Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan and Su Changge began their duel for the Six-Yang Golden Pellet and the honor of being the foremost among the Nine Peaks. Their battle escalated as Su Changge awakened her Yin-Yang Precious Body and met Li Qingshan’s punch with a palm blade.

• Su Changge accepted Li Qingshan’s challenge and faced him across the arena.
• Su Changge attacked with her Yin-Yang Blade Intent, and Li Qingshan countered with Heavenly Blade—Earth-Rending Void.
• Su Changge fused her blade lights into the Chaos-Reversing Yin-Yang Blade, a strike with power approaching the late stage of Spirit Transformation.
• Li Qingshan dodged with Five Elements Heaven-Escaping and used Ten Thousand Magnetic Suppression to weaken Su Changge’s attack and restrict her movements.
• Su Changge awakened her Yin-Yang Precious Body, broke through part of the suppression, and clashed her palm blade with Li Qingshan’s punch.

Li Qingshan defeated Su Changge in a devastating clash of their strongest techniques and won the Six-Yang Golden Pellet. The onlookers recognized him as the undisputed leader of the Nine Peaks as the story ended with the prize within his reach.

• Su Changge unleashed her Nirvana slash, and Li Qingshan fused his Heavenly Blade and Myriad Magnetic artistic conceptions before summoning the Five Elements Annihilation Sword.
• The Five Elements Sword Formation broke Su Changge’s Nirvana blade light, leaving her exhausted and conceding defeat to Li Qingshan.
• Li Qingshan and Su Changge acknowledged each other’s strength after the battle.
• The crowd erupted in praise, while Zhou Tianxuan accepted that Li Qingshan had beaten him without using his full strength.
• Nangong Yan and the Five Elements Ancestor celebrated Li Qingshan’s strength and its promise for humanity, and Li Qingshan looked toward the Six-Yang Golden Pellet he had won.

After winning the Nine Peaks Grand Competition, Li Qingshan improved the Six-Yang Golden Pellet with the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd and refined it in seclusion, reaching the peak of the early Spirit Transformation Realm. He emerged ready to pursue Devil Race cultivators, but learned that Su Peak Master had come to visit.

• The Five Elements Ancestor awarded Li Qingshan the Six-Yang Golden Pellet, and the Ninth Peak celebrated its unprecedented share of resources.
• Li Qingshan used the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd to restore and improve the pellet to supreme-grade fifth rank.
• Li Qingshan swallowed the pellet and spent months refining its medicinal power, strengthening his body, Primordial Spirit, and artistic conceptions.
• Li Qingshan reached the peak of the early Spirit Transformation Realm and resolved to hunt Spirit Transformation cultivators from the Devil Race to advance further.
• Song Zhiming told Li Qingshan that Su Peak Master of the First Peak had come to visit, and Li Qingshan asked him to wait in the main hall.

Su Changge recruited Li Qingshan to help steal a Primordial Spirit Fruit from White Bone Temple, and the two entered the White Bone Domain as the fruit neared ripening. After witnessing humans being brutalized there, Li Qingshan wanted to destroy the temple, but Su Changge persuaded him to focus on their mission and avoid alerting the wider Devil Race.

• Su Changge told Li Qingshan that a Primordial Spirit Fruit would ripen at White Bone Temple in one month and asked him to help steal it.
• Li Qingshan agreed to use his Myriad Magnetic Artistic Conception to disrupt the temple’s formation, and the two arranged to meet at Floating Cloud Ferry.
• One month later, Li Qingshan and Su Changge left the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm and traveled into the White Bone Domain.
• Li Qingshan saw humans being abused by demonic cultivators and asked Su Changge if they could destroy White Bone Temple.
• Su Changge warned that an attack could summon forces from other devil sects and the Eternal Night Devil Palace, so Li Qingshan suppressed his anger and kept to their plan.

Li Qingshan and Su Changge infiltrated White Bone Temple in disguise and discovered the ripe Primordial Spirit Fruits guarded by four Spirit Transformation cultivators. They launched a surprise attack as the fruits ripened, trapping the guards and beginning to strike them down.

