Recaps

Chen Qiu defeated Kong Ming, took his Ten-Rank Nascent Soul and Thousand-Year Sarira, and retained the arena championship. As Black Dragon was lured into fighting another opponent, Chen Qiu stepped onto the arena and challenged him.

• Kong Ming survived Chen Qiu's two Spirit Transformation strikes, healed with his Buddhist Relic, and used the Demon-Exorcising Spell, but Chen Qiu's Heavenly Dao Villain trait made him immune to its enlightenment.
• Chen Qiu beat Kong Ming with his Twelfth-Grade Nascent Soul, then took Kong Ming's Ten-Rank Nascent Soul and Thousand-Year Sarira after blasting open his abdomen.
• Kong Ming activated his Merit Defense Token and escaped the secret realm, while Chen Qiu's continued attacks barely reduced his Merit Value.
• Chen Qiu stayed on the arena long enough to secure the championship, then watched Black Dragon defeat a Nascent Soul Peak sword cultivator.
• Nascent Soul Cultivators goaded the injured Black Dragon into another fight, hoping to obtain his blood and scales, but Chen Qiu reached the arena first and challenged him.

The chapter compiled 121 traits that had appeared before Chapter 176, listing their grades and effects. It ended with a note asking readers to spare a monthly vote.

• The compilation explained the trait grades and noted that 121 traits were included, excluding the unselectable Rise at Every Step from a hypothetical selection.
• The list presented traits numbered 1 through 121, including their names, grades, and effects.
• The compilation noted that some traits without clearly defined panels, such as Scholar's Pink Trait, were not included.
• The author asked readers to spare a monthly vote.

Chen Qiu won first place in the Nascent Soul Combat Rankings, earned a Dragon Race Reverse Scale and a Mid-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheel, and received a statue in the Celestial Palace. On Dragon Island, the clan leader learned that Chen Qiu had saved the Dragon Race’s only male hatchling and resolved to find a suitable treasure to trade for the Reverse Scale.

• Chen Qiu rescued the wounded Black Dragon from the arena, and the Black Dragon gave him his Reverse Scale as repayment for the life-saving favor.
• Chen Qiu left the secret realm with the Black Dragon’s Reverse Scale, then received the Heavenly Dao announcement naming him first in the Nascent Soul Combat Rankings and granting him Prodigy Fortune.
• Chen Qiu received a Mid-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheel for reaching first place on the Heavenly Dao Leaderboards five times and prepared to visit his new statue in the Celestial Palace.
• The Dragon Race clan leader learned that Black Dragon had given Chen Qiu his Reverse Scale and realized Chen Qiu had saved the Dragon Race’s only male hatchling.
• The clan leader decided to travel to Quzhou and trade Chen Qiu materials for a Spirit Transformation Domain in exchange for the Reverse Scale.

Chen Qiu met Ao Tian, the Dragon Race patriarch, who offered to repay him for saving Black Dragon. After bonding over tea and wine, Chen Qiu asked why the Dragon Race was nearing extinction, hoping to learn whether he could help.

• Fat Dragon showed Chen Qiu his new Ignore Barriers trait and wanted to resign as Grand Elder, but Chen Qiu refused and sent him and Scholar to the sect’s back mountain.
• Chen Qiu reviewed his milestones and traits, then headed outside Qi City to activate the Mid-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheel.
• Kong Ming returned to the Buddhist Sect severely injured after losing his Ten-Rank Nascent Soul and Thousand-Year Sarira, and his master promised to handle the matter.
• The Young Pavilion Master of Three Springs Pavilion persuaded small-lineage patriarchs to send Spirit Transformation experts away from Quzhou while he waited for his ancestor to break through.
• Ao Tian visited Chen Qiu to discuss Black Dragon’s Reverse Scale, and Chen Qiu returned it while the two shared tea and wine.
• After Ao Tian described the Dragon Race’s decline, Chen Qiu asked him about its plight and offered to help.

Chen Qiu brought Fat Dragon to Dragon Island to help the Dragon Race overcome its impending extinction, and Fat Dragon’s traits allowed the sleeping female dragons to conceive. The discovery that Fat Dragon carried a Twelfth-Grade Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Bloodline secured the Dragon Race’s future, and Ao Tian pledged the Dragon Race’s friendship and support to the Mocking Heaven Sect.

