Chapter Summaries

After Qin Hao resolved to avenge Mu Ziqing by destroying the Blood Cloud Stronghold, Lu Zehan emerged from five years of cultivation and learned that Qin Hao had defeated Guo Dun and threatened Huo Yan. Lu Zehan decided to meet Qin Hao and invite him into the Azure Dragon Society rather than challenge him.

• Qin Hao decided to find Mu Ziqing and later eradicate the Blood Cloud Stronghold in Earth Flame City.
• Lu Zehan advanced his Divine Soul after cultivating on Thunder Sound Platform for nearly five years.
• Huo Yan told Lu Zehan that Qin Hao had defeated Guo Dun with one strike and might have wounded Huo Yan if they had continued fighting.
• Lu Zehan warned that the Azure Dragon Society's prestige had already suffered because of the confrontation.
• Lu Zehan decided to meet Qin Hao and invite him to join the Azure Dragon Society.

Lu Zehan appointed Qin Hao Chief Guardian of Two Realms Peak after Qin Hao defeated Huo Yan and Guo Dun, but Yu Weibo arrived and accused him of harming the Azure Dragon Society’s Prestige. Yu Weibo took charge of dealing with Qin Hao and vowed to claim Lu Zehan’s position within three months, while Lu Zehan questioned how Yu Weibo could defeat Qin Hao without making the society look worse.

• Lu Zehan confirmed that Qin Hao would become Chief Guardian of Two Realms Peak, and Huo Yan accepted the decision because Qin Hao was stronger.
• Yu Weibo appeared on the Thunder Sound Platform, criticized Lu Zehan for recruiting Qin Hao, and accused him of failing to protect the Azure Dragon Society’s Prestige.
• Yu Weibo used his Divine Soul pressure to overwhelm Guo Dun and Huo Yan, and Lu Zehan intervened to shield them.
• Yu Weibo said the president had ordered him to handle Qin Hao and announced he would seek the Two Realms Peak helmsman position within three months.
• Lu Zehan reassured Huo Yan and Guo Dun, then wondered how Yu Weibo could defeat Qin Hao while also restoring the society’s Prestige.

Qin Hao met Sikong Xuan at the Outer Gate and learned that Mu Ziqing and the others were taking the Inner Gate advancement Assessment. Sikong Xuan explained that Mu Ziqing and Ao Xiner had gone to the Crimson Flame Mountains to obtain Spirit Dragon Fruits, while he struggled with doubts about his own progress.

• Qin Hao flew to the Outer Gate but could contact only Sikong Xuan, then met him on a mountain peak.
• Sikong Xuan compared his slow progress with Qin Hao's and admitted he had mastered fewer than twenty Ninth-Order Origin Laws in five years.
• Qin Hao told Sikong Xuan about the Storm Sovereign, encouraging him not to lose heart and to keep pursuing advancement.
• Sikong Xuan told Qin Hao that Mu Ziqing, Ao Xiner, Jing Hong, Shi Tingyan, Sun Wei, and Dongfang Lin were taking the Inner Gate advancement Assessment.
• Sikong Xuan explained that Mu Ziqing and Ao Xiner had been assigned to a group tasked with obtaining Spirit Dragon Fruits in the Crimson Flame Mountains.

Qin Hao learned that Mu Ziqing and Ao Xiner faced a dangerous Inner Gate promotion Assessment against a flood dragon comparable to an Ordinary Creation cultivator. He set out toward the Scarlet Flame Domain to take revenge on Blood Cloud Stronghold before heading to the Azure Flame Mountain Range, while Yu Weibo secretly watched him and fixated on Mu Ziqing.

• Sikong Xuan told Qin Hao that Mu Ziqing, Ao Xiner, and three others had to retrieve a Spirit Dragon Fruit guarded by a powerful Black Dragon Wild Flood Dragon, and that the sect offered no protection during the Assessment.
• Qin Hao learned that Mu Ziqing and Ao Xiner were headed for the Heavenflame Domain and used Sikong Xuan's map to plan his route.
• Qin Hao summoned the Wave-Cleaving Flying Boat and flew toward the Scarlet Flame Domain, intending to visit Blood Cloud Stronghold and confront its chief before continuing to the Azure Flame Mountain Range.
• Yu Weibo watched Qin Hao leave the Azure Flame Sect and became excited after receiving a Jade Slip bearing Mu Ziqing's portrait.

