Intent.

Qin Yan refined ten Supreme Dragon Marrow Scarlet Sun Pills and used them to advance his Qi Refining and Body Refining cultivation to Mid-Stage Grandmaster, reaching its peak. He was left with three pills but could not break through to Late-Stage Grandmaster because his Golden Body was holding him back.

• Qin Yan gathered the Thousand Illusion Spirit Herbs, concealed the valley, and prepared to refine the Dragon Marrow Scarlet Sun Pills.
• Qin Yan threw all the ingredients into the Blood Coagulation Life Transformation Cauldron at once and refined ten Supreme Dragon Marrow Scarlet Sun Pills over three days.
• Qin Yan swallowed a pill and broke through to Mid-Stage Grandmaster in both Qi Refining and Body Refining after a day of cultivation.
• Qin Yan used six more pills over the following days to consolidate his realm and reach the peak of Mid-Stage Grandmaster.
• Qin Yan concluded that his Golden Body prevented him from advancing further, leaving him with three Dragon Marrow Scarlet Sun Pills.

After breaking through, Qin Yan tested the new Myriad Disguise ability and found he could perfectly imitate other people, then set out for the Medicine Garden’s Core Zone. He arrived after a day, where Grandmaster powerhouses from across the Second Layer of Emperor Fall Land were gathering to face the trials for Eleventh-Rank Spirit Herbs.

• Qin Yan reviewed his breakthrough and found his Total Blood Qi had reached 980 million Cal.
• Qin Yan used Myriad Disguise to imitate Yuan Li, Ye Hen, Ling Feng, Huang Jiuli, and others without revealing any flaws.
• Qin Yan left the Dragon Nest and headed toward the heart of the Medicine Garden.
• Grandmaster powerhouses from throughout the Second Layer of Emperor Fall Land converged on the Medicine Garden’s Core Zone, where successful challengers could obtain Eleventh-Rank Spirit Herbs.
• Qin Yan reached the Core Zone after a day, disguised as an ordinary young man with his aura concealed, and saw powerful Grandmasters gathered there.

Qin Yan tested the strength of Su Zhao, the former Holy Son of the Temple of Light, by secretly striking him with a powerful Blood Curse. Su Zhao purified the curse and flew deeper into the Medicine Garden, suspecting Blood Li or Blood Wuya had attacked him.

• Su Zhao appeared above the martial artists, and the crowd identified him as the former Holy Son of the Temple of Light and a top Grandmaster on the second layer of Emperor Fall Land.
• Qin Yan decided to test Su Zhao and formed a Deadly Curse from his Blood Dao power, targeting him as he flew away.
• The Blood Curse struck Su Zhao, causing him to cough up golden blood and discover curse threads eroding his body and vitality.
• Su Zhao activated his Radiant Body and used his Light Power to dissolve the curse after half an hour.
• Su Zhao suspected Blood Li or Blood Wuya had cursed him, then continued flying deeper into the Medicine Garden.

Qin Yan entered the Medicine Garden’s trial space, where he learned that surviving longer would earn him a higher-grade Spirit Medicine. Before the trial began, he used his preparation time to set up the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, though he could form only thirty of its three hundred and sixty-five stars.

• Qin Yan reflected that the Temple of Light’s Holy Son had easily dispelled his hastily cast Deadly Curse and continued toward the Medicine Garden’s core.
• At the core, Qin Yan heard that Zhao Ming had passed the trial and taken an Eleventh-Rank True Emperor-level Spirit Medicine.
• Qin Yan approached the vine-and-flower gate and was transported into a vast space filled with enormous, dangerous plants.
• The unseen voice declared that the trial would begin after a short preparation period and that lasting longer would earn a higher-grade Spirit Medicine.
• Qin Yan formed thirty illusory stars while setting up the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, far short of its full three hundred and sixty-five stars.

Qin Yan activated his Undying Blood Demon Body and summoned Blood Demon City, testing his control over it and filling its rooms with Blood Puppets that replenished the city’s energy. When the trial began, a vast plant army attacked, and the city’s astral formations fought the advancing War Ancient Trees until they began to falter.

