Recaps

The Tianquan Saint waited outside a restaurant in Ancient Source City for a guest, prompting holy sons and family heirs from across the region to gather and assume a mighty expert was coming. The chapter ended with the Tianquan Saint anxiously watching for the woman who had occupied his thoughts for three days.

• The Tianquan Saint personally waited at the restaurant entrance, astonishing onlookers and drawing the holy sons of the Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Tianji Holy Lands to join him.
• The Tianquan Saint welcomed figures from Heavenly Pivot, Tianxuan, and the Feng Family, while the newcomers speculated that a mighty expert was expected.
• The holy sons stood outside rather than entering, believing they might have a chance to meet and gain guidance from the arriving expert.
• The Northern Plains' ten great families and the Yaoguang Holy Son arrived and mistakenly thought the holy sons had gathered to welcome them.
• The Tianquan Saint continued waiting as a crowd formed, then anxiously wondered why the woman he had been thinking about had not arrived.

Li Qingyue reluctantly accompanied Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng to the Tianquan Saint’s banquet, where their arrival drew a crowd and stirred resentment among the waiting guests. When the crowd’s attention made Li Qingyue uneasy, Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng shielded her with their power and reassured her.

• Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng persuaded Li Qingyue to join them at the banquet by promising food and explaining they might travel to the Primordial Ancient Mine together.
• The three arrived at Tianquan Holy Land’s Restaurant and found a huge crowd gathered outside.
• Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng parted the crowd with their power, and the Tianquan Saint warmly welcomed them, especially Li Qingyue.
• The waiting saints and family heirs grumbled at the special reception, then stared in surprise when they realized Li Qingyue was a mortal and admired her beauty.
• Li Qingyue hid behind Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng as the crowd watched her, and the two men made everyone retreat before reassuring her.

Li Qingyue attended the Tianquan Saint’s banquet with Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang, drawing attention from the assembled heirs and saintesses. The gathering ended with everyone watching in astonishment as Li Qingyue eagerly ate the spiritual food.

• The Tianquan Saint released his aura and warned everyone not to show insolence toward Li Qingyue, then invited her and the others inside.
• The Tianquan Saint hosted the assembled holy land and family heirs, explaining that the banquet was for introductions and to invite them to explore the newly emerged Ancient Tomb together.
• After the Tianquan Saint invited everyone to eat, Li Qingyue eagerly devoured the roast meat and fruit, with Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang giving her their food.
• The guests and the Tianquan Saint stared at Li Qingyue as she ate, and she lowered her head behind the food when she noticed them watching.

At a banquet, Li Qingyue’s natural delight in food captivated the Saints, who eagerly offered her their dishes, while jealous Saintesses and fairies failed to imitate her charm. The chapter ended with several Saints envying Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng for being beside her.

• The Tianquan Saint laughed at Li Qingyue’s bashful eating and sent roast meat and fruit to her table.
• Li Qingyue thanked the Tianquan Saint, then charmed the gathering with her beautiful voice and hearty appetite.
• Jealous Saintesses and fairies tried to imitate Li Qingyue, but their affected behavior drew scolding and leering looks from the Northern Plains disciples.
• The Saints repeatedly offered Li Qingyue their untouched food, and she accepted it with thanks.
• Several Saints looked at Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng with jealousy because Li Qingyue was by their sides.

Li Qingyue ate her fill of roast meat while the Saints watched and vied to show her kindness. The Tianxuan Saintess recalled that a hidden force had been killing people with special physiques and worried Li Qingyue would be caught up in the coming turmoil.

• The Saints were astonished by how much Li Qingyue ate, and Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang showed their concern for her.
• The Tianquan Saint ordered more food for Li Qingyue, who asked for roast meat only and continued eating.
• The Tianxuan Saintess teased Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang about caring for Li Qingyue and offered to take her away.
• The Tianxuan Saintess remembered that a girl with the Taiyin Physique and her village had been slaughtered, and recalled that other people with special physiques had been secretly killed.
• The Tianxuan Saintess worried that Li Qingyue could be endangered by the coming struggle of a great age.

As Li Qingyue feasted, her true qi liquefied into life divine radiance, letting her break through her first strength limit and grow stronger. Tuoba Ye then challenged Yan Wushuang, leaving the gathering poised for a fight as Li Qingyue worried about the danger.