Lai Baiyu recalled how he had helped Yu Weibo abduct and kill female disciples for years under the protection of Yu Weibo’s grandfather. After learning that Mu Ziqing and Ao Xiner were in the advancement examination group, Yu Weibo decided to target them and ordered Qin Hao eliminated.

• Lai Baiyu reflected on Yu Weibo’s history of abusing women and recalled that he had helped abduct and kill more than ten female Outer Gate disciples.
• Lai Baiyu told Yu Weibo that Mu Ziqing’s group also included the beautiful Ao Xiner.
• Yu Weibo said that the deaths of a few Outer Disciples during the advancement examination would seem normal.
• Lai Baiyu asked what Yu Weibo wanted to do about Qin Hao, and Yu Weibo decided he had to be eliminated.
• Yu Weibo ordered Lai Baiyu to lead the way, and the two headed south toward the Heavenflame Domain.

Qin Hao studied the remaining volumes of the Spirit-Shaking Art while traveling toward the Scarlet Flame Domain, learning how Divine Sense Piercing could strengthen his soul attacks. Elsewhere, Yu Weibo and Lai Baiyu headed for Wuning City, while three young people in brocade confronted the chiefs of Blood Cloud Stronghold amid a powerful puppet force.

• Qin Hao read the Spirit-Shaking Art’s remaining volumes and learned that Divine Sense Piercing combined Divine Soul Power with the Power of the Two Realms.
• Qin Hao resolved to focus on perfecting his manifestation of the Power of the Two Realms during the journey to the Scarlet Flame Domain.
• Lai Baiyu told Yu Weibo that Mu Ziqing, Ao Xiner, and three others were nearing Wuning City on their way to the Azure Flame Mountain Range.
• Yu Weibo ordered Lai Baiyu to wake him when they reached Wuning City, and both men continued cultivating as their Flying Boat traveled.
• Three young people in brocade confronted Blood Cloud Stronghold’s two chiefs, surrounded by hundreds of powerful Puppets.

Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi were cornered at Blood Cloud Stronghold by the Blood Cloud Saber Demon, Xi Kui, and hundreds of powerful Puppets. The Blood Cloud Saber Demon departed for a guarded Wooden Tower, leaving Xi Kui and the Puppets to capture the three disciples alive.

• Jiao Hui realized the Blood Cloud Saber Demon had concealed hundreds of exceptionally durable Puppets and told Luo Xiao and Lin Manzi to escape and report the danger to the Azure Flame Sect.
• Luo Xiao and Lin Manzi refused to abandon Jiao Hui, while the Blood Cloud Saber Demon mocked their hope of escape.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon ordered Xi Kui to capture the three disciples alive, then headed toward the Wooden Tower inside Blood Cloud Stronghold.
• Xi Kui charged at the disciples as the Puppets split into groups to block their escape and attack them, crushing their renewed hope.

Jiao Hong, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi were defeated by Xi Kui and his puppets and taken to the Blood Cloud Stronghold, where they discovered the Blood Cloud Saber Demon planned to turn them into Corpse Puppets. The demon then argued with a puppet that warned him his attacks on Azure Flame Sect disciples would expose him and bring the sect’s wrath.

• Xi Kui and his puppets captured Luo Xiao, Lin Manzi, and Jiao Hong after exhausting them in battle.
• Xi Kui ordered the captives taken to the Wooden Tower while the stronghold’s bandits celebrated their victory.
• Jiao Hong, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi found familiar Azure Flame Sect disciples transformed into lifelike Corpse Puppets in the basement.
• Jiao Hong recognized the Corpse Puppet Technique and realized the Blood Cloud Saber Demon intended to make puppets of them.
• A puppet confronted the Blood Cloud Saber Demon for targeting Azure Flame Sect disciples, but he insisted the stronghold was necessary for his breakthrough into Creation.

