Recaps

After the Immortal Ascension Opportunity ended, the cultivators returned to find the city gone and the secret realm emptied, while Yue Shu and the other aborigines blended into the departing crowd. Yue Shu escaped suspicion and left with the Azure Cosmos Academy, and Lin Qing approached a spaceship carrying three brothers as the chapter ended.

• The Immortal Ascension Opportunity dissipated, and hundreds of thousands of cultivators broke through to the Half-Immortal Realm.
• The returning cultivators found only a huge crater where the city had stood and searched the secret realm for clues.
• Yue Shu and the aboriginal half-immortals blended into the external cultivators, then flew toward the exit when it opened.
• Lin Qing concealed his cultivation as the cultivators left the secret realm, and Yue Shu told her academy mentor that her fellow apprentice-brother had been separated from her.
• After waiting a day for more disciples to return, the Azure Cosmos Academy departed with Yue Shu as its only survivor.
• Lin Qing knocked on the spaceship of three brothers and asked them for a ride.

Lin Qing accepted a ride from three twelfth-tier cultivators, then killed them when they tried to rob him and took their Flying Vessel. During the voyage, he learned that the Starry Sky Behemoth had killed Immortal King Xu Yong, leaving the Xu Household too vulnerable to pursue him, and completed his voyage while deepening his grasp of several laws.

• Lin Qing disguised himself as an eleventh-tier cultivator and persuaded three twelfth-tier cultivators to take him home on their Flying Vessel.
• After the Secret Realm exit closed, the three revealed their plan to rob Lin Qing, and he killed them and took control of their ship.
• Lin Qing checked the dead cultivators' belongings and searched for information about the Myriad Stars Immortal Court and the Xu Household.
• Lin Qing read an obituary reporting that the Starry Sky Behemoth had killed Immortal King Xu Yong, Xu Bai's ancestor, and concluded the Xu Household could no longer pursue him.
• During the three-month voyage, Lin Qing contemplated his forms of willpower until he comprehended them as laws.

Lin Qing sold the three brothers’ Flying Vessel in Pearl City and turned down a lucrative job to travel to the Northern Dian Nebula. He went to Pearl Interstellar Travel seeking a route onward, unaware that two True Immortals had selected him for a task.

• Lin Qing reached Boatfriend Boat Exchange after running out of money and offered the three brothers’ Flying Vessel for sale.
• A True Immortal employee raised the offer from three hundred thousand to three million Pearl Coins, and Lin Qing completed the sale.
• The True Immortal offered Lin Qing one hundred thousand Anhuang Coins to retrieve something from the Northern Dian Nebula, but Lin Qing declined and left.
• Lin Qing decided to seek detailed star charts in a Star Domain, hoping to find a chart that named the Milky Way Galaxy.
• Lin Qing visited Pearl Interstellar Travel, while the True Immortal watched him and consulted another True Immortal, who said Lin Qing’s identity was clean and he would be easy to handle.

Lin Qing boarded a Spacefaring Company vessel bound for Anhuang City, but grew suspicious when its route took it deep into space. When another vessel caught up and its crew revealed themselves as Space Pirates, Lin Qing and the other passengers were forced to face the danger.

• Lin Qing boarded the Flying Vessel after arranging passage to Anhuang City and resumed comprehending Laws during the trip.
• An attendant explained that the vessel would make several transfers because Pearl City and Anhuang City were extremely far apart.
• After more than ten days of travel through deep space, Lin Qing and the other passengers realized something was wrong, and the crew ordered them to stay quiet.
• A faster Flying Vessel caught up with Lin Qing's vessel, forcing its True Immortal crew to stop.
• A True Immortal announced that Space Pirates had intercepted them and ordered the passengers to help.
• Lin Qing and the other passengers left the vessel as its four True Immortals faced the five True Immortals from the pirate vessel.

Lin Qing and the other passengers were captured when pirates led by the Silver-Robed Woman defeated the Pearl Spacefaring Company’s True Immortals. After two months aboard the pirate ship, Lin Qing arrived at the pirates’ destination, Sin Abyss.

