Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing unleashed his LV30 Curse Arrow against Li Shang in Fengdu Ghostly City, killing him despite his Laws and defenses. The Fengdu Ghost King captured Li Shang’s Cycle Law, was wounded when the arrow struck back at him, and failed to identify Xu Qing.

• Xu Qing combined the power of his LV30 bow, arrow, and seven other items to fire a Curse Arrow at Li Shang.
• Cang Badao and the powerful factions in Cangzhou sensed the arrow and realized a hidden powerhouse threatened them.
• The Curse Arrow crossed into Fengdu Ghostly City and overwhelmed Li Shang’s Six Paths of Reincarnation, Ghostly Oddity Law, divine abilities, and Law Artifact, killing him.
• The Fengdu Ghost King refined Li Shang’s Cycle Law into a phantom Six Paths of Reincarnation and merged it with Fengdu Ghostly City.
• The Fengdu Ghost King tried to capture the Curse Arrow, but it detonated, pierced his tentacles, and wounded his true body before turning to ashes.
• The Fengdu Ghost King tried to trace the arrow’s owner, but Xu Qing’s LV30 Thousand Faces Mask blocked his attempt.

Xu Qing learned that his LV30 Curse Arrow had killed Li Shang before the Fengdu Ghost King destroyed it, then set out for a Fourth-tier Law Stone Vein in the East Cang Mountain Range. He reached the basin where the Blood Demon Cult Cangzhou Branch had been mining, as Cangzhou’s forces began converging on the site.

• The Fengdu Ghost King questioned Thousand-Faced Consort about Li Shang’s enemies, but she concealed her hatred for Xu Qing because she wanted to kill him herself.
• Xu Qing sensed that his LV30 Curse Arrow had completed its task and concluded that Li Shang had died, though the Fengdu Ghost King had destroyed the arrow.
• Ye Langtian told Xu Qing that forces from Cangzhou Prefecture Capital were closing in on the Law Stone Vein, so Xu Qing prepared to take advantage of the coming battle.
• Xu Qing left Cangzhou Prefecture Capital with seventeen Third Realm servants and traveled into the East Cang Mountain Range.
• Xu Qing and his group encountered a Behemoth: Giant Ape but waited for it to leave before continuing.
• Xu Qing reached the basin above the Fourth-tier Law Stone Vein, where the Blood Demon Cult Cangzhou Branch had already excavated deep into the deposit.

Xu Qing and Ye Langtian infiltrated the Blood Demon Cult’s fourth-tier Law Stone Vein while rival factions clashed with its defenders above. After looting all nine underground warehouses, Ye Langtian said he knew where the top-grade Law Stones were.

• Xu Qing and Ye Langtian spent three days killing eighteen Blood Demon Cult members, then used Xu Qing’s Thousand Faces Mask to take their identities and enter the mine.
• Six affiliated factions confronted Blood Skull Old Demon and five other Blood Demon Cult experts, who trapped them in the Blood Demon Great Formation and began fighting them.
• Xu Qing and Ye Langtian took advantage of the battle to reach the mine’s warehouse, where Xu Qing’s servants killed the guards.
• Xu Qing and Ye Langtian emptied all nine warehouses, collecting many Law Stones, including mid-grade and high-grade stones but no top-grade ones.
• Ye Langtian told Xu Qing that he knew where the top-grade Law Stones were.

Xu Qing secretly mined the top-grade Law Stones from the Fourth-tier Law Stone Vein, triggering an energy imbalance that exposed the theft. He disguised Ye Langtian’s escape as a battle, then overwhelmed Blood Skull Old Demon and the Blood Demon Cult forces, leaving the vein and battlefield under his control.

• Xu Qing had Kaya, Ye Langtian, and his other servants mine all the top-grade Law Stones in the vein.
• Mining the top-grade stones destabilized the vein, alerting Blood Skull Old Demon, True Lord Yan Yun, and the other fighters outside.
• Xu Qing and Ye Langtian staged a confrontation so Ye Langtian’s identity would remain hidden; Xu Qing severely wounded him and pretended to be Yama, a thief fleeing with the Law Stones.
• Blood Skull Old Demon activated the Blood Demon Great Formation and attacked Xu Qing, but Xu Qing’s perfected Divine Ability: Annihilation and Soaring Dragon Sword destroyed the Blood Demon Warrior.
• Xu Qing used his Law Domain and three swords to break the formation and kill Blood Skull Old Demon and every member of his company.