• Ao Tian explained that the Dragon Race faced extinction because its dragons could barely reproduce and the remaining female dragons had only a century left to live.
• Chen Qiu revealed Fat Dragon’s Never Misses and Ignore Barriers traits, and Ao Tian urgently took them to Dragon Island.
• Fat Dragon impregnated a sleeping female dragon, and Ao Tian confirmed that she had conceived.
• Ao Tian discovered that Fat Dragon possessed a Twelfth-Grade Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Bloodline, far surpassing the bloodline of the mother dragon.
• Ao Tian promised the Dragon Race’s support and a Dragon Blood Pact with the Mocking Heaven Sect, while Fat Dragon began helping the other female dragons conceive.
• Ao Tian offered Chen Qiu the Dragon Race’s treasures to forge his Spirit Transformation Domain, and Chen Qiu chose to enjoy the scenery with him instead of discussing repayment.

Ao Tian explained Spirit Transformation Domains to Chen Qiu and discovered that Chen Qiu met the conditions for a Twelfth-Grade domain. He promised to provide the needed treasures and secure a suitable Domain Totem, then proposed that they sign a ten-thousand-year Blood Pact between the Dragon Race and the Mocking Heaven Sect.

• Ao Tian gave Chen Qiu a thousand Nascent Soul Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills and Golden Core pills for the Mocking Heaven Sect's disciples.
• Ao Tian gave Chen Qiu nine Dragon Vein Stones and explained Spirit Transformation Domains, their grades, and how their Totems were obtained.
• Chen Qiu studied the materials for a Twelfth-Grade Spirit Transformation Domain and realized he met its prerequisite conditions but lacked some fortune and treasures.
• Ao Tian confirmed the Dragon Clan Treasury held the required materials and promised to cover the remaining costs and obtain a suitable Domain Totem.
• Ao Tian proposed that Chen Qiu and he sign a ten-thousand-year Blood Pact making the Mocking Heaven Sect and Dragon Race loyal allies.

Chen Qiu accepted the Dragon Race’s treasure and resources as he and Ao Tian cemented their alliance, while Fat Dragon’s efforts to revive the Dragon Race rapidly advanced his cultivation. The chapter left Chen Qiu with the materials for his Spirit Transformation Domain but still needing one strand of Prodigy Fortune and a suitable domain totem.

• Chen Qiu followed Ao Tian to the Dragon Race’s treasure vault while Fat Dragon continued dual cultivating with the mother dragons, helping revive the Dragon Race and quickly raising his cultivation.
• Fat Dragon learned that Dragon Race customs allowed any male dragon to mate with any mother dragon, and he returned to his efforts as Scholar and Scholar’s younger brother kept the Brown Bears away.
• Ao Tian gave Chen Qiu more than sixty thousand Nascent Soul Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills, then promised him the materials needed for a Twelfth-Grade Spirit Transformation Domain.
• Ao Tian also gave Chen Qiu one hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and the two celebrated their alliance as a victory for both the Dragon Race and Mocking Heaven Sect.
• Chen Qiu noted that he still needed one strand of Prodigy Fortune and a Spirit Transformation Domain totem suited to him.

Chen Qiu advanced to the Sixth Level of the Nascent Soul Realm, gained a Spirit Transformation Domain Token, and chose the Battle to the Death trait while cultivating on Dragon Island. Meanwhile, Fat Dragon neared the Nascent Soul Realm through intensive dual cultivation, and a new collapse of Quzhou’s heavens drew Chen Qiu’s admirer and her reborn fox into the unfolding crisis.

• Chen Qiu advanced to the Sixth Level of the Nascent Soul Realm, fed Kong Ming’s Thousand-Year Sarira to his Nascent Soul, and received a Spirit Transformation Domain Token.
• Chen Qiu chose the Battle to the Death trait and resumed cultivating on Dragon Island.
• Fat Dragon reached the Ninth Level of the Golden Core Realm after dual cultivating with twenty-eight female dragons, then collapsed from exhaustion and was examined by Scholar.
• A young man who had copied the Imperial Preceptor’s poem escaped execution after admitting his mistake and wondered whether other transmigrators existed.
• A woman in white searched Great Fate City for Chen Qiu while her reborn Nine-Tailed Fox, July Cat, privately revealed its thoughts and past life.
• A black hole appeared above Quzhou and began devouring the continent’s spiritual energy, prompting the woman in white to hope Chen Qiu would appear.