• The Silver-Robed Woman accused the Pearl Spacefaring Company of secretly trafficking people and attacked its True Immortals.
• Lin Qing and the passengers took control of the ship’s lower-tier staff while the True Immortals fought outside.
• The Silver-Robed Woman joined the battle, defeated the company’s True Immortals, and sealed their powers.
• The pirates ordered Lin Qing and the passengers aboard their ship and locked them in its cells.
• After two months of travel and several more days crossing a chaotic star system, a male True Immortal opened the cell and welcomed them to Sin Abyss.

Lin Qing and the other captives learned that the Sin Abyss pirate crew offered them a choice between working for a hundred years and paying three million Anhuang Coins. After choosing to pursue freedom, Lin Qing accepted an explosive restraint necklace and planned to deal with the payment later.

• The Silver-Robed Woman told the captives they could work for her for a hundred years or pay three million Anhuang Coins to leave.
• A True Immortal crewman fitted each captive with a necklace that bound their Primordial Spirit and would unleash a powerful attack if destroyed.
• The crewman warned that nearly everyone who chose to pay eventually died or failed to meet the required payments, prompting more captives to choose a hundred years of work.
• Lin Qing let the crew search his belongings and kept his Communication Tokens for Yuan Shuo and his companion.
• Lin Qing chose the three-million-coin option, though he did not intend to hand over the money when it was due.

Lin Qing and the other newcomers entered the Sin Abyss after choosing to work off their debts, then learned from a street cleaner that Dependents faced deadly risks if they tried to earn money. The chapter ended with Lin Qing asking how to make quick money despite the danger.

• Lin Qing joined the newcomers who had chosen to work, keeping a low profile as they left the pirate base.
• The group wandered through the dim streets and met a man cleaning the road, who recognized them as newcomers who had chosen to pay.
• The street cleaner explained that Dependents lived under the Register Keepers and risked their lives if they tried to earn money.
• He advised them to lie low and finish their hundred years of work, warning them not to use violence against other Dependents.
• Lin Qing stopped the street cleaner and asked what to do if he insisted on making quick money.

Lin Qing learned about three ways to survive in the Sin Abyss and chose to seek out a blood arena. He registered under the alias Star Crossing and asked Manager Hua to arrange his first match.

• The male cleaner explained that cultivators could join Space Pirate raids, explore dangerous regions, or fight in blood arenas, where winners claimed everything from their opponents.
• Lin Qing left the other cultivators and flew toward the neon-lit district to find a blood arena.
• An attendant led Lin Qing to Manager Hua, who explained the arena’s registration process and advised him to use an alias.
• Lin Qing registered as Star Crossing and received an identity card valid at every blood arena in the Sin Abyss.
• Lin Qing asked Manager Hua to arrange a blood match.

Lin Qing let Hua Yao arrange his first Blood Arena match, then entered the arena to face Split Rock, an eleventh-tier fighter with two wins. The chapter ended as Lin Qing stepped out before the roaring crowd and saw the blood-stained fighting platform and its spectators.

• Lin Qing exchanged contact details with Hua Yao, who arranged an eleventh-tier opponent for him named Split Rock.
• Lin Qing learned about the fighter betting counter and discovered that Tu Mi had taken his belongings, leaving him unable to place a bet.
• A muscular agent propositioned Hua Yao, but she refused him and led Lin Qing to the fighters' private lounge.
• After watching two matches, Lin Qing was called to fight and followed Hua Yao toward the arena entrance.
• The host announced Lin Qing and Split Rock, and Lin Qing emerged to face the blood-soaked platform and cheering spectators.

Lin Qing defeated Split Rock in his first Blood Arena match and collected his appearance fee. He asked Hua Yao to arrange a private place so he could deal with Split Rock’s corpse.

• Lin Qing entered the Blood Duel Platform and defeated Split Rock with a single strike, concealing most of his strength.
• Hua Yao congratulated Lin Qing and recognized that he had won with ease.
• Lin Qing received a White Card worth one hundred Anhuang Coins as his appearance fee.
• Lin Qing gave Split Rock’s saber to Hua Yao and asked her to arrange somewhere private; Hua Yao invited him to her place.

Lin Qing used Myriad Transformations Devour Origin to absorb Split Rock’s corpse, then began fighting stronger Blood Arena opponents to accelerate his cultivation and build wealth. After several wins, his record attracted offers, and Hua Yao asked whether he would fight a Late-Eleventh Tier opponent with fifteen wins.

