Recaps

Chen Qiu rescued the Seventh Prince from the Chen Family and destroyed the clan after learning they had imprisoned and tortured his disciple out of resentment. He offered to take the Seventh Prince to the Vast Continent, but the prince chose to stay on the Mystic Heaven Continent, so Chen Qiu issued a Heavenly Dao Edict warning others not to harm him.

• Chen Qiu left the Heavenly Hall after learning that a Golden Core cultivator had disappeared inside the Trait Prize Pool.
• The Seventh Prince contacted Chen Qiu from a dungeon, explained that the Chen Family had captured him, and received healing pills from his master.
• Chen Qiu confronted the Chen Family, where Chen Pingde admitted that he had attacked the Seventh Prince out of resentment toward Chen Qiu.
• Chen Qiu killed the Chen Family after they refused to spare his disciple, then asked the Seventh Prince whether he wanted to go to the Vast Continent.
• The Seventh Prince chose to remain on the Mystic Heaven Continent and explained how a Heavenly Dao Phenomenon had helped him escape Great Xia Kingdom.
• Chen Qiu issued a Heavenly Dao Edict warning that anyone who killed his disciple would bring their entire province to ruin.

Chen Qiu finished nearly a year of seclusion, reached Peak Void Refinement, and prepared to leave the Celestial Palace after its Spirit Stones ran out. As he emerged, a massive accumulated Void Refinement tribulation descended, while Ao Tian worried that he could no longer keep pace with him.

• Chen Qiu gave the Seventh Prince a storage ring filled with cultivation resources, then returned to the Vast Continent and resumed cultivating.
• After several more months, Chen Qiu completed his breakthrough to Peak Void Refinement, and the Celestial Palace’s Spirit Stones ran out.
• Fat Dragon gathered the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples’ cultivation progress, while Ao Tian told Chen Qiu he planned to return to the Dragon Race’s main lineage after the Province-Land Shackles disappeared.
• Chen Qiu reassured Ao Tian that he wanted him to stay, but a combined Void Refinement tribulation suddenly gathered above the Celestial Palace.
• Chen Qiu flew away from the Celestial Palace to face the tribulation as the Brown Bears watched from the rear courtyard.

Chen Qiu endured a barrage of accumulated heavenly tribulations, then began breaking through to the Body Integration Realm. His tribulation clouds grew so terrifying that nearby creatures fled, while the observers at the Celestial Palace wondered whether he could survive.

• Chen Qiu weathered lightning, wind, fire, and Heart-Demon Tribulations, strengthening his Lightning-Channeling Art before returning to the Celestial Palace.
• Chen Qiu reviewed his traits and methods, then decided to begin his Body Integration breakthrough as Fat Dragon and the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples watched.
• A vast, overwhelming tribulation gathered over the Celestial Palace, driving nearby creatures—including the Tree-Demon Clan—to flee.
• Chen Qiu ate an Eight Desolations Fruit while the Sky Axe Sect's sect master arrived and realized the earlier tribulations had only been an appetizer.
• Fat Dragon expressed confidence in Chen Qiu, but Ao Tian warned that the tribulation could kill even a Body Integration Late Stage cultivator, prompting the onlookers to step back.

Chen Qiu endured the First-Rank Heaven-Slayer Thunder Tribulation, surviving its nine increasingly powerful strikes before the final bolt left him unconscious and near death. His companions learned that ranked tribulations could accompany a continent advancing in grade, while the Heavenly Dao announced Chen Qiu’s achievement and rewards.

• Chen Qiu returned to the Celestial Palace entrance, took the Demon-Subduing Pagoda, and drew the tribulation clouds away from the others.
• Chen Qiu used five Fourteenth-Grade Void Refinement Domains, the Lightning-Channeling Art, and cultivators released from the Demon-Subduing Pagoda to withstand the early tribulations.
• Chen Qiu activated the Body-Magic Conversion trait and survived the sixth, seventh, and eighth strikes as the tribulation added Wind and Fire Tribulations.
• The ninth strike overwhelmed Chen Qiu, and the Heavenly Dao announced that he had overcome the First-Rank Heaven-Slayer Thunder Tribulation, granting him fortune and a temporary Rainbow Trait.
• Ao Tian explained that ranked Heavenly Tribulations could occur when a continent advanced in grade, and Fat Dragon and the others found Chen Qiu unconscious in a crater, gravely wounded and clutching his broken Heavenly Secrets Umbrella.

