Recaps

Qi Mei and the Fate Sect master lured Chen Qiu toward an ambush by the Demon Race, hoping to avenge the Fate Sect. Chen Qiu killed Qi Mei, drew the Demon Race into battle outside Crow Ghost City, and left four Peak Spirit Transformation cultivators waiting for reinforcements as he feigned serious injury.

• Qi Mei persuaded the Fate Sect master to spread slander about Chen Qiu and negotiate with the Demon Race, while Chen Qiu overheard their plan in Crow Ghost City.
• The Demon Race agreed to the ambush but withdrew from attacking Crow Ghost City to seek stronger reinforcements, while the Fate Sect spread false stories about Chen Qiu through the city's teahouses.
• Chen Qiu revealed himself at Qi Mei's storytelling performance, killed Qi Mei, and walked out of Crow Ghost City to face the Demon Race cultivators waiting outside.
• Chen Qiu killed the three Spirit Transformation Early Stage cultivators and one Peak Spirit Transformation cultivator while pretending to be badly wounded by the attackers.
• The four remaining Peak Spirit Transformation cultivators called for reinforcements and surrounded Chen Qiu rather than attack again.

Chen Qiu pretended to be near death to lure Demon Race Ghost Cultivators into attacking him, killing wave after wave and advancing from the First to the Eighth Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm. After he killed the Demon Race clan chief and his reinforcements, he left Crow Ghost City, where witnesses realized the battle had spelled disaster for the Demon Race in the Yin Realm.

• Chen Qiu feigned injuries while waiting for reinforcements, then killed successive groups of Demon Race Ghost Cultivators as their attacks raised his cultivation to the Fourth Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• The Demon Race clan chief arrived with dozens of Spirit Transformation cultivators and attacked Chen Qiu, who dropped his act and slaughtered them all before killing the chieftain.
• Chen Qiu reached the Eighth Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm, announced himself as Sect Master of the Mocking Heaven Sect, and left to find the Dwarf Race and prepare to return to the Yang Realm.
• The people on Crow Ghost City's walls discovered Chen Qiu had carved his greeting into the ground during the battle and realized the Demon Race had lost its high-level fighters.

Chen Qiu returned from the Yin Realm after discovering that his death had advanced a Milestone Mission, and his name reappeared at the top of the Heavenly Dao Leaderboard. His revival shocked the Mystic Heaven Continent’s forces, many of which hastily announced they would hide from the world again.

• Chen Qiu disguised himself as a Dwarf Race member, escaped the Yin Realm through a dried-up well, and learned the entrance would soon close.
• Chen Qiu realized entering the Yin Realm had triggered another heavenly and earthly phenomenon through his “Buried with Full Honors After Death” trait, and he headed back toward the well to pursue more Milestone Missions.
• Fat Dragon, Ao Tian, Scholar, and the Devil Race patriarch celebrated when Chen Qiu’s name returned to first place on the Heavenly Dao Leaderboard.
• Xiao Yue, Zhang Kui, the Buddhist Sect ancestor, and the Mystic Heaven Sect reacted with shock to Chen Qiu’s revival, while Zhang Kui fled back to Quzhou.
• The Dao Trigram Sect Master confirmed Chen Qiu had truly died before reviving, and top forces across the provinces announced they would seal their mountains and hide from the world again.

Chen Qiu repeatedly died and revived, causing the Heavenly Dao to sound more than a hundred funeral edicts across the Mystic Heaven Continent while he completed his Yin Realm mission and escaped the Dwarf Race. By the chapter’s end, both realms knew his name, while the Buddhist Sect patriarch still insisted his hidden move against Chen Qiu would succeed.

