Chapter Summaries

Li Moqing made the Time Tower real, letting the sect cultivate ten times faster at the cost of accelerated depletion of lifespan, souls, and mental energy. After six hours inside, his disciples discussed their gains and Lü Liu’s unusual Source Aspect, while Mo Lingyuan returned close to the peak of the fifth Nascent Soul Realm and reported that Li Moqing seemed to be on the verge of a breakthrough.

• The system made the Time Tower real after Mo Lingyuan and the others believed Li Moqing’s description, using up the chance gained from taking Dongfang Muxue as a disciple.
• Mo Lingyuan entered the tower first, followed by Dongfang Muxue and Li Moqing; Zhang Xingfeng, Chen Guyu, and Lü Liu changed their minds and went in as well.
• After six hours, Dongfang Muxue had advanced to the seventh level of the Qi Refinement Realm, and Lü Liu revealed her chain Source Aspect and worried that she lacked a cultivation art.
• Mo Lingyuan returned from the tower close to the peak of the fifth Nascent Soul Realm and said Li Moqing appeared to be at a critical point in a breakthrough.
• Zhang Xingfeng and the others were shocked that Mo Lingyuan could not see through Li Moqing’s cultivation and suspected their Sect Master had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm or higher.

Li Moqing reached the first level of the Foundation Establishment Realm in the Time Tower and arranged cultivation techniques and weapons for his disciples. As rumors of the Qigu Secret Realm spread and factions prepared to compete for its treasures, Li Moqing confirmed to Zhang Xingfeng that he believed the rumors.

• Li Moqing used one high-grade Source Stone to break through to the first level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, forming a Source Mansion that filled half his torso.
• Li Moqing announced that the Time Tower's rules would take effect, sent Chen Guyu to choose a Spirit Weapon, and allowed Lü Liu to exchange six hundred points for an Earth-Tier Upper Grade cultivation technique.
• Yun Shengya and Jin Pingqi discussed rumors that a secret realm containing Supreme Qigu's treasures lay beneath Hope-for-Life Cliff, and Jin Pingqi ordered the Azure Feather Sect to prepare to enter it.
• Dongfang Huayu ordered the Dongfang Family to cultivate, compete for the secret realm's treasures, and continue secretly searching for Muxue.
• Zhang Xingfeng asked Li Moqing whether he believed the Qigu Secret Realm rumors, and Li Moqing said that he did.

Li Moqing’s rumor caused the Qigu Secret Realm to manifest, and his disciples’ belief brought the Trial Tower into existence. After the disciples tested its trials, Li Moqing pushed himself to the forty-fifth pavilion, where he encountered the illusion of the ancient Supreme Celestial Jitian and was defeated.

• Li Moqing learned that the Qigu Secret Realm would open in one month with age and cultivation restrictions after factions in two regions believed the rumor he had spread.
• Li Moqing led Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu to the Trial Tower and explained its simulated trials and entry rules.
• Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu entered the tower, and their belief caused the Trial Tower to become real.
• The three disciples exited after experiencing painful trials and compared how many pavilions they had cleared.
• Li Moqing struggled through the second floor to pavilion forty-five, where the voice of Jitian identified himself as a Supreme Celestial.
• Jitian’s overwhelming pressure reduced Li Moqing to powder and expelled him from the tower, but Li Moqing left with a smile.

The Qigu Secret Realm appeared at Hope-for-Life Cliff, prompting powers across the region to investigate. In Cloudmoor City, the Yang Household attacked rival talisman sellers, and Yang Piyuan led his forces into Clearwind Town to target the Zhang Household.

• Hope-for-Life Cliff disappeared as the Qigu Secret Realm rose from beneath it, and the Wave-Crossing Sect confirmed its appearance.
• Du Langsheng ordered news spread across Heaven-Opening and called on major powers' Diviners to determine when the realm would open and what rules it followed.
• Yang Piyuan told Yang Xiaosheng that the Zhang Household's Communication Talismans were cheaper and more effective than the Cangri Sect's, so Yang Xiaosheng ordered the Cloud Offering Sect and Zhang Household destroyed.
• Yang Piyuan and over a hundred Yang Household martial artists, accompanied by eleven Cangri Sect disciples, charged through Cloudmoor City toward Clearwind Town.
• Dong Haoqing refused Feng Lingyu's request to intervene, while Feng Lingyu worried that she had brought danger upon the Zhang Household by allowing them to sell talismans in the city.
• The next day, Yang Piyuan and his party galloped into Clearwind Town, whipping their way through the streets.

