Chapter Summaries

Ying Huaixu found Tai Wangshu and Huang Tianqi near collapse, then learned that an unseen force was draining their mental energy through the deaths and revivals on the Dream Continent. The group realized that seeking help from the Heart-Questioning Valley might put them under someone’s control, while panic could accelerate the drain.

• Ying Huaixu found Tai Wangshu in a feeble state and revived her and Huang Tianqi with pills.
• Huang Tianqi revealed that he had recently reached Tribulation Transcendence after surviving a spatial tribulation, and Tai Wangshu said she had also broken through.
• Tai Wangshu explained that repeated deaths and revivals had drained her mental energy rather than her soul, and she pointed to the Heart-Questioning Valley as a possible source of answers.
• Huang Tianqi warned that the Heart-Questioning Valley might control them, while relying on Revival Pills could let the unseen force drain their mental energy repeatedly.
• Ying Huaixu realized that fear made the drain faster, withheld the information to avoid causing panic, and tried to calm himself.

The Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples swept the Dream Continent’s demonic beasts away, frightening the locals at first but making life safer and more prosperous. As the locals discovered the disciples were generous despite their fierce manners, Tai Wangshu considered a future with Ying Huaixu, who remained oblivious and unkempt.

• Ying Huaixu gave the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples permission to hunt, and they scattered across the Dream Continent to kill demonic beasts.
• The disciples cleared most of the continent’s beasts in a few days, leaving the locals frightened by their enthusiasm and brutality.
• The locals found life improving as the disciples eliminated threats, paid for goods and meals, and left ordinary people alone.
• A Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciple gave a ragged little girl spirit stones for her jade pendant, then bought a rogue cultivator’s jade ruyi scepter and melted it into a hairpin.
• Tai Wangshu imagined settling down with Ying Huaixu, then saw him picking his nose and lamented his lack of concern for his appearance.

Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu discussed the death rule and mental-energy loss trapping them in Dream Province, then discovered that Lü Qingyi had Sealed Tai Wangshu's clothes. The next morning, Ying Huaixu realized that emotional pain could count as an injury under the death rule, and he began studying the sect disciples below for a possible clue.

• Tai Wangshu told Ying Huaixu that the death rule could only be avoided by killing its creator, and that Heart-Questioning Valley might be their best lead despite the risk of a trap.
• Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu tried to become intimate, but they could not remove Tai Wangshu's clothes because Lü Qingyi had Sealed them.
• Tai Wangshu guessed that Lü Qingyi might have developed feelings for Ying Huaixu and that Ye Ningshuang's clothes might also have been Sealed.
• The next morning, Tai Wangshu explained that Ying Huaixu's hurt feelings had counted as an injury, costing her more than twenty Revival Pills while he lost only one.
• Tai Wangshu said her techniques had failed to counter the death rule, and Ying Huaixu narrowed his eyes as he watched the disciples below.

Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu suspected the Outsiders were using a Divine Weapon and strange rules to weaken Heart-Questioning Valley before entering Dream Province’s Secret Realm. Ying Huaixu accepted Tai Wangshu’s quest to discover what they were fighting over, but his search for the objective led nowhere, leaving him to test other ways of triggering it.

• Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu discussed how the Outsiders might be waiting for the Divine Weapon to kill Heart-Questioning Valley’s fighters before joining the battle.
• Tai Wangshu suggested investigating what Heart-Questioning Valley and her group were fighting for, and Ying Huaixu accepted her quest.
• Tai Wangshu worried that others might exploit Ying Huaixu’s ability to complete quests, but he reassured her that he chose which quests to accept.
• Ying Huaixu followed the quest tracker to three search circles, but he and Tai Wangshu found nothing there, even after searching at night.
• Ying Huaixu ruled out an underground destination and considered trying other actions within the quest circle to trigger the objective.

Ying Huaixu triggered a quest by grilling meat and met Little Glutton, who showed him a recording revealing that Heart-Questioning Valley disciples carried a power sought by rival factions. Tai Wangshu identified that power as Primordial Qi, and the chapter left Little Glutton realizing he might have to fight for it too.

