Chapter Summaries

Shi You used the Myriad Transformations Profound Nether Bell to steal Zong Ya’s heavenly tribulation, and Lin Ke fought to stop him from ruining her path to advancement. Lin Ke overwhelmed Shi You with his insect formation and mechanical insects, leaving Shi You battered as his power climbed toward nascent soul late stage great perfection.

• Shi You revealed that the Myriad Transformations Profound Nether Bell let his Gu insects use another person’s heavenly tribulation, threatening to leave Zong Ya unable to undergo another tribulation.
• Lin Ke formed his insect tide and mechanical insects into an attack, blocked Shi You’s lightning palms, knocked the bell away, and kept the tribulation focused on Zong Ya.
• Shi You summoned another Myriad Transformations Profound Nether Bell to neutralize the Dream-Eating Gecko’s mental attacks, but Lin Ke trapped him inside the insect formation.
• Lin Ke used Insect Song Annihilation to make mechanical insects explode against Shi You, wounding his face and forcing him to raise a shield.
• More than a hundred mechanical insects attacked Shi You, breaking his shield and blasting wounds across his body as he fought back and his strength rose toward nascent soul late stage great perfection.

Lin Ke fought Shi You and Murong Xue after they joined forces into a powerful humanoid mantis, and he unleashed his Insect Formation even as it fatally wounded him. The formation swallowed the pair, then formed a chaotic sphere of Spiritual Qi that triggered a catastrophic explosion across the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm.

• Lin Ke and Murong Xue burned Shi You with Mystic Flame, and Murong Xue used Ice-Attribute Spirit Pellets to extinguish the fire before healing him with Spiritual Qi.
• Shi You and Murong Xue joined forces, forming a humanoid mantis phantom with strength at the Nascent Soul Great Perfection realm.
• The mantis wounded Lin Ke, who used the Grain Rain Dragon Pearl and gathered his Spirit Insects and Mechanical Insects to complete the Insect Formation.
• The Insect Formation’s vortex sucked in Shi You and Murong Xue, while Zong Ya’s nearby heavenly thunder was pulled off course.
• A chaotic sphere of Spiritual Qi formed inside the vortex, sinking part of the Snow Mountain and unleashing a devastating explosion across the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm.

Lin Ke woke after his uncontrolled spell art flattened Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, leaving him badly injured and without his left arm, while his companions survived and Zong Ya had broken through. Across the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm, the blast drew attention, and Shi Yuan discovered that his elder brother Shi You had returned as a terrified Nascent Soul who blamed Murong Xue and begged Lin Ke for mercy.

• Lin Xuanyuan told Lin Ke that his spell art had destroyed Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, killed every other spirit insect, and cost Lin Ke an arm.
• Nan Shang gave Lin Ke pills to restore his consciousness, and Zong Ya confirmed that she had broken through; she and Nan Shang said their two enemies' Nascent Souls remained inside their Storage Bags.
• Zong Ya and Nan Shang concealed Lin Ke with a formation so he could heal while they waited to examine the enemies together.
• Dongfang Yao and Shen Wei sensed the explosion, and Shen Wei identified it as a spell art powerful enough to affect the heavenly tribulation.
• Shi Yuan killed a subordinate for violating his rules, then watched his Longevity Lock crack and burst as Shi You's Nascent Soul emerged in terror.
• Shi You hid behind a spirit tree, screamed at the thought of Lin Ke, and accused Murong Xue of inciting him.

After recovering from his injuries, Lin Ke discovered that nearly all his Spirit Insects had died, though the battle had greatly strengthened his Mental Power and cultivation. He and Zong Ya headed west toward the Lava Field to find fire-type Spirit Insects and cultivate, while Nan Shang went alone toward the Ten-Thousand Longevity Eternal Spring Garden to search for Dragon Tombs; Lin Ke and Zong Ya ended the chapter still looking for the Frost-Condensing Tower in an immense sea of magma.

