Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing forced Wu Shizhong into a battle and watched the Profound Glory Sect assemble its Heavenly Sword Sky-Piercing Formation. As the formation neared completion, Zhou Qing sensed it could threaten him, while its combined power approached the peak of the Golden Core Realm.

• Wu Shizhong accused Zhou Qing of bullying the Profound Glory Sect, but Zhou Qing said he would fight them to prevent them from denying defeat later.
• Wu Shizhong accepted Zhou Qing's challenge and flew into the clouds, where they exchanged blows as cultivators below watched.
• Nearly a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Profound Glory Sect flew up and took positions to form the Heavenly Sword Sky-Piercing Formation.
• Zhou Qing used Five-Colored Divine Light to drive Wu Shizhong back, then welcomed the formation and said he wanted to test its mysteries.
• Zhou Qing used the Heavenly Net to observe the formation and found that its cultivators' Spirit Pressure was combining into one force, though its true strength depended on their coordination.

Zhou Qing faced the Profound Glory Sect’s Heavenly Sword Sky-Piercing Formation and, after struggling against its relentless Sword Qi, unleashed a vast Lightning Domain to approach it. He reached the formation and began using his magnetic field to interfere with the disciples’ flying swords.

• Zhou Qing spotted subtle discord in the Profound Glory Sect’s formation and let Wu Shizhong launch the first attack.
• Wu Shizhong and the formation’s cultivators unleashed relentless Sword Qi, forcing Zhou Qing to evade while he searched for a way to break their formation.
• Zhou Qing entered his second-stage state, created a half-li thunderstorm zone, and sent twenty iron pellets spinning around himself for defense.
• Zhou Qing charged toward the formation within his Lightning Domain, which weakened the incoming Sword Qi as the sect’s cultivators struggled to stop him.
• Zhou Qing reached the formation’s range and used his magnetic field to influence the disciples’ flying swords, though he could not seize them outright.

Zhou Qing shattered the Profound Glory Sect’s formation and defeated its entire sect without killing anyone, then rested with Xiao Xiao and Lin Li before their journey to the Phantom God Sect. While recovering, he considered advancing his twenty-six dantians to the second layer of Foundation Establishment while continuing to search for new acupoints.

• Zhou Qing disrupted the Heavenly Sword Sky-Piercing Formation with his magnetic field, then swept through it with his Lightning Domain and knocked every Profound Glory Sect disciple from the sky.
• The defeated Profound Glory Sect, including Wu Shizhong, lay severely injured, and the gathered cultivators praised Zhou Qing’s victory.
• Zhou Qing thanked Wu Shizhong for yielding, then left with Xiao Xiao and Lin Li for the Phantom God Sect.
• Zhou Qing rested on a mountain two hundred li away and told Xiao Xiao and Lin Li to recover and organize their cultivation insights, saying Xiao Xiao could break through to Foundation Establishment afterward.
• While restoring his spiritual energy, Zhou Qing weighed advancing his twenty-six dantians while continuing to seek new acupoints.

Zhou Qing recovered, advanced his cultivation, and gained Huang Quan as a new companion before heading toward the Phantom God Sect. As Zhou Qing approached, the Phantom God Sect’s leader and the Great Buddha Temple’s abbot agreed to stage a controlled war to avoid his challenge.

• Zhou Qing broke through to the second level of Foundation Establishment, while Xiao Xiao began attempting his own breakthrough and Lin Li consolidated her gains.
• Huang Quan of the Heavenly Calculation Pavilion asked to follow Zhou Qing permanently, and Zhou Qing accepted him into the group.
• After twenty days in the mountains, Xiao Xiao successfully broke through, and the four companions set out for the Phantom God Sect.
• Shan Hai and Abbot Bukong discussed Zhou Qing’s approaching challenge and feared they could not defeat him.
• Abbot Bukong proposed that the Phantom God Sect and Great Buddha Temple stage a controlled war to refuse Zhou Qing’s challenge, and Shan Hai agreed.

Zhou Qing reached the Phantom God Sect but found its leaders absent, then learned from Qin Xue that the sect was at war with the Great Buddha Temple. He condemned the scheme, which people believed had been devised to avoid his challenge, and Qin Xue asked whether he would wait for the fighting to end.

