Chapter Summaries

Bu Lianshi, Zero Burial, and their summoned allies destroyed Spirit Crane City while hunting for treasures, then escaped before Spirit Crane Island’s Mahayana Stage cultivators could intervene. The island’s cultivators arrived to find the city in ruins and learned that only Zero Burial and White Tiger had carried out the attack.

• Bu Lianshi and the Six Paths of Pain defeated Spirit Crane Island’s six early Fusion Stage cultivators as Little Azure and summoned beasts devastated the city.
• Bu Lianshi warned Zero Burial that she could no longer suppress the Mahayana Stage cultivators’ perception, so Zero Burial recalled his allies and sent Bu Lianshi through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Zero Burial unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, reducing all of Spirit Crane City to ruins, then vanished.
• Spirit Crane Island’s two Mahayana Stage cultivators sensed the battle only after Bu Lianshi’s restrictions lifted and rushed to the destroyed city.
• A Void Refinement Stage cultivator told the Mahayana Stage cultivators that only Zero Burial and White Tiger had attacked and that Zero Burial had killed Su Xinli and the other Fusion Stage cultivators.

The Second and Third Island Masters of Spirit Crane Island reckoned with the losses and danger Akatsuki posed after Zero Burial and White Tiger devastated Spirit Crane City. Meanwhile, Lin Long, Gao Ze, and three Zhang Clan survivors launched an attack on the Cloud Dream Sect, where they began their revenge operation.

• The Second Island Master swore vengeance on Akatsuki, while the Third Island Master warned that Akatsuki's attacks could cripple Spirit Crane Island and called for their Eldest Brother to return.
• The two Island Masters gave up pursuing Zero Burial and left the ruins of Spirit Crane City after arranging for their sect to handle the aftermath.
• Lin Long and Gao Ze arrived at the Cloud Dream Sect with three Zhang Clan disciples, taking advantage of the absent Grand Elder and entering through a passage opened by Zero Burial.
• Lin Long ordered the group to return within three incense sticks, and Gao Ze agreed to raid the Treasure Pavilion while she held off the sect's defenders.
• Lin Long charged toward the Cloud Dream Sect's core territory as the three Zhang Clan disciples rushed out in different directions to attack.

Lin Long attacked Cloud Dream Sect to avenge the Zhang Clan, overwhelming its defenders with her ice techniques. She left the sect’s core region engulfed in a bloody storm of shattered ice mirrors, killing cultivators and destroying buildings.

• Lin Long flew into Cloud Dream Sect, revealed her Akatsuki cloak, and unleashed her Frozen World domain.
• Yun Shang recognized Lin Long as Azure Dragon’s Protector Yin and ordered the Grand Elder to bring a Mahayana cultivator while he attacked her.
• Lin Long froze Yun Shang’s water spell and confronted him over Cloud Dream Sect’s destruction of the Zhang Clan.
• Lin Long trapped Yun Shang and two early Fusion Stage elders inside Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, then wounded them with a swift attack.
• Lin Long shattered the ice mirrors and unleashed Extreme Cold Storm, which swept through more than half the sect and killed countless cultivators.

Lin Long turned the Cloud Dream Sect's Cloud Dream Domain against its own cultivators, then joined Gao Ze in destroying the sect. After killing its three Fusion-stage elders and devastating its grounds, Lin Long and Gao Ze escaped through Yomotsu Hirasaka with the three Zhang Clan descendants.

• The Cloud Dream Sect's three Fusion-stage elders unleashed the Cloud Dream Domain to resist Lin Long's Extreme Cold Storm.
• Lin Long froze the clouds and mist created by their domain, turning it into a blizzard that battered the sect and revealed her scheme to use their power.
• Gao Ze arrived after looting the sect and used Gravity Compression to pin down its cultivators alongside Lin Long's Icebound World.
• Lin Long and Gao Ze killed the three Fusion-stage elders, while the Cloud Dream Sect's disciples suffered heavy casualties and its grounds became ruins.
• Lin Long and Gao Ze led the three Zhang Clan descendants away through Yomotsu Hirasaka.

After Cloud Dream Sect was devastated, Qin Lang and Black Tortoise entered Thunder City to strike the Qin Clan. Qin Lang reached the Ancestral Thunder core to prepare his attack, while a Qin Clan cultivator sensed his arrival.

• Great Ascension cultivators found Cloud Dream Sect frozen and ruined, failed to track Lin Long and Gao Ze, and left its surviving Grand Elder behind.
• Mu Yuyi sent Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise into Thunder City and warned them to avoid unnecessary risks against the Qin Clan.
• Qin Lang told Black Tortoise to loot the Scripture Repository while he prepared to attack the Thunder Tower and its Ancestral Thunder core.
• Qin Lang entered the Ancestral Thunder, which flowed around him, and considered combining it with Purple Heaven Divine Thunder to form a Kirin.
• A Soul Fusion Great Perfection cultivator inside the Thunder Tower sensed the disturbance and awoke.