• Lin Ke inspected his Niwan Palace and found that nearly all his Spirit Insects had perished, but his Mental Power had risen to Nascent Soul Early Stage Great Perfection.
• Lin Ke proposed traveling west with Zong Ya to find fire-type Spirit Insects and materials for Flame-Red Sinew-Tempering Pills, while Nan Shang chose to search for Dragon Tombs near the Ten-Thousand Longevity Eternal Spring Garden.
• Lin Ke gave Nan Shang information about Gu Insects refining Illusory Heart Grass toxins, and the three separated, agreeing to keep in contact through the Mystic Vein Book.
• Lin Ke and Zong Ya crossed the Illusory Heart Forest and, three days later, reached a remote region of volcanoes and lava where they hoped to cultivate without disturbance.
• Lin Ke and Zong Ya searched deep into the Lava Field but found only lava and magma, not the Frost-Condensing Tower shown on their map.

Lin Ke and Zong Ya discovered a Nascent Soul Realm Black Armored Kun in the lava sea and decided to follow it in search of land where they could recover. Nearby, Mo Qi Qi and the Jade Great Radiance Church cultivators secretly tracked Lin Ke, convinced he possessed a supreme treasure that guided him to opportunities.

• Lin Ke sensed a powerful Spirit Beast in the lava and sent Blade Spirit Number One to investigate.
• A Black Armored Kun swallowed Blade Spirit Number One, who returned and reported that it was a Nascent Soul Realm beast with Origin Tier Superior armor and Lava Red-Spotted Fish in its stomach.
• Lin Ke decided to follow the kun toward its feeding grounds rather than risk fighting it while low on Spiritual Qi, and Zong Ya led the pursuit.
• Mo Qi Qi stopped his group and learned that Lin Ke was heading deeper into the lava sea.
• Mo Qi Qi and the Jade Great Radiance Church cultivators concluded that Lin Ke must possess a supreme treasure and continued following him.

Lin Ke carried the exhausted Zong Ya across the lava sea and discovered a hidden island beneath the magma, which Lin Xuanyuan opened with Dragon Might. Lin Ke brought Zong Ya and the spirit insects onto the island while Mo Qi Qi’s party continued searching for them.

• Lin Ke used Lin Xuanyuan’s true qi to catch Zong Ya when she began falling toward the lava, then gave her spiritual qi to help her keep flying.
• Mo Qi Qi attacked his followers for drawing spiritual qi from the Heaven-Mending Stone, but persuaded them to continue chasing Lin Ke.
• After losing the Black Armored Kun’s presence, Lin Ke searched beneath the lava and found an island sealed behind a Golden-Patterned Barrier.
• Lin Xuanyuan wore the Dragon Cultivator Mask and opened a gap in the barrier with Dragon Might.
• Lin Ke took Zong Ya and the spirit insects into the floating island, while Mo Qi Qi wondered where they had gone.

Lin Ke explored the seemingly abandoned Floating Island and discovered it had underground trading floors, but Zong Ya vanished while he was away. Meanwhile, Mo Qi Qi found a fissure in the lava barrier, and Lin Ke found Zong Ya in an underground auction house with a Flowerless Glazed Fruit.

• Lin Ke carried the weakened Zong Ya into the Tower, restored her with spiritual qi, and searched the island's buildings for valuables.
• Lin Ke found a map showing the island floating in the sky and revealing seven or eight underground floors, while his sense of being watched grew stronger.
• Lin Ke returned to the Tower and found Zong Ya gone, with only her handkerchief left behind.
• Mo Qi Qi recited formations from the Collection of Ten Thousand Formation, then remembered he might have skipped some pages; a fissure opened in the lava barrier, and the three cultivators entered it.
• Lin Ke descended into the underground auction houses and found Zong Ya, who excitedly pointed out a Flowerless Glazed Fruit.

Lin Ke and Zong Ya found a hoard of centipedes guarding the lower levels of the tower and fled with Mo Qi Qi and his companions. At the boundary above ground, Mo Qi Qi discovered that the Heaven-Piercing Suppression Formation annihilated the insects and declared that a rare treasure lay inside the tower.

• Lin Ke and Zong Ya searched several basement levels, finding few treasures before reaching the second-lowest level, where they released Lin Xuanyuan and discovered rotting spirit beasts and a red-leaf ginkgo.
• Lin Ke warned Zong Ya as five enormous centipedes emerged; after they killed the first one, a swarm poured into the level and drove them toward the stairs.
• Lin Ke and Zong Ya encountered Mo Qi Qi and two companions, who demanded the treasure, so Lin Ke sent them deeper into the tower ahead of the centipedes.
• Mo Qi Qi and his companions fled back after meeting the swarm, and all five escaped to the ground floor, where the formation stopped the centipedes at the boundary.
• Mo Qi Qi tested the Heaven-Piercing Suppression Formation as it destroyed more centipedes and concluded that the tower held a rare treasure.