The Blood Cloud Saber Demon argued with the Humanoid Puppet over abandoning the Blood Cloud Stronghold, while the Puppet reviewed a list of Azure Flame Sect talents and singled out Qin Hao for surveillance. The Saber Demon decided to leave after obtaining the Poison Puppet Art from the Blood Nether Marquis, then sensed a Supreme-Grade True Treasure Flying Vessel overhead and suspected more Azure Flame Sect Disciples had arrived.

• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon refused to abandon the Blood Cloud Stronghold without cultivation resources, and the Humanoid Puppet said he could not provide them.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon gave the Humanoid Puppet a Jade Slip listing more than a thousand recent Azure Flame Sect talents and demanded the Poison Puppet Art.
• The Humanoid Puppet noticed Qin Hao had passed the First Floor of the Myriad Worlds Mysterious Tower unusually quickly and decided to watch him as a potential threat to the Human Race.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon concluded that the Azure Flame Sect would investigate if he kept killing its disciples, so he resolved to leave the stronghold after getting the Poison Puppet Art from the Blood Nether Marquis.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon sensed a Supreme-Grade True Treasure Flying Vessel above him and suspected more Azure Flame Sect Disciples had arrived.

The Blood Cloud Saber Demon prepared to have Xi Kui capture a lone Azure Flame Sect intruder while reflecting on his quest to break through to Marquis-Rank Creation. When the intruder’s black-robed Doppelganger destroyed a Mechanical Puppet with one punch, the Blood Cloud Saber Demon realized the young man was far more formidable than he had expected.

• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon sensed an azure Flying Boat approaching and ordered Xi Kui to capture the young man inside alive.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon entered the basement, where Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi feared being refined into Corpse Puppets and resolved to fight back.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon recalled obtaining the incomplete Blood Sea Demon Saber and a Red Jade Gemstone, then making a deal with the Blood Nether Marquis to gather information on Azure Flame Sect disciples in exchange for Puppet Arts.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon considered how the Red Jade Gemstone might help him break through, but noted that he still lacked the Poison Puppet Arts.
• A black-robed Doppelganger appeared outside the Flying Boat and shattered a Mechanical Puppet with one punch, stunning the Blood Cloud Saber Demon.

Qin Hao sent his Devouring Doppelganger to fight the Puppets attacking Blood Cloud Stronghold while he continued cultivating Divine Sense Piercing aboard the Wave-Cleaving Flying Boat. The Devouring Doppelganger shattered the Puppets with single punches, and Qin Hao mastered Divine Sense Piercing as the battle continued.

• The Devouring Doppelganger appeared outside the Wave-Cleaving Flying Boat and destroyed a Humanoid Puppet with one punch.
• The Devouring Doppelganger smashed three more Puppets, giving the captured Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi hope that they could escape.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon left the basement, and Jiao Hui urged his companions to use the chaos to break free.
• Qin Hao revealed that he had sent out the Devouring Doppelganger while focusing on his cultivation aboard the Wave-Cleaving Flying Boat.
• Qin Hao mastered Divine Sense Piercing, and the Power of the Two Realms reached Perfection in its Surface Aspect.

Qin Hao’s Devouring Doppelganger destroyed over a hundred puppets at the Blood Cloud Stronghold, drawing out the Blood Cloud Saber Demon. Qin Hao revealed his True Self and prepared to confront the demon, who recognized his name from a Jade Slip.

• Qin Hao sensed that the Blood Cloud Saber Demon had a Creation Realm puppet named Xi Kui and continued consolidating Divine Sense Piercing instead of leaving the Wave-Cleaving Flying Boat.
• Qin Hao’s Devouring Doppelganger shattered over a hundred of the Blood Cloud Saber Demon’s puppets, making the remaining puppets retreat.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon confronted the Doppelganger and warned that he would not let the intruder leave.
• Qin Hao’s True Self appeared beside his Doppelganger and accused the Blood Cloud Saber Demon of killing Azure Flame Sect disciples and creating a Creation Puppet.
• Qin Hao introduced himself as the man who would kill the Blood Cloud Saber Demon, who recognized the name from a Jade Slip he had given to Marquis Xueyou.

