Chapter Summaries

Qing Mo announced that Xia He was leaving All-Nature and challenged the entire organization to face him alone in five days, while the Company debated how to contain the fallout. His life-extending pills were proven genuine, causing a frenzy among otherworlders as the challenge drew near.

• All-Nature members threatened Qing Mo over Xia He's departure, and Lu Jin publicly pledged the Lu Family's support for him.
• Qing Mo challenged all of All-Nature to meet him on the Northwest grasslands in five days and gave life-extending pills to the Heavenly Master, Lu Jin, and Feng Zhenghao as payment for witnessing.
• Qing Mo explained to Feng Shayan that the Company had little grounds to intervene and that the Heavenly Master and Lu Jin could protect Feng Zhenghao if necessary.
• At Company headquarters, Zhao Fangxu ordered the Heavenly Master and the pill recipients to persuade Qing Mo to abandon the challenge, while regional heads prepared temporary workers and increased security.
• Lu Jin and Feng Zhenghao took the pills and visibly grew younger, prompting crowds of otherworlders to rush to visit them.

Qing Mo took Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan to an isolated island, revealed his origins to Feng Shayan, and trained all three women in cultivation. After four days there, he brought them to the grasslands for his promised fight against All-Nature, where the gathered factions watched Xia He reunite with Xia Liuqing.

• Qing Mo brought Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan to an isolated island and told them he would teach them to cultivate.
• Qing Mo showed Feng Shayan memories of his origins, and she eagerly asked to cultivate alongside Chengcheng and Xia He.
• Qing Mo gave Xia He and Feng Shayan medicinal baths, then trained all three women on the island for four days.
• Qing Mo rejected Chengcheng’s request to fight All-Nature in his place and brought the women to the grasslands to await the gathering.
• Lu Jin, seven of the Ten Elders, sect leaders, and Company representatives arrived, followed by Xia Liuqing, Ding Shian, and hundreds of All-Nature members.
• Xia He approached Xia Liuqing and told him she had left All-Nature because Qing Mo was the person she wanted to entrust herself to.

Qing Mo effortlessly defeated Ding Shian in their challenge, then faced the fourteen remaining All-Nature fighters. He revealed a hundred-meter golden dharma manifestation, leaving the fighters and spectators stunned as the battle began.

• Xia He and Xia Liuqing agreed that the rules governing her departure from All-Nature would still stand, while Qing Mo invited the group to challenge him.
• Ding Shian attacked Qing Mo, who shrugged off his punch and then overwhelmed him with a one-sided beating.
• The old Celestial Master told Lu Jin that Qing Mo had defeated him in two moves, and the fourteen remaining All-Nature members stepped forward to fight.
• Qing Mo offered to demonstrate Golden Light's dharma manifestation for Zhang Lingyu and summoned a towering golden giant that dwarfed the fourteen fighters.
• Lü Ci watched Qing Mo's display and regretted that Qing Mo could not be named Lü Mo.

Qing Mo overwhelmed All-Nature with his Golden Light Mantra and hand-to-hand skill as he fought to secure Xia He's freedom. After revealing the Golden Giant Finger, he left even the stubborn Ding Shian with no choice but to admit defeat.

• Qing Mo challenged All-Nature, then used his enormous golden-body dharma form to withstand the group's attacks while observers, including Zhang Zhiwei and Zhang Lingyu, studied his technique.
• Ding Shian recovered and charged Qing Mo again, while hundreds of All-Nature members joined the attack without harming the golden-body dharma form.
• Qing Mo dismissed the dharma form and defeated several hundred All-Nature members in under three minutes without getting injured.
• Ding Shian and Tu Junfang agreed to let Xia He leave All-Nature but said they had not admitted defeat, and Tu Junfang asked to see Qing Mo's Golden Giant Finger.
• Qing Mo summoned the enormous Golden Giant Finger, terrifying everyone present, and Ding Shian finally admitted defeat.

Qing Mo defeated All-Nature and secured Xia He's departure from the group, leaving her free from retaliation. Lü Ci then used a distant genealogical connection to claim Xia He as his adopted great-granddaughter, and Qing Mo told her she could accept.