After Chen Qiu survived a devastating Heavenly Tribulation, the Sky Axe Sect Master staged an attack to earn merit and protect his chance to follow Chen Qiu to the Third-Grade Continent. Chen Qiu awoke after ten days and discovered that the tribulation had earned him two Rainbow Traits, leaving him confident about the coming battle for the Sole King.

• Star Dipper stabilized Chen Qiu's injuries, while the Sky Axe Sect Master secretly summoned an attacker to exploit the Mocking Heaven Sect's vulnerable moment.
• Ao Tian stopped Fat Dragon and Star Dipper from risking themselves, but the Sky Axe Sect Master arrived and killed the masked attacker with his Fourth Axe; Fat Dragon and Scholar then exposed that the attack had been staged.
• The Sky Axe Sect Master admitted his plan and explained that his friend had survived by swapping places with a Void Refinement Avatar; Fat Dragon agreed to speak in his favor to Chen Qiu.
• The Sky Axe Sect Master guarded the Celestial Palace for ten days until Star Dipper announced that Chen Qiu had awakened.
• Chen Qiu reviewed the damage from the ninth Thunder Tribulation and learned that Heavenly Dao Trait Sets increased tribulation power.
• Chen Qiu received two wisps of Peerless Fortune of Heaven's Chosen, two wisps of Heavenly Dao Fortune, and two randomly selected one-year Rainbow Traits, and felt confident about the battle for the Sole King.

After recovering enough to inspect his gains from the Heaven-Slayer Thunder Tribulation, Chen Qiu discovered two limited-time Rainbow Traits: Thousandfold Spellcasting and Great Fortune Approaches. He planned to use Great Fortune Approaches to strengthen his Traits and accelerate his cultivation, while considering how to send Liu Zide and the others across continents without his constant supervision.

• Chen Qiu inspected Thousandfold Spellcasting, which made every spell he cast fire one thousand additional times at no cost.
• Chen Qiu discovered Great Fortune Approaches, which granted him 100 chances to reshuffle Traits and shortened his cultivation progress by 50%.
• Chen Qiu realized he needed Spirit Stones and faster cultivation to make the most of the limited-time Trait, and planned to bring Liu Zide and the others back before sending them to another continent.
• Chen Qiu considered finding a secretary and a way for Liu Zide and the others to travel between Lower-Rank Continents on their own.
• Chen Qiu noticed that the Thunder Tribulation had raised Little Ant's cultivation to Foundation Establishment, allowing him to use Oxen and Horses in Herds on it again.

After reaching the First Layer of Body Integration, Chen Qiu chose the Supreme-Grade Rainbow Trait Rise at Every Step, which promised him a regular and Supreme-Grade trait with every minor-realm breakthrough. He appointed the Young Chief of the Brown Bears as his personal steward, named him Xiong Gao, and rested in the Celestial Palace while Xiong Gao celebrated his sudden rise in status.

• After the Little Ant survived a heavenly tribulation and reached Foundation Establishment, Chen Qiu gave it the Thousandfold Spellcasting trait and asked Fat Dragon to capture a Foundation Establishment demonic beast for a test.
• Chen Qiu reviewed his three Body Integration trait choices, rerolled them repeatedly, and at the last moment selected the rainbow-colored Supreme-Grade trait Rise at Every Step instead of Far-Reaching Fame.
• Chen Qiu learned that Rise at Every Step would give him one ordinary trait and one Supreme-Grade trait whenever he advanced by a minor realm, then celebrated his new trait before the twelve miniature statues of his ancestors.
• Chen Qiu summoned the Young Chief of the Brown Bears, offered him a personal steward position, named him Xiong Gao, and instructed Fat Dragon to arrange his clothes and preparations.
• After Chen Qiu dismissed everyone to rest, Xiong Gao returned to his clan and celebrated becoming the Sect Master's steward while his father presented him with a newly made Brown Bear Clan genealogy.

Xiong Gao celebrated his rise while Old Ancestor Qin, the King of Endless Province, and the contenders for the provincial thrones reacted to Chen Qiu’s formidable killing art. The Bai Family’s young miss mourned her sworn elder sister’s choices, while Bai Yisheng revealed that the Fortune of the Yin Soul might be the key to curing her Immortal Cancer.

