Chapter Summaries

Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo investigated a roar in the mountains and found a bloodthirsty Asura Giant Ape killing Thunder Fiend Cult disciples. A Five Energies Returning to the Origin expert confronted it, but the ape shattered his arm and struck him down.

• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo heard a beast's roar and discussed the possible return of Demonic Beasts before heading toward it.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo found a crimson Asura Giant Ape devouring a tiger in a valley, and Zhao Xinmo identified it as a Fierce Demon.
• Two Thunder Fiend Cult patrol teams entered the valley, but the Asura Giant Ape crushed and devoured their disciples.
• Qin Yang wanted to fight the ape, but Zhao Xinmo warned him to stay hidden to avoid alerting the Thunder Fiend Cult while they searched for Five Flower Immortal's Mansion.
• A bald Thunder Fiend Cult expert attacked the Asura Giant Ape with Thunderclap Palm, but the ape's boulder destroyed his arm before it struck him down.

Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo found a Thunder Fiend Cult spirit stone mine on the mountain they believed held the Five Flower Immortal's Mansion, but guards blocked their way into the tunnels. They returned to the Asura Giant Ape’s valley to set their plan in motion, where the Thunder Fiend Cult had withdrawn its forces and declared the area forbidden.

• After the Asura Giant Ape killed a Thunder Fiend Cult fighter, Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo used the creature’s clash with the cult to search White Dragon Stone Mountain.
• Five days later, Zhao Xinmo recognized a mountain from the map, and Qin Yang confirmed it was the location they sought.
• They found a tightly guarded spirit stone mine on the mountain and realized the Five Flower Immortal's Mansion had not yet been located.
• Unable to enter the mine unnoticed, Qin Yang proposed causing a major distraction, and Zhao Xinmo agreed to help.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo returned to the Asura Giant Ape’s valley, where the Thunder Fiend Cult’s Half-step Martial Saint Deputy Cult Master had withdrawn the disciples and designated the territory a forbidden zone.

Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo lured the Asura Giant Ape into the Thunder Fiend Cult’s mining camp, creating a chance to sneak into the mine and search for Five Flower Immortal's Mansion. They followed Zhao Xinmo’s jade pendant deeper underground, where they overheard miners lamenting the harm the spirit stones were causing them.

• Zhao Xinmo used Qin Yang’s blood to animate a clay figurine and lure the Asura Giant Ape out of its valley.
• Yan Xuan pursued the rampaging Asura Giant Ape to the mining camp, where it killed the supervisor and attacked the miners.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo slipped into the mine while the camp burned and its guards fled.
• Zhao Xinmo used a jade pendant to guide them toward the mine’s strongest spiritual energy.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo overheard miners complain that exposure to spirit stones was making them ill and that the Thunder Fiend Cult kept them from escaping.

Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo uncovered a hidden ruin behind an abandoned mine chamber and found the Withered Branch that opened the Five Flower Immortal's Mansion Secret Realm. Qin Yang touched it and vanished, leaving Zhao Xinmo outside as the secret realm opened.

• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo discovered that the jade pendant's light failed in an abandoned stone chamber, and Zhao Xinmo sensed interference behind its rear wall.
• Zhao Xinmo set up a sound-isolating barrier, and Qin Yang broke through the stone wall to reveal a hidden ruin.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo entered the desolate courtyard, where an illusion nearly trapped Zhao Xinmo before he managed to recover.
• Zhao Xinmo explained that the courtyard was only a connection point to the Immortal's Mansion Secret Realm, and the two searched it for the entrance.
• Qin Yang found a dark green Withered Branch in a bronze furnace inside the stone house, and Zhao Xinmo identified it as the key to opening the secret realm.
• Qin Yang touched the Withered Branch, triggering massive spiritual energy fluctuations and causing him to vanish from Zhao Xinmo's sight.

Qin Yang entered the Five Flower Immortal's Mansion Secret Realm and reached its enormous gray tree, where an ancient old man recognized the Black Tortoise Jade Pendant. Outside, Zhao Xinmo's attempt to enter caused a surge of spiritual energy that drew Yan Xuan toward the mineral vein.

