Chapter Summaries

Qing Chen held a lavish wedding in Hidden Spirit City, where visiting Lineages learned that their gift size determined their seats. He revealed his recent breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment middle stage, leaving the guests and his allies astonished as he relished his new prestige.

• Lineages across Qing Chen’s inspection territory and nearby islands sent wedding gifts and guests to Hidden Spirit City.
• Chang Zhichong learned from Li Zexin that Qing Chen’s Hundred Immortals Tower assigned higher seats to guests who gave more lavish gifts.
• Qing Chen appeared above the city and announced his wedding, inadvertently revealing his Foundation Establishment middle stage aura.
• Chang Zhichong and Li Zexin were shocked by Qing Chen’s advancement, while Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun also reacted with surprise.
• Gao Yuliang, Deng Ziyue, and the gathered guests congratulated Qing Chen on his breakthrough and wedding.
• Qing Chen reflected on his rise from a Qi Refining cultivator and enjoyed the guests’ awe, expecting generous wedding gifts.

Qing Chen had quietly broken through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and spent more than twenty days stabilizing his cultivation while strengthening his combat abilities. Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun congratulated him and asked why he had summoned them during the war with Elder Shangshan’s permission.

• Qing Chen’s divine sense expanded to two li, his Demon Lotus Karmic Fire reached the fifth turn, and his magic power and Mingwang Scripture cultivation grew stronger.
• Qing Chen upgraded his Three Yin Sword Formation, refined Foundation Establishment armored corpses, and raised Mo Qiuxian to the silver-armored corpse level.
• Qing Chen advanced the Brahma Demon-Refining Art to its fifth level, stored forty drops of Brahma Aperture essence blood, and strengthened the Pojun White Bone Demon Mara Banner and Demon General Pojun.
• Xu Jiuling reflected on Qing Chen’s rise from a minor Qi Refining cultivator and congratulated him on reaching the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Gu Jianchun congratulated Qing Chen and asked why he had summoned them during the war with Elder Shangshan’s permission.

Qing Chen told Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun that the Yue Household had conspired against the Condensed Jade Sect, and they finalized a plan to strike during the wedding. Meanwhile, Chang Silang learned that the Sect wanted the Chang Household to attack Mysterious Mountain Island, but Chang Fenghu warned that they lacked the strength to defeat the Yue Household.

• Qing Chen told Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun that Elder Shangshan had confirmed the Yue Household's treachery and proposed using the wedding to take them down.
• Qing Chen presented evidence linking the Yue Household to Blackwood Island, Si Snake Island, and the Impermanence Sect, including proof that Yue Three Reflections was still alive.
• Qing Chen, Xu Jiuling, and Gu Jianchun discussed the evidence, finalized their strategy, and went their separate ways.
• Chang Silang told Chang Yong that the Condensed Jade Sect had ordered the Chang Household to attack Mysterious Mountain Island under authorization from a Sect elder.
• Chang Yong welcomed the chance to fight the Yue Household, but Chang Fenghu warned that their few Foundation Establishment cultivators could not overcome the Yue Household's forces and defensive array.

The Chang Household agreed to join the Condensed Jade Sect’s attack on Mysterious Mountain Island in exchange for promised treasures, while Qing Chen secretly kept a Foundation Establishment Pill for Su Zixuan. He gave Su Zixuan the pill and a Meridian-Guarding Pill, leaving her prepared to attempt a breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

• The Chang Household agreed to march against Mysterious Mountain Island after the Condensed Jade Sect offered them pills and Dark Yin Swords.
• Chang Feng Hu warned Chang Silang that Qing Chen was ruthless and calculating, and that they should not trust him.
• Qing Chen secretly kept one Foundation Establishment Pill instead of giving the Chang Household all the pills promised.
• Qing Chen asked Su Zixuan to seek Xue Yubing’s help, and obtained a Meridian-Guarding Pill for her.
• Qing Chen gave Su Zixuan a Foundation Establishment Pill and sent her to prepare for her breakthrough in his former secluded cultivation valley.

