Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing left the Cloudrise Immortal Sect and raced from the Northern Chen Empire toward Great Qi after learning that Sunset Glow Valley was in danger. With an allied army due within an hour, Shen Yurong and Yuan Kun split the evacuation, sending the core disciples toward the Ten-Thousand Mountains while elders stayed behind to escort the remaining disciples.

• Lin Qing used the grand teleportation array to reach the Northern Chen Empire and flew across its capital toward Great Qi despite the ban on airborne travel.
• A plain-faced man watched Lin Qing leave and reported his destination through a Communication Token.
• Sunset Glow Valley’s elders struggled to evacuate ordinary disciples in small, disguised groups before the allied army arrived.
• Yuan Kun urged Shen Yurong to take Yun Nian, Yuan Chong, and the other core disciples to safety while the elders continued evacuating the rest.
• Shen Yurong led the core disciples toward the Ten-Thousand Mountains, while Yuan Kun and other elders remained in Sunset Glow Valley; Lin Qing was still two or three days away.

Shen Yurong and Sunset Glow Valley’s disciples were nearly wiped out by Hu Wanshan and Fierce Tiger Hall in the Ten-Thousand Mountains. Two Autumn Mountain Sect elders arrived, killed Hu Wanshan and drove off his forces, then warned Shen Yurong that Autumn Mountain Sect’s pursuers were close behind.

• Hu Wanshan surrounded Shen Yurong’s group and ordered Fierce Tiger Hall’s elders to slaughter Sunset Glow Valley’s disciples.
• Hu Wanshan mocked Shen Yurong and urged her to accept defeat as her disciples suffered heavy losses.
• Two Autumn Mountain Sect elders arrived, and the broad man killed Hu Wanshan with a wind blade.
• The Autumn Mountain Sect elders and Sunset Glow Valley’s survivors attacked Fierce Tiger Hall’s elders, who fled in every direction.
• Shen Yurong stopped her elders from pursuing the fleeing enemies, and the broad man told her to lead everyone deeper into the mountains because Autumn Mountain Sect’s pursuers were near.

Shen Yurong and the surviving Sunset Glow Valley disciples escaped with help from two Autumn Mountain Sect elders, who revealed that the Darknight Demon Court had orchestrated the campaign against them. The King of Qi and Great Qi’s leaders cornered the group, but Lin Qing arrived and overwhelmed them with his presence.

• Shen Yurong inspected Hu Wanshan’s Storage Ring, and the burly Autumn Mountain Sect elder led the survivors deeper into the mountains while evading their pursuers.
• The burly elder revealed that Lin Qing had once helped him reconcile with his junior sister and that the Darknight Demon Court had arranged Sunset Glow Valley’s destruction.
• The elder said that all of Great Qi’s top forces except the Sun Family had pledged allegiance to the Darknight Demon Court, and that he and his junior sister had protected Sunset Glow Valley in the hope that Lin Qing would stop its plans.
• The King of Qi and the leaders of Great Qi’s major forces caught up with the survivors, surrounded them, and demanded that they end their own lives.
• Lin Qing arrived, forcing the five Sixth-Tier Peak experts to the ground with his spiritual pressure, then looked toward the distant forest and ordered someone to come out.

Lin Qing overwhelmed the Darknight Demon Court’s Seventh-Tier disciples while protecting Sunset Glow Valley and killing King Qi and the Autumn Mountain Sect Master. Just as he was about to finish the battle, a powerful voice halted him and plunged the forest into darkness, signaling a Divine Descent.

• More than a dozen Seventh-Tier Darknight Demon Court disciples emerged from the forest and attacked Lin Qing.
• Lin Qing seized one disciple’s saber and killed him with a single slash, then fought the others with spells.
• King Qi and the Autumn Mountain Sect Master attacked Sunset Glow Valley, while three other sect masters turned on the Demon Court; Lin Qing killed King Qi and the Autumn Mountain Sect Master and shielded the valley’s people.
• Lin Qing summoned torrents of spiritual energy swords and a crimson firebird, cutting down the remaining Demon Court disciples.
• A majestic voice commanded the battle to stop, and darkness swallowed the forest as a Will Domain descended.

