Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing broke through to the Tenth Tier and discovered that his Dharma Aspect was already ten thousand zhang tall, placing his strength near the peak beneath the Divine Lords. After cultivating in seclusion, he sought rare materials at a Thousand Treasures Trading House and learned that Cloud-Pattern Elk Fat would soon be auctioned in Azure Pass City.

• Lin Qing broke through to the Tenth Tier, and his Dharma Aspect reached ten thousand zhang without the influence of any Will.
• Lin Qing tested his strength, moved to a secluded cave in Azure Cloud Myriad Peaks, and began cultivating with his Tenth-Tier Cultivation Art.
• Lin Qing's enormous Dharma Aspect drew attention, and Tao Tao suspected it belonged to him after returning to Late Smoke Spirit Palace.
• Lin Qing traveled to a prosperous city and asked Wang Shan at the Thousand Treasures Trading House about rare materials, paying one hundred million Spirit Stones for information.
• Wang Shan told Lin Qing that a powerhouse from the Lingxiao Sword Sect had hunted a Cloud-Pattern Elk and that its remaining parts would soon be auctioned in Azure Pass City.
• Lin Qing left for the teleportation plaza to travel toward Azure Pass City.

Lin Qing reached Azure Pass City and learned that the Cloud-Pattern Elk’s remains would be auctioned there. Before the auction, he headed to Mountain-Seeking Pavilion to seek information about other demon beasts and spotted Ren Wudi and Qiyue in a hunting team.

• Lin Qing traveled for half a month to Azure Pass City, paid the one-million-Spirit-Stone entry fee, and entered the city.
• Lin Qing heard that an Eleventh Tier powerhouse had slain a Cloud-Pattern Elk and that its remains would be auctioned in five or six days.
• Lin Qing learned about Mountain-Seeking Pavilion, where cultivators posted and accepted demon-beast hunting missions and bounties.
• Lin Qing went toward Mountain-Seeking Pavilion and saw Ren Wudi and Qiyue still working together in a team.

Lin Qing entered the Mountain-Seeking Pavilion to post purple bounty notices seeking the locations of three Monster Beasts. After he named the Azure Rock Lion, an Eighth Tier disciple said he knew someone with information about it.

• Lin Qing entered the Mountain-Seeking Pavilion and examined the purple bounty notices for Eleventh Tier Monster Beasts.
• Lin Qing told a pavilion disciple he wanted to post a purple bounty, and the disciple brought him to a private room with the rotating manager.
• Lin Qing offered ten billion Spirit Stones for information on a Mist-Pattern Tapir, and the manager prepared its bounty notice.
• Lin Qing asked to post matching bounties for a Fog-Ridge Fang and an Azure Rock Lion, prompting the Eighth Tier disciple to exclaim that he knew someone with Azure Rock Lion information.

Lin Qing learned that Zhang Wang and Hua You had tracked a Mid-Eleventh Tier Azure Rock Lion and negotiated to join their hunt. The three agreed to pursue separate parts of the beast, though Zhang Wang and Hua You remained cautious about Lin Qing’s hidden master.

• An Eighth Tier disciple told Lin Qing and the steward that a bounty for a Mid-Eleventh Tier Azure Rock Lion had gone unclaimed for ten days.
• Lin Qing paid the steward and disciple five hundred million Spirit Stones each to introduce him to the hunters.
• Zhang Wang and Hua You met Lin Qing, and he explained that his unseen master would help hunt the Azure Rock Lion.
• Lin Qing said he needed the lion’s horns, while Zhang Wang and Hua You asked for its scales and promised not to take any other parts.

Lin Qing attended the Azure Pass City auction to obtain Cloud-Pattern Elk Fat, outbidding the city lord before buying it. When the city lord attacked him afterward, Lin Qing shattered the attack and challenged him to face him in the air.

• Lin Qing gave Zhang Wang a Communication Token and arranged to contact him and Hua You at the auction five days later.
• Lin Qing paid to post bounties for the Mist-Pattern Membrane and Fog-Ridge Fang, then heard a cultivator describe a mysterious ring found in a Secret Realm three hundred years earlier.
• At the auction, Lin Qing raised his bid for Cloud-Pattern Elk Fat to ten billion Spirit Stones, forcing the city lord to withdraw.
• The city lord learned Lin Qing was a Rogue Cultivator and attacked his private room after Lin Qing completed the purchase.
• Lin Qing shattered the city lord's giant claw with one punch, broke through the auction house roof, and called the city lord up to fight.

