Chapter Summaries

Qin Qi summoned Zuo Ruotong and agreed to learn the Inversion Triple after Tang Jiaren and Tang Shiying explained the circumstances. Zuo Ruotong asked what happened to the Sanyi Sect after his death, and Qin Qi told him the sect was destroyed in its war with Quanxing before Zuo Ruotong asked about Wu Gensheng.

• Qin Qi learned that the system recruited Zuo Ruotong to help him learn from other schools and understand the Inversion Triple.
• Zuo Ruotong questioned whether Qin Qi's Tang Sect would allow him to learn the technique, then listened as Tang Jiaren and Tang Shiying explained Qin Qi's situation.
• Zuo Ruotong agreed to teach Qin Qi and asked what had become of the Sanyi Sect after his death.
• Qin Qi said Sichong and Chengzhen died fighting Quanxing, triggering a bloody conflict between Quanxing and the Sanyi Sect.
• Qin Qi explained that Lu Jin led the Sanyi disciples against Wu Gensheng, the disciples were wiped out, and Lu Jin survived, consumed by revenge.
• Zuo Ruotong asked Qin Qi what became of Wu Gensheng.

After sparring with Zuo Ruotong and discussing his past regrets, Qin Qi earned the Sanyi Sect Leader’s trust and learned the Inversion Triple. He mastered its first stage and received the World Colorless domain as a reward.

• Zuo Ruotong regretted not killing Wu Gensheng, but Qin Qi reminded him that doing so would have changed who he was.
• Qin Qi attacked Zuo Ruotong with Ten Steps, One Kill, but Zuo Ruotong stopped him and explained how the technique worked.
• Zuo Ruotong praised Qin Qi’s skill and compared his potential to Zhang Zhiwei’s.
• For a month, Qin Qi practiced while Zuo Ruotong observed and spoke with him and the others.
• Zuo Ruotong clarified that the Inversion Triple could not make Qin Qi immortal, then began teaching him after Qin Qi said he still wanted to learn it.
• Qin Qi mastered the first stage of the Inversion Triple and earned the World Colorless domain.

Qin Qi adapted to the first level of Inversion Triple, learning to control his Qi-transformed flesh and skin while experimenting with new techniques. After perfecting the first level and celebrating his twelfth birthday with Zuo Ruotong, Tang Jiaren, and Tang Shiying, he asked Zuo Ruotong whether he wanted a successor to rebuild the Sanyi Sect in this world.

• Qin Qi transformed his flesh and skin into Qi, but his first attack left his fist separated from the rest of his body.
• Zuo Ruotong explained how to circulate Qi-transformed flesh and skin, and Qin Qi practiced until his bones and flesh stayed together.
• Qin Qi developed a Three Heads and Six Arms technique and experimented with shaping Qi into needles and using Instant Strike.
• Qin Qi turned twelve and perfected the first level of Inversion Triple.
• Qin Qi celebrated his birthday with Zuo Ruotong, Tang Jiaren, and Tang Shiying, then asked Zuo Ruotong about finding a successor to rebuild the Sanyi Sect in this world.

Qin Qi thanked Zuo Ruotong for teaching him Inversion Triple and promised to help rebuild the Sanyi Sect, then celebrated his twelfth birthday surrounded by friends and loved ones. Meanwhile, Tang San traveled with Xiao Wu to Shrek Academy, where its shabby admissions office and suspicious practices made him question the school’s legitimacy.

• Qin Qi asked Tang Jiaren and Tang Shiying for permission to help Zuo Ruotong rebuild the Sanyi Sect, and both elders supported him.
• Qin Qi, Zuo Ruotong, Tang Jiaren, and Tang Shiying drank together after Qin Qi offered his thanks to the Tang Sect.
• Dugu Yan, Huyan Zhuo, and Weixin surprised Qin Qi with birthday gifts, and Dugu Yan kissed him.
• Tang San left Nuoding City for Suotuo City with Xiao Wu, intending to enroll at Shrek Academy while Xiao Wu planned to attend another school.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San questioned Shrek Academy’s legitimacy after seeing its crude admissions office and hearing a dispute over its nonrefundable fee.
• Tang San paid the registration fee, showed his Spirit Rings, and asked to see the academy license issued by the Heaven Dou Empire.