• The Heavenly Dao repeatedly announced Chen Qiu’s death, then restored his name to the leaderboard, leaving Fat Dragon, Ao Tian, Zhang Kui, and others bewildered as they alternated between mourning and celebrating.
• Central Province factions repeatedly announced that they would emerge from or retreat into seclusion, then stopped as Chen Qiu’s name kept returning to the leaderboard.
• In the Yin Realm, the Heavenly Dao repeatedly announced Chen Qiu’s merit and changed his reward from a wisp of Fortune of the Yin Soul to nothing.
• Chen Qiu sensed Void Refinement Realm cultivation awakening among the Dwarf Race, checked his completed milestones, and escaped by crushing a prepared teleportation talisman.
• The repeated edicts and snow-and-rose phenomena made Chen Qiu famous across both the Yang Realm and Yin Realm, and one faction proposed a Resurrection Festival in his honor.
• The Buddhist Sect patriarch swept away his Go board and claimed his hidden move could defeat Chen Qiu, while the Azure Mountain Palace Patriarch doubted him and considered surrendering.

Chen Qiu returned from the Yin Realm at the Eighth Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm, endured a massive accumulated Thunder Tribulation, and helped the Devil Race destroy the Dwarf Race. After leaving for Dragon Island, the story shifted to Quzhou, where neighboring sects treated it as Chen Qiu’s territory and Jingzhou sects offered apologies rather than contesting a newly appeared secret realm.

• Chen Qiu told the Devil Race patriarch he would handle the Dwarf Race’s Spirit Transformations if the Devil Race launched an assault, then revealed his Eighth Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm and drew powerful accumulated tribulation clouds.
• Chen Qiu agreed that the Devil Race would take the Dwarf Race’s wealth while the Mocking Heaven Sect took its Nascent Souls, then entered the underground cavern as his Thunder Tribulation struck.
• After the Thunder Tribulation disrupted the Dwarf Race’s formation, Chen Qiu and the Devil Race led a three-day battle that ended with the Dwarf Race’s complete defeat and the death of its Void Refinement ancestor.
• Qu Gui used concealment and his Backstab trait to kill Dwarf Race Nascent Souls, while Zhao Dezhu and other Mocking Heaven Sect disciples competed to collect them.
• Chen Qiu left for Dragon Island with the Mocking Heaven Sect, while the Devil Race chieftain mourned the Dwarf Race’s fall and sent word about surviving fugitives fleeing toward Quzhou.
• At a secret realm on the Quzhou-Jingzhou border, Jingzhou sect masters declined to contest Quzhou’s claim and apologized for past disputes, citing Chen Qiu’s protection of the province.

Chen Qiu helped Qu Gui and Fat Dragon prepare to advance to Spirit Transformation, then gained Supreme Grade traits that greatly strengthened his Lightning-Channeling Art. After hosting a bonfire party on Dragon Island, he heard Ao Tian pledge the Dragon Race’s lasting gratitude and confidence in its revival.

• Quzhou sect masters accepted the Spirit Stones Chen Qiu had sent, and one displayed a Mocking Heaven Sect token to reassure Jingzhou’s sect masters of their ties.
• Chen Qiu gave Qu Gui and Fat Dragon tribulation-weakening spirit treasures, then awarded Qu Gui an Eighth-Grade Spirit Transformation Domain after Fat Dragon yielded the opportunity.
• Qu Gui and Fat Dragon left to undergo their Thunder Tribulations, while Chen Qiu saved his High-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheels and inspected his statues in the Celestial Palace.
• Chen Qiu selected the Supreme Grade traits Exquisite-Grade Lightning Dharma Physique and Quick Eyes, Quick Hands, then tested their effect by firing Thunder Dragons into the sea at tremendous speed.
• Chen Qiu called the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples and Dragon Race members together for a bonfire party, where Ao Tian said the Dragon Race would soon rise again and vowed never to forget Chen Qiu’s kindness.
• Black Dragon watched the party from nearby, frustrated that he could not take human form and join in.

Chen Qiu settled the Mocking Heaven Sect and Dragon Race’s plans while Scholar left to seek an opportunity, but Ao Tian discovered that Black Dragon had entered the Dragon Palace’s deadly inheritance. The chapter ended with Ao Tian fearing Black Dragon had a ninety-nine percent chance of dying there.