• Xiong Gao trimmed his fur and looked forward to his new life as the Brown Bear Clan’s Great Emperor.
• Old Ancestor Qin recalled surviving Pingxi Continent’s destruction and warned the former King of Pingxi that the throne could cost him his life.
• Xian Yi feared the coming Sole King Contest because Chen Qiu’s strength made his own claim to the Endless Throne seem hopeless.
• The Heaven-Rending Province contender revealed that a jade ornament from the Land of Heavenly Destiny had raised her Body Integration Killing Art to the twelfth grade, and she insisted she could match Chen Qiu.
• The Bai Family’s young miss returned to her Minor World and wept to Bai Yisheng because her sworn elder sister had ignored the three treasures she had hoped to receive from the Land of Heavenly Destiny.
• Bai Yisheng told the young miss that the family had found clues to the Fortune of the Yin Soul, which could help cure her Immortal Cancer.

Chen Qiu woke from three days of rest, chose the Body Integration Killing Art Three Thousand Thunders' Wrath, and received a fortune that raised it to the twenty-seventh grade. He tested it outside the Celestial Palace, unleashing a lightning strike more powerful than the First-Rank Heavenly Tribulation and deciding he would make others endure it too.

• The Bai Family elder comforted the young lady, who wanted to go home, then told her a new story about Chen Qiu's exploits on Mystic Heaven Continent.
• After sleeping for three days in the Celestial Palace, Chen Qiu told Xiong Gao to record his tasks, including finding maids and arranging apprentices, and remembered he needed to bring Liu Zide and the others back.
• Chen Qiu selected Three Thousand Thunders' Wrath from the ten Body Integration Killing Arts available to him and instantly mastered it.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that Chen Qiu had learned a Heavenly Dao Apex Body Integration Killing Art and gave him Killing Art Fortune, which Edict Regular doubled and Chen Qiu used to raise the art to the twenty-seventh grade.
• Chen Qiu tested Three Thousand Thunders' Wrath above his old tribulation crater, summoning immense lightning that terrified the Sky Axe Sect Master and Fat Dragon.
• After his attack surpassed the power of all nine bolts of the Heaven-Slayer Thunder Tribulation, Chen Qiu celebrated and resolved to make others experience the same tribulation.

Chen Qiu demonstrated the overwhelming power of his Body Integration Killing Art and went to retrieve Liu Zide and the others. As the Dragon Race and Bai Family planned how to approach him, Chen Qiu arrived at Liu Zide’s restaurant with an idea for spreading his reputation.

• Chen Qiu explained how his Traits and Void Refinement Domain let him unleash a thousand Body Integration Killing Arts, then told Fat Dragon and the others to cultivate while he headed to find Liu Zide.
• The Bai Family’s eldest young miss and her grandfather discussed how to win Chen Qiu’s favor, while the grandfather worried that she had missed an earlier chance to build ties with him.
• The grand ancestor of Peaceful Prefecture enjoyed sensing Chen Qiu’s terrifying aura and looked forward to the Province-Land Shackles being lifted.
• The Dragon Race chief and his subordinates waited outside Mystic Heaven Province, eager to claim its many young dragons, while wondering whether Chen Qiu would interfere.
• Liu Zide and the Dao Sect Master waited anxiously on a Lower-Rank Continent until Chen Qiu appeared in their restaurant and asked whether using a Body Integration Killing Art on open land would spread his reputation.

Chen Qiu struggled with the Spirit Stone costs of Body Integration cultivation while a Body Integration cultivator on Qi Tian Continent used a Weird Buddha to gain Prodigy Fortune. On the eve of securing the Mystic Heaven Throne, Chen Qiu spent his remaining reserves trying to finish his cultivation progress.

• Chen Qiu abandoned a powerful attack to avoid destroying the Lower-Rank Continent, returned Liu Zide and the others to Mystic Heaven Province, and sent his Traveling Frog to another continent.
• Chen Qiu gave more than 1.5 million Spirit Stones to Xiong Gao and began cultivating, only to find that Body Integration cultivation consumed at least 50,000 Spirit Stones a day.
• On Qi Tian Continent, a middle-aged Body Integration cultivator sacrificed his own flesh and blood to a Weird Buddha and received a wisp of Prodigy Fortune.
• The middle-aged man used his ant to strike a wooden fish and generate Merit Value, while worrying that repeated use of the Weird Buddha might unleash something dangerous.
• In Great Xia Kingdom, the Wang Family Patriarch stockpiled five million pieces of Fierce Baleful Wood and tried to revive his weakening Weird Buddha with incense and a fire.
• A month later, Chen Qiu had reached 49.6% cultivation progress, spent his initial Spirit Stones without advancing a minor realm, and used up his hidden reserves to keep cultivating.

