Chapter Summaries

Li Hanyi questioned the gravely wounded Five Gu True Lord about the High Priest and Golden Toad Granny, but the Golden Cicada Gu turned on its master and detonated, killing him and injuring the nearby True Lords. Five Gu True Lord left no remains, and the survivors faced the aftermath of the blast.

• Flying Bear True Lord overwhelmed Five Gu True Lord and destroyed several of his Gu insects.
• Li Hanyi promised to spare Five Gu True Lord if he explained the High Priest’s plans and Golden Toad Granny’s objective.
• Five Gu True Lord began revealing that the High Priest controlled a fifth-tier Heart-Tearing technique, but the Golden Cicada Gu attacked him from within.
• Qing Chen retreated as Five Gu True Lord’s body erupted in golden-green light, unleashing a deadly blast across the boat.
• Qing Sanxiao and Tuoba Ye were badly injured, while Flying Bear True Lord endured the explosion behind his Flying Bear Armor.
• The blast destroyed Five Gu True Lord’s body and soul, leaving a smoking hole in the boat’s deck.

After Five Gu's death, Li Hanyi calmed the shaken cultivators by arguing that the High Priest's power had limits and sharing the barrier's aura for study. Qing Chen declined to examine it and urged the group to find Golden Toad Granny, leaving Tuoba Ye offended by his bluntness.

• Qing Sanxiao and Tuoba Ye identified the attack as the fifth-tier Heart-Rending Gut-Breaking Gu and warned that the Gu Tribe could complete the Fire Seed Fragment.
• Li Hanyi blamed himself for Five Gu's death, then argued that the High Priest could not sustain her power and that her methods were not invincible.
• Li Hanyi shared the barrier's recorded aura so the cultivators could study it, while Qing Chen stood apart above the Blood Sea.
• Li Hanyi invited Qing Chen to examine the aura, but Qing Chen declined and suggested they find Golden Toad Granny instead.
• Tuoba Ye accused Qing Chen of dismissing Li Hanyi and the High Priest, and Qing Chen told him he was getting worked up again.

Qing Chen revealed that he had used the Demon Seed Divine Sense power to trace Golden Toad Granny after she killed Yinshi Marquis. With Li Hanyi and the others accepting him as their guide, the boats pursued her northeast while Qing Chen secretly focused much of his attention on his Sea of Qi.

• Qing Chen explained that he had planted a Demon Seed on Yinshi Marquis and sensed that the marquis had died near Golden Toad Granny.
• Qing Chen revealed that the Demon Seed had dispersed but left behind a faint Golden Toad Gu Aura that he could follow.
• Li Hanyi and the other True Lords agreed to let Qing Chen guide the pursuit, and Qing Chen pointed northeast.
• The three Sinking Blackwood Boats traveled for hours, while Qing Chen periodically adjusted their course and secretly focused on his Sea of Qi.

Qing Chen uncovered a hidden divine sense imprint left by Wei Yixiao and saw memories revealing Golden Toad Granny’s Fire Lingzhu and its connection to a distant benefactor. The imprint fell silent after exposing the bead’s power and purpose, leaving Qing Chen to recognize it as a tracking beacon.

• Qing Chen used the Nine-Luminaries Glazed Vidyaraja Pagoda to strip away the seal around Wei Yixiao’s hidden divine sense imprint and cautiously examined it.
• Qing Chen saw Golden Toad Granny kill Yinshi Marquis after condemning him for failing to act as expected.
• Golden Toad Granny activated the Fire Lingzhu, drawing on power sent from beyond the Blood Sea to strengthen her barrier.
• A distant voice told Golden Toad Granny that the Fire Lingzhu could unleash power comparable to a top-ranked Nanhua Realm cultivator’s attack, but required a day to recharge after half an hour.
• The voice instructed Golden Toad Granny to gather at least three fragments to form Samadhi True Fire, and Qing Chen concluded the divine sense imprint was a tracking beacon.

