Chapter Summaries

Heavenly Insect awakened in the Black Nether Abyss after being reborn in the body of a Spirit Insect Tribe member, and used the Devouring Spirit Bees to draw Mu Chen toward the black tree. The chapter ended with Mu Chen reaching the treetop and finding Heavenly Insect waiting there.

• A spiritual light restored Heavenly Insect's charred skeleton, and he awakened with memories of his new identity and the Great Thousand World.
• Heavenly Insect discovered that only the Devouring Spirit Bees remained of his former spirit insects and called them with his Insect Flute.
• Mu Chen and Duan Wei escaped the pursuing swarm, then followed it toward the basin after Mu Chen suspected someone was controlling the bees.
• Heavenly Insect learned that people had followed the swarm and decided to capture them, but diverted the bees to drive a group of spirit beasts toward the basin.
• Mu Chen used the swarm's absence to climb the black tree and froze when he saw Heavenly Insect's eyes watching him from the treetop.

Mu Chen encountered Heavenly Insect, a powerful member of the Spirit Insect Tribe, before Liu Mubai arrived and challenged him. Their fight was interrupted when their forces gathered, and Heavenly Insect allowed Liu Mubai and his men to leave.

• Mu Chen tried to flee Heavenly Insect, but Heavenly Insect's pressure stopped him and then repelled Mu Chen's attack without killing him.
• Heavenly Insect introduced himself as a member of the Spirit Insect Tribe, and Mu Chen wondered whether he had come to Black Nether Abyss for the Nine Nether Sparrow.
• Liu Mubai arrived, and Heavenly Insect told him and Mu Chen to settle their grudge by fighting for the right to leave.
• Liu Mubai attacked Mu Chen, who dodged while laying a Minor Spirit Binding Array and then countered with two Senluo Death Seals.
• The Mu Domain and Liu Domain forces gathered, ending the duel, and Heavenly Insect praised both youths before telling Liu Mubai to take his men and leave.

Heavenly Insect proposed an alliance with Mu Feng, helping the Mu Domain cross the Black Poison Marsh in exchange for supplies. After Liu Qingtian prepared an ambush for the Mu Domain, Heavenly Insect’s Devouring Spirit Bee discovered it, and Mu Feng prepared to retaliate.

• Mu Chen brought Heavenly Insect to Mu Feng, who agreed to provide supplies in exchange for Heavenly Insect’s help on the journey.
• Heavenly Insect played his Spirit Insect Flute and drew Black Poison Crocodiles together to form a bridge across the marsh.
• Liu Qingtian watched the Mu Domain cross safely and decided to eliminate them before claiming the Nine Nether Sparrow.
• A Devouring Spirit Bee warned Heavenly Insect that the Liu Domain had set an ambush ahead.
• Mu Feng thanked Heavenly Insect for the warning and asked for his help in striking back at the Liu Domain.

Liu Qingtian’s plan to lure spirit beasts against the Mu Domain was overturned when Heavenly Insect’s Devouring Spirit Bees attacked the Liu Domain instead. The Mu party reached the Black Basin and identified the volcano described on Mu Chen’s copper fragment, while Heavenly Insect agreed to guard them from the perimeter.

• Liu Qingtian prepared beast blood to lure spirit beasts toward the Mu Domain, but Heavenly Insect’s Devouring Spirit Bees found the Liu Domain first.
• The swarm killed Liu Domain experts, and Liu Qingtian used his Thunder-Scale Beast soul to save Liu Mubai and escape.
• Mu Feng and his group watched Heavenly Insect control the swarm, and Heavenly Insect warned them that a terrible danger lay deeper in the Black Nether Abyss.
• Mu Feng insisted that the Mu Domain continue in search of the Nine Nether Sparrow, promising to retreat if the danger proved insurmountable.
• Mu Feng’s party reached a bone-strewn Black Basin and recognized the black volcano at its center as the place shown on Mu Chen’s copper fragment.
• Heavenly Insect agreed to support the Mu Domain from the perimeter while Mu Feng and his group proceeded.