Lin Ke and Mo Qi Qi descended through the insect-filled tower and discovered a gigantic Centipede King in the abyss below. Mo Qi Qi attacked it, enraging the beast and leaving the two cultivators facing its retaliation.

• Lin Ke questioned two Jade Great Radiance Church disciples about Nan Shang, and Mo Qi Qi explained that Nan Shang had infiltrated the Illusionless Gu Sect before losing contact.
• Mo Qi Qi invited Lin Ke to explore what the formation was suppressing, and Lin Ke agreed despite Zong Ya's concerns about his injuries.
• Mo Qi Qi took control of the formation and opened a path through the centipedes, leading Lin Ke down toward the tower's lowest level.
• Lin Ke and Mo Qi Qi passed bones and dragon cultivators' armor before entering a portal into a dark abyss.
• The pair encountered a Centipede King hundreds of zhang long, and Mo Qi Qi struck its head with formation power, making it furious.

Lin Ke and Mo Qi Qi fought the Centipede King in the abyss, where Lin Ke discovered its young and a chain-bound treasure casket. After Mo Qi Qi fled and a vast centipede swarm emerged, Lin Ke used Lin Xuanyuan’s True Dragon presence to subdue it and approached the casket.

• Mo Qi Qi attacked the Centipede King while Lin Ke slowed it with black ice, but the creature healed and struck back fiercely.
• Lin Ke saw the Centipede King’s young at the bottom of the abyss and discovered a sealed treasure casket bound in chains.
• Mo Qi Qi grew jealous of Lin Ke, blasted the Centipede King, then escaped to the abyss entrance as a huge swarm surged forth.
• Lin Xuanyuan’s True Dragon pressure halted the swarm and forced the Centipede King to submit.
• Lin Ke flew toward the chain-wrapped treasure casket while Lin Xuanyuan guarded him.

Lin Ke discovered Black Ice Centipede eggs and investigated the formation sustaining the Floating Island, then used the Insect Jade to open the treasure casket. Inside, he found a Dragon Pearl that released a powerful white flame before the surrounding chains suppressed it.

• Lin Ke recognized the abyss’s spirit insects as Black Ice Centipedes and learned they could produce fear-inducing toxins.
• Lin Ke concluded that the treasure casket anchored the formation holding up the Floating Island and that he would need Mo Qi Qi to unravel it.
• Lin Ke infused the Insect Jade with spirit power, causing the treasure casket to rise and reveal eight depleted supreme-grade spirit stones.
• Lin Ke replaced the spirit stones with high-grade ones, opening the casket to reveal a scarlet Dragon Pearl.
• The Dragon Pearl released a white flame toward Lin Ke, but the chains shook and extinguished it before its power could reach him.

Lin Ke escaped the abyss with two Black Ice Centipede eggs after Lin Xuanyuan used a seal demonstrated by Jade Dragon True Person’s mask to suppress the Centipede King. Back at the Tower, Lin Ke confronted Mo Qi Qi about betraying him, then tried to persuade him to help break the Formation by offering a share of the treasure.

• Lin Ke closed the treasure casket, grabbed two Black Ice Centipede eggs, and fought his way out of the abyss with Lin Xuanyuan and his Blade Spirits.
• Lin Xuanyuan used the Crimson Mask to demonstrate the Northern Frontier Sea-Calming Seal, crushing the Centipede tide long enough for them to escape.
• Lin Xuanyuan explained that the mask held a stored Spell Art demonstration, with four of its five uses remaining.
• Lin Ke returned to the Tower and confronted Mo Qi Qi for luring the Centipede King to him and fleeing.
• Lin Ke asked Mo Qi Qi to help break the Formation and offered to divide the treasure, showing him a supreme-grade spirit stone and a Black Ice Centipede egg.

Lin Ke persuaded Mo Qi Qi to teach him how to break the Heaven-Piercing Suppression Formation in exchange for an Insect Formation and instructions for refining Mechanical Insects. As Mo Qi Qi and the others began preparing, Lin Ke secretly relied on the Blade Spirits to produce the insects and planned for the coming attempt to retrieve the Dragon Pearl.