Tang San chose to study at Shrek Academy while Xiao Wu left for an intermediate academy in Suotuo City. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Qin Qi completed the Inversion Triple’s second stage and resolved to make Dan Shi safer before passing it on.

• The Shrek Academy teachers revealed their Spirit Rings, and Tang San decided to enroll despite Xiao Wu’s suspicions.
• Tang San passed the entrance exam and met Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing, while Xiao Wu declined the academy’s invitation and left for Suotuo City.
• Zuo Ruotong warned Qin Qi that the Inversion Second Stage could cause lasting harm, then explained how he had refined the technique to make it safer.
• Qin Qi compared the Inversion Triple with the Tang Sect’s Dan Shi and decided not to pass Dan Shi down unless he could modify it.
• Qin Qi used the Transparent World to guide his cultivation and completed the Inversion Triple’s second stage.

Qin Qi mastered the second stage of Inversion Triple, and Zuo Ruotong urged him to keep it active to build a foundation for the third stage. As Zuo Ruotong taught him about Primordial Qi and the three elixir fields, Qin Qi realized he had misunderstood the technique’s deeper purpose.

• Qin Qi activated the second stage of Inversion Triple, and Tang Shiying and Tang Jiaren described its extraordinary defensive and restorative powers.
• Zuo Ruotong asked Qin Qi to remain in the second stage at all times so he could strengthen his foundation for the third stage.
• Qin Qi asked whether the second stage transformed essence, energy, and spirit into Qi, and Zuo Ruotong confirmed that it included the body, Qi, and soul.
• Tang Shiying and Tang Jiaren explained that Qin Qi had not studied traditional teachings, so Zuo Ruotong offered to teach him Daoist scriptures.
• Qin Qi accepted Zuo Ruotong’s explanation of the three elixir fields and realized that Three Elixir Reconstruction meant uniting spirit, energy, and Qi to reconstruct the source of Qi.

Tang San discovered that Shrek Academy had few students, little formal instruction, and a dangerous record, but he still believed it offered an elite education. After Ning Rongrong skipped Flender’s assigned laps and challenged his authority, Flender tried to humble her by praising Dai Mubai, and she retorted by recalling the Demon King’s humiliating defeat of him.

• Tang San questioned Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar about Shrek’s classes and enrollment, and Dai Mubai explained that the academy had six current students and only forty-two students across its history, with some failing or dying.
• Flender ordered the students to run twenty laps; Ning Rongrong left to shop in Suotuo City, and Oscar lied that she had completed the run before Flender punished him with extra laps.
• Flender confronted Ning Rongrong about leaving without permission and disobeying orders, while Ning Rongrong mocked his authority and Shrek Academy.
• Flender praised Dai Mubai’s achievements to show Ning Rongrong how far behind she was, but she answered that the younger Demon King had once knocked Dai Mubai down with a single slap.

Ning Rongrong mocked Dai Mubai for his cowardice, and Flender stopped him from killing her before she and Zhu Zhuqing went to see the Demon King’s statue. Meanwhile, Qin Qi realized his natural Spirit-Flesh Unity could let him overcome the key hurdle of Three Elixir Reconstruction, while Tang San and Xiao Wu recognized him at the Great Soul Arena.

• Ning Rongrong provoked Dai Mubai by calling him a coward who had fled from Qin Qi, and Dai Mubai grabbed her by the throat before Flender knocked him away.
• Ning Rongrong declared she would rather choose someone like the Demon King than Dai Mubai, while Oscar overheard her and Zhu Zhuqing silently left.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing shared a dormitory, where Ning Rongrong recounted Qin Qi’s legendary battle and invited Zhu Zhuqing to see his statue at the Great Soul Arena.
• Qin Qi reasoned that turning his body into Qi through Spirit-Flesh Unity could achieve Three Elixir Reconstruction, and Zuo Ruotong, Tang Shiying, and Tang Jiaren confirmed his talent for the Inversion Triple.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing visited Qin Qi’s statue, and Xiao Wu recognized him when she arrived with Tang San, who struggled to accept how far Qin Qi had surpassed him.

