Chapter Summaries

Li Qingshan investigated a broken temple on a desolate mountain and discovered that its repeated footprints and indentations were tied to a convoy that seemed to have visited before. When the escort leader and his men could not remember what they were transporting, Li Qingshan realized they were the Evil Entities.

• Li Qingshan entered the broken temple, noticed identical footprints in three corners, and sensed unusually dense Star Origin Power.
• Li Qingshan tried to improve his Heavenly Phenomenon Seven Methods proficiency while a convoy led by Lin Wu approached through the night rain.
• Lin Wu and the escorts entered the temple, placed their cargo in indentations in the upper-left corner, and invited Li Qingshan to share their fire.
• Li Qingshan questioned Lin Wu about the Evil Entities, the route, and the cargo, causing the escorts to surround him with weapons.
• Lin Wu and the escorts lost focus and could not remember what the cargo was, and Li Qingshan told Lin Wu that the escorts themselves were the Evil Entities.

Li Qingshan destroyed the Divine Statue controlling Lin Wu and his escorts, then reached Three Rivers City and learned that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had reappeared. He found the Human Ranking at Yuelai Inn and saw Han Shan named its first-ranked fighter.

• Li Qingshan drew his saber and unleashed purple thunder, killing the Divine Statue and earning 3,000 years of Martial Arts Space time.
• Ma Chenfeng ordered Jiang Bin to investigate newly arrived experts and recover the missing Divine Statue.
• Li Qingshan learned from an elderly farmer that Changfeng City had become Three Rivers City after the Changfeng Gang disappeared fifty years earlier.
• A crowd gathered after news spread that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had appeared and the Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings were displayed at Yuelai Inn.
• Li Qingshan read that Han Shan topped the Human Ranking and was considered invincible beneath Grandmasters.

Li Qingshan visited Yuelai Inn to read the newly appeared Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings and learned about the Sword God Feng Boyong and the Jianghu. When Three Rivers Gang attacked him for refusing to move, he killed its members with lightning and remained by the rankings.

• Li Qingshan followed the crowd to Yuelai Inn and found people discussing the newly appeared rankings and their entries.
• Li Qingshan asked about the Sword God, and a Green-shirt Middle-aged Man told him Feng Boyong had split the sky, killed a Heavenly Being, and forced Ling Tian Sect to relocate.
• Three Rivers Gang members marched through the street, destroying goods and ordering everyone to clear the way.
• Li Qingshan ignored the warning to hide and continued reading the rankings as the gang surrounded him.
• The gang members attacked Li Qingshan, who killed them all with a flash of lightning, leaving charred corpses that crumbled into ash.

Li Qingshan learned that the Changyun Escort Agency’s final shipment was tied to Ma Chenfeng of the Three Rivers Gang and vowed to avenge the agency. He arrived at the ruined Three Rivers Gang headquarters as Azure Sea Sect disciples confronted Ma Chenfeng, then ordered everyone uninvolved to withdraw.

• Li Qingshan studied the Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings and considered the Ling Tian Sect’s strength and his plans to obtain the White Tiger Pearl and advance his cultivation.
• Li Qingshan asked the innkeeper about the Changyun Escort Agency and learned that Crippled Zhuo, the agency’s only known survivor, was nearby.
• Crippled Zhuo told Li Qingshan that Ma Chenfeng had blocked the Lin Family from searching Black Wind Mountain after the agency’s final shipment went missing, and Li Qingshan promised to avenge the agency.
• Li Qingshan cut down the armed men converging on him in Three Rivers City with a lightning strike and flew toward the Three Rivers Gang’s headquarters.
• Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei accused Ma Chenfeng of raising Evil Entities, while Hall Master Lu of the Heavenly Wolf Gang insisted the matter belonged to his gang’s Internal Investigation.
• Li Qingshan appeared above the ruined headquarters and declared that the Seven Stars Sect had come to slay evil and ordered everyone uninvolved to withdraw.

Li Qingshan fought Ma Chenfeng, who revealed his connection to an Evil God after surviving Li’s thunderstorm attack. Li defeated and killed him, while Hall Master Lu kept his distance.