Wei Yixiao secretly used Qing Chen to draw Golden Toad Granny and the High Priest into conflict, but his Black Pagoda could not locate his junior brother. Qing Chen decided to act against them first and warned his allies that their last trace of Golden Toad Granny’s aura would soon vanish.

• Wei Yixiao refined his enemies’ corpses while fighting the Crystal Mo Giant Pythons and realized Qing Chen had touched the mark he left in the Blood Sea.
• Wei Yixiao hoped Qing Chen would provoke a fight with Golden Toad Granny and the High Priest, allowing him to erase the secrets of his past as a Gu Tribe inside agent.
• Wei Yixiao used his Black Pagoda to trace Qing Chen, but a powerful force blocked the pagoda’s probing.
• Qing Chen studied the information from Wei Yixiao’s mark and decided to strike before Golden Toad Granny and Zhao Ningyi succeeded.
• Qing Chen told Li Hanyi and the others that the Demon Seed’s remaining aura was fading and would disappear within four to six hours.

Qing Chen and the others sacrificed two ships to speed toward their enemies, while Zhao Ningyi warned Golden Toad Granny that they had been discovered. The chapter ended with Zhao Ningyi revealing that Wei Yixiao could be sacrificed to let the Fire Lingzhu unleash a strike of Samadhi True Fire.

• Qing Chen persuaded the group to concentrate the power of all three ships into one, and they scuttled the other two before racing through the Blood Sea.
• Qing Chen tracked the beacon as the ship approached its target, while the others replenished their power and prepared to fight.
• Flying Bear True Lord pushed the ship to even greater speed and warned everyone not to shirk when they met their enemies.
• Golden Toad Granny received a message from Zhao Ningyi that their pursuers had caught up, despite the protections of the Sea of Suffering Hell.
• Zhao Ningyi told Golden Toad Granny the Fire Lingzhu could be used for only a quarter of an hour and revealed that Wei Yixiao could be sacrificed to fuel a strike of Samadhi True Fire.

Li Hanyi and four other experts launched a surprise attack on Golden Toad Granny, nearly killing her before she escaped beneath the Blood Sea and unleashed the High Priest’s power. The blast scattered their formations and drove the attackers back, leaving them facing the real threat.

• Golden Toad Granny waited aboard the damaged Sinking Blackwood Boat after sealing Wei Yixiao beneath it.
• Li Hanyi, Flying Bear True Lord, Tuoba Ye, and Linghu Jiu Jian attacked Golden Toad Granny from several directions, while Qing Chen waited for an opening.
• The attackers shattered Golden Toad Granny’s defenses, and Qing Chen twisted one of her arms with the No-Sentient-Beings Seal.
• Flying Bear True Lord struck the boat where Golden Toad Granny had been, but she vanished beneath the Blood Sea.
• Golden Toad Granny unleashed a blazing blast from beneath the deck that scattered the attackers, and Li Hanyi warned them it was the High Priest’s power.

Golden Toad Granny used the Fire Lingzhu to unleash overwhelming flames and attack the group. Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord joined forces against her, but she remained confident as their confrontation continued.

• Golden Toad Granny emerged restored and empowered by the Fire Lingzhu, then sent two fire dragons sweeping across the Blood Sea.
• The flames badly burned Tuoba Ye, damaged Linghu Jiu Jian’s Flying Swords, and threatened Flying Bear True Lord.
• Li Hanyi urged the others to fight together and fused his three Rules Threads into the Spring and Autumn Great Righteousness sword technique.
• Flying Bear True Lord summoned his Dharma Form and attacked Golden Toad Granny with perfectly fused Sharp Metal Rules Threads.
• Qing Chen let the flames strike him and pretended to be dead while he watched Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord confront Golden Toad Granny.
• Golden Toad Granny remained confident in the Fire Lingzhu’s power and declared that she would shatter their techniques with one strike.