After defeating the enemies at the Fourth-tier Law Stone Vein, Xu Qing returned to the capital and tested how much faster higher-grade Law Stones let him cultivate the Cycle Law. He discovered that his ten thousand top-grade stones could sustain his current cultivation for roughly 27,400 years.

• Xu Qing devoured the origins of Blood Skull Old Demon and the others, but could not absorb their Laws, and his mastery of the Cycle Law remained at fifteen percent.
• The abbots of the Cangzhou Buddhist and Daoist Sects invited Xu Qing to visit, but he refused and left with his seventeen servants; Shi Kong and Ziyang both refrained from pursuing him.
• Xu Qing returned to You Jia Weapon Shop, resumed his Ou Yezi appearance, and reviewed his haul of Law Stones: ten thousand top-grade, thirty thousand high-grade, one hundred thousand mid-grade, and one million low-grade.
• Xu Qing found that a high-grade Law Stone let him circulate the Cycle Law ten thousand times in six seconds, one hundred times faster than a mid-grade stone.
• Xu Qing found that a top-grade Law Stone let him circulate the Cycle Law one million times in six seconds and calculated that his supply would last about 27,400 years at his current rate.

Xu Qing recorded his perfected divine abilities in the Omni-Codex and accumulated experience in the Cycle Law until he reached its cap, then upgraded it to LV5. He left the chapter with greater strength and a newly recorded Hell Reincarnation ability, but his Law Stone consumption had risen tenfold.

• Xu Qing recorded the Annihilation and incomplete Devouring Heavens and Swallowing Earth divine abilities in the Omni-Codex and learned that casting them would earn experience points.
• Xu Qing accumulated 100 billion Cycle Law experience points, reaching the LV4 cap, then upgraded the Cycle Law to LV5 and raised his mastery to twenty percent.
• Xu Qing recorded the perfected Hell Reincarnation divine ability in the Omni-Codex.
• Xu Qing continued practicing the Cycle Law at the same speed, but discovered that his consumption of top-grade Law Stones had increased tenfold.

Xu Qing raised the Cycle Law from LV5 to LV10 during a long seclusion, mastering the Hell Path and Hungry Ghost Path and beginning the Animal Path. After nearly a year, he learned Ye Langtian had mastered the third layer of the Devouring Demonic Art, but Ye Langtian was dragged into Ghostly Oddity: Desolate Village again.

• Xu Qing accumulated experience and upgraded the Cycle Law repeatedly, reaching LV9 and mastering the Hungry Ghost Path.
• Xu Qing concluded that Li Shang had followed a demonic path and that fully mastering the Cycle Law could allow someone to establish a Lesser Underworld.
• After another 180 days, Xu Qing upgraded the Cycle Law to LV10, completely mastering the Hell Path and Hungry Ghost Path and beginning the Animal Path.
• Ye Langtian contacted Xu Qing and reported that he had broken through, mastered the third-layer secret method of the Devouring Demonic Art, and recorded it on a Law Script jade slip.
• Kaya brought the jade slip to Xu Qing, while Ye Langtian was targeted by Ghostly Oddity: Desolate Village and dragged inside again.

Xu Qing recorded and upgraded the Devouring Demonic Art Third Layer Secret Method, then sent True Person Yun Shang to auction a powerful spear and acquire materials for refining an Inner Demon. Yun Tian Auction House arranged the sale, while Anya investigated Yun Shang’s identity and discovered he was really Zhang Feng, an elder of the Yan Yun Sect who had become Xu Qing’s disciple and a Law Forger.

• Xu Qing used the Omni-Codex to record the Devouring Demonic Art Third Layer Secret Method, fuse it with his second-layer method, and begin cultivating it.
• After accumulating experience, Xu Qing upgraded the method to Level 21, learned Divine Ability: Inner Demon, and discovered that refining an Inner Demon required thirteen special materials.
• Xu Qing summoned True Person Yun Shang and ordered him to auction a newly upgraded LV30 spear and use the proceeds to obtain the materials.
• True Person Yun Shang brought the Spirit Slaying Spear to Yun Tian Auction House, where Anya agreed to auction it within three days and arranged the listed materials for one hundred top-grade Law Stones.
• After True Person Yun Shang left, Anya learned from an informant that he was really Zhang Feng, a Yan Yun Sect elder who had become a Law Forger after studying under a master on the first level of Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.

Xu Qing’s Spirit Slaying Spear sold for twenty thousand top-grade Law Stones, drawing attention to him and You Jia Weapon Shop from powerful factions. After True Person Yun Shang returned with the proceeds, a formidable young man appeared above the shop, and Xu Qing revealed that Yun Shang had been followed.

