Chapter Summaries

After months of secluded cultivation, Qing Chen broke through to the fourth layer of Qi Refining and learned Blood Qi Manifestation. With his spiritual sense strong enough to meet the requirement for condensing a demon seed, he began the dangerous process of dividing his soul.

• Qing Chen ignited the three drops of essence blood in his Brahma Aperture and broke through to the middle Qi Refining stage.
• Qing Chen learned Blood Qi Manifestation and formed blood-colored blades and a sword powerful enough to rival a middle-grade magical artifact.
• Qing Chen discovered that his spiritual sense had expanded to twenty zhang and met the threshold for condensing a demon seed.
• Qing Chen sat on the [Old Meditation Cushion] and began dividing his soul, enduring excruciating pain as he pinched off a small piece of his primordial spirit.

Qing Chen endured the pain of splitting his soul and formed the embryonic demon seed, then spent several years hunting sea beasts around Yellow Bamboo Island to consolidate his cultivation. The account left him alive but depleted of supplies and nearly all his usable artifacts.

• Qing Chen tore a fragment of soul essence from his sea of the soul to begin condensing the demon seed, enduring immense agony.
• A month later, Qing Chen found a small vortex of dim light in his soul and began nourishing and refining the embryonic demon seed.
• Qing Chen recovered with the Old Meditation Cushion’s help and consolidated his middle Qi Refining stage using the flesh and essence blood of two Rock-Armored Crabs.
• Qing Chen returned to the waters around Yellow Bamboo Island and used martial artist essence blood, including Chen Zhu'er’s, to bait demon beasts into his traps.
• Over three or four years, Qing Chen hunted many sea beasts and demon beasts, turning most of his catches into bait and relying on his stored essence blood and demon seed to survive dangerous fights.
• Qing Chen exhausted his talismans, lost his formation and most of his artifacts, and was left with a dozen low-grade spirit stones and Chen Zhu'er's Blue Steel Sword.

Qing Chen was forced to control a chess piece in a game between Mystic Origin Exalted Immortal and Daoist Lingyuan, two ancient powers wagering their daoist orthodoxy and a Fruit of Rules. As the game began, Qing Chen’s Soldier advanced and the opposing pieces answered with cannon moves, leaving him braced to fight for survival.

• Qing Chen merged with a ten-foot Soldier and surveyed the towering cannons, chariots, and other powerful chess pieces on the board.
• A giant phantom of Mystic Origin challenged Daoist Lingyuan to another game, wagering part of his daoist orthodoxy against a Fruit of Rules from the Lingyuan Ancient Tree.
• Mystic Origin and Daoist Lingyuan agreed to the wager, and their game began as a vast will pressed down on the chessboard.
• Mystic Origin commanded Qing Chen’s Soldier to advance one space, and Qing Chen recognized the move as an opening pawn advance.
• The black side shifted a cannon, then Mystic Origin moved a red cannon to the center, prompting Qing Chen to prepare for a desperate fight.

Qing Chen used his Primal Magnetism Divine Light to wound a black pawn, but the board’s rules restored it and gave Qing Chen the next move. He destroyed the pawn with a Primal Magnetism Storm and absorbed its spiritual essence, then faced a black horse that moved in to pin his red pawn across the river.

• Daoist Spirit Abyss moved a black pawn forward, boosting its cultivation and striking Qing Chen with a Yin-Yang Primal Magnetism Baleful Seal.
• Qing Chen unleashed his Primal Magnetism Divine Light, shattered the seal, and badly wounded the black pawn, but azure radiance stopped the attack and healed it.
• The board’s rules returned the black pawn to its square and gave Qing Chen the turn; Mystic Origin Exalted Immortal boosted his red pawn’s cultivation.
• Qing Chen attacked with a Primal Magnetism Storm, destroyed the black pawn, and absorbed its spiritual essence, gaining lasting insight into Late Golden Core Stage cultivation.
• Daoist Spirit Abyss moved a black horse behind Qing Chen’s red pawn to form a pincer with the black chariot.

Qing Chen became the red side’s last hope in the chessboard battle between Mystic Origin Exalted Immortal and Daoist Spirit Abyss. After Mystic Origin Exalted Immortal sacrificed a cannon and a pawn to open a path, Qing Chen charged forward and killed the black horse, but the battle remained unresolved.

• The red side fell close to defeat, leaving Qing Chen as its most promising piece deep in the black formation.
• Mystic Origin Exalted Immortal ordered the red cannon to destroy itself, drawing the black side’s attention and firepower.
• Daoist Spirit Abyss’s black horse shattered one of the red river-crossing pawns and absorbed its spiritual essence, approaching peak Golden Core strength.
• Mystic Origin Exalted Immortal ordered Qing Chen to advance, and the move boosted his cultivation to minor completion late Golden Core.
• Qing Chen countered the black horse’s Primal Magnetism Storm with Primal Magnetism Divine Light and pierced the horse, which dissolved into lightning-magnetism lights.