• Ying Huaixu grilled meat inside the quest circle, triggering a quest that brought Little Glutton out of the ground.
• Ying Huaixu gave Little Glutton grilled meat and Artifact Refining material in exchange for information.
• Little Glutton showed Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu a recording of a Rogue Cultivator gaining power after killing a Heart-Questioning Valley disciple before the valley's people killed him.
• Tai Wangshu explained that Primordial Qi was both a status and a means of securing a future path, making it something every faction needed to obtain.
• Ying Huaixu offered to protect Little Glutton, but Little Glutton distrusted his interest in the rat's cloth bag, and Tai Wangshu kicked him away.

Ying Huaixu fed Little Glutton and learned that the Skill Stones he needed might be found in Heart-Questioning Valley. Realizing the game’s socketing feature had unlocked because of that location rather than his cultivation level, he became eager to go there.

• Ying Huaixu and Tai Wangshu threatened to cook Little Glutton, then shared a meal with it instead.
• Tai Wangshu noticed her spell power had increased after eating and suspected Ying Huaixu had used Time Laws to cook, though he did not realize it.
• Ying Huaixu checked Little Glutton’s cloth bag for Cultivation Technique Gems but found none.
• Ying Huaixu explained Skill Stones to Little Glutton, who compared them to the Truth-Testing Stone in Heart-Questioning Valley.
• Ying Huaixu recalled that the game’s socketing feature had appeared when he reached Heart-Questioning Valley, and concluded that the location had unlocked it.

Ying Huaixu confirmed that Heart-Questioning Valley’s gems were sealed cultivation technique treasures tied to the Outsiders’ goals. After Tai Wangshu woke, he explained his plan to provoke the Outsiders by moving the gems and intercepting them around Dream Province.

• Ying Huaixu asked Ye Ningshuang to find a gem in Heart-Questioning Valley, and she sent him a sealed customizable cultivation technique gem that required Bloodheart Powder to unlock.
• After three days, Tai Wangshu woke from comprehending the Dao and examined the gem, identifying it as genuine Primordial Qi that could upgrade or alter a technique and affect innate origins.
• Tai Wangshu explained that Heart-Questioning Valley’s seal was designed to thwart Lü Qingyi and agreed they would need to visit the valley to learn more.
• Ying Huaixu proposed moving the stones to provoke the Outsiders, then blockading the outskirts of Dream Province and killing those who tried to stop them.

Huang Tianqi found the Heart-Questioning Valley’s valuable stones and suspected that the sects’ resources and secret realms were arranged to benefit the Divine Firmament Sword Sect. The chapter left Huang Tianqi and Qin Erniu preparing for a future era of change, while Qin Erniu confidently planned to challenge He Xiuyuan.

• Huang Tianqi found the stones at the Heart-Questioning Valley’s ore vein and told Ying Huaixu that the valley did not seem willing to sell them.
• Ying Huaixu told Huang Tianqi to seek a cooperative deal first and force an exchange if negotiations failed, and Huang Tianqi asked Tong Xinran to negotiate.
• Huang Tianqi and Qin Erniu watched the ore vein from a mountain, where Qin Erniu recorded the Heart-Questioning Valley’s harsh treatment of its miners and shared it in the Mining Group.
• Huang Tianqi reasoned that the sects’ resources and secret realms seemed to strengthen the Divine Firmament Sword Sect by making other sects depend on its spirit stones and immortal jade.
• Huang Tianqi warned Qin Erniu that the Heart-Questioning Valley’s stones might signal coming changes and a new contest among sects, but Qin Erniu said he would challenge He Xiuyuan with his new trump card.

Huang Tianqi investigated Heart-Questioning Valley’s mineral vein and its sealed gemstones while Ying Huaixu waited for the valley to discuss a trade. Tai Wangshu warned that Heart-Questioning Valley might give Primordial Qi to the Outsiders, and Ying Huaixu decided to judge the valley by which side it chose.

