Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing accompanied Wang Yang back to the Wang Family, where Wang Yang’s return astonished the clan. The family was facing a grave threat, and the chapter ended as Wang Can welcomed Wang Yang home.

• Zhou Qing told Xiao Xiao and the others to remain behind while he and Wang Yang traveled to the Wang Family.
• Zhou Qing and Wang Yang arrived at Xiao Jing Mountain and encountered martial wanderers seeking the Wang Family’s help against Crippled Gentleman.
• A Wang Family disciple refused the visitors’ request, explaining that the family faced a great enemy and could not spare anyone.
• Wang Yang revealed his identity to Wang Xin, who recognized him as the family’s returned ancestor and escorted him and Zhou Qing inside.
• Wang Can and the Elders greeted Wang Yang excitedly when he entered the council hall.

Wang Yang returned to the Wang Family with Zhou Qing's help after decades away, and Zhou Qing promised to protect Wang Can while he attempted Foundation Establishment. When Zi Yang Kui arrived to stop the breakthrough, Zhou Qing killed him with a Five-Colored Divine Light.

• Wang Yang told Wang Can that the Violet Sun Family had driven him away and learned that Zi Yang Kui planned to interfere with Wang Can's Foundation Establishment attempt.
• Zhou Qing promised to handle the Violet Sun Family's visit, and Wang Can entered seclusion that day to begin establishing his foundation.
• Zi Yang Kui arrived at the Wang Family ancestral hall and demanded to know why Wang Can had not come to receive him.
• Zhou Qing told Zi Yang Kui that Wang Can was in seclusion and warned him to withdraw, but Zi Yang Kui refused and launched his flying sword.
• Zhou Qing's Five-Colored Divine Light knocked aside Zi Yang Kui's flying sword and dissolved his head.

After Zi Yang Kui was killed, Zi Yanggong gathered the Violet Sun Family and sought help from the Eastern Sun Sect to punish the Wang Family. Lin Rusong joined him, and they arrived to find Wang Can attempting Foundation Establishment.

• Wang Yang took responsibility for Zi Yang Kui’s death and sent two Wang Family juniors to return the corpse to the Violet Sun Family.
• Zi Yanggong sounded the alarm, told the Violet Sun Family that Zi Yang Kui had been killed, and vowed to seek help from the Eastern Sun Sect.
• At the Hall of Skill Transmission, Lin Rusong told Zi Yanggong that the sect’s leaders were focused on preparing for Zhou Qing’s possible arrival and offered to accompany him.
• Zi Yanggong and Lin Rusong gathered three Violet Sun Family Foundation Establishment Elders and flew to the Wang Family.
• The group saw spiritual energy surging from the Wang Family’s rear courtyard as Wang Can attempted a Foundation Establishment breakthrough.

Zhou Qing subdued Lin Rusong after the Eastern Sun Sect Elder claimed the sect’s authority, then flew to Eastern Sun Mountain to confront Li Cunyang. The Wang Family learned Zhou Qing’s identity as the chapter ended with the Eastern Sun Sect leaders facing his arrival.

• Zhou Qing admitted killing a Violet Sun Family member and defended the Wang Family, while Lin Rusong insisted that the Eastern Sun Sect would capture him.
• Zhou Qing paralyzed Lin Rusong with lightning and declared that he would confront the Eastern Sun Sect; Zi Yanggong backed down and followed after him.
• Wang Can arrived to help his family, and Wang Yang revealed that Senior Zhou was Zhou Qing, startling Wang Can and the other Wang Family members.
• Zhou Qing carried Lin Rusong to Eastern Sun Mountain and called Li Cunyang out above Spring Pavilion.
• Li Cunyang and Zi Yangyue abandoned their plan to ignore Zhou Qing when they heard his angry summons, and the other sect leaders saw their fear.

Zhou Qing forced the Eastern Sun Sect to abandon Eastern Sun Mountain for three years after using the Violet Sun Family’s attack on the Wang Family as grounds to demand an explanation. Once the sect had withdrawn, he settled on its spirit vein to cultivate and test his abilities.