• Zhao Xinmo activated the withered branch again, vanished from the stone hut, and caused his jade pendant to shatter as spiritual energy swept through the mineral vein and incapacitated miners.
• The Asura Giant Ape left the destroyed miners' camp, and Yan Xuan sensed strange fluctuations from the mineral vein and hurried there with his glowing dark-blue sword.
• Qin Yang waited in the secret realm for Zhao Xinmo, then discovered that closing his eyes and trusting his inner sense brought him beneath the giant gray tree.
• The Black Tortoise Jade Pendant trembled, and a decayed old man appeared, returned the pendant to Qin Yang, and asked whether the Heaven and Earth Isolation Forbidden Technique had failed.
• Qin Yang said the forbidden technique had not completely failed but soon would, and the old man sighed that the great calamity of heaven and earth had arrived.

Qin Yang received the Withered Wood Undying Scripture from the old tree spirit as the Immortal's Mansion Secret Realm collapsed, then learned that three days had passed outside and the Thunder Fiend Cult had taken the spiritual sprout. He fought through the cult's guards and faced Deputy Cult Master Yan Xuan, who was left at a disadvantage in their battle.

• The decrepit old man passed the Withered Wood Undying Scripture to Qin Yang, revealed that immortals and Buddhas had perished, and told him to take the spiritual sprout as the secret realm collapsed.
• Qin Yang returned to the stone hut with Zhao Xinmo, discovered the spiritual sprout was missing, and learned from a Thunder Fiend Cult disciple that its Deputy Cult Master had taken it three days earlier.
• Qin Yang killed the disciple and the Thunder Fiend Cult guards who rushed into the courtyard.
• Yan Xuan confronted Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo, and Qin Yang struck back with his Cold Flood Dragon Blade.
• Qin Yang's Big Dipper Black Tortoise Origin Energy cut through Yan Xuan during their exchange, forcing Yan Xuan to unleash a powerful lightning attack.

Qin Yang killed Yan Xuan, the Thunder Fiend Cult’s Deputy Cult Master, and recovered the spirit bud from the cult’s camp. When a Purple-Haired Man arrived and revealed himself as a Martial Saint, Qin Yang stayed to fight him while Zhao Xinmo escaped with the spirit bud.

• Qin Yang resisted Yan Xuan’s lightning attacks with the Limitless Spirit Scripture and killed him with A Flash of the Nethersea.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo left the mine, and Qin Yang slaughtered the Thunder Fiend Cult disciples guarding the way and the tents outside.
• Zhao Xinmo found the black three-legged bronze furnace containing Withered Branch and gathered spirit stones and other treasures.
• A terrifying aura arrived, and Qin Yang recognized that a Martial Saint had come; he sent Zhao Xinmo away with the furnace and faced the Purple-Haired Man.
• The Purple-Haired Man attacked with a lightning spear, and Qin Yang met it with Death Sea Submergence before charging forward with another blade strike.

Qin Yang used his hidden talismans to hold off the Purple-Haired Man, then fled as the stronger pursuer chased him across Thunder Fiend Cult territory. The pursuit reached a great river, which Qin Yang hoped to use to escape.

• Zhao Xinmo used a concealment talisman and secret art to slip away from the tent, but the Purple-Haired Man noticed and attacked Qin Yang with his Lightning Spear.
• Qin Yang used the Yin Yang Talisman to block the Purple-Haired Man's strike, but he was still outmatched and fled using Mad Thunder Steps.
• The Purple-Haired Man followed Qin Yang into a valley, where the Asura Giant Ape attacked him and had one horn shattered by the Lightning Spear.
• Qin Yang continued fleeing while the Purple-Haired Man caught up repeatedly and pierced him with spear strikes, but Qin Yang's powerful physique let him keep running.
• Qin Yang reached the wilderness and spotted a great river ahead, making it his next hope for escape.

After hiding in the river for half a year, Qin Yang awakened from a near-death state and underwent a transformation through the Big Dipper True Martial Profound Scripture. His emergence stirred a massive vortex, and a Thunder Fiend Cult disciple was killed as the ship’s crew tried to respond.