• Mo Qi Qi agreed to teach Lin Ke how to break the suppression formation after Lin Ke offered him the Insect Formation and three Mystic Flame Horned Beetle Sovereign Mechanical Insects.
• Mo Qi Qi criticized the third-level Insect Formation, but then explained that breaking the Heaven-Piercing Suppression Formation required twenty units to deploy Barrier Formations simultaneously.
• Lin Ke withheld his Blade Spirits and Spirit Insects, gave Mo Qi Qi altered instructions for refining Mechanical Insects, and thanked him for helping.
• Mo Qi Qi and two Jade Great Radiance Church disciples secluded themselves to refine Mechanical Insects, while Lin Ke told the Blade Spirits to work faster.
• Mo Qi Qi restored the erased instructions and privately resolved to compete with Lin Ke in producing Mechanical Insects.
• Lin Ke planned to deploy the Ten Thousand Insects Shattering the Ruins Formation, tame and evolve the Black Ice Centipede, and practice the Displacement Formation before retrieving the treasure.

Mo Qi Qi reconsidered how to deal with Lin Ke after seeing his growing collection of Mechanical Insects, while Lin Ke had the Spirit Silkworm replicate Black Ice Centipedes and discovered a powerful Spell Art in Shi You's Storage Bag. The chapter left Lin Ke with a possible escape technique and Mo Qi Qi planning to trap him with formations.

• Mo Qi Qi saw five Mechanical Insects guarding Lin Ke's room and abandoned his plan to attack him with numbers, deciding instead to use the Formless Shifting Formation.
• Lin Ke asked the Spirit Silkworm to replicate Black Ice Centipedes, and it ate both centipedes to learn how to produce their eggs.
• Lin Ke sent more than fifty Golden Core Stage Mechanical Insects to capture Spirit Insects and Spirit Beasts for the Spirit Silkworm.
• Mo Qi Qi watched the Mechanical Insects surge out and began planning to trap Lin Ke and bombard him with formations until he surrendered his treasures.
• Lin Ke found the Seven Stars Art manual and learned about the Seven Stars Gaze-Blazing Art, then discovered an unusual Formation Stone in Shi You's Storage Bag.

Lin Ke used his newly mastered formation movement to escape Mo Qi Qi’s attack and strike him, but discovered the apparent victory had been an illusion. As Mo Qi Qi and two disciples praised their trap, a mysterious figure appeared among them.

• Lin Ke learned to shuttle between Formation Stones and appeared in the Tower’s main hall, where he found Mo Qi Qi using a Formless Shifting Formation outside his room.
• Mo Qi Qi claimed he was only practicing, then admitted he planned to kill Lin Ke for betraying his Sect and demanded his treasures.
• Two disciples brought out the bound Zong Ya, and Mo Qi Qi threatened to make her his master’s Seventh Mistress.
• Lin Ke used his formation movement to break through the shifting space and stabbed Mo Qi Qi, whose body turned out to be an illusion.
• Lin Ke was caught inside Mo Qi Qi’s formation as space sliced apart his Ice Spikes, while Mo Qi Qi and the other disciples celebrated trapping him.
• A mysterious figure appeared beside the three men and echoed their claims about taking Lin Ke’s treasures for righteous hands.

Lin Ke fought Mo Qi Qi after Mo Qi Qi used a formation to trap him and threaten his senior sister. Lin Ke broke through Mo Qi Qi’s defenses and destroyed both their Mechanical Insects, but Mo Qi Qi was then struck by a powerful mental spell art.

• Lin Ke appeared outside the formation and used the Golden Flying Sword to kill two Jade Great Radiance Church disciples.
• Mo Qi Qi revealed that Zong Ya was a dummy, trapped Lin Ke in formations, and threatened to refine Lin Ke’s senior sister into an artifact spirit.
• Lin Ke used the World-Altering Method and a round orb to shatter Mo Qi Qi’s shields, then struck him repeatedly and rescued the dummy.
• Mo Qi Qi donned Origin Tier Mid-Grade Dragon Armor and summoned Mechanical Insects to counter Lin Ke’s swarm.
• Both swarms of Mechanical Insects were destroyed in explosions, and Lin Ke’s mental spell art swept through Mo Qi Qi’s mind.

Lin Ke defeated Mo Qi Qi, forced him to make a prosthetic hand, and prepared with Zong Ya to explore the abyss. He began breeding Black Ice Centipedes and discovered that the Spirit Silkworm produced more eggs after eating them.