• Zhou Qing confronted Li Cunyang and Zi Yangyue, who learned that Zi Yanggong’s actions had given him a pretext to hold the Eastern Sun Sect accountable.
• Zhou Qing demanded Eastern Sun Mountain for three years, and Li Cunyang agreed despite the sect members’ protests.
• Li Cunyang warned Zhou Qing that those he bullied might seek revenge, but Zhou Qing said he would flourish forever.
• After half a month, the Eastern Sun Sect withdrew from Eastern Sun Mountain, and Zhou Qing’s followers arrived.
• Zhou Qing told Xiao Xiao, Lin Li, Huang Quan, and Qin Xue not to fear making enemies, then began cultivating on the sect’s spirit vein and planned to explore his limits.

Zhou Qing strengthened his magnetic field and developed a devastating new Gamma Ray attack after advancing all seventy-five dantians to the third level of Foundation Establishment. He ranked his combat abilities and realized he had not checked how much the Five-Colored Divine Light had improved.

• Zhou Qing spent a year and a half cultivating and experimenting with particle acceleration and compression, but hit a limit without a stronger magnetic field.
• Zhou Qing raised all seventy-five dantians to the third level of Foundation Establishment and discovered that compressing his magnetic field’s range greatly increased its intensity.
• Zhou Qing used his strengthened magnetic field to accelerate electrons and found that striking Celestite produced powerful Gamma Rays.
• Zhou Qing tested the Gamma Rays, concluding they could pierce nearly anything but required the spiritual energy of three secondary dantians and lasted only milliseconds.
• Zhou Qing assessed his other combat methods, ranked them, and remembered that he had not tested the Five-Colored Divine Light since his magnetic field improved.

Zhou Qing advanced Five-Colored Divine Light into Chaos Divine Light and devised a way to combine it with his other attacks. After learning that the Dharma Dissemination Dojo was searching the Western Serenity Continent for something, he prepared to resume his journey to meet the Eastern Sun Sect.

• Zhou Qing compressed spiritual energy beyond the limits of Five-Colored Divine Light, creating the far more destructive Chaos Divine Light.
• Zhou Qing planned to use Chaos Divine Light to break an enemy’s defenses before striking with Plasma Beams or Thunder Serpent Horn Iron Pellets, reserving Gamma Ray for emergencies.
• Zhou Qing finished upgrading his methods and decided to set out within the next few days as his agreed time with the Eastern Sun Sect approached.
• Xiao Xiao told Zhou Qing that True Person Mu Zhuosha had warned him to be careful because experts from the Dharma Dissemination Dojo were searching the Western Serenity Continent.
• Zhou Qing learned that no one had visited and concluded that the Dharma Dissemination Dojo had made the surrounding area a forbidden zone, treating him as an equal.

Zhou Qing returned Eastern Sun Mountain to Li Cunyang and traveled toward the Profound Wood Sect. At the border, True Lord Lu Ping revealed that Western Serenity Continent’s sect leaders had gathered to jointly recommend Zhou Qing as the Celestial Connection True Lord.

• Xiao Xiao gave Zhou Qing two new sets of cultivation notes, and Zhou Qing stored them without opening more dantians for now.
• Zhou Qing summoned Li Cunyang and honored their agreement by returning Eastern Sun Mountain to the Eastern Sun Sect.
• Li Cunyang thanked Zhou Qing, while the returning Eastern Sun Sect disciples watched Zhou Qing’s group descend the mountain with complicated feelings.
• Zhou Qing and his companions traveled for half a month toward the Profound Wood Sect and found hundreds of prominent cultivators gathered across the border river.
• Zhou Qing confronted True Lord Lu Ping, who explained that the sect leaders of Western Serenity Continent had assembled to recommend Zhou Qing as its Celestial Connection True Lord.

Zhou Qing learned that the Dharma Dissemination Dojo had arranged for the sects to acclaim him as a True Lord because the Immortal Dao faced a threat from the Seven Emotions Sect. True Lord Lu Ping revealed that its leader, the Grand Illusion Demon Lord, was preparing to use the Demonic Descent art, which could create another Demonic Abyss.

