Chapter Summaries

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.

Li Qingyue fought a Four Extremes Realm cultivator and exposed the Peng Family's fairy as the one who had been hiding and stirring up trouble. She continued attacking the fairy despite being badly injured, while the fairy retreated in terror.

• The middle-aged man attacked Li Qingyue with a flaming mountain, but she devoured its power and shattered it before striking him with her five-colored mountain.
• Li Qingyue spotted the Peng Family's fairy hiding nearby and revealed her to the Tianxuan Saintess and the spectators.
• The middle-aged man intervened to protect the fairy and struck Li Qingyue, but her white dress blocked his attack as she wounded the fairy with her five-colored mountain.
• Li Qingyue was sent flying and suffered broken bones, but she charged back at the injured fairy, who called for the middle-aged man to kill her.

Li Qingyue comprehended the netherworld soil’s life-and-death powers while fighting the Peng Family’s fairy and her protector. Despite grievous injuries, she healed by devouring the place’s energies, destroyed the protector’s weapon, and struck at the fairy again.

• Li Qingyue evolved the Divine Mountain, sensed the netherworld soil’s transformations between life and death, and gained Dao resonance as she charged the Peng Family’s fairy.
• The middle-aged protector attacked Li Qingyue with his azure short sword, but she seized it, endured its wound, and devoured its essence as she rushed past him.
• Li Qingyue struck the Peng Family’s fairy with a five-colored mountain, crushing half her body and leaving her terrified.
• The middle-aged man hit Li Qingyue from behind, but she absorbed life-and-death energies from the Divine Mountain and netherworld soil to repair herself before charging the fairy again.
• Li Qingyue crushed the short sword in her hand, severing its connection to the middle-aged man and healing her chest, then raised her hand as a mountain and struck at the fairy once more.

Li Qingyue killed the Peng Family fairy despite suffering devastating injuries, and Yang Wuzheng saved her from the middle-aged man before demanding source stones to help her recover. As the gathered source stones healed her body but deepened her deathly aura, Li Qingyue began evolving the Netherworld Soil Divine Mountain.

• Li Qingyue struck down the Peng Family fairy with the five-colored mountain, then stood through the middle-aged man's attacks despite her shattered bones.
• Yang Wuzheng appeared with the Fuxi Zither and killed the middle-aged man with one strike, then discovered that Li Qingyue's injuries were critical.
• Yang Wuzheng and the other recovered cultivators gave Li Qingyue source stones, which healed her wounds as her aura of death grew stronger.
• Yang Wuzheng, Yan Wushuang, the Tianxuan Saintess, the Yaoguang Holy Son, and the Tianquan Saint surrounded the onlookers with sacred artifacts and demanded source stones.
• The crowd contributed nearly thirty thousand jin of source stones, and Li Qingyue used her recovering consciousness to begin evolving the Netherworld Soil Divine Mountain.

Li Qingyue reshaped the calamity Emperor Script in her dantian into her own Devouring Emperor Script, enduring repeated bodily destruction as she drew on a vast store of source stones. Her new power began devouring deathly energy and tribulation qi, and the chapter ended as she unleashed a supreme will and declared, “When vitality ends, death's tribulation appears. Sever!”

• Li Qingyue merged half her consciousness with the Central Divine Mountain and traced the calamity Emperor Script in her second true qi vortex.
• She rejected the Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Venerable's script and repeatedly shattered it with her will, consuming it to forge her own Devouring Emperor Script.
• Yan Wushuang, Yang Wuzheng, Tianquan Saint, and the others feared Li Qingyue would die and vowed to make the Peng Family of the Eastern Wasteland answer for it.
• Li Qingyue's new script turned her five-colored true qi seven-colored, healed her body, and drew deathly energy and tribulation qi into a massive vortex.
• The others retreated as Li Qingyue's power began draining vitality from them and devouring the deathly energy around her.
• Li Qingyue's supreme will erupted, and she declared, “When vitality ends, death's tribulation appears. Sever!”

Li Qingyue survived the death energy by turning it into a trial and using her will to reverse death into life, revealing a path toward several legendary arts. After realizing her strength had doubled and resolving to build her Dao step by step, she received an ancient jade inheritance from the Tianquan Saint.

• Li Qingyue absorbed the death energy, split her body between death and vitality, and rebirthed herself in seven-colored radiance.
• Li Qingyue concluded that her techniques would develop gradually through her own comprehension, then discovered her strength had doubled and she had 2,900 Survival Points.
• Yang Wuzheng and Yan Wushuang admonished Li Qingyue for risking her life, while the other three allies showed their concern.
• Li Qingyue accepted their concern, believing her battle had tested and strengthened her while also saving them.
• The Tianquan Saint offered Li Qingyue an ancient jade he had found in ruins, assuring her that it was not a Holy Land inheritance.