Chen Qiu learned that a new collapse in the sky threatened the Mystic Heaven Continent and discovered that Spirit Transformation Domain totems would appear when the Under-Heaven Strife Version began. After winning a Purple Trait that could make his direct children reach adulthood in one year, he showed it to Ao Tian, who reacted in shock.

• A silver-haired Human Race elder used Instant Formation to raze part of Extinction Forest and invited the Demon Race’s Spirit Transformation cultivators to meet in three days; the Demon cultivators suspected a Human Race scheme.
• Ao Tian told Chen Qiu that the sky had collapsed again and explained that Old Cao had predicted the arrival of a Merit Value Shop containing Spirit Transformation Domain totems when Under-Heaven Strife began.
• Chen Qiu chose a Transformation Token and a Spirit Transformation Body from one Heavenly Dao Wheel, then selected a temporary Rainbow Trait and a chance to issue a Mystic Heaven Edict from another.
• Chen Qiu used the Daily Sign-In Rainbow Trait on Dragon Island and received a Purple Trait Jade Slip granting his direct biological children adulthood in one year.
• Chen Qiu asked Ao Tian how long the Dragon Race would take to flourish and showed him the Blessed with Children and Grandchildren Trait; Ao Tian nearly fell and asked whether the Heavenly Dao would punish them.

Chen Qiu and Ao Tian worried that the Dragon Race and Mocking Heaven Sect lacked resources to support their rapidly growing ranks, while Fat Dragon discovered that his traits made him a powerful protector of his dragon offspring. As the continent’s factions prepared for the coming chaos, Chen Qiu used his temporary Daily Sign-In trait to enter the Celestial Palace.

• Ao Tian told Chen Qiu that the Dragon Race could not afford the resources its hatchlings would need, and Chen Qiu proposed that they rob other factions once their forces grew stronger.
• Fat Dragon reached Golden Core Peak, received resources and the Blessed with Children and Grandchildren trait, then realized that No Attacks on the Parents would distribute attacks against him among his children.
• Scholar grew anxious about falling behind Fat Dragon and the future Spirit Transformation cultivators, while the young Brown Bear reassured his father that the Sect Master might raise their cultivation.
• An Azure Mountain Palace elder ordered negotiations with the Demon Race to suppress the coming chaotic age, while a young Devil Race member argued with an elder who insisted that the Devil Race should exploit the conflict.
• Chen Qiu advanced to the Seventh Level of the Nascent Soul Realm, then used Daily Sign-In to appear in the Celestial Palace above the Ninth Heaven.

Chen Qiu advanced to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Peak Realm, gained powerful traits and a token that could raise his Spirit Transformation Domain beyond the usual limit, and prepared to undergo his Thunder Tribulation. Ao Tian warned him that the tribulation could devastate Dragon Island and urged him to move it or wait until Under-Heaven Strife descended.

• Chen Qiu signed in at the Central Celestial Palace and received a Spirit Transformation Domain Rank-Up Token that could raise his planned Twelfth-Grade Domain to Thirteenth Grade.
• Chen Qiu chose the Human-Nascent Soul Unity trait, fed his Nascent Soul a Heavenly Spirit Fruit, and obtained a Supreme Heavenly Dao Rewind Token before cultivating to the Eighth Level of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Chen Qiu rejected the harmful trait options at the Eighth Level, then reached the Ninth Level and chose Lone Rider and Buried with Full Honors After Death using his rewind token.
• Chen Qiu cultivated to the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Peak Realm, consolidated his cultivation for three days, and prepared to undergo his Thunder Tribulation.
• Ao Tian warned Chen Qiu that his tribulation could devastate Dragon Island and asked him to move it or wait until Under-Heaven Strife descended so they could carry it out and rob people.

Chen Qiu prepared to repair the hole above Quzhou, while the races and sects of the Mystic Heaven Continent made plans for the approaching Under-Heaven Strife Version. He reached the void-black opening and felt an urge to enter it.