• Zhou Qing arrived at the Phantom God Sect and found that its Sect Leader and elders were gone, so he went to the Nine Sect Alliance's shop.
• Qin Xue welcomed Zhou Qing, told him about Nie Yunxi's progress, and reported that several sects wanted to join the Nine Sect Alliance.
• Zhou Qing urged the alliance to prioritize integrating nearby sects before expanding further.
• Qin Xue explained that the Phantom God Sect and the Great Buddha Temple were fighting over the mortal kingdom of Great Zhou, which had switched allegiance.
• Qin Xue said people suspected the war was an expedient way to avoid Zhou Qing's challenge, and Zhou Qing declared that whoever devised the scheme deserved death.

Zhou Qing traveled to Great Zhou to stop Great Buddha Temple and Phantom God Sect from fighting after their conflict displaced millions of ordinary people. He reached the battlefield and demanded that both sects cease fighting, but they ignored him as the chapter ended with killing intent in his eyes.

• Zhou Qing told Qin Xue that he would go to Great Zhou to break up the conflict between Great Buddha Temple and Phantom God Sect.
• Zhou Qing led Xiao Xiao, Huang Quan, and Lin Li northeast toward Great Zhou while cultivators followed, eager to see whether he would confront the two sects.
• As Zhou Qing's group traveled through Great Zhou, they saw refugees fleeing the fighting and learned that millions of ordinary people had been displaced or killed.
• Zhou Qing and his followers reached the battlefield, where the two sects continued fighting and ignored his request to stop.
• Xiao Xiao, Huang Quan, and Lin Li saw a cold, cruel killing intent in Zhou Qing's eyes as he watched the battle.

Zhou Qing used a gigantic bell to unleash amplified Infrasound against the Phantom God Sect and Great Buddha Temple, bringing down hundreds of their Foundation Establishment cultivators. He then disrupted thirteen Golden Core cultivators and struck them with iron pellets traveling at one hundred times the speed of sound.

• Zhou Qing used his magnetic field and the gigantic bell to unleash Infrasound that resonated with cultivators’ livers.
• Mountain Sea True Person and Abbot Bukong ordered their forces to protect their livers, but nearly two hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators fell.
• Mountain Sea True Person and Abbot Bukong led thirteen Golden Cores in a charge toward Zhou Qing, while the remaining Foundation Establishment cultivators fled.
• Zhou Qing changed the bell’s resonance to affect the Golden Cores’ vision, leaving them dizzy and disoriented.
• Zhou Qing propelled twenty iron pellets at one hundred times the speed of sound, striking Mountain Sea with four, Bukong with five, and each of the other Golden Cores with one.

Zhou Qing crushed the joint attack by the Golden Cores of two sects and compelled them to lead their disciples into Great Zhou’s relief efforts. As Huang Quan and Lin Li prepared to advance, Zhou Qing explored the stronger abilities brought by his second Foundation Establishment level, while a town formed around him and cultivators began to see him as a challenger to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo.

• Zhou Qing defeated thirteen Golden Cores with iron pellets, then ordered Mountain Sea True Person and Abbot Bukong to take their disciples back and prepare relief efforts for Great Zhou.
• Mountain Sea True Person and Abbot Bukong accepted defeat and gathered their badly wounded disciples, whose sects had lost much of their backbone.
• Zhou Qing told Huang Quan to attempt Foundation Establishment and Lin Li to attempt the seventh level of Qi Refinement, and instructed Xiao Xiao to protect them.
• Cultivators gathered at the mountain’s foot, built a market town, and wondered whether the Dharma Dissemination Dojo could truly suppress Zhou Qing.
• While Huang Quan and Lin Li prepared to break through, Zhou Qing explored the abilities he could reach with his strengthened magnetic field and Withered Wood Revives.

Zhou Qing explored atomic-level magnetic-field control but could not overcome the strong nuclear force or accelerate a hydrogen nucleus enough to split an iron nucleus. When Wang Yang brought him ancient cultivation notes in exchange for help relocating his family, Zhou Qing agreed and hinted at his broader opposition to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo.