Golden Toad Granny trapped Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord in a compressed fire net and demanded their Fire Seed Fragments. When she threatened the others and began counting down, Qing Chen rose from the Blood Sea and interrupted her.

• Golden Toad Granny used the Fire Lingzhu to trap Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord in a shrinking fireball.
• She offered to release them in exchange for their Fire Seed Fragments, then threatened to let only the first man who surrendered live.
• Golden Toad Granny told the wounded figures nearby to attack the prisoners, promising life to the first three who acted, and began counting down.
• Qing Chen emerged from the Blood Sea, and Golden Toad Granny impatiently demanded that he speak.

Golden Toad Granny killed Qing Xuansu after he urged her to attack Qing Chen, then hid how little power remained in the Fire Lingzhu. As she kept Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord trapped in the fireball, a dark-gold blast erupted beneath the boat and struck her.

• Qing Xuansu accused Qing Chen of stalling and offered to help Golden Toad Granny attack Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord.
• Golden Toad Granny rejected Qing Xuansu's interference and killed him with a flaming saber and the Golden Toad Staff, destroying his body and Nascent Soul.
• Qing Sanxiao, Tuoba Ye, Linghu Jiu Jian, and Tie Shou realized they could not withstand Golden Toad Granny's attacks.
• Golden Toad Granny concealed that the Fire Lingzhu had nearly exhausted its surplus power while the fireball continued to suppress Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord.
• The deck suddenly shuddered, and a dark-gold blast tore through the boat and struck Golden Toad Granny despite her attempt to shield herself.

Wei Yixiao broke free of Golden Toad Granny’s seal and joined Qing Chen in attacking her. Trapped between them and unable to defend herself while maintaining the Fire Lingzhu’s suppression, Golden Toad Granny chose to detonate the pearl, freeing Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord as the fireball shattered.

• Wei Yixiao broke Golden Toad Granny’s seal, revealed his late Immortal Realm strength, and unleashed the Eight-Armed Wisdom King Demon-Sweeping Myriad-Jun Body.
• Qing Chen revealed that his earlier weakness had been an act, powered himself up, and summoned the Blood River God-Slaying Spear to unleash the Law-less-Blood-Seal.
• Wei Yixiao and Qing Chen attacked Golden Toad Granny from opposite sides, leaving her unable to defend herself while the Fire Lingzhu suppressed the people trapped inside.
• Golden Toad Granny reversed the Fire Lingzhu and detonated it, causing the fireball holding Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord to expand and shatter.

Golden Toad Granny detonated the Fire Lingzhu, severely injuring Li Hanyi, Flying Bear True Lord, and the others while Qing Chen survived behind his White Bone Immortal-Locking Gourd. The blast tore open spatial rifts in the Sea of Suffering Prison, and Qing Chen emerged as the strongest combatant still able to fight.

• Golden Toad Granny detonated the Fire Lingzhu, unleashing tricolored flames that blasted vast craters and spatial rifts into the Blood Sea.
• Li Hanyi and Flying Bear True Lord were badly injured, while Qing Sanxiao, Tuoba Ye, and Linghu Jiu Jian suffered further damage.
• Golden Toad Granny used the Fire Lingzhu's remaining power to protect herself, but the blast and her previous wounds left her aura unsteady.
• Wei Yixiao summoned the Myriad-Jun Blackstone Pagoda to shield himself from most of the explosion.
• Qing Chen transformed his Six Demon Banners into the White Bone Immortal-Locking Gourd and emerged nearly unharmed after the blast passed.
• Qing Chen saw the Sea of Suffering Prison breaking apart and judged himself the strongest combatant left on the Blood Sea.

Qing Chen and Wei Yixiao overwhelmed Golden Toad Granny in their fight for the Fire Lingzhu. After Wei Yixiao seized her Golden Toad Staff, Qing Chen tore the Fire Lingzhu from her forehead.