Lin Qing fought the Azure Pass City lord after resisting his attack, then followed him away from the city to avoid harming bystanders. Their Dharma Aspects clashed, and the city lord sent his life-bound artifact at Lin Qing as Lin Qing prepared to counter it.

• The city lord attacked Lin Qing with earthen spiritual mountains, but Lin Qing evaded them with ease.
• The city lord flew away from Azure Pass City, and Lin Qing followed to keep their fight from endangering the city.
• The city lord summoned his ring-shaped life-bound artifact and a seven-thousand-zhang Dharma Aspect; Lin Qing summoned an equally large one with Wood Will.
• Lin Qing outmatched the city lord in their exchanges, sending him flying back repeatedly.
• The city lord launched his Mountain-Suppressing Ring Snare, and Lin Qing answered with Tree Realm Descends.

Lin Qing defeated the city lord and three Eleventh Tier cultivators after they intervened, then left them humiliated in Azure Pass City’s cesspit. He flew toward the Transverse Mountains.

• Lin Qing bound the city lord’s ring artifacts and vines, then dragged his Dharma Aspect to its knees.
• Three Eleventh Tier cultivators intervened and freed the city lord, prompting Lin Qing to expand his Dharma Aspect to ten thousand zhang and unleash Thunder Will.
• Lin Qing struck down all four opponents, collapsing their Dharma Aspects and paralyzing them with lightning.
• Lin Qing carried the four bodies to Azure Pass City and dropped them into a public cesspit, where the city’s cultivators witnessed the scene.
• After the four regained consciousness and Lin Qing recoiled in disgust, he flew toward the Transverse Mountains.

Lin Qing crossed the Transverse Mountains into the Southern Domain with Zhang Wang and Hua You, avoiding demonic beasts as they traveled. He discovered a tribe under attack whose totem pointed to a Mist-Pattern Tapir, one of the materials he needed for his formations, and the three headed there.

• Lin Qing met Zhang Wang and Hua You beyond the Transverse Mountains, and they continued toward the Southern Domain together while concealing their presence.
• Lin Qing used his strengthened Divine Sense to detect Eleventh Tier demonic beasts and guide the group around them.
• Lin Qing sensed a tribe under attack by a beast tide and recognized its Mist-Pattern Tapir totem.
• Lin Qing told Zhang Wang and Hua You that the tribe might lead him to a needed demonic beast, and they agreed to accompany him.
• Lin Qing, Zhang Wang, and Hua You hurried toward the besieged tribe.

Lin Qing intervened to save a tribe under attack and fought the Peak Eleventh Tier White Giant Wolf that confronted him on the way. After several hours of battle, the White Giant Wolf surrendered, and Lin Qing stopped attacking.

• Lin Qing used his Divine Sense to pin down the wolf pack attacking the tribe and save its elderly priest from the wolf king.
• A Peak Eleventh Tier White Giant Wolf noticed Lin Qing and charged at him as he flew toward the tribe.
• Lin Qing told Zhang Wang and Hua You to leave the White Giant Wolf to him, then fought it using his Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dharma Aspect.
• Zhang Wang and Hua You reached the tribe and helped the priest while the wolf pack scattered.
• After several hours of combat, the battered White Giant Wolf called out in a female voice that it surrendered, and Lin Qing ceased attacking.

Lin Qing spared the White Giant Wolf, accepted its fang, and learned that it had killed the tribe’s totem over a thousand years earlier. The tribe’s priest showed him an old map to the Mist-Pattern Tapir’s nest, and Lin Qing decided to investigate for its shedding.

• The White Giant Wolf gave Lin Qing a fang after he chose to spare it.
• Lin Qing returned to the tribe and joined Zhang Wang and Hua You at the feast celebrating their survival.
• Lin Qing tried to contact Qing Yao with his Communication Token but received no response.
• The priest told Lin Qing that the tribe’s totem had fallen to a White Giant Wolf over a thousand years earlier.
• The priest showed Lin Qing a map marking the Mist-Pattern Tapir’s nest eighty million li away, and Lin Qing decided to visit it.

Lin Qing followed the priest’s map to the sinkhole where the Mist-Pattern Tapir had once lived, hoping to find its shedding, and entered a vast secret realm with Zhang Wang and Hua You. After discovering an unusually high number of powerful demonic beasts, Lin Qing realized a Divine Lord-level being might rule the realm and considered retreating.

