Recaps

Qing Chen weighed the dangers of entering the Nine Netherworlds Ancient Bloodline Forbidden Grounds against the chance to claim Venerable Blood Fiend’s inheritance, then resolved to go. He praised Han Shi and Jueqing for managing the Demon Lotus Sect in Great Jin and rewarded them with treasures and supplies.

• Qing Chen wondered whether Wei Yixiao was his missing Second Senior Brother, a half-demon with a Six-Winged Heavenly Bat bloodline.
• Qing Chen considered the threat Zhao Ningyi posed in the forbidden grounds but decided that its inheritance and the Nine Netherworlds Ancient Bloodline were worth the risk.
• Qing Chen struck the cave wall in anger, frightening Han Shi and Jueqing, then declared that he would enter the forbidden grounds.
• Qing Chen praised Han Shi and Jueqing for their service and recognized Jueqing’s progress toward refining a Pseudo-Nascent Soul.
• Qing Chen gave Han Shi and Jueqing magic treasures, spirit stones, pills, and talismans to divide among themselves, Li Xiao'er, and Yuwen Bujing.

Qing Chen traveled to the Infinite Extremity Devil Palace to learn about the Nine Netherworlds Ancient Bloodline Forbidden Grounds, whose entrance would not appear for another three to five years. He questioned Gong Shisan about the clans competing for the ancient bloodline and asked how strong they were.

• Qing Chen ordered Han Shi and Jueqing to take turns reporting to Lin Changsheng on Cangming Island, then left their cave abode.
• Qing Chen abandoned his plan to visit Xiao Canglan and headed for the Infinite Extremity Devil Palace, determined to find Venerable Blood Fiend’s legacy in the forbidden grounds.
• Ten days later, Qing Chen arrived at the palace’s outer station, where Gong Shisan welcomed him and led him inside.
• Qing Chen learned from Gong Shisan that the forbidden grounds’ entrance was drifting through spatial turbulence and might appear in the Million Mountains in three to five years.
• Qing Chen asked which Nine Nether Aristocratic Clan households would compete for the ancient bloodline, and Gong Shisan named nine, including his Gong Household.

Gong Shisan explained the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clans’ history and introduced their leading Nascent Soul cultivators to Qing Chen. Qing Chen realized how formidable his rivals were and questioned whether he could obtain the Nine Netherworlds Ancient Bloodline.

• Gong Shisan described the Dugu Household’s power and recounted the achievements of Dugu Wudi and the first Iron Household ancestor.
• Gong Shisan explained how the Yue and Li Households joined successive Immortal Dynasties because their cultivation paths depended on dynastic fortune and humanity’s rules.
• Gong Shisan named the leading Nascent Soul cultivators from several aristocratic clans and detailed their ranks, techniques, and strengths.
• Qing Chen compared himself with the Heavenly Gang Ranking elites and worried that he had little hope of obtaining the Nine Netherworlds Ancient Bloodline.

Qing Chen learned about the Heavenly Devil Tower and the competing forces entering the ancient battlefield, then decided to leave for the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clan’s station. He headed out with Gong Shisan, abandoning his plan to meet Xiao Canglan and seeking protection from Deputy Branch Master Yan instead.

• Gong Shisan explained that the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clan’s strongest figures would head for the Heavenly Devil Tower while others searched the outer regions for opportunities.
• Qing Chen asked about the tower, and Gong Shisan explained its origin, Lingyuan Half-Saint’s role in preserving it, and why arriving early mattered.
• Qing Chen told Gong Shisan to lead him to the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clan’s station immediately, despite Gong Shisan’s unfinished business.
• Qing Chen and Gong Shisan secretly left the Infinite Extremity Devil Palace’s Outer Palace in streaks of escape light.
• Qing Chen decided not to meet Xiao Canglan and instead planned to seek shelter with Deputy Branch Master Yan at the Origin-Initial Devil Sect.

