Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan agreed to accompany Chen Qingluo into Vajra Master's cave abode, a Nascent Soul Cultivator's legacy hidden in the Abyssal Secret Realm. They reached its concealed valley entrance, where a Forbidden Magic Domain suppressed Li Qingshan's connection to spiritual energy.

• Chen Qingluo revealed herself to Li Qingshan and explained that she had also sought the Seven-Leaf Devil Lotus.
• Chen Qingluo invited Li Qingshan to explore Vajra Master's cave abode, explaining that its Forbidden Magic Domain made it accessible only to body cultivators.
• Li Qingshan accepted the invitation and told Chen Qingluo he was an unaffiliated Rogue Cultivator.
• Chen Qingluo led Li Qingshan through the dangerous ruins to a secluded valley at their edge.
• Li Qingshan and Chen Qingluo entered the valley, where the Forbidden Magic Domain weakened his connection to spiritual energy.

Li Qingshan and Chen Qingluo reached the entrance to the Black Devil Sect’s cave abode after he destroyed its demon-beast guardians. When the gate opened, its overwhelming pressure kept Chen Qingluo outside, while Li Qingshan entered alone.

• Chen Qingluo warned Li Qingshan that the Forbidden Magic Domain grew more oppressive deeper in and was guarded by demon-beast puppets.
• Li Qingshan destroyed all eight Foundation Establishment Late Stage puppets with his physical strength.
• Chen Qingluo opened the cave abode’s stone gate with the Dark Gold Bead, which she said was connected to the cave and served as its key.
• The pressure beyond the gate forced Chen Qingluo to her knees, but Li Qingshan withstood it with the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art.
• Li Qingshan told Chen Qingluo to leave and promised to share any body cultivation art he found, then entered the cave abode alone.

Li Qingshan explored Vajra Master’s cave abode and discovered the elder’s remains, legacy, and the treasures he had left behind. He learned the source of the forbidden magic domain and began examining the Black Devil Sect’s vast reserves.

• Li Qingshan searched the cave abode’s alchemy room and library, collecting the surviving jade slips despite finding most of them useless.
• Li Qingshan entered the cultivation chamber, where he found Vajra Master’s dark-gold skeleton and three objects on a stone table.
• Li Qingshan verified that the skeleton contained no remnant soul, then read Vajra Master’s final testament on the black iron plate.
• Li Qingshan learned that the Abyssal Pearl produced the forbidden magic domain and that Vajra Master had left behind the Black Devil Golden Body Technique.
• Li Qingshan inspected the storage ring and found a huge fortune of spirit stones, body-cultivation materials, demonic treasures, and preserved jade slips.

Li Qingshan uncovered Vajra Master's legacy and the damaged Abyssal Pearl in the cave abode, then gave Chen Qingluo a copy of the body-tempering technique she sought. After she invited him to the Heavenly Blade Tribe, he agreed to visit while leaving the guest elder position undecided.

• Li Qingshan found the Black Devil Golden Body Technique and considered using it to guide his body tempering and disguise himself as a demonic cultivator.
• Li Qingshan examined the damaged Abyssal Pearl, resolved to try repairing it with the Ruyi Treasure Gourd, and stored it inside the gourd.
• Li Qingshan buried Vajra Master's bones, left the cave abode, and gave Chen Qingluo a copy of the Black Devil Vajra Technique.
• Chen Qingluo thanked Li Qingshan and invited him to join the Heavenly Blade Tribe as a guest elder.
• Li Qingshan accepted Chen Qingluo's invitation to visit the tribe but said he would consider whether to become a guest elder.

Li Qingshan left the Abyssal Secret Realm with Chen Qingluo and Chen Jun, then boarded the Heavenly Blade Tribe's flying vessel with them. Outside the realm, Wu Kuan accused Chen Qingluo of killing his nephews, while Li Qingshan noticed that Wang Yao had ties to the Black Spring Tribe.