• Anya visited Xu Qing to ask for his help, but he refused and sent her outside You Jia Weapon Shop with a display of overwhelming power.
• True Person Yun Shang attended the Yun Tian Auction House auction, where the Spirit Slaying Spear sold to the guest in VIP Room No. 3 for twenty thousand top-grade Law Stones.
• The auction drew the attention of major Cangzhou Prefecture Capital factions, and You Jia Weapon Shop’s reputation began spreading.
• True Person Yun Shang delivered the remaining nineteen thousand nine hundred top-grade Law Stones to Xu Qing, who praised him for handling the matter well.
• A powerful young man appeared above You Jia Weapon Shop, and Xu Qing told the panicked True Person Yun Shang that he had been followed.

Xu Qing used his Law Domain to defeat Xie Cangfeng and drive away those probing You Jia Weapon Shop, then spent several years cultivating until he mastered Cycle Law and Devouring Law at the peak of the Law Realm. He concluded that reaching the Fourth Realm required mastering 108 Laws, contradicting the Cycle Law’s account of a shortcut through death and reincarnation.

• Xu Qing suppressed Xie Cangfeng with his Law Domain, warned the onlookers not to disturb his cultivation, and sent them fleeing.
• Xu Qing told True Person Yun Shang to focus on artifact refining and promised to make him a formal disciple if he forged a top-grade Nine-Layered Law Artifact.
• Xu Qing refused visitors while You Jia Weapon Shop’s one-a-day sales grew popular, including its increasingly coveted Transcendental Spirit Pattern Artifacts.
• After several years of cultivation, Xu Qing completely mastered Cycle Law and Devouring Law, reaching the peak of the Third Realm and recognizing himself as a Venerable.
• Xu Qing compared the Cycle Law’s proposed path to the Fourth Realm with the Devouring Demonic Art’s records and concluded that a cultivator needed to master 108 Laws before advancing.

After five years of seclusion, Xu Qing fused two devouring abilities into a high-grade Lesser Divine Ability and learned that Qingzhou had declared independence as Qing State under King Ying Tian. A month later, the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom ordered its army and the other eight Marquis Kings, including Cangzhou’s, to invade Qingzhou.

• Xu Qing examined his mastered abilities and discovered that his Devouring Minor Divine Ability contained thirty-six Divine Ability Jade Talismans, making it a mid-grade Lesser Divine Ability.
• Xu Qing used the Omni-Codex to fuse the Devouring Minor Divine Ability with the restored Devouring Heavens and Swallowing Earth ability, creating a high-grade Lesser Divine Ability.
• Ye Langtian told Xu Qing that Qingzhou’s Marquis King Liu Baimei had died, and the Blood Demon Cult-backed Dragon Child had taken the prefectural capital and become King Ying Tian of Qing State.
• Xu Qing learned that King Ying Tian had persuaded the Blood Demon Cult Cangzhou Branch to support an attempt to annex Cangzhou, and he predicted that Great Zhou would crush Qingzhou’s rebellion.
• Emperor Yuanwu Zhou Di ordered the Yuanwu Army, led by Great General Hong Ding Tian, and the other eight Marquis Kings to march into Qingzhou and suppress the rebels; all eight Marquis Kings accepted.

Xu Qing learned that Emperor Yuanwu had mobilized the Yuanwu Army and troops from eight provinces to attack Qing State, then accepted a commission from Yue Yun in exchange for the Law of Life and Death. After delegating the Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box to Zhang Feng, Xu Qing recorded the Law and became able to cultivate it.

• Ye Langtian told Xu Qing that Emperor Yuanwu had ordered the Yuanwu Army and troops from eight provinces to encircle Qing State, while the Blood Demon Cult Cangzhou Branch remained silent.
• True Person Yun Shang delivered twenty thousand top-grade Law Stones to Xu Qing.
• Yue Yun offered Xu Qing the Law of Life and Death and materials for three attempts at forging the Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box, asking him to make it.
• Xu Qing accepted Yue Yun's offer, then handed the materials and forging method to Zhang Feng to refine the box.
• Xu Qing recorded the Law of Life and Death in the Omni-Codex and gained the ability to begin cultivating it.

Xu Qing mastered the first level of the Law of Life and Death while a hidden plot against him took shape. Meanwhile, the Blood Demon Cult used public resentment to weaken Emperor Yuanwu’s Imperial Dragon Qi and corner Zhou Di in the imperial palace.