Yan Tong, Yue Hanshan, and Chan Master Hui'an came to the Infinite Extremity Devil Palace looking for Qing Chen, but he was gone. The palace’s dormant crater erupted, and Qiu Wuji emerged with two elders, confronting the three visitors with overwhelming demonic power.

• Yan Tong, Yue Hanshan, and Chan Master Hui'an arrived at the palace and demanded to know where Qing Chen had gone.
• Yan Tong searched the palace with his divine sense and confirmed that Qing Chen was absent.
• Chan Master Hui'an explained that Qing Chen likely mistook their arrival for an attempt to punish him over the massacre of Southern Heavenly City and Nangong Lie’s death.
• As the visitors prepared to leave and report to Spirit Venerable Xiao, the palace’s volcanic crater exploded and black demonic qi darkened the sky.
• Qiu Wuji emerged from the crater with Li Gu'er and the Grand Elder, and the six Nascent Soul cultivators faced off in the sky.

Qiu Wuji forced Yan Tong, Yue Hanshan, and Chan Master Hui'an to pay compensation after they intruded on the Infinite Extremity Devil Palace, while Qing Chen and Gong Shisan traveled to Yellow Maple Valley. The chapter ended as someone inside the valley challenged them.

• Qiu Wuji summoned the Infinite Extremity Command Token and threatened Yan Tong, Yue Hanshan, and Chan Master Hui'an for causing a disturbance at the Infinite Extremity Devil Palace.
• Qiu Wuji accepted six hundred thousand middle-grade spirit stones from the three men and warned them not to return before leaving with two Nascent Soul elders.
• Yan Tong and his companions left without finding Qing Chen, who had been traveling safely through the Million Mountains with Gong Shisan.
• Ten days later, Gong Shisan led Qing Chen to Yellow Maple Valley, where the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clan had established a guarded base.
• A tremor came from the valley, and a voice called out, asking who had come.

Qing Chen and Gong Shisan were caught in a fourth-tier formation that Linghu Xuanji formed and then dismissed. Gong Shisan introduced Qing Chen to his uncle, the renowned formation master, as the leader of the Demon Lotus Sect.

• Qing Chen and Gong Shisan defended themselves when talisman beams formed a fourth-tier Restricting Formation around them.
• Gong Shisan called out to his uncle and asked him to withdraw the formation.
• Linghu Xuanji appeared, dispersed the formation, and praised Gong Shisan's improved Primordial Magnetism cultivation.
• Linghu Xuanji examined Qing Chen and asked Gong Shisan who he was.
• Gong Shisan introduced Qing Chen as the leader of the Demon Lotus Sect.

Qing Chen accompanied Gong Shisan to the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds, where Linghu Xuanji explained that Yan Moyou’s Primordial Magnetism abilities were needed to locate the grounds and open the Heavenly Devil Tower. After Qing Chen entered a valley filled with powerful Nascent Soul cultivators, Qing Yuanjia recognized him as a surviving member of the Qing main lineage and resolved to kill him.

• Linghu Xuanji welcomed Qing Chen after Gong Shisan explained that Qing Chen belonged to the Origin-Initial Devil Sect’s Primordial Magnetism Branch.
• Gong Shisan told Qing Chen that Yan Moyou’s magnetic origin power was needed to locate the forbidden grounds and open the Heavenly Devil Tower.
• Linghu Xuanji led Qing Chen and Gong Shisan through a formation-lined path into a basin where more than thirty Nascent Soul cultivators had gathered.
• Qing Chen endured the gathered cultivators’ appraising and hostile gazes without showing fear.
• Qing Yuanjia and two Great Cultivators recognized Qing Chen as a surviving remnant of the main lineage and secretly decided he would not leave alive.

Qing Chen faced Tuoba Shanhai’s challenge over his place among the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clans and revealed his command of magnetic origin power. As the gathered cultivators reacted, a figure suddenly descended from the sky.