Li Qingyue accepted an ancient inheritance jade from the Tianquan Saint and received a powerful Magnetism Star from the Yaoguang Holy Son, who asked her to report anything unusual about the Tianquan Saint. After the group decided to recover before approaching the Central Divine Mountain, Li Qingyue considered examining the jade and eventually evolving the Magnetism Star.

• Li Qingyue accepted the Tianquan Saint's ancient jade as thanks for saving him.
• The Yaoguang Holy Son gave Li Qingyue a Magnetism Star and privately asked her to tell him if she noticed anything unusual about the Tianquan Saint.
• The Tianxuan Saintess gave Li Qingyue a replacement dress beneath the cover of the Tianxuan Sacred Umbrella.
• The Tianquan Saint proposed that everyone recover before continuing toward the Central Divine Mountain, and the group agreed.
• Li Qingyue planned to inspect the inheritance jade and use source stones to evolve the Magnetism Star and learn its divine magnetic power.

Li Qingyue studied an ancient jade inheritance and discovered that the Great Light God Slash came from the Light Ancient Emperor. The inheritance tried to alter her will and bind her to the Light Clan, but she resisted and began devouring the jade’s essence.

• Li Qingyue considered the divine source at the Divine Mountain and realized she needed greater strength to claim it.
• Li Qingyue used her consciousness to explore the ancient jade and recognized its inheritance as the Light Ancient Emperor’s Great Light God Slash.
• Li Qingyue worried about accepting the Tianquan Saint’s gift but decided she would repay him later and reject any thought of marriage.
• Li Qingyue sensed the inheritance invading her will and creating a yearning to worship and serve the Light Clan.
• Li Qingyue resisted the invasion with her will and began devouring the ancient jade’s essence into her body.

Li Qingyue discovered that the ancient jade’s supposed Ancient Emperor inheritance was a trap left by the Light Clan, then learned that poisoned inheritances might be harming humanity’s gifted cultivators. She began turning the inheritance’s ideas into a new art and realized she was creating the Flying Immortal Art.

• Li Qingyue resisted the jade’s eroding will, detected that it was a false inheritance, and watched the jade crumble to dust.
• Li Qingyue warned the Yaoguang Holy Son and Tianxuan Saintess that the inheritance was poisoned, and they revealed disappearances and deaths among humans with special constitutions.
• Li Qingyue considered humanity’s long decline and resolved to become a Great Emperor capable of cleansing the world.
• Li Qingyue used the inheritance’s ideas to create a central vortex of origin light that drew her nine Dantian vortices into orbit and amplified their power.
• Li Qingyue refined the light of her will into a Dao-infused art and recognized it as the Flying Immortal Art.

Li Qingyue mastered the first effects of Flying Immortal Light, learned to activate the Magnetism Star, and joined the others on their way to the Central Divine Mountain. Their advance stalled when she realized divine source field energy had warped space, leaving them circling in place.

• Li Qingyue tested Flying Immortal Light, using it to fly, pierce the ground, devour five-element objects, and wield life-and-death energy.
• Li Qingyue used Evolution to comprehend the Magnetism Star’s magnetic pathways and learned to activate the treasured artifact, while the others watched her enlightenment.
• After everyone recovered, the Tianquan Saint led the group toward the Central Divine Mountain in hopes of obtaining its divine source and immortal light.
• The Tianquan Saint noticed that the group and other approaching figures were not getting closer to the mountain.
• Li Qingyue explained that divine source field energy had warped space, causing them to circle in place.

Li Qingyue led her companions safely through the dangerous small world toward the Central Divine Mountain, using her new perception of its rules. The Divine Son of the Feathered Divine Dynasty blocked their way and demanded that the others abandon Li Qingyue.

• Li Qingyue explained that the divine source had turned the land into a deadly trap and that the black coffin atop the Central Divine Mountain was their only way out.
• Li Qingyue guided Yang Wuzheng, the Tianquan Saint, and the others along a winding route that brought them rapidly closer to the mountain.
• Li Qingyue's group encountered the Divine Son of the Feathered Divine Dynasty, accompanied by two saintesses she recognized and several experts.
• The Divine Son ordered an elderly Four Extremes Realm expert to kill the ox-nosed Daoist who had been guiding his group.
• The Divine Son's followers blocked Li Qingyue's path and told her companions to leave or die.