Qing Chen’s Demon Lotus Sect grew into a force of nearly two hundred members, and its disciples gained cultivation, rank, and access to the Five-Colored Guardian Immortal Nether Lotus Method. At a hidden island stronghold, Duan Tianya reported that the sect had found traces of Great Qin’s descendants on Mysterious Constancy Island, though some appeared disloyal to the dynasty.

• Lin Changsheng, Su Zixuan, Duan Tianya, Jueqing, and other disciples advanced in cultivation and received positions in Qing Chen’s Demon Lotus Sect.
• Qing Chen directed the sect to target the Yue and Chang households and search Mysterious Mountain Island and Mysterious Constancy Island for Great Qin’s descendants.
• The White Bone Demon Mara Banner revealed an incomplete Five-Colored Guardian Immortal Nether Lotus Method, which Qing Chen taught to Lin Changsheng for the disciples to obtain through contribution points.
• Qing Chen mastered the first layer of the Six Jia Evasion Technique and traveled to a secluded Demon Lotus Sect stronghold near Hidden Spirit Island.
• Duan Tianya told Qing Chen that he and Jueqing had found traces of Great Qin’s descendants on Mysterious Constancy Island, but some were no longer loyal to the dynasty.

After learning how the Qin Household’s ancestors fled Immortal-Severing Island and lost their treasures to betrayal, Qing Chen assigned Lin Changsheng, Duan Tianya, and Jueqing to handle the matter and gave them powerful corpse puppets. He then took Lin Changsheng to the Treasury to discuss the sect’s contribution system for remains.

• Duan Tianya and Jueqing found the nearly extinguished Qin Household and rescued them from a Water Bandit attack arranged by Lin Changsheng.
• Qin Yan'er told Duan Tianya that her family descended from the Great Qin Dynasty, and Qin Hai explained how the Cao Household, Liu Household, and Sun Household once protected the Qin descendants and received portions of a secret-realm map and key.
• Qin Hai revealed that the Liu and Sun households later attacked the Qin Household to seize its secrets, while the Cao Household sacrificed itself to help the survivors escape.
• Duan Tianya reported that the Liu Household and Sun Household had grown powerful on Mysterious Constancy Island, and Qing Chen ordered the matter left to Lin Changsheng, Duan Tianya, and Jueqing.
• Qing Chen gave them a Copper-Armored Corpse and five late Qi Refining Black Jiangshi as trump cards, then summoned Lin Changsheng to the Treasury.

Yue Ting rushed to seek Qing Chen’s help for his critically wounded master, Xie Yu, after exhausting his own resources. Qing Chen received him and heard his plea, leaving Xie Yu’s fate unresolved.

• Qing Chen returned to Hidden Spirit Island after instructing Lin Changsheng and refining years of collected White Bone Essence into the Army-Breaking White Bone Banner.
• Yue Ting hurried through Hidden Spirit City to request an audience with Qing Chen because his master, Xie Yu, was near death.
• Yue Ting pleaded with Gao Yuliang to announce him despite Qing Chen’s orders to receive no visitors.
• Qing Chen heard Yue Ting’s request and invited him into the Guest Hall.
• Yue Ting knelt before Qing Chen and begged him to save Xie Yu, promising to pay any price.

Qing Chen learned how Xie Yu was gravely wounded while saving Yue Ting on the Chanda battlefield and examined him in Yue Ting’s crude cave abode. He explained that Xie Yu’s worsening divine-soul injuries required a mid-grade or high-grade second-tier healing pill or a powerful divine-soul mystic art, then began to offer Yue Ting some ideas.

• Qing Chen helped Yue Ting up, and Yue Ting explained that Xie Yu had been conscripted to fight on the Chanda battlefield.
• A Blackwood Island cultivator used the low-tier mystic grade Spirit-Destroying Palm against Yue Ting, and Xie Yu took the strike while protecting his disciple.
• Yue Ting drove off the attacker and used his medicinal supplies and a century-old ice bed to keep Xie Yu alive.
• Qing Chen examined Xie Yu and found that the wound to his chest had mostly healed, but his divine soul was growing weaker.
• Qing Chen told Yue Ting that Xie Yu needed a powerful divine-soul healing pill or mystic art, then said he had a few ideas.