Qin Lang concealed himself in the Ancestral Thunder while Black Zetsu infiltrated Thunder City’s Treasure Pavilion and prepared to steal its remaining treasures. After White Zetsu reported that they had taken items worth about one hundred billion spirit stones, Qin Lang launched his move against Thunder City.

• Qin Lin investigated a disturbance in the Ancestral Thunder but found nothing and turned back.
• Qin Lang hid himself within the Ancestral Thunder, beyond the Qin Clan elder’s perception.
• White Zetsu and Black Zetsu reached the Treasure Pavilion, where Black Zetsu possessed its guard and opened the doors with a lightning rune.
• White Zetsu reported to Qin Lang that they had taken treasures worth about one hundred billion spirit stones and were waiting to take the rest.
• Qin Lang began controlling the Ancestral Thunder, then unleashed the sound of the Bible of the Future across Thunder City.

Qin Lang used the Bible of the Future to disrupt Thunder City and declared that Akatsuki would retaliate against the Qin Clan. When Qin Hun confronted him, Qin Lang unleashed the Thunder God Domain, which began turning the city's spiritual energy into Purple Heaven Divine Thunder and other kinds of lightning.

• Qin Lang's Bible of the Future triggered a soul assault across Thunder City as he announced Akatsuki's warning to the Qin Clan.
• Qin Hun arrived within the Ancestral Thunder and challenged Qin Lang, who refused to back down.
• Qin Lang activated the Thunder God Domain, prompting Qin Hun to spread his Thunderbolt Domain to seize control of the city's spiritual energy.
• Qin Lang's domain transformed the gathered lightning into Purple Heaven Divine Thunder beyond Qin Hun's control.
• Qin Lang's domain continued generating lightning of many colors and types throughout Thunder City.

Qin Lang used the Thunder God Domain to attack Thunder City and overwhelm Qin Hun, who ordered Qin Lin to release the sealed Thunder Breathing Beast. The late Mahayana-stage beast emerged and joined Qin Hun in attacking Vermilion Bird.

• Qin Hun ordered everyone to flee Thunder City after realizing Vermilion Bird's Thunder God Domain could turn lightning into Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.
• Qin Lang's lightning struck Qin Clan cultivators across Thunder City while Qin Hun struggled to defend himself.
• Qin Hun ordered Qin Lin to open the Thunder Tower's seal and release the Thunder Breathing Beast.
• Qin Lin freed the ancient beast, whose appearance halted the lightning throughout Thunder City.
• Qin Hun and the Thunder Breathing Beast launched a fierce attack on Vermilion Bird.

The Qin Clan released the Thunder Breathing Beast to stop Qin Lang, but White Zetsu used the Beast King Seal to take control of it. As the beast ravaged Thunder City, Qin Lang gathered Ancestral Thunder and Purple Heaven Divine Thunder into a Kirin, leaving Qin Hun to face the city’s destruction.

• The Thunder Breathing Beast charged at Qin Lang, while Qin Clan cultivators believed its arrival would let them capture Vermilion Bird and protect Thunder City.
• Qin Lang decided to withdraw, but White Zetsu revealed the Beast King Seal and used it to control the Thunder Breathing Beast.
• White Zetsu ordered the beast to destroy Thunder City, and it killed hundreds of Qin Clan cultivators and wrecked part of the city.
• Qin Hun rushed to stop the Thunder Breathing Beast as White Zetsu warned that his control would last only one incense stick’s worth of time.
• Qin Lang began forming the Immortal Art · Lightning Release: Kirin, gathering Ancestral Thunder and Purple Heaven Divine Thunder while Qin Hun realized Thunder City was doomed.

Qin Lang unleashed the five-colored Lightning Release: Kirin and detonated the Ancestral Thunder, destroying Thunder City before escaping with Black Tortoise and the Thunder Breathing Beast. In Origin Space, Lin Chuan joined Qin Lang and Black Tortoise to suppress the beast so Qin Lang could attempt to subdue it.

• The Thunder Breathing Beast rampaged through Thunder City, killing thousands of Qin Clan cultivators as Qin Hun tried to contain it.
• Qin Lang warned Black Tortoise to prepare an escape route, then sent his Kirin and the Ancestral Thunder crashing down on Thunder City.
• Qin Hun fled, while Qin Lang used Lightning Flash to reach Black Tortoise and escape with the Thunder Breathing Beast through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• The Kirin and the exploding Ancestral Thunder engulfed and destroyed Thunder City, leaving Qin Hun watching from a distance as lightning filled the ruins.
• In Origin Space, Qin Lang tried to subdue the Thunder Breathing Beast, and Lin Chuan helped suppress it with his spiritual energy and the power of the space.
• Qin Lang climbed onto the beast and poured golden and crimson lightning into it.