• Qin Yan activated his Undying Blood Demon Body and manifested Blood Demon City, complete with ten Blood Demon Cannons.
• Qin Yan took the throne atop Blood Demon City and discovered he could control the city and raise or dismiss its barrier with a thought.
• Qin Yan filled a thousand rooms with Blood Puppets, whose energy replenished Blood Demon City.
• The trial began, and the giant plants charged Blood Demon City under the lead of the War Ancient Trees.
• The thirty phantom stars summoned astral manifestations that battled the War Ancient Trees, but the plant army’s second wave overwhelmed them.
• Qin Yan called out, “Blood Demon Chains!” as the astral manifestations began to falter.

Qin Yan used Blood Demon City to destroy the War Ancient Trees, but Man-Eating Flowers swallowed its Blood Demon Chains as the plant army advanced with Ironwood Giants and a threatening Metal-Wood Giant. He formed ten Peak-Stage Grandmaster Blood Demons from his forces, and they began fighting the Ironwood Giants.

• Qin Yan's Blood Demon Chains pierced the War Ancient Trees and drained their essence to sustain Blood Demon City and nourish him.
• Over a hundred Man-Eating Flowers swallowed the Blood Demon Chains, while Ironwood Giants and a thousand-zhang Metal-Wood Giant advanced behind them.
• Qin Yan deployed one hundred Blood Puppets and ten Blood Demons, then used the Blood Puppet Battle Formation to raise the ten Blood Demons to Peak-Stage Grandmaster strength.
• The ten Blood Demons charged the Ironwood Giants, and one sent a giant flying with a Blood River while another drew two giants toward its Demon Cave.

Qin Yan’s Blood Demon City held off the Ironwood Giants, Man-Eating Flowers, and War Ancient Trees, but the Metal-Wood Giant proved powerful enough to kill a Blood Demon with one strike. Qin Yan sent out the Blood-Devouring Mosquito, which blocked the Metal-Wood Giant’s next attack and taunted it.

• Two Ironwood Giants were sucked into a Blood Demon’s demonic abyss, forcing the survivors to regroup in a defensive formation.
• Qin Yan used Blood Demon City’s cannons to destroy waves of Man-Eating Flowers, while the city’s defenses blocked their assault and its Blood Chains strangled the War Ancient Trees.
• The Metal-Wood Giant cleaved through a Blood River and demonic abyss, killing a Blood Demon with a single strike.
• Qin Yan sent the Blood-Devouring Mosquito to confront the Metal-Wood Giant.
• The Blood-Devouring Mosquito’s blood blade clashed with the Metal-Wood Giant’s Blade Qi, and it crushed the weakened attack before taunting its opponent.

The Metal-Wood Giants and the Blood-Devouring Mosquito fought fiercely while Qin Yan judged their strength and prepared to intervene. Qin Yan attacked with fourteen Dark Lasers, and the Metal-Wood Giants unleashed the Metal-Wood King Blade to meet them.

• The Metal-Wood Giants struck the Blood-Devouring Mosquito with their Ancient Wood Warblade and drove it back, but the mosquito blocked their Thousandfold Slash with its six legs.
• Qin Yan assessed that the Metal-Wood Giants were slightly stronger but that the Blood-Devouring Mosquito could hold its own.
• Qin Yan summoned the Dark Vault Scepter and Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown, then formed three Hands of the Dark Abyss and fired fourteen Dark Lasers at the Metal-Wood Giants.
• The Metal-Wood Giants drew dark-golden blood across their Ancient Wood Warblade and unsealed the Metal-Wood King Blade.
• The Metal-Wood Giants swung the gigantic blade at Qin Yan’s fourteen Dark Lasers, and the attacks collided in a deafening blast.

Qin Yan and the Blood-Devouring Mosquito defeated the Metal-Wood Giant and cleared the Medicine Garden trial. Faced with more than a hundred True Emperor-level Spirit Medicines as his reward, Qin Yan asked Little Black for advice, which recommended three choices.

