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.