Chapter Summaries

After Ling Tianyue’s death weakened Great Xuan’s National Destiny, Li Xuantong secretly accepted demonic blood from a Demon Saint in exchange for power, while Zhou Qing forced Wind Full Tower to submit. The chapter ended with Zhou Qing accepting Tower Master Feng Xiaotian’s surrender.

• Li Xuantong learned from the Great Xuan Emperor that Zhou Qing had killed Ling Tianyue and ordered the court to watch Zhou Qing without acting rashly.
• Li Xuantong entered the sealed space and negotiated with a Demon Saint who offered him king-level bloodline Essence Blood and ten drops of peak Greater Demon bloodline Essence Blood.
• Li Xuantong accepted the demon Essence Blood and summoned ten True Core Grandmasters of the Imperial House.
• Zhou Qing arrived at Wind Full Tower, whose disciples bowed and whose Tower Master Feng Xiaotian offered its manuals, treasures, and Spirit Nurturing Grade spirit weapon as an apology.
• Zhou Qing told Feng Xiaotian that he was someone who knew the times.

Zhou Qing gathered Xiantian cultivation methods at Wind Full Tower and completed the minor stage of his Primordial Chaos Golden Core before setting out for Imperial Heaven Sect. Meanwhile, the imperial family created eight Blood Demon Grandmasters and prepared to use them against Zhou Qing and Lin Nantian.

• Feng Xiaotian submitted Wind Full Tower to Zhou Qing, who took its Moon Chasing Flowing Wind Wings and asked Feng to gather Xiantian cultivation methods of different attributes.
• Feng Xiaotian spread word that Zhou Qing wanted Xiantian cultivation methods, and forces with grievances against Zhou Qing offered their manuals in hopes of being spared.
• Meng Feng invited Zhou Qing to Imperial Heaven Sect to view its Unity of Man and Heaven Realm manual for the Primordial Chaos True Art, and Zhou Qing agreed to visit after handling his affairs.
• After ten days, Zhou Qing integrated forty-nine kinds of Artistic Conception power into his Primordial Chaos Golden Core, reaching minor completion, and departed for Imperial Heaven Sect.
• Eight of the imperial family's True Core Grandmasters survived refining great demon bloodline essence blood and became Blood Demon Grandmasters; Li Xuantong ordered them to prepare to kill Lin Nantian and Zhou Qing.
• After the eight Blood Demon Grandmasters left, Li Xuantong swallowed Demon King bloodline essence blood to attempt a breakthrough to the fourth level of the Unity of Man and Heaven Realm.

Zhou Qing visited the Imperial Heaven Sect to study the Unity of Man and Heaven chapter of the Primordial Chaos True Art, agreeing to take some of its disciples with him if he entered the Land of the Saints. When he activated the stele containing the art, it recognized his talent and granted him the Martial Saint Mark.

• Chu Linfeng and the Imperial Heaven Sect’s elders welcomed Zhou Qing, who asked to borrow the Unity of Man and Heaven chapter of the Primordial Chaos True Art.
• Chu Linfeng agreed to let Zhou Qing study the art in exchange for him taking several Imperial Heaven Sect disciples to the Land of the Saints if he entered.
• Chu Linfeng led Zhou Qing beneath the Scripture Repository and explained that the chapter was inscribed on a stele that could test his aptitude and grant him a Martial Saint Mark.
• Zhou Qing placed his hand on the stele and circulated his true qi and mind power, triggering an overwhelming aura that forced the entire Imperial Heaven Sect to the ground.
• The stele sent a ray of light into Zhou Qing’s brow, where it formed the Martial Saint Mark before disappearing, and Chu Linfeng recognized it as the stele’s approval.

Zhou Qing gained the Primordial Chaos Creation Art and a Martial Saint Mark, learning that he had to reach the Land of the Saints by his own strength to become the Martial Saint’s disciple. After raising his Primordial Chaos Golden Core to great completion, he underwent Moulting and Bone Rebirth and gained a powerful Primordial Chaos Spirit Body.

• Zhou Qing received the Primordial Chaos Creation Art and a Martial Saint Mark, which held one life-saving measure and required him to reach the Land of the Saints himself.
• Zhou Qing told Chu Linfeng that he needed Dao Law Realm cultivation to open the path to the Land of the Saints.
• Zhou Qing stayed at the Imperial Heaven Sect as its highest-ranking Heavenly Guest Elder and advised its disciples for half a month.
• Zhou Qing spent fifteen Dao Source Points to raise his Primordial Chaos Golden Core to great completion, transforming his Artistic Conception powers to the Domain Transformation Stage.
• Zhou Qing underwent Moulting and Bone Rebirth, gaining Spirit Blood, strengthened bones and organs, and a Primordial Chaos Spirit Body that resisted a Spirit Nurturing Grade weapon.