• Li Qingyue's nine true-qi vortices began producing liquid, and her joyful smile captivated the onlookers.
• As she continued eating, the vortices transformed into smaller, denser whirlpools and life divine radiance tempered her body.
• Li Qingyue realized she had broken through her first strength limit and glimpsed a future path toward opening a grotto-heaven within her body.
• Tuoba Ye rose and challenged Yan Wushuang to test the Sacred Body, unleashing the Tuoba Family's savage aura.
• Li Qingyue caught Yan Wushuang's sleeve and worried that a fight would endanger them, while Tuoba Ye taunted him for not daring to accept.

Tuoba Ye tried to provoke Yan Wushuang by asking Li Qingyue to marry him, but she refused, prompting Yan Wushuang to attack. The two clashed using their powerful inherited arts, and Tuoba Ye revealed that he possessed the Beast God Transformation, an Ancient Emperor Inheritance.

• Tuoba Ye refused to back down from his challenge and asked Li Qingyue to marry him, provoking the gathered holy lands and families.
• Li Qingyue silently resolved to grow stronger through the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art and firmly rejected Tuoba Ye’s proposal.
• Yan Wushuang rose in fury and declared that he would kill Tuoba Ye, unleashing the Sacred Body’s golden power before the watching guests.
• Tuoba Ye summoned his Savage Beast Splitting the Sky manifestation as Yan Wushuang countered with the Heaven-Stepping Step, Mountain-Embracing Seal, and golden bitter sea.
• Tuoba Ye transformed and charged Yan Wushuang with a devastating strike, leading the onlookers to identify his art as the Beast God Transformation and recognize his Ancient Emperor Inheritance.

Yan Wushuang fought Tuoba Ye, whose Beast Emperor Legacy let him match the Sacred Body with a deadly star-and-beast art. As Tuoba Ye launched another killing blow, Yan Wushuang summoned the Human King Seal, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Li Qingyue worried that Tuoba Ye's Ancient Emperor legacy could threaten Yan Wushuang, but Yang Wuzheng reassured her as she watched and ate roast meat.
• Yan Wushuang and Tuoba Ye's first clash shook the estate, and their attacks appeared evenly matched.
• Tuoba Ye unleashed the Beast Emperor Legacy's Starry Myriad Beasts, while Yan Wushuang empowered his Mountain-Embracing Seal with his vast Bitter Sea and Dao Palaces.
• Li Qingyue watched Yan Wushuang's foundation and resolved to grow stronger, continuing to eat as the battle damaged the estate.
• Tuoba Ye gathered black stars and beasts for a killing blow, and Yan Wushuang answered by forming the Human King Seal.

Yan Wushuang battled Tuoba Ye, overwhelming him with the Human King Seal until Tuoba Ye forced his way into the Four Extremes Realm. As Tuoba Ye attacked with newfound power, Yan Wushuang answered with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.

• Yan Wushuang used the Human King Seal to shatter Tuoba Ye’s Beast God Transformation and drive him into retreat.
• Tuoba Ye consumed source stones and vital essence to force a breakthrough into the Four Extremes Realm, then struck Yan Wushuang with a powerful attack.
• The collision shattered Yan Wushuang’s Human King Seal and drove him back, while the restaurant’s formation patterns contained the blast.
• Tuoba Ye summoned stars and spatial rifts to attack again, and Yan Wushuang advanced to meet him with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist.

Yan Wushuang killed Tuoba Ye with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist and intimidated the gathered families and holy sons. Afterward, he pretended to be badly injured to get Li Qingyue's sympathy, but Yang Wuzheng exposed his lie.

• Yan Wushuang struck Tuoba Ye twice with the Six Paths of Reincarnation Fist, destroying his armor and killing him.
• Yan Wushuang intimidated the onlookers, and a Tuoba Family man accused him of killing his younger brother before backing down from a fight.
• Yan Wushuang returned to Li Qingyue and asked whether she was hurt.
• Yan Wushuang pretended to suffer serious injuries, but Yang Wuzheng pulled Li Qingyue away and pointed out that Yan Wushuang's bones were tough.
• Li Qingyue realized Yan Wushuang had lied to her.

Li Qingyue checked whether Yan Wushuang’s chest still hurt, then told him and Yang Wuzheng that she would repay their kindness without hesitation. The chapter ended with her asking Yan Wushuang again if it still hurt.