• Qin Yan's Dark Lasers clashed with the Metal-Wood Giant's blade, and the shockwave swept the fighters below off their feet.
• The Blood-Devouring Mosquito ambushed the weakened Metal-Wood Giant, pierced it, restrained it, and drained its blood until it was defeated.
• The Medicine Garden announced Qin Yan's victory, withdrew the remaining plant armies, and offered him a choice of one Spirit Medicine from more than a hundred True Emperor-level options.
• Qin Yan examined the Spirit Medicines but could not identify most of them, so he asked Little Black for help.
• Little Black recommended the Enlightenment Flower, the Spear Soul Grass, and the Dark Lotus and began explaining their effects.

Qin Yan chose the Dark Lotus from three rare spirit medicines, prioritizing its immediate benefits to his Darkness Law and mental strength. After the Plant Spirit sealed its power, Qin Yan stored it in the Blood Demon Nest, where its Darkness Law began resonating with the darkness cultivators before he returned to the trial battlefield.

• Little Black explained the benefits of the Enlightenment Flower, Spear Soul Grass, and Dark Lotus to Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan compared the medicines and chose the Dark Lotus because it could immediately improve his mental strength and Combat Power.
• The Plant Spirit sealed the Dark Lotus's power, and Qin Yan respectfully thanked the Plant Spirit before storing the lotus in his Blood Demon Nest.
• Little Black, Little Black's Shadow Clone, and Qin Yan's Shadow Clone gathered around the Dark Lotus as its Darkness Law resonated through the Blood Demon Nest.
• Qin Yan glowed with green light and reappeared on the trial's battlefield.

Qin Yan left the Medicine Garden after reclaiming his resources, while outside Su Zhao attacked Blood Wuya over a suspected Blood Curse. Blood Wuya escaped, and Qin Yan emerged as a third cultivator to pass the trial, drawing the attention of the gathered prodigies.

• Qin Yan recovered Blood Demon City, his Blood Puppets and Blood Demons, and the Blood-Devouring Mosquito before the Plant Spirit sent him out of the Medicine Garden.
• Su Zhao attacked Blood Wuya, suspecting him of placing a Blood Curse on him, though he began to doubt that Blood Wuya was responsible.
• Su Zhao chose to continue fighting rather than apologize, and Blood Wuya countered with a feigned Blood River Slash before fleeing on his spear.
• Su Zhao prepared to pursue Blood Wuya, but a new green pillar rose from the Medicine Garden, signaling another successful trial.
• Qin Yan emerged disguised as an ordinary-looking young man, as Su Zhao, Zhao Tianji, and the other prodigies turned their attention to him.

Qin Yan, disguised as Li Mu, faced down Su Zhao and Zhao Tianji after they tried to stop him and seize his Eleventh-Grade Spirit Herb. He revealed two Supreme-Grade Domains, then summoned Little Black in the same disguise, leaving the surrounding prodigies stunned.

• Su Zhao and Zhao Tianji approached Qin Yan and tried to learn who his master was, but he gave them the false name Li Mu and said his master was none of their business.
• Su Zhao and Zhao Tianji blocked Li Mu’s path again and proposed a spar, while secretly coveting his Eleventh-Grade Spirit Herb.
• Li Mu recognized that the two Holy Sons intended to make an enemy of him and prepared to fight.
• Li Mu unleashed his Solar Spear Domain and Darkness Domain, revealing that he possessed two Supreme-Grade Domains and was both a Martial Dao and Mental Strength cultivator.
• Li Mu summoned Little Black, who appeared in the same disguise and released mental strength measuring six hundred and ninety-nine hertz.

Qin Yan trapped Su Zhao and Zhao Tianji beneath the Imperial Crown Verdict, then entered the darkness with Little Black to fight them. Zhao Tianji recognized Qin Yan by his spear, Mo Yuan, just as Qin Yan launched his attack.

• Qin Yan assigned Little Black to fight Su Zhao and summoned the Nine-Tassel Profound Black Imperial Crown.
• Qin Yan used Imperial Crown Verdict to engulf Su Zhao and Zhao Tianji in a curtain of darkness that their attacks could not pierce.
• Qin Yan and Little Black entered the darkness, while several onlookers left the Medicine Garden rather than risk being caught in the battle.
• Inside the darkness, Su Zhao and Zhao Tianji formed a defensive stance and realized they could not escape without at least Mid Venerable-level Combat Power.
• Qin Yan appeared beside Zhao Tianji and attacked with Mo Yuan, which Zhao Tianji recognized as Qin Yan's signature Spirit Weapon.