• Chen Qingluo introduced Li Qingshan to Chen Jun and invited him to return with them to the Heavenly Blade Tribe.
• Chen Jun, Chen Qingluo, and Li Qingshan hurried to the secret realm's exit as it was about to close.
• Wang Yao greeted the returning group, and Chen Qingluo warned Li Qingshan that she suspected Wang Yao had helped arrange an attempt on her life.
• Wu Kuan accused Chen Qingluo of killing four Black Spring Tribe cultivators, but Chen Jun demanded evidence and confronted him.
• Wu Kuan left after threatening Chen Qingluo, and Li Qingshan noticed him exchange a message with Wang Yao.
• Li Qingshan boarded the Heavenly Blade Tribe's flying vessel with Chen Qingluo and Chen Jun, and they departed for the tribe.

Li Qingshan arrived at the Heavenly Blade Tribe and learned about its ancient blade legacy, while Chen Qingluo returned to her father with a body-refinement inheritance that could help him break through. Chen Baxian decided to meet Li Qingshan and seek his service as a guest elder.

• Chen Qingluo brought Li Qingshan to the Heavenly Blade Mountain Range and explained the legend of the immortal's blade strike and the tribe's origins.
• Li Qingshan sensed the blade intent near the Heavenly Blade Ancient City, and Chen Qingluo offered to take him to see the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving.
• Chen Qingluo settled Li Qingshan in a courtyard, then went to see her father, Chen Baxian.
• Chen Qingluo told Chen Baxian that Chen Biyun had arranged for Wu Long and the others to attack her in the secret realm.
• Chen Qingluo gave Chen Baxian a copy of Vajra Master's Black Devil Golden Body Technique, and he realized it could help him break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Baxian praised Chen Qingluo and decided to meet Li Qingshan the next day and invite him to become a guest elder.

Li Qingshan examined the restored Abyssal Pearl and focused on recovering from his Nascent Soul injuries. After Chen Baxian thanked him for saving Chen Qingluo, Li Qingshan declined a reward of spirit stones and asked for help finding herbs, revealing that he could refine third-tier pills.

• Li Qingshan found that the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd had restored the Abyssal Pearl into a powerful fifth-tier spirit treasure, but he put it away until his injuries healed.
• Li Qingshan identified the seven-leaf devil lotus as the primary ingredient for the Five Elements Devil-Transforming Pill and planned to obtain the other herbs.
• After resting and taking healing pills, Li Qingshan recovered most of his physical strength, and Chen Qingluo invited him to meet her father.
• Chen Baxian thanked Li Qingshan for saving Chen Qingluo and offered him ten thousand upper-grade spirit stones.
• Li Qingshan refused the spirit stones and asked Chen Baxian to help gather herbs for pill refining.
• Chen Baxian and Chen Qingluo were surprised and impressed when Li Qingshan said he could refine third-tier spirit pills.

Li Qingshan agreed to become an honored guest elder of the Heavenly Blade Tribe after Chen Baxian offered him access to the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving and help finding spirit herbs. Meanwhile, Chen Biyun and Wang Wenjing agreed to aid Young Lord Wu Xuan in exchange for his support in taking control of the tribe.

• Li Qingshan gave Chen Baxian a list of spirit herbs and accepted his offer to become an honored guest elder in exchange for help finding herbs and permission to study the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving.
• Chen Biyun learned that Chen Qingluo had returned safely with Li Qingshan and blamed Chen Baxian for favoring his daughter.
• Wang Yao told Chen Biyun and Wang Wenjing that Young Lord Wu Xuan would marry Chen Biyun and support Wang Wenjing as clan leader if they copied the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving for him.
• Wang Wenjing weighed the risk of betraying the Heavenly Blade Tribe against the promise of power and agreed to follow Young Lord Wu Xuan's plan.

Li Qingshan received the spirit medicines needed to refine the Five Elements Devil-Transforming Pill and completed the difficult alchemy. After upgrading all four pills with the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd, he swallowed one in hopes of healing his damaged Nascent Soul.