• Ao Tian advised Chen Qiu to save his Thunder Tribulation as a trump card, and Chen Qiu decided to rest before the Under-Heaven Strife Version descended.
• A young Devil Race member urged his father to stop sowing discord, but the Devil Race patriarch instead declared that the Devil Race would lead the first battle.
• Azure Mountain Palace and the Demon Race agreed that their Spirit Transformation cultivators would not fight, while Azure Mountain Palace planned to lure Chen Qiu to a Heavenly Dao Secret Realm and capture him.
• A youth learned that top-tier forces feared the Mocking Heaven Sect because of an old warning, and factions across the Mystic Heaven Continent prepared for the coming turmoil while ignoring the hole above Quzhou.
• Chen Qiu spent several days on Dragon Island as Fat Dragon and the other Mocking Heaven Sect disciples advanced their cultivation, then accepted fewer than three thousand pieces of Fierce Baleful Wood from Ao Tian.
• Chen Qiu and Ao Tian traveled to Great Fate City, where Chen Qiu approached the hole above Quzhou and felt an urge to enter its lightless depths.

Chen Qiu mended the sky over Quzhou with Fierce Baleful Wood and earned enough Merit Value to travel to Vast Continent, but refused the opportunity and resolved to finish Mystic Heaven Continent’s milestones first. Three days later, the Under-Heaven Strife Version descended, and Chen Qiu browsed its Merit Value Shop for a Spirit Transformation Domain.

• Chen Qiu fed nearly two hundred thousand pieces of Fierce Baleful Wood into the black hole, mended the sky, and received one hundred billion Merit Value and Prodigy Fortune.
• The Heavenly Dao offered Chen Qiu passage to Vast Continent through the Heavenly Window, but he refused after a figure inside called him an ant.
• Chen Qiu returned to Ao Tian, dismissed Xiao Yue when she approached him in Great Fate City, and went back to Dragon Island.
• Three days later, the Under-Heaven Strife Version descended, introducing new rankings, shops, secret realms, and other Heavenly Dao Secret Realms.
• Chen Qiu inspected the Merit Value Shop, found he had 187.9 billion Merit Value, and considered the 20-billion Merit Value Infinite Spiritual Energy Spirit Transformation Domain.

Chen Qiu received a delayed grant of one hundred billion Merit Value and spent heavily on Spirit Transformation Domains, treasures, spells, and gifts for Ao Tian. While Chen Qiu prepared to travel to the Mystic Heaven Continent and test his tribulation on Three Springs Pavilion, its failed Half-Step Void Refinement ancestor emerged from seclusion seeking revenge on him.

• The Heavenly Dao named Chen Qiu in an edict and granted him one hundred billion Merit Value, bringing him close to a Merit Value milestone and eighteen Heavenly Dao nominations.
• Chen Qiu bought Infinite Spiritual Energy and Three Thousand Thunder Motions, then stocked up on Merit Attack and Defense Tokens, resources, Prodigy Fortune, spells, and other items.
• Chen Qiu gave Ao Tian a Dragon Clan secret art and two Bloodline Tokens, including one for Black Dragon, and Ao Tian hurried away to cultivate.
• Fat Dragon persuaded Ao Tian to give Black Dragon the Bloodline Token intended for Ao Tian's daughter.
• Chen Qiu planned to visit Three Springs Pavilion and use his tribulation against a suitable target, while its ancestor left seclusion after failing to reach Void Refinement.
• The Three Springs Pavilion ancestor learned that Chen Qiu had killed San Qing and prepared to target him using a trait that could forcibly teleport a lower-cultivation target to his side.

Three Springs Pavilion prepared to lure Chen Qiu to a Qiu-Slaying Feast, while the Cao Family patriarch suspected the feast was a trap and the Devil Race debated war. At midnight, Three Springs Pavilion forcibly pulled Chen Qiu toward its formation, and he called Ao Tian and the Dragon Race to prepare for battle.

• The Three Springs Pavilion ancestor ordered the young pavilion master to host a Qiu-Slaying Feast and set a formation to bring Chen Qiu to them.
• The Cao Family patriarch guessed that Chen Qiu had set a trap and agreed to attend only after delaying their journey.
• Chen Qiu and Ao Tian discussed taking action against weaker factions if the continent remained peaceful, while Chen Qiu considered the Milestone Mission to unify Mystic Heaven.
• The Devil Race patriarch announced a war against the Dwarf Race, and his son learned from a remnant soul that the Mocking Heaven Sect had once been terrifyingly powerful.
• The Su Family head resigned himself to Chen Qiu's supposed death, while Xiao Yue persuaded her master to try to save him at Three Springs Pavilion.
• At midnight, Three Springs Pavilion's formation began pulling Chen Qiu toward it, and Chen Qiu summoned Ao Tian and ordered the Dragon Race to prepare for battle.