Zhou Qing began gestating his Martial Dao Spirit and discovered that his Primordial Chaos Golden Core needed an enormous supply of spiritual energy. Meanwhile, three Blood Demon Grandmasters entered Eastern Province to attack the Imperial Heaven Sect and kill him.

• Zhou Qing’s Martial Dao Spirit began gestating, and his body absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy in a massive storm.
• Zhou Qing crushed a thousand Spirit Stones to satisfy his hunger and realized he would need about a thousand each day to nourish his Golden Core.
• Zhou Qing compared his needs with Chu Linfeng’s and calculated that gestating his spirit could consume several million Spirit Stones over ten years.
• Zhou Qing found that his strength without entering Unity of Man and Heaven rivaled his former power in that state.
• The three Blood Demon Grandmasters of the Great Xuan Imperial House arrived in Eastern Province, intending to kill Zhou Qing and wipe out the Imperial Heaven Sect.
• The Blood Demon Grandmasters remained unaware that refining demon Essence Blood was making them increasingly bloodthirsty and could eventually turn them into demons or half-demons.

Three Blood Demon Grandmasters from the Great Xuan Imperial House attacked the Imperial Heaven Sect and revealed their demonic forms. Zhou Qing intervened by trapping them in a colorful domain that cut off their connection to heaven and earth.

• The three Blood Demon Grandmasters arrived at the Imperial Heaven Sect and demanded that Chu Linfeng surrender Zhou Qing or face destruction.
• Chu Linfeng refused to submit to the Great Xuan Dynasty, and the three Grandmasters transformed into demons and attacked the sect.
• The Blood Demon Grandmasters shattered the Imperial Heaven Sect’s protective formation with their combined assault.
• Zhou Qing formed a colorful independent space that blocked the attacks and separated the demons from the power of heaven and earth.
• Chu Linfeng recognized that Zhou Qing had made his move.

Zhou Qing trapped three Blood Demon Grandmasters in his Primordial Chaos Space, overpowered Great Xuan’s Nation Suppressing Spirit Weapon, and killed the three with one punch. He suppressed the azure seal for the Poison Dragon Banner to devour, though National Destiny prevented him from refining it himself.

• Chu Linfeng recognized Zhou Qing’s Primordial Chaos Space, which cut off the Blood Demon Grandmasters’ connection to heaven and earth and suppressed their power.
• The three Blood Demon Grandmasters failed to break the space, so one of them summoned Great Xuan’s Nation Suppressing Spirit Weapon, an azure seal bearing a Dark Bird phantom.
• Zhou Qing shattered the seal’s attack with one hand, then struck the three Blood Demon Grandmasters down with a single punch as they tried to burn their bloodlines and activate the weapon.
• The Poison Dragon Banner devoured the three Grandmasters’ flesh and blood while the Imperial Heaven Sect witnessed Zhou Qing’s victory.
• Zhou Qing erased the azure seal’s spiritual imprint but could not refine it because National Destiny rejected him, so he sealed it inside his shrinking Primordial Chaos Space for the Poison Dragon Banner to devour.

Zhou Qing killed three Blood Demon Grandmasters sent to capture him, earning the top spot on the Heaven Ranking as the Hidden Sects learned that demons had infiltrated the Great Xuan Dynasty. The Profound Yellow Sect agreed to investigate, and one of its experts left its paradise realm for the capital.

• Chu Linfeng explained the ancient demon calamity to Zhou Qing and set out to warn Lin Nantian and the Hidden Sect behind him.
• A Blood Demon Grandmaster killed Shi Jian on the northern border, while Lin Nantian died fighting three Blood Demon Grandmasters in the Yan Kingdom.
• Zhou Qing killed the three Grandmasters sent to capture him and lost the Azure Bird Spirit Seal, prompting Wind Full Tower to rank him first on the Heaven Ranking.
• The Nine Yang Sect contacted the other Hidden Sects, whose leaders agreed that the Profound Yellow Sect should investigate the Great Xuan Dynasty's Blood Demon Grandmasters.
• A tall figure emerged from the Profound Yellow Sect's paradise realm and headed toward the Great Xuan capital.