• Xu Qing upgraded the Law of Life and Death to Level 2, mastered ten percent of the Cycle of Life and Death Law, and gained the Divine Ability: Life Rhythm.
• Yue Yun reported to a mysterious man that she had delivered the final Law to Ou Yezi, and he ordered her to watch Ou Yezi more closely after sensing the Law of Life and Death.
• King Ying Tian’s Qingzhou army fought the Yuanwu Army and Eight Prefecture Allied Army, while the Blood Demon Cult secretly supported Qing State.
• Emperor Yuanwu Zhou Di’s dispatch of Hong Ding Tian and the Yuanwu Army left the imperial palace vulnerable as the Blood Demon Cult unleashed public resentment against the Imperial Dragon Qi.
• The Imperial Dragon Qi’s power to prohibit arts vanished, and the Blood Demon Cult’s elders blocked True Immortal Daoist and the other experts from reaching Zhou Di.
• The Blood Demon Cult Leader attacked Zhou Di with Blood Demon Divine Punishment, leaving the emperor exposed without the Imperial Dragon Qi that had protected him.

Zhou Di and Hong Ding Tian defeated the Blood Demon Cult’s assault, uprooted its headquarters, and crushed Qing State, but the Blood Demon itself remained at large. After learning the Imperial Dragon Qi was failing and chaos would follow, Xu Qing realized the realm’s crisis was only beginning.

• Hong Ding Tian emerged from the ruins and stopped the Blood Demon Cult Leader, allowing Zhou Di to leave the battlefield; he revealed that his apparent mission to Qingzhou had been carried out by a stand-in.
• Hong Ding Tian fought the Blood Demon Cult Leader as the imperial forces battled the cult for three days and nights, destroying its headquarters and killing most of its leaders.
• Hong Ding Tian’s stand-in and the allied armies defeated Qing State and beheaded King Ying Tian, ending the state after three months.
• Zhou Di told Hong Ding Tian that the Blood Demon itself had survived and warned that the Imperial Dragon Qi was losing its power; he tasked Hong Ding Tian with using Army Baleful Qi to protect the realm.
• Xu Qing received Ye Langtian’s report about the Blood Demon Cult’s destruction and concluded that true chaos would soon descend without the Imperial Dragon Qi.

Xu Qing mastered the Law of Life and Death after a month of cultivation, while the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom’s Imperial Dragon Qi vanished and left its people exposed to Odd and Evil Spirits. He discovered that Cangzhou Prefecture Capital had lost its protection as gruesome deaths spread through the city.

• Xu Qing explained that the Blood Demon Cult had used the people’s grievances to drown out the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom’s Imperial Dragon Qi, leaving the realm vulnerable to Odd and Evil Spirits.
• Xu Qing told Ye Langtian that those at the top would handle the crisis, then returned to practicing the Law of Life and Death.
• A month later, Xu Qing completely mastered the Law of Life and Death and considered whether to pursue the Devouring Demonic Art or seek a breakthrough into the Fourth Realm.
• People on Linyun Street found that all 103 residents of the Wu Mansion, including Brotherhood hall master Wu Guomin, had been killed overnight by an unknown force.
• Xu Qing used the Eyes of Law and saw that Imperial Dragon Qi had vanished from Cangzhou Prefecture Capital, leaving it exposed to evil spirits, oddities, and demons.

Xu Qing upgraded True Person Yun Shang’s failed Child Box into a completed Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box and discovered its power to devour nine spirits. Meanwhile, Wang Miao revealed his plan to use the boxes to reach the Ultimate Venerable, and he and his allies arrived to confront Xu Qing.

• True Person Yun Shang apologized for failing to forge the Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box, and Xu Qing took his defective box and remaining materials.
• Xu Qing used the Omni-Codex and Kaya and the others to upgrade the defective Child Box to LV10, repairing its errors and completing it.
• Xu Qing learned that the Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box could consume nine spirits and suspected that Yue Yun was involved in a larger scheme.
• Wang Miao and the Dark Demonic King revealed that they had arranged for peak Law Forgers to craft Child Boxes and planned to use them to help Wang Miao master the 108 Laws and approach the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Miao, Yue Yun, and eight peak Law Forgers arrived at the first tier of the Cangzhou Prefecture Capital, where Xu Qing sensed them approaching.