Qin Hao attacked the Blood Cloud Stronghold alone, revealing a Creation Doppelganger and surprising the Blood Cloud Saber Demon. As Qin Hao’s Doppelganger battled Xi Kui and the Puppets, Qin Hao faced the Saber Demon, who brought down his Blood Sea Demon Saber.

• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon recognized Qin Hao’s strength, searched for other Azure Flame Sect experts, and found that Qin Hao had come alone.
• Marquis Xueyou watched from the Wooden Tower and hoped the Blood Cloud Saber Demon would kill Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao sent his Devouring Doppelganger to fight Xi Kui and the Puppets while his True Self charged the Blood Cloud Saber Demon.
• The Devouring Doppelganger destroyed dozens of Puppets and fought Xi Kui, trading powerful blows with the Creation Puppet.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon unleashed the Blood Sea Demon Saber and brought his blood-red Warblade down toward Qin Hao.

Qin Hao attacked the Blood Cloud Saber Demon with three powerful sword strikes after condemning his blood-soaked cultivation. The first blow cost the Blood Cloud Saber Demon seventeen percent of his Divine Strength, while Blood Nether Marquis realized Qin Hao had veteran Creation Great Expert combat power.

• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon unleashed a blood-fueled saber attack, and Qin Hao condemned him for slaughtering people to cultivate the Blood Sea Demon Saber.
• Qin Hao countered with Sword Heaven and Earth, Battle the World, and Void Sword, forcing the Blood Cloud Saber Demon to abandon his attack and defend.
• Qin Hao’s first strike smashed the Blood-Red Warblade and sent the Blood Cloud Saber Demon crashing through Blood Cloud Stronghold, costing him seventeen percent of his Divine Strength.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon accused Qin Hao of hiding his strength and considered retreating, but Qin Hao’s second strike arrived before he could act.
• Watching from the wooden building, Blood Nether Marquis judged that Qin Hao possessed the combat power of a veteran Ordinary Creation Great Expert and might be difficult to stop if his Doppelganger joined him.

Blood Nether Marquis recognized Qin Hao as a major threat but could only hope Blood Cloud Saber Demon would kill him. In the Wooden Tower basement, Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi discovered that the Corpse Puppets were their imprisoned fellow disciples, who struggled to urge them to escape.

• Blood Nether Marquis realized Qin Hao's strength far exceeded the intelligence he had received and worried that the Puppet Race could not stop his rise.
• Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi heard Blood Cloud Saber Demon's muffled outburst and learned that Qin Hao had come alone to attack Blood Cloud Stronghold.
• Jiao Hui decided the three disciples had to leave the basement and help Qin Hao, despite their sealed True Essence and Origin Laws.
• The sixteen Corpse Puppets moved to block their exit, and Jiao Hui and the others recognized several Azure Flame Sect disciples among them.
• The imprisoned Corpse Puppets showed signs of pain and fought for control of their bodies, while one faintly told Jiao Hui and the others to go.

Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi escaped the basement after briefly speaking with the Azure Flame Sect Disciples trapped as Corpse Puppets, then witnessed Qin Hao's attacks devastate the Blood Cloud Saber Demon. Qin Hao shielded the three from the battle's Shockwave and pursued the fleeing enemy.

• Senior Brother Zhang briefly regained his voice and urged Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi to escape before the Corpse Puppets lost their awareness.
• Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi left the basement and saw Qin Hao's Heaven-Shaking Sword Strike break the Blood Cloud Saber Demon's Warblade and send him flying.
• Jiao Hui tried to shield Luo Xiao and Lin Manzi from the incoming Shockwave, while Qin Hao noticed them near the Wooden Tower and raised a barrier to protect them.
• Qin Hao formed his Void Sword, struck the wounded Blood Cloud Saber Demon as he fled toward the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and chased after him.
• Jiao Hui survived the Shockwave when Qin Hao's wall of Origin Laws blocked it, and Luo Xiao recognized that Qin Hao had saved them.