Faye and Wei Wu attacked the Fang Clan to punish it for helping destroy the Zhang Clan and to warn other third-tier forces against opposing Akatsuki. After Faye battered the clan’s Guardian Array, the pair revealed they were protectors under the Azure Dragon Divine Envoy, and the Fang Clan sent word to major forces.

• Faye and Wei Wu arrived at the Fang Clan and decided to attack before trying to reach its Treasure Pavilion.
• Faye opened the first three gates of the Eight Gates and obliterated the guards at the mountain gate before pounding the Guardian Array.
• The Fang Clan’s three Body Fusion cultivators arrived but held back after sensing the threat from Faye.
• Wei Wu and Faye revealed their identities as protectors under the Azure Dragon Divine Envoy and said they had come to avenge the Zhang Clan’s destruction.
• The Fang Clan’s cultivators alerted major forces, and Wei Wu told Faye to use his domain to break the Guardian Array.

Faye used his Breaking Law Domain to destroy the Fang Clan’s protective formation, while Wei Wu challenged the clan to surrender. As Faye fought Fang Chen, Wei Wu countered the clan’s earth domains by turning much of the clan into a forest and unveiled his Forest Concealment Domain.

• Faye activated his Breaking Law Domain and shattered the Fang Clan’s protective formation with a single punch.
• Wei Wu announced that he and Faye had surrounded the Fang Clan and demanded its surrender, provoking Fang Chen to attack.
• Faye broke through Fang Chen’s rock barrier and pressed his assault, while two mid-Fusion-stage cultivators deployed their Earthwalking Domain against Wei Wu.
• Wei Wu used Wood Realm Descent to grow a vast forest through the Fang Clan, weakening the Earthwalking Domain.
• Wei Wu unfolded his Forest Concealment Domain.

Wei Wu and Faye destroyed the Fang Clan in retaliation for its role in the slaughter of the Zhang Clan. After collecting the clan’s treasures, the two left nearby cultivators to witness the transformed Zhang Clan estate.

• Wei Wu used Wood Realm Descent to merge with the forest and slaughter more than half the Fang Clan’s cultivators.
• Wei Wu explained that Akatsuki would punish those who attacked it, while Faye opened two more gates and killed an early Integration-stage elder with a punch.
• Wei Wu’s forest trapped the Fang Clan cultivators attempting to flee, and Faye killed Fang Chen, finishing the clan’s destruction.
• Wei Wu gathered the Fang Clan’s storage rings and emptied its Treasure Pavilion, collecting treasures worth more than thirty billion spirit stones.
• Nearby cultivators arrived and saw the primeval forest covering the Zhang Clan estate as a black cloak embroidered with red clouds flashed away.

Xiao Heng and Shi Jin infiltrated Mystic Frost Peak and began poisoning its sect grounds with Shi Jin’s Manjusaka-based poison pills. They stopped short of the core area to avoid detection, then headed for the Treasure Pavilion while the poison spread toward the three Mahayana cultivators.

• Mu Yuyi warned Xiao Heng and Shi Jin about Mystic Frost Peak’s three Mahayana cultivators before leaving them in the outer sect.
• Xiao Heng deduced that Shi Jin planned to use poison because they could not fight the Mahayana cultivators directly.
• Shi Jin released a poison pill from a white jade furnace, sending scentless red smoke through the outer area; the poison affected stronger cultivators more severely and spared mortals.
• Xiao Heng used his divination abilities and ever-active domain to guide them through the sect without encountering anyone.
• Xiao Heng stopped at a mountaintop near the core area, where Shi Jin released three more poison pills aimed especially toward the Mahayana cultivators.
• Shi Jin proposed going to the Treasure Pavilion while the poison spread, saying the operation would begin in the time it took an incense stick to burn.

Shi Jin and Xiao Heng infiltrated Mystic Frost Peak’s Scripture Repository and looted its treasures while poison spread through the sect. When three Mahayana Stage cultivators confronted them, Shi Jin released the sacred medicine Manjusaka, causing matching flowers to bloom between the brows of every cultivator on Mystic Frost Peak.