Lin Qing summoned Juechenzi’s Divine Sense Mark to confront Mingjin, who had trapped him and the Sunset Glow Valley survivors in a dark domain. After Juechenzi forced Mingjin to retreat, Lin Qing learned that Yuan Kun and the elders had died defending the valley, then hunted down the fleeing Fierce Tiger Hall elders as he led the survivors home.

• Lin Qing activated the Divine Sense Mark in his Storage Ring, and Juechenzi appeared to protect him from Mingjin.
• Mingjin demanded an item from Lin Qing, who refused, and Juechenzi clashed domains with Mingjin until Mingjin withdrew with the remaining Darknight Demon Court disciples.
• After the dark domain faded, Lin Qing learned from Shen Yurong that Yuan Kun and the elders had died evacuating ordinary disciples, and he found Yuan Kun’s head among the dead.
• Lin Qing obtained a roster of the fleeing Fierce Tiger Hall elders and led the exhausted Sunset Glow Valley survivors back toward their sect.
• Lin Qing tracked down and killed the remaining Fierce Tiger Hall elders with spiritual-energy flying swords, which returned carrying their heads.

Lin Qing quelled the looting of Sunset Glow Valley, arranged the surviving factions’ affairs, and persuaded Shen Yurong and the Sun Family to leave Great Qi for Cloudrise City. After gathering the survivors and their supplies, five Flying Vessels departed for Cloudrise Immortal Sect.

• Lin Qing led the Sixth-Tier cultivators in stopping the factions plundering Sunset Glow Valley and gathered them in Sunset Glow Hall.
• Lin Qing left Great Qi’s affairs to Sixth Princess Duan Qinghuan and assigned the other five major factions to manage Autumn Mountain Sect while protecting its innocent disciples.
• Lin Qing told Shen Yurong to relocate Sunset Glow Valley’s survivors to Cloudrise City, promising they could rebuild at their ancestral home once the danger passed.
• Shen Yurong buried Yuan Kun and the other elders, recalled the scattered disciples, and let them choose whether to migrate.
• Lin Qing warned Sun Shaoping that the Sun Family was at risk from Darknight Demon Court and offered it protection if it relocated.
• After buying five gigantic Flying Vessels, Lin Qing led Sunset Glow Valley’s survivors and the Sun Family toward Cloudrise Immortal Sect.

On the journey back to Cloudrise Immortal Sect, Lin Qing apologized to Duan Qinghuan for killing her father, King Qi, before their fleets parted without reconciling. Later, when supplies mysteriously vanished from his vessels, Juechenzi identified a Void Beast aboard and offered to help capture it.

• Lin Qing and Duan Qinghuan met aboard their passing fleets, and Lin Qing apologized for killing King Qi; Duan Qinghuan suppressed her grief and said nothing.
• Lin Qing returned to his vessel, and the two fleets continued on separate paths with their former connection left behind.
• As Lin Qing's fleet traveled toward Cloudrise City, he detected spirit materials disappearing from a storeroom despite keeping his divine sense spread across the vessels.
• Lin Qing asked Juechenzi about the theft, and Juechenzi identified a Void Beast and promised to help capture it alive.
• Lin Qing recognized the beast's extraordinary value for making storage equipment and decided to stop near the Northern Chen Empire's capital to rest and buy the materials Juechenzi requested.

Lin Qing brought Yun Nian, Xing Mian, and Yuan Chong into the Northern Chen Imperial Capital while the rest of their migration party stayed aboard the Flying Vessels. After shopping along the central commercial street, the group reached the Myriad Harmony Merchant Guild.