• Qin Yang escaped the Purple-Haired Man by concealing himself in the riverbed mud, while the Purple-Haired Man searched the river and sent Thunder Fiend Cult disciples to patrol it.
• Qin Yang remained unconscious for half a year as the Big Dipper True Martial Profound Scripture slowly repaired and transformed him.
• Zhao Xinmo disguised himself as an old fisherman and searched the river for Qin Yang, believing he was still alive.
• Qin Yang regained consciousness beneath the river, shattered the mud covering him, and released an aura that sent aquatic life fleeing and formed a growing vortex.
• Thunder Fiend Cult disciples spotted the vortex and tried to send a signal, but one disciple’s head suddenly flew into the air.

Zhao Xinmo guarded the whirlpool while Qin Yang remained beneath the river, killing Thunder Fiend Cult forces with a lightning-proof fishing net. As the river froze blue and a larger force arrived, Zhao Xinmo trapped one of its experts, but the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Zhao Xinmo killed the Thunder Fiend Cult disciples aboard a ship and put nearby fishermen to sleep while the whirlpool continued to spread.
• Chen Wei arrived with hundreds of Thunder Fiend Cult disciples, but Zhao Xinmo caught him and the disciples in a lightning-insulating fishing net and killed them.
• The whirlpool stopped expanding as the river froze over with deep blue ice, and Zhao Xinmo prepared for more Thunder Fiend Cult forces to arrive.
• Zeng Wu brought several hundred disciples, four Five Energies Returning to the Origin realm martial artists, and one Mysterious Attainment realm elder to investigate.
• A Thunder Fiend Cult expert approached the river, but Zhao Xinmo's buried flame spirit talismans interrupted his dodge and let the fishing-net Dharma Artifact ensnare him.

Qin Yang emerged from half a year in hiding as a Sensing Martial Saint and rescued Zhao Xinmo from Zeng Wu and the Thunder Fiend Cult. After they left the river to retrieve the hidden spirit sprout, Zhao Xinmo revealed that the Heaven and Earth Isolation Forbidden Technique was nearly failing and high-grade ghost artifacts were descending.

• Zeng Wu destroyed Zhao Xinmo's defenses and struck him down, but Zhao Xinmo kept him occupied until Qin Yang appeared.
• Qin Yang froze and crushed Zeng Wu, then used the river's power to kill the remaining Thunder Fiend Cult experts and hundreds of disciples.
• Zhao Xinmo realized Qin Yang had broken through to the Sensing Martial Saint realm, and the two fled the Thunder Fiend Cult's territory.
• Zhao Xinmo told Qin Yang that he had hidden the spirit sprout in a secluded valley and that Qin Yang had been unconscious for half a year.
• Zhao Xinmo said the Heaven and Earth Isolation Forbidden Technique was nearly failing and high-grade ghost artifacts were descending across Tianfeng Continent.

Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo traveled to Nine Thunder City to seek revenge on Fan Xuanlei, the Thunder Fiend Cult leader who had nearly killed Qin Yang. Meanwhile, Fan Xuanlei and Zhao Guanshan hired Yanluo Tower to assassinate Qin Yang, leaving the two men inside the city without knowing the threat awaiting them.

• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo discussed the failing spiritual sprout in Zhao Xinmo's hidden cave and agreed to try watering it with spiritual water or liquid.
• Qin Yang decided to avenge himself on Fan Xuanlei, and Zhao Xinmo agreed to accompany him to the Thunder Fiend Cult's stronghold.
• Fan Xuanlei learned Qin Yang had survived and killed hundreds of Thunder Fiend Cult members, and Zhao Guanshan proposed hiring Yanluo Tower to kill him.
• Fan Xuanlei approved the plan, and Zhao Guanshan arranged to provide Yanluo Tower with Qin Yang's portrait and negotiate a price.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo entered Nine Thunder City under Zhao Xinmo's Illusion Technique and looked around its distinctive stone buildings.

Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo gathered information in Nine Thunder City and prepared to kill Fan Xuanlei. Qin Yang infiltrated the Nine Thunder Tower, killed its guardian Zhu Gang, and set the tower ablaze before preparing to destroy it.

• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo examined the Nine Thunder Tower and agreed that they needed more information before attacking Fan Xuanlei.
• Qin Yang reviewed his cultivation progress while the two gathered leads and planned an ambush, with Zhao Xinmo preparing a grand formation barrier to hold Fan Xuanlei in place.
• Two nights later, Qin Yang silently climbed the Nine Thunder Tower and killed its guardian, the Half-step Martial Saint Zhu Gang, with one strike.
• Qin Yang set fire to the tower’s ninth floor, causing Thunder Fiend Cult disciples to panic and rush to respond.
• Qin Yang landed outside the tower and prepared to destroy it with a punch.

Qin Yang destroyed Nine Thunder Tower to draw Fan Xuanlei out, then confronted him on a wilderness road. After Qin Yang revealed he had reached the Martial Saint realm, the two prepared to fight to the death.

• Qin Yang shattered Nine Thunder Tower with a punch, burying Elder Zhu and the disciples beneath its ruins.
• Fan Xuanlei learned of the destruction, ordered the Great Elder to guard the sect, and rushed toward Nine Thunder City.
• Qin Yang trapped Fan Xuanlei in a sound-muffling barrier and revealed that he had caused the trouble to lure him out.
• Fan Xuanlei and Qin Yang exchanged attacks with the Lightning Spear and Cold Flood Dragon Blade, then separated after their weapons clashed.
• Fan Xuanlei recognized that Qin Yang had reached the Martial Saint realm, and Qin Yang readied himself for their fight to the death.

Qin Yang fought Fan Xuanlei in a fierce battle, unleashing his techniques against Fan’s lightning attacks and secret transformation. After their final clash shattered Zhao Xinmo’s barrier, Qin Yang stood amid the scorched earth, while Fan Xuanlei’s fate remained unclear.

• Qin Yang and Fan Xuanlei exchanged more than a hundred attacks, and their weapons shattered in a clash of origin energy.
• Qin Yang summoned a saber from his Black Tortoise phantom and broke through Fan Xuanlei’s lightning barrage to attack at close range.
• Qin Yang overwhelmed Fan Xuanlei with a series of punches, injuring him and shattering his left shoulder.
• Fan Xuanlei used Nine Heavens Lightning Evil to transform into a giant, then traded brutal blows with Qin Yang.
• Qin Yang used Dragon Subduing: Heaven Collapsing, Earth Splitting against Fan Xuanlei’s Lightning Evil Serpent Devour, and their collision shattered Zhao Xinmo’s barrier.

After Qin Yang killed Fan Xuanlei, he and Zhao Xinmo escaped the battlefield while Zhao Guanshan took control of the Thunder Fiend Cult. Yanluo Tower’s Ghost Face Man revealed Qin Yang had become a Martial Saint, and Zhao Guanshan abandoned the assassination contract; the Ghost Face Man then reported the decision to Smiling Face.

• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo left the scorched battlefield before the Thunder Fiend Cult arrived.
• Zhao Guanshan found Fan Xuanlei’s corpse, concealed his delight, and later became the Thunder Fiend Cult’s Cult Master.
• Zhao Guanshan purged Fan Xuanlei’s remaining supporters instead of seriously investigating the Cult Master’s killer.
• The Ghost Face Man told Zhao Guanshan that Yanluo Tower had traced the target’s rise to the Martial Saint realm and suspected he possessed the Immortal Buddha Bloodline.
• Zhao Guanshan refused to raise Yanluo Tower’s fee or pursue Qin Yang, and the Ghost Face Man declared their agreement void.
• The Ghost Face Man told Smiling Face that Zhao Guanshan had abandoned the hunt, and Smiling Face questioned whether they should give up too.