Mu Chen found the Nine Nether Sparrow’s black egg in the crater, while Heavenly Insect searched the Black Nether Abyss for the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm and learned of a Black Nether Ant nest. As the egg resumed its tribulation, it summoned a beast tide and drained the creatures’ life force, leaving Mu Chen and the others to flee.

• Mu Chen used the warming copper fragment to find a black rock, and Mu Feng shattered it to reveal the Nine Nether Sparrow’s egg.
• Heavenly Insect sent the Soul Devouring Bee Swarm scouting for the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm and received word of a Black Nether Ant nest southeast of them.
• The egg began rising and glowing, and Heavenly Insect warned Mu Chen and Mu Feng that the Nine Nether Sparrow was continuing her tribulation.
• Mu Feng led the Mu Domain in retreat as the darkening sky and bird cries drove countless Spirit Beasts from the Black Nether Abyss.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow’s sound wave stripped the charging Spirit Beasts of their flesh, and Heavenly Insect explained that they were sacrifices for her tribulation.

Mu Chen and the Mu Domain stayed to watch the Nine Nether Sparrow’s Black God Lightning Tribulation, hoping to claim her Beast Soul if she failed. After she charged the final bolt and apparently self-destructed, falling black flames struck Mu Chen despite Heavenly Insect’s shield, leaving him unconscious.

• Heavenly Insect persuaded Mu Chen to risk waiting for the Nine Nether Sparrow’s tribulation, and Mu Chen decided to stay with Mu Feng’s support.
• The Nine Nether Sparrow fought the Black God thunderclouds with black flames, then gathered her strength for a final charge.
• A massive bolt of black lightning struck the Nine Nether Sparrow, and Heavenly Insect warned that she was about to self-destruct.
• Mu Feng and Zhou Ye raised a spiritual barrier while Heavenly Insect protected the group with his Xuan Ling Shield as black flames rained down.
• A black flame hit Mu Chen, and he collapsed in pain as his vision went dark.

After surviving the Black Nether Abyss, Mu Chen returned to the Mu Domain and broke through to the Spirit Wheel Realm, but the Nine Nether Sparrow's soul essence suddenly attacked his consciousness. Heavenly Insect gathered supplies and began cultivating his Devouring Spirit Bees while Mu Chen advanced in spirit arrays.

• Heavenly Insect confirmed the black flame inside Mu Chen had disappeared, and the group escaped the Black Nether Abyss before Mu Chen awoke on the way home.
• Mu Chen returned to the Mu Domain, broke through to the Spirit Wheel Realm, and was suddenly attacked by the Nine Nether Sparrow's soul essence.
• Mu Feng delivered most of Heavenly Insect's requested materials, and Heavenly Insect began refining Spirit Insect Liquid for his Devouring Spirit Bees.
• Wen Ling gave Mu Chen a Flame Spirit Array diagram, and Mu Chen eventually set up and tested the first-grade array.

Mu Chen left Heavenly Insect to return to the Northern Spiritual Academy, while Heavenly Insect prepared to reenter the Black Nether Abyss in search of the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm. He captured a mutated Black Nether Ant and used it to explore the vast nest, where he discovered especially powerful blood-colored ants.

• Heavenly Insect teased Mu Chen about the girl on his mind and urged him to cultivate, and Mu Chen left for the Northern Spiritual Academy the next morning.
• Mu Feng finished preparing two Junior Spirit Insect Pouches and the other supplies Heavenly Insect needed for his journey.
• Heavenly Insect gathered the Soul Devouring Bee Swarm into a pouch and poured in evolution liquid before returning to the Black Nether Abyss.
• Heavenly Insect found that the Black Nether Ants were intermediate-grade insects capable of killing an Earthshaking Bear, and he captured one using his flute, a net, and an Insect-Control Blood Talisman.
• Heavenly Insect sent the controlled Soldier Ant into its nest and discovered that the mountain-sized labyrinth contained powerful blood-colored Black Nether Ants guarding the food stores.