After becoming King of Mystic Heaven, Chen Qiu entered a hidden passage in the Minor World to investigate the source of Little Wolf’s rapid cultivation. Meanwhile, the Dragon Race patriarch and the Bai Family prepared to approach Chen Qiu with gifts once the Province-Land Shackles were lifted.

• Chen Qiu reached the Second Layer of the Body Integration Realm, then learned from Xiong Gao that it was time to retrieve Liu Zide and the others from the Lower-Rank Continent.
• After two months of limited Spirit Stone income, Chen Qiu heard the Heavenly Dao Edict declare him King of Mystic Heaven and learned he could enter the Minor World again.
• Xiong Gao told Chen Qiu about a carved underground passage, and Chen Qiu discovered that Little Wolf had reached the Early Void Refinement Realm after exploring it.
• Chen Qiu concluded that Little Wolf had found an opportunity in the passage, cut away the urine-stained entrance, and began exploring its depths with Xiong Gao.
• The Dragon Race patriarch prepared gifts for Chen Qiu and the dragon hatchlings, while the eldest daughter of the Bai Family considered testing Chen Qiu’s reaction by having a young Aristocratic Clan master offer him Spirit Stones.

Chen Qiu discovered a hidden Mocking Heaven Sect treasury and an underground plaza where nearly ten thousand disciples had been preserved after taking poison. As he sat in the vacant leader’s chair, the disciples awakened and hailed him as their Sect Master.

• Chen Qiu followed Little Wolf’s tracks to an Azure Stone Plaza and found hidden chambers containing pills, Spirit Stones, and Spirit Transformation-grade treasures.
• Chen Qiu pressed the final symbol on the wall, opening the plaza floor and revealing nearly ten thousand preserved Mocking Heaven Sect disciples below.
• Chen Qiu examined the dead disciples and concluded they had taken poison and been prepared for a future revival; he decided to take the treasury despite Xiong Gao’s concern.
• Chen Qiu found a vacant chair at the front of the disciples and sat in it while considering whether the original sect master had already revived and left.
• The disciples opened their eyes, knelt before Chen Qiu, and greeted him as Sect Master, declaring that the sin belonged to this generation and the merit would endure for a thousand autumns.

Chen Qiu explored the underground palace beneath Azure Stone Plaza, uncovered the Mocking Heaven Sect’s preparations for revival, and took its hidden wealth. He then suspected the sect had devised a way for transmigrators to evade the Heavenly Dao, and left the buried seniors’ Spirit Stones on the understanding that he had only borrowed them.

• Chen Qiu pressed a button that made the former Mocking Heaven Sect disciples kneel and chant, then concluded that their movements and voices came from mechanisms rather than revival.
• Chen Qiu inferred that the first sect master had revived as a mortal, become trapped when the underground palace’s exit mechanism failed, and died in despair.
• Chen Qiu searched the underground palace, found signs that someone had smashed its porcelain shelves, then returned to Azure Stone Plaza and collected the secret chambers’ treasures, including eleven million Spirit Stones.
• Xiong Gao suggested that the sect master’s wife had severed the exit mechanism before leaving, and Chen Qiu considered that she might have been a long-lived member of the Dragon Race.
• Chen Qiu theorized that the Mocking Heaven Sect had forged bodies for transmigrators to avoid the Heavenly Dao’s hostility, and that its dead members might have been trying to switch accounts.
• Chen Qiu called the Spirit Stones a loan and told the buried seniors he would return them if they came looking for him.

After returning to the Celestial Palace with Xiong Gao, Chen Qiu chose the trait Steal with Ease after a hundred rerolls and distributed his spoils. He then gave Little Ant the Pink Trait Sky-Piercing Giant, planning to grow it into an indestructible shield that would cover his defensive weakness.