• Huang Tianqi noticed Qin Erniu used fewer Revival Pills than the others and continued probing and cutting free Heart-Questioning Valley’s mineral vein.
• Ying Huaixu held back from entering Tribulation Transcendence while waiting for news about Heart-Questioning Valley’s willingness to sell its Ore.
• Tong Xinran told Ying Huaixu that Heart-Questioning Valley kept avoiding trade discussions and seemed to be waiting for something.
• Ying Huaixu told Huang Tianqi to secure the mineral vein so Heart-Questioning Valley could not move it.
• Tai Wangshu warned Ying Huaixu that Heart-Questioning Valley might give Primordial Qi to the Outsiders and revealed she had located several mines and Teleportation Arrays.
• Ying Huaixu decided to wait for Heart-Questioning Valley to choose a side and adjust his attitude accordingly.

Heart-Questioning Valley's Great Elder refused to cooperate with the Divine Firmament Sword Sect over the Innate Divine Stones, explaining the Ancestors' history and their plan to use the stones as leverage. The elder realized the Valley was in grave danger, while the Great Elder insisted they would bargain with whichever side promised them a place in the future world.

• An elder warned the Great Elder that the Divine Firmament Sword Sect was pressing Heart-Questioning Valley to negotiate over its ore vein.
• The Great Elder said the Valley would keep resisting because the Divine Stones were in its hands and the Divine Firmament Sword Sect could not use them without cooperation.
• When the elder challenged the Ancestors' decision, the Great Elder revealed that Heart-Questioning Valley had split from the Heaven-Questioning Sect over whether to hoard treasures entrusted by the Heavenly Dao.
• The Great Elder explained that the Ancestors had sacrificed themselves to protect the remaining disciples and that the Valley would trade the Divine Stones for security and a place in the future world.
• The Great Elder vowed to make the Divine Stones disappear forever if anyone attacked Heart-Questioning Valley.

Yang Jinghe feared Heart-Questioning Valley was heading toward ruin and decided to help his daughter leave with Ying Huaixu. Madam Yang revealed she also planned to oppose Heart-Questioning Valley’s path and showed Yang Jinghe a token identifying her as the Heaven-Questioning Sect Great Elder, Yun Lanshan.

• Yang Jinghe returned home troubled by Heart-Questioning Valley’s plans but greeted his daughter warmly.
• The Heart-Questioning Valley Saintess admitted she was curious about Ying Huaixu, and Yang Jinghe offered to arrange an introduction.
• Yang Jinghe considered the danger facing Heart-Questioning Valley and decided he wanted his daughter to leave with Ying Huaixu for the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Madam Yang noticed Yang Jinghe was hiding something, and he told her what he knew about Heart-Questioning Valley.
• Madam Yang said they would both stay behind to take another path and gave Yang Jinghe a token naming her Heaven-Questioning Sect Great Elder, Yun Lanshan.

Yun Lanshan secretly sought the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s help to leave Heart-Questioning Valley with her family and some disciples, while exposing the elders’ suspicious plans for the Divine Stones. Tong Xinran agreed to consider settling them in the sect’s territory and to give Yun Lanshan time to investigate, but the Third Elder then summoned Yun Lanshan to his cave abode with sinister intentions.

• Yun Lanshan told Yang Jinghe that the Heaven-Questioning Sect’s token could help him and sent him to find its surviving members while she dealt with the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Yun Lanshan met Tong Xinran and showed her documents revealing Heart-Questioning Valley’s plans to keep the Divine Stones and its possible ties to the Outsiders.
• Yun Lanshan asked Tong Xinran to provide a place for her family and some disciples after events changed, and Tong Xinran agreed to let them establish a clan in the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s territory if they survived.
• Yun Lanshan warned Tong Xinran not to seize the Divine Stones and asked for time to investigate the elders and their suspected dealings with the Outsiders.
• The Third Elder ordered a disciple to invite Yun Lanshan to his cave abode and told another to prepare an arousing fragrance.

Yun Lanshan and Yang Jinghe tricked the Third Elder into revealing the Heart-Questioning Valley’s plan for the ore and learned that the sect had dealings with outsiders. As they left, the Dragon Clan’s Little Princess warned that Yun Lanshan faced a deadly calamity.