• The sect leaders praised Zhou Qing’s abilities and acclaimed him as an invincible True Lord, stirring a new sensation in his Dao heart.
• True Lord Lu Ping took Zhou Qing aside and explained that the Dojo had united the sects to prevent Zhou Qing’s challenges from weakening the Immortal Dao.
• Zhou Qing accused the Dharma Dissemination Dojo of raising the Seven Emotions Sect, but Lu Ping said the Dojo was instead threatened by its leader, the Grand Illusion Demon Lord.
• Lu Ping explained that peak Nascent Soul cultivators using Demonic Descent could create Demonic Abysses, and that the Dojo’s True Lords were stretched thin suppressing the seventeen that already existed.
• Lu Ping revealed that the Grand Illusion Demon Lord was preparing to use Demonic Descent, and Zhou Qing realized why the Dojo’s True Lords rarely appeared in the mortal world.

Lu Ping explained to Zhou Qing that the Dharma Dissemination Dojo restrained cultivators to avoid attracting extraterrestrial fiends, and warned that demonic deviation could turn cultivators into vessels for demons. He then asked Zhou Qing to locate Grand Illusion Demon Lord, who threatened to undergo Demonic Descent unless the dojo supplied treasures for his breakthrough.

• Lu Ping told Zhou Qing that ancient cultivators isolated the eighty-one continents after publicizing the extraterrestrial fiend threat caused corruption to spread.
• Lu Ping explained that intense emotions could draw fiends' attention, and demonic deviation let them steal cultivators' true spirits and use their bodies to open Demonic Abysses.
• Lu Ping said the Dharma Dissemination Dojo restricted cultivation driven by desires for power, but Zhou Qing argued that this left the immortal path too weak to resist the fiends.
• Lu Ping revealed that Grand Illusion Demon Lord had hidden after threatening either to undergo Demonic Descent or to demand treasures for his breakthrough.
• Lu Ping asked Zhou Qing to use his unusual methods to find Grand Illusion Demon Lord, while the dojo handled stopping him.

Zhou Qing agreed to help the Dharma Dissemination Dojo search for Grand Illusion Demon Lord after Lu Ping offered to show him a Demonic Abyss. He ended his tour of Western Serenity Continent and traveled with Lu Ping to Millstone Mountain, where they prepared to inspect the abyss.

• Zhou Qing asked Lu Ping to take him to a Demonic Abyss, and Lu Ping warned him about its dangers before agreeing to guide him.
• Zhou Qing returned with Lu Ping, ended his challenges across Western Serenity Continent, and told Xiao Xiao and the others to return to their sects for ten years of study.
• Zhou Qing bid farewell to the cultivators who had followed him and flew southwest with Lu Ping.
• Lu Ping brought Zhou Qing to Millstone Mountain and explained that Illuminated Silence Demon Lord had caused a Demonic Abyss to appear there three thousand years earlier.
• At Upright Sword Peak, Lu Ping introduced Zhou Qing to Xiang Lian, who guarded the Demonic Abyss with Cao Yang.

Zhou Qing met Sacred Lotus Maiden and learned of her past encounter with his Senior Uncle Mu Zhuosha before Lu Ping took him to see the Demonic Abyss. After Zhou Qing proved unaffected by its eerie aura, Cao Yang invited him to spar, and Zhou Qing agreed to fight once Cao Yang’s shift ended.

• Zhou Qing asked Sacred Lotus Maiden about Mu Zhuosha, and she recalled defeating her and considering inviting her to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo.
• Sacred Lotus Maiden offered Zhou Qing a meeting gift, but Lu Ping interrupted and led him toward the Demonic Abyss.
• Zhou Qing entered the cavern and remained unaffected by the eerie aura as Lu Ping and Sacred Lotus Maiden watched.
• Cao Yang met Zhou Qing and expressed interest in testing his abilities in a match.
• Zhou Qing agreed to spar with Cao Yang after his shift, while Lu Ping and Sacred Lotus Maiden reacted to the prospect.

Zhou Qing entered the Demonic Abyss with the Sacred Lotus Maiden as the Demonic Sound overwhelmed the cultivators outside. Golden light emerged from Zhou Qing’s body, shielding him from the sound and driving back the evil fiends gathered near the exit.