• Hua Yao took Lin Qing to her villa and activated the True Immortal-level shielding array in the training room.
• Lin Qing absorbed Split Rock’s corpse with Myriad Transformations Devour Origin, reducing his time to breakthrough by three days.
• Lin Qing rejected a Mid-Eleventh Tier opponent, agreed to face a Late-Eleventh Tier fighter, and killed him after exchanging a dozen moves.
• Lin Qing and Hua Yao repeated their routine of betting, fighting, and training as his odds fell and his assets surpassed 100,000 Anhuang Coins.
• Hua Yao offered Lin Qing a match against a Late-Eleventh Tier opponent with fifteen consecutive wins for a five-Green-Card appearance fee, and Lin Qing accepted.

Ben Biao arranged for Lin Qing, fighting as Xingdu, to face the stronger Mysterious Zheng in a rigged match, while Hua Yao feared for him. As the bout began, Tu Mi recognized Lin Qing as one of her Dependents, and Ben Biao watched from a private box expecting him to lose.

• Ben Biao explained that Xingdu’s relationship with Hua Yao was unusual and arranged the match to target her.
• Hua Yao told Lin Qing that Mysterious Zheng was a dangerous fighter with fifteen consecutive wins and that Ben Biao was behind the setup.
• Lin Qing bet one hundred thousand on himself and entered the arena to face Mysterious Zheng.
• Tu Mi recognized Lin Qing’s necklace and complained that Hua Yao had signed one of her Dependents.
• Ben Biao watched from his private box, confident that Mysterious Zheng would defeat Lin Qing.

Lin Qing fought Mysterious Zheng in the Blood Arena, pretending to struggle before revealing his strength and killing him. He left the arena to thunderous cheers, where Hua Yao was waiting.

• Lin Qing evaded Mysterious Zheng's Blade Qi and let the fight appear to be going against him.
• Lin Qing cut off Mysterious Zheng's arm, shocking the spectators and Ben Biao while easing the tension in Tu Mi's private room.
• Mysterious Zheng unleashed faster, denser Blade Qi, but Lin Qing dodged it and closed the distance between them.
• Lin Qing scattered Mysterious Zheng's Blade Qi with a gale and killed him with a slash to the neck.
• Lin Qing waited for the arena barrier to open, then walked out as the crowd chanted his arena name and Hua Yao waited by the passageway.

After collecting his prize money and appearance fee, Lin Qing faced a crowd of managers trying to poach him from Hua Yao. He refused their offers and stood up to Ben Biao, but a man from the pirate squad arrived with a summons from his boss.

• Lin Qing collected an Orange Card worth one million Anhuang Coins and received five Green Cards as his appearance fee from Hua Yao.
• Ben Biao offered Lin Qing a contract, and other managers joined in with increasingly generous offers.
• Hua Yao grabbed Lin Qing's sleeve as she tried to keep him, but Lin Qing politely refused to change managers.
• Ben Biao threatened Lin Qing, who challenged him to send someone to take him down.
• A man Lin Qing recognized from the pirate squad approached and told him that the boss wanted to see him.

Lin Qing clashed with Tu Mi when he refused to greet her and left her private room, then learned she wanted him to retrieve an item from the Ruins. He refused to take the job outright but asked Hua Yao to explain the Ruins before deciding whether to explore them.

• Hua Yao and Lin Qing agreed to meet Tu Mi after her True Immortal messenger said she had invited them.
• Lin Qing stayed silent when Tu Mi and her men expected him to greet her, then walked toward the door despite Tu Mi ordering him to stop.
• Lin Qing returned alone to Hua Yao's villa and absorbed Mysterious Zheng's corpse while Hua Yao remained with Tu Mi.
• Hua Yao returned and told Lin Qing that Tu Mi wanted him to retrieve something from the Ruins in exchange for paying his three-million-coin debt and removing his necklace early.
• Lin Qing refused to retrieve the item for Tu Mi but asked Hua Yao to tell him about the Ruins.

Hua Yao told Lin Qing about her and Tu Mi’s past and asked him to retrieve a Storage Ring from the ruins, where it held a lead about the Space Pirates who destroyed their sect. Lin Qing agreed to help when the ruins opened in a month, and the chapter left him preparing to attend an auction the next night.