Tang San spiraled into jealousy over Qin Qi, while Qin Qi used Divine Spirit to help Zuo Ruotong rethink Inversion Triple and discover a new path for the Sanyi Sect. The chapter ended with Zuo Ruotong embracing the possibility of rebuilding his sect through this revised cultivation method.

• Tang San blamed Qin Qi for surpassing him and wondered whether using the Clear Sky Hammer or Hidden Weapons could prove his talent, while Xiao Wu worried that Grandmaster had twisted him around.
• A year later, thirteen-year-old Qin Qi had reached level sixty and brought up Divine Spirit while discussing Inversion Triple with Zuo Ruotong.
• Zuo Ruotong explained that Wu Gensheng had untied Inversion rather than destroyed it, prompting Qin Qi to propose making the technique increasingly complex instead of returning it to one.
• Qin Qi used Divine Spirit to undo and then restore Zuo Ruotong's Inversion, leading Zuo Ruotong to realize that the third stage could be woven anew into a more complex form.
• Zuo Ruotong called Divine Spirit the foundation for rebuilding the Sanyi Sect, and Qin Qi accepted that the path forward mattered more than knowing whether the third stage had existed before.

Qin Qi endured a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring Heavenly Tribulation and reached the peak of the Inversion Second Stage, awakening a Pure Yang Body as the Datura Snake Emperor transformed into a dragon. He then forced his other Soul Spirits to break through to hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings and faced a stronger tribulation.

• Qin Qi left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and survived nine lightning strikes by relying on his vitality and Inversion Triple.
• Qin Qi used Earth-Wood Flow Power Phantom to restore the Datura Snake Emperor, and they endured the remaining bolts together.
• Qin Qi reached the peak of the Inversion Second Stage and attained a Pure Yang Body, while the Datura Snake Emperor became a golden dragon.
• Qin Qi drew energy from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and raised his second Spirit Ring to a hundred thousand years, beginning another tribulation with the honey badger's Soul Spirit.
• Qin Qi used his Pure Yang Body and Primordial Qi to withstand lightning, then raised the third and fourth Spirit Rings to a hundred thousand years.
• Qin Qi and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear charged into the tribulation with the reluctant Emerald Swan, enduring eighteen lightning bolts as Qin Qi lost half his energy.

Qin Qi raised his five Spirit Rings beyond the hundred-thousand-year mark and condensed a Primordial Qi sixth ring, reaching level sixty-one. After spending a day with Dugu Yan, he told her he was leaving for Slaughter City to temper himself and become strong enough to protect the people he cherished.

• Qin Qi condensed his sixth Spirit Ring from Primordial Qi and used Divine Spirit to make Inversion Triple a passive effect.
• Qin Qi recovered at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, then took Dugu Yan fishing and spent the day playing with her.
• Dugu Yan realized Qin Qi was leaving, and he confirmed he planned to go to Slaughter City for what could be years.
• Qin Qi explained that he needed greater strength to face the Spirit Hall, the empire, and any threats to those he cared about.
• Dugu Yan stopped trying to persuade Qin Qi to stay and kissed him while they still had time together.

Qin Qi reached Slaughter City without drinking the Bloody Mary, stole an identity token, and passed through the city’s defenses unnoticed. His guide led him into the inner city while struggling to understand how someone with no detectable killing intent had entered.

• Qin Qi refused the bartender’s Bloody Mary, vanished from the tavern, and left its patrons convinced he was dangerously powerful.
• Qin Qi slipped past the soldiers beneath the tavern and took identity token 9527 from an officer.
• Qin Qi reached Slaughter City’s gates, where its domain failed to suppress his six Spirit Rings because they had no Soul Skills.
• Qin Qi met a woman who was waiting to guide him, then entered Slaughter City with her and discovered that its toxins could not harm him.
• Qin Qi told the guide he had found the entrance through a kind person, and she remained puzzled by his lack of killing intent as they reached the inner city.