• Cao Yang explained that the Demonic Abyss was filled with darkness and undying evil fiends, then trapped and killed a fiend that emerged from its entrance.
• The Demonic Sound surged from the abyss, suppressing Cao Yang and Lu Ping and drawing the Sacred Lotus Maiden toward the entrance.
• Zhou Qing recognized that the Demonic Sound carried the words “New god... battle...!” and followed the Sacred Lotus Maiden into the Demonic Abyss.
• Golden light spread from Zhou Qing’s body, revealing hundreds of evil fiends and burning them into ash when they entered its reach.
• Zhou Qing realized that the golden protection from his Dao Heart avatar could now cover his physical body and repel evil fiends.

Zhou Qing rescued the Sacred Lotus Maiden from the Demonic Abyss and agreed to help the Dharma Dissemination Dojo find the Grand Illusion Demon Lord in exchange for access to two spirit veins. Lu Ping took Zhou Qing and the still-unconscious Xiang Lian toward the dojo, and she awoke during their journey.

• Zhou Qing explored the Demonic Abyss, found nothing useful, and carried the unconscious Sacred Lotus Maiden back out.
• Lu Ping and Cao Yang prepared to seek help from the Dojo Master, but Zhou Qing emerged with Xiang Lian before they could enter the abyss.
• Lu Ping and Cao Yang confirmed Xiang Lian was unharmed and were astonished that Zhou Qing had withstood the Demonic Sound and traversed the abyss.
• Lu Ping asked Zhou Qing to find the Grand Illusion Demon Lord, and Zhou Qing agreed in exchange for choosing two of the Dharma Dissemination Dojo's spirit veins.
• Lu Ping took Zhou Qing and Xiang Lian toward the dojo, and Xiang Lian awoke after half a day of travel.

Zhou Qing reached Myriad Visions City after helping Lu Ping bring the Sacred Lotus Maiden back from the Demonic Abyss, then went to find Nie Yunxi at Guye Dao Hall. He discovered that she had earned a reputation as the Green Jade Fairy and was preparing to leave the city, and he approached her hall.

• The Sacred Lotus Maiden woke and learned that Zhou Qing had rescued her from the Demonic Abyss while she was under the Demonic Sound’s influence.
• Lu Ping and Zhou Qing brought the Sacred Lotus Maiden to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo, and Zhou Qing said he would visit the next morning after meeting an acquaintance in Myriad Visions City.
• Zhou Qing found Guye Dao Hall surrounded by cultivators waiting for Nie Yunxi, whom they called the Green Jade Fairy and ranked among the city’s foremost hall masters.
• Gao Lingyun asked Nie Yunxi to receive him, but she said she had closed her hall and would soon leave Myriad Visions City.
• Zhou Qing recognized Nie Yunxi’s name and stepped toward Guye Dao Hall.

Zhou Qing reunited with Nie Yunxi in Myriad Visions City and learned that Mu Zhuosha had warned him not to trust the Dharma Dissemination Dojo or enter its inner grounds. He chose to continue his business at the dojo and invited Nie Yunxi to cultivate with him during his planned three-year stay.

• Gao Lingyun saw Zhou Qing enter Green Jade Fairy’s dojo and was stunned by how warmly she welcomed him.
• Nie Yunxi told Zhou Qing that Mu Zhuosha had warned her the Dharma Dissemination Dojo could not be trusted and that he should avoid its inner grounds.
• Nie Yunxi explained that an unknown expert had prevented Mu Zhuosha from reaching Zhou Qing, leading her to suspect the dojo was blocking the warning.
• Zhou Qing refused Nie Yunxi’s offer to leave with her and said he had ways to keep the dojo from harming him.
• Zhou Qing invited Nie Yunxi to cultivate at the two spirit veins he had requested from the Dharma Dissemination Dojo while he stayed there for three years.

Zhou Qing reunited with Nie Yunxi in Myriad Visions City and took her to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo after learning how his growing reputation had affected the Nine Sect Alliance. At the dojo’s mountain gate, he met its Dao Lord, True Lord Whitebrow, whose power appeared close to reaching a Dharma Body.