• Chen Qiu returned from the Minor World with Xiong Gao, gave him Spirit Stones to replenish the Spirit-Gathering Array, and began inspecting his new trait choices.
• Chen Qiu rerolled traits a hundred times and selected the Blue Trait Steal with Ease, which would let him take all three traits during a future choice.
• Chen Qiu sorted his treasures, gave pills to Xiong Gao to test on the Brown Bear Clan, and distributed Spirit Transformation spiritual treasures to the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples.
• Chen Qiu found two summoned-creature Trait Jade Slips and gave Little Ant the Blue Trait Triple Casting.
• Chen Qiu discovered that the other slip granted the Pink Trait Sky-Piercing Giant, which increased Little Ant's height for every demonic beast it killed.
• Chen Qiu gave Little Ant Sky-Piercing Giant and ordered Xiong Gao to gather demonic beasts so Little Ant could grow into an enormous defensive shield.

July Cat wondered whether her extra life was her last while Li Xiuhua and Xian Yi became kings of their provinces. After Xian Yi fled to the Land of Eternal Life and learned how powerful Chen Qiu had become, Old Cao took him to Great Xia Kingdom, where they discovered a supernatural cold threatening Chen Qiu’s hometown.

• July Cat recounted her nine deaths, settled into life as an orange cat at Beast Taming Sect, and hoped Chen Qiu would leave Mystic Heaven Province.
• Li Xiuhua became King of Heaven-Rending Province and revealed that her Name of Curses trait could lower the grade of opponents’ Body Integration Killing Arts.
• Xian Yi became King of Endless Province, feared Chen Qiu’s strength, and entered the Land of Eternal Life to escape the coming battle for the Sole King.
• Old Cao met Xian Yi, learned how much Chen Qiu had accomplished, and invited him to visit Chen Qiu’s hometown in Great Xia Kingdom.
• Old Cao and Xian Yi arrived at the Boundless Ice Wastes, where Xian Yi felt a supernatural cold and Old Cao warned that something might soon emerge from the freezing wind.

After Old Cao took Xian Yi to Windward City, the chapter introduced transmigrators Wang Zhenyi and Liu San, who discussed Chen Qiu’s fame and Liu San’s unsuccessful retelling of Four Children's Garden Excursion. Chen Qiu reached the Integrated Body Fourth Layer and triggered a three-in-one Supreme-Grade trait selection that began drawing Heaven-and-Earth Power from Qi Tian Continent, prompting the Bai Family head to seek an alliance with him.

• Old Cao told Xian Yi about Chen Qiu’s rise from chopping firewood and took him toward Windward City, while Xian Yi explained why he still cared about mortals.
• Wang Zhenyi visited Chen Qiu’s former chopping site with Liu San, learned how widely transmigrators admired Chen Qiu, and advised Liu San to make the Traveler’s story more free-spirited.
• Chen Qiu emerged from seclusion at the Integrated Body Fourth Layer, and his three unchosen Supreme-Grade trait selections fused into one panel.
• Chen Qiu inspected the fused panel, which reported a mutation and began calling for Heaven-and-Earth Power from a Third-Grade Continent.
• The Bai Family head discovered that Qi Tian Continent’s Heaven-and-Earth Power was flowing toward Mystic Heaven Province and ordered his daughter’s guardian to strengthen ties with Chen Qiu.

Chen Qiu’s fused Supreme Grade trait chances produced a chance to choose among three Heavenly Dao Trait Sets, and his traits let him reroll and select all three. As the selection drew Heaven-and-Earth Power from distant continents, powerful figures noticed the spectacle and began investigating Mystic Heaven Province.

• The Bai Family eldest daughter feared her father had caused Pingxi Continent’s collapse to obtain Fortune of the Yin Soul, but her grandfather explained that the Bai Family had not caused it and was struggling to gather the fortune needed to save her.
• The Peaceful Prefecture ancestor reassured the current King of Pingxi that his decision to claim the Pingxi Throne had brought him near death, while trusting his own good fortune and strength.
• The Third Young Master of the Qi Clan sensed his prison weakening and hoped to escape, but Heaven-and-Earth Power reinforced it and crushed his hopes.
• Chen Qiu learned that his fused trait chances had produced a chance to choose one of three Heavenly Dao Trait Sets, then realized Great Fortune Approaches and Steal with Ease could let him reroll and select all three.
• Chen Qiu told Xiong Gao to prepare a victory feast as Heaven-and-Earth Power continued flowing toward Mystic Heaven Province.
• The Bai Family head and a powerful elder on a Fourth-Grade Continent noticed the enormous phenomenon; the elder sent two disciples to investigate and seek a chance to befriend its source.