• Hall Master Lu disowned the Three Rivers Gang and withdrew, expecting Ma Chenfeng to kill Li Qingshan.
• Ma Chenfeng charged into Li’s thunderstorm while Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei tried to help, but Li’s lightning forced them back.
• Ma Chenfeng emerged unharmed and mocked Li, who accused him of using borrowed Dao Principle and sensing Evil God power.
• Ma Chenfeng visualized the Evil God and transformed, while Hall Master Lu slowly approached instead of intervening.
• Li Qingshan overwhelmed Ma Chenfeng with saber attacks, shattered his sword and Blood Robe, and reduced him to ash.

Li Qingshan killed Ma Chenfeng, pressured Lu Tao into investigating the Heavenly Wolf Gang for Evil Entities, and continued hunting down the Three Rivers Gang’s Sinister Lands with Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei. The next morning, the Human Ranking named Li Qingshan second after reporting his victory over Ma Chenfeng and battle against a Grandmaster.

• Li Qingshan joined Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei in investigating the Three Rivers Gang’s Sinister Lands after Ma Chenfeng’s death.
• Lu Tao claimed the Heavenly Wolf Gang had been deceived by Ma Chenfeng and that the matter was over, but Li Qingshan demanded an explanation and gave the gang one month to find clues about an Evil Entity.
• Li Qingshan taunted Lu Tao about silencing witnesses, but Lu Tao flew away without attacking, and Li Qingshan concluded he had no connection to Ma Chenfeng’s affairs.
• Li Qingshan refused to let Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei rest and led them onward to investigate more Sinister Lands.
• The next morning, the Human Ranking listed Li Qingshan second and reported that he had slain Ma Chenfeng and fought a Grandmaster across realms.

Li Qingshan’s rise to fame alarmed the Ling Tian Sect, while warnings of an approaching calamity reached the continent’s top powers. Han Shan returned from seclusion and flew out to confront Li Qingshan, hoping to take the Final Step by defeating him.

• News that Li Qingshan could defy and kill a grandmaster spread across the Jianghu, making him a sensation.
• At Seven Stars City, Long Yeyun dismissed concerns about Li Qingshan’s exposure and learned that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion remained untraceable.
• Long Yeyun examined a mysterious message reading “Great Calamity is Approaching!” while Ren Fanyu received an identical message in the Ling Tian Sect.
• Lin Haochuan told Ren Fanyu that Ling Siyuan, Fu Yu, and Nan Jianyang had gone to bring Li Qingshan back, but Han Shan arrived and objected to being left out.
• Han Shan revealed the White Tiger Pearl and declared he would return to the Jianghu to confront Li Qingshan, despite Lin Haochuan’s warning about the Chihong Federation.
• Ren Fanyu let Han Shan leave, hoping he would defeat Li Qingshan, take the Final Step, and restore the Ling Tian Sect’s reputation.

Li Qingshan destroyed the last of the Three Rivers Gang’s Sinister Lands, then traveled to Wuyang City seeking intelligence on Evil Entities. There, Liu Licheng warned him that Ling Siyuan, Fu Yu, Nan Jianyang, and Han Shan were coming for him, and Li Qingshan reacted with excitement.

• Li Qingshan, Hua Moli, and Huang Lingwei witnessed the final Sinister Land’s village and its Blood Robe Divine Statue destroyed by lightning.
• Hua Moli told Li Qingshan that the mountain village was the last of the Three Rivers Gang’s ten Sinister Lands, and he and Huang Lingwei discussed growing rumors of Evil Entities.
• Li Qingshan parted ways with Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei and traveled to Wuyang City to seek information about Evil Entities.
• Liu Licheng met Li Qingshan outside Wuyang City and brought him to the Seven Stars Sect residence.
• Liu Licheng warned Li Qingshan that Ling Siyuan, Fu Yu, and Nan Jianyang were coming for him, and that Han Shan had ended his hundred-year seclusion and returned to the Jianghu.

Li Qingshan learned that Han Shan had returned to the Jianghu with the White Tiger Pearl, but Liu Licheng warned that the Ling Tian Sect’s strength made luring him into a fight difficult. Li Qingshan then asked about the Blood Robe Divine Statue and decided to help investigate Evil Entities while staying at the Seven Stars Sect.