• Zhou Qing told Nie Yunxi that two spirit veins would serve as his payment to the dojo, and she happily agreed to accompany him for three years.
• Nie Yunxi told Zhou Qing that the Nine Sect Alliance had forbidden its younger members from joining him, while Azure Cloud Sect had recalled its traveling disciples to spare them from challenges and harassment.
• Gao Lingyun and other cultivators came to see Nie Yunxi off, then recognized Zhou Qing as Celestial Connection True Lord and made way for him and Nie Yunxi to leave.
• Zhou Qing walked with Nie Yunxi from Myriad Visions City to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo, where Lu Ping introduced True Lord Whitebrow as its Dao Lord.
• Zhou Qing recognized that True Lord Whitebrow was at the limit of the Nascent Soul realm, while Whitebrow studied Zhou Qing with growing puzzlement.

Zhou Qing reached Dao Rhythm Peak to search for Grand Illusion Demon Lord while the Dharma Dissemination Dojo’s True Lords debated whether to kill him after the search. After seeing the immense Spirit Vein, Zhou Qing cultivated and planned to identify the Demon Lord by locating the Nascent Soul True Lords across the Western Serenity Continent.

• Whitebrow asked Zhou Qing to find Grand Illusion Demon Lord, and Zhou Qing agreed to cast a spell after receiving the promised Spirit Veins.
• Jiang Tao and Mu Tiexiong urged the True Lords to kill Zhou Qing along with Grand Illusion Demon Lord, but Whitebrow deferred the decision until after they found their enemy.
• Zhou Qing and Nie Yunxi reached Dao Rhythm Peak and saw its exposed Spirit Vein, which fed a vast lake of spiritual liquid at the summit.
• Zhou Qing read the collected notes, gained twenty acupoints to reach a total of ninety-five, and decided to strengthen his existing dantians before opening more.
• Zhou Qing prepared to find Grand Illusion Demon Lord by locating the Nascent Soul True Lords in the Western Serenity Continent and excluding those from the Dharma Dissemination Dojo.

Zhou Qing found the Grand Illusion Demon Lord hiding at the Azure Cloud Sect and sent Nie Yunxi there with a message. When Jiang Tao pursued her, Zhou Qing struck him with a Thunder Serpent Horn pellet, prompting the Nascent Soul Cultivators to reconsider confronting him.

• Zhou Qing used the Relay Stations to survey the Western Serenity Continent and discovered that seven Nascent Soul Cultivators were encircling him at the Dharma Dissemination Dojo.
• Zhou Qing located the Grand Illusion Demon Lord at the Azure Cloud Sect, where the demon lord had placed himself among Bai Yujing and the other disciples to make Zhou Qing hesitate to expose him.
• Zhou Qing sent Nie Yunxi to the Azure Cloud Sect to ask Mu Zhuosha about a recent guest and deliver his message.
• Jiang Tao pursued Nie Yunxi's flying boat, but Zhou Qing launched a Thunder Serpent Horn pellet that shattered Jiang Tao's palm and forced him to abandon the chase.
• Jiang Tao met the other Nascent Soul Cultivators and warned them that Zhou Qing's pellets could seriously injure them if he had enough to launch at once.

Nie Yunxi carried Zhou Qing’s warning to the Grand Illusion Demon Lord, who had been hiding in the Azure Cloud Sect, but he refused to leave and threatened to destroy the sect if Zhou Qing did not help him. Mu Zhuosha realized the Azure Cloud Sect was trapped between the demon and the Dharma Dissemination Dojo, while Nie Yunxi returned to report to Zhou Qing.

• Jiang Tao and Whitebrow worried about Zhou Qing’s rapid progress and decided the Dharma Dissemination Dojo needed to act, while True Lord Lu Ping’s defense of him went unheard.
• Nie Yunxi reached the Azure Cloud Sect and told Mu Zhuosha that Zhou Qing had gone to the Dharma Dissemination Dojo and sent her to deliver a message.
• Nie Yunxi confronted the Grand Illusion Demon Lord and relayed Zhou Qing’s offer to keep his whereabouts secret if he left and died with dignity.
• The Grand Illusion Demon Lord rejected Zhou Qing’s warning and demanded that Zhou Qing conceal his presence and report the Dharma Dissemination Dojo’s movements, threatening the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Mu Zhuosha considered evacuating the sect, but Nie Yunxi warned that the demon would not allow it and urged her to keep the matter quiet.
• Nie Yunxi departed to report back to Zhou Qing, while Mu Zhuosha saw no way for the Azure Cloud Sect to escape disaster.