• Qu Gui admitted stealing wounded Dwarf Race heads from the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples, then offered to make amends by taking them somewhere fun.
• Chen Qiu bought the Snow Gives Birth to All Things Spirit Transformation Domain and considered the trials he might face when breaking through to Void Refinement.
• Ao Tian mistakenly believed Chen Qiu agreed to marry Fat Dragon to his daughter; Chen Qiu supported a marriage alliance but objected to Ao Tian’s original candidate, and Ao Tian and Fat Dragon went off to plan the wedding.
• Scholar asked to explore the Mystic Heaven Continent while the Mocking Heaven Sect secluded itself, and Chen Qiu agreed to have Black Dragon take him there.
• After three days of cultivation, Ao Tian told Chen Qiu that Black Dragon had vanished; they concluded he had likely gone to the Dragon Palace, where a dangerous inheritance threatened to kill him.

Wang Xin celebrated reaching one million words within a month of going premium, while reflecting on the book’s progress and his goal of writing a five-million-word novel. He left readers with a request for monthly votes and expected to take a day off at 1.2 million words.

• Wang Xin announced that his book had passed one million words a month after going premium, earning its first recommendation at that milestone.
• Wang Xin said subscriptions had held steady and readership was growing, which comforted him as he marked the achievement.
• Wang Xin reflected on his goal of writing a long, enjoyable novel and asked readers to forgive occasional plot inconsistencies.
• Wang Xin said he hoped to reach five million words, despite his editor’s prediction that the book would top out at two million.
• Wang Xin asked readers for monthly votes and said he expected to take a day off at 1.2 million words.

Ao Tian told Chen Qiu that the Dragon Palace could not be found without its stolen token, leaving Black Dragon’s fate to the inheritance trial. Inside the Dragon Palace, Black Dragon won the first trial through a dangerous poison trap and began recovering in the Dragon Immortal Spring as the trial guardian prepared his rebirth.

• Ao Tian explained that Black Dragon had taken the Dragon Palace Token and that the inheritance could not be stopped, while Chen Qiu stayed with him and suggested Black Dragon might have sought to prove his worth.
• Black Dragon endured three days of fighting the adult dragon in the first inheritance trial, using concealment and poisoned scales to make the opponent poison himself.
• Black Dragon defeated the adult dragon but collapsed from his injuries and the toxins, and the trial guardian caught him in the Dragon Immortal Spring, where his wounds began to heal.
• The trial guardian revealed that the first trial required shattering and regrowing a young dragon’s scales, then forcibly pulled out Black Dragon’s remaining scales to complete Bone-Shedding Rebirth.

The Black Dragon passed the Dragon Race Inheritance, learned that his lack of killing intent made him a natural assassin, and was trained by the middle-aged man until he could reach Spirit Transformation and take human form. When he returned to Dragon Island, he interrupted his own funeral and reunited with Ao Tian, whose choices as Dragon Race Chief had hurt his son; Ao Tian resolved to show the Black Dragon his fighting spirit.

• The middle-aged man told the Black Dragon that enduring the destruction of his scales had passed the inheritance trial, then discovered in an illusion that the Black Dragon killed without any killing intent because he believed his victims deserved to die.
• The middle-aged man awarded the Black Dragon the highest-grade inheritance and said he would guide him for a month until he reached Spirit Transformation and could assume human form.
• After stabilizing his cultivation, Chen Qiu joined Ao Tian in preparing a funeral for the missing Black Dragon, whom they believed had died seeking the inheritance.
• The Black Dragon returned in human form, mourned the dried fish Ao Tian had placed at his grave, and accused his father of cowardice before learning that the fish were bought and dyed red.
• Ao Tian and the Black Dragon reconciled, but Ao Tian remained hurt by his son's criticism of his Spirit Transformation Domain and decided to take him to Mystic Heaven Continent to demonstrate the Dragon Race's fighting spirit.

After reaching Spirit Transformation, the Black Dragon celebrated by telling Qu Gui about his inheritance and becoming sworn brothers with Qu Gui and Fat Dragon. Chen Qiu entered the Endless Abyss secret realm, cleared its first stage, and began battling hundreds of Spirit Transformation ghosts and monsters in the second.