Li Xuantong killed a Profound Yellow Sect Primordial Spirit grandmaster, sparking a coalition of Hidden Sects against the Great Xuan Dynasty while Zhou Qing continued cultivating. Zhou Qing broke through to the Unity of Man and Heaven Realm, and his breakthrough produced Heaven and Earth Phenomena that left the Imperial Heaven Sect disciples witnessing a rare spectacle.

• Li Xuantong used National Destiny to kill the Profound Yellow Sect grandmaster, raising the Great Xuan Imperial House’s prestige and drawing the Hidden Sects’ attention.
• Chu Linfeng told Zhou Qing that Li Xuantong had won without demonic intervention, while Zhou Qing said he would stay out of the conflict until the Hidden Sects provoked him.
• The Profound Yellow Sect and Nine Yang Sect occupied southern and western provinces and formed a coalition army against the Great Xuan Dynasty, while Zhou Qing continued cultivating.
• Zhou Qing spent a Dao Source Point on the Primordial Chaos Creation Art, gestated his Martial Dao Spirit, and broke through to the Unity of Man and Heaven Realm.
• Chu Linfeng recognized the Golden Lotuses Springing from the Earth phenomenon and urged the Imperial Heaven Sect disciples to refine the spiritual energy golden lotuses.
• Nine heavenly maidens appeared above Zhou Qing’s Martial Dao Spirit as the Heavenly Maid Scattering Flowers phenomenon began.

Zhou Qing broke through to the Unity of Man and Heaven Realm with five Heaven and Earth Phenomena, revealing the potential to become a Martial Saint. Meanwhile, Li Xuantong helped the Demon Saint create a permanent spatial rift, allowing hundreds of powerful demons into the Mountain Sea Realm, and was ordered to retrieve the lost Nation Suppressing Spirit Weapon so the passage could be widened.

• Zhou Qing manifested Golden Lotuses Springing from the Earth, Heavenly Maid Scattering Flowers, Milky Way Falling from the Nine Heavens, and Azure Lotus in a Sea of Fire as he broke through.
• Zhou Qing produced the fifth phenomenon, Ancient God Opening the Heavens Diagram, and Chu Linfeng realized he had the potential to become a Saint.
• Li Xuantong used the Chilong Sword and Great Xuan's National Destiny to shift the World Cauldron and open a permanent spatial rift.
• The Demon Saint sent hundreds of Unity of Man and Heaven Realm demons through the rift, while Li Xuantong watched in shock and despair.
• A black-haired demon learned that Zhou Qing had the other Nation Suppressing Spirit Weapon and ordered Li Xuantong to take it there.

After breaking through to the Unity of Man and Heaven Realm, Zhou Qing comprehended another Artistic Conception and sensed spiritual qi surging across the Mountain Sea Realm. Meanwhile, a Black-Haired Demon arrived at the Imperial Heaven Sect, intending to devour its people.

• Zhou Qing merged his consciousness with his Martial Dao Spirit, comprehended the Artistic Conception of wind, and condensed a Seed of Artistic Conception.
• Zhou Qing sensed the world tremble and spiritual qi grow denser, then told Chu Linfeng that the change extended across a hundred-mile radius.
• Chu Linfeng wondered whether Zhou Qing's breakthrough and five Heaven and Earth Phenomena had caused the spiritual qi resurgence, but Zhou Qing doubted the change was connected to him.
• Zhou Qing concluded that his new strength would let him face whatever upheaval came.
• A Great Xuan Imperial House grandmaster led the Black-Haired Demon to the Imperial Heaven Sect, where the demon threatened to eat its people.

Zhou Qing used four Heaven and Earth Phenomena to defeat and kill the Black-Haired Demon, a Heavenly Being Sixth Layer great demon, and the Poison Dragon Banner consumed the demon’s Primordial Spirit light. After declaring that he would destroy the Great Xuan Imperial House for repeatedly trying to kill him, Zhou Qing flew toward its Imperial Capital.