• Zhou Qing used the third stage of Withered Wood Revives to sense and manipulate individual atoms, but failed to overcome the strong nuclear force or accelerate a hydrogen nucleus to the speed needed for a particle collision.
• After more than twenty days of cultivation and study, Zhou Qing received Wang Yang, who offered him ancient notes found in some ruins.
• Wang Yang asked Zhou Qing to help his family escape the Eastern Sun Sect's territory after the Violet Sun Family had obstructed and destroyed its promising members.
• Zhou Qing accepted Wang Yang's request and said they would help once they reached the Eastern Sun Sect's territory.
• Xiao Xiao and the others understood that Zhou Qing's remarks about great sects pointed beyond the Violet Sun Family and the Eastern Sun Sect toward the Dharma Dissemination Dojo.

Zhou Qing spent nearly half a year opening fifteen more dantians before Mu Mingsheng arrived to warn him that the Dharma Dissemination Dojo and several sects were demanding his punishment over the Profound Glory Sect’s destruction. Zhou Qing and his followers set out for the Profound Glory Sect to face Nascent Soul True Lord Lu Ping and the other accusers.

• Wang Yang joined Zhou Qing’s group, and Zhou Qing used his notes on fifteen new acupoints to continue opening his dantian.
• Xiao Xiao returned from the Profound Glory Sect’s market with spirit stones and Qin Xue, who had left her shop to follow Zhou Qing.
• After nearly half a year, Zhou Qing opened all fifteen dantians and prepared to travel toward the Eastern Sun Sect.
• Mu Mingsheng told Zhou Qing that the Corpse Raisers had destroyed the Profound Glory Sect and that several sects blamed Zhou Qing and demanded his punishment.
• Zhou Qing learned that Nascent Soul True Lord Lu Ping and leaders from the Northern and Eastern Alliances awaited him at the Profound Glory Sect.
• Zhou Qing and his followers agreed to face them, while Wang Yang was told to travel separately and meet them there.

Zhou Qing confronted Lu Ping and the sect leaders gathered at the ruined Profound Glory Sect, rejecting their accusations and refusing to bow to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo. Lu Ping demanded an explanation for the sect’s destruction and warned that Western Serenity Continent’s immortal Dao would not tolerate Zhou Qing.

• Zhou Qing scanned Profound Glory Mountain and found only one Nascent Soul Cultivator there, whose Spirit Pressure appeared vastly different from that of Golden Core cultivators.
• Zhou Qing and Sect Leader Mu joined Lu Ping, Three Mysteries True Person, Abbot Bukong, Li Cunyang, Jin Hui, and other cultivators on the barren mountain.
• Li Cunyang demanded that Zhou Qing bow to Lu Ping, but Zhou Qing challenged Li Cunyang’s authority and refused to bow himself.
• Jin Hui criticized Zhou Qing’s arrogance, and Zhou Qing warned that he would visit the Profound Wood Sect and face Jin Hui there.
• Lu Ping blamed Zhou Qing for the Profound Glory Sect’s calamity, but Zhou Qing said the Corpse Raisers were responsible and challenged Lu Ping to control the discussion.
• Lu Ping accused Zhou Qing of causing unrest across Western Serenity Continent and warned that its immortal Dao would not tolerate him unless he gave an explanation.

Zhou Qing agreed to destroy the Corpse Raisers within three days, turning Lu Ping’s demand into a challenge to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo. He told Sect Leader True Person that he intended to use the task to contest the Dojo’s authority and asked to be taken to Fire Spring Mountain.

• Lu Ping gave Zhou Qing one month to eliminate the Corpse Raisers, but Zhou Qing promised to finish the task in three days.
• Sect Leader True Person warned Zhou Qing that the Corpse Raisers’ underground labyrinth had thwarted even the Dharma Dissemination Dojo for a thousand years.
• Zhou Qing explained that he meant to challenge the Dojo and use the Corpse Raisers as his first battle against its authority.
• Zhou Qing asked Sect Leader True Person to take him to Fire Spring Mountain, the Corpse Raisers’ heavily fortified lair.

Zhou Qing accepted the Dharma Dissemination Dojo’s challenge to destroy the Corpse Raisers at Fire Spring Mountain within three days, while Lu Ping gathered cultivators to witness his failure. On the third day, Zhou Qing addressed the assembled crowd, and objects suddenly rose from underground.