• Linghu Xuanji introduced Qing Chen as the leader of the Demon Lotus Sect to the gathered clans.
• Tuoba Shanhai confronted Qing Chen, demanding to know whether he was proficient in the Dao of Primordial Magnetism and insulting him as an unqualified outsider.
• Qing Yuanjia hoped Tuoba Shanhai would kill Qing Chen, while Linghu Xuanji and others watched to see how Qing Chen would respond.
• Qing Chen calmly challenged Tuoba Shanhai’s right to question him, then summoned a spiral of three intertwined wisps of magnetic origin rule power.
• The magnetic power made nearby metal objects and Tuoba Shanhai’s Wilderness-Heaven Hammer tremble, and a figure descended from the sky.

Yan Moyou intervened when Tuoba Shanhai threatened Qing Chen, then clashed with Dugu Yifang as the two powerful cultivators tested each other. Dugu Yifang ended the confrontation and challenged Tuoba Shanhai’s reason for targeting Qing Chen.

• Yan Moyou arrived and used his magnetic origin power to suppress Tuoba Shanhai and the other cultivators.
• Yan Moyou declared Qing Chen a valued Core Disciple of the Origin-Initial Devil Sect and warned everyone not to harm him.
• Dugu Yifang and Dugu Yidao descended from a floating island, and Dugu Yifang’s aura broke through Yan Moyou’s force field.
• Yan Moyou and Dugu Yifang exchanged powerful attacks through their qi mechanisms, then withdrew and agreed to fight in the forbidden ground.
• Dugu Yifang asked Qing Chen to identify himself, then told Tuoba Shanhai he should not take his anger over his son’s failed courtship out on Qing Chen.

Yan Moyou explained that Qing Chen had been selected for the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds because the Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Great Art had inspired him and his master. He invited Qing Chen to cultivate near his hall for five years before the grounds opened and gave him valuable cultivation resources.

• Dugu Yifang defended Tuoba Shanhai and challenged Yan Moyou to settle any objections with a fight inside the forbidden grounds.
• Yan Moyou took Qing Chen into a stone hall, where Qing Chen's thoughts settled as they sat in silence.
• Yan Moyou said the Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Great Art had inspired both him and his master, and revealed that he had chosen Qing Chen for the forbidden-ground opportunity.
• Yan Moyou promised to protect Qing Chen as far as he could inside the forbidden grounds but warned that he could not guarantee Qing Chen's survival.
• Yan Moyou told Qing Chen to cultivate near the hall for five years and said his master wanted to meet him after the forbidden-ground matter was over.
• Yan Moyou gave Qing Chen six High-Grade Fortune Spirit Crystals, eight bottles of pills, and a Sea-Soul Dragon-Origin Pill, urging him to improve his cultivation and magnetic origin power.

After Yan Moyou left Qing Chen a trove of cultivation treasures, Qing Chen wondered what benefit stronger magnetic origin power would bring in the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds. He learned from Gong Shisan that the grounds sever spiritual qi and that only certain techniques can briefly create areas where cultivators can recover true essence.

• Yan Moyou vanished after leaving Qing Chen six High-Grade Fortune Spirit Crystals, pills, and a Sea-Soul Dragon-Origin Pill.
• Qing Chen stored the treasures and wondered whether the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds had restrictions tied to magnetic origin power.
• Several days later, Qing Chen asked Gong Shisan whether the Tuoba Household's Great Wilderness Scripture focused on desolation or strength.
• Gong Shisan explained that the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds were a Heavenly Devil Race wondrous sight that severed spiritual qi and prevented Dharma Cultivators from recovering true essence normally.
• Gong Shisan said Lingyuan Half-Saint had modified the grounds so certain clan-like techniques and spells could briefly create zones where cultivators could absorb spirit stones and recover true essence.