Yue Ting learned that Qing Chen could arrange help for his injured master, Xie Yu, through Lin Changsheng and the Demon Lotus Sect. Meanwhile, Chang Ping'an attended a celebration at Hidden Spirit City's Hundred Immortals Tower, where guests presented gifts to the Blood River Old Devil.

• Qing Chen told Yue Ting that his master's divine soul injuries might be treated by a mysterious expert skilled in divine soul mystic arts.
• Yue Ting swore to keep the conversation secret and vowed to pay any price to save his master.
• Qing Chen gave Yue Ting a Jade Slip with the expert's address and left to contact him.
• Qing Chen intended for Lin Changsheng to heal Xie Yu so that Xie Yu would owe the Demon Lotus Sect a great favor and join it to cultivate the Five-Colored Guardian Immortal Nether Lotus Method.
• Chang Ping'an feasted in the plaza outside the Hundred Immortals Tower, where cultivators presented gifts and congratulations to the Blood River Old Devil.

Cultivators from across the region presented lavish gifts for Qing Chen’s wedding, while Condensed Jade Sect disciples performed magical displays in the square. Qing Chen received the guests’ praise and quietly exchanged messages with Xue Yubing and Di Huaiyi.

• Deng Ziyue closed the Inner City gate, leaving several late-arriving cultivators stranded outside as the gift ceremony continued within.
• The master of ceremonies announced gifts from many lineages and cultivators, assigning guests access to different floors of the Hundred Immortals Tower.
• Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun sent gifts through Condensed Jade Sect disciples, while Xue Yubing and Di Huaiyi presented valuable treasures and gained third-floor admission.
• Condensed Jade Sect disciples cast dazzling spells above the square, including Li Ling’er’s Colored Clouds Chasing the Moon and Zhao Wuji’s Water Dragon Roars at the Sky.
• Liu Huaide praised Qing Chen at the Hundred Immortals Tower, and Qing Chen secretly communicated with Xue Yubing and Di Huaiyi.

As the Yue Household arrived for Qing Chen’s wedding to Yue Lingshan, a message prompted Qing Chen and Condensed Jade Sect cultivators to take positions around the guests. Qing Chen activated the Three-Life Bewildering Trail Formation and attacked Yue Xipo, rejecting the wedding alliance.

• Qing Chen chose Xue Yubing and Di Huaiyi as helpers, and the two joined him when the Yue Household arrived in Hidden Spirit City.
• Yue Xipo presented Yue Chongxiao and Yue Jiuta and offered congratulations on the marriage, while Yue Lingshan appeared withdrawn and silent.
• Qing Chen received a Voice Transmission Talisman, glanced toward the Condensed Jade Sect party, and went down to greet Yue Xipo as Xue Yubing and Di Huaiyi spread out around the Yue Household.
• Yue Xipo secretly urged Yue Lingshan to stop being willful, but she remained silent and searched the square with her eyes.
• Qing Chen activated the Three-Life Bewildering Trail Formation around the island and unleashed sword rain and a blazing attack on Yue Xipo.

Qing Chen's attack forced Yue Xipo to defend against the Dark Yin Sword rain, Blood Baleful Intent Divine Saber, and Demon Lotus Karmic Fire at once. The Demon Lotus Karmic Fire broke through Yue Xipo's defenses, leaving him to counter it with a hastily formed Winter Solstice Yang-Returning Qi.

• The Condensed Jade Sect's Foundation Establishment High Persons declared the Yue Household traitors and moved to attack them.
• Yue Xipo blocked Qing Chen's Dark Yin Sword rain with Returning Origin Gang Qi and used the Autumn Waters Spirit Sword to resist the Blood Baleful Intent Divine Saber.
• Yue Xipo's Spring Equinox Yin-Yang Palm and Minor Heat Carefree Art formed a taiji symbol to confront the Demon Lotus Karmic Fire.
• The Demon Lotus Karmic Fire shattered the taiji symbol and pierced Yue Xipo's weakened Returning Origin Gang Qi.
• Yue Xipo hastily activated Winter Solstice Yang-Returning Qi and released a white arrow of air, but could not bring the Secret Technique to its full power.