Chen Qiu selected the unowned Heavenly Dao Trait Set Heaven's Mandate, then rapidly acquired two more unowned sets, triggering three continent-spanning Heavenly Dao Edicts. The announcements reached the Soaring Pavilion's banquet just as Ling Seventeen prepared to claim Heaven's Mandate, leaving the Bai Family head fearing a disastrous collision between the two claimants.

• Chen Qiu inspected the randomized trait sets, rejected the common options, and refreshed them until he found the unowned Heaven's Mandate, whose effects greatly raised the grades of his realm-exclusive items.
• Chen Qiu chose Heaven's Mandate and learned that its bonuses grew with every rainbow trait he had ever possessed, pushing his Body Integration killing art to the 90th grade.
• Ling Seventeen prepared to claim Heaven's Mandate at a grand Soaring Pavilion wedding banquet, while his father urged him to secure the trait set before anyone else did.
• Ling Seventeen learned that the Bai Family's eldest miss had Immortal Cancer, but refused to spend a wisp of Yin Emperor Fortune to save her; he instead approached the Phoenix Clan leader, who also had the illness.
• The Bai Family head heard a Heavenly Dao Edict announcing Chen Qiu's creation of Heaven's Mandate, then heard two more announcing The Tide of Destiny and Heaven Rewards Diligence.
• The Bai Family head realized Chen Qiu had claimed three previously unowned trait sets and feared his achievement would collide with Ling Seventeen's public claim, potentially igniting a deadly conflict.

After receiving three unprecedented Heavenly Dao Trait Sets, Chen Qiu celebrated at the Celestial Palace and assessed their powers, including a Rainbow Trait that let him attack enemies across space. As people prepared for his growing dominance and the Province-Land Shackles neared release, Xiao Yue joined the Mocking Heaven Sect as his personal maid and brought the mysterious orange cat with her.

• The Bai Family head heard the three Heavenly Dao Edicts and prepared gifts to attend Ling Seventeen's wedding before the Fourth-Grade Continent learned the news.
• Chen Qiu celebrated at the Celestial Palace, reviewed his new Heavenly Dao Trait Sets, and discovered that Void Targeting let him attack anyone whose appearance and true name he knew, regardless of distance or Heavenly Dao Shackles.
• Chen Qiu agreed to take the Sky Axe Sect Master and others to the Third-Grade Continent, while the Dao Sect Master and Liu Zide continued spreading his name to gather Spirit Stones.
• Xiong Gao invited Xiao Yue to join the Mocking Heaven Sect as Chen Qiu's personal maid, and she accepted and brought July Cat, who desperately resisted.
• People with royal titles began arranging to enter the Yin Realm, accelerating the lifting of the Province-Land Shackles, while the Dao Sect Master approved Zhang Kui for Dao Sect orders after she revealed that Chen Qiu ranked first on the Heavenly Dao Sin Ranking.

Ling Seventeen failed to claim the first Heavenly Dao Edict for Heaven's Mandate because Chen Qiu obtained it first, prompting Ling Seventeen to target Chen Qiu and lash out at the Bai Family head. Back on Vast Continent, Chen Qiu learned that the Province-Land Shackles had lifted, then unexpectedly became Heavenly King after claiming Sole King without a fight.

• The Peaceful Prefecture ancestor discovered that Fairy's First Night had faded after the fairy who granted it died again.
• At Ling Seventeen's wedding banquet, he announced that he had obtained Heaven's Mandate, but no Heavenly Dao Edict sounded because Chen Qiu had already acquired it alongside The Tide of Destiny and Heaven Rewards Diligence.
• Ling Seventeen declared Chen Qiu a target for Soaring Pavilion and slapped the Bai Family head before ordering him away; the Bai Family head silently resolved to retaliate.
• Chen Qiu examined his six wisps of Mandate of Heaven and learned that their effects would manifest only in the Immortal Realm.
• A Heavenly Dao Edict lifted the Province-Land Shackles and began the Sole King Contest, but Chen Qiu immediately received the title of Sole King and was named Heavenly King for claiming it in the shortest time.