• Yan Wushuang claimed his chest hurt, and Li Qingyue walked over to check on him.
• Li Qingyue touched Yan Wushuang’s chest and asked whether it hurt, while he struggled to answer.
• Yang Wuzheng pulled Li Qingyue away and said Yan Wushuang was making it up.
• Li Qingyue told Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng that they treated her better than anyone except her brother and that she would do anything for them.
• Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng were moved by Li Qingyue’s words, and she asked Yan Wushuang whether his chest still hurt.

Yan Wushuang forced Tuoba Xiong to pay compensation for upsetting Li Qingyue, then gave her the storage artifact. He left Li Qingyue flustered again after telling her she looked prettier when fierce.

• Yan Wushuang stopped Tuoba Xiong from leaving and demanded hundreds of thousands of jin of source stone for upsetting Li Qingyue.
• Tuoba Xiong handed Yan Wushuang a storage artifact and left the manor, followed by the other Northern Plains families.
• Yan Wushuang gave the artifact to Li Qingyue, who accepted it after he explained how she could use it.
• Yan Wushuang told Li Qingyue she looked prettier when fierce, leaving her stunned and cursing him inwardly.

Li Qingyue absorbed nearly thirty thousand jin of source stone to condense Five Elements Mountain Dao Patterns, entering enlightenment as Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang watched over her. Her first vortex transformed around a mysterious emperor script, and she resolved to make its power her own rather than remain bound to the Buddha Emperor’s Dao.

• Li Qingyue opened the Clay Pot and used Kunpeng Devouring to absorb its vast supply of source stone essence.
• Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang rushed in, then Yang Wuzheng sealed the room to contain the leaking essence while they watched her.
• Li Qingyue simulated the Five Elements Mountain and engraved Dao Patterns into the first vortex in her Dantian.
• After absorbing nearly thirty thousand jin of source stone, Li Qingyue completed the patterns and saw a five-colored mountain phantom form in her vortex.
• A transforming character appeared and evolved five world phantoms, leading Li Qingyue to recognize the power of emperor script.
• Li Qingyue feared the script would leave her under the Buddha Emperor’s influence and vowed to make the Dao her own.

Li Qingyue fought the Great Emperor’s Emperor Script in her Dantian, tempering her will until she shattered and devoured it. She opened her eyes with transformed five-colored true qi after exhausting her source stones, taking her first step toward cultivating with a waste body.

• Li Qingyue imitated the will behind Yan Wushuang’s techniques and repeatedly struck the Emperor Script in her first Dantian vortex.
• Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang realized Li Qingyue was tempering her will and spirit while confronting the Emperor Script.
• Li Qingyue’s stubborn, ruthless will transformed into a Kunpeng-like force that shattered and devoured the Emperor Script.
• A Kunpeng-shaped character formed in Li Qingyue’s vortex, drawing in the essence of heaven and earth and transforming her true qi into five colors.
• Li Qingyue opened her eyes amid the powder of her exhausted source stones as Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang asked if she was all right.

After absorbing nearly thirty thousand jin of source stones, Li Qingyue discovered that her strength had surged and that she could draw on the five elements to strengthen herself. As Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng prepared to leave for the Primordial Ancient Mine at dawn, she considered using Yan Wushuang to practice controlling her new power.

• Li Qingyue rose from the bed and accidentally sent Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng flying with her increased strength.
• Li Qingyue checked her system panel and found that one arm could exert nearly one hundred thousand jin of force.
• Li Qingyue demonstrated how she absorbed five-element essence from her surroundings to strengthen her body.
• Li Qingyue formed a Five Elements Mountain and slammed Yan Wushuang into the floor, though he quickly recovered.
• Yang Wuzheng said they would leave for the Primordial Ancient Mine at dawn, and Li Qingyue thought about practicing on Yan Wushuang.

Li Qingyue practiced the zither through the night to master her newly surging strength, while Yang Wuzheng patiently taught her and realized she might care for him. By dawn, she accepted his Ancient Zither and set out with Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang for the Primordial Ancient Mine.

• Yang Wuzheng patiently explained the eight zither finger techniques to Li Qingyue, who asked him to repeat the lesson as she remembered her brother.
• Li Qingyue played the Ancient Zither again and again through the night, determined to control her strength and grow stronger.
• Yang Wuzheng sensed warmth in Li Qingyue's gaze and wondered if she liked him, while Yan Wushuang sulked nearby.
• By dawn, Li Qingyue had mastered control of her strength and played a clear, peaceful melody.
• Yang Wuzheng gave Li Qingyue his treasured Ancient Zither, and she accepted it before asking him and Yan Wushuang to accompany her to the Primordial Ancient Mine.