Heavenly Insect used the Soul-Seizing Formation to subdue the Black Nether Ant colony, then searched the Black Nether Abyss for the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm. After a month without finding it, he detected a hidden insect nest beyond a stone wall and prepared to investigate.

• Heavenly Insect found the high-level Black Nether Ant queen and decided to use the Soul-Seizing Formation to capture the colony.
• Heavenly Insect lured the ants into the formation with Spirit Insect Liquid and subdued them in repeated batches using Insect-Control Spirit Talismans.
• A controlled soldier ant brought Heavenly Insect valuable Spirit Artifacts from the nest, helping him recover the cost of the supplies.
• Heavenly Insect spent a month searching the Black Nether Abyss for the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm, collecting spirit beast materials but finding no clues.
• Heavenly Insect heard a faint rustling in an underground passage and used the Perception Art to detect many spirit insects hidden beyond a stone wall.

Heavenly Insect discovered a subterranean nest where more than a hundred powerful spirit insects lived peacefully, then fought the nest’s forces after they detected his scout. He won the battle and controlled two spirit insects, but his swarms suffered heavy losses as he prepared to investigate the nest’s deeper secrets.

• Heavenly Insect sent a Black Armored Beetle through a stone wall and found a vast nest of rare, high-grade spirit insects living together without fighting.
• A fluctuation from the nest’s depths triggered the insects to attack, and an Earthflame Scorpion swallowed the scout as the other insects searched for intruders.
• Heavenly Insect retreated to the surface and lured the nest’s insects into a valley, where his Black Armored Beetles and Soul Devouring Bee Swarm overwhelmed them.
• Heavenly Insect tried to control the nest’s insects with blood talismans and succeeded in subduing an Earth Spirit Scorpion and a Blade Mantis.
• After the battle, Heavenly Insect found that his swarms had lost most of their numbers, though the surviving Devouring Spirit Bees had all advanced to the mid-grade realm.

Heavenly Insect fought his way through an underground city toward the creature controlling its spirit insects, losing most of his swarm in repeated ambushes. He used the Blood Soul Array to wrest control from a dark golden Light Cocoon that seemed to contain the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm, but the struggle remained unresolved as a Black Jade Insect suddenly died.

• Heavenly Insect led his spirit insects into the underground city, where repeated ambushes depleted his swarms and killed four of his five high-grade Blood Nether Ants.
• Heavenly Insect used the Berserk Demonic Melody to boost his remaining insects against more than a hundred high-grade spirit insects, but a golden ripple turned nearly half his Devouring Spirit Bees against him.
• Heavenly Insect sacrificed blood to cast the Blood Soul Array, briefly contesting the golden light controlling the enemy insects.
• Heavenly Insect spotted a dark golden Light Cocoon and suspected it held the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm transforming into a cicada.
• As the blood soul threads and golden light fought for control, a Black Jade Insect suddenly fell dead.

Heavenly Insect prepared a Blood Soul Array to bind the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm as his Life-Bound Spirit Insect. After six months of recovery and preparation, he overcame its resistance, and the two formed a connection, leaving Heavenly Insect ready to attempt a breakthrough into the Three Heavens Realm.

• Heavenly Insect claimed eight surviving high-grade spirit insects as guards and approached the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm's Light Cocoon.
• Heavenly Insect recovered for three months while gathering spirit insect materials and preparing substances from the corpses.
• Heavenly Insect sealed the underground passage and activated a Blood Soul Array designed to subdue a Life-Bound Spirit Insect.
• Heavenly Insect persuaded the resisting Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm that bonding with him would protect it from danger and help it evolve.
• The blood net reached and wrapped the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm, forming a connection between them, and the silkworm demanded that Heavenly Insect keep his promise.

Heavenly Insect formed a life-bound contract with the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm and absorbed its origin energy, breaking through to the Heaven Fusion Realm. He traveled to Ling Tian City to sell materials and prepare for the upcoming auction.