Qing Chen learned how Magnetic Origin Power would help him survive the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds and gathered information about the aristocratic households. Wary of threats around his cave abode, he began setting up three powerful protective formations.

• Qing Chen realized the Spirit-Severing Qi would prevent cultivators from replenishing their power unless they used suitable techniques, and he resolved to practice the spells of the Primordial Magnetism Annihilation Great Art.
• Qing Chen asked Gong Shisan which aristocratic households were allies, learned about their relationships, and sent him away.
• Qing Chen considered the threats posed by Tuoba Shanhai, Qing Yuanjia, and others, then decided to fortify his cave abode.
• Qing Chen set up the Profound Yin Bewildering Trail Formation, filling the area around his cave abode with gray mist that confused intruders.
• Qing Chen completed the Four Symbols Demon-Sealing Formation, creating a barrier capable of withstanding attacks from powerful Nascent Soul cultivators.
• Qing Chen spent fifteen days setting up the Lesser Celestial Circuit Star Formation around his cave abode.

Qing Chen finished fortifying his cave abode, then prepared to advance his Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel by refining fortune power into a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone. He successfully condensed the fortune into a higher-quality strand of power of laws, which he planned to use to cultivate spells faster.

• Qing Chen completed three overlapping formations around his cave abode and decided to establish his true cultivation site underground.
• Qing Chen opened a hidden cavern several hundred zhang below ground and sealed it with layers of restrictions and talismans.
• Qing Chen reviewed the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel and prepared to advance the art with fortune power.
• Qing Chen used his divine sense to transfer the fortune from three High-Grade Fortune Spirit Crystals into a Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Qing Chen condensed the fortune inside the spirit stone into a strand of power of fortune power of laws.

Qing Chen used Fortune Rules to comprehend the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel and spent five years in his cave abode trying to refine it into a solid, usable vessel. After years of painful failures and gradual progress, he finally called for it to emerge.

• Qing Chen absorbed Fortune Rules from a Spirit Stone and used their insights to study the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel.
• After two years of contemplation, Qing Chen fused Yin-Yang Qi and summoned a more solid, twenty-eight-foot divine vessel phantom, though he judged it incomplete.
• Qing Chen stayed in his cave abode for three more years, repeatedly condensing the vessel and enduring severe injuries as he pushed toward mastery.
• Five years after beginning his cultivation, Qing Chen raised his hand and commanded the divine vessel to come out.

After five years of arduous practice, Qing Chen brought the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel to minor achievement and advanced to the Nascent Soul middle stage minor achievement. Yan Moyou recognized the spell and summoned Qing Chen to help with something, leaving Qing Chen to follow him.

• Qing Chen completed five years of training and formed a tangible, silver-white divine boat that could move at tremendous speed and smash through a powerful formation base.
• Qing Chen assessed the boat's strength and stored it in his sea of qi as three strands of magnetic origin rule power.
• Qing Chen reflected on his improved cultivation and the limits of his body-cultivation path and Brahma Demon-Refining Art.
• Yan Moyou arrived outside Qing Chen's cave abode and recognized the Xiantian Primordial Magnetism Divine Vessel.
• Yan Moyou told Qing Chen to come help him, and Qing Chen hurried after him.

Qing Chen joined the Nine Aristocratic Clans as they traveled to Nanyuan County to open the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds. The clans found the sealed entrance at Yellow Sand Mountain and began preparing to open it during a six-hour window in four days.

• Qing Chen dismantled the formations protecting his cave abode and followed Yan Moyou to the gathering in Yellow Maple Valley.
• Gong Shisan told Qing Chen that the expedition was headed for Nanyuan County and that Qing Chen would help Yan Moyou open the forbidden grounds using his magnetic origin power.
• Dugu Yifang led the group to Yellow Sand Mountain and explained that the entrance was sealed by a sixth-tier restriction that would weaken in seven days, leaving them six hours to enter.
• Dugu Yifang ordered the Nine Aristocratic Clans to seal off the surrounding thousand li until the opening.
• Three days later, Linghu Xuanji oversaw the clan formations as the restrictions continued to strengthen around Yellow Sand Mountain.