• Chen Qingluo delivered Li Qingshan the spirit medicines for the Five Elements Devil-Transforming Pill and asked him to refine two other pills for her and her father.
• Li Qingshan agreed to refine Chen Qingluo's Black Wind Pills and Heart-Condensing Pills, then began alchemy in his courtyard.
• Li Qingshan refined the auxiliary medicines and carefully fused the five elemental ingredients with the Seven-Leaf Devil Lotus over many days.
• Li Qingshan produced two successful Five Elements Devil-Transforming Pills and two ruined pills, then placed all four in the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.
• Li Qingshan retrieved four top-grade pills the next day and swallowed one, hoping it would heal his damaged Nascent Soul.

Li Qingshan used the Five Elements Devil-Transforming Pills and Black Sha Netherfire to remove the demonic qi left by Black Sha Venerable, heal his Nascent Soul, and break through to Nascent Soul Great Perfection. He remained stranded on the Primordial Devil Continent, worrying about the Five Elements Sect, Ye Lingshuang, and Zhou Taoyao as he planned to pursue Spirit Transformation.

• Li Qingshan combined the Five Elements Devil-Transforming Pills with Black Sha Netherfire to refine the demonic qi origins surrounding his Nascent Soul.
• After three months, Li Qingshan exhausted all four pills, erased the demonic qi, and restored his Nascent Soul with their Five Elements origin power.
• Li Qingshan gathered spiritual qi from top-grade Spirit Stones and broke through from Nascent Soul Late Stage to Nascent Soul Great Perfection, manifesting Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown.
• Li Qingshan sensed his divine sense reach six hundred li and reflected on how Black Sha Venerable's power had forced him to flee.
• Li Qingshan worried about the Five Elements Sect, Ye Lingshuang, and Zhou Taoyao, then resolved to comprehend an artistic conception of heaven and earth and pursue Spirit Transformation.

Li Qingshan considered which artistic conception to comprehend for his breakthrough to Spirit Transformation and decided to try the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving. Meanwhile, Chen Feng prepared to use the Black Spring Tribe’s plot against them, accepting that the plan might cost him his life.

• Li Qingshan weighed ordinary and supreme artistic conceptions and decided to attempt to comprehend the blade intent in the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving.
• Chen Feng sensed a powerful divine sense sweep across Heavenly Blade Ancient City and worried that someone had come for the tribe’s treasure.
• Chen Feng revealed to himself that he possessed the real Heavenly Blade Stone Carving, while the carving in the mountains was only a replica.
• Chen Baxian told Chen Feng that his wife and sister-in-law had secretly contacted Wu Xuan of the Black Spring Tribe.
• Chen Feng ordered Chen Baxian to follow their plan and turn the Black Spring Tribe’s scheme against them, despite Chen Baxian’s concern that it would make their feud irreconcilable.

After emerging from half a year of seclusion, Li Qingshan presented Chen Qingluo with high-grade pills he had refined, proving his skill as a third-tier alchemist. Chen Biyun and Wang Yao left shaken after Li Qingshan silenced Chen Biyun with his pressure.

• Chen Feng urged Chen Baxian to leave and hoped he would have time to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Biyun mocked Chen Qingluo for trusting Li Qingshan and threatened to defeat her after mastering the Heavenly Blade Art.
• Li Qingshan emerged from seclusion and handed Chen Qingluo successfully refined second-tier high-grade Black Wind Pills and third-tier high-grade Heart-Condensing Pills.
• Chen Biyun accused Li Qingshan of passing off purchased pills as his own, and Li Qingshan subdued her with an intimidating pressure.
• Chen Qingluo defended Li Qingshan, and Wang Yao led the shaken Chen Biyun away.

Li Qingshan recovered and reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection, then arranged to study the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving before leaving the Heavenly Blade Tribe. He considered cultivating the Black Sky True Demon Body and discovered that Heishan was growing stronger as he absorbed the Black Sha Sect Leader, while the sect leader’s storage ring held several valuable treasures.