• Lu Ping refused to kill Zhou Qing without cause and declared he would execute him if he failed to destroy the Corpse Raisers within three days.
• Lu Ping publicized Zhou Qing’s agreement and threatened the Azure Cloud Sect in case Zhou Qing tried to flee.
• The Sect Leader True Person brought Zhou Qing to Fire Spring Mountain, where they learned the Dharma Dissemination Dojo had summoned cultivators from across Western Serenity Continent to watch.
• Mu Zhuosha arrived and offered to enter the underground lairs with Zhou Qing, but he told her to hold the line while he followed his own plan.
• Tens of thousands of cultivators gathered as Zhou Qing proclaimed he would rid the immortal path of the Corpse Raisers and punish those who schemed against him.
• Several objects shot up from underground and arranged themselves before the assembled cultivators.

Zhou Qing entered Fire Spring Mountain and used plasma to reach the underground magma, intending to trigger an eruption powerful enough to destroy the Corpse Raisers and shock the Western Serenity Continent. As the cultivators waited without seeing any results, Three Mysteries True Person accused Zhou Qing of colluding with the Corpse Raisers and urged Lu Ping to punish the Azure Cloud Sect.

• The Corpse Raisers mocked Zhou Qing after sending out the heads of Profound Glory Sect cultivators, while the watching cultivators blamed Zhou Qing for the sect’s destruction.
• Zhou Qing strode to Fire Spring Mountain’s main peak and entered the third stage of Withered Wood Revives before diving into the mountain.
• Zhou Qing used Plasma Beams and magnetic field manipulation to descend through the rock and magma, killing Corpse Raisers caught in the flooding magma.
• As Golden Core cultivators pursued him, Zhou Qing threw plasma spheres behind him, trapping one pursuer in a magma chamber and destabilizing the underground terrain.
• After Zhou Qing disappeared and no eruption occurred, Li Cunyang suspected he had fled underground, and Three Mysteries True Person accused him of colluding with the Corpse Raisers and called on Lu Ping to seize the Azure Cloud Sect.

Zhou Qing annihilated the Corpse Raisers by triggering a massive volcanic eruption beneath Fire Spring Mountain, then emerged before Lu Ping and the assembled sect leaders. Lu Ping was impressed but wary, while the Azure Cloud Sect’s fate remained unresolved.

• Lu Ping ordered Li Cunyang, Jin Hui, and their allies to pressure Mu Mingsheng and Mu Zhuosha, while Yanlin Valley’s Sect Leader argued that the agreed three days had not yet passed.
• A violent eruption shattered Fire Spring Mountain and sent lava across the surrounding land, forcing the cultivators to flee into the sky.
• Most of the Corpse Raisers were swallowed by lava, and Zhou Qing killed an Advanced Golden Core Corpse Raiser with a crimson beam.
• Zhou Qing emerged from the lava after fighting the Corpse Raisers’ powerful experts, with only six of his forty-one dantians remaining.
• The gathered cultivators lowered their heads before Zhou Qing, who told Lu Ping he had completed his mission and rid the Western Serenity Continent of the Corpse Raisers.
• Lu Ping praised Zhou Qing’s methods but remained cautious of his power.

After wiping out the Corpse Raisers, Zhou Qing returned to Profound Glory Mountain to claim its unclaimed spirit vein and prepare for cultivation. He arranged for the Nine Sect Alliance to expand its Relay Station network, then entered his Dao Heart World to examine a transformation he had sensed.

• Zhou Qing left Fire Spring Mountain with Mu Zhuosha and the Sect Leader True Person, revealing that he had thirty percent of his strength remaining and was heading to Profound Glory Mountain.
• Zhou Qing explained that he had sent Xiao Xiao and the others to claim Profound Glory Mountain's spirit vein so he could cultivate there.
• Zhou Qing reunited with Xiao Xiao, Lin Li, Huang Quan, and Qin Xue, who confirmed that they had found the spirit vein.
• Zhou Qing ordered the Sect Leader True Person to expand the Nine Sect Alliance and produce two hundred thousand Relay Stations for the Western Serenity Continent.
• After receiving visits from the Nine Sect Alliance's Sect Leader True Persons, Zhou Qing entered seclusion at the spirit vein and then entered his Dao Heart World to inspect its transformation.