• The Black Dragon boasted to Qu Gui about surviving the Dragon Race Inheritance and obtaining the highest-grade inheritance.
• The Black Dragon proposed that he, Fat Dragon, and Qu Gui become sworn brothers, and the three performed the oath ceremony together on the beach.
• The Black Dragon left to share his news at Red Fish Shoal, while Fat Dragon welcomed Qu Gui as his younger brother.
• Chen Qiu chose the Endless Abyss Trait and entered its secret realm, where his Three Thousand Thunder Motions domain wiped out more than a thousand Nascent Soul Peak Realm monsters in the first stage.
• Chen Qiu chose to enhance his Lightning-Channeling Art, then faced more than five hundred Spirit Transformation Early Stage monsters in the second stage.
• Chen Qiu crushed the monsters' Spirit Transformation Domains with his two domains and unleashed Thunder Dragons that tore through the attackers.

Chen Qiu cleared the Solo Heavenly Dao Secret Realm’s fifth trial and received a mysterious token, while the Seventh Prince trained to reach the Mystic Heaven Continent and the Buddhist Sect Patriarch laid out plans against Chen Qiu. Four months later, Chen Qiu remained at the Ninth Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm and prepared to undergo a disciple’s Thunder Tribulation with him.

• Chen Qiu defeated the trials’ escalating Spirit Transformation opponents, chose rewards, and received an unidentified token after defeating thirty Peak Spirit Transformation Realm opponents.
• The Seventh Prince trained in Great Xia Kingdom, declared his intention to reach the Mystic Heaven Continent and honor Chen Qiu, and rebuked a woman for being weak.
• The Buddhist Sect Patriarch told the old man from Azure Mountain Palace that he had trapped Kong Ming as a fallback plan if his schemes against Chen Qiu failed.
• Four months later on Dragon Island, Chen Qiu pondered names for his four tiny Nascent Souls while Fat Dragon was overwhelmed by nearly a hundred young dragons.
• Chen Qiu checked that his cultivation had risen to 4% at the Ninth Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm and prepared to accompany a Mocking Heaven Sect disciple through a Thunder Tribulation.

Chen Qiu reached the Ninth Level of Spirit Transformation and spent a year cultivating on Dragon Island while the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples advanced. He completed the All-Members Spirit Transformation milestone, leaving only Unify Mystic Heaven before he could pursue the next continent, while Ao Tian warned that the Dragon Race was nearly bankrupt from raising its dragon hatchlings.

• Chen Qiu protected a Mocking Heaven Sect disciple through a Spirit Transformation tribulation, then chose the Divine Hand trait and resumed cultivation with a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill.
• Fat Dragon struggled to manage nearly a hundred dragon hatchlings, whose fights over a banana-leaf dragon outfit and his attention disrupted Dragon Island.
• After a year in seclusion, Chen Qiu found his cultivation at the Ninth Level of Spirit Transformation, while nearly all Mocking Heaven Sect disciples had reached Spirit Transformation Early Stage.
• Chen Qiu exchanged a Spirit Transformation Domain for Scholar and used the Sect Master Token to expel members who had not reached Spirit Transformation, completing the All-Members Spirit Transformation milestone and earning a Celestial Palace statue and a Mid-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheel.
• Chen Qiu noted that only Unify Mystic Heaven and Dao Equals Heaven remained among the milestones, then Ao Tian complained that the Dragon Race's reserves were nearly exhausted by the cost of raising more than three hundred dragon hatchlings.

After the Heavenly Dao Edict drew every Void Refinement cultivator to the Vast Continent, Chen Qiu led the Mocking Heaven Sect and Dragon Race across Mystic Heaven Continent, demanding tribute and spreading the sect’s jurisdiction. The chapter ended with Chen Qiu unleashing his three Thirteenth-Grade Spirit Transformation Domains against the Demon Race and killing its gathered cultivators.