• Qing Chen used the Lawless Devil Aspect to wound Golden Toad Granny and break her left arm while Wei Yixiao trapped her and struck with the Eight-Armed Wisdom King.
• Qing Chen struck Golden Toad Granny with the Blood River God-Slaying Spear, and Wei Yixiao followed with another attack that left her badly injured.
• Qing Chen drove Golden Toad Granny into the Blood Sea and weakened her until Wei Yixiao’s Myriad-Jun Blackstone Pagoda forced her back.
• Qing Chen knocked the Golden Toad Staff from Golden Toad Granny’s hand, and Wei Yixiao seized and subdued it with the pagoda.
• Qing Chen used Primal Magnetism Divine Light to pull the Fire Lingzhu from Golden Toad Granny’s forehead.

Qing Chen caught the Fire Lingzhu after stopping Wei Yixiao’s sudden attack, but the Sea of Suffering Hell began collapsing before he could secure the pearl. The shattered realm revealed the Rebirth Furnace, drawing everyone’s attention to the enormous treasure beyond it.

• After Golden Toad Granny released the Fire Lingzhu, Wei Yixiao attacked Qing Chen with a dark gold saber, but Qing Chen blocked him with the White Bone Origin Star Immortal-Burying Coffin.
• Qing Chen caught the Fire Lingzhu and found that its fused Fire Seed Fragments remained sealed from his divine sense.
• The Sea of Suffering Hell’s dome shattered, and powerful suction swept fallen cultivators’ and monsters’ essence souls toward the void.
• Qing Chen steadied himself with his Primal Magnetism Divine Light as everyone saw the Rebirth Furnace beyond the collapsing realm.
• The Fire Seed Fragments controlled by Li Hanyi, Flying Bear True Lord, and Qing Chen struggled violently toward the furnace.

As the Rebirth Furnace began to collapse around the Blood Sea, Qing Chen held the Fire Lingzhu while the surviving cultivators considered their chances. Li Hanyi decided to use the Li Household cauldron to escape with Linghu Jiu Jian and Tuoba Ye, but someone challenged his decision to leave while Qing Chen could still fight.

• The furnace fire surged and pieces of the Sea of Suffering Prison Dome crumbled as Qing Chen kept the Fire Lingzhu wrapped in True Essence.
• Flying Bear True Lord, Tuoba Ye, Linghu Jiu Jian, and Qing Sanxiao each reacted to Qing Chen's strength, while Wei Yixiao watched Golden Toad Granny and weighed his plans.
• The furnace's rising heat and bloody stench made the remaining cultivators feel as if they were undergoing ritual refinement.
• Li Hanyi told Qing Chen that he could not take his Fire Seed Fragment out and prepared to activate the Li Household cauldron's one-use escape power.
• Li Hanyi asked Linghu Jiu Jian and Tuoba Ye to leave with him, and someone challenged him for preparing to escape while Qing Chen still had strength to fight.

As the Rebirth Furnace collapsed, Li Hanyi used the Li Household’s Ancient Cauldron to escape with Linghu Jiu Jian and Tuoba Ye, while Qing Chen received a Fire Seed Fragment. Li Hanyi warned Qing Chen to beware of the pearl before vanishing, and Qing Chen was left in the furnace with Flying Bear True Lord and the wounded Tie Shou.

• Qing Sanxiao realized he could not escape because the Qing Household’s Ancient Cauldron power had been bestowed on the Second Elder, so he prepared to fight to the death.
• Li Hanyi gave his Fire Seed Fragment to Qing Chen, explaining that his brother Li Wenbi had spoken well of Qing Chen.
• Li Hanyi summoned the Li Household’s white jade Ancient Cauldron and opened a pillar of light through the collapsing Rebirth Furnace.
• Linghu Jiu Jian and Tuoba Ye entered the pillar and escaped with Li Hanyi, who warned Qing Chen to beware of the pearl before they vanished.
• Qing Chen secured the fragment in his right arm and kept the Fire Lingzhu, while Flying Bear True Lord held onto his own fragment as a bargaining chip.
• Qing Chen spotted the wounded Tie Shou and ordered him to come over.