Yang Piyuan’s forces attacked the Zhang Household while Yan Qiuhua led an assault on the Cloud Offering Sect. Zhang Xingfeng and Heavenly Mist Sect reinforcements set out to help, but the chapter left the Cloud Offering Sect battle underway and Qin Tingjian and Huang Yanyu unconscious.

• Yan Qiuhua ordered Lü Qiaogu and Lin Xingqi to support Yang Piyuan, then flew with eight Cangri Sect disciples toward the Cloud Offering Sect.
• Yang Piyuan ordered his hundred Martial Warriors to plunder and kill inside the Zhang Household, prompting Zhang Qingping to seek help from the Heavenly Mist Sect and warn the Cloud Offering Sect.
• Li Moqing sent Mo Lingyuan to assist the Cloud Offering Sect and ordered Zhang Xingfeng to protect his family; Dongfang Muxue and Chen Guyu followed Zhang Xingfeng.
• Yan Qiuhua and his companions blasted through the Cloud Offering Sect gates, grievously wounding Qin Tingjian and Huang Yanyu.
• Yan Qiuhua attacked Lin Shanghai while his eight disciples fought the Cloud Offering Sect members, and Qin Tingjian and Huang Yanyu lost consciousness amid the battle.

Mo Lingyuan rescued the Cloud Offering Sect from Yan Qiuhua and the Cangri Sect disciples. In Clearwind Town, Zhang Xingfeng returned to find the Zhang Household under attack, defeated the Yang Household forces, and killed two Cangri Sect cultivators before reuniting with Zhang Qingping.

• Mo Lingyuan destroyed the eight Cangri Sect disciples and killed Yan Qiuhua, then gave Healing Pills to the injured Cloud Offering Sect members and departed.
• Yang Piyuan led the Yang Household in overwhelming the Zhang Household, leaving its warriors badly wounded and many dead.
• Zhang Xingfeng arrived and struck Yang Piyuan and the other Yang Household attackers with his Sword Might, incapacitating them.
• Dongfang Muxue and Chen Guyu froze Lü Qiaogu and Lin Xingqi and struck them with Divine Thunder as they tried to flee.
• Zhang Xingfeng learned that Lü Qiaogu and Lin Xingqi belonged to the Cangri Sect, then killed them despite their pleas for mercy.
• Zhang Qingping welcomed Zhang Xingfeng back and thanked Dongfang Muxue and Chen Guyu for their help.

Zhang Xingfeng returned in time to save the Zhang Household, and Mo Lingyuan went to Cloudmoor City to destroy the Cangri Sect. After killing Cao Linfu and wiping out the sect, Mo Lingyuan was confronted by City Lord Dong Haoqing while searching the ruins for resources.

• Zhang Qingping ordered Zhang Hengbai to kill the wounded Yang Household Martial Warriors, and Zhang Household members wiped them out.
• Mo Lingyuan arrived, learned the Cangri Sect had attacked the Zhang Household, and sent Zhang Xingfeng, Muxue, and Guyu back to the Cloud Offering Sect before heading to Cloudmoor City.
• Mo Lingyuan crushed the Cangri Sect’s buildings and killed its members, then defeated Cao Linfu’s Kylin Stepping on the Galaxy and killed him.
• Dong Haoqing and Feng Lingyu flew to the Cangri Sect after hearing the kylin’s roar, and Dong Haoqing attacked Mo Lingyuan with a wine flask.
• Mo Lingyuan shattered Dong Haoqing’s flask and stopped searching the sect’s ruins to dispel the force behind its fragments.

Mo Lingyuan killed Cloudmoor City Lord Dong Haoqing after Dong Haoqing attacked him, then appointed Feng Lingyu as the new city lord and ordered her to send the Yang Household into the Desolate Wilderness Forest. Back at the Heavenly Mist Sect, Mo Lingyuan delivered the Cangri Sect’s resources, and Li Moqing prepared Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu for the Qigu Secret Realm opening in twenty-four days.