Chen Qiu survived the Annihilation Tribulation Lightning and reached the First Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm, then forged a Twelfth-Grade Spirit Transformation Domain. As Azure Mountain Palace’s elders moved to kill him, Chen Qiu and Ao Tian confronted them with overwhelming domains.

• Chen Qiu was dragged into Three Springs Pavilion and began breaking through while Ao Tian transformed and shielded him from the pavilion’s cultivators.
• Chen Qiu’s tribulation clouds engulfed Three Springs Pavilion, killing its weaker disciples and forcing its attackers to endure hundreds of increasingly powerful lightning strikes alongside him.
• Chen Qiu survived the tribulation with his Merit Value, reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, and received two wisps of the Might of Heavenly Lightning from the Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Qiu studied the Infinite Spiritual Energy domain totem as nearby cultivators debated attacking him; most fled, but an Azure Mountain Palace elder led his companions toward Three Springs Pavilion.
• The Heavenly Dao announced Chen Qiu had forged a Twelfth-Grade Spirit Transformation Domain, and his Infinite Spiritual Energy domain annihilated the Azure Mountain Palace elder’s Eighth-Grade domain.
• Chen Qiu and Ao Tian faced the Azure Mountain Palace elders, and Chen Qiu’s Nascent Soul activated the Twelfth-Grade domain Three Thousand Thunder Motions.

After entering Spirit Transformation, Chen Qiu used his Twelfth-Grade domains and Ao Tian’s support to defeat and kill the Peak Spirit Transformation Realm elder from Azure Mountain Palace. Heavenly Dao rewards followed, and Chen Qiu went to the Celestial Palace while the Mocking Heaven Sect looted Three Springs Pavilion and Ao Tian worried about what their practiced methods might mean for Dragon Island.

• Chen Qiu activated his Twelfth-Grade domains, and their power devastated Three Springs Pavilion while suppressing the Azure Mountain Palace elder’s Eighth-Grade domain.
• Ao Tian restrained the elder as Chen Qiu pierced his defenses with a lightning arrow, then struck him with twelve arrows that left him near death.
• When the Stars Across the Heavens phenomenon healed the elder, Chen Qiu kept firing arrows until the phenomenon ended and his final shot killed him.
• Chen Qiu received two Heavenly Dao Edicts granting him Mid-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheels and headed to the Celestial Palace after ordering Fat Dragon to collect spoils and visit the feast’s guests.
• Ao Tian watched the Mocking Heaven Sect loot Three Springs Pavilion with practiced efficiency and wondered whether Chen Qiu might someday lead them to raid Dragon Island.

After surviving the Qiu-Slaying Feast, Chen Qiu led the Mocking Heaven Sect in raiding the banquet guests’ households for resources, then returned to Dragon Island to prepare his disciples for Spirit Transformation. As he began using the spoils, three glowing Mid-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheels fused together, leaving him to discover what they would become.

• The Beast Taming Sect elder took Xiao Yue back to the sect, while the Cao Family Head urged his son to survive by yielding and then returned to face the family’s danger.
• Chen Qiu inspected his new Celestial Palace statues and sealed gates, then returned to Three Springs Pavilion and ordered the Mocking Heaven Sect to raid the guest list before dawn.
• Chen Qiu’s group plundered several households, but spared the Cao Family after its head staged a celebration of Chen Qiu’s breakthrough and feigned admiration for him.
• Ao Tian agreed to divide the spoils according to contribution, and Chen Qiu planned Third-Grade Spirit Transformation Domains and a Spirit-Gathering Array to help the Mocking Heaven Sect complete the All-Members Spirit Transformation milestone.
• Chen Qiu fed an Eight Desolations Fruit to his Nascent Soul, then watched as three glowing Mid-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheels began to fuse.

Chen Qiu used a high-grade Heavenly Dao Wheel and a Spirit Transformation Domain Rank-Up Token, then learned he had completed another Milestone Quest. Meanwhile, the Buddhist ancestor and the Azure Mountain Palace ancestor plotted to lure Chen Qiu into a trap using his former benefactor and the Mocking Heaven Sect remnants.