• Liu Licheng told Li Qingshan that Han Shan had returned to the Jianghu and might have brought the White Tiger Pearl with him.
• Li Qingshan said he would retrieve the White Tiger Pearl himself, but Liu Licheng warned that Han Shan and the Ling Tian Sect’s experts would be difficult to lure into an ambush.
• Liu Licheng explained that the Seven Stars Sect and Ling Tian Sect both feared each other’s forces, making Han Shan unlikely to attack Li Qingshan without certainty.
• Li Qingshan asked about the Blood Robe Divine Statue, and Liu Licheng said the sect had investigated it for three years but had not identified the Evil God behind it.
• Li Qingshan said he would stay and help pursue rumors about Evil Entities, declaring that purging them was his duty.

Li Qingshan investigated confirmed Sinister Lands across the Crimson Rainbow Continent, destroying Blood Robe Divine Statues while searching for Evil God Cultists and experience. After the Heavenly Wolf Gang sent him a misleading clue about Pang Yan, a Magic Flame Sect disciple invited him to Pang Yan’s Unity Banquet in the Extreme West.

• Li Qingshan entered the Martial Arts Space to cultivate Heavenly Phenomenon Seven Methods while waiting for intelligence on Evil Entities.
• Outer sect disciple Hong Ye gave Li Qingshan a booklet listing three confirmed Sinister Lands, and Li Qingshan set out to investigate them.
• Li Qingshan destroyed three Blood Robe Divine Statues, then waited in Hejiang City for trouble that never came before resuming his search elsewhere.
• After a month of searching, Li Qingshan received a letter from Heavenly Wolf Gang Hall Master Lu Tao that offered only a clue naming Pang Yan, so Li Qingshan ordered an investigation of the Heavenly Wolf Gang.
• Su Yixiu delivered Pang Yan’s invitation to a Unity Banquet in the Extreme West, and Li Qingshan asked whether Han Shan had also been invited.

Han Shan and Li Qingshan accepted invitations to Pang Yan’s Unity Banquet in the Extreme West, each recognizing the gathering as a chance to settle their conflict. After Li Qingshan announced he would attend alone, the Jianghu learned that Han Shan would challenge him there, turning the banquet into a widely anticipated decisive battle.

• Han Shan accepted the Magic Flame Sect’s invitation and threatened to kill its messenger and Pang Yan if Li Qingshan did not attend.
• Nan Jianyang warned that Pang Yan could not have achieved Heavenly Human Unity, but Han Shan declared the Extreme West an ideal place for his battle with Li Qingshan and announced his challenge for the Unity Banquet in three months.
• Li Qingshan accepted Pang Yan’s invitation and ordered the Grey Robe Middle-aged Man to summon Seven Stars Sect disciples to act against the Heavenly Wolf Gang.
• Li Qingshan announced that he would attend the banquet alone in the Extreme West.
• News of the invitations and Han Shan’s challenge spread across the Jianghu, shifting attention from Pang Yan to the impending fight between Han Shan and Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan investigated another Evil Entity report and sent Seven Stars Sect disciples to attack the Heavenly Wolf Gang’s territory in the name of chivalry. As the disciples slaughtered gang members across more than a hundred cities, Lu Tao learned the Seven Stars Sect had attacked.

• The Grey Robe Middle-aged Man told Li Qingshan that the Ghost Bride had been sighted near Red Leaf City, but the groom’s Lin Family had been wiped out and the trail had gone cold.
• Li Qingshan learned that the Seven Stars Sect disciples had begun targeting the Heavenly Wolf Gang’s subordinate gangs and warned them not to choose the wrong targets.
• Three Seven Stars Sect disciples killed Spirit Spring Gang members who were extorting commoners, then entered Spirit Spring City as a senior brother intercepted an Inner Scenery Grandmaster’s blade.
• Seven Stars Sect disciples attacked more than a hundred cities under the Heavenly Wolf Gang’s control.
• Lu Tao celebrated his plan to lure Li Qingshan toward the Extreme West, then panicked disciples reported that the Seven Stars Sect had attacked.