• Chen Qiu learned that the Heavenly Dao Edict had opened travel to the Vast Continent and forced all Void Refinement cultivators to leave Mystic Heaven Continent, so he moved up his plan to visit the continent’s powers.
• Chen Qiu and the Mocking Heaven Sect visited the Buddhist Sect and Azure Mountain Palace, whose ancestors surrendered their entire treasuries and agreed to leave behind the Mocking Heaven Sect’s jurisdiction inscription.
• Chen Qiu’s forces spread across Central Province, accepting return gifts from sects and assigning them to carve the jurisdiction inscription throughout Mystic Heaven Continent; the Buddhist Sect’s ancestor and the Azure Mountain Palace ancestor decided to travel to the Vast Continent together.
• Fat Dragon persuaded Falling Blossom Valley’s master to reveal the hidden Minor Worlds of other powers, while Ao Tian collected a return gift from the Beast Taming Sect and Chen Qiu secured the Devil Race chief’s cooperation.
• Chen Qiu confronted the Demon Race, but its cultivators refused to accept his demand to carve the jurisdiction inscription in their forest.
• Chen Qiu activated his three Thirteenth-Grade Spirit Transformation Domains, suppressed the Demon Race’s domains, and swept its gathered Spirit Transformation cultivators away with a devastating lightning attack.

Chen Qiu wiped out the Demon Race’s Spirit Transformation cultivators, then prepared to leave the Mystic Heaven Continent for the Vast Continent as the Unify Mystic Heaven mission remained incomplete. In Mystic Heaven Province, Zhang Kui reunited with Wang Qi and confessed his love, but she revealed that she had already changed her gender before they met.

• Chen Qiu killed the remaining Demon Race Spirit Transformation cultivators and ordered the Mocking Heaven Sect to carve its name across the Demon Race Forest.
• After seven days of marking the Mystic Heaven Continent’s territories, Chen Qiu found that the Unify Mystic Heaven mission was still incomplete and planned to leave for the Vast Continent in one month.
• A Liu Family patriarch waited in Mystic Heaven Province for Chen Qiu, while the Buddhist Sect Patriarch and Azure Mountain Palace Patriarch hid until his arrival; Zhang Kui reached Cloud City and began setting up a shop.
• Zhang Kui recognized Wang Qi at the Beast Taming Sect shop and recounted their past, including how he killed a city’s inhabitants after mortals slandered her and how he had forced himself on her.
• Wang Qi told Zhang Kui she had avoided him because he forced himself on her, then revealed she had used the Yin-Yang Reversal trait before leaving the Beast Taming Sect six hundred years earlier.

Zhang Kui and Wang Qi revealed that they had each concealed their true sex from the other, and they reconciled after six hundred years apart. Chen Qiu completed all twelve Mystic Heaven Continent milestones, traveled to the Vast Continent, and claimed the Mystic Heaven Throne, becoming its first proven king.

• Wang Qi confessed to Zhang Kui that she had been born a man, and Zhang Kui revealed that she had been born a woman and disguised herself as a man.
• Xiao Yue learned that Zhang Kui was a powerful female formation cultivator and realized she had gained a martial mother.
• Chen Qiu received the final milestone rewards, and a continent-wide Heavenly Dao phenomenon raised his cultivation to 99% of the Ninth Level of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Chen Qiu led Ao Tian, Fat Dragon, and the others through a heavenly staircase to the Vast Continent, then entered the Celestial Palace and sat upon his throne.
• The Heavenly Dao named Chen Qiu the King of Mystic Heaven and bestowed Imperial Fortune, while cultivators across Mystic Heaven Province were forced to kneel and welcome his ascension.

Chen Qiu became the Mystic Heaven King and took the first throne, triggering the Throne Succession War and making himself a target across Mystic Heaven Province. Protected in the Celestial Palace for a month by twelve Void Refinement puppets, he began cultivating while factions gathered intelligence and considered their next moves.