• Lin Qing landed the five Flying Vessels at the capital’s port and took Yun Nian, Xing Mian, and Yuan Chong into the city.
• Lin Qing hired a beast carriage to take them to the largest merchant guild in the capital.
• Lin Qing bought Clear-Mind Pills and Body-Tempering Pills for his companions and urged them to improve their cultivation.
• Lin Qing and the others browsed the central commercial street and arrived at the Myriad Harmony Merchant Guild.

Lin Qing visited the Myriad Harmony Merchant Guild to buy materials for capturing the Void Beast and learned that the essential Darkspace Obsidian could only be obtained at its auction. After purchasing the other materials, he watched the bidding begin and waited for the item he needed to come up.

• Song Nian told Lin Qing that the guild had most of his requested materials, but its Darkspace Obsidian was reserved for the semi-annual auction.
• Lin Qing and his companions were shown to a private auction suite, where they waited for the auction to begin.
• Su Wan opened the auction, and a customer bought the Azure Vein spirit sword for two hundred and thirty thousand spirit stones.
• Lin Qing declined to bid on other expensive items and paid Song Nian one million nine hundred thousand spirit stones for the assembled materials.
• Su Wan introduced the Darkspace Obsidian with a starting bid of one million spirit stones.

Lin Qing outbid Mo Shuxuan for the Darkspace Obsidian, spending all his Spirit Stones to secure the material needed for capturing the Void Beast. After Song Nian warned him that Mo might hold a grudge, Lin Qing left the auction with Yun Nian and the others, but Mo called out to stop them.

• Lin Qing raised the Darkspace Obsidian bid to three million Spirit Stones, then bid 3.1 million after Mo Shuxuan invoked his Cloudrise Immortal Sect status and offered 3.01 million.
• Mo Shuxuan abandoned the bidding, and Lin Qing won the Darkspace Obsidian for 3.1 million Spirit Stones.
• Song Nian delivered the treasure in a sealed jade box, accepted Lin Qing's full payment, and warned him that Mo Shuxuan might seek revenge.
• Lin Qing said he was unconcerned, then left the auction with Yun Nian and the other two to prepare to capture the Void Beast.
• An aged voice from behind Lin Qing called, "Stop!" as they reached the first-floor hall entrance.

Lin Qing confronted the Cloudrise Immortal Sect guest elder Mo Shuxuan at the Myriad Harmony Merchant Guild and killed him after overpowering him. He left with Yun Nian and the others, while the guild staff waited until they were gone before cleaning up.

• Mo Shuxuan confronted Lin Qing and rebuked him for disrespecting an elder after recognizing his Cloudrise Immortal Sect robes.
• Lin Qing attacked Mo Shuxuan, shattered his spiritual-power strike, and seized him with a giant scarlet hand.
• The crowd recognized Lin Qing as the cultivator who had overseen the Cloudrise Immortal Sect Entrance Examination and marveled at his victory over an Eighth Tier cultivator.
• Lin Qing asked the Sect Master to check Mo Shuxuan's records, and the Sect Master authorized him to act.
• Lin Qing crushed Mo Shuxuan into a blood mist, took his Storage Ring, and left the guild with Yun Nian and the other two.

Lin Qing opened Mo Shuxuan's Storage Ring and found a fortune of Spirit Stones and valuable formation diagrams. With Juechenzi's guidance, he arranged the five Flying Vessels as bait and activated a Ninth Tier formation to trap the Void Beast.

• Lin Qing consulted Juechenzi about the materials for the trap, and Juechenzi confirmed they were suitable and explained how Void Beasts moved between layers of the void.
• Lin Qing broke open Mo Shuxuan's Storage Ring and found 4.3 million Spirit Stones, several high-tier formation diagrams, and the Ninth Tier diagram that required Darkspace Obsidian.
• Lin Qing resolved to settle accounts with the Demon Court after bringing the people of Sunset Glow Valley safely to Cloudrise City.
• Over five days, Lin Qing noticed spiritual materials disappearing from the fleet's storerooms, confirming the Void Beast was still following them.
• Juechenzi guided Lin Qing as he placed materials across the five Flying Vessels and positioned them over an uninhabited region.
• Lin Qing placed the Darkspace Obsidian and activated the formation, enclosing all five Flying Vessels in a spherical silver barrier.