After the Seven Stars Sect devastated the Heavenly Wolf Gang’s territories, Duan Yibai ordered Lu Tao to find Li Qingshan and settle their grudge. Li Qingshan joined Miss Song’s wedding procession through a foggy forest, but the procession turned sinister, leaving him facing the girl and a blood-glowing wooden statue.

• Lu Tao learned that nearly a thousand Seven Stars Gang Inner Disciples had destroyed the Heavenly Wolf Gang’s outposts and affiliated gangs across more than a hundred cities.
• Duan Yibai confronted Lu Tao over provoking Li Qingshan and ordered him to find Li Qingshan or face execution.
• Li Qingshan met Miss Song’s wedding procession outside Red Leaf City and accepted her invitation to accompany it to the Lin Family.
• Li Qingshan entertained Miss Song with a Jianghu story as the procession traveled through the fog.
• The procession members became unnaturally frozen and grinning, and Li Qingshan found Miss Song holding a blood-glowing wooden statue in her bridal sedan chair.

Li Qingshan heard Lu Tao’s account of Pang Yan’s mysterious changes in aptitude and the geniuses who disappeared around him. He dismissed Lu Tao, then set out for the Extreme West to investigate Evil Entities, leaving a gift from the Heavenly Wolf Gang unopened.

• Li Qingshan arrived at the Seven Stars Sect manor, where Lu Tao had knelt for two days, and invited him inside to talk.
• Lu Tao recounted how Pang Yan had been frail as a child, disappeared at ten with a talented boy, and returned years later as a powerful prodigy.
• Lu Tao warned that geniuses had died near Pang Yan during his transformations and that an Evil God might be behind the Unity Banquet.
• Li Qingshan dismissed Lu Tao, explaining that he was too kindhearted to kill him and that the conflict with the Heavenly Wolf Gang had been about justice.
• Li Qingshan ordered preparations to gather reports on Evil Entities and announced he would travel to the Extreme West.
• A Heavenly Wolf Gang messenger offered Li Qingshan a gift, but Li Qingshan left without looking at it, and the Grey Robe Middle-aged Man found a bald head inside the box.

The new Human Ranking titles stirred debate in Deer Cry City, especially Li Qingshan’s unsettling title, “Smiling Impermanence.” After learning that the Seven Stars Sect had stopped investigating the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, Li Qingshan resolved to find it and clear his reputation.

• Jianghu folk gathered to read the new rankings, which named Han Shan the “White-Haired Hidden Dragon,” Li Qingshan the “Smiling Impermanence,” and Pang Yan the “Sky Climbing Demonic Flood Dragon.”
• Readers disputed the ranking’s account of Li Qingshan’s handling of Lu Tao, while the Blade-Wielding Youth silently watched.
• The Blade-Wielding Youth left the crowd and met a green-robed woman, who gave Li Qingshan information about a nearby Sinister Land.
• Li Qingshan asked whether the sect had learned anything about the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, and the woman reported that the Sect Leader had ordered the search stopped.
• After the woman left, Li Qingshan cursed the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion for tarnishing his reputation with his new title.

Li Qingshan traveled west with Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei, clearing Sinister Lands and killing Evil God Cultists along the way. They reached West Desert Town ahead of the Unity Banquet, where Jianghu onlookers recognized Li as Smiling Impermanence.

• Li Qingshan met Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei in Deer Cry City, and the three set out together for the west.
• Han Shan dismissed concerns about Li Qingshan’s traps and departed for the appointed battle, while other Human Ranking prodigies also headed toward the Extreme West.
• Li Qingshan killed a Thin Old Man from the Changliu Sect, an Evil God Cultist, and gained experience as the group cleared dozens of Sinister Lands.
• Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei regretted leaving most of the fighting to Li Qingshan, who urged them to focus on eliminating Evil God Cultists.
• With ten days left before the Unity Banquet, the three traveled to West Desert Town and drew attention from the gathered Jianghu fighters.
• Onlookers recognized Hua Moli and Huang Lingwei as the Twin Heroes of the Azure Sea and identified the smiling Li Qingshan as Smiling Impermanence.