• Li Qingshan and Su Changge ambushed two Golden Core demonic cultivators, captured their souls, and took their identities to enter White Bone Temple.
• The pair used memories taken from the captives to reach the forbidden area, where they found the Primordial Spirit Treasure Tree and nine nearly ripe Primordial Spirit Fruits guarded by the White Bone Temple Master, two elders, and An Zhiruo.
• Li Qingshan and Su Changge waited several days until the Primordial Spirit Fruits ripened and the White Bone Temple Master reached to collect them.
• Li Qingshan unleashed the Ten Thousand Magnetic Domain to pin down all four Spirit Transformation cultivators while Su Changge critically wounded the short, round elder with her Yin-Yang Blade Intent.
• Li Qingshan summoned the Five Elements Annihilation Sword Formation and targeted the thin, tall elder.

Li Qingshan and Su Changge fought the White Bone Temple Master and An Zhiruo while Lady Three-Flower stole six Primordial Spirit Fruits, but the White Bone Ancestor awoke and forced them to flee. Li Qingshan escaped the temple’s protective formation with Su Changge, while the Ancestor, the Temple Master, and An Zhiruo pursued them.

• Li Qingshan killed the tall, gaunt elder and sealed his Primordial Spirit along with the short, stout elder’s in the Mysterious Sky Demon-Suppressing Gourd.
• An Zhiruo broke free of the Ten Thousand Magnetic Domain and attacked Su Changge and Li Qingshan with her White Jade Pipa.
• At Li Qingshan’s signal, Lady Three-Flower stole six Primordial Spirit Fruits, and Li Qingshan blocked the White Bone Temple Master’s enraged attack with his Five Elements Annihilation Sword Formation.
• The White Bone Ancestor emerged from the White Bone Coffin and nearly struck Lady Three-Flower with a deathlight attack.
• Li Qingshan grabbed Su Changge and escaped the temple’s protective formation, while the White Bone Ancestor, the White Bone Temple Master, and the wounded An Zhiruo chased after them.

Li Qingshan split from Su Changge while White Bone Ancestor pursued him for the Primordial Spirit Fruits. As Li Qingshan battled White Bone Ancestor’s powerful attacks, a cicada’s cry from his spirit-beast pouch disrupted the soul-locking formation, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Li Qingshan and Su Changge split up, and White Bone Ancestor sent White Bone Temple Master and An Zhiruo after the injured Su Changge while he chased Li Qingshan.
• White Bone Ancestor pursued Li Qingshan across a vast mountain range and attacked him with a giant claw formed from deathly laws.
• Li Qingshan used the Five Elements Annihilation Sword Formation and his Ten Thousand Magnetic Domain to shatter White Bone Ancestor’s bone claw.
• White Bone Ancestor surrounded Li Qingshan with the Twelve Yuanchen White Bone Demon Beads and assaulted his Primordial Spirit with the soul-locking formation and Soul-Eroding Demon Thought.
• As Li Qingshan prepared to summon the Mysterious Sky Demon-Suppressing Gourd, a cicada cried from his spirit-beast pouch and weakened the mental assault and formation.

The Golden Wind Cicada awakened at the fifth rank and helped Li Qingshan defeat White Bone Ancestor. Li Qingshan devoured his artistic conception and Primordial Spirit, broke through to mid-stage Spirit Transformation, and set out to pursue Su Changge and destroy White Bone Temple.

• The Golden Wind Cicada emerged from Li Qingshan's spirit beast pouch after completing its transformation and attacked White Bone Ancestor with soul-targeting techniques.
• The Golden Wind Cicada disrupted White Bone Ancestor, allowing Heishan's divine light and Li Qingshan's God-Slaying Heart Sword to cripple his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Li Qingshan used the Primordial Magnetic Heaven-Swallowing Technique and Heaven-Swallowing Primordial Spirit Scripture to absorb White Bone Ancestor's artistic conception and Primordial Spirit, reaching mid-stage Spirit Transformation and advancing both his artistic conceptions.
• Li Qingshan destroyed White Bone Ancestor's body with the Five Elements Annihilation Sword, sent his remaining Primordial Spirit to Heishan, and collected his treasures.
• Li Qingshan declared that he would destroy White Bone Temple and pursued Su Changge with the Five Elements Heaven-Escaping Art.