Xu Qing revealed that he understood the control scheme behind the Law of Life and Death and Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box, but had forged the box to turn the tables on its conspirators. When Yue Yun and Wang Miao trapped him in a Dark Demonic Array, Xu Qing killed and devoured Yue Yun, prompting the Dark Demonic King to recognize the Devouring Demonic Art and order Wang Miao to flee.

• Xu Qing explained that he had detected the hidden connection between the Law of Life and Death and Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box and had cultivated both to make himself the hunter rather than the prey.
• Wang Miao, Yue Yun, and eight peak Law Forgers arrived at Xu Qing’s residence, where Xu Qing showed them the Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box and demanded Yue Yun’s promised reward.
• After Xu Qing mocked Yue Yun about her master and the Marquis King, Wang Miao and the eight Law Forgers raised the Dark Demonic Array around the residence and weapon shop.
• The Dark Demonic King told Wang Miao that Xu Qing might be a Fourth Realm king or might not have forged the box himself, but Wang Miao chose to attack and suppress him.
• Xu Qing killed Yue Yun with Obliteration Lightning, then devoured her origin and absorbed her Supreme Yin Law with the Devouring Heavens and Swallowing Earth Lesser Divine Ability.
• The Dark Demonic King recognized the Devouring Demonic Art and urgently ordered the stunned Wang Miao to flee for his life.

Xu Qing pursued Wang Miao after destroying his Dark Demonic Array and defeating his eight peak Law Forgers. Their battle continued beyond the Cangzhou Prefecture Capital, where Wang Miao was stunned to learn Xu Qing had mastered the Lesser Divine Ability: Tribulation of Life and Death.

• The Dark Demonic King recognized Xu Qing as the inheritor of the Devouring Demonic Art and urged Wang Miao to flee, but Xu Qing destroyed Wang Miao’s array and stopped the retreat.
• Xu Qing defeated Wang Miao’s eight peak Law Forgers with his Six Paths of Reincarnation abilities and Inner Demon, then chased Wang Miao out of the Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.
• Xu Qing intercepted Wang Miao a hundred li from the city and demanded that he hand over the LV30 Heaven Bridge Pill, but Wang Miao refused.
• Xu Qing and Wang Miao clashed with their swords and divine abilities, with Wang Miao’s greater cultivation offset by Xu Qing’s many Laws and techniques.
• Xu Qing struck with the Lesser Divine Ability: Tribulation of Life and Death, leaving Wang Miao shocked that he had mastered it.

Xu Qing subdued Wang Miao after defeating him and exhausting the Dark Demonic King, then spared the remaining peak Law Forgers so Wang Miao could complete his plan to forge the Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box. Seven days after Yue Yun's death, Cang Badao’s investigators found that the vanished peak Law Forgers had all met with the mysterious owner of You Jia Weapon Shop.

• Xu Qing used the Purple Cloud Thunder Talisman and his Law Sword against Wang Miao, forcing the Dark Demonic King to expend his strength and fall into slumber.
• Wang Miao surrendered, swallowed Xu Qing’s Heaven Bridge Pill and Mortal Shedding Pill, and became his loyal servant.
• Wang Miao revealed his background and his ten-year plan to forge the Mother-Child Nine Spirit Box, and Xu Qing released the surviving peak Law Forgers.
• Wang Miao said he needed about a year to reach the Ultimate Venerable level, then offered to copy out his laws of regularity before departing.
• Cang Badao learned that Yue Yun’s Spirit Tablet had shattered and ordered an investigation into her death.
• Seven days later, the investigators found that the peak Law Forgers Yue Yun had visited had vanished, leaving the owner of You Jia Weapon Shop as their remaining lead.

Wang Miao gave Xu Qing twenty-eight Laws before leaving Cangzhou for Qingzhou to seek power and a chance to enter the Fourth Realm. Meanwhile, Cang Badao investigated the missing peak Law Forgers and visited You Jia Weapon Shop, where Xu Qing agreed to meet him.

• Cang Badao learned that nearly all of Cangzhou's peak Law Forgers had vanished and decided to investigate You Jia Weapon Shop.
• Wang Miao gave Xu Qing twenty-eight Law Script jade slips and said he planned to travel to Qingzhou to find peak Law Forgers and pursue the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Miao warned Xu Qing that Cang Badao would come looking into the missing Law Forgers, but Xu Qing remained unconcerned.
• Xu Qing recorded the twenty-eight Laws with the Omni-Codex.
• Cang Badao entered You Jia Weapon Shop disguised as a customer, bought the Giant God Axe, and asked Kaya to arrange a meeting with the boss.
• Xu Qing agreed to meet Cang Badao.