Qin Yan revealed four Supreme-Grade Domains and overwhelmed Zhao Tianji, while Little Black used his Darkness Domain to keep Su Zhao occupied. The battle continued as Su Zhao struck at Little Black’s dark dragon with his Bright Greatsword.

• Qin Yan revealed his identity to Zhao Tianji and Su Zhao and said he would not let either of them leave.
• Qin Yan opened four Supreme-Grade Domains, shocking Zhao Tianji and Su Zhao.
• Zhao Tianji summoned his Gale Domain, but Qin Yan’s Domains shattered and began crushing it.
• Su Zhao opened his Radiant Sword Domain, and Little Black’s Darkness Domain forced him to fight the clone instead of helping Zhao Tianji.
• Little Black sent a dark dragon at Su Zhao, who answered with a blazing strike from his Bright Greatsword.

Zhao Tianji and Qin Yan escalated their battle as Zhao Tianji’s Gale Domain weakened under Qin Yan’s pressure. Zhao Tianji activated his Hurricane Dao Essence and Thunder Dao Essence, preparing to unleash his killing move.

• Su Zhao clashed with Little Black while Zhao Tianji’s Gale Domain was gradually overwhelmed by Qin Yan’s domain.
• Zhao Tianji summoned his nine-hundred-and-eighty-zhang Hurricane Emperor Azure-Gold Body, and Qin Yan condensed his Yin-Yang Five Elements Chaos Golden Body.
• Zhao Tianji used the Eye of the Hurricane to send a storm of powerful hurricanes at Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan’s Mo Yuan Spear weakened the hurricanes, and his Golden Body advanced through them before piercing apart the Eye of the Hurricane.
• Zhao Tianji recognized the threat posed by Qin Yan’s Spirit Weapon Skill and decided to use his killing move quickly.
• Zhao Tianji activated his Hurricane Dao Essence and Thunder Dao Essence, causing dense Runes to emerge across his body.

Zhao Tianji and Qin Yan fused their Dao Essences and clashed with their Golden Bodies, while Su Zhao and Little Black escalated their battle. Su Zhao discovered Little Black was not Li Mu’s clone and faced the devouring power of Little Black’s Nine Netherworld Soul-Devouring Golden Body, leaving him to defend himself with his trump cards.

• Zhao Tianji fused Hurricane Dao Essence and Thunder Dao Essence, sharply increasing his strength.
• Qin Yan fused Yin-Yang Essence and met Zhao Tianji’s palm-leaf fan with Mo Yuan, causing space to collapse around their clash.
• Su Zhao realized he needed to defeat Qin Yan quickly and summoned his Bright Sacred Golden Body as Little Black summoned his Nine Netherworld Soul-Devouring Golden Body.
• Su Zhao recognized that Little Black could not be Li Mu’s clone, while Little Black’s black vortex began pulling Su Zhao’s Golden Body toward it.
• Su Zhao activated Light Divine Body and Light Sacred Armor, enveloping himself in a phantom of light.

Su Zhao was overwhelmed by Little Black’s Darkness Force, while Qin Yan and Zhao Tianji fought evenly after Qin Yan revealed his Yin-Yang Essence. Their spirit weapon skills destroyed each other, and Zhao Tianji began unleashing Wind God Punishment.

• Little Black attacked Su Zhao with Darkness Force vines and phantom beasts, forcing Su Zhao to defend himself with his Bright Sacred Golden Body and Bright Greatsword.
• Qin Yan and Zhao Tianji clashed with their Golden Bodies, and Zhao Tianji reacted in shock when he recognized Qin Yan’s Yin-Yang Essence.
• Qin Yan assessed how Yin-Yang Essence let him match Zhao Tianji despite Zhao Tianji’s greater Blood Qi and other Dao Essences.
• Zhao Tianji used Wind Sweeps Away the Clouds to send an enormous azure vortex at Qin Yan.
• Qin Yan countered with the Five Elements Yin-Yang Spear Array, and the two spirit weapon skills exhausted each other in a violent collision.
• Zhao Tianji began gathering countless hurricanes around his Golden Body and unleashed Wind God Punishment.