Li Qingshan arrived as Su Changge was trapped by the White Bone Temple Master and An Zhiruo, then helped her turn the fight around. The White Bone Temple Master and An Zhiruo were killed, leaving Su Changge freed from the ambush.

• Li Qingshan used his Ten Thousand Magnetic Domain to disrupt the White Bone Temple Master's banner formation and An Zhiruo's soul attacks, giving Su Changge an opening.
• Su Changge damaged the Hundred Skull Soul-Locking Banner with a powerful blade strike, weakening the White Bone Temple Master.
• Li Qingshan trapped the White Bone Temple Master in his Five Elements Sword Formation, and the Golden Wind Cicada struck his Primordial Spirit before Li Qingshan destroyed his body.
• Heishan captured the White Bone Temple Master's fleeing Primordial Spirit in the Mysterious Sky Demon-Suppressing Gourd.
• An Zhiruo threatened Li Qingshan with her family and sect ties, but he restrained her with the Ten Thousand Magnetic Domain.
• Su Changge killed An Zhiruo with her Yin-Yang Blade Intent.

Li Qingshan and Su Changge killed the last Spirit Transformation cultivators of the White Bone Temple, then destroyed its forces and plundered its treasury. They left with the temple’s treasures and primordial spirit treasure tree, heading back to the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance.

• Li Qingshan used the Mysterious Sky Demon-Suppressing Gourd to capture An Zhiruo’s primordial spirit and kill both pursuing Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Li Qingshan and Su Changge attacked the leaderless White Bone Temple, slaughtering its resisting cultivators and driving the survivors to flee.
• Li Qingshan broke through the secret treasury’s restrictions, and he and Su Changge discovered its vast stores of wealth and magical treasures.
• Li Qingshan claimed the void divine gold, Immortal Golden Body Bone, and Nirvana Demon Thunder, while Su Changge took the rest of the treasury.
• Su Changge uprooted the primordial spirit treasure tree, and she and Li Qingshan departed for the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance.

Li Qingshan and Su Changge returned to the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm after destroying the White Bone Temple and presented its spoils to the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance. Li Qingshan offered the alliance most of the treasure and three Primordial Spirit Fruits, and Five Elements Ancestor rewarded him with a Five Elements Vajra Pill.

• Li Qingshan and Su Changge reported to Five Elements Ancestor and the alliance elders that they had destroyed the White Bone Temple and killed White Bone Ancestor.
• Su Changge recounted their infiltration, battle, and counterattack, leaving the elders astonished by Li Qingshan's victory over a Spirit Transformation peak expert.
• Li Qingshan and Su Changge brought out the White Bone Temple's treasure, astonishing the alliance elders with its immense value.
• Li Qingshan offered the remaining spoils to the alliance for distribution and gave Five Elements Ancestor three of their nine Primordial Spirit Fruits.
• Five Elements Ancestor accepted the fruits and gave Li Qingshan a fifth-tier supreme-grade Five Elements Vajra Pill in return.

Li Qingshan used the three Primordial Spirit Fruits to raise his Heavenly Dao Primordial Spirit to the late stage of Spirit Transformation, then prepared to cultivate his body with the Five Elements Vajra Pills and Immortal Golden Body Bone. Meanwhile, Devil Shadow Dharma King tried to track him and Su Changge, but Five Elements Ancestor stopped him and confronted him over the destruction of White Bone Temple.

• Li Qingshan and Su Changge thanked each other for their help, and Five Elements Ancestor ordered them to remain in the Alliance while he handled Eternal Night Devil Palace's retaliation.
• Li Qingshan returned to Ninth Peak and refined all three Primordial Spirit Fruits, advancing his Heavenly Dao Primordial Spirit to the late stage of Spirit Transformation and extending his divine sense to fifteen thousand li.
• Li Qingshan prepared to use the Five Elements Vajra Pills and Immortal Golden Body Bone to improve the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art and Black Sky True Demon Body.
• Devil Shadow Dharma King appeared above White Bone Temple's ruins and attempted to trace Li Qingshan and Su Changge through their karmic threads.
• Five Elements Ancestor severed the karmic threads and challenged Devil Shadow Dharma King, who threatened to crush the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm unless the Alliance answered for White Bone Temple's destruction.