• Chen Qiu fused three mid-grade Heavenly Dao Wheels into a high-grade wheel, used a mid-grade wheel for two Transformation Tokens, and chose Prodigy Fortune and Race Fortune from the high-grade wheel.
• Chen Qiu crushed his Spirit Transformation Domain Rank-Up Token and received a mid-grade Heavenly Dao Wheel for completing a Milestone Quest by forging a transcendent-grade cultivation foundation.
• News spread that Chen Qiu had killed Azure Mountain Palace's peak Spirit Transformation elder and that no Spirit Transformation cultivators who stayed at Three Springs Pavilion had survived.
• The Buddhist ancestor and the Azure Mountain Palace ancestor agreed to target Chen Qiu, though the Buddhist ancestor insisted on preparing an elaborate scheme rather than attacking directly.
• The Buddhist ancestor planned to lure Chen Qiu by endangering his former benefactor, an external incarnation, and by threatening the Mocking Heaven Sect remnants hidden in a Minor World in the Boundless Snow Mountains.
• The Buddhist ancestor said Chen Qiu valued old bonds and declared that their plan would kill him once they had gathered their forces and set the trap.

Chen Qiu chose Annihilation Tribulation Lightning as his new trait and struggled to advance his Spirit Transformation cultivation, while his growing reputation frightened Zhang Kui and drew attention from the Vast Continent. As Chen Qiu reached only 50% progress toward the Second Level, an ancient voice rang over the Mystic Heaven Continent.

• The Buddhist Sect patriarch and an Azure Mountain Palace elder agreed to join forces against Chen Qiu, while Zhang Kui learned Chen Qiu had abducted Voidview Temple’s patriarch and fled his cave to hide.
• Chen Qiu chose the Annihilation Tribulation Lightning trait, checked on his people and captives, and began cultivating with his limited supply of Spirit Transformation Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills.
• Nangong Tian learned that Chen Qiu had annihilated the Evil Race and decided to visit the Central Celestial Palace of the First-Rank Mystic Heaven Continent.
• A young Devil Race member watched his people defeat the Dwarf Race, while the Devil Race’s war went largely unnoticed across the Mystic Heaven Continent.
• After ten shichen of cultivation, Chen Qiu had used ten pills and reached only 50% progress in the First Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm when an ancient voice rang out across the continent.

After the Heavenly Dao announced that killing same-realm alien cultivators would boost cultivation, Chen Qiu joined forces with the Devil Race to hunt the Dwarf Race. Suspecting the Dwarves had a way to return from death, he disguised himself as a captured Dwarf and prepared to infiltrate their underground territory.

• The second phase of Under-Heaven Strife began, and Chen Qiu gathered the Mocking Heaven Sect and set out with Ao Tian to kill alien cultivators.
• The Devil Race chief welcomed Chen Qiu with two captured Dwarf Race Spirit Transformation cultivators and proposed that they attack the Dwarf Race together.
• Chen Qiu noticed the captives seemed fearless of death and suspected their confidence in conquering the continent came from a way to revive.
• Chen Qiu killed one captive, wounded the other, and used a Transformation Token to copy the survivor's appearance.
• Chen Qiu told the Devil Race chief to keep the surviving Dwarf alive and announced that he would infiltrate the underground caves, despite Ao Tian's warning about the danger.

Chen Qiu infiltrated the Dwarf Race’s underground caverns in disguise to investigate their secrets, while the Mystic Heaven Sect voted to remain in seclusion rather than risk joining the brief Chaotic Era Opportunity. Chen Qiu blended in with wounded Dwarf soldiers but worried that an accidental attack could cost him cultivation progress.

• Chen Qiu rejected the Devil Race chief’s proposal to interrogate a Dwarf cultivator and instead disguised himself with a Transformation Token before entering the caverns alone.
• The Devil Race chief escorted Chen Qiu to the buffer zone, and Chen Qiu asked Ao Tian to look after his disciples before heading deeper into Dwarf territory.
• Ao Tian rebuffed the Devil Race chief’s friendly overtures, accusing the Devil Race of spreading rumors about dragons, and the chief insisted that dragon meat really was delicious.
• The Mystic Heaven Sect elders deadlocked over whether to leave seclusion for the second Under-Heaven Strife update, but the Sect Master voted to stay hidden.
• Chen Qiu joined a group of wounded Dwarf soldiers withdrawing from the battlefield and passed among them without being questioned, though he feared accidentally triggering a cultivation penalty.