Lin Qing defeated a Peak Eighth Tier Void Beast after the formation forced it out of hiding, and Juechenzi praised his combat strength. Juechenzi told Lin Qing to prepare to enter a Central Continent secret realm in two years and offered to teach him formations.

• The Ninth Tier formation forced the Void Beast out of its hidden layer of space, and Lin Qing faced it while Juechenzi protected the Flying Vessel’s passengers.
• The Void Beast distorted space to evade Lin Qing’s attacks and struck his shoulder, but Lin Qing endured its assault and smashed its legs apart.
• Lin Qing used divine sense to overwhelm the Void Beast’s Divine Soul, then killed it with a twist of its neck.
• Juechenzi praised Lin Qing and told him that an Independent Secret Realm in the Central Continent would open in two years and admit Eighth Tier cultivators.
• Juechenzi offered to teach Lin Qing formations and said he would arrange his travel to the Central Continent.

Lin Qing brought Sunset Glow Valley to Cloudrise City, secured the sect a district, and helped it establish a pill business. With the sect settled and operating steadily, he went to the Cloudrise Immortal Sect’s Mission Hall to cause trouble for the Darknight Demon Court.

• Lin Qing completed two months of formation practice, reaching Eighth-Tier Perfection, and arrived in Cloudrise City with Sunset Glow Valley and the Sun Family.
• Sun Shaoping met Lin Qing at Southeast Gate Number Five, revealed he had reached the Spirit Realm, and led Sunset Glow Valley to a district he helped them purchase.
• Lin Qing and the sect’s leaders renamed the district’s meeting hall Sunset Glow Hall and agreed to train disciples in alchemy using Lin Qing’s unique pill formulas.
• Sunset Glow Valley began producing and selling exclusive First and Second Tier pills, and Lin Qing supported the opening of its shops.
• After Sunset Glow Valley settled in, Lin Qing went to the Cloudrise Immortal Sect’s Mission Hall to target the Darknight Demon Court.

Lin Qing memorized targets on the Demon Court bounty list and declined Ling Shu’s invitation to join a team mission. After Sun Shaoping asked for help inscribing a powerful array onto a jade pendant, Lin Qing recognized it as at least a Tenth Tier spatial array and took him to Juechen Island to work on it.

• Lin Qing studied the Demon Court bounty notices, memorized familiar targets and their movements, and decided to hunt them without accepting a mission.
• Ling Shu, fifth on the Heaven Ranking, invited Lin Qing to join her team, but he declined and left the Mission Hall.
• Sun Shaoping contacted Lin Qing and asked him to help set up an array formation on a jade pendant.
• Lin Qing examined Sun Shaoping’s array diagram and judged the spatial array to be at least Tenth Tier, possibly Eleventh Tier.
• Lin Qing told Sun Shaoping to bring the materials to Juechen Island, warning that the array formation would take a long time to complete.

Lin Qing secretly traveled to Shattered Gold City, a lawless border region between the Cloudrise Immortal Sect and the Darknight Demon Court, while disguising himself to avoid detection. As he waited at a tea stall, several hostile figures began closing in on him.

• Lin Qing completed the Spirit-Silencing Meridian-Sealing Formation for Sun Shaoping, who thanked him and hurried away with the jade pendant.
• Lin Qing disguised his appearance and aura, then traveled by teleportation array to the Profound Heaven Empire before leaving the city under another disguise.
• After confirming no one was following him, Lin Qing flew for three days into the Heavenly Prodigy Trial Grounds along the border between the Cloudrise Immortal Sect and the Darknight Demon Court.
• Lin Qing arrived at Shattered Gold City, a ruined and lawless settlement, and sat at a roadside tea stall after entering without using the city gates.
• Several sinister figures watched Lin Qing from the street shadows and approached the tea stall.