• Li Qingshan asked Chen Qingluo to study the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving, and she arranged to take him to it the next day.
• Li Qingshan planned to leave the Heavenly Blade Tribe after studying the carving and considered helping them refine pills in return.
• Li Qingshan examined the Black Sky True Demon Body and resolved to begin cultivating it after studying the carving.
• Li Qingshan sensed Heishan growing stronger as he absorbed the Black Sha Sect Leader’s vital essence and soul power, then placed the gourd in his dantian to nourish it.
• Li Qingshan searched the Black Sha Sect Leader’s storage ring and found the Mysterious Origin Demon Thunder Array Disk, the Void-Breaking Blade, and the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
• Li Qingshan considered fusing the Ten Thousand Soul Banner with his White Bone Soul Banner and using his Fire Spirit and Earth Spirit to craft artifact spirits.

After finding Fifth-Order Demon Dragon Essence Blood among the Black Sha Sect Leader’s treasures, Li Qingshan went with Chen Qingluo to study the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving. He sensed that the carving was only a replica and that the true source of its blade intent lay deeper in the Heavenly Blade Mountain Range.

• Li Qingshan found a drop of Fifth-Order Demon Dragon Essence Blood and planned to use it to cultivate the Black Sky True Demon Body.
• Chen Qingluo led Li Qingshan into the forbidden valley where the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving stood, after the Third Elder and Fourth Elder let them pass.
• Chen Biyun and Wang Yao joined them, and the stone carving’s powerful blade intent strained everyone except Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan studied the carving and concluded that its blade intent had been imprinted on it and that the carving was probably a replica.
• Li Qingshan suspected the original source of the blade intent lay deeper in the Heavenly Blade Mountain Range and wondered whether the tribe had hidden it or lost it.

Li Qingshan used his divine sense to gather and endure the primordial blade intent scattered through the Heavenly Blade Mountain Range, sharpening and refining his soul. Meanwhile, Wang Yao secretly copied the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving and escaped with Chen Biyun, intending to deliver the imprint to Young Master Wu Xuan.

• Li Qingshan sensed Wang Yao copying the carving and noticed Chen Baxian, the Nascent Soul ancestor, and Chen Qingluo watching her, but he chose not to interfere.
• Li Qingshan gathered fragments of primordial blade intent and endured their painful tempering, which refined his soul and sharpened his divine sense.
• Li Qingshan found the scattered fragments too incomplete to reveal the full Heavenly Blade Artistic Conception and wished he could study the real stone carving.
• After three days, Chen Biyun claimed she could no longer endure the carving, and Wang Yao escorted her out of the valley.
• Wang Yao and Chen Biyun flew toward the tribe's outskirts with the copied imprint, hoping to earn Wu Xuan's reward and make Chen Biyun his bride.

Wu Xuan met Chen Biyun and Wang Yao outside Heavenly Blade Ancient City, took the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving imprint, and promised to marry Chen Biyun. Ancestor Chen Feng appeared and accused Wu Xuan of stealing the imprint, leaving Wu Xuan and his companions under overwhelming Nascent Soul pressure.

• Wu Xuan told Tang Yu he had come in person to win Wang Yao and Chen Biyun’s loyalty and secure the Heavenly Blade Stone Carving imprint.
• Chen Biyun and Wang Yao arrived, and Wu Xuan charmed Chen Biyun while Wang Yao gave him the imprint.
• Wu Xuan accepted the imprint and promised Chen Biyun that he would send a proposal to her family when he returned.
• Ancestor Chen Feng appeared and crushed Chen Biyun and Wang Yao beneath his Nascent Soul pressure, while Tang Yu shielded Wu Xuan.
• Wu Xuan tried to placate Chen Feng by claiming he had come to meet Chen Biyun, but Chen Feng accused him of stealing the ancestral carving’s imprint.