Smiling Face Man and Ghost Face Man planned to assassinate Qin Yang for Yanluo Tower, while Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo continued toward Thousand Birds Sect and discussed their plans on Tianfeng Continent. Zhao Xinmo revealed fragments about the ancient War to Destroy Heaven, which Qin Yang connected to the Black Tortoise Sect.

• Smiling Face Man said Great Yama wanted Qin Yang captured for research into his Immortal Buddha Bloodline, and Ghost Face Man said White Yama would assist them in an assassination.
• Five days later, Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo reached Changchang, where Qin Yang decided to remain on Tianfeng Continent and Zhao Xinmo said he wanted to stay and study ghost species.
• Zhao Xinmo explained that he hoped to remove the corruptive nature of ghost species and absorb their power, and Qin Yang warned that he would deal with him if he became infected.
• Zhao Xinmo told Qin Yang that ancient records described experts from Great Qian Kingdom and other continents gathering on Tianfeng Continent after the Mythological Era.
• Qin Yang connected the gathering to the War to Destroy Heaven, and Zhao Xinmo said the war had likely involved countless powerful Ascension Realm experts.

Qin Yang settled in Great Mang Mountain after overpowering and binding an Azure Ox Demon, then began cultivating the Withered Wood Undying Scripture. As he harmonized his aura, mind, and blood qi, pale green primordial energy emerged from his five viscera.

• Zhao Xinmo explained that the War to Destroy Heaven preceded the long decline of spiritual energy and the recent failure of the Heaven and Earth Isolation Forbidden Technique.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo reached Great Mang Mountain, where Qin Yang defeated the Azure Ox Demon and forced it to submit.
• Zhao Xinmo used the Mysterious Blood Guarding Heart secret art to let Qin Yang sense the Azure Ox Demon's location.
• Qin Yang built bamboo huts and settled into seclusion with Zhao Xinmo and the injured Azure Ox Demon.
• Qin Yang studied the Withered Wood Undying Scripture and began cultivating it, causing pale green primordial energy to drift from his five viscera.

Qin Yang cultivated the Withered Wood Undying Scripture, whose growth accelerated with support from his Big Dipper True Martial Origin Energy, and continued training while keeping the Azure Ox Demon under control. Two months later, Zhao Xinmo returned to the bamboo grove and asked Qin Yang for help with something.

• Qin Yang discovered that his Big Dipper True Martial Origin Energy nourished the Withered Wood Origin Energy, then gained more than three hundred points of proficiency in the Withered Wood Undying Scripture overnight.
• Qin Yang let the Azure Ox Demon leave the bamboo grove, caught it trying to flee, and struck it down with a punch.
• Yanluo Tower's Smiling Face Man and Ghost Face Man discussed their failure to locate Qin Yang, and the Smiling Face Man said the hunt was temporarily suspended because White Yama had been sent to the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone.
• Two months later, Zhao Xinmo returned to the bamboo grove, and the Azure Ox Demon fled from him when he said he wanted some of its blood.
• Zhao Xinmo told Qin Yang he needed help, and Qin Yang asked about the bundle on his back.

Zhao Xinmo studied a sealed ghost artifact and discovered that it devoured spiritual energy, leading Qin Yang to suspect ghost seeds were meant to consume the world. After learning that the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone had become active, Qin Yang decided to travel there alone to investigate the War to Destroy Heaven.

• Zhao Xinmo brought a sealed crimson rope ghost artifact to Qin Yang and showed him how its strands devoured a spirit stone and attacked him.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo concluded that ghost artifacts and ghost seeds might have descended to devour the world, and Zhao Xinmo wished to study a ghost seed.
• Qin Yang reviewed his cultivation progress and continued training as his Withered Wood Undying Scripture advanced to level six.
• The crimson rope broke free of Zhao Xinmo's seal, contaminated his research room, and forced him to destroy it before returning to the Thousand Birds Sect.
• Zhao Xinmo told Qin Yang that disturbances had begun in the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone, where the War to Destroy Heaven had taken place, and that many factions were heading there.
• Qin Yang decided to travel to the Desolate Moon Forbidden Zone alone, accepted Zhao Xinmo's map, and began packing for the journey.