• Hua Yao explained that Space Pirates had destroyed her sect, after which she and Tu Mi were sold to a Flower Boat before another pirate crew rescued them.
• Hua Yao said she and Tu Mi had traced a lead about their sect’s attackers to an Eleventh Tier cultivator’s Storage Ring, lost in a canyon filled with Astral Gale inside the ruins.
• Lin Qing agreed to help retrieve the Storage Ring when the ruins opened in a month and told Hua Yao to keep booking his Blood Arena bouts.
• Lin Qing revealed that his Wind Will was almost perfected, reassuring Hua Yao that he could survive the ruins’ Astral Gale.
• Hua Yao could not arrange Lin Qing’s next bout because opponents were avoiding him after his victory over Mysterious Zheng, so Lin Qing decided to rest for a few days.
• Hua Yao told Lin Qing that a major auction would take place the following night, and he said he might attend.

Lin Qing attended an auction in Sin Abyss with Hua Yao and learned about Gamma Dust, a costly material that could conceal even a treasure’s aura from an Immortal Emperor. He planned to acquire enough to make a removable shell for Xiaodun, and learned that Sin Abyss was a major source of the substance.

• Tu Mi invited Lin Qing and Hua Yao to her private auction room, where Lin Qing took a secondary seat beside Tu Mi’s True Immortal subordinates.
• The auction opened with ten grams of Gamma Dust, drawing bids from Heavenly Immortals in the premium rooms.
• Tu Mi explained that Gamma Dust came from cosmic destruction and could conceal an object’s aura when applied in a thick coating.
• Lin Qing realized Gamma Dust could hide Xiaodun’s chaos aura and considered making a removable shell for his life-bound treasure.
• Tu Mi told Lin Qing that Gamma Dust cost one Purple Card per gram in Sin Abyss, where it was steadily extracted from ruins and Secret Realms.

Lin Qing watched the auction as Ben Biao bought the Void Condensation Disc, apparently intending to use it against him in the Ruins. The auction ended with the appearance of an Immortal King’s weapon, the Eternal King Halberd.

• Lin Qing recognized Ben Biao bidding on the Void Condensation Disc and realized Ben Biao wanted to counter his Wind Will in the Ruins.
• Hua Yao and Tu Mi stopped bidding, and Ben Biao won the disc for seven thousand Anhuang Coins.
• Tu Mi bought an Immortal Ascension Opportunity and offered to save it for Lin Qing, but Hua Yao revealed that Lin Qing already had an Orange Card.
• Lin Qing refused to repay Tu Mi, saying he needed his million Anhuang Coins as starting capital.
• The auction’s final lot appeared: the Immortal King’s weapon, the Eternal King Halberd.

Lin Qing watched the Eternal King Halberd go up for auction and learned that it had belonged to the fallen Immortal King Xu Yong. Five Immortal Kings and An Ke'er competed for the weapon, and Lin Qing discovered that she could see him through his Primordial Insight.

• The auction host revealed that Immortal King Xu Yong had died fighting a Starry Sky Behemoth and that his Eternal King Halberd had been consigned after the Xu Household fell into trouble.
• Immortal Kings bid against one another for the halberd, and Immortal King Zui Ji identified himself as the ruler of the Sin Abyss.
• The bidding reached four trillion before An Ke'er offered five hundred billion more and said the Myriad Stars Immortal Court had sent her to retrieve the halberd.
• Hua Yao told Lin Qing that An Ke'er was Anhuang's First Immortal Minister.
• Lin Qing used Primordial Insight to look into An Ke'er's private room and found her looking directly at him.

An Ke'er won the Eternal King Halberd at the auction, while Lin Qing continued earning money in the Blood Arena until the betting limit made further fights less profitable. He then left with Hua Yao aboard Tu Mi's Flying Vessel as the Ruins were about to open.

• An Ke'er outbid the Immortal Kings for the Eternal King Halberd, and Zui Ji invited her and the Immortal Kings to a banquet.
• Lin Qing and his companions encountered Ben Biao outside the auction, and Ben Biao later reported Lin Qing's understanding of Wind Will to his lord.
• Lin Qing won seven Blood Arena matches over the next month and built his wealth to around two hundred million Anhuang Coins.
• The betting counter capped Lin Qing's wager at one hundred Orange Cards, limiting his future earnings, so Hua Yao stopped arranging fights.
• Lin Qing and Hua Yao boarded Tu Mi's Flying Vessel and headed toward the Ruins as they were about to open.