Qin Hao’s sword strikes drove the Blood Cloud Saber Demon into flight, while Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi discovered that sixteen Corpse Puppets had been sent after Qin Hao. Jiao Hui alerted his contacts at the Sect Headquarters as the Blood Cloud Saber Demon fled toward the Hundred Thousand Mountains with only forty-three percent of his Divine Strength remaining.

• Jiao Hui, Luo Xiao, and Lin Manzi realized Qin Hao had saved them, and they saw his Devouring Doppelganger battling Creation Puppet Xi Kui.
• The three noticed that the Blood Cloud Saber Demon and Qin Hao’s True Self had disappeared, while the civilians and abducted women remained unharmed.
• Sixteen Corpse Puppets emerged and rushed toward the dust, prompting Jiao Hui to warn that the Blood Cloud Saber Demon was using them against Qin Hao.
• Jiao Hui sent a message to his contacts at the Sect Headquarters, while Luo Xiao and Lin Manzi lamented that they could not use their powers to help.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon fled toward the Hundred Thousand Mountains after Qin Hao’s second sword strike shattered his warblade and reduced his Divine Strength to forty-three percent.

Qin Hao overwhelmed the fleeing Blood Cloud Saber Demon, who used his awakened control over sixteen Corpse Puppets to shield himself from Qin Hao’s sword strike. The puppets absorbed the blow, leaving the Blood Cloud Saber Demon fleeing toward the Hundred Thousand Mountains as Qin Hao realized they used the Puppet Race’s Corpse Puppet Technique.

• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon fled from Qin Hao’s sword strikes, realizing he could not defeat him.
• Facing a deadly attack, the Blood Cloud Saber Demon broke through in Divine Soul strength and activated the Corpse Puppet Formation.
• The sixteen Corpse Puppets raced to the Blood Cloud Saber Demon and formed a defensive formation behind him.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon continued fleeing toward the Hundred Thousand Mountains, abandoning Blood Cloud Stronghold and the puppets to their likely destruction.
• Qin Hao’s sword strike nearly consumed the puppets’ Corpse Qi, sent thirteen crashing to the ground, and left three wavering in the air.
• Qin Hao recognized the Corpse Puppet Technique as belonging to the Puppet Race and wondered how the Blood Cloud Saber Demon had learned it.

Qin Hao pursued the Blood Cloud Saber Demon into the Hundred Thousand Mountains after discovering that he had turned Azure Flame Sect Disciples into Corpse Puppets. The Blood Cloud Saber Demon tried to use the approaching Creation Great Demons to escape, but Qin Hao struck his Divine Soul and beheaded him.

• Qin Hao recognized the sixteen Corpse Puppets as Azure Flame Sect Disciples and swore to kill the Blood Cloud Saber Demon for making them.
• The Blood Cloud Saber Demon fled deeper into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, hoping the Creation Great Demons there would distract Qin Hao.
• As the Creation Great Demons approached, Qin Hao’s Divine Soul attack caused the Blood Cloud Saber Demon to lose control and crash into the ground.
• Qin Hao caught up with the Blood Cloud Saber Demon and cut off his head with the Lingxiao Divine Sword.

Qin Hao killed the Blood Cloud Saber Demon and suspected the strange Wooden Tower in the Blood Cloud Stronghold was protected by a Formation. When a Savage Bear Great Demon attacked him at the edge of the Hundred Thousand Mountains, Qin Hao cut off its claws while other Great Demons watched nearby.

• Qin Hao killed the Blood Cloud Saber Demon after using the Spirit-Shaking Art's Divine Sense Piercing to overcome him.
• Qin Hao recalled the Crimson Eyes in the Wooden Tower and reasoned that a Formation might explain why it resisted Divine Sense and the battle's shockwaves.
• The Savage Bear Great Demon confronted Qin Hao, claiming he had crossed into the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Qin Hao rebuked the Savage Bear Great Demon, who attacked him while other Creation Great Demons watched from the mountains.
• Qin Hao used Wind Travels the World to evade the bear's first strike, then unleashed the Void Sword and severed its claws.