• Qing Mo forced the remaining All-Nature members to concede, and Xia Liuqing agreed that Xia He could leave without being harassed.
• Lu Jin congratulated Qing Mo and gave Xia He a jade-green pendant, while the Old Celestial Master explained the protection that respectable backing could offer her.
• Lü Ci arrived with a genealogy book and argued that Xia He was distantly related to the Lü Family.
• Lü Ci offered to adopt Xia He as his great-granddaughter so the Lü Family could support her.
• Xia He looked to Qing Mo for guidance, and he told her she could accept Lü Ci's offer.

Qing Mo revealed Lü Ci’s role in the war against the Bikou Ninjas and told him where to find the remains of Ying Tai, the man who killed Lü Ci’s brother. Lü Ci, Tang Xin, Xia He, and the Lü and Tang families reached the hidden cave, where Xia He broke the demon blade and released smoke filled with figures from the elders’ past.

• Qing Mo explained that Lü Ci’s elder brother died fighting the invaders and that Ying Tai escaped after a deadly battle at Heaven-Piercing Hollow.
• Qing Mo told Lü Ci that Ying Tai had died decades earlier and that the Bikou Ninja remnants and their bloodlines had perished when the Japanese islands sank.
• Qing Mo gave Lü Ci a map to the cave, asking him to destroy Ying Tai’s remains and bury the nearby man, while Xia He destroyed the demon blade Leech Maru.
• Xia He carried Lü Ci, Tang Xin, and their companions to the cave at Hollow Mountain, where they found Ying Tai’s remains and the other skeleton.
• Xia He resisted the blade’s spirit, snapped Leech Maru in two, and watched black smoke emerge with figures familiar to Lü Ci and Tang Xin.

Qing Mo met Qu Tong at the Shining Star Society and revealed that he came from the Sky Jade Divine Domain, where beings far surpassed what this world called immortals. He also asked Qu Tong to stop manipulating Ma Xianhong, leaving her to contemplate Qing Mo’s eventual departure from this world.

• Qing Mo told the Old Heavenly Master and Lu Jin that he had destroyed Japan and exterminated its descendants, then left with Chengcheng and Feng Shayan before Chen Jinkui could speak with him.
• Feng Zhenghao dealt with a flood of visitors to the World Association, while Feng Shayan privately met with Feng Zhenghao and Feng Xingtong; meanwhile, the company ordered regional temporary workers to capture Chen Duo and secretly aimed to reach Ma Xianhong.
• Qing Mo met Qu Tong alone and warned that she would die if she insisted on learning certain secrets before their time.
• Qing Mo asked Qu Tong to stop manipulating Ma Xianhong, and she agreed to consider his request in exchange for learning where he came from.
• Qing Mo told Qu Tong he had come from the Sky Jade Divine Domain and explained the difference between gods, immortals, and the beings of this world.
• Qu Tong learned that Qing Mo had empowered Xia He, Director Cheng, and Feng Shayan, and that he regarded this world as only a stop on his journey.

Qing Mo rejected Qu Tong's request to become his disciple, then revealed a route to another world and a chance for her to seek cultivation herself. After leaving the Shining Star Society, he reunited with Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan and planned a countryside outing.

• Qing Mo told Qu Tong that he could hear thoughts and had long surpassed gods and immortals, but refused to help her cultivate because her modified body was no longer human.
• Qu Tong tried to persuade Qing Mo to stay by offering to abandon Ma Xianhong's plans and hinting that she could expose his secrets, but Qing Mo sealed her qi and made her open the office door.
• Qu Tong begged to learn about other worlds, and Qing Mo explained the lower realms and gave her directions to a passage near the Gate of Hell on Mount Kunlun, along with clues to a key hidden in Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley.
• After Qing Mo left, Qu Tong regained control of her body and chose to consider the opportunity rather than pursue him.
• Qing Mo found Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan at the mall, praised their new manicures, and suggested they visit a scenic countryside retreat.

Qing Mo arrived at Azure Wander Village with Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan, where Ma Xianhong welcomed him while Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing debated Ma’s plans to make everyone supernatural. Qing Mo’s fame drew a crowd of admirers, and after meeting Zhang Chulan and the other temps, he settled into a secluded cabin with the three women.