• Lin Ke used Nightmare Power and his Five-Colored Glazed Body to overpower Mo Qi Qi, then cut off his left hand when Mo Qi Qi tried to attack him.
• Mo Qi Qi knelt and agreed to serve Lin Ke, who ordered him to craft a prosthetic left hand; Zong Ya returned and learned that Lin Ke had killed the two attackers.
• A Jade Great Radiance Church squad approached the island and followed Mo Qi Qi's order to enter the abyss secretly using Breath-Concealing Pills.
• Zong Ya showed Lin Ke the gathered ingredients for Flame-Red Sinew-Tempering Pills, and Lin Ke said he had tamed Spirit Insects in the abyss.
• Lin Ke fed Spirit Insects to the Spirit Silkworm, which laid Black Ice Centipede eggs; after two centipedes burst apart while mating, the Spirit Silkworm ate them and laid three more eggs.

Lin Ke expanded his Black Ice Centipede breeding while Mo Qi Qi forged him an origin tier low-grade prosthetic, and Zong Ya prepared Flame-Red Sinew-Tempering Pills. As Lin Ke and Zong Ya entered seclusion to take the pills, an eight-person squad from the Jade Great Radiance Church entered the barrier and Mo Qi Qi shut down the formation.

• Lin Ke sent the Spirit Silkworm to devour centipedes, which led it to lay nearly fifteen Black Ice Centipede eggs.
• Lin Ke harvested two more Golden Core great perfection Black Ice Centipedes while Mo Qi Qi focused on forging his prosthetic.
• Mo Qi Qi completed an origin tier low-grade Spirit Artifact hand, and Lin Ke cut off his necrotic left hand and fitted the prosthetic.
• Lin Ke noticed Mo Qi Qi crush a jade pendant and kept a close watch on him while hoping to gather enough Blade Spirits to break the formation.
• Zong Ya announced that she had refined Flame-Red Sinew-Tempering Pills, and Lin Ke and Zong Ya swallowed one each before entering seclusion.
• An eight-person Jade Great Radiance Church squad entered the barrier from beneath the island, and Mo Qi Qi shut down the formation.

Lin Ke refined fire-attribute pills but could not absorb their purest cores, so he adapted his prosthetic hand to store them as explosive weapons. The cores trapped him in a vision of catastrophe while Zong Ya awoke to find Mo Qi Qi and Jade Hall cultivators confronting her.

• Lin Ke refined several fire-attribute pills, but their purest cores accumulated in his left hand and provoked uncontrollable anger.
• Lin Ke incorporated a Mechanical Insect's mechanisms into his prosthetic hand and stored more than a dozen explosive pill cores in its palm.
• The concentrated fire qi trapped Lin Ke in an illusion of Zong Ya's death, destruction across places he knew, and Howling Ape Old Ghost harming the rescued girl.
• Zong Ya sensed powerful auras outside, took her Three-Eyed Fire Arquebus, and left the room.
• Mo Qi Qi introduced Liu Mingqing and the Jade Hall disciples, explaining that their formation could threaten cultivators far stronger than Lin Ke.
• Liu Mingqing greeted Zong Ya as his senior sister, making her wary.

Mo Qi Qi called on Liu Mingqing and Jade Hall to capture the weakened Zong Ya and the fiend inside the room, but Zong Ya’s allies turned the ambush against them. The Blade Spirits rallied to protect Lin Ke, who remained inside and unaware of the battle.

• Mo Qi Qi persuaded Liu Mingqing and the Jade Hall deacons to form a Formation and attack the room where Lin Ke was consuming Cultivation Pills.
• Zong Ya fired the Three-Eyed Fire Arquebus at Mo Qi Qi, but Liu Mingqing’s Jade Divine Hall Formation blocked her shots and its jade petals overwhelmed her.
• Thirteen Blade Spirits emerged from the room, outnumbering the Jade Hall disciples, while Dragon Cultivator Blade Spirit One revealed his Nascent Soul Middle Stage strength.
• Mo Qi Qi claimed the Blade Spirits were controlled by Lin Ke and promised to free them if they helped capture him.
• Dragon Cultivator Blade Spirit One rejected Mo Qi Qi’s promise and urged the Blade Spirits to protect Lin Ke, warning that the two newly joined Blade Spirits would vanish if their blade master died.