The Five Elements Ancestor repelled Devil Shadow Dharma King, who warned that the Eternal Night Devil Palace would soon attack the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance. Protected from a hostile gaze, Li Qingshan began refining his body with a Five Elements Vajra Pill and the Immortal Golden Body Bone, setting the stage for a major breakthrough.

• The Five Elements Ancestor and Devil Shadow Dharma King clashed evenly before Devil Shadow Dharma King withdrew and threatened the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance.
• The Five Elements Ancestor erased possible tracking marks, while Li Qingshan recognized that the ancestor had protected him and resolved to grow stronger.
• Li Qingshan swallowed an enhanced Five Elements Vajra Pill and used its power to temper his body while cultivating the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art and Black Sky True Demon Body.
• Li Qingshan connected with the Immortal Golden Body Bone and drew it into his Shanzhong acupoint, where it began radiating immortal blood, qi, and fragments of laws.

Li Qingshan completed the ninth turn of the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art and advanced the Black Sky True Demon Body to its eleventh layer, reaching the peak of physical strength in the Spirit Transformation Realm. After extracting the White Bone Temple Master and An Zhiruo’s artistic conceptions, he learned from Lady Three-Flower that fusing artistic conceptions was key to reaching Void Refinement.

• Li Qingshan transformed his bones, flesh, and sinews, completed the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art’s ninth turn, and broke the Black Sky True Demon Body through to its eleventh layer.
• Li Qingshan tested his immense physical strength and resolved to perfect his magic power before pursuing the late stage of Spirit Transformation.
• Li Qingshan summoned Heishan and ordered him to release the Primordial Spirits of the White Bone Temple Master and An Zhiruo.
• Li Qingshan used the Primordial Magnetic Heaven-Swallowing Technique to extract their White Bone and Mystical Sound Artistic Conception origins, strengthening his Myriad Magnetic and Heavenly Blade Artistic Conceptions.
• Li Qingshan noticed the two artistic conceptions beginning to draw together, and Lady Three-Flower explained that fusing artistic conceptions was essential for breaking through to Void Refinement.

Li Qingshan fused his Myriad Magnetic and Heavenly Blade Artistic Conceptions into the Primordial Magnetic Heavenly Blade Artistic Conception, discovering that it could potentially incorporate more. He gave two weakened Primordial Spirit fragments to Heishan, whose strength surged after devouring them.

• Lady Three-Flower explained that fusing Heavenly Artistic Conceptions could help Li Qingshan advance toward Void Refinement and that his Primordial Magnetic Heaven-Swallowing Technique could aid the process.
• Li Qingshan used the technique to force his Myriad Magnetic and Heavenly Blade Artistic Conceptions together, enduring their violent resistance as he refined their clashing parts.
• Li Qingshan completed the fusion and named the new power the Primordial Magnetic Heavenly Blade Artistic Conception, then tested it by reducing a piece of black iron to powder.
• Li Qingshan sensed that his fused Artistic Conception might still absorb others and decided the two weakened Primordial Spirit fragments would be more useful to Heishan.
• Heishan devoured the fragments and grew markedly stronger, then enthusiastically praised Li Qingshan and Lady Three-Flower until she told him to be quiet.

Li Qingshan joined the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance’s leaders and learned that the devil sects had slaughtered millions in White Bone Domain and killed Elder Chen Tianhe. Five Elements Ancestor warned that the massacre was bait for a trap, leaving the alliance to decide how to respond without rushing into it.

• Li Qingshan sensed a message from Five Elements Ancestor and went to the Demon-Extinguishing Main Hall after emerging from seclusion.
• Five Elements Ancestor showed the alliance scenes of the devil sects slaughtering humans and using their bodies and souls to refine evil treasures.
• Five Elements Ancestor reported that at least thirty-three million people had been killed in White Bone Domain after Eternal Night Devil Palace encouraged its four subordinate sects to retaliate.
• Nangong Yan revealed that Elder Chen Tianhe and most of the cultivators he led had died in an ambush near Iron Rock City.
• Su Changge demanded permission to destroy the four devil sects, but Five Elements Ancestor warned that Eternal Night Devil Palace had laid a trap to draw the alliance into battle.