• Qing Mo, Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan approached Azure Wander Village, and Qing Mo criticized Ma Xianhong’s idealistic plan to spread supernatural abilities to everyone.
• Ma Xianhong tried to persuade Wang Ye to support his plan, but Wang Ye rejected it before Qing Mo arrived and accepted Ma’s invitation to visit.
• Zhuge Qing joined Qing Mo’s group after Qing Mo agreed to give him guidance, while Wang Ye grew irritated at Zhuge Qing’s eagerness.
• Otherworlders recognized Qing Mo as the new supreme expert, asked for his autograph, and crowded around him seeking to become his disciples.
• Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, Benefactor Xiao, and the other temps encountered Qing Mo, then Ma Xianhong arranged accommodations for the visitors.
• Ma Xianhong led Qing Mo and the three women to a secluded cabin, and Qing Mo entered with a predatory look after Ma left.

Qing Mo spent the morning in Biyou Village with Zhuge Qing, where he declined Er Zhuang’s request to meet her grandfather and kept his plans for the village private. After breakfast, Fu Rong asked Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan how to achieve their figures, and they invited her to join their mountain outing.

• Qing Mo met Zhuge Qing and agreed to have breakfast with him while the others slept.
• Er Zhuang thanked Qing Mo for saving her and asked him to meet her grandfather, but he declined and urged her to use her abilities to benefit the country.
• Zhang Chulan asked Qing Mo why he had come to Biyou Village, and Qing Mo refused to explain beyond saying he had other things planned.
• Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan arrived and said they planned to explore the nearby mountains while Qing Mo stayed to look around the village with Zhuge Qing.
• Qing Mo and the others ate breakfast prepared by Fu Rong, who later asked Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan how to develop curves like theirs.
• Chengcheng invited Fu Rong to join their mountain outing, and Fu Rong eagerly offered to lead the way.

Qing Mo taught Zhuge Qing restriction techniques and formations during their walk, then met Chen Duo, the Gu Body Holy Child he had come to save. He told her he was not there to capture her and could give her the right to choose.

• Zhuge Qing asked Qing Mo why he could not reproduce the restriction techniques, and Qing Mo explained the need for precise qi control and a settled mind.
• Qing Mo teased Zhuge Qing about his feelings for Fu Rong, then demonstrated a trapping formation and taught him its basic components and practice methods.
• Qing Mo gave Zhuge Qing a modified array disk, and Zhuge Qing planned to practice and share what he had learned with his family.
• Qing Mo approached Chen Duo and showed that Chen Junyan, the dog at her feet, obeyed his commands.
• Chen Duo asked whether Qing Mo was from the Company and had come to capture her, and he said he had come to help by giving her the right to choose.

Qing Mo offered Chen Duo the chance to become an ordinary person and choose her own future, then told Lao Meng and the other Temp Workers that she was under his protection. He left Chen Duo to decide overnight while declaring that her conflict with the company was over.

• Qing Mo reminded Chen Duo that she could choose freely and promised to remove her Gu poison, giving her one night to decide whether to become an ordinary person.
• Chengcheng, Feng Shayan, Xia He, and Fu Rong returned from the mountains with food, and Qing Mo spent the evening with them before visiting the Temp Workers.
• Qing Mo traded two Life-Extending Pills to Wang Zhenqiu for his secret technique, Love Massage.
• Qing Mo told Lao Meng that Chen Duo was under his protection and would no longer be treated as the Sacred Child of the Gu Body.
• Qing Mo gave Lao Meng Alchemy Quotations as compensation for Liao Zhong's death and declared that the matter between Chen Duo and the company was over.
• Xiao Zizai comforted Lao Meng, who accepted that Qing Mo was the only person able to keep Chen Duo safe.

Qing Mo fought Xiao Zizai in a remote wilderness, overwhelming him but leaving his injuries temporary. After returning to Azure Wander Village, Qing Mo told Zhang Chulan that the company’s chairman knew Feng Baobao’s secret and revealed that Wugen Sheng’s real name was Feng Yao.