• The Heavenly Dao announced the twelve thrones, sealed the provinces, and revealed that Chen Qiu’s throne granted powerful rewards while exposing his location.
• Greedy cultivators surrounded the Celestial Palace, but twelve Void Refinement puppets killed those who tried to enter, and the first king’s privileges kept Peak Spirit Transformation cultivators and stronger out for a month.
• Chen Qiu released Ao Tian and the others from his Minor World, told them to use the month to grow stronger, and began cultivating on the throne.
• A Fate Sect elder learned of Chen Qiu’s past from a Late Spirit Transformation cultivator from Mystic Heaven Continent and recruited him into the Mystic Heaven Fate Sect.
• Zhang Kui worried that Chen Qiu would face the whole province, while July Cat remembered his Merit Attack Token and nearly two hundred billion Merit Value.
• The Buddhist Sect patriarch told the Azure Mountain Palace elder that Chen Qiu had emerged from a sealed Minor World whose barrier exceeded Peak Void Refinement strength, and said he believed Chen Qiu could not die.

Chen Qiu faced a gathering of powerful cultivators intent on taking the Mystic Heaven Throne, while he calmly prepared to break through and fight them. The chapter left the siege imminent, with Ao Tian expecting defeat and Chen Qiu convinced he could win; it also showed Meiya mourning his departure and the Seventh Prince waking in a remote town.

• Four Peak Void Refinement experts and more than twenty other powerhouses gathered outside the Celestial Palace and demanded that Chen Qiu surrender the Mystic Heaven Throne.
• Young Master Qi explained how the group could avoid Merit Value backlash by having someone else kill Chen Qiu, then cycle through the throne to collect Spirit Transformation Domain Tokens.
• Ao Tian prepared to undergo his Void Refinement Tribulation, but told Black Dragon that their enemies would win; Fat Dragon, Scholar, and the others cultivated urgently as well.
• Chen Qiu continued cultivating toward 100% progress and considered his many trump cards, confident that he could defeat the besieging cultivators or unleash a devastating thunder punishment.
• Meiya told her master that she planned to cultivate until she could stand before Chen Qiu again, while her master suggested she fantasize about him returning for her instead.
• The grievously wounded Seventh Prince woke in a stone house near Deathknell Town, where a bearded man told him he had survived being buried beneath an avalanche.

The Seventh Prince reached the Mystic Heaven Continent after defeating the Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator Puppet, only to learn that Chen Qiu and the Mocking Heaven Sect were already famous there. Meanwhile, Chen Qiu reached Peak Spirit Transformation Realm in the Vast Continent, strengthened his lightning abilities, and gave Zhao Dezhu the Chicken-and-Dog Ascension domain as he considered how to stack its cultivation-speed effects.

• The Seventh Prince woke in Deathknell Town with severe injuries, questioned the bearded hunter, and learned more about his master Chen Qiu and the Mystic Heaven Continent.
• The Seventh Prince recalled how he defeated the Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator Puppet on his ninth attempt by sacrificing nearly all his remaining lifespan, then broke through to First-Grade Nascent Soul after reaching the Mystic Heaven Continent.
• After finding the Mocking Heaven Sect known throughout Quzhou, the Seventh Prince showed his sect token to a teahouse crowd, then vowed to reach Late Spirit Transformation Realm and follow Chen Qiu to the Vast Continent.
• In Great Xia, the Fat City Lord and Flying Fish City Lord discussed the Seventh Prince’s departure and the strange events occurring in the kingdom.
• Chen Qiu reached Peak Spirit Transformation Realm, used Mystic Heaven Fortune to strengthen his Lightning-Channeling Art, and considered forging the Mystic Heaven Throne into a spirit treasure.
• Chen Qiu gave Zhao Dezhu the Chicken-and-Dog Ascension domain and considered capturing throne holders to obtain more domain tokens and stack their cultivation-speed bonuses.