• Yun Lanshan burned the Third Elder’s invitation, then went to his residence after he summoned her through a Dreamheart Stone.
• Yun Lanshan switched places with Yang Jinghe behind a screen and used a dream to make the Third Elder reveal the sect’s plan to hide the ore and blame the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Yun Lanshan asked whether the Heart-Questioning Valley had dealings with outsiders, causing the Third Elder to collapse before he could answer.
• Yun Lanshan and Yang Jinghe left the residence, and Yun Lanshan explained that she could use dreams to question anyone who came seeking information about outsiders.
• The Dragon Clan’s Little Princess warned Yang Jinghe and Yun Lanshan of a terrible calamity, singling out Yun Lanshan as facing deathly energy.

The Dragon Clan Princess sensed that every path through Heart-Questioning Valley led to death, then discovered a seemingly ordinary disciple surrounded by danger. After Shura Hall’s assassins vanished while trying to kill the disciple, the princess was struck by a force that made her spit blood.

• Yun Lanshan and Yang Jinghe dismissed the Dragon Clan Princess’s warning of a great calamity and went home.
• The Dragon Clan Princess told Xu Yaoyang that Heart-Questioning Valley showed her only paths to death, and he offered his fortune to help others survive.
• The princess stopped manipulating Xu Yaoyang’s fortune after sensing that it could alter his future, then questioned him about the Heart-Questioning Secret Canon.
• The Third Prince failed to learn the secret canon, and the princess spotted a female outer disciple who radiated danger to her intuition.
• After Shura Hall’s surveillance revealed nothing unusual, the princess ordered the disciple killed, but every assassin disappeared and their Soul Lamps went out.
• The Dragon Clan Princess spat out blood after feeling a blow strike her heart.

Xu Yaoyang discovered that anyone who intended to kill a certain female disciple died unless they erased the memory of that intent, while Ying Huaixu uncovered Heart-Questioning Valley's plan to destroy the Heaven-Questioning Sect. Unable to evacuate Yang Jinghe and his people because his daughter would be endangered, Ying Huaixu reconsidered his approach and decided to pursue the Outsiders for experience instead of playing along with their schemes.

• The Dragon Clan Princess repeatedly suffered fatal injuries when she remembered wanting to kill the female disciple, and she healed after erasing those memories; Xu Yaoyang warned Shura Hall not to attempt an assassination.
• Ying Huaixu ordered Xu Yaoyang to keep the female disciple under observation and questioned why Heart-Questioning Valley's Great Elder had revealed sensitive information to Yang Jinghe.
• Tong Xinran reported that Yang Jinghe belonged to the Heaven-Questioning Sect, which had split from Heart-Questioning Valley after a struggle over Divine Stones.
• Ying Huaixu recognized that Heart-Questioning Valley intended to use Yang Jinghe to gather the Heaven-Questioning Sect's people before wiping them out, so he ordered Tong Xinran to send them to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect.
• Tong Xinran said Yang Jinghe could not leave because his daughter, the Heart-Questioning Valley Saintess, would be in danger, and Ying Huaixu decided he should stop playing political games and seek out the Outsiders for experience.

Ying Huaixu recognized that the Heaven-Questioning Sect’s secrets mattered more than its Divine Stones, so he ordered Tong Xinran to evacuate its disciples and pressure Heart-Questioning Valley. Heart-Questioning Valley’s Great Elder tried to rally other sects against the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, but they stayed loyal and prepared to fight alongside it.

• Ying Huaixu told Tong Xinran to protect the Heaven-Questioning Sect’s people and obtain its core secrets, leaving Yun Lanshan and Yang Jinghe behind if they could not be moved.
• Tong Xinran asked Yun Lanshan to leave with the Divine Firmament Sword Sect; Yun Lanshan agreed to send the other disciples, while she and Yang Jinghe stayed because their daughter was restricted by Heart-Questioning Valley’s elders.
• That night, many Heaven-Questioning Sect disciples left Heart-Questioning Valley and Dream Province, while Tong Xinran gave Heart-Questioning Valley three days to surrender the Divine Stones or face the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s force.
• Heart-Questioning Valley’s Great Elder threatened that the outcome would hurt everyone and tried to turn other sects against the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, but the sects remained calm and prepared to join its attack.