• Lin Qing gave the priest a Storage Ring of Spirit Stones, then set out with Zhang Wang and Hua You toward the Mist-Pattern Tapir’s former nest.
• Lin Qing learned the nest was about eighty million li away, near the sinkhole where Zhang Wang and Hua You had encountered the Azure Rock Lion.
• The three descended into the sinkhole, fought off several flying demonic beasts, and passed through a blur into a secret realm beneath the darkness.
• Lin Qing searched the realm with Zhang Wang and Hua You but found no Azure Rock Lion and discovered that the secret realm stretched across an immense area.
• Zhang Wang urged them to leave after they encountered many powerful demonic beasts, and Lin Qing suspected a Divine Lord-level being ruled the realm.

Lin Qing found and killed the Azure Rock Lion, then hurried Zhang Wang and the other man toward the secret realm’s exit after sensing a powerful danger. A colossal demonic beast was speeding underground toward them, while a Divine Lord watched from far away.

• Lin Qing found the Azure Rock Lion underground as he led Zhang Wang and the other man toward the exit.
• The Azure Rock Lion charged at them, but Lin Qing killed it instantly with a lightning spear and stored its corpse.
• Lin Qing sensed an intense warning of danger and seized Zhang Wang and the other man before rushing straight toward the exit.
• A Divine Lord watched Lin Qing from more than one hundred million li away as an immense demonic beast tunneled toward them, leaving a trail four hundred li in diameter.

Lin Qing escaped the secret realm with Zhang Wang and Hua You after a Divine Lord Realm Earthworm tried to stop them. In the Southern Domain, Lin Qing recognized Ren Wudi and Qiyue fleeing with his master ancestor and Qing Yao, while the Earthworm sent demon beasts toward the exit.

• Lin Qing, Zhang Wang, and Hua You reached the secret realm's exit as the giant Earthworm pursued them and used a Divine Sense attack to slow them.
• Lin Qing brought Zhang Wang and Hua You out of the secret realm, then gave them the Azure Rock Lion's corpse to divide.
• Lin Qing sensed Ren Wudi and Qiyue fleeing with two others and recognized their pursuers as a man and a woman, including Luo Xue's mother.
• Lin Qing saw through the fleeing pair's disguises and realized they were his master ancestor and Qing Yao, then rushed toward them.
• The giant Earthworm ordered demon beasts to gather at the exit and kill the people who had escaped.

Lin Qing arrived to protect Qing Yao and her companions from Luo Xue's mother, then revealed his identity after she recognized him. As battle was about to begin, more than a dozen Eleventh Tier demon beasts charged toward them from the sinkhole.

• Lin Qing reached Qing Yao and her companions and reassured them that he could handle their pursuers.
• Lin Qing revealed his overwhelming Divine Sense and waited for Luo Xue's mother to arrive.
• Luo Xue's mother recognized Lin Qing, and Luo Xue's former suitor accused him of killing her.
• Lin Qing learned that Luo Xue's mother recognized him from their past fight and because he was the only one likely to protect Qing Yao's group.
• More than a dozen Eleventh Tier demon beasts, including several at Peak Eleventh Tier, rushed toward Lin Qing and the others.

Lin Qing summoned his enormous Dharma Aspect as a horde of demonic beasts converged on the sinkhole, then killed Luo Xue's mother and her suitor before confronting the beasts. As the battle stalled after his first clash with two attackers, a giant white wolf offered to help him.

• Demonic beasts across the Southern Domain fled as a massive beast tide gathered around the sinkhole, while cultivators began to flee or speculate that Lin Qing had caused it.
• Lin Qing summoned a ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Aspect, sheltered Qing Yao and the others inside it, and called Zhang Wang and Hua You over.
• Lin Qing crushed Luo Xue's mother's and her suitor's Dharma Aspects, killed them, and took their Storage Rings.
• Lin Qing advanced toward twelve Eleventh Tier demonic beasts, hoping to hunt a Fog-Ridge Fang for the materials needed to complete a Twelfth-Tier Formation.
• Lin Qing used a water curtain to extinguish a flaming eagle's attack, seized its wing, and struck it with purple lightning before a swift, green deer-shaped beast interrupted him.
• Lin Qing avoided the deer's horn and the vines creeping toward his Dharma Aspect, then smashed the eagle into the deer as the other beasts approached; a giant white wolf offered to help.

Lin Qing fought the demon beasts sent by Lord Yuan, with White Giant Wolf joining him against the bear. Lin Qing killed the deer-shaped and avian demon beasts and fixed his gaze on the crocodile-shaped demon beast hiding in the swamp.