• The Black-Haired Demon unleashed the Myriad Demons Devouring Souls phenomenon, trapping the Imperial Heaven Sect until Zhou Qing’s Golden Lotuses Springing from the Earth blocked it.
• Zhou Qing added Heavenly Maid Scattering Flowers and Milky Way Falling from the Nine Heavens, weakening the Black-Haired Demon despite the five-minor-realm gap between them.
• Zhou Qing unleashed Azure Lotus in a Sea of Fire, collapsing the demon’s phenomenon and shattering his body and Primordial Spirit with the four phenomena.
• The Poison Dragon Banner devoured the Black-Haired Demon’s Primordial Spirit light after absorbing the Great Xuan Dynasty’s Nation Suppressing Spirit Weapon and becoming its replacement.
• Zhou Qing declared that he would destroy the Great Xuan Imperial House and flew toward the Great Xuan Imperial Capital as Imperial Heaven Sect disciples watched in awe.

After the Black-Haired Demon died at the Imperial Heaven Sect, Li Xuantong sought stronger demonic aid and prepared to crush the Hidden Sects. As demons attacked the Profound Yellow Sect and Nine Yang Sect, an unknown arrival challenged the Great Xuan Imperial House at the capital’s protective formation.

• Li Xuantong learned that the Black-Haired Demon had died at the Imperial Heaven Sect and decided the death had to be investigated.
• Li Xuantong asked the Demon Saint for a stronger demon, and the Demon Saint promised to send a Demon King of the Dao Law Realm once he had prepared the passage.
• Li Xuantong learned that demons had reached the Profound Yellow Sect and were attacking the Nine Yang Sect.
• A violent ripple shook the Imperial Capital’s national protection grand formation, and its citizens gathered to see what was happening.
• A commanding voice announced that Zhou had come to challenge the Great Xuan Imperial House.

Zhou Qing entered the Imperial Capital and killed nine Primordial Spirit great demons with one axe after fusing his five Heaven and Earth Phenomena. He then turned his gaze toward Li Xuantong in the imperial family's forbidden grounds, leaving Li Xuantong gripped by danger.

• Zhou Qing entered the Imperial Capital with the Poison Dragon Banner, scattering the National Destiny and weakening the nation-protecting grand formation.
• Li Xuantong summoned the Demon Saint, who sent nine powerful Primordial Spirit great demons to attack Zhou Qing.
• Zhou Qing created a Primordial Chaos Space that severed the demons' connection to heaven and earth, and they unleashed nine Heaven and Earth Phenomena against him.
• Zhou Qing fused his five Heaven and Earth Phenomena with his Martial Dao Spirit, and the ancient god's axe shattered the demons' phenomena.
• The ancient god's axe killed all nine great demons, and the Poison Dragon Banner devoured their Primordial Spirit fragments.
• Zhou Qing looked toward the imperial family's forbidden grounds, and Li Xuantong felt an unprecedented sense of danger.

Zhou Qing killed Li Xuantong and the demons who had seized power in Great Xuan, then declared the realm’s new national name Great Zhou. He moved to seal the spatial rift with the World Cauldron while the Demon Saint tried to tempt him into letting it descend.

• The World Cauldron repelled the Demon Saint’s attempt to reach through the spatial rift, though the Demon Saint sent Yao Wuhen, a Heavenly Being Ninth Layer great demon, into the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Zhou Qing used the Martial Saint Mark to crush Yao Wuhen, then killed Li Xuantong with his axe while the Poison Dragon Banner suppressed Li Xuantong’s National Destiny.
• Zhou Qing seized the Chilong Sword, absorbed its National Destiny into the Poison Dragon Banner, and renamed the weapon the Human Sovereign Banner.
• Zhou Qing killed Great Xuan’s demon-blooded Grandmasters, declared Great Xuan conquered and renamed Great Zhou, and the officials submitted.
• Zhou Qing entered the strange space and used National Destiny to push the World Cauldron toward the spatial rift, but the Demon Saint offered him power and influence in exchange for letting it descend.

Zhou Qing rejected the Demon Saint’s offer, sealed the spatial rift with the World Cauldron, and was struck with Life Poison. With his lifespan rapidly draining, he planned to reach the Land of the Saints and find a Saint who could cure him.

• Zhou Qing refused the Demon Saint’s temptation to take a Saint bloodline and become lord of the world.
• Zhou Qing used the Human Sovereign Banner and National Destiny to push the World Cauldron into the spatial rift and seal it.
• The Demon Saint sent Life Poison into Zhou Qing, warning that it would consume one year of his lifespan each day and that only a Saint could dispel it.
• Zhou Qing realized he had only a little over two years to find a cure or reach the Saint Realm.
• Zhou Qing recalled that a spatial teleportation array could take him to the Land of the Saints, but it required one million Spirit Stones, so he considered taking control of the Hidden Sects’ resources.