Chen Qiu opened the High- and Supreme-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheels, gaining the Demon-Subduing Pagoda and his first Red Trait, Sole Law Divine, which could strengthen his Lightning-Channeling Art. While Chen Qiu cultivated outside the Celestial Palace with ten days left before its shackles vanished, the Mystic Heaven Sect’s Void Refinement patriarch decided to apply for a Heavenly Hall job to escape worldly strife.

• Chen Qiu opened a High-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheel and chose Prodigy Fortune and Heavenly Dao Fortune Jade Slips.
• Chen Qiu used the Supreme-Grade Heavenly Dao Wheel to obtain the Demon-Subduing Pagoda and a Random Red Trait Jade Slip, passing over the Peerless Fortune and cultivation pills.
• Chen Qiu discovered that Sole Law Divine let him use Great Perfection spells to strengthen another spell, then prepared to consume Spirit Transformation spells and Enlightenment Stones to enhance his Lightning-Channeling Art.
• Sixteen days passed, leaving ten days until the Celestial Palace Shackles dissipated as crowds gathered to watch the coming conflict over Chen Qiu and the Mystic Heaven Throne.
• The Mystic Heaven Sect’s patriarch decided to apply for work in the Heavenly Hall, and the Sect Master warned him that the job would require a century of steady service.

Ling Yue finished her hundred-year contract as a heart-demon remover after listening to a Void Refinement cultivator confess to murdering the woman he loved and his family, while Chen Qiu prepared to undergo his Void Refinement Tribulation. The tribulation formed over the Celestial Palace, and Young Master Qi anticipated killing Chen Qiu once the shackles vanished, though the Sky Axe Sect's sect master feared Chen Qiu might survive and become a threat.

• Mystic Heaven Sect's Void Refinement ancestor told the Mystic Heaven Sect Master and elders that he planned to apply for a heart-demon remover position because it offered interesting work with little effort.
• Ling Yue listened as her final customer confessed that he had killed his childhood sweetheart and his family, then affirmed his actions so he could leave feeling relieved and complete her contract.
• Chen Qiu sent Ao Tian and the others into the Minor World, then began preparing to break through to Void Refinement with his enhanced Lightning-Channeling Art.
• Void Refinement cultivators gathered outside the Celestial Palace realized that joining Chen Qiu's tribulation could endanger them and scattered as black clouds gathered overhead.
• Young Master Qi watched the immense tribulation form and anticipated killing Chen Qiu to claim the Mystic Heaven Throne, while the Sky Axe Sect's sect master worried Chen Qiu might survive and threaten them.

Chen Qiu survived the eighty-one-strike Void Refinement Nine-Nine Tribulation, reached the First Level of the Void Refinement Realm, and chose a trait that raised his cultivation speed. He then confronted the Void Refinement cultivators waiting outside the Celestial Palace and nearly wiped them out with his domains and lightning attack.

• Chen Qiu endured the final scarlet strike of the Void Refinement Nine-Nine Tribulation, and a Heavenly Dao Edict announced that he had passed it and granted him Tribulation-Thunder Fortune.
• Chen Qiu healed his wound, reached the First Level of the Void Refinement Realm, and gave the two wisps of Tribulation-Thunder Fortune to the Lightning-Channeling Art and the Heavenly Secrets Umbrella.
• Chen Qiu chose the Pink Trait Far-Reaching Fame, which raised his cultivation speed by ninety times, then left the Celestial Palace before its shackles disappeared.
• The old monk, Young Master Qi, and other Void Refinement cultivators prepared to confront Chen Qiu, while the Sky Axe Sect Master kept his distance.
• Chen Qiu appeared before the cultivators and activated three Fourteenth-Grade Void Refinement Domains, suppressing Young Master Qi's and the old monk's domains.
• Chen Qiu unleashed a lightning attack that killed nearly all the Early, Mid, and Late Void Refinement cultivators, leaving the four Peak Void Refinement experts injured.

Chen Qiu annihilated the Void Refinement cultivators who had attacked him, secured the Mystic Heaven Throne, and accidentally trapped Young Master Qi in a Minor World after being expelled by the Mystic Heaven Throne. As Chen Qiu explored the Heavenly Hall, his enemies’ former allies sought advice on how to appease him, and his disciples began visiting a heart-demon removal master.