• Shi Jin and Xiao Heng used Xiao Heng’s control over two guards to enter the Scripture Repository, aided by Mu Yuyi’s Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• They collected spirit stones, pills, manuals, and large quantities of Mystic Frost Grass while Xiao Heng identified which treasures they could safely take.
• After the poison had spread through Mystic Frost Peak, Shi Jin and Xiao Heng looted the remaining sealed treasures.
• Three Mahayana Stage cultivators arrived, and Shi Jin released Manjusaka from his pill furnace.
• Manjusaka’s aura reached the entire sect, and identical flowers bloomed between the brows of every cultivator, including the three Mahayana Stage cultivators.

Shi Jin and Xiao Heng used poison made from Manjusaka to cripple Mystic Frost Peak and collect its treasures. They departed through a spatial passage, and Santai’s fearsome name spread across the Central River Continent.

• Shi Jin bloomed Manjusaka, activating poison already inside Mystic Frost Peak’s cultivators and causing many to die as Red Spider Lilies grew on their foreheads.
• Shi Jin and Xiao Heng revealed themselves as Akatsuki’s Santai, while the three Mahayana cultivators tried and failed to suppress the poison.
• Shi Jin intensified the poison, reducing the three Mahayana cultivators’ strength and allowing the Red Spider Lilies to consume the victims’ vitality.
• After waiting for the poison to weaken the three leaders to Nascent Soul stage, Shi Jin and Xiao Heng took their storage rings without a battle.
• Xiao Heng used divination to help them loot several more cultivators, and they left through a Yomotsu Hirasaka passage.

Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper infiltrated Peerless Valley, whose Great Ascension cultivators had gone to help open the realm passage. They followed the sect’s disciples toward Elder Liu, who was preparing to break through, while Northern Dipper sensed that Ghost Hand was nearing its evolution into an immortal artifact.

• Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper entered Peerless Valley to deal with the sect for supporting the effort to open the realm passage.
• Southern Dipper told Northern Dipper that Peerless Valley had a cultivator, Elder Liu, who was about to reach the Great Ascension realm.
• Northern Dipper infiltrated the sect’s core area while carrying the shrunken Nine-Mystic Construction Coffin containing Southern Dipper.
• Peerless Valley disciples hurried to attend Elder Liu’s breakthrough ceremony, unaware that Northern Dipper was following them.
• Meng Jingxian gripped Ghost Hand and sensed that the dagger was close to evolving into an immortal artifact.

Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper launched an assassination during Liu Xuan’s breakthrough to the Mahayana Stage. They shattered the white jade altar and Northern Dipper beheaded Liu Xuan, leaving the gathered Peerless Valley cultivators to face the attack.

• Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper planned to kill Liu Xuan during his breakthrough, with Southern Dipper tasked with holding off the guards.
• Liu Xuan began breaking through as Peerless Valley’s disciples and elders focused on sensing the heavenly dao.
• Northern Dipper crept toward the altar but waited because he sensed it might be protected by a formation.
• At the critical moment, Southern Dipper flew out of the Nine-Mystic Construction Coffin and shattered the white jade altar with his greatsword.
• Northern Dipper flashed to Liu Xuan and cut his neck, sending his head flying.

Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper attacked Peerless Valley, killing its elders and disciples before combining their Bright and Dark domains into the Taiji Domain. They prepared to detonate it and raid the Treasure Pavilion while Liu Xuan was still breaking through.

• Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper killed the cultivator near the Mahayana stage and two late-Fusion-stage elders in a surprise attack.
• Southern Dipper held off two more late-Fusion-stage elders while Northern Dipper slaughtered the surrounding cultivators and disciples.
• Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper deployed their Dark and Bright domains, turning Peerless Valley into a Taiji diagram and killing cultivators caught within them.
• Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper decided to detonate their combined domains and head for the Treasure Pavilion before Liu Xuan finished breaking through.
• Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper merged the Bright and Dark domains into the Taiji Domain.

Southern Dipper and Northern Dipper destroyed most of Peerless Valley and emptied its Treasure Pavilion, leaving the sect in ruins. Kong Chen and Jade Maiden then entered Crimson Flame Sect to rob its Treasure Pavilion and warn the forces that had joined the alliance against Akatsuki.

• Southern Dipper and Northern Dipper detonated their colliding light and dark domains, devastating Peerless Valley while protecting the Treasure Pavilion.
• Southern Dipper and Northern Dipper killed the Pavilion's guards, stole its spirit stones and treasures, and returned to Origin Space.
• The five Mahayana cultivators of Peerless Valley returned to find their sect ruined and its Treasure Pavilion empty.
• Kong Chen and Jade Maiden arrived at Crimson Flame Sect, which had joined the alliance opposing Akatsuki, to make an example of it without killing anyone.
• Jade Maiden explained that her domain and Kong Chen's Red Cherry Karma Fire could counter Crimson Flame Sect's Mahayana cultivator, and the two flew toward its Treasure Pavilion to rob it.