Qing Chen and the others prepared for entry into the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds when Tie Zhan arrived aboard the Iron Household Cauldron. Tie Zhan brought several companions with him, including a slender woman whose arrival drew Qing Chen’s attention.

• Qing Chen suppressed a disturbance in the void with a formation while Yan Moyou and Linghu Xuanji watched.
• Qing Chen and the others sensed a vibration from the north, and Linghu Xuanji opened a gateway through the restrictions.
• The Iron Household Cauldron tore through the formation’s net and hovered above the gathering, drawing greedy looks from Qing Chen and fervor from Yan Moyou.
• Tie Zhan arrived on the cauldron, greeted Dugu Yifang and Tuoba Shanhai, and explained that something had delayed him.
• Tie Zhan summoned Tie Shou, Tie Ming, and a slender figure from the cauldron, and Qing Chen looked toward her as she landed.

Tie Qingyao arrived with the Iron Household and openly greeted her betrothed, Qing Chen, before the gathered cultivators prepared to enter the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds. Yue Hanshan and Chan Master Hui'an then arrived with a message from Spirit Venerable Xiao, which caused Dugu Yifang to frown.

• Tie Zhan arrived with Tie Shou, Tie Ming, and Tie Qingyao, and the gathered leaders praised the Iron Household's younger generation.
• Tuoba Shanhai proposed that Tie Qingyao marry into the Tuoba Household, and Tie Qingyao announced that she was already betrothed to Qing Chen.
• Tie Qingyao walked over to Qing Chen, greeted him, and said she would see him in the forbidden grounds.
• Linghu Xuanji opened the formation to admit Yue Hanshan and Chan Master Hui'an.
• Yue Hanshan delivered a Jade Slip from Spirit Venerable Xiao to Dugu Yifang, who frowned after reading it.

Dugu Yifang gathered the cultivators and led the Nine Great Aristocratic Clans in opening the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds. As the Nine Ancient Cauldrons shattered the void to form a passage, Tie Zhan noticed Qing Chen’s unusual strength, while Qing Chen became immersed in the golden cauldron.

• Dugu Yifang told the gathered cultivators that they must not harm the Heavenly Devil Tower and warned that the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clan would kill anyone who did.
• Linghu Xuanji activated the three hundred and sixty-five Formation Flags, revealing a massive portal from the void.
• The Nine Great Aristocratic Clans raised their ancient cauldrons and joined Yan Moyou and Qing Chen in channeling their powers into them.
• The nine cauldrons collided, merged their laws, and released a pillar of light that shattered the void.
• Tie Zhan noticed that Qing Chen’s magic power and magnetic origin rule power were unusually strong, while Qing Chen became absorbed in the golden cauldron.

Qing Chen and the clan heads used the Nine Cauldrons to pull the Nine Netherworlds Forbidden Grounds gateway out of a spatial interstice, but a powerful evil aura poured through it and attacked their minds. Qing Chen activated the Demon Seed Golden Lotus to resist the aura.

• Qing Chen and the other True Lords comprehended the laws resonating through the Nine Cauldrons as the cauldrons' power surged.
• The Nine Cauldrons fused their power and drew the gateway out of a spatial interstice, bringing it within a hundred zhang.
• Dugu Yifang and the heads of the Nine Great Aristocratic Clans stabilized the gateway with nine rays of light.
• The gateway released blackish-gray mist that overwhelmed Gong Shisan with illusions, and Gong Xinghe struck him awake.
• The evil aura assaulted Qing Chen's Sea of Consciousness, and he activated the Demon Seed Golden Lotus to block it.