• Dong Haoqing attacked Mo Lingyuan with a massive wine-bottle technique, while Feng Lingyu struggled to shield Cloudmoor City’s people from its power.
• Mo Lingyuan dispelled Dong Haoqing’s attack, and Dong Haoqing exploded into blood when he tried to flee above Cloudmoor City.
• Mo Lingyuan named Feng Lingyu the new city lord and ordered her to drive the Yang Household into the Desolate Wilderness Forest.
• Mo Lingyuan returned to the Heavenly Mist Sect and gave Li Moqing the Cangri Sect’s recovered resources.
• Li Moqing told Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu that the Qigu Secret Realm would open in twenty-four days and gave them Storage Bags to collect its treasures.

Li Moqing sent his disciples to cultivate while news of the Qigu Secret Realm’s opening spread across the Southern Domain. In the Desolate Wilderness Forest, the Yang Household was driven into the supposedly deadly woods, where Yang Xiaosheng led his people to a safe cave and vowed revenge on their persecutors.

• Li Moqing dismissed Mo Lingyuan and Lü Liu to cultivate without explaining how he knew the Qigu Secret Realm’s opening date and rules.
• The Proud Sword Sect’s Diviners announced that the Qigu Secret Realm would open in twenty-three days and admit cultivators under forty at Foundation Establishment level eight or below, prompting powers across both domains to compete for its rumored treasure.
• Cloudmoor City’s Martial Warriors forced the Yang Household into the Desolate Wilderness Forest, killing those who tried to flee and beating those who begged for mercy.
• Yang Xiaosheng ordered the Yang clanspeople to enter the forest, and they followed him despite the jeering crowd as he silently vowed revenge.
• The Yang Household found no immediate dangers in the forest and discovered a large, safe cave where they could shelter.
• Yang Xiaosheng calmly ordered everyone into the cave while Yang Shengyu noticed how frighteningly composed the patriarch had become.

Yang Xiaosheng discovered Red Spirit Cave and agreed to a contract with the Spirit God, which promised him power in exchange for bringing five living people to the cave each day. He lured Yang Xiaoyun and four others beneath the Red Spirit Tree, and the Spirit God began draining their blood.

• Yang Xiaosheng explored the area around Yang Household Cave and was pulled into Red Spirit Cave by the Red Spirit Tree.
• The Spirit God offered Yang Xiaosheng power in exchange for bringing five living people to Red Spirit Cave each day, and Yang Xiaosheng sealed the contract with his blood.
• Yang Xiaosheng returned to Yang Household Cave and told the Yang Household members that the nearby area was safe.
• Yang Xiaosheng led Yang Xiaoyun and four others beneath the Red Spirit Tree, which pulled them all into Red Spirit Cave.
• A blood-red palm dragged Yang Xiaoyun and the four others into the ceiling as their blood began draining into the stone.

Yang Xiaosheng gained superhuman strength from the Spirit God after allowing five people to be drained in the Red Spirit Cave. Twenty days later, Li Moqing reached the Foundation Establishment Realm Ninth Layer but could not inspect Daoist Qi’s Spatial Ring, while unexplained laughter alarmed Starwave Sect.

• Yang Xiaosheng watched Yang Xiaoyun and four others die in the Red Spirit Cave, then received a burst of power from the Contract.
• The Spirit God told Yang Xiaosheng to keep bringing people to the cave, and Yang Xiaosheng concealed the five deaths by claiming a tiger had killed them.
• Li Moqing broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm Ninth Layer in Hidden Dragon Valley, physically manifesting his three Source Aspects and awakening Divine Sense.
• Li Moqing tried to inspect Daoist Qi’s Spatial Ring but could not see inside, then returned to the Heavenly Mist Sect and joined his disciples for tea.
• Wild laughter rang across Starwave Sect, prompting its people to gather in the square and prepare for a possible attack.

After breaking through to the Fourth Layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, Shen Xinghu led the Starwave Sect to attack the Azure Feather Sect while Mo Lingyuan was away. As the two sects’ forces clashed and Shen Xinghu slaughtered thousands, Yun Shengya confronted him and Jin Pingqi tried to contact the Azure Feather Sect’s Old Ancestor.