• Qing Mo teleported the temporary workers ten kilometers from Azure Wander Village, where Xiao Zizai attacked him for the sparring match they had arranged.
• Qing Mo easily deflected Xiao Zizai’s attacks, then battered him with increasingly powerful techniques until Xiao Zizai passed out from exhaustion.
• Qing Mo assured the others that Xiao Zizai would recover after a few days and transported everyone back to Azure Wander Village.
• Qing Mo asked Zhang Chulan to accompany him and said Chairman Zhao already knew Feng Baobao’s identity and would help protect her secret.
• Qing Mo confirmed that he knew Feng Baobao’s identity and revealed to Zhang Chulan that Wugen Sheng’s real name was Feng Yao.

Qing Mo told Zhang Chulan that Feng Baobao was related to Wugen Sheng and explained the Qi Infant, then shared his view of Ma Xianhong’s plans. He removed Chen Duo’s primordial gu, helped her begin an ordinary life, and arranged for the Lu Family to care for her.

• Qing Mo confirmed Zhang Chulan’s guess that Feng Baobao was related to Wugen Sheng and told him the Qi Infant could neutralize abilities fueled by Qi.
• Qing Mo said Ma Xianhong’s ideas were naive, promised not to interfere with the mission, and urged Zhang Chulan to avoid deaths and try to persuade Ma.
• Chen Duo chose to become an ordinary person, and Qing Mo let her select the blue bead and wooden tub for the painless treatment that removed her primordial gu.
• Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan stayed with Chen Duo as she healed, then took her shopping so she could make choices and enjoy an ordinary day.
• Qing Mo brought Chen Duo to Lu Jin, who welcomed her into the Lu Family and promised to protect her; Qing Mo also brought her dog, Chen Junyan, to her.

Qing Mo taught Ma Xianhong about formations while Zhuge Qing confided in Fu Rong, whose figure had changed after using a secret formula. That night, the company’s temporary workers launched their operation against Azure Wander Village, and the chapter ended with the village ablaze as Qing Mo watched Feng Baobao set fires.

• Qing Mo told Ma Xianhong that Chen Duo had chosen to become an ordinary person, then agreed to teach him about formations in exchange for the meals and lodging he had received.
• Fu Rong showed Wu Kui how her figure had changed, and Zhuge Qing later paid Wu Kui to leave them alone so he could discuss the Inner Landscape with Fu Rong.
• The temporary workers began their raid: Xiao Zizai pursued Zhao Guizhen, Zhang Chulan targeted the Self-Cultivation Furnace, and the others provided support.
• Wang Zhenqiu drew Wu Kui and other Outsiders after him, then used Liu Wukui's brother to stop her and struck a masked woman with a numbing technique that sent the crowd surging toward him.
• Xiao Zizai intercepted Zhao Guizhen in the forest, and Zhao Guizhen revealed his Seven Baleful Forces Gathered Body technique as they fought.
• Qing Mo watched from above as Feng Baobao ran across the rooftops with Molotov cocktails, while Chou Rang had been defeated by Feng Baobao and Lao Meng and the village burned.

Wang Ye fought Jin Yong and his Ruhua constructs while Qing Mo watched from the sidelines, then Zhou Sheng revealed himself and taught Wang Ye the proper way to use the Wind Empress Strange Gate. The chapter ended with Wang Ye beginning to grasp the technique but asking how to set its Central Palace in his heart, prompting Zhou Sheng to hit him again.

• Jin Yong confronted Wang Ye over his brother’s defeat and unleashed more than a hundred Ruhuas from his Devourer Pouch.
• Qing Mo refused to take sides and watched as Wang Ye used Blazing Prison to catch Jin Yong in his Strange Gate formation.
• Qing Mo exposed the Ruhua disguise, and Zhou Sheng revealed himself as the creator of the Wind Empress Strange Gate.
• Zhou Sheng rebuked Wang Ye for using the technique incorrectly, and Qing Mo explained that its Central Palace should be set within the practitioner’s heart.
• Wang Ye realized that the heart was the proper Central Palace, then asked how to set it there and received another slap from Zhou Sheng.

Zhou Sheng taught Wang Ye how to master the Wind Empress Strange Gate and then left to seek out old companions, while Qing Mo declined to join Wudang. At Azure Wander Village, Fu Rong’s debts and romantic past were exposed, Chengcheng gave her money, and Wang Ye beat Zhuge Qing until he agreed to leave the village.