• Chen Qiu unleashed waves of instant Lightning-Channeling Art, killing several Peak Void Refinement cultivators and leaving the others dead, captured, or incapacitated.
• Chen Qiu used the Battle to the Death trait to pull Young Master Qi into a Minor World, but the Mystic Heaven Throne expelled Chen Qiu and left Young Master Qi trapped inside.
• Chen Qiu ordered Fat Dragon to restrain the surviving cultivators and learned that he had to remain in the Celestial Palace for eleven more days before claiming it as a special building.
• News of Chen Qiu’s victory spread through Mystic Heaven Province, while the Sky Axe Sect’s sect master asked the Buddhist Sect Patriarch and Azure Mountain Palace Patriarch how to survive having angered Chen Qiu; they advised him to surrender and kneel.
• Chen Qiu entered the Heart-Demon Removal Hall, learned that a man had died in his Void Refinement Tribulation, and sent the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples to have their heart-demons removed.

Chen Qiu used Human Prodigy Fortune to win rewards from all six Heavenly Hall prize pools, including a Purple Trait that converted his magic strength into physical power. When Kui Thirteen trapped him in a domain that suppressed spells and attacked, Chen Qiu fought back with overwhelming strength, while the Sky Axe Sect Master rushed in believing Chen Qiu needed rescuing.

• Ao Tian, Fat Dragon, and Scholar tried the Heavenly Hall prize pools and drew nothing, while Chen Qiu consumed Human Prodigy Fortune and won rewards from all six wells, including the Body-Magic Conversion trait and a Heavenly Dao Spirit Treasure.
• Ao Tian repeatedly drew from the Architecture Prize Pool and finally obtained a miniature scarecrow after spending eight thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Kui Thirteen approached Chen Qiu with several axe-wielding cultivators, activated his Self-Destruct Domain trait, and trapped the group in a domain that barred spells, talismans, and array disks.
• Chen Qiu activated Body-Magic Conversion, caught an attacker's axe with his bare hand, and smashed the attacker into blood mist with his Twelfth-Grade Nascent Soul.
• Chen Qiu caught Kui Thirteen's chains and repeatedly slammed him into the ground, shaking the Heavenly Hall.
• The Sky Axe Sect Master entered the Heavenly Hall, mistook the battle for Chen Qiu being overpowered, and charged into the domain shouting that he had come to save him.

Chen Qiu defeated the forces sent against him and permanently exiled both White Crane Daoist and Young Master Qi to separate Minor Worlds, then ordered the Sky Axe Sect to gather intelligence. Meanwhile, several cultivators sought work at the Heavenly Hall, and Chen Qiu ended the chapter by deciding to confront the Mystic Heaven Daily and roast the white crane outside his window.

• Chen Qiu captured Kui Thirteen, claimed the Heaven Chains as a weapon, and let the Sky Axe Sect Master leave with a Mocking Heaven Sect token after receiving his storage rings.
• Fat Dragon explained that the token meant the Sky Axe Sect could help the Mocking Heaven Sect acquire resources by backing its friends, just as White Crane Daoist arrived to challenge Chen Qiu.
• Chen Qiu's Battle to the Death entry permanently exiled White Crane Daoist to a Minor World, and he ordered Scholar to obtain detailed intelligence about Mystic Heaven Province's experts.
• Ling Yue finished removing the Mocking Heaven Sect disciples' heart demons, and the Mystic Heaven Sect's sect master took a hundred-year job at the Heart-Demon Removal Hall after despairing over Chen Qiu's achievements.
• The Sky Axe Sect Master visited the heart-demon specialist and found comfort in learning that other prodigies had also been crushed by Chen Qiu, while the Bai Family and the imprisoned White Crane Daoist waited for a chance to retaliate.
• After reading a Mystic Heaven Daily article that called him arrogant and bandit-like, Chen Qiu ordered his companions to identify its publisher and catch the white crane for dinner.