Li Qingyue traveled toward the Primordial Ancient Mine with Yan Wushuang, Yang Wuzheng, the Tianquan Saint, the Tianxuan Saintess, and the Yaoguang Holy Son. The Tianxuan Saintess warned her to be cautious of the Tianquan Saint, while the Yaoguang Holy Son secretly asked her to gain his trust and warned her not to trust even him.

• Li Qingyue left the inn with Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng after paying for the wrecked room, and Yan Wushuang laughed at her embarrassment.
• The Tianquan Saint, Tianxuan Saintess, and Yaoguang Holy Son arrived, greeted Li Qingyue, and set off with her companions for the Primordial Ancient Mine.
• Li Qingyue flew beside the Tianxuan Saintess, who noticed her flushed ears, comforted her, and warned her to be careful of the Tianquan Saint.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son told Li Qingyue that the journey was dangerous and asked her to get close to the Tianquan Saint and earn his trust.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son warned Li Qingyue not to readily trust people from several powerful factions, including himself.

Li Qingyue and the others reached the eerie ancient tomb near the Primordial Ancient Mine and learned that attempts to enter had ended in death or disappearance. When a noon phenomenon opened a passage of scarlet mist and divine light, the Tianquan Saint asked whether they should enter.

• Li Qingyue realized the Yaoguang Holy Son wanted to use her to learn about the Tianquan Saint, while the Tianxuan Saintess warned her not to get involved.
• The six descended into a blood-red stony desert, where thousands had gathered around a ridge suspected to conceal an ancient tomb.
• The Tianquan Saint explained that strange phenomena had killed people who tried to excavate the ridge, and that those entering during its daily openings had never returned.
• A man split the ridge with a giant axe, but smoke from the fissure melted him away as the fissure healed; witnesses saw different things inside it.
• At noon, seven-colored divine light and scarlet mist rose from the ridge, drawing some people into the passage while others fled.
• The Tianquan Saint explained that the phenomenon led into the tomb and asked the group whether they should enter.

Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang urged the group to wait before investigating the strange fissure, while the Tianquan Saint served Li Qingyue Dao Palace Realm Fierce Beast meat to win her favor. After Li Qingyue ate the entire spread and strengthened her true qi, the Tianquan Saint produced another table of roasted meat.

• Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang agreed to wait until late at night before looking into the fissure again.
• The Tianquan Saint invited Li Qingyue and the others to eat roasted Dao Palace Realm Fierce Beast meat, while Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng watched him warily.
• The Tianxuan Saintess brought Li Qingyue to the table, and Yan Wushuang took the seat beside her before the Tianquan Saint could sit there.
• Li Qingyue ate the entire spread, increasing her true qi by five percent as the onlookers watched her.
• The Tianquan Saint used a golden furnace to produce another spread of roasted meat, leaving Li Qingyue and the others stunned.

Li Qingyue and the others witnessed the Primordial Ancient Mine lure cultivators with red-and-green whirlwinds before devouring them and the surrounding light and vitality. Seeing the mine breathe like a black hole, Li Qingyue resolved to visit it once she was strong enough, even if only to observe from its outskirts.

• A cultivator struck the mountain ridge and was blasted into powder by a pitch-black bolt of lightning.
• Red-and-green whirlwinds spread from the Primordial Ancient Mine, and cultivators who entered them were lured by apparent breakthroughs before disappearing when the winds receded.
• Li Qingyue, the Tianquan Saint, and their companions retreated from the whirlwinds while others rushed in and vanished.
• A pillar of light rose from the mine, then turned black and drained nearby cultivators of their vitality as the world plunged into darkness.
• Li Qingyue recognized the mine's devouring breath as a black-hole-like phenomenon and resolved to visit it when she was strong enough.

The Tianquan Saint, Yang Wuzheng, Yan Wushuang, Li Qingyue, and others entered the legendary Flying Dragon Ridge, only to discover that its fortune had been reversed into a deadly small world of tombs. As destruction gathered around the central mountain, even a mighty expert and his treasure were obliterated, leaving the trapped cultivators in despair.