• Shen Xinghu emerged from seclusion at the Fourth Layer of the Nascent Soul Realm and ordered the Starwave Sect to annihilate the Azure Feather Sect.
• Shen Xinghu left Feng Yangu behind and led the prepared Starwave Sect forces to the Azure Feather Sect.
• Jin Pingqi confronted Shen Xinghu, who revealed that Mo Lingyuan had left and declared he would destroy the sect.
• The Starwave Sect and Azure Feather Sect began a bloody battle, and Shen Xinghu crushed three thousand Azure Feather Sect disciples with his oppressive might.
• Yun Shengya flew to confront Shen Xinghu with Heaven-Splitting Cliff while Jin Pingqi took out a Communication Talisman to contact the Old Ancestor.

Mo Lingyuan arrived at the Azure Feather Sect as Shen Xinghu overwhelmed its defenders and captured Yun Shengya’s Source Core. Mo Lingyuan rescued the core and drove Shen Xinghu back, leaving the Starwave Sect forces fleeing.

• Mo Lingyuan learned that Shen Xinghu was attacking the Azure Feather Sect and rushed to help.
• Shen Xinghu shattered Yun Shengya’s mountain attack, badly injured him, and killed him while preserving his Source Core to torment him.
• Jin Pingqi fought Li Buhuan, then broke free and charged at Shen Xinghu to save Yun Shengya.
• Shen Xinghu’s attack on Jin Pingqi was stopped by an unseen force, which then blasted Shen Xinghu away and made him drop Yun Shengya’s Source Core.
• Mo Lingyuan caught Yun Shengya’s Source Core, and the Starwave Sect members panicked and fled.

Mo Lingyuan overwhelmed Shen Xinghu, who tried to escape by abandoning his body, but Mo Lingyuan trapped his Nascent Soul. Shen Xinghu forced Mo Lingyuan to destroy Yun Shengya’s Source Core to end his suffering, then Mo Lingyuan carried Shen Xinghu south to witness the Starwave Sect’s fall.

• Li Buhuan and the other Starwave Sect elders and disciples were killed as Mo Lingyuan revealed that he had reached the Sixth Layer of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Shen Xinghu unleashed Starsea Bewildering Fox, but Mo Lingyuan broke it with his pressure alone and injured him.
• Shen Xinghu used a palm strike as a feint and fled as a Nascent Soul, but Mo Lingyuan trapped him with Lingtian Qiuyuan.
• Shen Xinghu used his control over Yun Shengya’s Source Core to threaten Mo Lingyuan, and Yun Shengya urged the Patriarch to kill him; Mo Lingyuan shattered the Source Core, killing Yun Shengya.
• Mo Lingyuan captured Shen Xinghu’s Nascent Soul and headed south to make him witness the Starwave Sect’s fall.

Mo Lingyuan destroyed Starwave Sect after killing Shen Xinghu and Feng Yangu, then returned to Azure Feather Sect to expose the traitor who had revealed his absence. Huang Guchen was identified, but he denied responsibility and blamed Jin Pingqi and Mo Lingyuan, leaving the elders stunned.

• Mo Lingyuan arrived at Starwave Sect with Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul and slaughtered its disciples despite Feng Yangu's desperate attack.
• Mo Lingyuan destroyed Feng Yangu, then dispersed Shen Xinghu's Nascent Soul and finished destroying Starwave Sect.
• Mo Lingyuan accused one of thirteen people at Azure Feather Sect of betraying him and used a Bamboo Lot trick to identify Huang Guchen.
• Mo Lingyuan explained that all thirteen lots were the same length and Huang Guchen's relieved reaction exposed his guilt.
• Huang Guchen denied being responsible for Yun Shengya's death and the disciples' deaths, and accused Jin Pingqi and Mo Lingyuan instead.

After Azure Feather Sect defeated Starwave Sect, Mo Lingyuan returned to Heavenly Mist Sect with resources and news spread that Azure Feather Sect would recruit more disciples. As the Qigu Secret Realm drew near, cultivators gathered at its entrance, where Feng Quchu arrived with Moon Reflection Sect’s disciples.