Lin Qing calmly paid off Darkfiend Hall enforcers who tried to extort him in Shattered Gold City, then secretly healed the tea stall owner and considered the deeper conflict behind the region’s suffering. After Scarface reported the encounter to Darkfiend Hall, its young guest suspected that someone was fishing again.

• Lin Qing gave Scarface and the other enforcers 65,000 Spirit Stones in response to their escalating demands, then ordered them to leave and retrieved the money.
• Lin Qing left without paying for his tea but secretly used a Minor Healing Art to ease the old tea stall owner's ailments.
• Lin Qing considered how the conflict between the Cloudrise Immortal Sect and the Darknight Demon Court sustained suffering in the borderland, then rented a room at an inn.
• Lin Qing followed Scarface and the other enforcers with his divine sense as they returned to Darkfiend Hall's headquarters and reported the encounter to the Hall Master.
• The Hall Master asked the brocade-robed young man for his opinion, and the young man said that someone was fishing again.

Lin Qing used his conspicuous spending in Shattered Gold City to draw out hidden experts and identify Fang Xiao, a Demon Court genius. After Fang Xiao fled and exposed the Demon Court disciples in the city, Lin Qing escaped the ensuing pursuit, revealed his overwhelming strength, and began searching Fang Xiao’s soul.

• Lin Qing saw through a disguised youth in Darkfiend Hall but decided to wait rather than risk acting against an unknown faction.
• Lin Qing’s spending attracted spies and powerful cultivators to his inn, where he discovered Fang Xiao, the seventh-ranked genius on the Demon Court Heaven Ranking.
• Fang Xiao sensed Lin Qing’s probe, recognized the danger, and fled; Lin Qing pursued him while deliberately holding back his speed and strength.
• Fang Xiao revealed his identity and called on Darknight Demon Court disciples, setting off battles between them and Cloudrise Immortal Sect disciples across Shattered Gold City.
• Lin Qing and Fang Xiao escaped beyond the city, and Lin Qing unleashed his full strength, caught Fang Xiao, and began a soul search.

Lin Qing used Fang Xiao’s memories to hunt down Demon Court disciples, prompting the Darknight Demon Court to mobilize its Demon Seeds. After learning that Ming Ye planned to ambush Ling Shu’s group, Lin Qing raced to rescue them.

• Lin Qing searched Fang Xiao’s memories, killed him, and returned to Shattered Gold City in disguise.
• Lin Qing hunted more than a hundred Demon Court disciples across Shattered Gold City over the next dozen days.
• Darknight Demon Court elders learned that their disciples were being wiped out and, suspecting Cloud Hermit involvement, Ming Yuan ordered all Demon Seeds sent into the world.
• Lin Qing left Shattered Gold City and learned that Ming Ye had gathered top Demon Court prodigies to ambush Ling Shu’s training group.
• Lin Qing reported the threat to the Immortal Sect, received Ling Shu’s group’s location, and raced toward them at full speed.

Ling Shu and four Immortal Sect disciples were trapped by Ming Ye and the Darknight Demon Court’s Heaven Ranking prodigies, who used them as bait for a mysterious expert. Lin Qing arrived at the valley, where the exhausted captives warned him that he was the real target.

• Ling Shu and her companions approached a mist-shrouded valley to investigate a Blood-Selection Platform, but an Eighth Tier formation trapped them.
• Ming Ye and more than a dozen Demon Court prodigies emerged and surrounded the group, while Ling Shu learned they were being kept as bait.
• The Demon Court disciples attacked Ling Shu’s group for hours, leaving them badly injured, as Ming Ye waited for the mysterious expert to arrive.
• Lin Qing sensed the trapped disciples and hidden figures in the valley, and the Demon Court prodigies withdrew when they felt his divine sense.
• Lin Qing arrived above the valley, and Ling Shu and the others urgently told him to run because the Demon Court’s target was him.