Lin Qing entered the Rift Ruins to search for clues about the space pirates who had attacked Hua Yao and Tu Mi’s sect. Ben Biao, who knew their purpose and had secretly sabotaged their earlier searches, sent a group of Peak Eleventh Tier cultivators into the Ruins after him.

• Tu Mi brought Lin Qing to the enormous rocky body containing the Ruins, where a widening crack revealed the entrance.
• Hua Yao and Tu Mi urged Lin Qing to find clues, and he left their spaceship and headed for the crack.
• Ben Biao arrived with a dozen Peak Eleventh Tier cultivators and revealed that he knew Hua Yao and Tu Mi’s purpose and had obstructed their search before.
• Lin Qing reached the crack first, entered the Ruins, and used his Divine Sense to survey the shifting terrain against the map Hua Yao and Tu Mi had given him.

Lin Qing discovered and looted a buried sect complex in the Ruins, finding valuable pills, treasures, and Storage Rings. He left the chapter facing a massive funding shortfall: covering Xiaodun in Gamma Dust would cost four trillion Anhuang Coins.

• Lin Qing surveyed the Ruins and found a buried sect complex that earlier cultivators had missed.
• Lin Qing hid from the observers outside, entered the complex, and collected pills and treasures while skipping the Divine Realm texts.
• Lin Qing broke the True Immortal-level formation on the treasury door with a blow empowered by the Law of Destruction.
• Lin Qing searched the complex and its remains, gathering valuables to help pay for his plans.
• Lin Qing calculated that coating Xiaodun as a fully enclosed Spaceship would require forty million grams of Gamma Dust, costing four trillion Anhuang Coins.

Lin Qing tracked down the buried Astral Gale Canyon by following a group of Peak Eleventh Tier cultivators who were searching for him. At its entrance, he revealed his Twelfth Tier strength and used Myriad Transformations Devour Origin to drain the group, raising his cultivation to Mid-Eleventh Tier.

• Lin Qing searched the Ruins for Astral Gale Canyon and avoided killing cultivators who had been forced to hunt there.
• Lin Qing overheard a group of Peak Eleventh Tier cultivators discussing their search for him and learned that Astral Gale Canyon had been buried underground.
• Lin Qing followed the group as they used a Small Compass and Anti-Tracking Methods to reach the buried canyon.
• Lin Qing trapped the group at the entrance to Astral Gale Cave with his Divine Sense Pressure and revealed himself.
• Lin Qing drained more than a dozen cultivators with Myriad Transformations Devour Origin and advanced to Mid-Eleventh Tier.

Lin Qing entered the Astral Gale Cave to retrieve Hua Yao and the others’ missing Storage Ring, but the Wind Law grew stronger with every step. After pushing through a dangerous stretch, he rounded a bend and saw something that made his eyes light up.

• Lin Qing examined the cave and found that its Wind Will could shred even his exceptionally strong Divine Sense.
• Lin Qing entered the cave and realized its inward-pulling wind had drawn the missing Storage Ring and the dead cultivators deeper inside.
• Lin Qing probed farther and found perfected Wind Will followed by Wind Law stronger than his own.
• Lin Qing continued into the Wind Law region, keeping some power in reserve so he could escape the cave’s inward pull if needed.
• Lin Qing rounded a bend after enduring the increasingly powerful wind, and his eyes lit up at what he saw ahead.

Lin Qing repaired the damaged Wind Law stele in the Wind Cave, collected hundreds of Storage Rings, and returned to Hua Yao and Tu Mi. While searching them, Hua Yao found the clue they had sought: a Communication Bracelet that identified its owner as Ben Biao.

• Lin Qing found the missing piece of the blue stele, restored it, and stopped the astral gale flowing through the passage.
• Lin Qing collected the cultivators' Storage Rings, then found two more places to loot on his way back to the rift.
• Lin Qing returned to the Flying Vessel and gave Hua Yao and Tu Mi the bundle of Storage Rings to search.
• Hua Yao found an old Communication Bracelet in one ring and restored its power.
• Hua Yao checked the bracelet and discovered that it belonged to Ben Biao.