Chen Qiu entered the Yin Realm disguised as a Dwarf Race cultivator, killed his guide, and discovered that killing foreign cultivators there still increased his cultivation. The Heavenly Dao declared him dead and announced a Grand Funeral of Heaven and Earth, prompting allies and sects across the Mystic Heaven Continent to react as doubts about his death persisted.

• Chen Qiu followed a Spirit Transformation Dwarf Race cultivator to the Requiem Gate and learned that the Dwarf Race used the Yin Realm to restore bodies and return from death.
• Chen Qiu entered the Yin Realm, where his guide tried to kill him, but Chen Qiu destroyed the Dwarf Race cultivator with Heart-Piercing Thorn and gained ten percent cultivation progress.
• Chen Qiu found that his Yang Realm treasures and abilities did not work in the Yin Realm, then left the transit enclosure to begin exploring.
• The Heavenly Dao proclaimed Chen Qiu dead, and snow, blood-red roses, and suona music spread across the Mystic Heaven Continent in a Grand Funeral of Heaven and Earth.
• Ao Tian stopped Fat Dragon from rushing into the cavern, while Scholar and Ao Tian doubted Chen Qiu had truly died; the Devil Race chief agreed to ask his ancestor to investigate.
• Central Province's hidden powers emerged and joined the chaotic era, while Mystic Heaven Sect's Sect Master and First Elder questioned Chen Qiu's death and the Dao Trigram Sect's Sect Master began a divination.

The Dao Trigram Sect’s tenth divination confirmed Chen Qiu’s death, stirring the Mystic Heaven Continent while he secretly emerged in the Yin Realm. After gaining the Heavenly Dao’s Maximum Merit Body and a milestone reward, Chen Qiu set out to find a city and learn how to return to the Yang Realm.

• The Dao Trigram Sect’s sect master sacrificed lifespan to perform a tenth divination, confirming Chen Qiu was dead, and the sect announced the result across the Mystic Heaven Continent.
• Xiao Yue grieved over Chen Qiu, while the Nine-Tailed Fox doubted he had truly died and Zhang Kui discovered he had regained first place on the Sin Points Leaderboard.
• The Buddhist Sect’s ancestor dismissed Chen Qiu’s death as settled while the Azure Mountain Palace ancestor questioned how quietly it had happened.
• Chen Qiu crossed the Yin Realm barrier, gained a physical body through the Heavenly Dao’s Maximum Merit Body, and tested its overwhelming strength.
• The Heavenly Dao rewarded Chen Qiu for completing a milestone quest, and he worried that it had made a statue of him in his Dwarf Race disguise.
• Chen Qiu raced through the wilderness to a city, joined the entry line to gather information, and heard that visitors had to pay five Low-Grade Yin Stones.

Chen Qiu explored Crow Ghost City after entering the Yin Realm, learned its basic rules, and discovered that his Merit Body made him exceptionally powerful there. When a Demon Race army attacked the city, he welcomed the chance to fight, while the Fate Sect’s former sect master feared Chen Qiu’s arrival and Qi Mei urged him to take revenge.

• Chen Qiu borrowed ten Yin Stones from a frightened Human Race cultivator and entered Crow Ghost City, where he heard a storyteller recount his exploits and announce that he had died and arrived in the Yin Realm with one hundred billion Merit Value.
• Chen Qiu bought a guide to the Yin Realm, learned how Ghost Cultivators and Soul Cultivators differed, and concluded that his Merit Body could overpower ordinary Nascent Soul Ghost Cultivators.
• Chen Qiu considered the effects of his traits and decided to leave Crow Ghost City for a nearby Demon Race city, whose inhabitants preyed on Human Race Ghost Cultivators.
• A warning announced that a Demon Race army was attacking Crow Ghost City, and Chen Qiu welcomed the chance to fight its Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• The former Fate Sect sect master feared that Chen Qiu might appear in Crow Ghost City, while Qi Mei knelt and demanded that he avenge the Fate Sect and its dead disciples.