• Heavenly Insect completed the bloodline pact with the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm, gaining its origin energy while the silkworm accused him of stealing.
• Heavenly Insect refined the energy, strengthened his body, and broke through from the Divine Soul Realm to the Heaven Fusion Realm.
• Heavenly Insect traveled toward Ling Tian City atop a Golden Armored Rhinoceros Beetle and hid his spirit insects in an underground passage outside the city.
• Heavenly Insect entered Ling Tian City and chose the Ling Tian Trading House to sell high-grade spirit beast materials.
• A temporary worker escorted Heavenly Insect to the purchasing area and explained that the annual Ling Tian Auction had drawn crowds to the city.

Heavenly Insect sold spirit materials and bought tools and supplies at the Ling Tian Trading House, but learned he could not exchange spirit stones for supreme spirit liquid. Back in the valley, he negotiated a half share of the energy with the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm and began feeding it spirit beast essence.

• Heavenly Insect sold a mountain of high-grade spirit materials to Steward Lin and bought a Heaven-Covering Net, a high-grade Cosmic Bracelet, and other materials for over ten million spirit stones.
• Heavenly Insect learned that Ling Tian City had nowhere to exchange spirit stones for supreme spirit liquid, found no lodging, and left for the valley.
• Heavenly Insect and the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm argued over how to divide the energy from refining spirit beast essence, then agreed to split it fifty-fifty.
• Heavenly Insect suppressed the Blood-Colored Giant Wolf's remnant soul and sent its spirit beast essence into the Light Cocoon for the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm to refine.

Heavenly Insect traveled from Ling Tian City to the Forest Continent, sold spirit liquids, and bought supplies before crossing the Endless Sea toward the Spirit Insect Continent. He reached its mountain ranges and spotted a rare Armored Back Dragon Centipede, which he planned to report to an Earth Meridian cultivator.

• The Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm absorbed a high-grade Spirit Beast Essence, sending half its spiritual energy into Heavenly Insect and strengthening his cultivation.
• Heavenly Insect used a series of teleportation arrays to reach Green Leaf City on the Forest Continent, where he sold spirit liquids to the Green Leaf Trading Company.
• Heavenly Insect bought a high-quality Treehouse Beetle and spirit leaf sap to prepare for his journey and a possible ruined home.
• Heavenly Insect rode his Golden Armored Rhinoceros across the Endless Sea for a month and reached the Spirit Insect Continent.
• Heavenly Insect spotted a thousand-meter-long Armored Back Dragon Centipede in the mountains and decided to sell information about it to someone from the Earth Meridian.

Two Flying Spirit City Guards discovered a suspected heaven-grade Insect Prison Site on Kongsang Mountain, and City Lord Flying Locust announced it was open for exploration. Heavenly Insect arrived in the city, learned of the discovery, and set out alone for the site, where he saw the mountain shrouded in red mist.

• Two guards escaped a swarm of Blood-Mustached Mosquitoes with Mosquito Repellent and reported the newly discovered Insect Prison Site to Flying Locust.
• Flying Locust awarded the guards third-class military merit and announced the suspected heaven-grade insect prison on Kongsang Mountain to the city.
• Heavenly Insect arrived at Flying Spirit City and learned from the notice that a heaven-grade spirit insect might be found at the site.
• After deciding not to join the weak teams gathering in the city, Heavenly Insect rode his Golden Armored Rhinoceros Beetle toward Kongsang Mountain.
• Heavenly Insect reached the mountain and saw it covered in red mist.

Heavenly Insect waited for the Blood-Mustached Mosquitoes’ red haze to draw others into Kongsang Mountain, then followed the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm’s guidance into the Insect Prison Site. He found a pool of black spiritual water containing eggs that appeared to be nine revolutions black-whiskered mosquitoes.