Qing Chen attacked Yue Xipo during the Yue Household’s marriage alliance ceremony, while Condensed Jade Sect officials announced a Golden Core Grand Supreme’s execution decree against the household. The assembled Lineages stayed out of the fight, and the chapter ended with Yue Xipo denouncing Qing Chen as a traitor and a mere whelp.

• Qing Chen’s Demon Lotus Karmic Fire overwhelmed Yue Xipo’s defenses and knocked him down with minor injuries.
• Yue Lingshan cried out for her father as Condensed Jade Sect disciples fought the Yue Household, and the sect’s Foundation Establishment High Persons announced the execution decree.
• The assembled Lineages and Rogue Cultivators watched in shock as Qing Chen’s attacks proved powerful enough to overwhelm Yue Xipo.
• Qing Chen slapped Yue Lingshan aside, and Yue Xipo cursed him, claimed he had forged the decree, and urged the onlookers to help capture him.

Qing Chen recognized Yue Xipo’s technique as a crude use of the Moon-Worshipping Divine Cult’s Twenty-Four Solar Terms Soul-Shocking Art, then fought him head-on. The chapter left Yue Xipo’s divine sense trapped in Qing Chen’s Soul-Seizing and Spirit-Snatching attack.

• Qing Chen slapped Yue Lingshan away and realized Yue Xipo was using fragments of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Soul-Shocking Art.
• Yue Xipo ordered Chongxiao and Jiuta to capture the two newly established Foundation Establishment cultivators while he attacked Qing Chen.
• Yue Xipo combined his gang qi, Extreme Yang Palm Force, Extreme Yin Secret Technique, and Autumn Waters Spirit Sword against Qing Chen.
• Qing Chen defended himself with his fifth-turn demonic flames and Mingwang Blood Baleful Intent Armor, then used Jiazi Cloud Wandering to escape Yue Xipo’s qi lock.
• Qing Chen appeared above Yue Xipo and used the White Bone Demon Mara Banner’s Soul-Seizing and Spirit-Snatching ability to engulf his divine sense.

Qing Chen overwhelmed Yue Xipo with the Purgatory Illusion, Demon Fire serpents, and Formless Illusion-Annihilation Seal, leaving the Yue family head near death. Yue Chongxiao and Yue Jiuta continued fighting Di Huaiyi and Xue Yubing, then saw Yue Xipo’s grave condition.

• Qing Chen broke Yue Xipo’s defenses and battered him until his aura nearly fell below the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Yue Chongxiao attacked Di Huaiyi with the Start of Winter Annihilation Sword while Di Huaiyi defended himself with the Lesser Profound Heaven Palm.
• Yue Jiuta attacked Xue Yubing with his spirit pagoda and the Autumn Equinox Yin-Yang Finger, while she blocked the strikes with her pink silk artifact.
• Yue Jiuta and Yue Chongxiao saw Yue Xipo grievously wounded by Qing Chen and cried out in alarm.

Xue Yubing countered Yue Jiuta while Qing Chen captured and crippled Yue Xipo, then used threats and torture to break his resistance. Qing Chen claimed the Yue Household was surrounded and its Pseudo-Core Ancestor defeated, leaving Yue Xipo writhing in pain and cursing him.

• Xue Yubing used the Great Questioning-Emotion Heaven-Subduing Spirit Ape Hand to disrupt Yue Jiuta’s magic and pressed her attack with her silk spirit artifact.
• Qing Chen seized Yue Xipo with a bloody hand, took his Storage Bag and spirit artifact, shattered his dantian, and sealed his movements.
• Yue Xipo threatened Qing Chen with the Yue Household’s Pseudo-Core Ancestor and promised revenge from Mysterious Mountain Island.
• Qing Chen claimed the Condensed Jade Sect and Chang Household had surrounded Mysterious Mountain Island and would destroy the Yue Household.
• Qing Chen hurled Yue Xipo into a stone pillar and struck him with a blood-red ray that tormented his body, while Yue Xipo cursed him.