Li Qingshan and his companions stopped at the West Desert Inn, where Tian Qingchuan and Qiao Jingxing asked him about Pang Yan’s Unity Banquet. Li Qingshan warned that Pang Yan and the banquet were suspicious, but said he had come only to find out whether Han Shan would attend.

• Li Qingshan, Hua Moli, and Huang Lingwei entered the West Desert Inn, and the frightened crowd made way for them.
• Tian Qingchuan and Qiao Jingxing welcomed Li Qingshan and asked about his Smiling Impermanence nickname; he accepted the reports about his deeds but rejected the title.
• Over a meal, Tian Qingchuan told the group that Han Shan and the other Ling Tian Sect prodigies had not stopped in West Desert Town and seemed to have gone straight into the Extreme West.
• Tian Qingchuan and Qiao Jingxing asked Li Qingshan about Pang Yan and the Unity Banquet, explaining that Pang Yan had defeated them but seemed far from Heavenly Human Unity.
• Li Qingshan said Pang Yan and the Unity Banquet were suspicious, but revealed that he cared only whether Han Shan would be there.

Li Qingshan and his companions set out for the Magic Flame Sect’s Unity Banquet, where he expected to face Han Shan in the Battle of Two Mountains. A fortune-teller from the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion gave them Mystic Spirit Treasure Jade, then warned that they would die on the journey; as Li Qingshan departed, the Pavilion’s seers across the continent discovered that the heavenly secrets had been thrown into chaos.

• Li Qingshan led Tian Qingchuan, Qiao Jingxing, and their companions toward the western desert to attend the Unity Banquet and the Battle of Two Mountains.
• An Old Daoist Priest warned the group about the danger ahead and revealed that he belonged to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.
• Li Qingshan tested the Old Daoist Priest with lightning, which passed through him, then reluctantly accepted a Mystic Spirit Treasure Jade that raised his technique proficiency by one point.
• The Old Daoist Priest first called Li Qingshan a Chosen One, then urgently warned the departing group that they would all die because Li was not the Chosen One.
• Blind Old Daoist Priests across the continent calculated the heavens, while one in Seven Stars City bled from his eyes and declared that the heavenly secrets had been thrown into chaos for a thousand years.

Long Yeyun and Liu Licheng reviewed reports on the Blood Robe Divine Statue before Old Daoist Tianji warned that a Great Calamity was beginning in the Extreme West. Tianji identified Sword God Feng Boyong as the long-departed Heavenly Slaughter and said Li Qingshan was in danger, but Long Yeyun chose to trust his disciple and wait for news.

• Long Yeyun read reports showing Li Qingshan had spent three months purging Sinister Lands, while investigations into the Blood Robe Divine Statues led to dead ends.
• Old Daoist Tianji appeared before Long Yeyun and Liu Licheng and warned that a Great Calamity was approaching.
• Tianji said Heavenly Slaughter was a Chosen One named Sword God Feng Boyong, who had arrived a thousand years earlier, and that the calamity was only now emerging.
• Tianji said the muddled heavenly secrets in the Extreme West marked a node of the Great Calamity and warned that Li Qingshan could not be saved, even if Long Yeyun intervened.
• Long Yeyun said he trusted Li Qingshan's confidence more than Tianji's prediction, and Tianji departed after agreeing to wait for the result from the Extreme West.

Pang Yan prepared the Unity Banquet in the Extreme West, welcoming Jianghu guests and Human Ranking prodigies while awaiting Li Qingshan and Han Shan’s confrontation. Li Qingshan finally arrived, and he and Pang Yan exchanged pointed greetings as the banquet was about to begin.

• Shi Zhenghong praised Pang Yan’s talent and loyalty, then left him to host the Unity Banquet and pursue Heavenly Human Unity.
• Pang Yan invited the Jianghu spectators into the manor and courteously welcomed Han Shan, who arrived first and asked whether Li Qingshan had come.
• Over several days, guests and Human Ranking prodigies gathered for the banquet, while Han Shan’s party and the Seven Stars Sect disciples traded hostile words over Li Qingshan’s delayed arrival.
• Pang Yan waited at the gates as the banquet hour approached, and Li Qingshan arrived with four companions.
• Pang Yan welcomed Li Qingshan, who replied that he had also been waiting for this day for a long time.