• Huang Guchen blamed Mo Lingyuan and Jin Pingqi for his betrayal before Mo Lingyuan crushed him and his Source Core to ash, then gave Jin Pingqi a Storage Bag of resources.
• Mo Lingyuan returned to Heavenly Mist Sect, reported that matters at Azure Feather Sect were settled, and handed Li Moqing the remaining resources from Starwave Sect.
• Li Moqing reminded Zhang Xingfeng, Muxue, and Guyu to prepare for the Qigu Secret Realm, which would open in three days.
• News spread across Search Province that Starwave Sect had been destroyed and Azure Feather Sect would lower its admission standards for a recruitment assembly in one month.
• A Pill Forging Sect master gave Shijie a Supreme Cultivation-Boosting Pill and ordered him to enter the Qigu Secret Realm, break through inside, and seize its greatest treasure.
• Cultivators gathered outside the Qigu Secret Realm, where Xiang Nitian backed down after Feng Quchu arrived with two hundred Moon Reflection Sect disciples.

Cultivators gathered outside the Qigu Secret Realm as major sects and lineages arrived, while Mo Lingyuan prepared Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu for the danger within. The Proud Sword Sect made a dramatic entrance, and the secret realm's gathering grew tense with powerful forces assembled.

• Feng Quchu dismissed the Pill Forging Sect’s confidence as Hua Shijie arrived with eight hundred Foundation Establishment Realm disciples.
• Cultivators discussed the Dongfang Family’s troubles after the Wang Family cut off its supply of Talisman Paper.
• Mo Lingyuan warned Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu about powerful cultivators in the secret realm and gave them pills.
• Jin Pingqi arrived with the Azure Feather Sect and recognized Mo Lingyuan, whose disciples wondered at his increased strength and young companions.
• Mo Lingyuan told Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu to avoid harming Azure Feather Sect disciples and to help them if possible.
• The Proud Sword Sect arrived beneath a display of Sword Qi and flying swords, led by a white-haired figure.

Cultivators entered the newly opened Qigu Secret Realm, where fights broke out over its treasures. Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu collected purple spirit grass that had killed Pill Forging Sect disciples, then left after Dongfang Muxue sensed someone in the mist.

• The Qigu Secret Realm entrance appeared, and after waiting to confirm it was safe, Mo Lingyuan sent Zhang Xingfeng and his companions inside.
• Qin Linyu led the Proud Sword Sect disciples toward the secret realm’s mist-covered center as cultivators fought over treasures throughout the realm.
• Purple spirit grass poisoned and killed the Pill Forging Sect disciples who tried to harvest it.
• Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu found the bodies and identified the glowing grass as the likely cause of death.
• Dongfang Muxue froze the grass with Ice Soul, and Chen Guyu uprooted nearly a hundred thousand plants and stored them.
• Dongfang Muxue sensed someone ten miles away in the mist and led the group away from the area.

Hua Shijie broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm Ninth Layer, but the Laws’ pressure killed him before he could claim the secret realm’s treasures. Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu defeated Liu Yuhe and his eighteen followers and left the woodland.

• Liu Yuhe led eighteen cultivators through the mist to pursue Zhang Xingfeng’s group and seize their Spirit Weapons and purple spirit herbs.
• Hua Shijie absorbed ten Supreme Source Stones and broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm Ninth Layer, then declared that all the secret realm’s treasures belonged to him.
• The Laws’ pressure struck Hua Shijie and reduced him to ash, after which fighting broke out among cultivators across the secret realm.
• Liu Yuhe and eighteen cultivators ambushed Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu in a desolate woodland.
• Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu overwhelmed the attackers with their Spirit Weapons and Heaven-Tier Upper Grade Cultivation Arts, killing all nineteen.
• Zhang Xingfeng and his companions left after hearing that someone was approaching.

Feng Quchu’s Moon-Reflecting Sect attacked Xie Shiwei’s Azure Feather Sect over the Danling Qisheng Art, but Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu intervened and unleashed devastating Cultivation Arts. Feng Quchu was the only Moon-Reflecting Sect member left standing, badly injured, when a mocking voice sounded behind him.

• Feng Quchu arrived with two hundred Moon-Reflecting Sect disciples and ordered Xie Shiwei’s group to surrender the Danling Qisheng Art.
• Tian Yihan reached for the book, so Feng Quchu killed him and ordered his disciples to attack the Azure Feather Sect.
• As the Moon-Reflecting Sect’s combined strike threatened Xie Shiwei and the survivors, Zhang Xingfeng, Dongfang Muxue, and Chen Guyu broke through it and joined the fight.
• The three cultivators unleashed powerful sword, ice, and thunder attacks, wiping out the Moon-Reflecting Sect disciples except for Feng Quchu.
• Feng Quchu survived the attacks but was badly hurt, and a mocking voice sounded behind him.