Qing Chen subdued Yue Xipo and joined the fight against the Yue Household’s remaining experts, using his demon techniques to overwhelm them. He left Yue Chongxiao badly wounded and turned his attention to the rest of the battle as the plan to destroy the Yue Household continued.

• Qing Chen broke Yue Xipo’s Dao heart with the White Bone Demon Mara Banner, dragged his Divine Soul into its demonic domain, and sealed his meridians and Sea of Qi with Sealing Talismans.
• Yue Chongxiao pressed Di Huaiyi with the Start of Winter Annihilation Sword Art while Yue Jiuta gained the upper hand against Xue Yubing.
• Qing Chen recalled the three-part plan to subdue the Yue Household, trap Mysterious Mountain Island, and eliminate its forces.
• Qing Chen burned ten drops of Essence Blood and sent the Fifth Turn Demon Lotus Karmic Fire and Formless Illusion-Annihilation Seal toward Yue Chongxiao and Yue Jiuta.
• The Demon Fire broke through Yue Chongxiao’s sword curtain, burned away his robe, and hurled him to the ground; Qing Chen said he had held back because the Yue Household members were excellent materials.

Qing Chen defeated Yue Jiuta and Yue Chongxiao, then forced the other lineages to slaughter the Yue Household’s remaining cultivators. He killed Yue Lingshan as well, leaving Xue Yubing horrified and reconsidering her feelings for him.

• Qing Chen’s Formless Illusion-Annihilation Seal crushed Yue Jiuta’s defenses and left him near death alongside Yue Chongxiao.
• Qing Chen demanded that the vassal lineages prove their loyalty, and they surrounded and killed the Yue Household’s Qi Refining cultivators.
• Qing Chen seized Yue Lingshan with a bloody hand and crushed her after she glared at him with murderous hatred.
• Xue Yubing lost her growing affection for Qing Chen and reflected that his ruthlessness confirmed her master’s warning.

Qing Chen gathered hundreds of cultivators and led them toward Mysterious Mountain Island, where Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun had trapped the Yue Household behind a powerful formation. After dispatching reinforcements to Eastern Yue Bay, Xu Jiuling praised Qing Chen for his contributions.

• Qing Chen declared the gathered cultivators loyal to the Condensed Jade Sect, promised rewards, and led them toward Mysterious Mountain Island aboard the Mysterious Blood Warship.
• Xu Jiuling and Gu Jianchun used the Canhe Dragon-Imprisoning Formation and coordinated forces to trap the Yue Household on Mysterious Mountain Island and disrupt its escape attempts.
• Xu Jiuling identified Eastern Yue Bay and Western Yue Mountain as the Yue Household's most promising breakout routes and considered how to respond without misdirecting the formation's power.
• A report informed Xu Jiuling that nearly two hundred Yue Household cultivators, led by Foundation Establishment High Persons, had appeared at Eastern Yue Bay.
• Xu Jiuling ordered Chang Zhichong and one hundred Chang Household cultivators to reinforce Eastern Yue Bay, then praised Qing Chen for wiping out Yue Xipo's group and hastening to the island.

Qing Chen rushed to Mysterious Mountain Island after learning of a major opportunity, while studying the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Soul-Shocking Art he had taken from Yue Xipo. The chapter ended by introducing Heavenly Shu Island and the Shushan Sword Sect, whose sect master Heavenly Shu True Lord was renowned for his supreme sword technique.

• Qing Chen abandoned the slow Mysterious Blood Warship and used the Six Jia Evasion Technique to reach Mysterious Mountain Island in one day.
• Qing Chen assessed his spoils from Yue Xipo's party, including spirit stones, artifacts, cultivation methods, and the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Soul-Shocking Art.
• Qing Chen discovered that the Soul-Shocking Art lacked the general outlines for its three great soul-shocking secret arts, explaining Yue Xipo's difficulty combining its techniques.
• Qing Chen learned of Heavenly Shu Island, home of the Shushan Sword Sect and its Nascent Soul sect master, Heavenly Shu True Lord.