Chen Feng captured Wu Xuan after using the Void Orb to block his escape, revealing that he had planned to use him as bait for the Black Spring Tribe’s Nascent Soul Ancestors. Chen Feng then began extracting a strange dark-golden drop of blood from Wu Xuan, while Chen Biyun and Wang Yao watched in fear.

• Wu Xuan ordered Tang Yu to hold off Chen Feng and activated a Blood Shadow Escape Talisman to flee.
• Chen Baxian attacked Tang Yu, while Chen Feng’s Void Orb confined the area and nullified Wu Xuan’s escape talisman.
• Chen Feng seized Wu Xuan with a giant hand of Devil Essence, sealed his cultivation, and declared he intended to lure out the Black Spring Tribe’s Nascent Soul Ancestors.
• Chen Feng began drawing out a strange drop of dark-golden blood from Wu Xuan, causing him unbearable pain as Chen Biyun and Wang Yao watched in terror.

Chen Feng extracted Wu Xuan’s True Devil Blood and prepared to use him as bait to lure the Black Spring Tribe’s Nascent Soul ancestors into a trap. As the Heavenly Blade Tribe activated its defenses, Li Qingshan understood Chen Feng’s plan and watched from concealment.

• Chen Feng ignored Ancestor Wu Quan’s threat, extracted Wu Xuan’s True Devil Blood, and destroyed Wu Quan’s divine sense imprint.
• Chen Feng killed Tang Yu with the Void Orb after Tang Yu tried to flee.
• Chen Feng ordered Chen Baxian to activate the formation and prepare for the enemy, while Chen Baxian sent Chen Biyun and Wang Yao to Heaven Blade Ancient City.
• Chen Feng incapacitated Wu Xuan and planted demonic formation flags on Desolate Mountain, intending to draw in the Black Spring Tribe’s ancestors.
• Li Qingshan realized Chen Feng planned to use Wu Xuan and the True Devil Blood as bait, noticed its resemblance to Black Sha Venerable’s aura, and chose to remain uninvolved.

Chen Feng drew the Black Spring Tribe’s Nascent Soul Ancestors into a fight after taking the True Devil Blood, while Chen Qingluo stayed with Li Qingshan in the concealed forbidden valley. The battle began as Chen Feng activated the Dragon Vein Demon-Locking Grand Formation.

• Chen Qingluo warned Li Qingshan that the Black Spring Tribe was attacking, but Li Qingshan chose to remain in the forbidden valley and study the ancient blade intent.
• Chen Qingluo stayed beside Li Qingshan, trusting the valley’s concealment formation to shield them from the coming battle.
• Ancestor Wu Quan and Lin Fu arrived and found Chen Feng with the unconscious Wu Xuan.
• Chen Feng extracted the True Devil Blood from Wu Xuan and claimed it could extend his life, provoking Wu Quan and Lin Fu.
• Wu Quan and Lin Fu attacked Chen Feng with their treasures, but Chen Feng used the Void Orb to hinder them and activated the Dragon Vein Demon-Locking Grand Formation.

Ancestor Chen Feng trapped Wu Quan and Lin Fu in the Dragon Vein Demon-Locking Grand Formation and fought them to protect the Heavenly Blade Tribe. After detonating his Void Orb to cripple them, he summoned the true Heavenly Blade Stone Carving and called down the phantom Heavenly Blade, which descended upon his enemies.

• Ancestor Chen Feng revealed that he had lured Wu Quan and Lin Fu into the Dragon Vein Demon-Locking Grand Formation and attacked them with Dragon Vein chains.
• Wu Quan and Lin Fu counterattacked with their magic treasures and techniques, gradually overwhelming the aging Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng detonated his Void Orb, damaging Wu Quan and Lin Fu and prompting them to try to escape the formation.
• Chen Feng brought out the true Heavenly Blade Stone Carving and sacrificed his life force and essence blood to summon the Heavenly Blade.
• A vast phantom Heavenly Blade locked onto Wu Quan and Lin Fu and descended upon them.