Qin Qi entered Slaughter City and killed his way through the Hell Slaughter Arena, but the killings did not strengthen his Killing Momentum. After a month, he left the arena fighting behind and returned to cultivation, while Tang Shiying, Tang Jiaren, and Zuo Ruotong secretly conferred nearby.

• The Messenger of the King of Slaughter explained Slaughter City's rules and led Qin Qi to the Hell Slaughter Arena, where he killed all nine opponents in his first battle without leaving visible wounds.
• After Qin Qi's protection period ended, attackers surrounded him outside the arena, but he killed them all as he walked toward the Messenger and then left her alive.
• The Messenger inspected the fallen fighters and found no wounds, including on several experienced survivors of past Hell Slaughter battles.
• Over the next month, Qin Qi killed more than a hundred people in arena battles, but his Killing Momentum did not change.
• Qin Qi asked Tang Shiying, Tang Jiaren, and Zuo Ruotong why killing had not strengthened his Killing Momentum, and they could offer no definite explanation.
• Tang Shiying advised Qin Qi to follow his heart, so he returned to cultivation while the three elders whispered among themselves.

After half a year in Slaughter City, Qin Qi had won fifty Hell Slaughter Arena matches without killing his opponents and decided the city no longer helped his training. He attempted to leave, but the King of Slaughter appeared, leaving Qin Qi facing a dangerous fight with Tang Chen, a Level 99 Peak Douluo possessed by the Nine-Headed Bat King.

• Qin Qi completed his fiftieth match by knocking out his opponent, then ignored the black-gauzed referee's demand that he kill the loser.
• Several women tried to approach Qin Qi at a tavern, but they fled when he cracked his wrists and smiled.
• The Messenger of the King of Slaughter warned Qin Qi that the King would kill him if he kept winning, while Qin Qi said he was leaving Slaughter City.
• The Messenger grabbed Qin Qi's wrist to stop him, but Qin Qi slipped free and told her to call the King of Slaughter.
• Tang Chen appeared, and his killing intent turned everyone else in the tavern into blood mist.
• Qin Qi recognized that Tang Chen was a Level 99 Peak Douluo possessed by the Nine-Headed Bat King and felt his Killing Momentum begin to surge.

Qin Qi fought Tang Chen in Slaughter City, enduring his overwhelming strength while using his spirit-beast powers and poison to strike back. As Tang Chen drew the Asura Sword, Qin Qi understood the will behind his Killing Momentum and awakened a purer power, leaving their blades clashing over the city.

• Qin Qi struck Tang Chen with Ten Thousand Strikes in an Instant, but Tang Chen shattered the tavern and blasted Qin Qi through buildings, crippling his arm.
• Tang Chen charged again as Qin Qi unleashed the God of Slaughter Possession, whose towering Killing Momentum intensified Tang Chen’s inner torment and killing urge.
• Qin Qi combined Inversion Second Stage, spirit-beast possessions, and the Ice and Fire Dragons to meet Tang Chen’s hammer, and their clash shook Slaughter City.
• Qin Qi recovered from his injuries while Tang Chen continued attacking despite the poison and transformed his Clear Sky Hammer into the Asura Sword.
• Qin Qi entered the Epiphany State, drew on Bai Qi’s memories, and realized that victory—not slaughter itself—drove Killing Momentum.
• Qin Qi formed blood-red armor and a sword, then clashed blades with Tang Chen as killing intent swept across Slaughter City and its residents relived scenes from their lives.

Qin Qi pushed his Killing Momentum to its third stage and fought Tang Chen, whose battle with him weakened the Nine-Headed Bat King's control. After Qin Qi defeated Tang Chen with the Sword of the Poet Immortal and Slaughter City lay in ruins, Tang Chen recovered and approached the badly injured Qin Qi.