• Zhou Sheng instructed Wang Ye to treat his body as a Strange Gate formation and make himself its king, then accepted Qing Mo’s two Life-Extending Pills after Qing Mo refused to join Wudang.
• Zhou Sheng asked Qing Mo where to find his old brothers, and Qing Mo answered, “Nasen Island,” before Zhou Sheng transformed into a bird and flew away.
• Lao Meng showed Fu Rong records of her overdue loans and failed romances, prompting Chengcheng to give her eight million and tell her she did not need to repay it.
• Wang Ye arrived carrying the unconscious Jin Yong, then attacked Zhuge Qing and pinned him to the ground.
• Zhuge Qing said he would leave Azure Wander Village, and Wang Ye stopped beating him while pretending he had been too rash.

Wang Ye joined the fight against Ma Xianhong as the company’s temporary workers battled to capture him, while Zhang Chulan’s Qi Infant awakened and revealed the power of Qi Body Origin Flow. Ma Xianhong eventually agreed to join the company, and after more than a year touring the world, Qing Mo returned to the Divine Realm with Chengcheng and the others.

• Wang Ye left Lao Meng with the unconscious Jin Yong and hurried to help Zhang Chulan and the others confront Ma Xianhong in Azure Wander Village.
• Xiao Zizai revealed that he had killed Zhao Guizhen, and Qing Mo explained that Zhao Guizhen had murdered seven people; the transformed villagers fled as Ma Xianhong learned the truth.
• Ma Xianhong fought the company’s temporary workers while Zhang Chulan attacked the Self-Cultivation Furnace, triggering the Qi Infant inside him to destroy the furnace and its puppets.
• Qing Mo explained that Qi Body Origin Flow could return qi-based abilities to their primitive state, then persuaded Ma Xianhong to surrender and accompany Zhang Chulan and Wang Ye to the company.
• Ma Xianhong joined the company as an artificer, while Qing Mo spent over a year traveling with Chengcheng and the others before returning to the Divine Realm.

Qing Mo brought Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan to the Sky Jade Divine Domain, where they cultivated for several years before asking to explore. He assigned Angel Leng and Haruhara Ikumi to guide them, and Angel Leng introduced the group to her own version of the “Three Daily Reflections on Myself” before promising to take them out the next day.

• Qing Mo brought Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan to his courtyard in the Sky Jade Divine Domain and introduced them to Da Bai, Little Tail, and Yinzi.
• Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan cultivated for several years and then asked Qing Mo to let them explore the Divine Realm.
• Qing Mo summoned Angel Leng and Haruhara Ikumi and asked them to accompany the three newcomers on an expedition.
• Angel Leng and Haruhara Ikumi welcomed Chengcheng, Xia He, and Feng Shayan into the family.
• Angel Leng explained that their three daily reflections were whether they were too good-tempered, too kind, or ready to kill someone, and said she had learned the rule from the Heavenly Base King.
• Angel Leng and Haruhara Ikumi promised to take the three newcomers out the next day, while Angel Leng asked Qing Mo to practice with her.

Qing Mo helped Yu Zhengqian accept a dangerous Lost Soul Abyss mission by explaining how to evade its demonic trees, then traveled to Wenqi City. The chapter ended with Qing Mo choosing the gate that required entrants to leave an original piece of writing.

• Qing Mo met Yu Zhengqian at the Mission Pavilion, where Yu Zhengqian accepted a mission to retrieve vines from the demonic trees in Lost Soul Abyss for Dragon Soul Grass.
• Qing Mo told Yu Zhengqian to take a Yang-Dispelling Pill, seal his cultivation, and disguise himself with foul-smelling mud so the creatures would mistake him for a dead object.
• Qing Mo and Yu Zhengqian saw Jun Zile escorting the Divine Maiden Yun Zhiyi through the Mission Pavilion, and Yu Zhengqian asked Qing Mo to keep his plan secret.
• After completing a mission, Qing Mo arrived at Wenqi City and learned that it was governed by Heavenly Billows Academy, where Confucian Dao practitioners cultivated literary qi.
• Qing Mo approached the city’s right-hand gate and learned that entrants had to leave an original poem, verse, lyric, or essay to enter.