• White Giant Wolf arrived and chose to fight the bear demon beast, while Lin Qing faced the other three demon beasts.
• The crocodile-shaped demon beast flooded the battlefield and filled it with poisonous fog, but Lin Qing burned the fog away with his Fire and Wind Wills.
• The deer-shaped demon beast charged Lin Qing from behind as the crocodile attacked, and Lin Qing threw the deer into the crocodile's jaws.
• The crocodile-shaped demon beast performed its Death Roll and twisted the deer-shaped demon beast in two, allowing Lin Qing to destroy its Primordial Spirit and take its upper body.
• Lin Qing seized the avian demon beast in midair, tore it apart, destroyed its Primordial Spirit, and took its corpse.
• The crocodile-shaped demon beast shifted through the swamp, but Lin Qing kept his eyes fixed on it.

Lin Qing killed the crocodile-shaped demon beast and the bear-shaped demon beast, then obtained the Mist-Pattern Tapir Shedding from the White Giant Wolf. He brought the wolf and his companions away from the battlefield, where he asked why his Martial Ancestor and Great Martial Aunt were with Ren Wudi and the others.

• Lin Qing used Earth Will to stop the crocodile-shaped demon beast and killed it with a spiritual-energy iron shovel.
• Lin Qing pursued the fleeing Eleventh Tier demon beasts, captured Fog-Ridge Fang, and returned to find the bear-shaped demon beast had stopped resisting; he killed it and gave its corpse to the White Giant Wolf.
• The White Giant Wolf offered Lin Qing the Mist-Pattern Tapir Shedding it had kept, and Lin Qing gave it the crocodile-shaped demon beast's corpse in return.
• Lin Qing led his companions and the White Giant Wolf away from the battlefield, intending to protect the wolf after it had helped him.
• After confirming they were no longer being followed, Lin Qing stopped on a mountain peak and asked why his Martial Ancestor and Great Martial Aunt were with Ren Wudi and the others.

Lin Qing revealed that his master, Juechenzi, had vanished in Central Continent, and considered the extraordinary Storage Ring Juechenzi had given him as a possible reason powerful forces might be interested in him. After Ren Wudi offered to help and the others agreed to travel with Lin Qing, he planned to escort them to Eastern Profound before returning to investigate his master's disappearance.

• Qing Yao and their Grandmaster considered silencing Ren Wudi and Qiyue after their identities were exposed, but Lin Qing decided against it.
• Lin Qing wondered whether the Storage Ring that concealed his Five-Element Spirit Veins was attracting the superpowers' attention.
• Ren Wudi offered to help, and Lin Qing told him that Juechenzi had disappeared in Central Continent more than two years earlier.
• Qiyue swore she would not reveal the matter, while Lin Qing thanked Zhang Wang and Hua You for standing with him and invited them to Eastern Profound.
• Lin Qing agreed to escort Ren Wudi, Qiyue, Zhang Wang, Hua You, and his Grandmaster back to Eastern Profound before returning to Central Continent to search for Juechenzi.

Lin Qing led the group from the Southern Domain toward Eastern Profound aboard the White Giant Wolf, avoiding Central Continent while promising to search for Juechenzi. Along the way, Grandmaster shared an Eleventh-Tier Cultivation Art with Zhang Wang and his companion, and the giant wolf received the name Little White.

• Lin Qing reassured Qing Yao that he would do everything he could to find Juechenzi, then led the group toward Eastern Profound on the White Giant Wolf's back.
• Lin Qing asked Zhang Wang and his companion about their plans, and Zhang Wang explained that they had been seeking a cultivation art through an agreement with an elder of the Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
• Grandmaster offered Zhang Wang and his companion an Eleventh-Tier Cultivation Art, and they accepted after Lin Qing nodded his approval.
• Lin Qing named the White Giant Wolf Old White, but Qing Yao suggested Little White, which the wolf happily accepted.
• Grandmaster, Qing Yao, and Zhang Wang's companion studied the cultivation art during the journey, while Qing Yao drank with Lin Qing and wept over her worry for Juechenzi.
• The group traveled through remote waters toward Eastern Profound, where the environment and demonic beasts were far more dangerous than along the usual route.

Lin Qing and his companions were swept into a strange gray mist that blocked Divine Sense and carried a new stretch of land with it. The mist’s powerful Death Intent began injuring them, and Lin Qing used Life Intent to keep them alive as they faced the need to find a lasting defense.

• Lin Qing sensed an invisible barrier approaching, and Little White tried to flee with the group as it rapidly closed in.
• The barrier engulfed them as gray mist, disabling their Divine Sense, and a stretch of land appeared where there had been ocean.
• Qing Yao began bleeding from within, and the Grandmaster, Zhang Wang, and Hua You soon showed similar symptoms.
• Lin Qing recognized the force as strong Death Intent and used Life Intent to stabilize everyone, including Little White.
• Lin Qing found that his Life Intent could not cover Little White, so he told Little White to shrink.