• Qin Qi fused his Killing Momentum phantom into his body and clashed with Tang Chen, whose repeated attacks gradually helped him resist the Nine-Headed Bat King's control.
• Qin Qi used Colorless World to slow Tang Chen's senses, then struck him with the Sword of the Poet Immortal and its fearsome artistic conception.
• The battle destroyed Slaughter City, and Qin Qi collapsed from exhaustion while the Emerald Swan healed only a small part of his injuries before the Soul Spirits returned to the Sea of Consciousness.
• Survivors gathered around Qin Qi but were too frightened by his killing intent to attack him.
• Tang Chen regained his senses, sighed, and walked toward the injured Qin Qi.

Qin Qi helped Tang Chen regain control of himself, then refused the Asura God's inheritance and Tang Chen's offer to make him King of Slaughter. Tang Chen planned to leave Slaughter City, while Qin Qi insisted on returning home.

• Qin Qi kept fighting until Tang Chen recovered his mind and thanked him for bringing him to his senses.
• Tang Chen urged Qin Qi to take the trial on Hell Road and pursue the Asura God's inheritance, but Qin Qi refused and said he wanted to find his own path to godhood.
• Tang Chen was shocked to learn Qin Qi was a fourteen-year-old Spirit Emperor and praised his talent and strength.
• Tang Chen revealed he planned to leave Slaughter City and offered Qin Qi the position of King of Slaughter, but Qin Qi refused and told him to stay and rebuild the city.

Qin Qi persuaded Tang Chen to remain in Slaughter City and keep its fallen inhabitants contained in exchange for treatment. After recovering his strength, Qin Qi restored much of Tang Chen’s life force, and Tang Chen gave him a Clear Sky Sect token as thanks.

• Qin Qi refused to become the King of Slaughter but agreed that Tang Chen should stay and keep Slaughter City in check until a successor appeared.
• Tang Chen doubted Qin Qi would return, so Qin Qi stayed in Slaughter City for several days while he recovered.
• Qin Qi examined Tang Chen and found that his life force, rather than his body, had been depleted.
• Qin Qi and the Emerald Swan restored half of Tang Chen’s life force by reducing his Soul Power and nourishing his body over three days.
• Tang Chen recovered enough to stand and gave Qin Qi a Clear Sky Sect token that could secure the sect’s aid.

Qin Qi learned from Tang Chen how the Clear Sky Sect had fallen into disarray and agreed to carry messages to the sect and Sea God Island. After leaving Slaughter City without taking Hell Road, Qin Qi chose to return to Sunset Forest first and received the reward for completing the Uncrowned King quest.

• Qin Qi told Tang Chen that Tang Hao had fled, the Clear Sky Sect had expelled him and withdrawn into seclusion, and Tang Chen's son had died after Tang Hao's actions.
• Tang Chen condemned his descendants for yielding to Spirit Hall and explained that Qian Daoliu had held back because he feared Tang Chen was still alive.
• Tang Chen gave Qin Qi the Clear Sky Sect token and asked him to tell the sect to stand firm, reconcile with the Four Great Clans, and inform Bo Saixi that he was alive and still remembered his promise.
• Qin Qi left Slaughter City without using Hell Road and decided to return to Sunset Forest before visiting the Clear Sky Sect or Sea God Island.
• Qin Qi completed the Slaughter City: Uncrowned King quest and received the Lord Wu'an Entry reward.

After returning to Sunset Forest, Qin Qi learned that Dugu Yan and the others were at the Spirit Master Tournament and accepted a quest to win the championship. He joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team with Dugu Yan, and their first match against the Elephant Armor Sect began.

• Qin Qi received the Lord Wu'an Entry, which made anyone who feared him lose the ability to fight him.
• Qin Qi found Dugu Yan’s note, learned about the tournament, and received a quest to win its final championship.
• Prince Xue Xing asked Dugu Yan to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team, and she agreed to help it save face.
• Qin Qi returned, greeted Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo, and declared that the tournament’s competitors were all defeated opponents.
• Qin Qi revealed six Spirit Rings and joined Dugu Yan on Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team.
• Heaven Dou Royal Academy began its first match against the Elephant Armor Sect.