• Crowds rushed into Flying Dragon Ridge after its black mist and immortal light appeared, and the Tianquan Saint led the others inside.
• The group discovered a small world of tomb-like hills surrounding a central mountain, where deadly black winds, strange water, and lightning killed anyone who approached.
• Yang Wuzheng realized someone had reversed the ridge's feng shui, turning its great fortune into a land of destruction that grew more dangerous with each death.
• Desperate cultivators charged toward the central mountain, believing its immortal light might offer a way out.
• Black lightning gathered above the central mountain and struck it, while a mighty expert attempted to escape with a gourd-shaped treasure but was destroyed along with it.

The survivors crossed a field of graves made from netherworld soil, where the deadliness of the place drained the vitality from anyone who lingered. Li Qingyue recognized clues tying the hidden world to Duan De’s past, and the group pressed on beneath the Tianxuan Sacred Umbrella as a black streak attacked it.

• A mighty expert died beneath the lightning, while other survivors withered and vanished beside the graves.
• An old man identified the grave mounds as netherworld soil, and the group read a stele declaring the Underworld the final resting place of all beings.
• Li Qingyue suspected the hidden world was connected to Duan De’s second life and the Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Art.
• The Tianquan Saint led the group cautiously between the graves as their vitality began to fade.
• A black streak burst from a grave, and the Tianxuan Saintess summoned the Tianxuan Sacred Umbrella to shield everyone.
• The black streak struck the Tianxuan Sacred Umbrella.

Li Qingyue and five Holy Land heirs survived the grave mounds’ deadly attacks by relying on their Saint Weapons, then reached the safe ground around the central Divine Mountain. The heirs’ weapons and strength were nearly exhausted, and the Tianquan Saint warned them to recover while wary onlookers watched.

• The Tianxuan Saintess used the Tianxuan Sacred Umbrella to deflect a wisp of dark light, but the graves absorbed it and unleashed a barrage of eerie attacks.
• Yan Wushuang, the Tianquan Saint, the Yaoguang Holy Son, Yang Wuzheng, and the Tianxuan Saintess revealed their Saint Weapons and sheltered Li Qingyue.
• The five heirs carried Li Qingyue through hundreds of li of grave mounds while their weapons blocked repeated deadly attacks, leaving them wounded and exhausted.
• The group reached safe ground encircling the Divine Mountain, where their depleted Saint Weapons vanished and the Tianquan Saint urged them to recover.

As the wounded group tried to recover, greedy cultivators attacked to seize their Saint Weapons, and Li Qingyue stepped forward to defend them. She killed an Other Shore Realm cultivator with one blow, but an unseen woman’s taunts renewed the assault, leaving the group under threat.

• The Tianquan Saint warned that hostile cultivators were closing in while the group recovered from severe injuries and depleted divine power.
• An unidentified woman urged the crowd to seize the Saint Weapons and capture Li Qingyue, whom she called a mortal.
• When cultivators charged, Li Qingyue rushed ahead of the Tianquan Saint to buy the others time and struck down an Other Shore Realm cultivator with the Five Elements Mountain.
• The crowd realized Li Qingyue had no divine power, but the hidden woman persuaded them to attack again by warning that they needed Saint Weapons to survive.
• The Tianxuan Saintess suspected that impostor saintesses and fairies were behind the incitement, and a Dao Palace Realm cultivator charged toward the group.

Li Qingyue killed five Dao Palace Realm cultivators with two palm strikes, revealing a will that others mistook for the eight forbidden domain and believed could be tied to the Nine Secrets. As a hidden woman stirred up greed around her, Li Qingyue attacked the man who spread the rumor and began fighting a Four Extremes Realm expert.

• Li Qingyue summoned a Five Elements Mountain and killed five Dao Palace Realm cultivators with two strikes.
• The onlookers speculated that Li Qingyue had touched the eight forbidden domain, while she realized her will had revealed the mysteries of the Art of Absolute Supremacy.
• A woman hidden in the shadows urged the crowd to capture Li Qingyue, and a middle-aged man suggested she possessed the legendary Nine Secrets.
• Li Qingyue charged the middle-aged man before the others could attack, but he shattered her Five Elements Mountain and blasted her backward.
• Li Qingyue rushed back at the Four Extremes Realm man and struck again with a Five Elements Mountain and a devouring-force palm as he prepared to retaliate.