• Heavenly Insect retreated from Kongsang Mountain’s mosquito haze and set up a concealed Treehouse Beetle base while other explorers gathered.
• The Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm woke and sensed something valuable southeast, but Heavenly Insect refused its demand for a seventy-percent share.
• After three days, explorers began entering the red mist, and Heavenly Insect followed alone with the Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm protecting him from the haze.
• The Golden Origin Heavenly Silkworm guided Heavenly Insect through the mountain and into the Insect Prison Site, where he traveled toward a deep ravine on his Golden Armored Rhinoceros.
• Heavenly Insect entered a cave filled with chilling yin-aspected spiritual energy and found pearl-like eggs floating above a black pool.
• Heavenly Insect recognized the larvae inside the eggs as nine revolutions black-whiskered mosquitoes.

Heavenly Insect discovered a mature nine revolutions black-whiskered mosquito sealed beneath a pool of spirit liquid and stored it in his qi sea before continuing to explore the unusual Insect Prison Space. His swarms later defeated a female Spirit Insect Master, and he found a spirit jade token bearing the name Xuan: Hundred-Poison Crow.

• Heavenly Insect found sixteen dying nine revolutions black-whiskered mosquito eggs in a pool of spirit liquid, then learned from Golden Cicada that a mature mosquito was sealed beneath it.
• Heavenly Insect excavated the blue-black rock, uncovered the crystal-encased mosquito, and used a Blood Talisman to store it in his qi sea.
• Heavenly Insect deployed his spirit insect swarms to scout the Insect Prison Space and received word that an unknown Spirit Insect Master was attacking his Black Nether Ants.
• Heavenly Insect sent the Frost Demon Spider, Wolf Butterfly, and an Earthworm to defeat the enemy; the battle killed the Wolf Butterfly and left the woman badly injured.
• Heavenly Insect searched the defeated woman's robes and found a spirit jade token marked Xuan: Hundred-Poison Crow.

Heavenly Insect discovered that the frozen Profound Branch woman concealed a deadly swarm of Poison Midges, then continued toward the Insect Prison Site’s central Sword Peak. As powerful teams and the Flying Spirit Army gathered there, Flying Scorpion Inkstone approached Heavenly Insect and showed interest in his name and background.

• Heavenly Insect had the Blade Mantis cut open Hundred Poison Wu’s mouth, releasing a swarm of hundreds of thousands of Poison Midges that the Earthworm evaded.
• Heavenly Insect recognized the insects as deadly Poison Midges and reminded himself to remain cautious in battles between Insect Masters.
• Heavenly Insect reached a towering Sword Peak that seemed to be the center of the Insect Prison Site and suspected a Spirit Array protected it.
• Heavenly Insect watched powerful teams gather near the peak, including Flying Scorpion Inkstone and six other Heaven Fusion Realm leaders.
• Qingyan arrived with the Flying Spirit Army’s other commanders, and Flying Scorpion Inkstone accused the City Lord’s Estate of using explorers as cannon fodder.
• Flying Scorpion Inkstone approached Heavenly Insect and introduced himself, while Heavenly Insect gave his name and drew the patriarch’s interest.

Heavenly Insect joined Flying Scorpion Inkstone’s alliance as Sword Peak opened, then entered the vast domain and followed Golden Cicada’s senses to a valley rich in spiritual treasures. There, he found a sixth-grade golden crystal jade lotus, a key material for raising a Six-Eyed Blade Mantis.

• Flying Scorpion Inkstone recruited Heavenly Insect and six other Heaven Fusion Realm figures into an alliance against Qingyan and the Flying Spirit Army.
• Six gates opened at Sword Peak, and Qingyan ordered his army to block them while he and his two brothers entered one gate.
• Inside Sword Peak, Flying Scorpion Inkstone warned the group that its spiritual energy benefited spirit insects but made it harder for Spirit Insect Masters to control their power, then sent everyone to search separately with Wind-Seeking Butterflies to regroup.
• Heavenly Insect asked Golden Cicada to locate the richest spiritual energy and followed its guidance toward the direction Demon Butterfly had taken.
• After traveling for half an hour, Heavenly Insect reached a treasure-filled valley and discovered a sixth-grade golden crystal jade lotus, an essential material for raising a Six-Eyed Blade Mantis.