Zhou Qing discovered that his Dao Heart World had grown more solid and that golden light protected him from incomprehensible beings beyond a terrifying thunderstorm. After losing three months while confronting them, he resolved not to look again and resumed cultivating in the Spirit Pool.

• Zhou Qing examined his transformed Dao Heart World, where his incarnation glowed with faint golden light and the ground felt real.
• He entered the world beyond the thunderstorm, glimpsed enormous figures, and nearly had his mind overwhelmed by their voices before the golden light returned him to safety.
• Zhou Qing heard the fragment “New god... battle...” and concluded that powerful beings watched the world and might one day threaten its inhabitants.
• Xiao Xiao told Zhou Qing that three months had passed during his brief encounter, and he confirmed that the time loss was linked to contact with those beings.
• Zhou Qing decided not to peer at them again, then entered the Spirit Pool and used Withered Wood Revives to absorb spiritual energy into his forty-one dantians.

Zhou Qing finished opening seventy-five dantians and left Profound Glory Mountain with Xiao Xiao and the others to continue his journey through Western Serenity Continent. As they traveled toward the Eastern Sun Sect to help Wang Yang's family, Zhou Qing sensed Lu Ping's aura ahead.

• Zhou Qing raised all forty-one dantians to the limit of the second level of Foundation Establishment, then used five sets of notes to discover thirty-four new acupoints and opened them.
• Zhou Qing decided to leave Profound Glory Mountain, entrusted Jing'an with watching over its nearly depleted spirit vein, and placed a stele forbidding anyone from ascending for fifty years.
• Zhou Qing had Huang Quan find Wang Yang and set out with Xiao Xiao and the others to help Wang Yang's family escape the Violet Sun Family's threat.
• Zhou Qing learned that the Great Buddha Temple had entered ten years of seclusion and continued toward the Eastern Sun Sect with cultivators following behind.
• After half a month of travel, Zhou Qing stopped at the border and sensed Lu Ping's aura two hundred li ahead.

Zhou Qing met Lu Ping True Lord, who urged him to abandon his journey and return to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo, warning that he had encountered dangerous beings spying on the world. When Zhou Qing refused, Lu Ping True Lord revealed his Nascent Soul Dharmic Image and prepared to fight him.

• Zhou Qing detected Lu Ping True Lord through the nearby Relay Stations and went alone to meet him.
• Lu Ping True Lord urged Zhou Qing to stop his journey and return to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo, claiming he wanted to protect him.
• Zhou Qing refused because he needed to complete his journey and feared entering the dojo would leave him unable to escape.
• Zhou Qing guessed that Lu Ping True Lord meant the truth behind demonic deviation and the beings spying on their world, and Lu Ping True Lord confirmed that Zhou Qing had encountered them.
• Lu Ping True Lord declared that he would kill Zhou Qing to prevent a calamity and unleashed his Nascent Soul Dharmic Image.
• Zhou Qing recognized the Dharmic Image and readied himself, excited to face a Nascent Soul Cultivator alone for the first time.

Zhou Qing used his seventy-five dantians and convincing act to survive True Lord Lu Ping’s repeated Life Deprivation attacks, forcing the Nascent Soul cultivator to retreat. Afterward, Zhou Qing resolved to strengthen himself and considered using Wang Yang’s conflict with the Eastern Sun Sect to gain access to its spiritual vein.

• True Lord Lu Ping struck Zhou Qing with Life Deprivation, draining his vitality, but Zhou Qing restored it by burning his second dantian with Withered Wood Revives.
• Lu Ping attacked repeatedly, and Zhou Qing recovered each time, making Lu Ping unable to understand how he had survived.
• Zhou Qing challenged Lu Ping to send another expert, and Lu Ping departed after warning him that his methods would bring future troubles.
• Zhou Qing monitored Lu Ping’s departure through the Relay Station, then admitted to himself that he could not withstand many more attacks and had relied on bluffing to preserve his invincible golden body.
• Zhou Qing decided to raise the cultivation of his forty-one second-level Foundation Establishment dantians and thought of exploiting Wang Yang’s conflict with the Eastern Sun Sect to gain its spiritual vein.