Qing Chen spared Tie Shou and prepared to fight Wei Yixiao, but their standoff was interrupted when Wei Yixiao attacked Golden Toad Granny. Her Golden Toad Gu drained her cultivation, and she self-detonated as Qing Chen sealed himself inside the White Bone Immortal-Locking Gourd.

• Qing Chen told Tie Shou that Tie Ming and Tie Qingyao had earned the Iron Household his goodwill, and Tie Shou thanked him for his protection.
• Qing Chen and Wei Yixiao watched each other warily, each waiting for a chance to strike.
• A scream rose from beneath the blood sea, and Wei Yixiao plunged in to attack Golden Toad Granny.
• The Golden Toad Gu emerged from Golden Toad Granny and drained nearly half her cultivation.
• Golden Toad Granny began to self-detonate, and Qing Chen retreated inside the White Bone Immortal-Locking Gourd as the explosion struck.

Qing Chen tried to save Flying Bear True Lord from the Golden Toad Gu, but the Fire Lingzhu suddenly broke free of its seals. A voice from within it accused Qing Chen of being a heartless, faithless lover.

• The Golden Toad Gu attacked Wei Yixiao, who escaped inside the Myriad-Jun Blackstone Pagoda.
• The Golden Toad Gu turned on Flying Bear True Lord, whose body was paralyzed by the Heart-Rending Gut-Breaking Gu.
• The Golden Toad Gu broke Flying Bear True Lord's defenses and began biting into him.
• Qing Chen flew to intervene, but the Fire Lingzhu shattered its seals and surged with three-colored flames.
• A voice from the Fire Lingzhu called Qing Chen a heartless, faithless lover.

Qing Chen battled Zhao Ningyi’s fire dragon while Flying Bear True Lord escaped the Golden Toad Gu by detonating his lifebound treasures. He gave Qing Chen a Fire Seed Fragment and jade slip before dying, leaving Qing Chen with the promised opportunity and request.

• Qing Chen discovered that Zhao Ningyi had erased his divine sense restrictions from the Fire Lingzhu, then clashed with the reborn fire dragon.
• The Golden Toad Gu swallowed much of Flying Bear True Lord, who chose to detonate his Flying Bear Rings rather than submit.
• Flying Bear True Lord’s exploding rings wounded the Golden Toad Gu and let him tear himself free.
• Flying Bear True Lord gave Qing Chen a Fire Seed Fragment and jade slip, which Qing Chen caught with Primal Magnetism Divine Light.
• Flying Bear True Lord laughed, roared his farewell, and died from his grievous injuries and the Heart-Rending Gut-Breaking Gu.

Qing Chen survived Flying Bear True Lord’s desperate self-destruction and claimed the Fragment and Jade Slip he left behind. He surveyed the few remaining survivors, then confronted Zhao Ningyi’s hidden presence and threatened to kill her.

• Flying Bear True Lord burned away his life and Nascent Soul, unleashing a blast that killed the wounded Golden Toad Gu and left no trace of himself.
• Qing Chen searched the area repeatedly to confirm Flying Bear True Lord was dead, then took the Fragment and Jade Slip and declared their grudges settled.
• Qing Chen recalled Wei Yixiao’s attempted betrayal and wondered why Flying Bear True Lord had entrusted him with the Fragment and Jade Slip.
• Qing Chen found Tie Shou and Qing Sanxiao gravely wounded, while Wei Yixiao remained missing and Zhao Ningyi’s Fire Lingzhu hung nearby.
• Qing Chen aimed his Blood River God-Slaying Spear at Zhao Ningyi’s hidden presence, accused her of provoking him, and threatened to spare her life if she left.