The Nine Yang Sect and Profound Yellow Sect awakened their Mahayana Spirit Weapons to destroy the demons attacking their grotto-heavens. Meanwhile, Zhou Qing founded the Great Zhou Dynasty after overthrowing the Great Xuan Dynasty and was hailed as the foremost person of the age.

• Hundreds of Unity of Man and Heaven Realm demons battered the Nine Yang Sect’s formation until the Nine Yang Sect Master ordered the Mahayana Spirit Weapon awakened.
• The Nine Yang Sect’s disciples offered incense to awaken the Great Sun Burning Heaven Ruler, whose weapon spirit appeared in the form of the founding patriarch.
• The Great Sun Burning Heaven Ruler destroyed the demons attacking the Nine Yang Sect, while the Profound Yellow Seal wiped out the demons assaulting the Profound Yellow Sect.
• Zhou Qing entered the Imperial Capital, killed nine Primordial Spirit Realm demons and Li Xuantong, refined the Nation Suppressing Spirit Weapon, and established the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• The Great Xuan court’s civil and military officials submitted to Zhou Qing, who was acclaimed as the foremost person of the present age among both secular and Hidden Sect grandmasters.

Zhou Qing fused the Chilong Sword into the Human Sovereign Banner and sought Spirit Stones to reach the Land of the Saints, but then went to confront the Hidden Sects occupying Great Zhou territory. He arrived at the Nine Yang Sect and demanded that it withdraw from the southern provinces, leaving a standoff with its Sect Master.

• Zhou Qing fused the Chilong Sword into the Human Sovereign Banner, strengthening it enough to mobilize all National Destiny with power comparable to a Mahayana Spirit Weapon.
• Zhou Qing told his officials he needed one million Spirit Stones, but they said the dynasty could not gather that many.
• After officials asked how he would handle the Nine Yang Sect and the Profound Yellow Sect, Zhou Qing declared he would visit them personally and vanished from court.
• Zhou Qing arrived openly outside the Nine Yang Sect's grotto-heaven, prompting its disciples to discuss his reputation and the sect's Mahayana Spirit Weapon.
• The Nine Yang Sect Master confronted Zhou Qing with the Great Sun Burning Heaven Ruler, and Zhou Qing demanded that the sect withdraw from the southern provinces of Great Zhou.

Zhou Qing confronted the Nine Yang Sect Master over its occupied Southern Region territory, then secured the sect’s cooperation by revealing his five Heaven and Earth Phenomena. The Nine Yang Sect Master agreed to help gather one million Spirit Stones to activate the spatial transmission array to the Land of the Saints, and the other Hidden Sects agreed to contribute as well.

• Zhou Qing demanded that the Nine Yang Sect withdraw from the Southern Region, but the Nine Yang Sect Master refused to give up the occupied provinces.
• Zhou Qing released five Heaven and Earth Phenomena, and the Nine Yang Sect Master changed his stance and offered to merge the sect’s territory into Great Zhou.
• Zhou Qing asked the Nine Yang Sect Master for one million Spirit Stones to activate the spatial transmission array to the Land of the Saints.
• The Nine Yang Sect Master offered to gather the Spirit Stones with the other Hidden Sects in exchange for Zhou Qing guiding them into the Land of the Saints after joining a holy land.
• The Nine Yang Sect Master contacted the other Hidden Sects, and they agreed to gather one million Spirit Stones and activate the array.

Zhou Qing and the Hidden Sect prodigies traveled from the Mountain Sea Realm to the Land of the Saints through a spatial teleportation array. They arrived at the Ten Thousand Realms Hall in Heavenly Fire City, in the Great Yu Dynasty, and found its spiritual energy far denser than that of their homeland.

• The Hidden Sects gathered one million Spirit Stones and sent Zhou Qing and their prodigies through the array, with the others agreeing to follow his lead.
• The array activated, and Zhou Qing and the prodigies vanished as the sect masters hoped he would win a place in a Holy Land and restore the Mountain Sea Realm's standing.
• Supreme Flowing Cloud sensed a super-long-distance teleportation array activate at the Ten Thousand Realms Hall in Heavenly Fire City.
• Zhou Qing and the others appeared in the Ten Thousand Realms Hall and discovered that the surrounding spiritual energy was already comparable to the Hidden Sects' blessed grotto-heavens.