After the Province-Land Shackles lifted, Chen Qiu traveled to the Qi Tian Continent, where he discovered a supposedly mad young man had gained two Traits that could have brought him great fortune. Meanwhile, Ling Seventeen and the Bai Family head separately considered using long-range attacks or information to deal with Chen Qiu.

• Chen Qiu received the Heavenly King title, sent the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples and his companions into the Minor World, and traveled to the Qi Tian Continent.
• Chen Qiu explored Origin City, inspected a mad young man's Traits, and found that his White Trait and Pink Trait worked together to grant him powerful benefits.
• Ling Seventeen learned Chen Qiu had taken his Heavenly King position, and his father urged him to use his Void Targeting Trait to attack Chen Qiu from afar.
• The Bai Family head considered giving Chen Qiu an Image Recording Stone showing Ling Seventeen's true face, weighing revenge against the danger of provoking Soaring Pavilion.

Chen Qiu’s thunderous attack on bandits earned him a hidden achievement, but a long-range strike from Ling Seventeen failed to penetrate his defenses. The Bai Family head arrived too late to warn him and, after witnessing Chen Qiu survive, called out to him.

• The Bai Family head ordered Chen Qiu’s guardian to warn him about Ling Seventeen and his Void Targeting Rainbow Trait.
• Chen Qiu followed a group of bandits out of Origin City, then used Three Thousand Thunders’ Wrath to annihilate them and earned a Mid-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheel for a hidden achievement.
• The Bai Family head recognized Chen Qiu’s attack and rushed to find him, while Chen Qiu used his reward to obtain cultivation pills for Xiong Gao and the Brown Bear Clan.
• An unseen attacker sent a black-lightning arrow at Chen Qiu, who survived it behind his amplified golden shield; the Bai Family head identified the attack as Ling Seventeen’s God-Slaying Arrow.
• Chen Qiu gathered the arrow’s lingering information to track down its attacker, and the Bai Family head called out to him before he could leave.

Chen Qiu retaliated against Ling Seventeen with a long-range strike, then investigated the unexplained death of a maidservant who had returned from Qi Tian Continent. Ling Seventeen died in the attack, and Soaring Pavilion sealed its funeral guests inside a formation to demand their cooperation.

• The Bai Family Patriarch told Chen Qiu that Ling Seventeen had targeted him, and Chen Qiu used Void Targeting to send a devastating strike across the distance.
• Chen Qiu returned to the Celestial Palace, where Xiong Gao reported that a maidservant had suddenly died; Chen Qiu found mysterious black runes on her and her dead orange cat.
• Ling Seventeen dismissed the danger, but Chen Qiu's thunderous attack engulfed Soaring Pavilion and killed him.
• Tao Li and the Bai Family Patriarch attended Ling Seventeen's funeral, where the Bai Family Patriarch secretly recorded the guests' faces.
• The master of Soaring Pavilion raised a formation over the funeral guests and demanded their cooperation, threatening to behead anyone who refused.

At Ling Seventeen’s funeral banquet, the Bai Family head deflected suspicion by exposing evidence of others’ motives, forcing the Soaring Pavilion Master to postpone his reckoning. On Vast Continent, Chen Qiu held a funeral for Xiao Yue, then welcomed the Dragon Race Patriarch and learned he had come seeking dragon hatchlings.

• The Soaring Pavilion Master questioned the guests about how Chen Qiu had learned Ling Seventeen’s appearance, and suspicion fell on the Bai Family head.
• The Bai Family head played recordings implicating the Soaring Pavilion Master’s son, his concubine, Tao Li, and other faction leaders, prompting the Soaring Pavilion Master to halt the accusations and begin the banquet.
• Chen Qiu and the Mocking Heaven Sect held Xiao Yue’s funeral and a feast, where Fat Dragon joked with the Black Dragon about his earlier failed death.
• The Dragon Race Patriarch arrived in scarlet robes with congratulatory gifts, mistaking Xiao Yue’s funeral feast for a celebration, but Chen Qiu gave him a seat after hearing his gift list.
• The Dragon Race Patriarch admitted he wanted to borrow dragon hatchlings, and Ao Tian warned that their bloodlines would astonish him and that he had not brought enough Spirit Stones.