The Nine Cauldrons unleashed the Lingyuan Devil-Suppressing Talisman, clearing the powerful evil qi from the gateway and sealing its entrance. After warning that the forbidden grounds might hold greater dangers, Dugu Yifang entered with four members of the Gudu Household, leaving the others to decide whether to follow.

• Blackish-gray evil qi poured from the gateway, corroding Linghu Xuanji's formations and driving a Nascent Soul elder into a heart-demon frenzy.
• Dugu Yifang ordered everyone to retreat and guard their minds as the evil qi pursued them.
• The Nine Cauldrons released the Lingyuan Devil-Suppressing Talisman, which erased the escaping evil qi and formed a curtain over the gateway.
• Dugu Yifang warned that the evil qi had approached Heavenly Demon Qi in strength and told those who doubted their ability to withstand it to withdraw.
• Dugu Yifang rode the Dugu Ancient Cauldron into the gateway with Dugu Yidao, a Great Cultivator elder, and two Nascent Soul cultivators, calling to the others to meet him at the Heavenly Devil Tower.

The Nine Nether Aristocratic Clans entered the Black Gate, including Qing Chen with Yan Moyou and the Iron Household. Outside, the Gu Tribe, Southern Yue, and Ten Thousand Saints Demon Kingdom gathered as Golden Toad Granny received a message from Zhao Ningyi and bowed to welcome the Great King.

• Tuoba Shanhai and the other clan leaders led their people through the Black Gate, and Qing Chen followed Yan Moyou inside after saying goodbye to Tie Ming.
• Half an hour after the Nine Nether Aristocratic Clan disappeared, pillars of inky-green, blood-red, and gray light appeared across the horizon.
• More than eighty fourth-tier cultivators and demons from the Gu Tribe, Southern Yue, and Ten Thousand Saints Demon Kingdom assembled before the Black Gate.
• Golden Toad Granny told Heavenly Hook True Lord and Azure-Faced Lion King that she had a way to enter the Forbidden Grounds before the gate closed.
• Zhao Ningyi sent Golden Toad Granny a voice transmission, and Golden Toad Granny bowed toward someone and welcomed the Great King.

Wu Gui used the Ten Thousand Gu Source Cauldron and Annan Province’s territorial authority to open a passage through the black door, allowing the gathered cultivators and demons to enter. As he kept the passage open, Xiao Canglan launched a devastating water-sword attack at Wu Gui, the cauldron, and those entering.

• Wu Gui’s phantom appeared and bowed to Zhao Ningyi before ordering Golden Toad Granny to begin.
• Golden Toad Granny and the Miao Frontier Gu Tribe’s True Lords summoned the Ten Thousand Gu Source Cauldron, which revealed an incomplete rune carrying Annan Province’s territorial authority.
• Wu Gui used the cauldron to open a passage through the nine-colored barrier on the black door.
• Golden Toad Granny, Heavenly Hook True Lord and the Southern Yue cultivators, and the Azure-Faced Lion King and his demons charged through the door.
• Xiao Canglan attacked from the northern horizon with a massive water sword aimed at Wu Gui, the cauldron, and the people entering.

Wu Gui held the passage open as Xiao Canglan and King Cangrang clashed, while Dugu Wudi's killing strike forced the gathered Spirit Transformation Venerables to respond. The strike's residual power entered the passage, where spatial turbulence killed nearly half of the eighty-odd cultivators waiting inside.

• Wu Gui maintained the passage and protected himself as Xiao Canglan's giant sword struck toward him.
• King Cangrang intercepted Xiao Canglan's attack, then stood before the passage as they argued over Great Jin's authority and the chance to seize its opportunity.
• Dugu Wudi's Kill Character formed a thousand li away, and Kunpeng Ancestor countered it with a dark pillar of light.
• Dugu Wudi's strike dissipated without him appearing, but some of its power penetrated the cauldron and reached the passage.
• Spatial turbulence tore through the cultivators inside, killing more than twenty of the eighty-odd experts in moments.