The Great Elder of Heart-Questioning Valley weighed the risk of siding with the Outsiders against surrendering to the Divine Firmament Sword Sect, then asked Lord Seventh what guarantees cooperation would bring. Meanwhile, the Outsiders panicked over their failure to find Lü Qingyi and, fearing Shenxiao would soon seize the Divine Stones, decided to send their army in and start the war.

• The Great Elder of Heart-Questioning Valley left his Small World and went to meet the Outsiders, fearing that cooperation with either side could doom his valley.
• An Ruoyun teased the Great Elder, who then asked Lord Seventh what protections Heart-Questioning Valley would receive if it cooperated with the Outsiders.
• Lord Seventh agreed to report the Great Elder’s request to the lords after realizing the Divine Firmament Sword Sect’s actions had disrupted the Outsiders’ plans.
• The Outsiders’ powerhouses admitted they still could not find Lü Qingyi and feared Shenxiao would force Heart-Questioning Valley to hand over the Divine Stones.
• The Outsiders’ powerhouses ordered their army to move in and start the war, while the Lord of the Weird Gods remained silent and felt the situation was strangely familiar.

The powerhouses realized that Ying Huaixu’s Combat God Body might grow stronger through the battle they planned to send him, so they decided to stall while they considered their options. Meanwhile, the man in black secured Heart-Questioning Valley’s cooperation with a deceptive promise, then joked with An Ruoyun.

• The Beast God argued that Ying Huaixu’s Blood-Staining Secret Method was a smokescreen and that his Combat God Body grew stronger under pressure, prompting the powerhouses to suspect their plans would help him break through.
• The Lord of the Weird Gods defended his past plans, clashed with the Beast God, and the Ancient God redirected the group to decide how to handle Ying Huaixu.
• The Ancient Buddha proposed that Heart-Questioning Valley pretend to accept the trade and stall for time, and the powerhouses agreed.
• The Heart-Questioning Great Elder demanded a guarantee from the man in black, signed a Great Dao Document, and left satisfied by the promise that Heart-Questioning Valley would become the First Noble House.
• An Ruoyun questioned whether the man in black would truly help the Great Elder, and he revealed that the promise could leave Heart-Questioning Valley struggling among the nobility before joking with her.

Tong Xinran forced the Heart-Questioning Valley Great Elder to surrender the valley’s hidden treasures, threatening exposure of his betrayal and his family’s complicity. Just as he began to reveal their location, he vanished, but Ying Huaixu confirmed that he had been marked.

• Tong Xinran surrounded Heart-Questioning Valley and ordered the Divine Firmament Sword Sect disciples to seize its ore veins and Divine Stones unless the Great Elder surrendered them that day.
• The Great Elder panicked as the disciples moved mountain ranges, and Tong Xinran learned that Outsiders were attacking Dream Province.
• Tong Xinran accused the Great Elder of cooperating with the Outsiders and offered to spare Heart-Questioning Valley if he disclosed the hidden treasures.
• Tong Xinran threatened to expose the Great Elder’s betrayal, disgraceful plans, and family’s identities, then beat him when he refused to speak.
• The Great Elder started to reveal the treasures’ location but vanished when space shifted, and Ying Huaixu confirmed that he had been marked.

Ying Huaixu learned that the Raid Instance was generating as an Outsider army invaded Dream Province, where Tai Wangshu annihilated them with a technique that used Creation Laws to transform them into ink wash. She revealed that the technique consumed more power than expected, while the Outsider leaders prepared to deploy the unstable Eighth Divine Weapon to stall for half a month.

• Ying Huaixu saw that the Raid Instance and its rewards were generating, giving the natives a chance to fight the Outsiders on equal footing.
• An Outsider army poured through rifts in the sky, and Tai Wangshu stepped forward to test her new offensive technique.
• Tai Wangshu wiped out the army by turning its members into ink wash, which merged into Dream Province and increased its Spiritual Energy severalfold.
• The Outsider leaders decided to use the unstable Eighth Divine Weapon to delay the natives until the Seventh Divine Weapon could act in half a month.
• Tai Wangshu told Ying Huaixu that she had used the Way of Creation and the Great Dao of Balance, and Ying Huaixu realized she had used Creation Laws to kill.