The Demon-Extinguishing Alliance planned simultaneous raids on three Devil Sects in the Nine Southern Domains, with Li Qingshan leading the attack on the Nether Spring Devil Sect. As the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm carried the group toward Nether Spring Domain, Li Qingshan decided to scout the sect before striking.

• The Five Elements Ancestor assigned Su Changge to attack the Skyfire Devil Sect and Nangong Yan to attack the Mystic Sha Devil Sect.
• The Five Elements Ancestor chose Li Qingshan to lead Zhao Wuji, Liu Chuande, and Han Feng against the Nether Spring Devil Sect, despite concerns about its late-stage Spirit Transformation expert.
• The Five Elements Ancestor took control of the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm and sent it through the void toward the Nine Southern Domains to support the raids.
• Li Qingshan recalled his past connection to Nether Spring Domain and planned to scout the Nether Spring Devil Sect before attacking.
• The group arrived in Nether Spring Domain as Li Qingshan anticipated that fighting the sect might help him advance his cultivation.

Nalan Yue regretted abandoning Li Qingshan after learning that he had killed powerful enemies and helped destroy the White Bone Temple. Meanwhile, Li Qingshan infiltrated the Nether Spring Devil Sect in disguise, preparing to sabotage its formation with his allies waiting outside.

• Nalan Yue recalled abandoning Li Qingshan and regretted that he had joined the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance instead of the Nether Spring Devil Sect.
• A maid told Nalan Yue that the Demon-Extinguishing Alliance had vanished from the Eastern Nine Domains, leaving her uneasy.
• Zhao Wuji, Liu Chuande, and Han Feng waited in concealment outside the Nether Spring Devil Sect while Li Qingshan scouted ahead.
• Li Qingshan ambushed inner disciple Chen Mo, searched his soul, and learned about his identity and access to the sect's auxiliary formation node.
• Li Qingshan copied Chen Mo's appearance and aura, put on his clothes and Nether Spring Token, and rode toward the sect's mountain gate.

Li Qingshan infiltrated the Nether Spring Devil Sect as Chen Mo, lured Lu Yuan out of the sect, and killed him before taking his appearance and memories. He learned how to disable the sect’s protective formation and headed for the Sect Master Hall as midnight approached.

• Li Qingshan entered the sect disguised as Chen Mo and convinced Lu Yuan to accompany him to a supposed ancient cave dwelling.
• Far from the main peak, Li Qingshan used his Ten Thousand Magnetic Domain to immobilize Lu Yuan and killed him with the Primordial Magnetic Heavenly Blade.
• Li Qingshan collected Lu Yuan’s body and treasure, suppressed his Nascent Soul and Primordial Spirit, and disguised himself as Lu Yuan.
• From Lu Yuan’s memories, Li Qingshan learned the formation’s layout, its guardians, and the opportunity to cripple it when Nalan Jie activated the main formation eye at midnight.
• Li Qingshan maintained his Lu Yuan disguise through the day, then slipped toward the Sect Master Hall as midnight neared and reached the guarded forbidden area.

Li Qingshan disguised himself as Lu Yuan to enter the Mysterious Yin Hall and destroy the Nether Spring Devil Sect's grand formation. After badly wounding Sect Master Nalan Jie and crippling the formation, he faced three approaching Spirit Transformation experts and declared his intent to flatten the sect.

• Li Qingshan used Lu Yuan's identity and formation-master token to pass the guard and enter the Mysterious Yin Hall.
• Li Qingshan drew Nalan Jie's attention away from the formation core, revealed himself, and struck a critical node, causing the grand formation to crack and its Yin-energy absorption to reverse.
• Li Qingshan attacked Nalan Jie, sent the Nether Spring Devil Pearl flying, shattered his defensive treasures, and severed one of his arms as Nalan Jie escaped the hall.
• The damaged formation alarmed the Nether Spring Devil Sect, and three Spirit Transformation auras awakened and headed toward the Sect Master Hall.
• Li Qingshan flew into the sky and announced himself as the Demon-Slaying Alliance's Li Qingshan, declaring that he had come to flatten Nether Spring.